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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Want to Fight Government Domestic Spying? Join a 'Restore the Fourth' Protest This Independence Day

The weak willed......will turn
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

Rallies are planned in more than 100 cities from coast to coast.
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July 3, 2013  |  
A nationwide protest on July 4 th to declare independence from the federal government’s unconstitutional search and seizure of everyone’s Internet data trails and communications is gaining momentum.
Restore the Fourth is a grassroots, non-partisan, non-violent movement that seeks to organize and assemble nationwide protests on July 4th, 2013 and currently plans demonstrations in more than 100 cities across America, all protesting the disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden of unprecedented domestic spying.
The protesters will gather to demand that federal police and spy agencies adhere to the constitutionally dictated limits of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which were written to stop the King of England from privacy-busting searches and seizure of evidence without a court authorization and search warrant.

“Restore the Fourth maintains that justification of the Fourth Amendment beyond the original text need not be given; the legitimacy of which is self-evident,” its website states, before quoting the Bill of Rights.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
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AlterNet / By Steven Rosenfeld





rt...........Americans are taking notes


trnn, ....Legal larceny of u.s. tax $$, if the multinational corps want war to make profit the greedy bastards need to pitch in and support the cause.....highly targeted boycotts has historically been the most efficient method. Americans want peace but are forced to finance the dubious enterprise of environmental rape of the planet both human and natural resources. My student loan payments are now going to arm the world......... kosmicdebris




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 Why does anyone think Snowden would actually get 'due process' here?  I mean besides indefinite detention, to rot and go mad in solitary confinement, tortured, put to death?  Certainly not from a jury of his peers, why.....why that would anyone think we sill have a democracy? The ptb are afraid, very afraid.  If recent history tells us anything......the zeal the American Goberment are going after truth tellers tells us anything it is that the public is not as dumb as [they] think we mainstream americans are supposed to be. Can anyone else see the the pattern..sibal edmonds, julian assange, bradly manning, tice, hammonds, swartz and the many others who seem to just disappear?  who the fuck is next? And one more thing....was/is there really a Snowden leaker?  maybe, maybe not. The messenger may have already been murdered if there really was one. kosmicdebris


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Miss PERI, have you compared the united states to the rest of the world?  full of shit, that's what...look at labor markets..........poor education....workers are struggling, what are the figures for the WORKING POOR, fast food workers can taint your food all all along the food chain feeding fast FAT food consumer slaves...........personally I haven't dined at FF X 10 years.  pity
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hey cable news.....pull your head out of your collective asses.....the hacks and shills get to pay their bills.   Cable news goes a long way to sniff out a story.





We demand the GAO audit the members of all three branches of government, asap, stat, mos tic........we will/shall not stop until all are held accountable.........for crimes against human dignity. TRUTH




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Friends,

Hopefully, you have something enjoyable planned for Independence Day.  A parade to go to, a picnic or BBQ, some time with family and friends...or just a day to relax. The "4th" is a great summer holiday filled with tradition, as it should be.

 

But if you’re like me, this Independence Day feels a little different.  

The news in recent weeks about the IRS using its force against certain targeted groups has reminded us that, absent vigilance on our parts, the government will abuse the power it has accumulated.  Likewise, as we learn more about the massive surveillance being conducted by the NSA and the FBI, a lot of Americans are today thinking and talking about the 4th Amendment and its intended protections against unreasonable searches.  

In short, I believe these “revelations” are bringing long-overdue attention to the liberties the Founding Fathers worked so hard and sacrificed so much to provide and protect.  It is more than a little ironic that the Revolution was prompted, in part, by abusive tax policies and unreasonable searches -- on the part of “tyrants”. And it is worth reminding ourselves that America fought wars to preserve the same freedoms that our own government today seems intent on eroding.

Regardless of our plans for this Independence Day, I hope they include remembering that the battle for freedom NEVER ends, and dedicating ourselves to restoring the liberty on which our great nation was founded.  That is the most patriotic thing we can do tomorrow -- and in all the days that follow.

Best Wishes for a great Independence Day, and thank you for all you do to ensure that freedom, liberty and opportunity are the real American values!

Thanks,
Gov. Gary Johnson

Honorary Chairman

 

 

P.S.  The Our America Initiative is working hard to give Liberty a voice in the public square.  Your support is always appreciated. www.OurAmericaInitiative.com
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From the economic slavery files: are we out of our fucking minds?. Blame [this] on education or lack there of.

 
Wednesday, Jul 3, 2013 07:45 AM CST

Let’s abolish student loans altogether!



(Credit: hxdbzxy via Shutterstock/Salon)

A Robin Hood tax on Wall Street could make education free again for millions of Americans

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Anyone with a heartbeat knows that Wall Street took down the economy, killed millions of jobs and hasn’t had to pay a penny for the damage it caused. In fact we are paying them for crashing the economy in the form of trillions in bailouts and low interest loans.
Well, maybe it’s time for Wall Street to contribute, rather than siphoning off our wealth. How about a sales tax on all transfers of stocks, bonds, and derivatives in order to fund tuition-free higher education?

Why are high schools free but colleges aren’t?
Access to higher education is vital to our economy and to our democracy. Today a college degree or post-high school professional training are the equivalent to what a high school diploma provided and signified a generation ago. For over 150 years, our nation has recognized that tuition-free primary and secondary schools were absolutely vital to the growth and functioning of our commonwealth.
By the middle of the 19th century, New York City also provided free higher education through what would become the City College of New York. Hunter and Brooklyn colleges also were tuition-free, as was California’s rapidly growing post-WWII state college and university system. The GI Bill of Rights after WWII provided significant resources to over three million returning veterans to go to school tuition-free, which in no small part, helped to build American prosperity for the next generation. (Tuition was even provided if GIs attended private colleges and universities.) A further impetus to free higher education came as America fell behind the USSR during the Sputnik-era space race.

But the spread of free higher education stalled and then retreated precisely as Wall Street began to grab more and more of the nation’s wealth. As financialization transformed the economy starting in the late 1970s, average wages flattened while Wall Street incomes shot through the roof. At the same time taxes on the super-rich collapsed placing more and more of the burden on working people. Lo and behold, free higher education rapidly became “unaffordable.” Wall Street then swooped in with loans as students and their families loaded up on debt in order to gain access to higher education. This is the very definition of financialization. (original re-print from alterNet via Salon)

We must hate our children

This article has been corrected since it first published. 
Next time you’re watching a college graduation, as you look out over the sea of caps and gowns, make sure you notice the ball and chain most graduates are wearing as they march onstage to receive their diplomas. That’s student loan debt, which at over $1 trillion tops credit card debt in the U.S. today. The average burden is $28,000, but add in their credit cards and they’re graduating with an average of $35,000 in debt. It’s no wonder that people who’ve paid off their student loan debt are 36 percent more likely to own homes than those who haven’t, according to new research by the One Wisconsin Now Institute and Progress Now.

What kind of society sends its young people from higher education into adulthood this way? I’m aware I’m only talking about those lucky enough to go to college, when roughly one-third of high school graduates don’t – but if this is the way we treat our relatively lucky kids, the rest of them don’t have a prayer. For many, the school to prison pipeline functions much more efficiently than the school to college one; California is one of at least 10 states that now spends more on prison than higher education. According to the Federal Reserve Bank, two-thirds of college graduates leave with some debt, and 37 million Americans are repaying a student loan right now. Read more

Wednesday, Jul 3, 2013 12:51 PM CST

Obama has no answer for 10-year-old killed in Yemen drone strike

News of the boy's death indicates the administration is being less than forthright about civilian casualties

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Obama has no answer for 10-year-old killed in Yemen drone strikeFILE - In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)(Credit: AP)
This originally appeared on ProPublica. 
 ProPublicaOn June 9, a U.S. drone fired on a vehicle in a remote province of Yemen and killed several militants, according to media reports.
It soon emerged that among those who died was a boy – 10-year-old Abdulaziz, whose elder brother, Saleh Hassan Huraydan, was believed to be the target of the strike. A McClatchy reporter recently confirmed the child’s death with locals. (Update: The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism today reported that there was “strong evidence” it was a U.S. drone strike, but it could not confirm the fact.)



Australia shuts down the Kalimantan Carbon Forest Partnership: “A lot of funds spent and very little progress”

4th July 2013

Australia has quietly shelved its Kalimantan Carbon Forest Partnership project. The US$43 million project will be closed before most of the project’s targets have been met.
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To Throw or Not to Throw a Stone

English (US)  April 14th, 2013 by admin ( Email )

Amira Hass: 'Throwing a stone is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule.' (Photo: Tamar Fleishman)
Amira Hass: 'Throwing a stone is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule.' (Photo: Tamar Fleishman)
By William A. Cook
A debate rages in Israel today on the truth of Amira Hass’s words “Throwing a stone is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance” (Amira Hass, Haaretz, 4/3/13).
The day after Hass’ comment, Dr. Rosenberg offered these objections: a. throwing stones after all can result in death and Hass does not mention that consequence, b. justifying stone throwing “grants legitimacy to the activities of the government she condemns; and c. stone throwing is “a natural right of every human being is futile and invalid, certainly in ethical terms.” Conveniently, Rosenberg does not mention that the Palestinians have no army, no air-force, no navy, no comparable military ordinance of any kind to throw at the fourth largest state of the art military in the world, only stones; can the stone kill, yes, but so can $300,000 missiles and phosphorus bombs. Do we justify death by missiles and phosphorus but damn death by stoning? Does the throwing of a stone justify the carnage of the Israeli IDF against the defenseless Palestinians? Where is the argument here? Is throwing a stone a birthright as Amira states or is that “futile and invalid” as Rosenberg claims? Given the reality of the Israeli military power versus the feeble efforts of the Palestinians, children and teenagers hurling stones, the debate on birthright avoids the obvious: not to throw a stone.
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Gary Johnson.......LIVE FREE!!





The poor are the victims, without resources to hire competent defense,  at the mercy of power abuse.  The apathy of the courts today are shameful.  Citizens rights are usurped by the power drunk judiciary. Karma will answer.













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Posted: 03 Jul 2013 12:46 AM PDT
3 July 2013
 - A person who has suffered abuse will tend to either become a perpetrator of further abuse or become self-destructive.
But why would a person who has suffered the emotional horrors of abuse ever afflict abuse on another human?
From a shamanic perspective, there is a type of spirit that is parasitic to us humans. ‘Spiritual Parasites’ propagate themselves through the agency of directed, violent, emotional transference, in a word: abuse.
An individual becomes infected with a Spiritual Parasite through transference from a host (perpetrator) during the victimization of abuse, whether this abuse be sexual, physical or the complex of emotional/mental/verbal abuse.



Policy News

Apple, Amazon, Samsung splattered by sueballs

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More mainstream support for rebellious developers

Science News

Records reveal a procession of records

Business News

Samsung slurps set-top streamer
Boxee deal rumoured at $US30M

Channel News

2,700 staffers shifted - everyone claims victory

Cloud News

Cloud computers are like bananas, says Deutsche Börse
It's fungible, so let's funge it

Data Centre News

It's alive! Shared-nothing migration puts the spark into Hyper-V
Freedom of movement

Hardware News

And it's sort-of 'Made in the USA'






I blogged this almost ten years ago........this issue will be the mass distraction to divert the world and leaves the ptb a window of opportunity.. arrogance to pull off the global end-game as planned the mass culling of the earth DOWN TO 500 million...watch how this plays out, but watch your back also..













weather i agree or disagree, everyone has the right to explore and find each and everyone's truth,they have a right to express [their] opinions ..these if et's exist........no harm, no foul, if anything [they] are teaching us not/or to destroyed us by now.....using this intel for political gain over race seems counterproductive. If this is the truth then they [they] are using us as a giant game of thrones.

WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW AND SURELY WE DO NOT KNOW EVERYTHING! ARRAGENT , ignorant BASTARDS, of the universe, WE ARE. HENCE NO NEW DISCOVERY WILL BE MADE.............ask Schopenhauer about truth.... first ridicule, then denial, finally acceptance.
 have a right to an opine.

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 *special note:  Tom Feely ICH editor needs our love and light, prayers and meditation wouldn't hurt. remember to keep our love "IN THE LIGHT"

 Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
 sun tzu, beginning and ending of this post

THE 'GREATNESS OF AMERICA:   






.....................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons.........
...........................................kosmicdebris..................................

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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Sustainable Living As Religious Observance, By Dmitry Orlov



Sustainable Living As Religious Observance, By Dmitry Orlov

By carolyn, on June 1st, 2012

Reposted from CLUB ORLOV
I have spent the last few days at a conference organized by the Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary near Artemas, Pennsylvania. Titled “The Age of Limits,” it was well attended and promises to be one of a series of annual conferences to address the waning of the industrial age and the social adaptation it makes necessary. This conference was quite different from all the others I have attended.

First, the venue is a campground; a beautiful one, consisting of lush meadows surrounded by an equally lush but passable forest girded on three sides by a fast-flowing creek of cold, clean water. This sanctuary is dedicated to nature spirituality, and includes a very impressive stone circle and a multitude of little shrines, altars, charms and amulets hung on trees. (Also included is an assortment of cheerful hippies skinny-dipping in the creek.) Second, spirituality was prominently featured in the presentations: the question of spiritual and emotional adaptation to fast-changing, unsettled times was very much on the agenda. Third, the campground is owned by a church; one of undefined denomination, theological bent or specific set of beliefs, but a church nevertheless. Lastly, the campground is run by a monastery that is at the heart of this church; the monks and nuns do not wear habits, do not seem to have not taken any specific vows other than those of loyalty, poverty and obedience, but in substance not too different from, say, the Benedictine Order: work is seven days a week, there is a meeting at eight sharp every morning, all meals are prepared and eaten together, and, except for insignificant personal effects, all property is shared.

In case the term “new-age hippies” has sprung to mind, let me add some more detail. This is not California (where the new-age flakes mostly reside) but southern Pennsylvania, on the Maryland border, some 30 miles from the dead industrial town of Cumberland, and, other than that, in the middle of nowhere. The campground is outfitted with hot and cold running water, electricity from a 10kW diesel generator, a septic system, a large communal kitchen and everything else needed to comfortably house and feed several hundred people. The buildings that are used year-round are super-insulated and heated with local wood. There is a machine shop which turns out, among other things, precision components for biomedical equipment, and a winery that makes several varieties of mead. The place has a strong survivalist bent, not of the doomsteading variety, but focused on being prepared to do whatever it takes, depending on what the future brings, be it farming or repairing the neighbors’ farm equipment and ever-plentiful firearms. It is a perfectly good, successful example of thoughtful preparation and adapting in place.

I do not have an awful lot to say on the subjects of mysticism or spirituality, but since these were on the agenda at this gathering, at which I was invited to speak, I had thought that I could add something to the proceedings by holding forth on the (possibly) related topic of religion and the (potential) usefulness of religious institutions in helping us adapt to the unfolding deterioration and collapse of industrial civilization, all the while steering well clear of any mystical or spiritual matters. What follows is a summary of my talk, based on the notes I had scribbled on some index cards

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Our social institutions are failing us. This is not an economic or technological problem but a cultural one. There are billions of people in the world who are able to survive on less than a dollar a day, and yet many of these people are happier than most of the people in the developed nations. This societal failure takes many forms. There is the educational system which mainly trains students to take tests (not a marketable skill), then attempts to teach them a job (which, more often than not, no longer exists). The best outcome that education can achieve—an educated person, versed in liberal arts and basic science—it considers useless.

There is the travesty of commerce and finance, with an insistence on growth at any cost, on maintaining inflated standards which make it impossible for people to meet their basic needs if they lack the money for the upscale, high-standard products and services that are considered mandatory, on extreme but impersonal interdependence where everyone is forced to rely on and to put their trust in complete strangers. It is a system that forces everyone to become a gambler—be it with your retirement, or with taking on student loans, or with most other investments. Furthermore, this system of legalized gambling is rigged so as to pool localized, personal risk into centralized, systemic risk that will, sooner or later, bring down the entire economic system.

The outcome of all this is that most human relationships have been reduced to the commercial, client-server paradigm. The intergenerational contract, where parents and grandparents bring up children who then take care of them in their old age, and which is an essential evolved trait of the human species, has been gambled away. There is extreme alienation, which reduces most conversations to scripted interactions on topics that are considered safe, and a great deal of transience, both in where people live and in the people with whom they associate. There is a steady replacement of local, human culture with commercial culture, packaged as a set of popular but short-lived cultural products.

Faced with all this, the natural response for many people is to want to turn their back on society, but without being alone. What institutions do we have that could help them accomplish this? Are there any that predate this now failed society, as well as the countless other societies that have failed before? Yes, there are. Religious institutions have turned their back on more societies than we can count, and have survived. Moreover, they have repeatedly provided a survival mechanism where all else had failed.

A well-studied example is Rome after the collapse of the Roman empire. Rome went from a majestic imperial center to a papal swamp. The barbarians destroyed the baths and the fountains, but left the aqueducts running. Over the following decades, the aqueducts filled Rome with water, turning it into a malarial swamp. The Roman forum was used to graze goats and to scavenge marble, which was then burned to make lime, to make mortar which was used to build churches and monasteries. What followed was an austere, ascetic age dominated by religion, which eventually coalesced into the Holy Roman Empire. It was neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire, but the dominant role of religion set the rules by which everyone had to play, even its rulers: no warfare was permitted on Sundays or feast days, or in churches or monasteries, which were treated as sanctuaries, as well as church property, which was considered sacrosanct. There followed several centuries of small-scale, silly little “operetta” wars, in which not too many people were hurt or killed. The last surviving echo of this age was the Christmas cease-fire during the first world war.

What makes religion unique among human institutions is its ubiquity (all cultures have it in one form or another) and its lack of compartmentalization. The secular universe is always broken up into specialties. Look at the departments at your typical college or university: there is marketing, communications, economics, political science, sociology, psychology, etc., which all have their circumscribed set of concerns. Anything else is considered interdisciplinary and results in a denial of tenure. In comparison, religion is a total system that encompasses every aspect of human existence. Moreover, religion (when placed in a position of authority) is able to place limits on the secular realm, rejecting those parts of it which it finds harmful or unhelpful. Religions also have the uncanny ability to demand and be granted social exemptions and become, to quite a considerable extent, a law onto themselves. The role and authority of religion tends to increase in times of adversity. Immigrants, exiles, diaspora communities are often held together by a church, a mosque, a synagogue, an ashram, etc. This effect usually wanes as times get better, but the institutions never quite go away, and come roaring back in times such as this.


I fully understand that religion is by no means popular with everyone. I would not have given this talk if this were, say, France, but the unique religious environment of the United States makes the subject impossible to ignore. To me, atheism is a perfectly valid belief (or, if you like, belief system). Everyone believes something, because our brains spontaneously produce explanations for things, even where there isn’t one, as is generally the case with the stock market, which can go up or down for no reason at all. Everyone believes in a creation myth of one type or another. The atheist creation myth is the Big Bang, which is that the universe came into existence 12.75 billion years ago. Alternatively, you can believe that the world was created in 6 days of work, followed by a day off. Or, if you are one of the Oogla people described by Douglas Adams, who live in the Oogla tree and subsist on Oogla nuts, you believe that the universe was created when the Giant Pixie sneezed, in an event known as the Big Sneeze.

Theology and astrophysics and humor/science fiction literature are all very different from the point of view of their practitioners, but as for the rest of us who make up about 99.9% of humanity, it is a matter of choosing what we want to believe. We walk up to the great salad bar of faith and decide what to put on our plate. The practitioners try to restrict our choices (they are, after all, in competition with each other) but in the end it is up to us. If the beliefs happen to be contradictory, then we don’t have to believe in them at the same time. To us, these are just different stories, accepted on faith, without proof or evidence. But there is one type of story that you get to play a role in, rather than just watch television. There are no historical reenactments of the Big Bang that I am aware of, no little Big Bang mangers, with the Three Subatomic Particles come bearing gifts, set up annually to commemorate the birth of the universe on its birthday.
 
We cannot not believe because our brains are wired for it. All of our perceptions and value judgments are based on what we believe. And our beliefs are mostly based on what we’ve been told when we were young and impressionable, and unquestioning. Some beliefs are outlandish; for instance, people believe that suburban real estate will continue to be valuable, because they will continue to be able to drive there. Religious belief in particular offers us a connection. The word “religion” comes from the Latin religere, to reconnect. Religion gives us a part to play. Scientific belief makes us a research subject, a specimen, or, if we are young and still daydream, a great scientist about to be awarded the Nobel prize. Science has its uses, of course. (The notes for this talk were written with a National Science Foundation Grantee Conference pen.) Science has its utility, you see. It can also inspire awe. The Large Hadron Collider is an awe-inspiring scientific experiment. But there are much cheaper ways to inspire awe, giving people a role to play at the same time; a role that expands in bad times.

The minimal functions of religion are limited to what one priest once expressed it as “Hatch ‘em, match em and dispatch ‘em”: baptism, matrimony and last rites. The maximal functions might be carried out by a network of monasteries that oversee agriculture and construction, regulate commerce, control politics, conduct scholarly investigation, limit warfare and offer education, medical treatment and all manner of advice. This describes, among many others, medieval Europe and Tibet prior to the Chinese invasion. Societies in which religious functions are maximized tend to last a few thousand years longer than the ones in which they are minimized.

There is a long-standing tradition of exempting religious organizations from the rules that govern civil organizations. These run the gamut from taxation to labor laws and land use laws, to lax law enforcement (which is why the Roman Catholic church in North America has not been summarily shut down, as a preventative measure, to prevent further incidents of child molestation). There are many special exemptions grandfathered in, from the Christian Scientists being exempt from Romneycare in Massachusetts to the Amish in Pennsylvania being able to live in ways that would alarm Child Protective Services were they living in a city. An exception that proves the rules is the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas, which was torched out of existence by the FBI: if you stockpile illegal firearms and impregnate underage women whom you hold captive, the government will eventually go after you, but not before much soul-searching accompanied by a full-scale media frenzy. Cults are a bad problem specifically because political authorities are afraid to go near them. In the US, it’s practically in their DNA to avoid a confrontation with anything even vaguely religious. Political arrangements are transient; religions are not. Also, religions often help governments do their job, or do the job that they do not do, of helping take care of the sick, the old and the indigent.

 Religious organizations face the fewest barriers to expanding their functions in bad times. They are the organizations most capable of creating alternative living arrangements during a time of permanent crisis.

Religious institutions are sustainable and resilient by virtue of the fact that they tend to outlive cultures, empires and civilizations. Not all of them are, but life in balance with nature is imperative for any religion that wishes to be one of the surviving ones. To this end, nature spirituality, which is practiced at the Four Quarters, seems to have its priorities straight. In any human endeavor there is always the threat of Realpolitik rearing Henry Kissinger’s ugly head, and religions are no exception, but religions offer wider latitude for moral challenge than secular organizations (unless they are largely dead).

This brings us back to the American context. In other parts of the world, conscientious atheism can be perfectly moral, even scrupulous because for an atheist morality and ethics are ends in themselves, not motivated by some supernatural, external force. But the US was founded for religious reasons, and political tolerance of religious differences is here enshrined more fully than any other freedom. Given the steady erosion of civil liberties, the emergence of an untouchable financial/political elite beyond the reach of the law, and the acceptance of fraud at every level, an attempt to mount a moral challenge via the legal system is futile. At the same time, religious freedom will prove to be very difficult for American politicians to whittle down. It would be foolish to ignore so potent a source of public authority.

Religion does have a negative side, which we should not ignore either. It mostly has to do with identity games. Give an idiot a flag to wave, an anthem to sing and some patriotic drivel to repeat unquestioningly, and he will march off to battle to kill other such idiots who are marching under a different flag. Religions provide ample scope for such identification, but religious idiots tend to be even more ardent than political idiots. But at a higher, non-idiotic level, different religions tend to work and play well together. A priest, a rabbi and an imam walk into a bar… and what do you suppose they discuss? Who is the one true god? Not likely; they are far more likely to compare notes on whatever happens to threaten or to oppress them, and to share their troubles. Religious tolerance and religious freedom are exactly the same thing. Freedom from religion is just as important; the atheists deserve to have their own church. (It can be an open-air church, to save money, and it can stand empty.)

Note that I have not delved into the specifics of any one religion. I have used the word faith, but have refrained from using the s-word (spirituality). That’s not what this talk was about. My point is that we have religious institutions, or traditions, that are able to survive just about anything. We also have a society that is disintegrating, a corrupt political system that will ruin many lies, and an economy that is failing to provide the necessities for more and more people. Why should we fight battles that have already been won? Religious institutions have already succeeded in fighting political institutions down to a reasonable truce, which the politicians are rightly terrified to break. Let us not start from scratch; let us work with what we already have.

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[1] http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/sustainable-living-as-religious.html
[2] http://www.4qf.org/
[3] http://ageoflimits.org/




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Friday, May 25, 2012

science, pragmatism. duck prosthesis

……..Science


Fifty years ago if someone ask a scientist if he believed in God, He would most likely say, of course not I am a scientist. Today if you ask a scientist he may just say of course I do, without a doubt I am a scientist. This probably is the greatest scientific breakthrough of the millennia and salvation for mankind. Research can prove today we are connected, connected to each other in a science lab. Leading researchers know that south Africa is the Mecca for medical research due to liberal ethics policies in the name of medical science. The entire African continent is a smorgasbord of medical study owing to no shortage of volunteers/victims, in various states of health, disease, malnourishment, wars, much human suffering and calamity. Meager rewards are offered up for guinea pigs, or for certain tissues like kidneys or donors for whatever. Victims to exploit. Believe me, the guinea pigs are fed better than seventy-percent of the whole African population. I reserve the African political and social trains to spot later.

 I thought I would share some hope that we may see this thing through. It is no secret that science has make it possible to remove live tissue from one and insert onto anther. A heart can be made to function independent of the body, this we know. Biopsies are routinely ordered on diseased hearts, they also perform these biopsies on healthy areas of the same hearts and sent to pathologist worldwide for comparison studies, and or diagnosis of disease. The live tissue is kept in a sterile medium that mimics the hearts natural environment; they can even apply mild electrical current that stimulates the heart or tissue to contract. No big deal, right? What if this living tissue sample spontaneously begins to contract with its hosts exact rhythm in the test dish. Can do. What if the tissue sample was sitting in another continent some 6 thousand miles away. How did that tissue sample know when to beat in rhythm all by itself, the unmistakable exact rhythm of its host? No wires or blood vessels gonna reach that far. Because of an invisible connection unknown and unseen, but they are connected science now agrees. That is proof of God in the lab in my book. Concrete empirical truth. Scientist now agree there is order amid the chaos of the universe, an intelligent design, order by unknown source. It may be a jump, but if a part of the heart knows when to get in tune with its source, we can realize as men we are connected and recognize God as our source, now that science is starting to come around to truth, Cool huh? There is always hope. Smart guys looking at biology today can openly express their faith in science circles. That is the real science break-through. Christian science scholars can prove God in the laboratory now that the atheist were forced to let them in. This is a good thing for mankind. Pragmatist like me have to have proof.

.......................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons........................

………………………………....Kosmicdebris



Early Birds

  Oh , look he has dropped his banner;

I consider F. Scott Fitzgerald one of our modern forbearers of pragmatism: "the true test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function, one should for instance, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determine to make them otherwise."

 I gave my self a challenge a few years ago to be as honest as I knew how to be. And search for my truth, my raison d'etre. To figure on what I believe and why. Without out any props, a from memory improvised deal. What I believe on paper so I could see where I was lying to myself. All I could come up with was a few lines of scripture I had committed to my hard drive as a kid, thousands of gigs of songs about what I believe; but those few verses kicked off a landslide in my life; told me I was connected to everything else in this world and someone has been looking out for me; someone from heaven. Turns out I was good. I had to write it down, state what I believe in writing on paper. So if God ask I wont have to look at my notes.

 If a man cant tell another what he believes, he hasn't a voice worth hearing.

 I sort of got this idea from soren kirkigaard, he used to give his class an assignment to write down who they were/is d' etre and then without using labels. Not family roles such as father, mother, brother. Not professional labels, spiritual or church rolls, nothing, no stereo-types of social convention. Who are you? It's not easy. What is your reason for being, larry. A after a few lines I had nothing, might as well stomp on my toe to arouse any passion. Maybe I could produce reams of what I believe with a surprise involuntary colonic for inspiration, just pitiful. I realized I would not know truth if it come up and bite me in the ass. So I set about reading, I read the bible, surveyed the great religions text,  I read obscure history, read auto/biographies first for no second hand opinions. Met Joseph Campbell, went inside Plato's cave,(with a spiritual flash light), walking Ockham's razor painfully,  I surveyed mythology and philosophy and the latter was more frightening of the two. Truth. The riddles of the sphinx. Theology I did prudishly wade, this is the crux of the biscuit. The meaning of life..........you get what you give.....reap/sow.    My philosophy is use 'Ockhams razor' and not cast labels nor aspersions.  "Follow your bliss not your blisters"
  
Arm-chair pragmatism:

Early Bird,
Oh, if you're a bird be an early bird and catch the worm for your breakfast plate.
If your a bird be an early early bird………………………..
But if you're a worm, sleep late............ shel silverstein

Sometimes I go to bed early as the bird and wake-up late as the worm. I only get up bird-early when I am hungry, and sleep worm-late when I'm not. Ever wonder how many people there would be in the world if it wasn't for birth control, abortions, bullet/but-holes and blowjobs? I do. Man cannot stop a souls light from shinning through, I think contraception has little to do with the equation when all is said and done.

Pragmatism
Pragmatism is a word in ordinary use, with senses that range from a term of abuse to a term of art. From time to time, a professional philosopher will pick up the banner of pragmatism with very little awareness, or little more than a nodding acknowledgment, of those who bore it before, and run off in a direction that bears but token kinship to the aims of its forbearers.

Pragmatism as a philosophy, as common sense, practical outcomes for the common good that benefit all mankind and me as a man least of all is where I found my bridge between intellectual science, empirical knowledge of monkeys and the formless truth of perfect thought, thereby opening the metaphysical door to spiritual infinity. Where all things are possible.

 Atheist have no arguments for as to why the bible is the only everlasting document that, when compared to all other documents of the ancients, never changed and kept its original meaning. Passing thought 1000's of generations of socially filtered culture. Tells me it's no accident. Voltaire had to concede the fact the Hebrew documents remained unchanged was unexplainable. They do not know why Jesus is not in his tomb, while all their profits still lay.

 Social scientist say that is impossible that for to be, historical perversions has occurred with all others history notes. Historians admit the actual crucifixion happened or it wouldn't be important enough to take note of; to write about and have it today as true. Definitive proof of truth Is we still have it today unchanged. If Darwin theory where to be held true, in a million years we should have six arms and a dozen fingers on each for text messaging, driving, eating, mousing, running, and picking our nose who knows what else, maybe the Hindu were on to something with the extra extremities.

 I am firmly convinced that we as a human race are connected unseen, unknown by mechanical measure. The philosophy of pragmatism is a sturdy plank familiar to my belief system. My pragmatism was why I think pay it forward was such a good idea.

An example of a grassroots movement to show the love of God by blessing his children the opportunity to love and be loved by God. The way Christ paid it forward for our eternal souls. Wouldn't it just blow your mind, if after a days hard work, tired wore-out you standing in the check-out lane of the grocery store, just finishing up the transaction, the cashier tells you your groceries are paid for by an unknown benefactor? Have a nice day. Thank you , Jesus thank-you for the love-cross thing too. Wouldn't that be fantastic. If the benefactors motives were purely anonymous, unseen blessings of God will come from everywhere and begin to break into unknown areas in their life.

Pay it forward is angel tag, and we feel good about doing it; a blessing is your soul smiling, and you always know when you done good. Maybe I will stiff the collection plate this week and feed somebody else. Which dollar is God looking at? If someone did it for me I would someday in deed pay it forward. You know, I still today, when someone unexpected visits me I never let them leave without giving them something of mine to take with them when they leave, that s the Indian way, and especially if you bring for me something, they believed in pay it forward. Pay it forward's the old way.

Nothing on earth is a mistake, everything is as it should be. If society must label things, label me in the pragmatist camp; we are not going to deny stepping into cow-shit to get to the cows, cows are more important than our shitty boots. We must quit working on the barn and if teachers don't know how to use God's spiritual boots, they need to step aside and quit tracking up the place, consider forewarned. A blue car:

That henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning, whereby they lie in wait to deceive. Eph.4.14. 
 
This here verse is a spiritual bomb that will bare much calamity to the false witnesses of the riotous. Implode a mine-ministry in seconds; Pray it when needed or where. Prn.

........................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons.....................

……………………………Kosmicdebris............................


The other duck tale

The one-legged duck theory of evolution. I call it my circle theory and a discussion. Does a one-legged duck swim in circles? Is a lame duck doomed for life? Can a damaged duck learn from the osprey and albatross to take off vertically binding the wind ; doubling the strength of his wings? Will his flight path be altered owing to unequal weight distribution and resist the tendency to fly in circles, or may he gain an edge from his asymmetry; to profit from misfortune? being so selective and strong he could fly further find the richest places to grub and grow bigger, still bigger. What a blessing this leg cost. In addition to stronger wings, he went with a tripod configuration using two-wings and the stronger one leg; wings made good crutches which made them good weapons :he had success with such a mating approach. Does faulty landing gear lead to increased mortality and opportunities for predators, or should sharpen to be keenly selective in his glide-path to safety? Most of the biggest ducks in the puddle are lame ducks; most all virgin duckettes surrender to the biggest duck voluntarily and prefer to mate on land; the water mating issues one legged ducks face are almost insur-mountable, water hazards many times have fatally claimed our stumpy brothers.

 One legged ducks learn to compensate for the absent limp and become stronger than the daffys with two good paddles. This often leads to increased mating opportunities for the crippled quakers; ducks strength of character to be passed on leaning to his left, curiously physically stronger wings stronger than the others and favors one foot over the other, like his dad, by example of his father making wider circles out into the future. The ducks offspring still swim in circles and walk with a limp though they have two healthy flippers today. Maybe, just maybe one duckling bares to the right.

I have been working on a prosthetic device fabricated out of the economical biologic polymer: balsa wood. Choose most any random summer evening my neighbors may see me sitting outside in the cool breeze propped on my steps whittling on a piece of wood with my pocket knife; I'm actually working on a duck-leg-ski-paddle-brake outfit prosthesis for Gods quackery. I wonder how to make a better duck; with my mental duck model if you start messing with too many of the parameters the model dies out.

So don't ask what I am working on or what I am thinking about when I am whittling; unless you got a minute, otherwise, you can go milk your own goat. We, my team, my cat and I are starting the Bata trials come spring, wind tunnel clocks sometime June. Nature has it's own intelligent design way above my plain plane, just trying to help out as best I can. Most of the ducks I spoke to have declined public comment claiming this was an internal duck-God matter. God said shut-up or ill snatch you other leg too, fool. Remember a duck with no legs is a divine slob that consumes more duck butter than he produces, i.e. ? Should we starve him or our children to feed him? I'm for feeding him to our hungry children, hungry dogs care not for kinship. Next time I whittle this is my target. It's hard to keep your ducks in a row. Huh God.

………….keep fighting the good fight with your minds as weapons!!.........

...........................kosmicdebris......................................
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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Death is Inevitable
There is an Eastern fable, told long ago, of a traveler overtaken on a plain by an enraged beast. Escaping from the beast he gets into a dry well, but sees at the bottom of the well a dragon that has opened its jaws to swallow him. And the unfortunate man, not daring to climb out lest he should be destroyed by the enraged beast, and not daring to leap to the bottom of the well lest he should be eaten by the dragon, seizes a twig growing in a crack in the well and clings to it. His hands are growing weaker and he feels he will soon have to resign himself to the destruction that awaits him above or below, but still he clings on. Then he sees that two mice, a black one and a white one, go regularly round and round the stem of the twig to which he is clinging and gnaw at it. And soon the twig itself will snap and he will fall into the dragon's jaws. The traveler sees this and knows that he will inevitably perish; but while still hanging he looks around, sees some drops of honey on the leaves of the twig, reaches them with his tongue and licks them. So I too clung to the twig of life, knowing that the dragon of death was inevitably awaiting me, ready to tear me to pieces; and I could not understand why I had fallen into such torment. I tried to lick the honey, which formerly consoled me, but the honey no longer gave me pleasure, and the white and black mice of day and night gnawed at the branch by which I hung. I saw the dragon clearly and the honey no longer tasted sweet. I only saw the inescapable dragon and the mice, and I could not tear my gaze from them. And this is not a fable but the real unanswerable truth intelligible to all.

The deception of the joys of life that formerly allayed my terror of the dragon now no longer deceived me. No matter how often I may be told, "You cannot understand the meaning of life so do not think about it, but live," I can no longer do it: I have already done it too long. I cannot now help seeing day and night going round and bringing me to death. That is all I see, for that alone is true. All else is false.

The two drops of honey, which diverted my eyes from the cruel truth longer than the rest: my love of family, and of writing - art as I called it - were no longer sweet to me.

"Family"...said I to myself. But my family - wife and children - are also human. They are placed just as I am: they must either live in a lie or see the terrible truth. Why should they live? Why should I love them, guard them, bring them up, or watch them? That they may come to the despair that I feel, or else be stupid? Loving them, I cannot hide the truth from them: each step in knowledge leads them to the truth. And the truth is death....

No sweetness of honey could be sweet to me when I saw the dragon and saw the mice gnawing away my support.

Nor was that all. Had I simply understood that life had no meaning I could have borne it quietly, knowing that that was my lot. But I could not satisfy myself with that. Had I been like a man living in a wood from which he knows there is no exit, I could have lived; but I was like one lost in a wood who, horrified at having lost his way, rushes about wishing to find the road. He knows that each step he takes confuses him more and more, but still he cannot help rushing about.

~Leo Tolstoy


..................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons..........................

.......................................................kosmicdebris.............................wado............
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Category: News and Politics
Forth generation warfare
I've decided to step back a bit and take a look at modern warfare, a sort of mid-term summary of everything I've been trying to teach so far. I'll give you the bad news first: no 21st century war is "purely military." The days when countries duked it out on the battlefield are over for the foreseeable future. What we have now is something very strange. It goes by a lot of names, from "terrorism" to "asymmetrical warfare" to "fourth-generation warfare" depending on whether you're for it, against it, or just trying to sound cool. But whatever you call it, the key factor is that it never involves WW-II style conventional war between nation-states.
Oh, there'll be a few good old-school conventional wars from time to time. My favorite is the Ethiopia vs. Eritrea war of the 1980s. And you could include the Iran-Iraq War from that same decade.
But those wars are rare, and going to get rarer. Because there's a much cheaper, easier way to make war. This way doesn't require any of the building blocks of conventional war: you don't need industry, aircraft, armor or massive armies. In fact, this kind of war can be played by any group of wackos that can round up a dozen or so bushwhackers.
All you need is small arms, a grudge and a Toyotathose are the only three commodities most of the world has a surplus of…….. shown: Akmed Cheney third from left (circa 1967 file photo)
It's a heartbreaker for you hardware freaks, this idea that it just doesn't matter whether our tanks are better than their tanks (or planes or artillery or whatever). But it's time you grew up, guys: haven't you kind of noticed that in most wars, the other side doesn't even use tanks, or planes, or artillery (except mortars, which are so portable they can be considered small arms)? You guys are stuck in the dream about a classic NATO/Warsaw Pact Sumo match in Central Europe, and you just don't want to think about all these brush wars. Well, time to wake up. The Warsaw Pact doesn't exist any more, so that war is never going to happen. The fact is, it never was. If the Soviets had sent the tanks into the Fulda Gap, it would have been a nukefest, not a tank battle like Kursk. Not exactly a war-gamer's dream: before you can even get your corps deployed, the whole playing field would melt down.
So I'm preaching real war here. If you want tank duels, go replay the Kursk Salient or project yourself fifty years into the future, where maybe, just maybe, the Asian powers will have a good all-out war. If you want to know about war now, then you have to jump into the weird world of "asymmetrical war."
And I'll tell you: once you make that jump, you find this kind of war is just as interesting, just as satisfying as set piece battles. I made the jump ten years ago, when I realized my hardware research wasn't helping me understand the wars that were actually happening in Africa and Asia. And I'm glad I did, because I understand the world way better than most people. I knew Iraq would go bad because I've studied this kind of war. I wish more people had. Maybe we wouldn't have jumped into this mess.
To get your head around this kind of war, you have to delete most of your ideas about warfare. That's right: get your Black & Decker out of the garage, charge that puppy up, and do some brain surgery on the part of your cortex that stores your favorite ideas about war. Here's a list of War Myths, so you'll know where to drill:
1. War involves battles.
Wrong! Most of the "armies" in the world right now avoid battle and focus on killing civilians. This is the hardest thing for Americans to understand: armies that don't aim at victory and actually avoid battle. So many war buffs who ought to know better just won't see this. If you read military blogs, you know the type: guys who say "we won every battle in Nam!" as if that proves we should have won. Those boneheads at the pentagon! The NVA/Viet Cong strategy was classic irregular warfare stuff, based on outlasting the enemy, not defeating him in battle. When they did go for military victory, like in the Tet Offensive, it was a near-disaster, saved by the other key fact about this sort of war:
2. You win by killing the enemy.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. In this kind of war the enemy wants you to kill a lot of people. A lot of irregular warfare groups start their campaigns with a suicide raid, where they expect to be slaughtered.
3. Hi-tech beats lo-tech.
Not lately it doesn't. Here again it's a matter of you hardware freaks facing hard facts. If we take Iraq 2003 as a familiar and painful example, you saw a classic outcome: our hi-tech beat their wanna-be hi-tech in the conventional battles. Then we started getting picked off by low-tech ambushes where the insurgents used homemade IEDs in combination with old, rugged Soviet weapons like the RPG-7 and Kalashnikov. After 4 years, those simple weapons are still effective -- and they're actually getting lower- and lower-tech! Take IEDs: when the Iraqi insurgents started using them, they'd hook the detonator up to a garage-door opener or cell phone so they could be set off by remote control signals. Our convoys started using jammers to stop those signals from getting through to the detonators. So now the insurgents are using wires or even string to set off the IED. You can't get much lower-tech than a string. And that's why it works, because you can't jam a string either.
4. "Overwhelming force! Hit the insurgents hard enough, and they'll quit."
Wrong. Americans are pretty well anti-death, but lots of other tribes are in love with the idea of the martyrdom thing. Like the Shi'ites, whom I've written about already, some might say with admiration. People who woof about "hittin' 'em hard" haven't thought cold and hard enough about what they mean. We have a problem with the Iraqi Sunnis. There are about seven million of them. All you need for an effective insurgency is a few hundred urban guerrillas (with a much bigger base of civilian supporters). So they're never going to run out of young men. And no overwhelming force short of neutron bombs will solve the problem. Which brings us to another very interesting question, the future of genocide and nuclear weapons. But as long as we're wimping around with this "no nukes" rule, there just ain't no kind of overwhelming force that can convince every testosterone-poisoned Sunni kid to ware crocks and join the Pepsi Generation. Consult your own experience, remember what young males are like! Remember high school PE! How hard would it have been to get those guys, Beavis and Butthead times 80, to plant a bomb or shoot a sentry if they thought they could get away with it, or better yet, be seen as heroes by their fellow countrymen? Teenage boys are the cannon fodder of any guerrilla war, and teenage boys are nothing but weasels who stand on their hind feet sometimes. Meerkat Muslims….Keep that in mind when media types try to hand you our next piece of total crap:
5. People want democracy and peace and all that kind of stuff.
No. In fact, HELL no! Let me repeat your first lesson: consult your own experience instead of believing the talking heads. Do you care about those things….I mean, compared to money and sex and taking revenge on the suburban that cut you off a couple of blocks back? The only ideology I see around me is religion, not God…religion. Most people in the 'quah have a bad case of religion. It takes up all their brain power trying to read the Bible and mind everybody else's business. They wouldn't care if Charles Manson took power as long as he said God and Jesus every few seconds. Out of all the people I've met, I can only think of one who cared about democracy: my Social Studies teacher. But he was one of these decent old…… confused country girls, goodhearted, too soft for Muskogee, committed to ignoring reality. His wife, another big Secular Humanist, left him for a dyke, his students called him "Gums" and he admitted once to our class that he'd lost his Faith. That made him Public Enemy 1 with us Christian Teens for Christ types and he had to transfer to another school district. That's what believing in that stuff'll get you.
If this is a democracy, it's weird how the only people who go in for it are conmen and closet cases like Senator Craig. No normal American would go near it. They know better. We all know local politics belongs to real estate developers at civic level and to the corporations at Federal level. Which is fine with me, and with most Americans, but why call it democracy? Hypocrites!
And as for peace, I was always against it. Peace is for people who have satisfying lives. The rest of us want that flood, that real rain. Like the man said, "Bring it on, line-up and double-up, lets go kick(or save) some Ben laden ass"
Look around the world and you'll see that people are divided into ethnic gangs, like the planet's one big San Quentin. All they want is for their gang to win. If they have any ideology beyond that, it's more of the religion stuff, and you need thorazine to cure that. Sunday-best wearing gang-bangin' hypocrites. The majority anyway. The church we have today is not the one Jesus gave Peter….Martin Luther and John Calvin attempted to fix the deteriorating foundation, but despite their best efforts and good intentions they only managed to splinter Christianity exponentially. One of my earliest childhood memories/traumas was a fight between my Baptist Sunday-school teaching mother and her Pentecostal preacher blood brother. The argument left an early lifelong psychological scar. A vitriolic bible battle, over the same bible, about pre-destination, once saved always saved thing; they never spoke again, I still miss my cousins. Both mom and uncle bill are dead now, I wonder if they have made up yet?
Lets take what we ran into in Somalia, 1993. Half the population of Mogadishu turned on our guys who were trying to provide aid for the starving. They didn't want peace, democracy or any of that shit. They wanted their clan to win and the other clans to lose. And if stopping the aid convoys from getting food to those enemy clans was the only way to win, they were ready to make it happen, ready to die fighting our best troops backed by attack helicopters and APCs. We killed maybe a thousand of these "civilians" and lost 18 Rangers and Delta operators. And the Somalis made the anniversary of that fight a national holiday. It's worth giving a moment to let that sink in: these people fought to the death against overwhelmingly superior US forces, because they wanted their clan to win by starving rival clans to death. Seems to be working.
Yes, Grasshopper, you must meditate on the fact that People are superstitious tribalists. Democracy comes about 37th, if that. Nobody wants to face that fact: we're tribal critters. We'll die for the tribe. More to the point, we'll kill for it. We don't care about democracy. And I'm not just talking here about people in tropical hellholes like Somalia, I mean your town, your street. Most Americans are just like me: old-school nationalists. We want America to be Roman, to kick ass. The rest is for Quakers.
Just remember, everything they told you is wrong. Here's a quick list of the main points. Go and meditate upon them. Memorize them while I whack you with this stick like a good Zen teacher should.
1. Most wars are asymmetrical / irregular.
2. In these wars, the guerrillas / irregulars / insurgents do NOT aim for military victory.
3. You can NOT defeat these groups by killing lots of their members.
In fact, they want you to do that.
4. Hi-tech weaponry is mostly useless in these wars.
5. "Hearts and Minds," meaning propaganda and morale, are more important than military superiority.
6. Most people are not rational, they are TRIBAL: "my gang yay, your gang boo!" It really is that simple..Gary Breacher the manic for manmade mayhem: Political Battlefield forensic Pathologist
Well there it is folks, my take on the war, I had to rush and get it all out there in cyberspace this week. According to my stat tracker my files were phished last night from someone in Fairfax Virginia. I know, I'm paranoid by nature, but Fairfax is twenty minutes down the beltway from the pentagon and a bunch of other scary offices in Washington D.C., so it got me thinking. I'd be cool if I did….. That is arouse suspicion, other than my own, my thinking's another blog. Well, oh what a mighty God I serve…….. Ain't scared.
fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons!……………………..Kosmicdebris
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