Posted Just Now by Benoit Couture
Cross- posted from the EU KM Board
Thread title: KM in the Middle-East

Benoit Couture , 5-Jul-2005
Consensus is being accomplished in this thread
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Greetings, may I speak to you of the Permanent People Summit(PPS), specifically because you are from the Middle-East, I am Candain and we meet in European Union's sponsored thechnology in the most open way, carrying the hope to bring its use to serve the common good of humanity. The thread that the 3 of you started is wisely inviting to do so and I would love to oblige. I started to know of and to join in the EU KM knowledgeboard in early May. I promote a new approach to Canadian national unity and Her majesty, Queen ElisabethII was coming to my city in the week of the 25th of May 2005. I was looking for the best way to draw her attention to a possibility available to her during that visit or afterward if protocols would have kept her from being spontaneous. In short, with the help of the transparency the I found in the open source of KM, I am being helped to map out the citizenship from a mature people of all people. You can read the opportunity available to her majesty in the letter posted at: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2910. If you are interested in the background and in the evolution to this open source pursuit, you can go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U1590685?s_fromedit=1 If my boldness is too much, please tell me and I am not going to repeat such attempt of closeness again and I will learn from any cultural approach that you provide me with. Thank you, Benoit

11-Aug-2005
Knowledge in Islam

Benoit, your comments and suggestions are of great significance and value. As a Muslim, you are responsible for seeking knowledge and sharing it, knowledge that is not of value and could not be shared and transferred is insignificant.
Muslim scholars have contributed tremendously to almost every knowledge branch, from Ibn-Khaldun (father of sociology), to Ibn Al-Haitham (optics), to Ibn Al-Naphis (Pulmonary Circulation) to Al-Kindi (Philosophy), among many others.

Knowledge sharing has been reinforced in Islam since the 7th Century, based on the concept of lifetime-learning and development. I highly recommend visiting www.muslimheritage.com to get a glimpse of Islamic knowledge and its contributions to the collective mindset of the West.

Benoit Couture , 12-Aug-2005
Beautiful Vision opening up...
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Dear Rasheed, being answered directly to my name in public as you have done is a great personal honour and a tremendous responsability. In doung so, we find ourselves at the basis of civility. I must now proceed to live up to such an intelligent response that you've given to my invitation. You have accepted to answer as a Muslim to my Christian invitation and I praise God for your enthusiasm to shine forth the beauty of Islam's intelligence and contribution to who we all are today, in our Judeo-Christian parts of the world and as a whole speicies. Our inter-action is a window which is opening to let in the simplicity of the Morning Star to rise up in our hearts and awareness, at a time when darkness is at its thickest. If you wish, we can inter-act here, growing back and forth into brotherhood. We can possibly go on until we ignite the EU KM Board's ownwership and administration with the inspiration that will have them involved with you and I, in raising the standard of civility that can host the site's development and sight's deployment of Justice, peace and joy. Humanity's terror-anti-terror frenzy needs to be silenced by the qietning view of such a spiritual sight, in order to see its bloom growing and spreading for all sites of the earth in need of loving attention from God. I look forward to lighting up the match of humanity's Sacred Flame with you dear Islam brother and to insure that the torch carrying such Flame be made available to burn brightly in each one's heart who so wishes to serve the organic experience of spiritual unity. Sarajevo's conference this month is in need of such a loving ground swell. Do you agree that what I write here is a possible calling to accept destiny's simple unfolding, to free intelligence from the grip of world wide military dictature taking up most resources at the expense of our lives? Can we start here and enter the gravitational diplomacy to go from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government and show Kings, Queens, politicians and bankers the simple way to good health and hapiness? Personaly, I know that we have the tools and the opportunity to subject ourselves to one another with love and truth in such a way as to see the peaceful leveling and redistribution of wealth to where the needs are, from such an opportunity as we have here...thank you for bearing with my Flame...with love...peace to you, Rasheed!

Frederik, 16-Aug-2005
a new KM blog
Dear all,
i want to invite you to the blog of our Kuwaiti colleague: http://discusskm.blogspot.com/

Frederik

Cross-posted from Disruptive Mice blogs

...most of the weapons are made in G8 countries
From The Times

In the latest leak from the draft communiqué facing G8 leaders at Gleneagles, The Times has learnt that plans for a new agreement on international arms sales have been watered down. The text is understood to make no mention of a legally-binding treaty — referring instead to “principles” — while also limiting its scope to small arms.

An international arms trade treaty was one of the key recommendations from Mr Blair’s Commission for Africa report this year. But Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, has made little headway in negotiations with arms exporters such as Russia in recent months.

Tidjane Thiam, a former Minister in the Ivory Coast and one of the 17 Commissioners behind the report, said: “This will be very disappointing. There is no point talking about giving more aid to Africa if the money is going to a war zone — where most of the weapons are made in G8 countries.”



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posted on 03 July 2005 21:59 by Ed Daniel
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17 July 2005 20:41 by Sadiq Baig
# re: ...most of the weapons are made in G8 countries - MAKING PEACE OR WAR?
Let us narrow the focus on one G-8 country's role in making two poor but nuclear-powered countries: Pakistan and India.

See the analysis by Dr. Farrukh Saleem: http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2005-daily/17-07-2005/oped/o3.htm

<blockquote>In effect, a future Indo-Pak war will lack that all-critical element of surprise, as it would be 'Made in America' versus 'Made in America'. There can be no smokescreens, no masking, no facades, no camouflage, no disguising and very little concealment. Indian and Pakistani generals both know full well that a fully transparent war is not worth fighting. To be sure, America -- as a supplier of killing machines to both sides -- is now more in control of a future Indo-Pak clash than ever before (not too long ago, India's entire fleet of Sea King helicopters was grounded because the U.S. refused to supply spares).

I am further convinced that there are powerful forces on either side of the LoC, and in the United States, that now have a definite stake in peace. Among them are Corporate America, Corporate India, the Fauji Foundation, the CIA, the US Department of Defence and the Department of State.</blockquote>

Wither peace?


23 August 2005 13:49 by Benoit Couture
# re: ...most of the weapons are made in G8 countries
Dear Sadiq,
When I listen to the news in French Canada, we are given a different slant on the stories quite often, specially when those stories are from far abroad, as it is the case in the Inco-Pak situation.
One of those very important news which relates closely to your reply, is the report coming out of Afganistan, by the "Doctors Without Borders" organisation. They report that the opium industry has increased up to 20 fold since the US took over.
Now Sadiq, here is a question, preceeded by an exerpt from my introduction on the EU KM Board and my BBC page:
"Because of centuries old trading powers linking directly the marketing of illegal drugs to weapons, I work to reach the legal and political position of trasparency in Canada and I am proceeding to gain the support needed for that to happen as well in Europe and the US as a staritng point to ignite the personal, social, economic and political healing of the meaning, adaptable and appicable from local to global."
Question:
Can this thread evolve to ignite the diplomacy that can activate the healing of the dark human misery of stress, addictions and the compulsive nature, as opposed to the enslavement's smoke screen of command and control's intelligence that keeps the conditions under the veil of backroom deals, behind closed doors in the "Courts of Rule of Law" in the name of "freedom and justice?"
I look forwad to the victory of the serenity that comes from renewed hearts and spirits who learn to bring joy in the soul and discipline for the strength of the body. With over thirty years of fighting personal and other people's addictions, I know that addicts to substance are simply survivers of their own shortcomings, whereas the weapon people' addiction is to control and to enforce, no matter if it is needed on not, as has shown the developments after Mr. Gorbachev pulled the pants down of that whole class of "proper" addicts to grandeur and luxury.
Again:
Can this thread evolve to ignite the diplomacy that can activate the healing of the dark human misery of stress, addictions and the compulsive nature, as opposed to the enslavement's smoke screen of command and control's intelligence that keeps the conditions under the veil of backroom deals, behind closed doors in the "Courts of Rule of Law" in the name of "freedom and justice?"
Benoit