On the term "Islamo-Fascist"

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
This is the pot calling the kettle black.
Those who accuse their enemies of "hating freedom" shouldn't arrest people for wearing t-shirts.

I would venture that the majority of the people who are today taking up arms against us are doing so in self-defense, against a radical, corporatist (fascist) corrupt American colonial regime.

They are not resisting the United States Constitution and Bill of rights. They are not resisting the average American on the street (although the apathy in America has caused them much misery): they are fighting a power-structure that has been bought and paid for by unaccountable corporations. Those corporations are a rogue power and do not represent the American people.

Use of the term "Islamo-Fascism" is in keeping with the Bush-Rove strategy of accusing their selected enemies of precisely that of which they themselves are guilty.

I would suggest that Any American who truly believes in the Constitution, leave the "Republican" Party. This goes for you, Ron Paul, and you, John McCain. How can you have any credibility while associating yourselves with a party that has turned decidedly fascist?

And, uh, Buh-bye, Joe.

When the people are about to throw your corrupt party and its sympathizers out, SCARE 'em.

Anybody get the idea.. "Lieberman's out.. oops, another terrorist threat!" ?

SUCKERS!

from http://www.craigmurray.co.uk...
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None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports
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Nothing from that surveillance had indicated the need for early arrests
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in desperate domestic political trouble, [Bush and Blair] longed for "Another 9/11".
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the timing is deeply political
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from http://www.craigmurray.co.uk...


REGISTER to VOTE. Get an Absentee Ballot (Anybody can get one in Florida)

There IS a useable Electric Car

Corporate America just doesn't want you to have one:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/

In a time when just about everything we hear is bad, this film offers a ray of hope: the idea that there IS a way out of this mess.

I bet that, If GM doesn't begin mass-production of their already-designed-and-tested EV1, China will begin selling knockoffs of it and thus get to market first.

Go see this film! It is a ray of hope!

There IS a useable Electric Car!

Remove the Motive for Terrorism

If we, as an American People, act in accordance with all that is True, Good and Wise, in the world, people less fortunate than we are will be less inclined to strike out at us. We could have prevented the proliferation of terrorist resistance groups had we participated in our people's government, elected true representatives of the people, and crafted policy in keeping with the Geneva Conventions, the Nurnberg Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Some thoughts on the bad Karma we've allowed to fester through our collective inaction:
"Some People Push Back": On the Justice of Roosting Chickens (by Ward Churchill)

DisHarmony

America's constitutional design calls for a balance of power: a system of checks and balances, where intelligent persons of enterprise thoughtfully manage the collective will of the people. Functioning properly, it is a system of theoretical harmony that is an ideal to be emulated by other nations the world over. This harmony is seriously out of whack today:

Spoiler Joe's True Colors

You'd expect nothing more from Joe Lieberman than to act as a spoiler against the party he purported to belong to, all these years. True colors shine through. Hang it up, Joe, we're wise to you ... and you ... and you...

DLC BAD. DNC GOOD.

DLC Bad. DNC Good. If you look at the Repug (oops) Republicans, they don't stand for a republic (which is a representative democracy). They stand for an authoritarian oligarchy and the removal of the middle class. The DLC is another version of the republicans, with a poorly-crafted smiley face scribbled on. The DNC needs work. A lot of work. It deserves your attention.

We Need Net Neutrality

Because our marketplace is one of cronies and oligarchs, lobbyists and other thieves, it is inclined to monopolize anywhere it matures. This is going to be the way with the Internet too.

The United Negro College Fund told us that "A mind is a terrible thing to waste". I venture here that the Internet is an evolutionary development in the mind of human civilization. With the "level playing field" offered by the Internet over its first decade, innovation abounded and many great ideas were well-rewarded.

There were those who hoped that radio and television would enhance our knowledge. What happened to it?

There must be laws in place that ensure the free, un-hindered flow of information over the Internet. The stakes are too high for us to let what's happened to our radio-waves, happen to OUR Internet (we paid for the R+D to develop it).

Video about Net Neutrality:
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/307

Congressman Ron Weyden's bill:
http://wyden.senate.gov/media/2006/03022006_net_neutrality_bill.html

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.2360:

An organization to work with:
http://www.freepress.net/congress/billinfo.php?id=168

This should be an election issue. The Incumbents in their so-called "Republican" party (it's NOT) need to be challenged in their war against knowledge.

They Want to Take your Vitamins Away.

And your sovereignty. CODEX, CAFTA, continued loss of freedom. Don't expect your sold-out public trustees to act responsibly in your silence.

Gary Null:
http://www.garynull.com/node/11672

International Advocates for Health Freedom:
http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/nocodexgenocide.html

the Continued Attack on Justice

These people are intent on destroying your republic. This stuff is reminiscent of Germany in 1933:

http://www.washingtonpost.com...
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draft bill detailing procedures the administration is considering for bringing to trial those it captures
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government would create commissions of U.S. military personnel who could impose a penalty of life imprisonment or death based on evidence never disclosed
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Formation of Military Commissions
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appointed by the Secretary of Defense or his designees
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Hearsay information is admissible
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can also order "exclusion of the defendant" and his civilian counsel
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http://www.washingtonpost.com...

Recommendations:
Call your Legislators
Write your Newspaper
Call your radio stations
Register to Vote
Get an absentee Ballot

It's about Class, Stupid!

There are those who work in the shop, and there are those who own the shop. Which are you?
(article, "Who is the Man" by Mark Frankenberg)

http://www.prospect.org/...
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The greatest success of the modern right has been transforming conservatism into a populist phenomenon, drawing heavily from the lower middle class, the working class, and, perhaps above all, the once-Democratic South.
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http://www.prospect.org/...

Stop.

Just Stop. Obey the Law.

Nurnberg Charter Principle Vl:

The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under; international law:

1. Crimes against peace:
1. Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
2. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).
2. War crimes:
Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or illtreatment of prisoners of war, of persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
3. Crimes against humanity:
Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhuman acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.

Joe, Valerie, Good On You.

Nice to see people standing up for what is right. Thank you. The rest of you: Honor Your Oath!

See This Movie

An Inconvenient Truth, showcasing Al Gore's analysis of the Global Warming Crisis, is an eye-opener, a myth-stopper and will spur millions to thoughtful action.
http://www.climatecrisis.net

Iran Noah's Ark War Scam

There are articles floating around about some Texans having discovered Noah's Ark in Iran.

Go Figure.

Next you're going to hear that the Iranians are holding the Ark Hostage, or have destroyed it.

Don't buy it.

Haven't they made suckers of us all enough already?

I am writing this Saturday, 1 July, 2006, 10:40pm eastern standard time.

"FEMA fraud debated"

http://www.freep.com/...
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the Government Accountability Office looked at only 0.01% of the 2.5 million applications for aid.
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http://www.freep.com/...

Rove Plame Leak: In Your Face

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=91184
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Rove leaked classified information that may have harmed national security; the White House said he hadn't and that leakers would be fired; Rove remains at the president's side today.
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http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=91184

Who Is "The Man"?

Lately there's been a TV commercial airing, where a guy makes a remark about "sticking it to The Man", then he reflects that now He's the man, so then Now what..

Or Is he?

Do you make Five Hundred Thousand dollars per year or less?

If you make Five Hundred Thousand dollars per year or less, then you're NOT "The Man". You're down here with the rest of us, no matter what airs you try to put on. The Man is looking down on you too, with a self-satisfied smirk on his face. Being neither loyal to (nor considerate of) any particular land or people, he is secure in the knowledge that, in the words of Agent Smith of "The Matrix", you are destined to go about living your lives, "oblivious".

The Man wants to exploit your home and destroy your Government. He wants to "stick and move" without the inconvenience of rules, regulations or referees. He owns the television and radio stations that tell you that government is a bad idea; that slickly sell you the idea that war is good, that plant the seeds of helplessness: of "there's nothing I can do". If you don't give it any thought, his persistence might even convince you of it.

If he has his way, your Fruited Plain can and will go the way of Argentina. Or Mexico.

Or Haiti.

If he has his way, we'll continue to waste our scarce resources on colonial adventures overseas in places like Vietnam and Iraq, which we will continue to pay for through inflation, interest, bankrupt cities, oppressive fear, lower education rates, and all other signs of a weakened society, including continued loss of personal liberty amid rising rates of violent crime and a hungry, destabilized planet.

If he has his way, we working people will be further divided by things such as race, religion, national origin, sexual preference, style of automobile, favorite rock band, shoe-size.. whatever differentiator he can dream up to keep us from working together to throw off his oppression.

If he has his way, we will continue to give him our tax money so that he can build systems with which to threaten and/or control us, just like the people he controls in his other colonies.

This is why "government of, for and by the people" is not just a cool phrase by a guy with a beard and a tall hat. It is the principle of US, protecting ourselves from The Man.

The only way our democratic-republican government can function effectively is if we as citizens consider in good conscience what's going on in our world, and consider the sources and motivations of the messages we are getting. If we have no problem getting Rush Limbaugh on the radio in our cars or at work, then we should also have no problem getting Amy Goodman on the radio in our cars or at work. Then we as individual citizens can decide what we think is best.

Since the situation is not that, today, I challenge you to consider, when you hear or see the polished, commercial messages that bombard you day in and day out, what is The Man trying to sell you? Is he suckering you in?

It's when The Man makes it so you only hear his side of things, by owning all the media outlets, that many will start to think that things like Republic and Democracy aren't really important anymore, and that it's okay for The Man to run things for us (privatization).

By this point, you could rightly gather that I don't have anything nice to say about "The Man".

You shouldn't, either.


---- Mark Frankenberg

P.S. There's a crucial, national election this November. Call your Supervisor of Elections! Order your Absentee Ballot! Don't trust those electronic vote-stealing machines! Do your job as a citizen to help guide your republic…

while you still can!

Learn.
Teach.
http://www.JustSayNOtoFascism.com

Movie "America: From Freedom to Fascism"

Tell someone about this film. Opens July 7th, 2006 all over the place.

Fight Ignorance

MANY get their political opinions passively from the radio. Support outlets for Pacifica Radio and their affiliates. This could be the most important bit of activism many of us do. Plant the seeds of wisdom! www.pacifica.org