Sunday, October 9, 2022

GOOD News! All from recent WPost articles.

1.       Humanity has successfully demonstrated our capacity for planetary defense against celestial threats. Google DART experiment.

2.       2.   Social media is used for human rights protection.

a.       The death of one young woman in Iran sparked nationwide protests in all 31 of Iran’s Provinces. She died from a skull fracture due to police brutality after being arrested and sent to a “Re-education center”.

b.       Driven by deep grievances:  repressive religious rules, 50% inflation rate, and economic mismanagement by the regime, thousands of Iranian feel they have nothing to lose.  So far at least 76 protesters have been violently killed.

c.       Satellite technology undermined Iran’s internet blackout of civil voices allowing a song to go viral and became the Iran protest anthem.

3.       3. The evolution of weaponry on battlefields has empowered Ukrainians with little military training to use personal drones to help Ukraine’s military use smart ammunition to devastate Russian forces 20 miles away still within Ukrainian territory.

4.     4.   US foreign/military policy is now ethically prioritizing its defense of freedom and security beyond its borders “Freedom has to be better armed than tyranny.” Ukraine’s President.

5.       5. A single individual using an IED (Improvised explosive devise - a truck bomb) can thwart an abusive and criminal superpower.  Nations no longer have a monopoly on WMD.  

6.       6.  George Will exposed Russia’s cultural history of the torturous treatment of enemies (domestic and foreign) asking ‘is this only a problem for the US when it is done outside of Russia?’.  Thus exposing the unstated universal insanity of the UN (our global governance system) which was engineered to put the protection of national sovereignty above the protection of human rights and the environment.  We now have a perfect example of this dysfunctional system. 

With our world about 100 years past the need to create a global governance system based on the “Rule of Law” instead of the law of force. 

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