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• Comment by Kyle on January 6th, 2007 at 1:24 pm:

  As The New York Times put it, the execution was allowed to “deteriorate into a sectarian free-for-all that had the effect, on the video recordings, of making Mr Hussein, a mass murderer, appear dignified and restrained, and his executioners, representing Shiites who were his principal victims, seem like bullying street thugs.” (from Hasan Abu Nimah’s article)

  I’ll have to side with Gandhi on this one. How can violence against someone not be seen as bullying or thuggish?

  I made a comic about my thoughts on Hussein’s execution. And I’m irrationally proud of it, so I’m going to share it here if you people don’t mind: http://www.wqhosting...pkyle/SLG/010407.jpg

• Comment by Anthony on January 7th, 2007 at 2:01 am:

  I honestly want to scream and punch myself as much as I can within these “borders” because people residing in the middle-east will never know that the few percentage of Americans(for lack of a better term)like myself would’ve prefered that Saddam would have not had… first:His country invaded on faulty circumstances and second:He be executed. This seriously disgusts me. I’m so ashamed to be from this country It’s a joke. I condone nothing that the current and past administrations have done. Fuck GERALD FORD….FUCK HANGING THE FLAG HALF MASS, AND FUCK FOX NEWS CLAIMING THAT “GOD” IS THE MOST FAMOUS PERSON WITH THE FOLLOWER UP BEING “GEORGE BUSH”. I’m so sick of the fucking country I live in, I would not be suprised If I performed a “Terrorist” attack on some American Idol episode. I’m so ashamed while I look at my surroundings….coffee shop posers, fraternity closet cases, disfunctional actresses, know NOTHING teachers, racist-fat cops, girls who pray to Laguna Beach and old fucks that are still racist who tell me my “Propagandhi-Purina Hall of Fame” shirt makes them lose their appetite while they’re eating. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m sorry for wasting your time/reading on my comment. I just fucking hate this country. I’m a Vegan and I have been to jail doing shit that was worthless. Maybe It’s time I go to jail for a reason. I agree with that Gandhi quote.

• Comment by Asshole on January 7th, 2007 at 7:21 am:

  Anthony… um dude? Yeah. DUDE.

• Comment by Hairhole on January 7th, 2007 at 4:21 pm:

  “I’m so sick of the fucking country I live in, I would not be suprised If I performed a “Terrorist” attack on some American Idol episode.” hahahaha.

  After ‘Bubba’ tears you a new phanooter, in the slammer, I recommend you take your conscious to better places with the Mars Trilogy, talk about cool books (although I haven’t finished Blue Mars yet). However, I blame those fuckers for me getting naked on four seperate ‘parties’ this ’shitmas’ season.

  ‘But mom, they party naked in the Mars trilogy! And yes, I do have an abundance of boils complete with a two inches hard!’

  Chomsky’s ‘Failed States’ and
  Flannery’s ‘The Weather Makers’ were kick-ass too.

• Comment by mikea on January 8th, 2007 at 7:41 am:

  From an overseas point of view, the way the NYTimes treated the news of Saddam’s execution was genuinely scandalous. I weight my words. I felt like printing that jumble of coined by-the-state, warmongering, blood-thirsty, amnesiac, christian propaganda and wiping my (zitty)ass with it after shiting the most liquid of those mourning-after-the-party shits.

  …hummm, when’s the next naked party? can i join? (i promise i’ll wash before)

• Comment by Tony (Longy) on January 8th, 2007 at 8:37 am:

  Did most people on here get a version of this story?

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8288955/

  If anyone has any ideas as to why the media would portray Saddam in his last days to be a nice, pleasant chap, please let me know, it makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anyone?
  Theres gotta be something deep going on that im missing. I dont watch much TV so if this story was massive, forgive me.

• Comment by Kyle on January 8th, 2007 at 2:29 pm:

  Tony (Longy): Portraying him as a pleasant chap probably wasn’t done for the sake of making the man look human. It probably had more to do with making it look like he was taken down a ‘notch’: gone from living in palaces and doing whatever nasty things he had done to craving a bag of Doritos. Craving American products, no less!

  Something is telling me that Saddam has been shown as anti-American, so this might be significant on the surface. But something else is telling me he wasn’t anti-American at all, so this might be misdirection.

• Comment by falcore on January 8th, 2007 at 5:51 pm:

  There are a lot of great declassified documents on the National Security Archive at George Washington University web site about the us and iraq starting as early a i think 1970.
  There is even an American Central Intelligence report titled Iraq’s Role in the Middle East it gives a good backround about America’s iterperetation of Iraq’s policys just before and up till Saddam took power(1979) mostly intact.One little piece of info from that report was this (from I think 1975)” …Iraq and Turkey have agreed on a program of cooperation against Kurdish dissidents…” Both of thease things panned out in the next 20 years. With full U.S.support. Some a of the other ones are almost all blacked out some are not. I found it interesting to read first hand how intertwined buissness and government are. I have been aware of it for some time but to read it from those that are creating this dynamic is strange. They seem quite detached from the societies they claim to represent.
  here is the address to the home page of the NSA GWU : http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
  There is a ton of information on the site.

  As for my opinion about Saddam I don’t really feel bad for him because he did do terrible things. However he was not alone both in side and out side Iraq. There should have been dozens of acapplices on the chopping block holding U.S. and/or Iraqi citizenship.For the crimes commited.

  So Ford is dead good thing and good thing I read this blog cuz I could not figure out what the hell all the half staff was about.
  No TV= No Bullshit. Can’t amagine what kind of myth creating trash is being broad casted like when Reagan died. Good riddiance to old trash.

• Comment by Justin on January 8th, 2007 at 7:29 pm:

  Did anyone else have a problem with the Upping the Anti link? I read the first edition and thought it was great but havent been able to load the page since. Can I read an online version elsewhere?

• Comment by dumdiddee on January 8th, 2007 at 9:33 pm:

  Yeah, i always just sorta dismissed Ford as your average domino-theory/real-politik ideological schmuck, like most of our “fathers”. But in the midst of all the bullshit euologies over him in the past couple weeks an interview he did in 2004 w/ Bob Woodward surfaced that he requested to be released posthumously in which he condemned the rationale behind the Iraq war. A party stalwart to the end, he just couldn’t bring himself to speak out against his buddies who were advocating a war that he KNEW was wrong. Ergo, loyalty to his fuckin party trumped the lives of his compatriots and innocent Iraqi’s. That’s cold fucked.

  Jimmy Carter - i don’t know what you guys think, but the more i learn about Carter the more I beileve he might be the only U.S. president with a shred of decency. Unlike other presidents who leave office and then offer their services to arms manufacturer’s and oil barons, Carter seems to actually expend great energy toward things like helping the under-priveleged (read: habitat for humanity) and continually speaks out against israeli atrocities and U.S. imperialist wars in the mideast. And though he is a self-professed christian, he’s not a judgemental, obnoxious theocrat.

  I’m sure most of us disagree about his tactics, but judging by his actions and deeds, I do believe he genuinely wants to make the world better a better, saner place.

  He is perhaps the only president i somewhat respect and admire.

  What do y’all think of him?

• Comment by dumdiddee on January 8th, 2007 at 10:26 pm:

  here’s a belated story on how i come to learn the importance of providing artwork/lyrics for music. It is with a great deal of shame that i confide the following:

  Through a strange series of accidental social interactions i unintentionally came in possession of a metal cd of a band i had never before heard. You must understand, hardcore/metal is one of the few things in this world that undergird my tenuous will-to-live. And when i first heard some of the songs on this cd i felt reborn. Fucking brutally beautiful yet unique riffs combined with full-on lombardo style drum attack. The closest band i could compare them to are the finnish metal gods Amorphis, a la Karalian Ishmus. I was so stoked!

  I’ve never been much good at deciphering song lyrics. but i thought i heard a lot of references about war and vikings. I thought, “ok, they’re just doing it for shock value like slayer or bathory … a sonic horror movie or what have you — not meant to be taken seriously.” Mind you, there was some songs that sounded anti-imperialist, against kings, taxes, etc. At any rate, i wanted AS MUCH of their music as possible, so I googled them. They went by the cryptic name of “Bound for Glory.”

  I was horrifed at what I found. Check out their MySpace profile for a taste of these fucking Nazi fascist scum:

  http://www.myspace.com/theofficialbfg

  Note the patently nazi artwork and comments. But at the same time, the music, instrucmentally speaking, is breathtaking. I defy any metalhead (EVEN Chris, Todd, Jord if they listened to the guitar/drums without knowing the context) to not be seduced by this poison. Note the intro’s to “iron cross” and “winter war”. “Last act” and “Unknown soldier” even give the impression of being “p.c.” Apparently they have strode to put Wagnerian/beethoven musical priniciples to metal and apparently succeeded.

  If i would have known these fucks were racist beforehand, i wouldve never listened to them, but now i got their fucking riffs stuck in my head.

  Now, i’m old enough now and know i will never go to the darkside, but when i was a confused, disaffected, metal-loving adolescent, who knows if i would have happily swallowed this poison. I mean i used to to wear X’s to imitate my idols like Youth of Today. I would pretty much adopt the ideology of any band whose music i liked.

  Anyways, this is just one dumfucks opinion on the importance of context w/ music. And it serves as a confessional as i cut myself off from this vile shit.

  God have mercy on my soul … and SMASH FASCISM.

• Comment by dumdiddee on January 8th, 2007 at 10:29 pm:

  A new PROPAGANDHI record would serve as a great antidote right now!!

• Comment by Anthony on January 8th, 2007 at 11:34 pm:

  Dumdiddee, If you still dig hardcore punk, there is a DIY hardcore band out of Los Angeles that is pretty fucking awesome. They’re called DANGERS.(www.wearedangers.com) They had Greg MacPherson play at an event they had in 2004 called “Sink With Cali Fest”. Also, “Good Times Coming Back Again” is an awesome album. I just started reading “Killing Hope” after finishing “Diet For a New America”. Killing Hope is fueling the fire of hate I have burning for the United States page by page. William Blum is pretty good at doing that for me. He’s a great author. Anyways, Dumdiddee…check that band out if you have time.

• Comment by Anthony on January 8th, 2007 at 11:39 pm:

  Oh yea, I vote yes on new PROPAGANDHI album also!

• Comment by falcore on January 9th, 2007 at 2:20 am:

  I thought it was Carter’s administration who started or at least continued the weapon sales to Suharto that led to the massacres in East Timor. Also on a much smaller note he vetoed a Federal decrimination of Marijuana.
  For re-election purposes.

• Comment by caítlin on January 9th, 2007 at 10:48 am:

  Justin - the main A&S page is at http://auto_sol.tao.ca - it has ordering info for a hard copy and you’ll be able to read it there “over the next few months”. If you’re not in Canada, order it through AK. They have a mailing list as well but I can’t seem to see it on the page. :)

• Comment by dumdiddee on January 9th, 2007 at 11:38 am:

  Ah fuck, i figured Carter would probably have some dirt in his background, and arms sales to Suharto is shameful indeed. And how anyone could advocate laws agaisnt Mary Jane is beyond me.

  I still think he’s head and shoulders above Reagan, Bush I and II, Clinton, Van Buren and that fucking son-of-a-bitch Millard Fillmore, but alas he’s got his own serious shortcomings.

  Thanks for the band link, anthony. Always looking for new tuneage. Need it now more than ever.

  BTW: next time I’ll tell you all about the time I accidentally stuck my dick in a light socket.

• Comment by dumdiddee on January 9th, 2007 at 12:15 pm:

  KYLE: just noticed your cartoon … I like!

• Comment by Pidge on January 10th, 2007 at 7:34 am:

  Well, if anything happens in 2007, at least the good people at Chrysler are taking the planet’s future seriously.

  http://news.bbc.co.u...business/6247371.stm

  Double stab-eye attack!

• Comment by dumdiddee on January 10th, 2007 at 5:23 pm:

  Hello again gobshites!

  Speaking of Norman Finklestein, on Youtube there is a 6-part lecture he did regarding Israel and shedding lite on its geopolitical strategies.

  I’m sitting here at work, doing data-entry and learning some fascinating stuff about the mideast/antisemitism at the same time. It’s actually kind of weird, cuz even though everything he says makes perfect sense, I feel like I’m listening to some kind of forbidden evil for the simple fact that he attacks the offical U.S./israeli line. It’s amazing how deep govt. propaganda can sink its hooks in you!

  Check it here:

  http://www.youtube.c...=related&search=

  P.S. if you watch it on youtube then you won’t have to bother getting gouged buying his book by those fucking capitalist middlemen fat-cats at G7 as they kick back w/o a care in the world as the profits roll in from online downloads.

  Yukyuk yuk. Just kidding.

  Geez … tough crowd.

• Comment by jennifer on January 13th, 2007 at 5:52 pm:

  Hey, you guys, happy 2007.

  Anthony, dude, shut up and get out of the United States if everything here really, really bothers you. Be the change you fucking want! If it bothers you so much, at the very least, go out there and fucking get involved in something instead of writing angst to people on the fucking internet. Seriously. While America does indeed fucking suck, there is a lot of positive things that it has to offer - people that share your ideas (outside of the internet!), teachers that actually DO know something and are just as cynical about the States as you are, and etc. If every one of us just sat in our rooms with our computers on blog sites, listening to Propagandhi on repeat, nothing is gonna fucking happen. Seriously.

  Saddam being hung, damn. First off, who the fuck hangs anyone anymore? Secondly, Saddam’s death resulted in at least 100 other deaths. Totally fucked. Not that it was fucked to begin with. I can’t even imagine seeing the repair in Iraq happening.

  Thirdly, so I guess it’s somewhat cool that G7 moved to an mp3 store, but if they start selling pdf files of books they sell, heads will be rolling. Or my head will be rolling. If I had to read a whole book on a computer, I think my eyes would radiate out of their sockets.

  That’s all I have for you. Make 2007 a good year.
  Jennifer

• Comment by Anthony on January 13th, 2007 at 11:53 pm:

  Jennifer….you work at McDonalds don’t you. I’m listening to Propagandhi right now, and I still hate this country. I don’t see as much “positive” as you do because reality isn’t so positive. Maybe you’re parents are rich and you’re a product of your local PTA. Douche it.

• Comment by Hairhole on January 14th, 2007 at 3:27 am:

  “Anthony, dude, shut up” haha

  “Jennifer….you work at McDonalds don’t you” hahaha

  “listening to Propagandhi on repeat, nothing is gonna fucking happen. Seriously.” I disagree. For starters, I learned the wonders of audio-induced masturbation during said endeavour, among other (sexually) stimulating undertakings…

  This is like the g7 version of Rosie vs. Trump…

  Anyways, I saw a Vancouver based band ‘3 inches of blood’ on Thursday, and i got to say they ‘rocked the shit.’ I got this strange stirring in my loins that tells me their next album, due out in a few months, should also ‘rock the shit’.

  Speaking of Vancouver, they fuckin’ pummeled shit-ronto tonight. 6-1. The Leafs (and all their dink-smelling fans) suck funkin’ Donkey dong.

  On a less relevent topic, I’d like to say that Finkelstein’s a god. You should bring back his book to sell…I know I’d buy it.

  “and I miss you (g7 radioo) like the deserts miss the rain”

• Comment by jennifer on January 15th, 2007 at 10:30 am:

  Anthony, thank you, because your post did nothing but prove my point further. Have fun while you die from computer radiation from checking the internet for retorting with ‘witty’ yet ill-based generalizations far too much. Go outside, you asshat. Seriously.

  Hairhole - yeah, I’m not saying Prop’s music is useless, and it is part of the basis of which I built my political knowledge and activism… but making negative and ill-fated comments about how America sucks won’t make you any better of a person if all you do is sit around, twiddling your thumbs, and waiting for responses on an internet blog.

• Comment by caítlin on January 15th, 2007 at 2:41 pm:

  Hate though I do to interrupt this extremely worthwhile internet fray, I come bearing links;

  http://www.antislave...very/trafficking.htm
  http://www.catwinternational.org/
  http://www.childtraf...com/Content/Gallery/
  http://www.polarispr....org/polarisproject/
  http://gaatw.org
  http://www.hrw.org/women/
  http://www.poppyproject.org/

  Ever feel like you should just shut the fuck up and read some more? I do, so I’m not going to editorialise, except to say this is an extremely important issue, and if we don’t do something about it today, we’re going to have to explain ourselves tomorrow.

• Comment by gerty on January 15th, 2007 at 3:25 pm:

  haha aww. why is it on here conversations deteriorate so quickly into person jabs a people we dont know. I dont get it. With the exception of this post might I suggest that if someone posts something really “stupid” just move on don’t waste your time posting something twice as “stupid”. If it really is stupid people will notice its stupid. Just saying so because I seldom read the comments anymore. Next post I make will have some apparently elusive relevance to the blog topic. I dunno bout you guys but I love you all so lets get a move on.

• Comment by dumdiddee on January 15th, 2007 at 4:37 pm:

  i agree gerty.

  except that i try to tailor my comments, to the best of my abilities, to facillitate “intelligent” and “sophisticated” discussion but it always seems like i’m talking to myself. most of the time i’m just trying to sort my thoughts out anyway, so i’ve come to consider this blog as sort of a private diary where i need not worry about people reading my entries!!

  i wonder how Soyuz is doing in the worker’s paradise, aka the People’s Republic of China. I hear those Gulags are wonderful places to live and work.

  Remeber what George Bernard Shaw wrote after visiting the Soviet Union circa 1930: “i’ve seen the future and it works!”

  hahahaha!!! That one never gets old.

• Comment by jennifer on January 15th, 2007 at 6:18 pm:

  Actually, I think that’s true, because god knows that no one really learns anything from internet arguments. I guess if I said anything, I should have said it in a more constructive manner. Apologies for the approximate 5 minutes anyone wasted reading and responding to this (including me).

• Comment by Hairhole on January 16th, 2007 at 4:30 pm:

  oi oi punk rawkers (haha). I got a link here from the Propagandhi s(h)ite, that I think is definatly worth your autograph:

  http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Nazanin/

  “oi oi. Let’s see a fucking circle pit you little fucks. If someone fucking falls, fucking pick them up. oi oi oi.”

• Comment by Anthony on January 16th, 2007 at 10:38 pm:

  Has anyone on here read “Behold a Pale Horse” by Willam Copper? I just got done reading it and It’s really interesting but I have a feeling alot of it might have been exaggerated for the sake of keeping the reader on his/her toes. I just wanted to hear someelses thoughts on the credibility of Bill Cooper.

  P.S.
  William Blum is awesome.

• Comment by gerty on January 16th, 2007 at 10:40 pm:

  I know i said I’d stay on topic but really i’m still picking up the thread of an older topic here. I just thought I’d mention the university of Manly-toba’s e-waste recylcing program for those local yodels. Call the physical plant at the university and they’ll help yous.

• Comment by falcore on January 18th, 2007 at 3:38 am:

  Everybody might have seen this one already but I think it is a fun one to stare at

  http://nationalprior...apper&Itemid=182

  its kinda like cigarettes how each one takes 7min or something off one’s life. Each tick is taking 7min off the existence of social programs. The death of a civil society.

• Comment by caítlin on January 29th, 2007 at 2:30 am:

  Hey,
  For those of you who signed the petition, it looks like Nazanin ISN’T going to be murdered for sticking up for herself after all!
  Shame not all innocent prisoners have international petitions and Canadian members of parliament supporting them.

  Anyway, its good news! http://www.helpnazanin.com

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