A predominantly one-topic blog: how is it that the most imminent and lethal implication for humankind - the fact that the doctrine of "Mutually Assured Destruction" will not work with Iran - is not being discussed in our media? Until it is recognized that MAD is dead, the Iranian threat will be treated as a threat only to Israel and not as the global threat which it in fact is. A blog by Mladen Andrijasevic
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Thursday, March 24, 2016
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Je suis sick of this shit
This is becoming criminal negligence on the part of European
leaders.
The chain of attacks from Paris to San Bernardino to Istanbul to the Ivory Coast and now to Brussels
I want to first send my condolences to the families of those murdered in today's terrorist attack in Brussels
The chain of attacks from Paris to San Bernardino to Istanbul to the Ivory Coast and now to Brussels, and the daily attacks in Israel – this is one continuous assault on all of us. In all these cases the terrorists have no resolvable grievances. It’s not as if we could offer them Brussels, or Istanbul, or California, or even the West Bank. That won't satisfy their grievances. Because what they seek is our utter destruction and their total domination. Their basic demand is that we should simply disappear. Well, my friends, that's not going to happen. The only way to defeat these terrorists is to join together and fight them together. That's how we'll defeat terrorism with political unity and with moral clarity. I think we have that in abundance.
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Confessions of a Republican (LBJ 1964 Presidential campaign commercial)
If the choice ends up to be between Clinton and Trump I would abstain from voting, at least that is how I
feel today. It may be that Trump is making all these extreme statements just in order to get elected, and
that when he becomes president he would be more reasonable. After all, Rudy
Giuliani, whom I respect, supports
him. But even in this best case scenario, I am disgusted that we as voters would
have to vote for a Schrödinger's
cat.
An explanation of ‘Schrödinger's cat’ from Simon Singh’s The
Code Book
Erwin Schrödinger, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1933, invented a parable known as ‘Schrödinger's cat’, which is often used to help
explain the concept of superposition. Imagine a cat in a box. There are two
possible states for the cat, namely dead or alive. Initially, we know that the
cat is definitely in one particular state, because we can see that it is alive.
At this point, the cat is not in a superposition of states. Next, we place vial
of cyanide in the box along with the cat and close the lid. We now enter a
period of ignorance, because we cannot see or measure the state of the cat. Is
the cat alive or has I trodden on the vial of cyanide and died? Traditionally
we would say that the cat is either or alive we just do not know which. However
quantum theory says that the cat is in a superposition of two states – it is
both dead alive, it satisfies all possibilities. Superposition occurs only when
we lose sight of an object, and is a way of describing an object during a
period of ambiguity. When we eventually open the, we can see whether the cat is
alive or dead. The act of looking at the cat forces it to be in one particular
state, and at that very moment the superposition disappears.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
An answer from Rudy Giuliani about Donald Trump
This morning Rudy Giuliani was in Beer Sheva, visiting the Advanced
Technologies Park and I had no knowledge that he was here and by the time I
heard of his visit he had left to give a lecture at Ben-Gurion University
nearby. So I walked across the new pedestrian bridge to BGU and got in during
his lecture on The
International Aspects of the Cyber Threat.
At the end of the lecture he opened the floor to questions and I
asked him two.
On his stand on the dispute between Apple and FBI he was evasive
and said that he cannot give his opinion.
But then I mentioned that today was Super Tuesday and that I
would like to know what he has to say about Donald Trump's proclaimed
neutrality in the Israel-Palestinian conflict when Hamas's Charter, Article 7 calls for the killing of Jews. How could he be neutral?
Rudy Giuliani answered (the exact wording I cannot recall)
that he had known Donald Trump for many years and that Trump had
this incredible tendency to say stupid things before he thinks. Trump had made
an unfortunate comment, but that he is a friend of Israel.
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