Does this mean we are all going to die soon?

[MikeW]

I generally operate under the assumption that if the lips of agents of the us government are moving, at least part of what they're telling us is a lie. "Government," means governing, and that means controlling perceptions that could threaten the *ability* to govern. Mass panic is not an easily governable situation. When it gets to that, there really isn't much left as a form of persuasion short of brute force.

As for all this Ebola talk, I don't pay attention to the news *at all*. I used to be a news junky but not anymore. My whole life has been expecting the next great world cataclysm. Whether it is Ebola or terrorism or false flag black operations masquerading as terrorism, or some economic collapse or some ecological collapse or the possibility for nuclear annihilation -- what the fuck ever -- the world has been teetering on the eve of destruction as long as I've been alive.

Things have happened but nothing quite like the "end of the world." Not yet anyway. Actually I'm fairly pessimistic about the whole thing -- but that's precisely why I don't watch the news. I'm tired of hearing about all the horrible things that can destroy civilization as we know it and much more interested in hearing about the things that *could,* conceivably, change things for the better. Those, mysteriously, seem less talked about. Certainly far less dramatic.

How is it the authoritarian puts in V for Vendetta? ah, right -- "I want *everyone* to *remember*, why they *need* us!"