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maquino
Eidolon23
You can't stop war by shifting its practice to another platform.
Actually a premise of MW is that you can. Historically attempts to eliminate war through "peace" have failed...
The Magus
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine that it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
As above, these are sadly all illusions in support of various vested interests. The moment you start teaching economics and politics in school, for example, indoctrination happens. The crush of population and migration has long since eclipsed the ideal of the small farmer, unless you want starvation on an even more terrible scale than it already is. Eliminate the oil industry and many others would be destroyed. Indeed almost every other.
The issue of US military spending is entangled with all of the above, and is critiqued right at the beginning of the book. Projected PW is extremely expensive. MW by comparison is cheap.
If you legalize illegal drugs, you just move the profits into the pockets of a different bunch of profiteers, like the tobacco and booze companies.
MW's just been published, and is still making the rounds through the government and populace. Nobody's tried it yet. If Barak called me up and said, "OK, smartass, you've got my go-ahead to try to fix Syria with this," I'd dust off my hat and do it. Might take me awhile to assemble all the gadgetry and smart people I'd need, but like Arnold said in Terminator 2 "No problemo."
maquino
Eidolon23
Proud to be an American, arentcha? No, but seriously, what are you upholding, if not those truths we hold to be self-evident?
Yes, I am, but I don't just sit on my fat ass and wave the flag about it.
John Locke (1632-1704) was responsible for the doctrine that all government should be limited in its powers and exists only by consent of the governed.
Personally if you ask me, I think a big deal should be made out of all cases of child exploitation and abuse.
So many times the lid is almost blown off of this, but it always gets covered up, for one reason, it reaches into the highest echelons of the elite. The paedophile priests are nothing compared to those that make our laws and tell us how to live our lives.
ZetaRediculian
reply to post by OneManArmy
Personally if you ask me, I think a big deal should be made out of all cases of child exploitation and abuse.
Absolutely
So many times the lid is almost blown off of this, but it always gets covered up, for one reason, it reaches into the highest echelons of the elite. The paedophile priests are nothing compared to those that make our laws and tell us how to live our lives.
Hmmm...I was raised catholic. Catholic priests absolutely tell you how to live your life and have direct access to children. I really fail to see your point here. The people that make our laws? Who are you talking about? And who is telling anyone how to live their life?
The FRANKLIN SCANDAL is the story of a nationwide pedophile ring that pandered children to a cabal of the rich and powerful. The ring’s pimps were a pair of political powerbrokers who had access to the highest levels of our government. Nebraska legislators nearly exposed the ring in 1990, but its unveiling had the potential to produce seismic political aftershocks.The legislators' efforts resulted in rash of mysterious deaths and the overpowering corruption of federal and local law enforcement, including the FBI, Secret Service, and Justice Department, effecting an immaculate cover-up of the trafficking network.
The publisher is donating 50% of the book’s proceeds to organizations that assist abused children.
OneManArmy
The people that make the laws and enforce the laws, there is a large percentage of "lawmakers" that participate in paedophilia. I meant that the catholic scandal is SMALL in comparison to what is going on in the state care homes. Not to mention the people that represent you in government that are paedophiles. not all of them, of course, but there is a few, and then there are those that cover for their crimes.edit on 20139America/Chicago09pm9pmMon, 30 Sep 2013 16:50:06 -05000913 by OneManArmy because: (no reason given)
FireMoon
3D printing and then nano technology will change this world in such a way as for it to be totally and completely unrecognisable to the one we inhabit even now. It will in fact by default, force a form of socialism on the whole world, the only remaining conflict will be about who is allowed to live where and when. Even that, through nano terraforming, might well become a moot question. Some of us are already considering the consequences of out technological advancement maybe, a few of the "great minds" currently wasting their time discussing the contemporary equivalent of "How many angels can perch on a pin head", would be better served helping to work out how we smooth a path into this inevitable "new age"?edit on 30-9-2013 by FireMoon because: (no reason given)edit on 30-9-2013 by FireMoon because: grammar
ZetaRediculian
So if Mr Aquino was a catholic priest, there would be no issues?
OneManArmy
ZetaRediculian
So if Mr Aquino was a catholic priest, there would be no issues?
EH? I dont understand the question.
What has Mr Aquino's religious stance/occupation got to do with anything I was talking about.
I wasnt even talking about Mr Aquino AT ALL.
ZetaRediculian
OneManArmy
ZetaRediculian
So if Mr Aquino was a catholic priest, there would be no issues?
EH? I dont understand the question.
What has Mr Aquino's religious stance/occupation got to do with anything I was talking about.
I wasnt even talking about Mr Aquino AT ALL.
Never mind. We both made excellent points though.
Eidolon23
I call booldook.
corsair00
The FRANKLIN SCANDAL is the story of a nationwide pedophile ring that pandered children to a cabal of the rich and powerful ...
GRAND JURY SAYS ABUSE STORIES WERE A "CAREFULLY CRAFTED HOAX".
Many Rumors Are Debunked In Report; Three Are Indicted
- by Robert Dorr and Gabriella Stern
World-Herald Staff Writers
Omaha World-Herald
Omaha, Nebraska
Wednesday, July 25, 1990, Edition 6, Page #1
A Douglas County grand jury Tuesday called the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union child sexual-abuse allegations a "carefully-crafted hoax".
The grand jury's report said the hoax was "scripted by a person or persons with considerable knowledge of the people and institutions of Omaha ..."
While not specifically saying who planned the hoax, the report was critical of some state officials and others who made or supported the child sexual-abuse accusations.
The grand jury said blame must fall on three young people who accused prominent Omahans of sexual misconduct. Two have recanted their original stories, and the third was indicted Tuesday on charges of lying to the grand jury.
The grand jury said "rumormongers" spread much gossip and misinformation.
It said "many in the community both spread and received the gossip" and named three people in particular - part-time Omahan and fired Boys Town employee Michael Casey, Kirsten Hallberg, and Bonnie Cosentino, who were active in the Concerned Parents group ...
maquino
corsair00
The FRANKLIN SCANDAL is the story of a nationwide pedophile ring that pandered children to a cabal of the rich and powerful ...
No, the "Franklin affair" was just one more baseless "SRA" scam, exposed and discredited as such by a 1990 Grand Jury investigation:
GRAND JURY SAYS ABUSE STORIES WERE A "CAREFULLY CRAFTED HOAX".
Many Rumors Are Debunked In Report; Three Are Indicted
- by Robert Dorr and Gabriella Stern
World-Herald Staff Writers
Omaha World-Herald
Omaha, Nebraska
Wednesday, July 25, 1990, Edition 6, Page #1
A Douglas County grand jury Tuesday called the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union child sexual-abuse allegations a "carefully-crafted hoax".
The grand jury's report said the hoax was "scripted by a person or persons with considerable knowledge of the people and institutions of Omaha ..."
While not specifically saying who planned the hoax, the report was critical of some state officials and others who made or supported the child sexual-abuse accusations.
The grand jury said blame must fall on three young people who accused prominent Omahans of sexual misconduct. Two have recanted their original stories, and the third was indicted Tuesday on charges of lying to the grand jury.
The grand jury said "rumormongers" spread much gossip and misinformation.
It said "many in the community both spread and received the gossip" and named three people in particular - part-time Omahan and fired Boys Town employee Michael Casey, Kirsten Hallberg, and Bonnie Cosentino, who were active in the Concerned Parents group ...
This and the follow-up story are too extensive to reprint here, and I doubt that most readers care about these old scams anyway. If you'd like a .pdf of the two articles, just email me and I'll send it to you: [email protected]
corsair00
I have heard a little bit about the holographic projections for PsyOps purposes in Jacques Vallee's ...
maquino
corsair00
I have heard a little bit about the holographic projections for PsyOps purposes in Jacques Vallee's ...
I first heard of JV in the mid-60s when he was another friend of Anton LaVey's. Struck me as a mystic and a dreamer who wrote essentially lightweight fantasy stuff, which was fine but not my thing; so I haven't paid any attention to him since then. Fastwalker sounds like a fun story; I enjoy the technique of mixing fact & fiction in a good yarn, and occasionally play with it myself.