Cause

One of the interesting aspects of such a classification is that it can easily found in any social challenge. In the education sector the main intention is to maximize the productivity of children so that they can contribute to the welfare of the society. One of the main causes for poor productivity can be stress from parents and teacher.

Issue

This poor productivity may lead to excessive punishment, as elders may perceive corporal punishment as good solution for this problem. This challenge of improving poor productivity can itself become the cause of some different issue in like discriminating students as dull or scholar by assessing their performance using some conventional academic techniques. The techniques can be misleading as many great people might have failed those techniques.

Effect

Such activities can have disastrous effect on the development of the children. Such changes may not be immediately evident but may start becoming visible over a period of time, as everyone change with time but kind of change do matter to the individual  as well as to the society. They can find relief in stress and feeling of dominance by getting involved in unstable affair, violence, crime, etc.

Solution

Among the various academicians, social scientists are most proactive in such scenarios. The effect of any decision on the abovementioned challenge will vary. A solution like creation of certain legal punishment for people doing any criminal activity, social awareness about unstable relationships or involving some scientific researchers to come with the technology to prevent crime or identify the technical source of instability in relationship. Such measures/solutions may not be very effective. They are not addressing the root cause of problem, the feeling of inferiority/uselessness in the person and background research on the emergence of such feeling may be effective in developing solutions for the crimes which are encountered. In that case, activities which help them to realize that they are also important, people do need them and it can be problem for people if they say no.

Such cause to solution relationship can be designed for several sectors in the social domain. In case of human psychology, it is has been quite fascinating how different people react to same scenario. Everyone wants to know about others in order to determine ones approach towards other. Since, certain reactions can get you the tag of good person. This domain has been studied to such an extent that some group specific attributes have been identified. Groups can be any community which can be identified by its geography, caste, culture, creed, religion, language, etc. Certain interesting tools have also been generated which help the person to understand others on the basis of some key attributes and based on that they create various perceptions like inclination towards unsocial (fight, unsupportive and discrimination) or social (philanthropy, non-violence and supportive) feelings. Poor perception accuracy is possible as people are good in hiding their true intentions, in such cases, more bad then good happens to people as they can feel cheated and discriminated, which can affect their development.  

P.S.: Can you create cause to solution relationship in the human psychology paragraph?

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I first came across this deeply moving folk song when I saw the film of the 1969 Woodstock concert, with Baez’s version of the song moving me to tears even though I knew nothing of the song’s history beyond her own brief introduction to it before singing.

Originally written as a tribute poem rather than a ballad, by Alfred Hayes in 1930, the song version has been performed many times by human rights activists and singers, including Pete Seger and Paul Robeson.

Joe Hill (1879-1915) was a Swedish man who migrated to the States and became heavily involved in trade union Labour politics. He was a leading activist in the International Workers of The World Federation, a Socialist group known as The Wobblies. Though often unemployed, due to his politics and foreign national roots, he was a writer, and a musician as well as a cartoonist.

In 1914, Hill was arrested over the alleged murder of a Utah policeman and the policeman’s son. Two assailants had been seen as they fled the murder scene.  That same night, Hill staggered to the home of a Salt Lake City doctor in search of emergency treatment over a gunshot wound he had received. He claimed a friend had shot him in a moment of jealousy as both men admired the same girl. Hill refused to identify the woman concerned, and no one has identified her since. 

Hill had no knowledge or connection to the victims he had allegedly killed, and therefore no reason to wish to attack them. Policemen obviously made enemies among those arrested, and the general criminal fraternity. Hill’s defenders pointed out that several other men had been injured by gunshots that night in incidents unrelated to the cop killing.

Eyewitnesses to the policeman shooting identified Hill as resembling one of the masked assailants they had seen leaving the murder scene, though at least one had previously stated that Hill did not resemble the killers. The Jury found Hill guilty. His left wing politics were cited as evidence of his guilt, which rallied labour activists and liberal minded radicals to his defence, but to no avail. Despite appeals from many, including Helen Keller, Hill was executed by firing squad in 1915.

He seems to have had something of a martyrdom complex. His stoic, Socrates like refusal to name the woman or rival lover who could have come forward to save him may have been down to stubborn pride or a desire for veneration. When the firing squad took aim at him, Hill himself barked the order for them to fire at him – his last ever spoken word.

The song adds to the Labour / Socialist and radical protest movements seeing Hill as just the kind of martyr he seems to have wanted to be. The singer sees Hill, not as a ghost but alive and well. Pointing out to Hill that he died a decade before (the song is set in 19250, gets his reply that he never died and that no good innocent man ever can die. As with Alan Moore’s V Joe Hill survives as an idea and an ideal, gaining immortality. The song makes clear it’s composer’s belief that Hill was framed for his political activism. The singer sees him in the eyes and dreams of many radicals. Baez’s resurrection of him was for the anti-Vietnam Woodstock generation.

Arthur Chappell

There were environmental disasters like the earthquakes in Japan. Mass fish, bird, other wildlife and allot of celebrity deaths. R.I.P Heavy D! In between all this there were great moments in sports, media, music and entertainment.

Also there were massive illegal, unsanctioned, detainment and assassinations without people ever being tried in court. While most Americans were eating Turkey and stuffing, the president was reviewing a bill which abolishes the Constitution and institutes martial law.  Under The NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) Section 1031 which has been changed to Section 1021 gives the president the right to assassinate any US citizen suspected of being a terrorist. No proof…suspected.  Google Bill NDAA for more information and check the video about it below. Along with a collection of clips highlighting the triumphs and tragedies of 2011.

This is a response to the above article, and I would suggest that it was written for Christians, as atheists have been aware of their persecution for some time. I think the author should have taken the article further, instead of playing it safe to create fairly innocuous content that most people would accept.

Rick Perry had conflicting qualities that could make or break his campaign; he is a Texas Governor, a Christian, a military serviceman, and held a reputation as a straight talker…but, he is also a xenophobe, a homophobe, and he fears areligious people. I think his campaign would have gone so much better, if he knew when to draw down his rhetoric.

His repeated lapses of memory, inability to focus his concentration on debated subject matter, and his abject FEAR of anyone, or anything that is different than himself, is what he will ultimately be remembered for.

To Perry’s voting block, it is alright that Perry dislikes homosexuals, atheists, and brown people; his cardinal error is that his overstatement of his stance…attached to the phrase “Strong Message”, points out that Perry is actually afraid of gays, atheists, and brown people.

Deathly afraid.

Pathologically afraid.

And if Perry is motivated by fear, he is WEAK.

So, the brain-farts and hate-speak might have been perfectly acceptable…even FAVORABLE…to his supporters, but fear and weakness is not a favorable attribute.

Herman Cain claims to be religious, just as Bill Clinton did, and they are both very successful, but they are more interested in tapping ass than running this country.

Cain can claim the moral high-ground over Gingrich, because Cain is still married to the same woman he started his family with (whereas Gingrich changes women as much as he changes his underwear).

Gingrich has proven that he cannot be trusted by his party, his people, and certainly not his wives. He has no loyalty to any god or government, and his faux claim of new found faith will last as long as the election.

Michelle Bachmann was a frivolous lawsuit lawyer (like Edwards) who has been gaming the US tax system for years. Her farm subsidies, and adoption paybacks are legendary, and she has no great love for gays, atheists, or anyone who gets in her way.

Some people like her because she “appears” to be a straight talker, though she has been caught in lies several times (just like Palin). She has moderate sex appeal (again, like Palin). She is hawkish on foreign policy (just like McCain), and she claims to be Christian.

Of course, the liberals couldn’t bring her down, so they let the Christian xenophobic homophobic anti-atheists do the job. Republican Christians are so much better at playing the role of misogynists; second only to Muslim fundamentalists.

Santorum: Christian fundamentalist, Washington insider, behind the scenes puppet master, and all around boor.

Huntsman: virtually invisible.

Ron Paul gets it right sometimes. If he ran as an independent I would have to consider him a viable candidate. One of the reasons he isn’t taken seriously is that he falls short of admitting his role in government violence and corruption, and that is laughable.

With Ron Paul, you have a two time loser (once as a Libertarian, then as a Republican) who was educated in substandard southern right-wing universities (we’re talking rebel-flag waving throwbacks), who was inspired by Ayn Rand (who was inspired by serial killers, child killers, and thieves), who openly solicited campaign money from aryan nation groups, only to have his press people deny it after he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

And he wants to be your President.

He was probably right on his stance against our wars. He is probably right on a lot of issues, but his ideologies are muddied by his unprofessional and uneducated views on abortion and reproductive rights, his fairy-tale answers for every complicated issue, and his willingnes to turn his back on his own contribution to violence in the world.

Mitt Romney caught flack for being a Mormon…not for the way he buys and sells and slices and dices and butchers and cannibalizes American businesses, but for his Religion…

…which really means nothing to any of the pimps who are running on the right.

So, what we are left with is the most obvious thing that the author has not addressed: pack mentality.

A religion is a belief system, and religion can be practiced in many ways; but when that religious practice is taken public and complicated by societal issues and corporate dollars, it becomes less personal and more like an initiation into a street gang.

Christians, Muslims, Mormans, Scientologists, Satanists, Santerians, Zionists, when they group together to become part of the hive mind, they are no better than gangsters; they are weak, broken people who have no personal connection to their own faith.

They have to seek validation in the eyes of other weak people.

They have to tear someone else down to justify their own ridiculous beliefs, and recently we have seen atheists and gays joining in that mindset. We must first be responsible for our own actions and take steps to repair the damage that we have done; we must affect change without becoming a wolf pack.

Your god may forgive your trespasses, but you still have to clean your own mess.

Whether you are part of the ‘Occupy’ protest movement or not, you are in danger. We are at a place that no true, freedom-loving individual ever wants to be.

As I engage in dialogue with people, I am finding a very strange phenomenon occurring that can only be likened to the proverbial frog in a pot of gradually heating water; swimming around in its environment, never noticing that boiling point is approaching.

I think of a the lyrics from an old Steely Dan song; “Like a castle in a corner, in a medieval game, I foresee terrible trouble but I stay here just the same.”

For this is our current state with regard to the dangerous machine that has been assembled to destroy your existing way of life. “Oh how melodramatic” says one individual as I share the reality of what is behind this movement, the actual support mechanism and the end game in sight for them.

Another hears my warnings and looks back at me with deadpan stare, not wanting to respond because they have arrived at a conclusion that rather sympathizes with the young people who are out there protesting against corporate America. After all, they really do have all the money right?

So what is this great danger that I speak of? What could I possibly see that the major media and our elected officials do not? The answer to this is simple enough; Nothing.

They see and hear the same things that I do. It’s not that I am alone in this observation; it is more a matter of braking out of only talking among my peers and like-minded individuals and daring to ring a bell in the middle of America’s alpha-sleep cycle.

What is not making it on to the nightly news and into newsprint by and large, are the organizations that have proclaimed their unity and solidarity with this Occupy movement.

The short list includes The Communist Party, The American Nazi Party, C.A.I.R. (The Council on Arab Islamic Relations and The Socialist Party USA. Along with these, American Union Organizers work side by side to support and incite our youth.

Each and every one of the organizations listed here have voiced their support and added personnel to the Occupy movements in each city.

The stated endgame includes the “Overthrow of our Capitalist System’ with calls to “Take money and property (by force) away from those who have earned it and redistribute it directly in to their own hands on the pretense that they will see that it is divided equally and fairly.

Strangely, this somehow seems a noble endeavor to some as the protestors pretend to target only Wall Street and corporate America however, the danger in this system of Socialism by Force rests in the reality that one day, it works its way down to your income level and the new power people will identify your income as “obscene and excessive.”

You are in danger if you remain uninformed about the Reality of Occupy. You are in danger if you remain silent after learning the truth.

Your children or your Grandchildren are facing a future of first, a European Style of socialism (How’s that working?) followed by a more controlling, freedom consuming system that eats away at the very fabric of our country.

What is the danger to you? Perhaps nothing at the moment (if you are wealthy under the radar.)

Later , after you’ve done nothing to speak out against the notion that one persons success is not fair game for another persons desire to have what someone else has, whether they have earned it or not, they will come for you and you will have no one to speak for you.

This is how communism works; First, Socialism-Lite followed by a steady drive to change the order of power. The ‘haves’ become the ‘have-nots’ and those who force the turnover of wealth become the new wealthy class and power base.

In the end, nothing changed except that you no longer have the freedom or power to become what ever your dreams to become are all about.

You are in danger and the pot is rapidly reaching boiling point.

Will there ever be a group of frogs that have the common sense to not only jump out of the heating pot, but also care enough about the rest to risk getting involved in stopping the movement to boil all frogs?

History says; ‘Not likely’ but then again, America has taken the lead to shape history more than any other country on the planet so all is not lost.

Much depends upon individual Americans beginning to pay attention to whom they put in to public office and whom they make certain never gets another term.

Read between the last lines, make the right choice for our country and at least you will have done something in the best interests of the collective by insuring that we remain individually free to pursue personal economic success, health and happiness that will remain ours to share as we choose, not as someone else dictates.

On leaving school Schumpeter was accepted as a law student at the University of Vienna. He studied under the Austrian economic theorist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and was awarded his doctorate in 1906. After a period as a teacher he joined the University of Graz in 1911, where he remained until World War I. In 1919, he served briefly as the Austrian Minister of Finance and in 1920  became president of the private Biedermann Bank. That bank, along with a great part of that regional economy, collapsed in 1924 leaving Schumpeter bankrupt.

Schumpeter encouraged some young mathematical economists(the kind whose computer models got us into our present mess) and was the president of the Econometric Society in 1940–41. Josef Schumpeter was not actually a mathematician, but rather a traditional economist, and tried instead to integrate sociological and liberal understanding into his economic theories. From current thought it has been argued that Schumpeter’s ideas on business cycles and economic development could not be captured in the mathematics of his day – they need the language of non-linear dynamical systems to be analyzed and understood.

Schumpeter was not a great original thinker in economics but is remembered for the warning he gave future generations, which we do well to remind ourselves of in the present economic situation. He said economics gave us two jokes of questionable taste; capitalism’s tendency to self-destruction and socialism’s addiction to fascism.

As I reported recently, leading socialists in Europe (or liberals as they hypocritically style themselves now) are already calling for the abolition of democracy and government by bureaucraciesappointed by a central authority while Canadian “liberal” super harridan Naomi Klein has gone further and called for a totalitarian global government to save us from the non existent threat of climate change.

Meanwhile the bankers and economic advisers to government persist in the notion that only more of what caused the current mess can clean it up.

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Topsy-turvy thinking

Globalization and free market-

Just like the cricket wickets-

All the forces around trying to strike it out-

Sometimes can, sometimes not.

Market fall and Government measures do me recalls-

Mr. Beans traveling bag; when it pant lacks space- and

Full pant is the problem and turn to become a half pant;

The economy and suffering of people is alike today.

The way the economists looking for solution remembers me the analogy-

A cockroach in my bed a while ago-

Now it’s gone, and I keep searching on,

the anguish got me as Laden got Bush;

Everybody was happy in the West-

USSR was collapsed,

We in the East was shocked,

Frankly we liked it not-

As it was a symbol of hope.

The way the corporates behaving today-

Couldn’t think of doing it any way;

There was a fight between right and wrong

No matter which side we belong.

There was a fight between ideologies-

Morality and ethics;

Now the ideologies gone-

War of power began-

Public interests smashed down-

Like John Cina’s Smack down.

There was a time when people led a life-

With sacrifice and ideals;

Living simple, thinking high was the motto-

Teachers were teaching because they love to teach,

It’s a knack, a passion and contribution to the society;

Now all becomes jobs-

Teaching and marketing seem no different,

We all are caught in the middle,

Become inert and indifferent.

It’s just another job and career.

That’s why we see sexual abuse both home and office

School and playgrounds,

Gardens and beds-

No differences, all full of excuses.

Nothing can escape from being abused even the cats;

I don’t even cite the case of classroom masturbates!

This all as we fall-

From check and balance-

Now no one to guard against, no one to check and call;

Powerful and powerless are fighting each other-

Both are bleeding, no way to fleeing.

Wiseman says time is the healing.

Political: (Socialism is seen as an economical factor not a political factor)

·         Low levels of corruption

·         Experienced individuals in the correct management positions.

·         Rule by the people.

o   A member in parliament to represent each class.(Laborer, CEO, Exporter)

o   More people to run the government.

Economical: Socialism seeks to manage the economy through deliberate and collective social control.

·         Low Barriers to free trade.

·         Emphasis on fair trade.

·         Labour market institutions e.g. Trade Unions

o       High degrees of labour union membership

o       Labour Rights.

o       Consumer Safety

o        Fair Market Competition

·         Little product market regulation

·         High Public Spending (Health and education)

·         Public work force (lifelong job security)

o   According to the individual’s production efforts.

·         Private enterprise and publicly owned or subsidized programs.

o   In cases where by unions own an industry.

o   Public own capital back into state operations.

·         A value-added Tax on goods and non essential services.

·         Progressive taxation system to fund government expenditures.

·         Tariffs on imported goods that is manufactured in home country.

·         Protection of domestic market.

·         Property Rights as well as capital (Assets) rights

·         Contract enforcement (Abiding by law).

·         Deregulating of employment laws, making it easier for employers to fire and rehire people.

o   Encourage economic growth and reduce unemployment.

o   Must adhere to receive additional benefits.

·         Taxes

o   Income tax=36%-67%

o   Corporate = 25%

§  Labour and Pensions: Progressive Rate

§  Capital: Fixed Rate

o   Social

§  Leveling rate    25.0 %

§  Wage income  7.8 %

§  Income from self-employment in primary sector =7.8 %

§  Income from other self-employment=11.0 %

§  Pension income/etc.=3.0 %

o   Wealth Tax=10%

o   VAT= 25% on Non-essential items.

o   Tariffs= Varies according to market.

Social: The regulation of social aspects within a society.

·         Free education

·         Universal Health care

·         Public pension scheme.

·         Universal Insurance Scheme.

·         Education, universal health care, child care and related social services for all citizens.

·         Immigration and multiculturalism. (Provided that the people bring skills)

·         Promotion of democracy.

·         Protection of human/Social/civil rights.

·         Advocacy of social justice.

Environmental: The regulation and preservation of the environment.

·         Environmentalism and environmental protection laws.

·         Funding for alternative energy resources and laws designed to combat global warming.

·         Alternative energy (Including nuclear power)

It is some times called social justice, economic justice or wealth redistribution but the idea is the same. The myth is that through taxes the Government takes the wealth of the rich and redistributes that wealth to the poor to raise them out of poverty.

The idea of wealth redistribution is based on two false assumptions.

1. The total amount of wealth in the world is constant. One of the results of this assumption is the notion that becoming wealthy automatically means others become poor as a result.
2. The rich just sit on their wealth such that it does nothing but make themselves comfortable.

In reality the total amount of wealth is not constant. The act of labor to turn raw materials into a product creates wealth that did not exist before. Furthermore since the people supplying that labor are paid they share in the wealth produced by their labor. Furthermore the rich do not just sit on their wealth leaving it in bins of money that they swim around in, they use it to buy things made by others and they invest it in one or more businesses thus providing work for others providing them with wealth they would not otherwise have.

Not only are this assumptions wrong but in practice most of the wealth taken in the name of wealth redistribution actually goes to those running the redistribution programs what portion the poor actually is just enough to keep them dependent on the system. If you doubt this look at the size of the salaries of bureaucrats some time.

The final nail in this coffin comes from look at the automate expression of the idea of wealth redistribution. If you took a population of people and confiscated all material wealth and then redistributed it equally to every one in area so that they all had an equal amount. If you then gave them the freedom to use it as they pleased with in a few years there would once again rich and poor they would not necessarily be the same people as before but the difference would still occur. This is the case because not every one would use their resources the same way. Some would blow their resources all on products the other would produce with their resources.

This is because material wealth is not the only form of wealth and no government can take away immaterial wealth. Every person as different abilities and they are a form immaterial wealth that one way or other can be used to acquire material wealth. The key is that we all have immaterial wealth and how we use that immaterial wealth often means more than what material wealth we start out with. 

What is important is having the freedom to use your immaterial wealth to its greatest potential. If that freedom is taken away then that immaterial wealth gets wasted. Efforts to redistribute material wealth by force only encourage the squandering of peoples immaterial wealth making them poorer.

Newspapers are reporting that the Wall Street protests that started in New York are spreading to other parts of America and to European countries. Occupy Wall Street slogan has been changed as Occupy London Stock Exchange in UK. The economic crisis and huge unemployment are fanning the flames vigorously. It has spread to Italy. The demonstrators have demanded a change in democratic financial system. They also want the bankers to be jailed.

Republican Party represents the rich

The unemployed and the underemployed people, millions in number, have realised that the taxpayers’ money is being swindled by the rich and the elite cream of the society. Governments pander to the whims and fancies of these rich people. In USA, the Republican Party exclusively caters to the benefits of these rich people, many of whom are its own party members. There is a nexus between the rich, politicians and the bureaucrats in the government in swindling money and enriching themselves further. The Republican Party opposes taxing the rich bitterly. But it does not mind poor Americans suffering because of the job loss.

Poor people forced to sponsor the rich

Stock markets, banks and financial institutions are hand in glove in siphoning the wealth of the common people and transferring it to fill the coffers of the rich. That is why the protests have started targeting stock markets. But in my opinion, the protests will spread and target the other people responsible for siphoning off their money – bankers, officials, politicians and rich business people. People have realised that the present financial system is tailor made for the minority rich people to swindle the majority. When a bank fails because of big unpaid loans to rich people, the poor taxpayers are asked to compensate it. In other words, poor people pay for the comforts of the rich people. This is a crude form of capitalism.

Anna Hazare kindles protest movement in India

A bloody revolution is in the offing. Its seeds have been sown already in New York. Karl Marx predicted that the first revolution will start in Britain. But his prophecy failed and the revolution came in Russia. Britain was spared of the revolution because it enjoyed the Colonial wealth. But now no such cushion is available for Britain to save itself. It is very clear in which direction the protest movement is heading for. Several governments are bound to fall. It may be an Arab Spring or a bloody communist revolution or any other thing. It is very difficult to predict it at this stage. But one thing is clear. Changes are inevitable. Some people can be fooled for all the time. All the people can be fooled for some time. But all the people cannot be fooled for all the time. The time has come for the underprivileged common people to wake up and fight the injustice against them. In India, this movement has been kindled by Anna Hazare. In the Western countries, the protesters against stock market have started it.

Communism worse than capitalist exploitation

I am not a socialist or a communist. In fact I am opposed to communism tooth and nail. Wherever communism took deep roots, there has only been misery for all and no economic progress has been registered. In China, Mao Tse Tung killed more than 100 million Chinese people in the name of Cultural Revolution in the sixties. In Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin butchered more than 100 million people in Siberian concentration camps. China started showing economic progress only after it shed its communist doctrine and adopted capitalism in its economic policies.

Can you kill your own people to quell the rebellion?

The protest movement should avoid taking the Western countries in the communist path. It is difficult to imagine USA or Britain being communist or socialist countries. But definitely the present form of capitalism should be changed. There should be more equitable distribution of wealth. There should not be so wide a disparity between the haves and the have-nots. All men are not equal. There is bound to be disparities in the earning capacities and wealth possession among the people of a nation. But at the same time, care should be taken to see that there are no islands of prosperity in the midst of abundant poverty and misery. Such a system is bound to collapse like a pack of cards. No external enemies are needed to destroy it. USA and other Western countries have been sitting on a time bomb for years together. That time bomb may explode at any time. You can bomb Afghanistan and kill one million people in the name of war on terrorism. But can you kill one million people belonging to your own country to quell the rebellion?