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Thank You MySpace For Blocking My Site

19 October 2007

I just received an email informing me that Knowledge Driven Revolution.com has been blocked by MySpace.com. Now, I could use this incident for shameless self promotion, or even take some pride in the fact that my little website managed to ruffle a few feathers on the baby toe of the beast. Or, I could try and rally the troops, to mass email MySpace in hopes of getting reinstated (when I used the term mass, I really meant around three or four emails, including my own, I have no delusions of grandeur).

But, instead I decided to respond like an adult who still has some self respect and politely thank MySpace for blocking my site. The whole concept of MySpace (or Facebook or any of these other self profiling websites) makes my skin crawl.

Self Profiling

Two weeks ago I wrote an article about the ridiculous things people are willing to do to themselves if they can do it for free. It doesn't matter what health problems will arise or what freedoms they will sacrifice, as long as it is free they will sign up. Being fallible, I missed an obvious example, MySpace. To correct that oversight, I will elaborate a little here.

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Supranational Unions As A Stepping Stone
The Grand Chessboard Part 3

15 October 2007

An important step in establishing a world government run by the United Nations is the development of smaller multinational trade and political unions. This step allows for a gradual weakening of nationalistic emotions in the respective countries as borders are slowly erased. It also develops a sense of normalcy with having multinational bureaucracies replacing the roles that national governments formerly played.

This process is strongly supported by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997). As discussed here, Brzezinski makes it plainly clear that the role of the American empire is to pave the way for the emergence of the United Nations as a world government. The tools used for this as well as the necessary fall of the American empire were previously discussed here.

European Union

From The Grand Chessboard:

"By pioneering in the integration of nation-states into a shared supranational economic and eventually political union, Europe is also pointing the way toward larger forms of postnational organization, beyond the narrow visions and the destructive passions of the age of nationalism." [emphasis mine] - 57

Cultural Decay and Motivating Empire
The Grand Chessboard Part 2

8 October 2007

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s described in his book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997), how the focus of American global primacy should be to unify the world under the dictates of the United Nations. This was described in my first article entitled America's Role as the First, Only, and Last Truly Global Superpower.

There are many problems associated with the emergence of the United Nations out of the ashes of the American empire. Brzezinski makes clear his distain for the limitations that "populist democracy" puts on his desired movements around the Eurasian chessboard and his revulsion at the potential for an "impotent global power".

"It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion" [emphasis mine] - 35

"A genuinely populist democracy has never before attained international supremacy. The pursuit of power and especially the economic costs and human sacrifice that the exercise of such power often requires are not generally congenial to democratic instincts. Democratization is inimical to imperial mobilization." [emphasis mine] - 210

The Free Dumb Phone

6 October 2007

It never cesses to amaze me the things people will do to get something for free. No matter what damage is done to them, as long as it is free, they will sign up. No questions asked.

Enriching Your Life For Free

The latest example of this comes to us in an offer from Pudding Media for free long distance phone calls.

"A new media company has just launched an Internet-based phone service that promises free calls to users who sign up - the only catch is that in exchange, the company will monitor your conversations and send advertisements to your computer based on what you talk about."

Corporate Issue Armbands

4 October 2007

When I first saw people walking around with their latest electronic trinket strapped to their arm, I couldn’t figure out why it bothered me. Besides the fact that people are slowly being turned into the Borg with the next obvious step of sliding a device under the skin. But the other day the reason finally solidified in my mind.

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America's Role as the First, Only, and Last Truly Global Superpower
The Grand Chessboard Part 1

1 October 2007

In Zbigniew Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997), he outlines his case for how current American global supremacy should be used to further a long running elite plan for the unification of the world under the dictates of the United Nations.

For those who don’t know, among many other things, Brzezinski was an advisor to John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and Jimmy Carter. He was also the first director of the Trilateral Commission and board member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Currently he is a top foreign policy advisor to the Barack Obama campaign for presidency.

Controlling Eurasia With American Imperial Power

From The Grand Chessboard:

"In brief, for the United States, Eurasian geostrategy involves the purposeful management of geostrategically dynamic states and the careful handling of geopolitically catalytic states, in keeping with the twin interests of America in the short-term preservation of its unique global power and in the long-run transformation of it into increasingly institutionalized global cooperation. To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together." - 40

One Thousand Years of Stability
Global Warming Memory Hole Part 1

19 September 2007

The history of any particular science, especially the popular ones, is an interesting thing to study because of the constantly changing logic and over or under emphasis of 'facts' to fit into a preconceived theory. These abuses are very revealing when trying to determine whether someone is genuinely trying to explain what is actually happening or is just trying to push a particular theory, whatever their motivations may be.

The greenhouse gas theory of global warming is a great example of this, mostly because of the huge money and political power behind it. Below is a small comparison between the 1994 (first edition) and the 2004 (third edition) of a book called Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. The author, Sir John Houghton, was the chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Scientific Assessment Working Group from 1988-1992 and co-chairman from 1992-2002. Among many other things he was the President of the Royal Meteorological Society and Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Oxford University.

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