10.25.2003
Go figure
Outsourcing armaments parts to China.
At least some things make sense: "Administration Faces Supoenas From 9/11 Panel"
10/25/2003
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I know, .pdf files are slow to download, it looks like a bunch of reading, etc... This work is amazing, and needs to be seen: "Pentagon war story credibility briefing" by analyst Sam Gardiner
Pages 1-10
Pages 11-20
Pages 21-30
Pages 31-40
Pages 41-50
Pages 51-56
If you felt it a waste of your time e-mail me and tell me what an idiot I am. If you find it as simply compelling as I do print it out and give it to misguided "hawk" folks or those "on the fence" due to getting their Iraq information from corporate media. Cut and paste these addresses into your e-mail signature. Help get the truth out.
"No Brass Check Journalists" by Studs Turkel
Today is the anniversary of the death of Paul Wellstone. Which Democrat hopeful do you think Wellstone would approve most of?
Dean and Kucinich on some issues.
Clark on some issues.
The whole crowd including Mr Bush on some issues.
Do they walk it like they talk it?
10/25/2003
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10.24.2003
Bush's Chart
Intriguing.
What does astrologer Eileen Nauman see about George Bush that "We the People" don't? According to her his Astrological indicators say his downfall will be long before the 2004 election; it will be on October 25th and maybe violent in nature. Yes, tomorrow.
You remember that Mr Bush was "elected" under the 00 curse; any President taking office in a 00 year has been assassinated, except Reagan, who did have an attempt on his life.
In the least she predicts that something HUGE may be revealed.
Please give the link a read, I cannot do it justice.
Are you ready for a severe condition (red) terror alert? Some folks call it martial law...
10/24/2003
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It is pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long hard slog.
--Donald Rumsfeld, leaked internal memo of October 16th
A long hard slog for the enlisted folks don't you mean, Mr Rumsfeld?
WTF are we doing occupying Iraq anyway?
He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq...
-- Colin Powell, Febuary 24 2001
To see more of the damning transcript (and watch the video) stop by The Memory Hole .
The Memory Hole also links to a "Pentagon war story credibility briefing" by analyst Sam Gardiner that suggests the White House and Pentagon made up or distorted over 50 war stories, showing this attack to be an amazingly well thought out psy-op designed to buffalo the citizens of the US and UK. Please read this detailed multi-part .pdf file of step by step analysis revealing how intricately mislead the American people have been concerning the attack on Iraq; circulate it to everyone you know. It has been brought to light by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
10/24/2003
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You have to love Rush, on top of his imbecility, his dope habit now we see he owes $268,494.68 in back property taxes on his Florida estate.
President Bush called him a great American. A real right wing hypocrite role model. Go figure...
Just in: uggabugga offers this contact info to assist Rush in walking his talk.
Contact:
Barry E. Krischer
The State Attorney's Office
401 North Dixie Highway
West Palm Beach Florida 33401
Main Telephone Number: (561) 355-7100
FAX Number: (561) 366-1800
Email Address: StateAttorney@sa15.state.fl.us
Ask that Rush be prosecuted under the trafficking statutes, as would be any other citizen found in possession of a large amount of Oxycontin (oxycodone).
Trafficking, Conspiracy...
I do not support our nations draconian drug laws; Rush does and has stated so numerous times. Let's see what we can do to allow him to suffer the full extent of the laws he rants so favorably of.
Scroll up from the piece linked to see uggabugga's deconstruction of Ms Coulter's essay concerning Rush. And don't miss the Rush rehab calendar...
10/24/2003
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10.23.2003
The Prince of Wales
I find I am often accused of living in the past, or of wanting to return to the kind of past that can only be met in the imagination. I have been branded as a traditionalist, as if tradition was some kind of disease that had to be sprayed at airports. I am told that I wish to go backwards into the Brave New World of the twenty-first century – not, as some would have us do, blindly trusting in the gloriously progressive technological utopianism of the high priests of scientific rationalism, but anchored in the mudbank of superstition and irrelevant spirituality.
HRH the Prince of Wales on Being, our world and times.
10/23/2003
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In 2001 7.1 million Americans took antidepressants
antidepressants drugs experienced an 18 percent sales growth in 2000, to $13.4 billion which accounted for 4.2 percent of all global pharmaceutical sales. North America was the dominant user of these drugs, accounting for 74.6 percent of sales with a 19 percent growth rate.
In 2002, there were an estimated 17.5 million adults aged 18 or older with serious mental illness. This represents 8.3 percent of all adults
The States with the highest rates of serious mental illness among adults age 18 and older were mostly in the South.
In 2002, an estimated 19.5 million Americans, or 8.3 percent of the population aged 12 or older, were current illicit drug users
An estimated 120 million Americans aged 12 or older reported being current drinkers of alcohol in the 2002 survey (51.0 percent). About 54 million (22.9 percent) participated in binge drinking at least once in the 30 days prior to the survey, and 15.9 million (6.7 percent) were heavy drinkers.
In 1999, the last year for which statistics are available, 43 percent of Americans said they had attended church in the past week.
According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube.
What do these statistics say, if anything, about our culture?
10/23/2003
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Take Back Your Time Day is tomorrow October 24th. If time is money why are working folks paid so little? Are we working to live or living to work?
What sort of society do we live in when the employment and wage structures that cause us to subvert our lives to mere working existence have been dictated by the corporate interests that have bought and melded with every level of our government?
Edited for clarity
10/23/2003
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10.22.2003
Kucinich is Real
Kucinich. The one truly Progressive Democratic candidate. Explore Kucinich Dean Compare. Link found over at mousemusings, a longtime favorite (the link offered is some more food for thought on Kucinich).
10/22/2003
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I'd like to offer you some tools to help you in your analysis of our present political predicament.
The thought of Erich Fromm offers insights into the authoritarian headset of folks like John Ashcroft and the GOP fundamentalists that wish to turn our society into a Republican/Corporate penal plantation, a sort of "bootcamp without walls". The sexual repression the Republican Right advocates serves it as a tool of political and social control. Neuropsychologist James W. Prescott illustrates this in his article "Body Pleasure and the Origin of Violence". Those of you familiar with Wilhelm Reich's work "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" are familiar with the connection between sexual repression and authoritarianism- both Fromm and Prescott bear his observations out. Mr Bush's impoverishment of our nation can now be seen to have a larger, longer lasting effect on what the future may hold for our children. Effects that play into the hands of the Republican Right.
John Taylor Gatto illustrates the corporate/authoritarian origins of schooling.
Corporatism, sexual repression, ignorance, poverty and violence- a few symptoms of "Conservative" governance.
Does the perspective offered by all these links fit your vision of what America should/will be?
Can we allow the GOP to create an environment ever more fertile for producing right wing neo-Fascists?
10/22/2003
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10.21.2003
I'm back and catching up...
Please go out and get the November Harpers Magazine. It is about a cover to cover must read; the Index, Readings (Grossman, Tennessee Williams) the essay on Junk politics by Benjamin DeMott, a thought provoking piece by Thomas de Zengotta, Chalmers Johnson on "The War Business", Annie Dillard and a piece on Diane Arbus. A great issue.
Thank you to the folks that wrote to see how I was doing since I haven't been posting. I'm back at the computer and will be posting regularly again. And catching up on e-mail.
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. - Dorothy Day
10/21/2003
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