An Interesting Leaked Pentagon Study

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism

Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York
Sunday February 22, 2004
The Observer

Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.

'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'

The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said that they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has insisted national defence is a priority.

The report was commissioned by influential Pentagon defence adviser Andrew Marshall, who has held considerable sway on US military thinking over the past three decades. He was the man behind a sweeping recent review aimed at transforming the American military under Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Climate change 'should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern', say the authors, Peter Schwartz, CIA consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network.

An imminent scenario of catastrophic climate change is 'plausible and would challenge United States national security in ways that should be considered immediately', they conclude. As early as next year widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create major upheaval for millions.

Last week the Bush administration came under heavy fire from a large body of respected scientists who claimed that it cherry-picked science to suit its policy agenda and suppressed studies that it did not like. Jeremy Symons, a former whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said that suppression of the report for four months was a further example of the White House trying to bury the threat of climate change.

Senior climatologists, however, believe that their verdicts could prove the catalyst in forcing Bush to accept climate change as a real and happening phenomenon. They also hope it will convince the United States to sign up to global treaties to reduce the rate of climatic change.

A group of eminent UK scientists recently visited the White House to voice their fears over global warming, part of an intensifying drive to get the US to treat the issue seriously. Sources have told The Observer that American officials appeared extremely sensitive about the issue when faced with complaints that America's public stance appeared increasingly out of touch.

One even alleged that the White House had written to complain about some of the comments attributed to Professor Sir David King, Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, after he branded the President's position on the issue as indefensible.

Among those scientists present at the White House talks were Professor John Schellnhuber, former chief environmental adviser to the German government and head of the UK's leading group of climate scientists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. He said that the Pentagon's internal fears should prove the 'tipping point' in persuading Bush to accept climatic change.

Sir John Houghton, former chief executive of the Meteorological Office - and the first senior figure to liken the threat of climate change to that of terrorism - said: 'If the Pentagon is sending out that sort of message, then this is an important document indeed.'

Bob Watson, chief scientist for the World Bank and former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, added that the Pentagon's dire warnings could no longer be ignored.

'Can Bush ignore the Pentagon? It's going be hard to blow off this sort of document. Its hugely embarrassing. After all, Bush's single highest priority is national defence. The Pentagon is no wacko, liberal group, generally speaking it is conservative. If climate change is a threat to national security and the economy, then he has to act. There are two groups the Bush Administration tend to listen to, the oil lobby and the Pentagon,' added Watson.

'You've got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac river you've got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars. It's pretty scary when Bush starts to ignore his own government on this issue,' said Rob Gueterbock of Greenpeace.

Already, according to Randall and Schwartz, the planet is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that could soon be repeated.

Randall told The Observer that the potential ramifications of rapid climate change would create global chaos. 'This is depressing stuff,' he said. 'It is a national security threat that is unique because there is no enemy to point your guns at and we have no control over the threat.'

Randall added that it was already possibly too late to prevent a disaster happening. 'We don't know exactly where we are in the process. It could start tomorrow and we would not know for another five years,' he said.

'The consequences for some nations of the climate change are unbelievable. It seems obvious that cutting the use of fossil fuels would be worthwhile.'

So dramatic are the report's scenarios, Watson said, that they may prove vital in the US elections. Democratic frontrunner John Kerry is known to accept climate change as a real problem. Scientists disillusioned with Bush's stance are threatening to make sure Kerry uses the Pentagon report in his campaign.

The fact that Marshall is behind its scathing findings will aid Kerry's cause. Marshall, 82, is a Pentagon legend who heads a secretive think-tank dedicated to weighing risks to national security called the Office of Net Assessment. Dubbed 'Yoda' by Pentagon insiders who respect his vast experience, he is credited with being behind the Department of Defence's push on ballistic-missile defence.

Symons, who left the EPA in protest at political interference, said that the suppression of the report was a further instance of the White House trying to bury evidence of climate change. 'It is yet another example of why this government should stop burying its head in the sand on this issue.'

Symons said the Bush administration's close links to high-powered energy and oil companies was vital in understanding why climate change was received sceptically in the Oval Office. 'This administration is ignoring the evidence in order to placate a handful of large energy and oil companies,' he added.

SEEK NO ANSWERS HERE

Recent Films: King Kong - twice ... loved it, but I'm soooo biased
Hostel - Tarantino Presents Excellence ( disturbing but ... )
Chronic of Narnia - lame ... C.S.Lewis'll need chronic to put up with this one

Recent Vinyl: This Is Benny Goodman Vol II - RCA rerecordings of Victor originals
Singing the Blues - RCA Camden
Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra The Complete Sessions - RCA
The Greatest Names in Jazz (Verve Selections) - MGM

What I'm Reading: Killing One Another - Gwynn Nettler
Deviant Behaviour - Delos H. Kelly
Purity and Danger - Mary Douglas
I Pierre Riviere, - Edited by Michel Foucault

What I'm Listening To: Dementia Absentia - DJ Spooky
Six Days ( Remix with Mos Def ) - DJ Shadow
GRANDMASTER FLASH and PUBLIC ENEMY

Anyway ... once again I don't feel much like writing but there seems to be no shortage of issues. Ariel Sharon has fallen ill at a time when Iraq seems bent on developing nuclear power. Bush is calling for diplomacy. Did he hit his head....is he suddenly an amnesiac? Saddam Hussein's trial judge has stepped down, no doubt due to threats from radical Bathists. Al-Zawahri the freakin nut job is spouting off crap again ... making me think Bin-Laden is dead and has now become some mystic who a generation of disenfranchised youth will seek to emulate. Oh great. President Vlad is now at the helm of the G-8 ... since when did Russia become democratic? Oh yea after the nation was looted throughout the 1990's now I remember. Oh and the mad man at the vatican is continuing to disallow gays equal rights. Bravo Pope Benedict Arnold.

Religious Function

one of the consequences of postmodernism seems to be the rise of religious fundamentalism, as a form of resistance to the questioning of the "grand narratives" of religious truth



Power and Creation of Perspectives
taken from TEN QUESTIONS by Joel Charon
...
What I have not empasized is that perspectives are often shaped to some extent by the powerful in society. Marx and Mannheim note how the powerful create ideologies, exaggerated and even outmoded perspectives on reality used for the purpose of defending the status quo, that is, their own power, privilege, and prestige in society. Dictators teach people to obey, arguing that order is necessary now and that obedience will someday bring prosperity for all. The upper class teaches people that what it has it deserves and has worked hard for. Slave owners teach slaves and others the justification of slavery, especially the religious justification, and racists inevitably have a whole set of ideas they try to teach others to justify inequality.


Man's Ontological Interest
taken from CRITIQUE OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY by Walter Kaufmann
...
From men's submission to totalitarian governments it has often been inferred that men, far from feeling any deep need to create or love, have a profound need to submit. But totalitarianism has never yet succeeded where creative freedom was the alternative.


The Social Function of Dictatorship
taken from THE DEMOCRATIC AND AUTHORITARIAN STATE by Franz Neumann
...
Large scale technology on the one hand may imply the total dependance of the industrial population upon a complex, integrated mechanism, which can be operated only in a highly organized, stratified, and hierarchic system. This system must instill the virtues of discipline, obedience, and subordination- no matter who owns the means of production. Thus, modern industrialism preaches the very virtues which every authoritarian political system seeks to cultivate. These virtues are repressive because they are opposed to man's self determination.

Merry MITHRA

Boxing Day with X-FM ....

and how did this "Festive Day" come about? Boxing Day? Why isn't it called packaging day? Lets set this shit straight....

I hear Rod Stewart is burying a placenta in his garden? Is this right? What the fuck Stewie .... give yer head a shake ya daft fuck.....that's like medical waste ... ya shouldn't be takin it home.

Apparently Michael Jacksons having difficulty getting his freaky deaky little "family" passports so he can move off shore to a nation where the age of consent is 10.

Courtney Love is back in the press ....apparently she's broke.......good. Your 15 minutes in the limelight has gone on 15 minutes too long....

Precursors of Hostile Intent:

OTHER PEOPLES WARS

ROBERT FISK

EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE

Recent vinyl finds....
ROOST RECORDS "Jazz @NBC" Johnny Smith and Stan Getz
DECCA RECORDS "The Glenn Miller Story" with selections by Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
DECCA RECORDS "Satchmo @ Pasadena"
PABLO RECORDS "Pablo Live Montreux 77 - Joe Pass"

What I'm reading....
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
State of the World by The World Watch Institute
The Psychology of Hate edited by Robert J. Sternberg
Manual of Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki

What I'm listening to....
Nick Drake with Soft Machine, "Broken World"
Jazz Mandolin Project, with Trey Anastasio "Hang Ten"
William Burroughs and Trent Reznor "Quick Fix"
Modern Jazz Quartet "Bag's Groove"


Some homeless dude was saved from inside a garbage truck last week, apparently he was dumped into the compactor unknowingly. When asked what he was doing in the dumpster he responded "I thought it was a bed and breakfast."

You know things are strange when Bigfoot is spotted twice.... in one month. Apparently he's taken a liking to hanging out at 7-11, downing Big Gulps, and panhandling from amused bystanders.


QUICK FIX
William Burroughs


To put the country simple, earth has a lot of things other folks might
want...like the whole planet. And maybe these folks would like a few changes
made. Like more carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, and room for their way of
life. We've seen this happen before, right in these United States.

Your way of life destroyed the Indian's way of life.

The Indian reservation is extinction.

But I offer this distinction. I'm with the invaders, no use trying to hide
that. And at the same, I disagree with some of the things they are doing.

Oh were not united anymore than you are
Oh we're not united anymore than you are.

Conservative factions is set on nuclear war as a solution to the Indian
personality.

Others disagree
Others disagree

I don't claim that my methods are one hundred percent humane, but I do say,
if we can't think of anything quieter, and tidier than that...

We are all not that much better than new earth aches.

There is no place else to go
The theater is closed

There is no place else to go
The theater is closed

Cut word lines
Cut music lines
Smash the control images
Smash the control machine.

STAY FREE

Video of Terrorist

Two Canadian aid workers kidnapped in Iraq

The Case Against Saddam

Al Queda's New Front

In Search of Al Queda

The Counterterrorism Blog

Post 9/11 Jihad Blues

This crap hits me like a punch in the mouth. Seeing the beheadings yourself really places a face upon the evil that threatens the 21st century.

Are these beheading jihadists the post-modern Charlie Manson or are they a legitimate disenfranchised voice. Either way if they're willing to produce these snuff shorts for purely terroristic and propogandist purposes they've become their own worst enemy.

Chapter 109:1 of the Koran states "...I do not serve what you worship nor do you serve what I worship...you have your own religion , and I have mine." Sooooooo, what part of getting along don't you understand? I swear these jihadists were the glue eating sort when they attended school. Unfortunatly using religion to prove anything is a bit like bailing out a sinking boat with a sieve. My point is these jackoffs are playing the roll of some God and believe they're delivering justice. One has to really feel bad for the families of the victims ... on both sides.

Continuing violence of any sort seems short sighted and we all seem to justify it with a bit of selective abstraction or emotional reasonimg ... unfortunatly. I once read that extreme justice is extreme injustice but to cease with the war against global jihadists is to fail to rise to a real threat remembering that the price of democeracy is eternal vigilance. And if you don't think that jihadists are real speak to a few of the fucking wack jobs who call themselves holy men and parade about mosques in North America today.

Today for radical muslims there is no ahl al-dhimma. How do we deal with crazy people who would have you killed for some pie in the sky fundamentalism? Tolerance? Liberalism seems to court self destruction when it peddles multiculturalism but delivers only fear and loathing.

Call me a madman with a Barrett 50 cal but this turn the other cheek bullshit is exactly what British P.M. Nevill Chamberlin delivered at Munich when he declared peace with Adolph Hitler on September 29, 1938. History shows dealing with sociopaths requires a Machiovellian fist....let them run...they'll only die tired.

Look at any jihadist as writing the new Mein Kampf. What America has done is saunter into the heart of darkness like John Wayne. Stupidity of utter bravery? I'm hoping it's the latter.

Freedom House

Jihadists born here pose new threat Hard to detect, CSIS says

Stewart Bell

National Post

Saturday, November 19, 2005

TORONTO - Counter-terrorism investigators are finding an increasing number of "homegrown" Canadian extremists like those who bombed the London transit system in July, and some have undergone training inside Canada, a new report says.

A "secret" intelligence study obtained by the National Post says a "high percentage" of the Canadian Muslims involved in extremist activities were born in Canada, a marked shift from the past when they were mostly refugees and immigrants.

"Increasingly, we are learning of more and more extremists that are homegrown," says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service document, adding that the "Canadianness" of the new generation makes them more difficult to detect.

"These radicalized Canadians are involved in a wide range of extremist activities, including downloading and translating documents from the Internet that promote violence, networking and physically training for jihad," it says.

"Some undergo training abroad or in Canada, including commando-like paintball and extreme martial arts," says the report. "In a few cases, Canadian extremists have participated in jihad and a few have been killed in the process."

The 73-page report, "Paths to Radicalization of Home-Grown Islamic Extremists in Canada," was distributed internally after suicide bombers struck the London underground and a double-decker bus on July 7, killing more than 50.

The revelation that the bombers were British -- three were born in the U.K. and one was a Muslim convert from Jamaica -- highlighted the disturbing phenomenon of homegrown terrorists, those who were either born in the West or immigrated as children and yet are virulently anti-Western and pro-al-Qaeda.

A handful of such terrorists have already emerged from Canada. Mohammed Jabarah of St. Catharines, Ont., joined al-Qaeda and tried to blow up the American and Israeli embassies in Southeast Asia. His brother Abdul Rahman, a member of a Saudi al-Qaeda cell, was killed in 2003.

Canadian-born Momin Khawaja was arrested in Ottawa last year on charges he was part of a British bombing plot and is awaiting trial. U.S. authorities recently charged Canadian-born Omar Khadr with joining an al-Qaeda faction in Afghanistan and killing a U.S. soldier.

"A small number of Muslims in Canada have adopted the path of violence and jihad in the pursuit of political and/or religious aims," the CSIS report says. "The reasons for this are varied, and include parental influence, the efforts of charismatic spiritual leaders with extremist views and a general sense of anger at what is seen as Muslim oppression.

"There does not appear to be a single process that leads to extremism; the transformation is highly individual. Once this change has taken place, such individuals move on to a series of activities, ranging from propaganda and recruiting, to terrorist training and participation in extremist operations."

In the past, those involved in terrorist activities in Canada, such as Fateh Kamel, ringleader of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA); and the al-Qaeda-trained bomb maker Ahmed Ressam, were migrants who brought their hardline views with them from their homelands.

But the study claims that is no longer the case. Today, many of the extremists on the CSIS radar are second- and third-generation Canadians, or recent converts to Islam. "The high percentage of Canadian-born subjects illustrates the changing nature of Islamic extremism in Canada," the study says.

"The implications of this shift are important."

It means that the screening of immigrants is becoming less central to the fight against terrorism. As well as investigating newcomers, authorities must also now be on the lookout for radicals emerging from within Canada's Muslim and convert community.

Converts are fast becoming a major worry to security authorities. Officials fear an overzealous convert to Islam's radical fringe may try to prove his devotion by staging a terrorist attack in Canada.

The report calls conversion to extremist Islam "a phenomenon of increasing concern to Western governments" and notes that, "It is possible that an attack will be carried out by a radicalized individual -- possibly a convert to radical Islam -- seeking to punish Canada for its actions abroad."

The study says Canada's extremists do not come from any one level of society, but it lists several factors that it says are driving Canadian Muslims to adopt extremist views.

Fathers who have embraced extremist Islam have "passed their fervour to their children," it says. But some Muslims disagree with that conclusion, noting that extremist youth have also come from moderate pro-Western families.

The report says extremist rhetoric espoused by Islamic leaders is also a powerful factor in radicalization. "Several Canadian Muslims adopted an extremist interpretation of Islam through the advice and influence of such spiritual leaders."

Sympathy for the global Muslim community, which is perceived as suffering at the hands of the West, Russia and Israel, is another factor, CSIS writes. Extremists believe they must take action to help their "spiritual brethren."

More Terrorist Bullshit

BLOODHOUND GANG

"Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me"

The morn' that I was born my old man beat up the doctor
He clocked the doctor cause the doctor said I looked like Chewbacca
The doctor said sir you're misled sir which infers you mistook me
I did not mean your lovely wife was shackin' up with a wookie
What I mean is Wolverine is less hairy than your son
He's looks like Chewie Baba Booey Baba Booey and Hong Kong Phooey all in one
To put it mild your new-born child's completely nutty fu-fu lookin'
I'd shove him back into the oven until he is done cookin'
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause my fifteen year-old cousin has less acne
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Ain't brushed them teeth since 1983
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause you got the grooming habits of a chimpanzee
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause you're white but you got a nose like Bill Cosby
Why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Always pickin' and rippin' apart poor ol' Jimmy Pop Ali
I got a schnoz like the 'Cos' but there's a lot more wrong with you
So back me up Bill yea and you're ugly too
So what if I brush my teeth with a piece of cheddar cheese
Or where a fish net shirt by Chams with my Sergio Valenti jeans
And my mirror never lies but it always verifies
I got more cheese and pepperoni than a homemade pizza pie
You compare me to a Monchichi but I don't understand
Why I'm scorned like I'm deformed like the Elephant Man
And yea I took my mom to the prom but hey she asked me first
But at least this time I didn't find my date in the back of a hearse
About as popular with the girls with Englebert Humperdink
And that might be 'cause everybody calls me Shrinky Dink
I know I'm known as Polaroid I'm not a total retard
It's cause I'm done in sixty seconds and you'll still want it enlarged
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause ya wore velour flares until the late Eighties
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause you run like a girl and sit down to pee
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause your only school chum was the lunch lady
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
You took your mom to the prom but still got lucky
Like that episode where Gilligan gets sick of being teased
And he breaks into the Professor's lab and makes some LSD
Peaks freaks and eats the Skipper's brains then beats Ginger with coconuts
As Mr. Howell and Lovey burn alive inside their grass hut
Oh he'll kill again that Gilligan they he should of let him be
And like a postal clerk I'll go beserk if you don't stop teasing me
See the trick is only pick on those that can't do you no harm
Like the drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause my fifteen year-old cousin has less acne
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Ain't brushed them teeth since 1983
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause you got the grooming habits of a chimpanzee
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause you're white but you got a nose like Bill Cosby
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause ya wore velour flares until the late Eighties
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause you run like a girl and sit down to pee
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause your only school chum was the lunch lady
But why's everbody always pickin' on me?
Cause no one likes you monkey boy.

WOODY

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

WOODY ALLEN

#1@yuks

SOMETHING TO OFFEND EVERYONE!
What do you call two Mexicans playing basketball?
Juan on Juan

What is a Yankee?
The same as a quickie, but a guy can do it alone.

What is the difference between a Harley and a Hoover?
The position of the dirt bag

Why is divorce so expensive?
Because it's worth it.

What do you see when the Pillsbury Dough Boy bends over?
Doughnuts

Why is air a lot like sex?
Because it's no big deal unless you're not getting any.

What do you call a smart blonde?
A golden retriever.

What do attorneys use for birth control?
Their personalities.

What's the difference between a girlfriend and wife?
45 lbs

What's the difference between a boyfriend and husband?
45 minutes

What's the fastest way to a man's heart?
Through his chest with a sharp knife.

Why do men want to marry virgins?
They can't stand criticism.

Why is it so hard for women to find men that are sensitive, caring, and good-looking?
Because those men already have boyfriends.

What's the difference between a new husband and a new dog?
After a year, the dog is still excited to see you

What makes men chase women they have no intention of marrying?
The same urge that makes dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving.

Why don't bunnies make noise when they have sex?
Because they have cotton balls.

What's the difference between a porcupine and BMW?
A porcupine has the pricks on the outside.

What did the blonde say when she found out she was pregnant?
"Are you sure it's mine?"

Why does Mike Tyson cry during sex?
Mace will do that to you.

Why did OJ Simpson want to move to West Virginia ?
Everyone has the same DNA.

Why do men find it difficult to make eye contact?
Breasts don't have eyes.

Did you hear about the dyslexic Rabbi?
He walks around saying "Yo."

Why do drivers' education classes in Redneck schools use the car only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?
Because on Tuesday and Thursday, the Sex Ed class uses it.

Where does an Irish family go on vacation?
A different bar.

Did you hear about the Chinese couple that had a retarded baby?
They named him "Sum Ting Wong".

What would you call it when an Italian has one arm shorter than the other?
A speech impediment.

What does it mean when the flag at the Post Office is flying at half-mast?
They're hiring.

What's the difference between a southern zoo and a northern zoo?
A southern zoo has a description of the animal on the front of the cage along with... "a recipe".

How do you get a sweet little 80-year-old lady to say the F word?
Get another sweet little 80-year-old lady to yell *BINGO*!

What's the difference between a northern fairytale and a southern fairytale?
A northern fairytale begins "Once upon a time..." -A southern fairytale begins "Y'all ain'tgonnabelievethisshit....


Why is there no Disneyland in China?
No one's tall enough to go on the good rides



HAVE A GREAT DAY

Anyway

The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith


People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

FUN-DUH-MENTAL-ist AMERICANS

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Around the world religious education is being scaled back in favour of more modern methodologies, however in the good ole US of A they're gettin mid-evil once again. Hey if it's good enough for the Talaban.....In Kansas the supposedly enlightened school board moved toward "approving science standards that cast doubt on evolution." These bright folks were quoted later as saying "Yissireee God dund maded us.... nut no stupid scienologist." Despite the fact that educated earthlings are stating that Darwin's theory has never been more relevant, good ole FUN-DUH-MENTAL-ist AMERICANS are once again in the press for their unrelanting stupidity. For more proof that the American Bible Belt has been strapped a little too tightly around that ever expanding American gut watch Trading Spouses on Wednesday November 9 for another ride through the wacked out American religious psyche.

P.S. Jesus was a Buddhist

BUDDHIST TEXT ON-LINE

This body will be dissolved
and no amount of sacrifice will save it.
Therefore, seek thou the life that is of the mind.
Where self is, truth cannot be;
yet when truth comes, self will disappear.
Therefore, let thy mind rest in the truth;
propagate the truth, put thy whole will in it, and let it spread.
In the truth thou shalt live for ever.
BUDDHA

FundaMENTALIST Meltdown...

Hey wanna see the funniest case of a fundamentalist cracking under the strain of reality? Watch next weeks edition of TRADING SPOUSES. This is the absolute nuttiest case of reality TV warping my perception of mankind. On this weeks episode (I tuned in once......honestly) ....but apparently next week will be just as fucking nutty....anyway this big ole gal...describing herself as a princess.....weighing in at.... oh about 4 fuckin bills...gets into her CHRIST mode and goes fuckin awol...right on TV!!!!!!!!!!!!! Screaming and dry heaving this raving psychotic chick starts bouncing off the fucking wall.......check out the video trailer..........

If this is who Bush petitioned for votes GOD HELP THE NATION.

ONLY

I'm becoming less defined
as days go by
Fading away
Well you might say
I'm loosing focus
Kind of drifting into the abstract in terms of how I see myself
Sometimes I think I can see right through myself
Less concerned about fitting into the world
Your world that is
Because it doesn't really matter
no it doesn't really matter anymore
None of this really matters anymore
Yes I'm alone but then again I always was
As far back as I can tell
I think maybe it's because you never were really real to begin with
I just made you up to hurt myself
And it worked.
Yes it did!

There is no you
There is only me
There is no you
There is only me
There is no fucking you
There is only me
There is no fucking you
There is only me
Only
The tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be scab and I had this funny feeling
Like I just knew it was something bad
I just couldn't leave it alone, picking at that scab
Was a doorway trying to seal itself shut
But I climbed through
Now I am somehwere I am not supposed to be,
and I can see things I knew I really shouldn't see
And now I know why (yea now I know why)
Things aren't as pretty
On the inside

Banned Books Online

I feel sick after viewing several beheading videos as well as the footage of American troops' bodies being dragged about the streets here .....ya ya old news......the point is if your a Marine what are you going to do with any body caught as a suspected insurgent / terrorist. War is hell. When reality is not censored - censured - shaped ...and the truth is seen, maybe Niccolo Machiavelli had it right, effective leaders need be feared rather than loved.