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.

H TO DA IZZO

TGIF



Don't get yer brainwashed this weeknd
vamoose --- son of a bitch

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

Sachs discusses his new book, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, which explores the challenge of global poverty.

Crap Culture

So George Bush Jr found God after binging on his 40th birthday....hu? Seeing as he was a booze hound ... might his "vision" have simply been a DT? You know that day after when nothing seems right and pink elephants are singing broadway tunes on the wall......just wondering


It appears Michael Jackson is moving to Bahrain where a full 28% of the population is under the age of 14! Look out youngsters Wacko Jacko is on the loose..............is there a way to inform the parents there that the guy with the free babysitting ad isn't what he claims to be?


Paris is looking forward to a third season of ...of....the show. Wow goes to show ya how far a girl can go with a crotch shot and an unlimited budget......way to go spoiled rich girl!


Couch jumpin wack job Tom Cruise has done it....he's found a subject to spawn his evil seed. The Scientological end must be near ....Press recently called this jack off a genius.....pppplllllllleeeeeaaaaaaaassssseeeee.

Message in a Bottle

Just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh
Another lonely day, with no one here but me, oh
More loneliness than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair, oh

I’ll send an s.o.s. to the world
I’ll send an s.o.s. to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

A year has passed since I wrote my note
But I should have known this right from the start
Only hope can keep me together
Love can mend your life but
Love can break your heart
I’ll send an s.o.s. to the world
I’ll send an s.o.s. to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

Walked out this morning, don’t believe what I saw
Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems I’m not alone at being alone
Hundred billion castaways, looking for a home
I’ll send an s.o.s. to the world
I’ll send an s.o.s. to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Sending out at an s.o.s.
Sending out at an s.o.s.
Sending out at an s.o.s.
Sending out at an s.o.s.
Sending out at an s.o.s.
Sending out at an s.o.s...

Bye Bye Jack Hello Jesus

Bush is a drunken monkey who's found Christ. Great a coat tail riding booze hound who believes he's been delivered.....Praise Be to Jack Daniels....er uh JC and the gang of 12.

X-FM DUBLIN

VIII
To Make A Dadaist Poem

Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article of the lenght you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that makes up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after another.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
The poem will resemble you.
And there you are - an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.

Tristan Tzara

Reading List

Via the Rage site there are numerous free on-line texts........so read.......

"Only two things are infinite-the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the universe."
Albert Einstein

The Shady Deals of God's Banker

Calvi reportedly reminded John Paul that he had funded political and religious groups supported by the Vatican in both eastern and western Europe and had set up banks in Latin America to help combat the spread of communism.

CORRUPTION FROM THE TOP DOWN

Delegate Says "Remnants of Taliban, Al-Qaida" -- and Other Extremists, Fanatics, Drug Traffickers -- Still Threatening Society

The Philiosophers Magazine

This amazingly written piece-wish I could write so well- sheds light onto the fragile nature of our status quo.

George Bush's Suicidal Statecraft

During the Bush administration the US poverty rate has grown, and welfare’s limited safety net has been weakened further.

Thanksgiving Prayer

Thanks for the wild turkey and
the passenger pigeons, destined
to be shit out through wholesome
American guts.


Thanks for a continent to despoil
and poison.

Thanks for Indians to provide a
modicum of challenge and
danger.

Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin leaving the
carcasses to rot.

Thanks for bounties on wolves
and coyotes.

Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until
the bare lies shine through.

Thanks for the KKK.

For nigger-killin' lawmen,
feelin' their notches.

For decent church-goin' women,
with their mean, pinched, bitter,
evil faces.

Thanks for "Kill a Queer for
Christ" stickers.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition and the
war against drugs.

Thanks for a country where
nobody's allowed to mind the
own business.

Thanks for a nation of finks.

Yes, thanks for all the
memories-- all right let's see
your arms!

You always were a headache and
you always were a bore.

Thanks for the last and greatest
betrayal of the last and greatest
of human dreams.


The hysterical aftermath of September 11 has put into place the main components of a police state.


'The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East' by Robert Fisk


Progress or Peril? Measuring Iraq's Reconstruction

Pandemic Imminent

"WHO flu spokesman at the agency's Geneva headquarters did not say the 150 million prediction was wrong, he emphasized that 7.4 million deaths is a more realistic estimate." But I thought the Avian Flu Strain was lethal in 50% of all infections? And judging by disaster aid reaction times in situations of crisis .....pleeeeeaaasssse......


Always the devils advocate

DEADLY NEW VIRUS OF THE WEEK

Toronto health officials are scrambling to reassure the public that the mystery illness claiming lives at a Toronto nursing home is not out of control...

No Exit; Descending into hell with George Bush

Global Security Brief #3:

Climate Change Poses Greater Risk Than Terrorism

we are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity

Interesting news in the world today............first up global warming................."Satellites monitoring the Arctic have found that the extent of the sea ice this August has reached its lowest monthly point on record, dipping an unprecedented 18.2 per cent below the long-term average" HMMMMMM.......ever tried barbequed seal?

U.S. leads the world in sale of military goods
who says America doesn't care.....would her leaders be sending youth thousands of miles from home if ...uh...well ...it looks bad ....but ....uh....anyway profits are up! Barrett 50 Cal for sale....only 50 cent.
Sounds sorta hip hop ...gangsta .....hu?

Capitalism ....good for the rich and fuck everyone else.........why corperations are sociopathic
I think it's simular to letting 90 year olds drive ...if you see it coming ... take cover.

Corruption is cool .... Martha Stewart set to up to alter her optics with new prime time frayed reality tv program.
Can you say pass the gravy train ... uh I mean boat...boat.

and heres a link to some real news............LINK TV MOSAIC

More Chomsky

The rhetorical framework rests on three pillars (Weeks): “the assumption of the unique moral virtue of the United States, the assertion of its mission to redeem the world” by spreading its professed ideals and the ‘American way of life,’ and the faith in the nation’s “divinely ordained destiny”. The theological framework undercuts reasoned debate, and reduces policy issues to a choice between Good and Evil, thus reducing the threat of democracy. Critics can be dismissed as “anti-American,” an interesting concept borrowed from the lexicon of totalitarianism. And the population must huddle under the umbrella of power, in fear that its way of life and destiny are under imminent threat…

THE PANAMA DECEPTION

This film shows how the U.S. attacked Panama and killed 3 or 4 thousand people in an invasion that the rest of the world was against. (Sound familiar?) It won the Academy Award for best documentary.

NEW ORLEANS

The disaster was predicted by many. In October 2001, Scientific American published an article entitled "Drowning New Orleans", by Mark Fischetti. Here is an edited extract:

"A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive re-engineering of south-eastern Louisiana can save the city. A big, slow-moving hurricane would drive a sea surge that would drown New Orleans under 20 feet of water . . . New Orleans is a disaster waiting to happen. The city lies below sea level, in a bowl bordered by levees. And because of a damning confluence of factors, the city is sinking further.The Mississippi Delta, which buffers the city, is also rapidly disappearing. Each loss gives a storm surge a clearer path to wash over the delta and pour into the bowl, trapping one million people inside and another million in surrounding communities. Extensive evacuation would be impossible because surging water would cut off the few escape routes."

NEWS YOU WONT FIND ON CNN

"The Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion." This is the most interesting documentary I've seen in all summer. As a news junkie, raising two children, working 40+ hours regularly staying informed seems to be a real task. I always loved university life, being buried in the books and all but any more it seems impossible. However if your interested in the Neo-Con ideology this documentary explains it all. The entire history is reavealed in one - well actually three episodes. Four plus hours but who said national politics or foreign policy was an easily tackled subject.

TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION

TRUTH ESCAPES YOU

L1aR
Henry Rollins

You think you’re gonna to live your life alone
In darkness
And seclusion
Yeah I know
You’ve been out there
Tried to mix with those animals
And it just left you full of humiliated confusion
So you stagger back home
And wait for nothing
But the solitary refinement of your room spits you back out onto the street
And now you’re desperate
And in need of human contact
And then
You meet me
And you whole world changes
Because everything I say is everything you’ve ever wanted to hear
So you drop all your defenses and you drop all your fears
And you trust me completely
I’m perfect
In every way
Cause I make you feel so strong and so powerful inside
You feel so lucky
But your ego obscures reality
And you never bother to wonder why
Things are going so well
You wanna know why?
Cause I’m a liar
Yeah I’m a liar
I’ll tear your mind out
I’ll burn your soul
I’ll turn you into me
I’ll turn you into me
Cause I’m a liar, a liar
A liar, a liar

I’ll hide behind a smile
And understanding eyes
And I’ll tell you things that you already know
So you can say
I really identify with you, so much
And all the time that you’re needing me
Is just the time that I’m bleeding you
Don’t you get it yet?
I’ll come to you like an affliction
And I’ll leave you like an addiction
You’ll never forget me
You wanna know why?
Cause I’m a liar
Yeah I’m a liar
I’ll rip your mind out
I’ll burn your soul
I’ll turn you into me
I’ll turn you into me
Cause I’m a liar, a liar
Liar, liar, liar, liar

I don’t know why I feel the need to lie
And cause you so much pain
Maybe it’s something inside
Maybe it’s something I can’t explain
Cause all I do
Is mess you up and lie to you
I’m a liar
Oh, I am a liar

If you’ll give me one more chance
I swear that I will never lie to you again
Because now I see the destructive power of a lie
They’re stronger than truth
I can’t believe I ever hurt you
I swear
I will never to you lie again, please
Just give me one more chance
I will never lie to you again
I swear
That I will never tell a lie
I will never tell a lie
No, no
Ha ha ha ha ha hah haa haa haa haaa
Sucker
Sucker!
Oh, sucker
I am a liar
Yeah, I am a liar
Yeah I like it
I feel good
Ohh I am a liar
Yeah
I lie
I lie
I lie
Oh, I lie
Oh I lie
I lie
Yeah
Ohhh I’m a liar
I lie
Yeah
I like it
I feel good
I’ll lie again
And again
I’ll lie again and again
And I’ll keep lying
I promise

ONE QUESTION

"A third of humanity doesn't want to ride bikes anymore; that has profound geopolitical implications."

—Anne Korin, the co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (May 1, 2005)

Do the evolution BABY....................................

Pearl Jam
Do the Evolution

Woo..
I’m ahead, I’m a man
I’m the first mammal to wear pants, yeah
I’m at peace with my lust
I can kill ’cause in God I trust, yeah
It’s evolution, baby

I’m at piece, I’m the man
Buying stocks on the day of the crash
On the loose, I’m a truck
All the rolling hills, I’ll flatten’ em out, yeah
It’s herd behavior, uh huh
It’s evolution, baby

Admire me, admire my home
Admire my song, here’s my coat
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
This land is mine, this land is free
I’ll do what I want but irresponsibly
It’s evolution, baby

I’m a thief, I’m a liar
There’s my church, I sing in the choir:
(hallelujah¡­ hallelujah¡­)

Admire me, admire my home
Admire my song, admire my clothes
’cause we know, appetite for a nightly feast
Those ignorant indians got nothin’ on me
Nothin’, why? 
Because, it’s evolution, baby!

I am ahead, I am advanced
I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah
I crawled the earth, but now I’m higher
Twenty-ten, watch it go to fire
It’s evolution, baby (2x)
Do the evolution
Come on, come on, come on

Pity this monster, Manukind

Human Behaviour
BJORK

If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
Be ready to get confused
There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic
To human behaviour
But yet so, yet so irresistible
And there's no map
They're terribly moody
And human behaviour
Then all of a sudden turn happy
But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions is ever so, ever so satisfying
Oh oh, and there's no map
Human behaviour, human
Human, human behaviour, human
Human, human behaviour, human
Human behaviour, human
And there's no map
And a compass
Wouldn't help at all
Human behaviour, human, human
Human behaviour, human,
Human behaviour, human,
Human behaviour
There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic
Human, human
Human behaviour
Human.
There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic
Human, human, human, human.

Progress is a comfortable disease:
E.E. Cummings

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
Rudyard Kipling

From the days of old there is no permanence
The Epic of Gilgamesh

It is by being alive to difficulty that one can avoid it
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching

The fifth race is the present race of iron, unworthy descendants of the fourth. They are degenerate, cruel, unjust, malicious, libidinous, unfilial, treacherous.
The Five Ages of Man - Hesiod

A dog lying in a manger, would neither eat the barley herself nor allow the horse, which could eat it, to come near.
Fables of Aesop - Dog in the Manger

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us.
Samuel Beckett - Proust

'Cheshire Puss' (said Alice)...'Would you tell me please which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends on where you want to get to,' said the cat.
'I don't much care where-' said Alice
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go' said the cat.
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

ZERO ZILCH NADDA

What the fuck is the problem here? Power Rangers are killing old folks? Whats next Scooby Doo's on crack?

Like shit isn't strange enough. Porn is a billion dollar industry despite the fact that the girls being used are blind to it.

No really I enjoy the meth weekends drunk with strangers and all the cameras....its oh sooooo glamorous.

I think my depression is easing up...I no longer feel like smashing in my skull each and every second, now its only every other minute.

Tobacco companies are eyeing children to kill for profit....now thats enlightened! But lets focus on other things....mainly sports.......ya sports....How was that fucking game last night eh sporto?


Henry Rollins
LOW SELF OPINION

I think you got a low self opinion man
I see you standing all by yourself
Unable to express the pain of your distress
You withdraw deeper inside
You alienate yourself
And everybody else
They wonder what’s on your mind
They got so tired of you
And your self ridicule
They wrote you off and left you behind

You sleep alone at night
You never wonder why
All this bitterness wells up inside you
You always victimize
So you can criticize yourself
And all those around you

The hatred you project
Does nothing to protect you
You leave yourself so exposed
You want to open up
When someone says
Lighten up
You find all your doors closed
Get yourself a break from self rejection
Try some introspection
And you just might find
It’s not so bad and anyway
At the end of the day
All you have is yourself and your mind
The self hatred that blinds you
Binds you grinds you keeps you down
The world falls down around you
You build up walls around you
You wear disgust like a crown

If you could see the you that I see
When I see you seeing me
You’d see yourself so differently
Believe me

I know the self doubt that runs inside your mind
I know the self that treats you so unkind

If you could see the you that I see
When I see you
You would see things differently
I assure you

The world's largest frozen peat bog is melting

When man realizes he can't eat money it will be too late.

We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
Indian Proverb

Many would have you believe that the earth is not being altered by mans industrial activities. This is a lie. Many say nothing is changing on earth because paid scientists deem it, but in actuality science is failing to acknowledge truth because many scientists are paid to create "facts" which show otherwise. Their failure does not reverse melting poles or changing global temperature patterns. Their limited perception is simply motivated by money. Like too many pages in history the failure of a nation is last revealed to those who caused the implosion.

To the Moron Who Washes his Driveway

Canadian Legal Systems Moves Against Methamphetamine.........FINALLY

Tales of horror caused by a drug that has been around since the 1960's. Why is it only now, 40 years after methamphetamines first appearance that such a soul consuming drug has been targeted by the government? Well your a little late but nonetheless the time has come. There still may be hope.....maybe.......not........what are the long term affects to these child addicts?

Crack cocaine raveges the brain with long term damage to serotonin production and it is said that still today 2.2% of American high school seniors have tried it. This astounding fact is made even more frightening when one realizes how prevalent it is in society.


During the 1980's & 90's foreign nations actively exported drugs to North America for profit. The net result is the undermining of our society. Cocaine and heroin are prime examples. Today however we have organized gangs i.e.: bikers, mafia, etc.... creating drugs from within our society and achieving the same net effect. Now not only are we bombarded with garbage from abroad but from within. Strange days indeed.

BURROUGHS

I took a walk beside the river today. There in with the water lillies and the cat tails were tell tale signs of two hundred years of mans growth. Floating in with the wood chips and the dead fish were the throw away consumeables of a society hell bent on progress. And there upon the matted grass so perfectly out of place were a plastic tampon applicator, a glossy condom package, and half a dozen empty beer cans, a complete nights work. The only things missing were the trash producing folk who left the stinking mess in their absence.

Walking the narrow paved route snaking beside the river the smell of industry filled my nostrils with the acrid odor of sulphur. An oh so un-heavenly scent....sulphur. Back some time the folks'd say that the devil had made his appearance when the smell of the combustable powder filled the air. Well Beelzebub must have just left, him along with the two dandies who fouled the park with an oh so covert yet public affair by the riverside.

Moments later the wind seemed to have cleared the air of the sickly scent and I wondered how much lingered back... invisible. Like ghosts trapped in a long abandoned TB hospital awaiting the next outbreak. I don't know what's worse the garbage on the streets or the invisible waste pumped into the sky and the water and the earth? Seems people don't complain about what they can't see. The powers that be like it that way too.

There was a time however when the sky rained pure and the lakes contained drinkable water and the soil wasn't corrupted with plastic and rubber and 10 million chemical toxins. It makes me so sick I dream of cutting it up. I was born too late or maybe I've stuck around too long. Either way my walk wasn't much to behold. I could almost enjoy the space if I could overlook this place.

Buying our way into oblivion

Thought for the day.......
There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today
than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should
be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections
and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.


Spain is experiencing its driest summer since record-keeping began in the 1940s

Satellite data for the month of June shows Arctic sea ice shrunk to a record low for the month

Aberrant weather patterns have made for a strange rainy season so far this year

The federal Environment Minister says a climate change report warning of more erratic weather and rising sea levels is not cause for alarm

The Pacific Ocean off of Oregon has experienced a die-off of birds, declining fisheries and wildly fluctuating conditions in the past few months

THINK

Democracy has been Hijacked

The key today is how does society address environmental concerns without stalling the almighty economy. With big business only concerned with profitability and a negligable but legislated interest in the state of the environment investors might be in for a ride. Good I'm glad...fuck em. To quote a recent writer of popular music "the things that pass for knowledge I can't understand." That said, joyful participation in the sorrows of the world appears the only way it could be. The twenty first century promises to be an interesting time with numerous regions facing very different weather conditions. If the global condition is not changing....which many sources would have you believe...then why the erratic conditions? Why are the poles melting? Natural process my ass...we've only been monitorting these things for a fraction of a second in earths natural history. Yet we're bold enough to claim we know whats going on. Its really strange what gets written out of history ...like the fact that the American constitution is strongly influenced by Iroquoin Indian methods of promoting social cohesion. I just don't want to see everything go to the dogs while the elite deny any problem exists. It's like a French revolution all over again. And what was the kings diary entry on the fateful day the Bastille was stormed....."more of the same." I like to believe he who controls the press controls popular truth. My fear is that in the name of the economy leaders will fail to inform the public until the environment is too far gone. Desertification, crop failure, water shortages, are real possibilities for a people living in the delusion of materialistic excess. What were the Roman emperors doing when it's society collapsed? Blindly encouraging bureaucracy....wow....holy fuck nothing has changed. Or what of the Greeks? They were battling other city states ...in the midst of wars....hmmmmm. Too many appear awake who are actually sleeping. Too many assume to be knowledgeable because they have education (myself included) yet reality states we all cling to social constructions and believe them to be real. It's a good day to die. Welcome to the machine....plutocracy, n. 1. government by the wealthy 2. a government or state in which the wealthy rule 3.a group of wealthy people who control or influence a government 4.a controlling class of rich men - plutocrat.

Key facts on global warming

Biological Koyaanisqatsi

The more one reads the more one sees how much more there is to learn.

"Any disturbance of the organismic balance constitutes an incomplete gestalt, an unfinished situation forcing the organism to become creative to find means and ways to restore that balance..."
F. Perls-1969

Om Mani Padme Hum

Virus of the Week

BEIJING (AP) - An unidentified disease has killed 17 farmers in China's southwest after they butchered sick pigs or sheep, but health officials say the deaths are unrelated to bird flu or SARS, state media reported Monday.

SORRY IF I OFFENDed you

Creep
SToNE TEMPLE PILoTS

Forward yesterday

Makes me wanna stay

What they said was real

Makes me wanna steal

Livin' under house

Guess I'm livin', I'm a mouse

All's I gots is time

Got no meaning, just a rhyme

Take time with a wounded hand

'Cause it likes to heal

Take time with a wounded hand

'Cause I like to steal

Take time with a wounded hand

'Cause it likes to heal, I like to steal

I'm half the man I used to me

This I feel as the dawn

It fades to gray

Well, I'm half the man I used to be

This I feel as the dawn

It fades to gray

Well, I'm half the man I used to me

This I feel as the dawn

It fades to gray

Well, I'm half the man I used to be, half the man I used to be

Feelin' uninspired

Think I'll start a fire

Everybody run

Bobby's got a gun

Think you're kinda neat

Then she tells me I'm a creep

Friends don't mean a thing

Guess I'll leave it up to me

Take time with a wounded hand

'Cause it likes to heal

Take time with a wounded hand

Guess I like to steal

Take time with a wounded hand

'Cause it likes to heal, I like to steal

I'm half the man I used to me

This I feel as the dawn

It fades to gray

I'm half the man I used to be

This I feel as the dawn

It fades to gray

I'm half the man I used to be

This I feel as the dawn

It fades to gray

I'm half the man I used to be, half the man I used to be

Take time with a wounded hand

'Cause it likes to heal

Take time with a wounded hand

Guess I like to steal

Take time with a wounded hand

'Cause it likes to heal, I like to steal

I'm half the man I used to me

This I feel as the dawn

It fades to gray

I'm half the man I used to be

This I feel as the dawn

It fades to gray

I'm half the man I used to be

This I feel as the dawn

It fades to gray

I'm half the man I used to be, half the man I used to be,

Half the man I used to be

Islam in Africa

Big Brother is Watching

New York Times
Large Volume of FBI Files Alarms US Activist Groups
Monday July 18, 2005

"Protest groups charge that F.B.I. counterterrorism officials have used their expanded powers since the Sept. 11 attacks to blur the line between legitimate civil disobedience and violent or terrorist activity in what they liken to F.B.I. political surveillance of the 1960's. The debate became particularly heated during protests over the war in Iraq and the run-up to the Republican National Convention in New York City last year, with the disclosures that the F.B.I. had collected extensive information on plans for protests."

Death at Disneyland

Forget about Bin-Laden ...there's a new threat to the nation of gravy wading sycophants. It's the damned Disney carnie ....and now they're seeking revenge. Between crack highs these simple folk arrive to work their 9-5 shift attempting to provide a better rush for those addicted to legal drugs. With all the deaths at Disneyland we should get the oh so informed public on this pressing case before the carnies have their way and start handing out free passes to government officials in Ottawa and Washington. Is Disney in league with Bin-Laden? You be the judge......

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/19/State/Are_parks_putting_too.shtml

Pedophiles In Power

The Jewish diplomat who ran a child prostitution ring out of the Israeli Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hopes to leave safe-haven Israel for a new diplomatic post in Australia.



Vatican named in Cornwall sex abuse lawsuit



Swami Baba - The Political Indian Freak Show - A Raving Pedophile
http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/?program=The+Secret+Swami
http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/SaiSex.htm
http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/witnesses/frameset.html?page=jens2


Caligula move over......
http://www.fathers.ca/political_elite_sex_rings.htm

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance

Terror Strikes Again
http://www.cfr.org/

Containment of Debate

Random links, crazed thoughts, and free dialogue in an unengaged narrative......you'll find no answers here.

Containment of debate is fostered by rationalism and works to disallow contrary opinion. Utilized by the managerial cast this shaping of debate protects cocooned leaders who can then debate falsehoods in protected bubbles. To foster the benefits of contained debate media outlets shape the optics of coverage. Thus the protective ring around leaders expands to include media. Discourse of power then revolves around terms defined by power and accepted by mangement then dispersed by media. The result upon the public is the hijacking of truth. Truth is replaced with interest. What is power but the justification of coersion - covert or otherwise.

QUESTION EVERYTHING because all you've learned is a lie

http://www.temporarytemples.co.uk/


Crazy Baldhead-Bob Marley
Build your penitentiary, we build your school
Brainwash education to make us the fools
Hate is your reward for our love
Telling us of your God above


My Favorite neurotic poet http://www.neuroticpoets.com/plath/madgirl.shtml


Because the system is dysfunctional doesn't mean all those involved are too.


To see sad sights moves more than to hear them told,
For then the eye interprets to the ear
The heavy motion that it doth behold
When every part a part of woe doth bear.
Tis but a sorrow that we hear.
Deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow folds,
And sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words.
Shakespeare-The Rape of Lucrece

Testify - Rage Against the Machine
That Baghdad is burning
Your voice it is so soothing
That cunning mantra of killing
I need you my witness
To dress this up so bloodless
To numb me and purge me now
Of thoughts of blaming you

"...the fundamental coerciveness of society lies not in its machineries of social control, but in its power to impose itself as a reality."
P. Berger The Sacred Canopy

ART MEETS SCIENCE

To see plasticized flesh follow my link ....this is the most controversial art to roll accross the world house in a while. Plastinated flesh. Presently in the windly city and comming north to Toronto in September of 30th this will be something to see. You really have to read the articles concerning the display, otherwise one is thrown into a Romero-esque Dali landscape of flesh puppetry. Simply amazing. A must see! I'm short on time right now....must go ....but this is worth every word....only in L.A. would a plastinated fetus be targeted by thieves. Outrageous!

Hyper Reflectivity In Times Of Absolute Meaninglessness

Somewhere between Thoreau's simple analogy of railroads being built upon the back's of men and Marx's theory of commodity I pondered what systems operate off the output of some underpaid population today. The answer shocked me.
As the growing market supplies more and more products to greater and greater population with wants....we've all fallen, hook line and sinker for an imposed ideology. We all work in some fashion as part of the manufacture, delivery, or consumption of some product. The ultimate conclusion then is, to quote Deleuze and Guattari, we're "desiring machines." The absolute irony is that businesses serve to codify desire thus we work for a system that seeks to deliver wares which we think we want because the system suggests so. Wanting....a topic of Buddha, Marx, Deleuze and Guattari.....

YET ANOTHER PRIEST WHO MOLESTS CHILDREN

Konstanty (Konnie) Przybylski, 55, of Cathcart Street, London has been charged with two counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual exploitation, one count of sexual interference and one count of sexual touching. Hey Father can ya give me a light? Appears your on fire there dancing with the ...uh ....any way ...can ya light this sambuka shooter for me, while I slip out of my underwear ....there's not alot of room here in the confessional.


Sorry.... I know, I know. It's a little over the top but hey if the shoe fits......


Also ...it's real strange how the Christian Science Moniter has no results in it's info bank on Pedophile Priests or Church Scandle.....things that make ya go HUMMMMMMMMMMM.

FRONTLINE-ONLINE

Being the news and documentary junkie I am, I'm quick to share this source of information. W-5 also has numerous docs on line as well as Witness. Why do I go on ranting about the need for change? I'm not sure ... but one thing is certain, if one person somewhere out there in this new digital medium opens up to just one new idea...

James Joyce stated that "all social changes are the effect of new technologies...(and McLuhan continued), that guarantees that every major technical innovation will so disturb our inner lives that wars necessarily result as misbegotten efforts to recover old images."
McLuhan & Fiore in War and Peace in the Global Village 1968

"The natural mind is intrinsicly beautiful, buoyant, free, and tranquil. This is our pure original being, which existed before we saw ourself as self, before we percieved others, and before we started to think others were the source of our pleasure and our suffering."
Lama Surya Das - Awakening The Buddha Within 1997

Thought of the day - Economic alienation is resulting in obligatory subjugation.

Child Molesters: A Behavioural Analysis

The Boat Is Sinking

GLOBAL HOTSPOTS

Joe Klein @ TIME see http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klein/article/0,9565,1071193-1,00.html


The truth is people are just too busy with their own situations to give time to the larger picture. Add to that the complexity of the global predicament and the risk of misunderstanding ...and presto we have a growing sense of apathy when it comes to truly understanding the global situation today.

SMOG ALERT

CULTURE OF DEATH

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home....seehttp://www.mediaed.org/

Liberal Senator Michel Biron is a FUCKING MORON

Here's the reason why the world has gone to the dogs. This stupid moron - supposedly educated - living off the dole ( that's your dollar ) has seen fit to stand up for a fucking sociopath. And in my best french accent he says "whell Hi gho to da triael cuz she his dha victem ....er rit as duh Canudien his hat rhisk." You fucking moron...the day that unelected senators start standing up for child killers is the day we can kiss our true rights goodbye. The fish stinks from the head.

UPDATED: JUNE 22/05. The stinking sack of stupidity has apologised. He's suuuuuuch a looooser. Isn't appointment to the Canadian Senate a grand thing. I feel so comfortable knowing stupid old farts like this are at the helm. http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1119480054829_3?hub=topstories

History Today

"We are caught in a situation in which every citizen of every country, his children, and his life's work, are threatened by the terrible insecurity which reigns in our world today. The process of technological development has not increased the stability and the welfare of humanity. Because of our inability to solve the problem of international organization, it has actually contributed to the dangers which threaten peace and the very existance of mankind"
Open Letter to U.N. Albert Einstein 1947.

"The dogmas whose birth we are witnessing will soon have the force of the old dogmas."
Gustave Le Bon - The Crowd - 1896

"...what is real individualism in the contemporary secular state? If it is self gratification, then this is the golden age. If it has to do with personal public commitment, then we are witnessing the death of the individual and living in an age of unparalleled conformism. Specialization and professionalism ...have served to build defensive cells in which the individual is locked."
J. Ralston Saul - Voltaire's Bastards - 1993


"Groups tend to move toward a consensus, discouraging disagreement and often making poor decisions because people are afraid to disagree with what they think what their leaders want."
Irving Janis (1982) in Ten Questions by Joel M. Charon

"When we live as if the multiplicity of the phenomenal universe were the creator of all truths, and treat the world about us as if its shifting scale of values were the only measure of our ultimate good, the world becomes an illusion."
Thomas Merton - The Ascent to Truth - 1951


One day a man came to the teacher Bayazid and said: "I have fasted and prayed for thirty years and have found none of the spiritual joy of which you speak.""If you had fasted and prayed for three hundred years, you would never find it," answered the sage."How is that?" asked the man."Your selfishness is acting as a veil between you and God.""Tell me the cure.""It is a cure you cannot carry out," said Bayazid.Those around him pressed him to reveal it. After a time he spoke. "Go to the nearest barbershop and have your head shaved; strip yourself of your clothes except for a loincloth. Take a nosebag full of walnuts, hang it around your neck. Go into the market place and cry out-'Anybody who gives me a slab on the neck shall have a wallnut.' Then proceed to the law courts and do the same thing.""I cant do that," said the man, "suggest some other remedy.""This is the indespensable preliminary to a cure," answered Bayazid, "but as I told you, you are incurable."
al-Ghazzali 1964

Air pollution kills thousands each year

Council on Foreign Relations

THE EARTH INSTITUTE

RANT

Remember when Grandma warned ya...playing with that thing'll make ya go blind....well Pfizer didn't seem to mind the hairy palms...but the profits that providing the elderly with erections is just astronomical (say stiff investors)....now what? Now we've got blind alzheimer's patients running around with erections...this is a law suit in the making. I don't think I'll visit Grandpa this week.

To all those who would blog about porn til they went blind on perscription drugs......
please get a life or prove your a brave lot ... and commit mass suicide

Oliver Stone: found drunk and smoking weed through an actual shotgun was overheard mumbling to himself..."Lemmyat another Tarantino script...I need ya Quentin, I gotta have ya." Lifting the shotgun to his mouth for yet another toke of what might have been crack he exclaimed "Say hello to my little friend," and threw up on himself.

Karla Homolka, everybody's favorite murderess, is soon to be out of jail. Wow, for someone who killed and sexually abused her own dying sister she's really cleaned up! Thank God for lawyers and their infinite...if bureaucratic, wisdom.

Apparently the new Pope is going to heal some Christian rifts...he'll be applying Band-Aids to rectums.

Now that Martha Stewart is out of jail she's coming out with a few new products for the ex-con in us all. New this season...shanked turkey roast, it comes complete with a razor blade melted into a toothbrush handle to carve those extra thin sandwich slices. Hoosegaw gin 'n juice, just like Cell Block 1 makes it....with extra crack. And last but not least...crack on a stick...you just lick the crack....apparently Mrs. Stewart did alot of that while she was in the can...apparently she misses it.

Vice President Dick Cheney today said he was offended by Amnesty International's condemnation of the United States...Cheney then responded with air strikes on Amnesty's offices and deported all survivors to Guantanamo Bay.

Paris Hilton got off her knees today, wiped her chin and then...she was overheard saying "walking really sucks"...she fell back down to her knees and finished her visit by riding daddy's coattails back to the west coast...where apparently she'll be starring in another low light special....Martha does Paris.

And if that's not strange enough....check out the dude who summoned up a UFO on air
http://www.filecabi.net/v.php?file=ufoondemand.wmv

MORE CHOMSKY 05/18/05

Q: We want to talk about the two dominant power structures of the modern era: the national state and the transnational corporations.

Reason To Bother

I found this years ago in a popular newspaper. I've carried it in my wallet for years now....seriously.

Lucien Saumur asks, "Why should anyone be bothered to act ethically?" He seems to regard the moral order as something plastered on top of human reality rather than one of its essential aspects, and this is symptomatic of the general loss of meaning characteristic of our times. If meaning is percieved relationship, the missing connections are those between knowledge, morality and freedom.

Truth is itself a moral value. Knowledge which derives from love of truth is social in character and depends on trust, which is, in turn, a function of moral integrity. The historian, for example, depends on a synthesis of findings in many other disciplines and necessarily relies on the honesty of the scholors concerned.

The Greeks had a saying that freedom is a function of "obedience to the unenforceable." They meant that to the degree that we practice self-discipline (i.e. act ethically), external compulsion will not be required, and vice versa. On the positive side, they regarded freedom as derivative from the pursuit of justice, which is in turn dependent on the integrity of the judgement and a belief in the value of other human beings.

The will to defend this integity was, for the Stoics, the hallmark of the human: to abandon it was to become a living corpse. It was also to undermine freedom, which ultimately derives from what is naturally free: the moral judgement. Our contemporary freedom owes much to these principals.

Ultimately, it seems that the urge to live and grow - a centeral dynamic in every healthy organism - is foundational. The person who prefers life to death, truth to lies and freedom to tyranny - and understands what is involved - will feel an obligation to act ethically.

John R. MacCormack, Director Institute of Human Values

Saint Mary's University

Halifax

Saudi Arabia

Lebanon

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Reading the cover story in the May edition of The New Yorker entitled "How Hot Can It Get?" it struck me....we're all brainwashed. Nobody wants to believe the world's atomasphere has been affected by ....what I've chosen to call materialism. The fact that numerous first class scientists are coming out with study after study expressing the subtle early warning signs of a biosphere in transition and yet....the majority of the North American public A) Don't care B) Don't know C) Don't believe the science or D) Stay drunk enough to repress the truth.

We're truly what J.Ralston Saul calls the Unconscious Civilization. Although I believe he used the term more narrowly I am applying it to North America....hell even Europe....they too have numerous environmental issues...though North Americans seem to be slower to react to the crisis than anybody. With an oil company executive as the vice prez in the US, could things possibly become any more earth friendly? The world as we know it is drunk on oil....rather than developing alternative energies we've placed all our energy needs in the hands of two oil junkies....Dubya and Haliburton.

The article however is much less biased...it shows how super computer driven models have developed interesting results in climate study such as desertification and increased global temperatures....sound familiar? Don't worry sleepy head this won't happen in your lifetime.....however because the results of the gradual vs rapid evolution are inconclusive....I being the Murphy's Law advocate am saying without a doubt, we could be on the verge......

Give it another twenty years when China has fully industrialized and it's booming population become the materialists were are today ..... then my friend .....we'll see....please write me...then and now....apparently 500 of you have been through this writing experement in the past 3.5 months yet only a handful of you have chosen to respond :(

A short quote from the article reads..."What the record shows is that the planet is now nearly as warm as it has been at any point in the last four hundred and twenty thousand years. A possible concequence of a four- or five-degree temperature rise - on the low end of the projections for doubled CO2 - is that the world will enter a completely new climate regime, one which modern humans have no prior experience."

Black Sabbath by Henry Rollins

Black Sabbath

by Henry Rollins

So much litter out of place
It's time to put it in its place
A mind is a terrible thing
A dream is flashing like a polished weapon in my mind
To the summer ambulance
Siren songs
The two girls
Drunk
Fighting outside the club
Broken glass under the crime lights
Fuck these streets
And the bastards who put them here
All these experements
Like how much blood it will take to drown you
And while I know
That I am a hero in the making
A walking legend
Superstar status is my domain
If I had a car big enough
I would drive all of you right off the edge
But there is not the time to play games
I walk the streets looking at you
Listening to you living your garbage cowboy coward fantasy
This place is going to look alot different
After I get done decorating
Too bad you wont be here to see it
I am an angel
I am a sloider
I am on a mission
No one knows but me
The streets talk to me
The sidewalk looks up at me and makes faces
It mocks me
When I breath in the stench fills me
Tries to consume me
Tries to destroy me
It will not destroy me
I am here to clear the air
Look at this place
Look at the filth
Look at the decadence
It forces you to pick a side
Either you destroy it or you become it
Every moment of the day it stares you in the face
Taunting you
Destroying you
And you let it
Tag
You're it
You're shit
It's too late for spiritual awakening
Fuck that hippie shit
It's too late for social change
You can't educate a flock of sheep
Can't you see that's what they want
They want you to turn away
They want you to lie down
Like a lamb for the slaughter
Like a chump for the sellout
There will be no revolution
There will be no uprising
There will be no race war
How could anyone be that stupid?
How could anyone believe that bullshit?
What a joke
I know a lot about jokes
I see them all the time
I spent years with some living jokes
You should see them now
Fat
Stoned
Cowards
Living death
Men of action turned into weak pieces of shit
They could get my repect again
If they shot themselves in the head
At night I walk the streets
I take mental notes
I take inventory
The filth
The garbage
The stench
Liers
Freaks
Clowns
My mission becomes clear to me
My life focuses into a laser beam
My purpose
My life
My vision is pure napalm
I am here to clean
There is only one way to clean
You have ot incinerate
You must cleanse with fire
You must turn disease with ash
Or it still lives
Things have gone too far
The strong are destroyed by the weak
Decadence has set a precedent
It has become a way of life
Not the way of my life
Shit is shit
I am here to burn it
Can't you see?
I am beyond your timid lying morality
I don't believe in equality
That is to say
That I don't think that if you're alive
That's all you need to get by
The man who sells drugs
Is not equal to me
The man who rapes his son is not equal to me
They cannot hide
Guilt trips will not shield them from me
I don't believe in human rights
I think you have grown fat and evil
Hiding behind your your human rights
Reveling in filth
The balance must be brought back
When I walk the streets in my neighbourhood
Drunks come staggering from bars
Guns go off
Police helicopters fly above
Yet nothing happens
Some show
Lets cut the drama
Get rid of the display
The ritual is nowhere
It's hollow
The nights are made of tin
Cheap
Bitter death
I will show you my world
I will bring it home
My beauty
The summer nights of fire and truth
Can you see it?
A dark hot night
The whine of engines from above
The tree line explodes in fire orange
The air fills with the smell of gasoline
The air strike
Like a flower erupting in rapid birth
Filth turned to ash
So beautiful
Decadence lies bleeding
As I walk and plan
I hear angels singing
Black Sabbath songs
The soles of my shoes are thick
Keeps the blood and urine at a distance
The mind I occupy is iron
My time is now
I see them
Maybe it is you who I see
Singing the song of the looser
Your endless, diseased song
The end is coming
And I am the one who is bringing it
I am the punch line
I will defoliate before it's too late
You spend millions on rehabilitation
How big does a lie have to get before even you can no longer avoid it?
You shit in you bed
You wait for someone to come
And clean it up
Well here I am
Ready to throw out the baby with the bathwater

OM-AUM-OHM

The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence.
Waking Life

The demons have been turned loose and go about, grotesquely pretending to be honourable 20th-century men who do not believe in evil spirits.
Vaclav Havel

Decietfulness, perverse sexual behaviour, stealing, and increasing destructiveness are typical features of...breakdown of the personality."
Martin Israel

Three Poisons: Craving - Hatred - Ignorance
Buddha

The world is not a vacuume. Either we make it an alter for God or it is invaded by demons.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

....every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell

Man is asleep, must he die before he wakes?
Muhammad

Three things in life are destructive: anger, greed and pride.
Muhammad

The path to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
Carl Jung

So nice I hadda link it twice.................B.Y.O.B.

Denial
Characteristic reflex of a technocrat. Since actions are the result of solutions arrived at by experts there can be no error. Error is replaced by a linear succession of right answers. This requires the systematic denial of error when each preceeding answer fails to do its job in spite of being right.
J.Ralston Saul -The Doubter's Companion

Welcome To My Breakdown

Don't know what to write ....just have an urge to.
Strange how in those silent moments words just flow........unlike now
But whatever. Books I'm reading,

The Portable Henry Rollins - Henry Rollins
Elements of the Writing Craft - Robert Olmstead
The Art of Dramatic Writing - Lajos Egri
Essays - Michel De Montaigne

Movies I've been obsessing over recently.

Apocalypse Now Redux
Sin City
Koyaanisqatsi
Hiroshima Mon Amour


We live in discourse and disassembled grammer. Grasping at etheral words spoken in haste...and waste. In the subjectivity of now could anything matter....really....children loose themselves in the speed and interconnectivity of today...night...dawn....morning. Dimentions open up and slam shut in milliseconds like years. We sit reading Waiting for Godot and finish up with Sisyphus....Parents buy into a system built on the backs of their dead and then fail to realize the wants they deem their own are instilled by marketeers and corperations......
I feel like the harbinger Kurtz staring lifelessly into the green climbing black grasp of the jungle....alone with ....the horror.

I spend my weekends searching for an unattainable truth. In histories wrung out of old cardboard boxed memories forgotten in attics and covered in the dust of time. Linking back to a place simpler and more confused. A timeless lying golden age smiles back in a silver lining as the elderly wish this world away. Where am I ... what am I .... who am I ... what is with this endless byzantine malaise.....

I dreamed of a snail moving along the edge of straight razor.........

Venturing to search an out of the way bookstore I've infrequently purchased books from. I arrive to find the place closed. I suddenly recall the owners image, one I coulden't immediatly place, in the obituary, weeks ago....the owner wasn't returning. Wandering amongst the memories of yellowing dog eared pulped fictions I recall the owner always had a story from some corner of the world. He'd been to the Middle East, he'd been in Europe, he'd been down south, had worked in great cities, and yet he preferred to live here....nowhere....truly. This out of the way little reststop between real locations. After all my talks with him ... nothing. I thought of my own fathers death. My affect flattened like black tar under a steamroller....I've become nada .... like the owner of the bookstore....only he died to achieve it....

Seek no answers here....I thought to myself. I'm crazy, some sort of deranged lifeless sentinal...trying to feign objectivity. I'm burying myself in the thought of attempting to find meaning out there while jamming as much info in here as I can bare.....but answers won't arrive. Not now, not later today, not ever. But just then it comes to me as I stare into the dull grey windows of the one time bookstore....there on the floor is a copy of Dostoyevsky's Notes From The Underground....and a line comes to me......."we shall invent a method of being born from an idea." And the confusion loosens its hold as I feel the sunshine warm my face and I leave the store for the last time listening to a Wittgenstein quote fire and repeat like a DJ Spooky sample in my head....."Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."