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| By Anonymous, 07-14-07, 02:29 PM |
North Korean nuclear reactor about to close I wonder where all the nuclear waste has gone. |
| By Lucien BONNET, 07-14-07, 11:10 PM |
UN nuclear inspectors are in North Korea's capitalRE:
North Korean nuclear reactor about to close
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Saturday 14th July, 2007 — — — — — — — — — — — — Thank you for welcoming me.
Lucien BONNET
SEE: “Bill A Ri And There Was Light!"
in www.contact-canadahaiti.ca — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — LETTER TO PRESIDENT CLINTON
Montreal, March 22, 1995
President William Jefferson Clinton
President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
U.S.A.
Mister President:
Please allow me to take the opportunity of your visit to Haiti, as President
of the United States of America, on March 31, 1995, to pay due tribute in
all sincerity to you and your distinguished wife, Mrs. Hillary Rodham
Clinton.
You honor Haiti and the Haitian people with your presence and support.
Thanks to you and your allies in the United Nations and the Organization of
American States, the return-to-democracy process has been successfully
carried out. Now that the legitimate President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, has
been reinstated in his official status, it is with legitimate pride, I am
sure that he welcomes you to his country. For you, as well as for us, the
“Uphold Democracy” operation is truly a beautiful historical moment.
Mr. President, I come from Haiti, that underdeveloped country.
With underdeveloped tools - a camera and a few films - I have tried, in
order to serve my country’s cause, to demystify the word “light” and
denounce Newton’s Theory of Colors.
With that same desire to serve constitutional legitimacy in my country, I
have written the enclosed book entitled Haiti, Let There Be Light! I hope
that you and Mrs. Clinton will accept this privately produced copy,
especially intended for you, while you are getting ready for your trip to
Haiti.
May I make a confession to you, Mr. President? I followed, closely and with
intense interest, your electoral campaign, election, and swearing-in
ceremony as 42nd President of the United States. What a great nation you
represent! Please believe me: your courageous commitment to facilitate the
restoration of democracy in my country has escaped no one. On the very day
of your swearing-in ceremony, I wished to send you my book, HaÄŹti, Que La
LumiÄŤre Soit!, which questions Newton’s Theory of Colors. I did not do so,
because I felt an English-language version would be more appropriate.
Since I could not send you a copy of the yet-to-be-published English version
of my book, I contented myself with dreaming - dreaming that on one of your
first evenings in the White House, you were seated in the Oval Room with
Mrs. Clinton and your daughter Chelsea. You were reading Haïti, Que La
LumiÄŤre Soit! I imagined you carefully examining certain passages of that
work in its English version, which is now in preparation - typed by a
sightless, multilingual Haitian. Those paragraphs deal with the so-called
missing matter, darkness in space, “black holes” - in a word: the invisible
mass of the Cosmos. You notice Dr. Carl Sagan’s research on Exobiology and
the DNA found in the dark matter in the universe, and you suddenly remember
a Time article from April 10, 1978 entitled “Black Holes and Martian
Valleys”, which contained the following passage:
“A while later, astronomer Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden) found himself
lugging his slide box into the Vice President’s big new house and, after
coffee, taking the Mondale and Carter families on a journey through the
heavens.
Jimmy Carter is the closest thing to a scientist we have had in the White
House since Thomas Jefferson.
Nixon could not run a tape recorder.
Johnson could not fully figure out his alarm wrist watch.
Not Jimmy. He was fascinated by the discussion of “Black Holes” and the
speculation that they might provide answers to what holds the Universe
together."
“Well," you exclaimed, “O.K. for former President Carter. It is normal for
the President of a star-spangled republic to choose between “Star Peace” and
“Star War”. As to the former President’s inclination toward Einstein’s
physics and/or Planck’s Quantum Theory, there is a great temptation to apply
certain laws of the Cosmos to politics and diplomacy. Consider the “Tunnel
Effect”, the way that energy escapes from black holes.
“Carter goes back to the sources and draws inspiration from them. That makes
me think about Aristide - both of them are well at ease in both the Western
world and the Black world: the visible and the invisible. However, there is
one difference: the Haitians follow Aristide everywhere, like a comet’s
tail. If Aristide is considered as a “Black Sun”, then the Haitians are
“space refugees”.
“Yes, Haiti! We are pulled down to earth. Democracy. the exodus of the Boat
People. with the Law of Probabilities, whether we think about Planck or
Carter, it doesn’t seem that a solution will be found tomorrow.
“What business did the Haitians have in that “boat”?"
“Say, there above, the Black Twin! Is it still broad daylight in the shadow
of the “Black Sun”?"
“Oh God," you say aloud to Mrs. Clinton: “Eureka! I have found it! Fiat lux!
Let there be light! Que la lumiÄŤre soit! Black holes, black sun, tunnel
effect, Aristide effect, boat people, space refugees, Carl Sagan, Jimmy
Carter. six of one and half a dozen of the other."
There is loud laughter in the Oval Room.
Bill a ri Bill laughed
Hillary a ri Hillary laughed
Chelsea a ri aussi Chelsea laughed too
Humor is American, Mr. President, and so are dreams. Let my book “Haïti! Que
La Lumière Soit!" be the “dark matter”, arguing in favor of the development
of the Black world - visible and invisible!
In the area of science, high technology, creative innovation, and space
exploration, I think there is nothing that America cannot deal with. That is
why, in that spaceship of universal energy, I dare sail with a dream.
In my dream, it is your first trip inside your SPACE AIR FORCE ONE,
propelled by the energy of invisible and concentrated dark matter, like
black holes. A mini black hole of an avant-garde design whose motor sequence
develops inertia, spectral speed, speed equal to or higher than that of
light, and scientifically controlled reversibility of the phenomenon.
What a new synthesis, but also what a liberation!
Synthesis and analysis are two wings of the same bird - contracted and
unfolded at the same time, following the heartbeat of the Universe tamed
inside the infinitely small: “One small step for man, one giant leap for
mankind!"
This would be the natural and constructive counterpart of Newton’s Theory of
Light and Colors, which slows down that impulse. This is a necessary change
in the name of development and progress humbly submitted on behalf of Haiti:
a testimony of gratitude toward mankind. Let us go further, to the other
side of the Universe, as suggested by an eyewitness: the Hubble telescope,
with its camera.
". Hubble focused on the centre of the galaxy [M87], an area 500 light-years
across. The pictures revealed a spiral structure formed by fast-moving gas
clouds being drawn toward the centre, rather like water going down a drain."
Dr. Harms said the Hubble spectrographic camera was then focused on points
60 light-years across on opposite sides of the spinning disc. This camera
breaks down light into its wavelength parts, rather like a prism separates
colours in sunlight." (The Globe and Mail, Thursday, May 26, 1994)
Let us in the long run, replace the camera by a motor run by the ENERGY OF
THE YEAR 2000, transforming the DARK MATTER from the invisible to the
visible and vice versa. We would there by take advantage of the sequence of
colored and colorless light speeds, so as to better visit the Universe,
where law and order are transcendent, just as in democracy.
I have decided to write this letter because your leadership, Mr. President,
like an inevitable and immeasurable energy, has practically absorbed me,
allowing me to express myself.
On October 4, 1994, in the General Assembly of the United Nations, a voice
echoed the power of your leadership. In new words, on March 31, 1995, that
same voice will repeat:
“Even now, with the peaceful launching of the operation “UPHOLD DEMOCRACY”
on 19 September last year, a tropical smile has shed light upon the faces of
those who espouse and love peace - Peacemakers, Peacekeepers, and
Peacelovers. Together, President Clinton and we have managed to open up a
“tunnel” of hope after so much suffering."
That testimony by President Aristide at the U.N. emphasizes the magnitude of
the efforts needed to bring about such a happy conclusion.
Your present trip to Haiti is the strongest confirmation of that sequence of
events, and illustrates an unprecedented chapter in the annals of Haiti, as
well as in the life of the Haitian people
Thank you, Mr. President, for associating Haiti with your Strategic
Development Initiative (S.D.I.) at the dawn of the “Star Peace”.
Lucien BONNET
GLAZE STORM
LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF QUÉBEC
MR. LUCIEN BOUCHARD
The Right Honorable Lucien Bouchard
Prime Minister of Quebec
Building Hydro-Québec
75, boulevard René Lévesque Ouest
Montréal (Québec)
H2Z 1A4
Dear Mr. Prime Minister:
It is in adversity”, I was going to say in “darkness”, that one recognizes true friends.
In this national test due to the shortage of electricity because of bad weather, each one of us, in Québec like elsewhere, recognizes in you the Statesman, the friend very sensitive to the needs of the Québécois.
In solidarity betwen us in this shortage, we are also in solidarity with your energy, your will to build and rebuild.
Energy of the Sixties tested, confronted by the Ice storm crisis, what does Science hold for us in this field at the crossroad of the third millennium?
Each of us should express solidarity, according to his means.
My contribution, apparently futuristic, refers, Mister Prime Minister, to an inexhaustible source of energy, which one should tame now.
In a book with limited publication, translated in English for the needs of the cause, entitled " BILL A RI And There Was Light ", addressed during his last American election campaign to President Bill Clinton who acknowledged having received it, I dared to tackle this subject.
A second copy of that manuscript reached 24 Sussex at Ottawa, intended for the Prime Minister of Canada, the day before the visit of the Right Honourable Jean Chrétien at the White House.
As for the French original version which entitled then " Haïti ! Que La Lumière Soit ! ", it was given in person in care of the Canadian ambassador to Port-au-Prince, Mr. Hubert Feuillé, to President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
It’s like to say to you, Mister Prime Minister, that in the exceptional circumstances in which Québec lives today - in the point of view of energy - no exploration in the mid or long term, by the expertise of Hydro-Québec, of an additional source of energy, at the same time safe and profitable, should not be ruled out. The Chairman and managing Director of the Hydro-Québec Company, who assists you so admirably, will assist you even more, I hope, vis-à -vis that new perspective.
In my letter to President Bill Clinton as well as in the one to your federal counterpart Mr. Jean Chrétien, I brought up that prospect to them. Who can guess, vis-à -vis this posssibility, which one of them would be the first to take advantage thereof.
There is no witchcraft at all involved in all that, Mister Prime Minister. In spite of my Haïtian ascent and my carefully phrased remarks. It is undoubtedly so when a taboo should be broken through; a taboo of magnitude, Mister Prime Minister, I admit it; a “scientific” taboo, seldom encountered.
Why did that happened to me, in such a way, like an ice storm, camera in hand, in full darkness? - “The taboo arises as a negative categorical imperative," affirms Roger Caillois. It is not saying little. Especially when it is a question of adequately correcting the theory of Newton on light and colors.
What an ungrateful work, what an irony, what else? Above that, for more than twenty-five years. However, at the dawn of the twenty first century, to denounce this taboo, to reverse it, should I say, what an asset! Moreover, at the same time the multiple taboos grow blurred which surround another phenomenon of the highest scientific range, the well known phenomenon under the abusive name of “Black Holes”, synthesis of light and colors. Indeed Newton, in good faith undoubtedly in his time, really reversed the interpretation of the phenomenon of light. He took the part for the whole ! So much and so well that today like yesterday, the visible appears so much more tempting. Physicists say it: “ninety to ninety nine percent of the matter of the universe is made up of a dark matter, invisible, which generates, propels and surrounds the visible, like the sea surrounds the continents”. Scientists such as Stephen Hawking affirm it. The Hubble Telescope confirms it. But theoretical Optics is stagnant.
My intervention, here, Mister Prime Minister, would mean that. It is possible to use another form of energy. By decoding the Black Matter. By the expertise of Hydro-Québec which has proven itself in many occasions. Without a play on words. Theoretically initially. While “returning the elevator to Newton”. Because, today, Hydro-Québec is well informed and with full power ! Forgive, this time, this very small play on words, intended to pay homage to you. For the Act which consists in making an AMENDMENT TO THE LAW OF NEWTON ON LIGHT AND COLORS..
Presently, why should we take the result instead of the cause? Objectively and in a pragmatic way, by a new synthesis; consequently, what a liberation ! At the threshold of the third millennium, let light live, invisible by synthesis, visible by analysis.
“Synthesis and analysis are two wings of the same bird, the rythm of the universe`s heartbeat, tamed inside the infinitely small having mass. Successively contracted and deployed. In the benefit of humanity. “One small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind - I also said myself - in “ BILL A RI and there was light !.. "
What an unfortunate ice storm, certainly ! Versus illumination. Versus vivifying heat. Unfortunate, yes, but how much a convenient storm if I dare say, which invites us to explore other avenues, other concepts and, therefore, other resources so far neglected. Invitation to go from the invisible to the visible and vice versa. Taking advantage of the sequence of colorless and colored luminous speeds. In order to better understand the Universe. Where Law and Order prevail. Just like in Democracy !
Energetic formula with a unique character !
In the name of Science and Technology, vapor is being reverse !
A winning formula !
In Québec !
By Hydro-Québec !
As for the concept which enabled me to carry out this research, to draw certain conclusions and thus to propose its application, allow me, Mister Prime Minister, in spite of your many obligations and concerns, a small and fast digression.
1972. A young talented lawyer. I consult him on the royalties, the intellectual property, and the legal protection. He collects data, consults his fellow-members, at the Bar. Days, months pass. I call and I recall. One year, two years. I insist. I persist, as a condition to pay his fee, in obtaining an answer. He proposes, in private, a verbal report. I tell him the importance which I attach to a written report. Obviously not at ease, reluctantly, he gives me, on August 16, 1974, a letter! You are, Mister Prime Minister, the very first one to receive today, here included, a copy of it.
As for the verbal report mentioned in the letter which I address to you today, it was around a glass of beer – from the well-known MOLSON Brewery , I still remember, that the young and talented lawyer, well in spite of himself but in all respect and friendship, delivered to me the verdict of his elders, his fellow-members of the Bar:
“You are”, they say, “an illuminated Black person !"
Pretending to be under the effect of a certain euphoria to which the famous beer MOLSON gets one discreetly, I told him on a hardly exalted but sincerely happy tone: “I, Lucien, from the Latin Lucianus which, from the root Lux, Lucis and any other variation reminds me FIAT!, then FIAT Lux! Let us raise our glass to your Bar and Let there be light ! "
“An Illuminated Black person !", I suddenly told him again, “in the white ceremony where the snow and the wind intermingle, in this country of blowing snow..." sung by Gilles Vigneault, what a spectacle !
Homage to you, Mister Prime Minister, because today like yesterday, in the Country sung by Gilles Vigneault, thanks to you, to your collaborators, to all the people of Québec, and to the “Father” who had house built, “the guest room, it is beautiful! "
How not to think of René Lévesque, during a meeting before the first “Parti Québécois referendum " on a Saturday, in company of Doctor Camille Laurin, of Doctor Denis Lazure, of Father Jacques Couture, of Gérald Godin of venerated memory, without forgetting the former deputy Pierre de Bellefeuille. Facing him that Saturday, illuminated by I do not know which obscure clearness, I gave to him in person a summery of this subject which I have a chance to entertain with you today. One sentence condensed its content. He promised me to read it all in his limousine, on the way back from Montréal to Québec. The following day, on Sunday morning, I knew that he had read it.
With you today, Mister Prime Minister, I repeat this sentence, more than twenty-five years old, but always, in my opinion, carrying the same message that I wish more and more positive for the years to come, in the third millennium...
“On the cosmic scale as on the terrestrial scale, darkness or blackness forms an integral, sine qua non part, of color and light pocess”.
Is it still broad daylight
in the shadow of the black sun?
Yours truly,
Lucien BONNET
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca
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FROM : www.Cnn.com:
Cnn.com
96 percent of cosmos puzzles astronomers
Friday, June 20, 2003 Posted: 1629 GMT (12:29 AM HKT)
Luminous matter accounts for only about 0.4 percent of the universe.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Earth, moon, sun and all visible stars in the sky make up less than one percent of the universe. Almost all the rest is dark matter and dark energy, unknown forces that puzzle astronomers.
Observations in recent years have changed the basic understanding of how the universe evolved and have emphasized for astronomers how little is known about the major forces and substances that shaped our world.
Astronomers now know that luminous matter — stars, planets and hot gas — account for only about 0.4 percent of the universe. Nonluminous components, such as black holes and intergalactic gas, make up 3.6 percent. The rest is either dark matter, about 23 percent, or dark energy, about 73 percent.
Dark matter, sometimes called “cold dark matter," has been known for some time. Only recently have researchers come to understand the pivotal role it played in the formation of stars, planets and even people.
“We owe our very existence to dark matter," said Paul Steinhardt, a physicist at Princeton University and a co-author of a review on dark matter appearing this week in the journal Science.
Steinhardt said it is believed that following the Big Bang, the theoretical beginning of the universe, dark matter caused particles to clump together. That set up the gravitation processes that led to the formation of stars and galaxies. Those stars, in turn, created the basic chemicals, such as carbon and iron, that were fundamental to the evolution of life.
“Dark matter dominated the formation of structure in the early universe," Steinhardt said. “For the first few billion years dark matter contained most of the mass of the universe. You can think of ordinary matter as a froth on an ocean of dark matter. The dark matter clumps and the ordinary matter falls into it. That led to the formation of the stars and galaxies."
Without dark matter, “there would be virtually no structures in the universe," he said.
The nature of dark matter is unknown. It cannot be seen or detected directly. Astronomers know it is there because of its effect on celestial objects than can be seen and measured.
But the most dominating force of all in the universe is called dark energy, a recently proven power that astronomers say is causing the galaxies in the universe to separate at a faster and faster speed. It is the force that is causing the universe to expand at an accelerating rate.
Robert P. Kirshner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the presence of dark energy was proved only five years ago when astronomers studying very distant exploding stars discovered they were moving away at a constant acceleration. It was a stunning discovery that has since been proved by other observations.
Kirshner said it is clear now that dark matter and dark energy engaged in a gravitational tug of war that, eventually, dark energy won.
Following the Big Bang some 14 billion years ago, matter in the universe streaked outward. It formed galaxies, thinned out and then began to slow down.
“Dark matter was trying to slow things down and dark energy was trying to speed it up," said Kirshner, the author of a review article on dark energy in Science.
“We think dark matter was winning for the first seven billion years, but then universe went from slowing down to speeding up. ... Dark energy took over."
Kirshner said astronomers do not really understand dark energy. Albert Einstein first proposed a form of the idea, but discarded it later. Now, researchers know it exists, but its exact form and nature are mysterious, although it is thought to be related to gravity.
“What this is pointing to is a deep mystery at the heart of physics," said Kirshner. “We don’t understand gravity in the same way we understand other forces."
He said there are virtually no experiments on Earth that would explore the nature of dark energy. It can only be studied across vast stellar distances by observing the motion of objects extremely far away, a skill that has been possible only in recent decades with the development of very powerful telescopes.
“Dark energy will cause the universe to expanded faster and faster and eventually, over time, we will see less and less of it," Kirshner said. Over millions of years, familiar stars and nearby galaxies will disappear from view and the sky, now choked with stars, will slowly darken.
“The piece of the universe that we can see will get lonelier and lonelier," he said. (www.Cnn.com).
Lucien BONNET — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — (SPACE.com) — New observations of a great big cosmic collision provide the best
evidence yet that invisible and mysterious dark matter really does exist.
The collision, between two huge clusters of galaxies, is the “most energetic
cosmic event, besides the Big Bang, that we know about," said Maxim Markevitch
of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The impact split normal matter and dark matter apart, rendering the dark
matter’s gravitational presence observable.
Scientists announced the discovery today in a teleconference with reporters.
The normal matter in the cosmos — atoms that make up stars, planets, air and
life — accounts for only a small fraction of what must exist, based on the fact
that without an additional source of gravity, galaxies would fly apart and
galaxy clusters could not hold together as they do.
Nobody knows where all that gravity comes from, so scientists say there must be
some invisible stuff out there, which they call dark matter. Its presence is
indirectly supported by many observations. Given what’s known, this is the
makeup of the universe:
a.. 5 percent normal matter
a.. 25 percent dark matter
a.. 70 percent dark energy
Dark energy is an even more mysterious phenomenon, a force of some sort that
beats out gravity and is causing the universe to expand at an ever-faster pace.
Some theorists have suggested that rather than invoking dark matter, perhaps
existing ideas about gravity might be wrong. Maybe gravity is stronger on
intergalactic scales than what is predicted by Newton and Einstein.
And all astronomers agree that dark matter is such an exotic idea as to border
on the crazy.
“A universe that’s dominated by dark stuff seems preposterous, so we wanted to
test whether there were any basic flaws in our thinking," said Doug Clowe of the
University of Arizona at Tucson, and leader of the study. “These results are
direct proof that dark matter exists."
Splitting matter
Clowe and colleagues used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the galaxy
cluster 1E0657-556, which contains a bullet-shaped cloud of superheated gas.
X-rays show the shape was produced by cosmic winds created in a high-speed
collision of two clusters of galaxies.
Other telescopes were used to locate and quantify the mass in the clusters. They
actually measured the effect of gravitational lensing, in which gravity from the
clusters distorts light from thousands of background galaxies, as predicted by
Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
The dark matter is not seen, but its gravity has a predictable effect on the
observations. The resulting blue color in a new image represents the gravity
fields observed by noting how the light from each background galaxy is
distorted.
Here’s what the image reveals:
The hot gas — normal matter — was slowed by a drag force described as the
cosmic equivalent of air resistance. But the dark matter was not slowed by this
effect, presumably because it does not interact with normal matter, as theory
had predicted.
So the normal matter and dark matter became separated.
“This proves in a simple and direct way that dark matter exists." Markevitch
said in the teleconference.
Other theories must cope
The finding provides further evidence that standard Newtonian gravity, which
keeps planets in orbit around the sun, is the glue that makes things stick on
the largest scales, too.
It is still possible there is some modification of gravity going on, but these
findings make it less necessary to have such theories, said Sean Carroll, a
cosmologist at the University of Chicago who was not involved with the study.
“No matter what you do [in devising new theories] you’re going to have to
believe in dark matter."
“We’ve closed this loophole about gravity, and we’ve come closer than ever to
seeing this invisible matter," Clowe said. “This is the first time we’ve had a
direct detection of dark matter” in which you can’t explain the results with any
altered-gravity theory, he said.
The findings will be detailed in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal
Letters. — — — — — — -
WESTERN UNIVERSALISM
“Color cannot be understood except in relation to the person who perceives it,” physicist Pierre Demers wrote in the Foreword to this book. He clearly confirms the relevance of this essay. First of all, in fact, we thought it would be useful to consider the civilizational (politico-religious) attitude of the West toward the Blacks, before pointing out the deficiencies of present-day science, which is predominantly Western, in its perception of the Black Universe.
The Western political attitude toward the Blacks has for many centuries been determined by the perverse ruler-servant, master-slave, exploiter-exploited relationship. In order to normalize its policy of enslaving Blacks, Judeo-Christian civilization went so far as to use Christianity to legitimize what today we generally call “crimes against humanity”, such as the racist slavery peculiar to the West. That situation was facilitated by the fact that the monotheistic religion, which had originally been universalist, soon limited its horizons to the boundaries of the Western world, while the other peoples — which it thought it had attracted — seemed to find themselves there in spite of themselves. Some might wonder whether the abandonment by the West of Christian universalism does not explain that inability of Judeo-Christian civilization to adopt a universalist attitude, not only in the political but also in the scientific realm.
As a matter of fact, present-day science, dominated for a few centuries by the West, can hardly claim to be “universal”, since it is so deeply affected by the Westerners who perceive it. These people have — as we all know — lost any authentically universalist dimension. Did they not, by using and misusing the Bible, attempt to prove the superiority of Western Whites over Blacks and other colored peoples, limiting there too the vast universalist horizons of science to the very boundaries of the West? Everything seems to indicate that science is no longer universal; it is “Western”, with all the consequences that implies for humanity and, in particular, for the Black world.
In other words, the Western approach, the Western way of thinking, is far from being scientific, neutral and objective; it is subjective and distorting. Such subjectivity and distortion manifest themselves still more obviously, as we have seen, in the realm of colors, and more specifically when dealing with the concept of “black”. One must therefore bring into play the social sciences — history, sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis, political science, etc. — to understand that Western handicap. Indeed, as soon as it has to deal with “black”, Western reasoning vacillates, making room for the irrational and its array of fantasies.
The author of the Foreword to this book, a physicist, under went a conversion in 1974, where by he would from then on wholly devote himself to the study of colors. He says that he has been attracted more and more strongly by the multidisciplinary and deeply human nature of the study of colors. He states that the “rational comprehension of colors cannot have the necessary depth, unless all the sciences are called upon: chemistry, biology, physiology, physics, and mathematics”. He even insists: “Once more the human aspect intervenes. Man is both the creator and the necessary vehicle of all sciences. It is doubly true that there is no rational knowledge of color outside of mankind.” He thus admits, as we do, though in a roundabout way, that the present understanding of colors leaves much to be desired. Is it not strongly influenced by the dominant contemporary civilization, polluted so long by prejudices against peoples of color, especially Blacks?
Such a serious Western handicap obviously hinders the forward march of universal science as well as that of all mankind. Both are victims of a racist — and therefore anti-scientific, selfish and limited — vision of the world. The case of Haiti, to use an example with which we are very familiar, is a symptom of the non-universalistic attitude of those who rule the world — the Westerners. Although it may still be possible to scientifically correct the erroneous vision of “blackness” fairly quickly, it is much more difficult to improve human behavior from one day to the next, since mentalities evolve rather slowly. In the meantime, we cannot help being aware that the West keeps dragging around its heavy burden of anti-Black prejudice, and that attitude is detrimental to both the Western and Black worlds.
That unfortunate situation has already been denounced by the legitimate President of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide. Reacting courageously to the position of Pope John Paul II vis-à -vis the Haitian problem,with a feeling of indignation, in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on September 29, 1992, he reproaches the fact that “being rejected by all the states of the world, these criminals — the Haitian putschists — have nevertheless been recognized by the Vatican, the only state that has elected to give its blessing to crimes it should have condemned in the name of the God of Justice and Peace.” He also appropriately asks a rather legitimate question: “What would the Vatican’s attitude be, had Haiti been inhabited by white people?” He also wonders: “What would the attitude of Pope John Paul II have been, had Haiti been Polish?” Better still, in another speech delivered in Washington in January 1993, he unambiguously denounces the perpetuation of the political and economic domination of his country:
“Will Haiti, at the threshold of the 21st century, two hundred years after the Declaration of Human Rights, keep living, as it did in the 18th century, in a master-slave relationship, only the appearance of which has really changed, since 80 percent of the people live in abject conditions, being deprived even of the right to education, without speaking of the most basic freedoms?”
How profound and serious these questions are!
Has not the West, in its relations with the “peoples of color”, always supported rulers who are docile slaves to itself, but tyrants to their own peoples? This was the case in Haiti, first of all with the dictatorship of the Duvaliers, and today with the military putschists of the September 30, 1991 coup. Obviously, Aristide does not at all correspond to the “master-slave, slave-tyrant” model. Therein lies the explanation of the West’s ambiguous attitude regarding his return to perform his legitimate presidential functions
The Western attitude concerning President Aristide and his country is doubtless characterized by the deep hypocrisy which dictates the behavior of the Western leaders. In fact, after paying lip service to the exiled leader and his cause while still consolidating the illegitimate military power in Haiti, all of a sudden Westerners, fearing a possible massive Haitian immigration, showed a serious interest in the return to power of the legitimate President, Jean Bertrand Aristide. Nobody was fooled: the sudden humanitarian gesture of the American President, William Jefferson Clinton — or more precisely, of the American establishment — far from having been dictated by universalistic principles, seems rather to have resulted from what we call “Western politico-cultural fantasies” concerning Blacks. The Haitian refugees or “Boat People” were landing on American shores in increasing numbers. Were not those refugees seen by American politicians as a veritable “black tide” about to “pollute” the American “whiteness”? The so-called humanitarian considerations claimed on that occasion undoubtedly are due more to cultural fantasies than politics.
Suddenly, the legitimate Haitian leader’s charisma and credibility were perceived as a last hope against that “black tide” which “White America” prefers to keep in Haiti, away from U.S. shores. Is that not a prelude to irrational behavior with regard to Western policies toward world migrations and the inevitable meeting of the “colored peoples” with the civilization of Judeo-Christian societies?
Be that as it may, like present-day science, whose universalism is now quite questionable, does not the reality of Western world politics distance itself from universalism to plunge into a quasi-particularism aiming only at the promotion and supremacy of the White world? President Aristide is right when he quotes the universalist Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, who states that “the visible opens our eyes to the invisible”. Science, just like color, cannot be understood outside of the person who perceives it.
Lucien Bonnet
This article was first published in the Montreal daily, Le Devoir, on March 30, 1993, under the title: Science et Réalité (Science and Reality). It was also published in its entirety in La Presse, another Montreal daily, on April 23, 1993, under the title: Haiti versus les phantasmes politico-culturels occidentaux (Haiti versus Western Politiico-Cultural Fantasies).
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| By Anonymous, 07-14-07, 05:03 PM |
I wonder where all the nuclear waste has gone.JUST DIG YOUR BACKYARD IDIOT , and you will find it. |
| By waltky, 07-16-07, 01:40 AM |
| Now they’re stalling for concessions...
:mad:
N. Korea Seeks Concessions From U.S.
Jul 15, 2007 - North Korea said Sunday it is ready to permanently disable the nuclear reactor it just turned off if the United States lifts economic sanctions on the impoverished nation and strikes it from a list of terrorism sponsors.
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Kim Myong Gil, minister at the North’s United Nations mission in New York, said the country had shut down its only operating nuclear reactor after the arrival of promised fuel aid over the weekend. U.S. and South Korean officials said they were confident the North had halted operations at the Yongbyon reactor. Officials from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said they could not confirm the shutdown. Kim said his government would only disclose the full extent of the country’s nuclear program and disable the reactor if Washington takes actions “in parallel."
“We will discuss about the economic sanctions lifting and removing of the terrorism list. All those things should be discussed and resolved," Kim told The Associated Press by telephone. The North’s Foreign Ministry said progress on disarmament would depend on “on what practical measures the U.S. and Japan, in particular, will take to roll back their hostile policies toward” North Korea. The North wants normal relations with the U.S. and Japan.
North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and restarted its reactor in early 2003 after Washington accused it of running a secret uranium enrichment program in violation of an earlier disarmament deal and halted oil deliveries. The North is required to declare all its nuclear programs and materials but has never publicly admitted running a uranium enrichment program, which can be used to produce nuclear weapons. The aid and shutdown were the first steps under the six-party deal struck by the U.S., North and South Korea, Japan, China and Russia in February.
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| By seiya, 06-21-09, 05:09 PM |
heyhey im tellin you this if nuclear is to bomb hawaii, take off as many hawaiians off the plantation as possible women and children and men. then shoot at bomb to show that nobody will get harmed during this operation. |
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