Archive for October 6th, 2004


Update on Hotel Workers CD

As reported here today, 50 hotel workers and demonstrators were arrested for civil disobedience yesterday during the picket line and rally at the Hyatt Regency.


Those arrested were held in handcuffs for hours in the buses and denied food, water and use of bathrooms. They were pushed around, shoved, and in general, treated rather nastily.


In an outrageous turn of events, LAPD Chief of Police Bratton refused to release them on their own recognizance, which would be usual in cases like this. Instead, he set bail at $5,000 bail per person. Sounds like he wanted to prosecute for felonies in what had been carefully worked out in advance  and routine civil disobedience.


It was only through the heated intercession of City Council member Eric Garcetti and State Senator Richard Alarcon (and quite possibly L.A. Mayor Jim Hahn) that bail was dropped and the protestors released on their OR. These politicians understood what a public relations nightmare such arrests would be for the city, something the neandertal Bratton is incapable of comprehending.

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Did Bush have earpiece prompter during debate?


From NYC IndyMedia


A few days ago, an Indymedia contributor made the provocative claim that George W Bush was being secretly “coached” in his debate answers through a hidden earpiece. Conspiracy theory or not, the argument has raged across the board for several days. Read on and see what you think.


(from the Open Newswire): “In the middle of an answer last night bush said, “now let me finish” as if someone was interrupting him- yet nobody did- he was talking to the person in his earpiece.


Is Bush Wired believes Bush often wears these training wheels when he speaks.



This site is a clearinghouse for discussion of whether President Bush uses an earpiece through which he’s fed lines and cues by offstage advisers. His speech rhythms suggest this, as do some of his word choices and interjections, and his constantly shifting eye movements while speaking. And there’s another form of evidence: Television viewers have sometimes heard another voice speaking Bush’s words before he says them.


Photo from Crooks and Liars who opine “That would explain many of the weird pauses, and the ‘I’m not finished yet.”


So, who is whispering in his ear? Inquiring minds want to know!


Hey! Hackers - start your engines!


Maybe some bright energetic hackers could jack into the Bush earpeice system, commandeer it, then whisper their own instructions into the ear of our by now obviously dim-witted puppet President. Just a thought!


PS Patt Morrison in the LA Times says


One nation off its meds



This week’s e-mails have informed me that George W. Bush must have been equipped with an earpiece or a receiver in his molar during last week’s presidential debate because he kept saying “Let me finish” when no one was interrupting him. (Get wise, people; if Bush had had Karl Rove feeding him lines, do you think he would have lost?)


She does have a point…



The around-the-bend blogs hollered that John Kerry had illicitly used his own pen at the debates — or was that a cheat sheet in his hand? — and that Kerry won only because someone slipped him the questions beforehand. (Yep, those surprise Iraq questions in a debate on foreign policy sure looked like sucker punches to Bush.)

When did the loonies get off their barstools or off their meds and take over? Aren’t Area 51 and Bigfoot enough for them anymore? When did the wackos stop getting transmissions from Saturn in their bridgework and start getting C-SPAN?


Hmmm, however what is history but multiple overlapping conspiracies and intrigues? And to say that all conspiracies are unfounded is, well - the Bushies successfully went to war in Iraq based on lies and deceptions they foisted on the public. Sounds like a conspiracy to me.

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Hotel workers rally

Workers in several hotels in San Francisco were locked out last week. This rally, held at the Hyatt Regency in Los Angeles was in support of those workers. The strike may well spread to the rest of San Francisco as well as Los Angeles and D.C. in the very near future.




 


 


 


 


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Preston Wood of ANSWER LA with fifty other demonstrators in the middle of 7th and Hope, just prior sitting down in the intersection and being arrested for civil disobedience.

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Humming dildo shuts down airport

You probably think I made this up….

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