Saturday, May 15, 2010
facebook alliance with Huffington Post..neutral to politics out the window?
Facebook alliance with Huffington Post.
My opinion is that this is something that came about because of the left seeing it for a potential win win situation. (Huffington Post is left).
Remember this past week...
Betty White got on Saturday Night Live, because of her facebook fans. This is an illustration of the tremendous power of facebook to date. ( Before it gets taxed, or shut down for sedition)
Now George Orwell style, big brother is stepping in...
Obama announced last week controls and taxes needed for internet, and other technology, including wii and the new i-pad! ( and did he say something like this.... 'cause they are dangerous to our kids and society, spreading lies'?) (???emphasis???)
Yet, his campaign used techonology the best so far, of any campaign. Is this a plot to deter future campaigns from the advantage of free and untaxed speech or is free speech, now going to be taxed? What will be next, books?
It looks like facebook wants to become political.! ( that may not be the case, it might just be a good business deal, but, since it is political, it should be balanced)
Maybe this will ,in fact, create a new boredom in politics.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Facebook, a collective consciousness
Facebook got Betty White a spot on Saturday Night Live, maybe Facebook will bring our society to the strength it needs to fight the new threats we face as a nation. Facebook is a collective consciousness. We need to hear more voices about how to face the future. Party lines are old hat, lobbying efforts by the oil companies, show you now, that even though we had laws to prevent damage in spills, the laws were not enforced. How ridiculous, the EPA, worries about hay bales, to prevent 1 inch of run off in a 50 year storm, into a wetland (which occurs in nature, anyway) while the protective measures for oil rigs are ignored! A perfect example of how government fails us.
Recently, someone died in a road accident, right at a spot, where run off from a property has made a hugh gouge in the earth leading into the street. All during freezing weather, there is an ice pocket on the road at this spot, and no one does anything about it. The police obviously did not even bother to notice that the property owner is creating a hazardous situation on the street, even with the death of a driver, on this night with freezing temperatures. Where is the conscience of the homeowner, who continues to do nothing about it? Where is the family of this young man? Did they come and see the spot where he died, and ask questions about the run off. The evidence is damning.
During the last administration a law requiring unions to disclose their finances, etc., was put on the books. Why not? All tax free organizations have to report their finances. Well, within 8-12 weeks of the new administration taking office, the law was conveniently removed. Interesting, isn't it? How long will we continue to be sheep?
Recently, someone died in a road accident, right at a spot, where run off from a property has made a hugh gouge in the earth leading into the street. All during freezing weather, there is an ice pocket on the road at this spot, and no one does anything about it. The police obviously did not even bother to notice that the property owner is creating a hazardous situation on the street, even with the death of a driver, on this night with freezing temperatures. Where is the conscience of the homeowner, who continues to do nothing about it? Where is the family of this young man? Did they come and see the spot where he died, and ask questions about the run off. The evidence is damning.
During the last administration a law requiring unions to disclose their finances, etc., was put on the books. Why not? All tax free organizations have to report their finances. Well, within 8-12 weeks of the new administration taking office, the law was conveniently removed. Interesting, isn't it? How long will we continue to be sheep?
Israeli Agent Advice, Plan for your family safety
Read what to do in an emergency to find your children and family...that is most important.
After my blog was written this morning, I got this as an e-mail that is going around on the internet. It is appropriate to consider this, in light of the fact that we continue unaware of the pending danger. We need to take protective measures and they may not be politically correct. Our people and our country have to be first. Did you ever realize that just the words we use help to convey, the attitude we put forth to the world, and, create the direction we head in. Traitor, is what you call an American Citizen, who trys to bomb a building or a city, even if his citizenship was just a scam.
Start of internet article, being sent by e-mail ....I have not corroborated it, the advice is important, anyway.
This Israeli agent has since been hired by Congress- he was right too many times. England , Ireland have adopted Israeli suggestions. However, American public is “unable to handle the information”. See the “trials” and resulting no action by the public.
Advice from an Israeli Agent
Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie ' Munich ' was based. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard, and she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.
In a lecture in New York City he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us.
He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly laughed, and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show. Unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.
Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East ) to the Bush Administration about 9/11, a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.
Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months.
Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke -- that we have been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective.
For example:
1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic.
2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked!
Every strategy we have is reactionary.
3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.
Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel , security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.
Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (i.e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as, rural America this time. The interlands ( Wyoming , Montana , etc.).
The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas.
Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.
Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U. S. Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts. The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will become totally irrelevant.
On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'.
He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be, instead, 'homegrown', having attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U.S. He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East . These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them.
Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terrorist threats we will inevitably face. America still has only a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.
So, what can America do to protect itself? From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence. We need to, instead, follow Israel 's, Ireland 's and England 's hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to pay attention to, and trust 'aware' citizens to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'. Our government thinks we 'can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake.
Aviv recently created/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago , someone tried to steal the briefcase!
In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves.
Unfortunately, America hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism.
\Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and about our schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In New York City , this was days, in some cases!)
He stresses the importance of having a plan, that's agreed upon within your family, of how to respond in the event of a terrorist emergency. He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools too, develop plans of actions, just as they do in Israel .
Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.
Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan, that in the event of another terrorist attack, EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., will immediately be cut-off, as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated.
How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak to each other? You need to have a plan.
If you understand, and believe what you have just read, then you must feel compelled to send this to every concerned parent, guardian, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whomever. Don't stop there. In addition to sharing this via e-mail, contact and discuss this information with whomever it makes sense to. Make contingency plans with those you care about. Better that you have plans in place, and never have to use them, then to have no plans in place, and find you needed them.
If you choose not to share this, or not to have a plan in place, and nothing ever occurs -- good for you! However, in the event something does happen, and even moreso, if it directly affects your loved ones, then this e-mail will haunt you forever.
Telling yourself after the fact, "I should have sent this to so and so, but deleted it as so much trash from old Bill Jones, plus, I just didn't believe it", will not change anything. You were alerted, had the chance to do something, and instead of erring on the side of caution, you chose to disregard, if nothing else, a sensible, valuable warning.
End of circulating e-mail
After my blog was written this morning, I got this as an e-mail that is going around on the internet. It is appropriate to consider this, in light of the fact that we continue unaware of the pending danger. We need to take protective measures and they may not be politically correct. Our people and our country have to be first. Did you ever realize that just the words we use help to convey, the attitude we put forth to the world, and, create the direction we head in. Traitor, is what you call an American Citizen, who trys to bomb a building or a city, even if his citizenship was just a scam.
Start of internet article, being sent by e-mail ....I have not corroborated it, the advice is important, anyway.
This Israeli agent has since been hired by Congress- he was right too many times. England , Ireland have adopted Israeli suggestions. However, American public is “unable to handle the information”. See the “trials” and resulting no action by the public.
Advice from an Israeli Agent
Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie ' Munich ' was based. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard, and she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.
In a lecture in New York City he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us.
He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly laughed, and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show. Unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.
Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East ) to the Bush Administration about 9/11, a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.
Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months.
Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke -- that we have been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective.
For example:
1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic.
2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked!
Every strategy we have is reactionary.
3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.
Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel , security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.
Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (i.e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as, rural America this time. The interlands ( Wyoming , Montana , etc.).
The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas.
Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.
Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U. S. Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts. The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will become totally irrelevant.
On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'.
He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be, instead, 'homegrown', having attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U.S. He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East . These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them.
Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terrorist threats we will inevitably face. America still has only a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.
So, what can America do to protect itself? From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence. We need to, instead, follow Israel 's, Ireland 's and England 's hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to pay attention to, and trust 'aware' citizens to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'. Our government thinks we 'can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake.
Aviv recently created/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago , someone tried to steal the briefcase!
In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves.
Unfortunately, America hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism.
\Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and about our schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In New York City , this was days, in some cases!)
He stresses the importance of having a plan, that's agreed upon within your family, of how to respond in the event of a terrorist emergency. He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools too, develop plans of actions, just as they do in Israel .
Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.
Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan, that in the event of another terrorist attack, EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., will immediately be cut-off, as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated.
How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak to each other? You need to have a plan.
If you understand, and believe what you have just read, then you must feel compelled to send this to every concerned parent, guardian, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whomever. Don't stop there. In addition to sharing this via e-mail, contact and discuss this information with whomever it makes sense to. Make contingency plans with those you care about. Better that you have plans in place, and never have to use them, then to have no plans in place, and find you needed them.
If you choose not to share this, or not to have a plan in place, and nothing ever occurs -- good for you! However, in the event something does happen, and even moreso, if it directly affects your loved ones, then this e-mail will haunt you forever.
Telling yourself after the fact, "I should have sent this to so and so, but deleted it as so much trash from old Bill Jones, plus, I just didn't believe it", will not change anything. You were alerted, had the chance to do something, and instead of erring on the side of caution, you chose to disregard, if nothing else, a sensible, valuable warning.
End of circulating e-mail
The First War of Physics by Jim Baggott
If you only read the review of this book, by Michael Dobbs, in the Sunday, May 8, 2010, New York Times Book Review, Page 18, you will gather information from the past, that will help you make decisions for the future. This book was first published November 5,2009, as a paperback. The hardcover is missing the word Atomic on the cover. The hard cover was published, April 13,2010, with the new title , The First War of Physics.
Basically, what Dobbs, the reviewer says is, it boils down to is a war within a war, just as we are now fighting a war within a war.
In reading the review, I could only think about us now, in view of the past.
Our voices are disident...one side is fighting a war for God, our side is trying to bring Democracy, but there has to be more to it than that. Why are we building roads, school, bridges, etc., in the middle east, when in our own country, the bridges are crumbling, the schools are not keeping up with the changes in society, our construction industry is flat on it's back, and the world is tumbling down around us, as jobs disappear, and economies drift toward the bottom. Union workers are demonizing Greece, objecting to the cut backs that have to come as Greece struggles to get back on its feet. We are just overwhelmed with our entitlement programs around the world, our generosity exceeds our pocketbooks....all this, as we send our resources overseas, never to recoup them. We need to modernize our own world. Have you seen the pictures of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, today?
These two cities were totally destroyed by the two Atomic Bombs , Fat Man and Little Boy in 1945, today, these cities put our cities to shame with their beauty! Oh, if only we could put our efforts, our precious resources toward this wondrous beauty, instead of war. You can find pictures of these cities on the internet, by the way.
The most important paragraph in this review by Michael Dobbs, is the last paragraph. He states, that this book reminds us, that wars are more than a fight on battlefields. They are also a struggle between competing ideologies, competing economic stystems, competing ways of life, and the military potential each country has.
When I was in college, Dr. Bowler my economics professor proclaimed one day, (in the 1960's) that wars of the future would be gorilla wars, because that was the only way to come after a super power. It was as though a light went on in my head, because in that moment in time, I knew he was correct, and we have seen it come to pass! Yet, we have done nothing to successfully wage war against our enemies. We have not come together as a people, all we do is bicker while one side trys to find every redemable reason for the enemy to act the way he acts, instead of us joining and acting together against the enemy. Why is it so difficult to come together, and face the threat as gorilla warfare. Just look at what gorilla warfare is doing to Mexico, and some of the other countries, who have let this type of war wage on and on. Yes, the drug wars, are also gorilla warfare, it is the most fearsome way of war, because it becomes personal, so leaders become afraid to act. Maybe gorilla warfare began in our country back in the 60's with the Weathermen, it's success was noted, and used from then on by dissident groups, drug dealers, the underworld, etc. We never waged a successful war on drugs, so we showed the world we can not handle a counter attack on gorilla warfare, because we will not fight that way.
Now, back to that last paragraph, he says that in the second world war the underlying war within the war, was the race to build the 'bomb'. He goes on to say, and I quote, " The nuclear arms race underscores an important historical truth: It was America's strengths as a society, and not simply as a miliary power, that led to victory in both World War 2 and the cold war."
Comon, you guys, you are the generation who will end up with this mess! We need to say "No" to drugs, if you don't know now, that they fuel gorilla warfare, then we are in real trouble. Illegal drug sales fuel most if not all of gorilla warfare, trillions of dollars of our money, comes back to us in bombs ( also fueled by the illegal sale of weapons) !
We need new strategies, and we need to try things, we can not sit back and take the psycological pathway, some people feel we need before we take actions. We need to try things, maybe we need to mind our own business, as we did at the beginning of the second world war, be isolationist, and wait, til our society catches up and can control its own behavior. Maybe we need to stand back from other people's problems,. Perhaps we need to charge for our expenses, our troops and equipment that we abandon in far way countries, charge others for re-building their world. That brings us to the most important question, should we stop policing the world, after all we were never voted in for that by the world's population.
Incongruous, that we police the world but, can not police our own borders! We rebuild war torn countries, but not our own! Shame on us! Someone has to be brave enough to come up with ideas, and get the population behind him or her...!! Who amongst this new generation will step up to the plate?
Basically, what Dobbs, the reviewer says is, it boils down to is a war within a war, just as we are now fighting a war within a war.
In reading the review, I could only think about us now, in view of the past.
Our voices are disident...one side is fighting a war for God, our side is trying to bring Democracy, but there has to be more to it than that. Why are we building roads, school, bridges, etc., in the middle east, when in our own country, the bridges are crumbling, the schools are not keeping up with the changes in society, our construction industry is flat on it's back, and the world is tumbling down around us, as jobs disappear, and economies drift toward the bottom. Union workers are demonizing Greece, objecting to the cut backs that have to come as Greece struggles to get back on its feet. We are just overwhelmed with our entitlement programs around the world, our generosity exceeds our pocketbooks....all this, as we send our resources overseas, never to recoup them. We need to modernize our own world. Have you seen the pictures of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, today?
These two cities were totally destroyed by the two Atomic Bombs , Fat Man and Little Boy in 1945, today, these cities put our cities to shame with their beauty! Oh, if only we could put our efforts, our precious resources toward this wondrous beauty, instead of war. You can find pictures of these cities on the internet, by the way.
The most important paragraph in this review by Michael Dobbs, is the last paragraph. He states, that this book reminds us, that wars are more than a fight on battlefields. They are also a struggle between competing ideologies, competing economic stystems, competing ways of life, and the military potential each country has.
When I was in college, Dr. Bowler my economics professor proclaimed one day, (in the 1960's) that wars of the future would be gorilla wars, because that was the only way to come after a super power. It was as though a light went on in my head, because in that moment in time, I knew he was correct, and we have seen it come to pass! Yet, we have done nothing to successfully wage war against our enemies. We have not come together as a people, all we do is bicker while one side trys to find every redemable reason for the enemy to act the way he acts, instead of us joining and acting together against the enemy. Why is it so difficult to come together, and face the threat as gorilla warfare. Just look at what gorilla warfare is doing to Mexico, and some of the other countries, who have let this type of war wage on and on. Yes, the drug wars, are also gorilla warfare, it is the most fearsome way of war, because it becomes personal, so leaders become afraid to act. Maybe gorilla warfare began in our country back in the 60's with the Weathermen, it's success was noted, and used from then on by dissident groups, drug dealers, the underworld, etc. We never waged a successful war on drugs, so we showed the world we can not handle a counter attack on gorilla warfare, because we will not fight that way.
Now, back to that last paragraph, he says that in the second world war the underlying war within the war, was the race to build the 'bomb'. He goes on to say, and I quote, " The nuclear arms race underscores an important historical truth: It was America's strengths as a society, and not simply as a miliary power, that led to victory in both World War 2 and the cold war."
Comon, you guys, you are the generation who will end up with this mess! We need to say "No" to drugs, if you don't know now, that they fuel gorilla warfare, then we are in real trouble. Illegal drug sales fuel most if not all of gorilla warfare, trillions of dollars of our money, comes back to us in bombs ( also fueled by the illegal sale of weapons) !
We need new strategies, and we need to try things, we can not sit back and take the psycological pathway, some people feel we need before we take actions. We need to try things, maybe we need to mind our own business, as we did at the beginning of the second world war, be isolationist, and wait, til our society catches up and can control its own behavior. Maybe we need to stand back from other people's problems,. Perhaps we need to charge for our expenses, our troops and equipment that we abandon in far way countries, charge others for re-building their world. That brings us to the most important question, should we stop policing the world, after all we were never voted in for that by the world's population.
Incongruous, that we police the world but, can not police our own borders! We rebuild war torn countries, but not our own! Shame on us! Someone has to be brave enough to come up with ideas, and get the population behind him or her...!! Who amongst this new generation will step up to the plate?
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Traitor! a movie of terrorism
Traitor - moviefone.com
1h 53min - PG-13 - Drama
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, more
An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's... more
Now, as we discuss, if we should consider modifying our laws to handle traitors in this new world, maybe it is time to do some thinking about what the word traitor, once meant, and how seriously we took the word, traitor!
After the 2nd world war, forgiveness was still important, even to those who had suffered, and psychiatrists blamed mother fixation, underlying homosexual tendencies, the need to belong, etc., and thought that if we stayed true to our beliefs in the world, that we would be able to re-eduate the aberrant souls.
Jonestown suicides, show that re-education is not enough, it is not fast enough, sufficient enough, etc. The ability of cults to destroy families, and individuals, is proof that we can not deal with aberrant behavior in manners that take a long period of time, alone.
Yes, our freedoms are most important, but, our society has a duty to it's people to protect them , with the risk on the individual who chooses to be a traitor, not on society. So if we look at the status quo, from the point of view of the majority, can we come up with something that protects society , yet does not hinder our individual right to dissent? I guess it boils down to, "peaceful dissent", and when it goes beyond peaceful dissent, you are looking at the danger zone of individual freedom.
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Obviously, we are not dealing with people who are willing or want to change their thinking because they have been indoctrinated into a belief. We know from our experience with the Jonestown suicides, how deeply people can be indoctrinated.
1h 53min - PG-13 - Drama
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, more
An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's... more
Now, as we discuss, if we should consider modifying our laws to handle traitors in this new world, maybe it is time to do some thinking about what the word traitor, once meant, and how seriously we took the word, traitor!
After the 2nd world war, forgiveness was still important, even to those who had suffered, and psychiatrists blamed mother fixation, underlying homosexual tendencies, the need to belong, etc., and thought that if we stayed true to our beliefs in the world, that we would be able to re-eduate the aberrant souls.
Jonestown suicides, show that re-education is not enough, it is not fast enough, sufficient enough, etc. The ability of cults to destroy families, and individuals, is proof that we can not deal with aberrant behavior in manners that take a long period of time, alone.
Yes, our freedoms are most important, but, our society has a duty to it's people to protect them , with the risk on the individual who chooses to be a traitor, not on society. So if we look at the status quo, from the point of view of the majority, can we come up with something that protects society , yet does not hinder our individual right to dissent? I guess it boils down to, "peaceful dissent", and when it goes beyond peaceful dissent, you are looking at the danger zone of individual freedom.
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Obviously, we are not dealing with people who are willing or want to change their thinking because they have been indoctrinated into a belief. We know from our experience with the Jonestown suicides, how deeply people can be indoctrinated.