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Posted on 05/07/2010 2:13:19 PM PDT by Noumenon
There will always be those who are easily seduced by the offer of wealth and unlimited power. But one of the lessons we can glean from an unflinching look at history and human nature is that power-lust inevitably trumps greed. The power to harm others and to harm others without consequence - is irresistible to a profoundly evil subset of humanity. Real trouble begins when such people acquire power.
So heres a bold assertion that many of you will dismiss out of hand: there are those in government - and those who seek control of your government - who simply want you dead. They would kill you if they could get away with it. Why? Because you are in their way. Failing that, they would settle for taking everything you have if they felt that they could do so without being held accountable. They would use the apparatus of the state to censor your speech, punish you for your politically incorrect thoughts, confiscate the fruits of your labor, seize your property, render you helpless and defenseless and in the end, dictate the very terms of your existence if they could do so with impunity. These are killers without conscience. We can come up with a long list of those whose outlook regard humankind as little more than chattel, but there are four individuals whose ideas connect the totalitarian dots in some interesting ways. They have a history and the ideas that animate them have a pedigree.
Karl Marx, father of modern communism, writing in the mid 1800s, described a world in which the central dynamic was purely economic. For Marx and all those who followed him - human beings are things - merely the bricks and mortar from which a new utopia would be built. For Communists, human lives were and still are disposable. The values we live by - individual conscience and the rule of law - are obstacles to be overcome on the way to utopia and the New Socialist Man.
Sigmund Freud was the father of modern psychiatry, a cocaine addict and a suicide. To Freud we were little more than primitives ruled by our sexual impulses. Our civilized personae, Freud believed, is little more than a thin veneer, easily discarded. Freuds ideas regarding human nature sowed the seeds of the family-destroying sexual revolution of the Sixties.
B.F. Skinner, an American psychologist, author, inventor and an advocate for "social reform" was born at the turn of the 20th century. Skinner's theory of behavior essentially reduced human beings to mere stimulus-response mechanisms. Skinner was also an advocate of scientific social planning and the use of operant conditioning in the raising of children. In his work, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Skinner suggested that a "technology of behavior" could help to make what he characterized as a better society. To achieve that end, we would have to accept that independent moral choice is not the driving force of our actions. Ultimately, and in Skinner's view, we would be made to accept that idea - or any other idea the State deemed appropriate. Note that Skinner's ideas had and continue to have a profound effect on American education.
Freud, Marx and Skinner were atheists and all assumed that religion, the impulse that moved men and nations, the source of our notions of right and wrong - was a fantasy and always had been. And the common thread that runs through these men's ideas is the dehumanizing of humanity - the reduction of our hearts, minds and souls and all of our aspirations to something that can be either eradicated or molded to suit the states ambitions.
But it took another philosopher to highlight and to put into play one of the most destructive ideas to emerge in modern times.
Friedrich Nietzsche was also an atheist. But he saw God not as an invention, but as a casualty. He wrote in 1886: "The greatest event in recent times - that 'God is Dead,' that the belief in the Christian God is no longer tenable - is beginning to cast its first shadows upon Europe." The Christian God, he wrote, would no longer stand in the way of the development of the New Man who Nietzsche said would be beyond good and evil. Nietzsche knew that in Europe, the decline of religion as a guide to conscience and morality would leave a huge vacuum.
Who or what would fill that vacuum?
Nietzsche thought that the most likely candidate would be what he called the 'Will to Power,' which he felt offered a better and more persuasive explanation of human behavior than either Marx or Freud. In place of religious belief, there would be secular ideology. The very concept of good and evil would be discarded as the product of weak and inferior minds.
But above all, Nietzsche believed that the Will to Power would produce a new kind of messiah, uninhibited by religious sanctions, without moral restraint of any kind, and with an unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind.
Let's say that again: the Will to Power would produce a new kind of messiah, uninhibited by religious sanctions, without moral restraint of any kind, and with an unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind.
And how did that 'will to power' express itself in our times? Jean-Francois Revel, writing over a century after Nietzsche, said of the Europeans in particular,
"It was they, after all, who made the twentieth century the darkest in history; it was they who brought about the two unprecedented cataclysms of two World Wars; and it was they who invented and put into place the two most criminal regimes ever inflicted on the human race - the pinnacles of evil and imbecility achieved in a space of less than thirty years."
If we have learned anything at all from the sad and sorry history of the previous century, it is this: whenever and wherever a government assumes the power to violate your fundamental rights to life and liberty, those who wish to strip you of your rights and claim your life as the property of the state will sooner or later gain control of the apparatus of the state. And they will use it, as I have noted above, without restraint or moral considerations of any kind. Regardless of the scope of that authority, they will exercise it to its fullest extent. If that authority encompasses the power to kill hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people, sooner or later, these killers without conscience will make the fullest and most horrible use of it. The history of the 20th century bears stark and irrefutable witness to this fact. The record is crystal clear in this regard: 'state actors' will use and abuse whatever power and authority they have, to whatever extent they can, and they will actively seek the means and the opportunity to do so.
Those who are driven by the will to power typically disguise their intentions under the guise of 'achieving the greatest good for the greatest number' or social / economic justice. They may claim that they are 'doing the business of the people' or that they are acting according to 'the will of the people'. 'It's for the children,' you know. When it has come to creating the 'New Socialist Man,' those who advance such arguments remain untroubled by the oceans of blood they would have to spill and the mountains of corpses they would have to pile up in order to realize their dreams. They are all animated by the unrestrained and unappeasable will to power.
To the extent that we endow the state with power, we invariably create the opportunity for those who wish to acquire and abuse power to do evil. You may recall that a politician once said that, "... a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have." The greatest tragedies in recent history have come about in this manner. In the last century alone, more than 260 million people - say it again: more than 260 million people - unarmed, non-combatant civilians - were murdered by those exercising the power of the state. They were starved, gassed, tortured, shot, impaled, burned alive, frozen to death, hacked apart with hoes, axes and machetes - a litany of brutality and atrocity beyond human imagination. Hundreds of millions more lived their lives enslaved, impoverished and in despair. No few of the survivors may have come to envy the dead.
Virtually without exception, these cruel and murderous regimes have been - and continue to be - collectivist totalitarian autocracies of one sort or another. The crimes and the horrors of collectivism in all its forms - socialism, communism, national socialism, fascism - have been demonstrated beyond dispute by their murderous trajectory through history and the ruin, slaughter, and untold human misery left in their wake. This is the undeniable and irrefutable truth of our times.
If you try to wrap your mind around the nature and the extent of the murderous results of these totalitarian regimes, you'll soon discover that concepts like genocide and mass murder pale before the reality of historical fact. Professor R. J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii coined the term democide in order to give us a framework to understand nature and the scope of the worst slaughters of the 20th century. Rummel offers these definitions:
Genocide: among other things, the killing of people by a government because of their indelible group membership (race, ethnicity, religion, language).
Politicide: the murder of any person or people by a government because of their politics or for political purposes.
Mass Murder: the indiscriminate killing of any person or people by a government.
Democide: The murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder.
As Professor Rummel has shown in Death by Government, democide has been committed in the name of many causes, beliefs and ideologies. Historically, the slaughter of entire populations has been a matter of national, racial, cultural, religious and political policy. But democide is seldom aimed at an individual. It is always the group that is the target. Democide is possible only where individuals have been defined in terms of a group identity. Where this is not the case, mass violence is virtually unknown.
No one wages war on humanity in the name of individualism - R. J. Rummel
We now live in a nation where policies and politics of the 'progressive', Gramscian Left have been formulated expressly to promulgate class and gender warfare, ignorance, passivity, racial division, poverty, envy, and hatred of the good for being good. It is the prerequisite for the acquisition and exercise of unlimited authority and power. It is, in fact, precisely the outcome desired by Gramscian Marxists who now comprise our cultural elite. They are the heirs of those who had had previously helped unravel the moral and philosophical fabric of traditional Christian Europe, creating the frightful void that communism, socialism, national socialism and fascism would fill. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, writing of the influence of the Left on American foreign policy, referred to the influx of 1914 -1918 émigrés whose ranks were swollen during World War II -
"And, as pointed out earlier, the majority of those belonged to the leftist camp and were soon intimately tied to the American Left. More often than not, these men had previously helped undermine the fabric of traditional Christian Europe, creating the frightful void that communism, socialism, and later National Socialism would fill. Deserted altars are inhabited by demons.
History is very clear as to precisely what these civilizational underminers have in store for the rest of us. What demons inhabit our empty altars? What should worry us most is that the majority of our fellow citizens openly applaud this same course whether they know it or not. The rest of us sanction it by our silence and inaction and that is the silence of the damned.
Yet, for anyone who cares and dares to look closely, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible: the evils and horrors that arise from the abuse of power far outweigh whatever good that power might achieve. Accordingly, any attempt at achieving positive cultural and societal change without risk to the right of the individual to his life, liberty and private property cannot proceed until the authoritarian power of the state has been de-fanged, muzzled, shackled and cast back into a constitutional prison.
Power seldom goes unabused. There are, have been, and will always be those willing to commit such monstrous crimes. If they refrain from doing so it is only because they lack the opportunity and are suitably constrained by the rule of law backed by men who will enforce it. When the opportunity arises, or when the power-lusters can create the opportunity, they never fail to step up and seize the moment. As Rummel has said, "Power kills; absolute power kills absolutely." In this nation and at the beginning of the 21st century, the face of evil is defined best by those who seek that adulterine power to control and destroy and by those who assist, applaud and enable them.
Perhaps you've seen the well-meaning, ignorant appeasers and applauders - individuals who operate upon the basis of whim and emotion and who don't care to consider the consequences of their actions and beliefs. You've seen their faces in the German newsreels of the '30s and '40s. You've seen them at the Democratic and Republican conventions of the last few decades. They've all signed up for the 'program', and in a particularly tenacious species of denial, they've mapped their own personal versions of intellectual bankruptcy and moral and ethical squalor onto the rhetoric and practice of tyranny. But don't pity them at all. We all know the fate of their German counterparts after the fall of the old Weimar Republic: how many were devoured by the same beast they whelped into the world with their ignorant approval and applause?
Be wary of the haters of mankind who've mapped their own insecurity, self-loathing and sense of inferiority onto the rest of the human race. They are merely another species of willing participant in the bonfires of human sacrifice. Their view of the world and those who inhabit it are colored in terms of spite and envy. These are the ones who've looked into the mirror that others' success and achievements present. Rather than take the challenge to raise their own state of being, they choose instead to shatter the mirror in a fit of pique and resentment simply because they don't like what they see in the reflection of their own souls. Rather than achieve, they seek to destroy. The urge to destroy what they cannot understand or rule becomes their raison d'etre and their governing passion. This type has always found ready employment in the service of their new masters - for a time. But the sacrificial bonfires burn for them as well.
Consider the cynical and knowing apologists for tyranny and atrocity, sitting behind easy grins, excusing the worst sort of depravity and corruption with a wink and a smirk, secure in their faith that they are the new nomenklatura and are thus exempt from the 'solutions' to messy problems represented by those of us who would resist the idea that our lives are not someone else's property.
Finally, we come to the power-lusters themselves - the so-called 'progressive' elites. These individuals are often driven by a profound self-hatred which they direct outwards and project onto humanity in general. Their own self-loathing drives their passion to rule and to subjugate and to destroy, thus opening the door to the commission and justification of the most unimaginable of atrocities and crimes against God, man, nature, justice and reason. Another species of power-luster seeks to impose their own overweening sense of moral rectitude upon a resisting and supposedly ignorant public. C. S. Lewis, writing in God in the Dock eloquently warned us about this last type:
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the 'good' of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
Eric Hoffer, noted American philosopher, grants us another perspective:
"It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression."
This is how a long, dark age begins. An age of horror and human sacrifice. Never underestimate the sheer impatience and hubris of the radical utopian 'reformers' who seek nothing less than dominion over every sphere of human thought and endeavor. Remember, these monsters want to reshape Man in their image and according to their ideals no matter what the cost. There's no room in their scheme of things for those who would disagree. Those of us with even a modest knowledge of history and understanding of human nature know where that mindset took humanity in the last century. It's where we're headed now, and we are headed for Hell on earth.
The time is coming when we must either begin the "long march" back through the institutions to reclaim them and to restore the principles of freedom and human dignity to their rightful place, or we must separate from the killers without conscience and those who condone them. My own world-view is contradictory to, and irreconcilable with, that of the criminal totalitarians - the heirs and disciples of Machiavelli, Marx, Gramsci and Alinsky - who promote the politics of envy and victimization, and whose goal is the destruction of our culture and institutions.
We cannot co-exist in the same society with such monsters.
"The great misfortune of the twentieth Century is to have been the one in which the ideal of liberty was harnessed to the service of tyranny, the ideal of equality to the service of privilege, and all the aspirations and social forces included under the label of the "Left" enrolled in the service of impoverishment and enslavement. This immense imposture has falsified most of this century, partly through the faults of some of its greatest intellectuals. It has corrupted the language and action of politics down to tiny details of vocabulary, it has inverted the sense of morality and enthroned falsehood in the very center of human thought."
Jean Francois-Revel, The Flight From Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information - 1991, Random House
There seems to be a sort of 'virtual secession' is underway even as we speak. It usually begins when, one by one, we arrive at the same ideas that I have summarized so far. It's the understanding and acceptance of the fact that we can't 'just all get along' as a certain Mr. R King once suggested. We're well past that. We're well past the point of reasoned debate, appeasement or compromise. Those who feel they have the right to dictate the terms of existence to everyone else are on a deadly collision course with those of us who understand that no such 'right' exists. The history of the 20th century stands in mute witness to the brutal tragedy of appeasement and the folly of compromise with totalitarian monsters. We are in fact at war, realize it or not, like it or not. At the most fundamental level, that war is being waged not so much for control of our economic lives - although that is certainly part of it - but for the hearts and minds of our children. The battlefields are: popular culture, our public schools, our institutions of higher learning, our churches and even our homes. The casualties are your kids' intellectual and spiritual sovereignty - their inner life and their freedom.
A bold conjecture: that we will descend into a Balkanized nightmare of chaos and destruction as the entitled classes, egged on by the elites, try to cash those very bad checks that liberal socialists and their 'change agent' stooges have written for years and handed out in our schools, churches, culture and inner cities. Those checks - the wages of the sins of class hatred, gender warfare, phony self-esteem and racial division are going to bounce sky high when the goodies they've promised aren't forthcoming. It's the price many of us will pay for both cheering and applauding the transformation of this society into a mob of cannibals and looters, or for simply standing silently by in de facto approval while it happened under our very noses. Some of the fence-sitters, applauders and appeasers may actually understand this and regret their choices in their last few moments as they helplessly watch the mindless mobs their very bad ideas have enabled rape and slaughter their families by the light of their burning homes.
Open warfare in this country is inevitable because there is no reconciliation possible with those who claim that your life simply does not belong to you. You cannot make peace with those who demand not only your economic submission, but your intellectual and spiritual surrender as well. The price of surrender has been and always will be more than anyone of reason and good will can ever care to pay. As Sidney Hook once wrote:
"Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have written for themselves an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person they would not betray to stay alive..."
I fully expect that our virtual secession will break out into the open in approximately the same time frame that those bouncing checks drawn on the banks of envy and phony self-esteem reach critical mass - any time from right now to another 8-10 years. There will be no turning back once this starts, and the cost in lives and property will be truly staggering. There is absolutely no guarantee that we will ever be able to recover from such a scenario. But then, and only then can we successfully engage in our own 'long march' back towards a society where human dignity and freedom aren't mere bagatelles to bartered away for a mess of liberal socialist pottage, but are fundamental values worth living, striving, fighting - and dying for.
There are many of us, and I include myself among them, who constitute an entirely different class of humanity than these killers without conscience and their enablers. We are neither interested in power nor its abuse. We are satisfied to live our lives in peace with ourselves and with others, and we derive great satisfaction in seeing others enjoy life as we do. We believe that our lives and our minds are sovereign, and that the fruits of our labors are not forfeit to the first thug who demands them at the point of a gun. We are never the initiators of violence. We judge others solely by their competence and by their character.
The final first-principles question is this: To whom does the world belong? Does it belong to those of us who wish to live free of coercion or to the killers without conscience? Does it belong to those who uphold man's life as the standard of their values, or those who uphold the standard of death?
Can those of us who are passionately committed to the ideals of life, liberty, and the sovereign state of the individual hope to persist in the face of such an inevitable tragedy? Our one hope is that this pack of snarling communist dogs will turn upon themselves and consume one another before they have time to get to the rest of us. Those of us with the wisdom to prepare and the courage to step forward and rebuild our uniquely American civilization after the fall of this republic are our best and only hope for a decent and humane civilization.
I conclude with a quote from G. Warren Nutter, the late, great University of Virginia economist and proponent of liberty:
"The greatness of a society does not come from its monuments but from the kind of people it produces. Justice, responsibility, and humanity - these are the qualities of greatness in a people. Only the humane can remain free, and only the free can remain humane..."
Thanks for the compliment. The book's coming together, but it's taking a longer than I first thought. The research I've done has opened some new lines of inquiry, and the work will be better for it.
In theimmortal words of the late Harpseal:
Stay well, stay safe, stay armed, stay free.
Excellent FRiend.
Glad this was posted again... I missed it the first time around. Great stuff in there Noumenon!
I thought parts of it seemed familiar, excellent work.
We must stand against these monsters in all things, big
and small.
Well done.
Thanks. The book will be a jaw-dropper, I think. The unwillingness of our scholars and philosophers to recognize the evil done in the pursuit the will to power speaks to the biggest falsification of the truth in our time.
Thanks, all. Putting the book together has been a real exercise in connecting the dots. Revelatory, and not always comforatable. Hope to get it out late this summer.
I appreciate the email heads-up pointing me here... I will have to read your essay a couple more times before I comment specifically.
However, at first reading it is an excellent throwback to the pre-2000 years when such thought-provoking original essays were common on FR. Often on opposing views of the same subject, prediction, or concept, yet usually well thought out, intellectually stimulating, and "fiercely" defended.
The book may require a ceramic cover...{:-) IMHO, Hitler-redux and his book burners are already assembled and waiting in the wings...
A couple of authors have come close, but still choose to dance around the subject. Check out Chantal Delsol's landmark Unlearned Lessons of the Twentieth Century. It's a distinctly European point of view, but it holds true for all of that. She does however, overlook our unique but waning American sanse of exceptionalism, optomisnm and strangth of character. For example, take this excerpt from Unlearned Lessons where she deftly exposes the roots of the Left's irrationalism.
Vital resistance and resentment are the two main responses to the events of 1989. Vital resistance: the mind realizes its mistake - it admits, for example, that nationalization of the means of production does not produce a happy society, but rather laziness and constant shortages; it refuses, however, to let go of the idea because of its passionate attachment to it. Existence - adventures, friendships, successes - is nourished and permeated by this belief to such an extent that the belief becomes an identity; the individual cannot renounce it without committing a kind of symbolic suicide. No one can admit... that his existence reflects the echo of a failure.In other words, no one wants to admit that the premises upon which one has constructed their entire raison detre is an empty, shrieking fraud. This goes a long way towards explaining the tortured mental gymnastics and pretzel logic employed by the liberal Left in this country. Strongly recommend this author.
Lee Harris - another brilliant writer concludes his Civilization and Its Enemies with this:
"...we must all struggle to overcome the collective tendency of civilized men and women to forgetfulness. For that, in truth, is the ultimate question facing us today. Can the West overcome the forgetfulness that is the nemesis of every successful civilization? If it can, then there is hope that mankind will be able to move forward to a higher stage of historical development. If it cannot, then the next stage of history will be one that we once hoped never to see again."
I know the answer to that question. The memory of how we got here, how we achieved our freedom and at what cost has been systematically purged from the general consciousness. Not necessarily from ours, but from that of many of our countrymen. Harris' concluding sentence is the price that we will all pay for that forgetfulness - particularly so, as so-called progressives' view of history reads like a cut and paste ransom note.
A Sunday bump for a good discussion...
Bump for later
"As Professor Rummel has shown in Death by Government, democide has been committed in the name of many causes, beliefs and ideologies. Historically, the slaughter of entire populations has been a matter of national, racial, cultural, religious and political policy. But democide is seldom aimed at an individual. It is always the group that is the target. Democide is possible only where individuals have been defined in terms of a group identity. Where this is not the case, mass violence is virtually unknown.
No one wages war on humanity in the name of individualism - R. J. Rummel"
Truth! Good rant!
The Goal of Socialism
Difficulties in understanding socialist ideology arise when we try to correlate its doctrinal prescriptions for the organization of society with the actual forms of these principles as they are realized in history. For example, the picture of a society "in which the free development of each will be the precondition of the free development of all" contains no contradiction. But when the "leading theoretician" asserts that the creation of this harmonious man is achieved by shooting, we are face to face with a paradox. The view of socialism to which we have come encounters the same kind of difficulties and must be tested by this means for inconsistency. It is not enough to say that all the basic principles of socialist ideology derive from the urge to suppress individuality. It is necessary also to understand what this tendency portends for mankind and how it arises. We shall begin with the former question.
At the end of the preceding chapter we sketched the "ideal" socialist society as it appears in the classical writings of socialism. Of the features enumerated, we shall consider only one: state upbringing of children from infancy so that they do not know their parents. It is natural to begin with this aspect of the socialist ideal, if only because it would be the first thing that an individual born into this society would face. This measure is suggested with striking consistency from Plato to Liadov, a leading Soviet theoretician of the 1920s. In the 1970s, the Japanese police arrested members of the "Red Army," a Trotskyite organization, which was responsible for a number of murders. Although this group numbered only a few dozen people, it had all the attributes of a real socialist party--theoreticians, a split on the question of whether revolution should occur in one country or in the entire world at once, terror against dissidents. The group established itself in a lonely mountain region. And the same trait surfaced here: they took newborn children away from their mothers, entrusted them to other women for upbringing and fed them on powdered milk, despite difficulties in obtaining it. Let us quote from a book by the modern ethologist Eibl-Eibesfeldt, which will help us evaluate the biological significance of this measure:
It is especially in the second half of the first year of life that a child establishes personal ties with its mother or a person substituting for her (a nurse, a matron). This contact is the precondition for the development of "primary trust" (E. H. Erikson), the basis for the attitude toward oneself and the world. The child learns to trust his partner, and this positive basic orientation is the foundation of a healthy personality. If these contacts are broken, "primary distrust" develops. A prolonged stay in the hospital during the child's second year may, for example, lead to such results. Though the child will try even there to establish close contact with a mother substitute, no nurse will be able to devote herself intensively enough to an infant for a close personal tie to be established. Nurses constantly change, and so the contacts that arise are constantly broken. The child, deceived in his expectations of contact, falls into a state of apathy after a brief outburst of protest. During the first month of his stay in the hospital he whines and clings to anyone available. During the second month he usually cries and loses weight. During the third month such children only weep quietly and finally become thoroughly apathetic. If after three to four months' separation they are taken home, they return to normal. But if they stay in the hospital longer, the trauma becomes irreversible.. ..In one orphanage where R. Spitz studied ninety-one children who had been separated from their mothers in the third month of their lives, thirty-four died before they reached the age of two. The level of development of the survivors was only 45 percent of normal and the children were almost like idiots. Many of them could neither walk nor stand nor speak at age four. (148: p.234)
This may be applied to the whole of a society built on the consistent implementation of socialist ideals. Not only people but even animals cannot exist if reduced to the level of the cogs of a mechanism. Even such a seemingly elementary act as eating is not reducible to the mere satiation of the organism. For an animal to eat, it is not enough that it be hungry and that food be available; the food must be enticing, "appetizing," as well. And in more complex actions involving several ,individuals, such as raising of young, the common defense of territory or hunting, animals establish relations that usually are ritualistic in nature and that elicit great excitement and undoubtedly provide deep satisfaction. For animals, these ties constitute "the meaning of life"; if they are broken, the animal becomes apathetic, does not take food, and becomes an easy victim for a predator. To a far greater extent, this applies to man. But for him, all the aspects of life that make it attractive and give it meaning are connected with manifestations of individuality. Therefore, a consistent implementation of the principles of socialism deprives human life of individuality and simultaneously deprives life of its meaning and attraction. As suggested by the example of the orphaned children, it would lead to the physical extinction of the group in which these principles are in force, and if they should triumph through the world--to the extinction of mankind. But the conclusion that we have reached has yet to be tested by history because the socialist ideals have nowhere achieved complete implementation. The primitive states of the ancient Orient and pre-Columbian America had a very weakly developed socialist ideology. In keeping with Shang Yang's principle ("When the people are weak the state is strong; when the state is weak the people are strong"), particularly strong, conservative and long-lived state structures were created. In these states, however, the principle of the "weak people" was understood only in the sense of external, physical limitations--choice of work, place of residence, severe limitations on private property, the large number of official duties. These duties did not touch the life within the family or cut deeply into man's soul. They were not ideologically inspired, and it was apparently the same patriarchal quality that preserved these states from dying out but, on the other hand, left them defenseless in the face of new spiritual forces called forth by the abrupt shifts of the first millennium B.C.
The socialist states of the twentieth century are also far from being a model of the complete realization of socialist ideals. But one must note that when survival is at stake, it was achieved in these states precisely by giving up some fundamental socialist principle. This occurred with the introduction of the New Economic Policy in Soviet Russia and with the halt ordered by Stalin in the persecution of religion during World War II.
However, it is possible to point out a number of similar situations which may serve, though indirectly, to support our point of view.
It happens not infrequently that a nation or a social group dies out not because of economic reasons or due to destruction by enemies but because the spiritual conditions of its existence are destroyed.
the dying and, ultimately, the complete extinction of mankind is not a chance external consequence of the embodiment of the socialist ideal but that this impulse is a fundamental and organic part of socialist ideology. To a greater or lesser degree it is consciously perceived as such by its partisans and even serves them as inspiration.
This paradoxical phenomenon may be understood only if we allow that the idea of the death of humanity can be attractive to man and that the impulse to self-destruction (even if it is only one of many tendencies) plays a role in human history. And there is in fact much evidence to support this hypothesis, particularly among phenomena that play an essential role in the spiritual life of mankind. Quite independently of socialism, each of these leads to the same conclusion.
We have arrived at this view of socialism in attempting to account for the contradictions evident in the phenomenon at first glance. And now, looking back, we feel confident that our approach indeed accounts for many of socialism's peculiarities. Understanding socialism as one of the manifestations of the allure of death explains its hostility toward individuality, its desire to destroy those forces which support and strengthen human personality: religion, culture, family, individual property. It is consistent with the tendency to reduce man to the level of a cog in the state mechanism, as well as with the attempt to prove that man exists only as a manifestation of nonindividual features, such as production or class interest. The view of man as an instrument of other forces, in turn, makes it possible to understand the astonishing psychology of the leaders of the socialist movements: on the one hand, the readiness and even the striving to erase one's own personality, to submit it completely to the aims of the movement (so obvious in the statements of Piatakov and Trotsky cited earlier) and, on the other hand, the complete collapse of will, the renunciation of one's convictions in case of defeat (Müntzer and Johann of Leyden, Bakunin in his "Confession," the behavior of Zinoviev, Bukharin and others at the trials, etc.). In fact, if the instrument is no longer needed, all meaning for its existence is lost, and in man's soul the source of courage and spiritual strength runs dry. (Bakunin, for example, both before and after his imprisonment is quite a different person from the utterly broken and self-abasing author of the "Confession." And Bukharin, in his emotional "Testament," says that he has no differences with Stalin and that he has had none for a long time. He thereby dismisses his entire activity and even deprives himself of the right to protest against his own execution, since that would involve a disagreement.) This point of view is consistent with the calls to universal destruction, with the attractiveness of destructive forces like wars and crises, with the allure of death and the idea of Nothingness.
Returning to our specific theme, we see that the striving for self-destruction expressed in socialism not only is not analogous or "equivalent" to other forces acting in history, but is fundamentally distinct from them in character. For example, in contrast to a religious or a national ideology, which openly proclaims its goals, the "death instinct" that is embodied in socialism appears in the guise of religion, reason, social justice, national endeavors or science, and never shows its true face. Apparently its action is the stronger the more directly it is perceived by the subconscious part of the psyche, but only on condition that consciousness remains unaware.
...if we suppose that the significance of socialism for mankind consists in the acquisition of specific experience, then much has been acquired on this path in the last hundred years. There is, first of all, the profound experience of Russia, the significance of which we are only now beginning to understand. The question therefore arises: will this experience be sufficient? Is it sufficient for the entire world and especially for the West? Indeed, is it sufficient for Russia? Shall we be able to comprehend its meaning? Or is mankind destined to pass through this experience on an immeasurably larger scale? There is no doubt that if the ideals of Utopia are realized universally, mankind, even in the barracks of the universal City of the Sun, shall find the strength to regain its freedom and to preserve God's image and likeness--human individuality--once it has glanced into the yawning abyss. But will even that experience be sufficient? For it seems just as certain that the freedom of will granted to man and to mankind is absolute, that it includes the freedom to make the ultimate choice--between life and death.
Sorry for the long quote. The book itself is much longer though and the bulk of it is an encyclopaedic research into protosocialist societies of the past. And that feature makes it so chilling for us in America, where we naively think that by rearranging the slogans we can avoid the fate, and in fact, the goal, of every other socialist society.
We will have a nuclear attack here soon. That is the ultimate powergrab.
The government is even warning us on a daily basis in those public service announcements.
We will have a nuclear attack here soon. That is the ultimate powergrab.
The government is even warning us on a daily basis in those public service announcements.
Where's "here"?
No, the US. It is a matter of time. and time is short.
How did I miss this? Everything from Hoffer to Nietzsche boiled down into a concise, erudite descriptive missive on
collective and social evil.
I'll print and re-read and get back to you. Congratulations
on a extremely well written article.
Thank you
Far, far worse awaits us - and I mean all of humanity - if we fail to stop these monsters. Here, now, in America we are the last bastion of liberty and the last hope for resistance against a nightfall of slaughter, horror and atrocity that could spell the end our humanity, if not species. That which may exist after a thousand years of the triumph of that sort of evil, we can not call human.
My task, as I see it, is to spell this out in clear, plain English and in no uncertain terms. To spell it out so that we may have no illusions as to the nature of our existential enemy and to acknowledge the terrible choices the we will have to make in order to defeat them, even if only for a time. For that struggle is as old as mankind and it will have no end. This is what I hope to achieve in this book.
Mass murder begins with the father of lies, a murderer from the start. Then, as this evil inveigles the minds of men, the twisted men come up with ways to 'mass produce' the nature of their father. We such an one in the White House currently ...
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New Jersey and Mexico have been confirmed as races to be added to the 2014 Formula 1 calendar next season, along with Korea staying on the shortlist. All three races have been added to a provisional 22-race packed F1 schedule for next year.
The FIA have published a "confirmed" 2014 race calendar, but is anything but finalised. There have been disputes over the future of the Korean Grand Prix but after much speculation, the FIA seem to have confirmed the track listing for next year's competition.
After rumours of a 21-race calendar were leaked earlier this month, the full 22-race schedule was revealed earlier today with the return of the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring and a race in Russia in the city of Sochi.
Following reports of the New Jersey Grand Prix and whether it would feature in 2014, race promoter Leo Hindery Jr. said after the World Motor Sport Council when New Jersey was confirmed: "The entire Grand Prix of America team is thrilled to join the 2014 FIA calendar and we look forward to bringing world-class Formula One racing to New Jersey."
With the announcement of Mexico, Russia and Korea, the 2014 Formula 1 season will now host five back-to back race weekends throughout the year.
It was also announced that Pirelli will continue as Formula 1's official tyre supplier in 2014. The FIA also said that Pirelli "may continue to supply tyres, subject to the requisite technical and safety standards of the FIA being met."
As well as this Formula 1's governing body and commercial arm have signed a new agreement securing them together for the next seven years. A statement on the website of the FIA said it and Bernie Ecclestone's FOM organisation had both given their "approval".
The full 2014 calendar is currently as follows:
16th March: Australia (Melbourne)
30th March: Malaysia (Sepang)
6th April: Bahrain (Sakhir)
20th April: China (Shanghai)
27th April: Korea (Korea International Circuit)*
11th May: Spain (Barcelona)
25th May: Monaco (Monaco)
1st June: Grand Prix of America (New Jersey)*
8th June: Canada (Montreal)
22th June: Austria (Red Bull Ring)
6th July: Britain (Silverstone)
20th July: Germany (Hockenheim)
27th July: Hungary (Budapest)
24th August: Belgium (Spa-Francorchamps)
7th September: Italy (Monza)
21st September: Singapore (Marina Bay)
5th October: Russia (Sochi)*
12th October: Japan (Suzuka)
26th October: Abu Dhabi (Yas Marina)
9th November: USA (Austin)
16th November: Mexico (Mexico City)*
30th November: Brazil (Interlagos)
* Subject to approval - Provisional races.
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Fans of Taylor Swift will want to set aside time next Monday evening (August 13), as the country superstar has announced that she will share news and participate in a live web chat with fans.
She posted a quick promotional video on her YouTube channel this morning, in which she unveils that she has some "really cool news" she is ready to share with her fans and followers.
"Hey, it's Taylor," she says in the video, "and I really want to talk to you about something."
What's the news? "I'm not going to go into it too much, but it's cool," she says.
A few weeks earlier, Taylor teased fans with a Facebook post that was equally vague but declared that "stuff is about to happen." Pretty much everyone in the world interpreted that message as being related to her upcoming fourth album, which is allegedly coming later this year.
And like that Facebook message, just about everyone in the world is probably also interpreting this video event to also be about her upcoming album.
According to a message on Taylor's website, fans can submit questions during the webcast using their YouTube account.
The Taylor Swift live web chat takes place Monday, August 13 at 7pm ET/4pm PT on her YouTube channel.
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We are doing vector spaces in my math class right now and I'm TOTALLY lost. Here are a few of the problems I don't get:
Let u and v be (fixed) vectors in the vector space V. Show that the set W of all linear combinations ab+bv of u and v is a subspace of V.
Prove: If the (finite) set S of vectors contains the zero vector, then S is linearly dependent.
Determine whether or not the given vectors in Rn form a basis for Rn.
v1=(3,-7,5,2), v2=(1,-1,3,4), v3=(7,11,3,13)
Let {v1,v2,...,vk} be the basis for the proper subspace W of the vector space V, and suppose that the vector v of V is not in W. Show that the vectors v1,v2,...,vk,v are linearly independent.
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Before you have me committed, I'll say right now that I was expecting to be thrilled with the lack of trash in the new Coliseum raids. Who wouldn't be? No more endless waves of, say, Death Knights or Spectres or that horrible two-pull on the way to killing Auriaya or what have you. And you know what? I don't miss that stuff. I don't miss any of the trash we've yet seen in Wrath of the Lich King.
In fact, what the trashless boss gauntlet that is Trial of the Crusader/Grand Crusader has done for me is to show me that I've been missing trash, real trash, since after we moved out of Mount Hyjal, and even then it was in slow decline. No, I hate to admit it, but in a blazing moment of honest to Murgatroyd old fogeyism, I came to realize that what I miss was the brutal, punishing trash pulls in Blackwing Lair. Blackwing Spellbinders were harder to deal with than some of the bosses that followed them! You could wipe multiple times before you even had the room cleared enough to pull a drake!
Yeah, it sounds ridiculous that I'm nostalgic for that. And to be honest, it's a nostalgia tinged with a certain amount of relief that I don't have to go clear it again any time soon (and if I did, well, I'm level 80 now). But what I miss, and what I feel like we've been moving away from since Hyjal (which may have taken trash pulls to a height so ridiculous that the pendulum had to swing back this way) is trash with personality. Trash that sets the story, that makes you really feel like you're actually raiding an ancient lair of evil. That being said, I'm glad TotC is trashless. Just please, let Icecrown bring back trash that counts.
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COLORADO SPRINGS — The Brush Lady Beetdiggers were at the Eisenhower Golf Club for their Regional golf tournament on Monday.
The top eight golfers, and the top team in the Region head on to State next week so there was a lot on the line.
The Lady Beetdiggers did not send on a golfer to the next round, wrapping up their 2014 with a lot of progress made by the girls.
Victory Lopez led the Lady Beetdiggers with a score of 114.
Dallas Tavvener shot a 131, Mallory Shave shot a 135 and Brenna Rivera shot a 146.
Kylie Sullivan was the top shot on the day, she had a score of 77. Her team, Cheyenne Mountain was the top team on the day, so all four of their members head on to state. All four of the Cheyenne Mountain girls were in the top 10.
The lowest qualifying score was 106 strokes, with alternates down to 110. Lopez came in 21st, five spots from being named an alternate.
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Neuqua Valleys kids collected their regional plaque, briefly posed for pictures and coolly returned to their bench.
Thats how a team celebrates when it expects to win. And expects more.
The No. 2 seed Wildcats overcame a yeoman effort from Metea Valleys Lori Obendorf to beat the No. 7 Mustangs for the third time this season, this time 62-44 in Fridays final of the Class 4A Metea Valley regional.
Wed beat them twice, we thought why we cant we do it a third time, Neuqua junior Najee Smith said. Were just hoping to use this game to catapult us to the next round. We know we have a tough road ahead of us.
Neuqua (26-3) twice beat Metea (22-7) during the regular season, the second time by 17 in Aurora in January, and also eliminated the Mustangs in a regional final last year. Any chance of overlooking Metea was probably put to bed by a few choice words from the Metea side this week.
We knew they were coming for blood, Smith said.
Neuqua will have its own motivations in the next round when it takes on Naperville Central on Tuesday at the Oswego sectional. The Redhawks handed the Wildcats their first loss this year, by 1 in December, coincidentally on the same court.
Obendorf did all she could to will her team to victory.
The 6-foot-2 senior scored 18 of her 24 points in the first half at one point, accounting for 16 straight Metea points grabbed 13 rebounds and blocked 4 shots. Even with Obendorfs heroics, though, Neuqua led 35-23 at the half and Metea never drew closer than 8.
She rose to the challenge and left everything out there tonight, Metea coach Kris Kalivas said. She can only do so much.
While Obendorf was carrying the load for Metea, seven Neuqua kids scored in the first half. Thats nothing new for a team that seems to have a different kid carry the bacon every night.
Were definitely blessed to have the depth we have, Smith said.
Following up a 72-point effort Tuesday against Lockport, Neuqua came out shooting well, hitting five of its six 3-pointers in the first half and shooting 50 percent from the field. Smith shook off a recent cold spell with 15 points, 10 in the second quarter, hitting three 3s and Lauren Deveikis, Kai Moon and Niki Lazar also hit 3s.
I was in a little bit of a slump, Smith said, but its back.
Allison Hedrick added 11 points, Myia Starks and Bryce Menendez 8 each. Neuqua coach Mike Williams sensed a team rededicated after a surprising loss to Geneva to end the regular season.
Theyve been focused, Williams said. They had a discussion after the Geneva game that our approach has to be a little different because its the playoffs. The last two games weve probably shot as well as we have all year.
Jenny Voytell added 12 points and 11 rebounds for Metea, whose best season in program history ended with two three-year seniors Bria Walker and Anna Petersen on the bench with torn ACLs that compromised an already short rotation.
Neuqua definitely had more weapons today, Kalivas said. When it comes to this point in the season, its tough playing with five. We treaded water as long as we could.
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Nine for IX The new episode "The 99ers" looks at the U.S. women's soccer team that won the World Cup in 1999. 5 p.m. ESPN and 10 p.m. ESPN2
So You Think You Can Dance Jenna Elfman takes a turn as guest judge in this new episode. 8 p.m. Fox
The Life of Muhammad This ambitious series charts the life of Islam's founder in three parts, starting with "The Seeker" (8 p.m.), which revisits the prophet's birth and marriage and his first revelation; "Holy Wars" (9 p.m.), chronicling the eight-year war with Meccan tribes; and "Holy Peace" (10 p.m.), which details the introduction of Sharia and jihad. KOCE
America's Got Talent In this new episode, each judge gets the opportunity to bring back a favorite eliminated act. 9 p.m. NBC
Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel This new episode looks at an energy drink that has an extreme marketing strategy; also an interview with former professional tennis player Andy Roddick and an examination of the controversy that surrounds Donald Trump's Scottish golf course. 9 p.m. HBO
Who Do You Think You Are? Chris O'Donnell researches his paternal ancestry and links his family to American history in this new episode. 9 p.m. TLC
Rizzoli & Isles Jane and Maura (Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander) are asked to give a presentation on the case of a serial killer at a law enforcement symposium in this new episode. 9 p.m. TNT
Covert Affairs In an attempt to keep her questionable behavior from catching up to her, Annie (Piper Perabo) infiltrates an FBI probe. Gregory Itzin and Kari Matchett also star in this new episode. 9 p.m. USA
The Vineyard In "Player Beware," Luis makes a surprise visit to Jackie's house, Emily and Jackie compare notes on Jon, Ben asks Gabby for a job and rivals develop a new understanding following an incident at a party. (N) "The Vineyard." 10 p.m. ABC Family
Perception Donnie (Scott Wolf) tries to help a war hero who has a neurological disorder, and Pierce (Eric McCormack) is surprised by the arrival of someone with whom he had a fling long ago in this new episode. Rachael Leigh Cook also stars. 10 p.m. TNT
Suits Cameron's (Gary Cole) use of dubious tactics on Ava's (Michelle Fairley) case is giving Harvey (Gabriel Macht) flashbacks to his decision to leave the DA's office in this new episode. 10 p.m. USA
CBS This Morning Sleep expert Michael Breus. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS
Today Mark Bittman. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC
Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC
Live With Kelly and Michael Jimmy Kimmel; the Animal Flow workout. (N) 9 a.m. KABC
The View Lisa Kudrow; Natasha Lyonne; Curtis Fields performs. 10 a.m. KABC
The Talk Guest co-host Pat Harvey; Khloe Kardashian; Anna Chlumsky. 1 p.m. KCBS
The Doctors Female troubles. 2 p.m. KCBS
The Dr. Oz Show Human papillomavirus and its cancer risks; the truth about Pap smears. 2 p.m. KABC
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Katie Life's little annoyances. 3 p.m. KABC
The Ellen DeGeneres Show Howie Mandel; Dave Grohl performs; the Foo Fighters and Rick Springfield perform. 4 p.m. KNBC
Tavis Smiley Booker T. 11 p.m. KOCE
Charlie Rose (N) 11 p.m. KVCR; 11:30 p.m. KOCE
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Last weekend, GSA Network took an epic 3-day road trip to Humboldt County to train youth leaders and adult allies on how to make schools safer. I, along with youth trainers Alexa Lopez, K. Boucher, and Nick Penland, traveled over 550 miles round trip to Eureka for the Humboldt County GSA Leadership Summit.
It's March, which means schools and communities everywhere are celebrating Women's History Month – and there's no better year for GSAs to step in and lead these efforts! Now that the FAIR Education Act has gone into effect, school social studies classes are required to teach the historical contributions of LGBT and people with disabilities. Since social movements don't exist in a vacuum, this is a great opportunity to explore the role of LGBT people in women's history!
Imagine this: Me at nineteen years old, very young, new-to-activism (and much more punk) approaching a table full of pamphlets and colorful rainbows at a queer event at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas.
Welcome back to school GSA members! The end of one year and the beginning of a new one can be a good time to pause and reflect. We can take a moment to look back on our previous year and decide what we want to build in our next year. For GSAs, this is a great time to think about what you want to do for the rest of your school year.
A lot of people start off the New Year with resolutions. For your GSA, this could be:
Imagine starting your day off in an auditorium with energetic LGBTQA youth and adult allies, listening to speakers talk about the safe schools movement, and even doing a little jig that we here at GSA Network call the "fruit salute"?
The new school year is here and it's time to get your GSAs ready for a year of activism and fun!
Take a look at our Year Start Check List for California GSAs to see what steps you can take to get ready for the best school year your GSA has seen yet!
Activists! Dolphins! And S'mores! Oh My! On August 12—14, twenty Northern California and Central Valley youth activists hit the beach at Marin Headlands Institute in Sausalito, California. The eager activists packed their sunscreen and sleeping bags and embarked on a 3-day skills-building journey to learn about activism and organizing their GSAs.
Bright and early on the morning of Sunday, July 17th, 25 eager youth from Gay-Straight Alliances (GSA) all over Northern California showed up at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to march with GSA Network's team in the 25th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Decked out in their GSA gear, the youth bravely carried their banners, and walked for a great cause.
GSAs covered lots of ground in California's Pride celebrations this year -- read the recap from your region!
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On July 17, GSA clubs across Northern California will walk together as part of one big and (clearly) fabulous GSA Network Team. Are you interested in being a part of the AIDS awareness action? GREAT!


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New "Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows" Trailer Is Up [VIDEO]
I actually liked the first movie, probably because it was nothing like having to read the books. So here's the trailer for the next "Sherlock Holmes" movie. Robert Downey Jr. does the intro, because you know he's in it and stuff. His British accent kinda sucks, but Jude Law's is pretty good. I wonder if that's because he's British?


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San Diego, California – Pop quiz: in what year did Fiat introduce its last Canadian new model, and what was that model? Answer: The year was 1980 and the model was the Fiat Strada, of which only a handful were sold before Fiat left Canada for a very long time.
This year, Fiat returns with an homage to its past dressed up in modern sheetmetal, and driven by the latest technologies. But even though we're effectively seeing a new automotive brand come to Canada, the 2012 Fiat 500 is generating interest far beyond its diminutive size as it is SOOO CUTE!
At least, that's what just about everyone gushes upon first seeing Fiat's engaging little blast from the past.
But here at Autos, we are not so easily convinced. We want to know, does it have enough power? How does it handle? Can you fit actual people in this tiny conveyance? Is it for real?
2012 Fiat 500. Click image to enlarge
First of all, the reason we're seeing any Fiats at all in North America is because Fiat is now the putative owner of Chrysler (along with the Canadian and U.S. governments, as part of a complex deal that we won't go into here). Suffice to say that the association with Chrysler has generated new and improved Chrysler Group vehicles, and an opportunity for Fiat to return here with a yet-to-be announced array of Fiat vehicles, with new dealer showrooms and all.
The first of these vehicles is the subcompact Fiat 500, built in Mexico at the former Chrysler PT Cruiser (now Dodge Journey) plant, powered by Fiat engines assembled in Dundee, Michigan.
The car, as you may know, is a reinvention of the Fiat 500 model first introduced in 1957. The name "500" refers to the displacement of the original rear-mounted, two-cylinder, air-cooled engine (that would be 500 cc's, not 500 ci's…). The modern version of this car was introduced in Europe in 2007 and subsequently named European Car of the Year in 2008. So the 2012 version is not an all-new vehicle that will be de-bugged in North America; it's a well-sorted car with three years production under its belt.
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Just to be clear, the engine is no longer in the back. It's a conventionally front-mounted, liquid-cooled, 1.4-litre, four-cylinder "MultiAir" powerplant that makes 102 horsepower at 6,500 rpm and 98 pound-feet of torque at 4,000 rpm (MultiAir is a Fiat engine technology that maximizes engine performance and fuel economy while minimizing emissions). It's mated to a five-speed manual transmission or an optional six-speed automatic sourced from Japanese maker Aisin (the same automatic transmission used in the Mini Cooper).
Brakes are four-wheel discs and fuel consumption from the manual transmission 500 is a miserly 6.7/5.1 L/100 km, city/highway, and 7.4/5.7 L/100 km, city/highway, for the automatic.
Three trim levels will be offered, each with the same drive-train. The $15,995 "Pop" arrives with power windows, power locks with remote keyless entry, power and heated mirrors, chrome door handles, 15-inch wheels with wheel covers, six-speaker audio, cloth seats with driver seat height adjustment, vehicle information centre, tilt steering and the full package of safety features including anti-lock brakes, stability control, traction control, seven airbags and the useful hill-start assist.
For $18,500, the "Sport" features 16-inch alloy wheels, red brake calipers, a sport suspension, unique front and rear fascias, fog lamps, rear spoiler, side sill treatment, air conditioning, leather-wrapped sport steering wheel, cruise control, sport seats, chrome shift knob, hands-free communication and a passenger grab handle.
The top model is the "Lounge" at $19,500. It includes leather interior, automatic temperature control, 15-inch cast aluminum wheels, panoramic glass roof, chrome mirrors, Sirius satellite radio, hands-free communication, auto-dimming rear-view mirror, cruise, aspheric driver exterior mirror, chrome exhaust tip and exterior graphics.


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Raoul Joseph "Yockey" Bernard was E.D. White Catholic High School's biggest fan, and according to his accolades, the feeling was mutual.
Raoul Joseph "Yockey" Bernard was E.D. White Catholic High School's biggest fan, and according to his accolades, the feeling was mutual.
Bernard, a lifelong resident of Thibodaux, spent more than 40 years maintaining the school's football field and baseball diamond, collecting game tickets at the gates and acting as an all around booster for the Athletic Department.
Because of his contributions, Bernard was one of the first three men named as a Cardinal Great, and he was inducted to the E.D. White Hall of Fame in 1988.
Bernard died Saturday at age 86.
Preston LeJeune, athletics director at the school, said he was close friends with Bernard for 35 years. He said Bernard dedicated most of his time to the Athletics Department and never asked for anything in return.
"Anything you needed done, Yockey did it," LeJeune said. "His wife would joke that while Yockey was cutting the grass at E.D. White, she had to pay someone to cut their yard."
Bernard, at one time, cut the grass every four days. He spent so much time on the football field, in fact, that the school named it after him in 2008.
"I don't know if anyone loved E.D. White more than Yockey did," LeJeune said.
Bernard once said he had attended 195 straight football games.
He would occasionally make bus trips with the teams to their away games and go to the school every Sunday night to visit with the coaches while they reviewed plays and films for the next game.
""We're really going to miss him," LeJeune said.
Matthew and Michael Bernard, two of Yockey's sons, said their father was, indeed, a sports fanatic. Yockey also enjoyed watching the New Orleans Saints, and to much surprise, the Tulane Green Wave.
"He was a big Tulane fan, which is unusual," Matthew said. "We always joked that he raised us to be fans too."
Before Yockey's retirement in 1992, he spent 29 years working in the Human Resource Department at McDermott International Inc., an engineering company in Amelia. When the company would purchase season tickets for different football teams, the Saints and LSU tickets would run out quickly.
"The Tulane tickets were left because nobody wanted them," Michael said. "He would get 10 or 15 tickets, we'd hop in the station wagon, and he would take us to the games."
If Yockey had any leftover tickets, he would give them to people outside of the stadium. "He would never sell them," Michael added.
Yockey had a big heart and a big network of friends, they said. It seemed everywhere they went, their father knew someone.
"Anytime I say I'm a Bernard, someone says 'You must be Yockey's son,' " Michael said.
He was a community figure and a family man. Yockey and his wife of 62 years, Beth Steiner Bernard, had eight children, 17 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
And all of them attended E.D. White. "Except Dad," they said.
Yockey graduated from Thibodaux High School in 1945. In high school, he played basketball before he injured his knee. "He was pretty good, or so he told us," Matthew said.
Yockey later joined the Army and was stationed in Germany for two years during World War II, but he never saw combat.
Upon his return, he attended the University of Southern Mississippi for three years with dreams of being a teacher and a coach, but he never graduated. Instead, he went to work for McDermott.
After a hearty professional career, he spent his retirement doing what he loved: volunteering with the Key Club at E.D. White, bowling with a league, spending time with his grandchildren and organizing local golf tournaments.
Yockey enjoyed sipping Old Fashions at the Red Goose Saloon in Thibodaux, calling people "pal" and listening to Frank Sinatra — his favorite performer — with his wife.
"A lot of people knew him, and we all have a lot of memories of him," Matthew said. "He was a good dad."
A memorial Mass was planned for Thursday at St. Genevieve Catholic Church in Thibodaux. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Genevieve Elementary School or E.D. White Catholic High School.
Landry's Funeral Home in Thibodaux is in charge of the funeral arrangements.


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Mike Paldino, American magician and performance artist, is coming back to town—and he's ready to put on a show.
Known for his sleight-of-hand card tricks, Paldino also uses various elements and bizarre magic in his performances.
"I have a different take on things," said Paldino in a previous interview with The Boyertown Area Times. "I incorporate a lot of personal stories and anecdotes into my shows, trying to steer away from typical magic show clichés. My character is me."
The State Theatre will be welcoming the magician back onto the stage on Friday, June 13. The goal behind this show, according to Paldino, is to eliminate the use of many props.
"I'm trying to create really great moments with as little as possible," he said, noting that there will be a fair amount of audience participation.
Paldino made headlines following his 2013 performance at The State for revealing contents of "The Box" – contents of which accurately predicted newspaper headlines.
"I think if people come to this show—it will be a different experience." He described the performance as truly being a 'one man show' this time around, something he says he has never done before.
While he wasn't originally planning on returning to town so soon, he says he always looks forward to it.
"Boyertown has a good local following and plenty of familiar faces," he said. "It's one place that I come back to consistently."
In reference to the upcoming show, Paldino says it's "vastly different than last one," and features a great deal of new material—material of which is designed for mature audiences.
Paldino has been studying the history and tradition of the art of magic since age 7, since then his deep passion for the craft has continued to develop. He is a graduate of Seton Hall University. As a one-man-show, he has performed his poetry and short monologues live at various venues
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the show will begin at 8 p.m.


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PHOENIX -- An Arizona woman's photo has touched the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.
When Jennifer Foster quietly snapped the now famous shot of a New York police officer giving a pair of boots to a homeless man, she never dreamed it would generate such incredible attention.
The officer in Foster's photo has since been identified as Larry DePrimo. The two have gotten to know each other since Foster's photo went viral on Facebook.
Foster, who is in New York to do interviews with some national shows, called in to "Good Morning! Arizona" Friday to chat with Scott Pasmore and Kaley O'Kelley.
"I just want to make sure that the focus remains on Officer DePrimo and the good thing that he did, and the fact that there are people in the condition that this gentleman that Officer DePrimo helped all over ...," she said. "Surely, although this happened in New York, there are things like this that happen in Arizona all the time with law enforcement out there.
"I know that our officers and our deputies in Arizona stop and they offer the same assistance, whether it's water or shoes or food," she continued. "I see this happen every single day and so when I saw this occurring here in New York, I just thought this was such a remarkable thing and I surely would have wanted to know if this was happening with one of our deputies in Pinal County.
"All I wanted to do, really, was let his supervisor know that he had done this thing anonymously."
Neither DePrimo nor the homeless man knew Foster was there.
"That is exactly the reason I took the picture," she said. "I wasn't about to interrupt that interaction between he and that gentleman. That is one of the reasons it ended up on Facebook -- so NYPD could figure out who he was. It was absolutely anonymous. He wanted no credit for what he did."
And what DePrimo did was spend about $100 of his own money on a pair of boots for a stranger who was down on his luck.
"You could see the blisters were about the size of my hands and my heart just went out to him," said Officer DePrimo, in an interview with CNN.
Foster said DePrimo's act of kindness inspired her, and based on the response her photo has garnered, others -- many, many others -- feel the same way.


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ha ha poor united fans
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|Ashley Young
ha ha poor united fans
hope Madrid will emerge victorious after second leg
@pan_slaw Rooney got an assist.
the ref is a madrid fan that's for sure
the referee is a shabi
The referee was awkward...
Man United is going to win treble
Rooney better than RVP? Joke!
United have the advantage heading into the second leg, however slender it may be.
It was a game worth watching
Rafael has been AWFUL.
Carrick has a great burden today against Khedira & Alonso. I think Carrick and alonso shape will define the result greatly. and anyway, the Battle will be decided by a small details, one ball in the bar another enters the net, that small detalis.
I see lots of goals,with united using the same tactics they did to win at city and Chelsea,defending deep and countering down the right flank,where Madrid are vulnerable,a draw would be a great result with the second leg being a big advantage to united(real playing Barcelona twice in the week prior).over 3.5 /2-2 correct score
Madrid will win the game. Man u are good, Madrid are better. Madrid are going for the champions league and The "Special One" is the Specialist.
Madrid will win the game. Man u are good, Madrid are better. Madrid are going for the champions league and The "Special One" is the Specialist.
Madrid will win the game. Man u are good, Madrid are better. Madrid are going for the champions league and The "Special One" is the Specialist.
D.López-Arbeloa,Varane,S.Ramos,Coentrão-Khedira,Xabi Alonso-Di María, Özil, C.Ronaldo-Benzema. I think Varane must played, he's amazing now. Man U does not have midfield high quality to give trouble Madrid's midfilders.
¡Hasta el final! ¡Vamos Real!
Tought game this will be. Both teams are among the best in the world. Despite MU is in better form than RM. RM will be motivated playing @home, and not having a chance on winning theis internal league, all focus is on the 10th CL cup. But MU in better form, motivated, isolated on top o EPL, will surely have something to say in this game. It will a game with goals, no doubt about it, and the best game of the week. I think all the pressure is on RM shoulders, either they make a good game on their ground, or they pretty much can say goodbye to CL. MU will play with minimum pressure. A 2-1 score will fit MU, im sure RM will try to win at least by 2 goals diference...but against MU it migth not be possible. @wgscheve I think your reading is fairly correct. Hope its a good game, and may the best one win.
No Di Maria or Varane is ruled out, they are perfectly fine.
Van Persie is going to be a key player for MU because he has the ability to change games, just like Ronaldo for RM.
madrid really have to win this leg considering they play barcelona twice before the second leg which is at Old Trafford. considering the teams being put out, i think they are pretty even. Ronaldo will probably be fairly quite considering SAF knows him so well and united will put alot of effort into containing him, and i expect rooney to be the focal point for united (he is notoriously good in big games) and i think he likes his deeper role. As for my prediction: the first leg- i think united will win 2-1. the second leg- united win 2-0 for an aggregate of 4-1. This may surprise alot of people but considering the strength of schedual before the 2 legs, real madrids supposed locker room troubles, and Madrids injury problems i dont think they will be able to keep up with united.
best player to score CR7 and realmadrid to win!!!
@djcdominic: go kiss mansour's balls!
Ronaldo scores, and dont celebrate!
Madrid is a different team at home.. Man U does not have midfield quality to give Madrid trouble. Madrid will run all over them.. 3-1 or 4-1 Madrid... Over 2.5 is...THE PLAY
Valet1...Ti idiot.."Betonnaya stavka..LOL" Golovu svoyu betonnuyu prover..KRITIN"
both team suck cock manchester city forever!
Sir Alex will probably ask Evra and Rafael to be more reserved as they are normally bombing forward to deal with the threat of Ronaldo and Ozil.
massive game. Utd at 5.50 is great odds
Can't see Madrid going out at this stage. With the league surly out of reach and the rumors that Mourinho will leave in the summer, I'd imagine he would be desperate to go out on a high by winning the Champions League.
Real madrid= Real ? it's wrong Real Sociedad = Real.
real is home united will play counter and have everyone in the middle 2-1 united
Game of the season ,,
1-1 or 2-2
Better wing attack? Are you sick in the head? The wingers for Madrid are Ronaldo and DiMaria. And for United? Valencia/Nani on the right and...Giggs/Ashley Young/Rooney on the right? No matter what combination you look at, Madrids wingers are miles ahead of whoever utd choose to put there.
Manchester United to win even though CR7 is my favorite player. This will be a great match no doubt.
United is in better form, and i'm quite sure they will have more posession, better wing-attack, the real problem is Madrid's counter-attack. So i think will be 2-3 for United.
Man United will win. I'm confident


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Chullin 128 - 134
Who Deserves the Gifts?
The importance of providing financial support for those involved in the study of Torah serves as the background for a ruling in our gemara and an interesting chapter in Jewish history.
Those portions of every animal slaughtered for non-sacrificial purposes which the Torah awarded to kohanim, ruled Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachmeni in the name of Rabbi Yonatan, should not be given to a kohen who is ignorant of Torah. The source for this is what took place during the great religious revival in the days of the righteous King Chizkiyahu. Along with a renewal of the Festival pilgrimages to Yerushalayim which had been curtailed in the reign of his wicked predecessors and a massive eradication of the idolatrous traces of those days, an intensive effort was made to encourage the Torah study of the kohanim and leviim. Towards this end the king "told the people dwelling in Yerushalayim to give the portions due to the kohanim and leviim in order to strengthen them in G-ds Torah" (Divrei Hayamim II 31:4). This was interpreted by our Sages as an indication that not only was this a reference to tithes but also to the gift of meat which should be reserved for the support of those who study Torah.
Tosefot points out, however, that the intention of the above-mentioned ruling was not to completely disqualify an ignoramus kohen from receiving these portions of meat but rather to dictate a preference for the Torah scholars. Should such a scholar be unavailable as a recipient in the region where the animal has been slaughtered or if he is unwilling to accept these gifts, it is then proper to give them to any kohen.
- Chullin 130b
The Meat of Royalty
Which is the aristocratic way of eating meat?
From the statement of Rabbi Chisda in our gemara, it appears that broiled meat is the answer. Those portions of the animal not slaughtered as a sacrifice which must be given to a kohen must be eaten, he rules, only broiled and with mustard. The reason for this is a term used by the Torah in describing the gifts of meat from the people which G-d has awarded to the kohanim. "I have given them to you as an expression of your greatness", G-d told Aharon Hakohen (Bamidbar 18:8), which means that he and all kohanim after him should eat these gifts in the manner of kings, broiled and with mustard.
This insistence on consuming the meat from non-sacrificial animals in a particular fashion seems to stand in conflict with what the gemara elsewhere (Mesechta Zevachim 90b) rules regarding the manner in which kohanim are to consume the meat of sacrifices which Heaven has awarded them. The very same above-mentioned passage regarding greatness is cited as a source for giving the kohanim the privilege of choosing to eat the meat from sacrificial animals in either lightly cooked, completely boiled or broiled fashion because enjoying the freedom of such a choice is the prerogative of kings.
Tosefot resolves the conflict by pointing out that a kohen may certainly prepare his meat in the manner which he most enjoys for this is surely an expression of aristocracy. But if he enjoys broiled meat as much as cooked meat, he should definitely opt for the broiled variety since this is the general choice of kings and serves as a more potent expression of the exalted status of the kohanim.
- Chullin 132b


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Weekend Preview
Game 2
Dartmouth Big Green (0-1-0, 0-0-0 ECAC Hockey) vs.
Princeton Tigers (0-0-0, 0-0-0 ECAC Hockey)
Friday, Oct. 25 - 7 p.m.
Hanover, N.H. - Thompson Arena (4,500)
Game 3
Dartmouth Big Green (0-1-0, 0-0-0 ECAC Hockey) vs.
No. 9 Quinnipiac Bobcats (5-0-1, 0-0-0 ECAC Hockey)
Saturday, Oct. 26 - 4 p.m.
Hanover, N.H. - Thompson Arena (4,500)
After more then a seven-month layover, the Dartmouth women's hockey team returns to Thompson Arena, hosting Princeton and Quinnipiac in ECAC Hockey action this weekend. For the second straight season, the Big Green open conference play versus the Tigers and Bobcats. Last season, the Green and White were 7-2-4 in the Upper Valley, earning a point in 10 of their final 11 home contests. A year ago, Dartmouth swept a weekend of play in Hanover against Princeton and Quinnipiac, 6-2 and 5-2, respectively.
The Big Green fell 7-2 to No. 2 Boston College in the season opener last Sunday. Dartmouth got on the board first as sophomore Lindsey Allen converted a pass from classmate Laura Stacey just over one minute into the tilt. On the goal, freshman Eleni Tebano notched her first collegiate point, picking up the second assist. After Boston College tied the game early in the second, Allen gave the Green the lead once again, netting a power-play marker. The Eagles came storming back scoring six unanswered goals to skate away with the victory.
Under head coach Mark Hudak, Dartmouth has played in the conference tournament nine times, won the league title twice and played in the championship game three times. The 11th year coach has led the team to the NCAA tournament six times, advancing to the Frozen Four twice. The last two seasons, the team has exited the conference postseason tournament in the first round.
Heading into the game with No. 9 Quinnipiac, the Big Green are still in search of their first win against a ranked opponent in nearly two years. They were 0-7-3 when facing top-10 programs in 2012-13 and are 0-1 this season. The team's last win against a nationally-ranked foe was on Nov. 26, of 2011 as they topped No.10 Northeastern, 4-3, in overtime at home.
Dartmouth lost four-of-the-top-five leading scorers from last season to graduation and looks to a strong core of freshmen to pick up where the Class of 2016 left off. The youthful Big Green go from having eight players with at least 100 games under their belt last season to zero this season. Of the 20 players on the roster, 13 are underclassmen, as senior co-captain Ali Winkel and Lindsay Holdcroft look to lead the team through the ups and downs of ECAC Hockey and Ivy League play. The offense has to fill the void left by the Class of 2013 as last year's seniors accounted for 48 of the team's 84 goals (57.1%).
The Green and White boast a strong core of second-year players led by Laura Stacey. Through the first 29 games of her collegiate career the Kleinburg, Ontario, native has eight tallies and a team-leading 15 assists. Stacey had five multi-point games as a freshman and she was the top-scoring freshman in Ivy League games. Her 22 points were the most for a first-year player for the Big Green since Camille Dumais in 2009. In fact, Stacey's 23 points are the most in a career of any player on the roster. Another sophomore looking to produce is Lindsey Allen. The Toronto, Ontario, native ranked fourth on the team in goals (7), fifth in points (17) and was tied for third with two game-winning tallies. She also played a big part on the power-play unit, netting three goals and setting up two others.
Lindsay Holdcroft played well between the pipes for the Green and White during her junior campaign, picking up four shutouts with a goals-against average of 2.11 and a save percentage of .914 with a record of 15-9-5. The Pittsburgh, Pa., native is climbing up the career record books for Dartmouth, as she currently ranks in the top-five all-time in wins (47), saves (1,842), goals-against average (2.12) and save percentage (.914).
Dartmouth has seven new faces on the roster as freshmen Robyn Chemago, Eleni Tebano, Mackenzie St. Onge, Kennedy Ottenbreit, Devon Moir, Katy Ratty and Emma Korbs join the Big Green. Four forwards are making their collegiate debut as Moir, Ottenbreit, St. Onge and Ratty are looking to make an impact this winter. Korbs and Tebano look to see plenty of action on the blue line while Chemago adds depth at the goaltending position.
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Dartmouth's power play broke out in the finale against St. Lawrence. The Big Green converted four of their seven man-advantage opportunities. The Green and White have now scored power-play goals in four of their last seven games dating back to last season. The productive play with man-up opportunities continued for Dartmouth against Boston College as the team converted one of its three chances.
Last season, the Green and White's penalty killers ended on a strong run, killing 10-of-15 penalties over the final four contests. They killed off 58-of-65 power-play chances over the last 14 games. The special teams ranked third in ECAC Hockey, killing 87.9% of opponents' man-advantage opportunities in 2012-13. They were also the fourth-most penalized team in the league with 320 penalty minutes through 31 games. In the opener, the Big Green killed all three of BC's power-play chances.
The key for the Big Green is to hold a lead after 40 minutes of play. When leading through two periods a year ago, the Green and White were 15-0-1. RPI was the only team all year to battle back from a second-period deficit against the Green and White to earn a point. On the other hand, when trailing after two periods Dartmouth was 0-5-1. When the team was tied after two periods they were 1-2-4. The Big Green haven't won when trailing after two periods since Feb. 27, 2011, when they rallied to beat Clarkson, 4-3, in overtime. This year, Dartmouth is 0-1 when trailing after two periods.
Last season's 7-2 senior-day victory over St. Lawrence on Feb. 23 2013, was the 600th in program history. In their 37th season, the Dartmouth women's hockey team has averaged more than 16 wins a year since its inception as Hudak has been at the helm for 196 of those triumphs.
Friday's contest with Big Green is the season opener for Princeton. In the preseason, the Tigers lost 4-2 to McGill and topped Brown 2-1 in a scrimmage. The Tigers will look for some new goal scorers on offense as they lost their top-two point producers to graduation. Kimberly Newell returns between the pipes for Princeton and looks to build on her successful freshman campaign, The top returning goal scorer from last year is junior Brianna Leahy, who had nine tallies in 2012-13.
The Big Green swept the season series with the Tigers a year ago, outscoring Princeton, 9-3. Dartmouth topped Princeton, 6-2 at Thompson Arena on Jan. 12, 2013. Five of the six tallies for the Green and White came from players no longer on the roster.
After starting the season with a scoreless tie against St. Cloud State, Quinnipiac has won five straight games, outscoring opponents, 21-4. After taking the second game with the Huskies, the Bobcats swept weekends versus Penn State and Maine. Between the pipes, junior Chelsea Laden has started all six contests with a save percentage of .917 and a goals-against average of 0.52. The Lakeville, Minn., native has also turned aside 112 of the 115 shots she's faced this year. Kelly Babstock and Emma Woods are tied for the team-lead with four goals.
Dartmouth defeated Quinnipiac, 5-2, on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. Ailish Forfar netted the eventual game winner for the Big Green in the second period while Holdcroft made 18 saves and picked up the win.
Dartmouth is 10-4-2 all-time and under Hudak against Quinnipiac. The Big Green are 31-39-6 all-time versus Princeton, while posting a 12-6-2 mark under Hudak.