On 2004-11-28, DonQuijote1954 wrote:
Timo Noko wrote
On 2004-11-27, DonQuijote1954 wrote:
Originally posted by goth1856
...about the virus anology...ever notice a satell pix of modern
civilization on the face of the earth is just like a colony of virus
on the host? it begged the question are we the virus plague apon the
planet?

Luckily we do have a cure for this plague:
http://www.kolumbus.fi/jik/sarastus/penaintr.htm

In Finland we have only 3% of foreign descent, compared to Sweden's
40%, and thus this guy's 50 years of premonitory sermons did have a
covert effect, inspite of being officially comdemned.

Finland has traditionally been a country of emigration. Over one
million finnish people has moved from Finland since 1900, half of that
before World War II. Without any emigration there would be 6-7 million
inhabitants in Finland. The most important wave of emigration started
from the 1860's and went on to the 1930's, when emigrants headed
mainly for North America. The next wave of dimension was the
emigration to Sweden which started in the 1950's and diminished in the
1970's.

Remember that Finland's birth rate has been articially boosted for a
century. Especially during the fascist era there was a huge (20%)
bachelor-tax -- make babies or move out of the country. From 1990
even the officially stated policy of government and busines (=Nokia)
leaders has been that 1/4 of the native finns are genetically of
subhuman quality, not worth jobs, healthcare, housing, higher
education, or even as a breeding stock. Hence we have started to
import better people en mass and soon we'll have nice multicultural
scene like all em other countries..

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
-Charles Darwin

(cut)

Let's see ... humans can adapt to live underwater, on land, in arid regions,
in space, etc. Unless humans run out of energy, I suspect that they will
continue to thrive. If humans *do* run out of energy, look for the cock
roaches and ants to fill in the void.

I can see a bright future...for roaches and ants.

Humans though can live on land for quite a while (maybe 100 years) but
more difficult to live under water or up in space (maybe some months
at most).

The scenarios of destruction can be multiple, but it can most likely
descend into chaos and war due to scarcity of resources and/or
environmental catastrophes and/or injustice. We can see what's to come
by learning from the past...

A Recipe for Disaster?

Easter Island is the perfect precedent of what will happen to the
world--if we don't stop it on time. The most valuable resources are
being diverted into EXTRAVAGANT PROJECTS and WARS, while the REAL
ISSUES--environmental damage, injustice, etc--are ignored. The WATER
WELL IS DRYING UP before our very eyes. A recipe for disaster, I'd
say...

'The little spot of land in the middle of endless sea is more-or-less
in the same situation as our lonely little rock in dark cold universe,
and in the ecologically induced class struggle between "Long Ears" and
"Short Ears" we might see reflection of the escalating conflict
between rich and privileged states of the First World and numerically
increasing yet constantly impoverished multitudes of the Third World.'

RAPA NUI (1994)
reviewed by
Dragan Antulov

The plot of this film is based on the legends and historical
speculations about Easter Island in Southeast Pacific, the most remote
part of the world that was ever settled by human beings. Dutch
explorers, upon discovering those islands in 1722, found impressive
statues but the the local population, made of stone-age cannibalistic
savages, seemed incapable of erecting them. The movie tries to give
the explanation for this by setting the story few decades before the
arrival of Europeans. The island is so far away from the other lands
and that the descendants of Polynesian settlers forgot their roots and
believe that they are the only people in the world. Lack of external
conflicts doesn't mean that there aren't tensions within the community
- the society is divided into two classes based on racial features -
aristocratic "Long Ears" and plebeian "Short Ears". The class and
racial tensions has begun to escalate because of the population
explosion; the island is simply too small to provide the needs for the
people. Old and senile king Ariki-mau (played by Eru Potaka-Dewes) is
less concerned with those problems, because he thinks only of erecting
bigger and bigger statues in order to placate gods. His grandson Naro
(played by Jason Scott Lee) has other things on his mind, since he
fell in love in "Short Ear" girl Ramana (played by Sandirine Holt).
Love that crosses class divide happens in worst of all times, since
"Short Ears" like Make (played by Esai Morales) are less and less
enthusiastic about "Long Ears" rule, which slowly but inevitably paves
the way for brutal civil unrest.

RAPA NUI definitely belongs to the same category as multitude of other
films with strong environmental message, which used to be made during
the zenith of Hollywood's "political correctness" in early to mid
1990s. What distinguishes this film from those films is the manor in
which the message is delivered to the audience. Namely, filmmakers
wisely chose to set the plot in a time before arrival of Europeans,
thus sparing the viewers from "politically correct" cliches of evil
European civilisation destroying the nature. RAPA NUI shows that less
advanced native cultures, which are supposed to be more "in tune" with
the nature, can be equally or even more deadly to the environment than
their modern-day equivalents. What is even more remarkable about this
film is the fact that the whole story can be seen as powerful allegory
about the current state of human civilisation as a whole. The little
spot of land in the middle of endless sea is more-or-less in the same
situation as our lonely little rock in dark cold universe, and in the
ecologically induced class struggle between "Long Ears" and "Short
Ears" we might see reflection of the escalating conflict between rich
and privileged states of the First World and numerically increasing
yet constantly impoverished multitudes of the Third World. Unlike
other films that try to shove the Message down our throats by, RAPA
NUI successfully shows how greed, ignorance and unbalanced approach
towards environment can bring down entire civilisation.

Unfortunately, most of the viewers have to digest this message in the
context of plot, characters and situations that sometimes look too
cliched or simplistic, or simply out of place. One of the examples is
the triathlon scene, which looks like it was added into the film only
to provide some testosterone- filled action in otherwise depressive
movie. The writer and director Kevin Reynolds nevertheless manages to
keep things under control, helped by ethnically diverse and very
capable cast. Despite many flaws, RAPA NUI is a film that can leave a
strong impression on any viewers, and after WTC bombings, when the
future of our world seems so uncertain, this impression is definitely
going to be even stronger.

more...

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Timo Noko wrote in message ...
Remember that Finland's birth rate has been articially boosted for a
century. Especially during the fascist era there was a huge (20%)
bachelor-tax -- make babies or move out of the country. From 1990
even the officially stated policy of government and busines (=Nokia)
leaders has been that 1/4 of the native finns are genetically of
subhuman quality, not worth jobs, healthcare, housing, higher
education, or even as a breeding stock. Hence we have started to
import better people en mass and soon we'll have nice multicultural
scene like all em other countries..

I thought you were anti-immigrant, but I didn't get the point about
inferior Finns. Well, for those who are anti-immigrant, they must
realize we got something in common in fixing the problems of the
Thirld World...

Scandinavia went from being a poor emigrant place to a rich immigrant
place. Sweden studied America in order to learn what to do--and what
not to do--in the 1920's and by the 30's it was already a model.

On 2004-11-28, DonQuijote1954 wrote:
Timo Noko wrote in message ...
Remember that Finland's birth rate has been articially boosted for a
century. Especially during the fascist era there was a huge (20%)
bachelor-tax -- make babies or move out of the country. From 1990
even the officially stated policy of government and busines (=Nokia)
leaders has been that 1/4 of the native finns are genetically of
subhuman quality, not worth jobs, healthcare, housing, higher
education, or even as a breeding stock. Hence we have started to
import better people en mass and soon we'll have nice multicultural
scene like all em other countries..

I thought you were anti-immigrant, but I didn't get the point about
inferior Finns. Well, for those who are anti-immigrant, they must
realize we got something in common in fixing the problems of the
Thirld World...

20% unemployed (defacto) and they say we "urgently" need more people.
According to CEO of Nokia those (unemployed) are of inferior quality
(inspite of high education) and we need to give tax-breaks those
educated foreigners that are willing to move to Finland.

Scandinavia went from being a poor emigrant place to a rich immigran
place. Sweden studied America in order to learn what to do--and what
not to do--in the 1920's and by the 30's it was already a model.

Please. Sweden did not start mass-immigration until 1960. Wages were
3 times higher than in Finland (I was there -- as a summer-timer
immigrant laborer). Downhill ever since, now Sweden is poorer than
Finland with appaling third-world problems.

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20% unemployed (defacto) and they say we "urgently" need more people.
According to CEO of Nokia those (unemployed) are of inferior quality
(inspite of high education) and we need to give tax-breaks those
educated foreigners that are willing to move to Finland.

...more delted

Timo,

We have reached the same situation here. There have been massive layoffs
in the technology sector and I have friends with 10-25 years of
experience who cannot find jobs. The government, however, allowed an
additional 20,000 H1B work visas this year (over the previous
50,000/year allowed before) to replace "inferior workers." Inferior
means, by the way, expensive to pay (another example of doublespeak).

When the world salary structure begins to equalize and you no longer can
pay someone from India 30% of what you pay someone in the US, the US
worker will suddenly have become more knowledgeable.

Rick

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:49:27 GMT, Rick wrote:

We have reached the same situation here. There have been massive layoffs
in the technology sector and I have friends with 10-25 years of
experience who cannot find jobs. The government, however, allowed an
additional 20,000 H1B work visas this year (over the previous
50,000/year allowed before) to replace "inferior workers." Inferior
means, by the way, expensive to pay (another example of doublespeak).

When the world salary structure begins to equalize and you no longer can
pay someone from India 30% of what you pay someone in the US, the US
worker will suddenly have become more knowledgeable.

Too bad the downsizing of employment and salaries does not extend to
the executive types in proportion to what has happened to American
workers.

Have they finished changing $6/hr burger-flipping jobs to be
considered as manufacturing jobs, so that the stats look better?

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
------------------------------------------------
at the 51st percentile of ursine intelligence

Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA
Please reply to: garyDOTschwartzATpoboxDOTcom

Timo Noko wrote in message ...
I thought you were anti-immigrant, but I didn't get the point about
inferior Finns. Well, for those who are anti-immigrant, they must
realize we got something in common in fixing the problems of the
Thirld World...

20% unemployed (defacto) and they say we "urgently" need more people.
According to CEO of Nokia those (unemployed) are of inferior quality
(inspite of high education) and we need to give tax-breaks those
educated foreigners that are willing to move to Finland.

It sounds to me like Saudi Arabia...

What is good for GM...is bad for the American people, in light for so
many SUVs out there polluting and threatening others on the road.
Perhaps the same for Nokia?

Anyway if you got such unemployment, isn't it time cut down the
workweek?


Scandinavia went from being a poor emigrant place to a rich immigran
place. Sweden studied America in order to learn what to do--and what
not to do--in the 1920's and by the 30's it was already a model.

Please. Sweden did not start mass-immigration until 1960. Wages were
3 times higher than in Finland (I was there -- as a summer-timer
immigrant laborer). Downhill ever since, now Sweden is poorer than
Finland with appaling third-world problems.

Well, the problem in Finland seems to have more to do with
globalization than with immigration. Sweden is another story, which
may prove the failure of socialism with people who don't share the
values (immigrants). I'd chose neither route: neither socialism nor
globalization, but ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY (mostly through competition from
coops), providing more employment with fewer hours and cutting down
welfare. Of course, those policies must be implemented first and
foremost in the countries that feed the immigrants to Scandinavia.

Scandinavia has its own system based on low corruption and high taxes
that may work best for them. At least it can't be called a jungle, and
it's #1 in most world rankings. For one the hordes of homeless, the
crime, the dilapidation you find in America are not found there...

What else is an idiot to believe, that leaders of the world care about
the environment any more than their petty wars?

Petty wars? Well maybe the war of Jenkins ear but I don't think that
happens
anymore.

petty: Marked by narrowness of mind, ideas, or views.


So an opposite point of view or ideology is petty? Boy, you'll fit right in
here :-)

Petty wars occur when the real motives of a war are faked, so to hide
the fact that they remain good old-fashioned plundering and pillaging.

'I typed this message espically on a japanese keyboard because quite
frankly it sickened me the other day whilst in my hotel room i turned
on the T.V (thats not the only revelation) but it sicken me to what i
heard and I can say this until the cows come home The 2nd Gulf War is
nothing compared to vietnam and that is what sickened me i may not be
a racist or politican but i am a patriot and i respect my own and my
allies countries and the fact that a "petty war over oil" can be
compared to the sheer horror of vietnam and i want to close by saying
that it is un4exceptable and that this is the kind of slander that
needs to go from our lives not violent films etc.

I just want to display my point of view.'
Fox

Posted by TheFox on 04/28/04 at 02:12 PM

http://www.oddlotsirregulars.com/ind.../comments/658/

Petty wars occur when the real motives of a war are faked, so to hide
the fact that they remain good old-fashioned plundering and pillaging.

Now you're just applying words to a current situation. Booooooooo. No
attention span.

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Actually that's what I had in mind all along. While politicians turn a
blind eye to the environmental crisis, they engage in petty wars over
oil.

This is a picture of our leaders...

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders...tten/moai.html

suv`s are obviously an unecesary risk to the current population mainly
because of their gratutiously unecessary use of irreplacable resources -
the current doubling of oil prices is directly attributable to their growth
in the USA and Europe -oil demand is forecast to double in the next 20
years but supply will possibly drop by 25 % this problem would disappear if
the use of road fuel in the USA dropped by 15% -banning SUVs or restricting
them to non heated non AC agricultural types would achieve this overnight
and also reduce pedestian deaths by 8 %. All governments world wide must act
immediatley to suppress the yank tank invasion! -DESMODUS

It makes sense to me. But it won't be the governments of the
world--they are either in complicity or simply intimidated--but the
people of the world that can make the difference.


In the meantime we can talk about the Law of the Jungle...

"When the Law of the Land is the Law of the Jungle"

"One who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who
willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the
conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality
expressing the highest respect for law." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Law of the Jungle (that gives name to my homepage) was inspired by
the injustice of the bicycles (little animals) having no space in the
jungle roads. And that's exactly evident in this article: The Law of
the Land is the Law of the Jungle...

The Law of the Land
by Laura J. Sharp

Ripping around the corner at breakneck speeds, Maverick, Unit 07, Bike
Courier, lays on the brakes in front of one of those giant glass oil
company buildings in downtown Calgary. He skids to a halt, bounces off
his bike, and locks it to the racks outside the building. He zips past
several suits in his mad sprint to get into the building and deliver
his trip.

Several of the suits turn and glare at him as he runs. What is it in
their eyes? Is that hate? Or is it jealousy? When Maverick returns,
speeding faster because of inertia. He climbs on to his bike and zips
off down the bike ramp towards the road, only to be stopped at the end
of the ramp by an officer of the law. The law is upheld and physics is
stopped. Maverick receives his ticket.

This is one small event in the daily life of a courier, as they dodge
glares, outrun shouts and profanities, and try to monitor the
co-ordinates of the police officers "just doing their jobs." Never
mind the onslaught of three million tons of steel whizzing past the
bike riders every day. When asked why he got the ticket Maverick
replies:

"...Irate secretary bitches from hell breathing down your neck, all in
the name of greed from management breathing down their neck for their
millions of dollars in your courier bag, which they can't get (there)
any damn quicker than on a bicycle in the inner city core. And they're
more than happy to cut you off on the way to the office to check on
those millions you have in your bag. See, it all comes down to a
greedy suit pig."

The Bike Couriers are a community of people providing a necessary and
essential service to the same community of people who would love to
see them squished against the side of a bus, or taken down by a
S.W.A.T. team for trying to deliver their envelopes. It is this
community that the couriers serve, who file complaints to city hall
demanding by-laws for their own protection against "these hoodlums who
defile the streets and threaten the safety of the pedestrians," as one
downtown suit put it. Or as Stephanie Keer from the Calgary Sun, circa
1990, put it "(the Bike Couriers are) evil daredevils, and idiots."

(snip)

So yes, bike riders are a threat to the common security of the
populace that is released upon the streets every weekday at noon. But
the common security is merely a sense, a false prophet that dictates
the ruin of not only those that enforce the silly laws, but those that
rely upon the silly laws for a sense of protection from the wild world
of the free spirit.

The free spirit that owns the world of couriers. The free spirit that
owns the wind and those that choose to ride in it. The free spirit
that flies at the back of Maverick, Unit 07, as he tears up to the
next office tower made of glass.

It is this freedom that prevents the Bike Courier from ever being
caught. Caught within a self-defeating dome of glass and oil, and
trapped from the outside world where reality still reigns.

more...

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http://committed.to/justiceforpeace