31 Augyst 2012 Thought for the Week: Web Of One: Many people are familiar with the fact that ads on the internet are tailored to the user. Right here on Nextworldtv for example, no one is seeing the exact same set of ads. If you shopped online for something, let's say camping gear, then ads for camping gear may come up on your screen for weeks to follow. Your profile involves more than just online shopping you may have done last week. It's becoming more tailored, identifying your location, your interests...and ALL the things you've ever clicked on! It gets a little creepy here: even Google searches are targeted to your interests. Two people who do a Google search are going to get different results, based on their online history. And how about this? The news feeds that Yahoo, AOL and others deliver to you are also edited just for you. What does that mean? We're just getting the news we are likely to want to read more about? Eli Pariser, CEO of Upworthy, a web site for viral meaningful content, is a political and internet activist, board president of MoveOn.org and co-founder of Avaaz.org. He delivers an insightful Ted Talk here on the dangerous prospect of the internet becoming a "Web Of One". -- The video was produced by Ted Talks |
THE PRESENT SYSTEM FORCES EVERYONE INTO WAR FOR SURVIVALby Wallace Klinck: We need law, but justice with mercy and balance -- not with a spirit of vengeance which will do nothing to spread the spirit of Truth or the Christian Law of Love. The present system forces everyone into a war of survival and some are more clever and cunning -- even more ruthless -- than others. The point is as Douglas observed, even angels could not successfully administer under the rules of the present financial price-system. If vengeance is God's then perhaps we had better leave it to Him. We are commanded to reason, to be slow to anger and to judge others only as we would be judged ourselves. Our responsibility should be to uncover truth which ultimately is our only hope of success--or salvation. Because historically, certain individuals and institutions have professed Christian principles and have distorted them for their own selfish purposes, in no indictment of those principles themselves. We are to be humble and not to prejudge… There but for the Grace of God go I. Douglas said that Social Credit in Alberta (Canada) has never failed because, like Christianity, it has never been tried. Our mission is to find meaningful and effective ways of "bringing down to earth" and incarnating Christian principles in the everyday practical organic affairs of mankind. This task requires disciplined application of our intellectual faculties -- in the case of Social Credit, primarily to develop a realistic form of national financial accountancy properly reflecting the actually physical processes involved in production, distribution and consumption. By punishing the perpetrators of undeniable financial-economic crimes, without advancing a sound replacement for an increasingly mathematically impossible system of national accounts, you have solved nothing, but given yourself the satisfaction of venting your anger and hostility. Moreover you will have contributed nothing whatsoever to the establishment of a viable financial system and the good life for man. Douglas warned against blaming all the evils in this world on human nature rather than placing appropriate blame upon the financial system itself -- and the philosophy which sustains it. Emotion is blind and requires of itself little intelligent thought.
Social Credit operates on a much higher plane than the "get even" mentality of the Puritan mind. We are serious about pursuing constructive ends for the love and glory of God and the betterment of mankind -- all of which may be more in keeping with "the Kingdom." |
A STRIKE AGAINST ‘THE STATE’ AND ‘THE HAVES’ BY ‘THE HAVE NOTS’The news of the striking South African miners in The Guardian goes to the very heart of Peter West’s article – below - on Apartheid and Capitalism: t is a story which exposes South Africa's structural weaknesses too: we are one of the world's top two most unequal societies (with Brazil). Poverty, inequality and unemployment lie at the heart of the shootings this week. For more than a decade Cosatu has concentrated on socioeconomic and political issues. Instead of organising on the shop floor it has harried the ANC government to adopt increasingly left-leaning policies. The NUM, one of the two biggest unions within Cosatu, has been at the forefront of these struggles. Over the past few years the NUM has been split by succession battles inside the ANC, with the current leadership campaigning for ANC President Jacob Zuma to win a second term. The union has paid a heavy price for this. At the Lonmin mines its membership has declined from 66% of workers to 49% and it has lost its organisational rights. Disgruntled and expelled union leaders had in the meantime started a new union, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, and were organising on the NUM's turf. The NUM's achilles heel was that its relationship with mine owners and the Chamber of Mines had become too close. Its secretary, Frans Baleni, is a more strident critic of the nationalisation of mines than many business leaders. The union has also allegedly accepted wage settlements that tied workers into years of meagre increases. The AMCU dangled a fat piece of fruit in front of the workers' eyes: rock drillers (who are the core of this strike and do the hardest work underground) earning R4,000 a month were promised R12,500 a month. The union's support in the Lonmin mines shot up to 19% by last month, and it embarked on an illegal strike to force its pay demand. This week the strike turned violent. On the ground, armed workers are promising to "take a bullet with my fellow workers". Traditional doctors have been anointing strikers with potions, allegedly making them invincible. The AMCU's leaders are preparing for war. Continue reading….. |
EXCUSE ME – ISN’T THAT ANTI-SEMITIC?Len – the now unemployed - Cleaner: Now, I am thinking clearly, having taken my handful of Big Pharma pills. The new morality has it that saying that Israel=Apartheidism is anti-Semitic. But my question is: what if the Pope of political correctness, Pope Nelson, says it ex-something (you know, when the Pope is infallible)? Isn’t this one of those theological paradoxes, only a multicultural version? What happens when an irresistible multicultural force meets an immovable multicultural object? |
EXCUSE ME – ISN’T THAT ANTI-SEMITIC?Len – the now unemployed - Cleaner: Now, I am thinking clearly, having taken my handful of Big Pharma pills. The new morality has it that saying that Israel=Apartheidism is anti-Semitic. But my question is: what if the Pope of political correctness, Pope Nelson, says it ex-something (you know, when the Pope is infallible)? Isn’t this one of those theological paradoxes, only a multicultural version? What happens when an irresistible multicultural force meets an immovable multicultural object? |
APARTHEID AND THE RELIGION OF ‘EQUALITARIANISM’by Peter West: here is, of course, a more sophisticated response which is suggested by Dr. K.R. Bolton’s brilliant essay “Apartheid: Lest We Forget (Or Never Knew)”. Dr. Bolton traces the development of Apartheid by Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, who was concerned with separate development of the races and the commonsensical notion that multiracial societies do not work. Apartheidism was not about exploiting the coloured races, but preventing this by racial separatism. Unfortunately separatism was not accomplished, and now we have black rule of whites. Africa is not a rainbow nation of love and peace. Interestingly enough, just as the White Australia Policy had its origins in protecting white workers, Apartheid also had its origins in the 1922 revolt of the Rand, an Afrikaner syndicalist revolt against globalist-owned mining interests using cheap black labour to render thousands of white workers redundant. The conflict escalated ultimately leading to commandos of the Labour Movement seizing Johannesburg and proclaiming a “White Workers’ Republic”. The Establishment responded on 14 March 1922 with an airstrike on the Movement headquarters killing the leaders. Afrikaner Nationalists were radicalised and with the Labour Party, assumed office at the elections in 1924. In a nutshell, the globalists have wanted to do with Africa that which they have done with Asia: create a vast continent of workers and consumers. Nationalist sentiments stood in their way, so these had to be smashed. The money power thus aimed to destroy Apartheid because this meant the destruction of the Afrikaner, who with small population numbers, was regarded as expendable. However, as the case of South Africa shows, it hasn’t turned out how the globalists expected. Dr. Bolton has a very insightful quote from Leftist Noam Chomsky which accurately summarises the relationship between capitalism and racism: “See, capitalism is not fundamentally racist – it can exploit racism for its own purposes, but racism isn’t built into it. Capitalism basically wants people to be interchangeable cogs, and differences among them, such as on the basis of race, usually are not functional. I mean, they may be functional for a period, like you want a super-exploited workforce or something, but those situations are kind of anomalous. Over the long term you can expect capitalism to be anti-racist – just because it is anti-human. And race is in fact a human characteristic – there is no reason why it should be a negative characteristic, but it is a human characteristic. So therefore identifications based on race interfere with the basic ideal that people should, be available as consumers and producers, interchangeable cogs who will purchase all the junk that is produced – that’s their ultimate function, and all other properties they might have are kind of irrelevant, and usually a nuisance.” Dr. Kerry Bolton paints on a literary canvas a panoramic view of the “Revolution From Above”. |
TRIAGE IN THE GAME OF ABORIGINAL APOCALYPSE?by James Reed Pasquarelli then said: “My research and observations point the finger squarely at the Aboriginal industry and its self-serving black and white bureaucrats who cover for each other and protect their turf of high salaries, taxpayer funded cars and all the other perks of office, this scandal overseen by weak politicians.” It is very difficult to see how this mess can be cleaned up and the destruction of outback Aborigines prevented. Some hope though comes from strong Aboriginal women like Warlpiri woman Bess Price. Recently she called Amnesty International a racist organisation and criticised a “white black fella” and a “physically white English-speaking Tasmanian” (The Australian 9 August 2012, pp.1,2). It may not be “apocalypse now” if those like Bess Price continue to critique that tax-paid-for industry aptly described by John Pasquarelli. “Red Over Black” by Geoff McDonald: All Australians, black and white, should read former communist Geoff McDonald’s 1980s revelation of the Communist Party’s strategy behind the Aboriginal Land Rights movement. “Red Over Black”, first published in 1982 and the ninth in 1998, exposes just what was the aim. Geoff McDonald had a deep respect for the genuine Aboriginal
people, whom he saw as being treated as black cannon fodder by
the Marxist revolutionaries. He wrote with great feeling about
Australian nurses and was loud in his praise of their dedicated
services to the Aborigines. |
OH! FOR A WARD - FULL OF EXPERTISE!by John Brett I sent the following letter to the paper, in support of writer Miles Noller’s article, in trying to state the problem correctly. Every form of government has now reverted to Lenin’s great ideal crusade of having the “State” through its executive, controlling the people. Current holders of power and education will only allow Ballot Box democracy to be heard or taught. Ballot Box democracy is a mechanism and like all mechanisms is controlled by people, just as the driver of a car, for better or worse, controls the car. For Local Government to function with the minimum of friction and maximum of desirable results the Boundary’s have to reflect the marriage of physical advantages and constraints to financial and economic advantages by the consent of those to be governed. Australia’s first political boundaries were either river, coastline or map co-ordinates, nothing else being known or in existence. Added to these original boundary’s we now know of forest and mountains, jungle and desert, and seasonal weather, together with man-made boundaries such as railways and roads, ports and cities, irrigation and mining centres, and much more with aircraft able to traverse and bisect the lot! The red boundary lines on the HCN map on the front page, just cuts across map co-ordinates, inviting more problems than they could solve. Hidden out of sight are people who could lead us back to what we most desire and is achievable. Now we have a paper and a writer who can honestly articulate the problem for us. Perhaps there are other volunteers hiding away out there??? |
MASS EXODUS OF US OIL REFINERIESExodus of US Oil Refineries: “The Closure Of The U.S. Oil Refinery Industry In The Past 2 Years”: The individual who sent this email has worked for Shell for most of his life. In 2010, there were 149 operable U.S. refineries with a combined capacity of 17.6 million barrels (2,800,000 m3) per day. Something odd started happening in late 2010-early 2011. The US oil refinery industry quietly announced the closure of numerous US oil refineries. Many are completely unaware the US ships oil overseas to be processed. We do so as we do not have enough refineries to process the vast amounts here, and we are barred from building anymore refineries. All refineries perform three basic steps: separation, conversion, and treatment. Pretty simple. Several reasons include technical and economic factors as to why we ship it overseas to be processed. 1. The crude petroleum is sold to the highest bidder, NOT the nearest bidder How many of you are aware Sunoco, ConocoPhillips and The HESS Corp are all closing US oil refineries? Not many, as the media refuses to give this huge story coverage. My guess is that if Americans understood the complete truth as to how we are being sold out, and enslaved there just might be the much needed revolution to turn this country around. Last September, both Sunoco & CP announced plant closing, effecting thousands of workers. Sunoco announced they are completely getting out of the oil industry. Closing up shop. They are done with the US oil industry. Sunoco is closing it's 2 oil refineries in July 2012 in Philadelphia and Marcus Hook, Pa. Those 2 facilities alone process over 500,000 barrels a day. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8343372 Also announced last year, ConocoPhillips announced 2 plant closing for sure in Trainer, PA and Bayway, NJ., the other 3 plants are undecided as of today. (February 2012…ed)
http://stillwaterassociates.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139:us-east-coast-refinery-for-sale-whos-buying&catid=40:white-papers&Itemid=155 Just a week ago, the US 3rd largest oil refinery owned and operated by The HESS Corp just announced it's permanent closure. Costing over 2,000 jobs, and effecting 950 contractors: Refineries on the East Coast of the US supply 40% of the gasoline sales and 60% of the diesel and other fuel oils. Of that, half that comes from the Sunoco & ConocoPhillps plant closures. They are ALL closing up shop due to government regulations, and excessive operating costs brought on by the Government regulations. Why have operations in the US where you bleed money via regulations and demands, when you can have refineries built in Columbia, Mexico or Brazil for pennies on the dollar, and less regulations? It's all business America...nothing personal. Besides...your government is giving BILLIONS to Columbia and Brazil to build refineries to process all that oil the US is losing. You do the maths. When the US oil refineries finally close up shop, who will process all that oil... and how much do YOU think that oil will cost when it's ALL processed overseas?
Think gas and energy costs are high right now... wait 6 months. |
IS OUR PRIME MINISTER A CROOK? Part VIfrom Larry Pickering’s Faceblog:
... and why she refuses to comment. Slater & Gordon’s recent flurry of TV ads does little to restore its already shattered reputation. If they dump further on Gillard they risk Gillard dumping on them. There is a communal agreement to stonewall but, once that wall is breached, gunk will flow like a lanced boil.
Gillard said, “I resigned voluntarily”. That is a lie. [Part VII covers Shorten and the unions’ influence and further damning information from FOI. Also the history of the faceless men and how they run our Parliament without our knowledge and the way in which Slater & Gordon operates. There is so much more to this sordid little tale] |