﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Silicon Investor - Idea Of The Day</title><copyright>Copyright © 2026 Knight Sac Media.  All rights reserved.</copyright><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=14747</link><description>We live today in very interesting times, we as a part of greater global community are facing new challenges every day, these challenges represent grave dangers on one hand and opportunity on the other.   Never before mankind has faced threats as serious as today’s from vandals on our doors, Global community of nations consist of couple of hundred of nations but only very few represent the heart of arc of crisis.   This arc of crisis on one end contains South Asia and on the other extends to Turkey, the geographical area that we are concerned with sits at the confluence of mankind, an excess of 3 billion people live within 1500 km of the parameters of the arc.   The limitations of geography that has hampered generations of Americans and their insular instincts have encouraged the host of this thread to highlight the challenges and opportunities that this huge area represents.  I invite those who are interested in global peace and security to exchange views and news from these forgotten lands which have now become for foreseeable future the area that will make or break mankind’s new tryst with new promising frontiers.  As eternal optimists the host welcomes all ideas, this forum belongs to everyone, lets hope that our earnest desire to make progress and eradicate extremism within our societies will be somewhat helped by small little steps that we take here.   The host understands the banal nature of these limited discussions but recognize that a little step to garner new understandings will go long way to soothe fears amongst visitors that are based on media hype and sensationalism. We try to cut through sensationalism and present a view that all of us people of this world love each other and mankind needs un-official channels of communication to reach out, ‘Idea of the day’ is a small exercise to reach out few who pass by.     </description><image><url>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.png</url><title>SI - Idea Of The Day</title><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=14747</link><width>380</width><height>132</height></image><ttl>10</ttl><item><title>[Bilow] Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re: "With benefit of hindsight and after Fallujah Bilow  wants t...</title><author>Bilow</author><description>&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt;Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re: "&lt;i&gt;With benefit of hindsight and after Fallujah Bilow  wants to show that al of us the mortals here that how can he fill the  vacancy at the top in Pentagon , is someone listening, after a month if  Fallujah if it is still bleeding that would give him another great  chance to prove how right he is. I feel so small and so miserable to be  tested back on my messages, everything I say according to Bilow is so  wrong, however Baghdad had fallen without the war of 70 days, without  the thousand casualties that he promised, Iraq today is a functioning  country with 100 periodicals and a constitution and a governing council  unlike Vietnam but Bilow Fallujah and Sadr commotion was a winner, it  will always be any madman can put a spanner in works and Bilow dances on  his tail them one he sees some more action that was not a part of our  script.&lt;/i&gt;";&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here it is, after 10 years of war, the US gives up on pacifying Iraq after thousands of casualties.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-- Carl&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=29589669</link><pubDate>6/19/2014 7:59:11 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[2MAR$] Friend  Dr Iqbal Latif  is in Rome  right now  for an audience with the Pope on ...</title><author>2MAR$</author><description>&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt;Friend  Dr Iqbal Latif  is in Rome  right now  for an audience with the Pope on behalf of his secular foundation "Dignitas Humane"  created  for the developement  &amp;amp; aid of sub Saharan populations . ( though we don&amp;#39;t believe in God, we can believe in wisdom &amp;amp; compassion &amp;amp; common sense.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Before the cameras are taken away .. The last pictures&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/s320x320/625548_10151886906902561_2126031390_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151886907297561&amp;amp;set=pcb.10151886907697561&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;relevant_count=1' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/s320x320/1461269_10151886907297561_913285048_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/s320x320/1451538_10151888203447561_513693421_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151888203782561&amp;amp;set=pcb.10151888209917561&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;relevant_count=2' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/q71/s320x320/1460310_10151888203782561_1680395052_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151888204547561&amp;amp;set=pcb.10151888209917561&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;relevant_count=1' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q82/s320x320/1456791_10151888204547561_1093880460_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/p480x480/1483345_10151887050267561_1445196828_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151886802407561&amp;amp;set=a.10150718340157561.412539.609732560&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;relevant_count=1' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/p480x480/1472946_10151886802407561_1326799464_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151888283167561&amp;amp;set=pcb.10151888283252561&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;relevant_count=1' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151886802407561&amp;amp;set=a.10150718340157561.412539.609732560&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;relevant_count=1' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/s320x320/1451337_10151887053142561_1608210356_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151887053252561&amp;amp;set=pcb.10151887053457561&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;relevant_count=2' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q71/s320x320/1456775_10151887053252561_1626207352_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151887053372561&amp;amp;set=pcb.10151887053457561&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;relevant_count=1' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/s320x320/1480678_10151887053372561_186768024_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151886802407561&amp;amp;set=a.10150718340157561.412539.609732560&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;relevant_count=1' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151886907297561&amp;amp;set=pcb.10151886907697561&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;relevant_count=1' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/p480x480/1452588_10151887045997561_1622332426_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/s320x320/1394338_10151887047922561_1010576711_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151887047982561&amp;amp;set=pcb.10151887049242561&amp;amp;type=1&amp;amp;relevant_count=1' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/s320x320/1424423_10151887047982561_7161979_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=29270083</link><pubDate>12/7/2013 6:50:21 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[2MAR$] What is this chain? facebook.com!/ikelatif/posts/10151783542912561   I have some...</title><author>2MAR$</author><description>&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt;What is this chain?&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class='ExternURL' href='https://www.facebook.com/#' target='_blank' &gt;facebook.com&lt;/a&gt;!/ikelatif/posts/10151783542912561&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; I have some great heroes in my life one is Nelson Mandela; this is the chain that reminds me of his sojourn in Cooks Island prison. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On Christmas Eve 1986, a South Africa prison commander responsible for watching over Nelson Mandela casually asked the world&amp;#39;s most famous prisoner, "Mandela, would you like to see the city?"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mandela was completely surprised, but agreed. The prison commander, Lt. Col. Gawie Marx, promptly put Mandela in his car for a leisurely drive around Cape Town, one of the world&amp;#39;s most scenic cities. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;By keeping this chain in the lobby; I pay tribute to a great man who I think epitomises freedom in its finest form in spirit and corporeal existence; we lesser people pass our life under the shadows of greater older and stronger banyans; that what makes us slightly different from the run of the mill kind of people, yadein insaan ka peecha kabhi nahin chortein .. Memories are our great treasure they never leave us!&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/ikelatif?hc_location=timeline' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style='color: #000080;'&gt;Iqbal Latif&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q71/s320x320/1381414_10151783539737561_1337344128_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/s320x320/1379640_10151783539757561_1700145486_n.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Epilogue:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I have lived in a prison of inbred ideologues all my early life; this prison had also the high walls of old archaic antiquity built around me.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; I broke them and I celebrate my escape from the clutches and venomous fangs of my tormentors eve...ry day; I am always grateful that their &amp;#39;madman&amp;#39; is out of their sane stinking prison that had not an iota of freethinking! They are extremely happy too that I not influencing their scriptural sanity! The difference is I celebrate. Amen&lt;br&gt; — at  &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/HydeParkUK?ref=stream&amp;amp;viewer_id=100002242993726' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style='color: #000080;'&gt;Hyde Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;</description><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=29190076</link><pubDate>10/25/2013 3:27:59 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[2MAR$] Iqbal Latif  My Pale Blue Dot: A nation of 7 billion Brahmins!  iqballatif.newsv...</title><author>2MAR$</author><description>&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt; &lt;a href='https://www.facebook.com/ikelatif' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style='color: #000080;'&gt;Iqbal Latif&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  My Pale Blue Dot: A nation of 7 billion Brahmins! &lt;br&gt;&lt;a class='ExternURL' href='http://iqballatif.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/19/7415447-my-pale-blue-dot-a-nation-of-7-billion-brahmins' target='_blank' &gt;iqballatif.newsvine.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;About Aryans:This kind of &amp;#39;genetic discrimination&amp;#39; is a product of mutated thoughts that have gained currency over millenniums resulting in a systematic hierarchical scriptures-based  ethnic cleansing that has left the Untouchables as lower beings. The scientific facts are that Indian sub-continent is the most important station for the study of the early dispersal of all human populations on the Eurasian continent. This cements Mahatma Gandhi fears &amp;#39;&amp;#39;Our thoughts become our words, our words become our actions, our actions become our character, our character becomes our destiny.&amp;#39;&amp;#39;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you combine digital memory and analog devices, like books, humankind is able to store at least 295 exabytes of information. That&amp;#39;s 315 times the number of grains of sand in the world. But it&amp;#39;s still less than one percent of the information that is stored in all the DNA molecules of a human being. Let’s look at the DNA for authenticity of this nonsensical statement. Within the human genome, we are very much all the same. According to Oppenheimer it is highly probable that nearly all human maternal lineages in Europe descended from only four mtDNA lines that originated in South Asia 50,000-100,000 years ago. In India the major maternal lineages, or mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups, are M, R and U, whose coalescence times have been approximated to 50,000 BP. The study of the genetics and archaeogenetics of the ethnic groups of South Asia is targeted to uncover these groups genetic history. The largest Indian mtDNA haplogroups are M, R and U. Stephen Oppenheimer believes that it is highly suggestive that India is the origin of the Eurasian mtDNA haplogroups which he calls the "Eurasian Eves".&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=29190075</link><pubDate>10/25/2013 3:26:34 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[2MAR$] Iqbal dancing  at his eco-friendly  Hotel Rafayel on the Left Bank, like  Anthon...</title><author>2MAR$</author><description>&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt;Iqbal dancing  at his eco-friendly  Hotel Rafayel on the Left Bank, like  Anthony Quinn / Zorba the Greek, &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; "Teach Me To Dance" &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class='ExternURL' href='https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151742034167561' target='_blank' &gt;facebook.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=29148342</link><pubDate>10/4/2013 8:17:29 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[2MAR$] Found him on FB, just returning from a Paris/ Berlin jaunt yesterday relaxing in...</title><author>2MAR$</author><description>&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt;Found him on FB, just returning from a Paris/ Berlin jaunt yesterday relaxing in his Crystal Bar lounge at his eco-sustainable Hotel Rafayel on the Left bank (on the Thames). As effulgent with thoughts &amp;amp; ideas as ever, what a guy and proud  happy Hotelier  ;o)&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style='color: #2b59b2;'&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafayel_on_the_Left_Bank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='https://scontent-a-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/s403x403/579094_10151732544712561_910236267_n.jpg'&gt; &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafayel_on_the_Left_Bank' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=29139242</link><pubDate>9/30/2013 9:33:29 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Neil H] you can find him on Facebook</title><author>Neil H</author><description /><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28820397</link><pubDate>4/6/2013 10:49:01 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[2MAR$] Iqbal Latif my man, enjoying the parisan life?</title><author>2MAR$</author><description /><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28818767</link><pubDate>4/5/2013 6:48:43 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Brian Fukuba] The medium changes, the message remains the same.  Join Ike here on Facebook: fa...</title><author>Brian Fukuba</author><description>&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt;The medium changes, the message remains the same.  Join Ike here on Facebook:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class='ExternURL' href='http://www.facebook.com/ikelatif' target='_blank' &gt;facebook.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28081926</link><pubDate>4/14/2012 12:07:21 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[2MAR$] hi Ike, saw that you're still publishing your thoughts &amp; still smiling , tho not...</title><author>2MAR$</author><description>&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt;hi Ike, saw that you&amp;#39;re still publishing your thoughts &amp;amp; still smiling , tho not here on SI ... &lt;b&gt;David Foster Wallace: &lt;i&gt;" Here is the truth- actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested." &lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a class='ExternURL' href='http://iqballatif.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/02/7572791-here-is-the-truth-actual-heroism-receives-no-ovation-entertains-no-one-no-one-queues-up-to-see-it-no-one-is-interested' target='_blank' &gt;iqballatif.newsvine.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Richard Rayner in the &lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;/i&gt; writes that &lt;i&gt; &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale_King' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;span style='color: #0645ad;'&gt;The Pale King&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; subjects are "loneliness, depression and the ennui that is human life&amp;#39;s agonized bedrock, &amp;#39;the deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and most which most of us spend nearly all of our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from&amp;#39; [quoting Wallace] ... &lt;i&gt;The Pale King&lt;/i&gt; dares to plunge readers deep into this Dantean hell of &amp;#39;crushing boredom,&amp;#39; suggesting that something good may lie beyond." &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale_King#cite_note-8' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;span style='color: #0645ad;'&gt;[9]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;cheers ,   hold onto that spark ! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;;o) &lt;/span&gt;</description><link>https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=27613334</link><pubDate>9/3/2011 12:27:50 AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>