When in the course of human events…
As per previous post: the question of revolution won’t go away, and if even one tenth of the 9/11 truth initiative materials are valid we have grounds for a demand for a new government, one that will abolish the CIA as a first step.
Yeah, yeah, I know, that’s seditious, but you don’t have a government at this point. Yeah, yeah, Obama’s the prez. But you don’t have a dot.gov, really, don’t be absurd and pretend all day long.
Red Alert: when an intelligence agency completely fools you, and they done so for almost fifty years, you have essentially lost your freedom. So you must move to deal with that reality.
Although this book is not as disciplined as those of David Ray Griffin on 9/11, it does shock the varnish off the commentariat and its dismissal of 9/11 theories as ‘conspiracy theories’: 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition [Paperback]
Webster Griffin Tarpley
I cannot make similar endorsements of this author’s other books (e.g. on Obama), except maybe the one of Bush 41.
If this book is not your type, set it aside and consider Griffin’s more restrained and rational analysis. But Tarpley cuts through the bullshit quite nicely, despite some wild pitches. Simple, read all the books in this spectrum.
But get Griffin’s books if there is any doubt here, and consider the desperate situation we find outselves in, if it is true that concealed factions/CIA essentially control the government. All through the liberal attack on Bush 43 over the years, the deeper crisis was not even mentioned.
We need a new revolution, not a lost cause
I was accused of not reading Zizek all the way through by a commenter, so I am speed-reading In defense of lost causes.
But the exercise is hopeless. Why bother with a lost cause? Zizek is a real asset for the CIA: who better to debunk the left than a fanatic who blithely defends all the mistakes of the left siince Robespierre. At a time when a new left is desperately needed we have to slog through the garbage of Zizek et al.
That is, a hopeless task.
The harm done by Zizek here is both sad, and baffling. He and his sidekick Badiou are not leftists, but outright fascists, fetishists of Lenin, and such nutcase they celebrate torture. Beyond belief.
I will comment further anon: but the issue, and defense, of the French Revolutionary Terror is a bit silly at this point. Why on earth defend it? A brief moment of chaotification in the paranoia of the great Revolution as it was besieged from all sides. It is pointless to add this baggage to the left of the future.
The question of the left is simple: we need to have radicalized revolution like the American Revolution for a liberal state that is socialist, and balanced against the class distortions of the original. Since the American Revolution is the only one that really succeeded, and from the left, and with genuine class warfare, it is essentially radicalizable, and the best model, not Leninism. OK? This is not a lost cause.
‘Agnostics see atheism as “a theism” ‘
via Arts and Letters: Agnostics see atheism as “a theism” – as much a childlike, faith-based creed as the most orthodox of ordinary religions… more
Fine-tuning?
The Axial Age and the fine-tuning of Greek Tragedy
The term fine-tuning is a ‘design’ term, for some, and a physics term, for others. For me, in this case, it is neither, simple a statement about the precision in evolutionary transformations as seen in the eonic effect, which sometimes looks like a design thesis (it’s not).
Terrified the pubic will find out dissent exists among scientists on Darwinism
Blog post on The Altenberg 16
This is another totally unfair hatchet job on Suzan Mazur’s The Altenberg 16. The warning in these pieces is, Don’t be a Darwin critic, or we will get you.
For the record, Mazur’s book is a journalistic account of sixteen scientists with reservations about Darwinism/natural selection, whose work is now in print in The Extended Synthesis (Amazon). The book deserves a reading by anyone concerned about public views on evolution, and the propaganda reign of Darwinists.
Tryint to blackball Mazur for this kind or reporting is a sign that Darwinists are terrified the public will find out that dissent exists in the scientific community.
Pigliucci’s Nonsense on Stilts contains a totally unfair, and almost kookish, attack on Mazur, who was merely trying to promote the book for which Pigliucci was the editor. He is so afraid of being seen as a Darwin critic he shoots his own foot off.
The Axial Age, and the fine tuning of Greek Tragedy
Art, Evolution And The Tragic Genre
Since the post on this material of Greek Tragedy’s apparitional appearance in the Axial Age is extremely popular here (see previous post on popular posts) I am linking to the old 3rd edition page on the original material.
It is hard to accept that the Axial Age produces these stunning cultural transformations, but the evidence is clear.
Some top posts this month
Some popular posts this month.
The top post, remarkably, is on the tragic genre in the Greek Axial Age, a classic bit on the eonic effect, which startles most readers, with over six thousand hits.
http://darwiniana.com/2010/07/26/liberalism-and-evolution-consider-the-discrete-freedom-sequence/
http://darwiniana.com/2005/11/20/karen-armstrong-on-axial-age/
Top Post: http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/16/ibe-late-posting-today-so-read-this-art-evolution-and-the-tragic-genre/
http://darwiniana.com/2006/07/09/gurdjieff-comment-a-reply/
http://darwiniana.com/2006/10/23/marilynne-robinson-on-dawkins/
http://darwiniana.com/2010/07/21/koestler-and-13th-tribe/comment-page-1/
http://darwiniana.com/2010/07/05/darwin-propaganda-machine-2/
http://darwiniana.com/2009/03/14/nation-forum-reimagining-socialismand-how-about-some-postdarwinism/
http://darwiniana.com/2010/07/10/zizeks-clown-act/
NCSE mail (spam?)
Dear Friends of NCSE,
Creationism is stirring in Louisiana. In the meantime, the History
News Network commemorates the anniversary of the Scopes trial with a
pair of essays, and the American Academy of Religion affirms that
creation science or intelligent design are wrong for the science
classroom. Read the rest of this entry »
Female circumcision–in Britain
British girls undergo horror of genital mutilation despite tough laws
By TRACY MCVEIGH AND TARA SUTTON – GUARDIAN.CO.UK
Updated: Sunday, 25 July 2010 at 07:50 PM
http://richarddawkins.net/videos/492795-british-girls-undergo-horror-of-genital-mutilation-despite-tough-laws
Female circumcision will be inflicted on up to 2,000 British schoolgirls during the summer holidays – leaving brutal physical and emotional scars. Yet there have been no prosecutions against the practice
Ebola genes in genome
Genes from Ebola Virus Family Found in Human Genome
A rush of new research has found evidence that some RNA viruses made their way into vertebrate genomes millions of years ago
Ethics, evolution, and Darwinian junk science
Darwinism and the Moral Argument for God
The moral argument may fail, but the Darwinian attempt to explain the evolution of ethics is junk science.
Ruse is a peddler of sophistical garbage. The facts are simple: Darwinism can’t explicate the evolution of moral agents, and therefore isn’t even in the right ball park.
Barbara Forrest blog post
Livingston Parish School Board Wants to Implement Discovery Institute’s “Academic Freedom” Law
An Intelligent Look at Intelligent Design
An Intelligent Look at Intelligent Design: A Rhetorical Analysis of the term “Intelligent Design”
Audubon engraving
Audubon’s First Engraving of a Bird DiscoveredScienceDaily (July 29, 2010) — In 1824, three years before he began to publish his famous “double elephant folio” The Birds of America, John James Audubon (1785-1851), the eminent artist of American birds and animals, created a drawing of a running grouse for use in the design for a New Jersey bank note. Although the artist mentions the drawing and the resulting engraved paper money in two separate diary entries, no one has ever been able to locate or identify such an illustration.
Mars rocks and life
Rocks on Mars May Provide Link to Evidence of Living Organisms Roughly 4 Billion Years Ago
ScienceDaily (July 29, 2010) — A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The findings may provide a link to evidence of living organisms on Mars, roughly 4 billion years ago in the Noachian period.
Trees ‘Farm’ Bacteria
Some Trees ‘Farm’ Bacteria to Help Supply Nutrients
ScienceDaily (July 29, 2010) — Some trees growing in nutrient-poor forest soil may get what they need by cultivating specific root microbes to create compounds they require. These microbes are exceptionally efficient at turning inorganic minerals into nutrients that the trees can use.
Arctic cooling
Signs of Reversal of Arctic Cooling: Rapid Temperature Rise in the Coldest Region of Mainland Europe
ScienceDaily (July 29, 2010) — Parts of the Arctic have cooled over the past century, but temperatures have been rising steeply since 1990. This is the finding of a summer temperature reconstruction for the past 400 years produced on the base of tree rings from regions beyond the Arctic Circle.
The dead sea
The dead sea: Global warming blamed for 40 per cent decline in the ocean’s phytoplankton
Microscopic life crucial to the marine food chain is dying out. The consequences could be catastrophic
Billions gone awol
Published on Friday, July 30, 2010 by Grit TV
Lost Billions in Iraq
by Laura Flanders
If public schools or Medicare providers were held to the same standards as military contractors, they’d never have to beg for cash. Need money? Sure! — Congress would say — what’s a few missing billions of tax dollars?
Congress agreed to pump an extra $33 billion into Afghanistan this week, even as a new report revealed that almost nine billion earmarked for the nation’s other occupation — Iraq — simply, it seems, went missing.
Inception
Published on Friday, July 30, 2010 by TruthDig.com
The Deception of Real-Life ‘Inception’
by David Sirota
For all of its “Matrix”-like convolutions and “Alice in Wonderland” allusions, the new film “Inception” adds something significant to the ancient ruminations about reality’s authenticity-something profoundly relevant to this epoch of confusion. In the movie’s tale of corporate espionage, we are asked to ponder this moment’s most disturbing epistemological questions: Namely, how are ideas deposited in people’s minds, and how incurable are those ideas when they are wrong?
Rumors of war
Neocon Nutballs Ramp Up Campaign
Bomb Iran?
By GARETH PORTER
http://www.counterpunch.org/porter07302010.html
Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed in the Weekly Standard seeking to justify an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening of the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack.
PollSkeptics Report:Pew Research
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StinkyJournalism’s New PollSkeptics Report: “Pew’s Credibility
Gap: A Strange Tale of What Passes for Transparency Among
America’s Polling Leaders”
by Former Gallup pollster, David W. Moore
“When the Pew Research Center, one of the world’s most respected
sources for public opinion polls and analysis, is discovered
engaging in some shaky polling methodology, the situation warrants
more than a private email admitting error. And it certainly
warrants more than an undisclosed correction on their web site
that they did not know was accurate for 34 days…
To read full story, go to
http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-189.php
Hearings on genomics industry
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A week of hearings sows uncertainty for the fledgling consumer genomics industry
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100729/full/news.2010.382.html
Evolving emotions
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The emotions you feel have evolved as tools to manipulate others into cooperating with you, says a controversial new theory
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19232-did-emotions-evolve-to-push-others-into-cooperation.html
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