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September 1, 2011 Mankind, as I have emphasized repeatedly over years, is, essentially, an immortal species, that by its intended design. That is the innate potential of our species. The problem to be faced by humanity now, as during the millions of years of our species' existence up through the present moment, is the challenge to mankind itself, akin to that challenge which Benjamin Franklin presented to the republic which had just won its freedom through the defeat of the British imperial tyrant: ``Can you keep it?'' ``Can humanity keep what had been its potential immortality as a species up to and beyond the presently onrushing, planetary, breakdown-crisis?''
Foreword: Evolution as Man's Revolutions
It was with a similar dedication and spirit, the U.S. Ambassador to France had forewarned France's Marquis de Lafayette, at a time when Lafayette's France was already careening into the brink of what became that great cultural disaster called ``The French Revolution.'' Lafayette did not heed the warning; I shall hope that my contemporaries will have proven themselves able to have done better in their own time.
So, now, the successful fostering of a new state of mankind's global and more advanced and distant affairs, has depended upon the timely intervention of a new quality of organization in mankind's affairs, as when the founding of the original United States of America had represented a qualitative revolution in the affairs of society... |
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The Past Week's News, at a Glance:
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This Week's Cover
Economics
International
National
- Attack on Social Security at Center of Obama 'Jobs' Plan
Over half of President Obama's 'American Jobs Act' is an outright attack on President Franklin Roosevelt's signature program, Social Security which is to be carried out under the guise of 'tax cuts' in both employee and employer payroll taxes.
- Book Review:
9/11 Secrets Partially Revealed
The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden
provides a commendable, albeit incomplete account of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, including one of the most detailed accounts of the top-down Saudi involvement in the events leading up to 9/11.
Science
- Vanishing Sunspots:
A Window Into the Creative Universe
LPAC-TV's Peter Martinson presents the June 2011 announcement by the American Astronomical Society, about the future of our Sun, within the context of a creative universe. The Sun is not random, and neither is our planet's relationship to it.
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