The Rise And Fall Of America

[Sprout]

Golden age meaning what time exactly?

Indigenous peoples would have an entirely different viewpoint.

In fact, the US constitution was influenced by the Iroquois Confederation, the latter which stills exists to this day.

‘The Great Law of Peace’

As for the golden age, that is a future possibility gradually crystallizing into the present by the sum of our collective choices.

The best is yet to come.

 

[modern]

The topic is really interesting from an economic point of view, but the deep political implication is also obvious. So we can talk about this endlessly.

 

[triggertrader]

The topic is really interesting from an economic point of view, but the deep political implication is also obvious. So we can talk about this endlessly.

The video explains it brilliantly

 

[triggertrader]

Indigenous peoples would have an entirely different viewpoint.

In fact, the US constitution was influenced by the Iroquois Confederation, the latter which stills exists to this day.

‘The Great Law of Peace’

As for the golden age, that is a future possibility gradually crystallizing into the present by the sum of our collective choices.

The best is yet to come.

Civilizations are born through conquests. That's the story of the Americas. However the video shows that even such a great civilization with so much growth and prosperity has fallen. The video explains it in incredible precise detail

 

[Humpy]

Maybe the US should seriously consider giving it back to the Indians, who they stole it off.
lol

 

[OddTrader]

Maybe the US should seriously consider giving it back to the Indians, who they stole it off.
lol

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A Material International Law?
by International Legal Studies Research Group, La Trobe Law School
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https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/a-material-international-law-tickets-43736069762?aff=eprofsaved

Description

The last few years have seen a flowering of materially aware philosophies, histories, and theories – a pronounced ‘material turn’ in the humanities and social sciences. As part of a broader project on the objects of international law, I ask here what might be revealed if we understand international law materially? And what might the implications be for international law and our understanding of the work it does in the world?

Jessie Hohmann is Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary, University of London. Her work encompasses international law and human rights, with a particular focus on the ‘objects’ and materiality of international law, the right to housing, and the rights of Indigenous Peoples. She is currently an ISRF Early Career Fellow, working to further an innovative research agenda on international law’s materiality.

 

[OddTrader]

In Taiwan, about 5% members of the Legislative Council are reserved to Indigenous People (6/113).

http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-43369711

 

[OddTrader]

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180312-historys-unfounded-fears-over-the-future-of-work

 

[OddTrader]

https://www.pcworld.com/article/155984/worst_tech_predictions.html
The 7 Worst Tech Predictions of All Time

By Robert Strohmeyer

PCWorld | Dec 31, 2008

Foolish Tech Prediction 1

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
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Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

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Foolish Tech Prediction 2

"Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."

Darryl Zanuck, executive at 20th Century Fox, 1946

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Foolish Tech Prediction 3

"Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years."

Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt vacuum company, 1955

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Foolish Tech Prediction 4

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

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Foolish Tech Prediction 5

"Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the Internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."

Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995

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Foolish Tech Predition 6

"Apple is already dead."

Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, 1997

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Foolish Tech Predition 7

"Two years from now, spam will be solved."

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 2004

 

[OddTrader]

" If You Want to Fall In Love With U.S., Live Outside of It
Bret Stephens, New York Times
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/...llection/sectioncollection/opinion-columnists

Maybe it’s time now to make “globalist” mean something after all. An earlier generation of globalists — they called themselves internationalists — had learned the lessons of the 1930s and understood that the U.S. could not cut itself off from the world and expect to remain safe from it. Successive generations of Americans — military and foreign-service officers, businessmen and teachers, humanitarians and entertainers — went out into the world and sought to make it a better place.

In 2016, the State Department estimated that as many as nine million Americans lived abroad, which is more people than live in Virginia. Even more so than the free trade champions at the Cato Institute or the foreign policy hawks at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, these expats are our real globalists, representing the things that make America great: adventure, engagement, commerce, openness to new ideas, and a love of America honed by a combination of critical distance and a new depth of appreciation.