https://www.opednews.com/articles/Major-Mistake-Found-in-Con-by-David-Swanson-Space-Colonization_Space-Defense-Weapons_Space-Exploration_Space-Exploration-Travel-170708-613.html
More craziness from warmongers. A step towards an Alien false flag?
This is amusing coming from you, considering that you are always complaining and pleading for disclosure, usually tied to your wishes for the fall and/or demise of the US...
Evidently it doesn't register with you that there must be or might be something to defend against, which should be an eye opener for anyone clamoring for disclosure...
Why do you think that 99% of the Star Wars defense systems are aimed away from the earth???
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https://youtu.be/uD2186Yh0Uc
If no extraterrestrials can be found to go to war with, I'm sure they are brewing some alien looking hybrids to scrap with as we speak.
QuoteThe most ambitious and unrealistic space project cannot of itself generate a believable external menace. It has been hotly argued that such a menace would offer the "last, best hope of peace," etc., by uniting mankind against the danger of destruction by "creatures" from other planets or from outer space. Experiments have been proposed to test the credibility of an out-of-our-world invasion threat; it is possible that a few of the more difficult-to-explain "flying saucer" incidents of recent years were in fact early experiments of this kind. If so, they could hardly have been judged encouraging. We anticipate no difficulties in making a "need" for a giant super space program credible for economic purposes, even were there not ample precedent; extending it, for political purposes, to include features unfortunately associated with science fiction would obviously be a more dubious undertaking.
http://www.stopthecrime.net/docs/Report_from_Iron_Mountain.pdf (http://www.stopthecrime.net/docs/Report_from_Iron_Mountain.pdf)
Yes and no. Maybe this is based on complete BS and the warmongers just want any excuse to bomb countries. OTOH, maybe they know something about ET's and are typically preparing for hostility.
As for Disclosure and the US, I feel unapologetic about the ugly state of the world and its cause. I used to feel proud of a nation that showed such foresight as to create the Marshall plan and force democracy on imperial Japan. That's long past - now, nations such as Libya and Syria just get wrecked and left to bleed.
I see a world overloaded with suffering that could end if Alien technology really exists and was exposed. Is that technology suppressed as the cost of maintaining an empire? If true, would that be the greatest act of selfishness in all history? Ending poverty? Ending war over oil?
Nixon's "three legged stool" of the US/USSR and China running the world was a decent, practical idea. Sadly, some idiots thought Russia and China could never be friends - and so, harassed Russia into China's embrace. Dumber still, they continue refusing to see their error.
Quote from: Eighthman on July 09, 2017, 07:48:51 PM
I see a world overloaded with suffering that could end if Alien technology really exists and was exposed. Is that technology suppressed as the cost of maintaining an empire? If true, would that be the greatest act of selfishness in all history? Ending poverty? Ending war over oil?
Alien tech still would not end any of that. We already have the means to end it without ET and choose not to.
The world is what it is. If we haven't ended suffering, we truly don't have the means to do so - in a practical, political sense. You can say, "greed" or hate or whatever - perhaps we could say we aren't ethically capable.
In the '60's, we were making real progress - fighting war, creating Civil Rights, Startrek for inspiration. Something went wrong. We need help. I suspect we are seeing a Real New World Order emerging rapidly - and it ain't the US and its vassal, the EU. Trump is in a rush to fix US trade and energy policy because he knows the trade deficit will become disastrous if the US loses dominance.
Quote from: Ellirium113 on July 09, 2017, 11:50:27 PM
Alien tech still would not end any of that. We already have the means to end it without ET and choose not to.
Well spoken Ellirium 8) Gold for you
Without visiting foreign lands and experiencing the myriad diverse cultures the average person cannot comprehend the immensity of ending poverty, or war, or even negotiating a truce amongst the majority of any of them;
just in Iraq, there are Shiiite, Sunni, and Wahabi that will not get along or tolerate each other; it is like that to some degree
world wide.It is too easy to sit at a keyboard and espouse noble and lofty solutions to fix all the problems in the world; making them a reality in this present day and time requires a whole lot more than is available simply because the majority of those involved don't want to change unless it is strictly on their terms...
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Edit to add:The article in the OP was penned by David Swanson; after Googling and reading some of his other articles, my opinion is if he was any farther to the left he would be living in North Korea
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Our collective moral progress goes hand in hand with technological development. One day, anesthesia is invented and we stop justifying the pain of childbirth using Biblical grounds. Or the Industrial Revolution makes slavery less popular. Or our graveyards stop filling up with kids who died before the age of three because of common diseases.
Life becomes less coarse.
"because the majority of those involved don't want to change"..... Yes, exactly. Change from technology can overthrow the tyranny of the majority.....and the human race has fallen behind.
Quote from: Eighthman on July 10, 2017, 02:15:47 AM
Our collective moral progress goes hand in hand with technological development. One day, anesthesia is invented and we stop justifying the pain of childbirth using Biblical grounds. Or the Industrial Revolution makes slavery less popular. Or our graveyards stop filling up with kids who died before the age of three because of common diseases.
Life becomes less coarse.
"because the majority of those involved don't want to change"..... Yes, exactly. Change from technology can overthrow the tyranny of the majority.....and the human race has fallen behind.
And you seem to be ignorant of the fact that the technology you cite is still limited in vast areas of the world; why don't you go on a world tour for about a year and visit India, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, China and a few countries in the middle east; perhaps you can help them see the light and aid in their advancement and technological enlightenment
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Cultural obstacles exist with respect to advancement. Not just the ones that are shouted from the rooftops, but every day ones. Like dietary changes to keep a teenage diabetic healthy. The family emigrated from Congo. They continued to cook traditional foods. The teenager was enthused about the readily available sugar at school. No one wanted to listen to the seriousness of her disease. She was discharged from the agency's service for noncompliance. I hope she's still alive. She was a nice girl.
Shasta