I don't want a "New Cold War"
I find this scary enough not to want to link to it - which is unusual for me - I link to anything normally.
The Defense Department has scheduled a second major, three-day exercise to combat nuclear terrorism in the Charleston, S.C. area
The goal is not prevention, but coping with the catastrophic results of a terrorist nuclear attack on a major U.S. port city.
Reading stuff likes this makes me want to go and download "Duck & Cover" - but I saw it years ago.
The blogger who wrote this was trying to make a point - but there's a whole more stuff in this site that I believe is incorrect, biased or just the "standard" propaganda line.
Refuting the major distortions and outright propaganda claims would take a whole book - the "21st Century - Manufacture of Consent - V2.0 "- for example. Any takers? I thought not.
Aren't we back in the Cold War YET?
Hasn't "anti-communism" been replaced by "anti-terrorism" as the new enemy with whom we are perpetually at war with??
It should have been - because the so-called "War On Drugs" has been useless as a way of expanding global influence - or maybe the "sideshow" in Iraq has allowed the "war on drugs" to become less important.
Well yes.
If you are fighting for "energy security" the problems of people who take drugs is much, much, less important - especially if the people who take drugs are the poor - who consume less "conventional consumer items" and are thus less finacially, economically. and politically important.
The "New Cold War" is becoming "The Old Cold War" as America slides into a state of perpetual counter-insurgency activity.
If it's not the terrorists - its the drug dealers - and if it's not the drug dealers ... who's next? P2P downloaders?
Please, please - let us all remember the harm this kind of paranoia & propaganda caused our civilization the last time - it's not just old gits like me who remember the last time - the history is there for anyone to read.
It's happened before - it will happen again - and it was predicted in 1948
At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia.
In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines.
Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia.
But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
As for me - all this geopolitical stuff is way over my head - I Love Big Brother - and right about now I am going to the local support & readjustment center to turn myself in for "Thought Crime".
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