Aeswiren, Doc40’s apocalyptic watchdog, and pessimist emeritus, sends some very disturbing news.
"Iranian and Israeli news outlets are reporting that Russia has evacuated its entire staff of nuclear engineers and experts who were working at the Bushehr nuclear reactor, increasing speculation that the United States is preparing an imminent military attack on Iran. According to the Khorramshar News Agency, which represents ethnic Arabs in opposition to Ahmadinejad's regime who live near the reactor, the Russians packed their bags and left on Friday." (Click for the rest.)
And I can’t help it, but this kind of news makes me resort to Ol’ Bob. Here are not one, but two versions, just shy of half a century apart, of the same very obvious song. This not only shows the artist at extreme phases of his career, but also how, in the 45 years since Cuba Missile Crisis, when the song was written, we have made little headway in negating the fear of nuclear annihilation.
The secret word is Strontium and the secret number is 90
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4 comments:
Oh boy, here we go again... you know they're going to do it, no matter what the cost.
Thanks for the Bob vids, a most appropriate message and it was interesting to see how he's doing these days.
I believe there's been no progress in the fear of our collective demise simply because there's been no incentive to change... there's been no progress, [indeed quite the opposite], in the nature of the people in charge of our fate.
Great post, Mick!
(Please let me know if you hear anything...)
Forty five years of hard rain. How did we survive it? And do we take pride in the that?
Some of us didn't survive.
But black is still the colour and none is still the number. (And the executioner's face is always well hidden.)
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