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Issue No. 166 | 14 February 2003 |
A Call To Arms
Interview: Agenda 2003 Peace: The Colour Purple Industrial: Long, Hot Summer Solidarity: Workers Against War Security: Howard And The Hoodlums International: Industrial Warfare History: Unions and the Vietnam War Review: Eight Miles to Mowtown Poetry: Return To Sender Satire: CIA Recruits New Intake of Future Enemies
The Cuffe Link � Taxpayers Cough Up Carr: Secret Lib Plan to Slash Public Sector Thanks a Million: Cole�s Lawyers Clean-up Gnomes Fess Up � Unionism Best For All Ribs and Rumps Something for Government to Chew On Workers Online Scoops Global Prize Let�s Get Real! 2nd Australasian Organising Conference Guard Knocked Out in Villawood Escape
The Soapbox Postcard The Locker Room Politics
War Talk A Tale of Two Malls Talk Back Tom On The Beach
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the Editor On The Beach
Is life imitating art? The situation with North Korea is froth with danger. With a little bit of bad luck, we can end up ON THE BEACH. Assuming the North Koreans are as off the wall as they seem, I foresee the following occurring. When Oil War II goes hot, North Korea will make a move. A country with seven million of it's people suffering from or near malnutrition, what do they have to lose? They do not have a consumer economy & other than weapons, they export nothing. Rational nations see economic promise in their populations. North Korea sees a portion of it's population as an obstruction to maintaining an insane brand of Communism. China will exploit the Oil War & Korea, to move on Taiwan. If the US attempts an intervention, conventional forces will be scarce or non existent for Taiwan's defense. The US would be forced to go tactical nuclear, PDQ. China would react accordingly. China exploiting America's preoccupation with Korea & Iraq would be the smart move. A smart, dangerous move. Even if the use of nuclear weapons can be contained, the genii of global pollution with radioactive material will be out of the bottle. If we are not killed outright, disease, deformity & drastically reduced birth rates will follow. Holocaust have occurred many times in the course of human history. With all the fancy institutions we have & toys we have, man has not progressed as a species. If anything, we are sliding backwards. Holocaust are inevitable as are waves ON THE BEACH. Edmond L Day
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