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Originally posted by SLAYER69
Whats the fear of? Dictatorship? or a one world government?
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
Originally posted by LadySkadi
Do any of you think it possible that the private sector may be able to successfully bring about (world) Peace and if so, is this what we would want to see?
Am I stepping too close the the one-world order, here?
There will never be world peace. Even if humans were wiped from the earth. Every intelligent species on the planet is violent and has conflict.
Even Bonobos chew the fingers off other Bonobos.
Violence and conflict are built into the very nature and core of reality from supernovas that give violent births to new systems to the volcanoes that create the crusts of planets.
Death and destruction are part of the cycle of creation.
Originally posted by jackflap
How can we end the war? That is a great question and one that I have considered before. I believe we have to ask ourselves a few things first.
Well number one being, did we the American people say yes to spending untold millions to end the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan? Did we say yes we want our tax payer dollars spent on funding a terrorist organization to fight our common enemy? Did we say yes to it or was it done for our own good by our elected leaders?
Second being, did we the American people say yes to helping Saddam during the Iran Iraq war? Did we say yes, you should give him some WMD's in the form of chemical and biological weapons? Did we say yes, you should also give him conventional weapons as well because we like him?
The two questions are related because these are the places where we are involved right now, for reasons I can only guess as being staged to start yet another front in Iran. Where we the well informed American public have agreed to spend millions in CIA funding to destabilize the regime there. Did we agree to all of this none sense that has befallen us? I submit that our foreign policy isn't interested in spreading the good intentions of the American public. They have an agenda all their own and they sell it well.
So in the end, I believe that these very real questions should be posed to the people who are running the world so to speak. They should be held accountable and made to answer why they thought that these things were for our best interest. I don't believe we would be in the position of having to ask how to end the war if the American peoples good will was actually being promoted as it should.
Originally posted by blackvelvetz
reply to post by m khan
March 20th: March on Washington DC!!! Hundreds of Thousands of People from all over the world congregating on DC!!!!
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[edit on 4-3-2010 by blackvelvetz]
Yes we did allow all these things to be funded. But it was still a mistake. We ARE at fault. But we are even more at fault if we don't correct our mistakes. The problem we have now is that correcting our mistakes isn't easy any more because the people behind the deceptions have gotten more power and have put things in place to prevent us from getting the power back to the people. Those fema camps are real. The police have riot gear and are being trained to use them on us. This they didn't have in 1971 when Nixon looked out his window at the protesters and decided to end the War in Vietnam.
Why did the U.S. get involved in Afghanistan: For the same reason it got involved in Korea and Vietnam: anti-Communist cold war politics. Later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. did nothing to seriously oppose the Taliban government once it was established in the 1990s. While diplomatic relations were broken by Clinton, Afghanistan was not put in the list of “rogue states,” since that would have prevented the U.S. corporation, UnoCal from continuing its negotiations with the Taliban government for the construction of a pipeline for oil through Afghanistan to help secure U.S. energy companies control over oil and natural gas from former Soviet Republics. In the cold war and post cold war period these policies produced death and destruction through the world. There is a concept that is used by students of politics and international relations. It is called “blowback.” There is an old Chinese warning: be careful what you wish for; you may get it. What united Ronald Reagan and Osama bin Laden, George H.W. Bush and the King of Saudi Arabia, our various governments and our non European allies, was opposition to Communist, socialist, populist and humanist movements among the people, maintenance of a status quo based on exploitation and oppression. Once the Soviet Union was destroyed, the unity between the major league exploiters, so to speak, and the minor league ones inevitably broke down. Now we come to blowback and there really is a lot of it. With Saudi money, an international group, Al Qaeda, the base, was established in 1988 to continue and spread the holy war in Afghanistan through the Muslim World. But why worry? These people were fighting “our” battles in the past against “our” enemies, revolutionary forces fighting for socialism and national liberation, the forces that the ruling class of our country had spent so many trillions to search and destroy. In the “post-Soviet world” “we,” meaning the capitalists of the advanced countries, could do with them and everyone else what “we wanted.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Has he apologized publicly? If so, I apologize. He has one heavy cross to bear. Lots of bodies around that story. Cutting the funding cost more lives than Iraq.
Pulling out was the right thing, but doing it that way was evil.
Originally posted by Phlynx
Originally posted by m khan
The WAR in Iraq and Afghanistan is destroying our country. It is destroying our economy and our moral base. The war in Vietnam was also supposed to be endless but when enough people got out and protested they wrapped it up. What would it take to get this one ended? The Tea Partiers are primarily concerned with taxes and spending. Ron Paul is against the War, but many politicians are not. Mary Falin for instance when discussing the war at a town hall meeting, insisted that it be ended but not without honor. What's that supposed to mean? It is a dishonorable war. We have no business there. Many people who believe that 911 was not an inside job are insisting that our government defend us from arab "terrorists". Support our troops really means support the WAR. This is not a winable war. It was designed to be a not winable war.
[edit on 2-3-2010 by m khan]
If there are no soldiers to fight a war, there is no war. If one side doesn't fight, who is the other side going to fight?
Originally posted by m khan
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Whats the fear of? Dictatorship? or a one world government?
Sorry, I don't understand.What's the difference?
A common speculation suggests that the transition from Type 0 to Type I might carry a strong risk of self-destruction since there would no longer be room for further expansion on the civilizations home planet
We are close. If we use the Kardashevian scale to plot humankind's progress, it shows how far we've come in the long history of our species from Type 0, and it leads us to see what a Type 1 civilization might be like:
Type 0.1: Fluid groups of hominids living in Africa. Technology consists of primitive stone tools. Intra-group conflicts are resolved through dominance hierarchy, and between-group violence is common.
Type 0.2: Bands of roaming hunter-gatherers that form kinship groups, with a mostly horizontal political system and egalitarian economy.
Type 0.3: Tribes of individuals linked through kinship but with a more settled and agrarian lifestyle. The beginnings of a political hierarchy and a primitive economic division of labor.
Type 0.4: Chiefdoms consisting of a coalition of tribes into a single hierarchical political unit with a dominant leader at the top, and with the beginnings of significant economic inequalities and a division of labor in which lower-class members produce food and other products consumed by non-producing upper-class members.
Type 0.5: The state as a political coalition with jurisdiction over a well-defined geographical territory and its corresponding inhabitants, with a mercantile economy that seeks a favorable balance of trade in a win-lose game against other states.
Type 0.6: Empires extend their control over peoples who are not culturally, ethnically or geographically within their normal jurisdiction, with a goal of economic dominance over rival empires.
Type 0.7: Democracies that divide power over several institutions, which are run by elected officials voted for by some citizens. The beginnings of a market economy.
Type 0.8: Liberal democracies that give the vote to all citizens. Markets that begin to embrace a nonzero, win-win economic game through free trade with other states.
Type 0.9: Democratic capitalism, the blending of liberal democracy and free markets, now spreading across the globe through democratic movements in developing nations and broad trading blocs such as the European Union.
The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement. The scale is only theoretical and in terms of an actual civilization highly speculative; however, it puts energy consumption of an entire civilization in a cosmic perspective.
It was first proposed in 1964 by the Soviet Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev. The scale has three designated categories called Type I, II, and III. These are based on the amount of usable energy a civilization has at its disposal, and the degree of space colonization. In general terms, a Type I civilization has achieved mastery of the resources of its home planet, Type II of its solar system, and Type III of its galaxy.[1]
* Type I — a civilization that is able to harness all of the power available on a single planet — has approximately 1016 or 1017 W available.[2] Earth specifically has an available power of 1.74 × 1017 W (174 petawatts, see Earth's energy budget). Kardashev's original definition was 4 × 1012 W — a "technological level close to the level presently attained on earth" (presently meaning 1964).[3]
* Type II — a civilization that is able to harness all of the power available from a single star, approximately 4 × 1026 W.[2] Again, this figure is variable; the Sun outputs approximately 3.86 × 1026 W. Kardashev's original definition was also 4 × 1026 W.[3]
* Type III — a civilization that is able to harness all of the power available from a single galaxy, approximately 4 × 1037 W.[2] This figure is extremely variable, since galaxies vary widely in size; the stated figure is the approximate power output of the Milky Way. Kardashev's original definition was also 4 × 1037 W.[3]