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03 Mar 08

The Fourth World: Iran: The Unthinkable War : The Apocalypse Factor

"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of this great country and rid the world of evil."
- George W. Bush, quoted by Bob Woodward in Bush at War

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"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of this great country and rid the world of evil."
- George W. Bush, quoted by Bob Woodward in Bush at War
Hagee’s book urges the US to launch a first strike against Iran in order to bring about the onset of Armageddon.
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- a "coming nuclear showdown with Iran is a certainty," a biblical certainty.
- Dick Armey recently admitted to the BBC that both Bush and he are believers in the End Times, but denied that they were trying to push the world toward an apocalyptic conflagration.
- LaHaye believes Saddam Hussein “is ‘a servant of Satan,’ possessed by a demon, and that he could be ‘the forerunner of the Antichrist.’”
- the Christian Fascist movement
- The Biblical Apocalypse is the Christian Fascist’s version of Hitler’s evocation of the ancient Nordic and Germanic mythos under the Third Reich, and it serves the same purpose.
- The most dangerous of scripts is being played out – a coming war led by two opposing apocalyptic fundamentalists, each convinced that god and all the logic of a sick civilization is behind him, each believing god will initiate a global genocide on his behalf, and each believing that The Hour is near.
- The coming war has nothing to do with Iran as a “state sponsor of terrorism” or an Islamic state with nuclear weapons, but everything to do with US strategic plans to seize control of the vast energy resources of the region and military control of Central Asia and the Middle East.
- Nothing is unthinkable in the pursuit of a consolidated world empire, not for Republicans, and not for Democrats. The sharpest expressions of this imperial strategy are to be found in the documents of the Republican’s Project for a New American Century and in Democrat Zbigniew Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard.
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The Fourth World: Iran: The Unthinkable War: What Makes for a Real “Terrorist State”?

The psycho-cultural stage for the entire development of overt neo-fascism in the US was established by the “humiliations” of Viet Nam and the Iran “hostage crisis.”

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The psycho-cultural stage for the entire development of overt neo-fascism in the US was established by the “humiliations” of Viet Nam and the Iran “hostage crisis.”
the rulers set about re-conquering a rebellious Black population through the “War on Drugs” in the wake of the Black Power Movement, and American Indians in the wake of Wounded Knee.
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- Blacks are “criminals” and Indians are “drunken” then Iranians are “terrorists” who present a clear and present danger to white capitalist Western “civilization.”
- for the sake of having a sense of proportion, let’s talk about what really rates as international crimes that might, properly, cause a nation to be deemed a rogue state, or a terrorist state.
  
  In our list let’s include some of the universally acknowledged crimes a state might sponsor: genocide, the use of death squads, the widespread use of torture, the unprovoked or needless use of nuclear weapons, the crime of Apartheid, spreading chemical and biological weapons to those who use them to kill the innocent, the launching of unprovoked wars of aggression, and, of course, the deliberate starvation of mass numbers of civilians and the bombing of civilians. Since it’s germane, let’s include the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a crime.
- In terms of the commission of these kinds of national and international crimes, the current regime in Iran hardly rates a nod. Jointly if not singly, however, other players on the Middle East stage are guilty of every crime listed. Every one of them. The players in question are the US and Israel.
- The US is the only nation in history to have used nuclear weapons – and it used them against civilians. Israel’s nukes were acquired in gross violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
- Sadly, the main thing Iran is guilty of is the same thing it was guilty of in 1953: having too much oil, and intending to defend it.
  The U.S. government has listed Iran as a sponsor of terrorism since 1984.
- by definition, there can be no such thing as a “terrorist” attack against the US occupation forces in Iraq

The Fourth World: Against the Rage of Pacifists

Ash would settle
like the dark wind of Hiroshima
over the ice of America's sleep

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The Fourth World: The Center Cannot Hold: The Bush Regime in Crisis

Warning the administration of its potential culpability, Gonzalez urged the President, to, in effect, bluff it out. He wrote, "Your determination would create a reasonable basis in law that (the War Crimes Act) does not apply which would provide a solid defense to any future prosecution."

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The Fourth World: Iran: The Unthinkable War

“Every nuclear weapon is a portable Auschwitz.” Daniel Ellsberg

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The Fourth World: Apocalypse No! Part 6: The Tower: Breaking the Death Grip of Profit and Power

There’s a pilot on this plane who knows the trajectory, and who is hell bent on the ecstasy of impact. There are madmen with him who will kill anyone who tries to stop it.

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The Fourth World: Apocalypse No! Part 5: Celebrating Collapse: The Coming Adventure

What extraordinary fortune to be here at the close of the drama, and to have the chance to learn from it and to practice within it, to be certain that what we do now really, really counts. We’ll have the chance to learn what it might mean to live as free human beings.

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“We can deny the reality of collapse, but that will not prevent it from happening. We can continue to live the nightmare of civilization, clinging to the old paradigm, allowing the old stories to shape our lives. Or, we can choose to live the new story-the story of the life/death/life cycle, the story of collapse, community, and commutation. This is the story we were meant to live-the one the soul has been whispering in our ears since we were born but was silenced by the cacophony of empire. For all the uncertainty and angst evoked by collapse, its unsurpassable gift may be the opportunity to live and tell that story.” – Carolyn Baker

The Fourth World: Apocalypse No! Part 4: The True Sister and the True Brother

“…Only those who are obedient to the guidance of the Great Creator's laws will survive. If it is the will of the Creator, if the earth is totally destroyed by the willfulness of man, the true sister and brother will give a rebirth to recycle the earth and renew its life.”

-from the newsletter of the traditional Hopi Elders, Techqua Ikachi, # 16

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The Fourth World: Apocalypse No! part 3: The Law of Life and the Law of Death

"We are the watchers. We are the witnesses. We see what has gone before. We see what happens now, at this dangerous moment in human history. We see what's going to happen, what will surely happen unless we come together---we, the Peoples of all Nations---to restore peace, harmony and balance to the Earth, our Mother."

--Chief Arvol Looking Horse, from White Buffalo Teachings

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The Fourth World: Apocalypse No! Christian Fascism and the Nazi Legacy

With the advent of the bomb, the foundations of the culture had cracked; “civilization” now threatened the foundation of life itself. Reality itself had imposed the need to re-evaluate all values, to question the foundations of morality, culture, purpose and the relationship of human beings to the Earth and the millions of other living beings that are her creation.

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The Fourth World: Apocalypse No!

It’s scripted: a tragedy whose end is embedded in its beginnings, an unfolding logic whose conclusion is the inevitable result of its premises.

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02 Mar 08

Olivet discourse: Information and Much More from Answers.com

The Olivet discourse or Little Apocalypse is a passage found in the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew (24), Mark (13) and Luke (21)... In the narrative is a discourse or sermon given by Jesus on the Mount of Olives, hence the name.

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'Enjoy life while you can' | Lovelock's apocalypse

Lovelock's apocalypse -- "There have been seven disasters since humans came on the earth, very similar to the one that's just about to happen. I think these events keep separating the wheat from the chaff. And eventually we'll have a human on the planet that really does understand it and can live with it properly. That's the source of my optimism."

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my panic about climate change is equalled only by my confusion over what I ought to do about it
Lovelock's apocalypse
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- it seems an unlikely coincidence that Lovelock became convinced of the irreversibility of climate change in 2004, at the very point when the international consensus was coming round to the need for urgent action
- it's not clear whether his politics are the child or the father of his science
- "There have been seven disasters since humans came on the earth, very similar to the one that's just about to happen. I think these events keep separating the wheat from the chaff. And eventually we'll have a human on the planet that really does understand it and can live with it properly. That's the source of my optimism."