WORLD PEACE FOR HUMANITY

The World is not at peace.

There is still war in Ukraine.
Israelis are again killing people in the Gaza Strip.
The USA yesterday bombarded dozens of targets in Yemen controlled by Iran-backed Houthis, killing at least 31.
President Donald Trump has a draft list of 43 countries banned from entering the U.S. There are three categories, red, orange and yellow. On the red list are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen.
The Doomsday clock was on 28January2025 moved to 89 seconds to midnight, THE CLOSEST EVER TO DOOMSDAY. Not only the threat of nuclear armageddon because of Russia, but now also global warming and the threat of artificial intelligence.

One of my more obscure subjects of interest is world peace. My first Huffington Post article, in 2008, was entitled: Well, Barack, We Have a Problem...

This article was published when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were competing to become the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate.

The following year HuffPo published The 10% Solution.
Then in 2010, The 10% Simple Solution to Peace. To quote:

I have said this before, in my original HuffPosting, "Well, Barack, We Have a Problem...," and "The Ten Percent Solution." To summarize, President Obama goes to the next G8 summit, and pronounces a Gorbachev-like bombshell: America will reduce defense spending by 10% this coming year, and will continue to slice 10% every year if you all do the same. In just a very few years, military spending will be minimal and the world will be at a higher level of peace forever.

As President Obama wasn't doing anything about my peace solution, a fourth peace HuffPo, A Message to President Hu Jintao: Three Steps for China to Attain Superpower Status.

But China changed presidents, so another HuffPo, this one addressed to new president of China, Xi Jinping, My Second Message to China.

I was a hawk during the Cold War. I am now a peace monger. In 2011, U.S. News and World Report, because of those Huffington Post articles, included me in an international poll on peace:

U.S. News and World Report Debate Club results asked of nine "sharp minds" to the question: Are Cuts to the Defense Budget Necessary?:

In first place with 116 points: Ron Paul
2nd, 66 points: Patrick Takahashi
3rd, 33 points: Travis Sharp Bacevich, Fellow at the Center for a New American Security
8th, - 38 points: J. Randy Forbes (right), U.S. House of Representative and Chairman of the House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee. Note: that is a MINUS 38 points, from the Republican who is responsible for defense spending in our U.S. Congress!!!

Of course, Ron Paul won because he is a former Congressman and has run for president of the USA three times. My position was crystallized from those Huffington Post articles. Written 15 years ago, there is no chance the 10% Solution for World Peace can today be considered because the president of the U.S. is Donald Trump. From my Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence with NASA, to Laser Fusion at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to the Hydrogen Economy, to the Blue Revolution, to World Peace, nothing I do seems to attain any kind of reality. For now....IMAGINE. I leave you with John Lennon's Imagine.

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