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Redheads again!

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One of the faces of CP – know thine enemy Last one for now on this topic: Those who haven’t read up on it are possibly wondering why this blog is so down on Common Purpose and similar organizations in technique, such as Optimus Seventh Generation. The reason is that CP is opaque, internationally ubiquitous [...]

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It is a happy thing for the utilitarians that immeasurable harm cannot be reckoned by the felicific calculus. [Deogolwulf] The felicific calculus referred to here [for laymen] is the calculation of how much happiness [or satisfaction of preferences] is produced by a given action.  Bentham coined [or utilized] the term. The danger in that is [...]

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Some of you might recall the Dr. Fell post in which I presented a list of 10 entertainment personages who annoyed me but I couldn’t quite identify why. You were invited to put your list of 10 and thanks to those kind souls who’ve already done that. Either leave your list in comments or email [...]

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When Richard North wrote, about the defence cuts: But that isn’t what it’s about. We are seeing here structural cuts which remove the UK’s ability to act independently as a nation, and to project our foreign policy. We have moved from independence to a transitional stage where our capabilities have been removed and there is [...]

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[Click to zoom] Interesting comment in The Telegraph on the birth certificate issue: AmericanBelle: The problem with Obama’s “proof of birth” is that it isn’t. As many here have noted, what Obama has presented is a Certificate of Live Birth which merely proves a child was born. It doesn’t say where or when, and is [...]

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Logical positivism was more scorn than logic. That might explain its lingering appeal in spite of its self-refutation. [Deogolwulf] Add this: “The logical positivists’ persistent concern with metaphysics, the unity of science, and the interpretation of the theoretical terms of science, as well as the doctrines of reductionism and phenomenalism, [were] later abandoned by many [...]

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No claim is made for originality in the following post – it’s obviously heavily derivative and quotes extensively. This post might make some interesting pre-reading. ……………………. Stanford Research Center (SRC) was founded in 1946 by the Tavistock Institute For Human Relations. Stanford was created to help Robert 0. Anderson and his ARCO oil company.

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Just thought you might like to see it from another angle early this morning.

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As Jesse said about government policy in turning around the deficit: They cannot make these reforms because to do so would shatter the facade of the status quo which is corrupted and complicit, and includes far too many of them both directly and indirectly. This they fear more than anything else. So they try to [...]

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It began with the intensely annoying Anne Hathaway, the “lady” with the original name and I was thinking: “I don’t even know why. I can’t think of a single thing she’s done to bother me.” Sure enough, I read those exact words in an article … and then another along the same lines … and [...]

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