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BREAKING NEWS: The "minor UK royal" in the "blackmail story" is being
stated on the web to be Viscount Linley, 46, the son of Princess
Margaret. He is 12th in line to the British throne, chairman of
Christie's UK, the international auction house, and gay. Cocaine has
also been reported to be involved.
Meanwhile the Queen's son, Harry the Soldier boy, who recently shot a
pair of rare birds on her Sandringham Estate (one of only 749 breeding
pairs left in the country) continues to deny this act of wanton
environmental vandalism.
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and, if my skin doesn't have 50 hours of sunshine on it, am likely to
get a grey cloud of depression hanging over me all winter.
remember how the UP! has been teaching you to read the news:)
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screen 11 I Am The Son of a Mill Worker - *Senator John Edwards*
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World War 111 is a Battle For Mens Minds
Fraser Takes On An American Babe :)
(who occasionally writes dirty to me :)
tuesday
Frase, between you & I, it's a scarey thought Russia & Iran butt buddies
now. Will there be a third war? Does Putan know something that none of
the officials know elsewhere in this world? Arms Treaty my ass!! All
the time they and N Korea were jerking our chain... and we were stupid
enough to buy it all. What's our world coming to? Are we all doomed?
bettyboo, michigan. USA.
> > not sure what you're referring to, girl, but the only problem i see
is america bomming iran (or israel doing it). as long as u guys get
YOUR ship back in order the world's basically fine and can sort out things.
anyway we published some time back that russia had warned israel that if
they attacked iran they would nuke it within the hour. that's what's
held the israelis back this far, id say.
for the past 50 years peace campaigners have argued that if we
westerners have nuclear bombs everyone will need them too. now it's
happening and what do the perpetrators do? threaten to nuke anyone else
who tries to get them! jeezuz am glad am not him :)
uno how world war III is a battle for mens minds? well, it sounds from
your letter like they're hyping up this iran russia thing over there
which ain't happening here AT ALL so far as i can see. so my question
is are they preparing YOU guys for an attack on iran?
wednesday
You are so on the money with it all! I wouldn't want to be Bush
either. Most American's have lost faith in him and that means the News
here too.
Thanks for helping me to understand a little more, but now tell me why
is Russia so in with Iran? What's the connection? I always thought
Russia wanted peace and everything was worked out with them. I'm not
grasping something ....
bettyboo, michigan. USA.
>> for one thing iran is on russia's border. the last thing they want
is another american invasion on their border.
everyone agrees iran is 5 years from a bomb, and that's only if they're
trying to build one.
russia is watching america insinuate its troops all over the middle east
(where a lot of oil is, apart from everything else) and iran is about
the only nation that's resisting (as a nation), the rest being reduced
to personal terrorism..
if iran wants a nuke that only makes them like us and is definitely for
defence reasons because what else will stop america coming in?
thursday
Well, so far as of yesterday, 10/17, was the first that CNN news shed
any light on it at all. Now its possible I might have missed something
on the news, but I heard this female reporter speaking of a 3rd world
war and she seemed pretty fearful, plus, she surely had no respect for
Bush boy. It sounds to me like Bush is actually ready to attack Iran
and I wonder where he is planning on getting the troops?? They are
already stretched to the max. How can this happen? Is he plain ole
stupid or what?? I heard that if there is a WW III it will go on for
decades and terrorism will be happening here as well. We will all be
gone that's for sure! Its going to take some kind of a miracle for war
not to happen. Bush seems to be willing to show the world that he won't
take any bull from any country. He won't back down. Hell, its not his
life, ya know! Of course this is just my opinion as I see it.
bettyboo, michigan. USA.
>> i don't know what CNN was saying. the UP! reported the meeting in
iran as 5 nations saying they'd back each other if either was attacked,
which suggests THEY think bush might be mad enuff. more likely israel
of course.
so how did cnn report that summit?
american reporters may have finally seen thru bush but that don't mean
they've yet understood that other peoples have other priorities, and
that attacking america is just about the last thing on their mind. or
would be if america didn't continue barging forwards (ask the muslims).
friday
OK, now I see, and it stands to reason. Do you really believe that Iran
is only 5 years away from building a bomb?
> > that's what the IAEA (or wotever it is) sez. and most of the
scientists not employed by bush. and nobody's proved they're even
TRYING to build one though i reckon they are, and i think it's a
perfectly sane thing to do on their part. it's what i would do if i had
yankee troops to the southwest in iraq, yankee troops to the east in
afghanistan, yankee arms to the south in israel (which just bommed syria
to the west) and etc.
If Iran did have one... wouldn't you think that they would use it?
> >iran hasn't attacked another nation in izzit a thousand years? why
would they want to attack ANYONE? in the past century america and
germany are the only nations who've made a habit of attacking other
nations right?
I mean look at terrorism now, and how they believe. Why would they stop
there and not threaten all of us, meaning Every country? Hey, I can't
see myself wearing the buka (or however you spell it), and hiding my
virgin self... hell, no more fun!
> > it scares me when i hear you think like this. why in god's name
would ANYONE want to attack america when it's instant death for them?
and pleeeease tell me why they'd want to attack EVERY country?! utterly
amazing that you could have this picture of what is the cradle of modern
civilisation ruled by spiritual men (certainly compared to american
politicians wouldn't u say?). please explain cos i just can't grok
where you're coming from. do u think they're all "crazy mullahs" who
want to make us all live under sharia law? honestly is that it? do u
think they'd rather be annihilated than allow you to walk around without
a burkah? hey i must put this in the UP! "WW111 will be a battle for
mens' minds". looks like they're definitely winning in america :)
I guess I am just really afraid now. If Bush was smart he would have
done something more to produce oil here in the USA. That's what he
should have been doing a long time ago.
Thank you Frase for talking with me about this... so much I don't know
and you have really helped me. I love ya guy!!!
bettyboo, michigan. USA.
friday
You know, I DO believe Bush is Mad enough! One of those reporters made
a sort of hint as to that anyhow. I do believe that Bush will go to any
means to stand up for America. That's his job and anything less would
make him a pussy. Some of these muslims really scare me though, and we
do have quite a few here near Detroit & surrounding areas. Not all
appear to be terrorist though. Of course how would we really know,
hey? They aren't just going to show it out & out. Hell my next door
neighbor could be a terrorist for all I know, ya know.
>> relax, girl :) the absolutely worst thing that MIGHT happen is that
america/israel will do targeted nuke hits on iran. this will stir up a
ghastly mess (apart from being utterly immoral of course! which won't
improve our cultural milieu) followed by a spread of unrest and civil
wars around the middle east over the next decade. now what's so
worrying about that? nobody's gonna bomb YOU, let alone make u give up
sex :) you and i will be shagging in heaven before the blow-back hits
on that level.
saturday
> > oh am sorry girl i wasn't being hostile. we can change your name or
not do it. it's just such an insight into how americans' minds are
constantly being 'groomed' - for war and outrage etc.
OK, I just read what you said about Iran. I missed this last email
last night. I can tell you're gonna make mincemeat outta me for
discussing this issue with you in the UP. Hell, all I wanted was
someone to break it down for me to understand some of this political
crap. I'm not trying to get in a shouting match with you Frase. I just
wanted your help in clarifying what I don't have much knowledge in.
> > neither am i girl it's the LAST thing on my mind. what is good about
it is how open you are to hearing new info - almost like you're starved
of it, which is the case of course. what i like about it is that you're
asking and you're listening and you're adapting your opinion. it's GOOD.
*You said:* iran hasn't attacked another nation in izzit a thousand
years? why would they want to attack ANYONE? Well maybe its because
they never had nukes before.
>>yeah but they coulda attacked afghanistan or whatever that didn't
need nukes. i just want u to think why they or anyone would WANT to
attack some other country?
Maybe they will now just want to show that they rule... who knows?
> > show that they rule? but they'd be nuclear dust within 5 minutes and
they know that perfectly well right? Not me, that's for sure! If Iran
has a nuclear weapon, and *IF* they *EVER* achieve it that threat
becomes real!
> > they ALSO have to develop a rocket to carry it of course. and then
they have to develop a rocket that gets past star war defences. and
then it has to be accurate enuff not to land in a mississippi swamp
etc. it's actually quite a ridiculous notion once u go into it. It
would be suicide to go to war with Iran,
> > bigger suicide for iran to go for america, no? but Bush let that WW
III thingie drop in his speech here yesterday so who knows what he'll
do. In my opinion they are a very dangerous country now. Me thinks
Russia & Iran are using each other to get what they want, wouldn't you
say so?
> > what do they WANT? i just don't gettit. please explain. if russia
just wants iran to have a nuke they could surely just lend them a few,
no? *Than you said:* in the past century america and germany are the
only nations who've made a habit of attacking other nations right? That
stands correct - even if it was before my time... well, almost anyhow.
> > i just added germany to be fair. it's actually america america
america with britain once in a while **
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* And:* why would anyone want to attack america when it's instant death
for them? OK, you got me there, but wouldn't it mostly be because of
Religious hatred? Like you, I repeat only what I've heard....
> > religious hatred, now we're getting deeper into subconscious fears.
so u imagine some kind of national suicide bombing where the whole of
iran goes up in dust and all for getting a single nuke through into
america and blowing up part of minniapolis right?
Yes I have this picture in my mind that Iran has a bunch of heathens and
care nothing about a person's life and it doesn't matter even if its a
child! That's what I see in my mind when I hear of a human being
strapped with bombs on their body and ready to die, and for the sake of
what? You call that SPIRITUAL .
> >well, they're certainly not in it just for the money right? or the
glory? or for a record deal? that's sorta 'spiritual' isn't it? they
choose to die for some Purpose greater than themselves. that's surely
an attempt at social service, albeit horrific of course.
As I said before, I am not a politician. I'm just a woman who hears the
news and believes only part of it,
> > which is the precise value of this conversation! my best friend just
returned from america 3 days ago and laments how nice and lovely and
friendly americans are but how they've been groomed by their government
into a terrifyingly dangerous ignorance. he did point out something i'd
never thought of before. it's not so much the slanted lying information
but, in his case, the LACK of ANY information. they don't buy a
national newspaper they get the local one but that's mostly for tv and
sales with 3 inches of "foreign news". like who we slaughtered today.
but I DO fear people who don't want to live & let live. You don't think
for one minute that these terrorist only believe in their law?
> > oh it's the sharia law thing izzit? u think they dream about taking
over america and imposing a sharia regime?! i once had a chicago
girlfriend who, in her youth, used to dream that the Commies had landed
and were marching towards chicago and they'd be looking for her under
her bed. she had real nightmares about this. looking back it's so off
the mark as to be utterly ridiculous. america coulda wiped out russia
in half an hour so there was never any threat. and now u got it about
iran which ain't even got one bomb yet. scary. yes, of course they may
dream of a muslim planet but gays dream of a gay planet i spose. Other
than *OIL *isn't this a true fact? Yeah, I think the Muslim men would
rather rule it all than see a woman show any skin. I hope all Muslim
women defy these old rules that are outdated.
OK go ahead put this all in the UP. I guess you need new material anyhow.
bettyboo, michigan. USA.
> > i am absolutely ready NOT to print it. it just hit me in the
middle. and it wasn't against YOU, but i thought it DID show the level
of fear and ignorance that's been inculcated into american minds even
when they try to think independently there's just almost no access to
true information. i appreciate and respect that you WERE asking genuine
questions with a REAL wish to understand more. honest :)
Ah ha well done my dear Frase. Hell, you were even gentle with me, ...
hmmmm I talk dirty to you, er? Maybe some day we need to do more than
talk! I mean at our age, can we? WHOOOOOPIE!! Thank you for hiding me
too.
up!
Zogby: Majority Favor Strikes on Iran
52% of likely voters would support a U.S. military strike to prevent
Iran from building a nuclear weapon, and 53% believe it is likely that
the U.S. will be involved in a military strike against Iran before the
next presidential election, a new Zogby America telephone poll shows.
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BUDDHA, AFTER ALL, WAS THE FIRST DROP OUT
'The Politics of Ecstasy'
Professor to Fugitive Philosopher
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*/When I arrived in prison, I was given psychological tests used to
assign inmates to appropriate work details.. Among the tests was the
'Leary Interpersonal Behaviour Test' - the test I'd developed when at
Kaiser University. What a stroke of luck! Or grace! I answered the
items so as to portray myself as a very conforming, conventional person
with a great interest in forestry and gardening. I was hoping to get
into some kind of low security prison.
It worked! /**/I was sent to the Californian Men's Colony, a minimum
security prison near San Luis Obispo where /**/I was assigned to work as
a gardener.
On September 12, 1970, I escaped from prison by shimmying along a cable
that stretched to a phone pole outside the prison wall. The Weathermen*
took me to a safe house where Rosemary was waiting. For a fee paid by
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, the Weathermen promised to smuggle us
out of the country to Europe.
The feeling that I had made a nonviolent escape was a sense of
tremendous exaltation and humour and joy. I laughed and laughed and
laughed, thinking about what the guards were doing now! They were going
to discover my absence, and then they'd phone Sacramento. Heads would
be rolling. The bureaucracy would be in a stew.
This kept me laughing for two or three weeks. I felt it had been a very
successful piece of performance art. Providing an example, a model, of
how to deal with the criminal-justice system and the police
bureaucracies. Nonviolent theatre. We all thought that this was a
great joke - one never appreciated by law-enforcement.
I imagined being recognised and hearing the clink of handcuffs. They
would be expecting me to paste on a mustache. Surveillance of
international flights was at an all time high. Could I really get by
sharp-eyed security guards checking each face for hijackers - and
fugitive philosophers?
/**/"They won't be looking for a balding businessman" Kelly Chuckled.
"Get ready for the barber. Get your shirt off and sit." She trimmed my
hair into an American butch, snipping close to the scalp at the top of
my head. "Now to shave the top" she grinned as she squirted lather on
my head and draped it in a hot rug./*
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*/A balding stranger peered out of the mirror at me. I gasped at how
I'd changed. I began to feel a little reassured. Rosemary laughed deeply.
Holding a new passport a bland-looking, middle-aged man walked through
the metal detector onto the TWA flight to Paris. Across the aisle I
caught the eye of a pleasant-looking young woman featuring a bubble
perm, and winked.
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during the last american presidential american
i heartily took on the voices insisting that
there was no difference between gore and bush.
well, brothers and sisters, al gore would NOT have taken us into Iraq.
now i'm hearing the weasel voices again.
well, let me be clear: i shall be supporting hillary clinton
because she is BETTER than any republican, period.
but i beg you to read this speech by Senator John Edwards
who could make a far better president -
I Am The Son of a Mill Worker*
Senator John Edwards*
@ St. Anselm's College, Manchester, New Hampshire, October 29, 2007
PLEEASE PLEEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR STRAIGHTER FRIENDS!
" I run for president for my father who worked in a mill his entire life
and never got to go to college the way I did.
I run for president for all those who worked in that mill with my father.
I run for president for all those who lost their jobs when that mill was
shut down.
I run for president for all the women who have come up to Elizabeth and
me and told us the like Elizabeth they had breast cancer -- but unlike
Elizabeth they did not have health care.
I run for president for twenty generations of Americans who made sure
that their children had a better life than they did."
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Many of you know that I am the son of a mill worker -- that I rose from
modest means and have been blessed in so many ways in life. Elizabeth
and I have so much to be grateful for.
And all of you know about some of the challenges we have faced in my
family. But there came a time, a few months ago, when Elizabeth and I
had to decide, in the quiet of a hospital room, after many hours of
tests and getting pretty bad news -- what we were going to do with our
lives.
And we made our decision. That we were not going to go quietly into the
night -- that we were going to stand and fight for what we believe in.
As Elizabeth and I have campaigned across America, I've come to a better
understanding of what that decision really meant -- and why we made it.
Earlier this year, I spoke at Riverside Church in New York, where, forty
years ago, Martin Luther King gave a historic speech. I talked about
that speech then, and I want to talk about it today. Dr. King was
tormented by the way he had kept silent for two years about the Vietnam
War.
He was told that if he spoke out he would hurt the civil rights movement
and all that he had worked for -- but he could not take it any more --
instead of decrying the silence of others -- he spoke the truth about
himself.
"Over the past two years" he said, "I have moved to break the betrayal
of my own silence and speak from the burning of my own heart."
I am not holier than thou. I am not perfect by any means. But there are
events in life that you learn from, and which remind you what this is
really all about. Maybe I have been freed from the system and the fear
that holds back politicians because I have learned there are much more
important things in life than winning elections at the cost of selling
your soul.
Especially right now, when our country requires so much more of us, and
needs to hear the truth from its leaders.
And, although I have spent my entire life taking on the big powerful
interests and winning -- which is why I have never taken a dime from
Washington lobbyists or political action committees -- I too have been
guilty of my own silence -- but no more.
It's time to tell the truth. And the truth is the system in Washington
is corrupt. It is rigged by the powerful special interests to benefit
they very few at the expense of the many. And as a result, the American
people have lost faith in our broken system in Washington, and believe
it no longer works for ordinary Americans. They're right.
As I look across the political landscape of both parties today -- what I
see are politicians too afraid to tell the truth -- good people caught
in a bad system that overwhelms their good intentions and requires them
to chase millions of dollars in campaign contributions in order to
perpetuate their careers and continue their climb to higher office.
This presidential campaign is a perfect example of how our politics is
awash with money. I have raised more money up to this point than any
Democratic candidate raised last time in the presidential campaign --
$30 million. And, I did it without taking a dime from any Washington
lobbyist or any special interest PAC.
I saw the chase for campaign money at any cost by the frontrunner in
this race -- and I did not join it -- because the cost to our nation and
our children is not worth the hollow victory of any candidate. Being
called president while powerful interests really run things is not the
same as being free to lead this nation as president of a government of
the people, by the people, and for the people. If protecting the current
established structure in Washington is in your interest, then I am not
your candidate. I ran for president four years ago -- yes, in part out
of personal ambition -- but also with a deep desire to stand for working
people like my father and mother -- who no matter how hard things were
for our family, always worked even harder to make things better for us.
But the more Elizabeth and I campaigned this year, the more we talked to
the American people, the more we met people just like my father, and
hard working people like James Lowe. James is a decent and honest man
who had to live for 50 years with no voice in the richest country in the
world because he didn't have health care. The more people like him that
I met, the more I realized something much bigger was stirring in the
American people. And it has stirred in each of us for far too long.
It is incredible what America has accomplished. Because no matter what
extraordinary challenges we have been faced with, we did exactly what
America has always done in our history -- we rose to the challenge.
And, now, as I travel across America and listen to people, I hear real
concern about what's going on. For the first time in our nation's
history, people are worried that we're going to be the first generation
of Americans not to pass on a better life to our children.
And it's not the fault of the American people. The American people have
not changed. The American people are still the strong, courageous people
they have always been. The problem is what our government has become.
And, it is up to us to do something about it.
Because Washington may not see it, but we are facing a moral crisis as
great as any that has ever challenged us. And, it is this test -- this
moral test -- that I have come to understand is at the heart of this
campaign.
It is not an accident that the government of the United States cannot
function on behalf of its people, because it is no longer our people's
government -- and we the people know it.
This corruption did not begin yesterday -- and it did not even begin
with George Bush -- it has been building for decades -- until it now
threatens literally the life of our democracy.
While the American people personally rose to the occasion with an
enormous outpouring of support and donations to both the victims of
Katrina and 9/11 -- we all saw our government's neglect. And we saw
greed and incompetence at work. Out of more than 700 contracts valued at
$500,000 or greater, at least half were given without full competition
or, according to news sources, with vague or open ended terms, and many
of these contracts went to companies with deep political connections
such as a subsidiary of Haliburton, Bechtel Corp., and AshBritt Inc.
And in Iraq -- while our nation's brave sons and daughters put their
lives on the line for our country -- we now have mercenaries under their
own law while their bosses sit at home raking in millions.
We have squandered millions on building Olympic size swimming pools and
buildings that have never been used. We have weapons and ammunition
unaccounted for that may now be being used against our own soldiers. We
literally have billions wasted or misspent -- while our troops and their
families continue to sacrifice.
It goes on every minute of every day.
Corporate executives at United Airlines and US Airways receive millions
in compensation for taking their companies into bankruptcy, while their
employees are forced to take cuts in pay.
Companies like Wal-Mart lobby against inspecting containers entering our
nation's ports, even though expert after expert agrees that the
likeliest way for a dirty bomb to enter the United States is through a
container, because they believe their profits are more important than
our safety. What has become of America when America's largest company
lobbies against protecting America?
Trade deals cost of millions of jobs. What do we get in return? Millions
of dangerous Chinese toys in our children's cribs laden with lead. This
is the price we are made to pay when trade agreements are decided based
on how much they pad the profits for multinational corporations instead
of what is best for America's workers or the safety of America's consumers.
We have even gotten to the point where our children's safety is
potentially at risk because nearly half of the apple juice consumed by
our children comes from apples grown in China. And Americans are kept in
the dark because the corporate lobbyists have pushed back country of
origin labeling laws again and again.
This is not the America I believe in.
The hubris of greed knows no bounds. Days after the homeland security
bill passed, staffers from the homeland security department resigned and
became homeland security consultants trying to cash in. And, where was
the outrage? There was none, because that's how it works in Washington
now. It is not a Republican revolving door or a Democratic revolving
door -- it is just the way it's done.
Someone called it a government reconnaissance mission to figure out how
to get rich when you leave the government.
Recently, I was dismayed to see headlines in the Wall Street Journal
stating that Senate Democrats were backing down to lobbyists for hedge
funds who have opposed efforts to make millionaire and billionaire hedge
fund managers pay the same tax rate as every hard-working American. Now,
tax loopholes the wealthy hedge fund managers do not need or deserve are
not going to be closed, all because Democrats -- our party -- wanted
their campaign money.
Senator Clinton's road to the middle class takes a major detour right
through the deep canyon of corporate lobbyists and the hidden bidding of
K Street in Washington -- and history tells us that when that bus stops
there it is the middle class that loses.
When I asked Hillary Clinton to join me in not taking money from
Washington lobbyists -- she refused. Not only did she say that she would
continue to take their money, she defended them.
Today Hillary Clinton has taken more money from Washington lobbyists
than any candidate from either party -- more money than any Republican
candidate.
She has taken more money from the defense industry than any other
candidate from either party as well.
She took more money from Wall Street last quarter than Rudy Giuliani,
Mitt Romney, and Barack Obama combined.
The long slow slide of our democracy into the corporate abyss continues
unabated regardless of party, regardless of the best interests of America.
We have a duty -- a duty to end this.
I believe you cannot be for change and take money from the lobbyists who
prevent change. You cannot take on the entrenched interests in
Washington if you choose to defend the broken system. It will not work.
And I believe that, if Americans have a choice, any candidate who takes
their money -- Democrat or Republican -- will lose this election.
For us to continue down this path all we have to do is suspend all that
we believe in. As Democrats, we continue down this path only if we
believe the party of the people is no more.
As Americans, we continue down this path only if we fail to heed
Lincoln's warning to us all.
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected," he asked,
"if it ever reaches us it must spring up amongst us. It can not come
from abroad. If destruction be our lot -- we must ourselves be its
author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all
time or die by suicide."
America lives because 20 generations have honored the one moral
commandment that makes us Americans.
To give our children a better future than we received.
I stand here today the son of Wallace and Bobbie Edwards. The father of
Wade, Cate, Emma Claire and Jack -- and I know, as well as you, that we
must not be the first generation that fails to live up to our moral
challenge and keep the promise of America.
That would be an abomination.
There is a dream that is America. It is what makes us American. And I
will not stand by while that dream is at risk.
I am not perfect -- far from it -- but I do understand that this is not
a political issue -- it is the moral test of our generation.
Our nation's founders knew that this moment would come -- that at some
point the power of greed and its influence over officials in our
government might strain and threaten the very America they hoped would
last as an ideal in the minds of all people, and as a beacon of hope for
all time.
That is why they made the people sovereign. And this is why it is your
responsibility to redeem the promise of America for our children and
their future.
It will not be easy -- sacrifice will be required of us -- but it was
never easy for our ancestors, and their sacrifices were far greater than
any that will fall on our shoulders.
Yet, the responsibility is ours.
We, you and I, are the guardians of what America is and what it will be.
The choice is ours.
Down one path, we trade corporate Democrats for corporate Republicans;
our cronies for their cronies; one political dynasty for another
dynasty; and all we are left with is a Democratic version of the
Republican corruption machine.
It is the easier path. It is the path of the status quo. But, it is a
path that perpetuates a corrupt system that has not only failed to
deliver the change the American people demand, but has divided America
into two -- one America for the very greedy, and one America for
everybody else.
And it is that divided America -- the direct result of this corrupt
system -- which may very well lead to the suicide Lincoln warned us of
-- the poison that continues to seep into our system while none notice.
Or we can choose a different path. The path that generations of
Americans command us to take. And be the guardians that kept the faith.
I run for president for my father who worked in a mill his entire life
and never got to go to college the way I did.
I run for president for all those who worked in that mill with my father.
I run for president for all those who lost their jobs when that mill was
shut down.
I run for president for all the women who have come up to Elizabeth and
me and told us the like Elizabeth they had breast cancer -- but unlike
Elizabeth they did not have health care.
I run for president for twenty generations of Americans who made sure
that their children had a better life than they did.
As Americans we are blessed -- for our ancestors are not dead, they
occupy the corridors of our conscience. And, as long we keep the faith
-- they live. And so too the America of idealism and hope that was their
gift to us.
I carry the promise of America in my heart, where my parents placed it.
Like them, like you, I believe in people, hard work, and the sacred
obligation of each generation to the next.
This is our time now. It falls to us to redeem our democracy, reclaim
our government and relight the promise of America for our children.
Let us blaze a new path together, grounded in the values from which
America was forged, still reaching toward the greatness of our ideals.
We can do it. We can cast aside the bankrupt ways of Washington and
replace them with the timeless values of the American people. We can
liberate our government from the shackles of corporate money that bind
it to corporate will, and restore the voices of our people to its halls.
This is the cause of my life. This is the cause of our time. Join me.
Together, we cannot fail.
We will keep faith with those who have gone before us, strong and proud
in the knowledge that we too rose up to guard the promise of America in
our day, and that, because we did, America's best days still lie ahead.
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/Sunlight May Halve Risk of Advanced Breast Cancer
A research team from the Northern California Cancer Center, the
University of Southern California, and Wake Forest University School of
Medicine has found that increased exposure to sunlight - which increases
levels of vitamin D in the body - may decrease the risk of advanced
breast cancer.
In a study reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology, the
researchers found that women with high sun exposure had half the risk of
developing advanced breast cancer, which is cancer that has spread
beyond the breast, compared to women with low sun exposure. These
findings were observed only for women with naturally light skin color.
The study defined high sun exposure as having dark skin on the forehead,
an area that is usually exposed to sunlight.
The scientists used a portable reflectometer to measure skin colour on
the underarm, an area that is usually not directly exposed to sunlight.
Based on these measurements, they classified the women as having light,
medium or dark natural skin color. Researchers then compared sun
exposure between women with breast cancer and those without breast
cancer. Sun exposure was measured as the difference in skin colour
between the underarm and the forehead.
In women with naturally light skin pigmentation, the group without
breast cancer had significantly more sun exposure than the group with
breast cancer. The fact that this difference occurred only in one group
suggests that the effect was due to differences in vitamin D production
and wasn't just because the women were sick and unable to go outdoors.
In addition, the effect held true regardless of whether the cancer was
diagnosed in the summer or in the winter. The difference was seen only
in women with advanced disease, suggesting that vitamin D may be
important in slowing the growth of breast cancer cells.
"We believe that sunlight helps to reduce women's risk of breast cancer
because the body manufactures the active form of vitamin D from exposure
to sunlight," said Esther John, Ph.D., lead researcher on the study from
the Northern California Cancer Center. "It is possible that these
effects were observed only among light- skinned women because sun
exposure produces less vitamin D among women with naturally darker
pigmentation."
These new findings about breast cancer risk and sun exposure based on
skin color measurements are consistent with previous research by John
and colleagues that had shown that women who reported frequent sun
exposure had a lower risk of developing breast cancer than women with
infrequent sun exposure.
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although, probably like you, i'd been hearing rumours of creeping
fascism in america for some years now, and been uneasily aware of its
lesser fractals here in europe, i'd dismissed it as a side issue
bye-product to everything else that's happening. _UNTIL NOW_.
but WHEN I LISTENED TO THE VIDEO BELOW i realised i'd been mis-picturing
fascism as some kinda public political thing, with announcements on tv
and maybe soldiers marching. but that's not how the Fascist Blueprint
works...
it creeps in like a thief in the night until it's too late to resist.
it's targeted much more (and deliberately so) _/personal/_/ly./...
The Fascist Blueprint
*
1. American Tears*
*Talk by Naomi Wolf on her current/ /**/'The End of America'/ **tour /*
October 11, 2007
"A network of criminal behavior and intention
is catching up more and more mainstream citizens in its grasp"
Fascism doesn't arrive overnight... it isn't announced... the Fascist
Blueprint is applied gradually... "free"elections may even continue...
but citizens are deliberately made fearful by unpredictable authority
violence... and they're made fearful of being on "The Lists". Such a
blueprint means we are now living in a "closing democracy" BUT WE CAN,
WE MUST, AND WE WILL BUST IT WIDE OPEN AGAIN!
I wish people would stop breaking into tears when they talk to me these
days.
I am traveling across the country at the moment - Colorado to California
- speaking to groups of Americans from all walks of life about the
assault on liberty and the 10 steps now underway to a violently closed
society.
The good news is that Americans are already awake: I thought there would
be resistance to or disbelief at my message of gathering darkness - but
I am finding crowds of people who don't need me to tell them to worry;
they are already scared, already alert to the danger, and entirely
prepared to hear what the big picture might look like. To my great
relief, Americans are smart and brave and they are unflinching in their
readiness to hear the worst and take action. And they love their country.
But I can't stand the stories I am hearing. I can't stand to open my
email these days. And wherever I go, it seems, at least once a day,
someone very strong starts to cry while they are speaking.
In Boulder, 2 days ago, a rosy-cheeked thirtysomething mother of two
small children, in soft yoga velours, started to tear up when she said
to me: "I want to take action but I am so scared. I look at my kids and
I am scared. How do you deal with fear? Is it safer for them if I act or
stay quiet? I don't want to get on a list."
In Washington D.C., before that, a beefy, handsome civil servant, a
government department head - probably a Republican - confides in a
lowered voice that he is scared to sign the new ID requirement for all
government employees, that exposes all his most personal information to
the State - but he is scared not to sign it: "If I don't, I lose my job,
my house. It's like the German National ID card".
This morning in Denver I talked for almost an hour to a brave,
much-decorated high-level military man who is not only on the watch list
for his criticism of the administration - his family is now on the
list. His elderly mother is on the list. His teenage son is on the
list. He has flown many dangerous combat missions over the course of
his military career, but his voice cracks when he talks about the
possibility that he is exposing his children to harassment.
*** Jim Spencer, a former columnist for the Denver Post who has been
critical of the Bush administration, told me today that I could use his
name: he is on the watch list. *** An attorney contacts me to say that
she told her colleagues at the Justice Department not to torture a
detainee; she says she then faced a criminal investigation, a
professional referral, saw her emails deleted - and now she is on the
watch list. *** I was told last night that a leader of Code Pink, the
anti-war women's action group, was refused entry to Canada. *** I hear
from a tech guy who works for the airlines - again, probably a
Republican - that once you are on the list you never get off. ***
Someone else says that his friend opened his luggage to find a letter
from the TSA saying that they did not appreciate his reading material.
*** Before I go into the security lines, I find myself editing my
possessions.
>> for the horrible experience of a young-ish brit tourist in america,
read Polly's Scary Personal Tale below, and shudder.
In New York's LaGuardia, I reluctantly found myself putting a hardcover
copy of Tara McKelvey's excellent Monstering, an expose of CIA
interrogation practices, in a garbage can before I get in the security
line; it is based on classified information. This morning at my hotel,
before going to the airport, I threw away a very nice black T-shirt that
said "We Will Not be Silenced" - with an Arabic translation - that
someone had given me, along with a copy of poems written by detainees at
Guantanamo.
In my America citizens are not scared to get in line at the airport. In
my America, we will not be silenced.
More times than I can count, courageous and confident men who are
telling me about speaking up, but who are risking what they see as the
possible loss of job, home or the ability to pay for grown kids'
schooling, start to choke up. Yesterday a woman in one gathering
started to cry simply while talking about the degradation of her beloved
country.
And always the questions: what do we do?
It is clear from this inundation of personal stories of abuse and
retribution against ordinary Americans that a network of criminal
behavior and intention is catching up more and more mainstream citizens
in its grasp.
>> see Polly's Scary Personal Tale below.
It is clear that this is not democracy as usual - or even the corruption
of democracy as usual. It is clear that we will need more drastic
action than emails to Congress.
The people I am hearing from are conservatives and independents as well
as progressives. The cardinal rule of a closing or closed society is
that your alignment with the regime offers no protection; in a true
police state no one is safe.
I read the news daily in a state of something like walking shock:
7 soldiers wrote op-eds critical of the war in The New York Times; 3 are
dead, one shot in the head.
A female soldier who was about to become a whistleblower, possibly about
abuses involving taxpayers' money: shot in the head.
Pat Tillman, who was contemplating coming forward in a critique of the
war: shot in the head.
Donald Vance, a contractor himself, who blew the whistle on
irregularities involving arms sales in Iraq - taken hostage FROM the
U.S. Embassy BY U.S. soldiers and kept without recourse to a lawyer in a
U.S. held-prison, abused and terrified for weeks - and scared to talk
once he got home.
Another whistleblower in Iraq, as reported in Vanity Fair: held in a
trailer all night by armed contractors before being ejected from the
country.
Last week contractors, immune from the rule of law, butchered 17 Iraqi
civilians in cold blood. Congress mildly objected - and contractors
today butcher two more innocent civilian Iraqi ladies - in cold blood.
Is it clear yet that violent retribution, torture or maybe worse, seems
to go right up this chain of command?
Is it clear yet that these people are capable of anything?
Is it obvious yet that criminals are at the helm of the nation and need
to be not only ousted but held accountable for their crimes?
Is it treason yet?
> > you've been reading this in the UP! for several year now, remember.
This is an open invitation to honorable patriots on the Right and in the
center to join this movement to restore the rule of law and confront
this horror: this is not conservatism, it is a series of crimes against
the nation and against the very essence of America. Join us, we need
you <http://www.americanfreedomcampaign.org/>.
This movement must transcend partisan lines. The power of individual
conscience is profound when people start to wake up.
* A judge today ruled that the U.S. can't just ship prisoners out of
Guantanamo to be tortured at will - she said No.
* The Center for Constitutional Rights is about to file a civil
lawsuit -- against Blackwater
<http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101707C.shtml>: they are saying No.
* Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey said No: he told
colleagues that they would be ashamed when the world learned about
the Administration's warrantless wiretapping.
In Germany, according to historian Richard Evans, in 1931-1932, if
enough Germans of conscience had begun to say No - history would have
had an entirely different outcome.
If we go any further down this road the tears will be those of
conservatives as well as progressives. They will be American tears.
The time for weeping has to stop; the time for confronting must begin.
*Talk by Naomi Wolf - The End of America* (47 mins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc
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The Fascist Blueprint
2. Polly's Scary Personal Tale
"I shouldn't have been stripped of all my rights like that"
"Until you experience these things personally you cannot realise the
impact of their truth"
It would be hard to imagine anyone less politically active than Polly.
I've known her since the early rave scene when she was a young,
blissed-out raver who sometimes felt she was on a divine Mission in the
nicest possible way :) Indeed I've been critical of ravers like her who
don't even follow the news.
It was supposed to be a dream come true, a 21^st century fairytale. I
was escaping the tyranny of my non-stop routine as a working mother and
going to the land of the free for the first time. I've hardly travelled
at all, and to be going to America was tremendously exciting, meeting
some of my heroes, and spending what I imagined would be two blissful
weeks in the company of a boy I had met on MySpace. A boy I found so
stunningly beautiful he made my heart flip and my stomach spin like no
other.
At the passport counter, the guy joked with me, "Are you going to pick
up cowboys?" I was actually. Obviously, speaking at the book festival
and getting my work known in the USA was important too. But that wasn't
what was making my heart sing. It was the thought of meeting all the
amazing writers I had heard so much about, and connected with over the
internet, some of the most conscious people on the planet, and spending
a weekend with hundreds of people on the same wavelength as me.
He asked me to take a ticket and go to immigration, which I did
confidently. The angels are with me, I am very protected, I felt sure
it would all be fine. The woman dealing with me was immediately hostile
and aggressive in her tone, and dare I say it, straight out of a US cop
show -- Cojbasic, her name badge read. I think she was a lizard too,
her eyes kept rolling back in her head. They took my bags for
searching, and while I was waiting I did some stretching -- I had been
sitting on a plane for eight hours. A woman barked at me, "Don't do
your yoga in here, this is a place of business." I wasn't doing
headstands or anything, just simple side stretches. "I'm just
stretching." I replied. "Do you understand me?" she asked menacingly.
I did. These people were the real deal. Proper fascists. There was a
guy from Romania and a woman from Norway also being held. "The land of
the free!" I said. They didn't look amused.
She took me in for questioning, if you can call it that. She said she
didn't believe I had anywhere to stay, although I could have proved it
if she had let me. She said the $200 dollars I had wasn't enough to
live on, although I could have got more with my cash card if they'd let
me. There were plenty of ways I could have proved my credentials: one
or two quick phone calls would have done it, but they weren't interested
in proving my innocence. The supervisor kept saying that the burden of
proof was on me, yet every time I tried to open my mouth to defend
myself they would shut me up. They kept threatening me with jail and
they meant it. If I had spoken up for myself and been anything but
compliant, if I had said how utterly wrong their behaviour towards me
was, I am positive they would have had no qualms about locking me up.
They asked me the most outrageous questions: about my sex life, if I was
a member of a cult, what my ex-husband thought about me going off to
meet another man, if I had ever been under psychiatric supervision, if I
abused my children. They would ask me these sort of questions over and
over, rather than any real attempts to listen to the truth of my
situation. If I suggested that maybe the question was irrelevant, or
was unable to answer in simple yes and no terms, they barked "refusal to
answer" at me, like it was a punishable offence. The supervisor asked
me over and over again how else I made my income apart from writing. I
explained that I am a well-established and well-respected writer who
makes money from consultations, workshops and magazine articles as well
as touring internationally, but they didn't want to acknowledge that. I
kept testifying to the kindness of my ex-husband and my friends both in
the UK and the US, but they wouldn't have any of it: why would a friend
pay for your plane ticket, it didn't add up, they said. Why would your
ex-husband still support you if you were the type to go gallivanting off
after cowboys? Why would a boy in America have you to stay without
knowing you or expecting anything in return?
The official name on my passport is Polly Magic. I try to live my life
through the power of love, and attest to the magic that this creates in
the world. This incident has made me all the more appreciative of the
people around me who value me for this, who celebrate my unconventional
views and hold them up as something to aspire to. Indeed, I am so
surrounded by acceptance nowadays, I had forgotten what it was like to
be seen as hostile. I believe the immigration people didn't like my
name, they didn't like my tattoos, they didn't like my sparkly trainers
and gold nail varnish; they were threatened by the high and pure love
vibration I was omitting as I stepped off the plane, excited at a new
chapter of my life opening before me. It is not an energy they are
familiar with. I believe the oppression and restrictions placed on
people by the American authorities is at a level equal to that of
Hitler's Germany. It was something I understood conceptually before,
because of events like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, but until you
experience these things personally you cannot realise the impact of
their truth. I was coming to their country with nothing but love in my
heart, coming to spread my message of hope and change and the brighter
future I see blossoming around us. I was treated like a criminal and
verbally abused. When Cojbasic tried to take my fingerprints my hands
were sweaty. "Relax!" she scolded. "Relax or I'll break your fingers.
If we can't take your fingerprints you'll go to jail." This was in the
presence of another officer, who made no comment, and took this as
perfectly acceptable. His ornate forearm tattoo read "God Bless America."
In my bag they found chocolate bars containing hemp seeds. I had not
thought it was illegal to bring hemp into the USA. So now they had
something to pin on me. He tested a bar and brought it to me claiming
it tested positive for narcotics, which it clearly doesn't. I think he
expected me to admit I was a dope dealer, he kept asking me the last
time I smoked marijuana. They said they were going to fine me $5000
dollars. Then suddenly it was $500 dollars which I had to pay then and
there. They frogmarched me to a cashpoint and made me withdraw the
money, although when I'd offered to do this earlier to prove I had
funds, they said that was not something they would do. Then the only
cash available was in pounds sterling, so they let me go without paying
anyway. I had to sign a form, but I questioned which bars they had
taken because not all of them contained hemp, only a few. He snatched
the form away from me, saying, "OK, refusal to sign." The whole thing
was completely inconsistent and nonsensical.
> > see 6 below.
I asked their names for my records and they refused to give them to me.
They took my credit cards and didn't allow me any phone calls. They
demanded passwords to my internet accounts, they opened my computer and
went into my private documents. Is this allowed?
> > probably not (yet) without sufficient proof, but the point is to
scare you so u no longer dare demand your 'rights.'
And if it is allowed, why? And what was the point, considering if
they'd checked me out at all, they would have discovered me to be bona
fide? OK, yes I was stupid to take the chocolate in my case. But that
was really the only thing I did wrong, and on the form they gave me it
says, "In return for this promise, US Customs has permitted entry into
the US without further detention of any conveyance or baggage."
Instead they put me straight back on a plane via Amsterdam, so I spent
28 hrs solid on planes and in airports. I was in a state of shock;
right after it happened I went very cold, my teeth were chattering, I
couldn't stop shaking and I kept bursting into tears randomly for the
whole of the next day as soon as anyone showed me any human kindness.
The officials treated me despicably and inhumanely and I hadn't even
done anything. What would they be like to someone who had actually
broken the laws? It's very scary. The written testament they gave me
of the interview misses out any inappropriate questions and as such is a
completely inaccurate record of the interview, a falsified document.
Coming home, I've been surprised at the amount of people who haven't
been surprised; who have actually had similar things happen to them or
friends. It seems it's pretty standard to get turned away if you look
"alternative". Apparently, I was stupid for telling them I'd smoked
marijuana 20 years ago, but when British cabinet members and US
presidents have all admitted it, I really thought it wasn't taboo any
more.
The point is, I was trying to do the right thing, I was trying to be
completely honest with them, I didn't feel I had anything to hide. The
way I live in the south of England in 2007, I don't feel alternative
anymore, I feel accepted and understood. I'd forgotten how much people
who choose to live their lives outside of the norm still unconsciously
expect to be persecuted, harassed, ridiculed, and to be forced to be
deceitful.
Looking back two days later, of course there were things I should have
said that I didn't or things I didn't say that I should have done. But
the point is, I shouldn't have been stripped of all my rights like that,
and I shouldn't have been put in a position where I had to defend myself
against such a fierce and unwarranted attack. The point is, according
to the law, yes, they are in the right. But that's because they make up
the laws. According to any sort of moral or ethical judgement they are
so in the wrong it is a total outrage that they are allowed to get away
with it.
It's very very important people realise the levels of barbarity and
injustice America has sunk to right now. It's important we continue to
stand up for what we believe in, making conscious strides towards love
and truth and peace, or the more and more this disgusting treatment will
be happening to us, our friends and our families.
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The Fascist Blueprint
3. It not only CAN happen here,
It IS happening here!
>> and it's a global development too, tho centred in america.
Mussolini created the blueprint (with inspiration from Lenin), Hitler
elaborated on it, Stalin studied Hitler...
Here's how it works (notice how many Bush & Co. are using now.):
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
> > and/or inflame the danger and/or overstate it.
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
> > see Polly's Scary Personal Report above.
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens' groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Dissent equals treason
10. Suspend the rule of law
Naomi Wolf's conclusion? Impeachment of Bush and Cheney is not enough.
Prosecuting (and jailing) them for crimes committed is the only rational
solution.
Share this video widely. It's at:-
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/177.html
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than 755,000 names and continues to grow, the US Government
Accountability Office said Wednesday. The list exploded from fewer than
20 entries before the September 11, 2001 attacks to more than 150,000
just a few months later, after the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) was
created in December 2003 to keep tabs on terrorist suspects, according
to the GAO, the non-partisan investigative arm of Congress."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102507A.shtml
UP!
A message from the Iraqi Resistance:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eb8cecd20b
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****Rumsfeld Charged with Torture -
during Trip to France
Friday, October 26, 2007
Human rights groups filed a complaint with the Paris Prosecutor before
the "Court of First Instance" today charging former US Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld with ordering and authorising torture.
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Centre for
Constitutional Rights (CCR), the European Center for Constitutional and
Human Rights (ECCHR) and the French League for Human Rights (LDH)
jointly filed the complaint while Rumsfeld was in Paris for a talk
sponsored by Foreign Policy magazine. Under French law, an
investigation must be opened if an alleged torturer is inside French
territory.
"France is obliged to investigate and prosecute Rumsfeld's
accountability for crimes of torture in Guantanamo and Iraq," said FIDH
President Souhayr Belhassen. "France has no choice but to open an
investigation if an alleged torturer is on its territory. I hope that
the fight against impunity will not be sacrificed in the name of
politics. We call on France to refuse to be a safe haven for criminals."
CCR President Michael Ratner said: "The filing of this French case
against Rumsfeld demonstrates that we will not rest until those U.S.
officials involved in the torture program are brought to justice.
Rumsfeld must understand that he has no place to hide. A torturer is an
enemy of all humankind."
Jean-Pierre Dubois, LDH President,underlined: "That a criminal State
representative should benefit from impunity is always unacceptable.
Because the USA is the super power of the beginning of this century and,
above all, because it is a democracy, the impunity of Donald Rumsfeld is
even more insufferable than that of a Radovan Karadzic."
In addition, having resigned from his position of U.S. Secretary of
Defense a year ago, Rumsfeld can no longer try to claim immunity as a
head of state or government official. Nor can he claim immunity as a
former state official, as international law does not recognise such
immunity in the case of international crimes including the crime of torture.
*Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, former commander of
Abu Ghraib and other U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, submitted written
testimony to the Paris Prosecutor for the plaintiffs' case on Rumsfeld's
responsibility for the abuse of detainees.*
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Rumsfeld Flees France Fearing Arrest
Sat, October 27, 2007
Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of "ordering and
authorising" torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq and the US military's detainment facility at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.
US embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast
meeting in Paris organised by the Foreign Policy magazine after human
rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the man who spearheaded
President George W. Bush's "war on terror" for 6 years.
Anti-torture protesters believe the ex defense secretary fled over the
open border to Germany, where a war crimes case against him was
dismissed by a federal court. But activist point out that under the
Schengen agreement that ended border checkpoints across a large part of
the European Union, French law enforcement agents are allowed to cross
the border into Germany in pursuit of a fleeing fugitive.
"Rumsfeld must be feeling how Saddam Hussein felt when US forces were
hunting him down," activist Tanguy Richard said. "He may never end up
being hanged like his old friend, but he must learn that in the
civilized world, war crime doesn't pay."
http://wor.ldne.ws/node/8596
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MISDIRECTION//FEEDBACK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBroBF-uKI <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBroBF-uKI>
This is amazing... how half asleep am I?
jackqueline mackay, london.
Wow Fraser. That's bloody bloody WOW. Incredible. Forwarding this to
everybody . . .
David North, UK.
> > i woulda bet my grannie's inheritance there was no gorilla.
i shall NEVER be so convinced of ANYTHING ever again.
thanks for sending: amazing! I will be passing it around!
Michael Gosney, San Francisco.
Thanks Fraser,
yes a real eye opener.....
peace
love &
unity
vineeta, UK.
WOW! Someone has turned on the light. I never seen the ape until the
second viewing.
hungarian gypsy, minniapolis, US.
thanks for that link . . . that is the video Susan Blackmore showed in
the talk i podcast . . . now my listeners can see the video too!!! :-)
http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=213
all LOVE,
Lorenzo Hagerty, Mixmasters.
excellent link - as always - quality stuff..
thanks as ever Fraser - appreciate the work, power to you.
Phil,aka Bill Froog, US.
Thanks Fraser. That's a good one.
Just as I failed to see the ape walking past in the video I also failed
to notice the person of Jesus for most of my life because I was only
looking at the people in the church to see what they were doing. I
actually despised the church and religion. Once I took my eyes off the
church and focused on Jesus I saw who he was. Take a new look at what
Jesus said without looking at the church. Maybe you will see something
you have not seen before?
barry cecil, israel.
loved this fraser keep' em coming!
rachel pickett, paris.
I saw the guy in the gorilla suit from the start.
peter, herefordshire, UK.
> > REALLY??!! and were you genuinely trying to count the number of
passes? honest now?
you're the only one so far to have done so that's why am asking.
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