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- Aug 4, 2024
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"Prominent" and "eminent" are similar words that can both mean well-known and important, but "eminent" can also mean highly qualified, successful, and respected. For example, you might describe someone as a "prominent figure in the industry" or an "eminent astrophysicist". "Prominent" can also mean "sticking out" in a literal or figurative sense, like "a prominent nose". "Eminent" can also mean "high in station, rank, or repute".
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There are predators and prey"
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Bezmenov
There is a great possibility that the system will sooner or later will be destroyed from within. There is a self-destructive mechanism built into any socialist or communist or fascist system, because there is a lack of feedback, because the system does not rely upon the loyalty of the population. But until this Soviet junta is being supported by the Western so-called imperialists — that is, multinational companies, establishments, governments — and, let’s face it, intellectuals — so-called academia in the United States is famous for supporting the Soviet system — as long as the Soviet junta will keep on receiving credits, money, technology, grain deals and political recognition from all these traitors of democracy or freedom, there is no hope. There is not much hope for changes in my country. And the system will not collapse by itself simply because it is being nourished by so-called American imperialism. This is the greatest paradox in the history of mankind when the capitalist world supports and actively nourishes its own destructor.
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Bezmenov
Yes, I was working for the Soviet Embassy in New Delhi as a press officer, and defecting for a Soviet diplomat is next to impossible. It is, as I said, because great friend Indira Gandhi pushed a law through parliament which says, and I quote, “No defector from any country has a right of political asylum in any embassy on the territory of the Indian Republic,” which is a masterpiece of hypocrisy. No other defector, but the Soviet one, needs a political asylum. So knowing that perfectly well, I planned the craziest possible way to defect. I started counterculture in India. There were thousands of young American boys and girls with no shoes, long hair, smoking hash and marijuana, studying sometimes Indian philosophy, sometimes simply pretending that they studied. And they greatly annoyed the Indian police and they were laughingstock of Indians, because obviously they were good-for-nothing students. I studied carefully where they congregate, what routes they travel, what language they speak, what they smoke. And one day I simply joined a group of hippies to avoid the detection of Indian police. I was dressed as a typical hippie with blue jeans, long Kameez shirt with all kinds of nice decorations like beads, long hair — I bought a wig because for several weeks I had to turn myself from a conservative Soviet diplomat into a very progressive American hippie — and that was the only way that that I could avoid detection. It was a very interesting experience, but it was necessary because from my own knowledge as a member of Soviet embassy staff, I knew that there were many cases when Soviet defectors were betrayed by Indian police and also some Western embassies played a very dirty role in betraying the Soviet defectors. According to our information, there were some — I wouldn’t call them double-agents but simply amoral people — working for this for the United States embassy, and confiding in people like this would be suicide. So I had to be extremely careful. I could not trust anyone. And that was the reason for such a crazy way to defect.
Bezmenov
I’m on the right here, yes. And it was — the occasion was commissioning of the refinery complex in Bihar, Barauni. Back in Moscow, I was immediately recruited by Novosti Press Agency, which is a propaganda and ideological subversion front for the KGB. Seventy-five percent of the members of the Novosti are commissioned officers of the KGB. The other twenty-five are, like myself, co-opted agents who are assigned to specific operations. In this particular case, you can see me talking to students of Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow. This is a huge school under the direct control of the KGB and Central Committee where future leaders of the so-called “national liberation movements” are being educated and selected carefully. And some of them have absolutely, they neither… This, for example, is a group of students from Lumumba. They don’t look like students at all. They look more like military, and that’s exactly what they were. They were dispatched back to their countries to be leaders of the so called “national liberation movements” or, to be translated into normal human language, leaders of international terrorist groups. Another area of activity when I was working for the Novosti was to accompany groups of so-called progressive intellectuals, writers, journalists, publishers, teachers, professors of colleges.
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In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. that human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a "product of nature". However, the court did allow patents for laboratory reconstructions of human DNA, known as complementary DNAs (cDNAs), which the court ruled are not "products of nature".
The most popular explanation of the causes of historical change and especially of the rise and fall of civilizations has been by means of some biological analogy in which a people, once young and vigorous, were softened and weakened by rising standards of living, or by a loss of the ideology of hard work and self-sacrifice that had made their rise possible. In most cases little or no effort has been made to correlate this process of change with the various stages through which the civilization was said to have passed. In some cases this "softening of fiber" theory has been presented in a more naive form by a simple biological analogy in which civiliza- tions, like man himself, were felt to pass through a simple sequence of youth, maturity, and old age. In many cases no real explanation of the process of change has been given at all, the theorists in question being satisfied with attaching names to the various stages of historical change. Giovanni Battista Vico, for example, saw the history of each people as a process by which barbarian vigor slowly developed into rationalism, the period of greatest success being merely the middle period when the two qualities of vigor and rationality were in a fruitful, precarious, and temporary balance, while the decline was due to the final triumph of rationalism over energy. In the late nineteenth century, as biological sciences became more influential, these basic ideas were reserved with varying quantities of biological sauces. The Russian thinker Nikolai Danilevsky attributed the earlier period of vigor to biologic mixture of peoples, and attributed the intermediate ages of greatest achievement to the rise of a state organization that could direct such energies into more productive channels. The final stage of decay is not clearly explained but seems to be attributed to some process of po- litical institutionalization not too remote from the explana- tion offered here. At the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, the influences of Darwinian thinking became dominant in theories of civilization dynamics. W. M. Flinders Petrie in 1911 offered a Darwinian version of the theories of earlier writers such as Danilevsky: an earlier period of struggle, based on the vigorous energy of barbarian intruders, was gradually weakened by the enjoyment of rising standards of living which weakened "strife." Enunciating the general rule, "There is no advance without strife," Petrie pictured each cycle as an accelerating decay resulting from a decrease in "strife." This point of view, generally accepted by many of the earlier theorists on this subject, saw the later stages of any civilization as a period of decreasing strife or violence, a conclusion which seems to be sharply at variance with the facts. To Oswald Spengler, one of the most famous of modern writers on this subject, a similar pattern was evident. He discerned in each people an earlier stage of vigorous creativity that he called "culture" and a later stage of weakening moral fiber and devotion to selfish physical comforts that he called "civilization." As is usual among writers on this subject, no real explanation was provided for this loss of motion, although the pattern was applied to ten different "cultures." The most famous of recent writers on this subject, Arnold J. Toynbee, has produced the most voluminous and, in spite of its sprawling organization, most satisfactory theory of these processes. He is still strongly influenced by Darwinian biology, and attributes rise and fall of civilizations to the "challenge and response" to "the struggle for existence." In spite of his many improvements over earlier writers, especially in regard to the units to which this pattern applies and the stages through which the pattern takes each unit, Tony- bee's theories have several of the prevalent inadequacies of earlier writers, especially in his failure to correlate the stages of change with the process of change and, above all, in his failure to explain why a civilization which has been "responding" to "challenges" successfully for centuries gradually ceases to do so, and decays.
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By the 13th century the Templars used their looted gold to buy 9,000 castles throughout Europe and ran an empire stretching from Copenhagen to Damascus. They founded modern banking techniques and legitimized usury, also known as interest payments. Templars’ bank branches popped up everywhere, backed by their new-found gold wealth. They charged up to 60% interest on loans, launched the concepts of trust accounts and bond markets, and introduced a credit card system for Holy Land pilgrims. They acted as tax collectors, though themselves exempted by Roman authorities, and built the great cathedrals of Europe, having also found instructions regarding secret building techniques under Solomon’s Temple. The stained glass used in the cathedrals resulted from a secret Gothic technique known by few. One who had perfected this art was Omar Khayvam, a good friend of Assassin founder Hasan bin Sabah. [203] The Templars controlled a huge fleet of ships and their own naval fleet based at the French Atlantic Port of La Rochelle. They were the first to use magnetic compasses for navigation and were especially cozy with the royals of England. They purchased the island of Cyprus from Richard the Lion Heart, but were later overrun by the Turks. On Friday October 13, 1307 King Philip IV of France joined forces with Pope Clement V and began rounding up Templars on charges ranging from necromancy to the use of black magic. Friday the 13th would from that day forward carry negative connotations.
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These thoughts of ancient empires brought an odd sort of comfort. History was a tapestry of conquest and brutality that we humans had muddled through. The sound of the waves soothed my tormented soul. George Rich stood before me pointing at the lighted map in MAIN’s boardroom; the only thing that mattered was the future for the child that someday would issue from my loins. For his or her sake we had to control Africa and the Middle East. It was the knowledge that my progeny depended on it that kept me going. That and of course the fact that I was living an adventure, seeing parts of the world I previously had only dreamed about, and doing all of it on a very generous expense account. Sometimes on those nights down by the Mediterranean I would turn and look back toward the lights of Alexandria and I would see beyond them the great expanse of Africa. I imagined it as the nightmare land depicted in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, a sinister, foreboding place where human beings treated each other in unspeakable ways. The violence of Africa was, in my eyes, more ghastly than the violence of other continents, the horrors more horrific. Although I had lived in the Amazon, I felt the Congo was something different and this difference defined Africa as a whole. In my youth I had loved the Tarzan books; his jungle had been my paradise. Later, as I traveled in EHM circles and began to comprehend the truth of modern history, Tarzan’s home deteriorated in my mind. Where had Edgar Rice Burroughs’s hero been when the slavers arrived? The Amazon came to signify a vibrant rainforest, the Congo a malevolent swamp. I had visited the slums of Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, had recoiled in shock at the Museum of the Inquisition in Lima and photos of Apache warriors shackled to U.S. Army dungeon walls; I knew about the violence of Suharto’s military and the shah’s secret police, the SAVAK; yet, in my opinion, nothing compared to Africa. What I had not seen I visualized and my visions included innocent men, women, and children snared in nets, hauled screaming aboard slave ships, piled one on top of another, puking, shitting, rotting, trundled off to auction blocks, sweating, bleeding, dying, while back home in Africa their lands, their people, animals, and jungles were ravaged by “civilized” Europeans. All of it so my ancestors could strut in their cotton gowns.
Perkins, John. The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World (John Perkins Economic Hitman Series) (pp. 225-226). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Predator eyes are at the front, prey eyes are on the side, and ambush predators have their eyes on the top. As the meme goes, Elmo and the Cookie Monster are ambush predators.
Mises was responsible for the renaissance of classical liberalism in the United States and the birth of the modern-day libertarian movement. Mises’s life work was a full-throated defense of classical liberalism, to include free-market economics, private property, and anti-imperialism.
The first Black-White kiss on American network television is often credited to the Star Trek episode, "Plato's Stepchildren," which first aired on November 22, 1968
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The group arrived in the States in 1968, establishing footholds in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, New York and Boston. The organization soon began producing a magazine that, as Lachmann says, had an “editorial policy [that] favoured Hitler, Satan and gore.” Singer/songwriter Marianne Faithfull, who appeared in an issue of the magazine, later distanced herself from the group, saying that “There was something almost like fascism about the Process.” The cult’s fascist mindset was amply illustrated by their choice of a symbol, which Lachman accurately describes as bearing “an uncanny resemblance to the Nazi swastika.”
McGowan, David. Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream (p. 105). Headpress. Kindle Edition.
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Galatians 3:28 states, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus". This verse is interpreted to mean that all people are equal in the eyes of God because they are united in Christ.
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The verse suggests that race, gender, and social status are not important for those who are part of Christ's family.
Some interpret the verse as support for equality between men and women in the church.
Others argue that the verse is about oneness in Christ, not equality in race, gender, or socioeconomic status.
The verse is debated because it is unclear how far the principle of equality should be applied.
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1966 Tragedy and Hope 1st/1st Edition HCDJ Carroll Quigley ...
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley is a work of history that explores the transition from the 19th century European-dominated world to the 20th century world of three blocs. The book is a source of information about the New World Order and the power structure of the world.
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Tragedy and Hope is a multidisciplinary work that focuses on Western civilization. It covers the period from roughly 1880 to 1963, and includes the First World War, the Great Depression, and the rise of communism. The book is considered essential for understanding the history, goals, and actions of the New World Order.
Quigley's book includes his theories about the influence of a secret society on British and American foreign policy. He suggests that a secret society, led by Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner, had a considerable influence on foreign policy in the first half of the 20th century. Quigley also discusses the Milner group and the Round Table Groups, which he claims were semi-secret organizations that operated in the early 20th century.
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UNCENSORED! Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley is the ultimate insider admission of a secret global elite that has impacted nearly every modern historical event. Learn how the Anglo-American banking elite were able to secretly establish and maintain their global power. This massive book provides a detailed world history beginning with the industrial revolution and imperialism through two world wars, a global depression and the rise of communism. Tragedy & Hope is the definitive work on the world's power structure and an essential source material for understanding the history, goals and actions of the New World Order.
ALL ORIGINAL CONTENT, UNABRIDGED. This Millennium Edition is a larger page format, allowing for the same content in less pages. The larger page format also allows for a larger font than previous editions, for easier reading.
ORIGINAL BOOK DESCRIPTION: TRAGEDY AND HOPE shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century. With clarity, perspective, and cumulative impact, Professor Quigley examines the nature of that transition through two world wars and a worldwide economic depression. As an interpretative historian, he tries to show each event in the full complexity of its historical context. The result is a unique work, notable in several ways. It gives a picture of the world in terms of the influence of different cultures and outlooks upon each other; it shows, more completely than in any similar work, the influence of science and technology on human life; and it explains, with unprecedented clarity, how the intricate financial and commercial patterns of the West prior to 1914 influenced the development of today's world.
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Evangelical Christianity played a central role in the abolition of slavery, with many evangelical Christians opposing slavery on moral grounds:
Early abolitionistsQuakers were the first abolitionists in the United States, holding anti-slavery demonstrations in Philadelphia in 1688.
The Great AwakeningsThe First and Second Great Awakenings (1730s-1770s and 1790s-1840s) led to a shift in evangelical attitudes towards slavery.
Church leadersMany church leaders, including John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, questioned the morality of slavery.
MissionariesMissionaries in the colonies exposed the realities of plantation slavery to the British.
Christian doctrineThe Christian doctrine that all people are equal in the eyes of the Lord went against the argument for slavery.
Abolitionist writingsAbolitionist writings, such as A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument (1845) by George Bourne, helped spread anti-slavery sentiments.
Harriet Beecher StoweHer abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) helped convince many northerners to take a strong abolitionist stance.
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Yes, evangelical Christianity played a central role in the anti-slavery movement:
Evangelicals were deeply religious: Many members of the abolition movement were deeply religious and believed that slavery went against divine law.
Evangelicals used the Bible: Abolitionists used the Bible, Christian tradition, and American ideals to argue against slavery.
Evangelicals established integrated churches: Antislavery evangelicals established churches that were integrated.
Evangelicals gave Bibles to enslaved people: Antislavery evangelicals gave Bibles to enslaved people.
Evangelicals preached against slavery: Antislavery evangelicals preached against slavery as a sin.
Evangelicals were part of a coalition: Evangelicals worked with other groups, including Quakers, politicians, and journalists, to abolish slavery.
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Evangelical Christianity played a significant role in the anti-slavery movement, with many evangelical leaders and clergy working to end the slave trade and slavery:
John WesleyQuestioned the morality of slavery and published a pamphlet detailing its abuses in 1774
William WilberforceAn evangelical Anglican MP who believed he was called by God to end the slave trade
Granville SharpAn Anglican who fought for the freedom of Jonathan Strong, a young African, in the mid-1760s
Thomas ClarksonAn Anglican who wrote an award-winning essay on slavery in 1785 and received what he considered to be divine instructions to end slavery
Charles FinneyA Presbyterian leader who preached that slavery was a moral sin
Theodore WeldAn antislavery evangelist who converted many people to abolitionism, including the entire student body of Lane Seminary
Harriet Beecher StoweAuthor of the abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which helped convince many northerners to take a strong abolitionist stance
Evangelical Christians were especially influential in pressing their moral issues into the public arena in the years before the Civil War.
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Evangelical Christians played a major role in the abolition of slavery, and their beliefs and actions included:
Denouncing slavery as a sinEvangelicals believed that slavery was a moral sin and violated divine law. For example, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, called slavery the sum of all villainies.
Supporting abolitionist causesEvangelicals gave Bibles to enslaved people, established integrated churches, and preached against slavery.
Working to end the slave tradeWilliam Wilberforce, an evangelical Anglican MP, believed that God had called him to end the slave trade.
Motivating others to support abolitionEvangelical leaders like Charles Finney and Theodore Weld, and women like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Sojourner Truth, encouraged others to support abolition.
However, the relationship between Christianity and the slave trade is complex. While many Christians opposed slavery, the Bible contained passages that sanctioned the slave system. Additionally, Christian Europe was involved in the transatlantic slave trade, buying, selling, and working African slaves in the Americas.
What role did religion play in the anti-slavery movement?
Virtually all members of the abolition movement were deeply religious women and men, convinced that slavery violated divine law. Antislavery evangelicals gave bibles to the enslaved, established integrated churches, and preached against the sin of slavery.
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