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Thursday, May 22, 2003
Happy Birthday all you Geminis!
Ain't it great what a little money can do?
check out the ad placed in the Washington post by a Wilderness subscriber.
It’s only a paper moon…
When it comes to stagecraft, Bush has never looked so good: weather it's about costumes or about props they have got some talent. Shows what you can do with taxpayer's dollars.
Where are the Iraqi women -out of the picture?
Read up on the Liberal Oasis’s interview with Democratic hopeful Howard Dean.
If you’ve ever wondered what it was like for our president on 9/11… well, it was an interesting day...
Whoa there pardner... how did they find those Texas Democrats and why are they hiding it now?
As always, something outstanding from Arundhati Roy
INSTANT-MIX IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY
(Buy One, Get One Free)
Death is a small price for people to pay for the privilege of sampling this new product: Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (bring to a boil, add oil, then bomb).
"Every kind of outrage is being committed in the name of democracy. It has become little more than a hollow word, a pretty shell, emptied of all content or meaning. It can be whatever you want it to be. Democracy is the Free World's whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of taste, available to be used and abused at will."
And a new game for Letterman: Know Your War Profiteers.
12:39 PM
Saturday, May 10, 2003
GW delivers an early father’s day gift:
a 550 billion dollar tax cut.
“Take that you old geezer! read my lips -you couldn’t pull it off!”
Pelosi says "In two years, President Bush and the Republicans in Congress have presided over the most dramatic deterioration in our economic health in our nation's history,"
Paul Krugman adds And bear in mind that Bush-style tax cuts now have a track record. Of the 2.1 million jobs lost over the past two years, 1.7 million vanished after the passage of the 2001 tax cut.
Hook up to Move-ons new ad campaign:CHALLENGING THE PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY
The Peace Education Fund and California Peace Action have launched a national advertising campaign that features the infamous photo of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein. The ads ask the question: "Who Are We Arming Now?" and is part of Peace Action's Campaign for a New American Foreign Policy; an alternative to the bleak vision of the Project for the New American Century.
We dont need no bleak vision!
Since the war against Afghanistan, the Bush administration has established 13 new military bases in 7 different Central Asian countries and expanded military aid to countries with appalling human rights records
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Woke up yesterday morning to news mentioning Bush and Blair and the Nobel Peace prize… WTF! and Adolf was a good samaritan?
It was just a nomination from a right-winger from Norway... but I hope we won't have to stomach a photo-op. TOO creepy!
Common Dreams Antonia Zerbisias asks; Where is the outrage over the peace activists killed by Israel?
“the world's eyes on the Occupied Territories are closed. There are some stories to which the media are deaf, dumb and blind.”
occupying powers!..and another notch for GW!
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That sweet smell of love!
Woman hurts man with perfume
India alliance? End game-China
Haliburton gets busted with bribe. surprise?
Waxman blasts the administration again…is he the only one with cajones?
Oh God ..here we go ..smaller nuclear weapons? Gross. grosser. grossest!
I don't know? is it something with circumsision?
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Ted Rall kicks ass! Gives a pep talk to the Dems. Will they take it to heart?
His advice: run countless loops of the inarticulate Resident's clashes with the English language. "Too dumb to talk," a sinister voiceover reads. "Too stupid to trust." Use time-proven Republican methods, like name-calling: Extremist. Out of touch. Tax and spender. Hates workers. Racist. Homophobe. Corrupt CEO coddler. Idiot. Drunk. Cut to the post-pretzel-incident photo: "America needs a sober president."
email: sharethecake@hotmail.com
peaceout!
11:25 PM
Thursday, May 08, 2003
Tucked into the middle pages of my local newspaper was a blurb about Daniels resigning as budget director for the Bush administration.
It suggested that he may decide to run for governor of Indiana. I wrote to my paper because no where did they include the information that he was just subpoenaed for an insider trading investigation where he and other officers dumped 71 million dollars of IPALCO (Indianapolis utility) stock.
Isn’t that why he’s resigning?
Amnesty international updates on the possible stoning death of Amina Lawal.
Her new hearing is set for June 3rd.
It seems there was some confusion about the dates but its good to know Oprah has involved herself in this case.
WHERE IS THE MEDIA ABOUT THE 9/11 INVESTIGATION AND HOW IT'S BEEN HAMSTRUNG BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION?
Come on, what’s to hide?
The White House denies there is any connection between Cheney's former role in running the Houston company Halliburton and the Iraq
contract given to Haliburton.
Of course not.
But it always heartens me to hear Dems speak out; “former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, injected the contract into his campaign. "This coziness with Halliburton doesn't surprise me a bit," Dean said in Concord, N.H. "It's an emblem of an administration that has sold this country down the river."
A Washington Post article by Carol Morello revealed
not only the conditions of Iraq and the state of things in Iraqi hospitals but also the state of mind of the men in charge of the occupation, their arrogance, and their insane ability to remain 'focused' on their goals, even in the face of inhumane truths that even the most clueless could perceive.
Don't you find it glaringly strange that with the exception of the writer herself, there is no female presence in the entire picture? Not only in the war coverage itself (that coverage was a farce of omissions anyway) but even in the aftermath, in the hyped footage of Iragis seeking aid, in the coverage of staged 'meetings' of the new leadership. This was a secular Arab state. Women held jobs of great training and prestige in Iraq. doctors, engineers etc.
Where are those women now?
(One would think that Karl Rove or Rumsfield -well maybe not him, but one of the PR folks in the pentagon might think that it would be a good idea to throw some of the other gender in there just to sell it to us.)
At the risk of sounding sexist; It would seem that in the crappy game of war and dominance, women are just not that interested. Is that it? I mean there are females in combat and the genocide in Rwanda demonstrated that females can be ruthlessly insane but all in all, it just doesn’t appear that females are as equipped to isolate their humanity away from what they are doing as easily as their brothers are.
But in this regard it is the brothers who need the opportunities... not only to hear their hearts but to honor the truth in their hearts.
12:34 PM
Monday, May 05, 2003
I wasn't feeling particulary optimistic today in scanning the news.
Afghanistan leader Karzai is meeting with the Taliban which I think is a good idea although if one followed the logic of the Bush administration it would be seen as a step in the wrong direction.
Right? We did bomb that country to get rid of said Taliban.(?/!#?!?) Interesting.
Thousands of Iraqi families that fled the war into neighboring countries are still stranded outside Iraq and being denied entrance back home. After years in the airline business I know that stranded families, even for a few hours, let alone weeks, ain't no fun.
A new poll came out on Friday that was kinda cheerful. Respondants said "it is at least somewhat important for the United States to find proof that the Iraqi regime possessed weapons of mass destruction (84 percent) and to prove that Saddam Hussein has either been killed or captured (80 percent)."
I'm glad about that. I mean that was the reason they thought we were there, right?
Well, now .. we're starting to hear a different tune from Condileeza; There wasn't actually weapons, it was more like"ingredients or precursors, many non-lethal by themselves".
And senior officials in the Bush administration have admitted that they would be 'amazed' if weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were found in Iraq.
uh huh.
Another poll shows that even though Bush gets a boost from his war the country remains polarized over his presidency, and only a bare majority approves of his handling of the economy.
His numbers are at their peak right now but it's only a matter of time before he squanders them away. He's good at squandering resources.
..so I oughta cheer up!
7:00 PM
Friday, May 02, 2003
God knows I've done plenty of Dem-bashing since the last election but ya gotta give credit when credit is due..
KUDOS FOR THE DEMOCRATS for spotting and stopping a surprise Bush administation proposal that was slipped into a broader authorization bill before congress.
We don't need no stinking expanded CIA powers! Go Diane!
I just love hearing about fierce bebate!
..almost as much as I love hearing about frustrated republicans.
Democrats have been able to sidestep Bush's popularity and undermine one of his platforms: putting more conservatives in key judgeships.
"The fact that the GOP's November takeover of the Senate has not made it any easier for Bush's appellate nominees to get confirmed only stokes Republican fury."
cool.
11:55 AM
Thursday, May 01, 2003
DRUNK ON THE FLOWERS
Hey, I was slicing the cake and I realized that I haven't shared some of the best parts witcha.
Like this weekend I celebrated May Day with a bunch of Nature worshipers and other well wishers in the pagan festival dance around the May pole. This particular group has been holding this flower strewn holiday event for 14 years now in the wilds of west Sonoma county. Lots of music, feasting, dancing, wine, children, ribbons and all manner of merriment... and except for some prayers to the four directions there was no mention of war whatsoever. Even when the misty rain showed up all you saw were smiles.
4:13 PM
Today President Bush is planning to announce the end of the war, well he's been reminded that he can't use those exact words, but for all intents and purposes many Americans actually believe it is.
Well it ain't the end for the people of Iraq. As Michel Chossudovsky points out in this article from the Wilderness publications on Low Intensity Nuclear War ,it's hardly over.
As we know from the countless number of people who have died in the Balkans and the Gulf War by radioactive poisoning from Depleted Uranium weapons (including those suffering with Gulf War Syndrome), the suffering is far from over and will continue on for decades.
This barely covered (by news media) aspect of modern warmongering deserves to be throughly understood. There is a plethora of information and scientific research on DU and plenty of cover-up to go around.
"When used in war, the depleted uranium (DU) bursts into flame [and] releasing a deadly radioactive aerosol of uranium, unlike anything seen before. It can kill everyone in a tank. This ceramic aerosol is much lighter than uranium dust. It can travel in air tens of kilometres from the point of release, or be stirred up in dust and resuspended in air with wind or human movement. It is very small and can be breathed in by anyone: a baby, pregnant woman, the elderly, the sick. This radioactive ceramic can stay deep in the lungs for years, irradiating the tissue with powerful alpha particles within about a 30 micron sphere, causing emphysema and/or fibrosis. The ceramic can also be swallowed and do damage to the gastro-intestinal tract. In time, it penetrates the lung tissue and enters into the blood stream. ...It can also initiate cancer or promote cancers which have been initiated by other cancinogens".
After the battles are over the disaster continues for an unknown amout of time.
"British scientist Roger Coghill suggests, in this regard, that "throughout the Balkan region alone, there will be an extra 10,150 deaths from cancer because of the use of DU. That will include local people, K-FOR personnel, aid workers, everyone." Moreover, according to a report published in Athens during the War, the impacts of depleted uranium are likely to extend beyond the Balkans. Albania, and Macedonia but also Greece, Italy, Austria and Hungary face a potential threat to human health as a result of the use of radioactive depleted uranium shells during the 1999 War.
Kuwait demanded that the U.S. clean up after the last Gulf War. The pentagon did so for Kuwait but left Iraq contaminated which resulted in "increases in childhood cancers and leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, lymphomas, and increases in congenital diseases and deformities in foetuses, along with limb reductional abnormalities and increases in genetic abnormalities throughout Iraq." Pedriatic examinations on Iraqi children confirm that: "childhood leukemia has risen 600% in the areas [of Iraq] where DU was used. Stillbirths, births or abortion of fetuses with monstrous abnormalities, and other cancers in children born since [the Gulf War in] 1991 have also been found."
This war that the PNAC brothers helped start is hardly over.
email Brooke at: sharethecake@hotmail.com
3:02 PM
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