Do No Evil – As we approach the 50th anniversary of the NORAD this May, isn't it high time that we closed those 25-ton blast doors one last time and, without glancing back, walked toward those starry skies and the twinkling lights of that city in the distance? Isn't it high time that we fulfilled the Reykjavik dream?
All these years after the Chernobyl accident, scientists went back to a little town that was left uninhabitable. Animals and plant life had been destroyed. They found that plants were coming back. That gives hope that we won't destroy everything, and earth can start over again without the hideous influences of mankind.
" They found that plants were coming back. "
Yes. And calves with three heads, too. Not to mention a resurgence of cancer that is *widely* spread around the area. There's always hope that the earth will recover from mankind's horrors, to be sure, but perhaps we should try to not destroy it in the meantime while we're still alive.
Fifty years ago, while in the fourth grade, the Civil Defense drills were completed at school once a month when the local CD sirens sounded, Russia was then called USSR, Mickey Rooney was starring in a comedy/movie where he ended up in a test house on a nuke site and glowing in the dark, the humor was lost after the reality and understanding became real. And yet, this is the year 2008, what have we learned?
A lot of food for thought!
Thanks Bruhaha!
We've learned that Regan's call for Gorbachev to "take down that wall" has been turned into Bush's call to "put up that wall" on the Mexican border.
We've also learned how to engage in an imperialistic "pre-emptive" strike and justify it with close to a thousand lies beforehand, not to mention numerous ones following the invasion.
Our paramount concern, and for the Cheyenne mountain men, should be with illegal weapons in space. Similar to the smart bombs which can find targets within several feet we need to be concerned with people (countries?) using weapons out there. We need to strictly enforce the ban on directed energy weapons in space, the bomb is an artifact in this new arms race. Ask someone what HAARP is? How could someoene attack people and not be caught or held accountable? Directed energy weapons DEWs provide such a means. It's hardly talked about since their is public denial as they are being further developed.
An interesting concept to investigate would be the potential loading of weapons onto seemingly civilian spacecraft where they are placed in orbits where they can be used as weapons. Does anyone think this is a possibility?
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FTA: " Images of the underworld were then, and remain, all too appropriate. By the time I was inside Cheyenne Mountain, we knew it was vulnerable to a new generation of high-yield, highly accurate Soviet Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). In case of a full-fledged nuclear war, as a popular poster of the 1970s put it, we had no doubt that any of us could "bend over and kiss your ass goodbye."
FTA: "When the Soviet Union began to disintegrate in 1989, few people were more surprised than our intelligence agencies and our military (myself included). After putting decades of thought and planning into mutually assured destruction, after planning not just to fight but to win nuclear wars, we now faced a brighter, potentially less nuclear, or even non-nuclear future. And all this had come about - under the shadow of true global terror - without a Department of Homeland Security, or an Orwellian "Patriot Act," or so many of the other accoutrements of our present homeland security moment. (Without, in fact, even the emotive, vaguely un-American word "homeland" being in use.)"
"Indeed, when it was over, we claimed victory on the very basis that our freedoms - and our political system - were stronger than our rival's. We had, those declaring victory claimed, trusted and empowered the people, not an ossified state bureaucracy."
"How did the planet's self-proclaimed "sole superpower" in its moment of triumph become such a fearful country? In our endless face-off with the Soviet Union, did we come to resemble it far more than we ever imagined? After all, instead of the USSR, it's now we who are fighting a difficult war in Afghanistan; it's now we who are deflating our currency with massive deficits for weapons of marginal utility; it's now we who put forward unilateral proposals for earth-penetrating, bunker-busting nukes; it's now we who are often seen as aggressors on the world stage."
Sadly it's a mis- or ill- informed citizenry that has allowed the corporate control of every aspect of government, media, and life itself. The "new pearl harbor" perpetrated by literally a handful of zealots from a cave in some 3rd world toilet was used as an excuse to destroy what was good and decent about this nation. Like sheep being sheered this same citizenry is now being fleeced economically by the same perpetrators who turned the "peace dividend" from the end of the cold war into a windfall for defense and oil companies.
The answer my friend, is $ and greed.