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Today's program notes... are entitled… After Words
And for the past three Saturdays… we spoke of Transitions. To be released from controlled and guided thought… is the pathway to independence… of thought… and in deed. But one must consider the technology, the utility, and one’s facility with language… before exploring the ways one may be freed… from authoritarian construct… limiting Hegelian dialectical thought process… illogical fallacies rooted in misinterpretation… popular delusion… and now... bad science – such are the circumstances… which nearly always lead one… into error. If you were unable to listen-in… you can always subscribe to the RBN archives… for the paltry sum of… $1.33 per month… and download those podcasts… to your heart’s desire. If you like what you hear on this network… why not lend us a hand… and contribute in some more meaningful way… to its support?
Many thousands of devoted RBN listeners already attest to this network’s relevance and staying power. In a marketplace of shopworn ideas and deliberate obfuscation… not focused on the truth… here you will learn what it still means… to speak truth… to power.
Thus, simply listening to RBN is a far more worthy pursuit than most others I can think of.
So start by turning off that idiot-box… your TV… and stop reading those glossy news magazines… those inky newspapers… that you know are a waste of your time. With the television switched off… you can discontinue paying your oppressor… to fill your head... full of lies.
Remember that… your mind… is a terrible thing to waste!
And never think... that I [myself] am knowledgeable… or an expert… about anything.
I_am_not!
I_am_not!
The words you hear are just that – mere words – even these two questions I pose... to wit:
What originally guided your response to stimuli... in this world… before words? And perhaps more importantly… what will guide you and yours… to take corrective and decisive actions… in a world full of tumult… after words?
Lord's Prayer
Our Father who is everywhere
Your name is sacred.
Your Kingdom is come.
Your will is throughout the earth
even as it is throughout the universe.
You give us our needful bread from day to day,
And You forgive us our offenses
even as we forgive our offenders
and You let us not enter into materialism.
But You separate us from error.
Because Yours are the Kingdom, the power and
the song and the praise.
From all ages, throughout all ages.
(Sealed) in faith, trust and truth.
Translation from the Aramaic Peshitta by Dr. Rocco Errico
http://thenazareneway.com/lords_prayer.htm
The Lord's Prayer: Origins and History
http://thenazareneway.com/lords_prayer.htm
The Lord's Prayer: Origins and History
Uncle Sam Wants You To Raise Chickens
USDA Poster
(1918)
Made in America
The Tavistock Agenda
(Video Documentary)
(Video Documentary)
Relearning Nature’s Interdependence
(Video Short)
In Pasadena, California the Dervaes family are the ultimate urban homesteaders. They have a real food producing farm in a suburban backyard, growing enough vegetables for the family to eat and even sell to local restaurants.
To be specific, on only 1/10 acre they harvest up to 6,000 lbs. harvest annually, growing over 350 different vegetables, herbs, fruits & berries! The family of 5 all work on the microfarm and generate a living from it.
Here one of the grown daughters, Jordanne Dervaes is interviewed about the animals they keep in this space: goats, chickens and ducks!
One of the interesting points she makes here is that homesteading puts you in direct, daily symbiosis with the plants and animals — whether it’s convenient or not.
“Unfortunately it’s seen as a trend and not many people see it as a lifestyle. For us it’s a lifestyle. The animals have to be kept healthy and I have to dedicate and sacrifice for this in order for their health and our well-being. It’s not a hobby. It’s what we live off of. It’s up to the individual to really dedicate themselves to learning everything they can about the animals.” Says Jordanne Dervaes.
How beautiful, to be reminded that this level of profound interdependence with the animals and plants that support us IS still possible, and can be done on any plot of land in suburbia.
--Bibi Farber
This video was produced by UrbanFarmOnline.com
John Maynard Keynes and Economic Fascism
(Video Short)
Liberty’s Last Stand
By Robert F. Beaudine
On furthering the Capitalist versus Communist conflict
By Niki Raapana
Cultural Marxism
The Doom of Language
By Robert F. Beaudine
Verbal Engineering
The Philosophical Roots of the Social Sciences
The Science Behind the Social Sciences
The Frankfurt School
Tavistock
The Tyranny of the Social Sciences
Competition and Tolerance American-Style
Political Correctness
Higher Education American-Style
Sex American Style
The Doom of Language
The Schools and Values Clarification
By Berit Kjos
Renaissance Humanism:
History of Humanism with Ancient Renaissance Philosophers
History of Humanism with Ancient Renaissance Philosophers
History of Humanism
History of Atheism and Freethought
Human Resources
Social Engineering in the 20th Century
(Documentary Film)
Mind blowing documentary about the History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation made by corporations and government institutions such as CIA and the military using behaviourism theories, mind control techniques, dumbing down strategies and ideologic propaganda to find ways of controlling people throughout the 20th century.
You can find this one and more documentaries at:
Film by Scott Noble
We are all in danger. A police state control grid is being established in the United States. Now is the time for all lovers of liberty to stand together and speak out against the growing tyranny destroying our Republic. We WILL be victorious against the New World Order.
V IS FOR VICTORY—YOU ARE THE RESISTANCE!
You control our world. You’ve poisoned the air we breathe, contaminated the water we drink, and copyrighted the food we eat. We fight in your wars, die for your causes, and sacrifice our freedoms to protect you. You’ve liquidated our savings, destroyed our middle class, and used our tax dollars to bailout your unending greed. We are slaves to your corporations, zombies to your airwaves, servants to your decadence. You’ve stolen our elections, assassinated our leaders, and abolished our basic rights as human beings. You own our property, shipped away our jobs, and shredded our unions. You’ve profited off of disaster, destabilized our currencies, and raised our cost of living. You’ve monopolized our freedom, stripped away our education, and have almost extinguished our flame. We are hit… we are bleeding… but we ain’t got time to bleed. We will bring the giants to their knees and you will witness our revolution!
12 Very Disturbing Examples Of Radical Social Engineering By The U.S. Government
The Rise of the House of Rothschild
1770-1830
By Count Egon Caesar Conti
(1928)
Notes Towards a Critique of Money
By Georgios Papadopoulos
(2011)
The thing that differentiates animals and humans is money.
--Gertrude Stein
Crashes, Crises, and Calamities
How We Can Use Science to Read the Early Warning Signs
By Len Fisher
(2011)
The Economics of Enough
How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters
By Diane Coyle
(2011)
Where’s the Money to Come From??
Where does the money come from?
Published on Behalf of the Monetary Reform Policy Working Group of the Green Party of England and Wales
Brian Leslie
(2008)
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=13422b3404744a34&mt=application/pdf&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui%3D2%26ik%3Ddca63b2732%26view%3Datt%26th%3D13422b3404744a34%26attid%3D0.1%26disp%3Dsafe%26zw&sig=AHIEtbSPb8vT1t3v573r3zNucPV1G9e9XQ&pli=1
Swindled
The Dark History of Food Fraud, From Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee
By Bee Wilson
(2008)
The Vegetarian Myth
Food, Justice, and Sustainability
By Lierre Keith
(2009)
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.3&thid=13422b3404744a34&mt=application/pdf&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui%3D2%26ik%3Ddca63b2732%26view%3Datt%26th%3D13422b3404744a34%26attid%3D0.3%26disp%3Dsafe%26zw&sig=AHIEtbSVtYF7xhWUZOBJd_imfzEaTxoTVg
Seeds of Concern
The Genetic Manipulation of Plants
By David R. Murray
(2003)
Why Leaders Lie
The Truth about Lying in International Politics
By John J. Mearsheimer
(2011)
Plato – Complete Works
Edited by John M. Cooper
(1997)
The Templars
The History and the Myth
By Michael Haag
The Secret History of Freemasonry
Its Origins and Connections to the Knights Templar
By Paul Naudon
(2005)
The Homeschooling Revolution
By Isabel Lyman, Ph.D.
(2000)
The Brigade
By H. A. Covington
(2007)
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Time Magazine's December 5, 2011 | Vol. 178 No. 22 cover. Propaganda?
A NATIONAL POLICY DISCUSSION
Basement Team: What Is the Universe, That You Exist?
Peter Martinson: Defeating the Oligarchical Principle
Weatherwars.Info
"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts."
-- Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn
Scientism versus Liberty
By Tibor Machan
(The Daily Bell)
Gilad Atzmon: Desperate Dershowitz
Kiryas Joel: Theocracy in America?
David N. Myers is a professor and chair of the UCLA History Department. Nomi M. Stolzenberg is the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Professor at the USC Law School. They are writing a book on Kiryas Joel.
The Noahide Deception
(Documentary Film)
What You’ve Been Missing – Exposing the Noble Lie
(Documentary Film)
The Terror Within
(Documentary Film)
New Documentary Explores Brittany Murphy’s Untimely Death
On November 10, 2011 Brittany Murphy would have celebrated her 34th birthday. Instead, this day marks yet another painful reminder of her sudden death. Britt stole our hearts in “Clueless”, broke our hearts in “Girl, Interrupted”, stunned us with her talent for drama in “Don’t Say a Word”, entertained and dazzled us in “Just Married”, “King of the Hill” and “Happy Feet”. Britt’s life sparkled with endless potential. Her shocking death continues to be darkened by lingering questions.
This year brings a promise of unraveling the mystery of Brittany’s untimely demise. Fleur De Lis Film Studios recently announced an upcoming book, “Britt” that is being co-written by Brittany’s father, Angelo Bertolotti and Julia Davis. The book will shed the light on his daughter’s childhood, her meteoric rise to fame and tragic circumstances leading up to her death. Bertolotti and Davis also appear in the recently completed documentary film, “The Terror Within” that illuminates disturbing details of Brittany’s last days.
A team of individuals involved in the project are determined to continue pursuing every lead in Brittany’s story, leaving no stone unturned. “Brittany never hesitated to help others and stand up for what’s right. We will make sure that her memory isn’t tainted by false accusations any longer. Brittany was needlessly terrorized and slandered in life, but even in death her voice won’t be silenced. We won’t allow that to happen,” said Julia Davis.
“People may think they know what happened to my daughter, but they will be shocked to learn what really happened to Britt,” added Angelo Bertolotti. “The official version of the events is much different from the facts that remained in the dark – until now,” he asserts.
One of the little-known facts about Brittany Murphy is her participation as a witness in Julia Davis’ litigation against the Department of Homeland Security. After Brittany bravely provided a written statement in support of Julia Davis, she was targeted by the DHS/ICE. This included helicopter surveillance, wiretaps, an arrest in the middle of the night and an unsuccessful attempt to deport Brittany’s fiancé Simon Monjack, whom she later married.
Curiously, Brittany and Simon became subjects of a DEA investigation, an agency that was previously headed by Robert Bonner. As a former Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, Bonner was personally involved in the matter of Julia Davis v. Department of Homeland Security. The government was clearly using and abusing all the tools at their disposal to terrorize witnesses.
In her career, Brittany Murphy portrayed unusual characters and colorful lives. Her own life and death turned out to be much stranger than fiction. There is a lot to be revealed about Brittany’s romances, fears, betrayals and overwhelming forces that have irreparably shattered her promising life. “The Terror Within” and “Britt” strive to fill in the blanks, pulling down the covers from the unfinished canvas of Brittany Murphy’s life; interrupted, but never forgotten.
Channeling Reality
Vicky Davis
Foreign Entrepreneurs Cover for Subversive Activities
Channeling Reality
Vicky Davis
Extraordinary Times
Etheric
The time will inevitably come when mechanistic and atomic thinking will be put out of the minds of all people of wisdom, and instead dynamics and chemistry will come to be seen in all phenomena. When that happens, the divinity of living Nature will unfold before our eyes all the more clearly.
Johann von Goethe, 1812
At the closing of the last ice age our ancient ancestors endured one of the most lethal global catastrophes to have occurred in the course of human history. Intelligent minds of those times thought it imperative to construct a message that would endure through time and be understood by the descendants of those who survived. Employing sophisticated cryptographic puzzle techniques similar to those modern astronomers use in designing extraterrestrial communications, they created a time capsule message that described the elusive celestial cause of this tragic disaster, alerting us that it could recur at long intervals and arrive at Earth's doorstep virtually without warning.
This ancient cipher is today displayed in the heavens in the form of the 12 zodiac constellations (Greek / Egyptian / Babylonian versions), its informational content having been passed down orally in the lore of astrology. Also certain esoteric keys were handed down to help unlock its message, the Sphinx being one and the Tarot being the other.
This is not science fiction. The important archaeological discovery of this ancient cipher was first made in the mid to late 1970's at Portland State University by systems scientist and astronomer Dr. Paul A. LaViolette.
By passing through the Orion Nebula Sphinx Stargate, you will have the opportunity of experiencing the same thrill he did in deciphering the zodiac cryptogram and of solving the age-old riddle of the Sphinx. Some helpful information and hints are provided for this adventure. Also a compendium of essential background information for this task may be found in the books Genesis of the Cosmos and Earth Under Fire.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/monism
monism
n. Philosophy
- The view in metaphysics that reality is a unified whole and that all existing things can be ascribed to or described by a single concept or system.
- The doctrine that mind and matter are formed from, or reducible to, the same ultimate substance or principle of being.
monistic mo·nis'tic (mō-nĭs'tĭk, mŏ-) adj.
monistically mo·nis'ti·cal·ly adv.
In metaphysics, the doctrine that the world is essentially one substance or contains only one kind of substance. Monism is opposed both to dualism and to pluralism. Examples of monism include materialism, pantheism, and metaphysical idealism. See also Benedict de Spinoza.
Monism finds one where dualism finds two. Physicalism is the doctrine that everything that exists is physical, and is a monism contrasted with mind-body dualism; absolute idealism is the doctrine that the only reality consists in modifications of the Absolute. Parmenides and Spinoza each believed that there were philosophical reasons for supposing that there could only be one kind of self-subsistent, real thing. See also neutral monism.
monism (mō'nĭzəm) [Gr.,=belief in one], in metaphysics, term introduced in the 18th cent. by Christian von Wolff for any theory that explains all phenomena by one unifying principle or as manifestations of a single substance. Monistic theorists differ considerably in their choice of a basis of unification. It may be material, as with Ernst Haeckel, who took the substance, or energy, as the only reality. It may be spiritual, as with G. W. Hegel, to whom mind, or spirit, is the reality by which all is to be explained. Or, as in Spinoza, it may be a substance, or Deity, of which body and mind are attributes that are held in equipoise. The opposites of monism are dualism and pluralism.
reductionism
n.
An attempt or tendency to explain a complex set of facts, entities, phenomena, or structures by another, simpler set: "For the last 400 years science has advanced by reductionism ... The idea is that you could understand the world, all of nature, by examining smaller and smaller pieces of it. When assembled, the small pieces would explain the whole" (John Holland).
reductionist re·duc'tion·ist adj. & n.
reductionistic re·duc'tion·is'tic adj.
(reductivism) A reductionist holds that the facts or entities apparently needed to make true the statements of some area of discourse are dispensable in favour of some other facts or entities. Reductionism is one solution to the problem of the relationship between different sciences. Thus one might advocate reducing biology to chemistry, supposing that no distinctive biological facts exist, or chemistry to physics, supposing that no distinctive chemical facts exist (see also unity of science). Reductionist positions in philosophy include the belief that mental descriptions are made true purely by facts about behaviour (behaviourism), that statements about the external world are made true by facts about the structure of experience (phenomenalism), that statements about moral issues are really statements about natural facts (naturalism), and many others. Reductionism is properly speaking not a form of scepticism (for the claims in the reduced area may be true and known to be true: indeed, one purpose of the reduction will typically be to show how this is so). Nor is it necessarily a form of anti-realism (see realism/anti-realism), although it is often classified that way. Reductionist claims were popular in the earlier years of analytic philosophy, and were pursued by such writers as Russell and Carnap in the form of programmes of translating the theses from the target science or discourse into theses from the domain to which it was to be reduced. Subsequent recognition of the holism of meaning, and the apparent failure of these reductionist programmes, switched attention to other ways of obtaining the benefits of reduction without incurring the costs of providing the promised translations. See supervenience.
dialectic
n.
The art or practice of arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
The process especially associated with Hegel of arriving at the truth by stating a thesis,
developing a contradictory antithesis, and combining and resolving them into a coherent synthesis.
Hegel's critical method for the investigation of this process.
The Marxian process of change through the conflict of opposing forces, whereby a given contradiction is characterized by a primary and a secondary aspect, the secondary succumbing to the primary, which is then transformed into an aspect of a new contradiction. Often used in the plural with a singular or plural verb.
The Marxian critique of this process.
dialectics (used with a sing. verb) A method of argument or exposition that systematically weighs contradictory facts or ideas with a view to the resolution of their real or apparent contradictions.
The contradiction between two conflicting forces viewed as the determining factor in their continuing interaction.
[Middle English dialetik, from Old French dialetique, from Latin dialectica, logic, from Greek dialektikē (tekhnē), (art) of debate, feminine of dialektikos, from dialektos, speech, conversation. See dialect.]
dialectical di'a·lec'ti·cal or di'a·lec'tic adj.
dialectically di'a·lec'ti·cal·ly adv.
materialism
n.
Philosophy. The theory that physical matter is the only reality and that everything, including thought, feeling, mind, and will, can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena.
The theory or attitude that physical well-being and worldly possessions constitute the greatest good and highest value in life.
A great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
materialist ma·te'ri·al·ist n.
materialistic ma·te'ri·al·is'tic adj.
materialistically ma·te'ri·al·is'ti·cal·ly adv.
dialectical materialism
n.
The Marxian interpretation of reality that views matter as the sole subject of change and all change as the product of a constant conflict between opposites arising from the internal contradictions inherent in all events, ideas, and movements.
Hegelianism
n.
The monist, idealist philosophy of Hegel in which the dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis is used as an analytic tool in order to approach a higher unity or a new thesis.
Hegelian He·ge'li·an adj. & n.
Diversified philosophical movement that developed out of G. W. F. Hegel's system of thought. Four stages can be distinguished. The first consists of the Hegelian school in Germany in the period 1827 – 50. The school divided into three currents. The right, or "Old Hegelians," sought to uphold Hegelianism's compatibility with evangelical orthodoxy and conservative political policies. The left, or "Young Hegelians," interpreted Hegel's identification of the rational with the real in a revolutionary sense. The center preferred to fall back on interpretations of the Hegelian system in its genesis and significance. In the second phase (1850 – 1904), usually called Neo-Hegelian, the works of the center played a preponderant role. After Wilhelm Dilthey discovered unpublished papers from Hegel's youth in the early 20th century, there arose in Germany yet another movement; this third phase, the Hegel renaissance, stressed the reconstruction of the genesis of Hegel's thought. In the fourth stage, after World War II, the revival of Marxist studies in Europe finally thrust into the foreground the value of the Hegelian heritage for Marxism.
The history of Hegel's influence is complicated by conflicting elements within his own system. Until Feuerbach's Thoughts regarding Death and Immortality (1830), the torch was carried by the ‘Old Hegelians’ who emphasized the Christian and conservative elements in his writings. After Feuerbach and especially the Life of Jesus (1835) of D. F. Strauss, the denial of personal religion became more prominent. In politics the ‘New Hegelians’, including the young Marx, found in Hegel's dialectic the ammunition to assail the bourgeois, religious, monarchical social order, now revealed as only a moment in the forward development of history. Hegelianism as a self-conscious philosophy was transported to Britain with the publication of The Secret of Hegel by J. H. Stirling in 1865 and, transmuted into absolute idealism, became part of the dominant academic philosophy in Britain until attacked by Russell and Moore in Cambridge, and writers such as J. Cook-Wilson and H. H. Prichard at Oxford, at the beginning of the 20th century.
A peaceful revolution is also possible according to Hegel when the changes required to solve the crisis are ascertained by thoughtful insight and when this insight spreads throughout the body politic:
If a people [Volk] can no longer accept as implicitly true what its constitution expresses to it as the truth, if its consciousness or Notion and its actuality are not at one, then the people’s spirit is torn asunder. Two things may then occur. First, the people may either by a supreme internal effort dash into fragments this law which still claims authority, or it may more quietly and slowly effect changes on the yet operative law, which is, however, no longer true morality, but which the mind has already passed beyond. In the second place, a people’s intelligence and strength may not suffice for this, and it may hold to the lower law; or it may happen that another nation has reached its higher constitution, thereby rising in the scale, and the first gives up its nationality and becomes subject to the other. Therefore it is of essential importance to know what the true constitution is; for what is in opposition to it has no stability, no truth, and passes away. It has a temporary existence, but cannot hold its ground; it has been accepted, but cannot secure permanent acceptance; that it must be cast aside, lies in the very nature of the constitution. This insight can be reached through Philosophy alone. Revolutions take place in a state without the slightest violence when the insight becomes universal; institutions, somehow or other, crumble and disappear, each man agrees to give up his right. A government must, however, recognize that the time for this has come; should it, on the contrary, knowing not the truth, cling to temporary institutions, taking what — though recognized — is unessential, to be a bulwark guarding it from the essential (and the essential is what is contained in the Idea), that government will fall, along with its institutions, before the force of mind. The breaking up of its government breaks up the nation itself; a new government arises, — or it may be that the government and the unessential retain the upper hand.
Influence of Hegel
The far reaching influence of Hegel is due in a measure to the undoubted vastness of the scheme of philosophical synthesis which he conceived and partly realized. A philosophy which undertook to organize under the single formula of triadic development every department of knowledge, from abstract logic up to the philosophy of history, has a great deal of attractiveness to those who are metaphysically inclined. But Hegel's influence is due in a still larger measure to two extrinsic circumstances. His philosophy is the highest expression of that spirit of collectivism which characterized the nineteenth century. In theology especially Hegel revolutionized the methods of inquiry. The application of his notion of development to Biblical criticism and to historical investigation is obvious to anyone who compares the spirit and purpose of contemporary theology with the spirit and purpose of the theological literature of the first half of the nineteenth century.[citation needed] In science, too, and in literature, the substitution of the category of becoming for the category of being is a very patent fact, and is due to the influence of Hegel's method. In political economy and political science the effect of Hegel's collectivistic conception of the State supplanted to a large extent the individualistic conception which was handed down from the eighteenth century to the nineteenth.
Mercantilism
Economic theory and policy influential in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century that called for government regulation of a nation's economy in order to increase its power at the expense of rival nations. Though the theory existed earlier, the term was not coined until the 18th century; it was given currency by Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations (1776). Mercantilism's emphasis on the importance of gold and silver holdings as a sign of a nation's wealth and power led to policies designed to obtain precious metals through trade by ensuring "favourable" trade balances (see balance of trade), meaning an excess of exports over imports, especially if a nation did not possess mines or have access to them. In a favourable trade balance, payments for the goods or services had to be made with gold or silver. Colonial possessions were to serve as markets for exports and as suppliers of raw materials to the mother country, a policy that created conflict between the European colonial powers and their colonies, in particular fanning resentment of Britain in the North American colonies and helping bring about the American Revolution. Mercantilism favoured a large population to supply labourers, purchasers of goods, and soldiers. Thrift and saving were emphasized as virtues because they made possible the creation of capital. Mercantilism provided a favourable climate for the early development of capitalism but was later severely criticized, especially by advocates of laissez-faire, who argued that all trade was beneficial and that strict government controls were counterproductive.
Capitalism
Economic system in which most of the means of production are privately owned, and production is guided and income distributed largely through the operation of markets. Capitalism has been dominant in the Western world since the end of mercantilism. It was fostered by the Reformation, which sanctioned hard work and frugality, and by the rise of industry during the Industrial Revolution, especially the English textile industry (16th – 18th centuries). Unlike earlier systems, capitalism used the excess of production over consumption to enlarge productive capacity rather than investing it in economically unproductive enterprises such as palaces or cathedrals. The strong national states of the mercantilist era provided the social conditions, such as uniform monetary systems and legal codes, necessary for the rise of capitalism. The ideology of classical capitalism was expressed in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776), and Smith's free-market theories were widely adopted in the 19th century. In the 20th century the Great Depression effectively ended laissez-faire economics in most countries, but the demise of the state-run command economies of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (see communism) and the adoption of some free-market principles in China left capitalism unrivaled (if not untroubled) by the beginning of the 21st century.
Communism
A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
The Marxist-Leninist version of Communist doctrine that advocates the overthrow of capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat
The most familiar form of communism is that established by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution of 1917, and it has generally been understood in terms of the system practiced by the former Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe, in China in 1949, and in some developing countries such as Cuba, Vietnam, and North Korea. Communism embraced a revolutionary ideology in which the state would wither away after the overthrow of the capitalist system. In practice, however, the state grew to control all aspects of communist society.
Historically, the principle of communal ownership of all property; basic economic resources are held in common. Modern communism is grounded in the ideas of Karl Marx. He hoped to see a society with no socio-economic difference between, for example, manual and intellectual labour, or urban and rural life. Social relations would be regulated by the maxim, ‘from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs’. Centrally planned economies have been developed in accordance with this ideology and there have been many forms of communism, all supposedly seeking the classless society.
Socialism
Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy
The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved
System of social organization in which private property and the distribution of income are subject to social control; also, the political movements aimed at putting that system into practice. Because "social control" may be interpreted in widely diverging ways, socialism ranges from statist to libertarian, from Marxist to liberal. The term was first used to describe the doctrines of Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon, and Robert Owen, who emphasized noncoercive communities of people working noncompetitively for the spiritual and physical well-being of all (see utopian socialism). Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, seeing socialism as a transition state between capitalism and communism, appropriated what they found useful in socialist movements to develop their "scientific socialism." In the 20th century the Soviet Union was the principal model of strictly centralized socialism, while Sweden and Denmark were well known for their noncommunist socialism. See also collectivism; communitarianism; social democracy
A social system based on equality and social justice, once linked with common ownership of the means of production and distribution, but now become more fluid. Some writers consider that socialism is achieved when the major part of the means of production is owned by the state. In communist theory, socialism is the first stage on the road to full communism. It differs from communism in that it is attached to ethical and democratic values and because it allows both common and state ownership.
Communitarianism
Political and social philosophy that emphasizes the importance of community in the functioning of political life, in the analysis and evaluation of political institutions, and in understanding human identity and well-being. It was developed in the 1980s and '90s in explicit opposition to the theoretical liberalism of thinkers such as John Rawls. According to communitarians, liberalism relies on a conception of the individual that is unrealistically atomistic and abstract; it also places too much importance on individual values such as freedom and autonomy. Its chief representatives include Amitai Etzioni, Michael Sandel, and Charles Taylor. See also collectivism
Advocacy of a social order in which individuals are bound together by common values that foster close communal bonds. A label used loosely to describe the ideas of a number of writers particularly critical of modern liberal political thought, because of the importance they attach to ‘community’.
Hence an antagonism has been presented between communitarianism and liberalism, which may, however, be overdrawn. Frequently identified communitarians are Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Sandel, Michael Walzer, and Charles Taylor. The fundamental division is said to be about the nature of the self. Communitarianism insists upon the interaction of the social context and individuals' self-conceptions, while liberalism allegedly works with an atomized individual artificially if not incoherently divorced from his or her social surroundings.
The intellectual origins of communitarianism are various, but Hegel and the English Idealists, notably T. H. Green, provide important perspectives, because of Hegel's concept of sittlichkeitz, or the shared values of the community, and the English Idealists' emphasis on the obligations of citizenship.
The socialist tradition, notably through its concern with fraternity, and the anarchist tradition, with its focus on the possibility of community in the absence of state coercion, are also important. Ferdinand Tonnies's work on Community and Society drew attention to the value of community, and the threat posed to it by industrial society.
Fundamental questions about the desirable relationships between ‘the community’, ‘the nation’, and ‘the state’ remain intellectually contentious and hotly contested in practical politics.
Hence an antagonism has been presented between communitarianism and liberalism, which may, however, be overdrawn. Frequently identified communitarians are Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Sandel, Michael Walzer, and Charles Taylor. The fundamental division is said to be about the nature of the self. Communitarianism insists upon the interaction of the social context and individuals' self-conceptions, while liberalism allegedly works with an atomized individual artificially if not incoherently divorced from his or her social surroundings.
The intellectual origins of communitarianism are various, but Hegel and the English Idealists, notably T. H. Green, provide important perspectives, because of Hegel's concept of sittlichkeitz, or the shared values of the community, and the English Idealists' emphasis on the obligations of citizenship.
The socialist tradition, notably through its concern with fraternity, and the anarchist tradition, with its focus on the possibility of community in the absence of state coercion, are also important. Ferdinand Tonnies's work on Community and Society drew attention to the value of community, and the threat posed to it by industrial society.
Fundamental questions about the desirable relationships between ‘the community’, ‘the nation’, and ‘the state’ remain intellectually contentious and hotly contested in practical politics.
— Andrew Reeve
A model of political organization that stresses ties of affection, kinship, and a sense of common purpose and tradition, as opposed to the meagre morality of contractual ties entered into between a loose conglomeration of individuals. The contrast was originally offered by the German sociologist F. Tönnies (1855-1936) in his Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (1887, Engl. trs. published as Community and Association, 1955, and Community and Society, 1957). See also common good
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"THE GREAT WORK IN SPECULATIVE FREEMASONRY"
"There can be no rational doubt, however, that the moral influence of Freemasonry would be much more powerful and efficient if the sources of intelligence amongst the Fraternity were augmented, and a higher grade of science substituted for the meagre outline which at present prevails in our Lodges." (Dr. George Oliver-1846)
THROUGHOUT the ages the spiritual doctrine which is concealed within the architectural phraseology of our modern Craft system has undergone the influence of many different traditions of the Ancient Wisdom. The student, therefore, who seeks to analyse Freemasonry as it stands to-day often finds himself lost in a bewildering maze of various tributaries of knowledge, and is apt to pore indefinitely over a mass of fragmentary facts without perceiving their inter-relation, or being able to coordinate them into one comprehensive scheme.
In this Paper the attempt will be made to present, for the guidance of Masonic students, an interpretation of the Egyptian metaphysical tradition in harmony with the teachings set forth in what are called the Mysteries; the Egyptian tradition will then be briefly discussed in the light of its transmission and ultimate incorporation in Speculative Freemasonry; finally, reasons will be given in support of the theory, which we hold to be valid, that the Great Work ("Magnum Opus") of the Rosicrucians and Spiritual Alchemists is the same as that which is symbolised in our Masonic legend of H.A. Thoughtful students may find in the references to the Old Wisdom and the Mystery tradition an introduction to a great subject; nor should the Mysteries be thought of only as institutions long vanished into the night of time; rather their re-establishment is to be accepted as inevitable. In years to come a wiser generation will restore the sacred rites which are indispensable to the spiritual, intellectual and social security of the race. Meanwhile, preserving the witness, Freemasonry keeps burning the light of the perpetual Mysteries in a dark age. If, in comparison with former witnesses, Freemasonry is but a "glimmering ray" rather than a powerful beam of light, it is none the less a true ray; a kindly light lit from the world's central altar-flame, and sufficient at least to lead some aspirants on amid the encircling gloom until the existing "state of darkness" is dispelled by the dawn of a new era.
The Real Reason for Obama’s Threat to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill
Obama Wants to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill Because It Would Hold the U.S. to the Geneva Convention
I – like everyone else – am horrified by the Senate’s passage of legislation that would allow for indefinite detention of Americans.
And at first, I – like many others – assumed that Obama’s threat to veto the bill might be a good thing. But the truth is much more disturbing.
As former Wall Street editor and columnist Paul Craig Roberts correctly notes:
The Obama regime’s objection to military detention is not rooted in concern for the constitutional rights of American citizens. The regime objects to military detention because the implication of military detention is that detainees are prisoners of war. As Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin put it: Should somebody determined “to be a member of an enemy force who has come to this nation or is in this nation to attack us as a member of a foreign enemy, should that person be treated according to the laws of war? The answer is yes.”
Detainees treated according to the laws of war have the protections of the Geneva Conventions. They cannot be tortured. The Obama regime opposes military detention, because detainees would have some rights. These rights would interfere with the regime’s ability to send detainees to CIA torture prisons overseas. [Yes, Obama is still apparently allowing "extraordinary renditions" to torture people abroad.] This is what the Obama regime means when it says that the requirement of military detention denies the regime “flexibility.”
The Bush/Obama regimes have evaded the Geneva Conventions by declaring that detainees are not POWs, but “enemy combatants,” “terrorists,” or some other designation that removes all accountability from the US government for their treatment.
By requiring military detention of the captured, Congress is undoing all the maneuvering that two regimes have accomplished in removing POW status from detainees.
A careful reading of the Obama regime’s objections to military detention supports this conclusion. See:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/112/saps1867s_20111117.pdf
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/112/saps1867s_20111117.pdf
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Statism and Snobbery
By Joel Wade
Satisfaction and happiness in life is significantly dependent upon an individual's ability to make things happen effectively in his or her life. Having activities that you can focus on, act on and engage in competently and effectively is part of what makes life worth living. The ability to choose activities that matter to you, that make life worth living and that you are truly capable of performing well is fundamental to a happy life.
This is true for everyone, not just those above a certain IQ, or those who have graduated from college at an elite university.
Now let me state a basic truth of human nature: We tend to like to be with people like ourselves. We who politically and philosophically value individual liberty tend to enjoy the company of like-minded folks. People who politically and philosophically value an intrusive administrative state also like to be together with like-minded folks.
People who like a simpler life like to be with others with similar inclinations; and people who enjoy more complicated intellectual challenges tend to like to be with other folks who think like they do.
There is also a tendency to want to have more people with whom you can relate – which is part of the desire to "convert" people from their different way of thinking to your own.
So we now have an elite in politics, media and academia who not only share a common ideology but who have also mostly attended college, many of the more outspoken having attended elite universities such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc.
They want us to be like them. They think that their way of living, their values, their level of intellect, their interests are really good; and they want us all to join them there.
The trouble is, for most of us, where they live is not where we belong, where we would be comfortable or interested in living. They don't get it that there are a lot of people who don't want to be like them.
The big problem is that today, that simple fact of life has become an issue of morality. If you do not graduate from college, if you do not work in a profession and if you do not share the statist values that predominate in the population of those who have chosen such a life course, there is now a moral judgment that goes with that choice.
This is part of the condescension and derision from the media and the pundits directed at people who would dismantle any portion of the gargantuan administrative state that America has become. Anyone who would propose decreasing the power of the state to improve humanity must not understand the more enlightened vision of the statists; and so they must be stupid, or ignorant, or they must not care about humanity.
Production of useful work is limited by the laws of thermodynamics, but the production of useless work seems to be unlimited.
—Donald Simanek
"It may be perpetual motion, but it will take forever to test it."
We can't claim to fully understand what science is until we know what it is not. The science/pseudoscience interface can help us understand both the strengths and the self-imposed constraints of science. Science is a self-correcting process, continually weeding out errors of thought and errors of methodology, thereby narrowing the region where truth may reside. While science claims no absolute truths, it has accumulated a larger body of reliable and testable understanding of nature than any other method of human inquiry.
The human imagination is a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, we have the ability to imagine many things which just aren't so. The universe has no obligation to behave as we'd like, or even to be understandable to our minds.
The Museum of Unworkable Devices. Perpetual motion puzzles. Machines as physics.
Intelligent Design Creationism: Fraudulent Science, Bad Philosophy.
Myths and Mysteries of Science. Removing the mystery.
Cutting Edge Science. Profundity or parody?
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Why Russia is Backing Syria
The Occult Magic of the Jewish Cabala
By Texe Marrs
He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here...?
Kabbalism is a system of Jewish mysticism and magic and is the foundational element in modern witchcraft. Virtually all of the great witches and sorcerers of this century were Kabbalists.
In the decades of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, the hottest spiritual trend was the New Age movement. As we move forward through the first decade of the 21st century, the latest cure-all spiritual phenomenon bought by the gullible masses seems to be the Jewish Cabala (or Kabbalah). The newfound popularity of this end-time sorcery is not by accident. Its emergence is a carefully planned Illuminati event.
The Cabala is not new. It’s been around for centuries. The Cabala is actually ancient magic. It is an exotic blend of devilish, sometimes fanciful, New Age mystical practices topped by a philosophical bent of Jewish supremacism. Orthodox Judaism, or phariseeism, is rife with cabalism, and Jewish rabbis are the Cabala’s greatest promoters.
"THE GREAT WORK IN SPECULATIVE FREEMASONRY"
"There can be no rational doubt, however, that the moral influence of Freemasonry would be much more powerful and efficient if the sources of intelligence amongst the Fraternity were augmented, and a higher grade of science substituted for the meagre outline which at present prevails in our Lodges." (Dr. George Oliver-1846)
THROUGHOUT the ages the spiritual doctrine which is concealed within the architectural phraseology of our modern Craft system has undergone the influence of many different traditions of the Ancient Wisdom. The student, therefore, who seeks to analyse Freemasonry as it stands to-day often finds himself lost in a bewildering maze of various tributaries of knowledge, and is apt to pore indefinitely over a mass of fragmentary facts without perceiving their inter-relation, or being able to coordinate them into one comprehensive scheme.
In this Paper the attempt will be made to present, for the guidance of Masonic students, an interpretation of the Egyptian metaphysical tradition in harmony with the teachings set forth in what are called the Mysteries; the Egyptian tradition will then be briefly discussed in the light of its transmission and ultimate incorporation in Speculative Freemasonry; finally, reasons will be given in support of the theory, which we hold to be valid, that the Great Work ("Magnum Opus") of the Rosicrucians and Spiritual Alchemists is the same as that which is symbolised in our Masonic legend of H.A. Thoughtful students may find in the references to the Old Wisdom and the Mystery tradition an introduction to a great subject; nor should the Mysteries be thought of only as institutions long vanished into the night of time; rather their re-establishment is to be accepted as inevitable. In years to come a wiser generation will restore the sacred rites which are indispensable to the spiritual, intellectual and social security of the race. Meanwhile, preserving the witness, Freemasonry keeps burning the light of the perpetual Mysteries in a dark age. If, in comparison with former witnesses, Freemasonry is but a "glimmering ray" rather than a powerful beam of light, it is none the less a true ray; a kindly light lit from the world's central altar-flame, and sufficient at least to lead some aspirants on amid the encircling gloom until the existing "state of darkness" is dispelled by the dawn of a new era.
The Real Reason for Obama’s Threat to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill
Obama Wants to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill Because It Would Hold the U.S. to the Geneva Convention
I – like everyone else – am horrified by the Senate’s passage of legislation that would allow for indefinite detention of Americans.
And at first, I – like many others – assumed that Obama’s threat to veto the bill might be a good thing. But the truth is much more disturbing.
As former Wall Street editor and columnist Paul Craig Roberts correctly notes:
The Obama regime’s objection to military detention is not rooted in concern for the constitutional rights of American citizens. The regime objects to military detention because the implication of military detention is that detainees are prisoners of war. As Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin put it: Should somebody determined “to be a member of an enemy force who has come to this nation or is in this nation to attack us as a member of a foreign enemy, should that person be treated according to the laws of war? The answer is yes.”
Detainees treated according to the laws of war have the protections of the Geneva Conventions. They cannot be tortured. The Obama regime opposes military detention, because detainees would have some rights. These rights would interfere with the regime’s ability to send detainees to CIA torture prisons overseas. [Yes, Obama is still apparently allowing "extraordinary renditions" to torture people abroad.] This is what the Obama regime means when it says that the requirement of military detention denies the regime “flexibility.”
The Bush/Obama regimes have evaded the Geneva Conventions by declaring that detainees are not POWs, but “enemy combatants,” “terrorists,” or some other designation that removes all accountability from the US government for their treatment.
By requiring military detention of the captured, Congress is undoing all the maneuvering that two regimes have accomplished in removing POW status from detainees.
A careful reading of the Obama regime’s objections to military detention supports this conclusion. See: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/112/saps1867s_20111117.pdf
Infraspect
“The Liberty to associate, assemble and interface with one another is not a legislative, judicial, legal or administrative concept or invention of government. These expressions of natural personality are immutably promised to succeeding generations of natural human beings, absent of trepidation and fear. Whether by grace, decreed by vote of State, or self declaration, the sovereignty of the individual natural person is empirically acknowledged.”
--William Blair
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