I tried explaining the mechanism of evolution to a high school kid who just about to head off to college. He said, "That's unnecessary complication with all that mutation and stuff. The Force of Evolution (and I swear I could hear the capital letters!) changes animals over thousands of years anyway." !!!?!!
He seems to think that there's some mysterious 'force' out there that automatically advances, improves animals over time! Well, there is, kinda, but he seemed to think it was something like electromagnetism, or a 'force field' of some sort, that almost deliberately redesigns and improves critters. Random mutations sometimes producing a pro-survival change just wasn't something he could wrap his head around at all. Now get this: He's going to major - he said - "in the biosciences". May the Force help us all, I hope he doesn't decide to become a doctor...
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None should be, but LOTS is by the Corporate Media. How many Americans are aware of the "Constitution Free Zone?" I thought the "Free Speech Zones" were an obscenity until I found out about this. It's a zone 100 miles inland from the coast, and the people there have no idea they're living with no Constitutional protections whatsoever.
Heyokat
You'll find this is the same in all of the "First World" countries - parties elected with a majority and a mandate that suddenly vote with the ones just voted out. All over the damned planet, there's just one party: Corporate. The Net is not invulnerable, either. Supposedly, the government here already has an "Internet 2" ready to go as soon as they have to shut down this one. How far that will extend I have no idea, if it's so in the first place, but a paper from the Pentagon said that they had to regard the Internet as "hostile" and figure out how to fight it; that's the logical response from a paranoid group like that. Make sure you aren't cut off if something like that goes down.
You have my sympathy. They took more than thirty years in the US, and that's just since they had to surface some to get the job done. These "neocons" are in Canada and elsewhere, and they are, or are owned by (depending on their level in the hierarchy) members of the old European banking and industrial families like Rothschild, or Rockefeller here. They're sociopaths to whom the rest of us are occasionally useful animals and no more. They supply both or all sides in the wars they instigate because war is simply the single most profitable enterprise there is. Read the writings of some of your own higher-ups in government. Here, Lincoln said that with armies before him and bankers behind him, he feared the banker most. FDR realized he had destroyed this country with his actions in giving in to them, and today they damned well own the Congress so that we're only allowed to vote for pre-vetted candidates for the most part, and then Democrat or Republican, they turn around once in office and do what the last batch did. SSDD (same shit different day). The fanatic Christians have been useful to them because they have an organization they're willing to mobilize in exchange for concessions the "Elites" don't care about. Somewhere around four hundred families own, personally, about 90% of the wealth of the Western World.
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I tried explaining the mechanism of evolution to a high school kid who just about to head off to college. He said, "That's unnecessary complication with all that mutation and stuff. The Force of Evolution (and I swear I could hear the capital letters!) changes animals over thousands of years anyway." !!!?!! He seems to think that there's some mysterious 'force' out there that automatically advances, improves animals over time! Well, there is, kinda, but he seemed to think it was something like electromagnetism, or a 'force field' of some sort, that almost deliberately redesigns and improves critters. Random mutations sometimes producing a pro-survival change just wasn't something he could wrap his head around at all. Now get this: He's going to major - he said - "in the biosciences". May the Force help us all, I hope he doesn't decide to become a doctor... Heyokat
None should be, but LOTS is by the Corporate Media. How many Americans are aware of the "Constitution Free Zone?" I thought the "Free Speech Zones" were an obscenity until I found out about this. It's a zone 100 miles inland from the coast, and the people there have no idea they're living with no Constitutional protections whatsoever. Heyokat
You'll find this is the same in all of the "First World" countries - parties elected with a majority and a mandate that suddenly vote with the ones just voted out. All over the damned planet, there's just one party: Corporate. The Net is not invulnerable, either. Supposedly, the government here already has an "Internet 2" ready to go as soon as they have to shut down this one. How far that will extend I have no idea, if it's so in the first place, but a paper from the Pentagon said that they had to regard the Internet as "hostile" and figure out how to fight it; that's the logical response from a paranoid group like that. Make sure you aren't cut off if something like that goes down.
You have my sympathy. They took more than thirty years in the US, and that's just since they had to surface some to get the job done. These "neocons" are in Canada and elsewhere, and they are, or are owned by (depending on their level in the hierarchy) members of the old European banking and industrial families like Rothschild, or Rockefeller here. They're sociopaths to whom the rest of us are occasionally useful animals and no more. They supply both or all sides in the wars they instigate because war is simply the single most profitable enterprise there is. Read the writings of some of your own higher-ups in government. Here, Lincoln said that with armies before him and bankers behind him, he feared the banker most. FDR realized he had destroyed this country with his actions in giving in to them, and today they damned well own the Congress so that we're only allowed to vote for pre-vetted candidates for the most part, and then Democrat or Republican, they turn around once in office and do what the last batch did. SSDD (same shit different day). The fanatic Christians have been useful to them because they have an organization they're willing to mobilize in exchange for concessions the "Elites" don't care about. Somewhere around four hundred families own, personally, about 90% of the wealth of the Western World. Heyokat