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Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and the world’s richest men are giving half their fortunes to charity
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the new phenomenon of “philanthrocapitalism”
– a high-concept form of charity that Gates, Buffett and their all-star cast of super-rich supporters predict will reshape the 21st century. (...) an emerging trend towards blending charitable giving with market disciplines. (...) They talk in modish business-speak about “community entrepreneurship”, “social returns” and “for-profit philanthropy”, and specialise in turning up at exclusive global gatherings like the Davos Economic Forum to tell politicians and bankers what they are doing wrong.
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while there is no doubt that Gates’s work is saving lives, there are serious doubts about its long-term effectiveness. A common complaint is that the foundation’s fund-raising arm – operating independently of the charitable side – invests its assets in companies that allegedly pollute the environment, exploit poor workers and distort the global financial system. Another is that its wealth and starry image lures health workers and medical resources away from less glamorous areas of need.
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In other words, as a long critique in the American magazine Foreign Affairs puts it, the foundation gives with one hand and takes away with the other.
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“Why should the rich and famous decide how schools are going to be reformed, or what drugs will be supplied at prices affordable to the poor, or which civil society groups will get funding for their work?”
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“If the rich really wish to create a better world,” complained a contributor to the Guardian last week, “they can sign another pledge: to pay their taxes on time and in full… to give their employees better wages, pensions, job protection and working conditions…”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businesslatestnews/7932127/The-billionaire-boys-Beware-of-geeks-bearing-gifts.html

Comme je vous lis, j’entends en arrière plan la télé, NCIS et toute les sagas américaines du renseignement(intelligence (sic) en anglais) que ma compagne adore s’endormir avec, j’entends par bribes tous les sujets de l’actualité de l’empire,pèle mêle, ben laden, l’iran, l’islam etc on se croirait dans le journal télévisé lui même, un duplicata virtuel.
Et là me revient le prodigieux article sur Ralph Peters “le barbare jubilant” cette capacité de fusionner la réalité et la fiction qui engendre une confusion psychologique, le poisson se noie SI l’on n’a pas de références en dehors des images, reconnaissance et discernement impossible.
Mais cette mise en double scène n’est heureusement responsable de rien, un résultat non une cause,elle ne fait QUE réfléchir le rien d’un monde fantomatique qui fascine, notre technocentrisme sobnambuliste auquel l’islam semble imperméable et çà ce n’est pas rien, je ne suis point musulman mais je commence à comprendre leur “défaute”, qui inquiète, hante, fort notre monde ubuesque qui en fait TROP. Ce que j’appelle la bible atomique concentrationnaire que vous aurez tous reconnu, me semble être le théâtre idéal pour un baissé de rideau final des plus prometteurs.

Certes il est probablement difficile pour le représentant du Bien sur terre de reconnaître qu’il a pu faire Mal.
D’un autre côté si le représentant du bien est prêt à supporter la douleur de la honte il n’en sera que plus légitime pour demander à des apprentis du Mal de cesser leur apprentissage.
Et cet argument pourrait bien aider à faire taire ceux qui y verraient une faiblesse.
Je vous l’accorde je vois le mal partout et la guerre contre l’Iran aussi.
Restons positifs: nous allons vers un monde militaire dénucléarisé !

C’est le terme que je souhaitais utiliser mais, ne l’ayant pas trouvé dans le dictionnaire, je n’ai pas osé l’employer. Vous l’avez fait à ma place, merci.

Je tiens à vous expliciter mon interprétation de ce mot, et je pense que vous conviendrez que nous points de vue ne sont pas si éloignés. Pour moi, la lobotomisation recouvre l’ablation de tout sens d’autocritique. Autocritique, car la critique, elle, est bien vivante, et même avec une virulence extrême à l’encontre des pays du tiers monde - c-à-d non WASP - qui, telle la France en 2003, osent exprimer un point de vue non convergent (que, pour ce qui concerne la position de la France en 2003,  j’apprécie a posteriori, même si j’eus préféré une manière moins grandiloquente).

N’ayant pas vos capacités à exprimer clairement mes convictions, je m’en tiendrai à un exemple: vous dites qu’il n’y a pas de machinerie de propagande? Pour ma part, j’en vois au moins une: Hollywood, les films et téléfilms. Combien de ces films ne mettent-ils pas en avant le “bon droit” US, foulant aux pieds les droits civils et civiques les plus élémentaires de tout ce qui n’est pas anglo-saxon? Comment voudriez-vous que la population américaine, baignée toute petite dans ce contexte médiatique, puisse faire preuve du moindre sens critique? Et même la nôtre…

Je m’en tiendrai là.

Robotisation? Certes. Et je suis pleinement d’accord avec vous et l’essentiel de votre vision de la situation de notre monde (?). Mais je suis convaincu qu’elle est une conséquence de cette ablation - lobotomisation?  oui, j’assume - de tout sens d’autocritique.

Merci pour la tenue de ce blog, qui incite à réfléchir, et à combattre les tentatives d’ablation qui ne manquent pas de ce côté de l’Atlantique. Un dernier exemple: les journalistes TV ne manquent pas, chaque fois que je regarde un journal télévisé, de verser des larmes pour leurs collègues pris en otage en Afghanistan. Sans le moindre mot pour l’agent de la DGSE qui se trouve dans la même situation en Somalie. Et pourtant ses pairs - et peut-être lui, s’il était libre -  risquent gros pour récupérer ces otages.

J’en ai terminé.

Ne serait-il pas possible que toute cette agitation autour d’une attaque de l’Iran ait pour but de détourner l’attention du peuple US du Oil spill ?
Si c’est le cas, maintenant que la fuite est bouchée, on n’a plus à partir en guerre…

Grande déclaration officielle à Obama, donc:
http://www.truth-out.org/obama-warned-israel-may-bomb-iran61992?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

L’effarante US debt clock, état par état ... http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Le camp de Guantanamo ne pose pas seulement un problème de droit, c’est aussi un scandale financier, montre le Washington Post de ce lundi, chiffres à l’appui.
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En 2002, le groupe KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root, filiale de Halliburton ... NB de Dick Cheney, Vice Président ) a construit le premier site de détention, le fameux Camp X-Ray
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Le camp X-Ray est aujourd’hui abandonné

http://washington.blogs.liberation.fr/great_america/2010/06/guantanamo-un-scandale-financier-aussi.html

Lobotomie ne serait-il pas d’un emploi plus judicieux en cette circonstance?

Un article du New Yorker qui reconte la montée aux extrème au sénat US

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/09/100809fa_fact_packer?currentPage=all

Cet article est plus que jamais d’actualité si l’on se réfère à l’actualité de hier. Voyons simplement comment tout cela va évoluer ...

C’est avec le plus grans intérêt que je lis vos analyses concernant les “guerres” en cours menées depuis un vingtaine d’années par les USA;
Pour la néophyte que je suis, j’ai longtemps considéré qu’une guerre poursuivait un but classique de “victoire” sur “l’ennemi”.
En ce sens, les USA ont souhaité gagner la guerre sur le Japon par un résultat “victorieux” , en mettant un point final à la guerre par 2 bombes atomiques.

De même ont -ils “perdu” la guerre du Vietnam en quittant les lieux comme on le sait.

Mais s’agit-il aujourd’hui de “gagner” la guerre en IRAK, en AFGANISTAN ou ailleurs, ou s’agit-il de détruire pour longtemps toute possibilité de mettre fin au désordre dans lequel ces pays sont plongés, du fait de ces guerres.

N’est-ce pas plutôt là les vrais buts de guerre ; ne s’agit-il pas de créer des situations de destruction telles, dans ses régions, qu’aucune possibilité pour ces peuples d’exister, économiquement, politiquement et culturellement, ne soit enviseageable avant quelques siècles.
Pour ma part, je pense que les buts de ces guerres sont atteints au delà de toute espérance.

Et c’est bien cela qui s’annonce pour l’IRAN . Je ne crois pas que ceux qui inspirent ces guerres soient, à l’instar d’un général en chef d’une armée, dans le désir de vaincre l’adversaire par la supériorité des armes.
Je crois que les guerres actuelles n’ont besoin de la technologie que pour la domination qu’elle apporte, en terme de mise en place de ces politiques destructrices de systèmes civilisationnels “adverses”.
Elles n’entrent pas en ligne de compte dans la réalisation ,stricto sensu,  des buts politiques, qui sont, quoique l’on pense , eux parfaitement atteints.

Sinon, pourquoi la guerre en IRAN ? j’ai appris qu’il ne faut jamais considérer l’autre comme définitivement imbécile.

En retard dans l’actualité, je suppose donc que je lirais bientôt qu’un journaliste du Time Magazine aura également offert sa démission…

Wayne Madsen interviewé par Alex Jones sur l’afrfaire wikileaks et d’autres sujet.

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Velimir Abramovic

‘The transformation process of informational society into a scientific one is not guided by philosophy, or more precisely, is not guided by any kind of the explicated ontology which can be good enough as a foundation of the social and individual life sense, the sense of the scientific progress, ethics, aesthetics and values in general. But, starting from Einstein’s controversial belief that “physics is an ontological science”, or the science which deals with being, we would very quickly realize what we really need to comprehend, the essence of our technology based civilization and to establish its conscious development control. That what we need is the universal thought or unified comprehension of the humanities and the exact sciences at the ontological level, i.e. their synthesis in the “New Ontology”.
What are the possibilities for the development of a “New Ontology” and establishing of a deeper level of a thinking in the modern theoretical physics, and what are the consequences of such an approach in the social, psychological and technical sys¬tems?
Historically viewed, the industrial revolutions of the nineteenth century, the rational and empirical thoughts which were developing parallel with such revolutions as well as the philosophy of positivism have significantly changed the relation between the science and the religion. The people began trusting more in the experiment and the applied science than in the religious allegories and mythological tales. Such sub¬stitution of the religious spiritual contents by the scientific ones, was an so called imperative of the time which had appeared even in the sphere of the genuine spiritu¬alism. (Sir William Crooks, the famous and rigid English scientist, for instance, in¬vestigated by experiments the phenomena of the mediums over the whole period from 1869 till his death in 1918, trying to establish in the physical sense the scien¬tific truth about the effects of so called “Psychical Forces”).
The exaggerations of positivism in the philosophy have often been criticized (identi¬fication of the spirit and matter, deduction of the science to the sensual perception, the purely inductive logic, physicism, etc.). But, whether deeply enough?
It is obvious that modern theoretical physics is concerned, more and more seriously with the problem of being, taking the role of the ontology in the scientific world, be¬coming thus the real philosophy in the classical sense. Same as the Greek sages in the long past, the modern physicists are concerned with the concepts of time and space, the elementary unit of the matter (atom), the unified power, and they also consider the problem of the very origin of the world, this most essential philosophi¬cal question which still stays unanswered i.e. to which different scientific disci¬plines and mainly religion offer incomplete or tautological answers through tautol¬ogy-
In his works Course of Positive Philosophy and Positivistic Catechism, August Comte (1798-1857), presents the idea on the creation of an universal religion of the mankind, pointing out the unchangeable relative nature of the human knowledge and stressing also that the human brain may recognize only the relations but not the absolute causes and the absolute substance. In the general opinion, Comte in his works expressed the quintessence of the French revolutional spirit, particularly in the idea of the sociocraty which is the key of the whole positivistic doctrine.
But although the spirit of the French revolution overcame the whole Europe and en¬abled faster development of the experimental sciences, yet in the twentieth century the question “Whether it is possible to replace the religion with the science?” re¬mained unanswered. The importance of this question has dramatically been stressed in the informatical society which relies on the scientific knowledge. What is looked for is a framework within which the existence could be organized i.e. the sense and value of the life and work of billions of individuals who use telecommu¬nication systems and electronics in their everyday life. The primary collision be¬tween the East and the West is neither in the political nor in the economic spheres but in the false disagreement of spiritual and materialistic concepts of the world, that is in the undeclared war waged by the humanistic and the exact sciences for the dominance over the human spirit. Because of that even the natural laws of the de¬velopment of a society, acting through the abstract form of the state organism, are declared firstly through the free thought and the art. As the result, in the society which tends to the scientific, the main center of power are the informal groups of free people (most often they are institutionally unorganized, or at the places where they work they propose their own research programs). The scale of five levels of power is usually formed, consisting primarily of the military and university institu¬tions and the foundations where the ideas are generated, then the intelligence serv¬ices which make selection of people and pass the ideas for realization; then follow the religious groups which gather the masses and which are also an important factor of social stability. Then the financial centers which stimulate or prevent develop¬ment of certain trends by investing money in such institutions (energy) - for example: electronics, or withdrawing money from them - example: cosmic program, automobile industry etc. Only in the fourth place are those who are publicly in¬volved in the politics as their main activity; in the fifth place are the police and the military as an instrument of physical correction of activities towards the main state paradigm.
It is obvious therefore, that the real crisis begins when the first and the second levels of power, i.e. when the scientific and the intelligence segments fail to accomplish their main task, i.e. fail to transform the highly abstract natural laws into the visible levers of the social development. The extenuating circumstance which alleviates dysfunction of science (nuclear technology) and the religious institutions (naive Christian ethics and eschatology) represents the global correlation and openness of the telecommunication systems which enables every individual person to introduce own information into the system and in this way to act on the global scale.
The more and more expensive experimental scientific researches which produce the more and more modest results show that the new concept of the world is required, i.e. the redefining of the philosophy of scientific society and of final meaning of the scientific progress which will open the new fundamental fields of the researches. This will be possibly only by the inspired philosophical logic applied in the estab¬lishing of deep stands of the new ontology which will include ideas about the being, time, space, matter, and confirm them experimentally, linking thus the invisible world of principles with the experience.
Now, the question is whether the informational, i.e. the scientific society, which is in its embrional stage, is capable nowadays to explicate its specific form of tran¬scendental belief in the form of the metaphysics of the exact sciences which will be also valid in the politics, sociology and psychology?
Let us now try to define in the most general meaning the main goals of the scientific progress of the mankind, namely the goals which are hardly attainable and which in the serious scientific discussions are reluctantly mentioned. They are:
•  transfer of human labor into apparatuses (as the slaves of the scientific society;
technical-technological slavery holding as the motive of the development and the
projection of the end results of researches in the sphere of robotics, cybernetics
and electronics);
•  conservation of the man as a living system (in the physical sense);
•  development of human brain replica;
•  discovering the endless source of energy which is not succumb to conversion of
so called “clean energy”.
As a matter of fact, it could be presumed that the ontological link of the humanistic and exact sciences does not exist, i.e. that the univocal correspondence of their basic notations does not exist. Such relations are reflected in the deeper level of the cosmological causes which unify within the joint programs of the study even the psy¬chology and the quantum mechanics, Euclidean geometry and the ethics, theory of the numbers and politics etc.
If we conceive the above mentioned relations of the deepest notions of the exact and humanistic sciences as the feature of the physical continuum, i.e. if we adopt the model of the realistic continuum then, on this basis, it will be possible to develop the cosmology as the science, beginning from the endless being, divisible in itself by time, whose model is the non-being or even better - the point which has neither parts nor the extensiveness.
The consequences of such an approach are numerous: the hidden constituents of in¬dividual areas of the human knowledge will be illuminated; for instance, it will be shown that the theoretical economy deals with the study of combined problems of the psychology (commodity needs), thermodynamics (market, effects of the laws of value, exchange of money for commodities) and the physics (new concepts of space, time and matter have enabled the employment of new power sources and the development of new technologies - all of which decisively influence the economy); then, it could be proved that the political philosophy is concerned with nothing else but the investigation of the deepest laws of physics at the level of social organiza¬tion and that neurology and psychology do the same but they are concerned only with the human being as an individual person, since in the composition and opera¬tion of the human brain the non physical elements are not involved and even in the human society.
If we imagine the entire reality as a graduated whole and if we introduce the infor¬mation in its deepest and at the same time the most powerful layer (in physics - The Hidden Order of David Bohm),. we shall get a common base for the investigation of so called spiritual and so called material worlds.
The relation : information-energy-matter is of time nature; all information effects are timed and therefore the information shall never effect the energy and the matter from the future. As the result, the abstract rules over concrete, the principles rule over the matter, i.e. the information controls the physical reality.
To discover the ontological center of its unproclaimed philosophy and to compre¬hend the laws which are common for the exact and humanistic sciences, the modem global civilization must establish a better communication with the ancient Greek doctrine on the Being and the One. This means that this ancient philosophy must be reinterpreted. Starting from the mathematicized notion of the Eleic Being (contin¬uum), the principles and tenets which will simultaneously be valid for cosmology, mathematics and physics as well as for economy and ethics, political philosophy, - (cognitive) psychology, etc., may be deduced then checked by induction. Is this too strong request and whether an attainable goal is in question?
Doubtlessly this is very difficult, and in their effort to this respect the biggest phi¬losophers like Plato (State and Laws), Leibniz (Mathesis Universally) and others halted in the middle of their way, but anyhow this is the goal which we should strive for; at least let us try to establish common notion of the mathematical and physical continuum. And this is only the beginning since many strict definitions of the onto- logical character do not exist, such as the definitions of the Continuum - Extension, One-Discretuum, Time-Number relations. Also, there is no physical interpretation of zero, continuum and endlessness, there is no the real generic definitions of num¬bers, that is how they originate, in what sense the numbers are real and what is the deepest function of the numbers in the physical world. Besides, the general notion of the boundary (form) in the ontological sense is unclear, and the position of the form in the physical reality is totally neglected, or better to say its physical interpre¬tation is neglected. It is possible to predict that by the ontological linking of all facts the ontological way of thinking would finally result in the exact explanation of many other relations as for example the goodness and the energetic equilibrium, the relation between the general notion of evil and pulse change (motion) and, possibly it would also help explaining the complex phenomena such as the connection be¬tween the beauty and symmetry (and in the aesthetic sense also the objective), the connection between the purpose and the harmony and the connection between the affliction and art.
On the basis of deduction of seemingly different problems observed in the unrelated science to the same ontological problem, it is possible to formulate a method which will lead to the removal of obstacles preventing formulation of the universal phi¬losophy of the exact and humanistic science, which will discover the hidden natural causes of the modern supremacy of technical and technological world culture over all other forms of the culture and which will also enable its eruptive development besides all advantages of the conscious preventive corrections of harmful and wrong concepts in the employment of natural resources. This could be achieved best by:
•  setting a hypothesis on the existence of Physical Continuum as the basic reality
and also its definition;
•  determining the properties of the physical continuum in the form of a series of
proved theorems (by confirming relation between the notions which define the being), and inferring the consequences: by formulating the initial stands of the unified ontology of the exact and humanistic sciences, using exclusively bivalent logic of the philosophical type.
This comes as the result of a comparative analysis of the problems of antic cosmological thought before Socrates, the English and French empiricism and positivism (theories of the society and of the philosophical systems of the eighteen and nine¬teen centuries), philosophy of sciences and logic (history of mathematical ideas, open problems of theoretical physics), history and philosophy of religion, particu¬larly theosophy and buddhist tradition, the Pythagorean mathematics, history of the concepts of time and space, medieval natural philosophy, philosophical works of Albert Einstein and heuristic method of the inventor Nikola Tesla.
In the new global society, cosmology i.e the science united with philosophy, will the most probably replace religion. It is necessary to form a consistent theory which predicts the development of the technological and informatical society on the grounds of synthesis of unsolved issues inherited from the ancient Greek cosmology and modem philosophical research in theoretical physics. On this basis should be given a new exact valuable system in the ethics, economy, psychology and physics. The specific difficulty of the task is in the domain of the philosophical logic by which the dynamic ontology is to be derived from the static concept of the physical continuum with the empiric and axiological consequences. Of the greatest importance, of course, is the new concept of the continuum alone, which makes conceivable direct ontological connection of physics, geometry and arithmetics. Finally, the introduction of the physical interpretation as a criteria of truth would indicate the natural limitation of mathematical, logical and philosophical theories. It will make them even more strict and enable the synthesis of the exact sciences and the philosophy at the deepest level. Today, in the sphere of the formal theories it will be necessary to do the same what Newton did requesting the experiment to be the main criteria for scientific syntheses checking.

TESLIANA
                                  The Age of Science as a Religion

Dans un long article, l’Israelien Martin Van Creveld axaminait la chose systématiquement peu après 2001 et ses suites.

http://www.persee.fr/web/ouvrages/home/prescript/article/polit_0032-342x_2003_num_68_1_1176

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