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Bob Morris @ Feb 15th 2006 15:35 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for February 15th, 2006
Cartoon riots in Pakistan kill three
Bob Morris @ Feb 15th 2006 15:31 - Category: Unfiled ;
Um, cartoons don’t kill people. People kill people… However, this is now beyond serious and getting close to insurrection.
Gunfire and rioting erupted Wednesday as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Pakistan’s third straight day of violent protests over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons.
More abuse photos
Bob Morris @ Feb 15th 2006 12:29 - Category: Torture ;
New Abu Ghraib abuse photos shown in Australia
Byron DeLear for Congress
Bob Morris @ Feb 15th 2006 07:07 - Category: Anti-war ;
Bryon DeLear is running for a House seat in the 28th Congressional District in California as a Green and is worth supporting. He gave the national Green Party response to the State of the Union address, and called for the impeachment of George Bush. Good!
It’s now clear to millions of Americans that President Bush betrayed our trust when he launched the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
But he didn’t do this alone.
Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress voted for what has resulted in the worst foreign policy conducted by our country in decades.
The reasons given by the Bush Administration in the drum up for war, the American people now know to be fraudulent.
I met Byron last night, he’s articulate, hard-working, and opposes the war & militarization. His goal is 50,000 votes in the District.With enough help, he can do it. First step, registered Greens in the 28th need to sign his petition. Just a few more signatures and he qualifies. Then he can send a strong antiwar message.
DeLear for Congress
310-916-8888.
We can also send a strong antiwar message on March 18 during the nationwide antiwar protests. Electoral politics is one way to send a message. Getting in the streets is another, quite direct, way of doing so.
Network neutrality
Bob Morris @ Feb 15th 2006 07:06 - Category: Net Neutrality ;
(Network) neutrality boils down  at present  to three flash-point issues involving network operators such as cable companies: whether they should be allowed to block certain rival services, such as Internet voice calls, from traveling over their networks; whether they will cut off their subscribers’ access to content that in some way competes with their own in-house programs; and whether they will cut deals to give some content and services priority delivery ahead of other offerings.
Network operators do have the tools to block content and services.
The easiest way to block applications such as voice-over-IP service is by turning off certain Internet Protocol ports on network servers and routers that feed consumers’ computers.
Content from specific providers or Web sites also can be blocked through a device that can inspect the contents of packets of information being shipped through a network.
Called a deep-packet inspection device, it can block traffic headed to any IP port on a network server, or it can block requests for Web site access based on a list of Web addresses the network operator supplies.
If the telcos and cablecos are allowed unfettered rights to do whatever they want with their piece of pipe, then the Net as we know it will cease to exist. Get involved in this fight now.
Wobblies organize against Starbucks
Bob Morris @ Feb 15th 2006 07:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
Yes, the Wobblies… Organized and moving against Starbucks. Just a few of them you say? That’s what they said last time - and then the Wobblies unionized hundreds of thousands.
The Wobblies were and are legends of the union movement. In the early 1900’s. they unionized mining towns, lumber camps, and factories, sometimes when no one else could or dared, even if if meant pitched battles with goons hired by the bosses.
They emphasized rank-and-file organization, as opposed to empowering leaders who would bargain with employers on behalf of workers. They were one of the few unions to welcome all workers including women, foreigners, black workers and immigrants (like Mexican miners and Asian workers). Indeed, many of its early members were first- and second-generation immigrants.
The IWW lumber strike of 1917 led to the eight-hour day and vastly improved working conditions in the Pacific Northwest. Even though mid-century historians would give credit to the US Government and “forward thinking lumber magnates” for agreeing to such reforms, an IWW strike forced these concessions.
I’m glad they’re back. Another group is back too, SDS has reformed and is increasingly active.
[tags] Wobblies, SDS, Starbucks [/tags]
Welfare for the wealthy
Bob Morris @ Feb 15th 2006 07:02 - Category: Socialism ;
The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, worth an estimated $7 billion over five years.
The theftocracy continues their plunder. Billions for war, which simply fattens their wallets, and hey, it’s not their kids dying and getting maimed, now is it? Now they want to steal from the people so their already obscene profits can grow ever larger.
Ted Rall may sue Ann Coulter
Bob Morris @ Feb 15th 2006 07:01 - Category: Unfiled ;
Coulter reportedly said Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.: ‘Iran is soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust. So far, only Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau, and The New York Times have made submissions’ …. Rall announced on his blog that he would look into taking legal action against Coulter.
