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In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

  
  Dogma is one scary premise
Dogma is the rationale used by the religious politician to wage preemptive war on a fabricated enemy.
Dogma teaches that one religion would be superior to some other religion therefore, the brutal murder of the other religion’s people is acceptable and justified before the god of the aggressor people’s pronounced dogma.
Dogma then is the silence of a people to the sedition and subversion of their government by corrupt and narrow minded politicians and religious lunatics that would vacate a people’s rights without a second thought.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article7378.htm   (1204 words)

  
 Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 231, SUFFRAGE: Library of Economics and Liberty
This political dogma of the eighteenth century is a pure fiction.
Yet it is undeniable that the first results of this greatest political experiment of the century are not unmixed good: it has sometimes, especially in cities, borne the evils of ignorant rulers, insecurity of life and property, extravagant and corrupt administration.
The political dogma of the eighteenth century, that suffrage is a natural right, led to an early demand for its extension to woman.
www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy1001.html   (2652 words)

  
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Political inequality is an accident of inequality of possessions, and the renovation of the latter lies in the abolition of the former.
It is not announced that political power is a function to be discharged for the good of the whole body, and not a mere right to be enjoyed for the advantage of the possessor; and it is to be noted also that this idea did not enter into the conception of Rousseau.
The pursuit of the chimera of social equality, from the belief that it should logically follow political equality; resulting in extravagance, misapplication of natural capacities, a notion that physical labor is dishonorable, or that the state should compel all to labor alike, and in efforts to remove inequalities of condition by legislation.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/3/1/1/3118/3118.txt   (7504 words)

  
 Rationalism FAQ
Whereas religious dogma calls for its unconditional implementation, as it is supposed to be from an absolute authority that cannot be questioned, no consensus is needed or allowed for its implementation.
So if and when a communist regime perceives a (maybe unjustified) political threat from a certain religious follower or a subset of followers and resorts to repression, it is committing an act of political repression in defense of communism, NOT secularism and it should be characterized as political repression instead of "Secular fundamentalism".
Postmodernists and puritanic sticklers of political correctness attemp to distort the meaning of democracy or pluralism to imply that all claims of truth are equally valid.
www.geocities.com /aparthib/rational_faq.html   (19116 words)

  
 OTRSS/GO!/PCgame
Variants of the Political Correctness game can be played in different environments - mostly relating to dogma - political dogma, and religious dogma would be the most common and obvious.
So the participants would then be, say in the political dogma case: the party theoretician; revisionist historian; commentators; liberal and conservative wings, et cetera.
Similarly in the religious dogma game, the various participants would represent different power blocs within a religious community, from the authoritarians to the radicals and schismatics.
www.sonic.net /~ric/go/pcgame.htm   (1617 words)

  
 Eugenic Manifesto
If a conservative political group like the KKK were to expel the immigrants, that might prevent the rapid building up of the political pressure that would be necessary to bring the eugenic movement to power.
Either the political economic system will collapse and even civilization itself will disappear or else the political system will be taken over by the working people of the superior socio-biologic class of the more "favored race"* by revolution or political activism.
This could rebound to the benefit of all the children who will ever be born in all the centuries that will ever be because only the eugenic movement could accept the moral responsibility to protect the right of the children of the future to be born physically healthy and mentally capable.
www.jameshartforcongress.com /prometheus/chapV.htm   (2111 words)

  
 The Right and the Left, in a Nutshell
Those of us who are at middle age or beyond have lived through a revolution in political and economic theory and practice, a revolution so profound that few of us can even begin to appreciate its significance, much less its peril.
Those who disagree, and the pollsters tell us that they are a majority of the American people, believe that in the past five years, and arguably in the past twenty-five years, the people of the United States and their government, have suffered a grievous setback.
In general, progressives endorse the political principles of our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as well as the fundamental moral precepts of the great world religions and the ideas of many secular moral philosophers – precepts most familiar to the American public through the moral teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
opednews.com /articles/opedne_ernest_p_060315_the_right_and_the_le.htm   (2498 words)

  
 Direct Dogma: Film Manifestos and the fin de siècle
As with the New Realism of the 1950s, Godard's Dziga-Vertov group in the late 1960s and the cinemas of national liberation of the 1970s, the relationship between social experience and the dominant forms of cinematic narration is challenged on the grounds of its loss of authentic speech and agency'[5].
Yet, it is the 'Vow of Chastity', attached to the manifesto itself that shifts the dogma of Dogma away from the manifestos of the past.
Therefore, Dogma is not the only way to make film, as Vinterberg notes: 'I think to make another Dogma film right now would be suicidal, because the fine thing about Dogma is to create renewal, and to do another Dogma film right after would be creating another convention, which would be very oppressive'.
pov.imv.au.dk /Issue_10/section_4/artc6A.html   (2814 words)

  
 MAJOR SCIENCE MAGAZINE PRINTS FEMINIST LIES
Also, only the political activists engaged in the Womens Studies groups have ever stated that cross-cultural studies of marriage ceremonies, premarital negotiations, adultery laws and love songs confirm anything other than they are indeed troubled women.
When a political group disrupts such an important organization as this, we can all only shudder as to what the future may hold.
Feminists are trying to get political pieces such as this regarded as scientifically accurate so that they can be used as reference material for their political actions.
members2.1stnetusa.com /~nc4444/major3.htm   (2183 words)

  
 Liberal dogma shipwrecked, by Serge Halimi
Wholesale adoption of the Western model, likened by some to a law of nature (5), was all the more extraordinary as it contradicted a huge amount of experience showing that "backward" countries could not achieve economic take-off and development simply by imitating their predecessors.
Students who postulated an automatic relationship between the two, who equated growth with democracy and sought to determine the degree of development of a country on the basis of exclusively economic data, simply demonstrated their ineptitude for the social sciences.
Although the requirements of economic development were virtually identical, the political outcome was bound to be different since it was conditioned by social structures that differed greatly from one state to the next.
mondediplo.com /1998/10/02halimi   (3067 words)

  
 The South African Students' Organisation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Blacks were 'those who are by law or tradition politically, economically and socially discriminated against as a group in the South African society and identify themselves as a unit in the struggle towards realisation of their aspirations'.
Using the political space provided by the fl universities and colleges, the founders of SASO carved for themselves an organisational niche and formulated, elaborated, and diffused the doctrine of BC outward and upward towards fl professionals and intellectuals, and downward towards fl school students and youth.
SASO with its doctrine of BC was an intellectual and political response to white privilege and domination and fl dispossession and subordination.
sahistory.org.za /pages/specialprojects/black-consciousness/saso.htm   (3795 words)

  
 Bill Moyers speaks his mind on Bush-brand environmental destruction and more | By Amanda Griscom | Grist Magazine | ...
The environment is the one exception to the rule of politics, which is that to every action there is a reaction.
By the time we all wake up, by the time the media starts doing their job and by the time the public sees what is happening, it may be too late to reverse it.
Economics and politics are a poor excuse for the moral imperative that we need to follow to save what is not our own so others that come after us can have a life.
www.grist.org /news/maindish/2003/08/26/griscom-moyers   (2304 words)

  
 Indicting NPP’s Scare-Mongering, RawlingsPhobia And Malicious Partisanship!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
As our nation inches ominously ever closer to political intolerance, it behooves on all citizens to "fall back" and reflect on the dangerous political phenomenon call "malicious partisan politics" that is fast devouring the leading minds and political leadership of our dear country.
Suffice here to state that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the latter whereby one intensely confronts his or her political foes with cold, hard facts instead of indulging in blind political dogma for sinister and evil reason(s).
Clearly, it should be obvious to the practitioners of malicious partisanship that their blind attachment to their tribes, political parties and personalities continues to fuel the dirty engines of corruption, ineptitude, nepotism and in fact all the indicia of political instability.
www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=80985   (1605 words)

  
 Journal of Political Ecology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Noting that political authority and water control have an intimate relationship in Chinese history and legends, Shapiro suggests that Mao's sensitivity to the traditional adage, 'When a great man emerges, the Yellow River will run clear,' was a contributing factor in his support for this controversial project.
Huang's case was an example to other potential critics, symbolizing the subordination of technical expertise to political 'truths.' Shapiro notes that China built more than 80,000 dams since 1949, yet by 1980 nearly 3000 had collapsed, causing destruction and death, while over ten million relocatees continue to live in impoverished circumstances.
The "heuristic usefulness of the Maoist case," she argues, lies in "the blatancy of Maoism's coercive aspects, the ambition of its utopian idealism, and the transparency of the link between human political repression and the effort to conquer nature by portraying and treating it as an enemy" (p.201).
dizzy.library.arizona.edu /ej/jpe/volume_8/1101ruf.html   (5365 words)

  
 Engel: The European Charter of Fundamental  Rights ...
The opportunities for impacting on the political process within the Community change; whether the political actors seize the new opportunities, depends on many more factors, and especially on the prevalent (legal) culture [12].
The political effects of the Charter of Fundamental Rights are less obvious.  They create a new political window of opportunity [18], not only for the Community, but also for the Member States, enterprises and citizens.  The consequences for the state character of the European Union will further attract our attention later on
Fundamental rights have the potential to transfer political conflicts into legal conflicts.  This leads to a parallel judicial discourse of political questions.  The partial juridification of European politics is the consequence.
www.mpp-rdg.mpg.de /e_75.html   (4672 words)

  
 Political Spectrum
The esence of liberalism is an attempt to secure a social order not based on irrational dogma, and insuring stability without involving more restraints than are necessary for the preservation of the community.
..The diciplinarians have advocated some systems of dogma, either old or new, and have therefore been compelled to be, in a greater or lesser degree, hostile to science, since their dogmas could not be proved empirically.
In general, important civilizations start with a rigid and superstitious system, gradually relaxed, and leading, at a certain stage, to a period of brilliant genius, while the good of the old tradition remains and the evil inherent in its dissolution has not yet developed.
home.earthlink.net /~eldonenew/pol_spec.htm   (1445 words)

  
 Reflections on Mukto
For a rationalist, support for a political party should be based on policies, performance, efficiencies and other objective criterion, thus need not be a static one, but changeable based on an ongoing assessment of the fulfillment of those criteria.
But some intellectuals believe that certain political stand in an ideological, social or political controversy is required by rationalism, e.g leftist ideology, pro-choice stand in abortion, nurturist stand in nature-nurture debate, etc to name a few.
It must be noted that all religions and dogmas claim human welfare as their goal as well.
humanists.net /avijit/article/aparthib/mukto_mona.htm   (3145 words)

  
 CNEWS - Forum
SEG-ment and a few others on this board have led me to believe that the political dogma in Canadian society, as represented on this forum, has reached a point where neither side can or will make an effort to say something positive about a figure on the other side.
It also was riddled with the same political dogma, and pettiness that you claim you didn't want to read.
You call others on their behaviour on the forum, yet seem to forget that before one can ride a moral high horse and drip with ethical superiority, one must first look in the mirror and make sure one isn't just a pot calling the kettle fl.
www.canoe.ca /mb2/messages/cnewsf/969.html   (1083 words)

  
 Prophet of Doom - Islam's Terrorist Dogma in Muhammad's Own Words
To declare war on terror is akin to saying that World War II should have been fought to rid the world of naval armada’s and blitzkrieg.
What dogma was responsible for motivating Islamic women earlier this week to strap bombs to their bodies and board two Russian aircraft filled with passengers for the purpose of blowing them up and killing everyone?
No political dogma nor personality cult in all of human history has been sadistic enough to cause men to celebrate murder and mutilation.
www.prophetofdoom.net   (915 words)

  
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The policy was unmasked last October with the story that Washington State University informed 42 year old Edward Swan that he had failed a "professional dispositions evaluation" and didnt belong in the College of Education undergraduate program.
The permeation of ed schools by politics is a consequence of the vacuity of their curricula.
The dogma has been that primary and secondary education is about "self-actualization" or "finding one's joy" or "social adjustment" or "multicultural sensitivity" or "minority empowerment." But is never about anything as banal as mere knowledge.
www.edwatch.org /updates05/011006-tc.htm   (642 words)

  
 Scottish Conservatives - SCANLON: "POLITICAL DOGMA RESPONSIBLE FOR CARE HOMES CRISIS"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
However let it be clear that the blame lies not with Scottish Care, but with the Labour-Liberal Scottish Government and Labour-run local authorities throughout Scotland.
"The system whereby council homes receive a greater amount of per-patient funding than an independently-run home is an absolute scandal, and it comes about purely out of political dogma.
The Government and councils must end the political posturing now by putting independent homes on an equal footing with council homes, so that all patients get the treatment they deserve."
www.scottishtories.org.uk /pressrelease.asp?ID=2278   (292 words)

  
 THE HANDSTAND
Expression of politically incorrect opinions can ruin the careers or hurt the grades of those naive enough to rely on their First Amendment rights.
Among tenured professors in the United States it is becoming more common to give passing grades to many minority students in order to avoid legal troubles with their peers, at best, or to avoid losing their job, at worst.
Dr. Tomislav Sunic is a writer and former political science professor in the United States.
www.thehandstand.org /archive/may2003/articles/euronews.htm   (2210 words)

  
 The Sentinel Online : Archives : Editorial : Rich Lewis
People on both sides were backed by powerful political figures who provided leadership and voiced their arguments.
The political system gave the public real choices, real debate and meaningful ways to act.
One reason the dogma is so completely unchallenged is the near total absence of politicians with the courage to even suggest it might not be true.
cumberlink.com /articles/2005/07/01/editorial/rich_lewis/lewis01.txt   (863 words)

  
 A Marxist Critique of Anti-Globalization Activism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In the past, according dogma of Marxist practice, it was common knowledge to begin with partial and superface demand to ascend to anti-capitalist claim and filally to takeover political power.
And your incorrectness is the dogma that political revolution precede social revolution.
Or else a "social revolution with a political soul" is nothing but a paraphrase of what is usually called a "political revolution" or a "revolution pure and simple".
slash.autonomedia.org /comments.pl?sid=740&op=&...&mode=nested&cid=0   (2511 words)

  
 Flexible Dogma | Politics Unbent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Their weak-ass, changing by the moment excuses for constantly breaking the law are a direct reflection of their contempt for government.
The Republican Congress has let politics pressure them out of finding the truth in too many matters: 9/11, the lead up to the Iraq War, and now the abuse of US intelligence assets.
Flexible Dogma is proudly powered by Drupal and valid XHTML and CSS.
www.flexibledogma.com   (4706 words)

  
 Politics, political parties, dogma, and bagism | Political Physics: Future of the Whirled
This is reflected in one of Political Physics only dogmas - to be non-party-identified.
It is my belief that real, meaningful change in the fundaments of political corruption and human-caused suffering will never occur if discussions and thought processes must always occur in the framework of tribalism (even the the tribalism of being a
A political party should reflect solutions and thinking not be the master of it as is so often the case now.
politicalphysics.com /node/791   (428 words)

  
 Rolling Back the Market: Economic Dogma and Political Choice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A range of economic dogmas stressing the necessity of continuous economic growth, liberalization of trade and capital flows, and the reduction of social welfare underpin the reform programs governments encourage to roll back the functions and expenditures of the state.
This book provides a comprehensive critique of these and similar dogmas, exposing their very weak basis in economic theory and their perverse effect upon human welfare and public services.
This refreshingly broad and lucid account shows how it is now the market which urgently needs to be "rolled back" and prevented from further dominating politics and society.
isbn.nu /0312226527   (381 words)

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