Showing posts with label Philip Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philip Jones. Show all posts

Thursday, April 2, 2009

The World is In Your Head, by Philip Jones

Was "bad" communitarianism just something I imagined, all in my head?
"The notion is that Quantum Mechanics dictates that `consciousness` is necessary to create reality, and the conclusion is we create our own reality with our thoughts. The opportunity for mass manipulation now becomes obvious; We are told that in order to lead a happy and successful life, all complaint must be extirpated, and any negativity is to be frowned upon and complainers ostracized, or better yet, re-educated into the new `thinking`. A uniform conformist `Happyland` of positive thinkers, who do as they're told without question, because `negative thoughts` bring negative experiences. This is Huxley's Brave New World and there's no hiding the fact." The World is In Your Head, by Philip Jones, April 2, 2009 http://www.rense.com/general85/jones.htm
This is a really good article published at rense.com, forwarded today from John Cameron in Australia. Jones shows, as have Bobby and Sean, that the Luciferian New Age ideology does not exist separately from the other aspects of the emerging global synthesis. By debunking their "think positive" mantra Jones exposes the flaw in their entire premise. He helps me understand why I made so many bad jokes back when I first started writing for the ACL. I did it mainly in response to people accusing me of being "too negative." My "happy" family and friends didn't want to hear anything bad, believing, as, according to Philip, do the Danes, that talking about bad things makes bad things happen.

I was actually accused by individual tenants at the Dawson raid that it was MY "negative" research and relentless questioning that CAUSED the SWAT raid for "suspicion of harboring bugs and rats." I made agreements with several people I care about over the past decade to NEVER talk about ACL work in their presence. They can complain to me me about all the new communitarian regulations and how screwed up they think things are, but I am not allowed to identify this process of change as communitarian. I've literally been forced to pretend I don't know why the new laws are being passed. Yet all these people are free to tell me what they hear on TV or the radio. My newest "negative" respeonse to anything heard on TV is:"It's all a lie." It infuriates some people and has been the most successful way of keeping them out of my space.

For example, I've recently reestablished communications with my mother. Some members of my family have been very unhappy with the choices I've made in my life, and my poverty level has made me a subject of ridicule and anger. Poor people have debts and don't take vacations. Slander used to hurt my feelings, back when I was 13 it really bothered me to be called a "tin grin" or "slut" or "whore" or "stupid" or "bookworm" etc. etc. After a lifetime of negative abuse from positive thinkers, I can honestly say, "What you think about me is none of my business."

My mother mentioned in her first letter that she thinks of me whenever she reads the word communitarian used with Obama. I was like, what???? and asked her to tell me more. I had no idea the word had reached mainstream newspapers. I also never assumed that when people began to recognise it as a REAL political ideology that they would assure me it's a good thing. But I should have expected this all along. Now I'm not "crazy" anymore for saying communitarianism is real. It's reaching the mainstream that Obama IS A COMMUNITARIAN, and well, now I'm just wrong in my anti communitarian stand. My research and my conclusions are all wrong (even though they've never been read or disputed). My decade long committment to the ACL that caused such harsh living conditions, that was just some weird thing I did. I camped two winters in interior Alaska because I like to be cold. Come on. All I need to do is "give him a chance. " And when (not if) Obama fails it will be my fault, because me and the people like me, we're spoilers, ruining his chances for success with our unevolved thoughts.

My mother thinks it's time I quit being so negative and move back to Happyland. It's what I planned to do anyway with my gertees and my minis. I'm preparing to become a marketing "wizard" and yes, all I can ever talk about is happy, fun things, beautiful fabrics and parties. I am going to sell brides a gorgeous tent for their wedding and tell dad (on the side) that in harder times to come it may prove to be an essential item in their daughter's Hope Chest. And I'll design a flatscreen TV room GerTee too... whatever the mesmerized market demands. ;)
"I can't remember specifics but several columnists here in Vegas mention communitarian views. Yes...things seem to be falling apart in America but I have hope and faith that things will right themselves out over the next few years. Obama is good for our country. Give him a chance Niki...it's only been 65 days (or so) and he's fighting with long established self-centered men in congress. Things don't change overnight but change they will and mostly for the good of the country. ..... I love watching Brian Williams (ex Tom Brokow fan) as he tries to explain this mess. He does a pretty good job of it too. Do you have TV? We bought a new flat-screened TV with my last check from Wally World."
My sincerest thanks go out to Frank Z. for his generous contribution, and to James A. for his ongoing generous contributions and for sharing the ACL with his buddy Frank. I spent all my ebay proceeds on fabrics and forgot to set aside money for bread and coffee, so this comes at a very good time. I can live on $100 for a couple weeks! Been so inspired to redecorate that I ended up cleaning as I went, and it's looking like home sweet home in here now. Two businesses have said they are willing to rent me a space in midtown Anchorage, and both of them are on the same main street with 75, 000 cars a day passing by. I have to completely clean it but I have access to a 24' travel trailer I can set up in an RV park with water and sewer. If all goes well I'll strip out the plumbing, use the trailer for hauling, and put a gertee up with full water and sewer!

I just got 120, 6'8" rebar poles for the new walls and a place to cut 40 spruce for the ceiling beams! Green ones are easily stripped of bark in the spring and sanded into a golden finish. Burnt spuce, when sanded, looks like a deep purple sky with Northern Lights. It's very hard wood. The last thing now is I want a six foot fancy roof ring. But how funny is that? The "bridal" model will be bear proof and guaranteed wind resistant now too! I got a comment on my GerTee Instructable that in Russia they make them of steel. Great idea. Won't be able to staple the walls fabrics up, but I'll think of something easy. The ceiling may be too beautiful to hide... we'll see.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Lisbon Agenda and 'Neoliberal Communitarian' Citizenship

Several people have sent me links to Philip Jone's latest article on the "Communitarian EU." I admit I was less than thrilled to see things I wrote years ago at the ACL were rewritten as if they were Jone's original thoughts and words. And he's a former London cop. Go figure. UPDATE: Jones apologised and will change the paragraph to a quote by me, at rense,com anyway. I'm really happy about that because otherwise it was a fantastic overview of the communitarian agenda in Europe. Now I can heartily recommend it!

Robert Coones sent me an email about a youtube video called "Chicken Run in the EU Parliament" (20.02.2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw7XwexR2ec
and he added this:
"LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!

"Go to http://X09.eu and demand for a REFERENDUM in your country on the Lisbon Treaty, the rejected EU Constitution in disguise.

"Note on EU Constitution and Lisbon Treaty:

"The people of France and the Netherlands rejected the proposed EU constitution in the 2005 referendums. After this, 5 countries that had promised a referendum cancelled it and the EU Constitution was re-written as an "amending treaty" or a "reform treaty" and named "Treaty of Lisbon". On the basis of this deceit, they now maintain that no more referendums are necessary. Only Ireland is holding a referendum. All other countries are ratifying the disguised EU Constitution without asking the people.

"The EU Constitution establishes a new "European Union" with joint citizenship - an EU "federal" State that is technically and politically empowered to further centralize power in Brussels; a European State comprising of 27 nation-states ruled by a triumvirate of European institutions led by the unelected EU Commission, which serves as the governing body of the Union. With co-decision powers to block legislation, but never to initiate it, the European Council comprises of representatives of the governments of member states. This ineffectual co-decision process is shared with the European Parliament, which is the only directly elected institution and the only channel for European citizens to possibly reverse the totalitarian trend and preserve freedom and democracy in Europe."
This all got me poking around google looking at "communitarian eu" information and I found this:

The Lisbon Agenda and 'Neoliberal Communitarian' Citizenship
http://www.migrationonline.cz/e-library/?x=1975779

Sandy Brian Hager | 16. 3. 07
Source: migrationonline.cz ("A specialised website of the Multicultural Centre Prague focusing on migration issues in Central and Eastern Europe. It maps migration reality, research and policy, offers a range of articles, interviews and reports and promotes debate among experts, public administrators, NGOs and the wider public.")
Theme: Economic Development, Social Welfare & Citizenship
The Lisbon Agenda and Citizenship: Neoliberal Communitarianism

"How do we then go on to make sense of the Lisbon Agenda and its relation to citizenship, especially since the shift to ‘jobs and growth’ under the Barroso Commission? In many ways, it appears as though the European Union is navigating towards what can best be described as a ‘neoliberal communitarian’ citizenship model. ‘Neoliberal communitarianism’ (an arguably more accurate term for the ‘Third Way’) implies a fusion of neoliberalism with a communitarian element that attempts to countervail the most harmful effects of neoliberal restructuring not by re-invigorating the Keynesian welfare state but through attempting to ‘activate the state’ in strengthening (private) community networks (Bieling 2003: 53).

"As a model of citizenship, neoliberal communitarianism signifies a movement away from the social rights of citizenship (considered to hamper global competitiveness), towards an emphasis on providing opportunities for skill upgrading and life-long learning so that citizens will be ‘willing to accept more public duties and social responsibilities’ (Bieling 2003: 65; emphasis in original). The citizens’ role is thus contained within the mantra of ‘no rights without responsibilities’ forming the basis of its citizenship conception, as opposed to ‘‘unconditional’ social citizenship entitlements’ of social democracy which advocate ‘positive welfare intervention by a ‘social investment state’(Ryner 2002: 15). Making the argument that ‘the relationship between individual rights and responsibilities was thrown out of balance from the late 1960s onwards’, advocates of neoliberal communitarianism suggest that a situation of ‘moral hazard’ has arisen amongst EU citizens, and that problems of social instability can be solved by fostering a society which gives more responsibilities and duties to individual citizens (Bieling 2003: 63, 65)." {emphasis added}


Here's a youtube video JAdams sent of Barroso calling for a New World Governance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7D21rPpBrk
How much you want to bet Etzioni's books were used to explain the new EU "citizen's role?" No wonder he calls the EU "a beautiful idea." He must be a guru there too.

As they say at Puertos del Estado under Financials Aids (FONDIP) » EU Programmes:
"The programmes are the financing mechanism through which the European Community support the actions and measures of implementation of the different policies. Due to the wide variety of programmes financed by the EU, it is very difficult to give a precise definition of the communitarian programme.

"The programmes gather a general framework of proceeding, that includes the clear definition of objectives in the short and mid term, the justification of the adoption of the measure, a financial proceeding calendar, the financing mechanims and actions.

"Common characteristics identified for all the programmes:

"* Pluriannual: Although the duration of these programmes can be variable, all the programmes last during certain period of time, in order to optimize the impact of the financed actions and to facilitate the evaluation.
"* Transnational: this is a key feature. The communitarian programmes are different from similar actions carried out at a national level. This European scope is materialized normally by the collaboration of partners of different communitarian countries, that interchange research elements and work jointly in the search of results for problems of communitarian scope.
"* Demonstrative effect: Since the programmes search the solution for problems of European scope, the contribution to the diffusion of the results by all the communitarian territory is evaluated positively. Thus, the celebration of seminaries and conferences constitutes an important part within the communitarian programmes."
http://www.puertos.es/en/ayudas_financieras/programas_comunitarios.html


And again, in case you missed it elsewhere on my blog, in my articles or at the ACL, here's the law behind EU integration and ALL other regional unions, including the NAU:

Application of the Andean Communitarian Law in Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela in Comparison with the European Union Experience. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 6 No. 3 January 2006
http://aei.pitt.edu/8169/