So far as I can see, there has never been a time without war in the history of the world, except for a period in 2600 to 1900 BC when the Indus civilization flourished? According to the New Scientist, "more than a thousand settlements have been found covering at least 800,000 square kilometers in what is now Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. The Indus Valley civilization is regarded as one of the four great, early civilizations. But while Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt and ancient China gloried in warfare, it seems absent from the Indus valley. All signs point to a prosperous and advanced society - one of history's greatest. In a century of excavation and research, only one depiction of fighting has been found". What can we learn, if anything, from the Indus civilization? Perhaps nothing, because as the population of the world grew, and societies became larger the competition for natural resources became greater. Even today, armed conflicts are, one way or another, about population, resources and geographic dominance, often hidden behind religious or racial differences. Wars are here to stay for the foreseeable future, as long as they can be financed, and barring an enormous natural disaster.
Please let me add the multiple pre-Columbian Andean civilizations that layer by layer go back 8000 years as well. Leaving behind stupendous monuments and a very high level of arts and crafts. Long before the more popularly known Incas. Add this unique location to China, Indus Valley, Mesopotamia and Egypt where civilizations did spontaneously emerge, but this time in our own back yard - in the river valleys leading to the Pacific Ocean from the Andes Mountains, along the entire western coast of South America.
Up is down...Left is right...Right is wrong...Silence is violence...Cops are bad...Looters are good...Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are invalid because authored by slaveholders...make it make sense...
Welcome to the Color Revolution...the “Old Guard” (currently led by the CCP/WEF) have captured all 3 branches of government via infiltration over these past several decades...[they] are now trying to finish us off by using the same playbook used to install communism in other countries over time:
1. Take control of Health Care (make ppl depend on government)
2. Create Poverty (make ppl on government)
3. Create Debt (higher taxes -> more poverty)
4. Gun Control (remove guns to create Police State)
5. Take full control of Personal Lives (food, housing, transportation...)
6. Take full control of Schools / Learning
7. Eliminate Religion
8. Create Class Warfare
9. Control the Media
Our US Military - the one area of government that has not been totally corrupted / compromised - is running the counter insurgency...US Military (and WW Patriots) are leading the greatest military sting in the history of the world...it’s a hostile takeover from the Old Guard and their international crime syndicates...so we are at war…
Pray for our Great Nation...much exposure of Evil has been unfolding these past 7-8 years of The Silent War, but many battles remain; including the crash of worldwide financial systems (US Petro Dollar is dead), further exposure of the corrupt court systems, corrupt education systems, corrupt election systems, evil pedophilia & human trafficking networks, and more…
2024 will be a difficult year, but 2025 and beyond will be Glorious...God Bless America
Truly, WHY would Republicans be against middle class Americans earning a proper living wage? The old "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" logic no longer works in a world where the median home price nationwide is $412,000 and in California the median price is $787,000. Republicans have long championed the wealthy only and leave the trickle down for the rest of us, which never actually trickles down. Now, THAT, is Looney Tunes.
Take a trip in the way-back machine Sheryl. Calculated my first home price in today's dollars and what do you think I found? What I paid for that small one bedroom place at 7% interest for 30 years back in 1978 when I was making $11 a hour, is today the equivalent today purchasing $400K home in 2024. So yes, hard work, discipline and long term planning did pay off. Why are you saying this is no longer true?
You local community colleges have multiple career path programs, that put you well into the six figure income columns. Don't waste this long-standing opportunity, staring you in the face.
OH, I DID try to start my business in Santa Barbara. Let's talk about that. I had a great business partner with some capital, we got a building and we began trying to get it open. Miles of red tape, city bureaucracy, a horrific slum lord landlord and an slew of other hardships stopped us from ever getting open. We had the building for nearly a decade and worked on it ourselves to bring it up to the city's code. It was a game that moved as we played it, rules changing daily. VERY frustrating, and it decimated my life savings. Had we been able to get open, we would have done very well.
Nursing, Marine Diving, Radiology, Auto Tech, Cosmetology, Hotel/Restaurant Management, Construction Academy...... and that is just SBCC. Try Alan Hancock and Ventura Colleges.
Nice try, but I'm 59, hardly time to be heading back to college and starting a new career! I've had a great work life, still working and making $20 an hour plus tips, but STILL not enough to buy a home in Santa Barbara, and I'm a 4th generation native Californian.
Sheryl, the Santa Barbara Housing Authority has an exceptional inventory of senior residences, as well as many non-profit organization who also offer senior housing. Senior housing is the one housing stock in town that does have "turnover" built into it. The other city subsidized housing units, not so much.
What's wrong with opposing Zionism? What gives modern, talmudic Jews the right to displace the Palestinian people? We in America complain about illegals flooding the southern border, but somehow a forceful and violent displacement by Zionists in Palestine is okay?
The Catholic Church is the fulfillment of Judaism and is the "new" Israel.
But I would add that Israel and its allies (those who care and not the ones on paper) ...
... should have been preparing for the propaganda barrage for decades.
A big help would have been pointing out that all of the borders in the so-called middle-east were drawn after WW1 for special interests. Some would say for the British Empire, but if that were so, why isn't it so? Britain got another war, a full economic collapse, and they're now in the throws of Full Civilization Collapse.
Another big help would have been pointing out the nearly constant persecution and sometime democide by certain governments, proxies, and terrorists of a certain persuasion ... against those who are different.
A piece of Black humor on this crazy world.
So far as I can see, there has never been a time without war in the history of the world, except for a period in 2600 to 1900 BC when the Indus civilization flourished? According to the New Scientist, "more than a thousand settlements have been found covering at least 800,000 square kilometers in what is now Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. The Indus Valley civilization is regarded as one of the four great, early civilizations. But while Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt and ancient China gloried in warfare, it seems absent from the Indus valley. All signs point to a prosperous and advanced society - one of history's greatest. In a century of excavation and research, only one depiction of fighting has been found". What can we learn, if anything, from the Indus civilization? Perhaps nothing, because as the population of the world grew, and societies became larger the competition for natural resources became greater. Even today, armed conflicts are, one way or another, about population, resources and geographic dominance, often hidden behind religious or racial differences. Wars are here to stay for the foreseeable future, as long as they can be financed, and barring an enormous natural disaster.
Please let me add the multiple pre-Columbian Andean civilizations that layer by layer go back 8000 years as well. Leaving behind stupendous monuments and a very high level of arts and crafts. Long before the more popularly known Incas. Add this unique location to China, Indus Valley, Mesopotamia and Egypt where civilizations did spontaneously emerge, but this time in our own back yard - in the river valleys leading to the Pacific Ocean from the Andes Mountains, along the entire western coast of South America.
Up is down...Left is right...Right is wrong...Silence is violence...Cops are bad...Looters are good...Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are invalid because authored by slaveholders...make it make sense...
Welcome to the Color Revolution...the “Old Guard” (currently led by the CCP/WEF) have captured all 3 branches of government via infiltration over these past several decades...[they] are now trying to finish us off by using the same playbook used to install communism in other countries over time:
1. Take control of Health Care (make ppl depend on government)
2. Create Poverty (make ppl on government)
3. Create Debt (higher taxes -> more poverty)
4. Gun Control (remove guns to create Police State)
5. Take full control of Personal Lives (food, housing, transportation...)
6. Take full control of Schools / Learning
7. Eliminate Religion
8. Create Class Warfare
9. Control the Media
Our US Military - the one area of government that has not been totally corrupted / compromised - is running the counter insurgency...US Military (and WW Patriots) are leading the greatest military sting in the history of the world...it’s a hostile takeover from the Old Guard and their international crime syndicates...so we are at war…
Pray for our Great Nation...much exposure of Evil has been unfolding these past 7-8 years of The Silent War, but many battles remain; including the crash of worldwide financial systems (US Petro Dollar is dead), further exposure of the corrupt court systems, corrupt education systems, corrupt election systems, evil pedophilia & human trafficking networks, and more…
2024 will be a difficult year, but 2025 and beyond will be Glorious...God Bless America
A lot of truth in those words, and that's scary.
Good stuff, if scary, especially the incident at the Hamburg RR station. .
Truly, WHY would Republicans be against middle class Americans earning a proper living wage? The old "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" logic no longer works in a world where the median home price nationwide is $412,000 and in California the median price is $787,000. Republicans have long championed the wealthy only and leave the trickle down for the rest of us, which never actually trickles down. Now, THAT, is Looney Tunes.
Take a trip in the way-back machine Sheryl. Calculated my first home price in today's dollars and what do you think I found? What I paid for that small one bedroom place at 7% interest for 30 years back in 1978 when I was making $11 a hour, is today the equivalent today purchasing $400K home in 2024. So yes, hard work, discipline and long term planning did pay off. Why are you saying this is no longer true?
You local community colleges have multiple career path programs, that put you well into the six figure income columns. Don't waste this long-standing opportunity, staring you in the face.
Are being sarcastic? ... If so, you need a /sarc alert flag.
SBCC Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Have a dream - get help starting your own business. https://scheinfeld.sbcc.edu
OH, I DID try to start my business in Santa Barbara. Let's talk about that. I had a great business partner with some capital, we got a building and we began trying to get it open. Miles of red tape, city bureaucracy, a horrific slum lord landlord and an slew of other hardships stopped us from ever getting open. We had the building for nearly a decade and worked on it ourselves to bring it up to the city's code. It was a game that moved as we played it, rules changing daily. VERY frustrating, and it decimated my life savings. Had we been able to get open, we would have done very well.
Nursing, Marine Diving, Radiology, Auto Tech, Cosmetology, Hotel/Restaurant Management, Construction Academy...... and that is just SBCC. Try Alan Hancock and Ventura Colleges.
Nice try, but I'm 59, hardly time to be heading back to college and starting a new career! I've had a great work life, still working and making $20 an hour plus tips, but STILL not enough to buy a home in Santa Barbara, and I'm a 4th generation native Californian.
Sheryl, the Santa Barbara Housing Authority has an exceptional inventory of senior residences, as well as many non-profit organization who also offer senior housing. Senior housing is the one housing stock in town that does have "turnover" built into it. The other city subsidized housing units, not so much.
Face palm. ... and smh.
Kudos though for a "good" response.
What's wrong with opposing Zionism? What gives modern, talmudic Jews the right to displace the Palestinian people? We in America complain about illegals flooding the southern border, but somehow a forceful and violent displacement by Zionists in Palestine is okay?
The Catholic Church is the fulfillment of Judaism and is the "new" Israel.
And which of the three looney tunes are you singing, Mr. ( resurfaced ) McCalmont? Not clear.
Good addition. I think we might have it covered.
Generally agree. Everything you said is correct.
But I would add that Israel and its allies (those who care and not the ones on paper) ...
... should have been preparing for the propaganda barrage for decades.
A big help would have been pointing out that all of the borders in the so-called middle-east were drawn after WW1 for special interests. Some would say for the British Empire, but if that were so, why isn't it so? Britain got another war, a full economic collapse, and they're now in the throws of Full Civilization Collapse.
Another big help would have been pointing out the nearly constant persecution and sometime democide by certain governments, proxies, and terrorists of a certain persuasion ... against those who are different.
Just sayin'
"A Peace to End All Peace" is an interesting read about post WWI Ottoman Empire break up in the Middle East.
Thank you for the hat tip. I'll drop it onto my book list.
... you and yours have a great weekend!