That Dershowitz guy is a total rat. He's the one who brought state power down on Norman Finkelstein.
He's a cynical, self serving dishonest psychopath playing at respectable academic.
It does not surprise me at all he's the MAN's choice to try to shout down Greenwald. Harvard's credibility is shot to pieces.

I'm not saying it was intentional.. but it does look suspiciously like somebody pulled a wire... doesn't have to be a conspiracy.. just someone trying not to piss off his zionist boss. Picked the wrong guy to interview on Wolf Blitzer's Show.

>> ^geo321:

Lunatic is a strong word. But I have to say I don't think it's far off the mark. In that the government is bent on continuous war. But for an ideological purpose. Within that ideological purpose or goal they've been at war since they existed. >> ^Yogi:
I disagree with the use of the word "Lunatic". It implies that the Israeli government isn't of sound mind and is not aware of what it's doing, or that it doesn't have a plan. It does, at least certain powerful sectors of it's government does.



Yeah but it just doesn't fit the definition. They're bent on continuous war because it's a strategy that has worked for them. They're not crazy, they're making a conscious decision in order to please the "Godfather" in this case the US and they get protection and funding for it. I think calling them Lunatics absolves them of responsibility, and it shouldn't they are completely and uniquely responsible.

Lunatic is a strong word. But I have to say I don't think it's far off the mark. In that the government is bent on continuous war. But for an ideological purpose. Within that ideological purpose or goal they've been at war since they existed. >> ^Yogi:

I disagree with the use of the word "Lunatic". It implies that the Israeli government isn't of sound mind and is not aware of what it's doing, or that it doesn't have a plan. It does, at least certain powerful sectors of it's government does.

This guys sounds like Strother Martin, the man behind "What we've got here is a failure to communicate" and "...or we're shipping you off to military school with the goddamn Finkelstien shit kid!"

http://videosift.com/video/What-Weve-Got-Here-Is-Failure-To-Communicate

http://videosift.com/video/Finkelstein-Shit-Kid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein

Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. A graduate of Binghamton University, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and, most recently, DePaul University, where he was an assistant professor from 2001 to 2007.

Finkelstein is credited by Avi Shlaim, Adam Shatz, Noam Chomsky and others with exposing Joan Peters' book From Time Immemorial as a "fraud" and "a monumental hoax". Amidst considerable public debate, Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul in June 2007, and placed on administrative leave for the 2007-2008 academic year. Among the controversial aspects of this decision were attempts by Alan Dershowitz, a notable opponent of Finkelstein's, to derail Finkelstein's tenure bid.[1] On September 5, 2007 Finkelstein announced his resignation after coming to a settlement with the university on generally undisclosed terms.[2][3] An official statement from DePaul strongly defended the decision to deny Finkelstein tenure, and asserted that outside influence played no role in their decision. The statement also praised Finkelstein "as a prolific scholar and outstanding teacher."[4]

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Refreshness on theoretical physics should be always welcome , however to be technically careful with new proposals is mandatory !
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"Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Published: 6:02PM GMT 14 Nov 2007
Comments 596 | Comment on this article

The E8 pattern (click to enlarge), Garrett Lisi surfing (middle) and out of the water (right)
An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists.
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Garrett Lisi, 39, has a doctorate but no university affiliation and spends most of the year surfing in Hawaii, where he has also been a hiking guide and bridge builder (when he slept in a jungle yurt).

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In winter, he heads to the mountains near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he snowboards. "Being poor sucks," Lisi says. "It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month."
Despite this unusual career path, his proposal is remarkable because, by the arcane standards of particle physics, it does not require highly complex mathematics.
Even better, it does not require more than one dimension of time and three of space, when some rival theories need ten or even more spatial dimensions and other bizarre concepts. And it may even be possible to test his theory, which predicts a host of new particles, perhaps even using the new Large Hadron Collider atom smasher that will go into action near Geneva next year.
Although the work of 39 year old Garrett Lisi still has a way to go to convince the establishment, let alone match the achievements of Albert Einstein, the two do have one thing in common: Einstein also began his great adventure in theoretical physics while outside the mainstream scientific establishment, working as a patent officer, though failed to achieve the Holy Grail, an overarching explanation to unite all the particles and forces of the cosmos.
Now Lisi, currently in Nevada, has come up with a proposal to do this. Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, describes Lisi's work as "fabulous". "It is one of the most compelling unification models I've seen in many, many years," he says.
"Although he cultivates a bit of a surfer-guy image its clear he has put enormous effort and time into working the complexities of this structure out over several years," Prof Smolin tells The Telegraph.
"Some incredibly beautiful stuff falls out of Lisi's theory," adds David Ritz Finkelstein at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. "This must be more than coincidence and he really is touching on something profound."
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The new theory reported today in New Scientist has been laid out in an online paper entitled "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" by Lisi, who completed his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego.
He has high hopes that his new theory could provide what he says is a "radical new explanation" for the three decade old Standard Model, which weaves together three of the four fundamental forces of nature: the electromagnetic force; the strong force, which binds quarks together in atomic nuclei; and the weak force, which controls radioactive decay.
The reason for the excitement is that Lisi's model also takes account of gravity, a force that has only successfully been included by a rival and highly fashionable idea called string theory, one that proposes particles are made up of minute strings, which is highly complex and elegant but has lacked predictions by which to do experiments to see if it works.
But some are taking a cooler view. Prof Marcus du Sautoy, of Oxford University and author of Finding Moonshine, told the Telegraph: "The proposal in this paper looks a long shot and there seem to be a lot things still to fill in."
And a colleague Eric Weinstein in America added: "Lisi seems like a hell of a guy. I'd love to meet him. But my friend Lee Smolin is betting on a very very long shot."
Lisi's inspiration lies in the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan.
E8 encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional and is itself is 248-dimensional. Lisi says "I think our universe is this beautiful shape."
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What makes E8 so exciting is that Nature also seems to have embedded it at the heart of many bits of physics. One interpretation of why we have such a quirky list of fundamental particles is because they all result from different facets of the strange symmetries of E8.
Lisi's breakthrough came when he noticed that some of the equations describing E8's structure matched his own. "My brain exploded with the implications and the beauty of the thing," he tells New Scientist. "I thought: 'Holy crap, that's it!'"
What Lisi had realised was that he could find a way to place the various elementary particles and forces on E8's 248 points. What remained was 20 gaps which he filled with notional particles, for example those that some physicists predict to be associated with gravity.
Physicists have long puzzled over why elementary particles appear to belong to families, but this arises naturally from the geometry of E8, he says. So far, all the interactions predicted by the complex geometrical relationships inside E8 match with observations in the real world. "How cool is that?" he says.
The crucial test of Lisi's work will come only when he has made testable predictions. Lisi is now calculating the masses that the 20 new particles should have, in the hope that they may be spotted when the Large Hadron Collider starts up.
"The theory is very young, and still in development," he told the Telegraph. "Right now, I'd assign a low (but not tiny) likelyhood to this prediction.
"For comparison, I think the chances are higher that LHC will see some of these particles than it is that the LHC will see superparticles, extra dimensions, or micro black holes as predicted by string theory. I hope to get more (and different) predictions, with more confidence, out of this E8 Theory over the next year, before the LHC comes online."

He's referring to The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Finkelstein and Silberman as well as Masada by Yigael Yadin.

References can be found in Hitchens' God Is Not Great, chapter 7: Revelation: The Nightmare of the "Old" Testament.

>> ^therealblankman:
I'm interested if a fellow Sifter could find and cite the study regarding the Israeli archaeologists and the Exodus mythe that Hitchens is talking about.

Another video with him in it that got posted on here a while back:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Table-tennis-feat-with-surprise-ending

Eric Finkelstein (the other guy in the vid) is one of my best pals here at college.

>> ^vaporlock:
How does an admitted "zionist"(Wolf) become the head reporter on CNN? Seems a bit biased and puts his Iraq war reporting into a new perspective.


Apparently the media is controlled by Jews.

Now that is some fine debating from Mr. Finkelstein. He answered his question and the question that Blitzer side-stepped. And he did it without saying that he disagrees with Israel's actions, in whole.

Interesting side note: Finkelstein was barred from entering Israel last year, for ten years, because of his supposed affiliation with "anti-Zionists."