There is substantial evidence that the fear of domestic disruption
has inhibited murderous plans. One documented case concerns Vietnam. The Joint Chiefs of Staff recognized the need that ’sufficient
forces would still be available for civil disorder control.’
if they sent troops to Vietnam after the Tet Offensive, and Pentagon
officials feared that escalation might lead to massive civil disobedience, in view of the large-scale popular opposition to
the war, running the risk of ‘provoking a domestic crisis of unprecented proportions.’
A review of the internal documents released in the Pentagon Papers
shows that considerations of cost were the sole factor inhibiting planners, a fact that should be noted by citizens concerned
to restrain the violence of the state.
In such cases as these, and many others, popular demonstrations and
civil disobedience may, under appropriate circumstances, encourage others to undertake a broader range of conventional action
by extending the range of the thinkable, and where there is real popular understanding of the legitimacy of direct action
to confront institutional violence, may serve as a catalyst to constructive organization and action that will pave the way
to more fundamental change.
About 75-100 anarchists and supporters marched from
the waterfront through downtown Portland.This was a protest march against the rise in Police killing and abuse in Portland
Oregon.
The horse police interact(?) with kids on the sidewalk and FAIL
to leave their business cards with a concerned citizen who had just asked for them their cards(?) The (a) Federal Marshals
from the courthouse come from inside to take a picture of me filming the horse police can be seen in the begining of the video.
Then A Transit Police stops in the middle of the road. Then A Private Policeman walks by and stands on there steps with the
other 2 Marshals. As the horse cops leave with out handing their business cards. Then, the Private Rent a Cop stares at me
like he is a Texas Ranger with his shades on from the top step of the courthouse. So I start filming him for about 5 minutes
solid. He gives me the "Texas stare down" after 5 minutes and some wordy exchanges he quits the stare down contest, and goes
inside the courthouse.
(Fact) The one horse cop in this video who is named "Reister
is the "same officer" who took my video camera in 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHMnFD... ... since then I have taken the city to court and have cleared the air
on citizens filming the police with out being hassled. (That Officer Reister was so confused about in 2008 is now corrected
and clear)
If
you come to Venezuela with glistening eyes, expecting to see the revolution of a romantic and passionate novel, don’t
be disappointed when the complexities of reality burst your bubble. While revolution does withhold a sense of romanticism,
it’s also full of human error and the grit of everyday life in a society – a nation – undertaking the difficult
and tumultuous process of total transformation.
Nothing is perfect here, in the country sitting on the world’s
largest oil reserves. But everything is fascinating and intriguing, and the changes from past to present become more visible
and tangible every day.
(end quote)
Iraq The Narcicyst http://www.mtviggy.com/video/music-video-the-narcicyst-phatwa Fame may change many, but Iraqi hip hop artist and Dubai native The Narcicyst,
aka Yassin Alsalman, stays true to his beliefs. He raps about racial profiling, giving a candid but all-too-real example in
his video for "Phatwa" (from his self-titled album) which films an airport
interrogation of Yassin himself. As he tries in vain to explain himself to a government agent whose irrational logic has turned
him against the rapper, Yassin sends the clear message that this type of stereotyping is unwarranted and he won't stand for
it.
In a live demonstration of globe-straddling communication technologies like Skype, this forum connects to citizen journalists
and activists around the world, some of whom frequently test the limits of governmental authority. Moderator Ethan Zuckerman
wonders if these new digital forms are fundamentally liberating, providing users access to public spaces they might otherwise
be denied. He pursues this line of inquiry in a series of internet conversations with correspondents covering some of the
world’s most ravaged or oppressed regions
This was filmed on The Washington Monument
Lawn at "Camp Out Now" on the evening around 3.20.10 Camp Out Now ... was part of
the "Peace of the Action" protest and gathering in DC.
A recount of the Gaza March
and testimony about the international human rights caravan that was determined to get into Gaza in Dec 2009.
Two former CIA officials have admitted to creating a fake video in which intelligence
officers dressed up as Osama Bin Laden and his cronies in an effort to defame the terrorist leader throughout the middle east.
The details are outlined in a Washington Post article by investigative reporter and former Army Intelligence case officer Jeff Stein.
Stein’s sources told him that during planning for the 2003 invasion
of Iraq, the CIA’s Iraq Operations Group considered creating a fake video of Saddam Hussein engaged in sexual acts with
a teenage boy, then flooding Iraq with copies of the tape.
That idea, along with faking Iraqi news bulletins, never came to fruition
according to the former CIA officials, because agreement on the projects could not be reached between the Iraq Group and CIA’s
Office of Technical Services.
However, the two sources reveal that the agency did previously concoct
at least one fake Bin Laden video:
The agency actually did make a video purporting to show Osama bin Laden
and his cronies sitting around a campfire swigging bottles of liquor and savoring their conquests with boys, one of the former
CIA officers recalled, chuckling at the memory. The actors were drawn from “some of us darker-skinned employees,”
he said.
The former officials told Stein that the project was taken over by the
military after it ground to a halt:
The reality, the former officials said, was that the agency really didn’t
have enough money and expertise to carry out the projects.
“The military took them over,” said one. “They had assets
in psy-war down at Ft. Bragg,” at the army’s special warfare center.
This latest revelation bolsters evidence that the intelligence agencies,
and perhaps more significantly, the military have been engaged in creating fake Bin Laden videos in the past.
As we have exhaustively documented, Intelcenter, the U.S. monitoring group that routinely releases Bin Laden video and audio, much of which have been
proven to be either rehashed old footage or outright fakes, is an offshoot of IDEFENSE, a web security company that monitors intelligence from the middle east.
IDEFENSE is heavily populated by long serving ex military intelligence
officials, such as senior military psy-op intelligence officer Jim Melnick, who served 16 years in the US army and the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) in psychological operations. Melnick has also worked directly for former Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld.
Intelcenter notoriously released the “laughing hijackers” tape and claimed it was an Al-Qaeda video, despite the fact that the footage was obtained by a “security agency”
at a 2000 Bin Laden speech.
IntelCenter was also caught adding its logo to a tape at the same time as Al-Qaeda’s so-called media arm As-Sahab
added its logo, proving the two organizations were one and the same.
Could the CIA group of “dark skinned actors” have been behind
the infamous December 2001 “Fat nosed” Bin Laden video, that was magically found in a house in Jalalabad after anti-Taliban forces moved in?
The tape featured a fat Osama laughing and joking about how he’d
carried out 9/11. The video was also mistranslated in order to manipulate viewer opinion and featured “Bin Laden” praising two of the hijackers, only he
got their names wrong. This Osama also used the wrong hand to write with and wore gold rings, a practice totally in opposition
to the Muslim faith.
Despite the fact that the man in the video looks nothing like Bin Laden,
the CIA stood by it and declared it to be the official “9/11 confession video”.
The latest revelations also shed light on another past Bin Laden release – a tape in which he ludicrously
declared himself in league with Saddam Hussein in the weeks before the invasion of Iraq.
The notion that the CIA project was taken over and drastically improved
by the Pentagon at some point after 2003 jives with the improvement in quality of Bin Laden videos in later years. Most notably
the video that was released immediately ahead of the 2004 election, and it’s digitally manipulated duplicate from 2007, in which Bin Laden appeared to have a dyed beard.
For a run down of some of the most notoriously dubious Bin Laden videos
see the following article.
The spate of suicides at Foxconn's plant
in Shenzhen has provided an alarming education and raises a perfectly timed red flag over the US-China currency debate. China
has been forced to acknowledge that the real story behind its growth figures is, in many cases, a degrading one.
There are three important practical lessons
to be drawn from the deaths. The first is places like Foxconn must, sadly, exist if we want cheap electronics.
The punishing hours, the 350,000 employees
squeezed into one vast complex, the pseudo-military discipline, the mind-numbing silence of the shop floor, these are all
things that we can deplore, but which belong on the conscience of anyone who has ever made a call from a mobile phone, sent
an e-mail or snapped a friend on a digital camera. Which is to say, all of us.
The glitzy myth of electronics has also
been punctured: Foxconn exists because electronics manufacturing is no longer the work of artisan specialists. This company
has done to technology what McDonald's did to lunch.
The second lesson is that Foxconn represents
the China that Beijing would prefer the country not to be. From the outside, the country looks export-led - one of the main
reasons that China's failure to allow its currency to rise against the dollar has drawn so much condemnation in Washington.
The reality is rather different, and Foxconn usefully demonstrates why.
Take the 30-gigabyte iPod, one of the
many Apple devices that depend on Foxconn. When it first went on sale in the US, it sold in the stores for $US299. It left
the factory in China with a value of $150, but only $7.50 of that value was actually created in China. The remainder belonged
to the other Asian countries (Japan, Taiwan) where the components were made.
According to analysis by CLSA Securities,
globally, workers received $1.06 billion in earnings from iPod-related jobs, or about $25 per iPod sold. Chinese workers received
only about 2 per cent of the global pay cheque, or 55c per unit sold. As it looks to its future, China desperately wants to
be Apple, not Foxconn.
But the third and most critical lesson
of Foxconn is that significant parts of the US rhetoric on China's currency policy are misguided. The Obama administration
is under relentless domestic pressure to "do something" about the undervalued Chinese currency, the yuan, and to prod China
into letting it rise. Attention has turned to the timing of Washington's decision to officially label China a "currency manipulator",
a meaningless slur given that 50 countries around the world peg their currencies to the US dollar.
Beijing, knowing that its economy is
primarily driven by domestic investment, is probably keen for the yuan to appreciate but will not allow itself to appear bullied
into doing so. But Foxconn kicks away one of the main struts of those angrily demanding that Beijing allow the yuan to rise:
many of those manufacturing jobs that China is supposedly stealing from the US are not jobs that Americans could countenance
doing themselves.
An attempt to run a plant like Foxconn
in the US would be disastrous and that is why the jobs were outsourced there in the first place. Even if the yuan rose by
40 per cent against the dollar, it is hard to imagine mass-market electronics assembly jobs moving back to the US.
The currency scuffle between Washington
and Beijing is in a lull, but could flare-up again at any moment: When it does, America must look at Foxconn for a sense of
how the trade world really works.
GreenpeaceGreenpeace activists painted and posted anti-drilling
messages in big letters on the bridge of a ship that is scheduled to depart for Alaska to support drilling operations in July.
Charges have been filed against seven members of Greenpeace who boarded an offshore drilling support ship in a Louisiana
port and painted anti-drilling slogans in crude oil on the vessel’s side on Monday afternoon.
The ship is docked in Port Fourchon, La., an area affected by the BP oil spill in the gulf, and is to sail to the Arctic
this summer to support Royal Dutch Shell’s company’s exploratory drilling plans there, Greenpeace said. Activists
rappelled down the side and painted the phrase “Arctic Next?” on the vessel. They also lowered a sign saying “Salazar:
Ban Arctic Drilling” before being seized by the port police.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was visiting the area at the time and was the intended recipient of the message, a Greenpeace
spokeswoman said.
Amid the furor over BP’s so-far unsuccessful effort to stanch the well blowout in the gulf, plans continue for Shell
to drill offshore in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas. The company has been granted several permits and could begin drilling as early as this
summer.
The activists were charged with unauthorized entry of “critical infrastructure” and of an inhabited dwelling,
according to the Lafourche Parish sheriff’s department. Both counts carry a maximum penalty of six years in prison.
The activists were released on bail early Tuesday morning.
A Greenpeace representative argued that the charges were disproportionate. “It is outrageous that prosecutors would
confront peaceful protesters with such a heavy hand while not a single BP executive has been charged for the devastation they
have wrought on the Gulf of Mexico and the people and animals that depend on it,” Phil Radford, the group’s executive
director, said in a statement.
In an e-mail message to a Dow Jones reporter late Monday, Shell confirmed that its ship had been targeted and said it was “disappointed”
by the tactics used by Greenpeace.
A spokeswoman for the Lafourche Parish sheriff’s Office, Sgt. Lesley Hill Peters, suggested that the protesters could
also face terrorism-related charges. The New Orleans Joint Terrorism Task Force “is looking into the matter,”
she said.
"Civilian casualties is not only a political problem ... I don't want civilian
casualties, I take no pleasure in reading a report where there is a civilian casualty. That's not
why I am president, that's not why I am commander in chief." (5/13/10 Full Article link is
here)
~Barack Obama, the US president, said on Wednesday after meeting
Karzai.
Music: Hawks & Doves - Neil Young 1980
Ain't getting old, ain't getting younger
though Just getting used to the lay of the land I ain't tongue-tied, just don't got nothin' to say I'm proud to be
livin' in the u.s.a.
Ready to go, willin' to stay and pay U.s.a., u.s.a. So my sweet love can dance another free
day U.s.a., u.s.a.
In history we painted pictures grim The devil knows we might feel that way again The big
wind blows, so the tall grass bends But for you don't push too hard my friend.
Ready to go, willin' to stay and
pay U.s.a., u.s.a. So my sweet wife can dance another free day U.s.a., u.s.a.
Got people here down on their
knees and prayin' Hawks and doves are circlin' in the rain Got rock and roll, got country music playin' If you hate
us, you just don't know what you're sayin'.
Ready to go, willin' to stay and pay U.s.a., u.s.a. So my sweet love
can dance another free day U.s.a., u.s.a.
Ah,
it's a classic scenario: Citizen videotapes cop, cop gets mad and arrests citizen. But in this case, videographer Robert Carnevale's 22 hour tour
through the Tombs earned him $20,001 in taxpayer money after a settlement with NYC. It all happened one night in May 2007,
when officers from the 9th precinct confiscated a number of bikes locked to parking meters and signposts on 6th Street
near First Avenue. As you may recall, the NYPD maintained that the bikes were abandoned, and they allowed some people to take the loose bikes without showing
any proof of ownership.
According
to Time's Up, police seized about 15 bikes, even ones locked to D.O.T. bike racks. Carnevale arrived in time to recover his bike, and
he started videotaping the scene, asking officers for their badge numbers. Some cops don't like that (a few even went so far
as to conceal their badges on another controversial night in EastVillage
history). Plainclothes officer Lt. Robert Corcoran took a special interest in Carnevale, and anyone who's ever had a run-in
with a bullying, power-drunk cop will recognize the scene that unfolds at the 1:10 minute mark:
Carnevale
got sent through "the system," emerging 22 hours later, which is standard. A bystander, Carole Dale, 59, was also after she started questioning Carnevale's arrest. Both were charged with disorderly conduct for refusing
a lawful order to disperse and blocking the sidewalk, and accepted an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACD). Then they sued the city.
According
to the suit, "Neither plaintiff interfered in any way with the police operation under Defendant Lieutenant Corcoran’s
supervision; both simply observed and questioned the officers." "These were First Amendment
retaliatory arrests,"their lawyer told City Room after the settlement was announced Wednesday. "They had every right to object."
NYPD spokesman Paul J. Browne, reached for comment in Upside DownLand, counters, "It was not retaliation.
Period." After legal fees and expenses, the total payout from taxpayers was expected to be about $72,000, all because Officer
Dim didn't like anybodyhttp://gothamist.com/2010/04/01/video_man_taping_cops_bike_removal.php
At 5:30 in the is video you will see me (in the red
hat) encouraging the police to support peace and the constitution.
Filmed out side the Empires Big House in Washington DC - 3.20.10
is the boldest and bravest action ever envisioned by and
for peace. POTA's stated objective is to: "Clog Washington, DC every week day through diffuse Civil Resistance (CR) actions
to have the affect of tampering with 'business as usual' in the Capital of the United States of America."
I read Cindy Sheehan's letter to President Obama
that she posted on February 28 2010 regarding the Camp Out Now in front of the White House which is starting on 3.15.10. This
is a spot on demand from the peace community and "peace of the Action" protest, to stop the wars and human rights violations
by the USA ... now. This is a 5 mins long podcast posted on 3.7.10 ....
A contingent of Peace Groups and Activists will be setting up a Peace Camp across the street
from your house on the lawn of the Washington Monument called, Camp OUT NOW.
After over one year of your presidency,
it's become crystal clear to even many of those who supported you, that your foreign policy is as much of a disaster as was
George Bush's.
On Sunday, 33 civilians were killed in a bombing raid on a caravan in Afghanistan, and no matter how
many times you or your generals say, "Sorry," innocent civilians will always be killed in these insane wars of profit and
occupation. Since, by your regime's own admission, civilian slaughter "can't be avoided," these wars must come to an immediate
end.
It's also quite tragic that your war in Afghanistan has victimized more of our troops than when Bush was president,
and more of our returning vets are committing suicide with most of their needs still going unmet.
For all intents and
purposes, Mr. Obama, you have had a blank-check from the U.S. anti-war movement since you were elected. Certainly being awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize gave these wars some international legitimacy, but those days of your free pass to carry out and magnify
the Bush regime's crimes against humanity are over.
Even though there have been those of us in the anti-war movement
who never dropped the ball, or passed it to the Democratic Party, many of the ones who supported you are also starting to
awaken to the harsh reality that you are only keeping your campaign promises and they don't like that.
Mr. Obama, your
anti-war base is an awakening giant that you will have to deal with in this election year. People are fleeing your party with
the same regularity that they fled the other party when Bush was president. This waking giant is also realizing that with
a Democratic majority everywhere, your failure in proceeding with a progressive agenda is abysmal.
Every time you are
"contemplating" sending more troops to Afghanistan, you have countless meetings with what you have called your "War Council."
The very name implies a foregone conclusion that you will send more troops and that other, more rational, more humane, and
more peaceful solutions are never even considered.
In 2005, I asked for a meeting with President Bush that was never
granted, and as you know, Camp Casey in Crawford became the spark that lit a prairie fire of anti-war sentiment that swept
you and your cohorts in the Democratic Party back into power and now we are coming to collect the spoils of that victory--which
is not more war--but more Peace. You Democrats owe much to your anti-war base--and we will not be quiet nor be ignored as
we were in the previous administration. It's time for you to pay the Peace-piper, Mr. Obama.
Our demands are profound,
yet simple for you to perform: troops out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (where three soldiers were just killed); no more
drone bombings anywhere; close the permanent bases and torture prisons; and bring the mercenary soldiers home, too. We will
not be closing up Camp, or the movement, until positive progress in the direction of Peace is noted.
The first week
of Camp (March 13-20), we are asking for a meeting with you to discuss setting up a Peace Council that you will regularly
meet with that will have a seat at the table when decisions that will kill, maim, displace, or harm our troops or civilians
in any way are being discussed. We also demand that this Peace Council be comprised of grassroots members of the Peace Movement
and not rubber-stamp status quo worshippers, or other "Peace" Prize laureates like Henry Kissinger, who already, reportedly,
has your ear.
If you do not meet with representatives from Camp OUT NOW, we will be a thorn in the side of the War
Machine, and we will not go away without a struggle. If you do meet with us and agree to a Peace Council, we will pack up
our tents, but we will still be a thorn in the side of the War Machine until Peace is finally achieved--the only difference
is that we won't be camped across the street from your home.
During your campaign, you often quoted Roosevelt as saying
that if the voters wanted him to do the right thing, they would have to "make him." Well, Mr. Obama, we are the bosses of
you--not your corporate masters--and we will be in DC to "make you" do the right thing.
I can be reached at anytime
through my email:
Cindy@PeaceoftheAction.org
In struggle until there is finally Peace,
Cindy Sheehan Mother
of Spc. Casey Sheehan who was murdered on 04 April, 2004, by the U.S. War Machine.
Montage of rove/dean footage and protesters inside
2.10.10
Protesting
karl rove & howard dean
in Portland
These are clips from when karl rove was in town debating
howard dean. Activist were inside and outside event. Police show up on horses near rthe end to face off with activists outside
the front doors. The event was non violent & peaceful. At least a half dozen citizens were thrown out of the rove
event
The war in Afghanistan has claimed the life of the 1000th
U.S. soldier.
The number of Afghans and Pakistanis killed is many times more and yet unknown.
We mourn the loss of life knowing that more violence will not bring peace. This war must end.
Planned Police State59:39 - 1 year ago
Dr. Stan Monteith of www.radioliberty.com goes over the growing police state
in the USA and abroad. The growing surveillance in our lives, how we are watched, monitored, listened to, tracked and how
the "War on Terrorism" is being used as an excuse for a growing web of control over our lives. From chipping our animals to
chipping us, from plans for suspending the Constitution and putting us in camps for “our protection” Is the US
government really out to protect us, or could it be the government is more worried about protecting itself from we the people
or could there be even more to it Why are our rights being attacked in America? Why is it that it seems like leadership is
more interested in doing to us, what they profess “evil terrorists” want done to us. Could they hate our freedom? What is the final out come of what is being planned and what will life
be like for coming generations? DVD version available from www.radioliberty.com
On several occasions, I have been asked by opportunists
why is it that I am interested in a matter so far away from my own land? The answer is simple, solidarity knows
no boundaries or even geography, its about living people and their plight. Solidarity = Love
My destiny is tied to theirs, my
liberation is tied to theirs, my humanity is tied to theirs.
Therefore, no worthy human being would tolerate
the suffering and pain of others,
wherever they are, worst still, those of us who
have fought heroic struggles against apartheid, colonialism, war, injustice, and occupation immediately feel it
however far we are from each other.
Solidarity comes from people whom you
may never have seen and who are very far away, let alone in our country. They heard and responded to the cries.
They did not ask how far are we from them.
They asked what can we do to assist and
they assisted in love and solidarity.
American forces in Iraq have released an Iraqi freelance photographer held
in detention for 17 months without charge.
Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed, who worked for Reuters, was arrested
in September 2008 in a dawn raid on his home. The US said the photographer
was a "security threat", but all evidence against him was classified secret. An
Iraqi court had ruled in December 2008 that there was no case against him and that he must be released, but the US military
refused. "How can I describe my feelings? This is like being born again."
Mr Jassam told Reuters. According to Reuters, the US accusations were
based on his "activities with insurgents". "The term 'insurgents' in
Iraq generally refers to Sunni Islamist groups, like al-Qaeda. Jassam is a Shia Muslim," the news agency said. The US military has detained a number of Iraqi journalists working for international
news organisations, but none have been convicted. It has been criticised
by press freedom organisations such as Reporters Without Borders.
A movie made 30 years ago
that perfectly describes the situation today about television, news, and the main stream media. It resonates louder and sounds
truer today that it did when the movie was made.
Citizen Nuclear inspectors arrested during
attempt to deliver "ban and bar" letter to base commander. The delivery attempt failed as the inspectors were arrested. This
is the third attempt to deliver this letter, further action is being considered to bring the military installation into compliance
with international law and in accordance with the United States Constitution. This action was supported by members of Ground
Zero Center for Non-violent Action, Veterans For Peace, Veterans For Justice, Veterans Against Torture, Squadron13, Code Pink
and many other citizens for peace and nuclear abolition
On several occasions, I have been asked by opportunists
why is it that I am interested in a matter so far away from my own land? The answer is simple, solidarity knows
no boundaries or even geography, its about living people and their plight. Solidarity = Love
My destiny is tied to theirs, my
liberation is tied to theirs, my humanity is tied to theirs.
Therefore, no worthy human being would tolerate
the suffering and pain of others,
wherever they are, worst still, those of us who
have fought heroic struggles against apartheid, colonialism, war, injustice, and occupation immediately feel it
however far we are from each other.
Solidarity comes from people whom you
may never have seen and who are very far away, let alone in our country. They heard and responded to the cries.
They did not ask how far are we from them.
They asked what can we do to assist and
they assisted in love and solidarity.
SHINE A LIGHT CAMPAIGN FOR A JUST IMMIGRATION REFORM
IN FRONT OF THE
VARICK STREET DETENTION CENTER IN NYC (part2)
OREGON FAIR TRADE
Filmed at WSU in Vancouver Washington on the
10th anniversary of the WTO battle in Seattle. This 3 hour event has lectures, music, movie clips and good information on
Fair Trade, NAFTA , the WTO, CSA farming and more.
A tea
party pastor gets a visit by CIA on Nov 16 2009
I am not a big "where is your papers guy" nor am I a so
called (tea party) participant, (Ha By far!) - but
this story of the CIA asking questions from this pastor, and his comments on himself being arrested, is worth following.
By David Neiwert Saturday Oct 31, 2009 12:00pm The FBI is looking into
accusations that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is using his position to settle political vendettas.
Over the past year, 5 Investigates examined more than two dozen complaints against the sheriff from business owners, government
workers, mayors and law-enforcement officials.
They claim they spoke out against Arpaio, and shortly after, deputies paid them unwelcome visits.
This is good news I filmed a protest that happened to be coming by me,
and I had my camera with me so I followed on 3.31.09 for a while / few block in Portland the protesters were protesting this
jerk as well as celebrating for Cesar Chavez Birthday "Oppressed Workers Rights" march in Portland Oregon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHM1xWJw2Yw
As Vietnam combat veteran who learned early that war is insane, cruel, and reaps only death
and destruction. I need you to understand, it is not the fraud in the elections that motivated my art, nor any political candidate,
but my need to answer the cries of a mother grieving her dead child, the unnecessary poverty and ignorance that fear feeds
on. I am equally motivated by the beauty, intelligence and courage of our youth, by their songs, their dance, their poems,
and by their resistance to war and injustice.
I have felt for a very long time this country has been slipping into an abyss of corporate
domination. Fascism is the corporation in power as a sovereign government. We have had corporate capitalism pulling the strings
of our political representatives for years but this is the era of the Boss. Corporate executives and their middle managers
are now in charge, they successfully overthrew our democracy in 2000 with voter repression and now in 2004 with more voter
repression and the unverifiable Black Box Voting systems. We now live in a Fascist Empire; we are warring against a nation
for the sole pleasure of the President and his war profiteer buddies.
It is a Fascism that has learned to mutate in order survive, it disguises
itself in the cloak of patriotism and hides its clubs in the law and in our conformity. It is smarter than it’s parents,
it has religion, it has money and it wants yours, and it demands your obedience and even your life. It is a monster, always
hungry, it feeds on power and needs the masses to worship at its feet, it is an eater of children’s dreams and their
flesh, and its name is Corporation.
Some fifty years after the United
States began adding fluoride to public water supplies to reduce cavities in children's teeth, declassified government
documents are shedding new light on the roots of that still controversial public health measure, revealing a surprising
connection between fluoride and the dawning of the nuclear age.
This is a call to Peacemakers in the Portland area, we need your support.
Last Thursday, October 8th 2009 Individuals for Justice, in coordination with other groups, staged
a protest against Judge **jay bybee at our Pioneer Courthouse, which is also one of four buildings that the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit holds their hearings.
We put out a call to PDX Peace---no response, Veterans for Peace, chapter
72-----no response, Jobs with Justice----no response. This was a special day that all four, (Pasadena, San Francisco, Seattle
and Portland) courthouses would be protested because of this war criminal. The number of noble people who showed up was sad,
and we could win this one in the coming months.
David Swanson has put a lot of pressure on this monster, Code Pink has
gone after him in his own courtroom, and we have kept a vigil/protest going for months with no support from the peace community.
Where the hell are you?
C. M. has put out a call to Code Pink for us, and Chapter 72 of the Veterans for Peace has
had a presence for a long period of time, but we need more of you to come, we can fight for justice and win. These monsters
of the bush and his dick administration must be held accountable.
I know the Veterans for Peace has endorsed this
action, will you ask your organizations to say that we must witness for the dead and tortured prisoners of our wars and occupations?
We, Individuals for Justice, will continue this battle, and invite all who will come to join us next Thursday. I know
it is difficult to take time on a Thursday at high noon, but surely there are times you can join us for a few minutes. We
have the judges and staffs upset by our presence, the judges are running out the back doors to avoid protesters; that is the
beginning of the end of bybee.
Think about your work site, if you walk in and everyone leaves, how long
could you sustain that reaction before quitting? People have stood up in court and yelled to the Judges, “Tell the War
Criminal to Resign.” All we are asking you to do is stand outside a bit and let people know that **bybee is wanted for
war crimes against humanity by the people of the world.
We are fun people to be around, not afraid of much but love
to laugh and have a moment. Barbara and I walked around the courthouse with about 10 pictures of bybee on a rope with the
caption, “Wanted for War Crimes.” We also have a standard skit of a prisoner with a black hood over his head with
signs that read, “This is what bybee has done” or “The Record is now 15 minutes, want to try.”
This is not a whine; but another call for you to join us.
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American death-tech goliath Boeing
has announced a long-delayed in- flight firing for the smaller of its two aeroplane raygun-cannon prototypes, the Advanced
Tactical Laser (ATL). The ATL blaster, mounted in a Hercules transport aircraft, apparently "defeated" an unoccupied stationary
vehicle.
'ET'- ha! And they keep denying they have alien assistance! "This milestone demonstrates that directed
energy weapon systems will transform the battlespace and save lives," said Boeing exec Greg Hyslop. "The ATL team
has earned a distinguished place in the history of weapon system development."
"The bottom line is that ATL works,
and works very well," added corporate raygun honcho Gary Fitzmire.
The ATL is much smaller than Boeing's headlining
laser weapon, the jumbo-jet-mounted Airborne Laser (ABL), intended to blast enemy ICBMs as they soar upward from pad
or silo. Rather the ATL is intended to pick off individual ground targets, somewhat in the fashion of existing Hercules-based
side-firing AC-130 gunships. Indeed Boeing has referred to the ATL in the past as its "Laser Gunship".
ATL does
resemble the ABL in some important respects, however. Like the bigger weapon, it is a chemically-fuelled laser rather
than a solid- state electrically powered one, meaning that it can fire only a limited number of blasts before its sealed,
six-ton laser module must be maintained and refuelled with hazardous toxic chemicals.
Just how many shots the ATL
can fire before being rearmed is unclear, but hints dropped by Pentagon sources suggest it could be as few as six.
This compares poorly with the firepower available aboard a normal AC-130, leading some analysts to wonder what the point
of the ATL really is.
Boeing say that it will offer "ultra-precision" and "dramatically reduce collateral damage",
though so far nothing of this sort has really been shown. A 40mm cannon aboard a normal AC-130 could "defeat" a stationary
ground vehicle without damaging its surroundings: a .50- cal sniper rifle fired from a helicopter could do the same to
a moving one.
It hasn't escaped notice, however, that neither of those things could strike silently - perhaps
from so far off that the carrying aircraft wouldn't be noticed either - and without leaving any solid evidence of US
military presence. Nor have observers failed to note that the US military agency in charge of ATL is the secretive Special
Operations Command (SOCOM).
Boeing have evidently had some problems with the ATL - airborne test firings were
expected last year, but this success didn't happen until last Sunday. However it would seem that the system may soon be
as ready for frontline use as it will ever be, at least until electric lasers without fuel limitations are weaponised.
In
years to come, the secret supertroopers of SOCOM may be able to cause a cell tower to stop working, a vehicle's fuel tank
to suddenly explode, or a single person to inexplicably be incinerated - all completely silently and tracelessly,
without anyone knowing they were ever there and not so much as a spent bullet left behind
Pentagon NOT hit by a plane WTC 7 brought down by explosives Media in America is controlled
A terrible pilot hits pentagon accounting
office holding records of missing 3 trillion in oil for money scheme & missing 2.3 trillion in DOD expenses Pentagon
debris a single 3 foot engine Proven not related to 757 FBI took all recordings & refuses to show
SWINE FLU - "Lets Get
Real" Mood: incredulous Now Playing:
Swine Flue & Propganda ... lets not freak out now on thisH1N1 ! Topic: CONSPIRACY
Hey
Now... (everybody got their mask n gloves on?)
Here is 3 tid-bit swine morsals for those Z3Readers that are not
in deep hiding for fear of catching this HiN1 virus. Lets dtart with an older propganda
video to get our bearings ..then read the two articles I linked to below
Via: Los
Angles Times: As the World Health
Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to
swine flu inside U.S. borders, scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza
— at least in its current form — isn’t shaping up to be as fatal as the strains that caused some previous
pandemics. In fact, the current outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which emerged in San Diego and southern
Mexico late last month, may not even do as much damage as the run-of-the-mill flu outbreaks that occur each winter without
much fanfare. READ MORE
If we are
to believe what our trusted international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly
strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or more popularly, Swine Flu. As the story goes, the outbreak of the deadly flu
was first discovered in Mexico. According to press reports, after several days, headlines reported as many as perhaps 150
deaths in Mexico were believed caused by this virulent people-killing pig virus that has spread to humans and now is allegedly
being further spread from human to human. Cases were being reported hourly from Canada to Spain and beyond. The only thing
wrong with this story is that it is largely based on lies, hype and coverup of possible real causes of Mexican deaths. READ MORE
Further to yesterday's post about Dangerous Minds. Richard has now given me the go-ahead to
edit and splice the segments of each episode together in order to make it available for putting on portable media devices.
The
first episode features an interview with philosopher, novelist and commentator Charles Hugh Smith.
Smith has been described
as the new Henry David Thoreau. As Richard put it: "He takes some of the most difficult to understand problems vexing the
world today and makes sense of these issues... He writes with a calm and steady voice that takes readers by the hand and carefully
explains the most pressing issues of our time. We, all of us, need to comprehend our problems, that's the first step, before
we can change anything and master our fates."
Right click and select "Save Target As" to download, then drag and drop
to your iPod, Walkman or other portable device. (Dangerous Minds mp3 audio or mp4 video).
I've also created a higher quality avi file that one can acquire using BitTorrent, however, you'll need an account
with our tracker to download it. If you haven't got one then you can sign up for free here. (Torrent Underground download).
Top Ten Enemies of Single Payer. Most people, when they arrive in Washington, D.C., see it for what it is
– a cesspool of corruption. Two reasonable reactions to
the cesspool. (click link to read more)
This is a short documentary that features students from South Africa
The GigaPThe GigaPan Conversations project seeks to promote empathy and understanding
between cultures and create a greater sense of global communityan Conversations project seeks to promote
empathy and understanding between cultures and create a greater sense of global community. These short
documentary features students from South Africa who, along with students from the US and Trinidad and Tobago, took part in
a pilot program where they made high-resolution panoramas of events and places of importance in their
communities.
Watch these 2 videos I put together, both being played at the same time, just
open two seperate windows and then start each video, they dont need to be started/synced at the same time
This exhibit of mine was presented for one week at The Portland Art Museum. It was shown in a black draped 3 x 10 booth with a 12" tv playing war footage
and a larger 19" computer monitor playing the Seriously Pisssed Off Grannies actions for peace.
I placed a small American Flag 8 " tall by the tv set which had a small figure
of a GITMO black bag-on-head prisoner glued to the US flag pole
Two former CIA officials have admitted to creating a fake video in which intelligence
officers dressed up as Osama Bin Laden and his cronies in an effort to defame the terrorist leader throughout the middle east.
incredulous
