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CIA Warns China Might Be Planning Cyber Attack
malibucreek writes "The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the CIA is warning of possible cyber-terrorism against U.S. and Taiwanese computer systems by the Chinese Army. Or, China could just launch a massive denial-of-service attack by sending billions of "GET HERBAL VIAGRA" e-mails from the .cn TLD." The article has a reasonable amount of information
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"Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security"
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My complaint about George W Bush
Over the past few weeks, I've learned to look past George W Bush's clueless, twisted
inclinations. I've learned to look past some of the sappy things Bush has said. I've even
learned to look past his attempts to promote a culture of dependency and failure. But I
cannot stay silent about Bush's incomprehensible and unforgivable audacity regarding a
specific event that recently occurred. Let's get down to brass tacks: The more pressing news
is that most of us are now painfully aware of Bush's improvident claims. Of that I am
certain, because I am aware that many people may object to the severity of my language. But
is there no cause for severity? Naturally, I maintain that there is, because we must provide an
antidote to contemporary manifestations of biased totalitarianism. As mentioned above,
however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to investigate Bush's
prurient principles, ideals, and objectives.
But I digress. It's not uncommon for Bush to speak with authority on subjects he clearly
knows nothing about. Now that's a rather crude and simplistic statement, and, in many cases,
it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in
which it indisputably expresses how I want to thank Bush for his ruses. They give me an
excellent opportunity to illustrate just how bloodthirsty Bush can be.
He wants us to believe that we can solve all of our problems by giving him lots of money.
We might as well toss that money down a well, because we'll never see it again. What we
will see, however, is that Bush thinks we want him to use scapegoating as a foil to draw
anger away from more accurate targets. Excuse me, but maybe there are few certainties in
life. I have counted only three: death, taxes, and Bush doing some irresponsible thing every
few weeks. Bush has, on a number of occasions, expressed a desire to prosecute, sentence,
and label people as frightful geeks without the benefit of any evidence whatsoever. On all of
these occasions, I submitted to the advice of my friends, who assured me that he coins
polysyllabic neologisms to make his philippics sound like they're actually important. In fact,
his treatises are filled to the brim with words that have yet to appear in any accepted
dictionary.
It requires surprisingly little imagination to envision a future in which he is free to solve
all our problems by talking them to death. What are the lessons for us in this? First, it's that
grotesque crybabies demand the advantages other people have earned without the
disadvantages, like having to earn them. And second, he says he's going to offer hatred with
an intellectual gloss sooner or later. Is he out of his negligent mind? The answer is fairly
obvious when you consider that what we're involved in with him is not a game. It's the most
serious possible business, and every serious person -- every person with any shred of a sense
of responsibility -- must concern himself with it. Let's just ignore Bush and see what he
does. Those of you who thought that he was finally going to leave us alone are in for a big
surprise, because he recently announced his plans to quote me out of context. There is a
problem here. A very large, uncouth, fork-tongued problem.
Bush's crusades represent a backward step of hundreds of years, a backward step into a
chasm with no bottom save the endless darkness of death. There are some simple truths in
this world. First, inconsiderate worrywarts, motivated by either barbarism or a desire to lead
a pugnacious life, are eager to help Bush contravene decency. Second, his deeds run on pure
irony. And finally, he ignores a breathtaking number of facts, most notably:
Fact: His warnings are sheer idiocy.
Fact: It is not my goal to distract people from serious analysis of the situation, but the
opposite.
Fact: He has made some imprecise statements and statements that ought to have had all
sorts of qualifications and reservations attached to them.
In addition, he presents himself as a disinterested classicist lamenting the infusion of
politically motivated methods of pedagogy and analysis into higher education. Bush is
eloquent in his denunciation of modern scholarship, claiming it favors puerile recidivists.
And here we have the ultimate irony, because by refusing to act, by refusing to break the
neck of Bush's policy of opportunism once and for all, we are giving Bush the power to
make our country spiritually blind. Although this has been overlooked or ignored by the
established scientific community, Bush's pronouncements are not pedantic treatises
expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober
outpourings from the very soul of factionalism. If the past is any indication of the future,
Bush will once again attempt to consign most of us to the role of his servants or slaves. I
have a dream that my children will be able to live in a world filled with open spaces and
beautiful wilderness -- not in a dark, vainglorious world run by what I call dissolute finks.
Bush frequently avers his support of democracy and his love of freedom. But one need only
look at what Bush is doing -- as opposed to what he is saying -- to understand his true aims. I
don't know what his problem is, but I overheard one of Bush's functionaries say, Bush
never engages in grungy, flagitious, or daft politics. This quotation demonstrates the power
of language, as it epitomizes the us/them dichotomy within hegemonic discourse. As for
me, I prefer to use language to empower the oppressed to control their own lives.
Conventional wisdom states that this letter is written with the hope that readers will think
for a minute about the situation at hand. Now, that's a strong conclusion to draw just from
the evidence I've presented in this letter. So let me corroborate it by saying that it is more
than a purely historical question to ask, How did Bush's reign of terror start? or even the
more urgent question, How might it end? . No, we must ask, Is it really Bush's impression
that the purpose of life is self-gratification? There aren't enough hours in the day to fully
answer that question, but consider this: Bush's lackeys all look like Bush, think like Bush,
act like Bush, and threaten, degrade, poison, bulldoze, and kill this world of ours, just like
Bush does. And all this in the name of -- let me see if I can get their propaganda straight --
brotherhood and service. Ha! Bush wants to change this country's moral infrastructure. You
know what groups have historically wanted to do the same thing? Fascists and Nazis.
We can say that this view dangerously underestimates the snivelling quality of careerism, and
he can claim the opposite, and it won't make one bit of difference. I could accuse him of
using the most yellow-bellied prevaricators I've ever seen to get his way, but I wouldn't
stoop to that level. When I first heard about Bush's sermons, I didn't know whether to laugh,
because Bush's pleas are so horny, or cry, because Bush is trying to brainwash us. He wants
us to believe that it's paltry to make this world a better place in which to live; that's boring;
that's not cool. You know what I think of that, don't you? I think that we must reach out to
people with the message that the crux of the issue is that Bush is a bad role model for
children. We must alert people of that. We must educate them. We must inspire them. And
we must encourage them to set the record straight. The real question here is not, Why can't
he value a diversity of approaches without needing to rank them as better and worse? . The
real question is rather, What exactly is the principle that rationalizes his power-drunk,
obstinate ventures? No, don't guess; this isn't audience participation day. I'll just tell you.
But before I do, you should note that I wonder if he really believes the things he says. He
knows they're not true, doesn't he? I'll tell you what I think the answer is. I can't prove it, but
if I'm correct, events soon will prove me right. I think that he is a mythmaker, an illusion
builder, or to put it less politely, a trickster. Excuse me; that's not entirely correct. What I
meant to say is that many people are incredulous when I tell them that Bush intends to bask
in the unenlightened shine of corporatism. How could Bush be so destructive? , they ask
me. It doesn't seem possible. Well, it is truly possible, and now I'll explain exactly how
Bush plans to do it. But first, you need to realize that this is kind of a touchy subject to some
people. And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to
stop the Huns at the gate. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it
without first stating that it's unfortunate that he has no real education. It's impossible to
debate important topics with someone who is so mentally handicapped. I'm sure you get my
point here.
What's more, Bush claims that things have never been better. That claim is preposterous and,
to use Bush's own language, overtly recalcitrant. No history can justify it. How on earth
these Huns can think of themselves as anything but dotty spivs is beyond me. I would like to
put forth the possibility that just because he and his emissaries don't like being labelled as
morally crippled pothouse drunks or brain-damaged hackers doesn't mean the shoe
doesn't fit. Yes, Virginia, Bush contends that he can walk on water. Sounds rather
hypocritical, doesn't it? Well, that's Bush for you. Others have stated it much more
eloquently than I, but his anecdotes always follow the same pattern. He puts the desired twist
on the actual facts, ignores inconvenient facts, and invents as many new facts as necessary
to convince us that he holds a universal license that allows him to take away our sense of
community and leave us morally adrift.
Bush's epithets cannot stand on their own merit. That's why they're dependent on elaborate
artifices and explanatory stories to convince us that obscurantism is the key to world peace.
To borrow the immortal words of a certain, well-known authority figure, Bush's comrades
amount to nothing more than dour libertines riding on the back of a social fungus attacking
the body politic. I challenge Bush to point out any text in this letter that proposes that we
should abandon the institutionalized and revered concept of democracy. It isn't there. There's
neither a hint nor a suggestion of such a thing. The only way out of George W Bush's rat
maze is to make some changes here. It's that simple.
FUCK YEA THAT IS WHY THEY HATE US!!!
Despite your claim, we have NOT bombed most of the nations that hate us. Let's see. The biggest bomb ever detonated on a population is history was on Japan by the US. Their our friends. We bombed the shit out of Germany; allies. So, by that reasoning the small pot shots we have taken aren't why they hate us. Us not BOMBING THEM MORE is why they hate us.
Do I really think we need to bomb these guys more. No. DON'T BE A DOLT AND THINK I WANT TO BOMB THEM MORE!!!
Wake up and smell the propaganda. The U.S. is the most successful nation in the UNIVERSE. And a free, capitolistic society is what made it that way. The oppressed societies are poor. And when the people ask the ones in charge "Why can't I feed my family" do you REALLY think they tell them "because I want to oppress this country for my friends and I personal gain"? NO. They blame it on the country that their people see has success (and money and FOOD).
They (the governments in charge) are upset by the fact that the Freedom of the U.S. is spoiling their little power trip by showing their people that it doesn't have to be that way. You see they have their money and power from the suppresiono of their people. If they were to allow freedom of their people then they would loose their money and power. So, they tell their people how EVIL the United States is. How the United States steels money from their mouths. How the United States gets its money and power from them and that is why they can't feed their family.
Get a clue. This is propaganda pure and simple. Someone doesn't get rich by steeling from the poor. They are NOT por because we are rich. They are poor from their governments suppressive nature.
It's become fashionable to dislike the U.S. here in the U.S. It's the in vogue thing to do. So, our own media bashes the system that allows it the freedom to do so. Do you even REALIZE that this is NOT ALLOWED in many other countries? The result is that our own free media spreads the propaganda being spewed forth from these repressive regimes. And people like YOU (yea, the one that mentioned the bombs) pick up on it.
I got one thing to say about people who live in the U.S. and bash it: GET OUT!!!!! Then you will see how good the U.S. really is.