Theory, John Ruskin
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Pathetic Fallacy

He invented this term to describe the ascription of human emotions to impersonal natural forces, as in "the wind sighed".

Fors Clavigera

Ruskin gave this name to a series of letters he wrote to workmen during the 1870s. The phrase was intended to designate three great powers which go to fashion human destiny. These were: Force, symbolised by the club (clava) of Hercules; Fortitude, symbolised by the key (clavis) of Ulysses; and Fortune, symbolised by the nail (clavus) of Lycurgus. These three powers (the "fors") together represent human talents and abilities to choose the right moment and then to strike with energy. The concept is derived from Shakespeare's phrase "There is a tide in the affairs of men/ Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune". Ruskin believed that the letters were inspired by the Third Fors: striking out at the right moment.

Modern Atheism

Ruskin applied this label to the unfortunate persistence of the clergy in teaching children what they cannot understand, and in employing young consecrate persons to assert in pulpits what they do not know.

The Want of England

"England needs," says Ruskin, "examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek, not greater wealth, but simpler pleasures; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions self-possession, and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace."

Illth

Used by and after Ruskin as the reverse of wealth in the sense of ‘well-being’: Ill-being.

Eleuterio Sanchez, (1942-) the Roadrunner to the infamous Wile Coyotesc-Franco Regime that ruled Spain for several decades, following the Spanish Civil War. Eleuterio, dubbed "El Lute" by the Spanish press, El lute escaped from Spanish prison several times after being unjustly convicted of capital offences in the late 1960's. El Lute would eventually win his freedom. He would go on to law school and author several books about his escapades with the Fascist Spanish Regime of Franco.

Nathan the Prophet
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(fl. c. 1000 BC) was a court prophet who lived in the time of King David and Queen Bathsheba. He came to David to reprimand him over his committing adultery with Bathsheba while she was the wife of Uriah the Hittite whose death the King had also arranged to hide his previous transgression. His actions are described in the Books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles (see especially, 2 Samuel 7:2-17, 12:1-25.) Nathan wrote histories of the reigns of both David and of Solomon (see 1 Chronicles 29:29 and 2 Chronicles 9:29), and was involved in the music of the temple (see 2 Chronicles 29:25).

Colonel Theodore S. Westhusing (November 17, 1960 – June 5, 2005)a West Point professor of English and Philosophy, volunteered to serve in Iraq in late 2004 and died in Baghdad from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound in June 2005. West Point Memorial Website: "Col. Theodore S. Westhusing, 44, of Dallas, Texas, died June 5 in Baghdad, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries. Westhusing was serving with the Multi-national Security Transition Command-Iraq and was assigned to the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. as a professor. He is the highest-ranking officer to die in the Iraq war"
At the time he was the highest ranked American to die violently in Iraq since the start of the March 2003 United States-led invasion. He was 44 years old, married with three young children.


Westhusing served with what the U.S. Department of Defense calls the "Multi-national Security Transition Command - Iraq". His primary duty was to oversee the training of Iraqis for civilian police duty, in collaboration with USIS, a private military company. In mid-May 2005 he received an anonymous letter alleging fraud, waste and abuse by USIS. He also witnessed many of the following charges as well. The accusations included the following:

-forged employees' résumés claiming elite forces background
-inadequate skills and competence of trainers
-insufficient numbers of trainers in order to maximize profits
-disappearance of large quantities of weapons, radios, and other equipment
-employees boasting of killing Iraqis

Although Westhusing initially wrote to his commanders only seven days before his death that the allegations in the letter were false, many have determined that he was forced to write to his commanding officers, General Petraeus and General Fil, in order to keep his position and his commanding officers and USIS's cover on their activities, or perhaps until he could get the information to a source that would not cover up the illegalities. According to documentation, Colonel Westhusing then decided to go forward with the allegations about the illegalities to his commanders and the management of USIS, feeling that his life was now threatened and that he needed to get the information to outside sources before something happened to him. He did this regardless of the consequences to himself, to confront the injustices and to have the allegations exposed. He had also planned on returning to the U.S. to bring these allegations forward, but now feared for his life. This decision led to a subsequent, final confrontation and to his untimely death. There is evidence that something happened in those remaining seven days that caused him to turn angrily upon the management of USIS because of threats, referring to them with intense disgust as "money grubbing" and to their participation in illegal activities with members of the Iraqi police and others.

Excerpt reported from Westhusing's suicided not in The Texas Observer written by Robert Bryce, March 09, 2007 titled "I am sullied no-more."

"At about 1:15 in the afternoon, Westhusing was discovered in trailer 602A. Near his body was a note addressed to his commanders, Petraeus and Fil. Written in large, block letters, it read:

Thanks for telling me it was a good day until I briefed you. [Redacted name]—You are only interested in your career and provide no support to your staff—no msn [mission] support and you don’t care. I cannot support a msn that leads to corruption, human right abuses and liars. I am sullied—no more. I didn’t volunteer to support corrupt, money grubbing contractors, nor work for commanders only interested in themselves. I came to serve honorably and feel dishonored. I trust no Iraqi. I cannot live this way. All my love to my family, my wife and my precious children. I love you and trust you only. Death before being dishonored any more. Trust is essential—I don’t know who trust anymore. [sic] Why serve when you cannot accomplish the mission, when you no longer believe in the cause, when your every effort and breath to succeed meets with lies, lack of support, and selfishness? No more. Reevaluate yourselves, cdrs [commanders]. You are not what you think you are and I know it.

COL Ted Westhusing

Life needs trust. Trust is no more for me here in Iraq."

Susanna Maiolo (born 1984 in Frauenfeld, Switzerland) is a woman with Italian and Swiss citizenship, who attacked Pope Benedict XVI at Christmas Eve Midnight Mass, 24 December 2009, inside St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. French cardinal Roger Etchegaray was injured. She previously tried to attack the Pope in December 2008. Authorities said that Maiolo is mentally unstable; she is currently being held

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ANTARA THE LION: FATHER OF HEROES

By RUNOKO RASHIDI

Archaeologists have long shown that African people were the first people to occupy the Arabian Peninsula, and there has always been a substantial population in Arabia of people of African descent. Indeed, probably the most illustrious single figure in pre-Islamic Arabia was Antara the Lion--called the "father of heroes." Antara had an Arab father and an Ethiopian mother, and became in time Arabia's national hero. There was no individual equal to the valor and strength of Antara. He has been compared to King Arthur in the English tradition but was considerably more important because he was a more historical figure.

The name of Antarah ibn-Shaddad al Absi (ca. 525-615), evidently a Christian, has lived through the ages as the epitome of heroism and chivalry. Knight, poet, warrior and lover, Antara exemplified in his life those qualities greatly cherished by the sons of the desert. His acts of gallantry, as well as his love episodes with his lady, Ablah, whose name he immortalized in his famous Mu allaqah, have become a part of the literary legacy of the Arabic-speaking world.

Antara was the father of knighthood. He was the champion of the weak and oppressed and the protector of women. He was the impassioned lover and poet, and the irresistible and gallant knight. Antara's magnificent deeds spread across the Arabian Peninsula and throughout the world. In time these deeds, like the legends of Homer, were compiled in literary form. They are known today as the Romance of Antar, and have taken their place among the great national classics. The Romance of Antar, in its present form, probably preceded the romances of chivalry so common in twelfth century Italy and France.

SOURCES:
World's Great Men Of Color, Volume 1, by J.A. Rogers
African Presence In Early Asia, Edited by Runoko Rashidi & Ivan Van Sertima

Rabban Bar Sauma -(c. 1220–1294) Turkic/Mongol monk - wiki - turned diplomat of the Nestorian Christian faith. He is known for embarking on a pilgrimage from Mongol-controlled China to Jerusalem with one of his students, Rabban Markos. Due to military unrest along the way, they never reached their destination, but instead spent many years in Mongol-controlled Baghdad. Markos was eventually chosen as Nestorian Patriarch, and later suggested his teacher Rabban Bar Sauma be sent on another mission, as Mongol ambassador to Europe. The elderly monk met with many of the European monarchs, as well as the Pope, in attempts to arrange a Franco-Mongol alliance. The mission bore no fruit, but in his later years in Baghdad, Rabban Bar Sauma documented his lifetime of travel. He began in Pekin, China and traveled as far as Normandy during the reign of Edward I and Phillip the Fair.

H.S. and the Brown Buffalo -o- Villa and Zapata

On this day, October 30, 1945, Jackie Robinson of the Negro Leagues Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers becoming the first black baseball player, breaking the Jim Crow Law or Racial Barriers for major league baseball.

Manuel Quintín Lame Chantre
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(1880-1967) was an Colombian indigenous rebel from the early 20th century who tried to conform an independent indigenous republic. He was born in El Borbollón, Cauca, son of Mariano Lame and Dolores Chantre, both Paez people. In 1911 he started the Indigenous Movement. In 1914 he tried to make the Republic of Indigenas, formed by Cauca, Tolima, Huila and Valle. Because of this, he was arrested. His movement grew and became the "Guerra Racial". In 1921, after spending three years in jail, he joined the Tolima movement. In 1924 he wrote the book "El pensamiento del indio que se educó en las selvas colombianas". He died in 1967 in Ortega, Tolima.


Father Camilo Torres Restrepo (born in Bogotá, Colombia on 3 February 1929 – died in Santander on 15 February 1966) was a Colombian socialist, Roman Catholic priest, a predecessor of liberation theology and a member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla organisation. During his life, he tried to reconcile revolutionary Marxism and Catholicism.

Karl Menger, the Menger Sponge, and the Institute for Figuring

Intro Courtesy from the Institute For Figuring

"In the 1920’s a young Austrian named Karl Menger extended the work begun by his mathematical predecessor Siepinski. Menger attended a course of lectures by Professor Hans Hahn at the University of Vienna entitled What’s New Concerning the Concept of the Curve; under Hahn’s encouragement he embarked on an exploration of the concept of dimension that him to an expanded definition of this seemingly obvious term. Several years later Menger reported his discovery of a three-dimensional version of Sierpinski’s Carpet, which came to be known as the Menger Sponge. Where the Carpet is poised between a line and a plane, the Sponge hovers of the boundary of the plane and the solid - its fractional dimension is 2.73.

Though it manifestly occupies a volumetric space, the Menger sponge is essentially a linear object – it possesses a topological dimension of 1. Menger proved that it is indeed the universal curve - that is, any possible one-dimensional curve is mathematically identical to some part of its infinitely complex internal morphology. Though the classical Menger sponge is constructed in three-dimensions, it can be embodied in any number of higher dimensions; consequently any geometry of loop quantum gravity can be embedded in a Menger Sponge. Interestingly then, the structure of spacetime may be allied with this foam-like form."

The Menger Sponge is the 20th century adaptation to the 17th century idea of "Spissitude". Henry More described Spissitude as the fourth spacial dimension. In More's view length, breadth, height, and then spissitude would be the unit of measurement for any object.

Spissitude would find a sound scientific basis in the Minkowski Space theory. Hermann Minkowski, using Einstein's theory of special relativity, acknowledged a single dimension of time, which engulfs the the three known dimensions of space; the effect is a "four-dimensional manifold for representing spacetime. Charles H. Hinton coined the word "tesseract". The physical representation of the fourth dimension, the tesseract was linguistically created in addition to kata/ana. Greek in origin, kata means down from and ana means up toward, kata/ana are similar to the theory of vectors and matrices in their nature.

Robert Purvis, was a prominent Abolitionist during the 19th century. His father William Purvis was a "naturalised" American from England. Robert's mother, Harriet Judah was born from an affair between a wealthy German Jewish immigrant and Arab or "Moor" freed slave woman. Legally, Robert Purvis was three quarters European, despite the favorable ethnic make up Robert and his brothers chose to identify themselves as black men.

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Robert received his post-secondary education at Amherst College. The untimely death of Roberts father and eldest brother, left Robert and his brother Joseph with the family inheritance. Robert Purvis would spend the rest of his life fighting against the injustices of slavery. Alongside William Lloyd Garrison, Robert was a founding member of the American-Anti-Slavery Society. Robert also served as the President of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, and then as a chairman of the Vigilance committee's of Philadelphia and later the "national" Vigilance Committee. The purpose of the Vigilant Committee's were to allocate the necessary resources to assist runaway slaves.

Robert used his house and full financial resources to assist the Underground Railroad. His obituary in the New York Times (4/16/1898) read "He was the President of the 'Underground Railroad' and throughout that long period of peril his house was a well-known station where his horses and carriages and his personal attendance were ever at the service of the travelers upon that road." Purvis was an early supporter of the Womans Suffrage movement, he served as the first Vice-President of the Womans Suffrage Society.

William James Sidis was born April 1st 1898 and died July 17, 1944. A life long socialist and later, a confessed libertarian. Mr. Sidis was an American child prodigy who renounced his fame and fortune at a very young age. He would flee the overbearing personalities of his parents who were attempting to place William James (named after his godfather) in an insane asylum. The irony of the parents attempts stress the backwards thinking that accompanied the United States' perception of humanity in is earliest years during the 19th and 20th centurty, William James Sidis had an I.Q. bordering 300. The actual estimate was an I.Q. between 250-300. Regardless of the actual number, it is an alarming statistic when one compares the entrance to MENSA, which require at least a 160 scored I.Q. a "would be" member. Willaim would go on to write a countless number of volumes on Math, Philosophy, U.S. History, and even American Indian history. To say this young man, who graduated with a B.A. from Harvard at 16, lived a lonely life is an understatement. Born into affluence he had everything a child could wish for. Yet the material aspects of the "socialized" world interested him very little. Much of the trouble that he found with the law was directly related to his involvement in the Socialist Party. His histories on the U.S. and the original Native inhabitants are a timeless treasure that shows a mind driven to all that is humane and righteous.

Though labeled an outcast, his works will forever bear testament to the brilliance and love that exhorted from this true human of light.

-- The Tribes and the States, W.J. Sidis c. 1935

-- Online Anthology of Work -- sidis.net --

William Lloyd Garrison and slavery in the new millenium



abolitionism is a word that carries much weight in the united states. that fact that slavery is just over two hundred years old does not help but inflame the remnants of the jim crow laws throughout the post civil war south. the sad truth of our present world is that slavery is still very much in existence, throughout all the civilized world not excluding the americas. an excerpt from the honorable mr. garrsons first public speech rallying for support against slavery in the United States.

"This, I am aware, is a delicate subject, surrounded with many formidable difficulties. But if delay only adds to its intricacy, wherefore shun an immediate investigation? I know that we, of the North, affectedly believe that we have no local interest in the removal of this great evil; that the slave States can take care of themselves, and that any proffered assistance, on our part, would be rejected as impertinent, dictatorial or meddle-some; and that we have no right to lift up even a note of remonstrance. But I believe that these opinions are crude, preposterous, dishonorable, unjust. Sirs, this is a business in which, as members of one great family, we have a common interest; but we take no responsibility, either individually or collectively. Our hearts are cold—our blood stagnates in our veins. We act, in relation to the slaves, as if they were something lower than the brutes that perish.

On this question, I ask no support from the injunction of Holy Writ, which says: —"therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." I throw aside the common dictates of humanity. I assert the right of the free States to demand a gradual abolition of slavery, because, by its continuance, they participate in the guilt thereof, and are threatened with ultimate destruction; because they are bound to watch over the interests of the whole country, without reference to territorial divisions; because their white population is nearly double that of the slave States, and the voice of this overwhelming majority should be potential; because they are now deprived of their just influence in the councils of the nation; because it is absurd and anti-republican to suffer property to be represented as men, and vice versa. Because it gives the South an unjust ascendancy over other portions of territory, and a power which may be perverted on every occasion …

Now I say that, on the broad system of equal rights, this monstrous inequality should no longer be tolerated. If it cannot be speedily put down—not by force, but by fair persuasion; if we are always to remain shackled by unjust Constitutional provisions, when the emergency that imposed them has long since passed away; if we must share in the guilt and danger of destroying the bodies and souls of men, as the price of our Union; if the slave States will haughtily spurn our assistance, and refuse to consult the general welfare; then the fault is not ours if a separation eventually take place..."

these words carry much brevity in the face of slavery in our modern society. in america as of 2009, it is estimated that seventy-five percent of all agricultural workers in america are illegal migrants. these people come from the poor indigenous and mestizo communities of mexico and central america, some as far as south america. the conditions that afford them minimal pay, to send back to their respective countries, are the same conditions that our forefathers faced as immigrant workers and indentured servants during the early days of america. from the trafficking of young slave teen women to the forced acts against young adolescent slave boys. from the forced labor and inhuman work conditions brought upon migrants who do not speak the native tongue, so are unable to speak up against the abuses they face.

it is up to the developed world to step up and lend a helping hand to end the injustice of slavery and all its manifestations. the obligation is placed on the developed world because we claim freedom the loudest in the name of liberty, yet we turn the most apathetic and blind eye towards the plight of those enslaved. we end with another excerpt from mr. garrisons speech that was quoted earlier:

"Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country, and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present, in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure! In the one case, it is hardly the plucking of a hair from the head; in the other, it is the crushing of a live body on the wheel—the stings of the wasp contrasted with the tortures of the Inquisition. Before God, I must say, that such a glaring contradiction as exists between our creed and practice the annals of six thousand years cannot parallel. In view of it, I am ashamed of my country. I am sick of our unmeaning declamation in praise of liberty and equality; of our hypocritical cant about the unalienable rights of man. "

king mob and the anarchy of the state:
seeds for the devils insurrection


andrew jackson was the seventh president of the united states. his success in the war of 1812, his subsequent victory over the maroons and seminoles in florida, edified his image to the american public. he carried the ideals of manifest destiny to its most lethal extremes. the legacy he would leave in the wake of his official duties would be known as "jacksonian democracy". jacksonian democrats would become the confederate minded individuals that would eventually form the South during the american civil war. andrew jacksons name will remain synonymous with every ideology designed to oppress any groups of people systematically through the democratic process. president jacksons presidency would be summed up with the events that surrounded his inauguration. the jacksonian democrats felt that the legal voting age should be lowered to eighteen, this was a central campaign issue. in honor of his supposed populous tendencies, president jackson held the first presidential inauguration open to the general public. the white house became overcrowded with eager jacksonian supporters. reportedly the crowd became so rambunctious that tubs of punch and bottles of liquor were placed on the white house lawn to lure people out. jacksons form of fanatical democracy preyed on the uneducated, yet earned him the distinct title "King Mob".


jackson would see to the creation of legislation that would directly result in the mass exodus of native americans who inhabited land that stretched the mississippi valley to the coast of georgia and florida. the indian removal act was signed by andrew jackson in 1830, the united states quickly ceded southern land along the mississippi. under the guise of a false treaty known as new echota, andrew jacksons successor to the presidential seat enforced the removal of native american from what is present day west georgia, mississippi, alabama, and arkansas. these states would become that back bone to the southern slave institution. older slave holding colonies had overused their land with the unforgiving tobacco and cotton crops. georgia was the southern most point of the united states prior to the trail of tears.