6.10.2003
It will not be enough to stamp out anti-democratic practices in the land of
our enemies. The conditions which created Fascism there
must not pass unnoticed here. Their first and most dangerous symptom is
always the same everywhere: an abandonment of equal
justice to all, the placing of some groups in a preferred class of
citizenship at the expense of other groups. True democracy must
continue to war on all such beliefs.
Justice Hugo L. Black
"when there is a gap between perception and reality it is only a matter of
time until it is reconciled . . . in favor of reality".
John Bogle, Founder of the mutual fund, The Vanguard Group
thank you to Adrian for these quotations sent earlier this month
""The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."
from Illusions: the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
thank you to Feather
6/10/2003
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I'll be away until mid-July due to a lack of computer access while I'm on the road.
I take this project, Estimated Prophet, quite seriously and feel pretty rotten about not keeping up with current events in this forum that fights the obfuscation of the realities of our political environment that work in favor of our Corporate "Overseers"; the people who have the financial influence and power that bequeaths to subvert the truth and mold the "news" as they see fit. The influence and power that lets the white House occupant get away with half truths and lies ( WMD in Iraq, that carrier landing photo-op as a couple obvious cases in point) that effect the will of the US people and our nations standing on the world stage while they could be exposed for what they were by reporters without the big budgets of corporate media collaborationists. And these reports further brought to light by we bloggers, unpaid folks that spread the truth for truths sake; and the joy of doing it. We are Democritizing information and the media.
Thomas Jefferson would be proud.
I am, and I look forward to my return.
If you have a beat old laptop kicking around, gathering dust and you'd like to see it put to good use, e-mail me...
Looks like I made my sidebar message redundant.
Peace
6/10/2003
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Alternet has the scoop on Michael "Mike Savage" Weiner and the company that syndicates his "show" lawsuit against the decency and freedom of thought that sites such as Take Back the Media, MichaelSavageSucks.com and savagestupidity.com. The reason:
The suit charges that by endorsing a boycott of advertisers called for by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the groups are causing Savage financial damage by unjustifiably interfering in his business relationships with program advertisers, specifically by causing Illinois-based Culligan International Company, which makes water filters, to pull its sponsorship from the show.
I supported GLAAD in it's exposure of Mr Weiner for the narrow minded jerk he portrays in the media on 2.27.03 ...
Evidently Estimated Prophet is not ranked enough for their lawsuits. Ouch. Dissed by Dirtbags.
Here are the quotes I posted back then again:
"The nation is being taken over by the freaks, the cripples, the perverts, and the mental defectives."
"With the population that has emerged, since they [Hispanics] breed like rabbits, in many cases the whites will become a minority in their own nation.... the white people don't breed as often for whatever reason. I guess many homosexuals are involved. That is also part of the grand plan, to push homosexuality to cut down on the white race."
"Today in America, we have a 'she-ocracy' where a minority of feminist zealots rule the culture...Together, they have both feminized and homosexualized much of America to point where the nation has become passive, receptive and masochistic."
"These thieves in dirty nightshirts have created nothing in a thousand years. Just check the tags on your clothing. Ever see a label, 'Made in Iran' or 'Made by the Taliban'? Of course not. They cut throats and blow things up."
"Gays bore the hell out of me. They're the least important members of our society."
"Time to Arrest the Leaders of the Anti-War Movement, Once we Go To War? We Must Protect Our Troops!"
What a raving idiot. Get the news out abot this lawsuit. Post the Weiner quotes. Call his sponsors, and let them know how you feel about this sad, misguided clown and his relationship to their products.
It feels good celebrating what it is to be an American in this simple way, standing up for one of the most elementary of rights.
6/10/2003
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-Bill O'Reilly. prevaricator extreme may have turned over a new leaf, one of his "talking points" states:
"The radical left is furious that liberals no longer set the agenda in the national media."
Check out Lying Media Bastard where I found this quote conveniently offered up in a Fox TV screenshot. I mentioned this self-evident truth yesterday; I'm pleasantly surprised that the celebrated windbag can announce what we all know from experience to be true; even though he taints it with the "no longer" BS.
Scanning Ex-Lion Tamer clued me into Orcinus, who writes about the politics of who gets called a terrorist. I read a bit about Eric Rudolph yesterday, a Christian Terrorist Bomber that operates here in the ol' US of A with much support in his rural North Carolina community.
Check out Tiger Lily at Brief Intelligence, she is really kicking butt. Scroll down through her last few days of writing. Makes me wish I had more time and more talent.
Seeing the Forest touches on Karl Rove, think of him as Bergan and Mr Bush as Charlie McCarthy. Cursor also refers to some Rove articles of note. A Nicholas Lehman profile in The New Yorker is pretty informative.
What does it say about our nation that we have the highest percentage of citizens incarcerated in the world?
It's late. Go through the blogs in my sidebar. We are Democracy, you and I. Share what you know. We can breathe life into that sweet concept of life liberty and yup, the pursuit of happiness.
6/10/2003
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6.09.2003
Did Bush and company lie to get us into Iraq? Here is an outlay of facts: The Boy who cried Iraq. Read it all.
Can you trust the Government of these United States? Read "A History Of US Secret Human Experimentation" Pretty disturbing. You should do further research on items in this list that interest you; the list itself is very bare bones.
I should thank Gilhool, a friend unmet who sends me lots of great sites to explore. Thank you, Friend.
6/09/2003
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Take Back the Media is a favorite site of mine; I'm guessing it is a resource that you use too- a resource that you tell all your friends about. Entertaining Flash Videos that say it like it is. Information concerning those hate spewing anti-American goofballs that used to be called shock-jocks and marginalized for their ranting idiocy; but now are promoted as mainstream by their corporate media handlers. Information that helps "We the People" organize and make concerned choices about what companies we support with our consumer dollars.
It seems that Mr Michael "Mike Savage" Weiner has a problem with folks who find his drivel revolting. And more trouble yet with people who democratize his sponsors and their contact info...
What Michael Savage said on his radio show on February 27, 2003:
"You rats! You stinking rats who hide in the sewers! You think you can go after my income? You think you can kill my advertisers? You think I'm Dr. Laura? You think I'm gonna roll over like a pussy? You're wrong. I'm going to find out where you get your money from. You live by handouts, all of you. You live off grants, all of you. You're a bunch of beggars, but you don't know how lucky you are. If you continue this, we're going to go after your funding sources. And we will do everything we can within the legal realm to cut off that funding! We are also going to go to the U.S. Justice Department under John Ashcroft! What you are doing is illegal! You think it's 1965 and I'm South Africa? I've got news for you: it's not 1965 and it ain't South Africa! I'll cut your funding off, and if you break the law any further, I'll put you in jail!"
Not only that, Mr Weiner is sueing Take Back the Media, SavageStupidity.com and MichaelSavageSucks.com. Quote taken from TBTM Commentary:
Weiner filed suit against 3 small web sites - SavageStupidity.com, MichaelSavageSucks.com, and Take Back The Media.
We should get something straight here - this isn't about any of the charges in the lawsuit. It's not about loss of revenue, it's not about trademark infringement or defamation or damage to Weiner's reputation. It's not about any of these things.
It's about a large corporation attempting to take away the free speech of regular Americans with a point of view. It's about people with deep pockets using money and influence to run roughshod over people who don't agree with them.
It's about a radio blowhard with pitifully thin skin, whose radio show is failing miserably, and whose TV show can't even finance itself through national advertising due to its toxic, stunted, hateful, pathetic content, taking out his failure on web sites who speak truth to power. It's about boosting ratings, and providing talking points, and throwing red meat to a tiny audience who can't raise themselves out of bed in the morning unless they have a target for their festering hate.
It's about a small-minded bully who has raised professional victimhood to obscene levels. It's about a loudmouth who regularly rants about the evils of 'trial lawyers' hiring batteries of those same evil trial lawyers to intimidate and silence people with a lot less money.
It's about rendering the 'power of the purse' - the right to boycott products, services and media outlets you disagree with - a thing of the past. By equating criticism of hate speech with denying him his a right to make a living, Weiner wants to take your right to protest via boycott away from you.
And if he succeeds against these small web sites of limited resources, he will not stop.
There is a reason our sites have been targeted by this lawsuit. All three sites are tiny operations. TBTM, with a staff of four people, is the biggest of the three. SavageStupidity is run by a huband and wife, and MichaelSavageSucks is a one-man shop. By filing suit against 3 web sites where the principals barely have two dimes to rub together, the chances are better of a slam-dunk for the plaintiff.
There are many sites and organizations - the largest among them the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) - who have been much more aggressive in their actions against Weiner than any of the sites that were sued. GLAAD actually called for a boycott of Weiner's advertisers, and they have a full archive of Weiner's quotes and sound bites (one of the main contentions of the lawsuit) on their site. The difference between GLAAD and TBTM is this - GLAAD has the resources to mount a vigorous defense against a harassment suit such as this without bankrupting themselves, and Weiner is quite simply afraid to try and attack someone who might actually be able to fight back.
Visit the sites linked, get the word out, we need to support these people, regular folks like us working to keep Democracy viable in these Corporate Media controlled times.
I noticed at MichaelSavageSucks.com that the United Church of Christ finds Michael "Mike Savage" Weiner hateful and just plain wrong. MichaelSavageSucks.com has essential contact information on Weiners' sponsors, etc- do the right thing.
Regular folks like us, plain "little people" Bloggers need to organize to be as effective as we can in spreading facts in the face of the amount of mainstream "pseudo" news, Corporate/Government Psy-op "news". And I say this advisedly, please read this link from ConsortiumNews.com entitled "America's Matrix", it offers some historical perspective. As for bloggers organizing Cowboy Khalil is onto something in this respect I think. People need to talk to people to get the information out that a Democracy needs to be viable- and I don't mean the "Preacher speaking to the Choir effect". It is late and I'm bouncing thoughts off you... What do you think? How can "We the People" most effectively negate the Democracy deadening effects of the Mighty Wurlitzer , a term describing the control of information and public opinion by the moneyed few, financial influence rewriting both reality nd history as the ConsortiumNews.com article shows. Or as any news commentator speaking about the "Liberal" media and it's "insidious" influence demonstrates: the bald facts show that there is no liberal dominance of media. Such realities as the fact that the current occupant of the White House was allowed, assisted is a better word, to lie our Nation into a war the majority of citizens didn't want points out the reality, US popular media is anything but "Liberal". And it certainly is not concerned with fostering Democracy; Democracy would threaten the rich people folks giving themselves tax cuts, while people making under 27,000 dollars a year would not merit the 400 dollar child credit that financially better off Americans rate. (Check out this wealth distribution pie graph out, peruse the site too, please, if you have time)
I miss America. Information is both the stuff that Democracy is made of and the tool that shapes it. How can we best work to claim our nation back? I really feel it is a subtle war of values being waged against decent, honest people, the people that are the majority of Americans. How do we get people talking about our political realities rather than about the TV show of the month?
6/09/2003
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