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The books and music of Cyril Squirrel are published by BaBa Productions which was formed in 1998 as publishers of choral music for all types of choirs, both adult and children. Since 2005, however, the company has branched out into the publication of books and musical plays for children and amongst the first are the stories about Cyril. We are gradually developing Cyril's website and stories and music about his adventures will be added as they are completed.
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Home » West Indies Team Completely Dominated The Match And Beat Pakistan Team
West Indies Team Completely Dominated The Match And Beat Pakistan Team
On May 31, 2019, a match between the Pakistan team and West Indies team has been held. Everyone surprised that, Pakistan was lost with least score from West Indies. They could not even able to face the bowling of West Indies. On the other side, it created a huge shock along with the surprise of seeing the continuous best performance from the West Indies team and poor performance from the Pakistan team. Only 105 run they have scored. The players of Pakistan are not even in the form. It is not good for them. Since the world cup is coming soon. They must upgrade themselves by practicing more and more effectively,
The short delivery from the West Indies has acted as one the key weapon to destroy Pakistan team on the field completely. But what Pakistan made was completely wrong in yesterday's match. They were not even ready to defend the bowling of West Indies. If any of the put his effort to defend means then sure they can make a big comeback in that match itself. But no one has tried much to win in that match. This was the major reason for the Pakistan team to lose in the match with a low score.
It is also to be noted that, the Pakistan team has made a good start. Within 2.5 overs, they have scored 17 runs with no loss of wickets. By seeing their performance, the West Indies team has made a big plan and the plan after the score have been really worked well for them. Sheldon Cottrell has introduced a length delivery based on the leg side to the player – Imam ul Haq. Imam can easily avoid that ball, but he didn't make that. Instead, he played and the catch went to the keeper.
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After the two overs, Andre Russell was introduced as a bowler. Slowly West Indies got the match control. The plan really worked well for them. On the fourth over, the Pakistan team has lost their first wicket. The captain Sarfaraz said that there the pressure was increased for them. the immediate two wickets from Russell has become positive for the west indies team and become negative Pakistan team. The frustration was increased out there and the team also started to get panic with the gameplay. It is clearly visible.
Next, a new bowler has been introduced he is named as Oshane Thomas. He too started to dominate the over and his perfect bowling made Pakistan suffer a lot. Then a short delivery has been introduced in that match. From there itself, the team has totally lost their confidence. They are not even ready to face those kinds of deliveries.
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The match is completely under the hands of the West Indies team and they didn't show any mercy towards the Pakistan team. While talking about the batting of West Indies, it is absolutely fantastic. Within 13.4 overs they won the match with 108 scores of just three wickets.
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I photograph rescue dogs who are up for adoption and they usually are nervous, confused and wondering what's going to happen to them next (poor sweet things). They frequently have come from difficult backgrounds and the last thing they are going to do is sit/stay. I typically keep them on leashes for their pictures and then I photoshop out the leash. The pictures always come out great!
So your dog will be fine. Bring him in and I'll get some awesome pictures! If for some reason things just don't work out, I'll refund your session fee. But honestly that's never happened.


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Beethoven Around the World: The Complete String Quartets
Quatuor Ébène
70 SONGS • 8 STUNDEN UND 50 MINUTEN • APR 02 2020
String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1: I. Allegro con brio
String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1: II. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato
String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1: III. Scherzo. Allegro molto
String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1: IV. Allegro
String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: I. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo
String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: II. Allegro molto vivace
String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: III. Allegro moderato - Adagio
String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: IV. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile - Allegretto
String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: V. Presto
String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: VI. Adagio quasi un poco andante
String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: VII. Allegro
String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1, "Razumovsky": I. Allegro
String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1, "Razumovsky": II. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando
String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1, "Razumovsky": III. Adagio molto e mesto
String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1, "Razumovsky": IV. Allegro (Russian Theme)
String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2, "Razumovsky": I. Allegro
String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2, "Razumovsky": II. Molto adagio
String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2, "Razumovsky": III. Allegretto
String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2, "Razumovsky": IV. Finale - Presto
String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59 No. 3, "Razumovsky": I. Introduzione (Andante con moto - Allegro vivace)
String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59 No. 3, "Razumovsky": II. Andante con moto quasi allegretto
String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59 No. 3, "Razumovsky": III. Minuet. Grazioso - Trio
String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59 No. 3, "Razumovsky": IV. Allegro molto
String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: I. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro
String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: II. Presto
String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: III. Andante con moto, ma non troppo
String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: IV. Alla danza tedesca (Allegro assai)
String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: V. Cavatina (Adagio molto espressivo)
Grosse fuge in B-Flat Major, Op. 133
String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 No. 6: I. Allegro con brio
String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 No. 6: II. Adagio ma non troppo
String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 No. 6: III. Scherzo (Allegro)
String Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 No. 6: IV. La Malinconia
String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: I. Maestoso - Allegro
String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: II. Adagio ma non troppo e molto cantabile
String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: III. Scherzando vivace
String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: IV. Finale (Allegro)
String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18 No. 2: I. Allegro
String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18 No. 2: II. Adagio cantabile - Allegro - Tempo I
String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18 No. 2: III. Scherzo (Allegro)
String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18 No. 2: IV. Allegro molto, quasi presto
String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95, "Quartetto serioso": I. Allegro con brio
String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95, "Quartetto serioso": II. Allegretto ma non troppo
String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95, "Quartetto serioso": III. Allegro assai vivace, ma serioso
String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95, "Quartetto serioso": IV. Larghetto espressivo - Allegretto agitato - Allegro
String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major, Op. 74, "Harp": I. Poco adagio - Allegro
String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major, Op. 74, "Harp": II. Adagio ma non troppo
String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major, Op. 74, "Harp": III. Presto
String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major, Op. 74, "Harp": IV. Allegretto con variazioni
String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18 No. 4: I. Allegro ma non tanto
String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18 No. 4: II. Scherzo (Andante scherzoso quasi allegretto)
String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18 No. 4: III. Menuetto (Allegretto)
String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18 No. 4: IV. Allegro
String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18 No. 5: I. Allegro
String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18 No. 5: II. Menuetto
String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18 No. 5: III. Andante cantabile
String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18 No. 5: IV. Allegro
String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: I. Allegretto
String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: II. Vivace
String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: III. Lento assai, cantate et tranquillo
String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135: IV. Grave ma non troppo tratto - Allegro
String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18 No. 3: I. Allegro
String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18 No. 3: II. Andante con moto
String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18 No. 3: III. Allegro
String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18 No. 3: IV. Presto
String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: I. Assai sostenuto - Allegro
String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: II. Allegro ma non tanto
String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: III. Molto adagio
String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: IV. Alla marcia, assai vivace
String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: V. Finale (Allegro appassionato)
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The Museum at FIT presents Eco-Fashion: Going Green, an exhibition exploring fashion's relationship with the environment. Generally, "eco-fashion" refers to the work of designers who use, produce, and/or promote sustainable, ethical, and environmentally-conscious products. Although eco-fashion is one of contemporary fashion's most compelling practices, fashion and the environment have had a longstanding, multifaceted, and complex connection that is rarely explored.
Featuring more than 100 garments, accessories, and textiles from the mid-18th century to the present, Eco-Fashion: Going Green will examine both positive and negative environmental practices over the past two centuries, providing historical context for today's eco-fashion movement. The exhibition will emphasize how each stage of fashion production—from fiber to finished garment—has environmental consequences. As a counterpoint, the extensive range of contemporary examples in the exhibition will showcase the increasing commitment of both designers and consumers to meet these environmental challenges, in a conscious effort to minimize harmful impacts.
Eco-Fashion: Going Green will begin with some of the finest examples of sustainable fashion by current, cutting-edge labels, including Ciel, Bodkin, Edun, FIN, and NOIR. The approaches these brands take to social and environmental issues will act as lenses through which the exhibition will view the historical garments and their various effects on the environment.


Here are just a few of the many custom quilts that Nancy has created over the years.
This is our latest t-shirt quilt project that we completed. Our client had collected the shirts from her daughter's years of athletic achievements and is giving it to her as a special reminder of what she accomplished in the track and field arena.
This quilt was brought to us in individual blocks that had been hand quilted by a family member. Our client wanted the blocks put together into a quilt to give to her daughter in memory of the quilter. The quilting stitches were small and even. The quilter designed a different quilting pattern for each block and I was amazed at her creativity. I put the quilt together in a "quilt-as-you-go" method. I added the sashing strips to hide the seams and on the back I hand finished the back of the blocks. I added a little hand quilting to the Drunkard's Path block as that block was one of 2 that hadn't been quilted.


If you're like me, you never make anything exactly the way it was designed. I have to tweak the proportions, add embellishments, and generally just redesign things to make them match the ideas in my head. You've probably done the same with your sewing and crafting projects, but have you ever thought of modifying the embroidery designs you use? Maybe you've found the perfect motif for your project . . . if only you could alter it just a bit. You could continue searching for hours and hours and not find what you want. Or you could take that almost-perfect design into embroidery software and make it into exactly what you have in mind. Here's Amanda to give you a really short intro to BERNINA Embroidery Software 7. There is SO much more you can do, even digitizing your own designs stitch by stitch. This is just the very topmost tip of the iceberg!
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Hey, Big Spender! Why Does Your Quality Lag So Far Behind Other Countries?
April 9, 2021 by Paul Lendner
The United States spends more—close to double—on health care per capita than other rich countries. By many measures, we're not getting a good return on those trillions of dollars.
In health care, the United States is the world's biggest spender—by far. In 2016, this country spent $10,348 per capita on health care, almost double the amount ($5,198) that 11 comparable countries spent on average. Switzerland was a distant second in health care spending, at $7,919 per capita, according to a report last year on international health care spending by the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
What return does the United States get on that investment? Not what you'd expect from that level of spending. Data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development show that the United States lags behind similarly wealthy OECD countries in many, if not all, important measures of quality. For its report on the quality of care health systems deliver, Peterson–Kaiser used a number of different metrics to analyze health outcomes, quality of care, and access to services, such as rates of all-cause mortality, premature death, and death amenable to health care interventions.
1 Potential years of life lost for major causes of mortality in the U.S. relative to comparable countries
2 Knowing vs. doing
3 Role for insurers
4 Mental health, SDOH together
4.1 Related Stories
Potential years of life lost for major causes of mortality in the U.S. relative to comparable countries
Age-specific potential years of life lost per 100,000 population, 2013
Source: Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker
In the United States, these rates are all poor compared with those of other similar OECD countries, the report said. What's more, the gains in these areas are lagging behind those of other countries, so the gap between the United States and similar OECD nations is widening. There are a few bright spots; for example, the U.S. cancer mortality rate is lower than the average of the countries included in the Peterson–Kaiser report (194 vs. 206 per 100,000).
Knowing vs. doing
Benchmarking U.S. quality measures against those of similarly large and wealthy countries is one way to assess how successful the United States has been at improving care for its population—and to learn from systems that often produce better outcomes. The shortcomings in the United States are not for lack of knowledge: Health insurers, physicians, hospitals, health systems—they all know what to do to close these gaps in care.
"We have a lot of evidence on how care should be provided," says Clare Bradley, MD, senior vice president and chief medical officer for IPRO, a quality improvement organization that contracts with states and other purchasers to ensure that health plans deliver quality care. There is ample evidence on how to treat patients with many of the most common costly and chronic conditions, such as hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes—all of which affect millions of Americans, she says. We also have many different—although sometimes conflicting—recommendations for cancer screening, she adds. The problem, as Bradley sees it, is that physicians and other providers often don't have that information when they need it—during an office visit with an ill patient.
"We know how to do better. We just have to work toward doing better," adds Bradley, an internist and associate professor of preventive medicine at the State University of New York–Stony Brook.
Role for insurers
Other experts in quality of care agree that American providers know what to do but don't do it. Why? Many and assorted reasons.
While the U.S. health care system has made progress in improving patient safety, for example, it often fails to sustain those gains year after year, says Kedar Mate, MD, the chief innovation and education officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston.
Health insurers are partly to blame because they often fail to adopt disciplined and rigorous approaches to replicate what works. When a health plan or health system finds a strategy that improves care, the insurer should push for that intervention to be continued as needed and appropriate and it should be spread to other physicians and hospitals, he says. To address this failing, health insurers need to encourage leaders of provider organizations to ensure that they put into place strategies that work throughout their health systems, adds Mate.
In marketing campaigns, many health systems brag about delivering patient-centric care, but these promises made are frequently unkept. Both Bradley and Mate say the reality is a far cry from the marketing claims. "We need to ensure that the care we provide is patient centered," Bradley says. While health systems are moving in that direction, too often patients are not allowed to participate in choosing the care they get. "Are patients really at the table when decisions are made?" she asks.
Many patients leave decision making to physicians while other patients want to be more involved, she says. "We need to get each patient's input in terms of what may work better for their lifestyle and family situation."
Mate agrees, acknowledging that while the health system has shifted from being physician-centric to being more health system–centric over the past two decades, it frequently fails to address the patient's point of view. "Patients should be in the middle of all decisions about their care, but they're less understood as true team members than they could be," he says.
One of the health system's biggest problems is one the ACA and its emphasis on accountable care was supposed to address: care coordination. Bradley and Mate cited this deficiency as did Thomas H. Lee, MD, a member of the Managed Care editorial advisory board and chief medical officer for Press Ganey, a health care performance improvement company.
Mental health, SDOH together
The large size and fractious nature of the health system means that so many people are involved in delivering care that it's difficult for them to work together efficiently. "We don't have enough teamwork and coordination, which is scary for patients and despairing for health care providers as well," says Lee, who, in addition, to his role at Press Ganey, practices primary care at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a professor at Harvard Medical School.
Given that there is no shortage of deficiencies, the next question is, how does the health system begin to solve these problems?
"Our big challenges in health care today are chronic diseases," says Lee. To address this problem, the health system needs to tackle many of these diseases at once, he says, but it could start by helping Americans lose weight and achieve healthy blood pressure levels. Only about half of patients with hypertension have their high blood pressure under control. Two large provider systems doing well with respect to hypertension are Kaiser Permanente and the Marshfield Clinic, according to Lee: "It is possible to do much, much, much better, but we're not."
Bradley, Mate, and Lee say one other problem that is mostly unaddressed is the social determinants of health. In addition, Lee adds that health systems should address mental health and SDOH together, noting that it's difficult to separate the two.
To solve all these problems, should health plans simply pay more to physicians and hospitals that tackle these deficiencies successfully? No, says Lee. "Financial incentives are very effective for financial issues, but I think that nonfinancial incentives are most effective for nonfinancial issues, quality in general, being the example," he explains.
Instead, health insurers should collect data on the patient outcomes that matter most and report that data to the public. "That way, the organizations that are doing better will be rewarded, with market share and even more so with engagement of their clinician and nonclinician workforce," he adds. "Measurement and transparency are the two most powerful drivers of improvement in quality."
Mate adds that health insurers should also reward physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers that repeat and spread strategies that improve quality effectively. "Replication doesn't seem very sexy or exciting, but it is necessary for us now because not everything needs to be reinvented," he says. "The challenge is to take the effective models and innovations that we have and make sure they can reach everyone they need to reach."
Bradley concurs, saying health insurers need to spread effective strategies widely by somehow getting physicians, hospitals, and other providers to work together more closely. "We may need coalitions of providers … so that the hospitals and home health and outpatient providers are more connected with managed care plans and the community-based organizations."
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It's clear to see how the current account deficit of the US has basically financed itself up to this point. What has happened is the dollar surplus countries have been buying all the excess dollars flooding into their countries as a hedge against their own currencies appreciating. But, they want to earn interest on their money, so they put their dollars back into investments that are denominated by the US dollar. This prompted the esteemed Robert McTeer to say, "…we get sort of a free ride. Sort of like we're in a poker game and we never have to cash in our chips." This ride can't last, though. The US can't keep plunging further and further into debt. At some point, the US is going to have to settle up. The new Sovereign Wealth Funds in countries with dollar surpluses will also have to be figured in to expectations on what creditors intend to do to stave off losses on dollar holdings.
Gold experts believe that Dr. Ben Bernanke will take a unique course of action when the time comes for the US to settle up. He is the US Federal Reserve Board Chairman. They think he will print money recklessly and pay down the debt with a currency that is deeply devalued. They have thought this would happen since 2002 when he said something to that effect in a speech. It was shortly after he became a US Federal Reserve Governor. His speech was entitled "Deflation: Making sure it won't happen here". It was a 5,000-word speech, but there was one part that stood out in particular. A lot of experts took note of it at that time. He said, "…but the U.S. government has a technology called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost." That part of the speech really stood out to analysts. He basically suggested that he would stop deflation by printing as much money as he needed to. Most economists would say it's the right course of action. Not many people think his course of action is irresponsible, reckless, or irresponsible. Most people think it's the right thing to do. Still, bad developments in the wake of the US sub prime mortgage and related shadow banking debacle lead people to believe that Bernanke will be forced to print money to stave off deflation.
It's not a bad idea to own gold to hedge against risk and mitigate any damage a financial crisis might cause. Insulating your assets is always a good idea. Franklin D. Roosevelt devalued the dollar to gold by 47% in 1934 when the US Treasury couldn't make good on its commitments. Gold was the universal measure of value way back then. Interestingly enough, when President Richard Nixon got into some hot water in 1971 and had to back out of all his commitments to gold the market value of gold rose from $35 for an ounce to over $600 within the span of a decade. Nixon said that there would be a surcharge of 15% on all imports so that he could force negotiated dollar devaluations of over 20% against international currencies. James Baker was Nixon's Treasury Secretary in 1985, and he negotiated something called the Plaza Accord with Japan, Canada, Britain, France, and Germany that allowed for the floating dollar to go down 30% over the following two years. The current rebalancing could end up having a "soft landing" but, if we look at history, the dollar and many other currencies are on track to lose purchasing power.
In order to really understand 9/11 and what happened afterward, you have to look further than Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The United States had a lot of enemies around the world before 9/11, and some of those were the "Afghan Arabs" in Afghanistan. These were the men who joined the fight against Soviet Russia in the 80s. It's interesting that the CIA funded them in large part, because they became some of America's most pernicious enemies. They were completely ignored after the Soviets left the region. I want to talk about them because they were some of the people who were dangerous before that infamous day of 9/11 and still are.
How as the Afghan jihad funded, though? It's an interesting question, and it still comes up to this day when people ask how the 9/11 terrorists were funded. The two aren't one and the same, but they are interrelated – at least somewhat. Let's look at it for a second. The funding for the regional jihad against the Soviets came from a number of sources – you've got Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and of course the U.S. via the CIA. Saudi Arabia had their own reasons for supporting the jihadists. They had religious reasons, and they also wanted to get these radicals out of their own backyard. Pakistan gave them money so they could claim to be the center of the Islamic world, and U.S. funded them so that they could send Islamic fighters to do their bidding and not send their own soldiers out onto the battlefield. Why lose American soldiers when you could have Islamic fundamentalists do your job for you? Robert Gates, a former CIA director and current U.S. Defense Secretary, wrote in his book From the Shadows that the US government learned in 1985-1986 that there was "a significant increase in the number of Arab nationals from other countries who had travelled to Afghanistan to fight in the Holy War against the Soviets." He also says that they "examined ways to increase their participation, perhaps in the form of some sort of international brigade but nothing came of it." It's not a shock that not much came of the idea, but this comment Mr. Gates made is almost unbelievable: "Years later, these fundamentalist fighters trained by the Mujahideen in Afghanistan would begin to show up around the world, from the Middle East to New York City, still fighting their Holy War – only include the United States among their enemies. Our mission was to push the Soviets out of Afghanistan. We expected post-Soviet Afghanistan to be ugly, but never considered that it would become a haven for terrorists worldwide." Was Mr. Gates really so naïve as to think that this motley band of religious fundamentalists would commit themselves to upholding liberal values and the tenets of Western democracy? Of course not.
One of the central figures among the Afghan Arabs was university professor in Pakistan. His name was Abdallah Azzam. Mr. Gates and everyone else looking at the issue must have known what he was saying and publishing. He was funded by Saudi Arabia directly and the CIA indirectly, and he set up something called a "Bureau of Services Maktab al-Khidamat", for the Mujahideen in 1984. He didn't hide his extremist views. He was one of the founding fathers of global jihad, and his goal was to spread militant Islam around the world. He published Al Jihad, which was distributed throughout the world.
He was very extremist and staunch in his views. He declared that defending Muslims against infidels was every religious man's moral duty and that they were committing a capital sin if they didn't do it. He said that it was necessary every man fight in the Afghan Holy War. After victory was declared in Afghanistan, he continued on with his campaign. He wrote, "the jihad will remain an individual obligation until all other lands which formerly were Muslim come back to us and Islam reigns within them once again. Before us lie Palestine, Bukhara, Lebanon, Chad, Eritrea, Somalia, the Philippines, Burma, South Yemen, Tashkent, Andalusia … Our presence in Afghanistan today does not mean that we have forgotten Palestine. Palestine is our beating heart. It comes even before Afghanistan in our minds, our feelings and our faith." What he really wanted to do was establish an Islamic Caliphate. It was 1924 when the Ottoman Sultan was removed from power as Caliph of the Islamic world by a secularist named Mustapha Kemal. That was the last of any kind of centralized authority in Islam. Azzam said that Muslims shouldn't wait for the caliphate to be re-established before they took up the cause of jihad. He said that jihad was the best and "safest path" to help establish universal leadership and a Caliphate.
Osama bin Laden was a known associate of Azzam. In fact, he first met him when he was an instructor at a Saudi Arabian university. Even though they disagreed from time to time, they got along for the most part and worked together hand-in-hand in Afghanistan. After Azzam was assinated in 1987, bin Laden took over Azzam's organization, which was the predecessor of Al Qaeda. Azzam had issued a fatwa before he died where he said the following: "The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies – civilians and military – is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to." Religious groups associated with bin Laden endorsed it in 1998. Bin Laden was a big, looming figure at the time, and he was trying to get access to weapons of mass destruction. He said the following: "It would be a sin for Muslims not to try to possess the weapons that would prevent infidels from inflicting harm on Muslims. Hostility towards America is a religious duty and we hope to be rewarded for it by God." Egyptian intelligence warned the U.S. in the early 1990s that bin Laden was training a thousand radicals to bring about a revolution in the Islamic world.
If we connect the dotes between Azzam, bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and 9/11, it gives us a picture that, if written in a fiction novel, would be tossed out as too strange to be credible. That story would include the actions of a cocaine-using, woman-chasing US Congressman and committee chairman named Charlie Wilson, who was a big supporter of the Afghan Mujahideen. A movie was made about his adventures in Afghanistan called Charlie Wilson's War, and it was released in 2008 and based on the book Charlie Wilson's War. Another interesting element of this story is that Under Secretary of Defense in the administration of Ronald Reagan lobbied for support for the Afghan rebels while Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri were in training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan being rebranded as freedom fighters fighting against the Soviets. Gilles Kepel, in a recent interview, said that Americans don't want to remember that Reagan's administration was what made jihad possible, back then and right now, and Islamic radicals don't like to be reminded that without American arms the Soviets never would have been defeated.
Understanding the above comments is very important for investors. Even though George W. Bush made a lot of mistakes, we have to keep in mind that the US has been at war since 9/11, and it was not a war that we began. In thinking about things, we have to draw a line between the pre-9/11 world when the U.S. wasn't at war and the post-9/11 world when the U.S. is at war, and the currencies of countries at war is usually a little bit weaker.


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