Posted on 01/06/2013 8:44:39 PM PST by neverdem
Edited on 01/06/2013 9:17:57 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The leading power of the age is in relative decline, beset by political crisis at home and by steadily eroding economic prowess. Rising powers are jostling for position in the four corners of the world, some seeking a new place for themselves within the current global order, others questioning its very legitimacy. Democracy and despotism are locked in uneasy competition. A world economy is interconnected as never before by flows of money, trade, and people, and by the unprecedented spread of new, distance-destroying technologies. A global society, perhaps even a global moral consciousness, is emerging as a result. Small-town America rails at the excessive power of Wall Street. Asia is rising once again. And, yes, there's trouble in the Middle East.
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Very interesting read.
Well, that would certainly bring about a goodly portion of the global population reduction for which the Left is pining.
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Considering the economic depression we are in I would not be surprised to see a world war follow thereafter again.
I totally agree. Totalitarian regimes enter massive wars, internal, or external. It’s coming soon, or maybe already here.
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So we know that the world of 1913 was much more intelligent then the world of 2013. Just try telling a scientist in 1913 that CO2 was a pollutant. They would have thought you were a clown. The big problem our species faces this time is that we are living in the nuclear age. And nuclear weapons and reactors have proliferated enough so that any new global war means game over in the long run. And in this situation, what do our modern clowns worry about ? Climate change.
I have predicted this for a time. War is coming—world war that will change everything. It will be fought in cyberspace as well as outer space. It will be total war. We better be ready! We could lose this one.
For justa-hairyape — maybe global warming, the current climatological fear of liberals, will counteract nuclear winter, the previous climatological fear of liberals? /sarc
We don't have any way to objectively test either theory in advance, but I think it's pretty obvious that solar disruptions cause more problems in our atmosphere than CO2 emissions, and as bad as a nuclear war would be, I have major doubts about whether nuclear weaponry is capable of destroying the planet. Realistically, the only nuclear war we're likely to fight in the near future would be if a terrorist group got a nuclear bomb, and turning North Korea, Afghanistan or Pakistan into a sheet of glass isn't going to affect world climate.
China is a whole different ball game. I would not want to fight a major war against a nation that considers population reductions to be a positive outcome, and has a billion people with many “extras” with which to repopulate vacant spaces.
Turning the Chinese into profitmaking capitalists makes a whole lot more sense than fighting a war with them. It worked with the Japanese after World War II in converting their Bushido warrior code into aggressive free enterprise, and it might just work with China.
If it doesn't, we have a major problem on the eastern horizon.
The Chinese are actually facing the prospect of underpopulation, and it is probably the greatest danger to their future plans or even power. Their one-child policy not only wiped out huge numbers of children who would be alive now, but resulted in such a bias towards male children that there simply aren’t enough mothers to go around to produce future generations. The country is expected to feel the effects of this in the not very distant future, perhaps by 2030 or so, and will suffer from a shortage of both markets (consumers) and labor. Capitalism requires population, a fact that our theorists for the last 50 years seem to have been unable to master.
It is possible, I suppose, that the Chinese will become aggressive in seeking women, and in any case, a major gender imbalance where there are more men than women is frequently a pre-condition for war.
Hence every occurrence of the number thirteen and likewise of every multiple of it stamps that with which it stands in connection with rebellion, apostasy, defection, corruption, disintegration, revolution or some kindred idea.
The second usage of 13 was in connection to Ishmael in Genesis 17:25. Abraham circumcised him at the age of 13 admitting him into the covenant to which he was a stranger in heart and which ended in his rebellion and rejection.
When we get the the Gematria numbers in names, all descendants of Adam and Seth are divisible by 8 (Hebrew letters) and in the line of descendants of Adam/Cain are all divisible by 13. We also have the 113th congress and astronomically a amazing phenomenon has put the earths/sun solar system beginning 12-21-2012 into its 13th orbit around Sirius since the dawn of time.
In the case of the Japanese, would that change in thinking have occurred had not nearly their entire country been burned to the ground?
The chances actually favor the US losing the next world war. Our technology has fallen way behind in quite a few areas. We have the military of the 1990's, while the Russians and Chinese are building the military of the 2010's. Very simple explanation why. The US is broke and cannot devote proper resources to military development. Crony climate change and crony peace dividends are much more important to these clowns.
Don't worry about Japan. It will no longer exist in 50 years. Consider it the new Atlantis. Could go into an explanation why the continuing radiation releases from Fukushima are overwhelming the Island, but that would take too much typing. Just realize that radiation contamination levels in water and soil have been increasing on the island the past year. Everywhere. It cannot be stopped. We do not have the technology to stop the releases. We do not have the technology to adequately clean up the contamination. The Japanese nation just experienced its greatest annual population loss ever. The Chinese will annihilate what remains of Atlantis in a few years.
So now magnify Fukushima by 50 to 100 and you will see what is going to kill most of the planet off. No way to stop that freight train now. We are being led by crony criminal psychopaths.
I think it is more like 1937, after FDR won reelection. He had an economy in depression, failed socialist policies, just like Obama. Four year later we were at war.
And didn't FDR continue to *blame* his predecessor for all of his own failures? Does sound very familiar.
The Fourth Turning.
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