The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T05:57:11ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLakehttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54802804?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://4freedoms.com/group/relaxation/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=097vqiv65r6ui&feed=yes&xn_auth=noFeminism has empowered the very men they hatedtag:4freedoms.com,2022-09-25:3766518:Topic:2761042022-09-25T23:53:23.935ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
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<p>This forum is just for capturing some of the worst failures of the US military machine. The failures can be from:</p>
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<li>Military leadership (like the evacuation of Kabul)</li>
<li>Political leadership (like the failure to define a clear objective in Afghanistan)</li>
<li>Security (like the theft of all the micro technology for nuclear warheads by a China)</li>
<li>Military discipline (like the burning and destruction of a $2B warship by a disgruntled sailor)</li>
<li>Fiscal discipline…</li>
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<p>This forum is just for capturing some of the worst failures of the US military machine. The failures can be from:</p>
<ol>
<li>Military leadership (like the evacuation of Kabul)</li>
<li>Political leadership (like the failure to define a clear objective in Afghanistan)</li>
<li>Security (like the theft of all the micro technology for nuclear warheads by a China)</li>
<li>Military discipline (like the burning and destruction of a $2B warship by a disgruntled sailor)</li>
<li>Fiscal discipline (like paying for litoral ships that are breaking apart). </li>
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<p>Here's a bitchute link, for when the Youtube Nazis pull the video: <br/><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/2GNf2jV8Jkgv/">https://www.bitchute.com/video/2GNf2jV8Jkgv/</a></p>
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<p>Here's a bitchute link, for when the Youtube Nazis pull the video: <br/><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/2GNf2jV8Jkgv/">https://www.bitchute.com/video/2GNf2jV8Jkgv/</a></p> Transgenderismtag:4freedoms.com,2018-01-06:3766518:Topic:1932312018-01-06T18:52:46.682ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>The transgender issue has become one of the new battlegrounds for the left. It's not an directly relevant to the 4 Freedoms, and I'm not interested in it myself, but sometimes you get challenged and its useful to have a bit of background information about it. So there will be a small collection here, to help us all get a handle on this issue.</p>
<p>The transgender issue has become one of the new battlegrounds for the left. It's not an directly relevant to the 4 Freedoms, and I'm not interested in it myself, but sometimes you get challenged and its useful to have a bit of background information about it. So there will be a small collection here, to help us all get a handle on this issue.</p> The financial case for Brexittag:4freedoms.com,2016-04-30:3766518:Topic:1777612016-04-30T10:07:28.470ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p><span style="font-size: 2em;">Brexit could be a celebration for the City, not its funeral</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 2em;">Brexit could be a celebration for the City, not its funeral</span></p>
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<div class="article-wrapper clearfix"><div class="main-content-column"><div id="gigya-share-btns-2_gig_containerParent" class="text-wrapper"><p><strong>For 53 years, I have been a proud observer and tiny contributor to the evolution of the City of London.</strong> </p>
<p>The capital has grown in stature to become the world’s leading financial centre. It started with a wave of initial public offerings in the Sixties, then the Eurodollar market in the Seventies, the abolition of exchange controls in 1980, Big Bang and the rise of fund management in the late Eighties and culminated in derivative trading and the expansion of hedge funds in the Nineties. </p>
<p>Yes, London, as a financial centre, temporarily fell from grace in 2008-09 as a result of the banking crisis. But the capital’s economy still contributes around 21.9% of the UK’s Gross Value Added (a measure of the value of goods and services), and the City contributes about 4% of GDP.</p>
<p>If the UK were to leave the EU, do the Treasury, the Bank of England and a few influential banks such as JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs really think the rest of the financial sector will follow these banks up the aircrafts’ gangways and head for Paris or Frankfurt? Some misguided banks may well do, but their absence from London will be temporary. </p>
<p>London is at the centre of the time zone and English the international trading language. London is also the legal and accounting centre of the world. The infrastructure here to raise capital and finance foreign trade is tried and tested and people from international backgrounds love working here. There are more than 300,000 French people alone working across London. </p>
<p>Without wishing to cause offence, by comparison, Frankfurt and Paris are financial villages. To build the necessary infrastructure and outsourcing support, would be a 20-year project. One must respect HM Treasury mandarins’ intellect and Bank Governor Mark Carney’s veiled endorsement, but the validity of the former’s forecasts, 14 years in advance, must be called into question. All we hear from the Remain campaign is doom and gloom — no talk of the long-term benefits of being part of that club; just “we cannot afford to be out”. In the event of Brexit, Article 50 — relating to trade agreements — won’t come into play for two years. Nothing will change enabling the UK to negotiate mutually agreeable trade deals across the world.</p>
<p>The EU has been in economic decline for the best part of 15 years. The EU dream has turned into a nightmare. Why would international banks want to leave London and head to the mainland when the EU’s banking sector is hanging in rags, with the sector conceivably requiring a capital injection of €300 billion (£233 billion)? Unshackled from Banking Commissioner Michel Barnier’s labyrinth of EU regulation — some of it irrelevant and guided by quality regulation from the Bank of England, the Prudential Regulation Authority under its skilful chief executive Sam Woods and the Financial Conduct Authority under the excellent Andrew Bailey — the City will be able to increase its international presence.</p>
<p>Brexit should be a celebration for the City, not a funeral — the start of a brave new world.</p>
<p><em>David Buik is a market commentator at Panmure Gordon</em></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Comment from Philip</strong></span></p>
<p>I think that there is only one possible reality, as evolution sorts out everything that is not functional. The new theories about the formation of solar-systems is very interesting, they point out that we had assumed that our solar-system was typical, but it seems there is lots of variation, with some that have gas-giants close to their suns.</p>
<p>I also reason that time is eternal and space…</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Comment from Philip</strong></span></p>
<p>I think that there is only one possible reality, as evolution sorts out everything that is not functional. The new theories about the formation of solar-systems is very interesting, they point out that we had assumed that our solar-system was typical, but it seems there is lots of variation, with some that have gas-giants close to their suns.</p>
<p>I also reason that time is eternal and space infinite, and that numerous universes have evolved and decayed, maybe. Alternatively space and time might be finite. I can understand that there can never be an end but how could there ever have been a beginning, where what is (the reality and the physical universe we inhabit) came into being from nothing. From nothing existing to everything existing. How can there never have been a beginning and everything have always existed? The explanation is that everything has always existed in some form or another, or is it?</p>
<p>Questions beg questions but the questions are interesting to ponder.</p>
<p>In infinite space there are possibly endless numbers of universes that have existed, do exist or will exist, with an infinity of time to evolve in. Explaining everything with-"God did it" is feeble. The only answer is I don't know, but there are things i know, things that can be known with absolute certainty that are fact.</p>
<p>Regarding politics two people will disagree about things, seven billion people even more so. I am in a way content with being what I am, but I can never resist having a go at the next guy.</p> The collapse of our free worldtag:4freedoms.com,2016-01-20:3766518:Topic:1741332016-01-20T22:12:31.583ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>Thanks to our 'leaders', the traitors!…</p>
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<p>Thanks to our 'leaders', the traitors!</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/the-collapse-of-the-free-world-as-we-know-it-graphic-footage/?omhide=true&utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Undercover+operation+exposes+true+face+of+radical+%22human+rights%22+activists&utm_campaign=20160120_m129392124_1%2F20+Today%27s+Israel+Connection%3A+Undercover+operation+exposes+true+face+of+radical+%22human+rights%22+activists&utm_term=Collapse-leadership-free-world-email_png_3F1453279870" target="_blank">http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/the-collapse-of-the-free-world-as-we-know-it-graphic-footage</a></p> The US National Anthemtag:4freedoms.com,2013-09-20:3766518:Topic:1391452013-09-20T18:41:25.180ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>The US National Anthem: when I first heard it I thought "you have got to be kidding me" - its way too complicated for a common sing-a-long. But the thing is, people learn and adapt and grow, and in the end, it works. Plus, you have the option of getting skilled singers to do it and make a great melody.</p>
<p>The tune was originally a a popular drinking song this side of the Atlantic before it travelled to the States. It was written by a British composer, John Smith, during the 18th…</p>
<p>The US National Anthem: when I first heard it I thought "you have got to be kidding me" - its way too complicated for a common sing-a-long. But the thing is, people learn and adapt and grow, and in the end, it works. Plus, you have the option of getting skilled singers to do it and make a great melody.</p>
<p>The tune was originally a a popular drinking song this side of the Atlantic before it travelled to the States. It was written by a British composer, John Smith, during the 18th century and first called 'The Anacreontic Hymn'. Hat tip to Magnus for the info. Such a contrast between the complexities of this song and, say, the British national anthem. Here is the Wikipedia info.</p>
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<p>"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry",[1] a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.</p>
<p>The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "The Anacreontic Song" (or "To Anacreon in Heaven"), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States. Set to Key's poem and renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner", it would soon become a well-known American patriotic song. With a range of one and a half octaves, it is known for being difficult to sing. Although the poem has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today.<br/> <br/> "The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the Navy in 1889, and by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1508, codified at 36 U.S.C. § 301), which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.<br/> <br/> Before 1931, other songs served as the hymns of American officialdom. "Hail, Columbia" served this purpose at official functions for most of the 19th century. "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody is identical to "God Save the Queen", the British national anthem,[2] also served as a de facto anthem.[3] Following the War of 1812 and subsequent American wars, other songs would emerge to compete for popularity at public events, among them "The Star-Spangled Banner".</p>
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<p>O say can you see by the dawn's early light,<br/> What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,<br/> Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,<br/> O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?<br/> And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,<br/> Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;<br/> O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,<br/> O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<br/><br/> On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,<br/> Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,<br/> What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,<br/> As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?<br/> Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,<br/> In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:<br/> 'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave<br/> O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<br/><br/> And where is that band who so vauntingly swore<br/> That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,<br/> A home and a country, should leave us no more?<br/> Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.<br/> No refuge could save the hireling and slave<br/> From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:<br/> And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,<br/> O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<br/><br/> O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand<br/> Between their loved home and the war's desolation.<br/> Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land<br/> Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!<br/> Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,<br/> And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."<br/> And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave<br/> O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!</p> Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says - from BBCtag:4freedoms.com,2013-03-25:3766518:Topic:1216512013-03-25T10:45:16.984ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h1 class="story-header">Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says</h1>
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<p><span class="byline"><span class="byline-name">By Hannah Richardson</span><span class="byline-title">BBC News education reporter…</span></span></p>
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<h1 class="story-header">Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says</h1>
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<p><span class="byline"><span class="byline-name">By Hannah Richardson</span><span class="byline-title">BBC News education reporter</span></span></p>
<div class="caption body-narrow-width"><a href="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66559000/jpg/_66559544_childflower.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66559000/jpg/_66559544_childflower.jpg?width=304" width="304" class="align-right"/></a><span>Dr Belton said children needed time to stand and stare</span></div>
<p class="introduction" id="aeaoofnhgocdbnbeljkmbjdmhbcokfdb-mousedown">Children should be allowed to get bored so they can develop their innate ability to be creative, an education expert says.</p>
<p>Dr Teresa Belton told the BBC cultural expectations that children should be constantly active could hamper the development of their imagination</p>
<p>She quizzed author Meera Syal and artist Grayson Perry about how boredom had aided their creativity as children.</p>
<p>Syal said boredom made her write, while Perry said it was a "creative state".</p>
<p>The senior researcher at the University of East Anglia's School of Education and Lifelong Learning interviewed a number of authors, artists and scientists in her exploration of the effects of boredom.</p>
<p>She heard Syal's memories of the small mining village, with few distractions, where she grew up.</p>
<p>Dr Belton said: "Lack of things to do spurred her to talk to people she would not otherwise have engaged with and to try activities she would not, under other circumstances, have experienced, such as talking to elderly neighbours and learning to bake cakes.</p>
<p>"Boredom is often associated with solitude and Syal spent hours of her early life staring out of the window across fields and woods, watching the changing weather and seasons.</p>
<p>"But importantly boredom made her write. She kept a diary from a young age, filling it with observations, short stories, poems, and diatribe. And she attributes these early beginnings to becoming a writer late in life."</p>
<p><span class="cross-head">'Reflection'</span></p>
<p>The comedienne turned writer said: "Enforced solitude alone with a blank page is a wonderful spur."</p>
<p>While Perry said boredom was also beneficial for adults: "As I get older, I appreciate reflection and boredom. Boredom is a very creative state."</p>
<p>And neuroscientist and expert on brain deterioration Prof Susan Greenfield, who also spoke to the academic, recalled a childhood in a family with little money and no siblings until she was 13.</p>
<p>"She happily entertained herself with making up stories, drawing pictures of her stories and going to the library."</p>
<p>Dr Belton, who is an expert in the impact of emotions on behaviour and learning, said boredom could be an "uncomfortable feeling" and that society had "developed an expectation of being constantly occupied and constantly stimulated".</p>
<p>But she warned that being creative "involves being able to develop internal stimulus".</p>
<p>"Nature abhors a vacuum and we try to fill it," she said. "Some young people who do not have the interior resources or the responses to deal with that boredom creatively then sometimes end up smashing up bus shelters or taking cars out for a joyride."</p>
<p><span class="cross-head">'Short circuit'</span></p>
<p>The academic, who has previously studied the impact of television and videos on children's writing, said: "When children have nothing to do now, they immediately switch on the TV, the computer, the phone or some kind of screen. The time they spend on these things has increased.</p>
<p>"But children need to have stand-and-stare time, time imagining and pursuing their own thinking processes or assimilating their experiences through play or just observing the world around them."</p>
<p>It is this sort of thing that stimulates the imagination, she said, while the screen "tends to short circuit that process and the development of creative capacity".</p>
<p>Syal adds: "You begin to write because there is nothing to prove, nothing to lose, nothing else to do.</p>
<p>"It's very freeing being creative for no other reason other than you freewheel and fill time."</p>
<p id="">Dr Belton concluded: "For the sake of creativity perhaps we need to slow down and stay offline from time to time.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21895704">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21895704</a></p>