Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s recent remark that the dire impact of the current economic crisis on the lives of so many people is “just the birth-pains of a new global order” or some such irresponsible claptrap prompted some sections of the British press to wonder if the Prime Minister had lost his marbles. Maybe he has: certainly it is alarming to witness such blithe admission of criminal conspiracy being uttered by the man at the helm of an entire nation.

I’ve just lost my job, my company has shut down and I can’t pay my mortgage or my grocery bill but Mr Brown isn’t worried: my suffering  is “merely” the birth-pains of a “new global order.” Oh well that’s all right then. I’m delighted to know my sacrifice is not in vain, that someone somewhere is doing all this for my own good. But what “good” exactly? What economic text book is this from? What is this new global order and why has no-one seen fit either to explain it to me or even ask me if I want it? Whom will it benefit? When it is in place, who will be running the show? What will be the nature of this Promised Land and will I even like it?   Not much of an explanation from our noble leader so far, merely a hint that something or other is going on that somebody planned.

Some unspecified persons with apparently global influence are rustling up some global omelet from some secret recipe book the rest of us don’t know about.  And many of we citizens evidently are the eggs that just have to be broken so that the hidden power can rustle up their piece de resistance. I’m forced to wonder who, when the meal is finally served, will be sitting there with their feet under the dining table. I bet it isn’t me, or you dear reader, either. I’ve a feeling the destiny earmarked for most of us is with all the other broken shells in the waste bin. Isn’t democracy wonderful? Democracy while we are about it is – in theory – government of the people, by the people, for the people but I don’t think many of us are actually kidding ourselves that that’s what we’ve got. 

In a democracy the people are supposed to be able to instruct their government. Ha Ha. How on earth are we, the people, supposed to know what instructions to give when we don’t have any reliable data on which to base those instructions? When Prime Ministers in cahoots with unnamed and faceless powers can just go ahead and engineer recessions to achieve futures designed for us without our knowledge or consent, our democracy has become a con game.

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Can anyone recommend a good book on government and politics in England? Particularly about government in the 70s and the Thatcher period?

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Politics eyed behind ambush, slay of 5 in Masbate
A local politician said the ambush-killing of five people on Saturday afternoon in a village in San Pascual, Masbate, might have been motivated by politics and done by a private armed group.

Preferably more on politics side! I’m Canadian and I want to be more aware of what’s happening in other countries. Any really good books that can give me further insight (or rather any insight at all) into how American politics work and the history of it all would be really great.

On the one hand, Baptists have always been staunch supporters of the separation of church and state and freedom of conscience – and many Baptist churches remain. Southern Baptists, but it became the largest and most powerful in contrast to the separation of church and state, personal freedom and independence in America. Baptists for centuries gives a chronology of key events in Baptist life and thought of the seventeenth to the twentieth century. As the Baptists spread throughout the world with their British and American sources, Bebbington convincingly demonstrates how they are constantly adopted to the cultures and societies where they lived, creating greater diversity within an already multifaceted identity.

It means to great awakening American religion and politics should not be underestimated. When this spiritual enthusiasm swept through the country, encourages people to take an independent position regarding religious matters, and even easier to give up what the church was originally made in. This, of course, proved the benefit of new, more radical, such as Baptist churches.

Baptist Convention is not intended to be used any doctrinal authority of the individual churches, but the situation has changed and this change of attitude is one of the most serious and dramatic changes ever Baptist theology. The church, which started the radical ideals of independence has become the church is based on an authoritarian fundamentalist. Moderate Baptists see the authority of the role of persuasion and leadership are a dictatorship. Fundamentalists want the pope to the pulpit and then the pope popes unless it also applies to issues related to their emphasis on dogma rather than on individual interpretation. Women in ministry is based on the concept of personal data, which requires in turn based on the concept of direct contact with God, spirit and human consciousness.

Baptists consider the Scriptures and exclusive state enough faith and practice. In the interpretation of them, every individual is at liberty. No system of unbiblical doctrines and rights are recognized as authoritative. Fundamentalists insist now on a set of beliefs that the authorities must be held by all the faithful and accountability must be made to the authorities.

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Is it majoritarian, enterpreneurial, client, or interest-group politics? Or a combination of the four?