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It takes courage to say "no." Here are a few soldiers who have risked everything to stand up and refuse to fight in an illegal war. We need to find ways to support them.
Reposted from: ![]() Large numbers are now refusing to serve: The Department of Defense estimates that there are about 8,000 AWOL service members. The GI Rights Hotline (800-394-9544) is currently receiving about 3,000 calls a month.
Life in a theocracy
One of our weaknesses as an empire is that we are able to force our culture on others; the weakness is that we do not have any input from them.
![]() We are making good use of the powerful concept of en masse activist resistance used in the movie, "V for Vendetta." "V" is helping us as we build support for the unalienable Right to a Response from Government to our Petitions for Redress of Grievances regarding the Government's violation of the war powers, tax, privacy and money clauses of the Constitution.
Barack Obama is a windblown politician. The junior Illinois senator avoids anchoring himself to any principle, lest his political sails fail to catch the slightest breeze blowing from the left or the right. His political direction is always tentative, although his ultimate destination is never in doubt: he will be a formidable national presence--maybe even president.
During an appearance in late October on Ireland's Pat Kenny radio show, a popular national program broadcast daily on Ireland's RTE Radio, we were asked as the opening question if Israel could be compared to Nazi Germany. Not across the board, we said, but there are certainly some aspects of Israel's policy toward the Palestinians that bear a clear resemblance to the Nazis' oppression. Do you mean the wall, Kenny prompted, and we agreed, describing the ghettoization and other effects of this monstrosity. Before we could elaborate on other Nazi-like features of Israel's policies, Kenny moved on to another question. Within minutes, while we were still on the air, a producer handed Kenny a note, which we later learned was a request from the newly arrived Israeli ambassador to Ireland to appear on the show, by himself. Several days later, on the air by himself, the ambassador pronounced us and our comparisons of Israeli and Nazi policies "outrageous."
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Friday, December 8th at Biddy McGraws, starting at 9pm.
We've got a stellar lineup of Portland area musicians to sing and play John Prine songs all night long!
The region of 23 de Enero lies on the southern hillsides in Western Caracas. Since the fall of the decade-long Marcos Perez Jimenez dictatorship in 1958, it has been an area of high community organization, when, on that day—January 23—thousands of poor Caraquenos (as Caracas residents are known) came down from the hillsides and occupied the vacant and newly built apartment blocks. It remained a place of revolt and of police repression. A region, according to one community member, that was "blamed for anything that happened."
The gasoline laws in Oregon are antiquated and only create low paying jobs. I've done some research on the statutes and have spoken to the Fire Marshall about them and how they are enforced.
The thrust of today's talks in Jordan between George Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is clear in advance. Bush, accompanied by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, will insist that the Iraqi leader bow down to US demands for a bloody crackdown against the largest faction in his own government, the anti-occupation Sadrist movement headed by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and its Mahdi Army militia. An unnamed senior US official bluntly told the New York Times: "It's decision time and everybody knows it."
Hugo Chavez holds an insurmountable lead in two late November polls - one by Ipsos Venezuela/the AP-Ipsos Poll and the other by Zogby International-University of Miami. Both were released on November 24 and are the most current and reliable data available and are consistent with most independent poll results for months. This is in stark contrast to several fraudulent US National Endowment of Democracy (NED)-financed oligarch-run ones published to create a false perception of public sentiment in preparation for cries of fraud once the election results are in.
If you're wondering where Rep. Earl Blumenauer stands on impeachment/ouster of B&C—and why—and write him, you may receive the same response as several of us did. Despite his 74% of the vote Nov. 7, he seems to have forgotten his oath to preserve, defend, and protect the Constitution as his primary obligation for representing those of us who sent him back to Congress for two more years.
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Does your belief in Christ liberate you from the guilt of sin?
Are you able to justify sin in some circumstances? We all have sin. Is it our purpose to battle with sin or to accept it as part of being a human being. Of Monkeys and dragons. Of Giraffes and jackals. Possession by spirits of animals, demons, angels How does imagery, provocation, stress, and belief systems shape our civilization? How was the Earth born? You say an act of God, I say it was an Earth manifestation, a causation from divine Mothering Spirit. She is my God. She has given birth to many children and beings that have walked this Earth, all carrying the same lifeforce for procreating and enjoying oneself. But when does the enjoyment of oneself become detrimental to others?
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Clackamas County Commissioner Larry Sowa concedes.
Comedy writers and lovers of the absurd all across America have a bounce in their step today, buoyed by news that President Bush is looking to raise half-a-billion dollars to build his legacy-burnishing presidential library.
The idea of Uncurious George building a $500 million shrine to his disastrous presidency is the political equivalent of a whoopee cushion; a veritable laff riot. The punchlines write themselves...
In order to minimize reliance on the debt-riddled US Dollar, local communities...
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Greg Schumacher announced on Lars Larson's Radio Show today that he will be folding up his fur shop in about a few months.
Dear Friends:
As most of you know, next week will mark the one year "anniversary" of the federal government's "Operation Backfire," the largest federal round up of environmental and animal rights activists who are charged with acts of property damage or sabotage motivated by concerns for the environment and animal suffering. Please see our website, www.cldc.org for more information. There will be "days of remembrance" across the country on or around December 7th commemorating the date when the first round of individuals were jailed.
Denounce the Mexican government for detaining political prisoners in Oaxaca.
Summary of the KBOO am news for Tuesday, November 28th, 2006.
A recent study highlighting the rapid expansion of organised criminal activity in those areas where NATO and the U.S. have engaged in aggressive military intervention offers further evidence of the lasting negative social consequences of foreign occupation by neo-colonial powers. As corporate driven America attempts to assert its dominance over weaker nations, organised crime, quick to exploit traumatised societies, becomes the principal beneficiary in the 'war against terror' and the spread of 'democracy, liberty' and free market capitalism - what is good for capitalist America is even better for a crime boss!
Some common sense advice
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The neoliberal residual state is more a criminal- than a welfare state.. The welfare state that actualy has consti-tutional rank in Germany is now without intrinsic value for neoliberals and subject to the location logic of economic and power interests.
I caught this claim on the net and decided to calculate it for myself to determine if it was true. And yes the US has passed the date at which the US military has occupied Iraq as long as it was at war in WW2. If only people had known ahead of time that would have been a great talking point for buy nothing day actions.
Here we go again,... get the latest Kellogg, Brown, & Root dirt filtered free of charge courtesy of the Council on Foreign Relations, Reuters, AP, UPI and all the other glorious bastions of our most prescious resource; INFORMATION
Poisoned ex KGB agent writes tell-all book about state sposored terrorism and he pays the ultimate price for whistle blowing.
Jeff Hogg is now confirmed to speak at the Portland Green Scare event on Dec 9th.
Political Prisoner's love Mail, Who Doesn't
Every "news" broadcast in every city in the nation has been running non-stop feature stories today about something dubbed "Cyber Monday." Newspapers, radio broadcasts, and even podcasts are talking it up. Cyber Monday, Cyber Monday, Cyber Monday, Buy Buy Buy Buy.
Where did this come from? Did anyone ever hear of "cyber monday" before today? Why is it breaking over everyone's lips so suddenly...as if by plan? Perhaps because it was a plan.
The Pacific Green Party has long been an advocate and supporter of Instant Runoff Voting as one approach to breaking the two, corporate party stranglehold that exists in the US. Good to hear we are winning some of these campaigns.
Update- we've heard from Josh! Josh is currently working through his 2nd week of a 3-year federal prison sentence for "free" speech.
Christmas Peace
Boulder Boondoggles by NWS staff on Climate Variability and Hydrology - National Weather Service (NWS) staff receive training in Boulder, Colorado on "Climate Variability" but not on climate change or global warming.
On November 24, 2003, lifelong Portlander Patrice Lumumba Ford became one of George Bush's first victims in the War on Civil Liberties. Ford was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on charges of "sedition" for trying unsuccessfully to go from China, where Ford had been a university student, to Afghanistan, before the US invasion of Afghanistan.
For those that were aware that at least Jonathan Paul has been subject to a ridiculous list of "no contact" people, that list has now been officially removed by the court.
"Human Recourses (Ree-Kor-Sez) is real and straight talk about work, jobs, wage slavery, unions, the guvmint, employers, and other topics related to the real world of employment. As an antidote to the company line, and the synchopants that seem to tow it in governments and union bureaucracies, we will attempt in earnest to simply call bullshit; and provide some insight on what to do about it..."
In the past 10 years, California doctors have authorized cannabis use by at least 350,000 patients. What have they learned about its adverse effects?
According to a survey of 19 doctors associated with the Society of Cannabis Clinicians, side-effects are relatively rare, mild, and transient. There have been no deaths, no major adverse events attributed to cannabis -with one exception involving a claim by an establishment psychiatrist that cannabis induced and exacerbated psychosis in an 18-year old whom she had on a regimen of Lexapro and Zyprexa. Comments by the SCC doctors follow.
Portland, OR - The fourth reading in the "Diet Soap Reading Series" will occur at the Red Black Café on Monday, November 27th at 8 pm. The theme for this performance will be "Good Cops and Bad Cops"
![]() 'TIME CERTAIN: 2:00 PM - Urge cessation of combat operations in Iraq and the return of U.S. troops (Resolution introduced by Commissioner Leonard'
A Happy Valley EV enthusiast is selling electric motor conversion kits. Add the tungsten battery and you've got your own electric car....
The true heroes of our history are those Americans who refused to accept that we have a special claim to morality and the right to exert our force on the rest of the world.
Summary of the KBOO am news for Monday, November 27th, 2006
link to 3 videos
...Head Federal Family Planning Office~Interview with Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
on Monday, the 27th, at 7pm at Liberty Hall -- 311 NE Ivy Street
The popular movement of Oaxaca has faced severe repression over the weekend and has put out a call for solidarity actions. Activists in Oregon are responding by organizing a rally at the Mexican Consulate at Noon on Monday, November 27.
I believe that KBOO morning talk show hosts have been in their time slots for too long and that we need more change in one of the more visible and vital community communication resources we have.
![]() Confrontation Continues Between the Police and the APPO in Different Parts of the City
"Information is power and whoever controls the information has the power." This simple axiom applies today more than ever in America - with an addition to it. Whoever controls information access has the power to control the direction of our country, especially since the media are the most pervasive and omnipresent purveyors of information in the U.S. // © 2006, Sasha A. Rae, All Rights Reserved
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This could be a very good trend. If California starts moving in this direction, generally other states tend to follow.
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