From the planet of the insane
Bob Morris @ Jun 11th 2006 20:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
The suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says.
Archive for June 11th, 2006
Christopher Street West, ANSWER truck
Bob Morris @ Jun 11th 2006 18:50 - Category: Unfiled ;
Here’s the ANSWER LA truck/float, one of hundreds of entries in the West Hollywood Christopher Street West parade. Usually, we’re about the only political entry. This year though, there were several. Good! The parade got its name from the Stonewall Rebellion on Christopher Street in 1969, the uprising that marked the birth of the modern gay rights movement, even if the parade seems to have strayed some from its roots.
Amidst all the floats sponsored by vodka, beer, and banks, our anti-Bush chant, “He’s racist, sexist, anti-gay. George Bush, go away.”, got enthusiastic response from the crowd.
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Christopher Street West float
Bob Morris @ Jun 11th 2006 18:45 - Category: Unfiled ;
Inspired by, I’m told, Tony Kushner’s award-winning three-part “Angels in America.”
The influential New York Times theater critic Frank Rich, for instance, called it “a searching and radical rethinking” of American political drama and “the most extravagant and moving demonstration imaginable” of the artistic response to AIDS.
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She’s been to more demos than most adults
Bob Morris @ Jun 11th 2006 18:42 - Category: Unfiled ;
Guantanamo suicides a ‘PR move’
Bob Morris @ Jun 11th 2006 07:36 - Category: Unfiled ;
A top US official has described the suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a “good PR move to draw attention”.
Well…no. They killed themselves out of despair. The US official’s comment however was a deeply bad PR move, as it shows the US to be callous beyond belief, absorbed only with its own image, and clueless as to how the planet perceives it.
Who was Zarqawi?
Bob Morris @ Jun 11th 2006 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
Mythical figure and terror mastermind Abu Musab Al Zarqawi was killed in an air raid, according to a statement of the Iraqi government.
Zarqawi has been upheld both in official statements and the media as head of “the Sunni insurgency”, leader of “al-Qaeda in Iraq”, allegedly responsible for the the killings of thousands of civilians.
The evidence suggests, however, that Zarqawi was part of a Pentagon disinformation campaign launched in 2003, which was initially intended to justify the US led invasion of Iraq. This central role of Zarqawi as an instrument of war propaganda was recently confirmed by leaked military documents revealed by the Washington Post.
The Pentagon had set up a “Zarqawi program”. Military documents confirm that the role of Zarqawi had been deliberately “magnified” with a view to galvanizing public support for the US-UK led “war on terrorism”
All true, Zarqawi was a convenient target to use to pump up the ‘war on terror.’ But he wasn’t a construct, far from it. And that’s where I think analysis like this, however helpful, trips up. It attributes too much power to the CIA and Pentagon, who are obvious incompetents much of the time. I mean, the Pentagon lost in Vietnam, and is losing in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the CIA didn’t even see 9/11 coming. Do these seem like all-powerful types able to subvert countries on a whim and create terrorists out of thin air whom they can then attack? Not hardly.
Plus, it denigrates the resistance in Iraq against the American occupation, resistance that is coming from everywhere. This is not something invented by the neocons so they can have all war, all the time, it’s a real-life fighting back by an occupied people.
Osama belongs to the powerful bin Laden family, which historically had business ties to the Bushes and prominent members of the Texas oil establishment. Bin Laden was recruited by the CIA during the Soviet-Afghan war and fought as a Mujahideen. In other words, there is a longstanding documented history of bin Laden-CIA and bin Laden-Bush family links, which are an obvious source of embarrassment to the US government.
The Mooj were funded in part by the CIA to fight the Russians in Afghanistan in the 80’s. To say events got away from them would be a dramatic understatement and also confirms the incompetence of the CIA, whose idea of long-term planning appears to be about two weeks. The bin Laden family owns the biggest construction company in the Middle East, it’s world-class in size. The family says they have nothing to do with Osama, and y’know what, they probably don’t. They are billionaires and he is way bad for business. Why would they have any contact with a rogue brother considering that if such contact were made public, their business empire could take a serious hit?
‘Zarqawi the myth’ was created and used by the US to build for war and invasion. But that doesn’t mean ‘Zarqawi the man’ wasn’t a threat to them or that there aren’t thousands more ready to fill his role and fight to drive the US out of Iraq. Saying this is somehow a neocon subterfuge ignores the obvious, the vast majority of Iraqis want the US out, and the insurgency is homegrown, widespread, and growing.
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WordPress bloggers, upgrade to 2.0.3
Bob Morris @ Jun 11th 2006 00:11 - Category: Unfiled ;
Do it now.
This new version is more secure, lessening the possibility your blog could be hacked. WordPress found a possible weakness and slammed the door on it. Good.
The process is simple enough, I upgraded this blog in about five minutes.
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Maybe MySpace, isn’t
Bob Morris @ Jun 11th 2006 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Musicians are starting to pull content off of MySpace because MySpace’s terms of use claim ownership of anything you put on their service:
