Joseph Andrew Settanni, CRM, CPC
born: New York City; attained: Phi Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta Pi, Epsilon Sigma Pi; internationally published author; done records management consulting work for Federal judge and, also, a labor union president.
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Manhattan College, BA, magna cum laude and winner of the McGoldrick Medal for History; New York University, MA and Archives Management CertificateInterests
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St. Augustine and Minerva's Owl Can Meet for America's FutureDiscussion is given concerning why a good book needs to be written for doing for Christians what St. Augustine's City of God had accomplished, for the ancient world, regarding the fall of Rome.
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Mafia Mystique: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the SameA discussion of how specified organized crime, as criminality defined, is equated exclusively with criminals of Italian ancestry, by a presumably morally enlightened presidential administration dedicated to ending prejudice and bigotry.
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Why Barack Hussein Obama Will Be Reelected in 2012Examination of reasons as to why a degenerate and decadent ruling class, inclusive of the societal and cultural elite, loses faith in itself and seeks consciously to destroy the political order and system, which sustains it.
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Red Dragon Rising: China's Challenge to America for Asian HegemonyAn overview and discussion is rendered of the historical meaning behind the retreat of American power as perceived in the unchallenged aggressive military preparedness for putting Red China, the Middle Kingdom, on a near-future war footing.
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Leo Strauss: Teacher of Machiavellian Lies or Only Platonic Golden Lies?Discussion is given of whether or not the actual legacy of Leo Strauss consists of the philosophical legitimation and rationalization of moral evil done for the higher sake of successful politics and its own self-internal justification.
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Congo Civil War, Related Pygmy Genocide, and Prospects for World PeaceObservations are given as to how the moral hollowness of ideological progressivism, as favoring world peace, is exposed through the brutal ongoing strife in the Congo, along with genocide of the Pygmy people.
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Nation-State Consolidation: Political Epistemology and Cognate Rhetorical LexicographyReflections are given as to the meanings, denotations, and connotations behind the significant change in describing what is now usually called, in short, the Civil War that occurred on American soil, 1861-1865.
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Liberty Versus Tyranny: Societal Subservience, Obedience, Obsequiousness and DeferenceDiscussion is presented of how special and exceptional political freedom and civil liberty really are versus the predominant historical prevalence of tyranny and political repression, suppression, and oppression.
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Sociological Retrospective: White Guilt as Racist Updating of White Man's BurdenDiscussion is rendered as to the reasoning by which it is properly seen that the White Guilt syndrome is even more greatly racist than was the older version of it once called the White Man's Burden.
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Man of Blasphemy: A Christmas Movie Title Never to Be Seen About the ChristA theological and moral disquisition is given pertaining to various modern misinterpretations and, thus, cognate reified mischaracterizations and misapprehensions of the Christology of the Christ.
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Canon Law, Sharia, and the Western Compartmentalization of LifeExamination of how Western civilization is bearing the increasing impact of Islamization regardless of the compartmentalization of social existence that was demanded by modernity, with reflections upon the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Notes on that Silly ICBM Shot Near Los Angeles: Why No Major Reactions?A discussion is given, with much political speculation, as to why relatively nothing has been done pertaining to that supposedly unattributed or anonymous ICBM fired off the West Coast of this nation.
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Political Epistemology: America is Not a Democracy Nor a Republican DemocracyDiscussion is historically and otherwise rendered as to why the USA is not politically what the vast majority of ill-informed people often think it to be.
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Cultures of Dependence: Racism as an Ideological CanardExamination of why particular categories of people in America do tend to create economic and related difficulties due to their psychological characteristics and related dysfunctional cultural affiliation that reinforces their poverty.
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The Tea Party Movement: Peaceful Revolution of November 2, 2010An examination is given of what the desirable consequences of the November elections may mean as to the possible future of free, constitutional republican government in America.
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Eternally Edgar Allan Poe, or How Not to Evaluate a True Poet of GeniusDiscussion of Edgar Allan Poe is given concerning him as cultural symbol and form of mental test for all kinds of readership that exists, now and in the future.
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Enumerated Powers Enforcement Amendment V. Balanced Budget AmendmentThis is an examination of an optimistic proposal to try to limit government spending, by puerilely hoping, that a mechanistic formula would, in and of itself, create the quite arduous discipline normally lacking in the politicians of the US Congress.
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Late Empire Dreaming: False Dawn of Resistance Appearing as a Conservative AscendancyDiscussion of how the present asserted resurgence of conservatism will ultimately fail to achieve the often expected great results as to the then assumed toppling of Big Government.
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An Appreciation of Tyranny: Recognizing a Great Blessing in DisguiseAn examination and discussion are done of the features of tyranny, suitable for early 21st century America, concerning how the majority of citizens seem too unappreciative of the overall process of tyrannization and its often assumed justification.
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Uighur Liberation and Unfashionable Protest MovementsDiscussion of how and why certain protests succeed and others fail concerning the ideological preferences of people versus the actual urgency of hard circumstances and serious suffering.
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Great American Death Wish Part II: The Evident Self-Termination of AmericaExplanation as to why the end of the USA, as the world's preeminent superpower, is inevitable within the early first half of the 21st century.
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Great American Death Wish: Reminiscences and Remembrances of a Once Glorious RepublicThis is a proposal for an important oral history project to record the memories of Americans, mostly in their 60s to 90s, concerning what they remember about how great the USA used to be.
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Dialogical Postmodernism V. Plastic Constitutional Government: Modernity's Mechanistic FailureDiscussion of how legal positivism has corrupted and nullified what constitutional government was supposed to be about concerning political, economic, and other liberty.
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Spirituality V. Religion: Bizarre Falsity V. Accurate Metaphysical TruthDisquisition upon how the nominalist pursuit of spirituality vainly seeks anything or everything, except ethically, morally, and spiritually needed belief in God.
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Market Economy is Operationally Consistent with Economic Science: Hayek V. KeynesExamination of why and how any irrational substitutes for the market economy will produce numerous and endless inefficiencies and other dis-economic failures, for any ideologized quasi- or pseudo-economics, for any nation.
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Discussing Sex Scandal: Irony, Paradoxes, and Roman Catholic Church HistoryA consideration of the sex scandal pertaining to the Catholic Church.
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Austrian School of Economics: Discussed and Examined BrieflyDiscussion of why only the Austrian School of Economics has the true answers for the economic problems of the 21st century.
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Traditionalist Right Versus Varieties of Conservatism ExposedBrief critique and review of various understandings of conservatism in America versus the traditionalist right.
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Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman's Synthetic-Didactic TheologyPresentation and defense of Cardinal Newman's theological perspective on Christian doctrine's development.
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How Nations Willingly Commit Economic SuicideDiscussion of the economic and related political degradation of the USA and what it portends for the future, if unchecked.
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Records and Intellectual Control: Business Information Considerations in a Digital AgeIntensive discussion and examination of important aspects of contemporary records and information management considerations and prospects.
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Secessionist Thinking: Revived in America with Controversy and QuestionsExamination of the topic of secession as it may relate to current American history.
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Leo Strauss: Modernity, Postmodernity, Defamation and a False EnigmaDiscussion of the major controversy surrounding the philosophical and political views of Leo Strauss in defense of classical thought.
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Advanced Records Management Proposal: Automating Generic Records and Record SeriesAn examination of a proposed means of substantially automating and improving upon the utilization of electronically stored information and e-records work.
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The Weimar Republic Mystique: Its Greatly Pacifistic Myth Needs RevealingA prescriptive warning is given as to the important need to have the correct historical understanding of that past radical regime.
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The Political Epistemology of Terrorism is Not Correctly KnownDiscussion of misinterpretation of modern terrorism and its consequences for lessening security against it.
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Natural Law and Parallels Between the Black Death Era and the Contemporary AgeReflections upon how denial of classical Natural Law and its imperatives leads to societal destruction.
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Anthropogenic Global Warming as a Postmodern PhrenologyOverview and Condemnation of the Man-Made Global Warming Hoax.
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Records Professionals Trained to Multi-Interface with Top ManagementHow Certified Records Managers can best be utilized by businesses.
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Advanced Physics Topic: Compositional-Spatial Functionalism of MatterDiscussion of a proposed type of matter that would seem to exist regarding the compositional and spatial realities of its nature as such.
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Advanced ESI Considerations and Informational Requirements for E-DiscoveryDiscussion of the latest developments, e-media technology issues, and case law pertaining to e-discovery matters.
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Cosmological Debate: A Fourth Position on Origins is SuggestedDiscussion of a possible way to open up the terms of the stalemated cosmological controversy regarding origins.
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Creative Cannibalism Course 101Discussion, jocularly put, about some positive aspects resulting from the proposed national-socialist, health care-program system.
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Modernism Versus Postmodernism: Advanced Epistemological ConsiderationsDiscussion of epistemological and related cognitive issues facing modernity, postmodernity, and atheism as a case-in-point matter.
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Mike Savage: His Ingratitude Should Be PunishedDiscussion of the persona non grata status of Mike Savage.
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Catholic Sectarianism as Encouraged by Pope Benedict XVIDiscussion of the growth of a sociological pattern of sectarianism within the Roman Catholic Church and speculation about its future.
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Historical Fascism Versus Polemical Fascism in Modern ThoughtDiscussion of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.
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Keeping Business RecordsDiscussion of records management for cost savings and litigation protection. -
Proposal for an Intermediate World CurrencyDiscussion of how and why a new world currency would be much better than the American dollar.
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The Economic Fallacy of Mere "Paper Losses" in StocksHow the interventionist policies have and will continue to cripple the economy is discussed.
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A Record and a Document Defined for Records Management PurposesDiscusses the information management need for properly knowing what a record is and what a mere document is.
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Records and Information Resources ManagementDiscussion of why RIRM is a superior, holistic concept v. just records and information management alone.
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Secular V. Religious Apocalyptic AttitudesDiscussion of attitudes concerning various believers in doomsday scenarios.
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Virtual Archives EssentialsDiscussion of advantages in having virtual archives on electronic media.
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G.K. Chesterton: A Man for All SeasonsA brief appreciation of his book Orthodoxy is given.
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Strategic Records ManagementThe article suggests a need for an intermediate classification of records between vital records and permanent records. -
Roman Catholicism, Ontology and Traditional Latin MassA presentation of how Catholicism is connected to ontology and why the traditional Latin Mass is important within this given context.