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Author Topic: Food for Thought: Our World  (Read 287668 times)

SeaMonkey

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #300 on: February 04, 2016, 09:31:08 PM »
Quote from: Dog-One
"No organism (or energetic machine, for that matter) can function indefinitely in an environment of its own waste products."
  -- D.L. Hotson, Infinte Energy, Issue 44, 2002
   

Excellent quote Dog-One!  It is very much applicable
to the U.S. and The West.

TPP Deal just signed...

The Empire of War rages on.

SeaMonkey

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #301 on: February 05, 2016, 12:27:51 AM »
The Billary:  It just keeps coming back and coming back...

One of the "benefits" of being in U.S. politics.


Dog-One

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #302 on: February 05, 2016, 12:40:14 AM »
The Billary:  It just keeps coming back and coming back...

If you happen to know the man pictured below, you may also know he has sworn on his own life to take the Clinton's down for good.

Let's hope he's got the goods.

Dog-One

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #303 on: February 05, 2016, 03:23:49 AM »

SeaMonkey

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #304 on: March 08, 2016, 05:04:47 AM »
With the upcoming election (actually, it's already begun)
we need to think about the candidates and their
"qualifications."
« Last Edit: March 08, 2016, 07:06:51 AM by SeaMonkey »

SeaMonkey

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #305 on: March 08, 2016, 07:08:10 AM »
The American Political System in painful TRUTH.

Dog-One

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #306 on: March 09, 2016, 12:09:32 PM »
I cannot believe "the owners" are worried about much of anything, but it is amusing to see the runaway republican candidate take so much abuse from his own party.

After all, there is still plenty of time to start a nasty destructive war that will eliminate all doubt who is the boss of this planet.  Let'm eat cake.  Better yet, let'm eat each other.


      "We all got it coming kid." -- Will Munny, Unforgiven

SeaMonkey

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #307 on: March 10, 2016, 03:39:11 AM »
Aye, this election, and America as well, is rather at a
crossroads.  Since there really is no power in the
vote, perhaps the better option is not to vote.


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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #308 on: March 10, 2016, 06:58:14 PM »
Aye, this election, and America as well, is rather at a
crossroads.  Since there really is no power in the
vote, perhaps the better option is not to vote.

Only about 50% of all people who theoretically could vote are registered voters.

Only about 50% of the registered voters actually vote (which is about 25% of all theoretical voters).

A president usually wins the election with a bit more than 50% of the actual votes,

which means tha about 12% to maybe 18% of all theoretical voters have voted for a president.


If you want to tweak the numbers a bit optimistically, you could claim that 20% (of all who could vote) voted for a president.

And you think that anybody would care if that percentage gets even lower?

Greetings, Conrad


Dog-One

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #309 on: March 10, 2016, 07:13:33 PM »
The interesting thing to me is this:  People vote every day with their wallet.  They choose how to earn and spend their money.  From what I see of this activity, very few are pulling out of the system, which for the most part perpetuates this system.  Until that changes in any significant way, we can count on more of the same.  The problem is simple, there are no real viable alternatives to the system we have.  We cannot just stop going to work or stop going to the grocery store.  It would take many years of careful planning and conscious decision making to withdraw from the system and become truly independent.  And how long would that last?  One bad weather year and all the food grown is gone; then you starve.  So to survive it would take groups of people all moving together, basically the same mechanism as an insurance policy.  It's a catch-22.  You can't all move together at the same time, but if you don't, you fail.  So we have this system and we are pretty much stuck with it.

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #310 on: March 10, 2016, 08:50:41 PM »
The problem is simple, there are no real viable alternatives to the system we have.  We cannot just stop going to work or stop going to the grocery store.

There is in fact a very viable alternative: you just have to become rich! Only about 2% to 5% manage to achieve that.

And this alternative existed and exists in all societies at all times.

Of course, every now and then also some rich people get trodden under, but rarely. And in a more globalised world money moves you away from trouble spots more easily than ever.

About 2% to 5% have all options, they float on top of all hardship and sorrow. And you and I are not willing to change that, so it will persist.

I know, you do not want to be rich. And that is exactly what you are supposed to do.

Greetings, Conrad

SeaMonkey

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #311 on: March 10, 2016, 09:59:53 PM »
Quote from: ConradElektro
Only about 50% of all people who theoretically could vote are registered voters.

Only about 50% of the registered voters actually vote (which is about 25% of all theoretical voters).

A president usually wins the election with a bit more than 50% of the actual votes,

which means tha about 12% to maybe 18% of all theoretical voters have voted for a president.


If you want to tweak the numbers a bit optimistically, you could claim that 20% (of all who could vote) voted for a president.

And you think that anybody would care if that percentage gets even lower?

Your analysis is good Conrad!

No, nobody would even notice.  The American
Political System is too far gone with corruption
to ever be turned around.  It's happened every-
where else too.  The whole Western World is
suffering the same illness.  Is Russia the only
seemingly honest system remaining on the Planet?
Or China too?

Dog-One

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #312 on: March 12, 2016, 08:12:52 AM »
Is Russia the only seemingly honest system remaining on the Planet?  Or China too?

Maybe; maybe not...

http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/126/S126143.html

Johan_1955

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #313 on: March 12, 2016, 10:32:51 AM »
Or China too?

China is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4jB4DZPCHs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nB_xLxnwwE

Since Earthquake 2008, and the first visit to Ojama, complete slave of ............

SeaMonkey

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Re: Food for Thought: Our World
« Reply #314 on: March 28, 2016, 11:03:24 PM »
Why the West is pushing for War.

It is all coming down as it was foretold.