| Religion 25 minutes ago by parabanger Religion is a social network for trust that uses ideology as the glue for that trust. What needs to be explained is how ideologies glue adherents and why. HOw: Ideologies are social networks that cohere by using the us-vs-them paradigm. Ideological doctrine has to contain something patently absurd t ... Parabanger's Blog - parabanger.wordpress.com |
| Which new world order: unipolar? bipolar? multipolar? non-polar? 1 hour ago by policyanalysis Towards the end of the George W. Bush Administration, a series of essays by Richard Haass, former Head of Policy Planning of the State Department of the Bush Administration, now Head of the Council on Foreign Relations, marked a breathtaking change in the analysis of America’s national interests in ... International Policy ... - policyanalysis.wordpress.com ·  4 references |
| An RNC Purity Test? 2 hours ago by David Weigel Reid Wilson has the first look at a resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, author of the infamous “socialist” resolution, that would aim to prevent future NY-23 disasters by requiring that candidates fulfill at least seven of 10 issue promises. After the jump, the ... The Washington Independent - washingtonindependent.com · Rank: 64 · 3379 references |
| In German Politics, Ideology trumps Evidence 3 hours ago by mus Investigation of the mechanism of decay reactions with single bond breaking and calculation of their velocity constants on the basis of quantum chemical and statistical methods - that's quite a complex topic to write about, isn't it? Well, someone wanted to write her doctoral dissertation about it, ... The Lay Scientist - layscience.net · Rank: 6,926 · 225 references |
| What does the ruling class do when it rules? 3 hours ago by lenin One doesn't want to collapse into an instrumentalist reading of the state as a mere 'executive' of the bourgeoisie. It is not as if state personnel canvas the capitalist class through referenda on every policy issue and then adopt the majority view. On the contrary, divisions among the owners give s ... LENIN'S TOMB - leninology.blogspot.com · Rank: 1,920 · 509 references |
| Economy 3.0 5 hours ago by cuz Douglas Rushkoff recently presented a fifteen minute talk entitled Radical Abundance. The basic premise is intriguing. The introduction of government monopolized currency in the Middle Ages was a technique for keeping power in the hands of the aristocracy, since it gave them control over the relativ ... cuz produces - cuzproduces.com |
| Drawing Four (in process) 12 hours ago by kayemme Large drawing started 11-10, 2009 36×31, pencil on paper During the process of Drawing Four, I realized two very important things. First, they should be larger. Larger because the larger the paper, the larger I can make the constant box, allowing for an even smaller box to occur in relation, thus pr ... Keri Marion - kerimarion.com · Rank: 136,306 · 2 references |
| Obama and FDR’s 2nd Bill of Rights 17 hours ago by Dave Johannes President Obama and his administration are trying to “fundamentally transform the United States of America”. They have set a path to institute a socialist society and try to establish FDR’s 2 nd Bill of Rights. The goal is to create a “nanny state” where the government controls and regulates society ... Uncommon Sense - davegj13.wordpress.com · Rank: 170,669 · 5 references |
| My Sister Is A Teabagger: Ideology 18 hours ago by Bryan Packman The brand of conservatism embodied by the teabaggers is nothing but an adherence to a defined ideology. Andrew Sullivan has written many blog posts discussing conservatism’s movement from a pragmatic resistance to ideology to nothing but demagogic propaganda. His best definition of this new, strict ... Experiweb - bryanpackman.com/blog |
