Notice the precision that a low score means a more peaceful country.
And notice that Canada, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand were all judged to be bigger warmongers than the US, and that by comparison Russia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and most of Africa were all judged to be very peaceful.
Frankly, I don't think we can put very much confidence in the people behind these ratings.
I like Ron Paul ESPECIALLY for his non-interventionist foreign policy.
I'm disappointed that he falls short of pointing the fingers at direct US intelligence and Bush administration involvement in 911. He prefers to say Bin Ladin attacked America because America was doing bad things in the Middle East.
He does not point out that Bin Ladin was always an asset of the CIA, nor does he address the fact that there is no real evidence that any planes were involved in 911.
Of course it's understandable that for political reasons he has to pull his punches and sugar-coat the situation a bit to make it more palatable. The truth is far worse than Ron Paul is willing to state. But that's politics. And all politicians have to make some compromises if they intend to win.
But I would be all for Ron Paul to win the election. He's a million times better than any other candidate.
Who said I was bugged? I didn't even know the guy existed.
But, just as Hutchens himself went to the Vatican to argue against making Mother Theresa a saint to be adored by Catholics, I protest against any pretense the Hutchens represented any sort of great philosopher to be adored by society.
Like another poster said already, he was just a guy with an opinion that he wanted to impose on others.
But let's be honest here. Nobody on this forum even knew the guy. They only knew his dogma. So this eulogy is not about the loss of a dear friend. It's about the loss of the champion of a certain ideology. And I saw Hitchens himself declare in a video that he doesn't think people should love their enemies. He said he thought his enemies should be killed.
Personally I'm more charitable than that. I don't wish people dead, no matter how much I may disagree with them.
But I certainly don't find the death of Hutchens to be any greater tragedy than the death of an Iraqi or an Iranian or a Russian or any of the other "enemies" that Hutchens so callously wished death upon.
And I'm not sure you can speak for "our society" about missing him. Nitchke once made headlines by declaring that "God is Dead". But then Nitchke died and God is still around. This guys fame seems to be entirely based on his denial in the existence of God.
Fine.
What effect has he had in the world?
He may have a small group of disciples. Perhaps even more than the 12 that Jesus had.
Check back in 2OOO years and see how many people know what he said.
I think he would beat Obama by a landslide. The real question is whether he would survive to do so. Anybody who really threatens to change the existing power structure is in mortal danger.
Yes but it's an entitlement all the same, because the payback comes through taxes and inflation. Inflation is in fact a sort of tax in itself because it comes from the bankers being given the right to create money out of thin air through debt.
Let's get the figures right first. If we count the initial 1991 war. The highway of death killed over 2OO,OOO Iraqis alone. Other bombings killed probably another 50,000 Iraqis (military and civilians combined)
Then came the 10 year sanctions which killed over a million, mostly children, due to the lack of clean water, adequate food, and medicine.
Then came Shock & Awe, which killed in just a few days time at least another 100,000.
Then came the assaults in various Iraqi towns killing thousands more.
Then add to those figures the deaths due to depleted uranium and the breakdown of law and order and of the economy. Thousands of people continue, even now, to die due to inadequate food and hygiene.
Experts put the total Iraqi casualties at over 2 million people. Not the ridiculously low figure of 100,000 that you cite here.
Even in 2006, the total was known to be well over 600,000 and that's not counting Shock & Awe. Nor does it count the deaths from the initial 1991 massacre or the sanctions.
No, that title belongs to US bankers. They can blow trillions of dollars of other people's money and the government will not only give them all the money back (at taxpayers expense) but then reward them with big bonuses for being such capable spendthrifts.
The entire Greek economy can't devour as much taxpayer money in a year as the US banks devour in a single day.
The only reason the US doesn't invade Iran and North Korea is the certainty that China and Russia would react.
And there was never any "ceasefire" in Iraq. There was a 10 year economic siege during which more than a million people died from the lack of clean water, food, and medicine, due to the sanctions. The sanctions killed more Iraqis than Shock & Awe did. And during those 10 years of starvation, the US flew daily sorties over Iraq, bombing infrastructure and downing any planes in the air other than commercial airliners.
There is no such thing as international due process. War is Machiavellian. If a country can dominate another country it will. The only protection is offensive capability.
Iran and North Korea have substantial fighting capability themselves, and more importantly they are on good terms with nearby super-powers capable of protecting them from the US. Otherwise they would have suffered the same fate as Iraq.
Iraq's weakness was that, as an American puppet regime, it was always an enemy of Russia and China. So they were not interested in protecting Iraq. In fact they were happy to see the US invading its own puppet regime.
But neither China nor Russia would allow the US to invade Iran. China wouldn't even have to fight the US. All she would have to do would be to stop buying US treasury notes and the US would plunge into chaos overnight.
The people really responsible for starting the wars don't pay the bills. They leave that for the taxpayers to do. It's also the taxpayers' job to furnish the human cannon fodder.
Meanwhile the warmonger bankers create money out of thin air and lend it to their puppets in government who use it to buy all those war toys from other warmongers in the weapons industry. And the bill goes to the taxpayers.
The bankers know better than to allow their profits to be taxed. They have foundations and offshore accounts and all sorts of banker tricks. And they can't be prosecuted because they own the government. (both parties)
And that ownership extends down into all 3 branches of government, down to the army, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and everything else the government controls.
It's really not like the American public "wants" all these wars and bases and weapons and all the evil and bad karma they generate.
But they ARE guilty of closing their eyes and not at least denouncing it. Of waving their flags proudly in blind false patriotism instead of being a true patriot and standing up for what is right.
People who trade their liberty for security and/or prosperity will soon have neither liberty, nor security, nor prosperity.
It's coming folks. Martial law, curfews, rounding up dissidents, FEMA camps. It's all going to start happening in the next few months. The FEMA camps are being staffed and activated.
The audio dramatization below does a pretty good job of depicting how the administration may present the actual coup as an unavoidable economic crisis necessitating drastic measures. Which is largely true. But it's only unavoidable because it was orchestrated and developed over a period of decades by the ruling elite and their political puppets.
It amounts to the robbery of the entire world population by those who control the banks and the currency. Of course it'sin their interest to present it as an unavoidable crisis rather than a plot to rob everybody.
It's true that being a "friend" can be in the way. But if you're interested in someone don't be afraid to take the steps to change the relationship. Sometimes the guy is thinking exactly the same thing but neither one dares to rock the boat by taking the first step towards a deeper relationship. I know because I missed out on such things in the past.
Well said Jac. That's been my experience. And my only hope too.
Because, except for a few brief years long ago, I have never been all that attractive physically myself.
But even during that time when I was relatively more attractive, I was more interested in women who were drawn to my personality.
Some people search for the fireworks of instant physical attraction, but that sort of thing is really and truly only skin deep. It might be great for one night stands, but it is only in the way when it comes to finding someone to truly bond with.
To be really honest, in my experience with women in the states I always preferred women who were not in the "beautiful" category. American culture exerts a lot of personality warping influence and beautiful women tend toward vanity. It's not always true but more often than not.
It seems like the US culture promotes ideals of physical beauty that most people cannot live up to. Those who do are elevated to a sort of superstar status while denigrating others to the status of "also ran". And among the winners there is continual competition to be the "most beautiful"...and to land the "most successful" men.
I prefer women who are humble and sweet and who are not even trying to compete in such social games.
Let me add that in several cases I knew beautiful women who played the vanity game for a decade or two into adulthood and then totally changed when they found out how empty it was. What's sad is that it ruined what could and should have been the best part of their lives.
Pre-emptive defense is all the rage nowadays. Satellite surveillance and high-flying drones can pre-empt anyone suspicious before they have a chance to cause trouble. Makes the world safe for liberty.
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RE: one minute cure for cancer
Because they are trying to sell you something that doesn't really work.Anything that could really cure ALL DISEASES wouldn't need this sort of hype.
This reminds me of a song by Steve Goodman.