Apocalypse Imminent
As with The Stoning of Soraya M., Iran is unsurprisingly averse to the spotlight being thrown on it by Iranium. The Iranian embassy managed to get a showing of the documentary at the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa temporarily canceled, until the Canadian minister of national heritage stepped in and got the show up and running again.
Then, again unsurprisingly, the Film Society promptly received threats and two suspicious letters. “Once we started to receive threats from the public and threats of public protest,” an archives spokeswoman said, “we deemed the risk associated with the event was a little too high.” Clare Lopez, who had been scheduled to lead a discussion of the film afterward, wrote, “It is a telling indicator about the vulnerability of the Iranian regime that the mere scheduling of this film, which is not yet even released to the public, should elicit such thuggish threats of violence.”
Thuggish threats of violence, of course, are Iran’s stock-in-trade. After last month’s nuclear talks in Istanbul broke down due to the preconditions Iran demanded, Ahmadinejad said, “The uncultured Zionists and some power-hungry people in Europe and the U.S. are not interested in a good resolution of the issues”– by which he means, of course, that the boorish West aggressively refused to allow the Iranian mullahcracy to hold the world hostage to its insanity. “The world should know,” he warned, “that this nation stands up to bullying and will put the bullies in their place. You cannot make Iran back down an inch from its course as it is now a nuclear state.”
Ahmad Vahidi, Iran’s defense minister, echoed this with similarly direct bluster: “If America and England do not change their behavior and do not make fundamental changes to their policies, they will suffer a fate worse than Hitler and Saddam.” Apparently he didn’t get the memo about the new language of civility in the political sphere.
For our part, the West has dithered impotently with sanctions and civility for too long. In 2008, President Obama swore that he would “do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon — everything.” Replace the word “everything” in that sentence with “nothing,” and the sentence will then clarify not only his administration’s efforts, but those of previous administrations as well. Unfortunately, it’s clear that Obama has decided we must live with — in other words, risk perishing at the hands of — a nuclear Iran.
Had Obama done everything in his power to support Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution protesters and a true democratic uprising, a possible regime change might have made all this concern unnecessary now. Pundits eyeing the collapse of the Mubarak regime are claiming that Obama may become known as “the president who lost Egypt” (neglecting to mention that, as far as our allies go, he has already lost Israel and England); in fact, he, like Carter, is already “the president who lost Iran” — a second time.
(Speaking of Egypt: As the former head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Brotherhood-backed Egyptian presidential hopeful Mohammed ElBaradei repeatedly stonewalled international efforts to put the brakes on Iran’s ambitions; as recently as last month he dismissed the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. If ElBaradei ends up holding the reins of power in Egypt, the threat to Israel of a hostile, nuclear Iran becomes all the more substantial.)
As Iranium director Alex Traiman told me, “the weapons themselves do not represent the depth of the danger. Rather, they are the final component of an extreme ideology that has been backed by extreme actions for three decades. … And to let Ahmadinejad, [Khomeini’s successor, Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei and company cross the nuclear threshold could literally be catastrophic.”
With the eyes of the world focused on the turmoil in Egypt and the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood there, Iranium is a disturbing and necessary reminder that Iran remains the truly imminent and terrifying threat to American interests and world peace.
Maybe we should have maintained Iraq to keep check on Iran…? that was what President H Bush did, smart move. President W Bush had terrible advice, and removed the counter-weight to Iran in the region. He will Live with the consequences and in History.
It is interesting how democracy was demanded by President W Bush and his round table for the Middle east, and yet the same people are frightened mice scurrying under tables when it arrives. Democracy is a bloody business.
The coming collapse of regimes in the middle east are the result of ill conceived PNAC strategy, and it falls squarely in the laps of Bolton, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the rest of the peanuts gang.
Hopefully Saudi Arabia is next and finally the Middle East will be free of meddling by foreign powers, the House of Saud has funded enough terrorism in the world, they can reap what they have sown.
The hypocrisy is the peanuts gang maneuvering the collapse of regimes in the middle east, cry foul when it occurs.
Are you on crack?? Saddam Hussein was a threat to the world. If he had not beent taken down he would have started WW3.
GHW Bush was an inept president who raised taxes and forgot about Reagan governing principles.
By the way, for those Allen West fans. This guy is the Black Barry Goldewater! Fire up the conservatives but UNELECTABLE as POTUS.
I think that the Repubs and the Rinos could pull off the coup of the century with the nomination of Allen West and Herman Cain. Two patriotic, conservative, resolute and stout Americans.
I want to see how Ed Shultz, Matthews, Olberfurher, O’Donnell, MadCow and the rest of the scummy loons on the left play this. Then I want to hear “Common Causes” reaction to the fact that two qualified Black men, who refuse to be a part of the perpetually aggrieved…the perpetual poverty pimps represented by NAN and Jackson. Let’s all see what they have to say about two incredible candidates for POTUS / VP!
Ditto Abdul…Two Excellent, Common sense Conservatives…Congressman West and Cain…I like Rubio allot too…We have to get Conservatives in Control of Government at every level before the Leftists finish dragging us down the road to Perdition..!
The plan was to establish a government in Iraq friendly to the US in the line of Saudi Arabia (permitting US bases and forces), and then use Iraq as a staging point & beachhead. We screwed up by removing Iraq’s military from policing the country after they were defeated. At that point we should have withdrawn our forces to Iraq’s borders, sealing them, and preventing radicals from entering the country and interfering with the Iraqi people’s establishment of a new government. We screwed up by thinking American style democracy would be welcome and would work in a Muslim country. That will never happen, Islam and Western Democracy are not compatable.
For many years after the Second World War, people asked one another in horrified tones how “we” could have allowed someone like Hitler to rise to the helm of a modern state. Note that this was going on while Josef Stalin was compiling an even more horrific record — and our “thinkers” had nothing with which to face him down but “Mutually Assured Destruction.”
Now we have Islamic Iran, and we’re about to have Nuclear Islamic Iran…and we’re about to find out just how feeble the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction can be.
Pray. With the Obamunists in power, it’s about all we have left.
I have noticed that people that have been involved with national security at a presidential level within the last 10 decade or so have something in common. None of them are scared of Iran’s nuclear program. I think they know something, they are not telling the public. The US security apparatus seems to have some kind of edge on the Iranian nuclear program, we don’t know about in public.
Our security worldwide has failed; it consistently underestimates Iran, China, N. Korea, and a score of others. All due to a combination of incompetent leadership, failure to understand that different cultures think differently, and PC driven self emasculation.
“Had Obama done everything in his power to support Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution protesters and a true democratic uprising, a possible regime change might have made all this concern unnecessary now.”
History will show that this was the biggest foreign policy failure of the Obama administration. This was simply horrific and Obama probably threw the Iranian protesters under the bus because Ahmadinejad and the mullahs threatened to cause huge problems in neighboring Iraq if Obama stuck his nose into the 2009 revolts against the government in Iran. And since Obama literally wants to run away from Iraq as quickly as possible, he backed down and did nothing. What the fool didn’t realize was that, by appeasing the mullahs, he almost guaranteed that they would stay in power and eventually get a nuclear bomb. History will show that when we needed an adult to lead the way against the Iranians, all we got was an immature boy from Chicago. The United States will rue the day that it didn’t intervene in the 2009 protests. For all Obama’s “talk” about supporting democracy and supporting the “will of the people,” where was he when the Iranian people took to the streets? His lack of courage at a pivotal time in the history of the Middle East will prove to be catastrophic in a year or two.
“all we got was an immature boy from Chicago.”
Who did an incredible amount of shining in Chicago.
A truly chilling film. But why pay any attention when global warming is such an imminent danger, huh? My hat is off to Jason Kenny, a Canadian politician who apparently gets it.
It’s odd that “liberals” see this as an attack on Obama when all recent presidents, including Reagan, come off appearing weak and indecisive regarding Iran.
Obama has been busy removing impediments to Islamic nuclear proliferation since he took office. He announced his new policy in his Cairo Speech. Since then we have all been at greater risk.
” The Obama administration has been silent on Pakistan’s nuclear proliferation activities. As ISIS President David Albright said to the Washington Post, “The administration is always trying to keep people from talking about this knowledgeably.
They’re always trying to downplay the numbers [of Pakistan’s nuclear warheads] and insisting that ‘it’s smaller than you think.’” Pakistan’s nuclear growth goes on as its economy is in shambles, its government is falling apart and a large portion of the country’s territory is controlled by the Taliban.
Pakistan is the largest recipient of US foreign aid. In 2009 Congress approved a five-year $7.5 billion civilian aid package. Last October, the Obama administration proposed supplementing the aid with $2b. for Pakistan’s military.
The administration requested the supplemental aid despite criticism that economic assistance to Pakistan indirectly funds its nuclear project, since Pakistan is in an effective state of bankruptcy.
Moreover, a US Inspector-General’s Report published this week concluded that the $7.5b. in assistance has achieved little.
For their part, the Pakistani government and military adhere to a radically anti-American line, and Pakistan’s powerful ISI intelligence service and large sections of its military continue to maintain intimate ties with al-Qaida and the Taliban. ”
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=207742
I agree with you about the anti-Americanism of Pakistan. That’s why I reject a recent PEW poll that states that the majority (61%) in Pakistan support modernization and only 28% support fundamentalism. The realities on the ground reject this data.
But, with regard to data, my understanding is that Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid:
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/politics/us-foreign-aid.htm
This says that Israel received 3,175 billion. Egypt 1,550 billion. Pakistan 734 million.
However, another link is quite different.
http://www.usaid.gov/policy/budget/money/
This says that Pakistan received 1.3 billion and that Egypt only received 320 million, and Israel only 596 million.
What’s going on? The media have been informing us for days that the US funds the Egyptian military at a rate of 1.3 billion a year. Could this second set of data refer ONLY to non-military or civilian aid? I suspect this is the case and you can see on the data base of this second chart, no mention of a military funding.
That means that, if we include the military, then Israel first and then Egypt, are the largest recipients of US aid.
No country on earth needs a real revolution more than Iran & North Korea. The fools in the State Dept. & the Obama administration simply don’t have a clue…which is why we are all in deep danger now.
Thanks for nothing, O!
If not a clue,they must to play cluedo.Its a game,but danger in real time to make decitions not ruled on the gameboard.
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WWIII anyone?
Will all the grownups please stand up and be counted before it’s too late?
Anyone with just a little sense of reason can see we are being led by the insane, and the whole world is getting crazier every minute.
Time for the iron fist, without the glove. Hello military? Does grabbing your ankles feel that good?
One caveat…..Boots on the ground do NOT grab their own ankles….I’m speaking higher up, much higher up.
Bravo Egypt! Iran is next!
Actually, Iran was first, now it’s Egypt’s time. Nothing good is going to come from what happened in Egypt over the past few weeks. The real (Islamic) revolution looms ahead.
What a great article! It’s too bad the Media and most of our elected officials don’t have a clue about Islam, let alone the Muslim Brotherhood. I hope to God the people of Egypt have open eyes and minds and don’t let the heady giddyness of their recent accomplishments end up falling like so much populace as in Iran. I keep asking myself, why doesn’t the Mossad or some other take out the Ayatollahs? Do those people a worldly favor. Treat the world to some sanity for a change. But there will never be true liberty and freedom in Islamic countries until they renounce Sharia Law and work to change the format of Islam itself. Separate the ‘religion’ from politics and normal life.
Absolutely, Alice!
All very possible & threatening. But you see, the real problem as seen by the left, meaning the media, politicians, and millions of LittleLiberals, is threefold but connected, the Right, Christianity, and the Catholic Church.
You can’t fool a liberal !
Your nice joke has a second advantage: it tells us WHY what I call the “CHIMERA” ( the alliance of internationalist subversives, islamists, and elitists) exists. The CHIMERA fights against the Right, Christianity, and the Catholic Church. Each side of the CHIMERA focuses on its own target.
But of course only islam will win something, the other two are useful idiots.
I viewed Iranium and it tells the truth about Iran in a VERY fact based, stark and compelling manner.
While many in the west still believe that it is ‘just’ a Middle East problem, they must urgently rethink their calculus.
For when Iran goes nuclear(if not stopped)the Iranian Hitler has plans for the Big Satan.Burrowed DEEP within MANY US cities-both large and small-are Hizbullah cells primed to strike.While these sleepers operate gas stations,convenience stores and some run illegal goods up and down I-95,the real action will come when Iran gets the bomb.I know this for sure….
With their Islamist hands on the button they will not only threaten the west’s oil pathways, but will task their operatives to explode at will in US cities. This is NOT hyperbole, nor scare mongering.It is fact.
It is past time to urge EVERY member of Congress to petition Washington to strike their facilities.N Korea’s insane regime will look sane when compared to the mullahs with nuclear bombs.The cost of not acting is incalculable next to a preemptive strike-as costly as it will be.
True. And feel free to get in touch about possible projects/ideas if you like, as we are now neighbors.
Larry, neighbors…..nice.
Please get my email from the editors, don’t want to post it here now.Copy them this post so they see you have my permission.
I can apprise you of some Zionist plans in the offing,with the aim of taking back the narrative, offense instead of defense.
Ummm…I tried that once. Don’t think it worked. I posted mine once, not sure whether to do it again. I will find another way to locate you, Adina….best.
The average person (conservative) knows this Adina. Where we have a problem is finding enough adults to make changes who are not concerned with political correctness but what’s best for the country. We had a decent start with the last election but only time will tell if we can gather enough.
Apocalypse Imminent
Probably. Certainly nothing will be done about it
until after it happens; Some in the West may even
think that the hit they take will be worth it, as
justification to eliminate the threat.
It’s been a busy week for me. Not only did I view “Iranium” on the day of its release (better and more focused than its predecessors), I viewed “The Stoning of Soroya M” – where a potent mix of greed, religious obscurantism, group think, and a lack of personal courage lead to injustice.
I followed that with Collins and Frantz’ “Fallout”, detailing the CIA’s badly flawed efforts to thwart nuclear trafficking. Especially egregious was their decision not to shut down the A Q Kahn network early on – before they provided valuable technology and plans to Iran – while the CIA tried to better understand the network.
Please! I’m trying to sleep.
“Iran remains the truly imminent and terrifying threat to American interests and world peace”
Yeh, except that there is something 100 times more imminent and terrifying…the marxist/feudal cabal that has its tentacles in and around the US government.
Look, I’m not trying to minimize the threat of radical Islam. In ordinary times it would be an existential threat. But defeating that threat is only a matter of will. The US military (or the Chinese military, the Rusian military or the military of several European countris) can easily put Iran and radical Islam in a box. So why don’t we do it?
Because the marxists/feudalists in the west have conned the free people of the world into thinking that controlling blood-thirsty barbarians is barbaric, when in fact there will be an inevitably far more barbaric clash the longer it is delayed. Coincidentally (NOT), the barbarians outside the gates of western civilization are curiously useful to the marxists/feudalists, who need every distraction they can get to convince people basking in the riches of 230 years of freedom to give it up in order to become subservient serfs again to their feudal lords.
The much greater threat is the power-mad big-government / statist / socialist ruling class (call them whatever you like since they will change their name to “Cuddly bunnies for eternal life and the garden of eden” at some time in the near future). Get rid of that cancer, and we can deal with the warts like Iran in short order.
Proreason, as usual you break it down to the most simple. America is in great danger…..from within. We won’t be able to help anyone else until America declares it’s independence from Socialisim, communism and Progressivism. All of this triumvirate of evil clothed in high minded words is the product of Liberals who think they know better, and don’t trust individuals to do what is best for themselves!
We are our greatest enemy. If we not clean house soon, we will be a “has been” nation, very soon.
I simply do not understand how we keep electing the same trash time after time. Our president is a fool, an elietest that laughs at us, the media is out of control, our attention is focused on fools like Bill Maher, Jon Stewart etc,,,like they’re making policy.
The left tears a good person down if they dare to get politically involved, i.e., Palin, Beck…and we stand by and let it happen and add to it.
People like Romney saying Palin is pretty but not intelligent.. Such a degrading remark to be said by a member of your own party in public
..he left his state in a mess, and he made his money the old fashioned way “he inherited it”….which most of us are not lucky enough to do.
I know people that still vote a straight ticket..never bothering to look at the candidates.
I’m totally disgusted with the political field.
Obama is after the youth vote again…dear god, I hope hey have grown a little and realize what a leper this man is.
…the 2012 elections are right around the corner and I sincerely hope the light we all “think” we see at the end of the tunnel
is not the Obama Express.
Spot on! The bigger problem is not Iran, it is the present regime in Washington. Or maybe the fools who weren’t paying attention and elected the smooth talking but half-witted moron in charge.
“WHO IS THIS GUY?
Before January 20 of this year, Barack Obama had a negligible public record. He burst onto the national scene what seemed like five minutes before his election to the presidency: a first-term U.S. senator who actually served less than four years in that post — after a short time as a state legislator, some shadowy years as a “community organizer,” and scholastic terms at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard that remain shrouded in mystery. The primary qualification supporters offered for Obama’s candidacy was his compelling life story, as packaged in 850 pages’ worth of the not one but two autobiographies this seemingly unaccomplished candidate had written by the age of 45.”
This…is the fraud and POS that we have allowed to lead us down the path of subservient destruction. A Marxist, socialist puke who bows to all, especially Arabs.
We’ll take this country back all right…if not through the ballot….then as Jefferson had supported. It’s well time that we restore the constitution and make the pols in DC tremble.
Thanks for your comments, proreason.I see your point but have a few more comments.
I think that a key problem in the US – and Europe has seen the results and is trying to get itself out of this morass – is that it is moving into a socialist infrastructure. This destroys the middle class and the middle class economy. It sets up a majority of the population who are non-productive consumers of goods and services, relying on state funds to provide them with the cash/services. But such an imbalance between production and consumption can’t be sustained. Obama and his Gang are reducing the capacity of the US to be a wealth producing economy. That’s disastrous.
Then, with regard to your suggestion that the best way to deal with the Islamic fascists is to ‘kill them all’, is, I suggest fruitless. They aren’t finite; kill a thousand and five thousand will emerge. I certainly totally agree with you that ‘controlling the barbarians’ by our support of their dictators is insane.
BUT – I suggest that we have to destroy the root cause of Islamic fascism. If we don’t do that – the articulators of this fascism will just re-emerge. The root cause is the lack of freedom in those ME Islamic nations. That’s what we have to focus on – enabling those nations to get rid of their statist, repressive structures and enable the growth of a capitalist productive and free middle class – which can only operate in a constitutional democracy.
That will move fascism to the margins and disable its ability to generate more members.
I’ve never said to kill them all.
It simply isn’t necessary. a) they respect power, b) they can’t cope in the modern world without modern technology and people who know how to create and maintain it, c) they only ‘own’ the oil as long as we let them own it (without the west, oil is garbage. They don’t own it. They never even knew they ‘had’ it. The people who own oil are the people who made it useful, and that’s the west. Saying the ME owns their oil, imho, is about the same as saying the people who lived in the forests that became the paper that Einstein’s theories were first written on own nuclear technology)
We need to do exactly what Cheney did with Muscharef, which was to quickly convince him that he would be removed unless he cooperated. He did, of course. Nothing more is required of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The goat herders in their heavenly palaces like their upgraded living quarters. As for Iran, it might take a demo, although I doubt it. The mullahs like their power and virgins just as much as the goat herders. All of the other countries would go along. Time to impact – 1 day to a month. That’s how long it should take, but only if a demo was required.
Now, with all due respect ETAB, because I do respect and have been educated by your insights, you are wrong about this one. Well, you are right about the first part about economies and middle classes. Again, it’s a great insight that I have already ackowledged to you directly. But to think that it can be applied to hopelessly backward medieval people is wrongheaded. It would be ok, if they weren’t dominated by a murderous ideology, because, in time (like…centuries), Egypt and Iran, like the medieval feudal kingdoms can evolve into robust republics. But that takes education, the abandonment of slavish commitment to 1400 year-old words, hope, enlightened leaders and much much more. The chances of that happening in the current environment before the masters of evil who control the population set the world on fire are very very remote.
I completely agree with you, proreason, about the mindset – trapped, stuck, frozen, in tribalism. But…
1) It has to change. Those populations cannot continue to live in that mindset and that economic and political mode, in a globally networked world. You cannot have a massive ratio of the world’s population living economically, politically and conceptually – out of sync – with the rest of the world. I’m thinking ‘organically’…
2) It takes TIME. Generations. I used to say: it takes three generations to change a societal culture. I think change comes much faster now because of the rapid electronic communication systems. These have essentially not merely reduced but dissolved space. Spatial factors are now utterly irrelevant. We can see, hear, interact with anyone, anywhere, anytime…electronically.
Plus, the network puts the power of information in the hands of the mass of the population. No more top-down connections. This speeds up the spread of new information. It’s horizontal connections…and they move faster than ‘vertical’ connections which must change their typology as they move from higher to lower level. Our modern system is all ‘one type’ so to speak.
Oh – and I fully agree with your outline of oil. You are right; the ratio of foreign technologists and scientists in the oil industry is high and the local native population are usually just following orders in those fields.
They not only didn’t know they ‘had it’ but had no idea that is was a source of energy or how to process it…or even, build the cars, planes, etc.
But – still, it has to change because of the sheer population size.
So we do agree, about almost everything but perhaps the value of what we can or ought to do now.
I think 3 generations is about right. Japan pulled itself out of a medieval culture in about 3 generations, but the Japanese were an unusually insular, proud, and intelligent people. With that as the model (not a perfect analogy, of course), one would think it would take somewhat longer for an Eqypt. But as you say, things move faster in the modern world. It could happen in 3 generations, given good conditions.
What a visionary leader of America would do would be to lay out an outline for a country like Eqypt that would consider that country’s unique heritage and culture but still migrate them to representative government. He or she would lay out the problems and the benefits of genuine transformation. It would involve education, cooperation with western and other ME countries, building a middle class, aid from the west, secutiry agreements, commitments to escalating levels of public participation, religious freedom, a repudiation of jihad, exchange programs for non-military purposes, etc., etc.
I read somewhere recently that Bush took some tentative steps in that direction. Little lenin, nada.
But honestly, who thinks that even a rational approach like that has a bat’s chance in hell. I guess there is an outside outside chance; but I’m afraid there is just too much to overcome.
Cuddly Bunnies, Indeed!
proreason
Great analysis. Iran is a threat precisely to the degree that the liberal, elitist, statist mentality has set hold of the western world. This is why peace is used as a tool of people who have a vested interest in chaos. The more chaos and ignorance-in individual and family life all the way to the top-the more the society cries out for the kind of governmental control that these wolves slobber over. The more people live a life of true liberty won from self governance the less of a top down system is needed. Wake up America. The true threat is within. My great hope is that these truths-self evident as they are-can never die however they very well may shift to another geographic center. Perhaps the young people of Asia, longing for liberty will grab a hold of these truths, as it seems the United States has abandoned them.
Well said Boudreax
I agree 100%. We cannot allow nuclear weapons to be placed in the ands on tinpot dictators. Attack North Korea now! [Gales of Riotous Laughter]
Ugh. I get a sinking feeling in my stomach about this whole situation and I’m pretty sure it’s not gas or indigestion. This isn’t going to end well.
Egypt: To quote The Who, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
Reagan: For all his greatness, he flubbed the chance to destroy Hezbollah after the Beirut Marine barracks bombing. He’s ordered missle strikes on their positions in the Bekaa Valley, but the strike were cancelled by SecDef Caspar (The Ghost) Weinberger. Reagan did nothing. Oh yeah, and Iran-Contra…
Iran: John McCain had the right tune.
Fear of what Iran’s mullahs might do is justified up to a certain extent. They’re certainly puffed up about the prospects of nukes. But one doubts that Iran’s military wants to commit martyrdom, too. What it experienced in the Iran-Iraq war would be nothing compared to what would happen to it if it attacked Israel. Perhaps there is enough sanity in the ranks to prevent the mullahs from taking all of Iran down the road to martyr doom. Perhaps a lot of the fear people are having about Iran is about what the Bamster would do.
“For many years after the Second World War, people asked one another in horrified tones how “we” could have allowed someone like Hitler to rise to the helm of a modern state”.
“We” financed Nazi Germany, loaned them money, provided their petroleum, sold them all the goods and services needed to wage war. Many of todays largest multi-National corporations made huge profits during WW2, selling directly to the Nazi war machine including President Bush’s family
(Prescott Bush), IBM, New York banks, Standard Oil, the list goes on and on.
Lets not be naive about the world, evil men are allowed to exist because they make money for people that put them there.
I think we can all great that the real problem right now is in Tunisia and Egypt. Who next? Iran?
What is the gain? I guess I am not understanding… if half the world is destroyed and there is nuclear fall out everywhere and just horrible destruction and death to many inhabitants… And this insane person has ‘his’ problems (Israel/USA) eliminated – he’s going to be happy then? He is going to be joined by “who” to control the population that is left? I cannot imagine all these ‘so called’ “? men ?” (Rulers) actually going ‘along’ with all this. I still don’t get the ‘gain’?
I cannot imagine a ‘sense of satisfaction’ by doing this? Scummy looking boys with big ass toys? Perhaps someone should have the balls to put this madman out of his misery?
I really cannot imagine that this is what any of these “?men?” want? Maybe I am wrong… and naively so… All I can do is Pray it ain’t so…
Apocalypse Redux!
Nostradamus fans must be frantically searching his multitudinous prophecies in hopes of discovering irrefutable evidence that somewhere, somehow, he predicted Anno Domini May 21st, 2011 as the end, when the world will be absolutely kaput, when it’s all over, baby, and trying to reconcile ancient Mayan beliefs that the end isn’t due until A.D. December 21st, 2012.
Aficionados of The End of the World as We Know It have even coined an acronym, TEOTWAWKI, and established websites to prepare believers on how and when to pack up all their cares and woes beforehand. Now the “when” has been pinpointed, sort of, at least within the narrow spectrum of this coming Saturday and Friday, 12-21-2012, so all that remains is all the packing.
The primary proponent of the earlier date, retired 80 year old, N.Y.C. MTA train engineer Robert Fitzpatrick, has generously spent almost all his life savings of $140,000 for a thousand ads on N.Y.C. subways and bus shelters to alert the city of the impending Apocalypse.
No word, as yet, on how Mrs. Fitzpatrick, if there is one, regards her hubby’s retirement hobby. However, thousands, if not millions, of New Yorkers–as well as countless others–are taking his prognostications of a “Global Earthquake: The Greatest Ever” and the arrival of “Judgment Day” very seriously. That should dispel the foolish conventional wisdom that the Big Apple is inhabited by doubters and cynics and that people who agree with them are all nitwits.
Far be it from me to burst Fitz’s and other committed TEOTWAWKI bubbles but similar predictions have been bubbling around the doomed Earth’s globe for almost as long as there have been inhabitants of that globe. Remember Y2K?
Pre-dating that non-catastrophe, Sir Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal suggested the end was near in the seventeeth century and an Assyrian tablet circa 2800 B.C. bemoaned the end almost five millennia ago. As some solace for the fearful, let’s not forget Peanuts’ words of wisdom: “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
In case anyone hasn’t noticed, Newton, Pascal, the Assyrians, and probably a few million other doomsayers and their adherents were wrong and the world is still with us even if it is, as Wordsworth said, “too much with us.” One notable doomsaying prophet, Jim Jones of Jonestown fame, was right on the money but he accomplished the end of the world for only a select few in Jonestown in 1978 and then with spiked Kool-Aid.
On the other hand, filmmakers, ever on the moneymaking cusp, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4496)
An excellent read. I will definitely be back.