Today in the UN there was muck talk about WAR... Today in the UN the executives of the 1% were sharing UN's platform... But there was no civility and no reason... Leaders called each other names... instead of calling for reasoned adult dialogue and discussion...
Name calling has solved NOTHING in the world and threats and counter-threats may just escalate the situation to a point of no return... Maybe we should call it NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN...
Climate change is fast approaching a point of no return...
Wars are multiplying... globally...
Political and religious terrorism is on the rise...
Refugee Crisis is globalized...
Russia is staging "war games..." instead of looking after its people...
The US, America... is more and more getting entangled into a race quagmire... White supremacists are getting bolder... the police are murdering more and more blacks and young people... They even chanted in St. Louise... "Whose streets...?
Our streets..." It was vulgar and very anoying to listen to the police chanting and copying the white supremacist of Charlottesville... where white supremacist confrontoed the people and killed one of them...
The Middle East still on fire... Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Israel/Palestine... all are in turmoil and war...
Saber rattling has never solved any problems... the US and North Korea have no right to take the world to a NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN...
The leaders of both countries should grow up and behave like adults... Is this wishful thinking...? Maybe... But then, it is our only alternative...
Check the story of a Russian, albeit Soviet, military officer...
Mr Petrov died 19 May at his home in a small town near Moscow... But the news was released this week...
... And this week... the UN is the stage when sabers are rattling... and an accident could happen...The US president warns North Korea will be "totally destroyed" if America is forced to defend itself. Donald Trump urges the United Nations to act... and harness North Korean nuclear ambitions...
Just a note: America is the only country in the world which has used the atomic bomb twice... once in Hiroshima and a follow up... a second one in Nagasaki...
Elders should not pick fights with infants... Elders should be restraint... Elders should think ... and saber rattling is not a sign of mature people... Grandstanding is just to satisfy a narcissistic ego...Saber rattling North Korea is as unreasonable as a saber rattling "adult"... Saber rattling is pure and simple-childish and fodder for infantile fantasies...
North Korea and America have no right to play with "fire and fury..." when the world is at stake...
If North Korea and the U.S. desire to rattle their sabers... why don't they engage in a Broadway show... and stage the Saber Dance in Katchadurian's Spartacus... on Broadway... Maybe the place for North Korea and the U.S. is the Broadway and not the UN...
Colonel Petrov holding the Dresden Prize in 2013, which was presented to him by a 25-year-old – a person from the generation ‘that would not have survived’ had it not been for him ... He made a difference... and WE should too...
Learning Responsibility from Stanislav Petrov, who averted a possible nuclear war has died at 77 without much fanfare…
A
former Soviet military officer credited with averting a possible
nuclear disaster at the peak of the Cold War has died at the age
of 77.
Stanislav
Petrov was on duty at a Russian nuclear early warning centre in
1983 when computers wrongly detected incoming missiles from the
US.
He
took the decision that they were a false alarm and did not report
them to his superiors.
His
actions, which came to light years later, possibly prevented
nuclear war.
"I
had all the data [to suggest there was an ongoing missile attack].
If I had sent my report up the chain of command, nobody would have
said a word against it," he said.
"All
I had to do was to reach for the phone; to raise the direct line
to our top commanders - but I couldn't move. I felt like I was
sitting on a hot frying pan."
Although
his training dictated he should contact the Soviet military
immediately, Petrov instead called the duty officer at army
headquarters and reported a system malfunction.
If
he had been wrong, the first nuclear blasts would have happened
minutes later.
"Twenty-three
minutes later I realised that nothing had happened. If there had
been a real strike, then I would already know about it. It was
such a relief," he recalled.
A
later investigation concluded that Soviet satellites had
mistakenly identified sunlight reflecting on clouds as the engines
of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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"I wish I could say there is no chance of an accidental nuclear launch today. But when we deal with space- when we play God- who knows what will be the next surprise...?"
Today when from the UN stage people are threatening each other... When people are saber rattling from North Korea to the UN in New York... I want to remember Stanislav Petrov... and his absolutely courageous decision not to report the error to his superiors...
It was during the Soviet era... and he could have been sentenced to death or jailed for life... He bold decision SAVED THE GLOBE... and we are alive because of him...
Thank you Stanislav... and PEACE ON EARTH... he said:
''I knew perfectly well that nobody would be able to correct my mistake if I had made one...''
The 1% does not have the right to take the world to a NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN... Stop the childish-narcissistic rhetoric and saber rattling...
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Turkey
submerging into an Islamic-Fascist Sinkhole...
A despotic Islamic Fascism is consolidating itself... trampling all
forms of democratic norms...
Check
the news...
Turkey's
schools have begun the new academic year with a controversial
curriculum that leaves out the theory of evolution and brings in the
concept of jihad...
Why these kids should be brainwashed out of reason into Islamic fascism... and intolerance towards minorities...?
Turkey's Islamist-rooted fascist government imposes a new
"education of values" curriculum...
Critics
have denounced new textbooks as "sexist" and
"anti-scientific", and complain of a major blow to
secular education.
"By
embedding a jihadist education of values, they try to plague the
brains of our little children, with the same understanding that
transforms the Middle East into a bloodbath," said Bulent
Tezcan of the secular, opposition CHP party.
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Reading
the news from Turkey... I was reminded of North American Evangelicals...
Evangelicals in the US want to throw evolution out of the textbooks or at least demand an equal time and space for their fantasies... creationism...
The North American Evangelicals also want a faith based curriculum very much like the Turkish Islamic fascists...
Organized religion - Islamic or Christian, want to lead the world to their version of apocalypse...
Religion must stay out of the state and out of our education system...
Schools are neither churches nor mosques... do not preach to people where you do not belong...
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