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https://ffrf.org/news/day/dayitems/item/14320-robert-owen
Owen founded an ethical movement called “Rational Religion.” His “Halls of Science” attracted thousands of nonreligious followers.
“Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.” —Robert Owen, “Evidences of Christianity: A Debate with Alexander Campbell and Robert Owen” (1829)
http://robert-owen-museum.org.uk/Religious_Views
This might help.
Bad boy Boris involved in a domestic
“…Johnson had ruined a sofa with red wine…”
Can we trust such persons with the heirlooms of No. 10
I was brought up with the money alternatives were Green Shield and pink stamps….all the big shops and petrol stations issued them.
And of course cigarette coupons. Many an hour was spent counting those up and bundling them in hundreds. More often than not they we exchanged for hard cash at the corner shop.
And of course bottles were collected and returned for the thrupenny deposit so they too were a form of money for us kids…long before the days of recycling.
We also had our co-op divvy number to memorise and utter parrot fashion when sent to the shops.
Financially literate we wuz back in those olden times.
But I wonder about the astrological link with Facebook…surely a sign of demons and warlocks behind it all. Why aren’t the fundamentalists up in arms about this root of all evil?
Vandana Shiva critique of the food industry and the non-meat alternatives
Fake Food, Fake Meat: Big Food’s Desperate Attempt to Further the Industrialisation of Food
Not one of her best insights but useful reading nevertheless
Some legal arguments that might help you in debate with the war-mongers
I found this interesting in what we know and what we don’t know about the holed oil tankers
https://www.dw.com/en/tanker-attacks-in-the-gulf-evidence-or-warmongering/a-49295596
Our own SOYMB blog has already posted on this new guidance document for the US military on the use of nuclear weapons.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/06/nuke-em.html
Indeed there is a big difference within masonry. I believe atheists are free to join the French freemasons, whereas a belief in theism remains the rule for all other freemason orders.
The Paris lodges were also a strong constituent in the Paris Commune.
I recall reading somewhere that during the 1967 war and in some sort of mason ceremony, Jewish and Egyptian Muslim masons paraded together…anecdotal, i’m afraid, and I can’t recall the source.
As for the growth of freemasonry, it does stem from the “enlightenment” age where liberal talk was indeed closely watched and monitored so the best place for free discussion was within an organization where an oath was taken to keep such things secret from outsiders, hence the presence of many such as Robert Burns.
Back from the very brink
“…Planes were in the air and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down…”
Trump the war-monger?
Despite his sabre-rattling
“Trump played down Iran’s downing of a U.S. military surveillance drone on Thursday, saying he suspected it was shot by mistake and “it would have made a big difference” to him had the remotely controlled aircraft been piloted.”
“I think probably Iran made a mistake – I would imagine it was a general or somebody that made a mistake in shooting that drone down,” Trump told reporters. “It’s hard to believe it was intentional, if you want to know the truth,” he added, saying it could have been carried out by someone who was acting “loose and stupid,” and minimizing the incident as “a new wrinkle…a new fly in the ointment.”
Is this a serious reluctance to go to war or a delaying tactic so to place more forces into position. Trump going into 2020 campaign I believe the former. But who knows…Bolton and Pompeo are just as ” loose and stupid” as the Iranian war-hawks so anything might happen.
Is there a “centrist extremist”? Then perhaps Trump could be called that in the present face-off.
Sandernista been used since 2016 by progressive Democrats. Worth watching for understanding that part of the Democrats base is The Young Turks (TYT) web channel.
“…two MPs spoilt their ballots as evidence that some disillusioned Tories may find it hard to support either candidate….”
Even MPs spoil their ballot papers
No lesser evil for those two.
Israel’s annexation is a reality
Annexation: How Israel Already controls More than Half of the West Bank
“…On the Palestinian side, a tiny number, mostly business leaders, have backed annexation of the West Bank…Most Palestinians consider them traitors or collaborators…..have consciously sought to package annexation on Israeli terms as similar to the one-state agenda of a growing section of the Palestinian population, especially those supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS)… there are Palestinians who consider annexation and Israel’s direct re-occupation of the West Bank, unmediated by the PA, as a necessary condition for Palestinians launching a civil rights or anti-apartheid struggle to realise a genuine one-state solution…”
“It’s the climate crisis you haven’t heard of”
Crucial to providing water to India and Pakistan and Bangladesh, the Himalayan glaciers are disappearing.
The melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled since the turn of the century
” ‘For the wellbeing of the people there, our results are of course the worst possible. But it is what it is, and now we have to prepare for that scenario. We have to worry a lot, because so many people are affected. To stop the temperature rises, we have to cool the planet,” he said. “We have to not only slow down greenhouse gas emissions, we have to reverse them. That is the challenge for the next 20 years’ ”
Does anybody really believe that is going to happen when we are not even going to achieve the present very moderate goal of either 1.5 or 2.0 C ?
How I dislike pretentious language to make the author look clever.
‘anti-neoliberal aesthetic’
Clinton was presented by the Sanders camp as the candidate of Wall St. (recall while Trump declined to publish his tax returns, Clinton refused to make public her speeches to the banks. Not sure if they have even been released today)
Trump very easily presented himself as the lesser evil, the candidate that could not be bought (regardless of the truth). As a former Secretary of State with blood on her hands and the record of her support for her husband’s failed policies Clinton was a PROVEN evil while Trump presented himself as an outsider, free from the Washington swamp determined to keep America out of foreign wars (how often have American politicians said that)
Some working class voters who intended to endorse (is that a better word than support?) Sanders did switch to Trump for his promises of a New Deal-lite for them in the rust belt regions and declining industries which like all politician promises failed to materialize, although the owners did receive their rewards.
In 2016, (relying on memory) “centrist” was not part of the political vocabulary. It arose post-election among Democrats to differentiate between its “progressive” wing and its “right-wing”, a term that fully exposes the Democratic Party similarity to the Republican wing of the political party duopoly…joined together like Siamese twins
Sad that another group akin to ourselves cannot resonate with a wider audience. Dare I guess that they were all in their senior years.
This deeply entrenched view that we should support the lesser evil is one that we must challenge and do so repeatedly.
I’d appreciate a link to something of depth which answers the lesser evil arguments….i’m a bit unsatisfied with my own attempts to formulate a response.
This report maybe of interest
