Cell Phones, Brain Cancer, Biblical Capitalism
I’m so very sorry to learn that Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with malignant brain tumor. I’m not a scientist at all, but from what I’ve heard, brain tumors are on the rise due to exposure of electromagnetic frequency fields such as use of cell phones. I’m not saying EMFs caused Sen. Kennedy’s tumor. I’m just saying the increase of such cases is alarming and the jury’s still out about the correlation. I think I’ll be phasing out my cell phone and encouraging my family to do the same.
I’ve written about the Bilderbergers before. Evidently “Bilderbergers” is code for anti-Semite. I have no intention of perpetuating anti-Semitism with those posts. I’m definitely not anti-semite I also admit to being a bit of a conspiracy theorist. And how can you blame conspiracy theorists who only want to make sense of a highly manipulated, secretive world that means to control us and everything else?
My latest find is Jeff Sharlet’s website The Revealer, which exposes the fundamentalist christian control of
America and the players involved, among other things. I’ve long sensed the connection between fundamentalist christianity and the corporate mentality. Apparently the overarching belief of these frightening people is that “Jesus had it wrong. God favors the rich and powerful, not the meek have-nots.” Sharlet has written The Family, Here is an excerpt from Sharlet’s page:
Who Profits From “Biblical Capitalism”?
When Bloggingheads TV, the website that produces those video “diavlogs” you see these days in the fold of the online NYT, told me they’d given my new book, The Family, to Will Wilkinson of the conservative libertarian Cato Institute , I was a little concerned. The elite fundamentalists about whom I write are particularly passionate about what some call “biblical capitalism,” a literally religious devotion to free markets. Wilkinson, as you can imagine, is a big believer in free markets, too, and for that reason I thought he and I might have a very contentious conversation.
Oh me of little faith in the wisdom of Bloggingheads. Wilkinson turned out to be an ideal respondent — indeed, he may have understood aspects of the book better than I did when I wrote it. Most importantly, he recognized that biblical capitalism uses the veneer of free markets as a cover for the cronyism of the anointed. It’s dishonest libertarianism, “self-interest by proxy,” in Wilkinson’s brilliant phrase — the exact opposite of the responsible, transparent libertarianism championed by Wilkinson.
You can watch the whole diavlog here, but if you’re interested, I recommend using the buttons beneath our talking heads to skip ahead to the section titled “biblical capitalism.” I’ve long since learned how to be comfortable with media, but self-produced video — me staring at the little camera in my computer — freaks me out, and it takes awhile for this diavlog to move beyond my 2001-monkeyish fear of new technology. Read the rest>>
Related to The Family is Sharlet’s amazing 2003 Harper’s magazine article, Jesus plus nothing: Undercover among America’s secret theocrats.
This is how they pray: a dozen clear-eyed, smooth-skinned “brothers” gathered together in a huddle, arms crossing arms over shoulders like the weave of a cable, leaning in on one another and swaying like the long grass up the hill from the house they share. The house is a handsome, gray, two-story colonial that smells of new carpet and Pine-Sol and aftershave; the men who live there call it Ivanwald. At the end of a tree-lined cul-de-sac, quiet but for the buzz of lawn mowers and kids playing foxes-and-hounds in the park across the road, Ivanwald sits as one house among many, clustered together like mushrooms, all devoted, like these men, to the service of Jesus Christ. The men tend every tulip in the cul-de-sac, trim every magnolia, seal every driveway smooth and black as boot leather. And they pray, assembled at the dining table or on their lawn or in the hallway or in the bunk room or on the basketball court, each man’s head bowed in humility and swollen with pride (secretly, he thinks) at being counted among such a fine corps for Christ, among men to whom he will open his heart and whom he will remember when he returns to the world not born-again but remade, no longer an individual but part of the Lord’s revolution, his will transformed into a weapon for what the young men call “spiritual war.” Read the rest>>
This “family” with its trickle-down fundamentalism and cues from Hitler, are truly icky, creepy people.
