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Bruce Beach | 2006.03.02 said:[Arktwo] Death Wish
Iran and Taiwan
certainly have a death wish.
Perhaps the whole world does.
Taiwan's
http://tinyurl.com/oagp5
Iran's
http://tinyurl.com/ohqfu
The Hamas tiger says that its death wish
is for Israel -
but if you are a tiger
standing in a cage with a trainer
who has a loaded gun -
some outside observers
may think it otherwise.
We have been so totally involved
in prepping
for the last week
that I haven't written.
Getting numerous medical things
up to date
teeth filled, new glasses prescriptions,
back up pairs of glasses (several pairs)
(readers from dollar store are about that each).
Laying in an inventory of minor medicines
that we use.
Had all three trucks
running simultaneously today.
First start on one since new timing chain -
Windshield wiper motors into another -
Third delivered to garage for new clutch.
Tech coming tomorrow morning
to check one bank of storage batteries
that is using too much water.
You get the idea.
I hope you are doing the same kinds of things.
Some Ark personnel
have become sufficiently convinced
that we have set a convergence date on the shelter.
Should some possible events occur
that will turn into either
a launch date
or preliminary launch date.
Great amounts of news
happening each day.
So much intrigue involved
that it is beyond analysis.
This week, if not official announcements -
then at least speculations by officials in Bulgaria -
that the new US bases in Bulgaria
will be used in attacking Iran.
Bush in India -
saying it is okay for India to have nukes -
because India never signed
the non-proliferation treaty.
Not okay for others -
(like NK and Iran)
because they had signed it at one time -
even though the US has several times
under Bush -
resigned from treaties that it had
previously signed.
Now, Bush off to Pakistan -
which also has nukes.
Little problem there
in that they say they are US Ally -
but that they have signed
an agreement with Iran
saying they will support Iran
in case of any conflict.
I can't follow the intrigue -
but I am sure that Russia is not happy
about the bases in Bulgaria.
Also - turns out last week -
again new under Bush -
that US tactical nukes are being
forward based
in what were previously USSR areas.
If you checked out the link above
about Taiwan -
I can assure you that China is not happy
about Taiwan's new position either.
China has clearly stated -
that 2008 Olympics or whatever -
they will not let Taiwan go
its separate way.
Ditto for Israel -
being unhappy -
because Israel has said definitively -
that it is not going to allow Iran
to have nukes.
Conversely - Iran does its doublespeak
saying its nuclear activity is for peace
but no one is going to dictate to it.
According to the CS Monitor
Iran has stepped over the red line.
http://tinyurl.com/myuwr
"Iran is taking a pretty deliberate position not to cooperate with the
IAEA," says David Albright, a former IAEA weapons inspector and head of the
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) in Washington. "It's
not a surprise, but it's sad, because it seems it will inevitably lead to a
confrontation."
"They are beginning to think strategically," he says, such that UN weapons
inspectors could pass information to the US military that "could help if
there is an attack."
And so it goes from hour to hour.
Reporting or commenting on all this
would be like commenting on
a ping pong match.
The ball is on this side -
now it is on that side -
back and forth - back and forth.
Just can't keep up with it.
Remember the bombings in London -
way back when - in July,
while I was there.
Ancient history.
Then the Muslim riots in Europe -
that must have been almost over
two months ago -
and I forget about what -
only that thousands of cars were set on fire.
Then came the cartoon riots last month,
or a couple of weeks ago.
I don't remember about hearing them ending -
but maybe the media just stopped reporting them.
The Ports.
The story changed by the hour this week.
First there were six.
Then twenty-one,
and an hour later twenty-two in the US,
and then 10-15 more in Canada -
and then many dozens throughout the world
with all sorts of other subsidiaries
like railroads and you name it.
Once upon a time -
that would have been a subject for a year.
Now it is only days.
Trust busting was BIG news -
in the late 1800s
and was the subject presidential elections.
Even for me,
many decades ago -
it was a subject for a year as I wrote
my masters thesis in economics
on the immensity of conglomeration.
However, in retrospect
that - like the national debt -
was a mere mole hill then
compared to the mountain that it is now.
Back then it was a national story -
but today it is an international story
with immense internationally intertwined conglomerates
of soulless corporations
headed by faceless men
unelected by the public
that are also then appointed by the government
to run the overseeing government commissions
supported by lobbyists
who were formerly elected government officials.
The Washington Post
Friday 24 February 2006
The lobbying of former Senate majority leader Robert J. Dole on behalf
of the Dubai-owned company set to take over management of terminals at six
major US seaports is creating a political problem for his wife, Sen.
Elizabeth Dole (R-NC).
..."The fact that Dubai is paying her husband to help pass the deal presents
both a financial and ethical conflict of interest for Senator Dole," ...
Dubai Ports World beefed up its lobbying efforts, including on Capitol
Hill, after lawmakers threatened this week to scuttle the transaction.
...The controversy confronting the Doles is an increasingly common one in
Washington. According to Public Citizen's Congress Watch, at least three
dozen members of Congress have relatives who are professional lobbyists.
... "What better way to buy access to a lawmaker than to hire the lawmaker's
son, daughter or spouse as their lobbyist on a lucrative retainer?"
...Some of Congress's most prominent members have relatives on K Street.
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has a son, Josh Hastert, who works
as a lobbyist for PodestaMattoon. The son of former Senate majority leader
Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Chester Trent Lott Jr., lobbies ... A son-in-law of
Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) is a lobbyist, as are the
wives of both Democratic senators from North Dakota -
In addition, sons of two senior members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) and Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), are
lobbyists. The father of Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), former senator Birch Bayh
(D-Ind.), lobbies, as does the wife of House Majority Whip Roy Blunt
(R-Mo.).
While Eisenhower spoke of
the military industrial complex -
it is my opinion that these
concentrations of soulless international corporations
intertwined through financial control
of the political parties and governments
throughout the world -
present by far the greater
and greatest threat to humanity,
matched in a Galbraithian Countervailing Power -
of equal threat from the totalitarian countries -
whether of atheistic or religious authoritarianism.
People worry themselves
about the NWO -
but this is the Bush NWO -
and viewed from that perspective
it is fully capable of assimilating
central government run economies
such as that of China -
as just being one more giant corporation.
http://tinyurl.com/q4ujy
All the systems are merging into one -
Chinese communism -
American capitalism -
global economics everywhere -
into one fascist system -
if we view fascism as a system in which
the government serves the industrial identity.
Indeed - they become one and the same.
US policy is now the policy of
giant international corporations
and the policy of giant international corporations
is usually the policy of the US government.
The goal of US Imperialism being
to bring all under that umbrella.
The corporations
while in fiction being persons -
are soulless
and their policies are amoral.
They are the Beast of our times -
uncreated by God -
declaring themselves above His Law -
assuming themselves to be immortal -
never dying -
incapable of sinning or saved
and incapable of being punished in hell
or rewarded in heaven -
above all that in being -
equal as partners with God -
indeed holding themselves to be God
over the affairs of humankind.
If you do not see where this is leading -
then join the crowd -
for they do not see either -
as we plunge towards the precipice.
People say to me to write -
but I cannot write -
because there is too much to write.
It is as if we were in a plane
whose wings have come off -
and we are plunging towards the earth.
Sitting there in the seat -
I should write -
telling our feelings -
describing the nature and result
of the anticipated conclusion.
What would they have me write.
No, I am bracing for impact.
Preparing in such manner as I can.
Oh, I could write -
and become indignant
about a thousand things.
How unjust so many things seem.
The destruction of Muslim Mosques
by Muslims.
Probably over a hundred -
in the last week alone.
The civil war -
pending or existing in Iraq -
depending on how you view it.
Over 4,000 Iraqi civilians killed last year alone -
and the total will be much higher this year
(aside from the climax that I expect)
in retaliation for the bombing of the WTC
and the death of less than 3,000 -
by terrorists who came from other countries -
mostly from a country (Saudi Arabia)
considered to be our ally.
It is not just myself saying -
time is running out:
http://tinyurl.com/ohqfu
"Time is running out for a breakthrough before March 6, when the United
Nation's nuclear watchdog is to issue a report on Iran's nuclear activities,
which Tehran says are peaceful but others say are in pursuit of an atomic
weapon."
Irony,
tragedy,
insanity,
call it what you will.
But irrelevant for me to comment upon it -
because events are being fulfilled
before our eyes.
Write!
What would you have me write?
Warn!
Too late to warn.
Prepare!
I pray that you have -
after these many years.
Peace and love,
Bruce
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