Welcome to Argentina, Dubya
Bob Morris @ Nov 4th 2005 18:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
Former football star Diego Maradona leads protests in Argentina and shows off his t-shirt!
(Photo and story from The Guardian)
Archive for November 4th, 2005
Tales from Wilmaland
Bob Morris @ Nov 4th 2005 17:49 - Category: Unfiled ;
Dave Barry posts a reader’s comments
Dave,I’m not making this up.
I lost my roof in Wilma. Water poured through the entire upstairs and through first floor walls and ceilings on that side of the house. I was told that FEMA might be able to help with a tarp.
On Wednesday the 19th, I called the main FEMA number to see if I could get help with a tarp. A male answered the phone fairly promptly. I told him that I had lost my roof to Hurricane Wilma.
FEMA: Where are you?
Me: North Miami Beach.
FEMA: What state?
Me:(stunned): …Florida. …
FEMA: (after putting me on hold) We don’t have an order for that yet there.
Arson attacks plague France as unrest spreads
Bob Morris @ Nov 4th 2005 17:47 - Category: Unfiled ;
Youth rioting began in Paris suburbs, now poses a broad challenge to state
Unlike previous nights, there were few direct clashes with security forces, no live bullets fired at police, and far fewer large groups of rioters, said Jean-Francois Cordet, the top government official for the worst-hit Seine-Saint-Denis suburb northeast of Paris.
Instead, he said, the unrest was led by "very numerous small and highly mobile groups," with arson attacks that destroyed 187 vehicles and five buildings, including three sprawling warehouses.
AKA guerrilla warfare tactics. Today was Night Nine of the unrest. It’s very unusual for uprisings like this to last for nine days.
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide
Bob Morris @ Nov 4th 2005 10:47 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bush ratings drop to new lows in poll
Summit of the Americas opens as protesters rally against Bush
Mold, dust contributing to spread of “Katrina cough”
Bob Morris @ Nov 4th 2005 10:46 - Category: Unfiled ;
All around the metro New Orleans area people are coming up with inflamed nasal passages, inflamed throats and coughs.
The condition has become so pronounced locally that Doctors at the Spirit of Charity – a MASH-type tent set up next to University Hospital – have begun referring to it as the "Katrina cough."
Here’s the Eddie Vedder photo again.
Bob Morris @ Nov 4th 2005 00:01 - Category: Anti-war ;
This is perhaps the most popular photo ever on Polizeros. I took it at an ANSWER LA protest on March 22, 2003 at the CNN building in Hollywood.
Since I recently converted this blog to Wordpress and archived the old blog, the photo may be a little hard to find there as search engines haven’t completely indexed the archive site yet. So, here’s the photo where everyone can find it.
This street demo took place right after the Iraq War started. Eddie Vedder walked up and asked to play. Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and director Pedro Almodovar also walked up, and asked to speak. I took photos of them too.
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Poll: Democrats weaken more than Republicans
Bob Morris @ Nov 4th 2005 00:00 - Category: Unfiled ;
As a host of issues, from major (the Iraq War and Social Security) to minor (the Terri Schiavo affair), do real damage to Republicans, Democrats still manage to sink lower than them in a new poll.
You really kind of have to marvel at such inspired mediocrity and rudderlessness.
Water for profit
Bob Morris @ Nov 4th 2005 00:00 - Category: Water ;
How multinationals are taking control of a public resource
Canadian Broadcasting produced this comprehensive 5-part series in 2003 on water privatization. Check it out.
Water, like air, is a necessity of human life. It is also, according to Fortune magazine, "One of the world’s great business opportunities. It promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th."
In the past ten years, three giant global corporations have quietly assumed control over the water supplied to almost 300 million people in every continent of the world. A 12-month investigation by journalists in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America shows that the results range from questionable to disastrous. And it shows how well-meaning municipal governments in the U.S. and Canada can become vulnerable to the persuasive techniques of these high-powered corporate giants.
Water is a right, not a commodity to be bought and sold to whoever pays the most. Privatization of water is being forced by multinationals, aided and abetted by the World Bank. It generally ends up depriving the needy of that most basic right, the right to drink clean, affordable water.
