Reasons for optimism in today's world

Chris

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The world we live in is, first of all, at peace — profoundly at peace. The richest countries of the world are not in geopolitical competition with one another, fighting wars, proxy wars, or even engaging in arms races or “cold wars.”

This is a historical rarity. You would have to go back hundreds of years to find a similar period of great power peace. I know that you watch a bomb going off in Afghanistan or hear of a terror plot in this country and think we live in dangerous times. But here is the data. The number of people who have died as a result of war, civil war, and, yes, terrorism, is down 50 percent this decade from the 1990s. It is down 75 percent from the preceding five decades, the decades of the Cold War, and it is, of course, down 99 percent from the decade before that, which is World War II. Harvard professor Steven Pinker says that we are living in the most peaceful times in human history.

The political stability we have experienced has allowed the creation of a single global economic system, in which countries around the world are participating and flourishing. In 1980, the number of countries that were growing at 4 percent a year — robust growth — was around 60. By 2007, it had doubled. Even now, after the financial crisis, that number is more than 80. Even in the current period of slow growth, keep in mind that the global economy as a whole will grow 10 to 20 percent faster this decade than it did a decade ago, 60 percent faster than it did two decades ago, and five times as fast as it did three decades ago.

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No, here are the reasons for optimism:
-Walker will win his recall election
-Elizabeth Warren will lose her election
-The Supreme Court will strike down Obamacare. All of it.
-Obama will lose to Romney
-The GOP will take the House and Senate.
 
The world we live in is, first of all, at peace — profoundly at peace. The richest countries of the world are not in geopolitical competition with one another, fighting wars, proxy wars, or even engaging in arms races or “cold wars.”

This is a historical rarity.[/url]

The 800 lb. gorilla that is the USA keeps the Pax Americana.

Lefty, of course, would like to end that and let the little upstart gorillas duke it out again.
 
hopey. changey.


Consumer confidence plunges in May - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans' confidence in the economy in May had its biggest drop in eight months as consumers fretted about slow hiring, a big stock market drop and the global economy, says a private research group.
The Conference Board says its Consumer Confidence Index now stands at 64.9, down from a revised 68.7 in April. It was the biggest drop since October 2011.
 
The world is at peace the same way it was at peace in 1937. It is at peace if you ignore the rise of violent islamic fundamentalism in the middle east and the slow collapse of Europe.
 
wth? we are "profoundly at peace"?

what damn world is CNN residing in?

good grief
 
The world we live in is, first of all, at peace — profoundly at peace. The richest countries of the world are not in geopolitical competition with one another, fighting wars, proxy wars, or even engaging in arms races or “cold wars.”

This is a historical rarity. You would have to go back hundreds of years to find a similar period of great power peace. I know that you watch a bomb going off in Afghanistan or hear of a terror plot in this country and think we live in dangerous times. But here is the data. The number of people who have died as a result of war, civil war, and, yes, terrorism, is down 50 percent this decade from the 1990s. It is down 75 percent from the preceding five decades, the decades of the Cold War, and it is, of course, down 99 percent from the decade before that, which is World War II. Harvard professor Steven Pinker says that we are living in the most peaceful times in human history.

The political stability we have experienced has allowed the creation of a single global economic system, in which countries around the world are participating and flourishing. In 1980, the number of countries that were growing at 4 percent a year — robust growth — was around 60. By 2007, it had doubled. Even now, after the financial crisis, that number is more than 80. Even in the current period of slow growth, keep in mind that the global economy as a whole will grow 10 to 20 percent faster this decade than it did a decade ago, 60 percent faster than it did two decades ago, and five times as fast as it did three decades ago.

Reasons for optimism in today's world – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs
Time is ticking chrissy

Countdown Clock
 
CNN believes that obama engaging in a war where he doesn't tell anyone we're at war is peace. The United States is doing something it has never done before. Engage in a war conducted by a$$sination of hand picked enemies, including enemy children targeted for taking out.

Rather than an honest confrontation our King amuses himself with an enemies list getting bigger all the time. According to our white house royalty, capture is not an option. Maybe he just doesn't want to know what they know.
 
CNN believes that obama engaging in a war where he doesn't tell anyone we're at war is peace. The United States is doing something it has never done before. Engage in a war conducted by a$$sination of hand picked enemies, including enemy children targeted for taking out.

Rather than an honest confrontation our King amuses himself with an enemies list getting bigger all the time. According to our white house royalty, capture is not an option. Maybe he just doesn't want to know what they know.


Maybe he knows what they know but just mopping up to hide the answers. After all we know very little about his past and who he associated with.
 
The world we live in is, first of all, at peace — profoundly at peace. The richest countries of the world are not in geopolitical competition with one another, fighting wars, proxy wars, or even engaging in arms races or “cold wars.”

This is a historical rarity. You would have to go back hundreds of years to find a similar period of great power peace. I know that you watch a bomb going off in Afghanistan or hear of a terror plot in this country and think we live in dangerous times. But here is the data. The number of people who have died as a result of war, civil war, and, yes, terrorism, is down 50 percent this decade from the 1990s. It is down 75 percent from the preceding five decades, the decades of the Cold War, and it is, of course, down 99 percent from the decade before that, which is World War II. Harvard professor Steven Pinker says that we are living in the most peaceful times in human history.

The political stability we have experienced has allowed the creation of a single global economic system, in which countries around the world are participating and flourishing. In 1980, the number of countries that were growing at 4 percent a year — robust growth — was around 60. By 2007, it had doubled. Even now, after the financial crisis, that number is more than 80. Even in the current period of slow growth, keep in mind that the global economy as a whole will grow 10 to 20 percent faster this decade than it did a decade ago, 60 percent faster than it did two decades ago, and five times as fast as it did three decades ago.

Reasons for optimism in today's world – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs

Is this a time for all of us to grab the hand of someone and break out into "Kum-ba-ya"?

1. Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapons while at the same time engaging the UN and the US in "talks" designed only to buy time. Not to mention it's threats to close the strait of Hormuz where 1/10th of US oil traverses.
2. North Korea attempts a launch of an ICBM even though food for it's people was held back because of the launch. The dear leader then tells South Korea that it will reduce it to ashes.
3. The pirates in Somalia continue to take ships that traverse the horn of Africa. Strikes by the EU target the pirate shore facilities for the first time. The US has to cut back it's support for anti-pirate operations because it's Navy is over-stretched.
4. Sudan and Ethopia. The worst epidemic of starvation ever coupled with at least two civil or cross border wars. Even worse than the epidemic that prompted US attempts to assist in the 90's. Estimates on the number of dead are woefully short according to Save the Children.
5. 40,000 Mexican citizens died last year alone because of an undeclared war between the government and the cartels. 50 headless bodies recently found within 50 miles of the US border. American citizens are being attacked and killed by cross-border actions supposedly launched by members of the cartel who run drugs north.
6. President Obama in one of the only successful policies of his administration, continues to shoot Hellfire missles from drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Iraq taking out dozens of Al Queda operatives.
7. 108 children were EXECUTED by the Syrian government in the town of Houla. This during an alleged UN negotiated ceasefire between the government and rebels.

Is this an attempt to show us why we don't need a military now?

If you want to believe that the world is a safe place, you go ahead my friend and move to one of these places.
 
wth? we are "profoundly at peace"?

what damn world is CNN residing in?

good grief

These people are living in a dream world. Ronald Reagan had it correct when we were dealing with the Soviets...and it hasn't changed...we are just dealing with different enemies to peace and freedom now.

They just happen to wear radical Islamic stripes.


"Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true peace dictates the recognition of human rights,” Reagan said in a 1986 speech.
 
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The world we live in is, first of all, at peace — profoundly at peace. The richest countries of the world are not in geopolitical competition with one another, fighting wars, proxy wars, or even engaging in arms races or “cold wars.”

This is a historical rarity. You would have to go back hundreds of years to find a similar period of great power peace. I know that you watch a bomb going off in Afghanistan or hear of a terror plot in this country and think we live in dangerous times. But here is the data. The number of people who have died as a result of war, civil war, and, yes, terrorism, is down 50 percent this decade from the 1990s. It is down 75 percent from the preceding five decades, the decades of the Cold War, and it is, of course, down 99 percent from the decade before that, which is World War II. Harvard professor Steven Pinker says that we are living in the most peaceful times in human history.

The political stability we have experienced has allowed the creation of a single global economic system, in which countries around the world are participating and flourishing. In 1980, the number of countries that were growing at 4 percent a year — robust growth — was around 60. By 2007, it had doubled. Even now, after the financial crisis, that number is more than 80. Even in the current period of slow growth, keep in mind that the global economy as a whole will grow 10 to 20 percent faster this decade than it did a decade ago, 60 percent faster than it did two decades ago, and five times as fast as it did three decades ago.

Reasons for optimism in today's world – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs

Is this a time for all of us to grab the hand of someone and break out into "Kum-ba-ya"?

1. Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapons while at the same time engaging the UN and the US in "talks" designed only to buy time. Not to mention it's threats to close the strait of Hormuz where 1/10th of US oil traverses.
2. North Korea attempts a launch of an ICBM even though food for it's people was held back because of the launch. The dear leader then tells South Korea that it will reduce it to ashes.
3. The pirates in Somalia continue to take ships that traverse the horn of Africa. Strikes by the EU target the pirate shore facilities for the first time. The US has to cut back it's support for anti-pirate operations because it's Navy is over-stretched.
4. Sudan and Ethopia. The worst epidemic of starvation ever coupled with at least two civil or cross border wars. Even worse than the epidemic that prompted US attempts to assist in the 90's. Estimates on the number of dead are woefully short according to Save the Children.
5. 40,000 Mexican citizens died last year alone because of an undeclared war between the government and the cartels. 50 headless bodies recently found within 50 miles of the US border. American citizens are being attacked and killed by cross-border actions supposedly launched by members of the cartel who run drugs north.
6. President Obama in one of the only successful policies of his administration, continues to shoot Hellfire missles from drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Iraq taking out dozens of Al Queda operatives.
7. 108 children were EXECUTED by the Syrian government in the town of Houla. This during an alleged UN negotiated ceasefire between the government and rebels.

Is this an attempt to show us why we don't need a military now?

If you want to believe that the world is a safe place, you go ahead my friend and move to one of these places.

6. President Obama in one of the only successful policies of his administration, continues to shoot Hellfire missles from drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Iraq taking out dozens of Al Queda operatives.

What's the civilian death count by use of obama drones since obama took office? You don't hear too much about death tolls lately
 
OPTIMISM =

Free Healthcare
Free Education
Food Stamps
Communal Agrarian Economy
Union Membership
Legalized Drugs
Homosexual Marriage
Eternal Unemployment Compensation
Fannie Mae Housing Susidies
State Funded Retirement Program
Ineffecient Costly Alternative "Energy"
State Run Corporations
Social Justice & Equality of Outcomes
 
The world we live in is, first of all, at peace — profoundly at peace. The richest countries of the world are not in geopolitical competition with one another, fighting wars, proxy wars, or even engaging in arms races or “cold wars.”

This is a historical rarity. You would have to go back hundreds of years to find a similar period of great power peace. I know that you watch a bomb going off in Afghanistan or hear of a terror plot in this country and think we live in dangerous times. But here is the data. The number of people who have died as a result of war, civil war, and, yes, terrorism, is down 50 percent this decade from the 1990s. It is down 75 percent from the preceding five decades, the decades of the Cold War, and it is, of course, down 99 percent from the decade before that, which is World War II. Harvard professor Steven Pinker says that we are living in the most peaceful times in human history.

The political stability we have experienced has allowed the creation of a single global economic system, in which countries around the world are participating and flourishing. In 1980, the number of countries that were growing at 4 percent a year — robust growth — was around 60. By 2007, it had doubled. Even now, after the financial crisis, that number is more than 80. Even in the current period of slow growth, keep in mind that the global economy as a whole will grow 10 to 20 percent faster this decade than it did a decade ago, 60 percent faster than it did two decades ago, and five times as fast as it did three decades ago.

Reasons for optimism in today's world – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs

Is this a time for all of us to grab the hand of someone and break out into "Kum-ba-ya"?

1. Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapons while at the same time engaging the UN and the US in "talks" designed only to buy time. Not to mention it's threats to close the strait of Hormuz where 1/10th of US oil traverses.
2. North Korea attempts a launch of an ICBM even though food for it's people was held back because of the launch. The dear leader then tells South Korea that it will reduce it to ashes.
3. The pirates in Somalia continue to take ships that traverse the horn of Africa. Strikes by the EU target the pirate shore facilities for the first time. The US has to cut back it's support for anti-pirate operations because it's Navy is over-stretched.
4. Sudan and Ethopia. The worst epidemic of starvation ever coupled with at least two civil or cross border wars. Even worse than the epidemic that prompted US attempts to assist in the 90's. Estimates on the number of dead are woefully short according to Save the Children.
5. 40,000 Mexican citizens died last year alone because of an undeclared war between the government and the cartels. 50 headless bodies recently found within 50 miles of the US border. American citizens are being attacked and killed by cross-border actions supposedly launched by members of the cartel who run drugs north.
6. President Obama in one of the only successful policies of his administration, continues to shoot Hellfire missles from drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Iraq taking out dozens of Al Queda operatives.
7. 108 children were EXECUTED by the Syrian government in the town of Houla. This during an alleged UN negotiated ceasefire between the government and rebels.

Is this an attempt to show us why we don't need a military now?

If you want to believe that the world is a safe place, you go ahead my friend and move to one of these places.

6. President Obama in one of the only successful policies of his administration, continues to shoot Hellfire missles from drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Iraq taking out dozens of Al Queda operatives.

What's the civilian death count by use of obama drones since obama took office? You don't hear too much about death tolls lately

We only know they are al quaeda operatives because obama says so. If he didn't tell us, we would have no idea who was the actual target. We are not asking the right questions. Why does he not believe in information gathering? Why is capture and questioning not an option? Why did he inform on both our own CIA double agent AND the Pakistani doctor who helped us get Bin Laden? Why is he sending high level fighters back into the field?

How do we know that the drone strikes aren't being used to take out the people who are fighting against islamic fundamentalism and we're just being told whatever?
 
More reasons for Optimism

Open Borders
No Voter Requirements
Rehabilitation not Prison
World Courts
UN Decided Foreign Policy
Godless Atheism
PETA
NAACP
 
So we have a military presence in half a dozen countries because we are at peace?

You do realize peace is more than just a lack of physical violence, right?
 

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