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Below is an example of just one more initiative simply created to
further the goals of one of the players on the international scene.
Day after day representatives of each country, regime, group,
organization or whatever make a statement in opposition to or in
favor of some grand plan or idea they claim is an effort to solve a
problem in the world. While this plays out and any one interested
weighs in on the idea’s relative merits or lack of same, people keep
dying or have their lives ruined or merely continue to suffer the
consequences of everyone else’s selfishness. No one is really trying
to find the right solution. They are simply working on a solution
that works for them. As long as that remains the strategy, no amount
of PR is going to change anything.

The major countries of the world have the tools necessary to solve
most of the world’s problems if they so desire. The problem is that
runs contrary to what they, the leaders of these countries, want. No
leaders have the courage to confront the other powers in their own
countries. The power behind the money in every country is not in
favor of what most of us would like; a peaceful world where every
person can pursue their dreams. Makes for a nice story but does not
work for the big money guys. It’s a bizarre global version of the old
joke, he who dies with the most toys wins.

This rant provided by C. Harris, with assistance from Stanford Matthews.

EXCLUSIVE- US starts plan to help Hamas opponents
Reuters AlertNet - Oct 13, 2006
By Adam Entous. JERUSALEM, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The United States
has quietly started a campaign projected to cost up to $42 million to
bolster Hamas’s political opponents ahead of possible early Palestinian
elections, say officials linked to the programme.

Russia says it’s 5-15 kilotons. Others offer the suggestion that it is one of three possibilities. The explosion was too small to be a nuke. Or it was an intentional low yield device to confuse. Or it was an oops and the damn thing didn’t work right. It was 4.2 on the boom scale. Then came the only reasonable response. We don’t know and won’t for a while. Alright then. Nobody knows. Isn’t the important issue that this craziness has gone on this long? Is it any wonder why ET won’t really land here and say “hi”? If we’re not alone in this universe, is it any wonder why know one would want to play with us?

Seriously, the original five in the nuke club are the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China. Based on old print media accounts, India and Pakistan joined around 1998. Currently everyone is mad at Iran and North Korea for wanting to join. After North Korea MAYBE set off a nuke, no one is making much of Bush’s India nuke agreement and/or philosophy or that having seven members already in the nuke club is at best bizarre. It is the simple matter that the human species has been killing or threatening to kill each other since we’ve been on the planet. If humans are so wonderful, why can’t we get beyond this? The likely answer would be that it is more complicated than that. We can’t simply stop killing each other. Oh, we would stop but they won’t. All the governments in the world, the U.N., and any other entity presently or previously in existence cannot or will not find a way to sit down, work out some details and at least try to stop the insanity.

Read the links if you haven’t already had enough.

Oct 9, 2006 4:31 pm US/Pacific

North Korea Nuke Test Draws Global Condemnation

Bush Urges U.N. To Act, Warns Regime Will Be Held ‘Fully Accountable’
CBS News Interactive: North Korea Threats

(CBS News) SEOUL, South Korea North Korea faced global condemnation and calls for harsh sanctions Monday after it announced that it had set off an atomic explosion underground, a test that thrusts the secretive communist state into the elite club of nuclear-armed nations.

World leaders condemn N. Korea nuke test
Staff and agencies
09 October, 2006

By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer 12 minutes ago

LONDON - China, Russia, South Korea and Japan quickly joined the United States on Monday in condemning their reclusive communist neighbor for its reported test of a nuclear weapon.

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