This short movie has a great explanation between a democracy & a republic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFXuGIpsdE0 fun
The term democracy is used quite often - it purports to signify 'government by the people'... There are however other questions that are relevant when talking of democracy: - who gets to vote. In ancient Greece and during the Roman Republic, only citizens that owned land, and could read an write were allowed to vote. Even in the elections held in the early American Colonies. Voters that have a 'conflict of disinterest' in the government may vote differently then ...
This is fascinating for someone interested in explaining what is happening nowadays in the western world. Yuri Bezmenov gave an interview back in 1983 or 84 describing the methodology utilized by the soviets - using the 'idiots' inside the gates. These now split the USA in half and constitute a majority in the EU.:worried1 http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...=bezmenov&aq=0
For those interested, the Chomsky x Dershowitz debates of Youtube are interesting to watch: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...tz+debate&aq=3
I am always so amazed at how we human beings or at least some significant number of us, process information received. Some seemingly innocuous gossip takes a life of its on, going 'viral', being viewed by 2 million people, even when highly questionable in its provenance. Whe have however, pressing issues, of utter consequence to everyone and that information yet goes hardly noticed. What is left in the 'public mind' is a mishmash of unconcatenated information virtually useless ...
Have a look. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...rrorism_p.html http://www.theblaze.com/stories/reve...-wealth-power/ This is very big. Wondering if it is going to go viral and cause some mega stir.
An interesting book and book review here: Very germane to this blog. http://www.mnforsustain.org/camp_of_...r_sj.htm#novel book: http://www.gnosticliberationfront.co...the_saints.htm One can download the pdf also. http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDFs/Ca...the_Saints.pdf Have fun.
Going to the mall and to the big box stores is always such exhilarating experience. The variety of things available to us now always fills me with an incredible sense of wonderment. Again, my interest in logistics and the knowledge of how difficult is the coordination of all the resources necessary to make all this abundance possible add to that. We, are the current guardians of our civilization and we have not been vigilant in protecting it from the many dangers that have been lurking ...
Some interesting books i came across - these are readable and printable pdf's. http://www.prometheism.net/library/C...OfCritique.pdf Download ‘The Black Book of Communism’ written by some French Guys & Gals. This one is in a 'Torrent' file format - you may need to download and install the torrent downloader - it is simple and easy. http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Black-Bo...22332da335131b
I am an entrepreneur, business type. The world of business is always full of uncertainties, one never, never has the full picture from the crystal ball, but fragmented and fuzzy images that need to be pieced together to form some sensible idea. Decisions are made based on those ideas - my money is always at risk on these decisions. One of my boys says - we're always 3 bad decisions away from bankruptcy! He is right. We are a group of 18 engineers that do design work, geeky ...