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<p>causes of the diversifying the productive and not-productive fields into multiple divisions of the societies in the world.</p>
<p>Alienation of productive force from the production work for the whole society at that time, the reasons were demanded them to set aside from the mere and little responsibility of the production work to the high degree of total responsibilities on the newly emerged needs they adopted to the system of uniformity in decisions in implementation of the activities they carried out in the new areas at that time</p>
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<p>The alienation from the productive work had the universal sanction to deal the new challenges from the new responsibilities they all were to resume. The new challenges they had to face from the old responsibilities to new tasks. Consequently the non-productive sections in which they allowed to work were more widened with the new needs and demands.</p>
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<p>The burden of the production work was consistent with the need of all, with the reduced strength of the productive forces. The pressure was mounted to full fill the growing demand of the needs in food habits, which were taken new turn from the raw to the boiled or roasted in its form. At the same time the work of eating from the temporary ‘spots&#8217; to the permanent shelters was given a new ground to engage the new men to work in the ‘preparation&#8217; of food ‘, taking care of the food,  and bringing the food material from the distant areas were made to engage a courageous and well built men into it.</p>
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<p>The divisions of the non-productive work field occupied a wide are to adopt more men from the production work to non-production work. Resultantly, the skilled and non-skilled portions of bifurcation were taken place in their lives at that time at the time of shift of their dwellings to plane areas. The skilled and non-skilled work both in productive and non-productive fields were taken place within the unit under the pressure of the protection of the people from both natural, and wild animals under the conditions of which they were to live.</p>
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<p> While living under the threat perception and their moves, could never be understood by any body in the world, because they want to see the past and remote events which were changing under the differences of the changes for identifying the factors that had to play in both material and in mental forms of the people, who were only able to know what decisions could be taken in according to the circumstances under which they were allowed to live</p>
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<p>At the same time, these types of changes in all fields were taken place under the need of the growing demands which could be taken over by the efficient and capable individuals. At least four fields were in open before them to meet the task of the changes, which could be seen as follows.</p>
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<p>Productive field which was under pressure and that had given birth to the need of selecting the skilled workers in proving a food to all with leading, some minors for the purpose to train them, during the traveling, while their work. Here the selections and the selections of the skilled, training, at the same time, casual, regular works divisions were taken place.</p>
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<p>In the non-productive field, the coordination of all four sections were needed as to see how much of the guarantee they were secured from the men who were on that responsibilities had been entrusted to, to be verified, and the depositing of the food with finding out the durability of what were to collect with protection of it from its own people were the reason to actively work with muscle and with their minds. At the same time, the foods responsibility was to carry out in a same way where the men were appointed for that had to be verified with the balance of the needy men and excessive use of the working at the spot of the society.</p>
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<p>The imbalance of utilizations was automatically accrued there due to the allotment and work divisions of the men into productive and non-productive forces. It means the side effect was shown its result on the whole system of the society in which they were to over come it without going back to the original phase of their journey. The result of the emergence of the two fields from varying each from its own origin were moving its own way from many hurdles in their long run. In every field at the dwelling centers from where the origin of finding the irrigation, domestication of animals, cultivation, planting and other fields were emerged within its own set of laws</p>
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<p>.The non-productive field had been reduced to the broadened responsibilities of keeping unifying members by avoiding a clashes at the women, at the work of guarding the food storage, and at the selecting the men to all other works within the society that kind of attraction from both sides of productive and non productive fields were made them to kill with the support of the others who were mostly entrusted to the most key centers of the society. By formulating the developments in the society, I do not like to lead it towards the principle of the fittest was survived</p>
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<p>. But I like to say the fittest system was survived and made to continue from that ancient time to the present modern times. All these developments were taken place at the African jungles and at the surrounding places of the Egyptians, and Sumerians dwelling centers. I am not talking about the developments that also were taken place at the Indian subcontinent. Because Indian and its south Asian history does not consist all transitional periods as claimed by the world Marists and Indian Marxist in India. In my earlier article I explained the system of slavery which was jumped out to the feudal system without passing the phase of the slave system.</p>
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<p> Here the entire Marxist believes that the interpretation of the history through the phases were the same and India also has such history and they tries to apply the other model of proposition to India and its historical developments.  It was the different story about the Indian transitional period which was and is quite opposite to the Marxist interpretations in its philosophy. The responsibility of the coordination of the many diversifying needs and its filling-ups with men was stood to the top of the position like a post at that time. In its true sense it is the name of ‘state&#8217;. It was in its responsibility to lead the society into the further advancement based on the coming new and newest challenges in the hands of the coordinator. The non-productive fields such as protecting the society, guarding the storages, food preparations at the society, and the responsibility of feeding the children and women who were allowed to be at the wishes of the head of the society</p>
<p>.</p>
<p>As these developments were taking place at the society, the inventions and findings were lead them towards progress and advancements, such as developing irrigation channels, tiles, metal equipments, in plowing, and other inventions were taken place in the same way. Simply, this kind of historical interpretation from the point of materialistic way what I like to assess the past to understand the present conditions of the world in its exact manner without committing bias against the whole history of man kind.</p>
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<p>At the same time, from the past to the another form of social system which was known by all those who have a political knowledge or any political affiliations in interpreting the past and remote developments in the history which had the role to play the same role in further developing the society from one phase to another.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The known history, through the available sources at present could be broadly said that the inventions from the first book bible, which states that there was slavery and it, had social sanctions at that time when the bible was written. And many more evidences are available to claim that the slave system was come into being without knowing its prior system which had lead to its advanced system at that time. Aristotle, in his writings, and in Greek philosophy the slave system as a legalized system was existed. And they supported while their life times. Before going into depth on the subject of the slavery, it is necessary to inquire the leading and the most striking features on the society upon which the entire system was and is based and on the stable process of progress any society could emerge as a powerful and resourceful of the time in the interest of the people</p>
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<p>To identify the exact factors of the society with its features which lead it from stage to stage on each and every findings and innovations, every factor behind every invention, which are discussed here below</p>
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<p>there must be a need to which the people was in relentlessly trying and bearing the losses on unsuccessful attempts like a factor, if we take as example, the people did not know about the swimming, they needed to learn the swimming and built a ferries or logs they used to cross the rivers, which was the new for the new people and the old were drowned</p>
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<p>The code of Manu, which had a section in the list of punishments on proof of guilt by throwing him into water because the reason at that time the people did not learn swimming. So that the section of punishment of throwing the guilt into water was the reason they were in belief that the guilt did not swim out of the waters.  The act of swimming was made them to cross the rivers and they got their settlements wherever they believed as the place of safety.</p>
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<p>The sensing of the need should come out of skilled, cleverish and personal emotions, while resuming the responsibilities in the entrusted fields irrespective of the productive and non-productive sections</p>
<p>.</p>
<p>In every filed, the lead role played by active people who may be even one or two as an indicators of such need as an essentiality while discharging their works.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Those men who were engaged in their respective works were in feeling that all were doing the work with equal responsibility under the single command or force on one or few with their help in discharging their works</p>
<p> </p>
<p>An organizational vacuum was come with the differences between the two major sections of that society besides its own and internal differences among the newly emerged sections through the skilled works of the capabilities which were the basic and primary need at that time to take birth another section from its own that lead one stage of advancement and progress to another.</p>
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<p>The clear cut demarcation between the productive and non productive sections were taken place within which every advancement and progress taken place within its own spectrum of each field beside its major fields of productive and non-productive.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>In the similar way of the developments in the productive side with its extended braches now we all are evident about its existence in present time in all societies from the right from beginning, at least three major braches through which all fields of the present day of progress and advancement of the societies we should note which are named as follows.</p>
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<p>As a major section in the society, the productive field from its ancient origin to present that feeds the whole society with its all extended branches of the present society in all over the world. The transition of the phase of the society from one stage to another stage in each country was and is very different from each other. No common model of Marxist philosophy, or its extended Leninism, in U.S.S.R, and the last model of Maoism could never be applied to the other parts of the world. To understand this particularity principle from the principle of generality which was I previously discussed in my another article, some two three months back, to all the states in the world may need many more decades or centuries, I do not expect, because the philosophy is such that would never allow anybody to review the past of its possible applications to the global countries</p>
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<p>. The whole philosophy and a thought to state any ideas or a set of ideas by somebody, though, it may be in a materialistic form, against idealism, and utopian way of presenting the ideas about the people ,society, state, and other important things with were and are proved that as a facts  and the same were and are proved correct through its reasonable and in rational way in the interest of the society, nation and for the people who lives in the society by entrusting the general responsibility of their protection as their first priority and prioritized nature in the set of other natures of the human beings whose nature and mind to calculate in every time hundreds of theories were and are come up but could not succeed to present the human nature and their behaviors would be such in the when they face such conditions in particular time and place with the particular factors that cause them to come up with their decisions, the only philosophy in the world on the serious observations on the change of the nature through the industries in the industrial revolution and its consequences with progress and developments it was formulated by the great philosopher Karl Marx and Engel. Both saw the results and they represented the whole theory and their philosophy in their literature which had given the two models of Marxian states in the world. The other was and it&#8217;s some level of progress in gauging the minds of the people in achieving their task of the removal of the monarchy in Nepal. Hence these models are known that all were and are the direct contributions of Karl Marx, Engel, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, how many lives were behind the success of these two states, and what were the factors really played in that socialist system of the governance have been told by many more than the Indians. But the British and American universities were allowed to carry out research works more on Marxian philosophies than any other subjects of social sciences.</p>
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<p>In India there are more working groups on these oldest philosophies than the recognising the new findings  of the philosophical contributions to the social science from the side of Marxian philosophy in India. Coming back to other section of the society which relates completely to non-productive sections whatever we have in present day that had their origin in the ancient socienties.</p>
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<p>As a part of the society, the non-productive filed which did not share in the productive work of the society. And it is completely depended upon the productive field of the society. Since the say of alienation of this diction from participation of the productive work, it has been played a lead role in development and progress of the society as a whole but through it&#8217;s extended and sub-sections of its major field. It has no power in the direct way of interfering in the affairs of the productive works and its relations within its own sub-sections of the branches.</p>
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<p> In its apex seat, the state what we call to the chief of the non-productive sections of its own, from post of the president to the least and lower post of contract labor of the local bodies, all does not participate in the production works in the society. But all those who belong to the border security force personnel to India&#8217;s telecom company&#8217;s night watchman lives like members of the same society from the days of alienation from the participation in productive works.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>As an unavoidable need was its emergence in ancient period and from that period to till now they have been diversified and extended its roots to every branch of the government in present society by resuming the responsibilities of their respective fields. In other words, if we say correctly all the major sections of executive, legislative and judiciary all of its related branches and other sections of the society like press/media, education, entertainment, etc.  </p>
<p> </p>
<p>All those who do not have the direct participation in the productive field, were and are known that they are non-productive and dependents of the productive forces. And it was not easy at the time of its emergence and growth, but now it has become easy to work. So that most of the members of the society seeks these fields. And the productive field which was and is the base of all members of any society from ancient societies to the present modern societies. I go on about it later, but coming to another important section of the society which was and is the key in fastening the pace of the progress and development of the society. It is still in the hands of the people who play multiple roles in the society both in two to three fields of the society.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Productive tools, which were and are the key players in the society from ancient times to the present day of every progress and development of the society and played a predominant role in all times since the ancient days to present day. From the period of stone tools to the nuclear weapons, the growth and origin of the tools and equipments were used in the production fields for feeding the whole society at that time.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> And now its peak stage of industries which are now producing the products for the benefit of its owners has a different story that may be detailed some time later. But the role of the productive tools which were used in feeding to fighting against the enemies has the same origin and its developments from that time to present period especially after the industrial revolution. But all these are in whose hands have another story to discuss in another article. One tool of iron on the development in this field, by finding the iron for hunting the animals, had been made useful in plowing the land in the Sumerian civilization, iron use was made in the transport of a carts as a development and contribution for another invention by using it for digging water storages on finding the scarcity of it in summer times. At the same way all these developments in the filed of tools taken place for the list of serializing such finding are not possible to discuss here.</p>
<p> How did the state had paid its role from the needy time to present day is discussed in detail in the next article.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there was some bit of ascertainable fact contained in an undisclosed official document that would unequivocally disqualify me from holding some public office, state or federal to which I had been elected, I could justly do one of two things. I could, either, publicly own up to the disqualifying fact and step down from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If there was some bit of ascertainable fact contained in an undisclosed official document that would unequivocally disqualify me from holding some public office, state or federal to which I had been elected, I could justly do one of two things. I could, either, publicly own up to the disqualifying fact and step down from the office (the just and legal thing to do), or lie and endeavor through subterfuge to hide the fact from the public through continuous expensive judicial litigation against those accusing me of illegally interloping into authority and power which I had not been initially qualified to accept and hold. This serious salient issue still hangs perilously over the head of Barack H. Obama, as he attempts to preside as President over a constitutional republic, of which many millions of voters are reasonably dubious of the basic constitutional legality of his candidacy and election. And the entire matter has only to do with the simple public disclosure of a fundamental document that any natural born American citizen is, normally, proud to present to anyone doubting his, or her, birth within the United States of America, that is, an original long form birth certificate, signed by the delivering physician, or midwife, and showing the time of birth and place of birth (hospital or elsewhere) of that individual.</p>
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<p>Since before his election, in 2008, Mr. Obama has fought litigation efforts of plaintiffs in several U.S. District Courts, to the tune of nearly 2 million dollars, to judicially mandate the disclosure of his original long form Hawaiian birth certificate. In this exclusively private endeavor to keep from publicly disclosing his long form birth certificate, and, apparently, all of his educational records, Obama has illicitly used federal tax money in the form of legal services provided by the US. Department of Justice, in addition to Democratic Party campaign contributions used to retain the very expensive services of the DC office of Perkins Coie Law Firm, in order to oppose the just attempts of plaintiffs, like Alan Keyes, to force him to prove that he is a natural born citizen of the United States, and not an American citizen born in Africa. And after a little of the dense smoke has dissipated from the legal battleground, a very simple question remains. Why doesn&#8217;t Obama enlist the trust of the millions of the electorate who distrust, and regard, him as an interloper, by simply disclosing his long form birth certificate for public scrutiny?</p>
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<p>Perhaps, the loose use of the term &#8220;misrepresentation,&#8221; in regard to the allegations and statements made by the media supporting Obama in this constitutional controversy, has not been so subtly changed to that of &#8220;lying&#8221; by those opposing Obama&#8217;s credibility on network television and Internet news broadcasts. What does it actually take for a media misrepresentation to equate a lie? Well, according to the great late American humorist and satirist, Will Rogers, if it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, don&#8217;t you dare call it a dog.&#8221; If professional television journalists know substantially that the correct facts do not support the content of their statements on network broadcasts, then what might be innocent misrepresentation through honest ignorance becomes deliberate, fraudulent misrepresentation, or an intentional lie.</p>
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<p>In the most recent edition of the Internet&#8217;s &#8220;World Net Daily,&#8221; the Western Center for Journalism&#8217;s July 21, 2009 publication, of a report of an investigation commissioned privately by an unnamed retired CIA officer in December 2008, was republished for public benefit. In this report, as I read it, the most disturbing two facts which emerged from its words were, (1), that the many American voters who regularly watch CNN were probably duped by the assertion (lie?) of television journalist Katy Pilgrim, when she stated, on July 17, 2009, that &#8220;the Obama campaign had produced &#8220;the original birth certificate&#8221; on the internet and that FactCheck.org had examined the original birth certificate.&#8221; The (2nd) disturbing fact was the February 23, 2009 assertion (lie?) of Jonathan Alter, MSNBC Political Analyst, in response to the question by MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Countdown&#8221; host, Keith Olberman, of &#8220;But as long as you feed that community that is looking for some excuse to question the legitimacy of a presidency, have you not-to some degree-done your job? I mean, has Alan Keyes not-to some degree-done his job in this?&#8221; Alter&#8217;s response was, &#8220;Well, you know, I don&#8217;t really think so, because I think it&#8217;s just sort of makes him and the other Clinton critic-the other Obama critics look ridiculous. And so, that doesn&#8217;t really, you know, help their cause in the debate. They are a party that is out of ideas, so they have to resort to these lies, you know, about the fact that he is not a citizen. You know, this came up during the campaign, Keith, and the Obama campaign actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii hospital online.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Were the millions of American citizens who religiously watch CNN as their valid, truthful news source falsely told, on February 23 and July 17, 2009, that Obama&#8217;s original long form birth certificate was published on the Internet by an unnamed Hawaiian hospital? If so, it was much more than negligent misrepresentation, because those individuals making the statements, news professionals, knew beyond a reasonable doubt that what they were not stating the truth. The only type of Obama birth certification that has, to date, been published on the Internet, by the President&#8217;s own wishes, has been that silly green thing called a certificate of live birth, which would not be suitable, as a birth certificate, to obtain an official identification card from the Commonwealth of Virginia.</p>
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<p>So, the prevailing situation is very much like the ludicrously absurd 9/11 mass murder investigation that was called &#8220;The 9/11 Commission,&#8221; by which authority the federally supportive powers-that-be (the media) urged, if not demanded, that a very large segment, over 80%, of the American public surrender its suspicions that the federal government surreptitiously orchestrated the mass killing that occurred on that awful day in 2001.   The mainstream electronic media, presently allied with the U.S. Executive Branch, the standing Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Senate Majority Leader are currently urging, if not demanding, that every American voter quietly accept, without authoritative proof, that Barack H. Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States.  In the name of all that&#8217;s sacrosanct, I cannot, and will not, do such a thing, and I hope that the bulk of the American electorate will follow suit.  Perhaps the mid-term congressional elections will serve to remove from Congress the incumbent legislators who don&#8217;t support constitutional government.  Without a legislative majority, the Obama administration and its unconstitutional policies will certainly fade into obscurity with no chance of regaining a governmental momentum and the confidence of the American people.</p>
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<p>Situational factors leads to organizational factors from individual to massive way was the real potential source of the society for its progress and its advancements from ancient to present capitalism in the world indifferently to all the states including India.</p>
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<p>Tools in hands were deprived of by those wanted to keep the productive forced unite was the first step of the powerful lords who gained control over the people, resources, and its productions in the dwelling areas of the society. In essence, the initiation stage of the civilization in which the people were allowed to live in a common life with the women, children, and  the feeder as an unit of the family as its first freedom of leaving from the system of common dwelling in unity with the family who belonged to the blood relations of the lords</p>
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<p>.The blood related males were the first alienated from the common living dwelling centers with their tools and belongings as a unit of their own family including their females, children, and some males who were thought to be useful for the practical purposes of securing the needs of the family. The very basic relaxation was at this alienation from the common dwelling centers were believes that they would never turn in hostilities against the first lords. The ‘trust&#8217; was the basic requirement in allowing the blood related families which was the need at that time, with a view to help them in case of any dangers to either their lives the lords or to their resources by the enemies within the common dwelling centers or from the out side source including natural disasters like floods.</p>
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<p> The basic need of the newly alienating blood related lords was food, shelter, females, children, and some domesticated animals, like a dog, sheep, bull, and some metal tools within the same common dwelling centers. While alienating from the power of the lords the newly emerging blood related lords, they have made themselves as an another power center within common, dwelling habitations quite for some time as an adjustments for the purpose of the safely and guarantee that was the basic need of every one to live together under one common force which was controlled by the lords.</p>
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<p>The alienation from power centre within same common dwelling units was firstly, as half in the way of independence within itself and in second way that was in physical and in complete physical by migrating to some other areas in accordance to the physical conditions of the areas which were mostly plane areas. The very nature of divisions of the were taken place in two way further more while the progress and advancement of the civilizations, at that time. These initial alienations from themselves were resulted the unending expansions of the migrations with tools, domestic animals, women, children, and having some skilled, and unskilled men for the purpose of formation of further dwelling centers.</p>
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<p> All such was consisted with men of skilled and un-skilled, women, children, domesticated animals, as a unit of civilization at the plane areas mostly they used to choose on the banks of the rivers from African forests to its surrounding plane areas and the river banks. As we know that till now the name in the list of the civilizations, the first Mesopotamian civilization was come into being from the roots of the evolutionary changes and progress of the humans and their material relations in the world. The alienation of few men from the work of production, was caused to form the dependent system of the state on the productive forces and its material at the cost of security and guarantee to the other humans as well as the taking charge of entrusting the duties, choosing the mighty, active and skilled men was the origin and requirement of the early form and early stage of its important model of the state at that time. The causes of the origin of the states in almost all the states in the world were very different from each other and do not claim as same for the causes of the origin of the states in all countries</p>
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<p>. In India there are no such findings and inventions are proved that the Indians or Asians who had the direct relations of the origin of the humans from the evolutionary changes of the humans and growth of the civilization on the banks of the Saraswati River known as harappa and moenjodaro civilization that was existed. I do not claim on the origin of human beings in Asian region on the very basis of the same like that of the African. Because no findings are being proved about its origin and growth at the Indian subcontinent, but surely I can say that the reference in Rig-Veda about the habitations of other sects, or cults were in existence. Ganas and janapadas are known about the existence of other cultured people through the first hand history book of Indian civilization</p>
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<p>. At the same time I do not like to go into the depth of the Aryan invasion theory or its anti-thesis now very much in popularity in the contest of the new findings through the ‘horse&#8217; as a symbol of the new findings about the origins of Aryans as native people this region. Where the question of faith comes before anybody as to make to think through the theories, evidences, supporting proofs, and all that demanding as a proof of certain things in the world, though there may be an option to believe that certain things as facts or disbelieving them as certain things as facts, are definitely depending on the mind and the set of beliefs of the person&#8217; interests only</p>
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<p>. Because human being is not either mechanical tool or material thing like that of lifeless things in the world to give its same responses, ideas, notions, reaction, contributions, sacrifices, lovingness, hatefulness, activities on all issues in similar way of the mechanical applications and on the material way of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and other life sciences. Off course the human nature is such a thing that could be corrupted long back while living in the forests and caves in African forests</p>
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<p>. If the mechanical and material way of thinking if the humans had been formulated like a program of any soft ware we could be long back turned as robots to act on the orders of the lords, or feudal, or capitalist, or warriors, or messengers, or saints, or sages of the world. There could be no need to wonder the Moses for a promised land, or no need to crucify the Jesus Christ, or no need to desist the way of violence of Buddha, or no need to live the saints of Brahmanism on the mercy of the people for whom they choose to write the whole Hindu literature in making the religion as the culture of the Indian civilization from its Vedic period to present activities of the Tirupati Balaji temple&#8217;s mass marriage program. This kind of program, the Muslim community is in its bad need this time. If any waqf or national or charity program would take the similar program for Indian Muslims, it would give good results in India. However it is another case which would be discussed later.</p>
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<p>Coming back to the slavery which was firstly in a minimum way in its initial stage and it took later in the biggest level when the lords were turned as the kings in the history. While the period of lords, on the question of areas of resources for the existence of the high level habitations in their areas, the feeding question was raised and lead them to fight against each other. The quarrels were on many questions, of which one was primarily territorial controls. The wars ware intended to gain the control over the resources, for the stocks, for slaves and for women also.</p>
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<p>The largest man power in need of the protection of the habitations they felt in different fronts in different way they were resorted to attack against each other, they started building the fortresses, dens, walls, gates for the armies. The slaves again were played key role in extension of the areas. Well built slaves were identified and used as the soldiers depending on the loyalty subjects in many subjects. The slave&#8217;s skills and their slavery were separated from each other and give rise to another form of their living in the society on its own way. It was not possible for all slaves to get the skilled work of waging wars as soldiers, but depending on the abilities of their own not only in the warrior&#8217;s game but the loyalty was the prerequisite to overcome from the slavery in individual way.</p>
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<p>This slavery was continued up to 17 and 18th centuries in British government even after the emergence of capitalist society in 12 and 13th century in British, roman and European empires. Officially slavery was banned in British government in 17 or 18th century. Indian system was unique we must accept, that slavery was never allowed to be taken place up to 6th century. The Manu Smriti which had discrimination against Dalits would never be compared with the slavery and its system in India in many accounts. Before taking the shape of slavery from individual and society to the state level as a need and unavoidable vacuum it has further taken to the other form from slave duty to soldier in a big way, because has been firstly treated as an asset of the society and then individual&#8217;s property and in both ways run in the Greece.</p>
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<p>The slaves were of four to five types as it was known through their origin and their existence in Greece. By birth was the first, secondly those who had been enslaved in the wars, third was those who could not pay their debts to their masters and those who themselves offer to work on the terms of payments and feedings. The freeness from the serfdom could be purchased from their masters and the laws of that time were allowed to engage the human trading in the open market with signs on then through tattoo like marks on their skin for visibility. </p>
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<p>The laws were in legal form through which the freedom could be purchased and could be sold in the open market. This kind of markets on men like animals was the legalized formula of the Greek society at that time. The legalization of any custom or any act by the kings or the rulers in the majority form as an unavoidable act within the society, for which all members of the society extend their consent on any act which could be automatically sanctioned as a law of the society and then it takes its validation by the state. In ancient times the social laws were the first to introduce in the society which could give the way for majority of the members in the form of grant of will majority people that could take as a social law of that time and then it could lead into the state&#8217;s affair which has to ratify as the law of the state. The rulers or the kings in the ancient time in any state, the people first finds the need of following the act that was committed by any single or few in a specific time frame or in a little frequent the people were to discuss its legality and its merits in the interest of even few and all acceptance as a free will that could take in the form of social law which means the consent of the people was behind in legalizing the act as law. At the same time, if any law was introduced by the few in the ill motives for their own interest the act could never be made to implement by the majority of the people at that time. So all the history of the laws was definitely the sanction of the state only after the society was allowed the act to be existed by many people in any state in the world. That is why I already clarified the difference between the social laws and the state laws in my previous article.</p>
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<p>While the progressing and developing of the society through step by step on the developments in the subjects of the productive tools, and on its controlling system of governance in filling up of the needs the people for their subjects of the particular time, the skills were to play according to footing into the way of leading the society with the people in totality.</p>
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<p>A particular attention, ability and cleverish attitude of fulfilling nature of the assigned task was the leader for those who were in lead like a leaders and all that what they left for the others of the remained members of the next in rank or in generation, was the subjects and the same subjects were to learn by other rank and the other people who engages in such acts of full filling the needs as demands of that time till the invention of the language.</p>
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<p>And the same was after invention of the language all that were recorded as material facts with some additional inclusions of the feeling and their aspirations. At the same time, the learning the language and writing about their feelings and thoughts were made them to have a work in the filed of education. Again one more thing they were to learn in education. And education was emerged as an essential factor for the people at that time. So they learned and had written some subjects on the available material of the time on the rock, on leave, on the wood, and on the metals. Their past acts entirely came into being to know the next generations of that time.</p>
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<p> I do not say all the writings were correct and their experiences were correct but I say definitely by inventing and finding the writing system indicated that they felt to communicate about themselves to the next ranks and their generations in the lost desirable form of language, so the act of invention and practicing was and is understood how were they lived at that time and how were their need are very essential to understand the past and present need of assessing the social conditions of the world. We can fight with the person and we cannot fight against the need of position of the person who occupies in the need of the person</p>
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<p>. We can avoid the hunger for a while and we cannot avoid the hungry permanently. of  Because all the written works after the invention of the language could not be believable facts of the history and the historical works about the past and their descriptive factors about the history could never be believed and it was the fact and nature of the society. If all the facts were correct then it was no need to punish the great philosopher to punish in an open place on the charging some immaterial facts in his life.</p>
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<p>The whole history and its nature are quite against the popular assumption that the people in massive way could not do anything in the primary level. The invention or any finding in the history was and is an act of individuals only and after the individual&#8217;s acts upon which the people put their mind and think about its validity for adoption to follow it in a big way. And the acts of the massive people with their consent and approval for committing any act that act and its purpose could be successful. It means the act of individual if not countable in the list of inventions and the findings the whole process of invention, understanding it as essential one as common need of the society, adoption to follow in the form of action upon such invention and findings, direct participation of the people in massive way with sense of feeling that as their task that particular act could only be achieved</p>
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<p>. The credit of fulfilling the task was definitely belonged to the people only at the same time the recognization of the invention and finding that basic need upon which the entire people were acted goes to those particular individuals only. The history and its nature are moving on the very same principle. In India there is popular saying that if one sheep fell in the well all the group will fell into the well. The Indian shepherds found this popular saying. So individual act prior to group act is the identical with one another through which the whole process of progress and developments in the history moves and moves further.</p>
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<p>Recognization of individual act upon which the massive act if it was followed the findings, followers, and the need could be understood in a chain of facts which are and were linked with each other in leading the society into progress and advancements.</p>
<p>The main and basic factors, in conflicting needs of society at both individual, communities, temples and at state level in the slave society system, the kings of Sumerians were built the structures in big way. The reasons and needs of transformation of the society from slave system to feudal system in Sumerians were noted in the following manner.</p>
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<p>The individual masters, lords and communal or temple committees were unable to maintain the slaves in their way of tools or in the way of animals due to the non-cooperation acts of the slaves, and frequent violation of the agreements between the slaves and masters. Heavy punishments on violation of the agreements from the master&#8217;s side and the written laws were come into force for maintaining the social balance between the masters and slaves. The competitive need of the soldier like slaves in attending the kings subjects at the kings fortresses. The kings impositions of burden for the kings subjects in the most competitive way to meet the challenges of the other rival Akkadian kingdoms at that time</p>
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<p>. The heavy burden on the requirements were on the shoulders was in fulfilling the requirements of their duties they engages in different ways.</p>
<p>First they were at individuals residences. Secondly they were engages in community level temple works and thirdly they were at the state&#8217;s subjects. When the heavy burden was imposed by the individual masters in the farming, cultivation, and cattle works, the slave would emerge the most valued individual in his subjects, so that the demand of the skills work of the slaves in other works made them to emerge a demanded commodity in the market.</p>
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<p>The frequent changes of the masters and getting the slaves, have emerged to own the  women made them to become the freemen with little belongings in the process of the progress of the society. In the individual cases, the weak master and the strong slave relations were interchangeable in the social values. The zeal and inspiration of owning the little needs of the animals, residences, women, and children was made them to emerge the slaves from the slavery to the mastery position slowly in individual basis. At the same time, the community run temple affairs were began to diminish from one to another due to the heave burdens of the penalties over the masters by the states due to make the society to run balance and it had already busy in engaging heavy number of slaves at its treasure that made the slaves to live in a some sort of dignity and honor in the society.</p>
<p>The subjects of the kings were also widened from its mere running the affairs of its limited subjects to vast subjects of maintaining the laws, prisons, judiciary, stocks, policing and intelligence works within and outside of the kingdom. Consequently the slaves were well accommodated in newly emerging subjects of the states at the state level as well as developing the multiple works at the masters were made them some more high level of importance in the society that that of their past in which the limited subjects there. On the other hand in the state&#8217;s subjects the massive recruitment was made the slaves who were skilled in the laborious works that made them to turn the new position of armed men in the great need of the king who was under force to build a suitable force against the rivals. Consequently the state was to impost the heavy burden in the form of taxes on the free men and temple communities. These acts directly had its own influences against each other upon the four subjects which were largely formed apart of the state affairs at that time. The contradictions among all these elements and each others needs and influences, and the demands of the time in which all were living, were the contributing factors in the society to move further from every development and advancements.</p>
<p>In the next article, the issue would be about the sayings of the great philosophers about the role of state and the method of analytical study of the remote past and their visions including the realities in the light of changing in all the factors including productive and non-productive forces with its tags on the name of service and on the name of religions with equal identifications of their importance would be discussed in detailed manner. Moreover the diversified fields as burden on the society as non-productive forces would be discussed in the conclusions. In essence from the period of slave system to present capitalist system covering through the feudal system with its causing effects and needs would be discussed so as to see the real reasons and the pulse of the history besides the concepts of the rich and poor. But both are never believed to be the rigid forces and the factors in the change of needs and fulfilling the gaps by the real power of those who occupy the centre position in all states.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever though about the meaning of the word, &#8220;insurgent&#8221;? Calling the people in Afghanistan who are attacking U.S. and NATO troops insurgents has become common. &#8220;Insurge&#8221; means to rush or surge in, but the Taliban didn&#8217;t rush into Afghanistan; they are natives who have always lived there. It was American and NATO troops [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever though about the meaning of the word, &#8220;insurgent&#8221;? Calling the people in Afghanistan who are attacking U.S. and NATO troops insurgents has become common. &#8220;Insurge&#8221; means to rush or surge in, but the Taliban didn&#8217;t rush into Afghanistan; they are natives who have always lived there. It was American and NATO troops who surged into Afghanistan; in Iraq, Americans even called one such going in &#8220;a surge.&#8221;</p>
<p>And what about &#8220;intelligence&#8221; as in intelligence agency? Properly speaking, intelligence is a attribute of human beings. As such, organizations cannot be intelligent. Intelligence is distinguished from intellect by being applied to concrete or individual exhibitions of the powers ascribed to the intellect. People are animals endowed with intellect, not intelligence; intelligence refers to the extent to which a person is able to use his intellect. An organization cannot use its intellect, because it has none.</p>
<p>America has a vast &#8220;intelligence&#8221; conglomerate of organizations. The NSA, CIA, FBI, various branches of the military have &#8220;intelligence&#8221; groups, and other agencies, too, are involved in so called intelligence. This conglomerate is likely the largest the world has ever known, and its costs are huge, the total cost of which is a deeply held secret. It has vast technical apparatuses used to watch people, see what they do, hear what they say, read what they write. And yet, all of the money spent, all of the people employed, all of the apparatuses used are insufficient. These agencies have shown, over and over again, that they rarely learn what they seek.</p>
<p>The information gathered is derived from many sources. Much is speculative, some is contradictory. It often amounts to little more than hunches. Some is correct, much is not.</p>
<p>In Afghanistan, NATO and US forces grossly underestimated the Taliban&#8217;s capacity to mount a vicious counteroffensive. No one predicted the use of suicide bombings. In Somalia, the U.S. backed warlords that had ruled Mogadishu for two decades were suddenly overthrown by a bunch of lightly armed mullahs called the Islamic Courts Union. Few in the State Department seemed to have heard of this grassroots movement before it took over the country. The United States also failed to predict that Uzbekistan would close down the American base that had been there since 2001, downgrade relations with Washington and tilt decisively toward China and Russia. After the Palestinian elections, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stammered that the victory of Hamas came as a complete surprise to her. The mother of all intelligence failures, of course, was the CIA&#8217;s inaccurate prediction that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime would be found to have weapons of mass destruction. One of the main charges against the CIA and FBI post-9/11 is that they failed to join up the dots beforehand. The <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=374879">killings</a> at Ft. Hood resulted from an intelligence failure. The FBI had information about Hasan&#8217;s extremism, but didn&#8217;t investigate enough. Intelligence agencies apparently cannot make connections between bits of information to make a coherent whole. But who can blame them. Bits of information scattered here and there can be likened to needles in multiple haystacks. Too much information is as impossible to deal with as none.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s wrong with this picture:</p>
<p>The United States of America, in all likelihood, has the largest and most expensive intelligence gathering service the world has ever known. We can assume it operates everywhere, even Timbuktu.<br />
The United States of America tortures prisoners to acquire intelligence.</p>
<p>If the huge intelligence gathering service works effectively, why is the torture necessary? And if torture is necessary, doesn&#8217;t it mean that the huge intelligence gathering service doesn&#8217;t work? One or the other has to be unnecessary. Which one?</p>
<p>People who believe, as our leaders seem to, that both are necessary are involved in contradictory thinking which distorts every rational thought process. Is it any wonder that American policies are ineffective? Only insane people think this way! Intelligence gathering does not produce intelligence. As the results mentioned above show, only ignorance is produced. Given all the means 21st century snoops have for gathering information, why do they have to resort to medieval methods? The only possible answer is that the practices employed by the agencies don&#8217;t work. But history has shown that torture doesn&#8217;t either. The Grand Masters of the Inquisition immolated many who were completely innocent.</p>
<p>When a nation as powerful as the United States goes to war on the basis of bad information, where does that leave the world? &#8220;We have squandered thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, we have projected force without intelligence—and that is <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=105804">folly</a>. . . . That is how nations fall and that is how nations lose power.&#8221;</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every President has a unique style of speaking and dealing with issues. Barack Obama recently gave his first State of the Union address. In listening to him speak about all the problems the country faces in 2010, it brought to mind the early days of the presidency of George Bush and his early speeches when he had to deal with the worst attack against the United States homeland in its history and the prospect of an uncertain future where the seemingly invulnerable United States was now facing the very real possibility of additional attacks. What if George Bush&#8217;s style was more like the style of Barack Obama? What if the two Presidents could be merged and you could create a new President by the name of George W.H. Obama. It is early 2002. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States&#8230;</p>
<p>President George Obama: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: America this evening is a nation called to great responsibilities. And we are rising to meet them. In the normal course of events, Presidents come to this chamber to report on the state of the Union. My fellow citizens, the entire world has seen for itself the state of our Union &#8212; and it is strong. We have seen it in the courage of passengers, who rushed terrorists to save others on the ground; we have seen it in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We have seen the unfurling of flags, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers. We are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.</p>
<p>One year ago, I took office amid an underfunded military and a depleted and dispirited CIA. High level security agencies lacked the ability to share information. We were attacked in 1993 in New York&#8217;s World Trade Center and the previous administration handled it as if it were a bank robbery, rather than an act of war. We were attacked at Khobar Towers and the previous administration again looked at it as an isolated incident. 17 sailors were killed and 39 were injured when two members of Al-Qaeda blew up their small craft next to the USS Cole in Yemen &#8212; President Clinton&#8217;s response? He said &#8220;Their tragic loss reminds us that even when America is not at war, the men and women of our military still risk their lives for peace. &#8221; Not at war President Clinton? You may not have been at war with them but they were certainly at war with us. How many acts of terrorism would it take for the previous administration to wake up to the danger? Even when our soldiers suffered the humiliating indignity of being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, President Clinton continued to treat terrorist attacks as if they were no worse than a robbery at a local deli.</p>
<p>We had at least four known documented opportunities to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and the previous administration turned it down. As for Iraq, I know that many of you in this chamber are apprehensive about the possibility of going to war there. I have to remind our distinguished members of congress that if the previous administration did not show weakness and allow weapons inspectors to be thrown out of Iraq, we would not have lost years of intelligence gathering and we might not be in the position now where war is necessary.</p>
<p>In short, we inherited a disastrous mess from the previous administration. A year later, however, we have taken action and have corrected some of the horrific mistakes of the last eight years. We have removed the wall of separation between various intelligence gathering agencies that proved so ineffective in dealing with terrorism. We have taken terrorists off the battle field and not treated them as common criminals but as the enemy combatants that they are. We have housed them in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where the military can interrogate them and get the needed information to prevent future attacks. Our goal not being one to simply punish those caught committing acts of terrorism, but to prevent future attacks. We will use common sense intelligence gathering, not all of which that can be revealed for obvious reasons.</p>
<p>There is a fine line between trampling the rights of individual citizens and common sense surveillance. Let&#8217;s remember where the blame for this lies. We are reacting to the real threat posed by terrorists who are obsessed with destroying our country. The ineffective and irresponsible way that Washington has dealt with this problem over the last eight years has made certain procedures necessary in order to protect the country. Because of the reckless and irresponsible behavior of Washington, we are forced to allocate money to a brand new office &#8211; The Office of Homeland Security. We need to upgrade procedures and computer systems of our Intelligence gathering organizations and we will need to increase funding for the military to make up for the funding shortages of the last eight years. This is a tremendous expenditure that I would rather not have to make but thanks to the previous administration, I have no choice.</p>
<p>Because of all the money we now have to spend on security, coupled with the recession that we inherited, we will need to spend much of the budget surplus. Let me make this perfectly clear. The budget surplus was built on a house of cards. There was a new medium &#8212; the internet &#8212; that busted out during the previous administration. The Dot Com companies created a lot of investment in an unpredictable, untested environment. Their failure was inevitable. Their business practices were shabby and wasteful. Coupled with the tragic cuts to the military and to our intelligence services, the budget surplus of the previous administration was bound to end. You can only put paper clips and rubber bands on the military and the economy for so long before you need to go in and spend the money you need to really fix things, which my administration is prepared to do.</p>
<p>With all the problems that I inherited from the previous administration, I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and say to my lovely wife Laura Michelle, &#8220;Oy Gevalt! What have I gotten myself into!&#8221; But for the good of the nation I will trudge on. For the nation needs me now more than ever. I am the President. I won the election. I am Commander-In-Chief, the leader of the free world. I am George Obama.</p>
<p>I n fact, the economic problems that we inherited are on the verge of being solved. I am going to cut taxes which will cause investment opportunities. I predict that due to these tax cuts the unemployment rate will drop by the mid 2000s to a miniscule 4.5% so that despite the increased spending on the security of our country, made necessary by the previous administration, we will still manage to revive the economy and keep our country safe at the same time.</p>
<p>Let us not forget what happened on September 11, 2001. It is my fear that as the decades go by and this horrific event fades into the past, we may be lured into the same false sense of security that got us in trouble in the first place. We weren&#8217;t attacked for anything we did, we were attached because of the values we espouse, and these are good values. They are not values to be ashamed of. They are values worth defending and we must be vigilant in defending them.</p>
<p>It is my hope that in the months and years ahead, life will return almost to normal. We&#8217;ll go back to our lives and routines, and that is good. Even grief recedes with time and grace. But our resolve must not pass. Each of us will remember what happened that day, and to whom it happened. We&#8217;ll remember the moment the news came &#8212; where we were and what we were doing. Some will remember an image of a fire, or a story of rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever.</p>
<p>The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. Fellow citizens, we&#8217;ll meet violence with patient justice &#8212; assured of the rightness of our cause, and confident of the victories to come. In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom, and may He watch over the United States of America.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Note: The second, last and next to last paragraphs are taken directly from speeches given by George W. Bush.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>              The press is clueless about the Tea party! I wonder if even the Tea Partiers know what&#8217;s in the air, what&#8217;s in the water that they have been drinking, or who&#8217;s gotten inside their head. The press blathers back and forth with questions like who does the Tea Party help the most, Republicans or Democrats? The real answer is that long term, the Tea Party KILLS both! The Tea Party is about a coming revolution (can you say social unrest?). Unfortunately the government has gotten so BIG and so powerful that regardless of who is in office (donkey or elephant) it&#8217;s a CYA mentality that grows and grows. Ultimately the paradigm develops that POWER is to be used for their benefit. And, in order to stay in power, STUFF must be MADE UP. We are in deep economic yogurt and we&#8217;re being lied to! Much like in 1929 when Josiah Stamp wrote, &#8220;The government is very keen on amassing statistics. The collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.&#8221; A good example will be this Friday&#8217;s unemployment numbers! Have you ever seen how they just &#8220;make stuff up&#8221;? Richard Maybury wrote recently, &#8220;The clearest way to look at politics isn&#8217;t, democrats vs. republicans, liberals vs. conservatives, or left vs. right, but LIBERTY vs. POLITICAL POWER!. Both major parties are on the side pf POWER, they ant as much as they can get. Their only disagreements are about which of them should have it, and which parts of your life they should control.&#8221; And the answer is- ALL OF IT! Revolutions are started by governments, not revolutionaries. No revolutionary can gather enough anger without it first being offered by the government and what you see in the Tea Party is exactly that! The Tea Party is not going away; however, the two major parties just may! And that&#8217;s not all bad!<br />
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		<title>Beck Says Read the Bible – Ready to Change Your Worldview?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone in America and the world has what is known as a worldview. If you start to read the Bible systematically your worldview will change radically and completely. The biblical worldview is almost diametrically opposite the worldview on every level. If you start reading the four gospels then move on to the rest of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone in America and the world has what is known as a worldview. If you start to read the Bible systematically your worldview will change radically and completely. The biblical worldview is almost diametrically opposite the worldview on every level.</p>
<p>If you start reading the four gospels then move on to the rest of the New Testament before tackling the Old Testament you will change your view long before you get to Genesis.</p>
<p>Glenn Beck&#8217;s views will change and even Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s view would change if he began a search of scripture. The nonchalant attitudes about gays and other prurient practices in this nation would not be something laughed about on the evening news. James Carville&#8217;s famous saying from the 1992 Clinton campaign &#8220;It&#8217;s the economy stupid,&#8221; would fade away and be replaced by the far more honest, &#8220;It&#8217;s the immorality, stupid.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here is a list of things that will change. It is a short list because almost every facet of your worldview changes with constant attention to Bible reading. This is the list that will change the way we look at the direction America has been taking for almost an entire generation.</p>
<p>I will not veer into specifics like how we got the Bible in studies of epistemology or apologetics which shows us why we can trust the Bible. I won&#8217;t get homiletical (preachy) and I won&#8217;t resort to breaking down the vast portions of scripture that are prophetic.</p>
<p>The very first prophecy called the protvangelium (Gen 3:15) passed on to ancient prophecies and up through pre, mid and post exilic prophecies. (Judgments and captivity of Israel) They are followed by the Messianic prophecies (first coming of Christ) which Christ has already fulfilled. In just the last 24 hours of his life on earth Christ fulfilled dozens of Messianic prophecies against the odds of 53,000,000 to one against the idea that it could have been something that happened by mere chance.</p>
<p>All the remaining prophecies are concerning the second coming of Christ and they are generally referred to as pre-millennial prophecies. They constitute almost 25 percent of the Bible. It is here I must begin the discussion about a changed worldview.</p>
<p>The first view that would change is your assessment of time. Almost every pre-millennial prophecy that warns of the second coming of Christ has been fulfilled in this generation. That is one of the greatest prophecies of all. It is in that generation where all prophecy converges, that Christ returns. In a list of signs in Matthew&#8217;s gospel Christ said, &#8220;Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.&#8221; (Mt 24: 34) There is no doubt whatsoever that Christ was not referring to his own generation but of the one in which the signs were all coming together.</p>
<p>The second view that will change is the lightness with which we approach the gay agenda in America. The most conservative commentators and politicians have passed it all off as an emerging social change that we just have to live with. It too is part of Bible prophecy and although we may have to live with it, promoting it will lead to the demise of any nation. This is a Biblical surety not just an opinion. It along with other moral decline is the source and the very reason for America&#8217;s decline as a world power.</p>
<p>Same sex marriages will come as number three in the world view change you will experience. This is what we might call the high perversion of the modern era. While there were always Sodomites (homosexuals) throughout history in varying degrees no one in the ancient times or in recent history carried it so far that they wanted to get married to same sex partners.</p>
<p>Number four on our short list is abortion. The Bible is replete with warnings about the shedding of innocent blood. It is a biblical thread that runs from cover to cover and it can and will lead to God&#8217;s judgments. In a world that wants to save whales, seals, stray pets and endangered species of every kind but then throws its own kind into medical waste containers, we see the reality of Christ&#8217;s proclamation that in the last days&#8217; natural behaviors and the love of all mankind would taper off into indifference and callousness. Speaking of the attitudes of people in the last generation Christ said, &#8220;And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.&#8221; (Mt. 24: 12)</p>
<p>Your view of the unborn will change when you see that many were named by God before they were ever born including John the Baptist and Christ himself. God called the Ancient King Cyrus by name over 100 years before he was ever born. (Isa 44:28) King David proclaimed that God knew him while he was still being formed in the womb. (Ps 139: 13-15)</p>
<p>Does God know the unborn? You could bet your life on it, in the mean time we seem all too willing to bet the lives of the unborn that He does not.</p>
<p>In fact one single verse of scripture proclaims that God knew every single redeemed person that ever had the spiritual sense to surrender to God&#8217;s claims on their lives. &#8220;Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.&#8221; (Mt 25:34)</p>
<p>Number five on the list of worldview changes would be the idea that this country was not founded on the principles and moral foundations of the Bible. After some serious studies in the scripture you may want to revisit the documents formed by the founders. You may want to look again into the biographies of the founding fathers and it is then that you will discover that almost every concept, precept or philosophical argument put forth by America&#8217;s founding fathers is hard connected to the Bible.</p>
<p>The sixth worldview change that comes from reading the Bible is the assurance that everything from Mother Nature to who is in power, is ordered and designed by God. No one can fix the economy get a little more politically conservative and think our immorality is of no particular consequence. If we continue on the path to unbridled moral decadence, nothing else we may do will slow our ultimate demise. The choices are ours to make right to the end but like everything else in this world; there is an end.</p>
<p>Finally, number seven will find you rethinking the idea that all religions or beliefs are universal in nature. While all religions have some variances on the same themes only one has a loving Shepard who died for his own sheep. That coupled with the resurrection makes Christianity stand alone and apart from the pack. Christ said it this way, &#8220;I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.&#8221; (Jn 10: 11)</p>
<p>It must be said for those who presently know nothing about the end of the world that Christ&#8217;s return is not the complete end of the world. It is only the end of the world as we know it. Christ will rule following the Battle of Armageddon.</p>
<p>Concerning the return of the Lord, the prophet Joel said &#8220;The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.&#8221; (Joel 2:31) This is a short but perfect summary of the return of the Lord. It will be great for the righteous but terrible for the wicked.</p>
<p>By reading the Bible completely we can see that it is only fearful if you are unprepared, unbelieving and unrighteous. No one can understand any of these things without changing their worldview so for now only a fool would not commend Mr. Beck for his call to read the Bible.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People who study current affairs and history can tell us that seldom it is heard that China blamed any nation or super power to interfere in its national affairs. But it is a reality that China too blames other nations but their way of complaining is very straight, decent and effective. Still we remember that how China once compelled America for written apology for destroying Chinese fighter plane and the death of its pilot. The way china blamed America &#8211; for sending spy airplane violating Chinese borders &#8211; in a very systematic way and with proofs. And the world had to believe them. China has some doubts about interference in its Muslim majority province. Some of our religious leaders were invited by China last year and they also assured China that there will be no interference or support from Pakistan side for the people who are creating problems in the Muslim majority areas of China.</p>
<p>During the so called Jihad era Russia knew very well the hideouts of Mujahadeens. But she tried to avoid blaming those countries that were providing safe heavens. Even today studding Russian newspapers we hardly find allegations about those countries that supported Mujadahadeen.</p>
<p>But when we see our politicians, establishment and media, it gives a very gloomy picture of their understanding the current situation. By pointing our fingers at others what we have achieved in six decades. Does the world believe us? If yes, so is there any one who can point out any achievement by blaming India, Israel and America? But rather we have isolated ourselves in the world. The recent statement issued by Chinese leadership after Prime Minister Gillani visit to China, must open our eyes. They have promised to help us fighting terrorism only if Pakistan is serious in this matter.</p>
<p>Recently our media and establishment threw their harpoons of fear and doubt in all directions. The world will surely laugh at us. Let me tell you one example of this foolishness. Just after attack on GHQ, we targeted India and even some ex-army defense experts threatened India to be ready for division of India in dozens parts. But the very next moment we ask India to open the doors for negotiations and find out the solution to curb terrorism. What we are going to discuss with India? The people who attacked hotels in Mumbai are still at large. And last day court has settled some cases in their favor.</p>
<p>Not alone India is targeted but triangle of India, Israel and America is considered to be the nexus of all evils. The question is why we ask America to settle our issues with India. If America is India’s friend in destabilizing Pakistan so why they will bother to solve problem for us? If America is enemy, why we are prayerful for American aid? We even don’t feel shy to ask for help the same America that we blame for supporting some Taliban groups and India.</p>
<p>This is not the way to get attention of the world. Have any one paid attention to our allegations? Even China passed normal comments on GHQ episode. If it would be the joint effort of India, Israel and America to attack GHQ and destabilize Pakistan, surely we would receive serious comments from countries like China, Iran and Russia. Our Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has asked a strange question from Indian leadership that why India has so large embassy in Kabul? What are their interests In Afghanistan as they have no common borders with Afghanistan?  He raised this issue in the USA. For his kind information the USA too has no common borders with Afghanistan, why she is deploying more troops in Afghanistan? Can he ask the same question from American Leadership? He must not. Because even the neighboring superpowers are not asking this question. If he thinks that American presence in Afghanistan is for the eradication of the root cause of terrorism so the India also claims the same. If we will always ask India to provide more evidence surely India will try itself to get to the root causes of terrorism. The money we are waiting for in the shape of Kerri Lugar Bill (per year), India has invested more than that in Afghanistan. And India is invited by the Afghanis. How we can ask a self-governing nation to expel some one out of their country? Is this fair and logical?</p>
<p>If we would have done any good for Afghanistan, Afghanis would love us. But they don’t. And we all know this fact. Why Afghani hate us? We must think over this question. And we must plan our propaganda in such a way that the world should give it preference.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[By G. Hugh Bodell I spent the better part of my professional life understanding and improving on operational processes in the financial services industry.  When a process appeared too complex or confusing close up, we had a standard phrase, “Step back and look down on it as if you were 10,000 feet above it.” The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By G. Hugh Bodell</em></p>
<p>I spent the better part of my professional life understanding and improving on operational processes in the financial services industry.  When a process appeared too complex or confusing close up, we had a standard phrase, “Step back and look down on it as if you were 10,000 feet above it.”</p>
<p>The actions of my government, the United States government, over the past nine plus months have been far too confusing for even the best of the political analysis ‘experts’ to define a direction much less an agenda.  Every action seems to have less analysis and planning than the announced ‘initiative’ the day before.  Starting with the closing of a prison (Gitmo) without giving one iota of thought to where do you put the 250 plus terrorists, onto a plan of spending a trillion dollars to stimulate the economy without the plan being read by the people making it law, much less being held up for measurement and evaluation by the folk whose money was being pledged.</p>
<p>The list goes on and on, buying bankrupt auto manufacturers, buying up all the used cars in America only to replace them by cars made by offshore companies, the health care ‘reform’ debacle, screaming at Fox News like a teenage girl screaming at her disciplinarian mother “I hate you.”  All of these and many more actions seem to have nothing in common, no identifiable direction, no shared thread of policy or agenda…until you erase all the pre-defined framework that we are used to viewing government action in and rise up 10,000 feet and look down on the last nine months of government action and the unthinkable concept of an agenda emerges, chaos, intentional chaos.</p>
<p>Now your immediate reaction is either, “Oh brother another conspiracy theory” or “Why would a central government want to introduce chaos?”  Please bear with me and read on, I will try, over the next several paragraphs to walk you through the process I followed to come to this conclusion.</p>
<p><strong>Conspiracy</strong> is the foundation supporting all other actions of our political system.  The problem with conspiracies is that they only work as long as all participants in the conspiracy are committed to a common goal.  Republicans and Democrats (together with all other political parties) are committed to their group winning elections.  We recently got a look inside the communications strategy of a political party in the midst of an election courtesy of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn.  She said Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe (political strategist chief campaign manager for Barack Obama&#8217;s 2008 presidential campaign) <strong>put out Web videos so the campaign could avoid talking to reporters and focus the media message</strong>. </p>
<p>&#8220;One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters. &#8230; We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter.  So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it.&#8221; </p>
<p>To pull off this kind of managed/controlled dissemination of information on a man running for the most powerful position on the globe calls for a conspiracy so well managed that the first leak of its existence does not occur for almost a year after the election and only then because an embattled Anita Dunn needed to boost her own self esteem by bragging.  (She thinks that kind of voter deception is a good thing, if that isn’t unwavering commitment to a cause I quite frankly do not know what would be.)</p>
<p>I would love to be able to say that only the bad guys ‘conspired’ but that is patently not the case, all those in the political arena conspire, regardless of the level of the office.  Many, many years ago when I was a young man pretending to be Diogenes searching for an honest man, I was convinced to run for office as a trustee in a small but corrupt village…as a reformer!  I accepted the invitation and ran as an independent, meeting and greeting voters and spouting my words of honesty, integrity and open government.  Three months into the campaign and a week before the election, at a meeting of my ‘handlers’ I learned that ‘we’ had a spy planted on the opposition’s campaign committee who fed us all the strategy and tactical moves they were planning.  It was an election of the trustee of a village for God’s sake…yet the process included the usual unethical conspiracy.  It is a fact of life here in the US!</p>
<p><strong>Why would a central government want to introduce chaos?</strong></p>
<p>To paraphrase Euripides “Those whom the seekers of absolute power would conquer they first confuse!”</p>
<p>Let us start by once again turning to one of the White House insiders, Ms. Anita Dunn, “And then the third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa, not often coupled together, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is, you&#8217;re going to make choices.”</p>
<p>Mao Zedong’s concept of ‘making a choice’ was simply that he wanted China to represent a pure form of Communism at any cost and by the end of his Great Leap Forward a commune based  industrialization program that ran from 1957 to 1960 an estimated 30 to 50 million Chinese citizens were dead, their demise directly related to Mao’s choices.</p>
<p>If Ms. Dunn is a follower of the obsession with achieving a pure Communist system, and she is the acknowledged member of a conspiracy to get Mr. Obama elected, may we not conclude that there is likelihood that Mr. Obama shares her objective.</p>
<p>Prior to Mr. Obama’s election on November 4, 2008 we knew very little about either his beliefs or his agenda.  We had platitudes and his involvement with some less than attractive folk to go on.  However all that changed on September 23, 2009 when Mr. Obama ‘leaked’ a view of his agenda, not to the people he works for, the United States citizenry, but to a group of people salivating over the possibility of their getting their hands on the ‘wealth of a nation’, our Nation.</p>
<p>On September 23, 2009 at 10:10 A.M. EDT President Obama gave a speech to The United Nations General Assembly that committed our Nation’s wealth, resources, culture and life style to ‘saving the world’.  The speech is 5,000 words but 26 of those words tell a lot about where he wants to take this country of ours.</p>
<p>“We will integrate more economies into a system of global trade.  …And we will set our sights on the eradication of extreme poverty in our time.”  That is global poverty he is referring to.</p>
<p>In order to accomplish that objective he must spread the wealth of the US around the globe.  In order to carry out that rather larcenous act he must either get the US working person’s buy in (fat chance) or take control of the machine producing the wealth of this Nation by sleight of hand and set about the redistribution via near dictatorial powers supported by his own special group of…oh my God…co-conspirators!</p>
<p>I am often accused of resorting to numbers to emphasize a point, however I am by education an accountant and have always believed the adage, ‘the devil is in the details’!  So let us take a look at how much of the world’s wealth we are actually responsible for generating…that’s right, generating, how much of the global annual domestic wealth production are we, the hard working, innovative, sacrificing people responsible for producing?</p>
<p>To assemble these statistics I turned to three sources, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the CIA World Fact Book.  The individual numbers by country do not differ that much but for some reason the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank elected to leave off several countries.  Since my objective here is to point out the perspective of the 194 members of the General Assembly that sat salivating over our hard earned US assets relative to their balance sheets and income statements I will use the data from the CIA World Fact Book (a highly respected source) since it comes closest with data on all of the 195 country membership of the UN.</p>
<p>The Gross Domestic Product (the value of everything made or service provided) for all the 195 members of the United Nations (including the US) is $61.070 trillion ($61,070,000,000,000.00).</p>
<p>The United States contribution to that awesome number is $14.26 trillion or 23.4%.  The next largest economy on the globe is Japan with 8.1% or 4.9 trillion followed very closely by China with 4.4 trillion/7.2%.</p>
<p>All told, the top 15 UN members account for 75.7% of Worldwide Gross Domestic Product of which the US accounts for about 1/3.  The other 180 members are left to divide up the remaining 24.3%.</p>
<p>Beginning to get the picture?  This is the proverbial ‘have vs. have not’ only on a global scale.</p>
<p>I am not going to enumerate the various circumstances that brings us to the position on this world stage of the richest guy in town, but we are there and nothing jumps out at me justifying our continuing the hard work, innovation and sacrifices, but hand off to others the rewards, either within the borders of this great country or worse yet, across the borders to 194 other countries.  Further, I believe that very few of the 306 million folk inside our borders would elect to hand over large wads of their hard earned cash to pay for the lifestyle of others whether domestically or internationally!</p>
<p>…and President Obama and his insider group are very aware of this obstacle to their agenda.</p>
<p>If one analyzes, on a micro basis, the reaction to socialistic policies in the US it gets down to “I will get health care cheaper,” “I will get education cheaper,” “I will get energy cheaper.”  There is little or no discussion by the citizenry or by the ‘Ruling Group” as to who is getting all these products and services at a higher cost so that the recipients of the largesse get them more cheaply.  That question would force the analysis that would clearly point out the flaws in the concept.</p>
<p>Now let us expand that wealth redistribution policy globally.</p>
<p>As Mr. Obama spreads that 14.26 trillion bucks produced by us over an ever expanding international group of ‘largesse recipients’ even our lowest earners will become aware that they have less…and they will not be happy!</p>
<p>So Mr. Obama and his insider group have got to quickly get unimaginable powers to control the reaction of the US population, not just the big earners, but all 306 million of us.</p>
<p>What is their strategy, CHAOS!</p>
<ol>
<li>(It is as if he were their spy inside our campaign.)  Now he has earned his bones with the global gang.</li>
<li>Keep the grand plan secret.</li>
<li>Never, never let the media point out that the definition of rich will keep descending until it includes the poor!</li>
<li>“Those rich people have too much, it should be shared.”  “Those people are poor because they are lazy and think they can live better off of my hard work.”</li>
<li>Create unworkable bankrupting programs on such a grand scale that the debt load of the United States as a sovereign nation explodes to a point that the case can be made that the US needs assistance from the other 194 members of the United Nations.</li>
<li>Massive unemployment, inflation, diminished dollar value, international movement to replace the dollar as the currency of choice, internal unrest, divisiveness, pitting American against American, etc.</li>
<li>Propose to the United Nations that the US will submit to an ‘interim’ World Government, turning over unprecedented authority to select members of a specially formed commission of the United Nations General Assembly, based on a Global/Socialism model.</li>
<li>Impose new laws in the United States, administered by special forces under the auspices of the United Nations.</li>
<li>Void the US constitution, dissolve the government and become part of the New World Order.</li>
<li>Redistribute the United States resources and assets until they are eventually depleted and the 195 members of the United Nations must look around for a new scam.</li>
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<p>…and that is why the logical answer to the reason for a government that appears to be out of control is that “The agenda is planned, managed CHAOS.”</p>
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<p>G. Hugh Bodell is the author of Treachery In Turtle Bay, a fictionalized mystery based on the 30 billion dollars that went missing from the UN Oil For Food Program.</p>
<p>He was consultant to the United Nations from 2000 through 2006.</p>
<p>Visit him and his books at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ghughbodell.com">www.ghughbodell.com</a></p>
<p>Article Source:<a target="_blank" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/chaos-could-that-be-the-real-agenda-1364777.html" title="CHAOS – COULD THAT BE THE REAL AGENDA?">http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/chaos-could-that-be-the-real-agenda-1364777.html</a><br />
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama has recently been given the Nobel Prize for trying to make the world free from nuclear weapons. Don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s too early? Nobel Prize isn&#8217;t the prize from people to Obama, American people or rest of the world haven&#8217;t endorsed it. This prize doesn&#8217;t mean that he has done miracle [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>U.S. President Barack Obama has recently been given the Nobel Prize for trying to make the world free from nuclear weapons. Don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s too early? Nobel Prize isn&#8217;t the prize from people to Obama, American people or rest of the world haven&#8217;t endorsed it. This prize doesn&#8217;t mean that he has done miracle for Americans or for the world.</p>
<p>First of all America itself have largest stock of nuclear, most destructive, advanced and dangerous weapons itself. Obama should have destroyed all these. American army have forcefully established military base camps in many parts of the world where they are at war also and American government interfere in all the political matters of other countries. What about these things Mr. Obama! Recently thousands of Americans have rallied against Obama&#8217;s economic policies.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying that he is a bad president but he should have been given more time to prove himself. Though, I agree that Obama has suddenly become one of the most popular persons in the world. He became the President of the most powerful country in a very short political career and it is one of the finest achievements. His slogan &#8220;Yes We Can&#8221; really inspired Americans to vote for him and it is also the inspiration for the whole world that we should never think we can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Still he is quite new as a President first let him do something big for America and World. If he had done anything big for the people of this world only then he should have been awarded with Nobel Prize.</p>
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