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Two days late for MLK day …

Posted by D-Rock on 04/06/07 (Commentary, Links)

… but this article I found on AlterNet today is interesting nonetheless. Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen talk about the media’s collective silence (in the tributes that pop up around this time every year) regarding Martin Luther King Jr.’s activities following the passage of the civil rights acts in 1965 …

Noting that a majority of Americans below the poverty line were white, King developed a class perspective. He decried the huge income gaps between rich and poor, and called for “radical changes in the structure of our society” to redistribute wealth and power.

By 1967, King had also become the country’s most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his “Beyond Vietnam” speech delivered at New York’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 — a year to the day before he was murdered — King called the United States “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”

Read the full column here.

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  • Comment by gerty on April 6th, 2007 at 10:16 pm:

    Good read. A couple years ago I read an auto biography of his and he talks about how shit it is that people are always trying to politicize his messages when really the issues he brings up are more about decency and basic human rights. How absurd is it that human rights are turned into policies of which we cannot afford to exercise?

  • Comment by caítlin on April 7th, 2007 at 3:03 am:

    What I find objectionable is the idea that things that should be so fucking simple, logical and obvious are deemed “political”. I think its intentional.
    “Could you take your foot off my chest please?”
    “Durrgh… I don’t know… is it political?”

    [i am the queen of analogies that make sense only to me]. Actually, for the record, I do think he was political.

    Anyone ever read Gramsci? Interesting stuff.

  • Comment by Anthony on April 7th, 2007 at 5:47 am:

    For those of you with swiss cheese complexion that listen to the “Hip Hop” music…check this link out. They’re a great POLITICAL hip-hop musical enjoyment.

    http://www.myspace.com/35human

  • Comment by Yaniv on April 7th, 2007 at 11:46 am:

    Caitlin: I’ve read some of Gramsci’s work, and I find both his conception of “hegemony” and “counter-hegemony” and his treatment of civil society to be fascinating and theoretically original. If you are interested in praxis of his own writings, as well as its relevance to other philosophies like post-structuralism, check
    Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements

  • Comment by Sebas on April 7th, 2007 at 12:04 pm:

    As the venerable teachings of the Oriental Chinese Temple of Graphic Design show, we now understand what the fuck the Yin-Yang symbol goddamn means: Every action has an equal an opposite re-action. Whait, no, maybe, I gotta go, Newton’s lawyers are knockin’ on the door…

    Every topic has two interpretations of the story. Forexample in today’s Future Funcional Ver-hicles (.·hiks):

    -

    [b]Bugatti Ignores Eco-Trend To Launch Uber-Guzzler[/b]

    Bugatti has created the world’s fastest, most expensive — and most polluting — sports car. An article in the UK’s Sunday Times claims that environmental campaigners have attacked Bugatti for producing a vehicle that boasts an average fuel economy of 11.7mpg and spews out 574g/km of carbon dioxide. The Veyron car boasts a top speed of 253mph and can be yours for £700,000

    http://www.bugatti-cars.de/bugatti/

    http://www.timesonli...2087-1774831,00.html

    -

    But then again, on the little white dot of the darker half of the Yin-Yang side of evil transnational corporations globalizing this downgraded planet, is the innovative concept eco-sustainable Hydrogen motor-based Mercedes L.A. G Wagon (¿Catchy name huh? Not mine either, I proposed Beer~Goebbles) that avoid any traffic situation with the eaze of a feather in the wind… ¡literally!

    http://lavoice.org/i...w05/concept_benz.jpg

    -

    I loose myself when I…

    ¡Rammble ooooooooooooon!
    (in Robert Page octave).

  • Comment by caítlin on April 7th, 2007 at 12:18 pm:

    Yaniv!

    Thanks a lot for that link! That book looks great! I shall most definitely put it on my list :)

  • Comment by poo on April 7th, 2007 at 7:36 pm:

    I’m not buying propagandhi’s DVD:

    1) because they didn’t put up a trailer
    &
    2) because basically.. I’m a racist

    asian negrohead

  • Comment by Sebas on April 8th, 2007 at 12:00 pm:

    Yo, Derek, ¿what’s the deal with this moderation queue thing? ¿Is it ’cause i said “fuck”, “damn” and “Goebbles”?

    Erase this comment if you will, just wanted to exhaust my curiosity.

  • Comment by D-Rock on April 8th, 2007 at 1:48 pm:

    Sebas: It’s cuz of all the links – a common trait of spam.

  • Comment by gerty on April 8th, 2007 at 3:22 pm:

    hey-y-y-y-y caítlin.
    I like your posts so much I feel almost contractually obligated to agree with you. infact i dont think i am disagreeing with you Hes definitely political in the sense that everything is political in someway and beyond that – these issues are issues that government are responsible with/for. I was just referring to a part in his book when he spoke about political groups using his message and identity(theiving) for their own purposes and with divisive and misrepresenting consequences.

    Sorta like when David Suzuki spoke here political parties in the audience were trying to get annointed with his blessing and he was like mmmm not so much. Its more of a populist sort of thing, even if only “fringe” groups can understand/accept it.

    on a related note…anyone ever get beer shizz? I could swear some days its still carbonated when it comes out the other end! I painted my bathroom walls with my ass a be-speckled “Praire harvest “! OMG! TMI!… i need to lay down.

  • Comment by Hairhole on April 9th, 2007 at 1:12 am:

    Milk Sucks, but MLK’s a …King?

    I’d just like to take this time to extend a big ‘ahahaha!’ to any Leafs fans, namely you c-hair.

    I would also like to punch anyone able to attend any dates on the upcoming Propagandhi, Hiretsukan, and GFK tour, in the dick, and or, Phanooter. HoleHair is very jealous. Refused might as well come back to play those shows, coupled with Dio, Hendrix, Burton, and Bonham. This is set to be a good ‘er indeed.

    All together now: We Hate Shit-ronto… http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=jFL1e1SRWuI

    p.s I realize Dio isn’t dead -like the other aforementioned legends, I just saw him the other week in Sabbath, and it rocked my balls off.

  • Comment by caítlin on April 9th, 2007 at 3:41 am:

    Gerty-y-y,

    *blush* Awww y’all are so sweet! If I could get away with bringing a WASP home for dinner i’d have been dowried off five times on this blog already… And please don’t feel obliged to agree with me, I am the queen of shittalk [in a non-monarchial kinda way...]

    I definitely see what you’re saying. Independent thinkers always seem to have their ideas co-opted and twisted to suit someone else’s agenda… Yow. Is that how you spell “else’s”? I wish Ed was here :(
    I actually remember reading a really good socialist pamphlet about him and X – fourty odd pages of really relevant biography and analysis and extracts, and then ten extra pages tacked on basically saying “See! They were socialists too!” It really turns me off, I’m quite capable of reaching my own conclusions.

    That was a rather grumpy early morning ramble.
    For a much sexier response, feel free to consult my future wife/mother of my biologically miraculous children;
    http://www.last.fm/m...unk+Anansie/_/Yes+It’s+Fucking+Political

    For what its worth [and I'm guessing its not a lot] consider signing this:
    http://ww.petitiononline.com/freealan/

  • Comment by caítlin on April 9th, 2007 at 8:06 am:

    Ooops. You need to add another w onto that petition URL.

    I defy you to read this article and then do nothing:
    http://www.counterpu...ockburn03032007.html

    Call, Email and Write:

    1. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
    Department of Justice
    U.S. Department of Justice
    950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
    Washington, DC 20530- 0001
    Fax Number: (202) 307-6777
    Email: AskDOJ [at] usdoj [dot] gov
    2. The Honorable John Conyers, Jr
    2426 Rayburn Building
    Washington, DC 20515
    (202) 225-5126
    (202) 225-0072 Fax
    John [dot] Conyers [at] mail [dot] house.gov
    3. Senator Patrick Leahy
    433 Russell Senate Office Building
    United States Senate
    Washington, DC 20510
    (202)224- 4242
    senator_leahy [at] leahy [dot] senate.gov
    4. Honorable Judge Gerald Lee
    U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
    401 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA 22314

    http://www.freesamialarian.com/home.htm

    Also – I never saw myself being penpals with Angela Merkel, but I’m a sucker for an e-card, even if its vague and politically motivated:
    http://www.gruene-bu...s/dok/164/164579.htm

    And you might wanna start preparing for april 24th [world day for lab animals] – an AR group here want people to help distribute 10,000 leaflets in memory of the 10,000 primates tortured in labs in Europe each year.

    …. Lots of links. Sorry!

  • Comment by tom on April 9th, 2007 at 4:25 pm:

    ummm…ahem…uh…er, ok. isn’t Martin Luther King day in January at some point or am i just a total loser shitbag maggot eating douche liquid drinking fart haired fuckbrain?

    ok, so maybe i am, but the question still stands. that time in US history was one of uprising and rebellion. no, i’m not talking about how your parents probably conceived you at woodstock while being coked up on meth and weed, man.

    i’m talking about flower power!

    and i actually have something to say about dude, i just need that question answered!

  • Comment by poo on April 9th, 2007 at 4:36 pm:

    “So folks, the recycled, made-with-green-energy paper that we chose to use for the Propagandhi DVD Live from Occupied Territory is either so popular that they can’t keep it in stock, or is so seldom ordered that they had to make some just for us. Either way, that shit took forever for our printer to get in, and has resulted in the U.S./World release date of the DVD being pushed back to May 15th.

    But fear not! We will still be shipping all pre-orders from G7 HQ on April 16th (God willing – which I hear he can, as he apparently rises from the dead today). So if you’re of the eager inclination, lay it down.

    The Canadian release should not be affected, so you can hit up your local indie record store on the 24th and find it hidden under a pile of Arcade Fire CDs.

    GOD DAMN

    NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN.

    FUCKIN JUST USE A NORMAL PRESSING PLANT YOU FUCKING HIPPIES.

    WHAT ELSE WILL HAPPEN.

    THE DISC WILL HAVE THE SAME 4 SONGS PRESSED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DISCS 90 TIMES??

    OR MAYBE THE DVD MENU WON’T WORK?

    OR MAYBE CHRIS’ MOM WILL HAVE FARTED ON THE DISC?

    TALK ABOUT FUCKIN UNPROFESSIONAL.

    after all remember..

    this is a record label.. this is just a record label.. accepting visa and mastercard ;)

  • Comment by tom on April 9th, 2007 at 4:37 pm:

    oh i see, it’s the anniversary of his death. ooooohhhhhh…

    well, there were all kinds of things happening within the US at around that time. it’s interesting to note here how much civil disobedience was actually happening. sure, we’re all fed images of shitstock and the hendrix solo. but i’m talking more along the lines of the BPP, the weather underground, X, AIM, all this happened within 20 years ( i think) and to learn about these groups and their activities is too get a lesson in people power.

    it’s also quite depprescinating in how violent and desperate the state had become. this was probably the greatest threat the “powers that be” had faced in the US, and the rebellion was quashed.

    in any case, i’ve read abit about BPP and AIM (good info in TETA) and these organizations were very powerful, and very community oriented to say the least. and the state just did not relent in crushing these groups.

    “with record labels like these who the fuck needs cointelpro”

    fuck, for some reason when i was thinking it, it sounded betterer. ahaha shitronto, you fucking scum, good game, but you should have lost you poseurs.

    arcade fire is a piece of shit. yes, they’re from montreal, and yes, the guy’s a goof. actually i think i was in shittipeg when i saw shitcade fire on S(hit)N(ight)L(osers), and dude smashed a guitar. i mean c’mon!!!!!!

    fuck i think i should stop posting here. haha too bad for you!

  • Comment by kate on April 9th, 2007 at 9:22 pm:

    I’m not even going to try and pretend that this post is in any way related to Martin Luther King Jr. or his day, but here goes…

    So I wake up this morning in an excellent mood. The sky is clear and it’s pretty warm, looks like it’’s going to be a nice day. I make some tea, and while it’s steeping i wander out into my backyard. No gutted or decapitated mice strewn across the concrete? This is going to be a good day.

    I take my tea back into my bedroom and ask the boy i shared my bed with last night if he wants to go to the beach today, “yknow, before it starts getting too cold” i say. He barely registers what i have said and responds with an inaudible mumble and a lazy ‘fuck off, I’m sleeping’ gesture. “Isn’t he adorable” I think to myself as I grab my ibook and move to the lounge room.

    I plan to browse through my ever-expanding list of news-related bookmarks as i download yesterdays broadcast of Democracy Now!. I start with the BBC and read some more iran/nuclear propaganda. I read about protests in Iraq, the election in East Timor, more fighting in Darfur, tsunami devastation in the Solomons and so on. Some of it horrifying, none of it surprising.

    Then i come to this story on the moon, or more specifically, the vast potential of the so-far untapped multi-trillion-dollar moon industry. Yes, they are talking about the moon. This is the one that gets me. Somehow news of an ongoing African genocide and the complete devastation of a region of an already underdeveloped country doesn’t turn my mood. But fuck with the moon and I’m pissed, for some reason.

    Here are some highlights of the article:

    “Just like we use resources here on Earth in order to live off the land – you can do the same thing on the Moon,” says Lockheed Martin’s Dr Larry Clark….

    …The Moon, claims Prof Jerry Kulcinski of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, could become the Persian Gulf of the 21st Century.

    “If we had gold bricks stacked up on the surface of the Moon, we couldn’t afford to bring them back. This material [helium 3]- at several billion dollars a ton – is what makes it all worthwhile.”

    Suffice to say I’m not at the beach. No. Instead, I’m sitting here all self-obsessed wondering what the fuck is wrong with me. I kicked the boy out of my bed after he said “Well, at least it’s not inhabited. Better the moon than another rainforest, isn’t it?”

    It just feels like every day this world that I’m trying to live in gets more and more ridiculously insane and it gets harder and harder to cope. Yet everyone else seems to be coping fine. Having a good time even. I don’t get it.

    I seem to have lost my sense of humour.

  • Comment by tom on April 10th, 2007 at 12:12 am:

    ok i’m really sorry ok, i’m barely coherent mostly, but bring up geography or planets or anything cosmic, and i will spew. words. on you.

    yo, kate, you gotta read the mars trilogy. insane, not surprising. but before the moon, i think antartica’s next. there’s a treaty that protects antartic land, but i’m sure land exploiters could get around that. i mean, c’mon, it’s profits.

    it’s been proven that the moon affects many things: the tides, for one, i even heard it affects the menstrual cycle of women but i’m not too sure. definately the moon, as a bright, beautiful object in the sky, has been deeply rooted into many cultures, religion, stories etc, our inner beings… but to capitalism, it’s just the “final frontier” of commodifying things. maybe it just outlines the desperation and relentlessness of those in control of the means to produce capital from mineral deposits, fossil fuels…etc…maybe it’s just another sign of perhaps now unavoidable doom. maybe, it’s just plain old sad.

    about the beach (oh god summer’s almost here for me) obviously the tide is a big part of the beach. if we fuck with that somehow…hmm. fuck i love my beach. oka beach actually. i invite everyone here to oka beach. in any case, with the impending rising sea levels we’re facing, maybe the tide will change (oh god that’s a pun kill me please), or maybe the skies will darken and we won’t be able to see the moon anymore. hell- with light pollution, in cities, you can’t. it’s just another sign of humanities general disregard for the world we come from and the cycles and balances that guide us. and i think the moon is a big part of our home, extarterraneous as it is, it still fills our eyes with light on certain cloudless nights. (oh shit im gushing)

    it is theorized that the moon is a large chunk of the rock that formed our planet, and it was ejected by a meteorite impact. and the moon is silent- a footstep can last for millenias untouched on the moon- imagine what a massive mining operation could do?

    i don’t think that “everyone” else is having a good time. you know, many suffer, almost everything is suffering in my view. but people struggle, some for the earth and its inhabitants, some just for people. but i think there’s definately a huge aura of distraction, maybe it’s voluntary aloofness, maybe it’s naievety, maybe it’s fear…(in any case i think it’s intentional) i mean, the hockey game on saturday coincided with a huge report by an international team of scientists (im sure this is well known), an extremely disturbning, frightening report, and well, my concern was to drink beer and play computer. and no one talks about it, no one talks about what human industrialized nations are doing, even though everything around us is being stolen, taken from our hands, and raped, used for some immediate goal and short term powerorgasm. fuck, politicians and ceo’s probably just can’t get it up any more, who knows what motivates those fucknoses. but everything’s ok, we got beer, there’s a game on tonight, and the leafs suck the hugest piss maggot of a turd off of sundin’s hairy, sweaty, warty, golf playing ass. everything’s ok.

    if it makes you feel better, personally, hope has just been dwindling away, i’m starting to hate most people for just not being honest about what’s going on i think. i’m not saying there isn’t value in going out and communicating/party/sex, i just see most of these things as a distraction for a lot of people i know, like addiction is for me. now, i’m really gonna regret hitting “submit comment” button, but like i said, you mentioned geography.

    maybe the moon is a symbol of sanctity, or of pristine tranquility. and now maybe it will become a sympol for the next step of capitalist colonialism. maybe.

  • Comment by falcore on April 10th, 2007 at 1:09 am:

    if lockheed martin share holders wanna mine the moon they can go a head and do it but not with tax dollars but with their own “free market money”. This should insure that the moon will never be mined.

  • Comment by caítlin on April 10th, 2007 at 4:00 am:

    “oooh what you gonna do katie? you’re a sweet sweet sweet girl, but its a cruel cruel world, a cruel cruel world”

    Ahem, Kate,

    I thought I’d give my pennysworth here (and a serenade), because keeping up hope is something I struggle with too. There isnt really much reason to believe things will get better, when you open a newspaper or read a book. Every day the amount of suffering increases and the burden to make the world better gets heavier, but there is no sign of reciprocity – I remember being amazed by the fact that people werent on the streets actually, yknow, doing something.

    I don’t know if its the same for everyone, but I remember quite keenly what it was that finally made me think “here, lads, think it might be time to get involved…” – it was the holocaust, something completely incomprehensible if you actually sit down and think about it. And I remember, in my fourteen year old optimism, pledging to do something to commemorate each of those people who had their lives stolen, I remember saying what every schmuck says on every half-assed memorial show every memorial day – “never again”. Little did I know that it had happened again while I was crawling my way toward an understanding of european history, that if I was to try to commemorate every needless, unjust, brutal death in the world I’d probably have to regress back into the womb and start again.

    But I’m not trying to make you more depressed here, I have a point.

    The world doesn’t make any sense and there is a limit to our power as individuals moving in a different direction from the societies we live in. One thing I can’t reconcile myself with is the finiteness of each of us in our reach, because it just doesn’t make sense. I want some left superheros damnit! I know its a cliche, but I think our choices are pretty clear – you can become exasperated, drive yourself mad and get extremely depressed, kill all your motivation and either burn out or join the aloof masses, because no-one can live only for other people. Or you can try to make a difference as much as you can, where you can, within a life that will allow you to continue helping for as long as possible, and nevermind that, be worth living. Torturing yourself is pointless (fuck, its almost religious). A sense of humour (however bad) and a long list of life’s little pleasures keep me going.
    And RSS feeds. Fuck I love RSS feeds.

    I think the way to do it [and I know you didn't ask, but if I only spoke when spoken to I'd go mad] is to educate yourself for your own empowerment, keep abreast (teehee, i keep two!) of the issues and the theories for change while keeping yourself healthy and sane, and try your hand at helping in the here and now.
    The things I do in my community aren’t done in the belief or the faith that the world is eventually going to come and meet us half way – i have no reason to think that. But the stupid world is no reason for me to stop trying to help people now, people who urgently need help, differences that can be made which are real and meaningful and visible. Community activism is a real tonic for that exasperation I think most of us feel: meeting amazing, strong people with new perspectives, and like-minded people who understand. Its a chance to see the impact of our lives on real people, to better develop an understanding of that impact, and the changes individuals can make. The news keeps rolling in and you wont get to everyone, but you at least did something. I never did get the logic of “oh, i can’t fix everything, so i wont do anything”. Not least because its the sort of phrase that makes my head hurt.

    I apologise for the absolute pickle that is this ramble, im on a painkiller high. And while we’re on the subject of my AGONY, if you guys cared about human rights, you’d do something about my cramps. Thats human rights, isnt it????? You anarchists love that shit, right??????? So WHERE’S MY MASSAGE?

  • Comment by Sebas on April 10th, 2007 at 5:30 am:

    Call me pink turd from outter space if you will, but i don’t think finance is really an issue for these “PowerOrgasm” addicts. I mean, yeah sure, probably with the redirection of a 15% of the military budget would sufice to fund the initial moon-mining campaign, but ¿why spend valuable government USDollars if you can put up a few comercials saying that this will boost up the economy, create more workspace (for NASA rejects or Bruce Willis maybe) and in a “non-enviromental degrading” way… Of course nothing of that would be true, but people (we are people too, but a minority noone listen’s too) would believe it. Good news is good news, be it a lie or not.

    So that’s that for the tax payers money, now for that moon influenced PMS conspiracy theory… Martin Luther King designed the whole thing and is now in Acapulco sharing margarita’s with Elvis and Cobain… not with Hendrix though, they kicked him out of the club for playing “white” music (a few national anthem re-composites have his name all over it).

    Ramble ON!

  • Comment by poo on April 10th, 2007 at 6:37 am:

    Kate:

    I’m very disturbed by your post I don’t give a shit about the moon its pretty annoying.

    But I am very worried for the “boy” in your bed. I know I know this whole g7 pro feminist pro gay pro everything… I’m not sure about the others but I know I am NOT pro paedophilia but I am pro police and FBI so I have called them and they are coming to take your a$$ to jail.

    goodbye.

  • Comment by Sebas on April 10th, 2007 at 8:54 am:

    Poo backwards is ooP.

    ¿Has anyone thought of this?

  • Comment by kate on April 10th, 2007 at 8:37 pm:

    well. hmmm. I almost changed my username and banished ‘kate’ from existed after that rather embarrassing post from yesterday. But alas, here i am once again. Too bad, huh?

    To see what you wrote Tom, made me feel much better. Mostly because it was longer and more incoherent than my post. You win. I’ll try not to mention the universe or any specific place in it again.

    But you should make the most of this summer. Before humans, being unable to come to an agreement over who owns the moon, bomb it out of existence, and thus no moon= no tides, and no tides= no beach, and no beach= no fun. Ha ha, I should write a screenplay and send it to Jerry Bruckheimer. Maybe it was the freedom hating Islamic terrorists who bombed the moon, in opposition to the Western World’s Allah-less scantily clad beach culture. Or maybe they just hate the moon cos it’s beautiful.

    I can’t really explain why i got so upset by this moon thing. I’ll admit that i know nothing about the topic, but it’s seems that the moon’s been pretty much excused from politics since the Cold War, and here i was thinking that it was safe from any more human stupidity, being so far away and all. But no. Now it’s a commodity again. Only this time it’s not just a pathetic and misguided- but in a way also kinda cute- race to glory, a symbol of humanity’s (or at least the American portion of humanity) (and capitalism’s) ultimate triumph over nature, and thus an affirmation of our greatness. Nope. This time it’s simply about money, and they don’t even feel the need to disguise this fact. And they could actually destroy it, seeing as nobody really understands it, or it’s relationship to the planet.

    I guess it’s symbolic of there being absolutely no remorse or regret for what this kind of logic has done to this planet. They wanna do it to the moon too. And under the guise of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, no less. They haven’t learned a fucking thing. I know that i shouldn’t be surprised, and i’m not so much surprised as disappointed. Again.

    Oh, and you’re right Tom. In some cultures the moon is linked to fertility, and modern studies have identified a correlation between the lunar cycle and female menstrual cycles. I saw it on tv so it must be true.

    But anyway, it’s kind of a good thing that i got so enraged by this stupid article that is mere speculation anyway. Six months ago i would have laughed it off and gone back to drinking and chain-smoking the day away. For some reason i thought the world would be an easier place to live in as a healthy, sober, active person. I guess i needed to think that.

    Anyway, before this gets even more awkwardly personal , thanks for the pep talk guys, it actually did help.

    Oh, and Caitlin, its seems to me that you are that superhero! So feel free to start wearing your underwear over your clothes. You’ve earned the right. But unfortunately i’m far more self-indulgent than you give me credit for. My logic is that if other people are having good lives then they will be less inclined to fuck me over. And i find the act of saying “this is fucked and i’ll have no part in it” self-empowering in a world where i hold little socially or politically recognized power. Really i am no better than the would-be moon-rapers. I just see flaws in their particular logic and opt for a different approach.

    Can we still be friends?

  • Comment by gety on April 10th, 2007 at 10:01 pm:

    -too much reading
    -post in point form?
    -jk

  • Comment by gety on April 10th, 2007 at 10:23 pm:

    -the lord said go forth and be a fucking retard
    -record it always.
    -have relations in the missionary position
    -squat in the ditches and wait for the latest carnation, the highly decorated Ring leader of all fucking public embarressments.
    http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=RF9BjB7Bzr0

  • Comment by Pidge on April 11th, 2007 at 5:43 am:

    “Once I was called to an explosion site,” Saad, a humanitarian worker, is quoted as saying in the report (link below).

    “There I saw a four-year-old boy sitting beside his mother’s body, which had been decapitated by the explosion. He was talking to her, asking her what had happened.”

    http://news.bbc.co.u...iraq-report-icrc.pdf

  • Comment by Sebas on April 11th, 2007 at 8:16 am:

    I just saw a documentary (which has illegaly been purchased) featuring one Noam Chomsomething. In this motion picture this man talks -besides other things- the fact that USAdministration has made use of the mass public distraction generated by 9/11.

    He argues that while Chechenia recieves harder beatings by former soviet ocupees and Turkey has jailed the majority of the liberal non-sumisive intelectuals, the U.S. have begun redistribiuting funds for “the militarization of space” and that includes the moon.

    “The high-tech industry, generally, exists under the cover of public subsidies wich come largely from the military system [...]
    They now can do it under the pretext of fear of terrorism”.

    And, of course, if the USArmy controls the moon, they control the female mentstrual cycles, and if they control wimmin’s humor and/or mood, well… needles to say the planet is basically theirs.

    For starters i’m amputating my testicles so no testosterone will be flowing into my irrational thinkin’ neo-cortex so i won’t worry too much ’bout this.

    There’s so much hidden agenda in the world that they’re easier to find than easter-eggs. But try doing something about it, and no, recycling or helping inmigrants won’t help. So put those underwears back where the belong (in the bin) and start brewing a nice fat batch of anti-gringo molotov’s.

    ¡DO IT FOR THE MOON!

    P(M)S: The documentary is called “N.Chomsky on Power, Dissent and Racism.

  • Comment by tom on April 11th, 2007 at 11:02 am:

    glad you’re feeling better kate. i know, my cohesiveness isn’t always diamond clear, but i try to talk my thinkings in an easier form so it’s not falling over the ledgibilities. now if only i could find someone one to “share my bed” and who simultaneously likes farting and going to the beach, i’d be made.

    “can we still be friends?” (not sure what or who you meant so call me an idiot):

    http://g7welcomingco...und-up/#comment-5617

    back to MLK:

    the article is very interesting. i think one thing that wasn’t mentioned was the fact that when MLK starting garnering media attention, was before the war in vietnam had started. i could bve wrong, i usually am. but as soon as he started to speak out against the war machine and sticking up for the poor and oppressed in other places (places where it’s harder for regular people to know what’s happening), COINTELPRO came into action. yes, i did just accuse the FBI of murdering the dude.

    maybe the powers that be realized that most americans that MLK was fighting for could eventually be co-opted into working for them, in some indirect, unbeknownst way. and look what has happened. corporations are “equal oppurtunity employers” and even women and people with darker skin tones can get jobs. liberating the poor from outright racist slavery is one thing, but when you try to challenge to status quo you become a real threat and i think that’s what happened.

  • Comment by tom on April 11th, 2007 at 11:08 am:

    how can something make so much sense when you type it, then when you read you’re like “what the fuck? I can’t even make that out.

    there’s gotta be some kinda computer gimmick that takes all my words and mixez them up.

  • Comment by james on April 11th, 2007 at 12:58 pm:

    The lunatics have taken over the asylum…again.

    “…Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” Shelley

    OZYMANDIAS

    I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
    And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed.
    And on the pedestal these words appear:
    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
    Nothing beside remains: round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.

  • Comment by Anthony on April 12th, 2007 at 2:32 am:

    Propagandhi DVD ordered. I can’t wait to watch that shit son! Propagandhi needs to forget about the “Bible belt” of the U.S. and come back to the West coast!!!

    Departed DVDs will be smashed and/or burned in thy honor.

    I just bought “American Fascists:The Christian Right and the War On America” by “Chris Hedges” and I’m getting prepared to hop into a Chris Hedges literary journey.

    “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” has become my favorite book.

    Killing Hope is soon to be started as well. LONG LIVE WILLIAM BLUM!!!!

  • Comment by Pidge on April 12th, 2007 at 6:04 am:

    ‘War is a Force…’ is, indeed, a brilliant book. I found that sucker profoundly upsetting. I think that’s the book I’ve leant out to people more than any other I own.

    I’ll get around to his new work soon, in the meantime I thought I’d check The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock…diagnosis? We’re fucking fucked.

  • Comment by Pidge on April 12th, 2007 at 6:07 am:

    Well, I say we’re fucking fucked, but not if this hunk of man has anything to do with it:

    http://news.bbc.co.u...americas/6546975.stm

  • Comment by caítlin on April 12th, 2007 at 8:37 am:

    kate!
    Ive actually been wearing my knickers outside my trousers for ages now (a misguided attempt at show-yer-thong sexiness) but now I can do it with pride! Thanks!

    I’m actually only an activist so I can piss off my neocon dad, so consider us buds! Providing, of course, that you never have and never will star in Home And Away or Neighbours. That one’s a deal breaker.. And the liver is the enemy!
    -

    Who do you think will be the next political figure to nominate themselves representative for poor old Mother Earth? Le Pen? Kilroy Silk? [insert crude joke here].

  • Comment by Pidge on April 12th, 2007 at 11:26 am:

    I thought Richard Branson had already saved Mother Earth. I say Richard, but I really mean Dick.

  • Comment by kate on April 12th, 2007 at 10:45 pm:

    Caitlin!: You style-guru you!

    While we’re on the subject of less than noble motivations behind otherwise admirable behavior, one of the reasons i so fervently condemn the notion and exhibition of patriotism is to distance myself from likes of Neighbours and Home and Away, and the many other embarrassing cultural icons i happen to share a continent with. I’m sure you feel the same way about Bono.

    Tom:

    I was 98% joking about your post being incoherent. Didn’t mean to make you feel bad. I like the way you write. It’s kinda awkward and tourette’s-esque at times, but also humble and ego-less. And most importantly it’s funny. Very funny.

    Everybody else:

    What the fuck does Arnold Schwa***n**gger know about being sexy?

    And since when does bodybuilding have a positive image?

    Excuse me while i empty the contents of my stomach on the floor.

    (via my mouth I mean. I’m not metaphorically shitting on the floor. That would be unpleasant.)

  • Comment by kate on April 12th, 2007 at 10:47 pm:

    Tom:

    Again, that’s not supposed to be an insult.

    *sigh*

    I need to work on my online people skills.

  • Comment by Anthony on April 12th, 2007 at 11:05 pm:

    If you laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddddddddiiiiiiiiiesssssssssssss(pronounced in perverted,collar popped, sushi eating, Vegas strip walking douche bag voice) are speaking of the whack ass show “Home and Away”….That is fucking great because everytime I’d visit my drunken relatives in Australia they were always watching that shitty shit-com.

    Toms post are one of the four reasons I come back to this bloggggggggg to read shit or post shit. He rules.

    So Chris…….if Propagandhi doesn’t make it to the west coast before “Rage Against the Machine” plays “Rock the Bells”, I’m going to buy a copy of “the Departed” for everyone in my lame neighborhood so they can feel the pain.

    Only you( and Jord and Todd of course) can stop this cinematic “terrorist”(?) attack on my perfect, beautiful, democratic lil’ ‘ol neighborhood.

    Everyone listen to a band called DANGERS. They’re really good.

    Same with THE LOCUST.

  • Comment by D-Rock on April 12th, 2007 at 11:20 pm:

    I just have to say, folks, I can’t follow this. It’s kinda crazy. What the hell are you all talking about? It’s madness. Message board-style madness! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!

  • Comment by tom on April 12th, 2007 at 11:34 pm:

    swear i more than half believe it when i say: “that somewhere love and justice shine. cynisism falls asleep. tyranny talks to itself. sappy slogans all come true. we forget to feed our fears.”

    well, d-rock, as the one who rains of sweats allways says: “if it all makes sense, you’re the furthest fucking gone.”

    kate: there was no insult taken in. i’m not the one who had some random moodswing about the moon and then decided to talk about it for hours on a blog in an australian accent that’s barely makeoutable. ok, wait, i mean, you can barely make it out. perve.

    and what in the godamn fucking fuck of all offs to fuck does a shitty word like tourette-esque mean. what is this, brain fucking surgery???????? hunh?????????????

    athony, dude, you might be taking some drugs there. better watch out.

    super caít mchaír stink: fly over then warp me back to the other side. i need to go.

    MLK: RIP, dude.

    AND KEEP IT ON FUCKING TOPIC PEOPLE OR DEREK’S GONNA KILL HIMSELF AND WE ALL LOVE DEREKS!!!!!!

  • Comment by kate on April 13th, 2007 at 12:04 am:

    First it was crack. Then it was meth. Now crazy pills? Tut tut.

  • Comment by Anthony on April 13th, 2007 at 4:09 am:

    hahahaha

  • Comment by caítlin on April 13th, 2007 at 4:11 am:

    I think that’s what comes of uncontentious blog topics that don’t inspire much discussion – it becomes a love-in!

    So y’see, Derek, its really your fault!

    ….I promise my next post will be unintoxicated, relevant and thought-provoking (*snigger*).

  • Comment by Sebast on April 13th, 2007 at 5:52 am:

    Strangely enough, it has come to be my opinion that, since i visit this adorable corner of the virtual world, this is one of the most coherent forms of organized blogging.

    At least we talk ’bout common things, F.E: the moon and menstrual cycles, shiting on the floor while thongs “split the shit”, Bono appearing in Neighbours, Kindergarden Cop becoming the next Al-Gore, webmasters ingesting meth…

    Who am i kidding, i think i’ll grab that ‘83 LaRioja wine i had saved for such an special ocasion as this one and smash my forhead into it.

    *ouch*

  • Comment by mikea on April 14th, 2007 at 7:42 am:

    No haz eso, tio! We have some serious wine drinker here that could certainly kill all the loyalists in his/her neighborhood for such a bottle. Not naming anybody.

  • Comment by Duncan on April 16th, 2007 at 8:07 am:

    haha, upon reading, I’ve decided this blog thing makes my days just a lil brighter. That and pre-ordering the Propagandhi DVD. sigh

    Kate: where on the (in)continent of Australia land do you live? I’m in Canberra.

    thtwip!

  • Comment by tom on April 17th, 2007 at 7:59 am:

    does anyone else find it stupid that crapagandhi haven’t mentioned their new dvd on their dweebsite?

    now that i think about it, the beaver isn’t going to be in this dvd, it was flimed in 2003, and the beaver only joined the band in 2006. so unless G7 actually built their time machine and sent beaver back, this dvd will be all ugly. is there anyway i can cancel my order?

    does anybody else ever feel suicidal when reading smart people’s posts on this piece of shit? no? only me? ok.

  • Comment by tom on April 17th, 2007 at 2:29 pm:

    ahahaha there it is! fuck, C-Hole sure has a way of putting a smile on my face even while i’m being shit on by mother nature herself! i love the farting sounds though. also glad peepeegandhi recognize that some of us (ok, maybe only me!) still are “to dumb for book learnings.” i couldn’t have said it bester myself.

    in any case, i’ve realized that this MLK article is also very important. it dawned upon me this morning (as i was tuckin’er in my sweaty pants) that i actually saw a major hollyshit film about malcolm (se)X. i even bought the hat. from nike. i was 10. fuck you. i haven’t seen anything regarding MLK (maybe cause it wasn’t as mainstream), and this strikes me as disturbing as my own smell sometimes.

    and anyways, malcolm x gets dismissed as a violent racist radical by most high school teachers i know, and the bpp was a terrorist organization etc… so, revolutionary politics and ideas gets syphoned out, especially for kids, workers, all sorts of people. that’s a major contribution to the state of apathy i see amongst many of my peers. a pathetic nation. get it?

    fuck, what was my point? we seriously need to take back our schools, and our history, before McDonalds buys the printing rights (notice it’s a Mc).

    sorry guys, i’m all whacked out, i don’t want anybody to feel bad, but i try to make a point, sometimes it’s hard!

  • Comment by Anthony on April 17th, 2007 at 3:23 pm:

    hahahahahaha Jesus H. Chris….you made me feel like a fucking digital fuck-munch. The Propagandhi “DVD trailer” link on the Propagandhi website was a good one. hahahaha

  • Comment by Matt on April 17th, 2007 at 6:55 pm:

    I admit, I laughed out loud at the trailer.

  • Comment by gert on April 17th, 2007 at 7:02 pm:

    “the time is always right to do the right thing”
    Martin Luther King jr.

    If I may take a whitebread, inocuous, very pedestrian news item, today they announced the findings of a comparative study between the health care system of… *courtly trumpet* America and sleepy canada.

    On average per capita American’s pay double what canadians pay.

    14 found the care they recieved in canada better

    5 found it better in the states

    19 found it the same in both countries.

    and now in your deft calculations factor in that over 45 million…oops did i write million…that can’t be right …nope says so ritht here in black and white, 45 million in the united snakes without any coverage.

    So based on a professional findings do my rich relatives still feel justified to have front cut-zies over the rotting death bags for collagen injections and pulling their leathery faces tight over their skulls to eliminate wrinkles?

    How skilled are you at repressing fact, circumnavigating ad infinitum around reason in order to avoid being wrong. Its okay to be wrong, I have to love you, we’re relatives.

    Sometimes relagating objective findings to the opportunistically shoehorned “democratic opinion” for your trite ends, seems i dunno in poor taste.

    Sometimes 1+1=2. You must admit. Often people ignored, tortured, ostracized, left without a place in society have easy access to guns. You do not need a permit to buy a hand gun in Virginia. Its your right and duty to conceal hand guns in Virginia. Guns kill people. but then again…maybe thats just opinion? well, see you next masacre.

    what?

    Rage quoting Martin Luther King Jr.
    “a riot is the language of the unheard.”

  • Comment by Sebast on April 18th, 2007 at 1:16 pm:

    Yeah, i’ts all great and stuff…

    ¿But wadafak is a “book learning”? ‘Cuz if it’s just your old fashioned “learning from a book” well… Let’s just say there’s too much fancy-pants marketing goin’ on in the underworld.

    ¿Evolved CoIntelPro perhaps?

    Maybe we’ll never know…

    ¡BE AWARE!

  • Comment by james on April 19th, 2007 at 11:00 am:

    I’m glad to see my favorite artists have yet to jump on the Year Zero advertising brainwash campaign. Thank you for keeping integrity in damp times.

  • Comment by caítlin on April 19th, 2007 at 1:19 pm:

    Look at this table for some extremely interesting shit.
    http://openlearn.ope...ce/view.php?id=86892

    And how on this green earth did it take me so long to discover this, my new cyber lover:
    http://www.zmag.org/...iners/ZEO/index.html

    … surely I’m not the only person who finds political economy sexy?

  • Comment by james on April 20th, 2007 at 8:07 am:

    Thanks for the information reference, Caitlin.
    Here’s something I’ve been srcatching my eczema laden hands over..

    Strange Bedfellows: The SDS and the Neocons
    http://www.contextfl.../storysdsneocon.html

  • Comment by caítlin on April 20th, 2007 at 1:32 pm:

    You’re welcome James :) I have to confess I know very very little about the SDS. Interesting looking mag. My dads girlfriend insists Aloe Vera is good for eczema.

    Anyway, this is a really excellent article about Palestine/settler mentality. Not to be hyperbolic but its the best thing to happen to anybody ever. Read eeet!
    http://www.zmag.org/...07-04/19fletcher.cfm

  • Comment by james on April 20th, 2007 at 3:53 pm:

    Relevant to this article is the nature of Holocaust Deniers and their closely matched idealogues, the Holocaust Comparison Creators. Of course, this isn’t the actual essay title, however, it is the topic discussed at length by a Mr. Ward Churchill. I’m certain it’s buried somewhere in the ZMag archive…

    Regardless, thanks again for the link Caitlin.
    !!AND FOR KEEPING THE SCENE ALIVE!!

    metal.

  • Comment by mikea on April 20th, 2007 at 4:03 pm:

    To those interested by the 60’s/70’s student movement in the US of Amerikkka, and more specically by the Weather Underground Organization (whose members were SDS former members and “leaders” – Bernardine, if you read this and want to start a new life in france, just drop a line),I STRONGLY recommend Dan Berger’s “Outlaws of America”. The first part of the book is nothing but an history of the SDS. along with a detailed overview of the student movement. The rest is thought provoking and truly inspiring.

    http://www.akpress.o...s/outlawsofamericaak

    Free David Gilbert.
    Free all BLA prisonners.
    Free all political prisonners.
    Abajo los muros de las prisiones.

  • Comment by james on April 20th, 2007 at 5:38 pm:

    Speaking of which…why did I wait so ong to buy Clann Zu’s Rua? It’s astonishing…I’m almost crying now. Yep…just seconds away.

    Li Ra is…wow.

  • Comment by caítlin on April 21st, 2007 at 5:43 am:

    Do you mean ri ra, James? That song is immense, that whole album makes me want move involuntarily. Declan is amazing, may even be competition for Gmac in the “friendliest guy in rock” competition. And the live act is just insane, I’ve never seen someone perform without a mic before and still shatter eardrums!
    Mikea – ooh! That looks interesting. For some reason I went back to my black power books recently and all I can think when I read Huey P Newton (aside from, yanno, the whole prostitute thing) is that this dude taught himself to write, and then wrote something amazing. Then it tingles my inferiority complex and I go back to stoklely carmichael. The BPP fascinate the shit out of me, I should definitely read more about the WU.

  • Comment by james on April 21st, 2007 at 8:10 am:

    Yep…Ri Ra is the correct title. I would have enjoyed seeing these guys perform, so I’m happy you got to see them.

    I recently watched the Root of All Evil/ Virus of Faith series on go_gle video. Fantastic. Next on my list is Carl Sagan’s 13 part “Cosmos”.

  • Comment by james on April 22nd, 2007 at 12:31 pm:

    Here’s something I pulled out of the murky dungeonesque inter-web:
    ————————————————–
    April 23rd to the 27th
    Both 9/11 and the 7/7 bombings had drills of the exact same events on the same day they occured. So this is a heads up for those interested.

    From April, 23 to April 27, the elite echelon of the military are running Noble Resolve 07, a four-day marathon of “simulated” terror attacks across the US and Europe. This includes a simulated detonation of a “loose” ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a “foreign nation.”

    This week Dick Cheney has also been warning of the “very real” threat of a nuclear attack on an American city. Could the Nobel Resolve drills be used as a screen for a false-flag attack to be blamed on Iran, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, or sheep-dipped Americans like Adam Gadahn?

    The drills are being run by Joint Task Force Command (JTFCOM), Northern Command (NORTHCOM), J9 Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, FEMA’s command bunker, the Department of Homeland Security, and Virginia police.

    The US Marines are also running “Emerald Express 07” in Virginia on April 24 as part of their Urban Warrior 07 drill package.

    It is important to note the “Nobel Resolve” drills are dominated by NORTHCOM, the branch of “homeland defense” based in Colorado and responsible for shutting down the United States under martial law, as well as ushering in the merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico via the SPP.

    Meanwhile the J9 Directorate, formulates various terror scenarios and uses advanced computer modeling to run drills and predict human reactions; Recent articles highlight how they are using virtual environments to create and manage realistic war scenarios with millions of “people.”

    Some key quotes from the article:

    “He said the scenario of the experiment’s first phase starts with multinational partners and goes down to individual municipalities. It begins with a threat that originates in Europe and travels toward the United States.”

    “Kersh said that as the scenario progresses, other agencies and other layers of government become involved.”

    “The problem eventually arrives at the commonwealth of Virginia with that threat making it into port and then blowing up. This will cause us to work the consequence management part of the problem”

    “The fusion center is in a state police headquarters and it’s collocated with Virginia’s emergency operations center.” (ed: Mount Weather)

    “coordinated with DHS, possibly to coincide with one of that department’s major exercises.”

    We must remember that CIA agent Philip Giraldi warned the American Conservative magazine that STRATCOM would launch a nuclear attack on Iran in the wake of a new WMD-style attack on American soil.

    And the Russian media and former Russian military members continue to warn that an American and Israeli strike on Iran is imminent.

    While many drills are run every month, Nobel Resolve 07, with it’s “realistic” scenarios, comes at a time of increased geopolitical tension. It is reminiscent of the drills in 2005, where a ten-kiloton nuclear weapon was “simulated” to explode in South Carolina. Some speculated that four-star Gen. Kevin Byrnes, of the Fort Meade TRADOC command, was fired due to his exposure of the drill.

    We should not live in a constant state of panic and fear, or make any irresponsible predictions about Noble Resolve 07. But in the coming days, we can email this information to blogs, media outlets, friends and family. Congressmen, and others to help inoculate against any possibility that rogue “red teams” inside the drills may be activated.

    http://www.globalres...h.ca/index.p…t icleId=5444
    —————————————————-

    Any gamblers? Interesting, in a Nostrdamus kind of way…

  • Comment by james on April 22nd, 2007 at 12:31 pm:

    Here’s something I pulled out of the murky dungeonesque inter-web:
    ————————————————–
    April 23rd to the 27th
    Both 9/11 and the 7/7 bombings had drills of the exact same events on the same day they occured. So this is a heads up for those interested.

    From April, 23 to April 27, the elite echelon of the military are running Noble Resolve 07, a four-day marathon of “simulated” terror attacks across the US and Europe. This includes a simulated detonation of a “loose” ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a “foreign nation.”

    This week Dick Cheney has also been warning of the “very real” threat of a nuclear attack on an American city. Could the Nobel Resolve drills be used as a screen for a false-flag attack to be blamed on Iran, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, or sheep-dipped Americans like Adam Gadahn?

    The drills are being run by Joint Task Force Command (JTFCOM), Northern Command (NORTHCOM), J9 Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, FEMA’s command bunker, the Department of Homeland Security, and Virginia police.

    The US Marines are also running “Emerald Express 07” in Virginia on April 24 as part of their Urban Warrior 07 drill package.

    It is important to note the “Nobel Resolve” drills are dominated by NORTHCOM, the branch of “homeland defense” based in Colorado and responsible for shutting down the United States under martial law, as well as ushering in the merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico via the SPP.

    Meanwhile the J9 Directorate, formulates various terror scenarios and uses advanced computer modeling to run drills and predict human reactions; Recent articles highlight how they are using virtual environments to create and manage realistic war scenarios with millions of “people.”

    Some key quotes from the article:

    “He said the scenario of the experiment’s first phase starts with multinational partners and goes down to individual municipalities. It begins with a threat that originates in Europe and travels toward the United States.”

    “Kersh said that as the scenario progresses, other agencies and other layers of government become involved.”

    “The problem eventually arrives at the commonwealth of Virginia with that threat making it into port and then blowing up. This will cause us to work the consequence management part of the problem”

    “The fusion center is in a state police headquarters and it’s collocated with Virginia’s emergency operations center.” (ed: Mount Weather)

    “coordinated with DHS, possibly to coincide with one of that department’s major exercises.”

    We must remember that CIA agent Philip Giraldi warned the American Conservative magazine that STRATCOM would launch a nuclear attack on Iran in the wake of a new WMD-style attack on American soil.

    And the Russian media and former Russian military members continue to warn that an American and Israeli strike on Iran is imminent.

    While many drills are run every month, Nobel Resolve 07, with it’s “realistic” scenarios, comes at a time of increased geopolitical tension. It is reminiscent of the drills in 2005, where a ten-kiloton nuclear weapon was “simulated” to explode in South Carolina. Some speculated that four-star Gen. Kevin Byrnes, of the Fort Meade TRADOC command, was fired due to his exposure of the drill.

    We should not live in a constant state of panic and fear, or make any irresponsible predictions about Noble Resolve 07. But in the coming days, we can email this information to blogs, media outlets, friends and family. Congressmen, and others to help inoculate against any possibility that rogue “red teams” inside the drills may be activated.

    http://www.globalres...h.ca/index.p…t icleId=5444
    —————————————————-

    Any gamblers? Interesting, in a Nostradamus kind of way…

  • Comment by LJ on April 23rd, 2007 at 6:37 am:

    I hate to be the asshole who goes off topic… but I must give credit where credit’s due. Kudos to derek for making the Propagandhi DVD work so brilliantly, and Chris you did an awesome job editing. Its not the piece of shit you made it out to be.

  • Comment by james on April 23rd, 2007 at 12:50 pm:

    I want a dVd.

    Info on the new wall. But really, hasn’t there only been one cyclical wall? Semantic posturing, no doubt.
    http://arablinks.blogspot.com/

  • Comment by caítlin on April 23rd, 2007 at 1:45 pm:

    I’d really like to sit in on the meeting where they decided this was a great idea.
    “well, gee, it worked so well in belfast, and in palestine…”
    There was a quote in the guardian at the weekend from a soldier who had obviously not been informed yet and he said something along the lines of “We’re here to unite Iraq and bring peace, not divide it”.

    Bless.

    -
    LJ, you’re from the UK, right? That means it’ll work on my computer too! *dances*

  • Comment by gerty on April 23rd, 2007 at 1:52 pm:

    WARD CHURCHILL can I get a fuck yeah?

  • Comment by Sebast on April 23rd, 2007 at 4:39 pm:

    Nope,

    YEAH! FUCK!

  • Comment by gerty on April 23rd, 2007 at 7:17 pm:

    I have also accepted the following.

    FUCK MY MOUTH!

    FUCK ME IN THE EAR!

    and the ever popular…

    HERE I AM FUCK ME LIKE A HURRICANE!

    what am i doing…

  • Comment by LJ on April 24th, 2007 at 2:23 am:

    caítlin: Yup I’m from the UK. Works like a (lucky) charm :)

    Not to stereotype the irish or anything…

  • Comment by Asshole on April 24th, 2007 at 2:45 am:

    In other news… im sure you all know, TNS is gone. I’m kicking myself in the head right now. I didn’t think they were in that deep of a situation. If I knew they were actually having a hard time I would of become a member. Im sorry guys… how much I leeched and gave none in return. Fuck.

  • Comment by james on April 24th, 2007 at 5:14 am:

    It’s pretty sad. Like hearing that Kurt Vonnegut died, or Hunter S. Thompson. It bites when nice things go away.

  • Comment by dumdiddee on April 24th, 2007 at 10:52 am:

    Go here to turn those frowns upside down:

    http://www.landoverbaptist.org/

  • Comment by james on April 24th, 2007 at 1:11 pm:

    Oh dumdidee…that was perfect.

  • Comment by Anthony on April 25th, 2007 at 1:54 am:

    Jesus was perfect. Jesus loves America. Jesus and his lil’ demigod (not to mention GREAT president) George W. “Hero” Bush embraces dominionism.

    Why won’t king George die already?

  • Comment by Alfred on April 25th, 2007 at 1:58 am:

    Anyone seen live from occupied territory yet?
    Great documentaries! No complaints ’bout the rock’n'roll either.
    And angry Derek is funny.

  • Comment by tom on April 25th, 2007 at 8:22 am:

    man…D-Bald gets sexier every time i see him. wow, what a hunk. my favorite parts were hopper’s…haha, and when rod was furiously banging his head to purina, that was great.

    the documentaries kick ass. nice to see some fellow montrealers (stefan christoff of CKUT, montreal’s english commuunity radio) contribute to this. go fuck myself.

    the real bonus is the photo galleries, that jon elmer dude is amazing. he puts things in such a digestible way that it’s easy to understand, even if you are the world’s stupidest, ugliest, piece of shit (me).

    all i have to do is run around until i’m drenched in sweat, water the ceiling, shit my pants, and the propagandhi expeirence is complete. great job, dorkoids.

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