Q. "Does your theology place you closer to the dignity of the individual
or to the importance of the community?" ~ Bill McKenzie Editorial
Columnist Dallas News
A. "Community or individual? My theology would answer “yes.” This is a
dialectic. It’s not an either-or; it’s a both-and." ~ JOE CLIFFORD, Head
of Staff and Senior Minister, First Presbyterian Church of Dallas
The dialectic is
the core conceptual foundation for Global Governance under the
United Nations. This system synthesizes all political,
sociological and spiritual beliefs, and practices, under one harmonized
norm.
Our new world government represents the "community" (fill in
whatever you think that means). The Law of the Community is swiftly
replacing all other law on the planet. Local, state, and national laws
that conflict with the new global standards must be modified. Community
Law is Supreme over all other forms.
Communitarian Law has been introduced in various ways around the world. For example: Communitarian forest management to assure Sustainable Development- Rights and Resources came out at the last round of earth summits called Rio+20 .
Agenda 21 and sustainable development are but two of the hundreds of
ways the global communitarian system is manifesting. In many
places the law is inserted as a new "permit" required for something
the expanded government assumes control over. In other places it's
introduced as a new "tax" or "tax incentive" designed to discourage unhealthy behaviors. In others, like Bolivia it's the foundation for an enturely new national constitution.
The Communitarian system is one in which everything people do is regulated and supervised, by "experts."
The communitarian concept of its own supreme status decimates any
authentic former colonial's hopes of rebuilding or
maintaining authentic sustainable cultures
that are self-sufficient and self-reliant. Communitarian Law
always trumphs any local state or national law that conflicts with
Communitarian Law.
Communitarianism is being talked about more often lately, in blogs, articles, and programs around the world. Little of the current talk in the U.S. is about whether the theology of communitarian law
violates constitutional laws protecting individuals and nation
states. The communitarians are more interested in how we feel about
it, and whether we can believe in it the same way we believe in
God. They plan to make the community/planet/earth into
our God. One planet, one people, one religion, one law.
Except for maybe a few hundred Christians thinking outside the dialectical box, like http://fanaticforjesus.blogspot.com/2012/04/restoring-love.html, with more here: http://fanaticforjesus.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Third%20Way%2FCommunitarianism,
mainstream Christians are being led to the synthesis by their trusted
ministers. It's still introduced in vague, nice terms, usually as
part of the same argument Communitarian "guru" Amitai Etzioni's
been selling our leaders for decades. The big "divide" between
individuals and their comunities is as phony as a 33 dollar bill.
Commuitarianism is Imperial Law religionalized, so who's better
qualified to bring it to the masses than the established churches who
want a seat at the new world council of religions?
"The divide between individualism and communitarianism flashed to
the surface last week during the presidential campaign." Texas
Faith: Obama sparked a conversation about communitarianism v.
individualism: Where do you fall? By Bill McKenzie / Editorial Columnist
wmckenzie@dallasnews.com http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/2012/07/texas-faith-communitarianism-or-individualism-where-do-you-fall.html/
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
ACL Books needs your help
Here's what the ACL looked like in 2003:
We continously updated and revised the website in an attempt to make it more accessible to readers.
Here's what the ACL looked like in 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040604230718/http://nord.twu.net/acl/index.html
Our research on Communitarianism is the most
comprehensive anticommunitarian research in the world. For over a
decade we have been the leading educators teaching people from all over
the world about the communitarian driving UN Local Agenda 21
and the UN's global programme for Sustainable Development.
Here's what the ACL looked like in 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20050608022855/http://nord.twu.net/acl/index.html
We have been reluctant to actively solicit donations because
we initially published our work mainly out of concern for the
lack of information available about communitarianism. We were able to
live frugally and get by on what little we make from odd jobs and
contract work.
Here's what the ACL looked like in 2006: http://web.archive.org/web/20060705162054/http://nord.twu.net/acl/index.html
In 2006, we published the first paperback version of "2020: Our Common Destiny" for the people who requested a condensed version of the overwhelming amount of information at the ACL website. In 2008, we published the Anti Communitarian Manifesto in hardcopy and removed it from our website. We hoped this move toward publishing paperbacks would help us survive while we continued our research. And it did, for a while. When we combined both books into one revised version in 2010, we planned on publishing the revision immediately. It's taken 2 full years to get it done, and these have been the two most difficult and challenging years the ACL has experienced.
With the odds so stacked against us, you'd think we'd have quit by now.
Here's what the ACL looked like in 2007: http://web.archive.org/web/20070615190601/http://nord.twu.net/acl/index.html
But we're not quitters, and we're going to keep going, if for no other
reason than the fact that the communitarians will have no opposition if
we quit.
Here's what the ACL looked like in 2009:
We need your help to pay the printing costs for the new book, which is
ready to print and be mailed out as soon as we can pay the printer. We
need your help to finance a book and speaking tour I'd like to take this
fall. We need your help to keep our small little institution active and
productive.
Please give what you can. Every little bit helps. With your support we
can make this book available not only in the United States but also in
Sweden and Turkey and other places that have expressed an interest in
translating and buying the rights.
With your support we can stay in the front of the Agenda 21 resistance movement, where we rightfully belong.
Here's what the ACL looked like in 2010:
To ALL the people who pre-ordered the hard copy book, thank you for your paitence and support, we're doing everything we can to get it mailed to you as soon as possible. Pre-orders of the book will also help us get this off and running. It is available in a pdf file ebook for instant downloads as well.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Gertee Traveler - My new home sweet home
10' Gertee Traveler beats the odds!
Tim Redington designs new Traveler frame, April 2010
Making new Traveler roof cover, spring 2011
One layer plastic tarp (never enough if it's always raining).
One layer RadiantGuard reflective insulation
salvaged from the Gertees in Kenny Lake,
attached to tarp with grey duct tape.
One layer gorgeous fabric swatches bought
on ebay for $1 each (for pieces up to 20 yards long!),
attached with glue gun. Long piece of upholstry fringe
fabric hand sewed to outside tarp edge.
Kenny Lake Gertees. Traveler frame on left covered with
the same Girl Scout tent canvas I've recycled 20 times now.
Traveler in Big Lake, summer 2011
Interior summer Traveler 2011
Floor is a recycled pool and carpet pads.
Traveler with LightSpeed tent, summer 2011
Next design: Lightspeed Gertee!
2011 was a very wet summer!
The pvc walls combined with pvc roof poles
and the light piece of metal
made the roof too light for big Valley winds.
Those are bags of rocks.
Traveler Espresso open 24 hours a day.
Making insulated floor for 10' Traveler, fall 2011
2 pieces 4x8 3/4" plywood.
The Traveler interior after rebuilt on insulated floor
using new wooden wall frames, winter 2011/12
4' wide shelf (scrap from a remodel) wall piece.
Roll of construction plastic came in really handy.
Two 10' Travelers attached by a 4' wide doorway,
with small arctic entry on the front.
Traveler cook shack, winter 2011/12
Still have the same Hunter Drolet woodstove.
Left for 3 months in early 2012.
Record snowfall winter 2011-12
Heavy snowload on the roof.
3/4 inch electrical grade grey pvc roof poles are
SUPER STRONG and yet very lightweight.
I painted them white (this is an uneccessary step).
Entry area, covered the door with bubble wrap and felt.
Close up of arctic entry
Spring 2012
Building begins Summer 2012
New 14' Gertee Greenhouse Summer 2012
with the original teepee roof style!
Attached to front door of the Travelers.
New ad Nordica designed for Home4Life.
Photo by Kathy Kitts
What's waiting for me when I go back to KL.
The original 16' roof poles caved under heavy snow.
(Skinny, burnt spruce roof poles Tim cut in 2007)
I took out the braces last spring when I redid the floor.
Tim says it has about 500 gallons of water on the roof.
But, the billboard roofcover is holding it, so far!
The 20 footer looks fine, the center 14' was always a joke.
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Radio interviews in July
Monday, July 2, 2012, 5pm AKT with James Corbett http://www.corbettreport.com/
Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 6pm AKT with Melodee Hallett http://www.khen.org/
If there's anything specific you'd like me to talk about, please let me know!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 6pm AKT with Melodee Hallett http://www.khen.org/
If there's anything specific you'd like me to talk about, please let me know!
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truthquest with melodee
Friday, June 29, 2012
Book tour coming up soon!
The paperback edition of 2020: Our Common Destiny & the Anti Communitarian Manifesto
combined into one book, is finally finished! Mail orders ship out next
week. If you pre-ordered this book sometime in the past two (?!?!?!)
years and do not receive one within the next 2 weeks, please be sure to
let us know. International orders should be received within 3
weeks.
Arrangements are underway for a book tour to the lower 48
beginning sometime in August. I'll bring a short powerpoint
presentation that will also be streamed from some of the locations where
I'm speaking. Before I leave we'll be having a local book signing party
in Anchorage, Alaska at the Tap Root in Spenard (the old Whitekeys Fly
By Night club!), probably on a Blues Monday. More details on that will
be posted here soon, along with a list of the radio shows I'm doing now.
I've got a reader who owns the original spiral bound version down in
Northwestern Montana who's generously offered to set up the venues for
that part of the state. My tentative plan is to fly to Seattle and have a
book party there and meet up with a lot of old friends and initital
contacts from 1999. I have a friend in Tacoma who may be making the
arrangements in King County. From the PNW I'll head east on
I-90, swing down to Walla Walla and back up to Spokane, Boise, and then
on to Montana and Wyoming. Depending on how it goes, I'll be adding new
destinations to my journey, but I'm certain I'd like to make it all the
way to NYC (with stops in WI, Ohio, Amherst, Long Island and Staten
Island for sure!). Best case scenario, I'll ride the train down the
coast to Florida (where I've never been) and across the south to
California, after a long tour of Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Texas.
Documentary footage of the journey is another part of the project. If
you'd like to assist with this endeavor, meet up with us for
a day, or join the party and travel with us for a
while, please be sure to let me know. Looking forward to meeting as many
of my readers as is possible, some of you I feel like I've "known" for
years.
Our return to the "fray" is also bringing the haters and the
critics out of the woodwork. I'm sure I may have to deal with them along
the way too. Maybe I'll find time to stop in DC and poke my head in at
Etzioni's office, just to say hello, and thanks for the memories!
So much has happened since we started studying the plan in 1999, and
there are a LOT more Americans who know something about it now. I get
emails all the time from regular people across the states who have just
begun speaking out against it in their municipal councils and meetings.
Two state legislatures passed Acts forbidding implementation of Agenda
21 and sustainable development, and while those two items are only
the tip of the iceberg, it's a great start! ICLEI has also been outlawed
in over a hundred towns! America had a slow start, but it looks
like it has the potential to rise to a fast finish. In some places the
local governments still DENY that their local plan has anything to do
with Local Agenda 21, and the mainstream press is painting all opponents
as right wing wackos and conspiracy theorists. These defamation of
character pieces breezily ignore the Democrats Against UN Agenda
21, and so many others like us who do not fit their right v left
dialectical con. It's "the healthy instincts of the plain man" that's
their biggest threat right now.
The updates on the outcome of Rio+20 are claiming it was a big failure.
Haven't found anything new on the proposed Rights of Mother Earth, but I
did get quite a few hits from Brazil last week on the Pachamama
article.
I'm going to sublet my gertees month-to-month while I'm gone, so if
you've ever had the desire to live in a rustic but cute
yurt setup in Alaska, here's your opportunity. The 3 gertees
connected to each other ten miles north of Wasilla are perfect
for a single or a couple, but the RV park is also kid friendly. Have to
haul water and sewage, and it's wood heat. Has electric and a well,
sewage drains, shower, laundrymat, and wireless on site. Space rent is
$450. a month. There's close access to the Parks Hwy and local stores.
My email is nikiraapana@gmail.com
Friday, June 15, 2012
The Green Virgin - Pachamama
The Green Virgin - Pachamama
The final balance between Common Law
and the Law of Mother Nature
by Niki Raapana, June 14, 2012
Looming behind all the rhetoric about Climate Change, social justice,
equity, and sustainable development, there is a religious-political
force that is so powerful it has no resistance. We are entering the
"perfect" finale in Darwinian social evolution. We are becoming as
"One."
Pachamama is the goddess of Communitarianism. Promoted by groups of
Indigenous Peoples from around the world, Mother Earth will get full
human "rights" during the upcoming Rio+20 celebrations. Pachamama's Law
is also referred to as "the 11 Laws of Nature."
Move aside Gaia. Olympus has been overthrown! Pachamama has come
back to life in the cocaine fields of Bolivia. Not Gaia and not
Maat, only Pachamama is set to be crowned as Green Goddess of the United
Nations in 2012, by King Cocaine himself. No lesser gods or goddesses
share Her high place in 21st century history. She is the Mother of the
World. Under Big Mother, with the guidance of Her beloved spiritual
agents for change and transformation, all of humanity will naturally balance all conflicting beliefs, in order to save the planet from certain destruction.
"Though cause and effect are
notoriously difficult to prove in climatology, the chief culprit behind
global warming is thought to be the build-up of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere, arising from the use of coal, oil and gas during the past
200 years." 1
Everyone has heard by now that Climate Change is an emergency of epic proportions. The world faces the biggest threat to human life since the Big Flood. But don't worry everybody. The situation is under control. There will be no need to find a Noah or build an arc this time.
"What is responsible? It is capitalism.
Sometimes we fail to look at the root causes of global warming. For the
last two or three years we have seen the four crises of capitalism: the
economic crisis, the climate crisis, the food crisis, and the energy
crisis." Bolivian President Evo Morales speaking at COP 16, 2010
2
Our great Green Goddess is not Yaweh or
Allah. The Virgin is not Greek. She's not Isis or a Pagan, Celtic, or
Roman goddess. She not Mother Mary and not the blessed Virgin. She's not
a Hebrew on a mission to kill the hybred Nephalim seed.
In Mother World's morality play, only Her transgressors will
be sentenced to death; the obediant, no matter what their DNA, are
spared. Her priests will lead willing humanity back to the centre of all
life. The unwilling will be sentenced to living in a Hell on Earth.
Tightly intertwined with the calls for building a global Green Economy, this proposal for a UN approved Global Green Religious Legal framework solidly establishes the rights of the Green Goddess. The more "ethical" ideology of achieving full Harmony with Nature is the goal of all UN sustainable development agendas. The force behind the Pachamama, the revived "communitarian spirit of community," is often reverantly mentioned by the people who have been elevated to the global priesthood. Most human sacrifices to Pachamama are completely unaware of what they owe and what their new responsibility is in this global cult of the Earth goddess, or the accelerating global authority of She, whose laws must be obeyed. We are witnesses to a phenomenal global change into monotheistic "intensive cult worship."
nature worship, Earth, from Britannica Online:Tightly intertwined with the calls for building a global Green Economy, this proposal for a UN approved Global Green Religious Legal framework solidly establishes the rights of the Green Goddess. The more "ethical" ideology of achieving full Harmony with Nature is the goal of all UN sustainable development agendas. The force behind the Pachamama, the revived "communitarian spirit of community," is often reverantly mentioned by the people who have been elevated to the global priesthood. Most human sacrifices to Pachamama are completely unaware of what they owe and what their new responsibility is in this global cult of the Earth goddess, or the accelerating global authority of She, whose laws must be obeyed. We are witnesses to a phenomenal global change into monotheistic "intensive cult worship."
"Although in polytheistic religions the
earth is usually represented as a goddess and associated with the god of
heaven as her spouse, only rarely is there an elaborate or intensive
cult of earth worship. 3
The Pachamama is world history in the
making. And, the best part is, She's got heavy financial backing. She
comes with a complex new set of bankers' laws that everyone must obey.
"The methodology Pachamama Raymi
was developed at the end of the eighties in Peru, in the Rural Development Program
PRODERM,
financed by the Dutch Foreign Cooperation and the European Union and
the Peruvian government. The main intellectual author and promoter of
the methodology was Willem van Immerzeel. He introduced and further
developed the methodology in Bolivia, Guatemala and Chile, adding new
elements, improving others, and adjusting it to specific cultural and
institutional realities.
"The Pachamama Raymi methodology has demonstrated its scalability showing it can be applied in micro and mega projects. Scaling up was first demonstrated in projects financed by the European Union (from PRODERM, to PAC-II, and ALA 94/89) and later by several IFAD projects (MARENASS, Sierra Sur and others)." 4
"The Pachamama Raymi methodology has demonstrated its scalability showing it can be applied in micro and mega projects. Scaling up was first demonstrated in projects financed by the European Union (from PRODERM, to PAC-II, and ALA 94/89) and later by several IFAD projects (MARENASS, Sierra Sur and others)." 4
Big Mama's miraculous appearance settles the rights dilemma, once and for all.
"It makes world history. Earth is the mother of all", said
Vice-President Alvaro García Linera. "It establishes a new relationship
between man and nature, the harmony of which must be preserved as a
guarantee of its regeneration."
"The law, which is part of a complete restructuring of the Bolivian
legal system following a change of constitution in 2009, has been
heavily influenced by a resurgent indigenous Andean spiritual world view
which places the environment and the earth deity known as the Pachamama
at the centre of all life. Humans are considered equal to all other
entities." The Guardian UK, April 10, 2011 5
The individually protected "rights of
the people" are ended. Advice from Christian texts no longer apply. All
sovereignty was declared a barrier to justice, equality, and illuminated
leadership, several decades ago. In the outdated American system, all
protections from government intrusions were declared as natural born
rights. Individual Rights were claimed to come from the Creator (but a
debate rages over which Creator the founders meant). In the end,
it's not the Architect of the Universe, Baal, Dagon, Satan or Lucifer
who rules the New World Order. The God to end all other Gods is Mother World, and She
has "rights" too. Pachamama's "rights" are just as valid as the
"rights" claimed by mortal men, plus She has the additional right of
trying mortal men in her international tribunal... but that's only
because she's a good mother.
"…The peoples of the world also suggest establishing an international
tribunal regarding climate justice. Anyone who fails to respect the
rights of mother earth should stand trial for it." Bolivian President
Evo Morales speaking at COP 16, 2010 6
Mother Earth has the "right" to determine how many humans can live on Her. Only She who must be obeyed
can determine the "best use" of Her resources. Only our Big Mother
knows what humans shall take from Her breast and belly. Her rape ends
now. Humans have almost detroyed all her beautiful gifts. There is only
one thing that can save Earth. Pachamama's absolute dominion over
mankind is the saving grace that will stop Climate Change and social
injustice. She will transition all humanity from selfish rights to
charitable responsibilities. Her high priests already prepared us to be
one people, one planet, with one shared future vision.
Americans must embrace the final vision, before it's too late! We must commit to capitulating to every demand made on our people, no matter how insane it all sounds to us. We have to evolve with the rest of the planet. We're making some progress, as Bill Clinton recently told a Berkeley audience, "We're more communitarian now than we were in 1994." But we have to do more. It is all our fault anyway, so we have to fix it now too.
Our skills, abilities, and resourcefulness are competencies necessary to achieving the vision. Humans are only the branches on trees bearing the fruit in the womb of the great Virgin. It is our fruit that must be ripened and plucked before the vision can be manifested entirely. In this epic story, Eve is not tempted to pick the fruit, she is summoned to become the fruit.
"Competence trees are special futures techniques that essentially allow
an organisation, group or community to identify and evaluate its
specific skills and level of competency. The real benefit of applying
this technique, however, lies not in its ability to highlight internal
competences, but rather to enable the mobilisation of key people on the
basis of these competences in an attempt to create and effectively
achieve a shared future vision." 7
According to the richest and most inbred
families on Earth, the emergency situation facing humanity is so
pressing and so horribly dangerous, humans will only survive IF we all
agree to become one big kibbutz, under one world religion, with one set
of religious banker's laws. We're evolving into one big mob, under the
guidance of the very educated, and very rich.
For twenty years illuminated Americans
have been rebuilding communities to fit into a communitarian wholistic
system of law. For over a hundred years they've been teaching their own
Book of Revelations that would manifest as the Ecozeric Era. In 2012,
the entire globe is prepared to bow before the "rights" of Pachamama,
although they'll do it under the uplifting guise of benign sounding
phrases like holistic sustainable community revitalization.
"Sustainable development and sustainability influence today's urban
planners. Some planners argue that modern lifestyles use too many
natural resources, polluting or destroying ecosystems, increasing social
inequality, creating urban heat islands, and causing climate change.
Many urban planners, therefore, advocate sustainable cities." 9
In just a few days, Pachamama
worshippers will manifest the vision. There will be rituals and animal
scarifices to celebrate Her crowning in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The West
and East won't celebrate; most people in those regions may not learn
about the Green Goddess until after they pay fines in courts to be
built.
The only humans enlightened enough to appreciate this miraculous virgin rebirth in the East and West are: Rockefellers, monopolists, corporate vsionaries, Fabians, highborn Rockefeller/Morgan affiliates in every sustainable and more "caring" business, Communists, Nazis, Zionists, Natives, Greens, Luciferians, Vatican II Catholics, Neo Muslims, Masons, Methodists, Mormons, Bahai, Gaians, OWS, and Cabalists.
The only humans enlightened enough to appreciate this miraculous virgin rebirth in the East and West are: Rockefellers, monopolists, corporate vsionaries, Fabians, highborn Rockefeller/Morgan affiliates in every sustainable and more "caring" business, Communists, Nazis, Zionists, Natives, Greens, Luciferians, Vatican II Catholics, Neo Muslims, Masons, Methodists, Mormons, Bahai, Gaians, OWS, and Cabalists.
The necromancer most responsible for reawakening the Andean Pachamama is a little old revolutionary terrorist from the old Haganah gangs that "de-invited" the British in 1947, named Amitai Etzioni. Trained and financed by Nazis and Bolsheviks to gain "independence" for political Zionism after WWII, Etzioni, an indoctrinated communist kibbutz raised soldier, was sent to study Buber, Cabala, and Talmudic dialectical tactics for manipulating the masses.
Upon graduation, special agent Amitai Etzioni (known to the FBI only as Mega) was assigned to the U.S.A. The Mossad motto is "through deception thy will do war." In 1958, Etzioni began his new career as a leading American sociologist at Berekley. It took twenty years, but in 1979 he was a White House advisor to President Carter, under special assistant Richard Harden.
Once hidden under the guise of sweet
little professor, firmly entrenched in D.C., Etzioni went to work on
phase 2 of his assignment. He predicted Communitarianism would become
the global "perfect" middle ground between too many rights and not
enough responsibilities (capitalism), or not enough rights and too many
responsibilities (communism).
Etzioni's 1990 Communitarian Platform
defined his goal as helping Americans find a necessary balance between
excessive individualism-selfishness and the more moral rights of the
"community." The definition of community was left necessarily vague. His
moral "shoring up" teaches the need for new global citizenship based on
an equal division between citizen's Rights and Responsibilities. He's
written more than thirty books on the subject. He travels the globe
advising governments on the need for harmonization.
Etzioni was Bill Clinton's "silent" mentor, Hillary Clinton praised Etzioni in her book "It Takes A Village," and the Obamas have known Etzioni since they began their Communitarian neighborhood activist training at Northwestern University under Communitarian Network Professor John McNight.
Etzioni's idea for Community Policing was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1994. Today it is a worldwide policing strategy. Prominent Communitarian author Robert Putnam was President George Bush Jr's Press Secretary. Putnam described Bush's Compassionate Conservatism as Etzioni's idea of Communitarianism to the Washington Post in 2002.
So how is Amitai Etzioni connected to the rebirth of the Andean Pachamama, exactly?
Pachamama represents Communitarian Socialism to the Bolivians who wrote it into their new constitution in 2009.
This was not the first time Bolivia's first indigenous president had raised the concept of "communitarian socialism". In his April 2008 speech to the United Nations, Morales spoke of the need for "a communitarian socialism in harmony with Mother Earth". Green Left Weekly 11
"Traditionally, citizenship regimes in Latin America relied on
corporatist forms of interest intermediation. Corporatist systems are
one subset of a larger grouping of communitarian approaches to
state-society relations. All communitarian approaches assume "a formal,
political role for groups in defining some state-society relations."
Because identities, preferences, interests, and meanings are grounded in
social constructs and rooted in the community, communitarians suggest
that groups are an important political unit. As such, groups (ethnic,
class, sectarian etc.) are typically the prevailing political unit in
communitarian systems. This was the dominant citizenship regime type in
corporatist Latin America. Conversely, liberal citizenship regimes have
always promoted the individual as the primary political unit. For
liberals, "The individual possesses certain rights and responsibilities
and, in large part, acts to maximize personal autonomy, interests, and
capacities," notes Yashar. Over the course of the last three decades,
and with particular alacrity during the 1980s and 1990s, Latin America
regimes, as a response to a host of economic, fiscal, and political
pressures, mutated from corporatist to neoliberal citizenship regimes."
Adam Galleger in a review of Contesting Citizenship in Latin America by Deborah Yashar 12
Several writers have described the
communal traditions in Bolivian tribal communities as having been based
in "communitarian tradition" for 500 years.
"Vargas Llosa’s position has been reprised during recent struggles in Bolivia in a
variety of ways. Analysts critical of the social movement effort have
pointed to the ways that urbanites of indigenous descent "idealize the
rural and communitarian tradition of their ancestors in order to oppose
it to a present in which they have achieved less than they hope"
(Laserna 2003). In a speech after his removal from office,5 Sánchez de
Lozada charged that Bolivia’s social movements "don’t believe in
democracy," and he contrasted orderly "representative democracy" to an
"authoritarian communalistic democracy" that is based on the supposed
"assemblies" of Bolivia’s indigenous societies." 13
"David Choquehuanca in an interview elaborated on the communal roots
that facilitate the construction of socialism: "We have always governed
ourselves in our communities. This is why we maintain our customs,
perform our own music, speak our own Aymaran language, in spite of a
500-year effort to erase these things – our music, our language and our
culture. In a state of clandestinity, we have upheld our values,
economic forms, our own types of communitarian organization, which are
all being reappraised now. This is why we are incorporating into
socialism something that has resisted for 500 years - the communitarian
element. We want to build our own socialism." 14
Etzioni's Diversity Within Unity Platform is another aspect similar to the Bolivian ideology.
"The basic approach we favor is diversity within unity. It presumes that
all members of a given society will fully respect and adhere to those
basic values and institutions that are considered part of the basic
shared framework of the society. At the same time, every group in
society is free to maintain its distinct subculture-those policies,
habits, and institutions that do not conflict with the shared core-and a
strong measure of loyalty to its country of origin, as long as this
does not trump loyalty to the society in which it lives if these
loyalties come into conflict. Respect for the whole and respect for all
is at the essence of our position." Amitai Etzioni 16
"Both women and the model of the Good Life seek unity within diversity
since the more we are organized in specific groups, the more our social
and communitarian meaning increases." The Pachamama Alliance blog, May
21, 2012 13 1
Another picece that ties Etzioni to the
Dutch Corporation's investments in rural Bolivia may be in Etzioni's
advice to EU presidents, his travels to the Netherlands, and his close
association with the Dutch PM.
"It is noteworthy that Etzioni hardly addresses the religious socialist
roots of Buber's idea of community. Which were originally strongly
influenced by the anarchist socialist thinking of his friend Gustav
Landauer. From there, there was an influence on the kibbutz movement. At
the utopian socialist ideas as Buber in "Pfade in Utopia" shows,
Etzioni pays any attention. That would be huge commitment to
communitarian thinking probably not do well, but the debate about it.
Buber chooses Landauer for a minimum state: there is only need the state
where the community is not really the case can regulate themselves. But
where there is no real responsibility or more communities, the state
must take responsibility. A current perspective for the Dutch debate,
where the CDA in the communitarian Aryan thought a strange and confusing
has entered into alliance with liberal individualism." Karl Barth
(google translated from Dutch) 18
Active in the New World Order Project
since the 1960s, Dr. Amitai Etzioni is credited with introducing the
theory of Communitarianism to "the upper reaches of academia" in the
late 1980s. Etzioni is heralded as the "father" and "guru" of
Communitarianism.
Some of his activities include (this is a partial list from Etzioni's online bio):
Member, Committee on International Order 1963-1969, Chairman, Committee on International Order 1968-1969, Founding Member, Research Advisory Group of the World Order Models Project. Yale University Law School (World Law Fund) 1969-1971, Member, Administrative Board, Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University 1970-1974 {ed. lol!}, Member, Governing Council, American Jewish Congress 1973-1975, Member, Council on Foreign Relations 1976-1988, Founder and First President, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 1989-1990, Member, Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of the Living Economics/ Living Economy Network Initiative 1988- , Member, National Advisory Committee of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs 1989- , Member, Special Committee on Lawyering in the 21st Century, American Association of Law Schools 1989- Member, Founding Board, PEGS, Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society 1992- Member, New York Times Syndicate 1993- Member, Council of Advisors, National Civic League 1992-1994, Member, Board of Directors, Character Education 1993-1995, Partnership Member, Advisory Council, Character Education 1995- , Partnership Member, Executive Committee, Character Education Partnership 1993-1994, Member, International Advisory Board, New Israeli 1994 Interdisciplinary University of Law, Management and Technology, Member, AmeriCorps Launch Committee 1994, Founder and First President, The Communitarian Network 1994- ,Member, Advisory Board, TIKKUN Magazine 1995- , Member, Citizens For Service Advisory Board 1995-" 19
If the Bolvians did not get the term
from Etzioni (who coined the term), then the only other possibility I
can think of is the Pope or his priests, who have actually been much
more forthright in their description of Communitarianism. Catholic
priests and Pope John Paul II defined Communitarianism (as we do) as the
final, perfect, Hegelian synthesis between capitalism and communism.
Catholic change agents briefly introduced the dialectical concept to
South Americans as a new form called Market Socialism.
DIVINE MERCY APOSTOLATE HOLLAND CELEBRATES 4th
INTER-COMMUNITARIAN FEAST OF MERCY by Malou Pimentel
The Netherlands-April 24, 2012
On
a chilly yet sunny Sunday of April 15, 2012, the Divine Mercy
Apostolate Holland celebrated its fourth inter-communitarian Feast of
Mercy. The Filipino- Dutch Catholic Community of Haarlem hosted this
annual Mercy Sunday at Pastoor van Arskerk in Haarlem, The Netherlands.
The theme was:
“ PROCLAIM TO THE WHOLE WORLD MY UNFATHOMABLE MERCY .”
The Divine Mercy Apostolate Holland has for its goal of mission to bring the Divine Mercy Flame
to communities of faith. Instead of communities going and searching for His Mercy.
Thus, creating the SPIRIT OF INTERCOMMUNITARIAN,
coming together once a year as people of faith, worshipping the Lord as one family of God.
The SPARKS OF MERCY has to reach everyone in all
denominations, races and cultures “ UNITY IN DIVERSITY “.
We praise the Mighty Merciful Lord that parishes in the land have started celebrating the Mercy Sunday.
Pachamama was ressurected by the
Communitarians to become the blessed Mother of us all, and much like
Etzioni's Cabbalistic interpretation of the oral and secret Talmud with a
good mix of Greek and New Testament sentiments, the Pachamama is less
of a religion and more of a law religionalized. While it was
always apparent to this writer that there would eventually be a global
Communitarian Church, the conditioning for acceptence was well underway
by the time I got into the reseacrh in 1999, but all the evidence I saw
pointed towards either the Vatican or revived Sanhendrin Court taking
the leading role in the new world religion. Our attention was
sucessfully directed toward JerusaLondon, when all along the new world
Communitarian religion was manifesting in Bolivia!
"Speaking before an estimated 15,000 people, including several Latin
American heads of state; government representatives from Africa, Asia,
and Europe; and indigenous delegations, Morales detailed his
government's proposal for establishing an international climate justice
court, passage of a U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth,
reparations from rich countries to assist poor and low-lying nations
that will be impacted by the effects of climate change, and financing of
clean energy technologies. He also urged countries to open their
borders to future waves of climate refugees."
Philosophy, history, and political
science texts published prior to 1990 have few to no references for the
term Communitarian. Zero out of a thousand Americans had ever heard the
word when we asked them in 2000. Nobody we talked to knew what it was,
even now, and many people actually accused us of "making it up."
Today Communitarianism is still very obscure, the primary sources
mentioning it remain academic publications, but it's much more
frequently used by mainstream news and bloggers. It's only been over the
past three or four years that we found papers identifying it as the
basis for so many varied religious beliefs.
The big Communitarian idea for lasting
harmony and peace includes a mandatory "balance" between the rights of
individuals against their new responsibilities to the "community."
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia and Britannica, the theory was
introduced into upper academia in the late 1980s by several writers
coming from various theological and theoretical backgrounds. Alasdair MacIntyre,
Catholic professor at Notre Dame, taught a slightly different variety
of communitarianism than the "guru" of the Communitarian Movement,
former Middle Eastern terrorist Dr. Amitai Etzioni. The bottom line to
all the theory is that Communitarianism represents the "common
good."
"Common Good. This has been defined as
"everything that is good to more than one person, that perfects more
than one person, that is common to all" (Argandoña 1998, p. 1095). It is
the fulfillment of a company's purpose as a company, that is, the
creation of conditions that enable its stakeholders achieve their
personal goals. The good for the individual translates normatively into the good for the community.
A 1905 letter sent by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson on the
transfer of authority over national forestlands to the U.S. Forest
Service noted that "all land is to be devoted to its most productive use
for the permanent good of the whole people, and not for the temporary
benefit of individuals or companies" (Pinchot 1974, p. 261). The common
good, as a communication ethic, transcends the values and interests of
any single group." 20
The basis for the theory of
Communitarian Forestry Management is well-established. The U.S.
Department of State is the lead agency for harmonization in the United
States. The U.S. Dept of Forestry and U.S. Dept of Agriculture, the
agencies responsible for harmonizing all the land and people at the
local community levels, were built entirely upon the inevitable "need"
for Communitarian Harmony with Nature.
"Charles Darwin (1809-1882) shocked the conceit of humanity by placing
human evolution alongside that of animals, that is, as part of nature.
The evolutionary explanation of the proliferation of life on earth
undermined dualistic philosophies thousands of years old. Darwin’s
works, The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871),
became important sources in the development of environmentalism and
environmental ethics. Dietrich Brandis, a German scientist, pioneered
forestry management in India and Graves, as well as Gifford Pinchot, who
would later head the United States Forest Service..." 21
Pachamama's Rights aren't the only
communitarian practices being introduced in the busy, behind-the-scenes
workshops and consensus groups. The proposed UN Forestry Management
Practices at the Rio+20 Earth Summit are offically defined as
"communitarian."
Communitarian forest management to assure Sustainable Development
"Communitarian forest management (CFM) is a common practice in several
countries of Latin America. Sustainable communitarian forest management
helps to mitigate the effects of environmental degradation and climate
change and promotes rural development by the creation of more employment
opportunities in the forest sector, which strengthens the local
economies and eradicates rural poverty. Thus, the communitarian forest
management provides multiple ecologic, economic and social benefits, and
can inspire other nations to learn from the experiences in Mexico and
Central America to adopt similar strategies to promote sustainable
development.
"Our side event will show what is crucial for successful and sustainable communitarian forest management, how it fosters local governance and how it improves local development. At the same time, challenges and needs will be presented to foster communitarian forest management that benefits nature and society in the local and global context. " UNCSD 15 22
"Our side event will show what is crucial for successful and sustainable communitarian forest management, how it fosters local governance and how it improves local development. At the same time, challenges and needs will be presented to foster communitarian forest management that benefits nature and society in the local and global context. " UNCSD 15 22
The world has only Global Citizens now,
and with citizenship comes responsibilities. A primary requirement for
good standing in the emerging structure for global governance (not
government) is selfless (but profitable) service to the community.
Everyone must serve. The community's got your back.
It's not a coincidence or a mistake that
Occupy Wall Street mutated into Occupy the Earth and headed for Rio+20.
23 The OWS leadership has made an officially recognized UN committment
to working for global communitarian harmony with Mother Earth. The great
transition into our global common destiny is in the final wrecking
stages. Like the Twin Towers, our system of government and laws is about
to go "poof!"
Those who have not been warned or
educated about the way communitarianism is predestined to become the
perfect, final solution to global problems and dialectical conflicts are
the most easily convinced to adopt MamaZioni's Communitarian
values and principles. Their lovliest, lofty vague phrases
have many levels of interpretations, and the naive person who takes a
Communitarian's word at face value is in for a rude awakening.
Harmony means one thing to a peace lovin' happy hippie, it means something else to a devout Christian or Muslim, it means another thing to a musican, and it means something entirely different to a Mossad-trained Communitarian COP.
Harmony means one thing to a peace lovin' happy hippie, it means something else to a devout Christian or Muslim, it means another thing to a musican, and it means something entirely different to a Mossad-trained Communitarian COP.
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http://www.intercambioclimatico.com/en/2010/12/09/president-morales-tells-world-leaders-not-to-forget-the-people/#more-824 Bolivian President Evo Morales’ 10 commandments to save the planet, life and humanity http://www.occasionalplanet.org/?p=4983 {Commandments reprinted in full at end of this Source list}
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Communitarian Socialism in Bolivia, By Roger Burbach, April 5, 2010
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Liberating Pachamama Corporate Greed, Bolivia, and Peasant Resistance by Daphne Eviatar
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An ethic for sustainable forest management in sub-Saharan Africa
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United Nations A/66/302* General Assembly Distr.: General 15 August 2011 Original:
English 11-45314* (E) 230911 *1145314* Sixty-sixth session Item 19 (h)
of the provisional agenda** Sustainable development: Harmony with Nature
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Additional Reading:
Bolivian President Evo Morales’ 10 commandments to save the planet, life and humanity http://www.occasionalplanet.org/?p=4983
First: a call to end the capitalist system. The capitalist system was inhuman and encouraged unbridled economic development. The exploitation of human beings and pillaging of natural resources must end, as should wars aimed at securing access to those resources. Also, the world should end the plundering of fossil fuels; excessive consumption of goods; the accumulation of waste; as well as the egoism, regionalism and thirst for earning where the pursuit of luxury was taking place at the expense of human beings. Countries of the south were heaped with external debt, when it was the ecological debt that needed paying.
Second, the world should denounce war, which brought advantage to a small few, he said. In that vein, it was time to end occupation under the pretext of "combating drugs", such as in South America, as well as other pretexts such as searching for weapons of mass destruction. Money earmarked for war should be channeled to make reparations for damage caused to the Earth.
Third, there should be a world without imperialism, he said, where no country was dependent upon or subordinate to another. States must look for complementarity rather than engage in unfair competition with each other. Member States of the United Nations should consider the asymmetry that exists among nations and seek a way to lessen deep economic differences. Moving along those lines, he said the Security Council — with its lifelong members holding veto rights — should be democratized.
Fourth, he said access to water should be treated as a human right, and policies allowing the privatization of water should be banned. Indigenous peoples had a long experience of mobilizing themselves to uphold the right to water. He proposed that they put forth the idea of forming an international convention on water to guarantee it as a human right and to protect against its appropriation by a select few.
Fifth, he said the world should promote clean and eco-friendly energies, as well as end the wasteful use of energy. He said it was understood that fossil fuels were nearing depletion, yet those who promoted biofuels in their place were making "a serious mistake". It was not right to set aside land not for the benefit of human beings, but so that a small few could operate luxurious vehicles. It was also because of biofuels that the price of rice and bread has risen; and the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were now warning that such policies must be prevented. The world should explore more sustainable forms of alternative energy, such as geothermal, solar, wind and hydro-electric power.
Sixth, he said there should be more respect for Mother Earth, and the indigenous movement must bring its influence to bear in fostering that attitude. The world must stop thinking of Mother Earth in the capitalist sense — which was that of a raw material to be traded. For who could privatize or hire out his mother?
Seventh, he stressed the importance of gaining access to basic services for all. Services such as education and transport should not be the preserve of private trade.
Eighth, he urged the consumption of only what was necessary and what was produced locally. There was a need to end consumerism, waste and luxury. It was an irony that millions of dollars were being spent to combat obesity in one half of the globe, while the other was dying of hunger. He said the impending food crisis would necessarily bring an end to the free market, where countries suffering hunger were being made to export their food. There was a similar case with oil, where the priority lay in selling it abroad, rather than domestically.
Ninth, he said it was important to promote unity and diversity of economies, and that the indigenous movement should put forth a call for unity and diversity in the spirit of multi-lateralism.
Tenth, the world should live under the tenet of "trying to live well", he said, but not at the expense of others.
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