19 March 2003

 

Thought for the day
To have a major depression going on, economic, really, collapse all round the world and begin a war against an enemy that has done nothing against us other than what our media occasionally alleges, this is lunacy.
--Gore Vidal

posted by Lorenzo 9:47 AM

18 March 2003

 

What's New — Posted March 14 - 18, 2003
World Events . . . Bush Sr Warns Little Bush Against Unilateral Action . . . U.S. PLANS FOR WAR AND OCCUPATION IN IRAQ ARE A HISTORICAL MISTAKE . . . Russia Says U.S. Anti-Terror Coalition Could End . . . Arab opinion of US hits all-time low . . . Armitage following Cheney Strategy for Central Asia . . . Noam Chomsky: The case against US adventurism in Iraq . . . Waging War: Bush's impossible dream . . . A Worldwide Tide of Anti-Bush Feeling
U.S. News . . . Boycott Pro-War Celebrities . . . Interesting statistic. Shows the real priorities . . . Which Corporation Owns Your Vote? . . . Pro-War Democrats Kerry, Lieberman, Edwards, and Gephardt Not Welcome . . . 'Nightstalkers' track terror suspects . . . Quotes from Michael Moore's letter to Little Bush . . . 'Bush Wins': The Left's Nightmare Scenario . . . Direct Action to Stop the War . . . This Is War (photos)
Peace is Possible . . . In Memorium: Rachel Corrie
Science & Health . . . Alert issued as flu fears grow . . . UN Warns of Worldwide Threat from Killer Pneumonia
Palestine & Israel . . . British Ambassador warns of Increased Israeli Atrocities to Palestinians in Case of War in Iraq . . . Isralis Murder American Peace Worker ... then they killed a Palestinian who tried to help her . . . Palestinians in imminent danger of war crimes under cover of Iraq war
War on Iraq . . . Remember the Powell Doctrine? Colin...Read Your White Paper . . . Cook resigns and gets Commons ovation . . . Anti-war sentiment sweeps Europe . . . Russia and France angered by end of diplomacy . . . Protesters promise civil disobedience
Free Speech . . . Appellate Court Rules Media (FOX News) Can Legally Lie

posted by Lorenzo 8:53 PM

 

Thought for the day
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
--Buddha

posted by Lorenzo 10:40 AM

17 March 2003

 

Thought for the day
While watching the news on television today, I saw Little Bush outside the White House playing with his dogs. It reminded me of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

posted by Lorenzo 1:16 PM

15 March 2003

 

Thought for the day
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
--Mark Twain

posted by Lorenzo 12:49 PM

14 March 2003

 

A Concrescence of Interesting Omens
Theodor Landscheidt predicts the next major instability event will start about 2002 and last till 2011

Terence McKenna's TimeWave predicts the most precipitous descent into novelty that will take place between now and 2012 will begin on May 3, 2003.

In June 2003, the planet Saturn will be conjuncting Little Bush's natal sun, which is not necessarily a good omen for a person like him.

... this should be an interesting summer.

posted by Lorenzo 3:03 PM

 

Thought for the day

What Coalition?
Seventy percent of British, and 90% of Italians and Spaniards oppose Bush's crusade.

That doesn't sound like a "coalition of willing" for Little Bush's war. It's more like a coalition of the coerced.

posted by Lorenzo 11:44 AM

 

What's New — Posted March 11 - 13, 2003
World Events . . . Why France is America's true friend . . . America's power will bring its own counter-revolution . . . U.S. Plans to Dominate the World
U.S. News . . . Morons in Congress . . . Appeals Court Weighs Bush's War Powers . . . Edward Said: Who is in charge? . . . Let Them Hate as Long as They Fear
Peace is Possible . . . Peace activists intend to mount disruptions at war's outbreak . . . Tens of thousands in Indonesia hold anti-war rally, pray for peace . . . Thousands March for Peace Across Britain . . . Asian peace mission heads to Iraq . . . Peaceniks take Jewish mysticism to Palestinians on peace quest . . . Peace Activist Moving Into Home Near Bush Ranch . . . Why We Demonstrate for Peace . . . Global Candlelight Vigil for Peace: Sunday, March 16 -- 7:00 PM
Science & Health . . . Stigmery is a powerful concept!
Palestine & Israel . . . Gush Shalom alert: Soldier / Civilian / IDF Civil Employee – WARNING
War on Iraq . . . Bush Sr. Said In 1996 That War With Iraq ‘Would Turn Entire Arab World Against Us’ . . . Letter of Resignation by John H. Brown, Foreign Service Officer to Colin Powell, Secretary of State . . . Global Candlelight Vigil for Peace: Sunday, March 16 -- 7:00 PM . . . Some Evidence on Iraq Called Fake . . . How a War Became a Crusade . . . PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDENT REPORTERS IN IRAQ . . . Robert Fisk: A Modern-Day Crusade Looms . . . Robert Fisk: US war plans are not helped by Blix . . . Little Bush goes for the kill . . . New York Times Says No to War . . . A supreme international crime . . . Come What May, Bush & Blair Are Bent on Destroying Iraq
News from Africa . . . The Truth About Zimbabwe

posted by Lorenzo 11:42 AM

13 March 2003

 

Thought for the day
Outrageous dereliction of duty over Korea, obsessive warmongering against Iraq, crude, aggressive behaviour worthy of Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union, threats against the UN, a $400-billion deficit that will infect the world with inflation, and damage to America's reputation - such are Bush's "accomplishments" to date. Who needs enemies with world-class blunderers like this in charge?
--Eric Margolis

posted by Lorenzo 9:48 AM

12 March 2003

 

Thought for the day
If the United States were to engage in another war with Iraq, one aimed at overthrowing Saddam Hussein, the �entire Arab world would turn against us� and the U.S. would alienate its allies in the international community. �To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero."
--George Bush the First in an interview with the BBC marking the five-year anniversary of the Gulf War.

Moreover, Vice President Dick Cheney said at an energy conference six years ago that hundreds of thousands of United States soldiers and Iraqi civilians would die if a war in Iraq were ever fought on the streets of Baghdad.

posted by Lorenzo 10:30 AM

11 March 2003

 

What's New — Posted March 6 - 10, 2003
World Events . . . American Media Dodging U.N. Surveillance Story . . . Noam Chomsky: Confronting the Empire . . . Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - Dead or Alive? Terror boss gets moved up the ladder as the US sees fit . . . UN launches inquiry into American spying
U.S. News . . . Bin Laden Rumor Hits the E-mail Circuit . . . Air Force Reports 54 Rapes, Assault . . . Homeland Security and the KGB . . . Whistleblower Warns FBI chief on Iraq . . . Hippie Crap Saves The World / Can better orgasms and upping your personal vibe really thwart BushCo idiocy?
Peace is Possible . . . Students Call for Peace . . . My Voice for Peace, An Excellent Resource for Peace Workers
Science & Health . . . GeneAlert . . . Court orders full disclosure of secret U.S. Special Virus Program that may have created the AIDS virus
War on Iraq . . . Prisoners murdered at US base in Afghanistan, says coroner . . . Why War with Iraq? Follow the Money . . . Agent Who Saw 9/11 Lapses Still Faults F.B.I. on Terror . . . British troops 'not ready for war' . . . America admits suspects died in interrogations . . . War 'may bring more terror' . . . The truth about Hussein's brutality . . . A War Crime or an Act of War? . . . Daschle Says Bush Failed Diplomatically on Iraq . . . Students Across U.S. Mount Antiwar Protests . . . What The Usurpers Will Not Show You . . . The Wall . . . Mind Our Own Business . . . Policy for Peace? . . . You Want War? . . . The Case Against a War With Iraq . . . Uncomfortable questions about U.S. policy toward Iraq . . . Depressing Views on War and the Economy . . . U.S. Invites Bids for Iraq Reconstruction Work
Free Speech . . . Lawyer Arrested For Wearing A Peace T-Shirt . . . Little Bush Establishes Propaganda Directorate . . . U.S. Media Acts Like a Bush Family Propaganda Office . . . Man Arrested for Saying Bush is "Out of Control . . . Oops journalism - Or how they learned to take the handouts and never apologize for the lies
Awakening . . . Earth C.A.R.M.A.
New Voices . . . Essays by Mark McCarty (Colin Powell's talk to the Center for Strategic and International Studies . . . Crying Wolfowitz . . . Into the Fiery Furnace
Bill of Rights Under Attack . . . U.S. plan: Threat level for every flyer

posted by Lorenzo 12:55 PM

 

Thought for the day
Don't give in to despair. It drains you of your energy. Remember, fatigue can make cowards of us all.

posted by Lorenzo 12:16 PM

10 March 2003

 

Thought for the day
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
--Andrew B. Law

posted by Lorenzo 1:49 PM

09 March 2003

 

Mark Twain�s thoughts about war
The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for war. �Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audience will thin out and lose popularity. . . . Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers but do not dare to say so. And now, the whole nation will take up the war cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. . . . Next the statesman will invent cheap lies, putting the blame on the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
--Mark Twain

[Comment: Isn�t it about time we proved Mr. Twain wrong. This time let us continue to use speech, pen, and the Internet to argue against the insanity of war. This time they will not silence us, the vast majority of humankind who want to live in peace.]

posted by Lorenzo 12:46 PM

08 March 2003

 

Thought for the day
Everything exists for joy. There is not one other reason for life than joy. We�ve got nothing to prove to anyone, because nobody other than All-That-Is is watching. In other words, we�re not trying to get brownie points from some other galaxy. We�re not trying to get someplace else; we�re not trying to get it done, because there is no ending�we cannot get it done. Everything exists for the purpose of joy in the moment.
--Abraham

posted by Lorenzo 6:50 PM

07 March 2003

 

Thought for the day
There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains and infinite other things. There is one common substance, though it is distributed among countless bodies which have their several qualities. There is one soul, though it is distributed among several natures and individual limitations. There is one intelligent soul, though it seems to be divided.

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.

All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with any other things. For things have been co- ordinated, and they combine to make up the same universe. For there is one universe made up of all things, and one god who pervades all things, and one substance, and one law, and one reason.
--Marcus Aurelius

posted by Lorenzo 5:15 PM

06 March 2003

 

What's New — Posted February 26 - March 5, 2003
World Events . . . Transatlantic Battle Over the New World Order
U.S. News . . . Bush Family Values Photo Album . . . Lethal outsourcing . . . Why should we in Britain help Bush to get re-elected? . . . The Secret's Out: the US is Weak . . . Ashcroft Out of Control . . . Total Information Awareness: Public Hearings Now! . . . RFID tags: The new way to track everyday objects . . . NetPatriot: A Resource Site for Privacy Issues and Libertarian Ideas . . . Transportation Security Administration proposes database to track all airline passengers . . . Judge to Hear Airline ID Challenge . . . Fourth Amendment Violations . . . Dollars Hits Four Year Low Against Euro
Peace is Possible . . . Senegal peace protesters urge African countries to vote against U.N. resolution allowing Iraq invasion . . . Peace activists bearing flowers thank ambassadors for opposing Iraq war . . . Crucifixion offered in peace plea . . . Thai senators to embark on peace mission to Iraq . . . Iran Announces Iraq Peace Proposal . . . Peace activists prepare for day of rallies, marches
Science & Health . . . Superbug's new strain thrives outside hospitals . . . Gene reorder may drive evolution
Earth News . . . There's an environmental villain loose in America.
War on Iraq . . . Radio buff finds mystery station connected to Iraq . . . Propaganda: Psychological assault led by clandestine 'Radio Tikrit' . . . U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation . . . CIA Cover-Up: Iraq has no WMD . . . 'We proceed in Iraq as hypocrites and cowards - and the world knows it . . . US prepares to use toxic gases in Iraq . . . US plan to bug Security Council . . . Could Tony Blair look at the internet now, please? . . . 10 reasons why the USA should not attack Iraq . . . 'Peace on Earth' T-Shirt Sparks Arrest . . . Three Nations Won't Back U.N. on Iraq . . . Prisoners murdered at US base in Afghanistan, says coroner . . . Why War with Iraq? Follow the Money

posted by Lorenzo 3:11 PM

03 March 2003

 

Thought for the day
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
--Johann von Schiller

posted by Lorenzo 12:16 PM

02 March 2003

 

Thought for the day
Peace and freedom are the only worthwhile things to strive for, and they are indivisible.
-- Maude Gonne MacBride

posted by Lorenzo 4:11 PM

01 March 2003

 

Thought for the day
Leaders lead. Tyrants rule through intimidation and fear.

posted by Lorenzo 5:15 PM