Life Imitates Bad Sci-Fi Movie - International Social/Political

LIFE has become a nightmare Sci-Fi movie of Corporate rule with no restrictions, which translates into a hellish, polluted earth barely able to sustain life and misinformed slave populations given cheap thrills, stupefying drugs and the bare necessities to sustain production for the ELITE few -- the descendants of those that choked the LAST BREATH out of democracy!

Think about today’s reality before you dismiss this assessment and you will realise that you don’t have to be Nostradamus to see the future:

Robots/drones fighting wars, climate catastrophe, massive famines, runaway pollution, scarcity of food and drinking water (‘Frankenfoods’ and animals), massive extinctions, dead oceans with permanent rafts of floating debris etc, and on it goes, NONE of it GOOD! And it’s happening in OUR PARALYSED FACES, even as I write! An Aussie expression referring to a person’s complete and utter uselessness, desolation, hopelessness and apathy, goes something like this; “he couldn’t do it to save his life!”

The above denigrating expression now applies to the masses of the world! I never imagined that it would come to this in my lifetime, but it surely has. It is the beginning of the end, no doubt whatsoever.

In the absence of any EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION BY THE PEOPLE to IMMEDIATELY REVERSE current TRENDS, restore DEMOCRACY and HEAL the WORLD, the future is ALL BAD!

Well, I’ll go out as I came in, FIGHTING for an equitable, sustainable future for everyone! As for the rest of you, thanks for allowing white-collar criminals of less than average intelligence to FUCK EVERYTHING!

And to think only American Sci-Fi movies are negative. ‘Solaris,’ directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, a personal favourite, questions the foundations of our beliefs, notions of 'reality,' the status quo and reveals that our ENTIRE REALITY is created by the interaction of our CONSCIOUSNESS on the plastic medium of the WORLD/UNIVERSE; the simple message is we are completely responsible for our own lives and the realities we create -- a message LOST on today’s DOCILE populations, it would seem.

See:

The Forty-Year Drone War
by Nick Turse via teale - TomDispatch Tuesday, Jan 26 2010, 6:36pm

There’s something viral about the wondrous new weaponry an industrial war system churns out. In World War I, for instance, when that system was first gearing up to plan and produce new weapons by the generation, such creations -- poison gas, the early airplane, the tank -- barely hit the battlefield before the enemy had developed countermeasures and was cranking up his own production line to create something similar. And this process has never stopped.

The wonder weapon of our present moment is the missile-armed unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, now doing our dirty work, an endless series of targeted assassinations, in the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands. Such weapons always come with wondrous claims. Here’s a typical one from a recent Wall Street Journal editorial: “Never before in the history of air warfare have we been able to distinguish as well between combatants and civilians as we can with drones.” When it comes to war, beware of any sentence that begins “never before,” and the claims of future breakthroughs or victories that go with them.

It’s easy, of course, for the editorial writers of the Journal to pen such confident sentiments thousands of miles from the war zone. They would undoubtedly feel quite differently if their hometowns and neighborhoods were the targets of such “precise” weaponry, which has nonetheless managed to kill hundreds of civilians.

Drones, of course, do just what they were meant to do, as surely as did poison gas, the airplane, and the tank early in the last century: they kill. That’s indisputable, but the promised “breakthroughs,” whether aimed at destroying enemy fortifications, enemy networks, or the enemy’s will, seldom follow so reliably. And yet once the wonder fades and the overwrought claims with it, the wonder weapons remain in our world -- and (here’s the viral part) they begin to spread.

There is no evidence that the drones are breaking the back of either the Taliban (Afghan or Pakistani) or al-Qaeda in our distant wars, but plenty of evidence that they are helping to destabilize Pakistan and create intense anti-American feelings there. Now, as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates indicated on arriving in Pakistan last week, we are thinking of giving the Pakistanis their own unarmed surveillance drones, while from Iran to China, Israel to Russia, powers everywhere are rushing to enter the age of 24/7 robotic assassination along with, or just behind, us. You might think that this would give the Pentagon pause, but a prospective arms race just gets the blood there boiling, and when it comes to Terminator-style war, as Nick Turse indicates below, the U.S. Air Force has plans. Boy, does it ever!

One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, killing 13 people. Days later, the same increasingly familiar mechanical whine preceded a two-missile salvo that slammed into a compound in Degan village in the tribal North Waziristan district of Pakistan, killing three.

What were once unacknowledged, relatively infrequent targeted killings of suspected militants or terrorists in the Bush years have become commonplace under the Obama administration. And since a devastating December 30th suicide attack by a Jordanian double agent on a CIA forward operating base in Afghanistan, unmanned aerial drones have been hunting humans in the Af-Pak war zone at a record pace. In Pakistan, an “unprecedented number” of strikes -- which have killed armed guerrillas and civilians alike -- have led to more fear, anger, and outrage in the tribal areas, as the CIA, with help from the U.S. Air Force, wages the most public “secret” war of modern times.

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