What Do Numbers Tell Us?

[Warlord]

What Do Numbers Tell Us? (http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/what-do-numbers-tell-us/)

Butler Shaffer (http://www.lewrockwell.com/author/butler-shaffer/?post_type=lrc-blog)

The politically-correct commentators in America were of one voice in observing that Syrian President Assad received 88.7% of the popular vote in the election last week, an outcome that reflected what a pretense democratic elections are in a country in which the “choice” is limited to one establishment candidate (I did wonder what happened to the other 11.3% of the votes).

I looked at the results of the 2012 American presidential election for a comparison. 129,085,403 total votes were cast in that election, with 126,849,926 going to this country’s establishment candidate, Barmitt Obomney, who ended up receiving 98.26% of the popular vote. Perhaps the Syrians are just a bit more honest about the voting charade in that country than are Americans.

[MelissaWV]

Usually they tell us how many/few of something there are.

[pcosmar]

One is the loneliest number?

[Zippyjuan]

Assad did have the advantage of getting to choose who was allowed to run against him- and he still could not get over 90% of the vote.

(there were two of them- that is where most of the "missing" 11% went).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_presidential_election,_2014


A total of 24 candidates, including 2 women and a Christian, submitted applications to the Supreme Constitutional Court for the presidency.[30][31][32] Of these, two candidates other than Assad met all the conditions to run, including the support of 35 members of the parliament.[33] The two other candidates chosen to run are seen as "mostly symbolic contenders" and "little known figures"[1]

Bashar al-Assad, the incumbent president, leader of Ba'ath Party

Hassan Abdullah al-Nouri, from the National Initiative for Administration and Change in Syria, a 54 year old MP from Damascus

Maher Abd Al-Hafiz Hajjar, formerly from the People's Will Party, a 43 year old MP from Aleppo. This party is led by veteran opposition leader Qadri Jamil who supported the initial protests in 2011 but then described calls for the overthrow of the regime as "unrealistic and useless". Jamil was a member of the committee that drafted the new Constitution of Syria in 2011. However, People's Will won just two of 250 MPs in the 2012 parliamentary election with their allies from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party won a further four. Jamil was nominated Deputy Prime Minister by President Assad in June 2012 but removed in October 2013. The small number of MPs from the party indicates that most of his nominations must have come from either independents or MPs from the ruling National Progressive Front. A statement from the People's Will Party on 27 April distanced the party from Hajjar, claiming that Hajjar was no longer a member of either the People's Will Party, or the Popular Front for Liberation and Change. Instead the statement claimed that Hajjar represented only himself.[34]

al Nouri got 4.3% and Hajjar 3.2%.

[francisco]

One is the loneliest number?

8675309

[Natural Citizen]

It's rigged!

[Zippyjuan]

What is in a number? What is THE number?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8

[francisco]

What is in a number? What is THE number?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8

Actually, the real number is 137:


In physics

The fine structure constant, a dimensionless physical constant, approximates 1/137, and the astronomer Arthur Eddington conjectured in 1929 that its reciprocal was in fact precisely the integer 137, which he claimed could be "obtained by pure deduction".[1] This conjecture was not widely adopted, and by the 1940s, the experimental values for the constant were clearly inconsistent with it (i.e. closer to 137.036).[2]

In esoterism

The fine structure constant of physics continues to convince esoterists that the universe has numerological fine tuning:[3] for example the age of the universe could be considered as roughly 137 times the square of a myriad of years.

The Hebrew word קבלה (Kabbalah) takes a Gematria value of 137. Kabbalah is generally taken to mean "receiving," as evident from its root in Hebrew k-b-l (kof-beit-lamed), to "receive". Nevertheless, an additional nuance of meaning can be derived from the first appearance of its root (k-b-l) in the Torah. In Exodus 26:5 and 36:12, the root k-b-l appears to imply a state of “corresponding” rather than “receiving.” It is used to describe the “corresponding loops” which, when clasped together, enjoined the two sections of the Tabernacle’s ceiling. These loops were suspended directly over the veil that divided the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies. Symbolically, this is the threshold between the physical dimension and the utterly spiritual dimension. In other words, at the boundary line of the physical world, the number 137 emerges.
The number 7 occurs 137 times in the book of Revelation.
Chlorophyll's chemical formula is C55H72MgN4O5. This means there are a total of 137 atoms in every chlorophyll molecule.
Bohr's Model and the Dirac Equation do not allow for elements above the atomic number of 137. A periodic table based on electron orbitals breaks down at this point.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/137_%28number%29

[francisco]

Of course, Charles Fleischer says that it's 27 and 37:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyy-rijXDHw
Charles Fleischer - Moleeds