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China Taking on U.S. in Cyber Arms Race
Pabugs writes with a CNN story about an uncomfortable development in world politics and information technology. According to General Robert Elder, an Air Force military man setting up a 'cyber command' in Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base, the nation of China is already in the process of developing their own 'cyber warfare' techniques. While Elder described the bulk of China's operations as focusing on espionage, they and others around the world have more serious goals in mind. "The Defense Department said in its annual report on China's military power last month that China regarded computer network operations -- attacks, defense and exploitation -- as critical to achieving "electromagnetic dominance" early in a conflict. China's People's Liberation Army has established information warfare units to develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems and networks, the Pentagon said. China also was investing in electronic countermeasures and defenses against electronic attack, including infrared decoys, angle reflectors and false-target generators, it said."
China's going to defeat the US with pirated copies of it's own OS. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out.
"Please, shut up. Just when I think you can't say anything more stupid, you speak again." -Archie Bunker.
This is a race to see who can be the most expensive, adversarial, angry, destructive, and lacking in social sophistication. I've had Chinese friends and acquaintances in 5 countries, and I'm betting on the U.S. government being more mentally ill than the Chinese government.
Frankly, that's what it is, a kind of socially contagious mental illness.
I work for the day when the U.S. government is able to live in the world without killing other people. The mental illness of the U.S. government encourages unstable government leaders everywhere to be more unstable.
The U.S. government's killing is motivated by the desire of a few rich people to make more money. For example, see: Coups Arranged or Backed by the USA.
I love the United States. Do you? If you do, show it by resisting the craziness.
I have just read two books on Marxism within the last few days. They are a series of short essays from as far back as the 1960's published by the members of the British Socialist Workers Party. They consider Mao to have never been communist. They assert that communism can only be following the strict guidelines of Marx and that of all the revolutionaries Trotsky was the only one who cam close. As Marx said, the revolution will be the emancipation of the working class, by the working class. Mao's movement was never a grass roots movement. They were separated from the working class. They were Bourgois. This can be seen as to how they achieved order after the revolution and with whom. The Russians also did this from the 1920's. Especially after Lenin died. Following this train of thought, the world has never seen true capitalism but only State Communism. As far as continuing to have a communist agenda, if they are not practising what they preach (or even preaching it as you claim), how can China be considered communist at all? All "communist" governments asserted that communism would never be achieved until the whole world was communist. Lenin for example believed that with out revolution in Germany, Russia would be somewhat doomed. After fighting the whites... There was virtually no Working Class left. China never had that problem, but their revolution was never with the working class, the working class were not emancipated. I personally believe the world is not ready for communism. We are too reliant on our own labour and hierarchies. I look forward to the day that the last human retires as another machine takes over his job. Then with no work to do something amazing will happen. (Whether revolution or a renaissance). Now you probably don't agree with me. You are training in American Intelligence after all. But how can you argue with what revolutionary socialists who devoted their whole lives to Marxism said about Marxism? Remember this is in the 60's and 80's. The cold war. No socialist would omit those statements without careful thought. They criticised what the rest of the world thought was communist because they saw it as much of the sameness to what had always been. They went to Marx's words, Engel's words, Lenin, Trotsky etc. As soon as you remove democracy from each "soviet" because you fear losing power, you have lost communism. As soon as you treat one man more equal than another, you have lost communism. As soon as you decide what rights a man has in his own home on his computer, you have lost communism. Emancipation means freedom. Communism is about Freedom. But I guess you know best because capitalists never produced Propaganda either. Because there are no alternatives to the way we do things now. Because... Because...