What will History Say About Today's America? »
Posted By populist 6 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsRise of the Weak: When faced with cave-dwelling terrorists, we've become shrieking cowards who are willing to trade our Constitution, our freedoms & our souls in exchange for a Nanny State Fatherland.
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UnusualSuspect6 months, 2 weeks ago
The people of this country have the power to take back the control of our government, and we should do it before it totally takes over us.
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rightfromwrong6 months, 2 weeks ago
the Chinese own a big part of the USA now.It is too sad that we have given up many of our liberties for a concocted security especially since the physical evidence points to the attacks of 9/11 being an inside job or at very least the Administration was complicit in the events.
After all it was only about "oil" and greed
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ghengisghan6 months, 2 weeks ago
The tinfoil hat you got from Jiffy isnt working...Another truffer huh?
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getreal16 months, 2 weeks ago
Poppy, I don't know if it will do any good for any American to read this. They just don't care any more. Especially the rich. They have outsourcing and if there are less of us natural born citizens here alive the more their dream of turning this place in to a resort for the rich becomes reality.
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rightfromwrong6 months, 2 weeks ago
The smart cards with chips in them are coming and the internment camps are made, set up in isolated areas. If one doesn't carry their card, one will be suspected of being a terrorist. Many Americans don't know this and consequently are apathetic to what needs to be done.
Our soldiers are dying in vain and the ones that come back in dire need of help are neglected.
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texangelwings6 months, 2 weeks ago
Well, Pop, you can count me in, because I care! I am willing to tell it in the streets if need be!
Thanks Pop!
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amazed6 months, 2 weeks ago
it DIDN'T just happen in the last eight years!
The premise of this article is good, but it turned out to be just another liberal, anti-Bush screed.
The problems and the erosions of our liberties are systemic and the Bill of Rights has been attacked from both sides of the aisle.
Both democrats and republicans happily gutted the fourth amendment (unreasonable search and seizure) first in the
name of wiping out the mafia, then extending it to the "war on drugs" and finally, allowing asset forfeiture for nearly anything, to say nothing of thinking its a great idea to search everyone and their luggage when boarding a plane or going to a large gathering (such as a concert or amusement park)>
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djn3nunez36 months, 2 weeks ago
In the future history will will probably be taught in the same way as today.
"Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies..."--comments from a review of "Lies My Teacher Told Me"
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0684...
Our story will probably be among them somewhere.
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jimdoze6 months, 2 weeks ago
History will show that Pax Americana and globalization worked superbly for over 60 years... particularly well over the last quarter century. The coming election will be pivotal as to whether the U.S. truly has lost its will and confidence to continue to lead the world. Will we turn in on ourselves and abrogate unprecedented world peace and prosperity to the sort of fratricidal tribalism and regionalism that characterized Europe in the first half of the last century?
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skeek6 months, 2 weeks ago
Its having worked superbly for over 60 years is entirely relative and dependent on one's perspective. If you are American that may well be the case. If you are not American you may beg to differ.
The Romans and the British felt much the same way about their empires too. Evidence that ignorance can be bliss.
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jimdoze6 months, 2 weeks ago
Humandkind is now more at peace than at any time in history. The standard of living of the entire globe has advanced beyond the wildest dreams of anyone apprehending such things a half century ago. The integration of Europe, at the behest America's velvet lined iron fist, is an excellent example of an incontrovertible positive. Our motives? Perhaps we wanted markets for our goods and services? Perhaps we wanted to stop feeding hundreds of thousands of Americans into the jaws of Europe's fratricidal warfare? But, to borrow a phrase from my son, "it's all good!" And, if part of the glue that holds Europe together is a common dislike of Americans, I'd say it's still all good. I'd rather that than going through what we did in the first half of the last century.
There is a qualitative and quantitative difference between Pax Americana and the empire building of the Romans, the British, and others through history. Those differences may be subtle, but they are real nonetheless.
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dissent6 months, 2 weeks ago
fta
- A permanent war economy took the place of ordinary economic output.
- "War is peace!" said George Orwell in irony.
- "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace," said George W. Bush in 2002, without a shred of irony.
then there's this.
"Global income inequality is probably greater than it has ever been in human history...... Currently, the richest 1% of people in the world receives as much as the bottom 57%.
....the richest 25% of the world's population receives 75% of the world's income, even when adjusting for Purchasing Power Parity. The poorest 75% of the population share just 25%."
http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/income.php
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Candida6 months, 2 weeks ago
No, it's not impossible, just improbable. Do you ever ask why they hate America so much, and what's more important, do you ever try to answer it honestly? Do you really believe that they hate America because of its freedom?
The way I see it, the surest way of staying safe is by making as few enemies as possible. Designating countries as the axis of evil and attacking other countries unprovoked is not that path. They hate America because the US is trying to control the whole world and, being the strongest, it just takes what it wants. If the US interfered in fewer countries affairs, it would have fewer enemies.
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amazed6 months, 2 weeks ago
you know, Candida, making as few enemies as possible and letting other countries do what they want because it's not our place to interfere is exactly Neville Chamberlain's view of the world -- remember -- Peace at all cost? Do you remember that little altercation that THAT philosophy led to? I believe it was called World War 2...
Ideally, I would agree with you, and if everyone else also meant well, it would work, but unfortunately, I DO believe that the fundamental Islamists hate America because of it's freedoms and what it sees as our infidel ways. Why do I believe this -- BECAUSE THEY SAID SO!!!
Now, do I believe that we should all be treated as suspected criminals whenever we board a plane or go to a concert? No -- most of our anti-terrorist actions are feel good crap that just inconveniences everyone and makes no one safer. There are more subtle ways to safeguard ourselves...and don't even get me started on the Jersey barrriers all over DC!!!.
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rightfromwrong6 months, 2 weeks ago
I agree ... with 120 military bases in the world, I'd say that is a lot of interference and they are there to prop up petty dictators and get the resources of those countries...all for the rich and their shareholders. America is no longer a democracy anyway. It is a scam. America is decaying quickly trying to forestall the inevitable. 40% or more now of America's economy is driven by war and defense spending!!
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dunkirk6 months, 2 weeks ago
Well as I've said before they cant hate us for our freedoms since Bush and the REPUBLICANS are intent on taking as many of those away as they possibly can. It kinda makes the Patriot Act the surrender document.
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ChefEOD6 months, 2 weeks ago
I don't have to "ask". I lived and worked there for the better part of 10 years. #1 "They" hate America because their government & government run media train them to do so â;; and please don't give me the "we do the same" nonsense. Children's TV shows (just one example) that laud jihad and teach that Jews are sub-human and Americans are devils is on a scale of its own. #2 Because morally they are horridly offended by the debauchery of our culture and believe that if unstopped it will eventually destroy theirs. #3 Our messed up foreign policy (messed up because it has no consistency from one administration to another other than individual meatheads it supports).
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ChefEOD6 months, 2 weeks ago
"The surest way of staying safe is by making as few enemies as possible." Would that that were true. A woefully naive point of view that ignores the fact that evil & evil people exist in large numbers in the world. That same mentality allows people to witness muggings and do nothing but cross to the other side of the street.
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Mutainia6 months, 2 weeks ago
What will History say about America today? It will say just how evil, Zionist and mis-GUIDed it was before Sharia Law was imposed after a Pakistani nuke went off in New York City, frightening most Americans away from working in other cities, resulting the destruction of the "Great Satan".
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Natureboy6 months, 2 weeks ago
Rather, history will say this society was technologically clever and in most other respects dumber than dirt.
It is the society that can fuse atoms but cannot get along with neighbors. It is the society so infatuated with it's ability to produce goods that it is drowning in its own waste, its landfills, rivers and oceans choking with the byproducts of disposability and planned obsolescence. it is the society that thought it could improve the earth and its plant life with an unending program of attacking its creatures with chemical poisons.
They will look on us as we look on the dodo. A curious evolutionary dead-end.
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TheSatyr6 months, 2 weeks ago
Quite simple,History will say that we all sat on our azzes while our country was destroyed from within. In 100 years there won't be a USA. It will have broken up into smaller,separate countries. Based on States that have similar demographics and views.
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thoughtforsale6 months, 2 weeks ago
It is not the worst question for a nation to ask, what its image will be like in future history books. One can try to ignore the actual ranking in lists like "What opinion do you have about country xy". One can consider that the rest of the world simply hasn´t realized yet America´s merits for freedom and peace. But future generations will have to live with this image. And it is necessary to do everything for that they won´t have to be ashamed!
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Cybnetic6 months, 2 weeks ago
well now, isnt this true. but try getting these sorry americans to fight for anything nowdays, fat, lazy, cowards they are. the people will continue to get trampled on by the rich, politicians, and corps until they stand up. will that happen. not anytime soon, theyhave had it too good.
out rights are taken away everyday, we have lost so much do to this "patriot" issue that its hard to distinquish the military and facist state this has become.
the hard line is coming soon, dont forget it
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getreal16 months, 2 weeks ago
We need more parties in Congress. Our population has outgrown the two party system. It is as obvious as the nose on one's face how the republicans have manipulated the vote to keep their control on the seat of the presidency. By voting Dem they get to choose the worst of the runners to run against their nominee. They have actually split the democratic party in two. That makes them a monopoly. We will have to take down their monopoly in order to protect the vote of the people in the future. It is no longer fair.
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eugenegerard6 months, 2 weeks ago
I think that we have been dumbed and drugged down. Hitler's Germany introduced flouride, an industrial waste material that also is used as rat poison, to the water system to pacify the German population. Flouride is a neuro-toxin that sedates.
Our school systems nation wide have been dumbed down. They quite teaching civics in the 1980's. If you show them the Bill of Rights no one knows what is in it.
Most of our Senators and Representatives don't know, that is why they vote for atrocities like, REAL ID, the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Acts.
Finally don't forget the waste material found on the TV set.
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