Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2004 10:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
Baby, you’re a rich man
Paul McCartney is worth 1.3 billion
And Yoko Ono recently remixed some of her recordings, and they’ve been “tearing up the dance floors” making her a club diva at age 70, reports the January issue of Global Rhythms. What an extraordinary woman!
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2004 10:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
Free the Five ad appears in NY Times!
It took a concerted effort in many countries to raise the, I think, $48,000 for the full page Free The Five ad that appeared Monday in all editions of the New York Times. Not to mention the US government trying to block transfer of funds from France and Germany to the US.
The ad asks:
Q. Can you be imprisoned in the United States for opposing terrorism?
A. Yes, if you oppose terrorism in Miami.
The Cuban Five, among other things, infiltrated the extreme right wing paramiltaries in Miami, learned they were plotting violence, notified the FBI, and were then arrested for their trouble. Some have received life and double-life prison terms. One, I believe, was convicted of espionage because he took photos of a US military base while on a platform outside the base where a sign encourages taking photos.
A change of venue was refused:
“Five Cuban men charged with acting as agents of their government, faced trial in Miami, Florida — the only city in the U.S. so hostile toward Cuba that Cuban athletes are not permitted to perform there, Cuban art cannot be exhibited and Cuban films cannot be shown. Yet, the U.S. attorney from Miami, who opposed moving the Cuban Five’s trial out of Miami, acknowledged one year later that it was impossible for anyone viewed as favorable to Cuba to receive a fair trial in Miami. … Justice demands a new trial.”
— Leonard Weinglass, appeals attorney for Antonio Guerrero
I was skeptical of the case at first. But the more I learned about it, the more I realized the Five have been railroaded. This isn’t about Cuba, it’s about simple justice.
The ad was endorsed by “Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, Cynthia McKinney, Dolores Huerta, Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, National Lawyers Guild, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and many others,
Free the Five
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2004 00:02 - Category: Unfiled ;
Acupuncture’s secret: Blood flow to brain
Acupuncture on pain-relief points cuts blood flow to key areas of the brain within seconds, providing the clearest explanation to date for how the ancient technique might relieve pain and treat addictions, a Harvard scientist reports today.
None of which explains, at least to Western science, why acupuncture works… Except, of course, that it does!
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2004 00:01 - Category: Unfiled ;
While weeping crocodile tears, no doubt
Bush administration concerned about gasoline prices
The Bush administration is “extremely concerned” about soaring retail gasoline prices, which recently topped $1.70 per gallon nationwide and are likely to set a record high this month
Here in Los Angeles, regular gas currently is $2.13 to as high as $2.39 a gallon.
And what, you inquire, will the Bushies be doing about this price-gouging?
Abraham did not say what, if anything, the administration was doing about rising gasoline prices.
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2004 00:00 - Category: Unfiled ;
“Have you no shame?”
Sept. 11 families disgusted by Bush campaign ads
Families who lost relatives in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks voiced outrage on Thursday at President Bush’s first ads of his re-election campaign that use images of the devastated World Trade Center to portray him as the right leader for tumultuous times.
Families are enraged,” said Bill Doyle, 57, of New York, who is active in several Sept. 11 family groups. “What I think is distasteful is that the president is trying to use 9/11 as a springboard for his re-election.”
“It’s entirely wrong. He’s had 3,500 deaths on his watch, including Iraq, ” said Doyle, whose 25-year-old son Joseph died at the trade center.
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