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OUTSIDE THE BOX RADIO SHOWRobert Buchar Interviewon WIBGFri 9 September 2008 23:00:00 GMTOn Sunday, June 28 at 6 PM Eastern, 3 PM Pacific,Jeff Nyquist interviews Robert Buchar, a Czech filmmaker and director of the forthcoming documentary "Collapse of Communism," which explores the fall of the Soviet Union. Catch a replay of Jeff's show every Tuesday, at 10 PM Eastern, 7 PM Pacific at wibg.com, or listen on your iphone with the application Radiolicious, available from Apple's online iPhone app store. ULTIMATE ISSUESHow to Immanentize the Eschatonby Jeff NyquistFri, 3 July 2009 15:00:00 GMTIn 1969 a sixteen-year-old boy wrote to conservative columnist William F. Buckley, Jr., "to discover just what, in God's name, the phrase 'to immanentize the eschaton' means." Buckley replied: "Eschaton means, roughly, the final things in the order of time; immanentize means, roughly, to cause to inhere in time. So that to immanentize the eschaton is to cause to inhere in the worldly experience and subject to human dominion that which is beyond time and therefore extraworldly. To attempt such a thing is to deny the transcendence of God; to assume that Utopia is for this world." STRUGGLE FOR PRE-EMINENCEElite Power in Iranby Jeff NyquistFri, 26 June 2009 15:00:00 GMTWe hear so much about democracy, about "people power" and "public opinion" that we forget how everything depends on the right leadership. We fool ourselves that "the people" rule, that the majority decides, that "the public" is something that has an existence independent of pollsters, opinion-makers, and media manipulation. The fact is, as earlier researchers have shown, "democracy" is just another way of organizing oligarchy (a.k.a., "the elite"). That being said, a country's elite is not always in agreement with itself. There are "reformers" who suggest new possibilities for a country. There are sophisticated people who must either be recognized or eliminated. And the measure of a regime is whether that regime accepts the natural leaders in its midst, and allows them their place; or whether it persecutes them. ULTIMATE ISSUESWhy Most Things Do Not Matterby Jeff NyquistFri, 19 June 2009 15:00:00 GMTImagine you are on the Titanic, and the ship is sinking after sideswiping an iceberg. Does it matter if you need a haircut? Should you be worrying about your investments? Under life-and-death circumstances, only life seems to matter. The trivia that clogs our existence is swept away by the sudden realization of what is actually at stake. In this sense, true philosophy is found on the deck of the Titanic. It leads us to discover what really matters; that is to say, why most things actually do not matter. IMPENDING DANGERHolding It Togetherby Jeff NyquistFri, 12 June 2009 15:00:00 GMT"What are we barreling toward?" asks Peggy Noonan in her latest book. "A difficult time, I think," she says. Has this famous Washington speech-writer become a pessimist? Is she referring to economic hard times? No. She is referring to a future attack on the United States. She therefore writes: "We know we live in an age of weapons of broad and immediate destruction, that they can be deployed against civilian populations by any group with the will, money, and mad focus to do it." Even more alarming, she writes, "I think a lot of people are carrying around in their heads, unarticulated and even, in some cases, unnoticed, a sense that the wheels may be coming off the trolley and the trolley off the tracks, that in some deep and fundamental way things have broken down and can't be fixed anytime soon." LESSONS OF HISTORYA Great Nation?by Jeff NyquistFri, 5 June 2009 15:00:00 GMTTo understand who we are, historical references are useful. To know how a people will come through a crisis, look to those traits of character possessed by nations that have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. How did they survive their ordeal? What lessons can we draw from their story? In August of 216 B.C. a catastrophe occurred in Italy. The Carthaginian commander Hannibal destroyed two Roman armies near a town called Cannae, in Apulia. The historian Polybius recorded that 70,000 Roman and allied infantry were killed in a single day, with 10,000 captured and "perhaps" 3,000 escaping alive. FANTASIES AND DELUSIONSA Dreamer at the Helmby Jeff NyquistFri, 29 May 2009 15:00:00 GMTWe all have hopes and dreams. And then there is reality, which demands our attention and our respect. America has been living in a dream world for almost twenty years, somehow managing to evade reality — social, economic and international. The process of economic unraveling is our pecuniary punishment for evading reality. Destructive war has been, and will be again, our national punishment. APES OF GODStone Age Genocideby Jeff NyquistFri, 22 May 2009 15:00:00 GMTThere once lived a race of men classified by modern scientists as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis — otherwise known as Neanderthals. The bones of this prehistoric race have been found in Europe and Asia. It is believed they died out between 30,000 and 24,000 years ago. They used stone tools, probably knew how to make fire, and they were far stronger than modern humans. The great drawback of Neanderthal man was that he needed about 4,000 calories per day to remain healthy, and he was almost exclusively carnivorous (feeding from the top of the food chain). There is evidence Neanderthals practiced cannibalism when faced with starvation. DECLINE AND FALLThe Post-American Apocalypseby Jeff NyquistFri, 15 May 2009 15:00:00 GMTIn Fareed Zakaria's book, The Post American World, we find some apt criticisms of American behavior (and Western behavior in general). "In past crises," he wrote, "the West played the part of the stern schoolteacher rebuking a wayward classroom. The lessons they imparted now seem discredited. Recall that during the Asian financial crisis the United States and other Western countries demanded that the Asians take three steps — let bad banks fail, keep spending under control, and keep interest rates high. In its own crisis, the West has done exactly the opposite on all three fronts." Here Zakaria brilliantly exposes our unwillingness to face the music. We think somehow that we are the exception to the rule. This is because our collective character has been spoiled. It has long been my contention, that because we are "spoiled," our culture has become a process of leveling as described in Soren Kierkegaard's essay "The Present Age." RUSSIAN THREATNuclear Disarmament and Russia's Heart of Darknessby Jeff NyquistFri, 8 May 2009 15:00:00 GMTIn Steve LeVine's book, Putin's Labyrinth, we read about the atrocities of Russian troops in Chechnya and the torturing of innocent people. We read how Russian soldiers kill for sport. In one example, Russian troops seized a large group of civilians hiding in a bomb shelter. The soldiers handcuff them and stacked them face down, five deep on top of one another and transported them to the main headquarters of the North Caucasus Military District. Some victims suffocated to death, others were shot. FUTURE SHOCKThe Investment Climate in 2059by Jeff NyquistFri, 1 May 2009 15:00:00 GMTWhile visiting the court of Attila the Hun in A.D. 448, a Roman diplomat named Priscus was greeted by a barbarian who suddenly began speaking Greek without an accent. Priscus couldn't believe his ears. The man was dressed as a Hun, lived as a Hun and fought alongside the Huns. How could this possibly be? NADYA'S NOTESRussian News, March 30by Nadya BanchikWed, 15 April 2009 15:00:00 GMTDOLLAR DOWN — RUBLE UP?Worldwide speculations against the dollar caused the Russian ruble to rise and brought foreign investors back to the Russian market. Rising oil prices, hardening of the ruble and distrust of the American market have hurt the dollar. Week before last the ruble was up by 3.6 percent to the dollar ($ 1 = R33, 43). According to Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR), for the first time since early February investment funds for Russia and other CIS countries received some $ 7.4 million of new investments. If investors continue playing the dollar down then investment into the Russian market will increase, Sergey Fundobny, head of the Department of economic analysis at Arbat Capital stock exchange market says. |
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