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  Original Air Date: 6/1/2009 12:00 AM UTC

  OPEN LINES JUST FOR YOU .. FROM WORLD WAR 3 AND WHO CONTROLS ORSHALIM WILL CONTROL WORLD?

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• Date / Time: 5/31/2009 5:26 AM UTC

  Can America be Fixed?

  “Washington tends to enforce a foolish consistency. If you are someone of some prominence whose views are known publicly, then everything you have ever said in the past tends to be projected forward and everything you say today is projected backward. Any discrepancy potentially brings charges of flip-flopping or hypocrisy or selling-out or whatever. Certainly, these charges are valid in many cases, but the simple possibility that circumstances have changed or that experience or new evidence has caused one to change one’s mind seems never to be seriously entertained. The result is to force people to stick with positions they know are wrong because they less fear being foolishly consistent than being attacked for flip-flopping.” (Bruce Barlett),

  When Americans adopted the notion that acting on principle, standing up and fighting for what one believes in, is virtuous, while changing one’s mind, even on sufficient evidence, is unprincipled flip-flopping and unseemly is not known, but it surely has its foundation in the American addiction to ideology which places greater value on belief than on knowledge. This notion’s absurdity should be obvious, but apparently it isn’t. Acting on erroneous principles leads to disaster, and why anyone should be willing to do that is an enigma. Yet even more sinister consequences follow from this notion. Since no prominent person, especially one holding elective office, wants to be labeled “unprincipled,” people are loath to change their views even when they know those views are wrong. Once they have decided that being “principled” is more important than being right, they have no inclination or desire to question the validity of their views by seeking the truth. The result is that these so-called principles become ossified dogmas, debate degenerates into vituperation, government becomes ineffective, and society disintegrates.

  But the adoption of this notion along with the American addiction to ideology does not prevent inconsistency, and Bartlett’s comment reveals another trait of what passes for America’s intelligentsia—the curious inability to think past the first level of consequences.

  What Bartlett misses is that people hold “principled” views on numerous issues. Holding a “principled” view on one issue can conflict with the “principled” views held by the same people on other issues, and if the “principled” people have no inclination or desire to validate any of their views, the inconsistencies never become apparent to them.

  Two such contradictory views are held by the American political status quo, especially on the political right, but often by those termed moderate and liberal as well. One is the view that the family is the fundamental unit of society. The other is the ideological belief in the capitalist system.

  The United States of America does not have anything that an anthropologist would recognize as a true society. America consists of a mere cluster of people and groups with various and often opposing beliefs who often have little tolerance for the beliefs held by the others. It has been said that Americans do not live together, they merely live side by side. These individuals and groups openly seek to promote their own interests at the expense of the interests of all. Freedoms of all sorts are being restricted and those people who fall outside of the dominant groups are left to their own devices or abandoned entirely. No true society operates this way, and Americans have obviously never understood Mill’s On Liberty.

  In primitive societies, the family, especially extended, is the individual’s support group. When a young mother dies or becomes infirm, when a person becomes ill or incapacitated, when children are orphaned, when people become elderly, the family provides the needed support because it is often not possible for an individual “to operate within his own societal space, assume his responsibilities, and exploit his potential.” [See Steyn below.] Reality is not so benign. But two dogmas of the capitalism practiced in America, what the French call capitalisme sauvage, destroys families—the mobility of labor, and the subsistence wage (or the lowest wage that will buy the labor required).

  The insufficient income that results from low wages is a major cause of divorce and when family members are dispersed by having to move to where jobs are, the extended family disintegrates. A year or so ago, a study on divorce rates showed that divorce was highest in those red, conservative states in the Bible belt. Protestant clerics bemoaned this finding, attributing it to their own failure to instill Christian values in their flocks, but they failed to notice that per capita income is also lowest in these same Bible belt states. As the extended family disintegrates, the needed support groups collapse, and the individual who is unable “to operate within his own societal space, assume his responsibilities, and exploit his potential” is abandoned. Abandoning one’s children is considered by conservatives to be criminal, but apparently they do not consider a nation that abandons its people to even be wrong.

  When the people so abandoned clamor for societal support, conservatives often berate them for their “indolence” and accuse them of wanting to become “wards of the state.” See Mark Steyn [http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2009&month=04]. But the concept of a state is an abstraction, and becoming a ward of an abstraction is impossible. States do not provide people with anything. States merely function as means. Governments consist of people who enact and collect the funds needed to fund the execution of laws. The money comes, at least in fiscally responsible nations, from the nations’ peoples. When social programs are created to care for those in need, it is not the state that provides the programs, it is the society. It is society that is the village that is needed to raise a child, not the state. People do not become wards out of indolence, they become wards out of necessity. And the economic system is largely to blame. When people lose their jobs in economic downturns, it is not because they are indolent. When people fall ill or are injured and cannot afford medical care, it is not because they are indolent. When the value of their investments falls because of poor decisions made by corporate or even political leaders, it is not because the people are indolent. It is because the economic system has destroyed the family and is itself unreliable and designed to regularly fail. The economic system then compounds the problem by the idiotic dogma that the only groups that corporations are responsible to are their shareholders. [See my piece, Dumb Claims that go Unquestioned http://www.jkozy.com/Dumb_Claims_that_go_Unquestioned.htm].

  What results, of course, is an assemblage of people that resembles what Locke and Rousseau describe as a state of nature, an état sauvage, which civil governments are theoretically created to tame. But capitalism not only makes taming the état sauvage, impossible, it destroys the family and along with it the basis of society itself. So any “principled” conservative who believes both that the family is the fundamental unit of society and also in capitalism holds fundamentally contradictory views even though s/he holds each “principled” view consistently. So the foolish consistency of the so-called “principled” is not consistency at all. And since the American status quo is assumed to be both ideologically addicted and “principled,” what passes for an American society is afflicted with numerous irresolvable contradictions. Sooner or later it mush crash headlong into reality.

  The difficulty arises when one asks how one would go about fixing things. True believers and “principled” office holders cannot be influenced by rational discussion, facts, or even the horrific consequences of implementing their erroneous beliefs. If one believes that these beliefs cannot be wrong, when they go wrong it is always because they have been misapplied. If people are poor, it is because they are indolent, if businesses fail, it is because their directors are inept or corrupt, if government policies fail, it is because they are under funded, not enforced, or inefficiently applied. The belief is never questioned; the system is never reformed. It is merely incessantly patched. But contradictions cannot be removed by patching.

  So the broken healthcare system can’t be rebuilt fundamentally, it can only be patched. Failed foreign policy practices cannot be altered fundamentally, they can only be patched. The political system that allows deep-pocketed lobbyists to corrupt the system cannot be reformed, it can only be patched. And most importantly, the capitalist economic system, capitalisme sauvage, cannot be transformed, it can only be patched. The more things are patched, the more things stay the same. What passes for a society continually unravels, no social problems are ever solved, the people are abandoned for the sake of institutions founded on erroneous beliefs, and eventually the nation collapses.

  This is the logical explanation, but there is another nefarious one. Perhaps the claims of ideological purity and consistency on the part of the status quo’s elite are mere marketing. Perhaps the members of this elite are committed to no ideology at all. Perhaps all they care about is their own self-interest. Perhaps they will espouse any position at all if they believe it will be profitable. Perhaps they are the proverbial progeny of Cain and the mark they bear is a capital S with a vertical line drawn through its center. Perhaps they are merely scoundrels. Many people, people like Bruce Bartlett, make the unwarranted assumption that the “principled” true believers are well meaning but misled, irrational, ignorant, or foolish. But perhaps Bruce Bartlett and those like him are the ones who are wrong.

  There is empirical evidence for this view—all the promises politicians have made to get elected that have never been fulfilled. People who lie regularly to further their own ends are rogues and rogues are not principled people.

  So has the United States of America doomed itself by the addiction of its people to ideology and foolish consistency and by developing a political economy managed by rogues? Is it now impossible to fix? Unless the people rise up and demand fundamental change, the answer appears to be, “Yes!” Can the people be expected to do this? Not given the status quo’s ownership of the media, because the vast majority lacks even a hint of what is really going on.

  John Kozy is a retired professor of philosophy and logic who blogs on social, political, and economic issues. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he spent 20 years as a university professor and another 20 years working as a writer. He has published a textbook in formal logic commercially, in academic journals and a small number of commercial magazines, and has written a number of guest editorials for newspapers. His on-line pieces can be found on http://www.jkozy.com/ and he can be emailed from that site's homepage

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• Date / Time: 5/31/2009 4:10 AM UTC

  248 arrested, Yemen's government accuses Iranian clerics

  248 arrested, Yemen's government accuses Iranian clerics

  Yemeni Government spokesman Hassan al-Lawzi said that security authorities have arrested 248 persons for subversive actions and attacks against public and private property during recent chaos in southern areas, adding that they have been submitted to prosecution to be tried in court. Al-Lawzi said that the Yemeni government has information related to groups and clerics in Iran that are hostile to Yemen, accusing these groups of supporting the division of Yemen.
  
  
  Al-Lawzi added that these clerics are encouraging actions similar to that of Zionist intelligence’s schemes that aim to establish miniature sectarian, factional states. The spokesperson said that the government has no objection to media coverage of any developments and events in Yemen, on the condition that they abide by professional ethics.
  
  The Minister said that the Ministry of Information did not issue any decisions to ban newspapers, but some papers were stopped for reasons of their own. He said that the ministry issued administrative decisions to stop a few newspapers, causing them to miss distribution of only one or two editions, adding that other newspapers stopped for reasons linked to publication press establishment issues. The ministry addressed these establishments to bear responsibility pursuant to press law stipulations

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• Date / Time: 5/31/2009 4:06 AM UTC

  North Korea preparing possible long-range missile test

  North Korea preparing possible long-range missile test

  • Satellites reveal signs of increased at activity at test site
  • US defence secretary warns world 'will not stand idly by'

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  A missile-firing drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea. Photograph: Korean central news agency/AFP/Getty Images

  Spy satellites have spotted signs that North Korea may be preparing to transport another long-range missile to a test-launch site, South Korean officials said today, as the US defence secretary issued his harshest warning to the North since its recent nuclear test.

  "We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in Asia – or on us," Robert Gates told a regional defence meeting in Singapore. He said the North's nuclear program was a "harbinger of a dark future", but wasn't yet a direct threat.

  Since the nuclear blast on Monday, North Korea has test-launched six short-range missiles and announced it was abandoning a 1953 truce ending fighting in the Korean War.

  The communist state appears to be preparing to move a long-range missile by train from a weapons factory near Pyongyang to its north-eastern Musudan-ni launch pad, a South Korean defence ministry official said. Images of the movements were captured by US satellites.

  North Korea will need about two weeks to complete the launch preparation, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.

  The missile might be tested around 16 June, when the US and South Korean presidents are to meet in Washington, Yonhap quoted an unidentified intelligence official as saying.

  The agency said the size of the missile was similar to that of a long-range rocket the North tested in April. Experts have said the three-stage rocket has a potential range of more than 4,100 miles (6,700km), putting Alaska within striking distance.

  Officials in Washington said yesterday they had noticed indications of increased activity at the test site, but did not provide many details.

  The UN has been negotiating a new resolution in response to the North's nuclear test, the second it has conducted. A partial draft resolution obtained by the Associated Press calls on all countries to immediately enforce sanctions imposed by an earlier resolution after the North's first test in 2006.

  The sanctions include a partial arms embargo, a ban on luxury goods and ship searches for illegal weapons or material. They have been sporadically implemented, with many of the 192 UN member states ignoring them.

  The draft would also have the security council condemn "in the strongest terms" the North's recent nuclear test "in flagrant violation and disregard" of the 2006 resolution.

  At the defence meeting in Singapore, Chinese Lt Gen Ma Xiaotian said Beijing was "resolutely opposed to nuclear proliferation", but called on nations to "remain cool-headed". The South Korean defence minister, Lee Sang-hee, said the test "has made a solution of the North Korean nuclear problem more difficult".

  North Korea has said it conducted the nuclear test in self-defence. It has accused the US of planning a pre-emptive strike to oust the regime of its leader, Kim Jong Il – an allegation Washington has repeatedly denied. North Korea has warned it will not accept sanctions or other punitive measures from the security council.

  Some analysts say one of the aims of the North's nuclear and missile tests is to strengthen Kim's regime and boost morale in the impoverished nation. Rallies were being held across the country for citizens and soldiers who were celebrating the nuclear test, the North's official Korean central news agency said today. It said speakers offered their "ardent congratulations" to nuclear scientists and engineers for bolstering the country's dignity.

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• Date / Time: 5/31/2009 4:00 AM UTC

  Where have all the cuckoos gone?

  Where have all the cuckoos gone?

  The decline of the cuckoo pits the environmental movement against the powerful farming lobby

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  The cuckoo is now on the RSPB's 'red list'. Photograph: Mark Hamblin/RSPB/PA

  The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he: "Cuckoo! Cuckoo, cuckoo!" O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear

  So opines Shakespeare in his beautiful poem about adultery, Spring. But sadly the bird that has lent its name to everything from Swiss clocks to the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is no longer on every tree. This spring you would be hard pressed to hear its distinctive call at all in many parts of the country.

  When I first worked for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nearly 20 years ago monitoring farmland birds, the cuckoo was a common summer visitor to our countryside, arriving en masse every April. This year, despite going out bird watching nearly every weekend in my home county of Warwickshire, I have only just heard my first cuckoo and that was on a local nature reserve.

  According to the latest assessment from conservation groups, the number of cuckoos has declined by more than 60% since the 1960s, a decline matched by other once-common farmland birds including the lapwing and yellow wagtail. Together with 49 other birds they are now red-listed or classified as endangered. To put this into perspective, the decline of the cuckoo is the conservation equivalent of the loss of the HSBC bank from our high street or the loss of faith in our political system – it is a clarion call to fundamentally change the way we manage our countryside.

  If we can put billions of pounds into saving the banks and have a national debate on the future of politics, why can't we do the same for a bird which has featured in our literature and folklore for generations and probably more than any other defines the British countryside?

  Why the cuckoo has declined at such an alarming rate is still not fully understood but conservationists are rallying to its cause. The RSPB's Director of Conservation, Mark Avery, has called its disappearance "scandalous" and with the British Trust for Ornithology is carrying out urgent research. And the BBC flagship wildlife programme Springwatch, more used to highlighting the trials and tribulations of great tits and badgers, is asking its viewers to send in sightings.

  As a brood parasite, the cuckoo has a complex life cycle which includes migrating more than 4,000 miles each spring from sub-Saharan Africa. Problems in its wintering grounds and climate change may be causal factors but experts think the answer is more likely to be a lack of food, particularly its favourite – hairy caterpillars. Crucially, a lack of insects has also resulted in the decline of two of its host species, the meadow pipit and dunnock. The culprit? Modern agriculture.

  The plight of the cuckoo has therefore become highly political. After years of cooperation it threatens once again to pit the environmental movement against the powerful farming lobby. This time the battle is over the future of set-aside, the European Union agricultural scheme designed to take surplus land out of production which was abolished last year. The British government has just closed a consultation looking at two very different ways of trying to replace a scheme which by default has thrown a lifeline to many beleaguered farmland birds including the cuckoo. The option favoured by conservationists is for farmers to manage a small percentage of their land in return for subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy. Unsurprisingly, the option favoured by farmers is a voluntary approach, not linked to their subsidies.

  In Shakespeare's Henry IV as summer advances the cuckoo's note no longer attracts notice as it did in April, having grown familiar. Henry says to his wayward son: "Was but as the cuckoo is in June, heard not regarded".

  More than 400 years later I'd settle just to hear a cuckoo in June.

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• Original Air Date: 5/31/2009 1:00 AM UTC

  OBAMA AND BODY OF LIES ?YES WE CAN , YES WE CAN ?

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• Original Air Date: 5/30/2009 3:30 AM UTC

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