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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45705)	3/8/2004 8:51:22 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Hi Iqbal, As always, I read your comments with a great deal of interest. Re: Being so intelligent and being so dumb in same streak I'm cognizant of the nature of the idiot savant but (un)fortunately can't lay claim to either side of their remarkable personalities. No fabulous arithmetic or musical talents here, nor no lack of reasonable sociability. So, sorry, I can't accept the title to being either hyper-intelligent or being a fool. What I'm willing to admit to is an almost obsessive desire to process and analyze the "news of the day" and the strategy of great institutions like our U.S. government and the multinational corporations. Unlike most here on SI who prefer a more practical and profit oriented effort such as Technical Analysis of the meanderings of the financial markets. *** Re: from WTC were deliberately destroyed to Jews being absent from work on that day, this is logic that prevails in the hinterland Of course this is to be expected. And there is some reason for eyebrows to be raised. Only one Israeli national was killed on 9/11. An Israeli based shipping companies with ties to the Sharon government broke a lease a couple of weeks before 9/11. On the day of 9/11 Israeli nationals were caught in a wild celebration at a park across the Hudson River in New Jersey and after a couple weeks detention were allowed to return to Israel. So, sure, the folks in those Waziristan villages may be spouting a lot of "conspiracy theory" stuff without any facts to back them up. But I spout this sort of thing after hundreds of hours of study of the facts. And the facts are not reassuring as to the complete innocence of certain Israeli interests. *** Re: you live in a make-believe world, I tend to believe that there are many different realities in this world. Clearly the Haitian garment worker who has just been brutalized and fired by his boss for his union organizing efforts will have a different view of the world from the UN ambassador from Great Britain who will have a necessarily different take on reality from a "untouchable" in India who has just been dispossessed of his ancestral home by the development of a hydro-electric project from which he will derive no benefit. Reality is quite different for very many of us. Your world is not the only one that exists. And your understanding of reality is, as for all of us, filtered through your own lens of the cultural and economic heritage you came from. The same "tunnel vision", I believe, is almost universally true for all of us. Salaam Aleikum