Hi Ann: thanks for your cogent analysis! In my view we need to spark a peaceful revolution to create new social, economic, and political systems that place love at the center for our collective repair, justice and peace. We need a new global economic financial architecture that transforms our economies to be de-growth, circular, and sustainable. The collapse and crises you describe is our moment of opportunity! it’s go time!!
This is insightful, and why my book Wisdomics-Gracenomics is so important. The word Gracenomics is derived from the words economics and the natural philosophical concept of grace as in monetary gifting.
Exquisitely intelligent economists like Steve Keen and Michael Hudson have missed the fact that paradigms are specific, operant single concepts...simply because they've never analyzed the economy and money system on the paradigmatic/operant conceptual level. System change is incremental and largely palliative. You want significant as in transformational system change? Find the specific SINGLE concept that applied changes the nature of the ENTIRE pattern(s) under analysis.
And if you REALLY want to change things discern the single concept behind EVERY historical paradigm change...and that just so happens to be the natural philosophical concept of grace as in love in action. Just find the relevant aspect of the concept of grace and find how most efficaiously to apply it to the system under analysis. Thats the true starting and ending point for analysis.
Final hint. One of the cardinal signatures of paradigm changes is inversion of temporal universe reality. Like for instance The Copernican Cosmological paradigm change from geo-centrism to helio-centrism was nothing more and certainly nothing less than the inversion of the positions of the earth and the sun. What if the ecological answer to climate change is Cosmic-Production instead of Geo-Production? And if we remedy austerity, inflation, cost and self interest resistance with the policies in Wisdomics-Gracenomics, that would enable the running of sufficient fiscal deficits to fund the mega-projects necessary to accomplish such an inversion of temporal universe reality.
Think about this: A 50% gift of price at retail sale immediately mathematically doubles everyone's purchasing power, ends inflation forever and is the greatest way to self actualize gratitude since meditation and prayer. And not everyone meditates or prays...but EVERYONE participates in retail sale. You want a mega-paradigm change in at least several systems and areas of human endeavor? Check out Wisdomics-Gracenomics.
There is no genocide happening nearby. Hamas did that Oct 7th but since then Israel has been trying to hold Hamas to account for the brutal atrocities by Hamas and to reduce the likelihood of it happening again. Hamas and other Islamist extremists openly declare they will do October 7th “...again and again and again...” until Israel is annihilated. Hamas is genocidal.
Decades of suicide bombings (martyr operations according to Palestinians), rocket attacks and other jihadist activities were met with defensive activities but to no avail. The civilians who were raped, tortured, and kidnapped experienced war crimes by Israel. Israel does not do those kinds of things.
Building military tunnels at over 1 million dollars per km (with more than 500 km) under hospitals, schools and mosques are also war crimes. The money could have been used better.
Note also that the leadership is made up of billionaires living in 4 star hotels in Qatar where they keep their private jets. They are running a scam on the Palestinian people and the West that makes Trump look like an amateur. They brag about how they need the aid to keep flowing and large amounts need to be siphoned to them.
When Hamas committed the atrocities Oct 7th they were hoping to score hugely. But likely Israel and the IDF has stopped that. Just like police raids on Mafia figures sometimes lead to the deaths of their minions Israel is working to eliminate Hamas.
It is ethnic cleansing at the very minimum, bordering to genocide. You can bury your head in the sand as much as you want, but facts are pretty obvious to anyone not blinded by their feelings towards Israel.
Everybody knows that the war criminal Netanyahu has wilfully supported Hamas to prevent any political solution to the conflict, and therefore is largely responsible of the degradation of the situation in the past 15 years.
Israel actually controls 100% of former mandatory Palestine, and has ruled it under a strict apartheid regime in the general acceptance of the word for 50 years. This must stop, no excuses.
There are facts and there are personal biases. You call him a war criminal while he is not and this is a fact as well. This should be finished, no excuses and lets hope with the least civilian casualties possible.
Just to destroy your ridiculous, shameful fallacy: "Were is the court decision recognizing Hitler as a war criminal?" "Were is the court decision recognizing Stalin as a war criminal?" And on and on.
Your bad faith is stupendous and you're uninterested in facts. This discussion is closed.
Lol. So they are not convicted war criminals. Isn't it that simple? So who is not interested facts but throws personal biases. Yes, closed. I am not interested in your opinions and only care about facts
This is total rubbish. Ethnic cleansing is the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society. That completely fits the Hamas charter and the Quran. Have you bothered to read either? It also fits with the Oct 7th atrocities by Hamas.
Israel is removing Hamas and being more careful than what occurs in other wars to prevent harm to Palestinians. Unfortunately Hamas does not care about Palestinians and say it is a UN problem.
They embed their military structures under hospitals, mosques, schools and residences -- yet more war crimes. So civilians will be killed especially when Hamas will not let them go to designated humanitarian areas.
The fact that the Hamas is a radical fascistic group doesn't excuse bombing the people around them with 2000 pounds bombs ( https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000009208814/israel-gaza-bomb-civilians.html ). As anyone knows since WWII and Vietnam bombings, bombing civilians doesn't break their morale, on the contrary, it enhances greatly civilian support for the combatants on their side, even if these combatants are a foul bunch.
Therefore anyone with half a brain understands that current Israeli operations cannot solve the problem, because even if they'd kill all of Hamas (won't happen), they're making 100 new Hamas fighters for every one they kill.
The only rational way out for Israel has been quite clearly worded out: they try to rid the Gaza strip of its entire population. That's the plan. That's been published in newspapers, including Israeli ones. That's textbook ethnic cleansing and/or genocide.
I don't see exactly how the fact that Gaza population increased negates the fact that an ethnic cleansing is happening right now. When Azerbaijan forced out 150000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, it was a textbook ethnic cleansing and everybody recognized it. When Israel forces out 1 million Gazans from Northern Gaza strip and openly plans to remove 2 millions Gazans from the Gaza strip, what do you call it? When fascistic colons are waging an illegal war on the West Bank inhabitants, what do you call it?
It's quite sad that you're so blinded by your own propaganda that you can't even see the obvious. Tell me please what's your idea for a way out, that doesn't imply horrible massacres of thousands of children, chasing millions of people from their country and the like. I'm eager to know.
I suggest you read the international laws and agreements on genocide (Including the definition) and on the responsibilities of occupying powers and the right of occupied peoples to resist their occupation.
This is NOT what Israel is doing but it completely describes what Hamas did and has included in its charter. It is completely what the extremist jihadists state they want to do. Read the Hamas charter and the Quran.
You fail to check your claims against the facts. You prefer to believe Propaganda from Iran and Hamas. This site does not allow me to post the documentation of the actual facts that contradict your fantasies.
We humans are still quite tribal in our associations, although we have progressed somewhat to allow for diversity within the tribe, conditioned upon cultural assimilation within the dominant tribal group. As documented by British author Fred Harrison in the first two volumes of his trilogy titled "#WeAreRent," every advanced tribal group eventually succumbed to hierarchy, entrenched privilege and the effective redistribution of wealth from producers to a non-producing rentier elite. With the massive increase in the human population and the disappearance of the frontier lands capable to supporting human settlement, the problems you have described have advanced at an accelerating pace. Mr. Harrison's book presents a dire picture of our future unless we can somehow quickly deal with the unresolved "land question" political economists as long ago as A.R. Jacques Turgot and Adam Smith warned us would eventually bring down civilization.
Hi Ann: thanks for your cogent analysis! In my view we need to spark a peaceful revolution to create new social, economic, and political systems that place love at the center for our collective repair, justice and peace. We need a new global economic financial architecture that transforms our economies to be de-growth, circular, and sustainable. The collapse and crises you describe is our moment of opportunity! it’s go time!!
This is insightful, and why my book Wisdomics-Gracenomics is so important. The word Gracenomics is derived from the words economics and the natural philosophical concept of grace as in monetary gifting.
Exquisitely intelligent economists like Steve Keen and Michael Hudson have missed the fact that paradigms are specific, operant single concepts...simply because they've never analyzed the economy and money system on the paradigmatic/operant conceptual level. System change is incremental and largely palliative. You want significant as in transformational system change? Find the specific SINGLE concept that applied changes the nature of the ENTIRE pattern(s) under analysis.
And if you REALLY want to change things discern the single concept behind EVERY historical paradigm change...and that just so happens to be the natural philosophical concept of grace as in love in action. Just find the relevant aspect of the concept of grace and find how most efficaiously to apply it to the system under analysis. Thats the true starting and ending point for analysis.
Final hint. One of the cardinal signatures of paradigm changes is inversion of temporal universe reality. Like for instance The Copernican Cosmological paradigm change from geo-centrism to helio-centrism was nothing more and certainly nothing less than the inversion of the positions of the earth and the sun. What if the ecological answer to climate change is Cosmic-Production instead of Geo-Production? And if we remedy austerity, inflation, cost and self interest resistance with the policies in Wisdomics-Gracenomics, that would enable the running of sufficient fiscal deficits to fund the mega-projects necessary to accomplish such an inversion of temporal universe reality.
Think about this: A 50% gift of price at retail sale immediately mathematically doubles everyone's purchasing power, ends inflation forever and is the greatest way to self actualize gratitude since meditation and prayer. And not everyone meditates or prays...but EVERYONE participates in retail sale. You want a mega-paradigm change in at least several systems and areas of human endeavor? Check out Wisdomics-Gracenomics.
There is no genocide happening nearby. Hamas did that Oct 7th but since then Israel has been trying to hold Hamas to account for the brutal atrocities by Hamas and to reduce the likelihood of it happening again. Hamas and other Islamist extremists openly declare they will do October 7th “...again and again and again...” until Israel is annihilated. Hamas is genocidal.
Decades of suicide bombings (martyr operations according to Palestinians), rocket attacks and other jihadist activities were met with defensive activities but to no avail. The civilians who were raped, tortured, and kidnapped experienced war crimes by Israel. Israel does not do those kinds of things.
Building military tunnels at over 1 million dollars per km (with more than 500 km) under hospitals, schools and mosques are also war crimes. The money could have been used better.
Note also that the leadership is made up of billionaires living in 4 star hotels in Qatar where they keep their private jets. They are running a scam on the Palestinian people and the West that makes Trump look like an amateur. They brag about how they need the aid to keep flowing and large amounts need to be siphoned to them.
When Hamas committed the atrocities Oct 7th they were hoping to score hugely. But likely Israel and the IDF has stopped that. Just like police raids on Mafia figures sometimes lead to the deaths of their minions Israel is working to eliminate Hamas.
It is ethnic cleansing at the very minimum, bordering to genocide. You can bury your head in the sand as much as you want, but facts are pretty obvious to anyone not blinded by their feelings towards Israel.
Everybody knows that the war criminal Netanyahu has wilfully supported Hamas to prevent any political solution to the conflict, and therefore is largely responsible of the degradation of the situation in the past 15 years.
Israel actually controls 100% of former mandatory Palestine, and has ruled it under a strict apartheid regime in the general acceptance of the word for 50 years. This must stop, no excuses.
There are facts and there are personal biases. You call him a war criminal while he is not and this is a fact as well. This should be finished, no excuses and lets hope with the least civilian casualties possible.
Whose biases?
* ICC opens 'war crimes' investigation in West Bank and Gaza( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56249927)
* Commission of Inquiry collecting evidence of war crimes committed by all sides in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories since 7 October 2023 (https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/10/commission-inquiry-collecting-evidence-war-crimes-committed-all-sides-israel)
* Damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza ( https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/damning-evidence-of-war-crimes-as-israeli-attacks-wipe-out-entire-families-in-gaza/ )
* A wikipedia page dedicated to the current war crimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_2023_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes Netanyahu was in power in many of the listed crimes and is therefore potentially responsible.
Sure, and where is the court decision recognizing him as a war criminal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_convicted_war_criminals
So it is just your bias.
Ah, and Arafats daughter is estimated at 8bn and lives in central Paris. Guess where it is coming from and who it belongs to
Just to destroy your ridiculous, shameful fallacy: "Were is the court decision recognizing Hitler as a war criminal?" "Were is the court decision recognizing Stalin as a war criminal?" And on and on.
Your bad faith is stupendous and you're uninterested in facts. This discussion is closed.
Lol. So they are not convicted war criminals. Isn't it that simple? So who is not interested facts but throws personal biases. Yes, closed. I am not interested in your opinions and only care about facts
This is total rubbish. Ethnic cleansing is the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society. That completely fits the Hamas charter and the Quran. Have you bothered to read either? It also fits with the Oct 7th atrocities by Hamas.
Israel is removing Hamas and being more careful than what occurs in other wars to prevent harm to Palestinians. Unfortunately Hamas does not care about Palestinians and say it is a UN problem.
They embed their military structures under hospitals, mosques, schools and residences -- yet more war crimes. So civilians will be killed especially when Hamas will not let them go to designated humanitarian areas.
The fact that the Hamas is a radical fascistic group doesn't excuse bombing the people around them with 2000 pounds bombs ( https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000009208814/israel-gaza-bomb-civilians.html ). As anyone knows since WWII and Vietnam bombings, bombing civilians doesn't break their morale, on the contrary, it enhances greatly civilian support for the combatants on their side, even if these combatants are a foul bunch.
Therefore anyone with half a brain understands that current Israeli operations cannot solve the problem, because even if they'd kill all of Hamas (won't happen), they're making 100 new Hamas fighters for every one they kill.
The only rational way out for Israel has been quite clearly worded out: they try to rid the Gaza strip of its entire population. That's the plan. That's been published in newspapers, including Israeli ones. That's textbook ethnic cleansing and/or genocide.
Check the facts. You are repeating Iranian/Hamas propaganda. The population of Gaza grew from 800,000 in 1948 to 2.1 million in 2023.
I don't see exactly how the fact that Gaza population increased negates the fact that an ethnic cleansing is happening right now. When Azerbaijan forced out 150000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, it was a textbook ethnic cleansing and everybody recognized it. When Israel forces out 1 million Gazans from Northern Gaza strip and openly plans to remove 2 millions Gazans from the Gaza strip, what do you call it? When fascistic colons are waging an illegal war on the West Bank inhabitants, what do you call it?
It's quite sad that you're so blinded by your own propaganda that you can't even see the obvious. Tell me please what's your idea for a way out, that doesn't imply horrible massacres of thousands of children, chasing millions of people from their country and the like. I'm eager to know.
I suggest you read the international laws and agreements on genocide (Including the definition) and on the responsibilities of occupying powers and the right of occupied peoples to resist their occupation.
This is NOT what Israel is doing but it completely describes what Hamas did and has included in its charter. It is completely what the extremist jihadists state they want to do. Read the Hamas charter and the Quran.
There is no point in continuing this conversation as you continue to deny facts.
You fail to check your claims against the facts. You prefer to believe Propaganda from Iran and Hamas. This site does not allow me to post the documentation of the actual facts that contradict your fantasies.
I have read them.
We humans are still quite tribal in our associations, although we have progressed somewhat to allow for diversity within the tribe, conditioned upon cultural assimilation within the dominant tribal group. As documented by British author Fred Harrison in the first two volumes of his trilogy titled "#WeAreRent," every advanced tribal group eventually succumbed to hierarchy, entrenched privilege and the effective redistribution of wealth from producers to a non-producing rentier elite. With the massive increase in the human population and the disappearance of the frontier lands capable to supporting human settlement, the problems you have described have advanced at an accelerating pace. Mr. Harrison's book presents a dire picture of our future unless we can somehow quickly deal with the unresolved "land question" political economists as long ago as A.R. Jacques Turgot and Adam Smith warned us would eventually bring down civilization.