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Monday, September 26, 2005 |
Aljazeera.net: "Cindy Sheehan, the American woman whose son was killed in Iraq and who has spurred the anti-war movement in the US, has been arrested while protesting outside the White House."
9:53:27 PM 
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If anyone still has doubts about the dangerous nature of the reigning neocon militarist ideology, read this:
NewScientist: "The US military wants to buy large quantities of anthrax, in a controversial move that is likely to raise questions over its commitment to treaties designed to limit the spread of biological weapons.
A series of contracts have been uncovered that relate to the US army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. They ask companies to tender for the production of bulk quantities of a non-virulent strain of anthrax, and for equipment to produce significant volumes of other biological agents.
Issued earlier this year, the contracts were discovered by Edward Hammond, director of the Sunshine Project, a US-German organisation that campaigns against the use of biological and chemical weapons.
One 'biological services' contract specifies: 'The company must have the ability and be willing to grow Bacillus anthracis Sterne strain at 1500-litre quantities'. Other contracts are for fermentation equipment for producing 3000-litre batches of an unspecified biological agent, and sheep carcasses to test the efficiency of an incinerator for the disposal of infected livestock."
11:52:58 AM
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Independent: "Tony Blair will signal this week that Labour should abandon 'urban intellectuals' who deserted it over the Iraq war. As the party's conference begins in Brighton today he is determined to face down growing pressure for a withdrawal of British troops.
Meanwhile a YouGov poll for Five News last night showed that 57 per cent of those asked said yes to the question 'should British troops pull out of Iraq?' while 27 per cent said no."
It is clear Tony prefers 'urban hooligans'. I suggest Gordon Brown cheats Blair like Blair cheated him, pays lip-service to Blair's neocon ideological fallacy and then with Blair gone, reverses the Labour policy.
The criminality of the Blair government is obvious:
BBC: "A woman has been arrested over the leak of findings about the fatal police shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes on the Tube, it has emerged."
In Blair's England people are not arrested for cheating or lying or corrupting law, no you can be arrested for telling the truth. No one was fired for the Menezes unlawful shooting, but apparently leaking truthful information is a crime.
Blair seems to be stuck in a neocon mood. His u-turn on Kyoto is significant. His allegiance to Bush is pathetic and dangerous. The more blood Blair has on his hands the more entrenched he becomes in his dangerous beliefs and myths.
Scoop: "It is nearly impossible for those caught inside a groups belief system to see their own dark side with any clarity or objectivity. This hidden side grows over time, regressing, becoming more and more aggressive.
George W's elite base [and this holds true for Tony Blair as well] includes the wealthy and the powerful. They are the hidden people he really represents, those economically 'elite', special interest bosses he described so accurately in a speech at one of his private, campaign fund raising dinners: 'You're my base: the haves and the have mores.'
Activist (fundamentalist), right wing politicians are promoting moral and economic agendas we are all too familiar with: loading the courts with right wing religious extremists, eliminating women's right to freedom of choice, preventing equal rights for gays, using the 'Patriot Act' to destroy our constitutional rights to privacy and freedom from unlawful search and seizure, undermining our democracy's essential liberties including the 'rule of law', the cornerstone of a civil society.
Once a belief system gains control, those beliefs are much more likely to move us to action, propel us into roles and conduct we would never contemplate on our own. Voltaire warned, 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities'. Moreover, under the influence of any fundamentalist ideology, beliefs (often paranoid and delusional) tend to override facts - a very dangerous mental environment for making life and death decisions, or declaring war. Independent critical thinking and logic - qualities that are most threatening to any destructive group - expose absurdities. Consider this excerpt from a speech by the Nazi Party leader Rudolph Hess on June 30, 1934: 'The National Socialism of all of us is anchored in uncritical loyalty...'. 'What good fortune for those in power that people do not think,' observed Hitler, knowing that thinking citizens were a real danger to his political ambitions.
So the Bush [and Blair] administration 'fixes' intelligence reports, 'fixes' scientific data on climate change and greenhouse gases, 'fixes' reality on the ground in Iraq for the unthinking, uncritical, patriotic, loyal, citizens. These so-called 'fixes' are really 'lies' - the Bush group's program to 'supervise the formation of public opinion', as Goebbles stated. Indeed, the purpose of all propaganda is to program individuals to act according to group beliefs and aims.
Sounding a lot like a description of our current world situation, Erasmus (d. 1536), a peaceful, educated, psychologically savvy, Catholic humanist observed: 'There is no injury, however insignificant it may be which does not seem to them [Christians] sufficient pretext to start a war. They suppress and hide everything that might maintain peace; they exaggerate excessively everything that would lead to an outbreak of war.'
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.'"
Read and save/print this article, it is essential.
11:39:52 AM
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Observer: "An extraordinary appeal to Americans from the Bush administration for money to help pay for the reconstruction of Iraq has raised only $600 (£337), The Observer has learnt. Yet since the appeal was launched earlier this month, donations to rebuild New Orleans have attracted hundreds of millions of dollars."
Well, George could have made a reconstruction unnecessary by not invading Iraq. Moreover, why doesn't he contribute some of his own millions? He probably didn't donate even one cent.
10:56:56 AM
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