...but Americans need to become aware that the legal reality around them defies logic. It has been 100% corrupted and subverted -- but COOPted at the same time -- election funding reform is a step in the right direction, but the first of about 100 necessary.
This Case is the ABSOLUTE #1 cause of American Plutocracy.
You have been effectively UNABLE to regulate these corporate entities since this time...
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Therefore, I would like to propose a ban on people. Clearly without the pernicious evil of people we could alleviate most, if not all of society's problems.
HA! That reminded me of this Jonathan Swift letter from 1729. Funny as hell.
It is God's job to forgive Osama bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
1) There is no "God" you cult-worshipping-feeb. 2) Taking another persons life, whether during war, act of passion or by the state is wrong. Doesnt the irony of avenging a persons death with MORE DEATH strike you as a little obvious?
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The taxpayers are stuck with this bloated wart-hog of a white elephant, a political monstrosity that cannot be allowed to go away.
Ummmm - you do you realize that "taxpayers" (also called Citizens or Residents...) are stuck with bloated wart-hog white elephant that is the SURFACE STREETS. Every resident pays his own insurance and vehicle. then we all dump a TONNE of cash together to build roadways.
If so it will pay for itself, and investors will be happy to build it in order to profit from it.
Except when the present system is already completely supported by tax dollars - see above note about the car infrastructure.
At least that way no one is forced to pay for something they don't want
Umm - if i ride the bus and ride a bike, can i get my road-tax-money back?
And it was a seriously easy. There were never a problem with the virtual machine suddenly giving up the ghost from underneath us, and we'd never loose a Samba process for any reason whatsoever. We had load averages that were very normal, and it was like we were always scrambling to find new reasons to use it, as opposed to setting it up and just having forgetting about it. We used to tell the students that the machine was seriously hot, and it would never fall-over. We were even thinking of doing up artwork -- AND STARTING A RELIGION!
All those impressive demos where they have 32 hojillion instances of linux running on a mainframe are so meaningfull. Sure, you can do without it, but it will do everything. If you try actually working with the setup, you never have to reboot your machine -- instead of doing it 10 times a day, and those other take forever to freakin' reboot.
But who are you going to believe, ummm, me or ummmmm, that other guy.
Of course, I can hardly argue against your first hand experience, but what about Falung Gong? Of course, I can hardly argue against your first hand experience, but what about Branch Davidian's of Waco or Ruby Ridge
Or the China Democratic Party founder Lu Xinhua, who was convicted of subversion [bbc.co.uk] for an article posted on the internet?
Furthermore they stated (in 2001) that its decision back than was correct because it was a "counter-revolutionary turmoil" aimed at overthrowing the administration.
How about the CoIntelPro program during the 60's? And the rest of the past and present domestic and foreign PsyOps and BlackOps programs -- active campaigns to squelch "counter-revolutionary" ideas.
Red Flag is under the control of the China Academy of Sciences, headed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of the president Jiang Zemin
Does nepotism bother you? How about a Senator screwing with the voting in his state to help elect his OWN BROTHER... did I mention that they were both Sons of a former President? Its almost like a father appoints his own children to office...
Its difficult for most North Americans (unfortunately I include my Canadian Countrymen) to see through simple Jingoist myopia and McCarthyism when talking about Socialism and Communism (and any Socialist/Communist States).
Most dont see any difference between Fascism (Totalitarianism) and Socialism. McCarthyism did a fine job in making the two synonymous -- when in fact Communism (Socialism) is more compatible with a Democratic (and rep.democratic (like Canada)) state, and Capitalism is more in line with Totalitarianism.
For everyone that cannot compile the concept of personal/individual Liberty and Freedom in a Socialist or Communist State please see Political Compass.org which illustrates the concept, they are in fact totally and completely separate.
Environmentalists and yourself could rightly be considered Radical
..because being Radical is not inherently bad. But when you overload words like "Radical" people become fearfull.
"Radical" in a political sense means to have a new or very-different opinion. Why is this bad or wrong? Its not, but most people are afraid of "Radical" ideas - once they are labeled such.
I have radical ideas about what our environmental policies should be - they are Valid, Correct and Necessary.**
**the reason i made this statement is to illustrate a point, why WOULDNT my "radical" ideas be "Valid, Correct and Necessary"? It could be true - you dont know my ideas, but I bet you let out a sigh when i said that...
...am i getting my point across? im not terribly sure im making any sense, it is a very difficult thing for me to explain...
What i am saying is that people use words like 'radical' and other (leftist, commie, anarchist, eco-warrior) propaganda-laden vocabulary to frame and shift a discussion.
these words are used when people want a pavlovian(sp?) response.
You can shift an otherwise neutral-recipient of information to a position where (s)he would become sceptical/fearfull/against the idea simply by inserting certain words in reference to the argument.
For example, "Radical environmentalists want to curb pollution", instantly the idea of 'curbing pollution' is a product of a "radical" group. Your not a Radical areyou? Radicals are those crazy Anarchists who want chaos and lawlessness, didnt you see them on the Television last night spray-painting advertisments from Monsanto. Geeze, you'd think they have something against people making a living, you know, just doing business. I bet their godless commies. No one has the right to stop me from going to church! And Certainly not those Radicals with their CRAZY IDEAS ABOUT BUSINESS/RELIGION/POLLUTION.
These seemingly innocuous words are used by adept people to taint conversations. Im trying to make a point about propaganda and language.
...but in reality, lots of Environmentalists could rightly be considered Radical - like myself;)
But, of course, that hasn't stopped radical environmentalists from proposing a ban on "all use of compounds containing chlorine".
Dont confuse the common language, used to make a quick/basic argument, with the knowledge (in whole) of 'radical environmentalists'. Please, spare the propaganda for some other group. Framing advocates first as 'radical environmentalists', then maligning their effort with that kind of condescension is insulting. (at best)
Radical Pollution Apologists can sit and snigger about the environmentalists all they please, but in reality, these people are playing a Grade8 Debate game of insult/shift/confuse (FUD).
Most Radical Environmentalists (like myself) can see through your shit like transparent Al. A rebuttal of ignorance and hyperbole may work well with rednecks and McCarthy-ites POPs explained
IMHO, Palm is about to get its clock cleaned in the handheld arena. MS has all the desktop connections, and the ability to push 'seamlessness'. MS is finally up to speed on what is A Good Palm OS (relatively) and are about to thump Palm.
Some Palm advocates, which I have no trouble with, would probably disagree. The trouble is MS has NEC, Toshiba, Casio, Compaq and HP all locked up with PocketOS devices -- hardware that no Palm can touch.
Im not bashing Palm, but ONCE AGAIN MS is using its Desktop monopoly to push into a new market. Palm is about to be the next victim. Palm havin Be launch this suit is a good thing. It may slow MS down somewhat or give the DoJ a spine.
reporting that BSD is now 3 times as popular on the desktop as Linux, largely thanks to MacOSX, of course.
Apple is alive through the good graces of MS. If MS wanted, they could have killed Apple years ago. With their investment ontop of the 'deal' they have over MSExplorer and MSOffice - Apple is alive today ONLY because MS and Apple worked out a non-competition arrangment. This provided MS with a the 'image' of having competition.
Fastforward to Corel. Corel decides GNU/Linux is the right place for them to go, they build Corel Linux OS, port Draw && Corel Office (via tonnes of work on Wine). Corel gets in a pinch... and BAM, MS makes a deal with them to work on.NET. Corel quickly exits the Linux biz. Now that Corel was sinking, why didnt MS let them die, god knows there was never nay love lost between them - why did MS suddenly want to be partners?
A) They can now also control/stear/prop-up Corel as proof of 'competition'
B) They de-ligitimize GNU/Linux by removing Corel's support.
Now, here's the kicker - how are these two things relevant/related??? Well, I personally feel Apple's adoption of BSD is a 'poison pill', encouraged and supported by MS, against GNU/Linux.
You see, with Apple boxes with a relatively Open UNIX (via FreeBSD) MS is effectively capable of stearing users - who WANT A FREE UN*X -- to Apple. MS even supports Explorer and Office on OSX.
Apple adopts FreeBSD because
A) they cant compete w/ GNU/Linux, *BSD or MSWin
B) It makes a strong alternative to GNU/Linux
C) it supports Apple/MS hegemony.
Flight of Fancy? Maybe - but I am really tired of MS swooping in and making sweet deals w/ their former competitiors in order to
A) prop up corpses for the US DoJ
B) further entrench MS Office and MS Win by screwing with the natural course of competition/innovation*.
*eww, i feel all dirty after having used that word now - i mean real innovation, not the chomsky-1984-doublespeak that has loaded the word with propaganda.
Complain? Why? The longer these greedy thieves continue there scratching and in-fighting the better. Let MPEG4 die a slow expensive death for all involved.
This will give time for competitors (Ogg Video) to prove themselves, without the "Intellectual Property" bull$hit.
Its well founded that it was spying and intelligence that helped prevent the cold war turning into WWIII. The Cuban missile crisis proved how invaluable intelligence is in a crisis.
WWIII, or the 'threat' of WWIII was more an effort of propaganda to justify and fuel Anti-Communist sentiment. Remember: Rich / Powerful people abhor the concept of Communism/Socialism -- it is the WORST thing they can image. The Cold-War was the manufactured 'defence' to this Communist "Threat". Communists (or Socialists) arent 'coming' - they had no more reason to attack - as in military strike - the USofA. The Cold-War was an effort to justify black-ops and squelch legitimate Political Movements... let alone domestic and foreign assassination, sabotage and general undermining of the Enemy.
Missiles going to Cuba was not a pre-cursor to attack, it was more-of-the-same military posturing that was taking place all over the world. America ran the risk of precipitating a war by playing 'Tough-Guy'. They got lucky they didnt start a war over it. Missiles in Cuba were of equal threat to the US as Missiles elsewhere were to the USSR. Why is military posturing / threat by the US somehow 'acceptable or justified*'???? Believing so shows bias and a pre-disposition mis-represent the situation.
*I am a pacifist; I think both USSR and USA were committing heinous acts. I also believe War is perpetrated on The People by a powerful elite (in every nation-state). We should do away with Nation-States and do away with all National Armies That will really brand me a lunatic, Im not, just an idealist because I refuse to believe we aren't capable of solving the world's problems.
COINTELPRO is an acronym for the FBI's domestic "counterintelligence programs" to neutralize political dissidents. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO's conducted between 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against radical political organizations.
These people would spread FUD via a deep-dark secret purposeful conspiracy. The FBI actually became involved in destroying people and political movements. Murder, Sabotage, Agent Provocateurs, Misinformation and Criminal-Implicating (framing) were regularly used.
These people are at it again: here and here and here
Erm.. surely you don't think countries like Canada and Australia which are underpopulated should go for a one child policy?
Well, actually, I do. See my.sig, I (hopefully obviously) live in Canada.
The question is more complex than 'region x has a low pop. density vs. region y; no control for y; control for x."
Nature has no political borders. Those silly lines drawn on maps t define 'us' and 'them' do not exist in reality. I, as a citizen of the planet am just as responsible for population control as anyone. Now, do we get a 'bigger' bang for our 'buck' if we try and curb population in areas of already high density? yes. But *I* am responsible to aid in this effort just as much - solidarity if you will is absolutely necessary.
The idea of strict population control will not 'take' well in the West. With the USofA completely sucked into 'the individual is king' mind-set (no ability to think/act as a community) you will not see many able to accept responsibility (see Oprah Winfry's guests for example). Americans (and increasingly the rest of the 'West') are convinced they are beautiful unique and precious, the world would be devastated without them. In some more enlightened places people recognize their lives are co-dependant and intermingled. Bottom Line: Westerners are selfish.
What do Westerner's inability to accept community responsibility have to do with population control? Well, it is of particular importance considering the level of destruction we are responsible for. Please, i seriously invite everyone to gauge this reality: City of Toronto's Footprint Calculator
don't have the economic capacity to feed themselves
Since when could you feed yourself with "economy"? Really, by your reasoning, there will always be hungry, just as there are always going to be 'poor' - if you rely on Capitalism...
So, in the US, there are all sorts of liability suits about things like
In other parts of the world, ones with less conservative puritan moralizing, people arent committing a crime just by being drunk. Further, they are responsible for themselves, and have no Plutocratic Judicial system setting up Lawyers-R-US liability free-for-alls.
Think about it.
note to troll moderators: its only karma, and ive got lots.
So, in the US, there are all sorts of liability suits about things like
In other parts of the world, ones with less conservative puritan moralizing, people arent committing a crime just by being drunk. Further, they are responsible for themselves, and have no Plutocratic Judicial system setting up Lawyers-R-Us liability free-for-alls.
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Not totally unrelated but i always found this interesting: Have a look at Seiko/Epson's EMRoS or "Epson Micro Robot System" here and here
Neat little buggers, not made with pager parts as these Radio/IR Cars are, instead made with watch parts.
I agree 100%.
...but Americans need to become aware that the legal reality around them defies logic. It has been 100% corrupted and subverted -- but COOPted at the same time -- election funding reform is a step in the right direction, but the first of about 100 necessary.
I halways have to drop this same turd when people recongize what you have above...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1886 that Corporations were persons.
Please read this: SantaClara Blues: Corporate Personhood vs. Democracy by William Meyers.
This Case is the ABSOLUTE #1 cause of American Plutocracy.
You have been effectively UNABLE to regulate these corporate entities since this time...
Therefore, I would like to propose a ban on people. Clearly without the pernicious evil of people we could alleviate most, if not all of society's problems.
HA! That reminded me of this Jonathan Swift letter from 1729. Funny as hell.
It is God's job to forgive Osama bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
1) There is no "God" you cult-worshipping-feeb.
2) Taking another persons life, whether during war, act of passion or by the state is wrong. Doesnt the irony of avenging a persons death with MORE DEATH strike you as a little obvious?
The taxpayers are stuck with this bloated wart-hog of a white elephant, a political monstrosity that cannot be allowed to go away.
Ummmm - you do you realize that "taxpayers" (also called Citizens or Residents...) are stuck with bloated wart-hog white elephant that is the SURFACE STREETS. Every resident pays his own insurance and vehicle. then we all dump a TONNE of cash together to build roadways.
If so it will pay for itself, and investors will be happy to build it in order to profit from it.
Except when the present system is already completely supported by tax dollars - see above note about the car infrastructure.
At least that way no one is forced to pay for something they don't want
Umm - if i ride the bus and ride a bike, can i get my road-tax-money back?
And it was a seriously easy. There were never a problem with the virtual machine suddenly giving up the ghost from underneath us, and we'd never loose a Samba process for any reason whatsoever. We had load averages that were very normal, and it was like we were always scrambling to find new reasons to use it, as opposed to setting it up and just having forgetting about it. We used to tell the students that the machine was seriously hot, and it would never fall-over. We were even thinking of doing up artwork -- AND STARTING A RELIGION!
All those impressive demos where they have 32 hojillion instances of linux running on a mainframe are so meaningfull. Sure, you can do without it, but it will do everything. If you try actually working with the setup, you never have to reboot your machine -- instead of doing it 10 times a day, and those other take forever to freakin' reboot.
But who are you going to believe, ummm, me or ummmmm, that other guy.
Sheesh.
at this time in our history
Tell me, what unique point in history are we at?
Of course, I can hardly argue against your first hand experience, but what about Falung Gong?
Of course, I can hardly argue against your first hand experience, but what about Branch Davidian's of Waco or Ruby Ridge
Or the China Democratic Party founder Lu Xinhua, who was convicted of subversion [bbc.co.uk] for an article posted on the internet?
Or the U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer & McCarthy jailing Commies(TM)Even better is Bush / Aschcroft Terrorist campaign this is amusing. How about this jailed dissident?
Lastly, I'd like to remember at the incident at the Tiananmen. It maybe more than ten years ago, but the leaders are the same.Lastly, I'd like to remember at the incident at Tulsa. It maybe more than 80 years ago, but the leaders are the same.
Furthermore they stated (in 2001) that its decision back than was correct because it was a "counter-revolutionary turmoil" aimed at overthrowing the administration.
How about the CoIntelPro program during the 60's? And the rest of the past and present domestic and foreign PsyOps and BlackOps programs -- active campaigns to squelch "counter-revolutionary" ideas.
Red Flag is under the control of the China Academy of Sciences, headed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of the president Jiang Zemin
Does nepotism bother you? How about a Senator screwing with the voting in his state to help elect his OWN BROTHER... did I mention that they were both Sons of a former President? Its almost like a father appoints his own children to office...
It's a familiar modus operandi (or is it operandus in this case?) for Communist governments.
...and Freedom Loving Governments(TM) also.
Give me a break.
Its difficult for most North Americans (unfortunately I include my Canadian Countrymen) to see through simple Jingoist myopia and McCarthyism when talking about Socialism and Communism (and any Socialist/Communist States).
Most dont see any difference between Fascism (Totalitarianism) and Socialism. McCarthyism did a fine job in making the two synonymous -- when in fact Communism (Socialism) is more compatible with a Democratic (and rep.democratic (like Canada)) state, and Capitalism is more in line with Totalitarianism.
For everyone that cannot compile the concept of personal/individual Liberty and Freedom in a Socialist or Communist State please see Political Compass.org which illustrates the concept, they are in fact totally and completely separate.
Capitalism leads to Plutocracy...dont agree? Plutocracy is the Totalitarian rule by the Moneyed Class. Have you heard about the concentration of wealth in America? How about Enron literally choosing the heads of Federal Commissions.
The DMCA (or "H.R. 2281, WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act" is coming EVERYWHERE(!)
See here.
the DMCA is not the simple invention of plutocratic Americans - it has been snuck into more than 30 countries.
Also see: here
Environmentalists and yourself could rightly be considered Radical
..because being Radical is not inherently bad. But when you overload words like "Radical" people become fearfull.
"Radical" in a political sense means to have a new or very-different opinion. Why is this bad or wrong? Its not, but most people are afraid of "Radical" ideas - once they are labeled such.
I have radical ideas about what our environmental policies should be - they are Valid, Correct and Necessary.**
**the reason i made this statement is to illustrate a point, why WOULDNT my "radical" ideas be "Valid, Correct and Necessary"? It could be true - you dont know my ideas, but I bet you let out a sigh when i said that...
...am i getting my point across? im not terribly sure im making any sense, it is a very difficult thing for me to explain...
...no, thats not what im saying.
.
;)
What i am saying is that people use words like 'radical' and other (leftist, commie, anarchist, eco-warrior) propaganda-laden vocabulary to frame and shift a discussion.
these words are used when people want a pavlovian(sp?) response.
You can shift an otherwise neutral-recipient of information to a position where (s)he would become sceptical/fearfull/against the idea simply by inserting certain words in reference to the argument.
For example, "Radical environmentalists want to curb pollution", instantly the idea of 'curbing pollution' is a product of a "radical" group. Your not a Radical are you? Radicals are those crazy Anarchists who want chaos and lawlessness, didnt you see them on the Television last night spray-painting advertisments from Monsanto. Geeze, you'd think they have something against people making a living, you know, just doing business. I bet their godless commies . No one has the right to stop me from going to church! And Certainly not those Radicals with their CRAZY IDEAS ABOUT BUSINESS/RELIGION/POLLUTION
These seemingly innocuous words are used by adept people to taint conversations. Im trying to make a point about propaganda and language.
...but in reality, lots of Environmentalists could rightly be considered Radical - like myself
But, of course, that hasn't stopped radical environmentalists from proposing a ban on "all use of compounds containing chlorine".
Dont confuse the common language, used to make a quick/basic argument, with the knowledge (in whole) of 'radical environmentalists'. Please, spare the propaganda for some other group. Framing advocates first as 'radical environmentalists', then maligning their effort with that kind of condescension is insulting. (at best)
Radical Pollution Apologists can sit and snigger about the environmentalists all they please, but in reality, these people are playing a Grade8 Debate game of insult/shift/confuse (FUD).
Most Radical Environmentalists (like myself) can see through your shit like transparent Al. A rebuttal of ignorance and hyperbole may work well with rednecks and McCarthy-ites
POPs explained
Now that Palm owns Be, is it any surprise?
IMHO, Palm is about to get its clock cleaned in the handheld arena. MS has all the desktop connections, and the ability to push 'seamlessness'. MS is finally up to speed on what is A Good Palm OS (relatively) and are about to thump Palm.
Some Palm advocates, which I have no trouble with, would probably disagree. The trouble is MS has NEC, Toshiba, Casio, Compaq and HP all locked up with PocketOS devices -- hardware that no Palm can touch.
Im not bashing Palm, but ONCE AGAIN MS is using its Desktop monopoly to push into a new market. Palm is about to be the next victim. Palm havin Be launch this suit is a good thing. It may slow MS down somewhat or give the DoJ a spine.
easiest way to spread the human race to other stars in a Van Neuman machine
How do you deliver Humanity and not simply humans? In this case humans == mold or virus.
Apple is alive through the good graces of MS. If MS wanted, they could have killed Apple years ago. With their investment ontop of the 'deal' they have over MSExplorer and MSOffice - Apple is alive today ONLY because MS and Apple worked out a non-competition arrangment. This provided MS with a the 'image' of having competition.
Fastforward to Corel. Corel decides GNU/Linux is the right place for them to go, they build Corel Linux OS, port Draw && Corel Office (via tonnes of work on Wine). Corel gets in a pinch... and BAM, MS makes a deal with them to work on
A) They can now also control/stear/prop-up Corel as proof of 'competition'
B) They de-ligitimize GNU/Linux by removing Corel's support.
Now, here's the kicker - how are these two things relevant/related??? Well, I personally feel Apple's adoption of BSD is a 'poison pill', encouraged and supported by MS, against GNU/Linux.
You see, with Apple boxes with a relatively Open UNIX (via FreeBSD) MS is effectively capable of stearing users - who WANT A FREE UN*X -- to Apple. MS even supports Explorer and Office on OSX.
Apple adopts FreeBSD because
A) they cant compete w/ GNU/Linux, *BSD or MSWin
B) It makes a strong alternative to GNU/Linux
C) it supports Apple/MS hegemony.
Flight of Fancy? Maybe - but I am really tired of MS swooping in and making sweet deals w/ their former competitiors in order to
A) prop up corpses for the US DoJ
B) further entrench MS Office and MS Win by screwing with the natural course of competition/innovation*.
*eww, i feel all dirty after having used that word now - i mean real innovation, not the chomsky-1984-doublespeak that has loaded the word with propaganda.
Have a look at this guy:
Home Simpson Doll
and the linux SW to run it!
Now, THATS cool.
You are encouraged to complain
Complain? Why? The longer these greedy thieves continue there scratching and in-fighting the better. Let MPEG4 die a slow expensive death for all involved.
This will give time for competitors (Ogg Video) to prove themselves, without the "Intellectual Property" bull$hit.
Its well founded that it was spying and intelligence that helped prevent the cold war turning into WWIII. The Cuban missile crisis proved how invaluable intelligence is in a crisis.
The "Cold War" was an effort by the Plutocratic West to destroy a political movement that it was threatened by. Without sifting through the McCarthy inspired Ignorance and Misinformation that is rampant in most of the West, I will spare you the explanation of What is Communism / What is Socialism and get on to the point.
WWIII, or the 'threat' of WWIII was more an effort of propaganda to justify and fuel Anti-Communist sentiment. Remember: Rich / Powerful people abhor the concept of Communism/Socialism -- it is the WORST thing they can image. The Cold-War was the manufactured 'defence' to this Communist "Threat". Communists (or Socialists) arent 'coming' - they had no more reason to attack - as in military strike - the USofA. The Cold-War was an effort to justify black-ops and squelch legitimate Political Movements... let alone domestic and foreign assassination, sabotage and general undermining of the Enemy.
Missiles going to Cuba was not a pre-cursor to attack, it was more-of-the-same military posturing that was taking place all over the world. America ran the risk of precipitating a war by playing 'Tough-Guy'. They got lucky they didnt start a war over it. Missiles in Cuba were of equal threat to the US as Missiles elsewhere were to the USSR. Why is military posturing / threat by the US somehow 'acceptable or justified*'???? Believing so shows bias and a pre-disposition mis-represent the situation.
*I am a pacifist; I think both USSR and USA were committing heinous acts. I also believe War is perpetrated on The People by a powerful elite (in every nation-state). We should do away with Nation-States and do away with all National Armies That will really brand me a lunatic, Im not, just an idealist because I refuse to believe we aren't capable of solving the world's problems.
Have people forgotten CoIntelPro ??
Learn more From this webpage:
COINTELPRO is an acronym for the FBI's domestic "counterintelligence programs" to neutralize political dissidents. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO's conducted between 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against radical political organizations.
These people would spread FUD via a deep-dark secret purposeful conspiracy. The FBI actually became involved in destroying people and political movements. Murder, Sabotage, Agent Provocateurs, Misinformation and Criminal-Implicating (framing) were regularly used.
These people are at it again: here and here and here
Erm.. surely you don't think countries like Canada and Australia which are underpopulated should go for a one child policy?
.sig, I (hopefully obviously) live in Canada.
Well, actually, I do. See my
The question is more complex than 'region x has a low pop. density vs. region y; no control for y; control for x."
Nature has no political borders. Those silly lines drawn on maps t define 'us' and 'them' do not exist in reality. I, as a citizen of the planet am just as responsible for population control as anyone. Now, do we get a 'bigger' bang for our 'buck' if we try and curb population in areas of already high density? yes. But *I* am responsible to aid in this effort just as much - solidarity if you will is absolutely necessary.
The idea of strict population control will not 'take' well in the West. With the USofA completely sucked into 'the individual is king' mind-set (no ability to think/act as a community) you will not see many able to accept responsibility (see Oprah Winfry's guests for example). Americans (and increasingly the rest of the 'West') are convinced they are beautiful unique and precious, the world would be devastated without them. In some more enlightened places people recognize their lives are co-dependant and intermingled. Bottom Line: Westerners are selfish.
What do Westerner's inability to accept community responsibility have to do with population control? Well, it is of particular importance considering the level of destruction we are responsible for. Please, i seriously invite everyone to gauge this reality: City of Toronto's Footprint Calculator
don't have the economic capacity to feed themselves
Since when could you feed yourself with "economy"? Really, by your reasoning, there will always be hungry, just as there are always going to be 'poor' - if you rely on Capitalism...
So, in the US, there are all sorts of liability suits about things like
In other parts of the world, ones with less conservative puritan moralizing, people arent committing a crime just by being drunk. Further, they are responsible for themselves, and have no Plutocratic Judicial system setting up Lawyers-R-US liability free-for-alls.
Think about it.
note to troll moderators: its only karma, and ive got lots.
So, in the US, there are all sorts of liability suits about things like
In other parts of the world, ones with less conservative puritan moralizing, people arent committing a crime just by being drunk. Further, they are responsible for themselves, and have no Plutocratic Judicial system setting up Lawyers-R-Us liability free-for-alls.
Think about it.