Pretty interesting stuff. The June 2008 book by Naomi Klein, makes some compelling views on how it all "ties together". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein I'm a big fan of systems science... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_science <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iSP37XQd0Zs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iSP37XQd0Zs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> There are several parts to this interview 01 - 06. Interesting how George W. Bush's father talked of a peace dividend with economic benefits to ending the Cold War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dividend
Financial systems - the flow of economic resources World system - the flow of resources in the world; human, systemic, natural resources, geo conflict Cultural system - everything is an equity; celebrity, social, marketing, idolization, paparazzi, arts, fashion Career system - grants, projects, research, theories, indoctrination, reputation, recognition, promotion Media system - coverage, projects, investigations, publishing, newsworthiness, connotations Intellect system - intellectual property rights, DMCA, idea control, creation control, patenting Conservative - keep the system alive, we like it like it is, "old money", "old boys club", be quiet about it Neoconservative - have right to disrupt - "liberate", reshape systems, claim their rights, unilateral, non-consential, Shock&Awe Liberal - consensus changes, social justice, welfare, share the burden, egalitarianism, ethics Libertarian - let the systems control themselves, agnostic, detachment, isolation Socialist - extreme nullification of equity, total equality, strict system control, authoritarian System creation - commoditize anything, equity entities, create industry, privatize System control - support, charity, lobby, politics, slander, scandal, public image, INTERVENTIONS, REGULATIONS System bias - greed, parasites, fraud, corruption, fear-uncertainty-doubt System interest - persons, families, organizations, networks System encumbering - obfuscating, tap into more aspects, hamper efficiency, stop transparency, more laws, more work System profiling - identification of everything, accumulate, extrapolation, prediction modelling, learning System trust - absent, none, sans integrity, social control, chaos theory, elite theory, decision theory, corporatism Democracy - obfuscated - encumbered - structured flow routes - influences - interests - rule of flow control - another brick in the wall Influentials: power projection - interests - investments - protection - defense - indoctrination - political capital - ideas - beliefs Anglosphere , Heartland , Halford Mackinder , James Burnham , Cecil Rhodes , Charles Murray - The Bell Curve and welfare , Neocons World resources control - system flow - reshape systems through upheaval - interests of influence - profits - poverty - polarize The Marshal plan ... etc. If you are religious - please read father Gary Dorrien's articles on ethics and neoconservatism. He is the authority in the world on the subject. www.anglospherechallenge.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_state (neocon AND paleocon concept) Bzzzt... E-democracy - Transhumanism - Representative direct democracy - Red pill ... evolution , adaptation , progress , futurology , systems science If you don't understand the above - you will likely never amount to understand anything in life anyway... Make sure your kids get a proper education, at least... It will be interesting to see how many of you can answer "correctly" in the poll ... just a reflection of realities. [size=-2]Charles Murray does make some compelling points about intelligence, doesn't he... and he is one in support for neocon system upheaval, reshaping. Read Murrays articles online at the American Enterprise Institute, and his books on books.google.com. PS! Always leave a "sink" in polls for those who are totally lost and clueless, couldn't care more, etc.[/size]
I guess it really sunk in, and you passed the test - with flying (your) colours! [size=-2]BTW what is it worth...? What is the human, social and economic cost of cancerous growth, and parasitic tapping into everything with corruption... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Americanism , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Europeanism , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism[/size] You guys GOT to get out the cancerous and parasitic growths over there... Use your intelligence and voting skills, for Chrissakes...
Capitalism, innovation and enterprise is the basic of the human psychology. While Disaster Capitalism was doomed to go down but Captialsim in its core sense never will and never should! Gangster Capitalism is another name for Disaster Capitalism. Something that took hold of the US in the late 80s. Time to clean the system and look forward again!
I am what I'd like to call a purely capitalist - in favour of sustainable growth and Laissez-faire... From a systems philosophy perspective: (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_philosophy) Libertarians - The Non-aggression principle - Laissez-faire Liberals - Lets just get along, can't we... Conservatives - Morality - Just War - Containment Neoconservatives - Aggression - Logic - Upheaval - Reshaping - "Liberation" Religion - Reinhold Niebuhr (the leading expert in the world is father Dr. Gary Dorrien, Columbia University). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_War en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_in_international_relations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_radicalism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr I live in Brazil - the country with the largest number of bulletproof cars in the world. Corruption here is rampant and has saturated society, and education is next to worthless in Brazil. TV here is worthless crap, mindless numbing zombie-drool - it gives you an brain-ache (ice-ache).
Wow! Every former Secretary of State on CNN are butchering the Neoconservatives in their first round of comments... Impressive! I hope the world have seen the last of the NEOCONSERVATIVES that culminated with George W. Bush - with unprecedented greed and aggression for resources of the world. I hope we never see their elite theories arise again... and may their corrupt soles (sic) just burn on their way out! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_theory Wow II... Colin Powell just beheaded John McCain, and got a laughter from the crowd... We're NOT all Georgians. :eek: I think this roundtable of former secretaries constitutes almost a coup d'état -- outlining future foreign policy and international relations -- guidelines for the next presidency. The next presidency will have a lot of difficulty to stray away from these pieces of advice -- on Iran and Russia. Hehe, unless some "shocking upheaving event 'suddenly' occurs"...
Anyone think we have seen the last of the Bush legacy and his counsel of Neoconservatives and their associated "elites"? I wonder what will come next...
Theodore Roosevelt "Muckrake Speech" of 1906: "There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful." http://www.freedom-force.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edward_Griffin "The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America:_Freedom_to_Fascism http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173&q=freedom+to+facism+duration:long Some of the premises of the 2006 film include: ⢠The Federal Reserve System is unconstitutional and has maxed out the national debt and bankrupted the United States government. ⢠Federal income taxes were imposed in response to, or as part of, the plan implementing the Federal Reserve System. ⢠Federal income taxes are unconstitutional or otherwise legally invalid. ⢠The use of the Federal income tax to counter the economic effects of the Federal Reserve System is futile. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZWKlz2Z4Nlo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZWKlz2Z4Nlo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F3TAh1gy6rc&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F3TAh1gy6rc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Part 1-7 from Griffin. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FpgcxsvktWs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FpgcxsvktWs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Part 1-5 from Griffin. Sounds somewhat "familiar to" anyone? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_Amschel_Rothschild Mayer Amschel Rothschild: "Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Myers "History of the Great American Fortunes" Strongly financially influential "old-money": ⢠Rothschild family, London ⢠Rothschild family, Berlin ⢠Lazard Bros, Paris ⢠Israel Seiff , Italy ⢠Kuhn-Loeb Co, Germany ⢠Warburg family, Amsterdam ⢠Warburg family, Hamburg ⢠Lehman Bros, New York ⢠Goldmann & Sachs, New York ⢠Rockefeller family, New York Some lesser ones, but still "old-money" and packs influence ⢠Bush family, New Jersey/Texas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine Other "niceties" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_Dei http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_Beta_Kappa_Society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Scholarship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_state http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_politics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy
Funny that people are not more outraged in the US... You guys in your 50s who thought you were going to retire in your low 60s... hahahaha, seems like there are other plans out there for you. Better put your backs into it this time... *crack the whip*