> On May 9, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Robert Gimbel wrote:
>
> > "From PSYOP to Mindwar: The Psychology of Victory" is a
> > military paper on psychological warfare, written by Lt.
> > Col. Michael Aquino and Col. Paul E. Vallely in 1980. It
> > was sent, writes Aquino, "to various governmental offices,
> > agencies, commands and publications involved or interested
> > in PSYOP." I think it bears a close read now, because it
> > describes a top-down psychological conditioning
> > Americans may find familiar. And it's not insignificant to
> > note that co-author Vallely is now senior military analyst
> > for FOX News...
>
>
> If you want to read something chilling, read Aquino's Ph.D.
> dissertation _The Neutron Bomb_ on "surgical" removal of
> large groups of humans via neutron bombs. Particularly
> chilling when you consider it was written by a practicing
> Satanist.
>
> http://www.xeper.org/maquino/
Satanist, schmatinist..the realities of modern warfare
are even more chilling when supposedly *sane* people
are discussing them and considering nuclear warfare
a feasible option. The other night the Arte channel
here played a 1965 film by Peter Watkins called "The
War Game." I was riveted to the screen.
What it is a "mockumentary," dealing with what would
be the real, documented effects of a nuclear strike
on Britain at that time. Although parts are played
by actors, the data on which the film was based was
all real, straight from official government documents.
It's one of the most powerful pieces of propaganda --
or more accurately anti-propaganda -- I've ever seen.
It's "anti-propaganda" because Watkins had noticed the
almost *total* lack of discussion of or explanation of
the realities of nuclear war -- in the press, from the
government, period. *Everyone* had their heads firmly
stuck in the sand, and were proceeding at full speed
with the Cold War and the arms race, as if none of
these facts about what actually *happens* to *people*
when a nuclear weapon is used were relevant. So he
acted it out onscreen, showing how many people would
be blinded by the initial burst, then how many would
die in the next few days from burns, over the next
few weeks from dehydration, etc. It's just horror-
provoking, and this was in an era where the data he
was working from dealt with bombs that were in the
one-megaton range, not today's 50-to-100 megaton
weapons.
It struck me how disassociated people can become with
regard to horror. He read from official government
documents stating that nuclear weapons were definitely
feasible, and then showed exactly what "feasible" would
mean in terms of the number of dead, maimed, and incur-
ably insane Britons. The film was originally funded by
the BBC, and then banned from being telecast when the
government saw what it contained. It was not, however,
banned from being shown in theaters, and went on to
show in many places, and to win the Acadamy Award for
Best Documentary that year. Still powerful, still
relevant...if you can find it somewhere, it's a real
eye-opener.
Very, very powerful piece of filmmaking. It made me
realize that the amazing thing is that we have managed
*NOT* to blow ourselves off the planet in the inter-
vening 40 years. With so many people in so many positions
of power ignoring the realities of nuclear war, and saying
that it is both feasible and survivable, it's an absolute
miracle that we're all still here.
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