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"The aggregate production capacity of NAMA milling members is more than 160 million pounds of product daily, which is about 95% of the total U.S. capacity.." ¶"..Sharp declines in the production of wheat and especially oats in the last few years have left millers concerned about their long-term ability to source adequate quantities of milling-quality grain. U.S. oat production is at the lowest level in history and as a result, nearly all the oats consumed in the U.S. must be imported..¶Factors contributing to the decline include the booming ethanol industry that favors corn and short season varieties that make planting soybeans a newly viable alternative in the northern tier of Midwest states. But the primary factor has been the federal farm programs that encourage the production of other crops at the expense of oats and wheat, without regard to market needs.."Source: North American [Grain] Millers Assoc.
(Food Aid) (Wendell Berry poemhunter.com, e.g. "The Mad Farmer Revolution") (Stewart Brandwiki)
"..emphasis upon deduction and upon investigation of concrete and particular things and situations.."Source: The Random House Dictionary of the English Languagewiki, 1979, p. 81
** "From William Tyndale (d. 1536) the Puritans took an intense commitment to Scripture and a theology which emphasized the concept of covenant; from John Knox they absorbed a dedication to thorough reform in church and state [e.g.]; and from John Hooper (d. 1555) they received a determined conviction that Scripture should regulate ecclesiastical structure and personal behavior alike." --Source: /mb-soft.com/believe
"Zwingli argued that, since God was infinite being, He alone existed--there could be no other being, and secondary or created causes were but instruments moved entirely by Divine power. Calvin did not go to this length. But he denies freedom to creatures, fallen or unfallen, except it be libertas a coactione; in other words, God does not compel man to act by brute force, yet he determines irresistibly all we do, whether good or evil."--Source: via http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/calvinis.htm: William Barry...The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume III. Published 1908.
[..John Hooper] approved of the Consensus Tigurinus negotiated in 1549 between the Zwinglians and Calvinists of Switzerland; and it was this form of religion that he labored to spread in England against the wishes of Cranmer, Ridley, Bucer, Peter Martyr and other more conservative theologians. He would have reduced episcopacy to narrow limits; and his views had considerable influence on the Puritans of Elizabeth's reign, when many editions of Hooper's various works were published." --Source: NNDB "tracking the entire world"
"..When, in the late nineteenth century, some denominations began to liberalize their views of doctrines such as the virgin birth, human depravity, the resurrection, and life after death, conservative groups began to fight back....At least in part, Fundamentalists are right in claiming to be the preservers of beliefs that once characterized most Protestants..the 'Fundamentals' emerge[d] as basic claims of faith. These include 'the Five Points':
1) Divinely inspired scriptures which were inerrant in the original writing;
2) Christ's virgin birth and deity;
3) Christ's substitutionary atonement;
4) Christ's resurrection, and
5) Christ's personal pre-millennial and imminent second coming.
(See Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., Controversy in the Twenties (Vanderbilt University Press, 1969..)"--Source: Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World
"..'fundamentalist' and 'fundamentalism' [terms coined in 1920 by Curtis Lee Laws, Baptist editor of the 'Watchmen Examiner']...identified neither with dispensationalism nor with a crusade against evolutionary teaching..were concerned with 'the preservation of the central affirmations of the Christian faith'.."--Bruce Shelley, Ph.D., Prof of Ch. History, Denver Seminary (Colorado, USA) (NIDCC, Editor: J.D. Douglas, 1978, Zondervan, p. 396,7)
"..Carl F.H. Henrys'wiki Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism (1947)-what Dirk Jellema labeled the "manifesto of neo-evangelicalism"-sounded a clarion call for cultural engagement on the part of evangelicals. Fundamentalism had totally failed to turn back the rising forces of modernism, achieving no significant impact upon the world of its day, because it failed to address the social problems of its time. Henrys argument was unquestionably of major importance in encouraging a new generation of evangelicals to engage society, rather than withdraw into isolated, defensive, and inward-looking enclaves."--Source: First Things, "Calvin and the Christian Calling", Alister McGrath, Copyright (c) 1999 First Things (June/July 1999)[cp. this D. Groothuis (review)]
"Since September 11, we have all been brought to the point of recognizing the pervasive power of religions to shape all kinds of events...We are dealing with ancient religious convictions and memories, and they are driving forces in the modern world. The secular press just doesn't get it, but it seems to me there's no other way to understand this."--Source:Dr. Timothy P. Weber, quoted by Ron Dreher/NRO, 4/11/02
"..Dominionism is a theocratic sect with its roots in a radical Calvinism. It looks to the theocracy John Calvin implanted in Geneva..as its political model. It teaches that American Christians have been mandated by God to make America a Christian state.."--Source: Chris Hedges: American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
(baptiststandard.com) (C.U.F.I. 'advocacy') (Mark Dankof, "A Historical Critique of Dispensationalism, Zionism, and Daniel's Prophecy of 70 Weeks") (Theology of the Land: A History of Dispensational Approaches) (@ pre-trib.org) (Rick Warren) (Dr. Timothy P. Weber)
"In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber argues that Puritan ethics and ideas influenced the development of capitalism. Religious devotion, however, usually accompanied a rejection of worldly affairs, including the pursuit of wealth and possessions. Why was that not the case with Protestantism? Weber addresses this apparent paradox in the book."--wiki.
While, e.g., John Calvin himself did not support '5 % interest' on bank loans (Source: Dr. Bill Kostlevy, Tabor College, 12/07) compare/contrast the Papal position on banking, e.g., Medieval Cath. scholar and orator Johann Eck whose 'Enchiridions'--'46' of them 'on behalf of the Papacy', re/published 'from 1525 to 1576'--were 'directed against Luther, Melancthon, and Zwingli'. Simultaneously with the 'Enchiridions' , Eck was promoting the '5% interest rate' on loans, the proceeds of which floated, e.g., the European 'Fugger' family banks--Source of material in quotes: Carl S. Myer, Ph.D., Concordia Seminary (NIDCC, Editor: J.D. Douglas, 1978, Zondervan, p. 326)
"The [Calvinist] economic ethic..teaches (..from the general Christian point of view) that labour is the result of the Fall, and is to be regarded as the penalty and the discipline of sin..discipline of labour [which] regards laziness..as the source of all evil, and the result of a failure to impose discipline..[in which] a strong and systematic impulse was given to production, while, on the other hand, with..asceticism there is united a considerable limitation of consumption and a complete avoidance of all luxury (at least, of all that is obvious and that ministers to..arrogance). It is only [emphasis added] at this point that we see the full effect of that which has already been described as the favorable ethical disposition of Calvinism for bourgeois Capitalism...[(e.g., 'Agriculture was not excluded, but it was only practised by the people of this class..has nothing to do with the feudal ownership of land'-p. 814)]¶This type of Capitalism ..preserves its special Christian character by its taboo on pleasure-seeking and self-glorification, the sense of the duty of work for the service of God, strict honesty and reliability, the humane obligation to make provision for the workers and to give respect for the employers, and the extensive use of wealth for philanthropic ends...¶there is no idea of equality..The conception is always that of a cosmos directed by God, in which the Christian Ethos only works itself out through..division of labour, a variety of gifts and capacities..Calvinism and the sects are of one mind on the question of the development of a voluntary Church.."--Source: Ernst Troeltsch, The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches/Protestantism/The Economic Ethic, V.2, ©1960, Harper Torchbooks/The Cloister Library, pp. 812 - 815
"For accumulated assets to become active capital and put additional production in motion, they must be fixed and realized in some particular subject 'which lasts for some time at least after that labor is past. It is, as it were, a certain quantity of labor stocked and stored up to be employed, if necessary, upon some other occasion'"--Source:Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776); London: Everyman's Library, 1977, V.1, p.242 (as quoted in Hernando deSoto's: The Mystery of Capital, Basic Books/Perseus, 2000, p. 42)
Jean Baptiste Say, allegedly with whom Karl Marx agreed.. (<--very interesting! ..both, as quoted in Hernando deSoto's book: The Mystery of Capital, Basic Books/Perseus, 2000, p. 42)--Say: "..capital is always immaterial by nature since it is not matter which makes capital but the value of that matter, value has nothing corporeal about it"; Marx: "..so soon as [a table] steps forth as a commodity, it is changed into something transcendent. It not only stands with its feet on the ground, but, in relation to all other commodities, it stands on its head, and evolves out of its wooden brain grotesque ideas, far more wonderful than table turning ever was."--hints at DeSoto's interpretation of Marx and Engels, Collected Works, International Publishers (New York), 1996, V. 35, p.82
"..As millions of investors have painfully learned from the evaporation of their emerging market funds, globalization is a two-way street: If the Third World and former communist nations cannot escape the influence of the West, neither can the West disentangle itself from them. Adverse reactions to capitalism have also been growing stronger within rich countries themselves. The rioting in Seattle at the meeting of the World Trade Organization in December 1999 and a few months later at the IMF/World Bank meeting in Washington, D.C..."--nytimes.com/books review of The Mystery of Capital
"...those of us who are liberals or progressives in the United States and in the Western world have not been able to articulate an alternative world view, in part because we're so largely secular and because we don't understand that there is some spiritual foundation to the yearnings of people all over the world for something other than global capitalism, for something other than the globalization of selfishness. And that is seen as what America has to offer the world, each one for herself or himself. We need an alternative."--Rabbi Michael Lerner, conversing with Bill Moyers and Dr. Timothy P. Weber, PBS, 10/5/07
(Marx's Theory of Alienation, István Mészáros) ("Anti-Capitalist Movement", links, revolutionboard.org.uk)
"William Greider [The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy] is not the first to suggest that our problems lie in capitalism, with its relentless focus on the bottom line.. But usually, that's where the conversation ends--because what can we do about capitalism? Plenty--is Greider's answer."--Barbara Ehrenreich
2/16/09: "..as Mexico’s recession deepens, Mr. Carlos Slim's critics are multiplying. Last week, he forecast grim times for Mexico and received a barely disguised rebuke from President Felipe Calderón, who prefers upbeat assessments, and said, 'Those who have received the most from this great nation' are obligated to help. ¶Mr. Slim bristles at suggestions that he is not doing his part for Mexico. 'I think it’s perverse to believe that there shouldn't be strong companies in poor countries,' he told the journalists who attended the media lunch last fall. ¶Behind the scenes, though, he deploys a team of lawyers to fight efforts by the government to enforce antitrust laws against him. ¶The country's Federal Competition Commission is looking into Mr. Slim's companies. But the agency is outspent and outmanned by Mr. Slim. His companies 'spend more on a single case than our entire annual budget,' said an official at the commission, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about agency matters."--Mark Lacey, NYTimes
- •Accoona Corp.
- •bankrate.com (see SNL)
- •Bloomberg: calculators, rates, tools
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- •Center for Econ. & Policy Research | "If This is Such a Rich Country.." .pdf | "Projected Impact of the Next Recession" .pdf, E.g.,:
"If the next recession follows the pattern set by the three most recent downturns, a recession in 2008 would raise the national unemployment rate by between 2.1 (a mild-to-moderate recession) and 3.8 percentage points (a severe recession along the lines of the early 1980s), increasing the number of unemployed Americans by between 3.2 million and 5.8 million..the number of unemployed would continue to increase through 2010 (to 6.7 percent in the case of a mild-to-moderate recession) or 2011 (to 8.4 percent in the case of a more severe economic downturn).." - •Hugh Chou calculators, concepts
- •CNBC: Realty Check
- •Econ lists, By Country (wiki)
- •The Economist,, Econ A-Z, e.g., China?
- •e-Loan.com, calculators
- •FINRA News/Google
- •Funds
- •Greenwich Capital Markets: news @ washingtonpost.com
- •Investopedia, e.g. CDF (Credit Default Swap)
- •JWA: articles, e.g. Free Markets'; market/'benchmark':
"7,000 stocks drawn from among U.S. large caps (40%), small caps (20%), real estate investment trusts (10%), international large caps (10%), international small caps (10%) and emerging market stocks (10%)."--Source: smartmoney.com - •Market Watch
- •Money Rates (via WSJ/Market Data Ctr.)
- •Reason Online: Free Minds and Free Markets, "Bailout Bums: Libertarian-minded Republicans are caught with their pants down.."
- •Recession, 2008 (wiki)
- •'Seeking Alpha'
- •Schaeffer's Investment Research
- •TheStreet: glossary
- •WSJ, U.S. Markets Data
- • Yahoo Finance
"All production is, in fact, a production in and by the help of the community, and all wealth is such only in society." | Veblin, Bio: 1 2 ) ('Land of Plenty'/George Will, NYT; also, via the NYT, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed Americas Politics and Culture, by Brink Lindsey, 394 pp., Collins/HarperCollins Publishers)
"..The world is increasingly defined by dynamic regions, but no region is as important to the United States and as poorly understood as the one that it inhabits — North America. Since 1994, trade and investment among Canada, Mexico, and the United States have tripled, and immigration has soared. Yet, the three governments have not kept pace with the changes, and there is a lack of awareness that new approaches are needed to build a new North America.."--Source: American Univ., Ctr for NA Studies
"..more than a decade after NAFTAwiki, we are now bringing together the fruits of this research endeavour in a new, updated and redesigned 'Building North America' website, generously hosted by the North American Center for Transborder Studies (NACTS) at Arizona State University and with the cooperation of our Partners, the Americas Society-Council of the Americas, and the Kansas City, Missouri International Affairs and Trade Office...we are betting on the continued existence of scholars and policy practitioners who would benefit from a site which would consolidate the research and data we are all generating, and thereby build community among us."--Source: ASU/Building North America, links
"The trinational elites of the private sector will accrue greater benefits in this new space, but the American government and private sector will reap the greatest gains. The three countries will not be equal partners."--Source: Americas Program
"International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The goal of implementing the IFRS is to establish a single set of globally accepted accounting standards. The concept is rapidly gaining support by key groups such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the World Bank. IFRS are now used for public reporting purposes in more than 100 countries. According to financial services firm Deloitte and Touche, by 2011, almost every country, including the United States, will be using IFRS."--Source: Science Daily
(Americanism vs. Imperialism) (The August Review) (John Birch Society) (Council on Foreign Relations, 'N.A. Task Force Report' .pdf) (U.S. D.O.I., US-Mex Border links) (U.S. D.H.S., 'Strategic Plan' "We will ensure safe and secure borders, welcome lawful immigrants and visitors, and promote the free-flow of commerce.") (GlobalResearch.ca) (KC 'SmartPort') (The New Am. Century.org "Power & Duty..") ("The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation", links) (North American Numbering Plan, e.g., all No.Am. ACs, current) (No. Am. SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc.) (Robert Pastor & re: NAFTA via 'Foreign Affairs', note)
"I want to live alone in the desert
I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe
I want to live on the Upper East Side
And never go down in the street
Refrain
"Splendid Isolation*
I don't need no one..
"Michael Jackson in Disneyland
Don't have to share it with nobody else
Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand
And lead me through the World of Self
Refrain
"Don't want to wake up with no one beside me
Don't want to take up with nobody new
Don't want nobody coming by without calling first
Don't want nothing to do with you
Refrain
"I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows
Lying down in the dark to dream
I don't want to see their faces
I don't want to hear them scream"
Refrain
*Author: Warren Zevon, 1989 - @youtube
[e.g.,]"..Bill Clinton: 'Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.'[4]..George W. Bush...: 'And the reason why I'm so strong on democracy is democracies don't go to war with each other..that's why I'm such a strong believer that the way forward in the Middle East, the broader Middle East, is to promote democracy.'[5]" --wiki)
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"Thanksgiving services were held in all the churches, including those here in Switzerland, for the preservation of peace. Six months later Hitler had violated this infamous accord of Munich. A year later he was in Poland..That is when the East-West problem arose. And that is when Europe and Christendom slept...[However,] no one in the West has the right to believe in the inevitability or the desirability of war or to meet Russia as Hitler had to be faced. We do not face the glorification of war and we must, therefore, express our resolution to oppose communism without falling into fear and hatred or into war-like talk and action."--Karl Barth, from a letter which allegedly appeared in the Journal Christianity and Crisis, February..1951.)
"..that objects of sense perception have an existence independent of the act of perception.."Source: The Random House Dictionary of the English Languagewiki, 1979, p. 1196
(William of Occam: "Significant to [Martin Luther's] spiritual and theological development was the principal role of..Occams theology and metaphysics..."--Source: IEP) ("..To the comprehension of a Universal Idea, ['St. Thomas, and Realists of all shades'] say, there must be something in rerum natura answering. That something, Moderate Realists say, is made up of certain attributes, existing separately in every member of the class, yet in each typical of the whole class...Ockham..not an Idealist..held that we have an intuitive knowledge of individual things; that the first thing known is the individual, a thing existing in real truth outside the mind."Source: The Jacques Maritain center at the Univ. of Notre Dame)
"'The higher a form is in the scale of being,' writes St. Thomas (Contra Gentiles, ii. 89; Of God and His Creatures, p. 168), 'the more intermediate forms and intermediate generations must be passed through before that finally perfect form is reached. Therefore in the generation of animal and man, these having the most perfect form, there occur many intermediate forms and generations, and consequently destructions, because the generation of one is the destruction of another. The vegetative soul therefore, which is first in the embryo, while it lives the life of a plant, is destroyed, and there succeeds a more perfect soul, which is at once natural and sentient, and for that time the embryo lives the life of an animal; upon the destruction of this there ensues the rational soul, infused from without.' St. Thomas here teaches what is called ontogenetic evolution, the evolution of the individual perfect animal from a lower form.. He has in view the series: plant, animal, man, angel. But he did not derive plant, animal, and man from a common ancestor."Source: The Jacques Maritain center at the Univ. of Notre Dame
(* Statism | "..'statism' ..'any social or political system in which state intervention plays a major role.' " Source: 'The Advocates for Self-Government'.org | wiki)
"Like most sacred texts, the Qur’an contains many contradictory and ambiguous statements..it is usually possible to find scriptural justification for just about anything..Those who seek to portray Islam as a tolerant and humane religion often cite..'Let there be no compulsion in religion(Qur’an 2:256) and 'You have your religion and I have mine' (109:6). On the other hand, those who seek to portray Islam as an intolerant and inhumane religion..cite..'O you who believe, fight the unbelievers around you; let them find harshness in you, and know that God is with those who fear him' (9:123) All such verses are invariably taken out of there original contexts.." Source: Henry Munson, Jr., Islam and Revolution in the Middle East, 1988, Yale University, pp. 14, 15
"Much of the Qur’an..depicts a state of holy war between those who follow the one true religion and those who do not..The 'people of the book' (primarily Jews and Christians) were not usually forced to convert, but had to pay a special tax and submit to a number of restrictions that effectively subordinated them to Muslims in all aspects of..life. Their position in Islamic society was degrading..During the past century the traditional restrictions on non-Muslims have been largely eliminated. But the fundamentalists would like to see them (be) restored." Source: Henry Munson, Jr., Islam and Revolution in the Middle East, 1988, Yale University, p. 15
"..European Union guidelines direct governments not to use the word 'Islamic' in conjunction with 'terrorism', and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown likewise directed his cabinet ministers to avoid using the word 'Muslim' and 'terrorism' together...The only reason why anyone is ever tempted to speak about 'Islamic terrorism' or 'radical Islamic fundamentalism' or 'jihadism' in the first place is that Osama bin Laden and other Muslims who share his ideology explain and justify their actions by making copious reference to the Qur’an and the example of the Islamic prophet Muhammad."--Source, including link: Robert Spencer, humanevents.com
"In commercial terms postmodernism may be seen as part of the growth of consumer capitalism into a multi-national and technological identity." Source:bloomsbury.com
"It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place. In that case, it either 'expresses' some deeper irrepressible historical impulse (in however distorted a fashion) or effectively 'represses' and diverts it, depending on the side of the ambiguity you happen to favor. Postmodernism, postmodern consciousness, may then amount to not much more than theorizing its own condition of possibility, which consists primarily in the sheer enumeration of changes and modifications."Source: Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Fredric Jameson - author. Duke University Press. Durham, NC. 1991. Intro. p. ix.
"'..All data are theory laden'. The increasing acceptance of this principle has produced what can be called the postmodern turn in religious studies..[the term] 'postmodern' [employed] in a modest sense to indicate any theoretical position that eschews the 'modern' assumption of a single, universal order of truth to which one can appeal as a criterion in judging particular claims to knowledge.." Source: Garrett Green, On Religion: The Revelation of God as the Sublimation of Religion, T&T Clark, 2006, p.25
"..Orwell identified the postmodern, deconstructive, destructive cultural wave well before it washed over North America. O’Brien, the torturer in Nineteen Eighty-Four, lectures the man he is torturing: 'You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. ... But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be truth, is truth.' (p. 261)..We today honour Doreen Kimura for what the postmodern party has condemned her and other psychologists here at Western: for fidelity to the ethic of modernity in the face of sanctimonious dreaming about an absolutely egalitarian utopia.." Source: Kenneth Westhues, Panel presentation at the Tenth Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, University of Western Ontario, London, May 4, 2002.
"Postmodernism..throws off all givenness of interpretation, claiming that all interpretation arises in a historical process, namely, in the interplay between the object that interprets us and we who interpret the object." Source: Tyron Inbody, Dayton, Ohio, Theology Today: Postmodernism: Intellectual Velcro Dragged Across Culture?
"Modernism, which grew out of the Age of Reason (roughly 1650-1800), holds that progress through knowledge is inevitable and promotes the self over community. These beliefs led to the twentieth-century optimism that science, technology, and economics would enable us to gloriously overcome the limitations of nature and culture. However, here at the beginning of the twenty-first century, there is a growing sense that the promises of modernism are collapsing--witness our growing environmental and social crises. We are now in the "postmodern," and the term defines the era more than a specific belief system. ¶Postmodernism refers to the current and complicated cultural mindset that began in the 1970s. A gnawing pessimism has replaced modernism's optimism and inevitable progress. Gone is the centrality of reason or any other guiding principle. Postmodernists argue that timeless truth does not exist, and that any "truth" at all can only be known within a specific group or community. As such, life is pluralistic and politically correct, individual identity is downplayed, and moral values are only a form of power over others...We are all "postmodern" in that we live in this era. However, this does not imply that we embrace all that is postmodernism. Source: J. Craig Thorpe, BEYOND NOSTALGIA: Passenger Trains, Art, and the Postmodern, Mars Hill Review, #19, ©2002, pp. 39, 40
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