Late mid-morning. Another sunny day which Carol will no doubt want to take advantage. For you, questions.
Recently, some place along the line you said, “I write the story.” If this is the case and the I for Amorella, is a consciousness from beyond in real life then I am not as it were, telling the story as if I were dead and standing before an Angel that just asked, “And, who are you?” If this is so then the books are a sham from my perspective.
Your consciousness does not write the story, boy, I do. As you are pretending you are dead, we are going all out and letting the unconscious mind rise to the surface – it has nothing to gain, you see, it no longer has a physical body to care for, to nurture for survival in the world to which it is attached without an umbilical cord. It is your story told by me, Amorella because you attempted (and still do from time to time) to tell the story consciously and cannot. The psychological realism and consistency within the framework of Merlyn’s Mind is important for you and me too. – Amorella.
Your other question is one with a more depressed and sullen atmosphere of consciousness. As a sign of the times, you awoke last night thinking about the upcoming first national emergency broadcast test.
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At the Federal Communications Commission's June 9, 2011 Agenda meeting, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Chief Jamie Barnett, joined by representatives from FEMA and the National Weather Service, announced that the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) would take place at 2:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time) on November 9, 2011. The purpose of the test is to assess the reliability and effectiveness of the EAS as a public alert mechanism. EAS Participants currently participate in state-level monthly tests and local-level weekly tests, but no top-down review of the entire system has ever been undertaken. The Commission, along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will use the results of this nationwide test to assess the reliability and effectiveness of the EAS as a public alert mechanism, and will work together with EAS stakeholders to make improvements to the system as appropriate.
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I awoke thinking about this and the news that troops were returning from Iraq, then the book titled, Seven Days in May.
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Seven Days in May is an American political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and published in 1962. . . . The story is said to have been influenced by the right-wing anti-Communist political activities of General Edwin A. Walker after he resigned from the military. An additional inspiration was provided by the 1961 interview by Knebel, who was also a political journalist and columnist, conducted with the newly-appointed Air Force Chief of Staff, Curtis LeMay, an advocate of preventive first-strike nuclear option.
President John F. Kennedy had read the novel and believed the scenario as described could actually occur in the United States. According to Frankenheimer in his director's commentary, production of the film received encouragement and assistance from Kennedy through White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who conveyed to Frankenheimer Kennedy's wish that the film be produced and that, although the Pentagon did not want the film made, the President would conveniently arrange to visit Hyannis Port for a weekend when the film needed to shoot outside the White House.
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From there I drifted to the Tea Partiers and Occupy Wall Street and thought of the few, though real, threads that bind the two. And, other tie, the economy, and Marx. I glanced online and found a few right-wingers saying that Obama was going to try to take over the country with some kind of socialistic regime and that people will be happy that so many have guns in which to protect themselves from such an event.
People are fed up with the government for a variety of reasons – all of them, alas, human. This upcoming test, especially for those such as myself who grew up with “duck and cover” and CONELRAD tests and air raid siren testing and bomb shelters in case of a nuclear war way back when. The emergency system was not used on 9/11 but then all you had to do was turn on the television and see for yourself.
When watching the political and economic turmoil in Greece, the birthplace of democracy, it gives me an ominous pause. This is not new for me, during the Bush administration my worse case scenario was that liberals would be sent to Alaska to work on oil rigs and what country to escape to, if one had to leave in a hurry, conjuring liberals as communists and now modern billionaires as scapegoats for the political citizens’ folly of getting us into the mess in the first place. And, returning once again to 1960 and part four of Eisenhower’s Farewell Address:
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IV. “A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military/industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.”
From: www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html
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Thus, you have your thoughts around 0300 hours this morning. You are disgusted with yourself for thinking such thoughts but openness prevails and you are sharing them.
It doesn’t seem right to think such ominous thoughts in this day and age. I don’t feel Obama has anything to do with this upcoming national test as do some far right-wingers. We have this non-compromising conflict though, simmering just beneath the surface. Economics seems to be the foundation, which is scary enough, but I think it is even deeper and goes back to “United or Not” States. A compromise of personal values and social values needs to be addressed.
A change of schedule. Kim called shortly after noon and said Paul is in intensive care at South-Pointe Hospital. Believing he had the flu he stayed home yesterday, but no flu. The doctors are not sure what the problem is so they are keeping him and running more tests in the morning. His parents drove up earlier and are staying with him presently. Carol and Kim gave Owen a bath and are reading him three stories of his choice before bed, a normal ritual. Later, you are taking Kim to the hospital for a bit, waiting, and bringing her back. Everyone is hoping for the best, of course. All for tonight, my man. Post. – Amorella.
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