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Our Wars

   Mago Bill: Our wars. The U. S. has a lot of wars in its history, even in our very recent history as well as from 1776.        

                We do a lot of warring. I intended to write little essays about a few of the more obscure wars of the U.S.A., but have lost some of my motivation; still I may yet do so                

          

               The following is an introduction to my intention to write about some of our less known wars.

                 

                 As I write our union has lasted about 244 years. I find that of those years only six have been free of war. I also find that in a great many of those years we have fought more than one war year. I our 238 years of warring many of us have been killed and we have killed many. If we do not hold the record for average number of wars per year, we may soon do so.

 

                The years we have not warred are 1935 through 1940 and 1897. It may well be worth while to learn more about these years.

From 1899 to1934 we had mostly just "Banana Wars;" mostly not only. People of our neighboring countries of Central America may object to my word "just." Those Banana Wars were among the most traumatic happenings in their entire history. In those wars we stepped on their labor movement hard. The people of those republics have found it difficult to laugh about what we have called our Good Neighbor Policy. 

When taking a close look at historic near the U.S. it seems we have hated the people of Haiti the most for the longest time. That we have invaded Mexico only 13 times since 1837 makes it look like we love Mexicans more than we have hated the people of Haiti; but I digress. These doings mostly count as wars.

 

                There are doings related to our wars that are curious and peak my interest. For it is curious why we insist on killing one another when we could be arranging to protect ourselves from comet and asteroid rains, various virus, plagues, solar flares, rising sea levels, and the like. When I have said "we' here, I not only refer to you and I, our fellow citizens, and our fore bearers, but also those who find it convenient to war with us. 

My curiosity extends to wanting to know why part of our Civil War occurred at Gibraltar and why Mysore played a part in that same war. I'd even like to know why Sweden was our allie in our first Barbary War. What about the German Coast Uprising in the Territory of Orleans? Just why did we invade Canada? And like that. And you may agree, that our recent wars of say the last 20 or 30 years, have had their interesting points.

 

                I do not enjoy writing about the killing we do or about the deaths of many of our fine young men. In fact it causes me some very unpleasant feelings. I would like to act in an honorable and legal way to minimize early deaths and killings. Not an easy thing to do since so many of us have abdicated responsibility for the war machine we sponsor.

     

                I have a lot to learn but I do intend to be honest and factual as I write. I hope that you will correct any and all mistakes that you find on this blog. You are welcome to do so in the "comment" section just below.

 

                More to come, slowly.

 

RCS      

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Nine Nations: 8/1/2017 and 8/21/2017

Some years ago Dennis McGuire gave me a book written by Joel Garreau. In that book Garreau divided much of North America into what he called 
nine nations. As I remember the book was called Nine Nations. He did a good job of describing much of the continent. I believe the could be called a sociological work.

I am going to try to remember enough of my reading of the book those years ago to write a sort of monograph of each of the " nations" he considered much as he considered it.

Below is a list of the "Nations" as Mr. Garreau named them:
~ Quebec
~ New England
~ The foundry
~ Dixie
~ The Islands
~ The Empty Quarter
~ Ecotopia
~ Breadbasket
~ Mexamerica

I lived in "Mexamerica' when I read the book. and failed to take notes on it as I failed with some of the other Nations. I can say the Republic of Mexico is in it. Spanish of the Mexican sort is spoken widely in much of Mexamerica; a good deal of English is spoken there. There is mixing of the two languages especially along the border.
There is plenty of cultural prejudice there. As I remember Joel suggests that "might makes right in this valley of  tears."

I add that this Nation of Mexamerica may less of a Nation than most of the other "Nations."  For example, The state of Oaxaca and DF  seem much less part of the  Nation than does the state of New Mexico.



post by Richard for Mago Bill

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The Empty Quarter of the Nine Nations

The Empty Quarter is on of Garreau's Nine Nations. I spent a significant part of my life in the thee. It is big and relatively lightly populated. A large part of it can be called desert.  It extends from the northern deserts of Mexico across the U.S and Canada into the Arctic Circle.

The E.Q. contains gas, oil, cattle, mining, timber, and wheat and the people who work in those industries. Some people are attracted by the quiet and the "elbow room" to be found there.

The Athabascan tar sands of Alberta are in the Empty Quarter. There in Nevada is the Home Farm headquarters of The School of the Natural Order.

North American Indian Peoples live in the Empty Quarter of the Nine Nations. Some of them try to live much as they did long ago. But it is not easy. For example, Acoma, Coleville, Navajo, Ute, Wind River and a fe others have significant control of perhaps 50% of the Uranium found here. Native Americans with oil and gas consult with OPEC. Blackfoot, Sioux, Crow, Spokane, and Northern Cheyenne control a third of the low-sulfur stripable coal here.

The land is beautiful and scars easily. It looks to many of us that much of this beautiful land is being needlessly sacrificed to the need and greed of people we do not know. Fracking and the disposal of water of certain industries seems to be a shameful rape to some here. Water has be scarce here and is now being poisoned. Some have told us to pipe water from the Arctic. Might be a good short term solution.  The fresh water of the Arctic was stored in ice. That ices is rapidly melting and flowing into a rising sea.

Triggers for great bombs are made in the part of this "empty zone" closest to the great city of Denver. Testing of hydrogen bombs here still poisons citizens of Utah and disturbs the genetics of deer of North East California.

The south west portion of the US is found in the Empty Quarter. It is there where many of the Western Cowboy films of Hollywood were made. . 

posted by Richard
for Mago Bill
8/1/2017