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My Apologetics - November 2008

Breaking News: Mumbai Terrorist Crisis Over

November 29th 2008 06:15
Breaking News: Mumbai Seige Over

29-11-2008

New has just come over the airwaves to announce that the terrorist crisis is over.

Indian commandos stormed the Taj Mahal Hotel where 3 terrorists were held and took back control.

The scene inside the Hotel is described as carnage with blood and bodies everywhere.
Tragically the number of dead may need to be revised up from 150 to over 300.

I have included the only video of the event on Youtube so far.
I apologize for the quality.




Now a room to room search of the hotel is being conducted to ensure that no terrorists remain.

More news will be reported as it happens.
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Timeline of the Mumbai Attack is seen on CNN: Video

November 29th 2008 00:02
Time line of the Mumbai Attack is seen on CNN


This video does a good job of explaining what happened on the day of the attack.
Where it started and how it spread.

I found it a useful summary of events.

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The Mumbai Attack and the Wider Fallout.

November 28th 2008 23:11
The Mumbai Attack and the Wider Fallout.

29-11-2008
baby
Too young to know why and still it does not matter to a terrorist.

A few days ago no one had heard of Deccan Mujahedin but now the internet is flooded with pages referring to them. The Deccan Mujahedin are the mob who claimed responsibility for the co-ordinated terrorist attacks that are still continuing in Mumbai (Bombay) India. There is no doubt that these actions were designed to shock the world with their scale and ruthlessness. What is also worth noting is that Westerners appear to be high priority targets for the gunmen. Passports were being examined for nationality and hotel registries checked. However the India police described the initial actions of the terrorists as indiscriminate killing. "Whoever came in front of them, they fired," an Indian Commando was quoted as saying.

After two days of siege we still only have a vague idea of who the Deccan Mujahedin are and what their objective is. On Thursday two of the terrorists spoke from the Oberoi Hotel on local Indian television referring to the anti Muslim riots in Northern India (1993 -4) but did not give a specific list of demands. "When so many of us were killed, who did anything for us?" a terrorist calling himself Shadullah asked.

The fact that Deccan Mujahedin are a previously unknown group create a whole new level of speculation where any conspiracy theory can be aired for a few days. There have been conflicting reports as to the nationality of the terrorists; some claiming that they spoke in Kashmiri accents; an Indian commander claiming they had Pakistani accents.
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An Indian Commando takes aim.

Northern India has been a hot bed of violence since Indian Independence as the ownership of Kashmir region has been the cause of two wars with Pakistan. The level of distrust and hostility has thawed in recent years but this latest action may be a big set back to the peace process. A previous terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament caused a complete breakdown of dialogue between the two nuclear armed nations after India directly blamed Pakistan for the attack.
panic
When leaving India seems like a good idea.

A breakdown in relations between India and Pakistan does not suit the West in any way. Pakistan is being infiltrated with Taliban radicals in many places. Blowback from the War on Terror that started in Afghanistan; spread to Pakistan and now seems to be moving into India. The dispute may seem like a local issue but by targeting Westerners the issue suddenly becomes a front page international story. Had the terrorist not targeted locations frequented by Westerners and Westerners themselves it may have been largely ignored. Terrorist who want publicity for a cause are learning how the myopic Western Media work. 150 are people killed but it only seems to matter after 2 Australian are amongst the dead.
personal
The vast majority of people killed have been Indian.

For India there is pressure coming from every internal direction. Southern India’s Tamil Nadu is facing protests over the war in Sri Lanka; Eastern India’s province of Ossetia is in the grip of anti-Christian riots leaving 50,000 homeless; Northern India has continuing troubles in the Kashmir and now this attack which may trigger reprisals from radical Hindu’s (as occurred in 1993).
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Indian Commandos.

It is going to be a tough time for India as it tries to balance off public outrage against the need for internal order. Pakistan denies all involvement in this action but that may not be enough to quell the anger and mob violence that may follow. Let us hope that my prediction is wrong.
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Mumbai in Crisis: Terrorism Strikes

November 28th 2008 05:06
Mumbai in Crisis: Terrorism Strikes

28-11-2008


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Sri Lankan Civil War: LTTE HQ being attacked from 3 sides

November 27th 2008 05:29
Sri Lankan Civil War: LTTE HQ being attacked from 3 sides

27-11-2008


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Evidence First, Argument Second.

November 27th 2008 02:55
Evidence First, Argument Second.
m
Microscopes help us to observe

The courts understand the importance of evidence, scientists understand the importance of evidence and even children understand the importance of evidence. In the court we are asked to swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In science evidence is examined objectively and experiments repeated to ensure that the truth is unmistakeable. If you try to tell a child to go to bed 1 hour too early and they will check the time. Evidence is the most basic element to any suggestion


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Sri Lankan Civil War News: The Battle for the LTTE capital has begun

November 24th 2008 07:24
Sri Lankan Civil War News: The Battle for the LTTE capital has begun

Breaking News 24-11-2008


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The Definition of idiocy: Trying to make Converts on a Blog.

November 23rd 2008 23:04
The Definition of idiocy: Trying to make Converts on a Blog.

Here is a cool idea.
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Perhaps we need to look at naive Utopianism again.

November 22nd 2008 21:04
Perhaps we need to look at naive Utopianism again.
moore
Sir Thomas Moore. Penned Utopia but chose another path.

Sir Thomas Moore wrote Utopia around 500 years ago as vehicle to show how humanity could live as opposed to how it did live. The book has perhaps been the influence for half the science fiction stories ever written. The concept is not hard to understand. It is the creation of a perfect world of comfort and extended leisure on Earth. The irony is that the author was stripped of all the rich comforts he enjoyed when he chose to disagree with the King. He could have signed a paper to support the King at any point and with it his comforts would have been restored. Yet he chose what he saw as an important principle and as a result he was beheaded. For Thomas Moore there were some principles more important than comfort and leisure


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I give unto you the power of Blog

November 21st 2008 10:38
I give unto you the power of Blog
blog
blogarama

Blog is a powerful substance of unknown origin. It is salubrious, malleable and not all together odourless. In fact in same circumstances Blogs can stink badly. The other properties of blog is its ability to fit all situations and enhance everything that it touches


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Subjective Science Ain’t Science

November 21st 2008 06:43
Subjective Science Ain’t Science
Multimeter
This is called a multimeter. It is designed to take objective readings. I wonder why no makes subjective multimeters.

When a religion is infected with a series of deliberate errors and lies from an internal source those errors are often referred to as heresies. When Information Technology is infected with the same style of misinformation it often called marketing. When the used car business is infected with it is called business as usual. Politics? When politics is infected with honesty it is called a short career. When science lessons are filled with errors then it only contains less science


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Why Does Religion Exist?

November 19th 2008 22:14
Why Does Religion Exist?
gg
Unaswerable questions abound

Without specifically advocating one or the other I hope to explain why people have decided to join a religion or pay head to an afterlife


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Types of Atheism.

November 16th 2008 22:32
Types of Atheism.
spec
The Dark Side on the Ideology

There are two main kinds of atheists


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Reducio ad Hitlerum Revisited: For the Clueless

November 16th 2008 08:43
Reducio ad Hitlerum Revisited: For the Clueless
fascism
If you overuse a mantra it become so meaningless that no comparison can ever be made.

It is such a pity when clear thinking becomes a weapon in the hands of people who have no concept of why it was invented. It is no point condemning dogma in general then inventing a new one that somehow cannot be called a dogma. Yet that is precisely what people do when they take a simple concept and turn it into form of insult


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You cannot hide what you are forever.

November 16th 2008 07:59
You cannot hide what you are forever.
criptic
I like random

I am never disappointed when it comes to the ability of people to find new and more creative ways to be nasty. People want stuff, things, money and some will do anything to get it. We look at greedy people with disdain because of the damage that they do in their selfish pursuits. Yet people who crave power leave a trail of destruction that can haunt generations. The desire for power is within us all but few are ruthless enough to follow through with their cruelest plans


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How to set up a blog site.

November 14th 2008 23:32
How to set up a blog site.
orwellian
Big Brother is too lazy to watch everyone.


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Negotiations only work if both sides have something to lose. Sri Lankan War.

November 13th 2008 03:08
Negotiations only work if both sides have something to lose. Sri Lankan War.
13/11/2008.

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How Many Blogger Does it take to change a light bulb?

November 12th 2008 10:41
How Many Blogger Does it take to change a light bulb?
rushie
A fatwa to a better life. It is such a babe magnet.

Dawn of another day and the world that seems to be so full of problems needs a little correction once in a while. Not that those correction will help much because without the input of a true hero they would be waste upon the floor. That help will always come from the keyboard of a blogger


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Handing over the keys to the Whitehouse

November 11th 2008 00:28
changeover
An Image that says so much


What are they talking about


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Working in an Explosive Factory Part 6: Letting go

November 10th 2008 12:19
Working in an Explosive Factory Part 6: Letting go
buff
bang bang

The steam pipe cracks beside the concrete path and the cloud of silver wafts passed me. That is how I remember winter in the Explosive factor. Rain and paths blacken with the oozing mud of a three hundred sheep pooping where they want. I am not sure why sheep poop on my path just so that i can walk through it perhaps they are intelligent and know not to poop in their food. Having watched the sheep I have doubts about their ability to do more than eat grass and grow wool. Eat grass, grow wool, eat grass, grow wool. Being slaughtered seemed to be the most interesting thing that happened in their lives


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I took my doctrine to the Doctor

November 10th 2008 09:50
I took my doctrine to the Doctor
doctorate
A doctorate in docrine removal. First remove the old doctrine and then insert another 3


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The Beginning of the End for the LTTE may be in site.

November 10th 2008 02:54
The Beginning of the End for the LTTE may be in site.
Warit
This image that I took from the Sunday Observer best describes the situation.

The capital for the LTTE (Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam) at Kilinochchi is now surrounded on all sides. In the last couple of days the Northern Village of Pooneryn was captured by the Sri Lankan Army


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I do not subscribe to your point of view.

November 8th 2008 10:49
I do not subscribe to your point of view.