August 2006 Archives

"Sadvipras shall work for the good of all countries, for the all- round emancipation of all humanity."

The inevitable consequence of capitalist exploitation is proletariat revolution. When capitalists, maddened with excessive greed, lose their common sense completely and bid farewell to humanism totally, it is time for proletariat revolution to burst forth. But it will be futile to expect it just because of the ripe time. For this, conditions relating to place and person are also largely responsible.

Editor's note: While some countries make war, Norway is setting an international moral example of how both to utilize natural resources to benefit all its citizens and to assist other countries in doing the same.

"Norway, which began producing oil in 1971, has been remarkably successful at harnessing profits to help build one of the world's wealthiest and most equitable societies."

"We want to support these democratic revolutions [in Latin America] because we believe they will enhance development and bring marginalised power structures into government."

It looks like a heap of rubbish, feels like flaky pastry and has been linked to aliens. For decades, scientists have puzzled over the complex collection of cogs, wheels and dials seen as the most sophisticated object from antiquity, writes Helena Smith. But 102 years after the discovery of the calcium-encrusted bronze mechanism on the ocean floor, hidden inscriptions show that it is the world's oldest computer, used to map the motions of the sun, moon and planets.

"The first objective is, indeed, to fight poverty, this monstrous inequality in a country where next to Carlos Slim - a phone company tycoon and third on the Forbes list of the richest people in the world - millions of people survive in abject poverty."

"Nobody is Paying Us. We Came to Defend Democracy"

"It's probably not well-known outside Germany that at the end of World War ll, around 12 million Germans had to leave their homes in the former eastern German provinces and elsewhere."

Even before it opened its doors, the exhibition "Forced Paths" attracted a lot of controversy in the German and Polish media.

The Gaza Strip is in the grip of anarchy and
Palestinians must stop blaming Israel for all their problems, a senior Hamas figure has said.

Ghazi Hamad, chief spokesman for the Hamas government, said the hope that followed Israel's pull-out last year had been replaced with "a nightmare".

Gaza is at the mercy of thugs, he said, and pleaded for an end to deadly clan rivalries. "Let Gaza breathe," he said.

Recently, a particular group of politicians raised the slogan of "agricultural revolution" to solve the problem. They wanted to solve India's agricultural problems by following the example of China. However, there are vast differences between the agricultural problems confronted by India and those confronted by China. The problems of India can never be solved by following the policies of China.

Editor's note: The Progressive Utilization Theory is in part a theory of participatory economy ("parecon"). Even though the theory of participatory economy given below differs on significant points from Prout, it is well worth reading both for its intellectually liberating points and in order to learn how to think in ways not conditioned by theories of the free market and unlimited private accumulation of wealth.

"Markets don't in fact just give us what we want. Often, rather, we learn to want what they give us. More, they pit actors against one another and in doing so call forth anti social motivations and behavior."

Editor's note: Noam Chomsky is a prominent American leftist who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and has published numerous books and articles on linguistics, politics, and other subjects.

The U.S. and Israel have become rogue nations, defiant of the rights of others and world opinion. If constructed slowly and properly, a world government may be the necessary outcome some day to prevent this kind of aggression, arrogance, and violation of human values.

On July 7, 2006, Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued an international arrest order for two former Guatemalan military dictators, Efrain Rios Montt and Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores, along with five others accused of genocide and other crimes against humanity during Guatemala's civil war.

Editor's note: Please see "Revolt Against the HIV Doctrine" at http://www.proutist-universal.org/archives/000720.html for more on the HIV-AIDS scam.

AIDS: handicapped by politics or nothing more than politics?

AIDS "activists have fought furiously against the idea that AIDS targets those who engage in selective behaviours."

"Former U.S. President Bill Clinton told conference attendees that "It's difficult to imagine how the world can grow unless we tackle AIDS." In fact world population growth is fastest in areas hardest hit by AIDS. Japan, conversely, has almost no AIDS cases yet its population has stopped growing."

Calls for prevention highlighted the opening day of the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto on Sunday. Alas, it's too late. On the same day, one of America's two most influential newspapers, the Washington Post, carried a photo on its front page depicting a man wearing a T-shirt reading: "We all have AIDS." Toss out those condoms; forget abstinence, and don't bother getting tested. Or what part of "all" don't you understand?

"It is called the 'dual covenant theory' - the belief that Jews and Christians have separate deals with God. However, Muslims, Hindus, and others have no deal."

Editor's note: From our postings on this website it has become evident that powerful factions within Judeo-Christian circles are behind war in the Middle East in the post-Clinton era. Arabs cannot be held entirely blameless, especially those who want to drive Israel into the sea, nor by any means do all Jews or Christians support war, but the ongoing aggression has taken on the aspect of a repressive campaign that ignores Arab humanity. For reasons of military hegemony or religious dogma incompatible with the nature of the Supreme Being, each faction puts its interests exclusively ahead of others' in a breach of the humanistic code of mutual benefit.

"Last week, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) ... released a study that found a 'cocktail of between three to five different pesticides in all samples' of Coca-Cola and Pepsi products they tested in India."

The state government of Kerala in south India has banned the production and sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state. The companies will be asked to close their operations entirely.

Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan stated today that the ban was being imposed because of the health hazards posed by Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

"We have arrived at the decision to ask both Coke and Pepsi to stop production and distribution of all their products, based on scientific studies which have proved that they are harmful," said Mr. Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan.

Editor's note: The U.S. religious community described below is willing to create a Middle Eastern holocaust simply in order that it may achieve spiritual salvation. The Neohumanist philosophy associated with Prout does not support religious dogmas that degrade human values, nor does it support the misguided idea that shedding the blood of non-believers is necessary for salvation. Salvation will not come from any religious bloodshedd, but is an inner process concerning the individual and the Supreme Being.

"A major reason the Armageddonites have become so powerful is that most journalists can't comprehend that millions of Americans could really want, in this day and age, their God to destroy most of the human race...".

"Their desire to violently reshape society brings us full circle back to Stalin, Pol Pot, and other secular horsemen of the apocalypse."

"The government wants to introduce a system which would require all internet service provides to record and save all e-mails you send and receive, all websites you visit and other such personal information. Even if you're not suspected of having committed any crime."

Social Democracy: Does it protect the people or hide the defects of capitalism?

"The right in Sweden has for some time complained about the government hiding the unemployment in "programs". But the question only came to the public knowledge when LO, the immensely powerful blue-collar union had one of it's own turn against them. Hans Karlsson, a leftwing heavyweight, concluded that true unemployment was more in the ballpark of 20-25%, not 5% as the government was claiming."

"For a century the Social Democratic Labor Party parties and their allies in the Unions had Full Employment as one of their two ideological pillars (the other being an equal distribution of income). To now admit they have failed in this would be a huge defeat."

"It took decades for the party to rise to dominate the political scene, but when Per Albin Hansson won a landslide victory in the 1932 elections, he started the process of re-forming Sweden in the party's image. This he did through the creation of the Swedish welfare state, the 'folkhemmet' (home for the people), attempting to achieve full employment and redistributing wealth."

Editor's note: When Prout propounder Shri P.R. Sarkar visited Stockholm a little over 25 years ago, he remarked that Sweden was closest to Prout. Things have changed significantly since that time as the country falls prey to capitalist globalization and pro-immigration neo-marxist social ideology. It is worth reading a very brief summary of Swedish social programs, however, for those who are unaware of them, especially in light of current American superpower projection of the ideology of freedom with little corresponding sense of socioeconomic justice for local populations.

"We have to keep in view three fundamentals before imparting education. The first is that education must always be based on factuality. There must not be the injection of any dogma or fanaticism or any type of geographical or racial chauvinism in the education system.

The second fundamental is that education must awaken the thirst for knowledge in the students' minds. The students themselves will create environmental pressure by persistent demands for answer to queries like: What is the answer? Is it correct? The longing, "I wish to know ... I wish to understand and assimilate the entire universe" should be created. Such a thirst for knowledge should be created in the minds of students. a learner, in Arabic, is called "ta'lib-ul-ilm", meaning "a genuine seeker of knowledge. So a tremendous thirst for knowledge must be awakened n the students' minds. They will constantly pry their teachers, their parents and their neighbours with questions like: 'Why is this so? What is that? Why does that happen? Why does this not happen?" etc. they are ready to assimilate the entire universe.

The third fundamental of education is that teachers and students should have a balanced mind, unaffected, unassailed by unimportant entities. These are the three fundamentals of education. Education is a must not only for human beings but also for all living beings. For instance, if you train a dog, you can take much work from it. If you train a cow, it will give you greater service... Proper education enables one to stand against the influence of the physical environment and awaken the psychic urge to attain a higher life, that is, the ideological goal. This gives a person much inspiration. We would do our bet to impart proper education not only to the entire humanity, but also to all created beings. We can impart training to all trees, plants and birds, and put them on the path of welfare."

"The fact that Hizbullah attacks followed rather than precipitated Israel's massive bombardment of Lebanon will be forgotten. Rockets fired by Hizbullah to stop Israeli aggression against Lebanon will be retold as an Iranian-inspired war to destroy the Jewish state. The nuclear-armed Goliath of Israel will, once again, be transformed into a plucky little David. Or at least such is the Israeli and U.S. scenario."

If there were any remaining illusions about the purpose of Israel's war against Lebanon, the draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a "cessation of major hostilities" published at the weekend should finally dispel them. This entirely one-sided document was drafted, the Hebrew-language media have reported, with close Israeli involvement. The top adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, talked through the resolution with the US and French teams, while the Israeli Foreign Ministry had its man alongside John Bolton [yet another of Israel's men, Eds.] at the UN building in New York.

When a large number of people who may or may not be criminals are murdered at the same time, it is called ganahanana. Even if a large number of criminals are murdered at the same time this term is used because it is very difficult to theoretically judge who is a criminal and who is not. Sometimes innocent people may be subjected to severe punishment because wrong information appeared in the documents and records concerned with their trials. At other times judges may deliver incorrect judgements, and in fact there are numerous cases where judges have made mistakes. In such circumstances even innocent people may be given capital punishment. Then again, innocent people or those who have committed minor crimes are sometimes deliberately given capital punishment because of malicious judgments. Such punishments can never be supported. For example, the murder of Socrates can never be supported; neither can the hanging of King Nanda Kumar or the assassination of Siraj-ud-doola. These murders can never be justified by logic or reason.

"If the atomic bomb was dropped to impress the Japanese leaders with the immense destructive power of a new weapon, this could have been accomplished by deploying it on an isolated military base. It was not necessary to destroy a large city."

Brig. General Bonnie Fellers in a memo for General MacArthur: "Neither the atomic bombing nor the entry of the Soviet Union into the war forced Japan's unconditional surrender. She was defeated before either these events took place."

On August 6, 1945, the world dramatically entered the atomic age: without either warning or precedent, an American plane dropped a single nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion utterly destroyed more than four square miles of the city center. About about 90,000 people were killed immediately; another 40,000 were injured, many of whom died in protracted agony from radiation sickness. Three days later, a second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki killed some 37,000 people and injured another 43,000. Together the two bombs eventually killed an estimated 200,000 Japanese civilians.

The dowry system is yet another glaring example of social injustice. In my book Human Society, I have already mentioned that the dowry system has two major causes: the first is economic, and the second is the numerical disparity between women and men. With the decreasing economic dependence of women on men, the inequity of the dowry system will cease to exist. But to expedite this process, it is essential to propagate high ideals among young men and women. Our sons and daughters are not commodities like rice, pulse, salt, oil or cattle that they can be haggled over in the market-place.

Statesman News Service, KOLKATA, Aug. 8: A 34-year-old housewife was allegedly beaten to death by her husband in Muchipara when she refused to give in to his persistent demands for dowry.

The victim's elder brother lodged a complaint with police today, but her husband is at large.

According to reports, Sima Aich had been admitted to NRS Medical College and Hospital on 2 August, after being severely beaten up by her husband, Mr Gopal Aich, who is employed with Food Corporation of India (FCI).

National News Service, Kolkata - 7th August 2006: A casteless, dowryless and priestless revolutionary marriage took place at Dishari (Marriage Hall) in Salt Lake City of Kolkata on 4th August 2006 with a Sanyasini in saffron robes conducting the ceremony. Two Bengali speaking persons - a boy and a girl -of different castes were united in matrimony under the auspices of Ananda Marga founded by Marga Guru Shrii Shrii Anandamurtjii. The married couple were Sri Kaushik Maity and Srimati Manidipa Hazra.

As a Jew who escaped the Holocaust by moving with my family to America in 1938, I turn on the BBC at night. And what I see are clouds of black smoke, explosions; the dead and the dying - children crying bitterly, cities in ruins. Only yesterday, these piles of rubble in Lebanon were home to thousands. Now, the cars roll out onto the highways, white flags attached to the windshields and doors. More than half a million are homeless.

The Israelis told them to leave, but then strafed one convoy from a helicopter. The military people exert their force without pity. They win their wars proudly. They are the masters of force.

Using the most modern weapons the United States can supply to search out the Hezbollah guerrillas, the Israeli soldiers destroy Lebanon. They wreck all of Gaza, seeking to murder the leaders of Hamas.

Many American Jews gather proudly to cheer them on. The face of the American president remains blank. A patter of platitudes issues from his lips. He is not interested in peace. He is happy to see Israel do the dirty war for him. Diplomacy is a word not in his dictionary.

But lo and behold - even as the destruction builds and the war continues through its third week - it seems suddenly no longer such a lark. Success is hard to come by; Israel is no longer the perennial victor. But will it know what to do when faced with the need to talk with the enemy? It has always felt so invincible that discussion seemed the weapon of fools and weaklings, much like the way the earnest work of its principled and dedicated peace camp - Jewish to the core, in an "old-fashioned" way - seemed pathetic and misguided.

"Fiery television evangelist Pastor John Hagee has emerged as the rallying voice for thousands of American Christians who believe Israel is doing God's work in a "war of good versus evil"."

Anyone who wants to understand why Israel has such unwavering support from the United States should speak to one man.

Fiery television evangelist Pastor John Hagee has emerged as the rallying voice for thousands of American Christians who believe Israel is doing God's work in a "war of good versus evil".

When he strode on to a stage in Washington last month, he was cheered to the rafters by 3,500 prominent evangelicals - as well as by Israel's ambassador to America, a former Israeli chief of staff and a host of US congressmen of both parties.

"After 25 years of hammering away at the truth on national television, millions of people have come to see the truth of the word of God," Mr Hagee told The Daily Telegraph. "There is literally a groundswell of support for Israel in the USA among evangelicals."

Vested interests have taken advantage of human ignorance and have penetrated deeply into every arena of society: social, economic, psychic and spiritual. They want to suck dry the entire vitality of humanity. Vested interests do not want the ignorant to see the light of wisdom or the downtrodden to climb up the social ladder; they do not want the hungry to eat proper meals or the superstitious to be freed from their dogmatic beliefs; and they do not want the human race to gain spiritual knowledge and a thorough understanding of science, and thus get the opportunity to progress towards the realm of effulgence.

August 6, 2006 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today that a draft UN resolution on the Israel-Lebanon conflict should quickly end large-scale violence.

She urged the Security Council to vote by August 7 or 8 on the draft, which calls for a full cessation of hostilities.

But she warned this is only a "first step" towards lasting peace. Rice said she could not rule out that there could be skirmishes continuing between Israeli forces and Hizballah guerrillas "for some time."

The draft resolution was hammered out by the United States and France, and the text was publicized on August 5. However, senior Lebanese officials have already rejected it as inadequate, saying it would leave Israeli forces on Lebanese territory.

According to Prout, human society is one and indivisible. Human society is just like a garland, which is made of different types of flowers, linked by one common thread. The complete beauty of the garland is dependent upon the proper manifestation of each flower. Similarly, to maintain unity and solidarity in society, each strata of society must be equally strengthened.

Any human being or non-human being who wants to break this solidarity must be opposed, and you will have to fight against such elements. For example, although the five Pandavas and the one hundred Kaoravas were enemies, Yudhisthiira, the eldest of the Pandava brothers said:

"Vayam paicabhikam shatam" "One hundred and five will fight against a common enemy." So when you have to fight anti-social and anti-human forces in Asia, Europe, the world or the entire universe you must fight as a single, unified entity.

PRAGUE, August 4, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- An Israeli air strike killed at least 28 civilians in northeastern Lebanon today and Hizballah fired tens of rockets into Israel, killing three Israelis.

The violence comes as the UN Security Council is set to discuss a resolution urging an immediate cease-fire after more than three weeks of Israeli-Hizballah hostilities.

The deaths occurred when Israeli warplanes raided a depot near the village of Qaa in the Bekaa Valley of northeastern Lebanon.

Security sources say most of the victims, at least 28, were Syrian Kurdish farm workers who had been loading fruit on to trucks.

Reports say 12 others were wounded and ferried to hospitals in nearby Syria.

International human rights groups, Iranian political activists, and well-known reformers have condemned the death of Iranian student activist Akbar Mohammadi in Tehran's notorious Evin prison and called for an independent investigation to be made. Mohammadi's death has also drawn criticism from Washington. Mohammadi died in prison on July 30 after going on a hunger strike in a bid to secure his release. Prison authorities say he felt ill after showering and died while being taken to the prison clinic. Mohammadi was one of scores of students who were arrested during the 1999 student protests and imprisoned.

Parents_* often allege that teachers do not teach anything worthwhile nowadays, but I do not feel that this is a very well-considered remark. In actual fact they are only making excuses in order to avoid their responsibilities. At the same time, however, I should add that most teachers demonstrate, through their mental outlook or their actions, far less awareness of their social responsibilities than concern for their own interests. They do not devote even a fraction of the time and energy to building society that they spend making money by any means possible, such as by writing "made easies" [course summaries] or study guides.

_* Throughout this chapter, "parents" should be understood as "parents or guardians". --Trans.