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Total borrowings explode
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A picture to illustrate how extraordinary the present situation is -- disturbing indeed.
According to the notes released by the St Louis Fed, data prior to 2003-01-01 include adjustment, extended, and seasonal credit. Data from 2003-01-01 to 2007-11-01 include primary, secondary, and seasonal credit. Data from 2007-12-01 to 2008-02-01 include primary, secondary, seasonal, and term auction credit. Data from 2008-03-01 forward include primary, secondary, seasonal credit, primary dealer credit facility, other credit extensions, and term auction credit. But we are looking at orders of magnitude surge in borrowing.
Note that the point corresponding to September 2001 has a date associated with it: 09/01/2001. Perhaps it only means that every month's data are associated with the first day of the month, in which case the extra liquidity pumped into the system after 9/11, but still in September, is part of this data point.
In any case, if you thought 9/11 was something special when it comes to the economy, compare the September 2001 data point with what has been going on for the past several months. A few questions come to mind: who is going to pay interest on all this fiat-currency-denominated debt? What will happen with the currency (USD)? And how to avoid being a casualty in this debtor-creditor relationship? That this is not just domestic business of the world's largest debtor nation is a no-brainer. It seems that the right framework to analyze this situation is not limited to the economy but extends into the politics and geopolitics.


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Nothing saves a hot summer day more quickly than a ice cream.
And when that ice cream is healthy, homemade, and free of all major allergens (read: dairy, eggs, nuts, grains, etc.) you really can't go wrong! This tasty treat fulfills all those requirements and is always a hit in my house.
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- 12 oz. coconut milk (I like to make my own)
- 1 unfrozen banana
- 1 frozen banana
- 1/2 c. chopped mango
- 8 whole frozen strawberries
- 1/4 c. dairy-free chocolate of choice (optional, but I like to use these)
- Place all ingredients in high-powered blender (this is the one I use) with softer ingredients on bottom, and blend on high until sooth.
- Eat right away.
- Refrigerate leftovers for a smoothie later, or freeze and re-blend for more ice cream.
- Makes 2 large servings.
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{This recipe is linked to Allergy-Free Wednesdays, Eating Inside the Box, and Life As Mom.}

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Happy Friday! I wanted to share a few more last Friday favorites before I start slowing down on them… I do have an update coming for my blog where I will be talking a little bit more about what my blog has in store for 2019.
But today's post will focus on the sippy cup that has my now 7-month-old exclusively breastfed baby occasionally sipping out of our own adult cups like a pro!
The one we use is the Spoutless Sippy Cup by Munchkin. I only use it for water, and I have it with me whenever she eats anything. As an exclusively breastfeeding mother, I don't find it very convenient to have to whip out a boob to give her a drink every few minutes… But I do think it's important to keep my baby well-hydrated and it helps her food go down easier as we're now starting to feed her crackers and dry snacks as opposed to just purees.
I love the design, it is absolutely genius because it encourages a baby to sip from it as you would from a normal cup! And as you may know from my pacifier Friday favorites post (linked here), I have a serious concern for making sure that my baby's teeth and gums stay as healthy as possible… So it's pretty cool that it's actually dentist recommended!
And personally, I have a bad habit of chewing on my straws, it drives my husband nuts… I have to say that it's probably from being given a straw at a very young age, and of
My husband also loves the design. I made him try it out and he was just as pleasantly surprised as I was. And in case you haven't figured it out yet (my husband didn't at first try)… All you do is tilt until water reaches the lid and sip! It took a few days for Lily to pick it up but since then, she's been doing great.
I do worry about the silicone maybe loosening up or stretching out from multiple washes but I've had it for a couple of months now and it still has a nice seal; even after Lily dropping it off of her high chair. It does leak sometimes (I don't think that it has anything to do with dropping it since its done that since I first bought it) and that's the reason I don't keep it in my diaper bag but it's very minimal and it's just water so it doesn't bother me much.
My husband and I are always amazed at what our little baby can pick up so quickly with just a little bit of love and patience.


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Do you think this glimpse of summer has taught the average UK building owner or operator about timely maintenance?
I have just had the rare delight of being a media pundit. The services of your RAC Editor were required on BBC Radio Leeds (next stop Newsnight) in its 'Specialist Magazine' slot, and no prizes for guessing what the presenter wanted to talk about first. "I bet you lot have been busy in this heatwave…"
It gave me a chance to say yes, the rac industry has been going hell for leather in the last week or so, as the population of Britain has corporately cranked up its air conditioning and then found it doesn't work properly, because no-one has thought to maintain it the rest of the year.
But the problem is cooling companies nationwide say this every heatwave, and still far too many building owners dont give it a thougth until the occupiers are melting, or turning up for work in vest and pants. Think how different life would be if everyone was on scheduled maintenance contracts, allowing the industry to properly plan its work.
I know we are in an age of austerity, but we are also in an age of unprecedented energy costs, which well-kept systems will help reduce - so surely more than ever these people are ripe for convincing to be a bit less British when it comes to maintenance?
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Iren Art
"Iren Art" handmade collection is characterized by its new design and is full of vivid colors. Among them you can find a colourful jewelry made from natural stones and leather, beautiful decorative objects like vases, watches, plates, glasses and bottles, which look different because of their unusual design.
"Iren Art" also accepts orders for the decoration of bottles of wine, cognac and other drinks, which will turn an ordinary bottle into a true creature of art.
"Iren Art" combines natural stones, pieces of silver, Swarovski crystals, genuine leather, plastic materials and also anything else that may suggest the fantasy of the author.
As per the author of the collection, Iren Galstyan, each jewelry is a single work of art, created under the influence of emotions and new ideas.
Iren also creates products from polymer clay, which is a bright option for the youth and the fans of accessories.
"Iren Art" is a color event, which will attract you with its new and original look. Together with these fashionable and modern accessories you will always look stylish and beautiful.


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Dr. Pravin U. Dugel Invited to Speak at First Gene Therapy for Chronic Retinal Diseases Summit in New York
- Posted on: Feb 19 2019
ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — REGENXBIO Inc. (Nasdaq:RGNX), a leading clinical-stage biotechnology company seeking to improve lives through the curative potential of gene therapy based on its proprietary NAV® Technology Platform, will host an analyst and investor event focused on its ophthalmology program, including its lead product candidate RGX-314, on Thursday, February 21, 2019, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EST in New York City. A live webcast will be available on the company's website.
The agenda will include discussion on REGENXBIO's NAV® Technology Platform, a review of the market landscape and unmet need in wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), and the possible impact of RGX-314 as a potential one-time gene therapy treatment for wet AMD and other chronic retinal indications, subject to regulatory approval.
The program will feature key opinion leaders and retina specialists, including:
- John Pollack, M.D.
Partner at Illinois Retina Associates, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Rush UniversityMedical Center, and President of the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS)
- Pravin U. Dugel, M.D.
Subspecialty Day Board Chairman Emeritus for the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), Board of Directors and Executive Committee of ASRS and Board of Trustees of EURETINA, Clinical Professor at Roski Eye Institute and University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, and Managing Partner at Retinal Consultants of Arizona, Phoenix
- Jeffrey Heier, M.D.
Co-President, Medical Director and Retina Service Director of Retina Research Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, and Principal Investigator of the RGX-314 Phase I/IIa clinical trial
- Allen C. Ho, M.D.
Executive Committee of the Retina Society, Professor of Ophthalmology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Director of Retina Research at Wills Eye Hospital, and Investigator in the RGX-314 Phase I/IIa clinical trial
For any inquiries, kindly reach out to Janet Cushey, Argot Partners at email@example.com.
To access the live webcast, visit the Investors section of REGENXBIO's website at www.regenxbio.com. An archived replay of the webcast will be available on the same website for approximately 30 days following the presentation.
About REGENXBIO
REGENXBIO is a leading clinical-stage biotechnology company seeking to improve lives through the curative potential of gene therapy. REGENXBIO's NAV® Technology Platform, a proprietary adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene delivery platform, consists of exclusive rights to more than 100 novel AAV vectors, including AAV7, AAV8, AAV9 and AAVrh10. REGENXBIO and its third-party NAV Technology Platform Licensees are applying the NAV Technology Platform in the development of a broad pipeline of candidates in multiple therapeutic areas.
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To measure the trends in traditional marine food intake and serum vitamin D levels in Alaska Native women of childbearing age (20–29 years old) from the 1960s to the present.
We measured a biomarker of traditional food intake, the δ15N value, and vitamin D level, as 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25(OH)D3) concentration, in 100 serum samples from 20–29-year-old women archived in the Alaska Area Specimen Bank, selecting twenty-five per decade from the 1960s to the 1990s. We compared these with measurements of red-blood-cell δ15N values and serum 25(OH)D3 concentrations from 20–29-year-old women from the same region collected during the 2000s and 2010s in a Center for Alaska Native Health Research study.
The Yukon Kuskokwim Delta region of south-west Alaska.
Alaska Native women (n 319) aged 20–29 years at the time of specimen collection.
Intake of traditional marine foods, as measured by serum δ15N values, decreased significantly each decade from the 1960s through the 1990s, then remained constant from the 1990s through the present (F
5,306=77·4, P<0·0001). Serum vitamin D concentrations also decreased from the 1960s to the present (F
Consumption of traditional marine foods by young Alaska Native women dropped significantly between the 1960s and the 1990s and was associated with a significant decline in serum vitamin D concentrations. Studies are needed to evaluate the promotion of traditional marine foods and routine vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy for this population.
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Getting involved in a serious accident can change a person's life in a matter of moments. This may be particularly true if a person suffers a brain injury. However, as medical professionals gain a better understanding of how to treat brain injuries, accident victims are benefiting from the progress they might be able to make.
In a number of cases, brain injuries cause deficits in cognitive function, speech and language skills and motor skills. Going through advanced therapy can help individuals recover some of these abilities, but the costs of doing so can be staggering. Medical observers are beginning to notice disparities in brain injury patients' recoveries, largely because certain patients can't afford the necessary therapy and insurers may be unwilling to provide coverage.
Take, for example, the case of a teenager who was seriously injured in a skiing accident. The girl is able to talk and walk again, but she still has trouble with certain important cognitive functions. Her insurer has denied coverage for the long-term, in-patient therapy that would help fill in the gaps. Interestingly enough, reports suggest that the fact she has made such significant strides in recovery could have influenced the insurance company's decision to deny coverage.
It's unfortunate that people who are making such tremendous strides in recovery are prevented from gaining access to therapy that will help take them another step forward.
If a brain injury is the result of negligence, it may be beneficial to look into the possibility of a civil claim. A successful personal injury suit could help a person be compensated for the costs of necessary medical treatment. This way, a person may have a better chance at overcoming obstacles.
Source: turnto23.com, "Brain injury patients fight for therapy time and money," Jeremy Olson, Aug. 19, 2013


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Benefits of Children Playing with Colored Sand
Sand has be used for generations by children to play by digging, building, exploring, sifting and pouring as forms of having fun. The use of colored sand has be common in the society to the point you can find it for purchase at your local hardware or toys store. There are a lot of types of colored sand which is classified through color and texture for children to use and have fun. Children like to play with sand through many creative ways and more importantly they find colored sand to be suitable for playing with as well as modern toys. Many people wonder why they should spend their money to buy colored sand for their children to play with and here are the advantages that you kid can experience by playing with colored sand.
One of the benefits that a child can enjoy by playing with colored sand is that it is an open medium to play with since there is no right or wrong, depending on the type of creativity they have employed. Playing with colored sand is easy to manipulate and experience new creative ways for the child which helps them in becoming more comfortable and liberated in being more creative in their play.
Once children realize the malleability property of sand they can use it to play more often which stretches their imagination in different ways that they can utilize colored sand. Playing with colored sand is beneficial for children since they can have fun with it regardless of their intellectual capacity or age. The young kids find it funny to play with sand by feeling its texture and pouring it through their figures while the older children play with the same sand by being more creative by building cities and towns.
When children are playing with coloreds and they improve their social skills since they might be required to share some tools or playing space and sand colors thus the engagement is vital for their growth. They also learn how to live harmoniously since they have to agree on some issues such as developing a city or roadway and working together using the same sand and playing space.
By children mixing different sands they start to develop scientific interest in engaging in experiments. Playing with colored sand also natures the mathematical concepts in a kid as they quantify the required amount of sand to complete their tasks.
Artistic skills are also nurtured when playing with different colored sands to create mold sand pictures.
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Kids in Paradise
Description: This camp is for game and kids lovers. Samsun city by the Black Sea coast will host a cultural exchange and language camp. There will be 40 Turkish, 20 Romanian and 20 Italian secondary school students, 10-14 age group in the camp. We are looking for volunteers to play with and practise English with kids and teens. There is no need to be a native speaker. Anyone with medium level English and creative ideas can join.
Type of Work: Practicing basic English with primary school kids, playing in and outdoor games with them, organizing activities and assisting teachers.
Accommodation: A: In a holiday center, sleeping bag and mat are not necessary. F: Will be supplied at the site.
Language: eng,tur
Requirements: A motivation letter with a Skype ID for the interview should be sent along with the application form. No alcohol is permitted during the camp at the campsite and the accommodation venue. Smoking is not allowed while volunteers are with the kids.
Approximate Location: Samsun is a big city in the north of Turkey in Black Sea region. Work camp site is safe and secure.


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6 Killed Including Priest In Attack On Catholic Church
Ever wonder why some stories don`t get as much attention as others? They all seem to have a common denominator. This is yet another.
It`s being reported that 20-30 people burst into a Catholic Church in the African country Burkina Faso and open fired as the congregation tried to flee. 6 people including the priest were killed. The attackers burned down the church afterwards as well as several other buildings and looted a health center. Just like many other attacks by radical extremists on Catholic Churches, this will get a headline and then be forgotten.
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Our Sponsors
We have some wonderful businesses that work with us here at Fairydust by helping us with our RAFFLE prizes. All our raffle money in 2019 will be going to our two charities Alzheimer's and Derian House and the total will be split 50/50. This will happen even if one of our events (in the very unlikely situation) made a loss. These charities need all the help that they can get in 2019 to carry on their fantastic work and we really want to make a difference. Our aim is £1000 per charity by December 2019. We owe a HUGE thanks to our sponsors for their support this year and by helping us reach our goal. They are all amazing and please do contact them directly if you would like to know more about their services, all contact details are below.
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Website: www.ninjaadventure.co.uk
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Sheldon Yellen, CEO of BELFOR Holdings, has made headlines for his 7,400 birthday card-a year habit – Business Insider reports.
Yellen, Chief Executive of the disaster and relief property restoration company, ensures that he writes a birthday card to every employee of the company every single year.
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More than 1,000 girls, parents, educators, and exhibitors took part in Invent It. Build It. (IIBI) at WE17 in Austin, TX. SWENext Reporter Marie Young starts our coverage from the Invent It. Build It. EXPO where attendees enjoy lots of hands-on activities while exhibitors share information about engineering clubs, camps, after-school programs, competitions, best practices, outreach grants, and more.
Next, Marie heads to the Invent it. Build it. hands-on outreach event for girls grades 6 through 12 interested in learning about engineering. IIBI is divided into four parts: the SWE Girls Program, the Parent/Educator Program (PEP), the High School Girls Program and the EXPO. All attendees have the unique opportunity to gain a hands-on engineering learning experience in an effort to encourage young girls with an interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) to pursue a career in engineering. Learn more on our Invent it. Build it..
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In a post-event survey, 90 percent of girls who have attended an Invent it. Build it. event say they leave with a better understanding of engineering, and nearly two out of three girls say that the event has strengthened their confidence in engineering-related skills.
"One of the things that turns girls off when it comes to engineering is that they don't have prior experience with science and technology applications like most of the boys do as they grow up," said Karen Horting, CEO and executive director of SWE. "Without prior exposure, girls are easily discouraged. By fostering that curiosity and giving girls these experiences with engineering activities at an early age, we can better prepare them to explore a future in engineering and keep them enthused and excited at the opportunities available in engineering."
The Girls Program for grades 6-8 allows the girls to work with SWE members from around the world on hands-on engineering activities. The High School Girls Program for grades 9-12 gives the girls the opportunity to connect with real engineers and receive on-the-spot mentorship with discussions that cover everything from picking the right college to pursuing the right engineering degree.
While the girls participate in their respective programs, parents and educators are invited to attend the PEP, where they learn about the variety of engineering careers and scholarships available and are given helpful college admission resources for their children or students.
All attendees have access to the Invent it. Build it. EXPO, where they can learn about engineering clubs, engineering camps, competitions, after-school programs, scholarships and more. Exhibitors include the US Patent & Trademark Office, US Army Test and Evaluation Command, 2025 Labs, EngineerGirl, FIRST and more.
"There's no better way to figure out if you're interested in engineering and get hands on experience than a camp or an after school activity," Horting added. "With Invent it. Build it, SWE hopes to provide a little more engineering exposure and excitement to the girls of Philadelphia."
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Did you guys know that you can search and locate tracks in the shop from your favorite producer, or even rare guest appearances from your favorite artists? Most definately....I've made it a point to always list any significant producer, writer or guest appearance in the details of each item in the fullasoul.com shop, and I've designed the search engine to check in the details when you enter a search query.
Go ahead and give it a try.....enter Jimmy Jam in the search off the main page of the shop and you'll see what I mean. Jimmy Jam is not an 'artist', and therefore would give you NO results in most other online shops....but HERE, it returns a TON of goodies! Pretty cool, right?


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Dressing For Your Shape: Part Two
Welcome to next part in our Tats Tips Blog series where we're going to discuss finding the right wedding dress for your body type. Looking amazing on your wedding day is huge, with a capital H. Dressing for your shape is even bigger and some of these tips will come in handy even when you're shopping for dresses that suite your bridesmaids. Last week we talked about the Boyish Figure and this week we're going to show you how to make your broad shoulders look amaze.
Broad Shoulders
Broad shoulder brides are built like swimmers, you have wide set shoulders but a smaller waist. Your body type is similar to that of Angelina Jolie and sometimes referred to as an inverted triangle. You're going to want to highlight your shoulders with a halter neckline or shoulders that sit off the actual shoulders. A dress that hits you in the waist like a bodice will create an hourglass shape and highlight your hips. Trying to conceal your shoulders can have the opposite effect and make them appear larger.
Remember that you should embrace your beautiful shoulders because it's part of who you are. They're sexy, strong and amazing.
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And yes, the seeds of many of today's great businesses and great fortunes were first planted during those years. Because some people understood the most important thing to understand about money in hard times:
There's still lots of it out there and you just have to be smarter to get some of it.
A friend was recently telling me how drastically her IRA stock portfolio had decreased in value, and how her condominium had lost approximately 20% of its value. And I said to her, "Well, I
guess I'm lucky then to not have any money invested in stocks or real estate." When a recession hits after a long boom period as this one has, we are not educated or prepared to deal with it.
For example, have you ever considered this simple fact: If your home has gone down in value, chances are some other homes and other assets have gone down even further. And maybe you can even trade up in these difficult times. In other words, sell your home and buy something that has dropped even further in price. Unless, of course, your home has been the single biggest loser in the plummeting real estate market. And the same with your stocks. I would get out of
many of those investments and keep most of your cash liquid (thankfully, you can keep money safe in banks with federal deposit insurance--which came about because so many people, like my grandfather, lost their entire savings in the early 1930s). There are wonderful bargains to be had in the not-too-distant future. People with cash will have a great advantage in the next couple of years.
I'm in a different situation. I have no cash, no assets, no investments, and am living on my $1030 monthly Social Security check as I start to build a business marketing healthy dark chocolate and work on a book on those health benefits. It may be six months before I see any money from the book advance. It may be three to six months before I start getting any significant income from my Xocai business. I am just barely getting by after my rent is paid.
And yet, I continue to have robust expectations.
You see, I understand something that most people don't. An economic downturn is the best time to build a fortune. Warren Buffet, Donald Trump, and many other billionaires say this is so, and I've seen it to be true. But you need to be aware of the times in which we now live, and put that awareness into action.
First of all, and I feel I should charge you at least $10,000 for this piece of information, but I am finding out that the more I am willing to give out free, the more comes back to me. First of all, STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE ECONOMY!
You are just one paycheck away from homelessness, you lost your car, you're not able to go out to eat in nice restaurants or take vacations any more. Great! That means you have more time and more incentive to start doing it all differently. You're lucky if you've been hit hard by this economic downturn and probably don't even know it.
You do have to be more discriminating in these times. Lots of hungry people out there means that some of them would like to grab your money and run. You see, I am giving everyone reading this the benefit of the doubt, and assuming you are of superior intelligence and able to perceive what is best for you in your current situation. Just the fact that you found your way to this blog means you are someone who realizes you can build a better life for yourself. So I'm not talking to the millions out there who are dumber than tree stumps. Who are waiting to be rescued. Who think things will get better in two or three months. Well, every economic expert I've talked to thinks we'd better prepare for the long haul. This next five or ten years may go down in history as The Big Slump. But as always, some smart people will survive and thrive.
What does it take to succeed in a depressing economy? It takes what it has always taken, knowledge, information, and finding something other people want that you have. In terms of knowledge and information, boy, are you lucky to be going through this right now, during the time of the greatest technological breakthroughs in the dissemination of free information in the history of humankind. Yes, I mean the Internet. One dictionary definition of "dissemination" is to scatter widely, like seeds. And that certainly is true of the Internet.
Of course, I have a unique perspective on this, as I only have been online for a few months after having no access whatsoever during twelve years of incarceration (check out that story on my first blog posting). So I got hit with the magnitude of this phenomenon all at once. And I have a feeling that even most really Internet-savvy people don't grasp the full scope of possibilities available. Do you realize that just a generation ago, when billionaire John Paul Getty wanted to find out something, he had to hire dozens of people to do the research and it took a long time to gather all the information? And he still wouldn't have near the full picture that you can get
right now just by typing in some key words to Google. All the rulers, potentates, religious leaders, and geniuses in history did not have access to the huge amounts of knowledge and information you have right now. So what are you doing with it?
I'll tell you what I'm doing with it, which may be a model you can emulate or not. I am learning as much as I can by studying tutorials, reading blogs and websites, and studying the subjects that interest and reward me the most. Right now, huge amounts of information is coming into my little Apple Powerbook about health and dark chocolate. I think a great book will come out of it, because one of my main skills is finding the essential truths in large amounts of information. It's how I built a successful career as a broadcast journalist/investigative reporter.
If I had had the Internet then, I probably would have won a Pulitzer.
And before I even understand all the ins and outs, I am test marketing ads on Google, to get people to read this blog and to find out more about the healthy dark chocolate business. I am
also starting very selectively to choose certain people to approach and enroll in what I think will be a very long term successful dark chocolate business. I am trying to do it right rather than fast. And I am staying focused on my main goal: helping other people become prosperous.
I figure if I can work with ten or twelve people directly in this business, my income needs will easily be met. And if they are as successful as I intend, I can write still another book about that.
And am I lucky. I have gotten involved in the one proven recession-proof business that is the most fun to be involved in. Chocolate. One of the few businesses that grew during The Great Depression, one that is still booming today.
Depressed about the economy?--have a piece of delicious dark chocolate--it is a proven mood elevator. Want to start earning some extra income?--sell a piece of chocolate. And when times start getting better--throw a chocolate celebration!
And how much did real estate prices drop in your neighborhood in the past six months?
And if you had told me even fifteen or twenty years ago that someone could get their own business going with a product that everyone loves and half the population craves, and is the most powerful health food ever discovered, and that it would cost you--at most--about $1500
and almost all of that for inventory rather than business expenses, I would have laughed.
And now I'll be laughing all the way to the bank, where I've started passing out chocolate to some of the more personable staff members who are facing being in a career in a horribly dysfunctional industry. Everywhere I look in this current economic environment are more
opportunities--I love it. And so should you.
Not to belabor the point, but to be a part of my prosperity team in the healthy dark chocolate business, get in touch: firstname.lastname@example.com Check out the video under Chocolate for Health at www.alphasonics.com, or the blog at www.darkchocolatebenefits.net And think what great fun it will be proving the naysayers and doomsters wrong.


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Like Trap Street itself, Face the Raven has hidden depths.
When I first watched the episode, I wasn't too enamoured. There were a lot of clever ideas, but the narrative didn't flow properly, too many things didn't quite make sense, and it ultimately fell flat. Fortunately, The Black Archive: Face the Raven from Obverse Books lit the way and gave me more of an appreciation for what the episode does right.
As you can imagine, the book focuses quite heavily on Clara Oswald, the companion Jenna Coleman played since 2012 who bows out of Doctor Who in this episode… although she does appear in the following episode (briefly, in order to swear at the Doctor), and the one after that, and Peter Capaldi's swansong, Twice Upon A Time too. Writer, Sarah Groenewegen (Lethbridge-Stewart: The Daughters of Earth) brilliantly puts Clara in her place – i.e. demonstrates the character's importance in the history of Doctor Who. She does so by drawing on academic papers and contemporary reviews; by jumping into the Doctor's time stream in The Name of the Doctor, the Impossible Girl has etched herself into the fabric of the show, into its history, so drawing from many sources feels entirely fitting. Groenewegen further surprises the reader by diving into etymology, to find that her surname means "God's power", and, in doing so, draws connections to other characters in the episode.
And let's not forget that she was also the companion to accompany the Time Lord in his 50th anniversary adventure, The Day of the Doctor. The book does a fantastic job of looking at Clara's wider role in Doctor Who while nonetheless staying focused on Face the Raven.
Even those not wholly keen on Clara will come out of this Black Archive instalment with a greater appreciation of her. But Clara's probably a less divisive figure than Ashildr, or (if we must) Me, played by Maisie Williams throughout Series 9 and promoted to Mayor of Trap Street. Yes, this Archive does devote time to her, but it does so by relating her to Clara, to the Doctor, to River Song, and to the show's production.
This is a particularly fascinating section, looking at how showrunner, Steven Moffat plays with narrative structure. "Doctor Who rarely questions the general Western conceptions of time and space. It fits neatly with the still dominant conception of Newtonian mechanics. Ashildr's story arc is precisely this conception, which contrasts with the ways in which Moffat plays repeatedly with time in his story-telling in Doctor Who", Groenewegen notes. "As Hourihan [author of Deconstructing the Hero] says, the 'idea of time as an irreversible sequence of moments has become the normal view of most educated Westerners'… It is this view of history and time that is prevalent in Doctor Who, even as Moffat plays with River Song's timeline."
Despite assessing a story set in relatively tight environs, The Black Archive: Face the Raven widens the field by further covering concepts like immigration, representation of societal structures in Doctor Who, and the Raven as a symbol of death. Heavy ideas, true, but Groenewegen's enjoyable writing style makes this an accessible yet complex tome.
One of the most intriguing ideas featured in Face the Raven is, of course, the Trap Street itself; this Archive not only looks at the real history of the notion, but also at hidden areas of the UK's capital city, represented in literature.
"Perhaps unsurprisingly, this motif has appealed to other Doctor Who writers. Ben Aaronovitch and Paul Cornell have also written book series that explore the supernatural hiding in modern London," the book says, referencing Rivers of London and London Falling, then goes on: "London has long been a gateway to other worlds in popular fiction. JM Barrie's play (1904) and novel (1911) about Peter Pan and Wendy launches from Kensington Gardens and Bloomsbury to Neverland. CS Lewis wrote a prequel to his The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), The Magician's Nephew (1955) in which young neighbours Polly and Digory are tricked by Digory's Uncle Andrew into leaving their London homes to journey by magic to Narnia."
Face the Raven is never going to be one of my favourite stories, but accompanied by this book, I can at least venture into the narrative once more with fresh eyes. There's more to see than I first realised, that's for sure. Any analysis of Doctor Who that can change your viewpoint like that deserves a place on your bookshelf.
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The victim was earlier branded with hot iron by Ruby. "She was subjected to cruelty and repeated torture when she refused to follow orders," Assistant Police Inspector A.V. Naik said. The accused have been booked under Sections of the IPC and the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act (PITA).


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Apologists for Donald Trump and the new nationalist movement overtaking the West are fond of shouting that they are for "Americanism, not globalism!" Trump said it himself. It appears that the crusade of anti-globalization, long the darling of the political Left, has been usurped by the Right.
This alt-right crowd frequently applies this globalist label to liberalized immigration and international trade, as if those impose a net reduction in the USA's well-being. Yet a close reading of America's founding documents evince that our republic was founded on openness to peaceful trade and to people and of moral principles transcending ethnicity and government-drawn borders.
The alt-right and its nationalist "alt lite" fellow travelers apply the globalism tag as a sort of "package deal," conflating liberalized immigration, free trade, and unsavory international military treaties together as if these fall in the same category. A peaceable and free movement of goods and people across borders is a unified whole; freedom of trade and of migration do go together, but these are not part of any misbegotten collaboration on the part of the U.S. federal government with illiberal regimes on military affairs.
To the degree that "globalism" alludes to the United Nations placing delegates from the USA and from the Syrian government on the same panel and expecting them to "hash out their differences" on national security, as if these two sides have equally valid points, the founding philosophy of the United States was definitely not "globalist." Yet it does not follow that there is anything anathema to the USA about those other phenomena with which the alt-right and white nationalists try to conflate militaristic collusion.
America was founded upon the very principles of unrestricted migration and openness to international trade. Insofar as the peaceable movement of goods and people across borders is globalism, the United States was conceived, from the very outset, as the globalist republic.
Indeed, the immigrants into the USA presently being derided by the current anti-globalists are behaving in manner similar to the best of the generation that founded the U.S. republic, down to their very prioritization of their right to live peaceably over any and all statutes.
Morality Versus "The Law"
When nationalists heap scorn upon undocumented immigrants from south of the U.S.-Mexican border, they initially cite the fact that these undocumented immigrants have already willingly violated federal U.S. statutes. Like the eighteenth-century American colonists before them, these undocumented immigrants know better than to confuse morality with federal law. The right to live peaceably is paramount, and any statute that obstructs this right is corrupt and deserves to be broken. The undocumented immigrants' abrogation of such corrupt statutes evinces that, at least on an implicit level, they have some understanding of this. Rush Limbaugh huffs that "the current crop of illegals" is greatly inferior to prior generations of immigrants, as those prior immigrants "actually obeyed the law." Limbaugh's assertion definitely does not apply to the founding generation. Eight immigrants broke the law by signing the Declaration of Independence.
They had a good reason to demand independence. They, like the undocumented immigrants who came after them, resented the government hassling them when they peaceably crossed borders that governments arbitrarily drew on maps.
A major impetus to the Revolutionary War was the Royal Proclamation of 1763. King George III and Parliament feared that by venturing into southern territories, European colonists ran the risk of inflaming further conflicts with American Indians. In 1763 the British government drew a border on the map, indicating that this was a line that colonists were not to step over. The colonists illegally crossed that border anyway -- migrating from north to south -- establishing the settlements that ultimately became Kentucky and Tennessee. "Illegally moving and settling," notes Brown University International Studies professor Peter Andreas "...is an old American tradition, even if it was not called 'illegal immigration.'" Consonant with what today's nationalists want done at the U.S.-Mexican border today, King George III militarized the border he drew. In Peter Andreas's words, the crown "deployed thousands of troops to the western colonial frontier to enforce the law."
As Austin Petersen reminded me, that crackdown is something that the Declaration of Independence cites as one of its grievances against George III:
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. ...
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.That passage is so glaringly contrary to the clichés of the "immigration skeptics," that it warrants a re-reading: the Founding Fathers cite, as one of the major reasons for disobeying the government, that the government has been "obstructing" American "Naturalization of Foreigners" and this government has been "refusing to...encourage their migrations hither..." That is, the Founding Fathers cited, as a significant reason for rebelling against King George, the valid evaluation that King George was not sympathetic enough toward open immigration into America. Indeed, the courage to stand up for rightful illegal border-crossing played a significant role in the founding of the American republic.
As Edward Snowden correctly observed, "We're a country that was born from an act of treason against a government that had run out of control. . . . The law is no substitute for morality." One reason that government was out of control was its measures running concomitant to its restrictions on the free flow of people: its restrictions on the free flow of goods across borders.
The American Revolution As a Revolt Against Those Obstructing Americans From Globalist Trade
Recall that what agitated the colonists about the British government was its assault on trade in the form of the Navigation Acts. The colonists resented that the British government hindered the colonists from importing goods produced by people from other European countries. If anyone told the colonists that they were obligated to purchase solely from the British so as to provide more job security to their fellow British citizens, the colonists would reply that other people's job security was not a sufficient reason to use the force of law to obstruct a colonist from purchasing goods peaceably from whomever he wanted, regardless of what country the goods were peaceably produced in.
That they be allowed to trade freely across borders, with whomever they wanted peaceably, was so important to the colonists that the Founding Fathers listed, as another major grievance against the king, his "cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:..."
The nationalists have been working so hard to bury this fact that that passage deserves another look. For the American revolutionaries, the government "cutting off our trade" was so abhorrent that it merited the revolutionaries disobeying that government entirely. Now that is a commitment to global trade, and it comes straight from the Founders.
"Everything America Is About"
Rutgers University global management professor Farok Contractor reminds us that global exchange had established itself in the colonies much earlier. Turkeys are genetically related to peacocks, and they look much different in the wild than they do in captivity. Europeans learned about turkeys when Conquistadors encountered them in Mexico. These birds were imported into Europe and farmed there. The pilgrims in Massachusetts were so accustomed to Mexican-descended domestic turkeys that, upon discovering wild turkeys where they lived, the pilgrims eschewed those birds and instead preferred the Mexican-descended breed. Moreover, the American Indian Squanto proved an enormous help to the pilgrims exactly because of his prior experiences with varying cultures. Professor Contractor wants us to realize that "the story of those early settlers' struggle, which culminated in what we remember today as the first Thanksgiving feast, is also a tale of globalization, many centuries before the word was even coined."
America was about globalization from the day of its settlement, and it continued to be so throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Osama bin Laden knew that to strike at the heart of America, he had to take down a landmark that epitomized American strength. It was thus no accident that that symbol of Americanism and American strength was the World Trade Center. The screenplay for an unproduced Jackie Chan movie gets to the essence of why the center of world trade would be a perfect target: "It represents capitalism. It represents freedom. It represents everything America is about." This means that the World Trade Center succeeded in living up to the vision of the New York City Port Authority officials who conceived it, implementing the principle of American free enterprise insofar as it facilitated global commerce. Minoru Yamasaki, the architect for the twin towers, explained,
World trade means world peace, and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a bigger purpose than just to provide room for tenants. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace ...the World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men...A study by Skyler J. Cranmer et al., published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, confirms the veracity of Yamasaki's observation that American facilitation of world trade contributes to fostering peace. As PsyPost summarizes it,"economic trade relationships...play a strong role in keeping the peace among countries." Bin Laden recognized that America is about world trade, and to attack world trade is to attack the very spirit of America. In his Open Letter to America, Bin Laden cited its promotion of global capitalism as one of his main objections to the country:
You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy... You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich. ... You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women.Nor is it surprising that in a 2007 video communiqué wherein he cites Noam Chomsky by name, bin Laden demanded that Americans
liberate yourselves from the deception, shackles and attrition of the capitalist system. If you were to ponder it well, you would find that in the end, it is a system harsher and fiercer than your systems in the Middle Ages. The capitalist system seeks to turn the entire world into a fiefdom of the major corporations under the label of "globalization" in order to protect democracy.Besides Chomsky, bin Laden placed various other anti-globalization authors on his bookshelf, such as Greg Palast. Even The Guardian took note of bin Laden's fixation on "the evils of financial capitalism" in influencing international markets.
The role of the United States in financial globalism carries on from what the American revolutionaries started. The thirteen colonies broke away from King George's control not because they wished to isolate themselves in some ethnic enclave, but because they sought to open themselves up to goods and immigrants from the rest of the globe, exchanges in culture and production and peaceful human relocation that an arrogant Head of State would deny to them. Given that even in the years following the Constitution's ratification, each state was considered a separate country under the larger federal Union, the USA has a history of being, paradoxically, an internationalist nation.
The United States also began as globalist when it came to matters of state and diplomacy. In Hawaii for years I was beguiled by a Rothbardian anarchist. To garner more support for his blame-America-first foreign policy, this Rothbardian liked to recite this quotation from Thomas Jefferson as proof that the USA had rightfully obligated itself from refraining from any diplomatic or military interventions with foreign countries: "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none..."
That Rothbardian's citation of Jefferson on that count was misleading, as the republic would not have formed if not for a strategic alliance. The colonists sent John Adams and Benjamin Franklin to France, where they won the favor of the king, who sent troops to assist against the British. Insofar as foreign military alliances are globalism, globalism enabled the colonists to win the Revolutionary War.
No, Vox Day, These Ideas Didn't Start in the Nineteenth Century; They Were Present At the Founding
I am not the first to have made the points above in defense of open movement of people and goods. For that reason, anti-immigration nationalists such as Theodore "Vox Day" Beale claim to put forth various rebuttals to these points. Vox Day, for instance, says that in the early years of the American republic, the Founding Fathers had not conceived of it as a "melting pot" where immigrants settle into this new republic and freely adopt peaceable customs at their own choosing. "The problem that most white Americans have, and that most conservatives have," Beale tells a fawning Stefan Molyneux,
is that they were sold a myth: they were sold the myth of the melting pot. They were sold the myth of the "nation of immigrants." ... All of those things are lies. All of those things are either middle-nineteenth-century or early-twentieth-century concepts that have been sold and propagandized to people in the United States so that they would believe that America was not a white nation, that American was not a Christian nation. It's completely bogus.Subsequently Beale/Vox Day adds,
The very clear historical fact of the matter is that all of those [conceptual] inventions about America being a nation of immigrants and "the melting pot" and that sort of thing, those were all concocted much later [than the founding, around the late nineteenth century] in order to make the second-wave immigrants -- which was mostly the Italians, the Irish, and the Jews -- to make them feel like they were real and proper Americans, just as American as anyone else, but it wasn't true. It's a self-serving immigrant myth.He goes on,
I was shocked to find out that "the melting pot" was actually fundamentally conceived and popularized by Israel Zangwill, who was a Russian Jew living in Britain. I mean, it had nothing to do with the United States. It was basically a play about the United States from somebody who didn't really know very much about it. And here we have adopted it [the melting pot idea] as what [eugenicist] Steve Sailer calls the Zero-eth Amendment, which is "The Founding Father Emma Lazarus carved it on the bottom of the Statue of Liberty in 1776."It is true that the exact phrase melting pot to describe the United States was popularized in 1908 as the title of a play about different ethnic groups learning to live together in the USA. But it does not follow from this that the concept was unfamiliar to Americans prior to then. The idea does indeed go back to the era of the Founders, and a similar expression -- "individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men" -- was used for it.
The idea was expressed publicly in America at least as early as 1782 -- over four years prior to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution -- by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur in Letters From an American Farmer. As Hector St. John de Crèvecœur puts it in his "Third Letter From an American Farmer,"
What...is the American, this new man? ... He...who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. ... The American ought therefore to love this country much better than that wherein either he or his forefathers were born. Here the rewards of his industry follow with equal steps the progress of his labour; his labour is founded on the basis of nature, self-interest; can it want a stronger allurement? ...This is an American [emphasis added].
|This photo is from January 21, 2017. See if "Letters from an American Farmer" is in your local library system, as it is in mine.
No, Mr. Beale/Vox Day, the idea of the American melting pot is not something invented just in the nineteenth century; it slightly preceded the U.S. Constitution going into effect.
No, Vox Day, The Founders Agreed With Emma Lazarus
The common rationalization that "immigration skeptics" provide is, "Immigration was different then." Immigration was OK back when the immigrants were mostly Europeans, proclaims Stefan Molyneux, but these days immigration amounts to "Third World immigration." Poor (dark-skinned) immigrants from poor countries, having suffered under political repression, are not to be trusted, says Stefan Molyneux, for this reason:
Just because they're running away from an abusive authority, it doesn't meant that they're not going to re-create it. I mean, that's like saying a teenage girl that runs away from an abusive household is going to automatically [sic; split infinitive] end up in a peaceful marriage. They tend to bring their trauma with them and re-create it.Likewise, Molyneux goes on, because dark-skinned, impoverished immigrants have known nothing but violence and repression, they will impose this same sort of dysfunction upon their richer native-born neighbors.
Rationalizations such as Molyneux's were not good enough for Emma Lazarus. You may recall that these words from her sonnet, "The New Colossus," are inscribed on the pedestal of the statue to which the poem's title refers:
Give me your tired, your poor,To that, Mr. Beale/Vox Day scoffs that this is a "historical absurdity, and yet we act like it's more important than the Constitution or any of the early acts of the early Congresses." Vox Day wants us to believe that Emma Lazarus's championing poor non-WASPs from poor countries was not consistent with what the Founders hoped for.
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Beale/Vox Day's sniffing evinces his ignorance of the fact that George Washington agreed entirely with Emma Lazarus's sentiment. Quoting George Washington's December 2, 1783 address to the Volunteer Association and Other Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland,
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges...Once again, an idea that Vox Day falsely imputes as merely a nineteenth-century revision was actually present among the Founders in the Revolutionary Era.
Founded on Philosophic Principles That Apply Globally
In keeping with the theme of promoting Vox Day's white nationalism and ethnic segregationism, Stefan Molyneux has taken to referring to Europe and the English-speaking countries, including the United States, as "the white countries":
You can be against nationalism -- fine -- but then you have to be against the nonwhite countries who are the most nationalist and the most ethnocentric. . . . Whites are the least nationalistic people. . . . You can disagree with the argument that whites should have some kind of homeland, sure, but if it's only whites who shouldn't have a homeland [he means the United States], you're a racist. If everyone else is allowed to have a [racially homogeneous] homeland except whites, you're a racist.He says that left-wing politicians "carve up white countries and hand them out to Third-Worlders for votes."
Let's get something straight: even if all nonwhites voluntarily vacated the United States and no one was left in it but white people, the USA still would not be a "white country." The reason, as I have said before, is that, as Margaret Thatcher has noted, the republic was founded not on ethnicity but on a philosophy: the universal rights of man, rights belonging to all men, not just white men. Yes, we know about many legal institutions in the USA that contradicted that; the U.S. republic could not live up fully to the principles expressed in its founding documents as long as there was slavery and then Jim Crow and then as long as women were denied the vote. Even the U.S. Constitution itself, sadly, contradicted the principles of equal rights the Declaration defended, in that the Constitution, upon ratification, deemed that if you were of a particular race you would be counted as three-fifths of a person. In that respect the Constitution codified racial discrimination, and it was not until the Fourteenth Amendment's passage that this was reversed.
To America's credit, the movements of abolitionism and civil rights and women's suffrage and, yes, liberalizing immigration have all been about applying the Declaration's philosophy farther and more consistently, helping America live up its ideals and thus maximize its Americanism.
Stefan Molyneux's proclamation that whites have historically been deprived of a homogeneous racial "homeland" is asinine -- all countries existing prior to the United States were founded as homogeneous racial "homelands." France, for instance, was already the ethnic homeland for the Francs. In cases where a new nation-state was founded by the union of several smaller countries, such as Germany being the unification of such places as Bavaria and Prussia, it was a union of separate countries where the inhabitants were still closely related.
This is not to deny that, prior to the United States, there were some countries and cultures that established important precedents in advancing the truth that moral principles in governance should transcend ethnicity and race. The city-state of Athens benefited to the extent that it was open to immigrants such as Aristotle -- metics, they were called -- coming into the city and engaging in cultural and commercial exchange. Sadly, even Athens fell prey to xenophobia, as Macedonian immigrants such as Aristotle were violently threatened, prompting Aristotle to flee. Thankfully, Aristotle's Macedonian protégé, Alexander the Great, established a political system that sought to rise above the xenophobia that drove out Aristotle. Upon being made the capital of the domain Alexander established, the Egyptian city of Alexandria reduced xenophobia somewhat by allowing for many people of different religions and ethnicities to live together: Egyptians, Africans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Jews. Despite practicing brutality in war, the Roman government allowed the many ethnic tribes its conquered to obtain Roman citizenship and to take part in Roman civil society. Again, Africans and Egyptians and Persians and Greeks and Germanic people could be citizens alongside the Romans.
In the 1600s, allowing for peaceful openness to foreign goods, foreign migrants, and foreign ideas is what allowed the Dutch Republic to thrive. The Dutch Republic's openness to foreigners gave shelter to John Locke, then in exile from his native England, as he penned the Two Treatises of Government that would inspire Thomas Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers. That is, globalism is what enabled the formation of the philosophic ideas that gave rise to the American republic.
In spite of the strides they had made against racism and xenophobia, it was the case that the governments of ancient Greece and ancient Rome and the Dutch were still founded as an accident of history by a particular ethnic group upon splitting off from some larger ethnicity-based union or by some one ruler annexing, to his own dominion, some tribes nearby that were already closely related to his own tribe. What set the USA apart was that its founding documents stated explicitly that the new republic was founded not on some people deciding to have their own ethnic enclave, but on particular philosophic principles. Moreover, the founding documents make explicit that these philosophic principles apply to all human beings, not one ethnicity.
Whereas most countries were founded upon notions of blood and soil -- what Vox Day would have us believe the USA was also founded upon -- Thomas Paine makes clear the USA's founding broke away from that tradition:
The revolution of America presented in politics what was only theory in mechanics. So deeply rooted were all the governments of the old world, and so effectually had the tyranny and the antiquity of habit established itself over the mind, that no beginning could be made in Asia, Africa, or Europe, to reform the political condition of man. . . .
But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, -- and all it wants, -- is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no inscription to distinguish him from darkness; and no sooner did the American governments display themselves to the world, than despotism felt a shock and man began to contemplate redress.
The independence of America, considered merely as a separation from England, would have been a matter but of little importance, had it not been accompanied by a revolution in the principles and practice of governments. She made a stand, not for herself only, but for the world, and looked beyond the advantages herself could receive. . . . Its first settlers were emigrants from different European nations, and of diversified professions of religion, retiring from the governmental persecutions of the old world, and meeting in the new, not as enemies, but as brothers. . . .
The revolutions which formerly took place in the world had nothing in them that interested the bulk of mankind. They extended only to a change of persons and measures, but not of principles, and rose or fell among the common transactions of the moment. . . . Conquest and tyranny, at some earlier period, dispossessed man of his rights, and he is now recovering them. And as the tide of all human affairs has its ebb and flow in directions contrary to each other, so also is it in this. Government founded on a moral theory, on a system of universal peace, on the indefeasible hereditary Rights of Man, is now revolving from west to east by a stronger impulse than the government of the sword revolved from east to west. It interests not particular individuals, but nations in its progress, and promises a new era to the human race.
That is, the USA was founded on globalist principles that are not merely global but universal. In this respect the United States, by being founded upon, and standing up for, specific consistently applicable philosophic principles is not only the globalist republic but the universalist republic. Consider that, despite the Constitution originally defying equality with its three-fifths-of-a-person rule, the Fifth Amendment nevertheless says,
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger;...nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use... [emphasis added].The Bill of Rights does not say "No citizen shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime...nor deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process..." It says no person. We know that the U.S. Founding Fathers interpreted the Fifth Amendment as applying to non-citizen, non-slave foreigners, and not merely U.S. citizens, because Thomas Jefferson himself stated this. The Alien Friends Act of 1798 was supposed to give the U.S. President sweeping powers to deport allegedly dangerous foreigners residing in the USA. Thomas Jefferson opposed that, saying:
The imprisonment of a person under the protection of the laws of this commonwealth, on his failure to obey the simple order of the President to depart out of the United States, as is undertaken by said act intituled [entitled] "An Act concerning aliens" is contrary to the Constitution, one amendment to which has provided that "no person shalt be deprived of liberty without due process of law," and that another having provided that "in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to public trial by an impartial jury, to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against him, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense," the same act, undertaking to authorize the President to remove a person out of the United States, who is under the protection of the law, on his own suspicion, without accusation, without jury, without public trial, without confrontation of the witnesses against him, without heating witnesses in his favor, without defense, without counsel, is contrary to the provision also of the Constitution, is therefore not law, but utterly void, and of no force.
James Madison, father of the U.S. Constitution, explains that himself:
If aliens had no rights under the Constitution, they might not only be banished, but even capitally punished, without a jury or the other incidents to a fair trial. But so far has a contrary principle been carried, in every part of the United States, that except on charges of treason, an alien has, besides all the common privileges, the special one of being tried by a jury, of which one-half may be also aliens. ... Alien friends [meaning foreigners from nations that the USA has not declared war against] except in the single case of public ministers, are under the municipal law, and must be tried and punished according to that law only.
What this means is that, outside of the context of wartime -- as wartime requires extreme measures if war is to be ended -- the United States government is supposed to recognize the rights of everyone, regardless of whether they are citizens or not, consistent with the republic's appreciation for the universality of individual rights.
The very notion of a government recognizing the universality of rights among all humans was unprecedented, and the absence of precedent is what prompted the Founders to describe their achievement with the phrase Novus Ordo Seclorum -- meaning "New Order of the Ages" and often mistranslated by conspiracy-theorist anti-globalists as "New World Order" (that would be Novus Ordo Seculorum). Both the real translation and the mistranslation describe very well what the U.S. founding was in practice. It set a new standard for the world to follow.
To the degree that the USA lived up to its founding principles of reason and liberty, the USA grew mighty and exerted an influence on other powers that have, on the net balance, been a positive one. Recognizing the salutary innovation in politics that the U.S. founding represented, Thomas Paine celebrated it as the most energizing and beneficent effort
to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand, and a race of men, perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains [Thomas Paine is praising the American colonies as more diverse than any one European nation], are to receive their portion of freedom from the events of a few months.Paine found it splendid that there be a new nation started not as just another enclave for one ethnic group, but as republic based on "the rights of mankind" as a whole. He understood what Stefan Molyneux and Ted "Vox Day" Beale wish for everyone to forget. The United States was never, nor will it ever be, a "white country"; the USA was founded for all men and women, white and any other race -- globally and universally.
Thus, to the extent that globalism refers to the peaceable free movement of products and migrants and ideas across its borders, the United States was conceived as the globalist republic, the universal republic. If peaceful and unfettered commerce and migration are globalism, then to be against globalism is to be against the republic and what it represents. Anti-globalism is anti-Americanism.
On January 28, 2017, the photograph with the library copy of Letters From an American Farmer was added. The photo was taken on January 21, 2017. On January 24, 2017, I added the quotation from Thomas Paine about the USA breaking with the tradition of how nation-states were traditionally founded. On February 12, 2017, I added the quotation from James Madison about how the legal presumption of innocence applies to U.S. citizens and resident aliens alike. On March 9, 2017, I added the quotation from Thomas Jefferson citing and explaining the Fifth Amendment.


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A Kildare woman has been selected as finalist for Counter Assistant of the Year 2017.
Mangan's Pharmacy in Newbridge last week announced that staff member, Anita Meenehan has been chosen for this year's Irish Pharmacy Awards.
"Anita is simply a bright ray of light that brightens all her customers' day as soon as they enter the pharmacy, whether they are regular customers or passing trade," said the pharmacy.
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Mangan's said it would like to wish Anita the very best of luck at these prestigious awards.
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