Faith Club
Faith Club
- 2018.07.27, 11:57
- "The distance from the edge of the Milky Way to Andromeda is about 2.5 million light years. That journey would take 55 years ship time or slightly more than 2.5 million years Earth time and Andromeda really isn't that far on the scale of galaxies."
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0 rakstair doma
- 2018.07.22, 13:28
- Izglītībai ir tāda problēma, ka netiek dots pietiekami daudz konteksta. Ģeogrāfijā, piemēram, varētu mācīt par to kā pasaulē pasta adreses darbojas. Nezināju ka Šveicē ir pilsētiņa ar Vācijas pasta indeksiem (Büsingen).
Piemēram, esmu it kā ekonomiski izglītots, bet visu mūžu esmu nodzīvojis nezinot ka Breton Woods ir tāda pilsētiņa iekš New Hampshire, kurā bija (ir) viesnīciņa, kurā notika ļoti nozīmīgas konferences par jauno pasaules kārtību pēc otrā pasaules kara.
Vēl ir interesanti, ka tagad pa visām šķirbām iekšā nāk vēl jaunāka pasaules (ne)kārtība:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feU7HT0x_qU
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2 rakstair doma
- 2018.07.04, 11:21
- "Global Elite (E1, ~60,000 people worldwide, about 30% of those in the U.S.) are a global social class, and extremely powerful in a trans-national way. These are the very rich, powerful, and deeply uncultured barbarians from all over the world who start wars in the Middle East for sport, make asses of themselves in American casinos, rape ski bunnies at Davos, and run the world. [...] They’re the corporate billionaires and drug kingpins and third-world despots and real estate magnates. They’re not into the genteel, reserved “WASP culture” of E2′s [National Elite], the corporate earnestness and “white shoe” professionalism of E3′s [Elite Servants], or the hypertrophic intellectualism and creativity of G1′s [Cultural Influencers] and G2′s [High Gentry]. They are all about control, and on a global scale. [...] They aren’t mere management or even “executives”. They’re owners. They don’t care what they own, or what direction the world takes, as long as they’re on top. They almost never take official executive positions within large companies, but they make a lot of the decisions behind the scenes.
"Unlike the National Elite, who tend toward a cultural conservatism and a desire to preserve certain traits that they consider necessary to national integrity, the Global Elite doesn’t give a shit about any particular country. They’re fully multinational and view all the world’s political nations as entities to be exploited (like everything else). They foster corruption and crime if it serves their interests, and those interests are often ugly. [...] their reason for living is to create monuments to nonexistence.
"[...] E1 is pretty much objectively evil, without exceptions. There are decent people who are billionaires, so there’s no income or wealth level at which 100% objective evil becomes the norm. But if you climb the social ladder, you get to a level at which it’s all cancer, all the way up. That’s E1. Why is it this way? Because the top end of the world’s elite is a social elite, not an economic one, and you don’t get deep into an elevated social elite unless you are very similar to the center of that cluster, and for the past 10,000 years the center of humanity’s top-of-the-top cluster has always been deep, featureless evil: people who burn peasants’ faces off because it amuses them. [...]
Analysis of current conflict.
"What has made America great, especially from 1933 until now, has been the self-assertion of the Gentry following the defeat of the Elite. The first half of the American Era (1933 to 1973) utterly emasculated the Elite. Their rapacious greed and world-fucking parasitism was repaid with 90-percent tax rates, and they told to consider themselves lucky that it wasn’t full-on socialism (or a violent revolution in which they all died, Paris-1793-style). The so-called “WASP culture” of the E2 class derives many of its norms from the paranoia of that period (when the global elite was very small, and they were the “robber baron” elite). For example, the demand that a house not be visible from the road comes from a time in which that was physically dangerous. This four-decade curtailment of the American Elite, and the more resounding destruction of the European ones, was one of the best things that ever happened to the world. It made the golden age of Silicon Valley possible.
"There are a lot of reasons why this “golden age” of a disempowered Elite was able to occur, but World War II was the biggest of all of them. Future historians will probably regard the two World Wars as one monstrous conflict, with a period of crippling, worldwide economic depression between them. Few disagree with the claim, for example, that the resolution of the First World War led inexorably to the evils of totalitarianism and the Second of these wars. This giant and largely senseless conflict’s causes seem complex – historians are still debating World War I’s inception – but the short version is that the world’s Elites did that. There was a 30-year period of war, famine, poverty, racial pogroms, and misery that existed largely because a network of high-level obligations and horrendous ideas (especially the racism used to justify colonialism, which benefitted the rich of these societies enormously, but sent the poor to die in unjust wars, contract awful diseases for which they had no immunity, and commit atrocities) set the conditions up. After about a hundred million deaths and thirty years of war, societies finally decided, “No More”. They dismantled their Elites vigorously, North American and European nations included. This became the “golden age” of the educated Gentry. In the U.S. (for which the 1950s were a decade of prosperity; in Europe, it was a period of rebuilding and not very prosperous) it was also the “golden age of the middle class”.
"However, the Elite has brought itself back to life. This Gilded Age isn’t as bad as the last one, but it’s heading that way. It started in the late 1970s when the U.S. fell in love again with elitism [...]."
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4 rakstair doma
- 2018.06.26, 08:30
- Tas kas šobrīd notiek ar Amerikas pārņemšanu oligarhu rokās (1%) - kas sākās ar publisko pakalpojumu privatizāciju, ar nodokļu samazināšanu bagātniekiem, sociālo programmu griešanu, īstenībā ir process ar vienu mērķi: kā moderno demokrātiju pārvērst atpakaļ par feodālismu un despotismu. Tā ir oligarhiskā revolūcija.
"Buchanan’s ideas began to have huge impact, especially in America and in Britain. In his home country, the economist was deeply involved in efforts to cut taxes on the wealthy in 1970s and 1980s and he advised proponents of Reagan Revolution in their quest to unleash markets and posit government as the “problem” rather than the “solution.” The Koch-funded Virginia school coached scholars, lawyers, politicians, and business people to apply stark right-wing perspectives on everything from deficits to taxes to school privatization. In Britain, Buchanan’s work helped to inspire the public sector reforms of Margaret Thatcher and her political progeny."
"[...] in South America, Buchanan was able to first truly set his ideas in motion by helping a bare-knuckles dictatorship ensure the permanence of much of the radical transformation it inflicted on a country that had been a beacon of social progress. [...] With his guidance, the military junta deployed public choice economics in the creation of a new constitution, which required balanced budgets and thereby prevented the government from spending to meet public needs. Supermajorities would be required for any changes of substance, leaving the public little recourse to challenge programs like the privatization of social security.
"The dictator’s human rights abuses and pillage of the country’s resources did not seem to bother Buchanan, MacLean argues, so long as the wealthy got their way. “Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe,” the economist had written in The Limits of Liberty. If you have been wondering about the end result of the Virginia school philosophy, well, the economist helpfully spelled it out."
Koch brāļu nauda, ASV vergturu pavalstis, kas nav zaudējušas savu tieksmi atjaunot aizgājušajiem laikiem, un George Mason universitāte, kur darbojas Virginia school ekonomiskās domāšanas katedra, kas izprāto taktikas un stratēģijas kā samazināt publisko valdības ietekmi un visu varu atdot bagātniekiem.
"[...] the economist developed a grand project to train operatives to staff institutions funded by like-minded tycoons, most significantly Charles Koch, who became interested in his work in the ‘70s and sought the economist’s input in promoting “Austrian economics” in the U.S. and in advising the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank."
Think tank. Agrāk likās ka tas ir kaut kas tāds nevainīgs, nekaitīgs - nu kā akvārijs ar zelta zivtiņām. Tagad "tank" parādās savā otrā nozīmē, ar stobru un kāpurķēdēm, kas sadragās jebkuru pretestību naudas varai.
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8 rakstair doma
- 2018.06.01, 20:44
- liekam M. gulēt.
- ar viltu un spaidiem esam meitiņu pievilinājuši uz guļamistabu. mēs esam viltīgi kā lapsas!
- es arī būšu lapsa! es esmu bērniņš lapsa. un mamma ir lapsene.
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0 rakstair doma
- 2018.05.11, 16:32
- M. tualetē spēcīgi pakakājusi. A. ienāk tualetē un uzreiz sāk raukt degunu.
- Fui, fui kā te tā smird...
- Tualete ir tualete, halo!
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1 rakstair doma
- 2018.05.01, 17:53
- Pie LateStageCapitalism jautājuma, man rodas tāda sajūta ka varētu dibināt partiju kuras vienīgais mērķis būtu ieviest Basic Income, bet tā bez diskusijām "kas par to samaksās", un "kā tas strādās", un tamlīdzīgas dancošanas riņķī un apkārt, bet vienkārši pasludināt par mērķi, un viss tur. Vispirms ieviest, un diskutēt var pēc tam. Partijas elektorāts: nabadzīgie, kas dzīvo par minimālo algu vai zem tās - kuriem ūdens jau smeļas mutē. Vienkārši apsolot ka būs nauda.
Pietiek jau dancot pēc kapitāla stabulītes. Darba nav. Nauda ir. Vajaga tikai likt lietā.
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52 rakstair doma
- 2018.05.01, 15:20
- Priekš manis "kritiskā masa" ir atgādinājums par to cik daudz vietas mums ir nolaupījuši auto pilsētās. Un ka ielām ir būtu jāpieder gājējiem un velobraucējiem, nevis automašīnām.
Priekš manis, CSN ir tikai tāda legāla fikcija kas paceļ auto vadītājus tādā virskungu kastā: viņi var noslepkavot cilvēku, un valsts to uzskatīs tikai par administratīvo pārkāpumu, nevis kriminālnoziegumu. Kad ceļu satiksmes noteikumus rakstīja, ar automašīnām eksperimentēja vietējie kungi - un ja tāds sabrauca kādu strādnieku, vai, tā taču bija gluži parasta lieta. Un tā arī likumus uzrakstīja: kas automašīnā sēd, ja gadās kādu pa zemi staigātāju nobraukt, nav sodāms. Jo viss esot pēc noteikumiem!
Bet pilsētās (un vispār, ārpus īpaši norobežotiem ātrgaitas lielceļiem) automašīnām nedrīkstētu būt nekādai priekšrokai. Piemēram, ja bērni spēlē uz ielas bumbu, tad automašīna drīkstētu pabraukt garām tikai tad, ja bērni paši viņai to atļauj: tas, ka vecāki māca bērnam, ka pēc bumbas skrienot vispirms ir jāpārliecinās vai kāds atsaldenis netriecas ar savu auto, jo citādi viņu sabrauks kā suni - ir vēsturisks kuriozs, absurds.
Pirmkārt, jebkuru satiksmes negadījumu kurā ir cietis cilvēks, ir jātiesā pēc tādiem pašiem krimināllikuma pantiem, kā ja miesas bojājumi būtu nodarīti, neiesaistot faktu ka kāds ir sēdējis auto. (Vai precīzāk: auto kā nozieguma ierocis, vainu pastiprinošs apstāklis.)
Otrkārt, ja cilvēks ir zaudējis dzīvību: tā ir slepkavība ar iepriekšēju nodomu - jo vainīgais, kurš nosēdās pie stūres, to nedarīja nejauši. Automašīna ir slepkavības ierocis, un atslēgas aizdedzē: iepriekšējs nodoms.
Treškārt, nevis gājējam (velobraucējam) šķērsojot ielu būtu jāklausās vai kāds ar auto nebrauc, bet tieši otrādi: auto vadītājam būtu lēnītēm jāpukšķina, acis un ausis vaļā - klausoties vai kaut kur spēlējas bērni, vai kaut kur brauc velosipēds. Jo auto vadītājs zina: ja sanāks kaut kādi sūdi, viņš iesēdīsies cietumā uz ilgu laiku.
Auto vadītājam (un pasažieriem) izkāpjot no automašīnas, pirms atvērt durvis - 3x pārliecināties ka nenodarīs kādam pāri (sk Dutch Reach): jo atceroties par pantu - tiesā tas nebūs "negadījums", bet gan tāds pats uzbrukums it kā ja tu ar dzelzs stieni rokā izietu uz ietves, un triektu pirmajam garāmgājējam pa galvu. Cilvēkam ar automašīnu būs tāda pati atbildība kā cilvēkam ar pielādētu ieroci.
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Auto vadītājiem būtu nemitīgi jātrīc bailēs par savu atbildību, nevis jāizturas kā ceļa karaļiem. Ceļa karaļi esam mēs - gājēji, riteņbraucēji. Un beigās - auto vadīšana būs jāuztic tikai datoriem, jo tie var noskanēt situāciju visapkārt auto, uzzināt kas priekšā sazinoties ar citiem auto, tie varēs paredzēt visu kustību apkārt sev, un acumirklī nobremzēt lai novērstu bīstamību.
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18 rakstair doma
- 2018.05.01, 09:40
- "Как-то включаю драму из жизни врачей. Врач, слушая сердце, потыкал куда ни попадя фонедоскопом, а потом отправил на ЭКГ. А там, когда я увидел, как электроды грудных отведений расположили невнятной кучкой на грудной клетке и даже на эпигастрии, а аVL, aVR и aVF и заземление вообще отсутствуют... Понятно, сказал я и выключил. Фильм для меня умер."
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0 rakstair doma
- 2018.04.29, 20:21
- "Lemn Sissay has spent the past two years seeking redress from Wigan council for his childhood in care. “I’ve heard some people have committed suicide going through the legal process and I can understand how it could happen. I didn’t know it would be so violently intrusive into who I am. [...] "
"Sissay has made several documentaries about the search for his family and his 25-year battle to get hold of his files from Wigan social services. He grew up in care even though his mother, a young upper-class Ethiopian who came to Britain to study, wrote letters begging the council to return her baby once she was better able to look after him. Her requests were ignored. Instead, he was renamed Norman by a social worker called Norman and permanently fostered by a local white family of devout Christians."
"When Sissay hit adolescence and became a bit rebellious (staying out late, eating cake when he was forbidden to do so), his foster parents told him he had the devil inside him, returned him to Wigan social services like he was an overdue library book and stopped all contact [...]. He was 12 years old."
"At 18, he left the care system, in shock, without a penny to his name or any qualifications. He would not be reunited with his birth mother until he was in his late 20s."
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0 rakstair doma
- 2018.04.22, 13:35
- "Proof [...] was provided in 2016, when a Berlin court ruled that the nightclub, Berghain, produces work of cultural significance and should be allowed to pay tax at the same rates as theatres and concert halls."
Ja tā padomā, kultūra priekš manis nav teātri, filharmonijas, opera vai balets. Priekš manis tie ir reivi, klubi, festivāli un rokkoncerti. Tikai tāpēc ka es palieku vecāks, es pēkšņi nesākšu mīlēt operu, vai arī iesvilšos vēlmē ģērbt stērķelētu kreklu un doties uz pirmizrādēm.
Ja nav mans, tad nav mans un nebūs taču arī! Ar šo es paredzu ka klubu kultūra, DJ, elektronika, viss kas ir mutuļojis kaut kur zem virsmas, ārpus oficiālā kanona, izlauzīsies uz āru arvien vairāk. Un viss kas ir bijusi oficiāli stutētā "kultūra", tipa nacionālais teātris, orķestri un visādi operdziedātāji - noies aizvien vairāk malā. Tāpēc ka viņi nevarēja uzrunāt "manu" paaudzi, tad mēs arī ļausim viņiem aiziet.
Viss kas bija mūsu īstā kultūra - tas ko mēs klausījāmies, apmeklējām, paši muzicējām (utt) kļūs par oficiālo versiju.
Piemēram: Makronam orķestris spēlē Daft Punk ; baznīca nozvana Avicii (lai vieglas smiltis)
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4 rakstair doma
- 2018.03.25, 11:37
- Kārtējais(ie) gadījums(i) UK, Herefordshire.
"A boy was kept in local authority care for nine years, the whole of his life, on a stopgap basis that should never have continued beyond a few months, a high court judge has revealed.
"[...] a damning family court judgment that accused Herefordshire county council of “dreadful failures” for keeping 14 children in care for “wholly inappropriate” periods of time without court approval."
Herefordshire bāriņtiesas nevis gudro kā palīdzēt ģimenēm, atkal apvienot bērnus ar vecākiem, bet gan shēmo kā bērnus paturēt savā audžuģimeņu(? vai bērnunamu?) sistēmā. (Līdz laikam jau pat 16 gadiem, bez permanency, tikai uz pagaidu nosacījumiem - beigu beigās lai bērnu, kas 16 gadus sasniedzis izmestu uz ielas, bez vecākiem, bez aizbildņiem, bez adopcijas, bez audžuvecākiem - acīmredzami.) No naudas aprites viedokļa: ir līdzekļi ko maksāt audžuģimeņu sistēmai, bet naudas ar ko palīdzēt bioloģiskajiem vecākiem - nav. Ja padome bērnu atdotu atpakaļ, tad sistēma zaudē naudu: un sistēma pret to [automātiski] cīnās. Naudai jāpaliek sistēmā: bērnu jāpatur sistēmā.
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0 rakstair doma
- 2018.03.25, 11:06
- Vakar pamanīju tādu "medical kidnapping" terminu, un pēc tam jau uzraku Guardian rakstu par to ka ir tāda "shaken baby syndrome" medicīniska teorija, kas varētu būt pat ļoti apšaubāma.
"Despite the certainty with which police, hospital staff and their local authority treated Effie’s parents, the science that underpins shaken baby syndrome is anything but sure. In fact, questions about whether the triad of symptoms found in Effie’s scans are caused by abuse or other innocent events have seen medics, scientists and the police go to war. [...]"
"On one side, there’s the view of the police, prosecutors and the medical establishment: when this triad of symptoms is found, it very strongly suggests shaking, even when other signs that a baby has been aggressively shaken, such as bruising, neck injuries or fractures, are absent."
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"Meanwhile, across the US and UK, alarm about hidden child abuse was rapidly accelerating. Everyone knew that child-abusing monsters looked like perfectly ordinary-looking mums and dads – and perfectly ordinary-looking mums and dads were everywhere. The 1980s saw the emergence of the “satanic panic”, in which parents and carers were imprisoned for bizarrely deviant crimes. Fran and Dan Keller of Austin, Texas, were falsely accused of forcing children at their daycare to drink blood-laced Kool-Aid and watch the chainsaw dismemberment and graveyard burial of a random passerby. Despite the hallucinogenic insanity of the charges, the Kellers spent 21 years in prison. (The couple were released in 2013 and fully exonerated in June this year.) The UK was not immune to such hysteria. In 1987, 121 youngsters in Cleveland were judged to have been abused, and removed from their homes, many on the basis of a test that judged levels of “anal dilation” that turned out to be associated with other factors such as severe constipation.
"By the late 1990s, public scepticism was growing. The accusations had become too wild, journalists were investigating and a number of prosecutions failed. But just as things were calming down, the public’s fascination was reignited by shaken baby syndrome. Attention turned from “satanic abuse” to the possibility that the babies of perfectly innocent-looking caregivers were being violently shaken."
"Norman Guthkelch, the British neurologist who’d first mooted the concept, became convinced that rampant injustices were taking place, and became a late-life campaigner against the “dogmatic thinking” of triad believers. It then emerged that John Caffey, who published his influential 1974 paper shortly after Guthkelch, had based his theory about “whiplash shaken infant syndrome” primarily on a Newsweek scare story about an evil nanny who had harmed 15 children and described aggressive winding and shaking in an interview."
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"When Craig Stillwell hired a solicitor who specialised in cases like his, she asked him: “Have you heard of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome?” [...] Carla paid £250 for blood tests. By Valentine’s Day 2017, all the results had come in. Both Carla and Effie had EDS. It made sense to Carla. “It answered so many questions I had about myself,” she says. Carla bruises easily and spectacularly."
"In April 2017, the family court took evidence from six expert witnesses, including haematologist Dr Russell Keenan, who testified that Effie’s condition could lead to spontaneous bleeding “with no trauma whatsoever”. The judge ruled that Effie’s collapse was “most likely the consequence of a naturally evolving disease”. She praised Craig and Carla’s “maturity and restraint” and acknowledged the “unimaginable horror” they had lived through. Effie is now back with her parents and thriving."
"But one expert witness was unmoved by Carla’s diagnosis: Stoodley. “He was horrible,” says Carla. “He was always saying all this negative stuff and making it seem like it was fact.”
"“He was all for saying it was shaken baby [syndrome],” Craig says.
"Stoodley remains convinced Craig and Carla’s baby was shaken."
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"Today, 16 years after Geddes published the paper that convinced Waney Squier she was wrong, and two decades after the awful drama of the Louise Woodward trial, the war continues. Prosecutors have silenced their most powerful courtroom enemies, and influential scientists continue to cast doubt on the science of the triad, while experts such as Colin Smith use compelling clinical evidence to convince judges and juries that the triad is, indeed, strong evidence of abuse."
"And for Stoodley, too, the facts are as certain as they have ever been. But, surprisingly for a man who has testified against hundreds of parents, he confesses to profound doubts about the justice of putting them in prison. [...]"
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(Biju jau manījis kā piemēram, gadījumu Surrey, kā Von Willebrand disease un vitamīna D trūkuma izraisīts bērna "infantile rickets" kurš slimnīcā tika iinterpretēts tikai par child abuse, beigās Karrissa Cox un Richard Carter jaundzimušo atņēma. Un nez kā iet tai audžuģimenei kas adoptēja bērniņu - vai šiem arī ir tā ka katru reizi pie ārsta ienākot jātrīc un jādreb, vai šos pašus par bērna sitējiem/kratītājiem nenosauks, un sāks krimināli vajāt.)
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0 rakstair doma
- 2018.03.10, 13:38
- būs laiki, kad iekšdedzes auto braukāšana pa pilsētu centriem liksies tāda pati ārprāta ideja, kā dzeramā ūdens padeve ar svina caurulēm, kā azbesta būvmateriāli, kā svina piedevas benzīnam savulaik, kā dzīvsudrabs (kā DDT, kā freons, kā neonikotinoidi)
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