The Newspaper That's 7/17 of
a Haiku
Issue #100
is brought to you by...
All the US soldiers killed in Iraq
whose funerals were ignored by their leader in
chief
The Newspaper That's 7/17 of
a Haiku
Issue #100
is brought to you by...
All the US soldiers killed in Iraq
whose funerals were ignored by their leader in
chief
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Posted April 12, 2004 Compiled by Richard Thompson I think we all agree, the past is over.
Rarely is the question asked
How many hands have I shaked?
I know that the human being
Put food on your family!
Letter #1 Yo- I've been talking about Christian Fascism, covert opium operations, oil pipelines. I've been getting it in. Listen to the morning show on Air America. There is no one telling us to limit anything. They're just trying to balance it all out a bit. The radical voice is represented. . .and mocked a bit by my co-hosts. Marc Maron
Letter #2 On a side note there was a wonderful
set up and fab punch line on Whoopi last night. If you've never
seen this show (which really can be quite funny), Whoopi is a has-been
pop singer who now runs a hotel. Her brother is a staunch Republican and
Bush supporter.
MM Letter #3 Dear Mr. President: In December 2002, you ordered the deployment of a ground-based strategic mid-course ballistic missile defense (GMD) capability, now scheduled to become operational before the end of September 2004. You explained that its purpose is to defend our nation against rogue states that may attack us with a single or a limited number of ballistic missiles armed with weapons of mass destruction. To meet this deployment deadline, the Pentagon has waived the operational testing requirements that are essential to determining whether or not this highly complex system of systems is effective and suitable. The Defense Department's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation stated on March 11, 2004, that operational testing is not in the plan "for the foreseeable future." Moreover, the General Accounting Office pointed out in a recent report that only two of 10 critical technologies of the GMD system components have been verified as workable by adequate developmental testing. Another important consideration is balancing the high costs of missile defense with funding allocated to other national security programs. Since President Reagan's strategic defense initiative speech in March 1983, a conservative estimate of about $130 billion, not adjusted upward for inflation, has been spent on missile defense, much of it on GMD. Your Fiscal Year 2005 budget for missile defense is $10.2 billion, with $3.7 billion allocated to GMD. Some $53 billion is programmed for missile defense over the next five years, with much more to follow. Deploying a highly complex weapons system prior to testing it adequately can increase costs significantly. U.S. technology, already deployed, can pinpoint the source of a ballistic missile launch. It is, therefore, highly unlikely that any state would dare to attack the U.S. or allow a terrorist to do so from its territory with a missile armed with a weapon of mass destruction, thereby risking annihilation from a devastating U.S. retaliatory strike. As you have said, Mr. President, our highest priority is to prevent terrorists from acquiring and employing weapons of mass destruction. We agree. We therefore recommend, as the militarily responsible course of action, that you postpone operational deployment of the expensive and untested GMD system and transfer the associated funding to accelerated programs to secure the multitude of facilities containing nuclear weapons and materials and to protect our ports and borders against terrorists who may attempt to smuggle weapons of mass destruction into the United States. Signed: 49 U.S. Generals and Admirals Calling for Missile Defense Postponement Chemtrails Now Taught in U.S. Schools "A is for Apple."
At least this is what one American father found while paging through his child's science book. - William Thomas - Take Two Porn Films and Call Me In the Morning Sex or masturbation every two days helps ward off prostate cancer in men. Capitalists of the Week During his brief trip to China, Cheney will take time out of his visit to act as a de facto corporate lobbyist for Westinghouse. AP reports Cheney is expected to make a pitch for Westinghouse's U.S. nuclear power technology. "Colin Powell okayed the arms deal with a tap
of a finger, unveiling the State Department's new D-Trade, a fast, paperless
process for granting licenses to US military contractors for arms sales...
The global arms market is fiercely competitive, and sellers are always
looking for an edge. Although the US is the world's largest arms exporter,
controlling nearly half of the international market of about US$30 billion
a year, both the government and industry have been pushing for the better
part of a decade to increase this market share. One way of boosting exports
is to make it easier for sellers to get licenses... Last month, the administration
designated Pakistan a 'major non-NATO ally'. Once a pariah state because
of its nuclear program with potential military uses, Pakistan now has access
to a wide range of US military goods, even though it remains under a cloud
for selling advanced military technology to such countries as North Korea
and Libya."
I Feel So Much Safer Now The Bush administration wants to cut $35 million from the national lead poisoning prevention program, the Department of Agriculture is trying to block mad cow testing while Dick Cheney is using his visit to Japan to convince them to resume imports of American beef, the Forest Service has been accused of misrepresenting forest conditions by using misleading photographs in a brochure that urges more logging to prevent wildfires, and North Korea says Bush is driving the military situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war." "The government has decided not to warn parents
a mercury-laced preservative virtually eliminated from other vaccines because
of health concerns will be included in flu shots given to hundreds of thousands
of infants and toddlers this fall. The decision by the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention to recommend the shots with the preservative
thimerosal despite the pleas of parent activist groups apparently conflicts
with recent federal heath warnings about exposure to mercury..."
"You are lost in a foreign city, you don't
speak the language and you are late for your meeting. What do you do? Take
out your cellphone, photograph the nearest building and press send. For
a small fee, photo recognition software on a remote server works out precisely
where you are, and sends back directions that will get you to your destination."
The FBI has made a proposal to the FCC that would require all Internet Providers to rewire their current system in order to make wiretapping accessible to the FBI. Experts claim that if the new proposal were to pass, MSN Messenger, Xbox Live and any voice over Internet protocol would be accessible for wiretapping. A federal judge has awarded back pay and damages for emotional distress to a Christian employee who objected to his employer's policies requiring him to "respect and value" the differences of his gay colleagues. "It's a groundbreaking court decision that
legal experts say will affect everyone: Police officers in Louisiana no
longer need a search or arrest warrant to conduct a brief search of your
home or business."
Don't Take My Word For It "Absolute
faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
"What you
cannot enforce, do not command."
"A year
after the seemingly victorious war, the Americans are again bombing Baghdad
and conducting intimidation operations in Falluja. This means that the
war has not ended and... is now being waged not against Saddam but against
the Iraqi people... The simple truth is that Saddam was doomed because
he prevented Washington from gaining control of [Iraq's oil]. The US Iraqi
war is a classical example of the imperialist foreign policy of the late
19th and early 20th century. It was then called gunboat diplomacy. Today
gunboats have been replaced with tanks, aircraft and missiles, but this
has not changed the essence, which is to grasp control of countries with
rich mineral resources, dominate them, and create military bases and deploy
troops in the occupied territories."
"The International
Court of Justice does not have jurisdiction in Texas."
"[International
treaties] are "the supreme law of the land."
"This evaluation
makes clear that, in general, this Administration's track record is toxic
to our children, lessening protections for children and missing opportunities
to keep toxicants out of our children's environment. Even as this report
is being finalized, a number of emerging issues reiterate the overwhelming
pattern that children are losing out to other priorities of this Administration.
Of the 78 decision points identified in the report, only 16 were found
to have a positive impact on children. The remainder, 62, were decisions
with a negative impact on children. For many of these decisions, their
impact will be felt for years to come. Why has this Administration failed
to protect children? Frequently, as this review illustrates, the decisions
made on environmental health were marred by science distorted or ignored."
"Education has failed to adjust to the massive transformation in Western
culture since the rise of electronic media. The shift from the era of the
printed book to that of television, with its immediacy and global reach,
was prophesied by Marshall McLuhan in his revolutionary Understanding
Media, which at its publication in 1964 spoke with visionary force
to my generation of college students in the United States. But those of
us who were in love with the dazzling, darting images of TV and movies,
as well as with the surging rhythms of new rock music, had been given through
public education a firm foundation in the word and the book. Decade by
decade since the 1960s, popular culture, with its stunning commercial success,
has gained strength until it now no longer is the brash alternative to
organized religion or an effete literary establishment: it is the
culture for American students, who outside urban centers have little exposure
to the fine arts...
"Musings about a second Bush term typically assume another four years of
the same right-wing policies we've had to date. But it'd likely be far
worse. So far, the Bush administration has had to govern with the expectation
of facing American voters again in 2004. But suppose George W. Bush wins
a second term. The constraint of a re-election contest will be gone. Knowing
that voters can no longer turn them out, and that this will be their last
shot at remaking America, the radical conservatives will be unleashed.
"A conservative
believes nothing should be done for the first time."
"The only
difference between Al Gore & George W. Bush is the velocity with which
their knees hit the floor when corporations knock."
"A leadership
is someone who brings people together."
"Capital
punishment is our way of demonstrating the sanctity of life."
"Most of
us here in the media are what I call infotainers... Rush Limbaugh is what
I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation."
"Researchers
have uncovered the perfect excuse to eat lots of chocolate Easter eggs
this year, for pregnant women at least. The study of 300 mums-to-be showed
those that ate chocolate every day had babies who smiled and laughed more."
"Washington has given up on its plans to hand over power to an interim
Iraqi government on June 30, and it is now creating the chaos it needs
to declare the handover impossible. A continued occupation will be bad
news for George Bush on the campaign trail, but not as bad as if the handover
happens and the country erupts, an increasingly likely scenario given the
widespread rejection of the legitimacy of the interim constitution and
the U.S. appointed Governing Council.
"The reprisal mentality guiding the American military forces calls to mind
nothing less than the conduct of Nazi occupation forces in Europe during
World War II. By the end of the war, the very term reprisal had become
synonymous with the mass killing of civilian populations supporting popular
and legitimate guerrilla warfare against the Nazis. Hitler, in answer to
the operations of Soviet partisans, for example, issued instructions in
1942 that whatever succeeds is correct. The German military command responded
by ordering its occupation troops to use any means, even against women
and children, provided they are conducive to success.
"George
Bush is Saddam Hussein. George Bush is terrorist!"
"Suppose that in March or April, 1941, 14 Americans with lengthy backgrounds
in national security affairs had reported to President Franklin Roosevelt
that the United States was going to be attacked somewhere, sometime, somehow
by the Japanese, that this attack would result in large numbers of American
casualties, and these officially-appointed Americans had strongly recommended
to the Roosevelt administration that it take urgent steps to help prevent
such an attack. Further suppose that Roosevelt had done little if anything
in response to this warning, and that almost eight months later, as it
happened, the Japanese attacked American facilities at Pearl Harbor, and
almost two thousand Americans died. Suppose after this attack official
inquiries were launched, as it also happened, as to why there was a failure
of intelligence, what actions were or were not taken based on what intelligence
there was, and what could be done to prevent such catastrophic surprises
in the future. And finally suppose that the official commission created
to investigate the tragedy of Pearl Harbor failed to call upon the original
14 Americans who forecast the attack and forewarned against it.
"The Bush
regime's argument for shunning a global treaty on land mines rests largely
on the U.S. military's use of 'smart,' self-destructing mines that don't
linger after war's end to kill and maim civilians."
"Bush thinks
it's OK to kill and maim civilians 'during' a war."
"A 'runaway'
grand jury, loosely defined as a grand jury which resists the accusatory
choices of a government prosecutor, has been virtually eliminated by modern
criminal procedure. Today's 'runaway' grand jury is in fact the common
law grand jury of the past. Prior to the emergence of governmental prosecution
as the standard model of American criminal justice, all grand juries were
in fact 'runaways,' according to the definition of modern times; they operated
as completely independent, self-directing bodies of inquisitors, with power
to pursue unlawful conduct to its very source, including the government
itself."
"The delusional
leaders of our occupation army are fond of pointing to signs of progress.
Occupation viceroy Paul Bremer likes to rattle off statistics: 2,500 renovated
schools, three million vaccinated children, 18,000 reconstruction projects
underway, healthcare spending up 30 times, a 29 percent increase in the
value of the Iraqi dinar. Hey, it's the least we can do--after all, Iraq
wouldn't need new schools or hospitals if we hadn't bombed their old ones."
"As we
go on meditating, that divine light inside of us, the light of Consciousness,
begins to fill our eyes. Then our eyes see the same light outside, and
we become aware that this universe is nothing but that light, that Consciousness,
that supreme Self."
"Soldiers
riding on the top of tanks with their soles showing are not trying to offend
anyone. They have no idea that they are doing...the equivalent of foreign
army troops driving down American streets with their middle finger raised.
How would Americans react to that? Cultural mistakes cost us valuable goodwill
and have allowed the insurgents to convince the people we are indifferent
or hostile to Iraqis."
"This story is about American weapons built with Uranium components for
the business end of things. Just about all American bullets, 120 mm tank
shells, missiles, dumb bombs, smart bombs, 500 and 2,000 pound bombs, cruise
missiles, and anything else engineered to help our side in the war of us
against them has Uranium in it. Lots of Uranium.
"As the
Bush administration comes under increasing fire for its decision to attack
Iraq, the Democratic contender, John F. Kerry, is profiting from his perceived
status as a critic of Bush's foreign policy. A patrician grandee with a
pleasing mix of liberal and patriotic views might seem to many Americans
a welcome relief from the bellicose Texan with his faux swagger and his
team of men who seem to have 'military-industrial complex' written across
their menacing foreheads. But if anti-war Americans do elect Kerry for
that reason, they will have duped themselves. Warmongering will be worse
under Kerry than under Bush, and real peaceniks should therefore vote for
Dubya."
"Iraq under
Saddam Hussein did not pose a threat to the United States but it did to
Israel, which is one reason why Washington invaded the Arab country, according
to a speech made by a member of a top-level White House intelligence group."
"Have you
seen all those article and pictures of Bush 'at home on the ranch' in Crawford
- the ones that imply that he is 'just an ole ranch hand' more comfortable
on the family homestead than in the 'Big City,' be it Austin or D.C.? Well,
if you bought this image, you've been royally snuckered. The Bush family
homestead in Crawford is nothing more than an elaborate set. The house,
built in 2000, was designed to be ready for Bush to step into - like a
set awaiting an actor - during the 2000 presidential election. Not only
was the 'ranch' created in 2000 - so, essentially, was the 'town' of Crawford!
Before then only about 400 people lived in the area. The Crawford Chamber
of Commerce and Agriculture were formed shortly after the ranch was finished.
"
"[T]he
9-11 Commission... has only one purpose: to justify the creation of a domestic
Gestapo to carry out the USA Patriot Act I/II abolition of the American
people's Bill of Rights. The Bush administration put these laws in place,
and just as General Tommy Franks warned, the administration will now ensure
the Sharon-style terrorism necessary to invoke them."
"Widening
the White Houses growing credibility gap, a new report released today by
John Kerry for President reveals that President Bush has proposed or passed
$6 trillion in new, unpaid initiatives during the first three years of
his administration. The report shows that while the President and administration
officials have publicly touted their commitment to fiscal discipline, they
were quietly pushing trillions of dollars in unpaid proposals that have
resulted in skyrocketing deficits and contributed to state budget deficits
across the country."
"'Bremer follows in the footsteps of Saddam,' screamed the headline in
al-Hawza, a tabloid newspaper run by firebrand Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada
Sadr. With incendiary language, the article accused L. Paul Bremer, the
U.S. administrator of Iraq, of deliberately starving the Iraqi people.
"Well done
is that action of doing
"Don't
expect Condoleezza Rice to apologize for messing up on 9/11. She hasn't
apologized yet for getting it wrong on the collapse of the Soviet Union.
When the national security adviser [took] her stand before the Independent
Commission April 8, she [brought] with her into that camera-filled hearing
room her treasured reputation as a foreign policy expert to two successive
Bush presidents. But Rice, who claims an expertise in nothing less than
the high-stakes world of global power, has failed spectacularly-not once
but twice-failing to anticipate the most critical shifts of her time...
Don't judge Rice too harshly. The national security adviser's expertise
has never been in serving the nation-it has been in serving the house of
Bush. At the first job, she has been a disaster. At the second, she is
the best."
"...Progress
is amazing. Many people who knew only repression and terror now have hope
in their heart and prosperity in their grasp. Every day the Iraqi people
stream out into the streets to cheer and wave at us as we drive by. When
I'm on a foot patrol, walking among a crowd, countless people thank us
-- repeatedly. I realize the shocking image of a dead soldier or a burning
car is more sellable than boring, detailed accounts of our rebuilding efforts.
This is why you hear bad news and may be receiving an incorrect picture...
The reality is one of an ever-increasing defeat of the enemies we face."
"Is there a psychologist in the house? And what early childhood trauma
did you suffer that makes you constantly want to kill kill kill?
"There
has always been debate over what separates Man from the Beasts. Tools,
recognition of death and opposable thumbs are debatable. The obvious answer
is beasts don't have any stuff. And there you go and here we are."
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