Permanent War=Permanent Profit

[Panaconda]

Pentagon to Funnel US Arms to Yemen to Fight al-Qaeda



The Pentagon has proposed a $1.2 billion (£778m) military aid package to Yemen for its battle against al-Qaeda, sparking a warning from some US government quarters that the extra resources would be used in the country's civil wars.

by Alex Spillius

The US State Department has reportedly raised concerns that with President Ali Abdullah Saleh facing rebellions in the north and south of the country he could divert the additional weaponry, coast patrol boats and aircraft from its intended purpose.

The terror threat from Yemen has escalated in the past 18 months, with estimates that about 300 al-Qaeda members or cells are operating there.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/8007239/Pentagon-to-funnel-US-arms-to-Yemen-to-fight-al-Qaeda.html



It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate....

The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck. The Hate had started.

As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with BIG BROTHER himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared.

The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even - so it was occasionally rumoured - in some hiding-place in Oceania itself.

http://www.orwelltoday.com/twominutes.shtml

[indepat]

1. Wonder how many million dollars per head that $1.2 billion comes to: it's

surely provident that our government has the resources/wealth to throw maybe millions of dollars per head at each possible terraist in the making. :shrug:

[RandomThoughts]

2. Here is the thing.

It would take a few days to think up control systems.


However I know they are not in effect because I was able to surprise leaders in military, politics, and industry.



So Orwellian systems are not in the world, it is a comment about the supernatural.


Although George Orwell and those that followed him failed in my view.

[maryf]

3. K&Rnt