Also, Rome wasn't a world power. They were a European and west Asian power, the Han Chinese didn't have to make treaties with Rome, the Roman's couldn't project power to South Africa or the Americas.
The Aztecs in 1400 didn't care one bit about what the Eastern Roman Empire was doing.
Is there a place on Earth that the Americans, Chinese, French, Russians or British can't affect?
Poor leadership because you could kill your way to Emperor. So every new Emperor was a target of the Army leadership, family members, etc
Slavery took away jobs from entire classes
Unhappy classes because there were no jobs had to be kept happy with massive spending on things like games, tax free holidays, free food, etc.
Lack of technological progress, the Western Empire stagnated under constant attack and couldn't progress, the Eastern Empire did better but again it was hammered by attacks on the frontiers.
Over expansion and under population in the provinces.
The United States could have gone the same way, if the expansion to the west had been coupled with constant warfare from massed Indian Tribes, Canada and Mexico all at the same time the American Civil War through Spanish-American War happened.
Everytime I went to Israel the entrance was easy, the exit is where they bug you about what you've gotten and where you've been and what you are exporting.
Talks about how long an ICBM takes to get to a target based on origin and trajectory.
"RAND analyzed the performance potential of the Minuteman missile defense system against six potential scenarios: China launching against Hawaii and Los Angeles; North Korea against Hawaii and Alaska; and Libya against Washington, D.C., and Miami. Flight times vary from about 23 minutes for the North Korean threat against Alaska to 35 minutes for the Chinese threat against Los Angeles."
The Russians have had FOBS tasked ICBMs for decades, and with the history of how Russia treats arms treaties*, I'm sure they still have them. I believe it was the SS-9 and then SS-18 mod 4 that were devoted to orbiting a nuke into orbit.
The R-36orb (SS-18) carried the 869 fractional-orbit missile.
* Read a book on the Soviet and Russian Federation bio-weapons treaty compliance, a Russian researcher said that they didn't comply because they assumed the US wouldn't comply. The US had thrown out most of the bioweapon program before the treaty was signed as Nixon hated the idea of bioweapons.
This gives the US a deniable FOBS now, they can launch them to stay on station for 9-12 months with a couple MIRVS, if something goes sideways in Iran or the DPRK on an orbit over the trouble spot they can drop a MIRV.
It avoids the launch tension from Russia over an ICBM or SLBM and it's "stealthy", if the trouble fades then the X-37 can land and there were never nukes in space.
Well, the US Justice Department sued on behalf of the tribes. The US Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs sued on behalf of the tribes and the US Army Corps of Engineers covered the location up so further evidence and research couldn't be done. Since the Clinton Administration ran those three agencies, its pretty clear who was behind it.
Now 60 Minutes covered this and thats were the out and out allegations of pandering for votes happened, oh and in the Indian Times, but I don't have links for those.
Nope, not cultural genocide, your mileage may vary, I spent 20 years on the Cheyenne Indian Reservation which is Minnecojou, Sans Arc, Blackfoot and Two Kettle.
There is much more cultural history in the people there today than there are of Europeans who have come to the US over the last 200 years. Tribal music, dancing, language, arts and crafts are all strongly remembered and participated in.
A. - The livelihood of the Plains Indians was not destroyed by settlers, the Great Plains west of the Missouri River were and still are greatly unsettled by the Europeans. My Reservation did have homesteading which brought Germans and Dutch there, but that extra economic boost has made it a stronger reservation that those like Pine Ridge and Rosebud.
B. - Pitiful existence because of cradle to grave welfare. If you know you'll get a house when you let yours fall apart from neglect for free, why keep your home up? If you know you'll get a check for doing nothing, why get a job? If you are an American Indian you can get free 2 and 4 year college educations, in my high school class of 50, 5 of us made it off the Reservation and stayed off.
And the religion has them being created there, and the Black Hills remain the push button issue with the Lakota because they claim to always have been from there, created there, etc, even though they didn't live there and it was taboo to sleep in the Black Hills.
I'd guess that 1/8th of the folks on the Reservation follow some of the old mythology and know some of the language. Theres more of a pan-American Indian religion over the last 40 years with tribes who had nothing to do with the Buffalo and horse cultures getting excited about Buffalo, thats a real shame because its destroying their own heritage.
Lakota religion lacks the morality lessons that the mainstream religions have for a base, the only one that remains important still is Pte Ska Win.
"Based on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), five Native American groups (the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Yakama, Wanapum, and Colville) claimed the remains as theirs, to be buried by traditional means. Only the Umatilla tribe continued further court proceedings. In February 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that a cultural link between the tribes and the skeleton was not met, allowing scientific study of the remains to continue."
"Robson Bonnichsen and seven other anthropologists sued the United States for the right to conduct tests on the skeleton. On February 4, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel rejected the appeal brought by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Umatilla, Colville, Yakama, Nez Perce and other tribes on the grounds that they were unable to show any evidence of kinship."
Go back and research the stance of the Department of Interior and Army Corps of Engineers, the Clinton administration pushed the NAGPRA onto these remains to keep the American Indian votes.
The Federal Government tried to suppress the science by claiming 8000 year old remains were linked to the tribes in the region.
"As expected, the scientists' documents allege the Corps and Department of the Interior agencies mishandled the case in other ways - from failing to preserve the bones' scientific integrity to being biased in favor of American Indian tribes from the beginning, topics that have long been part of the legal banter while the case was on hold."
In the waning days of the Clinton administration the site destroyed. Ultimately the scientists won in Federal Court and the remains were not suppressed.
Since I'm from the Northern Great Plains, American Indian and a Great Plains Indian Wars historian just wanted you to know that it wasn't a genocide.
The Indian Wars were a low intensity conflict between small US Army units and small warrior bands.
90% of the American Indian population on the Great Plains were not killed, in fact only 8-9,000 American Indians died in the Great Plains from 1850-1900.
So the fact remains, the Federal Government is pushing a religion in BIA funded schools.
Second year of High School there was a year long course, mandatory for graduation call "Tribal Government", except it wasn't tribal government it was a year of Lakota mythology and religion. Even though I'm not a member of the tribe, I had to take it, as did folks who weren't American Indian, the school board which was 4/5th white would not allow kids to opt out because BIA funding was dependent on it being taught. A non-tribal member could not get a grade better than B+ because "they weren't capable of understanding it fully".
In biology classes we had a day during evolution of "Lakota creation myth". Again, BIA funding mandated it.
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Also, Rome wasn't a world power. They were a European and west Asian power, the Han Chinese didn't have to make treaties with Rome, the Roman's couldn't project power to South Africa or the Americas.
The Aztecs in 1400 didn't care one bit about what the Eastern Roman Empire was doing.
Is there a place on Earth that the Americans, Chinese, French, Russians or British can't affect?
Rome's problems...
Poor leadership because you could kill your way to Emperor. So every new Emperor was a target of the Army leadership, family members, etc
Slavery took away jobs from entire classes
Unhappy classes because there were no jobs had to be kept happy with massive spending on things like games, tax free holidays, free food, etc.
Lack of technological progress, the Western Empire stagnated under constant attack and couldn't progress, the Eastern Empire did better but again it was hammered by attacks on the frontiers.
Over expansion and under population in the provinces.
The United States could have gone the same way, if the expansion to the west had been coupled with constant warfare from massed Indian Tribes, Canada and Mexico all at the same time the American Civil War through Spanish-American War happened.
Yes, business people are using iPads, my cousin is an airline pilot for a major carrier and he has replaced his work laptop with an iPad.
Everytime I went to Israel the entrance was easy, the exit is where they bug you about what you've gotten and where you've been and what you are exporting.
I never declare anything.
I love computers, love helping users learn to use them better. I love the challenge of working technology.
Yea, I read about that. And this one, I lived in Anacortes last summer, the refineries at night remind me of Blade Runner
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36146392/ns/us_news-life/
101,119 Megawatts from 104 reactors, 1 building and 30 planned or proposed.
More people died this month alone from coal power than have died from all the commercial nuclear power accidents in the US.
Forget satellite stealer, satellite hacking and eavesdropping.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB47/index1.html
Talks about how long an ICBM takes to get to a target based on origin and trajectory.
"RAND analyzed the performance potential of the Minuteman missile defense system against six potential scenarios: China launching against Hawaii and Los Angeles; North Korea against Hawaii and Alaska; and Libya against Washington, D.C., and Miami. Flight times vary from about 23 minutes for the North Korean threat against Alaska to 35 minutes for the Chinese threat against Los Angeles."
The Russians have had FOBS tasked ICBMs for decades, and with the history of how Russia treats arms treaties*, I'm sure they still have them. I believe it was the SS-9 and then SS-18 mod 4 that were devoted to orbiting a nuke into orbit.
The R-36orb (SS-18) carried the 869 fractional-orbit missile.
* Read a book on the Soviet and Russian Federation bio-weapons treaty compliance, a Russian researcher said that they didn't comply because they assumed the US wouldn't comply. The US had thrown out most of the bioweapon program before the treaty was signed as Nixon hated the idea of bioweapons.
Re-usable FOBS more like.
This gives the US a deniable FOBS now, they can launch them to stay on station for 9-12 months with a couple MIRVS, if something goes sideways in Iran or the DPRK on an orbit over the trouble spot they can drop a MIRV.
It avoids the launch tension from Russia over an ICBM or SLBM and it's "stealthy", if the trouble fades then the X-37 can land and there were never nukes in space.
Even if its not required by law? Just always do what Officer Friendly demands.
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And Army Corps of Engineers destroying the site where the remains were found in spite of a court order protecting the site?
Defending Federal Law?
Well, the US Justice Department sued on behalf of the tribes. The US Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs sued on behalf of the tribes and the US Army Corps of Engineers covered the location up so further evidence and research couldn't be done. Since the Clinton Administration ran those three agencies, its pretty clear who was behind it.
Now 60 Minutes covered this and thats were the out and out allegations of pandering for votes happened, oh and in the Indian Times, but I don't have links for those.
Those places make you sit for a year in a "government class" but teach the Bible?
Thats what Tribal Government class has been like on Cheyenne River for the last 30 years.
Nope, not cultural genocide, your mileage may vary, I spent 20 years on the Cheyenne Indian Reservation which is Minnecojou, Sans Arc, Blackfoot and Two Kettle.
There is much more cultural history in the people there today than there are of Europeans who have come to the US over the last 200 years. Tribal music, dancing, language, arts and crafts are all strongly remembered and participated in.
A. - The livelihood of the Plains Indians was not destroyed by settlers, the Great Plains west of the Missouri River were and still are greatly unsettled by the Europeans. My Reservation did have homesteading which brought Germans and Dutch there, but that extra economic boost has made it a stronger reservation that those like Pine Ridge and Rosebud.
B. - Pitiful existence because of cradle to grave welfare. If you know you'll get a house when you let yours fall apart from neglect for free, why keep your home up? If you know you'll get a check for doing nothing, why get a job? If you are an American Indian you can get free 2 and 4 year college educations, in my high school class of 50, 5 of us made it off the Reservation and stayed off.
No, it wasn't that interesting and it was terribly ignorant of their own history.
On one hand we have the Winter Counts that show those peoples saying exactly when they got to South Dakota, pushing out the Cheyenne and taking control of the Black Hills.
http://wintercounts.si.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hills
And the religion has them being created there, and the Black Hills remain the push button issue with the Lakota because they claim to always have been from there, created there, etc, even though they didn't live there and it was taboo to sleep in the Black Hills.
I'd guess that 1/8th of the folks on the Reservation follow some of the old mythology and know some of the language. Theres more of a pan-American Indian religion over the last 40 years with tribes who had nothing to do with the Buffalo and horse cultures getting excited about Buffalo, thats a real shame because its destroying their own heritage.
Lakota religion lacks the morality lessons that the mainstream religions have for a base, the only one that remains important still is Pte Ska Win.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Buffalo_Calf_Woman
"Based on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), five Native American groups (the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Yakama, Wanapum, and Colville) claimed the remains as theirs, to be buried by traditional means. Only the Umatilla tribe continued further court proceedings. In February 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that a cultural link between the tribes and the skeleton was not met, allowing scientific study of the remains to continue."
"Robson Bonnichsen and seven other anthropologists sued the United States for the right to conduct tests on the skeleton. On February 4, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel rejected the appeal brought by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Umatilla, Colville, Yakama, Nez Perce and other tribes on the grounds that they were unable to show any evidence of kinship."
Go back and research the stance of the Department of Interior and Army Corps of Engineers, the Clinton administration pushed the NAGPRA onto these remains to keep the American Indian votes.
The Federal Government tried to suppress the science by claiming 8000 year old remains were linked to the tribes in the region.
"As expected, the scientists' documents allege the Corps and Department of the Interior agencies mishandled the case in other ways - from failing to preserve the bones' scientific integrity to being biased in favor of American Indian tribes from the beginning, topics that have long been part of the legal banter while the case was on hold."
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2001/01/03/136458/scientists-say-corps-destroyed.html
In the waning days of the Clinton administration the site destroyed. Ultimately the scientists won in Federal Court and the remains were not suppressed.
Since I'm from the Northern Great Plains, American Indian and a Great Plains Indian Wars historian just wanted you to know that it wasn't a genocide.
The Indian Wars were a low intensity conflict between small US Army units and small warrior bands.
90% of the American Indian population on the Great Plains were not killed, in fact only 8-9,000 American Indians died in the Great Plains from 1850-1900.
So the fact remains, the Federal Government is pushing a religion in BIA funded schools.
And I forgot Kennweick Man, science being suppressed by the Federal Government so American Indian creation myths won't be trampled on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_man
Go to a reservation public school like I did.
Second year of High School there was a year long course, mandatory for graduation call "Tribal Government", except it wasn't tribal government it was a year of Lakota mythology and religion. Even though I'm not a member of the tribe, I had to take it, as did folks who weren't American Indian, the school board which was 4/5th white would not allow kids to opt out because BIA funding was dependent on it being taught. A non-tribal member could not get a grade better than B+ because "they weren't capable of understanding it fully".
In biology classes we had a day during evolution of "Lakota creation myth". Again, BIA funding mandated it.
I've been cured of cancer twice.
And you are right, why waste the manpower and computing power on this?
SETI started in 1960, this institute started 25 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI#Early_work