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Ruling class

The term "ruling class" describes the sort of social class that dominates the political, social, and/or economic life of the polity it rules. Wherever there has been civilization there has always been one or more ruling classes. Examples of ruling classes include the Kshatriyas of India, to the centralized aristocracies of pre-WW2 Europe, to the political elites that dominate the United States of America, China and Russia today. Ideally, within a democracy, the entire populace is the ruling class; in reality, all democracies are still dominated by wealth and social privilege.
Note that the existence of a ruling class does not mean that it has total control of a polity (the monarchs of old were deposed, after all) and that therefore there may be multiple, competing ruling classes (such as the old nobles, the nascent bourgeois, and the religious clergy of Renaissance Europe).
==Origins==
The modern idea of a ruling class, as distinct from a group of individual rulers, stems largely from Karl Marx's writings. Marx spoke of the ruling class, the capitalist bourgeois, being overthrown by the underclass, the proletariat ("Workers of the world, unite!"). A large number of people spent decades making enormous messes trying to implement Marx's vision. Meanwhile, the workers of the world were actually uniting in labor unions and successfully demanding better working conditions and failing, slowly having their plications removed such as the NHS in the UK slowly being defunded.
==Abuse of the term==
Originally, in Marx's writings, "bourgeois" meant "of, relating to, or characteristic of the owners of the means of production". For leaders of the USSR, "bourgeois" eventually meant the equivalent of "of, relating to, or characteristic of Satan". "Bourgeois art" (art that wasn't conducive to the USSR's goals), "bourgeois pseudoscience" (science that didn't feel pro-communist),For many years in the Soviet Union, studying genetics or sociology was verboten, these sciences having been classified as "bourgeois pseudoscience". This mentality eventually led to Lysenkoism, an abomination of evolutionary theory. and so on were repressed by totalitarian rule. Furthermore, being accused of having a "petty-bourgeois mentality" could mean excommunication from communist circles and sometimes earned one a trip to the gulag or the gallows.
==See also==
*Social class
*Working class
*Oligarchy
*Modern art and architecture
==Notes==
==References==
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Rumpology

Rumpology is the purported ability to glean psychic or other information from a subject using ESP or clairvoyance specific to arses. If this sounds like PIDOOMA, you may be on the right track, but this must be pulled out of someone else's rump.
Not to be confused with a posteriori reasoning, which may or may not be bullshit, rumpology is like phrenology, but using the tail end.
Depending on the temperature of the subject, this might be either cold reading or hot reading.
Possibly the most famous rumpologist is American astrologer StalloneJacqueline Stallone's Rumpology Reports, Jacqueline Stallone website, as displayed Sep. 12, 2019. — yes, mother of the She put the ass in astrology.
==Buttocks reflexology==
John C. McLachlan, a professor of medical education, submitted a hoax abstract for a presentation to The Jerusalem Conference on Integrative Medicine in 2010 on the topic of buttocks reflexology. The abstract claimed that a homunculus on the buttocks corresponded to that could be used for reflexology. The purpose of the accepted submission was to demonstrate the degree of credulousness of alternative medicine, specifically integrative medicine. The diagram that was presented with the abstract showed buttocks with the brain's of body parts superimposed upon each cheek.Integrative medicine and the point of credulity by John C. McLachlan (2010) BMJ 341:c6979. doi:10.1136/bmj.c6979.
==External links==
*"Rumpology," The Skeptic's Dictionary
==References==
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Russ Miller

Russ Miller is an American Young Earth creationist, intelligent design advocate, and founder of Creation, Evolution and Science Ministries. Miller claims he has over 165 college credits and states, “I’m a generalmManager" but does not mention a degree. Miller has hosted several creationist seminars, presenting to the audience his views why evolution is not scientific.
In his seminars, he repeats typical creationist arguments that have been refuted thousands of times.
Miller believes that dinosaurs co-existed with humans in the Garden of Eden, and has shown pictures from Kent Hovind's creation seminars to support his claims.
Miller has been challenged to defend himself, in a court of law, from the claim that he is a liar and a fraud. He refuses to answer the charge, leaving questions as to the integrity of his teaching. It is believed that he is taking donations to fund his lifestyle and acknowledges that his 'ministry' will have to present its finances to the court.
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Russell's paradox

Russell's paradox is a paradox as follows: Consider the set of all sets which are not members of themselves. Is this set a member of itself? If it is, then it is not. If it is not, then it is. A contradiction ensues. In an interesting application, this can be exploited to preclude the existence of a bijection between any set and its The result is an elegant proof that the cardinality of the latter is always larger.
Another version of this paradox goes: Does a barber, who shaves all those and only those who do not shave themselves, shave himself? If he shaves himself, then he is not one of those who do not shave themselves, and since he only shaves those who do not shave themselves, then he does not shave himself. If he doesn't shave himself, then he is one of the those who do not shave themselves, and since he shaves all those who do not shave themselves, then he shaves himself.
This can also be considered more practically via ledgers that track books in a library. One ledger might list all books about geology; another ledger might list all books that mention battles in World War II. Ledgers might keep track of other ledgers; eg. one ledger might keep track of all ledgers that cover books about animals. Now, imagine an uber-ledger that lists all ledgers that do not list themselves. Based on that criteria, should the uber-ledger list itself?
==Resolution==
Bertrand Russell's paradox is a consequence of the axiom of comprehension and the existence of a universal set. 
The issue let to a reworking of set theory in the early 20th century, from naive set theory to axiomatic set theory. In particular, the Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms (usually, plus the axiom of choice) are now the standard foundation of set theory. The axioms are designed to avoid the Russell paradox: in ZF set theory, the universal set does not exist.
Alternatively, one could avoid Russell's paradox and retain a universal set by rejecting the axiom of comprehension.
==See also==
*Russell's Teapot
==External links==
*Russell's Paradox at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
*Russell's Paradox at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Category:Mathematics
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Russell Blaylock

Dr. Russell Blaylock is a technomageSee Babylon 5. retired neurosurgeon and a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (which are synonymous anyway).
He is a prominent member of the mercury militia, having frequently written and given speeches on the dangers of vaccines and dental woo about mercury amalgam fillings.Baylock on about mercury fillings. Archived from newsmax.com. He also believes that water fluoridation causes neurological damage to babies.Australian Action To End Water Fluoridation. Archived from australianfluorideaction.com, 12 February 2011.
Blaylock peddles a mixture of vitamin supplements and other assorted nature woo he calls the "Brain Repair Formula."
Newsmax allows him to spread his blatherskite with their "Dr. Blaylock Wellness Report" segment, where, in addition to promoting his woo, he rails against the spectre of health care rationing and claims the Soviets were responsible for creating widespread drug usage and other health epidemics in America.Newsmax:The Blaylock Wellness report vol 6 no. 9 He has also appeared on InfowarsINFOWARS.com Saves Lives: Dr. Russell Blaylock Exposes Medical Genocide. Infowars. March 22, 2012. Archived from the original on February 22, 2017.Blaylock: Fluoride’s Deadly Secret. Infowars. November 29, 2010. Archived from the original on February 22, 2017. and Natural News.Russell Blaylock news, articles and information Natural News
==Obamacare==
Blaylock apparently showed some Skepticism about Obamacare.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmPgrdoLM2I Like he has any credibility, though.
==External links==
*Blaylock Wellness Report
*Russell Blaylock entry in The Skeptic's Dictionary
==References==
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Russell Grant

Russell John Dammerall Grant (born 1951) is an English celebrity astrologer, pet psychichttp://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=54989 and pantomime actor.
Russell also operates a really expensive per-minute Astrology phone service, where slow talkers pay through the nose.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/5765166/Fame-and-Fortune-Astrologer-Russell-Grant.html
He currently has a relatively broad online presence.http://www.russellgrant.com/http://horoscopes.msn.co.uk/http://www.russellgrantpsychics.co.uk/http://publish.russellgrant.com/horoscopes_astrology/horoscopes.php?sign=vir&type=dailyhttp://twitter.com/astrologerRoyal
In 2011 he was the token joke contender on Strictly Come Dancing, though in fairness he was considerably better than Ann Widdecome and John Sergeant who had taken on the role in previous series. 
==Career==
He started astrology by chance, as a struggling actor running the business as a side-line, until at the 1978 Ideal Home Exhibition he was visited by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, which he parlayed into a TV appearance.Russell Grant: from suicidal recluse to the star of Strictly, The Telegraph, 6 Nov 2011
His long TV career began in 1979 on YTV's Extraordinary and following that with Granada's Live from Two. He then began his association with breakfast, first on the BBC's Breakfast Time, and then ITV's TV-am. After the latter lost its franchise, he moved to This Morning with Richard and Judy where he continued babbling about stars.
He had a short-lived musical career in the early 1980s, releasing "No Matter What Sign You Are" (reaching #87 in the UK chartsRussell Grant, Official UK Charts Company) and "Where Is Love?" In 2012 he attempted to return to the charts with "The Clapping Song".Russell Grant is a Happy Clapper, The Sun, 21 Nov 2012
===Video game===
A career peak might be the making of this licensed Nintendo game about astrology for the DS. So, this is actually a thing. 
===Counties of England===
Russell Grant is also an avid campaigner for the preservation of the traditional county boundaries and names of England. Westmoreland Ho!
==Wikipedia censoring==
In November of 2009, Grant decided he didn't want his Wikipedia entry to "reveal" his birthdate (clearly not for any vain reasons).http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russell_Grant&action=historysubmit&diff=325687801&oldid=324843221 Russell also decided his partner needed the same mystery treatment, and proceeded to blank out his birthdate as well.http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russell_Grant&diff=next&oldid=325687801
Editing articles on yourself is frowned upon at Wikipedia, never mind blanking out pretty basic information about a person. Thus, his calls for these edits to stay went unheard. 
==External links==
*He sings as well.
*NOBODY expects the fabulous Spanish Inquisition!
==References==
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Russian Revolution

* The 1905 Russian Revolution — a bunch of stuff happening.
* The February Revolution (1917), which kicked a three century old monarchy to death.
* The October Revolution (1917), which put the Russian Bolsheviks in power, establishing the first Communist state in the world. The October Revolution also marked when Lenin came to power.
*The Russian Civil War (1917-1923), which saw the Bolsheviks triumph against opposing forces and form the Soviet Union.
Ruth Carter Stapleton

Ruth Carter Stapleton was a faith healing Christian evangelist and the sister of U.S. president Jimmy Carter.
A Baptist by denomination and a Pentecostal in practice, she was best known for advocacy of a form of faith healing known as "healing of memories". This movement which also goes under other names like "inner healing" and "healing of the mind", involves recalling painful memories, or attempting to recover "repressed" memories, and then dealing with them; the Christian version of this promoted by Stapleton involved recalling those memories and then bringing Jesus into the picture to "heal" or "forgive" those events. Stapleton's teachings were controversial among some Christian fundamentalists, who considered them an extra-biblical borrowing from the law of attraction and other New Thought doctrines.see, for example, Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon: The Seduction of Christianity: Spiritual Discernment in the Last Days, Harvest House, 1985, a book critical of Stapleton, Robert Schuller, Norman Vincent Peale, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, and several other evangelists for bringing what they viewed as metaphysics and New Age teachings into the Christian church -- although from a rationalist skeptic point of view, their particular line of criticism boils down to "it's not in the Bible, therefore it's sorcery" and isn't exactly compelling.
Among those who converted to "born again" Christianity under her influence include Larry Flynt (whose conversion was short lived), and her brother Jimmy. She also attempted to convert Harvey Milk by promising he would be cured of homosexuality if he accepted Jesus as his personal savior, and in her 1976 book The Gift of Inner Healing, she asserts that homosexuality can be cured by visualizing yourself playing baseball with Jesus and going fishing with Him.No, really. We aren't making this up. Stapleton, Ruth Carter: The Gift of Inner Healing, Key-Word Books, 1976, p. 92-95.
She died at age 53 in 1983 of pancreatic cancer, for which she decided to forgo any medical treatment and instead rely on faith in God and prayer to heal her.The New York Times, September 27, 1983
==References==
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S. A. Swaffington

S. A. Swaffington, also known as Ryan West, is an English nationalist writer who has self-published a series of novels about Anglo-Saxon history. He is not above distorting the facts to push a racist agenda.
=="Career"==
Swaffington wrote his first novel, The Rise of the Saxons and the Legend of Hengest and Horsa, under the name Ryan West and had it published in 2008. The story portrays the semi-legendary founders of England as genocidal thugs: it associates them with Nazi imagery and shows them rampaging through Britain murdering defenceless children, lusting after 13-year-old girls, torturing slaves for fun, committing drunken rapes and coming out with lines like "let's holocaust them into oblivion". Despite this, the author still expects the reader to side with them.http://radicalbritain.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/the-strange-case-of-sa-swaffington-and.htmlhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1CE07C0N2Q3YV/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RND1CASILBKVS/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003 One of the few people to give this book a positive review on Amazon was Wulf Veldasson, a neo-Nazi who belongs to the Hitler-worshipping cult Woden's Folk.http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RVXSK4HR7GZ3U/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1438924003
A few years after the publication of this novel, the author began writing under his current name of S. A. Swaffington. He claims that he has moved on from the fascist sympathies shown in Rise of the Saxons, and that he has given a more clean-cut portrayal of the Anglo-Saxons in his more recent books.http://radicalbritain.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-time-sa-swaffington-vomited-over-my.html In fact, however, he was still expressing a clearly racist point of view even after restarting his career. In a 2012 post at the Anglo-Saxon Foundation forum, written after he made his debut as S. A. Swaffington with Offa: Rise of the Englisc Warrior, the novelist states that "My views on non-white immigration is very simple: I'm 100% against it, no ifs or buts." Swaffington also canvassed for positive reviews at this racist board.https://web.archive.org/web/20170131075325/https://www.englisc-gateway.com/bbs/topic/30643-offa/#entry171238
In addition to his bigotry, Swaffington is guilty of operating a sock-puppet account to promote himself on Amazon and using plagiarised artwork on the covers of his books.http://radicalbritain.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/s-swaffington-is-plagiarist.html
==Is it cos I is Englisc?==
Swaffington has had trouble being professionally published, and he blames this on political correctness rather than his own shortcomings as a writer:
Swaffington is proud enough of the above rant to have posted it in at least two nationalist communities.https://archive.is/51FU5https://archive.is/HvhPE
==See also==
* Ron McVan
==References==
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SCO

SCO or Shanghai Cooperation Organization, is a multinational security alliance between the People's Republic of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The SCO was founded in 2001 by the leaders of the member countries. The SCO is explicitly charged to deal with the three problems of terrorism, separatism, and extremism.
Although the SCO sometimes coordinates in the cultural and societal sector, it is primarily an economic and security organization. The number of military exercises between SCO member countries have increased since the date of its formation. The first military exercise was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 2003.
The two most powerful member countries of the SCO are Russia and China; the first joint military exercise between China and Russia was held in 2005 which was named "Peace Mission 2005." At present Afghanistan, Belarus, India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan have observer status in SCO. If India joins the SCO, it would have the potential to be a very powerful security alliance.
However, as of right now, there are many, particularly NATO analysts, who dispute the importance of the SCO. Russia and China still do not have the best of relations, and are in strong competition for Central Asian mineral and fossil fuel rights. Moreover, Russia managed to offend the entire SCO with its war in Georgia,Georgia: The Split that Split the SCO, Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst as it was explicitly a war in support of separatists. Though China and Russia have a competitive role in terms of global influence, they are increasingly collaborating in the fields of science, technology, security, and the military.For example, the transfer of .
==References==
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SETI

SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is a collective term for activities that search for extraterrestrial life, specifically intelligent life, "out there." When people talk about "SETI" as an entity, they usually mean the SETI Institute, a non-profit organization, or conflating other people's efforts with the Institute.
==Aliens on my radio==
The method employed so far in the search has been reading the radio-frequency noise emitting from various stars and attempting to detect artificial signals.
Most signals received and analyzed have turned out to have natural explanations. Regardless, the methods employed by the group are scientifically sound, and their reports often feature in prominent journals. So even if SETI doesn't find life out there, it has discovered some very interesting non-life out there.
==The Wow! signal==
 In 1977 SETI picked up the Astronomer Jerry Ehman heard 72 seconds of radio data possibly transmitted from space.
==See also==
*Astrobiology
*The wouldn't be within RationalWiki's mission, but we have an article on the Arecibo answer
*The Drake Equation for guessing probability of intelligent extraterrestrial life.
*Alien invasion, a potential consequence of SETI
==External links==
*SETI and the Wow! signal 
*1/5 Are We Alone In The Universe? (Video about possible aliens.) 
*When Will We Discover the Extraterrestrials? This film is very long.
*SETI@home Does your computer have spare processing power? If so, SETI could use your help.
==References==
Category:Astronomy
SLAPP suit

A SLAPP suit (short for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) is a public relations tactic in which a company files a frivolous lawsuit against an opponent of lesser means in hope of silencing them due to a lack of funds to contest the suit in court. In countries without a "loser pays the fees" system of legal proceedings, SLAPP suits are often seen as an abuse of process by observers; however, as a general rule, the domain of tort reform lobbying belongs to the same companies filing abusive lawsuits in the first place. 
A common procedure involving SLAPP suits goes as follows:
* Party A hosts a website or service in which one participant has posted or raised objectionable material. This material may or may not be subject to copyright, but it is nonetheless inflammatory or potentially significant.
* Party B raises an objection to Party A hosting or posting this content. They demand that the material in question be removed from service, oftentimes disregarding the idea of Fair Use. A fee is oftentimes discussed for legal reasons.
* Party A, having a limited budget (if any at all) will remove the offending post, regardless of whether Fair Use is in play, or whether it is indeed legal for Party B to threaten them in this manner.
* Party B drops the lawsuit.
In short form, Party B is engaging in a malicious practice, demanding that Party A either pay legal costs which it cannot properly afford (even with a Pro Bono lawyer), or remove material which is not specifically libelous. The goal is to erase any material with which party B does not agree. As one might imagine, this has certain consequences.
In the United States, various laws have been enacted to prevent the use of SLAPP suits, but this varies widely by local jurisdiction. Other countries take a dim view of SLAPP suits, as, in many cases, the onus of proof (and resultant legal fees) tend to weigh on the litigant instead of the defendant.
==See also==
*Chilling effect
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