{"id":190,"date":"2007-11-27T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T01:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=190"},"modified":"2007-11-27T20:34:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T03:34:37","slug":"gnats-on-the-treadmill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/gnats-on-the-treadmill\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnats On The Treadmill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>C<\/b>ausality loops are rarely entertaining.   We can all recall a variety without much trouble, of course.  The most famous are of the closed loop sort.  You know, something must have actually have happened in the past for a future person or event to recognize and change the past.     <\/p>\n<p>Then there are the more entertaining kinds.  Here, a future persona wants to reach back and change what was to create a new future, and risk an entirely fresh and different future *now*.   Skynet was one of these bad boys. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?attachment_id=191' rel='attachment wp-att-191' title='annapolis_peace_conference.gif'><img src='http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/annapolis_peace_conference.gif' alt='annapolis_peace_conference.gif' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>B<\/b>elieve it or not, we see Annapolis and Cher Condi&#8217;s empty dance as another feeble attempt to break into an existing causality loop.   It&#8217;s particularly noteworthy because (a) she&#8217;s clueless about the temporal mechanics involved; (b) U.S. power and prestige are at historic lows; (c) Olmert has shown no willingness to risk political damage at home; (d) and so on.   It can really have only one outcome.<\/p>\n<p>For months self-interested institutions and people have been fluffing this conference with astonishing gusto.  A couple of invites to gabfests had so many &#8220;formers&#8221; listed we thought at least 1\/2 had already passed.  Same with TV &#8212; the mere menition of the syllables &#8220;A NA PA&#8221; and we&#8217;re on another channel.<\/p>\n<p>Those who flew to the U.S. for the event naturally have a greater investment: communiques, pictures, and it may be the last time to see if a quarter really can be bounced off Cher Condi&#8217;s backside per the recent biography.<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonrealist.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/annapolis-first-reactions.html\"> Nikolas Gvodsev sees progress here.<\/a>  Why Gvodsev is surprised to see the racial\/militarist origins of Jabotinsky, BETAR, Irgun, Likud and now Kadima express itself <i>via<\/i> Olmert?  Musings on that perhaps away another day.<\/p>\n<p>We do, however, suspect Nikolas may have also liked &#8220;Matrix Reloaded&#8221;.  It&#8217;s just a guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Causality loops are rarely entertaining. We can all recall a variety without much trouble, of course. The most famous are of the closed loop sort. You know, something must have actually have happened in the past for a future person or event to recognize and change the past. Then there are the more entertaining kinds. 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