“A nation can survive
its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his
banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly
whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government
itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar
to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to
the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a
nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of
a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer
is less to be feared.”
--Cicero, 42 BC
Want To Know.info
Behavior Modification
Major Media News
Articles on Behavior Modification
"In
all, the agency [CIA] conducted 149 separate mind-control experiments,
and as many as 25 involved unwitting subjects. At least one participant
died, others went mad, and still others suffered psychological damage
after participating in the project, known as MK Ultra. The C.I.A. ...
deliberately destroyed most of the MKUltra records in 1973."
-- New York Times article on the CIA's secret behavior modification program
-- New York Times article on the CIA's secret behavior modification program
Below are many highly revealing excerpts of key government documents and major media news articles on behavior modification and mind control suggesting a major cover-up. Links are provided to the full articles on major media websites. Very few are aware of these disturbing programs, which almost certainly continue to this day in deep black projects being secretly carried out by intelligence agencies. For what you can do to help change this, see the "What you can do" box at the end of this summary. By choosing to educate ourselves on these important issues and to spread the word, we can and will build a brighter future.
Note:
For an excellent information center filled with reliable, verifiable
resources on secret government behavior modification and mind control
programs, click here. And for an index to revealing excerpts of key news articles on several dozen engaging topics besides behavior modification, click here.
http://www.answers.com/topic/frederick-winslow-taylor
F.W. Taylor
(born March 20, 1856, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.died March 21, 1915, Philadelphia) U.S. inventor and engineer. He worked at Midvale Steel Co. (187890), where he introduced time-and-motion study in order to systematize shop management and reduce manufacturing costs. Though his system provoked resentment and opposition from labour when carried to extremes, it had an immense impact on the development of mass production techniques and has influenced the development of virtually every modern industrial country. Taylor is regarded as the father of scientific management. production management; Taylorism.
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) consolidated a system of managerial authority, often referred to as scientific management, that encouraged a shift in knowledge of production from the workers to the managers.
His system broke up industrial production into very small and highly regulated steps and required that workers obey the instructions of managers concerning the proper way to perform these very specific steps. Taylor determined these steps through careful scientific observations, his most significant individual contribution to scientific management. He used these observations to compare the pace at which various workers completed tasks. Taylor's system of management atomized, or separated workers from each other. Workers in his system were given highly detailed work instructions that Taylor's scientific studies had determined to be the very best - that is most efficient - way to perform the specific, isolated, task. Workers became parts of a larger machine and they were expected to understand that their interests were in accord with the interests of managers. This "mental revolution" of interests was, Taylor believed, the most significant contribution of scientific management, in that it reduced management-worker strife.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jejune
jejune
adjective
1.
without interest or
significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
2.
juvenile; immature;
childish: jejune behavior.
3.
lacking knowledge or
experience; uninformed: jejune attempts to design a house.
4.
deficient or lacking
in nutritive value: a jejune diet.
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Origin:
1605–15; < Latin
jējūnus empty, poor, mean
Related forms
je·june·ly, adverb
je·june·ness,
je·ju·ni·ty, noun
Can be confused:
jejune, juvenile
picaresque
adj.
Of or involving
clever rogues or adventurers.
Of or relating to a
genre of usually satiric prose fiction originating in Spain and depicting in
realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social
degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society.
n.
One that is
picaresque.
[French, from Spanish
picaresco, from pícaro, picaro. See picaro.]
Early form of the novel, usually a first-person narrative, relating
the episodic adventures of a rogue or lowborn adventurer (Spanish, pcaro). The
hero drifts from place to place and from one social milieu to another in an
effort to survive. The genre originated in Spain and had its prototype in Mateo
Alemn's Guzmn de Alfarache (1599). It
appeared in various European literatures until the mid-18th century, when the
growth of the realistic novel led to its decline. Because of the opportunities
for satire they present, picaresque elements enriched many later novels, such
as Nikolay Gogol's Dead Souls (1842),
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1884),
and Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix
Krull (1954).
Picaresque novel [pik‐ă‐resk], in the strict sense, a novel with a
picaroon (Spanish, picaró: a rogue or scoundrel) as its hero or heroine,
usually recounting his or her escapades in a first‐person narrative marked by
its episodic structure and realistic low‐life descriptions. The picaroon is
often a quick‐witted servant who takes up with a succession of employers. The
true Spanish picaresque novel is represented by the anonymous Lazarillo de
Tormes (1554) and by Mateo Alemán's more widely influential Guzmán de Alfarache (1599–1604); its
imitators include Johann Grimmelhausen's Simplicissimus
(1669) in German, Alain‐René Lesage's Gil Blas (1715–35) in French, and Daniel
Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722) in
English. In the looser sense now more frequently used, the term is applied to
narratives that do not have a picaroon as their central character, but are
loosely structured as a sequence of episodes united only by the presence of the
central character, who is often involved in a long journey: Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605), Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749), and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
are examples of novels that are referred to as being wholly or partly
picaresque in this sense, while Byron's narrative poem Don Juan (1819–24) is a rare case of a picaresque story in verse.
automation
Automation is the use
of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human
work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of
industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas
mechanization provides human operators with machinery to assist them with the
muscular requirements of work, automation greatly decreases the need for human
sensory and mental requirements as well. Automation plays an increasingly
important role in the world economy and in daily experience.
Automation has had a
notable impact in a wide range of industries beyond manufacturing (where it
began). Once-ubiquitous telephone operators have been replaced largely by
automated telephone switchboards and answering machines. Medical processes such
as primary screening in electrocardiography or radiography and laboratory
analysis of human genes, sera, cells, and tissues are carried out at much
greater speed and accuracy by automated systems. Automated teller machines have
reduced the need for bank visits to obtain cash and carry out transactions. In
general, automation has been responsible for the shift in the world economy
from industrial jobs to service jobs in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The term automation,
inspired by the earlier word automatic (coming from automaton), was not widely
used before 1947, when General Motors established the automation department. At
that time automation technologies were electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and
pneumatic. Between 1957 and 1964 factory output nearly doubled while the number
of blue collar workers started to decline.
outline of automation
proxemics
Proxemics is a
subcategory of the study of nonverbal communication along with haptics (touch),
kinesics (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics (structure of
time). Proxemics can be defined as "the interrelated observations and
theories of man’s use of space as a specialized elaboration of culture”. Edward
T. Hall, the cultural anthropologist who coined the term in 1963, emphasized
the impact of proxemic behavior (the use of space) on interpersonal
communication. Hall believed that the value in studying proxemics comes from
its applicability in evaluating not only the way man interacts with others in
his daily life, but also "the organization of space in his houses and
buildings, and ultimately the layout of his towns.
In animals, Swiss
zoologist Heini Hediger had distinguished between flight distance (run
boundary), critical distance (attack boundary), personal distance (distance
separating members of non-contact species, as a pair of swans), and social
distance (intraspecies communication distance). Hall reasoned that, with very
few exceptions, flight distance and critical distance have been eliminated in
human reactions, and thus interviewed hundreds of people to determine modified
criteria for human interactions.
teleology
(Greek, telos, end)
The study of the ends or purposes of things. The idea that there is such a
thing as the end or purpose of life is prominent in the Aristotelian view of
nature (and ethics), and then in the Christian tradition. The association with
moral thought is visible in the idea that correct human living is in accordance
with natural law, or in the idea that human nature can only fulfil its purpose
through the exercise of virtue. The theory of evolution through natural
selection allows speculation about the function for which particular things are
adapted, and so permits assertions about the purpose an adaptation serves,
without any commitment to the idea of a designer who put it there for a
purpose, and without the unscientific belief that the future utility of a
feature somehow brings about its existence by a kind of backward causation.
Teleology free of these implications is sometimes called teleonomy. The
teleology of a feature may have metaphysical implications: thus one might
(controversially) suggest that our spatial vision is for success at coping with
a spatial world, whereas colour vision may not be for success at coping with a
coloured world, but adapted to the skillful tracking of surfaces through
changes of light, and this would be a way of defending a primary/secondary
quality distinction. See also function (biological).
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A teleology is any
philosophical account which holds that final causes exist in nature, meaning
that design and purpose analogous to that found in human actions are inherent
also in the rest of nature. The word comes from the Greek τέλος, telos; root:
τελε-, "end, purpose" (not to be confused with τῆλε, “at a distance,
far from”). The adjective "teleological" has a broader usage, for
example in discussions where particular ethical theories or types of computer
programs are sometimes described as teleological because they involve aiming at
goals.
Teleology was
explored by Plato and Aristotle, by Saint Anselm around 1000 AD, and later by
Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgment.
It was fundamental to the speculative philosophy of Hegel.
A thing, process or
action is teleological when it is for the sake of an end, i.e., a telos or
final cause. In general it may be said that there are two types of final
causes, which may be called intrinsic finality and extrinsic finality.
A thing or action has an extrinsic finality
when it is for the sake of something external to itself. In a way, people
exhibit extrinsic finality when they seek the happiness of a child. If the
external thing had not existed that action would not display finality.
A thing or action has an intrinsic finality
when it is for none other than its own sake. For example, one might try to be
happy simply for the sake of being happy, and not for the sake of anything
outside of that.
In modern science
teleological explanations tend to be deliberately avoided since the Novum Organum of Francis Bacon, because
whether they are true or false is argued to be beyond the ability of human
perception and understanding to judge. Some disciplines, in particular within
evolutionary biology, are still prone to use language that appears teleological
when they describe natural tendencies towards certain end conditions; but these
arguments can almost always be rephrased in non-teleological forms.
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5 Maxims of Law
· Every man is
presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his own voluntary
acts.
· He who seeks the
benefit must stand to the burden.
· The agreement of
the parties makes the law of the contract.
· The agreement of
the parties overrides the law.
· No injury is done
by things long acquiesced in… because long sufferance… is construed as consent.
Next World TV /
Innovations
Biomimicry: Making Cement
the Way Coral Does It
The creation of
cement is an incredibly polluting process, but Stanford scientist Bret Constanz
has found a way to mimic the way coral works, by creating cement from CO2 and
water.
What a fascinating
concept -- that corals might teach us to make eco-friendly building materials!
What can we learn from them?
"Building reefs,
the corals have developed an incredible ability to calcify. They’re the most
prolific mineralizers on the planet. They form great structures like the Great
Barrier Reef. In doing so, they’re able to make more mineral than any other
organism we’ve ever seen. They’ve adapted specialized structures. In
biomimicking what corals do, we’re really trying to mimic, in some cases, how
they can mineralize so rapidly, so prolifically, to make the largest biological
structures on the planet, like the Great Barrier Reef." Bret Constanz
explains in this video.
For those of you who
want a deeper scientific explanation of the process, the following is from http://earthsky.org/biomimicry/brent-constantz-builds-cement-like-coral-do
What’s the simplest
way you could explain your process of taking CO2 and making concrete from it?
Brent Constanz:
"There’s a natural interaction between CO2, which is a gas, and water.
They come into equilibrium together and the CO2 is dissolved in water. The
colder the water is, the more CO2 is dissolved into it. This forms another
molecule, CO3, which we call carbonate. It’s the carbonate in carbonated water.
The higher the concentration of CO2, the more carbonate you form. When we
interact water with something with very high concentrations of CO2, like the
flue gas of a power plant, we get much, much more CO2 dissolved in water to
form carbonate.
That’s what Calera
does. Across the street here at Moss Landing, there’s a 110 foot high absorber
– it’s just a vertical carwash, which is spraying sea water through this big,
vertical column. At the base of the column comes the flue gas from this power
plant. It comes up from the base of the column, and it goes up and goes over
the top. On its way out, with the sea water spraying through it, that same
reaction occurs. The CO2 goes to CO3 as it dissolves in the water.
Sea water has
calcium. When the calcium sees the carbonate, you form calcium carbonate, the
solid. That’s what limestone is. That’s how corals form their shells. So that’s
the basic process. The solids that form – it looks like milk – fall to the
bottom and are separated. They’re dried out using the waste heat from the hot
flue gas. There’s a way to trap the heat of the hot flue gas – it’s called a
heat exchanger – so there’s no burning of fossil fuel to dry it out. That
produces a powder in a spray dryer, which is akin to a machine making powdered
milk. And that is the cement. The cement can be used to make aggregate,
synthetic rock like synthetic limestone, or it can be kept dry as a cement and
used in a concrete formulation."
--Bibi Farber
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This is a drawing
shown on a daily basis with reports from the trial in Norway's largest
"news" paper Aftenposten.
Breivik a False Flag to
Discredit the Right
Breivik is a Freemason
Doing his Bit to Advance Communism by Pretending to Oppose It
40,000 Norwegians Mock Killer with Marxist Song He Hates
"Thousands Gather in Norway Thursday to Denounce Breivik"
(and everything he supposedly stands for!)
Anders Breivik's mass
murder of leftist students is a false flag intended to discredit the
nationalist causes he pretends to espouse.
The demonstration
Thursday is a form of mass brainwashing that consolidates support for
multiculturalism, socialism and world government. This is why this mass
murderer is still alive and is being treated with kid gloves.
Essentially it is the
same tactic used on Jews or Americans (9-11): Mobilize and manipulate by false
flag attacks by their "enemies."
By Anne
(henrymakow.com)
I could not pass this
one up. The media circus in Oslo around the trial of the century has left me
speechless, but not surprised. 7/22 was the excuse to clamp down further on the
"free" folks in Norway, just like 9/11 here. Then this in today's
paper - the irony was just too much. Link is for visual effect.
How to brainwash a
population and make them believe they are as free as a bird while under
complete control by their so-called leaders. It's a piece of cake in Norway.
Breivik in Masonic
regalia
The "lone
nut" and accused killer of the July 22, 2011 massacre in Norway, Anders
Behring Breivik, had the audacity to claim in court that Pete Seeger's song
"My Rainbow Race" is an example of Marxist indoctrination of
children. This is how he marshals support for diversity, socialism and world
government.
A call to arms was
advertised and around 40,000 in Oslo answered and met downtown to protest this
claim, not realizing they are being brainwashed. They all are indoctrinated
from cradle to grave. The irony of it all.
The arms were
innocent enough; roses everywhere and everyone singing "My Rainbow
Race" both in Norwegian and English. That will teach the "lone
nut".......maybe not. The same scene unfolded in another two dozen cities
across the country. Jens Stoltenberg, the esteemed prime minister, twittered a
"thank you to the world's most beautiful rose choir".
The crowd claimed
they were taking back the song. No report of a response from Pete Seeger yet,
perhaps too soon.
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Makow comment:
Clearly Breivik's assignment, much like Hitler's was to discredit the causes he
pretends to espouse. Masons are pro-Marxist. Illuminati insider Christian
Rakowsky said the real aim of Freemasonry is "create
all the required prerequisites for the triumph of the Communist
revolution."
Activist Post
The Next US President
Will Be....
.... The Fortune 500.
Why no matter who you vote for, nothing will ever change.
By Tony Cartalucci,
Contributor
President George
Bush, President Barack Obama, and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney all work for
the exact same handful of corporate-financier interests. While they vary in how
they dress up their methods of carrying out what is essentially a singular
agenda, there is glaring continuity from one administration to the next in a
process analogous to a corporate spokesman presenting the agenda of the board
of directors. Changing spokesmen doesn't change the agenda of the board of
directors.
While the corporate
media focuses on non-issues, and political pundits accentuate petty political
rivalries between the "left" and the "right," a look deeper
into presidential cabinets and the authors of domestic and foreign policy
reveals just how accurate this analogy is and who sits on the "board of
directors."
Image: Professional
spokesmen and representatives of Fortune 500 multinational corporations and
banks. Since the time of JP Morgan 100 years ago, the corporate-financier elite
saw themselves as being above government, and national sovereignty as merely a
regulatory obstacle they could lobby, bribe, and manipulate out of existence.
In the past 100 years, the monied elite have gone from manipulating the
presidency to now reducing the office to a public relations functionary of
their collective interests.
George Bush's cabinet
consisted of representatives from FedEx, Boeing, the Council on Foreign
Relations, big-oil's Belfer Center at Harvard, the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS), Circuit City, Verizon, Cerberus Capital
Management, Goldman Sachs, and the RAND Corporation, among many others.
Image: The Henry
Jackson Society is just one of many Neo-Conservative think-tanks, featuring
many of the same people and of course, the same corporate sponsors. Each
think-tank puts on a different public face and focuses on different areas of
specialty despite harboring the same "experts" and corporate
sponsors.
His foreign policy
was overtly dictated by "Neo-Conservatives" including Richard Perle,
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey,
Richard Armitage, Zalmay Khalilzad, Elliot Abrams, Frank Gaffney, Eliot Cohen,
John Bolton, Robert Kagan, Francis Fukuyama, William Kristol, and Max Boot -
all of whom hold memberships within a myriad of Fortune 500-funded think-tanks
that to this day still direct US foreign policy - even under a "liberal"
president. These include the Brookings Institution, the International Crisis
Group, the Foreign Policy Initiative, the Henry Jackson Society, the Council on
Foreign Relations, and many more.
Image: A visual
representation of some of the Brookings Institution's corporate sponsors.
Brookings is by no means an exception, but rather represents the incestuous
relationship between US foreign and domestic policy making and the Fortune 500
found in every major "think-tank." Elected US representatives charged
with legislative duties, merely rubber stamp the papers and policies drawn up
in these think-tanks.
Obama's cabinet
likewise features representatives from JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, the Council on
Foreign Relations, Fortune 500 representatives Covington & Burling,
Citigroup, Freddie Mac, and defense contractor Honeywell. Like Bush's cabinet,
foreign policy is not penned by Obama sitting behind his desk in the Oval
Office, but rather by the very same think-tanks that directed Bush's presidency
including the Council on Foreign Relations, RAND Corporation, the Brookings
Institution, the International Crisis Group, and the Chatham House. There are
also a myriad of smaller groups consisting of many of the same members and
corporate sponsors, but who specialize in certain areas of interest.
Image: A visual
representation of current US President Barack Obama's cabinet's
corporate-financier ties past and present. As can be plainly seen, many of the
same corporate-financier interests represented in Obama's administration were
also represented in Bush's administration.
And with Mitt Romney,
the likely Republican candidate running for president against Obama in 2012, we
see already his foreign policy advisers, Michael Chertoff, Eliot Cohen, Paula
Dobrainsky, Eric Edelman, and Robert Kagan, represent the exact same people and
corporate-funded think-tanks devising strategy under both President Bush and
President Obama.
While Presidents Bush
and Obama attempted to portray the West's global military expansion as a series
of spontaneous crises, in reality, since at least as early as 1991, the nations
of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and many others that
previously fell under the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, were slated
either for political destabilization and overthrow, or overt military
intervention. While the public was fed various narratives explaining why Bush
conducted two wars within the greater global "War on Terror," and why
Obama eagerly expanded these wars while starting new ones in Libya and now
Syria, in reality we are seeing "continuity of agenda," dictated by
corporate-financier elite, rubber stamped by our elected representatives, and
peddled to us by our "leaders," who in reality are nothing more than
spokesmen for the collective interests of the Fortune 500.
Image: The
International Crisis Group's corporate sponsors reveal a pattern of
mega-multinationals intertwined with not only creating and directing US, and
even European foreign policy, but in carrying it out. ICG trustee Kofi Annan is
in Syria now carrying out a ploy to buy time for NATO-backed terrorists so they
can be rearmed, reorganized, and redeployed against the Syrian government for
another Western-backed attempt at regime change - all done under the guise of
promoting "peace."
No matter who you
vote for in 2012 - until we change the balance of power currently tipped in
favor of the Fortune 500, fed daily by our money, time, energy, and attention,
nothing will change but the rhetoric with which this singular agenda is sold to
the public. Romney would continue exactly where Obama left off, just as Obama
continued exactly where Bush left off. And even during the presidencies of Bill
Clinton and Bush Sr., it was the same agenda meted out by the same
corporate-financier interests that have been driving American, and increasingly
Western destiny, since US Marine General Smedley Butler wrote "War is a
Racket" in 1935.
A clear pattern
should be apparent. The influence of corporate-financiers transcends more than
presidencies, but contaminates all aspects of modern society including what is
often called "non-governmental organizations" or NGOs. Modern NGOs
are entirely funded and centrally directed by Fortune 500 corporations to carry
their neo-imperial agenda to the four corners of the globe under the guise of
the very best of intentions. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), for
instance, portends to be "supporting freedom around the world." A
quick look at their board of directors reveals they are in fact drawn from
big-oil, big-banking, and defense contracting boards of directors,
Neo-Conservative warmongering think-tanks, corporate lobbyists, and US State
Department functionaries, past and present.
Image: A visual
representation of the National Endowment for Democracy's corporate-financier
ties. It is not freedom they are interested in "supporting around the
world," but rather the interests of the corporations and institutions
their board of directors represents.
NED was central in
funding, training, and directing mobs of protesters across the Arab World
during the 2011 US-engineered "Arab Spring," only to see US proxies
put into power where these mobs successfully toppled governments or led to
violence and foreign military intervention that successfully implemented regime
change. Tunisia and Libya both have overt, long-time associates of the West now
in power, while similar proxies are fighting to take power in Egypt as well as
battling for control over Syria. It then becomes obvious that it is not
"freedom" NED is supporting worldwide, but rather the
corporate-financier hegemony of the Fortune 500.
Image: NED, Freedom
House, and the US State Department don't just reflect the interests of the
Fortune 500, they actively carry them out, many times using the resources and
reach of these very interests to implement global policy. The Alliance for
Youth Movements (AYM) starting in 2008 began recruiting, networking, training,
funding, and equipping armies of "activists" from around the world to
prepare for the "spontaneous" Arab Spring in 2011.
And the very shell
organizations created to train NED's mobs, including the US State Department's
Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM), was likewise funded by a myriad of Fortune
500 corporate-financier interests and attended and directed by representatives
of these corporate interests.
The various business
councils within the US Chamber of Commerce are also directed by the very same
corporate interests directing both the US Presidency and carrying out their
agenda through US-funded organizations like NED. The US-Qatar Business Council
is one such example, whose representatives sit on the Washington D.C. based
Middle East Policy Council alongside the UN's Karen Koning AbuZayd. AbuZayd was
charged with compiling human rights reports in regards to Syria. Clearly she is
the subject of a gross conflict of interests exposing yet again how US and even
Western policy is not directed by presidents, prime ministers, or legislative
branches, but rather by cadres of corporate-financiers and their
representatives who have infiltrated every institution in Western society and
even contrived a few of their own to perpetuate their agenda.
While there are a
number of reasons to vote - including to simply write in the names of
candidates to show dissatisfaction with the predetermined choices presented
before us - we must recognize that voting alone will not change anything. And
as the Occupy Wall Street movement has taught us, while our leaders demand
nations like Libya and Syria allow their people to roam the streets armed and
terrorizing the population, they have no intention of allowing even peaceful
protests to take place back at home.
The solution is to
identify and undermine the very source of power driving these world-spanning
corporate-financier interests. One needs not travel further in search of this
source of power than their own bathroom mirror. It is we the people, who on a
daily basis, feed this monolithic corporate-financier machine of domination,
exploitation, and destruction. And we need not do more than simply withdraw the
time, money, energy, and attention we pay into this machine on a daily basis.
We can begin by eliminating from our lives entirely the unnecessary amenities
we purchase from this machine. This includes junk-food like that peddled by
Pepsi Co., Coca-Cola, and the mega-chain restaurants, cafes, and fast food
outlets spanning the world.
We can then begin
devising local alternatives to replace these amenities, and eventually the
necessities. We need not live a life of austerity or of want in the wake of
deciding to boycott entirely the Fortune 500. We can leverage education,
technology, and ingenuity to devise alternatives that not only match, but
exceed the quality and comfort provided to us by these mega-multinationals.
While the system
wants you to vote in their elections, you would be better served to instead
vote with your wallet, time, energy, and attention. Don't be drawn into the
establishment's circular debates, distractions, and especially the charade of
predetermined elections. Regardless of who wins, Obama or Romney, the Fortune
500 will have a professional spokesman to present their collective agenda to the
public under the guise of "democracy." America, and the West in
general, is run by the Fortune 500, they are/were your last president or prime
minister, they will be your next president or prime minister.
If this dissatisfies
you - boycott them and put them out of business.
8 comments:
Anonymous said...
The answer isn't to boycott the Fortune 500
companies these scoundrels represent, it's to boycott the election. Obviously,
America is not going to be given a REAL choice for president because there
isn't going to be a REAL election.
Voting for who you actually want isn't
going to change anything. Don't let them pretend they have the people's mandate
to govern. Make them face the fact, and show to the world, that they have no
authority from Americans to do what they're doing.
April 25, 2012 9:43 PM
Anonymous said...
Anon #1 - that is a good first step -
exposing their illegitimacy, but that still doesn't change the fact that they
own and run everything. What will the next move be? Obviously boycotting the
Fortune 500 strikes right at the source of their power - I suppose general
strikes could help too. Why wouldn't you support developing local solutions,
businesses, and industry instead of continuing to send your money to Wall
Street?
April 26, 2012 6:55 AM
Anonymous said...
I like the math graphic.
You should have one that shows....
Democrats losing smart voters + Dennis
Kucinich= less voters lost.
Republicans losing smart voters + Ron Paul=
less voters lost.
Identical scams by corrupt dirty parties
putting up one decent candidate who has no chance of being permitted to make a
difference in party policy or politics.......but one who will keep some of the
disenfranchised voters in tow.
Paul=Kucinich, D=R, and USA=anything but
democracy.
April 26, 2012 6:57 AM
Anonymous said...
Then how come McShame didn't get in?
He's one of the club. Who had the juice to
get Obummer in? Bhahahahah we all know this is a charade. Thanks for the
effort.
April 26, 2012 2:28 PM
Lee Josiah Evans
said...
Honestly, its not going to do any good to
boycott the election unless EVERYONE (or a very significant amount) boycotts
the election. Since that probably wont happen, I would recommend voting for the
best possible candidate and holding them up to the standards of the
Constitution. We must start throwing our elected officials out of office if they
dont start following the constitution. Thank you, Lee
April 26, 2012 7:07 PM
stevor said...
I'm glad this article shows: Bush - obama -
Romney because they ARE essentially the same (BAD for the USA).
Too bad more folks won't get out of the
line of LEMMINGS following the Pied Piper off the Cliff and vote for Ron Paul.
April 26, 2012 9:12 PM
Anonymous said...
Obvious answer: Ron Paul.
April 26, 2012 9:16 PM
Anonymous said...
How will this affect Janet Napolitano
naming an operative of the Muslim Brotherhood,Mohamed Elibiary to the Homeland
Security Advisory Council?
April 26, 2012 9:21 PM
PPJ Gazette
Tea party women attend
“Angry white Women of the Tea Party” lecture
By Heather Gass, PPJ Contributor
Funny… disturbing…
but hopeful? ~Lark
Fanatic For
Jesus.blogspot.com
Obama Makes Free Speech
a Felony
Judge Napolitano from
FoxNews explains the bill Pres. Obama signed into law last week. The bill is
titled H.R. 347, which makes it illegal to enter or remain in an area where
certain government officials (more particularly, those with Secret Service
protection) will be visiting temporarily if the person knows it’s illegal to
enter the restricted area but does so anyway.
Greek Town Implements
Revolutionary Barter System Without Euro
Seed Lady Network
Celebrate International
Seed Day Today – Plant a Seed!
Seed Lady Network
joins with INEAS to celebrate International Seed Day (April 26):
Today is
International Seed Day. INEAS wishes you
a merry Seed Day. We alert the public
about the danger of Genetically Modified Food (GMF), the importance of seed
saving and the sacred practice of planting what we eat, we celebrate it with
organic home-cooking food, and we resist the monopoly of agribusiness
corporations in their tireless efforts to patent seeds, control food and
intimidate farmers by not allowing them to grow their food. We Alert . . . We Celebrate . . . We Resist.
Contact us at INEAS@aol.com
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Activist Post
Radioactive Hell on Earth
By Mark Sircus, Contributor
I really wish this
subject would just go away and that we could just go on with life and have a
good time. There are actually so many things to enjoy on Mother Earth—there are
the spiritual realms all around us such as the “above beings” (Native American
spirituality expression) that that we may dance, intermingle and communicate
with (pray to).
Fortunately we know
for sure that one day we will join up with those who live beyond their bodies,
meaning we are going to die whether we like it or not. It is our spiritual
destiny to lose our bodies and let them go back to the dust from whence they
came. The bad news is that it is going to happen a whole lot faster for the lot
of us humans who will have to learn to survive on an increasingly contaminated
planet. It wasn’t enough to cover the globe with lead, then mercury, plastic
and a host of other chemicals.
We have now made it
more difficult to live on earth and that situation is going to get much worse.
There have been severe nuclear accidents before, several very bad ones in
Russia and farmers are still feeling the effects of Chernobyl. Hundreds of
British sheep farmers still have to obtain a license every time they want to
move sheep. Before anything moves off the farm it has to be inspected and
scanned with a Geiger counter. That contamination has not gone away; it is
still burning people’s and animals’ bodies and will continue to do that for a
long time.
More Michigan Mutations
from Fallout 4.21.2012
video short
Dandelions found
today in a parking lot in Rochester Hills Michigan, about 20 miles north of
Detroit, where I found mutations last weekend.
Fasciation images
here:
2 Asahi reports on
mutations:
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Cancer Cure?
Ever since the mid
1960's the rate of cancer diagnoses has only increased. Many speculate that
this dramatic rise in cancer is tied to the industrialization of our food
sources. When we look at the pharmaceutical industry, their profits have only
increased every year for the last 35 years makes you wonder just maybe finding
a cure for cancer isn't all it could be. And, in allot of cases the patients
whose quality of life is greatly reduced just because of some drug or in many
cases organic medical marijuana that could make a great difference are being
purposely denied.
Cesium Chloride
a little know substance whose properties have been found to be of great benefit
in fighting or eliminating all forms of cancer. A very common substance that
until recently has been almost overlooked as a very strong remedy in fighting
and eliminating cancer. Just now the public is gaining more information on how
Cesium Chloride works all of which has enormous implications that just might
prevail in the fight against cancer in all its forms. So what is cesium? It is
a naturally occurring alkali metal, a chemical compound with the formula CsCl. It is nature's most alkaline mineral. Cesium chloride is a salt form of
cesium. Now the next question is why is this compound so effective in killing
cancer cells and leaving patients with what is a reliable cure?
Continue reading at
NowPublic.com: Cancer Cure? | NowPublic News Coverage http://www.nowpublic.com/world/cancer-cure#ixzz1tE3g9B3L
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The Health Coach
Anecdotal vs Scientific
Evidence: Which is stronger?
Once upon a time,
before there were laboratories and test tubes and innocent animals to
experiment on, there were anecdotes. Anecdotes were the stuff of stories.
Stories reveal what is happening in the world in real time, with real people,
in real living contexts.
Where it concerns
healing and curing, health and wellness, these important stories took on great
significance and special meaning. Why wouldn’t they? The wisdom that they
contained was responsible for keeping the people alive and well and thriving.
Over millennia most
of these anecdotes and stories were passed down through the culture via the
Oral Tradition. Eventually many of these stories were written down and
systematized so that the teachings could be accessed in a methodical and
efficient way.
The Health Coach
Wheat: To eat or not to
eat?
That has become the
question for every health enthusiast who has been hit with a barrage of
conflicting reports about wheat in the diet.
Since we’re dealing
with the staff of life, this weighty issue must be reconciled in the minds of
all concerned, especially those who are challenged by related medical
conditions and health problems.
So, what is the real
deal?
Let’s break it down
this way for those who are sick and tired because of life-long ingestion of
wheat.
If you have been
diagnosed with celiac sprue disease, you should positively not eat wheat or any
gluten-containing grains. This medical condition requires a life-long
prohibition, if one is to escape the ravages of this debilitating disease —
celiac.
If you have been
diagnosed with gluten sensitivity, you should not eat wheat or the associated
grains like barley, rye, oats, etc. Doing so will eventually set you up for
celiac sprue disease; that is, if you don’t already have it. The medical
diagnostics and laboratory tests for gluten sensitivity are not necessarily
conclusive, by the way. Therefore a strong tendency by way of family history
toward gluten sensitivity ought to take it out of your diet for life.
If you have been diagnosed with wheat
intolerance, then discontinuing wheat in the diet is certainly in order.
However, it is important to understand the nuance and subtlety associated with
this entire field of diagnosing and remediating gluten/wheat conditions. It is
not easy to thoroughly understand because of some complexities which are way
beyond the scope of this coaching session.
Hence, we will take
up a much more consequential matter which has recently taken the internet by
storm.
There are articles,
essays, books and videos which assert that eating wheat for anyone is never
recommended, and will always produce a negative outcome where it concerns
health. This position is the product of an incorrect understanding and highly
narrow view of the role of grains in the human diet. Quite frankly, so
disturbing is this gross misunderstanding that The Health Coach
was compelled to write this piece.
Again, exploring the
history of wheat is way beyond the scope of this session, but three critical
developments will shed needed light on “what has gone wrong with the wheat”.
I. During the years
of ‘creative baking’ throughout the history of Europe in particular, the bakers
always tended toward using the more heavily glutenized wheat strains because
they were much preferred by the customers. You know, the more chewy and
glutinous, the more savory and tasty. This baking technique was eventually
utilized in the making of all the breads and rolls, pastas and pizzas, cakes
and pies, cookies and tart, etc. So, over the span of centuries, you can
imagine how the gluten content of virtually all wheat baked goods continued to
rise?
II. With the advent
of modern agricultural methods, many chemicals were introduced into the process
of farming wheat. In addition to the massive amounts of chemical fertilizers,
there were also fungicides, herbicides, insecticides and other imprudent
additions* to the soil, wheat crops, as well as the harvested wheat. We all
understand what that has done to the original healthy wheat products of
yesteryear.
III. Modern food
companies (mom & pop bakeries included) have also contributed to this
process of wheat degradation through the ways in which factory-produced foods
have been furthered denatured, by both the manufacturing process itself as well
as with many unnecessary and unhealthy additives (like synthetic vitamins to
make it ‘enriched’) systematically added to the mix. Inferior forms of
allergy-producing yeast are particularly troubling for many with compromised GI
tracts and degraded villi.
Now it’s easy to see
that what passes as wheat products today is far different than those of
centuries ago. Like soy, which has undergone a similar process of
over-hybridization, wheat has been forever tainted to a certain degree. [2]
Back to what this
means to you, a wheat eater or wheat abstainer. If your heredity and relevant
genetic characteristics are such that there is no predisposition toward celiac
sprue in your bloodline, nor any traces of gluten sensitivity or wheat
intolerance, you ought to feel secure in the knowing that eating wheat is quite
okay and healthful. However there are further qualifications as follows:
Your Ayurvedic body
type and Traditional Chinese Medicine profile ought to be favorable for regular
wheat ingestion, otherwise ama can build up and chi blocked. Also, if you have
certain chronic conditions or a tendency towards mucus production, wheat should
be eaten very sparingly since it is a highly mucus-producing grain. The diet
can be augmented with other foods, herbs and spices which can effectively
counteract the mucus, but special care should be taken when in the throes of a
respiratory illness or other mucus-producing conditions.
Also, the tendency
toward obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and similar conditions ought to
encourage one to decrease one’s wheat intake. This list of qualifications does
go on, but for the sake of this discussion let’s end with the following
extremely critical point and caveats.
Critical Point:
It is essential that
we feel good about our food as we eat it. A positive attitude is key to the way
all food and beverage is digested, absorbed and assimilated, and constitutes
new tissues. As long as the wheat we eat, assuming you have not been
disqualified by your risk profile, medical conditions, overall health status or
genetic predispositions, is truly organic and made with positive vibes, it is
as healthy a grain as exists on the planet.
In Ayurveda wheat is
considered very sattvic, which is especially very good for yogis, meditators,
students, artists and philosophers. It serves to raise the subtle vibrations of
the body, as well as the entire being, so that transcendental states of
consciousness can be experienced more easily.
Final Thought:
We live in a society
which has placed wheat at the very top of the list of foods most frequently
eaten — in the home, at the fast food counter, the gourmet restaurant, the
supermarket, the health food store, the ball game, the wedding reception and
funeral gathering, etc. When we attend these functions or visit these places,
the question often emerges, “To eat or not to eat the wheat?
If you choose not to,
you probably made the right decision.
If you choose to eat
the “delectable wedding cake at the reception”, do so with perfect acceptance,
enjoyment and positive feeling toward the sumptuous food you are about to eat.
May you enjoy great
health,
The Health Coach
Endnotes:
[1] “Wheat is one of
the first cereals known to have been domesticated, and wheat’s ability to
self-pollinate greatly facilitated the selection of many distinct domesticated
varieties. The archaeological record suggests that this first occurred in the
regions known as the Fertile Crescent, and the Nile Delta. These include
southeastern parts of Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, the Levant, Israel, Egypt and
Ethiopia. Recent findings narrow the first domestication of wheat down to a
small region of southeastern Turkey, and domesticated Einkorn wheat at Nevalı
Çori—40 miles (64 km) northwest of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey—has been dated to
9,000 B.C. However, evidence for the exploitation of wild barley has been dated
to 23,000 B.C. and some say this is also true of pre-domesticated wheat.” (Per
Wikipedia — Wheat)
[2] Wheat
degeneration and added chemical toxicities have significantly contributed to
the the ever-increasing incidence of celiac disease (CSD), gluten sensitivity
(GS) and wheat intolerance (WI). For instance, the introduction of mercury into
the wheat storage process* alone was in part responsible for overly sensitizing
the entire GI tract to many of the other artificial additives, as well as
setting it up for various pathological transformations (especially the
destruction of the mucus membranes in the small intestine).
*“It used to be
common practice across the USA to float mercury vapors from the base of all the
huge grain silos in order to control all the “bugs” that fed on the wheat and
oats and barley during storage.” (Per Mercury
Poisoning and/or Toxicity: Do you have it?)
Why is there such a
raging epidemic of GS, CSD and WI?
Two main reasons: (1)
The strong digestive capacity, which is required to properly digest a tough
protein like gluten, has substantially diminished throughout the modern era,
particularly among Americans and Europeans. When the digestive fire is really
burning well, it can practically digest nails. (2) We, as a society, simply eat
too much wheat. Breakfast, lunch and dinner; morning, noon and night we grab
the snack which so often contains wheat. Too much of an inherently good thing
can hurt you. Way too much, for way too long, can actually kill you. Especially
when any of the previously mentioned incompatibilities become operative.
Personal Testimony:
The Health Coach has
submitted himself to a number of lab tests over the years each designed to
determine the presence of gluten sensitivity. All of the results have come back
negative. However, the bloodline on both sides of the family suggests a very
high likelihood of possessing a genetic predisposition for all three — gluten
sensitivity, wheat intolerance and celiac sprue disease. So does a childhood
fraught with allergies, skin conditions, and other numerous unexplained
ailments, many of which remain up to this very day.
It must be pointed
out that a strict, multi-year, wheat and gluten-free diet had no effect on the
same chronic health conditions? Some of you reading this may have experienced a
similar situation. This predicament poses a very significant conundrum which
will be taken up in Wheat — Part II
Factoid #1:
Did you know that
every child in the country of Italy must be tested for gluten sensitivity by
the age of one? It was recognized that celiac sprue disease has taken such a
toll on that nation’s healthcare system, that early detection became necessary
to stem the tide of celiac-related diseases overwhelming the system.
Factoid #2:
Celiac Sprue Disease
has been determined to have causal correlations to almost 200 different other
diseases, illnesses and syndromes. Some of these are as serious as Multiple
Sclerosis (MS), Systemic lupus erythematosus (aka Lupus), and Amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease and ALS).
Caveat:
Beware of any
article, research paper or book which rails against the eating of wheat for
everyone, all the time, everywhere. To put it bluntly, this type of thinking is
highly uninformed and profoundly unenlightened. Furthermore, such ideas are
dangerous toward the maintenance of a balanced and physically fit society,
particularly in light of how pervasive and invested Western society is in the
staple known as wheat.
We mean no offense,
but when highly esteemed health professionals and wellness advocates embrace
the notion of “No wheat ever, far anyone”, they do a great disservice of
engendering unnecessary fear and anxiety, especially for those WHO MAY HAVE NO
ALTERNATIVES!
We sincerely hope
that we have made ourselves clear in this matter, and offer our email to those
beacons of health who would like to carry on a constructive dialogue regarding
this extremely important societal health matter. thehealthcoach1@gmail.com
Author’s Note:
For the record, The
Health Coach has 8 aunts and a mother who have either died or are dying of
celiac sprue disease. His wife, two sisters-in-law, brother-in-law have also
been formidably challenged by gluten sensitivity and celiac. There are also
several other relatives and numerous friends, business associates,
acquaintances who have been likewise diagnosed. That’s not to mention well over
20 years of coaching and counseling hundreds of clients through their
formidable celiac sprue challenges.
Health Disclaimer:
All content found at
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on this website is not a substitute for professional medical care and should
not be construed as either medical diagnosis or treatment. All information
contained herein ought to be considered within the context of an individual’s
overall health status and prescribed treatment plan.
Since The Health
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medical condition, the information contained at this website is not intended to
provide specific physical, mental, emotional or psychological health advice.
It is entirely the
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Therefore, we fully invoke the HOLD HARMLESS clause for those who are responsible
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The Health Coach
Root Canals: Why would
anyone want a dead tooth in their mouth … for life?
Root Canals: Are you
putting a bullet in your mouth?
In closing let us say
that of all the medical and dental operations which are regularly performed on
the unsuspecting public, the root canal procedure is the most misrepresented,
potentially injurious and underestimated in its repercussions to systemic health.
No matter which tooth has been compromised beyond repair, we universally
recommend that the tooth be extracted and the tooth socket be thoroughly
cleaned out as per the protocols offered by Dr. Meinig in Root Canal Cover-Up.
In the final analysis
it has been determined that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOOD ROOT
CANAL. They are all infected and only differ by the degree and
outward signs of infection. Therefore, there can only be one solution which we
will take up in our next dental coaching session: Root Canals: What is the best
and only alternative?
Sources:
Root Canal Cover-Up
by Dr. George Meinig, DDS
The Weston A. Price
Foundation
The Health Coach
Circumcision: Male
Genital Mutilation
How in the world did
we ever come to a place where male genital mutilation is not only completely
accepted as a societal custom, but also embraced as a religious practice?!
Truly, it is regarded as a rite of passage into this world of pain and
suffering.
It’s like, after the
baby boy is born, as if that’s not traumatic enough, he is then forced to
suffer the excruciating pain and shock of having a very important piece of his
body cut off … from the most sensitive part of his body, no less!
Just who is it (or
who was it) that determined that the male genitalia was somehow flawed by the
Creator?
The Health Coach
Circumcision: Male
Genital Mutilation – Part II
Before we address the
parting question in Part I, we thought it would be instructive and revelatory
to post information about the actual circumcision medical procedure. Again, we
refer to the same excellent website which was created as a public service to
this extraordinarily important topic. The following screenshot was taken from
www.webmagician.com/pubservice/.
We would like to warn
those who are sensitive to graphic surgical procedures that the following
series of photos may be quite disturbing. However, a picture is worth a million
words in this particular context of advocacy for the most vulnerable among
us.
Zen-Haven.dk
Teenager Declared
Brain-Dead by 4 Doctors Makes Miracle Recovery
Daily Mail.co.uk
'The biggest experiment
of our species': With five billion mobile users in the world, conference calls
for research into potential brain cancer risks
Scientists at London conference call for
independent research into potential links between using a mobile phone and
brain cancer
Figures from ONS show 50 per cent increase
in brain tumours since 1999
Studies 'are split 50/50' in conclusions,
leaving the issue open for debate
But believers fear fall-out from the
'biggest technological experiment in the history of our species'
By Eddie Wrenn
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The Psychedelic
Transhumanists
Transhumanism in a
fortune cookie: the familiar human world
is just one point along a continuum of evolution, and we have an unprecedented
capacity to participate in that process.
And yet, the future being as slippery as it is, there are as many
visions for how this might occur as there are visionaries to guess at it. Computer scientists tend to have one
transhumanism, genetic engineers another.
However, coherent themes emerge for those who have taken it upon
themselves to make a sweeping survey of human inquiry, integrating a keen
reading of the vectors of our technology with postmodern insight into the
nature of mind.
Some of these
thinkers have been catalyzed by the psychedelic experience -- in a way, the
most informative window into a world beyond the human that we have yet
discovered. They understand the message
of psychedelics and the message of technology to converge on the horizon of a
deeper reading of reality that recognizes mind and matter as dimensions of the
same truth -- a truth for which language has ill-prepared us.
The ranks of these
"psychedelic transhumanists" include legendary rebels like Timothy
Leary, wise fools like Terence McKenna, cultural commentators like Erik Davis
and Mark Pesce, and avant-psychopharmacologists like David Pearce. Hailing from disparate knowledge domains,
they nonetheless share hyperliterate and uniquely discerning intellect. As
unusual as their arguments may be to anyone trained in more conventional models
of reality, they nonetheless obey a rigorous scientific discipline in their own
way, augmenting empirical knowledge with the established insights of
20th-century psychology and philosophy.
Their common vision
shares much with the rest of the transhuman community, including an embrace of
technology and science as both potent and inevitable; an evolutionary model of
the universe and humanity; a sense of the human organism as something that can
be tinkered with and expanded; a recognition of drugs as a technology that can
dramatically reinvent identity; and a playful challenging of fixed boundaries.
In many ways they demonstrate the seed of transhumanism in this moment by
exemplifying self-revision and the reevaluation of assumptions as an open-ended
and ongoing process. And along the way,
they tatter the mechanistic control fantasies we have held onto in spite of our
most sophisticated inquiries.
Among these
visionaries, we find a general agreement on the emergence of emotional
machines, but from a more non-dual perspective of the human as both emotional
and machine-like, and a recognition of both inner and outer realities. They tend to critique philosophies that
consider mind a mere epiphenomenon, or that fail to recognize the role of the
speculator in speculation.
They see technology
as ideas, and ideas as technology. They
question our fanaticism for control in light of progress's runaway complexity,
and remind us of the stubborn persistence of the unconscious, the body, and the
other. They insistently remind us to see
the evolution of humanity and beyond as much in terms of qualia as quanta, and
paint the portrait of a future sensitive to psychological, spiritual, ethical,
and biological concerns.
The distinctions
between this vision and the more common idea of a technological singularity are
easily distilled. In their own words,
presented as a "virtual conversation" of transcripts and
correspondences, here are the core messages of a transhumanist vision informed
by the psychedelic experience...
Medium is message, and
information is psychoactive.
Information is a more
fundamental substrate of reality, an implicate order. "Pattern" replaces
"matter."
Timothy Leary: I'm a great follower of a man named Marshall
MacLuhan who wrote those wonderful books about communication. He said that if you want to change a culture,
if you want to change yourself, if you want to change religion, then change the
medium, the mode of communication. He
said that Gutenberg created Protestantism where he had the mass-assembled book,
where everybody can read. And now the
new form of communication is electronic...
Terence McKenna: The realization that has flowered in the wake
of the internet and the rise of cybernetics is that everything is made of
information. Information is the primary
datum of being. Concepts like time and
space and energy are orders of magnitude removed from the present at hand when
compared with a concept like information.
Every iota, every bit of information that passes through us, changes us.
Mark Pesce: If you took a picture of this room in 1990
and you took a picture of it today, everything would look exactly the same and
yet everything is completely different.
Because in 1990 we didn't have this layer of bits that's flowing
seamlessly among all of us. And it's changed us. It's radically sped up the way we deal with
information in society. And every bit of
information that passes through you changes you. You cannot be unaffected in
any way by any bit of information. So
the internet is acting as this enormous accelerator...
Erik Davis: Information came to be seen as an abstract,
almost transcendental stuff that could "circulate unchanged among
different material substrates." Once we begin to believe that information
is more essential than material forms, we vacate the old cosmos defined by
presence and absence, entering a world characterized by the binary feedback of
pattern and randomness, signal and noise.
This accelerating
knowledge leads to widespread acceptance of all reality as virtual...and that
it has always been this way.
The transhuman age is
simply making this inescapably obvious. Aldous Huxley's descriptive "far
antipodes of the mind" (He used the phrase in a discussion of his
mescaline experiences) and their real ecologies is the intellectual progenitor
of The Matrix, and of a pragmatic relationship to the questions of ontology.
McKenna: The minute I understood the concept [of
virtual reality] I knew...that this would be the next great thing. As a tool of art. As a tool for leading us beyond the notion
that we are a hive society of advanced primates, because that's how we visually
appear to the empirical point of view.
That's an out-of-context description of what we are. It's like a schematic or an aerial map. What we really are is a community of mind,
knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories,
hopes -- the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us
than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on
which we move. The purpose of VR is to show us aspects of reality that are not
artificial, but that are fields of data not ordinarily coordinated by ordinary
perception.
I see virtual reality
not as a way of escaping the notion of empirical reality, but as a way of
re-portraying invisible levels of the given world that are very vital and
important to us: how we see flows of
energy, how we understand complex economies, how we understand the fractal
hierarchies of nature.
What is already
co-present with three-dimensional reality is being literalized....but being
literalized in timescales that make the nature of the game apparent to all but
the dullest among us. I mean after all,
we have always lived in virtual realities, ever since we abandoned nomadism and
defined a polis and a wilderness.
Davis: Media have long sought to create immersive
spaces of fictional reality: Baroque cathedrals, 19th century panoramas, even,
perhaps, the Paleolithic caves of Lascaux or Altamira. Today, the accelerating
perceptual technologies of media are on a collision course with cognitive
science and its understanding of how the human nervous system produces the
real-time matrix we take for ordinary space-time.
Pesce: My first experience of virtual reality
happened in 1990 and required absolutely no technology except about 500
micrograms of LSD-25. And what I found
in this virtual world, the thing that I must have suspected I would find in this
virtual world, wasn't an artificial Tron-like environment. It wasn't something
that was entirely artificial. What I beheld in that environment was an image of
the planet, as if I was cruising above it in a spaceship. And I knew that part
of my own destiny as connected with virtual reality wasn't to escape into
another dimension, but to find a way to make real to us the things that we
can't always see, because we exist at a level of scale, of experience, that
hides them from us.
Where we're going,
the simulated and the real are going to get really blurry. And we don't have any tools of mind. Western culture, which is based on this
objective external reality -- it's not hard, it's all become very soft, and
it's all flowing together. So we need to now start to find ways of describing
what's going on. And so what we need to
do -- I found in my own investigations -- is to take a look at cultures that
describe the world magically, that understand that perception shapes what you
are, and you shape what you see. And
that they're not separate areas, they're not separate domains, and you have to
consider them as a whole.
My own explorations
had led me to understand that in fact, in a world where anything you want is
true, the only way to deal with this is by learning how to deal with your
will. Dealing with your will is what
magic has always, in all cultures, always been about. This is why the shaman doesn't go insane when
the world just disappears -- they're ready for it. Because they understand that where they are
isn't bound up in their idea of the world.
MUCH MORE HERE
Adask’s Law
US Surveillance State
Here’s a remarkable
video describing the extent of government surveillance over internet, cell
phones, etc.
Suggested remedies
include Tor http://www.torproject.org
which allegedly conceals your browser activity and gives you some degree of
anonymity. The speakers also recommends
“Riseup.net” (which may provide some sort of email anonymity) and “Jitsi” as an
alternative to Skype.
[More… ]
Tor Project.org
What is Tor?
Tor is free software
and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network
surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business
activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis
Learn more about Tor
»
Why Anonymity Matters
Tor protects you by
bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by
volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet
connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you
visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your
existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients,
remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.
Get involved with Tor
»
Activist Post
The Great Data Sellout
Reveals How We Pay For Our Own Enslavement
Now Public.com
Marijuana Arrests Feed
Insatiable U.S. Prison System
Witness
By Whittaker Chambers
(1952)
Jean-Pierre Brisset
Brisset, Jean-Pierre
(1837-1923). An erudite yet eccentric philologist whose biography remains
obscure, Brisset came to light in the 1980s when French linguistics began to
address various marginal cases. Brisset's grand aim was to reveal the origins
not only of language but of Creation itself. Words, he contends, originate in
God-the-Logos; they are always linked to things; hence all aspects of language
open onto cosmology. Publications such as La
Grammaire logique (1883) and La
Science de Dieu (1900), which he financed himself, are replete with
delirious puns and sound-permutations, yet have an unremitting seriousness. One
of his more provocative ideas is that Man is descended from the frog, a claim
based on phonetic evidence and confirmed, Brisset triumphantly notes, in the
empirical fact that human sperm resembles tadpoles.
— Roger Cardinal
Jean-Pierre Brisset
(La Sauvagère, 1837 – La Ferté-Macé, 1919) was a French writer.
Born in a family of
farmers, Brisset was an outsider writer, much like Henri Rousseau was an
outsider artist. He is a saint on the 'Pataphysics calendar. His writings are
in publication as of 2004.
Brisset was an
autodidact. Having left school at age twelve to help on the family farm, he
apprenticed as a pastry chef in Paris three years later. In 1855, he enlisted
in the army for seven years and fought in the Crimean War. En 1859, he learned
Italian thanks to the war in Italy against the Austrians. After he was wounded
at the Battle of Magenta, he was taken prisoner. During the Franco-Prussian
War, he was a second lieutenant in the 50e régiment d'infanterie de ligne.
Taken prisoner again, he was sent to Magdeburg in Saxony where he learned
German.
In 1871 he published La natation ou l’art de nager appris seul en
moins d’une heure (Learning the art
of swimming alone in less than an hour) before resigning from the Army and
moving to Marseilles, where he filed the patent for the "airlift swimming
trunks and belt with a double compensatory reservoir". This commercial
endeavor was a complete failure. He then returned to Magdeburg, where he earned
his living as a language teacher, developing a method for learning French,
which he published through a vanity press in 1874.
He became
stationmaster at the railway station of Angers, and later of L'Aigle. After
publishing another book on the French language, he undertook his major
philosophical work, which consisted in spreading his theory that Man's origins
were in the water, and He was descended from Frogs. He supported his contention
by comparing the French and frog languages (like "logement"=
dwelling, comes from "l'eau" = water). He was dead serious about his "morosophy", and penned
several books and pamphlets expounding his indisputable substantiations, which
he had printed and distributed at his own expense.
In 1912, novelist
Jules Romains, who had got his hands on a copy of God's Mystery and The Human
Origins, set up, with the help of a few fellow hoaxers, a rigged election for a
"Prince of Thinkers". Unsurprisingly, Brisset got elected. The
Election Committee then called him to Paris in 1913, where he was received and
acclaimed with great pomp. He partook in several ceremonies and a banquet,
uttering emotional words of thanks for this unexpected late recognition of his
work. Newspapers exposed the hoax on the next day.
The Complete Works of
Brisset have recently been reprinted by Marc Décimo, Dijon, Les Presses du
réel, 2001. In an essay entitled, Jean-Pierre
Brisset, Prince des Penseurs, inventeur, grammairien et prophète, Dijon,
Les presses du réel, 2001, Marc Décimo has given a biography, explanations
about Brisset's delirium about frogs as ancestors of humankind. Translations in
several languages (European languages, Wolof, Armenian, Arabic, Houma, etc.)
can be found in this book as well. It also includes the major texts written
about Brisset by Jules Romains, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Raymond Queneau, and
Michel Foucault. In 2004 the Art of Swimming (as a frog) was published in
paperback.
Around 2001,
Ernestine Chassebœuf wrote several letters to French politicians, universities,
railway stations, library directors, psychiatric hospitals, to suggest they name
a street, a university, etc. after Brisset. Their answers were published on a
website dedicated to him, but there is no "rue Jean-Pierre Brisset"
as of yet. Thanks to a bequest to Jules Romain, an annual dinner in his memory
was made possible until 1939.
Works
Œuvres complètes, Les
Presses du réel, collection L'écart absolu, Dijon, 2001 et 2e éd. 2004.
Œuvres natatoires,
Les Presses du réel, collection L'écart absolu - poche, Dijon, 2001.
La Grande nouvelle,
Édition en fac similé du Cymbalum Pataphysicum.
Notes
^ Website about
Jean-Pierre Brisset at http://chambernac.pagesperso-orange.fr/brisset.htm
symposium
385–380 BC. It
concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love, and
(in later day interpretations) is the origin of the concept of Platonic love.
Love is examined in a
sequence of speeches by men attending a symposium, or drinking party. Each man
must deliver an encomium, a speech in praise of Love (Eros). The party takes
place at the house of the tragedian Agathon in Athens. Socrates in his speech
asserts that the highest purpose of love is to become a philosopher or,
literally, a lover of wisdom. The dialogue has been used as a source by social
historians seeking to throw light on life in ancient Athens, in particular upon
sexual behavior, and the symposium as an institution.
The dialogue's seven participants are:
Phaedrus (speech begins 178a): familiar from Phaedrus and other
dialogues.
Pausanias (speech begins 180c): the legal expert.
Eryximachus (speech begins 186a): a physician.
Aristophanes (speech begins 189c): he at first skips his turn
because of a bout of hiccups. The eminent comic playwright has become a focus
of subsequent scholarly debate. His contribution has been seen as mere comic
relief, and sometimes as satire: the creation myth he puts forward to account
for heterosexuals and homosexuals may be read as poking fun at the myths of
origin numerous in classical Greek mythology.
Agathon (speech begins 195a): his speech may be regarded as
self-consciously poetic, gently mocked by Socrates.
Socrates (speech begins 201d): relates teachings told him by
Diotima of Mantinea.
Alcibiades (speech begins 214e): a popular Athenian citizen.
Entering upon the scene late, he pays tribute to Socrates.
Correspondence
~Isms: A concise
listing is sought...
... So that I can
better source those particular schools of thought leading us along a path
towards enslavement.
Part of me thinks
behaviorism is just an extension of religio-philosophy - most notably...
industrialism... and utilitarianism - and my basic premise is that such
research... is generally funded by slavers in order to better manage their
slaves.
See:
"Correspondence"
Per the listed ~isms
in mustard yellow-gold color, am reconsidering exclusion of behaviorism.
Glad to know you've
been studying this.
Follow-up always
welcome - especially as it concerns the conclusions reached in "Industrial
Society and its Future"
Have you seen the
German documentary, The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the
Internet?
Best regards,
Lark In Texas
(Skype)
Cc: Michael Vail,
StratRisks.com, and James Corbett, of CorbettReport.com
Banned College Lecture!
U.S False Education
Exposed, Hosea 4:6: My People Die From Lack Of [Knowledge]
video documentary
Info Wars.com
Professor Depicts
Blood-Dripping Knife, Machine-Gun, While Talking Population Control
Deception is the
fruit by which we know the eugenicists, that much is evident. As the video
shows, another typical trait is the perverse pleasure these people have in
scaring mankind into accepting depopulation plans.
There was the case of
Professor Eric Pianka who during a lecture in 2006 displayed an image of human
skulls as he was calling for mass-death. Forrest Mims, Chairman of the
Environmental Science Section of the Texas Academy of Science gave a
description of one of Pianka’s lectures:
“Professor Pianka said the Earth as we know it will not survive without
drastic measures. Then, and without presenting any data to justify this number,
he asserted that the only feasible solution to saving the Earth is to reduce
the population to 10 percent of the present number. He then showed solutions
for reducing the world’s population in the form of a slide depicting the Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse. War and famine would not do, he explained. Instead,
disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that
must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. Pianka then displayed a
slide showing rows of human skulls, one of which had red lights flashing from
its eye sockets. AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is
too slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world’s
population is airborne Ebola (…), because it is both highly lethal and it kills
in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola
victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of
biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal
organs.”
These are some
death-loving sociopaths that sit spider-like inside the halls of academia.
Forrest Mims continues:
“After praising the Ebola virus for its efficiency at killing, Pianka
paused, leaned over the lectern, looked at us and carefully said, “We’ve got
airborne 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. With
his slide of human skulls towering on the screen behind him, Professor Pianka
was deadly serious. The audience that had been applauding some of his statements
now sat silent.”
It’s clear what is
happening. Scientists worldwide are engaging in open threats of death to scare
us into submission. They will not succeed.
AntiCorruption
Society
The City World Conquest
Anthony Blunt
1907-1983, Queen's cousin and curator of her art until he was outed as a Soviet
spy in 1979. The traitors were Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and
Anthony Blunt.
Henry Makow.com
Rothschilds
Planned to Make Britain Communist
Victor Rothschild, the mystery fifth man, recruited and placed four influential spies
to help him subvert the UK. They were known as the "Cambridge Five."
Victor Rothschild
1910-1990, in a Masonic pose
Former intelligence
asset T. Stokes says modern Britain reflects the Rothschilds' plan for
Communist tyranny.
By T. Stokes
(henrymakow.com)
The role the
Cambridge traitors like Anthony Blunt played in bringing Britain into WWII on
Communism's side will be revealed in a new book which cannot yet be identified.
The new book should
reveal how and why Communist recruitment teams were allowed to flourish in the
British Universities. This is related to generous bequests from Victor
Rothschild.
The Cambridge
Apostles were working for the time when Britain was ruled by the Communist
system, maybe under another name but still communist and they were promised
positions of great power.
Britain was to
undergo many of the hardships of the Russian people, such as unemployment,
starvation, loss of national rights and stature; the elimination of
Christianity and the extinction of the Royal family as in France and Russia,
and the installation of multiculturalism and loss of national identity.
Stalin played this
constantly inside the Soviet Bloc pitting one race against another, and
according to the book "The Great Terror" murdering as many as 63
million of his captive people, or useless eaters he called them.
(See Oleg Bzorski
document "Stalin's Long March to Britain ".)
The English race was
to be phased out similar to Germany; no Anglo Saxons would exist in 80 years.
Prison camps for dissidents would dot the British countryside.
All the Cambridge
traitors felt that Britain was failing fast and this was their only hope.
Anthony Blunt
believed what Rothschild told him, that the wealth and artworks of the royal
family would be confiscated and Buckingham palace would become a museum for the
people.
He would build a huge
art museum in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv called the Sir Anthony Blunt
Institute. There would be marble floors
and a special Poussin section where Blunt could give talks on his favorite
French painters.
Rothschild told him
that he was working to build financial power blocks.
Britain would go into
the EU; gradually the number of world power blocks would be reduced and left
with a one-world-currency one world army and one world government controlled by
the Zionists based in Jerusalem.
The Cambridge
traitors were untouchable. They did not realize that Russia was the Trojan
horse which the Rothschilds had been running since 1917. Their largely
completed goal: to take over the world.
Fabian Influence on
World Affairs
The philosophy of the
Fabian Society was written in 1887 and included the statement: "The Fabian Society acknowledges the principal tenet of
Marxism the abolition of private property etc." (Of course this
does not apply to the elect oligarchy at the top who end up owning the lot!).
The Federal Reserve is
Privately Owned
By Thomas D. Schauf
The Federal Reserve
Cartel
Part I, The Eight
Families
(Part one of a
four-part series)
A monetary trail---follow the bread
crumbs
COMMUNIST
LINKS TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE
An interview with a
former Swiss banker
Beyond Treason
Depleted Uranium &
Anthrax Vaccines
[Full Film]
Federal Jack
Mossad/CIA murdered
U.S. troops in Iraq
By POPEYE
…AND THUS ENDETH
FREEDOM IN AMERICA
Search: “Israel Moses
Seif Freedom and Planning”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Venus in Furs
By Leopold Von
Sacher-Masoch
(1869)
If you've ever been
curious about where the term "masochism" comes from, you will find it
laden in the pages of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's masterpiece, Venus in Furs,
for whom the term was named. Drawn in part from his own life experiences,
Sacher-Masoch's novel develops an eroticism unlike any other. The book's protagonist,
Severin, is so infatuated and obsessed with the object of his desire, Wanda,
that he asks to be her slave. Although hesitant at first, Wanda's treatment of
Severin becomes more and more depraved, fueling Severin's own desires for
cruelty.
Review
Venus in Furs (or essentially, "The
Education of a Young Woman') is novelist and poet von Sacher-Masoch's most
sublime text on the devotion of "masochism"-emotional, psychological,
sexual-and it is a masterpiece of persuasion. Its protagonist is an educated
and devout man given to whips and ideals. Severin von Kusiemski's is an unusual
(and mystical) pedagogy and his Ideal is the cruel woman in furs who will allow
him to be her slave; for in his rapturous acquiescence, and in his conscious
guidance of both his own and his mistress' will, Severin will have penetrated
into the beating heart of a solitary man's deepest and most profound desires:
to merge flesh with spirit, birth with death, Heaven with Hell. This classic
late-nineteenth-century novel-surprisingly, rarely if ever made so accessible
to English-speaking readers-is not, as popular rumor would have it, simply a
lurid tale of obsessive obscenity. Nor is it merely a Victorian dream of
antique decadence. It remains a deeply felt, intelligent and powerful morality
play of our time, marvelously written, and it leaves one, finally, to question
his/her presumptions and ambivalence toward torment, submission, and ecstasy.
This edition includes an intriguing selection of letters between von
Sacher-Masoch and a young correspondent that illuminates the real-life parallel
of von Sacher-Masoch's ideals and that of his oeuvre. Venus in Furs and
Selected Letters is, in all, a passionate portrayal of one man's indomitable
struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and his world in the realm of
desire. A timeless volume, highly recommended for bed-sitting aesthetes
everywhere. -- From Independent Publisher
Leopold von
Sacher-Masoch
Sacher-Masoch
is the great-great-uncle to the British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull
on her mother's side, the Viennese Baroness Eva Erisso.
Thomas Nashe
Nashe or Nash,
Thomas, 1567-1601, English satirist. Very little is known of his life. Although
his first publications appeared in 1589, it was not until Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil
(1592), a bitter satire on contemporary society, that his natural and vigorous
style was fully developed. His ardent anti-Puritanism involved him in the
Martin Marprelate controversy, resulting in a scurrilous pamphlet battle with
Richard and Gabriel Harvey in which Nashe produced some of his liveliest
writing. The Unfortunate
Traveler (1594), his best-known work, was a forerunner of the
picaresque novel of adventure. His plays include a satirical masque, Summer's Last Will and Testament (1592); and a
lost comedy written with Ben Jonson, The
Isle of Dogs (1597), which caused the imprisonment of several persons,
including Jonson himself, for "seditious and slanderous" language.
The Age of Transitions
Virtually There -
episode 3 Anti-Culture and the Perfected Mass Man
ALTERATI.com
Coincidence Control
Network: File #021
TEN PRINCIPLES OF
MOTHER-INFANT BONDING:
FOUNDATIONS FOR HUMAN
TRUST, HARMONY & PEACE
James W. Prescott,
Ph.D.
Institute of
Humanistic Science
I. Every Pregnancy Is A Wanted Pregnancy. Every Child Is A Wanted
Child.
Unwanted children are
typically unloved, abused and neglected who become the next generation of
delinquents, violent offenders and alcohol/drug abusers and addicts.
II. Every Pregnancy Has Proper Nutrition & Prenatal Care--medical
and psychological --and is free from alcohol, drugs tobacco and other harmful
agents of stress.
III. Natural Birthing--avoid wherever possible obstetrical
medications, forceps & induced labor with no episiotomy nor premature
cutting of umbilical cord. Mother controls birthing position with no separation
of newborn from mother. Newborn maintains intimate body contact with mother for
breastfeeding and nurturance that promotes Basic Trust.
IV. No Circumcision of newborn. The traumatic pain of newborn
circumcision adversely affects normal brain development, impairs affectional
bonding with mother and has long lasting effects upon how pain and pleasure are
experienced in life that shapes the development of Human Trust.
V. Breastfeeding On Demand by newborn/infant/child and for “two
years or beyond”, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and
UNICEF. Failure to breastfeed results in positive harm to normal brain
development and to the Immunological health of the newborn, infant and child.
Encoding the developing brain with the smell of mother’s body through
breastfeeding is essential for the later development of intimate sexuality.
VI. Intimate Body Contact is maintained between mother and
newborn/infant by being carried continuously on the body of the mother for the
first year of life. Such continuous gentle body movement stimulation of the
newborn/infant promotes optimal brain development and “Basic Trust” for
peaceful/happy behaviors. Mother-infant co-sleeping is encouraged for “two
years or beyond”. Mother-infant/child body contact can also be optimized with
daily infant/child massage. The Father must a lso learn to affectionately bond
with his infant and child by being an additional source of physical affection and
supporting mother as a nurturing mother.
VII. Immediate Comforting is given to infants and children who are
crying. No infant/child should ever be permitted to cry itself to sleep, which
impairs development of Human Trust.
VIII. Infants and Children Are For Hugging and should never be
physically hit for any reason. Merging childhood parental love with parental
violent pain helps create adult violent "love".
IX. Infants and Children Are Honored and should never be humiliated
nor emotionally abused for any reason. The emerging sexuality of every child is
respected which promotes Human Trust.
X. Mothers Must Be Honored and not replaced by Institutional Day
Care which emotionally harms children before three years of age.
Mother-Infant/Child Community Development Centers must replace
Institutionalized Day Care.
THE CHILD IS THE
FATHER OF THE MAN
THE CHILD IS THE
MOTHER OF CULTURE
The Child Is The
Future of Humanity
THE TRUTH ABOUT SEXUAL
MONOGAMY
By James W. Prescott,
Ph.D.
Institute of
Humanistic Science San Diego, CA
Published in The
Truth Seeker, November/December 1989
BODY PLEASURE AND THE
ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE
By James W. Prescott
Sensory Deprivation
Infant Neglect/Adult Violence
The Long-Term Consequences of Infant
Pleasure and Pain
Infant Physical Affection and Adult
Physical Violence
Extramarital Sex
Premarital Sex, Physical Violence and
Other Adult Behaviors
Violence and Pleasure: The Attitudes of
College Students
Religious Roots
Openness About the Body
To Love, not Compete
idiot
An idiot, dolt, or
dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating
or significantly counterproductive way. Archaically the word mome has also been
used. The similar terms moron, imbecile, and cretin have all gained specialized
meanings in modern times. An idiot is said to be idiotic, and to suffer from
idiocy. A dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning. An idiot
differs from a fool (who is unwise) and an ignoramus (who is uneducated/an
ignorant), neither of which refers to someone with low intelligence.
Etymology
Look up idiot in Wiktionary, the free
dictionary.
Idiot as a word
derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs ("person lacking professional
skill", "a private citizen", "individual"), from ἴδιος,
idios ("private", "one's own"). In Latin the word idiota
("ordinary person, layman") preceded the Late Latin meaning
"uneducated or ignorant person." Its modern meaning and form dates
back to Middle English around the year 1300, from the Old French idiote ("uneducated or ignorant
person"). The related word idiocy dates to 1487 and may have been
analogously modeled on the words prophet and prophecy. The word has cognates in
many other languages.
An idiot in Athenian
democracy was someone who was characterized by self-centeredness and concerned
almost exclusively with private—as opposed to public—affairs. Idiocy was the
natural state of ignorance into which all persons were born and its opposite,
citizenship, was effected through formalized education. In Athenian democracy,
idiots were born and citizens were made through education (although citizenship
was also largely hereditary). "Idiot" originally referred to
"layman, person lacking professional skill", "person so mentally
deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning". Declining to take
part in public life, such as democratic government of the polis (city state),
was considered dishonorable. "Idiots" were seen as having bad
judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term "idiot"
shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to
individuals with overall bad judgment–individuals who are "stupid".
According to the Bauer-Danker Lexicon, the noun ίδιωτής in ancient Greek meant
"civilian" (ref Josephus Bell 2 178), "private citizen"
(ref sb 3924 9 25), "private soldier as opposed to officer,"
(Polybius 1.69), "relatively unskilled, not clever," (Herodotus 2, 81
and 7 199). The military connotation in Bauer's definition stems from the fact
that ancient Greek armies in the time of total war mobilized all male citizens
(to the age of 50) to fight, and many of these citizens tended to fight poorly
and ignorantly.
In modern English
usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme
folly or stupidity, and its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed). In
psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called
profound mental retardation.
Disability
In 19th and early
20th century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a
very severe mental retardation. In the early 1900s, Dr. Henry H. Goddard
proposed a classification system for mental retardation based on the
Binet-Simon concept of mental age. Individuals with the lowest mental age level
(less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbeciles had a mental age
of three to seven years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years. The
term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30. IQ,
or intelligence quotient, was originally determined by dividing a person's
mental age, as determined by standardized tests, by their actual age. The
concept of mental age has fallen into disfavor, though, and IQ is now
determined on the basis of statistical distributions.
In current medical
classification, these people are now said to have "profound mental
retardation."
United States law
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information. (December 2011)
Until 2007, the
California Penal Code Section 26 stated that "Idiots" were one of six
types of people who are not capable of committing crimes. In 2007 the code was
amended to read "persons who are mentally incapacitated."[13] In
2008, Iowa voters passed a measure replacing "idiot, or insane
person" in the State's constitution with "person adjudged mentally
incompetent."
In several U.S.
states, "idiots" do not have the right to vote:
Kentucky Section 145
Mississippi Article
12, Section 241
New Mexico Article
VII, section 1
Ohio (Article V,
Section 6)
The constitution of
the state of Arkansas was amended in the general election of 2008 to, among
other things, repeal a provision (Article 3, Section 5) which had until its
repeal prohibited "idiots or insane persons" from voting.
In literature
A few authors have
used "idiot" characters in novels, plays and poetry. Often these
characters are used to highlight or indicate something else (allegory).
Examples of such usage are William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and
William Wordsworth's The Idiot Boy. Idiot characters in literature are often
confused with or subsumed within mad or lunatic characters. The most common
imbrication between these two categories of mental impairment occurs in the
polemic surrounding Edmund from William Shakespeare's King Lear. In Fyodor
Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, the idiocy of the main character, Prince Lev
Nikolaievich Myshkin, is attributed more to his honesty, trustfulness,
kindness, and humility, than to a lack of intellectual ability. Nietzsche
claimed, in his The Antichrist, that Jesus was an idiot. This resulted from his
description of Jesus as having an aversion toward the material world.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
(1895). The Antichrist. http://www.handprint.com/SC/NIE/antich.html "To make a hero of Jesus! And even more,
what a misunderstanding is the word 'genius'! Our whole concept, our cultural
concept, of 'spirit' has no meaning whatever in the world in which Jesus lives.
Spoken with the precision of a physiologist, even an entirely different word
would be yet more fitting here—the word idiot."
(§ 29, partially
quoted here, contains three words that were suppressed by Nietzsche's sister
when she published The Antichrist in
1895. The words are: 'das Wort Idiot,' translated here as 'the word idiot'.
They were not made public until 1931, by Josef Hofmiller. H.L. Mencken's 1920
translation does not contain these words.)
I. A. Richards
Richards, I. A. (Ivor
Armstrong Richards), 1893-1979, English literary critic. Richards was one of
the founders of the school of interpretation known as the New Criticism, which
stressed an awareness of textual and psychological nuance and ambiguity when
studying literature. He advocated this viewpoint in influential studies
including The Meaning of Meaning
(with C. K. Ogden, 1923), Principles of
Literary Criticism (1924), and Practical Criticism (1929) (see criticism).
Richards's own poetry included Internal
Colloquies: Poems and Plays (1973) and Beyond
(1974) Richards was well-known for his creation, with Charles Kay Ogden, of
a simplified language called Basic English, which consists of a primary
vocabulary of 850 words. He championed its adoption in books such as Basic English and Its Uses (1943) and So Much Nearer: Essays Toward a World
English (1968), and in his teaching at Cambridge and Harvard; he even
translated Plato's Republic into
Basic English.
Marshall McLuhan
McLuhan's theories
consisted of a core of related propositions. He argued that human communication
media are extensions of one or more of the senses and that use of these media
re-arranges the sensory balance by stressing one sense over another. The
self-definition of a culture (or a person) can thus be traced, says McLuhan, to
the media that the culture relies on. To emphasize the importance of the
sensory reorganization imposed by a medium, McLuhan claimed that "the
medium is the message," which he later extended to the metaphor that
"the medium is the massage."
In The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of
Industrial Man (1951), written before McLuhan's theories had
reached their full development, one can see the brilliant attempt of a
professor of literature to demonstrate to his students the ideologies that are
invisibly (and therefore influentially) built into the content and structure of
popular culture. Drawing mainly upon newspaper and magazine advertising,
McLuhan argued that images of mechanical technology had come to dominate
popular consciousness, so that human beings reduced themselves to mechanical
and instrumental objects.
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
(1962), which won the 1963 Governor-General's Award for critical writing, is a
study of the results of introducing movable type into the culture of
15th-century Western Europe. McLuhan argued that the invention of print culture
made possible the creation of the public and the organization of the public
into a nation. Movable type also changed the culture by altering people's sensory
balance, emphasizing a visual fragmentation and linearity consistent with
mechanical print.
McLuhan became famous
with the publication of Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964). In this
book McLuhan made his most comprehensive statement of his theory. He argued
that "the medium is the message," in the sense that
the 'message' of any medium or technology is the change of scale or
pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. The railway did not
introduce movement or transportation or wheel or road into human society, but
it accelerated and enlarged the scale of previous human functions, creating
totally new kinds of cities and new kinds of work or leisure. This happened
whether the railway functioned in a tropical or a northern environment, and is
quite independent of the freight or content of the railway medium. The
airplane, on the other hand, by accelerating the rate of transportation, tends
to dissolve the railway form of city, politics, and association, quite
independently of what the airplane is used for.
Understanding Media
also advanced McLuhan's notions of the narcotizing effects of media and of the
distinction between hot and cool media. McLuhan claimed that when one of our
senses is "extended" through a new medium, our sensory balance is
altered in such a way that the other senses become dimmed or
"narcotized." The hot versus cool distinction claims that hot media
deliver information in high definition, and hence require little effort from
the receiver. Cool media, on the other hand, provide little information,
forcing the receiver to fill in what is missing to make sense out of the
message, thus demanding a high degree of participation by the receiver. McLuhan
wrote that, just as the change from oral and manuscript cultures to print
culture had altered history, so, too, the change from print to electronic
culture (television, computers) would, apart from whatever messages might be
sent on television or computers, bring about a fundamental alteration in human
consciousness.
Quotes
"The modern
little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to
being eaten by the wolf."
"Advertising is
the greatest art form of the twentieth century."
"Ideally,
advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses
and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out
toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness."
"Money is a poor
man's credit card."
"The school
system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It
is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for
processing."
"American youth
attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at
voting age."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm
Nietzsche; October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, poet,
composer and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion,
morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness
for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
Nietzsche's influence
remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism,
nihilism and postmodernism. His style and radical questioning of the value and
objectivity of truth have resulted in much commentary and interpretation,
mostly in the continental tradition. His key ideas include the death of God,
perspectivism, the Übermensch, amor fati, the eternal recurrence, and the will
to power. Central to his philosophy is the idea of
"life-affirmation", which involves an honest questioning of all
doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent
those views might be.
Nietzsche began his
career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. In 1869, at the
age of 24 he was appointed to the Chair of Classical Philology at the
University of Basel (the youngest individual to have held this position), but
resigned in the summer of 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of
his life. In 1889 he became mentally ill with what was then characterized as
atypical general paresis attributed to tertiary syphilis, a diagnosis that has
since come into question. He lived his remaining years in the care of his
mother until her death in 1897, then under the care of his sister until his
death in 1900.
The rainbow is the
modern symbol of the Noahide Movement, recalling the rainbow that appeared
after the Great Flood of the Bible.
Noahide laws
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yes! Magazine
A History of Happiness
We've forgotten much of
what older traditions knew about happiness.
By Darrin M. McMahon,
Ph.D.
Happiness has
increasingly been thought to be more about getting little infusions of
pleasure, about feeling good rather than being good, less about living the
well-lived life than about experiencing the well-felt moment.
A History of Happiness
We've forgotten a lot
of what we used to know about happiness.
The ancients thought of
happiness not as an emotional state but as an outcome of moral comportment.
This perspective lies
behind our belief that suffering is inherently wrong, and that all people, in
all places, should have the opportunity, the right, to be happy.
We might focus less on
our own personal happiness and instead on the happiness of those around us, for
relentless focus on one’s own happiness has the potential to be self-defeating.
---
Darrin M. McMahon,
Ph.D., originally wrote this article for Greater Good, the UC
Berkeley-based magazine that covers research into the roots of compassion,
happiness, and altruism. It is republished through a special collaboration
between Greater Good and YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media
organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Darrin McMahon
is a professor of history at Florida State University and the author of Happiness, A History.
This piece is based on a talk he delivered at the 2008 "Happiness and Its
Causes" conference in San Francisco, co-sponsored by the Greater Good
Science Center.
Interested?
10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy:
Scientists can tell us how to be happy. Really. Here are 10 ways, with the
research to prove it.
Making a Difference Makes you Happy:
A series of studies find that activism brings pleasant emotions, greater life
satisfaction, and more experiences of freedom, competence, and connection to
others.
Be Happy Anyway: The
economic boom didn't bring us (or the planet) any happiness. So maybe there's
an upside to the downturn.
The UN Embraces the
Economics of Happiness
Leaders from around the
world want well-being—not gross national product—to guide our economic
decisions.
Top five regrets of the
dying
A nurse has recorded the most common
regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is 'I wish I hadn't worked so
hard'. What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life?
The origins of violence
Nurturing nature
The first study has
just been published showing how a particular gene and a particular environment
interact to produce violent individuals
Security First
For a Muscular, Moral
Foreign Policy
By Amitai Etzioni
(2008)
Biography
After receiving his Ph.D. in
Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1958, Dr. Amitai
Etzioni served as a Professor of Sociology at Columbia University for 20 years;
part of that time as the Chairman of the department. He was a guest scholar at
the Brookings Institution in 1978 before serving as a Senior Advisor to the
White House from 1979-1980. In 1980, Dr. Etzioni was named the first University
Professor at The George Washington University, where he is the Director of the
Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies. From 1987-1989, he served as the
Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School.
Dr. Etzioni served as the president
of the American Sociological Association in 1994-95, and in 1989-90 was the
founding president of the international Society for the Advancement of
Socio-Economics. In 1990, he founded the Communitarian Network, a not-for-profit,
non-partisan organization dedicated to shoring up the moral, social and
political foundations of society. He was the editor of The Responsive
Community: Rights and Responsibilities, the organization's quarterly journal,
from 1991-2004. In 1991, the press began referring to Dr. Etzioni as the 'guru'
of the communitarian movement.
Dr. Etzioni is the author of numerous
books, including The Monochrome Society
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), The Limits of Privacy (New York:
Basic Books, 1999), The New Golden Rule (New York: Basic Books, 1996), which
received the Simon Wiesenthal Center's 1997 Tolerance Book Award, The Spirit of Community (New York: Crown
Books, 1993), and The Moral Dimension:
Toward a New Economics, (New York: Free Press, 1988). His most recent books
are My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a
Message (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and From Empire to Community: A New Approach to
International Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Outside of academia, Dr. Etzioni's
voice is frequently heard in the media.
In 2001, he was named among the top
100 American intellectuals as measured by academic citations in Richard
Posner's book, Public Intellectuals: A
Study of Decline.
Also in 2001, Dr. Etzioni was awarded
the John P. McGovern Award in Behavioral Sciences as well as the Officer's
Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was also the
recipient of the Seventh James Wilbur Award for Extraordinary Contributions to
the Appreciation and Advancement of Human Values by the Conference on Value
Inquiry, as well as the Sociological Practice Association's Outstanding
Contribution Award.
Dr. Etzioni is married and has five
sons.
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“Manifesto to the
Governments and Peoples of the Christian Nations Threatened by Judaism”: The
First Anti-Jewish Congress in Dresden
(September 11-12, 1882)
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Whatever happened to Officer Friendly?
All U.S. cops guilty of
treason for assisting coverup of 9/11
Congress, bankers, military leaders all know it has all been
a big lie
Corrupt judges, bought-off media sold
their own people into worldwide slavery
By John Kaminski
Every police officer
in the United States of America is guilty of treason for acquiescing to the
now-provable lies top officials of the U.S. government told to the world
immediately after the 9/11 disaster. Their actions changed the character of
America forever. Their lies have resulted in the needless deaths of millions
around the world.
With a story so
flimsy and a crime so gruesome, any cop who submitted to his superiors in any
police department anywhere the kind of evidence U.S. officials submitted to the
world would have been fired on the spot for either incompetence or corruption.
Needless to say, it is not that way anymore.
When America's first
known homosexual president stood in the ruins of the World Trade Center and
said to all the shellshocked mourners — "They hate our freedoms!" —
every cop worth his salt could see a quivering liar running a scam not even
City Hall could fix. They all kept silent. (Pensions, y'know.)
This brilliantly
conceived psyop, through saturation media, managed to convince the world that a
man named Tim Osman, who once trained at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, was
really Osama bin Laden (whose family was close to the Bush family), dealing a
death blow to the Western colonialists in its biggest city from a high-tech
cave in darkest Afghanistan.
Every pronouncement
of every American official in any circumstance uttered since that moment has
been embellishment of that lie. All events since that time are predicated on
the falsehood that unidentifiable and unconvincing Islamic terrorists who
absolutely could not fly planes outwitted the U.S. trillion dollar defense
system.
The world still runs on
this hollow tune, and the blood still flows.
However, through their
control of the media and education, pretty much nobody seems the wiser, as the
various environmental poisons course through their veins and make them sleepier
and sleepier, while they continue to be dazzled by entertainment that only gets
dumber and dumber.
They cheer Obama
wildly when he appears on late night talks shows. He's a fine entertainer. Yes
dear, it's almost time for bed.
Particularly after
Obama's latest stunt that he may murder American citizens by decree, we all
have to ask ourselves — what kind of robot does it take to smile at a man who
has promised to kill you if you disagree with what he says?
A
chickenshitmotherfuckingman who probably cannot look at himself in the mirror
without his antidepressants and his lubes.
And whatever happened
to Officer Friendly?
When he's not tazing
your grandmother, he's raping your granddaughter at her elementary school. But
it's OK; the lesbian social workers will take good care of her, and the kids on
the corner who talk to the guy in the big black car will make sure she feels
better.
Officer Friendly was
then taken to Israel and mentally sodomized by top Israeli officials,
administered with the proper psychological steroids that guarantee he will
self-destruct from various diseases in a fairly short period of time, after he
first disposes of the prescribed number of non Jews in his allotted time frame
when he returns to the United States.
The Jews never were
American citizens and never will be. They are all agents of a foreign power, and
you, my fellow Americans, are their prey.
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The Power And
Aims Of International Jewry (Zionism)
November 22, 2001
PART 2
1. The Jews are a
nation held together by their common enemies. (Note 3.)
2. With the Jews
Nationality and Religion are inseparable and co-extensive.
3. All groups of Jews
from the extreme radicals (Poole Zionist) to the most conservative, are united
in this National Religious Movement.
4. Once a Jew always
a Jew.
5. The teachings of
the Talmud still exercises a profound influence on Jewish life.
6. Judaism and
Socialism are different expressions of the same movement.
7. The Jews consider
themselves the original exponents of internationalism and the League of
Nations. (Note 4.)
PART 3
... Concerning the
leaders of the Munich Soviet Revolution, Ben Hecht, himself a radical, in a
cable published in the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS said:
"As for the
Communist leaders in Bavaria, for instance Toller, Levine, Muhsam, Landauer,
Lipp, and, in fact, all whom I met in the April Soviet days in Munich, were
Jews."
As to the general
Jewish influence in Germany, Hecht states:
"One of the
tragi-comic sides of the feverish German situation today is the position of the
German Jews. Although less than one per cent of the German population consists
of Jews, fully 75% of its present leaders - conservative and radical - are
Semitic. The only political party which has no Jewish leaders is the centre or
Catholic party, controlled by Mathias Erzberger. In Weimar, however, I have
seen numerous centrist delegates to the national assembly whose Catholicism was
political rather than racial.
As for the majority
socialist, it must be remembered that the socialist party was founded by Karl
Marx, a Jew, and co-ordinated by Ferdinand Lasalle and the elder Liebknecht,
also Jews, while it was economically developed by Singer, another Jew. On the
other hand the most active anti-socialist leaders in Germany - Theodor Wolff,
George Bernhard and a dozen others of similar standing - are likewise Jews.
Hugo Haase, leader of
the independent socialist party, is a Jew, as are practically all of its more
important leaders, with the exception of Dr. Rudolph Breitscheld.
Nearly all of the
newspaper editors and publicists whom I have encountered, from Maximilian
Harden up and down the line, are Jews, and, so far as I can make out, nearly
all the Berlin bankers are of the same race."
PART 4
It is true that there
have been local outbreaks against the Jews, for special reasons, due to upset
conditions, and tales about Jewish profiteering, particularly from Russian
Bolshevik Jews, who are trying to upset the Polish nationalist spirit. **** I
remark with wonder that the leaders of America’s greatest Jewish societies are
lending themselves to this movement, for all this agitation in America is only
helping Germany and Bolshevik Russia. *** Whenever one Jew has been hurt in
Poland, Jews say ten were killed and Germans say a thousand. If a Jew is killed
in conflict, like the Jews in Vilna who fought with the Bolsheviki, the German
press immediately spreads a tale of a Polish pogrom in Vilna."
(b) Have the Jewish
Zionists as a part of a definite propaganda to get for the Jews of Poland
minority rights, deliberately exaggerated the stories of pogroms in Poland?
The BILL OF RIGHTS
adopted at the American-Jewish Congress at Philadelphia on December 19, 1918,
requested the Peace Conference to grant to the Jews in new or enlarged states
to be created by the Conference, autonomous management of all Jewish communal
institutions and insisted that such autonomy be a condition precedent to the
creation of any such state. Poland being the largest and most important new
state thus to be formed, it was natural that the Jews should center their
efforts on establishing this principle there.
To quote from one of
their own number, (Israel Cohen, in the WASHINGTON POST, May 30, 1919):
"MINORITY
RIGHTS"
“There is only one
way in which the civil equality of the Jews can be preserved and that is by
their being given the rights of a national minority. The Jews should be given
autonomy as far as the administration of their religious, cultural, social and
charitable affairs are concerned, but they should also be constituted a
separate electoral college with the right to proportional representation in the
Polish Parliament. And in order to establish a good working understanding
between them and the government, it is advisable that there should be a
ministry of Jewish affairs, the head of which should be responsible to a
representative council of the organized Jewish communities."
PART 5
Article 10 - Educational
Committee appointed locally by Jewish communities will provide for distribution
of proportional share of public funds allocated to Jewish schools in accordance
with Article 9 and for organization and management of these schools. The
provisions of Article 9 concerning the use of language in schools shall apply
to these schools.
Article 11 - provides
that Jews shall not be compelled to violate their Sabbath and that no elections
or registration shall be held on a Saturday.
Article 12 - provides
that the foregoing provisions constitute obligations of international concern
and shall he placed under the guarantee of the League of Nations, no change to
be made without the consent of majority of council of League of Nations which
will be binding on the United States and the leading Allies. Any member of the
League Council can call attention of the Council to possible infraction, and
Council may take jurisdiction of question.
Mr. Marshall in an
interview of July 24, 1919 said: "The rights which have been secured have
not been affected in favor of the Jews alone, but for all minorities." In
this connection it is worthy of notice that Article 10 and 11 relate solely to
the Jews.
In an earlier
interview of June 30, 1919 (NEW YORK TIMES, July 1) Mr. Marshall said:
"Nothing thus
far accomplished by the Peace Conference exceeds in importance the Polish
Treaty. **** It is literally a charter of Liberty and the final act of
emancipation of those who, for centuries, have been bereft of elemental human
rights. ******* It enshrines in the law of nations the eternal principles of
human liberty that constitute the distinctive features of the American
Constitution by means of which, despite the divergent racial elements of our
population, we have become in fact as well as in spirit, a homogeneous,
patriotic, just nation. We have long appreciated what at last is to enter into
the consciousness of all people - that the true purpose of government cannot be
realized until majorities look upon minorities as their equal before the
law."
This statement is
misleading because it gives the reader the idea that the rights granted the
Jews in Poland are only those enjoyed by Jewish Americans whereas, quite the
contrary is true. Another interesting point is that this interview bears the
same date as the text of the Polish Treaty, namely, June 30, 1919, but the
interview appeared July 1, 1919 in the NEW YORK TIMES, while the Treaty was
withheld until the day following.
Premier Clemenceau as
quoted in the NEW YORK TIMES of July 2d defended the provisions above set out
saying:
"The following
articles are of a rather different nature, in that they provide special
privileges to certain groups of these minorities: ****
PART 6
... (7) On July 24
Mr. Marshall stated that:
"The horror of
the Pogroms in Poland and Ukrainia will ‘stagger the world’ when the truth
becomes known. Tens of thousands of Jews have been killed. The pogroms were not
so much the result of an organized movement as they were the outgrowth of
unsettled anarchistic tendencies in the countries where they occurred. They
found expression in attacks of Jews."
Heretofore he has
never mentioned the Ukraine in his interviews, except very casually.
On August 1, 1919 Mr.
Marshall made public the following telegram dated July 30, 1919 from Leo
Motkin, Secretary of the "Combined Jewish Committee of the World” at
Paris:
"Zuckerman
arrived and confirms former communications. He reports new and terrible Pogroms
which occurred during June at Kaminets, Podolsk, Kitaigorod, Ourinine, et
cetera. The latest news is certified by three Rabbis and by other Jewish
representatives at Khotine. I know these men who are from the Ukraine. They
state that altogether 120,000 have been killed. In Proskurof alone 3,964
inhabitants and numerous passing people have been killed and 2,000 wounded.
Among the killed were 1500 school children. Ukrainian Judaism fears total
extermination. It is impossible to check the exact figures. In all of the
pogroms undoubtedly dozens of thousands have been massacred."
The Department has in
its files a dispatch (heretofore referred to on Page 17) dated April 2, 1919
from the American Commissioner at Constantinople quoting Rabbi Tittlebaum in
which he stated hundreds of thousands of Jews had been killed and wounded in
the Ukraine and that 5000 were killed in Proscorog alone. This information
undoubtedly came to Mr. Marshall in April. Why then, has the story remained unpublished
all these months? It is asserted by the Poles to be because such a publication
would have weakened, if not utterly destroyed the case which they claim the
Jews were so laboriously building up in support of their minority rights in
Poland.
On August 2, 1919 the
day following the publication of the above telegram, the Ukrainian National
Committee in New York issued a statement in part as follows:
"There are not
and have not been pogroms in Ukraine outside the zone of Bolshevism. While
unfortunately it probably is true that there have been many innocent victims of
lawless bands in Ukraine, just as there have been Jewish victims of the Polish
soldiery in Galicia, the killings are the work of the Bolsheviki and the
Bolsheviki alone." ******
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Surrendered Enriched Uranium for the United States' Atomic Bomb
By Carter Plympton
Heidrich
(2004)
About the Author
Carter Plymton
Hydrick has been director of corporate communications for a Fortune 1000
company and a marketing executive for one of the world's largest computer
companies. In addition, he has written, directed and/or produced hundreds of
film and video productions.
Critical Mass is his
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Japan's Race Against
Time to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb
By Robert K. Wilcox
(1995)
Biography
Robert K. Wilcox is
the award-winning, bestselling non-fiction and novel writer of such works as Scream of Eagles, Wings of Fury and Target:
Patton: The plot to assassinate Gen. George S. Patton. His latest book is The Truth About the Shroud of Turin. In
addition to his writing for film and television, he has reported for The New
York Times and written for numerous national and international publications
including the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and
National Geographic. He started his career as a reporter and editor for the
Miami News. During the Vietnam War he was an Air Force Information Officer. He
lives in Los Angeles. His website is www.robertkwilcox.com
Luis Walter Alvarez
Luis W. Alvarez (June
13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist and
inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty
of the University of California, Berkeley. The American Journal of Physics
commented, "Luis Alvarez (1911–1988) was one of the most brilliant
and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century."
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968, and took out over 40
patents, some of which led to commercial products.
---
In the fall of 1943,
Alvarez returned to the United States with an offer from Robert Oppenheimer to
work at Los Alamos on the Manhattan project. But Oppenheimer
suggested that he first spend a few months at the University of Chicago working
with Enrico Fermi before coming to Los Alamos. During these months, General
Leslie Groves asked Alvarez to think of a way that the US could find out if the
Germans were operating any nuclear reactors, and, if so, where they were.
Alvarez suggested that an airplane carrying a system to detect the radioactive
gases that a reactor produces, particularly xenon 133. The equipment did fly
over Germany but detected no radioactive xenon because the Germans did not
succeed in building a reactor capable of a chain reaction. This was the first
idea of monitoring fission products for intelligence gathering. It would become
extremely important after the war.
As a result of his
radar work and the few months spent with Fermi, Alvarez arrived at Los Alamos
in the spring of 1944, later than many of his contemporaries. The work on
Little Boy (uranium bomb) was far along so Alvarez became involved in the
design of Fat Man (plutonium bomb). The technique used for uranium, that of
forcing the two sub-critical masses together using a type of gun, would not
work with plutonium because the high level of background spontaneous neutrons
would cause fissions as soon as the two parts approached each other, leading to
heat and expansion forcing the system apart before much energy has been
released. It was decided to use a nearly critical sphere of plutonium and
compress it quickly by explosives into a much smaller and denser core, which
was a technical challenge at the time.
To create the
symmetrical implosion required to compress the plutonium core to the required
density, thirty two explosives were to be simultaneously detonated around the
spherical core. Using conventional explosive techniques with blasting caps,
efforts to accomplish simultaneity to within a small fraction of a microsecond
were discouraging. Alvarez directed his graduate student, Lawrence Johnston, to
develop a method of using a large capacitor to deliver a high voltage charge
directly to each explosive lens, replacing blasting caps with
exploding-bridgewire detonators. The exploding wire detonated the thirty two
charges to within a few tenths of a microsecond. The invention was absolutely
critical to the success of the Trinity and Nagasaki plutonium bomb explosions.
Alvarez himself comments on this in his autobiography "Alvarez, Adventures
of a Physicist" by saying:
With modern
weapons-grade uranium, the background neutron rate is so low that terrorists,
if they had such material, would have a good chance of setting off a high-yield
explosion simply by dropping one half of the material onto the other half. Most
people seem unaware that if separated U-235 is at hand, it's a trivial job to
set off a nuclear explosion, whereas if only plutonium is available, making it
explode is the most difficult technical job I know.
Working with his
student, Lawrence Johnston, Alvarez's last task for the Manhattan Project was
to develop a set of calibrated microphone/transmitters to be parachuted from an
aircraft in order to measure the strength of the blast wave from the atomic explosion.
This would allow the scientists to be able to calculate the energy of the bomb.
Flying in the B-29 The Great Artiste in formation with the Enola Gay, Alvarez
measured the blast effect of the first bomb which fell on Hiroshima. A few days
later again flying in the Great Artiste, Johnston used the same equipment to
measure the strength of the Nagasaki explosion.
---
Alvarez proposed in
1965 to "X-Ray" the Egyptian pyramids to search for unknown chambers.
Using naturally occurring cosmic rays, his ingenious scheme was to place spark
chambers, standard equipment in the high-energy particle physics of this time,
beneath the second pyramid of Chephren in a known chamber. By measuring the
counting rate of the cosmic rays in different directions the detector would
reveal the existence of any void in the overlaying rock structure.
Alvarez assembled an
international team of physicists and archeologists from both the United States
and Egypt, the recording equipment was constructed and the experiment carried
out, though it was interrupted by the 1967 Six-Day War. Restarted after the
war, the effort continued, recording and analyzing the penetrating cosmic rays
until 1969 when Alvarez reported to the American Physical Society that no
chambers had been found in the 19% of the pyramid surveyed.
In November 1966 Life
Magazine published a series of photographs from the film that Abraham Zapruder
took of the Kennedy assassination. Alvarez, an expert in optics and
photoanalysis, became intrigued by the pictures and began to delve deeply into
what could be learned from the film. The result of this was that Alvarez proved
conclusively both in theory and experiment that the backward snap of the
President’s head was completely consistent with his being shot from behind,
which would have been the case if Lee Harvey Oswald were the assassin. He also
investigated the timing of the gun shots and the shockwave which disturbed the
camera, the speed of the camera, and pointed out a number of things which the
FBI photoanalysts either overlooked or got wrong. He produced a paper intended
as a tutorial, with informal advice for the physicist intent on arriving at the
truth.
---
Dinosaur extinction
In 1980 Alvarez and
his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, "uncovered a calamity that literally shook
the Earth and is one of the great discoveries about Earth’s history"
Walter Alvarez was
doing geological research in central Italy during the 1970s on the walls of a
gorge whose limestone layers included strata both above and below the so-called
K–T boundary (sometimes called the K-Pg), the boundary between the Cretaceous
and Tertiary periods corresponding to a time of 65.95 million years ago (Kuiper
et al., 2008). Exactly at the boundary is a layer of clay about 1 cm thick.
Walter removed a small piece of the rock containing both sections of limestone
and the clay layer and later showed it to his father. Walter said "This
layer marks where the dinosaurs and much else went extinct. Nobody knows why.
Or what the clay is about. A big mystery!", and intended to discover why
from then on.
One of the first
things Alvarez did was to try to figure out how long it had taken to lay down
the centimeter of clay. It was not an easy question to solve considering the
events happened 65 million years ago, but he thought he might be able to use
the very slow deposition of iridium on earth from the cosmos as a kind of
clock. Elements of the platinum group, including iridium, are rare in
interplanetary space, but much more abundant than on Earth. There is very
little iridium in the Earth's crust, but the planet is constantly bombarded
with micrometeorites which, as they burn up in the atmosphere, lightly dust the
surface with iridium at a constant and known rate. Alvarez reasoned that if
there were a lot of iridium in the clay layer, then the clay layer had formed
over a long time, and if there was very little, then the clay layer had formed
in a short time.
Alvarez had access to
the nuclear chemists at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and was able to work
with Frank Asaro and Helen Michel. The chemists used a technique known as
neutron activation analysis and were astounded to discover that exactly at the
clay boundary the iridium content was enormous, but not in the limestone on
either side. Whatever had caused the iridium content in the clay, it was far
too high to have come from micrometeorites. Carefully checking their work, the
next step was to determine if the clay from other locations contained the same
level of iridium (the K-Pg clay is well known and is distributed worldwide),
which it did. Within a few years of the publication of their paper, more than
100 iridium-containing clay sites were found. The team, knowing of no
terrestrial source which could produce and deliver so much iridium, concluded
that the source had to be extraterrestrial.[8] In the years following their
publication the clay was also found to contain soot, glassy spherules, shocked
quartz crystals, microscopic diamonds, and other rare minerals formed only
under conditions of great temperature and pressure.
They considered a
number of possible sources for the iridium anomaly; the passage of Earth
through giant nebular clouds, a nearby supernova, and other low probability
scenarios. With time, effort, and subsequent experimentation, all of these were
eliminated, leaving a direct impact on the earth by a comet or an asteroid as
the only hypothesis which could satisfy all of the conditions, the impact
hypothesis, a significant challenge to current theory.
They published their
paper in 1980; there was criticism from the geological community, and an often
acrimonious scientific debate ensued. Ten years after this initial proposal,
after Alvarez's death, evidence of a huge impact crater called Chicxulub off
the coast of Mexico strongly supported their theory. Other researchers later
found that the end-Cretaceous extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs may
have occurred over thousands of years, rather than millions of years as had
previously been accepted. Others continue to study such theories as increased
volcanism, particularly the massive Deccan Traps eruptions that occurred around
the same time, and climate change, checking against the fossil record.
Significantly, however, on March 4, 2010, a panel of 41 scientists agreed that
the Chicxulub asteroid impact triggered the mass extinction.
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