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“If Jesus Christ were to come today, people
would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had
to say, and make fun of it.” - Thomas
Carlyle 1827 Phoebe Worrall
marries Walter Palmer, a homeopathic physician, who is also a devout
Methodist.
1834 England rewrites the Poor Law declaring public assistance is no longer a
human right.
1837 Phoebe Palmer experienced what
John Wesley termed "entire sanctification."
Christian perfection is the
name given to various teachings within Christianity that describe the process
of achieving spiritual maturity or perfection.
Various terms have been
used to describe the concept, such as entire sanctification, perfect love, the
baptism with the Holy Spirit, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the second
blessing, and the second work of grace.
Certain traditions and
denominations teach the possibility of Christian perfection, including the
Catholic Church, where it is closely associated with consecrated life.
It is also a prominent doctrine upheld by the Methodist churches, in
which it is usually known as Christian perfection or entire
sanctification.
Traditional Quakerism uses the term
perfectionism.
Phoebe Palmer and her husband Walter became itinerant
preachers as they received invitations from churches, conferences, and camp
meetings.
Although Walter Palmer spoke at these meetings, it was Phoebe
who was better known.
Palmer's played a significant role in spreading
the concept of Christian holiness throughout the United States and the rest of
the world.
1843 Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor is with the aim of helping the deserving poor and
providing for their moral uplift.
The Association becomes one of
the most active and innovative charity organizations in New York, pioneering
many private-public partnerships in education, healthcare and social
services.
1850 Phoebe Palmer led the Methodist
Ladies' Home Missionary Society in founding the Five Points Mission
in a slum area in New York City.
Horace Greeley, moved by Thomas Lake
Harris sermon is inspired to help the congregation found the New York
Juvenile Asylum.
"Such floods of glory, that the horizon rolls back
an evening splendor on the morning. Cease, cease, oh, mortal man, the idle
scorning of the high mystery. I feel the pulses of the Eternal Soul in all my
veins." - Thomas Lake
Harris
1860s A group of prominent British
Christian Socialist reformers including
John Ruskin, Thomas
Carlyle and Charles Kingsley are
alarmed by a number of
aspects of industrial capitalism including:
the growing gulf between the
classes;
the
materialist ethos of the Industrial Revolution;
the emphasis on self-interest in
classical economics;
the terrible poverty of the
average factory worker;
the ritualization of labor, as
factory systems replace the
individual
craftsperson.
The charity
organization movement spreads rapidly throughout England.
1865
Before the Civil War amelioration of social ills falls on the
individual.
The Lady Bountiful take care of the downtrodden,
destitute and cripples as a matter of
religious stewardship
or ethical humanism.
After the Civil
War new charity organizations emerge to provide services beyond the scope of
Lady Bountiful.
Local organizations, headed by community
political and economic elites, seek systematic delivery of "social improvement"
to the deserving and worthy victims
of calamity and misfortune.
They concern themselves with economic
poverty: pauperism,
family disruption,
child labor,
poor housing and
lack of recreational
opportunities.
They are blind to the
foundational social problems
illuminating reformers.
They chose
to ignore the concentration of wealth in the
hands of the robber barons;
blind to the power of
wealth rigging elections, purchasing
legislation.
1872 A
transportation hub at the end of the the Erie Canal between Lake Erie and Lake
Ontario, Buffalo has become a large wealthy city of 115,000.
Young
Men's Christian Association in Buffalo treats the orphaned newsboys and
bootblacks who work and live
on the street to a sumptuous Thanksgiving dinner.
Atlas
of the City of Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
1873 Samuel Barnett marries Henrietta
Octavia Weston and they go to live and work in the troubled and deprived parish
of St Jude's, Whitechapel intent on improving social conditions in one of
London's worst slums.
The East End area is notorious for squalor and
overcrowded housing conditions, as well as prostitution and other criminal
activities.
The Barnett's open evening schools for adults, provide them
with music and serve on local board of guardians and on managing committees of
schools.
1874 Conference of Boards of Public
Charities established.
1875 Germantown neighborhood of
Philadelphia
establishes a charitable society modeled after the London society.
1877
Englishman Reverend SH Gurteen having studied the London Charity
Organisation Society is instrumental in the creation of the Charity
Organization Society established in Buffalo.
1884 The first
settlement house, Toynbee Hall, is established
by Samuel Barnett and John
Ruskin in the slums of London.
1889 Jane
Addams and Ellen Gates Starr found Hull House in the run-down Nineteenth Ward
of Chicago,
Illinois.
Most of
the people living
in the area at the time are recently arrived immigrants from Europe, including
people from Germany, Italy, Sweden, England, Ireland, France, Russia, Norway,
Greece, Bulgaria, Holland, Portugal, Scotland, Wales, Spain and
Finland.
Women in the area have a desperate need for a place to leave
their young children as they trapse off to work in the factory for bread and
water.
Within three weeks the kindergarten has enrolled twenty-four
children with 70 more on the waiting list. Soon after a day-nursery was
added.
University teachers, students and social reformers in Chicago
were also recruited to provide free lectures on a wide variety of different
topics.
Over the years this included people such as John Dewey,
Clarence Darrow, Susan B. Anthony, William Walling, Robert Hunter, Robert
Lovett, Ernest Moore, Charles Beard, Paul Kellogg, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Ray
Stannard Baker, Francis Hackett, Henry Demarest Lloyd and
Frank Lloyd
Wright.
1905 National Conference,
executives of 14 charity organization societies agree formally to exchange
records, information, and suggestions.
1906 Russel
Sage dies leaving his wife $71 million to subsidize charity and she founds
the Russel Sage Foundation with $15 million.
Russell Sage
Foundation involvement in ideological production begins.
Sage
is blind to any
alternative to wealth hoarding and funds many opponents of self sufficient
community to contain the ideology of community.
There is
little sense of collective
obligation for the "unfortunates".
Carnegie, Russell
Sage, and Rockefeller chose to bring resources to bear on social
science ideology formation in the public sector.
Foundation managers
realize the inherent conflict in the marketplace of ideas in
a democratic society turning rapidly
to industrialization.
Concentrated wealth coexists with
widespread poverty and
alienation in a democracy that
gives the teeming masses
a tiny voice in government.
As representatives of capital,
they clearly see the
potential threat posed to control of the economy by popular organized
community groups with alternative ideological
interpretations of power sharing arrangements.
They began to
experiment with methods of producing, distributing, and, indeed,
imposing an ideology justifying
industrial capital concentration.
Foundation managers are tasked
with abolishing any competing ideology.
They provide financial support
those with the "proper way of thinking."
Laissez-faire ethos allows
ad hoc amelioration to those, through no
obvious moral failing, are unable
to compete in the Social Darwinian
struggle.
Through an arrangement with Charities and the
Commons, (The Survey, a periodical issued by the New York Charity
Organization Society), along with the newly-created Russell Sage
Foundation, the Exchange Branch is formed.
1907 Russell Sage Foundation takes over responsibility
for the Exchange Branch, creating the Charity Organization
Department.
Sage runs surveys and disseminates sets of ideas
about how to deal with the problems of urban poverty through the
mitigation of the eyesores of city
life.
Sage establishes the social model for
professional social
workers.
A foundational aspect of Sage is all research
remains within parameters which require
the public welfare to be served
while private wealth is
preserved within a framework that already defines the relationships between
the development of industrial production,
distribution of wealth, the
relation of capital to
labor and the relation of private
capital to the State.
After surveys are
completed social scientists develop predictive capabilities.
1910 Foundations begin the
systematic shaping of
ideology.
The exploitation of the technical developments making
industrialization possible depends on a
landless, polyglot, urban proletariat whose only stake in existing social
arrangements is an inadequate hourly wage.
The resulting conflict
between capital and labor flares into violence of such proportions that these
struggles are called labor wars and treated, with
armed troops and martial
law, as civil
insurrections.
The
emerging role of the farming hinterland as an internal colony - a
market for manufactured
goods supplying cheap food
and fiber for
an urbanized labor force -
gave rise to years of
regional opposition to the centralizing thrust of
eastern finance capital.
The foundations subsidize the
manufacture and distribution
of an ideology with the intent of
creating a consuming
public for their subsidized wares.
McNamara brothers, leaders in the
Structural Ironworkers Union, dynamite the Los Angeles Times
building, killing twenty people.
1912 William
Howard Taft proposed the creation of a nine-person investigative committee
called the Commission on Industrial Relations.
April 23, 1915 Commission on Industrial Relations files
the Final Report.
Frank Walsh denounces the foundations support
for social science research as
social scientists working
for foundations have a proclivity for gathering facts to support the predefined
position of their sponsors.
Walsh Commission raises the
question as to whether foundations
endowed by great
capitalists can even produce objective research of collective
ideology.
The Final Report suggests variables have not been fully
explored.
1917
Buffalo charity societies work together to form the first joint fundraising
effort which evolves into the Community Chest, and then later into the
United Way.
Publicity suggests
ad hoc volunteer work in the
national charity movement directed by
social service
professionals will solve the
social ills of the day.
1924 Social
Science Research Council founded to act as an intermediary conduit of
distribution of Carnegie, Ford
and Rockefeller
foundation funds to smaller charities with the proper
industrial relations attitude to
circumvent identification
with capital concentration ideology.
"In sum, the foundations came
to identify ideology
manufacture as a major purpose
underlying resource deployment.
Ideology creation was joined to
the pragmatic solution of
specific problems.
This resulted in three related but distinct modes
of ideology manufacture.
First,
ideologies of practice
arose out of the confrontation and
amelioration of actual, concrete social problems within
industrializing capitalism.
This occurred, for example, in
social work.
Second, ideologies of technique
allow the energies of
intellectual workers to rationalize solutions to technical problems within
existing social structures.
Such was the case in
academic economics.
Third,
ideologies of social
structure emerge to create a political
economy, midway between the extremes of
laissez-faire capitalism
and socialism.
Typical producers included university-based sociologists and
Protestant theologians
sympathetic to, but not deeply involved in the "Social Gospel."
As
these three modes of ideology production create separate ideological content,
the foundations ended up subsidizing an overall ideology with two main
characteristics: (1) it is
aggressively
pragmatic and intellectually
inconsistent, while (2) consistently defending concentration
of wealth.
Foundations were not concerned with
theoretical elegance;
they sponsor a tactical ideology
whose very lack of
structure gave strategic
advantage by rendering meaningful critiques extremely difficult." - Sheila
Slaughter
This is the foundation of the Cold War against
any human community that does not fit tightly
within the parameters defined by the
Foundations.
1953
The Foundation series, a science fiction book series written by Isaac
Asimov as a series of short stories has been published in three collections -
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second
Foundation.
Using statistical laws of mass action Hari Seldon spends
his life developing a theory of
psychohistory and a new very effective mathematical sociology.
Seldon devises a plan by which "the onrushing mass of events must be
deflected just a little" to limit a galaxy wide industrial civilization
collapse.
A key feature of Seldon' theory, which has proved influential
in real-world social science, is an uncertainty or incompleteness principle:
if a population gains knowledge of its predicted behavior, its
self-aware
collective actions become unpredictable to the social
engineers.
BIG MONEY FUNDS 'PROGRESSIVE' ORGANIZATIONS
Tides acts as an intermediary
between the Ford, Rockefeller and
Heinz foundations, and a
large number of seemingly progressive organizations.
Tides
sponsers:
$71.3 million from the
Ford Foundation in 2006;
$24.0 million from George Soros's
Open Society Institute in 2005;
$16.2 million from the
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation in
2005;
$10.4 million from the Heinz Endowments in 2005;
$10.4
million from the Kellogg
Foundation in 2006;
$10.0 million from the
Richard King Mellon Foundation in 2005;
$4.5 million from the
Rockefeller Foundation;
$2.9 million from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in
2005.
Tides grantees:
350.org,
Code Pink,
ACLU, American Friends
Service Committee, Bread and Roses, Center for Constitutional Rights,
Daily Kos, Democracy
Now!, Doctors Without Borders,
Earthjustice, Equality
Now, Feminist Majority Foundation, Freedom to Marry, Friends of the Earth, Fund
for Nonviolence, Gay Straight
Alliance for Safe Schools, Human
Rights Watch, J Street, MassEquity, Ms. Foundation for Women, NAACP, NARAL,
National Council of La Raza, National Lawyers Guild - San Francisco Bay Area,
National Public Radio,
The Other 98%, Pacifica
Foundation, People for the American Way, People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals, Planned
Parenthood, Race Matters Institute, Radical Queer Affinity Collective,
Refuser Solidarity Network, Soujourners,
Southern Poverty Law
Center, United for a Fair Economy, War Resisters League, Win Without War,
Witness for Peace. |
1979
Microsoft moves from Albuquerque to Bellevue.
1983 Mary Maxwell is appointed to the board of the
United Way.
Her tenure on the national board's executive committee is
believed to have boosted Microsoft at the crucial time as she met IBM CEO John
Opel.
It has been hypothesized that Bill Gates stole operating system
his mentor and friend Gary Kildall who built the Control Program for
Microcomputers and shared it with the Home Brew Computer Club, a
group Kildall founded.
"Years before her son gained international
prominence, Mrs. Gates was widely respected as a tireless community-service
advocate, a prominent role model for women seeking corporate advancement, and a
skilled behind-the-scenes negotiator." - Paul Andrews
Mary was on the
University of Washington Foundation Board of Directors, UW Medical
Center Board and the School of Business Administration's Advisory
Board.
Mary served on the boards of the Children's Hospital
Foundation, Seattle Symphony and the Greater Seattle Chamber of
Commerce.
Mary was on the board of directors of First Interstate
Bank of Washington; Unigard Security Insurance Group; Pacific
Northwest Bell and later US WEST Communications; and KIRO
Incorporated television and radio stations.
1992 Mary lures bioengineer Lee Hood to the UW from Caltech by
having Bill contribute $12 million to UW biotech research.
1994 "Mrs. Gates nudged her usually apolitical son to fight
state budget Initiatives 601 and 602 last fall." - Paul
Andrews
Amnesty
International projects itself as the watchdog on human rights worldwide
with the stated mission to campaign for "a world in which every person enjoys
all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and other international human rights instruments."
However,
lesser known is the fact that Amnesty International was created by
British Intelligence for intelligence gathering to carry out social engineering
of targeted nations critical of the British Empire.
Amnesty
International was involved in not only the cover-up of torture and regime
change by British agents but also in sparking a war. |
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