Politics

Is the U S shirking it’s duty to democracy ? If the U S does not exercise Police action in the East, is it shirking it’s duty to Democracy? Like it or not, the Western forces, through the U N’s use of U S military might, along with it’s allies, and the World Bank, Police the world. A speedy resolve to many of the relatively small wars around the globe could be ours, if we all just told the U S to just do it’s Job and go do the will of the revolutionary forces and take over. With environmental change moving along at a brisk pace, we as peoples must impose peace more quickly in order to divert resources to life instead of death. Clearly the people of th…

http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/04/14/20110414arizona-lawmakers-approve-proof-of-citizenship-to-run-for-president.html It seems to me that if they require anything beyond what the issuing state requires, this can't pass constitutional muster. "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State." So if Hawaii is satisfied that Obama was born there (to pick a random example), Arizona can't demand more evidence. Am I missing something?

Is there a word or short way of refering to having more things public and shared, appart from Recource Based Ecconomy or Venus Project like. It seems so ineficent to me for everyone to sepratly own everything, your computer only uses a small proportion of it's capability at one time, the rest goes to waste. Stuff is hard to upgrade and maintain sepratly etc... The problem ofc being uniformity, but technoligy brings with it customizability, even if there was a city wide central processor it dosn't mean everyone using it needs to be running the same operating system. Some examples of this are the BBC's big screens, bikes for hire in London and hotels, although none of theas…

A question for the age's, Should the world be nuke free or not?

I'll make it short and sweet since there's little of the issue making "ANY" sense at all. Are we as a nation, so damned obstinate and stupid to let this happen? http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/75548.html

While I have no idea how much unemployment fraud actually occurs, it is rather easy in many states to get away with it. They just ask you where you applied and that's it. You are given a warning that lying on the form is punishable to x extent by the law. I don't know what percentage of these are actually checked. Drivers licenses have numbers and barcodes. Why not have a computerized system that's harder to defraud? Instead of asking where they applied, have their drivers license(or state ID) linked into the system such that it can be scanned upon application? Many applications already ask for the number for background check purposes. This would be easy to implement …

I have developed a system which could be used in the future. This system would see a world in which the words poverty, recession and tax dissapear forever! With futuristic technology on the horizon, I see coming soon the rise of robot workers. I have a theory that if robot workers did every job and I mean every single last job including running the companies and did it all for completely free working practically 24/7 and with these jobs manufacturing even more robots to increase their population hence increase the amount of products they create we'd eventually reach a point in which the amount of products in the world would be virtually endless. If this happened t…

Jon Kyl's staff's spin for his "well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does" statement — how does it rank on the lame scale for damage control? And why do we tolerate blatant lying from politicians? I suspect that this will not affect his popularity with his base one bit. Though I would not be bothered in the least if he is asked, in perpetuity, if his statement is meant to be factual every time he says something in public.

Some months back on this forum I was accused of being an Islamophobic. While I am not one, the following link and the continuing escalation of wars between Muslims in the middle east is evidence that Americans should be more cautious and concerned than they seem to be. Choose any religion you wish, but only the religion, not its mandates. "This is America" and laws enacted by a duly elected congress are all that is needed to protect each of us, and our liberties. http://www.youtube.com/embed/A3YQANdvvbY

Do you think FOX will actually fire Beck?

1 in 5 U.S. moms have babies with multiple dads, study says I don't think this is an April Fools joke, I just think it's stupid. The word "kids" is plural, and the define of plural is "two or more". Am I demographically/statistically/linguistically challenged, or what? Can one kid have two or more birth fathers and, if so, is it really this common?

What worries me is that from this side of the ocean (Europe) I don't particularly care whether the USA gets a democrat or a republican. The most important thing to me as an outsider is that the most powerful country with the largest economy has fair elections. A democracy should have an electorate that is well-informed, and the elections should be based on facts. Instead, American elections are a very emotional affair where very minor issues can play a huge role. And slander is the preferred and tested method to gain votes. If you base your campaign on slander, rather than facts, then democracy is dead. How can the American democracy be cured from the worthl…

In a number of countries, some sections of the society are backward, both socially and economically. The government of such countries, for ex. India, has granted reservation of certain percentage in the governmental services. This percentage is 27% for India. This means that people who belong to reserved class will get 27 seats out of every 100 in department, if they apply for the respective jobs. The advantage of this system is that people who are socially and economically poor can get benefit and raise themselves as active citizens. The disadvantage is that those who have better qualities and belongs to general or unreserved section of society get no job and those wh…

What would happen if either a few hours before voting began in a U.S. Presidential election or shortly into the voting the candidates for President and Vice-President of a major political party were assassinated? No doubt the response of the country would be absolute chaos, since some votes would be cast by people who did not yet know the candidates were dead; other people would change their votes in unpredictable ways because they did not know how properly to vote in such a situation; and still others might stay at home and not vote, thinking the election could not be held. The electoral result obtained would no doubt be absurd, since it would be more a reflection of p…

In this video from MARCH 25, 2011, Hannity repeatedly claims that the birth certificate has never been shown. And here I thought this was settled years ago. Sure enough, it was settled way back in 2008. You can even see the official scanned copy here: So, why do people keep claiming that the birth certificate has never been shown? Why do so many people actually believe it and/or that he was born in another country? In an age where fact checks are so easy, it's amazing to me that this absurdity isn't immediately exposed and those purporting it ridiculed.

This topic is a little awkward, imo, because it implies legitimacy in ethnic segregation; but since globalism has been for centuries evolving as national-statism and seems to continue in that direction, I am curious what people think of this. Should each ethnic identity be associated with a corresponding region or should regional governance be neutralized of all ethnocentrism - or something in between? How should ethnicity be regulated in politics/governance?

What were their motives? And has it made this world a better place?

My general impression is that democratic civil discourse is most anti-critical during a popular regime. In fact, this may even form the basis for authoritarianism since people are most afraid to dissent when what they are dissenting from is overwhelmingly popular. An extreme example would be the difference between the way Hitler was "heiled" during the height of Nazism compared with how he is regarded since. A less extreme example might be the way dissent was repressed and feared shortly after 9/11 compared with the popularity of criticizing Bush as a bad president since. This begs the question of whether unpopular leaders should in fact be replaced with more popularl…

Title and the poll says it all - I would like anyone to argument his answer to the poll.

So Obama now has his own war for oil. Let' not pretend this is a great humanitarian effort. There are plenty of countries with leaders who treat their citizens worse than Gadhafi. You don't see us bombing Yemen, or the Ivory Coast. No oil you can treat you citizen however you like. Sure, Obama has France, the UK and other European countries on board. They need that Libyan oil more than we do. Heck, that's why they didn't think they needed Iraq. They had Libya. Europe and the UK even forgave Libya for Lockerbie for that sweet Libyan oil. Obama even signed a deal to sell Gadhafi arms to keep the oil flowing. Oh, the irony is so sweet.

why is the iranian president so weird? also iz it true that zionists control our media? I keep finding a lot of conspiracy theories (e.g. them being the causes for the US war in Iraq) on youtube involving the jewish people and i am wondering whether these have any credibility. thanks.

Looking at the piles of rubble and debris from the tsunami leads me to wonder what I would do with it all. Since it's pretty cold there now, I thought about burning it for heat but then I wondered how much is wood/combustible and how dry it would be by now. What do you think? Is harvesting the debris as fuel a viable means to combine clean-up efforts with energy-needs, or are there reasons this would be impractical?

Maybe my analysis is incorrect, but it seems like Ghadaffi is primarily hated because his regime controls oil wealth without widely distributing it to create a comfortable middle class to support him as a "benevolent provider for the 'national family.'" As the UN and various other regimes coordinate their support in favor of popular appropriation of the oil-wealth, it makes me wonder if this is the beginning of something more widespread globally. Are we about to see a new world order emerge in which the popular will to consume oil-wealth at a level that satisfies majoritarian consumerism completely eclipses the will to conserve (oil) wealth by restricting prosperity to …

What does the anti-Gaddafi discourse suggest about new directions in global governance? Imo, the message being sent out is that wealthy elites will not be allowed to govern their wealth if they do not use it to appease fellow national citizens. What Gaddafi's main "crime" seems to be is that he controls oil-wealth and struggles against popular attempts to wrest governance of that wealth away from private control. Presumably, once his subjugation is complete, his wealth will be taken from him and redistributed for popular interests. So this seems to be yet the latest show of power that governments will take control over private wealth as popular-will determines fi…

What do you guys think? Apparently the state owned banks in ND give loans to local businesses at a reasonable rate and funnel the interest into the state as revenue instead of into the pockets of a CEO as profit. Should more states do this?