Conferences Books

I didn't enjoyed this at all, sorry to say! But I also purchased Theological immortal romance, which I can suggest. Which was a wonderful, uplifting, spiritual and romantic experience.

This article is about the infamous Durban racism conference of August 31 to September 8, 2001.

I happen to think that the Durban Conference is, so far, the greatest diplomatic disaster of this century, and that it basically advocated a total overthrow of human rights. It mocked truth and justice. That's because the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Forum at Durban adopted an "action program" which called for:

1) dismantling "Israeli colonies"

2) a "right of return" of Arabs to Israel

3) reinstitution of the UN resolution equating Zionism with racism

4) the repeal of Israel's Law of Return for Jews to Israel

5) preparation of "educational packets" by the UN describing "the Israeli racist apartheid system"

6) establishment of a special UN Special Committee on Israeli apartheid

7) development of UN programs to counter "propaganda" that portrays Levantine Arabs as violent terrorists

8) launching by the UN of an international anti-Israel apartheid movement

9) convening of a War Crimes tribunal to prosecute Israel's leaders

10) demanding that the international community completely isolate Israel

11) condemning all states supporting, aiding, and abetting Israel

Decent people tended to notice that the tenor of all this was strikingly similar to some of the worst anti-Semitic literature of the twentieth century.

I think that all this is so far out of bounds that there's no point in even trying to look for redeeming features. But Rita Maran reports on the conference as if it simply had some good and bad points. She discusses what she thinks went right and tries to suggest some ways in which it could have been improved. And I think we need to see if we agree with her or not.

The conference agenda included topics such as reparations, race and gender, environmental racism, race and health, race and education, race and poverty, race and criminal justice, migrants' rights, and an international convention on elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. These sound like reasonable issues. But having already heard the manifestly false thirteenth note of this Durban cuckoo clock, does it even make sense to listen to the other twelve? In any case, the issue of reparations for slavery was handled in an extremely dubious manner as well.

The United States obviously had hoped to have some official presence at the conference. After all, as Maran says, "approximately one-fourth of the NGOs were U.S. Americans." But the issues of reparations for slavery and the equating of Zionism with racism were simply too much: official participation would have implied some sort of recognition of the nonsense that was being spewed there.

Maran says that "In the view of many, the U.S. opportunistically let the Zionism issue consume the attention of both the Forum and the Conference, leaving less time and space for the discussion not only of reparations for slavery, but also of the hundreds of other issues involving racial discrimination that had brought so many NGOs to Durban." I don't buy it. The conference had already been hijacked by racists, and I think the U.S. was right to walk out after one day. And even Maran admits that had the United States stayed, in an attempt to negotiate a better NGO document, it would have faced people who were not "inclined towards compromise oriented language."

Maran does say that the final NGO document "did contain inflammatory language." And she even quotes an NGO, the European Roma Rights Center, which stated in part: "We cannot but deplore the fact that an event of such importance for Roma and other victims of discrimination was apparently hijacked by biased activists, forcing through their own agenda." But I think that even this is not nearly enough on her part. This conference was not merely counterproductive, but notoriously so. And I think we need to examine not what went right, but how such disasters can be avoided in the future. Maran isn't much help on this topic.

There's some useful information in this article, so I'm giving it two stars. But I think Maran really has missed the point of what happened here.

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To be honest, I have not read through the book yet so I can not comment on the content of it. However, I felt like I should at least mention the physical quality, or rather, lacktherof, of this book.

I paid $95 for what I thought was a new book, but what I received today was quite obviously used and abused. It did have the CD still inside in good condition, but the corners of the cover was water damaged, and the cover appears to be water damaged and worn out as well. I can actually see an outline of the CD burned through the front cover.

I had to wonder if this book was 20+ years old... Nope, it was published just a couple of years ago. I will say however, the text and everything is clean and unmarked at least, but I was extremely disappointed in the physical quality of this so-called new book. This might have been acceptable for a used textbook, but thank goodness I wasn't buying this as a gift... I would seriously be embarrassed to give this to someone.

Some of the stuff in here I've never even heard so I don't even know if it's true or not. I was very disappointed in this book. Try "A Tailgater's Guide To SEC Football". It makes a much better SEC companion than this thing. The book seems like it was put together in a weekend or something. No organization and a lot of obscure stuff in there. Weird actually.

This is an embarassment to a great conference. Save your cash.

I have found some inaccurate information in this book and i have not found anyone to contact with the correct answers.I am a tickler for telling the truth and though it may seem like a small thing to print wrong info,i wish to see it corrected.They have no number to report wrong answers,but as a whole this book has alot of usefull info

These are simply abstracts of papers delivered at the 2006 MLA meeting and not the complete papers, so they are likely to be of limited use.

What a rip off!! This article is about 150 words long! What a rip off.

Please translate. Bilgi Yönetilmez. Yönetim bilgi ile yürütülür. "Bilgi'nin Yönetilmesi" iddiasý ve faraziyesi: Aslýnda, iktidarý elinde tutanlarýn, insanlarýn bilgiye ulaþma imkanlarý arttýkça uyanacaklarý ve istedikleri gibi yönetilemez olacaklarý için; nasýl köleliði kaldýrýp maaþlý iþ gücünü (=çünkü kölelik maliyetli olmaya baþlamýþtý)ikame ettiler ise ayný mantýkla, bilgilenmiþ insanýn yönetilebilir halde kalmasý için istenmeyen bilgi ile donanmamasýný saðlama politikasýdýr. Ayrýca fertlerin, (her an ve her sýfatla yaptýklarý) fiillerinden doðan bilgiyi istatistik ve tevil ederek, onlarý sulta altýnda tutmanýn þekli deðiþmiþ olmaktadýr böylece. Yani bizzat emir ve talimat vermeyip, hiç farklarýnda olmadan istenilen noktaya getirilmesi de saðlanacaktýr.

The Conference of the Birds is a marvellous book--a sufi treatise on the spiritual life written in Persian rhyming couplets. This translation is not in poetry, but in rather dull prose. In addition the translator leaves out a number of the stories that make up the bulk of the work. He mistranslates at a few crucial points.

I would recommend instead the extraordinary translation by Dick Davis and Afkham Darbandi. With great skill the whole work is translated into rhyming couplets like the original. Davis' rhythm and rhyme carry you through the work at a cracking pace, unlike the plodding prose of this version. Davis and Darbandi's translation is in the Penguin Classics series, ISBN 0140444343, also available from Amazon, where you can see a sample of their work.

The following facts are consequence of simple and obvious reason, not rocket science:

The Founders/Framers, as had their forebears, before and after the "revolution," engaged in the control/regulation of dangerous objects and substances, including guns -- as does any SANE society -- in behalf of public safety and stability of laws and gov't.

Going into and during the "revolution," they disarmed, and prohibited the possession of guns by, those "disaffected with the revolution". That's why there was no COUNTER-"revolution".

In addition, those who refused to sign a "loyalty oath" forfeited ALL of their weapons and "implements of war," which were given either to the Continental Army, or the local LEGAL militia.

Such actions are ONLY "controversial" to the funtionally illiterate and misinformed, the paranoid and misinformed, and the criminal.