November 30, 2006
Running of the Jew at U.N.
Canada Joins Running of the Jew at U.N. for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Canukistan*
For Immediate Release
Toronto, Thursday, November 30, 2006 – The Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD) is disappointed by the voting of the government of Canada in yesterday's slew of anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations.
"Canada has again legitimized the use of UN resolutions to demonize one nation, while ignoring the truly serious human rights violations of other member states," said Alastair Gordon, president of CCD. "Until resolutions are applied even-handedly to all UN members, Canada must express its condemnation by voting 'no' on all such resolutions."
In its first 42 years, the UN tabled 370 resolutions condemning Israel and zero resolutions critical of the PLO or any Arab state. When Syria slaughtered 20,000 of its own citizens at Hama in 1982, or when it sponsored the destruction and occupation of Lebanon, or even when Iraq massacred its Kurdish citizens with poison gas, there were no UN resolutions criticizing the perpetrators. In recent years, a handful of resolutions have targeted other Middle Eastern states, but the lion's share is still reserved for Israel.
In October 2005, former Prime Minister Paul Martin referred to "the annual ritual of politicized anti-Israel resolutions" at the UN. In November 2004, Canada's then ambassador to the United Nations, Allan Rock, announced to the General Assembly that "resolutions [against Israel] are often divisive and lack balance." Yet even with this recognition, both our past and present governments' anti-Israel voting pattern has barely changed.
The Fourth Committee yesterday tabled nine ritualized resolutions targeting Israel for criticism. Canada voted against Israel on seven, and supported Israel on two. The only change from last year's voting pattern was the change of one abstention to a 'no'.
"The Stephen Harper government has taken a number of principled foreign policy positions that Canadians can be proud of. Yet it is choosing to continue the despicable bullying of one nation, a travesty that was identified by our former Prime Minister and UN ambassador," added Gordon. "Until UN resolutions are an unbiased tool applied equally to all member states, Canada's response to all ritualized anti-Israel resolutions must be NO."
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For more information, please contact:
Alastair Gordon, President, CCD 416-963-8998, or
Naresh Raghubeer, Executive Director 416-452-6957
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* with apologies to Borat
Founded in 2003, the Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD) is a non-partisan, multi-ethnic, multi-denominational organization of concerned Canadians dedicated to national security and the protection and promotion of democracy at home and abroad. CCD focuses on research, education and media publishing to build a greater understanding of the importance of national security and a pro-democracy foreign policy. http://canadiancoalition.com/
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November 10, 2006
Is the Singularity a Religious Eschaton?
"Live long and prosper" or "Be fruitful and multiply" that is the choice of our times.
Randall Parker argues that improvements in health and longevity technologies are changing the environment to select (darwinistically) for those humans most interested in reproduction. Simple exponential math tells you that relatively small differences in fertility lead to large differences in population over time.
Right now, the biggest apparent determinant of fertility is religion. So as technology improves, unless the "live long and prosper" folks are really good at converting "be fruitful and multiply folks" to their view, it will be the later who will rapidly come to dominate all aspects of society.
Wikipedia describes Jewish beliefs about the eschaton as follows:
Tumultuous events will overturn the old world order, creating a new order in which God is universally recognized as the ruler over everyone and everything. One of the sages of the Talmud says, "Let the end of days come, but may I not live to see them", because they will be filled with so much conflict and suffering.
Sounds a lot like a technological singularity dominated by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. More wikipedia:
Islam teaches the bodily resurrection of the dead, the fulfillment of a divine plan for creation, and the immortality of the human soul; the righteous are rewarded with the pleasures of Jannah (Heaven), while the unrighteous are punished in Jahannam (Hell)
Immortality of the human soul is definitely something promised by the tech folks (backup your brain onto silicon etc.). The difficulty is that it will be very difficult (and perhaps immoral?) to keep the life extension technology out of the hands of the be-fruitful-and-multiply crowd.
All of these religions (and hindu as well) have some model in which evil people will be damned to hell and only the good will persist. In a world where the power to destroy all increases with Moore's law, the need to restrain evil will become a top priority. Only the good will survive and history will come to an end.
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November 01, 2006
Where should I be blogging?
I've been feeling motivated to blog again lately, but am not sure where do be doing so. I abandoned blogging at alexjacobson.com when we stared blogging here, but no one has blogged here in a while.
If I start bloging again here and no one else does, it will effectively be just my blog and perhaps it makes more sense to do that on alexjacobson.com especially as I give @alexjacobson.com addresses out as my email. That being said, I really like the name spareink and would like to be part of a group blog.
Matt isn't blogging here anymore because he has a consistent singular narrative to explore. My planned blog entries are less linear and make more sense in a group context like this. Perhaps I should blog at alexjacobson.com and we convert spareink into an aggregblog using haloscan to maintain a consistent commenter community accross all sites?
Thoughts?
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