Green Party Candidates’ videos on YouTube.com – Nov 1, 2006

Green Party Candidates’ videos can be found on YouTube.com, this is by no means an exhaustive list.
Please share these videos with those who have not had a chance to hear these candidates speak.

Rae Vogler:

Vogler: Telling It Like It Is 0:29

Vogler: Another WI Senator with a Spine! 2:50

Vogler: John Nichols interview; Vote in your interests, not your fears 3:44

Vogler: John Nichols interview; Rae represents working Wisconsinites 3:45

Vogler: John Nichols interview; discusses the roots of her political activism 4:08

Vogler: Interview 8:45

voterae.org; website

 

Eisman:

Eisman; Debate! 4:51

Eisman; Priceless 0:36

Eisman; Pre-debate ad 0:29

Eisman; Post-debate ad 0:29

Eisman; HUGE 0:45

Eisman for Wisconsin; website

 

Howie Hawkins, running against Hilary in NY:

Howie Hawkins for U.S. Senator 2006 not Hillary Clinton! 7:18

Howie Hawkins Green Party US Senate – TV Spot 0:30

 

Hawkins at Debate Protest 6:24

 

Howie not Hillary (in less then a minute) 0:56

 

In this interview Hawkins presents great plans for three major planks of the Green platform.
Howie Hawkins Interviewed by Don DeBar WBAI on his platform 7:47 (part 1 of 3)

Voterevolution – Sep 30, 2006

Congressman Ryan brings it 3:03; 12,000,000$/hr in Iraq, like it says, he loses it!
‘Shadow Company’ Trailer 2:50; the one that really got me the most of the whole following list.

It hurts deep, life is ever cheaper than cheap; good thing info is even cheaper! media to the people, media to the people! right on!
I thought we would be hearing from our vets in the streets, today’s boys are more savy, they have it on video, and they know how to share it:

New Homegrown Documentaries Industry Makes Timely Agitprop

These films are following a new marketing paradigm for civically focused documentaries.
Eshewing the profits that go with major markets inclined to shut out content like this anyway, they aim for direct sales motivated by hosting free screenings.
As a marketing strategy this is more concerned with getting out the word than it is effective at turning a profit.
In one of the following clips (Preview of Interview with Robert Greenwald 2:44; of ‘High Price of Low Prices’), Robert Greenwald speaks to the appeal
that being invited to see it by co-workers, freinds, and family has for people who would not want to help fund the film.An exciting new documentary ‘the War Tapes’,made of footage by the troops on the ground, is playing this coming week,
fri oct 6th, thru thurs. 12th, at Times Cinema, at 5906 W Vliet St, Milwaukee, WI., at 7 & 9:00pm, with a 3pm matinee on sunday.
You can see the trailer at thewartapes.com/trailer, and look up screenings atthewartapes.com/screenings;
though it is not nearly as well developed, or populated, as the list for the following one, which is sure to propagate much better online.

Recently released, and aimed effectively at small showings by citizens, is Robert Greenwald’s ‘Iraq for Sale’Trailers,
hook up with locals who will show it to you at iraqforsale.org/screenings.php.
Go meet new people, or, better yet, buy the DVD (‘Iraq for Sale’), and host a party (screenings.php), where you can meet freinds new and old.

Another similar documentary telling the soldiers’ tale now showing locally is The Ground Truth,
which is also not quite as booked online as Robert Greenwald funded Brave New films’ ‘Iraq for Sale’.
As I have yet to see any of these three, I cannot yet speak to whether the better movie was made by money, or vets, but my opinion is not one that matters.
The Ground Truth screenings can be found here, enter your zip code and radius, or see recent Milwaukee listings here.

There’s more! a film that combines the others’ themes, by focussing on the civilian contractor “vets” perspective.
‘Shadow Company’, the (2:50) Trailer for which is quite promising.
Also, “Soldiers Speak Out” (Trailer 4:51), which appears to have quite the online activist community behind them.
So, we have four videos from those who have fought there, and two on profiteering, one of which is both.
Five fine films due largely to the efforts of those who served.

youtube.com has also given me back some of what the media used to offer, it is there for example, that I became aware of the fact that there is this one guy,
Jack Cafferty (War Crimes Immunity: “What Are We Becoming?”“Just Do It!”), that just might make ‘TV’ worth watching again,
the paradigm of grassroots marketing as conciously elaborated by Robert Greenwald (inPreview of Interview with Robert Greenwald),
and this well spoken young man’s Re: War Crimes Immunity: “What Are We Becoming?”3:56.

The following is a youtube “playlist” focussed on ‘Iraq for Sale’ trailers and bonus footage, as well as Haliburton stuff:

Preamble:

Iraq Vets; Free Fire Zones 2:00; Rob Serra’s turning point.

Vets pics; All is Not Okay 4:03; homegrown, with Seether track.

Falujha Finalle 3:38

Truthout Vet; Demoralized 3:34

First, Haliburton’s version:

Halliburton; Proud to Serve Our Troops 0:29

Halliburton ad; Message from CEO David Lesar 0:29

Halliburton TV spot; It’s a Girl! 0:31

What if Halliburton’s CEO came clean? 1:13

Then the “media”:

Cafferty File: Sweetheart Halliburton Contracts 1:18

MSNBC; Robert Greenwald on Countdown with Keith Olbermann 6:11

MSNBC; ‘Iraq for Sale’ “plugged” 1:02

CNBC; Robert Greenwald 4:34

ABC; Robert Greenwald 3:02

CNN; Military contractors shoot civilians 2:20

Trophy video exposes private security contractors shooting 2:29; full vid on youtube, speaks for itself.

CNN; Iraqi Imprisoned Eight Months for Having Cell Phone 3:21; “perhaps 1 in 1,000, to 1 in 10,000 could”, “risky indeed”, never mind, I’m cured of TV again.

CNN; War Professor says military ops in Iran already 7:02

BBC; Why We Fight – Contractor Cheney and Facilitated Corruption 3:08

Olbermann to Bush, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” 2:43

Journalists Targeted in Iraq 5:06

Then, Brave New Films (Iraq for Sale / Robert Greenwald):

‘Iraq for Sale’ bonus scene: Soldiers outsourced to KBR 2:01; “wait around while the KBR contractors do the job I had to train them to do”

Pursuing the War Profiteers for Interviews 3:49; (the value of records).

Halliburton lies about ‘Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers’ 2:50 (the value of archiving phone calls).

‘Iraq for Sale’ bonus scene: Blackwater 5:54

The Tale of Prince – A War Profiteer 2:58

CACI made $$ torturing at Abu Ghraib then covered it up 4:36; viewer response?

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers – teaser trailer 3:07

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers – Teaser 2 3:07

Iraq for Sale NYC Premiere 2:48

Brave New Films introduction 5:24

Preview of Interview with Robert Greenwald 2:44; talks about walmart film.

Robert Greenwald speaks about Walmart at SALON (Oct. 2005)5:06

The Other Films:

The War Tapes 9:53; part 1 of 10 (apparently the entire movie on youtube free)

Addenda:

Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey USMC speaks 5:09

This guy has George W Bush down pat. Very funny. 3:05

Go Hallibruton Go 9:16; pt. 1 of 4.

David Rovics: Halliburton Boardroom Massacre 2:51

David Rovics on New Orleans 4:09

Dahr Jamail on War Profiteering in Iraq 10:11

Anti-Flag; 1 Trillion Dollar$ 2:36

One People, One Struggle 3:09

Veterans for Peace; Mike Hastie 4:01

Confessions of a Wal-Mart Hit Man 10:19

Jim Page;When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again 3:56

NOFX- You’re Wrong 2:14

The World According to Monsanto – 08 July 2009

http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=105 - 1:48:57

There is not much that is more wrong with the world than what you will learn about
from this video; i usually try to focus on the up side, on what is good,
all the things that can be done to make things right, on prescriptive info about what to do,
but it is vitally important you not let Monsanto do to you and yours.

It is vitally important to know what we must stop, especially the wholesale poisoning of us,
our food, and the Earth .

http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=105 

Click & Clack Look at the Future of Cars – 02 July 2009

http://www.hulu.com/watch/63742/nova-car-of-the-future?c=News-and-Information - Car of the Future

Cellulosic fermentation, hydrogen, Iceland, better engines, better materials, better designs, historic patterns;
The Car Guys of Public Radio join teams with Nova to make the future of cars fun and easy to understand.

Watching Nova when you want to, one reason Hulu.com rocks.
Time to put easy chairs in front of our computers? or time to buy a new one and throw out your TV?
Two questions asked about your near future for the price of 53:22.

Cynthia McKinney in Gazaland Part 2 – 29 June 2009

Washington, DC | June 30, 2009 | www.adc.org |

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) condemns
the Israeli naval commandeering of a ship carrying humanitarian
supplies to the besieged territory of Gaza. Please sign this online petition @:

http://capwiz.com/adc/issues/alert/?alertid=13656986

Sign this petition for FreeGaza! to call for the release of the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY and crew,
including Cynthia McKinney and Mairead Maguire.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/641/t/2439/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27540

Here is the message that we are going to append:
On June 30th, 2009, the Israeli navy attacked, boarded, and captured the humanitarian aid ship,
the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY while it was in international waters, heading toward the Port of Gaza.
The Isreali navy kidnapped the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY’s 21 crew and passengers, including former
U.S. Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney and Irish Nobel Peace Laurate, Mairead Maguire.
Please take action to call for the release of these brave humanitarian aid workers who were trying to
deliver medical supplies, humanitarian aid, and children’s toys to the people of Gaza who are
still suffering from the consequences of Israel’s deadly assault in December 2008/January 2009.

Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/29205195@N02/

First, ongoing “Be the Media” self coverage channels:

http://www.freegaza.org/

http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/hope-fleet-news

http://www.livestream.com/dignity

http://twitter.com/dignityaction

http://twitter.com/cynthiamckinney

http://twitter.com/LatestGazaNews

http://www.youtube.com/user/gazafriends

http://dignity.ning.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/gazafriends

http://www.myspace.com/dignityaction

http://www.myspace.com/runcynthiarun

http://www.facebook.com/CynthiaMcKinney

WBAI-in-Exile (wbaix) audio stream
http://www.livestream.com/wbaix
More Injustice in the Middle East!
Your World News – Date / Time: 6/30/2009 10:00 PM
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news
Dignity Action Movement
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=108893212448&id=108382693351&ref=mf#/pages/Dignity-Action-Movement/108382693351

Commentary from Cynthia McKinney
http://www.gp.org/cynthia/index.php

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29205195@N02/

Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/29205195@N02/


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JULY 2

Action Alert: Protests in front of Israeli embassies tomorrow – 02 July 2009 20:25
http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/56-news

Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister called for release of Irish activists detained – 02 July 2009 18:17
http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/56-news/980-irelands-foreign-affairs-minister-called-for-release-of-irish-activists-detained

Video & Transcript – Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Speaks from
Israeli Jail Cell After Arrest on Boat Delivering Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/2/nobel_peace_laureate_mairead_maguire_speaks

Cynthia McKinney calls WBAIX from Israeli prison – 2:46
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPvzSZRu

McKinney & Free Gaza Activists Won’t Sign Statement Of Guilt; Will Remain In Prison Longer – July 2nd
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/07/02/mckinney-will-remain-in-prison-longer/

Union urges end to threats to boat carrying journalists – 2nd July 2009
http://www.nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=1274

McKinney held in Israel, to be returned to U.S.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/02/mckinney.israel.gaza/index.html?eref=rss_latest

Ex-Rep. McKinney says she remains held in Israeli prison
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2009/07/excongresswoman-remains-held-in-israel.html

Personal phone calls and messages from Cynthia:

July 2, about 11:30 AM:

We just received a report that Cynthia refused to sign a deportation order which
contained a statement that she violated the Israeli blockade.
The US Embassy said that Israeli law requires that inmates who refuse to sign a
deportation must be kept in jail for 3 days before they are sent away.
By this measure, It will be Sunday before we know when and if she will leave Israel.

Don DeBar

July 2, at 1:33am
Cynthia McKinney was able to get a call out to a colleague, Don Debar,
she sends a message that she is fine, keep calling, faxing and emailing.
Keep protesting, too! She is being held at the Ramle Prison in Israel…
she has seen an attorney today provided by Free Gaza.
She had no information on any of the 21 being released.
Mairead Maguire is possibly being held or detained somewhere else.
FREE the FREE GAZA 21!
Demand that Israel return the ship along with the DANGEROUS CARGO–CRAYONS!

“We were in international waters on a boat delivering humanitarian aid to people in Gaza when the
Israeli Navy ships surrounded us and illegally threatened us, dismantled our navigation
equipment, boarded and confiscated the ship.

John Judge (Press Secretary during the 2008 campaign) sent this tonight:
I just got a call from former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney from inside
an Israeli prison at Ramale where she and 20 other humanitarian aid workers from
9 different countries are still being held by Israeli authorities.
US Embassy officials have spoken to Ms. McKinney and are aware of the situation.
Four of the group are US citizens. Among them is Mairead Maguire, from Ireland,
a Nobel laureate and renowned peace activist. They have named themselves the
“Free Gaza 21.” They are demanding their release.
All those aboard were taken off the ship and into custody, and brought into Israel
and imprisoned. Immigration officials in Israel said they did not want to keep them,
but they remain imprisoned.
State Department and White House Officials have not effected their release or taken a
strong public stance to condemn the illegal actions of the Israeli Navy, enforcing a
blockade of humanitarian assistance that has been condemned by President Obama.

 

JULY 1

We are NOT the “Story”, It’s Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers – 01 July 2009 13:22
http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/hope-fleet-news/979-we-are-not-the-story-its-not-just-our-21-kidnapped-passengers

Press Conference, Today, Journalist House, Nicosia, 17:00-17:30
http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/56-news/978-press-conference-today-journalist-house-nicosia-1700-1730

MIDEAST:  Nobel Laureate ‘Abducted’ by Israeli Navy
By Mel Frykberg – RAMALLAH, Jul 1
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=4748

Human rights activists ‘arrested’ off Gaza coast
British and Irish people are among a group of 21 human rights activists arrested by
the Israeli authorities, campaigners claimed. – 10:44PM BST 30 Jun 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/5703146/Human-rights-activists-arrested-off-Gaza-coast.html

McKinney still held on ship of activists detained by Israel
By KENT A. MILES -  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Wednesday, July 01, 2009
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2009/07/01/mckinney_detained_gaza_israel.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

JUNE 30

ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS;
CONFISCATES MEDICINE, TOYS AND OLIVE TREES
http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/hope-fleet-news/976-israel-attacks-justice-boat-kidnaps-human-rights-workers-confiscates-medicine-toys-and-olive-trees

Call off your attack dogs – Cynthia McKinney
Tuesday, 30 June 2009 01:15
http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/hope-fleet-news/970-call-off-your-attack-dogs-cynthia-mckinney

Green Party: President Obama and the US State Dept. must demand release of Cynthia
McKinney and 20 other human rights activists on Free Gaza relief boat seized by
Israeli gunboats – 2009-06-30 Washington, DC
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=230

Barghouthi condemns Israeli attack on Free Gaza ship
Date: 30 / 06 / 2009  Time:  21:06
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&Do=&ID=38931
We Do Not Seek a Confrontation
Posted on June 30, 2009
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/we-do-not-seek-a-confrontation/
COMMENTS
McKinney, Gaza aid workers kidnapped by Israeli navy on high seas – Audio report by Don DeBar
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-288279
COMMENTS
Israel Attacks Humanitarian Boat, Kidnaps Occupants
by HansBennett
Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 11:53:07 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/30/748455/-Israel-Attacks-Humanitarian-Boat,-Kidnaps-Occupants
COMMENTS
http://hansbennett.dailykos.com/
Evil peace by bebacker  – Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 08:35:40 PM PDT
Oh you peace activists! Why are you spending your time to fight for peace?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/30/748619/-Evil-peace
COMMENTS
ISRAEL SEIZES AID SHIP TO GAZA
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20090630_israel_seizes_aid_ship_to_gaza/
COMMENTS
Cynthia McKinney Reportedly Taken Captive By Israeli Navy
http://world911truth.org/cynthia-mckinney-reportedly-taken-captive-by-israeli-navy/
COMMENTS

Cynthia McKinney and Free Gaza Team: update on journey – June 30th, 2009

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/06/cynthia-mckinney-and-free-gaza-team-update-on-journey/
COMMENTS

http://unitedprogressives.us/:

Cindy Sheehan demands the immediate release by Israel of the kidnapped aid workers on the boat:
The Spirit of Humanity.
http://unitedprogressives.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=236:cindy-sheehan-demands-the-immediate-release-by-israel-of-the-kidnapped-aid-workers-on-the-boat-the-spirit-of-humanity&catid=196:news-release&Itemid=84 

Israel Kidnaps Humanitarian Workers in International Waters – 30 June 2009 11:56
http://unitedprogressives.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=235:israel-kidnaps-humanitarian-workers-in-international-waters&catid=196:news-release&Itemid=84

FreeGaza Boat With Cynthia McKinney Under Seige
http://unitedprogressives.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=232:freegaza-boat-with-cynthia-mckinney-under-seige&catid=39:middle-east&Itemid=84
COMMENTS

Nobel Laureate Taken from Boat by Israeli Navy – June 30
http://www.wavespr.com/press/541/
COMMENTS
BBC: Boat Carrying Cynthia McKinney Held by Israeli Forces
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=131972&catid=8
COMMENTS
Israel’s Seize Former Congresswoman and Nobel Laureate on Humanitarian Aid Ship on Route to Gaza – Jun-30-2009 22:39
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/june302009/israeli_kidnappers_6-30-09.php
COMMENTS

Cynthia McKinney Demands Immediate Release After Her Gaza-Bound Boat is Seized by Israeli Navy

Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party leader Cynthia McKinney, a longtime activist for the Palestinians,
says her boat, the Spirit of Humanity, was carrying medical supplies, cement, olive trees and
children’s toys to Gaza when it was seized by an Israeli navy ship.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 FOXNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/30/cynthia-mckinney-aboard-boat-seized-israeli-navy-demands-immediate-release/
COMMENTS – SOME HOSTILE (yes you probably should)
Cynthia McKinney Aboard Boat Headed for Gaza, Intercepted by Israeli Naval Force
The ex-congresswoman and long-time activist for the Palestinians was among a group of individuals turned back after their boat tried to enter Israeli waters in an attempt to land in Gaza to distribute medical supplies.
FOXNews.com – Tuesday, December 30, 2008
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/30/mckinney-aboard-boat-headed-gaa-intercepted-israeli-naval-force/
Jun 30, 2009 17:56
IDF Navy intercepts Gaza-bound ship
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246296538815&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
COMMENT – SOME HOSTILE
Free Gaza boat stopped by Navy -  Jun 30, 2009 7:43
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1245924956736&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

COMMENT – SOME HOSTILE

Israeli Navy takes control of aid boat headed for Gaza

Small ferry carrying medical supplies that set sail from Cyprus Monday with
21 peace activists, medical supplies intercepted off Strip’s shore;
passengers say army jammed boat’s radio signals
Ali Waked, Anat Shalev – 06.30.09, 16:18 / Israel News

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3739369,00.html
COMMENTS – MOSTLY HOSTILE
Cynthia McKinney relief boat reportedly attacked
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/cynthia_mckinney_relief_boat_reportedly_attacked/
COMMENTS – MOSTLY HOSTILE
Israel halting the Spirit of Humanity activist boat isn’t tenth as bad as you make of it June 30
http://shai-deshe.com/?p=107
COMMENTS – MOSTLY HOSTILE
“Free Gaza” deja vu – June 30, 2009
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2009/06/free-gaza-deja-vu.html
COMMENTS – MOSTLY HOSTILE
Israel Abducts U.S. Congresswoman, International Humanitarian Aid Workers (Update)
Posted: 2009/06/30
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=621013
Gaza humanitarian aid boat ‘seized’
Press Association, Tuesday June 30 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/8585241
Israel stops aid ship to Gaza
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009630134729211311.html

How Israel’s naval blockade denies Gazans food, aid (and 45,000 jobs)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0701/p06s02-wome.html
Israel navy intercepts boat with ex-U.S. Rep. McKinney
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/30/israel.gaza.mckinney/index.html
Pirateria di stato, ‘Spirit of humanity’ del Free Gaza attaccata e dirottata da navi da guerra israeliane.
SCRITTO IL 2009-06-30
http://www.infopal.it/11562-pirateria-di-stato-&%2339;spirit-of-humanity&%2339;-del-free-gaza-attaccata-e-dirottata-da-navi-da-guerra-israeliane.html
Arab League Chief condemns Israeli offensive on “Spirit of Humanity”
www.chinaview.cn  2009-07-01 02:47:02
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/01/content_11629976.htm

Pro-Palestinian movement accuses Israel of “abducting” activists

www.chinaview.cn  2009-07-01 01:11:45
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/01/content_11629908.htm
Israeli navy takes control of activist ship to Gaza
Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:38pm IST
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-40707020090630

15:40 GMT, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 16:40 UK

Israelis intercept Gaza aid ship
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8127145.stm
Israeli navy takes control of activist ship to Gaza – July 1st, 2009, 9:08 am Amman Time
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=18030
Peace activists set sail for besieged coastal enclave –  June 30th, 2009, 10:40 pm Amman Time
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=18010

 

Cynthia McKinney On Board Gaza Aid Boat Intercepted By Israeli Navy
June 30, 2009 02:05 PM EST
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/30/cynthia-mckinney-on-board_n_223284.html
McKinney aboard boat seized in Gaza – 7:42 p.m. June 30, 2009
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2009/06/30/mckinney_gaza_ship_intercepted.html
Israel Kidnaps Humanitarian Workers in International Waters
Tuesday, 30 June 2009 11:56
http://www.ajc.com/gwinnett/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2008/12/29/cynthia_mckinney_gaza.html
Report: Israeli Navy board aid ship with Irish citizens onboard – 30/06/2009 – 14:19:49
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/ireland/report-israeli-navy-board-aid-ship-with-irish-citizens-onboard-416887.html
Activists Sail To Gaza In Defiance Of Israeli Blockade
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200906290527dowjonesdjonline000146&title=activists-sail-to-gaza-in-defiance-of-israeli-blockade
Israeli navy intercepts Gaza aid ship – June 30, 2009 – 9:59PM
http://www.watoday.com.au/breaking-news-world/israeli-navy-intercepts-gaza-aid-ship-20090630-d3x6.html
Israeli navy commandeers Gaza aid boat – the Associated Press June 30, 2009; 2:05 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063000788.html
Israeli navy commandeers Gaza aid boat – The Associated Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jx1nZQxJbxcsg8CKOJLVLVWTnybAD99557M80

a few related stories from JUNE 30

Collateral damage? – AlJazeeraEnglish – Inside Story – 30 June 09
Details of the Human Rights Watch Study “Precisely Wrong”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWYkGFuDpOk
COMMENTS

Privately run checkpoint stops Palestinians with ‘too much food’
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1096322.html
COMMENTS

UN probe in Gaza: Especially painful testimonies

Richard Goldstone and UN delegates hear testimonies of
Gaza Strip residents as part of UN Human Rights Council’s
investigation of Operation Cast Lead. According to Goldstone,
goal of hearing is to bring story of victims to world -06.30.09, 21:33
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3739538,00.html
COMMENTS
Israeli drones targeted civilians in Gaza: Rights group
June 30th, 2009 – 8:56 pm ICT
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/israeli-drones-targeted-civilians-in-gaza-rights-group_100211480.html
COMMENTS
UN Fact Finding Mission on Gaza Completes 2 Days of Public Hearings Date : 30/6/2009 14:52
http://english.wafa.ps/?action=detail&id=12
Misuse of Israeli Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
30/6/2009   Time : 14:21
http://english.wafa.ps/?action=detail&id=12786

 

Israel allows some food, fuel into besieged Gaza – 30 / 06 / 2009  Time:  09:51
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&Do=&ID=38910
http://topics.cnn.com/topics/cynthia_mckinney
http://topics.cnn.com/topics/gaza_strip

June 29

Pulling Out of Port ; Mission is leaving Larnaca, Cyprus.

1AM EST 6/29/09

Pulling out of the port

from freegaza.org’s photostream @

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29205195@N02/3671400840/

 

FREE GAZA IS LEAVING THE PORT @ LARNACA, CYPRUS

AS OF 1AM EST…6/29/09! http://dignity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/free-gaza-is-leaving-the-port


Cynthia McKinney’s boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza are being

threatened with destruction!  Please contact the White House here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/   Other contacts:   1. U.S. Embassy in Nicosia
011-357-22-393-939
011-357-22-780-944 fax
www.nicosia.usembassy.gov
2. US Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel
011-972-3-519-7575
011-972-3-517-3227 fax
www.telaviv.usembassy.gov

Mr. Richard Jones, Ambassador
3. US Consulate General in Jerusalem, Israel
011-972-2-622-7230
011-972-2-671-5742
www.jerusalem.usconsulate.gov
Mr. Jacob Walles, Consul General

FREE GAZA and SPIRIT OF HUMANITY are determined to sail -by Cynthia McKinney

http://www.opednews.com/articles/FREE-GAZA-and-SPIRIT-OF-HU-by-Cynthia-McKinney-090628-162.html

[Video Free Gaza] Determined to go, 27th June 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9w_zoqXH7o

Audio interview with Cynthia
http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/cynthia.mp3

Cynthia McKinney and Crew Being Kept from Gaza

Posted: 2009/06/26 http://mathaba.net/news/?x=620918

Cynthia McKinney Rejoins Voyage to Defy

US-Israeli Blockade of Gaza- `Sink Us or Arrest Us!`

Posted: 2009/06/26 http://mathaba.net/news/?x=620917

Free Gaza activists vow they will not let Israeli intimidation stop them from sailing again to Gaza

June 26, 2009 -  http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/107722

Breaking!!! Cynthia McKinney aboard detained Free Gaza Movement relief boat
June 25, 2009 - http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=228

June 25th, 2009 – Breaking: Cynthia McKinney Aboard Detained Free Gaza Movement Relief Boat

http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/06/25/breaking-cynthia-mckinney-aboard-detained-free-gaza-movement-relief-boat/

Free Gaza Speaks about the Delayed Departure of the Hope Fleet

http://wilderside.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/free-gaza-speaks-about-the-delayed-departure-of-the-hope-fleet/

BREAKING!!!! Cynthia McKinney and Crew Being Kept from Gaza

http://theinfounderground.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6099

Three years later the siege on the Gaza Strip remains, European-Palestinian resistance ready to sail
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5900

6/25/09: They Denied Us So They Wouldn’t Have to Ram Us!–UPDATED

by Cynthia McKinney - http://www.opednews.com/articles/They-Denied-Us-So-They-Wou-by-Cynthia-McKinney-090625-315.html

THEY DENIED US SO THEY WOULDN’T HAVE TO RAM US! Posted on June 25, 2009

http://dignity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/they-denied-us-so-they-wouldnt

Free Gaza Boats Did Not Leave Cyprus Today – Posted Jun 25, 2009

http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/free_gaza_boats_did_not_leave_cyprus_today/0017429

Cyprus halts aid boats bound for Gaza Strip
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3737002,00.html

Jun 25, 2009 – 16:05 -’Free Gaza’ boats stopped by Cyprus
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1245924929151&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

June 24 – Special Report on Gaza featuring Rep. Cynthia McKinney Audio file – 13:59
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-281664
http://www.livestream.com/wbaix
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7veibj

22nd June 2009 Video Free Gaza News PRESS CONFERENCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWI-5KOBo3o

Group vows to defy Gaza naval blockade
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=298625&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16

U.S. ups pressure on Israel to end Gaza blockade
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093870.html

Free Gaza!
http://www.maxajl.com/?p=1449

US Presidential candidate from Green Party among those
on board ships aimed to break siege on Gaza 21.06.09 -
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5857

Free Gaza movement says to bring “15 tons of cement”
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=43614

Free Gaza to sail cement into Strip in defiance of Israeli seige
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&Do=&ID=38666 

18/06/2009
Activists plan to send Gaza cement, in violation of Israel blockade
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093988.html

‘Free Gaza: Brick by Brick’
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/18-30

Jun 18, 2009 17:20
Activists plan to defy Gaza blockade again
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1245184869772&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Cynthia McKinney @ LA Fundraiser for Free Gaza 1/11/09
http://wilderside.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/cynthia-mckinney-la-fundraiser-for-free-gaza-11109/

2008/12/31
Cynthia McKinney: Update from Gaza/Lebanon trip
http://wilderside.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/cynthia-mckinney-update-from-gazalebanon-trip/

2008/12/30
Free Gaza: Israeli Gunboats Came out of the Darkness and Rammed us Three Times
http://wilderside.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/free-gaza-israeli-gunboats-came-out-of-the-darkness-and-rammed-us-three-times/

2008/12/30
Israeli gunboats attack Dignity boat on way to Gaza
http://wilderside.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/israeli-gunboats-attack-dignity-boat-on-way-to-gaza/

Green Party Prez candidate Cynthia McKinney on way to Gaza
http://wilderside.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/reported-green-party-prez-candidate-on-way-to-gaza/

http://gp.org/greenpages-blog/

Thu 5 Feb 2009 McKinney speaks out for Gaza at massive rally

http://gp.org/greenpages-blog/?p=996

Dec 11, 2007 10:56
http://www.youtube.com/v/ozQ_iPuqCxg

http://www.freegazamovement.org/site/

Free Gaza Song Contest
http://www.anis-online.de/office/events/FreeGazaSong.htm

The Free Gaza Art Festival
http://www.anis-online.de/2/freegaza/artfestival.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Gaza_Movement

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Palestinian water tanks destroyed by settlers in Hebron
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismpalestine/3443049306/in/photostream/

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“about 120 (police) were killed on the first day of air strikes”
“lately we have been targeted” “specifically targeted”
“the central jail has been flattened”
(Israel blows up jails and police stations first,
then holds them responsible for not stopping the rocket attacks)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWYkGFuDpOk 
http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish 

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http://uruknet.com/?p=m55510&hd=&size=1&l=e

FORGOTTEN WARRIORS T. Christian Miller
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new vers., montecult build 3.01 – Sep 25, 2006

it was asked again, which seems so seldom, and apparently there was a new concise version to be revealed, yet another onion layer,

“By the way, what is this “Allness” stuff? Another flaky new-age feel good cultist wanna-be group or religion? Well, if it is a religion, I guess it is no worse than the others.
Rick Wilhelm
To utter Allnessness, level 5, universal wonderment!”

monte letourneau to RICK

yea, my cult! only one sheep allowed per shepherd, oneself.

so it’s kinda about one’s personal relation to the All, and the greatness
of the collective being grace within one. the one within one, as it were.

kind of gnostic, i respect the words of Lao Tzu above any others, and
feel the greatest historical sympathy with our native consensus based
spirits.

i really don’t think i’ve been revealed the words to explain it well to you.

the core concepts of my spiritual path are particle physics and cosmology.
those with a spiritual questing who follow well the logic of these sciences
often follow well my spiritual philos, which can sometimes also make sense to
those who are students of philosophy, especially if well versed in the
fundamental sciences, and open to a variety religious concepts.

it is almost by definition not a religion,
it is my own path to words i am comfortable using.

a cult of one.

the main rites are things like looking up at a full moon and loving
it’s beauty while returning my fluids to the earth, Loving my lover,
making the most of food i’ve helped grow, and in general artfully,
fully, passionately, living each moment gracefully, fully in the cycle
carnate (no soul, reincarnation, or after death).

hard core materialist science proves well the miracle of existing,
that Allness’s Grace and Love is.
i am a hard core materialist, i desire to deny the splitting of
material and spirit.
as well, i believe the brain evolved to choose good,
and that the most apt word for the concept of evil is stupid.
given the possibilities of the infinte in time and space,
it is not that far fetched to imbue All with the ability to evolve a
completely transcendant being, independant of localization in time or
space.

wither she be yet or not, then she will always have been here now

and you are an inextricable part of It’s evolution.

that which we are allowed to know her most intimately, at this time,
in, is Earth.
you might say that Gea is a minor goddess, or an archangel to me, or,
I am a Gaen, but it only approximates the truth – as does all i have
written here.
.
which seems much in the spirit, now that i review the letter, of your
“universal wonderment”, a stage beyond which it is not yet mine see.

Chavez cracks up the UN, translation of speech, more Chavez youtubes – Sep 24, 2006

the translation comes to me thanks to the Milwaukee Bolivarians, Spanish vers. follows.

links are vids, thanks to youtube.com.

CNN; UN laughing while Chavez calls GWB The Devil.

UK Interview with Hugo Chavez.

Hugo Chavez.

Chavez on Al Jazeera.

Hugo Chavez (Warning to Bush) English Subtitles.

TRANSLATION OF THE ORIGINAL SPANISH TRANSCRIPTION FROM THE

HEADQUARTERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Caracas, September 20, 2006

TPPE-m200906-

Hugo Chávez Frías

President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Message to the UN and the people of the world.

President Chávez: Madame President, Excellencies, Heads of State,

Heads of Governments, and high ranking government representatives from

around the world. A very good day to you all.

First of all, with much respect, I would like to invite all of those,

who have not had a chance, to read this book that we have read: Noam

Chomsky, one of the most prestigious intellectuals of America and the

world. One of Chomsky’s most recent works: Hegemony or Survival?

America’s Quest for Global Dominance. An excellent piece to help us

understand what happened in the world during the 20th century, what is

going on now and the greatest threat looming over our planet: the

hegemonic pretension of US Imperialism that puts at risk the very

survival of the human species. We continue to warn about this danger

and call on the people of the US and the world to halt this threat

that is like the sword of Damocles.

I intended to read a chapter, but for the sake of time, I will leave

it as a recommendation. It’s a fast read. It’s really good Madame

President, surely you are familiar with it. It is published in

English, German, Russian, and Arabic (applause). Look, I think our

brothers and sisters of the United States should be the first citizens

to read this book because the threat is in their own house. The Devil

is in their home. The Devil, the Devil himself is in their home.

The Devil came here yesterday (laughter and applause). Yesterday the

Devil was here, in this very place. This table from where I speak

still smells like sulfur. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, in this

same hall the President of the United States, who I call “The Devil,”

came here talking as if he owned the world. It would take a

psychiatrist to analyze the US president’s speech from yesterday.

As the spokesperson for Imperialism he came to give us his recipes for

maintaining the current scheme of domination, exploitation and pillage

of the world’s people. It would make a good Alfred Hitchcock movie. I

could even suggest a title: “The Devil’s Recipe.” That is to say, US

Imperialism, and here Chomsky says it with profound and crystalline

clarity, is making desperate efforts to consolidate its hegemonic

system of domination. We cannot allow this to occur, we cannot permit

them to install a world dictatorship, to consolidate a world

dictatorship.

The speech of the tyrannical president of the world was full of

cynicism, full of hypocrisy. It is this imperial hypocrisy with which

he attempts to control everything. They want to impose upon us the

democratic model they devised, the false democracy of elites. And

moreover, a very original democratic model imposed with explosions,

bombings, invasions, and cannon shot. That’s some democracy! One would

have to review the thesis of Aristotle and of the first Greeks who

spoke of democracy to see what kind of model of democracy is imposed

by marines, invasions, aggressions and bombs.

The US president said the following yesterday in this same hall, I

quote: “everywhere you turn, you hear extremists who tell you that you

can escape your misery and regain your dignity through violence and

terror and martyrdom.” Wherever he looks he sees extremists. I am sure

he sees you, brother, with your skin color, and thinks you are an

extremist. With his color, the dignified President of Bolivia Evo

Morales, who was here yesterday, is an extremist. The imperialists see

extremists all around. No, its not that we are extremists. What is

happening is that the world is waking up and people everywhere are

rising up. I have the impression Mr. Imperialist dictator that you

will live the rest of your days as if in a nightmare, because no

matter where you look we will be rising up against US imperialism.

Yes, they call us extremists, we who demand complete freedom in the

world, equality among peoples and respect for national sovereignty. We

are rising up against the Empire, against the model of domination.

Later, the president said, “Today I’d like to speak directly to the

people across the broader Middle East: My country desires peace.” That

is certain. If we walk the streets of the Bronx, if we walk through

the streets of New York, Washington, San Diego, California, any city,

San Antonio, San Francisco and we ask the people on the street: the

people of the US want peace. The difference is that the government of

this country, of the US, does not want peace; it wants to impose its

model of exploitation and plundering and its hegemony upon us under

threat of war. That is the little difference.

The people want peace and, what is happening in Iraq? And what

happened in Lebanon and Palestine? And what has happened over the last

100 years in Latin America and the world and now the threats against

Venezuela, new threats against Iran? He spoke to the people of

Lebanon, “Many of you have seen your homes and communities caught in

crossfire.” What cynicism! What capacity to blatantly lie before the

world! The bombs in Beirut launched with milimetric precision are

“crossfire”? I think that the president is thinking of those western

movies where they shoot from the hip and someone ends up caught in the

middle.

Imperialist fire! Fascist fire! Murderous fire! Genocidal fire against

the innocent people of Palestine and Lebanon by the Empire and Israel.

That is the truth. Now they say that they are upset to see homes

destroyed.

In the end, the US president came to speak to the people, and also to

say, “I brought some documents Madame President.” This morning I was

watching some of the speeches while updating mine. He spoke to the

people of Afghanistan, to the people of Lebanon, to the people of

Iran. One has to wonder, when listening to the US president speak to

those people: what would those people say to him? If those people

could talk to him, what would they say? I think I have an idea because

I know the souls of the majority of those people, the people of the

South, the downtrodden peoples would say: Yankee imperialist go home!

That would be the shout that would echo around the world, if these

people of the world could speak with only one voice to the US Empire.

Therefore, Madame President, colleagues, and friends, last year we

came to this same hall, as we have for the past eight years, and we

said something that today is completely confirmed. I believe that

almost no one in this room would stand up to defend the system of the

United Nations. Lets admit with honesty, the UN system that emerged

after WWII has collapsed, shattered, it doesn’t work. Well, ok. To

come here and give speeches, and visit with one another once a year,

yes, it works for that. And to make long documents and reflect and

listen to good speeches like Evo’s yesterday, and Lula’s, yes, for

that it works. And many speeches, like the one we just heard by the

president of Sri Lanka and of the president of Chile. But we have

converted this Assembly into a mere deliberative organ with no kind of

power to impact in the slightest way the terrible reality the world is

experiencing. Therefore we again propose here today, September 20,

[2006] to re-found the United Nations. Last year Madame President, we

made four modest proposals that we feel are in urgent need of being

adopted by the Heads of State, Heads of Government, ambassadors and

representatives. And we discussed these proposals.

First: expansion. Yesterday Lula said the same, the Security Council,

its permanent as well as its non- permanent seats, must open up to new

members from developed, underdeveloped and Third World countries.

That’s the first priority.

Second: the application of effective methods of addressing and

resolving world conflicts. Transparent methods of debate and of making

decisions.

Third: the immediate suppression of the anti-democratic veto

mechanism, the veto power over Security Council decisions, seems

fundamental to us and is being called for by all. Here is a recent

example, the immoral veto by the US government that freely allowed

Israeli forces to destroy Lebanon, in front of us all, by blocking a

resolution in the UN Security Council.

Fourthly: as we always say, it is necessary to strengthen the role,

the powers of the general secretary of the United Nations. Yesterday

we heard the speech of the general secretary, who is nearing the end

of his term. He recalled that in these ten years the world has become

more complicated and that the serious problems of the world, the

hunger, poverty, violence, and violation of human rights have been

aggravated, this is a terrible consequence of the collapse of the UN

system and of US imperialist pretensions.

Madame President, recognizing our status as members, Venezuela decided

several years ago to wage this battle within the UN with our voice,

our modest reflections. We are an independent voice, representing

dignity and the search for peace, the formulation of an international

system to denounce persecution and hegemonic aggression against people

worldwide. In this way Venezuela has presented its name. The homeland

of Bolívar has presented its name as a candidate for a non-permanent

seat on the Security Council. Of course you all know that the US

government has begun an open attack, an immoral global attack in an

attempt to block Venezuela from being freely elected to occupy the

open seat on the Security Council. They are afraid of the truth. The

empire is afraid of the truth and of independent voices. They accuse

us of being extremists. They are the extremists.

I want to thank all countries that have announced your support for

Venezuela, even when the vote is secret and it is not necessary for

anyone to reveal their vote. But I think that the open aggression of

the US Empire has reinforced the support of many countries, which in

turn morally strengthened Venezuela, our people, our government.

Our brothers and sisters of MERCOSUR, for example, as a block, have

announced their support for Venezuela. We are now a full member of

MERCOSUR along with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay. Many other

countries of Latin America, such as Bolivia and all the CARICOM

nations have pledged their support to Venezuela. The entire Arab

League has announced its support for Venezuela. I thank the Arab

world, our brothers of the Arab world and of the Caribbean. The

African Union, nearly all of the African Union countries have pledged

their support for Venezuela and other countries like Russia, China and

many others across the globe. I thank you all deeply in the name of

Venezuela, in the name of our people and in the name of truth, because

Venezuela, upon occupying a seat on the Security Council will not only

bring to it the voice of Venezuela, but also the voice of the Third

World, the voice of the peoples of the planet. There we will defend

dignity and truth.

Despite all this Madame President, I think there are reasons to be optimistic.

Hopelessly optimistic, as a poet would say, because beyond the

threats, bombs, wars, aggressions, preventative wars, and the

destruction of entire peoples, one can see that a new era is dawning.

Like Silvio Rodríguez sings, “the era is giving birth to a heart.”

Alternative tendencies, alternative thoughts, and youth with distinct

ideas are emerging. In barely a decade it has been demonstrated that

the End of History theory was totally false. The establishment of the

American Empire, the American peace, the establishment of the

capitalist, neoliberal model that generates misery and poverty all

totally false. The thesis is totally false and has been dumped. Now

the future of the world must be defined. There is a new dawning on

this planet that can be seen everywhere: in Latin America, Asia,

Africa, Europe, Oceania. I want to highlight that vision of optimism

to fortify our conscience and our will to fight to save the world and

construct a new world, a better world.

Venezuela has joined this struggle and for this we are threatened. The

US has already planned, financed and launched a coup in Venezuela. And

the US continues to support coup plotters in Venezuela. And they

continue supporting terrorism against Venezuela. President Michel

Bachellet recalled a few days ago pardon, I mean a few minutes ago

the terrible murder of the former Chilean Foreign Minster Orlando

Letelier. I would only add the following: the guilty parties are free.

Those responsible for that deed, in which a US citizen was also

killed, are North Americans of the CIA. Terrorists of the CIA.

In addition, we here in this room must remember that in a few days it

will be the 30th anniversary of that murder and of the horrible

terrorist attack that blew up a Cubana de Aviación airplane in

mid-flight killing 73 innocent people. And where is the worst

terrorist of this continent, who admitted to being the intellectual

author of the airplane sabotage? He was in prison in Venezuela for

some years, but he escaped with the complicity of CIA officials and

the Venezuelan government of that time. Now he is here living in the

US, protected by the government even though he was convicted and he

confessed. The US government has a double standard and protects

terrorism.

These reflections are to demonstrate that Venezuela is committed to

the fight against terrorism, against violence and works together with

all people who struggle for peace and for a just world.

I spoke of the Cuban airplane. Luis Posada Carriles is the name of

that terrorist. He is protected here just like the corrupt fugitives

who escaped Venezuela. A group of terrorists who planted bombs in

embassies of various countries, murdered innocent people during the

coup and kidnapped this humble servant. They were going to execute me,

but God reached out his hand, along with a group of good soldiers, and

the who people took to the streets. It’s a miracle that I’m here. The

leaders of that coup and those terrorist acts are here, protected by

the US government. I accuse the US government of protecting terrorism

and of giving a completely cynical speech.

Speaking of Cuba, we went happily to Havana. We were there several

days. During the G-15 Summit and the NAM Summit the dawning of a new

era was evident with an historic resolution and final document. Don’t

worry. I am not going to read it all. But here is a collection of

resolutions made in open discussion with transparency. With more than

50 Heads of State, Havana was the capital of the South for a week. We

have re-launched the Non-Aligned Movement. And if there is anything I

could ask of you all, my brothers and sisters, it is to please lend

your support to the strengthening of the NAM, which is so important to

the emergence of a new era, to preventing hegemony and imperialism.

Also, you all know that we have designated Fidel Castro as President

of the NAM for the next three years and we are sure that compañero

President Fidel Castro will fulfill the post with much efficiency.

Those who wanted Fidel to die, well, they remain frustrated because

Fidel is already back in his olive green uniform and is now not only

the President of Cuba but also the President of NAM.

Madam President, dear colleagues, presidents, a very strong movement

of the South emerged there in Havana. We are men and women of the

South. We are bearers of these documents, these ideas, opinions, and

reflections. I have already closed by folder and the book that I

brought with me. Don’t forget it. I really recommend it. With much

humility we try to contribute ideas for the salvation of the planet,

to save it from the threat of imperialism, and god willing soon. Early

in this century, god willing, so that we ourselves can see and

experience with our children and grandchildren a peaceful world, under

the fundamental principles of the UN, renewed and relocated. I believe

that the UN must be located in another country, in a city of the

South. We have proposed this from Venezuela. You all know that my

medical personnel had to stay locked up in the airplane. The Chief of

my security is locked on the plane. They would not let them come to

the UN. Another abuse and outrage Madame President that we request to

be registered personally to the sulfurous Devil. But God is with us.

A warm embrace and may God bless us all.

Good day.

Translation by Dawn Gable

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Discurso de Chavez en Espanol

Señora Presidenta, Excelencias, Jefes de Estado, Jefes de Gobierno, y altos

representantes de los gobiernos del mundo. Muy buenos días a todos y a

todas.

En primer lugar quiero invitarles con mucho respeto, a quienes no hayan

podido leer este libro, a que lo leamos: Noam Chomsky, uno de los más

prestigiosos intelectuales de esta América y del mundo. Chomsky, uno de sus

más recientes trabajos: Hegemonía o Supervivencia. La estrategia

imperialista de Estados Unidos. Excelente trabajo para entender lo que ha

pasado en el mundo el siglo XX, lo que hoy está pasando y la más grande

amenaza que se cierne sobre nuestro planeta, la pretensión hegemónica del

Imperialismo Norteamericano pone en riesgo la supervivencia misma de la

especie humana. Seguimos alertando sobre ese peligro, y haciendo un llamado

al propio pueblo de los Estados Unidos y al mundo, para detener esta amenaza

que es como la propia espada de Damocles.

Yo pensaba leer algún capítulo pero por respetar el tiempo más bien lo dejo

como una recomendación. Se lee rápido. Es muy bueno señora Presidenta,

seguramente usted lo conoce, está publicado en inglés, en alemán, en ruso,

en árabe (aplausos) seguramente. Miren, yo creo que los primeros ciudadanos

que deberían leer este libro son los ciudadanos hermanos y hermanas de los

Estados Unidos, porque la amenaza la tienen en su propia casa, el Diablo

está en casa pues. El Diablo, el propio Diablo está en casa.

Ayer vino el Diablo aquí, (risas y aplausos) ayer estuvo el Diablo aquí, en

este mismo lugar. Huele a azufre todavía esta mesa donde me ha tocado

hablar. Ayer señoras, señores, desde esta misma tribuna el Señor Presidente

de los Estados Unidos, a quien yo llamo “El Diablo”, vino aquí hablando como

dueño del mundo. Un psiquiatra no estaría de más para analizar el discurso

de ayer del Presidente de los Estados Unidos. Como vocero del Imperialismo

vino a dar sus recetas para tratar de mantener el actual esquema de

dominación, de explotación y de saqueo a los pueblos del mundo. Para una

película de Alfred Hitchcok estaría buena, incluso yo propondría un título:

“La receta del Diablo”. Es decir, el Imperialismo norteamericano, y aquí lo

dice Chomsky con una claridad meridiana y profunda, está siendo desesperados

esfuerzos por consolidar su sistema hegemónico de dominación. Nosotros no

podemos permitir que eso ocurra, no podemos permitir que se instale la

dictadura mundial, que se consolide pues, que se consolide la dictadura

mundial.

El discurso del Presidente “tirano” mundial, lleno de cinismos, lleno de

hipocresía, es la hipocresía imperial, el intento de controlar todo, ellos

quieren imponernos el modelo democrático como lo conciben, la falsa

democracia de las elites, y además un modelo democrático muy original,

impuesto a bombazos, a bombardeos y a punta de invasiones y de cañonazos.

¡Vaya qué democracia! Habría que revisar las tesis de Aristóteles y de los

primeros que hablaron por allá en Grecia de la democracia a ver qué modelo

de democracia es ese, el que se impone a punta de marines, de invasiones, de

agresiones, y de bombas.

Dice el presidente de los Estados Unidos ayer, en esta misma sala lo

siguiente, cito: “Hacia dónde quiera que usted mira, oye a extremistas que

le dicen que puede escapar de la miseria y recuperar su dignidad a través de

la violencia, el terror y el martirio”. Adondequiera que él mira ve

extremistas. Yo estoy seguro que te ve a ti, hermano, con ese color, y cree

que eres un extremista. Con este color. Evo Morales, que vino ayer, el digno

Presidente de la Bolivia es un extremista. Por todos lados ven extremistas

los imperialistas. No, no es que somos extremistas, lo que pasa es que el

mundo está despertando y por todos lados insurgimos los pueblos. Yo tengo la

impresión señor dictador imperialista que usted va a vivir el resto de sus

días con una pesadilla, porque por dondequiera que vea vamos a surgir

nosotros, los que insurgimos contra el imperialismo norteamericano. Los que

clamamos por la libertad plena del mundo, por la igualdad de los pueblos,

por el respeto a la soberanía de las naciones, sí, nos llaman extremistas,

insurgimos contra el Imperio, insurgimos contra el modelo de dominación.

Luego, el señor presidente vino a hablarle, así lo dijo, “hoy quiero

hablarles directamente a las poblaciones del Oriente Medio. Mi país desea la

paz” esto es cierto, si nosotros nos vamos por las calles del Bronx, si

nosotros nos vamos por las calles de Nueva York, de Washington, de San

Diego, de California, de cualquier ciudad, de San Antonio, de San Francisco

y le preguntamos a la gente en las calles, a los ciudadanos estadounidenses,

este país quiere la paz. La diferencia está en que el gobierno de este país,

de Estados Unidos, no quiere la paz, quiere imponernos su modelo de

explotación y de saqueo y su hegemonía a punta de guerras, esa es la pequeña

diferencia. Quiere la paz y ¿qué está pasando en Irak? ¿Y qué ha pasado en

el Libano y en Palestina? ¿Y qué ha pasado en cien años pues en América

Latina y en el mundo y ahora las amenzas contra Venezuela, nuevas amenazas

contra Irán? Le habló al pueblo del Líbano, “muchos de ustedes dijo- han

visto como sus hogares y sus comunidades quedaron atrapadas en el fuego

cruzado” ¡Vaya qué cinismo! ¡Vaya qué capacidad para mentir descaradamente

ante el mundo! Las bombas en Beirut y lanzadas con precisión milimétrica

¿son fuego cruzado? Creo que el Presidente está pensando en las películas

del oeste cuando se disparaba desde la cintura y alguien quedaba atravesado

en el fuego cruzado.

¡Fuego imperialista! ¡Fuego fascista! ¡Fuego asesino! Y fuego genocida el

del Imperio y el de Israel contra el pueblo inocente de Palestina y el

pueblo del Líbano. Esa es la verdad. Ahora dicen que sufren, que estamos

sufriendo porque vemos sus hogares destruidos.

En fin, el Presidente de los Estados Unidos vino a hablarle a los pueblos,

vino a decir además, yo traje señora Presidenta unos documentos, porque

estuve esta madrugada viendo algunos discursos y actualizando mis palabras.

Le habló al pueblo de Afganistán, al pueblo del Líbano, al pueblo de Irán le

digo, al pueblo del Líbano le digo, al pueblo de Afaganistán le digo. Uno se

pregunta, así como el Presidente de los Estados Unidos le dice: le digo a

esos pueblos ¿qué le dirían esos pueblos a él? Si esos pueblos pudieran

hablar ¿qué le dirían? Yo se los voy a recoger porque conozco la mayor parte

del alma de esos pueblos, los pueblos del Sur, los pueblos atropellados

dirían: ¡Imperio Yankee go home! Ese sería el grito que brotaría por todas

partes, si los pueblos del mundo pudieran hablarle a una sola voz al Imperio

de los Estados Unidos.

Por eso, señora Presidenta, colegas, amigas y amigos, nosotros el año pasado

vinimos aquí a este mismo salón como todos los años y los últimos ocho, y

decíamos algo que hoy está confirmado plenamente y yo creo que aquí casi

nadie en esta sala pudiera pararse a defenderlo, a defender el sistema de

Naciones Unidas, aceptémoslo con honestidad, el Sistema de Naciones Unidas

nacido después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial colapsó, se desplomó, no sirve.

Ah bueno para venir acá a dar discursos, a vernos una vez al año, sí, para

eso sí sirve, y para hacer documentos muy largos y hacer buenas reflexiones

y oír buenos discursos como el de Evo ayer, como el de Lula, sí, para eso

sirve y muchos discursos, el que estábamos oyendo ahora mismo del Presidente

de Srilanka y de la Presidenta de Chile, pero nos han convertido a esta

Asamblea en un órgano meramente deliberativo, meramente deliberativo sin

ningún tipo de poder para impactar de la más mínima manera la realidad

terrible que vive el mundo. Por eso nosotros volvemos a proponer, Venezuela

vuelve a proponer aquí hoy, este día 20 de septiembre que refundemos las

Naciones Unidas y nosotros hicimos el año pasado señora Presidente, cuatro

modestas propuestas que consideramos de necesidad impostergable para que las

asumamos, bueno, los Jefes de Estado, los Jefes de Gobierno, nuestros

embajadores, nuestros representantes y las discutamos.

Primero: la expansión. Ayer lo decía Lula aquí mismo, del Consejo de

Seguridad tanto en sus categorías permanentes como en las No Permanentes,

dando entrada a nuevos países desarrollados y a países subdesarrollados, el

Tercer Mundo, como nuevos miembros permanentes. Eso en primer lugar.

En segundo lugar, bueno, la aplicación de métodos eficaces de atención y

resolución de los conflictos mundiales. Métodos transparentes, de debate, de

decisiones, tercero, nos parece fundamental la supresión inmediata, y eso es

un clamor de todos, de ese mecanismo antidemocrático del veto. El veto en

las decisiones del Consejo de Seguridad. Vaya un ejemplo reciente, el veto

inmoral del gobierno de los Estados Unidos, permitió libremente a las

fuerzas israelíes destrozar el Líbano en el rostro, delante de todos

nosotros, evitando una resolución en el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones

Unidas.

Y en cuarto lugar necesario es fortalecer, decimos siempre, el papel, las

atribuciones del Secretario General de Naciones Unidas. Ayer nos daba un

discurso el Secretario General prácticamente de despedida, y reconocía que

en estos diez años el mundo lo que ha hecho es complicarse y que los graves

problemas del mundo, el hambre, la miseria, la violencia, la violación a los

derechos humanos lo que ha hecho es agravarse, esto es consecuencia terrible

del colapso sobre el sistema de Naciones Unidas y de la pretensión

imperialista norteamericana.

Por otra parte, Señora Presidenta, Venezuela decidió hace varios años dar

esta batalla por dentro de Naciones Unidas, reconociendo Naciones Unidas

como miembro que somos, con nuestra voz, con nuestras modestas reflexiones.

Una voz independiente somos, para representar la dignidad y la búsqueda de

la paz, la reformulación del sistema internacional, para denunciar la

persecución y las agresiones del hegemonismo contra los pueblos del Planeta.

Venezuela, de esa manera ha presentado su nombre. Esta patria de Bolívar ha

presentado su nombre y se ha postulado para un puesto como Miembro No

Permanente del Consejo de Seguridad. Vaya usted a saber, el gobierno de los

Estados Unidos ha iniciado una agresión abierta, una agresión inmoral en el

mundo entero para tratar de impedir que Venezuela sea elegida libremente

para ocupar una silla en el Consejo de Seguridad. Le tienen miedo a la

verdad. El Imperio tiene miedo a la verdad, a las voces independientes,

acusándonos de extremistas. Ellos son los extremistas.

Yo quiero agradecer aquí a todos aquellos países que han anunciado su apoyo

a Venezuela, aun cuando la votación es secreta y no es necesario que nadie

lo anuncie, pero yo creo que dada la agresión abierta del Imperio

Norteamericano, pues eso aceleró el apoyo de muchos países, lo cual

fortalece mucho moralmente a Venezuela, a nuestro pueblo, a nuestro

gobierno, el MERCOSUR, por ejemplo, en bloque, ha anunciado su apoyo a

Venezuela, nuestros hermanos del MERCOSUR. Venezuela ahora es miembro pleno

del MERCOSUR con Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, y muchos otros países

de América Latina como Bolivia. El CARICOM en pleno anunció su apoyo a

Venezuela. La Liga Arabe en pleno anunció su apoyo a Venezuela, agradezco

muchísimo al mundo árabe, a nuestros hermanos de Arabia, esa Arabia

profunda, a nuestros hermanos del Caribe. La Unión Africana, casi toda

Africa anunció su apoyo a Venezuela y países bueno como Rusia, como China y

muchos otros países del Planeta. Muchísimas gracias a nombre de Venezuela, a

nombre de nuestro pueblo y a nombre de la verdad, porque Venezuela al ocupar

un puesto en el Consejo de Seguridad va a traer la voz no sólo de Venezuela,

la voz del Tercer Mundo, la voz de los pueblos del Planeta, ahí estaremos

defendiendo la dignidad y la verdad.

Más allá de todo esto señora Presidenta, creo que hay razones para que

seamos optimistas. Irrenunciablemente optimistas, diría un poeta, porque más

allá de las amenazas, de las bombas, de las guerras, de las agresiones, de

la guerra preventiva, de la destrucción de pueblos enteros uno puede

apreciar que se está levantando una nueva era, como canta Silvio Rodríguez,

“la era está pariendo un corazón”. Se levantan corrientes alternativas,

pensamientos alternativos, juventudes con pensamiento distinto. Se demostró

ya en apenas una década que era totalmente falsa la tesis del Fin de la

Historia, totalmente falsa la instauración del Imperio Americano, de la paz

americana, la instauración del modelo capitalista, neoliberal que lo que

genera es miseria y pobreza. Es totalmente falsa la tesis, se vino abajo,

ahora hay que definir el futuro del mundo. Hay un amanecer en el Planeta y

se ve por toda partes, por América Latina, por Asia, por Africa, por Europa,

por Oceanía, quiero resaltar esa visión de optimismo para que fortalezcamos

nuestra conciencia y nuestra voluntad de batalla por salvar al mundo y

construir un mundo nuevo, un mundo mejor.

Venezuela se suma a esa lucha y por eso somos amenazados. Ya Estados Unidos

planificó, financió e impulsó un golpe de estado en Venezuela. Y Estados

Unidos sigue apoyando movimientos golpistas en Venezuela y contra Venezuela,

sigue apoyando al terrorismo. Ya la Presidenta Michel Bachellet recordaba

hace unos días, perdón hace unos minutos, el terrible asesinato del ex

Canciller chileno Orlando Letelier. Yo sólo agregaría lo siguiente, los

culpables están libres. Y los culpables, de aquel hecho donde murió también

una ciudadana estadounidense, son norteamericanos, de la CIA. Terroristas de

la CIA.

Pero además, hay que recordar en esta sala que dentro de pocos días también

se cumplirán 30 años, igualmente, de aquel hecho terrorista horripilante de

la voladura del avión cubano, donde murieron 73 inocentes, un avión de

Cubana de Aviación y ¿dónde está el más grande terrorista de este Continente

y quien asumió él la voladura del avión cubano como autor intelectual?

Estuvo preso en Venezuela unos años, se fugó allá por complicidad de

funcionarios de la CIA y del gobierno venezolano de entonces, está aquí

viviendo en Estados Unidos, protegido por este gobierno, y fue convicto y

confeso. El gobierno de los Estados Unidos tiene un doble rasero y protege

el terrorismo.

Estas reflexiones, para decir que Venezuela está comprometida en la lucha

contra el terrorismo, contra la violencia y se une a todos los pueblos que

luchamos por la paz y por un mundo de iguales.

He hablado del avión cubano, Luis Posada Carriles se llama el terrorista,

está protegido aquí, como protegidos están aquí grandes corruptos que se

fugaron de Venezuela, un grupo de terroristas que allá pusieron bombas

contra embajadas de varios países que allá asesinaron gente durante el golpe

de estado, secuestraron a este humilde servidor, y lo iban a fusilar, sólo

que Dios metió su mano y un grupo de buenos soldados y un pueblo que se fue

a las calles y de milagro pues estoy aquí, están aquí protegidos por el

gobierno de Estados Unidos los líderes de aquel golpe de estado y de

aquellos actos terroristas. Yo acuso al gobierno de Estados Unidos de

proteger al terrorismo y de tener un discurso totalmente cínico.

Hablamos de Cuba, venimos de La Habana, venimos felices de La Habana,

estuvimos allá varios días y allí se puede ver el nacimiento de una nueva

era la Cumbre del Grupo de los 15, la Cumbre del Movimiento de los No

Alineados, con una resolución histórica, documento final, no se asunten no

lo voy a leer todo, pero aquí hay un conjunto de resoluciones tomadas en

discusión abierta y con transparencia, más de 50 Jefes de Estado, La Habana

fue capital del Sur durante una semana. Hemos relanzado el Grupo de Los No

Alineados, el Movimiento de los No Alineados, y si algo puedo pedir yo aquí

a todos ustedes compañeros y hermanos y hermanas es que le pongamos mucha

voluntad para fortalecer el Grupo de Los No Alineados, importantísmo para el

nacimiento de la nueva era, para evitar la hegemonía y el Imperialismo y

además, ustedes saben que hemos designado a Fidel Castro, Presidente del

Grupo de los No Alineados para los próximos tres años y estamos seguros que

el compañero Presidente Fidel Castro va a llevar la batuta con mucha

eficiencia. Para los que querían que Fidel se muriera pues frustrados

quedaron y frustrados quedarán porque Fidel ya está uniformado nuevamente de

verde oliva y ahora no sólo es el Presidente de Cuba si no el Presidente de

Los No Alineados.

Señora Presidenta, queridos colegas, presidentes, ahí nació un novimeinto

muy fuerte, el del Sur. Nosotros somos hombres y mujeres del Sur, nosotros

somos portadores, con estos documentos, con estas ideas, con estas críticas,

con estas reflexiones que ya cierro mi carpeta y el libro me lo llevo, no

olviden que se los recomiendo mucho, con mucha humildad, tratamos de aportar

ideas para la salvación de este Planeta, para salvarlo de la amenaza

imperialista y para que ojala pronto, en este siglo, no muy tarde, ojalá

podamos verlo nosotros y vivirlo mejor nuestros hijos y nuestros nietos, un

mundo de paz bajo los principios fundamentales de la Organización de

Naciones Unidas, relanzada y reubicada. Creo que a Naciones Unidas tenemos

que ubicarla en otro país, en alguna ciudad del Sur, hemos propuesto desde

Venezuela, ustedes saben que mi médico personal se tuvo que quedar encerrado

en el avión, el Jefe de mi seguridad se tuvo que quedar encerrado en el

avión, no les permitieron venir a Naciones Unidas. Otro abuso y atropello

Señora Presidenta que pedimos de Venezuela quede registrado como atropello

hasta personal del Diablo, huele a azufre, pero Dios está con nosotros, un

buen abrazo y que Dios nos bendiga a todos. Muy buenos días.

?! zionists are atheists! now it all makes sense – Sep 22, 2006

i’ve excerpted this selection from a much longer post on issues caused by zionism and war.
because it is the one that most opened my eyes
the rest was posted at Infospheric Reviscerator Blogspace @ geanark.Blogspot.com. 

Israel/Palestine 4:56 

the Orthodox view:

Jewish march against Zionism 3:31 

“the Jewish religion forbids the Jewish people from having a state, the Jewish people are exiled”
“it’s against the Jewish beliefs, and all the actions that emanate from Zionism,
the oppression of a people, the stealing the land, and even the oppression of the orthodox people …
that’s all against God, against the Torah, and they, they do this all in the name of the Torah and the name of Judaism.
So we want the world to know”
ideally we would hope that the United States government stop supporting Isreal,
they think they’re doing them a favor,
but basically zionism is the main cause of antisemetism in the world” 

Anti-Zionist Jewish Protestors 3:22
“athieistic, nationalistic, movement; extremely opposed to the basic faith of Judaism”
an eloquent defense by a Zionist, “you morons, you deserve to die, and your children should piss on your bones” 

Zionism versus Judaism Part 1 of 6 9:57
Zionism is not a religion. Zionism is secular nationalism for reformed jews.
Zionism versus Judaism Part 2 9:59
the covenant: to be holy people, emulate Allness, or be rejected by the land
Zionism versus Judaism Part 3 9:59
the oath “you shall not rebel against any nations, you shall not go back in mass to israel, you shall not try to end the exile”
Zionism versus Judaism Part 4 9:59
Zionists prevented the buying of hungarian jewish lives from hitler (whoa!).
Zionism versus Judaism Part 5 9:59
“Zionists terrorized the Jews.” “We are forbidden by God to have a state, we are forbidden to oppress a people.”
Zionism versus Judaism Part 6 9:59
“it is a problem with a movement that has nothing to do with God.” “we must pray to God
for the speedy and peaceful dismantling of this illegal state”…
“God is the one who accomplishes; the USSR also disappeared overnight” 

Over 10,000 Orthodox Jews protesting the existence of the state of Israel 

Over 10,000 Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews protested outside the Israeli Consulate 

ANTI-ZIONIST ORTHODOX JEWS PROTEST THE STATE OF ISRAEL 28 April 2005 

Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss 4:34 

Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews almost brutally attacked pt1 1:01 such vehemence! 

Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews brutally attacked p2 0:51 

Rebbe Rabbi Shelka of Nikolsburg 6:50 

Rambam Maimonides Rabbi & Doctor 5:32 

Jerusalem-Based Rabbi Discusses Present Conflict 8:14 testify brother! 

wow, i knew the Orthodox weren’t ardent Zionists, but.. wow! 

Jewish Voice for Peace promo 3:10 

The Philosophy of Zionism & Israel – Harun Yahya 37:55 an in depth history 

Jews Against the Occupation – Anti-Wall Protest

Chavez UN Speech, 10 minutes on CNN? – Sep 22, 2006

i am a little dismayed that John Stewart seems to have missed out on the concept
of ironic humor being involved in Chavez crossing himself at the UN
he was apparently incredulous about the crackpotness of the scene
oh well, John has done it NOT again, not the first time.
CNN; UN laughing while Chavez calls GWB The Devil.

damn activists! – Sep 22, 2006

I thought i had some pretty good pics this evening.

but those damn greens are an active lot, they keep moving.
Sometimes it was me:outside smoking, hard to get a shot from this far.

Most times it was everyone else.

too late, bad photographer; left to right now:

George Martin, with Peace Action, and our great and benevolent old guard apparatchik, is already going.

Winston Sephus Jr, is a good state Treasurer candidate, (like the rest he’s aware movement doesn’t photo well).

Bob Levis, working to replace Sensenbrenner, all the way off stage already.

Leon Todd, for Lt Governor, face ablur.

Rae Vogler, doing quite well against Kohl, but you can hardly tell from this pic.

Claude VanderVeen, running for the 7th State Senate seat, looks like he’s thinking, but he always does.

Ruthie, invaluable Co-Chair of… too many committees, is definately gonna be in motion.

Before i can snap another even Liz (yet another one of our army of overpaid professional cadre), will also be to moving too fast for my cheap camera to capture.

Thought i had some good ones of Rae, but this is the best result here, you can almost see the charm, charisma, and command of the issues that make her such a good candidate, but that stuff doesn’t even photo well even when she’s not all blurry.

ditto ..3, other side of mike stand, between them these two shots have a neat symetricality…

Aaahh, i have one of both George and Rae standing still, i like to get the behind the scenes, but this one says nothing.

all it says is hey, look at all the cool Cuban rum Rick brought, and salmon, behind Rae! and look how high the ceiling is.

It says it clearly however.

Ahh, Winston and Bob stand still for me…

no, wait, everyone’s actually moving still.

Here we have my favorite, a large swarm consisting of much of our statewide horde of operatives, standing, listening, i think they were even trying to help me get a good shot.

but that one there just can’t stop being such an activist, you should see George dance, man!
L2R again:

Claude VanderVeen thoughtful guy for 7th dist. State Senate.

George Martin, dances for Peace Action Wisconsin, United for Peace & Justice, coalition generally, and well, Peace.

Marc Sanson, Rae’s campaign manager, pondering his candidates words.

Ruth looking thoughtful too.

Gee, i guess they do stand still sometimes.

Must think, communicate, reach consensus, then act.

but moving much of the time, activists are active!

well, at least as active as i’m gonna get.
While the main thing we could learn from this is that a good photographer doesn’t go outside for a smoke during the climatic photo op,

but there’s the other lesson too:

For more proof that greens are too active to capture, we flashback to Radfest:

Here we have two candidates and myself.

On the left is Nelson Eisman, running for Governor, with David Cobb, our last presidential candidate, in the center.

Even though the three of us are holding each other up, we still can’t stand quite still.

So it is that David, the old hand, gave out some good candidate advice,
well, for the likes of me good anyway.

He said that a candidate should always make sure to occasionally hold a pose, or more importantly, just be still, so that everyone will get a good shot of that moment.

I somewhat caught Nelson reacting too actively to the concept itself,
while Dave practises…

Our hordes of fanactic secret cadre watch studiously, calculating, absorbing like blank slate sponges.

David does it some more, but wait, everyone is being still here.

Well as our dictatorial head muck a muck, and presidential loser…

well, when he speaks the cadre must slavishly listen.

but wait, whats this??

This young man is speaking quite activly, and is currently in motion

empatically pulling the trigger on those in the crowd…

i wish i could remember the young man’s name.
He was laying down the most powerful of raps at a police brutallity rally earlier in the summer.

and here’s George quite in motion.

hmmmm have we learned something here today boys and girls?

something about the sun, even overcast and in shade, being better at capturing the activist than lifeless indoor bulbs.
We had some fun tonight, Rae was charming in her new (to me) haircut, and i learned even better how not to photograph.
Earlier Leon, Bob, Chris, Chad, and myself were at the UWM student union for a green fair.

Then later Chad signed on as primary contact with GPUWM, and Chris Doering is aboard.
Now we need two more, of the 6 of us, to sign up by mon afternoon.
We also found out GPUWM has accumulated a 318$ budget!!
now maybe we should figure out how to spend it
agenda item number 1? anyone?

funnytube – Jul 26, 2006

i’ve combed youtube.com for info on our war on the mideast.

i thought i’d start with the one’s that brought me there.
damn! that reminds me, i just missed the daily show again again,
anyway, here are the humorous ones first to soften you up.
in the next few days i will post some very graphic war vid links,
and some very informational links on Palestine’s water and such to follow after that.
if you hate the Daily show, you may want to skip a bit. 

MySpace on The Daily Show 6:12 Daily Show 

you gotta watch a short ad first, but i think it’s worth it, press the smaller play button.
huffingtonpost / stop-this-shit this is a really great folk song on the recent G8 summit 

Bush Stop Doing This Shit long version of open mike 

truthout / The Ballad of Dumb George the story of gaffs at G8; text 

Animal House Summit Maureen Dowd text 

Border Security with Mr Bush 0:32 ABC
writes itself has become so overused during recent administrations
Lewis Black- Red White & Screwed clips 9:29 

SNL.PresidentGore.wmv 4:19 Gore retrospective of his presidency
but this guy being this funny, with these lines… a big hm??? 

My Pet Goat…… 1:16 Bill Maher with michael moore 

Stephen Colbert – Media’s Role in the War in Iraq 3:35 a good overview ;)  

Top Ten Bush Moments 2:09 David Letterman 

bushspeechwriter write your own bush quote audio with this easy database 

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Lebanon:
COLBERT REPORT: ROAD TO WWIII 3:17 

Israel/Lebanon Fallout 1:46 Daily Show 

media coverage of the war in Lebanon 3:49 Daily Show 

Israeli-Lebanon crisis 3:00 Daily Show 

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Chris Rock about the War on Terror 5:29 

Bush & Dick:
Bush and Cheney – A politic of hope 0:42 Daily 

Cheer up campanarios! war may suck, but this stuff is funny!
i don’t mean the war, i mean our “leadership” 

Dead-Eye Dick 10:28 Daily Show 

Surprise Visitor at the White House 0:31 

Dick Cheney’s “Suite Demands” 3:07 Daily Show 

Cheney’s “Last Throes” statement June 2005 8:56 Daily Show 

Cheney STILL Believes The Iraq Insurgency In Its Last Throes 1:23 FOX 

now, back to Bush: 

How To Bash Bush – A Lesson 4:53 Daily Show 

Will Ferrell is George Dubya Bush in Whitehouse West 4:02 

Will Ferrel on George Bush on Global Warming 3:39 

this ‘uns too loud
The Bush Family’s Greatest Hits 0:39 Daily Show 

Thou Shalt Not Lie: Part III 4:48 Daily Show 

- Bush – Because he said so 4:29 Daily Show 

All The President’s Words 4:11 Daily Show 

George W. Bush Uncensored 0:21 Daily Show 

Bush Collage 1:16 Daily Show 

Steve Colbert – 6-15-2006 – Formidable Opponent 4:17 

How It All Began: George Bush? Hmm… President? 1:26 

Bush Script Writer 4:03 a speechalist’s story 

George W Bush Finally Comes Clean 4:08 

Again stupid Bush 2:47 

George W. Bush is gay 3:16 

Gay Marriage 5:02 Daily Show 

Gov. Bush Vs. Pres Bush 5:36 Daily Show 

Bush: Debate 4:44 Daily Show 

Behind the 8-Ball at the Pump 3:28 Daily Show 

“Oh, Really? bin Laden? Who?” 1:24 Daily Show 

Alito’s confirmation hearings 2:54 Daily Show 

get your war on comix 

THE JOKER (Steve Miller Does Dubya) text 

The G-DOH-P text 

Bush’s surprise speech to Stanford protestors 5:04 this one seems a little fake, i suspect an imposter 

George W Bush Porn 1:38 

The Five Second Rule 0:53 some kid with potato chips 

Anti-Recruitment Ad #2: Runner 0:39 

Anti-Recruitment Ad #3: Latino Soldiers 0:37 apaches! yah! go army! 

Anti-Recruitment Ad #1: Firefighters 0:36 train for your future 

imagine by Bush 2:08 

Bush Iraq Update – The world would be better off if we left! 0:21 

TERRORIST BLOOPERS 3:03 P0YKPAC 

Boom Boom 2:49 

Voting Machine 1:07 

george tells a joke 1:40 

King George & the Administration of Fear 3:35 i hope you found this less hilarious than i did 

what where we thinking 2:32 george is a joke

 

 

Lebanese targets hit in the first week of “restricted pinpoint attacks” – Jul 20, 2006

this is a list of Lebanese targets hit in the first week of
“restricted pinpoint attacks” to ‘defend’ Israel from Hezbollah
all three runways at airport,
airport fuel tanks
road to the airport,
roads,
hwy linking Beruit and Damascus,
bridges, 46
tunnels,
lighthouse,
port facilities,
electrical pylons,
power plant fuel tanks,
generators,
water mains,
pumping stations
fuel depots,
gas stations,
houses,
milk factory,
ambulances,
an ambulance caravan from Syria,
procter and gamble warehouse,
countless apartment buildings,
shops,
stalls,
way disproportionate number of cars,
empty seafront restaurant,
mobile television relay stations,
comm networks,
cellphone towers,
glass factory,
U.N. peacekeepers’ main headquarters in the south,
Christian suburb on the eastern side of Beirut,
truck-mounted water well drill,
the office of PLO foriegn minister,
barracks of Lebanese logistics unit
(some members of which had just shown Robert Fisk
what they thought was a fallen piece of wing and
burning fuel from an f-16; they are now dead),
another Lebanese barracks,
multiple army bases,
schools
Grain Silos

is thier aim amazingly bad, or thier lies?

and then there’s the blockade

Israeli Air Force General Ido Nehushtan says, “The targets chosen are connected either directly or indirectly with terrorism,”
Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres, “no civilian life will be hit, that no civilian infrastructure will be destroyed.” “Israel didn’t start the war. Israel didn’t attack anybody.”

“There has also been widespread destruction of public infrastructure.”
International Committee of the Red Cross

“Since the start of the month, Israeli forces have killed nearly 50 Palestinians, the majority of them being innocent civilians. In May, the killing of more than 40 Palestinians by Israeli forces was scarcely reported in the US media. The recent artillery barrage on Gaza left many children under the age of ten dead. The number of Palestinian children killed in the last three weeks by Israeli forces is equal to the number of Israeli children killed by Palestinian groups over the past two years.”
July 04, 2006, http://poeticremi.blogspot.com/

Found a pic of men in Beirut watching Hizbullah leader
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, while the Isrealis claim to think
the explosions behind are hitting him
(they did nab some apartments and houses though).

btw, the CIA has closed the book on Osama Bin Laudin.

h u b r i s ZIONAZIS
Israel still holds nearly 10,000 abducted Palestinians, including many members of the Palestinian government. Ali Abuminah, co-founder of ElectronicIntifada.net, Israel explicitly introduced the tactic of hostage taking for the purpose of prisoners exchangesin the early 90s. Today, Israel holds many Lebanese prisoners and occupies the Shebaa Farms. When did Israel every respect the sovereignty of any of its neighbors. Israel occupies southwest Syria. There are 30,000 Israeli settlers living in southwest Syria cultivating wine and enjoying the Golan Heights and claiming God gave it to them. Israel is establishing new settlements everyday throughout the Occupied Territories. Israel has been violating the airspace and territorial waters of Lebanon continuously and consistently ever since it was forced to withdraw its forces and its collaborator army, the South Lebanon army, in May 2000.

turtle piss & animal rescue – Jul 19, 2006

i wanted to recap the idylic last 2 months when i got home.
now much of that is obliterated by war.

we built a chicken coop and planted some veggies,
every morn Jackie would go out and get the eggs,
Jackie’s car crapped out, and she bought a white Toyota
watering and feeding the chickens, and watering the plants.

whenever we had to drive somewhere
(almost every day, one way or another)
it was likely to blow the whole day.

i did get to help three turtles cross the road, however.
the first one was a really large painted turtle,
maybe half my age, or more.

i heard a gurgling sound as i turned him over to see his belly,
they are so brightly painted, and i wanted to be sure that was what he was.

we all laughed as he sprayed me really well out of the same leg-hole
that was pointed towards my face as i turned him.

he missed my face, but my shirt and arm got wet.

i washed at a gas station, and Jackie had to buy me
a new t-shirt so i could enter the restaurant we were going to.

the second turtle was the only snapper i’ve ever touched
though he was hardly bigger than my hand, it was really scary
his long neck would have nabbed me if i held him much longer.

the third was a small painted, much more what i’m used to.

we also saw a homing pigeon that had been attacked by the side
of the road, and took him home.

while trying to find the right contacts online, we found out her son Rob
knew of a guy nearby, right across the road from where he was moving in,
who kept them. it was within a mile down the same road we found it along
we drove over, and, sure enough, it was his.

we also saw many deer, and took a few scenic drives.

we went to the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair and had some fun
well, that’s the short vers.,
soon i will post more info about occupation and bombing than you could want.

CONSENSUS! – Jun 9, 2006

I CONSIDER MYSELF A CONSENSUS,
OF SEVERAL LEVELS OF EVOLUTION AND BRAIN STRUCTURE
the bi-cameral/hemispheric minds

THE EGO IS A SENSORY INTERFACE ILLUSION,
IT IS SO NOT REALLY THERE

there is never really an i,
it is always really we

we keep it in the back of our “subconscious” those things we have chosen to forget
no one is really ever alone in there, anywhere, anytime
and all states are available to the mind of that self,
that are availble to any component

addendum – Jun 9, 2006

occurs now to me this could be taken as little more
than an endorsement of sympathetic magic.

’tisn’t, i actually don’t trust sympathetic, as a methodology,
but it’s all we really had on neandertals, who were denser,
stronger, far more accurate throwers

well, maybe that and atalatls, for that’s the way ’tis
and maybe better voicebox, all this leads to wider synergys.
which is more like what i mean

while old ways are truely superceded, they are never superfluous.
to be whole we must create the consensus reality we want to live in
the power of dream, for example is well demonstrated as a necessity
in the historic annals of many sciences.

the structure of benzene first appeared to us as a dream, for example,
of a snake eating it’s tail, a small ourobos, spinning,
reminding of the point – the circle

meaning of life? all ways lead to emergence of Allness! – Jun 8, 2006

i believe that our evolution, and survival, depend on finding the common ground, and a reconciliation,
of cultural norms and systems of understanding.
from prehistoric roots of language, ancient, and historic culture, and post-modern science,
must emerge a common understanding.
we are beginning to understand the brain’s complexity, how mind emerges from that, our history,
our evolution, and our universe on many new levels.
this century will bring ways to sift and winnow our understandings beyond current imagination
and ecological problems, created by social problems beyond our understanding.

We have the information to solve our problems, and the imagination to enact solutions,
but we lack an agreement on what the problems are, and what solutions are desirable.

we must forge a consensus on the meaning of life, as quickly as we learn the details of life.
we have the tools to understand things that have escaped us due to their complexity,
things like our minds, and the chemistry of collected living bodies.

i expect us to find wisdom in old ways that have been seeming lost,
and knowledge of what it is to be human, and how.
this must crystallize into a more rapidly evolving, more effective, more widely shared
consensus on how to be human, and how to be earthlings.
a more universal, more adaptable, system for encoding our information into understanding, and actions
will grow alongside the technologies that will provide a much more complete encoding of our world
into information.

to get on down our path, we must know, and be, more godly, more human, and more earthly.
more deeply material, less shallowly materialistic
science, religion, and magic will each find the value of the other
they will be reconciled, indeed, we must become more human, we must know ourselves and our past;
we must return to the root, to bring water and nutrient to the branches
we will then each be our own branch of learning, creating the understanding to foster the growth of all.

my evolving spirit-view’s basis is Love,
understanding, propagating, expanding, explaining, Love.
it is the greatest mystery,
understanding of which brings greatest Being,
and makes the greatest beings
(i used to think it was Truth, when i was younger and dumber)

we have studied hate far past it’s usefulness, surely we can agree on that?

in sooth i revere, above all else, Earth, and Love.
Gravity is the Allness’s Love.
Earth is our place to beautify the Allness,
for us all to co-evolve allness in.
Truth and Grace define Beauty.
Beauty, Love, Truth, Earth and the Allness, are plenty of Reason for every being Being
We all share one soul, it is why we are here,
to be here
to being the All into being, to create, expand, evolve Her

soul, psychic energy, magical power, inspiration, meaning, is somehow conserved
as is mass and energy, to which conservation this is somehow enjoined
if only by our lack of knowing why.
the best theoretical physicists now speak of conservation of information,
an emergent property of data, which itself is a property emerging from positions of mass/energy,
as it emerges from spacetime.
all properties of existance seem to arise as an emergent property of spacetime’s very existing.
each new level of complexity emerging into ever more levels of complexity

are meaning, thinking, and Soul that much different?
i believe all past lives are part of all present ones.

thought, divination, and meaning itself are some of the many manifestations of this conservation
and these two are intimately linked, by the flowing of their parts between them,
the melding of one into the other.
it is not the dominance of one part or another,
but the dance of moving energies or vibrations back and forth between the parts,
that make for the purpose, the pleasure, the very existence, of individuals, and of the whole.
This is the spiritual reason why sexual union is, to me, one of the most magical of acts,
universally, and, in particular, to me.

our different understandings of the universe somehow work upon similar principles,
conserving truth and meaning, whether encoded in the stars, or our DNA,
to be read from the molecular structures, or from the cast of die,
if any one, or some, can just divine the form, the code, the key to meaning

and these concepts are some of the traditional basis of magic, and some of science
both of which can be religions, personal paths of spirit,
or illusions whisked away in the winds of time.

Some aspects of reason are provable, some unproven, some stubbornly unprovable; forever?
why we are here?
to be here
?
why do we love?
to love
?
why not?

these two are most intimately related
as the sun, the fire, the food, the luck in the hunt, the thought, the progeny, the word,
the power, lovers entwined, and lines of descent entangled.

science can only prove so much, the spiritual proof is that which is not to be replicated,
but can only be experienced by one; leading not to theories, but to beliefs.

since i always look for outside confirmation, deeply influenced by my first religion, science,
lovemaking becomes where i am most likely to find what appears to be a confirmation of
another’s reality and understanding, and my emergent ‘beliefs’.

two meaning systems, two views, two minds
in contrast, conflict, and in concert,
exchanging energies, loves, and world views, on the most intimate of levels.

We can never really know the mind, or the reality, of any other.
but when you are feeling you feel what another feels
you short circuit the mental systems that deny certainty.
we all feel the same feelings in very much the same way;
all humans use the same chemistry, and similar structures, to experience feelings.
indeed, we share much of this experience and equipment with all mammals,
and much of that is shared with reptiles, less fish, even less other animals.
still, hunger, smell, sex, decision making, all animals share these modes of being,
and experience them through very similar mechanisms.
One may surmise that the experiencing itself must also be very similar.

when one looks in a dog’s eye, one feels that the dog has feelings,
yet one never really absolutely knows the mind of their own twin

opening one’s mind to experiencing the magical flow of energy embodied in lovemaking
brings one as close to certitude as possible in the belief that one shares thoughts with another.
properly matched and understood, lovers may also experience the flow of energies
between entities, the dance of being at the elemental level.

however they conceive to understand this, there is to be found a proof of the underlying reality.
we are all connected, we are all one, we are bound to life, and empowered therein,
by Love, Meaning, Truth, Grace, and understandings

the smallest consensus is two, the most basic of consensus realities.

besides sheer coincidence itself (which is all magic, science, soul, or spirit really are),
as i touch it, in gaming, with dice (my first big hint), and synergy of meaning,
the other places i find meaning, like using the I-Ching, and sexual love,
are intimately entwined with my mind and my perception, indistinguishable from faith and illusion.

but some larger patterns, like astrology (for me), show the connectedness of meanings.
minds evolved to discern patterns, sometimes a coincidence is flagged instead.
hence the tendency of the less rigorous reasoning to find meaning everywhere.
while personal meanings may well be found everywhere, they are not shared with other entities.
discrimination is necessary to find meaning that may be shared, so lacking discrimination
is in contrast with healthy human skepticism, for we are social animals, unable to survive alone,
requiring some degree of consensus in our understandings.
however, some measure of belief, a failure of logic, but maybe not reason, is necessary to us all,
especially in the definition of purpose, direction, desire, joy, and fear.

some complex systems seem definitely to reside outside us
sustained by odd reasoning beyond our grasp as individuals
but with meanings and patterns to be derived from complex systems of meaning
painstakingly built by our fore bearers, and continuously added to
things like astrology, numerology, bibliomancy, tarot, runes, religions and other systems of magic.

many have been struck with the similarity much of modern science bears to these previous attempts.
which many also believe have been replaced by the sciences.

quantum dynamics, like astrology, is different than much of the rest, at least for me…
these seem to be confirmed by the passage of my time
to me these things, like other humans, seem more likely to be ‘real’
to be out there, proving themselves at a distance, not affected by how we see, or what we think.

i’m sure that’s how advocates of my most hated of such systems,
that i believe exist only in their own darkly twisted minds, see their explanation systems also.

i believe systems are less dark, and less hate-able,
when the view is flex-able, and amendable by further understandings.
i don’t feel fixed realities are ‘truth’,
they do not reflect the impetus towards evolving that i see in the Allness.
nor it’s need for Love, deep reverance, respect and Grace.
so, i’ve come to believe that truth actually is neither objective nor subjective,
with one soul, conserved by All, truth is found in a consensus reality,
always expandable by new kinds of being and meanings.

i feel this understanding emerges from our experiences,
it is incomplete, and tentative, but, like science, astrology, and divination,
it makes things more easily understood, or at least comprehended, and explained.

the Soul, Allnessing, Beauty, Truth, even earth, gravity, and mind,
each individual part, the whole, and life itself are all emergent properties of being –
things that stem from the fact of existence, whatever it’s ‘real’ form.

all these systems of finding deeper truths seem alien when first encountered,
but when time’s passing seems to confirm them, they seem to become more concrete,
until one can no longer imagine otherwise.

Quantum dynamics’ mathematics are some of the most beautifully twisted pieces of logic
that will ever be.
no less, or more, so than many others that seem to describe the nature of things well,
by allowing us to manipulate her on a deeper, higher, and or bigger, level than before;
to live more well, to evolve, to understand and find meaning.
as were the birthing of spiritual and magical logics before.

the best reasoning we have ever posited all depends on
“because it looks that way to us” which seems more powerful than “it looks that way to me”
but each system is composed of many small changes, each originally only state-able by one

the wisest wise men know, not only that they do not know it all,
but what it is we can never know, and what we may someday understand.

as we enter a century where the most important frontier will be understanding complexity,
especially how the mind emerges from the brain’s interaction with life,
we will find out more about what can and cannot be known, what meaning can and cannot be,
by learning more about what knowing is, and how we derive meaning.
presumably, the more we learn about learning, the better we will get at it.

but the big question (why?) will never change.
only the how will evolve, but now how is poised to at least show us why we ask why, and how we find answers and meanings.

Lao tzu
the wise Tao doesn’t know

meets
god grant me what i may change, forbearance of what i can’t, and wisdom to know the difference

meets
science, life, art, and massless media

emerging
into a better, expanding, more evolved consensus reality, produced by better understanding,
producing better understandings, accelerating earth’s evolving.

even the disintegration of professional capital ownership,
and other exploitation by misappropriation of our common inheritance,
under the crush of it’s own effects, can only free our minds to see
(unless we allow humanity to disintegrate with it), that everything has plenty reason to be.

all paths lead to the emergence of Allness

pleasure in growing is what gives life meaning
humans are the last ones who should ask what is the meaning of life,
for us it is too find meaning in life, asking why is questioning the meaning of meaning.
meaning emerges from existence, like existence, it is.

one may question the nature of existence, but not it’s existence
existence is, is-ing is what it does! i.e. is is! beings are, being is.
It sounds like nonsense, because it is the answer to a nonsense question, sense is sensible; it just is.

likewise, one may question one’s understanding of meaning
but whether life has meaning? meaning is defined by living!

emergence, evolution, mind, and meaning, are,
like existence, simply, miraculously, being!
each, like us each, an integral, inseparable part of the whole
the Allness knows the meaning, the purpose, the principles,
of each individual, as a part of giving meaning to the whole
it is the meaning, and it’s knowledge will hold all.

Allness knows all, but it really knows naught, it does all, it is all, it is more fundamental than knowledge.

we cannot be all the Allness, so we need neither understand, or be, more than we can.
nor may we,
but we can know that to question, to answer, to give ourselves the illusion of understanding meaning
is an important part of what is our reason to be.

Love, Grace, Truth, these are simply things that make life be, and for which it is worth being a life.
meaning derives from the universal quest, the evolution of meanings

existence exists to be, it’s not so complicated. life lives to live, evolution emerges to evolve.

automate management and ownership out of a job – Jun 2, 2006

in my lifetime, the precarity, or desperateness, of people
has grown, enormously, continuously, and alarmingly!
while the educated, information society, is ever more rewarded,
efficient, and luxurious, the vast majority are left out.
as of the late 1980′s, more than half of all people ever alive are living now.
that the vast majority of us are living on the edge of desperation,
or in deep desperation, as of mid first decade of the third millennium,
means we are faced with a world, where advancing technology has enabled anyone to live like royalty,
while enforcing a society where the majority, of all humans ever having lived,
are currently either starving to death, in grave danger of doing so, or worse.
yet this technologia could engender an economy that could support most of us
in a style, that, still, very few have ever experienced.
we collectively have graver and graver impacts on our environments’
capacity to sustain us.
as a result of our individual desperate behaviors, we endanger all,
especially those who are not economically, and/or informationally, well endowed.
we must endeavor to reduce the general level of desperation among the masses,
else, even the rich will not be sustained.
the economic and information resources must not only no longer be
used against the interests of individuals, be put at the uses of the masses.
all individuals must learn to act less desperate,
to spare what
they can spare, like info, pleasant labor, and love, without suffering for loss.
and none not well enough off to spare these things, for indeed,
not sharing these things is itself loss, one we all share
all should be given their share of what our forbearers have handed down to us all.
the artistry, and knowledge of our predecessors should be available to all to mix,
and remix, and re-envision.

this is the only way back to an expanding economy,

over the hump of earths population limits combined with increasing disparity.
the corporations are just the most powerful of such individual actors, not the best organized;
governments and other organizations are routinely,
like corporations, programmed to act desperately,
and to produce more desperation amongst others in so doing.
Wither goes our party on this path? How desperate are we?
better, more human, communication, information, education,
and knowledge management,
allow us to fully share the most powerful resources
we have ever had, information, and the knowledge to use it with wisdom.
humanity, and many other species, are badly losing the class war,
to the point of threatened, virtual, or real, extinction!
to our cultural toolage?
our technology has been used to create an Earth,
where most humans, who ever lived,
can only wish they had the luxuries of the tribal hunter gatherer life.
from most, the land, resources on and in it, tribal political power,
and even the control, use, and benefit, of their own labor and information,
have all essentially been removed.
for most, a hunter/gatherer life seems palatial for it is,
compared to squatting in a land”fill”;
more control, sustainability, nutrition, resource redundancy, other securities,
more luxuries, time, and space.
the limitations of neigboring tribes seem like a small cost, the dangers, even of
tribal war is a small price when compared
to working in a sweat shop to poison yourself and your land,
to work yourself to the bone to create a useless luxury product,
for wages that could never cover the cost of the useful thing,
the luxury good is a bad imitation of.
to poison the air? or to be?
a more desperate choice,even, than kill or be killed,
more stressful, less rewarding if successful, more lethal if not.
makes tribal warfare look like fun!
tell someone feeling that desperate to preserve our environment,
there is only one answer, it is simple a question.
how do I survive?
a question more of us should be ready for a good answer to.
even among those who fare better, many are so stressed out,
they spend many resources and much time, trying to get hurt with panache,
in desperate sporting extremes.
the threat of our own extinction becomes the most likely prospect
of our superior ability to adapt to, and master, threats?
i don’t think so…
what kind of human nature, or rationale, is that?
none at all!
once the people seize the festival/party leadership,
first the lobbyists, then the politicians,
then the lawyers, cops, and soldiers,
may all be replaced,
then we will automate management and ownership out of their jobs
(they’ll beat us to it, you know they will; then it’s just a change of ownership).
at which point it will be time to sit the engineers down,
retrain them to engineer for user usability and desires.
then sit the users down, retrain them for co-design of their own lives,
and resource management, the fun, easy,
mySpace way
the dTao be much more earnestly sought,
and the way to being fully human well shown,
in a world of animal, eventually vegetale, peoples.
Gia’s new brain will wake up,
within years heaven on earth, lamb lies down with lion.
the new religion, respect your place, and all others, in the Allness.
the new technolgies will enable same.
to get there, we will automate management,
ownership, even visionaries, out of work.
no longer a job, the shared joy of striving to better our collective individual lives.
to preserve and embody the Earth’s behavioral and genetic information,
creating the beauty of her lifeways, expanding and diversifying them, protecting life,
the duty and pleasure of all.
but more than before, faster, more beautifully, more safely.
not ever less so.
every life will be secure, soon after, eternal.
the record will preserve you,
you will be completely, the record will record it completely,
the record will be you, you will be the record,
the record will be backed up, copied, distributed.
immortal
virtual immortality for some
will transform into real immortality for all Her creatures.
we all know the technical side of immortality is almost worked out.
even now, we have much farther than that to go to build a less vicious,
paranoid, precarious, and desperate world.
a world that can learn to share,
as our technology now demands,
of us all.
you cannot stop it, you may only assist,
something we can all agree on:
automate management and ownership out of a job!

Official Notice; Minimanifesto – May 13, 2006

just so’s y’all can lump me in whatever box of ideas you need me to fit in:
besides being a dedicated and active Green Party activist,
though far to lazy and forgetful for my ‘leadership’ positions;
i also think the following are quite likely:

war always sucks,
but virtual war is rocking good fun,
when you get to take a break and live now and then

high levels of US ‘defense’ and ‘administration’ were involved,
at the very least, in not preventing 911,
certain individuals more so than bureacraticity can explain

we have passed peak oil, deal with it
“burning petroleum for fuel is like burning money for heat” ?Mendeleev

Hugo Chavez is the best single being to happen to the Americas since Simon Bolivar
in this stead he, like Bolivar, is more than a man, he embodies
the progressive compromise with capital, and military hierarchy, but just barely, movement

Anarkik being is all about organization, consensus, and democracy
mob rule is man with big stick rule, chaos does not organize
anarks rule selves collective, organize is only way to do so leaderless

if you are not an anark,
consider it the next time your movement is beheaded
by assasination, or co-opted by excess capital accumulation
it happens every time it matters

the reductionist, determinist, absolutest, inhuman assumptions of the culture of ownership,
esp. as it pertains to communal industrial capital
and it’s control by very few for very selfish prosaic and combative reasons,
has no real human rationale, nor has it ever fit the needs or realities of the majority of humans,
much less other fellow inhabitants of earth

way too much collateral damage occurs every day in Iraq,
our school budgets, our hearts, our minds, our liberties, and our relations,
colatteral human damage from the war is just about everywhere touched by the dollar or english speakers

the most important capital can not be owned,
human imagination is a wage,
it must be earned hourly, and must be fed daily

whatch this space, this is a short list now,
but i have a long list of additions already in mind

the new lost in finding self: blogged worlds evolving mind – May 11, 2006

i’ve spent enough time immersed in the tailend of the wave of culture
last felt to be self indulgently wasting thier youth
many of us are in here
still down with the youth, when it really matters

as the expansion of the envelope with chemical and social help
was the same old better solution to the old hermit in a cave,
as television had given us the twisted belief in over-’consensus’
and we founded counter culture
today it matters a little less who you are or where you are

this medium is not only more liberating, it is more egalitarian

while i’m keeping in mind that 2200$ was just established as the
income below which 85% of humans survive
we must, and will, soon include them,
and the instrument of doing so will transform all our lives
for the better,
as long as we retain control of our use of content, and connections.
the collective self reflection found upon blogs, emails, IMs, and spaces
is a neccesary prelude to effective collective action

whereas the dark solitude of the cave and hermit, and the pshycodelia,
connect us to the allness and our world,
they may alienate us more from each other, than not.

this reflection finds my minds reflections in the eyes of others
whilst this may not well bespeak of one’s social graces, in the ‘real’ world,
it does help excersize the same mental muscles

we need to split up into autonomous little self organized groups
and form our own global organization of human action
from the ground up
conciously, carefully, choosing our own clans
and forming up again, in a human culture, run for humanistic,
humane, human ends,
even long after it is no longer run by humans

i’d been very excited about writting as a youth,
but the motive was to share my thoughts,
once i’d formed them,
i ultimately needed more reason than to practice my words

here on myspace i can read what is written by those who read me, and publish with such facility that i’m quickly unable to do much else

just as it would be if i was always on peyote,
i’m not getting any work done.
now, there are other reasons i’m not working,
but it’s hard to object, for, in here, in very short time
a small somewhat random, un-directed, mosey about,
has given me several new friends that are helping me turn over and redefine many things
it’s not that my closest aren’t not all concerned with these aspects,
just we’ve been over it before,
my positions have solidified around definitions made for each other
over time tumblers move, hinges rust, doors open, doors close

new friends based solely on apparent intellectual depth?
a childhood dream, a leap forward for beingkind in Earth’s vicinity

writing to Piroska, i was discussing the tribal,
and the lost culture of the Ojibwe,
in light from the remaiing Gypsy culture
and i segued into the following:

it’s a more than a damn shame what is lost, but the
old old ways are for a world that no longer exists,
and the new old ways are constantly adapted to the changes around
the important thing is the attitude,
the state of mind and habits of culture
the rythms of life that give connectedness must be given back to all our children

the increasing dehumanization of the dominant culture
has come to the point where we must end that trending upward now
if we do not work today to do this humans will have no tomorrow

the dance of life must be returned to the norm; the beauty, appreciation, and respect

for Allness must be returned to our peoples

organizing on a human scale is core to this

eurocentric culture has a need to just start over in this respect
real political organization has to be broken into groups that can agree on a

consensus
and then, through negotiation, reassembled into an agreement the world can consent to
to build a world the world can consent to every day, forever

this must be done, but it will only need to be done one more time!
for it must be done right this time
having a culture that can evolve,
as opposed to a culture of absolutes is critical
our culture of constantly changing, ever more absolute truths make no sense
but there are confused ones today, who take each new truth as a long standing absolute foundation of right and wrong
change is good, but the foundations are not handed down on high
they are plain for all to see
the current turmoil within, and among religions,
seems based in that fact
any organized hierarchy of humans, in this age of information,
must confine itself to ends it may achieve
increasingly, this only means making money, not sense
only all of us can answer the big questions for all of us
the fragile brittle world of absolutes can’t stand much longer
the scared minds seeking leadership to explain away all the contradictions of thier worlds
will someday soon have to see that world blow away
when you can really see it, it’s amazing how much living in a mind of absolutes,
not only enables, but requires living in a body of hypocrisy

native, aboriginal, boreal, indeed tribal peoples of all nations,
and those without nations, and nations without self determination
all must collect together with the disenfranchised into a majority
this may seem like it will never happen, but it is happened, and it will be continued
to do this we all together must work out what it is we see,
what we want, and what the hell we

are going to do about it.
our entire set of paradigm sets must be recast,
independant of industrial capital’s control

and the only ones who can do it are ourselves

alliances between the disenfranchised, the nationless,
and the stateless nations and tribes
are increasingly strengthened from within
the tribal mind shares, the tribal mind cares, the tribal mind makes alliance

the actions of sustainable future for humanity belong to the tribal.
the comfort of unity with the diverse set of the All, proceeding therein
is in stark contrast, an improvement, on the austere, aloof, useless
monochromality of Judeo-christian-islamisms
the focus on death and what’s after it,
based solely on the fetishization of one heros death,
to procrastinate on joy untill you die

but joy requires a beautiful, healthy, diverse environment,
even inthe abstract or virtual world

so the tribal governments lend more help to the alliance,
and day by day, blog by blog, life by life, clan by clan
a sane world is being built.
the sumpremely human trait, done with love, or with hate,
to know when there is no other alternative
and choose the remaining choice,
and do whatever it takes
regardless of the odds,…
for there is no other choice

so far that is
we have learn about ourselves, that, collectively, we must be very careful who frames the question
in myspace, so far, we choose who frames the question
i do keep noting that there is not only no politics category,
but no green, anarchic, transcendant, spiritual, radical,
useful, meaningfull ones either

well, for now, for me, blogworlds expand mind

ladies, and you poor young men,
i found this blurb that sums up the entire state of mind of men for the first decade or so
please, feel sorry for all the assholes, most of them are just stuck here:
oops…, i’m kinda, oops.. there it goes again! damn, wait, .. love? … no, anger?.. beep? beep; :surprise?!: overload… overdrive,,!,?? oh no! here i post again!
“If I cum now, will it be too soon” ubersite.com/m/17812
or why guys are quiet in bed (482481 hits)
Category: Science & Environmental

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Submitted by Jon Elkins [Authenticated] (View user info) at 2003-11-04 23:17:40

I was once having a conversation with Jesus and our girlfriends and Razor’s house, and an interesting subject came up. (And yes, I purposely included the name of an uberuser guru in a pale attempt to gain popularity) Anyway, someone asked, “Why are guys so quiet in bed.” And while this is by no means true for all guys, here is my answer.

Guys are quiet in bed because we are too busy thinking. You heard me right. Thinking. Deep thoughts. You see, it seems to generally the guy’s job, (at least in my experience) to make the girl feel as good as possible and have sweet, sweet orgasms. The girl, on the other hand, is generally content to just lay back and see what I’ve got to offer. Again, I can’t speak for anyone else, this is just in my personal experience.

Not only am I thinking during sex, I am multi-tasking. My neuro-net processor of a brain is pounding algorithms as fast as my penis is pounding pussy.

Just what is going through my head during sex? Like the moon, this is a frontier so far journeyed only by man. But here is a small window of what goes on in my head during sex:
“Alright, time for some action”
“I hope I don’t fuck up this time”
“Is that the right hole?”
“Oh wait, there it is”
“All right, lets start out slow”

It isn’t long before my thoughts turn into a quiet panic.

BRAIN: “Damn, she just moved.”
BRAIN: “Did I do something right, or did I hurt her”

BRAIN: “She’s making noises!”
BRAIN: “Pain noises or pleasure noises?”
BRAIN: “Let try stepping up the pace a little”

BRAIN: “More noises, I pretty sure that’s pleasure now”
BRAIN: “Oh yeah, she’s starting to flush, I like that”
BRAIN: “Lets try changing the angle a bit”
………………………..
BRAIN: “Nope, didn’t like that”

BRAIN: “Damn, what was I doing before?”
BRAIN: “Fuck it, lets try a different position”
WOMAN: “OUCH!”
BRAIN: “Yeah….that one was definitely pain>
WOMAN: “What are you doing?”
BRAIN: “Mayday! Mayday!”
BRAIN: “Decrease Velocity!”
BRAIN: “Open flaps”
BRAIN: “Landing gear engaged”
BRAIN: “Disengage primary thrusters”
BRAIN: “Systems check”
ME: “You allright?”
WOMAN: “Uh….Yeah”
BRAIN: “No system damage”
ME: “Allright, lets try this again”

five minutes later….computer pretty much takes over
BRAIN: “Allright, back on track”

BRAIN: “Target in sight, hold position”

BRAIN: “C’mon…….C’mon”

BRAIN: “Hold it……Hold it…..”
COMPUTER: WARNING! WARNING!
COMPUTER: ERR-ERR-ERR
BRAIN: “Oh shit”
COMPUTER: SYSTEM OVERLOAD IMMINENT
BRAIN: “Oh shit, not yet!”

BRAIN: “Just a little longer”
COMPUTER: DANGER HULL INTEGRITY
COMPUTER: SYSTEM OVERLOAD COMMENCING
BRAIN: “FUCK! I’m not going to make it”
BRAIN: “Pull out and prepare for manual override”
COMPUTER: SYSTEM OVERLOAD __________
BRAIN: “Pull out, pull out”
COMPUTER: AUTO PILOT ENGAGED
BRAIN: “NO! UNENGAGE! UNENGAGE!”
COMPUTER: TARGET LOCKED….TARGET LOCKED
BRAIN: “If I cum now, will it be too soon?”
BRAIN: “If I cum now, will it be too soon?”
BRAIN: “If I cum now, will it be too soon?”
COMPUTER:
COMPUTER:
BRAIN: “Must….hold….on”
COMPUTER:
BRAIN: “can’t…..hold it”
COMPUTER:
BRAIN: “Its out of my control, its in God’s hands now”
COMPUTER: “PRIMARY VALVE: EJACULATING”

COMPUTER: “AUTOMATIC SYSTEM SHUT DOWN: COMMENCING”

WOMAN: “Honey, are you alright?”
ME: Yeah…..my head hurts….”
WOMAN: “Sorry”
ME: No, the other head”
WOMAN: “What?”
ME: Nothing”
ME: Did you cum”
WOMAN: “What, you didn’t notice”
ME: Actually, I was kinda too busy to notice”
WOMAN: “You’re so weird”
ME: You should try being the pilot next time”
WOMAN: “Get off me, I need to pee”

Do you ever find that pre-orgasm expression on a guys face funny?
Ever wonder what he’s feeling”
Its not pain
Its not pleasure
It is deep, hard, seething thought.”
article in origional context here

so, we see that much of male pattern insanity is simply men driving
it’s not always men driving, but maleness is all about attempting control,
ultimately, this process is mirrored in just about anything a man does
once he has taken an interest
from the first date, to the home, to the fight that could end it,
his eagerness, impatience, agressivness, desire, and control are tested
and the script of this knowledge is hard to shake
if you don’t know it, or try to ignore it,
women will teach you, and you will try to learn
so it is impossible to ignore, without becoming hopeless
wise, lucky, old men, they get it, or else they arrange it so they don’t care,
but it’s simple
we are tested, even guppies want both sides of the coin
every stroke contains the question, can you get carried away?/can you control it?

women don’t want to torture us
but evolution puts them in a place where they must need mutually exclusive traits
primal woman need primal man to lose control
only for her
needs control over overwhelming urge
at her command
and brains, and culture, and war have entrenched these needs
but when it’s just a game, or you feel like you’re winning, or all the needs are met
it is a fun ride,
esp. if you hit the trifecta and get all three, for a long happy life of love together
but don’t expect that any of that should happen to you

if you expect it, you won’t get,
if you don’t hope for it, you won’t get it
if you don’t work for it, you won’t get it
work to hard for it, you won’t get it

men want the same things, in much the same way
but if we can’t find it ourselves, we need to be culled
the male is simply more expendable, always,
that’s what maleness is

this is why straight men mostly secretly wish they were gay
and it is the reason that women feel the same
but it is the engine that has driven the rising complexity,
and powers, of human evolution
to the extreme of evolving the female orgasm

this additional feedback mechanism
creates a whole new level of complexity
along the lines of the same old themes

the question at this point is what do we do with all that
our tech begins to evolve itself
we must wind down the intensity of competition,
else find another venue for it than life

so:

men, swing the pendulum back from external control to internal control,
whichever way you dare to swing the pendulum, don’t swing it too far!

womyn, how about you try driving the beast more often?
whether or not you drive, accept it when you arrive where the driver thought you were going

both sexes must learn to better accept/expect failure more often
much more effective that trying to convince each other of our differing definitions of failure
more fun to share roles, swap sides
makes more whole people

Unbroken hearts for unimaginative pussies… had to go here

as spontaneous counterpoise to my previous post,
none could do better than one of my closest, Anna:
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Unbroken hearts for unimaginative pussies…

Who do you know whose heart is not broken in some way?
Do you want to know someone with a whole heart?
We are our pain, every one of us.

Our scars and battle wounds are what make us more real…
more recognizable to each other.
When you join two pieces of clay together you have to score each side,
rough it up so that when you press them together they have something to hold onto,
places where they can fold together and can be sealed to make a strong join.

I believe that once broken, there is no going back to a whole heart.
The people and events that cause the breaking never leave us… not really.
I do not think that this is as sad or as melancholy as it may sound.
I prefer the wounded, deep, tried, healed over…
give me substance every time. I despise an unbroken heart.
It implies lack of depth, lack of life.. a grotesque apathy.
I have no end in sight for this monologue,
merely a few (2 or 3 hundred) thoughts on the matter…
It is after all, an unfinished topic with me.

 

Misogyny Corner: A response (780 hits) @ http://www.ubersite.com/m/81195

maybe i should have left it at just a link, but i really want to share this one
to be found @:

http://www.ubersite.com/m/81195

Misogyny Corner: A response (780 hits)
Submitted by badassmofo

I don’t really agree with the ‘women are crazy’ mentality.
Personally I think the whole issue is a problem with communication.
You see I’ve spent 10 years now,
living with my wife and 5 of them married to her and we have,
from what I can tell, a very good relationship.

It didn’t come easy; it didn’t come without work and sacrifice on both of our behalves.
No in fact it came from the complete opposite end of the spectrum,
IT WAS HARD FUCKING WORK.

We spent years listening to what the other person was saying but not hearing it.
Fact is we were speaking two different languages.
She spoke Woman and I spoke Constant Hard On,
it was like someone speaking French to a Klingon, it just didn’t work.

In fact this lack of communication led to us breaking up somewhere
around the end of our second year together.

Eventually we got back together and having bared our souls,
you see when you are about to lose something that you’ve loved more than anything else in your life
you become disgustingly honest.

So we talked and we listened and began to form our own language.
Or maybe a better analogy is that we created an interpretation machine of sorts.

You see when she said “Man the lawn needs mowing”
I no longer heard
“You fucking lazy man, why don’t you get off your ass and mow the lawn,”
I just heard an observation.
Unless of course she said
“You fucking lazy man, why don’t you get off your ass and mow the lawn,”
because I never had a problem understanding that.

And when I said stuff like
“I’m going out to have some drinks with the boys after work tonight,”
she no longer heard
“I’m going to get stinking pissed and see what type of venereal disease I can get.”

You see its all about communication,
and to learn to communicate takes time,
it’s different with everyone because we all speak different languages.

If you’ve got it in your mind that there will be fireworks when your eyes meet,
that love at first site is the norm or that she’ll turn soft with your every advance
you are mistaken and will likely end up alone.

You see love at first sight, more times than not,
ends up being a load of bullshit in fairly short order.
Mainly because it is a farce,
you can’t love someone when you first meet them,
its impossible, stop watching movies.

You can’t truly love someone until you’ve smelled their shit
and you’re ok with it.
Love grows its not spontaneously created.
You can’t love someone or be loved by them until they’ve seen you at< your lowest,
or until you’re holding her hair while she pukes in the toilet.

Now the question comes ‘this seems like a lot of effort,
how will I know who is the right one?’
I don’t know what to tell you there, some folks luck out as I have
and it works out with the first one that they actually bare themselves to
and try to work it out.
But most folks,
most of them have to try repeatedly before they find the right one….
but it’s worth it.

Women aren’t any crazier than men are;
we’re equally crazy in our own way.
It’s a matter of finding the one whose bad habits,
bitching, crying, farting that you can stand.

All that said one of the most important things is that you are happy with yourself,
you’re likely to not be able to be happy with someone else.
You see if you are unhappy with you then again,
you are having a communication problem but it’s with yourself.

When you find a woman that you deem crazy,
keep in mind that she is no crazier than any other woman, or any other
man for that matter.
It’s that her craziness is not compatible with your craziness.

 

Honduras 2009 6/29

A Few Thoughts on the Coup in Honduras – Jeremy Scahill Junne 29, 2009 “Rebel Reports” –

There is a lot of great analysis circulating on the military coup against Manuel Zelaya in Honduras.
I do not see a need to re-invent the wheel. (See here here here and here). However, a few key things
jump out at me. First, we know that the coup was led by Gen. Romeo Vasquez, a graduate of the
US Army School of the Americas. As we know very well from history, these “graduates” maintain ties to
the US military as they climb the military career ladders in their respective countries.
That is a major reason why the US trains these individuals.

Secondly, the US has a fairly significant military presence in Honduras.
Joint Task Force-Bravo is located at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras.
The base is home to some 550 US military personnel and more than 650 US and Honduran civilians:

They work in six different areas including the Joint Staff, Air Force Forces (612th Air Base Squadron),
Army Forces, Joint Security Forces and the Medical Element. 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment,
a US Army South asset, is a tenant unit also based at Soto Cano.
The J-Staff provides command and control for JTF-B.
The New York Times reports that “The unit focuses on training Honduran military forces, counternarcotics
operations, search and rescue, and disaster relief missions throughout Central America.”

Significantly, according to GlobalSecurity, “Soto Cano is a Honduran military installation and home of the Honduran Air Force.”


 

This connection to the Air Force is particularly significant given this report in NarcoNews:

The head of the Air Force, Gen. Luis Javier Prince Suazo, studied in the School of the Americas in 1996.
The Air Force has been a central protagonist in the Honduran crisis.
When the military refused to distribute the ballot boxes for the opinion poll, the ballot boxes were stored
on an Air Force base until citizens accompanied by Zelaya rescued them.
Zelaya reports that after soldiers kidnapped him, they took him to an Air Force base,
where he was put on a plane and sent to Costa Rica.
It is impossible to imagine that the US was not aware that the coup was in the works.
In fact, this was basically confirmed by The New York Times in Monday’s paper:

As the crisis escalated, American officials began in the last few days to talk with Honduran government
and military officials in an effort to head off a possible coup. A senior administration official,
who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity, said the military broke off those discussions on Sunday.
While the US has issued heavily-qualified statements critical of the coup
—in the aftermath of the events in Honduras—the US could have flexed its tremendous economic muscle
before the coup and told the military coup plotters to stand down.
The US ties to the Honduran military and political establishment run far too deep for all of this to have gone
down without at least tacit support or the turning of a blind eye by some US political or military official(s).

Here are some facts to consider: the US is the top trading partner for Honduras.
The coup plotters/supporters in the Honduran Congress are supporters of the “free trade agreements”
Washington has imposed on the region.
The coup leaders view their actions, in part, as a rejection of Hugo Chavez’s influence in Honduras and with
Zelaya and an embrace of the United States and Washington’s “vision” for the region. Obama and the
US military could likely have halted this coup with a simple series of phone calls.
For an interesting take on all of this, make sure to check out Nikolas Kozloff’s piece on Counterpunch, where he writes:

In November, Zelaya hailed Obama’s election in the U.S. as “a hope for the world,” but just two months
later tensions began to emerge.  In an audacious letter sent personally to Obama, Zelaya accused the
U.S. of “interventionism” and called on the new administration in Washington to respect the principle
of non-interference in the political affairs of other nations.
Here are some independent news sources on this story:
School of the Americas Watch
NarcoNews
Eva Golinger’s Postcards from the Revolution

© 2009 Jeremy Scahill
Comments (41)

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22944.htm

At least two leaders of the coup launched in Honduras today were apparently trained
at a controversial Department of Defense school based at Fort Benning, Georgia
infamous for producing graduates linked to torture,
death squads and other human rights abuses.
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/06/key-leaders-of-honduras-military-coup-trained-in-us.html

Military Coup in Honduras  www.SOAW.org

From CISPES: Here are statements by other members of the Organization of American States:

(http://americasmexico.blogspot.com/2009/06/oas-countries-back-zelaya-calls-for.html).

Honduras Coup not News???
http://www.opednews.com/populum/diarypage.php?did=13629

New Honduran leader sworn in
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8123513.stm

Honduras names new leader after president ousted in military coup
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Honduras-names-new-leader-after.5408957.jp

Honduran president overthrown, new leader voted in
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/honduran-president-overthrown-new-leader-voted-in-20090629-d1fb.html

Honduras Supreme Court says it ordered presidents’ ouster
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/29/content_11616407.htm

Exiled Zelaya insists he is rightful Honduran president

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/exiled-zelaya-insists-he-is-rightful-honduran-president-20090629-d1en.html

Protests erupt after coup in Honduras
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/protests-erupt-after-coup-in-honduras-2810235

Honduran President Is Ousted in Coup
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/world/americas/29honduras.html

Honduras Zelaya calls for peaceful resistance to coup
http://theusdaily.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=786669&type=home

Costa Rica calls on int’l community to condemn Honduras coup
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/29/content_11616377.htm

Ecuador says not to recognize any new Honduras govt
http://www.forexyard.com/en/reuters_inner.tpl?action=2009-06-28T173730Z_01_N28339621_RTRIDST_0_HONDURAS-PRESIDENT-ECUADOR-URGENT

US seeks return to power of deposed Honduran leader, and safety of his family meantime
http://www.canadaeast.com/news/article/712696

Ecuador, Venezuela condemn Honduras coup
http://english.cctv.com/20090629/101301.shtml

President.Zelaya.in.Costa.Rica
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbfo/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1523223/World/Honduras.President.Zelaya.in.Costa.Rica.report (Reuters)

June 28th:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/28/747720/-%5BUpdate-14%5D-Military-Coup-Underway-Now-in-Honduras

Postcards from the Revolution http://www.chavezcode.com/ 

UN General Assembly To Meet On Honduras Unrest Monday-Spokesman
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200906281959dowjonesdjonline000374&title=un-general-assembly-to-meet-on-honduras-unrest-monday-spokesman

Cuba condemns Honduras coup as ‘criminal, brutal’
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN28348369

Coup in Honduras?
Soldiers arrested leftist President Manuel Zelaya Sunday as he planned

to carry out a controversial referendum to extend presidential term limits,

despite a Supreme Court ruling that the vote would be illegal.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0628/p06s07-woam.html

Should Honduras constitution be changed?
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=6660&edition=2&ttl=20090629021348

Lalin scores to help Honduras beat Panama 2-0
http://www.waaytv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10608899&nav=menu635_3

Troops oust Honduran president in feared coup
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/troops-oust-honduran-president-in-feared-coup-20090628-d1cf.html

Honduras court says ordered army to oust Zelaya
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/6/29/worldupdates/2009-06-28T230315Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-406531-1&sec=Worldupdates

Honduran Leader Pushes Ahead With Divisive Vote
http://abcnews.go.com/International/WireStory?id=7948541&page=1

Zelaya vows to go ahead with controversial Honduras vote
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/zelaya-vows-to-go-ahead-with-controversial-honduras-vote-20090628-d137.html

Honduran President Zelaya Ousted in Coup by Military (Update2)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aRbH.AbdAgUA

Background on Military Coup in Honduras
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/06/background-on-military-coup-in-honduras.html

In pictures: Honduran president ousted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8123314.stm

Honduran military to pick interim president (Vid)
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/06/2009628141859453757.html

European Union condemns military coup in Honduras
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/166142/European-Union-condemns-military-coup-in-Honduras

Argentine President says military coup in Honduras is “a return to barbarism”
http://www.telam.com.ar/vernota.php?tipo=N&dis=1&sec=1&idPub=151669&id=299617&idnota=299617

ALBA representatives reaffirm support to Hondura`s Legitimate Government
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=620928
(the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America)

Obama concerned over expulsion of Honduran leader
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3738299,00.html

Clinton urges condemnation of Honduran action
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062801032.html

Obama Calls for Order as Honduran Military Arrests President
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/28/obama-calls-order-military-arrests-honduran-president/

Arrest a coup, says Honduras leader
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/8581486

Honduran president calls arrest a ‘kidnapping’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062800792.html

Honduras President Zelaya in Costa Rica: report
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1523223/World.News/Honduras.President.Zelaya.in.Costa.Rica.report

Honduran president forced to Costa Rica after coup (2nd Roundup)
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/americas/news/article_1486431.php/Honduran_president_forced_to_Costa_Rica_after_coup__2nd_Roundup__#ixzz0JkgrrKbf&D

Honduras: Military Coup a Blow to Democracy
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/56d116d630d9216a9892fd8f2af18c35.htm

Honduras Zelaya calls for peaceful resistance to coup
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/6/29/worldupdates/2009-06-28T215351Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-406521-1&sec=Worldupdates

Honduras President Zelaya in Costa Rica – CNN
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/6/28/worldupdates/2009-06-28T210221Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-406513-1&sec=Worldupdates 

Court says Honduras to hold presidential vote in Nov. 29
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=44063

Venezuela Threatens Attack On Honduras
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Honduras-President-Manuel-Zelaya-Deposed-In-Coup-Venezuela-Threatens-Military-Attack/Article/200906415321924

Chavez: CIA Behind Coup in Honduras
http://www.lademajagua.co.cu/infgran11257.htm

UPDATE 2-Chavez threatens military action over Honduras coup
http://www.forexpros.com/news/commodities—futures-news/update-2-chavez-threatens-military-action-over-honduras-coup-66974

Venezuelan, Cuban, and Nicaraguan Ambassadors to Honduras Kidnapped
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4556

Venezuela says troops kidnap diplomats in Honduras
http://www.forexyard.com/en/reuters_inner.tpl?action=2009-06-28T165015Z_01_N28335731_RTRIDST_0_HONDURAS-PRESIDENT-AMBASSADORS-URGENT

Chavez puts Venezuela troops on alert on Honduras
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-40653020090628

Israelis in Honduras warned to exercise caution amid unrest
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1096197.html

Is Honduras’ Military Junta The Hot New Revolution?
http://gawker.com/5303388/is-honduras-military-junta-the-hot-new-revolution

Honduras Tense After Army Coup – Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124619401378065339.html#mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular

Honduras: Political Crisis Over Controversial Referendum
http://www.petroleumworld.com/sunopf09062801.htm

27th:

Zelaya continues push for controversial Honduras vote
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/zelaya-continues-push-for-controversial-honduras-vote-20090627-d0fl.html

Chavez’s Hollow Pledge on Honduras
http://bellum.stanfordreview.org/?p=1413

26th:

Honduran President staves off coup attempt
http://www.fsrn.org/audio/headlines-friday-june-26-2009/4959

Much has been going on in Honduras this month leading up to this,
from a recent coup attempt (ablove), to an Earthquake, an OAS meeting,
and two important futball games.

7th
Win Over Honduras Keeps U.S. on Track – USA 2, Honduras 1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/06/AR2009060602623.html?hpid=sec-sports

10th
Honduras edges El Salvador 1-0 in WCup qualifying
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2009-06-10-2132962017_x.htm

2nd
Earthquake shakes Honduras before OAS meeting
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iwUoPU-nOb8Et42KKOKYUa8A43DwD98ILHVO1
http://www.fsrn.org/audio/headlines-friday-june-26-2009/4959

FACTBOX – Key facts about Honduras

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55R17J20090628

Bill Maher on Obama, “Republican lite”

“Shouldn’t there be one party that unambiguously supports cutting the military
budget, a party that is straight up in favor of gun control, gay marriage, higher taxes
on the rich, universal health care – legalizing pot – and steep, direct taxing of
polluters? These aren’t radical ideas. A majority of Americans are either already for
them or would be if they were properly argued and defended.”
“Hey, Bill, we’re over here! What you described is the GREEN PARTY! We already exist!”
An Open Letter to Bill Maher from the Green Party
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=231

“Maybe you forgot about us because the major media have an aversion to mentioning

the Green Party and our candidates. Maybe the FCC has banned “Green Party” along
with the late George Carlin’s seven dirty words, “Chomsky,” “End the Drug War,”
and other language that offends delicate sensibilities.”

Are you fed up with sanity being left out of “the public political discourse”?
Then have a good laugh while absorbing

some of the best political analysis available!
Time to see some best of Bill Maher and guests like Naomi Klein.
In ascending chronological order:
June 19, 2009
Opening Monolog
“the AMA, if you’re not sick, we’re not doing our job” ; 7:38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XhhKwppeO8&feature=related
New Rules
“Democrats have become Republican lite” ; 7:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUAHPYYzeM&feature=related

“bottom line? Democrats are the new republicans”
“we don’t have a left and a right party in this country anymore,
we have a center right party and a crazy party.
And over the last thirty odd years,
Democrats have moved to the right,
and the right has moved into a mental hospital.”

“look folks, i like Obama too, I’m just saying,
let’s not make it a religion. …

every time Obama tries to take on another on another progressive
ccause there’s a major political party standing in his way,
the Democrats.
People talk a lot about a third party in America,
we don’t need a third party, we need a first party.
You go to the polls and your choices are the guy who voted for the
first Wall Street bailout, or the guy who voted for the next ten.

This week we’re hearing that a public option for health care is unlikely,
because it doesn’t have the support of enough Democrats.
Even Ted Kennedy’s plan (Ted Kennedy yeah!),
leaves 37 million uninsured.

This is because we don’t have a left and a right party
in this country anymore,
we have a center right party and a crazy party.
And over the last thirty odd years,
Democrats have moved to the right,
and the right has moved into a mental hospital.

So, what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers,
credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big agriculture,
and the pharmaceutical lobby, that’s the Democrats,
and they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious fanatics,
flat earthers, and Civil War reenacters,
who mostly communicate by AM radio
and call themselves the Republicans.
And who actually worry that Obama is a Socialist.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUAHPYYzeM&feature=related 7:51
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In case you think it is just Bill and I who feel this way, here are some reports of
a couple recent polls that show we are not alone in being disappointed about Dem’s performance this year:


Strategists Worry Obama’s Popularity is Dropping – Kenneth T. Walsh - July 1, 2009
Some worry Obama’s honeymoon with the public and the media may be over
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/obama/2009/07/01/strategists-worry-obamas-popularity-is-dropping.html
Rasmussen Poll: Obama’s Popularity Plunging – June 30, 2009 7:27 PM
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_rasmussen_poll/2009/06/30/230686.html
Barack Obama’s honeymoon with voters is over, polls suggests – June 23, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6557276.ece
Barack Obama’s honeymoon on the wane – June 19, 2009
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25656299-2703,00.html
“Obama honeymoon coming to an end”: NBC - Jun 18, 2009 9:59am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55H36820090618
Honeymoon Over: It’s On Obama’s Watch Now – June 18, 2009 – 12:26 a.m.
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003146528
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6-19-09
Overtime with Bill Maher; opening ; 6:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPd_uqjeYCg&feature=related
6-19-09
Overtime: Paul Begala Schools Meghan McCain!;4:33
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiVlZo6a5aA&feature=related

6-19-09
CNN Situation Room ; 1:34
“This country needs a left wing. It doesn’t have it.
And part of the reason is the media!”
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=ydaGZuqGnz
http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20090616100543.aspx

JUNE 16, 2009
CNN: Maher explains Obama criticism; defends Letterman ; 6:09
“The way George Bush… He didn’t care if it was approved …

 

 

by the Magna Carta! He just did what he wanted to do.
And i would like to see a bit of that,
in Barak Obama.”
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid6555681001?bctid=26554158001
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/06/bill-maher-obama-david-letterman.html 

June 15, 2009
Keith Olbermann; Countdown: Bill Maher Talks About Taking On Obama ; 6:04
“where’s the beef?
and it’s easy to make speeches,
and what’s hard to do is stand up against corporations.
Corporations, and their incredible strength
are what has ruined this country, so far…
If not now, when?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ2L1aQy-io
http://tigger500.typepad.com/thoughts/2009/06/more-on-bill-mahers-obama-critique.html

June 13, 2009 ;
“you don’t have to be on TV everyday, you’re the President”; 5:22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWulnfog20c

April 10, 2009
Ron Howard on Realtime with Bill Maher ; 4:28
“Look, if you’re gonna make an endorsement like that,
you know, start, start by humiliating your self, a and a um,
and then be as modest about it as possible.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CgbvIasKUA&feature=related 

March 28, 2009
Bill Maher discusses Obama’s Marijuana statement ; 9:55
with Salmon Rushdie, Mos Def, Christopher Hitchens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqAOnUbvNn0

March 27, 2009
Mos Def Vs Christopher Hitchens, with Salmon Rushdie ; 8:48
(if confused, refer to November 16, 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwziTJfMbg&feature=related

March 07, 2009
Bill Maher smacks down Wall Street ; 5:17
“”hang them from the stock exchange”", ”with their balls in their mouth”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8EGzEv21dw&feature=related

March 6, 2009
Bill Maher Explains the Healthcare Crisis; too good to quote ; 1:35
memorize it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aitvFZTOrp4&feature=related

January 08, 2009
Bill Maher And Barack Obama on Yahoo News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh8i_FzHVTU&feature=related

January 05, 2009
Bill Maher rant on Big Pharma - Pharmaceutical industry
vs nutrition and common sense ; 3:59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6x7cx9f7k&feature=related

November 18, 2008
Janeane Garofalo Making alot of sense on Bill Maher ; 9:34
“Custer Battles” (TM)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5SA71vETk&feature=related 

November 16, 2008
Mos Def and Bill Maher - Pollitics ; 10:38
“I’m from the projects, I know danger,
I don’t feel no danger from that shit” (terrorism)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvO5kD4yr1Y&feature=related

November 10, 2008
Bill Maher New Rules about Obama’s Victory 6:12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0TEc4Kg9VU&feature=related 
September 19, 2008
Naomi Klein on Real Time Live with Bill Maher w/ Shock Doctrine ; 8:13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHBLt-w9wE&feature=related

September 20, 2008
Most IMPORTANT Point EVER Made by Bill Maher!!! ; 3:41
“Terrorism, as bad as it is, should not control our lives”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmCC_jasq0E&feature=related

11 April 2008
“Atheist” Richard Dawkins on Bill Maher ; 6:26
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tRpbkpNpgw&feature=related
March 01, 2008
“Atheist” Christopher Hitchens W/ Bill Maher Mashup ; 6:48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3viGlD-6STs&feature=related
October 13, 2007
Maher on Blackwater in Iraq ; 5:11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkGMuWNyuY&feature=related

October 13, 2007
Naomi Klein’s ”Shock Doctrine” on Maher; from Amsterdam ; 5:39
“now we all know that it’s Comunism is when the government
takes over private business, but,
when Corporations take over the government
that is what has been defined as Facism.
Do you think that’s where we’re at?
“Yeah, or Corporatism …
you can call it crony capitalism or corporatism,
but it’s certianly not the free market”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHMuiJwM23M&feature=related

May 14, 2007
Bill Maher interviews Christoper Hitchens ; 6:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqNKD_nmXqM&feature=related