The turning point Luther’s Tower and Ignatius

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Edward Snowden, in Russia Since 2013, six days after Snowden's one-year temporary asylum expired, his Russian lawyer announced that Snowden had received a three-year residency permit. It allowed him to travel freely within Russia and to go abroad for up to three months. Cambridge Analytica Ltd (CA) was a British political consulting firm that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Facebook agrees to pay UK fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook has agreed to pay a 500,000 pound ($644,000) fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting of data by consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Britain’s information rights regulator said on Wednesday. Facebook agrees to pay UK fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal. LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook has agreed to pay a 500,000 pound ($644,000) fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting of data by consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Britain's information rights regulator said on Wednesday.Oct 30, 2019 RJ Eskow asks Why are Americans Crazy? Edward L. Bernays, my great uncle, who died age 104, created Freudian Based systems of B.F. Skinners Operant Conditioning (B.F. Skinner) Democracy and Its Discontents: Walter Lippmann and — Edward Bernays, who like Lippmann worked for the Committee on Public Information during the war years, was attracted by the same work of Skinner was rooted in a view that classical conditioning was far too simplistic to be a complete explanation of complex human behavior Luther’s Tower and Ignatius at Manresa After his initial conversion on his sickbed, Ignatius resolved to go to Jerusalem. On the journey, for reasons that remain unclear, he was waylaid, and spent almost a year at a small Catalan town called Manresa. There he went through powerful, utterly transformative experiences, recorded – however puzzlingly – in his Autobiography. Shortly before arriving Ignatius has made a general confession. But he remains in torment: … still it would sometimes seem to him that he had not confessed some things. And this was giving him much affliction because, although he would confess it, he would not be left satisfied. So he began to look for some spiritual men who might cure him of these scruples, but nothing was helping him. Finally, a Doctor of the Cathedral, a very spiritual man who used to preach there, told him one day in confession to write out everything he was able to remember. This he did - and after making his confession still the scruples were coming back, things each time becoming more nit-picky, with the result he was in a very troubled state. Ignatius even feels tempted to commit suicide. Yet a sudden change comes, even as the narrative of despair is in full swing: And so, like something unravelling itself, he was carrying on thinking of sin after sin from the earlier time - it seemed to him that he was obliged again to confess them. But, at the end of these thoughts, there came to him some distastes at the life he was leading, with some impulses to leave it; and with this the Lord willed that he woke up as if from sleep.[6] He realises that his scruples are coming not from God but from an evil spirit. With that he becomes free of them, holding that our Lord in his mercy had willed to liberate him. The turning point comes quite suddenly in the rush of the narrative – indeed it is not clear exactly where. But it marks the beginning of a new life – a life in which God deals with Ignatius like a schoolmaster with a child.[7] Ignatius then lists a number of further, more positive experiences that he went through during the year. The last of these seems to have been particularly significant: Thomas was talking about why the Dems won't swing Left when they know that they should to win back working class people, and that they'd rather entertain the silly interference of (Russia/Trump) as the reason why they don't need to. The real reason they don't is because of their donors. The Dem establishment is not actually liberal, they're simply corporate shills. They would rather lose to a Republican than win with a progressive. They need to keep the cash cow fed. Donors is part of it. In Listen Liberal Thomas explores this question in more depth. It really has more to do with class and meritocracy. They and many of their donors and the oligarchs in various industries all went to the same schools and all mingle with one another as part of the same privileged class. Obama even said in a TV interview that if this were the 80s he would be a "moderate Republican". Hillary was proud to have been a "Goldwater Girl". It's who they are. Bill Clinton when asked about his policies that were not popular with progressives in the party said, "well they have no place else to go.). You're right, but you're wrong about them being "liberal." That's who Liberals are... professional class, white collar, conservative thinkers; they just happen to be okay with gay marriage and abortion, and they beat the drum for 'inclusion' and identity. Meanwhile being okay with dropping bombs on brown people around the world. People on the Left have nothing in common with Liberals, they are despicable people. These people are neo-liberals, closer to libertarians than anything else. But the interesting missing piece from Thomas Frank's book was the link to money in politics. The transition from liberal to neo-liberal would never have taken place, would not have been able to occur without the line of Supreme Court cases that allowed corporate donations to political candidates. It also made new common law that corporations have civil rights (i.e. are people). The cases are Buckley v Valeo and the Barrett cases. More recently there was Citizens United, which allowed PACs to exist and spend unlimited amounts of money for political causes. This is a critical link missing from Frank's book. This is why the Republicans do nothing for the majority of their voters and why the dems also usually do nothing. When the Dems do try to do something, they make sure to make it a republican plan that benefits corporations more than anyone else. For example, Obamacare. Seek out political candidates that do not take corporate PAC money and that primary the democrats. Donate what you can - money or volunteer. This is the only way to change this country.. Half agree. These events are not mutually exclusive but in fact the Dem move to the right has been exploited by the Russians right along with Trump.