Jinn of Quality and Risk (2002-Nov-01)

Jinn?

According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtains of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. May grant wishes. or use my wishlist (at amazon.com) if you are in the mood for gifts.

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~~Find a new job, now. Move home, this month.~~ Finish my book, asap. Read, more. Sleep, less. ~~Travel, v.soon.~~

Bio?

Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant

2002-Oct-15

A plea from Tehran

Farideh Tehrani: Everyday, my peers and I sit and talk [in Tehran]. We want only one thing: Freedom... Sometimes I check the Internet for news. At other times, my friends and I watch satellite television or listen to the short-wave radio broadcasts of the freed world. We are constantly amazed, though, at how different our reality is from what some American journalists, academics, and opinion-makers portray it as. So often, we hear self-described Iran experts on CNN and reporters in America's leading newspapers explain away the dictatorship under which we suffer. Our free press should support individual freedom everywhere, instead of singing paeans to dictators. Anything less is moral treason.

Hezbollah, the Party of God

Jeffrey Goldberg: something new is happening in the Arab world -- namely, the melding of Arab nationalist-based anti-Zionism, anti-Jewish rhetoric from the Koran, and, most disturbingly, the antique anti-Semitic beliefs and conspiracy theories of European Fascism. Add Holocaust denial, which is also becoming popular in the Arab world, and you have a dangerous new ideology...

Principles of peace

Andrew Bernstein: Jimmy Carter has continuously betrayed the principles on which peace depends.

Was Carter really good?

Israpundit: Media writers have lauded Jimmy Carter for his efforts and contribution to the Israel/Egypt peace treaty... The object of this article is to call attention to a few facts that were common knowledge at the time... The facts cited can be confirmed by checking any history book on the topic...

Truth seen as an irrelevant category

Ehud Barak: [Arabs] are products of a culture in which to tell a lie... creates no dissonance. ... Truth is seen as an irrelevant category. There is only that which serves your purpose and that which doesn't. Anyone acting like that in the West would be deemed a manipulative psychopath. Politicians excepted.

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