FAKE COINS FOR SOME FAKE DEMOCRACY ? OR FAKE DEMOCRACY FOR ALL .....I WANT MINE WITH CUSTARD PLEASE.....

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luni, 16 iunie 2014

Is Modern Democracy a Fake Coin ?: Why Reinventing Democracy a Dire Need of Our Age? A BOOK BY PALAKUDY The word 'democracy' gives out vibrant images of an open, transparent, free world of equal men. But is the bottom substance and spirit of modern democracy truthful to these images ? A close look reveals that modern democracy is a fake coin, that has nothing to do with the above noble images.

There are many places to get ancient  imperial coins. 

 Sources include uncleaned countries like Vietname that mint the best ROMAN AND CELTIC coins,  THEY MINT BETTER SILVER DOLLARS THAN THE CHINESE OR THE PUERTO RIQUEÑOS  old
collections OF FORGERIES ARE NOW AT SALE IN MANY COUNTRY CLUBS , and auctions. Most likely you have coins that you obtained from an
uncleaned lot (or that someone before you got from an uncleaned lot). Knowing
where this coin came from can be a huge help (especially if the coin is Greek
or Roman Provincial, covered in another guide). For Roman Imperial coins, such
information can help narrow down the mint mainly, but can sometimes help with identification
of the emperor. While we are on the subject of uncleaned coins, I would like to
extend the advice to clean your coins well enough so that you can see all
legends and images on the coin, but be careful not to overclean them.

Step 2: Identifying the Denomination

Below are the denominations possible in ancient coins, and tips to identifying which
you have. Gold coins have been excluded because, chances are if you have a
genuine gold Roman coin you won’t need to read this guide. 

Silver:

1.      Denarius:
These will be silver (white metal) and range in size from about 18-19mm, but
some may be smaller to a slight degree. The emperor’s image on these coins will
always be laureate (no “spikes” in the hair, just leafy devices in a line that
extend from behind the ears to the top of the head).

2.      Quinarius:
These are nearly the same as denarii, except they are smaller, about 14-15mm.
These are much rarer than denarii. 

3.      SilverAntoninianus (or Silvered): 
In the case of emperors, the portrait is always
radiate (with a spiked crown). Empresses can sometimes have a crescent under
their busts, but will not have a radiate crown

A IMPERIAL CROWN 
THAT DON'T RADIATE ANY POWER - AMERIKA
EXCEPT NUCLEAR ...POWER

THE LAST FALL OF THE AMERICAN  EMPIRE.....

MART ALL MARS ALL MARTIAL OR MORTAL KOMBAT - A MORALIDADE DO LEÃO É DIFERENTE DA DO CORDEIRO - ISIL OR ISIS OR OSIRIS THE COGS IN THE KILLING MACHINE GOING NUTS AND DIE FOR GOODSAKE OR FOR GODSAKE BUT NOT FOR SAKE ....BANZAI ...TORA TORA TORA ..ROBERT ANSON HEILEIN - O IRAK AGUENTA AGUENTA OR THE KURDISTAN HAVE A NEW KAPITAL IN KIRKUK?

First,  the contents of this tale are loudly and unapologetically pro-military in their essence.

 Starship Troopers: Fascist manifesto or the most deadpan satire ever written?

Either way it is necessary to work out what is wrong with the society portrayed in the novel and also where the faults in the moral "logic" presented lie. First up - brainwashing: all societies to some extent attempt to "instill their values" in (i.e. brainwash) their youth but setting up History and Moral Philosophy lessons in schools is a clear step too far. (A bit like Citizenship classes or flag worship.)

Second: The axiom: It's harder to argue with the logic than the premise - if the axioms are false any logical results derived from them may also be false. In this case the axioms appear to be: No statement of morality that goes against natural law is valid. Survival of the fittest is a natural law. Hence humans have no moral obligation to any other species.
I prefer: One's moral standards are not tested until they conflict with self interest or indifference. No species or individual has intrinsic moral superiority over another. This means humans are morally responsible to every other species - an opposite conclusion.



The quasi-fascist hints arise in bits such as accusing 20th century democracy of "decadence" (76), anti-intellectualism (93), neo-spenserian eugenicism (but with an underlying erroneous understanding of evolutionary theory--see 123-24--where evolution represents absolute progress rather than relative progress), neo-spenglerianism regarding how humanity appears to have reached its "ultimate peak"(126), a mysticism that falsely distinguishes "a producing-consuming economic animal" from "a man" (136), a general militarism (which, following Mr. Vagts, is distinct from military doctrine & ethos), positive presentation of Bavarian Freikorps/Beer Hall Putschism (142-43), belligerence as both genetic & moral (147), and of course the virulent anti-communism.

As to that last, we are treated to some perfectly predictable mccarthyist claptrap: "Mr. Dubois had said, 'Of course the Marxian definition of value is ridiculous. All the work one cares to add will not turn a mud pie into an apple tart'" (75). (The sentiment represents both a misstatement of the origin of the labor theory of value as well as a misunderstanding of what the theory asserts--but what more might be expected from an arriere garde philistine?)

On the other hand, however, the novel presents the arachnid enemies as a positive example of some sort of communism: "We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commissars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo" (121). Passing over the evopsych bullshit about evolutionary adaption to an economics, the sentiment is also casually racist, insofar as it expresses the normal cold war psychopathy regarding Asian communist military doctrine. Perhaps it would be more accurate to state that the Koreans and Vietnamese and Chinese and Laotians and Cambodians and Indonesians and other Asian states whose millions were killed by the United States did in fact care about their soldiers quite a bit, but realized, following the same military ethos rightly admired by Heinlein, that some sacrifices are necessary in order to achieve the political ends decided by the state, such as maintenance of some sort of independence or beating back an invader that might reasonably, if wrongly, be expected to annihilate the resisting population. The hypocrisy and myopia are astounding, even if the presentation is sufficiently artful and ambiguous to make it worth discussing.

All that said, and as much as it pains me to admit it, this one just cooks along, despite all of the johngaltism and embedded rightwing propaganda.

Recommended for orphans from dead outfits, swivel chair hussars, and hydrocephalic gorillas
 It's a scary book, in the way that some political fiction is scary - 1984, Brave New World, Darkness at Noon - but I just can't quite figure out if Heinlein was serious or satirical. It's an interesting excercise to compare and contrast Heinlein's "democracy" with the society of the ancient Spartan state

He replied with a wink sonny boy, haven't you heard of the motto - first obey, then complain ? and that settled it. 
Abandoning a life of comforts and being with loved ones, a lot of these men and women stand guard for nation states who take them for granted and whose deaths in relative peace time are just a single column news buried deep in the papers.... I had all these on mind when I read the first two chapters of this book and from then on things went downhill !

Somewhere in the future, the world is an amalgamation of nations forming something called the Terran Republic, which relies substantially on the military as a form of maintaining peace and diplomatic relations. Beyond a point, the threat arises from somewhere beyond the galaxy in the form of bugs (very similar to the Xenomorph from Alien(s) but far more advanced in intellect) and it then becomes an either us or them scenario. To speak of the story line is to speak of Juan Rico who travels from being a recruit to a Lieutanant by the time we finish the tale.
 let's get the old debate out of the way: Was Heinlein deliberately describing a 
Fascist OR ISLAMIST OR SOVIETIC society in positive terms? Yes. 
 in which a teacher, praising the system in which only veterans have the right to vote, says the following: 
"To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives - such as mine to make your lives miserable once a day. _Force_ if you will! - the franchise is force, naked and raw, the Power of the Rods and the Axe." That was probably intentionally written to go over the heads of the less-educated among his readers: for those of you who still don't get it, go look up the word "fasces" on wikipedia before continuing to read this review.

Now that we've gotten that settled once and for all, let's consider _why_ Heinlein, who leaned heavily toward an extreme libertarian position politically, wrote a book that glamorizes FANATIC'S , that even dupes his fans into supporting it theoretically. 
I believe it was Heinlein's intention to prove how easy it was to get democratic citizens to fall for the trap of longing for a seemingly ordered society, to dehumanize "the enemy" (as "Bugs" as easily as "Krauts" or "Gooks"), and to conflate patriotism with self-destructive stupidity. This book does this, precisely by tricking its readers into being unwitting fascists. He deliberately avoids all the ugliness and problems of a fascist society and presents it exactly as it would be presented through propaganda - as perfect and nearly Utopian, in no way threatened by its own weaknesses, but only by hostile, subhuman forces which must be beaten through force. Heinlein understood the appeal of fascism nto least because he was himself capable of falling into the trap, and therefore knew exactly how to lay it for others.

I admit to coming to this book through the Verhoeven film-version, which relied heavily upon fascist imagery to make the same point somewhat more clumsily. As a result, I was a bit annoyed by the technically improbable device of "powered space armor" which many fans of the book see as central. Tying this in with the fascist theme, however, it was typical of fascist military propaganda to make the individual soldier appear as an unstoppable, hyper-masculinized killing machine, and that is what the powered armor achieves. In spite of their considerable individual capacity to destroy, however, Heinlein makes sure that the soldiers are cogs in a larger killing machine, incapable of truly independent thought or action (and happy to be so).

One interesting facet of this book is the indeterminacy of the main character's racial heritage - Heinlein's point here appears to be that fascism need not be "racist" in traditional human terms, so long as there is some "other" (the "Bugs") to hate. He is from Buenos Aires, has the Spanish-European sounding name of "Rico" but notes that his "native language" is Tagalog, which would make him appear to be of Filippino origin. Samuel R. Delaney claims in the appendix to "Triton" to have found a description that demonstrates that Rico is black, although this writer has never identified the passage of which he speaks. 
A black Filippino Brazilian would indeed seem "multicultural" by current standards, to say nothing of the standards of the 1950s, and this approach is indeed bold in its implication that a more ordered society could solve the "race problem" to a point where race is simply invisible - no one comments on the narrator's racial appearance in any context, not even the narrator himself.

The price of freedom is dictatorship, as Jello Biafra once commented

E O PAÍS AGUENTARÁ UM SÉCULO XXI DE DESERDADOS ....DA REVELOUÇÃO DO SÉCULO EM AZEITÃO FERVENTE OU NA FALHA ACEBUCHE TANTO FAX....FAX É OUTRA COUSA QUE VAI PASSAR DE MODA...NÃO TEM FAX? NÃO NÃO TENHO...E-MAIL TENHO MAS NEM ME LEMBRO DA PALAVRA PASSE...E PRA QUE TEM E-MAIL SE NÃO TEM COMPUTADOR....

VOCÊ CHAMOU-ME FUFA?
NÃ PÁ Ê SÓ DISSE QUE VOCÊS ESTAVAM A NAMORAR.....
-PÔ-LAS NA RUA SEM JUSTIFICAÇÃO
-Ê NÃ OS PUZE NA RUA ELES SAIRAM SOZINHOS...
E JÁ DISSESTE ISSO É CONVERSA ACABADA
- NÃO É NÃO. NÃO É OUÇA-ME TÁ-ME A OUVIR OLHE LÁ OUÇA-ME PÔRRA
TODO O MUNDO QUER SER OUVIDO
E NINGUÉM QUER OUVIR OS OUTROS
EU OUÇO-VOS NÃO SOU SURDO....
POR ENQUANTO
LÁ POR TER DE VOS OUVIR...NÃO SIGNIFICA....COMPLETAR COM UM GAMMA GAY LIMERICK DOMINIQUE NIQUE NIQUE QUALQUER ...


não. pode meter-nos na rua ,,,nós estamos cá fora ....
e assis ou assad num crescendo o século XXI em revoltas vazias de sentido começou .....
TODAS AS PESSOAS QUE VIVEM BEM TÊM TELEMÓVEL
VOCÊ NÃO TEM NENHUM PORQUÊ....
TODOS OS PROFESSORES TÊM CARROS NOVOS E BONS
TÊM CRIADAS E CASAS GRANDES
VOCÊ NÃO TEM NADA DISSO PORQUE É PELINTRA
É UM TRISTE
NEM COMPUTADOR TEM...NEM INTERNET
NEM SABE OS CANAIS DA TV CABO
NEM NUNCA VIU OS GATOS FEDORENTOS
O MEU PAI É MOTORISTA E O PAI DELA ANDA COM OS BALDES DA MASSA ALI NAS OBRAS E NÓS TEMOS ISSO TUDO...
-E ISSO TUDO É O QUÊ?
É SER IMPORTANTE
-E ÉS IMPORTANTE POR TER ISSO PORQUÊ
PORQUE SOU MAIS DO QUE OS OUTROS
-E ÉS MAIS PORQUÊ?
PORQUE TENHO COISAS
-TENS COISAS OU AS COISAS TÊM-TE A TI...
AHN ?
-NÃO PERCEBESTES OK MIM ISPILICA AQUI HÁ UNS ANOS DIZIA-SE O TÉLÉLÉ HAVIA QUEM ANDASSE COM ELES FALSOS FEITOS NA CHINA E CUSTAVAM NÃO 20 OU 30 CONTOS MAS SÓ UNS 500 ESCUDOS OU MENOS ...ERAM UM BRINQUEDO COMO ESSE É
MAS SEM RECHEIO.....
E ESSE RECHEIO CUSTAR-TE-À MUITO NO FUTURO, VAI CUSTAR-TE MUITO MAIS DO QUE TE CUSTA HOJE
-SÓ ME CUSTA 2 CONTOS POR ANO ...
EM CHAMADAS NO ANO PASSADO E NESTE? E MAIS 30 CONTOS E MAIS AS CAPAS QUE AMANHÃ TROCAS POR OUTRAS OU POR OUTRO
NÃO ESTÁS A FICAR MAIS RICA MIÚDA
ESTÁS A FICAR MUITO MUITO MAIS POBRE.........
A ESCOLA NÃO TE DIZ NADA. NÃO ACABARÁS O 9º ANO PROVAVELMENTE E DEPOIS? TENS OS DENTES PODRES DE TANTO AÇÚCAR QUE COMES ...COM O TEMPO COMEÇARÁS A ENGORDAR A PERDER OS AMIGOS ÉS PROVAVELMENTE A PESSOA MAIS INTELIGENTE E MAIS MANIPULADORA DESTA ESCOLA
NO ENTANTO NÃO TE ESFORÇAS PARA CONSEGUIR MUDAR A TUA VIDA
- E MUDAR PORQUÊ.?
PORQUE NÃO PODES VIVER ASSIM PARA SEMPRE
-MAS POSSO TENTAR
SIM, TENTAR DE FACTO PODES...HISTORICAMENTE RARAMENTE RESULTA MAS HÁ DE FACTO QUEM CONSIGA
- OU POSSO ACHAR DINHEIRO...
TUDO É POSSÍVEL, EMBORA SEJA IMPROVÁVEL
REPARA O TERMO TÉLÉLÉ NÃO PEGOU, HOJE ATÉ O MAIS ROSCOFF TEM TELEMÓVEL, TODAS AS COISAS PASSAM
DIZ A OUTRA - AH O PROFESSOR É ROSKOFF NÃO TEM...
-NÃO NÃO É ISSO O QUELE TÁ A DIZER, É OUTRA COISA
-QUE COISA
-QUE DAQUI A UNS ANOS ESTAMOS LIXADAS, ORA SE JÁ ESTAMOS LIXADAS AGORA QUAL É A DIFERENÇA?
SIM......DE FACTO QUAL É A DIFERENÇA
NOS IDOS DE MARÇO DE UM SÉCULO XXI AINDA EM ESCUDOS OU SE CALHAR AINDA XX ...DE QUALQUER MODO NO ANO 2000 DO MILÉNIO QUE COMEÇA NO ANO DE 1001 MAS PARECE QUE VAI ACABAR COM 999 ANOS

A ANDE NA REIA ATIRA UM PAPEL

-PORQUE É QUE NÃO LHE ENVIAS UM SMS....

FICA MAIS BARATO....

-E PENSAS QUE NÃO TE VI ATIRAR O PAPEL

ORA ESTAVA DE COSTAS, A ESCREVER NO QUADRO PODIA NÃO VER

-ONDE VAI

VOU PRA SACAVÉM

- A DITTA CUJA PRIMEIRO FAZ UMA ALUSÃO AO ASPECTO - O STÔR DEVE BEBER

TODOS BEBEMOS SENÃO MORRÍAMOS DE SEDE ....

QUERIAS TALVEZ DIZER QUE SOU ALCOÓLICO, PORQUE NÃO DROGADO?
SÃO COUSAS MUITO MELHORES PRA INSULTAR
DE RESTO VOCÊS SÃO INVENTIVOS NISSO
BASTA VER TODAS AS COUSAS QUE DEBITARAM NOS VOSSOS PAPÁS
-ELES PAPAM TUDO, É INCRÍVEL CHEGAREM A ADULTOS E SEREM MAIS BRUTOS DO CANÓS
TÁ DESCANSADA QUE DAQUI A 15 ANOS ESTÁS IGUAL À TUA MÃE
-FODASSE ALGUMA VEZ ALGUMA VEZ IA ENGRAVIDAR AOS 14 DE UM ATRASADO MENTAL E ANDAR A CUIDAR DELE O RESTO DA VIDA.....

A ......?

-DEVE TER IDO CURAR-SE DA SUA DOENÇA...

E ELA ESTÁ DOENTE, MAS NÃO É CULPA DELA, LÁ POR ESTARES CHATEADA COM ELA E JÁ NÃO LHE FALARES ESCUSAS DE METER A TUBERCULOSE DELA E DA TIA AO BARULHO

-DESDE QUE ELA AHN OLHA CAROLHA ETCETERA PRÓ GAMMA MERDA PRA ELA
MAS NÃO DISSESTE QUE NÃO QUERIAS ATURAR UM ATRASADO MENTAL O RESTO DA VIDA
-NÃO O QUERO PRÓ RESTO DA VIDA, SERVE SÓ PARA AS NECESSIDADES BÁSICAS E É BUÉ DA GROSSO....
GROSSO ISSO É ALUSÃO...
-NAH É GÍRIA, CALÃO, BOLAS QUE FALTA DE ADESÃO AO LINGUAJAR JOVEM E INDA QUER DAR AULAS SEM SABER DO QUE SOMOS CAPAZES, ACHO QUE ISSE É QUÉ SER BRUTO
ACHAS?

.....ESCRITO NA MESA À navalha E EM PAPEL DEUS VOS VALHA
AMA À RÉ AMA GAMMA NA CAMA
DONA LEONOR ESCREVE POR BAIXO DONA LEONOR MAMA O GAMMA EM TODO O LADO
AMA À RÉ REESCREVE AMA À RÉ AMA MAMA E DÁ O CU PELO CARVALHO
DONA LEONOR ESCREVE EU AMO E MAMO MAIS
AMA À RÉ SUBSCREVE....BOLAS PÁ, TAMBÉM AMAS TODOS CADA SEMANA É UM
DONA LEONOR: QUE É QUE QUERES TENHO BOM GOSTO
-FIM DO SMS EM PAPIER MACHÉ 

-PELO QUÊ?
CARVALHO COMO AQUELE CARALHO DO 25 DE ABRIL
-BOLAS PÁ NEM ERAS NASCIDA
E? RECONHECER UM CARALHO É PRÓPRIO DAS MULHERES
-PRIMEIRO NEM ESSE ESTATUTO TENS, SEGUNDO...
SEGUNDO NADA, APARECEM NA TELEVISÃO LOGO SÃO ...

-"VAI-SE" ARREPENDER-SE DO QUE ME DISSE
VOU-ME ARREPENDER, VOU-ME...
- A SUA MÃE DEVE TÊ-LO DEIXADO CAIR DE CABEÇA NA MÁQUINA DE LAVAR
-VOCÊ DEVE TER ALGUM PROBLEMA FÍSICO - DIZ MOKINHA LOVE 2 PAC - E APONTA PARA A CABEÇA
-NÃO NOS FALA -DIZ A MOKINHA LOVE 2 PAC
SE NÃO FALO É PORQUE NÃO FALO E SE FALO É ISTO...
-É O QUE SE CHAMA UM PROBLEMA FÁLICO...DIZE A AMA À RÉ....

CHAMA-SE O PROBLEMA?
-AI CHAMA-SE CHAMA-SE BASTA VER QUE O DE MIGUEL ÂNGELO VEIO DE SETÚBAL DO 8º6 ....POR CAUSA DA VENDA DAQUILO
-CHEIRA A PEIXE...DIZEM POR SERRE DE SETÚBAL...QUANDO HOUVE A INUNDAÇÃO NO ANO PASSADO JÁ HAVIA DAQUILO
DEPOIS JUNTOU-LHE OS PRESERVATIVOS MAS NÃO PEGOU, NINGUÉM USA
E DEPOIS COMEÇARAM A IMPLICAR COM OS SACOS
VAI PARA UMA FEIRA....DISSE A PATETA
NÃO É DIA DE FEIRA DISSE