PROUT stands for PROgressive UTilization Theory. It means, the progressive utilization and rational distribution of all the earth's natural resources. PROUT advocates another type of revolution called "nuclear revolution." In nuclear revolution, every aspect of collective life - social, economic, political, cultural, psychic and spiritual - is completely transformed. New moral and spiritual values arise in society which provide the impetus for accelerated social progress. The old era is replaced by a new era - one collective psychology is replaced by another. This type of revolution results in all-round development and social progress.
Dear Readers, In June the WPA site was hacked and all the archives were destroyed - but not forever. The site has been upgraded by a very kind person and all the archives are back, visible and available. Please have a look.
We still need donations to recoup the $40,000 invested in the Radford conference. If you can afford it, we'd be very grateful for your donations. Checks can be made out to "World Prout Assembly" and mailed to Garda Ghista, World Prout Assembly, 7 Bordeaux Drive, Highland Heights, KY 41076, USA.
Remember, folks, the U.S. government never provides the "true" statistic to the American people when the government feels the American people would respond in a way that would be unfavorable to maintaining the status quo (i.e., stop consuming or take their money out of their banks)........the same happens when the U.S. government reports how much money is being spent in wars.......the government always---always---hides some money in other budgets, so the true aggregate amount of what the AMERICAN TAXPAYER IS SPENDING on the war is never disclosed.......with the Iraq War, some of that money spent is hidden in other Pentagon budgets so the published amount you see is not the true aggregate amount.......many Americans just sit back and don't give a whit that their taxes are being wasted on war and billions were literally lost when their money could have gone toward things like infrastructure, education, etc....of course, this affects our children and grandchildren, but it sounds like many Americans are too apathetic or ignorant to grasp this. FYI. If you include the excluded categories, true unemployment is now approximately at 16%. And, as stated in the report, all unemployment claims filed last month were for people ages 25 years and older--this is a first, folks. - Wanda Woodward
This causes me to wonder if my show has been singled out or if this is a one-time incident? If I decide to continue broadcasting the show, will the content of the show be scrutinized? Will I step over the boundaries of what they term acceptable? Meanwhile, will the right-wing conservative shows on Blog Talk Radio be given a free pass to continue to spew hatred of liberals and conservatives that they espouse as long as they don't do anything or say anything that the government looks down on? This is reminiscent of any society that clamps down on free speech. When people do not have an opportunity to hear both sides of an issue, when only the proscribed government view is presented, this leads to a population that has no frame of reference to make an informed decision. - Tim Gatto
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign. Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.
That merchandise never sits in one place for long. It is moved out of the ports, sorted at sophisticated warehouse complexes known as "logistics facilities," and distributed throughout the country as quickly as possible. In recent years, California's Inland Empire, lying east of Los Angeles in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, has already seen construction of logistics warehouses covering 330 million square feet. To get a mental picture of the massive extent of roofing and concrete that requires, imagine 7,300 football fields paved and enclosed (or have a look at these images.) Similarly vast acreages surrounding the warehouses are paved as well. And remember, goods traffic in the area could triple in coming decades. - Stan Cox
A glimpse through human history reveals that nowhere have human values been truly honoured. What is worse, nobody has looked upon humanity with sympathy. Only those were respected who, by serving their self-interests, climbed onto the higher rostrum of society. It is difficult to step down from the high position of vainglory to rub shoulders with the downtrodden. The neglect of humanity was particularly acute towards the end of each era of the social cycle. The progeny of the noble military, on gaining power, engaged themselves in the pursuit of pleasure and comforts, utterly neglecting their sacred duty to serve their subjects. They never cared to know people’s suffering. They were not concerned by the bent old man, decimated by poverty in the Himalayas, being mercilessly beaten by a royal servant for defaulting on his tax payment. Kind-hearted and philanthropic kings did exist, but was there any king who, besides meeting the psycho-physical needs of his people, opened the gateway to realization of the Infinite? For self-aggrandisement and in a bid to conquer the world they invaded countries, one after another. How could they afford to inquire into the tragic plight of the common people?
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Shrii Prabhat R. Sarkar
What was her life? What was the life of this woman of Nepal?
It's NOT the politicians (evil and good), it's the populace. America isn't dirt or trees or the Constitution, it's the people that live in it. And, if these people choose to spit at education, to make the word "intellectual" into a curse, to view every other nation as inferior to ourselves, to view science as Satanic, to view Walmart as the "really classy store," and to insist that Christianity becomes the law and source of all things in our nation, then we have to accept it. We are at a crossroad. If we continue to applaud as politicians discuss their church before voicing their stances on the many key issues of our time, if we feel that everyone should own guns, if we accept that cursing on TV or radio is far worse than the endless lies and manipulations of the press and politicians, if we accept that most of our money should go to military spending while the nation's crumbling infrastructure is just too expensive to fix - that a free college education for all is a silly dream - that medical insurance for every man, woman and child is un-American, and if we don't toss religion out of the political equation once and for all, then we have an America of our own making ... of the people's making. And if this comes to pass, it means that we should make peace with that reality and live within it, or leave for a place more conducive to our particular mores. - Anthony Saidy
Women were the first to be oppressed, and will be the last to be liberated when class oppression ceases. So the test of whether class oppression still exists is if women's oppression still exists or not.
-- Hisila Yami
Western men desire a wife who is more economically dependent, intellectually and sexually submissive and domestically inclined than most of the women in their native countries. Thousands of young Filipino women who are in internet dating and matchmaking websites, have been portrayed as such women willing to marry someone more economically stable despite the age disparity, and who would save them from poverty. "Among these men, there are some who believe that the Filipino women whose photographs don internet matchmaking websites can fulfill their fantasies for a return to patriarchy," Matibag said. - MARIA ALETA O. NIEVA
A total city makeover with billions in federal and local funding to assist. Welcome to America's future. Upscale tourist destinations. Luxury accommodations for the privileged. Gated communities for the wealthy. Every amenity imaginable. For most others and the nation's poor - exploitation by neglect and abandonment. Growing numbers on society's fringes ignored and forgotten. A two-party duopoly assuring it. Militarizing the country for enforcement. Planning an unfriendly future by making America into a police state. Replicating the model everywhere. New Orleans and Iraq are incubators. Not the kind of country for young people to inherit. High time that enough of us realize it's our job to prevent it. - Stephen Lendman
On the subject of corrective measures for those who become criminals due to poverty, honest people have no alternative but to exhort them to launch a revolution. In this situation the position of a judge is like that of a figurehead; he or she has nothing to say or do. Psychologists and sociologists also have very limited scope for action; the pathways that lie open to them are very circumscribed. The solution completely depends on the firm economic foundation of the different individual countries as well as of the entire world. If anyone is at fault, it is every one of the world leaders. Their responsibilities do not end when they gain power by creating false hopes and deceiving the common people with remote and unattainable dreams. People can score points in intellectual battles by hiding their inefficiency behind grandiloquent speeches, but if they do, the demands of the proletariat, who struggle for existence like animals, will not be heard. They will never be able to forget their hunger and ignore their psychic longings and simultaneously dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to the enormous task of developing their country and building a universal human society in a better way.
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Shrii Prabhat R. Sarkar
Ksour, Tunisia
Gov. Barbie's tirade at her acceptance speech in front of thousands of lock-steppers in St. Paul was chilling to me. She has the Bushian smirk down pat as she smirked with glee every time she thought she said (read what Rove wrote for her?) something clever. I am sorry, I can't fathom that someone with such little substance, and who does not even own a passport, will be just one old and very sickly heartbeat away from being the empress of this empire...and I cannot imagine going through 8 more years being subjected to the neocon "smirk." Gov. Barbie wants to suck every drop of oil from this planet and wants the myth of creationism taught in our schools. Her choice as number two on the GOP ticket was clearly done to pander to the religious Christian fascists. Christian and Jewish extremism frighten me as much as Islamic extremism. After over five years of the destructive and evil occupation of "Eye-wrack," Gov. Barbie is still sending her first-born as a sacrifice to the war machine. - Cindy Sheehan
Thanks to the "extensive planning" of St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, Police Chief John Harrington, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher and other law enforcement officials, the editorial concluded, "public safety have won out, so far, over anarchism in the streets." Police chief John Harrington commended the media for recognizing the "heroic efforts" of his officers. "I like the term that you in fact had coined, that what you saw today in the face of numbers and agitation and mass criminals, was a restrained use of force. And that I think is a very apt description of what the officers today did." Reacting to the police actions, Gina Berglund, an attorney and legal observer for the Minnesota chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, said, "We think it's unconscionable. We think it's out of control. The response by the police was completely out of proportion with what they were faced with." - Jerry White
Dienst's wife, Yong Dienst, said Wednesday that she has also heard from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers' office, and all three lawmakers are attempting to help. "I just want him back home safely," she said. "His heart is just too big. He gets himself into hot water." Dienst said this won't be Free Gaza Movement's last attempt to reopen Gaza's seaport. "The world has been ignoring the situation in Gaza. There are 11,000 political prisoners here," he said, adding, "Tens of thousands of people are trying to get out. It's not about our own situation here, it's about the 1.5 million people in a concentration camp." - K.C. Mehaffey
These arrests, while certainly of questionable legality, are but the tip of the iceberg. On September 3, 2008, eight members of the RNC Welcoming Committee-- some of the primary organizers of the protests--were formally charged with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism. These eight were among those arrested in the pre-convention raids and, according to the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), face up to 7 1/2 years imprisonment each. For those of us around forty years ago, the indictment of eight people on charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at a national political convention is an ominous deja vu. For those who need a reminder or who don't know the history I'm referring to, eight men were charged after the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago with (among other things) conspiracy to cross state lines with the intent to incite a riot. These eight became known as the Chicago Eight. Of course, in today's more enlightened world, authorities didn't just charge men this time around. At least two of those charged were women. The charges against the RNC Eight (as they are being called) were brought based on the testimony of informants and provocateurs that infiltrated the loose knit organization. - Ron Jacobs
The path that lies before thieves who steal out of need is extremely narrow. The solution wholly depends on the strong economic foundation of the state concerned and of the whole world. If anybody is to be blamed for the poverty and social injustice which leads to crime, we will have to blame every national leader in the world. Those who make beasts of people by making them victims of circumstances, to my mind, are the very people to stand trial, if anyone is to be tried and judged at all.
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Shrii Prabhat R. Sarkar
Frank can't tell the difference between Ronald Reagan and Cheney/Bush. He conflates the collection of opportunists and fanatics that comprise the Bush Party with the Reagan conservatives who ended stagflation and the cold war. The adventurer, Jack Abramoff, is Frank's epitome of a conservative. Abramoff is the most mentioned person in Frank's story. In Frank's view, conservatives are out to ruin everyone except the rich. But it was the Clinton administration that rigged the Consumer Price Index in order to cheat retired people out of their Social Security cost of living increases. It was the Clinton administration that vanished discouraged workers from the unemployment rolls. It was the Clinton administration that wrecked "effective government" by encouraging early civil service retirements in order to make way for quota hires. - Paul Craig Roberts
The choice we face in November is very clear. It is a choice to continue to support the US terror war, or to turn away from this path of unlimited destruction. This lie-based war is all about terrorism - whether America actually fights terrorism or promotes its use. To find the answer to this conundrum all we have to do is turn our gaze to Pakistan.
In Pakistan we find the complete history of the American "war on terrorism," from its Cold War origins nearly thirty years ago to its present incarnation in the illegal American aggression in Pakistan's Frontier region (FATA, Federally Administered Tribal Areas) and in American attempts to reignite the Cold War with Russia. The latest cross-border attack against Pakistan in South Waziristan, which involved American helicopters and ground troops, costing 15 villagers their lives, represents the first steps in American attempts to escalate its war into a reasonable facsimile of another world war.- Peter Chamberlain
Wachter summarizes highlights: "Getting a 'regular doctor' (a PCP) at Mass General now takes the combination of cajoling, pleading, and knowing somebody generally referred to as 'working the system.' In other words, the process of finding a primary care doc is now like getting a great table in a trendy restaurant. "The report also makes clear that providing more 'access' through expanded insurance coverage won't do the trick," Wachter explains. "Massachusetts, you'll recall, markedly expanded its coverage a couple of years ago (in legislation proposed by that ex-liberal, Mitt Romney). Scott Jasbon, a 47 year-old contractor/bartender, thought he was all set when he enrolled in one of Massachusetts' subsidized health plans. He was wrong. - Maggie Mahar
Until they finally began moving them to dry casks in January of this year, Indian Point had 1500 tons of spent fuel rods stored in temporary pools. These pools have been leaking tritium and strontium-90 (both highly toxic substances) into the groundwater and the Hudson River since 2005 and are demonstrably vulnerable to sabotage or attack. And as Wasserman elucidates in the previously cited article, these pools (not to mention the reactor cores) are horrific accidents waiting to happen: "Without continuous monitoring and guaranteed water flow, the thousands of tons of radioactive rods in the cores and the thousands more stored in those fragile pools would rapidly melt into super-hot radioactive balls of lava that would burn into the ground and the water table and, ultimately, the Hudson." Indian Point Energy Center manifests nearly all that is inane and insane about humans shattering atomic nuclei and hubristically believing we can play with the fires of hell without getting burned...Yet there's at least a "little" Eichmann in all of us as we faithfully participate in our ecocidal "American Way of Life." So what do we care about a little radiation here or a few meltdowns there? - Jason Miller
Throughout history millions of people have died due to artificial famines created by other human beings. While walking along a road, weary, plodding legs have given way and a person has collapsed in a pitiful heap on the ground, yet he or she has refrained from stealing. Although a high standard of morality is one reason why the person did not make a last desperate bid for self-preservation, it is not the only reason. Starving people, particularly if they lose their vitality by slow degrees, do not have the moral courage to fight. Knowing the end is sure, they seek refuge in the arms of death. Basing their way of life on incorrect philosophical and religious teachings, they accept their miserable situation as destiny. Perhaps, at that time, if they were led by a spirited leader and inspired by his or her fiery lectures, or if they received guidance about the course of action to take, they would collectively attack the prevailing social structure. In such circumstances, their actions might perhaps be described as immoral, but they certainly would not contravene the dharma of human existence.
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Shrii Prabhat R. Sarkar
Homeless in America
The Free Gaza group sailed two small boats from Cyprus to Gaza City harbor. Their goal was to break the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip. The boats made the trip successfully, returned to Cyprus, and will repeat the trip later this month or early in October. Jeff Halper, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions was a passenger. The following paragraphs is Halper's summary of the trip, his reactions, and an analysis of the Isareli reaction to the trip. - Tony Saidy
How was capitalism created? Capital is consumable commodities in their potentiality. Intelligent people collect more capital than others in the form of consumable goods, but since this capital cannot be stored for a long time, they began to keep it in the form of money. Such people are called capitalists. These capitalists are the unworthy sons and daughters of the Cosmic Father because they go against the principle of cosmic inheritance. They should be cured of their ailments. To fight capitalism is therefore within your goal. The seed of infinite expression lies within Dharma, but you must nourish it. Capitalists create hindrances on the path of human beings to prevent them from becoming one with the cosmos - to prevent them from becoming great. So capitalism is anti-Dharma and the actions of capitalists are also anti-Dharma. Human expressions are trifarious. Human beings have unquenchable, infinite physical longings and out of these physical longings capitalism came into existence. Capitalists toil day and night for money. This may be a natural desire but physical objectivity is finite, hence the infinite desire to accumulate finite physical objects is a psychic ailment. Human beings also have unquenchable, infinite psychic longings, and out of these excessive psychic longings psychic ailments arise and people become abnormal. The object of psychic longings associated with physicalities is also finite, but the object of pure psychic longing is infinite. Your psychic body and physical objectivity are always separate and so the seed of dualism arises. But the attainment of spiritual objectivity means bridging the gulf between the self and the object, and in this attainment lies peace. The psychic ailments mentioned above also lead to clash with others and create many have-nots. We have to divert physical longings to psychic and spiritual longings to avoid a fratricidal war, and thereby safeguard human rights.
Shrii Prabhat R. Sarkar
The only thing which sustains the Republican Party and the McCain-Palin campaign is the complicity of the media and, most importantly, the Democratic Party itself. Obama issued a well-publicized statement denying that his aides were responsible for the Internet rumors about Sarah Palin, and declaring that candidates' families should be off-limits in the political campaign. But neither Obama, nor his running mate Joseph Biden, nor any other Democratic Party representative dares to put the spotlight on the critical political fact demonstrated by the Palin nomination: the ability of extreme right-wing and fascistic elements to dictate the policies and even the candidates of the Republican Party. - Patrick Martin
According to the legal group the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, the punishment under Israeli law for aggravated abuse of a detainee is seven years imprisonment. ACRI's lawyers have submitted a petition arguing the lenient charge "transmits to officers and other soldiers an extremely grave message of contempt for human life". Lt Col Omri Borberg, the commander who gave the order to shoot Abu Rahma, resigned his post but was immediately moved sideways to a senior post in a different unit. In a show of support, Gabi Ashkenazi, the head of the army, said Lt Col Borberg may be reinstated to a command position. Meanwhile, the villagers said the army's behaviour would not dissuade them from protesting or cause them to renounce their commitment to non-violence. Salah Hawaja, a protest organiser, said: "When we started our demonstrations, maybe 50 soldiers showed up. Now there are hundreds stationed permanently around us. Israel is treating us like a major war zone, even though we are using non-violence. "The people of Nilin have accepted that the best strategy to stop Israel's plans to steal our land and leave us inside a ghetto is non-violence," said Mr Hawaja. "We need to show the world who is the occupier and who the occupied. Israel understands how threatening this is, which is why it is using so much force against us." - Jonathan Cook
Many people complain that a major part of modern literature is full only of the whimperings of cheap erotic love. I cannot but agree with their complaint. Such allegations can be brought not only in the sphere of literature but in every sphere of art... In fact, the mentality of those artists and litterateurs who depict only this type of situation is nothing but impotent. Whatever be the profound, philosophical implications of the word love, the true characteristic of love is supra-physical – beyond the bondage of any limitation. When artists, absorbed in the essence of love, try to convey it to the people through their language, rhetoric and subtle suggestions, the sweetness of their artistic genius reaches the apex of expression. But then this creation of the artist cannot be regarded as popular literature or art, because the subtle sense which is capable of comprehending that transcendental feeling is, indeed, undeveloped in most people. We do find at places in the literature of Rabindranath Tagore some semblances of this pure, supra-physical love, but whenever Rabindranath tried to give expression to it, he became unintelligible to the mass. The transcendental thoughts and ideas of the sweet, graceful shlokas of the Upaniśads are also incomprehensible to the common people. This sublime love has established itself for all eternity beyond the limits of time, space and person. Infinite love is the ultimate ecstatic expression of finite love. This very sense that artists try to awaken in the popular mind – when they devote themselves to the task of establishing the link between the finite and the infinite, between the mundane and the transcendental – this very awareness though not purely transcendental, verily bears the highest importance in the realm of art. Through expressions which are comprehensible to ordinary intelligence, it gradually leads the sweetness of the human mind to a supra-sensible dreamland.
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Shrii Prabhat R. Sarkar
Some of you want to hand it all to Iran, you dogs. And some of you are professional ass kissers to the Americans, having sold your country, your bodies and your souls. And now you are trying to reach the Sofa, huh? Oh and that also includes the fucked up Iraqi bloggers who waved the banner "no to Saddam no to America but...", and engaged in parliamentary national reconciliation after the blood of innocent Iraqis reached the knees...hoping to make themselves a name. The above lot of bastards is one of the reasons I have no more inclination to write about Iraq. Blaming the Americans and the stinking Brits is not enough, one needs to point the finger at the other culprits - the Iraqis themselves. The lot of hypocrites. So I was reading all about the SOFA, a text as clear as daylight, which calls for the permanent colonization of Iraq by America the pimp and its whore Iran. Yalla, bravo Iraqi Shiites. - Layla Anwar
1-They stripped us naked, tied us with ropes and forced us to run for long hours under the burning sun in 130 degree heat without giving us any water.
2- They put us into big pits and dumped excrement from their portable toilets onto our heads and left us like this for a long time.
3-They stripped us naked in the interrogation rooms. Then they turned on very loud music and forced us to dance for long hours. When we fainted, they dumped cold water on us and when we came to they began insulting us and asking us questions like where is Saddam? Where are his sons? Where are the WMDs? All this happened in front of lots of US soldiers who were enjoying it. We could tell that from their hilarious laughter and crazy drinking.
4-They held races in which soldiers would tie one end of a rope around the neck of an Iraqi prisoner and the other end around the waist of a US soldier. The soldiers would then run dragging the prisoners on the ground as they went. One soldier held a stop watch with which he would start and stop the contest. He was the judge who declared which soldier won the race.
AMY GOODMAN: Who is this prosecutor?
LAILA AL-ARIAN: His name is Gordon Kromberg, and he has a history, as I said, of making these types of statements. I think he's made it really his career to go after a lot of Muslim leaders and Muslim organizations, particularly here in Virginia. And he was the one who actually brought my father from Florida to Virginia to begin trying to entrap him in a completely separate case. And what we've learned along the way, in his questioning of my father and in his attempts to charge my father with perjury or obstruction of justice by trying to force him to testify in a completely separate case, is that he's not really interested in the truth. What he's interested in really is retrying the case that the government lost so badly in Florida, and which is a clear case of double jeopardy and really trying to abuse the law by trying to re-litigate this case. And he's even admitted this in his own filings and comments before the court in a public hearing. And obviously, we hope that these efforts are failing miserably.
The Tata group yesterday said it had suspended work at the £180m plant in India where it planned to make the Nano, the world's cheapest production car, because of violent protests. The factory in West Bengal's Singur district has been under siege for weeks by groups who claim to represent the thousands of farmers unhappy at having their fields taken over for construction of the factory. A number of workers, say Tata, have been targeted by the protesters. - Randeep Ramesh
We need to herald the farmers of Singur as the unsung heroes and heroines of the 21st century, because they had the staunch courage to fight the corporate entities who stalk the land of India seeking to plunder the most fertile soil and ample water supplies in the name of SEZs - Socio-Economic Zones, which are nothing but land grabs of the poor by the rich with Indian government collusion. Just as the great women of Nigeria fight BP Oil Company's plunder of their land and forests, so also the sweet farmers of Singur have fought and succeeded in driving away the capitalists. By the grace of the Almighty, farmer all over India will rise to the call and will drive invading corporations off their lands. The land is our mother. No one has the riight to steal our land. Not the capitalists. Not the government. Viva the Farmers of Singur! - Garda Ghista
Revolution takes place when, from the economic perspective, only two classes remain in society: the exploiting capitalists and the exploited workers. But if there are no intellectuals and warriors from a mental standpoint – in other words if there are no people who, though workers from an economic standpoint, are intellectuals or warriors from a mental standpoint – worker revolution will not be possible. It is not the work of people who have a worker mentality to bring about revolution. They avoid struggle; they are playthings of the capitalists. At the high point of the Capitalist Age, the capitalists easily manipulate the worker-minded workers. If the warrior- and intellectual-minded workers lack spirit, they will also be bought by the capitalists’ money. Thus worker revolution ultimately depends on workers who have sufficient spirit and are mentally intellectuals or warriors.
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Shrii Prabhat R Sarkar
Politically, as part of the game plan to continuously try to make Americans believe that something resembling democracy actually exists, this pro-nuke push has all been spelled out for us by the two puppets positioned for symbolic leadership at the helm. And while I do not generally commend members of the GOP, one has to give credit where credit is rightfully due. At least McCain has been transparent with his nukuler stance, making it crystal clear, in no uncertain terms, that he loves the heck out of nuclear power. - Cathy Garger
Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people. Soft despotism gives people people the illusion that they are in control, when in fact they have very little influence over their government. Soft despotism breeds fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the general populace. Alexis de Tocqueville observed that this trend was avoided in America only by the "habits of the heart" of its 19th-century populace.
Like Orwell's sheep, we repeat and regurgitate robotic rationalizations justifying the fatal deprivation of the most fundamental human needs of our own brethren, of which these necessities could be so easily and readily provided, to deny other humans them is not less than malice. And while we refuse to recognize and respect the rights of others, we seldom pass up an opportunity to relinquish ourselves of all responsibility for our own actions and inactions. We blame victims for their condition of victim-hood. Our relationships with each other are often void of sincerity and love, driven more by fear, habit, selfishness, expectations and other self-serving and superficial qualities. If we wish to once and for all, remove ourselves from our despicable and pathological role that we are fulfilling at this very hour then we must break free from the indoctrination system to smash these ideological constraints and cease with our passive behavior that we have mastered over recent years. Wake up! We have nothing of value to lose. - Max Kantar
During Monday's demonstration, law enforcement officers used pepper spray, rubber bullets, concussion grenades and excessive force. At least 284 people were arrested, including Amy Goodman, the prominent host of Democracy Now!, as well as the show's producers, Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. "St. Paul was the most militarized I have ever seen an American city to be," Greenwald wrote, "with troops of federal, state and local law enforcement agents marching around with riot gear, machine guns, and tear gas cannisters, shouting military chants and marching in military formations."
The final and most dangerous form of economic exploitation is fascist exploitation. In order to canvass national support to justify their exploitation, the imperialists popularize the theory of nationalism. They portray their exploitation as rational and constitutional and based on the national interest. The British imperialists, in order to legitimize their exploitation, embraced nationalist theory. Following the example of the British, Mussolini of Italy and Hitler of Germany moved along the same path. When communist imperialism was established after the Second World War, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin propagated the concept of the Slavic supremacy. Likewise, the Chinese leader Mao Zedong built up Chinese superiority.
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Shrii Prabhat R Sarkar
These charges wrongly turn stated public plans to blockade traffic and disrupt the RNC into acts of terrorism. The charges represent an abuse of the criminal j ustice system and seek to intimidate any person organizing large scale public demonstrations potentially involving civil disobedience. It is likely that the expressed "anarchist" political views of the defendants will be a major issue in any future legal proceedings. The last time such charges were brought in Minnesota was in 1918, against labor union organizers charged with "criminal syndicalism."
The Family (or the Fellowship as it is also known), is a shadowy organisation founded in the United States in the 1930s to promote a gospel of theocratic capitalist power and American empire. Like a Protestant version of Opus Dei, The Family is best known for founding the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC in the 1950s, and its invisible network has not only penetrated the highest levels of political power in the United States but wherever in the world America has political or economic interests.
"If the Siberian (submarine) permafrost-seal thaws completely and all the stored gas escapes, the methane content of the planet's atmosphere would increase twelve fold. The result would be catastrophic global warming." --"A Storehouse of Greenhouse Gases Is Opening in Siberia," Spiegel, 17 April '08. Extremely hot temperatures increase faster than the average temperature, and the consequences of very high temperatures are severe. Highs before the end of the century are forecasted (not considering melting permafrost) to reach 50C below the 30th parallel; the US and southern Europe will probably exceed 40C, with a 10% chance of exceeding 48C every decade. - Brad Arnold
Many arrestees are also being denied medical attention. One arrestee with hemophilia and another with asthma are being denied their prescription medication. An arrestee with a broken finger is being refused medical care, as is a person who has been coughing up blood. An anemic woman reported to Coldsnap today that she passed out for 20 to 30 minutes due to iron deficiency and was told that she could not receive iron because it was a prescription medication, and because she refused to identify herself. Iron is in fact an over-the-counter supplement. The same anemic woman reported seeing a Sheriff knock another woman to the ground and drag her out of the room by her hair. 'Just because people have been jailed does not mean their health should be put in jeopardy,' said Kelley. "This is a matter of compassion and basic human rights."
The blood-sucking capitalists order the intellectuals whom they hire to write voluminous books which artfully distort the truth. They try to portray as mean and sub-human those who oppose the capitalists and demand the right to live. In order to keep their machinery of exploitation running, the capitalists produce deadly weapons with the help of mercenary intellectuals. On the orders of their capitalist overlords, intellectual scientists willingly or unwillingly take up the task of making weapons in their laboratories that have the potential to destroy human civilization. Although the intellectuals understand what is going on, they cannot do anything about it. They look up towards heaven, hoping to see the arrival of better days. They think, "When will the downfallen intellectuals, warriors and workers unitedly save human civilization from the all-devouring greed of the capitalists. When will people realize that it is not the desire of providence for some to exploit others." Due to the utter despair they feel, the subservient intellectuals gradually become consumed with remorse recalling how they themselves once exploited others.
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Shrii Prabhat R Sarkar
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