7.26.2003
What's Up?
Iraq's oil, U.S corporations and our government- read the link please, I'm too beat to even give a synopsis...
Henry Kissinger meeting with the PM of New Zealand Helen Clark to talk about North Korea? Representing the U.S? Isn't he a War Criminal?
I heard Howard Dean on local radio and he sounded, sadly enough, like a Clintonesque Republicrat. He spoke about the Middle East showing less savvy than anyone who reads the Nation, In These Times and Harpers. What gives?
He sure didn't sound Progressive.
AAAAAAH.... (people seem to be embracing him as the "center left" "good guy")
Is less bad than Dubya good?
7/26/2003
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7.25.2003
Found A Winner
Came across an excellent blog that is new to me, Pacific Views. Scroll on down, this one is information dense and GREAT.
Ever heard of coltan? Read.
7/25/2003
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No time or energy here...
Go to Cursor and get links dealing with the 9/11 report. Dissident Voice will offer you info on the Pentagon and 9/11.
Get the truth out- we are speaking more truth and more loudly than mainstream media. Yeah, what's new?
Talk to people.
Write a letter to the editor.
Let your representatives know what you know.
We can work together to stop this long running travesty called the Bush administration. I want my country back.
I'm proud to be an American- get 'er done...
7/25/2003
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7.23.2003
Sign of the times?
The Congressional 9/11 Probe is to be released.
This statement in an article on Yahoo new makes me really uncomfortable. (The first paragraph is solely for some context)
The ban on assassinations, spelled out in an executive order signed by President Ford in 1976 and reinforced by Presidents Carter and Reagan, made no distinction between wartime and peacetime. There are no loop holes; no matter how awful the leader, he could not be a U.S. target either directly or by a hired hand.
The advantages of using assassination as a political tool seemed less obvious a generation ago than they are today.
The offending statement italicized by me.
WTF? It was just as obvious that murder, "extra-judicial killing" as folks in the Israeli military say, is both expedient and WRONG back then; it is just that people lived in a culture less open to murder in general, much less governments that murdered. Watergate, Viet Nam - people were used to keeping an eye on the government.
The ban on assassinations, spelled out in an executive order signed by President Ford in 1976 and reinforced by Presidents Carter and Reagan, made no distinction between wartime and peacetime. There are no loop holes; no matter how awful the leader, he could not be a U.S. target either directly or by a hired hand.
Ford, Carter, Reagan never heard of Julius Caesar, Hamlet? Lincoln?
Lincoln! There's your extrajudicial killing for you. Sad to say, there are folks like Mr Ashcroft friends at Southern Partisan who may look at President Lincolns killing differently than you and I. They have morals. Wound too tight I think...
Folks appointed without the will of the people are unhampered by such bonds of decency. Like telemarketers or used car salesmen. Or an administration bent on war. Ask Mr Bush and/or Mr Cheney. Tony Blair...
That bit of the article quoted has me saying "What kind of world do we live in?" Asking myself "Are folks just reading that and positing that "murder by any other name kills just as expediently"?
I'm betting the house that the majority of us still hold that murder is murder, no matter what spiffy governmental term is offered us.
What happened?
7/23/2003
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7.21.2003
Go out and get Harpers and read Curtis White's essay "The New Censorship"
The New Censorship does not work by keeping things secret. Are our leaders liars and criminals? Is the government run by wealthy corporations and political elites? Are we all being slowly poisoned? The answer is yes to all of the above, and there’s hardly a soul on these shores who doesn’t know it. The reign of George II practically revels in this perverse transparency. Oil policy created in backrooms from Enron and ExxonMobil. Naked pandering to the electricity industry in rolling back clean-air mandates. Accounting firms such as Arthur Andersen buying even ‘watchdog’ liberal senators such as Christopher Dodd. Elections rigged with brother Jeb’s connivance in Florida. All of these details are utterly public, reported in newspapers, television newscasts, and books, yet it’s perfectly safe for this stuff to be known. The genius of the New Censorship is that it works through the obscenity of absolute openness.”
Tiger Lilly's post at Brief Intelligence today brings this article to mind. She is spot on and offers some good links to chase down.
I wish Harpers would post more articles right away on the web. But, what a joy to see it in the mailbox.
7/21/2003
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I apologize for not having the time to read and digest world events to a degree where I can offer something sensible. Check out the sources listed in the sidebar to widen your horizons...
Peace
7/21/2003
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