Distributism

I have discussed Distributism here on a number of occassions, its influence on Social Credit and on current Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

Here is a definition of it from an interesting article on C.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day, Catholic advocates. If Capitalism is Protestantism, and Socialism is Pantheism, then Distributism is the Catholic alternative.

Distributism

The economic philosophy of both The Catholic Worker and Chesterton was distributism and at the heart of distributism is private property. The word distributism comes from the idea that a just social order can be achieved through a much more widespread distribution of property. Distributism means a society of owners. It means that property belongs to the many rather than the few. It is related to the idea of subsidiarity, emphasized in all papal encyclicals relating to social teaching and economics. Subsidiarity, in the words of the Quadragesimo Anno, means that "It is an injustice and at the same time a great evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do. For every social activity ought of its very nature to furnish help to the members of the body social and never destroy and absorb them."

Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
ElizabethMay, A.R.Orage, New Age Magazine, Social Credit, Distributism, Catholic, C K Chesterton, Dorthoy Day, Catholic Worker, economics, socialism, capitalism

Pat Robertson Bev Oda

I found a great Feminist Blog from New Zeland whose header has the following quote;

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." Pat Robertson - 1992 Republican National Convention

Hmm sounds like the current Harpocrite Government reasons to eliminate the Status of Women.

See

Pat Robertson

Feminism

Status of Women

Bev Oda

Tory Cuts

Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
Canada, Ottawa, Conservatives, Bev Oda, Minister of Multiculturalism, Harper, Government, women, Status of Women, Minister,uts, budget, advocacy, lobbying, Canada,feminism, politics,
Pat Robertson, US, Religion, Christianity, Evangelicals,

Tags
Pat Robertson
Religion
Christianity
USA
Evengelical
Republican Party
Christian Coalition
Moral Majority
Religious Right
USA

Conspiracy Theory of the Week

Oh this is too good to pass up passing on.

Was Aleister Crowley Barbara Bush's Daddy?

After all her son thinks God talks to him.....Could such a delusion be because he is the grandson of the Great Beast...

Silence or Sign of Harpocrates (0=0):

Heels together, with feet at 90 degree angle

Left foot points forward

Left arm hangs at side

Right index finger or thumb is held to lips

The following sequence of actions is recommended for the output of godly form:

1. Shut eyes. By internal sight again you will be connected by several instants with the godly form, which you previously accepted. Create the means of deity, who wraps your sensual sphere (aura) again. You will turn attention to all details, colors and other special features of godly form.

2. Make one step back, leaving from the means. Making this, cease to identify itself with the godly form completely, after separating itself from the means.

3. Make a sign of silence, and remain in this position, until you scatter means. Again represent god, who is raised before you, by internal sight. Slowly visualize, as godly form gradually it is scattered and grows dim, until finally it disappears.

The Golden Dawn insisted that the sign of silence should always follow the sign of the enterer. Like the enterer there is no single way of performing the sign of silence. One may use a finger of either the right or left hand, the right hand shows the violent action of Geburah, while the left hand indicates the more passive force of Chesed. Thus if one wishes to withdraw oneself from contact with external powers one uses the left hand, while if one wishes to cast these forces away from oneself one uses the right hand. A perfect example of this second form of activity can be seen in the opening of Liber XXV: The Star Ruby in which the operator casts down his right forefinger from his lips, crying "Apo pantos Cacodaimonos." The choice of the forefinger her symbolizes the powers of water and thus lethargy, and this is appropriate for this operation as one is moving from inaction to action. More generally in performing the sign of silence either the thumb should be used to show the forces of spirit, or the forefinger as it’s watery nature is consonant with the nature of Hoor-Par-Kraat. As with the enterer the elemental attributions of the fingers can be used for more specific applications of the sign, however they can require a certain degree of manual dexterity on the part of the operator.

By the exercise of the Four Powers of the Sphinx, the Adept attains the Fifth Power, the indwelling of Spirit and the realization of the god within. Eliphas Lèvi came to a similar conclusion in The Great Secret:

“The great secret of magic, the unique and incommunicable Arcana, has for its purpose the placing of supernatural power at the service of the human will in some way.
To attain such an achievement it is necessary to KNOW what has to be done, to WILL what is required, to DARE what must be attempted and to KEEP SILENT with discernment."
See

Crowley

Thelema

Bush

Conspiracy Theories

666


Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
Barbara Bush, Bush, 666, Aleister Crowley, Crowley, Sign of silence, God, AA,
Magick, conspiracy,
conspiracy theory, Alesiter Crowley and Barbara Bush, OTO, Thelema, Frank Harris, Nellie O'Hara, PaulinePierce, BarbaraPierce,
Wickedest Man in the world, The great beast,

Celebrating Capitalism

Should Capitalism have its own holiday? A day of unabashed spending and exploitation. Well why not. After all workers have MayDay, and Culture Jammers have Don't Buy Anything Day, and well groundhogs have Groundhog day.

So why not a day to celebrate Capitalism. I remember this was attempted locally back in 2001. And all four members of the University of Alberta Ayn Rand Objectivist club showed up. But it looks like some folks are trying again.

Celebrate Capitalism (tm) - International Capitalism Day 2007

National Day of Capitalism

Of course it would help if they maybe communicated with each other. No wait that would mean cooperation the very anathema of competition, the underpining of all capitalist ideology. Of course as wannabe captialists they are not asking taxpayers to recgonize the day officially because well that would be a contradiction. After all the real motto of the day should be We Owe We Owe Off To Work We Go.

Weber - Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism

In fact, the summum bonum of this ethic, the earning of more and more money, combined with the strict avoidance of all spontaneous enjoyment of life, is above all completely devoid of any eudaemonistic, not to say hedonistic, admixture. It is thought of so purely as an end in itself, that from the point of view of the happiness of, or utility to, the single individual, it appears entirely transcendental and absolutely irrational.Man is dominated by the making of money, by acquisition as the ultimate purpose of his life. Economic acquisition is no longer subordinated to man as the means for the satisfaction of his material needs. This reversal of what we should call the natural relationship, so irrational from a naive point of view, is evidently as definitely a leading principle of capitalism as it is foreign to all peoples not under capitalistic influence.


Hey I remember when Hippies were opposed to mindless materialism and capitalism, my how times have changes.





And controversy abounds. When is Capitalism Day?

November 25?

As Capitalism Day (the first Sunday of December each year) is shortly after Thanksgiving Day and straight after Christmas Shopping Day, this is a nice tie in (pardon the pun) to Christmas and all that Christmas represents.

Or is it December 1?

Which is my birthday and of course World Aids Day. The latter may be the reason Celebrate Capitalism day got less notice and folks thought of moving it.

Or is it December 25?

X-Mas: Not just for Jesus - The Stanford Daily Online

Maybe Capitalism Day really is celebrated every New Years Eve

How about on Earth Day?

Or in June? This would make sense considering its the month of the Birth of the chronicler of Capitalism; Adam Smith.

Of course it could be February 2 the birthday of the Bitch Goddess of Capitalism Ayn Rand.

Heck why not make it September 29 on Von Mises birthday. After all the Austrian School calims to be the last best hope for victory against the ravages of working class power.

Finally when Prodos called his first International Walk for Capitalism, the turn out in Canada was overwhelming as reported here....wow a whole 30 folks marched in Kingston to support Captialism, they were followed by Top Hatted protestors, but lookee who was out supporting the Glorious Capitalist Revolution....

CANADA . . .

Bill Hall of the local CKWS News, Youth for Liberty member Adam Daifallah and Paul Quick (one of the counter-demonstrators) take advantage of a photo-op during the Walk for Capitalism in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.


After all the debate on dates to celebrate Capitalism why bother? We live in a capitalist society, which through our mass consumption celebrates it every day.
No need for a special day for Capitalism, every day is a celebration of capitalism.


What we really need to celebrate is life after capitalism.

Capitalism: See what people are saying right now on Technorati

Capitalism and Freedom - Factbites

See

Capitalism



Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
Adam Daifallah, capitalism, capitalism day, celebrate capitalism, Von Mises, AdamS mith, Prodos, International Walk for Capitalism, Weber, Canada, Australia, USA, National Capitalism Day, Ayn Rand, Adam Smith, December 1, December 25, June, New years eve, Xmas,

Holy Capitalism

No not mediation, meditation. You know the technique re-introduced into the West by the Beatles.

Now it is popular with Business School Types. Of course now that India is a growing capitalist state it is exporting its eastern style of Vedic Capitalism.

As this article in Business Week shows.

And of course the critique of capitalism underlies Vedic Capitalism as well as the capitalism from below theories of Nobel Prize winner and father of Microcredit Muhammad Yunus .

More important, Indian-born strategists also are helping transform corporations. Academics and consultants such as C. K. Prahalad, Ram Charan, and Vijay Govindrajan are among the world's hottest business gurus. About 10% of the professors at places such as Harvard Business School, Northwestern's Kellogg School of Business, and the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business are of Indian descent--a far higher percentage than other ethnic groups. "When senior executives come to Kellogg, Wharton, Harvard, or [Dartmouth's] Tuck, they are exposed to Indian values that are reflected in the way we think and articulate," says Dipak C. Jain, dean of the Kellogg School.

Indian theorists, of course, have a wide range of backgrounds and philosophies. But many of the most influential acknowledge that common themes pervade their work. One is the conviction that executives should be motivated by a broader purpose than money. Another is the belief that companies should take a more holistic approach to business--one that takes into account the needs of shareholders, employees, customers, society, and the environment. Some can even foresee the development of a management theory that replaces the shareholder-driven agenda with a more stakeholder-focused approach. "The best way to describe it is inclusive capitalism," says Prahalad, a consultant and University of Michigan professor who ranked third in a recent Times of London poll about the world's most influential business thinkers. "It's the idea that corporations can simultaneously create value and social justice."

You might also call it Karma Capitalism.

See

India

Capitalism


Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
C., K., Prahalad,, Ram, Charan,, and, Vijay, Govindrajan, Kellog, Whaton, Business, business schools, MBA, businessphilosophy, capitalism, karma capitalism, Vedic, meditation, Beatles, Muhammad Yunus

Lake Victoria Unplugged

As reported here on Sunday Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile, is at all time lows. While the news story reported it was Global Warming that was the cause I found this article from February 2006 edition of New Scientist that reports something more sinister.

Lake Victoria is drying up because it is one giant hydro-electric dam.

However unlike the reporters who did the Sunday story I at least followed up when I found this story. They published theirs without refering to past stories.

And this story does not say Global Warming is not to blame for at least some of Lake Victoria's decline, but that it is not the only reason. And research says the Dams themselves may be contributing to the increae in Green House Gases.

EAST Africa's Lake Victoria, the world's second largest freshwater lake, is being secretly drained to keep the lights on in Uganda. A report published this week says Uganda is flouting a 50-year-old international agreement designed to protect the lake's waters.

Covering nearly 70,000 square kilometres, Lake Victoria takes a big bite out of surrounding Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. An estimated 30 million people depend on it for their livelihoods. Since 2003, however, the lake has lost 75 cubic kilometres of water, about 3 per cent of its volume, leaving international ferries stranded far from their jetties, fishing boats mired in mud, and towns running low on water.

The only outlet for Lake Victoria, which is ringed by mountains, is at Jinja in Uganda, where it forms the Victoria Nile. Until 1954, the lake emptied into the Nile over a natural rock weir, but that year British colonial engineers blasted out the weir and replaced it with the Owens Falls dam, now renamed the Nalubaale dam, which effectively transformed the lake into a giant hydroelectric reservoir.

In 2002, Uganda finished building a second hydropower complex close to the first one. Soon after its completion people began to notice the water level falling, and today the lake is at an 80-year low. In recent weeks, the operator of the two dams, the Uganda Electricity Generating Company, has blamed disruption of electricity supplies on low lake levels, ostensibly caused by the 10 to 15 per cent decline in rainfall across the lake's catchment area during the past two years.

However, it now seems that the dams themselves are as much to blame as the recent drought. Daniel Kull, a hydrologist with the UN's International Strategy for Disaster Reduction in Nairobi, Kenya, calculates that if the dams had been operated according to the agreed curve during the past two years, the drought would have caused only half the water loss actually seen. "Today's lake levels would be around 45 centimetres higher," he writes in a report released this week by the California-based environmental lobby group, International Rivers Network.

See

Africa

Environment





Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
Kyoto, envrionment,climate change, global warming,
Africa, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Lake Chad, Rwenzori, Mountains of the Moon, Hydro Dams, Uganda, hydro-electricity

BQ Flip Flops

After attacking the NDP for the position they took on Afghanistan during their Convention in September suddenly the BQ has found conversion on the road to Damascus.

Duceppe threatens to topple Harper government over Afghanistan.

Of course its only a few days after the VanDoos left Quebec for their assignment in the killing fields of Afghanistan. Would that have anything to do with it?

What hypocrisy from Mssr. Duceppe since he and his party voted for the open ended extension in the first place, and then said the NDP were out of touch for calling for the withdrawl of Canadian troops from Souther Afghanistan.

Well I guess that was Canadian troops, now that the Nation of Quebec is sending troops the BQ is upset.

Back in August when Jack announced the NDP wanted to withdraw our troops I said that it could lead to a motion of non-confidence.

Also See:

Afghanistan

War

NDP

Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
NDP, Layton, TroopsOut, Afghanistan, War, Harper, Conservatives, Liberals, Canada, politics, military, NATO, peacekeeping, Karzai,
Duceppe, BQ, Quebec, VanDoos

Bev Oda Minister of Aboriginal Affairs

Yes I know that is Jim Prentices portfolio but I find it passing strange that every time the Minister in charge of cutting the Status of Women Bev Oda talks about funding women in need she leaps up in the House and says; We are funding aboriginal womens programs, aboriginal women in poverty programs, aboriginal womens marriage rights. Not that these are not laudible goals however......I thought that was Jims Department. But I guess like poverty programs, womens programs only will be funded if they are aboriginal. The Tories must be trying to make up for killing the Kelowna accord. Or else the only social problems they recognize that exist in Canada are aboriginal. Everyone else is doing fine.

39th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

EDITED HANSARD • NUMBER 094

CONTENTS

Friday, December 8, 2006

Status of Women

[Table of Contents]

Ms. Yasmin Ratansi (Don Valley East, Lib.):

Mr. Speaker, during the election, the Prime Minister promised to protect the rights of women. However, the Conservative government has done nothing but turn its back on Canadian women. The court challenges program has been slashed. All but two of the Status of Women regional offices have been closed. In my riding, the Association of Women of Indian Origin in Canada depends on federal funding to do its important work.

Could the minister guarantee this organization's funding will not be axed?

[Table of Contents]

Hon. Bev Oda (Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women, CPC):

Mr. Speaker, we can guarantee that the $10.8 million for women's programs will continue to be there. It is there now and it will be there in the next fiscal year.

The good news is that all the money we found in streamlining the administration will be available in the next fiscal year, which is $5 million more to help the organizations that are actually making a difference in the lives of women in the community.

Ms. Yasmin Ratansi (Don Valley East, Lib.):

Mr. Speaker, I asked a specific question about a specific program and all I received from the minister was a repeated blah, blah, blah. I say shame on the minister.

Why will she not have some spine and admit that the $5 million that she axed from the budget is a cut? She does not understand math. It is not a reinvestment.

We now hear that the National Association of Women and the Law is concerned about the future of its funding. Why will the minister not have some courage and admit that she signed off on these cuts and is trying to camouflage the facts?

[Table of Contents]

Hon. Bev Oda (Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women, CPC):

Mr. Speaker, I am happy to report that we have had meetings with immigrant women organizations that are actually doing work for immigrant women. They have been in to see us and we have told them that $5 million in additional money will be available. They indicated that they were not told that by the opposition party. Once they knew the true facts, they said that it was good news.

We have been very clear. As a result of savings in administration, this government is putting the money back into women, not into Liberal Party friends.

[Table of Contents]

Hon. Hedy Fry (Vancouver Centre, Lib.):

Mr. Speaker, the Conservative government's shocking cuts to Status of Women have huge implications for aboriginal women and their children. The Native Women's Association, which is largely funded by Status of Women, was before committee this week to raise the alarm that its funding may be next on the chopping block.

Could the minister guarantee that the funding for this organization will not be cut?

[Table of Contents]

Hon. Bev Oda (Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women, CPC):

Mr. Speaker, members of the opposition party, when they cut, they took the money and removed it from being accessible to women. This government found savings in government spending and the money will go to women. It is very simple. A cut is made when there is no money and an increase is when the savings go directly to women.

[Table of Contents]

Hon. Hedy Fry (Vancouver Centre, Lib.):

Mr. Speaker, cancelling the Kelowna accord, cuts in the funding for aboriginal languages, cuts in the first nations stop smoking programs and $200 million in cuts to improve access to early learning and child care for first nations.

This Sunday marks International Human Rights Day. The theme is fighting poverty. Instead of cutting programs, why will the government not take real steps to address aboriginal poverty?

[Table of Contents]

Hon. Bev Oda (Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women, CPC):

Mr. Speaker, I find it quite alarming that the member opposite would ask that question. The Liberals had 13 years to ensure that the rights of aboriginal women would be there. In fact, it is this government that introduced matrimonial rights for aboriginal women, a fundamental right that every Canadian woman, including aboriginal women, should have recognized.

* * *

Feminism

Status of Women

Bev Oda

Tory Cuts


Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
Canada, Ottawa, Conservatives, Bev Oda, Minister of Multiculturalism, Harper, Government, women, Status of Women, Minister,uts, budget, advocacy, lobbying, Canada,feminism, politics

Women Are Not A Minority

Except in corporate board rooms, heads of public institutions, and of course as politicians.

While the fur flies in Parliament about the cuts to the Womens Programs by a Woman Minister,who is being directed by the social conservative lobby REAL Women the real question is being avoided.

Women are not a minority in Canada. They are the MAJORITY. 51% of Canadians are women.

So instead of talking about equality, or how political parties are going to attract more women candidates, so lacking in the house now, the question should be why the Majority does not rule in Canada.

Because it's still a mans world, since they have no child care responsibilites.

Feminism

Status of Women

Bev Oda

Tory Cuts


Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
Canada, Ottawa, Conservatives, Bev Oda, Minister of Multiculturalism, Harper, Government, women, Status of Women, Minister,uts, budget, advocacy, lobbying, Canada,feminism, politics

What The Tories Really Think About Climate Change

This demonstrates the stupidity of the Conservatives who fail to understand that Global Warming does not mean that Alberta will become the tropics but that dramatic climate shifts, extreme weather patterns will continue to occur, going from deep cold snaps to extreme drought.

A November cold snap prompted Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day to dismiss Al Gore's climate change crusade in a website article brimming with mockery. Day's letter to his constituents in the British Columbia riding of Okanagan-Coquihalla constituents last week opened with a shot at the former U.S. vice-president. Day wrote that a recent cold snap had him "begging for Big Al's Glacial Melt when the mercury hit -24.''

When asked about the blog after question period, Day walked away from reporters and refused to comment.

John Bennett, senior policy adviser at the Sierra Club of Canada, said Day's comments are symptomatic of the government's position on the environment.

"What the blog demonstrates is what the government of Canada really thinks about climate change, that it is something to joke about, not something to take seriously and the policies of the government reflect that,'' he said.

Stockwell Days Blog

See

Environment

Ambrose



Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
Kyoto, Canada, envrionment, Jack Layton, Elizabeth May, Dion, Liberals, NDP, Stephen Harper, Stockwell Day, BQ, Green Party, Conservatives, climate change, global warming, Canadians, election, Rona Ambrose
Environment,