Again Dears, Actually I hope ya'all notice I sent this to the list alone. It might not be a good idea to spread this around indiscriminately. It would be well to remember that the conditions that led Germany to war with Britain and France in WW I (they had Germany over a barrel and were abusing her) were set up again in aces and spades after Germany lost that war. Steiner commented on this in his Agriculture Course, and these conditions led inevitably to the second World War. In the process the led to the rise of Hitler.
The conditions were unjust, much as the exploitation of Arabia for its oil has been unjust. Many in the west felt in the beginning that Hitler was to be admired for righting the wrongs that had been visited upon Germany. And yet we wouldn't have wanted Hitler to have won the second World War, would we? There is evil and madness loose in the world and we see it in ascendancy on all sides. We see it in our own government and in those opposing it we see the same or even worse. Our own government seems commited to the use of plutonium bombs. Any idea how much worse a thermonuclear hydrogen bomb is? It is made by injecting Tritium (H3) into the center of a plutonium bomb at the moment it goes critical. The plutonium bomb produces the few million degrees necessary for hydrogen fusion to occur and THAT makes the plutonium bomb look like a child's squib compared to an artillary shell or perhaps even worse. Instead of leveling a tall building it could level a whole city. If you had to accept our own government using plutonium in order to prevent a determined opposition from delivering a tritium bomb on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, would you accept it knowing the possible alternative? Then would the absurd posturings of GW and his crew make some sense? Then would it make sense for the senior GB to have left the Iraqi tyrant in place knowing he might have to use him as a foil to subdue a much greater foe? Often things that don't make sense at the time look differently in hindsight. It is a very good thing that we have so much protest against war now. Just let's not get carried away with it. There is some sort of charade being carried out in the UN and in the World that looks one way now but will look different later. There can hardly be any doubt that GW is the most corporate ass licking, pollutive, bellicose president we've ever had. But let's see where the chips end up. Let's keep in mind that there may be much worse alternatives to North Korea and Iraq having a few pocket nukes. There's those hundred MEGA ton types, and if I have a pretty clear idea of how to build one (talk to me off this list if your interest is PURELY academic) because I have a seat of the pants understanding of nuclear physics and a mind able to think, they CAN be built by a nation as powerful as Iran. And since the fall of the USSR the knowledge of how to build the most powerful designs--without testing--could have fallen into the hands of almost any determined seeker, seems to me. I neither like war nor GW and I can't help but feel his sort of corporate exploitation of the world is very much what has led us to our present pass. I hope we all keep protesting for peace, while I also hope we don't get too carried away with condemning an administration that we simply cannot know how to pass judgment on. We'll know better in a few years--perhaps. What kind of world would this have been had Hitler won? We'll never know. I like it all right the way destiny has dealt the cards. Peace and Love, Always, Hugh Lovel Previously I wrote: Dears, Some may take it a bit amiss to post this on an agricultural list, but warfare always is the antithesis of good agriculture. As has been pointed out elsewhere, as any sociologist would say, mankind lives today as a global agrarian society. There are not that many ways of acquiring the kind of wealth an agrarian society requires to consider itself wealthy. 1. Best, to produce it through agriculture. 2. Second best, to inherit it or extract it from nature and use it in exchange for someelse's products of agriculture. 3. Worst, to acquire it through warfare. etc. . . .-- Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
