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Sterlingisation

Is sterlingisation a viable option?
It is a highly viable option according to Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz who even states it may be preferable to a currency union. He was involved with a report called "How sterlingisation and free banking could help Scotland flourish". The paper references existing, established, safe, stable practices that are already being used elsewhere and ratifies them with the unique Scottish situation. Among other things it discusses banks moving, forming a lender of last resort without a central bank, how our money would be backed, and why the government doesn't have to bailout the banks with our money.
The entire report is here and there's a video here but to summarise:
Will banks move?
* As EU law requires banks to be domiciled in the country where they conduct most of their business, a move to the City of London seems likely in any case. Note that moving legal domiciles does not necessarily mean moving jobs (both RBS and Lloyds already have sizeable operations in the City), and deposit guarantees are based on the deposit’s location, not a bank’s domicile.
Incidentally, 90% of RBS and HBoS employees are already outwith Scotland. Just because the domicile moves doesn't mean jobs have to. Most jobs that are in Scotland are call centre positions and it would make very little sense to move those jobs south.
On forming a lender of last resort (LOLR) without a central bank:
* Scottish banks could arrange private clearinghouses, as they did in the last free banking era, to provide loans to illiquid banks
* Or they could simply maintain high reserves and borrow from international banks during periods of illiquidity
* Alternatively, the Scottish government could establish a mandatory LOLR fund, paid for by banks themselves.
* Limited liability laws should be reformed so that bank shareholders bear more risk when banks fail, shifting the risk from depositors to shareholders.
Notice that the Scottish government does not have to rely on a central bank or create huge reserves for bailing out banks with any of these proposals as we're constantly told must be the case. 
To quote the report directly for emphasis: "Scotland could continue to use the pound without disruption and without formal currency union with the rest of the UK."
With regards to how our money would be backed:
* BoE pounds would be the ‘base money’ that Scottish banks use to back their own private currencies, in the same way gold was used during the last Scottish free banking era
* A banknote from a Scottish bank would be, in effect, a promissory note redeemable on demand in BoE-issued pound sterling. 
* "To the Scottish consumer, nothing would change: they would continue to use a variety of different banknotes, each of which would be exchangeable on demand for an equivalent amount of GBP."
This is the same situation we have now... Scottish notes from Scottish banks backed by BoE Titans. 
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12 Arguments Evolutionists Should Avoid

12 Arguments Evolutionists Should Avoid is a follow-up to Answers in Genesis' list of arguments creationists shouldn't use."Arguments Evolutionists Should Avoid." Answers in Genesis. accessed 2010 September 28. 
While it is true that many of these arguments are perhaps best avoided, "evolutionists" don't really use all of them. (At least scientists well versed in the biology of the theory generally don't use the more dubious ones, although they turn up frequently on YouTube.) Unsurprisingly, AiG's refutations of these arguments and reasons why they should be avoided are lacking in substance and smell quite badly of straw man fallacies.
In fact, the list might be better titled a list of arguments that AiG would rather not hear.
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==Argument 1: Evolution is a fact==
==Argument 2: Only the uneducated reject evolution==
==Argument 3: Overwhelming evidence in all fields of science supports evolution==
==Argument 4: Doubting evolution is like doubting gravity==
==Argument 5: Doubting evolution is like believing the earth is flat==
==Argument 6: It’s here, so it must have evolved==
==Argument 7: Natural selection is evolution==
==Argument 8: Common design means common ancestry==
==Argument 9: Sedimentary layers show millions of years of geological activity==
==Argument 10: Mutations drive evolution==
==Argument 11: The Scopes trial==
==Argument 12: Science vs. religion==
==Why address these arguments?==
==See also==
*Arguments evolution supporters shouldn't use
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Answers in Genesis
Category:Intelligent design creationism
Category:Side-by-side articles
180: Changing the Heart of a Nation

180: Changing the Heart of a Nation is a 33-minute anti-abortion schlockumentary by Ray Comfort. The title represents the aim to "reverse" people who hold a pro-choice stance to become staunch anti-abortionists. Comfort originally intended to call it Hitler, Religion and the Holocaust.
The film was released on September 26, 2011 and received more than 1 million views on YouTube within a month. Comfort employs the typical fundamentalist canard of attempting to manipulate views by suggesting a historical connection between Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever the bête noir du jour is - in this case, abortion. The film's web page says nothing about abortion, just that the film is "[a] shocking award winning documentary" which will "Rock Your World."
In the trailers, Comfort argues that the title of the movie describes the "reverse" of views on abortion he achieves in arguments lasting 33 seconds on average.
The video case and disc give no hint that the video is about the Holocaust or abortion, only the warning "Public advisory: Graphic content" and vague praise that the film is very moving and inspiring.
The primary argument of the film is direct comparison between the Holocaust and abortion in the US, presented in a series of man-on-the-street interviews in which Comfort first questions people over how far they would go if ordered to participate in the genocide, then accuses them of holding contradictory views for their support of abortion rights. As this argument is shown to have a near-100% success rate at getting those questioned to renounce their pro-choice views, it is apparent the program is constructed using the "interview mining" technique of talking to thousands of subjects and showing only those which cast Comfort's argument in a good light. A similar opening segment montages American youth claiming no knowledge of the Holocaust or even the name Hitler, a lack of knowledge Comfort claims is a sign of the moral decline of the country.
Interestingly, Ray Comfort is Jewish himself on his mother's side (which makes him a Jew under the traditional Jewish law). He uses that in the documentary to guilt the viewers into accepting his stand.
Ray planned to release this video online for all to view for free, as well as distributing 200,000 DVD copies freely on 100 university campuses across the United States (so far, their website says just over 5,000 have been given out). However, as PZ Myers noted, this is more than just another Creation Intro to Origin of Species stunt, but this video is a "begging video."Ray Comfort is a fraud, PZ Myers, 29 August 2011, Pharyngula It appears that Ray Comfort is asking for mass donations to help spread this video first before trying to save the babies.When inviting financial backing for the film, Comfort promised this film would change American opinion 180° and put Americans against abortion. Presumably, a great many donors are deeply disappointed because this is not happening or will become deeply disappointed when they realize it is not happening.
==The Movie==
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Abortion
Category:Films
Category:Propaganda
Category:Ray Comfort
1 Maccabees

First Maccabees or 1 Maccabees is most famous as the source of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Despite this, the book is not included as canon in the Tanakh. It is a deuterocanonical work in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition, and apocryphal in Protestant tradition.
Unlike most of the Books of the Maccabees, 1 Maccabees was written in Hebrew and translated into Greek as part of the Septuagint. The Hebrew version, lost for many years, was rediscovered in 1886.The lost Hebrew text of 1st Maccabees found!
Christian authorities did not give the book of 1 Maccabees full canonical status, probably not because of objectionable content, but because - from the perspective of the compilers of the Bible - it was "too recent" or because the available text was written in Greek (rather than in Hebrew or in Aramaic).
Why the Maccabees Aren't in the Bible.
Also, the Maccabees founded the Hasmonean dynasty of rulers, which the unpopular king Herod married into,Adam Kolman Marshak, The Many Faces of Herod the Great. William. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2015. . so political PR could have had something to do with it too. Protestants may have disliked some of the "proof texts" used by Catholics taken from the work.
==Summary==
The Maccabees headed up the Jewish rebellion against the Seleucid King Antiochus Epiphanes.
After Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE, four of his generals divided his empire into sub-kingdoms for themselves. The area containing the modern state of Israel first came under the control of Ptolemaic Egypt, then - in 198 BCE — under the Antioch-based in 198 BCE. King Antiochus IV (reigned 175 to 164 BCE, and self-styled Epiphanes, which means something like "the glorious manifestation of god") wanted to Hellenize the Jews. He prohibited circumcision, placed idols representing Greek gods in the in Jerusalem, and banned the study of the Torah.
A rebellion started, initially led by the priest Mattathias, and later by his sons, especially Judah, who became known as — possibly meaning "Judah the Hammer". After a seven-year guerrilla struggle, the rebels, known to history as the "Maccabees", finally prevailed and purged the Temple of the idols. When they arrived at the Temple, they found that there was enough holy oil to provide light for one day, and replacements would not arrive for more than a week. According to tradition, God made the oil for one day last for eight days, hence the length of the holiday of Hanukkah (the Festival of Lights).
==References==
Category:Judaism
Category:Deuterocanon
Category:Apocrypha
2015 Los Angeles UFO scare

The 2015 Los Angeles UFO scare occurred around 6 pm on the night of November 7, 2015, when an unarmed Trident missile from USS Kentucky, a submarine, flew over Los Angeles and disintegrated. The light from the missile was originally thought to be a comet/meteor or UFO.http://abc7.com/news/hundreds-report-mystery-light-flying-through-sky/1073739/ What people saw was caused by the second stage separation of the missile, creating a blue-green gas cloud behind it. The missile was part of an organized test conducted by the US Navy. During the test period, air traffic was diverted around Los Angeles Airport, presumably so that a missile wouldn't accidentally hit a plane, although the reason for the "secret" closing of the airspace became clearer when the missile was shothttp://abc7.com/news/secret-military-operations-to-divert-lax-planes-for-a-week/1072890/. The Orange Countyhttps://twitter.com/OCSD/status/663187887442137088 and Los Angeles Sheriffhttps://twitter.com/LHSLASD/status/663178677509746688 Departments both stated that the event was not worthy of calling 911, due to it not causing danger to anyone. Despite the quite quick responses from the Pentagon to the news reports, Raëlians and UFOlogists are probably already hard at work creating loads of conspiracy theories about the event, e.g. that it was the second coming of Jesus/another Roswell Event/proof that the Illuminati controls the government.
==References==
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Category:Conspiracy theories
23

23 is Michael Jordan's jersey number a number which, for some odd reason, strikes a chord in the minds of certain conspiracy theorists and related people, who claim it has a significance that other numbers don't; some people call this the Twenty-three is one of three numbers used as the basis for pseudoscientific biorhythms. The mysteriousness of the number 23 was first raised as a concept by Robert Anton Wilson, to whom William S. Burroughs related (no doubt in his trademark dry, gravelly voice) that "he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another Captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23." Wilson apparently went on to study the number more closely, and discovered that it seemed to occur more often than circumstances called for, although he admitted that "When you start looking for something you tend to find it."
Devotees of the 23 phenomenon include the mathematician John Nash (who once claimed to be Pope John XXIII and died on May 23rd in a car crash);23 fascinating facts about the number twenty-three, The Independent, 23 February 2007 the Discordians (who probably got it from Robert Anton Wilson); and the appropriately-named 23rdians, who involve it in their mystical thinking. The Knights Templar had 23 Masters and are implicated in all that Priory of Sion/Da Vinci Code bollocks. It is also one of "the numbers" on the television show Lost. Movies have been made about this idea, both and The movie Number 23 starring Jim Carrey is a great example of this theory, as well as how it may affect the mind of someone who would start digging for the number 23 everywhere.Number 23 recap: let me count the ways in which you don't add up, Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 11 August 2013
==See also==
*Numerology
*27 Club
*666
==References==
Category:Conspiracy theories
Category:Numbers
Category:Pseudoscience
Category:Superstition
2 Maccabees

2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible, which focuses on the successful Maccabeeian rebellion (led by Judas Maccabeus) against Seleucid rule.
As with all deuterocanonical books, 2 Maccabees is part of in the Old Testament in the canon of the Bible of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, but it is not accepted as part of the Bible by Protestants or Jews, who include it as part of the Apocrypha instead. As with other deuterocanonical books, 2 Maccabees (unlike 1 Maccabees) was written in Koine Greek, suggesting it was part of an oral tradition of Greek Jews that grew out of the more conservative Hebrew communities.
==Authorship==
2 Maccabees is presented within the text as an abridgement of a 5-volumn work by Jason of Cyrene.
Nothing in the style or language of the text suggests it was copied from a Hebrew work, meaning it was original theology to the Koine Jewish community. As Jason of Cyrene's work is generally assumed to date from the 100s BCE, it can be assumed that this text is younger still. Because of references to the Jewish feast to celebrate the purification of the Egyptian temple, the date of 2 Maccabees must be after 127 BCE.
==Canonization and theological politics==
Part of the reason why Protestants rejected it is that some of the passages in it appear to support the Catholic idea of prayer for the dead, for example 2 Maccabees 12:45 (KJV): For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should have risen again, it had been superfluous and vain to pray for the dead. This is in reference to when, after a battle, they discovered that all of Judas's men who had been slain were in possession of idolatrous amulets; thus, they concluded their death in the battle was punishment by God for sin. So Judas gathered up a collection to be sent to the Temple to offer sacrifices, and arranged prayers, that God would forgive the sins of their comrades who had died. However, others dispute whether this passage really supports the Catholic doctrine of purgatory See for example this blog post
== External links ==
;Online versions
*KJV
*Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)
*NRSV
==Notes==
Category:Deuterocanon
Category:Apocrypha
3 Maccabees

3 Maccabees is a book in the Old Testament of the Eastern Orthodox Bible, but not accepted by Catholics or Protestants, who both class it as part of the Apocrypha, nor by Jews. The books 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees are both accepted as biblical by Catholics. This book, despite its name, is not concerned with the Maccabeus brothers and their revolt against the and its rule over ancient Israel. Rather, it describes the persecution of the Jews in Egypt under the rule of Pharaoh Ptolemy IV, who was of the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt following the disintegration of the empire of Alexander the Great. This book was likely named Maccabees due to the common element of Greek persecutions, including martyrdoms.
Category:Apocrypha
Category:Deuterocanon
4 Maccabees

4 Maccabees is a philosophical discourse and homily that is holy to Rational Wiki, as it praises rationality over passion. At least in a 100s BCE, Koine Greek Jewish sorta-way. 
The association with the Maccabian books is due to 4 Maccabees heavy reliance on 1 & 2 Maccabess for its subject matter. 4 Maccabees uses the martyrdoms described in 2 Maccabees as chief examples of choosing reason (the desire to do what is right and to serve God) over passion (fear of pain and death). The style itself is somewhat unique for traditional Jewish writings, and follows a style more reminiscent of the Greek School of Philosophical discourse. First, the author lays out clearly what he feels to be the most important virtues, and details why they matter. Then he uses the story of the marytrdom of Elezar to bring descriptive discussion to the stated facts.
==Canon status==
4 Maccabees is in the canon of the and is in the appendix of the Greek Bible, but is otherwise not part of the canon of any church including the Eastern Orthodox Church, nor by Catholics or Protestants. 
Like the rest of the Deuterocanon, 4 Maccabees was written in Koine Greek, and the Catholic Church distinctly identified those works as not part of the original Hebrew Bible, and therefore set them apart.
==Authorship==
There are questions about the purpose of 4 Maccabees. If it were a homily, in any traditional Koine Jewish style, then it would have been more scripturally based. As it is, the philosophical discourse leaves little room for religious ceremony and rhetoric. 
The work is traditionally ascribed to Josephus, thanks to Roman church historian Eusebius of Caesarea. However, given the amount of writing of Josephus' that exists, linguistic scholars have generally denied his authorship of 4 Maccabees. 
The theological content and philosophical discourse generally place it in the Hellenistic Jewish world of 100 BCE to 100 CE.
==See also==
*Books of the Maccabees
==References==
Category:Apocrypha
Category:Deuterocanon
7 July 2005 London bombings

On 7 July 2005, a series of suicide bombings were committed by Islamic extremists around various sites in London, England: three in the London Underground and a fourth on a bus in Tavistock Square. The event is often referred to as 7/7. The bombers responsible were Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain, and Germaine Lindsay.Profile: Mohammad Sidique Khan, BBC News, 30 April 2007The July 7th Truth CampaignProfile: Shehzad Tanweer, BBC News, 6 July 2006Profile: Germaine Lindsay, BBC News. 11 May 2006 56 people were killed in the bombings.7 July London bombings: What happened that day?, BBC News, July 3, 2015
==Conspiracy theory==
Just as with every major terrorist incident, conspiracy nuts came crawling out from their underground bunkers to argue that the London bombings weren't actually committed by the accused men. This has mostly taken the form of garishly-designed blogs, amateur videos, and lectures delivered to the nuttier wing of the Muslim community.
The 7/7 Ripple Effect, an amateurly produced conspiracy film that you can watch in its entirety on YouTube, is the July 7 equivalent of Loose Change. It was produced by "Muad Dib", who is not a Muslim, incidentally, but a pseudonym derived from Frank Herbert's Dune novel; Dib is actually a Sheffield-born man living in Ireland named John Hill, who believes that he is the Messiah."Unmasking the mysterious 7/7 conspiracy theorist", BBC News Magazine, 30 June 2009Khaled Diab, "Losing the plot", The Guardian, 3 July 2009
One of the constant nagging pains for the conspiracy crowd has been the presence of Rachel North, a writer and blogger who was on one of the trains that was attacked and has skewered their theories in the media.Andy Hayman's book, 7/7 conspiracy theories and the campaign for a 7/7 inquiry, Rachel from North London, 4 July 2009 They generally respond by claiming that she is a fictional person invented by the government for some nefarious purpose or other.
==See also==
*9/11
*David Shayler
==References==
Category:Crime
Category:Islamic extremism
Category:Terrorism
Category:Conspiracy theories
969 Movement

The 969 Movement is a violent nationalist movement in Burma and yet another religious excuse for attacking people who are different.969: The Strange Numerological Basis for Burma's Religious Violence
 In this case, it is the Buddhist majorityExtremism builds among Myanmar's BuddhistsBuddhism turns violent in Myanmar. who don't like the existence of a small minority (somewhere between 5 to 10%) of Muslims (i.e., the Rohingya people), which they see as an Islamic expansion into "their" country. They primarily hold nationalist demonstrations, but they are also believed to be connected to the many violent attacks on Muslims, Muslim-owned businesses, and Muslim communities that we have seen in Burma in recent years. The death toll is in the hundreds. Their leader is a Buddhist monk named Ashin Wirathu.Radical Buddhist monk accused of inciting riots that have killed hundreds of Muslims
==The name==
The "969" is a Buddhist symbol signifying the Three Jewels of Buddhism — the 9 virtues of Buddha, the 6 virtues of his Dharma, and the 9 virtues of Buddhist monks. As the movement sees it, 969 is supposed to be the cosmological opposite of 786, an Islamic symbol; 969ers, noticing 7+8+6 = 21, think 786 is a secret message that Muslims intend to conquer Burma in the 21st century. Never mind that the Islamic world doesn't even use the Gregorian calendar and it is not the 21st Century on the Muslim calendar. On the Islamic calendar, 2023 is part of the 15th Century AH. "786" is commonly used by South Asian Muslims and is derived from the phrase, "Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim", meaning "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful".Why does Islam respect the number 786? Quora
==See also==
*Numerology
*Ku Klux Klan, the Christian equivalent to the 969 Movement.
==References==
Category:Islamophobia
Category:Nationalism
Category:Buddhism
Category:Numbers
Category:Racism
Category:Fascism