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Anonymous ID: 6768b4 July 5, 2018, 4:35 p.m. No.2048392   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8402

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Earlier uses

 

In his book You Can't Go Home Again (1939), Thomas Wolfe lovingly describes the spirit of America saying, "It's your pasture now, and it's not so big–only three thousand miles from east to west, only two thousand miles from north to south–but all between, where ten thousand points of light prick out the cities, towns, and villages, there, seeker, you will find us burning in the night" (Wolfe 507). Children's novelist Elizabeth Enright used the phrase in her book Then There Were Five (1944): "Rush lay idly staring up at the sky and all its thousand points of light."[5]

 

It was later repeated in C.S. Lewis's 1955 novel The Magician's Nephew, in which Lewis wrote: "One moment there had been nothing but darkness; next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leaped out." In his 1946 science fiction short story, Rescue Party, Arthur C. Clarke describes an alien space craft racing to save humanity from the sun’s impending nova: “One entire wall of the control room was taken up by the screen, a great black rectangle that gave the impression of almost infinite depth. Three of Rugon’s slender control tentacles, useless for heavy work, but incredibly swift at all manipulation, flickered over the selector dials and the screen lit up with a thousand points of light.[6]" In 1917 H.G. Wells three times states in Mr. Britling Sees It Through variations of: "But never was the black fabric of war so threadbare. At a thousand points, the light is shining through."

Points of Light organization and awards

 

During his presidency Bush handed out "Point of Light Awards" six days a week to citizens working to aid their communities through volunteer work.[7]

 

In 1990 Bush spearheaded the creation of the Points of Light Foundation, the goal of which was to promote private, non-governmental solutions to social issues.

 

The foundation was criticized in a 1995 investigation by the Los Angeles Times for spending only 11% of its budget on grants to volunteer organizations, while spending $22.3 million on "promotions, consultants, salaries, travel and conferences," including "$5.5 million to produce a television advertising campaign and $1.4 million for a celebration of community service." The Times also noted that the foundation received more than half its budget from federal funds.[1]

 

The foundation's name changed periodically, but following a merger in 2007 with the Atlanta-based HandsOn Network, the conjoined organization came to be called simply Points of Light. The organization now has headquarters in Atlanta, Washington and New York, and bills itself "the world's leading volunteer organization."[8] Bush now serves as honorary chairman of the board; his son Neil Bush serves as the board's president.

 

Points of Light has more than 250 affiliates in 30 countries and partnerships with thousands of nonprofits and companies dedicated to volunteer service around the world. In 2012, Points of Light mobilized 4 million volunteers in 30 million hours of service worth $635 million.[9]

Anonymous ID: 6768b4 July 5, 2018, 4:35 p.m. No.2048402   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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The Big Society was a political ideology[1] developed in the early 21st century. The idea proposed "integrating the free market with a theory of social solidarity based on hierarchy and voluntarism". Conceptually it "draws on a mix of conservative communitarianism and libertarian paternalism".[2] Its roots "can be traced back to the 1990s, and to early attempts to develop a non-Thatcherite, or post-Thatcherite, brand of UK conservatism" such as David Willetts' Civic Conservatism and the revival of Red Toryism. Some commentators have seen the Big Society as invoking Edmund Burke's idea of civil society, putting it into the sphere of one-nation conservatism.[3]

 

The term "Big Society' was originated by Steve Hilton,[4] director of strategy for the Conservative Party, and the idea became particularly associated with the party's leader David Cameron who was a strong advocate for it. The idea formed the flagship policy of the 2010 UK Conservative Party general election manifesto and was part of the subsequent legislative programme of the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement.[5] The stated aim was to create a climate that empowered local people and communities, building a "big society" that would take power away from politicians and give it to people.[6]

 

In UK politics the Big Society concept applied to domestic policy in England only. The relevant policy areas are devolved in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and are therefore the responsibilities of respectively the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government in those countries.

Anonymous ID: 6768b4 July 5, 2018, 4:40 p.m. No.2048508   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8537

Illuminati 1000 points of light

 

bill gates

 

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But here’s the kicker - Bill’s Illuminati “shout out”

 

Acknowledging that registering every single birth has never been done before, Gates said he’d like to see a birth registration system, and because it’s a new technology,

 

“we should let 1,000 new ideas blossom” in order to make it happen.