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Feb 23, 2014

Liberal Libertarian Analysis of Ron Paul 1 - "Warfare, Welfare, and Wonder Woman — How Congress Spends Your Money"

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Ron Paul's article is from here. Ron Paul's words are in italic followed by my explanations;

Supporters of warfare, welfare, and Wonder Woman cheered last week as Congress passed a one trillion dollar “omnibus” appropriation bill. This legislation funds the operations of government for the remainder of the fiscal year. Wonder Woman fans can cheer that buried in the bill was a $10,000 grant for a theater program to explore the comic book heroine.

Funny that the Federal government has so much money to spend that they seem to give it away frivolously (especially if you don't like Wonder Woman or don't consider super heroes to be a part of American Culture worth exploring or sponsoring). On the other hand if this theater production leads to a movie and becomes a part of pop culture it could be seen as contributing to the diversity of American Society which is what distinguishes it from less diverse societies such as a Communist Society where diversity is but necessity limited by central planning. Since a grant allows a private person to do something without Government oversight it's a modern equivalent to receiving a boon from the Emperor such as that tradition of past centuries which allowed people like Galileo and Leonardo Da Vinci to work and leave us thier knowledge or like the grant Columbus received using which he discovered America. The issue becomes WHO should pick the ones giving grants or if the Federal Government should even be involved in promoting knowledge or exploration of culture or research. This debate I has yet to occur or I haven't heard of it yet and will cover it later.



That is just one of the many outrageous projects buried in this 1,582 page bill. The legislation gives the Department of Education more money to continue nationalizing education via “common core.” Also, despite new evidence of Obamacare’s failure emerging on an almost daily basis, the Omnibus bill does nothing to roll back this disastrous law.


I agree that these bills are way too long. They should be short bills dealing with one issue at a time so there can be public knowledge of it and a debate if necessary. This can only be achieved slowly and with allot of work for the legislative branches who are more concerned with elections most of the time than anything else. I think it would be a good idea to limit everyone in the Senate and Congress to one term to keep them focused on work with strict oversight to prevent some of the corruption which has become systemic in the Federal Government which reached extremes under Bush that never before or since has been surpassed (NSA was made official with the Patriot Act with huge public and legislative and conservative support):


Example of corruption: Sex for oil dealings...


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Even though the Omnibus bill dramatically increases government spending, it passed with the support of many self-described “fiscal conservatives.” Those wondering why anyone who opposes increasing spending on programs like common core and Obamacare would vote for the bill, may find an answer in the fact that the legislation increases funding for the “Overseas Continuing Operations” — which is the official name for the war budget — for the first time since 2010. This $85 billion war budget contains $6 billion earmarked for projects benefiting Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, and other big defense contractors.


Since corporations stand to make allot of money from Federal Government bills & laws they will obviously apply thier resources to public relations campaigns to bring public opinion to favor them. All of the media is under corporate control which means all the people on corporate boards and big shareholders and can move corporate policy are open the the SAME corruption possibilities as the federal Government.



Ever since “sequestration” went into effect at the beginning of last year, the military-industrial complex’s congressional cheering session has complained that sequestration imposed “draconian cuts” on the Pentagon that will “decimate” our military — even though most of the "cuts" were actually reductions in the "projected rate of growth." In fact, under sequestration, defense spending was to increase by 18 percent over ten years, as opposed to growing by 20 percent without sequestration.


A great deal of military expenditure is non-transparent. Given the history of drug dealing and other factors I don't believe the military should have classified information except in an immediate operation. Problem is the Pentagon and/or CIA has convinced everyone that we are in some sort of perpetual war since WW2 (cold war and now the, lets say, schizophrenic 'war on terror' for which logic is suspended for blind faith). All that said, there is only so much people can handle at one time. Proof is that what little of the Obama Administration has come to light, INHERITED FROM THE BUSH-CHENEY ADMINISTRATION - has left the public disoriented and paranoid. Especially in the South where fear is the main political tactic/strategy as per the rights Southern Strategy (which Fox News & Biz has convinced it's followers it's not using and it is believed despite all history and evidence to the contrary... in fact, the Republican 'war on science' may be explained by the fact that science - or knowledge of any sort except blind faith - will be disastrous for it's platform and thus winning elections).

A start to reducing the Pentagon's budget would be getting rid of all these excess military bases... 



I'm sure they have invented faster missiles, planes and drones by now making all these bases redundant unless there is a secret plan for American Empire (forbidden by the Constitution) OR the military is being used to make money overseas i.e. immoral AND unconstitutional (and not just from the CIA's heroin smuggling).


Note: I don't think the debt bubble is as bad as Ron Paul makes it out to be especially since public support for that idea comes from a faulty study(which means the debt bubble isn't an IMMEDIATE concern, it's something Ron Paul has been talking about with the same ferocity for 30 years - he may eventually be proven right so something has to be done I just think things should be organized on a ladder of importance and not thrown up in the air for the war party to take advantage of to cause more problems). It seems more like this idea of a debt bubble is being used by the conservative right to push policies whose immediate effect would be death of US Citizens which technically, as per the US Constitution, constitutes "war on Citizens" (i.e. treason as per article 3 section 3). It makes more sense to find a way to improve society and make any cuts with a plan to help people as well. Simply allowing them to die using a faulty study seems crazy and heartless. It's also why I think Conservative Libertarianism is a misnomer as you can't make war on US Society and declare it's for it's freedom in the same breath... unless you are schizophrenic or simply don't understand what you are talking about.



Many of the defenders of increased war spending are opponents of welfare, but they are willing to set aside their opposition to increased welfare spending in order to increase warfare spending. They are supported in this position by the lobbyists for the military-industrial complex and the neoconservatives, whose continued influence on foreign policy is mystifying. After all, the neocons were the major promoters of the disastrous military intervention in Iraq.


What if I said the Neo-Cons took over in 2001 and ended transparency forever so we would never know that they are really in-charge? Notice how investigations took place under Bush-Cheney (there was never a real investigation and even less accountability than the Obama Administration!):

Notice the 2nd part of the following video...



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While many neocons give lip service to limiting domestic spending, their main priority remains protecting high levels of military spending to maintain an interventionist foreign policy. The influence of the neocons provides intellectual justification for politicians to vote for ever-larger military budgets — and break the campaign promises to vote against increases in spending and debt.

This is quite simply true. IN the following video you will notice that during the last stimulus debate the main argument Fox News put forward was that spending is bad because of the dis proven study on debt bubbles BUT spending on war was fine. In other words, spending IS the answer they just want to spend money on stuff that kills people so they corporations they support can make money (i.e. war machine manufacturers and oil companies).


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At 1:21 - Hannity explains it was WW2 that got the economy out of a depression and he is right. The extra war spending boosted the related industries and the draft took care of the excess population. I don;t think that's a good solution for our time as starting another World War is stupid (which may be why there is a war on terror and why Iran wants the Nuclear Option as the GOP is pushing war strategies and collapsing the economy to attain those goals so ultimately, unless they go to prison after a transparent investigation, they will succeed).



Fortunately, in recent years more Americans have recognized that a constant defense of liberty requires opposing both war and welfare. Many of these Americans, especially the younger ones, have joined the intellectual and political movement in favor of limiting government in all areas. This movement presents the most serious challenge the bipartisan welfare-warfare consensus has faced in generations. Hopefully, the influence of this movement will lead to bipartisan deals cutting both welfare and warfare spending.

I agree and disagree (also explained above). The current solution by the "conservative libertarians" is to let both go and let society fall while the conservative libertarians implicitly support the war party side. Ultimately thier actions WILL lead to more war (as the side they are supporting is the GOP and Rand Paul will never win Jeb Bush will - it's pre-destined, so to speak - and after opposing the Democrats for so long the Conservative Libertarians will be unconsciously pulled to support the war party and thus they will hand the American Constitution it's final defeat as I don't see America returning back form the abyss if it has to suffer through another GOP Administration). IN fact, they may get thier ideal of less welfare with the war so in total even more people will die than they intended and it will be on thier heads whether they have the emotional maturity to accept it or not.

This is the problem with a shallow perspective on how actions must be taken to accomplish goals. Having blind faith in an outdated 'golden age' perspective on ones past is actually very common to all forms of religious fundamentalism and as such is easily manipulated using boogie men as fear is it's main motivator and an escape from the present to some remote past. I'm not sure if Ron Paul understands how much American Society was founded on Liberal ideals of the founding fathers or the financial structure that gave American Financial Freedom it's birth. If he understands them I have to question his implementation of his current strategy as creating more problems than solving them.

The problem is constitutional adjustments made during war which need to be brought back to normal levels but as yet haven't been. The IRS is a separate issue and should be left for some later time. All issues can't be dealt with at once without causing serious damage to peoples lives and the structure of society that helps people live.



The question facing Americans is not whether Congress will ever cut spending. The question is will the spending be reduced in an orderly manner that avoids inflecting massive harm on those depending on government programs, or will spending be slashed in response to an economic crisis caused by ever-increasing levels of deficit spending. Because politicians are followers rather than leaders, it is ultimately up to the people what course we will take. This is why it is vital that those of us who understand the dangerous path we are currently on do all we can to expand the movement for liberty, peace, and prosperity.

Here I agree. The sequester cuts hurts people and a 'machine' i.e. US Citizens and the Pentagon. The fact that one side is backing US Citizens and the other side is backing the war machine with both parties being supported by relevant corporations and NOT individuals is the military-industrial complex which exists in the shadows but whose influence seems to run everything through manipulation of public opinion. It is true... running the country through corporations and a war machine while trying to maintain economic prosperity is challenge that the military-industrial complex seems destined to fail and if it still has power when that happens we could all fall with them.



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Ponderings 6 - As soon as you defend a side...

As soon as you defend a side you become seen as a part of it. Apparently most people can only see 2 sides to everything.

Even language has that perspective of polarity. Tall & short. Hot and cold. Everything is like a scale with just 2 sides on which all of experience must be rated.
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Feb 22, 2014

Ponderings 5 - An "Artist" is so tortured...

An "Artist" is so tortured because everything they treasure is also in their past.
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Ponderings 4 - Will Anyone Ever Tell The Republicans That The Nazis Would ONLY Vote For Them?

It's strange that after calling all liberals "Nazis" including the Democratic President Obama - who for the first time is a black man which is like the visual fulfillment of Nixon's Southern Strategy that won him the election (which creates it's own opportunities and problems) - the ACTUAL lineage of the Nazis, now called the Neo Nazis, ALL vote Republican... and even seem to be the hidden leaders of the Tea Party.

I think it has something to do with lack of self-reflection and self-awareness that seems to be rampant in the GOP base. A stark example is that of Megyn Kelly who - following in Glenn Beck's footsteps - cursed out the Liberals for years till someone got shot than changed thier tune overnight... and, like fish, the Fox News watchers gobbled up everything they were told without any memory; i.e. ...


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A REAL Nazi can never be anything but a Christian (It's why Nazi scientists were absorbed into US Society so easily after WW2 and possibly why Neo Nazism is such a strong movement - especially within the Republican Party - today). Though often, as atheism is a reaction to Christianity/Religion, atheists do act in an intolerant manner which gives further weight to a Christian (& thus the Republican Media i.e. Fox News) view that they are being unreasonable. The fascinating thing is that they are often reflections of each other. That said atheists are ultimately more likely to see reason and be tolerant than a religious person who is convinced about thier beliefs whether they are scripturally accurate or not.



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Ponderings 3 - The Emergence Of The Cult Of Capitalism

People see themselves as Capitalists the way they see themselves as "Christian" or "White". It's become like a cult with beliefs & GOP is thier leader. Earlier understandings of Capitalism (from the, mostly forgotten,WW2 era) where increases in the wage where considered to be part of the boons of American Capitalism has been lost because the meaning of capitalism no longer includes fairness (somehow 'all capitalists are good' has become the underlying assumption of all Republican arguments - Interesting side note: Carl Jung warns us that this is where society in heading back in the 1950's based on his observations of living through the World Wars in his book The Undiscovered Self). It's like people have read so much Ayn Rand that they sympathize with the mean streak of unregulated capitalism. A sort of sad-masochistic idealism towards what it means to be a "Capitalist".


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Extract:

"It used to be that conservatism was a hard-headed set of ideas rooted in reality.
Unlike the abstract theories of Marxism and socialism, it started not from an imagined society, but from the world as it actually exists.

"This is the way things work," conservatives would patiently explain to wooly headed liberal professors. "Whatever you may want it to look like, this is what it really looks like."
But consider the debates over the economy these days. The Republican prescription is cut taxes - slash government spending, then things will always bounce back.

Now, I would like to see lower tax rates in the context of simplification and reform, but what is the actual evidence that massive tax cuts are the single best path to revive the U.S. economy? Taxes as a percentage of GDP are at their lowest levels since 1950. The U.S. is among the lowest taxed of the big industrial economies.

So the case that America is grinding to a halt because of high taxation is not based on facts, either past or present. It is simply a theoretical assertion.

The rich countries after all are in the best shape right now with strong growth and low unemployment are ones like Germany, Denmark and Canada - none characterized by low taxes.
"


The key to understanding why Republicans have become so dependent on personal budgeting allegories has to do with a dis proven study (following junk science seems to be a Republican "Capitalist" Cult thing!)

Austerity's Spreadsheet Error - Graduate student Thomas Herndon identifies little staggering omissions in a prominent academic paper, "Growth in a Time of Debt." (04:19):


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Feb 10, 2014

Ponderings 2 - World War 2... A Christian Civil War?


The more I think about it the more World War 2 seems like a Christian Civil War.




What Hitler tried to do was no less than what Constantine actually accomplished (Was Hitler following in Constantine's footsteps?). If Hitler had won would we be talking of Hitler like an emperor of Christianity like we do with Constantine?

In any case, Hitler followed certain verses of the Old Testament;

Numbers 31: 17-18
17. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Deuteronomy 20:16
However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

1 Samuel 15:2-4
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

 And since what a Christian group believes is pretty much dependent on thier pastor, the Nazis do constitute a valid Christian group. Also, acceptance of Nazi scientists in Texas makes even more sense.

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Feb 9, 2014

Moment of Zen for an Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman Tribute

The late Philip Seymour Hoffman shares the reason for an actor to always give their best.  (01:10):



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Feb 8, 2014

Ponderings 1: Reason brings isolation...

'Reason' brings independence & isolation (Liberals/West). 'Emotionality' brings community & group thinking(Conservatives/East). #Ponderings
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Feb 6, 2014

The Differences & Commonalities Between Muslim & Christian Religious Fundamentalism


There is allot of confusion between Islam and Christianity because Islamists assume the Christians follow thier scripture exactly and because Christians don't understand what having life dictated by scripture rather than a collection of endorsed beliefs is like.

To a Muslim the Quran is the word of God so religious tolerance (i.e. tolerance for other peoples beliefs that are not outright insulting the Muslims beliefs) is actually easy because once you say that 'the Quran says this' if it is written there it is 'written' and that is that. For example to protect your religion all you have to do is quote these verses to a Islamic Religious Scholar (not a mob... you can't talk to a mob of any religion, for example; the Salem witch hunts).:

 "There is no compulsion in religion" (Quran 2:256)


Surah Al-Ma'idah verse 48 states:
If Allah so willed, he would have made you a single People, but his plan is to test each of you separately, in what He has given to each of you: so strive in all virtues as in you are in a race. The goal of all of you is to Allah. It is He that will show you the truth of the matters in which ye dispute. (The Quran 5:48)
Surah Al-Ankabut verse 46 states:
And dispute not with the People of the Book, except with means better than mere disputation, unless I be with those of them who inflict wrong and injury, but say to them: "We believe in the revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you; Our God and your God is one; and it is to Him that we bow." (The Quran 29:46) {Note: People of the book are Jews and Christian AT THE VERY MINIMUM}

By seeking to make the Muslims world stable, the US over-engaged itself in that region (mostly due to the cold war) and managed to make the one clause in the Quran viable i.e. 'if a Muslim is oppressed he is commanded to fight back till they are no longer oppressed' and although some reasons for fighting against 'western oppressors' lack logic this lack of sanity is even more common in the West as the right in the US has proven beyond a doubt the difference is simply that there is no RELIGIOUS persecution as the Muslims reason for fighting, i.e. the Muslims would like to convert others to Christianity, especially when they see missionaries constantly babbling at them, but they won't make it thier life's mission because that's not allowed... but if they OR any of thier fellow Muslims are attacked THEN they are allowed to defend themselves. A Christian will always say, 'well, we are more evolved of a religion cause Jesus said Turn Thy Cheek' that's a silly assertion as Genocide is actually a more common occurrence amougnst the Christians and except for the early Christians who really did 'Turn thy check' as Jesus commanded and were thrown to the lions I don't think any Christian Nation on the world stage has EVER done such a thing. Constantine literally used Christian symbolism to give credibility to his Empire and during the Dark Ages the Pope started a Crusade long after the Muslims assault was over. So while Muslim leaders may have been as cruel as Christian one, outright extermination of people with other beliefs is a more Christian tradition than a Muslim one so when Christian think Muslims are persecuting them for thier faith they are really just imagining the Muslims are like them which is a fallacy.

Why this dichotomy? I has to do with the Christians lack of belief in thier scripture. While a Muslim follows scripture a Christian follows thier leader that's why they emphasize being a 'flock of sheep' cause that's how they have historically been taught to function. When you ask 'why it is OK to eat Pork or get tattoos or weave two types of cloths together which is forbidden in the book of Leviticus' he/she gets a reply 'because Jesus came and abrogated past laws' ...

but when you ask 'so why do you persecute gays when that's also in the Book of Leviticus AND Jesus said nothing about gays especially when you aren't following the other laws of the Book of Leviticus' you draw a blank. The question simply doesn't penetrate. To a Muslim this is very confusing as they follow scripture so they think the Christians scripture has been corrupted and they have gone made when in reality the answer is simpler than that... Christian NEVER read thier scripture. Is is read for them by a 'chosen one' who then guides them from thier. These MAJOR cultural differences cause major problems in International Relations.

Here are a variety of Biblical quotes that will either A) Get a denial from a Christian 'it's Not in the bible' or B) silence with possibly some of the schizophrenic nonsense of Jesus having made ignoring that particular law OK while not others all for random reasons EXCEPT for the believer him or her self... who believes what they do without question OR research.

Christian Scripture Not Followed (well mostly, well, not intentionally anyways):

1. Leviticus 19:27 “‘Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

2. Leviticus 5:2 "'Or if a person touches anything ceremonially unclean--whether the carcasses of unclean wild animals or of unclean livestock or of unclean creatures that move along the ground--even though he is unaware of it, he has become unclean and is guilty

3. Leviticus 11:7 And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.

4. Leviticus 11:9 "'Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams, you may eat any that have fins and scales.

5. Deuteronomy 22:9 Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled

6. Deuteronomy 22:11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

7. Leviticus 19:19 "'Keep my decrees. "'Do not mate different kinds of animals. "'Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. "'Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.

Hosea 13:16 (King James) Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Numbers 31: 17-18
17. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Deuteronomy 20:16
However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

1 Samuel 15:2-4
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

Psalm 137:8-9
8 O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.
9 O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!


Basically what a Christian "leader" does is pick and choose which laws he or she will follow by using the quotes below to make his chosen obsoletes valid while he is never questioned on what he or she chooses to implement as questioning is not allowed within the Christian institution itself (unlike the Muslim one where is not only allowed but encouraged and only during educational dark ages does it get out of hand like when the Christian Nazi movement took over Europe, ex 'the pen is mightier than the sword'):

The following quotes make it possible to allow pork, tattoos and making different kinds of cloth but somehow - mysteriously - doesn't apply to gays:

Matthew 5:17: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." (ex. thou shalt not kill)

Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.



Notes on Commonalities: 

Where a Christian and Muslim fundamentalist or hate group find common ground is in the 'seeking escape from ones-self that is necessary for 'true belief':

This is from the preface of his book, The True Believer;

"All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and single hearted allegiance." 

To start a fundamentalist religious group (or a non-religious one) blind obedience without question is necessary. If people are educated with history and the sciences in a way where it becomes integrated with their perception then lying to them becomes very difficult. If someone with religious authority lies to them, it will hurt to have someone they like lying to them but they will do what is right...eventually, once they are sure. 



2. American Foreign Policy of the Bush Era can be summarized thusly:

"The ideal devil is a foreigner. Hitler—the foremost authority on devils—found it easy to brand the German Jews as foreigners." (pp. 92-93)

3. Lets remove the 'we have free speech' and Muslim world doesn't nonsense from the debate as this is typically an old world VS New World - and educational - phenomenon.  The religious right in the US is working hard on removing the Constitutional divide between Church and State with the help of traditional Evangelical orthodoxy (who operate beyond the teachings of Jesus) and in the old world the meaning of 'sacred' means something that is holy. Whether is be the scripture of a Muslim OR a decree of the emperor such as displayed in Shanghai Noon where Jackie Chan bows helplessly before another palace guard reading him the Emperors decree and then Wilson says 'this is the New-World/America we are free from such things'. That is what people don't often understand i.e. the split between the old and new worlds goes back millennia and included all of Europe as well (remember the Inquisition? or WHY the people fled Europe for America in the first place?). So no more Glenn Beck or Bill O Reilly logic that Christian America is somehow more tolerate than the Muslims. If 30% of the future of America weren't Atheist I shudder to think where America would be today.

In the New World, to allow the various sects of Christianity and other cults such as Quakers or the later Mormons and other various Christian groups who are more often at odds with every other Christian group around them and the Constitutional separating between Church and State helps these different sects to co-exist.

The new Western trend towards free speech is not as developed as people like to think and is allot more fragile than people like to think (except for some reason when it involves members of ones own religious group who can say stuff they would never allow others to say). Especially when you take into account the almost continuous media blackouts on important issues of the day. How long before a GOP President returns to power, claims to be doing God's work and proceeds to destroy American society with their lies and false wars and thier ability to remove science from the mind of it's Journalists (and thier ability to scare them into silence WHENEVER they so choose) so that all they know is what they hear from thier preferred "echo chamber" but not around emotional issues that they can't face (especially involving how architecture works for example: How can a Modern Skyscraper fall from a light fire when even heavy fires can't make a modern building fall like a pancake - it's unprecedented, or it was till everyone knew it was possible and were told so -  and this is just concerning the building that wasn't hit by a plane. A closed mind or worse)?



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Update Sep 13: I heard some woman on Hannity say 3:15 of the Muslim's Quran was about killing people for fun (or something in that context). Here are the verses from 3:15 & 3:50 (in case I misheard it).


3:15

Say, "Shall I inform you of [something] better than that? For those who fear Allah will be gardens in the presence of their Lord beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide eternally, and purified spouses and approval from Allah . And Allah is Seeing of [His] servants -

&

3:50

And [I have come] confirming what was before me of the Torah and to make lawful for you some of what was forbidden to you. And I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear Allah and obey me.





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Feb 2, 2014

Daily Show Interviews Ron Paul

Ron Paul's Interview On The Daily Show;

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Screenshot of the UFO/UAP from the first declassified video of UFOs from the Pentagon

UFO Facts

  • Pentagon Confirms UFO Videos Released By Department Of Defense, And Confirmed As Real By The Navy, Are, In Fact, Real
  • UFO Facts: The Navy Confirmed That 3 Videos On The Web Are In Fact Real UFOs, Providing A Confirmed Starting Point For UFO Research
  • UFO Facts: A Navy Pilot Did An Interview With Mainstream News Media Outlets And Revealed That UFOs Are Shaped Like White Tic Tacs & Can Move At Hyper Velocity, Vertically Or Horizontally, Showing Capabilities Beyond What An Air Force Pilot Or Physicist Can Imagine Modern Aircraft Doing
  • UFO Facts: Civilian/Commercial Airline Pilots Have Reported Seeing UFOs/UAPs
  • UFO Facts: The Chilean Navy Released A Video Of A Tic Tac Shaped UFO In January Of 2017
  • UFO Facts: There Is A Video From 2011 Of A UFO Behaving The Way The Navy Pilot Of The Confirmed UFO Videos Describes in 2017 Of An Experience He Had in 2004!
  • UFO Facts: A White Tic Tac Shaped UFO Was Spotted Over Texas 2016 & 2018 (UFO Fits Navy Pilots Description!)
  • UFO Facts: Fighter Jets Have Been Scrambled To Meet UFOs In England (UK) & Oregon (USA)
  • UFO Facts: UFO's Seem To Like The UK! They've Shown Up On Live BBC News Several Times!
  • UFO Facts: Debunking The Abydos UFO/Helicopter/Jet-Plane/Glider And A Look At The Possibility Of An Ancient Flying Machine
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: Meet The Ancient Humans & Giants Whose Descendants Were The Annunaki/ Watchers/ Niphilim/ Egyptian-Gods ("Civilization Bringers") Of Ancient History
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: A 3 Hour Debunking Of Ideas On Ancient Aliens Supplemented With New Discoveries Of History
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: Its The False Historical Timeline That Makes The Remains Of A Forgotten Civilization(s), And Its Mythology, Seem Like A Reference To Aliens Or UFOs To UFO Enthusiasts (With Graham Hancock)
  • See All Three Of The Official UFO/UAP Videos Released By The Department Of Defense (Pentagon) Thus Far...

My Facebook Page

  • UFOs & Aliens Or WETI i.e. Welcoming Extraterrestrial Intelligence
  • WTC 7 - The Ultimate Smoking Gun & Much More - 9/11 Truth & Science

Antiquities Research

  • Fascinating Synchronicity: The Animistic Or "Mystical" Outlook Of Modern Physics And Evolutionary Science
  • Animals And Humans Share DNA, A Nervous System, Intelligence, Creativity And Emotions (Such As Empathy)
  • Is The Missing Link Between Man And Ape Psychological? Since We All Seemed To Have Evolved From The Same Root/Source Species?
  • Lost History: Dinosaurs In Ancient Popular Culture - "Lions Paws" Of The 5th Century Sigiriya Of Siri Lanka Which May Be Dinosaur Claws!
  • Lost History: Dinosaurs In Ancient Popular Culture - The Stegosaurus At Angkor Wat (12th Century)
  • Paradigm Altering Discovery Of Comet Impact Of 13,000 Years Ago Has To Be Taken Into Account When Examining Human History
  • A General Overview Of Extinct Species Of Humans
  • The Ramayana Epic (Animated) And The Controversial Dating Of The Ramayana Epic (It Could Be Over 9000 Years Old!)
  • Discoveries Of Fossils Have Been Going On Forever! So Dragons Must Be The Ancient Interpretation Of Dinosaur Bones! (& Other Such Possibilities)

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Reality Bites

  • Reality Bites: Psychics Don't Exist. At Least, There Is No Hard Evidence Of Psychics Anywhere.
  • Reality Bites: A Simple Scientific Explanation For Why Astrology Can't Work

Short Stories

  • {Historical Fiction} How The Journeys Of Democritus Began
  • {Historical/Alternative-History Fiction} How I Went From Prince Asoka, To ‘Shiva The Destroyer of Worlds’, To King Asoka (My Story In My Words)
  • {Sci-Fi} Hank's Teleportation Wormhole Leads To Unforseen Consequences

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UFO Phenomenon Analyzed

  • A Collection of News Reports On The Newly Declassified UFO Videos
  • Debunking The Ancient Alien Hypothesis: Meet The Ancient Humans & Giants Whose Descendants Were The Annunaki/ Watchers/ Niphilim/ Egyptian-Gods ("Civilization Bringers") Of Ancient History
  • 20 Mind-Boggling UFO Sightings (Videos)
  • UFO Fear Factor: Pentagon Releases UFO Videos... Do UFOs Exist? If UFOs Exist Are They A Threat? What Do They Want?
  • UFOs Burst Onto Mainstream Popular Culture! Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Unimpressed, Requires Dinner Date.
  • The UFO Fear Factor: Fear Of UFOs And Aliens In Popular Culture
  • Are UFO's Trying To Get The Attention Of BBC?
  • See All Three Of The Official UFO/UAP Videos Released By The Department Of Defense (Pentagon) Thus Far...
  • About FBI's Declassified UFO Memo From March 22 1950 About Roswell, New Mexico
  • With The Release Of UFO/UAP Videos By The Pentagon... Can We Now Confirm That The UFOs Sighted At The Dome Of The Rock In Israel Are Real?
  • The Pentagon Has Released A Video Of A UFO Proving That There Is Unidentified Advanced Technology Wandering The Skies! Expert Testimony Confirms UFO Visitation Since 1948!
  • F -15s Scrambled Over Oregon For A UFO, A Few Celebrity Sightings And More
  • 3 Incredible - Gravity Defying - UFO Sightings Caught On Video By The BBC And 3 Great UFO Videos By Express.Co.UK
  • 10 Amazing UFO Sightings On Video In The Daily Mail And Some Confirmed Mistaken Ones
  • 10 Incredible UFO Sightings On Video! (2 Confirmed And 8 Unconfirmed) - A Look At Evidence Of The UFO Phenomenon
  • Advanced Aerospace Threat Analysis And A Cultural Analysis Of The UFO Phenomenon
  • Why Accepting The Presence Of UFO's And Alien Life, As A Global Culture, CAN Help Reduce Divisions In Our Society

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Gobekli Tepe Related Research

  • Built 6000 Years Before Stonehenge, Göbekli Tepe Is The Oldest Megalithic Stone Site We Have Found So Far

Tracing The Origins Of Culture & Civilization

  • Kailasa Temple - Evidence Of Advanced Stone Drilling Technology In India?
  • Over 140 New Nazca Lines Found! And A Look At How A Plane Could Have Developed In The Americas From A Colony From Egypt
  • Tracing Evidence Of Yoga Postures For Shamanic Meditation To 15,000 BC!
  • About The Denosivan Stone Bracelet That Has A Drilled Hole Providing An Ancient Technological Developmental Link To The Later Megalithic Cultures And Monuments Such As Gobleki Tepe & The Pyramids Of Giza
  • Tracing The Sources Of Our Culture To The Paleolithic Age... With Art & Music Being Well Over 40,000 Years Old!
  • Tracing Lost Megalithic Cultures From 9500 BC To The Present
  • Cultural Diffusion: Tracing Water Travel By Canoes To AT LEAST 8000 BC & Extensive Ocean Travel By Ships To 1600 BC!
  • Lost Knowledge & Technology Of The Ancient World... And A Random Collection Of Inventions Showing How Inventive Humankind Is Given The Opportunity To Play At Tinkering
  • A Look At The Fall Of Civilizations (With An Emphasis On The Fall Of 1200 BC & Lost Knowledge Through Library Burnings)
  • Geologists Agree That The Sphinx Has Rain Erosion Patterns On It Indicating It Was Built Before 5000 BC! 2500 Years BEFORE Mainstream Egyptologists Claim It Was Built!
  • Was The Egyptian Pyramid Complex Built Up Over Time? From About 10,500 BC To About 2,500 BC?
  • Breaking News: Using Archeoastronomy The Pyramid Complex At Giza In Egypt Has Been Dated To 10,500 BC
  • Debunking Egyptologists Dr. Mark Lehner From the University Of Chicago & James F. Romano Curator At The Brooklyn Museum
  • Göbekli Tepe: Tracing Probable Links In The Mythology Of Göbekli Tepe To The Native Americans
  • Was Ancient Egyptian Culture Influenced By Shamans & Shamanism In Its Early Development Stages?
  • The Ancient Shamanic Link To Yoga, Meditation & The Other Major Religions (With The Swastika Link Between Native Americans, Hindus & Buddhists Explained)
  • Evidence Of A Rock Cutting Machine In The Ancient World That Has Been Lost To Time
  • "Is The House Of History Built On Foundations Of Sand?" - Graham Hancock
  • Ancient Underwater Ruins: A Review Of Graham Hancock's "Underworld, Flooded Kingdoms Of The Ice Age" (With Discoveries Dating To 7500 BC And Earlier!) & "Advanced Ice Age Civilizations & Atlantis"
  • The Discovery Of A Proto-Proto-Proto Shiva At Göbekli Tepe? A Short Look At Correlations Between Göbekli Tepe And Other Cultures (Includes Observations By Graham Hancock)
  • Graham Hancock: The First Fall Of Civilization Happened By Comet 12800 Years Ago And It Remnants By A Flood 11600 Years Ago (Atlantis). This Is Conclusive Scientific Proof. The Debate Is Over.
  • America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilisation, by Graham Hancock
  • Breaking News - The Shaman Of Gobekli Tepe: The Link Between The Shaman Of Lascaux Cave, Shiva & The Headless Man Gobekli Tepe
  • An Overview Of The Best Theories & Discoveries On Ancient Civilizations By Graham Hancock (From "Fingerprints Of The Gods" To "Magicians Of The Gods" ... With A Critique)
  • Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ Part 1 – Out of Eden
  • Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ Part 2 – Conquest and the Tropics
  • {Subject: Archaeology} The Fragmentation of Knowledge Part 1 [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]
  • {Subject Psychology} Fragmentation Of Knowledge 2 - [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]
  • A Talk By Michael Cremo, Author Of Forbidden Archaeology (From Talks At Google)
  • Debunking The Ancient Alien Hypothesis: Meet The Ancient Humans & Giants Whose Descendants Were The Annunaki/ Watchers/ Niphilim/ Egyptian-Gods ("Civilization Bringers") Of Ancient History

Talks By Graham Hancock

  • Graham Hancock | Ancient Civilizations - Presentation at the 2012 Tipping Point Prophets Conference.
  • Magicians of the Gods Lecture by Graham Hancock at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey
  • America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization, by Graham Hancock
  • Graham Hancock: Quest for the Lost Civilization - A Species with Amnesia
  • Ancient Underwater Ruins: A Review Of Graham Hancock's "Underworld, Flooded Kingdoms Of The Ice Age" (With Discoveries Dating To 7500 BC And Earlier!) & "Advanced Ice Age Civilizations & Atlantis"
  • "Is The House Of History Built On Foundations Of Sand?" - Graham Hancock
  • Graham Hancock: 'The First Fall Of Civilization Happened By Comet 12800 Years Ago, And Its Remnants By A Flood 11600 Years Ago (Atlantis)'. - {This Is Conclusive Scientific Proof. The Debate Is Over.}
  • Graham Hancock: ‘Magicians of the Gods’, snapshots of a work in progress

Talks By Andrew Collins

  • Andrew Collins: Giza's Cave Underworld
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: Meet The Ancient Humans & Giants Whose Descendants Were The Annunaki/ Watchers/ Niphilim/ Egyptian-Gods ("Civilization Bringers") Of Ancient History
  • Finding Eden: The Mystery of Göbekli Tepe & Giza's Cave Underworld - Andrew Collins FULL LECTURE
  • Meet the Denisovans | The True Founders of a Lost Civilization | Andrew Collins | Origins Conference
  • Andrew Collins | Genesis and Evolution of the Giza Pyramids | Origins Conference
  • Andrew Collins: The Cygnus Key - The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe, and the Birth of Egypt
  • Andrew Collins: From Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge: A Cosmic Blueprint 10,000 BC
  • Andrew Collins: Gobekli Tepe: Temple of the Watchers, Gateway to the Stars

Learning & Education

  • Prelude to a new article series on education
  • Learning and Education With The 'Socratic Method'
  • The Power Of Your Brain: Brain Plasticity & IQ Enhancement
  • How Emotions Cloud Judgement: An Introduction To True Empathy
  • Introduction To NLP, It's Therapeutic Models & The 5 Minute Phobia Cure (With A Talk By Richard Bandler)
  • Basics of Body Language and Lie Detection
  • Book Review: What Is Intelligence? - The Flyn Effect
  • Problems With The "No Child Left Behind" Act In 3 Interviews
  • Education Part 1 - The Problem Of Psychiatric Drugs
  • How Can Psychiatrists Be Allowed To Prescribe A Physical Substance For A Mental Disease That Has No Biological Source?
  • The Fragmentation of Knowledge Part 1 [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]

Animals

  • Animals And Humans Share DNA, A Nervous System, Intelligence, Creativity And Emotions (Such As Empathy)
  • The Modern Dodo: Meet The Flightless Parrot Called The Kakapo
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Elephant Intelligence (They Can Paint, Count, Communicate etc.)
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Parrot Intelligence
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Raccoon Intelligence
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Whale Intelligence
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Dolphin Intelligence

Full Movies Online

  • Action/Adventure: Into the Blue (2005)
  • Comedy: Dorm Troopers (Film/Movie)
  • Home | Horror Movie | Thriller | Drama Film
  • Sci Fi Movie: The Last Starship (2016)
  • Highlander | Action Movie | Sean Connery | Christopher Lambert | Full Film
  • Entertainment Past Links

Xmas

  • Santa's Surprise
  • Animation: Jack Frost (1934)
  • Animation: The Star Of Bethlehem
  • Animation: A Christmas Tree (1959)
  • The "War On Christmas"... Exposed!
  • Animation: The Christmas Visitor (1959)
  • Samantha Bee's 2018 Christmas Special
  • Christmas Cartoon: Christmas Night (1933)
  • Movie: Santa Clause Conquers the Martians
  • Christmas Special: Jon Stewart On Christmas
  • Christmas Carol - An Animated Movie (Cartoon)
  • Christmas Special 2017: The War On Christmas
  • "The War On Christmas" ... Exposed! (Part Deux)
  • Christmas Movie: A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
  • Christmas Sing-A-Long Cartoon: Snow Foolin' (1949)
  • Christmas Cartoon: Somewhere In Dreamland (1936)
  • Cartoon: Santa and the Three Bears (1970 - 45 mins)
  • Christmas Cartoon: Rudolph, The Red Nose Reindeer
  • Animation: Christmas Comes But Once A Year (Cartoon)
  • "The War On Christmas"... Exposed! (The Colbert Edition)
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 1
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 2
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 3
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 4
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 5
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 6
  • Christmas Special 2017: Happy Christmas With The President!
  • Animation: The Shanty Where Santa Claus Lives (1933 - Christmas Cartoon)
  • Comedy Central's Non-Denominational Christmas Special (S1Ep101) - Part 1
  • Comedy Central's Non-Denominational Christmas Special (S1Ep101) - Part 2
  • Comedy Central's Non-Denominational Christmas Special (S1Ep101) - Part 3
  • Old Silent Christmas Movies: The Night Before Christmas (1908) & The Christmas Angel (1904)
  • A Christmas Carol - Movie & Audio Books - The 1st Silent Film & 1st Audio Film Of A Christmas Carol

Popular Posts (Of All Time)

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    The modern form of scientific thought and analysis emerged from the philosophy of the Ancient Greeks and their writings. Which were passed ...
  • CNN Documentary: God's Christian Warriors (Nazi's are a white CHRISTIAN Movement)
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  • The Heart Of Culture and Society – The Golden Rule
    We tend to notice differences more than similarities when encountering other races or cultures. Yet we(the human race) have more in common t...
  • Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn’t Tolerate Antiwar Voices
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  • What is the difference between culture and society?
    The first thing Id like to clear up before I begin to look at culture is that my perspective on culture is a lot broader than is normally us...
  • Case Study: Many "Business" Channels (Such As Fox Business) Are Designed To Deceive It's Viewers For Profit - Part 2!
    Background:  Case Study: Many "Business" Channels (Such As Fox Business) Are Designed To Deceive It's Viewers For Profit  (Par...
  • The Fragmentation of Knowledge Part 1 [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]
    Historically, knowledge has always been approached from a holistic perspective. The Ancient Greeks studied every field of knowledge and put...
  • BREAKING: "WTC 7 Did Not Collapse from Fire" Dr. Leroy Hulsey... Engineering Experts, 9/11 Families And A Former NIST Employee Call On Congress To Launch A New Investigation Into 9/11!
    A comprehensive study with computer model simulations prove that World Trade Center Building #7 did NOT fall from fire... "WTC 7 Did ...
  • Proofs That Trump Is Nothing But A Dictator, And Tyrant, At Heart
    Background: 1.  The GOP's Dictator Worship Tendencies: Tax Bill Example 2.  An Overview Of Trump's 'Fire And Fury' Scandal...

Popular Posts (Last 30 Days)

  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 9 (Promoting A Fundamentalist Domestic Terror Group)
    Background/Context: 1.  How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 8 (Helping Cover Up GOP Discrimination Against J...
  • Trump Is Crazy. There's No Denying It. Just Accept It. We Have A Completely Mad President And A Party That Wants A Mad Man In Office For Personal Gain!
    Background/Context: 1 -  The GOP's Strategy Has ALWAYS Been To Pick An Idiot For President 2 -  GOP Acquits Trump With No Witnesses, B...
  • Trump's Top 100 Scandals That The Trump Presidential Library Is Going To Have To Explain Away
    Trump’s 100 Most Tremendous Scandals | The Daily Social Distancing Show Whittled down from a list of 35,000, here are Donald Trump’s 100 Mos...
  • Trump Brags About His Test For Dementia As If It Were An Actual Intelligence Test Proving He's Too Mentally Handicapped To Handle ANY Real Job That Isn't Being A Janitor!
    Related: Trump Is Crazy. There's No Denying It. Just Accept It. We Have A Completely Mad President And A Party That Wants A Mad Man In O...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 8 (Helping Cover Up GOP Discrimination Against Jews)
    Background: 1.  How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 7 2.  Media Fear Offending Right Wing America While The ...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 3
     Related: How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 2 Media Matters:  Sunday show coverage of COVID-19 relief neg...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 1
    Related:  Media Matters Proves Corporate Media's Journalists Aren't Real Journalists Media Matters:  Senate Republicans waited until...
  • "Accuse The Other Of Which You Are Guilty" - GOP's Nazi Mirror Tactic Example 2 - Mitch McConnell
    Context/Background: 1.  Fox News Are Just White Supremacists Using "The Nazi Mirror Tactic" Being Given A Free Pass By The Media ...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 4
     Related: How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 3 Media Matters: Republicans refused to engage on COVID-19 rel...
  • Is The Missing Link Between Man And Ape Psychological? Since We All Seemed To Have Evolved From The Same Root/Source Species?
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Popular Posts - For the year thus far

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    The modern form of scientific thought and analysis emerged from the philosophy of the Ancient Greeks and their writings. Which were passed ...
  • Trump Is Crazy. There's No Denying It. Just Accept It. We Have A Completely Mad President And A Party That Wants A Mad Man In Office For Personal Gain!
    Background/Context: 1 -  The GOP's Strategy Has ALWAYS Been To Pick An Idiot For President 2 -  GOP Acquits Trump With No Witnesses, B...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 9 (Promoting A Fundamentalist Domestic Terror Group)
    Background/Context: 1.  How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 8 (Helping Cover Up GOP Discrimination Against J...
  • Trump Brags About His Test For Dementia As If It Were An Actual Intelligence Test Proving He's Too Mentally Handicapped To Handle ANY Real Job That Isn't Being A Janitor!
    Related: Trump Is Crazy. There's No Denying It. Just Accept It. We Have A Completely Mad President And A Party That Wants A Mad Man In O...
  • Trump's Top 100 Scandals That The Trump Presidential Library Is Going To Have To Explain Away
    Trump’s 100 Most Tremendous Scandals | The Daily Social Distancing Show Whittled down from a list of 35,000, here are Donald Trump’s 100 Mos...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 3
     Related: How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 2 Media Matters:  Sunday show coverage of COVID-19 relief neg...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 1
    Related:  Media Matters Proves Corporate Media's Journalists Aren't Real Journalists Media Matters:  Senate Republicans waited until...
  • "Accuse The Other Of Which You Are Guilty" - GOP's Nazi Mirror Tactic Example 2 - Mitch McConnell
    Context/Background: 1.  Fox News Are Just White Supremacists Using "The Nazi Mirror Tactic" Being Given A Free Pass By The Media ...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 8 (Helping Cover Up GOP Discrimination Against Jews)
    Background: 1.  How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 7 2.  Media Fear Offending Right Wing America While The ...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 4
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Going deeper...

An in-depth look at culture & society.

Introduction To Culture

  • What is the difference between culture and society?
  • History: The earliest evidence of ritual and myth part 1
  • The earliest evidence of ritual and myth part 2
  • Daniel Quinn’s theories on culture and civilization part 1
  • Daniel Quinn’s theories on culture and civilization part 2
  • Daniel Quinn’s theories on culture and civilization part 3
  • Daniel Quinn’s theories on culture and civilization part 4
  • Could American psychology have a major Native American influence?
  • Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ Part 1 – Out of Eden
  • Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ Part 2 – Conquest and the Tropics
  • Joseph Campbell puts culture and society in perspective
  • Reflection of Cultural Perspectives Through Gardening
  • Psychology: An introduction to the use of psychology in understanding culture and society
  • Having More Than One Head... Do Myths, Such As Medusa, Contain Slivers of Truth?
  • How Can Psychiatrists Be Allowed To Prescribe A Physical Substance For A Mental Disease That Has No Biological Source?
  • Has The USA Become Like A Sort Of Disneyland?
  • American Lion: Andrew Jackson in The Whitehouse
  • Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Book Review)
  • The Constitution Is A Liberal Document & The Founding Fathers Were Liberals
  • Our Title Comes Second. What We Are (CITIZENS) Comes First. - Obama

Education & Psychology

  • Swiss Psychoanalyst Carl Jung On The Psychic Nature Of The Mind, Death & The Afterlife
  • How Emotions Cloud Judgement: An Introduction To True Empathy
  • The Psychology Of Dance: Man & Ape Have Been Dancing For An Eternity
  • How Can Psychiatrists Be Allowed To Prescribe A Physical Substance For A Mental Disease That Has No Biological Source?
  • The Candy Bombers (Conflict Resolution)
  • Prelude to a new article series on education
  • Learning and Education With The 'Socratic Method'
  • Problems With The "No Child Left Behind" Act In 3 Interviews
  • Book Review: What Is Intelligence? - The Flyn Effect
  • The Power Of Your Brain: Brain Plasticity & IQ Enhancement
  • The State Of US Education & The Dumbing Down Of America
  • Introduction To NLP, It's Therapeutic Models & The 5 Minute Phobia Cure (With A Talk By Richard Bandler)
  • To The Edge of Physics... And Beyond! (Includes The Conversational Movie About Modern Physics Called "Mindwalk")
  • Archaeology: The Fragmentation of Knowledge Part 1 [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]
  • Psychology: Fragmentation Of Knowledge 2 - [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]
  • Basics of Body Language and Lie Detection

Lessons In Civics & Economics

  • The 3 Branches of Government
  • Can Citizen Rights Be Upgraded To Those Enjoyed By Corporations? This Country, According To The Constitution, Is FOR The People Is It Not?
  • Delineating Between Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism (Vulture Capitalism) And Democratic Socialism (Constitutional Capitalism)
  • Koch's Are Like Thanos From Avengers Infinity War! (The Right's Version Of Capitalism Could Be Called Thanos Economics!)
  • Trump, GOP's, Fox News's And Fox Business's Economic Lies Outlined
  • BREAKING... The Misunderstood Economy: What Counts and How to Count It OR Real Economics VS Fake Economics: How The Kochs Are Destroying America By Attacking Its Societal Structures In Favor Of Social Darwinism Or "Survival Of The Fittest"
  • An Introduction To, And A Basic Overview Of, The Fake Economics Republicans Push
  • Supply Side Economics: Do Tax Rate Cuts Increase Growth and Revenues and Reduce Budget Deficits ? Or Is It Voodoo Economics All Over Again?
  • The Free Market Explained: Jon Stewart Humiliates A "Free Market Conservative" For Faulty Logic
  • The Arguments Against The Minimum Wage Debunked Using The Daily Show
  • How Increasing The Minimum Wage Will Boost The Economy - Many People Think "Demand & Supply" Is Of Only One Type But There Are Actually Many Types Of Demand & Supply.
  • Cartoon Explaining The Socio-Economic Structure of A Functioning Democracy
  • Cartoon of Basic Business Structure & Corruption Motivations With The Example Of Rupert Murdoch
  • American Dream Explained In 1950's Cartoons
  • Introduction To The Class Warfare Being Waged by The GOP & Fox News On America OR "Actual elephants are more useful than the GOP"
  • Lessons From History: Tips & Tools To Help You Understand HOW A Tyranny (Despotism) Can Take Root OR How To Avoid Oligarchies, Plutarchies & Dictatorships
  • The GOP Is Pushing The Same Failed Economic Policies That Destroyed The Economy Under Jeb Bush's Brother
  • John Stossel & The Fake Budget (Debt) Outcry
  • Daily Show: 'Meet the people who stole your money in the financial crisis of 2008'
  • More Economics At Liberal Libertarianism.Org (My .Org)

Politics

GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series

  • Politics - Past Links 9
  • Seth Meyers: Trump And His Allies Are Lying In The Exact Same Ways The Bush Administration Lied Us Into A Catastrophic War In Iraq Nearly 17 years Ago
  • The Anti-Diplomacy And Anti-Deal Making Party: The GOP Used Bullying And Assassination To Start A War With Iran
  • The United States Of Russia: Why Is Trump Always Sucking Putin's Dick? And Why Are The GOP Joining Him? If You Can't Beat 'Em Join 'Em?
  • As Anti-American As A Party Can Get: Trump Sees Himself As A King And The GOP Are More Than Willing To Comply And Treat Him Like A King (Fighting A King Is What Created The USA In The First Place!)
  • Mitch McConnell: The Most Anti-American And Un-Constitutional Politician Of All Time?
  • Lindsey Graham's Hypocrisy On Impeachment Is Epic
  • Snapshot Of The Present: Colbert Calls The GOP "A Spineless Group of Self-Interested Toadies Who Would Rather See The Country Destroyed Then Stand Up To An Out Of Control, Narcissistic Toddler."
  • A Snapshot Of The Modern Political & Media Structure Under A GOP President (With Seth Meyers)
  • GOP Hypocrisy...The Republicans Basic Argument Is: We Are Going To Hurt & Betray The Country But You Should Be Nice To Us... While We Lie & Incite Terror!
  • Republicans Demonstrate What "The Height Of Hypocrisy" Looks Like & Fox "News" Ignores It!
  • Republicans Demonstrate What "The Height Of Hypocrisy" Looks Like & Fox "News" Ignores It! PART DEUX: The Golf Edition
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 3: Using Taxpayer Money For Personal Use Like Communists & Dictators
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 4: Republican Hypocrisy On The Deficit Is Epic!
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 5: Roy Moore Hypocrisy & Deficit Hypocrisy Show GOP Stand For Nothing. Not Family Values. Not Fiscal Responsibility. Nothing. Except Maybe Pedophiles.
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 6: GOP & Fox News Helps Trump In Obstruction Of Justice Showing They Don't Care About The Rule Of Law... And Now, The Nation Is in A Constitutional Crisis!
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 7: The Executive Order & Dictator/Tyrant Hypocrisy
  • GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series Part 8: Being Civil To The Uncivil Would Be An Atrocity! Fearing the Backlash the Trump Administration Calls For Civility After Showing None Since The Campaigning Days!
  • GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series Part 9: The Supreme Court Hypocrisy & Why Approving Any Trump Nominee To The Supreme Court Is A Bad Idea!
  • GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series Part 10: Rule of Law Hypocrisy - More Evidence Of The GOP Obstructing Justice & Other Constitutional Abuses
  • GOP Latest Hypocrisy On Healthcare... Inspired By My Explanation Of Why Trump Won In 2016?

Coronavirus Analysis

  • Misinformation From Fox News Gives The President Coronavirus And Encourages A Super Spreader Event
  • Is Fox News Trying To Kill The President Of The United States With Hydroxychloroquine?
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  • Media Fear Offending Right Wing America While The Right Assaults Facts & Everyone Who Doesn't Agree With Them (Certainly Explains The Covid 19 Fallout)
  • Fox News Misled Its Viewers On Coronavirus And Haven't Even Been Sued For Their Deceptions! Right Wingers Really Are Like Sheep!
  • Washington Post & NY Times Buried The Lead - And The Facts - With A Pro-Republican Lies Push On A Coronavirus Bill
  • CNN Buries The Lead - And The Facts - With A Pro-Republican Push (Does CNN Or Its Parent Company Get Money From This Stimulus Bill?)
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"Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty." - Rumi

"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” - Dalai Lama

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison. When the door is so wide open?” ― Rumi

"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society." - George Washington

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