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Acknowledgment
The content of this blog is excerpted from The Urantia Book unless credited to other authors. Some conclusions are interpretive. [Note: Urantia is the cosmic name for Earth.]
To read The Urantia Book, go to: http://www.urantia.org/urantia-book/read-urantia-book-online.
The historical events and dates for the United States were garnered from “A timeline of the USA and Canada,” on the website: https://www.scaruffi.com/politics/american.html.
Introduction
The Most Highs of Norlatiadek
The rulers of the 100 constellations in our local universe of Nebadon are of the Vorondadek order of local universe sonship. When commissioned to active duty in the universe as constellation rulers, these Sons are known as the Most Highs since they embody the highest administrative wisdom, coupled with the most farseeing and intelligent loyalty, of all the orders of the Local Universe Sons of God.
The personal integrity and the loyalty of the Vorondadek Sons has never been questioned; no disloyalty of the Vorondadek Sons has ever occurred in Nebadon.
At least three Vorondadek Sons are commissioned by Gabriel (the chief executive officer of Michael, the Creator Son of our local universe) as the Most Highs of each of the Nebadon constellations. The presiding member of this trio is known as the Constellation Father and his two associates as the senior Most High and the junior Most High.
A Constellation Father reigns for ten thousand standard years (about 50,000 Earth years), while having previously served as junior associate and as senior associate for equal periods.
The present Constellation Father ruler of Norlatiadek is number 617,318 of the Vorondadek series of Nebadon. He saw service in many constellations throughout our local universe before taking up his Norlatiadek responsibilities.
Down through the ages there has been great confusion on Urantia (Earth) regarding the various universe rulers.
In the Urantia records it is very difficult at times to know exactly who is referred to by the term “Most High.” But Daniel fully understood these matters. He said, “The Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it [leadership] to whomsoever he will.”
The Constellation Fathers are only minimally occupied with the individuals of an inhabited planet, but they are closely associated with those legislative and lawmaking functions of the constellations that concern every mortal race and national group (nation) of the inhabited worlds. Guidance of individuals is conducted by individual mind indwelling Thought Adjusters, angels, and Midwayers (creatures created midway between angels and mortals) Mind Spirits, and the Spirit of Truth.
Although the constellation regime stands between mortals and the universe administration, individuals would ordinarily be little concerned with the constellation government. Greater interest would normally center in the local solar system of Satania. However, for a time, Urantia is closely related to the constellation rulers because of certain system and planetary conditions growing out of the Lucifer rebellion in 200,000 B.C.. (Lucifer was the sovereign of the Satania System prior to his betrayal.)
The Norlatiadek Most Highs seized certain phases of planetary authority on the rebellious worlds at the time of the Lucifer secession. They have continued to exercise this power, and the Ancients of Days, representing the Paradise Trinity, have confirmed this assumption of control over the wayward worlds. It is presumed that no change in these rulers will be made until Lucifer and his associates are finally disposed of.
There is also another way in which Urantia (Earth) became peculiarly related to the Most High
. When Michael/Jesus, the Creator Son, was on his final bestowal mission on Earth, since the successor of Lucifer was not in full authority in the local system, all Urantia affairs that concerned Michael’s bestowal were supervised by the Most Highs of Norlatiadek.
Purpose of this Blog Page
The goal of this segment of Working for God is to sketch instances of how the plans of the Most High have been implemented in the world and especially in the United States of America.
The function of the cosmic personalities and spirits guiding individuals is to induce the salvation of their souls. The goal of the Most High is the continued evolution of brotherhood among mortals.
The Most High’s Plan and Organization
Manifesting the Brotherhood Plan
The plan of the Most High is to push the evolution of brotherhood on the Norlatiadek planets. This plan becomes evident when history is viewed as events denoting the progressive nudging in all aspects of mortal endeavor on Earth.
The Most High has been especially active in arranging and expediting the immigration and assimilation of all the races in North and South America, and especially in the United States.
Planetary events are not chaotic and unplanned. There is collusion between the Most High and the directors of individuals who ensure the right people are in the right places at the right times.
The Master Seraphim
The Most High rules in the kingdoms of men through many celestial forces and agencies but chiefly through the ministry of seraphim.
Twelve corps of master seraphim of planetary supervision are functional on Urantia. The twelve corps of master seraphim arrived of Urantia concurrent with the outpouring of the Spirit of Truth on Pentecost 30 A.D. (the date in the Gregorian calendar used in the Urantian papers),
[Each administrative day on Urantia begins with a consultative conference, which is attended by the governor general (the former John, the Baptist), the planetary chief of archangels, the Most High observer, the supervising super- naphim, the chief of resident Life Carriers, and invited guests who discuss and coordinate planetary progress.]
The twelve corps of master seraphim of planetary supervision are:
1. The Epochal Angels
These are the angels of the current age, the dispensational group. These celestial ministers are entrusted with the oversight and direction of the affairs of each generation as it is designed to fit into the mosaic of the age in which it occurs. The present corps of epochal angels serving on Urantia is the third group assigned to the planet during the current dispensation (departure from normal).
The Epochal Angels oversee cyclical events that reoccur in repeating but progressing patterns of major social change through wars, science, discoveries, and economies.
2. The Progress Angels
These seraphim are entrusted with the task of initiating the evolutionary progress of the successive social ages. They foster the development of the inherent progressive trend of evolutionary creatures; they labor incessantly to make things what they ought to be. The group now on duty is the second to be assigned to the planet.
3. The Religious Guardians
These are the “angels of the churches,” the earnest contenders for that which is and has been. They endeavor to maintain the ideals of that which has survived for the sake of the safe transit of moral values from one epoch to another. They are the checkmates of the angels of progress, all the while seeking to translate from one generation to another the imperishable values of the old and passing forms into the new and therefore less stabilized patterns of thought and conduct. These angels do contend for spiritual forms, but they are not the source of ultra sectarianism and meaningless controversial divisions of professed religionists. The corps now functioning on Urantia is the fifth thus to serve.
4. The Angels of Nation Life
These are the “angels of the trumpets,” directors of the political performances of Urantia national life. The group now functioning in the over control of international relations is the fourth corps to serve on the planet. It is particularly through the ministry of this seraphic division that “the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.”
5. The Angels of the Races
Those master seraphim who work for the conservation of the evolutionary races of time, regardless of their political entanglements and religious groupings. On Urantia there are remnants of nine human races which have commingled and combined into the people of modern times. These seraphim are closely associated with the ministry of the race commissioners, and the group now on Urantia is the original corps assigned to the planet soon after the day of Pentecost.
6. The Angels of the Future
These are the projection angels, who forecast a future age and plan for the realization of the better things of a new and advancing dispensation; they are the architects of the successive eras. The group now on the planet has thus functioned since the beginning of the current dispensation.
7. The Angels of Enlightenment
Urantia is now receiving the help of another corps of seraphim dedicated to the fostering of planetary education. These angels are occupied with mental and moral training as it concerns individuals, families, groups, schools, communities, nations, and whole races.
8. The Angels of Health
These are the seraphic ministers assigned to the assistance of those mortal agencies dedicated to the promotion of health and the prevention of disease. The present corps is the sixth group to serve during this dispensation.
9. The Home Seraphim
Urantia now enjoys the services of the fifth group of angelic ministers dedicated to the preservation and advancement of the home, the basic institution of human civilization.
10. The Angels of Industry
This seraphic group is concerned with fostering industrial development and improving economic conditions among the Urantia peoples. This corps has been seven times changed since the bestowal of Michael.
11. The Angels of Diversion
These are the seraphim who foster the values of play, humor, and rest. They ever seek to uplift man’s recreational diversions and thus to promote the more profitable utilization of human leisure. The present corps is the third of that order to minister on Urantia.
12. The Angels of Superhuman Ministry
These are the angels of the angels, those seraphim who are assigned to the ministry of all other superhuman life on the planet, temporary or permanent. This corps has served since the beginning of the current dispensation.
The Unfolding of Events That Shaped the United States
As Manipulated by the Master Seraphim
Promoting the Brotherhood of Men
October, 1492
The Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sailed west on behalf of Spain looking for a way to reach Asia, and instead landed on a new continent.
While he thought he had discovered a route to the Far East, he is credited with the opening of the Americas for conquest and settlement by Europeans.
1498
The Venetian John Cabot explored the coast of North America for the Kingdom of England.
1502
Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer was born in the Republic of Florence. Sailing for Portugal, Vespucci demonstrated that present day Brazil and the West Indies were not Asia's eastern outskirts (as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages), but a separate, unexplored land mass colloquially known as the New World. It came to be called "the Americas", a name derived from Americus (the Latin version of Vespucci's first name).
1524
Giovanni da Verrazzano an Italian, explored the Atlantic coast of North America between present day Florida and New Brunswick including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay in the service of King Francis I of France.
1542 - 1543
Spanish explorer Juan Cabrillo discovered California. Cabrillo was a maritime navigator who explored the West Coast of North America on behalf of the Spanish Empire. The European powers gained a better perspective of the size and potential of the newly revealed continents of North and South America.
1565
The Spanish founded the first permanent European settlement within what becomes the United States at St Augustine (Florida). Previously the Spanish
founded Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic in 1496 and San Juan in Puerto Rico (1521).
1573
The first Chinese goods reach the Americas via Spanish ships coming from the Philippines.
The Colonial Period
1607
In May, Jamestown became the first English colony in the Americas followed by the founding of the colony of Virginia by John Smith in August.
1608
The first French town was founded in North America, Quebec City in future Canada.
1612
A tobacco plantation opened in Virginia.
1619
The Dutch began the slave trade between Africa and North America (Virginia).
1620
English pilgrims aboard the "Mayflower" landed at Plymouth Rock on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1623
The Dutch West India Company founded the colony of New Netherland.
The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to southwestern Cape Cod, while the more limited settled areas are now part of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
1625
The Dutch West India Company founded a trading post in America, New Amsterdam (New York).
1630
Boston founded.
Boston was founded in September by English Puritans fleeing religious persecution. On 29 March 1630 a fleet of 11 ships carrying 700 people from England landed in Massachusetts. Their new settlement was named after Boston in England from which many of the settlers had come.
The Puritans hoped to create a 'city on a hill' i.e. a shining example of a Godly society for the entire world to see. The Puritans came to America fleeing religious persecution, but they in turn persecuted the Quakers who they called a 'cursed sect'. In 1631 the first sailing ship built in America was launched from Boston and soon the shipbuilding industry thrived. There was also a flourishing whaling industry and a fishing industry.
1632
Maryland created by a charter.
After European settlements had been made to the south and north, the colonial Province of Maryland was granted by King Charles I to Sir George Calvert, his former Secretary of State, for settlement beginning in March 1634. Maryland was notable for having been established with religious freedom for Roman Catholics, since Calvert had publicly converted to that faith. Like other colonies and settlements of the Chesapeake Bay region, its economy became based on tobacco as a commodity crop. Tobacco was highly prized among the English. It was cultivated primarily by African slave labor, although many young people sent from Britain as indentured servants or criminal prisoners were also used.
Planting the Seeds of Future Golden Ages – Achievement of Greater Brotherhood
1635
Roger Williams founded Rhode Island.
The political and religious leader Roger Williams is best remembered for founding the state of Rhode Island and advocating separation of church and state in Colonial America. His views on religious freedom and tolerance, coupled with his disapproval of the practice of confiscating land from Native Americans, earned him the wrath of his church and banishment from the colony. Williams and his followers settled on Narragansett Bay, where they purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and established a new colony governed by the principles of religious liberty and separation of church and state. Rhode Island became a haven for Baptists, Quakers, Jews and other religious minorities. Nearly a century after his death, Williams’ notion of a “wall of separation” between church and state inspired the founders of the United States, who incorporated it into the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Future Light and Life Ages Delayed
The epoch following the biological uplifting by an Adam and Eve on a normal planet is a bestowal of internationalism. Upon the near completion of the task of race blending, nationalism wanes, warring diminishes, and the brotherhood of man begins to materialize. Representative government begins to take the place of the monarchies and paternal forms of rulership. The educational system becomes world-wide, and gradually the languages of the races disappear. Universal peace and cooperation are seldom attained until the races are fairly well blended, and until they speak a common language.
[The intended biological uplifting of Earthlings through marriage of the children of Adam and Eve with superior mortals was minimal on Earth due
to the default of Adam and Eve.]
Social Engineering
The Master Seraphim cannot prevail over the free will choices of mortals. They can and do assist people to achieve their free will choices to meet both their spiritual and material preferences.
The Master Seraphim use the human propensities to seek profit; they provide hormonal prodding for romance and family (testosterone and estrogen factors); stimulate the cravings for adventure; encourage the ambitions of ideologies (such as religions and politics); and nourish the hunger for knowledge.
The Master Seraphim plan events that prompt spiritual virtues such as love, hope, faith, prudence, temperance, courage, justice, ethics, morality, humility, kindness, patience, liberality, and diligence.
Contrarily, the seraphim also provide opportunities to enhance inclinations towards pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed, and sloth if that is the desire of the individual or the society.
The Seraphim and their associated cherubim have much to do. The angels are ably assisted by the midwayers (beings created between man and angels) who arrange transactions between individual mortals or groups.
Cycles of Rapid Geographical and Technological Discoveries
Accelerate Social and Economic Transitions
Incentives of European Nations That Colonized the Americas
All of the European nations that established colonies in the Americas were seeking the resources of the New World.
Spain colonized America because they were searching for gold and silver to boost their treasury and their economy. The Spanish conquistadors took large stocks of gold from the Aztec and Inca empires that they conquered. Under the influence of the Popes, Spain was also interested in converting the native Americans to Catholicism.
France colonized North America seeking wealth in the fur trade.
The first permanent English settlement in America, Jamestown, was funded and founded in 1607 as an economic venture by the stockholders of the Virginia Company of London who were seeking raw materials that could not be grown or obtained in England to open new markets for trade.
Dutch colonization of the Americas began with the establishment of Dutch trading posts and plantations, which dwindled because of their greater interest in colonization opportunities in Asia.
The religious dissension between Protestantism and Catholicism was a factor in the economic, governmental and social plans of all the competing empires.
Effects of The Thirty Years’ War Fought in Europe
The Peace of Westphalia that ended The Thirty Years War laid the groundwork for the formation of the modern nation-states, establishing fixed boundaries for the countries involved in the fighting and effectively decreed that residents of a state were subject to the laws of that state and not to those of any other institution, secular or religious.
This radically altered the balance of power in Europe and resulted in reduced influence of the Catholic Church over political affairs as well as other religious groups.
[Note: The Thirty Years War was actually a series of wars fought by European nations for various reasons. The war ignited in 1618 over an attempt by the king of Bohemia (the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II) to impose Catholicism throughout his domains. Protestant nobles rebelled, and by the 1630s most of continental Europe was at war.]
The war lasted from 1618 to 1648. Eight million soldiers died in battle. Hundreds of thousands more people died as a result of famine caused by the conflict as well as an epidemic of typhus that spread rapidly in areas torn apart by the violence. The war caused an increased distrust among different ethnicities and religious faiths. The first European witch hunts began during the war, as a suspicious populace attributed the suffering throughout Europe to spiritual causes.
Nautical Master Charts
From https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi/maps.html - Edited).
Beginning in the 1440s, Portuguese ships ventured further and further into the Atlantic and down the Southern coast of Africa, first accumulating knowledge of the South Atlantic (by 1487), then the Mozambique channel (by 1497) and Brazil and Canada (the New World by 1502). After every expedition, map-makers for Portuguese kings incorporated information from the most recent voyages of exploration.
By 1492, Portuguese cartographers were creating enormous master charts containing all the latest knowledge of coastlines, and oceans.
These master charts were regarded as state secrets.
The master charts were based on separate local nautical charts.
By 1505, each of the major Atlantic ports also had a separate approach chart detailing soundings, dangers, and other information needed to guide sailors safely into port.
Periodic Cycles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cycles
Everything in Time is in motion. Time is motion.
1. Time and Calendar Cycles
2. Planetary cycles
3. Organic cycles
4. Physics cycles
5. Miscellaneous cycles
https://sites.duke.edu/perspective/2018/08/13/the-next-technological-revolution/
In addition to the traditional periodic cycles noted above, there are periodic revolutions that occur leading to massive fundamental transformations of society. This type of revolution occurs when several periodic cycles such as the agricultural, industrial, and informational (technological) periodic cycles coincide. Such a revolution is currently beginning on Earth.
A Series of Small Steps
1636
Harvard University, the first American university, was founded near Boston.
1639
Elizabeth Glover set up the first printing press in North America in Boston.
1654
First Jewish immigrants arrived in Nieuwe Amsterdam (New York).
1663
On March 24, Charles II issued a charter to a group of eight English noblemen, granting them the land of Carolina, as a reward for their faithful support of his efforts to regain the throne of England.
1664
Britain acquired New Amsterdam and renamed it New York.
1667
Britain captured New Netherland and renamed it Delaware.
1681
Quakers, led by William Penn, founded the colony of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia. The democratic principles that Penn set forth served as inspiration for the United States Constitution.
1682
France claimed the territory of Louisiana. [Note. With the French now well-established in Canada, French Canadian Robert La Salle, seeking to understand how the colonies were connected, sailed westward through the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi. Upon reaching the Gulf of Mexico, La Salle claimed the entire watershed for France and named it for his king, Louis IV.]
Social Revolution Engineered by The Most High
The Renaissance and Reformation 1300-1600
https://westernreservepublicmedia.org/middleages/reform_art.htm
The European Renaissance began after the plague in the 14th and 15th centuries. It was fueled by soldiers returning from the Crusades with renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman art, and Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. There was also new interest in science, the environment, philosophy, architecture, painting, music, and literature.
Famous artists of the time included: Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo.
Musicians learned how pitch changes by lengthening, shortening, or thickening the string on stringed instruments. Symmetry became a part of the music they created. Musicians studied the Greek drama and tried to create music that would align with the words of their stories. This was the beginning of opera, where music and theater were combined.
In literature, the invention of the printing press and the weakening of the Catholic Church’s control over the lives of people enabled Renaissance writers to express and quickly disseminate their ideas and beliefs.
There was an explosion in writing, some of which is deemed the greatest of all time, by authors such as Martin Luther who changed Christianity by telling about the abuses of the church clergy; John Calvin who believed a person has an individual relationship to God; Nicolaus Copernicus who’s book revealed that the earth was not the center of the universe; and William Shakespeare who is still considered one of the greatest writers who ever lived.
It was no accident that the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the enlightenment of men occurred during this 300 year period. It was the work of the Most High and his Epochal Angels
Assembling the Pieces
1690
Boston printer Benjamin Harris starts the Public Occurrences in Boston, the first multi-page newspaper in the English colonies.
1691
Several New England colonies united to form the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1692-93
19 "witches" burned at the stake near Boston.
1701
Yale University founded.
1704
Elias Neau opened a school for enslaved African Americans in New York.
John Campbell, the postmaster of Boston, published the Boston News-Letter, a small single sheet, printed on both sides. The News-Letter was the first continuously published newspaper in America.
Gathering Evolutionary Momentum
1713
Britain and France signed the Treaty of Utrecht that ended the War of Spanish Succession (a dispute between England and France about rights to the Spanish throne after the death of the childless Charles II of Spain). The treaty also transferred most of Canada to Britain leaving Britain as the dominant force in North America.
1718
French colonists founded La Noelle-Orleans (New Orleans).
1721
Smallpox epidemic in Boston.
The smallpox epidemic that struck Boston was one of the most deadly of the century in colonial America. It was the catalyst for the first major application of preventative inoculation in the colonies. The use of inoculation laid the foundation for the modern techniques of infectious diseases prevention.
1729
The first orphanage was founded at the Ursuline Convent of New Orleans.
1731
Benjamin Franklin founded the first lending library in the colonies.
1732
The British, led by James Oglethorpe, founded the colony of Georgia, the 13th English colony in north America. Oglethorpe was a former British soldier, a Member of Parliament, and philanthropist, who hoped to resettle Britain's worthy poor in the New World, initially focused on those in debtors' prisons.
1735
The first Italian immigrants arrive in New York.
The Realization of Brotherhood on Urantia (Earth)
The realization of social brotherhood on Earth, depends on the achievement of the following personal transformations and planetary adjustments:
1. Social fraternity. Multiplication of international and interracial social contacts and fraternal associations.
2. Intellectual cross-fertilization. Brotherhood is impossible on a world whose inhabitants are so primitive that they fail to recognize the folly of unmitigated selfishness. Each race must become familiar with the thought of all races.
3. Ethical awakening. Only ethical consciousness can unmask the immorality of human intolerance and the sinfulness of fratricidal strife.
4. Political wisdom. Only emotional maturity will insure the substitution of international techniques of civilized adjudication for the barbarous arbitrament of war.
5. Spiritual insight. Mutual understanding and fraternal love are transcendent civilizers and mighty factors in the world-wide realization of the brotherhood of man.
Events with Great Evolutionary Potential
1741
The Russian explorer Vitus Bering discovered Alaska. Bering was a Danish cartographer and explorer in Russian service to determine whether Asia and North America were joined.
1743
Benjamin Franklin and others founded the American Philosophical Society.
1752
Benjamin Franklin invented the lightening conductor proving that lightning is electricity.
1758
The African Baptist Church, the first black church, was founded on the William Byrd plantation in Mecklenburg, Virginia,
1762
France surrendered Louisiana to Spain, so that Spain controlled all the Gulf Coast to Mexico and the region west of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean.
Note: The Treaty of Fontainebleau was a secret agreement in 1762 in which France ceded Louisiana to Spain. The treaty followed the last battle in the French and Indian War in North America, the Battle of Signal Hill in September 1762, which confirmed British control of Canada.
1763
France surrendered Canada, Dominica, Grenada, and eastern Louisiana to Britain, Spain surrendered western Louisiana to France and Florida to Britain. [Note: February 10, the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War in North America, granting Britain control of all land to the east of the Mississippi River.
Britain banned colonial settlements in North America west of the Appalachian Mountains. The goal was to put a stop to conflicts that had arisen between the Native Americans and the colonists due to the French and Indian War.
[The war provided Great Britain with enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses through taxes led to colonial resentment, and ultimately to the American Revolution.]
The first Jewish synagogue opened in Newport, Rhode Island.
American Revolution Period
1765
In March, the Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used (paper for legal documents, playing cards, calendars, and newspapers). The purpose of the Stamp act was to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. Adverse colonial reaction to the Stamp Act ranged from boycotts of British goods to riots and attacks on the tax collectors.
In October, the Stamp Act Congress, met in New York City. The Congress consisted of representatives from nine of the British colonies in North America. It was the first gathering of elected representatives from the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.
The theme was, “No taxation without representation.”
Birthing of a Nation
1768
Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish soldier and administrator, was appointed governor of Las Californias.
1769
Gaspar de Portola discovered the San Francisco Bay. He also founded the first Spanish presidio (a fortified military establishment) in San Diego.
Franciscan friar Junipero Serra built a mission at San Diego, the first of 20 along the coast of California.
1770
The population of the 13 American colonies was 2,131,000.
1773
January: The Charleston Museum, the first museum in the British colonies opened.
December: American colonists staged "the Boston Tea Party," an uprising against British taxation.
1774
Britain enacted a constitution for Canada and divided Upper (English) Canada and Lower (French) Canada.
1775
The first abolitionist society (people who wanted slavery ended) was founded in Philadelphia.
There were about 50 printers in the British colonies of America.
1776
Thomas Paine published the pamphlet "Common Sense" advocating independence from England.
Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza reached the site of future San Francisco, overland.
In July, the North American colonies of Britain ratified the Declaration of Independence.
In December, the honor society "Phi Beta Kappa" was founded by five students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1777
Vermont declared its independence from Britain and abolished slavery.
Planning the Future
As the human mind reaches out into the future, it is attempting to evaluate the future significance of possible actions. And having considered both experience and wisdom, the human will exercises judgment-decisions in the present, and a plan of action born of the past and the future becomes existent.
With more maturity of the developing mind, the past and future are brought together to illuminate the true meaning of the present. As the self continues to mature, it reaches further and further back into the past for experience, while its wisdom forecasts seek to penetrate deeper and deeper into the unknown future.
While planning the future is a laudable exercise for individuals and their cosmic team, the work of future panning on the global level is the work of the Most High.
1780
The Free African Union Society, the first cultural organization established by blacks, was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1781
In October, Revolutionary troops led by General George Washington and French troops led by Rochambeau defeated the British Army led by Charles Cornwallis at the battle of Yorktown, Britain surrendered, the independence war ended and Philadelphia (50,000 inhabitants) became the capital of the United States of America.
1781
Spanish colonizers founded El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles (modern Los Angeles).
The Confederation Period
The Confederation Period was the era of United States history in the 1780s after the American Revolution and prior to the ratification of the United States Constitution. The Articles of Confederation established a loose confederation of states with a weak federal government. An assembly of delegates acted on behalf of the states they represented. This unicameral body, officially referred to as the United States in Congress Assembled, had little authority, and could not accomplish anything independent of the states. It had no chief executive, and no court system. Congress lacked the power to levy taxes, regulate foreign or interstate commerce, or effectively negotiate with foreign powers.
1783
In July, Massachusetts abolished slavery.
In September, Britain recognized the independence of the United States of America, and handed over the eastern half of the Mississippi Valley, doubling the size of the United States of America (population 3.5 million).
[Note: The Treaty of Paris of 1783 formally ended the American Revolutionary War. American statesmen Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay negotiated the peace treaty with Great Britain.]
In September, Britain surrendered Florida to Spain.
1786
Thomas Jefferson in Virginia introduced a bill for religious liberty that embodied the separation of church and state.
The Federalist Era
This era saw the creation of a new, stronger federal government under the United States Constitution, a deepening of support for nationalism, and diminished fears of tyranny by a central government. The era began with the ratification of the United States Constitution and ended with the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party's victory in the 1800 elections.
1789
In the first presidential election George Washington was elected first president of the USA (4 million inhabitants).
The English Privy Council concluded that almost 50% of the slaves exported from Africa died before reaching the Americas.
1790
At the height of the British slave trade, one slave vessel left England for Africa every other day.
The Continuum
Looking Back to Infinitude and Forward to Infinity
The time unit of immaturity concentrates meaning-value into the present moment in such a way as to divorce the present of its true relationship to the not-present – the past-future. The time unit of maturity is proportioned to reveal the coordinate relationship of past-present-future so that the self begins to gain insight into the wholeness of events; begins to view the landscape of time from the panoramic perspective of broadened horizons; begins perhaps to suspect the non beginning, non ending eternal continuum, the fragments of which are called time.
Looking Back to the Birth of America and Forward to the Unfolding Global Revelation
Mechanical (satellites and robots) and digital inventions (artificial intelligence) and the collection and dissemination of knowledge (the internet) are modifying civilization. Certain economic adjustments (cryptocurrency and blockchain) and social changes (less profit motivation) are imperative if cultural disaster is to be avoided. A new oncoming social order will not settle down complacently for a millennium. The human race must become reconciled to a procession of changes, adjustments, and readjustments. Mankind is on the march toward a new and unrevealed planetary destiny.
Looking Back to One’s Own Birth and Forward to Salvation
To become mature is to live more intensely in the present, at the same time escaping from the limitations of the present. The plans of maturity, founded on past experience, are coming into being in the present in such a manner as to enhance the values of the future.
Just as humans are gaining more social maturity by surrendering individual experience and wisdom to mathematical algorithms, the mortals of Earth must eventually surrender their self will to total reliance upon spiritual guidance.
Looking Back to Lucifer’s Rebellion and Forward to the Lifting of the Planetary Quarantine
Concerning God’s presence in a planet, a system, a constellation, or a universe, the degree of such presence in any created unit is a measure of the degree of the evolving presence of the Supreme Being. The presence of the Supreme Spirit is determined by the en masse recognition of God and loyalty to him on the part of the vast universe organization, running down to the systems and planets themselves. Therefore it is sometimes with the hope of conserving and safeguarding these phases of God’s precious presence that, when some planets (or even systems) have plunged far into spiritual darkness, they are quarantined, or partially isolated from intercourse with the larger units of creation. This is a spiritually defensive reaction of the majority of the worlds to save themselves from suffering the isolating consequences of the alienating acts of a headstrong, wicked, and rebellious minority.
Planetary intercommunication is denied only those worlds under spiritual quarantine.
1790
Philadelphia was the largest city in the USA with 42,000 people.
1791
The USA adopted the Bill of Rights, which contained ten amendments to the constitution, including one that guaranteed freedom of the press and one that guaranteed the right to bear arms.
1792
The Post Office Act established low rates for the delivery of newspapers.
President Washington enacted a policy of "educating" the "Indians."
[Note: After crossing over the land bridge between Asia and America (not yet submerged), the northern red man never again came into contact with other world influences (except the Eskimo) until he was later discovered by the white man. It was most unfortunate that the red man almost completely missed his opportunity of being up stepped by the admixture of the later Adamic stock. As it was, the red man could not rule the white man, and he would not willingly serve him. In such a circumstance, if the two races do not blend, one or the other is doomed.]
The US dollar was introduced. [Note: The history of the United States dollar includes more than 240 years since the Continental Congress of the United States authorized the issuance of Continental Currency in 1775 to pay the expenses of the Revolutionary War.
On April 2, 1792, the United States Congress created the United States dollar as the country's standard unit of money.]
1793
British equestrian John Ricketts founded the first circus in the USA.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, which enabled the large-scale production of cotton.
1794
The army decisively defeated the Western Confederacy of Native Americans at the battle of Fallen Timbers. [Note: The defeat at Fallen Timbers led to leaders of many tribes negotiating and signing the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, through which they relinquished much of their Northwest territory land to the federal government and relocated to northwestern Ohio.]
1795
The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, the first long-distance paved road built in the United States opened,
1796
Philadelphia pioneered the use of gas to light streets.
1799
The Russian-American company was chartered by Russia. [Note: The Russian American Company was a trading company, chartered by Czar Paul I. The company was officially dissolved in 1867 when Alaska was sold to the United States.]
1800
New York's population was 60,000.
Spain surrendered Louisiana to France.
Superior Minded Leaders Lived During America’s Formative Years
Because of Earth’s planetary misfortunes, Urantians are prevented from understanding very much about the culture of normal worlds. However, even the most ideal evolutionary worlds, are not spheres where life is easy. The initial life of the mortal races is always attended by struggle. Effort and decision are an essential part of the acquirement of survival values.
Culture presupposes quality of mind; culture cannot be enhanced unless mind is elevated. Superior intellect will seek a noble culture and find some way to attain such a goal. Inferior minds will spurn the highest culture even when it is given to them.
The Jeffersonian Era
The Jeffersonian's were deeply committed to American republicanism, which meant opposition to what they considered to be artificial aristocracy, opposition to corruption, and insistence on virtue, with a priority for the "yeoman farmer", "planters", and the "plain folk."
1801
In February, Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party won the presidential election over John Adams' Federalists. Jefferson contended that government did not have the right to adopt additional powers to fulfill its duties under the Constitution. Jefferson later changed his position with his purchase of the Louisiana Territory.
In May, Thomas Jefferson ordered the bombing of the Barbary states of Algiers, Morocco, Tunis and Tripoli after Yusuf Karamanli, the ruler of Tripoli, demanded ransom from the USA for captured U.S. ships and citizens.
In August, Robert Fulton built the "Nautilus" submarine and invented the torpedo.
The USA's population was five million.
1802
The United States Military Academy was established at West Point.
Robert Fulton imported the steamboat to the USA from France.
1803
President Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana (which extended from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, from Montana to New Orleans) from Napoleon, essentially doubling the size of the USA.
1806
In September, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark reached the Pacific Ocean after setting out two years earlier from St Louis in search of the "northwest passage."
Major Transitions
The Evolutionary Panorama
The story of man’s ascent from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is the story of heroic adventures of biologic struggle and mind survival.
In Earth’s history, there have been many apocalypses.
[Note: “Apocalypse” is from a Greek word meaning revelation. It is an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known without the actual unveiling.]
There were many transitional stages between the early primitive vegetable forms of life and the later well-defined animal organisms.
These transitions included mass migrations forced by geological and climate changes, the social transit from the hunter and herder stage of civilization to that of the agriculturist and horticulturist, and many more.
1807
In March, both Britain and the U.S. Congress outlawed slavery.
In August, Robert Fulton introduced a steam-powered boat in a trial run from New York City to Albany and back on the Hudson River.
1808
Russia established the colony of Noviiy Rossiya in California for farming, manufacturing, and fur-trading (sea otter).
1810
Virginia became the most populous state in the USA.
The missionary organization American Board of Commissioners for (Christian) Foreign Missions was founded in Boston.
1812
In June, the USA declared war on Britain after Britain imposed trade restrictions and supported Native-American tribes.
The City Bank of New York, NY (the present Citibank) was founded.
1813
Elizabeth Seton founded the Sisters of Charity of St Joseph's, a Catholic order in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
1814
British troops stormed Washington and burned the Capitol and the White House.
General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horse Shoe Bend and forced them to surrender most of their traditional land (half of Alabama and one-fifth of Georgia) to the USA.
Francis Cabot Lowell brought the Industrial Revolution to the United States by building an integrated cotton factory (spinning and weaving) in Massachusetts.
1815
Andrew Jackson, helped by the French pirate Jean Lafitte, defeated the British army at the battle of New Orleans.
David Low Dodge organized the first peace society in history in New York.
1816
Baltimore introduced gas lighted streets, provided by Rembrandt Peale's Gas Light Company of Baltimore.
The Era of Good Feelings
The Era of Good Feelings marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812.
1817
First scheduled passenger ship from New York to Liverpool, England.
The New York Stock Exchange opened in Wall Street.
National Pride
Unfortunately, national egotism has been essential to social survival. The “chosen people” doctrine has been a primary factor in tribal merging and nation building down to modern times.
However, no state can attain ideal levels of functioning until every form of intolerance is mastered. Intolerance is everlastingly inimical to human progress. Intolerance is best combated by the coordination of science, commerce, play, and religion.
1818
The USA and British signed a treaty to jointly control the Oregon Territory (present day Oregon, Washington, Idaho and southwestern Canada).
1819
An economic depression hit the farmers of the south and the west.
The USA acquired Florida from Spain.
The "Savannah" completed the first transatlantic crossing by steamboat (18 days).
1820
The population of New York City was 123,700.
72% of workers were employed in agriculture.
The "Missouri compromise" allowed the creation of the slave state of Missouri in exchange for the creation of the non slave state of Maine and set a line dividing slave states and non-slave states (the Mason-Dixon Line).
1821
The U.S. citizen Moses Austin obtained Spain's permission to establish a colony of Anglosaxons in Texas.
Stephen Austin led 300 families to Texas.
“New Spain” declared independence from Spain and changed its name to Mexican Empire (Mexico, California, Texas, and Central America).
1823
President James Monroe proclaimed the doctrine that the USA would police the entire American continent against European interference.
Jedediah Smith discovered the South Pass of Wyoming's Rocky Mountains into the future Utah.
1824
Only 5% of adult US citizens voted in presidential elections.
For the first time, the candidate who won the most votes (Andrew Jackson) did not become president because of Electoral College voting.
The Jacksonian Era
Broadly speaking, this era was characterized by a democratic spirit and built upon Jackson's equal political policy (subsequent to ending what he termed a "monopoly" of government by elites). Even before the Jacksonian era began, suffrage had been extended to a majority of white male adult citizens, a result the Jacksonian's celebrated. Jacksonian democracy also promoted the strength of the presidency and executive branch at the expense of Congress, while seeking to broaden the public's participation in government.
1825
The Erie Canal, which connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes was opened.
1826
James Smithson bequeathed his fortune to found the Smithsonian Institution "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."
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Specialization and Coordination
The present age of social development will be embodied in a better and more effective cooperation and coordination of ever-increasing and expanding specialization.
Civilization is dependent on the effective coordination of specialists.
Economic complexity and the steady increase of industrial and professional specialism will add to the problems of labor placement.
The need for social, artistic, technical, and industrial specialists will continue to multiply while demanding ever increasing levels of skill and dexterity from the specialists.
As labor diversifies further, methods of directing individuals to suitable education and employment must be devised. Machinery is not the only cause for unemployment among the civilized peoples of Urantia.
But, the intelligence that is capable of such inventiveness and specialization should be sufficiently competent to devise adequate methods of control and adjustment to the problems resulting from the rapid growth of invention and the accelerated pace of cultural expansion.
Events in USA History Appear Planned
1827
John Walker, English chemist and pharmacist, invented friction matches.
Abraham Brower inaugurated the first horse-driven omnibus service in the USA (along Broadway in New York).
1828
Thomas Jefferson’s original Democratic-Republican Party split into two parties.
The USA had 74 post offices per 100,000 people compared with 17 in Britain and 4 in France.
1829
William Austin Burt invented the typewriter.
1830
Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church.
The US Congress approved a law to resettle Indians further west.
The first National Negro Convention met in Philadelphia.
USA was the sixth ranked industrial power in the world.
An overland trail was opened to Los Angeles that brought Anglosaxon colonists to Mexican California.
1831
The black slave Nat Turner led a slave revolt that killed 60 white people in Virginia.
Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical harvesting machine.
1832
Indians are massacred in Illinois for not abandoning their homeland.
President Andrew Jackson ignored a Supreme Court decision denying Georgia’s seizure of Cherokee land.
Sam Houston arrived in Mexican Texas and began planning the independence of Texas.
John Stephenson built the first horse-drawn streetcar that ran on rails in the USA (along Bowery Street in New York).
1833
Chicago had a population of 350 just before the realization that it had a commanding position in the emerging inland transportation network based on lake traffic and railroads.
1835
Samuel Colt invented the revolving cylinder six shot handgun.
1836
Mexico's dictator Santa Anna crushed a Texan uprising at the battle of the Alamo (San Antonio), but General Sam Houston later defeated the Spanish and Texas declared its independence with Houston as president.
Maria Monk's book, "Awful Disclosures" was published. The author claimed to expose the systematic sexual abuse of nuns and the infanticide of the bastard children fathered by Catholic priests and seminarians near her convent in Montreal. The book was a best-seller at the peak of an anti-Catholic movement. Catholics claimed the book was a hoax written by Protestant Ministers.
1837
The Panic of 1837. The sale of western land by the federal government promoted speculation, and poorly regulated lending practices by banks created a vast real estate bubble. A severe economic depression followed the wave of speculation.
John Deere invented the steel plow.
Samuel Morse invented a code for the telegraph.
1838
The Cherokee Indians were massacred while being resettled in Oklahoma.
1839
Yellow fever killed 12% of Houston's population.
Charles Goodyear developed a process to vulcanize rubber (to make it more elastic).
An expedition led by John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood rediscovered the Mayan ruins.
1840
Robert Hoe built the first type-revolving printing press.
California's population was 15,000.
Chicago’s population was 5000.
Machiventa Melchizedek
The ability of the Melchizedek Sons to function in emergencies and on widely divergent levels of the universe, even on the physical level of personality manifestation, is unique in the Melchizedek order.
Machiventa Melchizedek volunteered to prepare the backward people of Earth for the arrival of Michael/Jesus’ bestowal. Machiventa served in a human form on Earth as the “Sage of Salem” (Salem became Jerusalem). He was a personal adviser to Abraham, and he trained thousands of missionaries who spread his gospel.
Following his successful bestowal, Michael/Jesus elevated Machiventa to the position of his personal ambassador on Earth, bearing the title Vicegerent Planetary Prince of Urantia. It is anticipated that, as long as Urantia remains an inhabited planet, Machiventa Melchizedek is destined to take the place of the fallen Planetary Prince, Caligastia. It is altogether probable that Machiventa Melchizedek may again appear in person on Urantia (Earth). There is also an expectation that an unprecedented event will take place – the sometime return to the planet of Adam and Eve or certain of their progeny as representatives of Michael with the title, vicegerents of the second Adam of Urantia.
Continuing Evolution of the United States of America
No Favoritism
The rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the special benefit of any specially favored group of mortals. There is no such thing as a “chosen people.” The rule of the Most Highs, the over controllers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time.
Sovereignty is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind. But this same growth of political organizations creates a problem at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of political power – the family – and the final consummation of political growth – the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind.
1841
William Wolfskill shipped the first oranges from his grove in Los Angeles by rail.
1842
New York opened the Croton Aqueduct a large complex water distribution system constructed for New York City.
The New York Philharmonic orchestra was founded.
1843
A mass migration towards Oregon and California began. The discovery of Gold in California, the discovery of South Pass through the Rocky Mountains, and favorable reports concerning the climate and soils of the west prompted thousands of people to leave their homes in the east and head for California and Oregon.
The USA had 1634 newspapers.
1844
The US had over 3100 miles of railway.
Samuel Morse sent the first public telegraph.
The Treaty of Wangxia between China and the USA opened five Chinese ports to the US.
The "Great Disappointment" occurred as William Miller's prophecy of the Second Advent of Christ did not occur.
James Polk was elected president on a platform to annex Texas.
1845
The first Jew (Lewis Charles Levin) was elected to the US Congress.
Slave owners founded the protestant denomination called "Southern Baptists."
Alexander Cartwright invented baseball.
Texas was annexed by the US.
1846
The US provoked a war with Mexico by annexing Texas.
The Oregon Territory was split between the US and British Canada.
A wagon train of 81 pioneers heading to California (the "Donner Party") was decimated by bad weather. Survivors admitted to cannibalism.
The Marble Palace, the first department store, opened in New York.
Samuel Morse installed the first commercial telegraph line in the US (between Philadelphia and New York City).
Five daily newspapers in New York City organized the Associated Press to share the costs of collecting and publishing news.
1847
Yerba Buena (459 inhabitants) changed its name to San Francisco.
US troops entered Mexico City ending the Mexican-American War.
1848
At the end of the Mexican-American war, the USA acquired present day New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California (nearly half of Mexico).
In July, the first woman's right convention was held near New York City.
The first Chinese immigrants arrived in the USA.
James Marshall, a worker at Johann Sutter's sawmill, discovered gold in California, and a "gold rush" began.
The “Timely” Discovery of Gold in California
Because of its rarity, gold has become man’s truest measure of worth. But, because of gold’s weight, paper receipts for stored gold were issued by brokers who held the gold. The gold backed paper receipts guaranteed the value of any transaction for other goods or property. Banks and governments eventually replaced the gold brokers and paper currency backed by gold evolved.
The gold standard was a commitment by participating countries to back the prices of their currencies with specified amounts of gold. National money could be freely converted into gold at a fixed price. In 1834, the United States fixed the price of gold at $20.67 per ounce. The gold standard enabled a period of unprecedented economic growth with relatively free trade in goods, labor, and capital.
The news of the gold strike in California brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and the sudden population increase allowed California to advance rapidly to statehood,
Continuing the Supernaturally Planned Expansion of the USA
1849
Cornelius Vanderbilt established a steam ship service from New York and New Orleans to California via Chagres, Panama to shorten travel time to California.
64% of Southern cotton was exported, primarily through Northern trading companies and Northern ports, and mainly to Britain.
The Civil War Era
The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long standing controversy over the enslavement of black people.
1850
Henry and Mayer Lehman founded the brokerage house Lehman Brothers (for buyers and sellers of cotton).
California's population was 165,000, Los Angeles' population was 8,329.
California became the 31st state.
1851
Isaac Singer began selling the sewing machine.
The New York Times was founded.
The population of the USA was 20,067,720 free persons and 2,077,034 slaves. [Note: Evolution justifies slavery. Advanced races have always used slaves from less advanced peoples to their mutual advantage. Using slaves from Africa to grow cheap cotton in the southern states to feed the Industrial Revolution's textile mills in England greatly quickened the evolutionary development of the black race.]
1852
Harriet Stowe published the anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
The first public bathhouse opened in New York.
Elisha Graves Otis built the first elevator in New York.
1853
A railway between New York and Chicago was inaugurated by the
New York Central Railroad Company, which was a consolidation of 10 small railroads.
Levi Strauss invented denim cotton "blue jeans.”
Rapid Growth Pains
1854
Congress created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, which were open to slavery. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 had prevented this from happening. [Note: In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.]
The USA forced Japan to sign a trade agreement (the "treaty of Kanagawa"), which forced Japan to open its ports to foreigners after two centuries of isolation. [Note: On July 8, 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry, commanding a squadron of warships (two steam ships and two sailing vessels, had sailed into Tokyo harbor demanding that Japan enter into trade with the United States. This was the era when all Western powers were seeking to open new markets for their manufactured goods abroad, as well as buy raw materials. Perry could impose his demands by force because the Japanese (a feudal society) had no navy to defend themselves.
Abraham Gesner invented kerosene for lighting, based on coal. [Note: Cannel coal is a specific type of soft coal that contains bitumen, a form of petroleum. It is from this substance that coal oil is refined. Kerosene oil is refined directly from liquid petroleum (crude oil).]
1856
The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company renamed itself Western Union. It was the largest telegraph company in the country.
1857
George Pullman invented the railroad sleeping car.
The magazine The Atlantic was founded in Boston.
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed Central Park for New York City.
1858
A telegraph wire was laid at the bottom of the ocean between Ireland and Canada.
Gold was discovered in Colorado.
The USA stock market crashed, which spawned an international market crash.
William Parker Foulke discovered the world's first full dinosaur skeleton (in Haddonfield, New Jersey).
In the election for senator in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln challenged the incumbent Stephen Douglas to a series of face-to-face debates, which were widely publicized throughout the nation. (Lincoln lost).
1859
Edwin Drake struck oil in Pennsylvania and launched the world’s first oil boom.
John Brown led an uprising against slavery. He was captured and hung.
The French Opera House, the first opera house in the USA, opened in New Orleans.
The USA produced 2/3rds of the world’s cotton.
The Great Atlantic Tea Company, the first chain-store system, was founded.
Transitions
On a normal world the post-Adamic dispensation (one of the progressive ages of divine revelation) is an age of great invention, energy control, and mechanical development. This is the era of many manufactured forms and the control of natural forces. It is the golden age of exploration and the final subduing of the planet. Much of the material progress of a world occurs during this time of the development of the physical sciences, an epoch such as Urantia is now beginning. Urantia (Earth) is more than a full dispensation behind the average planetary schedule.
By the end of the Adamic dispensation on a normal planet, the races are blended, so it can be proclaimed that “God has made of one blood all the nations,” and that his Son “has made of one color all peoples.” The color of such an amalgamated race is somewhat of an olive shade of the violet (Adamic) hue, the racial “white” of the spheres.
Evolution on Earth or Elsewhere Is Purposeful and Never Accidental
1860
The population of the USA (31 million) exceeded the population of Britain (29 million).
Cotton represented three fifths of all United States exports highlighting its significance to the prosperity of the country.
President Buchanan vetoed the Homestead Bill, because it was unpopular with Southern plantation owners. [Note: The Homestead Act would have made land available for 25 cents per acre, an inducement to runaway slaves.]
The population of New York City was 814,000.
Catholics were the single largest organized religious group in the USA.
Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president although he gathered only 40% of the popular vote, but the choice of the Most High.
Josiah Dwight Whitney founded the California Geological Survey to assess the resources of the state.
Eleven southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America on the grounds that Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery.
Chicago had 100 thousand people.
California's population was 380,000 of which 34,000 were the newly arrived Chinese, along with 34,000 Irish, and 20,000 Germans (potato famine refugees).
1861
The southern states of South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the USA. They were later joined by Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, forming the Confederate States of America.
Civil war erupted between the northern ("unionist") states and the southern ("confederate") states. (The population of the Northern states was 26.2 million with 8.1 million people in the Southern states.)
The Bethlehem Iron Company built its first blast furnace prefacing the move from wooden built wind powered navies to coal and oil powered iron ships.
The territories of Nevada and Colorado were organized.
Western Union completed the first transcontinental telegraph line across North America.
Yale University awarded the first PhD.
An oil tanker sailed from Philadelphia. [Note: The movement of oil in bulk was attempted in many places and in many ways. Oil pipelines have existed since 1860. The first practical oil tankers were two sail-driven tankers that were built in 1863 in England.
1862
John Rockefeller founded a company to refine oil (later renamed Standard Oil).
1862
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded in Boston.
Thirty-eight Dakota Indians were executed in Mankato (Minnesota), accused of killing 490 settlers.
1863
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and the Homestead Act (granting 160 acres of free land to anyone including freed slaves willing to develop the land for five years). [Note: Lincoln’s mistake was freeing all of the black slaves at once rather than over several years, which would have allowed time for their absorption by the economy and society.]
The territories of Arizona and Idaho were organized.
Ellen White founded the Seventh-day Adventists.
Riots between Irish immigrants and blacks left more than 100 persons dead.
James Plimpton invented roller skates.
Henry Dunant founded the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded (later renamed the "Red Cross").
The Union won the battle of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania).
About 50 blacks were lynched in New York.
1864
Nevada entered the Union.
All the major powers agreed at the Geneva convention on rules for the treatment of prisoners of war.
John Chivington's Colorado volunteers massacred hundreds of Cheyennes at Sand Creek (mostly women and children).
The Reconstruction Era (1865-1877)
Three visions of Civil War memory appeared during the Reconstruction Era: 1. the reconciliationist vision, which was rooted in coping with the death and devastation the war brought; 2. the white supremacist vision, which included segregation and the preservation of the traditional cultural standards of the South; and 3. the emancipationist vision, which sought full freedom, citizenship, and Constitutional equality for African Americans. Meanwhile, the Indian Wars were concluding, and new Homesteaders were pouring into the western states.
1865
Cheyennes and Sioux massacred whites in Julesburg, Eastern Colorado.
The Union, led by General Ulysses Grant, defeated the Confederates, slavery was abolished (13th amendment of the constitution) and blacks were given the right to vote.
370,000 Union citizens. and 258,000 Confederate citizens and soldiers died in the Civil War.
15,000,000 Africans were imported to the Americas since the slave trade began; 30-40 million died before reaching the Americas. Only the strongest survived the voyage. Systematic breeding – the interference in normal sexual patterns by masters with an aim to increase fertility or encourage desirable characteristics also probably uplifted the native intellect of slaves.
The first blackface minstrels were performed in Georgia. The shows consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performances that created racial stereotypes of people of African descent.
The population of native American Indians was 294,000.
The "Salvation Army" was founded. The organization sought to bring salvation to the poor, destitute, and hungry by meeting both their "physical and spiritual needs.”
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered ending the American Civil War.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded in Boston.
1866
"The Black Crook," combining drama, music and ballet, the first musical,
opened in New York City.
William Fetterman's troops were annihilated by Sioux and Cheyennes at Lodge Trail Ridge in Wyoming. The troops had been sent to protect a wagon train.
The "Ku Klux Klan" was founded in Tennessee by former Confederate army officers to persecute African-Americans.
Life Between the Hammer and the Anvil
Like all civilizations, Earth and the USA were forged between the anvil of necessity and the hammer of anguish.
While the Creators are possessed of full power to make Earth a veritable paradise, such an idyllic place would not contribute to the development of the strong, noble, and experienced characters that the Gods require for the Paradise adventure.
1867
The USA purchased Alaska from Russia.
The price of oil dropped to $2.40/barrel from $13.75 a barrel reflecting more supply and cheaper distribution.
George Peabody established the Peabody Fund, the first foundation. [Note: The Peabody Fund provided monies for construction, endowments, scholarships, teacher and industrial education for newly freed slaves.]
Britain created the Dominion of Canada, a self-governing federation of provinces that recognized the British monarchy.
At Bright Hope in Virginia, the first major coal-mine disaster killed 69 miners.
George Pullman added a dining car to his railroad sleeping car service.
In Germany, Karl Marx published the first volume of Das Kapitol (The Capital). Capital refers to financial wealth and capitalism. In classical economics, capital is one of the four factors of production in capitalism. The others are land, labor and organization. [Note: Karl Marx saw capitalism as a progressive historical period that would eventually stagnate due to internal contradictions (inconsistencies) and be followed by socialism. Marx saw capital as a social economic relationship between people rather than between people and things.
Marx's most popular theory was “materialism.” He believed that religion, morality, social structures and other things are all rooted in materialistic economics.]
(An example of capitalism’s internal contradictions is reducing wages for employees (synonymous with consumers) with the expectation of increasing profits for employers.
1868
The 14th amendment of the constitution, which granted blacks the same rights as whites was ratified.
The first campus of the University of California opened in Berkeley.
The USA and the Lakotas/Sioux signed a peace treaty at Fort Laramie that assigned Dakota lands to the Indians.
Christopher Latham Sholes invented a better typewriter.
1869
The Union and Central Pacific railroads met in Ogden, Utah, and created the first transcontinental railroad. [Note: The Western Pacific ran between Oakland and Sacramento; the Central Pacific operated between Sacramento and Utah; and the Union Pacific ran between Utah and the Missouri River].
Charles Eliot became president of Harvard University and turned it into a German-style university with emphasis on research and a graduate degrees.
William Cameron Coup founded the first giant circus.
The first "football" games (a variant of rugby) were played between colleges.
Goldman Sachs was founded by German immigrant Marcus Goldman.
Master Planning and Scheduling
Each of the events noted in this historical record had to be planned, shaped, and executed at both the supernatural and the material levels. The Most High’s master operations plan, the scheduling of related events, and the logistics of arranging the necessary inputs and outputs for each event separately and integrated into the total plan for the salvation of men’s souls while working within the free will restrictions of mortal choices and the evolution to world brotherhood is very complex.
1870– 1940— The Great Inventions Create a Revolution in the Factories and Homes
1870
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prevented states from denying the right to vote on grounds of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". (This constitutional protection was circumvented by “Jim Crow” laws in the southern states.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York City.
The population of the USA was 38.5 million. The population west of the Mississippi was 6,877,000. Los Angeles had 5,728 people.
Victoria Woodhull advocated free love in her "Weekly" magazine. [Note:
For Woodhull, “free love” was more about women’s “rights to marry, divorce, and bear children without government interference,” rather than the lter ideas espoused by the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Woodhull was also the first woman to run for president.]
The USA was divided into four "time zones" by the railroads to coordinate schedules.
Freedom of Choice
God had given men and angels the divine privilege of participating in the creation of their own destinies and of the destiny of this local system of inhabited worlds. No being in all the universe has the right or liberty to deprive any other being of true liberty, the right to love and be loved, the privilege of worshiping God and of serving his fellows.
There is no favoritism, nothing arbitrary, in the selective operation of the divine plan of mortal survival.
1871
The National Rifle Association (NRA) was founded.
Korea fired on ships sent by the USA to open up its ports.
The Great Chicago Fire destroyed 17,000 buildings and killed 300 people.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, known as A&P, expanded from New York to Chicago.
Western Union introduced money transfers.
A white crowd killed 19 Chinese in Los Angeles.
1872
Aaron Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog.
Yellowstone National Park, the world's first national park, was established.
Anthony Comstock founded the Society for the Suppression of Vice.
1873
The San Francisco cable car was inaugurated.
Eliza Thompson from Ohio led a nationwide crusade against alcohol.
Christopher Latham Sholes invented the QWERTY keyboard, which the Remington Company mass produced on its typewriters.
The Panic of 1873, a financial crisis, triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America. The cause was the failure of Jay Cooke and Company, the country's preeminent investment banking concern. Credit dried up, foreclosures were common and banks failed.
The USA adopted the gold standard.
USA magnate Andrew Carnegie donated thousands of organs to churches.
1874
First steel bridge built. Buchanan Eads, a self-educated engineer, designed the first steel bridge to cross the Mississippi River. It was the first major structure to be built entirely with a steel frame, the first major bridge to cross the Mississippi River, and the first railroad bridge over the river.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was founded.
Gold rush in the Black Hills of Dakota on land reserved for the Lakotas/Sioux tribes.
1875
Ottmar Mergenthaler built the first linotype (in Baltimore).
Helena Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society. [Note: The term theosophy, derived from the Greek theos (“god”) and sophia (“wisdom”), was understood to mean “divine wisdom.” Blavatsky studied under a
Master in Tibet. Regarding her primary principle of Karma, The Urantia Book states: The karma principle of causality continuity (cause and effect) is very close to the truth of the repercussional synthesis of all time-space actions that occur in the presence of the Supreme Deity; but the karma postulate never provided for the coordinated personal attainment of Deity by the individual religionist, only for the ultimate engulfment of all personality by the Universal Oversoul.”]
Indian Denouement and Technology Transformations
1876
Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes who defeated the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
Sioux chief Sitting Bull led the Sioux and Cheyennes to victory against the US cavalry at Rosebud Creek (Montana) near the Yellow Stone River.
[Note: Belatedly successful, Indian tribes had failed to unite in time to resist the occupation of their lands by Europeans.]
Pico Canyon Oilfield, near Los Angeles, was the first major oil field in the Far West.
The first train reached Los Angeles from San Francisco.
Railroad magnate Leland Stanford purchased a ranch in California and renamed it Palo Alto the subsequent location of Stanford University.
Alexander Bell demonstrated the telephone.
Thomas Edison opened a research lab in Menlo Park, New York.
The Guilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As American wages grew much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants.
Iron Ore Discoveries Powered the American Industrial Revolution
https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h861.html (edited).
Iron ore deposits were found in many areas of the United States, but mining was centered in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio during the post-Civil War period. Iron production and the emerging steel industry developed around Pittsburgh, which enjoyed the additional advantage of nearby coal fields. Phenomenal industrial growth in the 1870s and 1880s, seriously depleted many of the known iron ore deposits. Exploratory efforts were undertaken to locate new sources.
The most significant new deposits located were in northeastern Minnesota, in the Mesabi Range. Large deposits of high grade ore were discovered there in 1890; production was under way two years later and the area became the leading iron ore source in the world. This success occurred even without the proximity of coal fields; the availability of cheap railroad and barge traffic to distant production points rendered the mining effort highly profitable. Chicago, and later Cleveland, became major steel production sites.
Evolution Applies on a Grand Scale to All of Life
1877
Thomas Edison invented a phonograph that used cylinders.
Alexander Bell installed the world's first commercial telephone service.
Hayes was elected president after a disputed election and the "Reconstruction" was de facto over. [Note: Reconstruction, in U.S. history, was the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy as well as to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.]
The Washington Post was founded.
Nation-wide labor strikes spread among railroad workers.
Edison developed a better telephone than Bell's for Western Union.
1878
New Haven published the first telephone directory (with 50 names).
Theodore Vail was hired as general manager of the American Bell Telephone Company. He filed a lawsuit against Western Union over the patent of the telephone, and obtained Western Union's technology (developed by Edison).
1879
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
Charles Taze Russell founded the Jehovah's Witness movement and calculated that the Second Coming of Christ would happen in 1914.
Frank Woolworth opened Woolworth's “Great Five Cent Store" in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Evolving Corporate and Government Ethics
Business ethics reflect the expected social behavior of companies and government of each historical period. As time passes, the social norms evolve, causing accepted behaviors to become objectionable. Business ethics and the resulting behavior evolve as well. In the early periods of North American settlement, businesses were involved in slavery, colonialism, imperialism, and war.
Slavery is any system in which the principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a legal form of property.
Colonialism is a relationship of domination of an indigenous people by foreign invaders where the invaders seek to rule in pursuit of their own interests.
Imperialism is a state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas or countries.
War is an act of violence intended to compel an opponent to fulfill the attacker’s will or goals.
Revolutions Within Evolution
Animal evolution ceases at the human level. Once animals have reached the mortal level, there is no regression back into animal forms. Humanity's potential is infinite and every being has a contribution to make toward a grander creation. Potentially, humans are one. Social revolutions are experiential growth to Oneness.
1880
Men outnumbered women by more than 2 to 1 in Colorado, Nevada and Arizona.
100,000 male Chinese and only 3,000 female Chinese lived in the western USA.
The population of the USA was 50 million.
California's population was 865,000.
The Salvation Army opened a chapter in the USA.
The median age in the USA was 21.
The Pullman Palace Car Company built its own town, “Pullman,” for its employees near Chicago.
1881
Sitting Bull surrendered. Following the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had fled from the Dakota reservation to Canada, but in 1881, with his people starving, he returned to the United States and surrendered.
President James Garfield died after being shot by a disgruntled office seeker.
Anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia caused 2.5 million European Jews to migrate to the United States. [Note: This migration enhanced the level of Adamic ancestry in the USA.]
The content of this blog is excerpted from The Urantia Book unless credited to other authors. Some conclusions are interpretive. [Note: Urantia is the cosmic name for Earth.]
To read The Urantia Book, go to: http://www.urantia.org/urantia-book/read-urantia-book-online.
The historical events and dates for the United States were garnered from “A timeline of the USA and Canada,” on the website: https://www.scaruffi.com/politics/american.html.
Introduction
The Most Highs of Norlatiadek
The rulers of the 100 constellations in our local universe of Nebadon are of the Vorondadek order of local universe sonship. When commissioned to active duty in the universe as constellation rulers, these Sons are known as the Most Highs since they embody the highest administrative wisdom, coupled with the most farseeing and intelligent loyalty, of all the orders of the Local Universe Sons of God.
The personal integrity and the loyalty of the Vorondadek Sons has never been questioned; no disloyalty of the Vorondadek Sons has ever occurred in Nebadon.
At least three Vorondadek Sons are commissioned by Gabriel (the chief executive officer of Michael, the Creator Son of our local universe) as the Most Highs of each of the Nebadon constellations. The presiding member of this trio is known as the Constellation Father and his two associates as the senior Most High and the junior Most High.
A Constellation Father reigns for ten thousand standard years (about 50,000 Earth years), while having previously served as junior associate and as senior associate for equal periods.
The present Constellation Father ruler of Norlatiadek is number 617,318 of the Vorondadek series of Nebadon. He saw service in many constellations throughout our local universe before taking up his Norlatiadek responsibilities.
Down through the ages there has been great confusion on Urantia (Earth) regarding the various universe rulers.
In the Urantia records it is very difficult at times to know exactly who is referred to by the term “Most High.” But Daniel fully understood these matters. He said, “The Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it [leadership] to whomsoever he will.”
The Constellation Fathers are only minimally occupied with the individuals of an inhabited planet, but they are closely associated with those legislative and lawmaking functions of the constellations that concern every mortal race and national group (nation) of the inhabited worlds. Guidance of individuals is conducted by individual mind indwelling Thought Adjusters, angels, and Midwayers (creatures created midway between angels and mortals) Mind Spirits, and the Spirit of Truth.
Although the constellation regime stands between mortals and the universe administration, individuals would ordinarily be little concerned with the constellation government. Greater interest would normally center in the local solar system of Satania. However, for a time, Urantia is closely related to the constellation rulers because of certain system and planetary conditions growing out of the Lucifer rebellion in 200,000 B.C.. (Lucifer was the sovereign of the Satania System prior to his betrayal.)
The Norlatiadek Most Highs seized certain phases of planetary authority on the rebellious worlds at the time of the Lucifer secession. They have continued to exercise this power, and the Ancients of Days, representing the Paradise Trinity, have confirmed this assumption of control over the wayward worlds. It is presumed that no change in these rulers will be made until Lucifer and his associates are finally disposed of.
There is also another way in which Urantia (Earth) became peculiarly related to the Most High
. When Michael/Jesus, the Creator Son, was on his final bestowal mission on Earth, since the successor of Lucifer was not in full authority in the local system, all Urantia affairs that concerned Michael’s bestowal were supervised by the Most Highs of Norlatiadek.
Purpose of this Blog Page
The goal of this segment of Working for God is to sketch instances of how the plans of the Most High have been implemented in the world and especially in the United States of America.
The function of the cosmic personalities and spirits guiding individuals is to induce the salvation of their souls. The goal of the Most High is the continued evolution of brotherhood among mortals.
The Most High’s Plan and Organization
Manifesting the Brotherhood Plan
The plan of the Most High is to push the evolution of brotherhood on the Norlatiadek planets. This plan becomes evident when history is viewed as events denoting the progressive nudging in all aspects of mortal endeavor on Earth.
The Most High has been especially active in arranging and expediting the immigration and assimilation of all the races in North and South America, and especially in the United States.
Planetary events are not chaotic and unplanned. There is collusion between the Most High and the directors of individuals who ensure the right people are in the right places at the right times.
The Master Seraphim
The Most High rules in the kingdoms of men through many celestial forces and agencies but chiefly through the ministry of seraphim.
Twelve corps of master seraphim of planetary supervision are functional on Urantia. The twelve corps of master seraphim arrived of Urantia concurrent with the outpouring of the Spirit of Truth on Pentecost 30 A.D. (the date in the Gregorian calendar used in the Urantian papers),
[Each administrative day on Urantia begins with a consultative conference, which is attended by the governor general (the former John, the Baptist), the planetary chief of archangels, the Most High observer, the supervising super- naphim, the chief of resident Life Carriers, and invited guests who discuss and coordinate planetary progress.]
The twelve corps of master seraphim of planetary supervision are:
1. The Epochal Angels
These are the angels of the current age, the dispensational group. These celestial ministers are entrusted with the oversight and direction of the affairs of each generation as it is designed to fit into the mosaic of the age in which it occurs. The present corps of epochal angels serving on Urantia is the third group assigned to the planet during the current dispensation (departure from normal).
The Epochal Angels oversee cyclical events that reoccur in repeating but progressing patterns of major social change through wars, science, discoveries, and economies.
2. The Progress Angels
These seraphim are entrusted with the task of initiating the evolutionary progress of the successive social ages. They foster the development of the inherent progressive trend of evolutionary creatures; they labor incessantly to make things what they ought to be. The group now on duty is the second to be assigned to the planet.
3. The Religious Guardians
These are the “angels of the churches,” the earnest contenders for that which is and has been. They endeavor to maintain the ideals of that which has survived for the sake of the safe transit of moral values from one epoch to another. They are the checkmates of the angels of progress, all the while seeking to translate from one generation to another the imperishable values of the old and passing forms into the new and therefore less stabilized patterns of thought and conduct. These angels do contend for spiritual forms, but they are not the source of ultra sectarianism and meaningless controversial divisions of professed religionists. The corps now functioning on Urantia is the fifth thus to serve.
4. The Angels of Nation Life
These are the “angels of the trumpets,” directors of the political performances of Urantia national life. The group now functioning in the over control of international relations is the fourth corps to serve on the planet. It is particularly through the ministry of this seraphic division that “the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.”
5. The Angels of the Races
Those master seraphim who work for the conservation of the evolutionary races of time, regardless of their political entanglements and religious groupings. On Urantia there are remnants of nine human races which have commingled and combined into the people of modern times. These seraphim are closely associated with the ministry of the race commissioners, and the group now on Urantia is the original corps assigned to the planet soon after the day of Pentecost.
6. The Angels of the Future
These are the projection angels, who forecast a future age and plan for the realization of the better things of a new and advancing dispensation; they are the architects of the successive eras. The group now on the planet has thus functioned since the beginning of the current dispensation.
7. The Angels of Enlightenment
Urantia is now receiving the help of another corps of seraphim dedicated to the fostering of planetary education. These angels are occupied with mental and moral training as it concerns individuals, families, groups, schools, communities, nations, and whole races.
8. The Angels of Health
These are the seraphic ministers assigned to the assistance of those mortal agencies dedicated to the promotion of health and the prevention of disease. The present corps is the sixth group to serve during this dispensation.
9. The Home Seraphim
Urantia now enjoys the services of the fifth group of angelic ministers dedicated to the preservation and advancement of the home, the basic institution of human civilization.
10. The Angels of Industry
This seraphic group is concerned with fostering industrial development and improving economic conditions among the Urantia peoples. This corps has been seven times changed since the bestowal of Michael.
11. The Angels of Diversion
These are the seraphim who foster the values of play, humor, and rest. They ever seek to uplift man’s recreational diversions and thus to promote the more profitable utilization of human leisure. The present corps is the third of that order to minister on Urantia.
12. The Angels of Superhuman Ministry
These are the angels of the angels, those seraphim who are assigned to the ministry of all other superhuman life on the planet, temporary or permanent. This corps has served since the beginning of the current dispensation.
The Unfolding of Events That Shaped the United States
As Manipulated by the Master Seraphim
Promoting the Brotherhood of Men
October, 1492
The Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sailed west on behalf of Spain looking for a way to reach Asia, and instead landed on a new continent.
While he thought he had discovered a route to the Far East, he is credited with the opening of the Americas for conquest and settlement by Europeans.
1498
The Venetian John Cabot explored the coast of North America for the Kingdom of England.
1502
Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer was born in the Republic of Florence. Sailing for Portugal, Vespucci demonstrated that present day Brazil and the West Indies were not Asia's eastern outskirts (as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages), but a separate, unexplored land mass colloquially known as the New World. It came to be called "the Americas", a name derived from Americus (the Latin version of Vespucci's first name).
1524
Giovanni da Verrazzano an Italian, explored the Atlantic coast of North America between present day Florida and New Brunswick including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay in the service of King Francis I of France.
1542 - 1543
Spanish explorer Juan Cabrillo discovered California. Cabrillo was a maritime navigator who explored the West Coast of North America on behalf of the Spanish Empire. The European powers gained a better perspective of the size and potential of the newly revealed continents of North and South America.
1565
The Spanish founded the first permanent European settlement within what becomes the United States at St Augustine (Florida). Previously the Spanish
founded Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic in 1496 and San Juan in Puerto Rico (1521).
1573
The first Chinese goods reach the Americas via Spanish ships coming from the Philippines.
The Colonial Period
1607
In May, Jamestown became the first English colony in the Americas followed by the founding of the colony of Virginia by John Smith in August.
1608
The first French town was founded in North America, Quebec City in future Canada.
1612
A tobacco plantation opened in Virginia.
1619
The Dutch began the slave trade between Africa and North America (Virginia).
1620
English pilgrims aboard the "Mayflower" landed at Plymouth Rock on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1623
The Dutch West India Company founded the colony of New Netherland.
The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to southwestern Cape Cod, while the more limited settled areas are now part of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
1625
The Dutch West India Company founded a trading post in America, New Amsterdam (New York).
1630
Boston founded.
Boston was founded in September by English Puritans fleeing religious persecution. On 29 March 1630 a fleet of 11 ships carrying 700 people from England landed in Massachusetts. Their new settlement was named after Boston in England from which many of the settlers had come.
The Puritans hoped to create a 'city on a hill' i.e. a shining example of a Godly society for the entire world to see. The Puritans came to America fleeing religious persecution, but they in turn persecuted the Quakers who they called a 'cursed sect'. In 1631 the first sailing ship built in America was launched from Boston and soon the shipbuilding industry thrived. There was also a flourishing whaling industry and a fishing industry.
1632
Maryland created by a charter.
After European settlements had been made to the south and north, the colonial Province of Maryland was granted by King Charles I to Sir George Calvert, his former Secretary of State, for settlement beginning in March 1634. Maryland was notable for having been established with religious freedom for Roman Catholics, since Calvert had publicly converted to that faith. Like other colonies and settlements of the Chesapeake Bay region, its economy became based on tobacco as a commodity crop. Tobacco was highly prized among the English. It was cultivated primarily by African slave labor, although many young people sent from Britain as indentured servants or criminal prisoners were also used.
Planting the Seeds of Future Golden Ages – Achievement of Greater Brotherhood
1635
Roger Williams founded Rhode Island.
The political and religious leader Roger Williams is best remembered for founding the state of Rhode Island and advocating separation of church and state in Colonial America. His views on religious freedom and tolerance, coupled with his disapproval of the practice of confiscating land from Native Americans, earned him the wrath of his church and banishment from the colony. Williams and his followers settled on Narragansett Bay, where they purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and established a new colony governed by the principles of religious liberty and separation of church and state. Rhode Island became a haven for Baptists, Quakers, Jews and other religious minorities. Nearly a century after his death, Williams’ notion of a “wall of separation” between church and state inspired the founders of the United States, who incorporated it into the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Future Light and Life Ages Delayed
The epoch following the biological uplifting by an Adam and Eve on a normal planet is a bestowal of internationalism. Upon the near completion of the task of race blending, nationalism wanes, warring diminishes, and the brotherhood of man begins to materialize. Representative government begins to take the place of the monarchies and paternal forms of rulership. The educational system becomes world-wide, and gradually the languages of the races disappear. Universal peace and cooperation are seldom attained until the races are fairly well blended, and until they speak a common language.
[The intended biological uplifting of Earthlings through marriage of the children of Adam and Eve with superior mortals was minimal on Earth due
to the default of Adam and Eve.]
Social Engineering
The Master Seraphim cannot prevail over the free will choices of mortals. They can and do assist people to achieve their free will choices to meet both their spiritual and material preferences.
The Master Seraphim use the human propensities to seek profit; they provide hormonal prodding for romance and family (testosterone and estrogen factors); stimulate the cravings for adventure; encourage the ambitions of ideologies (such as religions and politics); and nourish the hunger for knowledge.
The Master Seraphim plan events that prompt spiritual virtues such as love, hope, faith, prudence, temperance, courage, justice, ethics, morality, humility, kindness, patience, liberality, and diligence.
Contrarily, the seraphim also provide opportunities to enhance inclinations towards pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed, and sloth if that is the desire of the individual or the society.
The Seraphim and their associated cherubim have much to do. The angels are ably assisted by the midwayers (beings created between man and angels) who arrange transactions between individual mortals or groups.
Cycles of Rapid Geographical and Technological Discoveries
Accelerate Social and Economic Transitions
Incentives of European Nations That Colonized the Americas
All of the European nations that established colonies in the Americas were seeking the resources of the New World.
Spain colonized America because they were searching for gold and silver to boost their treasury and their economy. The Spanish conquistadors took large stocks of gold from the Aztec and Inca empires that they conquered. Under the influence of the Popes, Spain was also interested in converting the native Americans to Catholicism.
France colonized North America seeking wealth in the fur trade.
The first permanent English settlement in America, Jamestown, was funded and founded in 1607 as an economic venture by the stockholders of the Virginia Company of London who were seeking raw materials that could not be grown or obtained in England to open new markets for trade.
Dutch colonization of the Americas began with the establishment of Dutch trading posts and plantations, which dwindled because of their greater interest in colonization opportunities in Asia.
The religious dissension between Protestantism and Catholicism was a factor in the economic, governmental and social plans of all the competing empires.
Effects of The Thirty Years’ War Fought in Europe
The Peace of Westphalia that ended The Thirty Years War laid the groundwork for the formation of the modern nation-states, establishing fixed boundaries for the countries involved in the fighting and effectively decreed that residents of a state were subject to the laws of that state and not to those of any other institution, secular or religious.
This radically altered the balance of power in Europe and resulted in reduced influence of the Catholic Church over political affairs as well as other religious groups.
[Note: The Thirty Years War was actually a series of wars fought by European nations for various reasons. The war ignited in 1618 over an attempt by the king of Bohemia (the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II) to impose Catholicism throughout his domains. Protestant nobles rebelled, and by the 1630s most of continental Europe was at war.]
The war lasted from 1618 to 1648. Eight million soldiers died in battle. Hundreds of thousands more people died as a result of famine caused by the conflict as well as an epidemic of typhus that spread rapidly in areas torn apart by the violence. The war caused an increased distrust among different ethnicities and religious faiths. The first European witch hunts began during the war, as a suspicious populace attributed the suffering throughout Europe to spiritual causes.
Nautical Master Charts
From https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi/maps.html - Edited).
Beginning in the 1440s, Portuguese ships ventured further and further into the Atlantic and down the Southern coast of Africa, first accumulating knowledge of the South Atlantic (by 1487), then the Mozambique channel (by 1497) and Brazil and Canada (the New World by 1502). After every expedition, map-makers for Portuguese kings incorporated information from the most recent voyages of exploration.
By 1492, Portuguese cartographers were creating enormous master charts containing all the latest knowledge of coastlines, and oceans.
These master charts were regarded as state secrets.
The master charts were based on separate local nautical charts.
By 1505, each of the major Atlantic ports also had a separate approach chart detailing soundings, dangers, and other information needed to guide sailors safely into port.
Periodic Cycles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cycles
Everything in Time is in motion. Time is motion.
1. Time and Calendar Cycles
2. Planetary cycles
3. Organic cycles
4. Physics cycles
5. Miscellaneous cycles
- 2.1 Astronomical cycles
2.2 Climate and weather cycles
2.3 Geological cycles
3.1 Agricultural cycles
3.2 Biological and medical cycles
3.3 Brain waves and cycles
4.1 Mathematics of waves and cycles
4.2 Electromagnetic spectrum
4.3 Sound waves
5.1 Economic and business cycles
5.2 Music and rhythm cycles
5.3 Religious, mythological, and spiritual cycles
5.4 Social and cultural cycles
5.5 Military and war
5.6 Literature
Recurring cycles of planetary events is a fundamental feature of the Most High’s plan for the evolutionary progression of man on Earth towards brotherhood.
https://sites.duke.edu/perspective/2018/08/13/the-next-technological-revolution/
In addition to the traditional periodic cycles noted above, there are periodic revolutions that occur leading to massive fundamental transformations of society. This type of revolution occurs when several periodic cycles such as the agricultural, industrial, and informational (technological) periodic cycles coincide. Such a revolution is currently beginning on Earth.
A Series of Small Steps
1636
Harvard University, the first American university, was founded near Boston.
1639
Elizabeth Glover set up the first printing press in North America in Boston.
1654
First Jewish immigrants arrived in Nieuwe Amsterdam (New York).
1663
On March 24, Charles II issued a charter to a group of eight English noblemen, granting them the land of Carolina, as a reward for their faithful support of his efforts to regain the throne of England.
1664
Britain acquired New Amsterdam and renamed it New York.
1667
Britain captured New Netherland and renamed it Delaware.
1681
Quakers, led by William Penn, founded the colony of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia. The democratic principles that Penn set forth served as inspiration for the United States Constitution.
1682
France claimed the territory of Louisiana. [Note. With the French now well-established in Canada, French Canadian Robert La Salle, seeking to understand how the colonies were connected, sailed westward through the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi. Upon reaching the Gulf of Mexico, La Salle claimed the entire watershed for France and named it for his king, Louis IV.]
Social Revolution Engineered by The Most High
The Renaissance and Reformation 1300-1600
https://westernreservepublicmedia.org/middleages/reform_art.htm
The European Renaissance began after the plague in the 14th and 15th centuries. It was fueled by soldiers returning from the Crusades with renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman art, and Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. There was also new interest in science, the environment, philosophy, architecture, painting, music, and literature.
Famous artists of the time included: Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo.
Musicians learned how pitch changes by lengthening, shortening, or thickening the string on stringed instruments. Symmetry became a part of the music they created. Musicians studied the Greek drama and tried to create music that would align with the words of their stories. This was the beginning of opera, where music and theater were combined.
In literature, the invention of the printing press and the weakening of the Catholic Church’s control over the lives of people enabled Renaissance writers to express and quickly disseminate their ideas and beliefs.
There was an explosion in writing, some of which is deemed the greatest of all time, by authors such as Martin Luther who changed Christianity by telling about the abuses of the church clergy; John Calvin who believed a person has an individual relationship to God; Nicolaus Copernicus who’s book revealed that the earth was not the center of the universe; and William Shakespeare who is still considered one of the greatest writers who ever lived.
It was no accident that the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the enlightenment of men occurred during this 300 year period. It was the work of the Most High and his Epochal Angels
Assembling the Pieces
1690
Boston printer Benjamin Harris starts the Public Occurrences in Boston, the first multi-page newspaper in the English colonies.
1691
Several New England colonies united to form the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1692-93
19 "witches" burned at the stake near Boston.
1701
Yale University founded.
1704
Elias Neau opened a school for enslaved African Americans in New York.
John Campbell, the postmaster of Boston, published the Boston News-Letter, a small single sheet, printed on both sides. The News-Letter was the first continuously published newspaper in America.
Gathering Evolutionary Momentum
1713
Britain and France signed the Treaty of Utrecht that ended the War of Spanish Succession (a dispute between England and France about rights to the Spanish throne after the death of the childless Charles II of Spain). The treaty also transferred most of Canada to Britain leaving Britain as the dominant force in North America.
1718
French colonists founded La Noelle-Orleans (New Orleans).
1721
Smallpox epidemic in Boston.
The smallpox epidemic that struck Boston was one of the most deadly of the century in colonial America. It was the catalyst for the first major application of preventative inoculation in the colonies. The use of inoculation laid the foundation for the modern techniques of infectious diseases prevention.
1729
The first orphanage was founded at the Ursuline Convent of New Orleans.
1731
Benjamin Franklin founded the first lending library in the colonies.
1732
The British, led by James Oglethorpe, founded the colony of Georgia, the 13th English colony in north America. Oglethorpe was a former British soldier, a Member of Parliament, and philanthropist, who hoped to resettle Britain's worthy poor in the New World, initially focused on those in debtors' prisons.
1735
The first Italian immigrants arrive in New York.
The Realization of Brotherhood on Urantia (Earth)
The realization of social brotherhood on Earth, depends on the achievement of the following personal transformations and planetary adjustments:
1. Social fraternity. Multiplication of international and interracial social contacts and fraternal associations.
2. Intellectual cross-fertilization. Brotherhood is impossible on a world whose inhabitants are so primitive that they fail to recognize the folly of unmitigated selfishness. Each race must become familiar with the thought of all races.
3. Ethical awakening. Only ethical consciousness can unmask the immorality of human intolerance and the sinfulness of fratricidal strife.
4. Political wisdom. Only emotional maturity will insure the substitution of international techniques of civilized adjudication for the barbarous arbitrament of war.
5. Spiritual insight. Mutual understanding and fraternal love are transcendent civilizers and mighty factors in the world-wide realization of the brotherhood of man.
Events with Great Evolutionary Potential
1741
The Russian explorer Vitus Bering discovered Alaska. Bering was a Danish cartographer and explorer in Russian service to determine whether Asia and North America were joined.
1743
Benjamin Franklin and others founded the American Philosophical Society.
1752
Benjamin Franklin invented the lightening conductor proving that lightning is electricity.
1758
The African Baptist Church, the first black church, was founded on the William Byrd plantation in Mecklenburg, Virginia,
1762
France surrendered Louisiana to Spain, so that Spain controlled all the Gulf Coast to Mexico and the region west of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean.
Note: The Treaty of Fontainebleau was a secret agreement in 1762 in which France ceded Louisiana to Spain. The treaty followed the last battle in the French and Indian War in North America, the Battle of Signal Hill in September 1762, which confirmed British control of Canada.
1763
France surrendered Canada, Dominica, Grenada, and eastern Louisiana to Britain, Spain surrendered western Louisiana to France and Florida to Britain. [Note: February 10, the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War in North America, granting Britain control of all land to the east of the Mississippi River.
Britain banned colonial settlements in North America west of the Appalachian Mountains. The goal was to put a stop to conflicts that had arisen between the Native Americans and the colonists due to the French and Indian War.
[The war provided Great Britain with enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses through taxes led to colonial resentment, and ultimately to the American Revolution.]
The first Jewish synagogue opened in Newport, Rhode Island.
American Revolution Period
1765
In March, the Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used (paper for legal documents, playing cards, calendars, and newspapers). The purpose of the Stamp act was to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. Adverse colonial reaction to the Stamp Act ranged from boycotts of British goods to riots and attacks on the tax collectors.
In October, the Stamp Act Congress, met in New York City. The Congress consisted of representatives from nine of the British colonies in North America. It was the first gathering of elected representatives from the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.
The theme was, “No taxation without representation.”
Birthing of a Nation
1768
Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish soldier and administrator, was appointed governor of Las Californias.
1769
Gaspar de Portola discovered the San Francisco Bay. He also founded the first Spanish presidio (a fortified military establishment) in San Diego.
Franciscan friar Junipero Serra built a mission at San Diego, the first of 20 along the coast of California.
1770
The population of the 13 American colonies was 2,131,000.
1773
January: The Charleston Museum, the first museum in the British colonies opened.
December: American colonists staged "the Boston Tea Party," an uprising against British taxation.
1774
Britain enacted a constitution for Canada and divided Upper (English) Canada and Lower (French) Canada.
1775
The first abolitionist society (people who wanted slavery ended) was founded in Philadelphia.
There were about 50 printers in the British colonies of America.
1776
Thomas Paine published the pamphlet "Common Sense" advocating independence from England.
Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza reached the site of future San Francisco, overland.
In July, the North American colonies of Britain ratified the Declaration of Independence.
In December, the honor society "Phi Beta Kappa" was founded by five students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1777
Vermont declared its independence from Britain and abolished slavery.
Planning the Future
As the human mind reaches out into the future, it is attempting to evaluate the future significance of possible actions. And having considered both experience and wisdom, the human will exercises judgment-decisions in the present, and a plan of action born of the past and the future becomes existent.
With more maturity of the developing mind, the past and future are brought together to illuminate the true meaning of the present. As the self continues to mature, it reaches further and further back into the past for experience, while its wisdom forecasts seek to penetrate deeper and deeper into the unknown future.
While planning the future is a laudable exercise for individuals and their cosmic team, the work of future panning on the global level is the work of the Most High.
1780
The Free African Union Society, the first cultural organization established by blacks, was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1781
In October, Revolutionary troops led by General George Washington and French troops led by Rochambeau defeated the British Army led by Charles Cornwallis at the battle of Yorktown, Britain surrendered, the independence war ended and Philadelphia (50,000 inhabitants) became the capital of the United States of America.
1781
Spanish colonizers founded El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles (modern Los Angeles).
The Confederation Period
The Confederation Period was the era of United States history in the 1780s after the American Revolution and prior to the ratification of the United States Constitution. The Articles of Confederation established a loose confederation of states with a weak federal government. An assembly of delegates acted on behalf of the states they represented. This unicameral body, officially referred to as the United States in Congress Assembled, had little authority, and could not accomplish anything independent of the states. It had no chief executive, and no court system. Congress lacked the power to levy taxes, regulate foreign or interstate commerce, or effectively negotiate with foreign powers.
1783
In July, Massachusetts abolished slavery.
In September, Britain recognized the independence of the United States of America, and handed over the eastern half of the Mississippi Valley, doubling the size of the United States of America (population 3.5 million).
[Note: The Treaty of Paris of 1783 formally ended the American Revolutionary War. American statesmen Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay negotiated the peace treaty with Great Britain.]
In September, Britain surrendered Florida to Spain.
1786
Thomas Jefferson in Virginia introduced a bill for religious liberty that embodied the separation of church and state.
The Federalist Era
This era saw the creation of a new, stronger federal government under the United States Constitution, a deepening of support for nationalism, and diminished fears of tyranny by a central government. The era began with the ratification of the United States Constitution and ended with the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party's victory in the 1800 elections.
1789
In the first presidential election George Washington was elected first president of the USA (4 million inhabitants).
The English Privy Council concluded that almost 50% of the slaves exported from Africa died before reaching the Americas.
1790
At the height of the British slave trade, one slave vessel left England for Africa every other day.
The Continuum
Looking Back to Infinitude and Forward to Infinity
The time unit of immaturity concentrates meaning-value into the present moment in such a way as to divorce the present of its true relationship to the not-present – the past-future. The time unit of maturity is proportioned to reveal the coordinate relationship of past-present-future so that the self begins to gain insight into the wholeness of events; begins to view the landscape of time from the panoramic perspective of broadened horizons; begins perhaps to suspect the non beginning, non ending eternal continuum, the fragments of which are called time.
Looking Back to the Birth of America and Forward to the Unfolding Global Revelation
Mechanical (satellites and robots) and digital inventions (artificial intelligence) and the collection and dissemination of knowledge (the internet) are modifying civilization. Certain economic adjustments (cryptocurrency and blockchain) and social changes (less profit motivation) are imperative if cultural disaster is to be avoided. A new oncoming social order will not settle down complacently for a millennium. The human race must become reconciled to a procession of changes, adjustments, and readjustments. Mankind is on the march toward a new and unrevealed planetary destiny.
Looking Back to One’s Own Birth and Forward to Salvation
To become mature is to live more intensely in the present, at the same time escaping from the limitations of the present. The plans of maturity, founded on past experience, are coming into being in the present in such a manner as to enhance the values of the future.
Just as humans are gaining more social maturity by surrendering individual experience and wisdom to mathematical algorithms, the mortals of Earth must eventually surrender their self will to total reliance upon spiritual guidance.
Looking Back to Lucifer’s Rebellion and Forward to the Lifting of the Planetary Quarantine
Concerning God’s presence in a planet, a system, a constellation, or a universe, the degree of such presence in any created unit is a measure of the degree of the evolving presence of the Supreme Being. The presence of the Supreme Spirit is determined by the en masse recognition of God and loyalty to him on the part of the vast universe organization, running down to the systems and planets themselves. Therefore it is sometimes with the hope of conserving and safeguarding these phases of God’s precious presence that, when some planets (or even systems) have plunged far into spiritual darkness, they are quarantined, or partially isolated from intercourse with the larger units of creation. This is a spiritually defensive reaction of the majority of the worlds to save themselves from suffering the isolating consequences of the alienating acts of a headstrong, wicked, and rebellious minority.
Planetary intercommunication is denied only those worlds under spiritual quarantine.
1790
Philadelphia was the largest city in the USA with 42,000 people.
1791
The USA adopted the Bill of Rights, which contained ten amendments to the constitution, including one that guaranteed freedom of the press and one that guaranteed the right to bear arms.
1792
The Post Office Act established low rates for the delivery of newspapers.
President Washington enacted a policy of "educating" the "Indians."
[Note: After crossing over the land bridge between Asia and America (not yet submerged), the northern red man never again came into contact with other world influences (except the Eskimo) until he was later discovered by the white man. It was most unfortunate that the red man almost completely missed his opportunity of being up stepped by the admixture of the later Adamic stock. As it was, the red man could not rule the white man, and he would not willingly serve him. In such a circumstance, if the two races do not blend, one or the other is doomed.]
The US dollar was introduced. [Note: The history of the United States dollar includes more than 240 years since the Continental Congress of the United States authorized the issuance of Continental Currency in 1775 to pay the expenses of the Revolutionary War.
On April 2, 1792, the United States Congress created the United States dollar as the country's standard unit of money.]
1793
British equestrian John Ricketts founded the first circus in the USA.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, which enabled the large-scale production of cotton.
1794
The army decisively defeated the Western Confederacy of Native Americans at the battle of Fallen Timbers. [Note: The defeat at Fallen Timbers led to leaders of many tribes negotiating and signing the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, through which they relinquished much of their Northwest territory land to the federal government and relocated to northwestern Ohio.]
1795
The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, the first long-distance paved road built in the United States opened,
1796
Philadelphia pioneered the use of gas to light streets.
1799
The Russian-American company was chartered by Russia. [Note: The Russian American Company was a trading company, chartered by Czar Paul I. The company was officially dissolved in 1867 when Alaska was sold to the United States.]
1800
New York's population was 60,000.
Spain surrendered Louisiana to France.
Superior Minded Leaders Lived During America’s Formative Years
Because of Earth’s planetary misfortunes, Urantians are prevented from understanding very much about the culture of normal worlds. However, even the most ideal evolutionary worlds, are not spheres where life is easy. The initial life of the mortal races is always attended by struggle. Effort and decision are an essential part of the acquirement of survival values.
Culture presupposes quality of mind; culture cannot be enhanced unless mind is elevated. Superior intellect will seek a noble culture and find some way to attain such a goal. Inferior minds will spurn the highest culture even when it is given to them.
The Jeffersonian Era
The Jeffersonian's were deeply committed to American republicanism, which meant opposition to what they considered to be artificial aristocracy, opposition to corruption, and insistence on virtue, with a priority for the "yeoman farmer", "planters", and the "plain folk."
1801
In February, Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party won the presidential election over John Adams' Federalists. Jefferson contended that government did not have the right to adopt additional powers to fulfill its duties under the Constitution. Jefferson later changed his position with his purchase of the Louisiana Territory.
In May, Thomas Jefferson ordered the bombing of the Barbary states of Algiers, Morocco, Tunis and Tripoli after Yusuf Karamanli, the ruler of Tripoli, demanded ransom from the USA for captured U.S. ships and citizens.
In August, Robert Fulton built the "Nautilus" submarine and invented the torpedo.
The USA's population was five million.
1802
The United States Military Academy was established at West Point.
Robert Fulton imported the steamboat to the USA from France.
1803
President Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana (which extended from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, from Montana to New Orleans) from Napoleon, essentially doubling the size of the USA.
1806
In September, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark reached the Pacific Ocean after setting out two years earlier from St Louis in search of the "northwest passage."
Major Transitions
The Evolutionary Panorama
The story of man’s ascent from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is the story of heroic adventures of biologic struggle and mind survival.
In Earth’s history, there have been many apocalypses.
[Note: “Apocalypse” is from a Greek word meaning revelation. It is an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known without the actual unveiling.]
There were many transitional stages between the early primitive vegetable forms of life and the later well-defined animal organisms.
These transitions included mass migrations forced by geological and climate changes, the social transit from the hunter and herder stage of civilization to that of the agriculturist and horticulturist, and many more.
1807
In March, both Britain and the U.S. Congress outlawed slavery.
In August, Robert Fulton introduced a steam-powered boat in a trial run from New York City to Albany and back on the Hudson River.
1808
Russia established the colony of Noviiy Rossiya in California for farming, manufacturing, and fur-trading (sea otter).
1810
Virginia became the most populous state in the USA.
The missionary organization American Board of Commissioners for (Christian) Foreign Missions was founded in Boston.
1812
In June, the USA declared war on Britain after Britain imposed trade restrictions and supported Native-American tribes.
The City Bank of New York, NY (the present Citibank) was founded.
1813
Elizabeth Seton founded the Sisters of Charity of St Joseph's, a Catholic order in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
1814
British troops stormed Washington and burned the Capitol and the White House.
General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horse Shoe Bend and forced them to surrender most of their traditional land (half of Alabama and one-fifth of Georgia) to the USA.
Francis Cabot Lowell brought the Industrial Revolution to the United States by building an integrated cotton factory (spinning and weaving) in Massachusetts.
1815
Andrew Jackson, helped by the French pirate Jean Lafitte, defeated the British army at the battle of New Orleans.
David Low Dodge organized the first peace society in history in New York.
1816
Baltimore introduced gas lighted streets, provided by Rembrandt Peale's Gas Light Company of Baltimore.
The Era of Good Feelings
The Era of Good Feelings marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812.
1817
First scheduled passenger ship from New York to Liverpool, England.
The New York Stock Exchange opened in Wall Street.
National Pride
Unfortunately, national egotism has been essential to social survival. The “chosen people” doctrine has been a primary factor in tribal merging and nation building down to modern times.
However, no state can attain ideal levels of functioning until every form of intolerance is mastered. Intolerance is everlastingly inimical to human progress. Intolerance is best combated by the coordination of science, commerce, play, and religion.
1818
The USA and British signed a treaty to jointly control the Oregon Territory (present day Oregon, Washington, Idaho and southwestern Canada).
1819
An economic depression hit the farmers of the south and the west.
The USA acquired Florida from Spain.
The "Savannah" completed the first transatlantic crossing by steamboat (18 days).
1820
The population of New York City was 123,700.
72% of workers were employed in agriculture.
The "Missouri compromise" allowed the creation of the slave state of Missouri in exchange for the creation of the non slave state of Maine and set a line dividing slave states and non-slave states (the Mason-Dixon Line).
1821
The U.S. citizen Moses Austin obtained Spain's permission to establish a colony of Anglosaxons in Texas.
Stephen Austin led 300 families to Texas.
“New Spain” declared independence from Spain and changed its name to Mexican Empire (Mexico, California, Texas, and Central America).
1823
President James Monroe proclaimed the doctrine that the USA would police the entire American continent against European interference.
Jedediah Smith discovered the South Pass of Wyoming's Rocky Mountains into the future Utah.
1824
Only 5% of adult US citizens voted in presidential elections.
For the first time, the candidate who won the most votes (Andrew Jackson) did not become president because of Electoral College voting.
The Jacksonian Era
Broadly speaking, this era was characterized by a democratic spirit and built upon Jackson's equal political policy (subsequent to ending what he termed a "monopoly" of government by elites). Even before the Jacksonian era began, suffrage had been extended to a majority of white male adult citizens, a result the Jacksonian's celebrated. Jacksonian democracy also promoted the strength of the presidency and executive branch at the expense of Congress, while seeking to broaden the public's participation in government.
1825
The Erie Canal, which connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes was opened.
1826
James Smithson bequeathed his fortune to found the Smithsonian Institution "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."
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Specialization and Coordination
The present age of social development will be embodied in a better and more effective cooperation and coordination of ever-increasing and expanding specialization.
Civilization is dependent on the effective coordination of specialists.
Economic complexity and the steady increase of industrial and professional specialism will add to the problems of labor placement.
The need for social, artistic, technical, and industrial specialists will continue to multiply while demanding ever increasing levels of skill and dexterity from the specialists.
As labor diversifies further, methods of directing individuals to suitable education and employment must be devised. Machinery is not the only cause for unemployment among the civilized peoples of Urantia.
But, the intelligence that is capable of such inventiveness and specialization should be sufficiently competent to devise adequate methods of control and adjustment to the problems resulting from the rapid growth of invention and the accelerated pace of cultural expansion.
Events in USA History Appear Planned
1827
John Walker, English chemist and pharmacist, invented friction matches.
Abraham Brower inaugurated the first horse-driven omnibus service in the USA (along Broadway in New York).
1828
Thomas Jefferson’s original Democratic-Republican Party split into two parties.
The USA had 74 post offices per 100,000 people compared with 17 in Britain and 4 in France.
1829
William Austin Burt invented the typewriter.
1830
Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church.
The US Congress approved a law to resettle Indians further west.
The first National Negro Convention met in Philadelphia.
USA was the sixth ranked industrial power in the world.
An overland trail was opened to Los Angeles that brought Anglosaxon colonists to Mexican California.
1831
The black slave Nat Turner led a slave revolt that killed 60 white people in Virginia.
Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical harvesting machine.
1832
Indians are massacred in Illinois for not abandoning their homeland.
President Andrew Jackson ignored a Supreme Court decision denying Georgia’s seizure of Cherokee land.
Sam Houston arrived in Mexican Texas and began planning the independence of Texas.
John Stephenson built the first horse-drawn streetcar that ran on rails in the USA (along Bowery Street in New York).
1833
Chicago had a population of 350 just before the realization that it had a commanding position in the emerging inland transportation network based on lake traffic and railroads.
1835
Samuel Colt invented the revolving cylinder six shot handgun.
1836
Mexico's dictator Santa Anna crushed a Texan uprising at the battle of the Alamo (San Antonio), but General Sam Houston later defeated the Spanish and Texas declared its independence with Houston as president.
Maria Monk's book, "Awful Disclosures" was published. The author claimed to expose the systematic sexual abuse of nuns and the infanticide of the bastard children fathered by Catholic priests and seminarians near her convent in Montreal. The book was a best-seller at the peak of an anti-Catholic movement. Catholics claimed the book was a hoax written by Protestant Ministers.
1837
The Panic of 1837. The sale of western land by the federal government promoted speculation, and poorly regulated lending practices by banks created a vast real estate bubble. A severe economic depression followed the wave of speculation.
John Deere invented the steel plow.
Samuel Morse invented a code for the telegraph.
1838
The Cherokee Indians were massacred while being resettled in Oklahoma.
1839
Yellow fever killed 12% of Houston's population.
Charles Goodyear developed a process to vulcanize rubber (to make it more elastic).
An expedition led by John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood rediscovered the Mayan ruins.
1840
Robert Hoe built the first type-revolving printing press.
California's population was 15,000.
Chicago’s population was 5000.
Machiventa Melchizedek
The ability of the Melchizedek Sons to function in emergencies and on widely divergent levels of the universe, even on the physical level of personality manifestation, is unique in the Melchizedek order.
Machiventa Melchizedek volunteered to prepare the backward people of Earth for the arrival of Michael/Jesus’ bestowal. Machiventa served in a human form on Earth as the “Sage of Salem” (Salem became Jerusalem). He was a personal adviser to Abraham, and he trained thousands of missionaries who spread his gospel.
Following his successful bestowal, Michael/Jesus elevated Machiventa to the position of his personal ambassador on Earth, bearing the title Vicegerent Planetary Prince of Urantia. It is anticipated that, as long as Urantia remains an inhabited planet, Machiventa Melchizedek is destined to take the place of the fallen Planetary Prince, Caligastia. It is altogether probable that Machiventa Melchizedek may again appear in person on Urantia (Earth). There is also an expectation that an unprecedented event will take place – the sometime return to the planet of Adam and Eve or certain of their progeny as representatives of Michael with the title, vicegerents of the second Adam of Urantia.
Continuing Evolution of the United States of America
No Favoritism
The rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the special benefit of any specially favored group of mortals. There is no such thing as a “chosen people.” The rule of the Most Highs, the over controllers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time.
Sovereignty is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind. But this same growth of political organizations creates a problem at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of political power – the family – and the final consummation of political growth – the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind.
1841
William Wolfskill shipped the first oranges from his grove in Los Angeles by rail.
1842
New York opened the Croton Aqueduct a large complex water distribution system constructed for New York City.
The New York Philharmonic orchestra was founded.
1843
A mass migration towards Oregon and California began. The discovery of Gold in California, the discovery of South Pass through the Rocky Mountains, and favorable reports concerning the climate and soils of the west prompted thousands of people to leave their homes in the east and head for California and Oregon.
The USA had 1634 newspapers.
1844
The US had over 3100 miles of railway.
Samuel Morse sent the first public telegraph.
The Treaty of Wangxia between China and the USA opened five Chinese ports to the US.
The "Great Disappointment" occurred as William Miller's prophecy of the Second Advent of Christ did not occur.
James Polk was elected president on a platform to annex Texas.
1845
The first Jew (Lewis Charles Levin) was elected to the US Congress.
Slave owners founded the protestant denomination called "Southern Baptists."
Alexander Cartwright invented baseball.
Texas was annexed by the US.
1846
The US provoked a war with Mexico by annexing Texas.
The Oregon Territory was split between the US and British Canada.
A wagon train of 81 pioneers heading to California (the "Donner Party") was decimated by bad weather. Survivors admitted to cannibalism.
The Marble Palace, the first department store, opened in New York.
Samuel Morse installed the first commercial telegraph line in the US (between Philadelphia and New York City).
Five daily newspapers in New York City organized the Associated Press to share the costs of collecting and publishing news.
1847
Yerba Buena (459 inhabitants) changed its name to San Francisco.
US troops entered Mexico City ending the Mexican-American War.
1848
At the end of the Mexican-American war, the USA acquired present day New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California (nearly half of Mexico).
In July, the first woman's right convention was held near New York City.
The first Chinese immigrants arrived in the USA.
James Marshall, a worker at Johann Sutter's sawmill, discovered gold in California, and a "gold rush" began.
The “Timely” Discovery of Gold in California
Because of its rarity, gold has become man’s truest measure of worth. But, because of gold’s weight, paper receipts for stored gold were issued by brokers who held the gold. The gold backed paper receipts guaranteed the value of any transaction for other goods or property. Banks and governments eventually replaced the gold brokers and paper currency backed by gold evolved.
The gold standard was a commitment by participating countries to back the prices of their currencies with specified amounts of gold. National money could be freely converted into gold at a fixed price. In 1834, the United States fixed the price of gold at $20.67 per ounce. The gold standard enabled a period of unprecedented economic growth with relatively free trade in goods, labor, and capital.
The news of the gold strike in California brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and the sudden population increase allowed California to advance rapidly to statehood,
Continuing the Supernaturally Planned Expansion of the USA
1849
Cornelius Vanderbilt established a steam ship service from New York and New Orleans to California via Chagres, Panama to shorten travel time to California.
64% of Southern cotton was exported, primarily through Northern trading companies and Northern ports, and mainly to Britain.
The Civil War Era
The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long standing controversy over the enslavement of black people.
1850
Henry and Mayer Lehman founded the brokerage house Lehman Brothers (for buyers and sellers of cotton).
California's population was 165,000, Los Angeles' population was 8,329.
California became the 31st state.
1851
Isaac Singer began selling the sewing machine.
The New York Times was founded.
The population of the USA was 20,067,720 free persons and 2,077,034 slaves. [Note: Evolution justifies slavery. Advanced races have always used slaves from less advanced peoples to their mutual advantage. Using slaves from Africa to grow cheap cotton in the southern states to feed the Industrial Revolution's textile mills in England greatly quickened the evolutionary development of the black race.]
1852
Harriet Stowe published the anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
The first public bathhouse opened in New York.
Elisha Graves Otis built the first elevator in New York.
1853
A railway between New York and Chicago was inaugurated by the
New York Central Railroad Company, which was a consolidation of 10 small railroads.
Levi Strauss invented denim cotton "blue jeans.”
Rapid Growth Pains
1854
Congress created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, which were open to slavery. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 had prevented this from happening. [Note: In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.]
The USA forced Japan to sign a trade agreement (the "treaty of Kanagawa"), which forced Japan to open its ports to foreigners after two centuries of isolation. [Note: On July 8, 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry, commanding a squadron of warships (two steam ships and two sailing vessels, had sailed into Tokyo harbor demanding that Japan enter into trade with the United States. This was the era when all Western powers were seeking to open new markets for their manufactured goods abroad, as well as buy raw materials. Perry could impose his demands by force because the Japanese (a feudal society) had no navy to defend themselves.
Abraham Gesner invented kerosene for lighting, based on coal. [Note: Cannel coal is a specific type of soft coal that contains bitumen, a form of petroleum. It is from this substance that coal oil is refined. Kerosene oil is refined directly from liquid petroleum (crude oil).]
1856
The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company renamed itself Western Union. It was the largest telegraph company in the country.
1857
George Pullman invented the railroad sleeping car.
The magazine The Atlantic was founded in Boston.
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed Central Park for New York City.
1858
A telegraph wire was laid at the bottom of the ocean between Ireland and Canada.
Gold was discovered in Colorado.
The USA stock market crashed, which spawned an international market crash.
William Parker Foulke discovered the world's first full dinosaur skeleton (in Haddonfield, New Jersey).
In the election for senator in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln challenged the incumbent Stephen Douglas to a series of face-to-face debates, which were widely publicized throughout the nation. (Lincoln lost).
1859
Edwin Drake struck oil in Pennsylvania and launched the world’s first oil boom.
John Brown led an uprising against slavery. He was captured and hung.
The French Opera House, the first opera house in the USA, opened in New Orleans.
The USA produced 2/3rds of the world’s cotton.
The Great Atlantic Tea Company, the first chain-store system, was founded.
Transitions
On a normal world the post-Adamic dispensation (one of the progressive ages of divine revelation) is an age of great invention, energy control, and mechanical development. This is the era of many manufactured forms and the control of natural forces. It is the golden age of exploration and the final subduing of the planet. Much of the material progress of a world occurs during this time of the development of the physical sciences, an epoch such as Urantia is now beginning. Urantia (Earth) is more than a full dispensation behind the average planetary schedule.
By the end of the Adamic dispensation on a normal planet, the races are blended, so it can be proclaimed that “God has made of one blood all the nations,” and that his Son “has made of one color all peoples.” The color of such an amalgamated race is somewhat of an olive shade of the violet (Adamic) hue, the racial “white” of the spheres.
Evolution on Earth or Elsewhere Is Purposeful and Never Accidental
1860
The population of the USA (31 million) exceeded the population of Britain (29 million).
Cotton represented three fifths of all United States exports highlighting its significance to the prosperity of the country.
President Buchanan vetoed the Homestead Bill, because it was unpopular with Southern plantation owners. [Note: The Homestead Act would have made land available for 25 cents per acre, an inducement to runaway slaves.]
The population of New York City was 814,000.
Catholics were the single largest organized religious group in the USA.
Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president although he gathered only 40% of the popular vote, but the choice of the Most High.
Josiah Dwight Whitney founded the California Geological Survey to assess the resources of the state.
Eleven southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America on the grounds that Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery.
Chicago had 100 thousand people.
California's population was 380,000 of which 34,000 were the newly arrived Chinese, along with 34,000 Irish, and 20,000 Germans (potato famine refugees).
1861
The southern states of South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the USA. They were later joined by Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, forming the Confederate States of America.
Civil war erupted between the northern ("unionist") states and the southern ("confederate") states. (The population of the Northern states was 26.2 million with 8.1 million people in the Southern states.)
The Bethlehem Iron Company built its first blast furnace prefacing the move from wooden built wind powered navies to coal and oil powered iron ships.
The territories of Nevada and Colorado were organized.
Western Union completed the first transcontinental telegraph line across North America.
Yale University awarded the first PhD.
An oil tanker sailed from Philadelphia. [Note: The movement of oil in bulk was attempted in many places and in many ways. Oil pipelines have existed since 1860. The first practical oil tankers were two sail-driven tankers that were built in 1863 in England.
1862
John Rockefeller founded a company to refine oil (later renamed Standard Oil).
1862
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded in Boston.
Thirty-eight Dakota Indians were executed in Mankato (Minnesota), accused of killing 490 settlers.
1863
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and the Homestead Act (granting 160 acres of free land to anyone including freed slaves willing to develop the land for five years). [Note: Lincoln’s mistake was freeing all of the black slaves at once rather than over several years, which would have allowed time for their absorption by the economy and society.]
The territories of Arizona and Idaho were organized.
Ellen White founded the Seventh-day Adventists.
Riots between Irish immigrants and blacks left more than 100 persons dead.
James Plimpton invented roller skates.
Henry Dunant founded the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded (later renamed the "Red Cross").
The Union won the battle of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania).
About 50 blacks were lynched in New York.
1864
Nevada entered the Union.
All the major powers agreed at the Geneva convention on rules for the treatment of prisoners of war.
John Chivington's Colorado volunteers massacred hundreds of Cheyennes at Sand Creek (mostly women and children).
The Reconstruction Era (1865-1877)
Three visions of Civil War memory appeared during the Reconstruction Era: 1. the reconciliationist vision, which was rooted in coping with the death and devastation the war brought; 2. the white supremacist vision, which included segregation and the preservation of the traditional cultural standards of the South; and 3. the emancipationist vision, which sought full freedom, citizenship, and Constitutional equality for African Americans. Meanwhile, the Indian Wars were concluding, and new Homesteaders were pouring into the western states.
1865
Cheyennes and Sioux massacred whites in Julesburg, Eastern Colorado.
The Union, led by General Ulysses Grant, defeated the Confederates, slavery was abolished (13th amendment of the constitution) and blacks were given the right to vote.
370,000 Union citizens. and 258,000 Confederate citizens and soldiers died in the Civil War.
15,000,000 Africans were imported to the Americas since the slave trade began; 30-40 million died before reaching the Americas. Only the strongest survived the voyage. Systematic breeding – the interference in normal sexual patterns by masters with an aim to increase fertility or encourage desirable characteristics also probably uplifted the native intellect of slaves.
The first blackface minstrels were performed in Georgia. The shows consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performances that created racial stereotypes of people of African descent.
The population of native American Indians was 294,000.
The "Salvation Army" was founded. The organization sought to bring salvation to the poor, destitute, and hungry by meeting both their "physical and spiritual needs.”
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered ending the American Civil War.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded in Boston.
1866
"The Black Crook," combining drama, music and ballet, the first musical,
opened in New York City.
William Fetterman's troops were annihilated by Sioux and Cheyennes at Lodge Trail Ridge in Wyoming. The troops had been sent to protect a wagon train.
The "Ku Klux Klan" was founded in Tennessee by former Confederate army officers to persecute African-Americans.
Life Between the Hammer and the Anvil
Like all civilizations, Earth and the USA were forged between the anvil of necessity and the hammer of anguish.
While the Creators are possessed of full power to make Earth a veritable paradise, such an idyllic place would not contribute to the development of the strong, noble, and experienced characters that the Gods require for the Paradise adventure.
1867
The USA purchased Alaska from Russia.
The price of oil dropped to $2.40/barrel from $13.75 a barrel reflecting more supply and cheaper distribution.
George Peabody established the Peabody Fund, the first foundation. [Note: The Peabody Fund provided monies for construction, endowments, scholarships, teacher and industrial education for newly freed slaves.]
Britain created the Dominion of Canada, a self-governing federation of provinces that recognized the British monarchy.
At Bright Hope in Virginia, the first major coal-mine disaster killed 69 miners.
George Pullman added a dining car to his railroad sleeping car service.
In Germany, Karl Marx published the first volume of Das Kapitol (The Capital). Capital refers to financial wealth and capitalism. In classical economics, capital is one of the four factors of production in capitalism. The others are land, labor and organization. [Note: Karl Marx saw capitalism as a progressive historical period that would eventually stagnate due to internal contradictions (inconsistencies) and be followed by socialism. Marx saw capital as a social economic relationship between people rather than between people and things.
Marx's most popular theory was “materialism.” He believed that religion, morality, social structures and other things are all rooted in materialistic economics.]
(An example of capitalism’s internal contradictions is reducing wages for employees (synonymous with consumers) with the expectation of increasing profits for employers.
1868
The 14th amendment of the constitution, which granted blacks the same rights as whites was ratified.
The first campus of the University of California opened in Berkeley.
The USA and the Lakotas/Sioux signed a peace treaty at Fort Laramie that assigned Dakota lands to the Indians.
Christopher Latham Sholes invented a better typewriter.
1869
The Union and Central Pacific railroads met in Ogden, Utah, and created the first transcontinental railroad. [Note: The Western Pacific ran between Oakland and Sacramento; the Central Pacific operated between Sacramento and Utah; and the Union Pacific ran between Utah and the Missouri River].
Charles Eliot became president of Harvard University and turned it into a German-style university with emphasis on research and a graduate degrees.
William Cameron Coup founded the first giant circus.
The first "football" games (a variant of rugby) were played between colleges.
Goldman Sachs was founded by German immigrant Marcus Goldman.
Master Planning and Scheduling
Each of the events noted in this historical record had to be planned, shaped, and executed at both the supernatural and the material levels. The Most High’s master operations plan, the scheduling of related events, and the logistics of arranging the necessary inputs and outputs for each event separately and integrated into the total plan for the salvation of men’s souls while working within the free will restrictions of mortal choices and the evolution to world brotherhood is very complex.
1870– 1940— The Great Inventions Create a Revolution in the Factories and Homes
1870
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prevented states from denying the right to vote on grounds of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". (This constitutional protection was circumvented by “Jim Crow” laws in the southern states.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York City.
The population of the USA was 38.5 million. The population west of the Mississippi was 6,877,000. Los Angeles had 5,728 people.
Victoria Woodhull advocated free love in her "Weekly" magazine. [Note:
For Woodhull, “free love” was more about women’s “rights to marry, divorce, and bear children without government interference,” rather than the lter ideas espoused by the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Woodhull was also the first woman to run for president.]
The USA was divided into four "time zones" by the railroads to coordinate schedules.
Freedom of Choice
God had given men and angels the divine privilege of participating in the creation of their own destinies and of the destiny of this local system of inhabited worlds. No being in all the universe has the right or liberty to deprive any other being of true liberty, the right to love and be loved, the privilege of worshiping God and of serving his fellows.
There is no favoritism, nothing arbitrary, in the selective operation of the divine plan of mortal survival.
1871
The National Rifle Association (NRA) was founded.
Korea fired on ships sent by the USA to open up its ports.
The Great Chicago Fire destroyed 17,000 buildings and killed 300 people.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, known as A&P, expanded from New York to Chicago.
Western Union introduced money transfers.
A white crowd killed 19 Chinese in Los Angeles.
1872
Aaron Montgomery Ward published the first mail-order catalog.
Yellowstone National Park, the world's first national park, was established.
Anthony Comstock founded the Society for the Suppression of Vice.
1873
The San Francisco cable car was inaugurated.
Eliza Thompson from Ohio led a nationwide crusade against alcohol.
Christopher Latham Sholes invented the QWERTY keyboard, which the Remington Company mass produced on its typewriters.
The Panic of 1873, a financial crisis, triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America. The cause was the failure of Jay Cooke and Company, the country's preeminent investment banking concern. Credit dried up, foreclosures were common and banks failed.
The USA adopted the gold standard.
USA magnate Andrew Carnegie donated thousands of organs to churches.
1874
First steel bridge built. Buchanan Eads, a self-educated engineer, designed the first steel bridge to cross the Mississippi River. It was the first major structure to be built entirely with a steel frame, the first major bridge to cross the Mississippi River, and the first railroad bridge over the river.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was founded.
Gold rush in the Black Hills of Dakota on land reserved for the Lakotas/Sioux tribes.
1875
Ottmar Mergenthaler built the first linotype (in Baltimore).
Helena Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society. [Note: The term theosophy, derived from the Greek theos (“god”) and sophia (“wisdom”), was understood to mean “divine wisdom.” Blavatsky studied under a
Master in Tibet. Regarding her primary principle of Karma, The Urantia Book states: The karma principle of causality continuity (cause and effect) is very close to the truth of the repercussional synthesis of all time-space actions that occur in the presence of the Supreme Deity; but the karma postulate never provided for the coordinated personal attainment of Deity by the individual religionist, only for the ultimate engulfment of all personality by the Universal Oversoul.”]
Indian Denouement and Technology Transformations
1876
Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes who defeated the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
Sioux chief Sitting Bull led the Sioux and Cheyennes to victory against the US cavalry at Rosebud Creek (Montana) near the Yellow Stone River.
[Note: Belatedly successful, Indian tribes had failed to unite in time to resist the occupation of their lands by Europeans.]
Pico Canyon Oilfield, near Los Angeles, was the first major oil field in the Far West.
The first train reached Los Angeles from San Francisco.
Railroad magnate Leland Stanford purchased a ranch in California and renamed it Palo Alto the subsequent location of Stanford University.
Alexander Bell demonstrated the telephone.
Thomas Edison opened a research lab in Menlo Park, New York.
The Guilded Age
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As American wages grew much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants.
Iron Ore Discoveries Powered the American Industrial Revolution
https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h861.html (edited).
Iron ore deposits were found in many areas of the United States, but mining was centered in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio during the post-Civil War period. Iron production and the emerging steel industry developed around Pittsburgh, which enjoyed the additional advantage of nearby coal fields. Phenomenal industrial growth in the 1870s and 1880s, seriously depleted many of the known iron ore deposits. Exploratory efforts were undertaken to locate new sources.
The most significant new deposits located were in northeastern Minnesota, in the Mesabi Range. Large deposits of high grade ore were discovered there in 1890; production was under way two years later and the area became the leading iron ore source in the world. This success occurred even without the proximity of coal fields; the availability of cheap railroad and barge traffic to distant production points rendered the mining effort highly profitable. Chicago, and later Cleveland, became major steel production sites.
Evolution Applies on a Grand Scale to All of Life
1877
Thomas Edison invented a phonograph that used cylinders.
Alexander Bell installed the world's first commercial telephone service.
Hayes was elected president after a disputed election and the "Reconstruction" was de facto over. [Note: Reconstruction, in U.S. history, was the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy as well as to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.]
The Washington Post was founded.
Nation-wide labor strikes spread among railroad workers.
Edison developed a better telephone than Bell's for Western Union.
1878
New Haven published the first telephone directory (with 50 names).
Theodore Vail was hired as general manager of the American Bell Telephone Company. He filed a lawsuit against Western Union over the patent of the telephone, and obtained Western Union's technology (developed by Edison).
1879
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
Charles Taze Russell founded the Jehovah's Witness movement and calculated that the Second Coming of Christ would happen in 1914.
Frank Woolworth opened Woolworth's “Great Five Cent Store" in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Evolving Corporate and Government Ethics
Business ethics reflect the expected social behavior of companies and government of each historical period. As time passes, the social norms evolve, causing accepted behaviors to become objectionable. Business ethics and the resulting behavior evolve as well. In the early periods of North American settlement, businesses were involved in slavery, colonialism, imperialism, and war.
Slavery is any system in which the principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a legal form of property.
Colonialism is a relationship of domination of an indigenous people by foreign invaders where the invaders seek to rule in pursuit of their own interests.
Imperialism is a state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas or countries.
War is an act of violence intended to compel an opponent to fulfill the attacker’s will or goals.
Revolutions Within Evolution
Animal evolution ceases at the human level. Once animals have reached the mortal level, there is no regression back into animal forms. Humanity's potential is infinite and every being has a contribution to make toward a grander creation. Potentially, humans are one. Social revolutions are experiential growth to Oneness.
1880
Men outnumbered women by more than 2 to 1 in Colorado, Nevada and Arizona.
100,000 male Chinese and only 3,000 female Chinese lived in the western USA.
The population of the USA was 50 million.
California's population was 865,000.
The Salvation Army opened a chapter in the USA.
The median age in the USA was 21.
The Pullman Palace Car Company built its own town, “Pullman,” for its employees near Chicago.
1881
Sitting Bull surrendered. Following the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had fled from the Dakota reservation to Canada, but in 1881, with his people starving, he returned to the United States and surrendered.
President James Garfield died after being shot by a disgruntled office seeker.
Anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia caused 2.5 million European Jews to migrate to the United States. [Note: This migration enhanced the level of Adamic ancestry in the USA.]
1882
Folk hero bandit Jesse James was assassinated. Raised in the "Little Dixie" area of western Missouri, James and his family had maintained strong Southern sympathies.
Thomas Edison inaugurated the first electrical power plant (in New York).
Chicago replaced Philadelphia as the second largest city in the USA.
The USA banned Chinese immigrants for ten years and forbid existing Chinese immigrants from becoming citizens. (The law was renewed and made permanent in 1902.)
John Slater established the first philanthropy devoted to education for blacks.
The Protestant Ethic and Beyond
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, published in 1905, by Max Weber recalled that capitalism in Northern Europe evolved when the Protestant ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world by developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment. The Protestant work ethic was an important force behind the unplanned and uncoordinated emergence of modern capitalism at the secular level.
Despite the fact that religionists such as Luther, Calvin, and Wesley, had discussed trade and business and led the way in the development of the Protestant work ethic, in actual business practice, religion and politics separated from Religion. In the process, economics and economic activity were similarly divorced from Religion and joined with politics to form a political-economy (capitalism).
1883
The USA enacted the "Pendleton Act" that instituted a meritocracy in the federal bureaucracy. This law inaugurated a U.S. civil service system, which established the principle that federal jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit rather than through political connections.
The first public library funded by Andrew Carnegie opened in the Pittsburgh area.
The railroads divided the USA into four time zones to standardize their schedules.
The second transcontinental railroad was inaugurated by the Northern Pacific Railroad connecting the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean.
Hiram Maxim invented the machine gun.
Designed by John-Augustus Roebling, and completed by his son, the Brooklyn Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, was inaugurated in New York City,
1884
Le Marcus Thompson built the first USA roller coaster in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York.
James Ritty invented the cash register.
1885
The Santa Fe Railroad reached Los Angeles.
Popcorn carts were introduced in fairs.
William Le Baron Jenney built a ten-story building for the Home Insurance Company in Chicago, the first building to use a metal skeleton.
William Burroughs developed an adding machine.
White miners killed 28 Chinese workers in Wyoming.
Bell incorporated the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) to build and operate the long-distance telephone network.
Secular Opposition to Capitalism
In the secular world, John Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and G. W. F. Hegel all wrote on economic matters and just distribution. Karl Marx was the most vigorous critic of capitalism as it developed up through the Nineteenth Century.
Marx claimed that capitalism was built on the exploitation of labor. According to Marx, the only commodity not sold at its real value is human labor. Workers are paid less than the value they produce. The difference between the value the workers produce and what they are paid is the source of profit for the employer or the owner of the means of production. If workers were paid the value they produced, there would be no profit and capitalism would disappear. In its place would be socialism and eventually communism, in which all property is socially (as opposed to privately) owned, and in which all members of society would contribute according to their ability and receive according to their needs. The result would be a society without exploitation and also without the alienation that workers experience in capitalist societies.
The Russian revolutionary leader, Lenin attempted to implement Marx’s philosophy into government. Lenin claimed that capitalism’s exploitation of workers in the developed countries had been lessened and was exported to their colonies, just as contemporary critics claim that multinational corporations derive their profits from the exploitation of workers in less developed countries.
[Note: Slavery, Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism and Communism are material stages of progress towards Spiritual Brotherhood.]
1886: The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded in Columbus (Ohio) by Samuel Gompers.
Frederic Bartholdi's "Statue of Liberty" was dedicated in New York.
Atlanta pharmacist, John Pemberton, invented "Coca-Cola", a drink based on coca leaves. [Note: The traditional method of chewing coca leaf, called acullico, consists of keeping a saliva-soaked ball of coca leaves in the mouth together with an alkaline substance that assists in extracting cocaine from the leaves. When chewed, coca acts as a mild stimulant and suppresses hunger, thirst, pain, and fatigue with probable addictive properties.]
A mob in Seattle expelled the Chinese community.
A Santa Clara County court ruled for the Southern Pacific railroad that corporations are persons and have rights like human beings.
Carl Benz, a German mechanical engineer built the world's first automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
Josephine Cochrane invented the dishwasher.
A bomb set off by anarchists killed 11 people in Chicago.
George Westinghouse founded the Westinghouse Electric Company.
1887
Emile Berliner invented the platter/gramophone record to play music.
The Santa Fe Railway reached Los Angeles.
34 Chinese gold miners were robbed and killed in Oregon.
1888
Thomas Adams began selling chewing gum in a vending machine in New York.
Frank Sprague installed electric streetcars in Richmond (Virginia) replacing horse drawn conveyances.
George Eastman introduced the first consumer camera, the "Kodak."
Nikola Tesla invented the alternating-current motor.
The National Geographic Society was established.
1889
Apache Chief Geronimo surrendered in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona. He was the last American Indian warrior to formally surrender to the United States.
Thomas Edison's business empire was consolidated into the Edison General Electrical Company.
The first Conference of American States was held in Washington.
Andrew Carnegie wrote "The Gospel of Wealth," which encouraged philanthropy.
Columbia Phonograph was founded to manufacture dictaphones.
George Fuller built the Tacoma Building in Chicago, the first skyscraper steel structure with elevators.
For the first time, the USA produced more steel than Britain.
The first "Oklahoma opening" auctioned off frontier territory.
Adolphus and Arthur Caille invented the slot machine.
1890
Hermann Hollerith's tabulator was chosen for the national census calculations.
The army massacres the Lakotas/Sioux in South Dakota ("Wounded Knee Massacre"), the last battle of the "Indian wars."
The USA enacts the Sherman Antitrust Act that limited the power of monopolies.
The population west of the Mississippi was 16,776,000.
Female journalist Nellie Bly circles the world in a record time of 72 days.
The work week in the USA was 60 hours.
Capital, Skill, and Labor
Throughout the earlier ages of any world, competition is essential to progressive civilization. As the evolution of man progresses, cooperation becomes increasingly effective. In advanced civilizations cooperation is more efficient than competition. Eventually, industrial courts will recognize legal compensation as falling into three divisions: 1. Legal rates of interest on invested capital; 2. Reasonable salary for skill employed in industrial operations; 3. Fair and equitable wages for labor. These shall first be met in accordance with contracts, or, in the face of decreased earnings they (capital, skill, and labor) shall share proportionally in transient reductions. Thereafter, all earnings in excess of these fixed charges shall be regarded as dividends and shall be prorated to all three divisions.
Folk hero bandit Jesse James was assassinated. Raised in the "Little Dixie" area of western Missouri, James and his family had maintained strong Southern sympathies.
Thomas Edison inaugurated the first electrical power plant (in New York).
Chicago replaced Philadelphia as the second largest city in the USA.
The USA banned Chinese immigrants for ten years and forbid existing Chinese immigrants from becoming citizens. (The law was renewed and made permanent in 1902.)
John Slater established the first philanthropy devoted to education for blacks.
The Protestant Ethic and Beyond
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, published in 1905, by Max Weber recalled that capitalism in Northern Europe evolved when the Protestant ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world by developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment. The Protestant work ethic was an important force behind the unplanned and uncoordinated emergence of modern capitalism at the secular level.
Despite the fact that religionists such as Luther, Calvin, and Wesley, had discussed trade and business and led the way in the development of the Protestant work ethic, in actual business practice, religion and politics separated from Religion. In the process, economics and economic activity were similarly divorced from Religion and joined with politics to form a political-economy (capitalism).
1883
The USA enacted the "Pendleton Act" that instituted a meritocracy in the federal bureaucracy. This law inaugurated a U.S. civil service system, which established the principle that federal jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit rather than through political connections.
The first public library funded by Andrew Carnegie opened in the Pittsburgh area.
The railroads divided the USA into four time zones to standardize their schedules.
The second transcontinental railroad was inaugurated by the Northern Pacific Railroad connecting the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean.
Hiram Maxim invented the machine gun.
Designed by John-Augustus Roebling, and completed by his son, the Brooklyn Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, was inaugurated in New York City,
1884
Le Marcus Thompson built the first USA roller coaster in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York.
James Ritty invented the cash register.
1885
The Santa Fe Railroad reached Los Angeles.
Popcorn carts were introduced in fairs.
William Le Baron Jenney built a ten-story building for the Home Insurance Company in Chicago, the first building to use a metal skeleton.
William Burroughs developed an adding machine.
White miners killed 28 Chinese workers in Wyoming.
Bell incorporated the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) to build and operate the long-distance telephone network.
Secular Opposition to Capitalism
In the secular world, John Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and G. W. F. Hegel all wrote on economic matters and just distribution. Karl Marx was the most vigorous critic of capitalism as it developed up through the Nineteenth Century.
Marx claimed that capitalism was built on the exploitation of labor. According to Marx, the only commodity not sold at its real value is human labor. Workers are paid less than the value they produce. The difference between the value the workers produce and what they are paid is the source of profit for the employer or the owner of the means of production. If workers were paid the value they produced, there would be no profit and capitalism would disappear. In its place would be socialism and eventually communism, in which all property is socially (as opposed to privately) owned, and in which all members of society would contribute according to their ability and receive according to their needs. The result would be a society without exploitation and also without the alienation that workers experience in capitalist societies.
The Russian revolutionary leader, Lenin attempted to implement Marx’s philosophy into government. Lenin claimed that capitalism’s exploitation of workers in the developed countries had been lessened and was exported to their colonies, just as contemporary critics claim that multinational corporations derive their profits from the exploitation of workers in less developed countries.
[Note: Slavery, Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism and Communism are material stages of progress towards Spiritual Brotherhood.]
1886: The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded in Columbus (Ohio) by Samuel Gompers.
Frederic Bartholdi's "Statue of Liberty" was dedicated in New York.
Atlanta pharmacist, John Pemberton, invented "Coca-Cola", a drink based on coca leaves. [Note: The traditional method of chewing coca leaf, called acullico, consists of keeping a saliva-soaked ball of coca leaves in the mouth together with an alkaline substance that assists in extracting cocaine from the leaves. When chewed, coca acts as a mild stimulant and suppresses hunger, thirst, pain, and fatigue with probable addictive properties.]
A mob in Seattle expelled the Chinese community.
A Santa Clara County court ruled for the Southern Pacific railroad that corporations are persons and have rights like human beings.
Carl Benz, a German mechanical engineer built the world's first automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
Josephine Cochrane invented the dishwasher.
A bomb set off by anarchists killed 11 people in Chicago.
George Westinghouse founded the Westinghouse Electric Company.
1887
Emile Berliner invented the platter/gramophone record to play music.
The Santa Fe Railway reached Los Angeles.
34 Chinese gold miners were robbed and killed in Oregon.
1888
Thomas Adams began selling chewing gum in a vending machine in New York.
Frank Sprague installed electric streetcars in Richmond (Virginia) replacing horse drawn conveyances.
George Eastman introduced the first consumer camera, the "Kodak."
Nikola Tesla invented the alternating-current motor.
The National Geographic Society was established.
1889
Apache Chief Geronimo surrendered in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona. He was the last American Indian warrior to formally surrender to the United States.
Thomas Edison's business empire was consolidated into the Edison General Electrical Company.
The first Conference of American States was held in Washington.
Andrew Carnegie wrote "The Gospel of Wealth," which encouraged philanthropy.
Columbia Phonograph was founded to manufacture dictaphones.
George Fuller built the Tacoma Building in Chicago, the first skyscraper steel structure with elevators.
For the first time, the USA produced more steel than Britain.
The first "Oklahoma opening" auctioned off frontier territory.
Adolphus and Arthur Caille invented the slot machine.
1890
Hermann Hollerith's tabulator was chosen for the national census calculations.
The army massacres the Lakotas/Sioux in South Dakota ("Wounded Knee Massacre"), the last battle of the "Indian wars."
The USA enacts the Sherman Antitrust Act that limited the power of monopolies.
The population west of the Mississippi was 16,776,000.
Female journalist Nellie Bly circles the world in a record time of 72 days.
The work week in the USA was 60 hours.
Capital, Skill, and Labor
Throughout the earlier ages of any world, competition is essential to progressive civilization. As the evolution of man progresses, cooperation becomes increasingly effective. In advanced civilizations cooperation is more efficient than competition. Eventually, industrial courts will recognize legal compensation as falling into three divisions: 1. Legal rates of interest on invested capital; 2. Reasonable salary for skill employed in industrial operations; 3. Fair and equitable wages for labor. These shall first be met in accordance with contracts, or, in the face of decreased earnings they (capital, skill, and labor) shall share proportionally in transient reductions. Thereafter, all earnings in excess of these fixed charges shall be regarded as dividends and shall be prorated to all three divisions.
1891
USA oil accounts for 78% of illuminating oil exports.
The California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) opened in Los Angeles.
Westinghouse built the world's first commercial alternating-current system (based on Tesla's patent) in Colorado.
John Burgess founded the first graduate school at Columbia University.
Eleven Italians were lynched in New Orleans.
Jesse Reno invented the escalator.
Leland Stanford established a new university in Palo Alto, the Stanford University.
1892
Edward Doheny struck oil in Los Angeles.
Thomas Edison's Edison General Electrical Company merged with Thompson-Houston and became General Electric.
Popular music became big business and music publishers rented offices around 28th Street in New York City, "Tin Pan Alley."
The Great Northern Railroad running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, was completed
John Muir founded the "Sierra Club", the first environmental organization.
The Coca Cola company was founded in Atlanta.
Cycles
A law of cycles provides fundamental structure at all levels ranging from nebular formations (creation of suns from cosmic dust clouds) to the rise and fall of planetary empires, nations, societies, and economies.Cycles govern the physical universe and our physical bodies.Regular cycles happen simply because a master plan dictates that it is time for them to happen.
1893
The Mafia arrived in the USA as Mafia boss Don Vito Cascio Ferro fled from Sicily to New York.
US citizens were introduced to Buddhism by Zen Japanese Buddhist priests and Sri Lankan monks at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
Chicago's Columbian Exposition ran for six months. This World Fair introduced new ideas in commerce, industry, technology and entertainment.
Chicago's Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck founded a mail-order catalog.
George Ferris built the first Ferris Wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
An economic depression caused unemployment and bankruptcies.
The first shopping center opened in Cleveland.
Interior minister Lorrin Thurston (son of USA missionaries) overthrew the monarchy of Hawaii and appointed Sanford Dole (also son of USA missionaries) as its first president.
1894
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894. The strike pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. The strike and boycott shut down much of the nation's freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit, Michigan. The conflict began in Pullman, Chicago, on May 11 when nearly 4,000 factory employees of the Pullman Company began a wildcat strike in response to reductions in wages. A total of 30 workers were murdered by railroad agents and their allies.
The magazine for music media, "Billboard" was founded.
Jacob Coxey led a march from Ohio to Washington D.C.. [Note: Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, They marched on Washington, D.C. in the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time.] The Society of Women in the Wilderness created a Utopian community in Pennsylvania.
The USA limited Japanese immigration.
The Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption.
1895
Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal engaged in "yellow journalism" (fake news).
The Livermore company opened a 21 mile hydroelectric power line to bring electricity from Folsom to Sacramento, California, using water that powered four electrical generators (dynamos). This was the first time that high-voltage alternating current was successfully conducted over a long distance.
The first professional "football" game was held.
1896
Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse built a hydro-electric power plant to bring electricity from Niagara Falls to Buffalo.
Henry Ford built his first car.
Jesse Reno built the first escalator at Coney Island.
The Republicans won elections and consolidated a huge majority. Former Governor William McKinley, the Republican candidate, defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan. The 1896 campaign, which took place during an economic depression known as the Panic of 1893, was a realigning election that ended the old Democratic Party system and began the Republican Party control.
The USA dominated the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, winning 9 of 15 events.
Ragtime music was introduced. (Ragtime is a propulsive syncopated musical style, one of the forerunners of jazz and the predominant style of American popular music until 1917.)
1897
The first car appeared in Los Angeles. It was built in a machine shop by S.D. Sturgis for J. Philip Erie.
The first movies to advertise products within the plot were shown.
The Klondike gold rush began in Alaska.
1898
In February, an accidental explosion on a US warship, the Maine, anchored in Cuba killed 258 sailors. The US media presented the accident as a Spanish attack.
The USA declared war on Spain (345 U.S. soldiers died in battle, while many more died of tropical diseases. By the Treaty of Paris (signed Dec. 10, 1898), Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20 million.
Frederick Taylor at Bethlehem Steel pioneered "scientific management,” which is management of a business, industry, or the economy, according to principles of efficiency derived from experiments in methods of work and production, especially from time-and-motion studies.
New York was extended beyond Manhattan by annexing neighboring cities and reached 3.5 million inhabitants, the second largest city in the world after London.
Caleb Bradham of North Carolina invented "Pepsi-Cola," another drink based on coca leaves.
The USA Navy launched its first submarines.
The USA annexed Hawaii.
1899
The coal output in Pennsylvania alone exceeded 54,000,000 tons.
Emilio Aguinaldo led a rebellion against the USA in the Philippines.
MIT published the Technology Review, the first technology magazine.
2 billion cigarettes were sold in the USA.
American Samoa was acquired under the 1899 Treaty of Berlin between Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. [Note: The USA was concentrating on acquiring naval bases for ship refueling across the Pacific.]
Nothing Is at Rest in Time
Every event occurring in Time impacts every other event.
Because of evolution, you cannot remove a single grain of sand from its place without changing things throughout all parts of the immeasurable whole.
1900
Kodak introduced the first mass-market camera, the "Brownie."
The largest city in Texas was San Antonio with a population of 53 thousand.
A six-room house cost $3,000.
Los Angeles' population was 100,000.
2,300 automobiles were registered in the USA, of which 1,170 were steam-powered, 800 were electric, and 400 were gasoline-powered.
Benjamin Holt invented the tractor.
The anti-western Boxer Rebellion in China was crushed by foreign troops (primarily USA marines).
5% of USA households owned a telephone.
Life expectancy in the USA was 47 years.
The USA's population was 76,212,168.
1901
One million people emigrated from Europe to the USA in one year.
Theodore Roosevelt was elected president and launched an anti-trust campaign while upholding the principle that the president didn’t require approval from Congress to act.
Henry Huntington founded the Pacific Electric Railroad to create a network of trolley cars and a network of new suburbs around Los Angeles. (He became one of the richest men in the USA due to land speculation.)
J. Pierpont Morgan acquired Carnegie Steel Company from Andrew Carnegie and Henry Phipps, merged it with Elbert Gary's Federal Steel Company and Judge Moore's National Steel Company, and founded U.S. Steel.
Melville Clark built the first full 88-key player piano.
16,000 patents were filed in one year.
George Cohan staged his first musical show.
The first phonograph record by an African-American musician was made.
King Camp Gillette invented the shaving razor.
Oil was discovered near Beaumont, Texas, and in Oklahoma. [Note: The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth inTexas and Oklahoma during the early 20th century.]
Andrew Mellon founded the Gulf Oil Company; and Joseph Cullinan founded the Texas Fuel Company (later Texaco).
Ransom Eli Olds introduced the Curved Dash Oldsmobile, and started the Detroit automobile industry.
USA oil accounts for 78% of illuminating oil exports.
The California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) opened in Los Angeles.
Westinghouse built the world's first commercial alternating-current system (based on Tesla's patent) in Colorado.
John Burgess founded the first graduate school at Columbia University.
Eleven Italians were lynched in New Orleans.
Jesse Reno invented the escalator.
Leland Stanford established a new university in Palo Alto, the Stanford University.
1892
Edward Doheny struck oil in Los Angeles.
Thomas Edison's Edison General Electrical Company merged with Thompson-Houston and became General Electric.
Popular music became big business and music publishers rented offices around 28th Street in New York City, "Tin Pan Alley."
The Great Northern Railroad running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, was completed
John Muir founded the "Sierra Club", the first environmental organization.
The Coca Cola company was founded in Atlanta.
Cycles
A law of cycles provides fundamental structure at all levels ranging from nebular formations (creation of suns from cosmic dust clouds) to the rise and fall of planetary empires, nations, societies, and economies.Cycles govern the physical universe and our physical bodies.Regular cycles happen simply because a master plan dictates that it is time for them to happen.
1893
The Mafia arrived in the USA as Mafia boss Don Vito Cascio Ferro fled from Sicily to New York.
US citizens were introduced to Buddhism by Zen Japanese Buddhist priests and Sri Lankan monks at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
Chicago's Columbian Exposition ran for six months. This World Fair introduced new ideas in commerce, industry, technology and entertainment.
Chicago's Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck founded a mail-order catalog.
George Ferris built the first Ferris Wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
An economic depression caused unemployment and bankruptcies.
The first shopping center opened in Cleveland.
Interior minister Lorrin Thurston (son of USA missionaries) overthrew the monarchy of Hawaii and appointed Sanford Dole (also son of USA missionaries) as its first president.
1894
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894. The strike pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. The strike and boycott shut down much of the nation's freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit, Michigan. The conflict began in Pullman, Chicago, on May 11 when nearly 4,000 factory employees of the Pullman Company began a wildcat strike in response to reductions in wages. A total of 30 workers were murdered by railroad agents and their allies.
The magazine for music media, "Billboard" was founded.
Jacob Coxey led a march from Ohio to Washington D.C.. [Note: Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, They marched on Washington, D.C. in the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time.] The Society of Women in the Wilderness created a Utopian community in Pennsylvania.
The USA limited Japanese immigration.
The Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption.
1895
Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal engaged in "yellow journalism" (fake news).
The Livermore company opened a 21 mile hydroelectric power line to bring electricity from Folsom to Sacramento, California, using water that powered four electrical generators (dynamos). This was the first time that high-voltage alternating current was successfully conducted over a long distance.
The first professional "football" game was held.
1896
Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse built a hydro-electric power plant to bring electricity from Niagara Falls to Buffalo.
Henry Ford built his first car.
Jesse Reno built the first escalator at Coney Island.
The Republicans won elections and consolidated a huge majority. Former Governor William McKinley, the Republican candidate, defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan. The 1896 campaign, which took place during an economic depression known as the Panic of 1893, was a realigning election that ended the old Democratic Party system and began the Republican Party control.
The USA dominated the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, winning 9 of 15 events.
Ragtime music was introduced. (Ragtime is a propulsive syncopated musical style, one of the forerunners of jazz and the predominant style of American popular music until 1917.)
1897
The first car appeared in Los Angeles. It was built in a machine shop by S.D. Sturgis for J. Philip Erie.
The first movies to advertise products within the plot were shown.
The Klondike gold rush began in Alaska.
1898
In February, an accidental explosion on a US warship, the Maine, anchored in Cuba killed 258 sailors. The US media presented the accident as a Spanish attack.
The USA declared war on Spain (345 U.S. soldiers died in battle, while many more died of tropical diseases. By the Treaty of Paris (signed Dec. 10, 1898), Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20 million.
Frederick Taylor at Bethlehem Steel pioneered "scientific management,” which is management of a business, industry, or the economy, according to principles of efficiency derived from experiments in methods of work and production, especially from time-and-motion studies.
New York was extended beyond Manhattan by annexing neighboring cities and reached 3.5 million inhabitants, the second largest city in the world after London.
Caleb Bradham of North Carolina invented "Pepsi-Cola," another drink based on coca leaves.
The USA Navy launched its first submarines.
The USA annexed Hawaii.
1899
The coal output in Pennsylvania alone exceeded 54,000,000 tons.
Emilio Aguinaldo led a rebellion against the USA in the Philippines.
MIT published the Technology Review, the first technology magazine.
2 billion cigarettes were sold in the USA.
American Samoa was acquired under the 1899 Treaty of Berlin between Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. [Note: The USA was concentrating on acquiring naval bases for ship refueling across the Pacific.]
Nothing Is at Rest in Time
Every event occurring in Time impacts every other event.
Because of evolution, you cannot remove a single grain of sand from its place without changing things throughout all parts of the immeasurable whole.
1900
Kodak introduced the first mass-market camera, the "Brownie."
The largest city in Texas was San Antonio with a population of 53 thousand.
A six-room house cost $3,000.
Los Angeles' population was 100,000.
2,300 automobiles were registered in the USA, of which 1,170 were steam-powered, 800 were electric, and 400 were gasoline-powered.
Benjamin Holt invented the tractor.
The anti-western Boxer Rebellion in China was crushed by foreign troops (primarily USA marines).
5% of USA households owned a telephone.
Life expectancy in the USA was 47 years.
The USA's population was 76,212,168.
1901
One million people emigrated from Europe to the USA in one year.
Theodore Roosevelt was elected president and launched an anti-trust campaign while upholding the principle that the president didn’t require approval from Congress to act.
Henry Huntington founded the Pacific Electric Railroad to create a network of trolley cars and a network of new suburbs around Los Angeles. (He became one of the richest men in the USA due to land speculation.)
J. Pierpont Morgan acquired Carnegie Steel Company from Andrew Carnegie and Henry Phipps, merged it with Elbert Gary's Federal Steel Company and Judge Moore's National Steel Company, and founded U.S. Steel.
Melville Clark built the first full 88-key player piano.
16,000 patents were filed in one year.
George Cohan staged his first musical show.
The first phonograph record by an African-American musician was made.
King Camp Gillette invented the shaving razor.
Oil was discovered near Beaumont, Texas, and in Oklahoma. [Note: The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth inTexas and Oklahoma during the early 20th century.]
Andrew Mellon founded the Gulf Oil Company; and Joseph Cullinan founded the Texas Fuel Company (later Texaco).
Ransom Eli Olds introduced the Curved Dash Oldsmobile, and started the Detroit automobile industry.
1902
President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist.
The Filipino rebels surrendered to the USA in the Philippines after 220,000 Filipinos and more than 4,000 US soldiers were killed.
Frank Hardart and Joseph Horn launched the first Horn & Hardart Automat in Philadelphia, which became the first chain of restaurants.
Caffeine replaced cocaine in the formula for Coca-Cola.
Willis Carrier invented the air conditioner.
George Fuller built the Flatiron Building in New York, one of New York's first skyscrapers.
Congress enacted the National Reclamation Act to appropriate the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands.
Female journalist, Ida M. Tarbell, exposed Standard Oil's ruthless business practices.
Archangel Control Center Established on Urantia
The archangel corps of Earth’s local Universe, Nebadon, is directed by the Chief Executive Officer, Gabriel. In recent times a divisional headquarters of the archangels has been maintained on Earth (Urantia). It is extremely unusual for archangel activities to be directed from a small and apparently insignificant inhabited world such as Urantia.
Few people on Earth (Urantia) grasp the significance of the fact that because of Michael/Jesus’ bestowal on Urantia, a lowly and confused planet has become a divisional headquarters for the universe administration and direction of certain archangel activities having to do with the Paradise ascension scheme. This fact undoubtedly presages the future concentration of other ascendant activities on the bestowal world of Michael/Jesus. It lends a solemn importance to the Master’s personal promise, “I will come again.”
Periodically, Great Teachers and Innovators Are Born to Help Men Along The Evolutionary Path
1903
Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the first airplane at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina.
The USA produced 11,200 cars (1,700 from Ford).
The first World Series of baseball was held.
1904
Coca-Cola was the most recognized brand name in the USA.
George Hale opened the Mt Wilson observatory, with the largest telescope ever built, near Los Angeles.
Amadeo Giannini founded the Bank of Italy, which became The Bank of America, in San Francisco.
The New York subway opened.
Harvey Hubbell invented the electrical plug and pull chain socket.
1905
The "San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad" from Salt Lake City to southern California was completed.
The city of Las Vegas in Nevada was founded.
A huge oil field was discovered in Oklahoma (the "Glenn Pool").
The first gas station opened in St Louis.
The first Nickelodeon (movie theater) opened in Pennsylvania.
More than one million immigrants entered the USA.
Detroit was the center for car manufacturing in the USA.
1906
The San Francisco earthquake and fire occurred. Up to 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed.
San Francisco segregated all Oriental children into one Chinatown school.
US Steel opened the largest integrated steel mill in the world in Gary, Indiana, near Chicago.
A Stanley Steamer steam-powered car, built by Freelan and Francis Stanley, set the world record for speed (127 mph).
1907
Leo Baekeland invented the first plastic ("bakelite").
3,242 miners were killed in the USA in one year.
Detroit Electric began manufacturing electric cars.
The USA sent its new navy on a tour around the world.
The Warner Brothers film company was founded.
George Freeth surfed from Hawaii to California.
There was one car for every 800 people in the USA.
The first gasoline station opened in St Louis.
The American Industrial Revolution
The primary causes of the American industrial revolution were the abundance of natural resources, an abundant supply of labor, government policies favoring expansion, new sources of power, railroads and water transportation, new communication systems connecting distant places, American inventors and entrepreneurs, and the team of the Most High.
1908
Ford introduced the Model T, the first mass vehicle.
Thor, by the Hurley Machine Company of Chicago, was the first electric-powered washing machine.
People in the USA mailed 677,777,798 postcards in a population of 88,700,000.
Texas built a ship channel to connect Houston with the sea.
William D'Arcy discovered oil in Iran.
Durant founded General Motors.
Six cars raced from New York to Paris via Siberia in 5 months.
Harvard created the Graduate School of Business Administration.
1909
The average hourly salary in the USA was $0.19.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, known as the Met Life Tower, was built in New York. It was the world's tallest building.
The USA forced the dissolution of Standard Oil.
1910
The U.S. Navy converted from coal to oil-burning ships. President William Howard Taft established three Naval Petroleum Reserves. [Note: By 1916, the Navy had commissioned its first two capital ships with oil-fired boilers, the USS Nevada and the USS Oklahoma.
Los Angeles opened the first international airport in the USA.
The population of Los Angeles was 300,000.
The Boy Scouts of America were founded.
California produced 22% of the world's oil (more than any country in the world.
350,000 pianos were manufactured in the USA.
Nevada became the last western state to ban gambling.
The success of Victor Herbert's "Naughty Marietta" brought "operetta" to the USA.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of African Americans.
The Wurlitzer company invented an organ with special sound effects to accompany silent films.
The first Nickelodeon (movie) theater opened in Los Angeles.
The first film was shot in Hollywood (by DW Griffith).
The Bible Institute of Los Angeles began publishing the "Fundamentals", the manifesto of Christian fundamentalism.
A bomb killed 20 people in Los Angeles.
Foreign-born residents were 14.7% of the population.
The Butterfly Effect (Alias The Most High)
https://fractalfoundation.org/resources/what-is-chaos-theory/ (edited)
The butterfly effect is an idea that says a small change can make much bigger changes happen. The idea started from weather prediction. Now the term is used for many things; some are scientific, and some are not. The Butterfly Effect grants the power to cause a hurricane in China to a butterfly flapping its wings in New Mexico. It may take a very long time, but the connection is real. If the butterfly had not flapped its wings at just the right point in space/time, the hurricane would not have spawned. This is the Chaos Theory, which is the science of surprises, of the nonlinear and the unpredictable. It teaches humanity to expect the unexpected. While most traditional science deals with supposedly predictable phenomena like gravity, electricity, or chemical reactions, Chaos Theory deals with nonlinear things that are effectively impossible to predict or control, like turbulence, weather, and the stock market. These phenomena are often described by fractal mathematics, which captures the infinite complexity of nature. Many natural objects exhibit fractal properties, including landscapes, clouds, trees, organs, rivers, etc, and many of the systems in which we live exhibit complex, chaotic behavior. Recognizing the chaotic, fractal nature of our world can give us new insight, power, and wisdom. By understanding that our ecosystems, our social systems, and our economic systems are interconnected, we can hope to avoid actions which may end up being detrimental to our long-term well-being.
1911
The antitrust law dissolved Rockefeller's financial empire (the Standard Oil Company), and created 34 new companies.
Sales of gasoline exceeded sales of kerosene (fuel for engines rather than lighting).
Chevrolet was founded.
General Electric introduced the first electric commercial refrigerator.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 garment workers in New York. [Note: The workers – 123 women and 23 men – died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths from the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of the building. Most of the victims were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women aged 14 to 23. The doors to the stairwells and exits were locked (a then common practice to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft).]
Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company was acquired by a new company, that changed its name to International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924.
1912
The first blues record was cut. Blues is a music genre that originated in the sadness of African American work songs and spirituals. [Note: If Adam and Eve had survived, Earth would have had music “in reality;” but the gift of harmony, so large in the natures of Adam and Eve, has been so diluted by strains of unmusical tendencies that only once in a thousand mortal lives is there any great appreciation of harmonics. Some day a real musician will appear on Urantia, and whole peoples will be enthralled by the magnificent strains of his melodies. One such human being could forever change the course of a whole nation, even the entire civilized world for it is literally true that melody has the power to transform a whole world. Music will be the universal language of men, angels, and spirits. “In reality,” as used above, refers to the cosmic growth of things, meanings, and values and of their synthesis on ever-ascending levels of reality.
New Mexico and Arizona became states.
All the stores affiliated with Woolworth merged, creating a retail chain of 596 stores.
A&P operated 400 stores and inaugurated the no-frills grocery store.
The USA sent marines to protect the dictator of Nicaragua. U.S. motivations for these sundry conflicts were largely economic and military. The term "Banana Wars" was coined later to describe such interventions as exclusively for the preservation of U.S. commercial interests in the region.
Genuine Goodness
Whether consisting of personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry (education and leadership), genuine goodness is equally true and beautiful. In addition to morality, equal consideration should be given to the truths of science, philosophy, spiritual experience, the beauties of physical creation, the charm of intellectual art, and the grandeur of genuine character achievement.
1913
John Rockefeller was worth $212 billion, 1/44th of the USA economy, and he established the Rockefeller Foundation "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." [Note: Robber barons were accused of eliminating competition through predatory under pricing and then overcharging when they had a monopoly. Nineteenth-century robber barons included J.P. Morgan (banker), Andrew Carnegie (steel), Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads), and John D.Rockefeller (oil).]
Condé Montrose Nast, published Vanity Fair. [Note: His company, Condé Nast, eventually published other magazines such as Vogue, and The New Yorker.]
A reservoir was built in Yosemite to provide water for San Francisco.
The Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, opened to link New York and San Francisco.
William Mulholland completed the Los Angeles aqueduct.
Ford installed the first auto assembly line.
Two percent of U.S. citizens controlled only 60% of the national wealth. J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller controlled 20%.
Grand Central Station was inaugurated in New York.
The Woolworth Building, the tallest building in the world, opened in New York.
AT&T sold its shares in Western Union to avoid antitrust proceedings.
The Federal Reserve Bank was created.
Laissez-faire
Laissez-faire (leave alone) was a political as well as an economic doctrine. This pervading theory of the 19th century was that the individual, pursuing his own personal ends would achieve the best results for society. The function of the state was to maintain order and security and to avoid interference with the initiative of the individual in pursuit of his own desired goals.
President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist.
The Filipino rebels surrendered to the USA in the Philippines after 220,000 Filipinos and more than 4,000 US soldiers were killed.
Frank Hardart and Joseph Horn launched the first Horn & Hardart Automat in Philadelphia, which became the first chain of restaurants.
Caffeine replaced cocaine in the formula for Coca-Cola.
Willis Carrier invented the air conditioner.
George Fuller built the Flatiron Building in New York, one of New York's first skyscrapers.
Congress enacted the National Reclamation Act to appropriate the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands.
Female journalist, Ida M. Tarbell, exposed Standard Oil's ruthless business practices.
Archangel Control Center Established on Urantia
The archangel corps of Earth’s local Universe, Nebadon, is directed by the Chief Executive Officer, Gabriel. In recent times a divisional headquarters of the archangels has been maintained on Earth (Urantia). It is extremely unusual for archangel activities to be directed from a small and apparently insignificant inhabited world such as Urantia.
Few people on Earth (Urantia) grasp the significance of the fact that because of Michael/Jesus’ bestowal on Urantia, a lowly and confused planet has become a divisional headquarters for the universe administration and direction of certain archangel activities having to do with the Paradise ascension scheme. This fact undoubtedly presages the future concentration of other ascendant activities on the bestowal world of Michael/Jesus. It lends a solemn importance to the Master’s personal promise, “I will come again.”
Periodically, Great Teachers and Innovators Are Born to Help Men Along The Evolutionary Path
1903
Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the first airplane at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina.
The USA produced 11,200 cars (1,700 from Ford).
The first World Series of baseball was held.
1904
Coca-Cola was the most recognized brand name in the USA.
George Hale opened the Mt Wilson observatory, with the largest telescope ever built, near Los Angeles.
Amadeo Giannini founded the Bank of Italy, which became The Bank of America, in San Francisco.
The New York subway opened.
Harvey Hubbell invented the electrical plug and pull chain socket.
1905
The "San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad" from Salt Lake City to southern California was completed.
The city of Las Vegas in Nevada was founded.
A huge oil field was discovered in Oklahoma (the "Glenn Pool").
The first gas station opened in St Louis.
The first Nickelodeon (movie theater) opened in Pennsylvania.
More than one million immigrants entered the USA.
Detroit was the center for car manufacturing in the USA.
1906
The San Francisco earthquake and fire occurred. Up to 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed.
San Francisco segregated all Oriental children into one Chinatown school.
US Steel opened the largest integrated steel mill in the world in Gary, Indiana, near Chicago.
A Stanley Steamer steam-powered car, built by Freelan and Francis Stanley, set the world record for speed (127 mph).
1907
Leo Baekeland invented the first plastic ("bakelite").
3,242 miners were killed in the USA in one year.
Detroit Electric began manufacturing electric cars.
The USA sent its new navy on a tour around the world.
The Warner Brothers film company was founded.
George Freeth surfed from Hawaii to California.
There was one car for every 800 people in the USA.
The first gasoline station opened in St Louis.
The American Industrial Revolution
The primary causes of the American industrial revolution were the abundance of natural resources, an abundant supply of labor, government policies favoring expansion, new sources of power, railroads and water transportation, new communication systems connecting distant places, American inventors and entrepreneurs, and the team of the Most High.
1908
Ford introduced the Model T, the first mass vehicle.
Thor, by the Hurley Machine Company of Chicago, was the first electric-powered washing machine.
People in the USA mailed 677,777,798 postcards in a population of 88,700,000.
Texas built a ship channel to connect Houston with the sea.
William D'Arcy discovered oil in Iran.
Durant founded General Motors.
Six cars raced from New York to Paris via Siberia in 5 months.
Harvard created the Graduate School of Business Administration.
1909
The average hourly salary in the USA was $0.19.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, known as the Met Life Tower, was built in New York. It was the world's tallest building.
The USA forced the dissolution of Standard Oil.
1910
The U.S. Navy converted from coal to oil-burning ships. President William Howard Taft established three Naval Petroleum Reserves. [Note: By 1916, the Navy had commissioned its first two capital ships with oil-fired boilers, the USS Nevada and the USS Oklahoma.
Los Angeles opened the first international airport in the USA.
The population of Los Angeles was 300,000.
The Boy Scouts of America were founded.
California produced 22% of the world's oil (more than any country in the world.
350,000 pianos were manufactured in the USA.
Nevada became the last western state to ban gambling.
The success of Victor Herbert's "Naughty Marietta" brought "operetta" to the USA.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of African Americans.
The Wurlitzer company invented an organ with special sound effects to accompany silent films.
The first Nickelodeon (movie) theater opened in Los Angeles.
The first film was shot in Hollywood (by DW Griffith).
The Bible Institute of Los Angeles began publishing the "Fundamentals", the manifesto of Christian fundamentalism.
A bomb killed 20 people in Los Angeles.
Foreign-born residents were 14.7% of the population.
The Butterfly Effect (Alias The Most High)
https://fractalfoundation.org/resources/what-is-chaos-theory/ (edited)
The butterfly effect is an idea that says a small change can make much bigger changes happen. The idea started from weather prediction. Now the term is used for many things; some are scientific, and some are not. The Butterfly Effect grants the power to cause a hurricane in China to a butterfly flapping its wings in New Mexico. It may take a very long time, but the connection is real. If the butterfly had not flapped its wings at just the right point in space/time, the hurricane would not have spawned. This is the Chaos Theory, which is the science of surprises, of the nonlinear and the unpredictable. It teaches humanity to expect the unexpected. While most traditional science deals with supposedly predictable phenomena like gravity, electricity, or chemical reactions, Chaos Theory deals with nonlinear things that are effectively impossible to predict or control, like turbulence, weather, and the stock market. These phenomena are often described by fractal mathematics, which captures the infinite complexity of nature. Many natural objects exhibit fractal properties, including landscapes, clouds, trees, organs, rivers, etc, and many of the systems in which we live exhibit complex, chaotic behavior. Recognizing the chaotic, fractal nature of our world can give us new insight, power, and wisdom. By understanding that our ecosystems, our social systems, and our economic systems are interconnected, we can hope to avoid actions which may end up being detrimental to our long-term well-being.
1911
The antitrust law dissolved Rockefeller's financial empire (the Standard Oil Company), and created 34 new companies.
Sales of gasoline exceeded sales of kerosene (fuel for engines rather than lighting).
Chevrolet was founded.
General Electric introduced the first electric commercial refrigerator.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 garment workers in New York. [Note: The workers – 123 women and 23 men – died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths from the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of the building. Most of the victims were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women aged 14 to 23. The doors to the stairwells and exits were locked (a then common practice to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft).]
Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company was acquired by a new company, that changed its name to International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924.
1912
The first blues record was cut. Blues is a music genre that originated in the sadness of African American work songs and spirituals. [Note: If Adam and Eve had survived, Earth would have had music “in reality;” but the gift of harmony, so large in the natures of Adam and Eve, has been so diluted by strains of unmusical tendencies that only once in a thousand mortal lives is there any great appreciation of harmonics. Some day a real musician will appear on Urantia, and whole peoples will be enthralled by the magnificent strains of his melodies. One such human being could forever change the course of a whole nation, even the entire civilized world for it is literally true that melody has the power to transform a whole world. Music will be the universal language of men, angels, and spirits. “In reality,” as used above, refers to the cosmic growth of things, meanings, and values and of their synthesis on ever-ascending levels of reality.
New Mexico and Arizona became states.
All the stores affiliated with Woolworth merged, creating a retail chain of 596 stores.
A&P operated 400 stores and inaugurated the no-frills grocery store.
The USA sent marines to protect the dictator of Nicaragua. U.S. motivations for these sundry conflicts were largely economic and military. The term "Banana Wars" was coined later to describe such interventions as exclusively for the preservation of U.S. commercial interests in the region.
Genuine Goodness
Whether consisting of personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry (education and leadership), genuine goodness is equally true and beautiful. In addition to morality, equal consideration should be given to the truths of science, philosophy, spiritual experience, the beauties of physical creation, the charm of intellectual art, and the grandeur of genuine character achievement.
1913
John Rockefeller was worth $212 billion, 1/44th of the USA economy, and he established the Rockefeller Foundation "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." [Note: Robber barons were accused of eliminating competition through predatory under pricing and then overcharging when they had a monopoly. Nineteenth-century robber barons included J.P. Morgan (banker), Andrew Carnegie (steel), Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads), and John D.Rockefeller (oil).]
Condé Montrose Nast, published Vanity Fair. [Note: His company, Condé Nast, eventually published other magazines such as Vogue, and The New Yorker.]
A reservoir was built in Yosemite to provide water for San Francisco.
The Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, opened to link New York and San Francisco.
William Mulholland completed the Los Angeles aqueduct.
Ford installed the first auto assembly line.
Two percent of U.S. citizens controlled only 60% of the national wealth. J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller controlled 20%.
Grand Central Station was inaugurated in New York.
The Woolworth Building, the tallest building in the world, opened in New York.
AT&T sold its shares in Western Union to avoid antitrust proceedings.
The Federal Reserve Bank was created.
Laissez-faire
Laissez-faire (leave alone) was a political as well as an economic doctrine. This pervading theory of the 19th century was that the individual, pursuing his own personal ends would achieve the best results for society. The function of the state was to maintain order and security and to avoid interference with the initiative of the individual in pursuit of his own desired goals.
1914
The police and militia killed coal mine strikers and their families in Ludlow, Colorado. [Note: The “Ludlow Massacre” was a conflict resulting from a coal miners’ labor strike. The Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attacked a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families. The Colorado National Guard used machine guns to fire into the colony. Approximately twenty-one people, including miners' wives and children, were killed. The chief owner of the mine, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was widely excoriated for having orchestrated the massacre.
The USA suspended the gold standard. [Note: No longer tethered to gold, this move facilitated the printing of unlimited U.S. dollars for loans to the Allies (England, France, and Russia) in World War One. World War One elevated approximately 21,000 US investors into the brackets of millionaires and billionaires. The Rockefellers alone, who displayed great eagerness for the U.S. to enter World War One on the British side, made in excess of $200,000,000 from the conflict. Bernard Baruch, President Woodrow Wilson’s Czar of American Industry and part of the commission that handled all purchasing for the Allies during the war, made a personal profit of $750,000 in just one afternoon during the war, The U.S. Federal Reserve System, which began operations in 1914, was the vehicle which forced the American people, without their knowledge to lend the Allies twenty-five billion dollars in loans that went unpaid, although the interest on the loans was paid to the New York bankers. The cartel of the Rothschilds and the Bank of England and other London banking houses, which ultimately controlled the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank through their controlling amounts of bank stock (along with that of their subsidiary firms in New York (J.P. Morgan Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co., etc.) directed the successful campaign to have the plan for the Federal Reserve Bank enacted into law by Congress. These firms had their principal officers appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Advisory Council.]
The USA and Panama opened the Panama Canal.
For the first time senators were elected directly by the people instead of being appointed by state legislatures.
Composer Jerome Kern invented the "musical" by integrating music, drama and ballet.
Robert Goddard invented the liquid-fueled rocket.
World War I began.
Ford's market share of the car market was 48%.
Marcus Garvey founded the "Universal Negro Improvement Association."
The Federal income tax was re-established.
The first scheduled passenger airline service was started in Florida by Percival Fansler. The St Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, using Thomas Benoist's "flying boat" flew between St Petersburg and Tampa in 23 minutes rather than the two hours required by ship.
The Christian Churches
Christianity lowered its ideals before the pressure of human greed, war-madness, and the lust for power; but the religion of Jesus stands as the unsullied and transcendent spiritual summons, calling to the best there is in man to rise above all these legacies of animal evolution and to attain the moral heights of true human destiny.
1915
The "Ku Klux Klan" was refounded in Georgia as a racist organization by William Simmons, persecuting Catholics and Jews as well as Blacks.
The government forced the dissolution of the Edison movie trust.
The USA had 100 million people, of which 13-15% were foreign-born.
AT&T's long-distance telephone service reached San Francisco.
Following the assassination of the Haitian President, President Woodrow Wilson sent the United States Marines into Haiti to restore order and maintain political and economic stability in the Caribbean. (This occupation continued until 1934.)
A German submarine sank the U.S. ship Lusitania killing 120 people.
1916
The USA produced 1.5 million cars. There was a total of 3.4 million cars in the USA.
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the USA passed the GDP of Britain.
Clarence Saunders opened his Piggly Wiggly store in Memphis, Tennessee, the first self-service grocery store.
Polish immigrant, Nathan Handwerker, opened Nathan's Famous hot-dog stand in Coney Island, which became the first fast-food chain.
Margaret Sanger and Ethel Byrne opened the first birth control clinic in the USA.
Margaret Sanger founded the National Birth Control League (later renamed Planned Parenthood).
The first woman (Jeannette Rankin) was elected to the U.S. Congress.
Merrill Lynch Stock Brokers was founded.
William Fox founded the Fox studios in Hollywood.
Adolph Zukor founded the Paramount studios.
Los Angeles had 1056 miles of trolley lines.
The USA signed a treaty with Nicaragua to build a canal.
The USA established a military government in the Dominican Republic.
William Boeing founded a company to manufacture airplanes.
The World War I Period
The American entry into World War I came on April 6, 1917, after a year long effort by President Woodrow Wilson to get the United States into the war. American sentiment for neutrality was particularly strong among Irish Americans, German Americans and Scandinavian Americans, as well as among church leaders and among women in general. As U.S. President, it was Wilson who made the key policy decisions over foreign affairs. While the country was at peace, the domestic economy ran on a laissez-faire basis, with American banks making huge loans to Britain and France – funds that were in large part used to buy munitions, raw materials, and food from the U.S. The event that tilted the United States toward a declaration of war on Germany was an intercepted telegram from Germany to Mexico. Referred to as the Zimmerman Telegram, the German government made overtures to Mexico, encouraging Mexico to attack the United States. All Mexico had to do was occupy the United States long enough for Germany to defeat Great Britain and France. After the war was over, Germany would help the Mexicans defeat the United States and help restore the US-Mexican border of the 1840s, prior to the Mexican-American War. When the Zimmerman Telegram was made public, opinion shifted greatly toward entering the war on the side of the Allies.
1917
The USA entered World War I on the side of Britain and France against Germany.
40% of USA households owned a telephone.
Columbia University established the Pulitzer Prize.
The USA accounted for 67% of the world's oil output.
The first jazz record was cut in New York.
Denmark sold the islands of St Thomas, St Croix and St John to the United States. [Note: These are now part of the U.S. Virgin Islands located in the Caribbean.]
1918
The US post office inaugurated "air mail" (between New York and Washington).
Walter Jacobs in Chicago founded a car-rental business that became Hertz.
An epidemic of influenza killed 20 million people worldwide (500,000 in the USA).
The fighting ceased in World War I. [Note: 2 million Russians, 1.8 million Germans, 1.3 million French, 1.1 million Austro-Hungarians, 0.9 million Britons, 0.6 million Turks and 0.5 million Italians died. 116,708 American military personnel died during World War 1 from all causes (influenza, combat and wounds). Over 204,000 Americans were wounded and 757 U.S. civilians died due to military action.]
1919
The USA overtook Europe in total industrial output.
Barnum and Bailey's circus merged with the Ringling Brothers to form the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus."
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, had unintended consequences including an enormous effect on the global economy. One of the key provisions of the treaty was that Germany was held entirely responsible for the war, so Germany was to pay reparations to the allied nations despite the fact that Germany’s economy had been destroyed by the war and Germans were starving. A key provision of the treaty was the confiscation of German territory. The size of the nation was reduced by a third, and much of the confiscated land was the heart of German manufacturing. Asking Germany to repay such a vast sum of money was unrealistic, but France and Great Britain demanded payment because the United States was demanding repayment of loans given to the allied countries. The conditions of this treaty were the genesis of World War II.
As the negotiations at Versailles concluded, a backlash against the globalism that President Wilson had proposed began. The United States Senate rejected membership in Wilson’s League of Nations, which would have been the first step towards globalization and world brotherhood.
The Roaring Twenties Era
The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change in America. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation's total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this affluence swept many Americans into a consumer society.
The event that propelled the roaring twenties was World War I. American military involvement was only for a year, but sales of goods to the allies was lucrative. The restrictions imposed upon civilians during the war created a backlog of needs. The mass destruction from the fighting in Europe, and the flawed peace treaty that followed the war all made a profound impact on the twenties decade. Soldiers came back from the war sometimes disturbed, broken, and disillusioned. New weapons, such as machine guns and chemical warfare (mustard gas), had made the warfare combat experience devastating.
The economy of the 1920s boomed and people had more money to spend, They bought radios, home appliances, and automobiles on credit. By the end of the decade, millions of Americans owned cars.
As more people than ever embraced buying on credit, this included speculating on stocks with credit (buying on margin). This fueled the stock market crash that closed the 1920s.
1920
Radio station KDKA (Pittsburgh) was the first commercial radio station in the USA.
The population of the USA was 105 million with more urban than rural dwellers.
Eight million U.S. citizens owned a car.
Los Angeles had one car for every 5 people.
43% of the population of Hawaii was Japanese.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was founded.
The prohibition of alcoholic beverages law was enacted. [Note: Prohibition was a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933. Protestants, Progressives, and women all spearheaded the drive to institute Prohibition. Prohibition led directly to the rise of organized crime.]
Universal female suffrage was guaranteed by the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
Earle Dickson invented the band-aid.
A bomb killed 30 people in Manhattan.
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer had 6,000 people arrested for communist activities ("the red scare").
The USA founded the Black Chamber to spy on telegrams. [Note: The Black Chamber, also known as The Cipher Bureau, was the United States' first peacetime crypt-analytic organization, and a forerunner of the National Security Agency (NSA).]
1921
The first wire-photo (a picture sent by telegraph, telephone or radio) was sent by Western Union.
RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, broadcast a boxing match nationwide.
Rudolph Valentino (a Latino) became the first male movie sex symbol.
43 billion cigarettes were sold in the USA.
General Motors introduced cars priced for every income bracket.
Tens of thousands of coal miners fought 3,000 hired guns (the Logan Defenders) in West Virginia. (The "Battle of Blair Mountain" was the result of years of bitter labor disputes between the miners and coal companies of southern West Virginia).
The USA enacted the "Emergency Quota Act" that restricted foreign immigration.
The police and militia killed coal mine strikers and their families in Ludlow, Colorado. [Note: The “Ludlow Massacre” was a conflict resulting from a coal miners’ labor strike. The Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attacked a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families. The Colorado National Guard used machine guns to fire into the colony. Approximately twenty-one people, including miners' wives and children, were killed. The chief owner of the mine, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was widely excoriated for having orchestrated the massacre.
The USA suspended the gold standard. [Note: No longer tethered to gold, this move facilitated the printing of unlimited U.S. dollars for loans to the Allies (England, France, and Russia) in World War One. World War One elevated approximately 21,000 US investors into the brackets of millionaires and billionaires. The Rockefellers alone, who displayed great eagerness for the U.S. to enter World War One on the British side, made in excess of $200,000,000 from the conflict. Bernard Baruch, President Woodrow Wilson’s Czar of American Industry and part of the commission that handled all purchasing for the Allies during the war, made a personal profit of $750,000 in just one afternoon during the war, The U.S. Federal Reserve System, which began operations in 1914, was the vehicle which forced the American people, without their knowledge to lend the Allies twenty-five billion dollars in loans that went unpaid, although the interest on the loans was paid to the New York bankers. The cartel of the Rothschilds and the Bank of England and other London banking houses, which ultimately controlled the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank through their controlling amounts of bank stock (along with that of their subsidiary firms in New York (J.P. Morgan Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co., etc.) directed the successful campaign to have the plan for the Federal Reserve Bank enacted into law by Congress. These firms had their principal officers appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Advisory Council.]
The USA and Panama opened the Panama Canal.
For the first time senators were elected directly by the people instead of being appointed by state legislatures.
Composer Jerome Kern invented the "musical" by integrating music, drama and ballet.
Robert Goddard invented the liquid-fueled rocket.
World War I began.
Ford's market share of the car market was 48%.
Marcus Garvey founded the "Universal Negro Improvement Association."
The Federal income tax was re-established.
The first scheduled passenger airline service was started in Florida by Percival Fansler. The St Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, using Thomas Benoist's "flying boat" flew between St Petersburg and Tampa in 23 minutes rather than the two hours required by ship.
The Christian Churches
Christianity lowered its ideals before the pressure of human greed, war-madness, and the lust for power; but the religion of Jesus stands as the unsullied and transcendent spiritual summons, calling to the best there is in man to rise above all these legacies of animal evolution and to attain the moral heights of true human destiny.
1915
The "Ku Klux Klan" was refounded in Georgia as a racist organization by William Simmons, persecuting Catholics and Jews as well as Blacks.
The government forced the dissolution of the Edison movie trust.
The USA had 100 million people, of which 13-15% were foreign-born.
AT&T's long-distance telephone service reached San Francisco.
Following the assassination of the Haitian President, President Woodrow Wilson sent the United States Marines into Haiti to restore order and maintain political and economic stability in the Caribbean. (This occupation continued until 1934.)
A German submarine sank the U.S. ship Lusitania killing 120 people.
1916
The USA produced 1.5 million cars. There was a total of 3.4 million cars in the USA.
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the USA passed the GDP of Britain.
Clarence Saunders opened his Piggly Wiggly store in Memphis, Tennessee, the first self-service grocery store.
Polish immigrant, Nathan Handwerker, opened Nathan's Famous hot-dog stand in Coney Island, which became the first fast-food chain.
Margaret Sanger and Ethel Byrne opened the first birth control clinic in the USA.
Margaret Sanger founded the National Birth Control League (later renamed Planned Parenthood).
The first woman (Jeannette Rankin) was elected to the U.S. Congress.
Merrill Lynch Stock Brokers was founded.
William Fox founded the Fox studios in Hollywood.
Adolph Zukor founded the Paramount studios.
Los Angeles had 1056 miles of trolley lines.
The USA signed a treaty with Nicaragua to build a canal.
The USA established a military government in the Dominican Republic.
William Boeing founded a company to manufacture airplanes.
The World War I Period
The American entry into World War I came on April 6, 1917, after a year long effort by President Woodrow Wilson to get the United States into the war. American sentiment for neutrality was particularly strong among Irish Americans, German Americans and Scandinavian Americans, as well as among church leaders and among women in general. As U.S. President, it was Wilson who made the key policy decisions over foreign affairs. While the country was at peace, the domestic economy ran on a laissez-faire basis, with American banks making huge loans to Britain and France – funds that were in large part used to buy munitions, raw materials, and food from the U.S. The event that tilted the United States toward a declaration of war on Germany was an intercepted telegram from Germany to Mexico. Referred to as the Zimmerman Telegram, the German government made overtures to Mexico, encouraging Mexico to attack the United States. All Mexico had to do was occupy the United States long enough for Germany to defeat Great Britain and France. After the war was over, Germany would help the Mexicans defeat the United States and help restore the US-Mexican border of the 1840s, prior to the Mexican-American War. When the Zimmerman Telegram was made public, opinion shifted greatly toward entering the war on the side of the Allies.
1917
The USA entered World War I on the side of Britain and France against Germany.
40% of USA households owned a telephone.
Columbia University established the Pulitzer Prize.
The USA accounted for 67% of the world's oil output.
The first jazz record was cut in New York.
Denmark sold the islands of St Thomas, St Croix and St John to the United States. [Note: These are now part of the U.S. Virgin Islands located in the Caribbean.]
1918
The US post office inaugurated "air mail" (between New York and Washington).
Walter Jacobs in Chicago founded a car-rental business that became Hertz.
An epidemic of influenza killed 20 million people worldwide (500,000 in the USA).
The fighting ceased in World War I. [Note: 2 million Russians, 1.8 million Germans, 1.3 million French, 1.1 million Austro-Hungarians, 0.9 million Britons, 0.6 million Turks and 0.5 million Italians died. 116,708 American military personnel died during World War 1 from all causes (influenza, combat and wounds). Over 204,000 Americans were wounded and 757 U.S. civilians died due to military action.]
1919
The USA overtook Europe in total industrial output.
Barnum and Bailey's circus merged with the Ringling Brothers to form the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus."
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, had unintended consequences including an enormous effect on the global economy. One of the key provisions of the treaty was that Germany was held entirely responsible for the war, so Germany was to pay reparations to the allied nations despite the fact that Germany’s economy had been destroyed by the war and Germans were starving. A key provision of the treaty was the confiscation of German territory. The size of the nation was reduced by a third, and much of the confiscated land was the heart of German manufacturing. Asking Germany to repay such a vast sum of money was unrealistic, but France and Great Britain demanded payment because the United States was demanding repayment of loans given to the allied countries. The conditions of this treaty were the genesis of World War II.
As the negotiations at Versailles concluded, a backlash against the globalism that President Wilson had proposed began. The United States Senate rejected membership in Wilson’s League of Nations, which would have been the first step towards globalization and world brotherhood.
The Roaring Twenties Era
The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change in America. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation's total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this affluence swept many Americans into a consumer society.
The event that propelled the roaring twenties was World War I. American military involvement was only for a year, but sales of goods to the allies was lucrative. The restrictions imposed upon civilians during the war created a backlog of needs. The mass destruction from the fighting in Europe, and the flawed peace treaty that followed the war all made a profound impact on the twenties decade. Soldiers came back from the war sometimes disturbed, broken, and disillusioned. New weapons, such as machine guns and chemical warfare (mustard gas), had made the warfare combat experience devastating.
The economy of the 1920s boomed and people had more money to spend, They bought radios, home appliances, and automobiles on credit. By the end of the decade, millions of Americans owned cars.
As more people than ever embraced buying on credit, this included speculating on stocks with credit (buying on margin). This fueled the stock market crash that closed the 1920s.
1920
Radio station KDKA (Pittsburgh) was the first commercial radio station in the USA.
The population of the USA was 105 million with more urban than rural dwellers.
Eight million U.S. citizens owned a car.
Los Angeles had one car for every 5 people.
43% of the population of Hawaii was Japanese.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was founded.
The prohibition of alcoholic beverages law was enacted. [Note: Prohibition was a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933. Protestants, Progressives, and women all spearheaded the drive to institute Prohibition. Prohibition led directly to the rise of organized crime.]
Universal female suffrage was guaranteed by the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
Earle Dickson invented the band-aid.
A bomb killed 30 people in Manhattan.
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer had 6,000 people arrested for communist activities ("the red scare").
The USA founded the Black Chamber to spy on telegrams. [Note: The Black Chamber, also known as The Cipher Bureau, was the United States' first peacetime crypt-analytic organization, and a forerunner of the National Security Agency (NSA).]
1921
The first wire-photo (a picture sent by telegraph, telephone or radio) was sent by Western Union.
RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, broadcast a boxing match nationwide.
Rudolph Valentino (a Latino) became the first male movie sex symbol.
43 billion cigarettes were sold in the USA.
General Motors introduced cars priced for every income bracket.
Tens of thousands of coal miners fought 3,000 hired guns (the Logan Defenders) in West Virginia. (The "Battle of Blair Mountain" was the result of years of bitter labor disputes between the miners and coal companies of southern West Virginia).
The USA enacted the "Emergency Quota Act" that restricted foreign immigration.
1922
The "Country Club Plaza", the first shopping mall, opened near Kansas City.
Britain, the USA, France, Japan and Italy signed the Washington Naval Treaty, which limited the size of their navies.
Time Magazine was launched.
There were 60,000 radios in the USA.
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The Invisible Hand of the Most High
Adam Smith introduced the concept of the invisible hand in his book “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” published in 1776. Each human event or exchange creates information about which goods and services are valuable and how difficult they are to market. This data is captured in the price system, and spontaneously directs competing consumers, producers, distributors, and intermediaries – each pursuing their individual plans – to fulfill the needs and desires of others through a system of mutual interdependence. The Invisible Hand directs thousands of businesses, small and large, working to produce and deliver inventions, technologies and cures that help everyone.
Normally, every individual intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by the invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention. By pursuing his own interests, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than he realizes.
Overcoming Matter
During life in the flesh, man’s spiritual nature is often obscured in his self-centered daily life, as the animal nature of humans’ tends to cater to their material needs and desires. But the spiritual self (the mind indwelling spirit of the Universal Father) is always present to guide mortals if they seek the spirit with earnest desire.
1923
Garrett Morgan invented the first traffic signal.
Kodak released the 16-mm Cine-Kodak hand-held movie camera.
Unemployment was just 2.4%.
The Rolls Royce Springfield, built in America, was the first car with a radio.
President Warren Harding died and was succeeded by Vice president, Calvin Coolidge. [Note: Coolidge expressed the core value of the Republican party in a speech that he made in 1925 in which he stated: "The business of America is business."]
Roy Allen and Frank Wright opened an A&W Root Beer in Sacramento, which was the first drive-in for automobiles.
1924
The USA Congress passed the "Exclusion Act", that prohibited further immigration from Japan.
The Society for Human Rights was founded in Chicago to promote homosexual rights.
The stock market boomed. [Note: Millions of Americans began to purchase stock, causing stocks to increase in value.]
Metro and Mayer merged into MGM.
Three million U.S. citizens were members of the "Ku Klux Klan."
441,000 cars were registered in Los Angeles.
1925
Wyoming's Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman governor in the USA.
Cellophane was introduced.
Burroughs introduced a portable adding machine.
Alphonse Capone ruled the Mafia.
The Milestone Motel opened in San Luis Obispo, California, the first motel.
Enhancement of Creative Potential
Hybridization of superior and dissimilar stocks is the secret of the creation of new and more vigorous strains of species. This is true of plants, animals, and humans. Hybridization augments vigor and increases fertility. Race mixtures of the average or superior strata of various peoples greatly increases creative potential, as is shown in the population of the United States of America.
1926
Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket.
James McKinsey founded the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
The largest movie theater in the world opened in Atlanta.
Highway 91 connected Las Vegas, Nevada to Barstow, California.
Films with synchronized voice and music were introduced.
A second oil rush occurred in Oklahoma.
Hugo Gernsback founded the first science-fiction magazine, "Amazing Stories."
Vitaphone introduced 16-inch acetate-coated shellac discs playing at 33 1/3 RPM (a size and speed calculated to be equivalent to a reel of film).
The Atlanta airport opened.
1927
Scotch tape was introduced.
Sales of "race records" (black artists) reached $100 million.
General Motors sold more than one million cars and moved ahead of Ford.
The Juke Box was introduced by Automatic Music Instrument company.
Pan American World Airways was founded.
Philo Farnsworth invented television.
The pipe-organ became the most popular instrument in the USA (2,400 sold in one year).
Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to be executed. [Note: Observers throughout the world thought Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted because of their political beliefs and ethnic background.]
Lindberg flew from New York to Paris. [Note: Lindbergh was just 25 years old when he completed the solo flight. He learned to fly while serving in the Army and was working as a United States Mail pilot when the New York hotelier Raymond Orteig announced a $25,000 prize for the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris, or Paris to New York. Lindbergh received financial support from a group of St. Louis businessmen to build a single-engine plane to make the journey. He tested the plane, called the Spirit of St. Louis, with a record-setting flight from San Diego to New York.]
A Government of Mankind
Earth (Urantia) will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men. Leagues of Nations can never bring permanent peace to mankind. World-wide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war. You cannot prevent nations from going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty. Internationalism is a step in the right direction towards global brotherhood.
1928
First daily passenger flight between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Texas passed California as the main producer of oil.
William Randolph Hearst's news empire reached its circulation and revenue peak.
Seven gangsters were killed on San Valentine's day in Chicago in the mob war.
Walt Disney and animator Ub Iwerks created the animated character Mickey Mouse.
The Great Depression Era
The Great Depression began in August 1929, when the United States economy first went into an economic recession. Everyone in the Great Depression struggled financially due to the collapse of the banking system. Although the country spent two months with declining GDP, it was not until the Wall Street Crash in October 1929 that the effects of a declining economy were felt, and a major worldwide economic downturn ensued. The stock market crash marked the beginning of a decade of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation, plunging farm incomes, and lost opportunities for economic growth as well as for personal advancement. There was a great loss of confidence in the economic future.
The usual explanations included numerous factors, especially high consumer debt, ill-regulated markets that permitted overoptimistic loans by banks and investors, and the lack of high-growth new industries. These all interacted to create a downward economic spiral of reduced spending, falling confidence and lowered production. Industries that suffered the most included construction, shipping, coal mining, logging and agriculture (compounded by dust-bowl conditions in the heartland – climate change). Also hard hit was the manufacturing of durable goods like automobiles and appliances, whose purchase could be postponed. The economy hit bottom in the winter of 1932–33; followed by four years of growth until the recession of 1937–38 brought back high levels of unemployment.
1929
Herbert Hoover was elected president.
78% of the world's cars were in the USA.
Stock prices climbed 40%.
The USA produced 4.5 million cars, compared with France's 211,000 and Britain's 182,000.
There were 10 million radios in the USA.
Beginning October 24th, stock markets crashed around the world.
The richest 1% owned 40% of the nation's wealth, even while workers' productivity had increased 43% since 1919.
William Gericke invented hydroponics, a way to grow food without soil.
Surrender of Sovereignty
The difficulty in the evolution of political sovereignty from the family unit to all mankind lies in the irrational resistance to change in individuals, institutions, ideas, and power structures.
Families have defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state. Each new and forward evolution of political sovereignty is (and has always been) embarrassed and hampered by the “scaffolding stages” of the previous developments in political organization. This is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty which makes possible the evolution of the tribe, makes difficult the evolution of the super tribe – the territorial state. And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind.
1930
Frank Whittle patented the first jet engine.
The population of the USA was 138 million.
The USA post office refused to deliver any mail coming from Spain that bore a stamp depicting Goya's masterpiece "Maja Desnuda".
Britain, Japan, France, Italy and the USA signed the London Naval Treaty, an agreement to reduce naval warfare.
Clyde William Tombaugh discovered a ninth planet, Pluto.
The Bank of Italy was renamed Bank of America.
TWA was founded to transport mail by plane.
Five movie studios (Fox, MGM, Paramount, RKO and Warner) controlled the majority of USA movies.
William Fard founded the "Nation of Islam" in Detroit. [Note: The Nation of Islam, abbreviated NOI, is an African American political and religious movement.]
Polystyrene (a rigid economical plastic) was invented.
Ellen Church, a nurse and a pilot, became the first airplane stewardess (on a Boeing aircraft).
The popularity of radios caused a decline in the sales of records.
The Chrysler Building in New York was completed, the tallest building in the world.
The population of the USA was 120 million.
Most immigrants to the USA were Italians.
The GDP of the USA fell 9.4% from the year before and unemployment reached 8.7%.
A second oil rush happened in Texas.
Alphonse Capone, the famous American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit (mafia), was sentenced to prison for life.
Popular Sovereignty
The United States was established under the U.S. Constitution, which was enacted in 1788. The Framers of the Constitution created the government to be exclusively controlled by the people of the U.S., not England. The people were to elect government representatives to make the people’s laws.
This political principle, known as popular sovereignty maintains that the source of governmental power comes from the will of the people. Popular sovereignty is based on the concept that government exists in order to benefit the citizens. If the government isn't operating to benefit the citizens, then the government should cease to exist.
1931
The USA deported 138,000 Mexicans (half a million between 1929 and 1935). [Note: President Hoover deported the Mexican Americans for stealing U.S. jobs under the mantra, “American jobs for Americans.”]
The price of oil plunged to $0.15/barrel.
Last "tong" war between rival Chinese gangs. [Note: The Tong Wars were a series of violent disputes beginning in the 1880s among rival Chinese Tong factions centered in the Chinatown's of American cities, in particular San Francisco. Each tong had salaried soldiers who fought in Chinatown alleys and streets over the control of opium, prostitution, gambling, and territory.]
Congress voted to make "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official anthem of the USA.
Canada declared its independence from England.
The Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world opened in New York.
The Rockefeller Center was inaugurated in New York.
The GDP of the USA fell 8.5% from the year before and unemployment reached 15.9%.
Gambling was legalized in Las Vegas.
The "Country Club Plaza", the first shopping mall, opened near Kansas City.
Britain, the USA, France, Japan and Italy signed the Washington Naval Treaty, which limited the size of their navies.
Time Magazine was launched.
There were 60,000 radios in the USA.
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The Invisible Hand of the Most High
Adam Smith introduced the concept of the invisible hand in his book “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” published in 1776. Each human event or exchange creates information about which goods and services are valuable and how difficult they are to market. This data is captured in the price system, and spontaneously directs competing consumers, producers, distributors, and intermediaries – each pursuing their individual plans – to fulfill the needs and desires of others through a system of mutual interdependence. The Invisible Hand directs thousands of businesses, small and large, working to produce and deliver inventions, technologies and cures that help everyone.
Normally, every individual intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by the invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention. By pursuing his own interests, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than he realizes.
Overcoming Matter
During life in the flesh, man’s spiritual nature is often obscured in his self-centered daily life, as the animal nature of humans’ tends to cater to their material needs and desires. But the spiritual self (the mind indwelling spirit of the Universal Father) is always present to guide mortals if they seek the spirit with earnest desire.
1923
Garrett Morgan invented the first traffic signal.
Kodak released the 16-mm Cine-Kodak hand-held movie camera.
Unemployment was just 2.4%.
The Rolls Royce Springfield, built in America, was the first car with a radio.
President Warren Harding died and was succeeded by Vice president, Calvin Coolidge. [Note: Coolidge expressed the core value of the Republican party in a speech that he made in 1925 in which he stated: "The business of America is business."]
Roy Allen and Frank Wright opened an A&W Root Beer in Sacramento, which was the first drive-in for automobiles.
1924
The USA Congress passed the "Exclusion Act", that prohibited further immigration from Japan.
The Society for Human Rights was founded in Chicago to promote homosexual rights.
The stock market boomed. [Note: Millions of Americans began to purchase stock, causing stocks to increase in value.]
Metro and Mayer merged into MGM.
Three million U.S. citizens were members of the "Ku Klux Klan."
441,000 cars were registered in Los Angeles.
1925
Wyoming's Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman governor in the USA.
Cellophane was introduced.
Burroughs introduced a portable adding machine.
Alphonse Capone ruled the Mafia.
The Milestone Motel opened in San Luis Obispo, California, the first motel.
Enhancement of Creative Potential
Hybridization of superior and dissimilar stocks is the secret of the creation of new and more vigorous strains of species. This is true of plants, animals, and humans. Hybridization augments vigor and increases fertility. Race mixtures of the average or superior strata of various peoples greatly increases creative potential, as is shown in the population of the United States of America.
1926
Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket.
James McKinsey founded the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
The largest movie theater in the world opened in Atlanta.
Highway 91 connected Las Vegas, Nevada to Barstow, California.
Films with synchronized voice and music were introduced.
A second oil rush occurred in Oklahoma.
Hugo Gernsback founded the first science-fiction magazine, "Amazing Stories."
Vitaphone introduced 16-inch acetate-coated shellac discs playing at 33 1/3 RPM (a size and speed calculated to be equivalent to a reel of film).
The Atlanta airport opened.
1927
Scotch tape was introduced.
Sales of "race records" (black artists) reached $100 million.
General Motors sold more than one million cars and moved ahead of Ford.
The Juke Box was introduced by Automatic Music Instrument company.
Pan American World Airways was founded.
Philo Farnsworth invented television.
The pipe-organ became the most popular instrument in the USA (2,400 sold in one year).
Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to be executed. [Note: Observers throughout the world thought Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted because of their political beliefs and ethnic background.]
Lindberg flew from New York to Paris. [Note: Lindbergh was just 25 years old when he completed the solo flight. He learned to fly while serving in the Army and was working as a United States Mail pilot when the New York hotelier Raymond Orteig announced a $25,000 prize for the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris, or Paris to New York. Lindbergh received financial support from a group of St. Louis businessmen to build a single-engine plane to make the journey. He tested the plane, called the Spirit of St. Louis, with a record-setting flight from San Diego to New York.]
A Government of Mankind
Earth (Urantia) will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men. Leagues of Nations can never bring permanent peace to mankind. World-wide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war. You cannot prevent nations from going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty. Internationalism is a step in the right direction towards global brotherhood.
1928
First daily passenger flight between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Texas passed California as the main producer of oil.
William Randolph Hearst's news empire reached its circulation and revenue peak.
Seven gangsters were killed on San Valentine's day in Chicago in the mob war.
Walt Disney and animator Ub Iwerks created the animated character Mickey Mouse.
The Great Depression Era
The Great Depression began in August 1929, when the United States economy first went into an economic recession. Everyone in the Great Depression struggled financially due to the collapse of the banking system. Although the country spent two months with declining GDP, it was not until the Wall Street Crash in October 1929 that the effects of a declining economy were felt, and a major worldwide economic downturn ensued. The stock market crash marked the beginning of a decade of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation, plunging farm incomes, and lost opportunities for economic growth as well as for personal advancement. There was a great loss of confidence in the economic future.
The usual explanations included numerous factors, especially high consumer debt, ill-regulated markets that permitted overoptimistic loans by banks and investors, and the lack of high-growth new industries. These all interacted to create a downward economic spiral of reduced spending, falling confidence and lowered production. Industries that suffered the most included construction, shipping, coal mining, logging and agriculture (compounded by dust-bowl conditions in the heartland – climate change). Also hard hit was the manufacturing of durable goods like automobiles and appliances, whose purchase could be postponed. The economy hit bottom in the winter of 1932–33; followed by four years of growth until the recession of 1937–38 brought back high levels of unemployment.
1929
Herbert Hoover was elected president.
78% of the world's cars were in the USA.
Stock prices climbed 40%.
The USA produced 4.5 million cars, compared with France's 211,000 and Britain's 182,000.
There were 10 million radios in the USA.
Beginning October 24th, stock markets crashed around the world.
The richest 1% owned 40% of the nation's wealth, even while workers' productivity had increased 43% since 1919.
William Gericke invented hydroponics, a way to grow food without soil.
Surrender of Sovereignty
The difficulty in the evolution of political sovereignty from the family unit to all mankind lies in the irrational resistance to change in individuals, institutions, ideas, and power structures.
Families have defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state. Each new and forward evolution of political sovereignty is (and has always been) embarrassed and hampered by the “scaffolding stages” of the previous developments in political organization. This is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty which makes possible the evolution of the tribe, makes difficult the evolution of the super tribe – the territorial state. And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind.
1930
Frank Whittle patented the first jet engine.
The population of the USA was 138 million.
The USA post office refused to deliver any mail coming from Spain that bore a stamp depicting Goya's masterpiece "Maja Desnuda".
Britain, Japan, France, Italy and the USA signed the London Naval Treaty, an agreement to reduce naval warfare.
Clyde William Tombaugh discovered a ninth planet, Pluto.
The Bank of Italy was renamed Bank of America.
TWA was founded to transport mail by plane.
Five movie studios (Fox, MGM, Paramount, RKO and Warner) controlled the majority of USA movies.
William Fard founded the "Nation of Islam" in Detroit. [Note: The Nation of Islam, abbreviated NOI, is an African American political and religious movement.]
Polystyrene (a rigid economical plastic) was invented.
Ellen Church, a nurse and a pilot, became the first airplane stewardess (on a Boeing aircraft).
The popularity of radios caused a decline in the sales of records.
The Chrysler Building in New York was completed, the tallest building in the world.
The population of the USA was 120 million.
Most immigrants to the USA were Italians.
The GDP of the USA fell 9.4% from the year before and unemployment reached 8.7%.
A second oil rush happened in Texas.
Alphonse Capone, the famous American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit (mafia), was sentenced to prison for life.
Popular Sovereignty
The United States was established under the U.S. Constitution, which was enacted in 1788. The Framers of the Constitution created the government to be exclusively controlled by the people of the U.S., not England. The people were to elect government representatives to make the people’s laws.
This political principle, known as popular sovereignty maintains that the source of governmental power comes from the will of the people. Popular sovereignty is based on the concept that government exists in order to benefit the citizens. If the government isn't operating to benefit the citizens, then the government should cease to exist.
1931
The USA deported 138,000 Mexicans (half a million between 1929 and 1935). [Note: President Hoover deported the Mexican Americans for stealing U.S. jobs under the mantra, “American jobs for Americans.”]
The price of oil plunged to $0.15/barrel.
Last "tong" war between rival Chinese gangs. [Note: The Tong Wars were a series of violent disputes beginning in the 1880s among rival Chinese Tong factions centered in the Chinatown's of American cities, in particular San Francisco. Each tong had salaried soldiers who fought in Chinatown alleys and streets over the control of opium, prostitution, gambling, and territory.]
Congress voted to make "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official anthem of the USA.
Canada declared its independence from England.
The Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world opened in New York.
The Rockefeller Center was inaugurated in New York.
The GDP of the USA fell 8.5% from the year before and unemployment reached 15.9%.
Gambling was legalized in Las Vegas.
1932
Stock prices fell 34% between April 8th and July 8th.
Ford manufactured one third of the world's cars.
Reverend Thomas A. Dorsey's Precious Lord initiated gospel music.
The last steam-powered car was built.
10,000 banks had failed, and GDP had dropped 31% since 1929. The stock market had lost almost 90% of its value, and unemployment reached 23.6%.
The USA enacted a tariff on foreign oil.
Howard Hughes founded Hughes Aircraft Company in Los Angeles.
Dual Sovereignty
The U.S. actually has several sovereign governments. The Constitution created federalism. Federalism is a separation of powers between the federal government and the individual state governments. Certain powers are given to the federal government through the Constitution, and all other matters are reserved to the states through the Tenth Amendment.
This means that each state government is also a sovereign entity. The U.S. therefore has two levels of sovereignty: the federal government and the state governments. The states are independent from one another. Additionally, the federal government is independent from each of the states.
1933
President Franklin Roosevelt launched the "New Deal." [Note: FDR launched the New Deal in three waves from 1933 to 1939. Congress passed dozens of programs to stabilize the U.S. financial system. The programs provided relief to farmers and jobs to the unemployed.]
Michigan shut down its banks and panic spread around the nation.
Frigidaire exhibited the fully air-conditioned home at the World's Fair in Chicago.
The USA recognized and established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
Roosevelt instituted the Tennessee Valley Authority to help poor regions of the country.
The economy shrank 27% from 1929 to 1933 and unemployment hit 25%.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp was created to insure deposits in banks and thrift institutions.
The USA withdrew its last soldiers from Nicaragua.
Richard Hollingshead opened the first drive-in movie theater in New Jersey.
Prohibition was repealed.
FM radio broadcasting was born.
The first stereo records were produced.
1934 Wurlitzer introduced multiple-selection juke boxes.
The first lesbian nightclub opened in San Francisco, "Mona's."
The USA’s military occupation of Haiti (since 1915) ended.
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) was created to protect investors.
Clock manufacturer Laurens Hammond invented the Hammond organ.
William Ward disappeared mysteriously and Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Chicago mosque, became the new leader of the "Black Muslims" (or "Nation of Islam"), and advocated racial separation ("African-American nationalism").
Intimations of Immortality
The speaker in Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” believes that children delight in nature because they have recent access to a divine, immortal world. As children age and reach maturity, they lose this connection but gain an ability to feel emotions, both good and bad. In 1815, when the poem was republished, Wordsworth expanded the title to "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." (Intimations means hints, inklings, or indirect suggestions.) Close attention to the history of the United States of America from its infancy, maturing, and its arcing into relative old age reveals the individual events in the accumulating decades, the rhythms, the cycles, and the see sawing progression of the totality of its citizens towards brotherhood with a fleeting glimpse into the unity of spirit in infinity.
1936
The economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes were applied in the USA. [Note: Keynes advocated that the best way to pull an economy out of a recession is for the government to borrow money and increase demand by infusing the economy with capital to spend. Keynesian economics was a sharp contrast to laissez-faire in that it believed in government intervention.]
Henry Luce founded Life magazine.
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, the longest bridge in the world, opened.
Roosevelt set up the Works Progress Administration to fund public works.
Sylvan Goldman invented the shopping cart.
The first major concrete dam, Hoover Dam, was inaugurated.
Pan American inaugurated air service in the Pacific, flying Clipper planes built by Martin and Boeing.
1937
The first nylon stockings appeared.
The US senate killed an attempt by Franklin Roosevelt to reshape the Supreme Court decisions by increasing the number of justices.
The Pacific Coast Highway opened in California.
U.S. businessman Carl Crow, who operated out of Shanghai, published the book 400 Million Customers about doing business in China.
General Motors was the largest privately owned manufacturing company in the world.
Chester Carlson invented the photocopier.
A German zeppelin exploded in New Jersey, which ended the zeppelin industry.
USA tycoon Howard Hughes set a new transcontinental airspeed record by flying non-stop from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 and 1/2 hours.
Japan sank the U.S. gunboat "Panay."while it was anchored in the Yangtze River in China (four years before their attack on Pearl Harbor.
Unity
Deity unity is a fact. God(s) is One. Brotherhood emulates spiritual unity.
Materialism (atheism) is the maximization of ugliness, the climax of the finite antithesis of the beautiful. The highest beauty consists in the panorama of the unification of variations.
1938
David Packard and William Hewlett founded a company (Hewlett Packard) in Palo Alto, California, to sell oscillators (a device for generating oscillatory electric currents or voltages by non mechanical means).
Unemployment was 19%.
U.S. tycoon Howard Hughes set a world record by completing a flight around the world in 91 hours (New York, to Paris, Moscow, Omsk, Yakutsk, Anchorage, Minneapolis, New York, linking the world closer together).
John Atanasoff invented the electronic digital computer giving birth to data collection.
Alfred Vischer invented the pressure cooker for home use making meal preparation easier..
1939 Russian immigrant and aviator Igor Sikorsky invented the helicopter – a vertical take off, landing, and hovering aircraft for use in confined conditions.
Pan American inaugurated the world's first transatlantic passenger service, flying between New York and Marseilles, France.
Boeing introduced a large airplane, the 314, that carried 74 passengers (the Douglas DC-2 carried only 14 passengers).
King George VI became the first British king to visit America signaling the dawn of a new era in American and British cooperation.
1940– 2015— The Golden Age and Signs of Slower Growth
1940
The first freeway, the Pasadena freeway in Los Angeles, opened.
James Fifield, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, founded Spiritual Mobilization to combat the New Deal and to promote the alliance of religion and capitalism ("The blessings of capitalism come from God.")
Unemployment was down to 15%.
The CBS radio quiz show, "Take It or Leave It" (later renamed "The $64 Question") aired for the first time attracting a large audience that prized knowledge.
New York had 7.45 million inhabitants, the largest city in the world (more people living in closer proximity).
Peter Goldmark invented color television making media more attractive.
Karl Pabst invented the jeep, the “Go anywhere, do anything vehicle.”
The World War II Era
World War II was the biggest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war continued for six years until the Allies defeated Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in terms of total dead, with some 75 million casualties including military and civilians.
1941
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) killing more than 2,300 people (almost all military personnel), and the USA entered World War II against Italy, Germany and Japan
Roosevelt authorized a project to develop an atomic bomb (later renamed the Manhattan Project).
The El Rancho Vegas was the first casino to open on what would become the Las Vegas Strip (a win for Materialism over Spiritualism).
Stock prices fell 34% between April 8th and July 8th.
Ford manufactured one third of the world's cars.
Reverend Thomas A. Dorsey's Precious Lord initiated gospel music.
The last steam-powered car was built.
10,000 banks had failed, and GDP had dropped 31% since 1929. The stock market had lost almost 90% of its value, and unemployment reached 23.6%.
The USA enacted a tariff on foreign oil.
Howard Hughes founded Hughes Aircraft Company in Los Angeles.
Dual Sovereignty
The U.S. actually has several sovereign governments. The Constitution created federalism. Federalism is a separation of powers between the federal government and the individual state governments. Certain powers are given to the federal government through the Constitution, and all other matters are reserved to the states through the Tenth Amendment.
This means that each state government is also a sovereign entity. The U.S. therefore has two levels of sovereignty: the federal government and the state governments. The states are independent from one another. Additionally, the federal government is independent from each of the states.
1933
President Franklin Roosevelt launched the "New Deal." [Note: FDR launched the New Deal in three waves from 1933 to 1939. Congress passed dozens of programs to stabilize the U.S. financial system. The programs provided relief to farmers and jobs to the unemployed.]
Michigan shut down its banks and panic spread around the nation.
Frigidaire exhibited the fully air-conditioned home at the World's Fair in Chicago.
The USA recognized and established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
Roosevelt instituted the Tennessee Valley Authority to help poor regions of the country.
The economy shrank 27% from 1929 to 1933 and unemployment hit 25%.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp was created to insure deposits in banks and thrift institutions.
The USA withdrew its last soldiers from Nicaragua.
Richard Hollingshead opened the first drive-in movie theater in New Jersey.
Prohibition was repealed.
FM radio broadcasting was born.
The first stereo records were produced.
1934 Wurlitzer introduced multiple-selection juke boxes.
The first lesbian nightclub opened in San Francisco, "Mona's."
The USA’s military occupation of Haiti (since 1915) ended.
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) was created to protect investors.
Clock manufacturer Laurens Hammond invented the Hammond organ.
William Ward disappeared mysteriously and Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Chicago mosque, became the new leader of the "Black Muslims" (or "Nation of Islam"), and advocated racial separation ("African-American nationalism").
Intimations of Immortality
The speaker in Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” believes that children delight in nature because they have recent access to a divine, immortal world. As children age and reach maturity, they lose this connection but gain an ability to feel emotions, both good and bad. In 1815, when the poem was republished, Wordsworth expanded the title to "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." (Intimations means hints, inklings, or indirect suggestions.) Close attention to the history of the United States of America from its infancy, maturing, and its arcing into relative old age reveals the individual events in the accumulating decades, the rhythms, the cycles, and the see sawing progression of the totality of its citizens towards brotherhood with a fleeting glimpse into the unity of spirit in infinity.
1936
The economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes were applied in the USA. [Note: Keynes advocated that the best way to pull an economy out of a recession is for the government to borrow money and increase demand by infusing the economy with capital to spend. Keynesian economics was a sharp contrast to laissez-faire in that it believed in government intervention.]
Henry Luce founded Life magazine.
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, the longest bridge in the world, opened.
Roosevelt set up the Works Progress Administration to fund public works.
Sylvan Goldman invented the shopping cart.
The first major concrete dam, Hoover Dam, was inaugurated.
Pan American inaugurated air service in the Pacific, flying Clipper planes built by Martin and Boeing.
1937
The first nylon stockings appeared.
The US senate killed an attempt by Franklin Roosevelt to reshape the Supreme Court decisions by increasing the number of justices.
The Pacific Coast Highway opened in California.
U.S. businessman Carl Crow, who operated out of Shanghai, published the book 400 Million Customers about doing business in China.
General Motors was the largest privately owned manufacturing company in the world.
Chester Carlson invented the photocopier.
A German zeppelin exploded in New Jersey, which ended the zeppelin industry.
USA tycoon Howard Hughes set a new transcontinental airspeed record by flying non-stop from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 and 1/2 hours.
Japan sank the U.S. gunboat "Panay."while it was anchored in the Yangtze River in China (four years before their attack on Pearl Harbor.
Unity
Deity unity is a fact. God(s) is One. Brotherhood emulates spiritual unity.
Materialism (atheism) is the maximization of ugliness, the climax of the finite antithesis of the beautiful. The highest beauty consists in the panorama of the unification of variations.
1938
David Packard and William Hewlett founded a company (Hewlett Packard) in Palo Alto, California, to sell oscillators (a device for generating oscillatory electric currents or voltages by non mechanical means).
Unemployment was 19%.
U.S. tycoon Howard Hughes set a world record by completing a flight around the world in 91 hours (New York, to Paris, Moscow, Omsk, Yakutsk, Anchorage, Minneapolis, New York, linking the world closer together).
John Atanasoff invented the electronic digital computer giving birth to data collection.
Alfred Vischer invented the pressure cooker for home use making meal preparation easier..
1939 Russian immigrant and aviator Igor Sikorsky invented the helicopter – a vertical take off, landing, and hovering aircraft for use in confined conditions.
Pan American inaugurated the world's first transatlantic passenger service, flying between New York and Marseilles, France.
Boeing introduced a large airplane, the 314, that carried 74 passengers (the Douglas DC-2 carried only 14 passengers).
King George VI became the first British king to visit America signaling the dawn of a new era in American and British cooperation.
1940– 2015— The Golden Age and Signs of Slower Growth
1940
The first freeway, the Pasadena freeway in Los Angeles, opened.
James Fifield, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, founded Spiritual Mobilization to combat the New Deal and to promote the alliance of religion and capitalism ("The blessings of capitalism come from God.")
Unemployment was down to 15%.
The CBS radio quiz show, "Take It or Leave It" (later renamed "The $64 Question") aired for the first time attracting a large audience that prized knowledge.
New York had 7.45 million inhabitants, the largest city in the world (more people living in closer proximity).
Peter Goldmark invented color television making media more attractive.
Karl Pabst invented the jeep, the “Go anywhere, do anything vehicle.”
The World War II Era
World War II was the biggest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war continued for six years until the Allies defeated Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in terms of total dead, with some 75 million casualties including military and civilians.
1941
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) killing more than 2,300 people (almost all military personnel), and the USA entered World War II against Italy, Germany and Japan
Roosevelt authorized a project to develop an atomic bomb (later renamed the Manhattan Project).
The El Rancho Vegas was the first casino to open on what would become the Las Vegas Strip (a win for Materialism over Spiritualism).
1942
Enrico Fermi achieved the first nuclear chain reaction without which the atomic bomb was impossible.
The USA enacted the "bracero program" to import Mexican laborers, a form of indentured labor. Note: [The Bracero Program was a massive guest worker program that allowed over four million Mexican workers to migrate and work temporarily in the United States from 1942 to 1964.]
The health-care organization Kaiser Permanente was founded in Oakland, California. [Note: Kaiser Permanente evolved from industrial health care programs for construction, shipyard, and steel mill workers for the Kaiser industrial companies during the late 1930s and 1940s. It was opened to public enrollment in July 1945.]
1943
Tommy Flowers and others built the Colossus Mark I, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer.
The first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world opened in Hanford (Washington State) to support the Manhattan atomic bomb project.
The ban on Chinese immigrants was repealed.
Leo Kanner described autism.
Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic effects of LSD.
The first disc-jockeys began performing for U.S. troops overseas.
1944
USA oilman Everette DeGolyer announced that the Arabian peninsula, Iraq and Iran held colossal reserves of oil, which prompted two USA companies (Socal and Texaco) to form the Arabian American Oil Company (or Aramco).
The world's monetary system was anchored to the dollar and the dollar to gold, The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were created by the Bretton Woods agreement. [Note: The Bretton Woods Conference was the gathering of 730 delegates from 44 nations in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II. This agreement was a significant leap towards globalism.]
Howard Aiken unveiled the first program-controlled computer, the Mark I.
Germany surrendered and was divided into a Western and a Soviet area. Soviet troops occupied Eastern European countries.
On July 16 the U.S. exploded the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo (New Mexico).
Hughes Aircraft was the largest supplier of weapons systems to the Air Force and Navy, and Howard Hughes was one of the richest men in the country.
The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and World War II ended.
The United Nations Organization was founded in New York. [Note: The United Nations was created with the purpose of maintaining world peace. The UN Charter set out four main purposes: Maintaining worldwide peace and security; Developing relations among nations; Fostering cooperation between nations in order to solve economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian international problems; and, Providing a forum for bringing countries together to meet the UN's purposes and goals.]
Earl Tupper founded Tupperware to make polyethylene plastic containers to slow spoilage of stored food by keeping it air-tight.
The Post World War II Period
The post–World War II economic expansion, known as the golden age of capitalism, was a period of strong economic growth beginning after World War II and ending with the 1973–75 recession. The Depression was ended, and prosperity restored by the sharp reductions in government spending, taxes and regulations at the end of World War II.
1946
Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain" speech, which began the "Cold War" against the Soviet Union. [Note: Winston Churchill had been the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II. The term “Iron Curtain” referred to the fact that Eastern Europe was controlled by the Communist Soviet Union.
The gold standard was resumed. [Note: All dollar holders were able to convert their dollars into gold at the fixed price.]
Merile Key Guertin founded the Best Western chain of motels in California.
Restrictions on the manufacture of television sets was lifted (there were about ten thousand TV sets in the USA).
The USA exported twice as much trade goods as it imported.
Malcom McLean introduced the shipping container.
While testing vaccines, the USA infected hundreds of mentally ill patients and prisoners in Guatemala with gonorrhea and syphilis.
The USA founded the School of the Americas in Panama to train military officers to fight against leftist regimes and insurgencies.
John Pastore became governor of Rhode Island, the first Italian-American governor in the USA.
The USA population was 133 million.
Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven further easing cooking preparation.
George Marshall envisioned a plan to promote the economic recovery of war torn European democracies.
The first venture capital firms were founded in the USA: American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC) by former Harvard Business School's dean Georges Doriot; J.H. Whitney & Company by John Hay Whitney; and Rockefeller Brothers by Laurance Rockefeller (later renamed Venrock). [Note: Venture capital firms or funds invest in early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake,]
The French bombed Vietnam. [Note: For eight years between1946 and 1954 the French fought a bloody war in Vietnam to hold on to their Empire in the Far East.]
RCA Victor released the first vinyl record.
TWA and United Airlines began transcontinental flights from New York to California.
A gangster, Bugsy Siegel, opened "The Flamingo" casino in Las Vegas.
The first non-military computer, Eniac, built by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, was unveiled.
Capitalism Versus Communism
1947
George F. Kennan, a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of “containment,” the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war (1947–1989) with the Soviet Union.
President Truman proclaimed the "Truman doctrine" about defending democracies (specifically Greece and Turkey) against communism.
Charles Yeager piloted the first supersonic flight in an X-1 aircraft.
New York opened the Fresh Kills Landfill, which became one of the biggest human-made structures on the planet.
Two ships carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded in Texas City, Texas harbor killing about 576 people.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created to eliminate trade barriers. GATT, was signed by 23 nations. Its purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas.
The first widely publicized Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was sighted.
The USA created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). [Note: The original purpose of the CIA was to create a clearinghouse for foreign policy intelligence and analysis. Eventually, its primary purpose became to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence, and to perform covert actions.]
William Shockley invented the transistor at Bell Labs. [Note: The transistor was a major advancement over the glass triode tube, using much less electricity, and lasting years longer, to switch or amplify another electronic current.]
Edwin Land invented Polaroid, the first instant camera.
Pan Am introduced the first round-the-world flight.
1948
The Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin. [Note: The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. The U.S. overcame the Soviet blockage with an around the clock airlift of supplies.]
The Long Playing (LP) record was introduced.
John and Margaret Walson launched the first cable-television service.
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) was established.
Bell Laboratories demonstrated the first prototype transistor radio.
Harry Stockman invented Radio-frequency identification (RFID), which uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to products. The tags contain electronically stored information about the product.
Ed Sullivan began his TV variety show.
Senator Joseph McCarthy launched a "witch hunt" against intellectuals suspected of being communists.
Leo Fender invented the electric guitar.
The Jews were granted their own country in Palestine (Israel).
Xerography (copying machines) were invented by Chester Carlson.
Columbia introduced the 12-inch 33-1/3 RPM long-playing vinyl record.
Cable TV was deployed in rural areas.
Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly as a common standard of achievements for all people and all nations.
John Rock fertilized a human egg in a test tube.
Maurice and Richard McDonald started the McDonald’s chain of drive-in restaurants in San Bernardino, California.
Balancing Values
1949
American Jean-Paul Getty bought a concession to drill for oil in the neutral zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. [Note: Oil was crucial for war and economies.]
Willard Libby invented radiocarbon dating. (Every living thing has a certain amount of radiocarbon within them. After an organism dies, the radiocarbon decreases through a regular pattern of decay. The time taken for half of the atoms of a radioactive isotope to decay in Carbon-14's case is about 5730 years.)
The U.S. established the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), later renamed National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct communications and electronic intelligence surveillance.
There were one million TV sets in the USA. (Media was becoming a greater part of the society’s experience. Like news print and radio, TV informs, educates and entertains. For better or worse, TV is a better bridge between the governing bodies and the general public.)
NATO was formed by western European countries and the USA. [Note: NATO's primary purpose was to defend member nations from threats by communist countries. Also, the United States wanted to maintain a presence in Europe. It sought to prevent a resurgence of aggressive nationalism and to foster political union. NATO made the formation of the European Union possible.]
The first foreign car, the German Volkswagen Beetle, was sold in the USA. The Beetle was also the first "compact" car ever sold in the USA.
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race began.
RCA Victor introduced the 7" 45 RPM vinyl record.
A Golden Age Era in America
In the 1950's right after world war II, a golden age arose. People were finding jobs with ease and life styles were changing. The 1950's was the period of the baby boom as many troops returned home, started families, bought homes, cars, and related consumer goods.
Clashes between communism and capitalism dominated the decade. The conflicts included the Korean War in the beginning of the decade and the beginning of the Space Race with the launch of The Soviet’s Sputnik into Earth orbit. In the United States, the “Red Scare” (the growing power of communist countries) caused Congressional hearings by both houses in Congress. Anti-communism was the prevailing sentiment in the United States throughout the Fifties decade. The beginning of decolonization in Africa and Asia also took place in this period.
Enrico Fermi achieved the first nuclear chain reaction without which the atomic bomb was impossible.
The USA enacted the "bracero program" to import Mexican laborers, a form of indentured labor. Note: [The Bracero Program was a massive guest worker program that allowed over four million Mexican workers to migrate and work temporarily in the United States from 1942 to 1964.]
The health-care organization Kaiser Permanente was founded in Oakland, California. [Note: Kaiser Permanente evolved from industrial health care programs for construction, shipyard, and steel mill workers for the Kaiser industrial companies during the late 1930s and 1940s. It was opened to public enrollment in July 1945.]
1943
Tommy Flowers and others built the Colossus Mark I, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer.
The first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world opened in Hanford (Washington State) to support the Manhattan atomic bomb project.
The ban on Chinese immigrants was repealed.
Leo Kanner described autism.
Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic effects of LSD.
The first disc-jockeys began performing for U.S. troops overseas.
1944
USA oilman Everette DeGolyer announced that the Arabian peninsula, Iraq and Iran held colossal reserves of oil, which prompted two USA companies (Socal and Texaco) to form the Arabian American Oil Company (or Aramco).
The world's monetary system was anchored to the dollar and the dollar to gold, The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were created by the Bretton Woods agreement. [Note: The Bretton Woods Conference was the gathering of 730 delegates from 44 nations in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II. This agreement was a significant leap towards globalism.]
Howard Aiken unveiled the first program-controlled computer, the Mark I.
Germany surrendered and was divided into a Western and a Soviet area. Soviet troops occupied Eastern European countries.
On July 16 the U.S. exploded the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo (New Mexico).
Hughes Aircraft was the largest supplier of weapons systems to the Air Force and Navy, and Howard Hughes was one of the richest men in the country.
The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and World War II ended.
The United Nations Organization was founded in New York. [Note: The United Nations was created with the purpose of maintaining world peace. The UN Charter set out four main purposes: Maintaining worldwide peace and security; Developing relations among nations; Fostering cooperation between nations in order to solve economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian international problems; and, Providing a forum for bringing countries together to meet the UN's purposes and goals.]
Earl Tupper founded Tupperware to make polyethylene plastic containers to slow spoilage of stored food by keeping it air-tight.
The Post World War II Period
The post–World War II economic expansion, known as the golden age of capitalism, was a period of strong economic growth beginning after World War II and ending with the 1973–75 recession. The Depression was ended, and prosperity restored by the sharp reductions in government spending, taxes and regulations at the end of World War II.
1946
Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain" speech, which began the "Cold War" against the Soviet Union. [Note: Winston Churchill had been the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II. The term “Iron Curtain” referred to the fact that Eastern Europe was controlled by the Communist Soviet Union.
The gold standard was resumed. [Note: All dollar holders were able to convert their dollars into gold at the fixed price.]
Merile Key Guertin founded the Best Western chain of motels in California.
Restrictions on the manufacture of television sets was lifted (there were about ten thousand TV sets in the USA).
The USA exported twice as much trade goods as it imported.
Malcom McLean introduced the shipping container.
While testing vaccines, the USA infected hundreds of mentally ill patients and prisoners in Guatemala with gonorrhea and syphilis.
The USA founded the School of the Americas in Panama to train military officers to fight against leftist regimes and insurgencies.
John Pastore became governor of Rhode Island, the first Italian-American governor in the USA.
The USA population was 133 million.
Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven further easing cooking preparation.
George Marshall envisioned a plan to promote the economic recovery of war torn European democracies.
The first venture capital firms were founded in the USA: American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC) by former Harvard Business School's dean Georges Doriot; J.H. Whitney & Company by John Hay Whitney; and Rockefeller Brothers by Laurance Rockefeller (later renamed Venrock). [Note: Venture capital firms or funds invest in early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake,]
The French bombed Vietnam. [Note: For eight years between1946 and 1954 the French fought a bloody war in Vietnam to hold on to their Empire in the Far East.]
RCA Victor released the first vinyl record.
TWA and United Airlines began transcontinental flights from New York to California.
A gangster, Bugsy Siegel, opened "The Flamingo" casino in Las Vegas.
The first non-military computer, Eniac, built by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, was unveiled.
Capitalism Versus Communism
1947
George F. Kennan, a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of “containment,” the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war (1947–1989) with the Soviet Union.
President Truman proclaimed the "Truman doctrine" about defending democracies (specifically Greece and Turkey) against communism.
Charles Yeager piloted the first supersonic flight in an X-1 aircraft.
New York opened the Fresh Kills Landfill, which became one of the biggest human-made structures on the planet.
Two ships carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded in Texas City, Texas harbor killing about 576 people.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created to eliminate trade barriers. GATT, was signed by 23 nations. Its purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas.
The first widely publicized Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was sighted.
The USA created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). [Note: The original purpose of the CIA was to create a clearinghouse for foreign policy intelligence and analysis. Eventually, its primary purpose became to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence, and to perform covert actions.]
William Shockley invented the transistor at Bell Labs. [Note: The transistor was a major advancement over the glass triode tube, using much less electricity, and lasting years longer, to switch or amplify another electronic current.]
Edwin Land invented Polaroid, the first instant camera.
Pan Am introduced the first round-the-world flight.
1948
The Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin. [Note: The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. The U.S. overcame the Soviet blockage with an around the clock airlift of supplies.]
The Long Playing (LP) record was introduced.
John and Margaret Walson launched the first cable-television service.
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) was established.
Bell Laboratories demonstrated the first prototype transistor radio.
Harry Stockman invented Radio-frequency identification (RFID), which uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to products. The tags contain electronically stored information about the product.
Ed Sullivan began his TV variety show.
Senator Joseph McCarthy launched a "witch hunt" against intellectuals suspected of being communists.
Leo Fender invented the electric guitar.
The Jews were granted their own country in Palestine (Israel).
Xerography (copying machines) were invented by Chester Carlson.
Columbia introduced the 12-inch 33-1/3 RPM long-playing vinyl record.
Cable TV was deployed in rural areas.
Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly as a common standard of achievements for all people and all nations.
John Rock fertilized a human egg in a test tube.
Maurice and Richard McDonald started the McDonald’s chain of drive-in restaurants in San Bernardino, California.
Balancing Values
1949
American Jean-Paul Getty bought a concession to drill for oil in the neutral zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. [Note: Oil was crucial for war and economies.]
Willard Libby invented radiocarbon dating. (Every living thing has a certain amount of radiocarbon within them. After an organism dies, the radiocarbon decreases through a regular pattern of decay. The time taken for half of the atoms of a radioactive isotope to decay in Carbon-14's case is about 5730 years.)
The U.S. established the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), later renamed National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct communications and electronic intelligence surveillance.
There were one million TV sets in the USA. (Media was becoming a greater part of the society’s experience. Like news print and radio, TV informs, educates and entertains. For better or worse, TV is a better bridge between the governing bodies and the general public.)
NATO was formed by western European countries and the USA. [Note: NATO's primary purpose was to defend member nations from threats by communist countries. Also, the United States wanted to maintain a presence in Europe. It sought to prevent a resurgence of aggressive nationalism and to foster political union. NATO made the formation of the European Union possible.]
The first foreign car, the German Volkswagen Beetle, was sold in the USA. The Beetle was also the first "compact" car ever sold in the USA.
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race began.
RCA Victor introduced the 7" 45 RPM vinyl record.
A Golden Age Era in America
In the 1950's right after world war II, a golden age arose. People were finding jobs with ease and life styles were changing. The 1950's was the period of the baby boom as many troops returned home, started families, bought homes, cars, and related consumer goods.
Clashes between communism and capitalism dominated the decade. The conflicts included the Korean War in the beginning of the decade and the beginning of the Space Race with the launch of The Soviet’s Sputnik into Earth orbit. In the United States, the “Red Scare” (the growing power of communist countries) caused Congressional hearings by both houses in Congress. Anti-communism was the prevailing sentiment in the United States throughout the Fifties decade. The beginning of decolonization in Africa and Asia also took place in this period.
1950
The European Union was established to end the frequent devastating wars between European countries that culminated in the Second World War.
U.S. General Hobart Gay ordered his troops to shoot South Korean refugees. More than 250 civilians were killed at No Gun Ri, South Korea. [Note: The Korean War was called “the Forgotten War” in the United States. Press coverage of the conflict was censored, but the three-year conflict in Korea, pitted communist and capitalist forces against each other, and set the stage for decades of tension among China, the Soviets, North Korea, South Korea and the United States. In June 1950 communist North Korea invaded South Korea. The United States came to the aid of South Korea at the head of a United Nations force composed of more than a dozen countries. Communist China joined North Korea in the war, unleashing a massive Chinese ground attack against American forces.]
The USA’s atomic stockpile reached 298 bombs.
Harry Hay and Chuck Rowland founded the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles, the first gay political organization.
The USA had 40 million cars and gasoline consumption had increased 42% since 1945.
Remington purchased the Eniac Computer from Ecker-Mauchly.
The first credit card (Diners) was introduced.
The first sperm bank was created at the University of Iowa.
The population of the USA was 151 million, with 64% living in cities.
The Northgate shopping center opened in Seattle. [Note: The Northgate Mall was the nation’s first suburban shopping center to be called a mall, and the model for today’s malls.]
1951
First color TV transmitted.
Shopper's World opened in Framingham, Massachusetts facilitating greater consumption.
Japan and the U.S. signed a military alliance.
Ed Teller and Stanislaw Ulam invented the hydrogen bomb.
Electricity is generated for the first time by a nuclear reactor (Experimental Breeder Reactor Number 1 in Idaho).
A senate investigation linked Las Vegas gambling with organized crime.
The USA detonated the first of over a hundred atomic bombs at the Nevada Test Site.
Hannah Arendt published "The Origins of Totalitarianism" that compared the Nazi and the communist regimes. [Note: The book’s primary purpose was to understand totalitarianism, a novel form of mobilizational and genocidal dictatorship epitomized by Stalin in Soviet Russia and Hitler in Nazi Germany. The book culminated in a vivid account of the system of concentration and death camps that Arendt believed defined totalitarian rule.] The first commercial computer, the Univac, was built.
Fred Terman of Stanford University conceived of an industrial park for high technology (the future Silicon Valley).
Carl Djerassi invented synthetic progesterone, "the birth-control pill."
9% of USA citizens owned stocks.
The sitcom "I Love Lucy" debuted on television depicting the new feminism role in family life.
President Truman fired General MacArthur, the commander of the United Nations force in Korea, for issuing an unauthorized statement containing a veiled threat to expand the war into China if the Communist side refused to come to terms.
1952
First U.S. citizen sex change operation. (George Jorgenson’s willingness to publicly tell her story helped bring attention to the growing transgender revolution in the states, but at the time the lack of quality transgender healthcare in the U.S. meant that Jorgensen had to travel to Denmark to get the required surgeries and treatment )
The first stereo magnetic tape was produced. [Note: Magnetic tape revolutionized sound recording and reproduction and broadcasting. It allowed radio and TV that had always been broadcast live, to be recorded for later use or repeated airing. It was a key technology in early computer development, allowing unparalleled amounts of data to be mechanically created, stored for long periods, and rapidly accessed.]
Kemmons Wilson in Memphis, Tennessee, started a chain of motels, Holiday Inn encouraging travel.
The first hydrogen bomb (700 times stronger than Hiroshima's bomb) was tested vaporizing the Pacific Island of Elugelab.
African-American activist Malcom X joined the "Nation of Islam", becoming the head of the New York City mosque.
73% of the world’s cars were produced in the USA.
1953
Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the double helix of the DNA. [Note: The discovery of the double helix, the twisted-ladder structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), marked a milestone in the history of science that gave rise to modern molecular biology, which is largely concerned with understanding how genes control the chemical processes within cells.]
The USA had 1161 nuclear bombs.
There were 3 million Hispanics in the USA.
The USA launched the Atoms for Peace program to help developing countries such as Iran and Pakistan build their first atomic reactors.
The CIA financed a project named "MkUltra" to study the effects of psychoactive drugs.
Jean-Paul Getty's company struck oil in the neutral zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
The USA's and the British secret services engineered a coup to remove Iran's prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh, and the USA replaced Britain as the primary manipulator in the Middle East. [Note: Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, a British corporation, and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves.]
Remington Rand introduced the UNIVAC 1103, the first computer with Random Access Memory (RAM), a type of computer memory that could be accessed randomly without touching the preceding bytes.
Hugh Hefner started the magazine "Playboy" challenging morality standards.
Korea was permanently partitioned across the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMV) dividing North and South Korea. (55,000 U.S. soldiers, one million South Koreans, one million Chinese soldiers, and two million North Koreans died in the Korean War).
The first acknowledged child from frozen spermatozoa was born.
Police raided a polygamist compound with hundreds of children in the twin communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons).
1954
The USA deployed tactical nuclear weapons in Western Europe and threatened to use nuclear weapons to stop Soviet aggression.
The USA launched the first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus.
The Howard Johnson restaurant chain opened its first motor lodge in Savannah, Georgia.
The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of China, was signed (effective from 1955–1979).
The first commercial transistor radio, the Regency TR-1, was introduced by IDEA, using circuits by Texas Instruments.
France left Vietnam.
A rebel force trained by the CIA invaded Guatemala.
The USA Senate denounced Joseph McCarthy's "witch hunt."
The USA exploded its largest bomb ever (15 megatons) at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Rock and roll records climbed the charts. Rock and roll combined musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, and country music.
Rising Above Materialism
Reimers, Fernando. Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course. Kindle Edition (edited).
Teaching global citizenship is essential for creating a world with sustainable peace – a world without poverty or hunger where all have health care and education. A world where women and men have the same opportunities, where all have clean water and sanitation, with renewable energies, where there are good jobs for all, and where there are economic growth and prosperity created by industry and innovation. A world where we reduce inequalities and create sustainable cities and communities and where we consume responsibly and no longer behave in ways that change the climate or harm life on this planet. A world where we honor and protect life underwater and on land. A world of peace and justice for all. A world with responsible birth control; no need for intellectual theft; and no racial prejudices.
1955
65% of American households owned a TV set.
The USA introduced the first intercontinental bombers, the B-52.
The "Daughters of Bilitis," the first exclusively lesbian organization in the USA, was founded in San Francisco.
Roy Kepler, a peace activist, founded the Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park, California.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights, an alternative cultures bookstore in San Francisco.
Remington Rand merged with Sperry to form Sperry Rand.
Nobel physics prize winner William Shockley moved to Silicon Valley, founded Shockley Semiconductors and hired Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and others who later formed Fairchild Semiconductor (all technology innovators).
Ray Kroc launched a fast good revolution when he opened the first franchise of McDonald's restaurants in Des Plaines. Illinois.
Disneyland opened in Los Angeles.
Jackie Gleason's "Honeymooners" (the classic husband/wife relationship domestic sitcom) aired on TV.
A black woman, Rosa Parks, refused to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest sparked the non-violent civil rights protests led by Martin Luther King.
Attitudes Towards Poverty and Affluence in the Fifties
In conservative thought, the “culture of poverty” was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by uncivilized lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, and unable to defer gratification. The poor could not be trusted with money. Any attempt to help the poor would deepen their depravity.
Perversely, too much money also seemed to deepen the depravity of the wealthy.
Later, in times of high unemployment, poverty was seen not as a character flaw, but simply as a shortage of money.
1956
The first conference on Artificial Intelligence was held at Dartmouth College.[Note: Artificial intelligence uses machine learning to mimic human intelligence. The computer learns how to respond to certain actions, so it uses algorithms and historical data to create a propensity model.]
South Vietnam refused the referendum on unification with North Vietnam and the Vietminh began a guerrilla war. (The Vietminh were a Communist-dominated nationalist movement, formed in 1941, that fought for Vietnamese independence from French occupation. They joined North Korea’s Vietcong).
Harold Butler in Lakewood (California) opened a coffee shop, Danny's (later Denny's), that stayed open 24 hours a day.
President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act to build a nation-wide network of freeways.
Fred and Pat Cody founded the Cody's bookstore in Berkeley. [Note: Cody’s Bookstore was synonymous with free speech, the anti-war movement during Vietnam, and the 60's counterculture.
The first Japanese car was sold in the USA.
Malcom X became the spokesman of the "Nation of Islam."
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" heralded the "beat generation" [Note: “Howl” is an epic poem of social commentary. The title “Howl” indicated a protest crying out against all exploitation, repression and subjugation.]
The first transatlantic telephone cable between Europe and the United States was laid on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara landed in Cuba to fight the U.S. sponsored dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
Silenced Majorities
A large majority of voters are disenfranchised because their representatives in government pay no attention to their wishes, but only listen to the voices of the donor class.
1957
Little Rock, Arkansas was the site of a racial confrontation after black students were forbidden to enter a high school.
Oilman Jean-Paul Getty was the richest man in the USA, the only billionaire.
The Soviet Union launched the beach ball sized Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.
Carlo Gambino ruled the Mafia.
Albert Sabin developed the oral polio vaccine.
4.5 million babies were born in the USA, the highest number in its history (the "baby boomers").
Frederick Kohner's novel "Gidget" popularized the Hawaiian sport of surfing.
Arthus Melin and Richard Knerr invented the frisbee.
1958
The USA sent 19,000 soldiers to protect the regime of Lebanon's Christian president Camille Chamoun.
Robert Noyce (at Fairchild) and Jack Kilby (at Texas Instruments) invented the integrated circuit (an electronic circuit formed on a small piece of semiconducting material, performing the same function as a larger circuit made from individual components).
The U.S. government set up the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) as well as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Bank of America adopted the credit card.
Civilian jet service began in the USA with a Pan Am flight from New York to Paris.
The telex service was introduced. (The telex network was a public switched network of teleprinters similar to a telephone network, for the purposes of sending text-based messages.)
Jim Backus (at IBM) developed the FORTRAN programming language, the first machine-independent language.
The Boeing 707 aircraft was introduced.
The USA's gross national product was 50% of the world's gross national product.
RCA introduced the first stereo long-playing records.
Alaska became a state of the USA.
Samuel Cohen invented the neutron bomb.
The "American National Election Study" reported that 73% of US citizens trusted the federal government.
1959
Hawaii became the 50th state of the USA.
"Twilight Zone" debuted on television.
Mattel launched the Barbie doll.
A U.S. Federal court overturned the law banning D. H. Lawrence's book, "Lady Chatterley’s Lover."
The first commercial Xerox machine was released.
Fidel Castro won the revolution against the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
The USA launched the first reconnaissance satellite, Corona, to take pictures of the Soviet Union from space.
The European Union was established to end the frequent devastating wars between European countries that culminated in the Second World War.
U.S. General Hobart Gay ordered his troops to shoot South Korean refugees. More than 250 civilians were killed at No Gun Ri, South Korea. [Note: The Korean War was called “the Forgotten War” in the United States. Press coverage of the conflict was censored, but the three-year conflict in Korea, pitted communist and capitalist forces against each other, and set the stage for decades of tension among China, the Soviets, North Korea, South Korea and the United States. In June 1950 communist North Korea invaded South Korea. The United States came to the aid of South Korea at the head of a United Nations force composed of more than a dozen countries. Communist China joined North Korea in the war, unleashing a massive Chinese ground attack against American forces.]
The USA’s atomic stockpile reached 298 bombs.
Harry Hay and Chuck Rowland founded the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles, the first gay political organization.
The USA had 40 million cars and gasoline consumption had increased 42% since 1945.
Remington purchased the Eniac Computer from Ecker-Mauchly.
The first credit card (Diners) was introduced.
The first sperm bank was created at the University of Iowa.
The population of the USA was 151 million, with 64% living in cities.
The Northgate shopping center opened in Seattle. [Note: The Northgate Mall was the nation’s first suburban shopping center to be called a mall, and the model for today’s malls.]
1951
First color TV transmitted.
Shopper's World opened in Framingham, Massachusetts facilitating greater consumption.
Japan and the U.S. signed a military alliance.
Ed Teller and Stanislaw Ulam invented the hydrogen bomb.
Electricity is generated for the first time by a nuclear reactor (Experimental Breeder Reactor Number 1 in Idaho).
A senate investigation linked Las Vegas gambling with organized crime.
The USA detonated the first of over a hundred atomic bombs at the Nevada Test Site.
Hannah Arendt published "The Origins of Totalitarianism" that compared the Nazi and the communist regimes. [Note: The book’s primary purpose was to understand totalitarianism, a novel form of mobilizational and genocidal dictatorship epitomized by Stalin in Soviet Russia and Hitler in Nazi Germany. The book culminated in a vivid account of the system of concentration and death camps that Arendt believed defined totalitarian rule.] The first commercial computer, the Univac, was built.
Fred Terman of Stanford University conceived of an industrial park for high technology (the future Silicon Valley).
Carl Djerassi invented synthetic progesterone, "the birth-control pill."
9% of USA citizens owned stocks.
The sitcom "I Love Lucy" debuted on television depicting the new feminism role in family life.
President Truman fired General MacArthur, the commander of the United Nations force in Korea, for issuing an unauthorized statement containing a veiled threat to expand the war into China if the Communist side refused to come to terms.
1952
First U.S. citizen sex change operation. (George Jorgenson’s willingness to publicly tell her story helped bring attention to the growing transgender revolution in the states, but at the time the lack of quality transgender healthcare in the U.S. meant that Jorgensen had to travel to Denmark to get the required surgeries and treatment )
The first stereo magnetic tape was produced. [Note: Magnetic tape revolutionized sound recording and reproduction and broadcasting. It allowed radio and TV that had always been broadcast live, to be recorded for later use or repeated airing. It was a key technology in early computer development, allowing unparalleled amounts of data to be mechanically created, stored for long periods, and rapidly accessed.]
Kemmons Wilson in Memphis, Tennessee, started a chain of motels, Holiday Inn encouraging travel.
The first hydrogen bomb (700 times stronger than Hiroshima's bomb) was tested vaporizing the Pacific Island of Elugelab.
African-American activist Malcom X joined the "Nation of Islam", becoming the head of the New York City mosque.
73% of the world’s cars were produced in the USA.
1953
Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the double helix of the DNA. [Note: The discovery of the double helix, the twisted-ladder structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), marked a milestone in the history of science that gave rise to modern molecular biology, which is largely concerned with understanding how genes control the chemical processes within cells.]
The USA had 1161 nuclear bombs.
There were 3 million Hispanics in the USA.
The USA launched the Atoms for Peace program to help developing countries such as Iran and Pakistan build their first atomic reactors.
The CIA financed a project named "MkUltra" to study the effects of psychoactive drugs.
Jean-Paul Getty's company struck oil in the neutral zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
The USA's and the British secret services engineered a coup to remove Iran's prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh, and the USA replaced Britain as the primary manipulator in the Middle East. [Note: Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, a British corporation, and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves.]
Remington Rand introduced the UNIVAC 1103, the first computer with Random Access Memory (RAM), a type of computer memory that could be accessed randomly without touching the preceding bytes.
Hugh Hefner started the magazine "Playboy" challenging morality standards.
Korea was permanently partitioned across the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMV) dividing North and South Korea. (55,000 U.S. soldiers, one million South Koreans, one million Chinese soldiers, and two million North Koreans died in the Korean War).
The first acknowledged child from frozen spermatozoa was born.
Police raided a polygamist compound with hundreds of children in the twin communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons).
1954
The USA deployed tactical nuclear weapons in Western Europe and threatened to use nuclear weapons to stop Soviet aggression.
The USA launched the first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus.
The Howard Johnson restaurant chain opened its first motor lodge in Savannah, Georgia.
The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of China, was signed (effective from 1955–1979).
The first commercial transistor radio, the Regency TR-1, was introduced by IDEA, using circuits by Texas Instruments.
France left Vietnam.
A rebel force trained by the CIA invaded Guatemala.
The USA Senate denounced Joseph McCarthy's "witch hunt."
The USA exploded its largest bomb ever (15 megatons) at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Rock and roll records climbed the charts. Rock and roll combined musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, and country music.
Rising Above Materialism
Reimers, Fernando. Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course. Kindle Edition (edited).
Teaching global citizenship is essential for creating a world with sustainable peace – a world without poverty or hunger where all have health care and education. A world where women and men have the same opportunities, where all have clean water and sanitation, with renewable energies, where there are good jobs for all, and where there are economic growth and prosperity created by industry and innovation. A world where we reduce inequalities and create sustainable cities and communities and where we consume responsibly and no longer behave in ways that change the climate or harm life on this planet. A world where we honor and protect life underwater and on land. A world of peace and justice for all. A world with responsible birth control; no need for intellectual theft; and no racial prejudices.
1955
65% of American households owned a TV set.
The USA introduced the first intercontinental bombers, the B-52.
The "Daughters of Bilitis," the first exclusively lesbian organization in the USA, was founded in San Francisco.
Roy Kepler, a peace activist, founded the Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park, California.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights, an alternative cultures bookstore in San Francisco.
Remington Rand merged with Sperry to form Sperry Rand.
Nobel physics prize winner William Shockley moved to Silicon Valley, founded Shockley Semiconductors and hired Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and others who later formed Fairchild Semiconductor (all technology innovators).
Ray Kroc launched a fast good revolution when he opened the first franchise of McDonald's restaurants in Des Plaines. Illinois.
Disneyland opened in Los Angeles.
Jackie Gleason's "Honeymooners" (the classic husband/wife relationship domestic sitcom) aired on TV.
A black woman, Rosa Parks, refused to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest sparked the non-violent civil rights protests led by Martin Luther King.
Attitudes Towards Poverty and Affluence in the Fifties
In conservative thought, the “culture of poverty” was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by uncivilized lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, and unable to defer gratification. The poor could not be trusted with money. Any attempt to help the poor would deepen their depravity.
Perversely, too much money also seemed to deepen the depravity of the wealthy.
Later, in times of high unemployment, poverty was seen not as a character flaw, but simply as a shortage of money.
1956
The first conference on Artificial Intelligence was held at Dartmouth College.[Note: Artificial intelligence uses machine learning to mimic human intelligence. The computer learns how to respond to certain actions, so it uses algorithms and historical data to create a propensity model.]
South Vietnam refused the referendum on unification with North Vietnam and the Vietminh began a guerrilla war. (The Vietminh were a Communist-dominated nationalist movement, formed in 1941, that fought for Vietnamese independence from French occupation. They joined North Korea’s Vietcong).
Harold Butler in Lakewood (California) opened a coffee shop, Danny's (later Denny's), that stayed open 24 hours a day.
President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act to build a nation-wide network of freeways.
Fred and Pat Cody founded the Cody's bookstore in Berkeley. [Note: Cody’s Bookstore was synonymous with free speech, the anti-war movement during Vietnam, and the 60's counterculture.
The first Japanese car was sold in the USA.
Malcom X became the spokesman of the "Nation of Islam."
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" heralded the "beat generation" [Note: “Howl” is an epic poem of social commentary. The title “Howl” indicated a protest crying out against all exploitation, repression and subjugation.]
The first transatlantic telephone cable between Europe and the United States was laid on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara landed in Cuba to fight the U.S. sponsored dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
Silenced Majorities
A large majority of voters are disenfranchised because their representatives in government pay no attention to their wishes, but only listen to the voices of the donor class.
1957
Little Rock, Arkansas was the site of a racial confrontation after black students were forbidden to enter a high school.
Oilman Jean-Paul Getty was the richest man in the USA, the only billionaire.
The Soviet Union launched the beach ball sized Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.
Carlo Gambino ruled the Mafia.
Albert Sabin developed the oral polio vaccine.
4.5 million babies were born in the USA, the highest number in its history (the "baby boomers").
Frederick Kohner's novel "Gidget" popularized the Hawaiian sport of surfing.
Arthus Melin and Richard Knerr invented the frisbee.
1958
The USA sent 19,000 soldiers to protect the regime of Lebanon's Christian president Camille Chamoun.
Robert Noyce (at Fairchild) and Jack Kilby (at Texas Instruments) invented the integrated circuit (an electronic circuit formed on a small piece of semiconducting material, performing the same function as a larger circuit made from individual components).
The U.S. government set up the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) as well as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Bank of America adopted the credit card.
Civilian jet service began in the USA with a Pan Am flight from New York to Paris.
The telex service was introduced. (The telex network was a public switched network of teleprinters similar to a telephone network, for the purposes of sending text-based messages.)
Jim Backus (at IBM) developed the FORTRAN programming language, the first machine-independent language.
The Boeing 707 aircraft was introduced.
The USA's gross national product was 50% of the world's gross national product.
RCA introduced the first stereo long-playing records.
Alaska became a state of the USA.
Samuel Cohen invented the neutron bomb.
The "American National Election Study" reported that 73% of US citizens trusted the federal government.
1959
Hawaii became the 50th state of the USA.
"Twilight Zone" debuted on television.
Mattel launched the Barbie doll.
A U.S. Federal court overturned the law banning D. H. Lawrence's book, "Lady Chatterley’s Lover."
The first commercial Xerox machine was released.
Fidel Castro won the revolution against the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
The USA launched the first reconnaissance satellite, Corona, to take pictures of the Soviet Union from space.
The Sixties Decade
The sixties were a time of protest and change. When John F. Kennedy took office. he announced that the “torch was being passed to a new generation. By the late 1960’s, a new generation of young Americans began to question the conformity of the 1950s.
"The Sixties" is a term used to describe the counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing, music, drugs, dress, sexuality, formalities, and schooling. Others denounce the decade as one of irresponsible excess, flamboyance, and decay of social order. The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time. Norms of all kinds were broken down, especially in regards to civil rights and expectations that men would go off to fight meaningless wars.
1960
Searle & Company commercially introduced Gregory Pincus' birth control pill.
Delbert Webb founded the first retirement community, Sun City in Arizona.
NASA launched the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.
Timothy Leary began a research program at Harvard University to study hallucinogenic drugs.
Nearly 90% of households owned a TV set.
The Soviet Union shot down a U.S. U2 spy plane and captured the pilot, Gary Powers.
Theodore Maiman built the first successful laser.
Frank Drake devised an equation to calculate the potential number of extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way ("the Drake Equation"), The SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) was established.
The population of the USA was 179 million with 70% living in cities.
There were 50 million TV sets in the USA.
In retaliation for the USA's imposition of quotas on Venezuelan oil (to favor Canada and Mexico), Venezuela joined Arab countries to found OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries).
Manhattan had 98 buildings that were taller than 25 floors.
Russ Solomon opened the first Tower Records in Sacramento, California, the first music mega-store.
Black students including Ella Baker and Stokely Carmichael founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to fight for civil rights.
The ratio of debt to personal disposable income was 55%.
1961
John Kennedy was inaugurated as president, the first Catholic and the youngest ever, and promised a "New Frontier."
The first stereo FM radio.
Robert Schuller built the first drive-in church in Garden Grove, California.
A B-52 plane carrying two nuclear bombs crashed in North Carolina.
Sargent Shriver founded the Peace Corps.
MIT demonstrated the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), the first time-sharing operating system. The design of the CTSS was the beginning of the idea of multitasking on computers.
Los Angeles passed Philadelphia, becoming the third largest city in the country.
Soviet troops built a wall to isolate West Berlin and to discourage people from fleeing Eastern Germany.
A Cuban rebel force trained by the CIA tried unsuccessfully to invade Cuba (the "Bay of Pigs" invasion).
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the name for each of a series of United States federal laws specifying the annual budget and expenditures of the U.S. Department of Defense was passed.
Soviet Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space. His flight, on April 12, 1961, lasted 108 minutes as he circled the Earth for a little more than one orbit in the Soviet Union's Vostok spacecraft. This flight began the space race between the Soviets and the U.S.
The first stereo radio was broadcast.
The Beach Boys launched surf-music.
Charles Bachman at General Electric developed the first database management system, IDS.
Overcoming the Chaos of Fratricide (War)
The concept of brotherhood presumes organized, dedicated, people each striving to exceed in their roles. Each performer is motivated to work with a team not for self.
Brotherhood seeks perfection at every level of existence because it is expected and desired. Comparable organizational efforts may be observed in military organizations, team sports, and musical ensembles.
1962
The USA intervened in Vietnam to counter Soviet help to the Vietcong.
John Glenn was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth.
In April, 1962, the USA installed nuclear-armed Jupiter missiles in Turkey.
In October, 1962, Krushev and Kennedy risked a nuclear war over Soviet missiles deployed in Cuba, but the Soviet Union withdrew the missiles from Cuba and the USA from Turkey.
Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring" warning of the danger of pesticides.
Franck Gerow performed the first silicon implant in a woman's breast.
The Johnny Carson show debuted on television. The popular show was a traditional potpourri of comedy, music, dance, skits and monologues.
Sam Walton opened the first Wal-Mart (later Walmart) in Rogers, Arkansas. The store, destined to become the largest retail store in the world advertised itself to have "The lowest prices anytime, anywhere."
Warren Buffett acquired Berkshire Hathaway, the beginning of his multi billion dollar empire.
The average price for gasoline was $0.31 per gallon.
Paul Baran proposed a distributed network as the form of communication least vulnerable to a nuclear strike. His packet switching techniques played a key role in the development of the Internet.
Tom Hayden and others founded the "Students for Democratic Society" (SDS) to become known for its activism against the Vietnam War.
Michael Murphy founded the "Esalen Institute" at Big Sur, California, to promote spiritual healing.
30,000 troops sent to escort a young black student, James Meredith, to the University of Mississippi to force integration.
Bob Dylan recorded "Blowin' In The Wind." The song speaks about humanity, war, peace, and other ambiguous questions to which people refuse to seek answers.
The audio cassette, an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback was introduced.
The first telecommunication satellite, the Telstar I, lifted into orbit. The Telstar successfully relayed from space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live transatlantic television feed.
Helen Gurley Brown published "Sex and the Single Girl", defending a woman's right to have sex for pleasure.
The Medium Is the Message by Marshall McLuhan
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-The-Medium-is-the-Message-by-Marshall-McLuhan (Edited.)
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher, professor, and a communications theorist.
McLuhan felt the way information is sent and received is more important than the information itself.
McLuhan defined medium (the channel or method) as any extension of ourselves or our senses. Just as a hammer extends the effects of the arms, each medium enables us to do more than our body can do on its own. The mediums of language and speech extend our thoughts from our mind to others.
Media is anything from which change emerges, and it is constantly growing. Since some sort of change emerges from everything people conceive or create, all of our inventions, innovations, ideas and ideals are media.
McLuhan said a message is the change of scale or pace or pattern that a new invention or innovation introduces into human affairs. The message of a newscast is not the news stories themselves, but the change in the public attitude towards a subject of the news. A message admonishes us to look beyond the obvious and seek the non-obvious changes or effects that are enabled, enhanced, accelerated or extended by the new thing.
We can know the nature and characteristics of anything we conceive or create (the medium) by virtue of the changes that result from it (the message). People are often distracted by the content of a medium, that blinds them to the character of the medium that is its effect (the message). New technology reshapes not only our ability to communicate, but changes the way people communicate and our utilization of the shared knowledge.
The Medium Is the Message explains that noticing the change in our societal or cultural conditions indicates the presence of a new message, the effects of a new medium.
1963
President John Kennedy was assassinated.
Thich Quang Duc a Vietnamese Buddhist monk burned himself to death in Saigon. Photographs of his self-immolation were circulated widely around the world and brought attention to the brutal policies of the Roman Catholic Diem government, which was supported by the U.S. in Vietnam.
The first quasar (170,000 light-years wide) was identified. It was theorized that quasars contain massive black holes and may represent a stage in the evolution of galaxies.
The first skateboarding contest was held in Los Angeles.
Bell Labs introduced the touch-tone phone.
Martin Luther King led 200,000 blacks on a march to Washington and delivered his "I have a dream” speech.
A bomber blows up a black church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Malcom X was considered too extremist, and was expelled from the "Nation of Islam."
The Arecibo Observatory, the largest single-aperture telescope in the world, was inaugurated in Puerto Rico.
The sixties were a time of protest and change. When John F. Kennedy took office. he announced that the “torch was being passed to a new generation. By the late 1960’s, a new generation of young Americans began to question the conformity of the 1950s.
"The Sixties" is a term used to describe the counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing, music, drugs, dress, sexuality, formalities, and schooling. Others denounce the decade as one of irresponsible excess, flamboyance, and decay of social order. The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time. Norms of all kinds were broken down, especially in regards to civil rights and expectations that men would go off to fight meaningless wars.
1960
Searle & Company commercially introduced Gregory Pincus' birth control pill.
Delbert Webb founded the first retirement community, Sun City in Arizona.
NASA launched the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.
Timothy Leary began a research program at Harvard University to study hallucinogenic drugs.
Nearly 90% of households owned a TV set.
The Soviet Union shot down a U.S. U2 spy plane and captured the pilot, Gary Powers.
Theodore Maiman built the first successful laser.
Frank Drake devised an equation to calculate the potential number of extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way ("the Drake Equation"), The SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) was established.
The population of the USA was 179 million with 70% living in cities.
There were 50 million TV sets in the USA.
In retaliation for the USA's imposition of quotas on Venezuelan oil (to favor Canada and Mexico), Venezuela joined Arab countries to found OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries).
Manhattan had 98 buildings that were taller than 25 floors.
Russ Solomon opened the first Tower Records in Sacramento, California, the first music mega-store.
Black students including Ella Baker and Stokely Carmichael founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to fight for civil rights.
The ratio of debt to personal disposable income was 55%.
1961
John Kennedy was inaugurated as president, the first Catholic and the youngest ever, and promised a "New Frontier."
The first stereo FM radio.
Robert Schuller built the first drive-in church in Garden Grove, California.
A B-52 plane carrying two nuclear bombs crashed in North Carolina.
Sargent Shriver founded the Peace Corps.
MIT demonstrated the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), the first time-sharing operating system. The design of the CTSS was the beginning of the idea of multitasking on computers.
Los Angeles passed Philadelphia, becoming the third largest city in the country.
Soviet troops built a wall to isolate West Berlin and to discourage people from fleeing Eastern Germany.
A Cuban rebel force trained by the CIA tried unsuccessfully to invade Cuba (the "Bay of Pigs" invasion).
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the name for each of a series of United States federal laws specifying the annual budget and expenditures of the U.S. Department of Defense was passed.
Soviet Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space. His flight, on April 12, 1961, lasted 108 minutes as he circled the Earth for a little more than one orbit in the Soviet Union's Vostok spacecraft. This flight began the space race between the Soviets and the U.S.
The first stereo radio was broadcast.
The Beach Boys launched surf-music.
Charles Bachman at General Electric developed the first database management system, IDS.
Overcoming the Chaos of Fratricide (War)
The concept of brotherhood presumes organized, dedicated, people each striving to exceed in their roles. Each performer is motivated to work with a team not for self.
Brotherhood seeks perfection at every level of existence because it is expected and desired. Comparable organizational efforts may be observed in military organizations, team sports, and musical ensembles.
1962
The USA intervened in Vietnam to counter Soviet help to the Vietcong.
John Glenn was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth.
In April, 1962, the USA installed nuclear-armed Jupiter missiles in Turkey.
In October, 1962, Krushev and Kennedy risked a nuclear war over Soviet missiles deployed in Cuba, but the Soviet Union withdrew the missiles from Cuba and the USA from Turkey.
Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring" warning of the danger of pesticides.
Franck Gerow performed the first silicon implant in a woman's breast.
The Johnny Carson show debuted on television. The popular show was a traditional potpourri of comedy, music, dance, skits and monologues.
Sam Walton opened the first Wal-Mart (later Walmart) in Rogers, Arkansas. The store, destined to become the largest retail store in the world advertised itself to have "The lowest prices anytime, anywhere."
Warren Buffett acquired Berkshire Hathaway, the beginning of his multi billion dollar empire.
The average price for gasoline was $0.31 per gallon.
Paul Baran proposed a distributed network as the form of communication least vulnerable to a nuclear strike. His packet switching techniques played a key role in the development of the Internet.
Tom Hayden and others founded the "Students for Democratic Society" (SDS) to become known for its activism against the Vietnam War.
Michael Murphy founded the "Esalen Institute" at Big Sur, California, to promote spiritual healing.
30,000 troops sent to escort a young black student, James Meredith, to the University of Mississippi to force integration.
Bob Dylan recorded "Blowin' In The Wind." The song speaks about humanity, war, peace, and other ambiguous questions to which people refuse to seek answers.
The audio cassette, an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback was introduced.
The first telecommunication satellite, the Telstar I, lifted into orbit. The Telstar successfully relayed from space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live transatlantic television feed.
Helen Gurley Brown published "Sex and the Single Girl", defending a woman's right to have sex for pleasure.
The Medium Is the Message by Marshall McLuhan
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-The-Medium-is-the-Message-by-Marshall-McLuhan (Edited.)
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher, professor, and a communications theorist.
McLuhan felt the way information is sent and received is more important than the information itself.
McLuhan defined medium (the channel or method) as any extension of ourselves or our senses. Just as a hammer extends the effects of the arms, each medium enables us to do more than our body can do on its own. The mediums of language and speech extend our thoughts from our mind to others.
Media is anything from which change emerges, and it is constantly growing. Since some sort of change emerges from everything people conceive or create, all of our inventions, innovations, ideas and ideals are media.
McLuhan said a message is the change of scale or pace or pattern that a new invention or innovation introduces into human affairs. The message of a newscast is not the news stories themselves, but the change in the public attitude towards a subject of the news. A message admonishes us to look beyond the obvious and seek the non-obvious changes or effects that are enabled, enhanced, accelerated or extended by the new thing.
We can know the nature and characteristics of anything we conceive or create (the medium) by virtue of the changes that result from it (the message). People are often distracted by the content of a medium, that blinds them to the character of the medium that is its effect (the message). New technology reshapes not only our ability to communicate, but changes the way people communicate and our utilization of the shared knowledge.
The Medium Is the Message explains that noticing the change in our societal or cultural conditions indicates the presence of a new message, the effects of a new medium.
1963
President John Kennedy was assassinated.
Thich Quang Duc a Vietnamese Buddhist monk burned himself to death in Saigon. Photographs of his self-immolation were circulated widely around the world and brought attention to the brutal policies of the Roman Catholic Diem government, which was supported by the U.S. in Vietnam.
The first quasar (170,000 light-years wide) was identified. It was theorized that quasars contain massive black holes and may represent a stage in the evolution of galaxies.
The first skateboarding contest was held in Los Angeles.
Bell Labs introduced the touch-tone phone.
Martin Luther King led 200,000 blacks on a march to Washington and delivered his "I have a dream” speech.
A bomber blows up a black church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Malcom X was considered too extremist, and was expelled from the "Nation of Islam."
The Arecibo Observatory, the largest single-aperture telescope in the world, was inaugurated in Puerto Rico.
1964
Cable TV was deployed in USA cities.
Following an earthquake in Alaska, George Plafker's theory that earthquakes are caused by plate tectonics was widely accepted.
The USA terminated the Mexican worker "bracero program."
Phil Knight founded Blue Ribbon Sports, later renamed Nike.
The first reverse-osmosis plant (that purified waste-water) was opened in Coalinga, California.
The situation comedy "Bewitched" debuted on television.
Syntex introduced the oral new life style birth-control pill.
Bear Stearns (a New York bank and brokerage firm) acquired Orkin Exterminating Company, in the first major leveraged buyout transaction (using bonds and loaned money).
Mario Savio founded the "Free Speech Movement" and led student riots at the University of California Berkeley campus.
Jazz musician John Coltrane recorded "A Love Supreme", considered the greatest jazz album ever.
The Surgeon General proved smoking was linked to cancer and heart disease.
IBM introduced the first "mainframe" computer (the 360) and the first "operating system" (the OS/360).
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
The CIA fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin incident as a pretext for direct USA intervention in Vietnam.
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz (at Dartmouth College) invented the BASIC programming language.
Michael Scott-Morton introduced the concept of a management decision-support system. [Note: Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense used advanced versions of this management tool to direct military operations in the Vietnam War (Systems Analysis and later Policy Analysis.]
Democracy and Communism
Democracy is a system of government by the people. Democracy, in a republic, is a way for people in society to decide things by majority making collective decisions through their representatives at the national level.
Communism is a philosophical and economic concept that, in principle, can include democracy. (Most communist political thinkers and economists believe that democracy is inevitably a part of communism.)
Communism is a way of organizing and structuring society, as well as an economic system (the way things are produced). Communalism is the way society is organized in Communism.
Communism is classless, stateless, wage-less, money-less. Communism is based primarily on Marxian principles of dialectical materialism and labor theory of value. [Note: Dialectical materialism maintains that political and historical events result from the conflict of social forces that may be viewed
as a series of contradictions and their solutions. Conflict is believed to be caused by competition for material objectives. The labor theory of value is that the economic value of a good or service is determined by the total amount of socially necessary labor required to produce each good or service.]
Communalism proposes that society should be organized into communes (organized local communities of people) that are federated (set up within a boundary where each division keeps some internal autonomy).
Unlike Socialism and Capitalism, Democracy and Communism are not opposed to each other. Each has its own distinct utility and may be combined with each other to build something more complex.
Socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. (In Marxist theory, socialism is a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism.)
Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for their personal profit, rather than by the state, either laissez-faire or with tacit government assistance. Capitalism tends to create a division of society between owners and labor.
The Civil Rights Era
1965
Gordon Moore (later of Intel) predicted that the processing power of computers will double every 18 months. (He was right.)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi founded the Students' International Meditation Society.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founded the Hare Krishna movement. [Note: The Hare Krishna movement is a branch of Hinduism. The name comes from its chant, “Hare Krishna,” which devotees repeat over and over to worship Krishna (God).]
The USA enacted the "Immigration and Nationality Act." The law eliminated the national origins quota system, which had set limits on the numbers of individuals from any given nation who could immigrate to the United States.
Half of USA households owned a Polaroid camera.
The USA dispatched the marines to restore order in the Dominican Republic after the communists’ coup attempt.
Civil-rights activist Stokely Carmichael delivered a speech on "Black Power." (He originated the black nationalism rallying slogan, “Black Power.”)
Fidel Castro allowed one million Cubans to leave Cuba and settle in the USA.
The Vietcong attacked the marines at Pleiku Air Base causing a rapid escalation of the war.
The Digital Equipment Corporation unveiled the first mini-computer, the PDP-8, that used integrated circuits.
34 people died in racial riots in the Los Angeles ghetto of Watts.
African-American leader Malcolm X was assassinated at a rally by members of the "Nation of Islam."
The SDS, Students for Democratic Society, organized the first pacifist march on Washington.
The spacecraft Mariner 4 took the first pictures of Mars' surface in a flyby.
The National Endowment for the Arts was established by the U.S. government.
1966
Boxing champion Cassius Clay was jailed for refusing to serve in Vietnam.
Edward Brooke became the first popularly elected black senator in the history of the USA.
The Uniform Time Act established the system of uniform Daylight Saving Time throughout the US.
Gene Rodenberry's “Star Trek” debuted on television.
William Buckley began the TV show "Firing Line" that promoted a conservative ideology. The show ran until 1999.
There were 2,623 computers in the USA (1,967 were used by the Defense Department).
Rock composer Frank Zappa debuted with "Freak Out", a double album. [Note: Often cited as one of rock music's first concept albums, the album is a satirical expression of Frank Zappa's perception of American pop culture and the nascent freak scene (slackers) of Los Angeles.]
Psychedelic rock, which was centered around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs came out of of San Francisco's hippie culture.
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the "Black Panther Party" in Oakland, California. (The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality.)
Charles Whitman, a University of Texas University student and former marine, armed with multiple guns, killed 14 people at the Austin campus.
1967
Jack Kilby (at Texas Instruments) developed the first hand-held calculator.
The Summer of Love, a social phenomenon, occurred during the summer when as many as 100,000 mostly young people celebrating hippie attire and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.
Riots in Detroit left 43 people dead.
Israel attacked a U.S. research vessel, the USS Liberty, killing 34 sailors. (Israel apologized for the attack, saying that the USS Liberty had been attacked in error after being mistaken for an Egyptian ship during their Six Day War with Egypt.)
Ray Browne founded the "Center for the Study of Popular Culture" at Bowling Green, Ky, that popularized the term "pop culture."
Darryl McCray, "Cornbread," created the first graffiti art (in Philadelphia).
The USA had 200 million people, of which 9.7 million were foreign-born.
The first football "Super Bowl" was played.
Racial riots killed 26 people in Newark and 43 in Detroit.
Cuban liberation hero Che Guevara was killed by U.S. agents in Bolivia.
Pacifists marched on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam war.
The CIA supported a coup in Greece that installed a dictatorship of colonels.
Sixteen states refused to recognize mixed-race marriages.
Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) discovered oil in Alaska.
Thurgood Marshall became the first black to serve on the Supreme Court.
The first Consumer Electronics Show was held in New York.
Life on a Neighboring Planet
An Ecological, Economic, Political, Technological and Spiritual Utopia
This planet is in the same constellation as Earth. Like Earth, it suffered from the disloyalty of the Lucifer rebellion and the default of its Material Son and Daughter.
Despite these problems, a superior civilization of one hundred and forty million people is evolving on an isolated continent about the size of Australia. Due to favorable climatic factors, natural resources, and advances in science, the society has become self-sustaining.
Cities are limited to one million inhabitants and are administered by the most capable citizens. Their representative central government is divided into executive, judicial, and legislative branches. The central government oversees a federation of one hundred states. The federal chief executive is elected by the people and is advised by a team comprised of every living former chief executive.
This nation has two major court systems. Law courts decide cases on local, state and federal levels, while socioeconomic courts enforce laws affecting home, school, and economics. People regard the home as the basic institution of civilization. The smallest home site permitted is fifty thousand square feet. Families have an average of five children, and attendance of parents at parental schools is compulsory.
Instruction in sex and religion is done at home, although some moral instruction is provided by teachers at school. There are no churches. Religion is thought of as the striving to know God and to manifest love for one's fellows through service.
Life on a Neighboring Planet (Continued)
Raising Children in a Utopian Environment
Children remain legally subject to their parents until they are fifteen. They can marry with parental consent and vote when they are twenty, and marry without parental consent at twenty-five. Permission to marry is granted after one year's notice and completion of training for the responsibilities of married life. All children must leave home by their thirtieth year.
Education is compulsory from ages five to eighteen. All students become assistant teachers, instructing those behind them. There are no classrooms. Books are used only to find information to solve problems in the school shops and farms. The feeble minded are trained only for agriculture and are segregated by sex to prevent parenthood. Students spend a quarter of the school day participating in competitive athletics. At the age of eighteen, each child graduates as a skilled artisan and self supporting citizen; only then do they begin the study of books and the pursuit of specialized knowledge. Special schools after compulsory education include those for statesmanship, philosophy, science, the professions, and military training.
Life on a Neighboring Planet (Continued)
Culture in a Utopian NationIndustry operates on a thirty-hour week. Everyone takes vacation for one month of the ten month year. The profit motive is being displaced by higher ideals. Public service is becoming the chief goal of ambition. People must retire at sixty-five. Slavery has been abolished for over one hundred years, and the nation has turned its attention to reducing the number of degenerates.
The federal government cannot go into debt except in the case of war. Federal income is derived from five sources: import duties, royalties, inheritance taxes, leasing of military equipment, and natural resources. Every person over twenty years old has one vote. Those who have rendered great service to society and those who pay heavy taxes can have additional votes conferred upon them. Prisoners and government employees are not allowed to vote.
Life on a Neighboring Planet (Continued)
Utopian Law and Order
These people are passing from the negative to the positive era of law. (Negative law is the failure to do something that one has a legal duty to do. Positive law is voluntary compliance.) Ordinary criminals and defectives are segregated by sex and placed in self supporting agricultural colonies. Serious habitual offenders and the incurably insane are swiftly sentenced to death. Efforts to prevent breeding of criminals and defectives have been successful.
There are no prisons or hospitals for the insane.
Courses pursued in the military schools include military training and mastery of the professions. During industrial slumps, unemployed people build military defenses. During periods of peace, the mobile defense mechanisms are fully employed in trade, commerce, and recreation. This nation has not launched an offensive war in more than one hundred years, but has defended itself nine times in that period against the less advanced surrounding nations.
Unlike Earth, this planet has not benefited by the bestowal mission of a Paradise Son. Since Earth has been blessed with the presence of Michael/Jesus’ Spirit of Truth, it is better prepared for the more immediate realization of a planetary government than the neighboring planet.
Cable TV was deployed in USA cities.
Following an earthquake in Alaska, George Plafker's theory that earthquakes are caused by plate tectonics was widely accepted.
The USA terminated the Mexican worker "bracero program."
Phil Knight founded Blue Ribbon Sports, later renamed Nike.
The first reverse-osmosis plant (that purified waste-water) was opened in Coalinga, California.
The situation comedy "Bewitched" debuted on television.
Syntex introduced the oral new life style birth-control pill.
Bear Stearns (a New York bank and brokerage firm) acquired Orkin Exterminating Company, in the first major leveraged buyout transaction (using bonds and loaned money).
Mario Savio founded the "Free Speech Movement" and led student riots at the University of California Berkeley campus.
Jazz musician John Coltrane recorded "A Love Supreme", considered the greatest jazz album ever.
The Surgeon General proved smoking was linked to cancer and heart disease.
IBM introduced the first "mainframe" computer (the 360) and the first "operating system" (the OS/360).
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
The CIA fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin incident as a pretext for direct USA intervention in Vietnam.
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz (at Dartmouth College) invented the BASIC programming language.
Michael Scott-Morton introduced the concept of a management decision-support system. [Note: Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense used advanced versions of this management tool to direct military operations in the Vietnam War (Systems Analysis and later Policy Analysis.]
Democracy and Communism
Democracy is a system of government by the people. Democracy, in a republic, is a way for people in society to decide things by majority making collective decisions through their representatives at the national level.
Communism is a philosophical and economic concept that, in principle, can include democracy. (Most communist political thinkers and economists believe that democracy is inevitably a part of communism.)
Communism is a way of organizing and structuring society, as well as an economic system (the way things are produced). Communalism is the way society is organized in Communism.
Communism is classless, stateless, wage-less, money-less. Communism is based primarily on Marxian principles of dialectical materialism and labor theory of value. [Note: Dialectical materialism maintains that political and historical events result from the conflict of social forces that may be viewed
as a series of contradictions and their solutions. Conflict is believed to be caused by competition for material objectives. The labor theory of value is that the economic value of a good or service is determined by the total amount of socially necessary labor required to produce each good or service.]
Communalism proposes that society should be organized into communes (organized local communities of people) that are federated (set up within a boundary where each division keeps some internal autonomy).
Unlike Socialism and Capitalism, Democracy and Communism are not opposed to each other. Each has its own distinct utility and may be combined with each other to build something more complex.
Socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. (In Marxist theory, socialism is a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism.)
Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for their personal profit, rather than by the state, either laissez-faire or with tacit government assistance. Capitalism tends to create a division of society between owners and labor.
The Civil Rights Era
1965
Gordon Moore (later of Intel) predicted that the processing power of computers will double every 18 months. (He was right.)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi founded the Students' International Meditation Society.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founded the Hare Krishna movement. [Note: The Hare Krishna movement is a branch of Hinduism. The name comes from its chant, “Hare Krishna,” which devotees repeat over and over to worship Krishna (God).]
The USA enacted the "Immigration and Nationality Act." The law eliminated the national origins quota system, which had set limits on the numbers of individuals from any given nation who could immigrate to the United States.
Half of USA households owned a Polaroid camera.
The USA dispatched the marines to restore order in the Dominican Republic after the communists’ coup attempt.
Civil-rights activist Stokely Carmichael delivered a speech on "Black Power." (He originated the black nationalism rallying slogan, “Black Power.”)
Fidel Castro allowed one million Cubans to leave Cuba and settle in the USA.
The Vietcong attacked the marines at Pleiku Air Base causing a rapid escalation of the war.
The Digital Equipment Corporation unveiled the first mini-computer, the PDP-8, that used integrated circuits.
34 people died in racial riots in the Los Angeles ghetto of Watts.
African-American leader Malcolm X was assassinated at a rally by members of the "Nation of Islam."
The SDS, Students for Democratic Society, organized the first pacifist march on Washington.
The spacecraft Mariner 4 took the first pictures of Mars' surface in a flyby.
The National Endowment for the Arts was established by the U.S. government.
1966
Boxing champion Cassius Clay was jailed for refusing to serve in Vietnam.
Edward Brooke became the first popularly elected black senator in the history of the USA.
The Uniform Time Act established the system of uniform Daylight Saving Time throughout the US.
Gene Rodenberry's “Star Trek” debuted on television.
William Buckley began the TV show "Firing Line" that promoted a conservative ideology. The show ran until 1999.
There were 2,623 computers in the USA (1,967 were used by the Defense Department).
Rock composer Frank Zappa debuted with "Freak Out", a double album. [Note: Often cited as one of rock music's first concept albums, the album is a satirical expression of Frank Zappa's perception of American pop culture and the nascent freak scene (slackers) of Los Angeles.]
Psychedelic rock, which was centered around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs came out of of San Francisco's hippie culture.
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the "Black Panther Party" in Oakland, California. (The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality.)
Charles Whitman, a University of Texas University student and former marine, armed with multiple guns, killed 14 people at the Austin campus.
1967
Jack Kilby (at Texas Instruments) developed the first hand-held calculator.
The Summer of Love, a social phenomenon, occurred during the summer when as many as 100,000 mostly young people celebrating hippie attire and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.
Riots in Detroit left 43 people dead.
Israel attacked a U.S. research vessel, the USS Liberty, killing 34 sailors. (Israel apologized for the attack, saying that the USS Liberty had been attacked in error after being mistaken for an Egyptian ship during their Six Day War with Egypt.)
Ray Browne founded the "Center for the Study of Popular Culture" at Bowling Green, Ky, that popularized the term "pop culture."
Darryl McCray, "Cornbread," created the first graffiti art (in Philadelphia).
The USA had 200 million people, of which 9.7 million were foreign-born.
The first football "Super Bowl" was played.
Racial riots killed 26 people in Newark and 43 in Detroit.
Cuban liberation hero Che Guevara was killed by U.S. agents in Bolivia.
Pacifists marched on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam war.
The CIA supported a coup in Greece that installed a dictatorship of colonels.
Sixteen states refused to recognize mixed-race marriages.
Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) discovered oil in Alaska.
Thurgood Marshall became the first black to serve on the Supreme Court.
The first Consumer Electronics Show was held in New York.
Life on a Neighboring Planet
An Ecological, Economic, Political, Technological and Spiritual Utopia
This planet is in the same constellation as Earth. Like Earth, it suffered from the disloyalty of the Lucifer rebellion and the default of its Material Son and Daughter.
Despite these problems, a superior civilization of one hundred and forty million people is evolving on an isolated continent about the size of Australia. Due to favorable climatic factors, natural resources, and advances in science, the society has become self-sustaining.
Cities are limited to one million inhabitants and are administered by the most capable citizens. Their representative central government is divided into executive, judicial, and legislative branches. The central government oversees a federation of one hundred states. The federal chief executive is elected by the people and is advised by a team comprised of every living former chief executive.
This nation has two major court systems. Law courts decide cases on local, state and federal levels, while socioeconomic courts enforce laws affecting home, school, and economics. People regard the home as the basic institution of civilization. The smallest home site permitted is fifty thousand square feet. Families have an average of five children, and attendance of parents at parental schools is compulsory.
Instruction in sex and religion is done at home, although some moral instruction is provided by teachers at school. There are no churches. Religion is thought of as the striving to know God and to manifest love for one's fellows through service.
Life on a Neighboring Planet (Continued)
Raising Children in a Utopian Environment
Children remain legally subject to their parents until they are fifteen. They can marry with parental consent and vote when they are twenty, and marry without parental consent at twenty-five. Permission to marry is granted after one year's notice and completion of training for the responsibilities of married life. All children must leave home by their thirtieth year.
Education is compulsory from ages five to eighteen. All students become assistant teachers, instructing those behind them. There are no classrooms. Books are used only to find information to solve problems in the school shops and farms. The feeble minded are trained only for agriculture and are segregated by sex to prevent parenthood. Students spend a quarter of the school day participating in competitive athletics. At the age of eighteen, each child graduates as a skilled artisan and self supporting citizen; only then do they begin the study of books and the pursuit of specialized knowledge. Special schools after compulsory education include those for statesmanship, philosophy, science, the professions, and military training.
Life on a Neighboring Planet (Continued)
Culture in a Utopian NationIndustry operates on a thirty-hour week. Everyone takes vacation for one month of the ten month year. The profit motive is being displaced by higher ideals. Public service is becoming the chief goal of ambition. People must retire at sixty-five. Slavery has been abolished for over one hundred years, and the nation has turned its attention to reducing the number of degenerates.
The federal government cannot go into debt except in the case of war. Federal income is derived from five sources: import duties, royalties, inheritance taxes, leasing of military equipment, and natural resources. Every person over twenty years old has one vote. Those who have rendered great service to society and those who pay heavy taxes can have additional votes conferred upon them. Prisoners and government employees are not allowed to vote.
Life on a Neighboring Planet (Continued)
Utopian Law and Order
These people are passing from the negative to the positive era of law. (Negative law is the failure to do something that one has a legal duty to do. Positive law is voluntary compliance.) Ordinary criminals and defectives are segregated by sex and placed in self supporting agricultural colonies. Serious habitual offenders and the incurably insane are swiftly sentenced to death. Efforts to prevent breeding of criminals and defectives have been successful.
There are no prisons or hospitals for the insane.
Courses pursued in the military schools include military training and mastery of the professions. During industrial slumps, unemployed people build military defenses. During periods of peace, the mobile defense mechanisms are fully employed in trade, commerce, and recreation. This nation has not launched an offensive war in more than one hundred years, but has defended itself nine times in that period against the less advanced surrounding nations.
Unlike Earth, this planet has not benefited by the bestowal mission of a Paradise Son. Since Earth has been blessed with the presence of Michael/Jesus’ Spirit of Truth, it is better prepared for the more immediate realization of a planetary government than the neighboring planet.
Back to Life on Earth
1968
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated.
Robert Kennedy was assassinated by a Palestinian immigrant, Sirhan Sirhan, in retaliation for the USA's support of Israel.
The hypertext system FRESS created by Andries van Dam at Brown University for the IBM 360 introduced the "undo" feature.
[FRESS was a continuation of work done on van Dam's previous hypertext system, HES. FRESS users could insert a marker at any location within a text document and link the marked selection to any other point either in the same document or a different document. The difference between hypertext and hyperlink is that hypertext is a text with references to some other text while hyperlink is a reference in a hypertext that directs users to a section in the same document or a different document.]
Tommie Smith protested the USA anthem at the Olympic games.
The Vietcong and North Vietnam began a joint attack against the USA in South Vietnam. The “Tet Offensive” was a coordinated series of attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
Reporter Seymour Hersh revealed that U.S. soldiers, under the command of William Calley, massacred more than 300 civilians at My Lai, Vietnam.
Philip Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove founded Intel to build memory chips.
520,000 U.S. troops were in Vietnam.
Stewart Brand published the first "Whole Earth Catalog."
ARDC's investment in Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was valued at $355 million. [Note: American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC) was a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1946 by Georges Doriot, the former dean of Harvard Business School and "father of venture capitalism", with Ralph Flanders and Karl Compton (former president of MIT).
Control of Media
“Mass communication” refers to imparting and exchanging information on a large scale to a wide range of people for the dissemination of information, of which journalism and advertising are a part. The owners of mass media are chiefly concerned with how the content of mass communication persuades or otherwise affects the behavior, the attitude, opinion, or emotion of the people receiving the information.
Mass communication is done through many mediums, such as radio, television, social networking, billboards, newspapers, magazines, film, and the Internet.
The owners of media (a small group of elite people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in society) decide what gets broadcast printed.
1969
The Unix operating system (a family of multitasking, multi user computer operating systems was born.
Theodore Roszak's book "The Making of a Counter Culture" coined the term "counterculture" and captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels.
Stanley Milgram proved that all people are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other (a friend of a friend).
Homosexuals fight police in New York ("the Stonewall riots"), igniting the Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement.
President Nixon characterized drugs as "public enemy number one in the United States."
Charles Manson, leader of a satanic cult, and his followers killed seven people in a Bel Air mansion.
The USA began a secret bombing campaign of Cambodia.
Captain Beefheart recorded "Trout Mask Replica", possibly the greatest rock album ever. Beefheart combined elements of rock, jazz, folk, avant-garde and raw blues, with elements of dada and surrealism, to create something utterly unique.
The first automatic teller machines appeared.
The computer network ARPAnet was born in the USA (renamed Internet in 1985).
USA astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon.
President Richard Nixon approved carpet bombing and land invasion of Cambodia.
300,000 young people attended the Woodstock festival of rock music.
A huge crowd marched on Washington to demand an end to the Vietnam war.
Sylvia Rivera founded the gay liberation movement.
An oil spill in California provoked a ban on offshore drilling.
Leo Laurence in San Francisco called for a "Homosexual Revolution."
After polls show that the majority of U.S. citizens opposed the antiwar movement, President Nixon gave a TV and radio speech appealing to the silent majority, He asked for united support "to end the war in a way that we could win the peace."
The Seventies
The seventies decade was known for the Watergate scandal, big-hair styles, and disco music. Recently, historians have portrayed the 1970s as pivotal in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals that followed the end of the postwar economic boom. In the Western world, social progressive values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and economic liberty of women, continued to grow. In the United Kingdom, the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic recession due to an oil crisis caused by oil embargoes by OPEC (the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries). The economic crisis saw the first instance of stagflation, which began a political and economic trend of the replacement of Keynesian economic theory with neoliberal economic theory (favoring free market capitalism).
Novelist Tom Wolfe coined the term "the Me decade," which described a general new attitude of Americans towards individualism and away from the communitarianism (social organization based on small self-governing communities) of the 1960s.
1970
Ted Codd invented the relational database. He wrote a series of papers outlining novel ways to construct databases. His ideas eventually evolved into a paper titled, A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks, which described a new method for storing data and processing large databases.
Rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose.
95% of households owned a TV set.
The U.S. passed the "Clean Air Act" that limited pollution caused by cars.
20 million U.S. citizens experimented with illegal drugs.
The first Earth Day was celebrated.
The population of the U.S. was 203 million, with 73% living in cities.
The first Kinko's (copy shop) opened near the University of California in Santa Barbara.
The USA invaded Cambodia. (Cambodian neutrality and military weakness made its territory a safe zone where Vietnamese communist forces established bases for operations.)
The first practical optical fiber was developed by glass maker Corning Glass Works.
Five of the seven largest USA semiconductor manufacturers were located in Santa Clara Valley, California.
There were more immigrants from Latin America (39%) than Europe (18%).
The first "San Francisco Gay Pride Parade" was held.
Escalation of War, Social, Gender, Technological and Economic Advances
1971
During riots at the Attica, NY, prison, 33 convicts and 10 guards were killed.
The Ed Sullivan Show was canceled. (It was the longest-running TV variety program in history.)
The television documentary "An American Family" followed the Lourd family, a middle-class family (the first "reality" show).
Richard Nixon (USA) and Mao (China) secretly supported Pakistan's dictator Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan in his genocide of East Pakistani intellectuals, Hindus and assorted civilians. (Nixon declared that the U.S. "would not do anything to complicate the situation for President Yahya or to embarrass him.”)
Gil Kane and Archie Goodwin published "Blackmark", the first graphic novel (comic book art).
Michael Tracy, or "Tracy 168", created the "wild style" of graffiti art painting trains in the New York subway.
Michael Hart launched the "Project Gutenberg" to make digital versions of books available for free on the Internet.
One third of all working women in the USA were secretaries.
Bob Hunter and others founded the environmental activist group Greenpeace in Canada.
The USA imported more oil than it exported.
Cetus, the first biotech company, was founded.
A journalist renamed Santa Clara Valley the "Silicon Valley."
Ted Hoff and Federico Faggin at Intel invented the micro-processor (a programmable set of integrated circuits).
The USA pulled out of the Bretton Woods agreement (established in 1944) of fixed exchange rates, which forced foreign currencies to float, and abandoned the gold standard.
Gloria Steinem founded the first feminist magazine, "Ms Magazine."
The Smithsonian Accord of December 1971: The “Group of 11” - U.S., UK, Japan, Canada, France, West Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland – agreed to “reboot” the dollar by devaluing it by 8%.
1972
USA President Richard Nixon met with Mao in China.
Hamilton Watch introduced the Hamilton Pulsar P1, the first electronic digital watch and the first using a digital LED display.
President Richard Nixon met with Breznev in Russia.
Magnavox introduced the first video game console.
Nolan Bushnell invented the video game, Pong.
Charles Dolan and Gerald Levin launched the first pay-television network, Home Box Office (HBO).
Richard Nixon ordered carpet bombing of civilian areas in North Vietnam over the Christmas holidays.
Strategic nuclear parity was established between USA and Soviet Union.
The Dow Jones index reached 1000.
A novel by David Gerrold coined the term "computer virus."
Ray Tomlinson invented e-mail for sending messages between computer users. He also invented a system to identify the user name and the computer name separated by "@."
The Global Positioning System (GPS) was invented by the USA military, using a constellation of 24 satellites for navigation and positioning purposes.
There were 112 million cars in the USA, almost half of all the cars in the world.
Worship of God
Christ said group worship of God should be conducted in nature, just as he worshiped during his forty day retreats in communion with his Thought Adjuster. God has provided man with the cathedrals of the physical body, mind, soul, and the planet. (The Thought Adjuster Father fragment indwells every individual mind beyond the age of six.)
In addition, the Spirit of Truth, poured out upon Earth at the conclusion of Michael/Jesus’ bestowal life here, provides the spiritual foundation for the realization of great achievements done in the interests of the human race. Urantia (Earth) is far better prepared for the more immediate realization of a planetary government (with its laws, mechanisms, symbols, conventions, and language), which could contribute greatly to the establishment of world-wide peace and will lead to the sometime dawning of a real age of spiritual striving. Such an age is the planetary threshold to the Utopian ages of light and life, for which the Most High is preparing Earth.
Secret Warfare and The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
1973
Henry Kissinger became the first Jewish Secretary of State.
The USA capitulated and withdrew from Vietnam after killing close to 2 million civilians and 1 million enemy soldiers, while losing 58,000 men.
Robert Bernstein established the "Fund for Free Expression," later renamed "Human Rights Watch."
Vinton Cerf first used the term "Internet" (because it connected networks).
The Arpanet had 2,000 users.
The USA abolished the military draft in favor of an all-volunteer army.
The CIA helped the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet, to overthrow the socialist government of Salvador Allende. (30,000 dissidents were imprisoned and tortured, and 2,000 "disappeared.")
Martin Cooper at Motorola invented the first portable, wireless (cellular) telephone.
Abortion was legalized in the U.S.
Members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) imposed an oil embargo against the West and oil prices skyrocketed (the first "oil crisis"), which precipitated a world recession.
The World Trade Center was inaugurated in New York (the world's tallest skyscraper).
Gary Kindall invented the first operating system for a microprocessor, the CP/M.
Stanley Cohen of Stanford University and Herbert Boyer of UC San Francisco created the first recombinant DNA organism, inventing "biotechnology."
Jack Bogle of Vanguard launched the first stock index fund for retail investors.
1974
The Jeddah Accord in July, 1974: The U.S. was facing an oil crisis, runaway inflation, a crashing stock market and recession. President Nixon sent Henry Kissinger and William Simon to Saudi Arabia and rebooted the dollar by creating the “Petrodollar Deal.” This priced oil solely in U.S. dollars in exchange for defending the Saudi royal family with U.S. military might. Since everyone needs oil, everyone needed dollars to buy it. This massive new demand for dollars saved the American financial system.
Ed Roberts invented the first personal computer, the Altair 8800.
The barcode, invented by George Laurer at IBM, debuted.
Scientists sent a message from the Arecibo Observatory to the globular star cluster M13, which is 25,000 light years from Earth.
The Sears Towers opened in Chicago, the world's tallest skyscraper.
President Richard Nixon was forced to resign after the Watergate scandal (a burglary by five men of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.).
The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" (a movie whose reception earned it the title of a “cult-classic”) was released.
Jim Bakker began the "Praise The Lord" ministry.
The Universal Product Code, the standard for barcode, was used commercially for the first time.
1968
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated.
Robert Kennedy was assassinated by a Palestinian immigrant, Sirhan Sirhan, in retaliation for the USA's support of Israel.
The hypertext system FRESS created by Andries van Dam at Brown University for the IBM 360 introduced the "undo" feature.
[FRESS was a continuation of work done on van Dam's previous hypertext system, HES. FRESS users could insert a marker at any location within a text document and link the marked selection to any other point either in the same document or a different document. The difference between hypertext and hyperlink is that hypertext is a text with references to some other text while hyperlink is a reference in a hypertext that directs users to a section in the same document or a different document.]
Tommie Smith protested the USA anthem at the Olympic games.
The Vietcong and North Vietnam began a joint attack against the USA in South Vietnam. The “Tet Offensive” was a coordinated series of attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
Reporter Seymour Hersh revealed that U.S. soldiers, under the command of William Calley, massacred more than 300 civilians at My Lai, Vietnam.
Philip Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove founded Intel to build memory chips.
520,000 U.S. troops were in Vietnam.
Stewart Brand published the first "Whole Earth Catalog."
ARDC's investment in Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was valued at $355 million. [Note: American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC) was a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1946 by Georges Doriot, the former dean of Harvard Business School and "father of venture capitalism", with Ralph Flanders and Karl Compton (former president of MIT).
Control of Media
“Mass communication” refers to imparting and exchanging information on a large scale to a wide range of people for the dissemination of information, of which journalism and advertising are a part. The owners of mass media are chiefly concerned with how the content of mass communication persuades or otherwise affects the behavior, the attitude, opinion, or emotion of the people receiving the information.
Mass communication is done through many mediums, such as radio, television, social networking, billboards, newspapers, magazines, film, and the Internet.
The owners of media (a small group of elite people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in society) decide what gets broadcast printed.
1969
The Unix operating system (a family of multitasking, multi user computer operating systems was born.
Theodore Roszak's book "The Making of a Counter Culture" coined the term "counterculture" and captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels.
Stanley Milgram proved that all people are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other (a friend of a friend).
Homosexuals fight police in New York ("the Stonewall riots"), igniting the Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement.
President Nixon characterized drugs as "public enemy number one in the United States."
Charles Manson, leader of a satanic cult, and his followers killed seven people in a Bel Air mansion.
The USA began a secret bombing campaign of Cambodia.
Captain Beefheart recorded "Trout Mask Replica", possibly the greatest rock album ever. Beefheart combined elements of rock, jazz, folk, avant-garde and raw blues, with elements of dada and surrealism, to create something utterly unique.
The first automatic teller machines appeared.
The computer network ARPAnet was born in the USA (renamed Internet in 1985).
USA astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon.
President Richard Nixon approved carpet bombing and land invasion of Cambodia.
300,000 young people attended the Woodstock festival of rock music.
A huge crowd marched on Washington to demand an end to the Vietnam war.
Sylvia Rivera founded the gay liberation movement.
An oil spill in California provoked a ban on offshore drilling.
Leo Laurence in San Francisco called for a "Homosexual Revolution."
After polls show that the majority of U.S. citizens opposed the antiwar movement, President Nixon gave a TV and radio speech appealing to the silent majority, He asked for united support "to end the war in a way that we could win the peace."
The Seventies
The seventies decade was known for the Watergate scandal, big-hair styles, and disco music. Recently, historians have portrayed the 1970s as pivotal in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals that followed the end of the postwar economic boom. In the Western world, social progressive values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and economic liberty of women, continued to grow. In the United Kingdom, the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic recession due to an oil crisis caused by oil embargoes by OPEC (the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries). The economic crisis saw the first instance of stagflation, which began a political and economic trend of the replacement of Keynesian economic theory with neoliberal economic theory (favoring free market capitalism).
Novelist Tom Wolfe coined the term "the Me decade," which described a general new attitude of Americans towards individualism and away from the communitarianism (social organization based on small self-governing communities) of the 1960s.
1970
Ted Codd invented the relational database. He wrote a series of papers outlining novel ways to construct databases. His ideas eventually evolved into a paper titled, A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks, which described a new method for storing data and processing large databases.
Rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose.
95% of households owned a TV set.
The U.S. passed the "Clean Air Act" that limited pollution caused by cars.
20 million U.S. citizens experimented with illegal drugs.
The first Earth Day was celebrated.
The population of the U.S. was 203 million, with 73% living in cities.
The first Kinko's (copy shop) opened near the University of California in Santa Barbara.
The USA invaded Cambodia. (Cambodian neutrality and military weakness made its territory a safe zone where Vietnamese communist forces established bases for operations.)
The first practical optical fiber was developed by glass maker Corning Glass Works.
Five of the seven largest USA semiconductor manufacturers were located in Santa Clara Valley, California.
There were more immigrants from Latin America (39%) than Europe (18%).
The first "San Francisco Gay Pride Parade" was held.
Escalation of War, Social, Gender, Technological and Economic Advances
1971
During riots at the Attica, NY, prison, 33 convicts and 10 guards were killed.
The Ed Sullivan Show was canceled. (It was the longest-running TV variety program in history.)
The television documentary "An American Family" followed the Lourd family, a middle-class family (the first "reality" show).
Richard Nixon (USA) and Mao (China) secretly supported Pakistan's dictator Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan in his genocide of East Pakistani intellectuals, Hindus and assorted civilians. (Nixon declared that the U.S. "would not do anything to complicate the situation for President Yahya or to embarrass him.”)
Gil Kane and Archie Goodwin published "Blackmark", the first graphic novel (comic book art).
Michael Tracy, or "Tracy 168", created the "wild style" of graffiti art painting trains in the New York subway.
Michael Hart launched the "Project Gutenberg" to make digital versions of books available for free on the Internet.
One third of all working women in the USA were secretaries.
Bob Hunter and others founded the environmental activist group Greenpeace in Canada.
The USA imported more oil than it exported.
Cetus, the first biotech company, was founded.
A journalist renamed Santa Clara Valley the "Silicon Valley."
Ted Hoff and Federico Faggin at Intel invented the micro-processor (a programmable set of integrated circuits).
The USA pulled out of the Bretton Woods agreement (established in 1944) of fixed exchange rates, which forced foreign currencies to float, and abandoned the gold standard.
Gloria Steinem founded the first feminist magazine, "Ms Magazine."
The Smithsonian Accord of December 1971: The “Group of 11” - U.S., UK, Japan, Canada, France, West Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland – agreed to “reboot” the dollar by devaluing it by 8%.
1972
USA President Richard Nixon met with Mao in China.
Hamilton Watch introduced the Hamilton Pulsar P1, the first electronic digital watch and the first using a digital LED display.
President Richard Nixon met with Breznev in Russia.
Magnavox introduced the first video game console.
Nolan Bushnell invented the video game, Pong.
Charles Dolan and Gerald Levin launched the first pay-television network, Home Box Office (HBO).
Richard Nixon ordered carpet bombing of civilian areas in North Vietnam over the Christmas holidays.
Strategic nuclear parity was established between USA and Soviet Union.
The Dow Jones index reached 1000.
A novel by David Gerrold coined the term "computer virus."
Ray Tomlinson invented e-mail for sending messages between computer users. He also invented a system to identify the user name and the computer name separated by "@."
The Global Positioning System (GPS) was invented by the USA military, using a constellation of 24 satellites for navigation and positioning purposes.
There were 112 million cars in the USA, almost half of all the cars in the world.
Worship of God
Christ said group worship of God should be conducted in nature, just as he worshiped during his forty day retreats in communion with his Thought Adjuster. God has provided man with the cathedrals of the physical body, mind, soul, and the planet. (The Thought Adjuster Father fragment indwells every individual mind beyond the age of six.)
In addition, the Spirit of Truth, poured out upon Earth at the conclusion of Michael/Jesus’ bestowal life here, provides the spiritual foundation for the realization of great achievements done in the interests of the human race. Urantia (Earth) is far better prepared for the more immediate realization of a planetary government (with its laws, mechanisms, symbols, conventions, and language), which could contribute greatly to the establishment of world-wide peace and will lead to the sometime dawning of a real age of spiritual striving. Such an age is the planetary threshold to the Utopian ages of light and life, for which the Most High is preparing Earth.
Secret Warfare and The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
1973
Henry Kissinger became the first Jewish Secretary of State.
The USA capitulated and withdrew from Vietnam after killing close to 2 million civilians and 1 million enemy soldiers, while losing 58,000 men.
Robert Bernstein established the "Fund for Free Expression," later renamed "Human Rights Watch."
Vinton Cerf first used the term "Internet" (because it connected networks).
The Arpanet had 2,000 users.
The USA abolished the military draft in favor of an all-volunteer army.
The CIA helped the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet, to overthrow the socialist government of Salvador Allende. (30,000 dissidents were imprisoned and tortured, and 2,000 "disappeared.")
Martin Cooper at Motorola invented the first portable, wireless (cellular) telephone.
Abortion was legalized in the U.S.
Members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) imposed an oil embargo against the West and oil prices skyrocketed (the first "oil crisis"), which precipitated a world recession.
The World Trade Center was inaugurated in New York (the world's tallest skyscraper).
Gary Kindall invented the first operating system for a microprocessor, the CP/M.
Stanley Cohen of Stanford University and Herbert Boyer of UC San Francisco created the first recombinant DNA organism, inventing "biotechnology."
Jack Bogle of Vanguard launched the first stock index fund for retail investors.
1974
The Jeddah Accord in July, 1974: The U.S. was facing an oil crisis, runaway inflation, a crashing stock market and recession. President Nixon sent Henry Kissinger and William Simon to Saudi Arabia and rebooted the dollar by creating the “Petrodollar Deal.” This priced oil solely in U.S. dollars in exchange for defending the Saudi royal family with U.S. military might. Since everyone needs oil, everyone needed dollars to buy it. This massive new demand for dollars saved the American financial system.
Ed Roberts invented the first personal computer, the Altair 8800.
The barcode, invented by George Laurer at IBM, debuted.
Scientists sent a message from the Arecibo Observatory to the globular star cluster M13, which is 25,000 light years from Earth.
The Sears Towers opened in Chicago, the world's tallest skyscraper.
President Richard Nixon was forced to resign after the Watergate scandal (a burglary by five men of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.).
The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" (a movie whose reception earned it the title of a “cult-classic”) was released.
Jim Bakker began the "Praise The Lord" ministry.
The Universal Product Code, the standard for barcode, was used commercially for the first time.
Nationalism (Materialism) and Globalism (Spiritual Values) Both Advance
Achievement of Brotherhood will require centuries as capitalism is swallowed by communism and communism finally attains spiritual brotherhood.
1975
A summit hosted by France brought together representatives of six governments: France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [Note: The subsequent G7 and G8 became known on the international scene as the major policymakers capable of promoting or disrupting political and economic stability.]
MacDonald's opened its first drive-through restaurant (in Arizona).
The U.S. government ostensibly terminated Project Shamrock, a top-secret program that spied on communications.
The first joint Soviet-US mission in space (spaceships Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 met in space).
Hugh Carey became governor of New York and enacted a program of spending and job cuts to rescue the state from financial disaster.
A senate committee presided over by Senator Frank Church revealed that the CIA tried to assassinate foreign leaders (notably Fidel Castro) and political activists in Africa, Asia and Latin America). [Note: While the CIA failed in to assassinate Castro, US intelligence succeeded in deposing or killing a string of leaders around the world.]
The Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation defined human rights in the Cold War.
The USA accounted for 26.3% of world GDP.
Unemployment in the U.S. peaked at 9%.
"Saturday Night Live," which still parodies contemporary culture and politics, aired on TV.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed a version of BASIC for the Altair personal computer and founded Microsoft.
Syukuro Manabe produced computer models that linked carbon dioxide emissions to rising world temperatures.
1976 – America’s Bicentennial
The bicentennial celebration was expanded to a month in 1976. President Gerald R. Ford urged Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”
The supersonic aircraft Concorde began service between Paris and New York.
Nevada was the only state in which slot machines were legal.
Marantz introduced the first speaker boombox, the Superscope.
Kodak accounted for 90% of film and 85% of cameras in the USA.
Ted Turner created the first basic cable network using a satellite.
Richard Corben published the graphic novel "Bloodstar" (a comic book).
Anti-Castro terrorists, funded by the CIA, blew up a Cuban airliner.
The sitcom "Charlie's Angels" featured three women as protagonists.
Punk-rock and new-wave came out of New York's alternative music scene.
Flourishes and Infestations
1977
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed the Apple II.
Freeway serial killer Patrick Kearney was captured.
Visa launched its first credit card.
There were more university students from Iran than any other nationality in the USA.
San Francisco's city supervisor Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man to be elected to office in the USA.
George Coates founded his multimedia theater group, Performance Works, using the latest technology to extend the boundaries of theater to film, etc.
The soundtrack of "Saturday Night Fever" inaugurated the age of disco-music.
The Voyager was launched to reach other galaxies.
Atari introduced a video game console.
Dennis Hayes invented the modem (a device that converts between analog and digital signals).
Baseball players Glenn Burke and Dusty Baker exchanged a "high five" on the field – a celebratory salute.
1978
Religious civil rights preacher Jim Jones and his believers committed mass suicide at Jamestown, Guyana (917 dead).
Bell Labs deployed the first cellular phone network in Chicago.
The rainbow flag debuted at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade.
The USA began installation of the satellite based GPS (Geographic Positioning System).
First test-tube (in vitro fertilization) baby born.
Louis Farrakhan seized power of the "Nation of Islam", reasserting the principles of African-American nationalism.
Journalist Myron Farber of the New York Times was sent to jail for refusing to reveal his confidential sources.
Lydia Villa-Komaroff cloned a human gene, insulin.
1979
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and the USA organized an Islamic resistance led by Osama Bin Laden.
Saudi Arabia received more than 50% of arms sold by the USA.
The spacecraft "Pioneer 11" reached Saturn.
Kevin MacKenzie invented emoji symbols to mimic the cues of face-to-face communication.
An accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant stopped development of new nuclear power plants in the USA.
The Sandinistas seized power in Nicaragua overthrowing the US-sponsored dictatorship.
The Shah Reza Pahlevi was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution and Iran became a theocratic republic led by the Ayatollah Khomeini with a strong anti-American posture.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) became operational.
Serial killer Ted Bundy (suspected of murdering up to 50 people) was convicted.
The Eighties Decade
For most people in the United States, the late 1970s were troubling times. The national reaction was that America embraced a new conservatism in social, economic and political life, characterized by the policies of President Ronald Reagan.
The decade saw great socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and back towards laissez-faire free market capitalism.
As economic deconstruction (see Note #1, below) increased in the developed world, many multinational corporations relocated into Thailand, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. Japan and West Germany saw large economic growth during this decade. The AIDS epidemic was recognized, but eventually killed over 39 million people. Global warming was also recognized by the scientific and political community.
[Note #1: Deconstructionism seeks to "deconstruct" the ideological biases (gender, racial, economic, political, cultural) and the traditional assumptions that infect all philosophical and religious "truths."]
The United Kingdom and the United States moved closer to supply-side economic policies (see Note #2, below). Superpower tensions escalated as President Reagan scrapped the policy of detente (the easing of hostilities) and adopted a new, more aggressive stance towards the Soviet Union. The second half of the decade saw a dramatic easing of superpower tensions following the total collapse of Soviet communism.
[Note #2: Supply-side economics is a macroeconomic theory arguing that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering taxes and decreasing regulation. According to supply-side economics, consumers will benefit from a greater supply of goods and services at lower prices, and employment will increase.]
Shrinking the World
1980
Ted Turner launched CNN, the first cable television service devoted to world news.
Freeway serial killer of 21 male hitchhikers, William Bonin was captured.
Walmart had 276 stores and reached $1 billion in annual sales, faster growth than any other company until then.
Economist Milton Friedman published "Free to Choose" advocating a reduction in the role of government.
The U.S. granted mainland China most-favored-nation status, with unlimited access to U.S. investors, technology and markets.
The private equity industry raised $2.4 billion. (Private equity firms buyout mature companies rather than start ups.)
The population of the USA was 226 million, with 73% living in cities. (Clustering in cities provides cheaper housing with all the utilities and proximity to work.)
Rick Warren founded the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California (“A Place to get Help, Healing and Hope”).
The Arpanet had 430,000 users, who exchanged almost 100 million e-mail messages a year.
The value of gold peaked at $850 an ounce.
Integrated circuits were incorporated into 100,000 discrete components.
Fidel Castro allowed 125,000 Marielitos (gangs) to leave Cuba for the USA.
[Note: Castro created a crisis for the White House by sending criminals, drug addicts and mentally retarded people to the US.]
Racial riots killed 18 people in Miami.
Ronald Reagan was elected president.
Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was convicted of 33 murders.
The Usenet was born enabling direct access to news from any web browser.
Inflation peaked at 13.5%.
The largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world were: Texas Instruments, National, Motorola, Philips (Europe), Intel, NEC (Japan), Fairchild, Hitachi (Japan) and Toshiba (Japan).
[Note: The semiconductor or microchip was probably the most important development in technology in the past hundred years. It demonstrated that matter could be manipulated from inside – the beginning of atomic technology. Microchips keep track of activities and information.
Each computer chip is constructed of silicon and metal. The microchip is also called an integrated circuit. Each chip contains many transistors making up a processor. Several chips may be placed together with different amounts of memory storage space on them in a central processing unit.
No data is stored on a microchip. All data and code are stored in binary format in memory associated with a microchip. The microchip enabled the rise of fiber-optic cables, the advent of the internet, cellphones, streaming on line, and a number of more recent developments such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, the Internet of Things, 5G, and blockchain.
The Reagan Era – Nationalism (Materialism) Gains Ground Over Globalism (Brotherhood)
1981
Newly elected President Reagan traded hostages for arms with Iran, helped Saddam Hussein's Iraq against Iran, and authorized funding and training of Islamic terrorists led by Osama Bin Laden to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
Under pressure from the USA, Japan set a voluntary quota on car exports to the U.S.
Reagan and Islamist dictator Zia of Pakistan signed a treaty of alliance that included military aid to Pakistan.
The MacArthur Fellows Program awarded its first genius grants.
The magazine "Thrasher" was founded as a reference point for the skateboarding subculture.
Wayne Williams was accused of killing twenty-seven young black boys in Atlanta that were probably KKK victims.
American Airlines introduced a frequent flyer program.
Techno (electronic) music was introduced.
The West Edmonton Mall opened in Alberta (Canada), the largest shopping mall in the world. (The Mall included more than 800 stores, a hotel, an amusement park, a miniature-golf course, a church, a water park, a zoo and a lake.)
The USA and Libyan fighter aircraft engaged in combat off the coast of Libya.
MTV debuted on cable TV.
The U.S. launched the first space shuttle, Columbia.
The IBM PC was launched, running an operating system developed by Bill Gates' Microsoft.
John Gotti took over as the boss of the Mafia The boss is the head of the family, usually reigning as a dictator, sometimes called the Don or "Godfather." [Note: The rise of power that the Mafia acquired during Prohibition continued long after alcohol was made legal again. When alcohol ceased to be prohibited in 1933, the Mafia diversified its money-making criminal activities to include illegal gambling, loan sharking, extortion, protection rackets, drug trafficking, fencing, and labor racketeering through control of labor unions. In the mid-20th century, the Mafia infiltrated many labor unions. Control of the labor unions allowed crime families to take over profitable legitimate businesses such as construction, demolition, waste management, trucking, ports, and the garment industry. In addition they raided the unions' health and pension funds, and extorted businesses with threats of a workers' strike and participated in bid rigging. In New York City, most construction projects could not be performed without mafia approval. In the port and loading dock industries, the Mafia bribed union members to tip them off to valuable items being brought in. Mobsters stole these products and fenced the stolen merchandise.]
The first cases of AIDS were diagnosed.
The compact disc (CD) was introduced.
Sister Angelica (Rita Rizzo) founded the Eternal World Television Network. (EWTN continues as a TV and radio operation that broadcasts Catholic religious programming via satellite.)
Chicago party disc-jockeys organized the first "raves", or clandestine all-night parties. [Note: A rave is a large dance party with electronic music. Ravers fueled their emotions with the drug, Ecstasy. Raves evolved from the 1967 Summer of Love, when LSD provided the Utopian visions.]
Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
American Airlines launched the world's first mileage-based frequent flier program,
Achievement of Brotherhood will require centuries as capitalism is swallowed by communism and communism finally attains spiritual brotherhood.
1975
A summit hosted by France brought together representatives of six governments: France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [Note: The subsequent G7 and G8 became known on the international scene as the major policymakers capable of promoting or disrupting political and economic stability.]
MacDonald's opened its first drive-through restaurant (in Arizona).
The U.S. government ostensibly terminated Project Shamrock, a top-secret program that spied on communications.
The first joint Soviet-US mission in space (spaceships Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 met in space).
Hugh Carey became governor of New York and enacted a program of spending and job cuts to rescue the state from financial disaster.
A senate committee presided over by Senator Frank Church revealed that the CIA tried to assassinate foreign leaders (notably Fidel Castro) and political activists in Africa, Asia and Latin America). [Note: While the CIA failed in to assassinate Castro, US intelligence succeeded in deposing or killing a string of leaders around the world.]
The Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation defined human rights in the Cold War.
The USA accounted for 26.3% of world GDP.
Unemployment in the U.S. peaked at 9%.
"Saturday Night Live," which still parodies contemporary culture and politics, aired on TV.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed a version of BASIC for the Altair personal computer and founded Microsoft.
Syukuro Manabe produced computer models that linked carbon dioxide emissions to rising world temperatures.
1976 – America’s Bicentennial
The bicentennial celebration was expanded to a month in 1976. President Gerald R. Ford urged Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”
The supersonic aircraft Concorde began service between Paris and New York.
Nevada was the only state in which slot machines were legal.
Marantz introduced the first speaker boombox, the Superscope.
Kodak accounted for 90% of film and 85% of cameras in the USA.
Ted Turner created the first basic cable network using a satellite.
Richard Corben published the graphic novel "Bloodstar" (a comic book).
Anti-Castro terrorists, funded by the CIA, blew up a Cuban airliner.
The sitcom "Charlie's Angels" featured three women as protagonists.
Punk-rock and new-wave came out of New York's alternative music scene.
Flourishes and Infestations
1977
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed the Apple II.
Freeway serial killer Patrick Kearney was captured.
Visa launched its first credit card.
There were more university students from Iran than any other nationality in the USA.
San Francisco's city supervisor Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man to be elected to office in the USA.
George Coates founded his multimedia theater group, Performance Works, using the latest technology to extend the boundaries of theater to film, etc.
The soundtrack of "Saturday Night Fever" inaugurated the age of disco-music.
The Voyager was launched to reach other galaxies.
Atari introduced a video game console.
Dennis Hayes invented the modem (a device that converts between analog and digital signals).
Baseball players Glenn Burke and Dusty Baker exchanged a "high five" on the field – a celebratory salute.
1978
Religious civil rights preacher Jim Jones and his believers committed mass suicide at Jamestown, Guyana (917 dead).
Bell Labs deployed the first cellular phone network in Chicago.
The rainbow flag debuted at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade.
The USA began installation of the satellite based GPS (Geographic Positioning System).
First test-tube (in vitro fertilization) baby born.
Louis Farrakhan seized power of the "Nation of Islam", reasserting the principles of African-American nationalism.
Journalist Myron Farber of the New York Times was sent to jail for refusing to reveal his confidential sources.
Lydia Villa-Komaroff cloned a human gene, insulin.
1979
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and the USA organized an Islamic resistance led by Osama Bin Laden.
Saudi Arabia received more than 50% of arms sold by the USA.
The spacecraft "Pioneer 11" reached Saturn.
Kevin MacKenzie invented emoji symbols to mimic the cues of face-to-face communication.
An accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant stopped development of new nuclear power plants in the USA.
The Sandinistas seized power in Nicaragua overthrowing the US-sponsored dictatorship.
The Shah Reza Pahlevi was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution and Iran became a theocratic republic led by the Ayatollah Khomeini with a strong anti-American posture.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) became operational.
Serial killer Ted Bundy (suspected of murdering up to 50 people) was convicted.
The Eighties Decade
For most people in the United States, the late 1970s were troubling times. The national reaction was that America embraced a new conservatism in social, economic and political life, characterized by the policies of President Ronald Reagan.
The decade saw great socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and back towards laissez-faire free market capitalism.
As economic deconstruction (see Note #1, below) increased in the developed world, many multinational corporations relocated into Thailand, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. Japan and West Germany saw large economic growth during this decade. The AIDS epidemic was recognized, but eventually killed over 39 million people. Global warming was also recognized by the scientific and political community.
[Note #1: Deconstructionism seeks to "deconstruct" the ideological biases (gender, racial, economic, political, cultural) and the traditional assumptions that infect all philosophical and religious "truths."]
The United Kingdom and the United States moved closer to supply-side economic policies (see Note #2, below). Superpower tensions escalated as President Reagan scrapped the policy of detente (the easing of hostilities) and adopted a new, more aggressive stance towards the Soviet Union. The second half of the decade saw a dramatic easing of superpower tensions following the total collapse of Soviet communism.
[Note #2: Supply-side economics is a macroeconomic theory arguing that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering taxes and decreasing regulation. According to supply-side economics, consumers will benefit from a greater supply of goods and services at lower prices, and employment will increase.]
Shrinking the World
1980
Ted Turner launched CNN, the first cable television service devoted to world news.
Freeway serial killer of 21 male hitchhikers, William Bonin was captured.
Walmart had 276 stores and reached $1 billion in annual sales, faster growth than any other company until then.
Economist Milton Friedman published "Free to Choose" advocating a reduction in the role of government.
The U.S. granted mainland China most-favored-nation status, with unlimited access to U.S. investors, technology and markets.
The private equity industry raised $2.4 billion. (Private equity firms buyout mature companies rather than start ups.)
The population of the USA was 226 million, with 73% living in cities. (Clustering in cities provides cheaper housing with all the utilities and proximity to work.)
Rick Warren founded the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California (“A Place to get Help, Healing and Hope”).
The Arpanet had 430,000 users, who exchanged almost 100 million e-mail messages a year.
The value of gold peaked at $850 an ounce.
Integrated circuits were incorporated into 100,000 discrete components.
Fidel Castro allowed 125,000 Marielitos (gangs) to leave Cuba for the USA.
[Note: Castro created a crisis for the White House by sending criminals, drug addicts and mentally retarded people to the US.]
Racial riots killed 18 people in Miami.
Ronald Reagan was elected president.
Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was convicted of 33 murders.
The Usenet was born enabling direct access to news from any web browser.
Inflation peaked at 13.5%.
The largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world were: Texas Instruments, National, Motorola, Philips (Europe), Intel, NEC (Japan), Fairchild, Hitachi (Japan) and Toshiba (Japan).
[Note: The semiconductor or microchip was probably the most important development in technology in the past hundred years. It demonstrated that matter could be manipulated from inside – the beginning of atomic technology. Microchips keep track of activities and information.
Each computer chip is constructed of silicon and metal. The microchip is also called an integrated circuit. Each chip contains many transistors making up a processor. Several chips may be placed together with different amounts of memory storage space on them in a central processing unit.
No data is stored on a microchip. All data and code are stored in binary format in memory associated with a microchip. The microchip enabled the rise of fiber-optic cables, the advent of the internet, cellphones, streaming on line, and a number of more recent developments such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, the Internet of Things, 5G, and blockchain.
The Reagan Era – Nationalism (Materialism) Gains Ground Over Globalism (Brotherhood)
1981
Newly elected President Reagan traded hostages for arms with Iran, helped Saddam Hussein's Iraq against Iran, and authorized funding and training of Islamic terrorists led by Osama Bin Laden to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
Under pressure from the USA, Japan set a voluntary quota on car exports to the U.S.
Reagan and Islamist dictator Zia of Pakistan signed a treaty of alliance that included military aid to Pakistan.
The MacArthur Fellows Program awarded its first genius grants.
The magazine "Thrasher" was founded as a reference point for the skateboarding subculture.
Wayne Williams was accused of killing twenty-seven young black boys in Atlanta that were probably KKK victims.
American Airlines introduced a frequent flyer program.
Techno (electronic) music was introduced.
The West Edmonton Mall opened in Alberta (Canada), the largest shopping mall in the world. (The Mall included more than 800 stores, a hotel, an amusement park, a miniature-golf course, a church, a water park, a zoo and a lake.)
The USA and Libyan fighter aircraft engaged in combat off the coast of Libya.
MTV debuted on cable TV.
The U.S. launched the first space shuttle, Columbia.
The IBM PC was launched, running an operating system developed by Bill Gates' Microsoft.
John Gotti took over as the boss of the Mafia The boss is the head of the family, usually reigning as a dictator, sometimes called the Don or "Godfather." [Note: The rise of power that the Mafia acquired during Prohibition continued long after alcohol was made legal again. When alcohol ceased to be prohibited in 1933, the Mafia diversified its money-making criminal activities to include illegal gambling, loan sharking, extortion, protection rackets, drug trafficking, fencing, and labor racketeering through control of labor unions. In the mid-20th century, the Mafia infiltrated many labor unions. Control of the labor unions allowed crime families to take over profitable legitimate businesses such as construction, demolition, waste management, trucking, ports, and the garment industry. In addition they raided the unions' health and pension funds, and extorted businesses with threats of a workers' strike and participated in bid rigging. In New York City, most construction projects could not be performed without mafia approval. In the port and loading dock industries, the Mafia bribed union members to tip them off to valuable items being brought in. Mobsters stole these products and fenced the stolen merchandise.]
The first cases of AIDS were diagnosed.
The compact disc (CD) was introduced.
Sister Angelica (Rita Rizzo) founded the Eternal World Television Network. (EWTN continues as a TV and radio operation that broadcasts Catholic religious programming via satellite.)
Chicago party disc-jockeys organized the first "raves", or clandestine all-night parties. [Note: A rave is a large dance party with electronic music. Ravers fueled their emotions with the drug, Ecstasy. Raves evolved from the 1967 Summer of Love, when LSD provided the Utopian visions.]
Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
American Airlines launched the world's first mileage-based frequent flier program,
Capitalism versus Communism War Resurrects Religious Enmity of Muslims, Jews, and Christians
1982
The U.S. government broke up the largest company in the world, AT&T, worth $60 billion, because it had become a monopoly.
The David Letterman show debuted on television.
Pakistan recruited, trained and armed Islamic fighters from more than 40 countries with funds from the U.S. and Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the first "global jihad."
Honda was the first Japanese company to manufacture cars in the USA.
Hubick and Robertson studied aeroponics, a way to grow food in the air, for spaceflight crops.
Robert Jarvik implanted an artificial heart in a patient.
Reagan sent the marines to restore order in Lebanon.
Unemployment peaked at 10.8% (the Reagan Recession).
One million people met in Central Park (New York) to protest against Reagan's nuclear build-up.
The USA approved the first genetically-engineered drug, a form of human insulin produced by bacteria.
1983
President Reagan had the lowest approval rating in history.
The U.S,, under President Reagan, engaged the Soviet Union in a nuclear-arms race.
Freeway serial killer Randy Kraft was captured. (Kraft was the third major freeway serial killer – altogether, the three killed more than 100 people.)
Paul Mockapetris invented the Domain Name System for the Internet to classify Internet addresses with extensions such as .com.
Peak of the tennis career for Jimmy Connors, who set a record with 109 tournament victories.
Suicide commandos blew up the U.S. embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
Hezbollah, Lebanese suicide commandos organized by Iran, blew up the U.S. and French barracks in Beirut killing 241 marines and 58 French soldiers.
At his trial, serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed having killed more than 200 people.
Howard Rheingold founded the environmental magazine "Whole Earth Review" at Sausalito, California.
Reagan removed Iraq from the list of nations that support international terrorism.
Los Angeles passed Chicago as the second largest city in the country.
Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud was appointed ambassador to the USA with the goal of creating a military alliance.
William Inmon built the first data warehousing system. (A data warehouse (DW) is a collection of corporate information and data derived from operational systems and external data sources. A data warehouse is designed to support business decisions by allowing data consolidation, analysis and reporting at different aggregate levels.)
The U.S. invaded Grenada to depose its communist leader Hudson Austin.
1984
HIV was identified as the cause of AIDS.
The first TED conference (an acronym for technology, entertainment, and design) was held.
A leak at the Union Carbide pesticides plant in Bhopal, India caused 14,000 deaths.
Saudi Arabia became the financial arm of the CIA bypassing the U.S. congress, selling arms to Nicaragua, Angola, and Afghanistan rebels fighting communist regimes on three continents.
The Getty Foundation was established in Los Angeles to support the visual arts.
The "Cirque du Soleil" was founded in Quebec by a group of street performers.
The The Santa Fe Institute was founded to carry out interdisciplinary research.
William Gibson's Science Fiction novel, "Neuromancer," popularized, cyberpunks, a genre that featured counter cultural antiheroes trapped in a dehumanizing high-tech future.
Apple introduced the Macintosh, which revolutionized desktop publishing.
The CD ROM, a compact disc used as a read-only optical memory device for a computer system, was introduced.
Arpanet was renamed the internet, when it linked 1,000 hosts at universities and corporate labs.
Life Without Volatility
After death, Earth’s survivors awaken in the resurrection halls of the capital city of our constellation, Edentia. which is the home of the Constellation ruler, the Most High.
The capitals of all the constellations are the acme of morontia (creation midway between matter and spirit). The gardens of the Most Highs are called the Gardens of God because of their exquisite beauty.
An ex-mortal's time is spent primarily in mastering group ethics – pleasant interrelationship with other personalities learning to live and cooperate with fellow ascenders, as well as the permanent citizens of Edentia.
First Seismic Tremors in U.S. Economy
1985
The USA forced the other Western economies to let the dollar devalue to rectify its trade deficit ("the Plaza Accord"). [Note: The Plaza Accord was a joint-agreement between France, West Germany, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, to depreciate the U.S. dollar in relation to the Japanese yen and German Deutsche Mark by intervening in currency markets. Currency interventions occur when a central bank buys or sells the country's own currency in the foreign exchange market to influence its value.]
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia met with President Ronald Reagan in the USA, giving Reagan a "gift" of $2 million in diamonds.
President Ronald Reagan relieved Japan of its "voluntary" restrictions on car exports and Japanese exports begin growing exponentially. [Note: Shortly after his presidency ended, Reagan was paid $2 million for two speeches he delivered in Japan,]
Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant created the "Whole Earth Lectronic Link" (or "WELL"), a virtual community.
Between 1977 and 1985 consumption of oil in the USA had dropped 17%, imports dropped 50% and imports from the Middle East dropped 87%.
The dollar devalued against European and Japanese currencies (it declined 50% in the three years following the Plaza Accord).
Leonard Knight began building "Salvation Mountain," a hillside visionary Biblical environment in the California Desert area of Imperial County in California.
There were more immigrants from Asia (48%) than Latin America (35%).
Ronald Reagan announced "star wars" (SDI), an anti-ballistic missile system.
A hole in the Ozone Layer was discovered over Antarctica.
Procter & Gamble built the first business-intelligence system.
Saudi Arabia announced an increase in oil production that caused a drop in the price of oil.
The USA signed a free-trade treaty with Israel. (All products from Israel became duty-free.)
Enduring Enmity
https://iis.ac.uk/academic-article/muslim-jews-and-christians-relations-and-interactions (Edited.)
In the eighteenth century, Muslim countries were agrarian and relied on peasant labor for wealth, military strength, and products for worldwide trade. As Western Europe underwent the technological transformation of the Industrial Revolution (with the concomitant rise of capitalism), The West also underwent a social and religious revolution that placed great value on the individual and stressed individual effort and initiative.
Western European powers arrived in the Muslim nations as colonialists with professed Christian institutions, expectations, and ideologies. The British established a protectorate over Egypt in 1882 and put India under direct British rule in 1857. The French colonized Algeria in 1830 and Tunisia in 1881. The Dutch competed with the British for Southeast Asia, so that by the end of the nineteenth century, most Muslims were under the Western political and legal influence. The secular legal systems devised in the West supplanted both Christian and Muslim secular and religious law.
The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I resulted in a further separation of non-Muslims from Muslims. The ideology of nationalism reduced religion to the status as one of the components of a nation-state ideology. Education became Western, technological, and secular.
By the eve of World War II, most Islamic countries were prepared to overthrow colonialism and establish nation-states. When this happened after World War II, constitutions were modeled after Switzerland, The United States, and France, usually guaranteeing freedom of religion but providing no particular safeguards for religious expression.
In 1948, the nation of Israel was formed in the former British territory of Muslim Palestine. The creation of the state of Israel became a central focal point for deteriorating Muslim-Jewish relations. The worsening conflicts in Palestine increased Jewish-Muslim conflicts in the other Arab states, where Jews were seen as both foreign and instruments of Western colonial designs.
Within twenty years after the formation of the state of Israel, the majority of Jews living in Arab lands migrated to Israel, crystallizing the conflict in Palestine into an encompassing Jewish-Muslim conflict.
The Arabs and Muslims hold America responsible for Israel's long oppression of the Palestinians. The United States bears the prime responsibility because America has favored Israel in every way over the Palestinians.
[Note: Colonization served the purposes of the Most High in the world-wide realization of the brotherhood of man by enlarging Earth’s social fraternity.(Intellectual cross-fertilization is greatly abetted through international and interracial social contacts, fraternal associations, travel, commerce, competitive play, and the development of a common language.
In addition, gathering the Jews into one nation helped preserve the precious violet blood of Adam and Eve.]
Matter or Spirit
Michael/Jesus has shown humans the way to the immediate attainment of spiritual brotherhood, but mortal identity is a transient time-life condition in the universe. It is real only if the personality elects to become a continuing universe phenomenon.
Man has everything to do with determining his own destiny.
The Thought Adjuster is man’s guide to Infinity, but in the relative instant of a lifetime, each mortal personality must elect to transfer its seat of identity from the passing material-intellect system to the higher morontia-soul system which, with the Thought Adjuster, is created as a new vehicle for personality manifestation.
1986
The USA bombed Libyan cities. (President Reagan ordered the aerial campaign in retaliation for Libyan agents' bombing of a West Berlin nightclub.)
Charles Hull invented stereolithography, the first commercial rapid prototyping technology commonly known as 3D printing.
Art Spiegelman published the graphic novel "Maus," about the Jewish Holocaust.
Larry Harvey started the first "Burning Man" on Baker Beach in San Francisco. [Note: Burning Man, now an annual event in the desert of Nevada, describes itself as a "temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance."
Journalists discovered that the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran to fund anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua ("Iran-gate").
The space shuttle "Challenger" exploded after lift off killing the seven crew members.
Sperry and Burroughs merged to form Unisys.
The USA had 14,000 nuclear warheads and the Soviet Union had 11,000.
President Reagan signed a bill that granted amnesty to an estimated 3 million illegal immigrants.
1987
The Montreal Protocol limited the use of substances that damage the ozone layer.
The USA and the Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty which banned all nuclear and non-nuclear missiles with short and medium ranges.
Alan Greenspan was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank.
U.S. warships destroyed two Iranian patrol boats in the Persian Gulf.
Televangelist and multi-millionaire Jim Bakker resigned from "Praise The Lord" due to a sex scandal.
Matt Groening launched the animated television sitcom "The Simpsons."
The largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world were Japan's NEC, Toshiba, and Hitachi.
The Louvre Accord: After the Plaza Accord didn’t work out well, a new accord was signed at the Louvre Museum in Paris to correct the problems. The damage was so bad from the Plaza Accord that the group agreed to reboot the dollar once again and halt the dollar’s devaluation.
Energy Cycles
Alternate periods of land and sea dominance have occurred in million-year cycles on Earth. There has been an age long rhythm associated with the rise and fall of ocean floor and continental land levels. And these rhythmical crustal movements will continue throughout the earth’s history but with diminishing frequency and extent.
Plants and animals never cease to make adjustment experiments. Ever the environment is changing, and always are living organisms striving to accommodate themselves to these never-ending fluctuations. The physiologic equipment and the anatomic structure of all new orders of life are in response to the action of physical law, but the subsequent endowment of mind is a bestowal (gift) of the seven adjutant mind-spirits in accordance with innate brain capacity. Mind, while not a physical evolution, is wholly dependent on the brain capacity afforded by purely physical and evolutionary developments. Through almost endless cycles of gains and losses, adjustments and readjustments, all living organisms swing back and forth from age to age. Those that attain cosmic unity persist, while those that fall short of this goal cease to exist.
This is the essential difference between man and an energy system: The energy system must continue, it has no choice. Man does.
1988
Harvard University announced the first genetically engineered animal, the Harvard Mouse, to study breast cancer.
The U.S. allowed American Indian territories to operate casinos and casinos spread quickly to all states.
A member of the Japanese Red Army (Yu Kikumura) was arrested with explosives on the New Jersey Turnpike.
James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies sounded the alarm on rising temperatures worldwide, global warming.
President Reagan created the office of "Drug Czar" to fight illicit drug traffic.
A person was convicted of rape after a DNA test.
U.S. warships blew up two Iranian oil rigs, sank an Iranian frigate and destroyed an Iranian missile boat in retaliation for mining the Persian Gulf.
"Morris", the first digital worm infected most of the Internet.
Pat Robertson founded the Christian Coalition, an anti-abortionist movement.
A missile fired by a U.S. warship mistakenly downed an Iranian civilian plane and killed all 290 passengers aboard.
Terrorists backed by Libya blew up a Pan Am plane over Scotland killing 259 people probably on behalf of Iran.
First fiber optic cable laid across the Atlantic Ocean.
Reagan's vice-president George Bush was elected president.
The circulation of Time magazine was nearly five million. [Note: TIME Magazine is still a weekly news magazine, it directs its content toward people who are well-educated, who are in professional jobs, and who personally make around $60,000 per year.]
The USA began fighting the drug cartels of Colombia.
Japan's Mitsubishi purchased the Rockefeller Center.
1989
The private equity industry raised $21.9 billion.
The Magellan Corporation introduced the first hand-held GPS receiver.
The Berlin wall was taken down ending the Cold War.
The USA invaded Panama and removed dictator Manuel Noriega for drug money laundering.
The Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan.
Congress declared sanctions against Iraq to protest Iraq's use of poison gas against the Kurds.
The Arsenio Hall show debuted on TV, the first major talk show hosted by an African-American.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was founded to bring together the USA, Japan, Australia, Canada, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, New Zealand, and The Philippines.
Howard Dresner advanced business intelligence using technology to support better business decision making.
Televangelist Jim Bakker was convicted of fraud.
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1982
The U.S. government broke up the largest company in the world, AT&T, worth $60 billion, because it had become a monopoly.
The David Letterman show debuted on television.
Pakistan recruited, trained and armed Islamic fighters from more than 40 countries with funds from the U.S. and Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the first "global jihad."
Honda was the first Japanese company to manufacture cars in the USA.
Hubick and Robertson studied aeroponics, a way to grow food in the air, for spaceflight crops.
Robert Jarvik implanted an artificial heart in a patient.
Reagan sent the marines to restore order in Lebanon.
Unemployment peaked at 10.8% (the Reagan Recession).
One million people met in Central Park (New York) to protest against Reagan's nuclear build-up.
The USA approved the first genetically-engineered drug, a form of human insulin produced by bacteria.
1983
President Reagan had the lowest approval rating in history.
The U.S,, under President Reagan, engaged the Soviet Union in a nuclear-arms race.
Freeway serial killer Randy Kraft was captured. (Kraft was the third major freeway serial killer – altogether, the three killed more than 100 people.)
Paul Mockapetris invented the Domain Name System for the Internet to classify Internet addresses with extensions such as .com.
Peak of the tennis career for Jimmy Connors, who set a record with 109 tournament victories.
Suicide commandos blew up the U.S. embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
Hezbollah, Lebanese suicide commandos organized by Iran, blew up the U.S. and French barracks in Beirut killing 241 marines and 58 French soldiers.
At his trial, serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed having killed more than 200 people.
Howard Rheingold founded the environmental magazine "Whole Earth Review" at Sausalito, California.
Reagan removed Iraq from the list of nations that support international terrorism.
Los Angeles passed Chicago as the second largest city in the country.
Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud was appointed ambassador to the USA with the goal of creating a military alliance.
William Inmon built the first data warehousing system. (A data warehouse (DW) is a collection of corporate information and data derived from operational systems and external data sources. A data warehouse is designed to support business decisions by allowing data consolidation, analysis and reporting at different aggregate levels.)
The U.S. invaded Grenada to depose its communist leader Hudson Austin.
1984
HIV was identified as the cause of AIDS.
The first TED conference (an acronym for technology, entertainment, and design) was held.
A leak at the Union Carbide pesticides plant in Bhopal, India caused 14,000 deaths.
Saudi Arabia became the financial arm of the CIA bypassing the U.S. congress, selling arms to Nicaragua, Angola, and Afghanistan rebels fighting communist regimes on three continents.
The Getty Foundation was established in Los Angeles to support the visual arts.
The "Cirque du Soleil" was founded in Quebec by a group of street performers.
The The Santa Fe Institute was founded to carry out interdisciplinary research.
William Gibson's Science Fiction novel, "Neuromancer," popularized, cyberpunks, a genre that featured counter cultural antiheroes trapped in a dehumanizing high-tech future.
Apple introduced the Macintosh, which revolutionized desktop publishing.
The CD ROM, a compact disc used as a read-only optical memory device for a computer system, was introduced.
Arpanet was renamed the internet, when it linked 1,000 hosts at universities and corporate labs.
Life Without Volatility
After death, Earth’s survivors awaken in the resurrection halls of the capital city of our constellation, Edentia. which is the home of the Constellation ruler, the Most High.
The capitals of all the constellations are the acme of morontia (creation midway between matter and spirit). The gardens of the Most Highs are called the Gardens of God because of their exquisite beauty.
An ex-mortal's time is spent primarily in mastering group ethics – pleasant interrelationship with other personalities learning to live and cooperate with fellow ascenders, as well as the permanent citizens of Edentia.
First Seismic Tremors in U.S. Economy
1985
The USA forced the other Western economies to let the dollar devalue to rectify its trade deficit ("the Plaza Accord"). [Note: The Plaza Accord was a joint-agreement between France, West Germany, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, to depreciate the U.S. dollar in relation to the Japanese yen and German Deutsche Mark by intervening in currency markets. Currency interventions occur when a central bank buys or sells the country's own currency in the foreign exchange market to influence its value.]
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia met with President Ronald Reagan in the USA, giving Reagan a "gift" of $2 million in diamonds.
President Ronald Reagan relieved Japan of its "voluntary" restrictions on car exports and Japanese exports begin growing exponentially. [Note: Shortly after his presidency ended, Reagan was paid $2 million for two speeches he delivered in Japan,]
Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant created the "Whole Earth Lectronic Link" (or "WELL"), a virtual community.
Between 1977 and 1985 consumption of oil in the USA had dropped 17%, imports dropped 50% and imports from the Middle East dropped 87%.
The dollar devalued against European and Japanese currencies (it declined 50% in the three years following the Plaza Accord).
Leonard Knight began building "Salvation Mountain," a hillside visionary Biblical environment in the California Desert area of Imperial County in California.
There were more immigrants from Asia (48%) than Latin America (35%).
Ronald Reagan announced "star wars" (SDI), an anti-ballistic missile system.
A hole in the Ozone Layer was discovered over Antarctica.
Procter & Gamble built the first business-intelligence system.
Saudi Arabia announced an increase in oil production that caused a drop in the price of oil.
The USA signed a free-trade treaty with Israel. (All products from Israel became duty-free.)
Enduring Enmity
https://iis.ac.uk/academic-article/muslim-jews-and-christians-relations-and-interactions (Edited.)
In the eighteenth century, Muslim countries were agrarian and relied on peasant labor for wealth, military strength, and products for worldwide trade. As Western Europe underwent the technological transformation of the Industrial Revolution (with the concomitant rise of capitalism), The West also underwent a social and religious revolution that placed great value on the individual and stressed individual effort and initiative.
Western European powers arrived in the Muslim nations as colonialists with professed Christian institutions, expectations, and ideologies. The British established a protectorate over Egypt in 1882 and put India under direct British rule in 1857. The French colonized Algeria in 1830 and Tunisia in 1881. The Dutch competed with the British for Southeast Asia, so that by the end of the nineteenth century, most Muslims were under the Western political and legal influence. The secular legal systems devised in the West supplanted both Christian and Muslim secular and religious law.
The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I resulted in a further separation of non-Muslims from Muslims. The ideology of nationalism reduced religion to the status as one of the components of a nation-state ideology. Education became Western, technological, and secular.
By the eve of World War II, most Islamic countries were prepared to overthrow colonialism and establish nation-states. When this happened after World War II, constitutions were modeled after Switzerland, The United States, and France, usually guaranteeing freedom of religion but providing no particular safeguards for religious expression.
In 1948, the nation of Israel was formed in the former British territory of Muslim Palestine. The creation of the state of Israel became a central focal point for deteriorating Muslim-Jewish relations. The worsening conflicts in Palestine increased Jewish-Muslim conflicts in the other Arab states, where Jews were seen as both foreign and instruments of Western colonial designs.
Within twenty years after the formation of the state of Israel, the majority of Jews living in Arab lands migrated to Israel, crystallizing the conflict in Palestine into an encompassing Jewish-Muslim conflict.
The Arabs and Muslims hold America responsible for Israel's long oppression of the Palestinians. The United States bears the prime responsibility because America has favored Israel in every way over the Palestinians.
[Note: Colonization served the purposes of the Most High in the world-wide realization of the brotherhood of man by enlarging Earth’s social fraternity.(Intellectual cross-fertilization is greatly abetted through international and interracial social contacts, fraternal associations, travel, commerce, competitive play, and the development of a common language.
In addition, gathering the Jews into one nation helped preserve the precious violet blood of Adam and Eve.]
Matter or Spirit
Michael/Jesus has shown humans the way to the immediate attainment of spiritual brotherhood, but mortal identity is a transient time-life condition in the universe. It is real only if the personality elects to become a continuing universe phenomenon.
Man has everything to do with determining his own destiny.
The Thought Adjuster is man’s guide to Infinity, but in the relative instant of a lifetime, each mortal personality must elect to transfer its seat of identity from the passing material-intellect system to the higher morontia-soul system which, with the Thought Adjuster, is created as a new vehicle for personality manifestation.
1986
The USA bombed Libyan cities. (President Reagan ordered the aerial campaign in retaliation for Libyan agents' bombing of a West Berlin nightclub.)
Charles Hull invented stereolithography, the first commercial rapid prototyping technology commonly known as 3D printing.
Art Spiegelman published the graphic novel "Maus," about the Jewish Holocaust.
Larry Harvey started the first "Burning Man" on Baker Beach in San Francisco. [Note: Burning Man, now an annual event in the desert of Nevada, describes itself as a "temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance."
Journalists discovered that the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran to fund anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua ("Iran-gate").
The space shuttle "Challenger" exploded after lift off killing the seven crew members.
Sperry and Burroughs merged to form Unisys.
The USA had 14,000 nuclear warheads and the Soviet Union had 11,000.
President Reagan signed a bill that granted amnesty to an estimated 3 million illegal immigrants.
1987
The Montreal Protocol limited the use of substances that damage the ozone layer.
The USA and the Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty which banned all nuclear and non-nuclear missiles with short and medium ranges.
Alan Greenspan was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank.
U.S. warships destroyed two Iranian patrol boats in the Persian Gulf.
Televangelist and multi-millionaire Jim Bakker resigned from "Praise The Lord" due to a sex scandal.
Matt Groening launched the animated television sitcom "The Simpsons."
The largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world were Japan's NEC, Toshiba, and Hitachi.
The Louvre Accord: After the Plaza Accord didn’t work out well, a new accord was signed at the Louvre Museum in Paris to correct the problems. The damage was so bad from the Plaza Accord that the group agreed to reboot the dollar once again and halt the dollar’s devaluation.
Energy Cycles
Alternate periods of land and sea dominance have occurred in million-year cycles on Earth. There has been an age long rhythm associated with the rise and fall of ocean floor and continental land levels. And these rhythmical crustal movements will continue throughout the earth’s history but with diminishing frequency and extent.
Plants and animals never cease to make adjustment experiments. Ever the environment is changing, and always are living organisms striving to accommodate themselves to these never-ending fluctuations. The physiologic equipment and the anatomic structure of all new orders of life are in response to the action of physical law, but the subsequent endowment of mind is a bestowal (gift) of the seven adjutant mind-spirits in accordance with innate brain capacity. Mind, while not a physical evolution, is wholly dependent on the brain capacity afforded by purely physical and evolutionary developments. Through almost endless cycles of gains and losses, adjustments and readjustments, all living organisms swing back and forth from age to age. Those that attain cosmic unity persist, while those that fall short of this goal cease to exist.
This is the essential difference between man and an energy system: The energy system must continue, it has no choice. Man does.
1988
Harvard University announced the first genetically engineered animal, the Harvard Mouse, to study breast cancer.
The U.S. allowed American Indian territories to operate casinos and casinos spread quickly to all states.
A member of the Japanese Red Army (Yu Kikumura) was arrested with explosives on the New Jersey Turnpike.
James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies sounded the alarm on rising temperatures worldwide, global warming.
President Reagan created the office of "Drug Czar" to fight illicit drug traffic.
A person was convicted of rape after a DNA test.
U.S. warships blew up two Iranian oil rigs, sank an Iranian frigate and destroyed an Iranian missile boat in retaliation for mining the Persian Gulf.
"Morris", the first digital worm infected most of the Internet.
Pat Robertson founded the Christian Coalition, an anti-abortionist movement.
A missile fired by a U.S. warship mistakenly downed an Iranian civilian plane and killed all 290 passengers aboard.
Terrorists backed by Libya blew up a Pan Am plane over Scotland killing 259 people probably on behalf of Iran.
First fiber optic cable laid across the Atlantic Ocean.
Reagan's vice-president George Bush was elected president.
The circulation of Time magazine was nearly five million. [Note: TIME Magazine is still a weekly news magazine, it directs its content toward people who are well-educated, who are in professional jobs, and who personally make around $60,000 per year.]
The USA began fighting the drug cartels of Colombia.
Japan's Mitsubishi purchased the Rockefeller Center.
1989
The private equity industry raised $21.9 billion.
The Magellan Corporation introduced the first hand-held GPS receiver.
The Berlin wall was taken down ending the Cold War.
The USA invaded Panama and removed dictator Manuel Noriega for drug money laundering.
The Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan.
Congress declared sanctions against Iraq to protest Iraq's use of poison gas against the Kurds.
The Arsenio Hall show debuted on TV, the first major talk show hosted by an African-American.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was founded to bring together the USA, Japan, Australia, Canada, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, New Zealand, and The Philippines.
Howard Dresner advanced business intelligence using technology to support better business decision making.
Televangelist Jim Bakker was convicted of fraud.
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The Nineties Decade
A combination of factors, including the continued mass mobilization of capital markets through neo-liberalism (free market trade and deregulation of financial markets), the thawing of the Cold War, the beginning of the widespread proliferation of new media such as the Internet, increasing skepticism towards government, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to the realignment of economic and political power across the world and within countries.
[Note: Mass mobilization is the process that engages and motivates a wide range of elite political and business partners and allies at international, national, and local levels to cooperate and achieve specific sometimes nefarious (selfish) objectives.]
There was a roaring bull market near the end of the 90’s before the dot-com and real estate crashes of the 2000s.
The 1990s saw major advances in technology with the World Wide Web, research into gene therapy solutions, and the first designer babies.
Capitalism walked a narrow path as entrepreneurs and corporations expected government intervention to protect their operations worldwide, while they paid allegiance only to profits and their stockholders.
China began its rise to economic power through an evolution to what Marxist literature defines as state capitalism (a social system combining capitalism with ownership or control by the state).
Political wisdom
Sometimes, wise statesmen will work for the welfare of humanity even while they strive to promote the interest of their national or racial groups. Selfish political sagacity is ultimately suicidal – destructive of all those enduring qualities which insure planetary group survival.
1990
Dr. Jack Kevorkian performed the first assisted suicide.
There were more than 14 million drug addicts in the USA.
The U.S. imposed sanctions on Pakistan as punishment for its nuclear program.
The population of the USA was 248 million, with 75% living in cities.
The Human Genome Project was launched to decipher human DNA.
Computer viruses infected the Internet.
Saddam Hussein (Iraq) invaded Kuwait (to capture Kuwait’s oil fields), and USA president Bush organized an anti-Iraqi coalition.
The Hubble space telescope was launched.
San Luis Obispo, California was the first city in the world to ban smoking inside public buildings.
1991
The USA led the Gulf War against Iraq, the first war to use high-precision bombs guided by GPS.
The USA withdrew its nuclear weapons from South Korea.
Karlheinz Brandenburg at Bell Labs invented the mp3 format.
Serial killer Dennis Rader killed ten people in Kansas between 1974 and 1991.
Serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute, was arrested for killing seven men who abused her.
The Soviet Union was dismantled.
Serial killer Arthur Shawcross was sentenced to 250 years in prison for the murders of ten women.
Pan Am went out of business.
MTV's "The Real World" launched the fad of "reality shows."
The "Riot Grrrls!" movement was born at Olympia, Washington. In addition to a music scene and genre, riot grrrl was a subculture involving a do it yourself ethic, of art, political action, and activism.
2200 homicides were committed in New York, 1050 in Los Angeles.
The World-Wide Web (invented by Tim Berners-Lee) debuted on the Internet.
The first economic recession ever in California struck.
Mafia Godfather, John Gotti, was arrested. This was the beginning of the end of Cosa Nostra.
Primitive Man
There is a vast gulf between the human and the divine, between man and God. The Earth races are so largely electrically and chemically gripped, so highly animal like in their common behavior, so emotional in their ordinary reactions, that it becomes exceedingly difficult for the Thought Adjusters to guide and direct them. People are so devoid of courageous decisions and consecrated cooperation that their indwelling Adjusters find it nearly impossible to communicate directly with the human mind.
1992
Racial riots erupted in Los Angeles (63 people died).
Johnny Carson retired from television. He was replaced by Jay Leno.
John Mackey founded the food store, Whole Foods.
Jeffrey Dahmer was convicted for killing and dismembering 17 young men.
One million U.S. citizens were in jail.
Street gangs terrorized U.S. metropolitan areas.
U.S. troops landed in Somalia to stop the fighting of the clans, but were massacred. [Note: President George H.W. Bush authorized the dispatch of U.S. troops to Somalia to assist with famine relief as part of the larger United Nations effort.]
Bill Clinton was elected president of the USA, the youngest president since John Kennedy. (The leadership cult of sexual immorality (John and Bobby Kennedy) and criminality (Nixon) grew among America’s leaders. In addition, payment for favors (Reagan) to Bill as ex-president and Hillary as Obama’s Secretary of State was carried to new heights through the Clinton Foundation.)
[Note: Sin enormously retards intellectual development, moral growth, social progress, and mass spiritual attainment.]
1993
Marc Andreessen developed Mosaic, the first browser for the World Wide Web.
The U.S. added Pakistan to the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
88 of the 100 most viewed films of the year around the world were made in the U.S.
Serial killer Joel David Rifkin was arrested for killing 17 prostitutes in the New York area.
World Youth Day in Colorado was the largest youth event since Woodstock.
[Note: Led by Pope John Paul II, it was an event of more than 100,000 young people.]
Colin Ferguson opened fire on a train killing six commuters in New York.
The USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, the European Space Agency and Brazil launched a project to build the International Space Station, the largest international scientific project in history.
Islamic Jihad terrorists tried to blow up the World Trade Center.
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1994
The first genetically engineered vegetable (Flavr Savr tomato) was introduced. (A gene, responsible for ripening was modified using genetic engineering technique, so that the shelf life of the tomato was increased.)
The U.S., Canada and Mexico signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). [Note: While the NAFTA trade Agreement increased trade, the overall results were mixed as 682,900 manufacturing jobs were lost in some states, the remaining factories suppressed wages, worker benefits were cut, and jobless Mexicans were forced to migrate into the U.S. illegally.]
Protesters waving Mexican flags marched in Los Angeles to protest laws against illegal immigration.
DirecTV launched the first satellite-based television service.
Pizza Hut began selling pizzas via the internet.
Fidel Castro allowed 50,000 people to leave Cuba.
The USA invaded Haiti to restore Aristide as president following a coup d'état.
Netscape, the company founded by Marc Andreesen, went public even before earning money and started the "dot.com" craze and the boom of the Nasdaq.
Jerry Yang launched the first search engine, Yahoo.
University of North Carolina's college radio station WXYC became the first radio station in the world to broadcast its signal over the Internet.
The Democrats lost the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.
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A combination of factors, including the continued mass mobilization of capital markets through neo-liberalism (free market trade and deregulation of financial markets), the thawing of the Cold War, the beginning of the widespread proliferation of new media such as the Internet, increasing skepticism towards government, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to the realignment of economic and political power across the world and within countries.
[Note: Mass mobilization is the process that engages and motivates a wide range of elite political and business partners and allies at international, national, and local levels to cooperate and achieve specific sometimes nefarious (selfish) objectives.]
There was a roaring bull market near the end of the 90’s before the dot-com and real estate crashes of the 2000s.
The 1990s saw major advances in technology with the World Wide Web, research into gene therapy solutions, and the first designer babies.
Capitalism walked a narrow path as entrepreneurs and corporations expected government intervention to protect their operations worldwide, while they paid allegiance only to profits and their stockholders.
China began its rise to economic power through an evolution to what Marxist literature defines as state capitalism (a social system combining capitalism with ownership or control by the state).
Political wisdom
Sometimes, wise statesmen will work for the welfare of humanity even while they strive to promote the interest of their national or racial groups. Selfish political sagacity is ultimately suicidal – destructive of all those enduring qualities which insure planetary group survival.
1990
Dr. Jack Kevorkian performed the first assisted suicide.
There were more than 14 million drug addicts in the USA.
The U.S. imposed sanctions on Pakistan as punishment for its nuclear program.
The population of the USA was 248 million, with 75% living in cities.
The Human Genome Project was launched to decipher human DNA.
Computer viruses infected the Internet.
Saddam Hussein (Iraq) invaded Kuwait (to capture Kuwait’s oil fields), and USA president Bush organized an anti-Iraqi coalition.
The Hubble space telescope was launched.
San Luis Obispo, California was the first city in the world to ban smoking inside public buildings.
1991
The USA led the Gulf War against Iraq, the first war to use high-precision bombs guided by GPS.
The USA withdrew its nuclear weapons from South Korea.
Karlheinz Brandenburg at Bell Labs invented the mp3 format.
Serial killer Dennis Rader killed ten people in Kansas between 1974 and 1991.
Serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute, was arrested for killing seven men who abused her.
The Soviet Union was dismantled.
Serial killer Arthur Shawcross was sentenced to 250 years in prison for the murders of ten women.
Pan Am went out of business.
MTV's "The Real World" launched the fad of "reality shows."
The "Riot Grrrls!" movement was born at Olympia, Washington. In addition to a music scene and genre, riot grrrl was a subculture involving a do it yourself ethic, of art, political action, and activism.
2200 homicides were committed in New York, 1050 in Los Angeles.
The World-Wide Web (invented by Tim Berners-Lee) debuted on the Internet.
The first economic recession ever in California struck.
Mafia Godfather, John Gotti, was arrested. This was the beginning of the end of Cosa Nostra.
Primitive Man
There is a vast gulf between the human and the divine, between man and God. The Earth races are so largely electrically and chemically gripped, so highly animal like in their common behavior, so emotional in their ordinary reactions, that it becomes exceedingly difficult for the Thought Adjusters to guide and direct them. People are so devoid of courageous decisions and consecrated cooperation that their indwelling Adjusters find it nearly impossible to communicate directly with the human mind.
1992
Racial riots erupted in Los Angeles (63 people died).
Johnny Carson retired from television. He was replaced by Jay Leno.
John Mackey founded the food store, Whole Foods.
Jeffrey Dahmer was convicted for killing and dismembering 17 young men.
One million U.S. citizens were in jail.
Street gangs terrorized U.S. metropolitan areas.
U.S. troops landed in Somalia to stop the fighting of the clans, but were massacred. [Note: President George H.W. Bush authorized the dispatch of U.S. troops to Somalia to assist with famine relief as part of the larger United Nations effort.]
Bill Clinton was elected president of the USA, the youngest president since John Kennedy. (The leadership cult of sexual immorality (John and Bobby Kennedy) and criminality (Nixon) grew among America’s leaders. In addition, payment for favors (Reagan) to Bill as ex-president and Hillary as Obama’s Secretary of State was carried to new heights through the Clinton Foundation.)
[Note: Sin enormously retards intellectual development, moral growth, social progress, and mass spiritual attainment.]
1993
Marc Andreessen developed Mosaic, the first browser for the World Wide Web.
The U.S. added Pakistan to the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
88 of the 100 most viewed films of the year around the world were made in the U.S.
Serial killer Joel David Rifkin was arrested for killing 17 prostitutes in the New York area.
World Youth Day in Colorado was the largest youth event since Woodstock.
[Note: Led by Pope John Paul II, it was an event of more than 100,000 young people.]
Colin Ferguson opened fire on a train killing six commuters in New York.
The USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, the European Space Agency and Brazil launched a project to build the International Space Station, the largest international scientific project in history.
Islamic Jihad terrorists tried to blow up the World Trade Center.
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1994
The first genetically engineered vegetable (Flavr Savr tomato) was introduced. (A gene, responsible for ripening was modified using genetic engineering technique, so that the shelf life of the tomato was increased.)
The U.S., Canada and Mexico signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). [Note: While the NAFTA trade Agreement increased trade, the overall results were mixed as 682,900 manufacturing jobs were lost in some states, the remaining factories suppressed wages, worker benefits were cut, and jobless Mexicans were forced to migrate into the U.S. illegally.]
Protesters waving Mexican flags marched in Los Angeles to protest laws against illegal immigration.
DirecTV launched the first satellite-based television service.
Pizza Hut began selling pizzas via the internet.
Fidel Castro allowed 50,000 people to leave Cuba.
The USA invaded Haiti to restore Aristide as president following a coup d'état.
Netscape, the company founded by Marc Andreesen, went public even before earning money and started the "dot.com" craze and the boom of the Nasdaq.
Jerry Yang launched the first search engine, Yahoo.
University of North Carolina's college radio station WXYC became the first radio station in the world to broadcast its signal over the Internet.
The Democrats lost the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.
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Life on a Neighboring Planet (Continued)
Evolution
A continental nation, about the size of Australia, followed the evolutionary trend of the planet. Its people are a mixed race, predominantly blue and yellow, having a slightly greater proportion of violet (the blood of their Adam and Eve) than the so-called white race of Earth. These different races are not yet fully blended, but they fraternize and socialize very acceptably. The development from the tribal stage to the appearance of strong rulers and kings occupied thousands of years. The unconditional monarchs were succeeded by many different orders of government – abortive republics, communal states, and dictators came and went in endless profusion. This growth continued until about five hundred years ago when, during a politically fermenting period, one of the nation’s powerful dictator-triumvirs (three jointly responsible public officers) had a change of heart. He volunteered to abdicate upon condition that one of the other rulers, the baser of the remaining two, also vacate his dictatorship. So, the sovereignty of the country was placed in the hands of one ruler. The unified state progressed under strong monarchical rule for over one hundred years.
The subsequent transition from monarchy to a representative form of government was gradual, the kings remaining as mere social or sentimental figureheads, finally disappearing when the male line of descent ran out. The present republic has now been in existence just two hundred years, during which time there has been a continuous progression toward the governmental techniques and developments in industrial and political realms narrated earlier.
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Back To Earth
The Transition from the Industrial age to the Computer Age Accelerated
1995
The World Trade Organization (WTO) consisting of 123 nations was formed. It replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
[Note: The WTO is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business..]
Timothy McVeigh, a right-wing extremist, blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 160 people.
Russia and the USA began a program designed by Thomas Neff to decommission 20,000 Soviet nuclear warheads and convert them into fuel for the nuclear power plants of the USA ("Megatons to Megawatts").
Japanese in Okinawa staged the largest protest rally since the end of the war following the rape of a girl by US soldiers.
The Internet was used by 16 million people.
Bill Gates became the richest man in the world.
John Lasseter's "Toy Story" was the first feature-length computer-animated film.
Craig Newmark started craigslist.com on the Internet, a regional advertising community.
36 million cars were manufactured in the world, (7.6 million in Japan and 6.3 million in the USA). 8.6 million cars were sold in the USA alone.
African-American Muslim Louis Farrakhan organized the "million man march" on Washington.
David Koresh's Branch Davidian religious followers fought the FBI at Waco, Texas.
The DVD was introduced. (DVD, an abbreviation for digital versatile disc, is a digital optical disc storage format. The medium can store any kind of digital data and is widely used for software and other computer files as well as video programs watched using DVD players.)
Ward Cunningham created WikiWikiWeb, a user-editable website on the internet maintained in a collaborative manner.
The first extra solar planet was detected (orbiting 51 Pegasi, a star in the Pegasus constellation, 40 light years from the Sun).
The Federal Reserve's chairman Alan Greenspan described the stock market's behavior as "irrational exuberance". (Irrational exuberance refers to investor enthusiasm that drives asset prices up to levels that aren't supported by fundamentals.)
South Korean conglomerate LG acquired Zenith.
The US approved the painkiller Oxycontin, an addictive opioid.
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Profiling the Thought Adjuster – Part One of Seven
A fragment of God lives within the intellect of every normal-minded, morally conscious human being, beyond the age of six. This fragment, the Thought Adjuster, guides mortals unerringly through the spiritual journey that leads into the presence of God the Father in Paradise.
God yearns for a harmonious union with every created being who can love him. Through the indwelling Adjusters, people can seek intimate personal communion with God's divine spirit as they advance inward through the ages toward Paradise. Humans cannot fail to attain the destiny God has created for them if they yield to the leading of his spiritual guide.
The indwelling Thought Adjuster allows humans to more fully discern the presence of other spiritual influences. Realization of contact with the Adjuster is primarily limited to the realms of the soul. Lack of intellectual consciousness concerning the indwelling fragment does not disprove its existence. Proof of the divine Adjuster's work lies wholly in the fruits of the spirit that appear in the life of the believer (conduct).
Worship springs from a creature's spontaneous reaction to the recognition of the Father's nature and personality. Prayer contains an element of self-interest, but worship exists for its own sake. Mortals worship God, pray to and commune with the Son, and work out the details of earthly life with the offspring of the Infinite Spirit (the companion of Michael/Jesus, our Creator Son).
Nonreligious activities seek to bend the universe to the service of self. Religious individuals (not necessarily organized religion), seek to devote their activities to the service of the universe. Philosophy and art create bridges between nonreligious and religious activities by luring people into contemplating spiritual realities. Religious experience is essentially spiritual and cannot be fully understood by a material mind. The realities of religion are beyond mortal capacity of intellectual comprehension. Religious experience unifies human consciousness, promotes philosophic substantiation of ideal moral values, and leads to the spiritual satisfaction of worship – the experience of divine companionship.
God-consciousness includes the mind, the soul, and the spirit through the realization of the idea of God, the ideal of God, and the spirit reality of God. The experience of God-consciousness remains the same throughout history, even though the theological definition of God changes with each advancing epoch.
A human mind that possesses the capacity to distinguish right from wrong and to worship God, in union with a divine Adjuster, is all that is required to initiate the existence of an immortal soul. Eternal survival is wholly dependent on the choice of the mortal being. Survival is assured when the mind, soul, and Adjuster together believe in God and desire to be like him.
Personality, bestowed by God the Father, is one of the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe. Capacity for divine personality is inherent in the Adjuster, and capacity for human personality is potential in the cosmic-mind endowment of the human being. Mortal personality is observable as a functional reality only after the mortal mind is touched (indwelled) by the Adjuster.
The material personality and the pre-personal Adjuster together can create an immortal soul; mortal man alone either wills or inhibits the creation of this surviving self. No other being or agency in the universe can interfere with the sovereignty of mortal free will regarding eternal survival, and no creature can be coerced into the eternal adventure against his will.
The Universal Father is personally conscious of all personalities at all levels of self-conscious existence. Just as gravity is circuited in the Isle of Paradise, as mind is circuited in the Conjoint Actor (the Infinite Spirit acting for the Universal Father and the Eternal Son), and as spirit is circuited in the Eternal Son, so is personality circuited and centered in the Universal Father.
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1996
Walt Disney built Celebration, an American dream town and housing, in Florida.
Rupert Murdoch's right-wing 24-hour cable network Fox News debuted.
Sabeer Bhatia launched Hotmail, a website to check email from anywhere in the world.
The computer program "Deep Blue," using Artificial Intelligence written by IBM, defeated the human world champion of chess.
Richard Jewell found a bomb planted at the Olympic Park of Atlanta by Christian fundamentalist Eric Rudolph and saved lives, but was mistakenly accused of planting the bomb by police and media.
Gary Faye Locke became the first Chinese-American governor in the U.S. (governor of Washington state).
Terry Jones founded Travelocity to sell air tickets on the Internet.
South Korean conglomerate Samsung built a factory in Texas, one of the largest foreign investments in the history of the USA.
The USA enacted the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman, excluding homosexual couples.
Profiling the Thought Adjuster – Part Two of Seven
Although the Universal Father resides on Paradise, he is also present in the minds of his countless children in the worlds of space. The fragment of God that indwells mortals, the Thought Adjuster, creates an incessant longing to be like God and to attain Paradise. The Adjuster is an infallible cosmic compass which unerringly guides human beings to Paradise.
A Thought Adjuster has one of three destinies: attainment of personality by fusion with a mortal; attainment of personality by fiat of the Universal Father, or liberation from known assignments. The fusion of a person and the Adjuster provides personality to the Adjuster and eternal life to the human being.
Thought Adjusters are of the essence of original Deity. They are fragments of the presence of God and proceed directly from the Universal Father. Adjusters are of God and are like God; they reveal his supernal love and spiritual ministry. Thought Adjusters have minds; they can plan, work, and love. Their valor and wisdom suggest that they have undergone a training of tremendous scope and range. Adjusters truly love us; they long for our divinity attainment and for the time when they will be delivered from the limitations of our material bodies.
Thought Adjusters are pure spirits, presumably absolute spirits, pure energy, non matter. Adjusters do not require energy intake because they are divine energy. They can use the material-gravity circuits but are not subject to gravity as humans are. They are fragments of the ancestor of gravity (the Unqualified Absolute – the non deity of energy>matter). Thought Adjusters are not personalities – they are the divine presence.
Adjusters volunteer to indwell humans. They can adapt and modify according to circumstances, and they act in accordance with human choice. Adjusters have genuine volition, but being pre-personal, are subservient to the mortal will of the human indwelt. Throughout the cosmos, that which is pre-personal, non-personal, or subpersonal is ever responsive to the will of personality.
Through Thought Adjusters, the Father has direct communication with every material creature throughout his infinite realms. The full possibilities inherent in this partnership between man and God have not yet been disclosed, but they are vast.
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Walt Disney built Celebration, an American dream town and housing, in Florida.
Rupert Murdoch's right-wing 24-hour cable network Fox News debuted.
Sabeer Bhatia launched Hotmail, a website to check email from anywhere in the world.
The computer program "Deep Blue," using Artificial Intelligence written by IBM, defeated the human world champion of chess.
Richard Jewell found a bomb planted at the Olympic Park of Atlanta by Christian fundamentalist Eric Rudolph and saved lives, but was mistakenly accused of planting the bomb by police and media.
Gary Faye Locke became the first Chinese-American governor in the U.S. (governor of Washington state).
Terry Jones founded Travelocity to sell air tickets on the Internet.
South Korean conglomerate Samsung built a factory in Texas, one of the largest foreign investments in the history of the USA.
The USA enacted the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman, excluding homosexual couples.
Profiling the Thought Adjuster – Part Two of Seven
Although the Universal Father resides on Paradise, he is also present in the minds of his countless children in the worlds of space. The fragment of God that indwells mortals, the Thought Adjuster, creates an incessant longing to be like God and to attain Paradise. The Adjuster is an infallible cosmic compass which unerringly guides human beings to Paradise.
A Thought Adjuster has one of three destinies: attainment of personality by fusion with a mortal; attainment of personality by fiat of the Universal Father, or liberation from known assignments. The fusion of a person and the Adjuster provides personality to the Adjuster and eternal life to the human being.
Thought Adjusters are of the essence of original Deity. They are fragments of the presence of God and proceed directly from the Universal Father. Adjusters are of God and are like God; they reveal his supernal love and spiritual ministry. Thought Adjusters have minds; they can plan, work, and love. Their valor and wisdom suggest that they have undergone a training of tremendous scope and range. Adjusters truly love us; they long for our divinity attainment and for the time when they will be delivered from the limitations of our material bodies.
Thought Adjusters are pure spirits, presumably absolute spirits, pure energy, non matter. Adjusters do not require energy intake because they are divine energy. They can use the material-gravity circuits but are not subject to gravity as humans are. They are fragments of the ancestor of gravity (the Unqualified Absolute – the non deity of energy>matter). Thought Adjusters are not personalities – they are the divine presence.
Adjusters volunteer to indwell humans. They can adapt and modify according to circumstances, and they act in accordance with human choice. Adjusters have genuine volition, but being pre-personal, are subservient to the mortal will of the human indwelt. Throughout the cosmos, that which is pre-personal, non-personal, or subpersonal is ever responsive to the will of personality.
Through Thought Adjusters, the Father has direct communication with every material creature throughout his infinite realms. The full possibilities inherent in this partnership between man and God have not yet been disclosed, but they are vast.
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1997
Jay Walker founded Priceline to bid for air ticket prices on the Internet.
Newt Gingrich became the first House of Representatives Speaker to be censured for ethics violations.
Amazon.com was launched on the web as the "world's largest bookstore."
Reed Hastings founded Netflix to rent videos via the Internet.
The USA signed a treaty banning chemical weapons.
Evite was founded by Al Lieb and Selina Tobaccowala (later sold to Ticketmaster).
Nurse Orville Lynn Majors was arrested for causing the deaths of over 100 patients at an Indiana hospital.
There were 23,000 McDonald's restaurants in 109 countries, the biggest chain of restaurants in the world.
Most countries of the world agreed on reducing the level of greenhouse-gas emissions to avoid climate changes such as global warming, (the Kyoto Protocol).
The AIDS epidemic peaked (50,000 people died).
The average yearly income of a U.S. citizen was $29,000 whereas the average income of a Mexican was $8,000, and the average income of a Nigerian was $900.
Effects of Wage Disparities
Global labor arbitrage is an economic phenomenon where, as a result of the removal of barriers to international trade, jobs move to nations where labor and the cost of doing business (such as environmental regulations) is inexpensive or impoverished labor moves to nations with higher paying jobs.
Two common barriers to international trade are tariffs (politically imposed) and the costs of transporting goods across oceans. With the advent of the Internet, the decrease of the costs of telecommunications, and the possibility of near-instantaneous document transfer, the barriers to the trade of intellectual work product, which is essentially, any kind of work that can be performed on a computer (such as computer programming) or that makes use of a college education, have been greatly reduced.
Often, a prosperous nation (such as the United States) will remove its barriers to international trade, integrating its labor market with those of nations with a lower cost of labor (such as India, China, and Mexico), resulting in a shifting of jobs from the prosperous nation to the developing one. The end result is an increase in the supply of labor in the U.S. relative to the demand for labor, which means a decrease in costs and a decrease in wages. The export of jobs is a weapon for union busting.
While the removal of international trade barriers causes disruptions in the lives of some workers, it is the unstoppable goal of the Most High to seek the most good for the most people, global government, and brotherhood.
Jay Walker founded Priceline to bid for air ticket prices on the Internet.
Newt Gingrich became the first House of Representatives Speaker to be censured for ethics violations.
Amazon.com was launched on the web as the "world's largest bookstore."
Reed Hastings founded Netflix to rent videos via the Internet.
The USA signed a treaty banning chemical weapons.
Evite was founded by Al Lieb and Selina Tobaccowala (later sold to Ticketmaster).
Nurse Orville Lynn Majors was arrested for causing the deaths of over 100 patients at an Indiana hospital.
There were 23,000 McDonald's restaurants in 109 countries, the biggest chain of restaurants in the world.
Most countries of the world agreed on reducing the level of greenhouse-gas emissions to avoid climate changes such as global warming, (the Kyoto Protocol).
The AIDS epidemic peaked (50,000 people died).
The average yearly income of a U.S. citizen was $29,000 whereas the average income of a Mexican was $8,000, and the average income of a Nigerian was $900.
Effects of Wage Disparities
Global labor arbitrage is an economic phenomenon where, as a result of the removal of barriers to international trade, jobs move to nations where labor and the cost of doing business (such as environmental regulations) is inexpensive or impoverished labor moves to nations with higher paying jobs.
Two common barriers to international trade are tariffs (politically imposed) and the costs of transporting goods across oceans. With the advent of the Internet, the decrease of the costs of telecommunications, and the possibility of near-instantaneous document transfer, the barriers to the trade of intellectual work product, which is essentially, any kind of work that can be performed on a computer (such as computer programming) or that makes use of a college education, have been greatly reduced.
Often, a prosperous nation (such as the United States) will remove its barriers to international trade, integrating its labor market with those of nations with a lower cost of labor (such as India, China, and Mexico), resulting in a shifting of jobs from the prosperous nation to the developing one. The end result is an increase in the supply of labor in the U.S. relative to the demand for labor, which means a decrease in costs and a decrease in wages. The export of jobs is a weapon for union busting.
While the removal of international trade barriers causes disruptions in the lives of some workers, it is the unstoppable goal of the Most High to seek the most good for the most people, global government, and brotherhood.
Profiling the Thought Adjusters – Part Three of Seven
Life experience has no cosmic substitute. In common with all living beings in the superuniverse, Thought Adjusters must acquire experience. Thought Adjusters acquire skill and ability through contact with the material races, and are classified according to their experience.
Virgin Adjusters are on their first assignment. They are usually sent to worlds during early epochs when people are so primitive that few will attain higher levels of spirituality. Others are on loan to individuals on worlds whose mortals are destined to attain eternal life through Spirit fusion. (The will creature is either Spirit fused, Son fused, or Father fused.) On these worlds, Adjusters can give more help to their human subjects than is normal on Earth.
Advanced Adjusters have served on one or more worlds where the mortals are destined for Spirit-fusion.
Supreme Adjusters are those that previously indwelt mortals who failed to choose survival, and have subsequently been reassigned to another mortal. Adjusters are seldom given two indwelling experiences on the same planet – there are no Adjusters on Earth now who have been here previously. It is believed that nearly all Adjusters living in mortals of survival capacity on Earth are advanced or supreme Adjusters.
Self-acting Adjusters are the most versatile group. They are capable of carrying out extraordinary missions. Their subjects are often mustered into the reserve corps of destiny – men and women whose chief function is to insure against breakdown of evolutionary progress. (The eventual fusion of the reservists with their Thought Adjusters is regarded as a fact.)
An Adjuster's work is hindered by preconceived opinions, settled ideas, long-standing prejudices, and shifting mental attitudes. Sometimes they are able to arrest the mental flow and divert ideas to effect deep spiritual transformations in the super conscious mind. Intelligent communication between humans is facilitated by Adjusters, and Adjuster type has much to do with potential human personality expression.
Adjusters never fail. Nothing worthwhile is ever lost; every meaningful value in every will creature is certain of survival. Even if a mortal creature rejects survival, his Adjuster will carry his life experiences to some other world and some other survival candidate.
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Life experience has no cosmic substitute. In common with all living beings in the superuniverse, Thought Adjusters must acquire experience. Thought Adjusters acquire skill and ability through contact with the material races, and are classified according to their experience.
Virgin Adjusters are on their first assignment. They are usually sent to worlds during early epochs when people are so primitive that few will attain higher levels of spirituality. Others are on loan to individuals on worlds whose mortals are destined to attain eternal life through Spirit fusion. (The will creature is either Spirit fused, Son fused, or Father fused.) On these worlds, Adjusters can give more help to their human subjects than is normal on Earth.
Advanced Adjusters have served on one or more worlds where the mortals are destined for Spirit-fusion.
Supreme Adjusters are those that previously indwelt mortals who failed to choose survival, and have subsequently been reassigned to another mortal. Adjusters are seldom given two indwelling experiences on the same planet – there are no Adjusters on Earth now who have been here previously. It is believed that nearly all Adjusters living in mortals of survival capacity on Earth are advanced or supreme Adjusters.
Self-acting Adjusters are the most versatile group. They are capable of carrying out extraordinary missions. Their subjects are often mustered into the reserve corps of destiny – men and women whose chief function is to insure against breakdown of evolutionary progress. (The eventual fusion of the reservists with their Thought Adjusters is regarded as a fact.)
An Adjuster's work is hindered by preconceived opinions, settled ideas, long-standing prejudices, and shifting mental attitudes. Sometimes they are able to arrest the mental flow and divert ideas to effect deep spiritual transformations in the super conscious mind. Intelligent communication between humans is facilitated by Adjusters, and Adjuster type has much to do with potential human personality expression.
Adjusters never fail. Nothing worthwhile is ever lost; every meaningful value in every will creature is certain of survival. Even if a mortal creature rejects survival, his Adjuster will carry his life experiences to some other world and some other survival candidate.
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1998
Pierre Omidyar founded Ebay, a website to trade second-hand goods.
20 people were killed by a US military jet that flew into an aerial tramway in northern Italy.
120 countries of the world agreed to establish an international criminal court that was opposed only by the USA, mainland China, Israel and a few Arab dictatorships.
The U.S. adopted legislation that extended copyright protections to 70 years after an author's death.
46 states and four of the largest tobacco companies agreed to warn consumers about the risks of smoking.
"Sex and the City" aired on television. [Note: The show had multiple continuing story lines about four women who discussed relevant and modern social issues such as sexuality, safe sex, promiscuity, and femininity, while exploring the difference between friendships and romantic relationships.]
Mercedes-Benz bought Chrysler and formed DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history at the time.
The average price for gasoline was $1.19 per gallon.
American astrophysicist, Adam Riess discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. [Note: Space is not force, energy, or power. Nor do the pulsations of this zone account for the respiration of space. The incoming and outgoing phases of this zone are synchronized with the two-billion-year expansion-contraction cycles of space, which science calls the Big Bang and the Big Crunch (expansion and contraction).]
Truck bombings orchestrated by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda destroyed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 213 people in Kenya and 11 in Tanzania.
38 million vehicles were sold worldwide (produced by 4.5 million workers with revenues of 1.5 billion dollars).
Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay and scores of Internet-related start-ups created several instant millionaires.
A pill to fight impotency, Viagra, was the best-selling drug of the year.
President Clinton authorized a strike against Osama bin Laden's camp in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, wrongly claiming that it was used to manufacture nerve gas.
Jorn Barger coined the term "weblog" for web pages that simply contained links to other web pages.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google to develop a search engine.
Bob Somerby started "The Daily Howler", the first major political blog.
President Clinton flew into Gaza's new international airport, the first U.S. president to visit Palestine.
Clinton authorized 70 hours of bombing against Iraqi infrastructure and a program to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
George Mitchell employed hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" to extract natural gas from the shale rock of Texas' Barnett Shale.
President Clinton was impeached in the House of Representatives for lying about his adultery with Monica Lewinsky, an intern.
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Pierre Omidyar founded Ebay, a website to trade second-hand goods.
20 people were killed by a US military jet that flew into an aerial tramway in northern Italy.
120 countries of the world agreed to establish an international criminal court that was opposed only by the USA, mainland China, Israel and a few Arab dictatorships.
The U.S. adopted legislation that extended copyright protections to 70 years after an author's death.
46 states and four of the largest tobacco companies agreed to warn consumers about the risks of smoking.
"Sex and the City" aired on television. [Note: The show had multiple continuing story lines about four women who discussed relevant and modern social issues such as sexuality, safe sex, promiscuity, and femininity, while exploring the difference between friendships and romantic relationships.]
Mercedes-Benz bought Chrysler and formed DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history at the time.
The average price for gasoline was $1.19 per gallon.
American astrophysicist, Adam Riess discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. [Note: Space is not force, energy, or power. Nor do the pulsations of this zone account for the respiration of space. The incoming and outgoing phases of this zone are synchronized with the two-billion-year expansion-contraction cycles of space, which science calls the Big Bang and the Big Crunch (expansion and contraction).]
Truck bombings orchestrated by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda destroyed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 213 people in Kenya and 11 in Tanzania.
38 million vehicles were sold worldwide (produced by 4.5 million workers with revenues of 1.5 billion dollars).
Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay and scores of Internet-related start-ups created several instant millionaires.
A pill to fight impotency, Viagra, was the best-selling drug of the year.
President Clinton authorized a strike against Osama bin Laden's camp in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, wrongly claiming that it was used to manufacture nerve gas.
Jorn Barger coined the term "weblog" for web pages that simply contained links to other web pages.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google to develop a search engine.
Bob Somerby started "The Daily Howler", the first major political blog.
President Clinton flew into Gaza's new international airport, the first U.S. president to visit Palestine.
Clinton authorized 70 hours of bombing against Iraqi infrastructure and a program to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
George Mitchell employed hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" to extract natural gas from the shale rock of Texas' Barnett Shale.
President Clinton was impeached in the House of Representatives for lying about his adultery with Monica Lewinsky, an intern.
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USA Peaks
By 1900 the U.S. was the world’s largest economy. By 1950 it led the world by almost every measure. By 1989 it no longer had any serious rivals. And by 1999 it reached its peak.
A new installment of the G8, called the G20, a greater economic coalition was formed, which currently includes the nations of Brazil, China, Saudi Arabia, Republic of Korea, France, Australia, China, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Argentina, Turkey, India, South Africa, Mexico, Japan, United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union.
1999
The USA women's soccer team won the world cup.
Colombia replaced Turkey as the main recipient of USA military aid.
Sarah Knauss, oldest person in the world, died at 119.
The first planetary system outside the Solar System was detected (Upsilon Andromeda, 44 light years from the solar system).
500 million people in the world take international flights.
Mickey Kaus starts the blog "Kausfiles", the second major political blog.
Blogger.com allows people to create their own "blogs" (personal journals).
An outbreak of the West Nile virus kills nine people in New York.
The recording industry sues Shawn Fanning's Napster, a website that allows people to exchange music.
By 1900 the U.S. was the world’s largest economy. By 1950 it led the world by almost every measure. By 1989 it no longer had any serious rivals. And by 1999 it reached its peak.
A new installment of the G8, called the G20, a greater economic coalition was formed, which currently includes the nations of Brazil, China, Saudi Arabia, Republic of Korea, France, Australia, China, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Argentina, Turkey, India, South Africa, Mexico, Japan, United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union.
1999
The USA women's soccer team won the world cup.
Colombia replaced Turkey as the main recipient of USA military aid.
Sarah Knauss, oldest person in the world, died at 119.
The first planetary system outside the Solar System was detected (Upsilon Andromeda, 44 light years from the solar system).
500 million people in the world take international flights.
Mickey Kaus starts the blog "Kausfiles", the second major political blog.
Blogger.com allows people to create their own "blogs" (personal journals).
An outbreak of the West Nile virus kills nine people in New York.
The recording industry sues Shawn Fanning's Napster, a website that allows people to exchange music.
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The Invisible Hand of the Most High Uses Technology to Lead the World to Communis
A growing number of leftist thinkers and academics argue that 21st century tech revolutions could lead us to a classless political and economic model.
The founders of Napster weren’t thinking about communism in 1999 when they made peer-to-peer sharing of digital audio files possible. But in doing so, they undermined one of the core elements of capitalism: scarcity. Without scarcity, prices drop to zero and markets stop working. So when people started duplicating their own music and sharing songs for free, they destroyed the business model of record companies, one download at a time.
Eventually, Napster was shut down by legal threats. But to British author and activist Aaron Bastani, it showed us a glimpse of our communist future. In his new book, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, he argues that new technologies, from solar energy and asteroid mining to CRISPR/Cas9 and satellite internet, could massively lower prices for all kinds of goods and services. Bastani is among a growing number of left-leaning researchers, writers and academics who are eyeing technology not as the job-stealing threat – but as an ally.
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Profiling the Thought Adjusters – Part Four of Seven
Life experience has no cosmic substitute. In common with all living beings in the superuniverse, Thought Adjusters must acquire experience. Thought Adjusters acquire skill and ability through contact with the material races, and are classified according to their experience.
Virgin Adjusters are on their first assignment. They are usually sent to worlds during early epochs when people are so primitive that few will attain higher levels of spirituality. Others are on loan to individuals on worlds whose mortals are destined to attain eternal life through Spirit fusion. On these worlds, Adjusters can give more help to their human subjects than is normal on earth.
Advanced Adjusters have served on one or more worlds where the mortals are destined for Spirit-fusion.
Supreme Adjusters are those which previously indwelt mortals who failed to choose survival, and have subsequently been reassigned to another mortal. Adjusters are seldom given two indwelling experiences on the same planet – there are no Adjusters on Earth now who have been here previously. Nearly all Adjusters living in mortals of survival capacity on Earth are advanced or supreme Adjusters.
Self-acting Adjusters are the most versatile group. They are capable of carrying out extraordinary missions. Their subjects are often mustered into the reserve corps of destiny – fusion is assumed.
An Adjuster's work is hindered by preconceived opinions, settled ideas, long-standing prejudices, and shifting mental attitudes. Sometimes Adjusters are able to arrest the mental flow and divert ideas to effect deep spiritual transformations in the super conscious mind. Intelligent communication between humans is facilitated by Adjusters, and Adjuster type has much to do with potential human personality expression.
Adjusters never fail. Nothing worthwhile is ever lost; every meaningful value in every will creature is certain of survival. Even if a mortal creature rejects survival, his Adjuster will carry his life experiences to some other world and some other survival candidate.
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1999 (Continued)
The world prepared for the new millennium midst fears of computer glitches due to the change of date from two to four digits (99 to 2000).
Microsoft was worth 450 billion dollars, the most valued company in the world, even though it was many times smaller than General Motors. CEO Bill Gates was the world's richest man at $85 billion (1/109th of the U.S. economy).
NATO bombed Serbia to stop suppression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Thirteen people were killed in a high school (Columbine) in Littleton Colorado, by two students.
Internet fever: 100 new Internet companies were listed in the U.S. stock exchange.
More computer viruses were spread throughout the Internet.
In the USA 250 billionaires, and thousands of new millionaires were created in one year.
Clinton announced a second year of budget surplus, the first time since 1957 that the USA had two consecutive years of budget surplus.
125 billion galaxies had been discovered since Edwin Hubble discovered Andromeda in 1925.
Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian terrorist with links to Afghanistan, tried to enter the USA and bomb the Los Angeles airport.
Tiger Woods, a black, became the superstar of golf.
Deutsche Telekom introduced T-Mobile's five-note ring tone, created by Lance Massey.
Vancouver, Canada had the highest rate of AIDS in the world outside of Africa.
Sildenafil, or Viagra, went on sale in the USA, the first drug used to treat erectile dysfunction or impotence in men.
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The world prepared for the new millennium midst fears of computer glitches due to the change of date from two to four digits (99 to 2000).
Microsoft was worth 450 billion dollars, the most valued company in the world, even though it was many times smaller than General Motors. CEO Bill Gates was the world's richest man at $85 billion (1/109th of the U.S. economy).
NATO bombed Serbia to stop suppression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Thirteen people were killed in a high school (Columbine) in Littleton Colorado, by two students.
Internet fever: 100 new Internet companies were listed in the U.S. stock exchange.
More computer viruses were spread throughout the Internet.
In the USA 250 billionaires, and thousands of new millionaires were created in one year.
Clinton announced a second year of budget surplus, the first time since 1957 that the USA had two consecutive years of budget surplus.
125 billion galaxies had been discovered since Edwin Hubble discovered Andromeda in 1925.
Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian terrorist with links to Afghanistan, tried to enter the USA and bomb the Los Angeles airport.
Tiger Woods, a black, became the superstar of golf.
Deutsche Telekom introduced T-Mobile's five-note ring tone, created by Lance Massey.
Vancouver, Canada had the highest rate of AIDS in the world outside of Africa.
Sildenafil, or Viagra, went on sale in the USA, the first drug used to treat erectile dysfunction or impotence in men.
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Organized Religions – Packaged Prejudices
Eighty-three percent of the world’s population worship God as members of one of twelve classical religions – Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism.
Christian Churches
Christianity is divided between Eastern and Western theology. In these two divisions there are six branches: Catholicism, Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, Oriental Orthodoxy, and Assyrians. In America, within the Christian religion, there are 60 denominations.
Lutheran Synod Divisions
Over 40 different Lutheran denominations currently exist in North America. Most North American Lutherans belong to one of the three largest denominations: namely, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
Baptists
About 14.8 million Baptists belong to congregations affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest such confederation of Baptists.
Baptists in the United States make up a significant portion of evangelicals in the United States and approximately one third of all Protestants in the United States.
Churches of Islam - Sunnis and Shites
Sunnis are the more dominant form of Islam – at least 80 per cent of Muslims worldwide. Sunni dominated countries include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and Syria. Shia Muslims are the majority in countries such as Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon.
An Emotional Topic
Organized religion is a highly sensitive issue. While all religions encourage peace and tolerance, many wars have been fought over religious differences.
Eighty-three percent of the world’s population worship God as members of one of twelve classical religions – Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism.
Christian Churches
Christianity is divided between Eastern and Western theology. In these two divisions there are six branches: Catholicism, Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, Oriental Orthodoxy, and Assyrians. In America, within the Christian religion, there are 60 denominations.
Lutheran Synod Divisions
Over 40 different Lutheran denominations currently exist in North America. Most North American Lutherans belong to one of the three largest denominations: namely, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
Baptists
About 14.8 million Baptists belong to congregations affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest such confederation of Baptists.
Baptists in the United States make up a significant portion of evangelicals in the United States and approximately one third of all Protestants in the United States.
Churches of Islam - Sunnis and Shites
Sunnis are the more dominant form of Islam – at least 80 per cent of Muslims worldwide. Sunni dominated countries include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and Syria. Shia Muslims are the majority in countries such as Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon.
An Emotional Topic
Organized religion is a highly sensitive issue. While all religions encourage peace and tolerance, many wars have been fought over religious differences.
The 2000’s Decade
The War on Terror and the War in Afghanistan began after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. (On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks at the World Trade Center in NYC, at the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C., and in a plane crash near Shanksville, PA.) The International Criminal Court was formed in 2002. A United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, and the Iraq War led to the end of Saddam Hussein's rule as Iraqi President and the Ba'ath Party. Al-Qaeda and affiliated Islamist militant groups carried out terrorist acts throughout the decade. These acts included the 2004 Madrid train bombings, London bombings in 2005, and the Mumbai attacks by al-Qaeda in 2008. The European Union expanded its sanctions against Iran for failure to comply with its transparency obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and United Nations resolutions.
The War on Terror generated extreme controversy around the world, with questions regarding the justification for certain U.S. actions leading to a loss of support for the American government, both in and outside the United States. Additional armed conflict occurred in the Middle East, including between Israel and Hezbollah, then with Israel and Hamas. The greatest loss of life due to natural disaster came from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which caused a tsunami that killed around a quarter-million people and displaced well over a million others. Cooperative international rescue missions by many countries from around the world helped in efforts by the most affected nations to rebuild and recover from the devastation. An enormous loss of life and property value came in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina flooded nearly the entire city of New Orleans. The resulting political fallout was severely damaging to the George W. Bush administration because of its perceived failure to act promptly and effectively. In 2008, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States and became the first African-American U.S. president when he succeeded Bush II in 2009.
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The War on Terror and the War in Afghanistan began after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. (On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks at the World Trade Center in NYC, at the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C., and in a plane crash near Shanksville, PA.) The International Criminal Court was formed in 2002. A United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, and the Iraq War led to the end of Saddam Hussein's rule as Iraqi President and the Ba'ath Party. Al-Qaeda and affiliated Islamist militant groups carried out terrorist acts throughout the decade. These acts included the 2004 Madrid train bombings, London bombings in 2005, and the Mumbai attacks by al-Qaeda in 2008. The European Union expanded its sanctions against Iran for failure to comply with its transparency obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and United Nations resolutions.
The War on Terror generated extreme controversy around the world, with questions regarding the justification for certain U.S. actions leading to a loss of support for the American government, both in and outside the United States. Additional armed conflict occurred in the Middle East, including between Israel and Hezbollah, then with Israel and Hamas. The greatest loss of life due to natural disaster came from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which caused a tsunami that killed around a quarter-million people and displaced well over a million others. Cooperative international rescue missions by many countries from around the world helped in efforts by the most affected nations to rebuild and recover from the devastation. An enormous loss of life and property value came in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina flooded nearly the entire city of New Orleans. The resulting political fallout was severely damaging to the George W. Bush administration because of its perceived failure to act promptly and effectively. In 2008, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States and became the first African-American U.S. president when he succeeded Bush II in 2009.
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2000 – Supreme Court Ruled Presidency to George W Bush
Life expectancy in the USA was 77.
Walmart employed more than one million people in almost 4,000 stores worldwide.
About 750 thousand Mexicans crossed illegally into the USA, the peak of the Mexican wave.
The Border Patrol arrested 1,600,000 illegal immigrants.
Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper of Nullsoft created the file-sharing system Gnutella.
The population of the USA was 281 million, with 79% living in cities.
More than 50% of U.S. citizens owned stocks.
Between 1970 and 2000, the percentage of the U.S. population living in suburbs grew from 38% to 50%.
The Dow Jones reached an all-time high of 11,723.
The economic expansion in the U.S. was the longest in the history of the US.
10 billion e-mail messages a day were exchanged over the Internet.
More than 500 billion dollars had been spent worldwide to prepare computers for the year 2000 program change.
Microsoft and Cisco together were worth $1 trillion (25 times their yearly revenues).
The NASDAQ stock market crashed, wiping out trillions of dollars of wealth.
The population of the USA was 280 million, and the most populated state was California with over 30 million people.
British and U.S. biologists deciphered the entire human DNA.
George W Bush became president on a technicality, even though Clinton's vice-president, Al Gore, won the majority of votes.
The divorce rate in the USA was 57%, the highest ever in history.
The state of Texas executed 40 people in just one year, an all-time record for the USA.
The U.S. approved a law (AGOA) to eliminate tariffs on hundreds of items from African countries.
The first astronauts occupied the international space station orbiting the Earth.
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Life expectancy in the USA was 77.
Walmart employed more than one million people in almost 4,000 stores worldwide.
About 750 thousand Mexicans crossed illegally into the USA, the peak of the Mexican wave.
The Border Patrol arrested 1,600,000 illegal immigrants.
Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper of Nullsoft created the file-sharing system Gnutella.
The population of the USA was 281 million, with 79% living in cities.
More than 50% of U.S. citizens owned stocks.
Between 1970 and 2000, the percentage of the U.S. population living in suburbs grew from 38% to 50%.
The Dow Jones reached an all-time high of 11,723.
The economic expansion in the U.S. was the longest in the history of the US.
10 billion e-mail messages a day were exchanged over the Internet.
More than 500 billion dollars had been spent worldwide to prepare computers for the year 2000 program change.
Microsoft and Cisco together were worth $1 trillion (25 times their yearly revenues).
The NASDAQ stock market crashed, wiping out trillions of dollars of wealth.
The population of the USA was 280 million, and the most populated state was California with over 30 million people.
British and U.S. biologists deciphered the entire human DNA.
George W Bush became president on a technicality, even though Clinton's vice-president, Al Gore, won the majority of votes.
The divorce rate in the USA was 57%, the highest ever in history.
The state of Texas executed 40 people in just one year, an all-time record for the USA.
The U.S. approved a law (AGOA) to eliminate tariffs on hundreds of items from African countries.
The first astronauts occupied the international space station orbiting the Earth.
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Profiling the Thought Adjusters – Part Five of Seven
The Thought Adjuster is not an organic part of the human body. It would be more accurate to think of Adjusters as indwelling the human mind rather than the human brain. Being pure thought, the material form of humans is invisible to Thought Adjusters, just as they are invisible to mortals.
Adjusters are interested in the temporal welfare of their human hosts, but they are primarily concerned with their spiritual preparation for upcoming stages of existence.
Adjusters begin to work with a predetermined plan for development of their human personalities, but humans are not required to accept this plan. Adjusters are subservient to human will and will never force humans to follow their guidance. Adjusters do not try to control human thinking, but rather attempt to spiritualize it. They are dedicated to improving, modifying, and adjusting mortal thought processes. The more people attune themselves with the divine Adjusters, the more they approach the morontia level of existence (midway between matter and spirit). Morontia mind is the sum of the material and spiritual natures – dual mind dominated by one will.
The success of the Adjusters depends not on the beliefs of individuals, but on the human’s decisions, determinations, and faith. The eternal survival of mortals depends on their desire to be Godlike and on their willingness to do and to be anything that is essential to the final attainment of that desire. The ideal life is one of loving service, but many humans spend so much time on the trifles of living that they overlook the essential task of developing a working relationship with their indwelling divine gift.
Harmony with the Adjuster can be consciously augmented by choosing to respond to divine leading, loving God and desiring to be like him, loving man and sincerely desiring to serve God, and joyfully accepting cosmic citizenship.
Adjuster attunement is related to the attainment of the seven psychic circles of mortal potential. The seventh circle marks the beginning of human personality function, and the first circle represents relative maturity. Moving through the circles demands the harmonious function of the entire personality-material, intellectual, and spiritual capacity. Every decision humans make either impedes or facilitates the Adjuster's function; likewise do these decisions determine our advancement in the circles.
The seven levels of human personality growth are variable in each person and seem to be determined by the growth capacity of each individual. It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal risk.
Humans literally become more real as they ascend from the seventh to the first psychic circle.
In the finite realm, potential becomes actual through choices, but in the spiritual realm, potentials are transmuted into actuals through faith.
Immortality is attained through fusion with the Adjuster. Fusion occurs with the final and complete attunement of the mortal will with the will of God. Upon fusion, the mortal soul and the Adjuster become a single entity.
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The Thought Adjuster is not an organic part of the human body. It would be more accurate to think of Adjusters as indwelling the human mind rather than the human brain. Being pure thought, the material form of humans is invisible to Thought Adjusters, just as they are invisible to mortals.
Adjusters are interested in the temporal welfare of their human hosts, but they are primarily concerned with their spiritual preparation for upcoming stages of existence.
Adjusters begin to work with a predetermined plan for development of their human personalities, but humans are not required to accept this plan. Adjusters are subservient to human will and will never force humans to follow their guidance. Adjusters do not try to control human thinking, but rather attempt to spiritualize it. They are dedicated to improving, modifying, and adjusting mortal thought processes. The more people attune themselves with the divine Adjusters, the more they approach the morontia level of existence (midway between matter and spirit). Morontia mind is the sum of the material and spiritual natures – dual mind dominated by one will.
The success of the Adjusters depends not on the beliefs of individuals, but on the human’s decisions, determinations, and faith. The eternal survival of mortals depends on their desire to be Godlike and on their willingness to do and to be anything that is essential to the final attainment of that desire. The ideal life is one of loving service, but many humans spend so much time on the trifles of living that they overlook the essential task of developing a working relationship with their indwelling divine gift.
Harmony with the Adjuster can be consciously augmented by choosing to respond to divine leading, loving God and desiring to be like him, loving man and sincerely desiring to serve God, and joyfully accepting cosmic citizenship.
Adjuster attunement is related to the attainment of the seven psychic circles of mortal potential. The seventh circle marks the beginning of human personality function, and the first circle represents relative maturity. Moving through the circles demands the harmonious function of the entire personality-material, intellectual, and spiritual capacity. Every decision humans make either impedes or facilitates the Adjuster's function; likewise do these decisions determine our advancement in the circles.
The seven levels of human personality growth are variable in each person and seem to be determined by the growth capacity of each individual. It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal risk.
Humans literally become more real as they ascend from the seventh to the first psychic circle.
In the finite realm, potential becomes actual through choices, but in the spiritual realm, potentials are transmuted into actuals through faith.
Immortality is attained through fusion with the Adjuster. Fusion occurs with the final and complete attunement of the mortal will with the will of God. Upon fusion, the mortal soul and the Adjuster become a single entity.
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2001 – Year of the Terrorist Attacks in the United States
Scientists mapped the human genome. (Genome maps provide the DNA sequences of chromosomes.)
Napster (shared music) was forced to shut down.
Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia, a multilingual encyclopedia collaboratively edited by the Internet community.
The USA entered a recession, ending the longest economic expansion of its history.
The USA tested a missile defense shield against intercontinental strategic missiles.
Using hijacked commercial aircraft, Arab terrorists affiliated with Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization blew up the World Trade Center and other targets, killing 4,000 people.
The USA began a bombing campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan. [Note: The so-called Islamic State, al-Qaeda and now the Taliban are radical jihadist groups focused on ridding the world from the threat, as they perceive it, that Western culture poses to Islam.]
The U.S. opened a special prison camp at Guantanamo to hold terrorist suspects and authorized the use of torture.
Several cases of the biological weapon anthrax were detected around the United States and five people died (a USA scientist, Bruce Ivins, was charged with the crime).
President Bush announced the withdrawal of the USA from the anti-ballistic missile treaty (ABM).
3% of the U.S. population was in jail.
Satellite radio was introduced in the USA.
Enron collapsed, unveiling the biggest corporate scandal in USA history.
There were five million Muslims living in the USA.
The U.S. expelled the last Taliban from Afghanistan and appointed Hamid Karzai as new president (12,000 Taliban had been killed and 4,000 Afghan civilians with only 1 US casualty).
The USA signed free-trade agreement with Jordan.
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Scientists mapped the human genome. (Genome maps provide the DNA sequences of chromosomes.)
Napster (shared music) was forced to shut down.
Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia, a multilingual encyclopedia collaboratively edited by the Internet community.
The USA entered a recession, ending the longest economic expansion of its history.
The USA tested a missile defense shield against intercontinental strategic missiles.
Using hijacked commercial aircraft, Arab terrorists affiliated with Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization blew up the World Trade Center and other targets, killing 4,000 people.
The USA began a bombing campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan. [Note: The so-called Islamic State, al-Qaeda and now the Taliban are radical jihadist groups focused on ridding the world from the threat, as they perceive it, that Western culture poses to Islam.]
The U.S. opened a special prison camp at Guantanamo to hold terrorist suspects and authorized the use of torture.
Several cases of the biological weapon anthrax were detected around the United States and five people died (a USA scientist, Bruce Ivins, was charged with the crime).
President Bush announced the withdrawal of the USA from the anti-ballistic missile treaty (ABM).
3% of the U.S. population was in jail.
Satellite radio was introduced in the USA.
Enron collapsed, unveiling the biggest corporate scandal in USA history.
There were five million Muslims living in the USA.
The U.S. expelled the last Taliban from Afghanistan and appointed Hamid Karzai as new president (12,000 Taliban had been killed and 4,000 Afghan civilians with only 1 US casualty).
The USA signed free-trade agreement with Jordan.
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Ethical Awakening
Only ethical consciousness can unmask the immorality of human intolerance and the sinfulness of fratricidal strife. Only a moral conscience can condemn the evils of nation envy and racial jealousy. Only moral beings will ever seek for that spiritual insight which is essential to living the golden rule.
2002 – Year of Dramatic Declines in Stock Market
Russia becomes an ally of NATO.
The CIA began torturing suspected Islamic terrorists during interrogations.
812 Afghan civilians were killed by U.S. air strikes.
Bram Cohen unveiled the peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent.
Rick Warren published "The Purpose-Driven Life", which sold one million copies a month for two years, becoming the bestselling nonfiction book in the history of publishing. [Note: “Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.”]
The trade deficit with China increased to a record $103 billion.
U.S. stock markets crashed, following corporate accounting scandals.
U.S. scientists synthesized a live virus from chemicals.
The NASDAQ fell below its post-September Trade Center attack low.
Walmart was the biggest company in the world with over 200 billion dollars in revenues (followed by Exxon and General Motors).
The West Nile virus spread from state to state and killed dozens of people.
George W Bush enacted a doctrine of first strike against foes and of continued military supremacy
(to ensure the unrestricted flow of oil).
A serial sniper (John Allen "Muhammad" Williams) shot a dozen people at random in the Washington/Maryland area.
Texas executed more people (33) than all of the other states combined (32).
Cardinal Bernard Law was forced to resign following a wave of sex-abuse scandals involving Catholic priests.
President Bush coined the expression "axis of evil" to describe the totalitarian regimes of Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
The Dow Jones fell to 7,286, 37.8% lower than its peak in January, 2000.
Robert William Pickton was suspected of killing more than 50 drug-addicted prostitutes during the 1990s in Vancouver, Canada.
Corporate lobbyists bribed Republican leader Tom DeLay, who used the money to fund the election of Republicans so that the Republican Party took control of the Texas State Congress for the first time in modern history.
After four years of surpluses, the 2002 budget ran a $158 billion deficit, the beginning of decades of budget deficits. Famously, Vice President, Dick Cheney, later voiced the government mantra, “Debts don’t matter.”
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Only ethical consciousness can unmask the immorality of human intolerance and the sinfulness of fratricidal strife. Only a moral conscience can condemn the evils of nation envy and racial jealousy. Only moral beings will ever seek for that spiritual insight which is essential to living the golden rule.
2002 – Year of Dramatic Declines in Stock Market
Russia becomes an ally of NATO.
The CIA began torturing suspected Islamic terrorists during interrogations.
812 Afghan civilians were killed by U.S. air strikes.
Bram Cohen unveiled the peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent.
Rick Warren published "The Purpose-Driven Life", which sold one million copies a month for two years, becoming the bestselling nonfiction book in the history of publishing. [Note: “Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.”]
The trade deficit with China increased to a record $103 billion.
U.S. stock markets crashed, following corporate accounting scandals.
U.S. scientists synthesized a live virus from chemicals.
The NASDAQ fell below its post-September Trade Center attack low.
Walmart was the biggest company in the world with over 200 billion dollars in revenues (followed by Exxon and General Motors).
The West Nile virus spread from state to state and killed dozens of people.
George W Bush enacted a doctrine of first strike against foes and of continued military supremacy
(to ensure the unrestricted flow of oil).
A serial sniper (John Allen "Muhammad" Williams) shot a dozen people at random in the Washington/Maryland area.
Texas executed more people (33) than all of the other states combined (32).
Cardinal Bernard Law was forced to resign following a wave of sex-abuse scandals involving Catholic priests.
President Bush coined the expression "axis of evil" to describe the totalitarian regimes of Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
The Dow Jones fell to 7,286, 37.8% lower than its peak in January, 2000.
Robert William Pickton was suspected of killing more than 50 drug-addicted prostitutes during the 1990s in Vancouver, Canada.
Corporate lobbyists bribed Republican leader Tom DeLay, who used the money to fund the election of Republicans so that the Republican Party took control of the Texas State Congress for the first time in modern history.
After four years of surpluses, the 2002 budget ran a $158 billion deficit, the beginning of decades of budget deficits. Famously, Vice President, Dick Cheney, later voiced the government mantra, “Debts don’t matter.”
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Profiling the Thought Adjusters – Part Six of Seven
The Adjuster and the Soul
The soul is neither the human mind nor the divine Thought Adjuster spirit that dwells within the mind. Material mind is the arena in which humans live, make decisions, choose or forsake God, and survive or destroy themselves. Material evolution provides mortals with a body and the Father endows it with spirit reality, but it is by mind that we live or die. The mortal mind is merely a temporary system loaned for use during the material life. The evolving soul faithfully portrays the decisions made with the mind provided.
The human soul has three ancestors: the human mind; the divine Thought Adjuster spirit; and the relationship between these two. The relationship between mind and spirit produces the soul, an entirely new and unique universe value. The human soul is an embryonic form of the future vehicle of personality. If this evolving soul becomes permeated by truth, beauty, and goodness – if it becomes God-conscious, it becomes indestructible. The soul exists as morontia reality midway between the material and spiritual worlds.
An Adjuster's work is spiritual, but is accomplished in the intellectual realm. With mortal consent, the faithful Thought Adjuster will safely pilot his human captain across the barriers of time and the handicaps of space to the source of divine mind, the Paradise Father.
The mortal career is an education. What mortals are today is not as important as what they are striving to become.
Doing the will of God is the willingness to share one’s inner life with God. Peace in this life, survival in death, perfection in the next life, and service in eternity are all achieved when the human will chooses to become subject to the Father's will. Such choice is not a surrender of will, but is the consecration and perfecting of will – the Father's will becomes the mortal's will.
Many human problems come from our two-fold natures: we are part of nature, yet we are able to transcend nature; we are finite, but we are indwelt by a spark of infinity. Religious confidence – living faith – can sustain us amid conflicts born of this dual nature. The Adjuster cannot lessen the hardships of life on this world. However, humans will be comforted and inspired if they would allow the Adjuster to reveal the eternal purpose of the difficult struggle of the material world.
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The Adjuster and the Soul
The soul is neither the human mind nor the divine Thought Adjuster spirit that dwells within the mind. Material mind is the arena in which humans live, make decisions, choose or forsake God, and survive or destroy themselves. Material evolution provides mortals with a body and the Father endows it with spirit reality, but it is by mind that we live or die. The mortal mind is merely a temporary system loaned for use during the material life. The evolving soul faithfully portrays the decisions made with the mind provided.
The human soul has three ancestors: the human mind; the divine Thought Adjuster spirit; and the relationship between these two. The relationship between mind and spirit produces the soul, an entirely new and unique universe value. The human soul is an embryonic form of the future vehicle of personality. If this evolving soul becomes permeated by truth, beauty, and goodness – if it becomes God-conscious, it becomes indestructible. The soul exists as morontia reality midway between the material and spiritual worlds.
An Adjuster's work is spiritual, but is accomplished in the intellectual realm. With mortal consent, the faithful Thought Adjuster will safely pilot his human captain across the barriers of time and the handicaps of space to the source of divine mind, the Paradise Father.
The mortal career is an education. What mortals are today is not as important as what they are striving to become.
Doing the will of God is the willingness to share one’s inner life with God. Peace in this life, survival in death, perfection in the next life, and service in eternity are all achieved when the human will chooses to become subject to the Father's will. Such choice is not a surrender of will, but is the consecration and perfecting of will – the Father's will becomes the mortal's will.
Many human problems come from our two-fold natures: we are part of nature, yet we are able to transcend nature; we are finite, but we are indwelt by a spark of infinity. Religious confidence – living faith – can sustain us amid conflicts born of this dual nature. The Adjuster cannot lessen the hardships of life on this world. However, humans will be comforted and inspired if they would allow the Adjuster to reveal the eternal purpose of the difficult struggle of the material world.
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2003 – Year U.S. Attacked Iraq Due to Weapons of Mass Destruction Threat
The space shuttle "Columbia" exploded during re-entry, killing the entire crew.
Airbus passed Boeing as the world's largest civilian aircraft manufacturer.
Texas executed the 300th inmate since the death penalty was reinstated in 1982.
President George W Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein. [Note: According to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the United States didn't need to invade Iraq to control Iraqi oil. The New York Times reported that in February 2003, Baghdad had offered to give the U.S. first priority to Iraq oil rights, as part of a deal to avert an impending invasion.]
The USA had a record 2 million prison inmates.
Tom DeLay's newly elected Republicans in Texas redrew the electoral districts to maximize their gains in national elections.
The Federal Reserve Board cut interest rates, to a 45-year low.
The dollar fell 25% to the euro in just one year (dollar devaluation for trade advantage).
Austrian-born Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California.
Serial killer Gary Ridgway confessed to being the "Green River Murderer" who killed at least 48 prostitutes and strippers in the Seattle area between 1982 and 1998.
The U.S. economy grew by 7% in the third quarter, the fastest growth rate in 20 years.
The foreign-born population of the USA reached 33.5 million, out of 280 million people.
The USA dispatched 1,700 soldiers to the Philippines, to help fight the Abu Sayyaf terrorists (a Jihadist militant group that followed the Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam).
Scientists estimated the age of the universe was 13.7 billion years and that 95% of the universe consisted of invisible "dark matter." [Note: Earth’s local universe actually grew in several stages. 600,000,000,000 years ago the height of the Andronover energy-mobilization period was attained; the nebula had acquired its maximum of mass. At this time it was a gigantic circular gas cloud in shape somewhat like a flattened spheroid. This was the early period of differential mass formation and varying revolutionary velocity. Gravity and other influences began their work of converting space gases into organized matter. So, in fact, the age of Earth’s mother universe (located in the Seventh Super Universe) is far older than scientists estimate.]
Serial killer Charles Cullen, a hospital nurse, was arrested for causing the death of at least 40 patients using drug overdoses.
15 million people worldwide were suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
43,220 people died in traffic accidents in the U.S,
Skype was founded by Niklas Zennstroem and Janus Friis to offer voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP).
Calvin Willis was released from a Louisiana prison after serving more than 21 years for a crime he did not commit.
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The space shuttle "Columbia" exploded during re-entry, killing the entire crew.
Airbus passed Boeing as the world's largest civilian aircraft manufacturer.
Texas executed the 300th inmate since the death penalty was reinstated in 1982.
President George W Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein. [Note: According to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the United States didn't need to invade Iraq to control Iraqi oil. The New York Times reported that in February 2003, Baghdad had offered to give the U.S. first priority to Iraq oil rights, as part of a deal to avert an impending invasion.]
The USA had a record 2 million prison inmates.
Tom DeLay's newly elected Republicans in Texas redrew the electoral districts to maximize their gains in national elections.
The Federal Reserve Board cut interest rates, to a 45-year low.
The dollar fell 25% to the euro in just one year (dollar devaluation for trade advantage).
Austrian-born Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California.
Serial killer Gary Ridgway confessed to being the "Green River Murderer" who killed at least 48 prostitutes and strippers in the Seattle area between 1982 and 1998.
The U.S. economy grew by 7% in the third quarter, the fastest growth rate in 20 years.
The foreign-born population of the USA reached 33.5 million, out of 280 million people.
The USA dispatched 1,700 soldiers to the Philippines, to help fight the Abu Sayyaf terrorists (a Jihadist militant group that followed the Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam).
Scientists estimated the age of the universe was 13.7 billion years and that 95% of the universe consisted of invisible "dark matter." [Note: Earth’s local universe actually grew in several stages. 600,000,000,000 years ago the height of the Andronover energy-mobilization period was attained; the nebula had acquired its maximum of mass. At this time it was a gigantic circular gas cloud in shape somewhat like a flattened spheroid. This was the early period of differential mass formation and varying revolutionary velocity. Gravity and other influences began their work of converting space gases into organized matter. So, in fact, the age of Earth’s mother universe (located in the Seventh Super Universe) is far older than scientists estimate.]
Serial killer Charles Cullen, a hospital nurse, was arrested for causing the death of at least 40 patients using drug overdoses.
15 million people worldwide were suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
43,220 people died in traffic accidents in the U.S,
Skype was founded by Niklas Zennstroem and Janus Friis to offer voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP).
Calvin Willis was released from a Louisiana prison after serving more than 21 years for a crime he did not commit.
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Profiling the Thought Adjusters – Part Seven of Seven
While we cannot adequately define personality, it is helpful to know that personality is bestowed by God, is relatively creative, unifies the identity of living energy systems, is changeless, discriminates between levels of conduct, is unique, and is capable of responding to other personalities. The Adjuster and the personality are both changeless, but the relationship between them is nothing but change.
Life is a process that takes place between an organism and its environment. Personality impacts life by imparting values and meanings into the life process. In humans, personality unifies all activity and confers identity and creativity. Humans are spiritual beings; the unity of self and the self-consciousness of personality are endowments of the super material world. The purpose of cosmic evolution is to achieve unity of personality through increasing spirit dominance and increasing response to the indwelling fragment of God, the Thought Adjuster.
The material self is dependent during the physical life on the continuing function of the material life vehicle. Mortals transcend death by transferring the seat of their personality identities from the material body to the more enduring morontia soul. This transfer is effected by sincerity, persistence, and steadfastness of God-seeking decisions.
There are three kinds of death. Spiritual death happens when a person rejects survival. Mind death takes place when the body continues to function after the essential mind circuits have been destroyed. Physical death occurs when both body and mind cease to function.
After physical death, two non material segments of a surviving personality persist: memory transcripts and the immortal soul. The Thought Adjuster carries the mortal's memory transcripts to Divinington (the home world of the Thought Adjusters), while the soul is remanded to the care of the seraphim. Temporarily, after death, the Thought Adjuster loses personality and the mortal loses identity until they can be reunited in a new manifestation on the mansion worlds. A mortal is repersonalized on the mansion worlds either at the end of a dispensation or within three "periods" (normally days). Reassembly of the parts of a onetime material being involves the fabrication of a suitable form, the return of the Adjuster, and the bestowal of the soul into the awaiting morontia form by the seraphic custodian.
Selfhood persists in spite of a continuous change in all of the factors of self. In physical life, changes are gradual. At death and depersonalization, the change is sudden. Human life is endless change unified by the stability of the unchanging personality.
The universe government always manifests patience, tolerance, and mercy. If there is ever any doubt as to the advisability of allowing a mortal to advance, the universe government invariably rules in the favor of the individual. Will creatures must be given one true opportunity to make their final choice about the eternal life; the soul of each person is allowed to fully reveal its true intent and purpose.
There is much about our mortal lives that we will not remember in the future. Our Adjusters will retain only those memories and experiences that are essential to the universe career. Much of material experience will pass away, but personality and relationships between personalities will persist. We will always remember, and be remembered by, the people known in this life. On the mansion worlds, personalities are revealed for the first time apart from material flesh. In physical life, one may be outwardly beautiful while inwardly ugly, but in the morontia form and higher levels, outward appearance varies in accordance with the inner nature.
Mortals pass through a relatively short and intense testing period. On the evolutionary worlds of matter, survival decisions are formed; in the morontia state, survival decisions are confirmed; at the spiritual level, survival decisions have been made. Fusion with the indwelling Adjuster usually happens within the local constellation system when there has been a final and irrevocable choice for the eternal career. After fusion, there is never any doubt as to the eternal career of the personality.
After passing through the local universe, ascenders meet the local universe sovereign (Michael/Jesus) who grants credentials for the quest for the Universal Father. Fused mortals become a member of a unique order of ascending personalities who are ever serviceable, faithful, and efficient; never ceasing to ascend until they stand in the presence of the Father on Paradise.
Mortals have every opportunity to determine their own destiny. The cosmos is an infinitely integrated aggregation of units, all of which are subject to the destiny of the whole. Those units that are personal are endowed with the choice of destiny acceptance or rejection. Personality will attain Deity destiny, but humans must choose whether or not to be present at the attainment of such destiny.
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While we cannot adequately define personality, it is helpful to know that personality is bestowed by God, is relatively creative, unifies the identity of living energy systems, is changeless, discriminates between levels of conduct, is unique, and is capable of responding to other personalities. The Adjuster and the personality are both changeless, but the relationship between them is nothing but change.
Life is a process that takes place between an organism and its environment. Personality impacts life by imparting values and meanings into the life process. In humans, personality unifies all activity and confers identity and creativity. Humans are spiritual beings; the unity of self and the self-consciousness of personality are endowments of the super material world. The purpose of cosmic evolution is to achieve unity of personality through increasing spirit dominance and increasing response to the indwelling fragment of God, the Thought Adjuster.
The material self is dependent during the physical life on the continuing function of the material life vehicle. Mortals transcend death by transferring the seat of their personality identities from the material body to the more enduring morontia soul. This transfer is effected by sincerity, persistence, and steadfastness of God-seeking decisions.
There are three kinds of death. Spiritual death happens when a person rejects survival. Mind death takes place when the body continues to function after the essential mind circuits have been destroyed. Physical death occurs when both body and mind cease to function.
After physical death, two non material segments of a surviving personality persist: memory transcripts and the immortal soul. The Thought Adjuster carries the mortal's memory transcripts to Divinington (the home world of the Thought Adjusters), while the soul is remanded to the care of the seraphim. Temporarily, after death, the Thought Adjuster loses personality and the mortal loses identity until they can be reunited in a new manifestation on the mansion worlds. A mortal is repersonalized on the mansion worlds either at the end of a dispensation or within three "periods" (normally days). Reassembly of the parts of a onetime material being involves the fabrication of a suitable form, the return of the Adjuster, and the bestowal of the soul into the awaiting morontia form by the seraphic custodian.
Selfhood persists in spite of a continuous change in all of the factors of self. In physical life, changes are gradual. At death and depersonalization, the change is sudden. Human life is endless change unified by the stability of the unchanging personality.
The universe government always manifests patience, tolerance, and mercy. If there is ever any doubt as to the advisability of allowing a mortal to advance, the universe government invariably rules in the favor of the individual. Will creatures must be given one true opportunity to make their final choice about the eternal life; the soul of each person is allowed to fully reveal its true intent and purpose.
There is much about our mortal lives that we will not remember in the future. Our Adjusters will retain only those memories and experiences that are essential to the universe career. Much of material experience will pass away, but personality and relationships between personalities will persist. We will always remember, and be remembered by, the people known in this life. On the mansion worlds, personalities are revealed for the first time apart from material flesh. In physical life, one may be outwardly beautiful while inwardly ugly, but in the morontia form and higher levels, outward appearance varies in accordance with the inner nature.
Mortals pass through a relatively short and intense testing period. On the evolutionary worlds of matter, survival decisions are formed; in the morontia state, survival decisions are confirmed; at the spiritual level, survival decisions have been made. Fusion with the indwelling Adjuster usually happens within the local constellation system when there has been a final and irrevocable choice for the eternal career. After fusion, there is never any doubt as to the eternal career of the personality.
After passing through the local universe, ascenders meet the local universe sovereign (Michael/Jesus) who grants credentials for the quest for the Universal Father. Fused mortals become a member of a unique order of ascending personalities who are ever serviceable, faithful, and efficient; never ceasing to ascend until they stand in the presence of the Father on Paradise.
Mortals have every opportunity to determine their own destiny. The cosmos is an infinitely integrated aggregation of units, all of which are subject to the destiny of the whole. Those units that are personal are endowed with the choice of destiny acceptance or rejection. Personality will attain Deity destiny, but humans must choose whether or not to be present at the attainment of such destiny.
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2004 – Year of the Noble Lie
The Bush administration admitted that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, which was the reason given for invading Iraq. [Note: This is an example of the so-called noble lie – a fiction told by elites to the masses supposedly for the people’s own good, but really designed to maintain popular support for policies that benefit the elites.]
The "Spirit" and the "Opportunity" spacecrafts landed on Mars and sent the first pictures of the planet's surface back to Earth.
The USA signed free-trade treaties with Chile, Singapore and Australia.
Dickson Despommier proposed building vertical farms in cities. [Note: Vertical farming is a form of controlled environment agriculture that consists of fully insulated indoor operations, producing crops on multiple levels using electrical lighting, chemical fertilizers, and recirculated water close to consumers.]
Google launches a project to digitize all the books ever printed.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook.
The World Health Organization estimated that 1.3 million people were killed every year in car accidents.
NASA's X-43A scramjet set a new world speed record for a jet-powered aircraft – Mach 9.6, nearly 7,000 mph.
Abuse of Iraqi prisoners was revealed by reporter Seymour Hersh, causing an international outcry.
Mikhail Gorbacev, Margaret Thatcher and other leaders of the past attended Ronald Reagan's funeral.
Scientists transferred properties of one atom to another atom by entangling their quantum waves.
The dollar fell to an all-time low against the euro (1.30).
Congress approved an $800 billion increase in the nation's debt limit, the third increase since George W. Bush became president (the budget deficit exceeded $7 trillion).
Ryan Matthews became the 115th prisoner in the USA since 1973 to be released from death row on the grounds of innocence.
Evidence of abuses surfaced at both Iraqi and Afghan prisons run by the U.S. military.
The number of millionaires jumped almost 10% in the U.S.
Massachusetts legalized gay marriage.
California approved $3 billion to human embryonic stem-cell research, resulting in the founding of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the biggest-ever public scientific program in the U.S.
The first Major League Gaming for computer video gaming was held in New York.
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The Bush administration admitted that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, which was the reason given for invading Iraq. [Note: This is an example of the so-called noble lie – a fiction told by elites to the masses supposedly for the people’s own good, but really designed to maintain popular support for policies that benefit the elites.]
The "Spirit" and the "Opportunity" spacecrafts landed on Mars and sent the first pictures of the planet's surface back to Earth.
The USA signed free-trade treaties with Chile, Singapore and Australia.
Dickson Despommier proposed building vertical farms in cities. [Note: Vertical farming is a form of controlled environment agriculture that consists of fully insulated indoor operations, producing crops on multiple levels using electrical lighting, chemical fertilizers, and recirculated water close to consumers.]
Google launches a project to digitize all the books ever printed.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook.
The World Health Organization estimated that 1.3 million people were killed every year in car accidents.
NASA's X-43A scramjet set a new world speed record for a jet-powered aircraft – Mach 9.6, nearly 7,000 mph.
Abuse of Iraqi prisoners was revealed by reporter Seymour Hersh, causing an international outcry.
Mikhail Gorbacev, Margaret Thatcher and other leaders of the past attended Ronald Reagan's funeral.
Scientists transferred properties of one atom to another atom by entangling their quantum waves.
The dollar fell to an all-time low against the euro (1.30).
Congress approved an $800 billion increase in the nation's debt limit, the third increase since George W. Bush became president (the budget deficit exceeded $7 trillion).
Ryan Matthews became the 115th prisoner in the USA since 1973 to be released from death row on the grounds of innocence.
Evidence of abuses surfaced at both Iraqi and Afghan prisons run by the U.S. military.
The number of millionaires jumped almost 10% in the U.S.
Massachusetts legalized gay marriage.
California approved $3 billion to human embryonic stem-cell research, resulting in the founding of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the biggest-ever public scientific program in the U.S.
The first Major League Gaming for computer video gaming was held in New York.
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The Morontia Life
The only possible method by which mortals can transform from material beings into perfected spirits is through the transition of morontia life (the life midway between material and spirit).
Morontia materialization is a union of material and spiritual energies made possible by the Morontia Power Supervisors, who provide each ascender with five hundred and seventy sequential morontia bodies. The Power Supervisors work in close association with both the physical controllers and the seraphim. Millions of Morontia Power Supervisors coordinate the physical and spiritual energy that flows into the morontia realms.
Morontia Companions serve ascenders as companions, hosts, instructors, translators, excursion supervisors, and custodians.
Reversion Directors volunteer to help mortals rest their minds through humor. They assist ascenders in reverting memories to a former state of being by creating reminiscent jests. Reversion directors also promote the unimportance of personal anxiety and the satisfaction that all things work together for good.
Billions of Mansion World Teachers are recruited from the ranks of cherubim and sanobim who have completed their work as assistants to guardian seraphim. Teachers usually work in pairs in the schools of things, feelings, doing, ethics, administration, social adjustment, philosophy, divinity, and spirituality.
Transition Ministers are seraphim devoted to facilitating the transition from life in the flesh to existence on the seven mansion worlds. Since the morontia life begins at the conception of the soul, Transition Ministers begin their work on the evolutionary worlds. Transition Ministers proclaim the gospel of eternal progression and perfection attainment. They counsel human teachers about truth, righteousness, and the goodness of God. The Transition Ministers are psychologists, counselors, philosophers, instructors and recorders. From these seraphim, ascenders learn to let pressure develop into stability; to be faithful, earnest, and cheerful; to accept challenges without complaint and difficulties without fear.
There is a divine purpose in the morontia scheme of extensive training for ascending creatures. Passage through this life will be joyous, but it also has a practical objective; the goal of transcendent service in the universes. The entire universe is a vast training school through which mortals are piloted, one by one, to their destiny as Paradise finaliters in service to new universes in the making.
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The only possible method by which mortals can transform from material beings into perfected spirits is through the transition of morontia life (the life midway between material and spirit).
Morontia materialization is a union of material and spiritual energies made possible by the Morontia Power Supervisors, who provide each ascender with five hundred and seventy sequential morontia bodies. The Power Supervisors work in close association with both the physical controllers and the seraphim. Millions of Morontia Power Supervisors coordinate the physical and spiritual energy that flows into the morontia realms.
Morontia Companions serve ascenders as companions, hosts, instructors, translators, excursion supervisors, and custodians.
Reversion Directors volunteer to help mortals rest their minds through humor. They assist ascenders in reverting memories to a former state of being by creating reminiscent jests. Reversion directors also promote the unimportance of personal anxiety and the satisfaction that all things work together for good.
Billions of Mansion World Teachers are recruited from the ranks of cherubim and sanobim who have completed their work as assistants to guardian seraphim. Teachers usually work in pairs in the schools of things, feelings, doing, ethics, administration, social adjustment, philosophy, divinity, and spirituality.
Transition Ministers are seraphim devoted to facilitating the transition from life in the flesh to existence on the seven mansion worlds. Since the morontia life begins at the conception of the soul, Transition Ministers begin their work on the evolutionary worlds. Transition Ministers proclaim the gospel of eternal progression and perfection attainment. They counsel human teachers about truth, righteousness, and the goodness of God. The Transition Ministers are psychologists, counselors, philosophers, instructors and recorders. From these seraphim, ascenders learn to let pressure develop into stability; to be faithful, earnest, and cheerful; to accept challenges without complaint and difficulties without fear.
There is a divine purpose in the morontia scheme of extensive training for ascending creatures. Passage through this life will be joyous, but it also has a practical objective; the goal of transcendent service in the universes. The entire universe is a vast training school through which mortals are piloted, one by one, to their destiny as Paradise finaliters in service to new universes in the making.
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2005 – A Year of Extremes
The monthly USA trade deficit reached $69 billion of which about 25% was with China, 12% with Canada and 12% with Japan.
Carlton Cuse's "Lost" (2005) and Tim Kring's “Heroes” (2006) pioneered interactive television programs. Interactive television (ITV), is a form of media convergence, adding data services to traditional television technology such as on-demand delivery of content, online shopping, and banking.
Gnutella connected 1.81 million computers. (Gnutella is a large peer-to-peer network. It was the first decentralized peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks that adopted the model.)
The Internet was used by one billion people.
The Kyoto protocol (to reduce the level of greenhouse-gas emissions to avoid climate changes such as global warming) was adopted by 141 countries of the world but not the USA, China, India and Australia.
A gunman killed seven people at a hotel in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
A student killed nine people (and himself) at a high school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation of Minnesota.
Newsweek magazine reported that guards at Guantanamo desecrated the Quran, news that sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan and anti-USA protests in many Islamic countries.
Los Angeles elected a Hispanic mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa.
The Six Flags amusement park in New Jersey debuted the fastest and tallest roller coaster in the world.
Microsoft displayed the error message "This item contains forbidden speech" whenever someone tried to write the word "democracy" on its Chinese blog.
Sales of small notebook computers accounted for 53% of the computer market.
The Planetary Society of Pasadena, California, launched an experimental solar-sail spacecraft from a Russian submarine.
Bernard Ebbers, former Worldcom CEO, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, capping a string of corporate scandals.
Lance Armstrong, a U.S. citizen, won an unbelievable seventh tour de France, an all-time record. (He was later proven to have used performance enhancing drugs and a small battery engine on his bicycle.)
The U.S. approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Dominican Republic.
The price of oil jumped from $35 at the beginning of the year to an all-time record of $67 a barrel.
Television network ABC interviewed the most wanted terrorist in Russia, Shamil Basayev.
Google's market capitalization was $84 billion.
Yahoo, Google, America OnLine (AOL) and MSN (Microsoft's Network) were the four big Internet portals with a combined audience of over one billion people worldwide.
Scientists mapped the genome of the chimpanzee.
The "Katrina" hurricane destroyed New Orleans and other cities of Louisiana and Mississippi, displacing more than 500,000 people.
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The monthly USA trade deficit reached $69 billion of which about 25% was with China, 12% with Canada and 12% with Japan.
Carlton Cuse's "Lost" (2005) and Tim Kring's “Heroes” (2006) pioneered interactive television programs. Interactive television (ITV), is a form of media convergence, adding data services to traditional television technology such as on-demand delivery of content, online shopping, and banking.
Gnutella connected 1.81 million computers. (Gnutella is a large peer-to-peer network. It was the first decentralized peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks that adopted the model.)
The Internet was used by one billion people.
The Kyoto protocol (to reduce the level of greenhouse-gas emissions to avoid climate changes such as global warming) was adopted by 141 countries of the world but not the USA, China, India and Australia.
A gunman killed seven people at a hotel in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
A student killed nine people (and himself) at a high school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation of Minnesota.
Newsweek magazine reported that guards at Guantanamo desecrated the Quran, news that sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan and anti-USA protests in many Islamic countries.
Los Angeles elected a Hispanic mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa.
The Six Flags amusement park in New Jersey debuted the fastest and tallest roller coaster in the world.
Microsoft displayed the error message "This item contains forbidden speech" whenever someone tried to write the word "democracy" on its Chinese blog.
Sales of small notebook computers accounted for 53% of the computer market.
The Planetary Society of Pasadena, California, launched an experimental solar-sail spacecraft from a Russian submarine.
Bernard Ebbers, former Worldcom CEO, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, capping a string of corporate scandals.
Lance Armstrong, a U.S. citizen, won an unbelievable seventh tour de France, an all-time record. (He was later proven to have used performance enhancing drugs and a small battery engine on his bicycle.)
The U.S. approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Dominican Republic.
The price of oil jumped from $35 at the beginning of the year to an all-time record of $67 a barrel.
Television network ABC interviewed the most wanted terrorist in Russia, Shamil Basayev.
Google's market capitalization was $84 billion.
Yahoo, Google, America OnLine (AOL) and MSN (Microsoft's Network) were the four big Internet portals with a combined audience of over one billion people worldwide.
Scientists mapped the genome of the chimpanzee.
The "Katrina" hurricane destroyed New Orleans and other cities of Louisiana and Mississippi, displacing more than 500,000 people.
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Mortal Destiny – The Corps of the Finality
The Corps of Mortal Finaliters is one of seven finaliter corps.
During the present universe age, finaliters are serving in the super universes, never returning to their native superuniverse until they have served in all seven. There are always Mortal finaliters in service on Urantia (Earth).
Finaliters are self-governing, bearing allegiance only to the Paradise Trinity. They are forever secure against sin.
The Architects of the Master Universe oversee all seven corps of finality: Mortal Finaliters, Paradise Finaliters, Trinitized Finaliters, Conjoint Trinitized Finaliters, Havona Finaliters, Transcendental Finaliters, and the Unrevealed Sons of Destiny. [Note: The existence of the Architects of the Master Universe and their associates may be disclosed, but their origin, nature, and destiny may not be fully revealed.]
These seven finaliter corps are destined to serve the future needs of the undeveloped vast new system of universes now organizing in the domains of outer space.
2005 (Continued)
Under pressure from the USA, North Korea committed to give up its nuclear weapons program.
The "Deep Impact" probe landed on a comet, Comet Tempel 1, and confirmed that comets contain organic material.
Members of the Bush administration were indicted for leaking to the press the name of a CIA agent in an attempt to silence a critic of the Iraqi war.
Agriculture accounted for 2% of all jobs, manufacturing for 10% (manufacturing output expanded 4% yearly from 1991 to 2001).
The state of Kansas decided to teach alternatives to Darwin's theory of evolution.
The USA carried out the 1,000th execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Anti-USA sentiment brought to power leftist regimes throughout Latin America.
Hybrid cars represented only 1% of total cars sold.
The Atlanta airport, the busiest in the world, handled 88.4 million passengers with more than half a million flights.
Ebay acquired Skype for $3.1 billion.
Republican representative Tom DeLay of Texas was indicted for corruption (campaign finance violations).
The largest solar plant in the world was inaugurated in the Mojave Desert of California, producing 354MW of electricity, which is more than all the rest of commercial production of solar energy in the world.
The USA and India signed a nuclear agreement. (This landmark agreement was an implicit recognition – for the first time – of India as a nuclear weapons power.)
China's Lenovo acquired IBM's personal computer business.
15,000 people died of opioid overdoses.
Frank Wuterich and other US soldiers killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha.
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The Corps of Mortal Finaliters is one of seven finaliter corps.
During the present universe age, finaliters are serving in the super universes, never returning to their native superuniverse until they have served in all seven. There are always Mortal finaliters in service on Urantia (Earth).
Finaliters are self-governing, bearing allegiance only to the Paradise Trinity. They are forever secure against sin.
The Architects of the Master Universe oversee all seven corps of finality: Mortal Finaliters, Paradise Finaliters, Trinitized Finaliters, Conjoint Trinitized Finaliters, Havona Finaliters, Transcendental Finaliters, and the Unrevealed Sons of Destiny. [Note: The existence of the Architects of the Master Universe and their associates may be disclosed, but their origin, nature, and destiny may not be fully revealed.]
These seven finaliter corps are destined to serve the future needs of the undeveloped vast new system of universes now organizing in the domains of outer space.
2005 (Continued)
Under pressure from the USA, North Korea committed to give up its nuclear weapons program.
The "Deep Impact" probe landed on a comet, Comet Tempel 1, and confirmed that comets contain organic material.
Members of the Bush administration were indicted for leaking to the press the name of a CIA agent in an attempt to silence a critic of the Iraqi war.
Agriculture accounted for 2% of all jobs, manufacturing for 10% (manufacturing output expanded 4% yearly from 1991 to 2001).
The state of Kansas decided to teach alternatives to Darwin's theory of evolution.
The USA carried out the 1,000th execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Anti-USA sentiment brought to power leftist regimes throughout Latin America.
Hybrid cars represented only 1% of total cars sold.
The Atlanta airport, the busiest in the world, handled 88.4 million passengers with more than half a million flights.
Ebay acquired Skype for $3.1 billion.
Republican representative Tom DeLay of Texas was indicted for corruption (campaign finance violations).
The largest solar plant in the world was inaugurated in the Mojave Desert of California, producing 354MW of electricity, which is more than all the rest of commercial production of solar energy in the world.
The USA and India signed a nuclear agreement. (This landmark agreement was an implicit recognition – for the first time – of India as a nuclear weapons power.)
China's Lenovo acquired IBM's personal computer business.
15,000 people died of opioid overdoses.
Frank Wuterich and other US soldiers killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha.
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2006 – Growth of Government Power and Technology
The NSA (National Security Agency) began collecting records on every phone call made in the U.S.
Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion.
Lyndon and Peter Rive founded SolarCity. (SolarCity provided clean photo-voltaic energy services.)
Jack Dorsey created the social networking service Twitter.
Alan Greenspan retired from chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank.
The USA signed free-trade agreements with Morocco, Oman and Bahrain.
A spacecraft ("New Horizons") was launched to study Pluto.
Google agreed to cooperate with the government of mainland China to censor the world-wide web. [Note: Many controversial events are prohibited from news coverage, preventing many Chinese citizens from knowing of their government's actions. Such measures inspired the policy's nickname, "The Great Firewall of China."]
Ford and General Motors posted huge losses and laid off thousands of workers.
George W Bush appointed another Roman Catholic judge to the Supreme Court (Samuel Alito). The majority of the Supreme Court judges were Catholics for the first time in the history of the USA.
Exxon Mobil posted the largest profit of any company in U.S. history.
The USA had 1,210 megachurches (churches with 2,000 or more people) that drew more than four million people a week.
Christian fundamentalist governor Mike Rounds of South Dakota banned abortion.
Five US soldiers gang-raped and killed a 14-year-old Iraqi girl. Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and then murdered her and her entire family in Mahmudiyah, Iraq.
The USA had 300 million people, of which 35 million were foreign-born, and the U.S. became the third most populous country in the world after China and India.
Warren Buffet donated $37 billion to charity, the largest donation ever.
Most immigrants to the USA were Mexicans.
Keith Ellison was the first Muslim to be elected to Congress.
The Dow Jones index briefly traded above its record high close of 11,722.
Enron's CEO Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in prison.
The world-wide web had 100 million websites.
Marijuana was the largest cash crop in the USA ($35 billion).
The USA bombed Islamists in Somalia as Ethiopia helped push them out of Somalia
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The NSA (National Security Agency) began collecting records on every phone call made in the U.S.
Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion.
Lyndon and Peter Rive founded SolarCity. (SolarCity provided clean photo-voltaic energy services.)
Jack Dorsey created the social networking service Twitter.
Alan Greenspan retired from chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank.
The USA signed free-trade agreements with Morocco, Oman and Bahrain.
A spacecraft ("New Horizons") was launched to study Pluto.
Google agreed to cooperate with the government of mainland China to censor the world-wide web. [Note: Many controversial events are prohibited from news coverage, preventing many Chinese citizens from knowing of their government's actions. Such measures inspired the policy's nickname, "The Great Firewall of China."]
Ford and General Motors posted huge losses and laid off thousands of workers.
George W Bush appointed another Roman Catholic judge to the Supreme Court (Samuel Alito). The majority of the Supreme Court judges were Catholics for the first time in the history of the USA.
Exxon Mobil posted the largest profit of any company in U.S. history.
The USA had 1,210 megachurches (churches with 2,000 or more people) that drew more than four million people a week.
Christian fundamentalist governor Mike Rounds of South Dakota banned abortion.
Five US soldiers gang-raped and killed a 14-year-old Iraqi girl. Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and then murdered her and her entire family in Mahmudiyah, Iraq.
The USA had 300 million people, of which 35 million were foreign-born, and the U.S. became the third most populous country in the world after China and India.
Warren Buffet donated $37 billion to charity, the largest donation ever.
Most immigrants to the USA were Mexicans.
Keith Ellison was the first Muslim to be elected to Congress.
The Dow Jones index briefly traded above its record high close of 11,722.
Enron's CEO Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in prison.
The world-wide web had 100 million websites.
Marijuana was the largest cash crop in the USA ($35 billion).
The USA bombed Islamists in Somalia as Ethiopia helped push them out of Somalia
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The Ascending Sons of God
There are seven classes of ascending sons. The non-mortal classes include
evolutionary seraphim, ascending Material Sons (Adams and Eves), translated midwayers (the creatures between man and angels), and Personalized Adjusters.
The mortal classes of ascending sons are Father-fused mortals, Son-fused mortals, and Spirit-fused mortals.
Since Thought Adjusters take origin in the Father, they do not cease striving until the mortal of their indwelling stands face to face with God.
Surviving mortals who fail to attain fusion with their Adjuster in the mansion worlds may become fused with a fragment of the Creator Son or the Divine Minister (companion of the Creator Son). Such beings are rare. They usually live permanently in the superuniverse of their birth. Their wisdom is a vital factor in the settling of a universe.
God loves each of his sons equally, and his love utterly eclipses all other facts. All souls of every possible phase of mortal existence will survive, provided they cooperate with their indwelling Adjusters and desire to find God and to attain divine perfection.
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There are seven classes of ascending sons. The non-mortal classes include
evolutionary seraphim, ascending Material Sons (Adams and Eves), translated midwayers (the creatures between man and angels), and Personalized Adjusters.
The mortal classes of ascending sons are Father-fused mortals, Son-fused mortals, and Spirit-fused mortals.
Since Thought Adjusters take origin in the Father, they do not cease striving until the mortal of their indwelling stands face to face with God.
Surviving mortals who fail to attain fusion with their Adjuster in the mansion worlds may become fused with a fragment of the Creator Son or the Divine Minister (companion of the Creator Son). Such beings are rare. They usually live permanently in the superuniverse of their birth. Their wisdom is a vital factor in the settling of a universe.
God loves each of his sons equally, and his love utterly eclipses all other facts. All souls of every possible phase of mortal existence will survive, provided they cooperate with their indwelling Adjusters and desire to find God and to attain divine perfection.
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2007 – Bitter Partisanship
After the Democratic Party took control of Congress, Republicans started employing the filibuster to stop every Democratic initiative.
The U.S. and Peru signed a free-trade treaty.
138 million USA citizens experimented with illegal drugs.
The USA trade deficit hit a record $764 billion.
The "The Million Book Project" led by Carnegie Mellon University digitized more than one million books worldwide.
South Korean student Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.
China overtook the USA to become the world's second largest exporter. China overtook Canada to become the main exporter to the USA.
Toyota passed General Motors as the world's largest car manufacturer, and Japanese car manufacturers passed U.S. car manufacturers even in the American market.
There were 12.5 million Illegal immigrants in the USA, of which more than half were from Mexico.
Republican senator Larry Craig of Idaho resigned following his arrest for soliciting gay sex.
USA government agencies declared that Al Qaeda had regrouped in Pakistan and that the terrorist threat against the U.S. has increased.
After crashing due to the crisis of sub-prime mortgage lenders, the U.S. stock market set a new record high.
Texas carried out its 400th death penalty.
The U.S. dollar devalued to 1:2 to the British pound and to an all-time low of 1.50 to the euro. It was worth less than a Canadian dollar for the first time in three decades.
A fund of the United Arab Emirates bought a 4.9% stake in Citigroup Bank for $7.5 billion, making it the single largest shareholder, ahead of Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia.
A U.S. strike killed more than 80 civilians in Chora, Afghanistan.
U.S. mercenaries hired by the company Blackwater and including Nicholas Slatten opened fire on a crowd in Baghdad and killed 14 people.
Home prices fell 5.1%, the sharpest drop in 20 years.
At the end of the economic expansion of the 2000s the median income of USA families declined from $61,000 to $60,500.
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal became the first Indian-American governor in the history of the USA (Louisiana).
The number of Afghan civilian deaths caused by U.S. bombings tripled.
Serial killer Anthony Sowell murdered 11 women and kept their corpses in his house.
Blackwater security guards fired on a crowd in Baghdad, killing 17 people.
The Dow Jones hit a record high of 14,164 in October.
The USA economy entered a recession in December.
1.4 million violent crimes were committed in the USA, including 17,000 murders and 9.8 million property crimes, while 1.35 million high-school students reported being either threatened or injured with a weapon.
The highest number of births in the history of the USA (4.3 million).
The ratio of debt to personal disposable income was 133%.
The world's largest vendors of personal computers were HP, Dell, Taiwan's Acer, China's Lenovo and Japan's Toshiba.
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After the Democratic Party took control of Congress, Republicans started employing the filibuster to stop every Democratic initiative.
The U.S. and Peru signed a free-trade treaty.
138 million USA citizens experimented with illegal drugs.
The USA trade deficit hit a record $764 billion.
The "The Million Book Project" led by Carnegie Mellon University digitized more than one million books worldwide.
South Korean student Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.
China overtook the USA to become the world's second largest exporter. China overtook Canada to become the main exporter to the USA.
Toyota passed General Motors as the world's largest car manufacturer, and Japanese car manufacturers passed U.S. car manufacturers even in the American market.
There were 12.5 million Illegal immigrants in the USA, of which more than half were from Mexico.
Republican senator Larry Craig of Idaho resigned following his arrest for soliciting gay sex.
USA government agencies declared that Al Qaeda had regrouped in Pakistan and that the terrorist threat against the U.S. has increased.
After crashing due to the crisis of sub-prime mortgage lenders, the U.S. stock market set a new record high.
Texas carried out its 400th death penalty.
The U.S. dollar devalued to 1:2 to the British pound and to an all-time low of 1.50 to the euro. It was worth less than a Canadian dollar for the first time in three decades.
A fund of the United Arab Emirates bought a 4.9% stake in Citigroup Bank for $7.5 billion, making it the single largest shareholder, ahead of Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia.
A U.S. strike killed more than 80 civilians in Chora, Afghanistan.
U.S. mercenaries hired by the company Blackwater and including Nicholas Slatten opened fire on a crowd in Baghdad and killed 14 people.
Home prices fell 5.1%, the sharpest drop in 20 years.
At the end of the economic expansion of the 2000s the median income of USA families declined from $61,000 to $60,500.
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal became the first Indian-American governor in the history of the USA (Louisiana).
The number of Afghan civilian deaths caused by U.S. bombings tripled.
Serial killer Anthony Sowell murdered 11 women and kept their corpses in his house.
Blackwater security guards fired on a crowd in Baghdad, killing 17 people.
The Dow Jones hit a record high of 14,164 in October.
The USA economy entered a recession in December.
1.4 million violent crimes were committed in the USA, including 17,000 murders and 9.8 million property crimes, while 1.35 million high-school students reported being either threatened or injured with a weapon.
The highest number of births in the history of the USA (4.3 million).
The ratio of debt to personal disposable income was 133%.
The world's largest vendors of personal computers were HP, Dell, Taiwan's Acer, China's Lenovo and Japan's Toshiba.
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The Great Recession Period - December 2007 to June 2009
Bank defaults caused a subprime mortgage crisis. Banks fraudulently sold too many bad mortgage derivatives to keep the supply of derivatives flowing. Millions of homeowners had adjustable-rate mortgages. The home buyers took introductory low interest rates, knowing the interest rate would reset after a few years. Most planned to sell their homes before the interest rate reset. When home prices fell in 2006, owners couldn't sell, and they couldn't afford the higher monthly payments. As a result, their homes were foreclosed.
The stock market collapsed, triggering similar collapses around the world.
[Note: A derivative is a contract between two or more parties whose value is based on an agreed-upon underlying financial asset (like bundled home loans).]
2008 – Year of National Election Drama and Economic Crisis
Satirist Stephen Colbert officially announced that he would run for President of the United States. This fake news began the parody/reality age of politics. Colbert used the term “truthiness” to describe lies, spin, and political rhetoric.
In 1978, the Supreme Court had ruled that corporations were people having a First Amendment right to spend unlimited money on state ballot initiatives.
Using his motto, “Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow,” Colbert filed for a United States political action committee (PAC) status to fund his run for president on both the Democrat and Republican tickets. As a super PAC, Colbert’s organization could raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions and other groups, as well as wealthy individuals, and listeners of his Comedy Central TV show. Speaking in character, Colbert said the money would be raised not only for political ads, but also "normal administrative expenses, including but not limited to, luxury hotel stays, private jet travel, and PAC mementos from Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus."
The average price for gasoline passed $4 per gallon.
Shirwa Ahmed, a Somali-American, blew himself up in Somalia killing 20 other people.
Rickey Johnson was released from a Louisiana prison after serving 25 years for a crime he did not commit.
Al Jazeera's cameraman Sami al-Hajj was released from Guantanamo.
San Francisco issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Warren Buffett was the richest man in the world.
The Encyclopedia of Life went on line (Eol.org).
More than 1% of adult USA citizens were in prison.
The price of gold hit $1,000 for the first time ever; the dollar set another all-time low against the euro (1.56) and dipped below 100 yen (a drop of 6.5% in less than three months); home prices plunged 9.1%; and the Eurozone overtook the USA as the world's largest economy.
Five years after the invasion, the USA had lost 4,000 soldiers in Iraq.
The police raided a polygamist compound with hundreds of children in Eldorado, Texas run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons).
USA's home prices dropped by 15.8%, the steepest decline in 21 years.
Oil prices passed $140 a barrel.
A U.S. air strike killed 11 Pakistani soldiers and 8 Taliban fighters.
President George W Bush's job approval rating fell to 23%, one of the lowest ever recorded for a president.
More USA soldiers died in the war in Afghanistan than in the war in Iraq.
George W Bush's associate Karl Rove refused to testify before a commission investigating whether the Justice Department prosecuted people for political reasons. He was accused of having engineered the dismissal of prosecutors on political grounds.
U.S. inflation hit a 26-year high.
Republican senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was indicted for corruption.
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Bank defaults caused a subprime mortgage crisis. Banks fraudulently sold too many bad mortgage derivatives to keep the supply of derivatives flowing. Millions of homeowners had adjustable-rate mortgages. The home buyers took introductory low interest rates, knowing the interest rate would reset after a few years. Most planned to sell their homes before the interest rate reset. When home prices fell in 2006, owners couldn't sell, and they couldn't afford the higher monthly payments. As a result, their homes were foreclosed.
The stock market collapsed, triggering similar collapses around the world.
[Note: A derivative is a contract between two or more parties whose value is based on an agreed-upon underlying financial asset (like bundled home loans).]
2008 – Year of National Election Drama and Economic Crisis
Satirist Stephen Colbert officially announced that he would run for President of the United States. This fake news began the parody/reality age of politics. Colbert used the term “truthiness” to describe lies, spin, and political rhetoric.
In 1978, the Supreme Court had ruled that corporations were people having a First Amendment right to spend unlimited money on state ballot initiatives.
Using his motto, “Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow,” Colbert filed for a United States political action committee (PAC) status to fund his run for president on both the Democrat and Republican tickets. As a super PAC, Colbert’s organization could raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions and other groups, as well as wealthy individuals, and listeners of his Comedy Central TV show. Speaking in character, Colbert said the money would be raised not only for political ads, but also "normal administrative expenses, including but not limited to, luxury hotel stays, private jet travel, and PAC mementos from Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus."
The average price for gasoline passed $4 per gallon.
Shirwa Ahmed, a Somali-American, blew himself up in Somalia killing 20 other people.
Rickey Johnson was released from a Louisiana prison after serving 25 years for a crime he did not commit.
Al Jazeera's cameraman Sami al-Hajj was released from Guantanamo.
San Francisco issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Warren Buffett was the richest man in the world.
The Encyclopedia of Life went on line (Eol.org).
More than 1% of adult USA citizens were in prison.
The price of gold hit $1,000 for the first time ever; the dollar set another all-time low against the euro (1.56) and dipped below 100 yen (a drop of 6.5% in less than three months); home prices plunged 9.1%; and the Eurozone overtook the USA as the world's largest economy.
Five years after the invasion, the USA had lost 4,000 soldiers in Iraq.
The police raided a polygamist compound with hundreds of children in Eldorado, Texas run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons).
USA's home prices dropped by 15.8%, the steepest decline in 21 years.
Oil prices passed $140 a barrel.
A U.S. air strike killed 11 Pakistani soldiers and 8 Taliban fighters.
President George W Bush's job approval rating fell to 23%, one of the lowest ever recorded for a president.
More USA soldiers died in the war in Afghanistan than in the war in Iraq.
George W Bush's associate Karl Rove refused to testify before a commission investigating whether the Justice Department prosecuted people for political reasons. He was accused of having engineered the dismissal of prosecutors on political grounds.
U.S. inflation hit a 26-year high.
Republican senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was indicted for corruption.
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The Paradise Sons of God
Descending Sons of God who take origin in the Paradise Trinity are known as Paradise Sons of God. Paradise Sons are creators, servers, bestowers, judges, teachers, and truth revealers. They embrace three orders. In the local universes, Creator Sons reveal the Father, Magisterial Sons reveal the Eternal Son, and Trinity Teacher Sons reveal the Infinite Spirit.
The Creator Sons, also known as the Michael Sons, are of dual origin. Springing from God the Father and God the Son, they embody characteristics of both. They are the designers, creators, and administrators of the local universes of time and space. Each unique Michael Son is accompanied in his local creation by a Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit. A Creator Son pledges to uphold, protect, defend, and, if necessary, retrieve his local universe from rebellion. There is no experience of the children of time and space in which some Michael has not personally participated.
A Michael Son cannot assume supreme sovereignty in his local universe until he completes seven bestowal missions. When Jesus of Nazareth, the Creator Son of our local universe, “died” on the cross two thousand years ago, the words from his lips, "It is finished," applied not only to his human life but also to his seven fold bestowal career.
Once his seventh bestowal is completed a Creator Son is considered a Master Michael. Master Sons enjoy a perfect connection with the Eternal Son and, through the Spirit of Truth, with every bestowed world in their realm. Accordingly, Master Sons serve as a link between the lowest creatures (mortals) and highest intelligent creatures in the universes.
Magisterial Sons, also known as Avonals, are planetary ministers and judges. There are nearly one billion unique Magisterial Sons. When Magisterial Sons perform judicial actions they usually arrive as a spiritual being rather than through incarnation.
During bestowal missions, the Paradise Son Creator Son is always born of a mortal woman. The Spirit of Truth comes to an evolutionary planet only after a successful bestowal, and Thought Adjusters cannot come en masse to a planet until the Spirit of Truth has been poured out.
Trinity Teacher Sons, the Daynals, are constantly increasing in number. They are the moral and spiritual educators of the universes, and their ministry is interrelated with that of the personalities of the Infinite Spirit. Teacher Sons are the embodiment of service and wisdom. They begin their work in the local constellation systems and advance inward through their home constellation teaching mortals and angels.
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Descending Sons of God who take origin in the Paradise Trinity are known as Paradise Sons of God. Paradise Sons are creators, servers, bestowers, judges, teachers, and truth revealers. They embrace three orders. In the local universes, Creator Sons reveal the Father, Magisterial Sons reveal the Eternal Son, and Trinity Teacher Sons reveal the Infinite Spirit.
The Creator Sons, also known as the Michael Sons, are of dual origin. Springing from God the Father and God the Son, they embody characteristics of both. They are the designers, creators, and administrators of the local universes of time and space. Each unique Michael Son is accompanied in his local creation by a Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit. A Creator Son pledges to uphold, protect, defend, and, if necessary, retrieve his local universe from rebellion. There is no experience of the children of time and space in which some Michael has not personally participated.
A Michael Son cannot assume supreme sovereignty in his local universe until he completes seven bestowal missions. When Jesus of Nazareth, the Creator Son of our local universe, “died” on the cross two thousand years ago, the words from his lips, "It is finished," applied not only to his human life but also to his seven fold bestowal career.
Once his seventh bestowal is completed a Creator Son is considered a Master Michael. Master Sons enjoy a perfect connection with the Eternal Son and, through the Spirit of Truth, with every bestowed world in their realm. Accordingly, Master Sons serve as a link between the lowest creatures (mortals) and highest intelligent creatures in the universes.
Magisterial Sons, also known as Avonals, are planetary ministers and judges. There are nearly one billion unique Magisterial Sons. When Magisterial Sons perform judicial actions they usually arrive as a spiritual being rather than through incarnation.
During bestowal missions, the Paradise Son Creator Son is always born of a mortal woman. The Spirit of Truth comes to an evolutionary planet only after a successful bestowal, and Thought Adjusters cannot come en masse to a planet until the Spirit of Truth has been poured out.
Trinity Teacher Sons, the Daynals, are constantly increasing in number. They are the moral and spiritual educators of the universes, and their ministry is interrelated with that of the personalities of the Infinite Spirit. Teacher Sons are the embodiment of service and wisdom. They begin their work in the local constellation systems and advance inward through their home constellation teaching mortals and angels.
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2008 (Continued) - Worst Economic Disaster Since the Great Depression
A U.S. airstrike in Azizabad (western Afghanistan) killed 92 civilians including 60 children.
The U.S. and Libya restored diplomatic relationships that were broken off after Reagan bombed Libya.
Following Russia's invasion of Georgia, the USA and Poland signed a treaty for a missile defense system to protect Poland.
NATO killed 3,200 civilians in Afghanistan from 2005 to mid 2008.
Condy Rice became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Libya since 1953.
The USA took over the two largest mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the largest insurance company, American International Group after their bankruptcies.
CIA drone strikes targeted Taliban inside neutral Pakistan.
Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America. The two remaining investment banks (a bank that purchases large holdings of newly issued shares and resells them to investors), Stanley and Goldman Sachs, became traditional banks, and the government bought $700 billion of bad mortgages in the largest financial bailout (taxpayer money) since the Great Depression. On September 29 the Dow Jones lost 778 points, the biggest single-day point loss ever.
A bombing of the U.S. embassy in Yemen killed 16 people.
In October, the Dow Jones lost 22% in a week of continuous losses, including the biggest single-day decline since 1987.
Unemployment reached 6.5%, the highest rate since March 1994.
Blowing himself up in Somalia, Shirwa Ahmed was the first USA citizen to become a suicide bomber.
Barack Obama, a black man, was elected president of the USA.
In December, the price of oil plunged to $34 per barrel reflecting the world recession.
The median home price fell 13.2% from a year before, down to $181,300, the largest drop since the Great Depression.
The USA lost two million jobs, and the unemployment rate climbed to 6.7%.
2.6 million U.S. workers lost jobs in 2008 more than in any year since World War II.
The USA lost $3.6 trillion in the financial crisis.
The GDP of the USA fell 6.2% in the last quarter of 2008, the worst decline since 1982, with exports falling 23.6%.
Microsoft Windows owned almost 90% of the operating system market for personal computers; Google owned almost 70% of the Internet search market.
More than 10,000 people died of heroin overdoses in the NATO countries in just one year, a number higher than all casualties from all NATO wars since 2001.
1.6 million people were in federal prisons, an all-time high.
41% of children were born to single mothers, about 25% to Hispanic mothers. Births to women over 40 accounted for 3% (triple the rate of the 1980s)
Almost one in three Medicare recipients under went surgery in their last year of life, as hospitals maximized their profits.
Between 1985 and 2008 the federal taxes paid by the wealthiest 400 citizens dropped from 29% to 18% of their income.
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A U.S. airstrike in Azizabad (western Afghanistan) killed 92 civilians including 60 children.
The U.S. and Libya restored diplomatic relationships that were broken off after Reagan bombed Libya.
Following Russia's invasion of Georgia, the USA and Poland signed a treaty for a missile defense system to protect Poland.
NATO killed 3,200 civilians in Afghanistan from 2005 to mid 2008.
Condy Rice became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Libya since 1953.
The USA took over the two largest mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the largest insurance company, American International Group after their bankruptcies.
CIA drone strikes targeted Taliban inside neutral Pakistan.
Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America. The two remaining investment banks (a bank that purchases large holdings of newly issued shares and resells them to investors), Stanley and Goldman Sachs, became traditional banks, and the government bought $700 billion of bad mortgages in the largest financial bailout (taxpayer money) since the Great Depression. On September 29 the Dow Jones lost 778 points, the biggest single-day point loss ever.
A bombing of the U.S. embassy in Yemen killed 16 people.
In October, the Dow Jones lost 22% in a week of continuous losses, including the biggest single-day decline since 1987.
Unemployment reached 6.5%, the highest rate since March 1994.
Blowing himself up in Somalia, Shirwa Ahmed was the first USA citizen to become a suicide bomber.
Barack Obama, a black man, was elected president of the USA.
In December, the price of oil plunged to $34 per barrel reflecting the world recession.
The median home price fell 13.2% from a year before, down to $181,300, the largest drop since the Great Depression.
The USA lost two million jobs, and the unemployment rate climbed to 6.7%.
2.6 million U.S. workers lost jobs in 2008 more than in any year since World War II.
The USA lost $3.6 trillion in the financial crisis.
The GDP of the USA fell 6.2% in the last quarter of 2008, the worst decline since 1982, with exports falling 23.6%.
Microsoft Windows owned almost 90% of the operating system market for personal computers; Google owned almost 70% of the Internet search market.
More than 10,000 people died of heroin overdoses in the NATO countries in just one year, a number higher than all casualties from all NATO wars since 2001.
1.6 million people were in federal prisons, an all-time high.
41% of children were born to single mothers, about 25% to Hispanic mothers. Births to women over 40 accounted for 3% (triple the rate of the 1980s)
Almost one in three Medicare recipients under went surgery in their last year of life, as hospitals maximized their profits.
Between 1985 and 2008 the federal taxes paid by the wealthiest 400 citizens dropped from 29% to 18% of their income.
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Mortal Resurrection Into The Seven Mansion Worlds
The center of all activities on the first mansion world is the resurrection hall, the temple of personality reassembly. Thought Adjusters hold human mind transcripts and memory patterns; mortal identity potentials are kept by the seraphic guardians of destiny. These two mortal components reassemble when sleeping survivors are restored to complete personality in the resurrection halls. Mortals resume their intellectual and spiritual training precisely at the point where they were when interrupted by death.
A new morontia body is acquired on each mansion world. Adjuster memory remains fully intact from one world to another. Everything in human mental life that has survival value is retained as part of personal memory throughout the ascendant career. Survivors become less material and more intellectual from one world to the next, but will continue to eat, drink, and rest.
Mansion world number one pertains to deficiency ministry-correction of the legacies of life in the flesh. Mansion world number two is devoted to the removal of intellectual conflict and disharmony. More positive educational work begins on world number three, where ascenders gain practical insight into metaphysics, cosmic meanings, and universe interrelationships.
On world number four, mortals learn about the social life of morontia creatures, which is based on mutual appreciation, mutual service, and awareness of the common destiny of divine perfection. Ascenders begin to become God-knowing, God-revealing, God-seeking, and God-finding.
The culture of the fifth mansion world corresponds to the early era of light and life on normal planets. Ascenders, having mastered the local universe language, now devote time to the perfection of the language of Uversa. They also begin to learn about the constellation study worlds. A real birth of cosmic consciousness takes place on world number five; ascenders become universe conscious. Study becomes voluntary and worship becomes spontaneous.
Time on mansion world number six is a brilliant age for ascending mortals. Fusion with the Thought Adjuster normally occurs on this planet.
The last remnants of "the mark of the beast" are eradicated on mansion world number seven. Here one engages in greater spiritual worship of the unseen Father. Classes begin to form for graduation to Jerusem, where groups of ascending mortals are welcomed onto system headquarters as citizens.
Mortal death is merely a technique of escape from life in the flesh. The mansion world experience is the transition between material existence on Earth and the higher spiritual attainment of eternity.
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The center of all activities on the first mansion world is the resurrection hall, the temple of personality reassembly. Thought Adjusters hold human mind transcripts and memory patterns; mortal identity potentials are kept by the seraphic guardians of destiny. These two mortal components reassemble when sleeping survivors are restored to complete personality in the resurrection halls. Mortals resume their intellectual and spiritual training precisely at the point where they were when interrupted by death.
A new morontia body is acquired on each mansion world. Adjuster memory remains fully intact from one world to another. Everything in human mental life that has survival value is retained as part of personal memory throughout the ascendant career. Survivors become less material and more intellectual from one world to the next, but will continue to eat, drink, and rest.
Mansion world number one pertains to deficiency ministry-correction of the legacies of life in the flesh. Mansion world number two is devoted to the removal of intellectual conflict and disharmony. More positive educational work begins on world number three, where ascenders gain practical insight into metaphysics, cosmic meanings, and universe interrelationships.
On world number four, mortals learn about the social life of morontia creatures, which is based on mutual appreciation, mutual service, and awareness of the common destiny of divine perfection. Ascenders begin to become God-knowing, God-revealing, God-seeking, and God-finding.
The culture of the fifth mansion world corresponds to the early era of light and life on normal planets. Ascenders, having mastered the local universe language, now devote time to the perfection of the language of Uversa. They also begin to learn about the constellation study worlds. A real birth of cosmic consciousness takes place on world number five; ascenders become universe conscious. Study becomes voluntary and worship becomes spontaneous.
Time on mansion world number six is a brilliant age for ascending mortals. Fusion with the Thought Adjuster normally occurs on this planet.
The last remnants of "the mark of the beast" are eradicated on mansion world number seven. Here one engages in greater spiritual worship of the unseen Father. Classes begin to form for graduation to Jerusem, where groups of ascending mortals are welcomed onto system headquarters as citizens.
Mortal death is merely a technique of escape from life in the flesh. The mansion world experience is the transition between material existence on Earth and the higher spiritual attainment of eternity.
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2009 – Good News, Bad News
On January 15th, Captain Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger saved the lives of all 155 passengers and crew aboard the U.S. Airways Airbus A320 he was piloting. After birds hit the engines of Flight 1549 less than two minutes after takeoff and the plane lost power, the former Air Force pilot coolly told passengers to "brace for impact" and landed the aircraft in the Hudson River. Sullenberger didn't leave the plane until he had completed two sweeps of the cabin to make sure all passengers were safely out.
The USA lost 741,000 jobs in January alone, the most since 1949.
Fiat bought Chrysler.
Facebook had 140 million users and grew by about 500,000 users a day, the fastest product ever to reach that many users in five years.
An unmarried woman, Nadya Suleman, gave birth to octuplets through in-vitro procedures.
Car sales declined more than 40% from 2008.
The price of oil was $40/barrel.
Ten people were killed by an armed man in Alabama.
Bill O'Reilly's show was the number one news show on TV for the 100th consecutive month (“no spin news”).
A gunman killed eight people in a nursing home in Carthage (North Carolina).
A gunman killed 13 people in upstate New York.
A USA air strike on Granai (in the western district of Bala Baluk, Afghanistan, killed 147 Afghan civilians.
Unemployment hit 9.2%, the highest rate in 25 years.
The USA budget deficit topped $1 trillion.
Sonia Sotomayor became the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court.
Yielding to Russian pressure, the USA canceled a missile defense system in Eastern Europe.
The unemployment rate reached 10.1%, a 26-year high.
China passed Germany as the world's top exporter, and China passed Canada as the USA's top exporter.
LimeWire, the largest free file-sharing system, had over 70 million unique monthly users.
There were more than 100,000 NATO troops (including about 68,000 USA soldiers) in Afghanistan alongside 200,000 Afghan soldiers fighting fewer than 25,000 Taliban.
Luquman Ameen Abdullah, who was trying to establish an Islamic state in Michigan, was killed by the FBI.
The "Great Recession" ended. The recession begun in 2007 was the longest U.S. recession since World War II (18 months).
The US dollar hit a 14-year low against the Japanese yen (down to 86.5 yen).
A Muslim in the USA army, Major Nidal Hasan, killed 13 people at the Fort Hood base in Texas.
The Internet was used by more than two billion people.
The USA accounted for 26.7% of world GDP.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian Muslim trained by Al Qaeda in Yemen, attempted to bomb a USA airplane.
A U.S. court set free the Blackwater security guards who shot on a crowd in Baghdad in 2007, killing 17 people.
Jordanian suicide bomber and Al Qaeda secret agent Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan.
Facebook had 350 million users and grew by about one million users a day; Wikipedia had 350 million users per month and 14 million articles.
A U.S. drone strike killed 14 women and 21 children in Yemen, not valid military targets.
Between 2005 and 2009 the median wealth of white households fell by 16%, Hispanics fell by 66%, Asians by 54% and blacks by 53%.
10.8 million motor vehicle accidents resulted in 36,000 deaths.
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On January 15th, Captain Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger saved the lives of all 155 passengers and crew aboard the U.S. Airways Airbus A320 he was piloting. After birds hit the engines of Flight 1549 less than two minutes after takeoff and the plane lost power, the former Air Force pilot coolly told passengers to "brace for impact" and landed the aircraft in the Hudson River. Sullenberger didn't leave the plane until he had completed two sweeps of the cabin to make sure all passengers were safely out.
The USA lost 741,000 jobs in January alone, the most since 1949.
Fiat bought Chrysler.
Facebook had 140 million users and grew by about 500,000 users a day, the fastest product ever to reach that many users in five years.
An unmarried woman, Nadya Suleman, gave birth to octuplets through in-vitro procedures.
Car sales declined more than 40% from 2008.
The price of oil was $40/barrel.
Ten people were killed by an armed man in Alabama.
Bill O'Reilly's show was the number one news show on TV for the 100th consecutive month (“no spin news”).
A gunman killed eight people in a nursing home in Carthage (North Carolina).
A gunman killed 13 people in upstate New York.
A USA air strike on Granai (in the western district of Bala Baluk, Afghanistan, killed 147 Afghan civilians.
Unemployment hit 9.2%, the highest rate in 25 years.
The USA budget deficit topped $1 trillion.
Sonia Sotomayor became the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court.
Yielding to Russian pressure, the USA canceled a missile defense system in Eastern Europe.
The unemployment rate reached 10.1%, a 26-year high.
China passed Germany as the world's top exporter, and China passed Canada as the USA's top exporter.
LimeWire, the largest free file-sharing system, had over 70 million unique monthly users.
There were more than 100,000 NATO troops (including about 68,000 USA soldiers) in Afghanistan alongside 200,000 Afghan soldiers fighting fewer than 25,000 Taliban.
Luquman Ameen Abdullah, who was trying to establish an Islamic state in Michigan, was killed by the FBI.
The "Great Recession" ended. The recession begun in 2007 was the longest U.S. recession since World War II (18 months).
The US dollar hit a 14-year low against the Japanese yen (down to 86.5 yen).
A Muslim in the USA army, Major Nidal Hasan, killed 13 people at the Fort Hood base in Texas.
The Internet was used by more than two billion people.
The USA accounted for 26.7% of world GDP.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian Muslim trained by Al Qaeda in Yemen, attempted to bomb a USA airplane.
A U.S. court set free the Blackwater security guards who shot on a crowd in Baghdad in 2007, killing 17 people.
Jordanian suicide bomber and Al Qaeda secret agent Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan.
Facebook had 350 million users and grew by about one million users a day; Wikipedia had 350 million users per month and 14 million articles.
A U.S. drone strike killed 14 women and 21 children in Yemen, not valid military targets.
Between 2005 and 2009 the median wealth of white households fell by 16%, Hispanics fell by 66%, Asians by 54% and blacks by 53%.
10.8 million motor vehicle accidents resulted in 36,000 deaths.
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The Seven Psychic Circles 7th Through 1st are Preschooling for the Mansion Worlds One Through Seven
When a Creator Son is ready to create life in a local universe, a new local universe Mother Spirit is personalized. The Mother Spirit, also known as the Divine Minister or the Creative Spirit, possesses all the physical control attributes of the Infinite Spirit including anti gravity and mind gravity. There is a basic uniformity of spiritual character in all Universe Mother Spirits; there is also diversity caused by the influence of one of the seven Master Spirits of the super universes.
The Creative Spirit and the Creator Son produce, uphold, and conserve every creature in their realms. In personal prerogatives, the Creative Spirit is independent of space but not of time; she is equally present throughout her entire local universe. The Creator Son is usually independent of time, but not always of space. Michael/Jesus cannot be in two places at once. When working together, the Creative Spirit and the Creator Son are essentially independent of both time and space.
Three distinct spirit circuits function in Nebadon (Earth’s local universe): the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit, and the intelligence ministry circuit of the adjutant mind-spirits. The Spirit of Truth is the spiritual force that draws all truth seekers towards Michael. It derives from the Creator Son, but functions from within the Divine Minister. The Holy Spirit of the Mother Spirit is active only in her personal presence. By maintaining residence on Salvington, the Creative Mother Spirit serves as the universe focus of both the Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit work as one, hovering over the worlds, seeking to enlighten the minds of the ascending creatures. The Spirit of Truth is limited by man's personal reception of the mission of the bestowal Son. The Holy Spirit is partially independent of human attitude, but is most effective in those mortals who most fully obey divine leadings. As individuals mortals do not personally possess a portion of these spirits, but the indwelling Thought Adjusters work is in perfect harmony with the combined spirits of the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit. As mortals progress in spirit perception, the multiple spirit ministries become more and more coordinated.
Adjutant mind-spirits endow human and subhuman orders of life. The seven adjutant mind-spirits – the spirits of 1. intuition, 2. understanding, 3. courage, 4. knowledge, 5. counsel, 6. worship, and 7. wisdom – are created by the Divine Minister. The Creator Son and the Mother Spirit work on the evolutionary worlds first with lifeless material, then vegetable life, then animal organisms, then early humans, then will creatures. The seven adjutants, by leading the races of mankind toward higher ideals, are largely responsible for this progression. The adjutant mind-spirits are the ladder through the seven psychic circles. Mortal man first experiences the ministry of the Holy Spirit when he develops receptivity for the adjutants of worship and wisdom.
A conspiracy of spiritual forces increasingly subjects mortals to the leadings of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth. When such guidance is freely accepted, the human mind gradually develops consciousness of divine contact and assurance of spirit communion. This consciousness of spirit domination attends an increasing exhibition of the fruits of the spirit: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.
On normal worlds, mortals do not experience conflicts between the spirit and the flesh as acutely as Urantians (the people of Earth) do, but even on the most ideal planets, people must put forth positive effort to ascend. On Urantia, the Caligastia (Lucifer’s Lieutenant) betrayal robbed subsequent generations of the moral assistance of a well ordered society. The Adamic default deprived the races of a physical nature that would have been more responsive to spiritual aspirations. In spite of these handicaps, mortals who enter the spirit kingdom enjoy comparative deliverance from bondage in the flesh. Mortals with faith work on levels far above the conflicts produced by unrestrained or unnatural physical desires.
The love of God is shed abroad in all hearts by the presence of the divine Spirit, and in every dark hour, at every crossroad in the forward struggle, the Spirit of Truth will always speak, saying, "This way."……………………………….
When a Creator Son is ready to create life in a local universe, a new local universe Mother Spirit is personalized. The Mother Spirit, also known as the Divine Minister or the Creative Spirit, possesses all the physical control attributes of the Infinite Spirit including anti gravity and mind gravity. There is a basic uniformity of spiritual character in all Universe Mother Spirits; there is also diversity caused by the influence of one of the seven Master Spirits of the super universes.
The Creative Spirit and the Creator Son produce, uphold, and conserve every creature in their realms. In personal prerogatives, the Creative Spirit is independent of space but not of time; she is equally present throughout her entire local universe. The Creator Son is usually independent of time, but not always of space. Michael/Jesus cannot be in two places at once. When working together, the Creative Spirit and the Creator Son are essentially independent of both time and space.
Three distinct spirit circuits function in Nebadon (Earth’s local universe): the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit, and the intelligence ministry circuit of the adjutant mind-spirits. The Spirit of Truth is the spiritual force that draws all truth seekers towards Michael. It derives from the Creator Son, but functions from within the Divine Minister. The Holy Spirit of the Mother Spirit is active only in her personal presence. By maintaining residence on Salvington, the Creative Mother Spirit serves as the universe focus of both the Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit work as one, hovering over the worlds, seeking to enlighten the minds of the ascending creatures. The Spirit of Truth is limited by man's personal reception of the mission of the bestowal Son. The Holy Spirit is partially independent of human attitude, but is most effective in those mortals who most fully obey divine leadings. As individuals mortals do not personally possess a portion of these spirits, but the indwelling Thought Adjusters work is in perfect harmony with the combined spirits of the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit. As mortals progress in spirit perception, the multiple spirit ministries become more and more coordinated.
Adjutant mind-spirits endow human and subhuman orders of life. The seven adjutant mind-spirits – the spirits of 1. intuition, 2. understanding, 3. courage, 4. knowledge, 5. counsel, 6. worship, and 7. wisdom – are created by the Divine Minister. The Creator Son and the Mother Spirit work on the evolutionary worlds first with lifeless material, then vegetable life, then animal organisms, then early humans, then will creatures. The seven adjutants, by leading the races of mankind toward higher ideals, are largely responsible for this progression. The adjutant mind-spirits are the ladder through the seven psychic circles. Mortal man first experiences the ministry of the Holy Spirit when he develops receptivity for the adjutants of worship and wisdom.
A conspiracy of spiritual forces increasingly subjects mortals to the leadings of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth. When such guidance is freely accepted, the human mind gradually develops consciousness of divine contact and assurance of spirit communion. This consciousness of spirit domination attends an increasing exhibition of the fruits of the spirit: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.
On normal worlds, mortals do not experience conflicts between the spirit and the flesh as acutely as Urantians (the people of Earth) do, but even on the most ideal planets, people must put forth positive effort to ascend. On Urantia, the Caligastia (Lucifer’s Lieutenant) betrayal robbed subsequent generations of the moral assistance of a well ordered society. The Adamic default deprived the races of a physical nature that would have been more responsive to spiritual aspirations. In spite of these handicaps, mortals who enter the spirit kingdom enjoy comparative deliverance from bondage in the flesh. Mortals with faith work on levels far above the conflicts produced by unrestrained or unnatural physical desires.
The love of God is shed abroad in all hearts by the presence of the divine Spirit, and in every dark hour, at every crossroad in the forward struggle, the Spirit of Truth will always speak, saying, "This way."……………………………….
The 2010’s Decade
The current decade is generally considered the worst in 50 Years.
The 2010s began amid a global financial crisis and a subsequent international recession dating from the late 2000s. The resulting debt of European nations debt crisis became more pronounced early in the decade and continued to affect a global economic recovery. Austerity policies particularly affected Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain. Other economic issues, such as inflation and an increase in commodity prices, led to unrest in many lower-income countries. Unrest in some countries – particularly in the Arab world – evolved into socioeconomic crises triggering revolutions in a widespread phenomenon referred to as the Arab Spring,
The United States continued to retain its global superpower status while China sought to expand its influence. Global competition between China and the U.S. coalesced into a "containment" effort and a trade war. (Containment is a United States foreign policy doctrine adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence.)
Smartphones, tablets, and other IoT (Internet of Things) devices surged in popularity during the 2010s, allowing easy access to the internet and mass media via mobile apps, social networking, and video telephony. The growing sophistication and prevalence of IoT devices also drew concerns and spawned new debates over privacy, censorship, and over-dependence.
The Internet of things saw substantial growth during the 2010s due to advancements in wireless networking devices, mobile telephony, and cloud computing.
Shifting social attitudes saw LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning) rights and female representation make substantial progress during the decade, particularly in the West and parts of Asia and Africa. Combating pollution and climate change continued to be major global environmental concerns. Major natural disasters included the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Nepal earthquake of 2015, the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, and the devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Yolanda and Sandy. Other major international events and phenomena of this decade include the European migrant crisis, and the Russian annexation of Crimea.
Around 2016, much of the Western world began to experience a resistance to globalization, especially against immigration policy and free-trade agreements.
The 2010s have seen an epidemic of addiction to illegal drugs.
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The current decade is generally considered the worst in 50 Years.
The 2010s began amid a global financial crisis and a subsequent international recession dating from the late 2000s. The resulting debt of European nations debt crisis became more pronounced early in the decade and continued to affect a global economic recovery. Austerity policies particularly affected Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain. Other economic issues, such as inflation and an increase in commodity prices, led to unrest in many lower-income countries. Unrest in some countries – particularly in the Arab world – evolved into socioeconomic crises triggering revolutions in a widespread phenomenon referred to as the Arab Spring,
The United States continued to retain its global superpower status while China sought to expand its influence. Global competition between China and the U.S. coalesced into a "containment" effort and a trade war. (Containment is a United States foreign policy doctrine adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence.)
Smartphones, tablets, and other IoT (Internet of Things) devices surged in popularity during the 2010s, allowing easy access to the internet and mass media via mobile apps, social networking, and video telephony. The growing sophistication and prevalence of IoT devices also drew concerns and spawned new debates over privacy, censorship, and over-dependence.
The Internet of things saw substantial growth during the 2010s due to advancements in wireless networking devices, mobile telephony, and cloud computing.
Shifting social attitudes saw LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning) rights and female representation make substantial progress during the decade, particularly in the West and parts of Asia and Africa. Combating pollution and climate change continued to be major global environmental concerns. Major natural disasters included the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Nepal earthquake of 2015, the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, and the devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Yolanda and Sandy. Other major international events and phenomena of this decade include the European migrant crisis, and the Russian annexation of Crimea.
Around 2016, much of the Western world began to experience a resistance to globalization, especially against immigration policy and free-trade agreements.
The 2010s have seen an epidemic of addiction to illegal drugs.
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2010 – Year of Natural and Man Made Ecological Disasters
Three USA soldiers were killed in Pakistan by the Pakistani Taliban, the first USA casualties inside Pakistan.
The USA became the largest producer of natural gas in the world augmenting the conversion of steam electrical generators from coal to cleaner burning natural gas.
The Supreme Court ruled that corporations could spend unlimited money to influence elections.
USA missionaries, mostly belonging to a Baptist church in Idaho, tried to kidnap 33 Haitian children after the country was devastated by an earthquake.
Right-wing movements organized a "National Tea Party Convention" in Nashville.
A U.S. drone killed 23 civilians, including 7 women and two toddlers, in Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province.
The USA disclosed that it had a total of 5,113 nuclear warheads in its arsenal.
An explosion on a British Petroleum rig caused a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the biggest environmental disaster in the history of the USA.
Pakistani-born Faisal Shahzad attempted to explode a car bomb in Times Square, New York.
A soldier stationed in Iraq, Bradley Manning, was arrested for passing classified information to Wiki Leaks. More than 90,000 secret USA military records about the Afghanistan war were leaked to the website.
A former employee killed five people and himself in a business in New Mexico.
General Motors sold more cars in China than in the USA.
A USA strike killed 52 civilians in Afghanistan including 17 children.
66 U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan in July 2010, the deadliest month since the war began.
Nine people were shot dead by a worker at a warehouse in Connecticut.
Thirty-eight USA billionaires, led by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, pledged 50% of their wealth to charity
The USA declared a formal end to its combat mission in Iraq.
After an argument with his wife, a man in eastern Kentucky killed five people with a shotgun before killing himself.
The CIA launched more than 20 drone attacks against Pakistani territories, the highest number ever.
The Australian dollar reached parity with the USA dollar.
WikiLeaks released thousands of top-secret USA documents.
Nigeria's anti-corruption agency charged former US vice-president Dick Cheney of bribing officials.
Former Republican leader Tom DeLay was convicted of money laundering and sentenced to jail.
Asians overcame Hispanics as the largest group of immigrants to the USA.
The SpaceX Falcon 9, the first private spaceship to orbit Earth, lifted off.
A record 700,000 foreign students studied in the USA, of which 128,000 were from China and 105,000 were from India.
The U.S. budget deficit reached $14 trillion or almost 100% of annual GDP.
For the first time in history, the population of the West was greater than the population of the Midwest.
The USA became China's second-largest export market and China became the USA's third-largest export market.
China held about $1.6 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds.
Nearly 2.9 million home owners houses were foreclosed, an all-time record.
Wikipedia had 17 million articles in 250 languages.
The USA spent more on the war in Afghanistan than in Iraq.
The USA exported over $400 billion of goods to the European Union, and U.S. firms owned $1 trillion of direct investment in the European Union.
Social media raised millions for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
There were 38,350 suicides in the USA, more than people who died in car accidents.
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Three USA soldiers were killed in Pakistan by the Pakistani Taliban, the first USA casualties inside Pakistan.
The USA became the largest producer of natural gas in the world augmenting the conversion of steam electrical generators from coal to cleaner burning natural gas.
The Supreme Court ruled that corporations could spend unlimited money to influence elections.
USA missionaries, mostly belonging to a Baptist church in Idaho, tried to kidnap 33 Haitian children after the country was devastated by an earthquake.
Right-wing movements organized a "National Tea Party Convention" in Nashville.
A U.S. drone killed 23 civilians, including 7 women and two toddlers, in Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province.
The USA disclosed that it had a total of 5,113 nuclear warheads in its arsenal.
An explosion on a British Petroleum rig caused a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the biggest environmental disaster in the history of the USA.
Pakistani-born Faisal Shahzad attempted to explode a car bomb in Times Square, New York.
A soldier stationed in Iraq, Bradley Manning, was arrested for passing classified information to Wiki Leaks. More than 90,000 secret USA military records about the Afghanistan war were leaked to the website.
A former employee killed five people and himself in a business in New Mexico.
General Motors sold more cars in China than in the USA.
A USA strike killed 52 civilians in Afghanistan including 17 children.
66 U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan in July 2010, the deadliest month since the war began.
Nine people were shot dead by a worker at a warehouse in Connecticut.
Thirty-eight USA billionaires, led by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, pledged 50% of their wealth to charity
The USA declared a formal end to its combat mission in Iraq.
After an argument with his wife, a man in eastern Kentucky killed five people with a shotgun before killing himself.
The CIA launched more than 20 drone attacks against Pakistani territories, the highest number ever.
The Australian dollar reached parity with the USA dollar.
WikiLeaks released thousands of top-secret USA documents.
Nigeria's anti-corruption agency charged former US vice-president Dick Cheney of bribing officials.
Former Republican leader Tom DeLay was convicted of money laundering and sentenced to jail.
Asians overcame Hispanics as the largest group of immigrants to the USA.
The SpaceX Falcon 9, the first private spaceship to orbit Earth, lifted off.
A record 700,000 foreign students studied in the USA, of which 128,000 were from China and 105,000 were from India.
The U.S. budget deficit reached $14 trillion or almost 100% of annual GDP.
For the first time in history, the population of the West was greater than the population of the Midwest.
The USA became China's second-largest export market and China became the USA's third-largest export market.
China held about $1.6 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds.
Nearly 2.9 million home owners houses were foreclosed, an all-time record.
Wikipedia had 17 million articles in 250 languages.
The USA spent more on the war in Afghanistan than in Iraq.
The USA exported over $400 billion of goods to the European Union, and U.S. firms owned $1 trillion of direct investment in the European Union.
Social media raised millions for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
There were 38,350 suicides in the USA, more than people who died in car accidents.
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Mercy
Mercy is a quality of growth. You should realize that there is a great reward of personal satisfaction in being first just, next fair, then patient, then kind. And then, on that foundation, if you choose and have it in your heart, you can take the next step and really show mercy; but you cannot exhibit mercy in and of itself. The initial stages must be traversed; otherwise there can be no genuine mercy. There may be patronage, condescension, or charity – even pity – but not mercy. True mercy comes only as the beautiful climax to these preceding steps to group understanding, mutual appreciation, fraternal fellowship, spiritual communion, and divine harmony.
Brotherhood – Total Unselfishness
After natural death all types of mortal ascenders fraternize as one morontia family on the mansion worlds.
Throughout the whole morontia and subsequent spirit ascent, your fraternity with the seraphim will be ideal; your companionship will be superb.
You will not, however, come under their full guidance until you reach the brotherhood schools on Edentia (the capital of our constellation), where they will quicken your appreciation of those very truths of fraternity that you will be so earnestly exploring by the actual experience of living with the univitatia in the social laboratories of Edentia. (Univitatia are the permanent citizens of Edentia and its associated worlds - the seven hundred seventy worlds surrounding the constellation.)
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Mercy is a quality of growth. You should realize that there is a great reward of personal satisfaction in being first just, next fair, then patient, then kind. And then, on that foundation, if you choose and have it in your heart, you can take the next step and really show mercy; but you cannot exhibit mercy in and of itself. The initial stages must be traversed; otherwise there can be no genuine mercy. There may be patronage, condescension, or charity – even pity – but not mercy. True mercy comes only as the beautiful climax to these preceding steps to group understanding, mutual appreciation, fraternal fellowship, spiritual communion, and divine harmony.
Brotherhood – Total Unselfishness
After natural death all types of mortal ascenders fraternize as one morontia family on the mansion worlds.
Throughout the whole morontia and subsequent spirit ascent, your fraternity with the seraphim will be ideal; your companionship will be superb.
You will not, however, come under their full guidance until you reach the brotherhood schools on Edentia (the capital of our constellation), where they will quicken your appreciation of those very truths of fraternity that you will be so earnestly exploring by the actual experience of living with the univitatia in the social laboratories of Edentia. (Univitatia are the permanent citizens of Edentia and its associated worlds - the seven hundred seventy worlds surrounding the constellation.)
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2011 – The Pace of World Turmoil Accelerated
A gunman killed six people and wounded a dozen including Congressional Representative Gabrielle Gifford during a political meeting in Tucson, Arizona.
62% of women age 20 to 24 who gave birth in the previous 12 months were unmarried.
"Occupy Wall Street" protests spread around the country. The main issues raised by Occupy Wall Street were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government.
A U.S. drone killed 40 people in Pakistan.
U.S. Army soldiers were photographed after allegedly killing three Afghan civilians and taking fingers off their bodies as war trophies.
More than 320 people were killed by tornadoes in the U.S.
For the first time in decades ownership of television sets declined in the U.S.
The United Nations estimated that opiate use increased 35% worldwide from 1998 to 2008 (cocaine by 27%, and cannabis by 8.5%).
Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, announced he'd run for the Republican presidential nomination, saying, politicians are afraid that if they're too honest, they might lose an election, and adding, “I'm afraid that in 2012, if we're not honest enough, we may lose our country.”
New York became the sixth state to legalize gay marriage.
Fewer than half of cohabiting couples were married.
The USA had 413 billionaires, China had 115 billionaires, Russia 101, India 55, Germany 52, Britain 32, Brazil 30, and Japan 26.
The USA ended the space shuttle flights program, never having met its goal of low cost access to space by virtue of the system's reusability.
A man killed seven people in Akron, Ohio.
World stock markets crashed for fear of the national debts of the USA and of several European countries.
The Taliban downed a U.S. helicopter killing 30 US soldiers.
Apple passed ExxonMobil to become the most valuable company in the world based on market capitalization.
Gold reached an all-time high of $1900 per ounce.
Anti-Qaddafi rebels helped by NATO reached Tripoli, and ended Qaddafi's dictatorship over Libya.
66 USA soldiers died in Afghanistan, making August 2011 the deadliest month since the invasion.
African American Troy Davis was executed in Georgia despite the fact that most witnesses recanted their testimony.
US-born al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki was assassinated by a US drone strike in Yemen.
Thousands of people staged protests against Wall Street firms in New York.
The USA foiled a plot by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the USA and to bomb the embassy of Saudi Arabia in the USA.
A man killed eight people at a hair salon in Seal Beach, California.
The USA signed free-trade treaties with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
The world's population was 7 billion, up from 1 billion in 1850 and less than 3 billion in 1950.
Only 51% of adults in the USA were married compared with 72% in 1960.
The USA withdrew the last soldiers from Iraq. More than 100,000 civilians were killed during the occupation and civil war, with 15000 civilians killed directly by the USA or allies, plus about 50,000 non-civilian "insurgents" for a grand total of about 162,000.
Saudi billionaire prince Alwaleed bin Talal invested a huge sum in social media Twitter.
Facebook had 800 million users worldwide.
There were 327 million wireless-phone subscribers in the USA, more than phones than the population.
A man in Grapevine, Texas killed six family members and himself on Christmas day.
The USA spent $739 billion on defense while China spent $90 billion.
In a decade the cost of tuition in universities increased from 23% of median income to 38%.
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A gunman killed six people and wounded a dozen including Congressional Representative Gabrielle Gifford during a political meeting in Tucson, Arizona.
62% of women age 20 to 24 who gave birth in the previous 12 months were unmarried.
"Occupy Wall Street" protests spread around the country. The main issues raised by Occupy Wall Street were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government.
A U.S. drone killed 40 people in Pakistan.
U.S. Army soldiers were photographed after allegedly killing three Afghan civilians and taking fingers off their bodies as war trophies.
More than 320 people were killed by tornadoes in the U.S.
For the first time in decades ownership of television sets declined in the U.S.
The United Nations estimated that opiate use increased 35% worldwide from 1998 to 2008 (cocaine by 27%, and cannabis by 8.5%).
Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, announced he'd run for the Republican presidential nomination, saying, politicians are afraid that if they're too honest, they might lose an election, and adding, “I'm afraid that in 2012, if we're not honest enough, we may lose our country.”
New York became the sixth state to legalize gay marriage.
Fewer than half of cohabiting couples were married.
The USA had 413 billionaires, China had 115 billionaires, Russia 101, India 55, Germany 52, Britain 32, Brazil 30, and Japan 26.
The USA ended the space shuttle flights program, never having met its goal of low cost access to space by virtue of the system's reusability.
A man killed seven people in Akron, Ohio.
World stock markets crashed for fear of the national debts of the USA and of several European countries.
The Taliban downed a U.S. helicopter killing 30 US soldiers.
Apple passed ExxonMobil to become the most valuable company in the world based on market capitalization.
Gold reached an all-time high of $1900 per ounce.
Anti-Qaddafi rebels helped by NATO reached Tripoli, and ended Qaddafi's dictatorship over Libya.
66 USA soldiers died in Afghanistan, making August 2011 the deadliest month since the invasion.
African American Troy Davis was executed in Georgia despite the fact that most witnesses recanted their testimony.
US-born al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki was assassinated by a US drone strike in Yemen.
Thousands of people staged protests against Wall Street firms in New York.
The USA foiled a plot by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the USA and to bomb the embassy of Saudi Arabia in the USA.
A man killed eight people at a hair salon in Seal Beach, California.
The USA signed free-trade treaties with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
The world's population was 7 billion, up from 1 billion in 1850 and less than 3 billion in 1950.
Only 51% of adults in the USA were married compared with 72% in 1960.
The USA withdrew the last soldiers from Iraq. More than 100,000 civilians were killed during the occupation and civil war, with 15000 civilians killed directly by the USA or allies, plus about 50,000 non-civilian "insurgents" for a grand total of about 162,000.
Saudi billionaire prince Alwaleed bin Talal invested a huge sum in social media Twitter.
Facebook had 800 million users worldwide.
There were 327 million wireless-phone subscribers in the USA, more than phones than the population.
A man in Grapevine, Texas killed six family members and himself on Christmas day.
The USA spent $739 billion on defense while China spent $90 billion.
In a decade the cost of tuition in universities increased from 23% of median income to 38%.
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The History of Civilization
Early important events contributed greatly to the growth of human civilization. The taming of fire gave birth to modern science. The domestication of dogs, horses, sheep, goats, cows, camels, fowl, elephants, oxen, and yak lightened the human work load. Through agriculture, animal domestication, and improved architecture, mankind gradually began to achieve higher standards of living.
About 12,000 BC, trade and manufacturing began to promote cross-fertilization of cultures. Two thousand years later, the era of independent cities dawned. Commerce quickly became the most effective influence in the spread of civilization. Military conquests, colonization, and missionary work also contributed to the exchange of ideas between people.
While the socialization of human culture curtails personal liberty, it enhances individual survival potential. Civilization protects group rights as well as those of individuals. The following essentials maintain and foster human civilization.
Natural circumstances – Climate and geographic conditions contribute to cultural evolution. The climatic destruction of the rich, open grassland hunting and grazing grounds of Turkestan, beginning about 12,000 B.C., compelled the men of those regions to resort to new forms of industry and crude manufacturing.
Capital goods – Material prosperity and well-earned leisure time afford people the opportunity to think and plan for social progress.
Scientific knowledge – Science trains people to think precisely, stabilizes philosophy, and purifies religion of superstition.
Human resources – The number of intelligent people influences the progress of society.
Natural resources – Much depends on the wise utilization of natural resources, scientific knowledge, capital goods and human potentials.
Effectiveness of language – Common language facilitates peace; linguistic development facilitates the expression of evolving thought.
Effectiveness of mechanical devices – The progress of civilization is directly related to the development of tools, machines, and distribution channels.
Character of torchbearers – The home must be the basic institution of culture for education of young people. Social life and schools should be secondary.
Racial ideals – Intelligence controls civilization, wisdom directs it, and spiritual idealism uplifts it.
Coordination of specialists – Civilization is dependent on the effective coordination of social, artistic, and industrial specialists.
Place-finding devices – Not only must man be trained for work, but society must devise techniques for directing individuals to suitable employment. People lose morale when continually supported from public funds.
The willingness to cooperate – Nations tend to disintegrate without intelligent patriotism.
Effective and wise leadership – Teamwork depends on leadership.
Social changes – Changes must keep pace with scientific development, but great changes should not be attempted suddenly.
The prevention of transitional breakdown – Moving from established methods into new systems requires strong leadership.
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Early important events contributed greatly to the growth of human civilization. The taming of fire gave birth to modern science. The domestication of dogs, horses, sheep, goats, cows, camels, fowl, elephants, oxen, and yak lightened the human work load. Through agriculture, animal domestication, and improved architecture, mankind gradually began to achieve higher standards of living.
About 12,000 BC, trade and manufacturing began to promote cross-fertilization of cultures. Two thousand years later, the era of independent cities dawned. Commerce quickly became the most effective influence in the spread of civilization. Military conquests, colonization, and missionary work also contributed to the exchange of ideas between people.
While the socialization of human culture curtails personal liberty, it enhances individual survival potential. Civilization protects group rights as well as those of individuals. The following essentials maintain and foster human civilization.
Natural circumstances – Climate and geographic conditions contribute to cultural evolution. The climatic destruction of the rich, open grassland hunting and grazing grounds of Turkestan, beginning about 12,000 B.C., compelled the men of those regions to resort to new forms of industry and crude manufacturing.
Capital goods – Material prosperity and well-earned leisure time afford people the opportunity to think and plan for social progress.
Scientific knowledge – Science trains people to think precisely, stabilizes philosophy, and purifies religion of superstition.
Human resources – The number of intelligent people influences the progress of society.
Natural resources – Much depends on the wise utilization of natural resources, scientific knowledge, capital goods and human potentials.
Effectiveness of language – Common language facilitates peace; linguistic development facilitates the expression of evolving thought.
Effectiveness of mechanical devices – The progress of civilization is directly related to the development of tools, machines, and distribution channels.
Character of torchbearers – The home must be the basic institution of culture for education of young people. Social life and schools should be secondary.
Racial ideals – Intelligence controls civilization, wisdom directs it, and spiritual idealism uplifts it.
Coordination of specialists – Civilization is dependent on the effective coordination of social, artistic, and industrial specialists.
Place-finding devices – Not only must man be trained for work, but society must devise techniques for directing individuals to suitable employment. People lose morale when continually supported from public funds.
The willingness to cooperate – Nations tend to disintegrate without intelligent patriotism.
Effective and wise leadership – Teamwork depends on leadership.
Social changes – Changes must keep pace with scientific development, but great changes should not be attempted suddenly.
The prevention of transitional breakdown – Moving from established methods into new systems requires strong leadership.
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2012 – More Frequent Individual Protests and Organized Revolts
Militant groups, allegedly with some degree of linkage to al Qaeda, attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and a CIA office about a mile away. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack.
The USA shut down Megaupload, one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, and arrested its chief, Kim Schmitz. [Note: Megaupload and its sister sites were closed due to allegations that its founder and its other executives were in violation of "piracy" laws. The allegations stated that Megaupload was costing copyright holders and legitimate businesses $500 million in revenue from "pirated" movies, music, and other media.]
Samuel Little was arrested for murder and eventually confessed to 90 murders.
A U.S. drone killed 12 al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen.
A USA soldier, Robert Bales, killed 16 Afghani civilians, including nine children and three women.
One L. Goh killed seven people at an Oakland Korean Christian College.
The USA deployed marines into Australia for unspecified reasons.
A gunmen killed five black men in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The USA thwarted a plot to blow up a commercial airplane and killed Fahd al-Quso, al-Qaeda's leader in Yemen.
NATO activated a missile defense system in Europe despite strong Russian opposition. In response Russia launched a program of rearmament.
Ian Stawicki walked into a cafe and killed 5 people and himself in Seattle.
A NATO strike killed 18 civilians in Afghanistan.
James Holmes, killed 12 people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
Wade Michael Page shot six people dead at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
A NASA rover, Curiosity, landed on Mars.
Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles because of doping.
Badruddin Haqqani, an Afghan guerrilla fighter operational commander was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.
The Voyager I was the first human-made object to leave the solar system.
3% of chief executives of corporations are women.
Dozens of people were killed in the Islamic world during violent protests against an amateur anti-Islamic video posted online in the USA. (The US ambassador in Libya was one of the victims.)
SpaceX's rocket, the first commercial flight to the International Space Station launched.
Mazie Hirono became the first Japanese-born senator (also the first Buddhist and the first Asian-American woman).
Puerto Rico voted to become a state of the USA.
Kyrsten Sinema became the first openly bisexual person elected to Congress.
Possession of marijuana became legal in the states of Washington and Colorado.
34080 people died in traffic accidents in 2012 in the USA (14.7% motorcyclists).
Adam Lanza killed 26 people at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, (20 children).
72 million people were overweight in the USA.
The number of patent lawsuits increased by nearly 50% between 2010 and 2012.
The wealth owned by the wealthiest US households rose from 7% in 1979 to 22% in 2012.
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Militant groups, allegedly with some degree of linkage to al Qaeda, attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and a CIA office about a mile away. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack.
The USA shut down Megaupload, one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, and arrested its chief, Kim Schmitz. [Note: Megaupload and its sister sites were closed due to allegations that its founder and its other executives were in violation of "piracy" laws. The allegations stated that Megaupload was costing copyright holders and legitimate businesses $500 million in revenue from "pirated" movies, music, and other media.]
Samuel Little was arrested for murder and eventually confessed to 90 murders.
A U.S. drone killed 12 al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen.
A USA soldier, Robert Bales, killed 16 Afghani civilians, including nine children and three women.
One L. Goh killed seven people at an Oakland Korean Christian College.
The USA deployed marines into Australia for unspecified reasons.
A gunmen killed five black men in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The USA thwarted a plot to blow up a commercial airplane and killed Fahd al-Quso, al-Qaeda's leader in Yemen.
NATO activated a missile defense system in Europe despite strong Russian opposition. In response Russia launched a program of rearmament.
Ian Stawicki walked into a cafe and killed 5 people and himself in Seattle.
A NATO strike killed 18 civilians in Afghanistan.
James Holmes, killed 12 people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
Wade Michael Page shot six people dead at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
A NASA rover, Curiosity, landed on Mars.
Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles because of doping.
Badruddin Haqqani, an Afghan guerrilla fighter operational commander was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.
The Voyager I was the first human-made object to leave the solar system.
3% of chief executives of corporations are women.
Dozens of people were killed in the Islamic world during violent protests against an amateur anti-Islamic video posted online in the USA. (The US ambassador in Libya was one of the victims.)
SpaceX's rocket, the first commercial flight to the International Space Station launched.
Mazie Hirono became the first Japanese-born senator (also the first Buddhist and the first Asian-American woman).
Puerto Rico voted to become a state of the USA.
Kyrsten Sinema became the first openly bisexual person elected to Congress.
Possession of marijuana became legal in the states of Washington and Colorado.
34080 people died in traffic accidents in 2012 in the USA (14.7% motorcyclists).
Adam Lanza killed 26 people at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, (20 children).
72 million people were overweight in the USA.
The number of patent lawsuits increased by nearly 50% between 2010 and 2012.
The wealth owned by the wealthiest US households rose from 7% in 1979 to 22% in 2012.
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The realization of brotherhood is impossible on a world such as Earth whose inhabitants are so primitive that they fail to recognize the folly of unmitigated selfishness.
2013 – Federal Spying and Municipal Bankruptcy
The Dow Jones returned to the high of 2007.
Two Chechen immigrants, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokar Tsarnaev, set off bombs that killed three people at the Boston Marathon.
Three women (Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight) were freed after being held captive as sex slaves for about a decade in Cleveland by Ariel Castro.
About 100 people were killed by a giant tornado in Oklahoma.
The USA announced peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
NSA employee Edward Snowden revealed details of a vast government operation to spy on citizens and foreign allies and is then granted asylum in Russia.
The supreme court rejected the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as between a man and a woman only, while 30 states of the USA still banned same-sex marriages.
The city of Detroit, whose population declined from two million in 1950 to 700 thousand and whose murder rate hit a 40-year high, filed the largest-ever municipal bankruptcy in the history of the USA.
The USA and Russia agreed on a plan to remove Syria's chemical weapons after the USA threatened military intervention.
A former Navy serviceman, Aaron Alexis, killed 12 people and himself at a naval installation in Washington.
For the first time since 1979 the president of the USA and the president of Iran spoke on the phone.
Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") was implemented despite massive Republican complaints.
Income inequality in the USA was the highest since 1928, with the richest 1% of people taking 19% of the national income.
8 of the 15 fastest-growing cities of the USA were in Texas.
The USA captured al-Qaeda leader Anas al-Libi, accused of the 1998 bombings of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Pakistan revealed that 317 US drone strikes since 2008 had killed 2,160 militants and 67 civilians.
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed by a US drone.
More than 2,000 wrongfully convicted people were exonerated between 1989 and 2012 in the USA.
Colorado became the first state in the USA to legalize recreational pot stores and to regulate marijuana from seed to sale.
48 million Americans, or about 1 in 7, received "food stamps" from the government.
Barack Obama ordered more than 400 aerial drone assassinations since 2008.
The USA carried out more than 80 attacks in Yemen, killing almost 500 people since 2009.
TED talks were watched more than 2 billion times. (Nonprofit TED, an acronym for technology, entertainment, and design describes its mission as “ideas worth spreading”.)
The inflation-adjusted net worth for the median household fell 36 percent between 2003 and 2013.
The USA again became the largest producer, importer, and consumer of oil in the world
The Dow Jones index set a new all-time inflation-adjusted high for the first time since the end of 1999.……………………………….
2013 – Federal Spying and Municipal Bankruptcy
The Dow Jones returned to the high of 2007.
Two Chechen immigrants, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokar Tsarnaev, set off bombs that killed three people at the Boston Marathon.
Three women (Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight) were freed after being held captive as sex slaves for about a decade in Cleveland by Ariel Castro.
About 100 people were killed by a giant tornado in Oklahoma.
The USA announced peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
NSA employee Edward Snowden revealed details of a vast government operation to spy on citizens and foreign allies and is then granted asylum in Russia.
The supreme court rejected the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as between a man and a woman only, while 30 states of the USA still banned same-sex marriages.
The city of Detroit, whose population declined from two million in 1950 to 700 thousand and whose murder rate hit a 40-year high, filed the largest-ever municipal bankruptcy in the history of the USA.
The USA and Russia agreed on a plan to remove Syria's chemical weapons after the USA threatened military intervention.
A former Navy serviceman, Aaron Alexis, killed 12 people and himself at a naval installation in Washington.
For the first time since 1979 the president of the USA and the president of Iran spoke on the phone.
Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") was implemented despite massive Republican complaints.
Income inequality in the USA was the highest since 1928, with the richest 1% of people taking 19% of the national income.
8 of the 15 fastest-growing cities of the USA were in Texas.
The USA captured al-Qaeda leader Anas al-Libi, accused of the 1998 bombings of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Pakistan revealed that 317 US drone strikes since 2008 had killed 2,160 militants and 67 civilians.
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed by a US drone.
More than 2,000 wrongfully convicted people were exonerated between 1989 and 2012 in the USA.
Colorado became the first state in the USA to legalize recreational pot stores and to regulate marijuana from seed to sale.
48 million Americans, or about 1 in 7, received "food stamps" from the government.
Barack Obama ordered more than 400 aerial drone assassinations since 2008.
The USA carried out more than 80 attacks in Yemen, killing almost 500 people since 2009.
TED talks were watched more than 2 billion times. (Nonprofit TED, an acronym for technology, entertainment, and design describes its mission as “ideas worth spreading”.)
The inflation-adjusted net worth for the median household fell 36 percent between 2003 and 2013.
The USA again became the largest producer, importer, and consumer of oil in the world
The Dow Jones index set a new all-time inflation-adjusted high for the first time since the end of 1999.……………………………….
The Surge in Hate Crimes
Mass shootings can be motivated by extreme religious ideologies (e.g., radical Islam), political ideologies (e.g., neo-Nazism and terrorism), misogyny, mental illness, and extensive bullying, among other reasons. Psychologists cite extreme anger and the notion of working for a cause as primary explanations. A study by Vanderbilt University researchers found that “fewer than 5% of the 120,000 gun-related killings in the United States between 2001 and 2010 were perpetrated by people diagnosed with mental illness.” John Roman of the Urban Institute argues that, while better access to mental health care, restricting high powered weapons, and creating a defensive infrastructure to combat terrorism are constructive, they don't address the greater issue, which is “we have a lot of really angry young men in our country and in the world.”
2014 – Anger and Disease
A teenager, John LaDue, was arrested in Minnesota before he could carry out his plan to kill his family, set off bombs at school and shoot students.
An Ebola outbreak began in West Africa, the virus was not well known and quickly reached epidemic proportions.
The USA arrested Ukrainian tycoon Dmitry Firtash for having paid bribes to the Indian government.
The USA captured Ahmed Abu Khattala, responsible for the 2012 attack on the Benghazi embassy.
The Dow Jones stock market index hit 17,000.
Russia's president Putin visited Cuba and canceled $30 billion in Cuban debt.
The USA launched an air strike against the Islamic State in Iraq.
Riots erupted after a white police officer killed a black man, Michael Brown, in Ferguson (Missouri). The event galvanized the "Black Lives Matter" movement.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria beheaded two journalists from the USA, and US president Barack Obama declared war on ISIS with the support of ten Arab states.
An air strike by the USA killed the leader of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane.
A grandfather, Don Charles Spirit, killed his daughter and her six children before taking his own life in Florida.
Two Muslims killed two soldiers in Canada.
The USA and Britain withdrew from Afghanistan after the USA lost more than 2,000 soldiers and Britain more than 400.
Ricky Jackson's innocence was proven after 39 years in prison, the longest-serving innocent man in US history.
The USA (Barack Obama) and Cuba (Raul Castro) began to normalize relations after 55 years.
The Senate issued a report admitting that the USA tortured suspected Islamic terrorists.
Under threat from North Korean hackers, Sony Pictures canceled the release of a film on North Korea's dictatorship.
A man killed eight people and then killed himself in the Canadian city of Edmonton.
There were 57 million Hispanics in the USA.
32,675 people were killed in traffic accidents.
On average, 12 million people were arrested each year between 2010 and
250,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses since 1999.
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Mass shootings can be motivated by extreme religious ideologies (e.g., radical Islam), political ideologies (e.g., neo-Nazism and terrorism), misogyny, mental illness, and extensive bullying, among other reasons. Psychologists cite extreme anger and the notion of working for a cause as primary explanations. A study by Vanderbilt University researchers found that “fewer than 5% of the 120,000 gun-related killings in the United States between 2001 and 2010 were perpetrated by people diagnosed with mental illness.” John Roman of the Urban Institute argues that, while better access to mental health care, restricting high powered weapons, and creating a defensive infrastructure to combat terrorism are constructive, they don't address the greater issue, which is “we have a lot of really angry young men in our country and in the world.”
2014 – Anger and Disease
A teenager, John LaDue, was arrested in Minnesota before he could carry out his plan to kill his family, set off bombs at school and shoot students.
An Ebola outbreak began in West Africa, the virus was not well known and quickly reached epidemic proportions.
The USA arrested Ukrainian tycoon Dmitry Firtash for having paid bribes to the Indian government.
The USA captured Ahmed Abu Khattala, responsible for the 2012 attack on the Benghazi embassy.
The Dow Jones stock market index hit 17,000.
Russia's president Putin visited Cuba and canceled $30 billion in Cuban debt.
The USA launched an air strike against the Islamic State in Iraq.
Riots erupted after a white police officer killed a black man, Michael Brown, in Ferguson (Missouri). The event galvanized the "Black Lives Matter" movement.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria beheaded two journalists from the USA, and US president Barack Obama declared war on ISIS with the support of ten Arab states.
An air strike by the USA killed the leader of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane.
A grandfather, Don Charles Spirit, killed his daughter and her six children before taking his own life in Florida.
Two Muslims killed two soldiers in Canada.
The USA and Britain withdrew from Afghanistan after the USA lost more than 2,000 soldiers and Britain more than 400.
Ricky Jackson's innocence was proven after 39 years in prison, the longest-serving innocent man in US history.
The USA (Barack Obama) and Cuba (Raul Castro) began to normalize relations after 55 years.
The Senate issued a report admitting that the USA tortured suspected Islamic terrorists.
Under threat from North Korean hackers, Sony Pictures canceled the release of a film on North Korea's dictatorship.
A man killed eight people and then killed himself in the Canadian city of Edmonton.
There were 57 million Hispanics in the USA.
32,675 people were killed in traffic accidents.
On average, 12 million people were arrested each year between 2010 and
250,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses since 1999.
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Kinship
Mutual understanding and fraternal love are transcendent civilizers and mighty factors in the world-wide realization of the brotherhood of man.
There must occur an exchange of national and racial literature. Each race must become familiar with the thought of all races; each nation must know the feelings of all nations. Ignorance breeds suspicion, and suspicion is incompatible with the essential attitude of sympathy and love. The only technique for accelerating the natural trend of social evolution is that of applying spiritual pressure from above, thus augmenting moral insight while enhancing the soul capacity of every mortal to understand and love every other mortal.
2015 - Deadliest Year for Islamic Terrorism since the Sept. 11, 2001 Attacks
The USA arrested Dominic Ongwen, deputy commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda.
Iran signed a nuclear deal with the world powers.
Anthony Ray Hinton was freed after spending nearly 30 years on death row in Alabama.
US president Barack Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro met in person.
Race riots in Baltimore followed several cases of police killing unarmed black males.
The Dow Jones index hit an all-time high of 18312.
A white supremacist, Dylann Roof, killed 9 people in a South Carolina church, causing much of the South to remove public memorials to their pro-slavery Civil War heroes.
The Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples can marry nationwide. The USA became the 21st country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
The head of Vietnam's communist party, Nguyen Phu Trong, visited the USA.
Iran signed a deal, mostly engineered by the USA, limiting its nuclear program in return for the United Nations (and the USA in particular) to remove economic sanctions.
The number of people without health insurance in the USA declined to 9.2%, (from 44.8 million in 2013 to 29 million).
Oil prices fell below $40 a barrel for first time since 2009.
Chris Mercer killed nine people in Oregon.
The US, Japan, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam signed a trade agreement that covered about 40% of the world economy (the Trans-Pacific Partnership).
A US air strike killed the leader of ISIS in Libya, Abu Nabil, aka Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi.
Two ISIS supporters killed 14 people and wounded 21 in San Bernardino, California.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated 99% of their shares of Facebook ($45 billion) to charity.
The price of oil declined to $36/barrel, the lowest in 11 years.
The unemployment rate fell below 5% for the first time since 2007.
There were 88.8 privately owned guns per 100 people in the USA. In Japan, only 0.6 per 100 people own guns where on average fewer than 10 people were murdered every year (compared with more than 10,000 in the USA).
The murder rate in the USA increased by 11%, with 1 in 10 murders committed by gangs, and 68% blacks.
A record 149 exonerations in the USA for convicts who on average had served more than 14 years in prison.
The USA signed the Paris climate deal.
The USA lifted the 40-year ban on exporting crude oil and started shipping oil to South America, Europe and China.
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Mutual understanding and fraternal love are transcendent civilizers and mighty factors in the world-wide realization of the brotherhood of man.
There must occur an exchange of national and racial literature. Each race must become familiar with the thought of all races; each nation must know the feelings of all nations. Ignorance breeds suspicion, and suspicion is incompatible with the essential attitude of sympathy and love. The only technique for accelerating the natural trend of social evolution is that of applying spiritual pressure from above, thus augmenting moral insight while enhancing the soul capacity of every mortal to understand and love every other mortal.
2015 - Deadliest Year for Islamic Terrorism since the Sept. 11, 2001 Attacks
The USA arrested Dominic Ongwen, deputy commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda.
Iran signed a nuclear deal with the world powers.
Anthony Ray Hinton was freed after spending nearly 30 years on death row in Alabama.
US president Barack Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro met in person.
Race riots in Baltimore followed several cases of police killing unarmed black males.
The Dow Jones index hit an all-time high of 18312.
A white supremacist, Dylann Roof, killed 9 people in a South Carolina church, causing much of the South to remove public memorials to their pro-slavery Civil War heroes.
The Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples can marry nationwide. The USA became the 21st country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
The head of Vietnam's communist party, Nguyen Phu Trong, visited the USA.
Iran signed a deal, mostly engineered by the USA, limiting its nuclear program in return for the United Nations (and the USA in particular) to remove economic sanctions.
The number of people without health insurance in the USA declined to 9.2%, (from 44.8 million in 2013 to 29 million).
Oil prices fell below $40 a barrel for first time since 2009.
Chris Mercer killed nine people in Oregon.
The US, Japan, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam signed a trade agreement that covered about 40% of the world economy (the Trans-Pacific Partnership).
A US air strike killed the leader of ISIS in Libya, Abu Nabil, aka Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi.
Two ISIS supporters killed 14 people and wounded 21 in San Bernardino, California.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated 99% of their shares of Facebook ($45 billion) to charity.
The price of oil declined to $36/barrel, the lowest in 11 years.
The unemployment rate fell below 5% for the first time since 2007.
There were 88.8 privately owned guns per 100 people in the USA. In Japan, only 0.6 per 100 people own guns where on average fewer than 10 people were murdered every year (compared with more than 10,000 in the USA).
The murder rate in the USA increased by 11%, with 1 in 10 murders committed by gangs, and 68% blacks.
A record 149 exonerations in the USA for convicts who on average had served more than 14 years in prison.
The USA signed the Paris climate deal.
The USA lifted the 40-year ban on exporting crude oil and started shipping oil to South America, Europe and China.
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True Religion
Although religious awakening is a gradual process, some spiritual births are accompanied by crisis and anguish while others are a natural growth of the recognition of spiritual values. Because personalities are unique, no two individuals interpret divine leadings the same way. People tend to agree more easily on religious goals than on beliefs or creeds.
Every human being experiences conflict between self-seeking and altruistic impulses. An unselfish choice in the face of a desire to be selfish constitutes a primitive religious experience. God-consciousness is sometimes attained as the result of seeking for help in the resolution of moral conflicts.
In the absence of wrong teaching, the minds of normal children move toward moral righteousness and social ministry. The first emergence of a child's moral nature is a response to justice, fairness, or kindness. Unselfish interest in the welfare of others springs from the divine Thought Adjuster within; animals cannot make such a choice.
Only a fairly well unified personality can arbitrate the conflicts between ego and social consciousness. When there is failure of personality unification, altruistic tendencies may become overdeveloped and injurious to the welfare of the self. The rights of the self and the rights of one's neighbors must be balanced, although this dilemma cannot always be resolved in time and space.
Man's ideals tend to grow by geometric progression, while his ability to live up to his ideals grows only arithmetically. Rather than hoping to live up to his highest ideals, he can try to seek God and become more like him. The pursuit of the ideal-striving to be Godlike is a continuous effort before and after death. The good accomplished in mortal life carries over to the enhancement of life after death and directly contributes to the first stages of immortal survival experience.
Man is truly the architect of his own eternal destiny.
Neither science nor religion can hope to provide a complete understanding of universal truths. An analytical study of the cosmos will reveal to the mind and the physical senses that the universe is mechanical and material. A view of the universe from the perspective of the inner life makes all of creation appear to be spiritual. Failure to coordinate these two viewpoints is due to ignorance of the domain between the spiritual and material worlds – the morontia phase of reality.
Man's highest philosophy should be based on the reason of science, the faith of religion, and the insight of revelation. Science and religion are each incomplete and are predicated on assumptions. In the mortal state, nothing can be proven absolutely; revelation must compensate for the frailties of evolving philosophy. Genuine religion is not merely thinking, but is also feeling, acting, and living. The earmarks of true religion are faith in a supreme Deity, hope of eternal survival, and love – especially love of one's fellows. [Note: Michael/Jesus made plain to his apostles the difference between the repentance of so-called good works as taught by the Jews and the change of mind by faith – the new birth – which he required as the price of admission to the kingdom.]
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Although religious awakening is a gradual process, some spiritual births are accompanied by crisis and anguish while others are a natural growth of the recognition of spiritual values. Because personalities are unique, no two individuals interpret divine leadings the same way. People tend to agree more easily on religious goals than on beliefs or creeds.
Every human being experiences conflict between self-seeking and altruistic impulses. An unselfish choice in the face of a desire to be selfish constitutes a primitive religious experience. God-consciousness is sometimes attained as the result of seeking for help in the resolution of moral conflicts.
In the absence of wrong teaching, the minds of normal children move toward moral righteousness and social ministry. The first emergence of a child's moral nature is a response to justice, fairness, or kindness. Unselfish interest in the welfare of others springs from the divine Thought Adjuster within; animals cannot make such a choice.
Only a fairly well unified personality can arbitrate the conflicts between ego and social consciousness. When there is failure of personality unification, altruistic tendencies may become overdeveloped and injurious to the welfare of the self. The rights of the self and the rights of one's neighbors must be balanced, although this dilemma cannot always be resolved in time and space.
Man's ideals tend to grow by geometric progression, while his ability to live up to his ideals grows only arithmetically. Rather than hoping to live up to his highest ideals, he can try to seek God and become more like him. The pursuit of the ideal-striving to be Godlike is a continuous effort before and after death. The good accomplished in mortal life carries over to the enhancement of life after death and directly contributes to the first stages of immortal survival experience.
Man is truly the architect of his own eternal destiny.
Neither science nor religion can hope to provide a complete understanding of universal truths. An analytical study of the cosmos will reveal to the mind and the physical senses that the universe is mechanical and material. A view of the universe from the perspective of the inner life makes all of creation appear to be spiritual. Failure to coordinate these two viewpoints is due to ignorance of the domain between the spiritual and material worlds – the morontia phase of reality.
Man's highest philosophy should be based on the reason of science, the faith of religion, and the insight of revelation. Science and religion are each incomplete and are predicated on assumptions. In the mortal state, nothing can be proven absolutely; revelation must compensate for the frailties of evolving philosophy. Genuine religion is not merely thinking, but is also feeling, acting, and living. The earmarks of true religion are faith in a supreme Deity, hope of eternal survival, and love – especially love of one's fellows. [Note: Michael/Jesus made plain to his apostles the difference between the repentance of so-called good works as taught by the Jews and the change of mind by faith – the new birth – which he required as the price of admission to the kingdom.]
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2016 – Social Turmoil Increased
Both the U.S. and Russia became involved in the Syrian Civil War, on opposite sides.
The USA began bombing ISIS territory in Lybia, killing more than 40 people including Noureddine Chouchane, who masterminded the terrorist attacks in Tunisia.
US oil production reached a 43-year high.
Russian nationalist Aleksandr Dugin endorsed Donald Trump for president of the USA.
More than 40 al Qaeda suspects were killed by a US drone strike in Yemen.
Dennis Hastert, a former Republican house speaker under George W Bush, was sentenced to jail for molesting children.
The German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung shared the "Panama Papers" with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (more than one million documents from the Mossack Fonseca law firm in Panama that exposed a global web of money laundering and tax evasion involving high-level political figures, business leaders and celebrities).
Paul Gatling was exonerated from a crime he did not commit after spending more than 50 years in jail.
NASA's Kepler mission discovered 1,284 additional planets, doubling the number of known planets.
A US drone killed Taliban's leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour in Pakistan.
The USA lifted the arms trade embargo against Vietnam.
Omar Mateen killed 49 people at a gay club in Orlando, Florida. He pledged alliance to ISIS.
Republican candidate Donald Trump praised the Arab dictators deposed by the West.
A sniper, Micah Johnson, killed 5 police officers in Dallas following the killing of two black men by white police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota, and a black nationalist killed 3 police officers in Baton Rouge.
Since the first DNA exoneration took place in 1989, the Innocence Project exonerated more than 345 people (149 exonerations in 2015 alone).
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but Donald Trump became president by winning in the Electoral College, with help from Russian hacking, and an FBI investigation of Clinton.
US employees of the US embassy in Cuba fell mysteriously ill.
Russia and Cuba signed a sweeping pact on defense and technology cooperation.
President-elect Donald Trump, whose campaign was based on false news, racism and vulgar insults, continued insulting both foreign and domestic leaders, including the CIA, and appointed a radical right-wing cabinet while the CIA proved that Russia's secret services helped Trump get elected.
The first cases of the deadly fungal infection Candida auris appeared in the USA.
The Dow Jones index hit an all-time high of 19,911.
The US public spent more money on gambling ($47 billion) than on sports ($18b), cinema ($11b) and music ($7b) combined.
Chicago's murder rate spiked with 764 murders.
64,000 people died from drugs in 2016.The Shanghai Accord, an Obama policy, was adopted to purposely weaken the dollar so China could cheapen their currency without breaking the peg to the dollar to stimulate trade.
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Both the U.S. and Russia became involved in the Syrian Civil War, on opposite sides.
The USA began bombing ISIS territory in Lybia, killing more than 40 people including Noureddine Chouchane, who masterminded the terrorist attacks in Tunisia.
US oil production reached a 43-year high.
Russian nationalist Aleksandr Dugin endorsed Donald Trump for president of the USA.
More than 40 al Qaeda suspects were killed by a US drone strike in Yemen.
Dennis Hastert, a former Republican house speaker under George W Bush, was sentenced to jail for molesting children.
The German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung shared the "Panama Papers" with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (more than one million documents from the Mossack Fonseca law firm in Panama that exposed a global web of money laundering and tax evasion involving high-level political figures, business leaders and celebrities).
Paul Gatling was exonerated from a crime he did not commit after spending more than 50 years in jail.
NASA's Kepler mission discovered 1,284 additional planets, doubling the number of known planets.
A US drone killed Taliban's leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour in Pakistan.
The USA lifted the arms trade embargo against Vietnam.
Omar Mateen killed 49 people at a gay club in Orlando, Florida. He pledged alliance to ISIS.
Republican candidate Donald Trump praised the Arab dictators deposed by the West.
A sniper, Micah Johnson, killed 5 police officers in Dallas following the killing of two black men by white police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota, and a black nationalist killed 3 police officers in Baton Rouge.
Since the first DNA exoneration took place in 1989, the Innocence Project exonerated more than 345 people (149 exonerations in 2015 alone).
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but Donald Trump became president by winning in the Electoral College, with help from Russian hacking, and an FBI investigation of Clinton.
US employees of the US embassy in Cuba fell mysteriously ill.
Russia and Cuba signed a sweeping pact on defense and technology cooperation.
President-elect Donald Trump, whose campaign was based on false news, racism and vulgar insults, continued insulting both foreign and domestic leaders, including the CIA, and appointed a radical right-wing cabinet while the CIA proved that Russia's secret services helped Trump get elected.
The first cases of the deadly fungal infection Candida auris appeared in the USA.
The Dow Jones index hit an all-time high of 19,911.
The US public spent more money on gambling ($47 billion) than on sports ($18b), cinema ($11b) and music ($7b) combined.
Chicago's murder rate spiked with 764 murders.
64,000 people died from drugs in 2016.The Shanghai Accord, an Obama policy, was adopted to purposely weaken the dollar so China could cheapen their currency without breaking the peg to the dollar to stimulate trade.
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2017 – President Trump Fought Cultural Diversity
Donald Trump assumed the presidency of the USA with polls showing a historically low approval rating and millions of people demonstrating against him all over the world. Trump immediately repealed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and signed executive orders to block the immigration of people from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
The Dow Jones index hit 20,000.
A white nationalist Trump fan killed six Muslims in a mosque in Quebec City, Canada.
A US raid in Yemen killed a dozen al Qaeda fighters, and twice as many civilians.
Michael Flynn, the national security adviser appointed by Trump, resigned after leaks revealed his secret conversations with the Russian ambassador.
Donald Trump fired New York's federal prosecutor Preet Bharara, famous for fighting corruption and cyber terrorism.
The USA bombed Syria in response to the use of chemical weapons by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, and also bombed ISIS in Afghanistan.
Trump fired FBI director James Comey while the FBI was investigating the Trump-Russia collusion. Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and to the Russian ambassador.
Robert Mueller was appointed special prosecutor to investigate Trump's collusion with Russia.
Trump pulled the USA out of the Paris climate deal.
The Congress of the USA placed sanctions on Russia bypassing pro-Russian President Trump.
Trump increased the number of US troops in Afghanistan, 16 years after the start of the longest war in US history.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency warned that Chinese-made drones (by DJI Technology Company) were providing US critical infrastructure and law enforcement data to the Chinese government.
North Korea's Kim Jong-Un and the USA's Donald Trump traded insults, Trump called Kim "rocket man" and Kim called Trump a "dotard."
Stephen Paddock killed 59 people at a Las Vegas country music concert.
Four US soldiers were killed in Niger.
An Uzbek-born Islamic terrorist killed 8 people in New York.
The USA and Israel quit UNESCO (UN Educational, Science and Cultural Organization), accusing it of bias against Israel.
The New York Times revealed sexual misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Several actresses came forward to accuse him of discrimination, harassment and rape (the beginning of the #metoo movement").
Devin Kelley killed 26 people at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
The Dow Jones index reached 24,000.
Donald Trump endorsed senate candidate Roy Moore who was accused of sexual misconduct against teenage girls.
A Turkish-Iranian businessman, Reza Zarrab, testified that he made a fortune helping Turkey evade sanctions on Iran by smuggling gold for oil in 2012.
Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but for the first time in history the whole world voted against the USA (and Israel) at the United Nations.
The CIA helped Russia stop terror attacks by ISIS in St Petersburg.
The dollar fell 9% against major currencies.
U.S. Government debt was almost $20 trillion.
Drug overdoses (mainly from synthetic opioids like fentanyl, followed by heroin and cocaine) killed 72,000 people in the USA, a record number that was higher than the peak of yearly deaths from AIDS, car crashes and gun deaths.
Median household income reached $61,372 in 2017, back to the value of 2007 before the financial crisis.
Foreign-born residents were 13.7% of the U.S. population or 44.5 million (the highest since 1910).
The "American National Election Study" found that only 18% of US citizens trusted the federal government.
The percentage of high-school students who had intercourse dropped from 54% in 1991 to 40% in 2017.
A record 39,773 people died by guns in 2017, of which 23,854 died from suicide by guns, and the remainder from homicide, accidents, war or police.
There was a record number of deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide in the U.S. in 2017 (more than 150,000, including 47,173 suicides and 28,000 from drugs).
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Donald Trump assumed the presidency of the USA with polls showing a historically low approval rating and millions of people demonstrating against him all over the world. Trump immediately repealed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and signed executive orders to block the immigration of people from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
The Dow Jones index hit 20,000.
A white nationalist Trump fan killed six Muslims in a mosque in Quebec City, Canada.
A US raid in Yemen killed a dozen al Qaeda fighters, and twice as many civilians.
Michael Flynn, the national security adviser appointed by Trump, resigned after leaks revealed his secret conversations with the Russian ambassador.
Donald Trump fired New York's federal prosecutor Preet Bharara, famous for fighting corruption and cyber terrorism.
The USA bombed Syria in response to the use of chemical weapons by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, and also bombed ISIS in Afghanistan.
Trump fired FBI director James Comey while the FBI was investigating the Trump-Russia collusion. Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and to the Russian ambassador.
Robert Mueller was appointed special prosecutor to investigate Trump's collusion with Russia.
Trump pulled the USA out of the Paris climate deal.
The Congress of the USA placed sanctions on Russia bypassing pro-Russian President Trump.
Trump increased the number of US troops in Afghanistan, 16 years after the start of the longest war in US history.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency warned that Chinese-made drones (by DJI Technology Company) were providing US critical infrastructure and law enforcement data to the Chinese government.
North Korea's Kim Jong-Un and the USA's Donald Trump traded insults, Trump called Kim "rocket man" and Kim called Trump a "dotard."
Stephen Paddock killed 59 people at a Las Vegas country music concert.
Four US soldiers were killed in Niger.
An Uzbek-born Islamic terrorist killed 8 people in New York.
The USA and Israel quit UNESCO (UN Educational, Science and Cultural Organization), accusing it of bias against Israel.
The New York Times revealed sexual misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Several actresses came forward to accuse him of discrimination, harassment and rape (the beginning of the #metoo movement").
Devin Kelley killed 26 people at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
The Dow Jones index reached 24,000.
Donald Trump endorsed senate candidate Roy Moore who was accused of sexual misconduct against teenage girls.
A Turkish-Iranian businessman, Reza Zarrab, testified that he made a fortune helping Turkey evade sanctions on Iran by smuggling gold for oil in 2012.
Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but for the first time in history the whole world voted against the USA (and Israel) at the United Nations.
The CIA helped Russia stop terror attacks by ISIS in St Petersburg.
The dollar fell 9% against major currencies.
U.S. Government debt was almost $20 trillion.
Drug overdoses (mainly from synthetic opioids like fentanyl, followed by heroin and cocaine) killed 72,000 people in the USA, a record number that was higher than the peak of yearly deaths from AIDS, car crashes and gun deaths.
Median household income reached $61,372 in 2017, back to the value of 2007 before the financial crisis.
Foreign-born residents were 13.7% of the U.S. population or 44.5 million (the highest since 1910).
The "American National Election Study" found that only 18% of US citizens trusted the federal government.
The percentage of high-school students who had intercourse dropped from 54% in 1991 to 40% in 2017.
A record 39,773 people died by guns in 2017, of which 23,854 died from suicide by guns, and the remainder from homicide, accidents, war or police.
There was a record number of deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide in the U.S. in 2017 (more than 150,000, including 47,173 suicides and 28,000 from drugs).
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The Religious War of the Ages
The epic religious war of the ages began on 15 March 2011, with demonstrations waged between small congregations of people opposed to globalization. These demonstrations, called “the Arab Spring,” were held in Arab countries.
(The word “Islam” means “submission to the will of God.” Followers of Islam are called Muslims.)
Syria
Protesters in Syria demanded the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad. His family has held the presidency in Syria since 1971. In 1971 al-Assad declared himself president of Syria, a position the constitution at the time permitted only for Sunni Muslims. His religion, Alawite, is an offshoot of Shia Islam, The conflict is that the ruling minority Alawite government and allied Shia governments such as Iran, are pitted against the country's Sunni Muslim majority who are aligned with the Syrian opposition and their Sunni Turkish, Saudi, and Persian Gulf state backers.
The Alawites revere Ali, the Prophet Mohammad's cousin and son-in-law. However, they have added aspects of other faiths, including Christianity, and have a Holy Trinity, consisting of Mohammed, Ali, and Salman the Persian, a companion of the Prophet.
The religious conflict caused a major refugee crisis. Since 2011, the Syrian civil war has forced more than 5.6 million Sunni Syrians to flee their country and displaced 6.6 million people from their homes. A majority of refugees have fled to neighboring Sunni countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. Turkey alone hosts over 3 million people inside their refugee camps.
Fear of Syrian Refugees in Europe
A great many people have trouble distinguishing between ‘Islam’ and militant ‘ISIS’. A frequently cited objection to accepting refugees into European countries is that ISIS insurgents are seeding the refugee groups with their followers.
Population Pressures
Many nations are already struggling with their own population pressures. The global population is far higher than it has ever been, and many nations are extremely hard-pressed to house and feed their own existing populations without additional thousands of refugees placing even greater pressure upon a strained infrastructure. The deeper problem is these nations have economic and land discrepancies. There is accommodation, land, and resources available, but they are disproportionately distributed. The refugees are getting the blame, which should be directed at an unfair capitalistic. social structure and a divisive economy.
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The epic religious war of the ages began on 15 March 2011, with demonstrations waged between small congregations of people opposed to globalization. These demonstrations, called “the Arab Spring,” were held in Arab countries.
(The word “Islam” means “submission to the will of God.” Followers of Islam are called Muslims.)
Syria
Protesters in Syria demanded the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad. His family has held the presidency in Syria since 1971. In 1971 al-Assad declared himself president of Syria, a position the constitution at the time permitted only for Sunni Muslims. His religion, Alawite, is an offshoot of Shia Islam, The conflict is that the ruling minority Alawite government and allied Shia governments such as Iran, are pitted against the country's Sunni Muslim majority who are aligned with the Syrian opposition and their Sunni Turkish, Saudi, and Persian Gulf state backers.
The Alawites revere Ali, the Prophet Mohammad's cousin and son-in-law. However, they have added aspects of other faiths, including Christianity, and have a Holy Trinity, consisting of Mohammed, Ali, and Salman the Persian, a companion of the Prophet.
The religious conflict caused a major refugee crisis. Since 2011, the Syrian civil war has forced more than 5.6 million Sunni Syrians to flee their country and displaced 6.6 million people from their homes. A majority of refugees have fled to neighboring Sunni countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. Turkey alone hosts over 3 million people inside their refugee camps.
Fear of Syrian Refugees in Europe
A great many people have trouble distinguishing between ‘Islam’ and militant ‘ISIS’. A frequently cited objection to accepting refugees into European countries is that ISIS insurgents are seeding the refugee groups with their followers.
Population Pressures
Many nations are already struggling with their own population pressures. The global population is far higher than it has ever been, and many nations are extremely hard-pressed to house and feed their own existing populations without additional thousands of refugees placing even greater pressure upon a strained infrastructure. The deeper problem is these nations have economic and land discrepancies. There is accommodation, land, and resources available, but they are disproportionately distributed. The refugees are getting the blame, which should be directed at an unfair capitalistic. social structure and a divisive economy.
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2018 - The World’s Political and Cultural Anxiety Intensified
The Dow Jones index passed 25,000, a record high.
North Korea and South Korea marched together at the Winter Olympics, while the USA snubbed North Korea at the opening ceremony.
Trump signed a massive government spending plan that, following a $1 trillion tax cut, was projected to cause a government debt of 105% by 2027.
Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
Tens of thousands of young people rallied in Washington, D.C. demanding gun control.
The USA, Britain and France bombed Syria in retaliation for Syria's use of chemical weapons.
The USA introduced sanctions against ZTE, a $17 billion Chinese telecom firm that employed 75,000 workers and depended heavily on semiconductor components made in the USA (China still imported 90% of its semiconductor components).
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student, killed 10 fellow students at Santa Fe High School in Texas.
Television channel RT, owned by Russia, launched a campaign of disinformation in the USA about 5G technology, claiming that it caused brain cancer, infertility, autism, and Alzheimer's disease.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.8%, the lowest unemployment rate since 2000 and the same as in 1969, but the employed percentage of population was still at 60.4%, well below the level of 2007 (62.9%).
US president Trump and North Korean dictator Jong-un Kim met in Singapore, the first meeting ever between leaders of the two countries still formally at war.
Trump placed tariffs on imports from Europe, Canada, Japan and China, and both China and the European Union respond in kind starting a trade war.
The media discovered that Trump's "zero tolerance" policies on illegal immigration caused the separation of children and parents.
NASA's Curiosity rover discovered water on Mars.
Claims of sexual harassment or misconduct ended the political careers of 11 Republicans and 13 Democrats in one year (#MeToo movement).
Apple became the first company in the world to be valued at $1 trillion on the stock market.
A report revealed that Catholic priests in Pennsylvania sexually abused more than 1,000 children.
Microwave weapons were suspected of causing brain illnesses to US employees in the U.S embassy in Cuba.
For the first time since 1973, the USA was the world's largest producer of crude oil, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia, producing more than 11 million barrels per day, mainly due to the Permian Basin in West Texas.
Amazon became the second company in the world to be valued at $1 trillion on the stock market.
Unemployment fell to 3.7% for the first time since 1969, and the Dow Jones index hits an all-time record of 26,828.
White Christian right-wing terrorist Cesar Sayoc, a fanatic Donald Trump supporter and Fox News viewer, mailed bombs to Democratic Party leaders (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, billionaire George Soros, actor Robert de Niro, and others).
Central American refugees started walking from Honduras towards Mexico and the USA, fleeing political turmoil in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Fox News referred to them as an "invasion."
White supremacist Robert Bowers killed 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the deadliest attack on Jews in the history of the USA.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul; and, after two weeks of denials, Saudi Arabia fired general Ahmed Al-Assir
The USA reneged on the nuclear deal with Iran and reimposed sanctions on Iran, which had complied with the deal.
Ian David Long killed 12 people in a bar in Thousand Oaks, California.
US government agencies and departments issued the 4th National Climate Assessment.
The CIA concluded that the Saudi crown prince, a Trump friend, ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination.
The FBI revealed "China’s non-traditional espionage against the USA."
Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of the USA from Syria, sparking the resignations of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other officials.
Seven sets of prosecutors and investigators were pursuing at least 17 court cases against Donald Trump.………………………………….
The Dow Jones index passed 25,000, a record high.
North Korea and South Korea marched together at the Winter Olympics, while the USA snubbed North Korea at the opening ceremony.
Trump signed a massive government spending plan that, following a $1 trillion tax cut, was projected to cause a government debt of 105% by 2027.
Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
Tens of thousands of young people rallied in Washington, D.C. demanding gun control.
The USA, Britain and France bombed Syria in retaliation for Syria's use of chemical weapons.
The USA introduced sanctions against ZTE, a $17 billion Chinese telecom firm that employed 75,000 workers and depended heavily on semiconductor components made in the USA (China still imported 90% of its semiconductor components).
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student, killed 10 fellow students at Santa Fe High School in Texas.
Television channel RT, owned by Russia, launched a campaign of disinformation in the USA about 5G technology, claiming that it caused brain cancer, infertility, autism, and Alzheimer's disease.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.8%, the lowest unemployment rate since 2000 and the same as in 1969, but the employed percentage of population was still at 60.4%, well below the level of 2007 (62.9%).
US president Trump and North Korean dictator Jong-un Kim met in Singapore, the first meeting ever between leaders of the two countries still formally at war.
Trump placed tariffs on imports from Europe, Canada, Japan and China, and both China and the European Union respond in kind starting a trade war.
The media discovered that Trump's "zero tolerance" policies on illegal immigration caused the separation of children and parents.
NASA's Curiosity rover discovered water on Mars.
Claims of sexual harassment or misconduct ended the political careers of 11 Republicans and 13 Democrats in one year (#MeToo movement).
Apple became the first company in the world to be valued at $1 trillion on the stock market.
A report revealed that Catholic priests in Pennsylvania sexually abused more than 1,000 children.
Microwave weapons were suspected of causing brain illnesses to US employees in the U.S embassy in Cuba.
For the first time since 1973, the USA was the world's largest producer of crude oil, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia, producing more than 11 million barrels per day, mainly due to the Permian Basin in West Texas.
Amazon became the second company in the world to be valued at $1 trillion on the stock market.
Unemployment fell to 3.7% for the first time since 1969, and the Dow Jones index hits an all-time record of 26,828.
White Christian right-wing terrorist Cesar Sayoc, a fanatic Donald Trump supporter and Fox News viewer, mailed bombs to Democratic Party leaders (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, billionaire George Soros, actor Robert de Niro, and others).
Central American refugees started walking from Honduras towards Mexico and the USA, fleeing political turmoil in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Fox News referred to them as an "invasion."
White supremacist Robert Bowers killed 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the deadliest attack on Jews in the history of the USA.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul; and, after two weeks of denials, Saudi Arabia fired general Ahmed Al-Assir
The USA reneged on the nuclear deal with Iran and reimposed sanctions on Iran, which had complied with the deal.
Ian David Long killed 12 people in a bar in Thousand Oaks, California.
US government agencies and departments issued the 4th National Climate Assessment.
The CIA concluded that the Saudi crown prince, a Trump friend, ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination.
The FBI revealed "China’s non-traditional espionage against the USA."
Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of the USA from Syria, sparking the resignations of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other officials.
Seven sets of prosecutors and investigators were pursuing at least 17 court cases against Donald Trump.………………………………….
2019 – Republican and Democratic Party Warfare Escalated
The USA withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, accusing Russia of violating the treaty.
Trump had the second-lowest approval rating in history.
The USA was isolated at the annual Munich Security Conference where Germany's chancellor Merkel received a standing ovation.
Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testified in Congress that Trump is a "cheat, a liar and a racist."
Two reports revealed that US forces and their allies killed more civilians than the Taliban in Afghanistan in the last 3 months and that the US-led bombing of Raqqa in 2017 killed 1,600 civilians.
The jobless rate at 3.6% was the lowest since 1969 after 490,000 people left the labor force during April.
A "trade war" between the USA and China escalated with restrictions on what technology China could buy from the USA, notably on Google's software for China's Huawei.
San Francisco banned face recognition technology.
A disgruntled employee killed 11 people at a government office in Virginia Beach.
Donald Trump insulted four black female members of Congress, known as "The Squad": Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.(Trump inexplicably told the four to go back to the countries they came from.)
Following the Saudi assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the Saudi atrocities in Yemen, Congress blocked the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia, but Donald Trump overruled Congress and still sells the weapons.
Fortune magazine's Global 500 Companies included 119 Chinese firms and 121 US firms.
The US intelligence chief Dan Coats resigned over Trump Russia issues.
Patrick Crusius killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart store targeting Hispanics; and Connor Betts killed 9 people at a Dayton nightclub, mostly used by African-Americans. Both racial groups were targeted by Donald Trump's racist tweets.
Donald Trump offered to buy Greenland from Denmark.
North Korea tested missiles capable of striking all of Japan and South Korea, including eight US military bases in those countries.
San Francisco formally labeled the pro-gun National Rifle Association (NRA) a "domestic terrorist organization."
The Repo Market blew up with interest rates spiking from 2.30% to 10%. [Note: “Repo” stands for “repurchase agreement.” The interest rate is what a borrower bank pays when it sells short-term government securities overnight in exchange for cash, agreeing to repurchase the securities the next day – and return the cash. The Federal Reserve Bank, which sets the price of overnight money, injected $275 billion into the repo market to stabilize the system. The actual rate banks charge to lend to one another overnight spiked higher last month. The reason is because the U.S. government is borrowing too many dollars (it’s on track to borrow $1 trillion in 2019), and there aren’t enough dollars in the system to meet the demand. So the Fed is forced to bridge the gap with fiat money. The Fed has begun monetizing the government debt for the first time since WWII.]
Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenage environmental activist on climate change worldwide demanded climate action at the United Nations.
Impeachment proceedings began against Donald Trump after it emerged that he urged Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky to revive discredited corruption allegations against his potential election rival Joe Biden
The unemployment rate falls to 3.5%, the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years
Trump orders the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, leaving the USA's allies, the Kurdish militias, undefended, and Turkey launched an invasion in Syria's Kurdish area.
Trump sent 3,000 additional troops to Saudi Arabia, just days after withdrawing troops from Syria.
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The USA withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, accusing Russia of violating the treaty.
Trump had the second-lowest approval rating in history.
The USA was isolated at the annual Munich Security Conference where Germany's chancellor Merkel received a standing ovation.
Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testified in Congress that Trump is a "cheat, a liar and a racist."
Two reports revealed that US forces and their allies killed more civilians than the Taliban in Afghanistan in the last 3 months and that the US-led bombing of Raqqa in 2017 killed 1,600 civilians.
The jobless rate at 3.6% was the lowest since 1969 after 490,000 people left the labor force during April.
A "trade war" between the USA and China escalated with restrictions on what technology China could buy from the USA, notably on Google's software for China's Huawei.
San Francisco banned face recognition technology.
A disgruntled employee killed 11 people at a government office in Virginia Beach.
Donald Trump insulted four black female members of Congress, known as "The Squad": Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.(Trump inexplicably told the four to go back to the countries they came from.)
Following the Saudi assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the Saudi atrocities in Yemen, Congress blocked the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia, but Donald Trump overruled Congress and still sells the weapons.
Fortune magazine's Global 500 Companies included 119 Chinese firms and 121 US firms.
The US intelligence chief Dan Coats resigned over Trump Russia issues.
Patrick Crusius killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart store targeting Hispanics; and Connor Betts killed 9 people at a Dayton nightclub, mostly used by African-Americans. Both racial groups were targeted by Donald Trump's racist tweets.
Donald Trump offered to buy Greenland from Denmark.
North Korea tested missiles capable of striking all of Japan and South Korea, including eight US military bases in those countries.
San Francisco formally labeled the pro-gun National Rifle Association (NRA) a "domestic terrorist organization."
The Repo Market blew up with interest rates spiking from 2.30% to 10%. [Note: “Repo” stands for “repurchase agreement.” The interest rate is what a borrower bank pays when it sells short-term government securities overnight in exchange for cash, agreeing to repurchase the securities the next day – and return the cash. The Federal Reserve Bank, which sets the price of overnight money, injected $275 billion into the repo market to stabilize the system. The actual rate banks charge to lend to one another overnight spiked higher last month. The reason is because the U.S. government is borrowing too many dollars (it’s on track to borrow $1 trillion in 2019), and there aren’t enough dollars in the system to meet the demand. So the Fed is forced to bridge the gap with fiat money. The Fed has begun monetizing the government debt for the first time since WWII.]
Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenage environmental activist on climate change worldwide demanded climate action at the United Nations.
Impeachment proceedings began against Donald Trump after it emerged that he urged Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky to revive discredited corruption allegations against his potential election rival Joe Biden
The unemployment rate falls to 3.5%, the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years
Trump orders the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, leaving the USA's allies, the Kurdish militias, undefended, and Turkey launched an invasion in Syria's Kurdish area.
Trump sent 3,000 additional troops to Saudi Arabia, just days after withdrawing troops from Syria.
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The Inward Ascent to the Immensity of Infinite Mind
It is natural, on Earth, to speak of Paradise as upward, but it is more correct to refer to the divine goal of ascension as inward from the material worlds of time and space through the vast Spiritual worlds to Infinity, which is not bound by Time and Space.[Note: Infinity has no beginning or end – Eternity has a beginning but no end.]
It is through the great test that mortals achieve the divine embrace of the Paradise Trinity, and be assigned to the services of the super universes, there to give their wise and understanding cooperation (along with the administrators of the Ancients of Days) in their untiring efforts to facilitate the inward progress of other ascending mortals toward their immediate Havona destination and then to the Paradise goal.
As the inward-ascending career unfolds from the nativity worlds of space, the ascenders continue to add group after group of spiritual beings to their ever-widening circle of universe associates.
Except for the perfect beings of Deity origin, all will creatures in the super universes are of evolutionary nature, beginning in lowly estate and climbing in reality inward.
It would be just as easy for the Universal Father to make all mortals perfect beings, to impart perfection by his divine word. But that would deprive the candidates of the wonderful experience of the adventure and training associated with the long and gradual inward climb, an experience to be had only by those who are so fortunate as to begin at the very bottom of living existence.
The glory of it all augments as ex-mortals ascend inward and achieve increased capacity for enlarged appreciation of divine meanings and spiritual values.
As mortals ascend inward in the scale of life, they will always retain the ability to recognize and fraternize with the fellow beings of their previous and lower levels of experience.
But as ascending man reaches inward for the God experience, he will likewise be reaching outward and space-ward for an energy understanding of the material cosmos.
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It is natural, on Earth, to speak of Paradise as upward, but it is more correct to refer to the divine goal of ascension as inward from the material worlds of time and space through the vast Spiritual worlds to Infinity, which is not bound by Time and Space.[Note: Infinity has no beginning or end – Eternity has a beginning but no end.]
It is through the great test that mortals achieve the divine embrace of the Paradise Trinity, and be assigned to the services of the super universes, there to give their wise and understanding cooperation (along with the administrators of the Ancients of Days) in their untiring efforts to facilitate the inward progress of other ascending mortals toward their immediate Havona destination and then to the Paradise goal.
As the inward-ascending career unfolds from the nativity worlds of space, the ascenders continue to add group after group of spiritual beings to their ever-widening circle of universe associates.
Except for the perfect beings of Deity origin, all will creatures in the super universes are of evolutionary nature, beginning in lowly estate and climbing in reality inward.
It would be just as easy for the Universal Father to make all mortals perfect beings, to impart perfection by his divine word. But that would deprive the candidates of the wonderful experience of the adventure and training associated with the long and gradual inward climb, an experience to be had only by those who are so fortunate as to begin at the very bottom of living existence.
The glory of it all augments as ex-mortals ascend inward and achieve increased capacity for enlarged appreciation of divine meanings and spiritual values.
As mortals ascend inward in the scale of life, they will always retain the ability to recognize and fraternize with the fellow beings of their previous and lower levels of experience.
But as ascending man reaches inward for the God experience, he will likewise be reaching outward and space-ward for an energy understanding of the material cosmos.
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Understanding the Material Universe
There is a hidden interconnection and inter-dependency of everything and everyone in existence.
The basic building blocks of energy-matter are structured as follows:
1. Ultimaton
2. Neutrino
3. Quark
4. Electron
5. Neutron
6. Mesotron
7. Proton
8. Atom
All forms or materializations are aggregates of the basic building blocks of matter. These particles are present throughout the universes.
It is at these hubs that energy is converted into matter or back into the desired energy.
Above this level are aggregations of such particles into the larger and larger forms ranging from atoms to super galaxies. Beyond these levels, in Infinity, only force and potential exist.
All of these manifestations have one thing in common. They are all based on the universal building block of the ultimaton. These particles cluster together into the protons, neutrons, and electrons used to construct atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, and super organisms in the relative cosmic reality of time and space.
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There is a hidden interconnection and inter-dependency of everything and everyone in existence.
The basic building blocks of energy-matter are structured as follows:
1. Ultimaton
2. Neutrino
3. Quark
4. Electron
5. Neutron
6. Mesotron
7. Proton
8. Atom
All forms or materializations are aggregates of the basic building blocks of matter. These particles are present throughout the universes.
It is at these hubs that energy is converted into matter or back into the desired energy.
Above this level are aggregations of such particles into the larger and larger forms ranging from atoms to super galaxies. Beyond these levels, in Infinity, only force and potential exist.
All of these manifestations have one thing in common. They are all based on the universal building block of the ultimaton. These particles cluster together into the protons, neutrons, and electrons used to construct atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, and super organisms in the relative cosmic reality of time and space.
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The Reality of Religious Experience
Reason grows out of material awareness, faith out of spiritual awareness, but through the mediation of a philosophy strengthened by revelation, logic may confirm both the inward and the outward view, thereby effecting the stabilization of both science and religion.
While mortals are in nature evolving inward and upward from man to God, the Thought Adjusters (fragments of the Universal Father) are in nature evolving outward and downward from God to man. The final product of this union of divinity and humanity will eternally be the son of man and the son of God. The Thought Adjusters are dedicated to the stupendous task of guiding mortals safely inward and upward to the celestial haven.
The Ascent Upward and Inward
Humans start out in their mind of mortal investment in the seventh circle and journey inward in the task of self-understanding, self-conquest, and self-mastery; and circle by circle advance until (if natural death does not terminate their career and transfer their struggles to the mansion worlds) they reach the first or inner circle of relative contact and communion with the indwelling Adjuster. Personal guardian angels are assigned to each mortal upon reaching the third circle.
Animals do not sense time as does man, and even to man, because of his sectional and circumscribed view, time appears as a succession of events; but as man ascends, as he progresses inward, the enlarging view of this event procession is such that it is discerned more and more in its wholeness.
As personality passes on, upward and inward, to the transcendental levels of Deity-likeness, the time-space concept will increasingly approximate the timeless and spaceless concepts of the Absolutes.
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Reason grows out of material awareness, faith out of spiritual awareness, but through the mediation of a philosophy strengthened by revelation, logic may confirm both the inward and the outward view, thereby effecting the stabilization of both science and religion.
While mortals are in nature evolving inward and upward from man to God, the Thought Adjusters (fragments of the Universal Father) are in nature evolving outward and downward from God to man. The final product of this union of divinity and humanity will eternally be the son of man and the son of God. The Thought Adjusters are dedicated to the stupendous task of guiding mortals safely inward and upward to the celestial haven.
The Ascent Upward and Inward
Humans start out in their mind of mortal investment in the seventh circle and journey inward in the task of self-understanding, self-conquest, and self-mastery; and circle by circle advance until (if natural death does not terminate their career and transfer their struggles to the mansion worlds) they reach the first or inner circle of relative contact and communion with the indwelling Adjuster. Personal guardian angels are assigned to each mortal upon reaching the third circle.
Animals do not sense time as does man, and even to man, because of his sectional and circumscribed view, time appears as a succession of events; but as man ascends, as he progresses inward, the enlarging view of this event procession is such that it is discerned more and more in its wholeness.
As personality passes on, upward and inward, to the transcendental levels of Deity-likeness, the time-space concept will increasingly approximate the timeless and spaceless concepts of the Absolutes.
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Spiritual Reality
Brotherhood is a fact in nature.
We are fragments of Oneness seeking fusion with Oneness.
We are ONE at the highest spiritual component of our nature.
We must understand individuals are not separate from humanity or the world.
We must emphasize brotherhood, altruism, and compassion in our daily lives.
We must strive to know our higher self, the Thought Adjuster
We must act for and as the Self of All.
Lucifer’s Attempted Theft of Liberty
With the Eternal Son and in the Infinite Spirit, God projected the perfect and eternal central universe (Havona), and ever since there has realized the eternal pattern of coordinate participation in creation – sharing. This pattern of sharing is the master design for every one of the Sons and Daughters of God who go out into space to engage in the attempt to duplicate in time the central universe of eternal perfection. Every creature of every evolving universe who aspires to do the Father’s will is destined to become the partner of the time-space Creators in this magnificent adventure of experiential perfection attainment. Were this not true, the Father would have hardly endowed such creatures with creative free will, neither would he indwell them, actually go into partnership with them by means of his own spirit.
Lucifer’s folly was the attempt to do the non-doable, to short-circuit time in an experiential universe. Lucifer’s crime was the attempted creative disenfranchisement of every personality in Satania (Earth’s constellation), the unrecognized abridgment of the creature’s personal participation – freewill participation — in the long evolutionary struggle to attain the status of light and life both individually and collectively. In so doing, Lucifer, this onetime Sovereign of our system set the temporal purpose of his own will directly against the eternal purpose of God’s will as it is revealed in the bestowal of free will upon all personal creatures. The Lucifer rebellion threatened the maximum possible infringement of the freewill choice of the ascenders and servers of the system of Satania – a threat forevermore to deprive every one of these beings of the thrilling experience of contributing something personal and unique to the slowly erecting monument to experiential wisdom which will sometime exist as the perfected system of Satania. Thus does the Lucifer manifesto, masquerading in the habiliments of liberty, stand forth in the clear light of reason as a monumental threat to consummate the theft of personal liberty. In short, what God had given men and angels, Lucifer would have taken away from them, that is, the divine privilege of participating in the creation of their own destinies and of the destiny of this local system of inhabited worlds. No being in all the universe has the rightful liberty to deprive any other being of true liberty, the right to love and be loved, the privilege of worshiping God and of serving his fellows.
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Brotherhood is a fact in nature.
We are fragments of Oneness seeking fusion with Oneness.
We are ONE at the highest spiritual component of our nature.
We must understand individuals are not separate from humanity or the world.
We must emphasize brotherhood, altruism, and compassion in our daily lives.
We must strive to know our higher self, the Thought Adjuster
We must act for and as the Self of All.
Lucifer’s Attempted Theft of Liberty
With the Eternal Son and in the Infinite Spirit, God projected the perfect and eternal central universe (Havona), and ever since there has realized the eternal pattern of coordinate participation in creation – sharing. This pattern of sharing is the master design for every one of the Sons and Daughters of God who go out into space to engage in the attempt to duplicate in time the central universe of eternal perfection. Every creature of every evolving universe who aspires to do the Father’s will is destined to become the partner of the time-space Creators in this magnificent adventure of experiential perfection attainment. Were this not true, the Father would have hardly endowed such creatures with creative free will, neither would he indwell them, actually go into partnership with them by means of his own spirit.
Lucifer’s folly was the attempt to do the non-doable, to short-circuit time in an experiential universe. Lucifer’s crime was the attempted creative disenfranchisement of every personality in Satania (Earth’s constellation), the unrecognized abridgment of the creature’s personal participation – freewill participation — in the long evolutionary struggle to attain the status of light and life both individually and collectively. In so doing, Lucifer, this onetime Sovereign of our system set the temporal purpose of his own will directly against the eternal purpose of God’s will as it is revealed in the bestowal of free will upon all personal creatures. The Lucifer rebellion threatened the maximum possible infringement of the freewill choice of the ascenders and servers of the system of Satania – a threat forevermore to deprive every one of these beings of the thrilling experience of contributing something personal and unique to the slowly erecting monument to experiential wisdom which will sometime exist as the perfected system of Satania. Thus does the Lucifer manifesto, masquerading in the habiliments of liberty, stand forth in the clear light of reason as a monumental threat to consummate the theft of personal liberty. In short, what God had given men and angels, Lucifer would have taken away from them, that is, the divine privilege of participating in the creation of their own destinies and of the destiny of this local system of inhabited worlds. No being in all the universe has the rightful liberty to deprive any other being of true liberty, the right to love and be loved, the privilege of worshiping God and of serving his fellows.
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Faith Alone
The Old Testament teaching was that salvation could be secured only by good works – sacrifices and offerings. Melchizedek and Michael/Jesus both brought the good news to Earth that salvation is to be had by faith alone. When an attempt is made to make plain the realities of the spirit world to the physical minds of the material order, mystery appears: mysteries so subtle and so profound that only the faith-grasp of the God-knowing mortal can achieve the philosophic miracle of the recognition of the Infinite by the finite.
2019 (Continued)
Trump ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, leaving the USA's allies, the Kurdish militias, undefended. Turkey launched an invasion on Syria's Kurdish area, and, within days, Russian troops replaced US troops.
Trump sent 3,000 additional troops to Saudi Arabia, just days after withdrawing troops from Syria.
Trump pulled the USA out of the Paris climate agreement.
To Be Continued as 2019 Events Unfold
Please visit the companion blog page, “Earth’s Transformation.”
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The Old Testament teaching was that salvation could be secured only by good works – sacrifices and offerings. Melchizedek and Michael/Jesus both brought the good news to Earth that salvation is to be had by faith alone. When an attempt is made to make plain the realities of the spirit world to the physical minds of the material order, mystery appears: mysteries so subtle and so profound that only the faith-grasp of the God-knowing mortal can achieve the philosophic miracle of the recognition of the Infinite by the finite.
2019 (Continued)
Trump ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, leaving the USA's allies, the Kurdish militias, undefended. Turkey launched an invasion on Syria's Kurdish area, and, within days, Russian troops replaced US troops.
Trump sent 3,000 additional troops to Saudi Arabia, just days after withdrawing troops from Syria.
Trump pulled the USA out of the Paris climate agreement.
To Be Continued as 2019 Events Unfold
Please visit the companion blog page, “Earth’s Transformation.”
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