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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Top Priority. (period)
Re-channeling
the Energy cash, redirecting billions in subsidies from oil
to clean energy development is a concept finding traction in new
legislation.
The kids are taking action worldwide with groups like Youth
Against Climate Change, and Friends
of the Earth, while the International
Eco-Schools Network are connecting students, teachers and programs
worldwide.
"In ARTICLES
OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH, the experts at one of
our nation's leading institutions of constitutional scholarship,
the Center for Constitutional Rights, set out the legal arguments
for impeachment in a clear, concise, and objective discussion. In
four separate articles of impeachment detailing four separate
charges –warrantless surveillance, misleading Congress
on the reasons for the Iraq war, violating laws against torture,
and subverting the Constitution’s separation of powers –
it is, say the CCR attorneys, a case of black letter law, with abundant
evidence." -
Creator of Independent
World Television (IWT), Paul
Jay:
"Tell the world you have a right
to know. Build independent world television... What television
is doing, and to some extent the big-media print press -- is they're
treating propaganda as news. They're allowing political forces and
corporate forces to create a façade of how the world looks.
And they're reporting on the façade as if it's real. I liken
it to professional wrestling...wrestling press can talk about wrestling
theater as if it's something real, even though everybody knows it's
theater. Well, the same thing's happening here. If you try to step
outside that as a journalist, they call you partisan...if you do
good journalism, and you allow yourself to come to the conclusions
the facts lead you to, you're called partisan. You're called a liberal
if those facts lead you to a critique of the White House. We have
to break that discourse. We have a right to come to conclusions
based on facts, and not have those facts demeaned with
these political labels. I won't buy into that and our network won't
buy into that. We'll go where the facts lead us. We're not calling
ourselves a liberal network, a progressive network."
On Enviro-Journalism vs.
The Politics of Denial, Bill Moyers:
"The President's contempt for science - for
evidence that mounts everyday - is mind boggling. Here is a man
who was quick to launch a 'preventative war' against Iraq on faulty
intelligence and premature judgment but who refuses to take preventive
action against a truly global menace about which the scientific
evidence is overwhelming."
With 150,000 Marching @
The White House, Cindy Sheehan:
Last weekend, Karl Rove said that I was a clown
and the anti-war movement was "non-existent." I wonder
if the hundreds of thousands of people who showed up today to protest
this war and George's failed policies know that they don't exist.
It is also so incredible to me that Karl thinks that he can wish
us away by saying we aren't real. Well, Karl and Co., we are real,
we do exist and we are not going away until this illegal and immoral
occupation of Iraq is over and you are sent back to the depths of
whatever slimy, dark, and loathsome place you came from. I may be
a clown, Karl, but you are about to be indicted. You also preside
over one of the biggest three-ring, malevolent circuses of all time:
the Bush administration.
On Iraq 'Disintegration',
Prime Minister Saud Al-Faisal:
"The prince said he served on a council of
Iraq's neighboring countries - Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Kuwait
as well as Saudi Arabia - 'and the main worry of
all the neighbors' was that the potential disintegration of Iraq
into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish states would 'bring other countries
in the region into the conflict.' Turkey, he noted, has long threatened
to send troops into northern Iraq if the Kurds there declare independence.
Iran, he asserted, is already sending money and weapons into the
Shiite-controlled south of Iraq and would probably step up its relationship,
should the south become independent. Saudi Arabia has long been
wary of Iran's influence in the region, given that it is a Shiite
theocracy.'This is a very dangerous situation,' he said, 'a very
threatening situation.'- Joel
Brinkley
On London, British MP George
Galloway :
"London has reaped the involvement of Mr. Blair's involvement
in Iraq because, of course, the vast majority of Londoners, and
I have no doubt, the vast majority of the people affected by that
despicable act of mass murder yesterday were opponents of Mr. Blair
and Bush's war on Iraq...We said this would not make the world a
safer place, it would make the world a more dangerous place. And
just like all of the other things we said about the war in Iraq,
sadly, we have been proved right again yesterday, as we have been
so many times."
INDEPENDENT WORLD TELEVISION
It's happening.
IWT is building the world’s first global independent news
network, funded by and for people. IWT is backed by many credible
experts without any funding from governments, corporations or commercial
advertising. M.I.T.'s Tech
Review calls them "DYI TV" frontrunners in what may
be a truly groundbreaking international movement for democracy.
Sounds good. Check the QT video.
HOLDING POWER ACCOUNTABLE WITH FREE SPEECH
by Eric
Alterman / The Nation
"The Bush Administration and its ideological
allies are employing every means available to undermine journalists'
ability to exercise their First Amendment function to hold power accountable.
In fact, the Administration recognizes no such constitutional role
for the press. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card has insisted
that the media "don't represent the public any more than other
people do.... I don't believe you have a check-and-balance function."
"Bush himself, on more than one occasion,
has told reporters he does not read their work and prefers to live
inside the information bubble blown by his loyal minions. Vice President
Cheney feels free to kick the New York Times off his press plane,
and John Ashcroft can refuse to speak with any print reporters during
his Patriot-Act-a-palooza publicity tour, just to compliant local
TV.
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we
create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality--judiciously,
as you will--we'll act again, creating other new realities, which
you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's
actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we
do." For those who didn't like it, another Bush adviser explained,
"Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered
two to one by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working
people who don't read the New York Times or Washington Post or the
LA Times."--
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SUSTAINABILITY IS THE NEW BOTTOM LINE
by Grist Magazine founder Chip
Giller
"...if we turn away from the D.C.-centric
public face of the environmental movement, a very different picture
emerges. In cities nationwide, young professionals are giving environmentalism
a new cultural cachet. They're enjoying the benefits of compact,
well-designed neighborhoods where it's easy to walk and take public
transportation. They're buying shares in Community Supported Agriculture.
They're trading in their SUVs for minis. They're finding that many
of the hippest products clothes, accessories, home furnishings,
appliances are made with environmental concerns in mind.
Sustainability is the new bling. In rural America, residents are
recognizing the potential of wind power, solar energy, biodiesel,
and other green industries to revitalize their communities. Farmers
are discovering the advantages of precision agriculture. Communities
are fighting the stench, pollution, and economic ravages of factory
farms.
Sustainability is the new self-reliance. In churches, mosques, and
temples, religious leaders are taking seriously their responsibility
as stewards of God's creation. They are retrofitting their places
of worship for energy efficiency, spreading the word to their congregations,
banding together to pressure politicians, and asking, ''What would
Jesus drive?"
Sustainability is the new grace. In minority and low-income communities
all over the country, civil rights activists are linking disparate
struggles -- poverty, criminal justice, transportation, climate
change, health -- to continue the path-breaking work of the environmental-justice
movement. Sustainability is the new dream.
In the marketplace, green technologies and industries are among
the fastest growing and most innovative developments. The Toyota
Prius has defied every prediction to become the must-have car. The
organic food business doubles every time you blink. Green architecture
is taking off. Renewable energy, emissions trading, environmentally
conscious investing: Many of the most exciting advances in environmental
thinking are happening in the private sector.
Sustainability is the new bottom line. Business people, religious
leaders, farmers, activists, urban hipsters -- you can't kill a
hydra with that many heads. Environmentalism as a narrowly focused
D.C. lobby might be struggling, but a common-sense conviction that
sustainability is integral to our quality of life and our economic
competitiveness is on the rise. That's as it should be.
This warming, crowded, industrialized planet of ours faces real
and substantive problems, and if we want to protect its inhabitants,
we need creativity and commitment as broad and deep as the problems
we face. That's not the work of a movement; it's the work of a nation."
-- Chip
Giller / Grist Magazine / Boston Globe
Ocean Power Fights Current Thinking at the U.S.
Dept of Energy
(original
article by John Gartner at M.I.T.'s Technology Review)
"The potential energy to be captured
from ocean waves could surpass the other forms of renewable energy
such as solar, wind, or hydropower, according to a recent study
by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a research group
funded by hundreds of utilities.
"According to a report released in January,
2005, the total wave power along the coastlines of the U.S. is approximately
2,100 terrawatt hours per year, nearly as much as all of the electricity
produced by coal and roughly 10 times the total energy produced
by all of the country's hydroelectric plants'...very simply,
new energy sources have always been funded by the federal government,
however, the Department of Energy does not have an ocean energy
program. 'The Department of Energy had a program for ocean energy,
but it was discontinued. The administration is basically a coal
and oil administration.'
"Ocean waves provide
a predictable source of energy that is easily tapped, and
will likely have minimal impact on the environment, but the U.S.
government is not pursuing this renewable resource."
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On recent U.S. arms sales and increased global
insecurity:
"The
decision to go ahead with the jet-fighter deal is a mistake.
I know that we want to be friends with Pakistan because of the terrorism
thing, but you don't fight terrorism with F-16's. F-16's are capable
of nuclear delivery. That's about the only reason Pakistan wants
them. The only people they are in a fight with are in India. India
now will have to get the same thing somehow. So it raises tensions
and stakes without meeting any of our objectives."
-- Larry Pressler, a former Republican senator, South Dakota
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On Agent Orange, denying the effects of U.S. chemical
weapons:
Vietnamese plaintiffs have condemned a US
court's decision to dismiss their legal action against manufacturers
of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
"The defendants argued that the US government
was responsible for how the chemical was used, not the manufacturers."
--- international headlines, mar11
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On
Iraq: the late and legendary
writer, Hunter S. Thompson:
"It was a very advanced, progressive country, had,
what, 90% literacy, health care for the whole entire population.
They were doing well, prosperous, high literacy. Many more book
stores per capita in Iraq than there are in this country. Many.
No more. We bombed their children. We killed their husbands and
wives and we bombed them, and we saw her, and we're going to do
it again. Just random killing like that, mass killing to force a
population to get rid of Saddam so we can move in and take over
and control the oil, God damn it, if that's not evil, I don't know
what would be. You know, Bush, he’s really the evil one in
here. Well, more than just him. We're the Nazis in this game, and
I don't like it. I'm embarrassed and I'm pissed off. Yeah. I mean
to say something and I think a lot of people in this country agree
with me. A lot more never say anything. We'll see what happens to
me if I get my head cut off in the next week by -- it's always unknown
Bush [inaudible] strangers who commit suicide right afterward. No
witnesses. They have a new kind of crime.
MARY SUMA: Is that the CIA kind of crime?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON: Oh, absolutely. Anyone who’s a successful
criminal has got a crime. Absolutely no witnesses, no records. We
can go on and on. I have to be restrained on the subject."
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On Robot Soldiers:
"They don't get hungry. They're not afraid. They don't forget
their orders. They don't care if the guy next to them has just been
shot."
-- Gordon Johnson, Pentagon Joint Forces Command
Freedom defined in Iraq: "Ah,
the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom,
the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom.
I don't know what to do with all this freedom."
-- 26-year-old translator Akeel
in Baghdad.
Journalist Christian Parenti,
offers his first-hand observations:
"Americans simply do not know what is occurring because television
news does not cover the facts. So Americans are free to think that
there is really all of this good work going on and schools are being
rebuilt. Basically believing that everything is getting better every
day and in every way. A lot of people believe that because they
only watch television and they simply have no idea of what's going
on in the region. Then there is an entire segment of the population
who are so ideologically committed to a racist, often religious,
American nationalism that they do not care what the facts are, and
actively don't want to hear any facts that contradict their worldview
of the U.S. as a righteous victim that goes out and helps people.
But, by and large, most Americans don't know, don't understand,
and don't know how to figure it out.
Journalist Christian Parenti is a rare correspondent
having been 'embedded' on both sides of war: with the U.S. military
and the Iraqi resistance.
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On Bush's Inaugural
Address:
'America positions itself as the moral arbiter of the world, it
pronounces on the virtues of all other regimes, it tells the rest
of the world whether they are good or evil,' he said. 'No one else
does that. America singles itself out. And so the gap between what
it says and what it does is blindingly obvious -- and for most of
us, extremely annoying.' (That gap just grew a lot bigger)
- an Indian businessman
On Presidential Criticism: Theodore Roosevelt,
from part of an editorial he wrote for the "Kansas City Star"
during World War I:
"The President is merely the most important among a large number
of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to
the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct,
his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested
service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary
that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts,
and this means that it is exactly necessary to
blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right.
Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile.
To announce that there must be no criticism
of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right
or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken
about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell
the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one
else."
"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", May 7, 1918.
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SCUBA DIVERS SURVIVE TSUNAMIS
IN THAILAND
- "So on the morning
of the 26th I met Carl, Niko and Kelly at my dive shop
to go fun diving. We left the beach at around 10:15am,
fifteen minutes before the wave hit. We were heading
out without a clue as to what was going on behind us.
As we neared our dive site we noticed the water was
acting really weird, forming whirlpools, peaking - it was
a weird colour. The currents were crazy. The three of us jumped
in
and were whisked away from the island. The long tail boat we
were diving from had picked us up and dropped us in a bay
where it was calmer, although the currents were still all
over the place. We dropped down deep hoping the currents
would be better further down, but they were just as insane.
It was a pretty good dive as we were flying all over the place,
although I was having my first underwater videography dive which
proved to be a little challenging.
Upon surfacing we noticed that there were no
dive boats around
when they all should have been there. We found them all huddled
together with some speedboats and ferries just outside the bay.
Our first thought was that there must be missing divers until
we saw debris floating everywhere: tables, chairs, dive tanks, food,
empty bags...the next thought, though, was that a supply ship must
have sunk and that they were looking for survivors. We had no radio
and the boat captain just kept saying 'bad water'. A dive boat went
past shouting not to go in as it was too dangerous but was gone
before we could ask why.
Our boat started running low on fuel, so as we
got closer to shore it became apparent that something pretty bad
had happened. You could see all the way through to the other beach
where trees and buildings
had once been in the way. Long tail boats were piled in heaps and
buildings were in the water. When we reached shore I ran up to my
dive shop passing a guy covered in blood who couldn't talk, and
another who said a tidal wave had hit and there were dead people
everywhere. I was shouting for Pju, my manager who we'd left in
the shop that morning. The shop was still standing but it was gutted.
Someone shouted that another wave was coming so we dropped our gear
and ran with everyone to find higher ground. Climbing the
stairs of a building I found a first-aid station full of injured
people, the ones that could walk were climbing the hill behind to
join the hundreds already up there. After about 15 minutes it was
apparent that the wave wasn't coming so some of us went to loot
the
pharmacies for whatever dry supplies we could find. I found a young
Thai girl soaking wet, vomiting, diahorhea and in shock so I cleaned
her up, gave her dry clothes, rehydration salts and water and left
her
where a food station was being set up. Two hours later she took
herself downstairs and died.
Back at the first aid station most people were
being seen to.
Thats the good thing about Phi Phi, most divers are first aiders
too.
I found a Thai guy lying on a mat with no visible injuries. He was
holding his stomach and moaning. I moved his hands and saw a
growing black bruise... internal bleeding. We had just
seen a helicopter airlifting on the other beach so I
got six guys and we made a stretcher and carried him to
where the helicopter was evacuating. It took half an
hour to climb over the rubble and bodies.
From then on rescue teams formed, divers and whatever
tourists we could get to help, and we all worked in different areas
locating and loading people onto stretchers and over to the evac
point. Four medics were dropped along with food and water, but no
rescue teams to help. We had to leave a guy who we could hear but
couldn't see. He was buried under two meters of rubble and a roof
and we couldn't move it. He was screaming not to leave him but we
promised to be back as soon as it was light as rescue
teams would surely have arrived with some equipment.
Did they? No. The only rescue teams we saw were the
guys in orange jump suits who dropped onto the pier
with the Prime Minister to show what a great job they
were doing for the rescue effort. They didn't leave
the pier. Friends had been in their rooms when the
building collapsed in on them trapping them under
water. The building slid into the reservoir where they
managed to get free but not without serious injury.
Another friend woke up swimming amongst sheets of
corrugated iron, and likened it to being in a blender.
Anyway, we all got a couple hours of sleep then
started again at first light doing the same as the day
before. Everyone pulled together really well and
worked their arses off, amazing people who I will
never forget. If we had equipment we could have
reached so many more people. All the resorts were full
to capacity, and all of them were flattened. After we had
reached everyone we could see and checked all the
hotel rooms that were still standing were empty, we
were ordered to evacuate the island, the public health
risk concerning the bodies was already a threat.
The Thai people were amazing in the way they looked after
everyone with food, accomodation, water and clothes.
Individuals, Buddhist monks and nuns - everyone was
trying to help. We bought some clothes for friends in the
hospital who had lost everything and went to see them.
It was good to see that some of the injured we helped were
ok too, but it was complete chaos at the hospital - not
just the injured- but all the people trying to
volunteer their services to help as well. There was no
coordination. It was so hectic.
So it was then I decided to come home and try
to go through the proper channels. So, we (my dive crew were mostly
together now) headed up to Bangkok where we were met by the British
Embassy who informed us that it would cost £400 to
fly home. That was allright for those of us who didn't lose everything,
but not for six of my friends right there who had. We were invited
to dinner with the former Prime Minister (some of the survivors
from Phi Phi) who was disgusted to hear that our embassy didn't
do more.
Sweden was even worse. Anyway, I am home now, feeling a little lost
and a whole lot of other emotions. Most of my friends and I
were extremely lucky, my thoughts are with those families who have
lost their loved ones. The focus is now on helping the people who
have survived, so if you havn't donated to the DEC yet, or whoever
your coordinating charity is, please just give whatever you
are able to."
--- Terri Young
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Nomads
Café
2007 News and Happenings
December 13, 2007:
Energy Slick in Congress:
"Oil companies are celebrating in their boardrooms."
Wind and solar energy interests get narrowly defeated (again)
in a recent energy bill.
Step
it Up, Congress! - Communities are uniting on climate
action now. April 14th looks to be the day hundreds of groups
nationwide plan to rally for a 80% reduction in greenhouse
gases by 2050.
Noam Chomsky's Nation article "How
To Stop A Showdown With Iran" acknowledges that 'an
attack on Iran would effectively launch WWIII.'
The Nation printed The
Impeachment of George W. Bush and now
you can join John Conyers as he prepares a certain case
for the required Articles
of Impeachment.
Arthur
magazine throws a ball in Los Angeles that furthers the rumour
that this rag could be the next young New
Yorker.
Free
Press co-founders John Nichols and Bob McChesney stoke
the indy media movement in LA while on a national tour for
their new
buzzbook, "Tragedy and Farce: How
the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy
Democracy."
IWT
reports on the broadcast of "Fallujah: the
Hidden Massacre"; Truthout
posts a grizzly segment (QT)
rife with evidence of U.S. hypocrisy in Iraq ie. U.S. troops
detailing the use of chemical weapons.
Broken
Social Scene puts on an amazing show at Henry Fonda Theater
in LA with Feist.
The
World Can't Wait rallies in 200 cities nationwide to "drive
out the Bush regime"; Bush hears
more in Argentina (QT).
The Army admits dumping
millions of pounds of WMD and radioactive waste in the ocean:
"the previously classified weapons-dumping program was
far more extensive than has ever been suspected."
"The
American people deserve better than this"- Libby's
resignation, an unjustified war, thousands dead and an Administration
in denial.
Colin Powell's former chief of staff bluntly
criticizes the Bush Administration, pointing to a cabal
between Cheney and Rumsfeld; the World
Tribunal on Iraq details U.S. war crimes.
iFilm video (QT)
- Jon Stewart dismantles CNN's Crossfire.
Santa Monica says goodbye to "urban
legend" and Alabama- sweetheart Liz
Roberson.
The CIA leak gets a mile-long explanation
in the NYTimes as The
Nation digs deeper.
The Vote
to Impeach rally is on. Led by former
U.S. Attorney-G. Ramsey Clark. See the NYTimes ad,
or you can sign
here.
Fudge
Factory Comics holds an amazing show in Silverlake.
Innocent
Voices is an incredible true story about kids recruited
for war; now screening at Laemmle
Theater and reviewed
by The Nation's editor-in-chief.
Independent
World Television interviews Republican activist Pamela
De Maigret (QT
video).
The Anti-war movement goes massive
in the USA while the Saudi prime minister warns
the Administration of a Mid East meltdown.
Laemmle Theatres are now playing The
Future of Food, a compelling documentary
on scary and stupid big business happening now with
our food.
The WB launches a trippy darkside drama,
Supernatural.
Dara
Waxman and multimedia artists make Fantazius
at downtown LA's Spring
Towers.
Alternative
Radio's "Resistance & The Role of Artists"
by Howard Zinn rethinks power.
Truthout's
William Rivers Pitt illuminates facts since 9/11.
PBS' Now talks
sense with Operation
Truth's 20-year vet First Seargent Jeffries (QT
video).
Tax cuts for the rich + war and hurricane
horror
for the poor = lots of unnecessary death, anger
at home and abroad. Over 1/2 million Americans say it's
time to impeach President Bush.
Basquiat's brilliant art
at The Museum of Contemporary Art combos with Saturday nite
jive.
U.S. soldiers kill a Reuters soundman
- the 66th journalist killed in Iraq, surpassing the 20-year
total in Vietnam (63).
The
Brian Jonestown Massacre blow 1600 minds at the new Vanguard
in Hollywood.
As the Administration fails
to deliver legitimate reasons for the death of thousands at
war, one mother stands tall
in Texas.
80s twin-fins in real-deal punk decor make
a world gallery tour.
Ravi
Coltrane gets down in LA.
Exploiting patriotism and misleading citizens
into war is wrong. Reps can rep
the truth.
Respect Member of Parliament George Galloway
and others tell it like it is in London.
A Supreme Court is changing.
Bush's
blatant lies about Iraq ignore
the true reasons why Americans are dying. The big Q: 'Why
Do They Hate Us?'
PBS airs Private
Warriors and the value of public media (CPB)
holds its own despite near-miss budget cuts and a continued
need for non-partisan programming.
Congressman Conyers hammers
the Washington Post for its article which failed to describe
a Democratic hearing "to find out whether more than 1700
Americans have died because of a deliberate lie".
The
Downing Street Memo spells impeachment
to many: Americans are realizing
our government probably made up reasons to go to war in Iraq.
The U.S.
Press could reclaim a spine too - raise necessary questions
and report some real
news ie. why is US Rep. John Conyers' holding a public
hearing June
16 in D.C.?
This QT video
of John Bolton says a lot about this person's eligibility
as a U.N. diplomat.
Sustainability
is becoming the new bottom line.
M.I.T. reports
that New Jersey's Ocean
Power Technologies, Inc. is building a wave energy system
in Hawaii for the Navy while the UK
and British parliament jump onboard.
The Bush Administration ok's
the sale of F-16s to Pakistan despite India and Pakistan's
friction and nuclear capability.
Within the U.S., anti-war protests from
Hollywood to Fort
Bragg will attract thousands Saturday with many troops
speaking out at the 2nd anniversary of the war. Find
local protests here.
Tree Media and Leonardo DiCaprio hit it
on the head here
while The NY Times makes Administration propaganda
the headline
news.
Hunter
S. Thompson apparently committed suicide and Democracy
Now (!) recalls an interesting
interview in 2003.
The World Tribunal on Iraq finds the U.S.
and British guilty of impeding their journalists, the
Blogosphere
finishes another, while the fact remains that more
journalists were killed in Iraq during a 14-month period
than the entire Vietnam War.
The biggest military contract in American
history goes to killer
robots while indie media reveal shocking
and awful history.
LA bands Waking
Benny and Lettuce Prey
are now gigging.
The work of Carlo
Battaglia was recently featured at a NYC
art exhibit next to modern masters Jackson Pollock and
Warhol.
With access to both sides of the conflict,
journalist Christian Parenti describes what
kind of freedom exists in Iraq.
Award-winning surf
filmmaker Timmy Turner takes his big-hearted family and
friends to Indo to
deliver massive aid (1,
2)
to tsunami victims. His mom, owner of Sugar
Shack in HB,
even caught her first wave.
Mike Lenert and Fran Battaglia are now booking
shows as Lettuce Prey.
CD coming soon.
M.I.T. reports the U.S. Army plans to deploy
'robo-soldiers'
to Iraq in March or April.
World
Social Forum heads to Brazil for a Jan 26-31 session-
a smart meeting of civil society on a global scale sounds
cool.
Jimmy
Chamberlain Complex cuts loose at Knitting Factory.
W
dances
the war away and confuses much of the globe with
unprecedented 'freedom' rhetoric. Truthout
and Gore
Vidal examine the inaugural experience.
Bush refuses
wrongdoing: "We had an accountability moment, and
it's called the 2004 elections." 2005
could be the Year of the Facts. Hundreds
of events protest W tomorrow.
People of
faith remember King.
International student Terri Young and her
friends survive the tsunamis in Thailand while diving offshore.
The election system is broken
yet the election results are definitely legit. This
makes no sense but Sen. Barbara Boxer still makes history
as the lone Senator to challenge the vote.
The award-winning website WorldChanging.com
is steering aid
for tsunami
reconstruction efforts amid horrific losses.
USA
electoral fight: "Over half the votes cast
in Ohio and the nation were recorded on electronic voting
machines owned by Republicans, with no audit trail."
Norway's Turbonegro at the House
of Blues on Dec 20th, possibly the best rock n
roll show
on the planet today.
The 'average' family in Iraq hangs
tough and the world continues
to roll with hope while The Nation revisits
"The
Year in Outrage".
Diebold technicians alter the recount and
citizens plea
for national media exposure in Ohio where "American
Democracy Hangs by a Thread."
Bruce Irons wins the
Eddie Aikau contest in Hawaii as good
surf heads for the West Coast.
Operation
Truth and US troops' "Ground Truth" documentary
premieres a first cut in NYC.
Dang!
Yang Enterprises is accused of making fraudulent voting software
in Florida. Hell!
Ohio's Supreme Court ok's the vote with every case of e-vote
error favoring Bush-Cheney!
Collective punishment
in Iraq blatantly crosses the line with the mass murder of
civilians.
Evidence
of U.S. Election Fraud.
Sam
Kirszencwajgm kicked open a new gallery
Dec 4th in LA, while Neko
Case lit up the El Rey Theater across the street
with beautiful
music.
The chilling film The
Future of Food will definitely get you to the Farmer's
Market. 'Free'
Sub Pop recording artists Wolf
Eyes stretch
ears
at The Echo.
MSNBC's 'Vote Fraud' video clip (must see)
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