blissful ignorance
I don't watch TV news. I don't listen to "Progressive Radio" anymore. I don't read newspapers.
But today I started reading the news on the internet.
Bad idea.
after browsing through the top headlines of a few news organizations, a pattern emerged.
Putin is a very popular leader amongst the uber-conservative family-oriented hyper-breeder Cossacks. Putin is a hardcore gunslinger archetype - he sicked a couple of planes, big ol' nuke-capable bombers, on Guam, Had an old school Cold War-style smile n' wave at our flyboys in the middle of the Pacific.
Russia is threatening to pull out of disarmament talks, really nothing big. Just posturing, but another shot across the bow.
Bush's blathering is showing signs of weakness. There's a subtle shift that's totally obvious in print and somewhat apparent in the sound bites: he's stopped believing his own line. You can hear it both in the way he talks and the impotence of his actual words. Speaking on Market instability, his words lack any real meaning or force.
But that's just the smoke and mirrors. Where is the real fight happening?
Canada declared it's dominion over the Arctic Circle. Russia has explorations ongoing in the arctic region.
As the polar melt continues, more shipping lanes are opening AND more opportunities for gas and oil drilling. As well as mining for heavy metal material.
Global Warming = ice melt = open ocean for oil and gas platforms...
The Players: Russia, Canada and the US. Possibly Japan and China too.
Follow the money. Follow the Power.
The only question: When will this economic conflict reach the armed stage?
I have seen the future and it looks like 1939 all over again. Only scarier.
The "Islamist Terror Threat" is a hollow Straw Man compared to this thing. This involves trillions in potential profit. Jackals fighting over the last rotting carcass.
By the way - CNN was NOT one of the news sites where these details were gleaned. CNN features the following world-shattering newsworthy items:
Cell vid shows train smash into propane car
Monster truck rolls through crowd
Escort services list jobs on government site
Man teases huge crocodile, swabs its teeth
I shit you not. That's what CNN led with today!
you are sleeping...you do not want to believe...you are sleeping