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Thursday, March 31, 2005
Mr. Magoo Flying America into Disaster :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture
Mr. Magoo Flying America into Disaster :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture:
"And while Bush continues to trumpet Afghanistan as a success story for American-exported democracy, U.S. troops are still dying there and the country's president is little more than the mayor of Kabul, the nation's capital, since the warlords, Al Qaeda and the Taliban control the rest of the country and have turned Afghanistan into the largest opium exporter in the world. (You'll note that Laura Bush's visit to Afghanistan matched her husband's Thanksgiving visit to the troops in Iraq for its photo-op brevity.) And we still can't find that pesky Osama bin Laden. Remember him? So much for success.
Meanwhile at home, while Bush continues his monomaniacal obsession with dismantling Social Security and his myopic refusal to accept that global warning is real, our gluttonous oil consumption is destroying our economy, and the carbon dioxide and other pollutants, such as mercury, that we continue to spew into the air, earth, and water are literally killing us.
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POB!= Piss On Bush!
"And while Bush continues to trumpet Afghanistan as a success story for American-exported democracy, U.S. troops are still dying there and the country's president is little more than the mayor of Kabul, the nation's capital, since the warlords, Al Qaeda and the Taliban control the rest of the country and have turned Afghanistan into the largest opium exporter in the world. (You'll note that Laura Bush's visit to Afghanistan matched her husband's Thanksgiving visit to the troops in Iraq for its photo-op brevity.) And we still can't find that pesky Osama bin Laden. Remember him? So much for success.
Meanwhile at home, while Bush continues his monomaniacal obsession with dismantling Social Security and his myopic refusal to accept that global warning is real, our gluttonous oil consumption is destroying our economy, and the carbon dioxide and other pollutants, such as mercury, that we continue to spew into the air, earth, and water are literally killing us.
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POB!= Piss On Bush!
t r u t h o u t - Iraqi Children Fared Better under Saddam - Report
t r u t h o u t - Iraqi Children Fared Better under Saddam - Report:
" When Saddam Hussein was overthrown, about 4% of Iraqi children under five were going hungry; now that figure has almost doubled to 8%, his report says."
Hey, If they survive maybe they can vote in a sham election someday!
" When Saddam Hussein was overthrown, about 4% of Iraqi children under five were going hungry; now that figure has almost doubled to 8%, his report says."
Hey, If they survive maybe they can vote in a sham election someday!
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
How To Avoid The Draft Or National Service
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Being willing (and eager) to fight for one's country when it is truly in danger is one thing. Having the courage to refuse to fight in immoral and/or unconstitutional "wars" is quite another matter, I believe. No need to "dodge" the ball if they're not allowed to hit you with it, if you merely 'take your stand' and refuse to volunteer!
Being willing (and eager) to fight for one's country when it is truly in danger is one thing. Having the courage to refuse to fight in immoral and/or unconstitutional "wars" is quite another matter, I believe. No need to "dodge" the ball if they're not allowed to hit you with it, if you merely 'take your stand' and refuse to volunteer!
Jefferson's Jesus, Jefferson's God -- The Value System Beneath Enlightened Thought By Dr. Gerry Lower
AxisofLogic/ Featured:
"For 1700 years, the people have watched as Rome-based religious belief has denigrated the ideas and words of the Christ. 'We will not,' in Einstein's words, 'solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking that created them.' Religious capitalism has destroyed virtually everything marvelous and meaningful in America, i.e., everything based in human values, human rights and human decency. We can all do better than that with Jefferson's Jesus and Jefferson's God.
'Little children, love each other' (Gotthold Lessing),
'That is the beginning and the end.' (Peter Gay, The Enlightenment, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1973)"
"For 1700 years, the people have watched as Rome-based religious belief has denigrated the ideas and words of the Christ. 'We will not,' in Einstein's words, 'solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking that created them.' Religious capitalism has destroyed virtually everything marvelous and meaningful in America, i.e., everything based in human values, human rights and human decency. We can all do better than that with Jefferson's Jesus and Jefferson's God.
'Little children, love each other' (Gotthold Lessing),
'That is the beginning and the end.' (Peter Gay, The Enlightenment, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1973)"
Monday, March 28, 2005
The Fundamentalist Christian Mind-Set and The Problem It Presents For America By Lee Salisbury
AxisofLogic/ Featured:
"Jesus said these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they will cast out devils and speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them.' Mk 16:17-18 Pentecostals like Pat Robertson pray in tongues, a few claim to cast out devils, fewer still handle snakes. Will believers ever drink cyanide?
"Jesus said these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they will cast out devils and speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them.' Mk 16:17-18 Pentecostals like Pat Robertson pray in tongues, a few claim to cast out devils, fewer still handle snakes. Will believers ever drink cyanide?
www.killinghope.org
www.killinghope.org
If you flip over the rock of American foreign
policy of the past century, this is what crawls out ...
invasions ... bombings ... overthrowing
governments ... suppressing movements
for social change ... assassinating
political leaders ... perverting
elections ... manipulating labor unions ...
manufacturing "news" ... death squads ...
torture ... biological warfare ...
depleted uranium ... drug trafficking ...
mercenaries ...
It's not a pretty picture.
It is enough to give imperialism a bad name.
If you flip over the rock of American foreign
policy of the past century, this is what crawls out ...
invasions ... bombings ... overthrowing
governments ... suppressing movements
for social change ... assassinating
political leaders ... perverting
elections ... manipulating labor unions ...
manufacturing "news" ... death squads ...
torture ... biological warfare ...
depleted uranium ... drug trafficking ...
mercenaries ...
It's not a pretty picture.
It is enough to give imperialism a bad name.
Sunday, March 27, 2005
Charles Darwin has a posse -- free bookmarks and stickers
Charles Darwin has a posse -- free bookmarks and stickers
Come on deputies, it's time to saddle up and fight the coming dark ages!!! Make stickers! Distribute bookmarks! RESIST!
Come on deputies, it's time to saddle up and fight the coming dark ages!!! Make stickers! Distribute bookmarks! RESIST!
Thursday, March 24, 2005
(DV) Bageant: Sunday in a Red State
(DV) Bageant: Sunday in a Red State:
"“If Jesus reappeared on earth tomorrow it would probably be at Daytona or a Cracker Barrel Restaurant.”
-- Punk Wilson, local wiseass
Indeed, Cracker Barrel has to be the most appropriately named restaurant chain in America. The last time I entered one with an out-of-town black friend, nearly all heads turned in unison toward us. My friend took one look at the wall-to-wall porky white faces and said, “Get me back to the fucking car. I can grab a happy meal on the way out of Deliverance.”"
"“If Jesus reappeared on earth tomorrow it would probably be at Daytona or a Cracker Barrel Restaurant.”
-- Punk Wilson, local wiseass
Indeed, Cracker Barrel has to be the most appropriately named restaurant chain in America. The last time I entered one with an out-of-town black friend, nearly all heads turned in unison toward us. My friend took one look at the wall-to-wall porky white faces and said, “Get me back to the fucking car. I can grab a happy meal on the way out of Deliverance.”"
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
America No. 1?
America No. 1? :
"No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is 'No. 1,' 'the greatest.' Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name 'America Is No. 1.' Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled 'un-American.' We're an 'empire,' ain't we? Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We're No. 1. Well...this is the country you really live in:"
"No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is 'No. 1,' 'the greatest.' Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name 'America Is No. 1.' Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled 'un-American.' We're an 'empire,' ain't we? Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We're No. 1. Well...this is the country you really live in:"
(DV) Bageant: A Guide to the White Trash Planet for Urban Liberals
(DV) Bageant: A Guide to the White Trash Planet for Urban Liberals:
"More crap about values
Before I am asked the more specific question, “What the fuck do you think middle class liberals should do then?” I’m gonna answer it. ORGANIZE! Quit voting for that pack of undead hacks called the Democratic Party and ORGANIZE! Howard Dean is just another millionaire Yale frat boy. ORGANIZE! Quit kidding yourself that the Empire will protect professionals and semi-professionals such as you and ORGANIZE! Spend time on a Pentecostal church pew or in a blue-collar beer joint and ORGANIZE! Join the Elks Club and ORGANIZE! Realize that there is no party whatsoever in the United States that represents anything but corporate interests and ORGANIZE! Start in your own honky wimp-assed white bread neighborhood and ORGANIZE! Knock on doors and ORGANIZE! Move heaven and earth and hearts and minds and ORGANIZE! And if enough people do it, it will scare the living piss out of the political elite and the corporations and they will come to club you down like they did in Miami and Seattle. But at least you will have been among the noble ones when the history is written.
There now. I’ve got it out of my system."
"More crap about values
Before I am asked the more specific question, “What the fuck do you think middle class liberals should do then?” I’m gonna answer it. ORGANIZE! Quit voting for that pack of undead hacks called the Democratic Party and ORGANIZE! Howard Dean is just another millionaire Yale frat boy. ORGANIZE! Quit kidding yourself that the Empire will protect professionals and semi-professionals such as you and ORGANIZE! Spend time on a Pentecostal church pew or in a blue-collar beer joint and ORGANIZE! Join the Elks Club and ORGANIZE! Realize that there is no party whatsoever in the United States that represents anything but corporate interests and ORGANIZE! Start in your own honky wimp-assed white bread neighborhood and ORGANIZE! Knock on doors and ORGANIZE! Move heaven and earth and hearts and minds and ORGANIZE! And if enough people do it, it will scare the living piss out of the political elite and the corporations and they will come to club you down like they did in Miami and Seattle. But at least you will have been among the noble ones when the history is written.
There now. I’ve got it out of my system."
Hiding Our War Dead :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture
Hiding Our War Dead :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture:
"In July of 1965, at the height of the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson spoke with a previously elusive candor. “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle. I have seen them filled with hope and life. I think that I know, too, how their mothers weep and how their families sorrow.”
But president Bush doesn’t know and neither do we. His war machine brings our fallen soldiers home from Iraq, dead as dead can be, and drops them down the well of forgetting. forgetting.
Do you hear the thud? Can you bear it?
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"In July of 1965, at the height of the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson spoke with a previously elusive candor. “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle. I have seen them filled with hope and life. I think that I know, too, how their mothers weep and how their families sorrow.”
But president Bush doesn’t know and neither do we. His war machine brings our fallen soldiers home from Iraq, dead as dead can be, and drops them down the well of forgetting. forgetting.
Do you hear the thud? Can you bear it?
"
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
If Jesus Returns, Karl Rove Will Kill Him
If Jesus Returns, Karl Rove Will Kill Him :
"But would Jesus stand for the slaughter of 100,000 Iraqis in his name merely because of oil and dubious Biblical prophecy? How would Christ view a president in love with the gas chamber and electric chair? What would Jesus, who hated hypocrisy above all, say about a Bush who scampers back to prolong the life of a brain-dead woman who wanted to die, but who gleefully executes 150 people as governor and as many more as president as he can get his hands on? How would Jesus cope with a self-proclaimed Divinity demanding the death penalty for children?"
"But would Jesus stand for the slaughter of 100,000 Iraqis in his name merely because of oil and dubious Biblical prophecy? How would Christ view a president in love with the gas chamber and electric chair? What would Jesus, who hated hypocrisy above all, say about a Bush who scampers back to prolong the life of a brain-dead woman who wanted to die, but who gleefully executes 150 people as governor and as many more as president as he can get his hands on? How would Jesus cope with a self-proclaimed Divinity demanding the death penalty for children?"
The Loyal Opposition
The Loyal Opposition
Bush had behind him in the 2004 elections the most organized, powerful, and disciplined political group in the US: the Christian Zionists. Operating quietly and with high efficiency, right wing fundamentalists in the US have a solid infrastructure and a huge, dedicated membership. Bush and the Republicans are only a front for them. There are three reasons behind their strength - they are politically ambitious, they have no opposition to work against them or to warn others of their control of the political will in Washington DC, and they are out of their minds, believing that they have been personally chosen to implement Biblical prophecy and be saved.
Targeting this bloc should be the role of any grassroots movement that is serious about changing the policies of global destruction now reigning in Washington. A force is needed with a clear political agenda to represent growing sectors of US society who oppose the ongoing imperialist and Zionist rampage. This force should have been the antiwar movement, but it is not so. People who claim to be working for peace and justice in the US don't even use the words "imperialist" and "Zionist" - a symptom not only of their inability to do anything about the causes of the war, but of their own very unseemly involvement in those causes.
Bush had behind him in the 2004 elections the most organized, powerful, and disciplined political group in the US: the Christian Zionists. Operating quietly and with high efficiency, right wing fundamentalists in the US have a solid infrastructure and a huge, dedicated membership. Bush and the Republicans are only a front for them. There are three reasons behind their strength - they are politically ambitious, they have no opposition to work against them or to warn others of their control of the political will in Washington DC, and they are out of their minds, believing that they have been personally chosen to implement Biblical prophecy and be saved.
Targeting this bloc should be the role of any grassroots movement that is serious about changing the policies of global destruction now reigning in Washington. A force is needed with a clear political agenda to represent growing sectors of US society who oppose the ongoing imperialist and Zionist rampage. This force should have been the antiwar movement, but it is not so. People who claim to be working for peace and justice in the US don't even use the words "imperialist" and "Zionist" - a symptom not only of their inability to do anything about the causes of the war, but of their own very unseemly involvement in those causes.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
(DV) Zeese: Two-Year Anniversary of Iraq War Kicks Off in Washington, DC
(DV) Zeese: Two-Year Anniversary of Iraq War Kicks Off in Washington, DC:
"* Once you sign up for military service and arrive at basic training, you are subject to call-up duty for eight years.
* Two-thirds of vets never receive any funding for college. Only 15% of recruits graduate from a four-year college.
* The Veterans Administration estimates that one-third of veterans are homeless and vets earn 11% to 19% less than non-veterans of similar backgrounds."
As Naughty Nancy used to say "...JUST SAY NO!!!"
"* Once you sign up for military service and arrive at basic training, you are subject to call-up duty for eight years.
* Two-thirds of vets never receive any funding for college. Only 15% of recruits graduate from a four-year college.
* The Veterans Administration estimates that one-third of veterans are homeless and vets earn 11% to 19% less than non-veterans of similar backgrounds."
As Naughty Nancy used to say "...JUST SAY NO!!!"
Monday, March 14, 2005
The Flypaper Theory: May we call them fascists NOW?
The Flypaper Theory: May we call them fascists NOW?: "May we call them fascists NOW?
I just spoke with a barrista at Empire Coffee (the old Map Room at the corner of Madison & Main). On Thursday Empire was contacted by someone who claimed to be a 'federal agent' and told that they were not allowed to display any signs critical of President Bush or his plans to dismantle Social Security. Empire posted a sign saying--and this is a paraphrase--- 'We have been informed that we aren't allowed to display signs critical of Bush. We would like to remind the authorities that the First Amendment also applies in Memphis.'"
This would never happen in nashville!
I just spoke with a barrista at Empire Coffee (the old Map Room at the corner of Madison & Main). On Thursday Empire was contacted by someone who claimed to be a 'federal agent' and told that they were not allowed to display any signs critical of President Bush or his plans to dismantle Social Security. Empire posted a sign saying--and this is a paraphrase--- 'We have been informed that we aren't allowed to display signs critical of Bush. We would like to remind the authorities that the First Amendment also applies in Memphis.'"
This would never happen in nashville!
Big Bro' wants to shut us down!
Tman in Tennessee: "This means if I want to write on my blog that I think George Bush is absolutely screwing us over a barrel with this new Bankruptcy bill he's about to sign, I can say 'George Bush is absolutely screwing us over a barrel with this new Bankruptcy bill he's about to sign', and no one can arrest me according to our constitution. Or, say I want to say Robert Byrd is a hypocritical lying dirtbag for comparing Republicans to Nazis, I can do that to.
If I wanted to write those things on a billboard and hang it up over my private place of business, I can do that too. Free speech is free speech. Period. We either have all of it, or we get none. No halfway measure. You'd think Washington gets this. You'd be wrong."
If I wanted to write those things on a billboard and hang it up over my private place of business, I can do that too. Free speech is free speech. Period. We either have all of it, or we get none. No halfway measure. You'd think Washington gets this. You'd be wrong."
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Do You Believe In Conspiracies?
Do You Believe In Conspiracies?: "The Helpless Voter Conspiracy is stupid because voters are not helpless. Rather, they are irresponsible, incompetent, and easily manipulated.
The voters can select anybody they want as president. Voters can refuse to vote if they don't like any of the candidates. Voters are even allowed to write a person's name on the ballot. This allows them to elect people who are not on the ballot, such as you or me. And they can throw government leaders out of office whenever they want, even if it is not an election year.
http://www.erichufschmid.net/Conspiracies_Underdogs_Main.html"
The voters can select anybody they want as president. Voters can refuse to vote if they don't like any of the candidates. Voters are even allowed to write a person's name on the ballot. This allows them to elect people who are not on the ballot, such as you or me. And they can throw government leaders out of office whenever they want, even if it is not an election year.
http://www.erichufschmid.net/Conspiracies_Underdogs_Main.html"
Friday, March 11, 2005
Another reason to kill your television
ARTICLE: Study: Post-9/11 news drove liberals toward a harder line: "Study: Post-9/11 news drove liberals toward a harder line
(Posted: 3/8/2005)
Dennis Chaptman
Liberals who gleaned most of their news from television in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks increased their support for expanded police powers, bringing them closer in line with the opinions of conservatives, a study by a UW-Madison researcher shows.
In contrast, heavy newspaper reading by liberals was related to lower levels of support for expanded police powers and for limits on privacy and freedom of information, basically reinforcing the differences between liberals and conservatives, says Dietram Scheufele, a journalism professor who conducted the study."
(Posted: 3/8/2005)
Dennis Chaptman
Liberals who gleaned most of their news from television in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks increased their support for expanded police powers, bringing them closer in line with the opinions of conservatives, a study by a UW-Madison researcher shows.
In contrast, heavy newspaper reading by liberals was related to lower levels of support for expanded police powers and for limits on privacy and freedom of information, basically reinforcing the differences between liberals and conservatives, says Dietram Scheufele, a journalism professor who conducted the study."
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