Every generation needs a new revolution.
- Thomas Jefferson

One wonders why Thomas felt compelled to suggest such a dangerous proposition ...

Speaking of nightmares, Henry Kissinger, The Australian Atomic Arm Twisting

Jozef

The crucial parts of the article are contained in these three paragraphs,,, """"The answers to these questions should not be left to impressionistic accounts but to analysis organised as a presentation of opposing views so that policy-makers are able to judge the available evidence. """" """"If the US continues to pursue its declared policy of encouraging the European initiative, it will be driven to recognise that the process cannot go beyond a certain point without some kind of US participation. Progress will require a commitment by the Europeans to a range of pressures if negotiations fail and to the elaboration of criteria linked to a schedule by which progress can be measured"""". """"US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has rightly pointed out aspects of Iranian policy that impede negotiations with the US, especially the support of groups relying on terror in Iraq. Tehran will have to show some readiness to modify these ventures before the US can participate in the negotiating process now conducted by three European nations.""" SUGAR COATED Re the first paragraph, we know that "the presentation of opposing views" can be manipulated to achieve a particular policy... It also depends on the "policy-makers" viewpoints in the end who can seek information to support their agenda. This is presented in this article as if it was clearly reasoned and very well thought-out, but it thus is baloney... The second paragraph expresses clearly that the US does not want the Europeans to succeed unless the US in involved... The words of the third paragraph basically say (and the article supports this view point) when one READ BETWEEN THE LINES that the US won't and should not negotiate.... Point bank... As well it "blames" the other side for the problem, including unrelated problems... This arrogance on the three levels is the fuel that drives a reactive hardened stance... In hostage situations (including some in in Iraq but mostly in the US) there is always room for hefty lengthy negotiations... There are nearly 700 hostages in the Armericas every year and in nearly all cases ransom is paid. Specialised negotiating private organisations do the deals... No police (...and no media!) are involved and no one is the wiser... People lives are spared... "Honour amongst deal-makers..." Why then is there no negotiations from the US in which words of reason and "understanding" could be used rather than words of threat? Especially, when there is no crisis as yet... only a perceived "potential" crisis not so much of war... but of the "possible" creation of nuclear tools of war... In which the huge majority, including rulers of Iran and North Korea. want peace but are forced in a corner of tit for tat by a threatening US that does not like their "regeemes"... Are the threats designed more to spur the "potential" in order to prove ourselves right then when we defuse it with a war? (reverse psychology with boots in the end). Will we say the preemptive solution is better anyway? This goes against all accepted rules of equality, and It also fractures the threat but does not remove it... It could delay it by just a few years, but greatly adding more feeling of revenge in the next instalment... And pushing underground the manufacture of such weaponry if it's not already done presently by real lunatics the US does not know about? This is school-yard bully tactics... All we need is an a psychopathic US president to press the red button at the end of his terms because "he wants to solve the problems of the world once and for all" but in reality doesn't want anybody else to be able to do so... I mean it.. It is very serious consideration... Armageddon is a reality in many a religious mind... Too many... But then they will blame the other side and claim their slice of paradise... Thanks Josef, for pointing ithis out to us

From The Power of Nightmares Part III

V(oice)O(ver): And the government also said that the Detroit cell was planning to attack US military bases around the world. Yet again, they found hidden evidence of this in a day planner they discovered under the sofa in the house in Detroit. What looked like doodles were in reality, they said, a plan to attack a US base in Turkey.

WILLIAM SWOR, DEFENCE LAWYER, DETROIT SLEEPER CELL TRIAL, INDICATING COPY OF DRAWINGS FROM DAY PLANNER: The government brought in its security officer from the base to testify that she interpreted this as being the main runways. She identified these as being AWACS airplanes and these as being fighter jets. She said that these solid lines were lines of fire and she also said that this down here was a hardened bunker.

VO: But the drawings in the day planner were discovered to have actually been the work of a madman. They were the fantasies of a Yemeni who believed that he was the minister of defence for the whole of the Middle East. He had committed suicide a year before any of the accused had arrived in Detroit, leaving the day planner lying under the sofa in the house. Despite this, two of the accused were found guilty. But then, the government’s only witness, Mr Hmimssa, told two of his cellmates that he had made the whole thing up to get his fraud charges reduced. The terrorism convictions have now been overturned by the judge in the case, but it was acclaimed by the President as the first success in the war on terror at home.

Black and White And Full Of Crap, Lies Run Big, Facts Small in U.S. Media, By Ted Rall.

Hi Gus

ARMAGEDDON

JR

Hi John. www.countdown.org.

Cheers.

My pleasure Gus, I could not have done a better job by picking the eyes and heart of the underlying factors between the lines.

Love your work - a streak of Central European, the old world, cheekiness seems to weave through your images.

Jozef