"War aids capitalism, those who support capitalism support war, that is, the philosophy of death and destruction," Morales said.
President Evo Morales of Bolivia warned Tuesday that humanity was “at risk of disappearing in a nuclear holocaust,” as tensions mount worldwide after U.S. military attacks in Syria and Afghanistan.
“Nuclear power in the United States and Western countries are getting us dangerously closer to a nuclear conflagration,” adding that the capitalist crisis leads the imperialists to “new wars that are in reality military interventions over natural resources, over the control of sea routes or regions with geopolitical, energy, trade or financial value.”
"War aids capitalism, those who support capitalism support war, that is, the philosophy of death and destruction," Morales said.
He recalled the U.S. nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan that left hundreds of thousands dead.
In his opinion, U.S. President Donald Trump, “gave the Pentagon all power,” with his proposal to increase the military budget by US$54 billion.
“The empire is not governed by a man but by the sum of its financial, industrial and technological powers,” Morales explained.
He called on the whole world "to join forces to repudiate energetically any war, any military intervention that does not seek to guarantee human rights, that is not in defense of democracy, and only seeks natural resources."
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Our Absolutely Number One Priority
By Ben Stein
Of course, Reagan had it right almost forty years ago:
"Just to make this as clear as possible right now, the absolutely number one priority for the United States is to work with Israel to make and deploy a foolproof anti-ballistic missile system immediately." Nothing is more important. We now know that a man as crazy as a loon has nuclear weapons, will very soon have the means to deliver them to North America, and has said over and over that he will use those weapons to incinerate American cities.
We now know that a man who makes Hitler look like a model of diplomatic restraint will soon have the means to turn much of our nation into a glass parking lot.
We know a lot about what the Kim family is like: they like to torture and to kill. They have zero, dead zero respect for human life or world opinion. They respect only force and physics.
The U.S. has some anti-ballistic missile systems. The Israelis are the world leaders in extremely rapid response time anti-missile systems, ballistic and shorter range. It’s time to make this a crash program more important even than The Manhattan Project: make systems that can shoot down the North Korean rockets. There is no excuse to fail to do this. The loony left very largely blocked Reagan’s Star Wars proposals. We may yet answer with tens of millions of American lives. Now, even the most ignorant among us knows that a successful ABM system is more important than tax cuts, more important than “repeal and replace,” more important than the fake news of “Russian collusion.”
The most urgent duty of the government is to protect the nation. The nation is now at high stakes risk. Let’s get the best scientists in the USA and Israel together. Tell them money is no object, that this has to be done yesterday. There’s not a moment for delay: it’s life and death and if our leaders cannot act decisively on this one, it’s High Treason. The Israelis have shown that they can hit a bullet with a bullet. Now, let’s build an Iron Dome for all of America.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:Anyone think the odds are going up with Kim in Korea being such a belligerent fellow?
KaiserJeep wrote:The NK hydrogen bomb that we saw on the news is smaller than a Samsung refrigerator. All the NK's have to do is smuggle it into SK, place it in an appliance being exported to NYC - or Chicago - or Atlanta - or LA - or Washington, DC. Most likely target list: NYC plus as many additional cities as he has bombs for.
Then the little fat man has won the first nuclear war.....
Everybody, have a nice Labor Day.
KaiserJeep wrote:No, I don't know that. My family for the last 3 generations has served in the US Coast Guard. My (present service) CPO Brother-In-Law who works Port Security says that they physically screen only 5-10% of all cargo containers, on a random basis. Mostly they depend upon the computer source-to-destination tracking and random hands-on checks.
Newfie wrote:Damn glad they got the containers down pat.
Good thing no one ever thought of putting it in the spare bed room of some Islamic potentates mega yacht!
KaiserJeep wrote:EG, consider this for a moment: Trump has threatened trade embargo to anyone who supports NK. Suppose that China continues to do so and that Trump (seeking re-election perhaps) embargoes all trade with China. This will impact China a lot harder than the USA. I think it would also make nuclear war about 5X as likely in the short term.
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