Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

It is Professor Wills' thesis that acquisition of the bomb gave the president vast power—not only to use the bomb, but it also became the model for the covert activity and overt authority of the government we now have. And this, writes our speaker, upsets the balance of powers as set forth in the Constitution by giving the president more authority than originally intended by the Founding Fathers. He argues that, whatever the justification for its manufacture and use, the bomb was built unconstitutionally and the precedent which this set endures to the present day.

In the last few years, increasing battles against centralized power have erupted from many quarters. George W. Bush left the White House unpopular because of what many saw as his abuse of power. And although Barack Obama has promised change, the momentum of an expanded executive bureaucracy is not easily reversed.

The powers given to the president since World War II, followed by the needs of the Cold War and the war on terror, all make a vast and intricate structure that may not be easy to dismantle.

Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror”

This investigation comes to the conclusion that the war has, directly or indirectly, killed around 1 million people in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan, i.e. a total of around 1.3 million. Not included in this figure are further war zones such as Yemen. The figure is approximately 10 times greater than that of which the public, experts and decision makers are aware of and propagated by the media and major NGOs. And this is only a conservative estimate. The total number of deaths in the three countries named above could also be in excess of 2 million, whereas a figure below 1 million is extremely unlikely.

Sex-Political analysis Denmark 2015

This was prepared for an International Women's Day Event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1610779672489550

Progress towards women’s equality appears to have stalled after major gains in the 1960s.
An existential analysis suggests that the patriarchal cultural framework supported by the church-state complex must be challenged.
Difference feminism may provide an option. However, this would require changes in law, political economy, and the medical/sexological knowledge accepted in Denmark.

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Sex-Political analysis Denmark 2015 

(links, etc. for political discussion)

(Source articles for blog posts are reached by clicking the title of the post.)

Scientific foundations:

Psychophysiology of Love

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2011/06/does-long-term-relationship-kill.html

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/04/scientists-discover-true-love.html

Kærligheden hæmmer sexlivet

http://pol.dk/2495597

Monogamy: An Evolutionary Perspective

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/01/monogamy-evolutionary-perspective.html

Existential Psychology:

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/05/existentialism-today-terror-management.html

Relational spirituality defines itself in contrast to the vertical spirituality that focuses on inner transformation alone

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/05/relational-spirituality.html

http://p2pfoundation.net/Relational_Spirituality

Church regulation of sexuality:

Promoting monogamy and reducing honesty, closeness, happiness, communication, and relationship satisfaction

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2014/10/consensual-non-monogamous-cnm.html

Also in older US adults:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14681994.2014.976997

Vi vil stadig gerne være den eneste ene

http://pol.dk/2495452

Tvind (communal lifestyle) persecution

Intolerance of the single lifestyle for Danish women

95% of victims of sexual exploitation by clergy are adult women

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/04/95-of-victims-of-sexual-exploitation-by.html

Protestantism and the direct relationship to god -> problematizing the love/sexual bond.

Political Impacts:

Male Circumcision and Racism

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2013/11/male-circumcision-facts-myths-racism.html

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2015/01/scientific-dishonesty-complaint-against.html

First professor of Sexual Health Epidemiology promotes sexual disfunction, disease, and racism

The Mythology of Prostitution

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/05/mythology-of-prostitution.html

Giv sexarbejderne rettigheder

http://modkraft.dk/artikel/giv-sexarbejderne-rettigheder

Equality feminism -> thick waists -> higher cancer rates

Equality feminism -> continuing wage deficits for women

Sexual violation as a common initiation into adulthood for women

Survey: 40% of women in Denmark “want more sex”

The Falsehoods of Addiction and The War on Drugs

Billions of dollars are funneled into federal drug programs to keep our children away from drugs and our cities safe from crime and economic turmoil.

Hari talks to host Josh Zepps about how he discovered the troubling beginnings of drug war riddled with corruption and ulterior motives, and argues that everything we thought we understood about drug addiction appears to be wrong.

MyTurn available as an Apple Macintosh application

MyTurn is now available as a browser-based Apple Macintosh application.

The first time it is launched, a window will appear stating:
"Google Chrome is ready to complete your installation"
Click the "Start Google Chrome" button, in order to proceed.

For direct download, a Zip compressed file is available: MyTurn.
Most computers will automatically decompress (unzip) this file.

Ayn Rand vs. the Pygmies

 Among the Mbuti, as with most hunter-gatherer societies, altruism and equality are systems that enhance individual freedom. Following these moral rules helps prevent any one individual from taking advantage of others or even dominating the group as a whole because of unequal privileges.

Are Danish women the most abused women in Europe?

“We simply don’t want to hear that we’ve got a problem with abuse and violence in Denmark. And this is despite the fact that as recently as last Christmas we ran out of places at our women’s shelter due to the surge in violent domestic disputes. These stories never make it into the media. In the same way, girls have to put up with being groped by boys at school whose actions are simply dismissed of as mere ‘messing about’. Even though we have good action plans to tackle violence against women, the European study is confirmation that we’ve become blinkered with our blind belief that equality has been sorted out once and for all,” tells Ulla Tornemand.