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Posted May 31, 2004 Pacifist of the Week "That photo was taken at Grant
Park, Chicago, in 1988, on the 20th anniversary of our protest at the
Democratic
convention. A picnic had been arranged for us, though Dave
Dellinger--always
true to his principles--insisted that a bowl of grapes be removed out
of
respect for the boycott to support the United Farmworkers Union."
"The
lesson I learned was as
simple, direct and unarguable as the lesson a child learns the first
time
it puts its hand on a red-hot stove: Don't ever do it again! But the
pain
I felt was a spiritual pain, as if I had suddenly emerged from a fit of
anger and realized that I had pressed a child's hand onto the stove. I
knew that I would never be able to strike another human being again."
 Available now at Buzzflash Please don't wait for this film to show up at your cineplex or on cable TV. Nobody in the media is biting the hand the feeds it these days, so it's extremely unlikely they will show you a documentary that proves, beyond the slightest shadow of any doubt, that in America, corporate interests have totally superseded the public's right to know. Let's take the equal time doctrine, where TV stations had to give equal time to opposing political viewpoints. Gone with the buggy whip. Remember the big debate about its use? Of course not. The media did not cover its own successful frontal attack against the concept, so most of us didn't even notice it was gone. Why? According to Orwell Rolls in his Grave, fully 1/3 of all television ad revenues are currently from political ads, so it was in the corporate interest to get rid of the free ads necessitated by "equal time." Were those ads in the public interest? Of course. Did the public have any say in the matter? Of course not. We're living in a world in which corporate interests trump the public interest every time. Orwell Rolls in his Grave is as objective as it gets. There are no hysterical rants, no oblique conspiracy theories, just cold hard facts presented as clearly and succinctly as possible. You can show it to your parents, your kids, your PTA, and they will be equally outraged. It's not left, right, conservative or liberal, just a straightforward piece of filmmaking with no more agenda than the truth. It's very clear. Step one in taking back our country is taking back our media. "[Josef Goebbels]
said once, and this is an
example of how sly he was...that what you want in a media system -- he
meant the Nazi media system -- is to present an ostensible diversity
that
conceals an actual uniformity." What was the Greatest Theft in History? a) The confiscation by Nazi Germany of around $580 million of central bank gold -- worth around $5.6 billion at today's prices. The gold came from governments and civilians, including Jews murdered in concentration camps, from whom everything was taken down to the gold fillings of their teeth. b) The Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project. c) The
administration of George W. Bush looting
the U.S. Treasury to the tune of $3 trillion to provide
political payoffs
to wealthy neocon special interest groups, adding up to an approximate
federal debt of $125,000 per American family.  "The only weapon
we have to fight with is our
willingness to die. Call it publicity, a stunt to attract attention. A
letter to the newspapers. A help wanted ad to the official journal of
the
United Nations. Wanted, by 600 men, women, and children, a country. A
native
land. A home. That's all they're dying for." "Let the next
injustice work for somebody else
for a change." "Let the national
committee keep on trying
to talk the British out of Palestine. We have no objections. We will
continue
to bomb them out." History Lesson from Hell In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a 700-page plan for the occupation of Japan. We're Number 1! Incarceration Rates per 100,000
Pull
Out Your Tanks Pull out your tanks
Nobody killed
Me and my wife'll War is a fraud
Sunni and Kurd
Me and my wife'll Happy Day Day It was the world's simplest question. "Dad, what does the 'D' stand for in 'D-Day'?" Damned if I could remember so it was off to the Internet to find out. Look up "D-Day" at Google and you'll find people claiming the D stands for "deployment" or "definitive" or "defiant," proving, if nothing else, that there isn't total agreement on what the "D" stands for, but the vast majority back the idea that it stands for "day." That's right, every June 6th we're celebrating "Day Day," which fits right in with people asking for your "PIN number" when "PIN" stands for "Personal Identification Number," therefore they are asking for your "Personal Identification Number" number. So thank you 10-year-old Max for asking the question and sorry the answer is so stupid. Oh Joy Unbounded Libya is missing a bunch of nuclear devices. Don't Tell Osama Surgeons are ready to perform a full-face transplant. Hypocrites of the Week Catholic priests denied Holy Communion to a group of gay activists while continuing to protect priests who fuck little boys. I Smell a Movie-of-the-Week A 50-year-old Zambian man committed suicide after his wife found him fucking a chicken. (the OTHER white meat) In a related story, an American president committed genocide after his wife fucked a chickenhawk. Satan Doesn't Want You to Know For about $800, you can get a conversion kit for any diesel engine that will allow it to run on vegetable oil you can get for free from Chinese restaurants. Using biomass, a type of fuel made of materials such as wood and manure, instead of coal to generate electricity, could lower the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and create jobs. Don't Take My Word For It "We
can only hope there's a lifeform
aboard that vessel that reasons the way we do."
"If
my life wasn't funny, it
would just be true, and that's unacceptable."
"The
actions taken by the New
Hampshire Episcopalians are an affront to Christians everywhere. I am
just
thankful that the church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine
of Aragon, and his wife Anne Boleyn, and his wife Jane Seymour, and his
wife Anne of Cleves, and his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife
Catherine
Parr are no longer here to suffer through such an assault on
traditional
Christian marriage." "This
could be the moment of
the beginning of the end of this insane war against the sick. And while
the DEA and the Justice Department characterize Valerie as a common
drug
dealer, all you have to do is spend two minutes with her to know that's
a lie." "The
National Security Council
is quite specific. It says what we're going to do. Vice President
Cheney
once spoke of 50 nations he wanted to carry out regime change in, the
President
upped him 10 more and said there were 60 of them. That's letting the
rest
of the world know we're coming. What it means is that all other
countries
on earth today are quietly conspiring with each other to prepare to
resist
the United States. The pattern is exactly the same kind of pattern that
developed in the first and second centuries AD against the Roman
Empire,
which ultimately led to its destruction. It's hard to imagine a more
profound
impact the United States is having on the rest of the world than
through
the National Security Doctrine of 2002." "In
2002, a full 1,420 journalists
were kidnapped, beaten or detained across the globe."
"67%
of Americans feel that news
organizations try to cover up their mistakes, rather than correct them."
"32%
of local reporters have
acknowledged that they have softened the tone of a news story on behalf
of the interests of their news organization. 73% of journalists believe
that buyouts of news organizations by big, diversified corporations has
a negative effect on journalism. 26% of local journalists say they have
been told to ignore a story because it was dull or complicated, but
suspect
the real motivation to be potential harm to the company's financial
interests." "Schwarzenegger
has now dumped
three respected state consumer protection officials, even though they
led
fights against things like auto repair scams and flammable bedding. But
we want his autograph. On Wednesday the governor urged California
drivers
to beat high gas prices by becoming more conservation-minded. But he
drives
a Hummer. Do you see what I mean? Maybe we give him a pass because he
represents
our secret lust to be indulgent and unaccountable."
"It
would be good to have a man
in the White House who has killed people face to face. Killing people
has
a sobering effect on a man and dispels all illusions about war."
"In
a legal foray that increasingly
has the look of a partisan political campaign, Krischer has pulled out
all the stops to nail the conservative talk show host. Regardless of
one's
political views, the case has troubling connotations for tens of
thousands
of Americans whose efforts to combat chronic pain result in addiction."
"We
are all office workers. We
are all office workers in mega-corporations. We are all, wittingly or
not,
holders of mega-corporate investments..."
"What am I
selling? I'm selling me, Senator, as the last piece in the puzzle, or
maybe
the next to last, which will allow you to take up residence on
Pennsylvania
Avenue - by choosing me to be your vice-presidential candidate...
"If
I'm going to do something
that could be provocative or artistically relevant, I have to be
prepared
to put myself in the place where I feel unsafe, not completely in
control.
I have no fear of failure whatsoever, because often out of that
uncertainty
something is salvaged, something that is worthwhile comes about. There
is no progress without failure. And each failure is a lesson learned.
Unnecessary
failures are the ones where an artist tries to second guess an
audience's
taste, and little comes out of that situation except a kind of inward
humiliation."
"With the
recent military actions in Rafah and Wednesday's missile strike, at
least
10 children have already lost their lives, including Asma and Ahmed, a
16 and 13-year-old girl and boy, respectively, shot in their home in
Rafah
on Tuesday morning. Many additional children have been injured and all
are facing psychosocial distress. "We
have to support Israel." "Documents
recently obtained
in our lawsuit against the Commerce Department would appear to show
that
the Bush Administration is playing politics in its attempt to weaken
the
popular Dolphin Safe label." "WARNING!
In the considerations
of safety, you should NEVER let a male dolphin attempt anal sex with
you.
The Bottle-nose dolphin member is around 12 inches, very muscular, and
the thrusting and the force of ejaculation (A male can come as far as
14
feet) would cause serious internal injuries, resulting in peritonitus
and
possible death." "What
kind of world is it where
the reality is weirder than the satire?" "Writers
and editors who have
spent years translating essays, films, poems, scientific articles and
books
by Iranian, North Korean and Sudanese authors have been warned not to
do
so by the U.S. Treasury Department under penalty of fine and
imprisonment.
Publishers and film producers are not allowed to edit works authored by
writers in those nations. The Bush administration contends doing so has
the effect of trading with the enemy, despite a 1988 law that exempts
published
materials from sanction under trade rules." "There
are two kinds of speeches
and two kinds of silences. Speech is either truth or a falsification,
and
silence is either fruition or heedlessness. If one speaks the truth,
his
words are better than his silence, but he who invents falsifications,
his
silence is better than his speech." "The
time to relax is when you
don't have time for it." "I'd
rather be able to face myself
in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."
"It
is the still, small voice
that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom."
"People
take different roads
seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your
road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost." "The
best way to cheer yourself
up is to cheer up somebody else." "Most
of the important things
in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying
when
there seemed to be no hope at all." "When
you see others errors and
you want to guide them because you think they are wrong and you feel
compassion
for them, you should employ tact to avoid angering them, and contrive
to
appear as if you were talking about something else."
"I
believe that to meet the challenges
of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of
universal
responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself,
one's
own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal
responsibility
is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world
peace." "Conquer
your foe by force, you
increase his enmity; conquer by love, and you will reap no
after-sorrow." "People
demand freedom of speech
as a compensation for freedom of thought which they never use."
"In
the Clinton administration
we worried the president would open his zipper. In the Bush
administration,
they worry the president will open his mouth."
"To
present an adequate notion
of learning one must first explain how the individual manages to
construct
and invent, not merely how he repeats and copies."
"Imagine
if we put troops in
combat with a faulty rifle, and that rifle was malfunctioning, and
troops
were dying as a result. I can't think anyone would allow that to
happen,
that would not speak up. Well, what's the difference between a faulty
plan
and strategy that's getting just as many troops killed?"
"It
is very nearly impossible...
to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the
Independent
Mind." "A
daylight robbery is going
on in Iraq. I have first hand information from sources in al-Bakr port
in southern Iraq, and in the Turkish port of Jihan, confirming that
three
million oil barrels are being taken out of Iraq on a daily basis."
"[T]here
is no possibility that
the occupation of Iraq will succeed in bringing freedom, democracy, or
even the long-term appointment of a U.S. puppet regime in that country.
The Iraqi people will never trust U.S. officials, not only because it
was
U.S. officials who imposed and maintained the
embargo for more than a decade that callously killed hundreds
of thousands
of Iraqi children but also because the sex abuse, rape, torture, and
murder
scandal has destroyed any hope of winning the trust of the Iraqi
people,
especially the religious ones. The troops might well be kept in Iraq
for
the indefinite future but they will be killing and dying for nothing
more
than preserving 'national pride,' whatever that is."
"In a New
York City ballroom days before Christmas, a powerful Bush
administration
lawyer made an unprecedented offer to drug companies, one likely to
protect
their profits and potentially hurt consumers.
"British
and American troops
are to be granted immunity from prosecution in Iraq after the crucial
30
June handover, undermining claims that the new Iraqi government will
have
'full sovereignty' over the state. Despite widespread ill-feeling about
the abuse of prisoners by American forces and allegations of
mistreatment
by British troops, coalition forces will be protected from any legal
action." "I
once saw a photograph of a
large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa, seeing an airplane for
the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As,
however,
there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the
airplane
was out of sight." "This
information is top security.
When you have read it, destroy yourself." "I'm
honored to shake the hand
of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein."
"Some
of you may die, but it's
a sacrifice I'm willing to make." Everything Else Halliburton is billing the American taxpayer for shipping "sailboat fuel" across Iraq. (In a related story, the AARP has renegotiated with the Bush administration to give all American senior citizens discounts on Canadian fish bicycles.) C'mon Alaska, leave Yellowstone alone. Bush has been caught playing with Saddam's pistol. Don't tell Satan. The ultimate right-wing paranoia flowchart about the left-wing. Every Memorial Day for the last decade, several dozen children have died because they were left in locked hot cars. That'll show 'em. Anton Chekov did a book signing at a Barnes and Noble in New York. He's been dead for 100 years you say? No shit. Tell it to the people lining up. Somebody please explain why we're having a gasoline crisis when Iraqi oil exports have hit $10 billion since the American occupation? Exercise your brain with these Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers. Iyad
Allawi is going to lead Iraq's interim government. All
together now:
Allawi, Allawi, I luvs yuh, Allawi, you're only a dream away.
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