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| Григорий Громов (abcdefgh 2005-04-09 02:30:00 (link) | |
| Case of "Библиотека Мошкова" - продолжение начало см. здесь. Когда запостил предшествующее по данной теме сообщение то и вдруг усомнился. Не может быть - подумалось, как водится апосля все что говорил об том до того, а нет чтобы заместо наоброт - чтобы какого-то там хрен пойми откудова вдруг свалившегося "а-бе-це-де-е-эф-жи-аш" или, как его раньше некоторые в сходных обстоятельствах называли, Аута тот самый всеявебовский архив копил гениальные записи, а такой объект культуры моноязыкового континента Веба, каким является до того помянутая "биб-ка Мошкова" не заметил. Так в жисти - пусть даже и отчасти с утра поломатой - не бывает. В сам деле - так и есть - оказалось. Полез в тот архив и конечно же биб-ку Мошкова там сканируют едва-ли не поминутно. Смотрите, кто если мне на слово не верит, то тогда саме: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:/ Кушай - не хочу. Хлебай сам или с кем бальшой ложкой все какие хошь версии биб-ки lib.ru там выставленной по годам и дням ее обновлений и пр. заархивированных потомкам. Вот где работы непочатый край будет аспирантам - через 100 лет накопится - с анализом ее во времени изменений. Вся и во всей ее красе там уберегается "биб-ка Мошкова" - в надежном месте - от сырости, да и так всех остальных напастей на всякий случай тоже. Корешками к зрителю там аккуратно стоят на полках виртуальных, будто вчера из под станка печатного с золотым тиснением от великолепных образцов полиграфии тома великих авторов. Так что кому если надо, то хоть щас туда бегите - по приведенному выше адресу - и произведениями великой классики жанра наслаждайтеся. Ап чем тогда повторюсь речь? Из-за чего скандал, флешмоб, и пр. Между тем никто - гляньте туда в архив вышепомянутый снова - если кто еще не проспался апосля вчерашнего - не может ничего с этой самой биб-кой Мошкова давно уже изделать. Часть виртуальной Вселенной единого гиперстекстового пространства Веба она давно уже потому что числится. Лежит эта биб-ка, иными словами, в безопасном месте - всем ее читателям одинаково доступном - при том так же легко доступном, как и оригинал. И пусть теперь сколько хотят все, кому не лень, ломают пики в полемике ап том, как это соотносится с чьим-либо исходно копирайтом. Ничего вынуть с того то архива по-видимому нельзя - или, в любом случае, крайне трудно - а захотят если кто-то, как в обсуждаемом случае, но уже с тем всеявебовским в Сан-Франциско архивом вдруг судиться, то и милости просим с такими то уже узко юридической природы притензиями в Калифорнию приезжайте желающие. Тут он потому как - в СФ - расположен архив, Всеявебовский каторый. Никакие такие злоумышленники абсолютно ничего - супротив мировогу памятника культуры ранга Александрийской биб-ки, коей сан-францисский архив этот нынче является по рангу его и в ЮНЕСКО и в пр. уже теперь скрижалях истории регистрации - учинить не смогут. Так что, как и предполагал исходно, спор предметной стороны исходно не имел. Обычный флейм, кторый вырвался по законам жанра из lj в офлайн и там почему-то неправильно был некоторыми инстанциями, с природой Веба как такового недостаточно видимо все еще знакомыми, истолкован. Потом, как иногда бывает, с обратной уже затем - по законам волн цунами - много более разрушительной на эмоциональном урвоне энергией в lj опять распостранялся. |
| Григорий Громов (abcdefgh 2005-04-09 02:52:00 (link) | |
| Григорий Громов (abcdefgh 2005-04-09 13:32:00 (link) | |
| Машина времени от archive.org -- продолжение: "конфа политру" - акт рождения, формирование и первые годы жизни (по дням и минутам всех там состоявшихся разговоров). Формат чтения для года, когда она родилась и последующих затем до первой смены формата: http://web.archive.org/web/200211141013 К сожалению, навигация со страниц напряму не работает. Потому для первых скажем лет ее становления - 1998/1999 или so called "старый архив", - чтобы листать страницы надо просто увеличивать/уменьшать номер текущей страницы архива по приведенному выше формату. К примеру - для формата приведенной выше 39-ой страницы - чтобы прочитать продолжение вставить вместо 39 число 40, и т.д. Далее - последующие годы жизни конфы - она листается в архиве том "всеявебовском" в формате: http://web.archive.org/web/200504091559 Соответственно для этой части истории конфы изменением части URL, относящейся к дате, вызывается соответсвующая страница конфы. Кажется работает - в таком режиме чтения из забугорного архива - и навигация страниц внутри избранной даты. Оказывается, таким образом, что конфа видимо практически вся - по всем рубежа веков годам ее жизни - доступна теперь уже навсегда (независимо теперь уже от отношения к тому администрации сервера политру) для чтения в том числе и по копии из archive.org Помнится, предупреждал - неоднократно и по самым разным поводам - всех там участников: господа, пишем с вами тут сидучи и неспешно беседуя (или даже пусть иной раз пререкаяси ап чем не пойми бывало) книгу - соопча и все вместе. Будьте аккуратны потому в высказываниях и следите снутря сибе чего и как хотели бы вечности продекламировать. Потому как если уж рукописи говорят были случАи что бумажные в стародавние времена не горели, то на Вебе любые строчки и вовсе навсегда, как правило, пропечатывается. Полагал что лихой поры эпоха перемен, что там с 1998 года несколько лет подряд во всех ее ипостасяъ и с самых разных точек зрения по всему глобусу событий обсуждалась заведомо станет любопытным памятников эпохи. Знать конечно не мог, что почти все с кем там пререкался бывало что даже и неумеренно там вскорости станут больших рангов важными в стране начальниками, но и дело не в том. Сама по себе книга выписывлась соопча всем колхозом тгого времени говорунов прелюбопытнейшая. Жалко было бы - думалось тогда и сохраняю то впечатление поныне - если бы та летопИсь эпохи вдруг куда испарилась, свободно гуялющими в ней электронами. Сервер грохгулся или держать его надоело. Но вскорости узнал что многие вели полный архив по дням апдейтов той конфы в своих домашних дисках. Полегчало. Но читать однако было подряд со временм все труднее. Много пластов сюжетов и индивидуальных взглядом чудесным образом пересекались. Но главное что и шум случайно забегавших похулиганить на огонек бродячих в Сети певцов уличных тоже сильно - при сквозном чтении - препятствовал восприятию. Потому и решил что кроме общей книги времени, что писалась сообща всем скопом постоянных в ей авторов много лет было бы любопытно иногда глянуть на авторские из нее экстракты. Так пришел к мысли сделать свою авторский срез содержания бесед на конфе. То есть, собрать в кучу то чего сам там говорил или кому на чего отвечал. Получилась заметно более компактное и возможно что кому то уже легче читаемое, чем сквозная лента всех обо всем там речей, изложение. Выложил когда эту вытяжку своих постов с Книги Конфы - серьезное по общему его объему однако и все равно оказалось произведение. Попытался потом уже тогда и дайджест с него - сравнительно более компактно отобранных постов - сложить. Все равно объем сам по себе все еще заметно осложнял сквозное даже и такой виртуальной книжки. Тогда стал доподлнительные главы по темам отбирать: "Red Army & WW2", "Miph Mechanics" и пр. Заметно полегчало восприятие - в связном подряд контексте когдла идет - но все еще должен сознаться непростое чтение оказывается. Так что вопросы обратного структрирование ранее по случайным поводам за долгие годы наговоренных текстов - пусть даже и тематически затем дайджестированные - непростая задача. Новый по сути жанр письма, тока тока еще у всех тут на глазах формирующийся. Любопытное само по себе - в любом случае, как бы кто и к кому из авторов таких записок, независимо от их темы, не относился - должен заметить что явление возникает.
от всеобщей грамотности ... к всеобщему авторству.
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| Григорий Громов (abcdefgh 2005-04-09 16:27:00 (link) | |
| Политика Франции разных эпох века минувшего - непосредственно до, во время и после WW2 - оставалось по крайней мере в одном отношении последовательной. Об этом еще раз напоминает статья, опубликованная на днях американским журналом American Thinker. В частности приводится эпизод той сравнительно малоизвестной последнего года войны истории, когда в мае 1945 года муфтий Иерусалима, принимавший активное участие в создании мусульманского легиона СС на Балканах и в массовых убийствах сербов, евреев и цыган, сдался представителям Красного креста. Однако последние имели неплохое представление о том, с кем идеют дело, и передали его французскому оккупационному корпусу в Германии, вместе с маршалом Петэном. Англичане два с половиной года пытались вытащить его из Франции, чтобы вывести один из Нюрнбергских процессов в качестве главного обвиняемого, однако де Голль под разными предлогами саботировал процесс выдачи, а в 1948 году помог муфтию бежать в Египет. Сам аль-Хусейни в своих мемуарах писал, что он «обещал де Голлю, что Франция завоюет симпатию всей арабской нации, если выступит инициатором антибританской и антиизраильской политики Западной Европы».
Husseini was in Germany when the Allies arrived. He was handed over to the Red Cross and he surrendered to the French forces stationed in Germany. In May 1945 he was brought to France with Marshall Pétain. So Husseini was controlled and protected by France. The British were searching for him to judge him at the Nuremberg trial for his alliance with Hitler and his collaboration in the genocide of the Jews. A year later De Gaulle's French government helped him escape to Egypt. According to Husseini's memoir, he promised that «France could win the sympathy of the whole Arab people if it established and led a European policy opposing Great Britain and Israel. » http://www.americanthinker.com/articles Cтатья нижериводимая особенно видимо любопытна в том числе тем, что журналист из American Thinker беседует с Bat Ye'or who is the world's preeminent historian of Islam, jihad and dhimmitude. Кроме иных ее книг видимо наибольшую известность - в том числе не в последнюю очередь видимо по причинам растущей ее актуальности - в эти дни приобретает книга Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis Triple-pronged Jihad -- Military, Economic and Cultural April 5th, 2005 [In a wide ranging interview with Islamic scholar Bat Ye'or comes a frank discussion of Eurabia: what it is, and what it means for Americans. Interview by Alyssa A. Lappen] In her new book, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, Bat Ye'or takes a sweeping view of history, not the one that most of us consider, just past the ends of our noses. The world's preeminent historian of two unique Islamic institutions, jihad and dhimmitude—the latter, the humiliated, precarious state of non-Muslim peoples living under Islamic rule—Bat Ye'or has masterfully portrayed the means by which the Euro-Arab Dialogue unfolded over the past 30-plus years. “There are three forms of jihad,” she says today, “the military jihad, the economic jihad and the cultural jihad.” The EAD between the European Community and the Arab League has been a means of spreading [the] economic and cultural jihad from the Middle East to Europe. In November 1967, Charles De Gaulle announced at a press conference that henceforward, France would assume a pro-Arab policy. His goals were to prevent a return to intra-European wars and to help France resume its leading role in European politics and history. Little could he have imagined the far-reaching results. De Gaulle died in November 1970, but in October 1973, following Egypt and Syria's war against Israel, Georges Pompidou picked up his policy reigns and led Europe into the Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD), a process that took hold and changed the face of Europe for the worse. On French initiative, the European Community sought to open a Euro-Arab Dialogue, but the Arab League for their part made any dialogue dependent on the establishment of an anti-Israel policy in Europe. Outraged that Israel had won the war against all odds, with help from the U.S., the oil-producing members of the Arab League unilaterally quadrupled the price of oil and cut production by 5 percent a month. Additionally, they imposed an oil embargo on the nations considered friendly to Israel--the U.S., Denmark and Holland. France and Germany panicked. On November 6, 1973, the nine countries of the European Economic Community met in Brussels and issued a joint resolution that reversed the intent and meaning of United Nations Resolution 242, and declared illegal all territory Israel had gained in its defensive 1967 war. Furthermore, the EEC demanded that henceforward “the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people” be included in any definition of peace. Having met the Arab League's preliminary demands, the EC recouped the free flow of oil embargoed to Holland and Denmark the month before. Furthermore, the EC was now free to pursue the EAD. The agreement to open discussions, however, came with further conditions. France and all other European Community nations had to agree to adopt pro-Arab and anti-American policies. Thus, the free flow of oil came with significant political riders. This little known dialogue, which subsequently burgeoned into an enormous EU-funded apparatus, thus began to plant the seeds of political, economic and cultural jihad in Europe. Less than 30 years after the end of World War II, it also revived some of the policies of the Nazis. The policies had migrated to the Middle East during World War II and afterwards, with the flight of Nazi fugitives to Egypt, Syria and other Arab nations. Now, Nazi ideology found its way back into European politics through the EAD launch of a unified European anti-Israel policy. European leaders hoped through the EAD to create "a global alternative to American power." The Arab powers hoped to promote Islam and anti-Israel policies worldwide. What followed, in addition to Europe's mass importation of Middle Eastern ideas and culture was also mass Muslim immigration into Europe. Europe gained new markets—and free-flowing oil—but at the cost of lost political independence, and lost independence for European Community member nations. Recently, reporter Alyssa A. Lappen interviewed Bat Ye'or on the far-ranging implications of these developments. Q. Was it intentional that the Euro-Arab Dialogue had these results? A. Of course, on the Arab side, the [intentions and] decisions were very clear from the beginning. The idea was to develop good relations with Europe in order to separate Europe from America, weaken the West, encourage Arab Muslim immigration into Europe, organize a militant Islamic community in Europe, and develop a strong European Islam with political and intellectual influence on European development. On the European side, opinions varied according to political views. There is no doubt that the French goal to establish Euro-Arab links stood on strong anti-American and Judeophobic grounds. The European parties willing to follow the French lead shared with the Arabs an antisemitic/anti-Zionist policy. During the Second Wold War, and even before, links existed between the Arab world and pro-Arab, European anti-Semites. The whole Arab nationalist movement of the early 20th century was constructed and supported with the rejection of Israel in mind. Ba'ath Party founder and convert to Islam, Michel Aflak, from the 1930s opposed the existence of the state of Israel on religious and political grounds. Opposition persisted even in England, which sought the mandate from the League of Nations for the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine. After WWII, the European rapprochement with Arab countries was just a continuation of the anti-Zionist policies that had started in the beginning of the 20th century. Q. How could the European countries turn against their policies and reverse the entire result of World War II and all their ideological gains. Wasn't this a complete reversal? A. There was no reversal. In Europe, the Holocaust was in preparation before it happened. There was a powerful European transnational anti-Semitic movement checked by those who opposed it, who didn't seek the disappearance of the Jews and did not expect a genocide. But World War II brought to power with the Nazi occupation, those anti-Semitic leaders who planned and collaborated in the genocide throughout Europe. The genocide of the Jewish people stopped only because the war stopped. But had the war continued, the Holocaust also would have continued. In Europe, there was no desire to stop it. It would have continued were it not for the Allies, who brought the war to an end. But until the last moment, French Vichy government trains throughout France carried Jewish children to the gas chambers. And Maurice Papon, a Vichy government minister during World War II, headed important ministries for the governments which followed after the war. Vichy government civil servants were still powerful after the war. Some intellectuals turned their coats, some were killed, some were condemned. After the war De Gaulle proclaimed a new start and a reconciliation with Germany. This was part of the process of promoting peace in post-war Europe. But the whole of occupied Europe had been fascist, Nazi and anti-Semitic. So less than 20 years after the war, this anti-Semitic movement tried to re-establish relations with Arabs, who were pro-Nazi during the war and favored the Nazi cause. Therefore, the contacts continued, although in a more clandestine way. Q. So really, you seem to be saying that the Marshall plan was not completely successful. A. After the war, it was taboo to speak about the camps. The first books on the Holocaust were published in America. A traumatized European Jewry could not evoke this situation. Now concerning the economy, the Marshall plan helped to reunite Europe and reconstruct it. But there were strong Communist parties also, which were hostile to America. So many Nazis recycled into the Communist and leftist parties. This was a change, of course. They whitewashed themselves. Q. Were there Europeans and European policy makers who opposed this Euro-Arab Dialogue and fought it. A. Yes, there were people who opposed the shift of Europe, and especially in France. But the French government was the engine running this policy. If France had not taken the lead to organize the unity of Europe as a counterweight to America, and to build a Euro-Arab block against America, the Euro-Arab Dialogue would not have happened. This is just a hypothesis. But France took the lead because of strong affinities in the French colonial class with the Maghreb. France had previously controlled all the Maghrebian countries, Syria and Lebanon as well as African Muslim territories. Also, France kept its relations with [indicted WWII criminal] Hajj Amin el Husseini, a fervent collaborator with Hitler. De Gaulle saved Husseini from the Nuremberg tribunal. Q. I didn't know that. A. Husseini was in Germany when the Allies arrived. He was handed over to the Red Cross and he surrendered to the French forces stationed in Germany. In May 1945 he was brought to France with Marshall Pétain. So Husseini was controlled and protected by France. The British were searching for him to judge him at the Nuremberg trial for his alliance with Hitler and his collaboration in the genocide of the Jews. A year later De Gaulle's French government helped him escape to Egypt. According to Husseini's memoir, he promised that France could win the sympathy of the whole Arab people if it established and led a European policy opposing Great Britain and Israel. Talks on this matter started after the Second World War. At the time, De Gaulle was Israel's best ally. But in the 1950s, many Nazis immigrated to the Arab countries, especially Egypt and Syria, they maintained their relations with French Nazi collaborationists and European neo-Nazis. In the 60s and early 70s, France took an increasingly anti-Israeli position. In 1971 it established a close relationship with Qaddafi's and engaged in massive arm sales to Arab countries. Economic and political links developed. By 1971, France had brought the European Community to share its pro-Arab views. Denmark and Holland were reluctant to follow the French anti-Israel line. But at this time there was no united European community foreign policy. The European Community was only based on economic agreements. There was no common political vision. In fact, it was only after the 1973 Kippur war, that this policy developed thanks to French initiative. By then there were 9 countries in the European community. For the first time they adopted a common foreign policy in relation to the Arab world and based on oil. After the oil boycott imposed by the Arabs, they linked Europe's oil supply to European support for the PLO, Arafat and an anti-Israeli policy. As a condition for the start of a Dialogue with the Europeans, they requested that the anti-Israeli policy be linked to the economic sector of Euro-Arab exchanges. Hence the Dialogue came to rest on two pillars, anti-American and anti-Israel policies. It is absolutely extraordinary that less than 30 years after the end of World War II, after America had saved Europe from destruction, the common European Community foreign policy was based on an anti-Israel and anti-American strategy. And from this followed the whole development that we see now. Q. The thing that strikes me the most is how the EAD relates to the history of Jihad. In the Decline of Eastern Christianity, it was clear that the jihad was economic from the beginning. So this EAD did not just evolve in the 1970s. First you buy off the ministers, then you send economic envoys, then you pollute the political system, then you send the horsemen, and then the whole society collapses. A. Yes, the jihad is an ideological war, which is based on theology, its aim was to conquer lands and impose the Koranic law. Often the tactic includes the corruption of leaders. Terror is also a means of jihad: terrorized people submit. In past centuries the corrupted leaders often opened the city’s gates to the jihadist armies. Corruption is also used to encourage conversions, particularly among high officials. And you have many conversions now in Europe. Q. Now? A. Yes. Many people have converted to Islam. Some by conviction, some by opportunism. They leave a civilization and a culture that they hate and join one that they view as a winning one. There are many reasons why people convert. Today Islam recruits in jails but also among intellectuals. Q. But what about the leadership. Is it merely corruption? A. There are different reasons. In Europe, the romantic view of Lawrence of Arabia idealizes Islam. And thanks to the cultural components of the Euro-Arab Dialogue - which encompasses many sectors - every book speaks about the grandeur of the Islamic civilization, its superiority to Western civilization [Note: this 12th century map serves as the cover to an official publication of the Dialogue; it shows the Mediterranean literally turned upside down, with the Arab world in a dominant position, situated above the the geographic north of infidel Europe.] There is a whole apologetic cultural trend about Islam, an ideological movement that glorifies it. Young people are influenced. This developed in the 70s and 80s within the Dialogue, raising an enthusiasm for Islam. It has led to several conversions of intellectuals and politicians. The churches were also very pro-Islamic, because they saw a way, in linking with Islam, to reconcile Islam and Christianity against Israel. Much of the church was very anti-Semitic, in spite of the Second Vatican Council in 1962 to 1965. In fact there were those inside the church who opposed the rapprochement with the Jews. It was not an easy thing. Priests who fought strongly for the reconciliation did not succeed as well as they hoped. They just opened a door for reconciliation, but they had to fight to keep the door open against the opponents. Q. Who are some of these people who have been converting. A. Many are neo-fascists or neo-nazis or ex-communists. Many also come from the extreme Left. The Italian Mario Scialoja was responsible for the Italian section of the World Islamic League. Its vice-president for the Italian section was also a convert. Converts gets money and prominent positions in European Islam. They direct Islamic centers, publishing houses and newspapers. Some collaborate with the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and are viscerally anti-Christian and anti-Jewish. Q. How did De Gaulle get this change going. A. First, all this was not done until after his death. In 1967, de Gaulle declared that the policy of France would be fundamentally an Arab policy. But he died in November 1970. The whole thing started in 1973 under his successors. The French did not like this policy, but it was a slow, gradual movement. Q. And even now, most Europeans do not know. A. No, not about the Euro-Arab Dialogue. Some know the Mediterranean partnership. But except for those involved in this policy, they do not know about the Anna Lindh Foundation [to promote “understanding between Europe and the countries around the Mediterranean and the Middle East]. Europeans work hard, there is much unemployment and they absorb the culture from the media and television. Disinformation all around supports the pro-Arab policy. Anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism are congenial to Palestinianism, the new culture of Europe. Q. What is of concern is that one sees the same thing already happening here. The media is pro-Arab, it is impossible to get them to change, even with the facts. The whole ideological aura has already infiltrated the press and the universities. A. You have to expose the cultural jihad, and discuss its consequences in Europe, and the sub-culture of lies from which it is growing. The lies are crumbling now as the jihadist ideology and war against the Western world become more apparent. In fact, Europe has denied its own roots and the spring from which its spiritual Biblical values emerged. It is a denial of one’s own spirituality and sources. Now, in Europe, Israel is a demonized word, a confiscated reality. European governments created an anti-Semitic culture in order to integrate the Muslim immigration, but they have absorbed also the values of a jihadist society. This is why Europe is intellectually and spiritually confused and disoriented. You cannot ally with jihadist forces that want to destroy you intellectually, spiritually and politically, without being destroyed, and this is what is happening. Q. Then why do you say the whole thing is crumbling. Clearly they are winning. A. There is so much hatred now in Europe, so many lies, so much confusion, that people don't know where they are going. They don't understand what is happening. They don't understand why they have to hate America, Israel and why they have to hate themselves. They have no view of the future except the economic extension of the EU. Our leaders commend that every effort should be made to integrate the foreign immigrants. It is not the foreigners that have to adapt in a country they have chosen to come. Foreigners were given the right to immigrate with their own culture. So they have imported the seeds of the culture of dhimmitude into Europe. This is their culture, this is the type of relationship they had with Jews and Christians and they brought it with them. This was the culture in which they were educated, and this is what creates so much confusion in Europe. Q. Europe is completely lost and nothing can be done? A. I don't see a solution. Europeans are not reproducing. Soon, the 60- and 70-year-olds will die. And there are no Europeans to replace them. Suddenly, millions of Europeans won't be there any more. And against that loss is a mounting immigrant population, which refuses totally to integrate into a society many hate. In some schools, the new generation rejects the curriculum, under the pretext that it is not an Islamic history or culture, or that it is a Judeo-Christian perspective. In a few years they will be adults and have political power. Laws and institutions will change, already there are pressures in schools and hospitals for sex segregation. Polygamy is unofficially tolerated. Q. So 15 million Arab Muslims out of 350 million can do this? Change an entire continent? It's only 15 million. A. No, it is over 20 million, but in fact you don't know their number, because it is impossible in some countries to take a census on a religious basis, and anyway there are always new immigrant waves, this is without counting the clandestine ones, those who come without papers. Q. So it could be 50 million. A. I don't know, no one knows. It is not so much the number that counts, it is the will to take the power, and to dominate. At the beginning of each [historical Islamic] conquest, the Muslims were a very small minority. But this colonizing minority became masters over overwhelming Christian majorities. Q. Let's talk about the universities because the same thing is beginning to happen in the U.S. We have professors coming from the Middle East, spouting anti-Israeli, anti-American propaganda, funded by the Saudis, and it is getting very difficult to open your mouth in the universities. A. Palestinianism started in the universities in Europe in the late 1960s. The whole Left was pro-Palestinian because the Soviets supported them and gave them training camps and arms to conduct their terrorist activities. The agreements between the European and Arab leaders included in the Euro-Arab Dialogue, mention that the Arabic civilization and Middle Eastern subjects should be taught in European universities by Arabs from the Arab countries. The Arab perspective of history whereby jihad was a peaceful conquest - not really even a conquest - but a just war against unbelief, was imported into European universities. The idealized Muslim vision of history, and Islam's conception of tolerance towards infidels entered into the educational system. This partial vision exists also here on campuses. Q. I think it is, and you starting to see these Islamic centers, with Middle Eastern professors coming. A. [Philosopher and theologian] Jacques Ellul was totally opposed to what he called “the subversion of Western culture,” but his views caused him to be marginalized by the Protestant church, the university, and the press. Many people shared his opinion, but they were silenced by the network of the Euro-Arab Dialogue supported by the government’s policy and the powerful European Commission. Through the network of the EAD the Muslim policy and culture infiltrated into the highest political and cultural levels in European countries members of the EC. This is why it succeeded so well. Q. Look, you could see something similar happen here, with the President's nomination to the U.S. Institute of Peace. Daniel Pipes as you know was nominated to that, but there was a huge war against his nomination, and finally, the President appointed him by executive order during a summer recess. But there are Islamists seeping into that institution and elsewhere into the upper echelons of government. What can Americans do? A. The history of jihad must be taught according to the Western perspective. And the same for dhimmitude, its development and consequences. This is extremely important, to prevent a return to the condition of dhimmitude. Unfortunately, an institute to study the history of jihad and dhimmitude worldwide has not been established. Q. So you think an institute would help. A. Of course. In Europe, this history has been totally erased, in order to please the Muslim world. The Islamic view is taught whereby conquests were achieved through peaceful means, with tolerance, which is the contrary to the reality. In Europe, the Muslim groups always accuse the West, and take a tack that makes them victims and victimized. All evil is projected on the West and on Israel, and this vision gives the West a feeling of guilt towards Arabs. In fact, what Arabs have done with the help of European intellectuals engaged in the Euro-Arab Dialogue is to project the Jewish history of victimhood onto the Arabs, in order to neutralize the West. They have usurped the history of another people to create guilt among Western countries and paralyze them. This process has eliminated the whole history of jihad. We see that Europeans are incapable of understanding their past, or even the current situation. This work was begun by Edward Said who promoted European guilt toward the Arabs and Muslim people. He was totally supported by high level governmental bodies and European universities. Otherwise he would not have achieved such fame, his position being based on historical ignorance and anti-Western racism. Q. Could you briefly explain the history of jihad and dhimmitude. A. The history of jihad started in the 7th century with the Islamic religion and the conquests of Arabia by the followers of Mohamed. Arabia was inhabited by a pagan majority, but there were also a great number of Christians and Jewish peasants and artisans who cultivated the oases there. Mohamed started his war against the pagans in Arabia, who opposed his beliefs. He fled to Medina, where Jewish tribes lived. On their refusal to convert to his belief, he attacked them and either expelled them or, as in the case of the Qurayza tribe, he executed all the men and sold the women and children into slavery. Then Mohamed continued his war to impose Islam on the whole of Arabia. Finally, just before he died, he had converted the whole of Arabia to his religion. Now Mohamed's tactic was in fact patterned on the normal means of Bedouin war. But the founders of Islamic law established a whole school, a jurisdictional process by which they made this warfare into a sacred obligation to conduct a worldwide war against the realm of unbelief. This ideology inspired from the life of Mohamed, either true or invented, based on Koran, the hadith and the biographies of the Prophet, became the sacred duties of jihad in order to Islamize the world. Now the ideology and laws of jihad represent a system founded on Islamic theological belief. This is how jihad developed. Since then, the Arab armies were bent on always conquering more territories in order to expand the rule of the Koran over the earth. They conquered all the Christians lands west of Arabia in the Middle East. They invaded Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the Maghreb. These lands inhabited by Jews and Christians, were Islamized through different procedures. Arab conquests expanded to Iberia (Spain) in Europe, Portugal and up to France and Switzerland and were stopped in Poitiers in the 8th century. In the East, the Muslim armies conquered Persia, Armenia and part of the Byzantine empire, which was later totally dominated by the Turkish tribes converted to Islam. Then, further East, Muslim power expanded in Afghanistan to the Indus. From the 11th century, there was a second wave of Islamization, which concentrated on Europe. Under the Ottomans it advanced to the borders of Poland and Hungary and occupied the whole of Eastern European countries who became part of the Muslim empire. The Ottomans were stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683. All these lands were, at the beginning, populated by non-Muslim people. At this time, these lands had armies and kings. The kings were deposed and the armies disbanded, but the population stayed in the cities and the countryside. So once a land has been Islamized, the whole colonization process took place. These processes were based on legal texts written by Arab theologians in the 8th and 9th centuries. The system of dhimmitude is congenial with Muslim colonization. Non-Muslim majorities were either totally eliminated or survived as small minorities, heirs of the big civilizations that they represented before the conquest. The process of dhimmitude, is of course linked to jihad. Q. Let's talk about the economic portion of this war. A. Well, first of all, terrorism destroys civilized life and the prevention of terrorism is very expensive. Now with the weapons of mass destruction it is possible to kill thousands of people at once and control a population by terrorism. It happened in Spain. Zapatero, the President of the Spanish government, like a dhimmi, pulled the Spanish army from Iraq and went to Morocco to proclaim his love for Morocco and Islam. He said he would not deal with terrorism through arms, but by giving aid. Paying money for your security means ransoming. This is the policy of Europe. Q. It is the policy of the U.S. also. We have given $50 billion to Egypt, and they hate us. And a few hundred billion to all the other Arab countries, probably, so it dwarfs any aid to Israel. Is this a bad thing? A. It is bad policy to feed those who hate you. The help that is given must be appreciated, because it is paid through the work of other people. Government should not squander the money of the European taxpayers, who are deprived of many services to which they are entitled for their work. The European Union has paid billions to Arafat during the intifada. The more the Palestinian terrorists killed Israelis, the more money they received. To the Arabs, this is encouragement to continue. Q. It seems that the U.S. government must be made aware that an economic jihad is also a means to wage war. A. Yes, jihad takes different forms. The military jihad is waged through terrorism. The cultural jihad is done in the universities through the subversion of western values. It developed under the aegis of the Euro-Arab Dialogue. The economic jihad used the oil boycott. Arab countries rely heavily on oil exports. Their economy is very dependent on Western products. It is important to reduce our dependency on the Arab countries' oil, in order to free ourselves from the economic jihad. Q. Does corruption of officials that go with the jihad. Do you see any of that in the U.S.? A. Well, in the U.S. you have a different system, you have a much stronger democracy. The people can control the policy of the government. It is under strong scrutiny. But this is not so in Europe. The policy of Europe is conducted at the top level, and this escaped the people's scrutiny. They do not understand what is happening. And the whole foreign policy of the Euro-Arab Dialogue was conducted by the European Community, the European Counsel of Ministers, the European Parliament and the European Commission, which are different bodies than each European country government. Q. Right, but in the U.S. we also have the World Bank, the North American Free Trade Agreement which is going to be expanded to South America, and I presume that will have links to the EU and those things are not followed here, either. A. We live in a global world, and international organizations develop. Americans should be aware of these developments and be diffident of the United Nations, which is an extremely corrupted organization, which works according to different standards. Here, it must be clearly stated that the Arab Muslim countries, 56 countries, and the Palestinian Authority, which will become a state soon, probably, operate according to Koranic justice, which is not what we consider justice. It is based on the superiority of Islam over non-Muslim countries, it justifies jihad and jihadists' values. Those whom we call terrorists, are called freedom fighters, because fighting against non-Muslims countries is a “just war”. This is why the Palestinians have a “just cause” and conduct a “just war.” The same in Darfur, in Sudan. As long as we have different values, it will be difficult to agree on what is just. For Muslim countries, Sharia rules take precedence over any other rules, especially over man-made rules. They consider Western rules inferior to their God given rules. For this reason, America is right to refuse to participate in the International Court of Justice, which is dominated by Islamic and European nations, both abiding to the Islamic principles of justice. Alyssa A. Lappen http://www.americanthinker.com/articles_ All content unless otherwise indicated, property copyright "The American Thinker" 2003-04. |
| steissd 2005-04-10 08:36 am UTC (link) |
| Эксперимент с античехословацкой политикой в 1938 году, который плохо кончился для них самих через два года, ничему не научил французов... |
| abcdefgh 2005-04-10 09:54 am UTC (link) |
| Для них самих очень даже хорошо. Пролежали под немцами всю войну, а потом были "произведены" в число стран-победительниц. Получили себе обратнго все спорные с Германией территории и даже имели сразу после войны свою - французскую - "зону оккупации" Германии. Все же их участие в войне сводилось - на стороне если считать собзников чего они делали до высадки союзников в Нормандии - главным образом к регулярным выступлениям "несломленного капитуляцией полковника ДеГолля" по БиБиСи. |
| Григорий Громов (abcdefgh 2005-04-09 22:30:00 (link) | |
| "... но подозреваю, что здесь у меня проявляется латентный антисемитизм, довольно частый у полукровок". (c)mets |
| Григорий Громов (abcdefgh 2005-04-10 01:10:00 (link) | |
| Страсти по штанам разгораются у ученых-филологов иногда бывает что в lj не на шутку. При чем по непредсказуемо разным - иногда самым забавным, как вот только что - поводам. Очередной случай данной серии волной сочуствия/возмущений по френд-ленте комментариями тока что прокатился. Коротко если - ап чем речь. Один из последнее время с ярких в lj авторов припомнил - по календарному кажется для него поводу - эпизод своего раннего детства, когда евонный родитель одевая дите перед прогулкой не обратил внимание, что обе ножки оказались у ребенка в одной штанине. Таких случаев, что называется, с кем не бывает. Но суть рассказа конечно же была в том сообщении не о том, а в сопереживаемом по сю пору автором - и заведомо теперь уже многими с его читателей - диалоге, который состоялся по тому поводу меж членами дружной в двух поколениях его семьи. Вспомнил же -рассказал здесь автор сообщения в lj о том случае - потому, что через много лет с этим как раз случаем его далекого детства были связаные последние запомнившиеся ему слова у изголовья близкой родственницы. Напомнила она ему уходя тот эпизод раннего детства. Про нее - про ту его бабушку - был рассказ. Так вот оказалось что один из видимо профессиональных литераторов не устоял и тут же сообщил в комментах, о том что драматический поворот сюжета со штанами "похищен" был этим рассказчиком у ... признанного классика современной литературы. Дал литератор, как положено, ссылку на первоисточник, где как оказалось тоже кто-то две ноги в одну штанину во младенчестве запихнул. Так возник конфликт очередной в lj меж автором краткого мемуара по поводу и его серьезным от филологии критиком. Может и не заметил бы той истории - для lj вообще говоря характерной - но почему то ясно вспомнил с того, как несколько увы лет подряд в нашей группе в детском саду едва ли не половина детей норовила всякий раз одеваясь именно так и поступить. Сам был среди тех неправильно в штаны одетых ни раз. Запихнуть сразу обе ноги в одну штанину оказывалось почему-то всегда много легче - или наоброт веселее - но только так оно почти регулярно происходило. При том - и тем ни менее, то есть - уже со всей ответственностью мог бы подтвердить, а если будет надо, то по такому важному для филологической науки случаю, мог и официальную справку из детсада выписать - что к тому времени книги, на которые в данный момент ссылается ученый критик еще и вовсе не были напечатаны. Соответственно и дети в нашем к примеру саду делали вышепомянутые упражнения со штанами только и исключительно по их лично каждого инициативе. Не было там - в гардеробе зимнем - не только с их стороны плагиата, но отдаленных пусть самых по теме данной реминисценций. Обвинять потому всех их погрупно - или уж тем более каждого в отдельности - только по факту их к штанам неправильного отношения в плагиате (пусть даже и задним теперь уже числом) полагал бы что нет потому никаких оснований.
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| Григорий Громов (abcdefgh 2005-04-10 02:53:00 (link) | |
"Сиреневый туман" (с) (clickable) |
| Григорий Громов (abcdefgh 2005-04-12 20:29:00 (link) | |
| Microsoft Patch Day Brings Urgent Updates http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s Дыра на дыре говорят что в IE все еще зияют. Понятно что предлагают по такому поводу кучу очередных заплат срочно всем ставить. Не влезал покамест в детали, но может кто знает откудова и главное куда это все сыплется? Имею в виду, как можно из HTML страницы - пусть даже и с javascript и иными DHTML примочками - куда й то там в компутер залесть, если только не включено к тому прямое приглашение в виде распахнутых (по умолчанию enable) Active X, опять же по умолчанию позволения для Java аплетов, и опять же по умолчанию File Download Enable ? Или все эти бесконечные заплатки к IE как раз и есть цена Active X? Потому что сам то по себе HTML c нормальным (без использования расширений для вызова вышеперечисленных микрософтовских разного рода примочек) как-будто бы и вовсе ничего крамольного теоретически не может совершить. Или чего-то просмотрел и могут быть дырки в браузере IE еще где-то акромя евонных Active X ? |
| Григорий Громов (abcdefgh 2005-04-12 20:51:00 (link) | |
Другая картинка (clickable) Сначала было попытался ее высветлить и вообще поиграть чуть в фотошоп - сопротивляется, и при чем весьма активно. Как ни крутил, а пришлось оставить все как есть в исходном - притемненном, как оно без солнца было, когда фотографировал - состоянии. Так что картинка тут первозданная - на этот раз - без игры. |
| som 2005-04-13 04:40 am UTC (link) |
| уже цветы цветут ?! завидки берут. |
| abcdefgh 2005-04-13 05:10 am UTC (link) (Parent) |
| Да, распогодилось. Время цветов на дворе. Начну опять распугивать френдофф тяжелыми картинками. Сезон потому что. Сами должны понимать. У вас зато снегу была полна зима поди. А тут дожди только все это время проливные с неба сыпались. Так что симметрия и тут соблюдается. Круглый он потому что - Земной шар - "на каждый прилив - по отливу" (с)БШ |
| som 2005-04-13 05:57 am UTC (link) (Parent) |
| вчера целый день дождь, с утра мокрый снег, грязюка и мерзопакость просто несусветная - хучь в резиновые сапоги переобувайся. мэр наш, говорят, вчерась с изумлением обнаружил, что оказывается "в городе очень грязно" - мордой бы его в эту грязь ... |
| abcdefgh 2005-04-13 06:53 am UTC (link) (Parent) |
| Так это же межсезонье - так положено - мэр климатическими поясами не заведует. Но ведь снегу он то вам зимой выдал - месяца три то уж наверняка, как положено, а не загнал его куда-нить налево в жаркие страны - и тоже надо ценить. Хотя и претензии к местным властям конечно тоже от точки на глобусе не зависят. У всех жителей - в любом месте - их всегда длинный список. И не убавляется при чем. |
| Григорий Громов (abcdefgh 2005-04-12 21:10:00 (link) | |
| "Никто не задумывался над тем, почем зеркало путает право и лево, а верх и низ - нет?" (c) teddee Не только не знаю, но и более того - ни разу не обратил внимания на этот вообще-то говоря ведь почти с очевидностью любопытный факт. Сколько можно иногда интересного узнать в lj ... Со своей стороны тоже однажды задавал здесь вопросы про которые уверен был что немногие знают ответ. Например такой: Почему "квас" пишется вместе, а "к вам" - отдельно? Тоже помню что никто, кажется, не знал почему так, пока не привел здесь ответ из конца задачника. |
 som 2005-04-13 04:38 am UTC (link) |
| "ананас" вместе, а "мы её" отдельно. |
| Григорий Громов (abcdefgh 2005-04-12 22:23:00 (link) | |
| "Из всех искусств для нас важнейшим является кино" (с) В.И.Л-н & Mike M. Все так. Само по себе оно конечно верно - кто бы спорил, не подумайте что решил по общей моде заняться тут ревизией незыблимых установок великих классиков - но и однако не только. Вот еще искусство сочинять заголовки к сообщениям на новостной ленте тоже вышепомянутому М. и Л. кину по степени важности не уступает давно уже. Ни раз уже приводил тут тому примеры и вот очередной. Nicholas Riccardi - штатный автор ЛА Таймс - написал заметку, которую по причине ее сенсационного заголовка (а также дополнительно углубляющего градус драматизму первого абзаца-аннотации), не говоря уже об азартно вкусной для леволиберальной прессы темы самой по себе тут же расхватали едва ли не все новостные ленты ведущих инфагенств мира:
For the first time in 14 years, the American workforce has in effect gotten an across-the-board pay cut. The growth in wages in 2004 and the first two months of this year trailed inflation, compounding the squeeze from higher housing, energy and other costs... This is the first time that salaries have increased more slowly than prices since the 1990-91 recession. Though salary growth has been relatively sluggish since the 2001 downturn, inflation also had stayed relatively subdued until last year, when the consumer price index rose 2.7%. But wages rose only 2.5%. The effective 0.2-percentage-point erosion in workers' living standards occurred while the economy expanded at a healthy 4%, better than the 3% historical average. Meanwhile, corporate profits hit record highs as companies got more productivity out of workers while keeping pay increases down. Some see climbing profits and stagnant wages as not only unfair but also ultimately unsustainable. "Those that are baking the larger pie ought to see their slices expanding," said Jared Bernstein, an economist with the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington. В итоге чего получается (подтекст: предупреждали вас мудаков, что взвоете, если Кери не выберите, вот и смотрите чего получается) - рост цен впервые за 14 лет (после рецессии 1991г) обогнал на 0,2% рост зарплаты. Далее эта цифирь разжовывается неполнятливому если такой попадется читателю на бытовых примерах. Беседут с рядовым лосанжелосцем, который все подтверждает - так и есть, зарплата у него осталась как тот год $24.50 в час, а цену на квартиру со вчерась опять повысили - куда деваться пролетарию киношного (в Голливуде он работает) труда:
Сначала он до сыта обыгрывает помянутые выше сопоставления и только в опять же в самом конце упоминает, что заметную если не основную компоненту усредненного роста цен (той самой - в любой такого рода статистике - "средней температуре по больнице") составляет рост цен на вновь приобретаемые - не от бедности и нищеты то уж точно - дома. Цена на которые выросла в Калифорнии более чем на 20%, а в целом по стране на 9%. Рост цен при чем - ранее отмечал - является именно что результатом превышения спроса над предлождением, что свидетельствует вовсе не об ухудшении материального положения усредненных наемных работников в Америке. Не буржуи потому как с тремя подбородками - прожирающими в МакДональдсе прибавочную стоимость - и пр. марксовыми "капиталистами" создают тот массовый спрос на дома. Наконец на этот же год пришелся и очередной бросок цен на горючее - который внес весомый вклад в общий рост индекса цен, так как входит как элемент цены транспортировки продукта практически в любой товар или услугу - в причине котрого опять же заметную часть составляет "жировая прослойка" порочных привычек среднего американца к наиболее прожорливым на бензин машинам (SUV, легковые "грузовики" и пр. ), спрос на которые у все того же среднего американца увы все еще не падает. И так при чем всегда - практически любого дня новостной поток если глянуть - независимо по внешней политике или внутренней - такого рода фирменно либерального пера "лукавые заметки". Типовой - в каком то смысле давно уже стандартный - "левый" во всех смыслах этого слова стиль. Ни раз в этой связи отмечал, что левым либералом в Америке может быть - в идеолого-политическом смысле этого слова и только, разумеется - либо дурак, либо жулик. Третьего в их положении теоретически не может быть, да никто и не видел такого чуда ни разу. Еще раз - речь идет о политической дурости, которая требуется чтобы вестись на кериева разлива посулы, а вовсе не бытового плана глупость имеется в виду. Большое число самых умных во всем остальном - в быту совершенно безупречных можно при желани насчитать миллионы членов демпартии, в науке хоть того же Холмски взять или скажем Сороса в финансовом мире, да и много иных в бизнесе и пр. - людей читают как откровения приведенного выше типа "новости" и демонстрируют тем самым ровно тот градус политической глупости, который требуется чтобы голосовать здесь в США за левых. Аналогичным образом и жуликами с очевидностью являются те, кто сочиняет приведенного типа "лукавые новости", или демонстрирует иные мехнизмы нечестного практически в 100 процентах случаев у левых либералов ведения полемики. При том что все эти люди вовсе не являются жуликами в бытовом смысле - не крадут скажем серебряные ложки в гостях, да и вообще ничем остальным по параметру личного поведения вне круга политических дискуссий обычно в плохую сторону как правило не выделяются. Необходимость - именно что суровая безисходно необходимость - вынуждает их жульничать при попытках идеологически обосновать занимаемую левую позицию. Занимают то они ее - эту позицию - по религиозным соображениям, но сказать такого - как скажем могли бы про то сообщить верующие традиционных конфессий - не могут. Не могут они, как правило - иногда случается, но редко - сообщить что требуется им с единомышленниками всего лишь вера в леволиберальные догматы. Но и однако как только пытаются делать невозможное - предпринимают попытки как-то логически обосновать истоки своей веры - то и естественным образом оказываются перед необходимостью врать своим единоверцам приведенным выше или иным каким образом. В том и была к примеру причина религиозного экстаза левых либералов на фильмах Мура, что он показывает им те самые чудеса умело приготовленных доказательств их правоты, кторых в реальном мире совсем не просто оказывается - см. выше тому пример - убедительно продемонстрировать даже самым искуссным из их жрецов. И только волшебная сила искусства - кино, как правило, это оказывается - еще иногда спасает левых умельцев от безисходной необходимости накручивать виток за витком все время одного и того же сорта лапши "статистику". Только кино им потому и остается - прозорливо прав был ВИЛ, всам деле выясняется всякий раз что оно не подведет - но и ничего видимо теперь уже кроме. Если кому-то покажется интересным вникать в подробности типового сюжета новостного кина студии "ЛА Таймс" - по схеме приведенного выше "статистического анализа" текущего состояния американской экономики, то для таких вдумчивых читателей сохраняю ниже оба источника: полностью вышецитированную статью и официальные данные статистики по состоянию на Февраль-05, по котрой собственно только и могла быть написана вышепомянутая статья, так как более поздних кажется еще не было: Consumer Price Index Summary FOR TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Patrick C. Jackman (202) 691-7000 USDL-05-484 CPI QUICKLINE: (202) 691-6994 TRANSMISSION OF FOR CURRENT AND HISTORICAL MATERIAL IN THIS INFORMATION: (202) 691-5200 RELEASE IS EMBARGOED MEDIA CONTACT: (202) 691-5902 UNTIL 8:30 A.M. (EST) INTERNET ADDRESS: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 http://www.bls.gov/cpi/ CONSUMER PRICE INDEX: FEBRUARY 2005 The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.6 percent in February, before seasonal adjustment, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The February level of 191.8 (1982-84=100) was 3.0 percent higher than in February 2004. The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) increased 0.5 percent in February, prior to seasonal adjustment. The February level of 187.3 (1982-84=100) was 3.0 percent higher than in February 2004. The Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) increased 0.5 percent in February on a not seasonally adjusted basis. The February level of 111.7 (December 1999=100) was 2.6 percent higher than in February 2004. Please note that the indexes for the post-2003 period are subject to revision. CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U advanced 0.4 percent in February, following a 0.1 percent increase in January. The energy index, which registered substantial declines in the preceding two months, increased 2.0 percent in February, accounting for virtually all the acceleration in the overall CPI-U. Within energy, the index for petroleum- based energy increased 3.1 percent and the index for energy services rose 0.8 percent. The food index increased 0.1 percent in February, the same as in January. A 0.2 percent decrease in the index for food at home was more than offset by a 0.3 percent increase in the index for food away from home. The index for all items less food and energy, which increased 0.2 percent in each of the preceding four months, advanced 0.3 percent in February. Larger increases in the indexes for shelter and medical care more than offset a smaller rise in the index for new vehicles and a decline in the index for apparel. Table A. Percent changes in CPI for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) Seasonally adjusted Un- Compound adjusted Expenditure Changes from preceding month annual rate 12-mos. Category 2004 2005 3-mos. ended ended Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Feb.'05 Feb.'05 All Items .1 .2 .6 .3 .0 .1 .4 1.7 3.0 Food and beverages .0 .0 .5 .3 .0 .1 .1 .6 2.6 Housing .1 .3 .2 .3 .2 .1 .4 2.7 3.0 Apparel -.3 .0 .0 .2 -.4 .3 -.2 -1.3 .1 Transportation -.3 .2 2.1 .2 -.7 -.2 .8 -.2 4.6 Medical care .3 .3 .4 .3 .3 .4 .6 5.2 4.3 Recreation -.2 .2 .1 .1 .0 .1 -.2 -.4 .6 Education and communication .0 .4 -.2 .4 .1 .1 .3 1.8 1.4 Other goods and services .2 .2 .2 .1 .4 .4 .3 4.4 2.8 Special indexes: Energy -.3 -.3 4.0 1.0 -1.3 -1.1 2.0 -2.0 10.4 Food .0 -.1 .6 .3 .0 .1 .1 .6 2.6 All items less food and energy .1 .3 .2 .2 .2 .2 .3 2.4 2.4 The food and beverages index rose 0.1 percent in February. The index for food at home decreased for the third consecutive month--down 0.2 percent in February. Four of the six major grocery store food groups registered declines in February. The index for fruits and vegetables declined for the third consecutive month--down 0.7 percent in February. Within the fruits and vegetables group, the index for fresh fruits declined 1.7 percent while the index for fresh vegetables rose 0.3 percent. (Prior to seasonal adjustment, fresh fruit and fresh vegetable prices declined 5.2 and 2.9 percent, respectively.) The index for processed fruits and vegetables decreased 0.6 percent. The index for dairy products, which turned up in January after declining in each of the preceding six months, declined 0.8 percent in February. Prices for fresh whole milk, for cheese, and for ice cream each declined. The indexes for other food at home and for nonalcoholic beverages declined 0.2 and 0.1 percent, respectively. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs increased 0.3 percent in February. Price increases for beef and for pork- -up 1.5 and 0.4 percent, respectively--were partially offset by price declines for poultry and for fish and seafood--down 1.0 and 1.3 percent, respectively. The index for cereals and bakery products rose 0.1 percent. The other two components of the food and beverages index--food away from home and alcoholic beverages--increased 0.3 and 0.5 percent, respectively. The index for housing increased 0.4 percent in February, following a 0.1 percent rise in January. The index for shelter increased 0.3 percent in February after advancing 0.2 percent in each of the preceding two months. Within shelter, the indexes for rent and for owners' equivalent rent each increased 0.2 percent, and the index for lodging away from home rose 1.1 percent. (Prior to seasonal adjustment, the index for lodging away from home increased 5.1 percent.) The index for fuels and utilities, which declined 0.1 percent in January, increased 0.8 percent in February. The index for fuel oil, which declined sharply in each of the preceding two months, rose 2.4 percent in February. The index for energy services rose 0.8 percent, as a 2.5 percent increase in the index for natural gas more than offset a 0.1 percent decrease in the index for electricity. (Prior to seasonal adjustment, prices for fuel oil rose 5.6 percent and charges for electricity rose 0.1 percent, while charges for natural gas declined 3.0 percent.) The index for household furnishings and operations, which rose 0.1 percent in January, declined 0.2 percent in February, reflecting price declines for window coverings and for furniture and bedding. The transportation index, which declined in each of the preceding two months, turned up in February, reflecting a 3.2 percent increase in the index for motor fuel. Gasoline prices, which had declined in six of the last seven months, rose 5.0 percent in February to a level 5.4 percent below their peak level of June 2004. The index for new vehicles increased for the fifth consecutive month--up 0.1 percent in February. (As of February, about 85 percent of the new vehicle sample was represented by 2005 models. The 2005 models will continue to be phased in, with appropriate adjustments for quality change, over the next several months as they replace old models at dealerships.) The index for used cars and trucks increased 0.1 percent in February. The index for public transportation turned up in February, as a 1.5 percent increase in airline fares more than offset a decline in the index for other intercity transportation. The index for apparel fell 0.2 percent in February, following a 0.3 percent increase in January. (Prior to seasonal adjustment, apparel prices rose 2.2 percent, reflecting the introduction of spring-summer wear. Prices for women's apparel registered the largest advance--up 4.5 percent.) Medical care costs rose 0.6 percent in February and are 4.3 percent higher than a year ago. The index for medical care commodities-- prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs, and medical supplies--increased 0.4 percent. The index for medical care services rose 0.6 percent in February. The indexes for professional services and for hospital and related services each increased 0.7 percent. The index for recreation decreased 0.2 percent in February, largely reflecting a 0.5 percent decline in the index for video and audio. Prices for televisions declined 1.1 percent in February and are 11.7 percent lower than a year ago. The index for education and communication increased 0.3 percent in February. Educational costs increased 0.5 percent, while communication costs were unchanged. Within the latter group, an increase in the index for telephone services--up 0.3 percent, reflecting an increase in charges for local calls--was offset by declines in the indexes for personal computers and peripheral equipment, for computer software and accessories, for internet services, for telephone hardware, calculators, and other consumer information items, and for delivery services. The index for other goods and services increased 0.3 percent in February. The index for tobacco and smoking products rose 0.4 percent, following a 1.9 percent increase in January. CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers increased 0.4 percent in February. Table B. Percent changes in CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) Seasonally adjusted Un- Compound adjusted Expenditure Changes from preceding month annual rate 12-mos. Category 2004 2005 3-mos. ended ended Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Feb.'05 Feb.'05 All Items .1 .2 .6 .3 -.1 .1 .4 1.7 3.0 Food and beverages .1 -.1 .5 .3 .0 .1 .1 .4 2.6 Housing .2 .2 .2 .3 .2 .2 .4 3.0 3.0 Apparel -.3 .1 .0 .2 -.3 .5 -.1 .3 .3 Transportation -.2 .4 2.2 .1 -.5 -.3 .8 -.2 5.0 Medical care .3 .4 .3 .3 .3 .3 .6 5.2 4.4 Recreation -.1 .1 .1 .1 -.1 .2 -.2 -.4 .3 Education and communication -.1 .4 -.3 .3 .1 .1 .3 1.8 .6 Other goods and services .2 .2 .1 .2 .4 .5 .4 5.4 3.0 Special indexes Energy -.5 -.3 4.2 .7 -1.3 -1.3 2.0 -2.2 10.6 Food .0 -.1 .6 .3 .0 .1 .1 .4 2.6 All items less food and energy .1 .3 .2 .2 .2 .2 .3 2.5 2.3 Consumer Price Index data for March are scheduled for release on Wednesday, April 20, 2005, at 8:30 A.M. (EDT). ________________________________________ Facilities for Sensory Impaired Information from this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 202-691-5200, Federal Relay Services: 1-800-877-8339. For a recorded message of Summary CPI data, call (202) 691-5200. ________________________________________ Brief Explanation of the CPI The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change in prices over time of goods and services purchased by households. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes CPIs for two population groups: (1) the CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), which covers households of wage earners and clerical workers that comprise approximately 32 percent of the total population and (2) the CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the Chained CPI for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI- U), which cover approximately 87 percent of the total population and include in addition to wage earners and clerical worker households, groups such as professional, managerial, and technical workers, the self- employed, short-term workers, the unemployed, and retirees and others not in the labor force. The CPIs are based on prices of food, clothing, shelter, and fuels, transportation fares, charges for doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, and other goods and services that people buy for day-to-day living. Prices are collected in 87 urban areas across the country from about 50,000 housing units and approximately 23,000 retail establishments- department stores, supermarkets, hospitals, filling stations, and other types of stores and service establishments. All taxes directly associated with the purchase and use of items are included in the index. Prices of fuels and a few other items are obtained every month in all 87 locations. Prices of most other commodities and services are collected every month in the three largest geographic areas and every other month in other areas. Prices of most goods and services are obtained by personal visits or telephone calls of the Bureau's trained representatives. In calculating the index, price changes for the various items in each location are averaged together with weights, which represent their importance in the spending of the appropriate population group. Local data are then combined to obtain a U.S. city average. For the CPI-U and CPI-W separate indexes are also published by size of city, by region of the country, for cross-classifications of regions and population-size classes, and for 27 local areas. Area indexes do not measure differences in the level of prices among cities; they only measure the average change in prices for each area since the base period. For the C-CPI-U data are issued only at the national level. It is important to note that the CPI-U and CPI-W are considered final when released, but the C-CPI-U is issued in preliminary form and subject to two annual revisions. The index measures price change from a designed reference date. For the CPI-U and the CPI-W the reference base is 1982-84 equals 100.0. The reference base for the C-CPI-U is December 1999 equals 100. An increase of 16.5 percent from the reference base, for example, is shown as 116.5. This change can also be expressed in dollars as follows: the price of a base period market basket of goods and services in the CPI has risen from $10 in 1982-84 to $11.65. For further details visit the CPI home page on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/cpi/ or contact our CPI Information and Analysis Section on (202) 691-7000. ________________________________________ Calculating Index Changes Movements of the indexes from one month to another are usually expressed as percent changes rather than changes in index points, because index point changes are affected by the level of the index in relation to its base period while percent changes are not. The example below illustrates the computation of index point and percent changes. Percent changes for 3-month and 6-month periods are expressed as annual rates and are computed according to the standard formula for compound growth rates. These data indicate what the percent change would be if the current rate were maintained for a 12-month period. Index Point Change CPI 115.7 Less previous index 111.2 Equals index point change 4.5 Percent Change Index point difference 4.5 Divided by the previous index 111.2 Equals 0.040 Results multiplied by one hundred 0.040 x 100 Equals percent change 4.0 ________________________________________ Regions Defined The states in the four regions shown in Tables 3 and 6 are listed below. The Northeast--Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Midwest--Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The South--Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The West--Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. ________________________________________ A Note on Seasonally Adjusted and Unadjusted Data Because price data are used for different purposes by different groups, the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes seasonally adjusted as well as unadjusted changes each month. For analyzing general price trends in the economy, seasonally adjusted changes are usually preferred since they eliminate the effect of changes that normally occur at the same time and in about the same magnitude every year--such as price movements resulting from changing climatic conditions, production cycles, model changeovers, holidays, and sales. The unadjusted data are of primary interest to consumers concerned about the prices they actually pay. Unadjusted data also are used extensively for escalation purposes. Many collective bargaining contract agreements and pension plans, for example, tie compensation changes to the Consumer Price Index unadjusted for seasonal variation. Seasonal factors used in computing the seasonally adjusted indexes are derived by the X-12-ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment Method. Seasonally adjusted indexes and seasonal factors are computed annually. Each year, the last 5 years of seasonally adjusted data are revised. Data from January 2000 through December 2004 were replaced in January 2005. Exceptions to the usual revision schedule were: the updated seasonal data at the end of 1977 replaced data from 1967 through 1977; and, in January 2002, dependently seasonally adjusted series were revised for January 1987-December 2001 as a result of a change in the aggregation weights for dependently adjusted series. For further information, please see "Aggregation of Dependently Adjusted Seasonally Adjusted Series," in the October 2001 issue of the CPI Detailed Report. The seasonal movement of All items and 54 other aggregations is derived by combining the seasonal movement of 73 selected components. Each year the seasonal status of every series is reevaluated based upon certain statistical criteria. If any of the 73 components change their seasonal adjustment status from seasonally adjusted to not seasonally adjusted, not seasonally adjusted data will be used for the last 5 years, but the seasonally adjusted indexes will be used before that period. Note: 43 of the 73 components are seasonally adjusted for 2005. Seasonally adjusted data, including the All items index levels, are subject to revision for up to five years after their original release. For this reason, BLS advises against the use of these data in escalation agreements. Effective with the calculation of the seasonal factors for 1990, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has used an enhanced seasonal adjustment procedure called Intervention Analysis Seasonal Adjustment for some CPI series. Intervention Analysis Seasonal Adjustment allows for better estimates of seasonally adjusted data. Extreme values and/or sharp movements which might distort the seasonal pattern are estimat |