In this graphic, Julie Peasley shows how many one-dollar bills it would take to stack up to the total U.S. debt of $31.4 trillion.From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
The Campaign to Repeal the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 is not about giving citizenship rights to non-citizens. It is about upholding the Supreme Law of the Land to abolish bondage, servitude, and slavery. The Reconstruction of America is not yet over. Slavery re-appeared in this Land in a new form and remains hidden or unnoticed. ‘The Clinton Curse’ explains as to why the United States failed on August 22, 1996. The Curse reveals the nature of The Beast that is waiting to overtake this nation.
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
THE CLINTON CURSE – THE BEAST IS WAITING TO OVERTAKE THE UNITED STATES
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
WHERE IS THE PROTECTION FOR MAN DURING THE GOLDEN YEARS OF HIS LIFE? HOW TO SURVIVE THE CLINTON CURSE?
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
THE GREAT AWAKENING MOVEMENT. SPIRITUAL WARFARE AGAINST THE CLINTON CURSE
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
A NEW BEGINNING IN AUGUST 1996 TO BALANCE THE BUDGET – RECOGNIZE REALITY OF THE CLINTON CURSE. AN ECONOMIC DISASTER SET IN MOTION
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
PRESIDENT CLINTON’S NEW BEGINNING IN 1996.
ECONOMIC OPPRESSION OF ALIEN WORKERS
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion. The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
On August 22, 1996, US President Bill Clinton (Democrat) signed into Law that reintroduced Slavery, Involuntary Servitude, Serfdom and Forced Labor in the pretext of making ‘A New Beginning’.
Welfare Reform Act or Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) is unjust and unfair for it violates Constitutional Law that defends natural rights of all people living in United States. All US taxpayers must be treated as equals for receiving retirement income benefits for which they paid taxes. President Clinton’s action constitutes a transgression of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation that saved US Non-Citizens or Aliens from the indignity of Slavery.
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion. The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
EXPOSING THE CLINTON CURSE – TRAVESTY OF EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION IS THE UNDERLYING CAUSE OF 2021 ECONOMIC DISASTER
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
NATURAL LAW vs MAN MADE LAW – CLINTON’S SLAVERY MANDATE IS CONTEMPT OF OVER 600,000 AMERICANS WHO DIED BECAUSE OF SLAVERY
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion. The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
US CONGRESS MUST DO THE RIGHT THING TO SAVE AMERICA FROM THE CLINTON CURSE, THE ECONOMIC DISASTER OF 2021.
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
I ask my readers to review 43-word 13th Amendment and tell me if those words still govern, rule, and operate the lives of all people, wage earners who perform labor in the US paying taxes. My readers should not be surprised if I describe the US Congress as “Slave Driver.” The reason for my claim is based on the ‘PRWORA’ enacted by the US Congress in 1996 amending The US Social Security Act of 1935. This legal provision enacted by 104th US Congress is incorporated as Section 202(y) of the Social Security Act. It mandates that no Retirement Income benefits shall be payable to registered alien(non-citizen) taxpayers in the United States without showing proof of lawful residency as determined by the Attorney General. In my view, the Social Security Administration must not demand a document such as an unexpired Employment Authorization Document (EAD if an alien worker has attained full retirement age as determined by law.
Social Security Act, Section 202(y) violates the principle enshrined in those 43 words called the 13th Amendment. This 1996 amendment to the Social Security Act is fundamentally flawed for it is unconstitutional. It takes away the property rights (earnings, wages, and retirement income) of individuals who paid Federal, State, Local, Social Security and Medicare Taxes working in this country to attain the full retirement age.
The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln (Republican) in September 1862 came into effect on January 01, 1863 freeing slaves in all territory still at War with the Union.
These slaves were not citizens of the Land and had no political rights of their own. In Law, Servitude or Slavery refers to the burden imposed upon the property of a person by a specified right another has in its use. Servitude involves labor in which the person who performs labor has no right to his earnings from labor. The Emancipation Proclamation specifically protects, defends, preserves and safeguards rights of aliens or non-citizens residing in the United States.
The amended Social Security Act unfairly gives power to the Social Security Administration to withhold the property (wages, earnings, monthly retirement income benefits) of alien workers who are not convicted felons. In my analysis, the Social Security Act of 1935 amended in 1996 fails to enshrine the guiding principles clearly stated in the US Constitution, the Supreme Law of this Land.
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion. The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
I ask my readers to make the distinction between Social Security Tax and Monthly Retirement Benefit. The first represents tax paid to the government and the second represents earning or wage entitled to a retired person to provide income and security during old age.
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
The 150th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment on December 9, 2015.
Speaker Ryan’s Press Office
WASHINGTON – Earlier today, at a ceremony in Emancipation Hall of the United States Capitol Visitor Center, President Obama and leaders of Congress commemorated the 150th anniversary of the 13th amendment to the Constitution. Following are House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) remarks at the ceremony, as prepared for delivery:
The Thirteenth Amendment is just 43 words long. It is so short that, when you read it, you can almost miss the whole significance. You have to stop and remind yourself that 600,000 people died in the Civil War—600,000 died over 43 words. Or to be more precise, they died in a war that decided whether those 43 words would ever be written.
All said and done, President Clinton’s Evil Plan failed to resolve the problem of National Debt. The Repeal PRWORA Movement exposes President Clinton’s contemptuous violation of the Constitutional Principles of equal protection, equal justice and equal treatment under Law.
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
The US Social Security Administration must either obtain a criminal conviction or designate the Senior Alien workers as SLAVEs to withhold the payment of the monthly retirement income benefits.
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996?President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
President Clinton’s Slavery Law of 1996 tramples upon fundamental freedoms and human dignity entitled to all human beings without any concern for their country of origin or citizenship status.
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion. The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
The US Congress can levy taxes but cannot deprive any person of Life, Liberty and Property without the due process of Law. The United States needs the Blessings of LORD God’s Promise to Balance the Budget and to solve the problem of mounting National Debt.
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion. The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996?President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
President Clinton’s tricks and gimmicks will utterly ruin and destroy the Nation for he failed to obey the LORD.
From August 22, 1996 to August 22,2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
From August 22, 1996 to August 22, 2021. Review of an economic disaster set in motion.The Clinton Curse. Why the United States failed on August 22, 1996? President Clinton shifted the burden of the Cross on to the shoulders of an alien worker.
The Day of Reckoning For President Clinton’s Unjust and Unfair Welfare Reform Act subverting The Social Security ActAugust 14, 2021. The Day of Reckoning For President Clinton’s Unjust and Unfair Welfare Reform Act of 1996 subverting The Social Security Act of 1935. THE SSA IS SLAVE DRIVER. EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974 (ERISA) DOES NOT COVER THE RETIREMENT INSURANCE BENEFIT PLAN SPONSORED BY THE SSA.
On this day, August 14, 1935, FDR signs the Social Security Act. However, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) does not cover Retirement Insurance Benefit Plans sponsored by government entities such as the Social Security Administration (SSA). This glaring omission of Social Security Retirement Insurance Benefit Plan from the protection offered by ERISA transformed SSA into “Slave Driver.” SSA uses this absence of oversight with great impunity to violate the principles of Equal Protection guaranteed by the US Constitutional Law.
August 14, 2021. The Day of Reckoning For President Clinton’s Unjust and Unfair Welfare Reform Act of 1996 subverting The Social Security Act of 1935.
President Bill Clinton on August 22, 1996, sabotaged the Social Security Act of 1935 to introduce his ‘A New Beginning’. His Welfare Reform Act of 1996 marks The New Beginning of Slavery in the United States.
The Day of Reckoning For President Clinton’s Unjust and Unfair Welfare Reform Act subverting The Social Security Act
August 14, 2021. The Day of Reckoning For President Clinton’s Unjust and Unfair Welfare Reform Act of 1996 subverting The Social Security Act of 1935. On AUGUST 14, 1935 ROOSEVELT SIGNS SOCIAL SECURITY ACT. SSA SLAVE DRIVER FOR IT ADMINISTERS RETIREMENT INSURANCE BENEFIT PLAN OUTSIDE PURVIEW OF EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974 (ERISA).
On this day in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Social Security Act. Press photographers snapped pictures as FDR, flanked by ranking members of Congress, signed into law the historic act, which guaranteed an income for the unemployed and retirees. FDR commended Congress for what he considered to be a “patriotic” act.
Roosevelt had taken the helm of the country in 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, the nation’s worst economic crisis. The Social Security Act (SSA) was in keeping with his other “New Deal” programs, including the establishment of the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, which attempted to hoist America out of the Great Depression by putting Americans back to work.
In his public statement that day, FDR expressed concern for “young people [who] have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old age” as well as those who had employment but no job security. Although he acknowledged that “we can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life,” he hoped the act would prevent senior citizens from ending up impoverished.
Although it was initially created to combat unemployment, Social Security now functions primarily as a safety net for retirees and the disabled and provides death benefits to taxpayer dependents. The Social Security system has remained relatively unchanged since 1935.
August 14, 2021. The Day of Reckoning For President Clinton’s Unjust and Unfair Welfare Reform Act of 1996 subverting The Social Security Act of 1935. SSA SLAVE DRIVER FOR ITS RETIREMENT INCOME INSURANCE BENEFIT PLAN IS NOT COVERED BY THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974 (ERISA).August 14, 2021. The Day of Reckoning For President Clinton’s Unjust and Unfair Welfare Reform Act of 1996 subverting The Social Security Act of 1935.
In my analysis, the economic disaster caused by the Coronavirus pandemic will compel people to reckon with the Unjust Decree enacted by President Bill Clinton.
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WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? I LIVE ON WHOLE FOOD WORKING WHOLE TIME
Whole Foods-Whole Promise: What You do for a Living? I work not as a part-time, or full-time, not as a temporary or permanent, not as a seasonal or regular employee.. I LIVE ON WHOLE FOOD WORKING WHOLE TIME. We’re growing something good and we want you to be part of it. If you’re ready to make a difference, bring your Whole Self to Whole Foods. Whole Dude-Whole Time makes the Whole Difference.
On Tuesday, the Sixth Day of August 2019, I coined the phrase ‘WHOLE DUDE-WHOLE TIME’ to answer the question, “What do you do for a Living?” I live on Whole Food working Whole Time. I do this Whole Job to live as Whole Dude my Whole Life. In my analysis, the very complex natural phenomenon called Living always demands the support from an external agency and the wages or salary earned by any person simply accounts for the icing on the cake.
WHOLE FOODS – WHOLE PROMISE
Bringing Your Whole Self
Your whole self isn’t just the way you dress or show up to work. For us, it’s expressed in the very way we do business. We volunteer at and donate to organizations that matter to you. We build a career path around your goals. And we hire teams that feel like families. When you’re here, you can be you.
I received a letter from the Whole Foods Market inviting me to shop at Whole Foods, Ann Arbor. The letter reads:
“We’re growing something good and we want you to be part of it. If you’re ready to make a difference, bring your Whole Self to Whole Foods.”
In my analysis, I cannot be classified either as White-Collar, or Blue-Collar Worker. I cannot be described as a Part-Time, or Full-Time, a Temporary or Permanent, a Seasonal, or Regular Employee of any entity that provides the earnings, or wages in exchange for any mental or physical work performed by my human body.To live as Whole Dude is a Whole Time Job.
Whole Dude, Whole Man, Whole Person , or Whole Self works Whole Time during his Whole Life, from the moment of his conception until his death, by performing the Whole Job or Whole Work called Cellular Respiration even when he watches the TV relaxing on his couch or even when he is snoring, fast asleep in his bed.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define full-time employment or part-time employment. This is a matter generally to be determined by the employer. Whether an employee is considered full-time or part-time does not change the application of the FLSA, nor does it affect the application of the Service Contract Act or Davis-Bacon and Related Acts wage and fringe benefit requirements.
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What do You do for a Living? To reply the question, I ask You to Think Outside the Box.
I ask my readers to totally avoid the narrow perspective of equating the term job with the complex phenomenon called living. I am asking you to step outside the “BOX.”
I ask you to learn the correct manner in which you answer the basic questions about Life and Living. What do you do for a living? The answer does not require your nationality, citizenship status, your race, your gender, your educational experience, and not even your occupational history.
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? I LIVE ON WHOLE FOOD WHOLE TIME.
Whole Job-Whole Life. What are Living Functions?
What do You do for a Living? Whole Dude-Whole Time. Living as the Whole Dude is a Whole Time Whole Job for Whole Life.
Spirituality Science. What do you do for a Living?
THE PROCESS, THE MECHANISM CALLED CELLULAR RESPIRATION IS NOT A LEARNED OR ACQUIRED EXPERIENCE. NO SPIRITUAL TEACHER, NO SPIRITUAL MASTER, AND NO SPIRITUAL GUIDE CAN IMPLANT THIS KNOWLEDGE IN MAN.
At a fundamental level, the Living System called man is thermodynamically unstable and it means that the System demands a constant supply of energy from an external source. The process or the mechanism called ‘Cellular Respiration’ is involved in energy acquisition, energy manipulation, energy transformation, and energy expenditure involved in the performance of the numerous Living Functions that establish the fact of the Living Thing existing in its given environment at any given place and time.
The Knowledge Theory vs The Living Functions:
What You do for a Living? Whole Dude-Whole Time. Living as the Whole Dude is a Whole Time Job for Whole Life.
Spirituality Science. What do you do for Living? Many important biological processes involve Redox or Oxidation and Reduction Chemical Reactions. These chemical reactions reveal a dynamic process that is the characteristic of both Life and Death. If Life is explained by a series of chemical reactions, the same process continues into Death.
WHAT IS LIFE? LIFE IS KNOWLEDGE IN ACTION:
What do You do for a Living? Whole Dude-Whole Time. What do you do for your living? Living as the Whole Dude is a Whole Time Whole Job for Whole Life.
I SAY I GRIND, YOU GRIND, LIFE IS NOTHING BUT A DAILY GRIND.
What do you do for a Living? I live on Whole Food working Whole Time.What do You do for a Living? I SAY I GRIND, YOU GRIND, LIFE IS NOTHING BUT A DAILY GRIND.
In my analysis, FLSA is fundamentally flawed for it divides workers into categories such as “White Collar” and “Blue Collar” without understanding the basis for the man’s existence in the natural world.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was signed into law on June 25, 1938 claiming that it will provide protection to people working in the US.
Knowledge Work vs Manual Work. In my analysis, FLSA is fundamentally flawed for it divides workers into categories such as “White Collar” and “Blue Collar” without understanding the basis for the man’s existence in the natural world.
In my analysis, FLSA is fundamentally flawed for it divides workers into categories such as “White Collar” and “Blue Collar” without understanding the basis for the man’s existence in the natural world.
Knowledge Work vs Manual Work. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is fundamentally flawed.
There can be no distinction such as the Skilled and Unskilled among the workers as Life can only be defined as ‘Knowledge in Action’. All human beings process similar kind of information and use chemical energy to perform similar kinds of sequential, guided, purposeful and goal-oriented actions described as ‘Metabolism’. In fact, no man can perform Unskilled work.
In my analysis, FLSA is fundamentally flawed for it divides workers into categories such as “White Collar” and “Blue Collar” without understanding the basis for the man’s existence in the natural world.
I ask the US Congress and The US Department of Labor to discard the flawed Act and dump into the dustbin to put an end to the division of workers into White and Blue Collar. As such, each employee and his or her employer must make the determination about compensation or remuneration and agree upon the terms for wages and benefits for performing any kind of labor.
In my analysis, FLSA is fundamentally flawed for it divides workers into categories such as “White Collar” and “Blue Collar” without understanding the basis for the man’s existence in the natural world. In my analysis, FLSA is fundamentally flawed for it divides workers into categories such as “White Collar” and “Blue Collar” without understanding the basis for the man’s existence in the natural world.
In my view, the Natural Sciences and the Medical Science in particular does not validate the concept of the White-Collar or the Managerial Class as no human being performs executive, administrative, or professional service while operating the metabolic functions of human bodies of their own. No man lives as the boss, the manager, the administrator, the executive officer, the ruler, the governor, or the controller of his own body.
The Hourly vs the Salaried Employees. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is fundamentally flawed.
I ask my readers to reject the assumptions and the criteria described by the Fair Labor Standards Act as they contribute to Unequal Employment Opportunities at the American Workplace. As such the Fair Labor Standards Act is not consistent with the Natural Law principle of Equality that formulates the Supreme Law of this Land.
In my analysis, FLSA is fundamentally flawed for it divides workers into categories such as “White Collar” and “Blue Collar” without understanding the basis for the man’s existence in the natural world.
FACT SHEET – WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION (WHD) – U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
In my analysis, FLSA is fundamentally flawed for it divides workers into categories such as “White Collar” and “Blue Collar” without understanding the basis for the man’s existence in the natural world.
Fact Sheet #17S: Higher Education Institutions and Overtime Pay Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
The FLSA requires that a non-exempt employee receive minimum wages for his or her work, as well as overtime wages whenever he or she works more than 40 hours in a workweek. Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA, however, exempts certain employees who perform bona fide executive, administrative, professional, and outside sales duties from minimum wage and overtime requirements. These exemptions are often called the “white-collar” exemptions. This fact sheet discusses the applicability of these exemptions to jobs that are common in higher education institutions.
The Exempt vs the Non-Exempt Employees. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is fundamentally flawed.
General Requirements for Exemptions
To qualify for a white collar exemption, an employee must generally satisfy three tests:
1. The employee must be paid on a salary basis that is not subject to reduction based on the quality or quantity of work (the “salary basis test”), rather than, for example, on an hourly basis;
2. The employee must receive a salary at a rate not less than $455* per week (the “salary level test”); and
3. The employee’s primary duty must involve the kind of work associated with the exempt status sought, such as executive, administrative, or professional work (the “duties test”).
A teacher is exempt if his or her primary duty is teaching, tutoring, instructing, or lecturing to impart knowledge, and if he or she is performing that duty as an employee of an educational establishment. See 29 C.F.R. § 541.303. Educational establishments include elementary school systems, secondary school systems, institutions of higher education, and other educational institutions. See 29 C.F.R. § 541.204(b). If a bona fide teacher meets this duty requirement, the salary level and salary basis tests do not apply. See 29 C.F.R. §§ 541.303(d), 541.600(e). Given these standards, professors, instructors, and adjunct professors typically qualify for this exemption.
A faculty member who teaches online or remotely also may qualify for this exemption. The regulations do not restrict where bona fide teaching may take place, to whom the knowledge can be imparted, or how many hours a teacher must work per week to qualify for the exemption. The exemption would therefore ordinarily apply, for example, to a part-time faculty member of an educational establishment whose primary duty is to provide instruction through online courses to remote non-credit learners. The exemption could likewise apply, for example, to an agricultural extension agent who is employed by an educational establishment to travel and provide instruction to farmers, if the agent’s primary duty is teaching, instructing, or lecturing to impart knowledge. To determine a teacher’s primary duty, the relevant inquiry in all cases is the teacher’s actual job duties. Job titles or full/part-time status alone do not determine exempt status.
A teacher does not become non-exempt merely because he or she spends a considerable amount of time in extracurricular activities (such as coaching athletic teams or supervising student clubs), provided the teacher’s primary duty is teaching.
Coaches
Athletic coaches employed by higher education institutions may qualify for the teacher exemption. After all, teaching may include instructing student-athletes in how to perform their sport. But a coach will not qualify for the exemption if his or her primary duties are recruiting students to play sports or visiting high schools and athletic camps to conduct student interviews. The amount of time the coach spends instructing student-athletes in a team sport is relevant, but not the exclusive factor, in determining the coach’s exempt status.
Professional Employees
The FLSA provides for several kinds of exempt professional employees—such as learned professionals, creative professionals, teachers, and employees practicing law or medicine. In higher education, employees eligible for the professional exemption are often either teachers (as discussed above) or learned professionals (as described below). To qualify as a learned professional, the employee must satisfy three requirements:
1. The employee’s primary duty must be the performance of work requiring advanced knowledge;
2. The advanced knowledge must be in a field of science or learning; and
3. The advanced knowledge must be customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction.
See 29 C.F.R. § 541.301. Unless the employee is a teacher or practicing law or medicine, he or she must also satisfy the above-referenced salary basis and salary level tests to be an exempt professional.
In higher education, examples of exempt non-teacher learned professionals generally include certified public accountants, psychologists, certified athletic trainers, and librarians. Postdoctoral fellows, who conduct research at a higher education institution after completing their doctoral studies, likewise generally meet the duties requirements of the learned professional exemption, and they may additionally qualify for the teacher exemption if teaching is their primary duty. Of course, an employee’s qualification for the exemption depends on his or her actual job duties and education. Job titles alone are not sufficient for determining whether an employee satisfies the duties test.
Administrative Employees
Various employees at higher educational institutions may qualify as exempt administrative employees. The administrative exemption applies when the following requirements are met:
1. The employee’s compensation must satisfy the above-referenced salary basis and salary level tests;
2. The employee’s primary duty must be the performance of office or non-manual work directly related to the management or general business operations of the employer or the employer’s customers; and
3. The employee’s primary duty must include the exercise of discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance.
See 29 C.F.R. § 541.200. Such administrative employees in higher education might include, for example, admissions counselors or student financial aid officers. An employee’s qualification for the exemption depends on his or her actual job duties; job titles alone are not sufficient for determining whether an employee satisfies the duties test.
Notably, there are specific regulatory provisions for certain administrative employees—known as “academic administrative employees”—whose primary duty is performing administrative functions directly related to academic instruction or training in an educational establishment. To be exempt as an academic administrative professional:
1. The employee must satisfy the above-referenced salary basis and salary level tests or receive a salary of at least the entrance salary for teachers in the same educational establishment; and
2. The employee’s primary duty must be to perform administrative functions directly related to academic instruction or training in an educational establishment.
See 29 C.F.R. § 541.204. Employees who work in higher education but whose work does not relate to the educational field (such as work in general business operations) do not qualify as exempt academic administrative employees. See id.
In higher education institutions, exempt academic administrative personnel generally include department heads, intervention specialists who are available to respond to student academic issues, and other employees with similar responsibilities. Exempt administrative personnel would likewise generally include academic counselors who administer school testing programs, assist students with academic problems, and advise students concerning degree requirements. Again, whether an employee satisfies the duties test for these exemptions depends on the employee’s actual job duties, not just the employee’s job title.
Executive Employees
To qualify for the executive exemption, an employee must satisfy the following tests:
1. The employee must receive compensation that satisfies the above-referenced salary basis and salary level tests;
2. The employee’s primary duty must be managing the enterprise or a customarily recognized department or subdivision thereof;
3. The employee must customarily and regularly direct the work of at least two or more other full-time employees or their equivalent (for example, one full-time and two half-time employees); and
4. The employee must have the authority to hire or fire other employees, or in the alternative, the employee’s suggestions and recommendations as to the hiring, firing, advancement, promotion, or any other change of status of other employees must be given particular weight.
See 29 C.F.R. § 541.100. Various positions in higher education institutions might qualify for the executive exemption, including deans, department heads, directors, and any other manager or supervisor whose job duties and compensation satisfy the above criteria.
Student-Employees
As a general matter, most students who work for their college or university are hourly non-exempt workers and do not work more than 40 hours per week. The following, however, are examples of students who often receive a salary or other non-hourly compensation:
· Graduate Teaching Assistants. Graduate teaching assistants whose primary duty is teaching are exempt. Because they qualify for the teacher exemption, they are not subject to the salary basis and salary level tests.
· Research Assistants. Generally, an educational relationship exists when a graduate or undergraduate student performs research under a faculty member’s supervision while obtaining a degree. Under these circumstances, the Department would not assert that an employment relationship exists with either the school or any grantor funding the student’s research. This is true even though the student may receive a stipend for performing the research.
· Student Residential Assistants. Students enrolled in bona fide educational programs who are residential assistants and receive reduced room or board charges or tuition credits are not generally considered employees under the FLSA. They therefore are not entitled to minimum wages and overtime under the FLSA.
An employment relationship will generally exist when a student receives compensation and his or her duties are not part of an overall education program. For example, students who work at food service counters, sell programs or usher at events, or wash dishes in dining halls and anticipate some compensation (for example, money or meals) are generally considered employees entitled to minimum wage and overtime compensation.
Compensatory Time at Public Universities
Public universities or colleges that qualify as a “public agency” under the FLSA may compensate non-exempt employees with compensatory time off (or “comp time”) in lieu of overtime pay. A college or university is a public agency under the FLSA if it is a political subdivision of a State. When determining whether a college or university is a “political subdivision,” the Department considers whether (1) the State directly created the entity, or (2) individuals administering the entity are responsible to public officials or the general electorate.
If the public university or college qualifies as a public agency, non-exempt employees generally may not accrue more than 240 hours of comp time. However, employees engaged to work in a public safety activity, an emergency response activity, or a seasonal activity may accrue as much as 480 hours of comp time. See 29 U.S.C. 207(o)(3)(A). Private higher education institutions may not pay employees comp time in lieu of overtime pay.
Where to Obtain Additional Information
This publication is for general information and is not a regulation. For additional information, visit our Wage and Hour Division Website: http://www.wagehour.dol.gov and/or call our toll-free information and helpline, available 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in your time zone at: 1-866-4USWAGE (1-866-487-9243).
The Department of Labor is undertaking rulemaking to revise the regulations located at 29 C.F.R. part 541, which govern the exemption of executive, administrative, and professional employees from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime pay requirements. Until the Department issues its final rule, it will enforce the part 541 regulations in effect on November 30, 2016, including the $455 per week standard salary level. These regulations are available at: https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/regulations.pdf.
In my analysis, FLSA is fundamentally flawed for it divides workers into categories such as “White Collar” and “Blue Collar” without understanding the basis for the man’s existence in the natural world. In my analysis, FLSA is fundamentally flawed for it divides workers into categories such as “White Collar” and “Blue Collar” without understanding the basis for the man’s existence in the natural world. In my analysis, FLSA is fundamentally flawed for it divides workers into categories such as “White Collar” and “Blue Collar” without understanding the basis for the man’s existence in the natural world.
Musings on Father’s Day 2021- The Agony of the Cup vs The Burden of the Cross. The transformation of personal God to impersonal God.
On Sunday, June 20, 2021, Father’s Day, I reflect upon the unique and special relationship between Jesus, the Son of Man and God. I am alien, foreigner, sojourner, stranger, tenant and traveler with no place to call home.
Musings on Father’s Day 2021- The Agony of the Cup vs The Burden of the Cross. The transformation of personal God to impersonal God.
I describe myself as the alien who carries the burden of the cross as Jesus slowly moves to reach His earthly destination. Jesus is spared from the burden of carrying the cross on the day of His crucifixion.
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I describe myself as Simon a Cyrenian bearing the burden of the cross under compulsion and following Jesus. I am in the City of Jerusalem and yet I am an alien for I am not a citizen of Rome, not a citizen of Israel, not a citizen of Judea, and not a citizen of Galilee. I follow Jesus but I have not yet entered the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth to claim the citizenship status. I reflect upon the Great Struggle, the Agony of the Cup held by Jesus and the Burden of the Cross I carry. The completed act of Crucifixion resolved the Agony of the Cup, the Great Struggle endured by Jesus. I am the alien who is present when Jesus cries out as the Agony of the Cup comes to its conclusion.
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I reflect upon the words of Jesus on this Father’s Day. Before getting nailed to the Cross, Jesus expresses His special and unique relationship to God by addressing God as Abba or Father. After getting nailed to the Cross, I hear the final seven words cried out by Jesus. The special and unique relationship between the Father and the Son of Man suddenly disappears. The personal God gets transformed into impersonal God.
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On this Father’s Day, I reflect upon the final words of the Son of Man. His words relate to the words of pain and anguish shared by King David, the King of Israel and the author of the Book of Psalms. The pain is the same. But, the Agony of the Cup and the Burden of the Cross are different. The Agony of the Cup gets revealed to Father. The pain of Crucifixion gets revealed to God. Father vs God. What is the difference? What makes the difference? What is the difference between personal God and impersonal God?
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On this Father’s Day, I am reflecting upon the difference between the words Father and God, the two different words used by Son of Man before getting nailed to the Cross, and after the completion of the act of Crucifixion that is nearing its conclusion. In my analysis, the difference between Father and God reflects upon the nature of the relationship. The Father-Son relationship, partnership, bonding, association, the coming together, and the yoking cannot be experienced in the God-man relationship which imposes a degree of detachment, estrangement, separation, and alienation. For I describe myself as an alien, I bear the burden of the Cross as I painfully march to the destination when the struggle finally reaches its conclusion, at the ninth hour, I ask myself, “My God, Why have You forsaken me.”
Musings on Father’s Day 2021- The Agony of the Cup vs The Burden of the Cross. The transformation of personal God to impersonal God.
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WHOLE PATIENCE: TO KNOW, TO UNDERSTAND THE QUALITY, THE ABILITY, OR THE FACT OF PATIENCE, I PRAY TO THE SON OF MAN KNOWN AS JESUS, A NATIVE OF NAZARETH, GALILEE.
I pray to Son of Man, a native of Nazareth, Galilee to know, and to understand the quality, the ability, or the fact of “PATIENCE.” I am using the phrase “WHOLE PATIENCE” for Jesus clearly demonstrated His other supernatural abilities. Jesus had several options if He chose not to wait, not to tolerate, not to succumb, and not to experience the horrors of pain and humiliation imposed by crucifixion.
I am alien, foreigner, sojourner, stranger, tenant and traveler with no place to call home. The never ending burden of the Cross for the alien follower.
THE GOSPEL IS OF VERY SPECIAL INTEREST TO THE ALIEN AS IT REVEALS GOD’S COSTLY PLAN FOR REDEMPTION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.
I am alien, foreigner, sojourner, stranger, tenant and traveler with no place to call home. The never ending burden of the Cross for the alien follower
But, it is the alien who carried the burden of the cross as Jesus slowly moved to reach His earthly destination. Jesus was spared from the burden of carrying the cross on the day of crucifixion.
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The Gospel of Luke 23:26, Matthew 27:31, and Mark 15:21 is of very special interest to the alien carrying the burden of the cross. The Gospel reveals God’s costly plan for redemption through crucifixion and the plan shifts the burden of cross from Jesus to the alien. The word redemption means to release, or freedom from payment of a price and the man’s freedom or deliverance, or liberation involving the greatest possible depth of suffering. The price paying concept lies at the heart of redemption and hence it is a costly action. A ransom-price is paid by Jesus and yet the alien is not set free from the burden of the cross. “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” (Gospel According to Saint Mark, Chapter 10, verse#45) The emphasis is on the giving of Life as a ransom. It is a completed act for Jesus who paid the ransom-price. Jesus performed this action with Whole Patience. It is immaterial as to whom Christ paid this price. For the alien, the only concern is to experience the results of this full redemption by receiving God’s grace and mercy through Christ and His Love. Jesus had gone through the whole of human experience including the worst horrors of pain and humiliation and it is unfair to leave the alien with the never ending burden.
Today, the alien is still carrying the burden of the cross while he slowly inches towards his final, earthly destination. The alien has no choice other than that of learning the art of Whole Patience. I am alien for I have not yet entered the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
WHOLE CHRIST–WHOLE LOVE–WHOLE REDEEMER:
I am alien, foreigner, sojourner, stranger, tenant and traveler with no place to call home. The never ending burden of the Cross.
Endurance is the ability to stand pain, distress, and fatigue; it is the ability to resist and withstand suffering and hardship with fortitude and patience.
I am alien, foreigner, sojourner, stranger, tenant and traveler with no place to call home. The never ending burden of the Cross
THE TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF JESUS IS A LESSON TO THE ALIEN, A TEACHING TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THE QUALITIES OF PATIENCE AND ENDURANCE. ROMAN GOVERNOR PONTIUS PILATE THOROUGHLY SCOURGED JESUS AND ASKED PEOPLE IF HE NEEDS TO PUNISH MORE.
Endurance speaks of the ability to hold up under pain, to tolerate, to put up with, to bear pain without flinching. It is the Will, ability, quality, or fact of waiting without complaint. It demands steadiness, perseverance, self-control, resoluteness in the face of grave provocation. This ability to bear suffering results from firm sustained courage and it is a mistake to interpret endurance as cowardice. Jesus remained calm and unperturbed while people angrily shouted demanding his crucifixion.
The alien walking behind Jesus carrying the cross knows the Son of Man as a picture of stoicism displaying grit, and courage that refuses to succumb under any circumstances, a courage that involves utmost indifference to personal pain and suffering.
I am alien, foreigner, sojourner, stranger, tenant and traveler with no place to call home. The never ending burden of the Cross.
“THEN SOME BEGAN TO SPIT AT HIM, THEY BLINDFOLDED HIM, STUCK HIM WITH THEIR FISTS, AND SAID, ‘PROPHESY!’ AND THE GUARDS TOOK HIM AND BEAT HIM .” GOSPEL OF MARK, CHAPTER 14, VERSE#65.
TO WHICH LAND AND TO WHICH KINGDOM DOES THE ALIEN CARRYING THE CROSS TRULY BELONGS? WHO WILL SHARE THE PROPHESY?
I am alien, foreigner, sojourner, stranger, tenant and traveler with no place to call home. The never ending burden of the Cross.
THE SON OF MAN IS CRUCIFIED AND IT ONLY SPEAKS ABOUT HIS WILL TO REFRAIN FROM RETALIATION, AND FORBEARANCE. PEOPLE TAUNTED JESUS TO SAVE HIS OWN LIFE AND TO COME DOWN. THE ALIEN WITH THE NEVER ENDING BURDEN OF CROSS CHOOSES FORTITUDE EVEN IF IT IS TO BE MISTAKEN OR MISINTERPRETED AS WEAKNESS.
I am alien, foreigner, sojourner, stranger, tenant and traveler with no place to call home. The never ending burden of the Cross.
THE ROMAN GOVERNOR PONTIUS PILATE OR HIS SOLDIERS POSTED A WRITTEN NOTICE ABOVE THE CROSS ON WHICH JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED. THE NEVER ENDING BURDEN OF THE CROSS CARRIED BY THE ALIEN BEARS NO SUPERSCRIPTION.
Before marching to the place of crucifixion, Jesus was repeatedly taunted, mocked, and ridiculed by people, by criminals, by officials, by soldiers, by the high priest, King Herod, and Roman Governor Pontius Pilate. The ultimate act of indignity was that of calling Him, “THE KING OF THE JEWS” showing utter contempt for His failure to save His own life and get away from the Cross on which He was nailed. The alien without getting nailed is still carrying the burden of the cross enduring the ridicule, taunts, mockery, indignity, and utter contempt.
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JESUS DID NOT EXPRESS ANY THOUGHTS OR FEELINGS OF SELF-PITY AFTER GETTING NAILED TO THE CROSS. JESUS SAID, “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.”(THE GOSPEL OF ST LUKE, CHAPTER 23, VERSE#34). THE NEVER ENDING BURDEN OF CARRYING THE CROSS IS NOT YET FORGIVEN.
Jesus did not rebuke the people who offended and punished Him. Jesus did not express any desire to retaliate against them and did not express any thoughts or feelings of Self-Pity. Jesus after His crucifixion said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”( The Gospel According to Saint Luke, Chapter 23, verse#34)
ECCE HOMO – “BEHOLD THE MAN”
There is no easy cure, and there is no easy remedy to the never ending burden of walking with the cross.The alien’s problem is that of alienation or estrangement from his own true or real nature that God implanted in the man while making the man in His own image. The man lives as an ‘alien’ for the man has lost his relationship with his own LORD God Creator. The divine nature of the Son of Man becomes self-evident when the alien learns the Art of Patience and Endurance. I ask my readers to ‘Behold The Man’ and see His Patience, Fortitude, Forbearance, Perseverance, Calmness, Steadiness, Strength, Self-Control, and His resolute Endurance.
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I am sharing a collection of images that depict Jesus when the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate presented Him to a mob of people who gathered outside the palace shouting to crucify Jesus. This alien has no access to care or comfort while he faces the difficult problems of his simple, mortal existence. The never ending burden to carry the Cross compels the alien to reflect on the proverb that instructs the man to endure problems that cannot be cured.
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IF PROBLEMS HAVE NO ANSWERS, IF PAIN AND SUFFERING CANNOT BE CURED, THE MAN TO KEEP HIS EXISTENCE HAS TO LEARN THE ART OF PATIENCE.
I am alien, foreigner, sojourner, stranger, tenant and traveler with no place to call home. The never ending burden of the Cross for the alien follower
The doctrine of One and Only One God or Monotheism is not compatible with the idea of Secularism.
The Doctrine of One and Only One God or the Doctrine of Monotheism is not consistent with the Doctrine of Secularism: The discussion must address the core issue that relates to the compatibility of religious doctrine and the political doctrine. If a country like Pakistan chooses Islam as its national identity, it cannot be secular at the same time. The problem is not due to the political philosophy or doctrine of Pakistan. The problem simply relates to the religious doctrine called Islam. So, we have to examine the religious doctrine called Islam which is just a variation of the religious doctrine of Jews, Christians, and Sikhs who proclaim belief in One and Only One God. Such religious beliefs are always inconsistent with the concept of Secularism. The central concept of Monotheism, the concept of One and Only One God is as much flawed as the Heliocentric theory proposed by Copernicus. I ask people to understand the concept of LORD God Creator taking into account the creative abilities of God. It is apparent that God has chosen to be simultaneously different without any concern to manifest His singularity. Each created object, either the celestial object or the living thing always exists as an Individual thing with its own Individuality without any choice of its own. There are no duplicates in this created world and the universe. Each planet displays its own unique, original, one of its own kind of rotational spin while the planets may orbit or revolve around the Sun. The motions of the Sun around the Milky Way Galactic Center are of no consequence to the living experience of the man on the surface of Earth. The life span of the man, his life journey is measured by the apparent Sunrise and Sunset while the Sun moves across the arched dome that the man describes as Sky or Heaven. Even with the help of the latest reproductive technologies such as cloning, the living things including the bacteria can only exist as Individuals with Individuality. This Individualism exists and is preconditioned by the Individual’s connection to an external source of energy without concern for the fate of the social group to which the Individual may belong. I am not surprised to read about the Resurrection of Christ while the Jews and Christians still lead their own mortal existence without any choice of their own. Jesus, the Son of Man retained His Individuality after His Resurrection. Even with the Second Coming of the Christ, the man would still exist as an Individual with Individuality and each resurrected Individual may have to discover his/her own connection to the Creator God making it impossible to recognize God as a fact of shared experience. The cognitive abilities of the man are not designed to let the men share their individualistic experiences. The experience of Moses on Mount Sinai was not a collective experience of the Jews. The individualistic experience of Moses was never replicated. I can read about it but cannot experience it. There are no two daughter cells that are alike. In my analysis, the Hindu concept of God is consistent and is compatible with the political doctrine of Secularism. The Monotheist does not admit the possibility of God being simultaneously different. The Monotheist does not agree that my individualistic experience of God could be different from his belief in One and Only One God. The First Amendment to the US Constitution tries to address the threat posed by the doctrine of Monotheism.
The concept of One and Only One God or Monotheism is not consistent with the idea of Secularism.
The Concept of Monotheism: “ONE AND ONLY ONE GOD”
The concept of Monotheism is fundamentally flawed. I understand that this concept originated in India and spread to other nations. Apart from members of ‘Arya Samaj’, Sikhs, and other followers of Vedic rituals, it gained more attention among the followers of Prophet Muhammad.
Firstly, the LORD God Creator has not given to the man the ability to directly experience God’s existence. The human mental experiences of all kinds are conditioned by Fundamental Forces such as the Gravitation. Man has the ability to subjectively and objectively experience his own living condition and not that of God. The speculative nature of the Theory of Monotheism becomes apparent when we verify the Theory by finding its correspondence to an external reality. You may search the entire physical world, you will not find the One and Only One God of your imagination. That God is an idea, a mere mental percept without any correspondence with an external Object. You cannot find One and Only One God in the ‘Transcendent’ Realm for the man is conditioned. Man cannot cross the boundaries of the Physical or Immanent Realm. In fact, the One and Only One God of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Vedic Hindus, and Sikhs are not the same. However, I want to make it clear that I admire the Bhagats and their traditions of Devotional Worship of God. The issue is not that of accepting or rejecting the Vedas or Gurbani. The Man arrives in the world all alone. The Man departs from the world all alone. Bhagat Kabir communicates this problem of Individualistic Existence because of the separation of the Transcendent and the Immanent Realms. The Man cannot hope to ride on the shoulders of his Guru, Master, or Teacher. The man who departs from this world has to reach his Final Destination using his own effort, actions, or “KARNI.” Even, the Guru has to reach his Final Destination using his own effort, actions, or “Karni.” The disciple or Chela cannot find any exceptions to this rule. “Guru ki karni Guru jayega, Chele ki karni Chela.”
The Gods of Monotheism. The Fundamental Separation of the Transcendent and the Immanent Realms.
THE GODS OF MONOTHEISM
The Gods of Monotheism. The Fundamental Separation of the Transcendent and the Immanent Realms.
Monotheism is a term that was introduced in an effort to study religions. It is described as a religious belief that only one God exists. This belief in a single and transcendent God contrasts particularly with Polytheism which is described as a belief in many gods.
Such oversimplification may conceal the true identity of the Gods of Monotheism. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are the principal Monotheistic religions. The demarcation between these faiths is very easy to determine and it is not so easy to establish their common ground. Dogmatic differences or differences in articles of faith must be explicitly recognized.
The identity of the Divine is not represented merely by the philosophical speculations about God’s essence but by the God whom men worship in all the acts of piety which comprise the rituals of religion.
If you consider the dogmas of religion; the articles of religious faith-based solely on divine revelation, you would conclude that the Gods of Monotheism live in different Heavens. There is no chance that the God of children of Israel, The Holy Trinity (Father, Jesus, the Holy Ghost/Spirit), and the God of Ishmael could coexist in the same transcendent or immanent realm.
The doctrinal differences are too many. There are very serious differences on matters such as salvation, the nature, and mission of the synagogue/church/masjid, the places of their worship, its rituals and sacraments.
The Monotheist concept of religious belief has not nurtured the concept of shared humanity that is united in religious brotherhood.
The desire to assert the dominion of the one and only true God has often lead to violence and intolerance. Historically, Monotheists have killed to gain theological as well as political dominance. The Gods of Monotheism have caused far more wars and conflicts than the many gods of Polytheism.
The adherence to an ABSOLUTIST thesis that only my God is God has resulted in a strict demand for intolerance of others holding different creeds. The Israelites practiced the worship of one God without denying the existence of other gods and the Torah also instructs them to act decently toward one another. The trinitarian creed of Christianity sets it apart from other religions.
The Gods of Monotheism. The Fundamental Separation of the Transcendent and the Immanent Realms.
The Islamic interpretation of Monotheism is more literal and uncompromising than that of any other religion in the world. ‘TAWHID’ or oneness of God is the foremost article of the Muslim faith. Muslim belief is based upon the unity of Allah and the prophethood of Muhammad. To bestow Allah’s indivisible reality upon another god is considered by Muslims to be a lie, and stands as the only sin which Allah will not forgive. The Holy Book of Quran mentions that to attribute divinity to a created entity is the only unpardonable sin.
The only point of agreement amongst Monotheistic religions is that of their hatred of idols. Polytheism is not an acceptable choice and it is considered as a form of Atheism. Idolatry ranks as perhaps the most common topic in the Bible and Quran.
The people of India are ridiculed and are scoffed at because of their conceptions of God as anthropomorphic. Indians are verbally assaulted every day by Christian Evangelists for worshiping inanimate objects and historically, Indians were punished for being patrons of idolatry.
In an effort to wipe out idolatry from India, numerous temples were destroyed and about 60 to 80 million people were killed between 1000 and 1525 CE.
The Gods of Monotheism. The Fundamental Separation of the Transcendent and the Immanent Realms.
Psalm 115, verses 4 to 8 from The Old Testament Book of Psalms, illustrates the hatred of idols:
“But their idols are silver and gold,
made by the hands of men.
They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but they cannot see;
they have ears, but cannot hear,
noses but they cannot smell;
they have hands, but cannot feel,
feet, but they cannot walk,
nor can they utter a sound with their throats.
Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them…”
THE INDIAN CONCEPT OF GOD WORSHIP
The Vedic Scripture of Shukla Yajurveda in its final chapter of ‘Isha Upanishad’ (Ishavasya Upanishad), verses 12-14 recommend the worship of the Divine in its Immanent (manifest, visible phenomenal forms) and it’s Transcendent (unmanifest, invisible, Absolute) forms.
“Into deep darkness falls those who follow the immanent. Into deeper darkness fall those who follow the transcendent. By the worship of the Manifested, one end is attained; by the worship of the Unmanifested, another.
Thus we have heard from the wise men who taught us this. He who knows at the same time both the Unmanifested and the Manifested, he crosses over death through knowledge of the manifested and attains immortality through the knowledge of the First Cause.”
A HYMN FOR INVOCATION OF PEACE:
The concept of One and Only One God is not compatible with the concept of Secularism.
THAT (the Invisible or Unmanifest Absolute) is WHOLE, WHOLE is THIS (the Visible or Manifest Absolute); what has come out of WHOLE (the Invisible) is also WHOLE ( the Visible). When the WHOLE is taken out of the WHOLE, the WHOLE remains WHOLE (it remains unaltered).
OM! PEACE, PEACE, LET PEACE ALONE PREVAIL.
Dr. R. Rudra Narasimham, B.Sc., M.B.B.S.,
Kurnool Medical College, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India,
M.B.B.S., Class of April 1970.
The Concept of One and Only One God or Monotheism is not compatible with the concept of Secularism.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments
Shavuot is a Jewish celebration that gives thanks for the Torah . Jews believe that the Torah is given to them to act as a guide for their lives. Shavuot remembers the time that God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and gave him the Ten Commandments and other laws. In 2021, Shavuot begins at sunset on Sunday, May 16 and ends at sundown on Tuesday, May 18.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. IN THE JEWISH TRADITION, THE DAY OF PROCLAMATION OF THE TORAH TO THE JEWS AT MOUNT SINAI IN EGYPT IS CELEBRATED AS SHAVUOT, THE HARVEST HOLIDAY, THE FEAST OF WEEKS, THE HOLIDAY OF THE FIRST FRUITS. AMONG CHRISTIANS OF NUMEROUS DENOMINATIONS THERE IS NO COMPARABLE HOLIDAY TRADITION TO CELEBRATE THE PROCLAMATION OF THE TWO GREAT ‘LOVE’ COMMANDMENTS OF JESUS CHRIST WHICH IS THE BASIS FOR CHRISTIAN FAITH BOTH IN TERMS OF RELATIONS WITH GOD AND OTHER MEN.
The word “LOVE” does not appear in the TORAH ( Law) given to the Jews at Mount Sinai. I conducted a study of the holiday traditions of the US and I am totally surprised to note that there is no traditional celebration of the Proclamation of the two Great Love Commandments of Jesus. Jewish Holiday “SHAVUOT” celebrates the giving of the ‘TORAH’ (the LAW or Instruction) to the Jews. God gave the Ten Commandments ( The Decalogue, The Code of The Ten Words)on the sixth night of the Hebrew month of ‘Sivan’. Shavuot always falls 50 days (PENTECOST) after the second night of Passover. The 49 days between Passover and Shavuot are known as ‘Omer’. While retaining the essence of The Code of The Ten Words Jesus changed the Operating Principle of the TORAH or The Law. Jesus instructs that the Law must be followed by His believers not through the use of force or authority but by simply embracing the equally powerful influence called “LOVE.”
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. THIS IS AN OPEN APPEAL TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE US CONGRESS TO PASS A DECREE OR LAW TO BEGIN A NEW TRADITION IN THE NATIONAL LIFE THAT CELEBRATES THE CENTRAL ROLE OF LOVE IN DEVELOPING WHOLESOME HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS.
I am posting this article to make an open appeal to all the members of the US Congress to pass a decree or law to commence a new tradition in the national life that celebrates the central role of love in developing wholesome human relationships. I am using the term ‘Whole Body’ to describe the perfect unity of body, mind, heart, soul, and God that establishes man as a Whole Being. Love is central to the man’s relationship to God and the man’s relations with other persons. The term love includes the feelings or the emotion of love expressed by a person (“The Subject”) and it involves a personal experience evoked when another person (“The Object”) reflects the feelings of love. Love has to be known as “The Medium” that generates the attachment or devotion to another person; and this attachment implies connection by ties of affection, sexual attraction, devotion, friendship, goodwill, compassion, respect, trust, and commitment. This kind of care and concern for a person, or persons in a relationship could be called ‘Whole Love’ if whatever is done for Love occurs beyond good and evil.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments GERMAN PHILOSOPHER FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE(1844-1900) SAYS, “WHAT IS DONE OUT OF LOVE ALWAYS TAKES PLACE BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL.” GOD’S LOVE FOR MAN IS UNCONDITIONED AND GOD LOVES MAN WITHOUT DEMANDING THAT MAN MUST ACKNOWLEDGE GOD’S LOVE..
The concept of Holiday begins with the story of creation as revealed in the Book of Genesis and it involves the observance of a ‘Holy Day’. “And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done (Genesis, Chapter 2, verse#3).”
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK EXODUS, CHAPTER 20, VERSE#8 IS THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT THAT ASKS, “REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY BY KEEPING IT HOLY.”
Holiday is a day of freedom from labor sanctioned by God, and it is set aside for leisure and recreation to renew man’s relationship with his Creator. In Civil Society, certain days are set aside by Law or Custom and Traditions for the suspension of official business activities and very often in commemoration of some important events in national life. I am using the term ‘Whole Holiday’ to recognize a specific day that is set aside by Human Law in recognition of the Divine Law that is conducive to the development of harmonious, or wholesome interpersonal relationships that are essential to promote the health, and well-being of all people. In the US, there are several holidays that are legal and none of them directly address the central issue of developing Love relationships.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments.
Martin Luther King Day is a holiday observed on the third Monday in January to commemorate the birthday (January 15) of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968) for his role in improving interracial relationships. In 2021, Americans must learn to live together as brothers and there is no other choice if we have to heal the wounds that divide this country.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR IS RECOGNIZED FOR HIS ROLE AS A CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER AND FOR PROMOTING INTERRACIAL RELATIONS BASED UPON EQUALITY, RESPECT, DIGNITY, AND TOLERANCE.
On the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, January 18, 2021, I asked Americans to stick with Love, overcome Hate and to begin the healing process by beginning a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. PRESIDENTS’ DAY IS A LEGAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATED ON THE THIRD MONDAY IN FEBRUARY TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE MONUMENTAL SERVICES RENDERED BY THE US PRESIDENTS TO SECURE INDEPENDENCE AND TO KEEP THE UNION STRONG.
Presidents’ Day is a legal holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February, specially commemorating the birthday of President George Washington (February.22), 1732-1799, First President of the US (1789-1797) and President Abraham Lincoln (February.12), 1809-1865, 16th President of the US (1861-1865).
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. PRESIDENTS’ DAY IS A LEGAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATED ON THE THIRD MONDAY IN FEBRUARY TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE MONUMENTAL SERVICES RENDERED BY THE US PRESIDENTS TO SECURE INDEPENDENCE AND TO KEEP THE UNION STRONG.
On the occasion of Presidents’ Day on Monday, February 15, 2021, I ask Americans to stick with Love, overcome Hate and to begin the healing process by beginning a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments.
Saint Valentine’s Day is celebrated on February 14 and it has become a popular tradition to choose or to greet a sweetheart. But this concept of romantic interest in a person is more often related to a sexual attraction and the other attributes of ‘Whole Love’ such as trust, respect, and commitment may not be always present. Secondly, the tradition of Valentine’s Day is not related to the concept of God is Love and God Loves man.
On the occasion of Valentine’s Day on Sunday, February 14, 2021, I asked Americans to stick with Love, overcome Hate and to begin the healing process by beginning a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. THE LAST MONDAY IN MAY IS OBSERVED AS MEMORIAL DAY IN MEMORY OF THE DEAD SERVICEMEN OF ALL WARS.
The tradition of Memorial Day holiday was instituted in 1868 as ‘Decoration Day’ to honor the Civil War dead. The last Monday in May is observed as a legal holiday in memory of the dead servicemen of all wars for they gave their precious lives to let the countrymen enjoy all their freedoms.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. FOURTH OF JULY OR INDEPENDENCE DAY IS A PATRIOTIC, LEGAL HOLIDAY TO CELEBRATE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN 1776.
Fourth of July or Independence Day is a legal holiday to celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. THE FIRST MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER IS A LEGAL HOLIDAY IN HONOR OF THE LABORER, THE HARD-WORKING HOURLY WAGE EARNERS AND OTHER WORKERS.
The first Monday in September is observed as Labor Day, a legal holiday to pay tribute to the American Workforce which includes millions of hard-working hourly wage earners who are often called laborers.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. COLUMBUS DAY IS A LEGAL HOLIDAY COMMEMORATING THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA ON OCTOBER 12, 1492.
Columbus Day is a legal holiday in the US commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus on October 12, 1492. The holiday is observed on the second Monday in October.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. VETERANS DAY HONORING ALL VETERANS OF THE ARMED FORCES IS A TRADITION BASED ON THE ARMISTICE DAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1918 OF WORLD WAR I.
Veterans Day is a legal holiday honoring all veterans of the armed forces. It is observed on Armistice Day – November 11, the anniversary of the armistice of World War I in 1918.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. THANKSGIVING DAY IS AN ANNUAL US HOLIDAY OBSERVED ON THE FOURTH THURSDAY OF NOVEMBER AS A DAY OF GIVING THANKS AND FEASTING.
Thanksgiving Day is among the major US holiday traditions to commemorate the Pilgrims’ celebration of the good harvest of 1621 at Plymouth Colony. The US Congress decreed in 1941 to observe this holiday of Thanksgiving and feasting on the fourth Thursday of November.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments: CHRISTMAS DAY, A HOLIDAY ON DECEMBER 25, CELEBRATES THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST. THE FOCUS UPON GOD’S UNCONDITIONED LOVE IS NOT ALWAYS EXPRESSED IN THIS TRADITIONAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATION.
Christmas Day Holiday celebration should reflect the very essence of Christianity. The Gospel according to Apostle John, Chapter 3, verse# 16 declares: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” The Christmas tradition is about the Joy that is associated with the birth of baby Jesus and the exchange of gifts to express the sense of happiness. Christmas holiday is not in remembrance of God’s Law. Jesus Christ has established ‘LOVE’ as the God’s Greatest Commandment. The Gospel according to Apostle Matthew (Chapter 22, verses#37-40), and The Gospel according to Apostle Mark (Chapter 12, verses# 28-31) describe the Commandments of Love: “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. This is the first great commandment. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two Commandments.” The Gospel according to Apostle John, Chapter 13, verse# 34 describes the need for neighborly relations among people based upon Love: “A new command I give you: Love one another, as I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments. I AM ASKING ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE US CONGRESS TO INSTITUTE A NEW LAW IN RECOGNITION OF THE WHOLE LAW OF WHOLE LOVE. THE LAST WEDNESDAY OF JULY SHOULD BE A LEGAL HOLIDAY TO CELEBRATE THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS IN JULY.
In the United States, we have no Law, or a cultural tradition to commemorate the event in which Jesus Christ has issued the two great commandments asking people to observe the Law of ‘Whole Love’ which demands, 1. The Love of God with Whole Body, Heart, Mind, and Soul, and 2. The Love of Neighbor as a requirement of God’s Law for man. After my ‘Whole Discovery’, the discovery of the experience of ‘Whole Love’ at Whole Foods Market, Ann Arbor, Michigan on Wednesday, July 30, 2014, I have decided to promote the establishment of a ‘Whole Tradition’ to follow the Spirit of the ‘Whole Law’ to truly observe the Commandment of ‘Whole Love’. To commemorate my ‘Whole Discovery’, I am writing this appeal to ask all the members of the US Congress to approve a new Law to observe the last Wednesday of July as the ‘Whole Love Holiday’. The choice of Wednesday is very appropriate as most other legal holidays are observed on Mondays as a matter of convenience and not for the purposes of obedience to a Divine Law which should be the source and inspiration for the Human Law. The concept of ‘Whole Love’ represents the ‘Whole Law’ that is explicitly pronounced by Jesus Christ as the only Commandment that man must follow and observe in his lifetime. To acknowledge the ‘Whole Law’, to celebrate its pronouncement, we need a new ‘Whole Tradition’ which is reflected by instituting a new ‘Whole Holiday’.
Happy Shavuot 2021. On Sunday, May 16, I ask Americans to begin a new holiday tradition to celebrate the proclamation of the Love Commandments.
March 26, 2021. Musings on the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh Independence Day.
I was granted Short Service Regular Commission in the Indian Army Medical Corps during September 1969 while I was studying in Kurnool Medical College, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. On March 26, 1971 I was serving in the Military Hospital, Ambala Cantonment, Haryana, India undergoing the professional training to serve as a Medical Officer in the Indian Army Medical Corps. It was becoming increasingly clear that a huge crisis was brewing up in East Pakistan with immediate consequences to my military career. It did not take too long for the real possibility of War between India and Pakistan to materialize on account of a major influx of Bangla refugees into India from East Pakistan.
March 26, 2021. Musings on the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh Independence Day.March 26, 2021. Musings on 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh Independence Day.
On July 26, 1971, I finished my professional training and was granted two months of annual leave. Just after a month of my leave, I received a telegram at my home in Rajahmundry, that asked me to immediately report back to my military dutyat the Military Hospital in Ambala. On September 22, 1971, I was promptly dispatched to serve in Special Frontier Force-Establishment No. 22-Vikas Regiment to begin my military career as a Medical Officer and got fully involved in the launching of military action to initiate the Liberation of Bangladesh.
March 26, 2021. Musings on the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh Independence Day. The term ‘Refugee’ has become the central focus of my Life Journey.
The term ‘Refugee’ has entered my life story with the tragic humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh. The term ‘Refugee’ is also central to my military mission in the Special Frontier Force where I worked with thousands of Refugees who were brutally expelled from Occupied Tibet. On March 26, 2021, the term ‘Refugee’ is still the central focus of my life story. My direct, physical involvement with the problems of Refugees from Bangladesh and Tibet has impacted my life journey and today I think of myself as a Refugee without Refuge while I may live in a Free Country.
March 26, 2021. Musings on the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh Independence Day. My Connection with Bangla and Tibetan Refugees in India.
I am pleased to share the blog post titled “Looking Away From Genocide” authored by Gary J Bass, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. This blog includes excerpts from the conversation between US President Richard M Nixon, and US National Security Adviser Dr. Henry Alfred Kissinger. President Nixon makes a direct comparison to the slaughter in East Pakistan to other atrocities against humanity and asks Kissinger for his opinion on Biafra massacre(Nigeria) and the persecution of Jews in Germany by Hitler. President Nixon reveals his personal understanding of such historical events in this brief conversation and it would have a most chilling effect on any reader. I am not surprised to note that Kissinger had no interest in formulating a true national security policy. He was totally obsessed with his own plans to dominate the foreign policy conversation and getting rid of William P Rogers, the US Secretary of State. In the face of such moral bankruptcy, India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had boldly launched her Secret War in East Pakistan and I am glad that I had participated in the training of Bengali guerrilla fighters and later initiated the Liberation of Bangladesh on 03 November, 1971 with military action in the Chittagong Hill Tracts with attacks on Pakistani border posts deep inside the enemy territory.
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R. Rudra Narasimham, B.Sc., M.B.B.S., Personal Numbers:MS-8466/MR-03277K. Rank: Major. Branch:Army Medical Corps/Short Service Regular Commission(1969-1972); Direct Permanent Commission(1973-1984). Designation:Medical Officer. Unit:Establishment No.22(1971-1974)/South Column,Operation Eagle(1971-1972). Organization: Special Frontier Force.
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
LOOKING AWAY FROM GENOCIDE
Whole Dude – Whole Genocide: US President Richard M Nixon in his taped conversation with US National Security Adviser Dr. Henry Kissinger reveals his personal understanding of historical events such as the persecution of Jews in Germany by Hitler, the massacre of black Catholics in Biafra region of Nigeria, the slaughter of civilian population of East Pakistan. I am not surprised to note that they had no sympathy for the suffering of Tibetan people and they took the sinful action to formulate a new US foreign policy that involved establishing trade, commerce, and diplomatic relationships with Communist China.
POSTED BY GARY BASS
On March 25, 1971, the Pakistani Army launched a devastating military crackdown on restive Bengalis in what was then East Pakistan. While the slaughter in what would soon become an independent Bangladesh was underway, the C.I.A. and State Department conservatively estimated that roughly two hundred thousand people had died (the official Bangladeshi death toll is three million). Some ten million Bengali refugees fled to India, where untold numbers died in miserable conditions in refugee camps. Pakistan was a Cold War ally of the United States, and Richard Nixon and his national-security advisor, Henry Kissinger, resolutely supported its military dictatorship; they refused to impose pressure on Pakistan’s generals to forestall further atrocities. My new book, “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide,” tries to reconstruct this dark chapter of the Cold War, using declassified documents, investigative reporting, and countless hours of White House tapes, including about a hundred newly transcribed conversations. Thanks to the secret taping system that he installed to record his own blunt conversations, Nixon inadvertently left behind the most transparent Administration in American history. The tapes offer the most revealing account of Nixon and Kissinger’s raw thinking. Staffers at the White House and the State Department were often more pragmatic than their principals, so the documents they produced make the Administration appear more moderate than it was. It’s only on the audio tapes that Nixon and Kissinger’s full radicalism is on display. But the White House tapes are maddeningly hard to use. The State Department’s official historians have done excellent work in declassifying some of the most sensitive discussions, but to this day, particularly embarrassing portions of the tapes are bleeped out on the basis of specious national-security concerns. (I’ve made my own requests for a mandatory declassification review of these bleeps under the terms of an executive order.) The tapes remain a largely untapped resource, in part because they are enormous, unwieldy, badly organized, often bleeped, crackly, laborious to transcribe, and hard to understand. You can hear Nixon and Kissinger at work in the following audio clip, which is followed by an annotated transcript I made for “The Blood Telegram.” (Some snippets from this conversation are available in a volume of the State Department’s “Foreign Relations of the United States” series, but this is the first full transcript.) This discussion, which also involved the White House chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, took place not long after the start of the crackdown in East Pakistan. Nixon and Kissinger are having one of their typically prolix and digressive conversations, concentrating this time on foreign policy. The tape is unusually clean: the sound quality is good, and there are no bleeps, though there is some music playing in the background. The clip below begins just as the conversation has turned from the Vietnam War to the possibility of an opening to China. To establish communications with Mao Zedong’s regime, the White House was exploring several clandestine channels, including messages carried to the Chinese leadership by Romania’s Communist despot, Nicolae Ceausescu, and Pakistan’s military dictator, General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, known as Yahya. The Pakistan channel would soon culminate in Kissinger’s first secret trip to Beijing, in July, 1971. He flew direct from Pakistan, which provided an airplane and a cloak-and-dagger cover story—another reason for the White House to support Pakistan even as the killing continued. WHITE HOUSE TAPES OVAL OFFICE 477-1 APRIL 12, 1971, 10:24-10:33 A.M. NIXON: Now, another thing. I want to know about Yahya and Pakistan.
Nixon had a great personal fondness for Pakistan’s military ruler, who was carrying out the brutal crackdown on the Bengalis. “He’s a decent man,” Nixon repeatedly said, as the death toll mounted.
I want to be sure that we’re not caught in a crack here where State then puts out a whole lot of stuff that they’ve done. Now Bill has not said that he wants to say anything about Pakistan, has he?
The President seems to be making sure that the distrusted State Department would not, on its own, condemn Yahya for killing Bengalis. “Bill” is William Rogers, Nixon’s ineffectual Secretary of State, who had been reduced to near-total irrelevance by his rival Kissinger.
KISSINGER: No. NIXON: Has Sisco?
Joseph Sisco, the headstrong assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, was a particular annoyance to Nixon and Kissinger, who would later call him “a maniac” and “such a whore.”
KISSINGER: No. But it’s out there, out there [indistinct]. The Dhaka consulate is in open rebellion.
American diplomats in East Pakistan, horrified by the slaughter, had been reporting the killing in gruesome detail. On April 6th—just a few days before this conversation—the U.S. consul general in Dhaka, Archer Blood, sent a telegram signed by almost all of the U.S. officials in East Pakistan, formally voicing “strong dissent” from the White House’s pro-Pakistan policy, which they characterized as “moral bankruptcy” in the face of “genocide.” In retaliation, Nixon and Kissinger would soon eject Blood from his post in Dhaka.
NIXON: I understand…[indistinct] I want to know how we can respond to it [indistinct]. We’re going to be…[indistinct] you know what I mean? KISSINGER (emphatically): Mr. President, we’re going to wind up on the worst side if we start backing a rebellion there now.
Though Nixon and Kissinger were discussing actual rebellions in East Pakistan and Biafra, Kissinger was also accusing Blood of “open rebellion” for having sent his formal cable of dissent through official channels. Kissinger would later call Blood “this maniac in Dacca, the Consul General who is in rebellion.”
NIXON: But Bill—but Henry, we did not back the rebellion in Biafra, did we?
Even before the crackdown in East Pakistan began, U.S. officials had warned that the country could descend into the kind of bloody chaos that had recently been seen in Biafra, an oil-rich region of Nigeria that attempted to secede in 1967. The Nigerian government managed to crush the Biafran resistance in 1970. As a candidate for President in 1968, Nixon had denounced genocide in Biafra; by 1971, yesterday’s inaction in Biafra had become a rationale for today’s support of Pakistan.
KISSINGER: That’s right. NIXON: That’s a hell of a lot more reasonable. I know, there are less people in Biafra. Is that the reason? Does morality become—look, there weren’t very many Jews in Germany.
As Nixon knew, Kissinger was one of those German Jews; at least thirteen of his close relatives had been murdered in the Holocaust.
KISSINGER (murmurs): That’s right. NIXON: Was it immoral—was it therefore not immoral for Hitler to kill them?
Nixon, unprompted, is comparing the slaughter in East Pakistan to Biafra and the Holocaust.
KISSINGER (murmurs): That’s right.
Kissinger goes along with Nixon’s comparison of Hitler and Yahya, but still maintains his support for the Pakistani dictator.
NIXON: See, that’s my— [indistinct] And the Biafrans are black— [indistinct] Catholics!
This part is hard to hear, but may be about how Americans ignored the Biafrans because they were black, and about Catholic support for the Biafran cause. As Nixon later said, “Biafra stirred up a few Catholics.”
KISSINGER: Mr. President, if we get in there now— NIXON (cross-talk): It’s ridiculous. KISSINGER: —we get West Pakistan turned against us, and we get—the Bengalis are going to go left anyway.
The State Department had repeatedly noted that the Bengali leadership was quite pro-American, but Kissinger dismisses that.
NIXON: Yeah. KISSINGER: They are by nature left. Their moderate leadership is in jail, maybe they shouldn’t have been put in jail, but that’s the way it is now, and, uh—
Kissinger realizes he’s made a wrong turn, is actually criticizing Yahya, and falls awkwardly silent.
NIXON: I just want to [indistinct]… get a little work… [indistinct] Is that in the West—West Pakistan thing or not? [indistinct] KISSINGER: Why don’t you wait ’til Wednesday, Mr. President, when we have the meeting and then we can get a paper to you. NIXON: All right. KISSINGER: Because I am afraid in the present state of the State Department if you interfere too early— NIXON (annoyed): I’m not interfering, I just want to know what he thinks!
Nixon snaps at Kissinger for the nonstop bureaucratic combat against Rogers. To handle Kissinger’s obsessive feuding with the Secretary of State, the President had Haldeman set up an informal “Henry-handling committee.” In the end, Kissinger drove Rogers out, and claimed both top foreign-policy jobs, national-security advisor and Secretary of State.
KISSINGER: Well, he’s going to submit a paper to us and then you’ll know what you think—what he thinks. NIXON: Oh. He’s going to submit a paper? KISSINGER: Yeah. NIXON: You’re sure he knows I want it? KISSINGER: Oh yes, he knows you want it. No, he’s—Bill is all right.
Kissinger starts to walk back, trying to praise Rogers.
Bill is— NIXON: I just got to know what the hell they think. I mean, I’m not trying to—… [indistinct] I think if we get in the middle of the whole thing [indistinct], it’s a hell of a mistake. KISSINGER: It’s a disaster. No one else is doing it. NIXON: Look—let’s face it. The people that bitch about Vietnam bitched about it because we intervened in what they say was a civil war.
This was one of Nixon’s most potent arguments to silence Americans who were outraged by the suffering in East Pakistan. Democrats like Ted Kennedy, the White House argued, were simply trying to drag the United States into another civil war in Asia.
KISSINGER: That’s right. NIXON: Now some of those same bastards, like… [indistinct] want us to intervene in Biafra. And some of those same people want us to intervene here. Both civil wars. Real civil wars. Now what in the hell are we talking about? KISSINGER: They want us to cut out economic aid to West Pakistan. NIXON (surprised): For what reason?
Kissinger is careful to defend U.S. aid to the Pakistani military government, despite the atrocities. Blood had argued that the bloodshed in East Pakistan was a very good reason to cut off economic aid to Yahya.
KISSINGER: It’s—pure doctrinaire reasons. Because India is screaming in turn, because they’re scared to death of their own Bengalis. Deep down the Indians don’t really want an independent East Pakistan, because within ten years of that the West Bengalis are going to start bringing pressure on them for autonomy. It’s a classic situation for us to stay out of. There’s nothing for us in there to take sides in this. And for us to cut off aid will infuriate the West Pakistanis.
Millions of Bengalis in India were deeply shocked by the killing of their brethren across the border in East Pakistan. The Indian state of West Bengal, unstable and impoverished, was already a headache for the Indian government—and the crackdown in East Pakistan sent some ten million refugees fleeing into India’s border states, above all into West Bengal. This left the Indian government fearful of further unrest in the state, and desperate to find a way to get the refugees to return home. India secretly sponsored Bengali guerrillas fighting back against Pakistani troops. Finally, in December, 1971, India and Pakistan would fight a brief fourteen-day war, ending with an Indian victory and the creation of the new country of Bangladesh. Unlike Blood and the other Americans in Dhaka, Kissinger seems not to realize that the loss of so many Bengali lives might impact American foreign policy. For all his mastery of the use of American leverage, he nevertheless rules out the possibility of applying any pressure on the Pakistani military.
Photograph by Frederic Lewis/Hulton Archive/Getty
Nixon and Kissinger: A Forgotten Genocide in Bangladesh
March 26, 2021. Musings on the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh Independence Day.
FILE PHOTO: Samples of rare earth minerals from left: Cerium oxide, Bastnaesite, Neodymium oxide and Lanthanum carbonate at Molycorp’s Mountain Pass Rare Earth facility in Mountain Pass, California June 29, 2015. REUTERS/David Becker/File Photo
China’s Doctrine of Neocolonialism: China just like the imperialistic powers of the 19th century has established the doctrine of Neocolonialism to control the economic and human resources of the countries China colonized. The vast continent of Africa has virtually transformed into a Chinese Colony. The process of regulating and dominating the market of the Rare Earth Elements is no different. China is able to influence the market conditions by manipulating the political establishments of the countries it has colonized. China’s Expansionism includes expansionism in all its dimensions including influencing the cultural beliefs of the people.
China occupied Tibet, an independent country by using its military force in 1950. I understand that Tibet is the major source of some of these Rare Earth Elements. In my analysis, China’s domination cannot be effectively checkmated without the emancipation of the oppressed Tibetan people. During the Cold War Era, the United States spent billions of dollars to arrest the spread of Communism viewing Communism as a threat to freedom, democracy, peace, justice, and human rights. Now, the world will be forced to recognize the economic inequity imposed by China’s Neocolonialism.
Rare Earth: Has US Lost the Technology Battle Against China?
China’s Doctrine of Neocolonialism.
A Chinese company bought Magnequench,” “Not only did the jobs go to China, but so did the intellectual property and the technological know-how to make those magnets…. I’m not comfortable with the fact that we now have to buy magnets for our bombs from China,” said the exasperated Senator Hillary Clinton in a speech in Pittsburgh on April 14, 2008. Ten years later, in May 2018, the Department of Interior of the US Government published a list of 35 mineral commodities including the ‘rare earth elements group’ and classified them as “critical mineral”, as they were considered critical for the economic and national security of the United States.
Brigadier V Mahalingam (Retd)Brigadier V Mahalingam (Retd), is a former commander of a Mountain Brigade and former Force Commander of the National Security Guard the country’s elite Counter-terrorism Force. He is a highly regarded defence and strategic analyst and an author.
China’s Doctrine of Neocolonialism. FILE PHOTO: A bastnaesite mineral containing rare earth is pictured at a laboratory of Yasuhiro Kato, an associate professor of earth science at the University of Tokyo, July 5, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/File Photo
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