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Today as never before we need to comprehend the course, logic, and path of the process of history. Every day we need to make decisions that will affect future generations. It has become obvious that no single nation, confession, social class or even civilization can solve these problems on its own. We increasingly have to listen to one another: Europe and Asia, Christians and Muslims, White and Black peoples, citizens of modern democratic states and places where traditional society survives. The key is to understand one another correctly, avoid hasty conclusions, and acquire the true spirit of tolerance and respect toward those with different value systems, habits, and norms.
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As the actor Jack Nicholson self-righteously howled in his role in the movie 'A Few Good Men'.
Age of Information? I've called it the Age of Disinformation, or the Age of Information Control for longer than this century.
In my typically awful and unpopular opinion, Obama has been one of the worse presidents the USA has seen for some time. At least his predecessor, the bumbling George W. Bush, was obvious in his actions. Obama has been a lot slyer, preferring to promote the neo-con agenda via deniable proxies instead of overt miltary invasions. He has completely failed in his pious promises of transparency. Failed to close Gitmo. About all he has succeeded in is a terribly watered down version of 'universal' health care, which has done little than enrich health providers and further concentrate wealth.
A classic example in Obama's 'transparency' is Ms. Clinton's shennanigans with doing governemental business via private email servers, with no oversight, given that 'her' State Department simply hasn't bothered to employ a auditing Inspector-General for a number of years. To suggest that Mr. Obama was completely clueless about this situation either represents major 'good governance' incompetence, or complicity. Take your choice.
This is where western democracies yet again dismally fail. Many western countries have nothing more than two main parties that continually make an almost hysterical point of establishing differences between themselves, when there is really next to no difference: all they do is bugger around with a small percentage of their public budget, meanwhile intelligence and police forces keep getting bigger and bigger powers and budgets, while the average citizens' privacy, and government oversight, keeps being reduced.
We just keep falling for the games the politicians (who represent vested interests) keep playing. To vote for any other party is little more than an ineffective protest vote. Or, like me, a refusal to vote, is equally ineffective. Unless this protest/refusal vote becomes an increasingly significant percentage of the voting public.
The main vested interest, is, of course, the financial houses, which have next to no oversight. 'Self-regulation', right. That always works, doesn't it? Especially given that 'democratic' governernments, in an none-too-subtle attempt to garner power for their own political parties, keep offering more and more blandishments/bribes for us to vote for them, therefore government keeps becoming more and more expensive. Which means more government debt. To whom? You guessed it, those very self-same vested interests, the financial houses.
I can't be bothered to mention those media barons, who own the vast majority of the mass media, increasingly support attitudes rather than supplying appropriately unbiassed criticism, and prefer to manipulate the poor plebs that simply don't know how to differentiate between blatant propaganda and verifiable fact. And those media barons are seriously entwined in the financial system too. Oops, I just mentioned them, didn't I? My bad