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2015-01-14 Olde Tyme Religion
Imagine A Third World War: But Not How You’d Imagine It
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Posted by Hupineger Glomomp7489 2015-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Not buying it - at least governments can coordinate wars, if you define such as between other countries & continents. If there were examples of this happening previously, then it would be more convincing, which it ain't.
Posted by Raj 2015-01-14 00:53||   2015-01-14 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Were we to go down that path, then I foresee a future of Switzerlands. Non-aggression confederations, committed to defend against external threats.

BTW, Switzerland and Israel have demonstrated that you don't need big economies to have advanced tech.
Posted by phil_b 2015-01-14 01:06||   2015-01-14 01:06|| Front Page Top

#3 The article completely misses the impact of technology.

If mass media homogenized societies in the 19th and 20th centuries, P2P technologies will fragment them in the 21st.

I worked for internet companies back around 2000, and in hindsight I'm struck by how almost no one predicted how it would develop.

In a few years time, the NYPD quasi-strike will be seen as a seminal event. Top down control will more or less slowly wither.
Posted by phil_b 2015-01-14 01:29||   2015-01-14 01:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Appears to be a large Nigerian medicinal advert spill in isle 4.

Dumped at 9:30 a.m. ET.
Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-14 06:39||   2015-01-14 06:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, I attempted a spell to have his brain eaten from the inside by multidimensional parasites, but I'm not sure yet if it worked. I also called down a plague of centipedes on his family. Cause you know, they're creepy.
Posted by Silentbrick 2015-01-14 06:48||   2015-01-14 06:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Flush and repeat as necessary SB. Flush and repeat.
Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-14 06:50||   2015-01-14 06:50|| Front Page Top

#7 with no authority issuing orders
That's not the way civilizational chaos has occurred in the past. Usually there form multiple would-be authorities issuing contradictory orders, along with a breakdown of communication.
I imagine the last Roman legions functioning ran into that when their salary payments didn't arrive on schedule and their local duces did not receive their written orders as they always had in the past. What to do, what to do? The dux sometimes became a "duke" and political lines of command were hammered out the old-fashioned way as everything else set up by the Roman Empire went on the fritz.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418  2015-01-14 07:30||   2015-01-14 07:30|| Front Page Top

#8 A case in point:

NE Ohio has major landline phone, cellphone and internet outage, buts get very little news coverage.

"Why is this confined in one building?...One building can wipe out all these communications?" one local official was quoted as saying.

I mentioned months (or years) ago in a post on the 'Burg about this same building being a connection for multiple communications networks in the NE USA, not just in my surrounding counties. My own internet connection was flaky for hours, and nothing like this has happened in the last 10 years at my home. I was tipped off, not by my local TV station, which I had on, but by an email from my sister saying she was unable to reach me from her cell phone 30 miles away.
NE OH TV stations have been giving saturation coverage to the OSU championship but too little to this rather critical problem.
AP was quoted about 0635 today at this Indiana-based news web site:
AKRON, Ohio — AT&T is blaming a burst steam pipe in a switching office for scattered 911 and phone service outages in communities in northeastern Ohio.

AT&T spokeswoman Holly Hollingsworth says customers in the Akron area may be experiencing issues with wireless and landline services following the Tuesday night incident.

She says services are being restored and technicians will remain on site until all service is back to normal.

Media reports say Summit, Portage, Medina and Stark counties were among those communities having problems, with the University of Akron and Kent State among those that lost phone service.

Hollingsworth says the company apologies for the inconvenience.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418  2015-01-14 07:40||   2015-01-14 07:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Tin foil hat realm. This writer is giving too much credence to the influence of the inept leadership of the past 6-1/2 years. History will judge the Obama presidency as a dud--a kind of mistake in time that comes along in history every now and again--like Carter but far worse. If there is a legacy it is a bad legacy.
Posted by JohnQC 2015-01-14 11:17||   2015-01-14 11:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Respectfully disagree John. History is fickle. The carnage of his left leaning actions and bigotry will join his scholastic transcripts in the vault to be sealed for 75 years. His 'reign' will be heralded as both racial and progressive milestone and an unparalleled success. Institutions of higher learning and research will bear his name and streets will be named after him everywhere. His various names and legend will rival Fleming's discovery of penicillin and Friedrich Miescher's research on DNA.
Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-14 11:35||   2015-01-14 11:35|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm going to dedicate myself to staying around another 75 years just to see.
Posted by JohnQC 2015-01-14 12:51||   2015-01-14 12:51|| Front Page Top

#12 I agree with JohnQC. The left hated Reagan but by the time he died their lies and mostly faded away and most of them were forced to grudgingly give him respect.

W is's place in history is improving every day as Obama continues policies or changes things and the world gets noticeably worse as a result.

You can lie and lie all you want, you can even rewrite the history books to try to reenforce that (and force schools to buy them). But eventually the amount of people that lived through the events and say the improvement (or worsening) tells the story.

Obama will be considered a mistake by the left and it won't be until the Millenials are in the old folks home before his reputation can be rewritten.
Posted by rjschwarz 2015-01-14 15:16||   2015-01-14 15:16|| Front Page Top

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