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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (132542)

3/26/2017 4:39:26 PM

From: Maurice Winn

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Maybe the soft bigotry of low expectations? <<

I am not clear at all why everyone is so fascinated with Hitler, and no one really cares about what happen during the Russian Bolshevik revolution and thereafter under Stalin.>>

Hitler was a world champion in carnage, mass mechanized racist murder, world conquest [until he failed]. It's the fascination of the Sieg Heil massed rallies, the goose-stepping enthusiasm of the German people. The imagery and 20th century in living memory. Germany was at the forefront of civilisation. Then turned to the most horrific ideology. From Germany's point of view, they probably thought they were just doing as all had done in bygone times = build a big empire using military power. Megalomania is common in people. Not all, but enough to be a great problem at times.

Everywhere in the world went along with the Malthusian imperatives of red in tooth and claw Hobbesian totalitarian alpha male territorial genocidal dominance hierarchies. You should read about Maori life before the English arrived bringing civilisation, pants, legal systems, democracy. Even after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed Maoris from Taranaki went to Chatham Islands and did the same hideous stuff to the tribe living there - slavery, cannibalism, genocide. Australia aborigines have plenty of complaints about their lives when the English took over. Throughout north and south America, life was nasty, brutal and short before and after the Spanish and English and French arrived. Aztec human sacrifice was gore on steroids. Cortez had similar inclinations. If you visit the Tower of London, you can see how horrific the torture instruments were. Carnage everywhere, forced on humans just as on all other animals as breeding overpopulates the resources available.

We now have 7 billion seething hordes, kept alive by the amazing developments of the 20th century and co-operative trade. Hunter gathering found wealth is not the basis for life these days. If the co-operative trading breaks down into taking opm and other property by force, we'll quickly get back to the USSR type carnage as the population is reduced to sustainable numbers = maybe only 1 billion.

It's a vast global experiment. Such experiments usually go along with 2 steps forwards and 1 back. When the 1 back happens, it can look like 5 steps because it's up close and personal. In population, we went from 1 billion to 7 billion in a century. A drop of only 1 billion would be shocking. But not really surprising. A loss of 2 billion would be easily doable. A modern Black Death would be a 3 billion loss. A humanized H5N1 with 69% mortality would see airports shut, trade disrupted. Localizing supplies would cause huge disruption.

Maybe we can avoid it with the amazing communications and other technologies. Vaccinations can do a lot but as with AIDS, it can take a decade to make progress on defences.

Mqurice

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (132542)	3/28/2017 8:57:01 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218560

If Trump decides to follow Putin's Soft-Power approach he's obtaining the email and addresses of Tea Party members and also take advantage of the fact the Tea Party has demanded cuts to Veteran's Benefits and put together a paramilitary force of former Veterans. Once that's done, the Tea Party members of the House "Freedom Caucus" will start dying randomly mysterious causes, which Doctors might suspect are obscure radioactive poisons - but not be able to prove. At the same time there will be outbreaks of Tea Party members and organizers who are cornered and beaten senseless by "gangs of criminals wearing masks" who the police will be completely unable to trace or identify. Many of them are older and armed Tea Partiers will be taken out by stray shots (snipers) in acts of random violence. In spite of bart13's insistence that Putin's forceful style of governance is what people are clamoring for, I doubt Trump and Bannon have the balls to follow Putin's Soft-Power approach. But if Trump steps up to the plate bart13 and Sdgla will be cheering them on. Like Vladimir Putin said eight years ago, "Opposition parties are natural, but if the United Russia Party is not united members need to be taught loyalty."