Friends, according to the news this morning, the drama is Mumbai is still not over. Fighting still continues at the Taj Hotel. Numbers killed now are upwards of 130 and conjecture rages as to who is to blame.
Another distressing item on the news this morning was about Russia stepping up its missile program in response to the controversial placing of American missiles around its borders. Yes, the arms race is alive and well and Russia has already tested a new style of long range weapon with spectacular results.
Now I don’t know about you but I think the American plan to build a missile shield is extremely provocative given that, in a sane world, we should be moving in the direction of banning nuclear weapons and total disarmament. But there is a terrible irony here!
I seem to remember that, in 1962, when Russia was going to put missiles in Cuba, right on America’s doorstep, that the world came close to having a nuclear war. If the Russians hadn’t had the maturity and commonsense to back off, we probably would have and none of us would be here today.
Yet, in 2008, here we have the Americans, who were prepared to create Armageddon to stop Russia deploying missiles on its borders, thinking it has the right to deploy its missiles in a ring around Russia’s borders without there being any repercussions. Is there not a strong element of hypocrisy here, of clear derangement?
Friends this is not a harmless ‘ring around the Rosy’ game. We are talking about nuclear weapons here, long range nuclear weapons that can cross oceans. We’re talking about an acceleration in the arms race. We’re talking about a further proliferation in nuclear weaponry with Gates already talking about upgrading the whole American nuclear arsenal.
Given the fraught nature of our world already, I can only conclude that such madness proves conclusively that most humans must have within their collective unconscious a death wish. And I can only conclude that Americans have a much more deep-seated death wish than folks from most other nations.
The bottom line is that we are creating a scenario that, far from protecting us, will one day result in a High Noon that will destroy our whole world. Smart, eh? It only takes one mistake, an accidental firing perhaps, or a Presidential maniac or warmonger (of which it seems America has a plentiful supply), or a nuclear device falls off the back of a truck and gets into the wrong hands, and it’s game over!
Of course the whole world should be up in arms over this. The whole world should tell the Americans where to put their bloody missile shield. The whole world should strongly condemn American militarism and imperialism, isolate the Americans, impose trade restrictions on them, stop them leading our world towards a nuclear firestorm.
We, the little people, can provide the impetus to stop this continuing madness. Contact your local member of Parliament. Set up protest groups. Get bumper stickers. Hold fundraisers and use the money to put advertisements in the papers, on television. March on Parliaments. Don’t buy American products. Don’t visit America. Use the internet to voice your displeasure and concern. Contact any American friends you have and urge them to join our protest.
Let’s be clear: if you don’t do anything, get ready to be burned up in a nuclear firestorm and fulfill your unconscious death wish!
(Photo thanks to Reuters)
Sheer derangement. Great suggestions on how to prevent nuclear war. I LOVE LIFE!
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Many of us also love life, Swan. It’s a shame that so many dedicate their lives to ending it for everyone.
Such people are certainly deranged!
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A couple of years ago I wrote the following essay which I think is pertinent to this topic:
APOCALYPSE NOW
Dear God,
On August 6, 2005, was the anniversary of the dropping of the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, sixty years ago. In a split second over one quarter million people were exterminated. Never before in the History of Mankind have so many people been killed within an eye’s blink. This still remains the Undisputed World Record, held by America, the world record buster par excellence.
Adolph Hitler must have spun in his grave green with envy. It took him years and years to do away with six million, Gipsies, Poles, Jews, the retarded, the deformed, the incapacitated, and all those that did not conform to his ideal Aryan standard. How much more efficient would he have been if he had that gadget! He must have gritted his teeth with rage inside that grave…
But world records are here to be broken sooner or later. We see it regularly in the Olympics. Or, who hasn’t seen, for example, those pub beer contestants guzzling large volumes of it in the shortest time? From guzzling beer in the shortest time to the largest number of people incinerated in virtual no time is a very short step in any one’s imagination, shorter even than the celebrated Neil Armstrong’s hop on the Moon. And let me assure you, Dear God, there is no lack of imagination in this Bush Administration.
A 60-year old world record has become rather stale. From the noises I hear from the media, I get the feeling that America is poised to break this staleness. Trigger-happy morons in the Administration are already looking around for possible candidates to strike at. Iran and North Korea are front line candidates. Oh, gee-whiz, I just heard on the news! Venezuela could be another! A Christian Coalition guru, an obviously brain-dead senior citizen and moral dwarf,Pat Robertson,advocates that its Head of State, Hugo Chavez, should be murdered and save America over $200 billion in future war costs if it does act NOW. After all, is it not the new international diplomatic standard? Wanna get at a Nation’s Head of State? Wipe out the whole Nation, pronto! Isn’t this what happened with Iraq? Once the precedent is established, thereafter it’s easy street.
Nevertheless, I still place my bet on North Korea. It’s long been a pariah nation. It is densely populated and with the modern WMD technology that evolved since Hiroshima, one could easily see a new world record of 2 million plus people blotted out of existence in a blink of an eye. Such a record would hold for many decades to come.
NOW, CONSIDER THIS: if a much smarter and far more advanced Civilization in Outer Space hears of this record breaking frenzy on planet Earth, they might decide to jump in the act. They, too, would love to be Tops of the Pops, the Number One on the Podium. As in the lyrics of that popular song, they would blurt out:
Anything you can do, /we can do better. /We can do anything /better than you! /No, you can’t. /Yes, we can. No, you can’t.
Anything you can be / we can be smarter./ No, you can’t./ yes, we can. No, you can’t.
Anything you can be / we can be much greater./No, you can’t.
Yes, we can. No, you can’t.
Yes, we can.
Yes, we can.
Yes, we can !
Oh, Yea? Wanna try, LOVE?
Ok! You Dumb Asses, for the last 15 millennia, you have been ranting and harping over an imminent APOCALYPSE, so there you have it, NOW!
So, one morning, on a crystal clear blue sky, at 11am, on ground zero in New York, a massive hit from Outer Space pierces deep down into the Earth’s womb and blows up this planet and its 7 billion people to smithereens. Thus, a NEW (not World, because there wasn’t a World or planet Earth,to speak of any longer) INTER-GALACTIC RECORD of instantaneous destruction is established.
Sadly, there wasn’t even time to bundle and shove a Noah, his wife and ilk, into an Ark, a NASA Space Shuttle, and blast them off to the safety of another planet… Curiously, but not surprisingly, the other Planets, Stars, Galaxies out there continued moving, circling, contracting and expanding in their own Merry and Happy way, completely oblivious to this Cosmic Non-Event.
May be, God, in Your Infinite Wisdom and Goodness, You will decide to recreate another issue of Adam and Eve in some other corner of this Vast Space. A greatly improved kind, I’m sure, for practice does make perfect. For that, moreover, You, dear God, will have all the time in the Universe to do it in. There won’t be any need to rush, like the first time round. Six days is too short a time to achieve Absolute Perfection. Even for a God!
Take Your Time, dear Almighty God, you have all the time, an Eternity, to do it all in….
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In the 1980′s I read an amazing and true article in the S.F. Chronicle. It was about a man who was so depressed that he pointed a gun to his head and shot himself. Well,.. it turned out he had a brain tumor that had been driving him crazy and he effectively shot out the tumor and healed himself!!!
Sometimes I think the death wish is like that. At suicide hotlines where distressed people call for a last attempt at help, often times it turns out thesse people don’t Really want to die, rather they want their misery to end.
In these times, I have felt like, ‘what is the point’ and I look forward to leaving this cold, cruel world, but then my faith in life is renewed somehow.
Music helps. Friends help. Getting rid of the toxic source in ones life helps!
While I was a little dejected that you will all stop visiting America and buying our goods, I know it is for the best of all that this is done. What else will get people’s, attention short of bombs and death?! I am proud of the strength it will take all of you to resist our charms, but I think you are all adults enough to do what is best and must be done.
Like the song, “You have to be cruel to be kind, in the right measure.” I never understood that song til I became a parent. Gee, now I hum it under my breathe, Lol. .
Peace on Earth. Goodwill toward all.
Grace
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Giorgio, thanks for your contribution. There is much to reflect upon.
Grace, the man who shot himself and shattered the tumor, what a story.
And be assured that we believe there are many fine Americans, ones who know what their country is doing wrong and who are ashamed of it. If the rest of the world can join with those people perhaps we can help America to change course.
Cheers.
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WayneMadsenReport.com points out that the attacks might be gang related, over who is going to control the drug market, what with Israelis controlling the ecstasy market, and the Chabad folks being heavily involved. He give many more details, an Ibrahim, Pakistani, being a major gang leader but favored by the Intelligence agencies, especially ISI.
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Ah, Swan, you have your ear close to the ground as usual! I’ll check this out further. Thanks.
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And I hope all the citizens of the world follow Grace’s advice re the USA.
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The sad truth of your statements, David G., regarding a plasma shield are far from theory.
Although the “Star Wars” program was never officially commissioned, the cia, nsa and other “black” operations continued to develop the technology.
Called the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (haarp), it’s a massive grouping of microwave emitters in Alaska. Ostensibly built for underwater, over the horizon communications with subs, many scientists now believe it to be much, much more.
The emitters are capable of tera-watt transmission, able to focus on a small or large area of the ionosphere, heating it to 50,000 degrees F. That’s well into the plasma range. Anything flying into this “plasma shield” will be fried.
The side effects are quite horrendous, however. From manipulation of brainwaves with ELF’s(extremely low frequency) to ripping holes in the ozone, to causing hurricanes to pick up speed as they approach land, to causing seismic disruptions.
I would love to think that a simple apology and the decommissioning of this installation, this experiment on the only petri dish we have, would make up for the damage already caused by this weapon.
It seems however, that they seem to be scrambling to stave off the negative effects of this weapon by seeding our atmosphere with silver iodide to act as tiny mirrors to increase albedo in the upper atmosphere.
Please let me assure you, this is not an “American vs Russian” issue. This is how the elite will manipulate the story but, the truth is that it’s the elite. They know no boundaries, no borders. They don’t see us as people but as fodder.
They will make you think it’s your black neighbor, the brown family with the turbans, the shifty, slant, eyed people or the backwards whites with the funny accent.
But, it’s none of them. They are just like you and me… just people trying to make things better, but being so easily led by a ring through the nose to the slaughterhouse by the elite of this world.
So I say to the world, “Please have patience”. There are movements within to not only impeach, but to hand over those who’ve perpetrated this crime against the world. These tyrants will fall!
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Can anyone explain the perpetual US provocation, with this inevitable outcome. What is the payoff? What would $10 billion in the bank mean?
Missile installations are only about territory. Use of same is the end of the earth. U-Boots do the same.
This is the site, recently discovered by me, to provide an answer, if even only philosophical.
Do the lodge members have a bunker-type that we don’t know about? Would it not be a drag hanging out in the bunker, especially when the wine runs out? And beans from a can? Are they allowed a maid?
Or maybe they have a Hitler/Himmler mentality: all worth it, regardless.
The only other explanation is that these people have perverted minds beyond description.
Professor emeritus on a cold New Mexico moutain.
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I remember that the reason that the USSR wanted to put missiles into Cuba was that the USA put missiles into Turkey. So it was US provocation back then, also.
And as for bunkers, why yes, they do have bunkers.
And this seed thing in Iceland, what a great idea! If something happens to our plant life and the wonderful genetic diversity of life on our garden planet, then there are back up seeds in a great vault!
Oh. But who has the key to the vault? Monsanto, Aventis, and others.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7529
This can’t be good.
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Insipid, that the elite don’t see us as people but as fodder has been the reality for ten thousand years.
When will we rebel and set things right?
Ken, there are many with perverted minds. Why else would they destroy our planet and create nukes?
Wagelaborer, Monsanto, like most corporations, is parasitic. It operates not for the good of mankind but for its own benefit. Such corporations have no place in our world. They must be destroyed before they destroy our world!
Cheers.
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David, agreed. And it had better be soon or they will exterminate us all!
Ken, every year the elite get together to worship a strange, ancient occult, owl-figure named Moloch in a place called Bohemian Grove, California. THAT is how weird and strange these people think.
“Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are protected by public incredulity.”
~Marshall McLuhan, media guru~
David, for all practical purposes, humans could easily be considered a parasite, only interested in it’s own individual needs… I only wish to clarify your general statement,
“Such corporations have no place in our world. They must be destroyed before they destroy our world!”.
By this, do you mean the monopolistic corporations that rape and pillage around the world, starting subversive wars, mass slaughter and starve entire villages, taking only for the sake of profit and power without regard to anything else? Or is it the nature of corporations and how they are structured?
I would agree with any cap on wealth. Forced retirement if you make a certain amount in your lifetime. Corporations that can grow only to a certain size so they don’t affect an entire community if they make inferior products and go out of business… perhaps. I’ve not thought that one out enough yet.
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