It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: onehuman
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
Nice work Rel! We never really did figure out a solid answer to who was running NK over Kim. Not that I recall anyway. Maybe I missed the memo that day. I always thought the implications where one of our people, ie American like BO or HC, someone from that group. Is this pointing to China?
China would make much more sense.
originally posted by: onehuman
originally posted by: crankyoldman
Once again ^^^, that's getting spooky EMN.
Joe's humiliation tour continues... White House Twatter
Look at the clocks over the TV Cranky. Im thinking this is a cut n paste job
The clocks here show a London/Moscow time difference of 3 hours, but at this time of year the difference is only 2 hours. UK does daylight savings but Russia does not. From April-October its a 2 hour difference, from Nov-March it's a 3 hour difference
Are mere numbers so important that, for their sake, we should patiently permit such a state of affairs to come about? Surely not. What, then, can we do? Apart from certain deep seated prejudices, the answer would be obvious. The nations which at present increase rapidly should be encouraged to adopt the methods by which, in the West, the increase of population has been checked. Educational propaganda, with government help, could achieve this result in a generation.
There are, however, two powerful forces opposed to such a policy: one is religion, the other is nationalism. I think it is the duty of all who are capable of facing facts to realize, and to proclaim, that opposition to the spread of birth control, if successful, must inflict upon mankind the most appalling depth of misery and degradation, and that within another fifty years or so.
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer. War, as I remarked a moment ago, has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. There would be nothing in this to offend the consciences of the devout or to restrain the ambitions of nationalists. The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's. However, I am wandering from the question of stability, to which I must return.
Flash forward to today. Multiple methods going in parallel to keep the population in check, like MT's post and so much more. Awake yet??
There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority. All these methods have been practiced: the first, for example, by the Australian aborigines; the second by the Aztecs, the Spartans, and the rulers of Plato's Republic; the third in the world as some Western internationalists hope to make it and in Soviet Russia. (It is not to be supposed that Indians and Chinese like starving, but they have to endure it because the armaments of the West are too strong for them.)
Of these three, only birth control avoids extreme cruelty and unhappiness for the majority of human beings. Meanwhile, so long as there is not a single world government there will be competition for power among the different nations. And as increase of population brings the threat of famine, national power will become more and more obviously the only way of avoiding starvation. There will therefore be blocs in which the hungry nations band together against those that are well fed. That is the explanation of the victory of communism in China.
These considerations prove that a scientific world society cannot be stable unless there is a world government.
Impact of Science on Society, Bertrand Russell, 1953 (pg 103-104)
Relations between China and the U.S. are rapidly deteriorating and may lead to war. Mr. Xi has made clear that he intends to take possession of Taiwan within the next decade, and he is increasing China’s military capacity accordingly.
He also faces an important domestic hurdle in 2022, when he intends to break the established system of succession to remain president for life. He feels that he needs at least another decade to concentrate the power of the one-party state and its military in his own hands. He knows that his plan has many enemies, and he wants to make sure they won’t have the ability to resist him.
I find it particularly disturbing that so many Chinese people seem to find his social-credit surveillance system not only tolerable but attractive. It provides them social services free of charge and tells them how to stay out of trouble by not saying anything critical of Mr. Xi or his regime.
China’s largest, highly leveraged real-estate company, Evergrande, has recently run into difficulties servicing its debt. The real-estate market, which has been a driver of the economic recovery, is in disarray.
- The group has a mineral water brand Evergrande Spring.
- Evergrande has expanded into solar panels, pig farming, agribusiness, and baby formula.
- Evergrande Health, a listed subsidiary of Evergrande Group.
Health - "Evergrande Health Group" primarily operates "Evergrande Health Valley" in the retirement apartment community and works with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts to manage Hainan's "Boao Evergrande International Hospital".
originally posted by: crankyoldman
I thought this was interesting. Heavy quake activity in the box.
Last week
The depths are all over the place, from 124KM to 10.
Earl of Sandwhich Islands