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Preamble to Social Mayhem
Dec. 30, 2008 "The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." ~ Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) "The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.. » read more
The Tragedy of Human Effort
Posted Jan. 2, 2009 Notes for the address delivered at the Central Hall, Liverpool, on October 30th, 1936. I suppose that there can be few amongst those of us who think about the world in which we live, and, perhaps, fewer amongst the more obvious victims of it, who would not agree that its condition is serious and shows every sign of becoming worse. Many must have asked themselves why the ability of scientists, organisers or educationists, brilliant and laudable in essence, seems to lead us only from one catastrophe to another, until it would appear that knowledge, invention, and progress, so far from being our salvation, have doomed the world to almost inevitable destruction. How is it that in 1495 the labourer was able to maintain himself in a standard of living considerably higher, relatively to his generation, than that of the present time, with only 50 days labour a year, whereas now millions are working in an age of marvellous machinery the whole year round, in an effort to maintain themselves and their families just above the line of destitution? Why is it that 150 years ago the percentage of the population which could be economically classed as of the middle and upper classes was two or three times that which it is at the present time? Why is it that while production per man-hour has risen 40 or 50 times at least in the past hundred years, the wages of the fully employed have risen only about four times, and the average wage of the employable is considerably less than four times that of a hundred years ago, measured in real commodities? How is it that the nations are given over to the dictatorship of men of gangster mentality, whose proper place is in a Borstal institution? I have very little doubt that there are numbers of people in this room who could at once give a correct general answer to the preceding questions, and that it would take the form of an indictment of the financial system; and I should, of course, agree with this answer up to a certain point.. » read more
A Very Bad Year
Wednesday 31 December 2008 The year 2008 began on a Tuesday. Matters went downhill swiftly from there. On that first day of 2008, the Taliban threatened to further escalate attacks in Afghanistan, eight people died in Gaza amid the violence of the Fatah-Hamas conflict and US diplomat John Granville was murdered along with his driver in Sudan. After that first day of 2008, the price of crude oil jumped to $100 a barrel, five armed Iranian boats confronted US warships near the Strait of Hormuz and a Taliban attack upon the Serena Hotel in Kabul killed six people. The Pentagon announced they were sending an additional 3,200 marines to Afghanistan, the year's first significant stock market convulsion brought the Dow down 482 points, Barack Obama won Iowa and South Carolina, Clinton won New Hampshire and Florida and George W.. » read more
War Made Easy
Posted Dec. 8, 2008 War Made Easy part 1 of 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVWMa-EhACU War Made Easy part 2 of 7: http://www.youtube.. » read more
10 FALSE FLAGS THAT SHARED OUR WORLD
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Stefan Molyneux on the Illusion of Freedom
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IF WE DON'T LEARN FROM HISTORY...
November 28, 2008 To whom should we listen about banking, the stock market, the economy? There are so many differing analyses right now, it is difficult to know. One opinion is that Wall Street is sitting on $50 plus trillion in leveraged assets and the United States government has a $5 to $6 trillion gross domestic product (GDP). There is, this opinion says, no way to avoid a total meltdown. Today I read an analysis by Stratfor, whose opinion I respect tremendously. Stratfor says we must focus on the political realities, not the economy.. » read more
Atomic Aftermath
Posted 9/14/ 08 How the world struggled to understand America’s deadliest invention The profound shock felt in Hiroshima on the morning of 6 August rippled outward to the rest of the world, less destructive but hardly less psychologically powerful for its distance from its source. Two days after the bombing, an editorial writer for the Australian Courier-Mail was dumbstruck: ‘What [the bomb] really is no one can begin to describe. Even scientists are lost for words that will describe the full magnitude of its terrifying force.’ ‘We still feel dazed by the implications of the new discovery,’ wrote the editorialist for the Shanghai Evening Post on the 10th. The bomb was ‘a thing to crush the mind.. » read more
Crop Circles and Ancient Temples (video)
Posted 8/3/08 A clip from an extensively researched and beautifully filmed documentary by Freddy Silva, called Stairways To Heaven: The Practical Magic of Sacred Space. See invisibletemple.com for further information. TO VIEW THIS VIDEO CLICK ON: http://ca.youtube.. » read more
The Orion Conspiracy (Movie review)
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