It's a set-up for what's going to be ubiquitous in less than 20 years A10anis, cameras on every pole (wi-fi, infrared, audio, facial recognition software) and a cop's nose up every corner of your ass at the great cost of having ended the 'great experiment' -

Feinstein is only a shill for power-brokers and a miniature version of someone whose mentality of "I, Me, Mine" let's a few people dictate the their will over of every person on the planet who is not in their small circle.

Mind you, they believe that the bulk of humanity are not suited to dictate the course of the planet but hey; The same people who have chosen to guide the course of humanity's burst off the planet would keep us rhesus monkeys in small, manageable boxes while they romp freely around the globe with the bulk of our assets and the maximum amount of power to dictate further every aspect of our lives.

The real power they will not wield is to provide for the basic needs and education of the throw-backs of humanity who would rather perpetrate violence and promulgate fear to maintain arcane sensibilities and uncivilized backward ideologies which are anti-evolutionary and savage, using anti-evolutionary and savage people to enforce what looks like order, which is in actuality, the same barbaric practice of subjugation, imprisonment, and fear.

The solution is to limit expansion of population until these ideologies are stamped-out like the insectoid disease that they are, that of a limited perspective based on arcane patterns of thought. We could do this through compassion and education but the established powers see a different solution that will protect their interests-

People like Diane Feinstein and her ilk see the rest of humanity as dogs and cattle. Unprivileged, unworthy flesh with which to extort from them their labor, their minds and souls to their utopian ends, at the cost of our unique humanity.

The same virulence that atheist's have against the western Christan diaspora, these elites have for anyone not aligned with their totalitarian ends.

That they justify their courses of action with propaganda like this, fear-induced surrender to force and control, is against all that is humane and righteous.

Bombs in subways?? Solution: No one has privacy or freedom of expression or thought beyond that which exist behind their eyes and between their ears-Greeeeeat. Your world, not mine.

Next will come thought crimes, cordoned neighborhoods, etc.

Start now by getting some of the comparatively neanderthal segments of humanity into those boxes, limit THEIR freedoms through educating them to at LEAST the level of 17th-century socialization before turning the entire world into a forced labor-camp.

Bread and circuses only work for so long before the emperor's clothes are set alight by those less inclined to hear shit as well as being forced to eat it.

Anarchy would solve some of the discord in civilized countries.

Fucking China-Get those insects to stop cranking-out useless consumption items at an exponentially toxic pace as well-Their version of the world makes Orwell's look like a clam bake. How? Stop using it. Create artisans and craftsman again and develop in every human an appreciation for THAT WHICH LASTS, rather than I WANT NOW, FIRST!

Americans, Europeans drunk on technology, disposable clothing, instant gratification and entertainment are a herd of disposable mental midgets to the Diane Feinsteins of the world.

Sick dance we're learning....I just hope we can stand the dervish without blacking-out.

ecstatic states. focus. the unwobbling pivot.

This sufi dancer is known as a Whirling Dervish, and this dance is a form of dhikr (or remembrance of God) among a Persian Sufi order known as the Mevlevi. They are followers of Rumi, a 13th-century poet and among one of my favorite poets of all time.

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How can he -not- fall over?

GOD I love whirling dervish dog videos!!!

Love the whirling dervish at 1:53

I was curious when I started watching this whether Bill would have anything to say about Rumi and Sufi. Except for a 1-second clip of sped-up whirling dervishes, there's not even a whiff.

I think Bill might even approve of it, since he clearly states at the beginning that he understands people's need to have a religion, and that's it's only privilege of the privileged to choose not to have a religion. He's obviously aware of Sufi. Wonder why he didn't mention it.

Or Buddhism, for that matter, which is similar to Sufi in a lot of ways that Bill singled out as important.

Carbon tax on shotgun discharges into Al Gore's hybrid won't stop the growing threat that humans pose to themselves and others(kitties and frogs, etc.)We must stop the Earth's vindictive output of toxic sulphuric acid and carbon dioxide!! We must crush the sun's death-grip on the most programmable of bipedal hominids, and cease forever the cyclical dervish whose sole purpose is to make it hard for us humans to eat, shit, sleep, fuck, and die where we want to, for however long we please!! Who's with me!!??? Who's with the monkey-lovers??!!

I got to do several shows recently with an Ismaili muslim sect. Talk about a fabulous variety of beautiful and skillfully performed art forms! Most of us have heard of "Whirling Dervishes", but to see them in action?! Fuhgeddaboudit!

Thanks for your "promote" of the Whirling Dervish" viddy. Great stuff!

The Mevlevi, or "The Whirling Dervishes", believe in performing their dhikr in the form of a "dance" and music ceremony called the sema. The Sema represents a mystical journey of man's spiritual ascent through mind and love to "Perfect." Turning towards the truth, the follower grows through love, deserts his ego, finds the truth and arrives to the "Perfect." He then returns from this spiritual journey as a man who has reached maturity and a greater perfection, so as to love and to be of service to the whole of creation....

Sema literally means a joyful song and comes from the Arabic word, sam that means to listen, but Sema' at whole means song (avaz), ecstasy (vajd) and dance (pay-kubi and dast-afshani) with its special rules and orders. Sema-o-raghs means the Sufism dance.

The Sema is a beautiful thing to see, there is a video of it on YouTube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S45OJnQp6mI

"The Sema Ceremony comemmerates the passing of Hz. Mevlana Jelaluddin RUMI, known in the west as a 13th-century mystic poet. He also founded the Mevlevi Sufi Order, still active worldwide 733 years after his passing from this world. This clip shows Whirling Dervishes of the Mevlevi Order of America in the Sema Ceremony in Istanbul, December 2005. We presented the Sema Ceremony in Eugene, Seattle and Portland December 2006, and will present Sema in N.Y., D.C. and New Jersey in December 2007. Further information at hayatidede.org. "

I managed to see this group at their tiny campus in Istanbul. Western culture's initial take on the Whirling Dervishes is that they're associated with war and spinning scimitars (thanks to M:tG, AD&D and other fantasy games), yet in describing themselves, they are a peaceful sect with deep spiritual connections to the world and the environment around them. As they spin in a semi-hypnotic state, their left hands are held down toward the ground, and right hands up to the sky to facilitate the flow of energy between them. It's rather fascinating stuff to explore, should you encounter more information other than what's posted on the wiki article.

More recently, realizing the great value of the tourist economy, the Mevleviye have turned toward donning robes of different colors other than the traditional white linen, and have even accepted and trained female members. From what I hear of the travelling show, however, they still hold true to the original roots of the religion.

saw the The Whirling Dervishes of Rumi at an event on campus. The lighting was "trippy," but the auditorium was over packed and too hot... I drifted off a bit, still overall pretty entertaining.

hey monty , just stumbled upon this clikkin yer playlist, got a great story, which involves salmon, a job, and $100 easy dollars, oh and Greco-Turkish dervish and escape,...did i mention it's on film, well, perhaps later...

I love the cheesy cheap SFX video... my favorite part is the whirling dervishes.

...this is very cool, I've seen some of the same stock footage looking stuff, from animal rights folks trying to get you to feel sorry for the cute little chick...
I used to get fetilzer from a guy who's dad ran a hatchery for Tyson, and he took me in the quanset, with a bout 20,000 chicks all hangin' out....the peeeping was solid decibles....he pointed out a chick, having a heart attack, and the other chicks would eerily form a circle around it, whist it perfomed its little, chicky death-dervish.....those poor little just born fellas, made to dance on miles of stainless steel for their next meal...the humanity!

....explosions, natural or manmade, are manifestations of extreme beauty, a dervish of physical laws , a microcosmic rendition of creation through chaos, and an excellent source of adrenaline. Everyone likes whipped cream, puppies, and explosions!

Yaaaaaaaaaayyyy!