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bertsmobile1
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
It's all about povety.
Most people are happy to stay where they are if they have something to do , a belly full of food and a better than average chance of not being killed during the night.
However the 1st world rapes & pillages the resources of the 3rd world so funny enough the 3rd world people come to the 1st world countries to seek some economic recompence.
The Taliban are financed by the opium trade and most of that opium ends up in the USA.
So the allied forces come in & burn the crop to cut off the funds which makes sense except the farmer is now destitute and he , his family and 1/2 his village now hates the USA, Australia, Denmark & the UK.
OTOH if we paid him to grow a food crop then he has money & food so can tell the Taliban to F off, but that does not make as good footage for the evening news as rockets blowing people into tiny pieces.
Bill Mollison went around India & Africia teaching locals how to get back into harmony with nature and feed themselves through permaculture.
Monsanto had him run out of the country and many of his followers killed because if a farmer could become self sufficient again they would not have to buy expensive chemicals for the monocultures that are destroying their crop lands and then GM seeds that produce sterile F hybrid plants so there is no seed for next year, thus the farmers get into a debt situation they can never pay off and big agri-business takes over the farms.
Same thing is happening in Africia
If you can find a copy of "the confessions of an Economic Hit Man" read it and see just how wealthy countries like yours and mine deliberately create debt burdened governments that become totally dependent upon foreign aid so they are subserviant to the political whims of our respective governments.
It's all about povety.
Most people are happy to stay where they are if they have something to do , a belly full of food and a better than average chance of not being killed during the night.
However the 1st world rapes & pillages the resources of the 3rd world so funny enough the 3rd world people come to the 1st world countries to seek some economic recompence.
The Taliban are financed by the opium trade and most of that opium ends up in the USA.
So the allied forces come in & burn the crop to cut off the funds which makes sense except the farmer is now destitute and he , his family and 1/2 his village now hates the USA, Australia, Denmark & the UK.
OTOH if we paid him to grow a food crop then he has money & food so can tell the Taliban to F off, but that does not make as good footage for the evening news as rockets blowing people into tiny pieces.
Bill Mollison went around India & Africia teaching locals how to get back into harmony with nature and feed themselves through permaculture.
Monsanto had him run out of the country and many of his followers killed because if a farmer could become self sufficient again they would not have to buy expensive chemicals for the monocultures that are destroying their crop lands and then GM seeds that produce sterile F hybrid plants so there is no seed for next year, thus the farmers get into a debt situation they can never pay off and big agri-business takes over the farms.
Same thing is happening in Africia
If you can find a copy of "the confessions of an Economic Hit Man" read it and see just how wealthy countries like yours and mine deliberately create debt burdened governments that become totally dependent upon foreign aid so they are subserviant to the political whims of our respective governments.
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
Last I saw him, he was with Batman & Batwoman along with Supergirl , doing Karaoke at the Leaping Leprechauns Pub. I saw 10 EMPTY pitcher's on their table, and they all seemed to be in good "spirits" ...
Last I saw him, he was with Batman & Batwoman along with Supergirl , doing Karaoke at the Leaping Leprechauns Pub. I saw 10 EMPTY pitcher's on their table, and they all seemed to be in good "spirits" ...
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
almost forgot, went into town to mail a letter, and stopped at a flea market, found an old brass hammered and engraved serving table for $30 buck, cleaned it up and my neighbor just offered 500 bucks for it!?
almost forgot, went into town to mail a letter, and stopped at a flea market, found an old brass hammered and engraved serving table for $30 buck, cleaned it up and my neighbor just offered 500 bucks for it!?
bertsmobile1
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
Funny you should say that.
There is a line of physoligical reasoning that puts a lot of weight on the "superman complex" where kids fed on super heros when young get it in the back of their minds that some one will always intervein to save them.
Thus we "think" that the President will fix things or the Mayor will fix things or even the defence forces will fix things and we can sit back , do nothing and be "saved"
Apparently it is most pronounced amongst city / suburban kids which of course have grown up to become the bulk of the voting public.
Funny you should say that.
There is a line of physoligical reasoning that puts a lot of weight on the "superman complex" where kids fed on super heros when young get it in the back of their minds that some one will always intervein to save them.
Thus we "think" that the President will fix things or the Mayor will fix things or even the defence forces will fix things and we can sit back , do nothing and be "saved"
Apparently it is most pronounced amongst city / suburban kids which of course have grown up to become the bulk of the voting public.
bertsmobile1
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
Not on your sweet nelly.
We have been brainwashed into believing no matter what we do to put us , our town, our country or the entire planet in peril, some one will step in and save us from our own stupidity / arrogance / ignorance / greed.
Hollywood is full of "disaster" movies where the hero steps in at the last second and all is well, think of blockbusters like Star Wars for example.
Even in appcolypse movies, one brave person steps in and saves all the idiots from themselves and every one goes on doing exactly what they were doing before.
In South America & Africa we can to a large extent also point the finger at the churches and in particular the Catholic type religions who taught the locals to " turn the other cheek" so be submissive because the Lord would save them either here or in Heaven.
Now this worked wonders when they were governed by a colonial power and stopped a lot of local wars between the invading colonizers and the original masses who have been dispossed, & subjucated.
However it also laid the groundwork for every tin pot violent gangster to rise to power either as a local warlord or as a pretend government .
In Africa, France, Germany, the UK, and to lesser extent the USA have been bending over backward to prevent unification of the entire continent , to keep the locals fighting with each other so we in the west can rape & pillage their resources at massively reduced prices so we can continue in our comfortable lifestyles.
Add to that massive profits created by the USA government forcing the rest of the world to go on an anti - drug campaign post WW II and you have the foundations of the drug cartels and gangster regeimes we see today
This also created the problem we have with radical violent religious fanatics teaching Islamic followers to create their heaven on earth by extreme violence against all the others who teach passive submission thus millions in the middle east just run away and become refugees rather than standing their ground & resisting the agressors.
Refugees outnumber Islamic State "warriors" around 100:1
Switzerland managed to remain neutral for over 200 years of European wars by compulsory military training ensuring everyone knows how to fight , with or without weapons.
Then arming the entire population and following with real democracy and strong social security so no bad laws that reward a few to the cost of many and no one starving in the streets .
Thus it is not "the enemy is coming call the army to save me " it is get the gun out and stand your ground, you save yourself and while you are at it your neighbours as well.
Not on your sweet nelly.
We have been brainwashed into believing no matter what we do to put us , our town, our country or the entire planet in peril, some one will step in and save us from our own stupidity / arrogance / ignorance / greed.
Hollywood is full of "disaster" movies where the hero steps in at the last second and all is well, think of blockbusters like Star Wars for example.
Even in appcolypse movies, one brave person steps in and saves all the idiots from themselves and every one goes on doing exactly what they were doing before.
In South America & Africa we can to a large extent also point the finger at the churches and in particular the Catholic type religions who taught the locals to " turn the other cheek" so be submissive because the Lord would save them either here or in Heaven.
Now this worked wonders when they were governed by a colonial power and stopped a lot of local wars between the invading colonizers and the original masses who have been dispossed, & subjucated.
However it also laid the groundwork for every tin pot violent gangster to rise to power either as a local warlord or as a pretend government .
In Africa, France, Germany, the UK, and to lesser extent the USA have been bending over backward to prevent unification of the entire continent , to keep the locals fighting with each other so we in the west can rape & pillage their resources at massively reduced prices so we can continue in our comfortable lifestyles.
Add to that massive profits created by the USA government forcing the rest of the world to go on an anti - drug campaign post WW II and you have the foundations of the drug cartels and gangster regeimes we see today
This also created the problem we have with radical violent religious fanatics teaching Islamic followers to create their heaven on earth by extreme violence against all the others who teach passive submission thus millions in the middle east just run away and become refugees rather than standing their ground & resisting the agressors.
Refugees outnumber Islamic State "warriors" around 100:1
Switzerland managed to remain neutral for over 200 years of European wars by compulsory military training ensuring everyone knows how to fight , with or without weapons.
Then arming the entire population and following with real democracy and strong social security so no bad laws that reward a few to the cost of many and no one starving in the streets .
Thus it is not "the enemy is coming call the army to save me " it is get the gun out and stand your ground, you save yourself and while you are at it your neighbours as well.