peace poetry - iPeace.us2024-03-29T13:37:07Zhttps://ipeace.us/forum/topics/peace-poetry?feed=yes&xn_auth=noA very moving poem and thanks…tag:ipeace.us,2008-11-11:2217368:Comment:4417642008-11-11T10:07:05.574ZTinkiehttps://ipeace.us/profile/TinkieKatsav
A very moving poem and thanks for sharing it.<br />
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Yes, it has been 90 years since WWI, and nothing really has changed.<br />
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Now is the same principle as then: On one hand the war profiteers, urging on to fight, injure and kill; psychologically manipulating people into fearing and hating, while they sit back and fill their bank accounts. On the other hand, the sacrifice of human beings whom make it possible for the profiteers to gain their objectives.<br />
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Now that Obama has been elected, Lockhead Martin…
A very moving poem and thanks for sharing it.<br />
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Yes, it has been 90 years since WWI, and nothing really has changed.<br />
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Now is the same principle as then: On one hand the war profiteers, urging on to fight, injure and kill; psychologically manipulating people into fearing and hating, while they sit back and fill their bank accounts. On the other hand, the sacrifice of human beings whom make it possible for the profiteers to gain their objectives.<br />
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Now that Obama has been elected, Lockhead Martin has promised to stand by Israel.<br />
Well......it doesn't make me feel any better. This means that Israel will be the experimentation area for all kinds of goodies, such as F22's, mabye some more F16's, mabye even some new sophisticated killing machines, anti ballistic shields etc etc.<br />
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Just another note about the First World War.<br />
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Alfred Nobel invented the machine gun, tanks, land mines, etc, and hereby earned a fortune. At the end of his life, I guess his conscience got to him, he decided to create a Peace Fund, the Nobel Peace prize.<br />
Meanwhile, after his death, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany stocked up with loads and loads of new weaponry, all of which had to be tried out.<br />
It didn't take long to get the opportunity to try out all the new weapons. Four years of WWI, and an amazing amount of arms had been manufactured and used. Millions were slaughtered.<br />
That time was also the first time that soldiers came home shell shocked. They were immediately executed because it was an unknown phenomena, and the state thought these soldiers were cowards. 300 British soldiers have been executed because they were in shell shock.<br />
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Another interesting fact: Today in 2008, near Ypre, Belgium, where a lot of fighting went on during WWI, they still distract 2 tonnes of old WWI shells per year, still lying in the ground - 90 years later.<br />
Can you imagine how many shells were manufactured? How much certain people earned from this?<br />
If anyone is interested, please visit the museum site of Ypre: <a href="http://www.inflandersfields.be/#">http://www.inflandersfields.be/#</a><br />
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War is a horrible vicious way to accumilate wealth and power, and that is why we <u>still</u> have lots and lots of wars and conflicts.