Manila or nylon?
They're feeling their oats and testing the waters.They're not testing the waters; they're going the full Gulag.
The Pilgrims were on the left wing of the movement. These were the followers of a man named Robert Browne, and they viewed the Church of England as an impure church. The Pilgrims believed further association with this tainted church would jeopardize their souls, and therefore it was the duty of the Christian to withdraw from this corrupt institution. So they separated (hence the nick-name "separatists") themselves from "the Harlot of Babylon" as they sometimes referred to the established church.
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The Pilgrims practiced a strict communism. Their model was the early Christian communities written about in the Book of Acts. In keeping with their lack of emphasis on clergy, they did not have pastor first decade of existence.
Breitbart tv ~~ Uncovered Video Obama Leads SEIU Chant After Vowing to Paint the Nation Purple
As this was happening, I was part of a U.S.-China dialogue—a trip organized by the China-United States Exchange Foundation and the Center for American Progress—with high-ranking Chinese government officials, both past and present. For me, the tension resulting from the chorus of American criticism paled in significance compared to reading the emerging outline of China’s 12th five-year plan. The aims: a 7% annual economic growth rate; a $640 billion investment in renewable energy; construction of six million homes; and expanding next-generation IT, clean-energy vehicles, biotechnology, high-end manufacturing and environmental protection—all while promoting social equity and rural development…
As Andy Grove so presciently articulated in the July 1, 2010, issue of Businessweek, the economies of China, Singapore, Germany, Brazil and India have demonstrated “that a plan for job creation must be the number-one objective of state economic policy; and that the government must play a strategic role in setting the priorities and arraying the forces of organization necessary to achieve this goal.”
The conservative-preferred, free-market fundamentalist, shareholder-only model—so successful in the 20th century—is being thrown onto the trash heap of history in the 21st century. In an era when countries need to become economic teams, Team USA’s results—a jobless decade, 30 years of flat median wages, a trade deficit, a shrinking middle class and phenomenal gains in wealth but only for the top 1%—are pathetic.
This should motivate leaders to rethink, rather than double down on an empirically failing free-market extremism. As painful and humbling as it may be, America needs to do what a once-dominant business or sports team would do when the tide turns: study the ingredients of its competitors’ success.
Yeah, that Pilgrim story really did get tossed down the memory hole.
Frankly, these people openly promoting their Communist ideology is just making target recognition oh so much easier for me!
A bit of text from good ol' Andy Stern...presented for your reading enjoyment!