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#26 Re: Not So Free Chat » Perspective » 2008-05-16 16:34:16

I think they should send the Army!

They're supposedly trained for the hardest conditions and to survive with a bare minimum big_smile

Well seeing how they managed to fail to adapt to Iraq and Afghanistan. They would probably just shoot each other.

#27 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-16 16:32:17

How about morality? How about that killing is wrong? They are killing innocent people, not people that have done them any harm! How would the World fell if Israel started randomly killing innocent Palestinians,

Well considering that Israel HAS done it and the reaction to it was just a simple outrage and then ignoring it. I would say morality isn't a question here. Just who your friends are. Israel would never have been allowed to get with the war crimes if America wasn't protecting them.

they would just carpet bomb whole Palestinian villages, towns and cities reducing the whole thing to rubble, completely destroying them!

Isn't that what they did in Lebanon? They couldn't find the captured Israeli Soldiers so they randomly bombed Lebanese towns. Bush and Blair were protecting Israel in the UN. In fact a remember a famous quote a british journalist asked our prime minster.
"Can I be clear prime minster what your message is to Israel. Stop now! Because has you said what is happening is a catastrophe or Is your message carry on until this international plan is developed."

This was at the height of the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon. Bombings that served no strategic or morale purposes.

The World wouldn't tollerate that,

It clearly did.


No one ever holds the Iranians accountable for their terrorism, they even fired some missiles over when George Bush was visiting, maybe we ought to fire some friendly missiles over to their country.

How about the fact that no one helds the US responsible for it's actions. USA  and the UK invaded Iraq a sovereign nation and faced no consequence. TWO world wars were started because two useless good for nothing European countries that no one has ever heard of were invaded. But suddenly what Happens in the Middle East is different? USA along with the UK started a coup against a legitimate Iranian government and forced the Iranian people to suffer for years under the Shah. When the Iranians removed him USA sanctioned them. They  had to learn the hard way like the Cubans did. Brown skinned people aren't allowed to change dictators unless approved by USA or the UK.

The Gaza community should stop hosting Hamas then, shouldn't they?

Kinda hard when all the of the guns belong to Hamas. Got any better ideas? Global warming can be solved by not breathing out Carbon Dioxide?

While other Russians sell missiles and nuclear reactors to those who want to kill their fellow nationals. Why don't the Russians just save themselves the trouble and simply nuke itself decimating its own population of Russians rather than doing so in foreign territories?

Notice how he never answered any of my points. Just focused on the Russians. Russians who were invited in an immigration scheme to make the Arabs are permanent minority. There is international laws against that.


Why should Great Britian, a Christian country with an official church care about Arab religious beliefs? I don't expect British Soldiers to stand aside while Arab villagers want to stone Christian missionaries who were trying to convert Muslims to their faith. I don't expect British to have any sympathies to intollerant chauvanistic Arabs.

Why should they? Because It was the Arabs that helped them defeat the Turks. It was the Arabs they promised would be allowed to live free. It was the Arabs who died to fight in a war didn't actually concern them much. It was the Arabs who were the only Allied fighters to end up worse after winning the war then before when they were under Central Power occupation.

And whats this about the Jews "failing to integrate"? Are centuries of European Christian bigotry and complete ignorance of their own religious doctrines about the fate of their Savior some how the Jews fault?

Prior to the Holocaust. The Jews who championed Zionism were the same ones who were championing integration. They were secular jews. When they realised that Europeans didn't like them they decided to move out. Apparently Kenya wasn't suitable because the local Africans living there wouldn't take it to nicely if they came and took it over. So the Arabs had to suffer. Instead of integrating with the Arabs like the Middle Eastern cousin they deluded themselves that they were superior to the Arabs and the Arab would appreciate being led by people with better culture.

Oh I know Hamas used its legislative victories to launched a coup against Abas executive control in Gaza.

No you don't. It was Fatah that tried to launch a coup. Don't try to say otherwise. There are leaked documents.

What I'm asking is how has Gaza improved since Hamas toke over. Cause I suspect its still the same old excuses on how your life sucks because there a Jews within a thousand miles of Jerusalem, and unlike those Zionist collaborators Fatah, Hamas will increase rocket attacks on Jewish shopping malls by 33%.

Oh thats a terrible tactic.  roll  How obvious and sad. That would have only worked if the state of Gaza was the same before Hamas took over. Well we all know it's not.  Before Hamas even took a single political action their budget was gone.

Questions of the lands ability to support the population aside, theres still that pesky issue of the Arabs trying to deny the Jews self-determination with the sword. The Jews fought and won that right. Why would they give it up?

In case you haven't noticed. The Conflict is still ongoing. All though I have to mention that Israel has had the luck of being given billions by USA and high tech military equipment by France,Germany and USA. Give the Palestinians the same including training and lets see who would win.

Israel still controls the strip's airspace, territorial water and offshore maritime access, as well as its side of the Gaza-Israeli border. And while I'm sure theres a swarm of UAVs overhead, and a Mossad agent on every other street corner, Israel does not have control over the strip itself. They even gave up control of the Philadelphi Route, which is a narrow strip adjacent to the Strip's border with Egypt to prevent the smuggling of weapons across the border. Thats going well.

You don't call that control of Gaza? Because thats what it sounds like.


So, no, all of Gazas ills are on firmly on the shoulders Hamas now.

How? Give me an example of one thing that Hamas has done wrong.  That isn't related to the Israeli Blockade or the loss of AID money that the PA has been getting for years.

Which brings us back to the ongoing rocket attacks. Now, if we are suppose to believe that all the Palestinians want is a state to call their own based on the pre 67 borders, and that as far is the land is concerned, Hamas has complete control of the territory, they would have no reason in continue fighting from Gaza and they could go about creating the Arab Islamic utopia dreamed of ever since May 14th, 1948, at least as far they can with the resources in the territory. And you could probably make a legitimate case for making diplomatic efforts to ease the air and sea blockade to bring in additional imports, start trade ect. Hell, if it was the only shots fired in anger, you could justify the shooting down Israeli aircraft in Gazan airspace, and sinking Israeli craft in the Gazan waters. after all, it's what any self respecting sovereign state would do. Ground based attacks could continue against IDF positions and Israeli settlements in the West Bank, cause, afterall, all they want is a state of their own, one that "doesn't look like swiss cheese". Then they wouldn't have to endanger Gazan citizens by launching attacks from there, inviting Israeli counterstrikes.

1: The conflict is on going. It never ended. Unlike you Palestinians see Gaza has a part of Palestine. Which means that the occupation of West Bank is still in play.
2: No truce or agreement that Hamas would stop firing.
3: It's impossible for Hamas to do anything until they get access to money and the Gazans are allowed to trade with the outside world. Only a fool would think that it's possible to build a good economy within a nation alone.

Radical Islam is by its very nature indiscriminate.

Indiscriminate in loving good people and hating bad people. smile


Actually, our problem, if you want to call it that, is that we are not narcissistic enough to assume we can talk our enemies out of their dangerous ideas. Our enemies are free to have them, and if they threaten us with them they face the full might of the US Armed forces, not a hand full of diplomats convinced to their last breath that the right ego stroking worlds would calm the savage beasts.

Bush made this point to the Knesset today. Obama (this thread was suppose to be about him wasn't it Razz ) and other democrats were dumb enough to admit to the they resemble that remark.

Nope. Your problem is that you know what the right solution is. You never get anywhere if you don't hear both sides of the story. But are afraid that you will be seen has weak. So you cling on to a position that is stupid and pointless.

Look at McCain. He was for talking to Hamas. Hamas hasn't changed from 2006 and 2008. It's still the same group with the same tactics. Now that he is a nominee he's a hardass. Because he doesn't want to appear weak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ATuxuebh0.

THATS RIGHT. MCCAIN WANTS TO TALK TO HAMAS.


I made it big so that nobody would miss it. This is a big post.


Actually, had they lost anyone of their wars, they probably would have met a fate far worst that that of the Palestinians, or worst.

No they wouldn't. Germany and USA would sit by and watch Israel get defeated.

And why shouldn't we support them. They are a fellow democracy and very much a canary on the coal mine. The troubles they face are the struggles we face. The apocalyptic religious theories are overstated.

Why shouldn't you support them? How about the fact that they cause their own troubles? They claim they want peace yet don't listen to the international law. They are trying to annex the West Bank. They are making the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank unnecessarily difficult. They are making the lives of Gazans unnecessarily difficult. If they were serious about peace they wouldn't be building settlements and land stealing walls. If you support them then you support their actions.

Why exactly does it matter how Israel left Gaza? Do you really expect Israel to leave the keys under the doormat and mints under the pillows? It effectively removes all excuses from the Palestinian playbook, and lets them wallow in their filth for a while. There may have been a time after 67 when Israel thought of properly annexing the territories, but they didn't, using them instead as a buffer against further aggression. Without a permanent use for the land, it became a political bargaining chip.

WTF? Why does it matter? Well lets see. If the Police are after you because you stole an iPod and you give back the earphones. Do you think they would let you go?  roll 

As for Olmert, any dreams he may have had for continuing Sharons Kadima platform died in the hills of Southern Lebanon in 2006. On of the nasty side effects of the parliamentary system is that you have to make deals with minorities that really shouldn't be in power. I'm sure he's had to shelve Kadima, if not go against it just to stay in power and hope that after a few years he can try again.

The problem with it that those who gain power in vacuum that disengagement leaves are far harder to kick out, but at least they show their true true colors.

Nope. The West Bank pull out stalled long before Hezbollah got the idea to kidnap soldiers. The pull out when Sharon came out with it wasn't even sincere. It was  symbolic action that left large and numerous amount of settlement in the Bank. What Olmert did was just take the piss. He's to scared of nervous polls.

Common sense should tell them to stop, or at least shift to the West Bank were voilence can at least be slightly more justified.

But Islamic facistists never were the logical type.

I think you mean Neo-con are never logical.  When Hamas were elected Israel pressured the world to stop financing the PA budget and refused to give to Hamas the Taxes they take from Palestinians who have to cross checkpoints. Hamas voted to allow Abbas to negiogate with Israel and Israel kept on refusing. Common sense says that Israel was never serious.


Well Israel has a few options. Annex the territories, and grant citizenship to the Palestinians, and commit Harry Carry, annex and kick everyone out, and wait for the next attack, leave completely, and wait while the terrorists assemble forces to push on the attack, or continue the dance they are in until international nation building force is brought to bear and a proper state is established.

In the mean time they have the land to use as a domestic political football.

Or have talks with the legitimate Palestinian government (Hamas). Thats what most serious nations would do.

Define peaceably?

Cause if it would involve anything the Arabs do to each other when they have self rule, I wouldn't want any part of it either.

Peacefully? How about the way the Jews in Palestine lived during Arab and Ottoman rule? Thats right. Before arrogant/racist European Jews came to Palestine. Jews were living in Palestine with their Arab neighbourhoods side by side without plans to take over and subjugate the Arabs. Until their European cousins came uninvited.

What would annexation accomplish? They would have to either kick everyone out, which wouldn't solve the greater conflict cause it would disablize surrounding states who have no love for Palestinians, or grant citizenship and commit demographical suicide.

Ask the Israelis not me. They seem hell bent on Giving Abbas a swiss cheese of a West Bank. Where the Palestinians aren't allowed to use roads that the settlers use meaning you would end up with several bantustans in the West Bank.

I think that those that fight and those that support terrorism, should be removed from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and after that, we'll see whose left.

I think anyone who willfully accepts and supports the deaths of innocents and the breaking of international laws should be kicked out of their country and put in a tiny boat in the middle of the ocean.

#28 Re: Not So Free Chat » Did Iran become a player in space ? » 2008-05-16 15:37:57

Let them put their own houses in order before they come here, is all I ask. What I see about Islam is what goes on in the News, the Iraq War, the Afghan War.

Proving once again that you have no idea what your talking about. Over the last few years every time I saw a news report on Germans (that includes the Austrians). It always involves killings and torturing. German babies being killed by their mothers in Easter Germany. German baby Polar Bears being threatened with death and one of them actually died. German girls being kidnapped and locked in cellars for years where they get sexually abused. If I was like you. I would assume that Germans are a bunch of evil people. Which naturally mean that Americans would be evil and to a lesser extent the Brits.

We didn't bring fanaticism to the Muslims nor did we teach it to them

If you bothered to study you would know where Islamic radicalism comes from and why./ Short story. It involves a lot of death of muslims primarly by Americans and those who support them smile.


Not really unless what Saddam Hussein was doing to his people for 30 years can be called good governance. Over 300,000 mass graves have been found in Iraq since the liberation,

Sounds like your misinformed. The latest figure I saw was about 300. I don't know where you got the other 299.7k. Hey you wanna guess how many Iraqis have died since America has invaded?


There is a certain mindset on the so called Liberal side of the political spectrum to blame America first whenever there is a problem.

There is a certain mindset in American conservatives. It always revolves in taking the blame for anything their country does and when one of their people are hurt they go into over drive. It's sort of reminiscent of the Indian Mutiny in the British Raj. The British over reacted to the death of English colonials but felt nothing for the thousands of Indians they hanged. Simple fact. Conservatives never evolve. They always stay the same.

#29 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-15 08:02:59

Sorry for double posting.

In case you missed it, the Israelis pulled out of Gaza in 2005 after decades of demands from everyone under the sun. It was suppose to make Israel more secure, and help the Strip be a little less of a third world slum. Many settlements, Israeli settlements, were closed and bulldozed in the West Bank, with plans to do the same for almost all of them. No more settlements, heavy perimeter defense, lots of surviellence.

This is either unintentional mistake or your just lying. I'm going to hope it's the former.

1: Israel pulled out UNILATERALLY. They didn't talk to anyone about it. They just pulled out. Hamas and Fatah fighters went to the Israeli settlements and made sure that the looters didn't take necessary equipment like electrical cables.
2: Olmert was elected on West Bank disengagement. That was the election issue. The platform for Kadima. He has failed to achieve that. After he took down a few settlements he stopped. He built more of them. Which basically negated anything that he has done before. All because a bunch of extremists who harass Palestinian civilians every single day called the soldiers Nazis.
3: There are no plans to get rid of settlements in West Bank. In fact the Plan so far is to steal has much Arab land in the West Bank has possible through the Israeli Apartheid wall. If Israel was serious about pulling out. The Pre-67 border would be have been adhered to.

A good example of how Israel isn't being honest is to look at America. Parts of the American border wall were accidentally built into Mexican territory.  It was only a few feet. Not much to make the Mexicans upset but the entire part of the wall which was on the Mexican side was torn down and built on the American side. That cost millions.


Yet for some reason there are still daily rocket attacks on villages in southern Israel. Gaza is still a slum. Hamas spends all their time fortifying the place and teaching children things about Jews that would make Hitler blush. Theres a couple lessons to be learned from this, things that were known before hand and screamed from the mountain tops to anyone who would listen (no one did apparently), mainly, don't give anything to terrorists, and terrorist won't be happy until all the jews are out of the entire British mandate.

Thats an exaggeration. Hitler would have never blushed at what Hamas does. Probably laugh at the way some of the kidds mascot always end up being killed by Israelis,Israeli actions or Fatah. Other then that I don't see anything that would stand up to reason. Hamas and Israel haven't signed a peace deal or a truce. Why should Hamas stop? There is nothing obligating them. Israel tries to block Gaza to make the people in Gaza resist. It fails. They then punish the entire  Gaza community. Despite the fact that Hamas isn't affected much.  They have smuggling tunnels that go into Egypt. They are getting a steady amount of Israeli fertilisers from Egypt.

A sovereign country has the right to set its own immigration policies. I Palestine ever gets its act together maybe they can too.

Israel has no internationally recognised sovereignty over the West Bank. Yet Russians who have dubious Jewish backgrounds can build a house in the West Bank while Palestinians face the fear of having their house tore down just because they didn't get a permit. Which is next to impossible for an Arab to get.

Actually Jews continuously occupied the country in varying percentages for thousands of years.

Has a minority.

If you want to blame anyone, blame the British for allowing enough of them in to hold off the the combined armies of 5 Arab states.

I blame the British for backstabbing the Arabs. I also blame them for allowing Jews to immigrate knowing that they wanted to take over the land eventually and not live peacefully with the Arabs.

I have no problem with a two state solution. But I don't believe the players in Palestine and the Muslim world in general are going to be happy with that.

Tell that to the nation that is trying to annex West Bank in a fait accompli move.

#30 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-14 11:43:28

Of course they are going to leave. But we are talking about a war for control of territory. If you lose, you don't get control of the territory.

No it wasn't. It was a war of who would control the nation politically. Up until that point Jews didn't take Arab land they bought it and Arabs didn't take Jewish land. It was a war of who would control the nation politically. Would it be the European Jews who are only there because of their failed integration in Europe or the Arabs who have been there through thick and thin.


Yeah, how's that working out for them?

Actually I meant Fatah. They were supplied and trained with US backing by Egypt and guess what? THEY LOST to Hamas. Apparently Hamas got CIA files that Fatah were keeping on them and other Resistant groups.

According to UN numbers, about 770,000 people fled what would become pre-1967 Israel, a population that has now grown to 4 million. Now even if you are going to take the foolish step of giving back land gained in a war of Arab aggression, your not going to give land everything to pop out of a uterus ever since.

If this was 1948 it would have a been a problem since most of them would have been farmers. But this is 2008. Agriculture is left to big companies and rare farmers.


How many settlements does Israel have in Gaza now?
Were do the rockets come from?

Gaza is still controlled by Israel. Everything in Gaza runs to the whim of Israel. Oh and Israel refuses to talk to Hamas. There is the bummer. How can you expect Hamas to stop firing if they haven't signed a truce?

Really, cause the only legal difference is the Arabs are not required to serve in the IDF.

Unless you consider merely being less numerous to be discrimination.

Legally. Just like Black people in pre-60s USA were equal blacks. How did black people feel about that? Oh yeah. They hated it and protested for equal rights. Only this time. When Israeli Arabs try to protest they get abuse and one time several kids where shot dead. Their killer hasn't even been punished.

So I suppose he'll be sitting down with Osama next. Youknow, just to get his side of the story.

America must suck if you can make your mind up by listening to one person. Thats probably why hundreds of black men were lynched just because white women accused. I would have thought you guys moved on from that period. I see some habits are to give up.


The Israelis sure did. Thats why they are still there.

They are only there because USA and Germany support them. If they didn't have any backings from America. They would have been sanctioned harder then Apartheid South Africa.

#31 Re: Not So Free Chat » Did Iran become a player in space ? » 2008-05-13 16:13:01

The situation in most Muslim countries is a lack of tollerance for non-muslims. If Muslims want tollerance for their own religion, they ought to start practicing tollerance in their own majority religion countries, and so far I don't see much tollerance in the Muslim World. I keep on hearing stories of people getting stoned for converting to another religion, and of Islamic Law being enforced, sometime brutally, by the state. I hear stories of people being handed the death sentence for verbally insulting various important figures in the Islamic religion, and violence often ensues at disparaging cartoons of Islamic figures or icons. I'd be very suspicious of muslims and with good reason, especially an influx of them, they have a tendency to want to control societies, they are very intrusive of individual liberties when they do get in power and Muslim democracies need much proping up as in Iraq and Turkey, as they Muslim public does not support them, instead they retreat to the nearest bearded holy man whom they agree with and follow him often to their deaths.

Until Islam shows itself to be a more tollerant religion and society, I'd have trouble tollerating it, its a "two-way street" in otherwords. I don't have problems with individual muslims, but when they all start gathering in one place and begin demanding to run things, that's when I begin to worry.

You have consistently proven your self to know nothing about Islam and Muslims. You prove to me and everyone here who have sane brains that you don't do any research. You tar everyone with the brush of what you hear  from dubious sources.

If this was in 1908 instead of 2008. I bet you would be talking about how Black men rape white women and that they can't control their urges.

#32 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-13 16:08:20

There is lots of power to be had in Muslim countries if you know how to pull the right strings, and all you really have to do is grow a beard and look "Holy" to them. That is how most Muslim societies are run in my opinion,

In your opinion. But then again. Weren't you the guy who thought the problems in Iraq could be solved if the Sunni Iraqis got kicked out of Iraq?  roll

Keep your opinion to your self. In most "Muslim" nations. The leaders are secular and they have a bad habit of torturing and killing Muslim elders.

If the Majority of Americans were Muslim, we'd have problems with terrorism and people blowing themselves up right now. We'd have muslims demanding official recognition of a certain brand of Islam as the official state religion, and they would seriously "step on the toes" of those wishing to belong to some other religion or wishing to pursuade or convert others from the desired official version of Islam, with the death penalty being demanded of transgressors.

Do you have any evidence for this? Or is this something you wrote after a spell with vodka?


The the so called "refugees" are the children and grandchildren of those who fled the fighting of the War for Independence back in '48. They choose wrong in assuming that their Arab brethren would win that war. They still call themselves refugees and living in poverty for geopolitical expedience. The Palestinian Authority got away with doing nothing for the people on the promise of a plush penthouse apartment in Mohamedtown (formally known as Tel Aviv) someday.

IT WAS A WAR. You know what civilians do during a war? They leave the areas near fighting. What the hell did you expect them to do? Stay there while the Jews and Arab fighters were killing each other. Hoping that when the Jews come for  them a Deir Yassin wouldn't happen.  roll   They are refugees because they can't go back to their original homeland.  Despite Jewish claims these people never lived in Egypt ,Syria and Jordan. They lived in Palestine.

By the way. The Palestinians did do something about Fatah curroption. They elected a party that proved it's self to be anti-corruption. Hamas. I seem to remember a certain nation encouraging Hamas to start a coup. The same nation that wanted democracy in the Middle East.


The diplomatic solution is called the right of return, and the PA has been holding out for decades to secure it for generations of those who never lived there, knowing full well it would create an instant apartheid.


Those who have never lived in Palestine. Still have the deed and key to their old homes. What do you want them to do? Destroy them?


I would probably like it just as much as the Israelis like the Palestinians using that house to build rockets to fire into Israel.

When did Israel start putting up settlements? Oh yeah. Several decades before the rocket attacks.  roll 


Never mind that fact that despite officially being a Jewish state, 20% of the population is Muslim Arab, and despite 60 years of existence, and 40 years after capturing Jerusalem, theres still a Mosque on the Temple mount, you still can't get it through these peoples heads that Israel isn't just sticking it to the Muslims and denying them access to holy sites.

1: Israeli Arabs are facing discrimination in Israel.
2: Israel has gone through projects to make sure that Jerusalem stays a Jewish city.
3: Israel restricts access to the Mosque.


But its not about the amount, or even the quality of the land. The Palestinians could prosper on the land they have. Its not the Israelis that are holding them back.

Israel IS holding them back. Even before the Intifada when the Palestinians weren't resisting. Israel held full control of Gaza and West Bank. Those two areas were basically Israeli. The best the Palestinian could hope for was to get a day job in Israel.


As for Barack Hussein Obama, he recently jettisoned an adviser with links to Hamas, refused to fault Jimmy Carter for meeting with them, and proudly proclaims willingness to meet with their Iranian and Syrian allies.

He has no ties to Hamas. He meet Hamas has part of his job in the International Crisis Group. He unlike politicians actually have to get both sides of the story before making their minds up.

#33 Re: Not So Free Chat » Did Iran become a player in space ? » 2008-05-12 14:00:50

If you live in the USA they'll probably accept it.  Muslim scholars  distinguish between the Land of Islam (where Muslims rule) and the ]Land of War(where Muslims are not in control).


I see what you did there. So obviously stupid. For anyone stupid enough to fall for it. House of war (yeah it's called house and not land) is an area where Muslims can't practice their religon without persecution. Europe that fantastic continent I live in isn't House of War while Burma where Muslims get killed by mobs agitated by supposedly peaceful Buddhist monks is.


I'd rather see the Middle Eastern countries co-operating with the West in space exploration. Saudi Arabia Irrigated large part of the desert with their oil wealth. I think that could be valuable experience in any 'terraforming' attempts!

If the cooperated then the space exploration can go very far. At this moment the  Gulf countries have trillions. They are so filthy rich that they are scared of spending it in case inflation destroys them. So they lock it up in accounts and invest it in American and European companies so that in the future when the oil runs out they will be able to keep their lifestyle. The other problem is that their population are to used to being lazy. If we could encourage them to slice of nuggets from their cash mines and invest it on companies and research groups. It would be well worth it.

#34 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-12 13:45:55

Ignore the idiots. One good example was Nash McCabe in the last debate. Her husband is unable to work due to disabilities and she has become unemployed. Now instead of asking about what Barack Hussein Obama was going to do about the economy and health care. She goes with the flag. 

roll

If she and anybody who focuses on the stupid flag issue can't figure out that there are bigger issues then they deserve everything Bush gave them.

#35 Re: Martian Politics and Economy » Solar Federal Republic » 2008-05-11 17:39:43

That sounds a whole lot like USA in Space. Why don't you just call it the United States of Planets. The amount of people who would actually want it  would most likely be very low.

I foresee a more European style. A Union where there are common practises and common rules which each member follows but it wouldn't infringe of the sovereignty of individual planets. The Capital would be a useless Planet which isn't powerful economically or militarily.



Can you name one instance of two democracies fighting against each other? I can't.

Continuation war. Finland a democratic nation joined the war against the Soviet Union to get back the last that was taken from it by the Soviet Union in 1939. The Allies pretended to care about Finland when it was the opposite. Once the Soviet Union become an Ally nation there was a state of war between the UK and Finland.

#36 Re: Not So Free Chat » Perspective » 2008-05-11 15:28:19

Getting one Trillion from people is next to expensive. They have it but the chances of everyone giving it particularly to something related to Space is very low.  People are happier wasting half a trillion every year on bad coffee.

#37 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-11 15:23:34

Yes, I find quotes on the net. But I check them in the Quar'an.

Well do me a favour when you find those quotes and you check the Quran. Check whats above the specific line and whats below it. I have embarrassed to many people who tried to pass of the Quran has a war book by just simply copying and pasting the full sentence to show the part about peace.

Don't try telling me that a so-called 'Prophet' who married a six year old girl and consummated the marriage when she was nine was good. Nowadays we'd call someone who did that a Paedophile

Thank you for pointing that out your self. I was going to go on my usual moral relativism response on how in many cultures girls married very young. Thats including Europe.

Isn't it funny how one moment a load of people are Jordanians, the next they've suddenly become Palestinians? Get your facts right: Palestine isn't a country, it's an area.


First you all you need to get your facts straight. There is no such thing has Jordan,Iraq and Syria. That was the invention of the Europeans who back stabbed their allies. What is not in question is that the Arabs were  living in the area called Palestine until the '48. The reason why they are called Palestinians is because they lived in Palestine like you said your self. Where have I made a mistake?

Israel surrendered the Gaza strip. But still they cried 'more, more, give us more. We won't stop till Israel is destroyed.'

Well when your house is taken by thieves and they only give you back the  the closet. You kinda want more. I'm sure you wouldn't understand considering that you live in a country who believed that they had the right to kick and kill any Indians living in any territory wanted by White Americans because God deemed the White man superior.

Have you bothered looking at a map of the Middle East? I don't think you have, because if you had you would havem realized that Israel is about the size of Wales and is surrounded by bigger countries that are Muslim dominated.

Have you looked at the maps of the villages that are depopulated? Those villages aren't in Jordan. They aren't in Algeria. They aren't in Egypt. They aren't in Somalia. They aren't in Saudi Arabia. They are in modern day Israel. Tell those people to forget the land their family have spent farming several centuries before English smugglers decided to throw cheap tea into the sea and call it liberty.  roll 

This is the worst come back I have ever seen in all the time I have debated with people about Palestine. Most people realise this and they choose to avoid it. Where in Gods name does this fly? If the French were kicked out of France would tell them to live in Germany?

#38 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-11 10:54:24

Ah, you're a Muslim. Now I see why you're so anti Israel.

And your one of those crazy guys on the net. I've seen your threads. You make Tom "Kick Sunnis out of Iraq"Kalbfus seem normal.



What did those 'Palestinians' (Palestine is just the whole area, so Israelies are Palestinians as well) do when Israel left the Gaza Strip? Tore down all the buildings, then complained that there was nowhere to live. I have no sympathy for such idiotic behavior.

Those were looters. The people complaining where the non looters. Learn the bloody difference. Or is there no difference when it come to arabs? Do you see them all has just one evil borg like group? I'm suprised you haven't called then Sand N~ yet.

Oh and by the way. The only Palestinian Israelis are Arabs and pre-Zionist movement Jews. You know people who actually lived in that country before they Nazis came.

Unless those Civilians are non-muslims. Then it's all fine and dandy. I've read the Quar'an. I know what Old Mo' taught.

No you haven't. I am 110% you have never read the Quran. What you probably did is to find quotes from the internet collected by idiots who like to perpetuate that Islam is responsible for all evil. It's the modern day Jewish conspiracy. Oh and muslims can't discriminate against non muslim civilians. A civilian is a civilian.


Don't try saying Islam wasn't building an Empire. History is against you if you do.

It wasn't either. A Muslim is only allowed to fight if attacked. If he is attacked and the enemy sincerely wants a ceasefire then the Muslim has to talk. I think what your getting confused is between what Muslims did and what Islam says. It would be like me calling Christianity the greatest evil to appear in the world because Christians conquered a huge swathe of the world which ended up with millions of people dead and millions of others under the rule of foreigners.

If you want to debate about how evil Islam is. Start a thread and show me your evidence. Trust I've actually had these debates before and I have won every single one of them because I usually show that the guy arguing Islam is evil has no idea what he is talking about. Just copying and pasting.

#39 Re: Not So Free Chat » Oil Prices Surge to Record Heights - 90 US Dollars » 2008-05-11 06:54:14

As with any commodity, the price of oil is set by the demand and supply. There has been increasing demand from China and India in the last few years and generally throughout the world. As the price of oil is traded in dollars, the falling value of the dollar has also increased the trading price. Increasing price will stimulate more production and less use, and the price will fall again.

Crude Oil Price 1947-2008 in 2007 dollars

Thats not everything to the oil prices. Have you ever noticed when something happens near an oil producing nation prices always jump? When Israel invaded Lebanon prices jumped. Despite the fact that neither countries produced any oil. When an Iranian ship had an exchange with an American ship the prices jumped. When Nigerian militants attacked pipelines prices. Prices jumped. It's those nervous speculators who see doom and gloom in everything that happens.

#40 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-11 06:47:16

Why are you anti Israel?

I'm not exactly anti-Israeli. I just think their political situation is one of the dumbest thing I have seen in my life. The ring wingers in that country have to much power. They never want to take the high ground. They continue to help Settlers ruin the lives of Palestinians (who even to the average Israeli see has crazy). They want to show the world that Israelis are innocent victims of terrorism yet they don't seem to understand that people will link their actions to the Palestinians.

The current crap going on in Gaza can be solved right now if they just took the bloody peace deal offered by Hamas. But they refuse to talk to them calling them calling them a terrorist organisation (ignoring the fact that Fatah was a terrorists organisation when they talked to Israel and still are tills this day).  How can they complain about rocket attacks on civilians when there isn't a reason for Hamas to stop attacking? They consistently make the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank harder just to help the settlers. People who even ordinary Israelis consider crazy.

That whole situation is a stupid mess. What they need is a Nixon.


Those 'Innocent Civilians' were the people manufacturing Warplanes, Shells, bombs, tanks, growing food for the front... It's called 'strategic bombing'. The aim is to get rid of the supporting infrastructure to make the country surrender.

I was raised has a muslim. Despite what people think about Islam there are strict rules in warfare. One of them is that if an attack can't discriminate against civilians (people who aren't fighting in the way but may be helping with the war effort) and soldiers then you shouldn't attack. Strategic bombing is one of them. Bombing an entire city to take out war factories in immoral and evil. I realise at that time the bombs in use weren't smart bombs.

Another thing that gnaws on me are attacks for reason of morale and training. Lubeck was bombed to pieces by the RAF to lower the morale of the Germans and to train the British pilots

#41 Re: Not So Free Chat » Did Iran become a player in space ? » 2008-05-10 17:06:45

Stormrage -

Since on earth according to Shariah law no building of a non-Muslim religion can be taller than a Mosque, do you think only Muslim space craft should be allowed to fly in the highest orbits?

lol

Yes and the punishment for anyone that breaks that rule is to have their right side of their space craft cut off. Let seem them live with half a ship. Oh wait. Would they even be alive?

Would Muslims tolerate a Christian evangelist balloon over Mecca? No - of course not, even though balloons did not exist when Shariah was first formulated. Would Muslims be happy with a geo stationary Christian evangelist radio satellite directly over Mecca? - I very much doubt it.

Why would a ballon be over Mecca? The only reason for it to be over there is probably to piss off the locals under or maybe to attack them. The same reason why a Christian would choose to be above Mecca. Probably try to convert them.

While my question may seem absurd, be assured it is NOT absurd for Muslim scholars. They will find very troubling the idea that a Christian "Church" could be above Muslim buildings in this way.

Well the biggest  Church in the world is in the same country where 20% of the population is muslim and is surrounded by Muslim countries. Is that enough to get you stop asking stupid questions like that?


Oh and btw. Isn't the worlds tallest building being built in Dubai? It will would have more Christians in it then Muslims.

#42 Re: Not So Free Chat » Did Iran become a player in space ? » 2008-05-10 12:41:17

Well has a Muslim I thought of it. The only real solution is that you pray at the exact time you would have prayed if you stayed in the launch site. Or if there are lots of Muslims in space and they call came from different launch sites (Florida,Kazakhstan,South America) then Mecca would be a suitable place.

#43 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-10 11:22:31

Well I personally gave up discussing with people on New Mars cause they tend to be the kinda people who put their heads in the sand a long time ago.

Looking at your post is a good example. Wow. It's absurd that a regime would kill it's civilians when they hit a snag. Oh horrors. Lets ignore the opinion of someone who actually studies the holocaust every single working day (not me the israeli guy).  I'll think I trust a bunch of guys on the net.

Edit:

I would also like to mention that anyone who actually thinks that Obama is unpatriotic because he refuses to wear the American Flag shouldn't be taken serious. I would never want to live in a country where you can't be patriotic without having to wear a flag. It's sounds like a shit country and thank God that not all Americans think like that. Those people sound like they don't actually like their country but try to rectify it by overdoing it. Jesh. Expect for the Anti-English in parts of the UK most people keep their flags at home or don't even have one. They buy it and show it off when it's football season.

Also calling Obama unpatriotic because of Wright is also stupid. Obama is a grown man and he can make his own decision. If you don't call out John McCain on his nutcase then I'll consider you racist. The only problem with Obama is that he barely attacks Hillary,his repetitive speeches and his plan to cut NASA down.

#44 Re: Not So Free Chat » Oil Prices Surge to Record Heights - 90 US Dollars » 2008-05-10 08:26:19

I remember the fuss made by Americans when Oil reached $60 dollars. There was also a huge panic when it reached about £77 during the failed Israeli invasion of Lebanon. This is really funny for someone like me but it's not for people in poor countries and developed countries like USA who are suffering.
I just hope they don't blame OPEC. OPEC said a long time ago that they think the perfect price is $60 dollars. It's OPEC who have stopped the US dollar from collapsing. If anybody is to be blamed. Blame it on the idiots in the City of London and New York who are speculating.

#45 Re: Not So Free Chat » Current Gasoline/Petrol Price$ » 2008-05-10 08:20:13

Private companies are in business to make money, they make roads to places they they want you to go on their property. They are not charities, and are not going to make roads everywhere.

The point remains that private companies, supported by private investment and sales revenue, are the engine that drives the economy, and your only shotting yourself in the foot if you take them for granted with the kind of abusive taxes and wasteful spending on social engineering.

Wait. What has this got to do with mass public transit? You know what private companies do? They always take the easy way out. When petrol was cheap the American can industry decided to focus on big cars that waste petrol while the Japanese and the Europeans who were facing stricter fuel economy law made cars that complied with the law. What's happening now? The Japanese and European cars can be sold around the world while the Americans car companies are dying because the only big market for their cars is suddenly drying up.

Now to my original point. No private company will decide to make a public transit system unless the government is involved. For the Government it isn't about short term benefits. It's always the long term for them. Expect for American politicians like McCain and Clinton.

Just because your population bends over and lubes up doesn't make it right. If it were unprofitable for people to try to drive in downtown London, they wouldn't do it without the help of the tax collector.

Without taxes it would be just another example of Tragedy of the Commons. Which is exactly what is happening in USA. When the Canadians didn't stop their fishermen from overfishing. The Fish stocks collapsed and the overfishing fishermen lost their jobs and had to move out and leave their family behind to get jobs. The economic damage to the states they kept a blind eye to the overfishing was enormous.  This is the same thing that is happening in the US. The government didn't increase taxes on fuels. The people didn't think ahead and foolishly moved out of the cities and bought big cars. Now that the oil prices are high they are upset. They have to change their lifestyle. SUV sales have dropped and the sales of small fuel efficient cars are increasing. Prius has become famous. This would have never happened if the petrol prices were low.

Oh and my population my take it up the ass. But at least we aren't suffering.

So they shouldn't make it illegal, just impossible. Yeah that makes a lot of sense.

Wait. Are you acually defending the right of people to live very far away from work? That makes no sense. It's stupid and it's not even practicable.. If this was Saudi Arabia where Petrol costs less then a dollar maybe but no in a country that imports the vast majority of it it's oil.

We have the freedom of movement in this country, due in no small part to the actions of yours. I suggest you look into it.

I think it's great that UK contributed a lot to America but it's a bit unfair on the Germans who are the biggest group in your country.

The answer to this is not to infringe on the freedoms of people and tinkering with the markets to enslave people to dependance on more government. The answer is technology and market forces that are naturally going to lead people to the cleanest and cheapest source of fuel possible, and ultimately independence. Denying the free market the ability to explore and exploit, supporting the use of food as fuel, and blocking the construction of the cleanest and most efficient power source known to man as my country has done is part of the problem. Artificially inflating the purchase price of fuel and taxing its use on top of that in effort to control the population as your country has done is part of the problem.

This is only half true. Has I said earlier businesses will always take the easy option. If fuel taxes are barely non existent. What will happen is that they won't focus on fuel efficient cars but on cars like SUVs. After prices increased and people can't afford to drive a 15 mile per gallon car. Hybrid cars like Pruis are popular.  This would have NEVER happened. People have bad memories. In the UK there was a housing crash in the early 90s. During the early 00s people forgot about it and borrowed like mad thinking that the good times will last.

It's very easy to say market force but there has to be a driver. Affordability is a big driver.



The problem with global warming isn't the damage to the Planet or the animals and plants that will be killed off by it. It's the damage done to Humans. When I went on a trip to Iceland I met an old man there who used to ice fish every single year since his father took him at the age of 7. But now days he has to stop. Because the ice is to thin thought the winter. Thats only one slice of the effect Global Warming is having. It's very easy to say we will adapt. But think about it for a moment. How do you expect poor countries to adapt when they don't have the money? What is Bangladesh supposed to against cyclones? Tell it's poor people who need the sea to stay away from the coast?

If more Katrinas happened I don't think you would have that kinda attitude.

Edit: It looks like relative high petrol prices are doing to Americans what fuel taxes did to the Europeans.

The increase in transit use coincides with other signs that American motorists are beginning to change their driving habits, including buying smaller vehicles. The Energy Department recently predicted that Americans would consume slightly less gasoline this year than last — for the first yearly decline since 1991.
But meeting the greater demand for mass transit is proving difficult. The cost of fuel and power for public transportation is about three times that of four years ago, and the slowing economy means local sales tax receipts are down, so there is less money available for transit services. Higher steel prices are making planned expansions more expensive.


Looks like high fuel taxes do serve their purpose after all. London getting a $32 billion railway and American cities are struggling keep up with public demand with what they already have.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/busin … ei=5087%0A

#46 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-10 07:47:52

Either the Israeli Holocaust expert wasn’t such an expert or was misquoted. Also, the Germans would not have found the Soviets an easy conquest in the absence of Britain. The US wasn’t significantly involved until years later.

Oh, and how does failure of an invasion translate into wasting resources killing harmless people?

Nope. Due to the barely existing war with the UK. The Germans had to divert troops to Denmark,Holland,France,Belgium and other countries they occupied. They couldn't get their troops out and focus 100% on the Soviet Union.

The Germans managed to destroy and capture a waste amount of Soviet soldiers and their equipments even with their faulty planning. During the the war with Germany the Americans and the British were supplying the Soviets with everything they needed. That was their biggest contribution to the Eastern Front.

After the invasion they realised that the war wasn't going to be has quick has they thought.

They thought the Jews were supervise and would help their enemies.


Buchenwald began operations in 1937 gradually getting better and better at killing; Auschwitz opened in 1940. Chelmo, Janowska, Majdanek, Maly Trascianiec, Sajmište and numerous other smaller camps began killing operation in 1941. There are records that in August 1941 Himmler personally witnessed 100 Jews being shot. Work commenced on the Belzec death camp in November of 1941.

Thats not the full picture. Concentration camps existed in Germany way before the war. A lot of people including Germans were sent there for being gay,communist and one case for animal cruelty. The concentration camps people are thinking about when they say Concentration camps are extermination camps. 

Chelmo started to operate at the Winter of 1941 when the offensive in Russia had already stalled and the German High command were fearing a Napoleon styled rout. Can you show me any extermination camp that existed before the invasion on the USSR?

By this time Germany had irrationally declared war on the United States.

It wasn't irrational. The Americans were most likely going to declare war on Germany. Even before the attack on Pearl Harbour the Americans were allies all but in name.

Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. The Germans didn’t suffer a serious reverse until November 21, 1941 (at Rostov). They didn’t suffer a serious (but by no means fatal) defeat until late December 1941 (at Moscow). By this time Germany had irrationally declared war on the United States. Up to this point the Soviet Union had received very, very little in the way of supplies from Britain or the United States, but more than a million Jews, Roma, homosexuals and the mentally unfit had been killed by the Nazis.

The Germans actually ran into trouble early in the campaign. They underestimated the Soviet Union and were running out of supplies. While at the same time the Americans were supplying the Soviets in significant quantities. The supplies was one of the reason Hitler declared war on USA.

By the way it's hyperbole on your part to say that millions died in 6 months. That makes the Germans look lazy from 1942-1945.

I still stand by the opinion that the stalled invasion of Russia was the main cause for the holocaust. Before the Winter of 1941 the Germans sent their Death Squads in Eastern Europe to kill Jewish men,Partisans and Communists. After they decided to that they shouldn't bank on an apartheid and they decided to exterminate them.

#47 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-09 18:29:03

If those British and Americans had just minded their own business, everything would have been peachy; except maybe for the Jews and gypsies.

Well actually the Nazis didn't think about exterminating the Jews until the 41' offensive on Russia failed. I'm not pulling this out of my ass. An Israeli holocaust expert said this in an interview to Der Spiegel. So If the Americans and the British did mind their own business the germans would have invaded Russia and conquered it easily.

Do you any have Israeli candidates for hanging? Sharon’s no longer available.

Just about every leader they have had.

In any case what about Portal, Peirse, Baldwin and Harris who ran Bomber Command, commanded, organized and directed bombing of civilian targets not only in Germany, but in occupied countries as well, particularly France?

DeGaulle who’s air force escorted the British and American bombers?

George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the US Army and Hap Arnold, the man who commanded US bombing?

MacKenzie King, Canada’s Prime Minister who sent his air force and trained pilots to help the British bomb Germany, Arthur Coningham, who commanded the 2nd Tactical Air Force?

Then of course there would be the guilty Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans and others.

Well there is a one thing to consider. Did the person give orders or did they take it? If they refused to take orders would they have been in danger and could they have changed the objective? The allies didn't try the actual nazis who did the crime. Only those who gave the orders. Despite public perception "I was only following orders" worked for many people.


I don’t see the consistency in your reasoning about unconditional surrender (it discourages surrender) and your advocacy of hanging leaders, which, it seems to me, would perhaps even more powerfully discourage surrender.

It's not inconsistent.  During WW2 Goebbels printed propaganda after propaganda saying that the Alies came to tear done Germany piece by piece. Well in the end He turned out to be right. The Americans discovered the effect of the propaganda when in every single German town they entered they had to face well dug in Germans who refused to surrender. If those soldiers knew that the only people who would be affected if the war was over was the government then they would have surrendered easily. After all at their height the Nazis only got around 40% of the vote.

#48 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-09 17:42:44

None of the Western Allies had large colonies in China, or colonies at all. Only a few offshore trading posts like Hong Kong and Macou. And by 1941 they were probably welcome in providing aid in defense from both the Moaists and the Japanese.

I didn't necessarily mean China. I was talking about the Empires the Europeans had.


The strength of the Soviet Army was in its mechanized armor forged in Europe, which was used to great effect in Manchuria, but of little use in amphibious landings. What landings did occur were a diversionary landing in Korea, and landings in Sakhakin and Kuril. The former was largely pointless given the success of the land based advance, and the latter didn't get very far until after the Japanese surrender in mid-August, after which the Soviets gleefully took the rest for sport unopposed.

An invasion of Hokkaido, would have been next to impossible given the size of the Soviet Pacific Fleet.

No. If I remember correctly the Soviet Union was very serious about invading the Japanese Islands. It was the surrender that stopped them. I don't know why they planned it since the Japanese were resisting fiercely in the smaller islands (what the Americans feared).

Take about any conflict since WW2, and the only ones that decisively conclude the issue in question are the ones fought untill the other side gave up completely. The rest involve the two sides going back to their corners and rearming to fight another day, resulting in more death and destruction in the long run.

I'm thinking at the moment of the Colonial wars that happened in the 50s-80s. Especially Rhodesia. That ended with a peace agreement. The Blacks wouldn't kill the white settlers and the White Rhodies would yield to majority control.

Treaties are only has strong has they are made to be.


It's statements like this that show a complete lack of understanding of warfare of the period. It was TOTAL war. That means everyone from the GI in France, to Rosy the Riveter in Seattle, was a vital part of the war machine, and thus a legitimate military target.

This statements shows that your trying to reason burning to death innocent civilians. The Axis declared Total War and they were the bad guys. The good guys are meant to act good. There is no point of parroting about freedom and respect of human dignity if you don't respect others.


Furthermore, most of those tried faced charges not related the execution of military action, but for crimes against humanity of their own populations or those already conquered. The same of course can be said of the Soviets, and any other leaders who do not derive their sovereignty from the consent of the governed.

There were several people charged. For example Doenitz was sent to prison for practising unrestricted warfare on enemy ships while at the same time the Allies were doing it.

It's a shame that such ignorance and misguided anger is aimed those who responsible for the very survival of our way of life.

I find that statement actually funny. The way of life in the UK and USA was never threatened. Hitler never cared for UK and USA. They didn't involve in his master scheme. They only became part of it once the UK declared war on Germany and USA started to supply UK.

#49 Re: Not So Free Chat » The Flag that Barack Obama won't wear » 2008-05-09 16:57:55

"The Allies should have also hanged their own leaders like Eisenhower,Truman and Churchill."

What about Roosevelt and Stalin?

Bob

Those were examples. Eisenhower was only General so I thought by adding him and some leaders it would make it obvious that I wanted them all to face justice. Roosevelt and Stalin should  have faced justice. In fact I can't think of two non Axis leaders who deserve to be hanged other then these two. Stalin for his ethnic cleansing,persecution and allowing his men to rape 2 million German women. In fact he encouraged it.

Roosevelt for being not knowing the what neutrality actually means and allowing the ethnic cleansing of Germans. Oh and interning Japanese,Italians and Germans who haven't done anything during the war. The last one was released in 1948 If I remember properly. 3 years after the war ended.

#50 Re: Not So Free Chat » Current Gasoline/Petrol Price$ » 2008-05-09 15:41:06

You think you are going to make a difference on a Mars forum. Shut up dude.

Vincent

Well this a forum for discussion. If you don't like people discussing take an air plane to China. I'm sure their authoritarian laws would suit your views.

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