{"id":346718,"date":"2018-02-04T02:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T01:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/duck-and-cover-drills-exacerbate-fears-of-n-korea-war-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T02:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T01:01:33","slug":"duck-and-cover-drills-exacerbate-fears-of-n-korea-war-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/duck-and-cover-drills-exacerbate-fears-of-n-korea-war-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Duck and Cover\u2019 Drills Exacerbate Fears of N. Korea War \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A recent false alarm in Hawaii had citizens in a state of panic over an impending nuclear attack, which, as Ann Wright speculates, may have been the point.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25706\" style=\"max-width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/duck-and-cover2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/duck-and-cover2-300x258.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25706\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25706\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/duck-and-cover2-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A \u201cduck and cover\u201d school drill from the 1950s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>By Ann Wright<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready for nuclear attack warning sirens in your community?\u00a0 I live in the State of Hawaii, which decided in December 2107 to begin monthly nuclear attack warning siren drills, similar to the monthly tsunami warning sirens that are tested each month.<\/p>\n<p>You know what happened \u2013 an employee of the State of Hawaii Emergency Management Department pushed the wrong button, setting off the siren, and no one alerted the public for nearly 49 minutes that it was a drill. Cell phone alerts to everyone in the 808 area code flashed \u201cNuclear attack warning-take cover,\u201d with residents and tourists alike going into crisis mode.<\/p>\n<p>Three days prior to the false alarm, 20 of us attempted to call to the attention of the state government that the sirens are being used for political advancement of a hysteria for war with North Korea, or DPRK \u2013 the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea. We do not believe the North Korean government is going to attack the United States and suspect that the nuclear sirens and \u201cduck and cover\u201d drills are purposeful and dangerous fear-mongering.<\/p>\n<p>The sirens heighten the anxiety and stress of impending conflict and devastation, making citizens afraid \u2013 and in their fear, more likely to accept whatever line the government feeds them on threats and counter-measures.<\/p>\n<p>Successive administrations have lied our country into wars \u2013 from Vietnam to Iraq. We do not agree for the need for war with North Korea and refuse to accept the attempted U.S. intimidation of the DPRK, which could lead to war.\u00a0The sirens, much like the steady barrage of \u201corange alert\u201d terror warnings in 2002-2003 that preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq, normalize the potential for war.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, if the U.S. initiates military action against North Korea, militarized Hawaii with its four major military bases on Oahu \u2013 the headquarters of the U.S. military Pacific Command that covers half the world, the Army\u2019s 25th\u00a0Infantry Division at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/02\/03\/duck-and-cover-drills-exacerbate-fears-of-n-korea-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent false alarm in Hawaii had citizens in a state of panic over an impending nuclear attack, which, as Ann Wright speculates, may have been the point. A \u201cduck and cover\u201d school drill from the 1950s. By Ann Wright Are you ready for nuclear attack warning sirens in your community?\u00a0 I live in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}