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"If we're going to become so rigid as a country to be able to
disallow speech, even though it may not be politically correct, I
think we're in danger." ... Governor John Ellis
"JEB" Bush, quoted in the Tallahassee Democrat, 4/25/01
 | Guerrilla News on the War on Terrorism and more:
http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_terrorism
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DAV Denounces Concurrent Receipt Opposition
The following article is provided courtesy of Armed Forces News. To
sign up for a free subscription, visit the Armed
Forces News Website.]
One of the administration's objections to the defense authorization
bill is a provision strongly supported by the House and Senate that
would overturn the century-old requirement that military retirees must
forfeit one dollar of retired pay for each dollar of VA disability
compensation. This has enraged the Disabled American Veterans
leadership. "It is unconscionable that President Bush appears to
care so little about retired members of the armed forces who were
disabled as a result of their service to our nation," said DAV
commander George H. Steese, Jr. "We must put an end to this
long-standing injustice against some of America's most deserving
disabled veterans." The House version of the defense bill would
authorize $5.8 billion over five years for some disabled military
retirees to receive both disability and retirement benefits. The
Senate version is expected to authorize full concurrent receipt
benefits for all disabled military retirees.
....jkeel, 5/30/02
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| Treasury circumventing Hill on tax breaks
In a series of little-noticed executive orders intended to ease the
tax burden on corporate America, the Bush administration has
implemented a number of new policies that will provide corporations
with billions of dollars in tax relief without the consent of
Congress.
http://www.thehill.com/050802/treasury.shtm
....jkeel, 5/12/02
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| aadap.org
Daily news updates on affirmative action, immigration, race and
related topics
...ppf, 5/6/02
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Is Mike Vreeland Crazy Too?
9-11 conspiracy buffs are familiar with the story of Lt. Delmart
"Mike" Vreeland, a naval intelligence officer who
"predicted" the 9-11 attacks in August 2001 from a prison
cell in Canada. Vreeland has been attacked as crazy by some,
defended as possessing unique knowledge by others. Vreeland and his
principal supporter, former LAPD officer Mike Ruppert, were
interviewed for 3 hours by Jeff Rense.
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Masters of War Bush and Blair Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Harald T. Nesvik, a right-wing Norwegian Member of Parliament, has
nominated Tony Blair and George W. Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize
for their "decisive action against terrorism, something I
believe in the future will be the greatest threat to peace." By
definition, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize "shall have
done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations for
the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding
and promotion of peace congresses." But Tony Blair has ordered
more military actions than any U.K. leader since World War II, and
George W. Bush has urged massive increases to the size and funding
of the U.S. military. They have initiated an undefined, open-ended
"War on Terrorism" which they threaten to expand to other
nations... Cheney told the Washington Post that the campaign of
warfare the President was launching "may never end. At least,
not in our lifetimes." Use this page to e-mail your opposition!
|
| Here's a site that your readers might find interesting:
http://www.bk2k.com/bushbodycount/home.html
... JRA. 4/7/02
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| Treasury to suspend G Fund investments
The Treasury Department will suspend daily investments of billions of
dollars of federal employees’ retirement funds for two weeks to
avoid breaking the federal debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Paul
O’Neill said Tuesday.
In a letter
to key members of Congress, O’Neill said money in the G Fund,
the portion of the federal 401k-style Thrift Savings Plan that is
normally invested in Treasury securities, will not be invested from
April 4 to April 18. The move will prevent the government from
exceeding a statutory $5.95 trillion debt ceiling.
...jkeel, 4/7/02
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MONTERREY, Mexico, March 20 — The world leaders who have gathered
here to discuss how to fight poverty do not always see eye to eye on
what works best. But many now agree that the force they once saw as a
near panacea — globalization — has come up short.
Globalization, or the fast-paced growth of trade and cross-border
investment, has done far less to raise the incomes of the world's
poorest people than the leaders had hoped, many officials here say.
The vast majority of people living in Africa, Latin America, Central
Asia and the Middle East are no better off today than they were in
1989, when the fall of the Berlin Wall allowed capitalism to spread
worldwide at a rapid rate.
Rather than an unstoppable force for development, globalization now
seems more like an economic temptress, promising riches but often not
delivering, in the view of many of the leaders at the United Nations
conference in this Mexican city, an industrial center. ... (More
from this New York Times article)
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| Lawsuit
Aimed at Reforming Managed-Care System
Some of the top lawyers in the United States are hoping to reform
America's managed health-care system through a national lawsuit.
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New Conservative Campaign For War on Terrorism
Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (AVOT) will "take
to task those groups and individuals who fundamentally
misunderstand the nature of the war we are facing."
Colin Powell's List
...Jacob, 3/14/02
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From the Washington Post
By Lloyd Grove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 6, 2002; Page C03
* Here's a vignette we're dying to see on the ABC broadcast of
Sunday's Ford's Theatre Presidential Gala: When Stevie Wonder sat
down at the keyboard center stage, President Bush in the front row
got very excited. He smiled and started waving at Wonder, who
understandably did not respond. After a moment Bush realized his
mistake and slowly dropped the errant hand back to his lap. "I
know I shouldn't have," a witness told us yesterday, "but
I started laughing."
.... Dr V, 3/09/02
"In Context" magazine. Here is the website of the
organization publishing "In Context:"
Check out the "In Context" back issues:
I have one printed issue, #41, which I really liked a lot:
I find especially interesting two articles:
"What You Count, You
Get" and "Ecological Audits" at
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I just found this amazing website: http://www.theyrule.net/
It's a gold mine of information (if it is all true)...
... dk. 2/26/02
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| The
Great Unwatched
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
In terror of an external threat, our leaders are protecting Washington
at the cost of every American's personal freedom....Is this the kind
of world we want? The promise is greater safety; the tradeoff is
government control of individual lives. Personal security may or may
not be enhanced by this all-seeing eye and ear, but personal freedom
will surely be sharply curtailed. To be watched at all times,
especially when doing nothing seriously wrong, is to be afflicted with
a creepy feeling. That is what is felt by a convict in an always-
lighted cell. It is the pervasive, inescapable feeling of being unfree....
2/18/02
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Ignoranus: A person who's both
stupid and an asshole.
Each year the Washington Post's Style Invitational asks readers to
take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting,
or changing one letter and supply a new definition.
....ritaW, 2/3/02
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| An Empire Built on Ifs
Enron deserves a big Texas
whippin' -- ... I
am a conservative, and so a Republican. I believe that conservatives
and Republicans have a special responsibility, as the party that
stands for free markets, to see to it that free markets work, and are
not abused, gamed or finagled. Republicans and conservatives have, I
believe, a special responsibility to come down hard on people who
cheat their shareholders and their employees. ... More
....katybar, 1/26/02
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| Lots
of pretzel cartoons
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|
An interesting article. Misreading
'Quirin' , Robert A. Levy, The National Law Journal:
"The Bush administration has floated preliminary rules for
military tribunals. Those rules, which respond to criticisms from
civil libertarians, are a step in the right direction. But they
don't go far enough. Plain and simple, military tribunals have no
business on U.S. soil.
The Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution ensure due
process and a speedy and public jury trial. Those protections apply
to "persons," not just U.S. citizens. No responsible
authority argues otherwise. When the Framers wanted to say citizens,
they said citizens. When they said persons, that's what they meant.
And that's no small matter. There are 18 million noncitizens in the
United States; the vast majority of them are here legally."
... VanceB, 1/16/02
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| Bush's
Racist Slur The obvious and immediate response is to
wonder how much worse he wants the situation to become. Using a
well-known ethnic slur to describe one side of the conflict is
unlikely to defuse anything. Surely any other modern American
president, each one of whom has been very less verbally inept
than Bush, would have been taken, had he said the same or similar, to
be signaling an American preference for the side not slurred. Given
the boundless, miasmic fog of verbal expression which Bush inhabits,
one might conclude that it was merely a slip, of tongue or brain, and
not worth further thought.
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| FYI: this is the color of the universe:
The
Universe is turquoise, say astronomers 1/12/02
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| White
House Watch: THC madness -- The drug war blunders on: The DEA is
cracking down on hempseed oil in tortilla chips
...JK,1/01/02
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| The Soft Money Laundromat is a searchable database of special
interest soft money contributions to the Democratic and Republican
national party committees. Learn about soft money. Who gives it, who
gets it and what it all means for our democracy.
http://www.commoncause.org/laundromat
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Destination Guantanamo Bay
The Cold War may be a receding memory for most of the world, but it
remains a daily reality for US forces in Guantanamo Bay, a naval
base in Cuba which the US leases from the island's communist
government. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/
Michael C. ( BBC News ), posted 1/1/02
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The FDA decision on safety of aspartame was political- not
scientific. The evidence said it wasn't safe, but political
power got it approved anyway.
Nutrasweet
>The following recalls the hazards of Aspartame the artificial
Sweetener. It just so happens that the current Secretary Of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld, was the influential head of GD Searle, the
pharmaceutical company that got FDA approval for Aspartame after the
FDA advisory committee recommended AGAINST approval of Aspartame-aka-Nutrasweet.
....BernieW,12/30
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if you like political toons and alternative news visit my review
page @
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I also am reading quite a bit of news on Afganistan (and other
countries in the region) in Jang, a Pakistani daily. You can find
some at
I found this source following an article in a Croatian on-line daily
"Vecernji List" (all in Croatian) which under the
title/subtitle "Slaughter continues under supervision of the
American alliance: 70 Arabs slaughtered in a Kandahar
hospital." ( http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20011212/novosti2.htm).
The article claims that dozens of Talibans died of asphyxiation
while being transported to the POW camps in closed containers
(according to the NY Times Tuesday), also that 70 Arab supporters of
Taliban were found with their throats cut in hospital beds in
Kandahar, etc, etc...
...DK, 12/14
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"It's too bad no one had that sense of outrage to condemn U.S.
Attorney General John Ashcroft - a former U.S. senator - at
Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on questions of how
the Bush administration is conducting investigations into terrorist
activities. To those who have expressed concerns about secretly
jailing suspects, eavesdropping on lawyer-client conversations and
secret military tribunals, Ashcroft had the audacity to say they are
aiding the enemy. That was contemptible... To that, it must be said:
Sir, have you no shame? At long last, have you no shame?" So
writes the Des Moines Register. http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c5917686/16696895.html
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| FAIR's
Media Contact List - Let your voice be heard! Talk back to the
media.
....JKeel, 12/10
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| Public
Citizen has sued the Bush administration to overturn an executive
order that would severely limit access to presidential records
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Public Citizen today (11/28) filed suit in a
federal court in Washington, D.C., to overturn an executive order
issued by President Bush that limits access to the records of former
presidents. Public Citizen contends that the executive order violates
a federal law, the Presidential Records Act, which opens most
presidential records to public access 12 years after a president
leaves office.
...jkeel, 12/3
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Land mines mean Afghan food problems won't end when fighting
stops
Washington-AP -- It's not going to be easy for Afghan farmers to
start growing crops again.
Even after the fighting stops. That's because there are an estimated
ten (m) million land mines planted in the country.
At the current speed, it'll take seven to ten years to remove them
just from the highest-priority land.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines says 88 people a month
were killed or injured by land mines in Afghanistan last year.
U-N officials say, so far, the mines have not hindered the
distribution of food and other assistance.
Still, Kenneth Bacon, president of Refugees International, says the
talk about long-term development in Afghanistan can't really move
from talk to action until a very good de-mining program is under
way. Most will need food assistance for many years.
... BernieW, from AP
article 11/27/2001
5:06 PM
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| Ashcroft
Won't Name Terror Detainees
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday he
won't name all those detained in the terrorism investigation because
he doesn't want to create a ``public blacklist'' that would violate
their privacy or aid Osama bin Laden.
``The law properly prevents the department from creating a public
blacklist of detainees that would violate their rights,'' Ashcroft
told a news conference called to announce his appointment of a special
master to oversee compensation to victims of Sept. 11.
More than 1,100 individuals across the country have been arrested
or detained by federal and state authorities investigating...
More
.... thought you might find this curious... WJL, 11/26
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| In reaction to the events of 9/11 sweeping new powers were given to
law enforcement authorities. Below is a link to a pdf document the
Department of Justice has prepared for field guidance on use of the
new law. It provides a useful analysis of significantly expanded law
enforcement authority.
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/DOJ_guidance.pdf
...Kevin, 11/25
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| Internet Proves to be Powerful in Political, Legislative Battles
http://www.cybersavvycitizen.com/campaign2000.htm
....JH, 11/25
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| http://www.oneworld.net/
- OneWorld has a vision of equitable and sustainable distribution of
wealth amongst the world's population, underpinned by global
attainment and protection of human rights and by governance structures
which permit local communities control over their own affairs.
(this site has a huge database and wealth of information - with
partnerships around the globe)
....libertyman 11/17
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| Closing the cookie jar: European Union lawmakers could vote
today to strengthen
data protection for telecommunications. Although the Bush
administration had asked the EU to revise the law to allow the
authorities greater access to information about telephone calls and
Internet messages as an anti-terrorism measure, that request was
ignored. The vote also could mean an end to cookies for some. The
parliamentary proposal would require Web site operators to obtain the
"explicit, well-informed and freely given consent" of the
Internet user before
placing cookies on their computer's hard disk. (New York Times
story; free registration required.)
....siliconvalley.com,
11/13
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| Strangely enough, these guys avoided military service:
 | Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - avoided the draft, did not
serve.
| Majority Leader Dick Armey- avoided the draft, did not serve.
| Majority Whip Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve.
| Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did not
serve. |
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| GW bush - decided that a six-year Nat'l Guard commitment really
means four years
| VP
Cheney - several deferments, the last by marriage (in his own
words, "had other priorities than military service")
| Att'y Gen. John Ashcroft - sought deferment to teach business ed
at SW Missouri State
| Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve
| "B-1" Bob Dornan - avoided Korean War combat duty by
enrolling in college acting classes |
| Elliott Abrams, Bill Bennett, Pat Buchanan, Phil
Gramm - Jack Kemp - Rush Limbaugh - Trent Lott -
Kenneth Starr – John Wayne - Vin Weber - George Will
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and these guys didn't:
| House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt - Served his country in
uniform, 1965-71
| House Minority Whip David Bonior - Served his country in
uniform, 1968-72
| Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle - Served his country in
uniform, 1969-72
| Vice President Al Gore - Served his country in uniform, 1969-71;
recipient of Vietnam Service Medal
.... from http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html
....Livingston, 11/5 |
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50 Ways to Get Political
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| I want to share this site I just found with your readers:
Let the
Women Speak -
....leslie, 10/29
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| US Psy-ops radio to Afghani people:
"Do not confuse the (yellow) cylinder-shaped bomb with the
(yellow) rectangular food bag ...."
... BBC's Radio
warns Afghans over food parcels
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| Roosevelt: "The only thing we have to fear is fear
itself."
Churchill: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much
owed by so many to so few."
Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what
you can do for your country."
George W. Bush: "If you don't stand for anything, you don't
stand for anything. If you don't stand for something, you don't stand
for anything."
...Guerilla News, from an
interview with Mark Krispin Miller author of The Bush Dyslexicon,
10/22
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| Mark
Hertsgaard, The Daily Yomiuri: It may not be easy for Americans to
face the truth about their nation's relationship to the rest of the
world; the United States has a lot to be proud of, but also things to
be sorry for. But as the global outpouring of sympathy following Sept.
11 shows, the rest of the world feels a lot of affection for Americans
even as it harbors less enthusiastic feelings. And Americans can take
comfort that the vast majority of outsiders distinguish between
Americans as people "who they generally like"--and the U.S.
government and power structure, which is much less admired.
"We like Americans very much," says one Barcelona
intellectual. "We have American friends, and after watching
American films and hearing its music for so many years, we feel
American culture is our culture....But we do wish our American friends
would think a little more about their government. Because we have to
live with the United States' politics, and that is often difficult,
especially now, when war is in the air."
.... from siliconvalley.com
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10 Reasons to Stop Bombing Afghanistan
Despite almost universal agreement that America "needs to do
something" in response to terrorism, our heavy bombing of
Afghanistan increasingly looks like a bad idea. While virtually all
of us feel that strong steps should be taken to apprehend anyone
behind the massive murders on September 11, when you add up all the
facts, the pulverizing of a battered country just doesn't make a
whole lot of sense. Instead, by bombing Afghanistan,we are ... (More...)
....tom,10/22
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Bush v. Humanitarianism: Air Drops Are Just Feel-Good 'Military
Propaganda' -
"Never mind that the amount of food dropped per day -- two
cargo planes worth -- is a tiny fraction of what a single refugee
camp would need for one day. For 7.5 million people on the brink of
starvation, we're dropping 37,500 meals a day. Even if the entire
military stocks of 2 million meals were delivered to the people who
need it, they would feed a fraction of the needy for one day. Never
mind that those meals are being dropped in a country with 10 million
land mines, according to United Nations estimates. Some of the
starving Afghan people may blow themselves up as they try to get to
the packages. Never mind that the military strikes have seriously
disrupted existing humanitarian programs run by a wide variety of
U.N. and private agencies...The Nobel Peace Prize-winning
group Doctors Without Borders denounced the food drops as 'military
propaganda.'" So writes Rahul Mahajan for the Houston
Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/outlook/1093844
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| Ralph Nader's back - http://www.democracyrising.org/
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| To learn about Anthrax, London's Guardian has an interactive page. http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,567581,00.html
10/13
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| SiliconValley.com
maintains an excellent collection of reports from around the world on
events since 9/11. Reports are well rounded and present many
different viewpoints. A complete coverage of the Osama
/ Bert (from Sesame Street) connection can be found here:) |
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Here is a good site for the basics of propaganda analysis.
,,,Jacob L., 10/10
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| BuzzFlash Insider Account of the Florida Anthrax
Scare
http://www.buzzflash.com/BuzzScripts/Buzz.dll/Content
BuzzFlash sources at the Boca Raton offices of American Media Inc.,
the publisher of The Sun, The National Enquirer, and other tabloid
publications, believed, as reported in Newsweek, that an envelope
containing a "soapy letter," was received just days before
September 11....
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As reported in an article from the Chicago Tribune over the weekend
about the first anthrax death, "Most worrisome to Stevens'
neighbors (the first anthrax victim) was that their modest
neighborhood is directly under the flight path used by small planes
taking off from Palm Beach County Park Airport just a few blocks
away.
That's the airport from which Mohamed Atta--the suspected pilot of
the hijacked plane that slammed into the World Trade Center's north
tower Sept. 11--rented a small plane on three occasions during the
month of August as part of his flight training."
Yet, the "authorities" were saying at the time: "But
Florida public health officials said Stevens' case appears to have
been an isolated event, and there is no evidence that his illness
was caused by an act of bioterrorism."
Maybe they were just trying to keep us calm and collected. ...( read
article here) ....buzzflash, 10/8
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Media patting themselves on the back a little too quick I
think - Cable TV news, network news are all still singing the
same song. Reading other countries' reports, or
investigative reports on the net paints a different picture than
the pabulum we get fed to us in the US. So glad to see
they are happy with themselves... WDP, 10/6
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Public
seems happier with media
The United States' news media, battered
for 25 years by declining credibility, appear to have
regained respect among readers and viewers -- at least
temporarily -- with their coverage since the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. Story
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Here are some that are just too good to pass up:
THE WARTIME OPPORTUNISTS
Under Cover Of Crisis Anything Goes
ATTACKS CHANGED THE NATURE OF ENVIRO-DEBATE
DINOSAUR DANCING
Fossil Fuel Lobby Tries Fancy Footwork to Pass Energy
Bill
.... VIWB, 10/3
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Proud to be an American for peace
I am displaying my American flag just as everyone else is, and I take
my responsibility to vote very seriously. I consider myself a good
American, but I would be considered un-American by a recent letter
writer (“Making peace is un-American," Letters, Sept. 17) and
probably many others because I do not support this "war"
that President Bush has declared.
I agree with Roger Peace (My View, Sept. 21) that the United States
should not act alone but should go through the International Court of
Justice to get bin Laden. Suppose someone burned my house down and
killed my family. It is not acceptable that I burn down my neighbor's
house and kill his family because I think he did it since he has been
harassing me for years. Even if I knew for sure that it was he, I
would have no right under our laws to do that. I would expect that we,
as a nation, would follow this basic principle of law.
When we lash back too quickly at someone who has hurt us, it is
only revenge. If we start acting like a group of angry vigilantes, we
not only will hurt a lot of innocent people but will lose the support
of many nations and add fuel to the hatred. This "war" just
is not a good idea.
....KIRK BINGHAM, in the Tallahassee Democrat 10/2
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| Thanks for putting up the link to the live radio reports from the
rally in DC tonight
"change doesn't happen by itself - we have to do it" someone
just said.
Word is at the moment that it's pretty mellow and
celebrative.
If I can't be there this is the next best thing - especially since
there's not a word about it on any of the TV stations I get on cable.
It might as well be happening on the moon as far as the mainstream
media is concerned.
Tune in and listen - it's 24 hrs live - with occasional
streaming videos from teach-ins happening there...and music
...
Oh yes - this is very nice- let's hope the police behave themselves
tomorrow.
Peace is flowing through our airways from DC tonight:
http://dc.indymedia.org/audio/dcimc.pls
...a blissful quixote this evening 9/28/01 11:37 PM -------------
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So Is This Bush Sr.'s Second Term?
"Like his father a decade before, President Bush is mobilizing
a worldwide coalition to help him roll back aggression — and
his dad has been drafted as a key stealth operative in the
diplomatic campaign. Former President George Bush is heavily
involved in persuading his legion of pals around the globe to climb
aboard the U.S. anti-terror effort, sources told the Daily News
yesterday. 'The old man is engaged well beyond what's been publicly
reported — or ever will be,' one well-placed source said. Another
Bush source, asked what the former President was up to, said only:
'He's busy.'" Earlier this year Bush Sr. advised Jr. on Poland
and North Korea. http://www.nydn.com/2001-09-19/News_and_Views/
9/28
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Revealed: Yet Another White House Hoax Amid National Crisis
"Remember how, amid the horror of September 11 and its
aftermath, the White House press office gravely announced that
terrorists had targeted either the White House or Air Force One or
both -- and that some suspicious figure had managed to get hold of
the presidential plane's code number? Well, the White House press
office has now been forced to confess that at least parts of its
story were untrue. And, on those parts of the story it has refused
to recant, the press office's attempts to save face have led to
baldfaced efforts to deny abundant evidence that refute their
claims." So reports the ever-vigilant Media Whores Online. http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/hoax.htm
9/28
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Ari Fleischer Chills Free Speech
Asked about the controversy over Bill Maher's comments about the use
of cruise missile's as "cowardly," Ari Fleischer warned
"all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch
what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there
never is." Wow - this comes less than a week after Bush
declared that we are fighting for "our freedom of speech, our
freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other." So
what is the real position of the White House? ... http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010926/us/fleischer_maher_2.html
9/28
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| Why Did Jeb Warn of Terrorism in Florida on September 7?
On September 7 - 4 days before Florida-based terrorists attacked the
US - Jeb Bush issued an unusual executive order. "Based on the
potential massive damage to life and property that may result from
an act of terrorism at a Florida port, the necessity to protect life
and property from such acts of terrorism, and inhibiting the
smuggling of illegal drugs into the State of Florida, the use of the
Florida National Guard to support FDLE in accomplishing port
security training and inspections is 'extraordinary support to law
enforcement' as used in Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes."
Did Jeb know something the rest of us didn't know then - and still
don't know now? http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/2001/
... demdailynews, 9/25
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Jeb Declares State of Emergency and Establishes Police State
After the attack on September 11, Jeb Bush declared a State of
Emergency in Florida, and put state and local government agencies
under the control of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement
(Florida's state troopers). This gives the state police broad powers
to suspend state laws, commandeer state and local government
employees, seize property, and evacuate residents. Pretty scary -
especially since Jeb has thoroughly politicized the FDLE by firing
career officers and appointing loyalist hacks. Right-wingers love to
accuse Democrats of being dictators, but here's one in the flesh -
and his name is Bush. http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/2001/september/eo
...demdaily news 9/25
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| Clear Channel, the company that has bought up 1,200 stations
altogether -- 247 of them in the nation's 250 largest radio markets --
and that not only dominates the Top 40 format, but controls 60% of all
rock-radio listening.
The company has ordered its stations not to play a list of 150
songs during this "national emergency." The list,
incredibly, includes "Bridge Over Troubled Water,"
"Peace Train," and John Lennon's "Imagine."
Rah-rah war songs, though, are OK.
And then there was this troubling instruction: "No songs by
Rage Against the Machine should be aired." The entire works of a
band are banned? Is this the freedom we fight for? Or does this sound
like one of those repressive dictatorships we are told is our new
enemy?
........excerpt from Michael
Moore letter 9/22
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| Last month Bush said that the Social Security fund would not be
tapped unless "the nation was at war or in a recession"
--
| Now we're in a war, in a recession, and congress is
appropriating billions of dollars for the "war
effort". |
| Peace songs are banned from the largest radio conglomerate in
the nation as Americans are prepped for "a long and costly
battle." |
| We're being told by the media that it's OK to give up our
privacy rights and other civil rights in order to have
"security." |
| We're preparing to do to Afghanis (and others) what we were so
horrified last week at having done to us. |
| What's wrong with this picture?
... blast from the past, 9/22
(WF note - see social security ,
no news , IFRC) |
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| Why Is America So Despised?
Local U.S. policy experts and activists grappled with grief and
shock Tuesday along with the rest of the country. While they took
pains to explain that they in no way excuse or condone Tuesday's
violence, some were willing to offer their insights into the reasons
so many people hate America. Understanding the motives behind
terrorist attacks against the United States is hampered by the
assumptions many Americans hold, said Ira Chernus, a professor of
religious studies at CU (Colorado University). One of those
assumptions is that U.S. intentions the world over are good, even when
the government or military makes mistakes. The belief that we're only
trying to help makes it hard for us to understand why anyone would do
something like this to us, Chernus said. Related to that assumption is
the belief that the United States is both innocent and invulnerable,
which prevents Americans from listening to the message behind such
events. " - Pamela White in this week's "Boulder
Times." ....More
.... 9/18
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| "Give me Liberty or give me death"...1776
"Take my liberties, but spare my life" ... 2001
Maybe we've forgotten what America was supposed to be about. Do
we need a decade or so of fascist tyranny to make us remember?
...Leslie, 9/18
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| I've been looking for the liberal media lately for a little
sanity. It's a myth - this "liberal media." All
is see is a goose stepping propaganda machine.
Spare me the teeth-gnashing snarls, please. If the American
government wants to go and kill thousands more innocent people to feel
better about itself, at least call it what it is - revenge! (or maybe
just good for business?)
Don't pretend it will root out terrorism when it will only create more
oppression... more hate filled kids growing up in refugee camps
dreaming of the day they can get revenge.
Our "leaders" need to lower the rhetoric, and begin to talk
some sense.
Stop manipulating us to go and fight your war and talk with us about
how we can make the world a better world for all of us to live in.
... 20 yrs old, and not looking for another Vietnam; 9/18 |
| For those who wonder how, with our state-of-the-art intelligence
gathering, there was no warning about what was about to happen, follow
the money trail. Ask yourselves who will ultimately profit from this
horrendous act of cowardice.
I predict the following will happen: The Defense Department and the
intelligence communities will get their budgets increased to
never-before-seen levels without major opposition. This will profit
defense contractors that had been experiencing layoffs at current
spending levels. Mideast unrest will cause gas prices at the pump to
spiral upward faster than at the onset of the last Bush War, aka The
Gulf War, resulting in windfall profits for oil interests.
Does this lead to anyone we can think of immediately? Like everyone
else, I would like to see any country harboring those involved removed
from the map, but let's not forget the overall picture. Bush Senior
managed to have some type of military action every time the '88-'92
recession got worse.
...Jeff H, Pompano Beach, SunSentinel, 9/14
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|
Precautions Taken by States Around the Country in Wake of Terrorist
Attacks
Because of the randomness of terrorism, it is extremely difficult to
anticipate where and when another attack will occur, but many states
are taking precautions to reduce the danger and mitigate possible
consequences. Here's a run down of what's going on around the
nation.
| Sex,
Lies, and the Tape. The
John Fund Story
The following tidbit would remain disgusting but not noteworthy but
for the many times during the Clinton impeachment, and the 2000
election that millions of TV viewers witnessed a self-righteous John
Fund (Wall Street Journal) pontificate about restoring moral decency
to America. What a hypocrite!
"The following is a transcription of the tape of Morgan
Pillsbury and John Fund. Mr. Fund makes mention of how he is being
threatened by Melinda. He apparently believes that Melinda has no
right to be angry for his deceiving her for three years, all the
while sleeping with, and impregnating her oldest child. For those
who doubt the veracity of the transcript or wish to hear the anger
and seething hostility of John Fund, Please listen to the audio
tape." Investigative reporter John Connolly adds, "So
there should be no confusion, this tape was made legally and given
to me by Morgan Pillsbury. Ms. Pillsbury also gave me her permission
to use her name, as did her mother Melinda Pillsbury-Foster."
http://www.weaselsearch.com/jfund4654544318.htm
UPDATE: 2/24/02
The sordid sage of another Grand Hypocrisy Party hypocrite
continues to unfold. John Fund, leading Clinton character
assassin writer for the barbaric Wall Street Journal editorial
page, gained notoriety last year for sleeping with the daughter of
a mother he also slept with. He was supposed to marry the
young woman soon, but instead is now being charged with assaulting
her.
Oh, life is very difficult for "hatchet job" fiction
writers, as this member of the Wall Street Journal editorial page
can tell you.
FROM THE NEW YORK POST
COLUMNIST ASSAULTED HIS EX: COPS
By PHILIP MESSING and BRIDGET HARRISON
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
February 24, 2002 -- Troubled Wall Street Journal columnist John
Fund was arrested yesterday and charged with assaulting his
ex-girlfriend, police said.
Fund, 46, had a stormy relationship with Morgan Pillsbury, the
27-year-old daughter of a former girlfriend, for more than two
years before the couple broke up last month, police sources said.
Tuesday, Fund, famous for his attacks on President Bill Clinton
during the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, allegedly went to
Pillsbury's East Village home and bruised her leg during an
argument, the sources said.
The arrest caps a bizarre unraveling of the couple's on-again,
off-again relationship. Pillsbury told The Post's Page Six last
month Fund had been abusive to her, but later attempted to retract
the statement.
Pillsbury finally moved out of Fund's Jersey City home in January,
just as Pillsbury's mother, Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, who had a
relationship with Fund 20 years ago, was announcing wedding plans
for the couple.
A week later, the mom said she hoped the wedding wouldn't happen.
Neither Pillsbury nor her mother could be reached for comment.
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| President Bush spent as much as $250,000 on a PRIVATE fireworks
display for Mexican President Vicente Fox and 135 other guests, many
of whom are not US taxpayers. The fireworks - reportedly the best in
decades - were shot over the Mall, but the public was not informed of
the show.
"Taxpayers have the right to know whether they paid for this
elaborate and unnecessary spectacle," commented Jill Lancelot,
Legislative Director at Taxpayers for Common Sense. "We need to
make sure that we're getting the biggest bang for our buck with our
tax dollars and picking up the tab for a fireworks display at an
essentially private event isn't the way to do that."
....read more at www.taxpayers.org
"Bush welcomed President Vicente Fox of Mexico on Wednesday
night with a bang a fireworks display that was as big, and as
loud, as it was under-publicized…In Georgetown, the noise woke up
a family with an 11-year-old daughter. 'The president of the United
States just woke up three-quarters of a million people for a private
party,' said the girl's father, who did not give his name. 'It's not
a national holiday; it's a school night, it's a work night . . .
it's just about common decency that neighbors have for one
another'...
...Jason, 9/4/01
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| I heard an interesting story on NPR the other day about an American
who was arrested on a road near Genoa after the G-8 conference.
She was with a theater group who had been in Genoa doing non-violent
street theater. The group was held for over 3 weeks. The
report stated that her Italian lawyer was shocked that calls to the
American embassy were fruitless, that the embassy officials were not
at all interested. Sounds just like Bush's reaction. ...
Quixote, 8/15
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| On National Missile Defence -
8/11/01
"The whole aim of practical politics," H.L. Mencken once
wrote, "is to keep
the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary."
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
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| Our president gets a month long vacation after working just seven
months. Wouldn't it be nice if the rest of America could get the same?
And wouldn't it be nice if the rest of America could get a six-hour
medical exam from 14 physicians to see if they were healthy enough to
do their jobs?
Something seems wrong here. Yes, he is the president, but why can't
the rest of us just get half of what he gets for free?
...Charlie Cramer - Lake Mary (letter in Orlando Sentinel) 8/10
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| The Bush administration is making a fundamental change in how the
federal government approaches issues involving reproductive health,
scaling back efforts to promote family planning and contraception
while aggressively promoting "abstinence-only" programs. -
Since taking office, President Bush and top aides have refused to
allow states to expand family planning services for poor women,
reimposed a ban on abortion counseling at overseas health clinics,
released a report questioning the effectiveness of condoms and
proposed eliminating mandatory contraceptive coverage for federal
employees. .... More
8/5/01 |
| GOP fund-raising strategy targets physicians - Republican campaign
committee invites doctors to join its "Physician's Advisory
Board" as a hook for soliciting contributions. -
American
Medical Association medical news 8/5/01 |
| Letterman
Censors Ani DiFranco - Here's what happened: "Producers of
CBS's 'Late Show with David Letterman' cancelled musician Ani
DiFranco's scheduled appearance (7/19). . . after the folk singer
refused to substitute a more 'upbeat' song for one about racism,"
as John Maynard of The Washington Post reported. ... |
| What's the difference between Gary Condit, D- California and Joe
Scarborough, R - Florida? click
here .... 8/4/01
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|
Request for writers:
The Democracy Chronicle is a new national print publication
published from Florida. It's "A Digest of Democratic,
Liberal,and Progressive News, Perspectives, and Resources from the
Internet and Independent Media.
The publication needs help -- writers, editors, marketing,
distribution, business planning...
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| U.S.
Gov't Recalls Indonesia Book WASHINGTON (AP) - In a diplomatic
damage-control mission, the government is recalling all copies of a
State Department history book from hundreds of libraries because it
details the U.S. role in Indonesia's deadly purge of communists in the
1960s.
...ToMix, 7/31/01
following from DemDailyNews (7/30/01)
In the 1960s, the CIA engineered the ouster of Indonesian leader
Sukarno, who was anti-western. The CIA directly aided the despotic
Suharto, who slaughtered and tortured hundreds of thousands of
Indonesians. After the bloodbath, in swarmed the US corporations,
throwing thousands of natives off their ancient lands and trashing
the environment to drill for oil and dig for gold. One of those
leading this exploitive charge: HENRY KISSINGER. Now Bush wants to
make this ugly history disappear by recalling every single truthful
State Dept. history book from hundreds of libraries. Why? Could it
be some of the names on Cheney's "secret list" may also be
mentioned in this damning history, including Kissinger. HK helped
Mobil forge a deal with Suharto in the mid-60s, then set up the
Freeport McMoran gold mine for which he is now majority shareholder
as well as anti-environmental legal counsel.
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|
George Washington University’s National Security Archive today
posted on the Web ( www.nsarchive.org)
one of two State Department documentary histories whose release the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is stalling, even though the
documents included in the volumes were officially declassified in
1998 and 1999.
The Indonesia volume includes significant new documentation on the
Indonesian Army’s campaign against the Indonesia Communist Party (PKI)
in 1965-66, a slaughter which cemented Suharto's coup. In 1990,
under George Bush, Sr., the CIA also censored a State volume on Iran
to erase any reference to the CIA-Backed coup there in 1953. In
1991, Congress passed a law requiring the State Dept. histories to
include info. on ALL activities, including covert operations. ...
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I hope you'll post this article for all to read: Artists
of Resistance
by Howard Zinn
... J Lerner 7/10/01
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| Howard Troxler - Does
the fiery spirit of 1776 still burn?
(WF: Please take a look at this July 4 editorial folks - it's addressing
something we think is so important. You're thoughts about this
would make a most welcome thread to post here.) |
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