Wakingup1984

Johnathan Bowden (12 April 1962 – 29 March 2012)

"Japan is not an independent country. It is a colony of the United States." Taro Yamamoto's Japanese statements during a 2024 Japanese Diet committee session. He explicitly says Japan lacks true independence, functioning as a U.S. colony due to military bases, territorial decisions requiring U.S. approval, and restricted sovereignty. Japan, Italy and Germany are on paper legally sovereign, but in practical military…

How "religious conflict leads to religious tolerance" "More and more, at least here in the United States, Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Gentiles, are learning the grandest of all lessons — that they can best serve their God by serving their fellow men, and best serve their fellow-men, not by wrangling among themselves.. that there should be toleration of religious differences or a divorce between the functions…

Krause, R. E. (1949). Racial characteristics and fighting capacity of the German. Proceedings, 75(12), 1351–1356. U.S. Naval Institute. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1949/december/racial-characteristics-and-fighting-capacity-german The 1949 article examines how Germany’s historical, cultural, and what the author calls racial traits shaped its military behavior. Krause argues that Germans were never a si…

O’Leary, Z. (2004). The essential guide to doing research. SAGE Publications. Zina O’Leary’s The Essential Guide to Doing Research introduces the core skills needed to plan and conduct research. The book explains how to form clear questions, evaluate sources, gather evidence, and build sound arguments. O’Leary stresses critical thinking, credibility, and methodological transparency, giving beginners practical tools …

How to Do Good Research (A simple guide for anyone trying to figure out what’s true) 1. Start with a real question. Don’t chase conclusions. Know what you’re actually asking. 2. Go to primary sources first. Primary source documents are king. Original documents. Firsthand accounts. Records. Data. If the claim doesn’t trace back to something real, ignore it. 3. Use secondary sources that cite evidence. Skip YouTuber…

Netanyahu: The US is "the new Rome." "The last time Pompeo visited Jerusalem didn't end that well," he told Sec. Pompeo during a 2019 presser, referencing Roman general Pompey's conquering of Judea in 63 BC. Israel has to win the "next" war vs. "Rome," he now says. 🧃🔗

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Where we were —> where we are now: Working to live —> living to work

Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism explains the origins of modern capitalism not through material conditions alone, but through a uniquely Protestant moral transformation: the Reformation relocated religious authority into the individual conscience, producing a disciplined ethic of work, rationalized conduct, and austere wealth a…

Weber, M. (1930). The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (T. Parsons, Trans.). London: George Allen & Unwin. (Original work published 1904–1905).