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Anglo-American game at the unmentionable China nano threat


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Lev Navrozov emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 He settled in New York City where he quickly learned that there was no market for his eloquent and powerful English language attacks on the Soviet Union. To this day, he writes without fear or favor or the conventions of polite society. He chaired the "Alternative to the New York Times Committee" in 1980, challenged the editors of the New York Times to a debate (which they declined) and became a columnist for the New York City Tribune. His columns are today read in both English and Russian.
Lev Navrozov

Sunday, April 4, 2004

I am writing this column in a London hotel. Even without leaving it, I can see how different England and the United States are. The hotel is a Victorian mansion that has a flamboyantly sculptured faade and only twelve hotel rooms. My hotel room is large enough for a score of Victorian gentlemen and as many Victorian ladies to have a dance. Their pictures are on the walls in heavy gilded frames.

Of course, the Victorian mansion is chockfull of 21st-century technology, which makes a protesting noise, squiggled as it is within thick walls and thus keeping me awake at night, much to the respectful astonishment of the staff. To them, I am like that Princess Pea, who could not sleep because there was a pea in her bed.

Speaking of beds. The bed in my room seems to be meant for seven sleepers, with numberless blankets, covers, and cushions of all sizes, including those making them eminently fit to be thrown at loyal Victorian servants, but to no earthly purpose in A.D. 2004.

Yet one aspect of the media in England, the United States, and possibly all Western countries, makes them seem to be a single global village with its media as a single corporation. What is this common trait?

There is a game in which the players are not to say yes, no, black, and white.

Well, the play has a real-life antecedent. In Victorian England and over much of Europe, it was said: He was wearing his favorite blue unmentionables, which meant trousers. The legs of tables, chairs, or a grand piano were wrapped to make them invisible, not only unmentionable. Can you imagine a Victorian gentleman saying a leg (of a chair)? Next all ladies in the drawing room will raise their skirts to show their legs! And you know what THAT would have led to!

The television set in my London hotel room is on, and a dozen major British periodicals are brought daily to my room. Not only legs (or women, not of chairs) are mentionable and depictable, but p. 3 of Daily Express (March 23) is devoted to the bottom no, not of the box or of a tub, but of Rachel Hunter, a ң1 million model of skimpy underwear. The drama is that while her bottom looks great (the doubters can see the photograph), even she, a model of skimpy underwear, feels more skittish about her virtually naked bottom than about her breasts and her pubic hair (see the photographs). The beautiful nudist age is still away, and the cult of a woman's bottom in some African tribes does not yet flourish in England.

On the other hand, the China nano threat, as a result of which the West may be nano-annihilated, is as unmentionable in England (or possibly Europe in general) as it is in the United States. Look through all TV programs in Britain and all its major publications and you will not see the China nano threat mentioned any more than you would see the bare bottom of a 1 million skimpy underwear model displayed in The Times of Victorian England.

How can the West be made to realize that China's development of post-nuclear superweapons since 1986 and, in particular, of molecular nano weapons, is as real as legs (even of women!), once unmentionable in Victorian England?

Until a couple months ago, I expected Howard Phillips to run for presidency from the Constitution Party: see my column Will Howard Phillips Be the Next U.S. President? (NewsMax.com, 4/25/03). Howard and I have been at one geostrategically since the 1980s, when the Soviet rulers were developing post-nuclear superweapons. After the Soviet dictatorship collapsed in 1991, and China because the main geostrategic threat, Howard and I again saw eye to eye. As far as I know, Howard is the only U.S. (or Western?) politician who has been studying the China threat so thoroughly and publicizing his results so persistently.

In my column I explained why Howard could become the next U.S. President. In 1938 the national rating of Winston Churchill was possibly less than 1 percent. He was thought to be a maniac, obsessed with his imaginary German threat, while Lloyd George wisely noted that he would be happy if a statesman as great as Hitler were at the head of the British government, and King Edward VIII had been caught by a newsreel camera in Germany, giving a Nazi salute. In 1939 everything changed. There was only one issue: the German threat, and Churchill, a comical nobody in 1938, became the national leader in the struggle for survival.

Similarly, the U.S. discovery of the China nano threat would make Howard the Churchill of the United States or even the West as a whole. All those debates about earnings and social benefits could become meaningless in the face of nano-annihilation of the West or unconditional surrender.

About two months ago Howard told our Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, Inc., that he would not run in 2004. So, no presidential candidate will probably as much as mention the China threat.

It was then that I decided to make a reconnaissance trip to England, where my son, Andrei, was living and publishing his books and articles. But no, no hope for mentioning in England the unmentionable China nano threat or just China threat.

One of the Englishmen I associated with in London asked me why I am not running as a presidential candidate not to become president, but to wake up the United States to the greatest danger in the history of the post-Roman West. Surely the U.S. mainstream media will give more time and attention to a presidential candidate than to a layman, publishing in the Internet. I answered that I was not born in the United States, and those who are Americans not by birthright, but because they hated the tyranny of their native country, have not been considered as loyal as those born in the United States and blind to the China threat. So, the fact that Howard will not run as a presidential candidate in 2004 is probably equivalent to the death sentence passed on the West, including the Victorian hotel in London, where I am writing this column.

The presidential candidate aware of the China threat was to break through into the mainstream media to awake the vast majority of the American people. This does not happen spontaneously. Six weeks ago I was interviewed for three hours on Coast to Coast AM. Judging by the ensuing e-mail, the reception of the radio audience was excellent: the time was already ripe the audience had heard tiny odds and ends about the possibility of molecular nano weapons. The fact that Project 863 was founded in China in 1986 to develop post-nuclear superweapons in eight fields, such as molecular nanotechnology, was not so totally unknown or improbable as it had been in 1986, in 2000, or even in 2003. But the subject that Coast to Coast AM had chosen for my three-hour interview has not been picked up by the bulk of the mainstream media. The public opinion revolution that occurred in Britain in 1939 has not happened.

Well, at least the China threat is no longer as unmentionable in the United States as once were women's legs in a Victorian mansion, where I am writing these lines.

Lev Navrozov's (navlev@cloud9.net] new book is available on-line at www.levnavrozov.com. To request an outline of the book, send an e-mail to webmaster@levnavrozov.com.

April 4, 2004

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