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On October 10-12, 2003, hundreds of activists and organizers from around
the continent will gather at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ for the THIRD NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT!
Psychologist Oliver James analyses the behaviour of the American president.
Tuesday--A WILD, human-like creature ambushed thousands of unwitting citizens. The creature had an indepth message for humanity, and at the same time seemed to keep the sun out!
"The preemptive war against Iraq broke thenorms of the community of states. International law was degraded in its importance.. The preemptive war against Iraq was primarily an attempt of the US to triumph over the sovereignty of the international community. This disempowerment of international law is a unique dangerous mega-political experiment with unforeseeable consequences." Translated from the German
Images of heavily-armed Marines patrolling Iraq may not be winning the US many friends in the Islamic world. So it could be time to enlist the soft and fluffy inhabitants of Sesame Street in the battle against anti-Americanism.
"The gigantic blackout (that will certainly not be the last) was a direct consequence that the US is so exemplary in the special neoliberal disciplines privatization and lower costs.. Neoliberalism isn't a specific US affair but a worldwide consensus of crisis capitalism overarching the parties.. The guideline of profitmaximization for the investor at any cost leads to an abstract cost cutting pressure that is counter-productive."
So long as manufacturing executives seek labor arbitrage opportunities, employing U.S. blue-collar workers will be expensive. (American workers, after all, expect such niceties as pensions and health care.)
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The thing about World Wars is that the orientation of the various nations toward or against one another is a very, very slow process.
Last spring (after the Invasion of Iraq began), officials from Saudi Arabia, China and India separately went to visit Putin in Moscow. Bush's War for Oil has been Lost.......... and so has the soul of America.
"THE WAR IS LOST."
the TRUTH -- In the mainstream media, no less. Op/Ed written by James Carroll, Boston Globe
John Forbes Kerry, maintaining that "George Bush's vision does not live up to the America" the decorated war hero once defended, officially declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday.
There is something curious going on with some of the Dean supporters coming to Portland Indymedia. One has to wonder if all these Dean supporters are merely ordinary people who spontaneously post here, or they an example of a what is called an "Astroturf" operation--an organized political operation designed to create the image of a "grassroots" political movement.
Astroturf or real grassroots? You decide. In this day and image of media manipulation and Psyops- masquerading-as-News, you can never be sure.
www.freevibe.com have you seen those "whats your anti-drug?" commercials?... this is the website, and it is FUCKED... my favorite parts are the "message boards" and the "summit high" sitcom thing... you MUST look through the entire site, it is hilarious but also horribly disheartining...
imagine being barney and having to deal with the energy of this guy! goes to show bush cannot handle anything with grace or integrity...
The Bu$h II junta and its corporate and military cohorts have actually let the cat out of the bag. The fact that they are pushing computerized voting to this extent--making federal money available, meeting in secret to plan a propaganda blitz, involving all the conspirators in the criminal action--this makes it clear that they see computerized voting as the way to steal the 2004 election!
This is from the AP wire via the Oregonian's website.
This article pretty much sets the landscape for what everyone is facing in Iraq.........
It doesn't really matter if Saddam is alive or dead, or if he masterminded this or not...... A nightmare has descended and taken root in the Middle East. Thank you Whistle Ass!
 A legitimate probe of 9/11 ? not like the sham that was just perpetrated that didn't address any of the really major questions ? would have shed light on the corporate powers that control the media and the White House, and maybe ? just maybe ? would have taken that large step to show the deluded American populace that we are neither a democracy nor a republic, that we are a corporate-controlled police state whose leaders are savaging their own citizens simply to make more money for themselves and the rich friends who put them in office in the first place. But in the unbridgeable chasm of doubt, those are questions Americans remain afraid to ask....
To the people of America who are still THINKING........
When are we all going to stop our bitching and head to Washington, D.C. and DEMAND that the corruption, lies, warmongering, abuse of our human and civil rights, stealing, influence peddling through transparent contracts re Iraq, Afgh, the murdering of 10's of 1000s of people, not to mention all of the questions re 9/11 that the Bush Admin refuses to answer be put to a STOP??
See also:
Working class -- a definition  http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/08/270802.shtml
Working class vs. middle class http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/08/270920.shtml
Annual Freeper Rally/Gathering in Fresno Sept. 12th & 13th 2003
Chiron Corporation is one of HLS's most notorious customers, infamous for some of the most horrifying entries in Michelle Rokke's diary. For months Chiron has come under attack with protests, phone and email blockades, direct action, and other nighttime nuisances. This past week the activity was taken up a notch with two explosions outside the Chiron headquarters. (Read all about it at http://www.SHACAmerica.net).
Anarchists and people who don't see a difference between Bush and elected leaders have an option: form an organization, choose a spokesperson
(at random, if you wish) and run a campaign, using the same money and energy you use to organize protests.
This article is in conjunction with my previous posting on John Kerry's lies. It seems that Doctor Dean is also inviting more scutiny for his own (ahem) political flip-flopping and less than honest Politricks. Again, everything that is said about Dean and Kerry are EVEN MORE TRUE for all the other leading Presidential Conmen including: Gephardt, Lieberman, Edwards, and Baby Bush himself.
Politicians, ya gotta hate 'em.
John Kerry's lies about Iraqi WMD threaten his presidential hopes. But course, you could say that about almost every single presidential candidate, Democrat and Republican. This is true for Bush, Lieberman, Gephardt, Edwards, Kerry, etc.... Newsflash: Politicians are natural born liars... and the Earth is round not flat.
Dean may or may not be right in arguing that we should stay in Iraq, but it doesn't mean he is hypocritical and it definitely does not make him worse than Bush! Your arguments against Dean resemble those of the warmongering patriots.
Sensing the impending end of their white privilege, Right-Wing ideologues have been using racist imagery created by the John Birch Society and others. Patrick J. Buchanan wrote that MECA is "a Chicano version of the white-supremacist Aryan Nation... and is unabashedly racist and anti-American"
The top 0.25 percent owns more wealth than the other 99¾ percent combined . . . the Census Bureau revealed that for years they never interviewed anyone who had an income higher than $300,000. Or if interviewed, they were never recorded as above the "reportable upper limit" of $300,000 allowed by the bureau's computer program. In 1994, the bureau lifted the upper limit to $1 million--still excluding the very richest who own the lion's share of the wealth, the hundreds of billionaires and thousands of multimillionaires who make many times more than $1 million a year. The super rich simply have been computerized out of the picture.
DARPA Bioengineering Program Seeks to Turn Soldiers Into Cyborgs .
10,000 mink released from Sultan farm cages
By Christopher Schwarzen and Jennifer Sullivan Times Snohomish County bureau STEVE RINGMAN / THE SEATTLE TIMES A mink peeks from under a stump near a farm in Sultan, Snohomish County. Farm-bred mink don't do well in the wild, an industry spokeswoman said. E-mail this article Print this article Search web archive Owners of a rural mink farm in Sultan Washington snonomish country spent a long day yesterday trying to round up more than 10,000 mink set free during a suspected ecoterrorism attack. Even as night fell, mink could be seen scampering through the area.
Troops get death and pay cuts while Bush gobbles barbecue, rakes in dough.
The men who go to war and live are spared for the single purpose of spreading bad news when they return, the bad news about the way war is fought and why, and by whom for whom, and the more men who survive the war, the higher the number of men who might speak." --Anthony Swofford, U.S. Marine sniper, from his book Jarhead.
He was going to be the education president, and during the campaign in 2000 he hugged kids from coast to coast, crowing about the education miracle in Texas and promising to spread the Texas model nationwide.
He said he was a different kind of Republican, a man of honor and compassion who would look out for the kids. It was all smoke, of course — photo-ops in a cynical campaign. You knew it was smoke when the "compassionate" George W. Bush put Dick Cheney on the ticket, a former congressman who had voted against funding for Head Start, against subsidizing school lunches and against federal aid for college students. In other words, against kids.
Uh oh.
Creepy "FReepers" Target Activists
The bulk of Jacob Sullum's book is devoted to logically demonstrating that most drugs aren't as bad as most people believe. Sullum never denies that some people do indeed get into problems with illegal drugs, but he marshals plenty of evidence to prove that even with the "hard drugs" like crack and heroin problem users are a small minority of users; the exception rather than the rule.
Important - Women's Health Issue Whether you're Right or Left on the issue of women's reproductive rights, please consider the following...
A debate on anarchism and marxism
To describe David's scrotum as swollen and red would be a failure
of language. It was about the size of a rugby ball, so raw and irritated, shiny and crimson, that it almost seemed to be covered with blood. David hung his head. "They give me aspirin," he said.
While many discuss abstract concerns and far away places, millions are subject to barbaric and inhumane treatment in the so called mental health system. Read about true grass roots activism in the face of corporate mind control.
For at least half their waking hours, the American people live in a dictatorship. At home or in public places, Americans enjoy a measure of freedom and liberty envied by most people around the world: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of association (true, John Ashcroft is trying to change all that but that's another story). But, the moment Americans walk through the doors of their workplace, they enter into a world that strips away all their basic rights. Within the walls of the workplace, the whim of the corporation is more powerful than the U.S. Constitution.
At $800 each, stun belts are the closest thing to a fashion craze in the correctional field. For the well-appointed prosecutor or prison guard, they're a must. The devices are battery-operated and fit around the waist of a prisoner. The guard holds a simple remote control that sends an eight-second, 50,000- to 70,000-volt surge through a prisoner, causing immediate loss of muscular control and incapacitation.
This conference report was published in: Monthly Review Newsletter, Summer 2003.
"The neoconservative hawks in the Bush administration should be seen as frustrated outsiders involved in a desperate gamble to shore up declining U.S. power by throwing to the winds the legitimacy earned through U.S. diplomacy..Workers are drawn into the nationalist project of `exporting unemployment' rather than building internationalism."
I am so tired of Bush. How come so many people follow whatever bozo Bush tells them to do?
Over the past 30 years the productivity of the people whose brain and muscle creates the wealth of the world's richest nation has grown by 66 percent. But the wage of the typical employee - the median wage - has grown by only 7 percent.
What these numbers mean is that while American labor has continued producing more goods and services, the vast majority of employees have barely shared at all in the fruits of their increasing productivity. Compare these past 30 years with the first half of the post World War II era (1946-1973), when the typical wage grew by nearly 80 percent, or about in line with productivity growth.
Saw this posted by William Rivers Pitt on another site. This is the speech he gave to 10,000 people in Seattle last week at the peace rally.
It puts a lot in perspective and is suitable material for sleeping Americans
The RIAA's mass subpoena technique, which has not let up since it began, is simply a legalized corporate campaign of terror.
King's son lamented the deliberate twisting of his father's famous speech -- renews nationwide effort to address inequality including a suspicious hanging in Florida
Two guys from Ashland, a truck and a 440-year-old tree stump set off across the country Aug. 28 on a roadtour to show Americans the growing threats against their National Forests. The tour has been dubbed the "Healthy Forests Reality Tour."
Walden O'Dell--chief executive of Diebold Inc. and active in the re-election effort of President Bush--sent an Aug. 14 letter to central Ohio Republicans asking them to raise $10,000 in donations in time for a Sept. 26 Ohio Republican Party event at his home, saying that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
O'Dell attended a strategy pow-wow with wealthy Bush benefactors - known as Rangers and Pioneers - at the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch earlier this month. The next week, he penned invitations to a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser to benefit the Ohio Republican Party's federal campaign fund - partially benefiting Bush - at his mansion in the Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington.
A scoop on corpornographer telco New Access Communications that bilked Oregon residents.
Yes, the dittoheads are out in force with this whopper: It's ok that soldiers are being killed in Iraq because they're less likely to be killed than people in California (note that they chose California). The reality, of course, is that soldiers are 46 times as likely to be killed in Iraq than people in California. And, one would think that any soldiers dying without cause would be a bad thing, regardless of the rate of death.
Being a "family conservative" means looking after certain families, particularly if their annual incomes are higher than $200,000 and their estates are valued at more than $2 million.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is using call centres in Gurgaon and Noida in India to raise funds for itself and for its chieftain, George W. Bush.
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The tests found that, typical for construction steel used in the 1960s when the World Trade Center was erected, the steel beams exceeded requirements to bear 36,000 pounds per square inch. Often they were capable of bearing around 42,000 pounds per square inch.
These findings would rule out weak steel as a contributing factor in the towers' collapse.
"The real tragedy is that our founders did not intend a separation of church and state, and never envisioned a rigidly secular public life for America." -- Texas Rep. Ron Paul (Republican-Libertarian)
Why liberals are supporting Howard Dean
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