Subject: I find the Christian faith deeply liberating. All on board in the Atheist Bus - Great! (very - philodoxical) 2 minutes in http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/tftd

"The Egalitarian Revolution"  http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003293;jsessionid=93F8FA3B060C42F8A0774A821740F3A9

 

Spotlight on Anthropology http://www.aqr.org.uk/inbrief/document.shtml?doc=simon.roberts.01-03-2005.anthropology

 

 

Time Team Channel4 TV. Nomad (egalitarians - hunter-gatherers) vs Villager's (vicious - sedentists) http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2008/swords/index.html

 

Where has all the money gone? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7670313.stm

 

New Terrorists http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7667920.stm (In good company - with the Sovereign Funds, some - Banks, some - City Traders, and some - Others, so on...) The filthy banking or bankers 'greed bubble'. Time now to get out of their suits, and on with their jeans!

 

Why filthy: - not in any {personal} moral sense, but in the irrational fear sense; non-egalitarian; sharing; contributing sense. Ref, inherent in most - humanly natural, denial of, the social incompetence of humans: ignorance of, History, Evolution, and Cosmology, (with a smidgen of) Psychology. See, many of the other blog entries - Hein, so on...! Also, filthy:- an 'education system' (based on an ethos of compulsory superstition) and some (now - minority) cultural and dinosaurial - heavy hangover, leaning towards the glamorization in the non-existing morality or spirituality (religiosity of some): rosy and Utopian - past glamorous era.   

"Global inequalities in income, and living standards, have reached grotesque proportions," according to the latest annual United Nations Human Development Report (UNHDR), published last month. Sept 1999 - It's got much worse 2008!? 

While 1.3 billion people struggle to live on less than $US1 a day, the world's richest 200 people doubled their net worth between 1994 and 1998 to more than $1 trillion. The world's top three billionaires alone possess more assets than the combined Gross National Product of all the least developed countries and their combined population of 600 million people.

About 840 million people are malnourished, and close to one billion find it difficult to meet their basic consumption requirements. More than 880 million people lack access to health services, and 2.6 billion people have no access to basic sanitation. http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/aug1999/un-a06.shtml

"Manual workers had cleaner hands than other professionals, students, retired people or the unemployed". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7667499.stm

BBC Radio 4 The Moral Maze http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/religion/moralmaze.shtml Mostly the 'filthy' (rich, 'spiritual' and self-righteous) about the 'non-filthy' or 'clean'.

“The world is losing its human dimension,” he says. “Self-propelling mega-machines, large-scale enterprises, faceless governments and other juggernauts of impersonal power represent the greatest threat to our present day world: Totalitarianism is no more than an extreme expression of this threat". Vaclav Havel.

Giant database plan 'Orwellian' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm

Glossary of the 'Credit Crunch' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7618653.stm#derivatives

In his new book, "50 People Who Buggered Up Britain", the Daily Mail's peerless sketchwriter Quentin Letts offers his own roll call of the 50 prime suspects he blames for wrecking our country. One of Letts' culprits is Alun Michael - a figure with whom followers of hunting's history will be all too familiar. This extract was published in the Daily Mail on 8th October 2008:

"Fox-hunting, as traditionally practised, became an illegal activity during Tony Blair's second term. Hundreds of hours of parliamentary effort were devoted to its extermination. MPs bent over backwards to criminalise an outdoor sport pursued by some of the most upstanding members of the community. The ban was ridiculous and impractical and it tarnished Parliament's own standing.

"The Government minister who pushed through the hunting ban? A dismal little doormat called Alun Michael.

"To look at, he is not a striking proposition, a careworn creature with the hunched shoulders and lank hair of a natural loser. Alun Michael is an authentic middler, a worker bee, putty in the hands of more confident colleagues.

"On hunting, he got his way. Ill-informed, emotive arguments defeated common sense. But he still looked flea-bitten as he led the canter towards the ban. He still looked miserable, mangy, weak."

No 'fresh' eggs for us and the children for two weeks! The fox has put the hens off laying and if the fox hadn't been caught, just in time, all the hens would of been killed for nothing! The last time I tried to shoot a fox I missed - I might of wounded it - it probably had an agonizing death - this one the terriers got (at a local farm) and was instantly dispatched. It was after the hens and more... Keep on 'Hunting' - the fox is! See, photos. RSPCA's Advice to Cat Owners. Keep cats in at night, because they may be killed by the fox: the cat will fight and kill wildlife, also there is a chance that the cat might be run over (depending where you live). This is like depriving you of light or forcing you to live some 'half-life'. RSPCA - so much going for them (rather like the Church), but so much crass stupidity! Cruelty abounds with banning things - everyone agrees with sensible rules  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078655/How-hunt-shot-Labours-fox-Although-hunting-banned-years-ago-sport-MORE-popular-ever.html And, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article4965117.ece

http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RSPCA/RSPCARedirect&pg=eggs

Prime Minister Gordon Brown Rescues The World's Financial System. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1077225/Gordon-Brown-saved-worlds-financial-says-economics-Nobel-Prize-winner.html 14/10/2008

Social anthropologist, evolutionist, and humorist, Quentin Letts in his book '50 People Who Buggered Up Britain', sort of, says, "The 'Human Being' is little different from the vole or the dormouse. Hundreds of homes a day in Britain are visited by the spectre of (sudden) death - women, men, and children: stunned and weeping: returning to a long forgotten God and applying their hopes to an imagined Heaven for their dead, and in amongst, and analogous to: an adults view point of the frightened five year old's, frightened of the dark at bedtime, who see a glimmer of Gods light under the bedroom door! The social network of rural parishes (full of old rich urban anti-hunting intruders - mostly, atheists - due to Darwin and Dawkins) whose fun and weakened happiness has been totally spoilt by not going to church and the good clergy's lives have been complicated by secular thinking of most right-minded people". Scientific (social) Anthropologist and the Evolutionary Biologist Professor Richard Dawkins FRS in his book 'The Ancestor's Tale' 'A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life', sort of, says, about Quentin Letts's voles and dormouse's (the villagers, uneducated - rurals, and the religious mourners) "Here we are, 140 million years ago at the base of the Cretaceous with the Concester 14 (Rendezvous 14) Marsupials, our 80-million-greats-grandparent, who lived in Gondwana". "Sudden Death Syndrome" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/424813.stm And - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/outlook/index.shtml

Forgive the Bankers, Banks, Gold Hoarders (Sovereign Funds) and City (Short or Swaps) Traders  - not likely, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7666919.stm for a long - long - time!

UNI : TUC, UK: Lift 250 million working children out of poverty and into school

The Scourge of Gold (hoarding bullion). "Becoming human is a process and not some event". Ref, Notes of Dad's, "Admiration" in photos. "Certain - 'indices' become attached to the individual (or State - examples: Middle and Far East, World - 'tribal' status) as a permanent, ongoing, visible aspect of his status, because their presence draws from others admiration and hence prestige! P.J.Wilson 'The Domestication Of The Human Species'  http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!A18BF3FCC5E126A2!1613/?startingImageIndex=0&commentsExpand=0&addCommentExpand=0&addCommentFocus=0&pauseSlideshow=0

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bf8246aa-8f13-11dd-946c-0000779fd18c.html

Many of those who most earnestly propagate the need for spiritual values, and denounce secularism and materialism, are the very same people who in their personal lives are crassly materialistic, and morally and politically corrupt. Who, but a religious guru would feel the need to go around in a gold-plated limousine? See, New Humanist Magazine -1987. Ref, Notes of Dad's.

Credit Crunch - Credit Crisis - The First Great Test of Globalization - Banking Leverage

Sovereign Funds - Massive, City & CEO Bonuses 

Muslims believed that gold and silver must circulate, and this circulation, called rawaj, was a social and religious duty. Hoarding gold and silver was forbidden by the Qur’an: “Those who store up gold and silver and do not spend them in the way of God, tell them of a painful chastisement!” The cosmographer al-Qawini, writing only a decade or so after the minting of the first florin, says: "Gold is the noblest of the blessings of Almighty God upon his servants, for it is the foundation of the affairs of this world and brings order to the affairs of mankind…. With silver and gold coins, everything can be bought and sold. They must circulate, unlike other forms of wealth, for it is not desirable for anyone to accumulate silver and gold…. Anyone who stores them up destroys the wisdom created by God, just as if one imprisoned the qadi of a town and prevented him from carrying out his duties toward the people.”

Who is to blame? The rejection of the History Lessons of the Great Depression, which has resulted with the current financial chaos and meltdown, seen around the world. The Great Depression, and in how it would never be allowed to happen again! Of course, it's us, the majority of people, no-choicers, plebs, who, in their 'imagination and admiration' have voted in leaders to rule, who are no more than celebrity, and then, stupidly, we worship them. The dangers that are inherent within sedentism, or sedentist society and cultures vs the egalitarianism that existed before any sedentism. Even, the so called, primitive people were "extremely wary"! Ref, Anthropology. (Vote for the most unlikely looking celebrity - Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the UK. Markets need morals, says Brown http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7655723.stm ) 

"After four years of investigating the Black Friday crash in 1929, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration figured out that the main actions that lead us into the Depression were bank's using their clients money to speculate on risky investments and pushing other risky investments on the very same customers. Some of the investments were sold directly to the bank's investors, others were made by the banks themselves. When the investments went belly up, the banks had no money to pay their customers back.

To stop this from ever happening again, FDR and fellow Democratic Senators and Congressmen passed the Glass-Steagall Act in 1933. The law stopped commercial banks from merging with investment banks, established the FDIC to insure bank deposits, gave the Federal Reserve control over setting interest rates, and made other banking reforms. The entire point was to protect deposits and stop banks from speculating with that money.

Strictly speaking, the Glass-Steagall Act was a huge success. It restored confidence in America's banking system and worked relatively well for six decades. That is, until Citigroup decided to spend over 30 years working behind the scenes to repeal parts of the act.

In the 1960's, Citigroup, then known as First National City Bank, (and later Citibank and Citi) started talking to Washington about repealing the Glass-Steagall Act. It took many years, and to make a long story short, they finally succeeded in 1999. BTW, First National City Bank (Citi) is to blame for the modern credit card society, having introduced in 1967 the card that later was renamed Mastercard, the first credit card.

What does this have to do with Bill Clinton, or the current economic feces-fest we are currently in?

When Bill Clinton was President in 1998, Citibank, by then called Citicorp, was trying to merge with Traveller's group (the investment firm with the ads with the red umbrella). Under the Glass-Steagall Act, this was prohibited. Way back in 1933 FDR and Co. were wise enough to know that commercial banks shouldn't own investment banks, it leads to all sorts of illegal shenanigans.

But years of bribing, er, lobbying Congress had done it's trick, and Citicorp's CEO Sandy Weill said he was assured by Federal sources the merger would be approved, which it was in 1998. (Technically the merger was illegal in 1998 as the law wasn't repealed until November, 1999.) Renamed Citigroup after the merger, they have gone on to purchase other investment firms.

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (called the Financial Services Modernization Act at the time) repealed 66 years of consumer protections and paved the way for financial mergers and the introduction of new investment products. The Act was written by Republican Senators including Phil Gramm, and early voting was split down party lines until President Clinton forced a rewrite of the bill" @  http://community.adn.com/adn/node/131758

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