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Philosophy, Religion, Esoteric, Occult / Theosophical Society
« on: March 21, 2019, 06:28:30 pm »
Theosophical Society

Theosophical View of War and Violence
John Algeo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Algeo

pdf
http://www.theosophical.org/files/resources/articles/War.pdf

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Computers, Math, Science, Technology / Olga Ladyzhenskaya
« on: March 07, 2019, 04:35:02 pm »
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
7 March 1922 – 12 January 2004
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Ladyzhenskaya

Nonlinear equations and spectral theory / M.S. Birman, N.N. Uraltseva, editors (2007)

https://www.amazon.com/Linear-Quasilinear-Elliptic-Equations-Ladyzhenskaya/dp/0124110290/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Olga+Ladyzhenskaya&qid=1551997650&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull



Nation Exclusive: ICE Has Kept Tabs on ‘Anti-Trump’ Protesters in New York City

https://www.thenation.com/article/ice-immigration-protest-spreadsheet-tracking/

SONNY ROLLINS-LIVE IN DENMARK´68
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKxd7LoKs2M

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Re-thinking autism: diagnosis, identity and equality

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307622338_Re-thinking_autism_diagnosis_identity_and_equality



Negotiating neoliberal citizenship: an interview with Pamela Thoma about her new book Asian American Women's Popular Literature.

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Negotiating+neoliberal+citizenship%3a+an+interview+with+Pamela+Thoma...-a0384098959



JIGNA DESAI is a Professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and the Program in Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film and the co-editor of numerous volumes including Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South; Transnational Feminism and Global Advocacy in South Asia; and The Bollywood Reader. She is currently working on a project focused on autism, neurodiversity, and neural citizenship.



Neolilberalism and Education Reform

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265050471_Neoliberalism_and_Education_Reform





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Ante-Contreras, Daniel Michael





UC Riverside Online Thesis

Autism as Metaphor: The Affective Regime of Neoliberal Masculinity

•Author(s): Ante-Contreras, Daniel Michael
•Advisor(s): Vint, Sherryl
•Harris, Keith M



thesis download, 280 pages

https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt5jp50764/qt5jp50764.pdf?t=ow8cox



perma link


https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jp50764



"


Rodger offers an example of how the violence of neoliberalism can be explored through the type of disabled masculinity operating in a world of intense economic logics. Rodger’s autobiography focuses heavily on his anger at women for not liking him, a reflection of toxic masculinity, while he attempts to decenter his own emotional and physical shortcomings, and inability to become rich, by continuously playing the lottery. He puts his faith in his identity as an economic subject of invisible numerical logics, creating a quintessential narrative of neoliberal masculinity.

"

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Computers, Math, Science, Technology / Shuttle Barebones DH310
« on: March 04, 2019, 05:00:23 pm »
Shuttle Barebones DH310, supports 2x displays, can be with SATA hard drive or with SSHD.

http://www.shuttle.eu/fileadmin/resources/download/docs/spec/barebones/DH310_e.pdf

Has heat pipe and 2x 60mm fans

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News, Politics, and General / UBI
« on: February 15, 2019, 07:43:57 pm »
UBI  ( Universal Basic Income )

This idea has been around for a long time, known under different names.  But now, in the wake of the lost 2016 Presidential Election, and maybe the demonstrated popularity of Bernie Sanders, it is being taken more seriously.

UBI is not needs tested.  And as I see it, you would not even need to apply for it.

So a question would be, can the government actually pay out that much money?  Well it might be like $10k or $20k per person, or at least for adults, and then something for children.  So maybe $4 to 8 Trillion per year, an epic amount of money.

Okay, but lets look more closely.  What happens to the money, and where does it go?

Well it gets spent, and then generally it ends up back where it started, with the people who print the money, our Federal Government.

So half is paid out to people above the median income.  So they might put it in that mountain of dead money which inflates the Stock and Real Estate Markets. 

Or it might go to Dan Quayle's Isle of Man favorite tax dodge.

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2012/political_buttons_0207/polbuttons_quayle.jpg

Okay, but we still got them though, as with pre-Reagan taxes, their tax hike will be more than their UBI.  So more money will be in circulation, creating jobs and business revenue.

They might deposit in a bank.  But banks can't sit on the money, they have to loan it out.  So usually it keeps getting redeposited into banks until it reaches 1 over the Cash Reserve Ratio.  Either way, it keeps getting clipped until it makes it back to the government.

Now the other half of the money goes out to those bellow the median income level.  They spend it the fastest.  Some of it will end up in the hands of the rich as described above.  Other will keep getting clipped by, if not income tax, by sales tax.  Sales tax is not very progressive at all.

So to answer the question, this huge amount of money is not depleting gov't funds at all, as it just goes back to the gov't.

Some economists don't like to classify stuff like this as either GDP or taxes, as it is just transfer payments.  From where ever you look at it, it just keeps coming back.

So really, this is just Keynesianism take a couple of steps further.  Keynesianism is not Socialism, as it does not try to set up state control of industries.  It is like they say, "Saving Capitalism from itself."

But Keynesianism is still focused on creating full employment.

That works to a point.  But in later stages of Capitalism there are more problems, like environmental, and social problems if you are promoting the middle class family.

So the next step beyond Keynesianism would be to go to a Welfare State.  And yes this worked under LBJ.  Even Nixon showed specific support with his Family Assistance Plan (FAP).

But there was a huge political backlash and we got Reagan and his Welfare Queen stories.

The problem with welfare is that it is needs tested, it is done in order to regulate the poor and to subject the poor to ritual humiliations so that they become a symbol which is used to maintain workforce and political discipline.

So the way to move the next step is UBI, because it is not needs tested.

So this amounts to a huge expansion of the economy, like what, 50%, but no longer tied to employment.

So first of all we cannot follow idiots like Rick Perry and gut environmental protections and worker safety, to create jobs.  Expanding the economy like this to bring more people in, we must use the best environmental science we have, and have unions and worker and consumer safety.

Now, the idea is not to fatten slum lords.  Rent control exists some places, but it has problems.

So the other way is just to use governmental authority and plow the slum lords under.  Complete them out of business.

So there have to be public offerings for all basic and necessary services.

So say a housing projects authority which builds high rise towers, 20 , 30, 40 floors.  Start one per year in each area.  Average finishing one per year.  They have schools, child care, libraries, retail, community centers, everything, and on the bottom floors.  And they are built on rail mass transit lines.  So you really have very little use for a car.

And these are not just for the poor, again, no needs test.  Just click on the box that you want it, and you get it as soon as available.

So right away there you have an economic and material utopia, and so easy.

Then if you seek employment or try to start a business, your prospects will be so much better, as the economy is about 50% bigger, and with this commitment to providing these universal no needs tested services.

Maybe it is fixed so that you need to give 50% of you UBI to get into one of these housing projects.  Maybe we have a mix of gov't and private contractors building them, competing with each other, keeping each other honest.  We build at a stead pace out forever.  Eventually buy up the slum lord property and make it into parks, if not farmland or wilderness.

Universal Single Payer Health Care of course.

Most things like that, universal and no needs test.

Taxes are accessed by a means test.  But nothing requires any needs test.

No gov't or public funds being depleted, just money recirculating into perpetuity.

Good education.  People who believe in themselves and do not carry any stigma for having been poor.

The right that wants to blame the poor, or invoke religion to do that, **** 'em.

Far less reliance on automobiles,  Good public transit.  Bicycles, but also very little need for anything more than just walking.

More people will be employed or running their own businesses than the way it is now.  And the monetary costs of the social problems we face today are most certainly greater than what this would cost.  Really just Keynesianism taken a couple of steps further so that it no longer depends on employment.


Satin Doll - Patti Austin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdPLKc8hdlk

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Philosophy, Religion, Esoteric, Occult / Re: Book List
« on: February 15, 2019, 07:03:40 pm »
so finishing up with Michelle Goldberg's Kingdom Coming.

She is saying what I have been trying to say about the Christian Right for decades, only she has done the hard research to back it up.

So let me try and record her a few of her remaining references:

Francis Schaeffer, "A Christian Manifesto" 1981

Roger Griffin, "The Nature of Fascism" 2003

Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study In The Rise Of The Germanic Ideology" 1989

David Frum, "The Right Man" 2003

Gary Wills, "Under God: Religion and American Politics" 1990

Marvin Olasky, crazy nut case.

Rick Santorum, nut case, Catholic, US Senator from PA

Karen Armstrong, "The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism" 2001

Robert O. Paxton, "Anatomy of Fascism" 2005

page 210 "It makes no sense to fight religious authoritarianims abroad wile letting it take over at home?"

page 209, Muslim Fundamentalist woman says at conference, "... American culture and communism are *the same*, because both are colonialist forces that assult traditional norms."

page 204, Fenton Communications, handles public relations for MoveOn, put together Campaign to Defend the Constitution, grassroots group devoted to raising awareness about the Religious Right.

MoveOn is the closest thing liberals have to the Christian Coalition.

page 201 "It's unfair to condemn anyone for seeking redress from the Supreme Court -- African-Americans, gay people, and others are entirely justified in not wanting to put their civil rights up for popular vote."

"Ever since Brown v. Board, the left has turned to the Supreme Court to defend civil liberties in the face of hostile majorities."

page 199, she counts the most effective groups, ACLU, People for the American Way, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Southern Poverty Law Center.   ( all have at times received money from me.  )

Redeemer Presbyterian Church, breakaway denomination, having Dr. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries, part of the far right.

Presbyterian Church of America, another far right breakaway.

Another is Evangelical Preybeterian Church.

And then in recent years, Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians.

All breaking away from the sensible Presbyterian Church U.S.A.

Christian Reconstructionism, a crazy and frightening doctrine.

Lenin's famous essay, "Socialism and Religion"

World Harvest Church, far right mega church, Columbus Ohio, Rod Parsley Pastor.

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Philosophy, Religion, Esoteric, Occult / Re: Book List
« on: February 08, 2019, 07:08:48 pm »
So Goldberg's more interesting references:

Spiritual warfare : the politics of the Christian right / Sara Diamond (1989)

Roads to dominion : right-wing movements and political power in the United States / Sara Diamond. (1995)

The origins of totalitarianism / by Hannah Arendt (1951)

The right man : the surprise presidency of George W. Bush / David Frum. (2003)

The nature of fascism / Roger Griffin (1991 and beyond )

The politics of cultural despair : a study in the rise of the Germanic ideology / Fritz Stern. (1974)

Marvin Olasky   ( ****!)

Right-wing populism in America : too close for comfort / Chip Berlet, Matthew N. Lyons (2000)


Joe Pass - Satin Doll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMNlLbRrZc0

Patti Austin ( quite good )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdPLKc8hdlk

Patti Austin full concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JwMgEyRv-8

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Philosophy, Religion, Esoteric, Occult / Re: Book List
« on: February 08, 2019, 06:25:48 pm »
So finishing up with Kingdom Coming, The Rise of Christian Nationalism, by Michelle Goldberg 2006

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F9QD7JK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4

She gets into some of the things which really infuriated me about these abstinence advocates.

First, around 1990 there was this contraceptive sponge which was going through public testing.  Billed as being the most ideal of contraceptives ever invented.

And then more recently, a vaccine for the HPV viruses.

Well the Christian Right and the Abstinence Advocates fought hard against these, and not because they might be ineffective or have side effects, they fight against them precisely because they might work exactly as intended.

So here I want to record some of Goldberg's more interesting looking references:

Debussy Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMzFvKuZusE&index=1&list=PL310D0B1FA8B9E482

Rebels: A Journey Underground #1 - Society's Shadow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjsziYpdKy0

Planned Parenthood: SCOTUS Halts Louisiana Abortion Law for Now, But Roe v. Wade Fate Uncertain
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/8/planned_parenthood_scotus_halts_louisiana_abortion#transcript

Ocasio-Cortez & Markey Unveil Sweeping “Green New Deal” to Radically Shift U.S. Off Fossil Fuels
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/8/ocasio_cortez_markey_unveil_sweeping_green

Dems Accuse Trump Admin of “State-Sponsored Child Abuse” as Separated Migrant Children Scandal Grows
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/8/dems_accuse_trump_admin_of_state#transcript

Jeff Healey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Qb-6Qkmlw

Baby Lookin' Hot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ufNFTAFrc

Oscar Peterson"Round Midnight"(T.Monk),Piano Solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7yazIH4rAI

Oscar Peterson - C Jam Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJhHn-TuDY

Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Giants Of Jazz Copenhagen 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUVuX3lLrdg

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Philosophy, Religion, Esoteric, Occult / Free Masonry and Communism
« on: February 05, 2019, 08:06:25 pm »
The Life of Toussaint Louverture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N4PkXyHss8

That there is some similarity in the thinking underlying Masonry and Marxism is obvious.  But I have never seen that Masonry goes that far, usually being something of the Middle-Class and working as an Opiate just like Religion does.

So, what do others say about this?

Marx on Freemasonry
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/marx_k.html

Why was Karl Marx considered a Freemason?
https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Karl-Marx-considered-a-Freemason

Nazi Persecution of Freemasonry
http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/ushmm.html

Karl Marx on Freemasonry
https://gnosticwarrior.com/karl-marx-on-freemasonry.html

Workers' Movement: Marxism against Freemasonry
http://en.internationalism.org/content/3741/workers-movement-marxism-against-freemasonry

"Combating the bourgeoisie's fascination for the hidden and mysterious, Marx and Engels showed that the proletariat is the enemy of every kind of policy of secrecy and mystification."

"In France, already after 1968, the bourgeoisie was using its "neo- Templar", "Rosicrucian" and "Martinist" sects in order to infiltrate leftist and other groups, in collaboration with the SAC services. For example, Luc Jeuret, the guru of the "Sun Temple" began his career by infiltrating Maoist groups (L 'Ordre du Temple Solaire, from page 145 on)."

"
In fact, the following years saw the appearance of organisations of the type used against the proletarian revolution in the 20s. On the extreme right, the Front Europeen de Liberation has revived the "National-bolshevik" tradition. In Germany, the Sozialrevolutionare Arbeiterfront (Social Revolutionary Workers' Front), following its motto "the frontier is not between left and right but between above and below" is specialised in infiltrating different "left wing" movements. The Thule Society has also been refounded as a counter revolutionary secret society[13].
"

"
Left-wing versions of such counter-revolutionary organisations are no less active. In France, for instance, new sects have been established in the tradition of "Martinism", a variant of freemasonry historically specialised in the infiltration and subversion of workers' organisations. Such groups put forward the idea that communism can best be achieved by the manipulations of an enlightened minority. Like other sects, they are specialised in the art of manipulating people.
"

"
More generally, the development of occult sects and esoteric groupings in the past years is not only an expression of the petty bourgeoisie's hopelessness and hysteria at the historic situation, but is encouraged and organised by the state. The role of these sects in inter-imperialist rivalries is known (e.g the use of Scientology by the US bourgeoisie against Germany). But this whole "esoteric" movement is equally part of the bourgeois ideological onslaught against marxism, especially after 1989 with the alleged "death of communism". Historically, it was in face of the rising socialist movement that the European bourgeoisie began to identify with the mystical ideology of freemasonry, especially after the 1848 revolutions. Today, the unbridled hatred of esotericism for materialism and marxism, as well as for the proletarian masses considered "materialistic" and "stupid", is nothing else but the concentrated hatred of the bourgeoisie and parts of the petty bourgeoisie for an undefeated proletariat. Unable itself to offer any historical alternative, the bourgeoisie opposes marxism with the lie that stalinism was communist, but also with the mystical vision that the world can only be "saved" when consciousness and rationality have been replaced by ritual, intuition and hocus-pocus.

In the face of today's decomposition of capitalist society, it is the task of revolutionaries to draw the lessons of the experience of the workers movement against what Lenin called "mysticism as a cloak for counter-revolutionary moods". And it is our task to reappropriate the vigilance of the workers' movement of the past against the manipulations and infiltration of the occult apparatus of the bourgeoisie.
"

****************  The Very Negative View Of Esoteric Groups Which I Would Have Expected From A Marxist Source.  And more often than not I think it completely warranted.  But does it always have to be that way?  ******************************************

http://staffs.proboards.com/thread/7141
"As a dire hard Socialist, the most interesting part of Freemasonry for me is it's deeply Socialist message. All equal, no class nor caste. Of course, the gender exclusion is nonsense but that is mainly a relic of a patriarchal age."

http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/allende_s/allende_s.html
Salvador Allende, founded Chile's Socialist Party in 1933, Mason

"
Debray: I've always heard that you've had connections with freemasonry and yet you are a Marxist; you know at one time there was a serious dispute within the international workers' movement. For example, in France in the twenties, the freemasons were expelled from the Communist Party, which was then in its infancy. Do you see a contradiction between your supposed connections with freemasonry and your Marxist position, your class position?

Allende: First, Régis, let me remind you that the first Secretary Général of the French Communist Party was a freemason.

Debray: Yes, yes ...

Allende: And that it was only by the time of the Third International that incompatibility between the two movements was established.

Debray: Yes.

Allende: Now, from a personal point of view, I have a masonic background. My grandfather, Dr Allende Padin was a Most Serene Grand Master of the Masonic Order in the nineteenth century, when being a freemason meant being involved in a struggle. The Masonic Lodges and the Lautaro Lodges were the corner stone of independence and the struggle against Spain.

Debray: Bolivar and Sucre were freemasons.

Allende: Exactly. So you can understand perfectly well that, with this kind of family tradition, and again, since the masonic movement fought for fundamental principles like Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, one can viably have such connections. Now I have maintained within the masonic movement that there cannot be equality in the capitalist régime, not even equality of opportunity, of course; that there cannot be fraternity while there is class exploitation, and that true liberty is a concrete and not an abstract notion. So you see I interpret the principles of freemasonry according to their true content. Now, I know perfectly well that there are countries where freemasonry could not be considered consistent with these principles.
"

And guys are posting this stuff while being told that politics is verboten on the Masonic Message Board and in the Masonic Lodges.

"Freemasonry has not, by any stretch of the imagination, been largely associated with the Left. Yes, many of the smaller European Grand Orients and Grand Lodges to take a strong humanist stance, but lets be honest- the bigger, more important Grand Lodges are populated by men who mainly have a particular attachment to the current, capitalist, system. Having experienced Freemasonry on four continents, its not a hotbed of Socialist reform."

Why Do Freemasons Like Pope Francis So Much?
http://culturalmarxism.net/why-does-freemasonry-openly-support-pope-francis/

Were Marx, Lenin, or Trotsky Freemasons?
https://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=253073.0

Communism and Freemasonry   ( seems to be an anti-freemasonry board )
http://freemasonrywatch.org/communism.html

from above, "Some Objections to Socialism"
http://www.hiddenmysteries.com/xcart/Some-Objections-to-Socialism.html

Communism and Freemasonry
https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Communism_and_Freemasonry

Masonic Links
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/links/masonsites.html

more
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/links/lodges.html

Salvador Allende
http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/allende_s/allende_s.html

Universal Co-Masonry, books
https://www.universalfreemasonry.org/en/masonic-library

My conclusion, most always freemasonry is a bourgeoisie affair.  But built into its core ideas is still the potential for revolution.  And we see this surfacing in how they supported the French Revolution.  And then we see more of this in how Le Droit Humaine broke away, and then Universal Co-Masonry in the US broke away from that.  So it is easy to break away, just get a few Masons, I guess 33rd Degree, and then you can form your own.


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Computers, Math, Science, Technology / Avia, computer AI generated music
« on: January 25, 2019, 04:34:47 pm »
Computer Written Music, 1 hr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfLCTRuh7U

https://www.aiva.ai/

Move flavors of Aiva generated music
https://soundcloud.com/user-95265362

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Industrial Concerns / Electrical Contractors
« on: January 23, 2019, 05:58:38 pm »
Vincent Electric Motor Company, Since 1932, Oakland CA
http://www.vincentelectric.com/

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NaN, Inf, NA, TRUE, FALSE

ggplot2, Hadley Wickham

XLConnect, for Excel

Can do JSONs and BSONs?

variadic behavior, the use of elipses, dot dot dot.

helper funcitons

Errors and Warnings, Formal Notifications

TExtual Progress Bars

Masking, containing object names in packages which conflict with other things having the same names.

Data Frame variable distinction

Centrality:  Mean, Median, Mode

Counts, Percentages, Proportions

Quantiles, Percentiles, and the Five Number Summary

Bar Plots and Pie Charts

Histograms

Scatterplots

Events and Probability, Conditional Probability

Shape, Skew, and Modality

Bernoulli Distribution

Binomial Distribution

Poisson Distribution

Normal Distribution

Exponential, and t-distributin

Sampling Distributions and Confidence

Hypothesis Testing

p-value

ANOVA, Analysis of Variance

One Way ANOVA

Two Way ANOVA

Simple Linear Regression

Greek Symbols in R,  Murrell and Ihaka 2000

LATEX, TEX

ggplot or qplot?

Pixel Images

Interactive 3D Plots

Point Clouds

R Markdown

Student's T Distribution

Kruskal-Wallis Test


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