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Any one have an idea on how this can come to fruitition? World Peace that is!

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We can only hope mark,that 1 day people will come 2 there senses.

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ancient and primitive tribalism and irrelevant details separate us and make us kill each other. one day reason will rule. we will pave the way to that day.

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Well I certainly hear you guys. Igrew up during the 60's and met a group of people who were hippies. I embraced their ideas and ideals. I have yet to find any today who follow these ideals anymore,world peace was definetly one of their philosophies!

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I'm with cladclan. All the above reasons for war are true but the warmongers generally need a leader to muster them or be a "leader". It's THOSE people that need to see the futility of it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxkhBvO8_kM&noredirect=1

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Does any one have an idea how to convince the bourgeoisie or the politicians who are the puppets of the bourgeoise to finally give us some peace?

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No idea, mainly because most fighting is between "faction" of one sort or another who throw up leaders and they move way up the food chain, feeding their egos. And then we also have generals in superpowers who want to show off what they can do. Throw in a jingoistic press and we have a nasty recipe.

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How about we start showing love and peace first among people we come across on a daily basis,then spread it out to convince others this can work.

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This is what we did in the 60's and 0's. I was naive enough to think that our generation would win through. Unfortunately it turned out to be a fad. And it existed only in the Western World.

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Boy you got that right  karna. I also believed that as well but I guess the system bought them out!

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John lennon, clad.

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Poor John!

Avatar of Melvyn-G

For it to happen I feel that mankind may need a common enemy,a bit like the film Independence Day,where the aliens were the enemy,and all of mankind were pulling together.

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There’s been so much debate over Donald Trump’s statement that the U.S. should ban all Muslims attempting to enter the country. We are going to look at one major question: is it lawful?

This is a Reality Check you won’t see anywhere else.

“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”

That’s a statement from Trump explaining his plan to prevent terror attacks on U.S. soil—ban all Muslims from entering the country. This plan has been met with a lot of support from some, and condemned by others.

“Do you know how to make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told CNN.

“We do not discriminate on people based on religion…,” Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson recently stated. “…never want to do that… have to be responsible… want to be Americans.”

What Carson said there about not discriminating against people’s religion being part of the constitution, well, that is true for U.S. citizens. But that’s not what Trump said. He is talking about immigrants or people visiting from other countries. So citing freedom of religion doesn’t apply here.

Still, the White House spokesman says this statement disqualifies Trump from the presidency.

“What Donald Trump said yesterday, disqualifies him from serving as president,” said Josh Earnest, press secretary for the White House.

But are those commentators and so called legal experts right? No, they’re not.

Reality check here: a President Trump would have the power to ban certain people from entering the country.

Under U.S. Code, the president does have the statutory authority to keep anyone out of the country, for any reason he thinks best. Per 8 USC §1182

“Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”

Yes, the president has the authority to do exactly what trump is describing. And by the way, this kind of thing has happened before.

In the late 1800s, Congress passed legislation broadly aimed at halting the immigration of Chinese laborers. Those were not fully repealed until 1943. Quotas limiting immigration based on race and national origin were also enacted in the early 1900s. Racial quotas were repealed in 1952, and those limiting people based on national origin were eliminated in 1965.

So what you need to know is that when so many people are arguing about what a president legally can do, they are missing the point about what a president should do.

Should we ban an entire group of people from entering the country based on their religious views?

That is a debate a lot of people are having. But let’s consider this: remember that soundbite from Senator Graham calling Trump this:

“He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.”

You want a reality check? Senator Graham acts like he wants to stand up for Muslim immigrants coming to the United States. And yet, he has advocated for every military and drone bombing of Muslim people living in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and called for it to happen in Iran as well—policies that have ended hundreds of thousands of Muslim lives.

So a question for these enraged Republican candidates who want to make sure that we respect Muslims coming to the United States: are Muslim lives only valuable when they are on U.S. soil?

That’s Reality Check. Let’s talk about that on Twitter @BenSwann_

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