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photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_dJ9jhts2Ng/82302946_550340838896144_758424008235417600_n_550340835562811.jpg OUCH!!

(lol, brilliant)OUCH!!

(lol, brilliant)

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Background: Someone is downloading ch–d p-rn-graphy using Krugman’s ip address (a fairly easy hacker thing to do, and especially if they can get some malicious code on his machine via email.)

(I hope these are ok to post. should be.)

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—“Curt, please explain the chart. ty.”—bagofcells

Outline Map:

..Black = major oil fields

..Red= Iran’s sphere of influence (conquest)

..Green=those who want to contain iran.

..Blue= India and Russia (partnership)

..Yellow = China (power hungry)

Yellow-Red Map: black dots = oil.

Green Map: Population and Muslim Factions

1. Core states rule civilizations.

2. ~500M population necessary for core state.

3. $1T+ necessary for core state finance of military.

4. Petro-Currency+Reserve Currency needed to finance military needed for Great Power status.

5. Iran can take entire gulf oil supply by Kuwait and Saudis and already have people in the area.

6. Together Iran can achieve both core state of islamic civilization and dominate the region, and obtain Great Power status and heavily influence world affairs.

World cannot tolerate fundamentalist islamic expansionary, militant nuclear iran with control over world oil reserve,and energy prices. Iran is not USA/UK trying to spread rule of law, human rights, science, medicine, tech, commercial prosperity. 10x as bad as China as enemy.

Instead, decimate Iranian military capacity, and economy, pull in competing middle eastern states, and let islamic civilization slowly modernize over generations, and USA can leave. Otherwise another world war and 100’s of millions dead.

This is how grownups see the world.

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—“Yeah I will buy this read. Another way to look at it is that it would be irresponsible of the major powers to let radicals who got rich by luck (sitting on oil) have a de facto veto over all world political decisions via nuclear weapons. The ME states never had to fully mature or develop responsible and functional institutions.”—Michael Churchill

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200k ybp modern humans evolve

200k ybp homo hidelbergensis extinction

143k ybp homo erectus extinct

*..75k ybp toba volcano event (extinction)

*..7Xk ybp the earth nearly exterminated us.(^volcanos)

..60k ybp large numbers of homo sapiens leave africa

..40k ybp invented of language (could be 100k)

..40k ybp neanderthal extinction

..27k ybp pottery invente

..25k ybp glaciation ends, speciation begins.

*..20k ybp persian gulf floods

*.20k ybp dark age (stone age dark age???)

..17k ybp homo floresiensis extinct (indonesia)

*16k ybp the Azov, Caspian, Black Sea Flood

*..15k ybp denisovian extinction (indonesia?)

*..15k ybp missoula floods (nw americas)

*..14.5k ybp lake bonneville flood (nw americas)

*..13k byp Lake Agassiz Drainage (flood, younger dryas)

..12k ybp the new stone age begins – neolithic 1 (could be 14k)

..10k ybp the neolithic 2 begins (gobekli tepe)

*…8k ybp steraga slide, north sea tzunami

*.07.6k ybp the black sea floods

*..07k ybp north sea floods (doggerland lost)

..07k ypb the copper age begins

..06k ybp the bronze age begins

….5,000 ybp indo european expansion

….5,300 ybp the first civilization in mesopotamia

….3,500 ybp wootz steel in india

*…3,200 ybp dark age (sea people bronze age collapse 400yrs)

….2,900 ybp age of transformation: religion begins

….2,800 ybp Start of Greece and Rome (900-800 bc)

….2,400 ybp hellenic age: aristotle and alexander

*…2,100 ypb outburst flood in china’s yellow river 2yrs long

*…1,900 ybp dark age (semitic iron age collapse)

…..1520 ybp fall of roman empire

…. 1500 ybp start of the merovingian empire

…..1400 ybp fall of greek civilization

…..1220 ybp start holy roman empire (carolingian) – 1866

…..1200 ybp Viking period 800-1050

….. 900 ybp Norman Invasion Early Middle Ages End 1066

……900 ybp Start Hansa 1100-1450

….. 700 ybp High Middle Ages End

……700 ybp renaissance ( 1k yrs dark age ends )

….. 590 ybp Age of Discovery Begins 1410

……500 ybp china’s Qingyang impact event (10k dead)

….. 400 ybp Late Middle Ages End 1600

……200 ybp babbage’s first computer

……190 ybp faraday’s dynamo (generator)

……170 ybp darwin

*…..100 ybp new dark age (bolshevik revolution)

……..80 ybp fall of european empire (beginning of ww2)

I think we start the two semitic dark ages at christianity or islam, and marx or the bolshevik revolution.

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Political scientist Samuel Huntington has argued that the defining characteristic of the 21st century will be a clash of civilizations. According to Huntington, conflicts between civilizations will supplant the conflicts between nation-states and ideologies that characterized the 19th and 20th centuries. These views have been strongly challenged by others like Edward Said, Muhammed Asadi and Amartya Sen. Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris have argued that the “true clash of civilizations” between the Muslim world and the West is caused by the Muslim rejection of the West’s more liberal sexual values, rather than a difference in political ideology, although they note that this lack of tolerance is likely to lead to an eventual rejection of democracy. In Identity and Violence Sen questions if people should be divided along the lines of a supposed “civilization”, defined by religion and culture only. He argues that this ignores the many others identities that make up people and leads to a focus on differences.