Permanent War
nano | 07.02.2006 05:51 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Birmingham | World
US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, recently announced the ‘war on terror’ would be re-named “the long war”; this announcement has not surprised analysts who are aware that neo-con ideologues and strategists follow the Straussian (and perverted Trotskyist) doctrine of permanent war. Some interpret this as nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of the Cold War in which a clearly defined enemy (communist bogeymen) kept the nation on permanent alert and amenable to the powers of the time.
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Blair and co have given World War 3 a name- welcome to hell
07.02.2006 14:38
********* THE LONG WAR **********
Now the Black Propaganda units that come up with such terms ARE initially involved in the testing business. They cannot (by and large) force ideas such as this to become long lasting 'memes', because, unlike the 911 meme (remember, the '11' was designed to symbolise the twin towers, and the 911 a state of global emergency- no psy-ops project has ever been so carefully crafted), there is no initial impulse of enegy to make the idea stick.
However, we all know that Mass Media repetition, carefully orchestrated under the excuse of 'current affairs', is the alternate method available to 'sell' memes. In other words, its the advertising business (and pretty much run by the same people). They will blitz us with the new CONTROL WORDS, but since WE are the consumers, WE have to accept the 'new product' else it just disappears and dies.
Of course, in making my point here, I am doing Blair's work for him, and that is part of the trick. The term has been created, so people for and against Blair feel forced to use it in the short term at least.
SORRY, DID ANYBODY HERE DOUBT THAT WORLD WAR IS COMING- ARE YOU REALLY SHOCKED THAT BLAIR'S PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN ***OUR*** WORLD WAR A NAME?
Many months ago, people like myself warned that you would soon see a flood of anti-Iranian and anti-muslim propaganda, as an inevitable and required build up to Blair's war with Iran. The volume of 'noise' would be proportional to the proximity of probable action (given that for Blair,as with Hitler, NOTHING is certain). Of course, a smaller number of us, myself included, warned that even war with Iran is just the beginning of WORLD WAR, with the true prize being War against China. This "THE LONG WAR" is just the teeniest, weeniest hint of how right we were. Sadly, I find myself unique in pointing out that Blair is the spider at the centre of the web, but then EVERYTHING that is done by the Mass Media is designed to persuade you to NOT take facts to their logical conclusion.
DO YOU LIKE THE NAME THAT BLAIR AND HIS PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN TO ***YOUR*** WORLD WAR? Is it important to you that when you son or daughter, husband or wife, brother or sister, father or mother, is exterminated in the name of Blair's great plans, you can say "they died in The Long War".
Anyway, see your friend "The Long War" (the phrase NOT the event) make its appearance in ALL your favourite venues- BBC and Channel 4 News Broadcasts, and especially The Guardian. Evil wants to know how you think its new invention sounds in your ears, feels on your tongue, and trips off your keyboard. Better still, how it looks on your or mine gravestone.
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