Monday, November 22nd
5 killed in shootout among deer hunters
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. - Five deer hunters died and three were injured on Sunday in an apparent shootout over who could occupy a hunting platform in a northwestern Wisconsin forest.
Would his actions be acceptable if he ate his victims?
Bullshit on that double-standard.
Hunters are hunters because they like to kill things. If they wanted to provide food they could start a garden, plant fruit trees or go to a fucking Burger King. People who get off on power trips by killing defenseless animals don't get my sympathy.
Keep hunting each other, leave the vegetarians alone.
Chris on 11.22.04 @ 04:10 PM PST [link]
Thursday, November 18th
Fun Warning
The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of sexually transmitted disease. This disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea lecthim (pronounced "gonna re-elect him").
Many victims have contracted it after having been screwed by the Bush-Cheney-Rove-Ashcroft administration for the past 4 years and failing to have taken adequate measures to protect themselves.
Cognitive sequellae of individuals infected with Gonorrhea lecthim include: Antisocial personality disorder traits; delusions of grandeur with a messianic flavor; cognitive perseveration; inability to incorporate new information; xenophobia; inability to accept responsibility for actions; and a strong propensity for categorical, all-or nothing thinking.
Chris on 11.18.04 @ 07:11 PM PST [link]
Brazil moves ahead in the "Drug War"
On November 24, Brazil's President Lula da Silva will sign a progressive drug reform bill. The new policy will decriminalize the drug user by opening 250 safe drug use centers across the country. This will put drug enforcement responsibilities on the Health Ministry rather than the police. The following is a segment from Folha de São Paulo and translated by Al Giordano (the NarcoSphere):
...Through this new lens, Lula will sign a presidential decree to regulate harm reduction programs, making possible a wider network of treatment for drug users and the creation of local centers for safe drug use. Before opening their doors, these centers will need authorization from the Health Ministry and will count with permanent support.
Preferably, the centers will be monitored by universities and dedicated to high risk users, such as those who use crack or inject cocaine.
The decree will create the role of Harm Reduction agent, a health professional who will be responsible for the direct contact with the users. And he, for example, will provide sterilized syringes…
Today, non-governmental organizations, with support from the health department, are already involved in Harm Reduction programs, but within the limits of legal prohibitions, thus there has been no regulation of this kind of work…
The goal for 2005 is the creation of 250 such local drug use centers around the country.
After much controversy and six public hearings in different states, the government will finalize the new policy on November 24th… The emphasis will be on demand and Harm Reduction.
Chris on 11.18.04 @ 06:43 PM PST [link]
Tuesday, November 16th
TV B Gone
Mitch Altman is my hero. He has invented a device that fits on a keychain that sends off over 200 signals to televisions. All 200 electrons are attempting to turn off all televisions in the room. How much do you think this power may cost a humble culture-jammer? $50, $35.99?
nope
$14
The revolution starts here http://www.tvbgone.com
Chris on 11.16.04 @ 06:03 PM PST [link]
The Downward Spiral
As selfish Americans rejoice in the re-election, investing the tax dollars they've saved in defense stocks, Falluaja becomes a martyr.
The embedded journalists from the US are not covering civilian deaths as well as the attack on Falluaja's largest hospital. Iraq journalists have reported US Marines tied up hospital staff, including those operating on a woman giving birth.
from Dahr Jamail:
"...the hospital was targeted by bombs and rockets during the initial siege of Fallujah, and troops dragged patients from their beds and pushed them against the wall."
I can't help to think about the gay marriage initiatives while reading about US Marines imposing the Western "values" on a Muslim society. Even though gay marriage would not have put any person in physical harm, it was leveled by a stubborn, god-fearing attitude that gave me the impression that half of America's lazy boy's were filled with Archie Bunkers. These Archie's may make up the strongest military in the world, but battles are not won by strength alone. Archie's greatest weakness was his ignorance and intolerance.
Sam Smith carried this item in Progressive Review:
HOW TO LOSE A WAR WITH ONE PHOTO
"in major newspapers in this country and, we would suspect soon throughout the Muslim world is a photo of conquering Marines inside a Falluaja mosque "resting on a plush red carpet." This one picture tells why we are doing so poorly these days. As Zeynep remarked on the site Under the Same Sun, "Does anyone understand anything about religious feelings in general or about Islam in particular? Have they spent even half a day watching a documentary or two about Islam and noticed that people carefully and respectfully take their shoes off before entering a mosque, where they will kneel and put their head on that carpet? (Those "plush red carpets", by the way, are prayer rugs, or "sajjade." And you don't step on them with your combat boots, especially inside a mosque, and smile for the cameras unless you really want to fight to the death with up to a billion people. This is either the most arrogant, incompetent, ignorant occupation, ever, or the most clever, insidious, skillful effort towards bringing about an apocalyptic world war."
This information and more is reviewed and dissected at: http://www.newsdissector.org. Highest recommendations.
Chris on 11.16.04 @ 01:47 PM PST [link]
Thursday, November 4th
Skip School
U.S. National - AP
By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer
LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. - A National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission strafed an elementary school with 25 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Thursday. No one was injured.
The military is investigating the incident that damaged Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School shortly after 11 p.m.
Police were called when a custodian who was the only person in the school at the time heard what sounded like someone running across the roof.
Police Chief Mark Siino said officers noticed punctures in the roof. Ceiling tiles had fallen into classrooms, and there were scratch marks in the asphalt outside.
The pilot of the single-seat jet was supposed to fire at a target on the ground three and half miles away from school, said Col. Brian Webster, commander of the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard. He does not know what happened that led to the school getting shot up.
The plane was 7,000 feet in the air when the shots were fired. The gun, an M61-A1 Vulcan cannon, is located in the plane's left wing. It fires 2-inch-long bullets that are made of lead and do not explode, said Webster.
"The National Guard takes this situation very seriously," said Lt. Col. Roberta Niedt, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. "The safety of our people and the surrounding communities are our foremost concern."
Schools in New Jersey were closed Thursday because of a teachers convention.
Webster would not identify the pilot or detail possible disciplinary measures.
Mike Dupuis, president of the township's Board of Education, said school workers are mindful that the firing range is nearby.
"Being so close to the range, that's always in the back of our minds. It is very scary. I have children in that school and relatives that work there," he said.
The range has been used by the military since the end of World War II, long before this area of south Jersey was developed.
Chris on 11.04.04 @ 06:45 PM PST [link]
Bush Wins, Defense Stock Rise
On Wednesday, November 3rd, the war industry saw green on the New York Stock Exchange.
Lockheed Martin Corp.’s stock closed up $1.78 per share, or 3.3 percent, at $55.89
Boeing shares increased $1.27, or 2.5 percent, to $51.15
Northrop Grumman Corp. surged $2.10, or 4.1 percent, to $53.75.
All finished near 52-week highs.
Chris on 11.04.04 @ 03:47 PM PST [link]
The need for paper trails
The following is an excerpt from Nov. 2 gave us a choice between war and more war, corporate globalization and more corporate globalization
By Peter Phillips
The real winners November 2 are the military industrial complex, who will continue to feed at the 500 billion-dollar military trough and the corporate media, whose coffers were filled with billions of dollars for campaign ads.
And can we be sure we actually had a fair election among those who did vote? Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Diebold, and Sequoia are the companies primarily involved in implementing the new voting stations throughout the country. All three have strong ties to the Bush Administration. The largest investors in ES&S, Sequoia, and Diebold are government defense contractors Northrup-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and Accenture. Diebold hired Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego to develop the software security in their voting machines. A majority of officials on SAIC’s board are former members of either the Pentagon or the CIA including:
Army Gen. Wayne Downing, formerly on the National Security Council
Bobby Ray Inman; former CIA Director
Retired Adm. William Owens, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Robert Gates, another former director of the CIA.
So we have a CIA/military private firm that programmed the security in the voting machines for companies owned by some of the largest military contracts in the country.
Chris on 11.04.04 @ 01:23 PM PST [link]
Wednesday, November 3rd
Fear Wins Again
Once again, fear has clouded the vision of democracy. Fear of god has defaced 11 states' constitutions, reintroducing segregation into the home of the free. Taking away tax credits and rights is only the first step to a christian nation. The next step may be a law enforcing all gays and atheists to wear a patch or capital punishment for abortion.
Neoconservatives now control two branches of the federal government, with the chief justice soon to be replaced. Expect more deconstruction of the constitution:
Funding for public schools will not be fixed, spurring private christian schools to grow in influence.
The FCC will be weakened, allowing the likes of Rupert Murdock to acquire more control of television, newspaper and the radio. This handout will be repaid by a more visible nationalism and "reporting" government propaganda without scrutiny.
The EPA will be worthless. More Americans will become infected with industry-related illnesses after pollution becomes as irrelevant as "collateral damage." The people's state forests will continue to be clear-cut, the profits handed to Republican-donating timber barons. The lead and mercury levels in the nation's drinking water will increase as well as Alzheimer's, autism and other brain-related diseases.
Halliburton and GE will grow from rebuilding contracts that will be paid by the lower class taxpayers. More third world countries will be put in debt by the IMF and WTO, securing more aggression towards the richest nation in the world. Religious intolerance, oil demand and starvation will aggravate more wars for the rich to profit from.
In other words, expect more of the same.
Chris on 11.03.04 @ 07:31 PM PST [link]