Reposted from George Joseph Caldwell's Website, http://www.foundation.bw
It has been observed that, in the period of peace following a major war, a country’s military often spend their efforts preparing to fight a war similar to the last one. Military technology changes over time, however, and this approach often fails to produce the best results.
At the present time, the US is engaged on a “War against Terrorism.” In that war, much of the country’s military resources are being allocated to fighting a traditional war in Iraq. A major problem with this approach – and this has been recognized by the American military – is that the game is very “asymmetrical” – it is easy for terrorists to cause us a great deal of harm with very little resources, and it is necessary for us to expend massive amounts of resources to attempt to stop them.
The US brought about the defeat of the Soviet Union because we outspent them. They could not possibly keep up with the industrial and technological capacity of the US, and they eventually capitulated. This same strategy is now being used against the US by the forces of terrorism.
America’s “War on Terrorism” is not accomplishing very much, and it is costing a tremendous amount of money. At some point, the US will recognize that it cannot win this type of war simply by using the tools of large-scale national-level combat. It is time to develop a better strategy. It is time to recognize that terrorism has been spawned by the same system that it is attacking. It will end when that system is replaced.
The Game of Life on Earth: Michael Newton’s Journey of Souls:
http://www.foundation.bw/Miscellany2.htm#_Toc73132223
All the best
Roger
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EXACTLY!!! WE'RE FIGHTING THIS WITH A COLD WAR MENTALITY, THAT OF NATIONS WITH ARMIES ARRAYED AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. THIS OBVIOUSLY ISN'T THE CASE ANYMORE. IF IT WERE WE WOULD HAVE TO INVADE 60 OTHER COUNTRIES. THANKS SHRUB FOR THINKING THIS THROUGH!! GOOD POST 
QUOTE(menden @ Nov 15 2004, 03:30 PM)
EXACTLY!!! WE'RE FIGHTING THIS WITH A COLD WAR MENTALITY, THAT OF NATIONS WITH ARMIES ARRAYED AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. THIS OBVIOUSLY ISN'T THE CASE ANYMORE. IF IT WERE WE WOULD HAVE TO INVADE 60 OTHER COUNTRIES. THANKS SHRUB FOR THINKING THIS THROUGH!! GOOD POST
My dear friend
there is some more interesting thoughts to make.
Preserving Biodiversity: The Only Game in Town
(20 May 2004) It is a shocking commentary on the human species – supposedly intelligent – that it is in the process of destroying the very biosphere on which is it totally dependent for its existence. Fermenting yeast in a vat of beer do a similar thing – reproduce to the limit, until they suffocate in their own waste. Humankind is in the midst of the planet’s sixth mass species extinction. Large human numbers and industrial activity are the direct cause of the extinction of 30,000 – 150,000 species every year, out of the total of just a few million on the planet. The normal rate of extinction, prior to the modern era, was a few species per century.
Incredibly, not a single world leader is calling for a reduction in industrial activity. All national leaders and world organizations, such as the World Bank and the United Nations, are calling for even more industrial activity. The US was willing to go to war in Iraq over oil, which will all be gone (planet-wide) by 2050, but it did not even consider going to war against Brazil, which causes the destruction of about 10,000 square miles of Amazon rain forest, and the extinction of thousands of species, every year.
It is amazing to listen to the candidates in the US presidential race, and to hear what they are discussing, while the biosphere dies. None of the issues that they are discussing will matter a whit if the biosphere is destroyed, or if the human species becomes extinct. After each statement that a candidate makes, ask yourself, “Yes, but how does that affect the species extinction?” Or, “Yes, but how does that affect global warming.” Or, “Yes, but will this matter after six billion people die when global oil reserves exhaust?” You will soon find out that what they are discussing is, in the face of our imminent demise, totally irrelevant.
Saving the planet is the only thing that matters. If the biosphere is destroyed, all of the issues about unemployment, poverty, race or sex discrimination, abortion and terrorism will be irrelevant. Preserving biodiversity is the only game in town.
All the best
Roger
QUOTE(Solve et Coagula @ Nov 15 2004, 03:56 PM)
My dear friend
there is some more interesting thoughts to make.
Preserving Biodiversity: The Only Game in Town
(20 May 2004) It is a shocking commentary on the human species – supposedly intelligent – that it is in the process of destroying the very biosphere on which is it totally dependent for its existence. Fermenting yeast in a vat of beer do a similar thing – reproduce to the limit, until they suffocate in their own waste. Humankind is in the midst of the planet’s sixth mass species extinction. Large human numbers and industrial activity are the direct cause of the extinction of 30,000 – 150,000 species every year, out of the total of just a few million on the planet. The normal rate of extinction, prior to the modern era, was a few species per century.
Incredibly, not a single world leader is calling for a reduction in industrial activity. All national leaders and world organizations, such as the World Bank and the United Nations, are calling for even more industrial activity. The US was willing to go to war in Iraq over oil, which will all be gone (planet-wide) by 2050, but it did not even consider going to war against Brazil, which causes the destruction of about 10,000 square miles of Amazon rain forest, and the extinction of thousands of species, every year.
It is amazing to listen to the candidates in the US presidential race, and to hear what they are discussing, while the biosphere dies. None of the issues that they are discussing will matter a whit if the biosphere is destroyed, or if the human species becomes extinct. After each statement that a candidate makes, ask yourself, “Yes, but how does that affect the species extinction?” Or, “Yes, but how does that affect global warming.” Or, “Yes, but will this matter after six billion people die when global oil reserves exhaust?” You will soon find out that what they are discussing is, in the face of our imminent demise, totally irrelevant.
Saving the planet is the only thing that matters. If the biosphere is destroyed, all of the issues about unemployment, poverty, race or sex discrimination, abortion and terrorism will be irrelevant. Preserving biodiversity is the only game in town.
All the best
Roger
there is some more interesting thoughts to make.
Preserving Biodiversity: The Only Game in Town
(20 May 2004) It is a shocking commentary on the human species – supposedly intelligent – that it is in the process of destroying the very biosphere on which is it totally dependent for its existence. Fermenting yeast in a vat of beer do a similar thing – reproduce to the limit, until they suffocate in their own waste. Humankind is in the midst of the planet’s sixth mass species extinction. Large human numbers and industrial activity are the direct cause of the extinction of 30,000 – 150,000 species every year, out of the total of just a few million on the planet. The normal rate of extinction, prior to the modern era, was a few species per century.
Incredibly, not a single world leader is calling for a reduction in industrial activity. All national leaders and world organizations, such as the World Bank and the United Nations, are calling for even more industrial activity. The US was willing to go to war in Iraq over oil, which will all be gone (planet-wide) by 2050, but it did not even consider going to war against Brazil, which causes the destruction of about 10,000 square miles of Amazon rain forest, and the extinction of thousands of species, every year.
It is amazing to listen to the candidates in the US presidential race, and to hear what they are discussing, while the biosphere dies. None of the issues that they are discussing will matter a whit if the biosphere is destroyed, or if the human species becomes extinct. After each statement that a candidate makes, ask yourself, “Yes, but how does that affect the species extinction?” Or, “Yes, but how does that affect global warming.” Or, “Yes, but will this matter after six billion people die when global oil reserves exhaust?” You will soon find out that what they are discussing is, in the face of our imminent demise, totally irrelevant.
Saving the planet is the only thing that matters. If the biosphere is destroyed, all of the issues about unemployment, poverty, race or sex discrimination, abortion and terrorism will be irrelevant. Preserving biodiversity is the only game in town.
All the best
Roger
YOUR RIGHT! BUT THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN!!! IT'S ALL ABOUT $$$
"Saving the planet is the only thing that matters. If the biosphere is destroyed, all of the issues about unemployment, poverty, race or sex discrimination, abortion and terrorism will be irrelevant. Preserving biodiversity is the only game in town."
Absolutely! The planet is setting off alarms worldwide, but the politicians are too deaf to hear them. And all Bush listens to are the pet scientists of industry, while ignoring the mountains of good science supporting the fact that we are fouling our nest irrevocably.
I think it may be too late to stop it, and the planet will shake off our "civilization" like a bad case of dandruff. Enjoy it while you can.
Absolutely! The planet is setting off alarms worldwide, but the politicians are too deaf to hear them. And all Bush listens to are the pet scientists of industry, while ignoring the mountains of good science supporting the fact that we are fouling our nest irrevocably.
I think it may be too late to stop it, and the planet will shake off our "civilization" like a bad case of dandruff. Enjoy it while you can.
Reposted letter from Maiyaa Bhadra.
Mother Earth Speaks: To the Political, Business and Military Leaders of the World
I received this letter in a dream last night. I heard our Mother Earth crying out and I asked her to tell me what she needed. This was her reply: ~Maiyaa Bhadra
Tell the world that I am tired and in pain and have not time to restore myself. That is the reason you are seeing such severe weather patterns, earthquakes and the volcanoes are awakening.
You do not realize what you are doing to me. Each time you drill into my crust, each time you do a underground test, each bomb you drop onto my surface in your warring, each sonic boom, sends vibrations that go all throughout my body like a shockwave. It shatters my crystalline structure and causes damage to my techtonic plates. For you to understand what this feels like for me, imagine someone punching you in the teeth repeatedly and despite your screams for mercy and your howls of anguish they will not stop.
Because there is so much of this going on at all times I have no time to recover, to regain my balance and to heal myself. I am asking you to be as kind to me as you would be to a human relative whom you love that is ill and give me the time and space to heal myself.
I am asking for one full solar day, 24 of your hours. That is all I am asking for. Just one small day.
I am asking you for one day to cease all drilling of any kind, all underground testing, all mining and blasting, all bombing and explosions of any kind.
I know you need my resources to live. If I have time to restore myself I can continue to produce those resources. Please do not deplete what little I have left. You are draining the life out of me. I cry and you do not hear my pleas. Please hear me. Please take me seriously. Please show me the same compassion and respect you would show your own mother, for I am your Mother. I sustain your life as you know it. I birthed you. You sprang from my soil and you go to my soil when you die. I am not inanimate. I am alive and growing as your scientists can tell you. I am a sentient being. I am the sentient being you depend on for your life to continue.
I know that this request will send people(especially the oil and mining interests and the warring parties) into a panic and they will think that they cannot comply with this request because it would bring economies to a standstill and they would be afraid their enemies would take unfair advantage and they would lose something they value. I ask you to consider, would you rather that, for one day, or would you rather continuing to have such severe catastrophes? Would you rather I run out of resources and everything die here on my body? That is the risk you run though you do not wish to accept it.
Go, take a holiday, play with your children, love your beloveds. Sit on my green grass and look at my trees and rejoice and celebrate your life. Dance and sing and play music. Eat and drink and be merry. Come together to enjoy one full day of peace and a rest. It will all be here for you when you come back to it. I'm not going anywhere.
I have given you my bounty for thousands of years. This one day is all I ask in return. I ask for one day a year to rest, to recover, to restore myself. You can have the other 364 days. Please, all of you get together and agree on a day once a year and honor your committment and keep it as the most sacred day to you. My body is as sacred as is yours. Please remember that. In that day put all your anger, hatred, malice, defensiveness and greed aside. To those who commit crimes against other human beings I would ask you too, to take this one day a year off. I am asking the world of human beings for one day a year to do no harm to any living being. It will be a good rest for you all as well as for me. Make this day, instead a day of kindness and joy.
I have asked this ordinary woman to deliver this message to you. She has no stake or political influence, no agenda. She is just a common woman. Please heed her words. I have spoken to her because she was willing to listen and to carry my words.
I love you my children.
Mother Earth
This message was channeled by Maiyaa Bhadra on October 10, 2004. Please distribute this message widely, especially to world leaders, to the owners of oil and mining companies and to military leaders throughout the world.
©Maiyaa Bhadra 2004. All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to reprint and distribute this message as long as it is not altered or edited in any way.
Mother Earth Speaks: To the Political, Business and Military Leaders of the World
I received this letter in a dream last night. I heard our Mother Earth crying out and I asked her to tell me what she needed. This was her reply: ~Maiyaa Bhadra
Tell the world that I am tired and in pain and have not time to restore myself. That is the reason you are seeing such severe weather patterns, earthquakes and the volcanoes are awakening.
You do not realize what you are doing to me. Each time you drill into my crust, each time you do a underground test, each bomb you drop onto my surface in your warring, each sonic boom, sends vibrations that go all throughout my body like a shockwave. It shatters my crystalline structure and causes damage to my techtonic plates. For you to understand what this feels like for me, imagine someone punching you in the teeth repeatedly and despite your screams for mercy and your howls of anguish they will not stop.
Because there is so much of this going on at all times I have no time to recover, to regain my balance and to heal myself. I am asking you to be as kind to me as you would be to a human relative whom you love that is ill and give me the time and space to heal myself.
I am asking for one full solar day, 24 of your hours. That is all I am asking for. Just one small day.
I am asking you for one day to cease all drilling of any kind, all underground testing, all mining and blasting, all bombing and explosions of any kind.
I know you need my resources to live. If I have time to restore myself I can continue to produce those resources. Please do not deplete what little I have left. You are draining the life out of me. I cry and you do not hear my pleas. Please hear me. Please take me seriously. Please show me the same compassion and respect you would show your own mother, for I am your Mother. I sustain your life as you know it. I birthed you. You sprang from my soil and you go to my soil when you die. I am not inanimate. I am alive and growing as your scientists can tell you. I am a sentient being. I am the sentient being you depend on for your life to continue.
I know that this request will send people(especially the oil and mining interests and the warring parties) into a panic and they will think that they cannot comply with this request because it would bring economies to a standstill and they would be afraid their enemies would take unfair advantage and they would lose something they value. I ask you to consider, would you rather that, for one day, or would you rather continuing to have such severe catastrophes? Would you rather I run out of resources and everything die here on my body? That is the risk you run though you do not wish to accept it.
Go, take a holiday, play with your children, love your beloveds. Sit on my green grass and look at my trees and rejoice and celebrate your life. Dance and sing and play music. Eat and drink and be merry. Come together to enjoy one full day of peace and a rest. It will all be here for you when you come back to it. I'm not going anywhere.
I have given you my bounty for thousands of years. This one day is all I ask in return. I ask for one day a year to rest, to recover, to restore myself. You can have the other 364 days. Please, all of you get together and agree on a day once a year and honor your committment and keep it as the most sacred day to you. My body is as sacred as is yours. Please remember that. In that day put all your anger, hatred, malice, defensiveness and greed aside. To those who commit crimes against other human beings I would ask you too, to take this one day a year off. I am asking the world of human beings for one day a year to do no harm to any living being. It will be a good rest for you all as well as for me. Make this day, instead a day of kindness and joy.
I have asked this ordinary woman to deliver this message to you. She has no stake or political influence, no agenda. She is just a common woman. Please heed her words. I have spoken to her because she was willing to listen and to carry my words.
I love you my children.
Mother Earth
This message was channeled by Maiyaa Bhadra on October 10, 2004. Please distribute this message widely, especially to world leaders, to the owners of oil and mining companies and to military leaders throughout the world.
©Maiyaa Bhadra 2004. All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to reprint and distribute this message as long as it is not altered or edited in any way.
The End of the World, and the New World Order by Joseph George Caldwell, PhD:
http://www.foundation.bw/TheEndOfTheWorld.htm
http://www.foundation.bw/TheEndOfTheWorld.htm
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