Monday, May 30, 2005

The Fantastic Art of Illusion--Trompe l'oeil Murals

The Fantastic Art of Illusion--Trompe
> l'oeil Murals
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> Subject: The Art of Illusion
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> This does require time to load if you are using a
> modem, well worth the
> time, absolutely unbelievable, you must keep in mind
> that you are
> looking at flat surfaces, the people are not real.
> This guy is a
> remarkable artist!
> The Art of Illusion - Trompe l'oeil Murals
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> Commission an artist for a large-scale life-like
> mural to turn walls
> into a panoramic setting which will add almost
> infinite depth to rooms.
> Here's an example of one of the best in the
> business, the artist Eric
> Grohe. The scale, realism and attention to detail
> are incredible.
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> Before photo - typical concrete & stucco facade
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> Preparing the wall surface
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> Preparing the canvas - plastering the wall surface
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> The wall starts to take on a 3-dimensional
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> Eric in his element, 30' off the ground. He does
> most of the artwork by
> himself & researches, paints and designs each
> project from scratch. His
> wife Kathy, also an artist, serves as project
> manager.
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> The German made (century old) Keim mineral paints
> are engineered for
> durability & longevity. Their liquid-mineral
> application bonds
> potassium silicate with the building's mineral
> substrate....they resist
> UV and moisture corrosion and remain color true for
> over 100 years.
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> After photos of the 50x58' mural - it's hard to tell
> you're looking at a
> 2-dimensional flat wall
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> Eric Grohe and his wife Kathy live in Marysville, WA
> . To view more of
> his work, I've posted some highlights below or you
> can visit his web
> site at http://www.ericgrohemurals.com
> <http://www.ericgrohemurals.com/>
> . For specific questions, you can contact Eric at
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<mailto:info@ericgrohemurals.com>info@ericgrohemurals.com
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> <mailto:info@ericgrohemurals.com> .
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> Here are some more examples of Eric's projects....
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> Great American Crossroad - Bucyrus, Ohio
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> Before
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> During
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> After
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> Liberty Remembers
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> Before
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> After - hard to believe you're looking at a flat
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> How to dress up a Shopping Mall - Niagara, NY
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> Before
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> After - wide view
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> After - close ups (I wonder how many birds fly into
> this wall on a daily
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> Indoor Murals - Miller Brewery
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> When working indoors, the environment is typically
> not as harsh and one
> could conceivably use large format digital
> reproductions to create a
> life-like mural. However, if the indoor location is
> exposed to humidity,
> UV or airborne vapors/chemicals, digital
> reproductions will begin to
> deteriorate rather quickly. The murals below are
> painted in oil on a
> Dibond® aluminum com backing and are overcoated to
> protect from the
> chemical and physical abuse of day to day activity.
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> Hallway Before - Miller Fermenting Rooms
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> After Photos - Past meets Present in the Miller
> Brewery Fermenting Rooms
> - hooks, clipboards and aprons were added to the
> surface of the murals
> to enhance the illusion. You're looking at flat
> walls!
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> Detail view looking down the illusional hallway in
> the previous mural.
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> Brew Room Includes 22 smaller murals - various sizes
> depicting historic
> scenes of Miller's history going back to the 19th
> century.
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> Check it out (www.computerstfw.com
> <http://www.computerstfw.com/>)
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Free people do bad things--an essay masterpiece

Free people do bad things--an essay
> masterpiece
>
> The following article is written by a self-described
> "Virginia country
> boy who loves his country." A vet of the Vietnam
> era, his descriptions
> (warning: some of them contain crude language) in
> this essay brought
> tears to my eyes. The story of people he once lived
> near when he lived
> in a cabin in Idaho I think would bring tears to the
> eyes of anyone with
> a heart. I consider this essay to be a masterpiece,
> in spite of its
> crude language. The author's e-mail address is at
> the end, in case
> anyone would like to write him their thoughts or
> opinions...or send him
> a thank you for the essay because what he says needs
> to be said and
> heard by all Americans.
>
> EXCERPT: Things smell more ominous by the day, and
> to quote the late
> Dr. Thompson, "Big darkness, soon come." Feels like
> it's already here.
> Hunter also said "a man with a greed for the truth
> should expect no
> mercy and give none." Damned good advice, I would
> say. Because from this
> desk at the edge of Washington D.C., it looks like
> we are not about to
> get any at all.
>
> 'Free people do bad things'
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> By Joe Bageant
>
> A while back there was a wrestling promotion
> campaign in which young
> children were encouraged to attend local wrestling
> bringing weapons of
> their own creation. The weapons would later be used
> in the ring. One
> small boy returned with a baseball bat wrapped in
> barbed wire. Asked
> about the wisdom of encouraging the child to create
> such brutal weapons,
> the kid's father appeared dumbfounded: "This is just
> entertainment! It's
> fun!" World champion Wrestling's Vince McMahon's
> indignant response was,
> "This is still a free country. I will not let anyone
> stop me." The
> implication being, of course, "I am a great defender
> of freedom against
> evil liberal regulation." Then he looked into the
> camera to his fans and
> said: "DON'T LET ANYONE STOP YOU!"
>
> Well kick my ass and call me Henry! Spare us all
> from liberal sissies
> unable to see the good clean family fun in clubbing
> folks bloody with
> barbed wire wrapped baseball bats. About the only
> consolation here is
> that, were Vince McMahon to be pulverized by the
> very same bat on TV,
> the same people whose basest instincts he exploits
> for profit would LOVE
> IT. Hell, I'd love it. At any rate, McMahon is an
> example of true,
> unregulated "freedom-in-business." And to think that
> we once thought
> football was about as bad as America's bread and
> circuses would get.
>
> Why does it feel like the brutality of a Vince
> McMahon, football, the
> NRA, Wall Street, Republicans and America's
> far-flung network of secret
> prisons and desert wars all have something to do
> with one another?
> Connected in some way? Why this unnamable suspicion
> in the back of the
> mind, and darting sense of fear? Ah yes! Something
> is happening here,
> and we all know what it is, don't we Mr.
> Joooooones?! Things are bound
> to turn more ugly.
>
> For now, though, our attention is absorbed in the
> efforts of our armed
> and clueless youth who, rather like pit bulls, are
> turned loose on the
> rest of world. About 1,700 of them have been killed,
> but not before
> killing a hundred thousand or so Iraqis, nearly all
> of them civilians.
> The carnage in Iraq is not a problem. "Free people
> do bad things," said
> Donald Rumsfeld (referring to the murderous Iraqi
> clusterfuck
> masquerading as a government over there.) But at
> least we are returning
> to our violent roots. As any indigenous person can
> tell you, we are
> coming home to the values that made America great.
> Abu Ghraib was a
> fresh start at reestablishing our violent national
> heritage that began
> with Indian slaughter and seemed to stall out a bit
> after Vietnam. But
> we're baaaaaack! And we're as bad-assed as ever.
>
> Presiding over all at this critical but vulgar time
> in our history is,
> rather appropriately, a vulgar idiot whose second
> bogus inaugural was
> hosted by Trent Lott, a deliberate "fuck you"
> precisely equivalent to
> those Mississippi men groping themselves for the
> cameras of Life
> magazine back in the 1960s. Our esteemed president
> IS one of those men.
> Things smell more ominous by the day, and to quote
> the late Dr.
> Thompson, "Big darkness, soon come." Feels like it's
> already here.
> Hunter also said "a man with a greed for the truth
> should expect no
> mercy and give none." Damned good advice, I would
> say. Because from this
> desk at the edge of Washington D.C., it looks like
> we are not about to
> get any at all. (Bear with me; there is a theme in
> here somewhere. I
> promise to find it.)
>
> Speaking of bringing up America's brutal Reich
> tykes, there is Scott
> Hildreth of Pinellas Park, Florida who is grooming
> his 10-year-old son
> Joshua to do jail time. Josh is one of six children
> --- ages 10 to 14
> --- arrested for crossing a police line at the
> Woodside Hospice to take
> water to Terri Schiavo. Josh pestered his dad
> (himself arrested many
> times at abortion clinics) to drive him there from
> Kannapolis, N.C., so
> he could be arrested at the Schiavo circus.
> Meanwhile, other children
> stood by with duct-taped mouths labeled "JAIL" in
> black magic marker.
>
> God told Josh to do it. "My wife and I felt like God
> really put it on
> his heart, and that we should come down, to allow
> him to live out what
> God had put on his heart," says Scott Heldreth.
>
> So there goes little Joshie, doing his daddy proud,
> walking right up to
> the sheriff's deputies, carrying his plastic cup of
> water. After he
> refused two orders to halt, deputies cuffed his
> hands behind his back
> and loaded him into a van with 14-year-old twin
> girls. At the
> courthouse, the three youngsters were photographed,
> fingerprinted and
> released. Josh described the event with smarminess
> worthy of the most
> self-righteous fundamentalist: "We were smiling for
> Jesus and they
> didn't like that much," he said. Which proves that
> if you get to a kid
> early enough, you can probably have him throwing his
> first firebomb into
> a clinic before he even discovers masturbation. You
> can bet your sweet
> ass he will be combat ready for North Korean duty by
> age eighteen.
>
> My redneck psychotherapist friend Brad Blanton tells
> me that
> militarization and open democratic societies do not
> work together at all
> and produce pathologies at both the individual and
> collective levels.
> Thus we get such conflicted bullshit as the U.S.
> soldiers being kind to
> that Iraqi boy wiggling around in his pus stained
> bed like a bandaged
> grub because an America bomb took off his arms and
> legs. "Attention
> private first class Leroy Rodriquez Jackson! Stand
> forward and give that
> dusky little torso with a head a chocolate bar and a
> Wal-Mart teddy
> bear. And grin for the camera, for Christ sake! Hey
> let's airlift the
> kid to Germany, mount four metal claws on the
> stumps, and hang him on
> the playground monkey bars. Make a great PR shot!
> One thing for sure,
> that one won't ever be driving any suicide car bombs
> into the compound,
> right private?" (Heh, heh,heh!)
>
> But you have to feel sorry for Private Jackson. It
> is his ass that gets
> caught in the disconnect, as he tries to wrap his
> head around how to be
> "lethal and compassionate." As in "Kill the
> motherfuckers, but be loving
> and kind to children as you blow their parents' guts
> out onto the
> sidewalk." People who kill other people are
> desensitized. Humans are
> hardened to the face of suffering; the killing
> becomes reality,
> compassion an abstraction. Private Jackson is
> totally screwed. When he
> does his soldierly duty of causing misery, death and
> maiming, he must do
> it compassionately, according to some hallucination
> generated in the
> Pentagon by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. The
> hallucination is
> transferred through the chain of command until it
> reaches where the
> rubber meets the road---then five privates go on
> trial for hurting an
> enemy they were specifically trained to kill. Anyone
> who has ever been
> in the armed forces understands the certain
> hypocrisy of the proposition.
>
> For some reason though, civilians, smugly ensconced
> in their recliners
> and on barstools, cannot grasp why ignorant kid
> soldiers do horrible
> things during wars. I once defended Lynndie England
> in print and got
> hundreds of emails demonizing the poor Appalachian
> mutt girl, saying
> that she dishonored our "heroes" in Iraq. State
> generated garbage such
> as "Lethal and compassionate" works fine for these
> people, whose entire
> lives have been spent in the controlled environment
> of America's
> industrial military state marketing messages. All
> these post-teens in
> desert camo, the ones making the "good kills," as an
> appropriately
> conducted murder of an Iraqi is deemed military
> parlance, they are
> heroes on the TV news. Funny how you cannot see
> their Clearasil on TV. I
> have never seen as much acne medicine as when I was
> in the military
> during the Nam era, of which this war reminds me
> greatly.
>
> As James Carroll brilliantly put it in "A Nation
> Lost" (Boston Globe
> 4/22/03)
> http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0422-02.htm:
>
> "Photographic celebrations of our young
> warriors, glorifications of
> released American prisoners, heroic rituals of
> the war dead all take
> on the character of crass exploitation of the
> men and women in
> uniform. First they were forced into a dubious
> circumstance, and now
> they are themselves being mythologized as its
> main post-facto
> justification -- as if the United States went to
> Iraq not to seize
> Saddam (disappeared), or to dispose of weapons
> of mass destruction
> (missing), or to save the Iraqi people (chaos),
> but ''to support the
> troops.'' War thus becomes its own
> justification. Such confusion on
> this grave point, as on the others, signifies a
> nation lost."
>
> I just heard that Vern and Sherry's kid, Glen, got
> killed in Iraq. Vern
> and Sherry lived in a log cabin near me on the Coeur
> de Alene
> Reservation in Idaho a couple decades ago, back when
> many white people
> live on little plots inside the res. Vern had
> emphysema, Sherry weighed
> over 300 pounds, and they had a white malamute dog
> named Ike. The
> isolation bothered us older people sometimes, and
> Vern and I drank a lit
> of whiskey during the six winters I lived there.
> Hell it was two miles
> to the mailbox and seven miles to the main road,
> there was no
> electricity, and about the only fun available in
> winter was drinking,
> guitar picking and horse logging when the ground
> froze solid enough. But
> Glen was a little loner and never seemed to mind.
>
> Anyway, Glen, that skinny kid in the fatigues who
> loved to fish and hunt
> and damned near set my cabin on fire once while
> playing with matches, is
> dead. Killed by a roadside IED. And I cannot help
> but think about the
> road that led him to Baghdad. The one that started
> with the deepest love
> of his crippled up ole daddy and ended, right along
> with his chances in
> life, right after high school when there was no
> possibility of college
> and no work within a hundred miles of the
> reservation. The kid was quick
> as a whip, just like his daddy who could draw, do
> calc in his head and
> break horses on those days he had enough wind to
> tackle the job. And
> like his daddy, Glen was born into one of those
> corners of America where
> people are rooted in the earth they were born upon
> and grow up grounded
> enough not to care about making it in the big city
> or imitating what
> they see on television. They also grow up proud of
> their country,
> untroubled by the bitter truths borne by more
> educated people. Their
> notion of patriotism has to do with a sense of place
> and people, blood,
> kin and whatever higher power rustles the branches
> great red fir trees,
> animates both the chipmunk and the mountain lion,
> and stirs fish to leap
> in the rivers. Hard as it will be for urban readers
> to understand, Glen
> was a stone cold country boy of a kind mostly
> vanished from America. The
> real thing. Now he is dead and now the Iraq War has
> plucked the most
> sacred thing from the lives of a poor crippled up
> old man and his huge
> sad wife crying in their shabby little cabin on the
> range above the
> Minneloosa Valley in Idaho. People like Dick Cheney
> or Donald Rumsfeld
> could give a goddamn what I think. In fact, millions
> of fellow Americans
> who support the war could care less what a banged up
> old writer down in
> Virginia thinks. So I know I am yelling into the
> wind. But I think there
> is not one goddamned thing in the entire nation of
> Iraq worth the life
> of that boy.
>
> One wonders just how long the slaughter can be
> sanitized by the state. A
> quarter million young men and women will eventually
> return. At least a
> few of them will speak the truth, though our supine
> media will not hear
> them unless it is sweeps week and they need the
> ratings.
>
> But overall, we can expect more of the same.
> Thousands more dead, blood
> and treasure hemorrhaged on desert sand for the
> satisfaction of an elite
> cult of aging rich men obsessed with power.
> Americans seem not too
> worried. They knowingly reelected the men who
> orchestrated perhaps the
> bloodiest public hoodwinking in American history,
> one spawned in
> secrecy, hatched behind closed doors and launched
> upon the world amid a
> flurry of the most vulgar sort of lies. Lies so
> huge, so brazen that
> even now most Americans simply do not believe anyone
> would have that
> kind of balls. Dick Cheney has said that: "The
> American people will
> continue to support this ongoing effort to establish
> freedom and
> democracy in the world."
>
> Or to put it in the parlance of the dwarves of
> darkness behind the thick
> oval room curtain: "The dumb fucks will never see
> through it."
>
> Copyright 2005 by Joe Bageant
>
> Joe Bageant is a writer and magazine editor living
> in Winchester,
> Virginia. He may be contacted at
> bageantjb@netscape.net
> <mailto:bageantjb@netscape.net>.
>


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What the Bilderberg group talked about at their meeting this year


>
> ... and are planning for the rest of us. It will
> be interesting to
> see how much of the following occurs as time
> marches on this year and
> next.
>
>
>
> Infiltrating Bilderberg 2005
>
> By DANIEL ESTULIN
>
> The annual secret meeting of the Bilderberg group
> determines many of the
> headlines and news developments you will read about
> in the coming
> months. But the Establishment media completely black
> it out. With the
> exception of half-a-dozen high ranking members of
> the press who are
> sworn to secrecy, few have ever heard of the
> exclusive and secretive
> group called The Bilderbergers.
>
> Mainstream news organizations boastful about their
> no-holds barred
> investigative exploits, have been strangely
> reluctant to lift the
> blackout curtain hiding a major event: the
> Bilderberg group's secret
> annual meeting for the world's most powerful
> financiers, industrialists,
> and political figures.
>
> 2005 was a bad year for Bilderberg and its future
> looks gloomy.
> Herculean efforts to keep their meetings secret in
> Rottach-Egern failed
> miserably. Bilderberg's grief is free world´s
> glory-and hope for further
> restraining the power grabbers in the dawn of a new
> millennium.
>
> One certainty is that although Bilderberg Group has
> lost some of its
> past luster, it is meeting under its usual secrecy
> that makes
> freemasonry look like a playgroup. Staff at the
> hotel are photographed
> and put through special clearance. From porters to
> senior managers, the
> employees are warned (under the threat of never
> working in the country
> again) about the consequences of revealing any
> details of the guests to
> the press.
>
> International and national media are said to be
> welcome only when an
> oath of silence has been taken, news editors are
> held responsible if any
> of their journalists 'inadvertently' report on what
> takes place.
>
> While Bush, Blair, Chirac, Berlusconi and Company
> attended the G8
> summits of the world's foremost democratically
> elected leaders, they
> were accompanied by the massed ranks of the world
> media. In stark
> contrast, the comings and goings at Bilderberg take
> place under cover of
> a virtual publicity black-out.
>
> The discussions they will engage in this year from
> deciding how the
> world should deal with European-American relations,
> the Middle East
> powder keg, the Iraq war, the global economy and how
> to stave off war in
> Iran, and the consensus they reach, will influence
> the course of Western
> civilization and the future of the entire planet.
> This meeting takes
> place behind closed doors in total secrecy,
> protected by a phalanx of
> armed guards.
>
> What was on Bilderberg´s 2005 agenda?
>
> After three straight years of open hostilities and
> tension amongst the
> European, British and American Bilderbergers caused
> by the war in Iraq,
> the aura of complete congeniality amongst them has
> returned.
> Bilderbergers have reaffirmed and remain united in
> their long-term goal
> to strengthen the role the UN plays in regulating
> global conflicts and
> relations.
>
> However, it is important to understand that
> Americans are no more the
> "Hawks" than the European Bilderbergers the "Doves".
> Europeans joined in
> supporting the 1991 invasion of Iraq by President
> Bush father,
> celebrating, in the words of one notable Bilderberg
> hunter the end of
> "America's Vietnam syndrome." Europeans also
> supported former President
> Bill Clinton's invasion of Yugoslavia, bringing NATO
> into the operation.
>
> A much-discussed subject in 2005 at Rottach-Egern
> was the concept of
> imposing a direct UN tax on people worldwide through
> a direct tax on oil
> at the wellhead. This, in fact, sets a precedent. If
> enacted, it will be
> the first time, when a non-governmental agency, read
> the United Nations,
> directly benefits from a tax on citizens of free and
> enslaved nations.
>
> Bilderberger proposal calls for a tiny UN levy at
> the outset which the
> consumer would hardly notice. Jim Tucker of the
> court-killed Spotlight
> magazine years ago wrote "establishing the principle
> that the UN can
> directly tax citizens of the world is important to
> Bilderberg. It is
> another giant step toward world government.
> Bilderbergers know that
> publicly promoting a UN tax on all people on Earth
> would meet with
> outrage. But they are patient; it first proposed a
> direct world tax
> years ago and celebrates the fact that it is now in
> the public dialogue
> with little public attention or concern."
>
> Bilderberg wants "tax harmonization" so high-tax
> countries could compete
> with more tax-friendly nations-including the United
> States-for foreign
> investment. They would "harmonize" taxes by forcing
> the rate in the
> United States and other countries to rise so that
> socialist Sweden's
> 58-percent level would be "competitive."
>
> NGOs
>
> The rise of the NGOs, a development former President
> Clinton suddenly
> [one day after it was discussed at Rottach-Egern]
> calls one of "the most
> remarkable things that have happened since the fall
> of the Berlin Wall."
> Ironically, Clinton´s statement was picked up by The
> Wall Street
> Journal, a paper always represented at the
> Bilderberg meetings by Robert
> L. Bartley, its Vice President and Paul Gigot,
> editorial page editor.
>
> The Bilderbergers have been vigorously debating to
> have, for the first
> time, unelected, self-appointed, environmental
> activists be given a
> position of governmental authority on the governing
> board of the agency
> which controls the use of atmosphere, outer space,
> the oceans, and, for
> all practical purposes, biodiversity. This
> invitation for "civil
> society" to participate in global governance is
> described as expanding
> democracy.
>
> According to sources within Bilderberg, the status
> of NGOs would be
> elevated even further in the future. The NGO
> activity would include
> agitation at the local level, lobbying at the
> national level, producing
> studies to justify global taxation through UN
> organizations such as
> Global Plan, one of Bilderberg´s pet projects for
> over a decade. The
> strategy to advance the global governance agenda
> specifically includes
> programs to discredit individuals and organizations
> that generate
> "internal political pressure" or "populist action"
> that fails to support
> the new global ethic. The ultimate objective,
> according to the source,
> being to suppress democracy.
>
> The United Nations Environment Programme, along with
> all the
> environmental treaties under its jurisdiction, would
> ultimately be
> governed by a special body of environmental
> activists, chosen only from
> accredited NGOs appointed by delegates to the
> General Assembly who are
> themselves appointed by the President of the United
> States, who is
> controlled by the Rockefeller-CFR-Bilderberg
> interlocking leadership
>
> This new mechanism would provide a direct route from
> the local,
> "on-the-ground" NGO affiliates of national and
> international NGOs to the
> highest levels of global governance. For example:
> The Greater
> Yellowstone Coalition, a group of affiliated NGOs,
> recently petitioned
> the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO asking for
> intervention in the
> plans of a private company to mine gold on private
> land near Yellowstone
> Park. The UNESCO Committee did intervene, and
> immediately listed
> Yellowstone as a "World Heritage Site in Danger."
> Under the terms of the
> World Heritage Convention, the United States is
> required to protect the
> park, even beyond the borders of the park, and onto
> private lands if
> necessary.
>
> The ideas being discussed, if implemented, will
> bring all the people of
> the world into a global neighbourhood managed by a
> world-wide
> bureaucracy, under the direct authority of a minute
> handful of appointed
> individuals, and policed by thousands of
> individuals, paid by accredited
> NGOs, certified to support a belief system, which to
> many people - is
> unbelievable and unacceptable.
>
> Elections in Britain
>
> Bilderbergers are celebrating the result it wanted.
> The return of a much
> humbled Tony Blair to 10 Downing Street with a much
> reduced
> parliamentary majority. European Bilderbergers are
> still angry at him
> for supporting America´s war in Iraq. While teaching
> Blair a useful
> lesson in international politics, Bilderbergers feel
> he is a far safer
> candidate to continue on the path of European
> integration than his
> conservative rival Michael Howard.
> Neo-conservative agenda
>
> In full force was that faction known as the
> so-called
> "neo-conservatives"--those who have determined that
> Israel's security
> should come at the expense of the safety to the
> United States and be
> central to all U.S. foreign policy decisions.
>
> Most notable among this group is the Israeli spy
> Richard Perle, who was
> investigated by the FBI for espionage on behalf of
> Israel. Perle played
> the critical role in pushing the United States into
> the war against
> Iraq. He was forced to resign from the Pentagon´s
> Defense Policy Board,
> on March 27, 2003 after it was learned that he had
> been advising Goldman
> Sachs International, a habitual Bilderberg attendee,
> on how it might
> profit from the war in Iraq.
>
> Another neo-conservative figure on hand was Michael
> A. Ledeen, an
> "intellectual´s intellectual." Ledeen serves for the
> American Enterprise
> Institute, a think-tank founded in 1943, with which
> Richard Perle has
> long been associated. AEI and the Brookings
> Institution operate a Joint
> Center for Regulatory Studies (JCRS) with the
> purpose of holding
> lawmakers and regulators "accountable for their
> decisions by providing
> thoughtful, objective analyses of existing
> regulatory programs and new
> regulatory proposals." The JCRS pushes for
> cost-benefit analysis of
> regulations, which fits with AEI's (and
> Bilderberger) ultimate goal of
> deregulation.
>
> These neo-conservatives were also joined this year
> at Bilderberg by a
> handful of other top former Washington policy makers
> and publicists
> known for their sympathies for Israel, including
> former State Department
> official Richard N. Haas, president of the CFR,
> former Assistant
> Secretary of State and "father" of the Dayton
> accord, Richard Holbrooke,
> and Dennis Ross of the pro-Israel Washington
> Institute for Near East
> Policy, effectively an offshoot of the America
> Israel Public Affairs
> Committee (AIPAC) and JINSA as well as the newly
> elected World Bank
> president Paul Wolfowitz.
>
> Dennis Ross, Richard N. Perle, and company are
> itching to "transfer"­
> translation: to ethnically cleanse ­ as many
> Palestinians from the West
> Bank and Gaza as possible. "Israel should have
> exploited the repression
> of the demonstrations in China, when world attention
> focused on that
> country, to carry out mass expulsions among the
> Arabs of the
> territories," former Prime Minister Netanyahu told
> students at Bar-Ilan
> University in 1989. The residents of the European
> Community may be
> clueless about the intentions of Zionists toward the
> Palestinians, but
> in Israel, to my astonishment, ethnic cleansing is a
> popular subject of
> discussion. Fifty percent or more of Israelis think
> ethnic cleansing is
> a good idea. This from a nation that supposedly
> remembers the Holocaust.
> Fiction, is indeed stranger than the truth.
>
> Energy
>
> An American Bilderberger expressed concern over the
> sky-rocketing price
> of oil. One oil industry insider at the meeting
> remarked that growth is
> not possible without energy and that according to
> all indicators,
> world's energy supply is coming to an end much
> faster than the world
> leaders have anticipated. According to sources,
> Bilderbergers estimate
> the extractable world's oil supply to be at a
> maximum of 35 years under
> current economic development and population.
> However, one of the
> representatives of an oil cartel remarked that we
> must factor into the
> equation, both the population explosion and economic
> growth and demand
> for oil in China and India. Under the revised
> conditions, there is
> apparently only enough oil to last for 20 years. No
> oil spells the end
> of the world's financial system. So much has already
> been acknowledged
> by The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times,
> two periodicals who
> are regularly present at the annual Bilderberg
> conference.
>
> Conclusion: Expect a severe downturn in the world's
> economy over the
> next two years as Bilderbergers try to safeguard the
> remaining oil
> supply by taking money out of people's hands. In a
> recession or, at
> worst, a depression, the population will be forced
> to dramatically cut
> down their spending habits, thus ensuring a longer
> supply of oil to the
> world's rich as they try to figure out what to do.
>
> During the afternoon cocktail, European Bilderberger
> noted that there is
> no plausible alternative to hydrocarbon energy. One
> American insider
> stated that currently the world uses between four
> and six barrels of oil
> for every new barrel it finds and that the prospects
> for a short term
> break through are slim, at best.
>
> Someone asked for an estimate to the world´s
> accessible conventional oil
> supply. The amount was quoted at approximately one
> trillion barrels. As
> a side note of interest, the planet consumes a
> billion barrels of oil
> every 11.5 days.
>
> Another Bilderberger asked about hydrogen
> alternative to the oil supply.
> The US government official agreed gloomily that
> hydrogen salvation to
> the world´s eminent energy crisis is a fantasy.
>
> This confirms public statement made in 2003 by HIS,
> the world´s most
> respected consulting firm cataloguing oil reserved
> and discoveries that
> for the first time since the 1920s there was not a
> single discovery of
> an oil field in excess of 500 million barrels.
>
> The oil industry at the 2005 Bilderberg conference
> was represented by
> John Browne, BP´s Chief Executive Officer, John
> Kerr, Director Royal
> Dutch Shell, Peter D. Sutherland, BP Chairman and
> Jeroen van der Veer,
> Chairman Committee of Managing Directors Royal Dutch
> Shell.
>
> It should be remembered that in late 2003, oil giant
> Royal Dutch Shell,
> announced that it had overstated its reserved by as
> much as 20 percent.
> Queen Beatrix of Holland, Royal Dutch Shell´s
> principal shareholder is a
> full fledged member of the Bilderbergers. Her
> father, prince Bernhard
> was one of the founders of the group back in 1954.
> The Los Angeles Times
> reported that "For petroleum firms, reserves amount
> to nothing less that
> ´the value of the company´. In fact, Shell cut its
> reserve estimates not
> once, but three times, prompting the resignation of
> its co-chairman. At
> Rottach-Egern, in May 2005, industry's top
> executives tried to figure
> out how to keep the truth about diminishing oil
> reserves from reaching
> the public. Public knowledge of the diminishing
> reserved directly
> translates into lower share prices, which could
> destroy financial
> markets, leading to a collapse of the world economy.
> EU referendum in France
>
> The first day of secret meetings at Bilderberg 2005
> was dominated by
> talk of EU referendum in France and whether Chirac
> can persuade France
> to vote Yes on May 29. A Yes vote, according to
> sources within
> Bilderberg would put a lot of pressure on Tony Blair
> to finally deliver
> Britain into the waiting arms of the New World Order
> through their own
> referendum on the treaty scheduled for 2006.
> Matthias Nass wondered out
> load that a No vote in France could undoubtedly
> cause political turmoil
> in Europe and overshadow Britain's six-month EU
> presidency starting on
> July 1. Bilderbergers, hope that Blair and Chirac,
> whose at times open
> animosity has spilled into a public arena on more
> than one occasion, can
> work together for mutual benefit and political
> survival. Another
> European Bilderberger added that both leaders must
> put behind them as
> quickly as possible all past disputes on such topics
> as Iraq, the
> liberalization of Europe´s economy and the future of
> budget rebate
> Britain receives from the EU and work towards
> complete European
> integration, which could desintigrate if France´s
> often "hard-headed and
> obstinate people", in the words of a British
> Bilderberger, do not do the
> right thing, meaning give up voluntarily their
> independence for the
> "greater good" of a Federal European super state!
>
> A German Bilderberger insider said that France´s Yes
> vote is in trouble
> because of the "outsourcing of jobs. Jobs in Germany
> and France are
> going to Asia and Ukraine," [to take advantage of
> cheap labour.] Ukraine
> is one of the former Soviet republics that have been
> admitted to the
> European Union bringing the total membership to 25
> nations. A German
> politician wondered out loud how Tony Blair shall go
> about convincing
> Britons to embrace the European Constitution when
> due to the outsourcing
> of jobs, both Germany and France are suffering a 10%
> unemployment while
> Britain is doing well economically.
>
> USA criminals
>
> A USA law called Logan Act, states explicitly that
> it is against the law
> for federal officials to attend secret meetings with
> private citizens to
> develop public policies. Although Bilderberg 2005
> was missing one of its
> luminaries, US State Department official John Bolton
> who was testifying
> before Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the
> American government was
> well represented in Rottach-Egern by Alan Hubbard,
> assistant to the
> president for economic policy and director of the
> National Economic
> Council; William Luti, deputy under secretary of
> defence; James
> Wolfensohn, outgoing president of the World Bank and
> Paul Wolfowitz,
> deputy secretary of state, an ideologue of the Iraq
> war and incoming
> president of the World Bank. By attending Bilderberg
> 2005 meeting, these
> people are breaking Federal laws of the United
> States.
>
> Auna Telecomunicaciones
>
> At a Saturday night cocktail [May 7] at the
> luxurious Dorint Sofitel
> Seehotel Ãœberfahrt in Rottach-Egern, Bavaria,
> Munich, several
> Bilderbergers sharing the standing bar with Queen
> Beatrix of Holland and
> Donald Graham, Washington Post´s CEO were discussing
> the up-coming sale
> of Spanish telecommunications and cable giant Auna.
> Auna operates fixed
> line telephone services, a mobile-phone network,
> cable television system
> and is also an Internet provider. One of the
> Bilderbergers familiar with
> the matter [believed to be Henry Kravis, based on
> the physical
> description of the source at the meeting] stated
> that Auna´s mobile
> operations could bring in some 10 billion euros
> including debt, while
> another Bilderberger, a tall man with a receding
> hairline added that its
> fixed-line assets could fetch some 2.6 billion
> euros. Sources close to
> the Bilderbergers have stated off-the-record that
> Kohlberg Kravis
> Roberts & Co, a private-equity firm is interested in
> buying all of Auna.
> An abundance of cheap credit and low interest rates
> have made Auna an
> appetising target for private-equity buyers.
>
> Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co is represented at
> Bilderberg meetings by
> its luminary billionaire Henry Kravis and his small
> town Quebec-born
> wife Marie Joseé Kravis, a Senior Fellow at the
> neoconservative
> organization Hudson Institute.
>
> Conclusions: Expect favourable coverage and support
> for Kohlberg Kravis
> Roberts & Co from Grupo Prisa whose Consejero
> Delegado Juan Luis Cebrian
> always attends super secret Bilderberg meetings. In
> case Kravis fails to
> put together a competitive bid, then expect the same
> favourable coverage
> for Goldman Sachs Group, whose Martin Taylor is
> Bilderbergers Honorary
> Secretary General and whose other Bilderberger,
> Peter Sutherland is
> Goldman Sachs´ Chairman as well as Trilateral
> Commission´s European
> Chairman. In the past, exposing Bilderberg meetings
> has provided advance
> warning-months ahead of the mainstream media-of U.S.
> Iraqi invasion, tax
> increases, and the downfall of Margaret Thatcher as
> prime minister of
> Britain.
>
> Indonesia-Malaysia stand-off
>
> A political and military confrontation between these
> two nations in the
> petroleum-rich Sulawesi Sea [both claim the oil-rich
> area of Ambalat as
> their territorial rights] was the topic of a much
> animated discussion
> amongst several American and European Bilderbergers
> during an afternoon
> cocktail. An American Bilderberger waving his cigar
> suggested using the
> UN to "further a peace policy in the region". In
> fact, Bilderbergers at
> the lounge table all agreed that such a conflict
> might well give them an
> excuse to garrison the disputed area with UN
> "Peacekeepers" and thus
> ensure their ultimate control over the exploitation
> of this treasure,
> meaning untapped oil reserves.
>
> China
>
> European and American Bilderbergers realising the
> most urgent of needs
> to expand into developing markets in order to help
> sustain the illusion
> of endless growth have agreed to name Pascal Lamy, a
> French Socialist
> and a fanatical supporter of a European super state
> as the next WTO
> President. It will be remembered that Washington
> gave a conditional
> support to Lamy´s nomination in exchange to European
> support of Paul
> Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank. According to
> insider sources within
> the Bilderberger group, Lamy was chosen to help
> steer the global trading
> system through a time of rising protectionist
> sentiment in rich
> countries such as France and Germany, both reeling
> from high
> unemployment and reticent to increasingly muscular
> demands for market
> assess from emerging economies. Third World states,
> for example, are
> insisting on cuts to EU and US farm subsidies. The
> WTO liberalization
> drive collapsed in acrimony in Seattle in 1999 and
> again in Cancun in
> 2003. The Bilderbergers have secretly agreed on the
> need to force the
> poor countries into a globalized market for cheap
> goods while
> simultaneously forcing the poor into becoming
> customers. The current
> rift with China is a good example, as the Chinese
> have flooded the
> Western countries with cheap goods, amongst them
> textiles, driving down
> prices. As a trade off, the Bilderbergers have
> entered into an emerging
> market ripe and vulnerable to superior western
> know-how. Similar
> develop-ing countries are slowly acquiring more
> purchasing power and the
> industrialized world is gaining a foothold in their
> domestic economies
> by targeting them for cheap exports.
>
> * * *
>
> One can't help but wonder, when the Bilderberg
> organisers, Rockefeller,
> Kissinger, Queen Beatrix and the rest have completed
> their project of
> enclosing all global goods and services into their
> own hands. What then?
> Francisco Goya´s Plate 79 of Disasters
>
<http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/goya/9g/92/79disast.html>
> shows
> the fair maid of Liberty flat on her back, bosom
> exposed. Ghostly
> figures play about the corpse while monks dig her
> grave. Truth has died.
> Murió la verdad. How is that for an alternative?
> Forewarned is
> forearmed. We will never find the right answers if
> we can't ask the
> proper questions.
>
> Daniel Estulin is a political commentator living in
> Madrid, author of
> four books on communication skills. He can be
> reached at:
> d.estulin@ctconsultoria.com
> <mailto:d.estulin@ctconsultoria.com>
>


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Akashic Records Book of Life - Edgar Cayce

> An interesting site...gives much food for thought
> http://www.edgarcayce.org/about_ec/cayce_on/akashic/


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Newsday.com: If only first lady were the last to know

>
> The following Newsday article tells the truth. Why
> bother to tell
> Duhmbya anything in a time of crisis? He isn't the
> one who really runs
> things, as most of us know by now. Mostly, he just
> runs...and
> bikes...and plays...and occasionally chokes on a
> pretzel. As long as he
> stays out of the way most of the time, the neocons
> (Cheney, Wolfowitz,
> Perle) have their say about how things are run in
> the country. Of
> course, they have to put the Duhmbya up in front of
> the people some of
> the time, just to keep the rabble fooled, but they
> always hold their
> breath--and make sure he doesn't really answer any
> questions. They give
> him pabulum messages that never address the actual
> question--he
> memorizes them and delivers them as best he can
> (with many stumbles and
> bumbles) and then, like Porky Pig, quickly tells the
> reporters
> "Th..th...th....th...that's all, folks." A few of
> their messages don't
> serve completely, however--and occasionally, Duhmbya
> tries to answer
> someone's question all by himself. He tried that in
> Florida, when a
> woman asked him to explain his proposed changes to
> Social Security so
> she could understand it. His answer demonstrated
> perfectly that Duhmbya
> doesn't understand it (or anything else), either.
> If he is allowed to
> speak off the cuff without his management system
> around him, this is the
> kind of thing we hear:
>
> BUSH: Because the -- all which is on the table
> begins to address the big
> cost drivers. For example, how benefits are
> calculate, for example, is
> on the table; whether or not benefits rise based
> upon wage increases or
> price increases. There's a series of parts of the
> formula that are being
> considered. And when you couple that, those
> different cost drivers,
> affecting those -- changing those with personal
> accounts, the idea is to
> get what has been promised more likely to be -- or
> closer delivered to
> what has been promised.
>
> Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of
> muddled. Look, there's a
> series of things that cause the -- like, for
> example, benefits are
> calculated based upon the increase of wages, as
> opposed to the increase
> of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate --
> the benefits will
> rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage
> increases. There is a
> reform that would help solve the red if that were
> put into effect. In
> other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the
> promised benefits
> grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, it
> will help on the red.
>
> Okay, better? I'll keep working on it.
>
> (Makes you proud to call him our president, doesn't
> it? We were lucky
> Condi Rice was sitting beside him when, in talking
> with Brazilian
> president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Bush
> surprisingly asked: "Do you
> have Blacks in your country, too?" Condi had to
> rescue the situation.
> She noticed how stunned and surprised Cardoso looked
> and quickly told
> Bush that Brazil likely has more blacks than the US
> and that outside of
> Africa it was the place with the highest number of
> blacks in the world.
> The Brazilian president remarked later that Bush was
> "still in a
> learning-phase" when it came to South
> America."--Yeah, and when it comes
> to most everything else, too.)
>
>
>
>
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-oppay284282055may29,0,3856459,print.column


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Here Big Kitty


>
>
> Here Kitty Kitty Kitty ! THAT'S A
> BIG CAT !
>
>
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>
> The 10ft Liger who's still growing...
> He looks like something from a prehistoric age or a
> fantastic creation
> from Hollywood. But Hercules is very much living
> flesh and blood - as he
> proves every time he opens his gigantic mouth to
> roar. Part lion, part
> tiger, he is not just a big cat but a huge
> one,standing 10ft tall on his
> back legs. Called a liger, in reference to his
> crossbreed parentage, he
> is the largest of all the cat species.
>
> On a typical day he will devour 20lb of meat,
> usually beef or chicken,
> and is capable of eating 100lb at a single sitting.
> At just three years
> old, Hercules already weighs half a ton.
>
> He is the accidental result of two enormous big cats
> living close
> together at the Institute of Greatly Endangered and
> Rare Species, in
> Miami, Florida, and already dwarfs both his parents.
> "Ligers are not something we planned on having,"
> said institute owner Dr
> Bhagavan Antle. "We have lions and tigers living
> together in large
> enclosures and at first we had no idea how well one
> of
> the lion boys was getting along with a tiger girl,
> then lo and behold we
> had a liger."
>
> 50mph runner... Not only that, but he likes to swim,
> a feat unheard of
> among water-fearing lions. In the wild it is
> virtually impossible for
> lions and tigers to mate. Not only are they enemies
> likely to kill one
> another, but most lions are in Africa and most
> tigers in Asia. But
> incredible though he is, Hercules is not unique.
> Ligers have been bred
> in captivity, deliberately and accidentally, since
> shortly before World
> War II.
>
> Today there are believed to be a handful of ligers
> around the world and
> a similar number of tigons, the product of a tiger
> father and lion
> mother. Tigons are smaller than ligers and take on
> more physical
> characteristics of the tiger.
>
> Famous cross-breeds
>
>
> Look at the size of the head on this cat.. )
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>
> <http://www.incredimail.com/index.asp?id=54475>
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Saturday, May 28, 2005

Psychiatrist talks about anti-depressant drugs

http://www.nomorefakenews.com/archives/archiveview.php?key=2631

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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Reply from Helen Thomas

>
> thank you for the kind words; I think for McClellan
> to stand there and
> say we were in Iraq and Afghanistan at their
> invitation is
> unconscionable---helent
>
> -----Original Message-----

> Subject: GOOD FOR YOU, HELEN!!! MORE POWER TO
> YOU!
>
> I just read that you peppered Scott McClellan
> today with important
> questions about Iraq and Afghanistan: "Did
> they invite us?" (GOOD
> question!)
>
> But of course, being the disgrace that he is,
> McClellan ignored you
> and tried to put you down. I don't know how you
> even got called on,
> Helen, since they sat you in the last row behind
> the potted
> plants--but God bless you for persisting! Too
> many of your
> journalistic colleagues have either gone over to
> the Bush camp--or
> are lying down and presenting themselves as
> doormats for BushCo to
> wipe their feet on. I suspect this is because
> many of them are
> under command from their corporate hierarchy who
> are Bush
> buddies--receiving all those great tax cuts.
>
> Journalistic integrity, for the most part in our
> country, has been
> sullied beyond recognition. You stand out as a
> shining light amidst
> the dark and forlorn mess that our "fourth
> estate" has sadly
> become. The Jeff Gannon/James Guckert episode
> alone was enough to
> do it and the Bush White House in--but, just
> like all other
> revelatory events in this administration, it was
> glossed over by the
> mainstream media.
>
> I hope you have become friends with Ron Reagan,
> Jr. and Keith
> Olbermann. I would love to see them interview
> you on MSNBC. They
> seem to feel the same about most things as you
> and half of our
> nation's people do. Unfortunately, we are the
> half that no one
> listens to, as BushCo takes us further and
> further into darkness on
> every important issue of the day:
> environmentalism, science
> technology, women's rights, etc., etc.
>
> The Republicans own our government--all three
> branches, and I
> believe they got there through vote fraud that
> was not pursued by
> Kerry/Edwards in Ohio and Florida. That was a
> major
> disappointment--that the Democratic candidates
> would not fight for
> those votes when we, the people, had done so
> much to try to get them
> elected. They let us down--and worse, they let
> the country down.
> Do you see Election Reform being addressed now,
> in preparation for
> the 2006 mid-term elections? No, neither do I.
> It looks like we
> will have to take the word of the Diebold CEO
> once again, with still
> no paper trails to check on the Diebold voting
> machines, that (as he
> promised Bush in 2004) "I will deliver Ohio to
> you, Mr. Bush."
> Which he certainly did.
>
> I fear, Helen, that the Republicans will
> continue to own the
> government if no election reforms are
> undertaken. They will be able
> to manipulate the vote however they want it.
> And the Democrat wimps
> will continue to lie still for it. I am almost
> 70 years old now,
> and I don't fear for myself, but for my children
> and grandchildren.
> The world they live in is so different from the
> one in which I grew
> up....and the changes have not been for the
> better.
>
> Whatever has happened to our country? Where are
> the Mr. Smiths when
> you most need them in Washington? The words to
> Where Have All the
> Flowers Gone echo in my mind: "Gone to
> graveyards every one...Oh,
> when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they
> ever learn?"
>
> Keep up the good work, Helen. After today, you
> will probably never
> again be called on by Scott McClellan--and they
> may just move your
> seat out into the hallway. But you have
> guts--and courage--and good
> common sense! All of which are sadly lacking in
> the majority of
> journalists today. I wish we could clone you
> and put you on the
> staff of every major news organization in
> America. May your tribe
> increase!
>
> Sincerely,

> Santa Cruz, California
>
>
>

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

My Letter to Newsweek


> I am not renewing my subscription to Newsweek....I
> just sent them the
> following snail-mail message, using their
> postage-paid envelope.
>
>
> 5/25/05
>
> To Whomever It May Concern at Newsweek:
>
> I do not want to renew my subscription to a magazine
> that bows and
> scrapes before the worst president our country has
> ever suffered under.
>
> I am thoroughly disgusted with Newsweek for dancing
> to Bush's tune and
> apologizing for telling the truth about American
> soldier/torturers
> flushing pages of prisoners' Korans down the toilet.
> It is simply
> amazing to me that, given the torture of prisoners
> that has been
> proven--even torture unto death--by Americans, that
> anyone would doubt
> the story you received from an "anonymous source,"
> especially since the
> same story has been verified and printed in other
> places by other
> journalists. And, then to blame you, the messenger,
> for increasing
> Muslim hatred against Americans! What hypocrisy!!
> The Bush
> administration and its murderous bullying tactics
> are the reason America
> is hated around the world. It is typical of the
> hypocrites who now
> occupy and own all three branches of our government
> to point to others
> in order to take attention away from their own
> abuses. That Newsweek
> is helping them to do so by your abject apology is
> unconscionable. You
> are contributing to the rise of a fascist regime
> here in
> America--something we all thought would never be
> possible in our country!
>
> I am ashamed that our fourth estate, upon whom we
> the people of the
> United States have depended to air the truth and
> keep us informed, has
> deserted its post and has laid itself down as a
> doormat for Bush/Cheney
> and Company to wipe their feet on. Newsweek, in its
> embarrassing
> obsequiousness to BushCo, is no longer on my reading
> list. I have
> relegated it to the garbage along with Time, Fox
> News, and most of the
> newspapers in our country today. I now get my news
> from the U.K., where
> I can still trust them to tell the truth. James
> Galloway, in his
> appearance before Norman Coleman's committee, is my
> idea of what our
> journalists should be doing and saying. But,
> pitifully, they have given
> up their once independent voice and have knuckled
> under to the commands
> of their corporate owners, most of whom are bosom
> buddies of BushCo.
>
> DO NOT RENEW MY SUBSCRIPTION!!!!!
>
>
>
>
>

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GOOD FOR YOU, HELEN!!! MORE POWER TO YOU!


>
> I just wrote to Helen Thomas regarding her
> confrontation with Scott
> McClellan today at the White House press conference
> (see the article
> about it below my letter). I think we should
> encourage those
> journalists who dare to stand up against the BushCo
> Empire. BushCo and
> their propaganda pipelines (Drudge, Fox News) make
> fun of Helen, but I
> think she is one of the most courageous journalists
> in our nation
> today. She tells it like it is. I see her and
> Molly Ivins in the same
> league, and thank God for them and their persistence
> in telling the
> truth. If anyone else wants to send her an e-mail,
> her address is
> hthomas@hearstdc.com. Here's my letter to Helen:
>
> I just read that you peppered Scott McClellan today
> with important
> questions about Iraq and Afghanistan: "Did they
> invite us?" (GOOD
> question!)
>
> But of course, being the disgrace that he is,
> McClellan ignored you and
> tried to put you down. I don't know how you even
> got called on, Helen,
> since they sat you in the last row behind the potted
> plants--but God
> bless you for persisting! Too many of your
> journalistic colleagues have
> either gone over to the Bush camp--or are lying down
> and presenting
> themselves as doormats for BushCo to wipe their feet
> on. I suspect this
> is because many of them are under command from their
> corporate hierarchy
> who are Bush buddies--receiving all those great tax
> cuts.
>
> Journalistic integrity, for the most part in our
> country, has been
> sullied beyond recognition. You stand out as a
> shining light amidst the
> dark and forlorn mess that our "fourth estate" has
> sadly become. The
> Jeff Gannon/James Guckert episode alone was enough
> to do it and the Bush
> White House in--but, just like all other revelatory
> events in this
> administration, it was glossed over by the
> mainstream media.
>
> I hope you have become friends with Ron Reagan, Jr.
> and Keith
> Olbermann. I would love to see them interview you
> on MSNBC. They seem
> to feel the same about most things as you and half
> of our nation's
> people do. Unfortunately, we are the half that no
> one listens to, as
> BushCo takes us further and further into darkness on
> every important
> issue of the day: environmentalism, science
> technology, women's rights,
> etc., etc.
>
> The Republicans own our government--all three
> branches, and I believe
> they got there through vote fraud that was not
> pursued by Kerry/Edwards
> in Ohio and Florida. That was a major
> disappointment--that the
> Democratic candidates would not fight for those
> votes when we, the
> people, had done so much to try to get them elected.
> They let us
> down--and worse, they let the country down. Do you
> see Election Reform
> being addressed now, in preparation for the 2006
> mid-term elections?
> No, neither do I. It looks like we will have to
> take the word of the
> Diebold CEO once again, with still no paper trails
> to check on the
> Diebold voting machines, that (as he promised Bush
> in 2004) "I will
> deliver Ohio to you, Mr. Bush." Which he certainly
> did.
>
> I fear, Helen, that the Republicans now own the
> government and will
> continue to own it if no election reforms are
> undertaken. They will be
> able to manipulate the vote however they want it.
> And the Democrat
> wimps will continue to lie still for it. I am
> almost 70 years old now,
> and I don't fear for myself, but for my children and
> grandchildren. The
> world they live in is so different from the one in
> which I grew
> up....and the changes have not been for the better.
>
> Whatever has happened to our country? Where are the
> Mr. Smiths when you
> most need them in Washington? The words to Where
> Have All the Flowers
> Gone echo in my mind: "Gone to graveyards every
> one...Oh, when will
> they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?"
>
> Keep up the good work, Helen. After today, you will
> probably never
> again be called on by Scott McClellan--and they may
> just move your seat
> out into the hallway. But you have guts--and
> courage--and good common
> sense! All of which are sadly lacking in the
> majority of journalists
> today. I wish we could clone you and put you on the
> staff of every
> major news organization in America. May your tribe
> increase!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Eileen Maceri
> Santa Cruz, California
>
>
**********************************************************
> Helen Thomas today ripped into White House spokesman
> Scott McClellan
> over his claims that the United States is in
> Afghanistan and Iraq -- by
> invitation.
>
>
> Q The other day -- in fact, this week, you said that
> we, the United
> States, are in Afghanistan and Iraq by invitation.
> Would you like to
> correct that incredible distortion of American
> history --
>
> MR. McCLELLAN: No, we are -- that's where we
> currently --
>
> Q -- in view of your credibility that is already
> mired? How can you say
> that?
>
> MR. McCLELLAN: Helen, I think everyone in this room
> knows that you're
> taking that comment out of context. There are two
> democratically-elected
> governments in Iraq and --
>
> Q Were we invited into Iraq?
>
> MR. McCLELLAN: There are two democratically-elected
> governments now in
> Iraq and Afghanistan, and we are there at their
> invitation. They are
> sovereign governments, and we are there today --
>
> Q You mean if they had asked us out, that we would
> have left?
>
> MR. McCLELLAN: No, Helen, I'm talking about today.
> We are there at their
> invitation. They are sovereign governments --
>
> Q I'm talking about today, too.
>
> MR. McCLELLAN: -- and we are doing all we can to
> train and equip their
> security forces so that they can provide for their
> own security as they
> move forward on a free and democratic future.
>
> Q Did we invade those countries?
>
> MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead, Steve.
>
>
>


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The Madness of George W. Bush By Paul Levy


> See what you think. In my opinion, the following is
> one of the best
> analyses of Bush and Company that I have yet read.
> I know I sent this
> one around before, but it is SO worth a second
> round! The sad thing is
> that the people who would most benefit from reading
> and understanding
> this are unable to comprehend it. In reading it,
> they would lash out
> and call it psychological nonsense (or worse).
> So...what ya' gonna' do,
> folks? They will have to learn by sad experience.
> The bad thing is, by
> their support of the Bush regime, they are forcing
> the rest of us to
> endure the harsh lessons of living under the rule of
> Mad Emperor Bush
> and Company, just as the supporters of Hitler
> condemned the rest of the
> Germans. I think those of us who agree with this
> analysis have already
> learned those lessons--most probably in previous
> lifetimes. Oh
> well....here we go again!
> http://www.alternativesmagazine.com/31/levy.html
>


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Great column about bigotry by Molly ivins


> Hooray for Senfronia Thompson! Boo! Hiss! to the
> Texas Legislature!
> Once again they have dismissed the pressing real
> issues that await their
> attention--and have ruled in favor of bigotry
> because of fear-based
> politics. What a sad, sad world we live in. As
> Molly says, we should
> keep in mind that whatever lunacy is going on in
> Texas will eventually
> sweep the country. With Dubya at the nation's helm,
> I have no doubt of
> that.
>
>
> Published on Tuesday, May 24, 2005
>
<http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=19098>


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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Remedy for an insane policy -- Test all beef for mad cow

Remedy for an insane policy -- Test all
> beef for mad cow
>
>
>
> Another controversial subject on which Dr. Lull took
> a firm stand.
>
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/14/EDG8Q6L1OH1.DTL

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Fwd: SAN FRANCISCO / Doctor stabbed to death / Police hope killer left DNA at scene

SAN FRANCISCO / Doctor stabbed to death /
> Police hope killer left
> DNA at scene
>
>
>
> Is it just a coincidence that this doctor has been
> warning about the
> dangers of flame retardants in our everyday
> materials? In mothers'
> breast milk? I'll send his article re. this in the
> next e-mail.
>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/20/SFSLAY.TMP


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Monday, May 23, 2005

PLEASE SIGN THIS EMERGENCY PETITION NOW

> Hi!
>
> I just signed MoveOn PAC's emergency petition to
> stop the "nuclear
> option" the far right wing's plan to seize absolute
> power to stack our
> courts -� and I hope you will sign too.
>
> Starting Monday, the petition will be delivered
> straight to Congress
> every three hours until the final vote, and many of
> our comments will be
> read aloud on the Senate floor.
>
> Please sign right now at:
>
> http://www.moveonpac.org/nuclear
>
> Why is this an emergency?
>
> This Tuesday, the Senate will vote on Republican
> Leader Bill Frist's
> "nuclear option" to break the rules of the Senate
> and give the
> Republican Party absolute control over appointing
> federal judges.
>
> For 200 years the minority's right to filibuster has
> kept our courts
> fair, by making sure that federal judges needed to
> get at least some
> support from both sides of the aisle before they
> were given life time
> appointments.
>
> If Frist eliminates the filibuster, his next step
> would be to force far
> right partisan judges onto the powerful U.S. Courts
> of Appeals. The real
> targets, however, are the four seats on the Supreme
> Court likely to
> become vacant in the next four years.
>
> With that much power on the Supreme Court, the far
> right could strike
> down decades of progress on labor rights,
> environmental protections,
> reproductive rights, and privacy.
>
> The "nuclear option" will live or die by a final
> vote, probably on
> Tuesday, and the vote is still way too close to
> call. There are at least
> 6 moderate Republicans still on the fence and only 3
> more votes needed
> to win. If we can get enough of our voices into
> congress and into the
> streets in the next 72 hours, we can still save our
> courts.
>
> Please take a minute to join me and sign the
> emergency petition today.
>
> http://www.moveonpac.org/nuclear
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>

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HUMOR-- Laff-Out-Loud Funny


> <> CHURCH BULLETIN FOLLIES <>
>
> They're Back! Thank God for church ladies with
> typewriters. These
> sentences appeared in church bulletins or were
> announced in church
> services across the country:
>
>
>
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>
> The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
>
>
>
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>
> The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water."
> The sermon
> tonight: "Searching for Jesus."
>
>
>
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>
> Our youth basketball team is back in action
> Wednesday at 8 PM in the
> recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ
> the King.
>
>
>
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>
> Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance
> to get rid of
> those things not worth keeping around the house.
> Don't forget your
> husbands.
>
>
>
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>
> The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been
> canceled due to a
> conflict.
>
>
>
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>
> Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our
> community. Smile at
> someone who is hard to love. Say "Hell" to someone
> who doesn't care
> much about you.
>
>
>
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>
> Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
>
>
>
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>
> Miss! Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way
> again," giving
> obvious pleasure to the congregation.
>
>
>
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>
> For those of you who have children and don't know
> it, we have a nursery
>
> downstairs.
>
>
>
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>
> Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir.
> They need all the
> help they can get.
>
>
>
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>
> Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood
> donors for more
> transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping
> and requests tapes of
>
> Pastor Jack's sermons.
>
>
>
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>
> The Rector will preach his farewell message after
> which the choir will
> sing: "Break Forth Into Joy."
>
>
>
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>
> Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on
> October 24 in the
> church. So ends a friendship that began in their
> school days.
>
>
>
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>
> A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the
> church hall. Music
>
> will follow.
>
>
>
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>
> At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic
> will be "What Is
> Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.
>
>
>
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>
> Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to
> the addition of
> several new members and to the deterioration of some
> older ones.
>
>
>
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>
> Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other
> items to be
> recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
>
>
>
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>
> Please place your donation in the envelope along
> with the deceased
> person you want remembered.
>
>
>
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>
> The church will host an evening of fine dining,
> super entertainment and
>
> gracious hostility.
>
>
>
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>
> Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM -- prayer and
> medication to follow.
>
>
>
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>
> The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of
> every kind. They may
>
> be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
>
>
>
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>
> This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in
> the park across
> from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared
> to sin.
>
>
>
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>
> Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at
> 10 AM. All ladies
> are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after
> the B.S. is done.
>
>
>
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>
> The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the
> congregation would
> lend him their electric girdles for the pancake
> breakfast next Sunday.
>
>
>
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>
> Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at
> 7 PM. Please use
> the back door.
>
>
>
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>
> The 8th graders will be presenting Shakespeare's
> Hamlet in the Church
> basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited
> to attend this
> tragedy.
>
>
>
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>
> Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First
> Presbyterian Church.
> Please use large double door at the side entrance.
>
>
>
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>
> The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new
> tithing campaign
> slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours"
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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Edgar Mitchell, former astronaut, speaks of mysteries to scientists

The following article is quite interesting. I hope
> Mitchell was able to
> pry open their minds just a bit. It always
> amuses/frustrates me to
> realize that some of the most closed-minded people
> are scientists. I
> always thought, as a naive child and young adult,
> that scientists were
> supposed to have open minds, the better to explore
> the mysteries of the
> universe with. That was before I realized the peer
> pressure they are
> under to toe the line and not step out of the bounds
> their colleagues
> have set for themselves. It is the same in medical
> science...and in
> academia. Very few are courageous enough to face
> the baying pack when
> they have discovered something that "doesn't fit"
> with "accepted" science.
>
> John Mack, a very distinguished and highly respected
>
> psychiatrist/professor of Harvard, was one of these
> brave men. He
> refused to recant or back down from his findings
> about people who
> claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials.
> His research and
> interviews with these people convinced him that they
> were not "crazies"
> or "mentally ill." They were absolutely sane and
> intelligent
> individuals who had had some kind of experience that
> they definitely
> considered to be real. He was open enough to listen
> to them, while
> others had labled them as "nuts" before even hearing
> their stories.
> (Unfortunately, Mack was recently killed in a
> hit-run auto accident
> while attending a conference in Great Britain.)
>
> The same thing happened with western medical doctors
> who refused to
> believe acupuncture worked---until they witnessed
> for themselves, in
> China with Nixon, all kinds of severe abdominal
> surgeries being
> performed by physicians on patients who had received
> no anesthetic
> except for a few small acupunture needles in their
> ears. They were
> astounded, but had to believe their own eyes. Thus,
> acupuncture came to
> be accepted in the west. Self-experience seems to
> be the only way some
> minds can be opened.
>
> For those of us who have experienced "mysterious" or
> psychic happenings
> in our own lives, there is no need to convince us of
> the reality of a
> multi-dimensional universe in which many seemingly
> miraculous things are
> possible. For others, trust in others' experience
> plus an open mind are
> needed to explore some of these issues before
> condemning them without
> investigation. A book I highly recommend for
> anyone wanting to learn
> more about the wide, wide universe is "The
> Holographic Universe" by
> Michael Talbot. It can be purchased through
> amazon.com for only
> $11.20. ($4.99 for a used copy) It is a real treat
> to read and was
> first recommended to me by a medical doctor whose
> horizons had expanded
> from reading the book....and through his own
> experiences (of course) (~.~)
>
> "New opinions are always suspected, and usually
> opposed, without any
> other reason but because they are not already
> common."
> John Locke, 1690
> An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
>
> There is a principle which is proof against all
> information, which is
> proof against all arguments, which cannot fail to
> keep a man in
> everlasting ignorance; that principle is contempt,
> prior to investigation.
> Herbert Spencer
>
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Wreck the Nation :: The Game of Political Misbehavior


>
> This game would make a great Christmas gift for your
> Bush supporter
> relatives and acquaintances....(can't really call
> 'em "friends" anymore,
> can we? I mean, if they support Duhmbya Bush...good
> grief, what are they
> doing in our "Friends" category? (~.~))....I've
> already bought one for
> my ultra-conservative Pennsylvania cousin :-)
> http://www.wreckthenation.com/?id=5





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Saturday, May 21, 2005

Oh heck, why don't we just give up and let fascism take us over?


> I often feel like this author...but then I think of
> my kids and
> grandkids and all the innocent little kids in this
> world and realize we
> have to stick up for their future...If not us, Who?
> If not now, When?
> So I continue to write our senators and
> representatives...hoping against
> hope that they will eventually slog their way out of
> the political mire
> and actually DO SOMETHING!
>
> EXCERPT: I'm tellin' ya, this fascism thing has got
> a lot going for it.
> No more sleepless nights worrying about things like:
> "nuclear options,"
> insolvent pension plans, the problems facing
> organized labor (no unions,
> no problem!), who to vote for, destructive
> nationalism, what religion
> the new addition to the family will be ('cause,
> under fascism, there's
> basically only one; one guess which), whether
> corporations will always
> stick it to the populace (they will, thus serving
> another basic tenet of
> fascism: the indistinguishable co-mingling of
> corrupt corporate and
> government interests), etc. Short of us going all
> Founding Fathers-like
> and whippin' up a second American R-word (unlikely),
> all of that stuff
> -- and more! -- has either happened, is happening,
> or is gonna happen.
>
> So why the heck stew over it?
>
> Can you imagine all the time we would save if we
> just figured it was a
> lost cause and quit fighting -- you know, like the
> Democrats in
> Congress? I get giddy just thinking about it. For
> instance, how many
> hours a day now do you figure you spend on the
> Internet or are otherwise
> similarly engaged, trying to ferret out just a few
> more kernels of
> truth? Under fascism, you can throw such cares away
> and watch the hours
> return to you like magic, thus making it possible
> for you to pedal your
> bike to your third job without worrying about being
> late or take that
> Mandarin class in anticipation of our eventual
> joyful liberation.
>
> Oh, the advantages of fascism! What in the U.S.
> military-dominated world
> took me so long to see them?
>
> 'Is fascism really all that bad?'
> May 20
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> By Mark Drolette
>
> Amidst all that's been written about Newsweak's
> agreement to now let the
> Bushies vet its reporting in the wake of the
> magazine's article about
> Guantanamo Bay interrogators' rather rude treatment
> of the Quran, a
> particular piece by Terence Hunt of the Associated
> Press about the whole
> unholy affair caught my widened orb. After carefully
> unsnagging it, I
> focused it as well as I could on a few quotes that
> were real eye-poppers
> (as if that's what I needed at the moment). To
> (nit)wit:
>
> Hunt quotes Scott McClellan, White House press
> secretary, thusly:
>
> "The report had real consequences. People [in
> Afghanistan] have lost
> their lives. Our image abroad has been damaged.
> There are some who are
> opposed to the United States and what we stand for
> who have sought to
> exploit this allegation. It will take work to undo
> what can be undone."
>
> You know, I think McClellan is the only guy almost
> alive who could make
> me miss Ari Fleischer. Each is a bald-faced liar,
> but watching
> Scotty-boy dissemble for the administration makes it
> all the more
> evident that Fleischer actually had a natural-born
> talent for
> prevarication. It was even somewhat entertaining at
> times, in a guilty
> pleasure sort of way, watching Ari lie through his
> teeth. With
> McClellan, I just want to punch him in them. Having
> said that (thank you
> for listening), the sickly laughable hypocrisy
> saturating snotty
> Scotty's admonishment of the wayward Newsmeek is so
> obvious, we'll just
> move on here to our next gem, as reported by Hunt:
>
> "McClellan said a retraction was only 'a good first
> step' and said
> Newsweek should try to set the record straight by
> 'clearly explaining
> what happened and how they got it wrong,
> particularly to the Muslim
> world, and pointing out the policies and practices
> of our military.'"
>
> So let me get this straight: the main function of
> American media is not
> to report facts, but rather to promote the gory
> glory of America's
> globe-straddling, imperialistic death machine,
> otherwise know as the
> United States military?
>
> Just so long as we're clear.
>
> This actually might be a good place to pause and
> ask: did Newspeak get
> the story wrong? Well, yeah, obviously they did. I
> mean, come on: Who
> other than an America-hating commie gay-lover would
> believe that a
> member of the honorable U.S. military could even
> consider throwing a
> Quran into a toilet? Yes, we all know America has
> gone to war under
> false pretenses, killed tens of thousands, wounded
> countless others,
> destroyed a country, tortured prisoners, murdered
> civilians outright (in
> addition to killing them, all in good faith, of
> course, as "collateral
> damage"), infuriated Muslims all over the globe,
> intentionally alienated
> longtime allies, precipitated a spike in terrorism
> worldwide, and ripped
> off millions of dollars from the Iraqis while
> purportedly helping them,
> but, really, now ... desecrate the Quran?
>
> Please! That would be over the line.
>
> Moving backward, er, sideways, uh, forward, here's
> Secretary of State
> Condoleezza Rice, according to Hunt: "It's appalling
> that this story got
> out there."
>
> "Appalling" is not the first word that comes to
> mind; "miraculous," maybe.
>
> Per Hunt, Rice again:
>
> "'I do think [the article has] done a lot of harm.
> Of course, 16 people
> died...'"
>
> So Condi weeps for 16 dead Afghanis. Touching.
> However, since the U.S.
> has slaughtered at least 100,000 Iraqis in its
> imperial land/oil grab on
> her watch and I don't remember ever hearing her
> express similar concern
> for those poor souls, I do believe that if world
> domination were a poker
> game [and some would say it is], I bet her bet would
> go something like
> this: "I call your 6250 dead Iraqis with my one
> dear, departed Afghani."
> (At least we now know the approximate rate of
> exchange.)
>
> Lastly, Rice out-Rices herself:
>
> "'...but it's also done a lot of harm to America's
> efforts' to
> demonstrate tolerance and breed goodwill in the
> Muslim world."
>
> I'm sorry. I must've missed our noble efforts at
> selflessly helping our
> Muslim friends these last couple of years while I
> was busy being
> preoccupied with occupied Iraq.
>
> On second thought, though, maybe ol' Bird's Nest
> Hair actually has a
> point here. Perhaps it's not so strange, after all,
> to wonder why Iraqis
> (the ones who haven't yet died from bombs, bullets,
> cholera, or depleted
> uranium poisoning) aren't just a little more
> grateful for America's
> big-hearted attempt to rid their country once and
> for all of weapons of
> mass destruction, er, smash Al-Qaeda with whom
> Saddam Hussein was
> working closely, uh, bring democracy, yeah, that's
> it, bring democracy
> to their now rubble-strewn and cluster
> bomb-blanketed land. After all,
> if the Chinese someday invade and occupy our country
> for our own good
> after pulling the financial rug out from underneath
> us by suddenly
> calling in the mountains of U.S. Treasury bills we
> continually sell them
> to prop up our bankrupt economy, I'm sure we'll all
> be in the streets
> singing their praises to high heaven.
>
> Dontcha think?
>
> In fact, the more I think about it, the more I see
> that folks like Rice
> and McClellan are just naturally doing and saying
> what representatives
> of any fascistic regime would say and do. In a weird
> sort of way,
> they're actually being up front about how today's
> American press really
> operates.
>
> All Americans know the traditional media in this
> country are owned, in
> classic fascistic fashion, damn near lock, stock,
> and barrel by the
> extreme right wing. Well, all Americans, that is,
> except for the
> millions who don't know it (which would be pretty
> much the same ones who
> still believe their ballots count; ah, yes, fixed
> elections: another
> hallmark of fascism).
>
> But here's the thing: Look at how happy the ostrich
> people are! Compared
> to us, that is. Yes, us: the folks who continuously
> fret and fume about
> the incessant government propaganda emanating from
> America's TV
> stations, radio channels, newspapers, and the like.
> When was the last
> time you can remember not having that sick little
> twist in your stomach
> or hearing the doom-laden thought in your head that
> goes: "Man, I can't
> believe how much my country has gone to utter hell"?
>
> What I'm saying is that when Rice tells you it's
> appalling that
> Newssqueak published a factual story or McClellan
> says it's the media's
> duty to instruct the world to worship America's big,
> hard guns, they're
> actually being honest about the current state of the
> state in spite of
> their naturally dishonest little selves. Isn't it
> time, then, to call
> off the whole charade, call a spade a spade, and get
> on with living in
> totalitarianism's shade? (A poet I'm not, but that's
> OK; fascism
> disdains the arts and intellectualism, anyway.)
>
> Just think how freeing it would be to finally quit
> expending all of that
> energy trying to pump air into the decidedly dead
> duck that once was our
> dear democracy. I haven't admitted this before, but
> it's not easy
> constantly coming up with new, clever names for the
> loonies in charge. I
> often revert to "Bushies," but that has always
> seemed far too cutesie to
> convey the sheer evil it represents. "Busheviks,"
> which is popular
> lately, is excellent, but I didn't think of it, so
> no dice there. What's
> left? Bush pigs, Bush dogs, Bush monsters,
> Bushwhackers, Bushitters ...
> ? See what I mean? My well of creativity, she does
> not runneth over.
>
> What it relief it would be just to watch WWF
> instead.
>
> I'm tellin' ya, this fascism thing has got a lot
> going for it. No more
> sleepless nights worrying about things like:
> "nuclear options,"
> insolvent pension plans, the problems facing
> organized labor (no unions,
> no problem!), who to vote for, destructive
> nationalism, what religion
> the new addition to the family will be ('cause,
> under fascism, there's
> basically only one; one guess), whether corporations
> will always stick
> it to the populace (they will, thus serving another
> basic tenet of
> fascism: the indistinguishable co-mingling of
> corrupt corporate and
> government interests), etc. Short of us going all
> Founding Fathers-like
> and whippin' up a second American R-word (unlikely),
> all of that stuff
> -- and more! -- has either happened, is happening,
> or is gonna happen.
>
> So why the heck stew over it?
>
> Can you imagine all the time we would save if we
> just figured it was a
> lost cause and quit fighting -- you know, like the
> Democrats in
> Congress? I get giddy just thinking about it. For
> instance, how many
> hours a day now do you figure you spend on the
> Internet or are otherwise
> similarly engaged, trying to ferret out just a few
> more kernels of
> truth? Under fascism, you can throw such cares away
> and watch the hours
> return to you like magic, thus making it possible
> for you to pedal your
> bike to your third job without worrying about being
> late or take that
> Mandarin class in anticipation of our eventual
> joyful liberation.
>
> Oh, the advantages of fascism! What in the U.S.
> military-dominated world
> took me so long to see them?
>

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