By Critical Art Ensemble
The 6th serious paintings Ensemble ebook bargains a thorough reframing of the rhetoric surrounding germ struggle. After refuting the concept that significant organic assault is a likely destiny prevalence, the e-book is going directly to argue that organic guns courses basically serve the commercial pursuits of the military-security complicated, squandering assets had to struggle the big death every year from rising infectious illnesses. The booklet additionally contains appendices reading the case of the U.S. Justice division opposed to Steve Kurtz, for which the unique manuscript of the ebook was once seized within the state's research.
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The fear is that a different WMD will expand the theater of usage and draw condemnation from allies. However, because we have not seen this situation since the world wars, we have no contemporary example of stateagainst-state use of WMDs to judge this wisdom (with perhaps the exception of defoliant in Vietnam). But if we take WWI as the best historical example, the hope for successful limited use of WMDs once any are used is quite vain (they will all be used), so a retaliating force may as well use what works best.
One of its favorite topics to fall back on is bioterrorism. What would happen if we were attacked? In chapter one, CAE showed that a large scale attack is nearly an impossibility. The staged drills in major cities, the stockpiling of vaccines, the emotional calls for increased attention to this hazard, and most importantly the announcement by Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff that bioterrorism is on the top priority list of major concerns—all are performed to keep the fear level high.
Given the current intensity of these “security” tendencies, this nation can only be politically classified as proto-fascist. S. politics is that when the public hears White House spokespeople on the evening agitprop report say, “We are winning the war on terrorism,” they are hearing the truth, but misinterpreting it. , the insurgency is Circuits of the Plague 55 growing in Iraq, and terrorism is expanding in Europe with no end in site. The problem is that both interpretations of the statement are wrong.