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AEI: "No Country for Burly Men", by Christina Hoff Sommers
Nearly 80 percent of the jobs lost since December 2007, in fields like construction and manufacturing, were held by men. Thus, to respond to actual economic needs, the Obama stimulus plan would have skewed toward male-dominated industries. But feminist advocacy groups in Washington hijacked the stimulus, getting the administration to add funding to boost employment in (still-growing) fields dominated by women, like health care, education, and social services. Four months after the stimulus bill's passage, the lion's share of funding is not addressing America's real unemployment challenges. (...) >>>
July 10, 2009
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Eurozine: "The Left treading on the Right", by Andrei Plesu
(...) I recently attended a very civilized debate in Sofia on the views of the Right and the Left, organized by the esteemed political scientist Ivan Krastev. The gathering of familiar participants included Alexander Smolar and Gáspár Miklós Tamás, as well as numerous journalists and experts from Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the US, Albania and Portugal. (...)
The problem with the leaders of the Right (...) is that their insufferable arrogance causes them to consider themselves natural born leaders. Yet on reflection, you can't help but notice a common trait in the leaders of the Left that is just as dangerous, if not more so: they consider that destiny has singled them out as leaders, a belief arising from their bloodthirsty, missionary delusion. (...)
The Right is culpable. Reactionary. Slightly ridiculous. The Left preaches equality, but doesn't recognize the principle of equality when it comes to the Right. Moreover, the Right is miserable, no fun, it has no sense of humour. The Left, in contrast, is impudent, cheeky. It can't remember the bad things. It hides the Gulag behind a veil of intelligence, nuance, analytic pragmatism and "historical necessity". The chosen ones, the really chosen ones, must be of leftwing persuasion. The rest? A handful of gloomy elitists, rightly condemned to popular amnesia. >>>
June 19, 2009
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Elsevier reports a Dutch (female) Labor Secretary (Minister) is refusing to approve the appointment of "yet another white male" as Head of the Police Dept. The venue for his inauguration party had already been booked, but has now been canceled on her orders. She demands guarantees that for the foreseeable future he'll be the last "white male" to be appointed. "Diversity demands a female or a foreigner" (the latter code for non-white). Who's says we aren't sexist, and not a little racist to boot ...?
Mar 7, 2009
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This is the true face of the UN: it sits at the head of the last collective, liberty's parental rights made nul and void, children having become the chattel of the tribe - since the Radical Enlightenment this always was the New Vision ...
The Freedomist: "The New World Disorder"
A United Nations human rights treaty that could prohibit children from being spanked or homeschooled, ban youngsters from facing the death penalty and forbid parents from deciding their families' religion is on America's doorstep, a legal expert warns. Michael Farris of Purcellville, Va., is president of ParentalRights.org, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association and chancellor of Patrick Henry College. He told WND that under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, or CRC, every decision a parent makes can be reviewed by the government to determine whether it is in the child's best interest. (...) Treaties are a way to make it as permanent as stuff gets. It is very difficult to extract yourself from a treaty once you begin it. If they can put all of their left-wing socialist policies into treaty form, we're stuck with it even if they lose the next election." (...)
The 1990s-era document was ratified quickly by 193 nations worldwide, but not the United States or Somalia. (...) Countries that ratify the treaty are bound to it by international law. Although signed by Madeleine Albright, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., on Feb. 16, 1995, the U.S. Senate never ratified the treaty, largely because of conservatives' efforts to point out it would create that list of rights which primarily would be enforced against parents. The international treaty creates specific civil, economic, social, cultural and even economic rights for every child (...) It is monitored by the CRC, which conceivably has enforcement powers. (...) The government would decide what is in the best interest of a children in every case, and the CRC would be considered superior to state laws, Farris said. Parents could be treated like criminals for making every-day decisions about their children's lives. (...) At a Walden University presidential debate last October, Obama indicated he may take action. "It's embarrassing to find ourselves in the company of Somalia, a lawless land," Obama said. (...) >>>
Feb 7, 2009
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Anyone analyzing the habits and knee-jerks of the Left is entitled now to a yawn ... right, it's such a bore: who once takes the trouble of understanding the dialectic can predict their every move ... the same template is applied everywhere ...
All American Blogger: "Obama’s New Climate Czar Beloved by Socialists"
From the beginning of this blog, I have been saying the global warming hoax is nothing more than a socialist scam to hurt the rich, industrialized nations. This isn’t about saving the planet, it’s about redistributing the wealth and collapsing the industrialized nations. A few of my personal favorites (...) If you only read one, read this one: Maurice Strong and the Collapse of Industrialized Civilizations, That is really the origin of the modern global warming cult. With that in mind, take a look at the person Barry nominated as his climate czar (...) Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. (...)
At a July meeting in St. Petersburg, the commission said developed countries "should think of decreasing current consumption levels" - which would mean shrinking their economies - in order to help the environment. Great. Super. Fantastic. Just what we need right now. Still think this is about saving the planet from a fiery death? Read the words of EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstroem and former French President Jacques Chirac: Many global warming advocates see Kyoto and other treaties as instruments of international power politics. Ultimately, they seek to give activists and centralized government entities more say over fossil fuel use, economic growth, lifestyles, housing and transportation. EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstroem says Kyoto "is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake and that is why it is serious," she declaimed. And French President Jacques Chirac has termed the Kyoto Protocol "the first component of authentic global governance." (...) >>>
Jan 13, 2008
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The Lighthouse: "The Stone-Age Roots of the Nuclear Family"
(...) Don't be fooled by nonsense about women's lib, gay rights and same sex marriage: these are all ruses to take out one of the main pillars of 'the power structure', romantic love and marriage. Remember that upsurge in Swedish films and books around the sixties, portraying marriage and family life as sheer and sure hell ...? That was no coincidence! (Here's a Dutch book of some notoriety, but every Western country probably has its own version. Sartre's existentialism did away with all human company in general: "hell are the others.") (...) But here's news: A Stone Age burial in central Germany has yielded the earliest evidence of people living together as a family within a tribal social structure ...
"The Flintsteins? Germans find Stone Age family - 4,600-year-old grave yields genetic evidence of family life (and death)" (includes video material)
(...) The 4,600-year-old grave contained the remains of a man, woman and two youngsters, and DNA analysis shows they were a mother, father and their children. (...) Perhaps tribal people 4,600 years ago, knew what we have been taught to forget for political reasons: that single mum families are the surest road to poverty and dependence - dependence on the state, all for our own good, of course. No wonder it was sold in Europe, first as morally acceptable, then as a value and even a right. >>>
21st Nov 2008
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Introduction to the dossier (permanent)
In reaction to ultra rational positions taken by the later thinkers of the Enlightenment, a brand of 18th century German intellectuals sought to save the Old Order by undertaking a cultural movement countering the rationalist influences. These reactionaries are known as the German Idealists, the Romanticists, the Counter-Enlightenment movement, or the anti-modernists.
In the effort, anti-modernist philosophers Kant (1724-1804) and Hegel (1770-1831) sought to square Judeo-Christian cosmology with reason.
Kant saw philosophy as a grey area between science and religion and made it the battleground in the war on reason. His rescue effort resulted in the corruption of all three fields. Philosophy - in Aristotelian and Thomist hands a precision instrument for the exploration of reality - has never recovered from Kant's speculative theories about the nature of thought.
Kant devised a dialectical mechanism which was later further developed by Hegel to reflect contradictions: the dialectic of contradictory elements, also known as 'new reason,' making contradictions part of reality. Thereby he inflicted on the world the self-perpetuating mechanism for progress through strife and conflict. A practical application we see around us every day is the adversarial approach to communication, common to the journalists, lawyers and politicians.
Hegel skewed Kant's proposition by replacing God with the State. Later followers posited further variations on such themes, creating in effect secular pseudo religions. This is the origin of mystical nationalism and of malignant, polylogistic racial, ethnic and cultural theories, including Nazism and Postmodern multiculturalism.
Hegel's followers divided into
Right, and
Left (or Young) Hegelians. Young Hegelian Karl Marx (1818-1883) further developed the dialectic, devising yet another skewed version (dialectical materialism) of Hegel's skewed version.
Marx' paranoid vision of society has divided the world into two species of humans: the oppressors and the oppressed, resulting in a perpetual struggle of minority groups against the 'power structure.' The latter should not be understood as 'those in power', but rather 'those in power, other than us'.
Contemporary Postmodernism in which Left and Right Hegelians were re-united (yes! there are quite a few Fascists there too) by
Frankfurt School founder Horkheimer through the re-merging of Heidegger and Marx, have harnessed political correctness to today's version of Marx' class struggle.
Rousseau's vista of a noble, primordial world destroyed by the logic of man's egoist drive for civilization, might well have sired the epidemic of Western self-loathing. But it is now part and parcel of the postmodern dialectic: political correctness, a mechanism for
self-control along the lines of direct action or positive discrimination with the aim of establishing redistribution of power and rights.
This dossier aims to compile examples of the practical applications of the Postmodern dialectic. These often takes the shape of contemporary multicultural and social ideas concerning minority groups and often condense in
'moral' legislation and influen
cing public opinion through the manipulation of people's perceptions.
The overt, narrow objective is the liberation and empowerment of the minority in question (women's lib, black power, gay rights, etc.) with the view of shifting power and rights from the ones in power ('white males') to minority victim groups (everyone else).
The ultimate aim however goes far beyond the narrow collective group interest: the deconstruction from within, of Western culture as it developed over the course of three millennia.
The next step on that path was set when the Left recently abandoned the patronage of the traditional historically oppressed groups in favor of their enemy, Islamism: its potentially deconstructive powers are simply too promising to pass up. The fact they have made this shift without any visible signs of cognitive dissonance, says much about the ruthlessness of the underlying ideology that hopes to build Utopia on the smoldering remains of violent conflict. Next stop: 'borders are immoral.'
Dated: 4th July 2008
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Spot the problem ... a drive to replace one oppression with another! Under the bus: the Iranian Left:
Read the entire Wall Street Journal article by Dan Hennenger also. The 'under the bus' theme has also inspired Alphonzo Rachel in ZoNation on PJTV to great satire. (...) >>>
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