JTW Podcast: Why Not Biafran Independence?

 

This is a somewhat slanted account of the situation, but it gets many of the facts straight.  A lot of the terrorist events are overlooked.  One of the things not mentioned is the role something like the Economic Democracy Act could play in bringing peace to the region.  By the way, the Fulani were notorious for being the worst of the slave raiding African tribes, selling entire nations into slavery, while today appear to be linked to terrorism, including raiding Christian girls schools and kidnapping hundreds of girls:

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As the world gets crazier, the news items each week bear a striking similarity, with most people completely oblivious to the possibilities inherent in the Economic Democracy Act would to solve many of the problems:

Social Justice and Liberal Democracy, II

In the previous posting on this subject, we looked at the origins of the term “social justice.”  While it has and continues to mean many things, Msgr. Luigi Taparelli gave the first consistent and “scientific” definition of social justice in the 1830s.  As he defined it, social justice is a “general virtue,” meaning — strictly speaking — that it is not a true virtue, but a principle guiding the practice of actual, “particular” virtues, such as prudence, fortitude, temperance and, above all, justice among the natural virtues, and faith, hope, and charity among the supernatural virtues.

JTW Podcast: Another Doomsday Recession Scenario

Today we have an analysis of the International Monetary Fund that a giant recession is coming . . . we don’t use the word “depression” anymore since Lord Keynes abolished it forever, but it’s still the exact same thing, only worse and longer-lasting.  If a recession turns out to be longer or deeper than anticipated, the experts quickly change the definition to avoid the d-word.  In any event, nobody at the IMG, the World Bank, or5 any of the world’s central banks stop to wonder whether it’s the Keynesian principles that are causing the problem that Keynesian economics is supposed to be solving . . . naw, that’d be too easy to fix by reading The Greater Reset: Reclaiming Personal Sovereignty Under Natural Law, getting busy, and adopting the Economic Democracy Act:

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Where some things go from the ridiculous to the sublime, this week the news items generally go from the horrifying to the ludicrous.  Not to beat a live horse, but adopting the Economic Democracy Act would go a long way toward making news items like these a thing of the past:

Social Justice and Liberal Democracy

A popular meme floating around social media shows actor Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, “You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it means.”  The problem was bad enough with a single word in a work of fiction.  It gets much worse when it is many words in real life.

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It is becoming increasingly evident that many of the more serious problems in the world could be solved by adopting the Economic Democracy Act., but it is also increasingly evident that none of them are considering it, seriously or not.  As a case in point consider the fact that Russian dictator Putin used up missiles earlier this week with a price tag of upwards of a billion dollars to kill a few civilians at a time when units of the Russian army are struggling for survival and starving for basic supplies, and the economy of the country is tanking.  And in other news:

The Logic of War

No, we’re not saying that war is logical, per se, but that within its own frame of reference there are certain things that make sense, but also a lot that doesn’t.  Much of modern “Currency Principle” economics is like that, where some of it makes sense within its own framework, but a lot that doesn’t, especially if you’re talking Keynesian economics.

JTW Podcast: Aquinas on Virtue, Part II

This is the second part of the podcast that we put up last week . . . and it doesn’t actually feature Aquinas, either.  Anyway, this is the second part of a discussion on what Aquinas meant by “virtue,” which you don’t have to accept, but it might get you to think a bit, and prepare you to read the book by Dawn K. Brohawn, CESJ’s Director of Communications, and Michael D. Greaney, CESJ’s Director of Research, The Greater Reset: Reclaiming Personal Sovereignty Under Natural Law:

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The weirdness continues throughout the world as our so-called leaders refuse even to consider adopting that the Economic Democracy Act.  In other news:

America’s Prince of Lunacy

You’ve probably noticed that the moment you think you’ve heard it all, somebody is bound to show up and prove you wrong.  For example, if you ever thought that today’s academics and politicians were crazier than bedbugs and nobody in history, except maybe Caligula and a few other loony toons, could match them.

JTW Podcast: Aquinas on Virtue, Part I

Okay, this podcast doesn’t really feature Thomas Aquinas, but somebody talking about Aquinas . . . but you knew that, right?  Anyway, this is the first part of a discussion on what Aquinas meant by “virtue,” which you don’t have to accept, but it might get you to think a bit, and prepare you to read the book by Dawn K. Brohawn, CESJ’s Director of Communications, and Michael D. Greaney, CESJ’s Director of Research, The Greater Reset: Reclaiming Personal Sovereignty Under Natural Law: