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POPSGood Thoughts For Fractious Times With our increasingly tumultuous times, it is easy to be dismayed and lose faith. I find that recalling these thoughtful and stirring words from days gone by helps me understand that not only were there just as many contentious issues back then, but that we too will overcome them if we are diligent and persevere.
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POPSDespotism (1946) Produced as the companion video to Democracy 1945, this measuring stick of 63 years ago is no less applicable today. We are definitely living under a despotic soft tyranny in America TODAY, my friends! Those who cannot see it are blind or stupid or both. They need to be made to see and educated. Those advocating and perpetuating these liberty killing ISM's need to be STOPPED! If you are not already involved in doing just that, what the heck are you waiting for? http://www.americangrandjury.org http://www.riseupforamerica.com Shared with you courtesy of the public domain at: http://www.archive.org
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POPSA New 4th of July Declaration of Independence
They propose, for specious, scientistic purposes, to destroy major mining and manufacturing industries. A political party of foreign ideology such as the Democrat/Socialists, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. The Democrat/Socialist welfare-nanny-state is imposing burdensome new taxes, strangling regulations governing our every-day lives, takeovers of private businesses, and the highest levels of deficit spending and public debt ever imagined in human history. From this will flow either, or both, ravaging inflation and economic stagnation. If we do not revolt and stop this ideological madness, the United States will not survive. We shall become, like present-day California and New York City in 1975, the ward of outside creditors. China, Japan, and other creditor nations will not forever finance our heedless, self-indulgent profligacy. The wages of socialism is economic death.
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POPSIran: A Coup In Three Steps Research fellow and Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford, Abbas Milani voices his view of the background to the Iranian situation in an article on Forbes.com
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POPSObama Offers Security at the Expense of Liberty of paying federal income tax and eligible for occasional rebates. As CNN reporter Susan Roesgen said, "Don't you realize that you're eligible for a $400 tax cut?" In other words, take the money and shut up. Which brings to mind Tocqueville's warning: "Every measure which establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives to it an administrative form creates thereby a class unproductive and idle, living at the expense of the class which is industrious and given to work." The Obama administration is assiduous in the protection of this administrative class. It offers $6,800,000,000 to the state of California on one hand, and then threatens to take it back because the state cut the pay of public employee union members by $74,000,000. The government gives JPMorgan Chase $25,000,000,000, and then insists that it give up in the Chrysler deal what it would ordinarily receive in bankruptcy proceedings and turn it over to fund the health care benefits of United Auto Worker retirees.
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POPSSocialism is a philosophy of failure Can you imagine back in the Bad-Old-Days when we endured Bush’s outrageous 400 billion dollar deficits the uproar that would’ve ensued if it had been revealed Carl Rove held daily conference calls with Rush, O’Reilly, Hannnity and Beck? Can you imagine the charges of conspiracy and collusion that would’ve worn us out in the 24 hour news cycle? Just imagine the outrage of the fairness police, Pelosi, Reid, Frank and Dodd. The gnashing of teeth and the howls of injustice would’ve been enough to convince anyone with ears that blessed freedom itself was in danger of descending into cruel despotism.
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POPSRepublicanism vs. Democracy--An Important Distinction
Do not confuse this with the political parties. Ironic that the recent "republican" President talked of "democracy" so much when referring to the form of government of the U.S. and the type it preferred installing through force in "regime change". Direct democracy is the most dangerous to civil liberties , recently greatly trampled through legislation over 8 years, and is NOT the form of government the Constitution formulated. This is why people should not look to party labels, but to policies, legislation, and actions when evaluating Presidents and Congressmen, when the swear to "defend and uphold the Constitution" (not "the nation", but its official "rule of law"), which they usually violate almost immediately. The Constitution formed a "democratic federal republic", a republican form of government, not a democracy! This was first greatly overthrown during the Civil War by the majority in the Northern states when democratic despotism first raised it head.
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POPSIs a Future withou War Possible - Si, se puede!
“…we need to end it at the point of where it is created each day anew: in our daily living conditions, in the constant stress of mindless and monotonous work, in the methods of profit maximizing and distribution, in offices and factories, in schools and families, in the tragedies of love, in our ideas about being either man or woman, in sexuality and love and in the cages of our professional, social and sensual life which are all far too small. Do we want that the youth of the world no longer goes to war? If so, we need a higher aim in life, a life worth living and better opportunities to put the power of the youth into meaningful action. Do we wish to end the worldwide sexual violence? If so, we have to create living conditions under which sexual joy is experienced without violence, without humiliation and without unnecessary restrictions. Do we want to free the world from despotism, betrayal and lies? If so, then let us build up concrete conditions under which despotism, betray
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POPSThe Tang Dynasty Empress Wu-Advent of Feminine Domination She had a talent for manipulation & intrigue.Utterly shocking Confucian moralists.A keen feminist, designed a sexual custom aimed at elevating the female humbling the male.Disliked fellatio as male supremacy symbolism. She devised a means whereby "licking the lotus stamen" could be exalted into prime extracoital importance thus symbolizing advent of female domination.Wu insisted on that government officials ,dignitaries pay homage to her Imperial Highness by performing cunnilingus upon her.An old painting of her depicts her holding her robe open while a dignitary kneels grovelling before her to lick her genitals.Her regime was characterized by Machiavellian cleverness and brutal despotism.Since the 1950,s her rule has been seen in a better light for equality between sexes.
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POPSTyranny of the Majority The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
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POPSDespotism & Democracy In the wake of WWII, Encyclopedia Britannica made this brief film describing how one can gauge where a society falls on the Despotism/Democracy scale. How does the society you live in stack up?
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POPSGoldwater Quotes “Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?" “It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.” “The rights that we have under the Constitution covers anything we want to do, as long as its not harmful. I can't see any way in the world that being a gay can cause damage to somebody else,” If I had inherited the mess that Johnson got into, I would have said to North Vietnam, by dropping leaflets out of B-52s, 'You quit the war in three days or the next time these babies come over there going to drop some big bombs on you.' And I'd make a swamp out of North Vietnam ... I'd rather kill a hell of a lot of North Vietnamese than one American and we've lost enough of them,”
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POPSRedefining Marriage a form of 'Soft Despotism' according to author
"In claiming for homosexuals the right to marry," she reasons, the "state also claims for itself the ability to declare what constitutes marriage . . . It transforms marriage from a pre-political obligation into its own creation." But as an artificial creation of the state, same-sex "marriage" is "an institution that needs to be coddled . . . Its very fragility demands a culture in which it is protected." This means, as Sugrue argues, that "once marriage becomes a statist institution for the sake of consenting adults, the state will increasingly be called upon to create the social conditions to protect these unions." The need for coddling means the state will use public education for this end, and align itself against churches that refuse to recognize same-sex "marriage." State-ordered gay "marriage" is an attack, not only on legitimate marriage, but upon religious freedom and the freedom not to have one's children indoctrinated into alien ideas about marriage.
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POPSBruce Fein to House Judiciary on Impeachment "The executive branch has destroyed the Constitution’s time-honored checks and balances, taken the nation perilously close to executive despotism. The executive branch rejects the basic philosophical tenets of the United States of America."
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POPSSurviving the Fourth of July by Chris Hedges “As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our lives is salutary,” Proust wrote. “It becomes dangerous, on the other hand, when, instead of awakening us to the personal life of the mind, reading tends to take its place. …”
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POPSAlaska Becomes 9th State to Outlaw REAL ID Tyrannical federal legislation sparked another Civil War against federal despotism, and the states are seceding from REAL ID continually, essentially using the doctrine of Nullification based upon the 10th amendment of the Constitution. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Any state that respects the Constitution and freedom for its citizens will do the same.
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POPSBush can bot any American citizen in jail for life without reason ?? !! With the approval of Congress and no outcry from corporate media, the Military Commissions Act (MCA) signed by Bush on October 17, 2006, ushered in military commission law for US citizens and non-citizens alike. While media, including a lead editorial in the New York Times October 19, have given false comfort that we, as American citizens, will not be the victims of the draconian measures legalized by this Act—such as military roundups and life-long detention with no rights or constitutional protections—Robert Parry points to text in the MCA that allows for the institution of a military alternative to the constitutional justice system for “any person” regardless of American citizenship. The MCA effectively does away with habeas corpus rights for “any person” arbitrarily deemed to be an “enemy of the state.” The judgment on who is deemed an “enemy combatant” is solely at the discretion of President Bush.
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POPSWas WWII Necessary? Yes. Even though I'm a Buddhist. As a pacifist, of course, I believe that killing can never be morally justified, and even while it can be necessitated, we still will suffer the moral consequences of life-taking. However, I would be willing to accept those serious moral consequences for myself in the scenario of stopping the Holocaust. What disturbs me about WWII is that it never would have happened simply to end the Holocaust. In fact, I suspect many allied politicians were sympathetic to Hitler in general, and specifically anti-semetic. Think Lucky Lindy. Could it have been averted? Yes, by not creating a belt of failed states. It wasn't the harshness so much as the indifference, as Germany and Eastern Europe spiraled out of control, despotism was bound to take hold. Irresponsibility made the crimes of the Nazis possible, and now those like Buchanan advocate to even greater global irresponsibility.
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