American Imperialism timeline - Part 1

American Imperialism timeline - Part 1

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These are well documented historical facts summarized in order to get these events out there in the public. I apologize for not including other key facts and important roles played during these times, but there is enough information for anyone to go and do further research on the matter. ...

American Imperialism
timeline - Part 1

Deuteronomy
20:10-11 (The Message)10-15 When you come up against a city to attack
it, call out, 'Peace?' If they answer, 'Yes, peace!' and open the city
to you, then everyone found there will be conscripted as forced laborers
and work for you. But if they don't settle for peace and insist on war,
then go ahead and attack. God, your God, will give them to you. Kill
all the men with your swords. But don't kill the women and children and
animals. Everything inside the town you can take as plunder for you to
use and eat—God, your God, gives it to you. This is the way you deal
with the distant towns, the towns that don't belong to the nations at
hand.

John Henrik
Clarke, (Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the
Rise of European Capitalism ), looks at the issue from another
perspective which defines the problem, but excludes the cause (people in
power 'writing history' for their own imperialistic purposes):

'Europeans
not only began to colonize most of the world, they also colonized
information about the world. They colonized the Bible. They colonized
all complimentary images that non-European people held of themselves.
The most effective of all of these colonized images was their
colonization of the image of God. Through missionaries, adventurers,
free-booters and slave traders they began to propagate the concept that
God favored them over other people. They were saying, in essence, that
all Europeans were the chosen people of God. [...]

19 But all the
silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto
the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.

20 So
the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came
to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people
shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the
people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they
took the city.

21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the
city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass,
with the edge of the sword.

22 But Joshua had said unto the two
men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and
bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.


23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab,
and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had;
and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of
Israel.

24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was
therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of
iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
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Social Pathology | The Zeitgeist Movement | NYC 2010 ZDAY

Social Pathology | The Zeitgeist Movement | NYC 2010 ZDAY

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Social Pathology | The Zeitgeist Movement | NYC 2010 ZDAY -Lecture by Peter Joseph *Some audio had to be replaced due to static problems. >Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

Social Pathology | The Zeitgeist Movement | NYC 2010
ZDAY
by peter
joseph

The social order, as we know it, is created out of ideas,
either directly or as a systemic consequence.
In other words, somebody somewhere did something which generated a group interest,
which then led to the implementation of a specific social component,
either in a physical form, philosophical form, or both.
Once a given set of ideas are intrusted by a large enough group of people,
it becomes an institution.

And once that institution is made dominant in some way,
while existing for a certain period of time,
that institution can then be considered an establishment.
Institutional establishments are simply social traditions giving the illusion of permanence.

In turn, the more established they become,
the more cultural influence they tend to have on us,
including our values and hence our identities and perspectives.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the established institutions
governing a person's environment is no less than a conditioning platform
to program, if you will,
that person with a specific set of values required to maintain the establishment.

Hence, we are going to call these 'established value programs.'
I have found the analogy of computer programming to be a great way to frame this point.
While there is always a debate about genetics, an environmental influence which,
by the way, as I mentioned Roxanne Meadows will go into at length, later in the program,
it's very easy to understand in the context of values,
meaning what you think is important and not important,
that information influences or conditioning is coming from the world around you.
Make no mistake,
every intellectual concept, which each one of us finds merit with,
is the result of a cultural information influence, one way or another.
The environment is a self-perpetuating programming process,
and just like designing a software program for your computer,
each human being is, advertently and inadvertently, programmed into their world view.

To continue the analogy,
the human brain is a piece of hardware
and the environment around you constitutes the programming team
which creates the values and perspective.
Every word you know has been taught to you one way or another,
and thus, every concept and belief you have is a result of this same influence.
Jacque Fresco once asked me, 'How much of you is you?'

The answer, of course, is kind of a paradox,
for either nothing is me, or everything is me,
when it comes to the information I understand and act upon.
Information is a serial process,
meaning the only way that a human being can come up with any idea
is through taking independent information that allows that idea to be realized.
We appear to be culturally programmed from the moment we are coming to this world
to the moment we die.
And I'm not gonna' drill in it much more than that.
However, consequently, the cultural attributes we maintain as important values
are most often the ones that are reinforced by the external culture.
I'm gonna' say that again.
The most dominant cultural attributes maintained
are the ones that are reinforced by your environment.

If you are born into a society which rewards competition over collaboration,
then you most likely will adopt those values in order to survive.
The point is, we are essentially bio-chemical machines.
And while the integrity of our machine processing power
and memory is contingent, in part, on genetics,
the source of our actions come fundamentally
from the ideas and experiences installed on our mental hardware by the world around us.
However, our biological computer, the human mind,
has an evolutionarily installed operating system, if you will,
with some seemingly difficult tendencies built in
which tends to limit our objectivity and, hence, our rational thought process.
This comes in the form of emotional inclinations.

Contrary to popular belief, evidence now shows that our early human ancestors,
which predate the Neolithic Revolution,
really didn't live in a state of perpetual conflict and extreme scarcity
as many anthropologists early on had assumed.
In fact, hunter-gatherer societies were a very unique arrangement
immersed in both a restrictive yet self-regulating environmental paradigm.
Before the advent of agriculture, there was very little control over what was available.
You didn't have agriculture, you couldn't control the environment.

So, what happened is a natural balance was in order.
And the societies themselves seemed to reflect this balance by having, in fact,
non-hierarchical, noncompetitive, leaderless social structures.
In fact, it has been found that their value systems, their social values,
were essentially based on equality, altruism and sharing.
And they literally forbid upstart-ism, dominance and aggression, and egoism.
We know this today because of anthropological research done
on remaining hunter-gatherer societies around the world
such as the Piraha, which is how is pronunciated, out of Brazil.

Amazingly it appears that well over
- it is important point, for anyone that tells you that the current system is natural -
for well over 90% of the human beings' existence; human species' existence,
on this planet as we know it,
we were within social organizations that did not use money, that did not have hierarchy,
and even had 'counter-dominance strategies,'
where the majority would work together to shut down
any individual that was trying to gain power and control.

Pretty much the reverse of what we have today.
The Neolithic Revolution changed all of that.
It provided human beings with an ability to control their environment more intently.
The sustenance of life could now be cultivated essentially at will.

Now, while this advent would appear as a profound benefit to all,
it also introduced some pesky social problems
as a result of conditioning attributes which we still deal with today.
In the view of anthropologist and Professor of Neurology at Stanford University, Dr. Robert Sapolsky,
'Hunter-Gatherers have thousands of wild sources of food to subsist on.
Agriculture changed all of that,
generating an overwhelming reliance on a few dozen food sources.
Agriculture allowed for the stockpiling of surplus resources and thus, inevitably,
the unequal stockpiling of them,
stratification of society and the invention of classes.

Thus, it has allowed for the invention of poverty.'
Since this dramatic change in the structure of human society, the creation of imbalances has continued
and social stratification and income inequality are now staples of the modern world as we all know.

In fact, many who are unfamiliar with human history
would probably consider these attributes again to be part of some 'natural human order;'
it's so pervasive today.
We have gone from food cultivation, to commodity bartering, to gold exchange,
to metal-backed certificate exchange, to fiat currency.

We went from a system with values reflective of true natural processes
to a system of values based on certificates of ownership traded for income on their own,
virtually - I'd say not even virtually - completely decoupled from physical resources.

And we have come from a world based on necessity,
and social drive for preservation and sustainability,
to a world based on strategic manipulation,
pointless materialism, and obsession with property and ownership.
In the words of historian, philosopher David Hume,
'The first man who, after enclosing a piece of ground,
took it into his head to say this is mine,
and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

How many crimes, how many wars, how many murders,
how many misfortunes and horrors would that man have saved the species,
who pulling up stakes or filling up the ditches,
should have cried to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor.
You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the Earth belong to us all,
and the Earth itself to nobody.'

Moreover, scarcity is now a driving force for commerce.
In our system scarcity equals profit.
The less there is of something, the more it can be valued in terms of money.
In other words, abundance is a negative thing in a profit system.
In the words of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins [corrected],
'The market industrial system institutes scarcity, in a manner completely unparalleled,
and to a degree nowhere else approximated
where production and distribution are arranged through the behavior of prices,
and all livelihoods depend on getting and spending,
insufficiency of material means becomes the explicit, calculable starting point of all economic activity.'

Likewise, I'd like to point out, as a simple aside,
that the money supply in America, at all times,
has less in value than the outstanding transactions required.
In other words, there isn't and never will be,
in the American money supply or most other money supplies on the planet,
enough money in existence, at any one time,
to cover the outstanding transactions within the economy.

Money is created out of debt, through loans.
And interest is charged for those loans,
whether it's a government bond or a personal home equity loan.
If every single debt was called in right now in our economy
there would be enormous amount of money that is literally impossible
to payback in domestic currency.
http://vimeo.com/10707453

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MALCOLM X: I Have No Fear Whatsoever of Anybody or Anything

MALCOLM X: I Have No Fear Whatsoever of Anybody or Anything

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http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/ Malcolm X explains why he was forced out of the Nation of Islam and that he has a rifle for protection. After he left the Nation and made the pilgrimage to Mecca, he ...

Truth is a Pathless Land
by J. Krishnamurti

You cannot build a new world in the way you are doing it now. It is obvious that the method of training laboriously a few chosen disciples will not make any difference to humanity. No doubt you will leave a mark like Krishna, Buddhist Christ, Mohammed and Gandhiji. But they have not changed the world; nor will you, unless you discover an entirely new way of approaching the problem.

The devil and his friend went out for a stroll and noticed a man walking in front of them pick something up, then dance with joy down the street. 'What did that man find?' asked the friend of the devil. 'He discovered truth' said the devil. 'That is going to be a problem for you' stated the devil's friend. 'Not at all' responded the devil 'I'm going to help him organise it' J Krishnamurti.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organise a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organise it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallised; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountain-top to the valley....

If an organisation be created for this purpose, it becomes a crutch, a weakness, a bondage, and must cripple the individual, and prevent him from growing, from establishing his uniqueness, which lies in the discovery for himself of that absolute, unconditioned Truth.

You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else.... when I say look within yourselves for the enlightenment, for the glory, for the purification, and for the incorruptibility of the self, not one of you is willing to do it. There may be a few, but very, very few. So why have an organisation?....

No man from outside can make you free; nor can organised worship, nor the immolation of yourselves for a cause, make you free; nor can forming yourselves into an organisation, nor throwing yourselves into work, make you free. You use a typewriter to write letters, but you do not put it on an alter and worship it. But that is what you are doing when organisations become your chief concern. 'How many members are there in it?' That is the first question I am asked by all newspaper reporters. 'How many followers have you? By their number we shall judge whether what you say is true or false.' I do not know how many there are. I am not concerned with that. If there were even one man who had been set free, that were enough....


Again, you have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity....

You have been accustomed to being told how far you have advanced, what is your spiritual status. How childish! Who but yourself can tell you if you are incorruptible?....

But those who really desire to understand, who are looking to find that which is eternal, without a beginning and without an end, will walk together with greater intensity, will be a danger to everything that is unessential, to unrealities, to shadows. And they will concentrate, they will become the flame, because they understand. Such a body we must create, and that is my purpose. Because of that true friendship - which you do not seem to know - there will be real co-operation on the part of each one. And this not because of authority, not because of salvation, but because you really understand, and hence are capable of living in the eternal. This is a greater thing than all pleasure, than all sacrifice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i16OMrwxsm8&feature=related

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THE reason why some Black Men Won't Date Or Marry Black Women

THE reason why some Black Men Won't Date Or Marry Black Women

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Malcolm X explaining the mentality behind why Black men love white women and white people in general.

'if you do not understand white supremacy(racism)------what it is, and how it works-------everything else that you understand, will only confuse you.' ...neely fuller jr. According to Neely fuller jr.

There are 3 types of people in the known universe: 1. White people

2. Non-white people


3. White supremacists (racist)


THE FACT THAT NO WHITE PERSON IS SUBJECT TO WHITE SUPREMACY(RACISM) GREATLY CONFUSES MANY NON-WHITE PEOPLE

Explanation:
1. 'White' people are people who classify themselves as 'white', and have been classified as 'white', and who generally function as 'white' in all of the nine major areas of activity, including economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war.


2. Non' white' people are people who have been classified as non'white', and/or who generally function as non'white' in their relationships withe each other, and withe people classified as 'white', in all of the nine major areas of activity, including economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war.

3. White Supremacists (Racists) are people who classify themselves as 'white', and who generally function as 'white', and, who practice racial subjugation (based on 'white'-non'white' classifications) against people classified as non'white', at any time, in any place, in any one, or more of the nine major areas of activity, including economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war. Two basic problems among the people of the known universe:

1. Lack of knowledge and understanding of the reason for existence, and/or for non-existence.


2. Racism (White Supremacy). Explanation: Every 'problem' among the people of the known universe can, today, be traced to:

1. A lack of knowledge and understanding of the reason for existence and/or non-existence, compounded by and promoted by


2. The practice of Racism(White Supremacy). This is true in all areas of activity among people, including economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war. Two basic 'classes' of people in the known universe:

1. The powerful 'class'(White Supremacist)

2. The powerless 'class'( all non-white people, AND those White People who are not White Supremacists) Explanation: Since the establishment of White Supremacy(Racism)among the people of the known universe, the terms 'upper class', have become so meaningless that to use such terms to describe any people does not promote justice, but serves only to promote great confusion.

It is therefore best not to use such terms to describe any people now in existence in the known universe. Under White Supremacy, and/or, as long as White Supremacy exists, the best and most accurate way to describe people by using the category of 'class' is to describe their power relationship to each other.

By so doing, all White People who practice White Supremacy(Racism) must be recognised as the only people in the known universe who are the 'powerful class'.

All non-white people, being subject to the 'powerful class' are, therefore, the 'powerless class'.

In addition, those white persons who do not practice White Supremacy are also the 'powerless class'. these White People who do not practice
White Supremacy are not subject to the White Supremacists ('the powerful class').

THE FACT THAT NO WHITE PERSON IS SUBJECT TO WHITE SUPREMACY(RACISM) GREATLY CONFUSES MANY NON-WHITE PEOPLE.

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They cut off part of you?!

They cut off part of you?!

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More on his intactivism: http://www.cirp.org/news/vancouvercourier07-05-04/ No national medical organization in the world today has the opinion that infant male circumcision is medically indicated. The ...

Circumcision began non-religiously as an attempt to cure masturbation, along with the innumerable ills which this was thought to cause. In the Victorian Era, both purity of the body and purity of the mind were the social ideal. Many of the early medical quotes on this subject revolve around punishment for masturbation or any non-reproductive sexual intercourse. Various surgical and chemical attempts were made to the genitals of both sexes to deaden their feeling and/or make any kind of sexual activity not pleasurable at all.
http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/index2.html

Circumcision the Sign of the Covenant

1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham;

10 for a father of many nations have I made thee. Rom. 4.176 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, Lk. 1.55 to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.

8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession;

Acts 7.5 and I will be their God.9 ¶ And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee;

Every man child among you shall be circumcised. Acts 7.811 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

There was a great debate in the time of the emperor Constantine, whether to continue circumcision for Christians. He was a Roman and the president of the council of Nicaea that was deciding what to do about circumcision. Because they were all Jews converted into Christians, Constantine voted against it. That's why Christians stopped circumcision; now they are starting again... OshoGod is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth, ch. 4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eoK7pCGg7Y

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Burma Long Neck Giraffe Hill Tribe Women Thailand

Burma Long Neck Giraffe Hill Tribe Women Thailand

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Visit a river village in Thailand / Burma of Long Neck Giraffe Hill Tribe Women

All tradition is merely the past.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI,



It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, Think on These Things




Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, Krishnamurti to Himself


Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtf2_xZX20Q&feature=related

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Lip plates of suri women - Tribe - BBC

Lip plates of suri women - Tribe - BBC

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Brue Parry goes on another fascinating journey, this time uncovering the ancient tradition of lip plates amongst the Suri tribe. From BBC worldwide.

Tradition becomes our security, and when
the mind is secure it is in decay.

The constant
assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Stephen
Hawking
-Black holes would seem to
suggest that God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them
where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking, NATURE, 1975
-We could call order by the name of God, but it
would be an impersonal God. There’s not much personal about the laws
of physics.
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