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Fire and Water
Fire isn't the sort of thing you'd think would help preserve cultural artifacts (inferno and ashes), nor is water (flood and erosion). But Washington College students this summer are learning how both can reveal clues about the past and the people in it—in this case, Native Americans who lived along the Chester River thousands of years ago.
During the College's Summer Archaeology Field School at Indiantown Farms in Centreville, Md., students worked with Justine McKnight, an archaeobotanist who studies the minute remains of plants and their signatures to tell the stories of native peoples. Using a method called soil flotation, McKnight relies on buoyancy to find organic fragments that might be missed or destroyed using traditional methods.
"Material combusted in a low-oxygen environment is carbonized and captured within the soil," McKnight says. "Anything that's burned—nutshells, seeds, an ear of corn—it's perfect! It retains all these qualities of morphology. They can tell us what folks were eating here, how they were modifying the landscape to grow corn, for instance, whether they were gathering marsh plants. Flotation allows suspension of really delicate things."
On a blustery summer day at Indiantown, while several students picked, troweled and sifted through soil layers nearby, McKnight showed Nicolle Gamez '14 and Chris Menke '14, both anthropology majors, how to use soil flotation. The system relies on continually flowing water to wash through excavated material, allowing heavier items to sink and smaller, lighter items to float. After a period of sluicing which, for a three-liter bag of material might take half an hour, McKnight and Gamez carefully screened the remaining bits and collected them to be examined at McKnight's Severna Park lab.
"It wasn't an artifact-rich site," says Bill Schindler, associate professor of archaeology, who led the summer field school with Dr. Julie Markin. "But, it was very rich in many other forms of information. With the type of field recovery techniques we practiced, laboratory analysis can reveal a great deal of valuable information about the past. The real story's going to be told when the students—Nicolle, Chris, Sarah and Dana—complete their work."
While Gamez focuses on the floral remains, Menke is looking at faunal leftovers—fish scales, bones, oysters—using carbon 14 dating to place them in temporal context. For this site in particular, Schindler says, the carbon 14 dating is essential because so little else remains. "The level we're working in shows no pottery, which suggests it's pre-ceramic. If so it's more than 3,000 years old," he says. "We'd like to have a more accurate date."
Sarah Cohen '14 is analyzing stone tools and flakes from the site, while Dana Case '14 is conducting experimental archaeological analysis utilizing technology available at the time to open oysters, and comparing those marks and traits to the shells found on site.
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text: HYDERABAD: An international partnership across India, Africa and the USA has formed the 'One Agriculture-One Science: A Global Education Consortium' initiative aimed at revitalizing global agricultural education, capacity building and technology transfer. This has been made possible with the collaboration of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and top universities from all these continents. 'One Agriculture-One Science' is a consortium of agricultural education institutes, research organizations and other related agencies specifically focusing on addressing changes and adaptations required for agricultural education to better contribute and more effectively impact development goals, particularly the attainment of food and nutritional security and sustainable agricultural production in developing countries. 'One Agriculture-One Science' will bring various disciplines in agricultural education such as crop, livestock, fisheries, natural resource management, etc. under one roof by providing a common platform to address pressing global food security, accessibility and affordability challenges. Through partnerships and knowledge networks, participating institutions shall offer short courses, student scholarship programs and collaborative research opportunities addressing these challenges. Global collaborative partners from a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise and experience gathered for the launch of the initiative in an expert consultation workshop jointly organized by ICRISAT, the University of Florida (UF), Michigan State University and Iowa State University, held at UF, Gainesville, Florida, USA on 17-18 July 2014. The launch was attended by select experts from land grant state universities in the USA, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the African Green Revolution Alliance (AGRA), the Regional University Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM, a consortium of 42 universities in 19 countries in Africa), US Department of Agriculture, US Agency for International Development, and CGIAR centers. 'One Agriculture-One Science' is a common platform to comprehensively address gaps in agricultural education with the latest advancements in technology and knowledge flow strategies," said Dr William D. Dar, Director General, ICRISAT, at the launch of the initiative. "The task of revitalizing global agricultural education requires all of us to work together in developing an educational and capacity building road map focused on how we can better contribute to global food and nutritional security through a global education consortium for development," Dr Dar continued. "As a land grant university engaged worldwide, we at UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) know that our relationships with our international partners are reciprocal, that sometimes we experience reverse technology transfer," said Dr Jack Payne, Senior Vice-President, UF, Gainesville. Beyond UF-IFAS Global, we've got ambitious plans for addressing perhaps the grandest challenge of our time: How to feed a projected 9.2 billion people by 2050 and do it in a safe, secure, nutritious and sustainable way and that our collaborations yield more discovery and contribute to the global mission," emphasized Dr Payne. "The 'One Agriculture-One Science' will see the formation of a consortium of international educators including select universities in the USA, international and regional organizations, and universities in interested regions, especially from the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)," said Dr K Ramesh Reddy, Graduate Research Professor and Chair of Soil and Water Science Department, UF-IFAS. "The initiative is a strategic coalition of partners anchored on innovative knowledge networks, public-private partnerships, and novel educational approaches to revitalize global agricultural education to better contribute to food and nutritional security," stressed Dr Dileepkumar Guntuku, Global Leader, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation, ICRISAT.


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Boreas Rising:
White Nationalism & the Geopolitics of the Paris-Berlin-Moscow Axis, Part 3
Michael O'Meara
Part 3 of 3
A Promising Rapprochement
In the last instance, the US-European rift of 2002–2003 followed from the Cold War's end, which destroyed the rationale for the transatlantic alliance and hence the restraints on European autonomy. For without the Red Army on the Elbe, Europe was no longer obliged to take orders from the West Wing. Because NATO has outlived its usefulness and Bush's unipolar security system made no accommodation to Europe's post-Cold War status, the more self-confident Europeans have begun to distance themselves from Washington.
However headline-capturing, their modest assertion of autonomy has nevertheless been carried out in ways that are thoroughly inadequate to Europe's independence, based as they are on principles of jurisprudence and ethics, rather than on more consequential forms of power. In Robert Kagan's now famous characterization, Europeans are from Venus and Americans from Mars, with the former acting as if the world were governed by abstract Kantian principles, ignorant of or unwilling to acknowledge the violent Hobbesian reality which Americans, especially after 9/11, have been forced to confront.[1] In other words, Europeans look to negotiations, diplomacy, and international law to resolve international disputes, while Americans emphasize the importance of military force. These differing "perspectives and psychologies of power," the anti-white Kagan suggests, explain something of what divides the two shores of the Atlantic.[2] But perhaps more debilitating than Europe's "Kantianism" (which will not last) is the fact that its increasingly autonomous foreign policy is less an expression of its political identity (although it is that) than a symptom of its liberal evasion of what such an identity ought to entail.
In France, for instance, which is the sole continental country to have defended the European idea in the last half century, as well as maintained a nuclear arsenal and professional army worthy of a "power," opposition to US unilateralism has been framed largely in liberal internationalist terms that draw attention away from the state's failed domestic policies. Since De Gaulle's death, France has been in decline. The population is aging, millions of inassimilable Muslim immigrants are colonizing its lands, and virtually all the major institutions are in need of reform. Having eyes only for the "poor immigrant," the metastasizing state bureaucracy imposes unrealistic social laws that hamper production and serve as a force for national decline. At the same time, the historical sources of nationalism have been dissolved, the native French dispirited by the institutionalization of multiculturalism, and the country's extraordinary military and diplomatic apparatus, the necessary basis of both French and European power, if not neglected, then underfunded.[3] The hoopla that comes with France's resistance to Bush simply focuses attention away from these failures and toward geopolitical developments that are potentially key to Europe's future, but whose import is limited by the state's misconceived domestic policies. As Julius Evola puts it: "The measure of freedom is power."[4] And because Europeans are now uncomfortable with the exercise of power, their freedom is necessarily limited.
It is worth recalling that Jacques Chirac was responsible for the totalitarian mobilization against the presidential candidacy of the nationalist Jean Marie Le Pen in 2002.[5] Like much of the European governing class, he is a product of the same plutocratic system that subordinates national interests to international finance, indifferent to everything associated with his people's blood and soil.[6] Such a system, as our own experiences reveal, is incapable of producing anything other than mediocrities. In this spirit, Chirac's opposition to Washington's unipolar order orients to a multipolar model based on liberal market principles hostile to Europe's unique bioculture. As Guillaume Faye points out, Chirac's opposition to the Iraq war was motivated less by his Gaullist nationalism (which he routinely betrays) than by his pacifist and Third World politics.[7] With the 2007 presidential elections in view, his foreign policy seems, in fact, aimed at the new Muslim electorate, which thrives on his anti-American, Third World, and multilateralist posturing.[8]
Faye also claims that American power is ultimately a reflex of Europe's refusal of power.[9] Like many commentators, he stresses that US power in this period is greatly exaggerated and goes unchecked mainly for want of challengers. Revealingly, Chirac has, for all his opposition to Bush, done little to rearm Europe and what he does do he does for the worst of reasons, neglecting Grande Europe in the name of a legalistic idealism that contradicts the biocultural foundations of European life. Rather than fixating on the illegalities and incivilities of American unilateralism (which has proven to be a paper tiger in Iraq), he and other establishment leaders would make a greater contribution to Europe's destiny if they devoted more attention to its military, restored the basis of its national identity, and addressed the real dangers coming from the South. Worse, they wholeheartedly subscribe to the American model of ethnopluralism, communitarianism, and multiculturalism. Just as US leaders think nothing of sending troops halfway around the world to fight a war whose immediate beneficiary is Israel, ignoring the more serious security threat posed by the Third World's incessant assaults on the country's southern border, European elites (and the demonstrators massed behind them) trumpet their solidarity with the Islamic Middle East, whose immigrants are presently rending the fabric of European life. There are good reasons for opposing Bush's war, but the liberal ones motivating Chirac cannot but come back to haunt the continent.
Germany's relationship with the US is significantly different than France's, but no less infused with noxious anti-identitarian influences. Germany was virtually remade by the Americans after 1945 and throughout the Cold War remained subservient to them. Yet Germany is slowly beginning to throw off her tutelage. Schröder nevertheless adheres to values and policies that qualify as examples of Kagan's Kantianism (i.e., pure liberalism). More than Chirac, he upholds Washington's earlier liberal internationalism, criticizing Bush for violating its principles.[10] (As one journalist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung writes: "We [Germans] owe a great debt to the US for contributing to our transformation into truly democratic citizens after World War II. . . . They [Americans] must forgive us if we have difficulty letting go some of the lessons we have learned.")[11] It was thus his pacifism—his Social Democratic opposition to power per se—rather than any geopolitical ambition for a powerful Europe that seems to have prompted his opposition to the Iraq war.[12] And in this, alas, he resembles much of the German population, which prefers bourgeois comforts to those virtues that made earlier generations great. Finally, Schröder, like Chirac, supports Turkey's admission to the EU and panders to the new "German Turk" electorate. He might therefore have been the first German chancellor since Hitler to frontally oppose Washington, but he has no intention of letting the old anti-liberal dream of white renaissance out of the bag.[13]
Despite the mediocre stature of these politicians, which makes them ill-suited to the great tasks at hand, I would argue that the "force of things"—the realities of power and the dictates of survival—is greater than those charged with carrying them out.[14] This seems especially evident in Europe's rapprochement with Russia. For as France and Germany become increasingly alienated from the US, they lean eastward—even though French and German elites have much more in common with their American than their Russian counterparts.[15]
A rapprochement between the three great European peoples promises great things. As Karl Haushofer once said: "The day when Germans, Frenchmen, and Russians unite will be the last day of Anglo-Saxon [i.e., liberal] hegemony."[16] Bush—and this is why his administration seems destined to achieve world-historical significance—has brought about what a century of US geostrategists have sought to prevent. Conversely, it is hardly coincidental that even at the Cold War's height, a wing of the French military looked to Russia as a possible ally. In 1955, the prominent geostrategist, Admiral Raoul Castex, published an article titled "Moscou, rempart de l'Occident?" (Moscow, rampart of the West?), in which he wondered if Russia might not one day become "the vanguard of the white world's defense."[17] Today, in a period when Grande Europe—from Dublin to Vladivostok—is at peace, white nationalists in Europe and America again pose Castex's question and again affirm the possibility that Russia has a leading role to play in the white race's defense. Indeed, the question now possesses a qualitatively greater weight than it did a half century ago, before the Third World hordes, abetted by the West's liberal elites, began their colonization of our lands. Russia, moreover, is not just the last white nation on earth, but the only one to have shown the slightest interest in defending its ethnoracial identity. (Our russophobic nationalists might be reminded that the former Soviet Union was the sole white power to define nationality racially.) Its heritage of nationalism, socialism, and anti-liberalism also lends it something of that "Prussian socialism" which Spengler and Yockey saw as the one viable antidote to Western liberalism.[18] In courting Russian support in their conflict with the US, French and German elites might think Putin will be converted to their misconceived Kantianism, but in the great racial-civilizational battles that lie ahead, it is far more likely that Russia's ethnonationalism will prevail.[19]
America's Future
Since the rise to world power of the United States, white America has been in decline. For most of the twentieth century, but especially since the end of the Second World War, the country's overlords have taken one step after another to de-Europeanize its white population. To this end, white culture and identity have been socially re-engineered. White communities, schools, and businesses have been forced to integrate with races previously considered inferior and inimical. And, for the last 40 years, whites have been expected to replace themselves with Third World immigrants. As the biocultural identity of white Americans gives way to a universal, transnational, and global one (the ideological analogue of the New World Order), they are further alienated from who they are.[20] Against this de-Europeanization and the postnational, multiracial regime succeeding it, the small, isolated pockets of white resistance confront a seemingly impossible task—similar to the one King Canute faced when he tried to hold back the ocean tide. Because of this, I would argue that only a catastrophe will save white America. Only a catastrophic collapse of the political, institutional, and cultural systems associated with imperial America—call it the managerial state, liberal democracy, corporate capitalism, the NWO, or whatever label you prefer—holds out any possibility that a small, racially conscious vanguard of white Americans will succeed in defending their people's existence.[21] With the Iraq war, Bush—"this Buster Keaton of the apocalypse"—has opened a Pandora's box of catastrophes. He, in fact, has done more to discredit, weaken, and vilify the existing systems of liberal subversion than any previous president, inadvertently creating conditions that should give white Americans another chance to regain control of their destiny. In this spirit, his administration acts as "a lightning rod for catastrophes." As one foreign observer notes: "The paradox of the present situation is that the worse the crisis becomes, the more Washington reinforces the position that evokes so much resistance."[22] Indeed, his "war on terror creates more monsters than its destroys."[23] Lacking the cognitive and normative tools to deal with a complex area like the Mideast, the president ends up managing the Iraqi occupation "by the seat of his pants."[24] And as he does, the real dangers threatening the country are totally ignored: the dangers posed by the mestizo and Asiatic colonization of our lands, the growth of US Muslim communities, the denationalization of the economy and the looming fiscal crisis of the state, the Zionist domination of the political and information systems, the replacement of truth with propaganda and disinformation, the deculturation and miscegenation of our people, and the unrelenting assault on everything associated with the "freedoms" he allegedly defends in Mesopotamia. Instead of inaugurating a new era of unchallenged American power and enhancing national security, Bush seems set on preparing their demise.[25] Since the murderous terror of 9/11, his administration has shattered the myth of American military omnipotence, tarnished the country's moral authority, alienated its allies, squandered its once formidable diplomatic powers, created the basis of an anti-US realignment, and undermined America's image not only as a force for democracy and order, but as a secure economic haven. This latter tendency is now causing overseas investors to think twice about sending their capital to the US, which, combined with the ballooning expenses of the Iraq war, is hastening the dollar's decline and the country's economic deterioration. But more than undermining American power and prestige, the Bush administration has discredited the liberal civilizational model associated with the United States, provoking, in the process, a worldwide revulsion against the "American way of life."[26]
The simple-minded, dishonorable, and raceless character of Bush's government—riddled with Israeli spies and unsavory influence peddlers and premised on the belief that truth is irrelevant to its political calculus—seems to epitomize nothing so much as the debilitated state of our governing classes and their inability to serve as a nation-bearing stratum. That for the first time in American history Europe is not the focus of US strategic thinking, but rather Israel, should say it all.[27] It would be misleading, though, to think the failures at the highest level of state are simply the result of an unusually incompetent administration or its alien controllers. For even the "opposition" party produces candidates who are but variants of the reigning mediocrity.[28] This suggests that the system itself is bankrupt. Not coincidentally, the telltale signs of blockage, symptomatic of regimes heading toward the abyss (or "staying the course," as George II says), appear now with increased frequency. The great bard of our decline, H. Millard, likens America to a runaway train. "The Israel firsters, neurotics, low IQ PTA types, political opportunists, easily susceptible dupes, genocidal blenders, party loyalists, war profiteers, and opportunists of various stripes" who are at the controls either have no idea of what they are doing or an unwillingness to profess it publicly.[29]
Contrary to the pipedreams of both our conservatives and liberals, there will be no going back.[30] Like the Soviet Union in the 1980s, the US has become bogged down in a protracted war at the very moment its economy is in steep decline. The slash-and-burn policies Bush has introduced will also be extremely difficult to retract, no matter who captures the White House in 2008. But even if there were a desire to retract them, the means are lacking. For example, in 1956, when Dwight Eisenhower warned France and England not to retake the Suez Canal, after Egypt nationalized it, he was able to threaten the stability of their national currencies. Today, the dollar is itself threatened.[31] For all the fabled shock and awe of US power in this period, the country is qualitatively weaker than it was a generation ago, when it was able to rein in the largest European empires. This erosion of its economic, diplomatic, moral, and even military power, combined with the near universal opposition to its increasingly unilateral and militaristic foreign policy, cannot but provoke a geopolitical realignment. The prospect of the Iraq war spreading to Iran and elsewhere will simply compound these destabilizing forces.[32] Increased conflict abroad, growing dissent at home, and deep division within the government itself are also likely to foster decisional paralysis, further exacerbating the crisis.
But however this crisis plays out, America and Europe seem set on a collision course.[33] Already wary of Washington, France and Germany (along with Spain, Belgium, and Italy, once Berlusconi goes) will eventually have no choice but to reposition themselves in opposition to it, for their strategic imperatives are increasingly at odds. This is certain to trigger new conflicts and new alignments, compelling Europeans to reaffirm their sovereignty—and their distinct strategic identity. As they do, their cooperation is bound to deepen and their nationalist consciousness to grow. At the same time, certain mentalities will be forced to change and certain taboos to fall, including the postmodern ones that leave Europe powerless. The collapse of the Cold War alliance system also throws open the strategic-political parameters of the international arena. The future, as a consequence, now holds out several possible alternatives. The Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis may still lack credibility, but this is probably less important than the effect it has had—and will continue to have—on the European spirit. It thus promises a possible renewal. The big question is whether or not Europeans have the will and acumen to realize it.
Fundamental to virtually all schools of geopolitical thought is the notion that the augmentation of power in one part of the world inevitably comes at the expense of another part. If the Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis continues to affect the continent and shift power out of the Atlanticist camp, this cannot but destabilize the United States, for without its omnipotent dollar and its domination of global markets, it will no longer be able to consume more than it produces, to live on credit, to afford the social-welfare measures that buy off the Africans and tame the Mexicans, to sustain the social-engineering schemes discriminating against the talents and energies of its white majority, to afford the police, the drugs, the TVs, and the computer toys that narcotize its cretinized masses. The institutionalization of such an axis is also likely to dislodge America's dominant place in the world system, setting off economic disruptions that will make it impossible for whites to live in the old way, to lose themselves in vacuous material comforts, to accept the lies that fly in the face of reality. Once this point is reached, European-Americans will be forced to act like people elsewhere who are suddenly thrown into a do-or-die situation.[34]
Like the "American Century" Henry Luce announced in 1941, the "New American Century" of Washington's current generation of schemers and chiselers promises an even greater holocaust of our people. The future they envisage might indeed be called the New Anti-White Century. For like the order issuing from their Second World War, the one planned for the period following Iraq will not serve white America, only the alien, plutocratic, and cosmopolitan interests aligned in the current Washington-London-Tel Aviv axis.
No one should be surprised, then, that when the inevitable collapse comes, white America's front fighters will not mourn the eclipse of the so-called American Century, for they are nationalists not in the nineteenth century sense. They do not fight for the petty-statism of the so-called "nation-state"—which is now made up of peoples from many different nations. The American, German, and French states—none of these entities any longer represent the descendants of those who founded them. As Sam Francis puts it, "the state has become the enemy of the nation."[35] And as a thousand years of European history demonstrate, whenever the state and the nation come into conflict, the latter inevitably proves the stronger. I think it is no exaggeration to claim that only on the ruins of the existing political order will white America be reborn—and reborn not as another constitutional "nation-state" which elevates abstract rights above biocultural imperatives, but as a northern imperium of white peoples who, as Bismarck exhorted, "think with their blood."
Those who would dismiss the Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis as a temporary happenstance, a product of convenience, inflated with purely speculative significance, should be reminded that the 21st century will decide if white people have a future or not. From this perspective, collapse and realignment are necessities—and necessities have a way of engendering the imagination appropriate to them. For when the world's population reaches ten billion, when China, India, and all Asia challenge the white man's dominance, when the colored multitudes crossing our borders are magnified by ten or a hundred, when oil is depleted and raw materials are used up, when all the forests have been cut down and all the cultivable lands claimed, and—hopefully—when the Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis has established an alternative realm of white existence, the ensuing chaos cannot but sunder whatever misbegotten allegiance white Americans have had to the present system. Then, in alliance with their kinsmen in Europe and Russia, they—if they are to survive as a people—will have no choice but to accept that they are made not in the multihued images of a deracinated humanity, but in that of the luminous Boreans, whose destiny opposes the darkening forces of Bush's America.
Let us prepare for the coming collapse.
1. Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (New York: Knopf, 2003), p. 3. Actually, the unreferenced metaphor originates with Denis MacShane, "Europe and America Need Each Other More Than Ever," http://www.post-gazette.com
2. Kagan, Of Paradise and Power, p. 28.
3. Guillaume Faye, La colonisation de l'Europe: Discours vrai sur l'immigration et l'Islam (Paris: L'Æncre, 2000); Nicolas Baverez, La France qui tombe (Paris: Perrin, 2004).
4. Julius Evola, Imperialismo pagano: Il fascismo dinanzi al pericolo euro-cristiano (Padua: Ar, 1996), p. 45.
5. Yves Daoudal, Le tour infernal: 21 avril–5 mai (Paris: Godefroy de Bouillon, 2003).
6. Yves-Marie Laulan, Jacques Chirac et le déclin français 1974–2002 (Paris: François-Xavier de Guilbert, 2001); Emmanuel Ratier, Le vrai visage de Jacques Chirac (Paris: Facta, 1995).
7. Faye, Le coup d'Etat mondial, p. 113.
8. Omer Taspinar, "Europe's Muslim Streets," Foreign Policy (March–April 2003).
9. As Schröder says: "Es gibt nicht zu viel Amerika, es gibt zu wenig Europa." See "Die Krise, die Europa eint: Ein Gespräch mit Gerhard Schröder," Die Zeit (14/2003). Cf. Philippe Grasset, "Le dilemme stratégique des U.S.A: Sa faiblesse militaire" (June 15, 2004), http://www.dedefensa.org
10. Günter Maschke, "Vereinigte Staaten sind die Macht der Unordnung," Deutsche Stimme (June 2003).
11. Quoted in Richard Lambert, "Misunderstanding Each Other," Foreign Affairs (March–April 2003).
12. Alexander Rar, "Europa ist Zerspaltet" (December 15, 2003), http://evrazia.org
13. Edouard Husson, "Crise allemande, crise européenne?" (March 2003), http://www.diploweb.com
14. As Joseph de Maistre said of the revolutionaries of 1789: "Ce ne sont point les hommes qui mènent la révolution, c'est la révolution qui emploie les hommes." See Considérations sur la France (Lyon: Vitte, 1924), p. 7.
15. Maja Heidenreich, "Europa und Russland: Eine rückblickende und analysierende Darstellung" (n.d.), http://www.boschlektoren.de/
16. Quoted in Sacha Papovic, "De la dialectique géopolitique" (August 2003), http://www.voxnr.com.
17. Cited in "Russie-France-Allemagne" ( n.d.), http://www.paris-berlin-moscou.org
18. Oswald Spengler, Preussentum und Sozialismus (Munich: Beck, 1919); K. R. Bolton, ed., Varange: The Life and Thoughts of Francis Parker Yockey (Paraparaumu, NZ: Renaissance Press, 1998), pp. 36–38. Also N. N. Alexeiev, "Raisons spirituelles de la civilisation eurasiste" (1998), http://www.voxnr.com
19. W. Joseph Stoupe, "The Inevitability of a Eurasian Alliance" (August 17, 2004), http://atimes.com
20. James Kurth, "The War and the West," Orbis (Spring 2002).
21. Guillaume Faye, Avant-Guerre: Chronique d'un cataclysme annoncé (Paris: L'Æncre, 2002).
22. Philippe Grasset, "Comment Rumsfeld devient le garante de l'aventure irakienne" (May 11, 2004), http://www.dedefense.org
23. François-Bernard Huyghe, Quatrième guerre mondiale: Faire mourir et faire croire (Paris: Rocher, 2004), p. 9.
24. D. Priest and T. E. Ricks, "Growing Pessimism on Iraq: Doubts Increase within U.S. Security Agencies," The Washington Post, September 29, 2004.
25. Philippe Grasset, "La destruction méthodique de la puissance américaine" (September 27, 2004), http://www.dedefensa.org; Guatam Adhikari, "The End of the Unipolar Myth," International Herald Tribune, September 27, 2004.
26. Philippe Grasset, "Comment l'américainisme est en train d'apparaître pour ce qu'il est: un problème de civilisation" (September 1, 2004), http://www.dedefensa.org
27. Brent Scowcroft, George I's national security adviser, has publicly criticized George II for being "inordinately influenced by Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. 'Sharon just has him wrapped around his little finger', Scowcroft said. 'I think the president is mesmerized.'" See "Key GOP Figure Raps Bush on Mideast," San Francisco Chronicle, October 17, 2004.
28. Ehsan Ahari, "How Bush, Kerry Are One and the Same" (September 2, 2004), http://www.latimes.com
29. H. Millard, "Ridin' the Runaway Train Named America" (2004), http://www.newnation.org
30. Françoise Vergniolle de Chantal, "Les débats américains sur la relations transatlantiques" (2004), http://robert-schuman.org
31. Ian Williams, "Deterring the Empire" (May 13, 2003), http://www.alternet.org
32. David Wood, "U.S. to Sell Precision-Guided Bombs to Israel" (September 23, 2004), http://www.newhousesnews.com
33. Ian Black, "The Transatlantic Drift," The Guardian, September 20, 2004; Philippe Grasset, "L'UE: Une stratégie de rupture avec l'Amérique" (September 20, 2004), http://www.dedefensa.org
34. Faye, Avant-Guerre.
35. Sam Francis, "When the State Is the Enemy of the Nation" (July 19, 2004), http://www.vdare.com This is not to say that the state is inherently the enemy of the nation—only that this is the case with the existing liberal state. On the difference between statism and nationalism, see Walker Connor, Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
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00Brother Nathanael says:This is a PROFOUND article with PENETRATING insights by Michael O'Meara.
I encourage Michael to KEEP ON WRITING and INSPIRING as he does in this well-written, well-researched, well thought-through article.
It seems to me that the REAL thinkers today are the White Nationalists like Michael O'Meara (Dr Kevin MacDonald, Tom Sunic, Greg Johnson, etc) who have something very valuable to offer in our plight of Jewry's insidious hegemony of our culture.
I had mentioned on a comment I posted on Part I of this serial article that I know much about Putin owing to my membership in the Russian Orthodox Church…having many contacts in Russia.
Michael mentions that Russia *still* wishes to "defend its ethnoracial identity." This is INDEED a fact.
This is because Putin and the Patriarch of the Russian Church work VERY CLOSELY together in the Byzantine Orthodox tradition of "symphony between Church and State. "
They are NOW embarked on a program and thrust to BOOST the WHITE Russian population COUPLED with their program to bring the Russian people BACK to the Church which the Soviet system worked to marginalize if not destroy. (200 Churches are being planned by Putin and the Patriarch to be built in Moscow alone.)
KEEP ON WRITING Michael! Your analysis of our current Jew-promoted multi-racial plight is MOST NEEDED.
+Brother Nathanael Kapner
Publisher, Real Zionist News00I consider this a very elucidating piece in the context of the forthcoming fiscal collapse in the US (see also Ron Paul's 2006 Congress speech here). It looks like Ragnarök is just ahead of the corner. No kidding. Let us prepare for the coming collapse indeed!
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(OPRAH.com) -- Motherhood is a wonderful responsibility -- but it can also be exhausting, confusing, infuriating and downright funny.
Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile felt motherhood hit like a bomb and wrote a book on their experiences.
"I always say moms have the toughest job in the world if you're doing it right," Oprah Winfrey says. "Today, [women] are spilling the beans about a side of motherhood that hardly anybody ever talks about."
She is saluting moms everywhere and letting them know they have support.
"We hear from mothers all the time who say they feel alone. They feel overwhelmed; they feel sometimes inadequate. And you say you're afraid to admit the truth for fear of being judged," Winfrey says. "So today we're creating a judgment-free zone, a sisterhood of motherhood where anything goes." Oprah.com: Stress-relief for busy moms
Heather Armstrong is a mother of a 5-year-old daughter and has another baby on the way. She's getting the conversation started by admitting the aspects of motherhood she says she could do without. "I really don't enjoy the early mornings or the plastic toys," she says. "I don't do arts and crafts, I don't do pipe cleaners, I don't do cotton balls or scissors."
She'd also be happy to never deal with bodily fluids again, she says. "I could do away with the liquids," she says. "The snot and the poo. I'm not fond of those things."
Bodily fluids are a point of contention for the mothers across the board. Vicki Glembocki, a mom of two, says she had a "pee incident" recently during a seven-hour drive with her kids.
"I looked in the back, and the kids were sleeping, which was literally a miracle from God, but the problem was I had to pee," she says. "So I'm thinking, 'If I stop at a rest area, they're totally going to wake up, and I do not want them to wake up.' So I reach into the diaper bag, I pulled out a diaper and I peed into it."
Dee-Dee Jackson, a mother of five, has her own diaper confession. After running out of diapers in the middle of the night, she says she had to make her own. "What we had to do was use a maxi pad until the next morning," she says. "It worked so well, we took our time the next day to get diapers."
Heija Nunn has a diaper tip that has served her well with her three kids. "You have to seed the house and car with diapers," she says. "That way there's always one to unearth in an emergency. Don't put them in one spot -- just scatter them."
The one universal truth about motherhood seems to be that no one ever tells you what to really expect. The moms on our panel say they had to learn the toughest lessons from experience.
Glembocki says the most surprising thing about motherhood was that she didn't feel maternal right away. "I swore to God that the moment my daughter issued forth from my loins that ... my life would finally be complete and I would finally know my purpose. It was not like that," she says. "I couldn't get her to sleep. I couldn't get her to stop crying. I completely believed that I was the only woman in the history of time who did not have the maternal gene, and I thought I was completely alone."
Four years later, Glembocki says she's just now getting the hang of it. Oprah.com: What your baby's cries mean
Melinda Roberts, a mom of three, says she had to learn on her own that motherhood is like a 12-step program.
"You've got to take it one day at a time sometimes," she says. "You feel like: 'If I can get out of bed and get breakfast on the table, I'll be happy. If I can get them to school, I'll be happy.'"
One major motherhood realization that Roberts says she had with her first child was that she could no longer control everything in her life.
"You can no longer choose your activities, your down time, when you get to sleep," she says. "No matter what you do or where you go, you're always tethered to this other human being in this unbreakable, incredibly fragile way. Anything you do will affect this child potentially for the rest of their life."
Longtime friends Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile set out on the motherhood journey together. They had perfect plans -- Amy would stay at work after kids; Trisha would have three children, set exactly two years apart. But, like so many best-laid plans, things didn't work out like they thought. Motherhood, they say, was more overwhelming than they expected. "It was like a bomb hit us," Nobile says. "I didn't feel I had permission to talk about how hard motherhood really was." Oprah.com: Would you trade your husband for a housekeeper?
Eventually, Ashworth and Nobile say they reached their breaking point, and they set out to see if other mothers shared their struggles. After interviewing hundreds of women, they say they've heard all the dirty little secrets of motherhood. Their first book, "I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids," was based on their findings.
One of the most interesting things Nobile discovered is that mothers are dying to open up -- but it takes time. When interviewing mothers for their book, Nobile says it would take a good 22 minutes of chatting before moms would speak the truth. "We feel like we don't have permission to admit that it's really hard, so we're all walking around with these smiles on our faces, but really we feel alone," she says.
Ashworth and Nobile say they've heard just about everything from moms, but one admission really struck a chord. "One mom said, 'I love being a mom, I just hate doing it because it is an impossible job,'" Nobile says. "We've raised the bar so high."
The common thread throughout Nobile and Ashworth's interviews -- whether they were talking to mothers of one or of five -- was that mothers demand too much of themselves. "The expectations we have on ourselves is completely unrealistic. This generation of women was raised to believe that we should and could do it all," Ashworth says. "And that list [of expectations] is so huge that we think if we can't live up to that, then we're not good moms."
Mothers need to know that if they can't do it all -- or if they don't want to -- that doesn't make them failures, Nobile says. "We need honesty," she says. "We need to support each other more."
Nobile says mothers need to accept that they cannot reclaim the person they were before they had kids. "You have to reinvent yourself," she says.
It's also important to remember that taking time for yourself doesn't make you a bad parent. "Most of us feel guilty, like you have to be on the floor with them 24/7 and give them all your attention or you're not a good mom," Ashworth says. "Redefine it for yourself that way, like, 'It's okay that I'm on the computer and my kids are playing by themselves.' Make peace with that."
Before Armstrong had her daughter, she kept a blog that she says had about 30 readers. The week she gave birth, she says she noticed a spike in her traffic and a new audience of moms looking to connect. She chronicled her experiences breastfeeding and her bout with postpartum depression. She says her blog became her lifeline.
"So many women reached out to me to let me know that they had gone through the same crises and come out the other side," Armstrong says. "It was the hope that they gave me that pulled me through."
Armstrong's blog, Dooce.com, became so popular that she's been called the "mother of all bloggers." The site brings in a reported $40,000 a month in advertising and has become the family business. "I think people are really hungry for that honesty," Armstrong says.
One popular topic on Armstrong's blog is sex and how it changes when you are a mom. "It took seven months [before I had sex after giving birth]. No one had told me that it was going to take that long after what the baby did to me," Armstrong says. "Any guy who wants to have unprotected sex? Seven months without it. Just think about that for a minute. Let that number circulate in your head for a little bit."
As hard as it can be to find time or energy for sex, Nobile says its an effort worth making. "We have to make sex a true investment in the marriage," she says. "A good marriage is the backbone of a healthy family."
Date nights and moments of intimacy send important messages to both your husband and your children about your priorities, Nobile says.
"One husband said [to me]: 'I used to be first, and now I'm pulling up the rear. I'm behind the pet rabbit,'" she says. "Our kids are watching us. So when you go out on that date, you have to sit your kids down and say, 'This is important for our family.'"
In a studio full of moms, one audience member says her biggest complaint regarding motherhood is the unspoken competition between working moms and stay-at-home moms.
"It is a war. It's a kind war, but still a war," she says. "I'm a working mom, so it's important that my family comes first and that I still do everything that a stay-at-home mom does, plus have a career. That means every single one of my vacation days are used for [my kids] -- mommy day at school, a play date or mommy and me things. ... We don't want it to seem as if we love our career more, so we try to do it all and get two hours of sleep."
Jackson is currently a stay-at-home mom, but she was a working mother once too.
"The competition is there because we create it for ourselves," she says. "There's really no reason to compete, because [stay-at-home moms] are just as busy as the working mom. The working mom is just as busy as we are. We just tend to sometimes put the focus on the wrong things. We're all busy 24/7. I consider myself an at-home working mother."
Nobile says these wars arise out of our own uncertainties as mothers. "We're insecure about the choices we're making -- that's why we're judging each other," she says. "We need to give ourselves a collective break." Oprah.com: Try Amy and Trisha's judgment exercise
"Have compassion for each other," Ashworth says. "Realize we all have issues, and we're all doing the best we can."
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A 2-Move, 200-Calorie-Burning Workout in Just 5 Minutes
With this no-excuses routine from Self, you'll squeeze in a killer head-to-toe, fat-blasting workout no matter how busy you are.
A quality sweat session in five minutes? Yep. The proof is in this quickie firm-and-burn routine created by Dasha Libin. Russian-born Libin (her grandfather taught kettlebells to the Soviet Army!) is the co-owner of Anderson Martial Arts in New York City and the creator of Kettlebell Kickboxing. She has more than a decade of training in Muay Thai, Jeet Kune Do, Filipino Martial Arts, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and a Master's degree in sports science. So, yeah, pretty much, she knows her sh*t.
The Plan
Libin calls this routine Martial 2s, or 20-2. The secret sauce: efficiency. You'll alternate between two exercises (detailed below), consecutively. No rest between sets and reps!
For your first set, you'll complete each exercise for 20 reps. For your second set, you'll complete each exercise for 18 reps. You'll continue by reducing by 2 reps every set until you get to 0 or your 5 minutes is up — whichever happens first. Confused? This chart will clear things up.
Warning: You may find it super difficult or impossible to get all the way down to zero on your first attempt. But that's the beauty of it! The next time you try it, you'll most likely get a little further along.
"It's an awesome challenge and a great source of motivation to continue to progress until you reach the zero goal," Libin says.
Why It Works
You might be thinking, how can a 5-minute workout with only two moves actually be that good? And we don't blame you; it does seem a little too-good-to-be-true. But hear us out: For toning, the key is compound moves (they work multiple muscles at once) that balance each other out (so you don't overload a muscle group). For burn, the HIIT (high intensity interval training) protocol is scientifically proven to zap mega calories fast. Plus, it'll fire up your metabolism so you continue to burn calories after the workout.
Trainer Tip
It's five minutes out of your day. Try to get through it without a break. Do so and you may burn up to 200 calories. "Just breathe into your nose and deep into your belly as you push your body to finish the drill strong," Libin says.
And take notes. Each time you do this, record how far you got, so you are aware of your progress. "You'll see your body adapting and getting the benefit of new strength, cardio and endurance," Libin says.
The Moves
High Pull
Stand with feet hip-width apart, one 15-pound dumbbell in hands at chest with elbows bent (as shown on left).
Bend knees slightly and hinge forward from hips 45 degrees, sit your butt back (do not squat!), and straighten arms, extending weight toward floor (as shown center), to start.
Quickly pull weight overhead, bending arms at chest, in one swift motion (as shown on right).
Return to start and repeat quickly for reps.
Swing Through Leg Switch
Start in plank (as shown).
Step left foot up to outside of left palm (as shown).
Use your momentum and strength to jump and switch the legs, bringing right leg up and outside of right hand (as shown).
Continue jump-switching feet up to hands quickly for reps.
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JA: HTML group wants to see "MUST" in the access module.
GR: HTML group says over-riding key bindings are a MUST.
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JB: SHOULD, SHALL and MUST are policy/procedure words. Judy wants to look at this more carefully.
JA: The items in question are P2
which would be "should" by WCAG1.
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developer to know what to code to.
JR: Only use MUST when there is no reasonible exception to the rule.
GR: Correct, they think there is no exception.
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KF: I'm not ok with MUST. I can't make this an absolute.
GR: XHTML2 WG is not negotiating on this.
??: Does this draft now go to public comment? Can we provide feedback to that?
JB: THey are enforcing a higher level of accessibility than UAAG?
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It is their spec.
JA: We reviewed their spec and
make our comments and cross-referenced the dependencies to our
UAAG 1.0 checkpoints.
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They came back to a higher priority.
JB: It would be a good
cross-group courtesy to work this out before it goes to
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our priorities can be synchonized. It could be difficult to
coordinate time-wise.
GR: the main editor is not
available for meeting today. They like the idea of "persistent
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JA: Can we just put a period after "persist"?
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GR: That wording leaves it open for sites that want to give user session options.
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KF: In a public environment, you may not want the key to persist.
JA: Sometime when we go to write techniques, we can give examples of writing it to a cookie, or other techniques.
KF: If you have done something for accessibility, it should be implemented. It is open to enough interpretation that the user agent development community should have the flexibility they need.
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KF: if we have the meeting scheduled in France, do we need another?
JB: It can be an advantage. With
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to overwhelm hosting.
... Another possibility would be another host in the same town.
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JB: propose "printing and embossing" to keep it from getting too obscure.
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JB: Does it make sense to say "printing" and define it elsewhere? Or the first time it is used also include embossing?
KF: When you send to an embosser,
the embosser software does the reflow. The user agent doesn't
have anything to do with it.
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user agent may include providng information to other
technologies for production in alternative media."
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JA: When I print from my browser, some text is lost off the right of the page.
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"Chapter 3: Living the Gospel," Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young (1997), 21–27
"Chapter 3," Teachings: Brigham Young, 21–27
Chapter 3
Living the Gospel
As a great colonizer, civic and Church leader, and provider for his family, President Brigham Young exemplified the living, practical gospel. He emphasized in his teachings and in his life that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the way to salvation for mankind and also "is a matter-of-fact religion, and taketh hold of the every-day duties and realities of this life" (DBY, 12).
Teachings of Brigham Young
Our personal growth in the gospel comes little by little and line upon line as we live the principles we learn.
We … take all the laws, rules, ordinances and regulations contained in the Scriptures and practice them as far as possible, and then keep learning and improving until we can live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (DBY, 3).
We have the Gospel of life and salvation, to make bad men good and good men better (DBY, 6).
In conversation not long since with a visitor who was returning to the Eastern States, said he, "You, as a people consider that you are perfect?" "Oh no;" said I, "not by any means. … The doctrine that we have embraced is perfect; but when we come to the people, we have just as many imperfections as you can ask for. We are not perfect; but the Gospel that we preach is calculated to perfect the people so that they can obtain a glorious resurrection and enter into the presence of the Father and the Son" (DBY, 7).
The people [cannot receive the laws] in their perfect fulness; but they can receive a little here and a little there, a little today and a little tomorrow, a little more next week, and a little more in advance of that next year, if they make a wise improvement upon every little they receive; if they do not, they are left in the shade, and the light which the Lord reveals will appear darkness to them, and the kingdom of heaven will travel on and leave them groping. Hence, if we wish to act upon the fulness of the knowledge that the Lord designs to reveal, little by little, to the inhabitants of the earth, we must improve upon every little as it is revealed (DBY, 4).
I … feel to urge upon the Latter-day Saints the necessity of a close application of the principles of the Gospel in our lives, conduct and words and all that we do; and it requires the whole man, the whole life to be devoted to improvement in order to come to knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus Christ. Herein is the fulness of perfection. It was couched in the character of our Savior; although but a scanty portion of it was made manifest to the people, in consequence of their not being able to receive it. All they were prepared to receive he gave them. All we are prepared to receive the Lord gives us; all that the nations of the earth are prepared to receive he imparts unto them (DBY, 11–12).
It is written of the Savior in the Bible that he descended below all things that he might ascend above all. Is it not so with every man? Certainly it is. It is fit, then, that we should descend below all things and come up gradually, and learn a little now and again, receive "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little" [see Isaiah 28:9–10; D&C 98:12] (DBY, 60) until we can reach into eternity and embrace a fulness of his glory, excellency and power (DBY, 3).
The spiritual and temporal aspects of the gospel are one.
With God, and also with those who understand the principles of life and salvation, the Priesthood, the oracles of truth and the gifts and callings of God to the children of men, there is no difference in spiritual and temporal labors—all are one. If I am in the line of my duty, I am doing the will of God, whether I am preaching; praying, laboring with my hands for an honorable support; whether I am in the field, mechanic's shop, or following mercantile business, or wherever duty calls, I am serving God as much in one place as another; and so it is with all, each in his place, turn and time (DBY, 8).
In the mind of God there is no such a thing as dividing spiritual from temporal, or temporal from spiritual; for they are one in the Lord [see D&C 29:34–35] (DBY, 13).
Anything that pertains to the building up of the Lord's kingdom on earth, whether it be in preaching the Gospel or building temples to his name, we have been taught to consider a spiritual work, though it evidently requires the strength of the natural body to perform it (DBY, 13).
We cannot even enter the temple when it is built, and perform those ordinances which lead to spiritual blessings, without performing a temporal labor. Temporal ordinances must be performed to secure the spiritual blessings the Great Supreme has in store for his faithful children. Every act is first a temporal act. The Apostle says, faith comes by hearing [see Romans 10:17]. What should be heard to produce faith? The preaching of the Word. For that we must have a preacher; and he is not an invisible spirit, but a temporal, ordinary man like ourselves, and subject to the same regulations and rules of life. To preach the Gospel is a temporal labor, and to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is the result of a temporal labor. To be baptized is a temporal labor, both to the person administered to and the administrator. I am a living witness to the truth of this statement, for I have made my feet sore many a time, and tired myself out traveling and preaching, that by hearing the Gospel the people might have faith. The blessings we so earnestly desire will come to us by performing the manual labor required, and thus preparing all things necessary to receive the invisible blessings Jehovah has for his children (DBY, 13–14).
The gospel is a guide for daily life—a practical religion.
The religion of Jesus Christ is a matter-of-fact religion, and taketh hold of the every-day duties and realities of this life (DBY, 12).
The principles of eternity and eternal exaltation are of no use to us, unless they are brought down to our capacities so that we practice them in our lives (DBY, 14).
I reduce the Gospel to the present time, circumstances and condition of the people (DBY, 8).
That system that brings present security and peace is the best to live by, and the best to die by; it is the best for doing business; it is the best for making farms, for building cities and temples, and that system is the law of God. But it requires strict obedience. The rule of right, and the line which God has drawn for the people to walk by insures peace, comfort, and happiness now and eternal glory and exaltation; but nothing short of strict obedience to God's law will do this (DBY, 8).
At times when I think of addressing you, it occurs to me that strict sermonizing upon topics pertaining to the distant future, or reviewing the history of the past, will doubtless please and highly interest a portion of my hearers; but my judgment and the spirit of intelligence that is in me teach that, by taking such a course, the people could not be instructed pertaining to their every-day duties. For this reason, I do not feel impressed to instruct you on duties to be performed a hundred years hence, but rather to give those instructions pertaining to the present, to our daily walk and conversation, that we may know how to benefit ourselves under the passing time, and present privileges, and be able to lay a foundation for future happiness (DBY, 12).
My mission to the people is to teach them with regard to their every-day lives. I presume there are many here who have heard me say, years and years ago, that I cared very little about what will take place after the Millennium. Elders may preach long discourses concerning what took place in the days of Adam, what occurred before the creation, and what will take place thousands of years from now, talking of things which have occurred or that will occur yet, of which they are ignorant, feeding the people on wind; but that is not my method of teaching. My desire is to teach the people what they should do now, and let the Millennium take care of itself. To teach them to serve God and to build up his Kingdom is my mission. I have taught faith, repentance, baptism for the remission of sins, and the laying on of hands for the reception of the Holy Ghost. We are to be taught with regard to our every-day life in a temporal point of view (DBY, 8–9).
We do not allow ourselves to go into a field to plough without taking our religion with us; we do not go into an office, behind the counter to deal out goods, into a counting house with the books, or anywhere to attend to or transact any business without taking our religion with us. If we are railroading or on a pleasure trip our God and our religion must be with us (DBY, 8).
We want the Saints to increase in goodness, until our mechanics, for instance, are so honest and reliable that this Railroad Company will say, "Give us a 'Mormon' Elder for an engineer, then none need have the least fear to ride, for if he knows there is danger he will take every measure necessary to preserve the lives of those entrusted to his care." I want to see our Elders so full of integrity that they will be preferred by this Company for their engine builders, watchmen, engineers, clerks, and business managers. If we live our religion and are worthy the name of Latter-day Saints, we are just the men that all such business can be entrusted to with perfect safety; if it can not it will prove that we do not live our religion (DBY, 232–33).
Our religion incorporates every act and word of man. No man should go to merchandising unless he does it in God; no man should go to farming or any other business unless he does it in the Lord. No man of council should sit to judge the people but what should judge in the Lord, that he may righteously and impartially discern between right and wrong, truth and error, light and darkness, justice and injustice (DBY, 9).
On reading carefully the Old and New Testaments we can discover that the majority of the revelations given to mankind anciently were in regard to their daily duties; we follow in the same path. The revelations contained in the Bible and the Book of Mormon are examples to us, and the book of Doctrine and Covenants contains direct revelation to this Church; they are a guide to us, and we do not wish to do them away; we do not want them to become obsolete and to set them aside. We wish to continue in the revelations of the Lord Jesus Christ day by day, and to have his Spirit with us continually. If we can do this, we shall no more walk in darkness but we shall walk in the light of life (DBY, 12).
If we wish to enjoy the Spirit of Zion, we must live for it. Our religion is not merely theory; it is a practical religion, to bring present enjoyment to every heart (DBY, 12).
The work of building up Zion is in every sense a practical work; it is not a mere theory. A theoretical religion amounts to very little real good or advantage to any person. To possess an inheritance in Zion or in Jerusalem only in theory—only in imagination—would be the same as having no inheritance at all. It is necessary to get a deed of it, to make an inheritance practical, substantial and profitable. Then let us not rest contented with a mere theoretical religion, but let it be practical, self-purifying and self-sustaining, keeping the love of God within us, walking by every precept, by every law, and by every word that is given to lead us (DBY, 12).
And if I today attend to what devolves upon me to do, and then do that which presents itself tomorrow, and so on, when eternity comes I will be prepared to enter on the things of eternity. But I would not be prepared for that sphere of action, unless I could manage the things that are now within my reach. You must all learn to do this (DBY, 11).
The very object of our existence here is to handle the temporal elements of this world and subdue the earth, multiplying those organisms of plants and animals God has designed shall dwell upon it (DBY, 15).
Life is for us, and it is for us to receive it today, and not wait for the Millennium. Let us take a course to be saved today, and, when evening comes, review the acts of the day, repent of our sins, if we have any to repent of, and say our prayers; then we can lie down and sleep in peace until the morning, arise with gratitude to God, commence the labors of another day, and strive to live the whole day to God and nobody else (DBY, 16).
The responsibility to take care of ourselves and our families is an important practical application of the gospel.
I have tried continually to get this people to pursue a course that will make them self-sustaining, taking care of their poor, the lame, the halt and the blind, lifting the ignorant from where they have no opportunity of observing the ways of the world, and of understanding the common knowledge possessed among the children of men, bringing them together from the four quarters of the world, and making of them an intelligent, thrifty and self-sustaining people (DBY, 16).
My warfare is, and has been for years, to get the people to understand that if they do not take care of themselves they will not be taken care of; that if we do not lay the foundation to feed and clothe and shelter ourselves we shall perish with hunger and with cold; we might also suffer in the summer season from the direct rays of the sun upon our naked and unprotected bodies (DBY, 16–17).
Who are deserving of praise? The persons who take care of themselves or the ones who always trust in the great mercies of the Lord to take care of them? It is just as consistent to expect that the Lord will supply us with fruit when we do not plant the trees; or that when we do not plow and sow and are saved the labor of harvesting, we should cry to the Lord to save us from want, as to ask him to save us from the consequences of our own folly, disobedience and waste (DBY, 293).
Instead of searching after what the Lord is going to do for us, let us inquire what we can do for ourselves (DBY, 293).
While we have a rich soil in this valley, and seed to put in the ground, we need not ask God to feed us, nor follow us round with a loaf of bread begging of us to eat it. He will not do it, neither would I, were I the Lord. We can feed ourselves here; and if we are ever placed in circumstances where we cannot, it will then be time enough for the Lord to work a miracle to sustain us (DBY, 294).
If you cannot provide for your natural lives, how can you expect to have wisdom to obtain eternal lives? God has given you your existence—your body and spirit, and has blest you with ability, and thereby laid the foundation of all knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, and all glory and eternal lives. If you have not attained ability to provide for your natural wants, and for a wife and a few children, what have you to do with heavenly things? (DBY, 13).
Look to yourselves in your capacity as Relief Societies in this city and throughout the mountains. Look at your condition. Consider it for yourselves, and decide whether you will go to and learn the influence which you possess, and then wield that influence for doing good and to relieve the poor among the people (DNW, 17 Aug. 1869, 3).
Suggestions for Study
Our personal growth in the gospel comes little by little and line upon line as we live the principles we learn.
Why does the Lord teach us gospel truths "a little today and a little tomorrow"? (See also Isaiah 28:9–10; 2 Nephi 28:30; D&C 98:12.) What must we do to receive a greater portion of gospel truths? (See also Alma 12:9–11.) What might happen if we are given more truth than we are prepared to receive?
Why is living a principle of the gospel sometimes essential to learning that principle? (See also John 7:17; D&C 93:28.)
How do we limit what God can teach us?
The spiritual and temporal aspects of the gospel are one.
President Young said there is "no such a thing as dividing spiritual from temporal." How should an understanding of that statement affect our approach to our daily tasks?
The gospel is a guide for daily life—a practical religion.
President Young taught the Saints to apply the principles of the gospel in a practical way in their daily lives. How should the gospel influence our decisions about our family, occupation, and other responsibilities?
What do you think President Young meant when he said that we should not go "anywhere to attend to or transact any business without taking our religion with us"? How can we take our religion with us everywhere we go and still be sensitive to the beliefs of others? How can we rely more on the Spirit to help us take our religion with us wherever we are?
In addition to missionary work and Church service, what is our responsibility in the community?
The responsibility to take care of ourselves and our families is an important practical application of the gospel.
What did President Young teach about our responsibility to take care of ourselves? How can we become self-reliant in spiritual, educational, physical, emotional, and economic ways? How can we help others do so?
Why is self-reliance an important part of the gospel?
President Young spoke of the virtue and necessity of providing for ourselves. What blessings come into our lives as we do this? Under what circumstances does President Young say the Lord will "work a miracle to sustain us"?