U.S. Military Outside Iraq
Marines in East Africa (also see Military in East Africa on Good Will Trip, posted July 8)
Building Relationships, Capacity in West Africa
Missile Destroyer in Japan
Congress to Question Sale of F16s to Pakistan
Japan Considers Pre-emptive Strike Against North Korea
Japan to Allow Military in Space for First Time (archive)
India Test-Fires First Long-Range Nuclear Capable Ballistic Missile
And on the Peace Front
Fly in the Ointment of the Nuclear Solution Even If It Doesn't Leak Or Blow Up
Even with the propaganda speaker blasting away in the house, I am still having trouble understanding.
ReplyDeleteWe are selling Fighters to Pakistan. Yet, Mr. Kahn exported Nuclear Bomb technology to all sorts of members of the "Axis of Evil".
Now India is testing a missle, but it doesn't make the news on my propganda speaker, the television.
Maybe we don't care about India because they provide us with lots of doctors. But, Cuba offered to provide us with doctors and we don't like them?
I guess it is because Pakistan provides us with convience store workers and India with motel workers. But then we are using Mexican workers for those purposes and besides we got lots of women we need to get off of welfare.
Geeze it all just doesn't make sense. Looks like I only have two choices. Either I need a lobotomy or just accept the awful truth ... I am a crazy conspiracy theorist.
to gail:
ReplyDeleteMy previous post was all tongue in cheek with bunches of sarcasim mixed in... I too will pass on the labotomy. Mostly I intend on hanging around and being the sand in the bearings of the "wheels of progress".
I guess I see it all kind of like being caught on a railroad trestle and discovering a train is coming. Most run away from the train and get ran over even if they should run toward the train because they are closer to that end of the trestle.
Me... I am standing in the middle of the track flipping off the engineer and having fun. Hopefully I will find a place to jump before the last minute. If not, it has been fun.
Speaking of the propaganda speaker, you would not (or maybe you would) believe your eyes and ears if you checked out the Japanese media, whose job it clearly is to regurgitate US government propaganda. Since the launch of NK missiles, the airwaves have been rife with hysterical ravings on "news" programs and from pundits about how Japan must defend itself from this imminent threat, and how the Japan-US alliance must be strengthened. On the other hand, no matter what terrible things the US does, the media play it down or simply don't mention it. Curiously, the doctrine of "American exceptionalism" seems to be as strong in Japan as in the US.
ReplyDeleteBTW, a major Japanese refiner just announced another hike in the prices of its oil products. Other refiners will soon follow suit. Gasoline already costs the equvalent of about $5 a gallon.
Virtually all of Japan's crude comes from the Middle East, as you can see here.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.iae.or.jp/energyinfo/energydata/data2003.html
(If you don't read Japanese, you'll have to take my word for it.)