Self-grading labels for my posts.

I am acutely conscious of how desperately my posts need further work and thinking. I did and do wish to get started writing something, but until I judge many of the somethings worthy of an audience I will not be telling too many people about my little blog! For now, to help me find the posts most desperately in need of edits, I have added two kinds of labels.

Label: grade-A, grade-F, etc mean my score of how good the article is.
Label: dated means that this article has little or no permanent value.
Label: []TODO would like to add something that differentiates trivial but useful content, eg recipes, from ideas which hopefully are more long-lasting, or quips which may be reused.
[]Vitally related to that is the goal to enable [me] to subscribe only to a channel within, or to see them sorted that way.

[x]BLOG-TIP: Time zone  fixed by using Toronto time.
Today it is
2013.0913Fri.15:16::11  , and the post was noon submitted for the book.
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A Perception's truth is not defined by collective assent, rather by evidence.

An important goal of mine is to help the two wonderful sets of ideas I  love, Objectivism and Energy Medicine (EEM), acknowledge each others' achievements. It is a tough sell to both sides!

David Feinstein aptly acknowledged the two sides. EEM practitioners, knowing the truth of their work in their results with clients, do not care about whether research does or does not prove them right. Regular science (in which I include Objectivism), on the other hand, sees no reason to care about a discipline whose actual metaphysics (perceptions) appears to have no basis in reality.

I sympathize with both sides, but not yet appreciated by either! I understand that, myself a few years ago would have dismissed the new me immediately. Today however, I read exciting news that a new book is coming out by a doctor whose EEM perceptions were documented simultaneously by medical technology. I will read it.
Anne

[]Newsweek advertises a new book on energy [my word] perceptions.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html
I’m still a doctor, and still a man of science every bit as much as I was before I had my experience. But on a deep level I’m very different from the person I was before, because I’ve caught a glimpse of this emerging picture of reality. And you can believe me when I tell you that it will be worth every bit of the work it will take us, and those who come after us, to get it right.

http://innersource.net/em/igeem-keynotes-dp2.html
[]IgEem seminars on science
Cell biologist James Oschman, PhD, author of Energy Medicine (subtitled "The Scientific Basis") (2000).
Dr. Bruce Lipton, author of the books Biology of Belief and  Spontaneous Evolution. 

Suzanne Clegg 121019f>  Some illnesses are much more dire in prognosis than cancer. Cancer cases can have spontaneous remission.
[]For consideration for her [blog]
http://www.spiritgate.com/

http://www.brucelipton.com/
Front page 121020s has a video with the briefest introduction: the idea that cells differentiate because of their environment, not their genes; blood is the environment and it is controlled by one's thoughts.

http://energyresearch.homestead.com/about.html
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/04/29/james-oschman-on-earthing.aspx
How Grounding Affects Your Blood
Another very important discovery, and one of the most recent, is that grounding thins your blood, making it less viscous. This discovery can have a profound impact on cardiovascular disease, which is now the number one killer in the world. Virtually every aspect of cardiovascular disease has been correlated with elevated blood viscosity. Dr. Sinatra has been coaching Dr. Oschman's team in how to measure blood viscosity using a method called zeta potential. It measures the potential on your red blood cells by determining how fast they migrate in an electrical field.



Fun non-references
http://www.lifejourneys.net/HayHouse/Australia_2013/Braden_Lipton/index.html
$2k January 2012 Australia cruise.

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Scorecard: USA is far less free in 2010 than 2003.

USA is far less free in 2010 than 2003.

Today I read that FreedomHouse [1] reported that there is slightly less freedom in the world than last year. I read their data and did not find the facts they presented compelling. However, one thing did leap out at me: an error.

They claim according to their survey methods that freedom in the USA has increased, both between 2003-2007 and 2007-2011. Considering election frauds perpetrated by Acorn [2], Obamacare, car care, bank bailout care, the banning of lightbulbs, the increased powers authorized to the FDA, etc. I think they are missing the big picture. 

Given their methdology [3], here are my notes on the period from 2003-2011. 

POLITICAL RIGHTS

A. Electoral Process

1,2,3. ... free and fair elections? GRADE=B- There is fear about this where there never used to be. WAS=A.

B. Political Pluralism and Participation

1. ...is the system open to the rise and fall of these competing parties or groupings? GRADE=D, WAS=C. Third parties do not stand a chance. Reagan debated a third party, now that cannot happen.

2. Is there a significant opposition vote... GRADE=B no change.

3. Are the people's political choices free from domination by the military, foreign powers, totalitarian parties, religious hierarchies, economic oligarchies, or any other powerful group? = WRONG QUESTION, omits government omnipresence. REWORD, TODO.

4. Do cultural, ethnic, religious, and other minority groups = WRONG QUESTION.

C. Functioning of Government

1. Do freely elected representatives determine the policies of the government? GRADE=A, no change.

2. Is the government free from pervasive corruption? GRADE=B, WAS=A-.

3. Is the government accountable to the electorate between elections, and does it operate with openness and transparency? GRADE=E, WAS=D. Thousands of pages of impenetrable omnibus bills passed with only an hour or so of “reading”. I can say with certainty government is not open.

CIVIL LIBERTIES

D. []TODO 

D. Freedom of Expression and Belief

1. Are there free and independent media and other forms of cultural expression?

(Note: in cases where the media are state-controlled but offer pluralistic points of view, the survey gives the system credit.)

2. Are there free religious institutions, and is there free private and public religious expression?

3. Is there academic freedom, and is the educational system free of extensive political indoctrination?

4. Is there open and free private discussion?

E. Associational and Organizational Rights

1. Is there freedom of assembly, demonstration, and open public discussion?

2. Is there freedom of political or quasi-political organization? (Note: this includes political parties, civic organizations, ad hoc issue groups, etc.)

3. Are there free trade unions and peasant organizations or equivalents, and is there effective collective bargaining? Are there free professional and other private organizations?

F. Rule of Law

1. Is there an independent judiciary?

2. Does the rule of law prevail in civil and criminal matters? Are police under direct civilian control?

3. Is there protection from police terror, unjustified imprisonment, exile, or torture, whether by groups that support or oppose the system? Is there freedom from war and insurgencies?

4. Is the population treated equally under the law?

G. Personal Autonomy and Individual Rights

1. Is there personal autonomy? Does the state control travel, choice of residence, or choice of employment? Is there freedom from indoctrination and excessive dependency on the state?

2. Do citizens have the right to own property and establish private businesses? Is private business activity unduly influenced by government officials, the security forces, or organized crime?

3. Are there personal social freedoms, including gender equality, choice of marriage partners, and size of family?

4. Is there equality of opportunity and the absence of economic exploitation?

[1] The PDF map showing change in freedom and the links to the article and report.

http://www.freedomhouse.org/images/File/fiw/Maps_2003_2007_2011_FINAL.pdf

http://www.freedomhouse.org/

On January 13, Freedom House hosted event to launch the findings of Freedom in the World 2011, its annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. According to the findings, 2010 was the fifth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a declinethe longest period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report.

http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=594

[2]  http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-acorn-voter-fraud/

The Complete Guide to ACORN Voter Fraud

They register dead people. But that's not all.

October 14, 2008 - by Jim Hoft

[3] http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=35&year=2005

Methodology ; see the Checklists at the end of the long page.

POLITICAL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES CHECKLIST

In business in the USA, what has changed?

Engineer> USA Businesses are too short-range. We're going to lose to other countries. They are too pushed by the stock market and financiers. Here, a long-term perspective can't win.

Me> No, that's not true, in a free market the person with the best long-term wins. The problem is that the government regulations and actions strangle business. Just look at today. The tax rates in 3 weeks from now could be vastly different that today! Three weeks! How can anyone plan ahead for years and years with the stumbling block coming up so soon, at that short of a time horizon?

Engineer> No, it's that people are selfish and short-range.

Me> Even if that's true, it's always been true. What's changed?

Engineer> Well now we have jobs going overseas because regulations are so high here in the USA.

Me> That's my point!

OCON Blogger Call to Action

For those who are at the 2010 Objectivist Conference in Las Vegas this year, please note that the Las Vegas Review Journal has some good reporting we can support. The front page story today Saturday 7-3 was about unemployment and the OpEd pointed out that there is no good news in that news. I wrote and asked to consider there are many free market solutions and they deserve publicity.

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/-failed-policies--97723909.html
Jul. 03, 2010 EDITORIAL: 'Failed policies' June jobless numbers & the spin detector
....What would work is to slash taxes and job-killing regulations. But of course, President Obama dismisses those solutions as the "failed policies of yesterday."

http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/environment/pollution/6008-Oil-Spill-Private-Property-the-Solution.html
25 June 2010 Ron Pisaturo
BP Oil Spill: Private Property is the Solution
How a Capitalist Government Would Handle the BP Oil Spill
....private property