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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The monster behind your door ...
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Anonymous said...
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Intro 1 Returning To Eden From: The Architecture Of Modern Political Power......The various utopian forms of socialism commonly center, implicitly and imperatively, on the premise that deliverance (from deprivation, despondency, mortality, etc.) can be attained through purely social mechanisms — elimination of bad actors and dissenters, galvanizing of zeal for the orthodoxy — with no ideological accommodation of the indispensability of economically productive action and the unfettered capacity of the institutions on which that action is predicated. In its essence, the utopian socialists' program is to build a world out of collective make-believe. This is what makes “socialism” an apt name for the ideology. Whereas free marketeers believe (observe) that the world of humanity can be made better (more prosperous, more enduring) through the rational effort of self-interested individuals, utopian socialists believe the world will be perfect once they get their act just right — once everyone has learned the lines and recites them perfectly, and every spoiler has been booted off the stage. In this mold, Barack Obama declared in his November 2008 victory speech that “Our union can be perfected”, and the New York Times Web site asked in an ephemeral headline on 2008-Nov-14, “Will Obama Script Include Clinton?”. The thinking of the Massachusetts Puritans was also along these very lines, as suggested by John Winthrop's “City on a Hill” motif. Rigid intolerance of impiety naturally follows from acceptance of several signature Genesis tales: impiety and disobedience prompting the God of Eden to expel Adam and Eve therefrom, Noah and the Flood whereby God purged wickedness from the world of mankind, and the destruction of Sodom and Gommorah, for holding that “what is mine is mine, and what is yours is yours” (according to the Mishnah Abot), or because they “were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy” (Ezekiel 16:49-50).
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3/11/09, 9:32 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Above by:Daniel Pouzzner
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3/11/09, 9:34 AM
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Hell_Is_Like_Newark said...
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Before the Great Depression, the United States had up to six different types of currencies. Only two backed directly by precious metals (gold & silver)
http://www.friesian.com/notes.htm
I have wondered that when this mess is finally over that we might end up, in some way, with a combination of gold, silver, platinum, rhodium, etc. being the basis for currencies (since the fiat currencies would all be worthless). -
3/11/09, 9:34 AM
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Anonymous said...
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More from Daniel Pouzzner...Regarding Roger Nash Baldwin founder of the ACLU:......"For Baldwin, deceptive libertarian rhetoric was a completely conscious tactic. In 1917, in a letter to Louis Lochner of the socialist People's Council in Minnesota, he wrote “Do steer away from making it look like a Socialist enterprise [...] We want also to look like patriots in everything we do. We want to get a good lot of flags, talk a good deal about the Constitution and what our forefathers wanted to make of this country, and to show that we are really the folks that really stand for the spirit of our institutions.” In 1931, the Special House Committee to Investigate Communist Activities concluded that “The American Civil Liberties Union is closely affiliated with the communist movement in the United States, and fully 90 percent of its efforts are on behalf of communists who have come into conflict with the law. It claims to stand for free speech, free press, and free assembly; but it is quite apparent that the main function of the ACLU is to attempt to protect the communists in their advocacy of force and violence to overthrow the government, replacing the American flag by a red flag and erecting a Soviet government in place of the republican form of government guaranteed to each state by the federal Constitution.” ACLU founder Baldwin was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter on 1981-Jan-16 (four days before the end of Carter's term). Funding for the ACLU comes from an armada of foundations, featuring Ford, Hewlett, Packard, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Soros (“Open Society”). The ACLU claims it has 300,000 members."
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3/11/09, 11:56 AM
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