…Meanwhile, in other “news” has anyone heard about Glenn Beck’s exploits, rescuing hundreds of people from Afghanistan?
https://twitter.com/ScottyAmerica1/status/1437153660606242823

No? Didn’t think so….

According to experts, three scientifically rigorous meta-analyses of organic-conventional crop yield comparisons indicate that across all crops, the mean yield reduction in organic agriculture in Sri Lanka is around 19-25 per cent. This shows that an overnight shift to organic cultivation presents a clear and imminent threat to the country’s food security.

Eminent researchers have also noted that organic farming increases farmland due to its low yields. This results in deforestation, leading to large scale extinction of species and a rise in greenhouse emissions.

According to the Annual Review of Resource Economics, organic agriculture generates more air pollutants and environmental emissions in the crop production process for a unit of food than chemical farming.

Moreover, organic farming has exponentially higher monetary input costs due to a lack of usage of pest and pathogen-resistant chemicals, which increases manual labour, according to experts. The additional processing and marketing costs of organic produce is also significantly higher, analysts said.

The bolded part is one of the major factors in the collapse of civilizations, according to Jared Diamond, who is somewhat of an environmentalist himself.
But they don’t ever actually look at the science, just what they feel ought to be the situation.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/09/12/on-9-11-anniversary-cnn-publishes-article-designed-to-make-sure-you-think-only-positive-thoughts-about-islam-n1478090

The history of 9-11 includes the Saudi Arabian state, whose nationals were among the terrorist flying the planes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_attacks

The hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda. They hailed from four countries; fifteen of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Lebanon, and one from Egypt.[1] To carry out the attacks, the hijackers were organized into four teams, each led by a pilot-trained hijacker who would commandeer the flight with three or four “muscle hijackers” who were trained to help subdue the pilots, passengers, and crew. Each team was assigned to a different flight and given a unique target to crash their respective planes into.

Some details about their fraudulent applications for visas, fake passports, and numerous trips in and out of the US before the attack.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/08/how-911-terrorists-got-here-terence-p-jeffrey/

More than two dozen al-Qaida terrorists whom the commission associated with the 9/11 conspiracy tried to enter the United States. Most of them succeeded.

“Twenty-six al Qaeda terrorist conspirators — eighteen Saudis, two Emiratis, one Egyptian, one Lebanese, one Moroccan, one Pakistani, and two Yemenis — sought to enter the United States and carry out a suicide mission,” said the commission’s staff report. “The first of them began to acquire the means to enter two years and five months before the 9/11 attack.”

“The 19 hijackers applied for 23 visas and obtained 22,” said the report. “Five other conspirators were denied U.S. visas. Two more obtained visas but did not participate in the attack for various reasons.”

One thing that interests me about the new document releases is: Why did “Biden” authorize them now? Sabotaging the Abraham Accords? Dissing Iran’s strongest opponent? That sits oddly with his begging for more Saudi oil to make up for the American fuels he shut down.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/09/12/whats-in-the-9-11-documents-the-fbi-released-on-saudi-arabias-involvement-in-the-attacks-n1477918?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=-1

Joe Biden ordered the declassification and release of a 16-page document relating to the government of Saudi Arabia’s potential involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

The document — heavily redacted, according to Fox News — sheds little light on the Saudis’ role, if any, in the attack.

Why order the release of redacted documents?
I suppose we’ll have to wait for someone to do the analysis and maybe get some leaks.

“And now for something completely different” (AKA O/T): an interesting article on the trials and tribulations of an across-the-board, government-mandated switch to organic farming…from an unusual (Indian) site:
https://theprint.in/world/how-sri-lankas-overnight-flip-to-total-organic-farming-has-led-to-an-economic-disaster/728414/

And when the Arab scholar Suliman Bashear argued that Islam developed as a religion gradually rather than emerging fully formed from the mouth of the Prophet, he was injured after being thrown from a second-story window by his students at the University of Nablus in the West Bank.

–“Scholars Are Quietly Offering New Theories of the Koran”
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/arts/scholars-are-quietly-offering-new-theories-of-the-koran.html

Barry Meislin:

I recall a scholar looking into those in the 2000s. As I recall, he was murdered for his efforts.

If I have the time, I’ll look it up.

The book I named is a quite readable history of just how the Islam that is came into being during the period after the death, if he ever lived, of Muhammad. That was when the beliefs you speak of became set in stone as the aftermath of a 3 sided internal war over just what Islam was, and was to be. The most radical, fundamentalist group won out and set the course Islam has been on ever since.

It was also during this time that what is called the Koran was organized in it’s present form, and done so for the political-secular-religious power it then gave to the ruler, and all other texts destroyed so there would only be one from then on.

However, I still recommend Americans read the Qur’an. It’s a must to understand how vicious, violent, intolerant and totalitarian Islam is at root. It’s the only foundational book of a major religion with a chapter on military booty. It ain’t the Old or New Testament, the Tao Te Ching or the Bhagavad-Gita.

http://www.wright-house.com/religions/islam/Quran/8-spoils-of-war.php

The Qur’an is not long nor hard to read (except a few sections which are close to gibberish), but it is quite dispiriting for the non-stop hate-filled rants, supposedly the Infallible Words of the Most High.

There are a few dodgy sections in the Old Testament, but they are by far the exception, while in the Qur’an they are the rule.

My challenge for Americans is to pick up a translation of the Qur’an, open it at random, then see how far you read before encountering a rant about how horrible the infidels are and what juicy, cruel punishments Allah intends for them.

I was live-and-let-live for all religions … until I read the Qur’an. After 9-11 I encountered the “Why Do They Hate Us” bilge and that was where my Political Change began. I understood immediately 9-11 was Muslims being Muslims.