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1. | Anti-theist | ||
A person who holds the view that organized religion when considered throughout the centuries has been a destructive force in society, wrongly believed is that all are also agnostics or atheists, but a great number of faithful theists also see organized religion as harmful to society and choose to follow their own path to god. when considering the crusades, September the 11th, the holocaust and the Spanish inquisition the anti-theist concluded that religion had caused great harm to society.
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Actively opposes a belief in gods of any sort and to institutions built around belief in a deity. They believe that religion is harmful to individuals and society and that it impedes scientific progress and encourages immoral acts. An anti-theist may see religious harm in the brainwashing of children, faith healing, circumcision, holy wars, terrorism, the inquisition, blood sacrifice, and discrimination against homosexuals and women.
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A person whom realizes the harm religion has caused and is still continuously causing to humanity and actively opposes it.
Anti-theists tend to be predominantly atheists,agnostics,deists,pantheists and spiritualists. Most notable anti-theists/militant atheists:
Richard Dawkins Christopher Hitchens Sam Harris David Silverman Thomas Jefferson Madalyn Murray O'Hair |
4. | Anti-theist | ||
A atheist extremist that hates all things religious. Anti-theism is to atheism as the Christian Identity is to Christianity
5. | Anti-Theist | ||
Someone who is anti or who hates or persecutes all forms of religeous beliefs or non beliefs including Atheists and Agnostics. "I see that an Anti-Theist has flown a plane into a tall building" "Er, surely you mean an Islamist?" "Er no, where does it say in the Queran that it is ok to go doing stuff like that?" "Well ok, but surely you mean Satanist?"
"Point taken...But can we settle for, an Anti-Theist is just a Satanist who hasn't yet discovered themself?" |
6. | Anti-theist | ||
One who belives God exists but hates him/her. God sucks a fat one, I'm an Anti-theist.
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USUALLY a huge fag who thinks he is super hxc because he hates religion. More than likely, all his friends, if he has any that is, thinks he is an idiot or some kind of retard. Some qualities an anti theist PROBABLY has: 1. An anarchist 2. Bases his beliefs off of George Carlin's comedy act without realizing that there is a reason it is called a COMEDY act 3. Has never had a girlfriend 4. Thinks other people don't like him because they are "bl1nd3d bby teH g0dzz anDD arnt sm4rt enuff 2 c passt 1t. lulz, d1d u no tha '1t' rhyme5 wit 'tit'. megalulz, ima masturbate now." 5. Listens to music he heard off of Guitar Hero, because none of his friends want to share their musical taste with him. If he knew some of the bands from Guitar Hero believed in God, he would immediately piss himself and go fap his anger off. 6. Will be living with his parents for a loooong time. Anti-theists should not be confused with an atheist. An atheist is someone who simply doesn't believe in a God while an anti-theist is retarded and has no friends. Regular person: I'm going to church on Sunday, want to come?
Atheist: No thanks, I'm not really into that sort of thing. Regular Person: Oh, that's cool. I'll see you at work tomorrow. Anti-theist who overheard their conversation: Faggot, you are blinded by your God and you will suffer from a lack of your false promises! I will enjoy seeing you depressed from having no result in following your false faith! Regular person: Ahh, fuck, he's not coming into work tomorrow, is he? Atheist: No, he doesn't have a job. But hey, what more can you expect from an anti theist? (The 2 friends walk away, laughing at the anti-theist and his retardedness. The anti-theist begins to jack off.) |


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The cataclysm occurred without warning. Was it caused by the Gods fighting among themselves? Or did the buildup of magic trigger it? No one knows or has the ability to care. Survival is more important now.
The destruction so much, caused much knowledge to be lost. The fall from civilization was rapid. From living in the great cities and empires to fighting for survival caused millions to die. Over the course of these lost years, Knowledge became myth, and myth was distorted into a reality that never existed.
Leaders arose during this time to help. They gathered like minded people to expand their reach. However, suspicion and mistrust was the rule of the day. If you were not with us, you were against us.
As the years went past, the great cities dissolved into dust, their valuables lost or hidden by the sands of time. Other creatures arose to fill in the void left by the fall. Yet still people continued their struggle to live. They had to keep moving to avoid, not just the forces of nature and the magic that has run amok, but other groups as well. The division of the world into competing factions was complete.
These factions were willing to avoid each other given the other common dangers they faced in the world. Plus as these groups were constantly moving, finding each other was difficult to impossible. So the world was once again in balance.
The records do not reflect which faction was the first one to found a permanent settlement. It is also unclear as to how the other factions gained this knowledge. Some say, the balance was broken by this event, so to keep the balance all the other leaders were given a vision. Others say it was just time and all felt it at once. Regardless of how this occurred, within a very short period of time, all the factions had made a challenge to, not just the other factions, but to the world at large ' Here I am!'. The race to rebuild civilization was on.
The above is my vision of how the game gets to where it starts. Given this, founding any cities past the first one should be HARD. And I mean very very hard . As each turn is a quarter of a year, it should take ages to collect enough population/supplies to create a second city. Much less the trained people needed to support it, i.e. militia, artisans, etc. So I basically would like the ability of city spamming by both the AI and humans, to be much reduced. It should be a struggle to locate another faction's borders, much less establish a trade route.
To me the game should reflect this struggle to rebuild a civilization from nothing. To me, the game does not do this at all. Within two years or so after founding your first city, you can have a Pioneer build and another city shortly. Of course if it is felt that the bulk of the player population just wants to blast out cities, then that is fine. I just did not think that was what this game was trying to accomplish.
Several suggestions to make this feel like the struggle it should be (to me anyway) are
-Increase the cost of Pioneer dramticaly
-Pioneers are not built by the player or AI, but are automaticly granted either on a fixed schedule or they could be granted by certain triggers or events that the player/AI accomplishes. For example by exploring X% of the map. This could relect looking for other smaller groups that are still wandering in the wilds. Every additional Y% could grant another one.
-Have netural cities alrady established that join the first person to find them or provide quests that after completing, the city will join your faction.
-Have a special faction ability, say a National Focus that provides several options on what is the most important direction for the entire faction would be. Once of these choices would be 'Expansion' where after X number of consective turns with the focus on Expansion a Pioneer unit is granted. Or even better, a city is automaticly built in a good location nearby.
Of course, having the AI function properly in any other suggestion other than the first one may be problimatic
here's another option:
have a scaling mana/gold cost for the building of each city. your first city is free, natch . your second city costs 50 mana/200 gold. your third city costs 100/400, 4th = 200/800, 5th = 400/1600, etc... the actual scale could be varied depending on the size of the world map (so larger maps have lower costs).
cities should also incur a constant mana cost as well, based entirely on the size of their ZOC.
It's a simple change. It makes sense with the lore (you're clearly using magic to rejuvenate the world). And I don't think it would be very hard to teach the AI how to deal with it.
Very nice! Like that one too.
I like the idea, maybe add a time component as well - it takes the sovereign or another champion N turns of sitting immobile at the city location to heal the land enough to create a city there.
And that is an ok vision. I perfer the game to be more like a 4x statagy game where I can expand with out gimicky story line restraints. A sandlot game should not have such constraints put upon it. Now a campaign game is different and it should have more of these story elements and well as others (campaign creator would be nice)
It's an okay vision, but gameplay usually triumphs over vision. Extending the early phase too much has its own problems. Mainly in that all you will be doing is walking around with your sovereign for god knows how long. That tends to get boring pretty fast unless you can somehow make the exploration part really exciting and fun. Which I think is okay in the current system, but probably not something I would want to extend for a couple of hundred turns. If anything, people are already complaining that the game feels too slow.
To address your suggestions specifically, if you make pioneers too costly/hard to get, you run into the problem of what happens when that pioneer becomes too valuable. Putting aside the fact that outposts would have to be completely redesigned, what happens when you lose that pioneer (be it through monsters, or sneaky players assassinating them, or whatever)? Even if you just make the city pops out... what happens if that city gets run over by a monster (or a player attack)? If you spent too much effort (turns) to get that city... it is essentially a game over. It seems to me like your vision just tries to make it hard to settle for the sake of the vision, but fails to take into account any of the actual hostile forces that are out there in the world.
I'm not sure if this is one of those "go play another game " issues for the devs but I also would like to see the catacylsm to civilization process more played out than it currently is. I feel the problem with cities and pioneers is in the numeric formulaic population system that is a holdover from civ and really doesnt work with this sort of game.
I think instead of some obscure hidden formula being the source of population quests to rescue/convince/tame lost fragments/tribes could be offered. When you've saved up enough money to "fund an expedition" the game sends you to a quest location somewhere on the map. You then have several options how to deal with that population and your success in doing so results in how many people you bring back with you and what kind of production/food/research/mana ect they add to the city. Through bringing population to those outposts they become cities and gain levels. To prevent spam those populations will go nomadic again or die off if you dont bring them fresh members once in a while. Raiding/Attacking the population quest target brings back the least but at minimum keeps a city from breaking up. Any unit can establish camps which provide zones of control. If a unit stays in the camp forashort time you have the option of upgrading it to an outpost which provides larger ZoC and defensive bonus. Camps/Outposts without a unit station their for more than 3-4 session become bandit/monster lairs.
The main issue I am attempting with this thread, is somehow prevent the entire map filling up with cities and outposts within a very short period. I tried playing on a larger map several times with a reduced number of AI. And they still covered the map with cities and outposts within a few 100 turns. That is only 25 -50 years. It took a 100 years just to get the first settlements across the Appllicians from when Jamestown was first settled in America. Yet an entire world can be overrun in less time?
If city spamming is what everyone wants then that if fine and I will go play something else as there are other games where city spamming is not the point of play. I was just hoping for a game that better reflects the struggle that developing cities truely was. Even in the 1900s, towns and cities were abandomed for many reasons. So developing a city and keeping it viable should be much harder in the game than it is now.
Just my opnion of course
@Numdyar, you and I are on the same page. I feel like with FE Stardock has a lot of opportunity to really re-imagine a lot of the 4x tropes. And as 4x tropes go, expand or die is one of the lamest and most indefensible, but it's also the most universal.
As with most issues on this forum, this is not an either-or thing. The idea isn't to get rid of quick expansion as a strategy, it's to make it so there are other viable strategies.
I was hoping there would be more like me
I just really feel that a game that has all the mobs wandering around on the map of varing levels means that real civilization has been absent for a long time. So starting to rebuild from such a limited beginning should be a lot harder. Rather than 50-100 tuens into the game, not only do you find 1-2 more factions, they likely have 3-4 cities and/or outposts.
If the game starts out a such a primitive level with tech an abilities, the AI and the player should have a much harder time of expanding and finding each other than now exists in the game. Otherwise why not just start the game with the world fully occupied with cities and eliminate the mobs entirely. The whole Explore function compared to the rest of the 4X suite seems horribably unbalanced. So I really hope this is addressed in the future as I do not want to spend 1/10 of the game on Explore and the other 90% of the rest.
Obvious other opinions may vary
I don't think that it is a matter of 'People Want City Spam'. Quite the contrary, I think we see plenty of evidence that the community in general isn't fond of the precise brand of pioneer vomit that E:FE currently engages in.
The things is, however, that they also don't like the slow start to the game. Perhaps for the sake of your vision, we could do the window dressing that the last few incarnations of the Civ line have used, which is to have a "Turn" mean something different as you get further into the game. For the sake of gameplay, however, I think that it actually needs to speed up.
The two issues, as I see it are:
First and foremost, that playing fewer city strategies does not have any significant benefits. Sure, you grow faster, but it just means you hit your population cap faster. Benefit lost. The benefits for expanding is more and better access to resources (mana and otherwise), more access to population which gives you production, gold, and research, which gets you more access to buildings and weaponry. The stuff of victory. The downsides of massive expansion is.... Your cities grow slower, which means that they get to actually UTILIZE that all-important prestige for more turns of the game. Volatile resource actually creating a benefit.
Second, as you identified, aside from conquest there does not really seem to be a way to mismanage and lose a city by your own hand. I don't think I have ever seen a population shrink, and by the time you have access to buildings with maintenance COSTS (which is to say you are able to actually produce enough of them), you are pulling in piles of cash and those maintenance costs don't matter. I'm pretty sure that this aspect is going to change quite soon, and really hope that the first does as well.
I really like the idea of questable resources with different outcomes. The development of the world via quests of varying difficulty could adress much of this issue without actually having to change anything in terms of pioneer costs or pop count. Like we have to shut down a death cult to make that fertile land near the river even arable (e.g. usable for city building). With higher quests granting acess to better spots. If there really is such a scarcity of food that is not only a problem for the mahor kingdoms and empires but also for all kinds of animals and non aligned intelligent beings (darklings, bandits, wildlings and so on). So certain lairs could control the land around them and make builing there actually impossible until the lair has been cleared or even better a linked quest completed.
This kind of requests have been pop up so many times. No player like city spams, or boring mop-up, yet it is so hard to avoid with traditional 4X game mechanics, including FE.
Years ago, I've offered a possible solution below for a fresh & pioneering 4X fantasy game.
Achievement based building and unit bonus (Resolving the game being won in the first 10 min & then spending the next 2 hours going through the motions)
[GamePlay] Ranking Bonus, can make FE the best ever game.
And unfortunately, I am not seeing any of this happening in FE beta. The only achievement so far in FE is controlling as much land as possible, which, is so traditional. Is the current victory condition doing the job of making this game also a 'land grab/control' game?
A great 4X game will be a game with long & fun struggles mid-game (or even better, late-game). Preferably, there are multiple tipping points in the game, make us feel up & down etc.
Has FE got that as a design goal? Or, what is the vision of FE, from developer's POV?
Fun idea climber , I would actually like to try out that game inside your mind with acheivement based buffs, as long as its done nicely it can be a really neat addition, although I would not get my hopes up here
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Pope Benedict XVI will step down at the end of the month, saying his health is deteriorating. He said it made it challenging to carry out the job effectively.
The 85-year-old pope announced his decision in Latin during a meeting of Vatican cardinals Monday morning.
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The hysterical American decline
As America tries to cling to world dominance, we can learn important lessons from Vietnam and Iraq
By Noam ChomskyTopics: American History, U.S. Military, News, Politics News
Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons from them about what is likely to lie ahead. Right now, in fact.
At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's decision to launch the most destructive and murderous act of aggression of the post-World War II period: the invasion of South Vietnam, later all of Indochina, leaving millions dead and four countries devastated, with casualties still mounting from the long-term effects of drenching South Vietnam with some of the most lethal carcinogens known, undertaken to destroy ground cover and food crops.
The prime target was South Vietnam. The aggression later spread to the North, then to the remote peasant society of northern Laos, and finally to rural Cambodia, which was bombed at the stunning level of all allied air operations in the Pacific region during World War II, including the two atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In this, Henry Kissinger's orders were being carried out — "anything that flies on anything that moves" — a call for genocide that is rare in the historical record. Little of this is remembered. Most was scarcely known beyond narrow circles of activists.
When the invasion was launched 50 years ago, concern was so slight that there were few efforts at justification, hardly more than the president's impassioned plea that "we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence" and if the conspiracy achieves its ends in Laos and Vietnam, "the gates will be opened wide."
Elsewhere, he warned further that "the complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history [and] only the strong… can possibly survive," in this case reflecting on the failure of U.S. aggression and terror to crush Cuban independence.
By the time protest began to mount half a dozen years later, the respected Vietnam specialist and military historian Bernard Fall, no dove, forecast that "Vietnam as a cultural and historic entity… is threatened with extinction…[as]…the countryside literally dies under the blows of the largest military machine ever unleashed on an area of this size." He was again referring to South Vietnam.
When the war ended eight horrendous years later, mainstream opinion was divided between those who described the war as a "noble cause" that could have been won with more dedication, and at the opposite extreme, the critics, to whom it was "a mistake" that proved too costly. By 1977, President Carter aroused little notice when he explained that we owe Vietnam "no debt" because "the destruction was mutual."
There are important lessons in all this for today, even apart from another reminder that only the weak and defeated are called to account for their crimes. One lesson is that to understand what is happening we should attend not only to critical events of the real world, often dismissed from history, but also to what leaders and elite opinion believe, however tinged with fantasy. Another lesson is that alongside the flights of fancy concocted to terrify and mobilize the public (and perhaps believed by some who are trapped in their own rhetoric), there is also geostrategic planning based on principles that are rational and stable over long periods because they are rooted in stable institutions and their concerns. That is true in the case of Vietnam as well. I will return to that, only stressing here that the persistent factors in state action are generally well concealed.
The Iraq war is an instructive case. It was marketed to a terrified public on the usual grounds of self-defense against an awesome threat to survival: the "single question," George W. Bush and Tony Blair declared, was whether Saddam Hussein would end his programs of developing weapons of mass destruction. When the single question received the wrong answer, government rhetoric shifted effortlessly to our "yearning for democracy," and educated opinion duly followed course; all routine.
Later, as the scale of the U.S. defeat in Iraq was becoming difficult to suppress, the government quietly conceded what had been clear all along. In 2007-2008, the administration officially announced that a final settlement must grant the U.S. military bases and the right of combat operations, and must privilege U.S. investors in the rich energy system — demands later reluctantly abandoned in the face of Iraqi resistance. And all well kept from the general population.
Gauging American Decline
With such lessons in mind, it is useful to look at what is highlighted in the major journals of policy and opinion today. Let us keep to the most prestigious of the establishment journals, Foreign Affairs. The headline blaring on the cover of the December 2011 issue reads in bold face: "Is America Over?"
The title article calls for "retrenchment" in the "humanitarian missions" abroad that are consuming the country's wealth, so as to arrest the American decline that is a major theme of international affairs discourse, usually accompanied by the corollary that power is shifting to the East, to China and (maybe) India.
The lead articles are on Israel-Palestine. The first, by two high Israeli officials, is entitled "The Problem is Palestinian Rejection": the conflict cannot be resolved because Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state — thereby conforming to standard diplomatic practice: states are recognized, but not privileged sectors within them. The demand is hardly more than a new device to deter the threat of political settlement that would undermine Israel's expansionist goals.
The opposing position, defended by an American professor, is entitled "The Problem Is the Occupation." The subtitle reads "How the Occupation is Destroying the Nation." Which nation? Israel, of course. The paired articles appear under the heading "Israel under Siege."
The January 2012 issue features yet another call to bomb Iran now, before it is too late. Warning of "the dangers of deterrence," the author suggests that "skeptics of military action fail to appreciate the true danger that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose to U.S. interests in the Middle East and beyond. And their grim forecasts assume that the cure would be worse than the disease — that is, that the consequences of a U.S. assault on Iran would be as bad as or worse than those of Iran achieving its nuclear ambitions. But that is a faulty assumption. The truth is that a military strike intended to destroy Iran's nuclear program, if managed carefully, could spare the region and the world a very real threat and dramatically improve the long-term national security of the United States."
Others argue that the costs would be too high, and at the extremes some even point out that an attack would violate international law — as does the stand of the moderates, who regularly deliver threats of violence, in violation of the U.N. Charter.
Let us review these dominant concerns in turn.
American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster. Despite the piteous laments, the U.S. remains the world dominant power by a large margin, and no competitor is in sight, not only in the military dimension, in which of course the U.S. reigns supreme.
China and India have recorded rapid (though highly inegalitarian) growth, but remain very poor countries, with enormous internal problems not faced by the West. China is the world's major manufacturing center, but largely as an assembly plant for the advanced industrial powers on its periphery and for western multinationals. That is likely to change over time. Manufacturing regularly provides the basis for innovation, often breakthroughs, as is now sometimes happening in China. One example that has impressed western specialists is China's takeover of the growing global solar panel market, not on the basis of cheap labor but by coordinated planning and, increasingly, innovation.
But the problems China faces are serious. Some are demographic, reviewed in Science, the leading U.S. science weekly. The study shows that mortality sharply decreased in China during the Maoist years, "mainly a result of economic development and improvements in education and health services, especially the public hygiene movement that resulted in a sharp drop in mortality from infectious diseases." This progress ended with the initiation of the capitalist reforms 30 years ago, and the death rate has since increased.
Furthermore, China's recent economic growth has relied substantially on a "demographic bonus," a very large working-age population. "But the window for harvesting this bonus may close soon," with a "profound impact on development": "Excess cheap labor supply, which is one of the major factors driving China's economic miracle, will no longer be available."
Demography is only one of many serious problems ahead. For India, the problems are far more severe.
Not all prominent voices foresee American decline. Among international media, there is none more serious and responsible than the London Financial Times. It recently devoted a full page to the optimistic expectation that new technology for extracting North American fossil fuels might allow the U.S. to become energy independent, hence to retain its global hegemony for a century. There is no mention of the kind of world the U.S. would rule in this happy event, but not for lack of evidence.
At about the same time, the International Energy Agency reported that, with rapidly increasing carbon emissions from fossil fuel use, the limit of safety will be reached by 2017 if the world continues on its present course. "The door is closing," the IEA chief economist said, and very soon it "will be closed forever."
Shortly before the U.S. Department of Energy reported the most recent carbon dioxide emissions figures, which "jumped by the biggest amount on record" to a level higher than the worst-case scenario anticipated by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). That came as no surprise to many scientists, including the MIT program on climate change, which for years has warned that the IPCC predictions are too conservative.
Such critics of the IPCC predictions receive virtually no public attention, unlike the fringe of denialists who are supported by the corporate sector, along with huge propaganda campaigns that have driven Americans off the international spectrum in dismissal of the threats. Business support also translates directly to political power. Denialism is part of the catechism that must be intoned by Republican candidates in the farcical election campaign now in progress, and in Congress they are powerful enough to abort even efforts to inquire into the effects of global warming, let alone do anything serious about it.
In brief, American decline can perhaps be stemmed if we abandon hope for decent survival, prospects that are all too real given the balance of forces in the world.
"Losing" China and Vietnam
Putting such unpleasant thoughts aside, a close look at American decline shows that China indeed plays a large role, as it has for 60 years. The decline that now elicits such concern is not a recent phenomenon. It traces back to the end of World War II, when the U.S. had half the world's wealth and incomparable security and global reach. Planners were naturally well aware of the enormous disparity of power, and intended to keep it that way.
The basic viewpoint was outlined with admirable frankness in a major state paper of 1948 (PPS 23). The author was one of the architects of the New World Order of the day, the chair of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, the respected statesman and scholar George Kennan, a moderate dove within the planning spectrum. He observed that the central policy goal was to maintain the "position of disparity" that separated our enormous wealth from the poverty of others. To achieve that goal, he advised, "We should cease to talk about vague and… unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization," and must "deal in straight power concepts," not "hampered by idealistic slogans" about "altruism and world-benefaction."
Kennan was referring specifically to Asia, but the observations generalize, with exceptions, for participants in the U.S.-run global system. It was well understood that the "idealistic slogans" were to be displayed prominently when addressing others, including the intellectual classes, who were expected to promulgate them.
The plans that Kennan helped formulate and implement took for granted that the U.S. would control the Western Hemisphere, the Far East, the former British empire (including the incomparable energy resources of the Middle East), and as much of Eurasia as possible, crucially its commercial and industrial centers. These were not unrealistic objectives, given the distribution of power. But decline set in at once.
In 1949, China declared independence, an event known in Western discourse as "the loss of China" — in the U.S., with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss. The terminology is revealing. It is only possible to lose something that one owns. The tacit assumption was that the U.S. owned China, by right, along with most of the rest of the world, much as postwar planners assumed.
The "loss of China" was the first major step in "America's decline." It had major policy consequences. One was the immediate decision to support France's effort to reconquer its former colony of Indochina, so that it, too, would not be "lost."
Indochina itself was not a major concern, despite claims about its rich resources by President Eisenhower and others. Rather, the concern was the "domino theory," which is often ridiculed when dominoes don't fall, but remains a leading principle of policy because it is quite rational. To adopt Henry Kissinger's version, a region that falls out of control can become a "virus" that will "spread contagion," inducing others to follow the same path.
In the case of Vietnam, the concern was that the virus of independent development might infect Indonesia, which really does have rich resources. And that might lead Japan — the "superdomino" as it was called by the prominent Asia historian John Dower — to "accommodate" to an independent Asia as its technological and industrial center in a system that would escape the reach of U.S. power. That would mean, in effect, that the U.S. had lost the Pacific phase of World War II, fought to prevent Japan's attempt to establish such a New Order in Asia.
The way to deal with such a problem is clear: destroy the virus and "inoculate" those who might be infected. In the Vietnam case, the rational choice was to destroy any hope of successful independent development and to impose brutal dictatorships in the surrounding regions. Those tasks were successfully carried out — though history has its own cunning, and something similar to what was feared has since been developing in East Asia, much to Washington's dismay.
The most important victory of the Indochina wars was in 1965, when a U.S.-backed military coup in Indonesia led by General Suharto carried out massive crimes that were compared by the CIA to those of Hitler, Stalin and Mao. The "staggering mass slaughter," as the New York Times described it, was reported accurately across the mainstream, and with unrestrained euphoria.
It was "a gleam of light in Asia," as the noted liberal commentator James Reston wrote in the Times. The coup ended the threat of democracy by demolishing the mass-based political party of the poor, established a dictatorship that went on to compile one of the worst human rights records in the world, and threw the riches of the country open to western investors. Small wonder that, after many other horrors, including the near-genocidal invasion of East Timor, Suharto was welcomed by the Clinton administration in 1995 as "our kind of guy."
Years after the great events of 1965, Kennedy-Johnson National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy reflected that it would have been wise to end the Vietnam war at that time, with the "virus" virtually destroyed and the primary domino solidly in place, buttressed by other U.S.-backed dictatorships throughout the region.
Similar procedures have been routinely followed elsewhere. Kissinger was referring specifically to the threat of socialist democracy in Chile. That threat was ended on another forgotten date, what Latin Americans call "the first 9/11," which in violence and bitter effects far exceeded the 9/11 commemorated in the West. A vicious dictatorship was imposed in Chile, one part of a plague of brutal repression that spread through Latin America, reaching Central America under Reagan. Viruses have aroused deep concern elsewhere as well, including the Middle East, where the threat of secular nationalism has often concerned British and U.S. planners, inducing them to support radical Islamic fundamentalism to counter it.
The Concentration of Wealth and American Decline
Despite such victories, American decline continued. By 1970, U.S. share of world wealth had dropped to about 25 percent, roughly where it remains, still colossal but far below the end of World War II. By then, the industrial world was "tripolar": US-based North America, German-based Europe and East Asia, already the most dynamic industrial region, at the time Japan-based, but by now including the former Japanese colonies Taiwan and South Korea, and more recently China.
At about that time, American decline entered a new phase: conscious self-inflicted decline. From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing. These decisions initiated a vicious cycle in which wealth became highly concentrated (dramatically so in the top 0.1 percent of the population), yielding concentration of political power, hence legislation to carry the cycle further: taxation and other fiscal policies, deregulation, changes in the rules of corporate governance allowing huge gains for executives, and so on.
Meanwhile, for the majority, real wages largely stagnated, and people were able to get by only by sharply increased workloads (far beyond Europe), unsustainable debt, and repeated bubbles since the Reagan years, creating paper wealth that inevitably disappeared when they burst (and the perpetrators were bailed out by the taxpayer). In parallel, the political system has been increasingly shredded as both parties are driven deeper into corporate pockets with the escalating cost of elections, the Republicans to the level of farce, the Democrats (now largely the former "moderate Republicans") not far behind.
A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute, which has been the major source of reputable data on these developments for years, is entitled "Failure by Design." The phrase "by design" is accurate. Other choices were certainly possible. And as the study points out, the "failure" is class-based. There is no failure for the designers. Far from it. Rather, the policies are a failure for the large majority, the 99 percent in the imagery of the Occupy movements — and for the country, which has declined and will continue to do so under these policies.
One factor is the offshoring of manufacturing. As the solar panel example mentioned earlier illustrates, manufacturing capacity provides the basis and stimulus for innovation leading to higher stages of sophistication in production, design and invention. That, too, is being outsourced, not a problem for the "money mandarins" who increasingly design policy, but a serious problem for working people and the middle classes, and a real disaster for the most oppressed, African Americans, who have never escaped the legacy of slavery and its ugly aftermath, and whose meager wealth virtually disappeared after the collapse of the housing bubble in 2008, setting off the most recent financial crisis, the worst so far.
[Note: Part 2 of Noam Chomsky's discussion of American decline will be posted on Salon tomorrow.]
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To clarify whether or not a plant species naturally occurs in Colorado, refer to Catalog of Colorado Flora by William A. Weber and Ronald C. Wittmann. Photo - This Boulder garden shows off golden banner (top), cutleaf fleabane (middle) and Bell's twinpod (bottom). Where can I buy these plants?Digging up wild plants is a NO-NO Many plant nurseries around Boulder, and some vendors at the Boulder Farmers' Market stock Colorado natives but be careful! There are many non-native look-alikes for sale, often with similar names. To be certain you are really buying a native and not a potentially noxious masquerader, download and print out the Colorado Native Plant Society's List of Native Plants Recommended for Horticulture (32.22 KB). Also beware of so-called "wildflower seed mixes," which often contain non-native pests. The nursery trade uses the plant's full scientific, or Latin, name to be sure they are supplying you with the proper species. Carry your list of recommended plants with you when you shop, and verify those Latin names before you buy! For more information on specific look-alikes to avoid, see our Native Garden Growing Tips page. Photo - White (stemless) evening primrose and blue mist penstemon are easy to find in local nurseries. Boulder Area SuppliersThese suppliers were found to carry at least 10 species on the CONPS list--we will update this list as we find more nurseries that carry natives. Gem O' The Field - 303-823-5776, stocks many Boulder natives, sets up a booth at Boulder's Farmer's Market. Harlequin's Gardens - 303-939-9403, 4795 N. 26th Street, Boulder; open Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Extensive selection of Boulder native shrubs, wildflowers, ground covers. Sturtz & Copeland Florists and Greenhouses, 303-442-6663, 2851 Valmont Road. Some native wildflowers and shrubs. Last Updated on Friday, 14 June 2013 15:28 |


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Staring at those shapes has an effect on the brain and the Solfeggio frequencies probably have more of a healing effect, on the DNA and chakras than any man-made pill. Have you wondered why we read from left to right and not right to left and what impact this has on blocking the heart and brain? Renaissance man (Da Vinci) wrote backwords, because the underlying polarity, mirrored mathematics and impacted the left, right function of the brain. Also, Love relays a mathematical frequency. Have you ever held the page of a book in a mirror and read it backwards 3 times a day? Crazy as it sounds.
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AMD has decided it doesn't like the claims Nvidia is making about its latest video card, the GTX 590. AMD launched the Radeon HD 6990 and said it was the fastest card on the market scoring the highest ever score using the 3DMark 11 benchmark. Nvidia is now claiming the fastest card title, but has not released any test scores to back that claim up … and AMD isn't happy!
AMD wants some proof and has challenged Nvidia to provide some benchmark statistics to back up their claim. AMD even went to far as to lay down the challenge on their own blog.
AMD must be pretty confident that their Radeon HD 6990 video card will beat the GTX 590 in a head-to-head. Someone is going to come out of this as the loser, and judging by reviews already published, our money is on AMD right now. They have reviews fromHot Hardware, TechGage, Legit Reviews, and Hexus all suggesting the 6990 comes out on top or at least equal with extra features pushing it above Nvidia.
When you also consider that the Radeon HD 6990 is actually cheaper than Nvidia's top-of-the-range video card, it is hard to side with Nvidia on this one. Having said that, the GTX 590 is slimmer and quieter than AMD's dual-GPU card and has more over-clocking potential.


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The following message was issued to campus this morning.
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff:
This morning all of us on campus and in Syracuse are grateful that we seem to have avoided any major impact from Hurricane Sandy. The storm, whose path was forecast yesterday to head directly through our region, changed course late in the day and headed farther south and west, sparing us from the rain and high winds predicted by the National Weather Service. While there will likely be some additional rain and wind today, SU will resume classes and full operations on Wednesday.
Our thoughts now turn to the family and friends of our campus community who have been impacted by Hurricane Sandy in the Washington, D.C. metro area, the New York City metro area, New Jersey, Connecticut, New England, Pennsylvania and other parts of the country.Having family and friends in harm's way is difficult, and we all cope with stress differently. There are a number of resources available today should students, faculty or staff need support or assistance. This includes the Counseling Center (443-4715), Hendricks Chapel (443-2901), and the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (443-1087).
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