China’s call today for a new global reserve currency to replace the dollar spells the beginning of the end of the American Empire. China holds most of the dollar credit in the world, and that of course gave China a powerful incentive to maintain dollar hegemony. That China now views the risks to world trade from the US’ indebtedness, to outweigh the potential loss in value of its own dollar reserves, is the tipping point that spells the inevitable beginning of the end of the US empire.
The reserve currency system has since 1795 allowed empires to be built on the economic output of weaker powers. If you achieve sufficient economic power and control of resources that yours is the currency everyone holds, you can print as much of it for yourself as you like and the devaluation effects are spread around not just your economy, but everyone else who holds your deposits. Being the reserve currency is a license to print money. Both the British and the Americans used this position to build military forces which could dominate both formal and informal empires. Both eventually experienced overreach, with military expenditure pushing deficit finance to the point of implosion. Then you lose reserve currency status.
It happened to the British and now it is happening to the Americans.
The colossal 4.7% a year of its wealth the US throws away on defence and security expenditure (broadly defined) – more than double the European average – is a huge factor in US indebtedness. There is an extraordinary failure to mention this in the mainstream media. It seems to be an Emperor’s New Clothes thing. It is the one area of expenditure the xenophobic hatemongers of the Tea Party want to see increased, and the existence of Empire causes all career politicians to compete in public displays of patriotism. That has been a political fact since the dawn of time. Defence spending is a sacred cow, unmentionable in the United States. They probably have a couple of decades to come fully to terms with the fact that they will no longer be in a position to invade who they will in order to control their mineral and other commodity resources. As with the British empire, the beetle on its back will kick its legs a while yet. It will be painful for them.
I shall enjoy it. I never claimed to be a good person!
Another mod – ‘Hi Jon, good to see you here. I trimmed some of Jaded’s stuff. He was just calling people “turds” and “Cointelpro”, nothing that contributed to any kind of debate.’
Yes, I sure did. Now why do you think I might have been doing that? I think it is foolish to tolerate these ‘people’ on any media platform and it’s nothing to do with allowing free speech. My mantra is ‘identify, insult and isolate’. They are full time agents and not here for debate. They must have a really good chuckle at being allowed to waltz in and carry out their orders. They made a concerted effot to demoralise Craig and destroy his blog last year, but thankfully failed. You honestly don’t see this or do see and still see fit to tolerate them? I think it’s akin to knowingly letting a vampire into your home. Anyway, I don’t deny you can justify your moderation, but a sense of humour allied with an appreciation of reality wouldn’t hurt much. I maintain that is very healthy to give a blocked blog a good flush. 🙂
“[defence] It is the one area of expenditure the xenophobic hatemongers of the Tea Party want to see increased…”
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Sounds like a bit of hatemongering of your own, and more or less false too.
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Ron Paul, the supposed “Godfather of the Tea Party” has been among the most eloquent opponents of the war for global empire and for bringing the troops home.
As for Angry, he’s about as out to lunch on the BNP.
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Technically, the BNP are not fascist by their own declaration, so if anyone wants to argue that they are, they’d better say on what basis, e.g., their anti-war policy, their anti-EU policy (basically the fulfillment of Hitler’s dream), their opposition to mass immigration (opposition shared by 70% of the British population, according to the latest, post-Breivic polls), or what?
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But in fact the BNP are not, I suggest, anything but an intel op designed to contaminate populist policies with the appearance of thuggish, racist stupidity.
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In which connection it is of interest that most people would support the “far right” (how can it be “far” right if most people support it?) if it gave up violence. What the Guardian means by “far right,” of course, is what everyone but self-hating white liberals and the settler immigrant groups want.
@ Craig,
It seems to me that at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US had options:-
1. Restructure the economy for long term sustainability; invest heavily in research and development to find means of being less reliant on imported oil as the main energy source; make a realistic reassessment of the economy to recognise that the traditional approach of the post World War 11 military-industrial complex lines of production could not be sustained since over time military and defence expenditures and the costs of wars would outstrip the domestic economy’s ability to fund the Empire, since manufacturing jobs were rapidly shifting to lower wage and production cost areas of the world; invest in education, housing, revitalised infrastructure, health care, high technology production targeting global markets – OR
2. Continue with the traditional military-industrial complex approach to running the economy.
With the neo-cons on the ascendancy 🙁http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century)
the time has arrived when the choice made of the latter of the two options above, have to be not only seen to be, but truly admitted as simply greed and power motivated choices made by a core group with some formally educated individuals having knowledge but lacking either vision or sensible foresight. It is truly hard to resist that conclusion, but there are the ones in the US who label themselves “Tea Party” – “Republican” – “Conservative” and who see more explanation in scapegoating immigrants and minorities than they do in making honest assessment of the consequences of bad and misguided public policy choices made in the recent past. One now sees the consequences of those choices revealing itself – the ‘economic chickens’ are coming home to roost. Actually, the real structural problems besetting the US economy traverse and transcend the traditional lines of right/left divide.
There were real choices at a particular time in recent US history. At this juncture, it seems to me that the former range of choices have shrunk. There is reduced time for implementing constructive domestic political and economic changes and for transition manoevuerability than had existed in the 1990s. Th viable option was not seized, and instead the proactive projection of war into the world was embraced and advanced. The US with the benefit of hindsight is now forced to face the reality that there then, back in the 1990s, were further options:-
A . Accept that multilaterism has to be a sensible alternative to continued US militarism and hegemonic thrusts into the world with its avowed unilateralism.
B. Weigh the economic and human costs of US wars projected into the world and examine the costs and savings of the alternatives.
C. Note that by having over expenditures because the US dollar as world reserve currency, has finite operative ranges, there will be domestic consequences of social dislocation without public expenditure amelioration. This spells social unrest and the need for repression of a dissatisfied populace. Only so much over-expenditure can be absorbed by an economy, even if that economy is the world’s largest with the world’s single reserve currency.
But, ideas A,B and C are the kind that most would term ‘idealistic’ and not practical. I would muse and now question, if such ideas of constructive change for sustainable global dominance are ‘idealistic’ – then are the ideas of the neo-cons/PNAC people any more ‘realistic’ when measured by the objective yardstick of the consequences of US public and foreign policies implemented from the 1990s to the present day?
In a certain sense, the way in which the US responded post Soviet Union collapse, was predictable because the Tiger cannot change its stripes – the banner of war had to continue flying – Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya ( and it will continue to be propelled to Syria and Iran). Apparently only when the Tiger through its actions of continued attacks has had all its fur and covering stripped from its very being, will it recognise itself as an exposed creature of vastly different appearance. Maybe, then, and only then will the creature be compelled to stop its aggressions and change its former character for its own survival. But – I am more inclined to accept McLeod’s observation above “Wounded animals are often the most dangerous, I doubt the US will go down gracefully.”
I am suggesting that it was bad American decisions and imprudent militaristic expenditures that iare propelling the US to decline – as distinct from achieving the true “New American Century” containing more constructive sense and design than the lunacy unleashed on the world by the PNAC (see: link above).
China, Russia and others hold too much by way of US denominated financial instruments to compel rapid US implosion. But implode the US system will, if after the 1990s, not having re-structured and sensibly changed, eg.
i) Return to the abandoned non-proliferation treaties and negotiate and implement with integrity with the other nuclear powers. Not only would the world become a safer place (i.e. if one country can blow the world up with its weapons of mass destruction – then if it spends so much to be able to do the same thing tenfold over – does it not in the long run result in expenditures on military material that cannot be used unless one is intend on mutually assured destruction (MAD) when directing such weapons against other nuclear powers?) – but by so changing there are new options opened for resolving the domestic economy’s problems. The savings from this international approach of advancing genuine arms reduction and non-proliferation must constitute quite significant savings for re-application to the domestic US economy in ways that do not merely stockpile weaponry that cannot be used. The alternative peaceful production investments would provide much needed long-term answers for sustainable production.
ii) Restore the Glass-Steagall Act and have sensible banking and financial regulations and interest rates controls re-implemented. The Wall Street free for all and re-payment of trillions by first Bush then Obama must convince even the non-economists of the lunacy and down-right financial criminality which exists between Washington and the “banksters”.
iii) Cut defence expenditures, because by not doing so, with the domestic economy losing jobs and inevitably with the crime rate rising and social dislocations increasing, so too will the prison population. Does it make more sense to create domestic jobs ( with the money saved from defence and military cuts) – or – does it make better sense to continue increasing the prison population and the related costs that incarceration of criminal and non-productive people represent?
Back in the 1990s, with ideas like these, I would be labeled as ‘idealistic’. The neo-cons had and still have power to advance the alternative public and foreign policy agendas – have their ideas worked? In the year 2011 my ‘idealism’ is rapidly beginning to appear quite ‘realistic’.
CB ( http://www.globaljusticeonline.com)
P.S. This can be considered a “big-picture” assessment for the benefit of Larry/ YugoStiglitz. How are you doing today – Larry? Living in the 19th century and ‘idealistic’ – not the PNAC 21st century -right Larry ?
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Even now it isn’t too late Courtenay, it’s never too late I don’t think, it’s just that these ‘nasties’ who exercise power from behind the curtain won’t give it up. I bet that they self-justify till the cows come home, ‘we are a necessary evil’, but the reality is that they are an unnecessary, bloated cancer which America needs rescuing from. You will always end up in a terrible state if the same minority control power for too long. It’s just a flaw of humanity. The U.S. empire really is an out of control juggernaut that is very close to crashing. Only an increased awareness of the truth amongst a signifcant proportion of tbe population, the trend is there and needs accelerating, can stop this from happening. There needs to be a peaceful shift of representation made through the ballot box and massive reforms underatken. The traitors and criminals need ousting from public office. America needs to really become a democracy of high standard and encourage the same around the world; as opposed to pretending to be a democracy of high standard and exporting tyranny around the world. The big problem is that these elites, bankers, secret societies etc. would even seek to derail peaceful change initiated within the law. Tyranny pure and simple.
Be very careful what you wish for. Whilst, in theory, it might be ‘fun’ to see the grand, American, imperial strategy collapse, there’s a strong chance that they won’t go quietly exit stange left from history.
Britain, on it’s way down got itself into an extraordinarily bloody, destructive, and costly conflict with Germany, known as the two world wars, which far from ‘defending’ British interests, saw them destroyed. There’s a strong likelyhood that the United States will folllow this classic imperial decline model, clutching desparately at its military might and national mythology, as its real economic power seeps inexorably away.
Roll on the end of the empire! But roll on WW3?
My slant on the future of world economies would be to use this forthcoming depression to see how countries can work together for peace; and not seek to steal each other’s assets. After WWII Germany and Japan were prohibited from manufacturing arms. That meant while all other countries were spending at least 20% of their gross national expenditures on defence Germany and Japan were spending the bulk of their gross national expenditures on economic development. Guess what! They became the two leading economies. There’s a lesson there for all countries.
Writeon. We’re having WW3. It’s ruining us. The intention was to steal Middle East oil and put the puppet, Ahmed Chalabi, (a thief and liar, who stole billions from Jordan and informed us all about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction) in power in Baghdad. It’s not working out like that.
SCHADENFREUDE
The destruction of those who deliberately chose to use the methods of the Nazis to pursue wealth and power, will be satisfying to an exquisite degree. Schadenfreude – the Germans were definitely onto something there! ; )
GALTUNG – ‘THE US WENT THE WAY OF THE NAZIS”
Galtung pointed out that the Norwegians also deliberately chose to follow the path of the Nazis, sending their ‘Norwegian Legion’ to Afghanistan, and bombing Libya. After the World War 2 Waffen SS brigade Quisling sent to attack Russia. Which largely got wiped out. “Just as the US chose to use the methods of the Nazis after 911,” said Galtung. “It will be very, very hard for the Norwegian people to admit it.” Paraphrased. –
Before Johan Galtung’s father – the mayor of Oslo – was put in a Nazi concentration camp he, he told his son that the Germans would be destroyed. “Why?” asked Johan. “Because they don’t know when to stop,” he said.
USUK Empire Psychopathy, murder, torture to death and genocide – not healthy for the perpetrator, never mind their innocent victims, but they contain the seeds of their own destruction. Thankfully! –
– Johan Galtung – Norway – July 29, 2011 – Democracy Now –
– http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/29/norways_johan_galtung_peace_conflict_pioneer
CHOMSKY
In addition to defense spending – ‘4.7% wasted,’ Chomsky points out that if the US had a normal — for an industrialized country — national health system, its entire deficit would be also be gone.
But it doesn’t, and it won’t, he says. So there are two options that will not be considered until Hubris and Nemesis take their toll.
– ‘America in Decline,’ by Noam Chomsky, August 6th, 2011 – Information Clearing House –
– http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28767.htm
There’s got to be scope for another Greek tragedy in the present USUK Imperial cock-up. The Bacchae comes to mind, with the emphasis on utter stupidity, and utter inability to alter course one jot!
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bacchae
Where is Monty Python when you need him?
IT’S WAR, BABY!
“We think the Neocons, ER, Germans, may be trying to start the war a year early.” “I thought they were the one nation we could trust.” But even though over fifty percent of the US economy goes to war industries, are we _really_ ready for (yet) another war? “What about the Navy? We’re short on spoons, mainly.” – Whinfrey’s Last Case – Ripping Yarns – Michael Palin – Part 1 – Blocked!
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAOs_3qgqWY#t=02m27s
Whinfrey solves the case — and the need for war — But the generals want “a proper war and not one of those mean little jobs run by intelligence.” – and so the Kaiser provides the date for the start of play, ER, war, – August 4th, 1914, in France. The same old same old. “And if this one is successful they’ll want to do a follow up.” – Part 4 – Also Blocked!
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd7o2608bdA#t=04m27s
The USUK Imperial fascists even deleted the always-instructive ‘Whinfrey’s Last Case.’ Except for the (non-political) intro. –
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEr-n9LDj4s
NUREMBERG MK II
Meanwhile the US (In)Justice Department is deaf, dumb and blind to the crimes of the US Neocon-Nazis’s of the last nine years. Crimes of US torture, murder, death squads, illegal war, crimes against humanity and crimes against the laws of war. US war criminals sleep easy in their beds. No change there, then!
“The Neocons were careerists who instituted the industrial killing of millions in an effort to please Our Dear Leader, Comrade Cheney, and win promotion.” “You cannot just order the killing of hundreds of thousands of people. No normal person would do such a thing.” –
– The original clip was utterly damning of the US Neocon Nazis. Ho__rooke? Wo__owitz? Or every d@mn Neocon and his dog??? – Naturally it was memory-holed and replaced by an entirely _newly-edited_ one!!! (Extraordinary attention to what seems to be a minor detail. Big Brother truly!) So supply your own soundtrack! –
– WW2 – Heydrich – Now entirely deleted! –
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1NXE55LBE#t=01m20s
Poor US Neo-Cons / Our Tony — Terrified of their date with destiny — A long drop on a short rope. – Nuremberg Mk II. –
Still going! – Mk I for comparison – Nuremberg Executions of N_zi Leaders for ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ and ‘Crimes Against the Laws of War.’ – Original –
– http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=95d_1206462963
EUROPE
Where then is sane? Europe – A progressive land of milk and honey, where the crazy right wing is ‘Norwegian conservative guy.’ (Apart from USUK Neo-Con Nazi Quisling ‘Bonkers’ Breivik, naturally).
@ 1.20. From Michael Moore’s Sicko.
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svSUCbClg8E
Jaded, YugoStiglitz’s comments get deleted or trimmed when he is offensive. So, if you are offensive, you think I should leave that undeleted, do you? So exactly what criteria do you suggest? Pro-Israel offensiveness to be deleted, but anti-Israel offensiveness to be permitted? That would be anti-Jewish bias, which is exactly the accusation YugoStiglitz makes against this blog. Your own bad behaviour would seem to be justifying Yugostiglitz’s.
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You wrote “Now why do you think I might have been doing that?”. Well, how should I know? I’m just a moderator; I’m not psychic. I’ve read that a technique used by these blog infiltrators is to be very aggressive and offensive, especially on the forums of peace activists. So maybe you are being paid to discredit this blog. You’d be doing a more effective job of it than YugoStiglitz. At least he sometimes supplies an argument that can be countered. If he doesn’t and it’s just insults, he gets deleted.
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Moderation can be demanding; there are more contributors than moderators, and sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Do us a favour, Jaded. If people make comments you disagree with, counter them with evidence and rationality. That sort of argument can win people to your cause. Lowering your behaviour to the level of insults plays directly into your opponents’ hands. It also keeps the moderators twice as busy, when we might be trying to compose rational replies ourselves.
Well said, Mod. I don’t envy you.
America in Decline
Friday 5 August 2011
by: Noam Chomsky, Truthout | Op-Ed
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“It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus with unparalleled power and unmatched appeal is in decline, ominously facing the prospect of its final decay,” Giacomo Chiozza writes in the current Political Science Quarterly.
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The theme is indeed widely believed. And with some reason, though a number of qualifications are in order. To start with, the decline has proceeded since the high point of U.S. power after World War II, and the remarkable triumphalism of the post-Gulf War ’90s was mostly self-delusion.
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Mike Raddie, if the USA was willing to fight Germany and Japan in 1939-41, why didn’t it simply declare war on them? Britain and France declared a tripwire on the Polish border, telling Germany that an invasion of Poland would automatically mean war.
All this talk about how the US government did its best seems to me evasive. If the majority of US voters were unwilling to fight, then the USA was unwilling to fight.
Certainly the Americans supplied Britain with weapons (many of them obsolete like the 50 WW1 destroyers, which the USN had mothballed decades earlier) and other necessities – but every single item was paid in full, even when Britain ran clean out of cash and had to buy on credit. The price included radar, and unrestricted access to British technical knowledge of such advanced subjects as jet engines and atomic physics. Also a large number of military bases around the world, most of which are still in use by the USA today. Last but not least, Britain finished paying off the debt in (I think it was) 2003!
Seconded: well said, mod. And thanks.
Just for the record, Yugo Stiglitz said several times this morning that I had quoted Ariel Sharon incorrectly. If he checks back, he will see that I made no such comment. I have no interest in what Sharon said or didn’t say.
It seems to me that the main reason why so many people seem to be “anti-Israel” is the growing perception that the state of Israel should never have been allowed to exist. At a time when worldwide opinion was already beginning to turn against colonial rule in places like South Africa, a group of essentially European and American immigrants showed up in Palestine, took over the best land by force, kicked the inhabitants out into the desert, and killed those who resisted.
Saying that Israel should be removed from the map is like saying that a bunch of criminals who have moved into someone’s house, thrown the owners out in the street by force, killed at least one of them, and now claim they own the place, should not be allowed to stay and profit from their crime.
It’s got nothing to do with being Jewish or anything else. Unfortunately the perception of this situation has been muddied by the prejudices of ex-colonial nations like Britain and the USA, which do not want anyone to start questioning their occupation of places like Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the American West (both in Canada and the USA) accompanied by the subjugation, expulsion, and often virtual extermination of the indigenous people. What the Israelis have been doing to the Palestinians is distinctly analogous to what the Americans and Canadians did to their “Indians”, and the Australians to the aboriginal Australians.
I know moderation is tough believe me. However, my argument is nothing to do with differing points of view. It’s all about concerted efforts at attacking this blog. I see these people clearly and I am sorry if you are unable to. They are not genuine individuals posting genuine opinions, regardless of whether I agree with them or not. Moreover, I made a point of not posting on this blog for a few months at a time and just read. I also told Craig that if he didn’t want me to post at all I would not. There was no difference to the turbulence they had created.
I also hear that cointelpro try to infiltrate the moderation teams on blogs, forums, chat rooms and other social networking sites etc. which they target. I have seen this happen first hand on a couple of sites where they got outed and ousted. Be careful, as these people are very determined and devious.
I’ll just keep getting my wages by telling everyone how 7/7 and 9/11 was false flag and how the ‘War On Terror’ is a complete fantasy. That’s wages to disseminate from the people that did it and want it kept secret of course. All the mass media diversions are just a smokescreen. They are relying on Jaded to get the message out for some bizarre reason. The ‘all criminals have a secret desire to be found out’ theory? For the record, I will refarin from calling Lamby/Stupid/associates cointelpro turds and apologise for causing him any offence, despite it being fully intended. Enough deviation already i’m sure we’ll both agree.
@ John Goss,
You said:-
“We’re having WW3. It’s ruining us. The intention was to steal Middle East oil and put the puppet, Ahmed Chalabi, (a thief and liar, who stole billions from Jordan and informed us all about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction) in power in Baghdad. It’s not working out like that.”
I leave you with these quotations in reply. While simple and direct – not at all to be ignored – but the basic sense of each of these quotations will be ignored by the globe’s present crop of power brokers to the peril of us all:-
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein
And more to your point:-
The Futuristic Weapons of WW3 Are Unknown, But WW4 Will Be Fought With Stones and Spears
? ( attributed to Albert Einstein)
And
“If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows.”
– Lord Louis Mountbatten
The world is not ruled by ‘philosopher democrats’ – or sensible persons – now – is it?
Thanks for your support, folks.
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It is important to keep calm. Rising to provocative bait puts comments with no decent argument between the bait and its eventual counter-argument. Casual visitors might not read that far, especially if they don’t like watching a slanging-match.
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Good one, Jaded, thanks. Truthful argument is the best tool we have.
The political reality:-
Noam Chomsky, Truthout | Op-Ed – 5th August, 2011
“It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus with unparalleled power and unmatched appeal is in decline, ominously facing the prospect of its final decay,” Giacomo Chiozza writes in the current Political Science Quarterly.
The theme is indeed widely believed. And with some reason, though a number of qualifications are in order. To start with, the decline has proceeded since the high point of U.S. power after World War II, and the remarkable triumphalism of the post-Gulf War ’90s was mostly self-delusion.
Another common theme, at least among those who are not willfully blind, is that American decline is in no small measure self-inflicted. The comic opera in Washington this summer, which disgusts the country and bewilders the world, may have no analogue in the annals of parliamentary democracy.”
The practical option:-
“By shredding the remnants of political democracy, the financial institutions lay the basis for carrying the lethal process forward – as long as their victims are willing to suffer in silence.”
Self evident – but quoted from Noam Chomsky as an analytical mind with an intellectual touch point to reality.
I would add to your quotes, Courtenay Barnett: “Man is still a savage, but the weapons at his disposal are more sophisticated.” Carlo Cipolla.
Well said Tom Welsh. “Last but not least, Britain finished paying off the debt in (I think it was) 2003!” Exactly. I’m not sure whether the year is exact or not but I am aware the debt is paid in full. So why do we still have a US base tapping our phones, intercepting our emails, and whatever else they are up to at Menwith Hill. It’s bad enough that we’re being hacked by our own press without having the US secret services doing it too.
John Goss, it isn’t just weapons either, is it? A man builds a nuclear reactor in his kitchen. Anyone with a company name can have DNA sequences constructed to order and buy cells to culture them in from a different source. LulzSec have no problem accessing the servers of major defence contractors. Humans are going to have to learn to get along with each other, and that means we have to share things out more amicably in order to avoid resentment.
@ John Goss,
Could I quip in reply:-
“Weapons at man’s disposal are savage – if only the savagery in man could be quelled not to express humankind’s potential in such ways.”
Thinking about what I wrote above, I wonder if maybe I wouldn’t mind being monitored by the state I live in… If only I trusted my state, which of course I don’t.
I wrote: “that means we have to share things out more amicably in order to avoid resentment” – this is one reason that I wouldn’t be unhappy to see the economic decline of the US. The world hasn’t the resources to bring everyone’s standard of living up to the average in the US, and that implies that the US average has to come down.
@ Clark,
“Humans are going to have to learn to get along with each other, and that means we have to share things out more amicably in order to avoid resentment.”
Precisely the point, at the village, town, city, regional, national, international and global levels.
When will the rulers get the point?
P.S. If I can get on with Larry on this blog – surely – they is hope for humankind’s peaceful co-existence.
I said:-
” …they is hope for humankind’s peaceful co-existence.”
that should have read “there is hope…”
Making this quick correction so that Larry does not start a grammatical war with me.
Just joking.