The decline and eventual fall of the USA as world superpower?

[Thunder_Gooch]

This is not going to end well.

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

if it ends at all. people are too stupid to revolt.

[Thunder_Gooch]

if it ends at all. people are too stupid to revolt.

It's going to end with almost everyone you've ever met dead.

 

The elite realize there aren't enough resources to continue supporting 7 billion or more people.

 

So they are gearing up for the next world war to slaughter the majority of earth's population.

 

That's exactly where this is all going.

 

History books will offer various explanations for the war, intentional genocide probably won't be listed there.

Edited August 20, 2013 by More_Pie_Guy

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

repeating history is NOT the answer.

Pardon my french, but you are a fucktard if you think giving up on change is the answer, or "history said we failed before, so we will fail again" that's fucktard caliber thinking.


I know you aint stupid.


But you seem to suggest we should bend over, stick our heads between our legs, and kiss our asses goodbye...

I think i'd rather futilely fight for freedom from this cycle than lay down and accept it as fate.


kindly quit contributing to repeating the cycle. please.

[Thunder_Gooch]

Don't shoot the messenger.

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

why not? we're all fucked. if it makes a difference, i wont shoot the bearer of bad news. but if it makes no difference, and we're all fucked anyway? Let me vent while im alive. We're all fucked, so why should i care if my venting hurts you?


OR we could put our heads together...


Please?

[Thunder_Gooch]

Well as far as I can see, the reason things are the way they are is because we have a populace of mouth breathing sheep who only care about honey boo boo and America's next top model.

 

You try to wake someone up and they will literally plug their ears because they don't want to think about things that are scary, or unsettling.

 

That's reality as it is, most people are like that.

 

If you figure out how to wake up a country filled with 95% sheep let me know, otherwise do your best to find a way out.

[Thunder_Gooch]

[Thunder_Gooch]

[Thunder_Gooch]

http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/nowhere-to-run-nowhere-to-hide/

[Thunder_Gooch]

why not? we're all fucked. if it makes a difference, i wont shoot the bearer of bad news. but if it makes no difference, and we're all fucked anyway? Let me vent while im alive. We're all fucked, so why should i care if my venting hurts you?

 

 

OR we could put our heads together...

 

 

Please?

 

We are all ****ed anyway... anyway. Death is coming for every single one of us, yet we do our ****edest to push this out of our minds...

 

maybe it will be ok...

 

maybe I will go to heaven...

 

maybe..

 

Even if we didn't have the threat of global instability and world war and literal megadeath knocking on our door, we are all still going to die.

 

That's the kicker my friend.

 

Most people play a game to keep themselves from thinking about this truth at all costs, it's called entertainment. It's the modern narcotic of choice these days.

 

We distract ourselves from this morbid reality at all costs, because it's just too much for our weak psyches to grip a hold of.

 

Everyone rags on me for my obsession with ending rebirth, but more than anything I want to stop this madness of decay, death, and rebirth.. in an endless cycle.

Edited August 20, 2013 by More_Pie_Guy

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

worth ending; good luck.

Guess im jsut too short sighted to know weather or not i am trapped in that particular cycle or not... the prospect is rather threatening.

I've never distracted myself from death - fascinated - but from powerlessness. I've played videogames to maintain ignorance over my powerlessness over my own life. cuz it's either take control of a game, or take control of my life.

And too many lives interfere with maintaining security over my own life - they'd have to be removed. but noooo, that's "wrong".

[Thunder_Gooch]

 

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

[Thunder_Gooch]

http://www.amazon.com/The-Race-Whats-Left-Resources/dp/1250023971

[zerostao]

We’re witnessing one of the most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen ... and we’ve seen a lot.

British intelligence officials recently stormed the London headquarters of the Guardian, the newspaper that broke the story about the NSA surveillance programs, and oversaw the destruction of journalists’ computers and hard drives.

And on Sunday, David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, was detained for nine hours at London's Heathrow Airport, where authorities confiscated his laptop and cellphone — and forced him to reveal their passwords.

These are not just overly aggressive police actions. They’re political moves designed to bully journalists and silence dissent.

And the same thing is happening here in the U.S., where the Justice Department seized the phone records of Associated Press journalists — and is threatening to send a New York Times reporter to jail if he doesn’t disclose the source of a leak.

This must end now.

 

remember that traditionally during times of war there can be no dissent becoz everyone is rallying around their flags.

 

We’re already seeing how these government scare tactics are chilling free speech.

And it’s not just journalists who are feeling the heat. In the U.S., several email providers have closed their doors rather than comply with government requests for user data. A decade-old tech blog did the same to protect its contributors’ privacy.

We can’t let this self-censorship continue.

 

Today, the NSA is watching what we say.

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

we must break the cycle.


I forget how that little girl put it in that election movie with, i do believe, billy bob thorton...


struggle, revolt, contentedness, corruption, repeat.


Stop perpetuating the cycle. Stop participating in politics, policing, and central banking/federal reserve notes. Stop preserving your own life in the face of crime: take pride in living, take pride in dying; defend yourself or die trying!

Might makes right, and that is how "they" operate, and until WE THE PEOPLE OVERPOWER "them", the cycle will only ever be perpetuated.


IF we overcome them YET AGAIN we MUST NOT REESTABLISH THE SYSTEM!!!

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

P.S. Dear NSA,
Please suffer tremendous pain of death, simultaneously, and stop existing forevermore.


Yours truly, with love,
Jhoannah Danae Tendo.

[zerostao]

http://www.amazon.com/The-Race-Whats-Left-Resources/dp/1250023971

 

 

in the last 30 years, the world has consumed 30% of all the available useful resourses, this is not sustainable. how long can this continue?

[Thunder_Gooch]

 

in the last 30 years, the world has consumed 30% of all the available useful resourses, this is not sustainable. how long can this continue?

About to hit the wall pretty soon, the problem is with infinite energy, machine intelligence and recycling, incineration of human waste to reuse base minerals for fertilizer, we wouldn't run out.

 

With thorium we have thousands of years of fuel with proven reserves, and this estimate includes making synthetic liquid fuels from ocean water and CO2.

 

 

The resources we cling to we are short of, but there are much better alternatives if we would embrace them.

[idiot_stimpy]

Once we get free energy we won't have to work for a living anymore.

[Thunder_Gooch]

Well thorium isn't free energy, but it is nearly unlimited as the sun will engulf the earth before we run out of it.

 

We will always need intelligence to direct this energy to transform raw matter into different patters, to shape it into goods and provide services.

 

In that sense we will all still work, just probably not as much.

[voidisyinyang]

Military keeps playing with big toys

With Mother's Day as its focus, this past week has been an ode to anti-militarism in the Midwest. I have been quoted in The Minnesota Daily as one of three University students to conduct civil disobedience

By

May 14, 1998

With Mother's Day as its focus, this past week has been an ode to anti-militarism in the Midwest. I have been quoted in The Minnesota Daily as one of three University students to conduct civil disobedience at Alliant-Tech, a Hopkins-based conglomerate peddling $1.3 billion per year in tax-funded killing machines.

On Mother's Day, I also joined 50 other people in an annual demonstration at Project Extremely Low Frequence (ELF). ELF is the Northern Wisconsin-based electromagnetic "first strike" trigger system for one half of the U.S. nuclear weapons force. As a result of this demonstration, I have been charged with trespassing, which carries a five-year suspension of my driver's license as its penalty.

Here in the United States and specifically the Twin Cities, we are in "the belly of the beast," and nonviolent direct action is the only means of confronting the corporate-military's escalating addiction to world annihilation. Fellow students must recognize that the University and other centers of higher learning play critical roles in promoting war-mongering. For example, only a handful of contractors receive more military research funds than the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and John Hopkins University.

Why does the University research how to better disseminate chemical weapons at high-mach, high altitudes? New techniques for missile design analysis, stronger tank and weapon materials and the development of an aggressive tailless fighter jet are just a few of the other underground "higher education" projects at the University. In fact, with the University receiving $17 million in Department of Defense funds for 1997 (up from $11 million in 1993), it seems that the post-Cold War peace dividends are delayed at best.

The research contracts on campus reveal that nano-technology, or "the mechanizing of the molecular level," is a dominant interest at the University. Computers are taking on a crucial role in designing a brave new world of fabricated nano-structures that will display two-way memory effects in nano-magnetic devices.

The broad military implications start with machine-to-machine air traffic control and end with cellular automata used for self-propagating molecular robotics, brain implants and other man-machine surveillance devices. The grand achievement exposed on campus is geared towards a "NATO neural network" emphasizing how the University is contributing to the most bloated and destructive system in the world.

The federal Office of Management and Budget states that the military is only 17 percent of the national budget, but several factors are obfuscated by this misleading figure. The correct percentage hovers around 50 percent.
During the Vietnam War, when the government created the so-called "Unified Budget," which includes unallocatable trust funds -- social security is not part of the dispensable congressional budget -- the military percentage instantly shrank. Retired generals and admirals at the Center for Defense Information also point out that military spending was hidden in non-military portions of the budget. For instance, here at the University further military research is most likely being funded by NASA, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

Very significantly, the 17 percent federal figure does not include past military spending costs, i.e. the cost of veterans benefits and the 80 percent of the interest on the national debt that is from military spending -- thank you, Ronald Reagan.
Since the combined military budgets of Iraq, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Russia and China are still less than half of the United State's official 17 percent figure, obviously "defense" is not our defining military role. Among the world's recent major conflicts, 90 percent involved one or more parties receiving U.S. weapons or military technology prior to the outbreak of war.

Recently, the U.S. share of world arms exports has increased by 50 percent and the United States now supplies more than 60 percent of the world's military weapons, with half of the cost funded by U.S. taxpayers. The government has consistently ignored recommendations by the Congressional Budget Office that suggested cutting the incompetent B-2 stealth bomber, the F-22 jet, the Trident II D-5 nuclear missile and Star Wars.

President Clinton just last fall ended a 20-year ban on advanced weapons sales to Latin America. Now Lockhead-Martin, which has operations in the Twin Cities, can sell F-16s to be used against democracy movements in our hemisphere. Recent military scandals include training death squads for use against grass roots democracy in Indonesia, Columbia and Mexico coupled with the approval of bio-weapon testing within U.S. cities.

The addition of 13 more countries to NATO promises the further exportation of military jobs along with corporate welfare costs estimated at $250 billion. Even though the Twin Cities receives hundred of millions of dollars per year in military projects -- 500 pages list just 1993 contracts -- downsizing, increased profits and further environmental superfund sites are definitive of military spending. Ironically, federal corporate arms export subsidies equal the total amount of subsidies cut from federal social service programs.

These unabashed acts of greedy, bloody U.S. militarism are not surprising considering that in 1994 Congress passed a law enabling the Department of Defense, or any of its contractors, to test biological weapons in any U.S. city, provided that they give a city official 30 days notice.

Currently, the Pentagon, at the behest of the military industry, is requesting a waiver of the anti-personnel land mine moratorium, even though 124 nations have already signed the international mine ban treaty. Furthermore, the United States, like India, is hypocritically in the process of conducting six underground nuclear tests, in direct violation of the International Test Ban Treaty.

Direct global democracy inspires hope, though, as the protests of French nuclear testing proved, as well as Alliant Tech land mine production and Project ELF recently being judged illegal by international law. Students at the University, which has $110,000 invested with Alliant Tech, have a duty to rise up and take action against our rogue state. Under the 1996 Solomon Amendment, if military recruitment is cancelled on campus, all federal funding for the University would be stopped. Just as the United States-funded military regime of Indonesia is now shut down by students, we here need to take similar measures. Conversion to an efficient, productive and sustainable society is the clear choice in the face of our behemoth killer monster.
Students should demand an end to the profit-driven U.S. war machine. Only by converting the military will a sustainable society be achieved.

 

Drew Hempel is a University College graduate student pursuing a Master of Liberal Studies.

 

http://www.mndaily.com/1998/05/14/military-keeps-playing-big-toys

[SonOfTheGods]

It won't be long now, 20 years tops. Most likely it will end in world conflict and we'll get our *** handed to us.

 

You should really look into the John Titor story.

I know John Titor..

[Thunder_Gooch]

[ralis]

This country has warped priorities given the overly paid hacks on this list. Glenn Beck and Limbaugh are hate monger propagandist's.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/23/highest-grossing-celebrities-2013_n_3803817.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular