www.davidicke.com/content/view/21125
that continues to grow regardless of who's president:
http://nikiraapana.blogspot.com/2009/05/edward-kennedys-serve-america-act.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/21/A-Call-to-Service/
Some highlights from the Act:
http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/newsroom/releases_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=1283
Enables millions of working Americans to serve by establishing a nationwide Call to Service Campaign and a September 11 national day of service, and investing in the nonprofit sector’s capacity to recruit and manage volunteers.
Creates a Social Innovation Fund to expand proven initiatives and provide seed funding for experimental initiatives, leveraging Federal dollars to identify and grow ideas that are addressing our most intractable community problems. (boldface added)
"Not that I'd want to feed the fires of dissent, but didn't DHS recently identify Americans as our most intractable community problem? They're going to use 9/11 to trick or shame us into participating in a National Service Day. Now what kind of person will refuse to help on that
particular day? Imagine the insults applicable to such blatant selfishness, why it's practically criminal irresponsibility to refuse to serve our great nation and honor our lost dead. We need everyone to pull together, become greater than self and serve America. Everyone, no matter how old can find something to do, and every day the government is getting more organized in ways to help everyone find something to do. No one should be allowed to lazily shirk their share of the nation's burden. Our guru Etzioni says our unfettered Rights must be balanced with responsibilities if we want to grow into a moral society, and service work is a requirement of communitarian citizenship. Obama said no hands will remain idle, and he meant it." Niki Raapana.
Sounds like a Subotnik Day to Cheesy!
If you google Subotnik it will be described by some as a holiday and has its roots in a spring cleaning day but that does not quite cover it.
In the USSR there were several Subotnik days in a year, on these days people were expected to work for nothing for the good of The Community. No workers were paid on Subotnik Days, this money went to the State to be spent on "good works" ( apparently, allegedly - whatever! ) locally like new school books, hospitals, etc. The elderly or housewives not at work would be expected to clean up neighbourhood litter, mend a communal fence or paint it, trim shrubbery or something communal - not just in their own garden.
Stirring classical music would belt out all day from loudspeakers all over Soviet towns and villages, and they would all be out there with their brooms sweeping away the snow etc.
A nice idea, a nice thing to do, but it is actually making me feel rather uncomfortable remembering it.
Alan Watt is right. There is nothing new, it has all been done before over and over again down the eons - and it is just dressed up to look modern and innovative as it is presented to us yet again. And most people fall for it hook, line and sinker.
Take young people for example:
particular day? Imagine the insults applicable to such blatant selfishness, why it's practically criminal irresponsibility to refuse to serve our great nation and honor our lost dead. We need everyone to pull together, become greater than self and serve America. Everyone, no matter how old can find something to do, and every day the government is getting more organized in ways to help everyone find something to do. No one should be allowed to lazily shirk their share of the nation's burden. Our guru Etzioni says our unfettered Rights must be balanced with responsibilities if we want to grow into a moral society, and service work is a requirement of communitarian citizenship. Obama said no hands will remain idle, and he meant it." Niki Raapana.
Sounds like a Subotnik Day to Cheesy!
If you google Subotnik it will be described by some as a holiday and has its roots in a spring cleaning day but that does not quite cover it.
In the USSR there were several Subotnik days in a year, on these days people were expected to work for nothing for the good of The Community. No workers were paid on Subotnik Days, this money went to the State to be spent on "good works" ( apparently, allegedly - whatever! ) locally like new school books, hospitals, etc. The elderly or housewives not at work would be expected to clean up neighbourhood litter, mend a communal fence or paint it, trim shrubbery or something communal - not just in their own garden.
Stirring classical music would belt out all day from loudspeakers all over Soviet towns and villages, and they would all be out there with their brooms sweeping away the snow etc.
A nice idea, a nice thing to do, but it is actually making me feel rather uncomfortable remembering it.
Alan Watt is right. There is nothing new, it has all been done before over and over again down the eons - and it is just dressed up to look modern and innovative as it is presented to us yet again. And most people fall for it hook, line and sinker.
http://cuttingthrough.jenkness.com
www.newswithviewsstore.com/downloads/brainwashing_book.pdf
Take young people for example:
www.prisonplanet.com/obama-youth-brigades-its-about-creating-a-one-world.html
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSWt7hOYYLY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1NL1AB44d4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZl6VLq0Na0
And now here in Common Purpose riddled England,
courtesy of the Common Purpose riddled City of Southampton,
Page 6, Junior Wardens:
www.southeastiep.gov.uk/uploads/files/NeighbourhoodNewsNTRCSEJune08.pdf
www.southampton.gov.uk/childrenandlearning/activitiescyp/juniorwardens/default.asp
And in Luton, Islington and Welwyn: