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    Ukraine calls for criminal investigation after report finds Russian missile downed MH17

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    Actually the opposite. China and Russia want the UN to be the lead multilateral organisation that implements international law and norms. Why? Because they both have veto power in the Security Council. If you compare multilateral orgs such as EAS, APEC, IMF, etc. they have much, much less influence because there are more members to balance their power and there are no veto powers. In the UN Russia and China are two against, three - to put it crudely. It's the one place where they actually hold significant power.

     

    Russia wants to destroy NATO, that's another story.

    Man. Fuck Religion.

    in Channel Zero

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    To a point I agree with that but then you'd expect similar trends in similar countries, which doesn't seem to be occurring. Just controlling access to guns isn't the whole answer but it has to be part of it. What the rest is I'm not sure but likely involves education, upward mobility, reduction of religious intolerance and extremism, reduction of glorification of violence (seriously, can we swap violence in popular media for sex instead? We'd be in such a more enjoyable world if we could do that...), etc.

     

    Stricter gun laws and cultural shifts take generations as well. There's noting that can be done that would 'fix' the problem in our lifetimes, there's already far too many guns throughout the US (Russia, Pakistan, Former Yugoslavia, Thailand, Northern Africa and the Mid East, etc.) to make a quick fix like Australia was able to achieve after Port Arthur. We were lucky that we had a government - that I otherwise wasn't fond of - that bit the bullet and changed the gun laws early on in the piece. There's still gun crime, of course, but mass shootings are a huge rarity because there simply isn't the prevalence of firearms in society....., which is a good thing in the age of post-Mumbai mass shooting terror attacks.

    Man. Fuck Religion.

    in Channel Zero

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    FIST - that body parts video was faked? Is that fully confirmed or widely believed?

     

    SYMBOLS - Not really sure I'd call Lebanon a secular state given its dis-functionality, Hizballah's representation in the parliament and their control in the south. It's secular on paper but the government (as in the nation's security forces) can't enforce it's authority over the nation's territory in full.

    Man. Fuck Religion.

    in Channel Zero

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    Yeah, the Catholic thing is just a loose example to look at the premise of an argument - that people who share an identity are responsible for the acts of those sharing that identity, which includes the responsibility for stopping those acts.

     

    I realise, Pro, that this may not be exactly what you're saying but I think you get the drift. Not all Muslims think and act alike, just like not all Christians, not all graffiti writers, not all black people, not all rugby players, not all vegans, etc. etc. So having them all act as one is an irrational expectation or hope.

     

    There is a lot of actions being taken by Muslims in Western societies to combat the radicalisation of youth. That is one of the most important efforts for countering violent extremism, home grown terrorism, and for ensuring the cohesiveness of multicultural societies.

    Futurist Update

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    A lot of the work I've been involved with in the past kind of moved in to futures work when forecasting went past about the 20 year mark. We used to look at how battery and energy technology would change international relations in regards to robotics, economics, warfare, transport, aged care, etc. etc. How nanotech effects medication is also really interesting, so it AI, etc. etc.

     

    Great stuff, especially for the dreamers among us.

    Man. Fuck Religion.

    in Channel Zero

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    Won't let me edit:

     

    The simplicity you're asking 1.6 billion people to act with suggests you could also say "All the motorists should join together and stop car crashes. You're also saying that Muslims are responsible for Islam like all Christians are responsible for child molestation in the catholic church, that all Latin Americans are responsible for narco-terrorism and all Australians are responsible for the Liberal Party.

     

    "You vaguely belong for a broad and massively diverse group that you have zero control over but you are responsible for everything bad that comes from it, no matter of how far away you live from it, what little you know of it, how different you are from it or how innocent you are of it."

     

    More rational and accurate to blame humanity and idiots than anything else.

    Man. Fuck Religion.

    in Channel Zero

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    Also, if the billion plus Muslims don't like terrorism, they should join together and stop it.

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    The simplicity you're asking 1.6 billion people to act with suggests you could say "All the motorists should join together and stop car crashes.

     

    It's easy to apply unrealistic and irrational responsibilities on to others that are impossible to apply to ourselves and the groups we exist within.

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    Man. Fuck Religion.

    in Channel Zero

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    They're not the greatest of friends with each other. There's a huge amount of variance, difference and animosity within Islam, kind of like the way the Christians have killed and fucked each other over in the past based on denomination.

    Man. Fuck Religion.

    in Channel Zero

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    @Donald Chump : what are you thinking?

    I'm thinking escalation will be the response from all sides.

     

    ISIS is an entity that cannot tolerate those unlike itself. It is looking to shift the reality in the Mid East to a place that will actually increase instability and suffering. There is no diplomatic settlement with an organisation like that, they have to be defeated. The challenge is in how it is defeated. But that is not the end play either, defeating the ideology is the overall challenge. I'm not sure I've heard a comprehensive, cohesive and credible explanation as to why this ideology has the seductive power that it does. OF course it will be a multitude of reasons instead of a single narrative that suits all parts of the world.

     

    History is to blame, religion - or how it is used by some to their own benefit - is to blame, social pressures and ignorance is to blame, etc. etc. We won't see the end of this in our time.

     

    Think of this, we are now living with TWO jihadist organisations that have global reach.

    Where does one go to look at graf these days?

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    Where does one go to look at graf these days?

    in Channel Zero

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    So this place is a shadow of what it used to be for looking at graffiti. Threads like Burners and Style, MSK thread, graffuturism, etc. etc. were the best place to go for new pics two years or so ago, now they are a thing of the past.

     

    I still like to look at new and old stuff but think that instagram sucks for looking at pics. I don't have a 15 inch screen to look at 7 inch pics and I see a fundamental contradiction between a visual medium and reduced picture size. So, anyone know of any good blogs that are updated regularly or anything that can account for what brickslayers used to be here? Please list anything you can mention - and yes, I know this is non-graff but hey, between CH0 and one or two freight threads, I don't think anything happens in any other sections of this website!

     

    Cheerio!

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