They have illegally captured 15 Brits. Iran continues to demonstrate that it is a rogue state. With the exception of wanting nuclear weapons, they insist on living a male-dominated and female-subjugated medieval lifestyle.
I can hear the drums of war, or at least the words of a good, but militant friend of mine: "Why not grant their wish and give them nuclear weapons? How about 8 of them, with airbursts over each of their cities of one million or more people? Heck, maybe 2 over Tehran. But not such big ones that anyone dies. Airbursts at the edge of space that just fry every bit of late 20th and 21st century electronics they have. The oil won’t be contaminated. No people will be hurt. They will simply be removed from the modern world. Isn’t that what their government wants?"
At this emotional point of the whole ordeal, it’s hard to argue with that.
And if the people in that country decide to string these fanatical old men who run Iran up, the western world will be happy to trade oil for the rebuilding of their country in such a way that it will be able to live peacefully with the rest of the world.
We tend to think of nukes as only good for blowing things up and spreading radioactive fallout (the dust stirred up by the explosion and dosed with radiation). The small airbursts that create an electromagnetic pulse that renders solid state circuits mostly inert don’t stir up fallout, and the radiation is mostly dispersed harmlessly.
Don’t be surprised if the Jericho episode "9:02" becomes another example of life imitating art.
We’re so worried about terrorists sneaking nukes into this country, then somehow arming, deploying and triggering them. All it takes for the U.S. Navy to deliver 8 warheads high over the biggest 8 cities in Iran is a phone call from the President to the Commander of one of the task forces on station in the area, or to a single B2 Stealth Bomber.
The Iranians need to think long and hard about that. They are struggling to develop the technology to build a nuclear weapon. We already have thousands, and not only know how to use them, our government HAS used them when it was important to do so to save lives.
I hope cooler heads prevail. I hope the Iranians wake up and realize they’re opening not a can of worms, but a can of whoop-ass with themselves as the "whoop-ee." Despite their rhetoric, they are out of their league on this one.
But, I don’t think cooler heads WILL prevail. For all we’ve been through, here we are almost 30 years later, and the Iranians are taking hostages again. I don’t think the game will go 444 days this time.
According to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world faces difficulties because of Global Warming in the next 50 years. Glacial melt and buildup of greenhouse gasses will mean many will go hungry because of drought while others will be flooded.
Global warming soon will "affect everyone’s life … it’s the poor sectors that will be most affected," Romero Lankao said.
And co-author Terry Root of Stanford University said: "We truly are standing at the edge of mass extinction" of species.
The report also says that because of climate change, at first, crop yields will benefit from the longer growing season, but the benefits will be short lived.
If you spend any time watching adventure drama television, you will have noticed a trend this season in man-made disaster television, and it’s getting noticed on some of the alternative/conspiracy boards. Both Jericho, a CBS series and 24, the successful Fox Network spy/terror thriller have detonated nuclear weapons this season, with horrific consequences.
Jericho is the story of how multiple nuclear detonations affect the residents of a small, remote town in Kansas. 24 so far this season examines how to stop an Arab terrorist who has already set off one bomb and has several more.
It seems like every year, we’re hammered with more and more jaw-dropping events depicted on television, which has the effect of desensitizing us and making it harder to shock viewers. I often wonder how that affects viewers outside the suspended disbelief in their real life. Watching Jericho, do they make it a point to keep more bottled water and first aid supplies on hand? After last week’s episode, where it’s revealed that in societies where survival isn’t assumed and guaranteed, salt is a valuable commodity, did local Safeways and Wal-Marts experience higher than normal sales volume in the stuff? My guess is no, but those courses wouldn’t be the dumbest to follow.
The interesting thing about both shows is that they both appear to be suggesting the events that form the center of the stories may well be “false flag” operations, in which our government are really behind them, but blame is put on terrorists. That’s a meme that’s growing every year on the alt-news sites, and one that bears watching.
U.S. Comptroller General David Walker was on CBS’s 60 Minutes last Sunday with a dire warning. We can’t afford to keep the financial promises we’ve made. If you plan on being alive more than 20 years from today, or have children or grandchildren, you need to pay attention to what he’s saying.
In short, his message is that our current way of life in America is financially unsound and unsustainable.
Here is a story that illustrates that despite the Mercedes Benz cars on the road and the satellite dishes on the roofs, what a backward, brutal medieval society most of the Middle East truly is. The ultimate irony is, when the oil runs out (and it’s running fast – Saudi production falling 8% last year) Peak Oil will eventually end the problem for the West. Once the oil is gone, the people who live there will go back to riding camels to kill each other.
There won’t be any reason to let them come to the West. They have nothing else of value. There are days when that day (for your editor’s taste) can’t come quickly enough.
They have illegally captured 15 Brits. Iran continues to demonstrate that it is a rogue state. With the exception of wanting nuclear weapons, they insist on living a male-dominated and female-subjugated medieval lifestyle.