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Rock Against Communism

Rock Against Communism were a series of white power concerts held in the United Kingdom in late 1970s-early 1990s which were started by the National Front. The name of these concerts is a play on Rock Against Racism, and is extremely deceptive in that the concerts seldom focused on the subject of communism and more often than not featured neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, racist, and violent themes.RAC, A Visual Database of
Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos Later, the term "rock against communism" (RAC) was adopted by white power and neo-Nazi skinhead organizations as a meme in reference to racist and bigoted rock music often promoted by said organizations.The World Today archive A lot of idiots involved with these groups and their records will peddle the "Cultural Marxism" bullshit that things such as letting interracial couples marry and stopping police brutality against minorities are somehow communist plots as a half-assed justification for the bait-and-switch.
In America, there were some would-be punk bands who continued to insist on "rocking against communism", but most of their fan base is too young to remember what the USSR was. In general, the Southern Poverty Law Center sees their racism as quite peripheral to real political problems and more of the stuff that jackass hicks do to make fools of themselves.Inbreeding at its finest! Sadly, many of these kinds of groups still gather big followings among hardcore extremists in various European nations and other places, the ones that actually perform in places with historical memories of World War II being often pretty damn shameless for their belief that the bad guys should have won.
The term "rock against communism" or "RAC" is sometimes used as a kind of musical sub-genre label (roughly akin to calling something "new wave", "post-punk" or such) to signify that a particular recording has far right type lyrics combined with stereotypical rock instrumentation. Examples of groups given this tag for their fascist-type messages include No Remorse, Skrewdriver,This group started out as an apolitical punk band with a Ramones-esque kind of sound, almost pop-punk like, so don't be surprised running into non-racist fans online (who appreciate the stuff from their saner days only). and Skullhead among others. The "music" (using that word very, very loosely) ranges from the terribly forgettable to the unforgettably terrible all of the time, although it can be rather enjoyable to note how shamelessly a lot of the racist dopes steal from mainstream artists (besides the whole fact that, seriously, rock and roll music as a very concept was invented largely by African American musicians in the first place).
==See also==
*Red-baiting
*Saga — another RAC participant
==Notes==
==References==
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Rock Against Racism

Rock Against Racism was a British anti-racist campaign that raised awareness for its cause by staging rock concerts.
RAR was originally conceived by Red Saunders and Roger Huddle as a one-off concert, but nothing came of the idea until August 1976 when Eric Clapton drunkenly praised Enoch Powell. Saunders, Huddle and two members of Kartoon KlownsExactly who or what Kartoon Klowns were appears to have been largely forgotten. responded with a letter to New Musical Express announcing the launch of the Rock Against Racism movement and calling for collaborators; Huddle since claimed that they received hundreds of letters in reply. RAR was ultimately part of a broader anti-racism movement (its frequent partner, the Anti-Nazi League, was founded in 1977) that grew up in response to the National Front.http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=8931
The first RAR carnival was held in 1978.http://www.dkrenton.co.uk/rock_against_racism.html The campaign prompted a backlash from the white power music scene, which launched Rock Against Communism in response.
At the time, Roger Huddle was working for the Socialist Workers Party as a graphic designer. The SWP was closely involved with RAR, allowing its PO box and print shop to be used by the campaign.Andy Beckett, "When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies", Faber & Faber, 2009, pp. 449-50.
The original incarnation of RAR gradually faded away during the eighties, although an arguable successor — — was set up in 2002 following the elections of BNP councillers in Burnley.
==See also==
*Stop Murder Music
==Notes==
==References==
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Rod Parsley

Rodney Lee Parsley is a Pentecostal Christian televangelist and businessman who runs World Harvest Church, a megachurch in Columbus, Ohio. In addition to the 12,000 member megachurch, he operates several other businesses tied to the ministry, including Breakthrough, a nationally syndicated television show; the Center for Moral Clarity, a right wing political organization masquerading as a grass roots Christian advocacy group; Valor Christian College, a mediocre training school for Pentecostal ministers; and Harvest Preparatory School, a mediocre private Christian school. Parsley's accumulation of various religious businesses have made him fabulously wealthy;Ohio Religious Right Pastor Faces Increasing Scrutiny Over Practices. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, January 2006. in 2010 he sent a letter to donors begging for a million dollars to buy an airplane.Kevin D. Hendricks, Rod Parsley’s Airplane: Lessons in Financial Communication. churchmarketingsucks.com, 13 September 2010.The Devil Stole Rod Parsley's Money. religiondispatches.org, 20 December 2009.
Parsley claims to hold a doctorate degree from Liberty University,About Rod Parsley. rodparsley.com. but he never mentions that it's an honorary degree.Dr. Who? – Televangelists With Fake Educations and Degrees. dustoffthebible.com. 19 August 2015.
Parsley's church experienced explosive growth in the 1980s and 1990s, riding the coattails of the emerging Word of Faith movement. For several years, Parsley was associated with Dale Allison, an attorney from Georgia and a prosperity gospel con man who traveled all over the country showing churches how to get rich.Sarah Posner, With God On His Side. The American Prospect, 23 October 2005. 
Parsley has authored innumerable books, which can be acquired along with DVDs, clothes, and other trinkets at his online store. This is part of a multifaceted approach to accumulating wealth. In 2009 he pleaded for money from his followers stating that his ministry was threatened by a “demonically inspired financial attack.”Kyle Mantyla, Parsley Pleads For Money: “Will You Help Me Take Back What the Devil Stole?” Right Wing Watch, 16 December 2009. Parsley begs aggressively for money, subtly stating that the contributor's reward is directly proportional to amount of money they give to him. This is a common tactic used by televangelist scam artists.Susan Puzio, New Book Explores Mafia Like Techniques Used by the Seed Faith Gospel Televangelists. christiannewswire.com, 30 November 2016.Larry Madill, Rod Parsley: Jesus' Con Man. The Dauily Kos, 23 May 2008.
==External links==
*Official website
*Center for Moral Clarity
*Breakthrough Prepaid Debit MasterCard (Parsley's discontinued debit card)
==References==
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Rods

Rods, or Sky-Fish as they are also known, are UFOs (or maybe they are the aliens themselves? Who can say?) that are, surprisingly, in a rod shape. They range from several inches in length to over a foot, with membranes on the sides to assist in swimming through the air. Rods can travel at such a speed that they cannot be seen with the naked eye; however, much "good" footage has been taken of them (and we mean good in the loosest sense possible). They appear to be intelligent, dodging and weaving around obstacles and, in some cases, passing right through solid matter - which would obviate the need to dodge round, one would have thought.
==Sightings==
Jose Escamillahttp://www.roswellrods.com was the first person to get a rod on tape (and also claimed that he was going to give the producers of Monster Hunt on the History Channel a "Monkey Spanking") and devoted his life to standing around with his camera pointed in the air trying to catch them on film, a technique known as "Sky Fishing". From the look of his website, Sky Fishing for Rods was not a particularly rewarding financial endeavour, but we thank him anyway for his dedication to hunting these creatures.
==Explanation==
On the History Channel show MonsterQuest, rods were proven to simply be exactly what they look like; camera illusions caused by motion blur and shutter speed issues. At high speed, a moth was seen. At regular speed, it was a rod. Rods tend to be observed by people who forget that cameras do not work the same as eyes - among other things, there are quite a few things, particularly insects, that move rather faster than the frame rate of the typical camera, thus creating the rod-like appearance. Believers in rods still deny that they are camera illusions, but don't seem to be in the business of disproving this.
Amateur astronomer Bob DuHamel wrote a lengthy article, explaining exactly how the rods are "created;"The "Rods" Hoax findings which have been echoed by other people examining the phenomenon.Sol's "Rods" Study
==See also==
*Orbs, for the round type
*Cryptozoology
==External links==
*YouTube video
==References==
Category:Ufology
Roger Bate

Roger Bate is a libertarian economist and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.Roger Bate, American Enterprise Institute. Bate has had a history of jumping between conservative think tanks for the purpose of promoting deregulation through unorthodox campaigns.Adam Sarvana, Bate and Switch: How a free-market magician manipulated two decades of environmental science. Archived from storiesthatmatter.org, 2 June 2009. He is a founder and current co-director of Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM), a project affiliated with the Competitive Enterprise Institute.Donald Gutstein, Inside the DDT Propaganda Machine. thetyee.ca, 22 January 2010. AFM is an astroturf group dedicated to promulgating anti-environmentalism. It particularly promotes the myth that the "banning"Any mentions of exceptions in the ban for anti-malarial purposes are curiously omitted. of DDT led to millions of deaths in Third World countries and that Rachel Carson's work on the effects of DDT was fabricated. AFM falsely claims that widespread use of DDT would save millions of lives, despite the known adverse health effects and the fact that mosquitoes have increasingly evolved resistance to the pesticide. Bate, as to be expected, is also a climate denier.Roger Bate, Sourcewatch.
==Notes==
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Roger Leir

Roger K. Leir, D.P.M., (1934-2014)Obituary by none other than Coast to Coast AM; was a This literally means "foot doctor". surgeon, ufologist, and self-described "alien abduction researcher" best known as an investigator of allegedly alien implants.
Leir appeared frequently on television and talk radio programs devoted to ufology. His work also plays a part in the targeted individual movement.The Targeted Individuals United Association website features a short bio on the late Dr. Roger Leir (linking especially to a YouTube video in which Dr. Leir underscores the fundamental alien involvement in the TI phenomenon) finally providing a banner link to the good doctor's website - AlienScalpel.com. He had the great honour of being mocked featured on the "alien abduction" episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! alongside other brilliant minds, such as David Icke.
==Claims==
Leir said he had removed about a dozen implants from people's bodiesBasically the textbook definition of "unnecessary surgery". and claimed they were devices that "emit radio signals". Leir alleged that some of the implants had physically moved during surgery, as if to avoid removal.Never fear, the man with a scalpel will chase after them into whichever nook or cranny of your body they might flee into. "Just keep digging!" This despite the fact that — in a video he himself provided to skeptics of this exact phenomenon taking place — it quite instantly becomes obvious that Leir is the one responsible for the perceived movement, forcefully pushing around a mobile lump of subcutaneous fat with his thumb. Leir said that laboratory testing of the implants "implied they were of extraterrestrial origin". Sounds like the exact type of conclusion an actual, accredited laboratory would settle on, doesn't it?
His first book, The Aliens and the Scalpel, was alleged by Leir to have sold over 10,000 copies by 2003. By that time, Leir claims his third book was recently out — in Portuguese. Desculpa!https://translate.google.com/?tl=pt#en/pt/Sorry
==Criticism and probation==
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! revealed that in 1999, Leir was found guilty of having committed "repeated acts of negligence" by the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, serving 3 years of probation.Doctor of Podiatric Medicine License No. E-1171 (respondent), Case No. 1B-94-35623.
Both Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Glenn Pfeffer and Skeptical investigator Joe Nickell explained that the "implants" are ordinary objects such as pieces of metal or shards of glass that become lodged in tissue similar to splinters. Other "implants" are simply a collection of fat cells that become disconnected (which are harmless). Nickell said that Leir's associate, Derrel Sims, supposedly refused to cooperate when asked to provide a forensic medical institute with specimens or photos for analysis.
==See also==
*Microchip implant
==External links==
*www.alienscalpel.com — Biographic information on Dr. Roger Leir
==Notes==
==References==
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Rogerian argument

A Rogerian argument is a type of argument in which one tries to seek a middle ground between two opposing arguments rather than trying to dictate a "winner" unlike in a traditional Aristotelian argument.Excelsior Online Writing Lab (Excelsior College OWL). Rogerian Argument. This kind of argument is largely inspired by the 20th-century American psychologist One may "win" in a Rogerian argument by successfully convincing the opponent to consider alternative arguments.Teich, Nathaniel. Rogerian Perspectives: Collaborative Rhetoric for Oral and Written Communication. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1992.
==Alternative name==
*Rogerian rhetoric
==Typical usage in argument==
#Person 1: Raises argument A_1
#Person 2: Raises argument A_2
#Person 1 or 2: Creates argument A_3, a 'compromise' of A_1 and A_2 that typically contains premises from both A_1 and A_2
#Person 1 or 2: Argues argument A_3 typically using the combined premises of A_1 and A_2
==As rhetoric versus an argument==
Suppose that the Rogerian argument technique is being used on two arguments, A_1 and A_2, that are disjoint. That is, A_1 \cap A_2=\emptyset. Then, it is impossible to have a formal argument using Rogerian argument techniques; there are no common premises. At this point, the purpose of deploying Rogerian rhetoric is more analogous to a negotiation medium than an argument technique whose purpose is to simply understand the opposing argument rather than trying to change it.Harry Phillips, Patricia Bostian. The Purposeful Argument: A Practical Guide. Cengage Learning. Jan 1, 2011.
==See also==
*Hegelian synthesis
==References==
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Rolfing

:Did you mean ROFLing? Or perhaps ? Or maybe your finger slipped and you wanted to read about golfing? Which is only painful if you ignore someone saying "fore" and get hit by a stray ball.
:Not to be confused with ralphing, though that may follow a particularly intense session of Rolfing.
Rolfing® (or structural bodywork if you can't afford the Rolf Institute version) is the massage of the body's connective tissue or fascia, usually done in a series of 8-10 sessions lasting 1 hour each. Rolfing® has a reputation for being painful. It is claimed to bring the body's posture back into correct alignment, stretch the connective tissue back to its original length, increase height, correct poor range of motion and bad habits, unburden your bank account of excess cash, and have many unspecified general health benefits.
Rolfing® was invented by Ida Rolf in the 1940s. Rolfing® and Rolfing® Structural Integration™ are trademarks of The Rolf Institute of Structural Integration of Boulder, Colorado, which certifies anyone wishing to practice Rolfing®.
Rolfing® enthusiasts tend to make metaphysical claims for the practice as well, especially that Rolfing® brings the body back into "balance" with gravity, and that this somehow aligns the body with the earth's "energy field".
There is no evidence whatsoever that Rolfing® (or even just Rolfing) does any good at all for anything.Jones, T.A. (2004). "Rolfing". Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Clinics of North America 15 (4): 799–809. doi:10.1016/j.pmr.2004.03.008. PMID 15458753. But it hurts, so it must be good, right?
Some real doctors can be found to advocate this process, but the same can probably be said for smoking.
Really, ROFLing is much better, with laughter being the best medicine and such.
==See also==
*Massage
==References==
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Roman Piso

The Roman Piso theory is a pseudohistorical theory of the origins of Christianity. It states that a conspiracy of well-educated Romans — the Piso family — wrote the New Testament, particularly the Gospels, as a social control mechanism. Its advocates call it "The New Classical Scholarship". Nobody else takes it seriously. (Not even Acharya S bought into it.http://freethoughtnation.com/contributing-writers/63-acharya-s/729-a-conversation-on-the-caesars-messiah-thesis.html)
The theory originated in Bruno Bauer's Christus und Caesaren (Christ and the Caesars) from 1877, which claimed that the Romans had authored the New Testament and that Josephus Flavius was the inventor of Jesus.Christ and the Caesars, English translation plus original German text
The Pisos are also claimed to have invented the Christian calendar,The True Authorship of the New Testament (2006) Fargonasphere.com (archived from July 2, 2017). rather than it having been proposed around 525 and adopted in the 800s.http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97jul/zero.htm
Joseph Atwill, an anti-Stratfordian, in Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus,The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus by Joe Atwill claims that the events of Jesus' ministry in the Gospels parallel the military campaigns of Titus Flavius in Josephus' Wars of the Jews.Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus by Joseph Atwill (2011) CreateSpace. ISBN 1461096405. Atwill's theory is based on Bible Code-style pareidolia applied to the four canonical Gospels (ignoring the forty-plus others) and apparently only in English translation (his claimed puns don't work in the original Greek). Conspiracy connoisseurs will delight at Atwill's explanation:Ancient Confession Found: 'We Invented Jesus Christ' by Ryan Gilmore (8 October 2013) PRWeb.
Other proponents include Abelard Reuchlin (the "Abelard Reuchlin Foundation" used to sell his 1979 pamphlet The True Authorship of the New Testament on the subject in the newspaper's small ads; he invented the supposed kingpin of the conspiracy, Arrius Calpurnius Piso), James Ballantyne Hannay and Jay Gallus, and an author who writes as "Roman Piso" (John Duran, who used to advocate this theory on Usenet).Piso Christ: A Book of the New Classical Scholarship by Roman Piso with Jay Gallus (2010) Trafford Publishing. ISBN 142692996X.
A decent takedown of this nonsense is here,The Piso Page (was Re: Origins of Christianity) by Greg, Nancy, and James Todd (8 Feb 1998 16:36:24 -0500; archived from September 17, 2008). a longer one here,On the "Roman Piso" Theory by JPH. Tekton Aplogetics. and Richard Carrier knocks it out of the park here.Atwill's Cranked-up Jesus by Richard Carrier on (October 9, 2013) Richard Carrier Blogs.
==In real life==
 was a 1st-century Roman senator who gave his name to the actual a plot to usurp Nero. This had nothing to do with religious works over in Judea.
==See also==
*Zeitgeist
==References==
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Ron McVan

Ron McVan is an American white nationalist Odinist. He has written several books which are readily identifiable due to being filled with drawings of deformed vikings.
==Views on race==
McVan argues that all Aryans should unite to form "a Pan Aryan World Federation of Euro-ethnic tribes" to stave off extinction. "Aryankind are now facing the total extinction of their race, culture and heritage which our forebears had fought tooth and nail to preserve at all costs", he writes. "In our apathy we have chosen to alienate ourselves from our own kind and toss the Aryan gauntlet of world conquest into the gutter. We now cringe at the very name of our species 'ARYAN' and speak of it only in whispers behind closed doors in dreadful anticipation that it will offend someone." he complains that "[o]ur backs we have turned on our ethnic gods and heroes of legend" and that "[w]e breed freely with other races while we murder our own Aryan children with abortion and birth control pills".
McVan holds the theory that the world is controlled by the "Power Elite", who "have been working fervently for over a hundred years running, to break up the Scaret [sic] Circle of our Aryan nationhood throughout the world". He equates this with Marxism: "Karl Marx the founder of Marxism was a Jew and Jews in general have a natural tendancy to gravitate towards Marxism as many Jews see the breakdown of Aryankind as the only ticket to gain their own grip on world power and control", he says.https://web.archive.org/web/20110903043927/http://www.vinlandfolkresistance.com/articles/200806/McVan_ScarletCircle.html
==Partnership with Katja Lane==
McVan collaborated with Katja Lane on 14 Words Press, a publishing company for white nationalist and Wotanist materials that Mrs. Lane and her incarcerated husband, David Lane, founded in 1995.http://www.adl.org/learn/Ext_US/lane.asp?xpicked=2&item=lane Later, however, McVan and Katja Lane had a falling out, as McVan relates: 
==External links==
Two of McVan's books are available on Archive.org, so you can sample his rubbish artwork for free:
* Creed of Iron
* Temple of Wotan
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