It is not possible to check by direct human agency if a warning of an ongoing attack is correct. It is all happening too fast. But even if it were possible and the attack was confirmed, would a sane human being press the button to destroy the second half of humanity in the knowledge that the first half is doomed? What is described is the present situation combined with the existing circumstance of around two thousand nuclear weapons, many and perhaps all of which are vastly more destructive than the Hiroshima bomb, being held on hair-trigger alert, ready for launch at the press of a button.
Finally we must ask ourselves if the people responsible for setting up such a nightmare scenario are entirely sane.
We would be wise to get our heads out of cyberspace and take a long hard look at our leaders and the decisions they are making on our behalf. They have their nuclear bunkers - we do not.
http://www.cpag.org.uk/child-poverty-facts-and-figures
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/12/08/338904/100-million-americans-below-poverty-line/
That nice Vincent Cable, Minister for Business and Enterprise is a huge help to the arms export industry with 180 of his staff devoted to working on these exports; more help than for all other export industries combined. See www.caat.org.uk -- their publication 'Briefing' (p4)
'Unpeople', by Mark Curtis, Published Vintage, 2004. Unpeople are '...those whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit of power and commercial gain' (p2)
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/17/rise-of-the-machines-economist_n_4616931.html
Civilian deaths according to 'Iraq Body Count' -- 125,649-140,223
Lancet gave total number of violent deaths as 601,027. Most of these would be civilian deaths.
Taking the lower figure of 125,649 and relating it to the number US and Coalition military deaths, 4804 (till 2012) we get approximately 26.
Jim McCluskey.
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