I am a citizen of the Philippines, specifically in Mindanao group of island. This Maute Group(an alleged ally of ISIS) is terrorizing one of the city here in Mindanao and just started a war against the Philippine Army. Now, If these group will be successful, we would be like Syria. I wanna hear your opinions about these guys. thanks.
Short answer is no, it will not end anytime soon. Violence is quite efficient way to further political goals. Long answer goes all the way back to the concept of first sin. All human beings were gifted with free will to find their own way to salvation, BUT also to commit evil if they decide for it. We may eventually call terrorism by different name, but it will never go completely away as long as there are human beings. Every generation will need to face its challenges, fight between good and evil. It is part of our nature. However, I dont believe Phillipines in particular will become anything like Syria in near future. That particular conflict was inflamed from the outside and found support among local sunni Arabs, who make up half of entire population. In your country, I believe, there are how many? Maybe 6% of sunnis? All of them concentrated in the south and big cities. I do not share your optimism in this matter. What percentage of the population involved in the revolutions. Probably less than one. The consequences of this can be important for the whole country. 1% of the active population is much greater power than 99% of those who cowardly sit in their homes and wait it will all end. You can make the count with me, then  6% of Phillipinos are sunni muslims. Out of that number maybe 5% or violent radicals give or take (radicals are present in every society, just Islam is particularly forgiving towards them). So you have 0,3% of potentional jihadists in overall population of 100 million of whom vast majority are catholic Christians - who also know how to fight. I cant tell you, if there will ever be lasting peace, as sunni muslims are notoriously violent whenever they have to interact with foreign cultures and belief systems. What I can tell however is that Phillipines is not going to become caliphate. Not in the 21st century. I think, you are not giving natives enough credit, sir. They elected government that took hard stance against these Arab funded sociopaths and... if things go south from here, I have no doubt, that administration will call all good men to arms. |
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Ever since history was recorded for the first time by our ancestors in caves. Men stood above others with their tools. Perhaps we elevated those tools as they did elevate us. As an alchemical symbol the sword is a symbol of purification. Here we experience the metaphorical sword cleanly piercing the spiritual soul of man. This symbolic action sacrifices physical bondage to release a path to ethereal (enlightened) freedom. In Buddhism the sword symbolism deals with discrimination of thought. In this light, swords cut away ignorance. The swords of the Congo tribe in Central Africa are deeply symbolic of transition. In Chinese symbolism dreams of swords indicate birth gender. Freud would have us believe the sword in our dreams is a phallic symbol. FOCUS: Please, do you share your opinion on meaning of handheld weapons. Perhaps share your favourite one (factory made assault rifles, nukes and aircraft carriers, while admirable piece of technology, do not count). How do they make you feel? Do you believe men should feel comfortable with them?  |
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Because in most cases religion is already a tradition and people themselves contradict what they believe. They even just can not explain where their religion came from and what it leads to. How old are you? Because you obviously havent read anything about buddhism, christianity or islam. Or even about their history. Religions full of contradiction were weeded out by natural selection. Only select few survived to present day. Not, because they can replace your math book, but because their teaching reflects laws of nature. Let that sink in. Firstly, you can fully understand bible because the one who know the truly meaning is the one who wrote it. Second, our mind is limited. That's why we can't understand God's mind. Third, YOU NEED TO LEARN BIBLE IN THE RIGHT WAY AND IN DEPTH. IF YOU JUST READ AND UNDERSTAND IT LITERALLY, THEN IT'S ALL NONSENSE AND CONTRADICTION. PLEASE READ WITHIN THE CONTEXT, TIME AND PLACE, WHAT KIND OF WRITTEN WORK IS THAT. BIBLE WRITTEN BY VARIOUS PEOPLE IN VARIOUS AGE. LEARN BIBLE IN THE RIGHT WAY. Precisely, thank you. Adult will obviosuly benefit from the bible more, than a child as he can read between the lines. Religious text doesnt explain how something works (thats the work of scientists, that has been around for only the last couple of centuries), it is not manual to electronics. What it does is putting natural phenomena in context of our existence, teaching us how to treat it without disturbing nature itself. It teaches men of humility and of hope. Thank you, you understand! |
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Government cut social care by half where i live SHOOTINGS exploded ..
Believe me the poor will come for the rich ..
Why should we care? Is this a reason why we should succumb to socialist ideal and give them what they want? You're talking about a situation here those who have a lot of money are forced to give some of it to the poor, or they'll come and take it all. I have a different view. We should all take care of our own yard. If you have a lot to protect, invest in security, and if they come to rob you they'll be in for a surprise. All socialist and communist concepts are fundamentally wrong.  ..So stupid.. Apply it to taking the wealth from AFRICA and giving it to the poor of the WEST.. I have a different view. We should all take care of our own yard. If you have a lot to protect, invest in security, and if they come to rob you they'll be in for a surprise. ^ AND I AM SURE AFRICA THINKS THE SAME..<But can do nothing about it.. And every other countries wealth we west steal to feed our poor COUGH rich politicians and cronies.. Yes it's no different ..But on the small scale and it looks like you be it .. YER GO AND GET YOUR GUNS.. I got 20 people with guns to rape your wife and kill all your family.. ^^^^^^^^^ Small scale robbery Big scale robbery i want all your oil land gold minerals and if you say no i blow your whole city up.. BIG AND SMALL SCALE ROBBERY ...^^^^ So i suggest the rich and poor all get a universal income to stop moaning bitches like you well i am not feeding the poor.. No we all get it rich and poor we all get a starting point to live.. We all get a starting point to SPEND.. The robots will make the products.. So it's not a threat it's a promise that if we have so much poverty the planet will attack the rich.. It's fact not fiction.. Like me i am scared to buy my daughter a nice car in case someone drags her out of it.. Or gets scratched because of jealous people I.E the poor because they be no jealous if no poor.. You got it i got it.. So you can put your balls back in your pocket darkangel .. It's a fact if poverty around the poor go for stuff the rich own.. Well they are not going to steal off the poor  .. <THEY GOT NOWT Can you publish your photo? "He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it." Not that its funny, that you are defending demented communist ideology from position of militant atheist (and somehow see connection to Africa, socialists always try to find strawmen, when at the end of their wits). What is funny, is that you are propagating this dementia on Bitcointalk forum, among technology fans, who are capitalist pioneers. Have you paid your taxes from bitcoin profit already? Or are you another dirty commie, preaching equality and "stealing" for himself? |
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Ah, the eternal dilemma of every good atheist... How do I fill up me finite and ultimately meaningless existence on this planet before I become manure for some agricultural project? The purpose of life, at it's most basic level, is reproduction.
It's been that way for hundreds of millions of years. Primitive creatures had no idea of religion, or commerce, or society.
And your point is? Nowadays, reproduction is matter of choice (as is religion that backs these laws of nature). Welfare state and high taxation took practicality out of starting family, while abortion pills took away responsiblity for choice of sexual partner. Yes, you can indeed choose to follow a creed. In fact you have to, if you have higher ambitions, than to live a life of an ape. Secular society is unable to provide you with incentives. |
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People might remember a news item last year about an underage prostitute who had sex with dozens of police officers in Oakland. The girl was not paid for her encounters with police, instead they gave her secret information about upcoming "prostitution stings" so she would not get caught. Today her lawyer managed to get the city to pay for the romantic interludes of its officers. Oakland will pay $989,000, of which $973,000 will go to her lawyer, and she will receive $16,000, which works out to $20 per blowjob and $40 per normal sex act. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teen-oakland-police-sex-scandal-paid-1-million-article-1.3210280Should she have gotten more? I find this interesting for altogether different reason. Corruption is again and again mentioned on this board as a reason why poor countries stay poor. Well, this is happening in United States, but unless you are retarded, you dont consider Americans to be enbloc poor folk. Maybe corruption doesnt matter THAT much in creation of wealth and riches. Unless, you want to tell me, that Westerners became rich, when they did not know what corruption was. |
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Poor countrys will stay poor until people rise up and change the corrupted politicians.. and do so until they get some1 fair.. when they had it enough and start doing changes as a group every time some1 start to do something his way, they will grow... every country has potencial, just need right push  Corrupt regimes in third world nations are preferred by the developed nations. I can give you numerous examples. Remember Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso? He was a revolutionary leader, who tried to eradicate corruption and bring progress. But he was murdered in a CIA-backed coup, as the American companies found it impossible to bribe him. Another example is that of Patrice Lumumba, who was also assassinated by the CIA. So are you saying, that only thing holding subsaharan Africa back from becoming superpower is CIA? Is that correct? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curseIf you can walk out your front door any time of the year and grab fruit from a tree, why would you concern yourself about storing food? Long term planning is something most low iq, resource rich, low gdp per capita countries lack. Long term planning is the basis for any rich country. If you look at the IQ map posted, most high IQ countries fall within temperate zones where long term planning is required to survive winter. These countries also tend to have the highest GDP per capita aside from a few outliers. Reminds me of Cebu, Philippines where they purchased a bunch of extended length buses for use in mass transit. The buses got here and then they realized.... Oops! The buses are too long! They can't make the turns when driving through the city streets! Regarding corruption, it's been my experience that when there is a corrupt leader the population itself is also corrupt. These corrupt countries also tend to be in areas with no long term planning and low average IQ rankings. What the corrupt leader fails to understand when they're selling out their country is that they can make more money via corruption with long term planning and building their country up than they can by raping it. Take zimbabwae as an example, printing money to the point that they've stolen all wealth of the nation. Mugabe has been in power for 30 years, devalued the currency so that it's worthless, and systematically raped the country. If instead, he had built up his country he would have been able to steal what their current annual gdp is and no one would even notice! Their current GDP is only 14 billion annually. If he had built up his country to the scale of south africa, he could steal 14 billion annually and still have 298 billion to build up the country! His shortsightedness not only robbed him but everyone in the country. I think we are getting closer to the point. Everybody once lived in a stone age. Some got well past that to the point where they not only got rich but shared knowledge (and medicine) with rest of the world. Others seem to be pretermined to be dead weight, regardless how much time and money others spend on them. |
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I am so glad, that I resisted urge to enter short position again this week.
So lower lows or out of question for now? Also, according to Elliot waves count, where should we be looking for next local top? Retest of all time high, than drive all the way to 4000 USD per bitcoin??
I might be getting well ahead of time, thank you for any insight, guys.
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To Mrs may you have many a people who have put their trust in you so please don't let us down..
Truth goes a long way..
And the truth is out. The vile cunt plans on pissing away £10 Billion of public money to expedite a mass firesale of public NHS assets to private owners. Any gormless fuckwit who still thinks the NHS is safe in the tories' hands needs to read this and watch the video now During her TV interview with Andrew Neil last week, Theresa May repeated her usual nonsense ad nauseam, but when asked about Tory plans for the NHS, she only talked about The Naylor Report.
May admits that implementing the Naylor Report will cost ten billion pounds – but she makes it sound like this is additional government investment in the NHS.
It is not – it’s £10bn of our money that Mrs May intends to spend on ‘accelerating’ a ‘BOGOF’ two-for-one fire sale of NHS buildings and land to private developers at knock-down prices. The plan will also charge hospital trusts millions if they don’t want to sell. Every vote for a tory is a vote for the end of the NHS. Be under no illusion what it is you're choosing if you vote for her. You are a moron if you don't realise it by now, that loathesome bint is going to ruin this country and make a tidy profit for her rich donor friends in the process. Thanks. We rather stick with thiefs, than Sharia police, you can have that and more in your french paradise, now that Macron declared jihad against evil polish Gastarbeiters. http://www.thenews.pl/92fc1f36-7a61-472c-ae32-4b5ad29defb6.fileThat Corbyn bastard actually supports palestinian Hamas, even went as far as giving his regards to dead palestinian bomber. In the wake of Manchester massacre, that takes balls of cancer... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/28/jeremy-corbyn-criticised-labour-election-candidates-wreath-laying/My british friends, you know better than me, if Ms. May is fine or not. However, I dont see alternative to her at this moment. With labour being controlled by a criminal madman, its basically choice between lesser evil. Islamic gulags or theft as usual? |
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Seems like Hillary Clinton knew father of the bomber well before hand. Well do your fathers, gentlemen?  Do you still believe the story that poor Ahmed was discriminated against, while your overprivileged asses should feel guilty? Also good riddance, that bitch Clinton lost election squarely. Serves backstabbing marxists right. Ramadan Abedi, father of the bomber:  |
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Also what you must think on is if robots take over and not many people making money the companies
are all sucking it up ..
Who will buy the goods not many so not many computers sold for Zuckerberg means face book dies..
And cars and LIFE..
I remember the same arguments being published across the press two decades back, to scare people from using computers. But what happened in the end? Computers created more jobs than those which were lost. The same will happen this time also. Please be optimistic about the future. Its not about being optimistic or not for the future. Its about predicting fall out of game changing events. For example nuclear weapons while considered horrible by public - were effective deterrent of another world war by assurance of mutual destruction. Similar unintended side effect might come with basic income, so it is very short sighted to be simply fan of it for the sake of "progress". What are the DOWNSIDES? Unless somebody here is able to quantify those and simulate its effects on future generation, then its prudent to stay cautious. |
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To find out why there are rich countries and some poor countries, we must have some things, the first is the concept of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP is a measure of the economic level of a country. Simply put, GDP is the addition of all production activities of goods and services within a year. The greater this amount (eg buying iron and turning into a car), the greater the GDP of a country. Indonesia's GDP rating in 2014 is 16, this is higher than the Netherlands (17) and Malaysia (35), then is Indonesia a rich country?
Unfortunately the large GDP is the contribution of the entire population of the country, so you can imagine we have an income of Rp. 100 million but have 100 children, our life will be very bad. To better see the size of individual wealth, we will use per capita GDP that divides GDP by population. Indonesia's per capita GDP is ranked 118, the Netherlands (13), and Malaysia (62).
Based on these measures, poor countries are countries with low per capita GDP, and rich countries are countries with high GDP per capita. Why is there a rich country? Because they are able to produce high value products with many numbers, this is the concept of PRODUCTIVITY. In the case of GDP per capita, countries wishing to improve their welfare should (1) increase activity and goods, or (2) reduce their population.
"Thanks" for wikipedia definition I think even dead are able to make difference between poor and rich. The thing is, that some countries were able to grow from poor to rich, while other stayed poor.
The rich countries include industrialization, advanced technology, advanced education system, improved agricultural system and skilled workers. There is no system in the poor countries, poor countries are largely dependent on agriculture. But poor countries have poor agricultural system. So poor country They are poor.
That is not the reason. In poor countries, usually 80% to 85% of the population is dependent upon agriculture. In the developed nations, this percentage is around 2% to 3%. If the farmer population is larger, that means less land per farm, and less profits per farm owner. True, however, if you went back in history, youd find that practically all of current existing societies were dependant on agriculture. Netherlands, cradle of capitalism used to be backwards fishery of Reich just 500 years ago and Norways living standarts were comparable to those of Somalia. Something changed and those countries emerged as world leaders in productivity over the course of several generations. Without apparent help from outside too. In similar regard, for some reason Roman and old chinese empires emerged where they did and how they did, not in Africa or South America. Then and there. For "some" reason |
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Recently North Korea stated that they are going to attack japan with a missile. As an update yesterday japan is now trying to buy a tomahawk missile from the US because of that treat
And as always, it is the United States which benefits in the end. More Tomahawk sales means more revenue for the American treasury (a single missile costs around $2 million). And the sale will create many thousands of jobs in the United States as well. Which is perfectly fine, if you ask me. Free market has no point in defense industry and its perfectly normal, beneficial even, that countries manufacture their own weaponry with local resources and then sell them to long term allies. The downside here of course is, that entire threat of North Korea is severely blown out of water from the point of view of Americans. However, look at it from japanese view, friend. If war in peninsula ever goes from cold to hot - perhaps even on western provocation, then its japanese, not Americans, who are well within radius of NK counter strike. Japanese are prudent in this case. |
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If the tax is not being used to improve a certain country, then it is somehow a theft.
If a thief steals your wallet then gives the money to his sick mother...is it still theft? If a thief steals your wallet then uses the money to buy guns to kill people are you party to murder because you allowed the theft? This is great come back, sir. I salute you. Elwar, with all due respect. Private property is private property. It can become public property, when YOU and YOU alone gave your God given rights away for the benefit of all. Not because some unelected commie fuck decides, that his friends needs your property more than you do. Sometimes, I just know, that you westerners lead incredibly sheltered lifes, otherwise you would be far more prudent about the way you handle gifts. |
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Big dump on Finex...time to go below $2k again... Not yet. We will see several more days of sideways. 5% plus or minus a day is nothing. I think we will eventually hit 1600 as a bottom, but not before end of this week. Volume needs to dry out a little bit more. It will be long weekend, guys. |
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I am a citizen of the Philippines, specifically in Mindanao group of island. This Maute Group(an alleged ally of ISIS) is terrorizing one of the city here in Mindanao and just started a war against the Philippine Army. Now, If these group will be successful, we would be like Syria. I wanna hear your opinions about these guys. thanks.
Short answer is no, it will not end anytime soon. Violence is quite efficient way to further political goals. Long answer goes all the way back to the concept of first sin. All human beings were gifted with free will to find their own way to salvation, BUT also to commit evil if they decide for it. We may eventually call terrorism by different name, but it will never go completely away as long as there are human beings. Every generation will need to face its challenges, fight between good and evil. It is part of our nature. However, I dont believe Phillipines in particular will become anything like Syria in near future. That particular conflict was inflamed from the outside and found support among local sunni Arabs, who make up half of entire population. In your country, I believe, there are how many? Maybe 6% of sunnis? All of them concentrated in the south and big cities. |
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Do you believe in god? If you do, why do you believe? (give a few reasons)
I believe in God, but I do not accept any of the religions. God is one and he directs man wherever he needs, and religion interferes with normal living. Religion is not created by God, but by the government in order to manage people. That is why many people deny God. They do not understand the differences between God and religion. I believe in God and I am sure that he helps me to live. Let me get this straight. So you know your religion was invented by people and is essentially bunch of horse shit but you want to believe in it anyway. I think it makes you more retarded than an average Baptist church goer. They are ignorant, you are not. God concept was MADE UP by people. Why don't you believe in Superman or Santa Claus? There are many other interesting novels with more colorful characters. Do you even know what that imaginary God of yours is? Some ghost somewhere, who knows where, that listens to 6 billions praying to him? Do I need to go on? And what is to you, that there are people, who inherently understand, they arent mere animals living ultimately meaningless and finite life like you do? Is it that offensive, that indeed majority of humankind either via organized religion or on their own want to ascend to higher existence and find peace within themselves? You on your own accepted the role of pariah consumed by hatred of those not of poor soul like you. May God forgive you for your blind hate of fellow human beings. EDIT.: Your Superman did not create Universe, laws of physics or human soul, did he? Less talking and more thinking. Thank you. |
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10 US cities have signed a petition to the Senate with the requirement to begin procedure of impeachment Trump. Of course the municipal authority has no authority for such a solution, but it may force legislators to consider it. Do you think the deck of cards Trump still trump?
Based on what? Because someone wants it? Well, I want "Les Baer 1911" for Christmas? We all want something. Let him do his job. You elected him. In less than 4 years, you'll have another chance to vote for someone else. The Democrats are just cry babies, there is nothing wrong if Trump wants to be allies with the Russians, there is no clause in the constitution that forbids it. So they better stop all these fake news and let him build his wall. You know, the country is in crisis, when "democrats" want to throw democratically elected man into jail for not liking him. I bet my Bitcoins he will never finish his mandate. His senility is already catching up , that's a matter of time.
I wouldn't bet even 1 satoshi on that. Unless Trump do something totally ridiculous and outrageous he will remain president. There is no way that he will ever be impeached, it is far more more likely that he will be assassinated though. Personally I would bet more money that he will win next presidential election as well. Precisely. Presidental office of United States is "merely" most powerful single job on the planet. What these idiots do, but their crying is nothing but weakening of constituion and stability of States as whole. Roman empire did not die, when barbarians sacked the capital, but when degenerates started killing their own leaders every six months for "not liking them" (aka not being paid enough). Putting entire state into permanent state of crisis. Ever since Soviet Union collapsed, Americans are proving again and again that they are their own biggest enemies. |
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No simple answer to that question. A lot of factors play a role. Aside countries that experienced war, corruption is the major reason why some countries are poor. By being poor, it implies that life is hard for a large number of people. You will see some countries with a lot of resources but due to mismanagement of public funds et al, the money is in circulation within just few people, and the masses just suffer and live each day with stress and struggles. The funniest part is that some countries that don't even have huge resources will find a way to make things work for them by developing their country to the optimal level to make it worthwhile for even their generations unborn. This is one of the advantages of having good leaders in the helms of affair.
There is not anything funny about that. Its the topic of this entire thread. Some nations and tribes have inherent IQ and culture, that produces people with high work ethics. Others do not. The only question is how large role do those two play. We can agree on the fact, that resources are not everything - as they eventually run out. Rich Arab states will become poor again, when oil dries out. Japan or Iceland will stay rich regardless.
The rich countries include industrialization, advanced technology, advanced education system, improved agricultural system and skilled workers. There is no system in the poor countries, poor countries are largely dependent on agriculture. But poor countries have poor agricultural system. So poor country They are poor.
Rich countries used to be poor at one time too (altough we are probadly talking about time in history, where your "poor countries" of today did not even exist on map), they were able to develope, more often than net without outside help. |
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