Society
The truth about Libya and Gaddafi
(Thomas Dishaw) As United States imperialism continues to concur the globe and foreign leaders continue to get murdered by Government hit squads, it should surprise no one that the destruction of Libya was another globalists operation meant to destroy any piece of economic independence left in Northern Africa.
Don’t get me wrong, Muammar Gaddafi was a terrible, tyrannical leader in most respects, but when it came to economic independence and fiscal leadership, Libya was one of the few countries on the African continent that had any economic prosperity. They also had a leadership that wasn’t deliberately infused by the globalists to destabilize the region.
Above is a very eye-opening video that portrays a way of life in Libya most people never knew existed. Documentation to back up the videos claims are listed below:
The draft UN report on human rights in Libya before the NATO bombings & invasion.
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/…
Library Of Congress Country Study Of Libya
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r…)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r…)
Lockerbie witnesses paid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/…
IMF financial statistics for Libya
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/w…
http://windowstorussia.com/from-russi…
Sherrie’s blogspot.
http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot…
Article by David Rothscum.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.i…
Landdestroyer is another great blog.
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/201…
Gagnauga is an Icelandic blog. I have posted the translated link. Please follow.
http://translate.google.co.uk/transla…
Lizzie Phelan, Independent journalist
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/colu…
http://www.voltairenet.org/Witnessing…
Top 10 Myths In The War Against Libya
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/3…
Another truth Blog. Please support them by following.
http://newsfromatlantis.blogspot.com/…
Northwestnationalists blogspot.
http://northwestnationalists.blogspot…
The Ones Killing Civilians is NATO
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/colu…
DJOsiris Blog
http://djosiris.blogspot.com/search?u…
The real reason for NATO attacking Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O35_Ai…
http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/200…
NATO Crimes & Mass Media lies exposed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hDejI…
Libyan Women speak about Gaddafi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5EpvO…
Media Lies about Libya & Gaddafi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ku0r…
Gaddafi’s speech to Libya & the World 1st July 2011 (1/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0XsF0…
Gaddafi’s speech 1st July 2011 (2/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEL76E…
NATO leaders guilty under US code of providing material support to terrorists by Tony Cartalucci
http://www.infowars.com/nato-leaders-…
Susan Lindauer
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/…
Mathaba News.
http://mathaba.net/
Organise or Join People’s Congresses across the world.
http://peoplesconference.org/
The Green Charter
http://greencharter.com/files/igc.htm
- See more at: http://govtslaves.info/real-reason-killed-gaddafi/#sthash.qjeWwPCU.dpuf
Groupthink in Service of Government
Groupthink in Service of Government
Aug 05, 2013 - 05:57 PM GMT
By: BATR
If the human race survives into the future, the history of the current age will be entitled – A Love Affair with Authority. As the 21st century unfolds, the existential struggle between group worship of government and an inherent autonomy revolt against a popular culture of state obedience seems to forecast doom for civilization. By any measurable standard of success, the prospects of rescuing a society based upon human dignity and natural law is vanishing in a technocratic system of coerced compliance and punitive punishment. The limits of individual behavior are severely restricted to the requirements of the State and the willful confines of self-induced conformity.
The prison of institutional establishment restraints, based upon a designed hallucination of media newspeak and trendy pop culture gullibility, has the populace adsorbed in trivia and addicted to a governmental version of reality. The practice of "Free Will", relegated to the acceptance of government dependency and peer pressure harmony, is common among the ranks of the conflict challenged. The motivation of individual liberty is foreign in the cultural cloning society that makes up the collectivist public consciousness.
Before placing primary blame on the usual suspects - corporatists, banksters, and politico sociopaths - understand the fact that the top down authoritarian framework operates on the tenet that public acceptance of the system is indispensable. What possible psychological disorder is in play that differentiates the current generations from their ancestors?
This inauspicious culture, dominated by the disorder of Groupthink, is explained in an informative power point presentation, from Psychologists for Social Responsibility. From the perspective of an "application of psychological knowledge and expertise in addressing today's pressing societal challenges and in building cultures of peace with social justice" this left learning society offers the following breakdown.
Groupthink, a term coined by social psychologist Irving Janis (1972), occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of "mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment" Groups affected by groupthink ignore alternatives and tend to take irrational actions that dehumanize other groups. A group is especially vulnerable to groupthink when its members are similar in background, when the group is insulated from outside opinions, and when there are no clear rules for decision making.
Symptoms of Groupthink
Janis has documented eight symptoms of groupthink:
1. Illusion of invulnerability – Creates excessive optimism that encourages taking extreme risks.
2. Collective rationalization – Members discount warnings and do not reconsider their assumptions.
3. Belief in inherent morality – Members believe in the rightness of their cause and therefore ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions.
4. Stereotyped views of out-groups – Negative views of "enemy" make effective responses to conflict seem unnecessary.
5. Direct pressure on dissenters – Members are under pressure not to express arguments against any of the group’s views.
6. Self-censorship – Doubts and deviations from the perceived group consensus are not expressed.
7. Illusion of unanimity – The majority view and judgments are assumed to be unanimous.
8. Self-appointed ‘mindguards’ – Members protect the group and the leader from information that is problematic or contradictory to the group’s cohesiveness, view, and/or decisions.
A critique to this Janis research presented by The Independent Review, in an abstract by Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern - Groupthink in Academia: Majoritarian Departmental Politics and the Professional Pyramid, references the subject and offers an example from the ivory tower.
"The groupthink theorist wants to gain standing as a social theorist and therefore wants to avoid unnecessary controversy. Accordingly, groupthink theorists—at least those like Janis and Hart—have focused on episodes where, in hindsight, the judgment of failure (or error) is uncontroversial. The need for uncontroversial judgment is one reason why the scope of groupthink applications has been quite limited.
In this article, we apply groupthink theory to a setting where the presupposition of failure is anything but uncontroversial."
"Perhaps the clearest way to illustrate how we see the problem of social-democratic groupthink in the humanities and social sciences is to perform a thought experiment. Imagine a doctoral student who unabashedly holds classical-liberal ideas. Ask yourself whether such a student would be able to find warm support in the elite departments of political science, sociology, history, and so forth. Ask yourself whether the student, no matter how solid his research, would be likely to win grants, have his articles published by the most respected journals, and succeed on the academic job market."
Groupthink does not escape the bastion of mainstream conservative outlets. Maisie Allison editorial digital director of The American Conservative write inBeyond Fox News makes a valid point about The Rise of Post-Movement Conservatism.
"The groupthink is so extensive that several conservative publications seem to exist only to promote the work of other, indistinguishable movement outlets. (One typical headline from the Washington Free Beacon: "Fox News Cites Free Beacon Report.") Here the mission ranges from "use journalism to advance the movement" to "war." As one attendee at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual conference told Atlantic reporter Molly Ball last year, "You couldn’t get in an argument around here no matter how hard you tried."
Whether in academia or the elite media, Groupthink is a requirement for career survival. Yet, in the View from the Mount article, Ideology Matters, But What Is It?, the essential component in the Totalitarian Collectivism fellowship eludes the cultural war merchants who want to avoid controversy.
"'TC' now rules! Few are willing to challenge the bureaucratic mechanism that is designed to compel insidious compliance. The operative standard is now one of dreadful despair while pious arguments are presented that society is advancing. Most people understand that they are now at the mercy of the commissar, but are unwilling to reject this abuse and defend their own rights. As long as this submissive Ideology is accepted, surrender is inevitable. Self-respect is in short supply, while self-esteem is fostered as a substitute for truth and honor."
The public Groupthink is a product of the government school indoctrination, the media filter and the herd mentality to adopt acceptable behavior. The preordained outcome is the tyranny of the mob. Rewarding Idiots with Democratic Totalitarianism, invariably lead to Despotism.
"Ivory tower utopians march in the ranks of statist totalitarians by choice. Many seek to lead the charge. The "rank and file" that digs the ditches, usually lacks the skills to think independently for their self. Nonetheless, they are usually the first to rally to the cause of their sanitized Führer that preaches hope and change, with every loss of freedom. No one political theory has a monopoly on despotism. Yet the "peaches and cream" slogans of fairness and equality, that come from the ultra extreme wing of the Democratic Party, out does the worst of the GOP civil libertarian destroyers.
Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest is the end product of the collectivist education system that indoctrinates impressionable brains with reverence for the dependency society. Mush minds come out of this corrosive process. Voting for entitlements and the expansion of the democratic totalitarianism becomes the norm."
Individual responsibility is avoided like the plague. People rationalize blame on every other factor other than their own inaction. The recent popularity of social network services and forums has demonstrated a frightening trend to extinguish Free Speech from the web. The impersonal selection of dislike or the "PC" Groupthink comments on content that offends the defenders of the cult of government are the true cowards.
The Jacobin Clubs of advocates for the public sector are prime candidates to bloody their hands in the coming terror meant to stamp out any earnest dissent against the old regime. Dropping the guillotine on the heads of anti-establishment traditionalists is good fun for the Groupthink statists that deceive themselves into believing they are "social justice" advocates.
Censorship in thought precedes freedom of behavior in deeds. Civil liberties are dirty words in the urbanity of cultural authoritarianism. Elegance of polite discourse has given way to the suppression of bourgeois demeanor. The mere mention of anything positive about Christianity earns you a trip to the re-education internment camp for social consciousness.
This perverted cultural Groupthink is a religion of government worship. The reason "Strappado Wrack" essays are termed political torture, resides in the absurdity of the failed political process that has brought us all to the point of total tyranny. The believers that cling to a faux legitimacy of the Federal government are codependent Groupthink asylum nutcases.
The Federal beast would collapse of its own weight, when the enablers of the oppression seek to heal their affliction and turn away from the dark side. The Janis #3 point - Belief in inherent morality - Members believe in the rightness of their cause and therefore ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions is at the axis of the destruction in the character and courage that once existed in this country.
Government group thinkers are wholly confused or simple dishonest participants. The duty of every loyal citizen is not to the state but to the spirit of the America Revolution.
Financial Reforms Drove the Soviet Union Into the Grave
Who of the famous people in Russia's modern history said the phrase: "I wanted the best, but it turned out as always"? There is quite a list of names that comes up in this connection, although it is associated with only one man - the Minister of Finance of the USSR, Valentin Pavlov, who once upon a time intended to stabilize currency in the country.
Many details of that story have been forgotten, although one should always keep such events in mind not to step on a rake again.
The formal reason for the currency reform was the fight against counterfeit rubles, which were allegedly brought to the USSR from abroad to undermine the Soviet economy. As a matter of fact, the cause for the collapse of the economy of the world's first-ever country of workers and peasants was much more prosaic: a low level of labor productivity in the USSR. When the Reagan administration managed to agree with Saudi Arabia to derail global oil prices, the situation became very bad. The production of money was growing, but it was not backed with the industrial production of essential commodities. In short, guns and tanks were produced in excess, but ordinary butter was hard to find.
Under these conditions, Mr. Pavlov decided to stabilize the currency circulation in the Soviet Union by removing a part of money from workers to thus solve (partially) the problem of shortage of goods on the commodity market of the USSR. Moreover, on 14 January 1991, shortly before the start of the reform, Pavlov was promoted and became the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.
Thus, the desire of the administration of the country to reform the financial and political system was officially enshrined at the highest level.
On January 22, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the decree about the withdrawal of 50- and 100-ruble notes issued in 1961." The exchange of those notes was to be accompanied by a number of strong restrictions.
The period of exchange was a very short one - only three days, from 23 to 25 January, that is, from Wednesday to Friday. Secondly, not more than 1,000 rubles per person could be exchanged, whereas the exchange of other bills was considered in special commissions before the end of March 1991.
All in all, 51.5 billion rubles from 133 billion cash paper money was subject to the exchange, or about 39 percent of cash assets. The amount of cash available for withdrawal at the Savings Bank of the USSR (Sberbank) was restricted as well - people could debit not more than 500 rubles from their accounts.
To conduct the reform, new 50 and 100 ruble notes were issued in 1991. The notes from 1991 in denominations of 1, 3, 5, 10, 200, 500 and 1000 rubles were issued soon afterwards. Old notes of 1, 3, 5, 10 and 25 rubles from 1961, and all Soviet coins continued to circulate along with the new ones, issued in 1991.
However, "it was smooth on paper, but they forgot about the ravines that they had to cross." As a result, the government's plans were realized only in part. The confiscatory procedure allowed to withdraw 14 billion rubles in cash from circulation (approximately 10.5 percent of the total mass, or slightly less than 17.1 percent of the planned withdrawal of 81.5 billion). The surprise effect of the reform was supposed to help in the struggle against speculation, unearned income, counterfeiting, smuggling and corruption. In practice, though, the main consequence of the reform was the loss of people's confidence in their government.
The international image of the USSR suffered too, a lot. For example, there were hundreds of thousands of shuttle traders, who were conducting trade with China at that time, and the Chinese were always happy to accept Soviet 50-100-ruble notes as payment. It is clear that the Chinese could not exchange their capitals in this way in three days just. They lost a lot of money because of the reform. The buses, on which shuttle traders would come, would be papered from top to bottom with paper money. Needless to say that all prices on Chinese goods immediately rose for Soviet buyers. The attitude to Soviet shuttle traders in Poland and other countries was similar.
Having realized the grand failure of his reform, Pavlov pronounced his famous phrase. However unpopular "shock" reforms in the Soviet Union continued under his leadership. On April 2 (just as unexpectedly), new prices were set in the country; they were about three times higher than the old prices. The inflation rate made up 12-35 percent a month.
Afterwards, there was a coup in August 1991. Pavlov took part in it - he was one of its organizers. Here is what General Valentin Varennikov wrote on this subject: "On August 18 overnight, the country's leadership, given Gorbachev's position, was forced to create the National Emergency Committee. This type of government agencies could be created by two figures: either the President of the USSR or the chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR. The head of the Cabinet of Ministers, Pavlov, claimed responsibility, set up a committee and became one of its members."
He became a member of the committee, but he never became an active member of it.
According to the certificate from the Central Clinical Hospital of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR, No.200703/218 from August 19, 1991, Mr. Pavlov was diagnosed with alcohol poisoning in the morning of August 19. The next day, on August 20, he was hospitalized in the Central Clinical Hospital with "hypertensive crisis".
On August 29, the former prime minister was transferred to Sailor's Silence Prison (Matrosskaya Tishina), where all other members of the Emergency Committee were already staying. Pavlov was subsequently released from prison and pardoned in February 1994 by the State Duma of the first convocation. Afterwards, he served as the president of Chasprombanka for one year. He left the post on August 31, 1995. Interestingly, the bank's license was revoked on 13 February 1996.
In 1996 - 1997 years, he worked as an advisor at Promstroibank, then worked as a member of a number of economic institutions. Afterwards, he suffered a heart attack, then a stroke, and on March 30, 2003, Valentin Pavlov died. He was buried at the Pyatnitskoye cemetery in Moscow, next to his late relatives.
As for Pavlov's reforms, many politicians and historians agree that they completely undermined people's confidence in the Soviet government. Those notorious reforms showed a significant influence on the course of subsequent events in the country. Pavlov's reforms are considered to be one of the main reasons for the growth of political separatism in 1991 among the leaders of the Soviet republics. They led to the strengthening of centrifugal feelings between them, which ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Vyacheslav Shpakovsky
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