Quote from: Qwert on December 20, 2014, 02:04:35 PM
Lies of History? What about the Bible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXdMkFomBk

It is quite a long video but also quite interesting.
It does correctly identify much of the corruption
and error which has entered in but at the same
time also promulgates considerable distortion and
an agenda.

Any who may be interested in researching the topic
further can begin at this page.

Our World in a nutshell:

The Saker offers an political analysis which quite
accurately defines the dilemma that we as a World
are facing today.

Quote from: The SakerDear friends,

Today I am posting a first article in what I hope will become a series about "re-thinking politics".  By that I mean the following: we are told that communism is dead.  I am not so sure at all, but maybe.  I would argue that what we think of as "European social-democracy" has died this year after a long and painful agony.  The US is only a republic or a democracy in name, in reality it is a fascist oligarchy.  Chavez in Venezuela spoke of "Bolivarian Socialism".  Arundhati Roy in India seems to think that democracy is dead and that Maoist guerrillas might have the answer to a lot of questions.  One thing is sure, Fukuyama got in wrong and history has not ended (unless some crazy idiot in the White House launches an attack on Russia then yes, history will end).

I will never forget the day in 1992 or 1993 when during a session of the UN Conference on Disarmament a Pakistani Ambassador said something which I shall remember forever.  He looked at the western delegations and said: "you think that your capitalism has defeated communism?  You are wrong!  What really happened is the internal contradictions of communism have caught up with communism before the internal contradictions of capitalism will catch up with capitalism".  Twenty years later it is pretty undeniable that he was absolutely correct.  And no wonder that this realization first came from a Muslim as Islam today clearly offers at least two alternatives to all western ideologies: in Saudi Arabia a medieval and deeply reactionary one and in Iran a modern and very progressive one.

I think that it is high time to re-think our politics, our political categories, our certitudes about what is worse and what is better and all our assumptions about recent history.  Most of us live in the so-called "West" and what thing is undeniable: our social order is dying, totally discredited and despised by the rest of the planet, our politicians simply seem unable to articulate anything remotely connected to the truth, and the world badly, badly, needs new ideas.

With this series "Rethinking Politics" I want to start with a tabula rasa in which we can re-examine it all and try to see if we can at least identify a few facts or ideas which would help us to think outside the iron "box" imposed on us all by our stupidifying societies.  They key will not be finding the right answers, but asking the right questions.

This series begins today with Andreja Vrazalic asking a few very basic and important questions about what socialism is (which, of course, depends on who you ask).  I am very happy with this first contribution and my gratitude goes to Vrazalic for launching what I hope will be a long and productive discussion involving many more contributions from very different authors with very different views.

The Saker

The article follows the above quoted intro on the
hyper-linked page at the top of this posting.

Quote from: SeaMonkey on December 27, 2014, 11:58:16 PM
The Saker offers an political analysis which quite
accurately defines the dilemma that we as a World
are facing today.

The article follows the above quoted intro on the
hyper-linked page at the top of this posting.

He sounds like someone who might be thinking about adding fluoride to ice cream ... children's ice cream!  I hope he at least has some respect for the private property of the Coca-Cola Corporation.

The meme pictures posted above are funny. Are they representative of the flavor of TRUTH you promote? Please post more, they made me think I'm laughing. (I actually was)