No News is Bad News
The Inevitability of the Military-Industrial Complex to Perpetuate War.
When the media gets to the point that they stop giving news of the day, watch out. That's really the end of the world, at least in your part of it.
I'm not talking about paparazzi news or gossip columns. If Martha Stewart had been sent to Danbury Low Level security prison for five months, I'll tell you they would have had the most beautiful gardens in the world. Move over, Versailles. Auf Viterzein Palmen Garten. As a young teen back in the early 1960's, I remember riding the school bus to the old Danbury High and rolling past the Danbury Pen, watching those rich inmates planting their gardens in the sunrise. That is reputed to be a very posh prison. But that's not news. The news was in her case, that they sent her to a tough prison. It's the news you don't hear about. The "no-news". I mean, we're not talking the Shawshank Redemption here, they could have put her in a mild prison with low-level security and you have to wonder why.
Back when I was an information specialist at the Army Materiel Command at building T-7 in Virginia about five miles from the Pentagon, I found out the Military Industrial Complex needed a large enough theatre of armed conflict to be going on and on perpetually as an economic engine to fuel their guaranteed employment and steady income. Now that's news. Because it has been happening since ancient Egypt and will continue to go on until the final total news blackout never lets you know anything's happening.
My investigation uncovered extensive parties with a vested interest in the continuation of conflict. And when the US stopped sending US service personnel to the Vietnam theatre of conflict, they replaced them with South Vietnamese personnel. Eisenhower warned about this, but back then we erroneously assumed it to be the paranoia of an old man. Sorry, Ike. You were right. We should have known better.
So now there is a potential candidate for a new perpetual war scenario. Is it or isn't it? Is it a free nation willing to share the American Revolution with others in need, or is it the same old Military-Industrial complex up to it's old tricks again. Well, maybe we should know, but maybe only time will tell. Anyway, the red flags are up all over the place. It's like the ancient Greek story of Jason passing the island of the armament makers. Day and night the forges glowed and they worked without rest around the clock. The lesson is clear. Beware countries producing armaments for sale. They don't care where the battlefield is as long as they're rich. It could be in your back yard next time.
"Shouldn't they be stopped?" You ask. If you're wondering that right about now, my response would have to be this: 'Somatter, didn't you ever take World History in school?" These guys are filling a slot. That's why they seem so ordinary at first. They conform to the pattern. They get bigger and bigger until they go global. What, did you just think they would go away? When they run out of stooges, they could just use the guy next door to you if necessary.
The first Gulf War was brief, but that could have been for the purpose of getting you ready for the second one. But the first one was a world war. The second is (2004) an armed conflict or sort of police action. Certain pieces of the puzzle fit. Letting the bulk of Hussein's army escape, allowing weapon caches and ammo dump to be looted completely, going lax on surveillance on the borders of the country and so on. Next thing if the scenario fits and that's really the situation, there'll be something like another Ho Chi Minh Trail being bombed by B-52's only this time it'll go by a different name.
So what the dark side of the military-industrial complex needs is another Vietnam War. The last one, the real Vietnam conflict back in the mid 20th century, the Australians got out of the loop. They thought they were supposed to win. They almost foiled the Continuum back in the '60's but they were held back and then hit with the psych stuff.
The more global the Continuum gets, the closer history gets to the whatchamacallit. No, not the end of the world, that would be too facile. We'll cross that bridge if we come to it. But notice how the possible Continuum managed to keep older empires out of the works: France and Germany. Once again, remember that there are lots of gray areas and blurry edges here. Maybe that's what's happening or maybe it's something else. Just so you know what to look for if this isn't it and the real thing comes along.
But if you're reading this and you just might be involved and you are one of the elite, all I can say is, so you think you're the great world leadership, the continuum of the day? What can I say? You're just the latest raw hamburger for the grill of the constantly repeating patterns of history. My advice is get out of that business. Better to be on the street collecting a cup bumming spare change than one of them. With all the coercion that goes on, you'd never have your own mind.
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...a new perpetual war scenario
27 March, 2005