Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2005 23:17 - Category: Anti-war ;
A year ago, twelve anti-war protestors getting arrested would have been a blip in the news if it even got mentioned at all. Today it’s front page everywhere.
That’s how mainstream the anti-war movement has become.
Good! And let’s keep organizing.
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2005 19:42 - Category: Unfiled ;
In a letter released Wednesday, a group of Nobel laureates joined activists in urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to Stanley “Tookie” Williams, who is set to be executed Dec. 13.
In the letter, Nobel laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Betty Williams and Jody Williams and nearly 120 other people call on the governor to commute Williams’ “sentence of death to life in prison.”
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2005 16:25 - Category: Unfiled ;
Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper has been ordered to cease publishing further details from an allegedly top secret memo revealing that US President George Bush wanted to bomb Aljazeera.
According to Britain’s Guardian newspaper, it is the first time that the Blair government has threatened to prosecute a newspaper for publishing the contents of leaked government documents.
Bush and Blair need to get their stories straight. Blair is threatening prison to anyone who prints the memo while the Bushies say, in effect, that the memo doesn’t exist.
Before making any conclusions Aljazeera needs to be absolutely sure regarding the authenticity of the memo and would hope for a confirmation from Downing Street as soon as possible.
If the report is correct then this would be both shocking and worrisome not only to Aljazeera but to media organisations across the world.
Tag: Al-jazeera Qatar
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2005 12:37 - Category: Unfiled ;
"I thought this was just a rumour, but now the UK has used the [threat of the] secrecy act to stop it, it raises more questions. It makes this high profile and we would be really interested to know what is going on," a senior member of the ruling <Qatar> Al-Thani family said.
Of course, bombing a country you are not at war with (in this case, they are an ally!) is precisely the type of rogue nation terrorist action that Dubya shrieks against when he’s making up reasons to go to war.
On Wednesday the International Federation of Journalists said reports of a plan to attack al-Jazeera raised concerns that the US attack on the station’s Baghdad office in April 2003, in which a reporter was killed, was deliberate targeting of the media.
Tag: al-Jazeera
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2005 09:04 - Category: Anti-war ;
I’m a few days late with this, by hey, there’s just so much emerging about lies from the neocons and Bush that it’s difficult to keep up with all of it!
Key Bush intelligence briefing kept from Hill panel
Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter.
Thus, they knew their justifications for war were lies.
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2005 08:48 - Category: Anti-war ;
The <UK> Attorney General sought yesterday to squash further reports concerning the leaked record of a conversation between the Prime Minister and President Bush during which the latter suggested attacking the headquarters of the Arab satellite television channel al-Jazeera, based in Qatar, a key Gulf ally.Lord Goldsmith warned media organisations that they might face prosecution under the Official Secrets Act if they published the contents of the top secret document.
Meanwhile, the White House denies everything as Blair threatens prosecution if newspapers print the memo, plus two men have been arrested for leaking the memo. All of which certainly implies the memo exists, now doesn’t it?
Tag: al-Jazeera
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2005 07:54 - Category: Unfiled ;
A group of evangelicals were helping Katrina survivors in Mississippi. They were overwhelmed and understaffed. Then, busloads of Rainbow Family hippies arrived, and joined in.
Much to the astonishment of all, everyone got on fine.
"We are Methodists, Episcopalians and Baptists, along with various and sundry other Christian groups," said Fay Jones, an organizer of the Bastrop (Texas) Ministerial Alliance. "Did we ever think we would have such a wonderful relationship with hippies? No."
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Siemon said he would be returning to his organic farm with far more than he brought to Waveland."What have I gained from this? Everything," he said. "I’ve gained the experience of working with other humans in a wall-less, prejudice-less environment where the sole purpose is to help other humanity.
"That’s something not many people get to do.
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2005 07:15 - Category: Anti-war ;
A picture is worth a thousand words. IVAW.net
(I took the photo at the ANSWER LA antiwar march and rally on March 19, 2005)
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2005 07:15 - Category: Imperialism ;
The Romans conquered the barbarians—and the barbarians conquered Rome.
So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in the history of the empires of the West.
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Colonization of the mother countries by subject peoples is the last chapter in the history of empires—and the next chapter in the history of the West—that is now coming to a close.
This from Pat Buchanan, who fears and is threatened by the thought of large numbers of non-Anglos living in the same country as him. Me, I welcome it. Still, his point about the end of empire being when the colonizer needs all that cheap labor at home is valid. Imperialism sows the seeds of its own destruction (or transformation.)
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2005 07:15 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Venezuela;
Officials from Venezuela and Massachusetts have signed a deal providing cheap heating oil to low-income homes in the US state.
The fuel will be sold at some 40% below market prices to thousands of homes over the winter months
Talks are under way to agree a similar deal to provide discounted heating oil from Venezuela to low-income residents in New York’s Bronx district.
Why isn’t the US government doing this too?
Bob Morris @ Nov 23rd 2005 07:15 - Category: Climate change ;
Mountain snows and alpine glaciers represent key reservoirs of fresh water for some 1.6 billion people worldwide. In 50 years, however, a warming planet is likely to disrupt many of these sources, leaving millions of people scrambling for additional supplies.
While conservation, additional reservoirs, and repairs to leaky water mains can help blunt the effects of these changes, efforts to adapt to shrinking snowpacks and vanishing glaciers are expected to require other changes in farming techniques, industrial practices, and lifestyles.
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