From Stratfor
Like nearly all of the peoples of North and South America, most Americans are not originally from the territory that became the United States. They are a diverse collection of peoples primarily from a dozen different Western European states, mixed in with smaller groups from a hundred more. All of the New World entities struggled to carve a modern nation and state out of the American continents. Brazil is an excellent case of how that struggle can be a difficult one. The United States falls on the opposite end of the spectrum.
The American geography is an impressive one. The Greater Mississippi Basin together with the Intracoastal Waterway has more kilometers of navigable internal waterways than the rest of the world combined. The American Midwest is both overlaid by this waterway and is the world’s largest contiguous piece of farmland. The U.S. Atlantic Coast possesses more major ports than the rest of the Western Hemisphere combined. Two vast oceans insulated the United States from Asian and European powers, deserts separate the United States from Mexico to the south, while lakes and forests separate the population centers in Canada from those in the United States. The United States has capital, food surpluses and physical insulation in excess of every other country in the world by an exceedingly large margin. So like the Turks, the Americans are not important because of who they are, but because of where they live.
From Anonymous:
Sometimes we will disagree and on this one I may need perspective as to why.
The Stratfor piece is like a rapist going into great detail to peers as to why the victim was chosen.
We Breathe Again is the victim making a documentary about the rape.
It just hit me wrong and I gander to say it will also hit other Native Americans in the gut too. FYI
From Catherine:
The Stratfor piece is an very good overview of the geographic and geophysical economics strength of the US. Given the view
from global empire, it is refreshingly honest. We need to hear that voice because it is real and it is present – it is counter to the voice
that says the US is going to collapse. It is also a counter to the voice that needs to hear how power and money work, not how we wish them to work. It helps explain why some of the behavior that we have been watching that is mystifying.
The rapist is not, however, the folks at Stratfor or the people they work for. It includes everyone who owns land or a home in the US
subsidized by the fact that the real estate was stolen or who got an education at a school that has an endowment financed with slave trafficking.
That is you and me. Back to the red button story.
This takes us back to the age old war for land and resources and how we reconcile competing interests – especially with 7 billion people.
Evon Peter and his wife are excellent people – the kind of leadership we need to to bring about lasting change.
Right now our only way through is to be committed to the individual rights of each and every human. However that is not a commitment that the American’s have
made — our commitment to date has been to keep the red button from being pushed. Which leaves it to the leadership to bring home the bacon.
OK to post your comment and my comments? I can remove your name. But it is a great discussion….
From Anonymous:
Yes. That red button issue again. I get it. Thanks for the clarification.
I agree its worthy of sharing.
From Anonymous:
Sometimes we will disagree and on this one I may need perspective as to why.
The Stratfor piece is like a rapist going into great detail to peers as to why the victim was chosen.
We Breathe Again is the victim making a documentary about the rape.
It just hit me wrong and I gander to say it will also hit other Native Americans in the gut too. FYI
From Catherine:
The Stratfor piece is an very good overview of the geographic and geophysical economics strength of the US. Given the view
from global empire, it is refreshingly honest. We need to hear that voice because it is real and it is present – it is counter to the voice
that says the US is going to collapse. It is also a counter to the voice that needs to hear how power and money work, not how we wish them to work. It helps explain why some of the behavior that we have been watching that is mystifying.
The rapist is not, however, the folks at Stratfor or the people they work for. It includes everyone who owns land or a home in the US
subsidized by the fact that the real estate was stolen or who got an education at a school that has an endowment financed with slave trafficking.
That is you and me. Back to the red button story.
This takes us back to the age old war for land and resources and how we reconcile competing interests – especially with 7 billion people.
Evon Peter and his wife are excellent people – the kind of leadership we need to to bring about lasting change.
Right now our only way through is to be committed to the individual rights of each and every human. However that is not a commitment that the American’s have
made — our commitment to date has been to keep the red button from being pushed. Which leaves it to the leadership to bring home the bacon.
OK to post your comment and my comments? I can remove your name. But it is a great discussion….
From Anonymous:
Yes. That red button issue again. I get it. Thanks for the clarification.
I agree its worthy of sharing.