User:Herschelkrustofsky

Wikipedia's Institutional Bias

The Wikimedia Foundation, parent of Wikipedia, has received substantial contributions from foundations that promote a political agenda, such as $40,000 from the Lounsbery Foundation of Richard Lounsbery and $20,000 from the Open Society Institute of George Soros. [1] Under the circumstances, it may be reasonable to ask whether Wikipedia is expected, in return, to play a gatekeeping role. This would explain the persistent pattern of double standards and selective enforcement of Wikipedia policies by the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee.

In theory, Wikipedia is governed by a laudable policy called Neutral Point of View (NPOV). In practice, however, there is no such policy. Instead, the Wikisphere is comprised of a mosaic of orthodoxies, ruthlessly enforced by entrenched WikiCliques or "POV posses" equipped with administrative powers, and an intimate familiarity with a Byzantine system of administration that is designed to confound outsiders. As of January 2006, it appears that Wikipedia has moved even further away from what it purports to be, with membership in the powerful Arbitration Committee becoming an appointed, rather than elected position. The person who ultimately decides who will belong to it is Wikipedia founder and Ayn Rand acolyte, Jimbo Wales. Under the circumstances I would suggest, gentle reader, that you think twice before believing anything presented in Wikipedia's articles.

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John Quincy Adams, American patriot and father of the Monroe Doctrine

My biases

I am the implacable foe of neocolonialism. I can think of nothing more dishonorable than for one faction to predicate its fortunes on the misfortunes of another. And nothing disgusts me more than the practice, endemic among the English-speaking print and electronic media, of acting as apologists for neocolonialism, or worse, tarting it up in the various guises such as "spreading democracy." I look forward to the day when I can pick up a newsmagazine, or watch a news broadcast on TV, without getting a warmed-over version of the White Man's Burden.

And of course, Hell hath no fury like the English-speaking press, when a political leader becomes, shall we say, inconvenient to the defenders of neocolonial arrangements. I have seen the demonization of such leaders throughout my life, and since it is so widespread, it seeps into Wikipedia as well. Therefore, I took it upon myself to combat it, first in the group of articles pertaining to Lyndon LaRouche, and then in articles pertaining to Manuel Noriega. I was temporarily successful in both instances.

I have made significant contributions to the articles on European classical music, reason, and Friedrich Schiller. I have also authored biographical articles on African-American composers Harry Burleigh and Hall Johnson, plus substantially beefed up the articles on Ernő Dohnányi, Isoperimetry, and Musical development. Finally, I am especially fond of my version of the article on "counterculture", which was quickly suppressed.

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For your hard work in keeping fascist propaganda out of Wikipedia, I hereby award you the ancient Defender of reason barnstar, which is given to those who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to stop Wikipedia being used for synarchist purposes. Cognition 5 July 2005 04:51 (UTC)

In Memorium - Senator Gene McCarthy

Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, the dear friend of Lyndon LaRouche and his movement, died on Saturday, Dec. 10 at the age of 89, after a long illness, at his residence in Washington, D.C.

Gene McCarthy will be remembered in history for his challenge to Lyndon B. Johnson, the sitting President of his own Democratic Party in the 1968 Presidential elections. McCarthy revitalized the party and the country with a youth movement of millions which he initiated to stop the immoral war in Vietnam, and as he emphasized in a three part interview he gave to EIR in 2005, "to give hope to the youth, who are the future of any nation."

In the last few years, this poet and philosopher adopted the LaRouche Youth Movement, and followed their progress with intense interest. After a briefing about the LYM he would say, "Those kids are trying to overthrow my fine Irish pessimism."

Gene gave the following statement to the LaRouche Youth Movement to be read at that turning point in history, the LYM Press Conference at the Boston Democratic Convention on July 25, 2005.

"When I heard that the discredited Homeland Security Agency

excluded the LaRouche Youth Movement from the Convention premises, I was amazed. When I heard that the DNC did not act to protest the exclusion, I

was, unfortunately, not surprised.

"Until today, I thought that the worst that could be done to a youth movement had been done to our own, in Chicago, at the 1968 Convention.

"I understand that the Police Union intends to picket the convention in Boston. Would that the Chicago police had picketed the 1968 Convention. Instead, the Chicago police rioted. Before the 1968 Convention, I contacted student organizers throughout the country, asking them not to come to Chicago, as we had information that the police there, who had a history of brutality toward black residents of that city, were planning to act brutally toward student demonstrators.

"One hundred thousand students were prepared to come to Chicago, but only 10,000 came, as we acted to avoid a police riot against them. Regardless of what various Yippie varieties may have provoked, it was the police who beat these youth to the ground. And then, after the Convention was over the police waded into my campaign's block of rooms, at three in the morning, and began throwing our young people out of their beds and beating them bloody, until my Secret Service agents and I stopped them.

"Now, we have been living through the tragic results of the demoralization of the Baby-Boomer generation. Shouldn't the DNC understand that the future of a country, let alone a party, depends on the development of the youth movement of today?

"In Bill Clinton's book, he says that when he was a student, and didn't have the proper shoes to wear to a meeting of some sort, I lent him my shoes. Let me give the youth at this press conference something less material, and perhaps more useful--my outrage at their exclusion and my support for their mission. Let me be a part of their mission."

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On a personal note, I invite you to turn up your speakers and listen to a piano sonata that I composed.

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