HOWARD BLOOM.. TALKS SUBS READY TO ATTACK AMERICA....
Sun May 22, 2005 21:57
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Sat. 21, 2005 - ART BELL & HOWARD BLOOM.. TALKS SUBS READY TO ATTACK
AMERICA....
Militant Islam, Avian Flu & Energy
Paleopsychologist Howard Bloom talked about the continuing threat posed by
militant Islam, the desire for democracy in the Middle East, as well as a
potential avian flu pandemic and the coming energy crisis. Full recap to
follow.
LISTEN TO SHOW:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/05/21.html#recap
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PAKISTANI SUBS READY TO ATTACK AMERICA!
http://www.howardbloom.net/Wakeup_or_Shutdown2.htm
The United States operates a network of hydrophones scattered all over the
Atlantic and Pacific seabed. We are listening for subs like these. But we
may not be able to hear them. The Pakistani subs use a
methanol-and-liquid-oxygen engine bedded on a suspension system that quiets
its purr to a whisper. We may not be able to detect their silent running
beneath the sounds of zebrafish fanning their tails.
Many a Pakistani would love to see the nuclear destruction of America's key
cities. Pakistan has one of the most violently fundamentalist and
anti-American populations of any of the world's 57 Islamic states. And
that's saying something.
From 1979 to 1995, Pakistan was the headquarters for a group of "Afghan
freedom fighters" who were not Afghans at all. They were an international
army paid for by the US, Saudi Arabia, and China, armed by the CIA, and
trained, in part, by China's Peoples Liberation Army. We trained an army of
50,000 men from 30 nations to bring down the Soviet Union's most advanced
tanks, jets, and helicopters. Why? Our mutual goal was to embarrass a common
enemy--the Russians. Chief among the recruits to our proxy Jihad were Osama
bin Laden and the founding members of Al Qaeda.
Pakistan is the nation whose citizens rioted in the streets in 1989 over the
title of a novel they didn't like--The Satanic Verses. It was Pakistan's
street activists who forced the Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a Fatwa offering
five million dollars to the Moslem who killed Salman Rushdie. The Pakistanis
were more extreme than the most extremist Islamic leader of his day. And
that was fifteen years ago! Since then anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism
has grown.
Pakistan is also the nation that educated a generation of Afghan refugees
who later went home to take over their country in the name of Islamic purity
and justice. We know those refugees as the Taleban.
Today Osama bin Laden is one of Pakistan's two biggest pop-culture heroes.
The other is "The Father of the Islamic Bomb", Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan. Khan
and Osama have reportedly met in Afghanistan. Khan is the weapons expert.
Osama is the weapons user.
Many a Pakistani militant fundamentalist cell identifies itself as an Osama
ally. One of the strongest among these Osama-loyalists is arguably
Pakistan's most popular leader, Fazlur Rahman Khalil, the man who told 60
Minutes that: "God has ordered us to build nuclear weapons."
On the other hand, the base of Pakistan's military dictator, Pervez
Musharraf, is a slender reed. According to Syed Adeeb, head of Information
Times, a militant Pakistani press outlet based in the National Press
Building in Washington DC, "an Urdu-language letter written by Pakistan Army
officers on a Pakistan Army letterhead and sent to many members of the
Pakistan Parliament" calls, "'Pervez Musharraf and his clique…a band of
thieves and looters…imposed on this nation'" by the United States.
Adeeb himself calls Musharraf, "a self-appointed 'President,' military
dictator, army tyrant, human rights abuser, traitor and highly paid
mercenary of war criminal George W. Bush".
Musharraf has been the target of at least five assassination attempts. The
latest took place the very day Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003.
Yet only he stands between Osama and the Islamic submarines. Only Musharraf
stands between Osama and the cruise missiles Pakistan's subs can carry. And
only Musharraf stands between Osama and the 40 or more nuclear warheads
Pakistan has built since it exploded the first Islamic atomic bomb.
Which means that only Pervez Musharraf stands between Osama and what bin
Laden, in a January 2004 speech broadcast on Al Jazeera, called, "a
surprising blow…one that…due to its magnitude…will change the
international balances of powers…."
Here's what I strongly suspect is Osama's dream endgame: Nuke a few key
cities in the United States. Blind and devastate the Great Satan. Then watch
while France, Germany, Italy, and England capitulate. Capitulate to what? To
Osama's dream, his passion, his vision of truth and freedom--to a global
Islamic caliphate.
I want a world of peace. So do you. But until our understanding of ourselves
goes a good deal farther, we have to face the fact that we live in a world
of violence. If we pledge to remain non-violent, those who've declared
themselves our enemies and who love "death more than you love life" will
chuckle at our weakness…and use it to cheer their comrades on to new
atrocities. They will fight the battle of the faithful and the good--the
fight for what Osama calls "justice, manners, and purity"-the battle for the
truth of God's messenger. They will assert the truth expressed by an al-Qaeda-allied
author, Seif Al-Din Al-Ansari, that we live on an expendable "speck of dust
called Planet Earth." They will use our reticence to make the mother of all
wars. And it will not be environmentally friendly.
http://www.howardbloom.net/Wakeup_or_Shutdown2.htm
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About the author, Howard Bloom
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Howard Bloom, a visiting scholar at the Graduate Psychology Department at
New York University, is the author of two books: The Lucifer Principle: A
Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History ("mesmerizing"-The
Washington Post) and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big
Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering"-The New Yorker). Bloom's
writings have appeared in The Washington Post, Wired, Knight-Ridder's
Financial News Service, The Village Voice, Cosmopolitan, Omni Magazine, New
Ideas in Psychology, The Independent Scholar, Across Species Comparisons and
Psychopathology, and in two book series: Research in Biopolitics and the
Disinformation Company's series of three books: You Are Being Lied To,
Everything You Know is Wrong, and Abuse Your Illusions.
In the 1980s Bloom tried to interest the press in doing a story about an
urgent problem, black on black genocide in Africa. He had media clout and
media influence, but he failed. The tribes he was alerting journalists to
were the Hutus and the Tutsis.
If the magazine publishers and TV producers Bloom spent time with had
covered the Hutu-Tutsi conflict, they could have saved a million lives.
In the 1990s and the year 2000, Bloom tried to warn the press and America,
through his books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, and through his
radio and television interviews that militant Islam posed an imminent
danger. No one in power listened.
If they had, we could have prevented 9/11.
This time the cataclysm Bloom is warning about is nuclear. And this time if
no one listens, we may all have to kiss our lives good bye.
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