Bob Morris @ Apr 17th 2003 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
LSD turns 60!
Back in the day, yes, I did psychedelics. T’was fun and mind opening and terrifying and lots of things, and I don’t regret any of it.
As for now, as Ram Daas (formerly Richard Alpert, a compatriot of Timothy Leary) says “LSD opens the door, but you have to walk through it on your own”.
However, happy birthday LSD, you changed the world maybe more than penicillin did!
Bob Morris @ Apr 17th 2003 00:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
The peace movement is alive and well
Things are momentarily quiet in the peace movement now, which is not surprising given the frantic pace of the past several weeks, plus the fast moving events in Iraq. Here in LA, ANSWER helped organize four major demonstrations in five weeks. Yes, we need to catch our breath.
However much is happening. ANSWER, the group I’m most familiar with, will be having regional conferences and workshops in NYC, LA, and SF over the next few weeks. We’re planning for maybe 1,000 people at the LA conference. Other peace coalitions are doing the same - organizing and planning what to do next.
There’s lots to organize on. No occupation in Iraq. Too much being spent for war and not enough at home. The increasing attacks on civil liberties. And, of course, war. It looks to me like the US will find some pretext to invade Syria.
Let’s see, the US currently has invaded and is occupying two countries (Afghanistan and Iraq) because they said they wanted to kill one person in each country. Neither of those people, bin Laden or Saddam, have been proven to be dead, yet the US continues to occupy both countries. Does this make any sense to you? I didn’t think so.
Syria (or Iraq or North Korea) will be next to be invaded. It’s all quite mad. However, in the meantime the peace movement has a modest amount of time to rest and plan what to do next.
Bob Morris @ Apr 17th 2003 00:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
US admits Mosul killings
Is the US winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis by shooting them? After previously denying they’d even fired at them…
When will they stop lying? And stop shooting?
“More die as troops open fire on Mosul crowd
Community leaders in Mosul appealed for calm yesterday after US forces became involved in a lethal firefight in the city centre for the second day running“
Bob Morris @ Apr 17th 2003 00:03 - Category: Unfiled ;
Islamic library burned to the ground
“By Robert Fisk, The Independent
Baghdad. So yesterday was the burning of books. First came the looters, then came the arsonists. It was the final chapter in the sack of Baghdad. The National Library and Archives — a priceless treasure of Ottoman historical documents including the old royal archives of Iraq — were turned to ashes in 3,000 degrees of heat. Then the Islamic Library of Qur’ans at the Ministry of Religious Endowment was set ablaze. I saw the looters.
Bob Morris @ Apr 17th 2003 00:02 - Category: Unfiled ;
Turning garbage, guts, glop, and goo into oil
“In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine that can change almost anything into oil.
Really.
The process is designed to handle almost any waste product imaginable, including turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, harbor-dredged muck, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, paper-pulp effluent, infectious medical waste, oil-refinery residues, even biological weapons such as anthrax spores.
… waste goes in one end and comes out the other as three products, all valuable and environmentally benign: high-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals for manufacturing.”
Bob Morris @ Apr 17th 2003 00:00 - Category: Unfiled ;
Syria countermoves, scores against US
“While Iraq wielded the propaganda tool clumsily, Syria is proving a far better foe. It’s latest move, tactically brilliant, is to introduce a Security Council resolution calling for the elimination of all WMDs in the Middle East.
The move comes as some in the US side scream about Syria’s alleged WMDs. Thus Syria’s move is nothing short of genius. If the US is truly serious about ridding the Middle East of WMDs, it should have no problem endorsing a resolution that would compel Syria to disarm. Right?
Wrong. The resolution would have the (intentional) effect of forcing Israel to surrender its nuclear arsenal — a course of action Israel would never accept. And the US, Israel’s most loyal ally, will thus be forced to veto the resolution.”
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