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Great new web site for trippy artwork

2010-01-16T05:17:28Z

Welcome to Jamiahart!!
We have some really great products. We are a homegrown company with high quality hand-crafted Art. Since 2002 we have been crafting Artwork in the surreal genre. The medium used is mostly oil paint, but we have some acrylic pieces as well. The pieces are all 16x20 on canvas. They were all painted using the highest quality paint and canvas. Sure to last a lifetime. Also check out the slide show for photography that will be available for purchase soon. Check out the Gallery to see the Artwork!! http://www.jamiahartstore.info/

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Bartcop.com on The New American Dream

2009-04-19T13:53:05Z

http://www.newamericandream.net/index.html

The New American Dream

Feature Interview
Weekend
April 18

Bartcop.com's Terry Coppage, from Tulsa:

"Well, as you might know, I've got a smart mouth, always had a smart mouth.

And in 1993 my boss said, 'Bart, you ought to try this Internet thing, it's brand-new.' "

Poetry:
by Doug Draime
by Del "Abe" Jones

Columns:
A Progressive Pondering Healthcare — Joe Mayer of Rochester, Minnesota
Who's Killing Americans? Is it Dick Cheney? — Jim Fetzer, of Duluth, Minnesota

Political Art by Ben Heine of Brussels

and some other stuff ....

Thanks for stopping by.

The Dream Team
http://www.newamericandream.net/index.html

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Beautiful Arts and photos...!

2009-04-10T05:53:25Z

Hi i saw some beautiful arts and photos like this

http://www.pokkisam.com/content/base

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Throw a shoe.

2008-12-21T22:56:49Z

As White House officials struggle to decide which documents to release to the public (and which will be conveniently destroyed before the current government leaves office), as part of an ongoing project to preserve and commemorate the presidential legacy of George Walker Bush, I call on all fellow tribers to send me a shoe.

Collected shoes will be packaged and mailed to archivists at the George W. Bush Presidential Library, to stand as a lasting, material and symbolic tribute to his legacy.

To have your shoe included in the first shipment, please PM me for mailing details. Alternately, you can also mail your shoe directly to:

George W. Bush Presidential Library
Southern Methodist University
6425 Boaz Lane
Dallas TX 75205

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Lasting art

2008-10-15T13:08:22Z

Most of the work discussed on this tribe has been quickly (if well-) made, often humorous, and responsive to immediate events over the past 8 years.
But, as Mr. Bush considers his long-term legacy in the following months, can we imagine what kind of permanent artworks he might expect to be created in the future to commemorate his time as president?
Where would such monuments be placed?
Or what places might be named after him?
What style will they be in?
Ideas?

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Remember Remember The Fifth of November

2008-10-14T00:24:17Z

Remember Remember The Fifth of November

Well girls and boys that favourite holiday season is upon us again. It is time to gather the family and hang the pumpkins on the good old Halloween tree. Time to unbutton and zip down those over stuff pants after eating lots of tasty Vegan tofu turkey on Thanks Taking Day. Time to gather the neighbourhood kids in good cheer as we sing the traditional Election Fraud hymns. There is that great holiday called Bonfire Night to celebrate the rebellious actions of some guy. And who could forget that this Autumn season ends with an early Festivus. Hopefully this year there will be lots of "Airing of Grievances" followed by unusual amount of "Feats of Strength" to give us all that holiday joy and maybe even a "Festivus Miracle" or two.

It is my favourite time of the year. Memories of building leaf men from freshly fallen leaves. My childhood memories of kicking piles of leaves and leaf ball fights. But what is so important not to forget to purchase or make a traditional V for Vendetta mask. I often wear mine to work and when picking up the kids from after school. Right now as you read this stores are filling their stocks and shelves with those beautiful V for Vendetta masks. Yes that is right the mask popularised by the graphic novel and movie. Just imagine you sporting on a fashionable V mask with your hoody or jacket or any other appropriate attire. You could even don on some foxy black Jacobean Era outfit.

But you say "uncle Evergreen V, I ain't got no money to buy me a V for Vendetta mask, cuz the big business bailout also called the Emergency Stabilization Act of 2008 has left me penniless and I ain't got no job either due to outsourcing." I am so glad you asked me that question little Tiny Tim. Here is a shiny brand new penny for your thoughts. Well if you have just a little money for two colour prints then I have a deal for you. You can actually download a papercrafted V for Vendetta mask. This two page colour print out has tags or folds on the various sections of the mask to where you fold and glue the paper mask together. This can be a fun group project with friends and like minded people. You can even work side by side with your significant other or meet some like minded individuals for those heated discussions over steamy issues about civics and social justice. Make it a shared event with friends, neighbours, co-workers, classmates and family. It can be found at the following link:

papercraft-guyfawkes-pdf.zip
http://www.zshare.net/download/161188971bb2c38b/

I will add to this a round of applause to the first person or persons who can make a viral video going step by step on the print out to a well glossed version of the infamous V mask. Yes that is right a viral video rewarded with a round of applause from me.

Remember Remember The Fifth of November

Evergreen V

PS ... please watch

Remember
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ga7wsBd9_M&feature=user

V for Vendetta in Kinetic Typography
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8332842891866779485&ei=LmjqSLeQG4nGqQKIzMmbDA&q=V+for+vendetta&vt=lf&hl=en

November 5 V Speech
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4857964137818958423&ei=-GvqSKSrA5OwrAK17uT8BA&q=V+for+Vendetta+Revolution&vt=lf&hl=en

V speech
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2118953091665527418&ei=-GvqSKSrA5OwrAK17uT8BA&q=V+for+Vendetta+Revolution&vt=lf&hl=en

Poster for a Free Cascadia "Be the Evergreen Revolution"
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2008/10/13/evergreenrevolutionnovemberv.jpeg

Another site with the Guy Fawkes (V for Vendetta) mask in PDF format
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2008/10/13/guyfawkesmask.pdf

Image of the Guy Fawkes (V for Vendetta) make after construction
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2008/10/13/guyfawkesdemomask.jpg

And please forward this message and make it "go viral!"

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Did RAND Corporation Pen the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?

2007-11-24T14:13:03Z

Did RAND Corporation Pen the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?
Published on Friday, November 23, 2007.

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By Kurt Nimmo

According to Jessica Lee of Indypendent and Kamau Karl Franklin of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act was penned with plenty of help from the RAND Corporation.

“Rep. Jane Harman, Democrat from California, has had a lengthy relationship with the Rand Corporation,” Lee tells Democracy Now, although she was unable to determine if RAND wrote the bill. On the 12th anniversary of the OKC bombing, Rep. Harman, as chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, introduced the bill in the House of Representatives.
“The ‘Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007' seeks to address the roots causes of radicalization, and would establish a grant program to provide funds to States to foster badly needed vertical information sharing from the Intelligence Community to the local level and from local sources to state and federal agencies,” explains Harman’s website. “It also creates a Center of Excellence for the Prevention of Radicalization and Home Grown Terrorism to examine the social, criminal, political, psychological and economic roots of domestic terrorism and to propose solutions, and promotes international collaboration on strategies to combat radicalization."

Franklin mentions Brian Michael Jenkins, an “expert” on “terrorism, counterinsurgency, and homeland security,” according to RAND. Jenkins is “someone who helped the United States in counterinsurgency measures in Vietnam,” states Franklin. “In addition to that, he wrote a book, and in his own book” Jenkins declared that “in their international campaign, the jihadists will seek common ground with leftists, anti-American and anti-globalist forces, who will in turn see radical Islam comrades against a mutual foe.”

In short, according to Kamau Karl Franklin, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act is more about domestic political activism than Islamic terrorism, although it appears Jenkins—and neocons such as the former Marxist David Horowitz—are attempting establish a link between the two, an absurdity at best, as the best way to discredit both the antiwar and patriot movements.

According to a Center for Constitutional Rights factsheet, RAND is a key player in the “domestic terrorism” prevention effort detailed in this draconian bill. A RAND study “Trends in Terrorism,” Chapter 4 on “homegrown terrorism,” advocates “special attention to environmentalist, Anti-globalization activist and anarchists as potentially new terrorist in the making.”

Not surprisingly, RAND is intimately connected to the global elite and the military-industrial-intelligence complex: “The interlocks between the trustees at Rand, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations were so numerous that the Reece Committee listed them in its report (two each for Carnegie and Rockefeller, and three for Ford). Ford gave one million dollars to Rand in 1952 alone, at a time when the chairman of Rand was simultaneously the president of Ford Foundation,” notes SourceWatch (Rene Wormser, Foundations: Their Power and Influence, p65-66). “Two-thirds of Rand’s research involves national security issues. This is divided into Project Air Force, the Arroyo Center (serving the needs of the Army), and the National Defense Research Institute (providing research and analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the defense agencies).”

As Lee Rogers notes, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, in its effort to flush out “terrorists,” including those opposed to the sort of globalism supported by Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations, will perform an end-run around the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The bill “states in the first subsection that in general the efforts to defeat thought crime shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of the United States citizens and lawful permanent residents. How does this protect constitutional rights if they use vague language such as in general that prefaces the statement? This means that the Department of Homeland Security does not have to abide by the Constitution in their attempts to prevent so called homegrown terrorism.”

This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. Obviously, this legislation is unconstitutional on a number of levels and it is clear that all 404 representatives who voted in favor of this bill are traitors and should be removed from office immediately. The treason spans both political parties and it shows us all that there is no difference between them. The bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into the law by George W. Bush. Considering that draconian legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as well. This is more proof that our country has been completely sold out by a group of traitors at all levels of government.

“With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman’s ‘Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act’ passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain,” write Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson for the Baltimore Sun. “Not since the ‘Patriot Act’ of 2001 has any bill so threatened our constitutionally guaranteed rights.”

Harman’s “proposed commission is a menace through its power to hold hearings, take testimony and administer oaths, an authority granted to even individual members of the commission—little Joe McCarthys—who will tour the country to hold their own private hearings. An aura of authority will automatically accompany this congressionally authorized mandate to expose native terrorism.”

Ms. Harman’s proposal includes an absurd attack on the Internet, criticizing it for providing Americans with “access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda,” and legalizes an insidious infiltration of targeted organizations. The misnamed “Center of Excellence,” which would function after the commission is disbanded in 18 months, gives the semblance of intellectual research to what is otherwise the suppression of dissent.

While its purpose is to prevent terrorism, the bill doesn’t criminalize any specific conduct or contain penalties. But the commission’s findings will be cited by those who see a terrorist under every bed and who will demand enactment of criminal penalties that further restrict free speech and other civil liberties. Action contrary to the commission’s findings will be interpreted as a sign of treason at worst or a lack of patriotism at the least.

While Ms. Harman denies that her proposal creates “thought police,” it defines “homegrown terrorism” as “planned” or “threatened” use of force to coerce the government or the people in the promotion of “political or social objectives.” That means that no force need actually have occurred as long as the government charges that the individual or group thought about doing it.

As Shaffer and Robinson note, examples of “resulting crackdowns on such protests include the conviction and execution of anarchists tied to Chicago’s 1886 Haymarket Riot.” Additionally, we might add that the FBI’s COINTELPRO—targeting civil rights, antiwar, and national liberation movements—may serve as a template for “insidious infiltration of targeted organizations.” Although the official history would have us believe COINTELRPO was shut down in the 1970s, events since that time reveal the government is still in the business of illegally going after Americans who exercise their constitutional right to petition the government. For more on these recent events, see Brian Glick’s COINTELPRO Revisited: Spying and Disruption.

Thus it makes perfect sense that the corporate media—compromised by the CIA under Operation Mockingbird beginning in the 1950s—would employ the likes of Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly to characterize the antiwar, truth and patriot movements—and even supporters of Ron Paul—as potentially violent advocates of “domestic terrorism.” No doubt, in the weeks and months ahead, we should expect more such propaganda as Harman’s “proposed commissions,” little more than federally mandated inquisitions, get up to speed.
Finally, as noted above, it is only a matter of time before the so-called Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 becomes law. The bill has been referred to the Senate where it awaits scrutiny from the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and is almost certain to pass.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/231107RAND.htm

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Republicans suck! Suck, suck, suck!

2007-08-20T21:28:43Z

http://youtube.com/watch?v=66COez-8jpk

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The growing concerns of intellectual people about WTC and 9/11 Conspiracy possibilities...

2007-08-19T01:12:12Z

Celsius 9-11

Taking a Closer Look: Hard Science and the Collapse of the World Trade Center

By Dave Heller

While it may be difficult to awaken everyone from their state-induced fog of fear, we are at a critical point in history which requires us to try. We truly must take an objective look at the facts and evidence surrounding 9-11.

While none of the many 9-11 researchers knows exactly what happened on that fateful day in September almost 3 years ago, any sensible person can easily spot dozens of inconsistencies in the official story that is being forced upon us.

And these inconsistencies are huge. They range from the apparent stand-down of our immense military arsenal (for over an hour and a half) to the small hole and lack of debris at the Pentagon. There was Bush's bizarre, uninterrupted photo op in a Florida elementary school, and then there is the matter of the remains of Flight 93 being scattered over eight miles of Pennsylvania farmland, a fact which suggests the plane may have been shot down. The official story seems wrong on all of these points.

But the focus of this article is on just one point: the odd collapse of the three buildings in the World Trade Center complex.

How I First Began to Question: WTC7

The World Trade Center (WTC) contained seven buildings. The Twin Towers were called buildings One (WTC1) and Two (WTC2). They collapsed in truly astounding fashion, but the event that caused me first to question the official story about the events of 9-11 was viewing videos of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC7).

If you've forgotten, WTC7 was a 47-story building that was not hit by an airplane or by any significant debris from either WTC1 or WTC2. Buildings 3, 4, 5, and 6 were struck by massive amounts of debris from the collapsing Twin Towers, yet none collapsed, despite their thin-gauge steel supports.

Viewing the Collapse of WTC7

The 9-11 commemorative videos produced by PBS and CNN are best. Both clearly show WTC7's implosion.

Lower resolution Internet movies are also available.
WTC7, which was situated on the next block over, was the farthest of the buildings from WTC1 and WTC2. WTC7 happened to contain the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM), a facility that was, according to testimony to the 9-11 Commission, one of the most sophisticated Emergency Command Centers on the planet. But shortly after 5:20 pm on Sept. 11, as the horrific day was coming to a close, WTC7 mysteriously imploded and fell to the ground in an astounding 6.5 seconds.

6.5 seconds. This is a mere 0.5 seconds more than freefall in a vacuum. To restate this, a rock dropped from the 47th floor would have taken at least 6 seconds to hit the ground. WTC7, in its entirety, fell to the earth in 6.5 seconds. Now, recall, we're supposed to believe that each floor of the building "pancaked" on the one below. Each of the 47 floors supposedly pancaked and collapsed, individually. Yet WTC7 reached the ground in 0.5 seconds longer than freefall. Is this really possible?

Judge for yourself. Watch WTC7 go down. It takes 6.5 seconds. Take out your stopwatch.

What About Towers One and Two?

The odd, swift collapse of WTC7 made me reconsider the Twin Towers and how they fell. As I had with WTC7, I first studied video footage available on the web. Then I acquired and watched a DVD of the collapses, frame by frame.

What struck me first was the way the second plane hit WTC2, the South Tower. I noticed that this plane, United Airlines Flight 175, which weighed over 160,000 pounds and was traveling at 350 mph, did not even visibly move the building when it slammed into it. How, I wondered, could a building that did not visibly move from a heavy high speed projectile collapse at near freefall speed less than an hour later?

Next, I turned my attention to steel beams that fell in freefall next to the building as it collapsed. The beams were falling at the same rate that the towers themselves were descending. Familiar with elementary physics, including principles of conservation of energy and momentum, this seemed quite impossible if the towers were indeed “pancaking,” which is the official theory.

The height of the South Tower is 1362 feet. I calculated that from that height, freefall in a vacuum (read, absolutely no resistance on earth) is 9.2 seconds. According to testimony provided to the 9-11 Commission, the tower fell in 10 seconds. Other data shows it took closer to 14 seconds. So the towers fell within 0.8-4.8 seconds of freefall in a vacuum. Just like WTC7, this speed seemed impossible if each of the 110 floors had to fail individually.

As I was considering this, another problem arose. There is a principle in physics called the Law of Conservation of Energy. There is also the Law of Conservation of Momentum. I'll briefly explain how these principles work. Let’s assume there are two identical Honda Civics on the freeway. One is sitting in neutral at a standstill (0 mph). The other is coasting at 60 mph. The second Honda slams into the back of the first one. The first Honda will then instantaneously be going much faster than it was, and the second will instantaneously be going much slower than it was.

This is how the principle works in the horizontal direction, and it works the same in the vertical direction — with the added constant force of gravity added to it. Jim Hoffman, a professional scientist published in several peer-reviewed scientific journals, took a long look at all of this. He calculated that even if the structure itself offered no resistance — that is to say, even if the 110 floors of each tower were hovering in mid-air — the "pancake" theory would still have taken a minimum of 15.5 seconds to reach the ground. So, even if the building essentially didn't exist — if it provided no resistance at all to the collapse — just the floors hitting each other and causing each other to decelerate would've taken 15.5 seconds to reach the ground.

But of course the buildings did exist. They had stood for over 30 years. The floors weren't hovering in mid-air. So how did the building provide no resistance?

Yet another observation one makes in watching the collapsing towers is the huge dust clouds and debris, including steel beams, that were thrown hundreds of feet out horizontally from the towers as they fell. If we are to believe the pancake theory, this amount of scattering debris, fine pulverized concrete dust, and sheetrock powder would clearly indicate massive resistance to the vertical collapse. So there is an impossible conflict. You either have a miraculous, historical, instantaneous, catastrophic failure that occurs within a fraction of a second of freefall and that kicks out little dust, or you have a solid, hefty building that remains virtually unaffected after a massive, speeding projectile hits it. You either have a house of cards or a house of bricks. The building either resists its collapse or it doesn't.

And we know the WTC Towers were made of reinforced steel and concrete that would act much more like bricks than cards.

Thus, put simply, the floors could not have been pancaking. The buildings fell too quickly. The floors must all have been falling simultaneously to reach the ground in such a short amount of time. But how?

What About the Fires?

The official story maintains that fires weakened the buildings. Jet fuel supposedly burned so hot it began to melt the steel columns supporting the towers. But steel-framed skyscrapers have never collapsed from fire, since they're built from steel that doesn't melt below 2750 degrees Fahrenheit. No fuel, not even jet fuel, which is really just refined kerosene, will burn hotter than 1500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Steel-framed skyscrapers have never collapsed from fire.

It's also odd that WTC7, which wasn't hit by an airplane or by any significant debris, collapsed in strikingly similar fashion to the Twin Towers. There wasn't even any jet fuel or kerosene burning in WTC7.

According to the 9-11 report by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), “the specifics of the fires in WTC7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time.”

Aside from its startling nonchalance, this statement makes a rather profound assumption. Again, no building prior to 9-11, in the 100-plus year history of steel frame buildings, had ever collapsed from fire.

This fact was known to firemen. Hence their unflinching rush up into the skyscrapers to put out the fire. Partly it was bravery, to be sure, but partly it was concrete knowledge that skyscrapers do not collapse due to fire. Yet after 100 years, three collapsed in one day.

Did the FEMA investigators not think to ask the New York City Fire Department how they thought the fire started, or how the fires could have caused the astounding, historical collapse? This would seem to be an elementary step in any investigation about a fire. Instead, they chose to leave the cause of the collapse "unknown."

Conclusion

So if the science in this article is correct (none of it goes beyond the tenth grade level), then we know that the floors of the three WTC buildings were not pancaking but were falling simultaneously. We also know that fire is an insufficient explanation for the initiation of the collapse of the buildings.

Why, then, did the three WTC buildings fall?

There is a method that has been able to consistently get skyscrapers to fall as fast as the three buildings of the World Trade Center fell on 9-11. In this method, each floor of a building is destroyed at just the moment the floor above is about to strike it. Thus, the floors fall simultaneously — and in virtual freefall. This method, when precisely used, has indeed given near-freefall speed to demolitions of buildings all over the world in the past few decades. This method could have brought down WTC7 in 6.5 seconds. This method is called controlled demolition.

A controlled demolition would have exploded debris horizontally at a rapid rate. A controlled demolition would also explain the fine, pulverized concrete powder, whereas pancaking floors would leave chunks of concrete. Controlled demolition would also explain the seismic evidence recorded nearby of two small earthquakes — each just before one of the Twin Towers collapsed. And finally, controlled demolition would explain why three steel skyscrapers — two of which were struck by planes and one of which wasn't — all collapsed in essentially the same way.

Ongoing Questions

But having established that all three WTC towers had to have been assisted in their failures, I asked myself, Who could have planted the explosives to blow up the buildings in a controlled demolition? Could fundamentalist Muslim fanatics have gotten the plans for those buildings, engineered the demolition, and then gotten into them to plant the explosives?

This seemed improbable. And after learning that WTC7 housed the FBI, CIA, and the OEM, it seemed impossible. Then I thought, Why would terrorists engineer a building to implode? Wouldn’t they want to cause even more damage to the surrounding buildings and possibly create more havoc and destruction from debris exploding away from the building? And if they'd planted explosives in the buildings, why would they have bothered hijacking and flying planes into them? Perhaps WTC7 was demolished to destroy evidence that would answer these questions. To this day, I don't know. But this is how I began to question the official story about 9-11.

Recently I learned that President Bush’s brother, Marvin Bush, is a part owner of the company that not only provided security for both United and American Airlines, but also for the World Trade Center complex itself. I also discovered that Larry Silverstein, who had bought the leasing rights for the WTC complex from the NY/NJ Port Authority in May of 2001 for $200 million, had received a $3.55 billion insurance settlement right after 9-11 — yet he was suing for an additional $3.55 billion by claiming the two hits on the towers constituted two separate terrorist attacks! He stood to make $7 billion dollars on a four month investment. Talk about motive.

In conclusion, I'll repeat myself. None of the many 9-11 researchers can definitively say exactly what happened on that fateful day in September almost 3 years ago. But any sensible person can easily spot dozens of inconsistencies in the official story that is being forced upon us. And the fact is, most of the available 9-11 evidence points to at least some level of government complicity or foreknowledge.

Please, read more for yourself. Don't take my word for it. Most of all, do not buy the double-speak that visible politicians and the media use to discount any question about 9-11. Clearly, there are no “conspiracy theories” surrounding 9-11. The official story itself affirms that there was obviously some kind of conspiracy. It's just a question of which conspiracy occurred. We know it wasn't mere coincidence that several hijackers happened to be on several different airplanes and happened to hijack them at the exact same time and happened to pick the World Trade Center as a target. The real question is, “Who was involved in the conspiracy?”

(Dave Heller, who has degrees in physics and architecture, is a builder and engaged citizen in Berkeley, California.)

Something is rotten in Denmark, ladies and gentlemen!!!

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The Road To Guantanamo

2007-08-18T05:19:55Z

Rent it and watch it:
The Road To Guantanamo

http://www.amazon.com/Road-Guantanamo-Riz-Ahmed/dp/B000HOL67U/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-8187248-0479803?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1187414094&sr=1-1

while you are at it: Who Killed The Electric Car?
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-Electric-Martin-Sheen/dp/B000I5Y8FU/re

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The war against terrorism that is making U.S. into terrorists...

2007-08-18T05:10:16Z

Extremism in the defence of liberty
Paul Robinson says that some well-respected hawks are threatening civilisation by advocating terror tactics in the war on terror ‘I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy,’ said the Duke of Wellington of his troops, ‘but, by God, they terrify me.’ I feel much the same way about some of those who purport to be on our side in the so-called Global War on Terror (GWoT).

It is not just that these people want to drag us into perpetual war. It is how they want us to wage their war that causes me alarm. A concerted effort is underway to persuade us to abandon our civil liberties; to lock up people indefinitely without trial, torture them, and execute them; and if we can’t get who we want, to target their families, neighbours and other innocents to terrorise them into surrendering. In short, the call is that in order to defeat terrorism we must become terrorists ourselves.

Those making these demands can no longer be ignored. We have to expose them, confront them and defeat them. Already in this country we have David Blunkett with his plans for ‘pre-emptive detention’, secret trials and the indefinite imprisonment of suspects on evidence which the Home Office has admitted might come from torture in other countries. The slippery slope from Blunkettism to state terrorism is but a short one, and if we do not start the fight against it now, we may find we have lost already.

There is, alas, a seriously psychopathic tendency on the loose, and its influence is growing, especially in the United States. Take, for instance, Ralph Peters, author of ‘Civilian casualties: no apology needed’ (Wall Street Journal, July 2002). Peters is a highly respected commentator on security issues in the United States. He writes regularly for the journals of the US military, and is read widely by both those who make policy and those who carry it out. The GWoT, in his eyes, is a war ‘to exterminate human monsters’. Anybody in any way associated with them, even if not by their own will, is a legitimate target. If you can’t get the terrorists, Peters argues, get their families. ‘We Americans’, he writes, ‘must be willing to pursue the terrorists through their relatives. ... If you cannot kill your enemy, threaten what he holds dear.’ Only ‘outdated convention’ holds us back from the necessary ruthlessness.

Others take the argument further. Frances Kamm, a professor of philosophy at Harvard University, has been doing the lecture circuit in America and England, promoting the view that it may be legitimate to target non-combatants directly. She argues that if an attack planned against a military target is likely to kill, say, 50 innocent people in collateral damage, you might as well just kill 40 of them directly. What’s more, if it will help to terrorise others, you should kill them ‘in a particularly horrible way’. You can then congratulate yourself on having saved ten lives! Better yet, you are only allowed to ‘terror-kill’, as she calls it, as many innocent people as you could have killed anyway. So if you are a powerless refugee, you are not allowed to kill any, but if you are a great power, you can kill hundreds of thousands. Best of all, if their country is engaged in what you deem to be an unjust war, then they are merely enjoying ‘life they could only have had as an ill-gotten gain from a great injustice’, and you are positively urged to kill them at once and put a stop to it.

Kamm’s commendation of legalised state terrorism is mirrored in numerous other examples. Perhaps the best known is the proposal by the famous lawyer Alan Dershowitz to legalise judicial questioning under torture. Dershowitz recommends the insertion of sterilised needles under the fingernails to produce ‘excruciating pain’. ‘Pain is not the worst thing in the world,’ he says. ‘You get over it.’

One might argue that extremists such as Peters, Kamm and Dershowitz are unimportant, as they exist on the fringes and have no effect on actual policy. Such complacency would be a mistake. The only way to prevent their arguments from gaining ground is to fight them. If they become accepted within the spectrum of normal opinion, they will recruit more and more adherents. In addition, these people are not in fact without influence. Methods of warfare once considered unacceptable are now common practice, ‘targeted killings’ and ‘torture-lite’ being the clearest examples.

The more often these views are expressed as normal, the less opposition they seem to generate. A journalist who attended a meeting at which Dershowitz suggested legalising torture noted that the really shocking thing was that not one person in the audience replied that it might be wrong. Even in this country, some no longer consider such views unacceptable. Respectable universities would think twice before inviting someone like David Irving to speak, but Oxford, London and others welcome Professor Kamm to spread her views that it is fine to ‘terror-kill’ the innocent as long as you ‘have the capacity to harm them as badly in some other way or for some other reason’. The boundaries of respectability have rarely seemed so fragile.

Bit by bit, these ideas have an effect. Dr Davida Kellogg, who has taught military ethics to American officer cadets for many years, told a conference at the Royal Military College of Canada that it was becoming increasingly difficult to persuade America’s future officers to treat the other side with respect. She confronts, she says, ‘intense and sustained resistance’ to expectations that they behave ‘chivalrously’ towards civilians. The enemy are seen as beyond the pale; the normal rules do not apply to them.

The British journalist Oliver Poole, embedded with American forces during the invasion of Iraq, noted this phenomenon in practice during last year’s invasion of Iraq. In his new book Black Knights, he states that the Americans he was with considered Iraqis ‘barely human’. The protection of American soldiers, he reports, was always a much higher priority than the protection of the lives of Iraqi civilians. Faced with gunfire from an Iraqi building, the response was, ‘Anyone still in that building isn’t a civilian.’ The same attitude prevails today. An Iraqi life, or an Afghan life, or the life of any civilian at the receiving end of ‘Coalition’ military action, is clearly not worth the same as an American or British life.

Thus, in a rabid, but sadly not untypical, response to the murder of four Americans in Fallujah, the journalist Joseph Farah urged us ‘to make an example’ out of the Iraqi city. ‘We may need to flatten Fallujah,’ he wrote. ‘We may need to destroy it. We may need to grind it, pulverise it and salt the soil. ... Here’s an opportunity to show that it doesn’t pay to resort to barbarism and terrorism.’ (Irony is not Farah’s strong point.)

The American army didn’t go quite as far as Farah suggested — in response to the four murders it has killed a mere 600 people in Fallujah, and that does, I suppose, show restraint of a sort. But it is hardly an advertisement for the discriminate and proportionate use of force. Since today we have the technical means to reduce collateral damage, and since we justify our wars in terms of protecting the innocent, we have a special obligation to take every measure to do so. We will not be fulfilling that obligation if we continue to shed blood on the scale of recent weeks in Iraq. If we cannot govern the Iraqis without killing them, we should leave their country immediately.

Actually, withdrawing might be the best thing we could do for them. Far from provoking civil war, the sight of us running from a combined Shia-Sunni offensive could provide Iraqis with a unifying myth of self-liberation to bind the country together and enable them to face the future with confidence. If we are not willing to leave, though, we must at least resist the calls to abandon restraint.

Despite Tony Blair’s bizarre rantings, terrorism does not pose an ‘existential’ threat to our society, as Simon Jenkins rightly pointed out in these pages a few weeks ago. Our civilisation is under threat, but not from terrorists, whose power is extremely limited. Only we ourselves can destroy the values that we cherish and which make us great. We must hold on to the principles that guarantee our superiority — our respect for the innocent, for due process and for justice. If we stand firm, we can never be defeated.

(Paul Robinson is assistant director of the Centre for Security Studies at the University of Hull.)

-Uum, not sure about that over-patriotic ending, but, essentially...it is not a bad article.-

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Keith Olbermann: Bush resign!

2007-07-13T17:03:03Z

Incredible! And about friggin time someone put it so perfectly!
http://thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/03/256978.aspx

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2007-06-14T16:19:56Z

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presidential directive at whitehouse.gov gives Bush imperial powers

2007-05-22T17:41:31Z

presidential directive at whitehouse.gov gives Bush imperial powers

Just heard about this presidential directive from their own website. This means any event that is considered a disruption of the nation or its normal routine (from the mega-quake in Cascadia to the even a computer virus) then Mr Bush can declare this emergency with 90s imperial rule. They can even take over Native American Reservations or anything else deemed important for military stragedy. Add to this this week's ruling on environmentalism as possibly ecoterrorism.

One news report with the actualy whitehouse.gov announcement:

Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency
By Matthew Rothschild
May 18, 2007

With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for responding to a catastrophic attack.

In a new National Security Presidential Directive, Bush lays out his plans for dealing with a “catastrophic emergency.”Under that plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility “for ensuring constitutional government.”

He laid this all out in a document entitled “National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51” and “Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20.”

http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807

The White House released it on May 9.

Other than a discussion on Daily Kos led off by a posting by Leo Fender, and a pro-forma notice in a couple of mainstream newspapers, this document has gone unremarked upon.

The subject of the document is entitled “National Continuity Policy.”

It defines a “catastrophic emergency” as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government function.”

This could mean another 9/11, or another Katrina, or a major earthquake in California, I imagine, since it says it would include “localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies.”

The document emphasizes the need to ensure “the continued function of our form of government under the Constitution, including the functioning of the three separate branches of government,” it states.

But it says flat out: “The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government.”

The document waves at the need to work closely with the other two branches, saying there will be “a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government.” But this effort will be “coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial
branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers.”

Among the efforts coordinated by the President would ensuring the capability of the three branches of government to “provide for orderly succession” and “appropriate transition of leadership.”

The document designates a National Continuity Coordinator, who would be the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.

Currently holding that post is Frances Fragos Townsend.

She is required to develop a National Continuity Implementation Plan and submit it within 90 days.

As part of that plan, she is not only to devise procedures for the Executive Branch but also give guidance to “state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure.”

The secretary of Homeland Security is also directed to develop planning guidance for “private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators,” as well as state, local, territorial, and tribal governments.

The document gives the Vice President a role in implementing the provisions of the contingency plans.

“This directive shall be implanted in a manner that is consistent with, and facilitates effective implementation of, provisions of the Constitution concerning succession to the Presidency or the exercise of its powers, and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 USC 19), with the consultation of the Vice President and, as appropriate, others involved.”

The document also contains “classified Continuity Annexes.”

from http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807

___ actual presidential directive from whitehouse.gov:

National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive

White House News

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51

HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-20

Subject: National Continuity Policy

Purpose

(1) This directive establishes a comprehensive national policy on the continuity of Federal Government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of Federal continuity policies. This policy establishes "National Essential Functions," prescribes continuity requirements for all executive departments and agencies, and provides guidance for State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector organizations in order to ensure a comprehensive and integrated national continuity program that will enhance the credibility of our national security posture and enable a more rapid and effective response to and recovery from a national emergency.

Definitions

(2) In this directive:

(a) "Category" refers to the categories of executive departments and agencies listed in Annex A to this directive;

(b) "Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;

(c) "Continuity of Government," or "COG," means a coordinated effort within the Federal Government's executive branch to ensure that National Essential Functions continue to be performed during a Catastrophic Emergency;

(d) "Continuity of Operations," or "COOP," means an effort within individual executive departments and agencies to ensure that Primary Mission-Essential Functions continue to be performed during a wide range of emergencies, including localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies;

(e) "Enduring Constitutional Government," or "ECG," means a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers among the branches, to preserve the constitutional framework under which the Nation is governed and the capability of all three branches of government to execute constitutional responsibilities and provide for orderly succession, appropriate transition of leadership, and interoperability and support of the National Essential Functions during a catastrophic emergency;

(f) "Executive Departments and Agencies" means the executive departments enumerated in 5 U.S.C. 101, independent establishments as defined by 5 U.S.C. 104(1), Government corporations as defined by 5 U.S.C. 103(1), and the United States Postal Service;

(g) "Government Functions" means the collective functions of the heads of executive departments and agencies as defined by statute, regulation, presidential direction, or other legal authority, and the functions of the legislative and judicial branches;

(h) "National Essential Functions," or "NEFs," means that subset of Government Functions that are necessary to lead and sustain the Nation during a catastrophic emergency and that, therefore, must be supported through COOP and COG capabilities; and

(i) "Primary Mission Essential Functions," or "PMEFs," means those Government Functions that must be performed in order to support or implement the performance of NEFs before, during, and in the aftermath of an emergency.

Policy

(3) It is the policy of the United States to maintain a comprehensive and effective continuity capability composed of Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government programs in order to ensure the preservation of our form of government under the Constitution and the continuing performance of National Essential Functions under all conditions.

Implementation Actions

(4) Continuity requirements shall be incorporated into daily operations of all executive departments and agencies. As a result of the asymmetric threat environment, adequate warning of potential emergencies that could pose a significant risk to the homeland might not be available, and therefore all continuity planning shall be based on the assumption that no such warning will be received. Emphasis will be placed upon geographic dispersion of leadership, staff, and infrastructure in order to increase survivability and maintain uninterrupted Government Functions. Risk management principles shall be applied to ensure that appropriate operational readiness decisions are based on the probability of an attack or other incident and its consequences.

(5) The following NEFs are the foundation for all continuity programs and capabilities and represent the overarching responsibilities of the Federal Government to lead and sustain the Nation during a crisis, and therefore sustaining the following NEFs shall be the primary focus of

the Federal Government leadership during and in the aftermath of an emergency that adversely affects the performance of Government Functions:

(a) Ensuring the continued functioning of our form of government under the Constitution, including the functioning of the three separate branches of government;

(b) Providing leadership visible to the Nation and the world and maintaining the trust and confidence of the American people;

(c) Defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and preventing or interdicting attacks against the United States or its people, property, or interests;

(d) Maintaining and fostering effective relationships with foreign nations;

(e) Protecting against threats to the homeland and bringing to justice perpetrators of crimes or attacks against the United States or its people, property, or interests;

(f) Providing rapid and effective response to and recovery from the domestic consequences of an attack or other incident;

(g) Protecting and stabilizing the Nation's economy and ensuring public confidence in its financial systems; and

(h) Providing for critical Federal Government services that address the national health, safety, and welfare needs of the United States.

(6) The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government. In order to advise and assist the President in that function, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHS/CT) is hereby designated as the National Continuity Coordinator. The National Continuity Coordinator, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National

Security Affairs (APNSA), without exercising directive authority, shall coordinate the development and implementation of continuity policy for executive departments and agencies. The Continuity Policy Coordination Committee (CPCC), chaired by a Senior Director from the Homeland Security Council staff, designated by the National Continuity Coordinator, shall be the main day-to-day forum for such policy coordination.

(7) For continuity purposes, each executive department and agency is assigned to a category in accordance with the nature and characteristics of its national security roles and

responsibilities in support of the Federal Government's ability to sustain the NEFs. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall serve as the President's lead agent for coordinating overall

continuity operations and activities of executive departments and agencies, and in such role shall perform the responsibilities set forth for the Secretary in sections 10 and 16 of this directive.

(8) The National Continuity Coordinator, in consultation with the heads of appropriate executive departments and agencies, will lead the development of a National Continuity Implementation Plan (Plan), which shall include prioritized goals and objectives, a concept of operations, performance metrics by which to measure continuity readiness, procedures for continuity and incident management activities, and clear direction to executive department and agency continuity coordinators, as well as guidance to promote interoperability of Federal Government continuity programs and procedures with State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate. The Plan shall be submitted to the President for approval not later than 90 days after the date of this directive.

(9) Recognizing that each branch of the Federal Government is responsible for its own continuity programs, an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President shall ensure that the executive branch's COOP and COG policies in support of ECG efforts are appropriately coordinated with those of

the legislative and judicial branches in order to ensure interoperability and allocate national assets efficiently to maintain a functioning Federal Government.

(10) Federal Government COOP, COG, and ECG plans and operations shall be appropriately integrated with the emergency plans and capabilities of State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate, in order to promote interoperability and to prevent redundancies and conflicting lines of authority. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall coordinate the integration of Federal continuity plans and operations with State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate, in order to provide for the delivery of essential services during an emergency.

(11) Continuity requirements for the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and executive departments and agencies shall include the following:

(a) The continuation of the performance of PMEFs during any emergency must be for a period up to 30 days or until normal operations can be resumed, and the capability to be fully operational at alternate sites as soon as possible after the occurrence of an emergency, but not later than 12 hours after COOP activation;

(b) Succession orders and pre-planned devolution of authorities that ensure the emergency delegation of authority must be planned and documented in advance in accordance with applicable law;

(c) Vital resources, facilities, and records must be safeguarded, and official access to them must be provided;

(d) Provision must be made for the acquisition of the resources necessary for continuity operations on an emergency basis;

(e) Provision must be made for the availability and redundancy of critical communications capabilities at alternate sites in order to support connectivity between

and among key government leadership, internal elements, other executive departments and agencies, critical partners, and the public;

(f) Provision must be made for reconstitution capabilities that allow for recovery from a catastrophic emergency and resumption of normal operations; and

(g) Provision must be made for the identification, training, and preparedness of personnel capable of relocating to alternate facilities to support the continuation of the performance of PMEFs.

(12) In order to provide a coordinated response to escalating threat levels or actual emergencies, the Continuity of Government Readiness Conditions (COGCON) system establishes executive branch continuity program readiness levels, focusing

on possible threats to the National Capital Region. The President will determine and issue the COGCON Level. Executive departments and agencies shall comply with the requirements and

assigned responsibilities under the COGCON program. During COOP activation, executive departments and agencies shall report their readiness status to the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary's designee.

(13) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall:

(a) Conduct an annual assessment of executive department and agency continuity funding requests and performance data that are submitted by executive departments and agencies as part of the annual budget request process, in order to monitor progress in the implementation of the Plan and the execution of continuity budgets;

(b) In coordination with the National Continuity Coordinator, issue annual continuity planning guidance for the development of continuity budget requests; and

(c) Ensure that heads of executive departments and agencies prioritize budget resources for continuity capabilities, consistent with this directive.

(14) The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall:

(a) Define and issue minimum requirements for continuity communications for executive departments and agencies, in consultation with the APHS/CT, the APNSA, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Chief of Staff to the President;

(b) Establish requirements for, and monitor the development, implementation, and maintenance of, a comprehensive communications architecture to integrate continuity components, in consultation with the APHS/CT, the APNSA, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Chief of Staff to the President; and

(c) Review quarterly and annual assessments of continuity communications capabilities, as prepared pursuant to section 16(d) of this directive or otherwise, and report the results and recommended remedial actions to the National Continuity Coordinator.

(15) An official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President shall:

(a) Advise the President, the Chief of Staff to the President, the APHS/CT, and the APNSA on COGCON operational execution options; and

(b) Consult with the Secretary of Homeland Security in order to ensure synchronization and integration of continuity activities among the four categories of executive departments and agencies.

(16) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall:

(a) Coordinate the implementation, execution, and assessment of continuity operations and activities;

(b) Develop and promulgate Federal Continuity Directives in order to establish continuity planning requirements for executive departments and agencies;

(c) Conduct biennial assessments of individual department and agency continuity capabilities as prescribed by the Plan and report the results to the President through the APHS/CT;

(d) Conduct quarterly and annual assessments of continuity communications capabilities in consultation with an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President;

(e) Develop, lead, and conduct a Federal continuity training and exercise program, which shall be incorporated into the National Exercise Program developed pursuant to Homeland Security Presidential Directive-8 of December 17, 2003 ("National Preparedness"), in consultation with an

official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President;

(f) Develop and promulgate continuity planning guidance to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators;

(g) Make available continuity planning and exercise funding, in the form of grants as provided by law, to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators; and

(h) As Executive Agent of the National Communications System, develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive continuity communications architecture.

(17) The Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall produce a biennial assessment of the foreign and domestic threats to the Nation's continuity of government.

(18) The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall provide secure, integrated, Continuity of Government communications to the President, the Vice President, and, at a minimum, Category I executive departments and agencies.

(19) Heads of executive departments and agencies shall execute their respective department or agency COOP plans in response to a localized emergency and shall:

(a) Appoint a senior accountable official, at the Assistant Secretary level, as the Continuity Coordinator for the department or agency;

(b) Identify and submit to the National Continuity Coordinator the list of PMEFs for the department or agency and develop continuity plans in support of the NEFs and the continuation of essential functions under all conditions;

(c) Plan, program, and budget for continuity capabilities consistent with this directive;

(d) Plan, conduct, and support annual tests and training, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, in order to evaluate program readiness and ensure adequacy and viability of continuity plans and communications systems; and

(e) Support other continuity requirements, as assigned by category, in accordance with the nature and characteristics of its national security roles and responsibilities

General Provisions

(20) This directive shall be implemented in a manner that is consistent with, and facilitates effective implementation of, provisions of the Constitution concerning succession to the Presidency or the exercise of its powers, and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S.C. 19), with consultation of the Vice President and, as appropriate, others involved. Heads of executive departments and agencies shall ensure that appropriate

support is available to the Vice President and others involved as necessary to be prepared at all times to implement those provisions.

(21) This directive:

(a) Shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and the authorities of agencies, or heads of agencies, vested by law, and subject to the availability of appropriations;

(b) Shall not be construed to impair or otherwise affect (i) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, and legislative proposals, or (ii) the authority of the Secretary of Defense over the Department of Defense, including the chain of command for military forces from the President, to the Secretary of Defense, to the commander of military forces, or military command and control procedures; and

(c) Is not intended to, and does not, create any rights or benefits, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its

agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(22) Revocation. Presidential Decision Directive 67 of October 21, 1998 ("Enduring Constitutional Government and Continuity of Government Operations"), including all Annexes thereto, is hereby revoked.

(23) Annex A and the classified Continuity Annexes, attached hereto, are hereby incorporated into and made a part of this directive.

(24) Security. This directive and the information contained herein shall be protected from unauthorized disclosure, provided that, except for Annex A, the Annexes attached to this directive are classified and shall be accorded appropriate handling, consistent with applicable Executive Orders.

GEORGE W. BUSH

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

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Launch May with activism.... Cascadia Spring

2007-04-25T17:02:29Z

There are two current political events happening that has had a call out for banner drops and stenciling: MayDay adnd a Day for calling Impeachment of the current Fascists in power (below are two posts on them). Added to this is the anniverary of the creation of the Oregon Independence Government back in 1843 at Champoeg. It would be nice to see a week of Cascadian activism in honor of that moment in time when the Oregon Country (bascially most of the bioregion of Cascadia) briefly was an independant country (third post below).

CASCADIA NOW OR WA BC UNITED . FREE (banner drop)
http://media.portland.indymedia.org/images/2007/04/358162.jpg

WEDNESDAYS SPRING TRAINING: STENCIL AND BANNER MAKING! GET READY FOR MAYDAY!!!
author: Mb e-mail:e-mail: mb(at)resist(dot)ca
Wiether you just wanna accesorize your affinity, or play with the spray this ones for the artist in you.

This is a spring training workshop. "SPRING TRAINING" is a month of workshops focused on educating and empowering the broad community to act for social justice!
The fun never stops at blue heron infoshop

Wednesday at 7PM
in the blue heron infohop (formerly the SAO, GCC 34, Reed College)

Wednesday's spring training workshop! Get ready for mayday! Or just plain "accesorize" your affinity with some rockin banners and signs! Sound fun? Well check this workshop out!

STENCIL MAKING WORKSHOP

Thomas will be doing a workshop on DIY stencil fun. Make shirts, make friends, remake the boring-as-fuck corporate aesthetic! All materials will be provided, just bring your beautiful selves and some dirty clothes.

This is a spring training workshop. "SPRING TRAINING" is a month of workshops focused on educating and empowering the broad community to act for social justice!

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Stick around the basement of GCC cause after the workshop...

ADELIT@S, NICKTAB, AND FLY THE COOP JUG BAND
WEDNESDAY-8pm-PING PONG ROOM (down the hall from blue heron)

Mexican folk influenced punk outfit Adelit@s is playing a show Wednesday
in the Ping Pong room with acoustic rocker Niktab, and the old timey
favorites, Fly the Coop Jug Band, starting at 8pm. This is a benefit for the Sin Fronteras paper that we'll be printing for Mayday. There is also a show at the Portland Collective Housing (PCH House) on Saturday, April 28, with Adelit@s, Rag and Bone Men, Smile Whiskey, and DJ Dimon (of Gogol Bordello). If you're going to miss them on Saturday, hear them for free on Wednesday.

Come find out about the amazing work Sin Fronteras Portland is doing and hear some kick ass music.

Sin Fronteras Mission Statement
Sin Fronteras Portland formed to confront the growing violence, and economic disparity caused by the U.S./Mexico Border (and all national borders) and U.S. Imperialism. The movement for immigrant rights and border justice has been focused on pandering to politicians, and trying to "reform" blatantly racist laws. We do not believe white supremacy can be "reformed". Where we see the left in the United States has failed, we seek to participate in the building of popular social movements towards economic and social justice; here in the belly of the beast.

Portland Sin Fronteras is committed to bringing the popular resistance struggles of Latin America across the U.S. border into the heart of the global capitalist empire. We seek to educate, mobilize and empower people by disseminating the radical ideas and culture from these struggles. We seek to inspire and build with others, towards taking action in our lives and our communities against racism, militarization, liberalism and build our vision of another world. A world driven by needs and not profit, a world where freedom of movement is about people not global financial interests.

Our focus as a group lies in building and understanding the border and in fighting white supremacy; and our aim is to combat capitalism as a system of domination and to link the anticapitalist struggles of Latin America toour own struggles here at home.
LIBERTAD PARA TOD@S!

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/358263.shtml

May 5 this Sat on I-205 Freeway Overpass Banner Blitz
author: Joe Anybdy (reposting) e-mail:e-mail: iam@joe-anybody.com
Reposting From An Email I Just Recieved
Sounds Like A Good Idea To Me
"I-205 Freeway Banner Blitz"
MAY 5th ANTI-WAR PROTESTS

PLANNED ON SERIES OF I-205/CLACKAMAS OVERPASSES

Well, there we were, "Shivering in the rain again", yesterday at our
anti-war protest on Sunnyside Road at I-205. We had our family of
four on one side of the overpass with 'BRING THEM HOME", "END THE
WAR', AND "HONK TO END THE WAR". On the other side of the overpass
was about 5 from the PDX911TRUTH group, with their '9/11 WAS AN INSIDE
JOB"; "BUSH LIED", AND "GOOGLE WTC7". It was very effective to have
one side focused on one message for each of our groups.

There weren't alot of us out there. But, the reactions from passersby
was very reactive -- lots of honking with thumbs up and peace -- and
lots of "the bird". A wadded up bag was thrown at David's back.
But by far, we usually get 10 to 1 honks in favor of our protest.

But, we need more folks out there with us -- on a regular basis. It
is only one hour a week. Would you please commit to being there with
us? Bring family and friends. Bribe them with a treat afterwards!
It's a great way to release pent up stress about the war. You feel
great after doing it. Plus, you meet new friends! Shivering in the
rain is nothing compared to what our troops are doing in Iraq. We do
this in our support for them, to get them home!

But, on May 5th, we are going to need an extra lot of people. We're
planning to do several overpasses in a row -- BAM! BAM! BAM! with
giant "SUPPORT THE TROOPS - BRING THEM HOME!" and 'UNJUST WAR IS
MURDER', 'IMPEACH BUSH!" etc. -- our message will not be ignored
this way. So come out to one of these protest sites along I-205, near
Clackamas, on Saturday, May 5th at 1pm-2pm. Bring large signs. You
can print out super large letters on a 8-1/2 x 11" paper (one letter
per page), cut them out and paste to a white or black painted
cardboard. Then, seal it with a sprayed or brushed on lacquer. Or
paint huge letters onto a large sheet and drape over the fence (not
over traffic, though). Remember not to obstruct vehicle or pedestrian
traffic in any way.

Protests at these I-205 Exits, between 1pm-2pm

Johnson Creek (need contact person)
SE Otty Road (need contact person)
SE Monterey Avenue @ I-205 (Keith Humphrey wayimp@yahoo.com)
SE Sunnyside (David Brownlow 503-307-3851 dave@davebrownlow.com and
Tim Titrud 503-701-3481mailto: 503-701-3481SixLeaves@aol.com )
SE Sunnybrook (Mark Pritchard 503-631-2507 harpy@ccwebster.net)

Thank you!

Suzanne Brownlow
Believers Against The War
http://www.believersagainstthewar.org/

homepage: homepage: http://www.joe-anybody.com

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/358158.shtml

May 2nd 1843 Founders Day Champoeg
author: Ecotopian Yeti
May 2nd marks Founders Day which in 1843 was the first western style democracy west of the Rockies. Maybe for Cascadians this should mark a day to honor our Bioregion. Today Founders Day is honored on May 6th with events at Champoeg State Park

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cascadian_Bioregionalism/

For many Cascadians the first days of May should hold a value for several different reasons. For those conscious of labour movements (workers and the politally left) May Day was the international workers day marked with historical tragedies. This should be a history everyone should learn and honor those that fought and still fight for the rights and safety of all of us. For those Cascadians who honor various religious or spiritual paths associated with changing seasons and Nature then May Day marks an ancient holiday often celebrated as Beltaine. Also the day following May Day should have historical signifigance for Cascadians, Oregonians and the people of the various states and provinces that were the Old Oregon County. May 2nd marks the anniversary of "Founders' Day" the day in 1843 when European and mixed settlers in the French Prairie (within the Willamette Valley) at town of Champoeg voted to create the first independent western style democratic government. Those dedicated to preserving American national mythology about those events often simply claim it was an election decide on whether the Oregon Country should join the USA. The reality as in many cases with nation-state mythology is that the situation was far more complex that Amerikan nationalists would have people believe. Almost half voted against formation of an independent government for various reasons. For some because they were employed by the Hudson Bay Company that already managed for British citizens (including French Canadians and Metis) juridical matters in the region. For some it was fear that the US Americans were quickly spreading across North America using Anglo-American immigration to change the political landscape and therefore challenge any and all other residence of the region (Texas, California and the rest of the Mexican Cession where in the process of Amerikanization at the time). Some voted in favor of the formation of a government because of the lack of legal status for some residents that migrated from the US (the Ewing Young case was the prime legal case for that reason). Others voted for establishment of a government with the idea of a Republic of the Pacific in mind independent of the US (Osborne Russell even ran for the first Provisional Governor position in 1845 from the Independents stance). Thomas Jefferson himself sent the Corp of Discovery as a scientific exploration and deplomatic mission to the lands west of the Stony Mountains (the Rockies) not as US Amerikan national mythology suggests as exploring future conquest or annexation, but originally Jefferson envisioned the region as a future Republic of the Pacific independent and on its own path to a parallel democratic tradition. It was American expansionists like president Polk with a the campaign slogan "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" and American nationalist journalist John Louis O'Sullivan with his concept of Divine American Imperialism in the concept of "Manifest Destiny" that drove the idea that the Oregon Country was the "property" of American Empire. Of course all this ignored what Native People and other residents thought in the region.

In Chinook Jargon the land west of the Rockies was called Chinook Illahee meaning land of the Chinook Jargon Speakers.

Using historical and civil events to deconstruct our shared history maybe one method to getting the meme out about Cascadia.

Unfortunately today the park system does not celebrate Founders Day on its origianl May 2nd, but does honor that historic event on May 6th at Champoeg (near Wilsonville).

www.champoeg.org/

homepage: homepage: http://republic-of-cascadia.tripod.com/

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/338582.shtml

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Acoustic performers, visual artist, poets, ect

2007-04-15T19:46:52Z

Talented/original bands from our city, poets, Dj's, crafts, live painters, and all that reflects artistic expression. This is and event for the artistic community and for all of those who appreciate it.

The event will be held at Churchills Pub on Saturday April 28th. The outside stage will carry an "open mic format". We want to invite poets, and acoustic performers to come and express themselves. All interested must send us their name so that they can be put on the Performer's Guest List. You will have 15 to 20 minutes (depending on the waiting list) to share your material to the attendees.

We're also looking for live painters, and people in film to participate in the event. There's a big projector/dvd player available. Just send us your name.

Regards,

Nimencia-Jam Life Music
jamlifemusic@nimencia.net

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The Demon in Karl Rove's Head

2007-03-22T10:36:02Z

About the picture I just posted....

The photo used came from the web, I didn't do a thing to it, that whole thing is totally real. Wish I could tell you otherwise. Try it yourself, you'll get the same thing.

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KLab9 Call for Contributions

2007-02-17T23:56:02Z

KLab9 Call for Contributions
From KnowledgeLab
KLab9:Art - Technology, Authorship and Ways of Living
A weekend gathering for collaborative and creative reflection. 5th - 7th October, 2007 tbc.
Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, North West England.

INTRODUCTION

The Knowledge Lab is an attempt to provide a collective space for anti-capitalist reflection. It is located at the margin of the university, an institution essentially geared towards the production of knowledge as a resource for corporate interest and as justification for particular constellations of power relations.
This knowledge lab will address art and ways of critically thinking about our world. Within this broad region of enquiry, the lab will encompass notions of life and art as a political commitment, the influence art can exert in politics and how political ideas in turn influence art. It will also address new ways of making art and how this relates to technologies and social changes, and the use of art as an anti-capitalist means to change and fight the system.

We hope that the knowledge lab will not merely address, but also show that art can initiate critical thinking in the various guises outlined above. Our expectations, in terms of the event, and its outcome, are that this be a sharing of creative ideas and ideas about creativity. We hope that it will draw together people with a common interest in art and alternative ways of living, but working in different fields. From this collective thinking we hope that people will be incited to realize, or make manifest, some of these ways of living and thinking creatively when they leave: We will learn from each other.

STREAMS

Like previous knowledge labs the day will be divided into four streams, each will take place in a separate room.

STREAM 1: TECHNOLOGY Free software, art spaces and interfaces, hardware, DIY and recycling/reusing.

STREAM 2: WAYS OF LIVING This stream concerns process, moment and performance. It is the political stream where we will consider primarily imaginative resistance and artivism, but also touch on debates surrounding gender issues, community and cultural production, and personal/political. We hope to see papers touching on initiatives in direct democracy; the art of changing that system, and the paradigms of inspiration. We would like to discuss how artivism will change society, possibles networks of artivists, ways of action.

STREAM 3: AUTHORSHIP Copy rights, ownership, patenting, and appropriation. (Creative commons, Copyleft,...)

STREAM 4: THE ART MARKET (new ways of) curating, spaces (physical and virtual) to show art, ways of making money: Marketing, the means of production, market forces and anti-market forces, the art market, and art and ethics.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Each day will be split into two parts. On Saturday and Sunday morning papers will be presented in each of the four streams, each lasting 20-30 minutes. Papers will be followed by a brief question period of 10-15 minutes. The afternoon will be divided into discussion periods in each of the four streams. During the weekend there will also be a separate space for workshops and performances.
There are therefore a variety of ways to contribute to the weekend. See below for details:

ACADEMIC PAPERS

The list of streams is not prescriptive, it simply outlines some of the issues we envisage arising given the general themes.

Please also send papers on other themes, these will be gratefully considered.

Submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. In addition please enclose a brief biography. Try to make this, along with your paper, as accessible as possible.

FACILITATED DISCUSSIONS (INVOLVEMENT AND SKILLS SHARING)

If you have an idea for one of the afternoon discussion topics that links in with one of the four streams then send in a your idea and think about one of the two types of involvement below:

If you'd like to take a more pro-active role during the conference, you might want to ADOPT a session - that is, prepare it in advance (suggest questions, main issues, reading material etc and propose the length of the session), arrive prepared for discussion themselves, attend it, and participate passionately in the debates.

We also need people to FACILITATE sessions - ideally a session should NOT be adopted and facilitated by the same person(s). Consider that facilitators are usually best if experienced in their task. Any which way, please get in touch.

== WORKSHOPS, ARTWORKS, AND PERFORMANCES ==

These will broadly tie in with one of the four streams above. Send a proposal [Max: A single side of A4], elaborate on: What your contribution will be e.g. a workshop, a performance, an artwork. How long you envisage it taking. Do you need any equipment or materials? Do you want to limit the number of participants? If so, how many? What do you hope will be born out of this? How do you propose to arrive at this end?

SATURDAY EVENING

DJ and VJ session: Call for DJs and VJs to send in samples so they might come and contribute to an evening of art in many guises. As well as other music, visual, perfomance, etc artist and Artivist.
Nb. Groups are welcome to contribute workshops, materials for display and/or distribution.

INFORMATION

Anybody is welcome to attend the weekend, get involved in the discussions, and take part in the workshops. HOWEVER, YOU NEED TO REGISTER TO ATTEND AS THE EVENT IS LIMITED TO 100 PEOPLE, SO PLEASE GET IN TOUCH: klab9art@googlemail.com

DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS May 1st 2007

CONTACT klab9art@googlemail.com
Amy, Ana and Synnove

COSTS AND PRACTICALITIES

Unwaged persons: free Unfunded students/low-paid persons: donation Funded students/Lancaster university staff: £20 Academics/waged persons: £65 This contribution is for the whole weekend and includes Friday and Saturday dinner, Saturday and Sunday breakfast and lunch. All food will be vegan and predominantly organic.

ACCOMODATION

Shared accommodation is available on the floor of the very spacious and friendly Quakers' Meeting House, it is free, but please bring sleeping bag and mat. Get in touch if you have any special requirements, and again, please let us know in advance if you're bringing a child.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Visit respectively the respective sites for the previous knowledgelabs:
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/FirstKnowledgeLab
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/SecondKnowledgeLab
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/ThirdKnowledgeLab

About Klab9:Art
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/KLab9

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Important! Born again BRAINWASHES

2007-02-17T04:10:53Z

TIME TO WAKE UP NOW!!

PLEASE POST THIS IN OTHER THREADS, EMAIL IT TO YOUR FRIENDS ALL OVER THE PLACE, EVERYWHERE - OR POST IN YOUR BLOG TO HELP SET PEOPLE FREE FROM CULTS AND POWERSEEKING ORGANISATIONS.. Its time that we all see through the techniques ----> how to brainwash people, and that we take control of our minds and our lives.. especially in these times..

No matter of religion or cultural belonging, NOR political - still, we have a right to KNOW what is a tool in our BRAIN, for others - that are aware of this technique, to use to manipulate us.. (I have myself been a tool in the hands of people trying to own me and brake down my own will..)

Peace and Love to all!

Read it ALL through - VERY IMPORTANT!!
For YOUR sake, your future, your LIFE..

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http://educate-yourself.org/cn/fundamentalistbrainwashing06jun05.shtml

How Revivalist Preachers Work
(But it is not all about THEM so keep on reading PLEASE)

If you'd like to see a revivalist preacher at work, there are probably several in your city. Go to the church or tent early and sit in the rear, about three-quarters of the way back.

Most likely repetitive music will be played while the people come in for the service. A repetitive beat, ideally ranging from 45 to 72 beats per minute (a rhythm close to the beat of the human heart), is very hypnotic and can generate an eyes-open altered state of consciousness in a very high percentage of people.

And, once you are in an alpha state, you are at least 25 times as suggestible as you would be in full beta consciousness. The music is probably the same for every service, or incorporates the same beat, and many of the people will go into an altered state almost immediately upon entering the sanctuary. Subconsciously, they recall their state of mind from previous services and respond according to the post-hypnotic programming.

Watch the people waiting for the service to begin. Many will exhibit external signs of trance--body relaxation and slightly dilated eyes. Often, they begin swaying back and forth with their hands in the air while sitting in their chairs. Next, the assistant pastor will probably come out. He usually speaks with a pretty good "voice roll."

The "Voice Roll" Technique

A "voice roll" is a patterned, paced style used by hypnotists when inducing a trance. It is also used by many lawyers, several of whom are highly trained hypnotists, when they desire to entrench a point firmly in the minds of the jurors. A voice roll can sound as if the speaker were talking to the beat of a metronome or it may sound as though he were emphasizing every word in a monotonous, patterned style. The words will usually be delivered at the rate of 45 to 60 beats per minute, maximizing the hypnotic effect.

The Build-up Process: Inducing Altered States

Now the assistant pastor begins the "build-up" process. He induces an altered state of consciousness and/or begins to generate the excitement and the expectations of the audience. Next, a group of young women in "sweet and pure" chiffon dresses might come out to sing a song. Gospel songs are great for building excitement and involvement. In the middle of the song, one of the girls might be "smitten by the spirit" and fall down or react as if possessed by the Holy Spirit. This very effectively increases the intensity in the room. At this point, hypnosis and conversion tactics are being mixed. And the result is the audience's attention span is now totally focused upon the communication while the environment becomes more exciting or tense.

Assured Continuation: Fleecing the Flock

Right about this time, when an eyes-open mass-induced alpha mental state has been achieved, they will usually pass the collection plate or basket. In the background, a 45-beat-per-minute voice roll from the assistant preacher might exhort, "Give to God...Give to God...Give to God...." And the audience does give. God may not get the money, but his already-wealthy representative will.

Bonding by Fear and Suggestion

Next, the fire-and-brimstone preacher will come out. He induces fear and increases the tension by talking about "the devil," "going to hell," or the forthcoming Armegeddon.

In the last such rally I attended, the preacher talked about the blood that would soon be running out of every faucet in the land. He was also obsessed with a "bloody axe of God," which everyone had seen hanging above the pulpit the previous week. I have no doubt that everyone saw it--the power of suggestion given to hundreds of people in hypnosis assures that at least 10 to 25 percent would see whatever he suggested they see.

Testimony: Creating Community Spirit

In most revivalist gatherings, "testifying" or "witnessing" usually follows the fear-based sermon. People from the audience come up on stage and relate their stories. "I was crippled and now I can walk!" "I had arthritis and now it's gone!" It is a psychological manipulation that works. After listening to numerous case histories of miraculous healings, the average guy in the audience with a minor problem is sure he can be healed. The room is charged with fear, guilt, intense excitement, and expectations.

Miracles

Now those who want to be healed are frequently lined up around the edge of the room, or they are told to come down to the front. The preacher might touch them on the head firmly and scream, "Be healed!" This releases the psychic energy and, for many, catharsis results. Catharsis is a purging of repressed emotions. Individuals might cry, fall down or even go into spasms. And if catharsis is effected, they stand a chance of being healed. In catharsis (one of the three brain phases mentioned earlier), the brain-slate is temporarily wiped clean and the new suggestion is accepted.

For some, the healing may be permanent. For many, it will last four days to a week, which is, incidentally, how long a hypnotic suggestion given to a somnambulistic subject will usually last. Even if the healing doesn't last, if they come back every week, the power of suggestion may continually override the problem...or sometimes, sadly, it can mask a physical problem which could prove to be very detrimental to the individual in the long run.

The Grey Area of Legitimacy

I'm not saying that legitimate healings do not take place. They do. Maybe the individual was ready to let go of the negativity that caused the problem in the first place; maybe it was the work of God. Yet I contend that it can be explained with existing knowledge of brain/mind function.

A Game in Which the Rules Keep Changing

The techniques and staging will vary from church to church. Many use "speaking in tongues" to generate catharsis in some while the spectacle creates intense excitement in the observers.

The use of hypnotic techniques by religions is sophisticated, and professionals are assuring that they become even more effective. A man in Los Angeles is designing, building, and reworking a lot of churches around the country. He tells ministers what they need and how to use it. This man's track record indicates that the congregation and the monetary income will double if the minister follows his instructions. He admits that about 80 percent of his efforts are in the sound system and lighting.

Powerful sound and the proper use of lighting are of primary importance in inducing an altered state of consciousnes--I've been using them for years in my own seminars. However, my participants are fully aware of the process and what they can expect as a result of their participation.

Six Conversion Techniques

Cults and human-potential organizations are always looking for new converts. To attain them, they must also create a brain-phase. And they often need to do it within a short space of time--a weekend, or maybe even a day. The following are the six primary techniques used to generate the conversion.

Isolation Intimidation, Deprivation and Indoctrination

The meeting or training takes place in an area where participants are cut off from the outside world. This may be any place: a private home, a remote or rural setting, or even a hotel ballroom where the participants are allowed only limited bathroom usage. In human-potential trainings, the controllers will give a lengthy talk about the importance of "keeping agreements" in life.

The participants are told that if they don't keep agreements, their life will never work. It's a good idea to keep agreements, but the controllers are subverting a positive human value for selfish purposes. The participants vow to themselves and their trainer that they will keep their agreements. Anyone who does not will be intimidated into agreement or forced to leave. The next step is to agree to complete training, thus assuring a high percentage of conversions for the organizations.

They will usually have to agree not to take drugs, smoke, and sometimes not to eat...or they are given such short meal breaks that it creates tension. The real reason for the agreements is to alter internal chemistry, which generates anxiety and hopefully causes at least a slight malfunction of the nervous system, which in turn increases the conversion potential.

The "Sell It By Zealot" Technique

Before the gathering is complete, the agreements will be used to ensure that the new converts go out and find new participants. They are intimidated into agreeing to do so before they leave. Since the importance of keeping agreements is so high on their priority list, the converts will twist the arms of everyone they know, attempting to talk them into attending a free introductory session offered at a future date by the organization. The new converts are zealots. In fact, the inside term for merchandising the largest and most successful human-potential training is, "sell it by zealot!"

At least a million people are graduates and a good percentage have been left with a mental activation button that assures their future loyalty and assistance if the guru figure or organization calls. Think about the potential political implications of hundreds of thousands of zealots programmed to campaign for their guru.

Be wary of an organization of this type that offers follow-up sessions after the seminar. Follow-up sessions might be weekly meetings or inexpensive seminars given on a regular basis which the organization will attempt to talk you into taking--or any regularly scheduled event used to maintain control. As the early Christian revivalists found, long-term control is dependent upon a good follow-up system.

Wearing Down Resistance

Alright. Now, let's look at the second tip-off that indicates conversion tactics are being used. A schedule is maintained that causes physical and mental fatigue. This is primarily accomplished by long hours in which the participants are given no opportunity for relaxation or reflection.

Increasing Tension

The third tip-off: techniques used to increase the tension in the room or environment.

Introducing Uncertainty About Identity

Number four: Uncertainty. I could spend hours relating various techniques to increase tension and generate uncertainty. Basically, the participants are concerned about being "put on the spot" or encountered by the trainers, guilt feelings are played upon, participants are tempted to verbally relate their innermost secrets to the other participants or forced to take part in activities that emphasize removing their masks. One of the most successful human-potential seminars forces the participants to stand on a stage in front of the entire audience while being verbally attacked by the trainers. A public opinion poll, conducted a few years ago, showed that the number one most-fearful situation an individual could encounter is to speak to an audience. It ranked above window washing outside the 85th floor of an office building.

So you can imagine the fear and tension this situation generates within the participants. Many faint, but most cope with the stress by mentally going away. They literally go into an alpha state, which automatically makes them many times as suggestible as they normally are. And another loop of the downward spiral into conversion is successfully effected.

Jargon

The fifth clue that conversion tactics are being used is the introduction of jargon--new terms that have meaning only to the "insiders" who participate. Vicious language is also frequently used, purposely, to make participants uncomfortable.

Lack of Humor: No Release, No Resistance

The final tip-off is that there is no humor in the communications...at least until the participants are converted. Then, merry-making and humor are highly desirable as symbols of the new joy the participants have supposedly "found."

Not Always a Bad Thing

I'm not saying that good does not result from participation in such gatherings. It can and does. But I contend it is important for people to know what has happened and to be aware that continual involvement may not be in their best interest.

Over the years, I've conducted professional seminars to teach people to be hypnotists, trainers, and counselors. I've had many of those who conduct trainings and rallies come to me and say, "I'm here because I know that what I'm doing works, but I don't know why." After showing them how and why, many have gotten out of the business or have decided to approach it differently or in a much more loving and supportive manner.

Many of these trainers have become personal friends, and it scares us all to have experienced the power of one person with a microphone and a room full of people. Add a little charisma and you can count on a high percentage of conversions. The sad truth is that a high percentage of people want to give away their power--they are true "believers"!

Cults: A Captive Course in Stockholm Syndrome

Cult gatherings or human-potential trainings are an ideal environment to observe first-hand what is technically called the "Stockholm Syndrome." This is a situation in which those who are intimidated, controlled, or made to suffer, begin to love, admire, and even sometimes sexually desire their controllers or captors.

But let me inject a word of warning here: If you think you can attend such gatherings and not be affected, you are probably wrong. A perfect example is the case of a woman who went to Haiti on a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Haitian Voodoo. In her report, she related how the music eventually induced uncontrollable bodily movement and an altered state of consciousness. Although she understood the process and thought herself above it, when she began to feel herself become vulnerable to the music, she attempted to fight it and turned away. Anger or resistance almost always assures conversion. A few moments later she was possessed by the music and began dancing in a trance around the Voodoo meeting house. A brain phase had been induced by the music and excitement, and she awoke feeling reborn.

The Only Hope of Immunity

The only hope of attending such gatherings without being affected is to be a Buddha and allow no positive or negative emotions to surface. Few people are capable of such detachment.

The US Marines as a Brainwashing Cult

Before I go on, let's go back to the six tip-offs to conversion. I want to mention the United States Government and military boot camp. The Marine Corps talks about breaking men down before "rebuilding" them as new men--as marines! Well, that is exactly what they do, the same way a cult breaks its people down and rebuilds them as happy flower sellers on your local street corner. Every one of the six conversion techniques are used in boot camp. Considering the needs of the military, I'm not making a judgement as to whether that is good or bad. IT IS A fact that the men are effectively brainwashed. Those who won't submit must be discharged or spend much of their time in the brig.

Steps in the Decognition Process

Once the initial conversion is effected, cults, armed services, and similar groups cannot have cynicism among their members. Members must respond to commands and do as they are told, otherwise they are dangerous to the organizational control. This is normally accomplished as a three-step ˜ Decognition Process.

Alertness reduction

Step One is alertness reduction: The controllers cause the nervous system to malfunction, making it difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality. This can be accomplished in several ways. poor diet is one; watch out for Brownies and Koolaid. The sugar throws the nervous system off. More subtle is the "spiritual diet" used by many cults. They eat only vegetables and fruits; without the grounding of grains, nuts, seeds, dairy products, fish or meat, an individual becomes mentally "spacey." Inadequate sleep is another primary way to reduce alertness, especially when combined with long hours of work or intense physical activity. Also, being bombarded with intense and unique experiences achieves the same result.

Programmed Confusion
Step Two is programmed confusion: You are mentally assaulted while your alertness is being reduced as in Step One. This is accomplished with a deluge of new information, lectures, discussion groups, encounters or one-to-one processing, which usually amounts to the controller bombarding the individual with questions. During this phase of decognition, reality and illusion often merge and perverted logic is likely to be accepted.

Thought Stopping
Step Three is thought stopping: Techniques are used to cause the mind to go "flat." These are altered-state-of-consciousness techniques that initially induce calmness by giving the mind something simple to deal with and focusing awareness. The continued use brings on a feeling of elation and eventually hallucination. The result is the reduction of thought and eventually, if used long enough, the cessation of all thought and withdrawal from everyone and everything except that which the controllers direct. The takeover is then complete. It is important to be aware that when members or participants are instructed to use "thought-stopping" techniques, they are told that they will benefit by so doing: they will become "better soldiers" or "find enlightenment."

Thought Stopping Techniques

Marching
There are three primary techniques used for thought stopping. The first is marching: the thump, thump, thump beat literally generates self-hypnosis and thus great susceptibility to suggestion.

Meditation
The second thought stopping technique is meditation. If you spend an hour to an hour and a half a day in meditation, after a few weeks, there is a great probability that you will not return to full beta consciousness. You will remain in a fixed state of alpha for as long as you continue to meditate. I'm not saying this is bad--if you do it yourself. It may be very beneficial. But it is a fact that you are causing your mind to go flat. I've worked with meditators on an EEG machine and the results are conclusive: the more you meditate, the flatter your mind becomes until, eventually and especially if used to excess or in combination with decognition, all thought ceases. Some spiritual groups see this as nirvana--which is bullshit. It is simply a predictable physiological result. And if heaven on earth is non-thinking and non-involvement, I really question why we are here.

Chanting
The third thought-stopping technique is chanting, and often chanting in meditation. "Speaking in tongues" could also be included in this category.

All three-stopping techniques produce an altered state of consciousness. This may be very good if you are controlling the process, for you also control the input. I personally use at least one self-hypnosis programming session every day and I know how beneficial it is for me. But you need to know if you use these techniques to the degree of remaining continually in alpha that, although you'll be very mellow, you'll also be more suggestible.

True Believers and Mass Movements
Before ending this section on conversion, I want to talk about the people who are most susceptible to it and about Mass Movements. I am convinced that at least a third of the population is what Eric Hoffer calls "true believers." They are joiners and followers...people who want to give away their power. They look for answers, meaning, and enlightenment outside themselves.

Hoffer, who wrote "The True Believer", a classic on mass movements, says, "true believers are not intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but are those craving to be rid of unwanted self. They are followers, not because of a desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy their passion for self-renunciation!" Hoffer also says that true believers "are eternally incomplete and eternally insecure"!

I know this from my own experience. In my years of communicating concepts and conducting trainings, I have run into them again and again. All I can do is attempt to show them that the only thing to seek is the True Self within. Their personal answers are to be found there and there alone. I communicate that the basics of spirituality are self-responsibility and self-actualization. But most of the true believers just tell me that I'm not spiritual and go looking for someone who will give them the dogma and structure they desire.

Never underestimate the potential danger of these people. They can easily be molded into fanatics who will gladly work and die for their holy cause. It is a substitute for their lost faith in themselves and offers them as a substitute for individual hope. The Moral Majority is made up of true believers. All cults are composed of true believers. You'll find them in politics, churches, businesses, and social cause groups. They are the fanatics in these organizations.

Mass Movements will usually have a charismatic leader. The followers want to convert others to their way of living or impose a new way of life--if necessary, by legislating laws forcing others to their view, as evidenced by the activities of the Moral Majority. This means enforcement by guns or punishment, for that is the bottomline in law enforcement.

A common hatred, enemy, or devil is essential to the success of a mass movement. The Born-Again Christians have Satan himself, but that isn't enough--they've added the occult, the New Age thinkers and, lately, all those who oppose their integration of church and politics, as evidenced in their political reelection campaigns against those who oppose their views. In revolutions, the devil is usually the ruling power or aristocracy. Some human-potential movements are far too clever to ask their graduates to join anything, thus labeling themselves as a cult--but, if you look closely, you'll find that their devil is anyone and everyone who hasn't taken their training.

There are mass movements without devils but they seldom attain major status. The True Believers are mentally unbalanced or insecure people, or those without hope or friends. People don't look for allies when they love, but they do when they hate or become obsessed with a cause. And those who desire a new life and a new order feel the old ways must be eliminated before the new order can be built.

Persuasion Techniques
Persuasion isn't technically brainwashing but it is the manipulation of the human mind by another individual, without the manipulated party being aware what caused his opinion shift. I only have time to very basically introduce you to a few of the thousands of techniques in use today, but the basis of persuasion is always to access your right brain. The left half of your brain is analytical and rational. The right side is creative and imaginative. That is overly simplified but it makes my point. So, the idea is to distract the left brain and keep it busy. Ideally, the persuader generates an eyes-open altered state of consciousness, causing you to shift from beta awareness into alpha; this can be measured on an EEG machine.

"Yes Set"
First, let me give you an example of distracting the left brain. Politicians use these powerful techniques all the time; lawyers use many variations which, I've been told, they call "tightening the noose."

Assume for a moment that you are watching a politician give a speech. First, he might generate what is called a "yes set." These are statements that will cause listeners to agree; they might even unknowingly nod their heads in agreement. Next come the truisms. These are usually facts that could be debated but, once the politician has his audience agreeing, the odds are in the politician's favor that the audience won't stop to think for themselves, thus continuing to agree. Last comes the suggestion. This is what the politician wants you to do and, since you have been agreeing all along, you could be persuaded to accept the suggestion. Now, if you'll listen closely to my political speech, you'll find that the first three are the "yes set," the next three are truisms and the last is the suggestion.

"Ladies and gentlemen: are you angry about high food prices? Are you tired of astronomical gas prices? Are you sick of out-of-control inflation? Well, you know the Other Party allowed 18 percent inflation last year; you know crime has increased 50 percent nationwide in the last 12 months, and you know your paycheck hardly covers your expenses any more. Well, the answer to resolving these problems is to elect me, John Jones, to the U.S. Senate."

Embedded Commands
And I think you've heard all that before. But you might also watch for what are called embedded commands. As an example: On key words, the speaker would make a gesture with his left hand, which research has shown is more apt to access your right brain. Today's media-oriented politicians and spellbinders are often carefully trained by a whole new breed of specialist who are using every trick in the book--both old and new--to manipulate you into accepting their candidate.

The Power of NLP
The concepts and techniques of Neuro-Linguistics [Programming] are so heavily protected that I found out the hard way that to even talk about them publicly or in print results in threatened legal action. Yet Neuro-Linguistic training is readily available to anyone willing to devote the time and pay the price. It is some of the most subtle and powerful manipulation I have yet been exposed to. A good friend who recently attended a two-week seminar on Neuro-Linguistics found that many of those she talked to during the breaks were government people.

Interspersal Technique
Another technique that I'm just learning about is unbelievably slippery; it is called an interspersal technique and the idea is to say one thing with words but plant a subconscious impression of something else in the minds of the listeners and/or watchers.

Practical Examples
Let me give you an example: Assume you are watching a television commentator make the following statement: Senator Johnson is assisting local authorities to clear up the stupid mistakes of companies contributing to the nuclear waste problems." It sounds like a statement of fact, but, if the speaker emphasizes the right word, and especially if he makes the proper hand gestures on the key words, you could be left with the subconscious impression that Senator Johnson is stupid. That was the subliminal goal of the statement and the speaker cannot be called to account for anything.

Persuasion techniques are also frequently used on a much smaller scale with just as much effectiveness. The insurance salesman knows his pitch is likely to be much more effective if he can get you to visualize something in your mind. This is right-brain communication [E.g. generates emotions]. For instance, he might pause in his conversation, look slowly around your livingroom and say, "Can you just imagine this beautiful home burning to the ground?" Of course you can! It is one of your unconscious fears and, when he forces you to visualize it, you are more likely to be manipulated into signing his insurance policy.

Shock and Confusion
The Hare Krishnas, operating in every airport, use what I call shock and confusion techniques to distract the left brain and communicate directly with the right brain. While waiting for a plane, I once watched one operate for over an hour. He had a technique of almost jumping in front of someone. Initially, his voice was loud then dropped as he made his pitch to take a book and contribute money to the cause. Usually, when people are shocked, they immediately withdraw. In this case they were shocked by the strange appearance, sudden materialization and loud voice of the Hare Krishna devotee. In other words, the people went into an alpha state for security because they didn't want to confront the reality before them.

In alpha, they were highly suggestible so they responded to the suggestion of taking the book; the moment they took the book, they felt guilty and responded to the second suggestion: give money. We are all conditioned that if someone gives us something, we have to give them something in return--in that case, it was money. While watching this hustler, I was close enough to notice that many of the people he stopped exhibited an outward sign of alpha--their eyes were actually dilated.

Subliminal Programming
Subliminals are hidden suggestions that only your subconscious perceives. They can be audio, hidden behind music, or visual, airbrushed into a picture, flashed on a screen so fast that you don't consciously see them, or cleverly incorporated into a picture or design.

Most audio subliminal reprogramming tapes offer verbal suggestions recorded at a low volume. I question the efficacy of this technique--if subliminals are not perceptible, they cannot be effective, and subliminals recorded below the audible threshold are therefore useless. The oldest audio subliminal technique uses a voice that follows the volume of the music so subliminals are impossible to detect without a parametric equalizer. But this technique is patented and, when I wanted to develop my own line of subliminal audiocassettes, negotiations with the patent holder proved to be unsatisfactory.

My attorney obtained copies of the patents which I gave to some talented Hollywood sound engineers, asking them to create a new technique. They found a way to psycho-acoustically modify and synthesize the suggestions so that they are projected in the same chord and frequency as the music, thus giving them the effect of being part of the music. But we found that in using this technique, there is no way to reduce various frequencies to detect the subliminals. In other words, although the suggestions are being heard by the subconscious mind, they cannot be monitored with even the most sophisticated equipment.

If we were able to come up with this technique as easily as we did, I can only imagine how sophisticated the technology has become, with unlimited government or advertising funding. And I shudder to think about the propaganda and commercial manipulation that we are exposed to on a daily basis. There is simply no way to know what is behind the music you hear. It may even be possible to hide a second voice behind the voice to which you are listening.

The series by Wilson Bryan Key, Ph.D., on subliminals in advertising and political campaigns well documents the misuse in many areas, especially printed advertising in newspapers, magazines, and posters.

The big question about subliminals is: do they work? And I guarantee you they do. Not only from the response of those who have used my tapes, but from the results of such programs as the subliminals behind the music in department stores. Supposedly, the only message is instructions to not steal: one East Coast department store chain reported a 37 percent reduction in thefts in the first nine months of testing.

A 1984 article in the technical newsletter, "Brain-Mind Bulletin," states that as much as 99 percent of our cognitive activity may be "non-conscious," according to the director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Psychophysiology at the University of Illinois. The lengthy report ends with the statement, "these findings support the use of subliminal approaches such as taped suggestions for weight loss and the therapeutic use of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming."

Mass Misuse of Subliminal Programming
I could relate many stories that support subliminal programming, but I'd rather use my time to make you aware of even more subtle uses of such programming.

I have personally experienced sitting in a Los Angeles auditorium with over ten thousand people who were gathered to listen to a current charismatic figure. Twenty minutes after entering the auditorium, I became aware that I was going in and out of an altered state. Those accompanying me experienced the same thing. Since it is our business, we were aware of what was happening, but those around us were not. By careful observation, what appeared to be spontaneous demonstrations were, in fact, artful manipulations. The only way I could figure that the eyes-open trance had been induced was that a 6- to 7-cycle-per-second vibration was being piped into the room behind the air conditioner sound. That particular vibration generates alpha, which would render the audience highly susceptible. Ten to 25 percent of the population is capable of a somnambulistic level of altered states of consciousness; for these people, the suggestions of the speaker, if non-threatening, could potentially be accepted as "commands."

Vibrato
This leads to the mention of vibrato. Vibrato is the tremulous effect imparted in some vocal or instrumental music, and the cyle-per-second range causes people to go into an altered state of consciousness. At one period of English history, singers whose voices contained pronounced vibrato were not allowed to perform publicly because listeners would go into an altered state and have fantasies, often sexual in nature.

People who attend opera or enjoy listening to singers like Mario Lanza are familiar with this altered state induced by the performers.

Extra-low Frequency Vibrations (ELFs)
Now, let's carry this awareness a little farther. There are also inaudible ELFs (extra-low frequency waves). These are electromagnetic in nature. One of the primary uses of ELFs is to communicate with our submarines. Dr. Andrija Puharich, a highly respected researcher, in an attempt to warn U.S. officials about Russian use of ELFs, set up an experiment. Volunteers were wired so their brain waves could be measured on an EEG. They were sealed in a metal room that could not be penetrated by a normal signal.

Puharich then beamed ELF waves at the volunteers. ELFs go right through the earth and, of course, right through metal walls. Those inside couldn't know if the signal was or was not being sent. And Puharich watched the reactions on the technical equipment: 30 percent of those inside the room were taken over by the ELF signal in six to ten seconds.

When I say "taken over," I mean that their behavior followed the changes anticipated at very precise frequencies. Waves below 6 cycles per second caused the subjects to become very emotionally upset, and even disrupted bodily functions. At 8.2 cycles, they felt very high...an elevated feeling, as though they had been in masterful meditation, learned over a period of years. Eleven to 11.3 cycles induced waves of depressed agitation leading to riotous behavior.

[note from Ken Adachi:: Joe Vialls reported that the CIA and Air Force employed this technique using large dish transmitters beaming down from the back cargo ramps of C135 cargo planes to incite opposing tribal factions in Rwanda to become enraged and engage in mindless slaughter and barbarism]

The Neurophone
Dr. Patrick Flanagan is a personal friend of mine. In the early 1960s, as a teenager, Pat was listed as one of the top scientists in the world by "Life" magazine. Among his many inventions was a device he called the Neurophone--an electronic instrument that can successfully programm suggestions directly through contact with the skin. When he attempted to patent the device, the government demanded that he prove it worked. When he did, the National Security Agency confiscated the neurophone. It took Pat two years of legal battle to get his invention back.

In using the device, you don't hear or see a thing; it is applied to the skin, which Pat claims is the source of special senses. The skin contains more sensors for heat, touch, pain, vibration, and electrical fields than any other part of the human anatomy.

In one of his recent tests, Pat conducted two identical seminars for a military audience--one seminar one night and one the next night, because the size of the room was not large enough to accommodate all of them at one time. When the first group proved to be very cool and unwilling to respond, Patrick spent the next day making a special tape to play at the second seminar. The tape instructed the audience to be extremely warm and responsive and for their hands to become "tingly." The tape was played through the neurophone, which was connected to a wire he placed along the ceiling of the room. There were no speakers, so no sound could be heard, yet the message was successfully transmitted from that wire directly into the brains of the audience. They were warm and receptive, their hands tingled and they responded, according to programming, in other ways that I cannot mention here.

Technological Tools for Mass Manipulation
The more we find out about how human beings work through today's highly advanced technological research, the more we learn to control human beings. And what probably scares me the most is that the medium for takeover is already in place. The television set in your livingroom and bedroom is doing a lot more than just entertaining you.

Before I continue, let me point out something else about an altered state of consciousness. When you go into an altered state, you transfer into right brain, which results in the internal release of the body's own opiates: enkephalins and Beta-endorphins, chemically almost identical to opium. In other words, it feels good...and you want to come back for more.

Recent tests by researcher Herbert Krugman showed that, while viewers were watching TV, right-brain activity outnumbered left-brain activity by a ratio of two to one. Put more simply, the viewers were in an altered state...in trance more often than not. They were getting their Beta-endorphin "fix."

To measure attention spans, psychophysiologist Thomas Mulholland of the Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, attached young viewers to an EEG machine that was wired to shut the TV set off whenever the children's brains produced a majority of alpha waves. Although the children were told to concentrate, only a few could keep the set on for more than 30 seconds!

Most viewers are already hypnotized. To deepen the trance is easy. One simple way is to place a blank, black frame every 32 frames in the film that is being projected. This creates a 45-beat-per-minute pulsation perceived only by the subconscious mind--the ideal pace to generate deep hypnosis.

The commercials or suggestions presented following this alpha-inducing broadcast are much more likely to be accepted by the viewer. The high percentage of the viewing audience that has somnambulistic-depth ability could very well accept the suggestions as commands--as long as those commands did not ask the viewer to do something contrary to his morals, religion, or self-preservation.

The medium for takeover is here. By the age of 16, children have spent 10,000 to 15,000 hours watching television--that is more time than they spend n school! In the average home, the TV set is on for six hours and 44 minutes per day--an increase of nine minutes from last year and three times the average rate of increase during the 1970s.

It obviously isn't getting better...we are rapidly moving into an alpha-level world--very possibly the Orwellian world of "1984"--placid, glassy-eyed, and responding obediently to instructions.

A research project by Jacob Jacoby, a Purdue University psychologist, found that of 2,700 people tested, 90 percent misunderstood even such simple viewing fare as commercials and "Barnaby Jones." Only minutes after watching, the typical viewer missed 23 to 36 percent of the questions about what he or she had seen. Of course they did--they were going in and out of trance! If you go into a deep trance, you must be instructed to remember--otherwise you automatically forget.

In Closing
I have just touched the tip of the iceberg. When you start to combine subliminal messages behind the music, subliminal visuals projected on the screen, hypnotically produced visual effects, sustained musical beats at a trance-inducing pace . . . you have extremely effective brainwashing. Every hour that you spend watching the TV set you become more conditioned. And, in case you thought there was a law against any of these things, guess again. There isn't! There are a lot of powerful people who obviously prefer things exactly the way they are. Maybe they have plans for...?

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Related

Rick Ross Institute on Brainwashing and Coersion/Conversion Techniques
www.rickross.com/brainwashing.html

More about MIND CONTROL:
http://educate-yourself.org/mc/

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CRUISE THE MED WITH FILM MAKER'S CO-OP

2006-12-22T19:29:51Z

Beginning in March next year, we are inviting 9 people to cruise from Bodrum, Turkey along the Turkish coast, Cyprus, Athens, Alexandria on a share expenses basis (very, very inexpensive). We began a documentary in Paris and Turkey last year, and now as it gets warmer in Turkey we are going to complete it. We have a US distributor, and everyone involved will share in profits. It could be quite profitable for you and a real life changer. We are in pre-production of three others...one on black jazz in Paris after WWII until now. We have a Turkish captain/crew/cook on our 70' Gulet, 6 double staterooms still available, all with their own head (toilet and shower). Qualifications? Simply to be able to get along with people. Age? Our producer is 60, our editor is 25. Age inmaterial if you are young in spirit. If you have video experience (HD MiniDV PAL and Final Cut Pro, writing) all the better, but we are doing this to perhaps expand the focus of our documentary which is based on the mystical aspects of Alexander the Great - Title: Force of Evidence. Creative people get free reign as long as they don't sink the ship or the project. We are interested to add some human interest...profound, provocative, funny...to the program, so film making experience in not a requirement. Come for a week or two months. Email me for details.

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The Propaganda War over Venezuela (in free online films)

2006-12-04T00:40:20Z

The Propaganda War over Venezuela (in free online films)

The following are video files about the current situation in Venezuela. The first movie is actually not about Venezuela, but is about he American orchestrated coup in the “Banana Republic” of Guatemala in 1954 for the United Fruits. This movie looks how American imperialism manufactures lies and distorts information for corporatist pursuits. The next two films are by Greg Palast. Followed by an eight part documentary called “Chavez - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” followed by “Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war” and “Venezuela - Uncle Sam's Coup?” (which also documents unknown snipers that killed average citizens). The next series is films from the opposition. Watch how they use imagery to link Chavez to communism and even prostitution. Over the last summer, Gene Sharp's group Albert Einstein Institute (AEI), which does workshops on non-violent revolutions, has been having workshops with oppositions to Hugo Chavez. There is a strong possibility the corporatists with American Imperialist financing could try to generated “manufactured consent” the hours and days after this news series of Venezuelan elections. Beware that Venezuela maybe the stage for a false "color revolution" that would be manufactured in the corporate media.

the following are descriptions and links to films documenting Venezuela the last few years:

Engeniering of Consent: Guatemala coup 1954
07:09
Extract from "The century of the self" by Adam Curtis. Story behind the coup d'etat which toppled elected president Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. The film explains how Edward Bernays, recruited by United Fruits, created the conditions for a government intervention. Mass media were successfully used for manipulating the public and generating consensus around a military action involving the CIA.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jnYZVNVqBgU

Greg Palast covers a story on President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4991354545733857055&q=VENEZUELA&hl=en or google video search of Greg Palast covers a story on President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela

Hugo Chavez interview by Greg Palast

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-742015553245977789&q=Hugo+Chavez

HUGO CHAVEZ ELECTED PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA IN 1998, IS A COLORFUL, UNPREDICTABLE FOLK HERO, beloved by his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington‚s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba."

Part 1 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=8kmMzukS1cs
Part 2 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=M6oEvlvk56s&mode=related&search=
Part 3 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2435ycuZU&mode=related&search=
Part 4 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=25rLLizbwoI&mode=related&search=
Part 5 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=lTuSjU8IVL4&mode=related&search=
Part 6 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=DY24bo9jnX8
Part 7 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=a1ruUmNubhU
Part 8 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=qzIV0OA5Oao

Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3117181384995669233&q=VENEZUELA

Venezuela - Uncle Sam's Coup?
When Chavez was briefly ousted from power in 2002, many suspected America was involved. Now, a lawyer has obtained incriminating CIA documents proving it was.

A top secret CIA brief, written five days before the coup, proves the most incriminating. “It says the coup will take place in the first weeks of April, violence will be provoked in an opposition rally and the President will be taken prisoner”, states lawyer, Eva Golinger. “This is what happened.” Golinger has spent the last three years investigating the coup, tracing the money trail from Washington to key organisations involved. “It wasn’t just that they were giving them money. They quadrupled the funding from 2001 to 2002.” Other declassified documents show the US Embassy praising the coup leader as “the right man at the right time for Venezuela”. Remarkably, although the coup failed, Washington has stepped up its funding for the opposition. As Golinger states: “It’s as if they said ‘We didn’t give you guys enough. We’ve got to give you more because you failed.’” But ironically, America’s support for the opposition seems to have only strengthened Chavez’s hold on power.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4124074101371070575&q=VENEZUELA&hl=en

Plan V para recuparar la Democracia en Venezuela el 3-D
03:37
Este es el Plan de acción No Violenta que promueve la oposición en Venezuela para salvarla del Castro Comunismo de Hugo Chávez y su llamada Revolución Bolivariana.

"La teoria de que el poder deriva de la violencia, y que la victoria necesariamente va del lado de la mayor capacidad para ejercer la violencia, es falsa".

Gene Sharp
El Poder de la Fe

Este video fue realizado por ORVEX (Organización de Venezolanos en el Exilio) tomando la presentación en FLASH que aparece en la sección del Plan V del sitio www.atrevetevenezuela.com.

ORVEX
www.orvex.org/noviolencia.html

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BJ989_vIjhQ

Una Versión Diferente del Amor de Hugo Chávez
05:00
Todo tiene su final. En ORVEX creemos que esta pesadilla que se viste de demócrata solo podrá salir si se usan los espacios democráticos que aún quedan en Venezuela para aplicar técnicas no violentas de lucha.

"La teoria de que
el poder deriva de la violencia,
y que la victoria necesariamente va del lado
de la mayor capacidad para ejercer
la violencia, es falsa"

Gene Sharp
El Poder de la Fe

Te invitamos a conocer las técnicas no violentas, las mismas que utilizaron Gandhi en la India y Martin Luther King en los Estados Unidos, para devolverle la Libertad y la Democracia a Venezuela.

http://www.orvex.org/noviolencia.html

"Huid del país donde uno solo ejerce todos los poderes. Es un país de Esclavos". Simón Bolivar

http://youtube.com/watch?v=t64GCvNIcck

¿Qué será de los Venezolanos después del 3-D?
03:59
Video que busca motivar a todos los Venezolanos para que SIN MIEDO este 3 de Diciembre de 2006 SALGAN A VOTAR en contra de Hugo Chávez y a COBRAR.

Aún cuando sabemos que Hugo Chávez no va a dejar el poder, independientemente de los resultados, porque simplemente él no es democrático, el ir a votar masivamente en su contra es un signo de que NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO.

Otro signo de que NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO a Hugo Chávez será el quedarnos en las mesas para observar LOS ESCRUTINIOS, es decir, el conteo de los votos, ya que ese acto es público, Y EXIGIR EL CONTEO MANUAL.

Es muy importante NO TENER MIEDO, porque lo único que le puede seguir dando el poder a Hugo Chávez es si nosotros le demostramos MIEDO y si ACTUAMOS CON MIEDO.

Es importante saber que el poder que hoy día tiene Hugo Chávez se basa en el MIEDO que nosotros le demostremos, y NO en LA VIOLENCIA que el pueda ejercer. Y Hugo Chávez, COMO ES MILITAR, piensa (ERRADAMENTE) que las ARMAS Y LA VIOLENCIA lo mantendrán en el poder, ya que las utiliza PARA INFLIGIR MIEDO en los Venezolanos. De hecho, él ya ha comprado más de 100 mil fusiles Kalasmikov para amedrentar a la oposición interna más que para defenderse de una supuesta agresión externa imaginaria que nunca llega.

A medida que la oposición sucumba al miedo, más poder le estará otorgando a Hugo Chávez y a sus seguidores.

El peligro actual que tiene la oposición, y que sellará su derrota el 3 de Diciembre si no actua correctamente de aquí en adelante, está en creer que la violencia es el único camino de obtener el poder, y que la victoria esta del lado del que tiene más armas.

La buena noticia es la siguiente:

"La teoria de que el poder deriva de la violencia, y de que la victoria necesariamente va del lado de la mayor capacidad para ejercer la violencia, es falsa."

Gene Sharp
El Rol del Poder en la Lucha No Violenta
www.orvex.org/noviolencia.html

Para Hugo CHavez, el PODER actual que tiene deriva del MIEDO que la gente le pueda tener. Y si NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO a Hugo Chávez, éste caerá sin remedio INDEPENDIENTEMENTE DE QUE EL TENGA MAS ARMAS QUE EL PUEBLO.

Es por ello que "LA CAPACIDAD DE DESAFIAR Y LA CAPACIDAD DE RESISTIR" se convierten en el aspecto central del poder, y que su acción efectiva radica en que exista una oposición unida, o lo que Gene Sharp llama "oposición corporativa".

ORVEX, en su afán por reducir el fenómeno del Exilio, la Persecución Política, y el Número de Solicitudes de Asilo Político, está promoviendo la utilización de TECNICAS DE LUCHA NO VIOLENTA para que la oposición venezolana las conozca y las ponga en práctica DE LA MANERA CORRECTA, y evitar que suceda lo que pasó en Venezuela, por ejemplo, durante la Huelga General de 2 meses realizada entre el 2 de Diciembre de 2002 y el 2 de Febrero de 2003, la cual buscaba sacar a Hugo Chávez de una manera pacífica y democrática, pero que NO FUE DEBIDAMENTE LIDERADA porque la misma sirvió para desgastar a la oposición y desmoralizarla, y no cumplió el objeto para la cual fue convocada: SACAR A HUGO CHAVEZ.

Por la fatídica experiencia venezolana, se podría llegar a pensar que la LUCHA NO VIOLENTA no tiene sentido ni es efectiva. Sin embargo, si nos detenemos a ver que Gandhi en la India logró vencer a los Británicos SIN HACER UN SOLO DISPARO, y que Martin Luther King Jr. logró los Derechos Civiles de las personas de color en los Estados Unidos SIN VIOLENCIA, entonces la pregunta no es si las técnicas de protestas no violentas sirven o no sirven, sino que la cuestión está en COMO APLICARLAS.

La diferencia que tenemos con los Cubanos, es que a los Venezolanos AUN NOS QUEDAN PEQUEÑOS ESPACIOS DEMOCRATICOS como el de IR A ELECCIONES.

Si no nos ponemos las pilas los Venezolanos este 3 de Diciembre de 2006, Hugo Chávez cerrará los pequeños espacios democrátioos que quedan en Venezuela, para hacer que toda Venezuela sea ROJA ROJITA. Es por ello que las elecciones del 3 de Diciembre no son unas elecciones más, sino LA ULTIMA OPORTUNIDAD de demostrarle a Hugo Chávez QUE NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO, que VAMOS A VOTAR, que VAMOS ESTAR AHI PRESENTES durante el conteo de votos, y que VAMOS A RECUPERAR la Libertad y Democracia en Venezuela.

Es nuestra ULTIMA OPORTUNIDAD. No hay otra.

Si tenemos MIEDO y no aprovechamos esta ULTIMA OPORTUNIDAD, entonces VENEZUELA SERA OTRA CUBA, y creo que ninguno de nosotros deseará que nuestras mujeres, hijas y nietas terminen como las mujeres cubanas que aparecen en el Video, y creo que ninguno de nosotros deseará vivir en un sistema BASADO EN EL MIEDO Y EL TERROR.

Si no, no nos quedará otra que seguir el consejos de Simón Bolivar (que no era chavista, por cierto):

"Huid del país donde uno solo ejerce todos los poderes: Es un país de esclavos".

Animo, y a cobrar este 3-D.

Elio Aponte
C.I. V.- 5.531.657
Presidente
www.orvex.org

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u1PF2n4c1a0

El Terrorismo Petrolero de la PDVSA Chavista

Se puede creer en cosas que no se han visto. Y si alguien tenía dudas del secuestro de PDVSA, este memo podrá ayudar.

Es un tema en technicolor para hacer algo útil del amor. AMOR, palabra vilmente prostituida:

" ... he actuado unicamente por AMOR y lealtad a MI PUEBLO en todos mis pensamientos, y actos de mi vida. Ellos me dieron la fuerza para tomar las decisiones mas difíciles que mortal alguno nunca confrontó. En ello he empleado mi vida, mi esfuerzo en el trabajo y mi salud ..."

"Mi Testamento Político", primera parte, 1945.
Adolfo Hitler.

No se puede negar la existencia de algo palpado, por más etereo que sea. No se puede exigir una prueba de decencia de aquello que es tan verdadero.

Que más prueba que este memo de PDVSA, de tantos que hay, de la verdadera ilegalidad, inmoralidad, indecencia, e ignorancia.

La nobleza y pureza del Sistema Democrático ha sido vilmente burlada, violada y secuestrada por el Chavismo.

Los Chavistas están desbordados.

Venezuela es cual Supermercado, en donde uno encuentra que no hay cajeros, y ve a la gente salir con lo que puede, con sus carritos y bolsillos llenos de víveres y productos, mientras que por la parte trasera van llegando más camiones con mercancia, y el ciudadano decente mira desde afuera y le pide al vigilante que haga algo para detener el saqueo, y éste responde con indiferencia: "Si no tienes el Carnet Rojo de entrada, no puedes pasar ni agarrar nada. Ellos están con el proceso, y pasan cuando quieren y agarran cuanto quieren. ¿Que esperas para unirte al cambio?".

El Chavismo se desbordó con su indecencia; banda de delincuentes, que violan la Ley, malversando los fondos del país, violando los derechos humanos ante la mirada impune de las autoridades.

Los Chavistas, viviendo en la romería de los mutilados, en la fantasía de los infelices, en el día a día de las meretrices, de todos los bandidos y desvalidos.

No tienen decencia, ni nunca tendrán.

Oh, ¿que será de Venezuela, oh que será?

En pantalla, solo algunos de los nombres de los miles. Como dice su líder: "AL MUNDO".

Finalmente, por sus crímenes pagarán. Porque ya se oye la puerta tocar ... ay ! .... la puerta tocar. La puerta de salida de este régimen nefasto que algún día le llegará su hora.

Viva Venezuela Libre, Democrática, Decente y Próspera en donde impere la Ley y haya igualdad de Deberes y Derechos.

________

Música del gran Willie Colón.

ORGANIZACION DE VENEZOLANOS EN EL EXILIO
ORVEX
www.orvex.org

Transcripciones de Asilo Politico en Estados Unidos trabajamos por Internet - Ni importa en que parte de los EE.UU. ud. se encuentre. Precios solidarios y facilidades de pago:
www.miasiloenusa.com

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gG3bQ7lJoDY&mode=related&search=

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Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"

2006-11-12T00:40:55Z

Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"

Conyers Toes Party Line: No Impeachment
Something Is Extremely 'Rotten In The State Of Denmark'

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, November 10, 2006

The latest Democrat "saviour" to flip flop 180 degrees in light of
their victory is Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. Presumed to become
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January, Conyers today
said that impeachment of President Bush "is off the table."

"In this campaign, there was an orchestrated right-wing effort to
distort my position on impeachment, " Conyers said in a statement
released by his Judiciary Committee spokesman. "The incoming speaker
(Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.) has said that impeachment is off the
table. I am in total agreement with her on this issue: Impeachment
is off the table."

Conyers seems to have forgotten that last December he laid out the
grounds for impeachment in a 350 page long report called "The
Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception,
Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Cover-ups in the Iraq War"
and later updated to add "illegal domestic surveillance. "

For a while Conyers was the darling of left leaning bloggers and
readers everywhere:

At this site, we are especially proud of the new Conyers
Report, "The Constitution in Crisis." By purchasing this book, you
have the opportunity to own a part of history and help the
Congressman hold the Bush Administration accountable. Your
assistance in helping Congressman Conyers become the next Chairman
of the House Judiciary Committee will bring us one step closer to
getting the American people the answers from this Administration
that they deserve.
- www.afterdowningstr eet.org

Conyers is so admirable. One of the very few in Congress who still
has integrity and principles. It is too bad that he does not get
more MSM coverage but why would they do that? He might upset the
Republican and Corporate plans for total control and could expose
their nefarious doings.
He is risking much by not following the official DNC program too, in
addition to challenging the Bushies.
- Huffington Post

In december 2005, upon release of the report, Conyers stated:

The Report concludes that a number of these actions amount to prima
facie evidence (evidence sufficiently strong to presume the
allegations are true) that federal criminal laws have been violated.
Legal violations span from false statements to Congress to
whistleblower laws... The Report also concludes that these charges
clearly rise to the level of impeachable conduct... In response to
the Report, I have already taken a number of actions. First, I have
introduced a resolution (H. Res. 635) creating a Select Committee
with subpoena authority to investigate the misconduct of the Bush
Administration with regard to the Iraq war and report on possible
impeachable offenses.

So Conyers was already underway with setting up investigations into
impeachable offences, but now he says that impeachment is off the
table? Clearly he has been given orders to toe the party line or
face the consequences.

Despite the fact that 86% want to see the President impeached,
leading Democrats have already ruled this out. The same leading
Democrats that voted for the war in Afghanistan, for the Patriot
Act, for Homeland Security and against a bill that simply condemned
torture of prisoners in Iraq.

After Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, Conyers is the latest Democrat
to show us their true colours once in power.

Conyers and the other Democrats highlight precisely why we need to
regroup, consolidate and redouble our efforts in light of the
theatrical shift of power in Washington to the left. Because as soon
as this happened, overnight, the truth movement lost a great deal of
support from those that believe the job is now done.

Taking note of many reader comments over the past few days I have
noticed a startling uprise in the amount of negative and dismissive
feedback from some readers. Evidently those who expected us to be
out dancing in the streets at the news of a Democrat landslide in
Washington have been bitterly disappointed.

We have never once suggested that the solution to a corrupt and
fascist Neocon leadership is a passive and capitulating Democrat
sideshow leadership, so why is it any surprise that we are
continuing on the same course as before?

Comments such as the following emphasize my point:

"You can only have it one way. What the hell is up with you people.
The whole time the Bush regime was in power you begged for change.
Now you have it, but your still complaining. "

Yes we are seeking change, but not a simple change of personnel as
we have witnessed this week. As we reported yesterday "There's no
doubt about it, to see frothing Neo-Cons who have been strutting
around like John Wayne for the past five years finally eat humble
pie is a breath of fresh air, but let's not be so deluded as to
think that the Neo-Con agenda, which took decades to craft, was
simply brushed aside by the victory of a party that has supported
Bush every step of the way on major issues."

Seeing Bush on TV admitting he'd took a hell of a beating was great,
for about five minutes, then he started laughing and joking about it
and talking about pushing forward to work closely with a new crowd.

Is rolling over and going back to sleep going to get Bush impeached?
Should we shut down the websites now and go save the whales or
something else we'd all love to be doing if we didn't have to
relentlessly keep fighting to stop our leaders killing our freedoms?

Within hours the Democratic elite have shown us that they don't give
a damn about holding the Bush administration up to scrutiny. With no
effective opposition in the form of a political party it is up to
the people to continue to demand justice and to continue to attempt
to reign in those who have heinously abused their power.

Thomas Jefferson described Congress as "a body to which the people
send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question
everything and yield nothing."

In light of this how can any representative say something like
impeachment is 'off the table?'

found at
http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2006/101106Rotten.htm

Nancy Pelosi on YouTube and Howard Dean

Nancy Pelosi on the YouTube saying "NO TO IMPEACHMENT... ITS OFF THE TABLE"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R-4vw2qw3Wc
or
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAGCgY4PDNA

Howard Dean Says No Impeachment Of Bush
Lapdog Democrats to waste two years on minimum wage and mass illegal amnesty, no to Iraq inquiry, no to police state rollback, no to bringing troops home

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, November 9, 2006

Howard Dean last night said there would be no impeachment proceedings against President Bush under a Democrat controlled Congress, echoing the pledge of Nancy Pelosi to protect the administration that lied a nation into a war and dismantled the very fabric of America.

Here's the exchange from Dean's appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night.

STEWART: "How long in your mind do you feel it's gonna be before power corrupts you absolutely?"

DEAN: "Well, you know...."

STEWART: "The last guys did it in three and a half days, what are you guys aiming for?"

DEAN: "Longer than that."

DEAN: "I know half the audience wants us to impeach the President and all that kind of stuff but we're not gonna do that - we're not gonna do that."

Dean is toeing the party line first crystallized by Nancy Pelosi when she told the 60 Minutes program, "Impeachment is off the table....it's a pledge....it is a waste of time."

When will jubilant mindless liberals realize that their darling Democrats have been installed as ringers to halt the momentum of the anti-war and 9/11 truth movements while committing to shielding the Bush administration for the very crimes and misdemeanors that supposedly cost them the House and Senate in the first place?

Democrats have already clearly stated how they intend to "get to work" over the next two years - by helping Bush push through a mass amnesty for illegal aliens - something his own republican House even prevented him doing - and also wasting time on the non-issue of the minimum wage.

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens help rollback the devastation the Bush administration has wrought on the U.S. Constitution?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens bring the troops home?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens re-instate the nine amendments to the Constitution that were abolished under the Military Commissions Act?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens do anything to can the unconstitutional domestic eavesdropping program?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens do anything to claw back the out of control deficit?

We were told the Republicans were abandoned because of corruption and Iraq and yet the Democrat shills have completely avoided specifics about how they intend to address these issues and on the question of impeachment have vowed to protect Bush. Empty rhetoric about a "policy change" in Iraq is nothing more than hot air betrayed by a legacy of Democrat support for keeping the troops in the quagmire - exemplified no better than Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, who both support imperial jaunts in the name of the "war on terror."

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has already stated that Blair's government will not co-operate with any move to withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and she needn't worry because the Democrats are not going to even try it.

The Associated Press reports that Pelosi and Bush have already proclaimed reconciliation and are now "making nice" and devising how they can work in tandem. Tuesday's vote and its superficial euphoric aftermath was not about a populist reaction to six years of abuse and deceit - it was a sad indictment of the fact that a majority of Americans, particularly the establishment left, still buy the hoax that the Republicrats and the Democons are anything more than two different CEO's bidding for control of Slavery Incorporated.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/091106deansaysno.htm

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Wahoo!

2006-11-08T09:14:11Z

In yo' face Karl Rove

So long in coming, oh sweet sweet election returns.

House, Webb, McCaskill, Senate?, Governorships!

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Iraq

2006-10-25T17:13:15Z

--It seems bizarre that it’s so unthinkable to change course if the current policy is failing. Our leaders are like a physician who makes a wrong diagnosis and prescribes the wrong medicine, but because of his ego can’t tell the patient he made a mistake. Instead he hopes the patient will get better on his own. But instead of improving, the patient gets worse from the medication wrongly prescribed. This would be abhorrent behavior in medicine, but tragically it is commonplace in politics.

If the truth is admitted, it would appear that the lives lost and the money spent have been in vain. Instead, more casualties must be sustained to prove a false premise. What a tragedy!--

excerpt from REPUBLICAN Ron Paul of Texas
Before the U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2006/cr062906.htm

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Stencils

2006-10-20T11:36:46Z

Hi. I posted some stencil patterns, use in good health. More later.

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We have lived as if in a trance.

2006-10-19T22:42:07Z

We have lived as if in a trance.

"The Beginning of the End of America."

SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
Countdown
Updated: 3:00 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2006

On Tuesday, President Bush signed legislation authorizing tough interrogation of terror suspects and paving the way for trials before military commissions.

Tonight, "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann addresses the legislation in a special comment entitled "The Beginning of the End of America."

You can read an excerpt of Olbermann's comment below.

We have lived as if in a trance.

We have lived as people in fear.

And now—our rights and our freedoms in peril—we slowly awaken to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing.

Therefore, tonight have we truly become the inheritors of our American legacy.

For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:

A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.

We have been here before—and we have been here before, led here by men better and wiser and nobler than George W. Bush.

We have been here when President John Adams insisted that the Alien and Sedition Acts were necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use those acts to jail newspaper editors.

American newspaper editors, in American jails, for things they wrote about America.

We have been here when President Woodrow Wilson insisted that the Espionage Act was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that Act to prosecute 2,000 Americans, especially those he disparaged as “Hyphenated Americans,” most of whom were guilty only of advocating peace in a time of war.

American public speakers, in American jails, for things they said about America.

And we have been here when President Franklin D. Roosevelt insisted that Executive Order 9066 was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that order to imprison and pauperize 110,000 Americans while his man in charge, General DeWitt, told Congress: “It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen—he is still a Japanese.”

American citizens, in American camps, for something they neither wrote nor said nor did, but for the choices they or their ancestors had made about coming to America.

Each of these actions was undertaken for the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And each was a betrayal of that for which the president who advocated them claimed to be fighting.

Adams and his party were swept from office, and the Alien and Sedition Acts erased.

Many of the very people Wilson silenced survived him, and one of them even ran to succeed him, and got 900,000 votes, though his presidential campaign was conducted entirely from his jail cell.

And Roosevelt’s internment of the Japanese was not merely the worst blight on his record, but it would necessitate a formal apology from the government of the United States to the citizens of the United States whose lives it ruined.

The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

In times of fright, we have been only human.

We have let Roosevelt’s “fear of fear itself” overtake us.

We have listened to the little voice inside that has said, “the wolf is at the door; this will be temporary; this will be precise; this too shall pass.”

We have accepted that the only way to stop the terrorists is to let the government become just a little bit like the terrorists.

Just the way we once accepted that the only way to stop the Soviets was to let the government become just a little bit like the Soviets.

Or substitute the Japanese.

Or the Germans.

Or the Socialists.

Or the Anarchists.

Or the Immigrants.

Or the British.

Or the Aliens.

The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And, always, always wrong.

“With the distance of history, the questions will be narrowed and few: Did this generation of Americans take the threat seriously, and did we do what it takes to defeat that threat?”

Wise words.

And ironic ones, Mr. Bush.

Your own, of course, yesterday, in signing the Military Commissions Act.

You spoke so much more than you know, Sir.

Sadly—of course—the distance of history will recognize that the threat this generation of Americans needed to take seriously was you.

We have a long and painful history of ignoring the prophecy attributed to Benjamin Franklin that “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

But even within this history we have not before codified the poisoning of habeas corpus, that wellspring of protection from which all essential liberties flow.

You, sir, have now befouled that spring.

You, sir, have now given us chaos and called it order.

You, sir, have now imposed subjugation and called it freedom.

For the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And — again, Mr. Bush — all of them, wrong.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has said it is unacceptable to compare anything this country has ever done to anything the terrorists have ever done.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has insisted again that “the United States does not torture. It’s against our laws and it’s against our values” and who has said it with a straight face while the pictures from Abu Ghraib Prison and the stories of Waterboarding figuratively fade in and out, around him.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides, declare not merely any non-American citizens “unlawful enemy combatants” and ship them somewhere—anywhere -- but may now, if he so decides, declare you an “unlawful enemy combatant” and ship you somewhere - anywhere.

And if you think this hyperbole or hysteria, ask the newspaper editors when John Adams was president or the pacifists when Woodrow Wilson was president or the Japanese at Manzanar when Franklin Roosevelt was president.

And if you somehow think habeas corpus has not been suspended for American citizens but only for everybody else, ask yourself this: If you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an “unlawful enemy combatant”—exactly how are you going to convince them to give you a court hearing to prove you are not? Do you think this attorney general is going to help you?

This President now has his blank check.

He lied to get it.

He lied as he received it.

Is there any reason to even hope he has not lied about how he intends to use it nor who he intends to use it against?

“These military commissions will provide a fair trial,” you told us yesterday, Mr. Bush, “in which the accused are presumed innocent, have access to an attorney and can hear all the evidence against them.”

"Presumed innocent," Mr. Bush?

The very piece of paper you signed as you said that, allows for the detainees to be abused up to the point just before they sustain “serious mental and physical trauma” in the hope of getting them to incriminate themselves, and may no longer even invoke The Geneva Conventions in their own defense.

"Access to an attorney," Mr. Bush?

Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift said on this program, Sir, and to the Supreme Court, that he was only granted access to his detainee defendant on the promise that the detainee would plead guilty.

"Hearing all the evidence," Mr. Bush?

The Military Commissions Act specifically permits the introduction of classified evidence not made available to the defense.

Your words are lies, Sir.

They are lies that imperil us all.

“One of the terrorists believed to have planned the 9/11 attacks,” you told us yesterday, “said he hoped the attacks would be the beginning of the end of America.”

That terrorist, sir, could only hope.

Not his actions, nor the actions of a ceaseless line of terrorists (real or imagined), could measure up to what you have wrought.

Habeas corpus? Gone.

The Geneva Conventions? Optional.

The moral force we shined outwards to the world as an eternal beacon, and inwards at ourselves as an eternal protection? Snuffed out.

These things you have done, Mr. Bush, they would be “the beginning of the end of America.”

And did it even occur to you once, sir — somewhere in amidst those eight separate, gruesome, intentional, terroristic invocations of the horrors of 9/11 -- that with only a little further shift in this world we now know—just a touch more repudiation of all of that for which our patriots died --- did it ever occur to you once that in just 27 months and two days from now when you leave office, some irresponsible future president and a “competent tribunal” of lackeys would be entitled, by the actions of your own hand, to declare the status of “unlawful enemy combatant” for -- and convene a Military Commission to try -- not John Walker Lindh, but George Walker Bush?

For the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And doubtless, Sir, all of them—as always—wrong.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15321167/

audio:

http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podcast/pd_countdown-10-18-2006-180800.mp3

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Laura Bush-First Job-Dildo Commercial

2006-10-17T17:23:42Z

My Sprite shot out of my nose!

http://falsepretender.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-secret-video-laura-bushs-first.html

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Bay Area: Torture protest cotillion on Tuesday!!

2006-10-16T13:47:09Z

The White House has just announced that Bush will be signing the
Military Commissions Act on Tuesday. You know the one: it legalizes
torture, open-ended secret detainment and trial without defense for
foreign nationals and citizens alike. On the word of the President,
anyone may be declared an enemy combatant and disappeared.The Bush
administration is coming out as a gang of murderous torturers and
thugs.

We must resist or they will have already won by controlling us; this
is the very definition of "terrorism". In the cosmic game of
ro-sham-bo, laughter beats fear.

So gather your debutante duds and get ready for a ball, 'cause evening
rush hour on Tuesday will be the Great Bush Regime Coming-Out
Cotillion! White dresses! Orange jumpsuits! Canapes! Hooding!

Or think of it as the pre-party for Hallowe'en. Test-drive your formal
coveralls.

This will be nonviolent and unpermitted. No mike, no speakers. There are notices
going out through a variety of groups but everyone, joiner or not, is
invited to unite behind the
conviction that this administration is wayouttaline. And because ya
gotta laugh sometimes, even if it is to say, "those
clowns can't be serious."

Musicians: Bring your acoustic instruments and help make it the party
of the season.

Save the Date: Tuesday, 17 October, 4:30 pm at Berkeley Bart

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Who's paying attention?

2006-10-13T21:14:13Z

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6529645879521541549&q=America%3A+Freedom+to+Fascism%3A

http://www.freedomtofascism.com/

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BIBLICAL use of MAGIC-MUSHROOMS.

2006-10-09T21:41:52Z

MANNA AMBROSIA/SOMA/TEONANACATL
Hell-Low from Heaven-High; I am author/publisher of "MANNA" the book documenting the
BIBLICAL use of MAGIC-MUSHROOMS.
“Manna” Explores the evidence that Christ was the leader of a Pagan Cult teaching a revival/renaissance of an ancient mushroom ritual learned in Egypt by Moses and Christ, a mushroom religion known also to the Maya of ancient Mesoamerica, and around the world. The Manna-Book asks if this knowledge was kept secret by an elite caste of priests within the Kabalistic Jewish Rabbis until such a time as Christ came and taught it to the masses.

Exodus 16:14-24 indicates that MANNA was inevitably a MUSHROOM.
It was a small round thing in the morning dew, it bred larva, and would melt to mush if not dried. KING JAMES VERSION.
All mushroom pickers know that fly’s eggs cause larvae/worms in mushrooms. The one food most notorious for being full of worms.

Daniel 5:3-5 with Exodus 16:32 and Hebrews 9:4
indicates that the mushroom was a DRUG. After sacking the temple in Jerusalem and stealing the Ark-of-the-Covenant, the King of Babylon and his table drank from the golden cup containing the holy “MANNA” they had visions within the hour….. Psilocybin takes 30-40 minutes to induce visions.

Hebrews 9:4 makes it clear that MANNA was the most holy thing to Israelites, kept in A POT OF GOLD in the ARK OF THE COVENANT, in the MOST HOLY OF HOLYS. So sacred is the Manna that only the High Priest has access to it and only on one day of the year (Yom Kippur), which comes 3 days before the harvest moon (Hallows Eve).

Psalm 78:24-25 calls MANNA FOOD OF ANGELS, just as MAYAN/INCA PRIESTS from Meso-America called it TEONANACATL FOOD OF THE GODS.
MANNA is an Egyptian word, not Hebrew or Aramaic, meaning;
The BREAD OF GOD. This is what Moses called it in Exodus 16:15.
“Bread Of God” means “FOOD OF GOD”, which is the same meaning of TEONANACATL (Mayan), and AMBROSIA (Greek), and SOMA (Hindu) a word for mushroom tea, all these words mean “Spiritual Food”.
Coca and Tobacco Leaves found in Pharaohs tombs suggest it was ancestors of Mayan/Inca Priests who brought MUSHROOMS to Egypt.

John 2:6-9 indicates that Jesus made water into wine by boiling mushrooms (Mushroom-Tea), the waterpots were made of stone, not clay, (stone pots were used for cooking, clay pots used for storing water). These pots already contained 2-3 firkins of a substance before the pots were filled with water.
A “Firkin” is an Old-English measurement meaning a fourth part. Half to three-quarters of fresh mushrooms with water makes a potent tea. Tea is the safest way to consume field mushrooms, killing dangerous bacteria like E. Coli. In the Atharva Veda, the Hindus called this Tea SOMA. Greeks called mushroom jelly AMBROSIA.
Those who drank the water made into wine said it was the most potent intoxicant (St. John 2:10). The Bible tells us that Jesus making water into wine was the “beginning of miracles” … in other words no one saw any miracles until drinking the wine made from water. (St. John 2:11).

“MANA” is an EGYPTIAN WORD, not HEBREW or ARAMAIC, Meaning; “The BREAD OF GOD”. Moses, Christ, and Joseph, The favorite son of Israel, were all educated in Egypt. Solomon married Pharaoh’s daughter, and Abraham found his God at a place called SHECHEM (Sekhem), which is another Egyptian word for MANNA. TEONANACATL [Maya] = SOMA [Hindu] = AMBROSIA / BROMA-THEON [Greek] = MANNA [Egyptian/Hindu] It can be no coincidence that the MAYAN, EGYPTIAN, GREEK, HINDU, and ISRAELITE words for the mushroom all mean exactly the same thing: “THE BREAD OF GOD”.

MANNA was round, was found on the ground in the dew, would melt to mush if not dried or collected on time, and would breed larvae. All unique characteristics of mushrooms. When dried it was like “WAFERS OF BREAD” and it’s color was like “CORIANDER SEED”, the consistency and color of dried mushrooms, as described in Exodus Ch. 16.
Other psychedelics used in the Bible include, of course, Cannabis, Mandrake and others. This book focuses on Mushrooms: “The Global Sacrament”.
Be advised that the author does not advocate the non-ritual use of mushrooms or in any way place their importance above that of love, “Seek first the kingdom of love and all other things shall be added to you” [Christ].
© Sacred-Wine Press ©
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check out this funny shit...bush's warming

2006-09-21T03:07:55Z

http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=1147

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HELP!!!

2006-09-03T23:12:03Z

Please help save America from this hateful propaganda:

http://tinyscreams.blogspot.com/

That site is E-VILE, and must be DESTRUCTICATED!!!

YOU can help by e-mailing a LOYAL AMERICAN BROADCASTER like Bill O'Riley, Rush Limbaugh, or any other REAL American with a microphone, and INFORM them about this DISGUSTING, RUINOUS, POOPY-HEADED WEBSITE! THAT IS SO AWFUL IT WILL MAKE YOUR BUTT ITCH!

really.

seriously.

SAVE AMERICA OR GET THE HELL OUT AND MOVE TO CALIFORNIA YOU COMMUNISTER!

k?

thanks!!!

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The end of the Internet as we know it?

2006-07-25T17:04:19Z

Could this be true? Does anyone know of, or heard anything like this more thru the media?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester

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lazy

2006-07-20T22:28:35Z

I just want to put this out here.
Not only is Bush uneducated, prejudiced, crooked, and spoiled.
He's also incredibly lazy.
How come no one ever plays this up?

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any interest in an independent Cascadia?

2006-07-09T08:57:33Z

any interest in an independent Cascadia?

curious if anyone is interested in creating a independent bioregional Cascadia? Specifically looking for artists and organizers right now. Anyone interested then contact me... artist or not ... organizer or not

http://republic-of-cascadia.tripod.com/

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DEAD BABIES AGAINST BUSH

2006-07-07T09:50:36Z

I hate joining things. Makes my manly parts itch. Yes, I know, sharing threshold breach, but you can handle it. After all, you can pay your taxes and see what's done with them, so you can stand a little extemporanous blather about my genital discomfort.

Joined a group anyway, you might be interested. It's called:

DEAD BABIES AGAINST BUSH.

When you see transparent Iraqi children, their images on mylar like ghosts, around the Bay Area? I'd say I did that, but I didn't. I only make and show the pictures. I didn't start the war, kill the babies, or lie about it to anyone.

http://tinyscreams.blogspot.com

You are the media.

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Letter to an American Soldier

2006-07-07T08:10:06Z

A letter to a soldier
When corruption brushed aside reason
why do I think it’s you
that has to change
You may be the arms to disarm
but I am the heart that beats it’s will onto paved streets
It’s we that could help rearrange their jobs and positions
You and me could make so many dominoes fall back into precision.

In the shadow of waiting for you to decide I realize it’s me
that could be saying something right now.
Who knows the right hour of truth’s power?
We dream of a life
clean legitimate and not opportunity risking
like the life your family might be missing
so you and me can continue attending
and be indebted to the new world builders
and the crutch and the lurch of our
absentminded strangeness at what is so familiar.
That childhood we shared.
they don’t want us talking to each other
just so our those behind us can see unpeace
Sewing illusions
they want us to think human rights are out of reach.

Could we come together
to get it all back.?
Cause I wonder where I’m at
you’re probably waiting for me to
turn my back on this bullshit

start a new plan Stan

to get the fuck out of dodge
Turn off the car and open the garage
Prevent the certain suicide
Like Lawrence Felernghetti’s
“human crowd wandering of the cliff with an atomic umbrella”
there is only one side that’ll survive
the side of peace
So disarm the beast

THIS IS A Letter to the modern soldier
Dictatorship is
the peace incarceration brings.
And you arenot bulldozed under like so many bugs on the fender
while I am not the donkey eyes shut tight, ears covered,
mouth moving
but no sound coming out.

A Letter for safety
Whatever you were
I wonder where you are now.
You might be loading your camera with new batteries
collecting evidence of the latest tragedy
wreaked upon generations American and Iraqi
The first time they come both in a sentence;
a shared sentence both locked up in someone else’s battles.

When did the set up start?
Was it civics class propounding checks upon a system wrecked?
They celebrate American competitiveness
as if dropping an A-bomb was superior intelligence.
Inaction has resulted in this devastation.
A system of democracy for everyone with staggering dollars
and no one with sense
occupational forces
perpetrate violent sensation
upon woman nations created.
by LN

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Yea! Art Activism

2006-07-06T18:44:37Z

There is another tribe way into Anti- GW Bush art as well as guerilla art/activism in general. lots of pics too. http//tribes.tribe.net/deadawake.

There is an Art of Resistance conference coming up in Seattle...........

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Interview with Aaron Russo director of "Freedom to Fascism"

2006-06-18T10:23:09Z

Interview with Aaron Russo director of "Freedom to Fascism"

An interview by http://consciousmedianetwork.com of Aaron Russo about his new film, America: Freedom to Fascism. In this film Russo sets out to find the law that requires American citizens pay a direct income tax. This interview contains info about the fiat currency owned by private, for profit bank that we call "dollars". He explains how the Federal Reserve is neither 'Federal' nor has any reserves. He also gives a spot on critique of Michael Moore's Farenheit 911 . America: Freedom to Fascism is opening in USA . Also included on the radio.indymedia php page associated with this file will be a short excerpt from the inteview and the 14 min. trailer to the film.
http://fromfreedomtofascism.com
listen for excerpts of it in the daily rotation of radioActive sanDiego http://radioactiveradio.org
look for mp3 links to 16 min. trailer to film, and 4 minute audio clip of interview at the ".php" page on http://radioactiveradio.org
36 min.

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/aluhlooyah_aaronrussointerviewcmn.mp3

http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10251.php

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Need help for anti bush art project

2006-06-15T13:18:54Z

I have an idea for a cartoon project,Here is the baseline From the Archives of the Insane Presidential Files,,From George W. Bush ....AKA......VASTUS ANIMUS..( in latin translates to...his mind is a vast wasteland).
looking for ways to expand on this idea, if you are interested drop me a line thanks...

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Voting Is Not The Solution-Time For National Worker Strike/Boycott!

2006-06-12T20:52:50Z

Voting Is Not The Solution-Time For National Worker Strike/Boycott!
It is time for a NATIONAL STRIKE!
Full Story!
http://dulyconsider.blogspot.com/2006/06/old-style-political-remedies.html

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Fucking Bush! OK, He's Gay, but the Hypocrisy!

2006-06-06T19:17:38Z

Just in this NOT a joke. Very credible syndicated journalist Wayne Madsen reports that Bush is in the closet, and I don't mean getting a tie. Being gay is fine...but Hypocrites Really Suck!

There have been many insinuations that Bush is gay, from his 200+ private meetings in the Whitehouse with known gay ex-prostitute Jeff Gannon to his constant kissing of men on their bald heads, but this is the first where a candidate for governor of Nevada comes out and says point blank,"Bush is a GLBT hypocrite!" As this person had sex with him and claims first hand knowledge of his enthusiasm and experience at homo-erotic activity.

Knight Ridder Syndicate columnist stands behind his story!

This is two articles back to back, the first-dead serious, the second well...celebration!

http://falsepretender.blogspot.com/2006/06/is-president-bush-girly-man.html

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Stephen Colbert Roasts Bush!

2006-05-05T18:29:06Z

Comedy is it's own art form and Stephen Colbert's satire at the 2006 White House Press Correspondents Dinner was intelligent and biting. With the national media, almost the entire Bush administration, all sorts of Congressmen, Senators, and foreign politicians present he proceeded to rip apart the neo-conservative agenda. It's hilarious, I just wonder what's going through Bush's mind as he sits a few feet away throughout the entire speech.

Check it out on google video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879&q=colbert

or the transcript: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0501-30.htm

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virtual bush bashing

2006-05-05T00:02:31Z

Click link below and the use mouse, hold down left button and drag - it's really weird
I could play with this all day

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm

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see this fine Art of being a citizen

2006-04-26T17:22:53Z

ILLINOIS got it right...push your state representatives to intruduce their own proceedings.

Today, Thursday, April 20, 2006, Rep. Karen Yarbrough introduced into the Illinois General Assembly Joint Resolution 125, which calls for the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

WHEREAS, Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature; and

WHEREAS, President Bush has publicly admitted to ordering the National Security Agency to violate provisions of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a felony, specifically authorizing the Agency to spy on American citizens without warrant; and

WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that President Bush authorized violation of the Torture Convention of the Geneva Conventions, a treaty regarded a supreme law by the United States Constitution; and

WHEREAS, The Bush Administration has held American citizens and citizens of other nations as prisoners of war without charge or trial; and

WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that the Bush Administration has manipulated intelligence for the purpose of initiating a war against the sovereign nation of Iraq, resulting in the deaths of large numbers of Iraqi civilians and causing the United States to incur loss of life, diminished security and billions of dollars in unnecessary expenses; and

WHEREAS, The Bush Administration leaked classified national secrets to further a political agenda, exposing an unknown number of covert U. S. intelligence agents to potential harm and retribution while simultaneously refusing to investigate the matter; and

WHEREAS, the Republican-controlled Congress has decline to fully investigate these charges to date; therefore be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the General Assembly of the State of Illinois has good cause to submit charges to the U. S. House of Representatives under Section 603 that the President of the United States has willfully violated his Oath of Office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States; and be it further

RESOLVED, That George W. Bush, if found guilty of the charges contained herein, should be removed from office and disqualified to hold any other office in the United States. - Zen Dom (3°), posted 04/26/06

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Survey on Artists/Musicians/Cultural Workers and Health Care

2006-04-25T20:45:35Z

Survey on Artists/Musicians/Cultural workers and Health Care

The School of Arts and Culture of the University of the Poor is conducting a survey on artists/musicians/cultural workers and our experiences with health care. http://www.universityofthepoor.org/schools/artists/index.htm

Just like for many other people in this country, artists as a group contribute a lot to our society, but often lack some of the basic things we need to live, like health care. We're trying to collect some data on this, to know a little more about artists' experiences here. These data will be used for a Congressional Hearing on Artists and Health Care in May, sponsored by Acts of Art, and for a Truth Commission this summer, organized by the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign.

The School of Arts and Culture (SOAC) of the University of the Poor is a group of artists/cultural workers that are part of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, a group of organizations building a movement to end poverty, led by poor people.

http://www.universityofthepoor.org/schools/artists/index.htm

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Call for art, fiction, poetry

2006-04-24T08:18:47Z

Outsider Ink: We all need to speak out in whatever form we choose to stop the Bush administration from rolling back the clock on freedom. Write, design, march, speak out, scream…but don’t go silent. Although we may have four more years of Bush in the White House, those of us who disagree with his policies do not need to stand by complacently while his administration runs roughshod over the globe.

In order to assist this campaign, Outsider Ink will dedicate the Fall Issue for the next four years (or until Bush leaves the White House) to fiction, poetry and artwork that speaks directly to his administration’s failures. Whether it deals with the administration’s fumbling of the war in Iraq, or the indirect result of US citizen’s being put out of work by layoffs, we want work that will stand up for the rest of us who are disgusted at the way things are going. Outsider Ink wants to ensure that Bush and friends do not get their way, and are remembered in history for their misdeeds and lies, not the political whitewash they are attempting to employ. If Bush can give us another Vietnam, then we can give him another homeland rebellion.

More Information at: http://outsiderink.com/guidelines.php

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Letter to a Soldier

2006-04-24T07:06:38Z

A letter to a soldier
When corruption brushed aside reason
why do I think it’s you
that has to change
You may be the arms to disarm
but I am the heart that beats it’s will onto paved streets
It’s we that could help rearrange their jobs and positions
You and me could make so many dominoes fall back into precision.

In the shadow of waiting for you to decide I realize it’s me
that could be saying something right now.
Who knows the right hour of truth’s power?
We dream of a life
clean legitimate and not opportunity risking
like the life your family might be missing
so you and me can continue attending
and be indebted to the new world builders
and the crutch and the lurch of our
absentminded strangeness at what is so familiar.
That childhood we shared.
they don’t want us talking to each other
just so our those behind us can see unpeace
Sewing illusions
they want us to think human rights are out of reach.

Could we come together
to get it all back.?
Cause I wonder where I’m at
you’re probably waiting for me to
turn my back

start a new plan

to get out of dodge
Turn off the car and open the garage
Prevent the certain suicide
Like Lawrence Felernghetti’s
“human crowd wandering of the cliff with an atomic umbrella”
there is only one side that’ll survive
the side of peace
So disarm the beast

THIS IS A Letter to the modern soldier
Dictatorship is
the peace incarceration brings.
And you are not bulldozed under like so many bugs on the fender
while I am not the donkey eyes shut tight, ears covered,
mouth moving
but no sound coming out.

A Letter for safety
Whatever you were
I wonder where you are now.
You might be loading your camera with new batteries
collecting evidence of the latest tragedy
wreaked upon generations American and Iraqi
The first time they come both in a sentence;
a shared sentence both locked up in someone else’s battles.

When did the set up start?
Was it civics class propounding checks upon a system wrecked?
They celebrate American competitiveness
as if dropping an A-bomb was superior intelligence.
Inaction has resulted in this devastation.
A system of democracy for everyone with staggering dollars
and no one with any sense
occupational forces
perpetrate violent sensation
upon woman that make up nations.

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Invitation to FREE political music video contest

2006-04-20T02:58:11Z

Dear Friends,
At http://www.ferdeggan.net today are video and audio versions of the 4th and last part of the interview with Elizam Escobar, who talks about art and the Puerto Rican independence movement.
The music video contest is open for another two weeks, so please send an entry--all you have to do is mix-up visuals and audio from an old song called "Remember My Forgotten Man," a Busby Berkeley spectacular about war, depression and economic deprivation from the 1930s depression. You can download the song from the website.
Beginning on Mayday, http://www.ferdeggan.net will change to a magazine-like format. The political interviews will continue, and new sections will be added to pass on things gleaned from the web that might be of interest to those who share some of the sensibilities of this gleaner. In addition, writers, artists, musicians will be invited to present work in video, audio or text formats, and a new cycle of the acclaimed serial enovel The Story Continues will begin. Please tell yourself and all your thoughtful, creative friends to put their oar in.
I hope each of you will consider sending some of your opinions, creations, works in progress so that http://www.ferdeggan.net can serve to lubricate communication and enjoyment, preaching to the choir and proud of it, for revolution seen through a glass queerly.
Looking forward to hearing/seeing from you.
FE

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NEWS:

2006-03-18T16:51:20Z

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/180306bushsigns.htm <<<< Bush Signs Bill That Didn't Pass Congress

http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/bush-keeps-katrina-victims-homeless <<<<< Bush keeps Katrina Victims Homeless

http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/bush-selects-skull-bones-man-for-new-australia-ambassador <<<<< Bush Selects SKull & Bones Man for Austrailian Embassador

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm <<<<<<Secret US plans for Iraq's oil

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/16/AR2006031601861.html <<<<<< Bill would Allow Warrentless Spying

http://www.cuttingedge.org/video/testimonies/testimonies.html <<<<<< Secret Mysteries of Americas Beginning

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2006/03/confessions_of_.html <<<<< Confessions of a Virtual Intelligence Analyst

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/politics/17spend.html?_r=1&oref=slogin <<<<< Senate Approves Budget, Breaking Spending Limits

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Primetime Art against Bush

2006-03-17T21:49:57Z

http://www.boston-legal.org/

Click "Stick It", it's from last weeks Boston Legal about Spade's assistant who decides to withhold her taxes over the war. Wow!

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BEAT BACK BUSH- a workout video against bush & new tribe--help us with summer tour!

2006-03-16T09:14:20Z

hey all, i was involved in the making of BEAT BACK BUSH! It's a satirical political workout video and has been screened all over the US and has won several awards--now we want to take it on the road to screen it, perform it and do workshops addressing the issues we cover so the audience can interact with them. More about the video at www.bbbwork.net --please support it by joining the BEAT BACK BUSH! tribe and check back for tour updates. Also, I am a first time tour coordinator so any help/advice is appreciated...THANK YOU and remember to never give up!

"BeatBackBush Workout is a captivating and satirical multimedia project that invites people to exercise their minds, bodies, and rights. It is a twelve-minute educational, informational, and motivational video that seeks to ignite the Hip-Hop Generation in their fight for social justice. Inspired by music videos and other contemporary media, the video features dance, kickboxing, yoga, jazzercise, break-dancing, hip hop, animation, original spoken word and music. The video addresses a plethora of issues and policies including: education, abortion, drug policy, globalization, the war, gay rights, civil rights, and prison issues. While challenging the state of our country, the video also challenges the state of mainstream hip-hop by sampling from rap songs and artists largely viewed as misogynistic, and re-writing them into revolutionary songs of protest performed through the voices and bodies of hip-hop generation women." Check out dates and places of screenings and order the video at www.bbbwork.net. And get in touch if you want to screen our film in your community!

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bushfreezone.. step across the border!

2006-03-07T03:05:06Z

hey art orgs and concerned citizens everywhere,

there exists a new kind of "art guild" against the idiots and warmongers with too much power...

perhaps it will form a kind of solidarity tag, an organic seal of disapproval , a new alliance, for and from art rebels with common cause...

perhpas it will be one more communication hub for interlinking culture jammers and high-output creators ...

perhaps it will unleash more potentials for autonomous artivist hives and honeycombs for gathering , producing, harvesting and disseminating works that encourage us to go beyond ambiguous ideas, theories, and talk of "hope" ...

well maybe it's just a little infoshop in berlin, new york, tokyo ...
or maybe it's a rhizome ready to leap tall buildings ...

in any case, the concept appears to be that you are all welcome at anytime to leave the Bush sector,
link with some great artists, and maybe sprout some new city branches...

www.madeinbushfreezone.com

sign on...spread the word... jam On,
podp

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art show

2006-03-03T02:35:29Z

http://www.bushflash.com/pl_lo.html

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Call for Performers and Installation Artists... proposal deadline April 3, 2006

2006-02-24T04:43:01Z

Phoenix... from the flames
An event to celebrate community re-birth in the Bay Area.

40,000 square foot warehouse with multiple sound systems...
Courtyard for fire performers...
Crane for Aerial...
More space then you know to do with...

Theme: Rebirth
Intent: Raise Funds for healthy community growth and revitalization.

Please send proposals with jpg examples or links to Shalom@spaz.org for consideration.

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Zombies Eat Bush!

2006-02-22T14:08:17Z

Zombies Eat Bush!
56 views since posting on Sat, February 11, 2006 - 5:37 PM

enlarge photo
Date & Time: Monday, February 20, 2006 more on this date
2:00 PM
Location: Westlake Center
Seattle, WA
More Info: 206 617-0124
In honor of President's Day, let's show our fine leader what we really think of him. I've been "dying" to get a photo shoot of zombies taking down GW Bush and "eating him" for the Dead Awake performance art group. I have a GW Bush mask and some costuming accoutrements to share. Just show up at 2:00 pm at Westlake Plaza in your best Zombie makeup and have a little toothy fun being dissident!

Photographers, Zombies and stilters much appreciated!

Please help with compiling a list of words/concepts you would love to see Zombies dis-embowel from the Bush Administration. I will need them emailed to cleozombie@gmail.com by Friday.
These words will be printed on paper/laminated/stuffed into lengths of panty hose to look like intestines for the Zombies eating Bush photo shoot.

for more info: tribes.tribe.net/deadawake

-cleozombie
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Singer Songwriters Tribe:

2006-02-14T15:51:09Z

Hey there beautiful people....I have just created a singer songwriters Tribe... feel free to join. http://tribes.tribe.net/singer_songwriters_unite_inthe_mystery

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i guess we can't stop him from being re-elected unless....

2006-02-05T11:21:41Z

We must do everything possible to get a Democratic majority in the House and Senate. That would effectively end his reign.
If the majority stays the way it is now, he will continue on without a counterbalance. 2006 is much more important than 2008. We need to focus on that right now.
Notice my logo is a Hillary Clinton Dollar.
You might think of it as a phrophecy for the future. We need to get behind our strongest candidate and work the next few years to elect her. She might not be perfect. But look at what the Republicans came up with.

Start now.

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Art Parties

2006-01-17T08:47:12Z

I recently started having art parties at my house in hopes of forming a public art collective that creates art and gets it up around the city. The overall goal was to create meaningful art and encourage community expression and involvement. We've hit a rhode block though because we have to be out of our house by the end of the month. Would any one be interested in helping out/ getting involved? This all got started because I worked with replacements needed and was looking for alternative to glueing posters to poles, so it was originally politically oriented, and no involved is a bush supporter. Hope to do something crazy with you all some time soon.

PLURR

alex

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Apology

2006-01-09T13:41:37Z

I do not affiliate myself or my art to that kind of
protest, and before you blip me off, may I please just
apologize to our President for disrespectful allegation...
Degrading pokes at his Presidency are not constructive,
and when I saw ir right next to my Gossip column, I
cried. That Galleria is also an unfortunate function of my
irresponsible behavior online.
Reisa L. Gerber
1/08/06

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Free Trade—a tirade

2005-12-18T01:35:49Z

With some tricks like licks they shrink and shrivel, grovel and grind
The truth ithey unwind, the missionaries of greed, they succeed
In making a fake state, a rape of the late culture and wealth
Bursting with trinkets, dollars and anklets, these pigs do the thankless
Task of disrupting the lives of the heathen chaff, what a laugh, after its through
There won't be a virgin left in town, they have their way, they come to parley a little venture capital, it so happens they'res always a taker…

Like shrapnel the bomb explodes, currencies fold, the wad is blowed, all your money is owed to the man with the interest bearing accounts
In huge amounts all the gold is gone, they do what they're told, the money lender loads his weapons, watch your step, you could be next

The debts mounting higher, you used to aspire to a middle class life, a trifle higher in class than the guy on your ass, breathing down your neck.
Some prophet of old had one story he told, how cats have to die, every time he decides that who he that or what made up some original stuff about some other damn tribe.

You're liable to fight your close neighbor if some foreign devil does you a favour. So Sam, the uncle who rapes you, is capable of shaking you down for ever kroner, rupee or crown jewel, and to each stoolie a snack, we won't launch an attack, we give it all back, after we pillage and slake our thirst.
The blood of the innocent, like a billionaries treat, something to eat while they release their cult of the winner on all of us sinners.

Like third world puppets, we strut and we sputter about the meaning of freedom, the same hollow words as we read them, schooled in deceit. These lackey creeps assure you of how its gonna get better sooner or later a letter of credit will edit all your troubles away. The lottery of dottering fools,so cool that they lose their sanity to the vanity of pissing in the communal well

Well, to the winners, your innards must ache with the self hate that is created every time you take jake to the local bank, cut rate killer, you clip the interest rates like its your sacred right to profit off the plight of the weak, the meek, the supplicants, the comical clowns who abound in every small town in every squat and melting pot from white trash to hottentot.

to the losers, you're the player haters, you don't rate a mention in the who's who, since you blew the whole family tree, pardon your fate, it's too late since the burden of proof lay with the simple truth of your lineage, and I mean the string of supply of what we value most high, if your daddy had green, and his family between, its the connection supreme, the dream that they live, while losers deliver.

zearle.com

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some new inspiration for you

2005-12-10T03:01:03Z

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

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amazzziiinnnggg stencil

2005-12-02T19:24:10Z

There is this amazing stencil on a brick wall somewhere in boston. It's of this homeless man with a cup and he's holding up a sign that says "Keep your coins. I want change." Indirect "!art against bush! I guess? Anyways, it was really striking and beautifully done.

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VIDEO: US used chemical weapons on Falluja

2005-11-14T06:34:39Z

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10907.htm

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Guerrilla Funk

2005-11-04T21:51:50Z

I am new to this tribe and not sure if this has already been shared. Sonic Jihad is a great album put out by Paris, a Bush hater and talented musician.
guerrillafunk.com
This is not you typical rap album, it has the feel of old school that is so missed in todays "pool side" crap rap. Track 3 is great and worth a listen.
Also, take a lookat this site, it carries a similar meaning to the tribes goal, hating Bush and displaying it with an artistic slap in the face.
www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html
Its nice to find comrads
jules

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wow

2005-11-03T22:34:12Z

New here...HI!!! finally a Anti Bush support group nice....I just wanted to add my pointless comment.....Bush is a flamer. Have a great day =)

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MORAL QUESTION

2005-10-21T17:58:56Z

This is important. What Would You Do?

MORAL QUESTION

This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally. The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision. Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous. Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line.

THE SITUATION

You are in Florida, Miami to be specific. There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions. You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper, and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster.

The situation is nearly hopeless. You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is unleashing all of its destructive fury.

THE TEST

Suddenly you see a man in the water. He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's George W. Bush!

At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him under forever. You have two options--you can save the life of George W. Bush, or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most powerful politicians.

THE QUESTION

Here's the question, and please give an honest answer:

Would you select high contrast color film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

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Stinky Bush...

2005-10-19T23:50:59Z

Two links that compare Bush to Hilter....Enjoy!

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles3/Jayne_Hitler-Bush.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6481.htm

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Funny Halloween anti Bush card!

2005-10-18T16:13:51Z

http://www.climatemash.org/

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this is only a test

2005-10-17T22:51:37Z

This test only has one question, but it's a very important one.

By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally.

The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision.

You are in Florida. Miami, to be specific. There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions. You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper, and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster.

The situation is nearly hopeless. You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is unleashing all of its destructive fury. Suddenly you see a man floundering in the water. He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris.

You move closer.... the man looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's George W. Bush!

At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him under forever. You have two options--you can save the life of G.W. Bush or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most powerful men.

So here's the question... please give an honest answer:

Would you select high contrast color film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

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A**holes the song

2005-10-13T16:56:48Z

Hysterical and true!
Stay tuned til the end of the song for more info on the group.
http://filmstripinternational.com/index.php?play=asshole

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Big Sign Making Night!

2005-09-24T01:32:03Z

I have a few favorites:

On War Itself:
If war is not evil, then evil has no meaning.

War: the ignorant against the innocent.

Waging war to stop terrorism is like putting out fire with gasoline.

Why do people kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?

The ones who call the shots are not among the shot.

More blood won't cleanse bad blood.

War is a lack of imagination.

War is a failure of government.

War is so last century.

War is always a mistake.

War is terrorism with a bigger budget.

War wouldn't be prudent.

This war will return after the commercial break.

Where does it stop?

All mothers' tears are the same.

All blood is red.

US foreign policy is collateral damage.

Kill one person & it's murder; kill thousands & it's foreign policy.

No more parentless children.

Inner city teachers against legitimizing violence.

Genius against war.

An injury to one is an injury to all.

When you fight evil with evil, evil wins.

They're selling war; we're not buying.

Stop the war junkies.

Death is no threat to the suicidal.

The principal cause of war is war.

On Oil as the Real Cause of It All:
Global oil industry = weapon of mass destruction.

How many lives per gallon?

What's our oil doing under their sand?

Knitters for peace; wool is not a petroleum product.

Elections, empire, oil, dad.

Let's bomb Texas; they have oil too.

On Our Present Irresponsible Leadership:
Don't blame me... I voted with the majority!

Bush is not the son who's gonna tote the gun.

Guided missiles & misguided men.

They may have elected him president; but who made him emperor?

My parents went to the polls, & all I got was this crummy Orwellian nightmare.

This war is an amBu$h.

Free speech; not double speak.

Iraq is not the enemy. The enemy lies within.

Last time we listened to a Bush, we wandered 40 years in the desert.

More trees; less Bushes.

You've stopped the economy; now stop the war.

Undo the coup.

Jail to the thief.

Regime change starts at home.

Democracy & oligarchy don't mix.

Disarm Bush.

The smoking gun is in the White House.

Preemptive strikes are un-American.

The empty warheads are in the White House.

Prune the shrub, trim the Bush.

Redefeat Bush: Unfuck the World

Preemptive impeachment.

Not in our name!

George, use your words.

Bush: America's weapon of mass destruction.

Drop Bush, not bombs. Enough already!

Restorate Democracy.

Define terrorism.

This teacher says: Bush needs a time-out.

Our media & government are corporate puppets.

What part of "Thou shall not kill" didn't you understand?

Corporate crime unit.

Iraq is one massive distraction.

How to create 1,000 terrorists? Bomb Iraq.

America, wake up and smell the catastrophe.

And you thought he was pro-life!

On Osama Bin Laden:
We've fallen into Bin Laden's trap.

Osama bin forgotten.

Remember Osama?

How did Bush get to change the subject?

Uncle O(sam)a wants you! (to invade Iraq)

On Patriotism:
Founding fathers appalled by Patriot Act.

Loyalty to my country: always. Loyalty to my government: when it deserves it (Mark Twain).

Real patriots have free minds.

Real patriots defend the Constitution.

Blind faith in bad leadership is unpatriotic.

I love my country, not my corporate government.

I pledge a grievance to the flag of the plighted states of America, & to the republics upon which it stands: one nation playing God, blind & visible, claiming liberty and justice for all.

What your flag stands for is up to you.

God doesn't take sides in war.

These colors don't run the world (over a flag).

I love my country, but I think we should start seeing other people.

On Peaceful Alternatives:
Violence breeds violence. Let's breed peace.

We can bomb the world to pieces; we can't bomb it to peace.

Peace; not shattered lives.

Be the change you want to see.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

Refuse powerlessness. Act now for Peace.

Conversation, not confrontation.

Peace begins with justice.

Will work for peace.

We did not bring children into the world to kill for the rich.

Brains not bombs.

Earth to Bush: no war!

Read my lips: No war in Iraq.

Many voices, one plea: no war in Iraq.

Violence grows from desperation. Let's take the high ground.

Act like it's a globe, not an empire.

Choose compassion not sides.

We can do better than this.

Books not bombs.

Go solar, not ballistic.

Be the change you want to see.

If the people will lead, the leaders will follow.

24 million new enemies: Just what we need!
> All Humanity Is Downwind.
> An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
> Another American for Peace.
> Another epidemiologist for peace.
> Another patriot for peace.
> Anything War can do, Peace can do better.
> Beat The Bushes For Peace
> Bombing For Peace Is Like F*ing For Virginity
> Books Not Bombs
> Born To Kill, Born To Drill
> Brains Not Bombs
> Buck Fush!
> Bush Is A Moron-Don't Let Him Get His War On
> Bush Is A Servant Of Sauron. We Hates Him!
> Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld - the Asses of Evil.
> Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld: Axis Of Weasel
> Code Pink for Peace.
> Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. - Thomas
> Jefferson.
> Don't Arm a Son of a Bush
> Don't blame me, I voted with the majority.
> Don't do it George, Dad will still love you.
> Don't Mess With Mesopotamia
> Draft The Bush Twins
> Drop Bush, Not Bombs
> Everybody CHILL!
> Evolve! Work For A Non-violent Future
> Faster Trains Not Planes
> Fight Plaque not Iraq! (and the guy was carrying a
> toothbrush)
> George Bush Couldn't Run A Laundromat
> George Dubya: Weapon Of Mass Distraction
> Give peace a chance.
> Go Solar, Not Ballistic
> God Does Not Bless Only America-Rich Man's War, Poor
> Man's Blood
> Has Anyone Seen Our Constitution Lately?
> Honk If You're A Terrorist
> How Did Our Oil Get Under Their Soil?
> How many Lives per Gallon?
> I didn't vote for his daddy either.
> If War Is The Answer We're Asking The Wrong Question
> If You Are Not Outraged You Are Not Paying Attention
> It's NUCLEAR, not NUCULAR, you idiot!
> It's the oil, stupid.
> Justice Or Just Us?
> Killing Innocent People Is The Problem, Not The
> Solution
> Let's Try Preemptive Peace
> Make Alternative Energy Not War
> Make Love, Not War
> Make Soup, Not War
> Make Tea, Not War
> More MPGs, Less MIAs-Put The Peace Back In No
> Hitting (held by young girl)
> My President Is a Psychopath.
> Negotiation Not Annihilation.
> No blood for oil.
> No More BUllSHit
> No Oilgarchy (Oilgarchy in circle with slash across
> it)
> No war on Iraq.
> Nonviolence, Not Nonexistence
> Not in my name.
> Oh Say can You Cease? Star Spangled Bummer.
> One nation under surveillance.
> Our Grief Is Not A Cry For War
> Out Beyond Ideas Of Right Doing And Wrong Doing
> There Is A Field. I Will Meet
> You There.
> Peace is patriotic.
> Peace Takes Brains
> Peaceful Solution, Not Daddy's Retribution
> Power to the Peaceful
> Pretzel - It Does A Country Good
> Read between the Pipelines
> Real Patriots Drive Hybrids
> Regime change starts at home (with picture of Bush).
> Relax, George
> Resistance is Fertile.
> Rumi Regime Change Begins At Home
> Save America! Spare Iraq! Make Texas take him back!
> Say can you see my democracy?
> Small Print For Peace (on a teensy card held aloft
> on a stick like any large
> sign)
> Smart Bombs Don't Justify Dumb Leaders
> Smart weapons, Dumb president.
> Some village in Texas is missing its IDIOT.
> Sorry Dubya - Have A Pretzel Instead
> Start Drafting SUV Drivers Now.
> Stop Mad Cowboy Disease (with picture of Bush in
> cowboy hat).
> Tame The Tyrant In The Mirror, Then The One In Iraq
> Thank you France, Germany and Belgium.
> The last time we listened to a Bush, we wandered in
> the desert for 40 years
> The only thing we have to fear is Bush himself.
> There Is No Path To Peace - Peace IS The Path
> These colors don't run the world.
> Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.
> War is expensive, Peace is priceless.
> War is just terrorism with a bigger budget.
> War Is SO 20th Century
> We Have Guided Missiles And Misguided Men
> Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Look Under The Bushes
> What If God Blesses Iraq?
> When Bush Comes To Shove
> Who would Jesus bomb?
> Who's The Unelected Tyrant With The Bomb?
>

These colors don't run the world.
One nation under surveillance.
How did our oil get under their sand?
Go Solar, not Ballistic.
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Start Drafting SUV Drivers Now.
Don't blame me, I voted with the majority.
Buck Fush!
It's NUCLEAR, not NUCULAR, you idiot!
Resistance is Fertile.
(Pictures of sheep carrying flags) Stop Mad Sheep Disease Now.
(UFW sign) Pick Fruit, not Fights.
(On a five year old) More Candy Less War.
Say can you see my democracy?
(With pictures of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld) Asses of Evil.
It's the oil, stupid.
War is expensive, Peace is priceless.
Read between the Pipelines
No More BuSh.
Smart weapons, Dumb president.
The only thing we have to fear is Bush himself.
How many Lives per Gallon?
Patriots are idiots! Matriarchy Now!
Peace Takes Brains
Anything war can do, peace can do better.
Negotiation Not Annihilation.
Another patriot for peace.
Drop Bush, Not Bombs
Oh Say can You Cease?
Star Spangled Bummer
Don't Arm a Son of a Bush
Don't do it George, Dad will still love you.
Power to the Peaceful
The last time we listened to a Bush, we wandered in the desert for 40 years.

Bush does for Christianity what Bin Laden does for Islam

If War Is The Answer, We're Asking The Wrong Question

Bombing For Peace Is Like Fucking For Virginity

bodies and opinions

War Is A Dick Thing, Peace Is A Heart Thing

Brains Not Bombs

Killing Innocent People Is The Problem, Not The Solution

geography and history

Don't Mess With Mesopotamia

War Is SO 20th Century

How Did Our Oil Get Under Their Soil?

justice and democracy

If You Are Not Outraged You Are Not Paying Attention

Smart Bombs Don't Justify Dumb Leaders

Justice Or Just Us?

Regime Change Begins at Home

Our tax dollars should fund human need, not wars of conquest and corporate greed.

I thought I had a few more, hmmm. Good for now, see you out in the streets tomorrow!!!!

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check out this artist

2005-09-23T07:25:13Z

artofmarkbryan.com

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Make your $ really count

2005-09-02T20:45:00Z

Don't Give Your Hurricane Donations to the Red Cross
Establishment charities have history of withholding disaster funds

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | September 1 2005

As the aftermath of hurricane Katrina continues to wreak mayhem and havoc amid reports of mass looting, shooting at rescue helicopters, rapes and murders, establishment media organs are promoting the Red Cross as a worthy organization to give donations to.

The biggest website in the world, Yahoo.com, displays a Red Cross donation link prominently on its front page.

Every time there is a major catastrophe the Red Cross and similar organizations like United Way are given all the media attention while other charities are left in the shadows. This is not to say that the vast majority of Red Cross workers are not decent people who simply want to help those in need.

But what the media fails consistently to remember in their promotion of the organization is that the Red Cross have been caught time and time again withholding money in the wake of horrible disasters that require immediate release of funds.

The Red Cross, under the Liberty Fund, collected $564 million in donations after 9/11. Months after the event, the Red Cross had distributed only $154 million. The Red Cross' explanation for keeping the majority of the money was that it would be used to help 'fight the war on terror'. To the victims, this meant that the money was going towards bombing broken backed third world countries like Afghanistan and setting up surveillance cameras and expanding the police state in US cities, and not towards helping them rebuild their lives.

Then Red Cross President Dr. Bernadine Healy arrogantly responded when questioned about the withholding of funds by stating, "The Liberty Fund is a war fund. It has evolved into a war fund."

Despite the family members of victims of 9/11 complaining bitterly to a House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight panel, the issue seemed to be brushed under the carpet and the mud didn't stick.

The Red Cross' scandalous activities reach back far before 9/11.

After the devastating San Francisco earthquake in 1989, the Red Cross passed on only $10 million of the $50 million that had been raised, and banked the rest.

Similar donations after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Red River flooding in 1997 were also greedily withheld.

Smaller charities that were involved with the 2004 Tsunami relief project went public to say that large charities like Red Cross and United Way were engaged in secret backroom negotiations with each other that meant a large portion of the donation money was purposefully restricted from reaching the most needy areas affected by the disaster.

The history is clear, the Red Cross and other large so-called charities are in actual fact front group collection agencies for the military industrial complex.

Many informed historians have even alleged that the Red Cross was used as a Skull and Bones cover to overthrow The Russian Czar and pave the way for the rise of the Bolsheviks.

Do not give any money to the Red Cross unless you support the expansion of empire abroad and police state at home. Find a smaller trustworthy organization in the local area of New Orleans and make your donation to them.

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Somebody

2005-09-01T17:20:38Z

needs to move on this, so I'm going to try...

I want to put together something showing an image of New Orleans underwater, with a text relating how money from the levee retrofit was diverted to Iraq.

I just wanted to ask:

For those of you tuned in these days, has there been an image from TV or press covering the disaster that particularly struck you? An image that seems to emblematic of the disaster?

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not exactly against bush

2005-08-31T21:23:22Z

not for him either
just a project im working on
thought folks in here migh be interested....

you can watch this mural project i'm working on from where you sit

if you live in reach of oakland, you can come help in person too. just drop me a line, we'll plug you in!

so far, people are really grooving on the fact
that i am blogging with pictures and stuff
each step of the way as i make/coordinate this mural.

seems like some of you might be interested in checking it out

http://p207.ezboard.com/ftheemptyroomfrm33.showMessage?topicID=17.topic

because of the timeline its not a fully participatory community mural in the traditional sense. but as i go around asking for help, this mural's community gets larger and larger.

also fascinating is this idea that the internet could be used to broaden a mural's community. i hadn't thought of that before.

anyway, enjoy!

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here's an idea

2005-08-27T01:07:24Z

from another tribe.....i gobbled up this imagery......someone here can do justice with this i'm sure.....

>>pat robertson is a shining example of right-wing american christianity. he's the exact same type of preacher who used to praise slavery and later jim crow and used the bible to justify it. he's a complete slimebucket, and as i said, a great example of today's republican party leadership. <<

At least Jesus will vomit him out into the lake of fire. I truly enjoy the imagery.

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the light bulb story

2005-08-26T13:37:05Z

How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a light bulb?

The Answer is TEN:

1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed,

2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed,

3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb,

4. One to tell the nations of the world that they are either for changing the light bulb or for eternal darkness,

5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new light bulb,

6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner "Bulb Accomplished",

7. One administration insider to resign and in detail reveal how Bush was literally "in the dark" the whole time,

8. One to viciously smear #7,

9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along,

10. And finally, one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.

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A Joke I Heard

2005-07-18T03:14:21Z

(...for those who remember Abbott and Costello...)
~~~
This taped conversation in the Oval Office between George Bush and His National Security Adviser, Condeleeza (Condi) Rice has been leaked to the Washington Post:
George: Condi! Nice to see you. What's happening?
Condi: Sir, I have the report here about the new leader of China.
George: Great. Lay it on me.
Condi: Hu is the new leader of China.
George: That's what I want to know.
Condi: That's what I'm telling you.
George: That's what I'm asking you. Who is the new leader of China?
Condi: Yes.
George: I mean the fellow's name.
Condi: Hu.
George: The guy in China.
Condi: Hu.
George: The new leader of China.
Condi: Hu.
George: The Chinaman!
Condi: Hu is leading China.
George: Now whaddya' asking me for?
Condi: I'm telling you Hu is leading China.
George: Well, I'm asking you. Who is leading China?
Condi: That's the man's name.
George: That's who's name?
Condi: Yes.
George: Will you or will you not tell me the name of the new leader of China?
Condi: Yes, sir.
George: Yassir? Yassir Arafat is in China? I thought he was in the Middle East.
Condi: That's correct.
George: Then who is in China?
Condi: Yes, sir.
George: Yassir is in China?
Condi: No, sir.
George: Then who is?
Condi: Yes, sir.
George: Yassir?
Condi: No, sir.
George: Look, Condi. I need to know the name of the new leader of China. Get me the Secretary General of the U.N. on the phone.
Condi: Kofi?
George: No, thanks.
Condi: You want Kofi?
George: No.
Condi: You don't want Kofi.
George: No. But now that you mention it, I could use a glass of milk. And then get me the U.N.
Condi: Yes, sir.
George: Not Yassir! The guy at the U.N.
Condi: Kofi?
George: Milk! Will you please make the call?
Condi: And call who?
George: Who is the guy at the U.N?
Condi: Hu is the guy in China.
George: Will you stay out of China?!
Condi: Yes, sir.
George: And stay out of the Middle East! Just get me the guy at the U.N.
Condi: Kofi.
George: All right! With cream and two sugars. Now get on the phone.
(Condi picks up the phone.)
Condi: Rice, here.
George: Rice? Good idea. And a couple of egg rolls, too. Maybe we should send some to the guy in China. And the Middle East. Can you get Chinese food in the Middle East?

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fans of SPUN

2005-07-17T21:04:10Z

GALAXIE PICTURES is currently developing 'Unfiltered', the directorial debut for Creighton Vero, screenwriter of the indie cult hit 'Spun'.

For more information contact: pete@galaxie-pictures.com

SYNOPSIS:

Teenage Sherri, a new arrival to Lake Charles, Louisiana, gets a rude awakening as the locals give her a slice of real Southern hospitality, small town style. Included in her Lake Charles initiation are some hard lessons on friendship, family, and bigotry—not the kind made of ephemeral remarks and incidental ostracizing of outsiders, but real and vicious institutional racism, the kind that ends in murder.

Sherri arrives as the locals prepare for the funeral of Mary, the town’s Contraband Days Celebration Queen. With her death begins the shattering of the perfect picture of southern hospitality that she represents. Grieving is glossed over in favor of panic about the town’s quickly evaporating marijuana supply. What’s really died is the smiling welcoming south, and its warmth and hospitality are quickly replaced by a rapid growth of weeds.

Then the ensemble cast of Unfiltered gradually unwinds into a hard picture of gritty southern life as facades of tolerance gradually peel / crumble away. What’s revealed is the stuff that’s usually swept under the carpet.

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SF - Simnuke Art Exhibit at Rx Gallery July 28th - Aug 25

2005-07-12T02:16:00Z

http://www.simnuke.org/gallery.html

Simnuke Art Exhibit at Rx Gallery - July 28 – August 25
Opening Night Event - July 28, 7pm-midnight
Special Screening of “Helen’s War” – August 3, 8 pm
Memorial for the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – August 6, 5 pm
Rx Gallery - 132 Eddy Street @ Mason

Over the last sixty years, people all over the world have lived with the looming threat of nuclear arms. For the artists exhibiting in the Simnuke Art Exhibit, this struggle expresses itself through searing commentary and stunning artwork condemning the nuclear arms race.

The art of the Simnuke Art Exhibit is co-curated by Sasha Harris-Cronin and Max Carlson and comprises 20 artists from the United States and Japan. The exhibit pieces will range from photography to kinetic sculpture, from humorous statements to solemn exposés. In addition, there will be an exhibit of government documents from the Prelinger Library tracing the history of the atomic era in public policy.

The artists in the Simnuke Art Exhibit include: Carole Gallagher, Michael Light, Richard Ross, Aaron Ximm, Yosuke Yamahata, Bryan Cole, Robert Dohrmann, Joy Garnett, Jenne Giles, Mark Henson, Garret Izumi, Tracy Jacobs, Kerry Loewen, Yoshiko McFarland, Yumiko Oda, Astrid Olafsen, Aryana Farsai Roxborough, Corrine Schulze, Elin O'Hara Slavick, and Jeff Young.

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a forum is born

2005-07-11T00:03:04Z

hi. im birthing this forum that focuses mostly on art and left politics.

its all fresh and new and waiting for instigator types to help shape the place. hardly anyone in there right now but it has a lot of potential. who ever gets involved at this point would be key in developing the character of the place.

you can put pictures and stuff in each post.

im still adding a forum or two more and working on the design of the place.

i would be honored by your presence. come check it out: http://p207.ezboard.com/btheemptyroom

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Anti Bush SF Cable show tonight at 10:00pm

2005-07-10T18:00:10Z

Turn on Cable 29 Saturday night if you have Comcast in San Francisco

10;00pm TONIGHT

A vintage Talk to the Hand, the episode that aired right after Black Tuesday, Nov. 2004, when George W. stole the election for a horror sequel that keeps on giving.

From his apocalypse to your ears, see how he did it--ONLY on Talk to the Hand (oh, and Borgnine and Teen Wolf join the cabal)

See a clip
www.ttth.net/episodes.html

and feel free to call our hotline--many interesting folks already have and they are getting ANIMATED on TV

Phone: 415.820.1480

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Mosh II, who'd a thought

2005-07-07T21:47:37Z

Eminem says it clearly, if you saw the first Mosh you have to check this.
Our final hour!

http://ia108605.us.archive.org/2/items/The_Mosh_Continues/MoshContinues_hi.mov

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Multiversal justice and injustice

2005-07-05T14:37:21Z

A friend of mine and I have co-written an anti-Bush story I illustrated called "Sideways: Multiversal Justice and Injustice." This brief story shows two universes simultaneously. In one universe, the members of BushCo have been justifiably punished for their crimes, while in the other universe, much like the universe as we know it, the members of BushCo continue to get away with murder. I'm hoping to put this story on my Sideways Multiverse web site
( http://timeliketoons.tripod.com/sideways.htm ). Until then, here are some lyrics from the unofficial theme song for Sideways:

"Had a dream that everybody looked like someone else
"And the farthest I could get from was the closest to myself
"Tonight I'll dream tomorrow's going to be that better day
"In the morning I'll remember you... sideways"

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Dr. Yo's protest edit of George W. Bush's March 19 war speech

2005-06-30T21:25:35Z

Dr. Yo's protest edit of George W. Bush's March 19 war speech
http://www.dr-yo.com/web_aud/Dr._Yo_-_Dubya_Speech.mp3

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This is IT!

2005-06-12T02:02:21Z

Maybe sooner...
please check this out and just let the image sit with you for a minute
billmon.org/archives/001864.html

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Teach Public Art and more at CELLspace!!!

2005-05-06T21:25:41Z

CELLspace is a volunteer-based collaborative art center which fosters community through art and education, performance and community building. Through cooperative relationships and multi-disciplinary programs, we encourage the celebration of intergenerational and cross-cultural collaborations.

CELL, (Collectively Explorative Learning Labs), offers communal art workshops and learning labs in a variety of artistic mediums. Our 10,000 square foot facility serves as an arts incubator, enabling emerging Bay Area artists to create, develop, exhibit, and perform new work in an affordable, cooperative, and collaborative environment.

We are currently seeking creative individuals to teach during our Summer (June-August) season, and potentially continue with us for following seasons.

See the following list of classes and send your resume to classes@CELLspace.org
For more information about CELLspace visit www.CELLspace.org
(Deadline: Wednesday the 20th of April)

List of CELLspace Classes, June- August

*Painting (intro and advanced techniques using oils,
acrylics, tempura and water on various traditional and
non-traditional surfaces.

*Drawing (intro and advanced, using non-traditional
techniques, such as including the use of a projector
for making large banners)

*Public (Guerilla) Art (silk-screening on cloth and
paper, stenciling, wheatpaste and banner making,
large puppet/ figure making, muralism and spray
painting).

* Traditional/ Cultural Art (inc: Cartoneria (using paper
and recycled materials), pi?ata making, Mexican tin +
copper stamping + carving, Mihndi(henna paint),
origami, African mask making, lithography, etching,
linocut,woodcut...etc).

*Maille (Chain mail) (inc. clothing/ armor, inlays,
jewelry, bags,... ).

*Costumes (inc: wings, clothing, masks, using beads
for clothing and jewelry,latex clothing...).

*DIY Classes (book binding, papermaking, gifts, bags,
etc. Integrated class focusing on DIY craft
techniques for creating goods)

*Art Therapy (inc. all forms of artistic mediums
developed by an experienced art therapist/ healer)

*DIY Musical Instruments (inc. glass goblets, Poor
Lady's Gamelan, percussion devices using miniature
mics, spoons, washboards, bass instruments, etc.)

*Music Classes (for not as popular instruments, such
as: the theramin, singing saw, harmonica,accordion
and more).

*Dance Classes (inc. Flamenco, Salsa, Hooping …'''')

*Film Classes (history of film and different genres,
global films, documentaries...)

*Exercise, Kick Boxing, Karate, Jujitsu, Tai Chi and
Self Defense

*Traditional Global Recipes (focus on peasant-scrap
food centered, inc. component on nutrition and
health).

*Veggie/ Vegan Dishes (focus on affordability,
nutrition and health).

*Healing Foods (inc: herbs, ointments, potions,
concoctions, tonics, tinctures...etc)

*Bartending (exotic drinks from around the world, using
affordable alcohol and ingredients).

*Meditation (focus on healing).

*Yoga

*Alternative Parenting Classes (Meeting the Child
Development credit meeting court requirements).

*Metal Welding: (intro, inter, adv.)

*Wire Sculpture

*Metal w/ Inert Gas ( aka wire-feed welding)

*Furniture Renovation (working with found, discarded
and recycled pieces).

*Woodcarving

*Stone Carving

*Sculpting with Cernit (no oven required clay)

*Quema de Judas (Burning Giants).

*Wax sculpting/ Candle making

*Theater History and Performance (influences: Teatro
Campesino, Agusto Boal, Paulo Freire...)

*Puppetry

*Creative Writing

*Cultural Studies (Chican@ / Latin American, African
American, Asian American, Middle Eastern American,
Filipino American and Native American
with heavy focus on Arts, Film, Theater, Literature).

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Simnuke Call for Submissions

2005-04-14T16:37:51Z

This is a gallery exhibition that I am co-curating with Max Carlson in San Francisco this July . We're looking for some stellar art, so please apply. This should be a really great show. More info is available at:
http://www.simnuke.org/

You can download a form at:
http://www.simnuke.org/SimnukeCallForEntries.doc

Also, send this on to any interested persons

sasha.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Simnuke Project Gallery Show (July 28 – August 10, 2005)
http://simnuke.org

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Simnuke Project is seeking art that tells the story of the Atomic Age.

On July 16, 1945 at 05:29:45 local time (Mountain War Time), a team of scientists reached the culmination of the Manhattan Project, the first test of a nuclear weapon. The event was code-named "Trinity".

On July 16, 2005, at 05:29:45 local time, a team of artists and engineers will commemorate the 60-year anniversary of Trinity by simulating the look and feel of the detonation of a nuclear device.

A gallery show at Rx Gallery (http://www.rxgallery.com/) in San Francisco, California July 28 – August 10 will accompany this event, allowing artists working in a variety of mediums to delve into the implications of atomic weapons that have pervaded our lives for the last 60 years. Artists of all backgrounds are invited to participate in the Simnuke Gallery Show.

The immediate goal of the exhibit is to create a venue for art that tells the story of the Atomic Age. The medium is unspecified: the nuclear age itself is the binding theme for the show.

In the 60 years since that world-changing moment that was the Trinity detonation, the Bomb has permeated the collective consciousness, shaped generations, economies, and nations, and within the last decade almost completely disappeared. Children today barely know the fears of the nuclear age. Ask most anyone on the street what he or she would do if there was an impending nuclear attack and they would likely stare at you blankly, not knowing what that would mean. The Simnuke Project seeks to illustrate the needless threat of such limitless, destructive energy in the hope that no one will ever again experience the devastation of the real thing.

From Trinity to modern day “bunker busters”, nearly everyone has been affected by the fears, the myths, and the realities of the nuclear threat. As ever more countries become nuclear-enabled and as the United States makes sounds of restarting its nuclear weapon development, it is imperative that we become knowledgeable about the risks of nuclear arms and power.

The ultimate goal of the project is to create an occasion to bring closer and examine the shadow nuclear weapons have cast on billions of lives. Bringing the events long forgotten after 60 years into the present is a tool for healing – by creating a close connection with the destructive nature and history of nuclear technologies, peace will become the higher option.

The intended audience for the message of Simnuke crosses age groups and demographics. Some will directly experience the commemoration itself in the desert. Others will visit the gallery. Many more will read or see media about the project and reflect on the Atomic Age.

All entries will be pre-screened for eligibility by curators; however, not all entries will be in the show.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 6, 2005.

The Simnuke Project is supported by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (http://www.wagingpeace.org/), the Nuclear Policy Research Institute (http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/), and Tree New Mexico (http://www.treenm.com/). The Simnuke Project is made possible with the fiscal sponsorship of the Cloud Factory Collective for the Arts (http://www.cloudfactoryarts.org/), a 501(c)3 organization.

HOW TO ENTER

ENTRY FORMAT:

- A brief description (maximum 250 words) clearly outlining the piece you are proposing

- Artist statement - maximum 500 words

- Curriculum vitae

- 10-20 slides with name and title, or URL where we can view your work.

- Video artists may submit a video no longer than 5 minutes. Entries must be submitted on VHS (NTSC, PAL) or DVD, or as a photograph.

- Self addressed, sufficiently stamped envelope if you would like your entry materials returned.

- An entrant may submit any number of pieces.

DEADLINE: Entries must be postmarked by midnight, Friday, May 6, 2005.

EXHIBITION:Works chosen for the show will be announced by Friday, May 20, 2005. The opening event will take place on July 28, 2005, and we will have a memorial closing event on August 6, 2005,the 60 – year anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.

SHIPPING INFORMATION:

PACKAGING:Ship your materials in a bubble-pack envelope, or packaging appropriate to safely ship your entry.

COST & LABELING:Entrant must pay all shipping costs for entries to and from Oakland. All tapes, DVDs and photographs must indicate title, shipper's name and return shipping address. The Simnuke Project is not responsible for any damage to entries incurred during shipping.

Send all entries to & for more information, please contact:
The Simnuke Project
PO Box 7605
Oakland, CA 94601

TEL(415) 516-2049
EMAIL: submissions@simnuke.org

.. sasha harris-cronin ..
.. sasha@mortalspaces.com .. 415.516.2049..

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Dubya Bin-Zilla

2005-04-11T14:29:01Z

http://www.thorrific.com/dubyabinzilla.html
A nightmare-satire animated exploration of Dubya's complicity in and manipulation of the "9-11 terror attacks".

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Bay Area Democrats

2005-04-05T03:51:26Z

http://bayareademocrats.tribe.net

I just created this tribe. Please join if you're interested!

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online gallery: Eyes Wide Open - and exhibition of the human cost of the Iraq war.

2005-04-04T07:29:13Z

i finally whipped this onto the internet. im kind of excited. wanted to share...

a field of empty boots and shoes representing those killed.
this is my personal gallery with pictures, a cool amateur video, and footage of testimony by family of the dead.

very moving.

check it out.
imageevent.com/arize

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Borg2 Accepting Grant Proposals Now

2005-02-27T19:46:14Z

www.borg2.org/artists.php3

Don't know if any of y'all read the BORG2 Bull Horn but just to give the heads up, those crazy miscreants, your slightly awkward siblings, over in the BORG2 project are making a special art grant of all the pennies they collected at the Flying Pig Sex Disaster back on Feb 5. These pennies are art just sitting there in a bucket. They are SPECIAL ART PENNIES blessed and purified with sexy blazing pig passion. They can be yours as an art material or if you choose cashed in to make art entirely unrelated to pennies. Personaly I hope some folks use the pennies as part of their art creation.

Here is a reiteration of the Frank Jones Bull Horn announcement regarding the penny art grant. Thanks to all who helped with the Pig disaster and rolling all them coins after the event.
Go Team Disaster, leading by example since Feb. 5 2005.

NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS, HERE'S THE PILE 'O PENNIES ART GRANT DISASTER

The BORG2 Ad Hoc Action Collective, aka the people not voted into any kind of office, have been counting up all the change collected from the recent FLYING PIG SEX DISASTER fundraiser and rolling it into, well, rolls. And then depositing the rolls with the bank people. And now they're tired of all this rolling.

The delightful Marc came up with this idea (paraphrased for your convenience):

1. Gosh darn we still have to roll a ton of pennies
2. How can I convince someone else to do this?
3. Maybe the AC could GRANT this butt load of pennies to an artist so we won't have to roll them anymore and an artist could be supported to make their art, which is why we are here rolling all this god-forsaken change in the first place.

Thus was born: the NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS,
HERE'S THE PILE 'O PENNIES ART GRANT DISASTER.

Here is the deal: BORG2 has a bunch of pennies and other misshapen but still legal US tender coins in its possession. Rather than spend about ten manhours each for every ten dollars of coins left, BORG2 is going to grant THIS HUGE PILE OF COINS TO ONE LUCKY ARTIST. An real art grant, immediate resource gratification, just like we've been talking about for the last six million years.

The rules and conditions:

- The dollar amount of the remaining pennies (and other coins) is somewhere around ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS.

- All those interested in receiving this grant have one week from Wednesday to forward to submit a project proposal. Proposals will be posted publicly to the BORG2.org website in the order received.

- All submitted proposals will be subject to a vote by the entire BORG2 community, using the Demagogue voting software that was created by the mysterious Dr. Fiasco and used in the January elections, and is now new and improved, to the point where it can handle "millions of voters."

- The project deemed "most interesting" by the entire community, as determined through this vote, will receive all the remaining coins at a special ceremony, details of which to be announced.

Format of proposals:

The format used to submit a proposal is very important. Non-compliance with format will mark submitter as a non-linear thinker. Please comply with all following blank spaces:

Your Name:
Project Title:
One line project description:
Compose a DF1LM (dfilm.com/index_movie_start.html) explaining your project and submit link to it:
Submit a URL to an online drawing (optional):

Note that the primary vehicle for this application is DF1LM. Those who have been following the BORG2 tribe and various other tribes in the Outer BORGverse will know that DF1LM has, um, kinda become the communication medium of choice for BORG2 endeavors. In fact,
the Art Council has been deep in debate as to whether all official AC communications should proceed through DF1LM, although there has been no decision yet. In the meantime, however, Jim composed a stunt grant application that found issue in several panties, and many DF1LMs flew here and there shortly thereafter, as well as before, through the rigors of time travel (news travels BEYOND FAST in the BORGverse). The record (or wreckage) can be found on the BORG2
tribe (borg2.tribe.net), and also on the DF1LM
tribe (dfilm.tribe.net).

EMAIL IS DEAD. THE FUTURE BELONGS TO DF1LM. (Can we get a sponsorship?)

Remember, the deadline for proposals is Wednesday, March 2. Voting will take place Friday, March 4.

Submit to the Pile of Pennies Art Grant Disaster Tribe or the borg2 tribe.

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The Sons Of Liberty

2005-02-25T23:17:10Z

Check out some brand new live recordings and loads of independent media from The Sons of Liberty.

http://www.thesonsofliberty.us

The Sons of Liberty are a group using a combination of live instruments and electronics to expose the New World Order's corruption through music. The website compiles news articles from both independent and mainstream news sources, and of course lots of free live mp3's for download.

Daniel K-Dub

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HYPNOMADIC feat. Soulsalaam This Friday @ Elbo Room, SF

2005-02-23T23:53:33Z

HYPNOMADIC feat. Soulsalaam and Process Rebel is performing this Friday @ Elbo Room - You can get cheaper advance tickets here:
http://www.sunsettickets.com/evinfo.php

Hypnomadic is a modern urban dance floor hybrid of electronic beats and cultural elements featuring the dj/producer/musician team up of Soulsalaam and Process Rebel.

Having performed with Barbarito Torres of Buena Vista Social Club and Hamsa Lila at The Fillmore and at Red Bull's Ascension party at 1015 Folsom in San Francisco, Hypnomadic creates their own cinematic fusion sound. Grimey hip-hop, punchy dancehall, dirty breakbeats and rugged d'n'b all teased with ragga M.C.s, bhangratronic, vocal accapellas and live percussion with a touch of swirling dub effects. Imagine yourself dazzled by King Tubby's studio trickery gone mad!

As well as creating their own original tracks their remixes and reworks include such artists as Saul Williams (Ninja Tune Records), Muslimgauze, Mr. Oizo, MIA, Antibalas, M.C. Cantankerous, Kelis, Missy Elliot, Roots Manuva (Big Dada), Systemwide (BSI Records), Thug Emporium (Quake Trap Records, SF) and Erick Sermon (Def Jam).

PROCESS REBEL aka Chad Jones
Being a pinnacle guitarist in the Seattle "Grunge" scene, Chad also has several solo releases on Manifold Records under the moniker Totemplow. He has also collaborated with Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), DJ Spooky and Mick Harris (Earache Records, Scorn). He is currently working on the soundtrack to the new film "Twilight Men," from the directors of "Genghis Blues."
http://www.subinfinity.com

SOULSALAAM is a dj, percussionist and producer exploring beyond the limitations of genres and categories. His set flows through many styles of music, past and present, connecting the ancient masters with their contemporary electronic counterparts. He has worked, collaborated and shared the stage with Zakir Hussain, Baaba Maal (Palm Pictures), Nortec Collective, Antibalas, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Ursula Rucker (K7), Barbarito Torres (Buena Vista Social Club), Da Lata (Palm Pictures), KJ Sawka & Siamese, Freq Nasty (Skint), Dj Krush, Cheb I Sabbah (Six Degrees), Kid Beyond, Hamsa Lila, Systemwide (BSI), Dj Lorin, Koma and Bones (TCR), Lee Coombs, Garaj Mahal, J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science (OM Records), Uberzone, Shaggy Manatee (Quake Trap, SF), Dr. Israel's Brooklyn Jungle Sound System/Seven, Dub Gabriel & Professor Shehab (Baboon Records, NYC).
http://www.soulsalaam.com

Upcoming Soulsalaam schedule:

1. Wednesday, February 23rd - DHOL PATROL @ Ashkenaz in Berkeley
A night of bhangratronic, asian breaks, punjabi hip-hop and bollywood beats

2. Thursday, February 24th - MUSOQ PACHA MASSIVE @ 111 Minna Gallery
A Mystic Family Circus and Woven Media Presentation

3. Friday, February 25th - HYPNOMADIC, Blvd and Scratch'n'Sniff @ Elbo Room
A Night of Live Breaks and Turntablism Presented by Sunset Promotions event

4. Wednesday, March 9th - Planet Magazine Party @ Laszlo
www.planet-mag.com

5. Friday, March 11th - DHAMAAL presents "ELECTRIC VARDO" @ Blue Cube
Part of the Dhamaal Soundsystem Sights and Sounds Festival
A night of Asian breaks and drum`n`bass & Naata's Asian American Film Festival

For more detailed information about these events scroll down>>>
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Wednesday, February 23rd

DHOL PATROL
A night of asian breaks, punjabi hip-hop, bhangra remixes and bollywood beats

with special guest:
SOULSALAAM (Future Juju / www.soulsalaam.com) - Hypnomadic music
and resident DJ EARFLAPS (katfive.com, slept-on records)

@ Ashkenaz, Berkeley
9pm-2am $6 at the door
all ages

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Thursday, Feb. 24th
Mystic Family Circus and Woven Media Present:
MUSOQ PACHA MASSIVE

A benefit for Casa de Milagros, a children's community based on the principles of permaculture, located in the Sacred Valley of the Inca, Cuzco, Peru. www.chandlersky.org Join Casa founder Mama Kia for a celebratory evening under the full moon, featuring multi-media sacred earth journeys in
light sound and movement. Global roots sprouting new shoots and it's all a prayer for the Pachamama...

Featuring live music by:

SHIMSHAI AND THE NATURAL MYSTIQUE ENSEMBLE
High vibing roots reggae and trancendevotional multi-lingual prayersong. www.shimshai.com

BAGA BAE
Featuring Amadou Camara from Guinea, West Africa
Traditional music meets reggae meets hip-hop with
gongoma, dunun, djembe, guitars, bass, bolon and mbira

AKIM FUNK BUDDHA (NYC)
Trans-stellar throat singing beat boxing, Balinese bodypoppin' break dancing Martial arts Emcee and performance artist. www.funkbuddha.org

UNITY NGUYEN
Vietnamese multi-instumentalist, including the dan tranh
(16-string zither of Viet Nam); and the kora (21-string harp of West Africa). www.unityhealinghands.com

TONY KHALIFE
Lebanese virtuoso guitarist and tabla player.
www.tonykhalife.com

BOPA KING CARRE (NYC)
Heavyweight drummer and longtime live percussion player
in NYC's dub house scene. www.bopakingcarre.com

With special guest dj's:

SOULSALAAM (Hypnomadic / Future Juju)
www.soulsalaam.com

SEP (Dub Mission)
www.dubmissionsf.com

RYLAN (Woven rhythmBASE)

As well as:
--The SF premiere of the Woven Media documentary film, "Casa de Milagros"
www.wovenmedia.net
--Silent art auction
--Fashion show
--Vital foods and chai
--Beatific visions

FUERZA! WONGAI! CORAZON! ROOTS!

MUSOQ*PACHA*MASSIVE
Thursday, February 24th
@ 111 MINNA, SAN FRANCISCO

$10 bucks to 10g's going straight to the kids...

("Musoq Pacha": Quechua for "New Earth")

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Friday, February 25th - HYPNOMADIC, Blvd and Scratch n Sniff @ Elbo Room
A Night of Live Breaks and Turntablism Presented by Sunset Promotions event

Advance tickets:
www.sunsettickets.com/evinfo.php

Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street (Near 17th)
$8, 21+, 10-2am

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Friday, March 11th - DHAMAAL presents "ELECTRIC VARDO" @ Blue Cube
Part of the Dhamaal Sound System Sights and Sounds Festival
A night of Asian breaks and drum`n`bass & Naata's Asian American Film Festival

Feat.

SOULSALAAM (Hypnomadic / Future Juju)
DJ Dragonfly (Groove Garden / Gathering for Good)
DJ Amar (Bansuri.net)
DJ Sep (Dub MIssion / KPFA)
DJ Jimmy Love

Plus live performances

TABLA RASA feat. Jim Santi Owen
LUMIN
DHOL RHYTHMS (Bhangra Dance Troupe)
FREDERIQUE (Belly Groove)
KITUNDU (African Phono Harp)

and members of Dhamaal Sound System

34 Mason Street, SF
$10-12, 21+, 8pm-4am

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You Can Too Kids

2005-02-16T19:20:44Z

http://www.freewayblogger.com/

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The Insult That Made a Mess of Iraq

2005-01-30T01:41:56Z

Here is a one page parody of that old Charles Atlas ad that used to appear in comic books that makes fun of Bush and will be printed in a new cartoon humor magazine coming out in February called JOKESTER. This may be the only political piece in the magazine but it's still got a lot of great stuff in it.

http://www.jokestermag.com/the_insult.jpg

Visit the website at www.jokestermag.com

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hey, where can I get a pair of those socks?

2005-01-26T22:23:07Z

???

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Take The Power Back!!!

2005-01-24T05:52:00Z

I am informally inviting anyone to join my tribe. It's a discussion forum for expressing way to put the control of governance back into the hands of the people. Becuz it's in our reach to TAKE THE POWER BACK.....

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Not My President

2004-11-27T04:23:48Z

If you are unhappy with the election results, please join my

"Not My President" Tribe

(see my profile... not sure how to link it)

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