Is This the Opening Salvo of W W III?

Could this North Korean incident be the first salvo of World War III? They attacked an SK fishing village and the people were shaken up. South Korea said that if it happens again North Korea will experience a severe retaliation. Why don’t they just do the retaliation this time and save a step? Unless George Bush personally planned our the whole thing in 1999, the US doesn’t care what goes on in the world. Dana said just now that China would not dare intervene on North Korea’s behalf today because we would cut off trade with them and the thing is they still need us to buy all their cheap goods to keep their economy going. According to Dana we give they our old junky cars and stuff we don’t want and they turn it into brand new merchandise. They say if a US base had been bombed by the North Koreans THEN we would react. People are saying that it’s just the grooming process of Kim Jung Il’s son taking over and they are “getting the people of North Korea to rally around the new leadership and the military. If Obama were like Franklin Roosevelt or Truman he would say “What the hell of there is a nuclear exchange in the Korean pennincula? Just as long as we aren’t affected. Those people can both use Nukes on each other and we’ll step in and set up a military dictatorship like after WW II in Japan, and we will be the big heroes”. That’s possible.

There is a real concern with these pat downs at the air ports and that is the matter of the gloves the TSA people wear for their OWN protection, but not the passenger’s. Because they stick their hands down people’s pants and run their fingers through people’s hair and could pick up lice or herpes or worse yet this MRSA virus they have in hospitals, which is what Jim Hansen died of. All this virus needs to spread is physical touching and you’re done for. But few people speak of it as a real issue. They don’t see the concern we are breeding a nation of sheep like they had in Nazi Germany in the ‘thirties. This whole talk about pat downs on Stephanie Miller is getting really old, especially since the vast majority of the people just opt for the one shot body scan and can be done with it. I was surprised to learn that these pat downs take several minutes. Today is travel Wednesday and any sort of organized protest would not work today, as it would have in the ‘sixties. Back then you could have nudes in trench coats or people with exploding urine bags and it would have provided deterrence. But today I don’t even think the authorities would be bothered if hundreds of passengers were late to their destinations.

. Yesterday I had Bill Handel on and he was talking about how in Israel they have only a fraction of the air traffic we do. They follow your car into the lot with guns trained on you. They go through every bit of everything in your luggage and then do a decompression test to see if the stuff is set to explode at higher altitudes. Then they give you the most thorough grilling separating you and your wife and analyzing which questions you vary on, or whether your responses are so similar they sound rehearsed. They say Israel has never lost an air liner to a terrorist bomb. But the point was raised that why can’t any terrorist just set off a big bomb in the screen area where so many people are congregating? Compared to accident or disease or any other cause of death, the risk of dying in a terrorist attack is absolutely infinatessible. I turned off the radio this morning. I couldn’t take any more.

John Lennon says he likes the songs of his on the White Album better than the stuff on Sergent Pepper because they aren't "processed". Well, now I'm sure you've heard everything. It seems that Abbey Road is the best selling album so far on line, and "Here Comes the Sun" is the best individual song on line. Well, I say anything that spreads Beatle music to the younger generation is a good thing. I still say if the Beatles had stayed together they could have become one of the real mega-groups of the early 'seventies like David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Yes, or Emerson, Lake and Palmer. But the powers that be who controle such things said "No".