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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
~Kurt Vonnegut
Sunday, March 09, 2003

Late Night Ramble

by George Partington (March 9 entry)
This is the end game of the military industrial complex. The department of defense has never been about defense; it has been about war, war for domination and subjugation both at home and abroad. You can feel it when you compare the budget for our military to the budget for education and social services. Or when you consider the fact that we have the nuclear capacity to kill every living thing on earth 77 times. Our military is not in our hands, as our country is not in our hands. There has been an extremist coup, and an extremist act of criminality was the shock needed to pounce, to push the power all the way, to finally take this military machine for a global spin. We are the world’s only superpower, there is nothing holding us back. And why, these extremists reason, should we wait, when our enemies may be gaining strength? more


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