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The world is too interconnected to leave any winner standing atop smoking ruins. All will fall, so figuring out how to get everyone health care and a social safety net including meaningful work might be a good idea unless you like having a stew pot in your future you being inside. Nothing is going to get solved with everyone going off in different directions. Unity and solidarity is needed or the future is barren and bleak. K-Dog, comment on Kuntslers "Things To Come"
“Woe unto them that pointed out that while the priests were calling for fasting, they themselves were feasting.” John the 1st
Acting as God is doing love of us, one to one.
"Those who have failed to seek the truth have missed the purpose of living" Buddha
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. Marcus_Aurelius__
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius
“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.” ― Lord Acton
There is one action the tolerant can not tolerate, intolerance.
"They know things aren’t right, but to admit the truth would shatter their delusions and require them to act." by Jim Quinn of 'The Burning Platform' blog.
Freedom of speech means the freedom to disagree with anyone peacefully, privately or publicly.
"Societies are far gone in depravity when toleration is considered good in itself, without regard to the thing tolerated." A. K. Chesterton
MilwaukeeMark Tue, 03/27/2018 - 04:20 Zero Hedge: Experience has shown me, when lied to people are presented with the truth, they build a tsunami of anger and expletives and hurl it back towards those who are trying to expose the failure in their logic. Americans have successfully been Balkanized and getting through to those who have been lied to now is almost totally impossible; God knows I've tried. When reality finally arrives, it will be in the form of a mushroom cloud, or closed banks, or empty grocery store shelves, or as they are loaded onto rail cars. We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.'
Zerohedge comment by koan Sun, 02/11/2018 - 19:12 I'll sum up the article for you; "Think for yourself" and "Question authority". You may have heard of the Descartes proposition "I think therefore I am", but it was written out in a fuller form by Antoine LÃ©onard Thomas. dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum or in English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am". Doubting makes all the difference in the World.
â€œI'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.â€ - Nietzsche
"questioning scientific hypotheses, even scientific theories, is what all scientists should do, if true science is to advance. That is why the Royal Societyâ€™s official motto is â€œNullius in verba,â€ Latin for â€œTake nobodyâ€™s word for it.â€ Ironically, the Society rarely practices this approach when it comes to climate change." Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris
"The hardest thing to see is yourself."
"Seek truth and all else follows."
Back to Ishkabibble's observation that we are in fact 'one world', there is no outside unless we plan on exchanging with other E-T worlds. So the question is raised: What system of Laws do we live under? Obviously wars between nations would be prohibited. Clearly with only one worldwide market, just individuals exchange or groups of persons who freely associate to XC with anyone else worldwide. Wowsers!!! that means politicians are to protect the freedom for all free people to engage in uncoerced XC with other free people. i.e. protect the peace between us. Gee willikers, hmmm; it seems that duty has escaped at least American politicians hasnâ€™t it? Whose fault is that in a purported democracy??? Peace between we citizens of Earth is a political choice. It is time we acted like grownups, don't you think???
"Russian Insider 12-01-17 Western politicians are like schoolyard nerds who, fearing the tough kid, huddle together to look bigger. Every Russian kid knows that seeking safety in numbers is a surefire sign of a scared wimp."
Russian Insider 12-01-17 "As for the EU it is â€œenjoyingâ€ a much-deserved irrelevance while being mostly busy absorbing wave after wave of society-destroying refugees proving, yet again, the truth of the saying that if your head is in the sand, your ass is in the air."
Ishkabibble Nov 30, 2017 at 6:17 pm ALL of the individual national economies of the world must NOT depend upon exporting or importing stuff â€” whether that stuff is TVs or weapon systems or terrestrial resources or food. The logic of this recommendation is easier to understand if one thinks of the entire world as only ONE nation with only ONE SINGLE economy. Looking at the world in this way, if importing and exporting is vitally necessary for ANY economy (including the aforementioned macro-economy) to survive and thrive, to and from just exactly WHOM would this true macro-economy â€œexportâ€ and â€œimportâ€ â€” the people of Mars? No. This one-economy-world (the one we are actually living in right now) will at some point HAVE to figure out how to â€œgo it aloneâ€. NOT having accepted that this is necessary is IMO exactly why â€œthe worldâ€ is going through what it is going through today. And this is why all of the individual national economies of the world should IMMEDIATELY, DELIBERATELY start â€œfiguring outâ€ and then implement the design of an economic system in which they â€œgo it aloneâ€ while providing a decent standard of living for their citizens.
This quote says it well from "Do Disclosures of Atrocities Change Anything?" By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Counterpunch, July 31, 1010. twitchy questions such as that asked by The Nationâ€™s Chris Hayes on the Rachel Maddow Show: â€œI wonder ultimately to whom WikiLeaks ends up being accountable.â€ The answer to that last question was given definitively in 1851 by Robert Lowe, editorial writer for the London Times. He had been instructed by his editor to refute the claim of a government minister that if the press hoped to share the influence of statesmen, it â€œmust also share in the responsibilities of statesmen.â€ â€œThe first duty of the press,â€ Lowe wrote, â€œis to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly, by disclosing them, to make them the common property of the nationâ€¦ The Press lives by disclosuresâ€¦ For us, with whom publicity and truth are the air and light of existence, there can be no greater disgrace than to recoil from the frank and accurate disclosure of facts as they are. We are bound to tell the truth as we find it, without fear of consequences â€“ to lend no convenient shelter to acts of injustice and oppression, but to consign them at once to the judgment of the world.â€]. I can not say this better. We seek the truth as individuals and when enough of us do in public then we become a civilized society. I know it does not have to be a majority, but it must be at least a few percent of us; then the exemplars lead us all.
In thinking more on the following entry, only a quarter of the inner surface of a single twist M have a Bowtie Line; thus extending these lines to the outer side of the M surface equals half the sueface. So the question is "What pattern?" and "What amgles with the center point of the M?", and "which of these centerpoint lines extend to another point on M surface?": Dan: 22-Jul-2017 09:47:54 geometric discovery on Moebius Strips; a Moebius Geometry Theorem: All points on the inner surface of a Moebius have a Bow Tie Line. Inner surface = one can draw a straight line to the center of the Moebius. Passing through the center point is not required to generate a BTL.
Burning Betty Zero Hedge August 29, 2017: Time for that good ol' GDP joke: "Two Keynesian economists, John Maynard Keynes and Paul Krugman, were walking down the street one day when they passed two large piles of dog (edited). Keynes said to Krugman, "I'll pay you $20,000 to eat one of those piles of (edited)." Krugman agrees and chooses one of the piles and eats it. Keynes pays him his $20,000. Then Krugman, feeling richer, says, "I'll pay you $20,000 to eat the other pile of (edited)." Keynes, feeling bad about the money he lost says okay, and eats the (edited). Krugman pays him the $20,000. They resume walking down the street. After a while, Krugman says, "You know, I don't feel very good. We both have the same amount of money as when we started. The only difference is we've both eaten (edited)." Keynes says: "Ah, but you're ignoring the fact that we've increased the GDP by $40,000." And as someone stated as a comment to this joke; "That is really all you need to know about GDPâ€¦ it's all dog(edited)."
a french writer remarked, American civilization has passe from barbarism to decadence without once knowing civilizatiom." ; Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
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Message History Dan: 'Do you realize that a "No sex until you pass 4 semesters of Calculus Rule" would ensure civilization on this plant for the next million years, and colonization of nearby planets!" by Pete4Hegemon WND James Dobson Sex Ed article pushing teaching sexual abstinence in schools 2020-09-19. Brilliant, true, and very funny.
Dan: 'Its(journalisms) core purpose, the only thing that really makes it matter or have worth, is reporting what is true, or at least what evidence reveals." Glenn Greenwald via The Inercept
Dan: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. - Frederick Douglass
Dan: I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." -John Bernard Books- The Shootist
Dan: A political observation: All voters lives matter regardless of their skin color.
Dan: "If you can't question it. It is not science." comment by New Darwin The Sordid History Of Science, Zero Hedge July 19, 2020
Dan: "the key component to civilization is civility and I don’t see much of that anymore." George Critch July 17 2020 Caitlan Johnstone .com comment.
Dan: Clearly "Black Lives Matter" isn't true for these phony marxist protesters when someone can accurately say this: "BLM (Burn/Loot/Murder) is into full bear-poking mode. Rule #2 is "DON'T POKE THAT EFFING BEAR!!!!" Zero Hedge 15-07-2020 NYT Chief Threat To Democracy; Eric
Dan: Only politicians placating criminals would vote to defund the police; giving criminals the power to take from the now defenseless their property and lives.
Dan: "The Safety Of All Lives Matter" Traffic sign in Melrose, Mass. The democratic mayor Paul Brodeur ordered it taken down.
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