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It was nineteen fifty-nine, just
over 48 years ago-I was sitting alone in an empty barrack on Guam-playing
solitaire at the edge of the jungle.
I'd been there for I-don't-know
how long, waiting for an emergency flight out: A flight that would take me
"back to the world."
How much easier everything was
then-but of course that wasn't clear, at least not then. The stench of the
coral island was encased in tropical heat, and the jungle was still
steaming from an afternoon squall that had just passed. That was five
years before I began to do what I do now; it was actually September 17,
1959. The flight back to San Francisco would take 30 hours, and after
several more delays - I arrived in Oklahoma City the day after my father
died from his wounds, he had been murdered.
What I didn't realize at the time
was how lucky I had been to have been sent to Guam (as punishment for
failing to believe in military discipline). Because what we did there gave
me a basis for understanding a lot of the things that most people fail to
even question. My roommates were typical of the 'lot' that ended up on
Guam. One ran away to the Oilfields of Texas at eleven, another was the
son of a mob boss in New Orleans who played the sax; the third man was
from Little-Rock Arkansas a rebel to the core. The radar-squadron was in
Thirteenth Air Force Advanced, and was attached to the SAC base on Guam,
in the Marianas Air Defense Division (MADD). The duty was three
day-shifts, three swing shifts, three midnights followed by three days
off: Four years of that completely destroyed any thought of traditional
body clocks. I was a radar operator and a combat operations team member.
Most of us were misfits.
To counter our strangely lost
existence we talked the days and nights away in endless conversations
about literally everything. Our "room" which shared a 'john'
with another group of four - was packed with people around the clock - the
conversations almost never ceased . . . but we had no idea what we were
learning in those marathons of mini-debates or from our private journeys
of discussion. We drank a lot, but most of us were very young and between
the heat and the skewed regimen that basically destroyed the ability to
sleep - most of us were only living to escape the island anyhow - or so we
thought. This was during a lull in the Cold War, and everyone there had
received their obligatory "dear john" - or most of us had anyhow
- but being young and optimistic that was just a part of "being
there."
What brought this day back to me
today seems to have come from that 'impending feeling" about events
'about-to-be: So much so that I cannot see, no matter how many times I try
to unscramble this nightmare: in order to discover what seems to be
leading us all, to some irrevocable moment in time that will change this
world forever. On Guam it was what the personal mystery of the 'future'
might actually hold for me, just me. Now it's about what history's one-way
mirror may hold for all of 'us.' But the mirror has been clouded, time and
again by the smoke from Shock & Awe - yet we continue to wait for the
'Next Big Thing' that may forever change our world-regardless of what we
might believe or disbelieve today...
Naomi Klein recently discovered
something pivotal that encapsulates both the how and why in all of this -
here she talks about that from her book: (1)
But there are also the
conversations from those directly affected by these cataclysmic events. At
coffee yesterday I spoke at length with a long time friend from Iran who
still has family there. "We're F#@%*d" he said - "no matter
what happens. There are the Mullahs in the south, the religious zealots
that want complete control, there are the Americans, and of course there
is the government with its own agenda - there is no way out for the people
there!" We spoke about the refugees and what that ever-moving, ever
growing mass of displaced people is doing and will continue to do, to the
entire region - with little hope for any relief for millions of people:
Another crime that our unilateral and obscene invasion created.
At home I get mail that suggests
that I'm completely "off course' - that I'm being taken in by what,
to some others - seems obvious: see the quote:
". . . from a
Psychological Warfare POV Bush wins again. He wins by moving the warheads.
He wins by letting it be surmised one has gone missing.
He wins by once again amping the terror factor.
He wins through FEAR. See how
all these websites are now so helpful in Psychological Warfare? From RMN
to Rense, from Jones to Justin, it is all good to spread the FEAR. It
strikes me that none of our hard hitting websites have gone out on a limb
and said General Strike this Friday. No matter what. Instead they say VOTE
RON PAUL. A WASP Republican for President! Ron Paul is Jesus Christ
Superstar and a REPUBLICAN FROM TEXAS TOO!"
That's one opinion, and of course
there are many others as well. At the end of yesterday mine went something
like this:
In "Who Really Calls the
Shots" - I was going to ask about any real connections between Cheney
and SAC but I lost that thread" The lapse in control over SAC could
have been absorbed and seized by Cheney. When Bush left the 2nd graders he
flew directly to SAC headquarters: I always wondered about that particular
few hours. Just like I wondered how Alex could have gone to such a major
demonstration without ID, knowing that if stopped he would be asked, in
addition to having a press pass.
A Strike would be the perfect
response - except that there is no way to
"call for one." Too much risk for too many people to even
consider that - yet that is
the only thing that would stop their planning, and possibly even
cause them to hold-off on the invasion - as well as on their plans to implement
Part II of 911.
Even that is skewed - which one
will be "the plan" and which one the cover-story?
Either way "we" lose, because underneath everything
"our" money is consuming itself, and the second that real oxygen
reaches the true extent of all that fraud - it will combust in a
nanosecond and leave the planet in a crash this world cannot even begin to
imagine. England is already talking of a major monetary crash...
STILL - at the end of all of it
there are these naggingly REAL questions:
Why poison the land, the water
and the air - just to steal something that is only
necessary IF the existing world remains functional. With the nuclear half-life
a fact that lingers at 4.5 billion years - this is insane!
Also there's the question of
where could anyone hide the number of troops it would take to make even a
dent in rounding up the population - some say 'inside the underground
cities' And what about after the obvious goes up in smoke - all that's
left are those underground facilities that supposedly already exist - but
AGAIN to what end?
Why "save" the Outlaws
and their henchmen, if the "world" is basically uninhabitable?
Who could want to inherit that ruin? Why "the camps" if there's
no one left to buy anything that the thoroughly corrupted corporations
create? It all becomes a wash - there can be no "winners" -
only losers.
Why bother to corrupt the
economies of entire nation states all over the planet,
if in the end - the goal is just to either kill the people or enslave them
all? Where's the new Du Bai -
for them to wallow in - where's the Garden of Eden in which they can all
act like conquerors and revel in their "paradise"?
The other little problem is that
there will be no "audience" to envy them - all
their illicitly stolen new powers? Once the planet is reduced to a bunch
of human cogs for their machines - then where's the profit in that? There
will be no innovation - no creativity, hence there can be no "new
opportunities" for even more to steal. From that point everything
will begin to go backwards...
The depression that's coming will
see the completion of the reduction of competition
to equal just one bank, just one airline, just one store for everything -
all of which 'they'll own' - what could slaves possibly be good for (they
have to eat and drink) which makes them more of a liability than an asset.
There will be no refuge - no luxury because there will be nothing to
"get away from." The communists tried this system of only one of
everything (the state ran everything) - and it failed bigtime! But there
was a whole other world for their corrupt leaders to escape to - this time
there will be nothing but them--everywhere!
Civilizations have spent
thousands of years building up the idea of a complex and enjoyable life
for a lot of different kinds of people. Now in a flash all that work all
that talent and industry will just go up in smoke & mirrors - only to
be ruled over by the Cheney's the Bremer's and whatever remains of
Corporate life: which is technically - NOT TO BE ALIVE!
So what's the point in ALL this
fear: Fear dripping with terror: in a WORLD that has no point in being -
after everything has been destroyed or stolen?
Given the Rise of Disaster
Capitalism ~ ask yourself why would so many want to implement all these
crimes in so many places - if there is no place left to hunger for - no
place to SPEND that filthy loot, and no one to care either way about
tomorrow?
About the only potentially
possible light here is the sheer ineptitude of the Outlaws - because in
the longer view they have been consistent in only one thing: They have
always failed to actually finish whatever they set out to do.
About the only potentially
possible light here is the sheer ineptitude of the Outlaws - because in
the longer view they have been consistent in only one thing: They have
always failed to actually finish whatever they set out to do - and now
China has entered the fray! (2)
Jim Kirwan
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