House of Paine

Noam tosses out some spooky a-bombs in space stuff

i post this
  specific
    scaredy kats paw 
  

cause hey 


"nobody does it  better ..."


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excerpts from :


Nuclear Terror at Home
By NOAM CHOMSKY
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"If you can imagine 
some rational observers 
from Mars looking at
 this curious species 
down here

 I don't think
 they'd put very high odds
 on survival
maybe another generation or two
tops "

 
 "There's case after case
 where a nuclear war 
was prevented almost by a miracle"

" And the threat is increasing 
as a consequence of policies 
that the administration 
is very consciously pursuing"


" As you know
 nuclear war 
 is  not a high probability event"

" but if a low probability event
 keeps happening over and over
 there's a high probability 
that sooner or later 
it will take place "

"issues of survival 
of the species
 are imminent"


 " the prospect
 of what "they" call
 "ultimate doom" 
 is  not very far away"
 
  " all new weapon systems
lead to an action-reaction cycle 
 america acts first
  then  others respond"

 " we become ever 
 more reliant on hair-trigger mechanisms'

 

 "now its
Militarization of space" 


 "which could very well 
   doom "the" species"

 

 " There's a document
 called The Essentials
 of Post Cold War Deterrence 
that was released during 
the Clinton years
 by the Strategic Command"


" It's one 
of the most horrifying documents
 I've ever read"

 " enough People
 haven't paid attention to it"


  

" america's empire
 has to rely
 primarily on nuclear weapons 
because unlike other weapons
 of mass destruction
 such as chemical and biological
 the effects of nuclear weapons 
are immediate
 devastating
 overwhelming....
not only destructive 
but terrifying" 

" So nukes  have 
to be the core 
of what's called deterrence"

" translation:
nukes have to be 
       the core
of america's 
means of  aggression "

" Everything they produce
in the way of doctrine  
           means 
the opposite of what it says"

 
 

  "We have to have 
a national persona 
of irrationality 
with forces out of control,
 so we really terrify everybody,
 and then we can get what we want."


 " And furthermore 
everyone's  right to be terrified 
because we're going 
 blow them all up
in fact, we're going 
to blow ourselves up 
     as well"



 " the new weapons frontier is space"

 " and the bush team
plans to  make  sure 
that we have no competitors"


 
 "The United States alone 
refuses to vote for 
the General Assembly
' peaceful space' resolution"

 " The Chinese are the ones
 who are pushing  
the resolution "

 "That's not reported 
  in the United States"


 "In the year 2000 
it was only reported
 in one newspaper
 a small newspaper in Utah "

 
' who knows what will happen."

"When the Bush administration 
took over 
they just made it more extreme
. They moved from the Clinton doctrine 
of control of space 
to what they call
 ownership of space"

 

Noam Chomsky made these remarks 
on Jan. 25  2005

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why after reading all this 

do i hear julia childs
  saying


" and thats right here today,,,
  on the french chef "

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