http://www.oct27.org/
One might venture to say, on October 27, 2007, where ever you are, make a public statement against the war! Stop the insanity! Wear a black arm band, burn a flag, any act of defiance would be fine. Don't work. Don't go to school. Don't BUY ANYTHING, ANYWHERE!
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"-we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."
George Bush
The secret weapon that Bush & Co. has that destroys "knowledge" is The Church . Tithe regularly!
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In September 1949, Communist China, without any provocation, invaded Eastern Tibet and captured Chamdo, the headquarters of the Governor of Eastern Tibet. On November 11, 1950, the Tibetan Government protested to the United Nations Organisation against the Chinese aggression. Although El Salvador raised the question, the Steering Committee of the General Assembly moved to postpone the issue.
On November 17, 1950, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama assumed full spiritual and temporal powers as the Head of State because of the grave crisis facing the country, although he was barely sixteen years old. On May 23, 1951 a Tibetan delegation, which had gone to Peking to hold talks on the invasion, was forced to sign the so-called "17-point Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet", with threats of more military action in Tibet and by forging the official seals of Tibet.
The Chinese then used this document to carry out their plans to turn Tibet into a colony of China disregarding the strong resistance by the Tibetan people. What is more, the Chinese violated every article of this unequal 'treaty' which they had imposed on the Tibetans.
On September 9, 1951 thousands of Chinese troops marched into Lhasa. The forcible occupation of Tibet was marked by systematic destruction of monasteries, suppression of religion, denial of political freedom, widespread arrests and imprisonment and massacre of innocent men, women and children.
On March 10, 1959 the nation-wide Tibetan resistance culminated in the Tibetan National Uprising against the Chinese in Lhasa. The Chinese retaliated with a ruthlessness unknown to the Tibetans. Thousands of men, women and children were massacred in the streets and many more imprisoned and deported. Monks and nuns were a prime target. Monasteries and temples were shelled.
On March 17, 1959 the Dalai Lama left Lhasa and escaped from the pursuing Chinese to seek political asylum in India. He was followed by unprecedented exodus of Tibetans into exile. Never before in their history had so many Tibetans been forced to leave their homeland under such difficult circumstances. There are now more than one hundred thousand Tibetan refugees all over the world.
The following is from the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations:
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
While the Buddhist monks and civilians continue to be imprisoned and killed indiscriminately in Myanmar, the World continues to passively watch and do nothing about unmitigated aggression on fundamentally peaceful people.
So, I say without hesitation nor apology, that it is not JUST Americans that are asleep at the wheel while the war machine called Capitalism continues to trample the dead bodies of the peaceful. If you want to call everyone in America in general lazy, uneducated, bigoted bores, take a look in the mirror before you do. There is enough criticism to go around.
What there is NOT is enough people to stand together in unity against the machine of oppression and slavery of mind and body to make a positive change for the better for the world at large. When will I see true leaders emerge to unite the people of the world? Better yet, when will the people of the world strike down this concept of "us and them"?
We will all pay, indeed are already paying, for the general apathy associated with living in the contemporary model, of allowing the Corporations to dictate the fate of mankind. Their point of view is only short term, the exploitation of humanity and of world resources for monetary gain. It can only end in ruin for us all.
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I'm glad this crap comes via YouTube so I don't have to watch Fox News at all! They really kind of make me sick.
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Forbes Magazine October 15, 2007 edition has an article entitled Anonymity & the Net It started as privacy protection for the abused, the oppressed and the bashful. Now it shields creeps, criminals and malicious mobs. How to fix it?"
It tells of a harrowing experience by Christos Catsouras, and his wife Lesli, when their daughter Nicole died in an automobile accident and investigation photos were leaked by the California Highway Patrol that appeared on the web with unflattering commentary. The story goes on to describe their plight to get the "gruesome" photos removed along with the "jeering" commentary.
Now, Lesli says, "Nobody seemed to think it was a big deal, except for us." And, " I don't believe in anonymity, not in this country. We're too privileged to allow this to happen. Everyone will get hurt by this. Just watch."
We're too privileged?! WE are too privileged?! Don't EVEN speak for me, bitch. You know nothing about me!
The only reason that I can think of that Forbes Magazine is printing this article is that they, too, along with big business and Microsoft, believe that anonymity is a bad thing and should be curbed by (corporate bought) government interventions.
I feel for the Catsouras'. I really do. However, I don't think that effectively GAGGING everyone is the answer. After all, who caused the bad? CHP. Plain and simple. I must agree that there are a lot of mean 'people' (and I use that term loosely in this case) out here on the internet. I read a lot of mean spirited comments on message boards and it often causes me to NOT participate in the discussion. Isn't that the spirit of 'free enterprise'? If I'm not interested in a certain commodity, I refrain from consuming it! And no one has ever protected MY interests from public consumption.
But who the hell are you, or anyone else for that matter, to tell me what information I CAN view or comment on? I refuse to use GOOGLE, the parent company of this blog site, because of their complicity in the Presidential infringement on American Constitutional Rights by releasing user information. (I had begun this blog before Google's acquisition and am therefore stuck with a bastard step-parent.)
The article suggests that identity equals accountability. Well, from where I'm sitting, Big Money equals deniability and identity equals oppression. Do what you will, we will always remain free! Bad article and position, Forbes Magazine.
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"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security."
{Sound familiar so far? This next part is the part I really like!}
"And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."
"They Thought They Were Free" First published in 1955 By Milton Mayer
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G.W.: The program increase will be paid for by raising taxes on the working class. (Paraphrase, near quote).
In actuality it will be paid for by a 61 cent tax increase on cigarettes which industry is dependent predominantly on the working class. In other words, it will be bad for the Tobacco Industry.
Say what you mean, man. Bad for workers hooked on a legal substance, but generally bad for big business as more people will quit using this destructive substance for survival reasons. The folks who use cigarettes will simply be less capable of affording them.
And as sales go down, hurting the profit margins of the elite, where, pray tell will the money come from then?
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"September 26, 2007
Breaking: DOD Team To Investigate Security Contractors
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a Pentagon investigation of security contractors in Iraq, CNN's Jamie McIntyre is reporting. The probe comes after a deadly gunfight involving Blackwater employees raised questions about oversight of foreign contractors in Iraq. Gates was unsatisfied with preliminary U.S. reports on the shooting, McIntyre reports. We'll update with details.
Posted at 1:28 PM Posted to: Bush Administration, Iraq, Middle East, Military, Robert Gates"
And as quickly as the investigation begins, the Stonewalling also begins.
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There was a time when I would have supported the election of Collin Powel for Commander and Chief. Of course, that was before he sold out to the money whores and bowed out in disgrace. I hope everyone notices the fate of Bush Administration officials who defy or even disagree with Dumbia and Darth Vader.
Watch this interview on Real Time...
Everyone made such a fuss about the President of Iran speaking at Columbia University calling him a liar (among other things) and comparing him to Hitler. My problem is that virtually everything that I heard said about him could be said about George Dumbia, yet no one dares say such truths about our peerless leader. Mainstream media certainly won't, or they would lose their corporate subsidies.
I was participating in an online discussion at beliefnet about a year ago where I identified as a Buddhist and I was complaining about current events and one of the participants told me that Buddhists weren't suppose to "worry about stuff like that". I quit participating on beliefnet. But the circumstance has nagged at the back of my mind ever since. Now, I see Buddhist Monks in Myanmar marching in the streets in protest of military rule and in favor of Democracy. So, I guess we do worry about these things. I guess it is like the Christian admonition to be in this world but not of it.
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Today is September 21, 2007, 869 days since congressional request for investigation. (maybe it has begun...). But I doubt it. The Downing Street "Memo"
Published by The Sunday Times on May 1, 2005 this document was the first hard evidence from within the UK or US governments that exposed the truth about how the Iraq war began.
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 , at approximately 10:02 AM, the fascist imperialist George W. Bush said, "The reason there is not instant democracy in Iraq is because the people of Iraq have still not recovered from the brutal rule of Saddam Hussien."
Bull Shit!
They haven't recovered from the fact that their death tolls have increased over 400% since we invaded them! This fact is exposed in a report from CNN reporter Michael Ware.
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I was watching a CNN story about the Predator Drone Unmanned Fighting and Surveillance Vehicle. The drone was survialing the area around an Air Force Base in Iraq when it spotted a lone, un-uniformed man standing outside of his car just off the base perimeter. He had just set up a mortar and was dropping a shell into the tube. It launched. He dropped another into the tube which did not launch. He apparently decided not to attempt to disarm the dud shell and left the tube, got into his car and drove away. The drone then followed him, targeted his car, and blew it, with him in it, to smithereens. He was labeled an insurgent, terrorist.
Now, I have no particular aversion to firing back at anyone shooting at me. And I afford soldiers that same right. But they had no intelligence suggesting WHO this man was. So, why the label? Could he not just as easily be called an Iraqi Patriot? After all, he was not in any uniform nor identifiable as with any particular organization (save for the hardware). And he was shooting at an occupying imperial invasion force.
Which leads me to my next example. What, pray tell, is the difference between using a person or a car to deliver an explosive devise and using a million dollar missile guidance system? Does the actual cost of the missile delivery system define the difference between an evil bomb and a righteous bomb?
And what about "U.S. Security Contractors"? We used to call soldiers for hire, Mercenaries and they usually were hired by the CIA to work black operations. Now, these mercenaries are boldly hired and deployed by the U.S. Government and sanctioned, if not outright ordered by, the White House! They don't even care about deniable plausibility any more.
The current resident ot the White House and all of his minions and cronies are simply bad and evil men. There is little room for debate on the issue. And they are going to drag all of America straight to hell with them. Is your insecurity really so great that you will idly set by and give them free reign to spread fascist capitalism in the name of freedom as you freely allow them to erode and deny you your constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms?
Too late, you already have. And your patriotic civic pride that prevents you from even listening to anything that sounds remotely unpatriotic is your Achilles heel.
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At long last Jack Cafferty of CNN read one of my responses on his segment of the Situation Room, the Cafferty File. The question is regarding a proposed Maryland State initiative which would require potential gun purchasers to sign a release of information for their mental health records in a knee jerk reaction by lawmakers to the VA Tech massacre.
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Jack's question: What kind of restrictions should there be on gun purchases?
My response:
Jack,
I thought the free market premise is that if I have the money to buy something then it is good for everyone! After all, we as a nation have sold weapons to bin Laden, Norieaga, the Suni's, the Shia, Saddam, and a never ending list of criminals.I fail to see the free market rational for prohibiting sales to someone who merely had a bad 'month'.
I am proud that Jack and/or his team thought my comment worthy of reading on the air. I just hope that my sarcasm and criticism for free market ideas was not lost in translation.
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KY's Senior Senator Mitch McConnell said during a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
"Domestic terrorism is not a cause we have to fight or a project we need to fund. We are not interested in capturing bin Laden. Even though he has been offered to us. We are not the world's policemen. It's not our job to clean up other countries messes or arrest it's bad guys."
"You can support the troops but not the president."--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years."--Joe Scarborough (R-FL)
"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"--Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99
"[The] President . . . is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."--Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)"
American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
--Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush
"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."--Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)
"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."-- Governor George W. Bush (R)-TX
Uh, what was that, George?
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Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists
Read it here: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/171006enemypropagandists.htm
And they said freedom of speech was dead...
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