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Flashback Martin Luther King's powerful critique of scientific racism and scientific materialism

John G. West
Evolution News
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:42 UTC
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© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBISMartin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech from the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963
On this Martin Luther King Day weekend, I will be visiting Athens, Texas (a town south of Dallas) for a free public screening of my documentary Human Zoos, which explores the sordid legacy of scientific racism and eugenics in America. I'd like to think that the event will be a fitting activity for MLK Day weekend, because King was a powerful opponent of both scientific racism and scientific materialism.

Dr. King accepted the animal ancestry of humans as taught by Darwinian evolution, but he was sharply critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he also spoke forcefully against the idea that humans are the products of a blind material process.

Many of King's thoughts on science are interspersed throughout a short book titled Strength to Love, a collection of sermons King originally published in 1963. I've been reading the book on my trip to Texas, and much of its wisdom is just as pertinent today as when the book was first published.

Comment: King was not only a humanitarian powerhouse but also a gifted intellectual who drew on some of the most valued insights and ideas of other leading figures in then contemporary history. The following seems to show that King helped formulate his ideas from the work of Alfred North Whitehead:
It is not yet widely known that Martin Luther King, Jr. was influenced by Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism. In honor of Martin Luther King day 2022, we thought we'd share what we've learned about this unexpected connection.

I first learned of the connection between Alfred North Whitehead and Martin Luther King Jr. in July of 2013 from John Quiring, who was then working at the Center for Process Studies in Claremont, CA. Quiring had stumbled upon scans of index cards written by King wherein he included quotes from and notes on Whitehead's Concept of Nature. A more comprehensive search revealed additional connections that were not previously known or appreciated.

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

Perhaps one of the most remarkable pieces of evidence we have that King was influenced by Whitehead comes in the context of King's receiving of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. King delivered his Nobel acceptance speech on Thursday, 10 December 1964.


The following day, Friday, 11 December 1964, King delivered this his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, "The quest for peace and justice." It is here that we find King quoting Whitehead. (Here you can listen to the recording of King speaking these paragraphs.)
The first problem that I would like to mention is racial injustice. The struggle to eliminate the evil of racial injustice constitutes one of the major struggles of our time. The present upsurge of the Negro people of the United States grows out of a deep and passionate determination to make freedom and equality a reality "here" and "now." In one sense the civil rights movement in the United States is a special American phenomenon which must be understood in the light of American history and dealt with in terms of the American situation. But on another and more important level, what is happening in the United States today is a relatively small part of a world development.

We live in a day, says the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, "when civilization is shifting its basic outlook: a major turning point in history where the presuppositions on which society is structured are being analyzed, sharply challenged, and profoundly changed."[2] What we are seeing now is a freedom explosion, the realization of "an idea whose time has come," to use Victor Hugo's phrase. The deep rumbling of discontent that we hear today is the thunder of disinherited masses, rising from dungeons of oppression to the bright hills of freedom, in one majestic chorus the rising masses singing, in the words of our freedom song, "Ain't gonna let nobody turn us around." All over the world, like a fever, the freedom movement is spreading in the widest liberation in history. The great masses of people are determined to end the exploitation of their races and land. They are awake and moving toward their goal like a tidal wave. You can hear them rumbling in every village street, on the docks, in the houses, among the students, in the churches, and at political meetings. Historic movement was for several centuries that of the nations and societies of Western Europe out into the rest of the world in "conquest" of various sorts. That period, the era of colonialism, is at an end. East is meeting West. The earth is being redistributed. Yes, we are "shifting our basic outlooks." [Read the full Lecture here or listen to it here.]
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Australia finally allows people vaccinated with Sputnik V to enter into the country


RT
Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:24 UTC
Sputnik V
© Sputnik / Vladimir Trefilov
The Australian government has officially allowed visitors who can prove they have been fully vaccinated with Russia's Sputnik V Covid vaccine to enter the country, starting from Monday.

Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said it reviewed data provided by Moscow which shows that the vaccine "provides protection and potentially reduces the likelihood that an incoming traveler would transmit Covid-19 infection to others while in Australia or become acutely unwell due to Covid-19."

"The data indicated that two doses of the Sputnik V (Gamaleya Institute) showed an average efficacy against symptomatic infection of 89% and against hospitalization or death of 98-100%," the regulator said in a statement on its website.


Comment: That it has taken nearly a year for Australia to approve Russia's jab and that the EU still doesn't recognize it, and with no reasonable justification given for the delay, further demonstrates how the whole process is political and has nothing to do with health.


Comment: It has been noted by observers that sportspeople from countries that primarily used Russia and China's vaccines haven't seen the soaring rates of 'sudden heart problems', collapses, and deaths, that the West has: Alarming Increase in Mortality Rates in 2021: Why COVID Shots Are Disproportionately Affecting Young Males (For Now)

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'Enough of Covid dictatorship': Lockdown protest in Hungary attracts hundreds


Hindustan Times
Sun, 16 Jan 2022 21:20 UTC
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© REUTERS / Marton MonusPeople demonstrate in front of the Parliament, during a protest against coronavirus disease (Covid-19) measures and vaccinations, in Budapest, Hungary, January 16, 2022.
Just over six million Hungarians have received at least two shots, and 3.3 million have also received the third booster.

Over a thousand people marched in Budapest protesting against Covid-19 inoculation at a rally organised by the far-right Our Homeland Movement, which has been campaigning on a fierce anti-vaccine and anti-immigration message ahead of April 3 elections.

"Vaccines should not be mandatory! We don't tolerate blackmail," said the slogan of the rally where people held up banners saying: "I am unvaccinated, not a criminal" and "Enough of Covid dictatorship."

Comment: Following the holidays, lockdown protests really picked up apace and, at the same time, the propaganda media had begun to admit that the Covid statistics of the last 21+ months were 'misleading' and, as a consequence, the lockdowns were wholly unnecessary. Despite this, governments continue to enforce vaccine passports, mandates, lockdowns, and with the threat that they intend to tighten the screws even further: Also check out SOTT radio's: Collapsing Narratives no Barrier to Increased Govt Controls



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Freighter breakdown temporarily blocks traffic through Turkey's Bosphorus Strait


Sputnik
Sun, 16 Jan 2022 21:00 UTC
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© Twitter/Directorate General of Coastal Safety
The Turkish A haber TV reported in the early hours of Monday that the coast guard had helped anchor the cargo ship in the Sariyer Buyukdere area and traffic in the Bosphorus returned to normal.

The passage of ships was temporarily blocked to all vessels in both directions at Bosphorus late on Sunday because a freighter broke down near Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, blocking the strait, Turkey's Directorate General of Coastal Safety said.

The failure of the 'Brave Night' ship's engine was named as the cause of the breakdown.

"Traffic has been stopped in both directions after a freighter heading to Romania broke down near Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge," the agency tweeted.

Comment: See also:

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BREAKING: Critical evidence has already gone missing as Georgia officials open ballot trafficking investigation

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Sat, 08 Jan 2022 08:37 UTC
Mail-in ballot
© iStock
Earlier this week Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced that he will investigate himself after credible allegations came forward recently related to 2020 elections fraud in the state.

John Solomon at Just the News reported this evening:
Georgia authorities have launched an investigation into an allegation of systematic ballot harvesting during the state's 2020 general election and subsequent U.S. Senate runoff and may soon issue subpoenas to secure evidence, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed to Just the News.

Georgia law strictly prohibits third-party activists from picking up and delivering ballots on behalf of voters, a tactic called "harvesting" that liberal organizers have tried to get legalized in many battleground states without success. The U.S. Supreme Court this summer rejected Democrat efforts to overturn an Arizona law that outlawed harvesting in the battleground state.
Unfortunately, Raffensperger is the Secretary of State in Georgia and these issues were under his purview. So his running an investigation into any related election issues is suspect, to say the least.

Comment: See also:

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Thousands protest against tougher Covid rules in France


RT
Sun, 16 Jan 2022 07:56 UTC
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© GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT AFPIn the capital Paris, the largest single gathering set off from near the Eiffel Tower
More than 50,000 people protested against stricter Covid-19 measures in France on Saturday, as the upper house of parliament approved a bill introducing a vaccine pass.

Around 54,000 people protested across the country, including 7,000 who marched in the capital, according to the Interior Ministry.

Some held banners that read "Freedom" and "Democracy in danger."

"I'm against the vaccine pass. I'm against mass vaccination - everyone must be free to choose," a protester in Paris told Ruptly video agency.
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NPC

Microsoft launches 'inclusivity' checker


RT
Sun, 16 Jan 2022 17:49 UTC
Microsoft
© AFP Photo/Sam Yeh
Microsoft Word has started offering 'politically correct' alternatives to some words and expressions, but a new "inclusive language feature" has left many users unimpressed.

The tech giant announced last year that it was working "to remove non-inclusive language commonly found within the technology and cybersecurity sectors."

In line with that goal, the latest version of Microsoft Word in Office 365 has an additional editor tool that suggests "more inclusive" alternatives to commonly used words and phrases that might offend someone in relation to gender, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. When the new function is used, any potentially offensive words, like all other 'errors,' are underlined, allowing the writer to fix them if they wish.
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US schools struggling with a wave of student misbehaviour following lockdowns

Ben Chapman
Wall Street Journal
Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:57 UTC
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© Roberto E. Rosales/Zuma PressHigh school students in Albuquerque, N.M., in August.
School districts across the U.S. say they are seeing a surge of student misbehavior in the return to in-person learning, after months of closures and disruptions due to the pandemic.

In the hallway between classes one afternoon this fall at Southwood High School in Shreveport, La., two boys exchanged words. All at once, they jumped at each other, witnesses said. Dozens of other students joined and they all fell into a heap, kicking and punching, until teachers pulled them apart.

The fight was one in a series of brawls in Southwood's courtyards and hallways on three subsequent days that led to 23 students being arrested and expelled.

Comment: There were spikes of child suicides at the very beginning of the lockdowns, and, since then, statistics and professionals have repeatedly warned that unprecedented numbers of children are suffering mental health issues due to the prolonged confinement, and deliberate fear-mongering; this was all widely known, and entirely predictable, preventable, and wholly unnecessary for a virus that's milder than the flu.

These troubles aren't just confined to schools, either, because incidents like the one seen in the video from Manchester, England, seem to be on the rise:


Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: The Red Line? Governments Extend Vaccine Mandates to Children




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Professor Ehud Qimron: "Ministry of Health, it's time to admit failure"


Swiss Policy Research
Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
Qimron
© HaaretzProfessor Ehud Qimron (c) at Tel Aviv University
Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University and one of the leading Israeli immunologists, has written an open letter sharply criticizing the Israeli - and indeed global - management of the coronavirus pandemic.

Original letter in Hebrew: N12 News (January 6, 2022); translated by Google/SPR. See also: Professor Qimron's prediction from August 2020: "History will judge the hysteria" (INN).
Ministry of Health, it's time to admit failure

In the end, the truth will always be revealed, and the truth about the coronavirus policy is beginning to be revealed. When the destructive concepts collapse one-by-one, there is nothing left but to tell the experts who led the management of the pandemic - we told you so.

Two years late, you finally realize that a respiratory virus cannot be defeated and that any such attempt is doomed to fail. You do not admit it, because you have admitted almost no mistake in the last two years, but in retrospect it is clear that you have failed miserably in almost all of your actions, and even the media is already having a hard time covering your shame.

You refused to admit that the infection comes in waves that fade by themselves, despite years of observations and scientific knowledge. You insisted on attributing every decline of a wave solely to your actions, and so through false propaganda "you overcame the plague." And again you defeated it, and again and again and again.

You refused to admit that mass testing is ineffective, despite your own contingency plans explicitly stating so ("Pandemic Influenza Health System Preparedness Plan, 2007", p. 26).

Comment: In just a few paragraphs, Qimron layered on the truth and slammed the Israeli Ministry of Health magnificently.

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Left-wing group secured $158M taxpayer-funded contract to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation

Joe Schoffstall
Fox News
Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Getty Images
A progressive group that views immigration enforcement agencies as a "threat" to civil liberties secured a $158 million taxpayer-funded contract to help unaccompanied minors avoid deportation, records show.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded the Vera Institute of Justice, a left-wing nonprofit that backs defunding the police, the contract in 2021 to "provide immigration related legal services to unaccompanied minors," according to USASpending, a federal contract database. Jason Hopkins, an investigative associate with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, told Fox News:
"The Vera Institute of Justice is a behemoth progressive nonprofit based out of New York City with well over a $140 million budget, which they use to fund a slate of progressive causes and initiatives across the country. Whether that be criminal justice reform, bail reform and also immigration."
Hopkins said the institute gets around half of its funding from the federal government. In fact, between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020, nearly $137 million of the group's $174 million in revenue came from government grants, the institute's most recent tax forms show.

"The $158 million is just the latest in the hundreds of millions that they provided to Vera for their services," Hopkins said.


Comment: The Biden administration's open border fiasco compounds these problems every day. Ultimately the cost of this policy, be it feeding, housing, transporting, administrating or deporting migrants comes down to the taxpayer, without vote or recourse. The problem lies with the incompetence of the gatekeeper.

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