Shameless pro-human political clout and essential propaganda - [PEACE]

[Karl]

What we are doing with tools and cultures is a mirror of our own evolution.

Do we think it helps one stay influential, to have powerful weapons and
thick armor, like the bee or the crab, or the dinosaurs?

The people who can outlast all others in every environment, are those who
invest in community, and in intellect, like the human genome did with our
bodies.

Millions of years of experiment have given us the gentle challenges of weak
senses instead of sharp hearing and smell, of losing our hydration to
embarrassingly visible tears and odorous sweat rather than holding it like
a camel, and of atrophied fur, claws, and incisors readapted for cuddling
over protection.

These experiments have proven in every land environment on earth that
nurturing and connecting investments eventually outpace surveillance,
control, and weaponry, from birth of the tiniest infant, to death of the
frailest elder.

On Sun, Sep 6, 2020, 11:24 AM Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:

> This one's really sweet, cute in fact - I promise I'll go straight to bed
> and have a nap after this, but really, how cute is this true storys -
> firstly I'll just lightly paraphrase it for y'all:
>
> <paraphrase>
>
>    Our American intelligence traps are the best!
>
>    In fact, our bear traps are just the greatest - with our $104 million
> dollar
>    B-52B StratoFortress cavorting the Black Sea, we got EIGHT Russian
> fighter
>    jets sidling up and EXPOSING their radar signatures.
>
>    Did I mention our intelligence traps are the best?
>
>    No one does intelligence traps like us!
>
>    We showed those Russians!
>
>    We have B-52 StratoFortresses, and they great - they are just so good!
>
>    They have "Fortress" in the name.
>
>    They are strong.  They are like a fortress in the sky!
>
>    Our StratoFortresses are the BEST StratoFortresses in the world!
>
>    And we literally ATE up the Russian radar signatures!  We are awesome,
> and
>    our intelligence traps are the best intelligence traps ever!
>
> </paraphrase>
>
>
> True story muffas, enjoy:
>
>    The Pentagon Has 'Staged' Black Sea B-52 Intercepts As An "Intelligence
> Trap" For The Russians
>
> https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-has-staged-black-sea-b-52-intercepts-intelligence-trap-russians
>       ... The report describes that at the very moment the Russian
> fighters were coming extremely close to the B-52, even reportedly limiting
> its movement and coming within a mere 100 feet, two US RC-135 Rivet Joint
> electronic-intelligence planes were nearby scooping up useful data on the
> Su-27 aircraft.
>       Ultimately the "trap" netted valuable intelligence on the Russian
> anti-air response and technology. ...
>
>
>
>
> Sorry if that's a little too lighthearted folks, it's just, I dunno, we
> need to lighten things up, and this one just tickles the funny bone.  Let
> me just say for the record though, "Oh, dear me, those Russians must be
> just licking their wounds, they just gave up all that huge, huge sigint
> data to our glorious StratoFortress - yes, we are really awesome and those
> silly, silly Russians must be feeling so, so sad."
>
> There, I'm sure that improves our essential propaganda situation.
>
>
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