Wikileaks exposes the Banality of Evil_2

Banality of evil is a phrase coined by Hannah Arendt and incorporated in the title of her 1963 work Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.[1] It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal.

Hannah Arendt would NOT agree with the policies of the Israeli state today.

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• Welcoming oppression
• Dissenters jailed

[valhala56]

@theracemixer You are completely missing point, I was only using the EMP as an example. Let try something else. You ever heard the story of the elephant with the thorn in it's foot?

The Point is one tiny thorn can take out the whole elephant. So one Army Specialist in Baghdad armed with a thumbdrive could do this much damage to the US. That is possible. But you are so conspiracy minded that you totaly ignore the term KISS. Keep it Simple Stupid!

You want to overcomplexify things.

[55ella2007k]

@valhala56 Yes, I agree :)

[theracemixer]

@55ella2007k

Ella of course the nukes can know out the power grid in fact at 3 mile high the whole of US can be knocked out, My point was since the privet companies don't give a dame on mitigating the problem i suggested something individuals can do to minimize the problem. Back when i was in school i knocked out the network using nothing more than 555 chip, EPROM chip and transmitter, this was 14 years ago.

[valhala56]

@55ella2007k Sorry I wasn't trying to get into a fight nor into an topic discussion of GeoMagnetic storms LOL. I was just trying to demonstrate that yes a friggin Specialist in the US Army could have access to the classified data and Leak it to Julian Assange. There isn't much evidence that Julian Assange is a CIA Operative & more the contrary that the CIA probaly hates him more then Bin Laden.

I'm all for skeptism, but some people take skeptism a little to far, but oh well.

[55ella2007k]

@valhala56 Yes, I agree and please read my response to theracemixer on this subject. He/she is a long time subscriber and means well... no need to get into a fight over this. Distrust runs deep...and we need to work together instead of attacking each other.

[55ella2007k]

@theracemixer hello my friend! On this one, I have to disagree with you. I'm assuming that the acronym EMP refers to Electro Magnetic Pulse.  It would only take one detonation of such a device, at the appropriate altitude + strategically placed, to knock out the entire power grid over half the US. Sure, the copper coating may save those particular buildings from being effected. But the grid will go down regardless, despite in built redundancies. I think this situation is quite serious.

[55ella2007k]

@valhala56 . Yep. Not to mention the numerous private contractors involved with no oversight whatsoever.

[55ella2007k]

@valhala56  So true ! Great comment, btw. - Not to mention the fact, that even without EMP's at high altitudes, our electric grid is so outdated and vulnerable, it's not even funny.

[55ella2007k]

@Bezz80 Well, then we are not in disagreement in a larger sense, because it's a continued process, wikileaks or no wikileaks. Nobody can predict what's coming, but being aware of reality is a pre-condition, if we want to change things long-term, and such change will not necessarily happen during our own life time.

[55ella2007k]

@Bezz80 Well, then we are not in disagreement overall, because its a continued process, wikileaks or no wikileaks.