Planet Wide Anxiety Bubbling To The Surface
By J. D. Longstreet (11/18/08)
The human brain has this tiny little part called the amygdale. It's in that tiny part of the brain where fear is generated and the fight or flee order is given to the rest of the human body. It is where fear is born. As silly as it may seem, it is the reason we humans have survived on this planet so far and, if we are to survive much longer, we are going to have to begin listening to it again.
If you are honest with yourself, you will have to admit that for sometime now that amygdale of yours has been elbowing you to get your attention. It is saying, "Hey, something is wrong! Something is about to happen, prepare, prepare." OK, so it is a chemical thing and the amygdale doesn't speak. Well, if it did, I'd bet it would say something like that, though.
If you have been paying close attention to the news lately, and I don't mean election news, I mean the news that, for the most part never even made the "A" section of your newspaper, you have noticed that certain world leaders have been hinting strongly about a coming event, or events, that is/are imminent and will cause great distress on the people of the planet. Even the US VP-Elect has hinted at it when he mentioned something bad happening within six months of Obama's inaugurating. Other world leaders have alluded to it as well.
Remember Biden's cryptic warning a few weeks ago, at the Sheraton in Seattle, Washington: ""I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate, And he's (Obama) gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."
Well, whether Obama's reaction to WHATEVER IT IS is right, or not, remains to be seen. But that is not what is troubling me at the moment. No. I am more concerned with what the "THING", the "event", the "occurrence", that is going to happen is!
Seems to me the first worry should be the chances of a terrorist nuclear attack on the continental United States. As a matter of fact, we don't even know if one has already been attempted or not. Such is the power of the Homeland Security agency. A spokesman for Al Qaida has said their goal is: "to kill 4 million Americans—2 million of them children—and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands." He went on to explain that this is what justice requires to balance the scales for casualties supposedly inflicted on Muslims by the United States and Israel.
It would take over thirtenn hundred terrorist attacks equal to the attack on 9-11 to reach that figure. Or, the terrorists could do it with just one nuclear attack. See?
There is an excellent article on this very thing titled: "How Likely is a Nuclear Terrorist Attack on the United States?" at:
www.cfr.org/publication/13097/how_likely_is_a_nuclear_terrorist_attack_on_the_united_states.html
But, this concern would only affect the people of the United States. The anxiety we are speaking of is felt around the world. There must be something else.
May I tell you what I think it is? I think our friends in the Green Movement have succeeded in scaring the wits out of people with their ever-present chant that the world is ending… right now! It isn't, of course. It isn't even getting warmer. In fact, it is getting cooler. Yet, millions upon millions of people, the world over, have bought into the propaganda and as a result, they fear for their lives, and the lives of their children and grandchildren, from a threat of something that doesn't even exist. Talk about a Bogy Man!
I think this explains how a man as inexperienced and as devoid of substance as Barack Obama won an election to be the next President of the United States. We have a populace so used to accepting the spin of the world's Mainstream Media that they readily bought into the spin on Obama. They have been conditioned to do that, you see.
My generation is not as easily fooled. My mother used to say: "J.D., you won't believe ox horns will hook until you've been gored!" She was right. I still don't. So what is my generation afraid of? We're afraid of what is going to happen if the younger generation continues blindly following the leadership of those nefarious characters who have molded them and conditioned them to accept the results of sloppy science as fact, and accepting that they must live out their days with the Damocles Sword of their self-imposed destruction of the world hanging over their heads. Remember the fairy tale of the King Who Had No Clothes? The Green Movement has no clothes, but as in the fairy tale, everyone is afraid to speak up and question where the facts are. I suspect you will find them in the closet alongside the King's clothes.
If this were a movie this is the point in the story where the protagonist would grab his sidekick by the shoulders and shake him violently for a second or two and proclaim: "Get hold of yourself man! Start thinking!" But it is difficult to do the entire world that way.
Now, I have just scratched the surface of the underlying cause(s) of the thread of fear running through the psyche of the human race these days. There is more, much more.
Another thing comes to mind. The new President-Elect apparently is set to offer a divided city of Jerusalem on the alter of Middle East peace and, to sweeten the deal, we are hearing rumours that there is also a possibility that he will be willing to offer up Israel's nuclear arsenal, as well. Our friends at The Liberty Sphere have an article you should read on this very thing at:
http://thelibertysphere.blogspot.com/2008/11/confirmed-obama-supports-dividing.html
And there's another excellent piece by Caroline Glick at www.CarolineGlick.com . The article is entitled: "The Perils Ahead." You'll find it at:
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2008/11/the_perils_ahead.asp
Yes, these are perilous times. I have no solace to offer. It is well to note, I suppose, that Nature has a way of warning us, even when we are not listening, that trouble is brewing. These days, a little paranoia, I think, is a good thing!
J. D. Longstreet
http://csadispatch.blogspot.com/
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