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originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: zatara
The world is better, poverty is at it's lowest point people are more educated.
By every conceivable metric the world is better than it has ever been.
Stop with the negative vibes man.
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: zatara
The world is better, poverty is at it's lowest point people are more educated.
By every conceivable metric the world is better than it has ever been.
Stop with the negative vibes man.
By his count, he's created 106 No Shoot Zones over a three-year period since 2015.
Young men walk past abandoned houses in the Sandtown-Winchester neighbourhood of Baltimore, a block away from where Freddie Gray was arrested [AP Photo/Patrick Semansky] "Since we started, there have only been six shootings in the zones," he said, "but that's counting from the time the paint went down. There have been no shootings in the zones for the past two years."
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: watchitburn
How is asking for a week of not spending money on war machines in the name of peace and spending the saved money on something actually productive sending out negative vibes?
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: zatara
I'm all about less war, I'm on board with you there.
But some others in this thread have been so conditioned to see everything as negative. They don't pull their heads out of the sand to actually look around at the world.
Timeline of United States military operations
1945: China: In October 50,000 U.S. Marines were sent to North China to assist Chinese Nationalist authorities in disarming and repatriating the Japanese in China and in controlling ports, railroads, and airfields. This was in addition to approximately 60,000 U.S. forces remaining in China at the end of World War II.[RL30172]
1945–1949: Occupation of part of Germany.
1945–1955: Occupation of part of Austria.
1945–1952: Occupation of Japan.
1944–1946: Temporary reoccupation of the Philippines during World War II and in preparation for previously scheduled independence.[citation needed]
1945–1947: U.S. Marines garrisoned in mainland China to oversee the removal of Soviet and Japanese forces after World War II.[6]
1945–1949: Post-World War II occupation of South Korea; North Korean insurgency in Republic of Korea[7]
originally posted by: zatara
Maybe you can make a treaty which says that any country which will attack an other country during that period will suffer the consequences of all nations who signed up... A kind of NATO contract...attack one NATO country and you go to war with all of them.
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: zatara
people are more educated.