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🤔 “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.”  -- Winston Churchill  
🤔 “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.”  -- Winston Churchill  


🤔 "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money, or their vast carelessness... and let other people clean up the mess."  -- Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby".   
🤔 "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money, or their vast carelessness... and let other people clean up the mess."  -- Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby".  - As quoted in a apologetic article of American Imperialism in October, 2001: The Politics of Rage: Why Do ? https://www.newsweek.com/politics-rage-why-do-they-hate-us-154345  
 
* My critique of this article in 2004: https://bailey83221.livejournal.com/716.html
- As quoted in a apologetic article of American Imperialism in October, 2001: The Politics of Rage: Why Do ?  
 
https://www.newsweek.com/politics-rage-why-do-they-hate-us-154345  
 
My critique of this article in 2004: https://bailey83221.livejournal.com/716.html


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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
<center>--Alexis de Tocqueville</center>
<center>-- France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville</center>




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'''FIRST QUOTE:''' journalist I. F. Stone once wrote, "The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it-to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it."<center>--Excerpt from the book: The Middle Mind Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White [http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/America/Middle_Mind.html http://www.thirdworldtraveler.<wbr></wbr>com/America/Middle_Mind.html]</center>
'''FIRST QUOTE:''' journalist I. F. Stone once wrote, "The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it-to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it."<center>--Excerpt from the book: The Middle Mind Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White [http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/America/Middle_Mind.html http://www.thirdworldtraveler.<wbr></wbr>com/America/Middle_Mind.html]</center>


'''SECOND QUOUTE:''' Los Angeles Times:[http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0125-27.htm The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees] "...The reverberations from what happened on this spot, on the late afternoon of May 22, 1787, eventually caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including the first and greatest student of what today we call civil society. The result of the series of events begun that afternoon in London, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville decades later, was "absolutely without precedent…. If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary." The building that once stood at 2 George Yard was a bookstore and printing shop. The proprietor was James Phillips, publisher and printer for Britain's small community of Quakers. On that May afternoon, after the pressmen and typesetters had gone home for the day, 12 men filed through his doors. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth."
'''SECOND QUOUTE:''' "...The reverberations from what happened on this spot, on the late afternoon of May 22, 1787, eventually caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including the first and greatest student of what today we call civil society. The result of the series of events begun that afternoon in London, wrote France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville decades later, was "absolutely without precedent…. If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary." The building that once stood at 2 George Yard was a bookstore and printing shop. The proprietor was James Phillips, publisher and printer for Britain's small community of Quakers. On that May afternoon, after the pressmen and typesetters had gone home for the day, 12 men filed through his doors. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth." -- Los Angeles Times: [http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0125-27.htm The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees]


'''THIRD QUOTE: '''Zinn recently said: "My hope is that whatever you do to make a good life for yourself -- whether you become a teacher, or social worker, or business person, or lawyer, or poet, or scientist -- you will devote part of your life to making this a better world for your children, for all children. My hope is that your generation will demand an end to war, that your generation will do something that has not yet been done in history and wipe out the national boundaries that separate us from other human beings on this earth."<center>--From [http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0524-31.htm Against Discouragement]</center>'''FOURTH QUOTE: '''The struggle for justice should never be abandoned on the ground that it is hopeless, because of the apparent overwhelming power of those in the world who have the guns and the money and who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to their power. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, and patience—whether by blacks in Alabama and South Africa; peasants in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Vietnam; or workers and intellectuals in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. No cold calculation of the balance of power should deter people who are persuaded that their cause is just.<center>--From [http://sunrisedancer.com/radicalreader/library/declarationsofindependence/declarationsofindependence11.asp Declarations of Independence] Chapter 11: The Ultimate Power page 279</center>'''FIFTH QUOTE: '''“As [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618104690/qid==1124175094/sr==8-1/ref==pd_bbs_1/002-7300151-1151205?v==glance&s==books&n==507846 Adam Hochschild] points out, from the time the English Quakers first took on the issue of slavery, three quarters of a century passed before it was abolished it in Europe and America. Few if any working on the issue at the beginning lived to see its conclusion, when what had once seemed impossible suddenly began to look, in retrospect, inevitable.” “The African writer Laurens Van Der Post once said that no great new leaders were emerging because it was time for us to cease to be followers.”<center>--From the Excellent Article: TomDispatch:[http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid==677 Rebecca Solnit on hope in dark times]</center>
'''THIRD QUOTE: '''Zinn recently said: "My hope is that whatever you do to make a good life for yourself -- whether you become a teacher, or social worker, or business person, or lawyer, or poet, or scientist -- you will devote part of your life to making this a better world for your children, for all children. My hope is that your generation will demand an end to war, that your generation will do something that has not yet been done in history and wipe out the national boundaries that separate us from other human beings on this earth."<center>--From [http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0524-31.htm Against Discouragement]</center>'''FOURTH QUOTE: '''The struggle for justice should never be abandoned on the ground that it is hopeless, because of the apparent overwhelming power of those in the world who have the guns and the money and who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to their power. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, and patience—whether by blacks in Alabama and South Africa; peasants in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Vietnam; or workers and intellectuals in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. No cold calculation of the balance of power should deter people who are persuaded that their cause is just.<center>--From [http://sunrisedancer.com/radicalreader/library/declarationsofindependence/declarationsofindependence11.asp Declarations of Independence] Chapter 11: The Ultimate Power page 279</center>'''FIFTH QUOTE: '''“As [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618104690/qid==1124175094/sr==8-1/ref==pd_bbs_1/002-7300151-1151205?v==glance&s==books&n==507846 Adam Hochschild] points out, from the time the English Quakers first took on the issue of slavery, three quarters of a century passed before it was abolished it in Europe and America. Few if any working on the issue at the beginning lived to see its conclusion, when what had once seemed impossible suddenly began to look, in retrospect, inevitable.” “The African writer Laurens Van Der Post once said that no great new leaders were emerging because it was time for us to cease to be followers.”<center>--From the Excellent Article: TomDispatch:[http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid==677 Rebecca Solnit on hope in dark times]</center>
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'''Another quote:''' “a number of famous mainland Chinese dissidents find themselves in the paradoxical position of a backyard bush that blooms on the neighbour’s side of the wall: enjoying great international fame but not recognised by the general public in their own country, known only within a small circle of people”.[http://www.economist.com/blogs/asiaview/2010/10/nobel_peace_prize [2]]
'''Another quote:''' “a number of famous mainland Chinese dissidents find themselves in the paradoxical position of a backyard bush that blooms on the neighbour’s side of the wall: enjoying great international fame but not recognised by the general public in their own country, known only within a small circle of people”.[http://www.economist.com/blogs/asiaview/2010/10/nobel_peace_prize [2]]


==== Alexis de Tocqueville ====
==== France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville ====


Also see: [http://www.dead-rising-wiki.com/wiki/Tocqueville Tocqueville]
Also see: [http://www.dead-rising-wiki.com/wiki/Tocqueville Tocqueville]


'''I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. '''The Americans, in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise...They unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their entreaties they fall to praising themselves. It would seem as if, doubting their own merit, they wished to have it constantly exhibited before their eyes. It seems, at first sight, as if all the minds of the Americans were formed upon one model, so accurately do they correspond in their manner of judging. A stranger does, indeed, sometimes meet with Americans who dissent from these rigorous formularies; with men who deplore the defects of the laws, the mutability and the ignorance of democracy; who even go so far as to observe the evil tendencies which impair the national character, and to point out such remedies as it might be possible to apply; but no one is there to hear these things besides yourself, and you, to whom these secret reflections are confided, are a stranger and a bird of passage. They are very ready to communicate truths which are useless to you, but they continue to hold a different language in public. In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting... As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
'''I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. '''The Americans, in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest disapproval (censure) and impossible to satisfy hunger for praise (insatiable) ...They unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their humble request (entreaties) they fall to praising themselves. It would seem as if, doubting their own merit, they wished to have it constantly exhibited before their eyes.  
 
It seems, at first sight, as if all the minds of the Americans were formed upon one model, so accurately do they correspond in their manner of judging.  
 
A stranger does, indeed, sometimes meet with Americans who dissent from these rigid beliefs (rigorous formularies); with men who deplore the defects of the laws, the ability to change (mutability) and the ignorance of democracy; who even go so far as to observe the evil tendencies which impair the national character, and to point out such remedies as it might be possible to apply. 
 
But no one is there to hear these things besides yourself, and you, to whom these secret reflections are confided, are a stranger and a bird of passage. Americans are very ready to communicate truths which are useless to you, but they continue to hold a different language in public. In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.  
 
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Americans are so filled with love for (enamored) with equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.  
 
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting...  
 
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: How much money will it bring in?
<center> -- Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America. 1835.</center>


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[[Alexis de Tocqueville|Biography]] of Alexis de Tocqueville Download Tocqueville's three books for free: [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/815 Democracy in America — Volume 1] [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/816 Democracy in America — Volume 2][http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8690 American Institutions and Their Influence]
[[Alexis de Tocqueville|Biography]] of France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville Download Tocqueville's three books for free: [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/815 Democracy in America — Volume 1] [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/816 Democracy in America — Volume 2][http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8690 American Institutions and Their Influence]


====  Albert Einstein ====
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<center>--Albert Einstein [http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0806-01.htm Hiroshima: A Mistake and A Crime]</center>
<center>--Albert Einstein [http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0806-01.htm Hiroshima: A Mistake and A Crime]</center>


====Zinn====
====Howard Zinn====


Zinn quotes Kissinger in his first chapter, on page 9: ""History is the memory of states," wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored, in which he proceeded to tell the history of nineteenth-century Europe from the viewpoint of the leaders of Austria and England, ignoring the millions who suffered from those statesmen's policies. From his standpoint, the "peace" that Europe had before the French Revolution was "restored" by the diplomacy of a few national leaders. But for factory workers in England, farmers in France, colored people in Asia and Africa, women and children everywhere, except in the upper classes, it was a world of conquest, violence, hunger, exploitation -- a world not restored but disintegrated."
Zinn quotes Kissinger in his first chapter, on page 9: ""History is the memory of states," wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored, in which he proceeded to tell the history of nineteenth-century Europe from the viewpoint of the leaders of Austria and England, ignoring the millions who suffered from those statesmen's policies. From his standpoint, the "peace" that Europe had before the French Revolution was "restored" by the diplomacy of a few national leaders. But for factory workers in England, farmers in France, colored people in Asia and Africa, women and children everywhere, except in the upper classes, it was a world of conquest, violence, hunger, exploitation -- a world not restored but disintegrated."
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https://quaker.org/legacy/co/Writings/JustAndUnjustWar.htm


====  Chomsky ====
:''As one of Zinn's book titles states: "You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train"


"Cuba has probably been the target of more international terrorism than the rest of the world combined and, therefore, in the American ideological system it is regarded as the source of international terrorism, exactly as Orwell would have predicted."
Howard Zinn is an author best known for the book, "A People's History of the United States".  


<center>---Source: Talk titled "American Foreign Policy" Naom Chomsky at Harvard University ([http://www.chomsky.info/talks/19850319.htm http://www.chomsky.info/talks<wbr></wbr>/19850319.htm]), March 19, 1985</center>
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In World War 2, a passing conversation with an warplane gunner changed Howard Zinn's life forever. Zinn argued that America was not imperialist and went away troubled with what this stranger said. Two weeks later this warplane gunner was shot down and killed. Decades later Zinn became an anti-war activist and author of the seminal "A People's History of the United States" This bombardier never truly knew the last legacy of love and peace he created in this world.


"No less insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. '''If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism.''' We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression."
Just and Unjust War excerpt:


<center>--Source: American Power and the New Mandarins, 1969 Naom Chomsky</center><blockquote>Wikiquote on Chomsky [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N<wbr></wbr>oam_Chomsky] Wikipedia on Chomsky [[noam Chomsky|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N<wbr></wbr>oam_Chomsky]]</blockquote>
[Zinn] flew the last bombing missions of the war, got my Air Medal and my battle stars. I was quietly proud of my participation in the great war to defeat fascism. But when I packed up my things at the end of the war and put my old navigation logs and snapshots and other mementos in a folder, I marked that folder, almost without thinking, "Never Again."


====20th century bogymen====
I'm still not sure why I did that, because it was not until years later that I began consciously to question the motives, the conduct, and the consequences of that crusade against fascism. The point was not that my abhorrence of fascism was in any way diminished. I still believed something had to be done to stop fascism. But that clear certainty of moral rightness that propelled me into the Air Force as an enthusiastic bombardier was now clouded over by many thoughts.


"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."---Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Fascist Dictator of Italy
Perhaps my conversations with that gunner on the other crew, the one who loaned me The Yogi and the Commisar, gave me the first flickers of doubt. He spoke of the war as "an imperialist war," fought on both sides for national power. Britain and the United States opposed fascism only because it threatened their own control over resources and people. Yes, Hitler was a maniacal dictator and invader of other countries. But what of the British Empire and its long history of wars against native peoples to subdue them for the profit and glory of the empire? And the Soviet Union--was it not also a brutal dictatorship, concerned not with the working classes of the world but with its own national power?


"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
I was puzzled. "Why," I asked my friend, "are you flying missions, risking your life, in a war you don't believe in?" His answer astonished me. "I'm here to speak to people like you."
 
I found out later he was a member of the Socialist Workers party; they opposed the war but believed that instead of evading military service they should enter it and propagandize against the war every moment they could. I couldn't understand this, but I was impressed by it. Two weeks after that conversation with him, he was killed on a mission over Germany.    https://quaker.org/legacy/co/Writings
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====  Chomsky ====
 
"Cuba has probably been the target of more international terrorism than the rest of the world combined and, therefore, in the American ideological system it is regarded as the source of international terrorism, exactly as Orwell would have predicted."
 
<center>---Source: Talk titled "American Foreign Policy" Naom Chomsky at Harvard University ([http://www.chomsky.info/talks/19850319.htm http://www.chomsky.info/talks<wbr></wbr>/19850319.htm]), March 19, 1985</center>
 
"No less insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. '''If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism.''' We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression."
 
<center>--Source: American Power and the New Mandarins, 1969 Naom Chomsky</center><blockquote>Wikiquote on Chomsky [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N<wbr></wbr>oam_Chomsky] Wikipedia on Chomsky [[noam Chomsky|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N<wbr></wbr>oam_Chomsky]]</blockquote>
 
====20th century bogymen====
 
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."---Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Fascist Dictator of Italy
 
"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."


<center>--Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II</center>
<center>--Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II</center>
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<blockquote>--[http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/07/nominee-john-g-roberts-r-corporate.html Sirotablog]</blockquote>
<blockquote>--[http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/07/nominee-john-g-roberts-r-corporate.html Sirotablog]</blockquote>


The media do not necessarily tell your what to think, but they tell you what to think about, and how to think about it.
The media do not necessarily tell your what to think, but they tell you what to think about, and how to think about it. --The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism Robert McChesney http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/34586.html  
 
<blockquote>--[http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/34586.html The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism] Robert McChesney</blockquote>


It is often noted that democracy requires journalism; what is less frequently emphasized is that journalism requires democracy. Unless there is strong political culture there will be little demand for excellent journalism.
It is often noted that democracy requires journalism; what is less frequently emphasized is that journalism requires democracy. Unless there is strong political culture there will be little demand for excellent journalism.
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==== How America silents dissent ====
==== How America silents dissent ====
''No man can struggle with advantage against the spirit of his age and country, and however powerful a man may be, it is hard for him to make his contemporaries share feelings and ideas which run counter to the general run of their hopes and desires.''
''No man can struggle with advantage against the spirit of his age and country, and however powerful a man may be, it is hard for him to make his contemporaries share feelings and ideas which run counter to the general run of their hopes and desires.''
:<center>--Alexis de Tocqueville</center>
:<center>--France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville</center>


"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."  --Mark Twain  
"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."  --Mark Twain  
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'''Steal this Book''' is a book written by Abbie Hoffman in 1970. It explains how to fight the government through illegal activities.  I have strongly considered updating the book with only legal activities to subvert the federal government.
'''Steal this Book''' is a book written by Abbie Hoffman in 1970. It explains how to fight the government through illegal activities.  I have strongly considered updating the book with only legal activities to subvert the federal government.
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= Peace is possible =
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'''''TONIGHT''' I will be Talking about a journey.  The journey we all take together, as a species.  How we, as a human race, can literally change the world.''
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On May 22, 1787 twelve men met to abolish the slave trade worldwide. In one short generation the British Empire abolished slavery, paving the way for worldwide abolishment of slavery.
A world without war '''is''' possible.
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==The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade==
In 1787, approximately three quarters of the people on Earth lived under some form of enslavement, serfdom, debt bondage or indentured servitude.  There were no slaves in Britain itself, but the vast majority of its people accepted slavery in the British West Indies as perfectly normal.
The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade was a British abolitionist group, formed on 22 May 1787, by twelve men who gathered together at a printing shop in London, England.  Within their lifetimes they saw slavery be abolished in Britain. (NOTE:  The Society achieved abolition of the international slave trade in 1807, enforced by the British Navy. The United States also prohibited the African slave trade that year, to take effect in 1808. Within their lifetimes these twelve men abolished slavery.
It later was superseded by development of the Anti-Slavery Society in 1823, which worked to abolish the institution of slavery throughout the British colonies.  Abolition was passed by parliament in 1833 with emancipation completed by 1838.
1833-1787 = 46 years)
; A Call to Action
''This effort can be repeated today with American Foreign Policy. This can be done by actively positively encouraging our leaders to instead invest the money into our communities. Start with your congressional district today. Ask your leader to support peace, and tell them if they continue to vote for war you will reluctantly start a guerrilla marking campaign to alert the public that this congressman is someone who does not support bringing our war dollars home to your community.''
==The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees==
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The reverberations from what happened on this spot, on the late afternoon of May 22, 1787, eventually caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including the first and greatest student of what today we call civil society. The result of the series of events begun that afternoon in London, wrote France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville decades later, was "absolutely without precedent...If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary."
The building that once stood at 2 George Yard was a bookstore and printing shop. The proprietor was James Phillips, publisher and printer for Britain's small community of Quakers. On that May afternoon, after the pressmen and typesetters had gone home for the day, 12 men filed through his doors. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth." (NOTE: Hochschild, Adam. (January 25, 2005) The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees Retrieved from:  http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/25/opinion/oe-hochschild25 )
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<u>Internationally, the United States is the most violent country in the world.</u>
My career ambitions are two pronged in 2020. First, I either will work for a Russian think tank such as the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) in consulting or writing policy papers on how Russia can subvert the United States economically. Alternatively we will create our own state-sanctioned Russian think tank to abolish copyright in Russia among other activities. 
I anchor much of what I seek to accomplish in the inspiring turn of events of May 1787, in which only twelve London men formed the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and abolished slavery in the British Empire worldwide within one generation. As the late anthropologist Margaret Mead states, ''Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has''. Today, war can be abolished the same way that slavery was two hundred years ago. 
This firm belief in peace is based on a long history of living abroad. I was living in Odessa, Ukraine in the Peace Corps when the terrorists hit the World Trade Center. I had an Arab friend from Dubai who was the kindest, most honorable, most incredible man I have ever met in my entire life.  A couple of days after 9/11, I was walking on the warm promenade of the port city of Odessa with Jaz.  In a low tone that was so foreign, he said, "If they [Americans] come to my country, I will kill them". I was shocked, how could the gentlest man I ever met hate America so much?   
That question haunted me even after I returned to America.  After the Peace Corps, I earned a Juris Doctorate concurrent with a Masters in International Relations. In law school I wrote what would later become my second published book "<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Other-War-Terrorizing-Colombia/dp/3659929875 America’s Other War, Terrorizing Colombia]" which was published in 2017.  To answer why my gentle Arab friend hated America,  I wrote a SPSS white paper called, “[http://moscowamerican.com/index.php/Origins_of_Anti-Americanism_A_Framework_for_Analysis Why do They Hate Us? Origins of Anti-Americanism A Framework for Analysis]”.</span>
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===Helping support the Guatemala syphilis experiment lawsuit===
I passed the D.C. law bar in 2009 and started my legal career with the US Federal Government in DC.  The breaking point with this job was I was working with another attorney to defend the government in the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiments#Lawsuits Guatemala syphilis experiment case]</span>,  a case in which United States government doctors intentionally and covertly infected Guatemalans with syphilis.  I quit shortly afterward in disgust. 
After years of research and writing, I decided the only way to influence American foreign policy was outside of the United States. I moved back to Moscow in September 2018. 
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== Further Information ==
;Britain's legacy of slavery
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== Nonprofit ==
==Vision==
'''Motto:''' "A Peaceful World is Possible" (Note: <!--
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[https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/structure/strategic-planning/vision-mission-statements/main Section 2. Proclaiming Your Dream: Developing Vision and Mission Statements]<br><br>Your vision is your dream. It's what your organization believes are the ideal conditions for your community; that is, how things would look if the issue important to you were completely, perfectly addressed. It might be a '''world without war'''... ''(emphasis my own)'' )
'''Alternative:''' "Invest in America First"
==Mission==
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To create a peaceful world by pressuring local United States representatives in Congress to vote for peace or lose  in the next election. 
(Note: [https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/structure/strategic-planning/vision-mission-statements/main Section 2. Proclaiming Your Dream: Developing Vision and Mission Statements]<br><br>Mission statements are similar to vision statements, in that they, too, look at the big picture. However, they're more concrete, and they are definitely more "action-oriented" than vision statements. Your vision statement should inspire people to dream; your mission statement should inspire them to action.<br><br>The mission statement might refer to a problem, such as an inadequate housing, or a goal, such as providing access to health care for everyone. And, while they don 't go into a lot of detail, they start to hint - very broadly - at how your organization might fix these problems or reach these goals. )
==Objectives==
Internationally, the United States is the most violent country in the world. 
The goal of May 1787 Political Action Committee is to change American foreign policy for the purpose of:
*  Investing more money domestically instead of internationally. 
*  [Stop terrorism blowback]
Our goal is to put extreme pressure on targeted Congressmen to vote for Peace or lose in their next election. Using the National Rifle Association as a guide, we will support pro-peace candidates, '''regardless of their party affiliation'''.
==Strategies==
==Action Plans==
==Quotes==
* Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame. — Amnesty International. 1996.
* ... A "conservative estimate is (that the United States has killed) at least 6 million civilians and soldiers (since the end of World War 2)." — [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-we-ignore-the-civilians-killed-in-american-wars/2011/12/05/gIQALCO4eP_story.html The Washington Post].
==Gallery==
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===Powerpoint presentation===
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! Congressional Military-Industrial Complex
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! The Six organizations which support the status quo of war.
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! Military
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! Corporations
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! Education
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! Foreign Governments
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! The government is the most influenced by grassroots organizations.
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===Logos===
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==See also==
* [[Peace: Resume for Amnesty International]]
== External links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Effecting_the_Abolition_of_the_Slave_Trade  Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade] The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and sometimes referred to as the Abolition Society or Anti-Slavery Society, was a British abolitionist group formed on 22 May 1787.
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The '''Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade''', also known as the '''Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade''', and sometimes referred to as the '''Abolition Society''' or '''Anti-Slavery Society,''' was a [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|British abolitionist]] group formed on 22 May 1787.  Slavery was abolished in all Britain colonies in 1833 as a result.
Historians posit that this anti-slavery movement is the first peaceful social movement which all modern social movements are built upon.
The society was established by twelve men; including prominent campaigners [[Thomas Clarkson]] and [[Granville Sharp]], who, as [[Anglican]]s, were able to be more influential in [[Parliament of Great Britain|Parliament]] than the more numerous [[Quaker]] founding members. The society worked to educate the public about the abuses of the [[slave]] trade, and achieved abolition of the [[international slave trade]]  when the [[British Parliament]] passed the [[Slave Trade Act 1807]], at which time the society ceased its activities. (The United States also prohibited the [[African slave trade]] the same year, to take effect in 1808.)
In 1823 the [[Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions]] (also known as the Anti-Slavery Society) was founded, which worked to abolish the institution of slavery throughout the British colonies. Abolition was passed by parliament in 1833 (except in India, where it was [[slavery in India|part of the indigenous culture]]); with emancipation completed by 1838.
== Historical background  ==
{{Slavery}}
[[1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery|The first anti-slavery statement]] was written by Dutch and German [[Quakers]], who met at [[Colonial Germantown Historic District|Germantown]], [[Pennsylvania]] in 1688. English [[Quaker]]s began to express their official disapproval of the [[slave trade]] in 1727 and promote reforms. From the 1750s, a number of Quakers in Britain's [[Thirteen Colonies|American colonies]] also began to oppose slavery, and called on English Quakers to take action with parliament. They encouraged their fellow citizens, including Quaker slave owners, to improve conditions for slaves, educate their slaves in [[Christianity]], reading and writing, and gradually emancipate (free) them.{{cn|date=December 2020}}
An informal group of six Quakers pioneered the British abolitionist movement in 1783 when the London [[Religious Society of Friends|Society of Friends']] yearly meeting presented its petition against the [[Atlantic slave trade|slave trade]] to [[British parliament|Parliament]], signed by over 300 Quakers. They were also influenced by publicity that year about the [[Zong massacre]], as the shipowners were litigating a claim for insurance against losses due to more than 132 slaves having been killed on their ship.{{cn|date=December 2020}}
== Foundation ==
"In 1787, approximately three quarters of the people on Earth lived under some form of enslavement, serfdom, debt bondage or indentured servitude. There were no slaves in Britain itself, but the vast majority of its people accepted slavery in the British West Indies as perfectly normal."
(Note: Adam Hochschild. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/abolitionists_gallery.shtml The Unsung Heroes of Abolition]. )
The Quakers decided to form a small, committed, non-denominational group so as to gain greater [[Church of England]] and Parliamentary support. The new, non-denominational committee formed in 1787 had nine [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]] members and three [[Anglicanism|Anglicans]]. As Quakers were not prepared to receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of England, they were [[Test Act|not permitted]] to serve as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Members of Parliament]], having Anglican members strengthened the committee's likelihood of influencing Parliament.
(Note: hoi  The new society was named the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, later often referred to simply as  the Abolition Society.
(Note: mylearning Source: title=The Abolition Movement  | website=MyLearning | url=https://www.mylearning.org/stories/william-wilberforce/174 | access-date=20 December 2020}} )
{{quote|The reverberations from what happened on this spot, on the late afternoon of 22 May 1787, eventually caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including the first and greatest student of what today we call civil society. The result of the series of events begun that afternoon in London, wrote French political philosopher France. Frenchman [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] decades later, was "absolutely without precedent...If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary".
The building that once stood at 2 George Yard was a bookstore and printing shop. The proprietor was [[James Phillips (abolitionist)|James Phillips]], publisher and printer for Britain's small community of [[Quakers]]. On that May afternoon, after the pressmen and typesetters had gone home for the day, 12 men filed through his doors. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth." -- [[Los Angeles Times]]:The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees.
(Note: "Hochschild 2005"  last=Hochschild | first=Adam | title=The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees | website=Los Angeles Times | date=2005-01-25 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jan-25-oe-hochschild25-story.html | access-date=2020-12-20}} ) )
=== Membership ===
Nine of the twelve founding members of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, or The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, were Quakers:
(Note: hoi Source:  title=Foundation of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade| website=History of Information | url=https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3700  | access-date=20 December 2020}} )
# [[John Barton (quaker)|John Barton]] (1755–1789);
# [[William Dillwyn]] (1743–1824);
# [[George Harrison (Quaker) | George Harrison ]] (1747–1827);
# [[Samuel Hoare Jr]] (1751–1825);
# [[Joseph Hooper]] (1732–1789);
# [[John Lloyd]];
# [[Joseph Woods (abolitionist)|Joseph Woods]] Sr (1738–1812);
# [[James Phillips (Quaker)| James Phillips]] (1745–1799); and
# [[Richard Phillips (Quaker)| Richard Phillips]].
(Note:  Source:  author=Leo D'Anjou |title=Social Movements and Cultural Change: The First Abolition Campaign |year=1996 |publisher=Aldine de Gruyter |isbn= 978-0-202-30522-6 |page=198}} )
Five of the Quakers had been amongst the informal group of six Quakers who had pioneered the movement in 1783, when the first petition against the slave trade was presented to Parliament.
Three Anglicans were founding members:
# [[Thomas Clarkson]], campaigner and author of an influential essay against the slave trade;
# [[Granville Sharp]] (Lawyer - had long been involved in the support and prosecution of cases on behalf of [[slaves|enslaved Africans]]); and
# [[Philip Sansom]].
(Note:  anjou )
==Mission and activities==
[[File:Official medallion of the British Anti-Slavery Society (1795).jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Am I Not a Man and a Brother?|"Am I Not A Man And A Brother?"]] medallion created as part of anti-slavery campaign by [[Josiah Wedgwood]], 1787]]
The society did not aim at ending slavery altogether, but only to abolish British involvement in the [[international slave trade]]. They would do this by awareness-raising campaigns highlighting some of the cruel practices involved in the trade.(Note: mylearning )
The mission of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was to inform the public of the inhuman and immoral treatment of [[slaves|enslaved Africans]] committed in the name of slavery, to campaign in favour of a new law to abolish the [[slave trade]] and enforce this throughout the [[British Empire]]. The society's methods for pursuing its goals included writing and publishing anti-slavery books, abolitionist prints, [[posters]] and [[pamphlets]], and organising [[public lecture|lecture tours]] in the towns and cities of England. Clarkson's ''Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade'', published in 1788, was one of the first books of the subject. (Note: hoi )
Petitions were presented to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] (over 100 in 1788)
(Note:  odnb anti-slavery [[demonstration (people)|rallies]] held, and a range of anti-slavery [[medallions]], crockery and bronze figurines were made, notably with the support of the Unitarian potter [[Josiah Wedgwood]] whose production of pottery [[medallion]]s featuring a slave in chains with the simple but effective question: "Am I not a man and a brother?" was very effective in bringing public attention to abolition. )
(Note: url=http://www.thepotteries.org/did_you/005.htm|title= Did you know? - Josiah Wedgwood was a keen advocate of the slavery abolition movement|website=thepotteries.org| access-date=20 December 2020}} )
(Note: The Wedgwood medallion was the most famous image of a black person in all of 18th-century art. )
(Note:  Source: title      = British History - Abolition of the Slave Trade 1807| url        = http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/africans_in_art_gallery_02.shtml| publisher  = [[BBC]]
| access-date  = 2009-04-11| quote      = The Wedgwood medallion was the most famous image of a black person in all of 18th-century art.}} )
Clarkson wrote; "ladies wore them in bracelets, and others had them fitted up in an ornamental manner as pins for their hair. At length the taste for wearing them became general, and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for once in the honourable office of promoting the cause of justice, humanity and freedom".
(Note:  Source:  title      = Wedgwood |url        = http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REwedgwood.htm |access-date  = 2009-07-13 |quote      = Thomas Clarkson wrote; ladies wore them in bracelets, and others had them fitted up in an ornamental manner as pins for their hair. At length the taste for wearing them became general, and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for once in the honourable office of promoting the cause of justice, humanity and freedom. |url-status    = dead |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090708094050/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REwedgwood.htm |archive-date = 8 July 2009}} )
By educating the public, the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade gained many members. In 1787, Clarkson's speaking tour of the great ports and cities of England raised public interest. Publication of the African [[Olaudah Equiano]]'s [[autobiography]] heightened public awareness, as the former slave expressed an unanswerable case against slavery in a work of literary merit. In 1789 Clarkson's promoted the committee's cause by encouraging the sale of Equiano's memoir and inviting the former slave to lecture in British ports linked to the slave trade.
[[William Wilberforce]] introduced the first Bill to abolish the slave trade in 1791, which was defeated by 163 votes to 88.
(Note: hoi As Wilberforce continued to bring the issue of the slave trade before Parliament, Clarkson and others on the Committee travelled, raised funds, lobbied, and wrote anti-slavery works. They conducted a protracted parliamentary campaign, during which Wilberforce introduced a motion in favour of abolition almost every year.
==Membership==
The committee was later joined by the Quaker philanthropist [[William Allen (English Quaker)|William Allen]], who worked closely with Wilberforce and with his fellow Quaker members,{{cn|date=December 2020}} and Wilberforce's fellow members of the [[Clapham Sect]] were subscribers to the society as well
(Note:  Source: title=The role of the Clapham Sect in the fight for the abolition of slavery | website=Art UK | date=10 August 2020 | url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-role-of-the-clapham-sect-in-the-fight-for-the-abolition-of-slavery# | access-date=20 December 2020}} )
===Female membership===
According to Claire Midgley (2004), the proportion of female subscribers to the society was typical of philanthropic societies of the time. Across the whole society, female subscribers comprised about 10 per cent of the membership, while in some centres, notable [[Manchester]] (with 68 women, or nearly a quarter of the total), the percentage was higher. Some of the most identifiable women were members of leading Quaker families, such as the wife of William Dillwyn, Sarah; others were members of the [[Clapham Sect]] and also members of the [[African Institution]], and others were members of wealthy [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] families in Manchester.
(Note: midgley Source: last=Midgley | first=Claire | title=Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 | publisher=[[Routledge]], [[Taylor & Francis]] | year=2004 | isbn=978-1-134-79880-3 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hgaFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 | access-date=7 January 2021 | page=20|chapter=2. Participants from the first}} ) )
By 1788 there were 206 female subscribers.
(Note:  Source: title=Women & Women's Groups: The Abolition of Slavery Project | website=The Abolition of Slavery Project | url=http://abolition.e2bn.org/people_38.html | access-date=7 January 2021}} )
One prominent female subscriber was writer and polymath [[Elizabeth Carter]].
(Note:  odnb  Source: url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-92867|title=Society for the Purpose of Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade|first=G.M.|last=Ditchfield|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/92867|date=24 May 2007}} ) )
==Related societies==
Several members of the society also subscribed to the [[African Institution]] (founded 1807 to create a viable, civilised refuge for freed slaves in [[Sierra Leone]]
(Note: Source: last=African Institution (London | first=England) | title=Report of the Committee of the African Institution | publisher=Ellerton and Henderson | issue=v. 2 | year=1812 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaARAAAAIAAJ | access-date=7 January 2021 | page=}} ).
(Note:  odnb  The [[Sons of Africa]] abolitionist society had a membership of educated Londoners, mostly African former slaves. It was closely connected to the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.{{cn|date=January 2021}} )
Petitioning peaked in 1792, with up to 100,000 signatures (Manchester alone contributing 10,639), regional anti-slavery groups started taking the lead, especially in the [[north of England]]. (Note: odnb )
Women had increasingly played a larger role in the anti-slavery movement
(Note: Source: last1=Sussman| first1=Charlotte| title=Consuming Anxieties. Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833| year=2000|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford}} ) but could not take a direct role in [[British Parliament|Parliament]]. They sometimes formed their own anti-slavery societies. Many women were horrified that, under slavery, women and children were taken away from their families. In 1824, [[Elizabeth Heyrick]] published a pamphlet titled ''Immediate not Gradual Abolition'', in which she urged the immediate emancipation of slaves in the British colonies.{{cn|date=December 2020}}
Despite the little influence they carried, many female abolitionists made a big impact on the abolition of the slave trade. An important campaigner was [[Anne Knight]]. She was born into a Quaker family in Essex and took active roles in the anti-slavery campaigns. Knight formed the Chelmsford Female Anti-Slavery Society. She also toured France, giving lectures on the immorality of slavery.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}
The [[Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves]] was founded in [[Birmingham]], England, on 8 April 1825.
(Note: Source: last=Simkin | first=John | title=Women and the Anti-Slavery Movement | website=Spartacus Educational | url=https://spartacus-educational.com/REslaveryW.htm | access-date=7 January 2021}} )
(Note: Source: ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-96359|title=Anti-Slavery Society|first=Catherine|last=Hall| year=2008| doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/96359|access-date=7 January 2021}} )
==1807 abolition==
In 1807, the British [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] voted to abolish the international slave trade under the [[Abolition of the Slave Trade Act]],  (Note:  mylearning  and enforce this through its maritime power, the [[Royal Navy]] ).
(Note:  Source: last1=Hochschild |first1=Adam|author-link=Adam Hochschild |title= [[Bury the Chains|Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves]]|publisher=Pan Books |place=London |year=2005}} )
The society wound up its work after the Act was passed. (Note: hoi )
The United States also prohibited the African slave trade in the same year, to take effect on 1 January 1808.
(Note:  Source: first=Eric |last=Foner|interviewer-first = Michel|interviewer-last =Martin|title=End of Slave Trade Meant New Normal for America | website=NPR.org | date=10 January 2008 | url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17988106 | access-date=26 July 2021}} )
In 1808 a separate Act was passed in the UK to give greater British protection to [[Freetown]] in West Africa (now capital of [[Sierra Leone]]), a colony established in 1788 for the resettlement of former slaves and Poor Blacks from London, as well as [[Black Loyalists]] who had initially been relocated to Nova Scotia following the [[American Revolutionary War]]. The Timni chief Nembana sold a strip of land to British official to establish this colony for freed slaves. When the Royal Navy later intercepted illegal slave trading ships, its crews frequently resettled the liberated Africans at Freetown.{{cn|date=December 2020}}
==New society==
{{main|Anti-Slavery Society (1823–1838)}}
From 1823, the [[Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions]] (aka Anti-Slavery Society) became the primary organised group working for legislation to abolish slavery. The Society and supporters, including captive and freed Africans, [[missionaries]] and evangelical movements in the colonies, worked to achieve the first stage of legal emancipation in the colonies. It also supported abolitionists in the United States. Many British supported lecture tours by American abolitionists in Britain who were raising funds for efforts in the United States. Such supporters sometimes provided refuge to Americans who had escaped from slavery and helped raise money to buy their freedom, as for [[Frederick Douglass]].{{cn|date=December 2020}}
==Quotes ==
The society was "absolutely without precedent...If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary."  -- France. Frenchman  [[Alexis de Tocqueville]]
==See also==
* [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom]]
* ''[[Bury the Chains|Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves]]''
* [[List of Abolitionist Forerunners (Thomas Clarkson)]]
==External links==
*  Source:  title=Sierra Leone Colony | website=The British Empire | url=https://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/sierraleone.htm }}
* Source: title=Parliament and the British Slave Trade | website=UK Parliament | url=https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/tradeindustry/slavetrade/ }}
* Source: title=First Petition to Parliament: The Abolition of Slavery Project |format=Transcript| website=The Abolition of Slavery Project | url=http://abolition.e2bn.org/source_34.html }}
* [https://www.scseagrant.org/breaking-the-chains-the-end-of-the-transatlantic-slave-trade Breaking the Chains: The End of the Transatlantic Slave Trade], [[Costal Heritage Magazine]]  Volume 22 – Number 3  winter 2008
[[Category:Abolitionism in the United Kingdom]]
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Travis Lee Bailey, Esq.
Трэвис Ли Бейли
Американский юрист: Аналитический центр Консультант в Москве, Россия
American Lawyer and aspiring think tank consultant in Moscow, Russia
Email: moscowamerican at gmail com
Skype: travbailey
Telegram: @MoscowAmerican
Facebook: Moscowamerican3
Linkedin: Moscowamerican
Instagram: Moscowamerican
Resume: Resume

На международном уровне самая жестокая страна в мире - Америка. Здесь, в Москве, я хочу пройти стажировку и продолжить карьеру в российском аналитическом центре - организации, влияющей на российское правительство, для принятия международной политики, которая подорвет Соединенные Штаты Америки. Список русских Аналитический центр

Авторское право как оружие войны против Соединенных Штатов - Copyright as an economic weapon against the United States





«Power Hour» (24 ноября 2021 г.) дебаты вне эфира с вероятным бывшим агентом ЦРУ «Wetwork» - «Я могу пойти куда угодно» - Power Hour (November 24 2021) off air debate with probable former CIA agent "Wetwork" - "I can go anywhere"


2021 Книга: Почему русские не улыбаются ?: Подробное руководство по различиям между русскими и американцами.» - 2021 book, Why Don't Russians Smile?: The definitive guide to the differences between Russians and Americans


Политическое убежище 2016 - Political asylum 2016 (In English)


Посольство Великобритании в Москве - British Embassy Moscow




На международном уровне самая жестокая страна в мире - Америка. Здесь, в Москве, я хочу пройти стажировку и продолжить карьеру в российском аналитическом центре - организации, влияющей на российское правительство, для принятия международной политики, которая подорвет Соединенные Штаты Америки.





Появление на российском телевидении и в фильмах

<<Trinity Sunday>> Фильм

Рассуждения на тему внешней политики Америки - Discussion on American Foreign Policy

Неизвестная Америка. Различия между американцами и русскими. Unknown America. The most shocking hypotheses Differences between Americans and Russians

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|Транскрипт (русский/ English)

иммиграция в Америку (английский) - Immigration to America (English)

Обсуждение образования Discussing Education

 



Сделаем Россию Снова Великой (Make Russia Great Again)

Опубликованные работы - Published Works

Почему русские не улыбаются ?: Подробное руководство по различиям между русскими и американцами. www.WhyDontRussiansSmile.Com - Why Don't Russians Smile?: The definitive guide to the differences between Russians and Americans

www.WhyDontRussiansSmile.Com

2021
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« Другая Война Америки: Тирания в Колумбии - America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia (2017) »

2017
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Руководство по источникам иностранного финансирования для украинских некоммерческих организаций - Guide to Foreign Funding Sources Available to Ukrainian Non Profits (2002)

2002
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« Почему Нас Ненавидят? Корни Анти-Американского Движения: Основа для Исследования - Origins of Anti-Americanism A Framework for Analysis: Why Do They Hate Us (Americans)?»

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Карьера юриста - Legal Career


2015-2016

Партнерство по трудовому праву в Москве, Россия

2013-2015

Индивидуальный юрист по взысканиям и банкротствам, Вашингтон, Округ Колумбия

2009-2013

адвокатские конторы в Центре медицинских услуг и медицинского страхования

2007

Выпускник Юридической школы Святой Марии

образование - Education

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    Диплом юриста Juris Doctorate (Lawyer)

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    Диплом по международным отношениям - Masters in International Relations (Diplomat)

  • Маркетинговый диплом - Marketing, Bachelor of Sciences

    Маркетинговый диплом - Marketing, Bachelor of Sciences

  • Диплом социологии - Masters degree in Sociology Университет штата Аризона (Arizona State University)

    Диплом социологии - Masters degree in Sociology Университет штата Аризона (Arizona State University)





Служба Корпуса Мира США - United States Peace Corps Service<

United States Peace Corps Service

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В Корпусе мира США на Украине, в дополнение к моей первой книге, я помогал строить приюты в сотрудничестве с посольством США, Национальной гвардией США и ВМФ; и написал гранты для детских домов.

Гид по Одессе

2002-2004
Самый полный английский путеводитель по Одессе, когда-либо написанный в России

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видео (английский) Videos in English

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Стенограмма видео и объяснение
(Русский транскрипт)

Авторское право как оружие войны против Соединенных Штатов - Посольство Ирана в Москве, Россия

Моя история (английский)

12 человек создали величайшее общественное движение в истории и покончили с рабством в своей жизни (Английский)

Я американец. Я поддерживаю шпионов против Америки. (Английский)

Пытки в Абу-Грейбе, геноцид индейцев и военные филиппинско-американские концлагеря (Английский)



Как вы можете помочь и книги об американской войне

Наша жизнь заканчивается в день, когда мы замолкаем о вещах, которые имеют значение -- Мартин Лютер Кинг



А чем пожертвуете Вы ради своих убеждений?

 

Дополнительная информация...







Криминальная история - No criminal history

Это печальный комментарий о сегодняшней России. Многие россияне не могут понять, почему американский адвокат перебегает в Россию (Перебежчик). Многие циничные москвичи утверждают, что г-н Бейли имеет криминальное прошлое в США. Это отредактированная проверка криминального прошлого мистера Бейли в штате Мэриленд и ФБР за последние 6 лет. У мистера Бейли нет криминального прошлого.

It is a sad commentary on Russia today. Many Russians cannot understand why an American lawyer would defect to Russia (Перебежчик). Many cynical Muscovites posit that Mr. Bailey has a criminal history in the USA. This is Mr. Bailey's redacted criminal history background checks with the state of Maryland and the FBI over the past 6 years. Mr. Bailey has no criminal history.

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Travis Lee Bailey, Esq.
Трэвис Ли Бейли
Американский юрист: Аналитический центр Консультант в Москве, Россия
American Lawyer and aspiring think tank consultant in Moscow, Russia
Email: moscowamerican at gmail com
Skype: travbailey
Telegram: @MoscowAmerican
Facebook: Moscowamerican3
Linkedin: Moscowamerican
Instagram: Moscowamerican
Resume: Resume

Quotes

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

🤔 “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.” -- Winston Churchill

🤔 "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money, or their vast carelessness... and let other people clean up the mess." -- Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby". - As quoted in a apologetic article of American Imperialism in October, 2001: The Politics of Rage: Why Do ? https://www.newsweek.com/politics-rage-why-do-they-hate-us-154345

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Collective Guilt

To ignore evil is to become accomplice to it -- Martin Luther King

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. -- Albert Einstein

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” — Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke

If you are neutral on situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor - Desmond Tutu

Valor and Bravery - Hope in the face of conflict

"There are moments in life when you must act even though you cannot carry your best friends with you. The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead

There are moments in life when you must act even though you cannot carry your best friends with you. The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -- Martin Luther King

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) , Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

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кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского - There is no champagne without risk.[1]

"Jump and the net will appear"

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Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything
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Winston Churchill:You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Be the change you want to see in the World -- Mahatma Gandhi

Death

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others. -- Julio Cortazar

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Nature knows neither creation nor destruction. Nature knows only transformation.

-- Verner Von Braun

To sort

“To know one country is to know none" - Seymour Martin Lipset, Sociologist

The French have a saying, “Quand on connait sa maladie, on est à moitié guéri”—“When you know your sickness, you are halfway cured.”

"No, I'm not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody. Pretending it ain't shit makes you an idiot, not an optimist." Reference:http://shitmydadsays.com/

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Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second-guessing. -- Slow Burn, Dead Fire (Zombie Book)

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.-- Maya Angelou

Hate is like drinking poison, and hoping the other guy dies -- St.Augustine

"An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot." - Lawrence of Arabia - http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0918-04.htm

Wikipedia

"Wikipedia is a kind of truly collaborative and social platform [which] provides a good opportunity for sociologist...to better understand the evolution of social cognition - that is, the ability of a group of people to remember, think, and reason." -- Social Knowledge Dynamics: A Case Study on Modeling Wikipedia Benyun Shi doi==10.1.1.590.7210 https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi==10.1.1.590.7210&rep==rep1&type==pdf

"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society" -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

New to sort

What I don't like about Washington is people do not let you know how they feel. They're very nice to your face and then they take a shiv or a machete and they stab it in your back. I don't like it. I'm a Wall Street guy and I’m more of a front-stabbing person, and I would rather people tell directly how I feel about them than this sort of nonsense. - Scaramucci [2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(slang) in colleges:June 12, 2017

  • "But there is another view (about safe spaces) that is now ascendant … It’s a horrible view, which is that ‘I need to be safe ideologically, I need to be safe emotionally, I just need to feel good all the time. And if someone else says something that I don’t like, that is a problem for everyone else, including the administration.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/safe-spaces-college-intolerant_b_58d957a6e4b02a2eaab66ccf

Williamson articulated the level of courage it can take to overcome the fear of allowing our outer life to reflect the power of which our inner life is aware:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (p. 190–191)


your vibe attracts your tribe

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. — Martin Luther King (1963)

In loving memory of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz and in deep appreciation of the trailblazer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

Be the change you want to see in the World -- Mahatma Gandhi

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -- Martin Luther King

Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. -- George Bernard Shaw

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.-- Helen Keller

A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself. -- Albert Einstein Russian: Человек начинает жить лишь тогда, когда ему удается превзойти самого себя. --Альберт Эйнштейн

When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life. -- John Lennon

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. -- Jack London

The only constant in life is change

The greatest enemy to prejudice is travel - Mark Twain

Ideologies

"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." - Rollo May

"A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still." -- Benjamin Franklin.

Cognitive dissonance

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) , Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

A person who finds a topic very confusing will often suspend judgment and keep right on believing in whatever he hopes is true. Over time, his questions lose urgency, and though not resolved, cease to become bothersome. Trust in a system will also help sustain a person through confusion until he reaches the point of no longer caring whether an answer is reasonable or not, or indeed, whether an answer even exists.

--Chapter 12 By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri

"When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind."

-- William I.B. Beveridge, The Art of Scientific Investigation, 1957

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity (clamness) opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

--Albert Einstein

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

-- Bertrand Russell

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

-- France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville


"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." --Mark Twain

Political repression in America…is American as apple pie

--American Inquisition: The Era of McCarthyism, Tape 9: Joe McCarthy and the Loss of China. Ellen Schrecker

"The lust for money may be distasteful, the desire for power ignoble, but neither will drive its devotees to the criminal excess of an idea on the march. Whether the idea is the triumph of the working class or of a master race, ideology leads to the graveyard." Corey Robin in the London Review of Books quoted here http://hnn.us/articles/24482.html

"Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, in what he called the law of the infinite cornucopia, stated that there was never a shortage of arguments to support any doctrine one wanted to believe in for whatever reasons."MICHAEL COOPER Parsing the Myths of the Midterm Election November 5, 2010

Beliefs never change
Adam Ruins Everything - Why Proving Someone Wrong Often Backfires

Your entire show's built around the idea that if you prevent someone with better information you can change their mind.

But the surprising truth is disproving a misconception can actually strengthen a person's belief in that misconception.

It's called the backfire effect.

The More you prove someone wrong the more they think they're right.

That can't be true I change people's minds every day.

You just proved my point I presented you with information that goes against you thinking and you just dug right into your beliefs. one study found that when people concerned about side effects with a flu shot were informed it was safe they actually became less willing to get it

but those so illogical how is it possible?

Because when you try to change someone’s mind the other person often feels attacked.

Being proven wrong actually activates the same area of the brain as real physical paint

[Music]

World star

stay ?? you can. A right hook will hurt ya. But her right facts will too.

Being proven wrong hurts so much it often causes a fight-or-flight response

I gotta get out of here.

Nope you need to hear this

Why am i reacting like this? Normally I love learning new things

Simple you're protecting your identity. It’s called identity protective cognition

[Music]

Link

http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/videos/why-proving-someone-wrong-often-backfires.html

Sources

http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/blog/adams-sources/emily-ruins-adam.html


  • "But the surprising truth is, disproving a misconception can actually strengthen a person's belief in that misconception."
Craig Silverman. The Backfire Effect: More on the Press's Inability to Debunk Bad Information. * Columbia Journalism Review, 17 Jun 2011.
  • "One study showed that when people concerned about the side effects of the flu shot were informed that it was safe, they actually became less willing to get it."
Cari Romm. Vaccine Mythbusting can Backfire. * The Atlantic, 12 Dec 2014.
  • "Being proven wrong actually activates the same areas of the brain as real physical pain."
C. Nathan DeWall, Geoff MacDonald, Gregory D. Webster, Carrie L. Masten, Roy F. Baumeister, Caitlin Powell, David Combs, David R. Schurtz, Tyler F. Stillman, Dianne M. Tice, and Naomi I. Eisenberger. Acetaminophen Reduces Social Pain. * Psychological Science, 14 Jun 2010.
  • "But when the truth threatens their identity, they push back hard."
Maria Konnikova. I Don't Want To Be Right. * The New Yorker, 16 May 2014.
  • "When a fact contradicts our beliefs, we often hide behind emotional arguments that can't be disproven."
Troy Campbell. Why People Fly From Facts. * Scientific American, 3 Mar 2015.
  • "The "Backfire Effect" happens because our emotions are faster than logical thoughts."
Chris Mooney. The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science. * Mother Jones, May/Jun 2011.
  • "Finding out you're wrong is the first step toward one day being right."
Henry L. Roediger and Brigid Finn. Getting it Wrong: Surprising Tips on How To Learn. * Scientific American Mind, 20 Oct 2009.
  • "And people actually like you more if they see you screw up. It's called the 'Pratfall Effect.'"
John Tauer. Image is Everything: LeBron James and the Pratfall Effect. * Psychology Today, 22 Jul 2009.
  • "Doctors who are honest about their errors are more likely to have more trusting patients, not fewer."
Kathleen M. Mazor, George W. Reed, Robert A. Yood, Melissa A. Fischer, Joann Baril and Jerry H. Gurwitz. Disclosure of Medical Errors: What Factors Influence How Patients Respond? * The Journal of General Internal Medicine, 21 (7), Jul 2006.
  • Wikipedia: Confirmation bias - Confirmation bias, also called confirmatory bias or myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

Bible versus

John 4:18: There is no fear in love, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.

2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.



About hope in the face of conflict, overwhelming odds, and almost universal disdain, quotes
FIRST QUOTE: journalist I. F. Stone once wrote, "The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it-to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it."
--Excerpt from the book: The Middle Mind Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/America/Middle_Mind.html

SECOND QUOUTE: "...The reverberations from what happened on this spot, on the late afternoon of May 22, 1787, eventually caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including the first and greatest student of what today we call civil society. The result of the series of events begun that afternoon in London, wrote France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville decades later, was "absolutely without precedent…. If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary." The building that once stood at 2 George Yard was a bookstore and printing shop. The proprietor was James Phillips, publisher and printer for Britain's small community of Quakers. On that May afternoon, after the pressmen and typesetters had gone home for the day, 12 men filed through his doors. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth." -- Los Angeles Times: The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees

THIRD QUOTE: Zinn recently said: "My hope is that whatever you do to make a good life for yourself -- whether you become a teacher, or social worker, or business person, or lawyer, or poet, or scientist -- you will devote part of your life to making this a better world for your children, for all children. My hope is that your generation will demand an end to war, that your generation will do something that has not yet been done in history and wipe out the national boundaries that separate us from other human beings on this earth."
--From Against Discouragement
FOURTH QUOTE: The struggle for justice should never be abandoned on the ground that it is hopeless, because of the apparent overwhelming power of those in the world who have the guns and the money and who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to their power. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, and patience—whether by blacks in Alabama and South Africa; peasants in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Vietnam; or workers and intellectuals in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. No cold calculation of the balance of power should deter people who are persuaded that their cause is just.
--From Declarations of Independence Chapter 11: The Ultimate Power page 279
FIFTH QUOTE: “As Adam Hochschild points out, from the time the English Quakers first took on the issue of slavery, three quarters of a century passed before it was abolished it in Europe and America. Few if any working on the issue at the beginning lived to see its conclusion, when what had once seemed impossible suddenly began to look, in retrospect, inevitable.” “The African writer Laurens Van Der Post once said that no great new leaders were emerging because it was time for us to cease to be followers.”
--From the Excellent Article: TomDispatch:Rebecca Solnit on hope in dark times

Another quote: “a number of famous mainland Chinese dissidents find themselves in the paradoxical position of a backyard bush that blooms on the neighbour’s side of the wall: enjoying great international fame but not recognised by the general public in their own country, known only within a small circle of people”.[2]

France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville

Also see: Tocqueville

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. The Americans, in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest disapproval (censure) and impossible to satisfy hunger for praise (insatiable) ...They unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their humble request (entreaties) they fall to praising themselves. It would seem as if, doubting their own merit, they wished to have it constantly exhibited before their eyes.

It seems, at first sight, as if all the minds of the Americans were formed upon one model, so accurately do they correspond in their manner of judging.

A stranger does, indeed, sometimes meet with Americans who dissent from these rigid beliefs (rigorous formularies); with men who deplore the defects of the laws, the ability to change (mutability) and the ignorance of democracy; who even go so far as to observe the evil tendencies which impair the national character, and to point out such remedies as it might be possible to apply.

But no one is there to hear these things besides yourself, and you, to whom these secret reflections are confided, are a stranger and a bird of passage. Americans are very ready to communicate truths which are useless to you, but they continue to hold a different language in public. In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Americans are so filled with love for (enamored) with equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting...

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: How much money will it bring in?

-- Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America. 1835.
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Biography of France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville Download Tocqueville's three books for free: Democracy in America — Volume 1 Democracy in America — Volume 2American Institutions and Their Influence

Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

--Albert Einstein

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

--Albert Einstein (From Comments on Chomsky's web blog)

I MADE ONE great mistake in my life, Albert Einstein admitted, when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made...

--Albert Einstein Hiroshima: A Mistake and A Crime

Howard Zinn

Zinn quotes Kissinger in his first chapter, on page 9: ""History is the memory of states," wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored, in which he proceeded to tell the history of nineteenth-century Europe from the viewpoint of the leaders of Austria and England, ignoring the millions who suffered from those statesmen's policies. From his standpoint, the "peace" that Europe had before the French Revolution was "restored" by the diplomacy of a few national leaders. But for factory workers in England, farmers in France, colored people in Asia and Africa, women and children everywhere, except in the upper classes, it was a world of conquest, violence, hunger, exploitation -- a world not restored but disintegrated."

Seed of peace planted in Zinn

In World War 2, a passing conversation with an warplane gunner changed Howard Zinn's life forever. Zinn argued that America was not imperialist and went away troubles with what this stranger said. Two weeks later this warplane gunner was shot down and killed. Decades later Zinn became an anti-war activist and author of the seminal "A People's History of the United States" This bombardier never truly knew the last legacy of love and peace he created in this world.

Just and Unjust War excerpt:

[Zinn] flew the last bombing missions of the war, got my Air Medal and my battle stars. I was quietly proud of my participation in the great war to defeat fascism. But when I packed up my things at the end of the war and put my old navigation logs and snapshots and other mementos in a folder, I marked that folder, almost without thinking, "Never Again."

I'm still not sure why I did that, because it was not until years later that I began consciously to question the motives, the conduct, and the consequences of that crusade against fascism. The point was not that my abhorrence of fascism was in any way diminished. I still believed something had to be done to stop fascism. But that clear certainty of moral rightness that propelled me into the Air Force as an enthusiastic bombardier was now clouded over by many thoughts.

Perhaps my conversations with that gunner on the other crew, the one who loaned me The Yogi and the Commisar, gave me the first flickers of doubt. He spoke of the war as "an imperialist war," fought on both sides for national power. Britain and the United States opposed fascism only because it threatened their own control over resources and people. Yes, Hitler was a maniacal dictator and invader of other countries. But what of the British Empire and its long history of wars against native peoples to subdue them for the profit and glory of the empire? And the Soviet Union--was it not also a brutal dictatorship, concerned not with the working classes of the world but with its own national power?

I was puzzled. "Why," I asked my friend, "are you flying missions, risking your life, in a war you don't believe in?" His answer astonished me. "I'm here to speak to people like you."

I found out later he was a member of the Socialist Workers party; they opposed the war but believed that instead of evading military service they should enter it and propagandize against the war every moment they could. I couldn't understand this, but I was impressed by it. Two weeks after that conversation with him, he was killed on a mission over Germany.

https://quaker.org/legacy/co/Writings/JustAndUnjustWar.htm

As one of Zinn's book titles states: "You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train"

Howard Zinn is an author best known for the book, "A People's History of the United States".

In World War 2, a passing conversation with an warplane gunner changed Howard Zinn's life forever. Zinn argued that America was not imperialist and went away troubled with what this stranger said. Two weeks later this warplane gunner was shot down and killed. Decades later Zinn became an anti-war activist and author of the seminal "A People's History of the United States" This bombardier never truly knew the last legacy of love and peace he created in this world.

Just and Unjust War excerpt:

[Zinn] flew the last bombing missions of the war, got my Air Medal and my battle stars. I was quietly proud of my participation in the great war to defeat fascism. But when I packed up my things at the end of the war and put my old navigation logs and snapshots and other mementos in a folder, I marked that folder, almost without thinking, "Never Again."

I'm still not sure why I did that, because it was not until years later that I began consciously to question the motives, the conduct, and the consequences of that crusade against fascism. The point was not that my abhorrence of fascism was in any way diminished. I still believed something had to be done to stop fascism. But that clear certainty of moral rightness that propelled me into the Air Force as an enthusiastic bombardier was now clouded over by many thoughts.

Perhaps my conversations with that gunner on the other crew, the one who loaned me The Yogi and the Commisar, gave me the first flickers of doubt. He spoke of the war as "an imperialist war," fought on both sides for national power. Britain and the United States opposed fascism only because it threatened their own control over resources and people. Yes, Hitler was a maniacal dictator and invader of other countries. But what of the British Empire and its long history of wars against native peoples to subdue them for the profit and glory of the empire? And the Soviet Union--was it not also a brutal dictatorship, concerned not with the working classes of the world but with its own national power?

I was puzzled. "Why," I asked my friend, "are you flying missions, risking your life, in a war you don't believe in?" His answer astonished me. "I'm here to speak to people like you."

I found out later he was a member of the Socialist Workers party; they opposed the war but believed that instead of evading military service they should enter it and propagandize against the war every moment they could. I couldn't understand this, but I was impressed by it. Two weeks after that conversation with him, he was killed on a mission over Germany. https://quaker.org/legacy/co/Writings

Chomsky

"Cuba has probably been the target of more international terrorism than the rest of the world combined and, therefore, in the American ideological system it is regarded as the source of international terrorism, exactly as Orwell would have predicted."

---Source: Talk titled "American Foreign Policy" Naom Chomsky at Harvard University (http://www.chomsky.info/talks/19850319.htm), March 19, 1985

"No less insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism. We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression."

--Source: American Power and the New Mandarins, 1969 Naom Chomsky

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20th century bogymen

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."---Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Fascist Dictator of Italy

"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

--Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II

In a memorable insight, Rebecca Solnit has suggested that the successes of social movements should often be measured not by their accomplishments, but by the disasters they prevent:

"What the larger movements have achieved is largely one of careers undestroyed, ideas uncensored, violence and intimidation uncommitted, injustices unperpetrated, rivers unpoisoned and undammed, bombs undropped, radiation unleaked, poisons unsprayed, wildernesses unviolated, countryside undeveloped, resources unextracted, species unexterminated."

The Iraqi resistance, one of the least expected and most powerful social movements of recent times, can lay claim to few positive results. In two years of excruciating (if escalating) fighting, the insurgents have seen their country progressively reduced to an ungovernable jungle of violence, disease, and hunger. But maybe, as Solnit suggests, their real achievement lies in what didn't happen. Despite the deepest desires of the Bush administration, to this day Iran remains uninvaded -- the horrors of devolving Iraq have, so far, prevented the unleashing of the plagues of war on its neighbor

--Tom Dispatch: The Ironies of Conquest

American Sociology

As Ed the Sock said last night, politicians are just a reflection of society. We don't want unpleasant truths, and demand to be lied to so as to feel better, and then complain when things don't work out perfectly. George Carlin also blames the American people for the problems with politicians, as they all come from American schools, churches, families, exposed to the same media and then voted on by their peers. Society creates the hated politician, who then pretends to be liked to sell you a product, just like cat food or laundry detergent. (http://www.thecommentary.ca/archives/20040701.html Where is the George Carlin quote?)

"What should one write to ruin an adversary? The best thing is to prove that he is not one of us -- the stranger, alien, foreigner. To this end we create the category of the true family. We here, you and I, the authorities, are a true family. We live in unity, among our own kind. We have the same roof over our heads, we sit at the same table, we know how to get along with each other, how to help each other out. Unfortunately, we are not alone."

--Ryszard Kapuscinski in Shah of Shahs

“…in Britain, empire was justified as a benevolent "white man's burden." And in the United States, empire does not even exist; "we" are merely protecting the causes of freedom, democracy, and justice worldwide.”

--The Editors, "After the attacks…the war on terrorism", Monthly Review, 53, 6, Nov., 2001. P 7

"Explanation is not a justification for murder, criticism is not equivalent to treason, and offering a historical analysis of evil is not the same thing as consorting with evil."

--Eric Foner rejecting the arguments that "Trying to understand the 9/11 terrorists grievances is treasonous"

“When we are reduced to insisting that our depravity isn't as bad as the other guy's, we have fallen deep into a pit of moral equivalence that reveals what we have lost."

--Their Humiliation, and Ours The U.S. was forced to see itself as the world does — and it was painful to behold Time magazine Monday, May. 17, 2004

"Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy."

--Reinhold Niebuhr

"ALL empires die of indigestion," said Napoleon. They do. They bite off more than they can chew, swallow territories their colonial systems can't digest, and die. --The empire that is dead The Herald (Glasgow) August 1, 1996

Kerry will change his views to fit the facts; Bush will change the facts to fit his views

--Hillary Clinton in the 2004 race.

Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism...Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

--Emma Goldman.

"The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first…The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: ‘It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war.' Then the few will shout even louder…Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it...Next, statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."

--Mark Twain

"...people believe that "imperialism" won out for military reasons. Osborne shows convincingly that commerce won out instead. America...seen as an "economic imperialist nation."

--The Christian Century book review of Annexation Hawaii

Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand [their own country’s bloody historical struggle for the material benefits they all enjoy today], march in the army of the night with their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.

–-Alteration of a quote by Isaac Asimov

43% of Americans have not read a book in the last year.

-- According to the National Endowment for the Arts on the 2002 US Census Bureau statistics http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2004-07-08-reading-study_x.htm

More American teenagers can name three of the Three Stooges than can name the three branches of government (59% to 41%)

-- http://www.constitutioncenter.org/CitizenAction/CivicResearchResults/NCCTeens'Poll.shtml

The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government.

---Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pentagon briefers told President Johnson that the true U.S. goals in Vietnam were, “70% to avoid a humiliating U.S. defeat; 20% to keep South Vietnam (and adjacent territories) from Chinese hands; 10% to permit the people of Vietnam a better, freer way of life.”

-- Robert Freeman: Is Iraq Another Vietnam? Actually, It May Become Worse

My kind of loyalty is loyalty to one's country and not to one's institutions or officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing to watch over. Its institutions and clothing can wear out and become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags, that is a loyalty of unreason.' This is important because in the present discussion boundaries have been set, lines have been drawn. Those who go outside those boundaries and criticize official policy are called unpatriotic and disloyal. When they accuse dissenters of that they have forgotten the meaning of loyalty and patriotism. Patriotism does not mean support for your government. It means, as Mark Twain said, support for your country. --Howard Zinn, from the Artists in a Time of War CD

Where the "Disneyland" Quote comes from:

Leftists like to explain the disaffection of working-class people with public education as a natural reaction to the patriotism, conformity, and civility pushed by what they call the “ideological state apparatus.” The object of education, according to this view, is to police class boundaries by transforming most kids into a unquestioning drones while selecting a small number of others for management positions. Kids from blue-collar homes are supposed to know intuitively that this is the case, and they respond accordingly, cutting class and getting high and listening to The Wall over and over again. A more nuanced version of this critique, the 1995 book Lies My Teacher Told Me, points out that high school American history textbooks give ”a Disney version of history”: heroic, egalitarian, jam-packed with progress, and almost entirely free of class conflict. Teaching such an “Officer Friendly” account of reality, the author concludes, is merely to “make school irrelevant to the major issues of the day.” The kids know bullshit when they see it.
The disaffection of the Kansas conservatives with public education is almost precisely the opposite. They do not have a problem with the idea that schools should be designed to churn out low-wage workers; indeed, Kay O’Connor (A conservative Kansas state senator) told me that was a worthy goal. The Cons (conservative wing of the Republican party) are pissed off because they think the schools don’t provide enough Disney, enough Officer Friendly. --What's the Matter with Kansas?

copyright: piracy is not theft

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Dataclysm: Repelling some people draws others all the closer

🙶Repelling some people draws others all the closer... “Beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.” For as with music, as with movies, and as with a wide variety of human phenomena: a flaw is a powerful thing. Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be loved all the more by others. And, specifically, a woman’s overall sex appeal is enhanced when some men find her ugly.🙷

🙶Given that everyone on Earth has some kind of flaw, the real moral here is: be yourself and be brave about it.🙷

🙶Repelling some people draws others all the closer.🙷

🙶In any group of women who are all equally good-looking, the number of (online dating app) messages they get is highly correlated to the variance: from the pageant queens to the most homely women to the people right in between, the individuals who get the most affection will be the polarizing ones. And the effect isn’t small—being highly polarizing will in fact get you about 70 percent more messages. That means variance allows you to effectively jump several “leagues” up in the dating pecking order—for example, a very low-rated woman (20th percentile) with high variance in her votes gets hit on about as much as a typical woman in the 70th percentile. Part of that is because variance means, by definition, that more people like you a lot (as well as dislike you a lot).🙷

-- Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves, from the founder of the American dating App, OKCupid.

Media

“Walter Lippmann painstakingly demonstrated why no individual, however intelligent, educated, and motivated, was capable of becoming an expert, let alone being an "insider," on all the important issues of the day.

--Ignorance of the world has deep historical and cultural roots in the US

The media makes politics out to be "liberal" vs. "conservative" when in fact the real model is Corporate America vs. Everyone Else.

--Sirotablog

The media do not necessarily tell your what to think, but they tell you what to think about, and how to think about it. --The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism Robert McChesney http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/34586.html

It is often noted that democracy requires journalism; what is less frequently emphasized is that journalism requires democracy. Unless there is strong political culture there will be little demand for excellent journalism.

--The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism Robert McChesney

A politician stands a far greater chance to become the object of news media scrutiny if she or he is rumored to have not paid 10 parking tickets or if they failed to pay a bar bill than if they used their power to quietly funnel billions of public dollars to powerful special interests.

--The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism Robert McChesney

A five year study of investigative journalism on TV news completed in 2002 determined that investigative journalism has all but disappeared on the nation’s commercial airwaves.

--The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism Robert McChesney

In view of the fact that legitimate sources tend to be restricted to political and economic elites, this bias sometimes makes journalists appear to be stenographers to those in power; i.e. exactly what one would expect in an authoritarian society with little or no formal press freedom.

--The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism Robert McChesney

This focus on government malfeasance and neglect of corporate misdeeds plays directly into the hands of those who wished to give more power and privileges to corporations, and undermine the ability of government to regulate in the public interest. As Ed Baker observes, professional practices, along with libel laws, “favor exposing governmental rather than private (corporate) wrongdoing”

--The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism Robert McChesney

If the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped steadily for twenty years it would be front page and leading broadcast news day after day until the government took action. That 32 million of our population have their housing, food, and clothing “index” drop steadily for more than 30 years is worth only an occasional feature story about an individual or statistical fragments in the back pages of our most influential news organizations.

--Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly

"How many times does the end of the world as we know it need to arrive before we realise that it's not the end of the world as we know it?"

--Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity Edited by Michael Lewis

American economy

we have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3 of its population. Our real task...is to devise a pattern of relationships, which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity.... -- George F. Kennan

Miscellaneous quotes

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us" --"The latern on the stern" The Economist, January 3, 2009, p 65. From On the Constitution of the Church and State By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic."

--Unknown

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

-- Somerset Maugham

"It used to be believed that every event in the world-the opening of a morning glory...was due to direct microintervention by the Deity. The flower was unable to open by itself.God had to say “Hey, flower, open.” [Today]...because we know something about phototropism and plant hormones, we can understand the opening of the morning glory independent of divine mícrointervention...As we learn more and more about the universe, there seems less and less for God to do."

--Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science by Carl Sagan, page 334-335

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis"

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man in life has many disciples, but it is always Judas who writes the biography."

--Oscar Wilde

"In our time, political speech and writing is largely the defense of the indefensible."

--George Orwell

“Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: for the men who rule our world, rules are for other people. The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.”

--Guardian: It's Greed, Not Ideology, that Rules the White House By Naomi Klein
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Anastasio Somoza Debayle, brutal American puppet dictator of Nicaragua.

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." --Justice Felix Frankfurter [3]

"So long to the dreams that make men free." -James Miska, Pendleton Revisited

Pride

"Pride is a form of selfishness." -David Lawrence

US in Central America

What we see in Central America today would not be much different if Fidel Castro and the Soviet Union did not exist

--US Ambassador to Panama Ambler Moss, 1980

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy

The US became staunchly anti-revolutionary after its own revolution The United States has countered [Central American] revolutions with its military power. Washington's recent policy, this book argues, is historically consistent for two reasons: first, for more than a century (if not since 1790), North Americans have been staunchly antirevolutionary; and second, U.S. power has been the dominant power outside (and often inside) force shaping the societies against with Central Americans have rebelled. ... Washington officials have opposed radical change not because of pressure from public opinion. Throughout the twentieth century, the overwhelming number of North Americans could not have identified each of the five Central American nations on a map, let alone ticked off the region's sins that called for an application of U.S. force. The United States consistently feared and fought such change because it was a status quo power. It wanted stability, benefited from the ongoing system, and was therefore content to work with the military oligarchy complex that ruled most of Central America from the 1820ss to the 1980s. The world's leading revolutionary nation in the eighteenth century became the leading protector of the status quo in the twentieth century. Such protection was defensible when it meant protecting the more equitable societies of Western Europe and Japan, but became questionable when it meant bolstering poverty and inequality in Central America.

--Page 12, 13, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (The footnote states: This is argued in Eldon Kenworthy, “Reagan Rediscovers Monroe”, democracy 2 (July 1982): 80-90

US president’s racism and lust for empire Thomas Jefferson…interest in Latin America was extraordinary (he once remarked that young empire-builders should first study Spanish) Thomas Jefferson…concern about expanding U.S. power even led him in the 1780s to decide that it would be better if the Spanish held on to their territory “till our population can be sufficiently advanced to gain if from them piece by piece”…His [belief in] Manifest Destiny…was shared by most of the other Founders, including Jefferson’s great political rival, Alexander Hamilton.

--Page 19 Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America

Theodore Roosevelt…the famed Rough Rider, who fought publicly…in Cuba during the 1898 war…called Latin Americans “Dagoes” because they were incapable of either governing themselves or—most important in Roosevelt’s hierarchy of values—maintaining order.

--Page 34 Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America

The US intervenes in Central America to bestow the blessings of stability myth That the United States intervened in Central America simply to stop revolutions and bestow the blessings of stability tells too little too simply. The motive for Washington’s policy in Central America was not to stop upheavals, but to promote U.S. interests. In El Salvador, for example, North Americans—both in the business and the diplomatic community—continually encouraged a revolutionary faction between 1906 and 1913 because they knew the faction was more pro-United States (and anti-European capital) than the actual, legitimate government. Interests and imperial rivalry, not morality and consistency, drove U.S. policies.

--Page 39 Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America

The 1907 Central American Court The 1907 Washington conference spun a web of agreements that were to make Central Americans more interdependent and—as the North American Progressives theorists of the time believed—more peaceful and cooperative. The meetings established a Central American Court of Justice…Future disputes were to go not to the battlefield, but the Court. The Central American Court quickly became the global symbol for the Progressives’ growing faith in legal arbitration for the settlement of disputes. One North American proudly wrote, “To the powers of Europe, to the great powers of the world who struggled with partial success…to establish a court of arbitral justice, the young republics of Central America may recall the scriptural phrase, ‘A little child shall led them.’” Retired steel billionaire Andrew Carnegie happily gave $100,000 for a building to house the Court. It turned out to be one of Carnegie’s few bad investments. Within nine years the institution was hollow because twice—in 1912 and 1916—the United states refused to recognize Court decisions that went against its interests in Nicaragua. The North Americans destroyed the Court they had helped to create, and in doing so vividly demonstrated how the Progressive faith in legal remedies was worthless when the dominant power in the area paced its own national interest over international legal institutions.

--Page 41-42 Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America

Reagan

El Salvador...is nearer to Texas than Texas is to Massachusetts. Central America is simply too close, and the strategic stakes are too high, for us to ignore the danger of governments seizing power there with ideological and military ties to the Soviet Union. -- American President Ronald Reaga Reference:http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid==41034

The United States, said Ronald Reagan, "is engaged in a war on terrorism, a war for freedom" How familiar it all sounds. Merely replace Soviet Union and communism with al-Qaeda, and you are up to date. And it was all a fantasy. Reference: The Real Ronald Reagan, personal website

My quotes

The stark difference between two of the three boogeymen of the twentieth century, Moa and Stalin and the United States is that we don't kill our own populations, we just kill everyone else's. From here

Need to work on:

  • In the marketplace of ideas some people are pickpockets. (basically some people have nothing to contribute in an argument/debate/conversation)

War

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[America] is worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it. - Noam Chomsky

[America] is worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it. - Noam Chomsky


  • As for those [who died] in the World Trade Center... they were civilians [which] formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire - the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved - and they did so both willingly and knowingly...To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in - and in many cases excelling at - it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective,...way of visiting some penalty...I'd really be interested in hearing about it. [They were "little Eichmanns"] Ward Churchill


  • What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Mahatma Gandhi
  • I think the U.S. government enjoys playing with the stomachs of humanity.-- A Nicaraguan Mother
  • “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care” Nelson Mandela just before the invasion of Iraq, Columbia Broadcasting System 2003.
  • "Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame." Amnesty International, 1996
  • "We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth." -- New York Times columnist Sydney Schanberg, during the Gulf War. Beginning of documentary, War Made Easy - How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death. (Sydney Schanberg warned journalists not to forget "our unquestioning chorus of agreeability when Lyndon Johnson bamboozled us with his fabrication of the Gulf of Tonkin incident." Schanberg blamed not only the press but also "the apparent amnesia of the wider American public.")
  • Barbra Lee, Sept. 14, 2001: “However difficult this vote may be, some of us must urge the use of restraint, Our country is in a state of mourning. Some of us must say, Let’s step back for a moment, let’s just pause just for a minute, and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control. And, she said: “As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore.” The only politician who voted against giving war powers to Bush for invading Afghanistan. (Senate: 98 to 0, House 420 to 1)
Immaculate Genocide

American liberals support immaculate Genocide

The first concentration camps in the world were during the Boar War by the British in South Africa. The second country was America in the Philippine American War. Writing of the holocaust perpetrated by U.S. troops in the Philippines a century ago--an onslaught entailing orders that every male Filipino over the age of ten be slaughtered, and the resulting deaths of one in every six inhabitants on the island of Luzon --historian Stuart Creighton Miller describes "the tendency of highly patriotic Americans...to [vociferously] deny such abuses and even to assert that they could never exist in their country." The pattern is unmistakably similar to that exhibited by severe alcoholics who, despite all evidence of the damage their behavior has caused, chronically insist that "the opposite of everything is true."

More subtle than the characteristic refusal of "conservatives" to allow mere facts to in any way alter their core presumptions was/is the complementary nature of the "alternative" interpretation(s) most often posed by their "progressive" opponents. Noting that the Philippines genocide was a matter of public knowledge by 1901, Creighton Miller goes on to observe that collective "amnesia over the horrors of the war of conquest...set in early, during the summer of 1902." He then concludes by reflecting upon how "anti-imperialists aided the process by insisting that the conflict and its attendant atrocities had been the result of a conspiracy by a handful of leaders who carried out, through deceit and subterfuge, the policy and means of expansion overseas against the will of the majority of their countrymen."

"By refusing to acknowledge that most Americans had been bitten by the same bug that afflicted Roosevelt, Lodge, and Beveridge, anti-imperialists were letting the people off the hook and in their own way preserving the American sense of innocence. Unfortunately, the man in the street shared the dreams of world-power status, martial glory, and future wealth that would follow expansion. When the dream soured, the American people neither reacted with very much indignation, nor did they seem to retreat to their cherished political principles. If anything, they seemed to take their cues from their leader in the White House by first putting out of mind all the sordid episodes in the conquest, and then forgetting the entire war itself."

So it was then, the more so today. Contemporary conservatives, whenever they can be momentarily boxed into conceding one or another unsavory aspect of America's historical record, are forever insisting that whatever they've admitted can be "properly" understood only when viewed as an "exception to the rule," an "aberration," "atypical" to the point of "anamolousness." None have shown a readiness to address the question of exactly how many such "anomalies" might be required before they can be said to comprise "the rule" itself. When pressed, conservatives invariably retreat into a level of diversionary polemic excusable at best on elementary school playgrounds, arguing that anything "we have done is somehow excused by allegations that "they" have done things just as bad."

Progressives, on the other hand, while acknowledging many of America's more reprehensible features, have become far more refined in offering hook-free analyses than they were in 1902. No longer much preoccupied with such crudities as "conspiracy theory," they have become quite monolithic in attributing all things negative to handy abstractions like "capitalism," "the state," "structural oppression," and, yes, "the hierarchy." Hence, they have been able to conjure what might be termed the "miracle of immaculate genocide," a form of genocide, that is, in which--apart from a few amorphous "decision-making elites" --there are no actual perpetrators and no one who might "really" be deemed culpable by reason of complicity. The parallels between this "cutting edge" conception and the defense mounted by postwar Germans--including the nazis at Nuremberg--are as eerie as they are obvious.

Hitler's Willing Executioners - Americans are no different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Willing_Executioners

Crises are like buses

'Useful metaphor: Crises are like buses

A bus goes to the same destination but it's carrying a bunch of random people who have very different priorities and very different goals. They'll ride this crisis for a while until it is no longer useful to them. It seems to me that this crisis is completely fictitious but that a lot of people including Putin are getting a lot of advantage out of it a lot of mileage out of it certainly people in Washington certainly people in London certainly people in Moscow. So it's if you look at it like that and you realize this crisis has been sort of like pushed along by a wide variety of different people then it starts to make a hell of a lot more sense. Because if you think of it as just like unicausal then it it becomes like just this one thing and you're like wondering well why are these things happening or this over here is happening. But if you realize that many people are on this bus and want it to go a certain way but not too far then it becomes a lot more understandable. I think it's a good useful heuristic for this situation

The Duran: On the ground in Ukraine on 'invasion day'

https://youtu.be/pNj5gk9-zPo

Family

  • Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people the only see once a year. And discover once a year is way too often. –Johnny Carson.

External links

Hundreds more liberal quotes:

Two legal systems

Anyone who is poor knows there are two legal systems: A corrupt legal system for the poor and one for everyone else.™

At the Bailey Law Firm justice is not an abstract term.

It's something we create everyday for our clients.

Lawyers suck The law profession should be called the "fear profession".

A person will come to an attorney either with a current legal problem (fear) or a potential legal problem (fear).

Attorneys usually will then create even more fear, then they tell the lay person to "trust me" they alone know what this afraid person can do to stop this fear. It is a wonderful way that attorneys personally enrich themselves. It is yet another example of the corrupting influence of money in American society.

In all of our dealings with other lawyers we have paid, we cannot think of a single time in which an attorney has stepped back and said, this maybe technically illegal, but the chances of you being prosecuted are infinitesimally small.

Again and again, we have paid an attorney to tell us the most expensive options available which would get them the most money. These attorneys will intentionally leave out free or low costs options which don't involve paying them.

There is a good reason why everyone hates lawyers. Attorneys suck.

Is our legal offices any different? We would sure like to think so. Contact us to find out.

Corporations: an era of corruption

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"The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes." --Abraham Lincoln

How we work From 80 to 92 percent of all cases settle.

There are two courts: a court of law and a court of public opinion.

If you can't get justice in traditional court, you can assuredly get justice by publicizing a corporation's bad acts.

Our goal is to get you compensation as quickly and painlessly as possible. We do this by threatening to publish the organizations bad acts on the internet. If they do not settle within two weeks, we viciously destroy their reputation.

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How America silents dissent

No man can struggle with advantage against the spirit of his age and country, and however powerful a man may be, it is hard for him to make his contemporaries share feelings and ideas which run counter to the general run of their hopes and desires.

--France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville

"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." --Mark Twain

The Overton window

Also known as the window of discourse, is the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window


The Spiral of Silence

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By Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

👑 People who see that the dominant social attitudes contradict their own position, “fall silent”, to avoid expressing their point of view, because they are afraid to be in the minority.

👑 The more prevalent the prevailing point of view seems to them, the more they “fall silent”.

Public opinion does not exist

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Pierre Bourdieu "Public Opinion Does Not Exist", for the following reasons:

👑 Firstly, not all people are capable of producing their opinion.

👑 Secondly, not all people's opinions are significant.

👑 Third, asking everyone the same question implies the hypothesis that there is a consensus about the problem, that is, an agreement about which questions are worth asking.

Source:

File:kupdf.net public-opinion-does-not-exist pierre-bourdieu-1972.pdf

The Dunning Kruger effect. The dumber you are the smarter you think you are

Videos

Crimes of Obama and Hillary Clinton by Adam Saleh.

Obama and Hilary dropped 26,000 bombs on Libya, 7 countries in total [Trump is a war criminal too].[3]

Follow-up after an interview with a hostile pro-American journalist - June 21 2020 Saturday

"There are moments in life when you must act even though you cannot carry your best friends with you. The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty." -- Mahatma Gandhi (as mentioned in the podcast).

Link to full podcast available on demand.

Russia

Russian refuge application, currently on appeal

In 2019 I applied for temporary refuge status, which was denied (this is the norm) and is currently on appeal.

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Russian Think Tanks

There are several Russian Think Tanks in Moscow which I have applied too.

I was working for http://openworld24.ru/law/

Now I have an internship with Russian Mir: https://russkiymir.ru/en/

I have written and mailed Putin's inner circle, a group of 16 men, with ideas 3 times.

America

2015: Cyber security document and the Washington Post

2018: Salt Lake Tribune article

Sexpionage - visiting the FSB in Kazan

RE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexpionage#Soviet_and_Russian_sexpionage (I wrote the majority of this article)
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Letter to that I turned into the Kazan FSB


On March 10, 2020 I visited the Kazan FSB. This was the only trip I had ever taken out of Moscow in ~3.5 years.

My hobbies and bucket list involves several former unique places, including KGB sites such as the KGB Spy town. On 6-10 of March I visited Kazan to find the Kazan Tatarstan Sexpionage School. The inspiration for the movie of Red Sparrow, former CIA agent Jason Matthews, said that this school was there. This author helped me over Facebook.

I visited the Mormon church on my first day in Kazan, ask about the sex spy school, found some leads and hired an investigator named Andri +7-986-710-88-12 who worked with one of my translators, Anna over the phone.

FSB Kazan

On Tuesday (Monday was a holiday) , I was at a dead end. I had met many people who said they had family members and friends who were KGB, and I had to go back home the next morning. The historical archives that Andri and I visited initially said to go to the FSB to request the documents. So I went with Andri to the FSB. The guard said we had to write a request, so I had my translator write up a request, which Andri wrote. We returned to the FSB. We were met with a middle aged woman who said she would look into it. And I would receive a response in 1 month.

I knew this was a dead end. I never received a response.

Text of letter that Anna translated, and Andri and I gave to the FSB officer

Управлению ФСБ России по Республике Татарстан

от Бейли Тревиса Ли,1*.0*.19** г.р.,

почтовый адрес: г. Москва,

ул. Делегацкая 11, №69, 127473,

контактный телефон: +7 915 444 3195

паспорт № 567551068, выданный в США,

справка № 1145-12-013544 о рассмотрении

заявления о предоставлении временного убежища

на территории Российской Федерации


ЗАЯВЛЕНИЕ

Прошу предоставить мне информацию из архива ФСБ г. Казань о Государственной Школе №4 и её точный адрес для использования в личных целях как можно быстрее, поскольку сегодня (10.03.2020) в 20:00 я уезжаю в Москву.

Вышеупомянутая школа была изображена в фильме «Красный Воробей». В ней готовили агентов КГБ и обучали их различным техникам соблазнения для изъятия информации. Меня интересует, является ли сейчас история данной советской школы государственной тайной.

10.03.2020 Бейли Тревис Ли

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    Facebook message and reply from former CIA agent Jason Matthews]]

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    Text to Andri while video conference with Anna

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    Andri my hired investigator



My general background in the United States before 2013

Mormons

Outing American embassy employees and Mormons in Moscow, Russia: https://ColdWar2.us
  • "Utah, and particularly Brigham Young University (BYU ), has been one of the prime recruiting grounds for the CIA...A disproportionate number of Mormons." - Edward Decker. 2007

Idaho

Saint Mary's School of Law

DC BAR

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Sources for what was discussed on the show

The United States is the most violent country internationally today

America spends more money, sells more weapons, and had more military bases then any country in the world.

Statics today
  • In 45 countries the U.S. military bases prop up undemocratic regimes. Think Trump Is Too Cozy with Dictators? Check Out the U.S. Military. In 45 countries, U.S. military bases prop up undemocratic regimes of all sorts, while often interfering with local campaigns for democracy.https://fpif.org/think-trump-is-too-cozy-with-dictators-check-out-the-u-s-military
  • The U.S. is by far the largest military spender in the world, accounting for 36% of the total, spending almost as much as the next eight countries combined. Global Military Expenditures Are Up, Driven By Top 2 Spenders — U.S. And China
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/718144787/global-military-expenditures-up-driven-by-top-two-spenders-u-s-and-china

American police killings:
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

  • Americans have killed over 100,000 minorities overseas in 2019:
  • Yemen (American proxy war): up to 85,000 young children dead from starvation. [1]
  • UN: Afghan War Killed, Wounded More Than 10,000 Civilians in 2019. [2] *(Both by US and terrorist)
  • America killed at least 2,392 Iraqi civilians in 2019.[3]
  • Drone bombings: Airwars research showed that at least 2,214 civilians were locally alleged killed by international military actions across Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Somalia during 2019. [4]
  • Yemen (American proxy war): approximately 20,000 people have been killed (As of October 31, 2019). [5]

[1]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/21/yemen-young-children-dead-starvation-disease-save-the-children

[2]

https://www.voanews.com/south-central-asia/un-afghan-war-killed-wounded-more-10000-civilians-2019

[3]

https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/

[4]

https://airwars.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2019-Annual-Report-Web.pdf

[5]

https://apnews.com/b7f039269a394b7aa2b46430e3d9b6bc

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Historically
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. I cannot be silent. - Martin Luther King. Source: "Beyond Vietnam". April 4, 1967. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/beyond-vietnam
  1. Attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, most of which were democratically-elected.
  2. Dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 countries.
  3. Attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.
  4. Attempted to suppress a populist or nationalist movement in 20 countries.
  5. Grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries.
  6. Led the world in torture; not only the torture performed directly by Americans upon foreigners, but providing torture equipment, torture manuals, lists of people to be tortured, and in-person guidance by American teachers, especially in Latin America. For example, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_and_CIA_interrogation_manuals. Source: William Blum – Published June 26th, 2018 https://williamblum.org/aer/read/158
  • For its entire history, America has supported brutal dictatorships and overthrown democratically elected governments to install dictators. After the Indian Wars in the 1800s America overthrew the Spanish Empire. It began to invade Central and South American countries in the late 1800s.

Guatemala syphilis experiments lawsuit with the Department of Health and Human Services

In March 2011, seven plaintiffs filed a federal class action lawsuit against the U.S. government claiming damages for the Guatemala experiments. This case argued that the United States was at fault due to not asking for consent. This lawsuit asked for money to compensate for medical damages and livelihood because most of the families were living in poverty. The case failed when a judge determined that the U.S. government could not be held liable for actions committed outside of the U.S. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiments#Lawsuits

Other experiments on Americans
  • I mentioned the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. It was a clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service. The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis; the African-American men in the study were only told they were receiving free health care from the Federal government of the United States.I incorrectly stated that Obama apologized. On May 16, 1997, President Bill Clinton formally apologized on behalf of the United States to victims of the study. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

The current Yemen Proxy War

More articles on this subject: Peace:Yemen
Definition of Proxy war
Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame. — Amnesty International. 1996.

A proxy war is an armed conflict between two states or non-state actors which act on the instigation or on behalf of other parties that are not directly involved in the hostilities. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war

  • Afghanistan USSR War was a proxy war for the United States.
    • The CIA backed the Afghanistan terrorists for years before the invasion. See Afghanistan War.
    • The CIA provided weapons and intelligence to the mujaheddin (jihadists) rebels fighting Soviet invasion in what was called "Operation Cyclone"
        • Many authors suggest that Osama Bin Laden was created during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in what is called "BlowBack" (described below). "During the anti-Soviet war Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA." Source: Al-Qaeda's origins and links. BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1670089.stm 2004.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden.

    • In a book written by a member of President Carter's cabinet, the cabinet member excited explains how he pulled the Soviet Union into the war. (Finding source)
Yemen Proxy War
Result of Yemen Proxy War

Collective Guilt

See Collective Guilt

Congressional Industrial Military Complex

The Industrial Military Complex is an informal alliance between a nation's military and the defense industry that supplies it, which influences public policy

The term was coined in the farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961, who stated, "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex."

In one draft of the speech, the phrase was "military–industrial–congressional complex", indicating the essential role that the United States Congress plays in the propagation of the military industry, but the word "congressional" was dropped from the final version to appease the then-currently elected officials. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex

Iraq War Casualties

I stated that conservatively the United States has killed a half million people. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

A vast majority of products are made by oil

Over 6,000 items are made from petroleum waste by-products, including: fertilizer, flooring (floor covering), perfume, insecticide, petroleum jelly, soap and vitamins. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_product

Products made from petroleum, lists 144 of 6000 items Source: https://www.ranken-energy.com/index.php/products-made-from-petroleum/

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Occam's Razor

Occam's Razor is a line of reasoning that says the simplest answer is often correct.

i described how I use Occam's Razor to explain what happens to me in Moscow. But occasionally Occam's Razor cannot explain some of the experiences that I have had.

I am 90% certain that I have been propositioned by two stunningly gorgeous honeypots on at least two occasions, and a low level prostitute in my old apartment for a third (Occum’s razor says that I am being foolish – but this is one case where I am almost positive). The Washington Post reported in 1987 that "Most westerners who have spent any length of time in Moscow have their favorite tale of an attempted seduction by a KGB swallow or raven." Now prostitutes’ are hired by the state and those who want "kompromat" Source: Michael Dobbs, (April 12, 1987). Sexpionage Why We Can't Resist Those KGB Sirens, Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1987/04/12/sexpionage-why-we-cant-resist-those-kgb-sirens/900e1e59-1a7b-455f-93cf-22e67394512b/


Gary Webb - the CIA covered up Contra drug trafficking

When you mentioned the heroin poppy seeds in Afghanistan, I mentioned Gary Webb in passing.
Webb is best known for his "Dark Alliance" series, which appeared in The Mercury News in 1996. The series examined the origins of the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles and claimed that members of the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua had played a major role in creating the trade, using cocaine profits to support their struggle. It also suggested that the Contras may have acted with the knowledge and protection of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Later journalists found that Webb's reporting showed that "The CIA conducted an internal investigation that acknowledged in March 1998 that the agency had covered up Contra drug trafficking for more than a decade."
Webb committed suicide in 2004 with two gunshot wounds to the head.


Self-Hating Jew - Noam Chomsky

Putin tells Russian American KGB spy joke

Putin tells Russian American KGB spy joke

Russian English translation

Russian transcript:


Челове́к пришёл на Лубя́нку и говори́т:


– Я шпио́н, хочу́ сда́ться.

Ему́ говоря́т:


– А Вы, чей шпио́н?

Говори́т:


– Америка́нский.


– Ну, тогда́ в пя́тую ко́мнату.

Он пошёл в пя́тую ко́мнату:


– Я америка́нский шпио́н, хочу́ сда́ться.


– А у Вас ору́жие есть?


– Есть.


– В седьму́ю, пожа́луйста.

Он в седьму́ю:


– Я шпио́н, хочу́ сда́ться, у меня́ есть ору́жие.


– В деся́тую.

Ну, в деся́тую:


– Я шпио́н, хочу́ сда́ться, у меня́ есть ору́жие.


– А сре́дства свя́зи есть?


– Есть.


– В двацатую ко́мнату.

Пришёл:


– Я шпио́н, у меня́ есть ору́жие, сре́дства свя́зи, я хочу́ сда́ться.

Его́ спра́шивают:


– А зада́ние то у Вас есть?


– Есть.


– Ну, иди́те и исполня́йте. Не меша́йте лю́дям рабо́тать!


English Translation:

A man comes to Lubyanka (KGB headquarters) and says:

- I am a spy, I want to surrender.

He is asked:

- Whose spy are you?

He says:

- I am an American spy.

- Well, then, you need to go to room #5.

He goes to the room #5:

- I am an American spy, I want to surrender.

- Do you have weapons?

- Yes, I do.

- Please go to room #7.

He goes to the room #7:

- I'm a spy, I want to surrender, I have weapons.

- Please go to room #10.

He goes to the room #10:

- I'm a spy, I want to surrender, I have weapons.

- Do yo have communications equipment?

- Yes, I do.

- Please go to room #20.

He arrives to the room #20:

- I'm a spy, I have weapons and communications equipment, and I want to surrender.

He is asked:

- Do you have a mission?

- Yes, I do.

- Well, then go and execute your mission. Stop distracting people from their work!I'm a spy, I want to surrender, I have weapons.

- Please go to room #10.

He goes to the room #10:

- I'm a spy, I want to surrender, I have weapons.

- Do yo have communications equipment?

- Yes, I do.

- Please go to room #20.

He arrives to the room #20:

- I'm a spy, I have weapons and communications equipment, and I want to surrender.

He is asked:

- Do you have a mission?

- Yes, I do.

- Well, then go and execute your mission. Stop distracting people from their work!

perfect is the enemy of good

What does "perfect is the enemy of good" mean?

Since you can never achieve perfection, if you wait to be perfect before you do anything, nothing will ever get done.

The Pareto principle or 80–20 rule explains this numerically. For example, it commonly takes 20% of the full time to complete 80% of a task while to complete the last 20% of a task takes 80% of the effort.

Peace Corps only taught 3 months of language training

Lee Harvey Oswald, who later killed President John F. Kennedy, lived in Belarus for 3 years. He only had one month of language training before it was mysteriously ended:

Oswald's tutoring began soon after Oswald arrived at the Experimental Department...Libezin was unconcerned: most important, he said, was that Oswald acquire some basic facility in the language...[they] met for one month, and then it was decided that the American now spoke Russian. Shushkevich told me he did not know who had made this decision...Shushkevich suspected it had come from someone higher up who did not work at the factory, and he said he had no idea how that person had determined that Oswald had made any progress—there were no tests, and he never filed any reports with Libezin or anyone else—but he wasn’t sure that was important. All he knew for sure was that one day, unexpectedly, his social work came to an end.

Source: The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union.

The United States Peace Corps Ukraine offered 3 months of language training for volunteers.

Not discussed on the podcast

American Civil Religion

  • American civil religion is a term coined by sociologist Robert Bellah in 1967. According to Bellah, Americans embrace a common "civil religion" with certain fundamental beliefs, values, holidays, and rituals, parallel to, or independent of, their chosen religion. Source: Bellah, Robert Neelly (1967). "Civil Religion in America". Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 96 (1): 1–21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion

Blowback

The 9/11 attacks were Blowback for American's actions in the Middle East.

Definition: “Blowback” is a CIA term first used in March 1954 in a recently declassified report on the 1953 operation to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran. It is a metaphor for the unintended consequences of the US government’s international activities that have been kept secret from the American people. The CIA’s fears that there might ultimately be some blowback from its egregious interference in the affairs of Iran were well founded. Installing the Shah in power brought twenty-five years of tyranny and repression to the Iranian people and elicited the Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence) 

Blowback - US actions abroad have repeatedly led to unintended, indefensible consequences. September 27, 2001 The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/blowback/

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/blowback/

The democracy that America espouses ends at its seashore

See also: Congress for Cultural Freedom & Psychological operations (United States)
  • The U.S. intervened in 81 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000. At the same time brutally overthrowing many of these same countries in coups and installing ruthless dictators. Source: Levin, Dov H. (June 2016). "When the Great Power Gets a Vote: The Effects of Great Power Electoral Interventions on Election Results". International Studies Quarterly. 60 (2): 189–202. doi:10.1093/isq/sqv016
  • PSYOPs - After World War II the United States and the USSR began a concerted effort to manipulate populations overseas. In declassified documents the United States is show to be willing to "propagandize, subvert, sabotage....manipulate" and lie:

The invention of the atomic bomb will cause a shift in the balance between ‘peaceful’ and ‘warlike’ methods of exerting international pressure. And we must expect a very marked increase in the importance of ‘peaceful’ methods. Our enemies will be even freer than [ever] to propagandize, subvert, sabotage and exert . . . pressures upon us, and we ourselves shall be more willing to bear these affronts and ourselves to indulge in such methods—in our eagerness to avoid at all costs the tragedy of open war; ‘peaceful’ techniques will become more vital in times of pre-war softening up, actual overt war, and in times of post-war manipulation.” Source: The Cultural Cold War The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters Frances Stonor Saunders Source: Gregory Bateson, Research & Analysis, OSS, to General Donovan, August 18, 1945 (CIA.HSC/RG263/NARA)

Communists have a “strong position in Europe, so immensely superior to our own . . . through unabashed and skillful use of lies. They have fought us with unreality, with irrationalism. Can we combat this unreality successfully with rationalism, with truth, with honest, well-meant economic assistance?" No, America needed to embrace a new era of covert warfare to advance her democratic objectives against Soviet deceit. -- George Kennan, 1947. Source: George Kennan, National War College Address, December 1947, quoted in International Herald Tribune, May 28, 1997.

The power of an idea - the influence that each of us have on others

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead

Malcolm Gladwell discussed based on scientific studies how subtle comments can have extreme effect on people.

In my sociology course, I learned that - 1 man does something it is mocked as crazy and derided. Two or more is not.

How dissenting voices are silenced in America

"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." --Mark Twain

The Spiral of Silence

...By Sociologist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

👑 People who see that the dominant social attitudes contradict their own position, “fall silent”, to avoid expressing their point of view, because they are afraid to be in the minority.
👑 The more prevalent the prevailing point of view seems to them, the more they “fall silent”.

The Overton window, also known as the window of discourse, is the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse.

The best book on how dissenting voices are silenced on a macro level is Manufacturing Dissent by Noam Chomsky:

  • Rather than needing direct control over the media as in dictatorships, industrial democracies control popular opinion using "filters" which prevent politically controversial ideas from reaching the public. Here are three of the five filters:
    • the concentration of media ownership to a few corporations,
    • the need to please advertisers and funding sources,
    • the reliance on government-provided sources,
      ...These influences combine to prevent politically inconvenient knowledge and ideas from reaching the general public.
  • Chomsky discusses Walter Lippmann author of 1922's Public Opinion. Shortly after it was published, John Dewey called Lippmann’s book “the most effective indictment of democracy as currently conceived.”

American Sniper: There are 3 types of people in this world "Sheep, Wolves and Sheep Dogs

  • Youtube video clip of "American Sniper"
    • 'The irony is this man who is portrayed in the movie, Chris Kyle was an American Sniper in Iraq and later died in a bar fight
    • I see myself as an aspiring "sheep dog"
  • America economically benefits from misery, death and destruction for generations (Indian genocide, Slavery) ...and only generations later contritely apologies about these horrors which built the country. History will not be kind to the United States. There will someday be a reconciliation of what the United States did.

The Chinese Century started in 2015

The United States is fragile.

The Chines century started in 2015. When the history of 2015 is written, China became the largest economy. In 2014, the body that conducts international "Purchasing-power parities" assessments—the World Bank’s International Comparison Program came out with new numbers. The organization predicted that China would become the world’s largest economy far sooner than anyone had expected, in 2015. Source: Joseph E. Stiglitz. January 2015. The Chinese Century. Vanity Fair.https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2015/1/the-chinese-century

In 1976 Emmanuel Todd in La chute finale: Essais sur la décomposition de la sphère Soviétique (The Final Fall: An essay on the decomposition of the Soviet sphere), predicted the collapse of the United States. Source: Predictions of the dissolution of the Soviet Union In 2003 he wrote After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order. Todd argues that America is fast losing its grip on the world stage in economic, military and ideological terms. Todd predicts the fall of the United States as the sole global superpower. Source: After the Empire

Strategies to economically cripple the United States

Here are one or two of the many many ideas that I have. I have written and mailed to Putin's inner circle a number of times about ideas such as this.
Copyright
See also Copyright as an economic weapon against the United States, How you can help / Further reading

The last day I went into the American embassy in February 2020:

  1. I received a PDF letter back from the Russian government denying my request. to abolish copyright.
  2. On the same day I also was told that my last documentary that I was in, Unknown American, was ready to be published with a publishing dare.
38.2 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) is in copyright
File:Intellectual propert and the US economy.png

The more copyright law is weakened abroad, the weaker America is economically and therefore militarily.

Every person, organization and country has an Achilles heel. The larger the person, organization, or country, the bigger the Achilles heel. In 2016 US Presidential a Saint Petersburg troll farm company helped get Donald J. Trump get elected. The election shows that Russians are acutely cognizant of many of America's Achilles heels.

In 2016 the U.S. Commerce Department released a comprehensive report entitled, “Intellectual Property and the U.S. Economy: 2016 Update,” which found that Intellectual Property intensive industries support at least 45 million U.S. jobs and contribute to more than $6 trillion dollars to, or 38.2 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). Source: Intellectual Property and the U.S. Economy, United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Immigration
Inviting poor and dissatisfied Americans to Russia
File:The forsaken soviet russia an american tradgedy.jpg
See Wikipedia: The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia

During the height of the depression, the 1930s Russia ran advertisements for Americans to come to Russia in the New York Times and other newspapers across the USA. Tens of thousands did. Source: Tim Tzouliadis. 2008. The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia. In the first eight months of 1931, a Soviet trade agency in New York advertised 6,000 positions in newspapers and received more than 100,000 applications. Ten thousand Americans were hired in 1931. In March 1932, The New York Times reported that immigration to the Soviet Union was 1000 a week, but increasing.

Today, Russia should actively encourage Americans to immigrate from the United States again. The government can use swallows and other FSB intelligence sources to carefully watch new American immigrants. This past few months, Russia already has enacted new laws which involve radical reforms in the immigration system, allowing existing and new immigrants to become Russian citizens.

As an American,if you feel the same way about the United States, or you feel like people don’t see your value, Moscow beckons.



A Russian Dome City for Americans fleeing social rest and economic stagnation
File:Under the Dome intertitle.jpg

As the United States continues to rapidly decline a "Dome City" should be created from the straight across from Alaska.

In the book "The Interloper" Lee Harvey Oswald was under constant surveillance be the KGB under the "dome".

Excerpt of the book "The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union":
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On March 16, two months after he started at the Experimental Department, Oswald was moved from the Hotel Minsk to Apartment 24 at 4 Kalinina Ulitsa, about twenty minutes by foot, or two tram stops, from the hotel. The building was in the center of the city, and it had been designed in the monumental Stalinist style: looming archways, thick columns, oversized windows. It was meant to feel powerful, domineering, even regal. If Oswald walked out of his building and turned right, and then right again, through the narrow driveway, beneath the yellow archway, he would be standing on Kalinina Ulitsa. If he turned left on Kalinina Ulitsa and walked for a minute or two, he would be at Victory Square, which was a traffic circle with an obelisk and eternal flame dedicated to the unknown soldier. If, instead of going to Victory Square, he turned right on Kalinina Ulitsa, he would soon arrive at the military headquarters, shrouded in trees. If he went a little farther, through an oblong patch of forest and up a small hill, he would be at the opera house. Just opposite his window, on the other side of Kalinina Ulitsa and down a short slope, was the river.26 Oswald called the apartment on Kalinina Ulitsa “a Russians dream.” Apartment 24, at entrance No. 2, encompassed 266 square feet, and it had three rooms: a kitchen, a bathroom with a toilet, and a bedroom-cum-living room. There was also a balcony; a vestibule; a small, built-in wardrobe; and views of the river and opera house. The interior walls, which were made of wood and plaster, were just shy of six inches thick, but the exterior walls, which were brick, were a little more than twenty inches in thickness, which meant it was usually quiet inside the apartment. His neighbors rarely heard him, and he seemed oblivious of them.27
It is unlikely that Oswald realized he was living in what amounted to a village inside a city. He had been strategically situated within a five- to ten-minute walk of most everywhere he needed to go —the factory, the grocery store, friends, associates, the opera house, the movie theater, the river, the park, and the Foreign Language Institute, where, according to Titovets, there were women who spoke English, listened to jazz, and were more “adventurous.” This was clearly illustrated in a 1964 CIA report on Oswald’s Soviet period. The report includes a simple street plan of the center of Minsk that shows Oswald’s apartment building and other locations that played a role in his everyday life, including the house where his coworker and one-time love interest Ella German lived (just opposite the river); the building where his future wife, Marina Prusakova, lived with her aunt and uncle (three and a half blocks away); the building where the engineer Alexander Ziger, who became friendly with Oswald and served as something of a father figure, lived with his family (on Krasnaya Ulitsa); and the Palace of Culture of the Council of Trade Unions, where he met Marina Prusakova (on the other side of the river, at October Square). It was as if the KGB had constructed a little world just for him.29
In fact, said Oleg Nechiporenko, that was common KGB practice. Nechiporenko, the KGB officer who briefly handled Oswald’s case when he turned up at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City in the fall of 1963, said the KGB had a name for this sort of “village in a city.” They called it a kolpak, which means “cover,” “dome,” or “shroud.” They would say that someone was in a kolpak or biyt pod kolpakom. This meant one was “being under the cover” of the security organs. To make things more convenient, Apartment 24 was on the fourth floor—above the tree line—and it faced the river. From the opposite bank of the Svisloch, the people strolling on the embankment could see the balcony, and, with binoculars, they could certainly get a good look inside through the windows of his bedroom and kitchen, and down the darkened corridor to the vestibule, filled with a bland, yellow light. It was as if his entire life had been reorganized so that other people could watch it.30
The kolpak accomplished two things: it made it easier for the authorities to watch him, and, more importantly, it put him at ease, which, in turn, made it still easier to watch him. It made him believe he was in a place where he was known and even understood. Here, in this little, invisible village in the middle of Minsk, there were people who worked in the same factory he worked in, spoke the same language he spoke, and liked the same composers he liked. In the coming months, they would go to the movies with him and invite him over for dinner. This feeling of connectivity would have been reinforced daily. Every time he was on the street or at an intersection or on Victory Square, he could expect to run into someone he knew, a friendly acquaintance who would wave and even smile, reminding him that he was somewhere where he could be himself. This was something that Oswald had never had—a sense of belonging. In this way, the security organs anticipated better than Oswald did what he needed. By planting him in this mesh of seemingly thick relations, they oriented and settled him. They made him think that he could do whatever he wanted because he was home now.31
It wasn’t just atmospherics. There was also, most everyone agrees, extensive monitoring of Oswald. This monitoring almost certainly included listening devices, secret police whose job it was to watch him, and a sprawling network of informants who were recruited by the security organs after he arrived. In fact, nearly everyone who worked with Oswald in Minsk said the same two things over and over: they had never informed on him, and most everyone else had. They didn’t like to talk about these things, even fifty years later. But they knew about it. Or, it would be more correct to say, they intuited it. For one thing, Oswald had many bosses—Libezin, Lavshuk, Leonid Botvinik—and each of them seemed to answer to someone else whom no one knew.
Potential employment opportunities
= Active measures Against the United States =
See also Active measures Against the United States

The KGB spent billions of dollars actively trying to subvert the United States domestically and abroad. This KGB playbook is being used again today by the SVR and FSB.

Its most successful campaign was the fabrication of the story that AIDS virus was manufactured by US scientists at Fort Detrick, called Operation INFEKTION.

=Working as an "Internet Troll" in Saint Petersburg =
See also: Internet Research Agency

The trolls in this facility were clearly not native speakers, which made them easy to detect.

= Kim Philby - creating fabricated documents =

Former British intelligence officer Kim Philby found work in the early 1970s in the KGB's Active Measures Department churning out fabricated documents. Working from genuine unclassified and public CIA or U.S. State Department documents, Philby inserted “sinister” paragraphs regarding U.S. plans. The KGB would stamp the documents “top secret” and begin their circulation. For the Soviets, Philby was an invaluable asset, ensuring the correct use of idiomatic and diplomatic English phrases in their disinformation efforts. Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger. Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda.

= Steal this Book =
See also: Steal This Book

Steal this Book is a book written by Abbie Hoffman in 1970. It explains how to fight the government through illegal activities. I have strongly considered updating the book with only legal activities to subvert the federal government.


Peace is possible

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File:Flags russian and american together.png русский

See also Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade

TONIGHT I will be Talking about a journey. The journey we all take together, as a species. How we, as a human race, can literally change the world.

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On May 22, 1787 twelve men met to abolish the slave trade worldwide. In one short generation the British Empire abolished slavery, paving the way for worldwide abolishment of slavery.

A world without war is possible.

The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade

In 1787, approximately three quarters of the people on Earth lived under some form of enslavement, serfdom, debt bondage or indentured servitude. There were no slaves in Britain itself, but the vast majority of its people accepted slavery in the British West Indies as perfectly normal.

The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade was a British abolitionist group, formed on 22 May 1787, by twelve men who gathered together at a printing shop in London, England. Within their lifetimes they saw slavery be abolished in Britain. (NOTE: The Society achieved abolition of the international slave trade in 1807, enforced by the British Navy. The United States also prohibited the African slave trade that year, to take effect in 1808. Within their lifetimes these twelve men abolished slavery.

It later was superseded by development of the Anti-Slavery Society in 1823, which worked to abolish the institution of slavery throughout the British colonies. Abolition was passed by parliament in 1833 with emancipation completed by 1838. 1833-1787 = 46 years)

A Call to Action

This effort can be repeated today with American Foreign Policy. This can be done by actively positively encouraging our leaders to instead invest the money into our communities. Start with your congressional district today. Ask your leader to support peace, and tell them if they continue to vote for war you will reluctantly start a guerrilla marking campaign to alert the public that this congressman is someone who does not support bringing our war dollars home to your community.

The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees

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Insignia of the later British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
2 George Yard, London, England

The reverberations from what happened on this spot, on the late afternoon of May 22, 1787, eventually caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including the first and greatest student of what today we call civil society. The result of the series of events begun that afternoon in London, wrote France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville decades later, was "absolutely without precedent...If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary."

The building that once stood at 2 George Yard was a bookstore and printing shop. The proprietor was James Phillips, publisher and printer for Britain's small community of Quakers. On that May afternoon, after the pressmen and typesetters had gone home for the day, 12 men filed through his doors. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth." (NOTE: Hochschild, Adam. (January 25, 2005) The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees Retrieved from: http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/25/opinion/oe-hochschild25 )




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"The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first…The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: ‘It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war.' Then the few will shout even louder…Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it...Next, statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."

--Mark Twain

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What are you willing to sacrifice for your beliefs?

There are a million reasons to stay in America, but only one reason to leave:

Internationally, the United States is the most violent country in the world.

My career ambitions are two pronged in 2020. First, I either will work for a Russian think tank such as the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) in consulting or writing policy papers on how Russia can subvert the United States economically. Alternatively we will create our own state-sanctioned Russian think tank to abolish copyright in Russia among other activities.

I anchor much of what I seek to accomplish in the inspiring turn of events of May 1787, in which only twelve London men formed the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and abolished slavery in the British Empire worldwide within one generation. As the late anthropologist Margaret Mead states, Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Today, war can be abolished the same way that slavery was two hundred years ago.

This firm belief in peace is based on a long history of living abroad. I was living in Odessa, Ukraine in the Peace Corps when the terrorists hit the World Trade Center. I had an Arab friend from Dubai who was the kindest, most honorable, most incredible man I have ever met in my entire life. A couple of days after 9/11, I was walking on the warm promenade of the port city of Odessa with Jaz. In a low tone that was so foreign, he said, "If they [Americans] come to my country, I will kill them". I was shocked, how could the gentlest man I ever met hate America so much?

That question haunted me even after I returned to America. After the Peace Corps, I earned a Juris Doctorate concurrent with a Masters in International Relations. In law school I wrote what would later become my second published book "America’s Other War, Terrorizing Colombia" which was published in 2017. To answer why my gentle Arab friend hated America, I wrote a SPSS white paper called, “Why do They Hate Us? Origins of Anti-Americanism A Framework for Analysis”.

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On May 22, 1787 twelve men met to abolish the slave trade worldwide. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth. In one short generation the British Empire, the largest slave trader in the world, abolished slavery, paving the way for worldwide abolishment of slavery.


Helping support the Guatemala syphilis experiment lawsuit

I passed the D.C. law bar in 2009 and started my legal career with the US Federal Government in DC. The breaking point with this job was I was working with another attorney to defend the government in the Guatemala syphilis experiment case, a case in which United States government doctors intentionally and covertly infected Guatemalans with syphilis. I quit shortly afterward in disgust.

After years of research and writing, I decided the only way to influence American foreign policy was outside of the United States. I moved back to Moscow in September 2018.

File:160223 SCI Guatemala-STD-Experiments-Victim-04-850px.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg Pictured: Female patients from the Guatemalan psychiatric hospital who were exposed to syphilis as part of the experiments conducted between 1946 and 1948.


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Vision

Motto: "A Peaceful World is Possible" (Note: Section 2. Proclaiming Your Dream: Developing Vision and Mission Statements

Your vision is your dream. It's what your organization believes are the ideal conditions for your community; that is, how things would look if the issue important to you were completely, perfectly addressed. It might be a world without war... (emphasis my own) )

Alternative: "Invest in America First"

Mission

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To create a peaceful world by pressuring local United States representatives in Congress to vote for peace or lose in the next election.

(Note: Section 2. Proclaiming Your Dream: Developing Vision and Mission Statements

Mission statements are similar to vision statements, in that they, too, look at the big picture. However, they're more concrete, and they are definitely more "action-oriented" than vision statements. Your vision statement should inspire people to dream; your mission statement should inspire them to action.

The mission statement might refer to a problem, such as an inadequate housing, or a goal, such as providing access to health care for everyone. And, while they don 't go into a lot of detail, they start to hint - very broadly - at how your organization might fix these problems or reach these goals. )

Objectives

Internationally, the United States is the most violent country in the world.

The goal of May 1787 Political Action Committee is to change American foreign policy for the purpose of:

  • Investing more money domestically instead of internationally.
  • [Stop terrorism blowback]

Our goal is to put extreme pressure on targeted Congressmen to vote for Peace or lose in their next election. Using the National Rifle Association as a guide, we will support pro-peace candidates, regardless of their party affiliation.

Strategies

Action Plans

Quotes

  • Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame. — Amnesty International. 1996.
  • ... A "conservative estimate is (that the United States has killed) at least 6 million civilians and soldiers (since the end of World War 2)." — The Washington Post.

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  • Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and sometimes referred to as the Abolition Society or Anti-Slavery Society, was a British abolitionist group formed on 22 May 1787.

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The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and sometimes referred to as the Abolition Society or Anti-Slavery Society, was a British abolitionist group formed on 22 May 1787. Slavery was abolished in all Britain colonies in 1833 as a result.

Historians posit that this anti-slavery movement is the first peaceful social movement which all modern social movements are built upon.

The society was established by twelve men; including prominent campaigners Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp, who, as Anglicans, were able to be more influential in Parliament than the more numerous Quaker founding members. The society worked to educate the public about the abuses of the slave trade, and achieved abolition of the international slave trade when the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act 1807, at which time the society ceased its activities. (The United States also prohibited the African slave trade the same year, to take effect in 1808.)

In 1823 the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (also known as the Anti-Slavery Society) was founded, which worked to abolish the institution of slavery throughout the British colonies. Abolition was passed by parliament in 1833 (except in India, where it was part of the indigenous culture); with emancipation completed by 1838.

Historical background

Template:Slavery The first anti-slavery statement was written by Dutch and German Quakers, who met at Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1688. English Quakers began to express their official disapproval of the slave trade in 1727 and promote reforms. From the 1750s, a number of Quakers in Britain's American colonies also began to oppose slavery, and called on English Quakers to take action with parliament. They encouraged their fellow citizens, including Quaker slave owners, to improve conditions for slaves, educate their slaves in Christianity, reading and writing, and gradually emancipate (free) them.Template:Cn

An informal group of six Quakers pioneered the British abolitionist movement in 1783 when the London Society of Friends' yearly meeting presented its petition against the slave trade to Parliament, signed by over 300 Quakers. They were also influenced by publicity that year about the Zong massacre, as the shipowners were litigating a claim for insurance against losses due to more than 132 slaves having been killed on their ship.Template:Cn

Foundation

"In 1787, approximately three quarters of the people on Earth lived under some form of enslavement, serfdom, debt bondage or indentured servitude. There were no slaves in Britain itself, but the vast majority of its people accepted slavery in the British West Indies as perfectly normal."

(Note: Adam Hochschild. The Unsung Heroes of Abolition. )

The Quakers decided to form a small, committed, non-denominational group so as to gain greater Church of England and Parliamentary support. The new, non-denominational committee formed in 1787 had nine Quaker members and three Anglicans. As Quakers were not prepared to receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of England, they were not permitted to serve as Members of Parliament, having Anglican members strengthened the committee's likelihood of influencing Parliament.

(Note: hoi The new society was named the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, later often referred to simply as the Abolition Society.

(Note: mylearning Source: title=The Abolition Movement | website=MyLearning | url=https://www.mylearning.org/stories/william-wilberforce/174 | access-date=20 December 2020}} )

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Membership

Nine of the twelve founding members of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, or The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, were Quakers:

(Note: hoi Source: title=Foundation of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade| website=History of Information | url=https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3700 | access-date=20 December 2020}} )

  1. John Barton (1755–1789);
  2. William Dillwyn (1743–1824);
  3. George Harrison (1747–1827);
  4. Samuel Hoare Jr (1751–1825);
  5. Joseph Hooper (1732–1789);
  6. John Lloyd;
  7. Joseph Woods Sr (1738–1812);
  8. James Phillips (1745–1799); and
  9. Richard Phillips.

(Note: Source: author=Leo D'Anjou |title=Social Movements and Cultural Change: The First Abolition Campaign |year=1996 |publisher=Aldine de Gruyter |isbn= 978-0-202-30522-6 |page=198}} )

Five of the Quakers had been amongst the informal group of six Quakers who had pioneered the movement in 1783, when the first petition against the slave trade was presented to Parliament.

Three Anglicans were founding members:

  1. Thomas Clarkson, campaigner and author of an influential essay against the slave trade;
  2. Granville Sharp (Lawyer - had long been involved in the support and prosecution of cases on behalf of enslaved Africans); and
  3. Philip Sansom.

(Note: anjou )

Mission and activities

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"Am I Not A Man And A Brother?" medallion created as part of anti-slavery campaign by Josiah Wedgwood, 1787

The society did not aim at ending slavery altogether, but only to abolish British involvement in the international slave trade. They would do this by awareness-raising campaigns highlighting some of the cruel practices involved in the trade.(Note: mylearning )

The mission of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was to inform the public of the inhuman and immoral treatment of enslaved Africans committed in the name of slavery, to campaign in favour of a new law to abolish the slave trade and enforce this throughout the British Empire. The society's methods for pursuing its goals included writing and publishing anti-slavery books, abolitionist prints, posters and pamphlets, and organising lecture tours in the towns and cities of England. Clarkson's Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade, published in 1788, was one of the first books of the subject. (Note: hoi )

Petitions were presented to the House of Commons (over 100 in 1788)

(Note: odnb anti-slavery rallies held, and a range of anti-slavery medallions, crockery and bronze figurines were made, notably with the support of the Unitarian potter Josiah Wedgwood whose production of pottery medallions featuring a slave in chains with the simple but effective question: "Am I not a man and a brother?" was very effective in bringing public attention to abolition. )

(Note: url=http://www.thepotteries.org/did_you/005.htm%7Ctitle= Did you know? - Josiah Wedgwood was a keen advocate of the slavery abolition movement|website=thepotteries.org| access-date=20 December 2020}} ) (Note: The Wedgwood medallion was the most famous image of a black person in all of 18th-century art. ) (Note: Source: title = British History - Abolition of the Slave Trade 1807| url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/africans_in_art_gallery_02.shtml%7C publisher = BBC | access-date = 2009-04-11| quote = The Wedgwood medallion was the most famous image of a black person in all of 18th-century art.}} )

Clarkson wrote; "ladies wore them in bracelets, and others had them fitted up in an ornamental manner as pins for their hair. At length the taste for wearing them became general, and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for once in the honourable office of promoting the cause of justice, humanity and freedom".

(Note: Source: title = Wedgwood |url = http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REwedgwood.htm |access-date = 2009-07-13 |quote = Thomas Clarkson wrote; ladies wore them in bracelets, and others had them fitted up in an ornamental manner as pins for their hair. At length the taste for wearing them became general, and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for once in the honourable office of promoting the cause of justice, humanity and freedom. |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090708094050/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REwedgwood.htm |archive-date = 8 July 2009}} )

By educating the public, the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade gained many members. In 1787, Clarkson's speaking tour of the great ports and cities of England raised public interest. Publication of the African Olaudah Equiano's autobiography heightened public awareness, as the former slave expressed an unanswerable case against slavery in a work of literary merit. In 1789 Clarkson's promoted the committee's cause by encouraging the sale of Equiano's memoir and inviting the former slave to lecture in British ports linked to the slave trade.

William Wilberforce introduced the first Bill to abolish the slave trade in 1791, which was defeated by 163 votes to 88.

(Note: hoi As Wilberforce continued to bring the issue of the slave trade before Parliament, Clarkson and others on the Committee travelled, raised funds, lobbied, and wrote anti-slavery works. They conducted a protracted parliamentary campaign, during which Wilberforce introduced a motion in favour of abolition almost every year.

Membership

The committee was later joined by the Quaker philanthropist William Allen, who worked closely with Wilberforce and with his fellow Quaker members,Template:Cn and Wilberforce's fellow members of the Clapham Sect were subscribers to the society as well

(Note: Source: title=The role of the Clapham Sect in the fight for the abolition of slavery | website=Art UK | date=10 August 2020 | url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-role-of-the-clapham-sect-in-the-fight-for-the-abolition-of-slavery# | access-date=20 December 2020}} )

Female membership

According to Claire Midgley (2004), the proportion of female subscribers to the society was typical of philanthropic societies of the time. Across the whole society, female subscribers comprised about 10 per cent of the membership, while in some centres, notable Manchester (with 68 women, or nearly a quarter of the total), the percentage was higher. Some of the most identifiable women were members of leading Quaker families, such as the wife of William Dillwyn, Sarah; others were members of the Clapham Sect and also members of the African Institution, and others were members of wealthy Unitarian families in Manchester.

(Note: midgley Source: last=Midgley | first=Claire | title=Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 | publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis | year=2004 | isbn=978-1-134-79880-3 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hgaFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 | access-date=7 January 2021 | page=20|chapter=2. Participants from the first}} ) )

By 1788 there were 206 female subscribers.

(Note: Source: title=Women & Women's Groups: The Abolition of Slavery Project | website=The Abolition of Slavery Project | url=http://abolition.e2bn.org/people_38.html | access-date=7 January 2021}} )

One prominent female subscriber was writer and polymath Elizabeth Carter.

(Note: odnb Source: url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-92867%7Ctitle=Society for the Purpose of Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade|first=G.M.|last=Ditchfield|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/92867|date=24 May 2007}} ) )

Related societies

Several members of the society also subscribed to the African Institution (founded 1807 to create a viable, civilised refuge for freed slaves in Sierra Leone

(Note: Source: last=African Institution (London | first=England) | title=Report of the Committee of the African Institution | publisher=Ellerton and Henderson | issue=v. 2 | year=1812 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaARAAAAIAAJ | access-date=7 January 2021 | page=}} ).

(Note: odnb The Sons of Africa abolitionist society had a membership of educated Londoners, mostly African former slaves. It was closely connected to the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.Template:Cn )

Petitioning peaked in 1792, with up to 100,000 signatures (Manchester alone contributing 10,639), regional anti-slavery groups started taking the lead, especially in the north of England. (Note: odnb )

Women had increasingly played a larger role in the anti-slavery movement

(Note: Source: last1=Sussman| first1=Charlotte| title=Consuming Anxieties. Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833| year=2000|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford}} ) but could not take a direct role in Parliament. They sometimes formed their own anti-slavery societies. Many women were horrified that, under slavery, women and children were taken away from their families. In 1824, Elizabeth Heyrick published a pamphlet titled Immediate not Gradual Abolition, in which she urged the immediate emancipation of slaves in the British colonies.Template:Cn

Despite the little influence they carried, many female abolitionists made a big impact on the abolition of the slave trade. An important campaigner was Anne Knight. She was born into a Quaker family in Essex and took active roles in the anti-slavery campaigns. Knight formed the Chelmsford Female Anti-Slavery Society. She also toured France, giving lectures on the immorality of slavery.Template:Citation needed

The Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves was founded in Birmingham, England, on 8 April 1825.

(Note: Source: last=Simkin | first=John | title=Women and the Anti-Slavery Movement | website=Spartacus Educational | url=https://spartacus-educational.com/REslaveryW.htm | access-date=7 January 2021}} )

(Note: Source: ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-96359%7Ctitle=Anti-Slavery Society|first=Catherine|last=Hall| year=2008| doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/96359|access-date=7 January 2021}} )

1807 abolition

In 1807, the British Parliament voted to abolish the international slave trade under the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, (Note: mylearning and enforce this through its maritime power, the Royal Navy ).

(Note: Source: last1=Hochschild |first1=Adam|author-link=Adam Hochschild |title= Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves|publisher=Pan Books |place=London |year=2005}} )

The society wound up its work after the Act was passed. (Note: hoi )

The United States also prohibited the African slave trade in the same year, to take effect on 1 January 1808.

(Note: Source: first=Eric |last=Foner|interviewer-first = Michel|interviewer-last =Martin|title=End of Slave Trade Meant New Normal for America | website=NPR.org | date=10 January 2008 | url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17988106 | access-date=26 July 2021}} )

In 1808 a separate Act was passed in the UK to give greater British protection to Freetown in West Africa (now capital of Sierra Leone), a colony established in 1788 for the resettlement of former slaves and Poor Blacks from London, as well as Black Loyalists who had initially been relocated to Nova Scotia following the American Revolutionary War. The Timni chief Nembana sold a strip of land to British official to establish this colony for freed slaves. When the Royal Navy later intercepted illegal slave trading ships, its crews frequently resettled the liberated Africans at Freetown.Template:Cn

New society

Template:Main is broken. From 1823, the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (aka Anti-Slavery Society) became the primary organised group working for legislation to abolish slavery. The Society and supporters, including captive and freed Africans, missionaries and evangelical movements in the colonies, worked to achieve the first stage of legal emancipation in the colonies. It also supported abolitionists in the United States. Many British supported lecture tours by American abolitionists in Britain who were raising funds for efforts in the United States. Such supporters sometimes provided refuge to Americans who had escaped from slavery and helped raise money to buy their freedom, as for Frederick Douglass.Template:Cn

Quotes

The society was "absolutely without precedent...If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary." -- France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville

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