God I hope this doesn't manifest itself,
but now is the time and the GOP certainly has set the stage....
Lets pray it doesn't come true....
but then how low does this administration go?
listen to Keith Olbermann speak of the failures... listen to him talk to the cowardly national ad that resurrects Bin-Laden... after even the pResident has written him off as no longer a concern.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WG7pcIpV10
But how low will these creatures go to march out their agenda of hegemony? How many more will they murder to keep the collective mindset of Americans in their grip? With less than two weeks til the election, it would play well from the Karl Rove handbook of Election Victories at Any Cost to pull the October Surprise.... like a bug listening on his campaign headquarters only days before incumbent Ann Richards was to sweep contender George W Bush by a wide margin. But the headline news of the wiretapping of campaign headquarters cast enough doubt to bring the the Goddess of Liberty atop the Austin Capitol building and the State of Texas... under Bush's control.
Days after the election, the truth of the "bug" broke, it has a battery life of 2 hrs, a range of 50 yards and was incorrectly setup. But the yet unknown Rove would tell you it worked just fine, for with that October surprise, his candidate took the office and the followup story never made it off an inset column on page 22 of section D.
Now the stakes are much higher... loss of the senate and house... leaving pResident Bush a complete lame duck... with several pieces to Cheny's political end-game yet to be played...
Now, the Bin-Laden ad, increased headlines of dirty bomb threats in stadiums and cities... Are we being tenderized for the real surprise? WIll this administration sink so low as to stage another terrorist act to stay in power? The stakes have never been higher... the pResident and his henchmen could still face prison if enough seats change.... would they bring down another building? Release a dirty bomb? Unleash a biological agent? ... or do they have an even better plan?
Diebold, ES&S and the voter machines... will all the elections return with 51 to 49 votes in favor of the Republicans? Will we again find out too late of the partisan crimes like Kathleen Harris (FL Sec of State 2000) now Congresswoman, who had 58,000 minority voters struck from the register because their surnames matched convicted people? Or Kenneth Blackwell (OH 2004 Sec of State) Head of elections commission and chair of Bush's re-election committee... who's now running for Governor! Blackwell who with Diebold President, "Deliver Ohio to the GOP"....
Yes perhaps there will be no October Surprise.... We can only Pray these Imperialistic Megalomaniacs in Washington do not murder more civilians on our own soil to swing the vote.... But will we have the November surprise when voters are once again, deceived by a privatized voting system that can swing digits to record victory of their choosing—and without paper to prove. Will we be one step closer to a reality we will wear in shame the rest of our lives?
Democracy is the will of the people, if we do nothing, our will be done.... we can stew in our own juices as the world returns to an awful chapter... when another megalomaniacal empire subjugated the masses... and trust me, we are all part of the masses.
Will it once again be the scrupulous work of investigative reporters to uncover the truth about the elections? Months and years later being able to connect the dots, get the story, find the truth... Or will our new laws restricting journalism, consolidating media ownership and control, and our new wiretapping freedoms empower this administration to see all, hear all, and arrest any who stand in their way.... or is that saved for 2008?
in prayers
Charlie Koenen
your wingnut prophet
with more ramblings
from the edge————|
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 23, 2006
The Unraveling
RightWing Media Pundits pull all the stops
It is hard to imagine this tactic is still employed by the Right Wing Media majors like FOX. But here we have it again, Right wing talkshow pundits on every podium they can summon, spewing the most audacious misdirection and spin ever perpetrated on the general public.
Step right up ladies and gentleman,, see GOP pundit, Steve Malzberg, lyve, and caged in a prison of his party's own making. A Pundit with an unparalleled ability to muckrake the most vile propaganda known to man,, step right up and see how they treat their voting constituants,, like, a ninth ward minority granny on her rooftop, in New Orleans... Yes thats right folks,
OOOoooooowwww! , Don't let the kids get too close!
He's liable to snatch em from your mitts and devour them like or dervs at a GOP fundraiser.
,Who wants to ask the first question? You, there in the back, what do you want to ask the pundit?
When did the speaker of the house first learn of the congressman's penchant for little boy pages?
rrrrrarrrreerrrooowww... it was clinton, I mean monica lewinski,er radical activist judges..er liberal, democrats and communists, siding with AlQida and passing secrets that threaten our nations security rrreereeroaaarrssssss.... WMD's WMD's BinLaden and Iraq, Saddham and 9/11... liberal flip-floppers, disgracing the military... stay the course, greeted as liberators, we are a friendly nation that seeks to help democracy flourish throughout the middle east..... err... cluster bombs.....hhaaaaa uum wiretaps,eenn umm no free speech, no journalism....embed, embedded...activist, sodham, illegal aleins, border fence...
what was the question? err about two years ago...
Excuse me? Two years ago? We are talking about a person caught flirting with a MINOR!
Not just any person, a Congressman! Not just any Congressman, but the one who heads up the Commission to protect MINORS FROM PEDOPHILES??? Right?
iiiieeeeaarrrrrighhhhtyroooski.... radical russians, communist threat, alquida, carbomb, oklahoma, mcVey.... Hinkley Shot Reagan, terror suspects held in detention facilities errrrrrraaarrrr
And not just any Minor, but a captive group of children sent to SERVE CONGRESS....
A group of children given a chance to learn how Congress works! Sent by their parents
to get an up-close look at our 109th Congress - in action!
heeeeerrrrraarrraayy,, muktada elsauder, briitish taliban..... rrrrryes aI guess thats what happened..... so????
What have they learned? hie children, What have we exposed them too?
And now, how are the leaders of the GOP responding?
Weeeellllllllleerrrrii'mmmmmaaaagggonnnatttteeellllyaaa the kids were never in harms way, and are safely in their pajamas in bed...eeerrrrrriIi knowwthis cuz I tuckked in a few of the cute liitle boys, myself..e..rrrrraaaaahhh. - jesus haters- liberal anarchists errraaahhh.... 9/11 stay the course errr ahh umm....
How can anyone align themselves with this kind of doctrine? It is inconceivable to think that anyone can pretend to claim any moral high ground on this issue... while behaving like this. Steve??
WWWOOOOdddeemeeellllloommaaahhhh gotta big fat check for my appearance errrannnddddddI can perhaps one day follow in the footsteps of my hero Tony Snowwwwwww activistjudges errrroowww abortion lovers, leavenochildbehinddddddefense strategy, operation stoploss...errrrrr wwwooowww
Steve Malzberg you're a disgrace to journalism...We're talking about a Pedophile who has been essentially given the keys to the children's dormitory... by House Speaker Haskert and the GOP-run 109th Congress!
Errrrrrrhheeyy,, hee gottt the keys???? nnnnnaaaaannooo fairrrrrr, whay doesnt the press corp get them too???? Weerrree alwaays the last ones to the party..errrrrr ummmm....
Haskert knew of Foley's penchant for little boys-pages-for 2 years! But because the GOP needed that Republican seat. it was more important than the children of parents from both sides of the aisle.
Errrruummmsseeeuuummmmerrrrepublicans are betterrrrr, higher morality and church light.... errravtivistjudges...err...an Democrats, flip floppers errrann hillary.errr barbara boxerrrrrrandddddennisconyerrrracist judges...... errr stay the course... plausable deniability, acceptable casualty...eeerrrrr... no on said freedom would be easy errrraaarrrgggg Rumsfelt denied any wrongdoing...errrr brownies doin a heck of a job errruummmm
This has nothing to do about prior scandals,
nothing to do with Democrats at all...
but watch FOX network blatantly manipulate
public perception with lies,
unrelated distractions and bully tactics.
Straight out of Rove's Handbook
Steve Malzberg has the privilege
of being a radio talk-show host!
He should be censored just like Foley
should have been by Speaker Haskert.
Time to take to the pen and write opinions...
to friends, family, neighborhood papers....
FOX is blatantly abusing their privilege
to broadcast on our airwaves! And since
1981, the FCC, our government's oversight
commission has been systematically re-staffed
by media-friendly and in many cases media
owned personnel. Today the FCC is nothing
more than a rubber stamp
for this administration and its policy...
favoring media consolidation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC
The director, Kevin Martin, headed the
Bush-Cheney transition team and is a radical
right-wing media advocate, his predecessor
Michael Powell blatantly served the interests
of media corporations... no wonder it seems
like this kind of conduct is okay!
The real question is How low
will we let them go?
We go about our lives too busy
to accept responsibility...
We push aside our duty as citizens
in a Democracy, our duty to be informed...
to take action, to participate.
We do so at our own peril,
for this democracy is unraveling
before our very eyes-
whether we choose to look
-or not, and when its gone,
there is no "do-over button"
Make sure the 110th Congress does not
become the second Rubberstamp of the
New American Century...
And keep the Rubberstamp Republicans
like Green out of the Govenor's office.
`
Lets not make our children pay
in ways far worse than the
Congressional Pages have paid.
It is hard to imagine this tactic is still employed by the Right Wing Media majors like FOX. But here we have it again, Right wing talkshow pundits on every podium they can summon, spewing the most audacious misdirection and spin ever perpetrated on the general public.
Step right up ladies and gentleman,, see GOP pundit, Steve Malzberg, lyve, and caged in a prison of his party's own making. A Pundit with an unparalleled ability to muckrake the most vile propaganda known to man,, step right up and see how they treat their voting constituants,, like, a ninth ward minority granny on her rooftop, in New Orleans... Yes thats right folks,
OOOoooooowwww! , Don't let the kids get too close!
He's liable to snatch em from your mitts and devour them like or dervs at a GOP fundraiser.
,Who wants to ask the first question? You, there in the back, what do you want to ask the pundit?
When did the speaker of the house first learn of the congressman's penchant for little boy pages?
rrrrrarrrreerrrooowww... it was clinton, I mean monica lewinski,er radical activist judges..er liberal, democrats and communists, siding with AlQida and passing secrets that threaten our nations security rrreereeroaaarrssssss.... WMD's WMD's BinLaden and Iraq, Saddham and 9/11... liberal flip-floppers, disgracing the military... stay the course, greeted as liberators, we are a friendly nation that seeks to help democracy flourish throughout the middle east..... err... cluster bombs.....hhaaaaa uum wiretaps,eenn umm no free speech, no journalism....embed, embedded...activist, sodham, illegal aleins, border fence...
what was the question? err about two years ago...
Excuse me? Two years ago? We are talking about a person caught flirting with a MINOR!
Not just any person, a Congressman! Not just any Congressman, but the one who heads up the Commission to protect MINORS FROM PEDOPHILES??? Right?
iiiieeeeaarrrrrighhhhtyroooski.... radical russians, communist threat, alquida, carbomb, oklahoma, mcVey.... Hinkley Shot Reagan, terror suspects held in detention facilities errrrrrraaarrrr
And not just any Minor, but a captive group of children sent to SERVE CONGRESS....
A group of children given a chance to learn how Congress works! Sent by their parents
to get an up-close look at our 109th Congress - in action!
heeeeerrrrraarrraayy,, muktada elsauder, briitish taliban..... rrrrryes aI guess thats what happened..... so????
What have they learned? hie children, What have we exposed them too?
And now, how are the leaders of the GOP responding?
Weeeellllllllleerrrrii'mmmmmaaaagggonnnatttteeellllyaaa the kids were never in harms way, and are safely in their pajamas in bed...eeerrrrrriIi knowwthis cuz I tuckked in a few of the cute liitle boys, myself..e..rrrrraaaaahhh. - jesus haters- liberal anarchists errraaahhh.... 9/11 stay the course errr ahh umm....
How can anyone align themselves with this kind of doctrine? It is inconceivable to think that anyone can pretend to claim any moral high ground on this issue... while behaving like this. Steve??
WWWOOOOdddeemeeellllloommaaahhhh gotta big fat check for my appearance errrannnddddddI can perhaps one day follow in the footsteps of my hero Tony Snowwwwwww activistjudges errrroowww abortion lovers, leavenochildbehinddddddefense strategy, operation stoploss...errrrrr wwwooowww
Steve Malzberg you're a disgrace to journalism...We're talking about a Pedophile who has been essentially given the keys to the children's dormitory... by House Speaker Haskert and the GOP-run 109th Congress!
Errrrrrrhheeyy,, hee gottt the keys???? nnnnnaaaaannooo fairrrrrr, whay doesnt the press corp get them too???? Weerrree alwaays the last ones to the party..errrrrr ummmm....
Haskert knew of Foley's penchant for little boys-pages-for 2 years! But because the GOP needed that Republican seat. it was more important than the children of parents from both sides of the aisle.
Errrruummmsseeeuuummmmerrrrepublicans are betterrrrr, higher morality and church light.... errravtivistjudges...err...an Democrats, flip floppers errrann hillary.errr barbara boxerrrrrrandddddennisconyerrrracist judges...... errr stay the course... plausable deniability, acceptable casualty...eeerrrrr... no on said freedom would be easy errrraaarrrgggg Rumsfelt denied any wrongdoing...errrr brownies doin a heck of a job errruummmm
This has nothing to do about prior scandals,
nothing to do with Democrats at all...
but watch FOX network blatantly manipulate
public perception with lies,
unrelated distractions and bully tactics.
Straight out of Rove's Handbook
Steve Malzberg has the privilege
of being a radio talk-show host!
He should be censored just like Foley
should have been by Speaker Haskert.
Time to take to the pen and write opinions...
to friends, family, neighborhood papers....
FOX is blatantly abusing their privilege
to broadcast on our airwaves! And since
1981, the FCC, our government's oversight
commission has been systematically re-staffed
by media-friendly and in many cases media
owned personnel. Today the FCC is nothing
more than a rubber stamp
for this administration and its policy...
favoring media consolidation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC
The director, Kevin Martin, headed the
Bush-Cheney transition team and is a radical
right-wing media advocate, his predecessor
Michael Powell blatantly served the interests
of media corporations... no wonder it seems
like this kind of conduct is okay!
The real question is How low
will we let them go?
We go about our lives too busy
to accept responsibility...
We push aside our duty as citizens
in a Democracy, our duty to be informed...
to take action, to participate.
We do so at our own peril,
for this democracy is unraveling
before our very eyes-
whether we choose to look
-or not, and when its gone,
there is no "do-over button"
Make sure the 110th Congress does not
become the second Rubberstamp of the
New American Century...
And keep the Rubberstamp Republicans
like Green out of the Govenor's office.
`
Lets not make our children pay
in ways far worse than the
Congressional Pages have paid.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
End of Democracy!
What did you do yesterday?
My Mom turned 81... but that wasn't the most important event that occurred yesterday.
Yesterday America officially dismantled its very fabric. Bush and his rubberstamp Congress signed the 2006 Military Commission Act and officially made our existing form of government obsolete.... but for the figure head branches. Look Here
With the signing of this Bill, all the secret torture prisons this administration has built around the world are now legal. This Bill suspends Habeas Corpus for detainees ll, 4.5 acre big, Eisenhower, equipped with tactical military strike fighters and a barrage of surveillance and support aircraft, left Norfolk,VA on October 3rd with more than 5000 young sailors and air corps. The average age on board is 19 years so they are certainly able, but also impressionable.
As of tomorrow and certainly up through election time, the presence of this awesome arsenal will raise tension in an already tense area. Can you sat Tonkin Bay? How bout Pearl Harbor or September 11th... each of these events stuck fear and retribution throughout America. What will be this war's ignition incident? Will it happen next week or just before the election? Will you be drawn to fight back, or to look at the cause and effect scenario we have begun today?
This latest example of Bush Diplomacy... like Iraq, Afghanistan and the Lebennon/Palestine interventions before... should be a clear indicator of the agenda this administration has always had... even before 9/11. Regime Change is a clever word for Imperialism- the policy of extending the rule or authority of a nation over foreign countries.
As of today, he now has the authorization to do so.... where were you on October 17, 2006? This is a day will certainly live in infamy... perhaps even more-so than Dec 7th, 1941.
SmirkingChimp
Grieve for our nation and its inability to escape
the self-distractive stranglehold its media, military, industrialists and politicians have put us in....
Some may laugh at my "conspiracy" talk...
but pray I'm wrong as it will surely make you wish
you'd cared more about defending democracy
rather than watching CSI: or Survivor...
Yesterday, the real Crime Scene was Washington
The Survivors of this act will not be you, as of yesterday
your rights were voted off the island.
My Mom turned 81... but that wasn't the most important event that occurred yesterday.
Yesterday America officially dismantled its very fabric. Bush and his rubberstamp Congress signed the 2006 Military Commission Act and officially made our existing form of government obsolete.... but for the figure head branches. Look Here
With the signing of this Bill, all the secret torture prisons this administration has built around the world are now legal. This Bill suspends Habeas Corpus for detainees ll, 4.5 acre big, Eisenhower, equipped with tactical military strike fighters and a barrage of surveillance and support aircraft, left Norfolk,VA on October 3rd with more than 5000 young sailors and air corps. The average age on board is 19 years so they are certainly able, but also impressionable.
As of tomorrow and certainly up through election time, the presence of this awesome arsenal will raise tension in an already tense area. Can you sat Tonkin Bay? How bout Pearl Harbor or September 11th... each of these events stuck fear and retribution throughout America. What will be this war's ignition incident? Will it happen next week or just before the election? Will you be drawn to fight back, or to look at the cause and effect scenario we have begun today?
This latest example of Bush Diplomacy... like Iraq, Afghanistan and the Lebennon/Palestine interventions before... should be a clear indicator of the agenda this administration has always had... even before 9/11. Regime Change is a clever word for Imperialism- the policy of extending the rule or authority of a nation over foreign countries.
As of today, he now has the authorization to do so.... where were you on October 17, 2006? This is a day will certainly live in infamy... perhaps even more-so than Dec 7th, 1941.
SmirkingChimp
Grieve for our nation and its inability to escape
the self-distractive stranglehold its media, military, industrialists and politicians have put us in....
Some may laugh at my "conspiracy" talk...
but pray I'm wrong as it will surely make you wish
you'd cared more about defending democracy
rather than watching CSI: or Survivor...
Yesterday, the real Crime Scene was Washington
The Survivors of this act will not be you, as of yesterday
your rights were voted off the island.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Left wing media bias my eye!
Please take a moment to view this news clip on YouTube. If you don't have an account, it's free and easy to sign-up, just follow the prompts...
It's difficult to comprehend from this clip that we are talking about a person caught flirting with a MINOR! Not just any person, a Congressman! Not just any Congressman, but the one who heads up the Commission to protect MINORS FROM PEDOPHILES.
And not just any Minor, but a captive group of children sent to SERVE CONGRESS.... A group of children given a chance to learn how Congress works! Sent by their parents to get an up-close look at our 109th Congress -in action! What have they learned? What have we exposed them too? And now, how are the spokesmen of the GOP responding- just listen!
How can anyone align themselves with this kind of doctrine? It is inconceivable to think that anyone can pretend to claim any moral high ground on this issue... while behaving like this.
Steve Malzberg is a disgrace to journalism...
Again, we are talking about a Pedophile who has been essentially given the keys to the children's dormitory... by House Speaker Haskert and the GOP-run 109th Congress!
Haskert knew of Foley's penchant for little boys-PAGES-for 2 years! Because the GOP needed that Republican seat and it was more important than the children of parents from both sides of the aisle.
This has nothing to do about prior scandals,nothing to do with Democrats at all... but watch FOX network blatantly manipulate public perception with lies, unrelated distractions and bully tactics. Straight out of Rove's Handbook
Steve Malzberg has the privilege of being a radio talk-show host! He should be censored just like Foley should have been by Speaker Haskert. But the right wing media will look the other way just as the right wing government did with Foley. So who really thinks the media is left wing???
Time to take to the pen and write opinions... to friends, family, neighborhood papers....
FOX is blatantly abusing their privilege to broadcast on our airwaves! And since 1981, the FCC, our government's oversight commission has been systematically re-staffed by media-friendly and in many cases media owned personnel. Today the FCC is nothing more than a rubber stamp for this administration and its policy... favoring media consolidation.
The director, Kevin Martin, headed the Bush-Cheney transition team and is a radical
right-wing media advocate, his predecessor Michael Powell blatantly served the interests of media corporations... no wonder it seems like this kind of conduct is okay!
The real question is How low will we let them go?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y1C-71ttn0&mode=related&search=
We go about our lives too busy to accept responsibility... We push aside our duty as citizens in a Democracy, our duty to be informed... to take action, to participate. We do so at our own peril, for this democracy is unraveling before our very eyes- whether we choose to look -or not, and when its gone, there is no "do-over button"
Make sure the 110th Congress does not become the second Rubberstamp of the New American Century... And keep the Rubberstamp Republicans like Green out of the Govenor's office. Lets not make our children pay in ways far worse than the Congressional Pages have paid.
Here's more...
Views on Views
RightWing Propaganda
Speak Truth to Power- Keep Democracy Alive!
It's difficult to comprehend from this clip that we are talking about a person caught flirting with a MINOR! Not just any person, a Congressman! Not just any Congressman, but the one who heads up the Commission to protect MINORS FROM PEDOPHILES.
And not just any Minor, but a captive group of children sent to SERVE CONGRESS.... A group of children given a chance to learn how Congress works! Sent by their parents to get an up-close look at our 109th Congress -in action! What have they learned? What have we exposed them too? And now, how are the spokesmen of the GOP responding- just listen!
How can anyone align themselves with this kind of doctrine? It is inconceivable to think that anyone can pretend to claim any moral high ground on this issue... while behaving like this.
Steve Malzberg is a disgrace to journalism...
Again, we are talking about a Pedophile who has been essentially given the keys to the children's dormitory... by House Speaker Haskert and the GOP-run 109th Congress!
Haskert knew of Foley's penchant for little boys-PAGES-for 2 years! Because the GOP needed that Republican seat and it was more important than the children of parents from both sides of the aisle.
This has nothing to do about prior scandals,nothing to do with Democrats at all... but watch FOX network blatantly manipulate public perception with lies, unrelated distractions and bully tactics. Straight out of Rove's Handbook
Steve Malzberg has the privilege of being a radio talk-show host! He should be censored just like Foley should have been by Speaker Haskert. But the right wing media will look the other way just as the right wing government did with Foley. So who really thinks the media is left wing???
Time to take to the pen and write opinions... to friends, family, neighborhood papers....
FOX is blatantly abusing their privilege to broadcast on our airwaves! And since 1981, the FCC, our government's oversight commission has been systematically re-staffed by media-friendly and in many cases media owned personnel. Today the FCC is nothing more than a rubber stamp for this administration and its policy... favoring media consolidation.
The director, Kevin Martin, headed the Bush-Cheney transition team and is a radical
right-wing media advocate, his predecessor Michael Powell blatantly served the interests of media corporations... no wonder it seems like this kind of conduct is okay!
The real question is How low will we let them go?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y1C-71ttn0&mode=related&search=
We go about our lives too busy to accept responsibility... We push aside our duty as citizens in a Democracy, our duty to be informed... to take action, to participate. We do so at our own peril, for this democracy is unraveling before our very eyes- whether we choose to look -or not, and when its gone, there is no "do-over button"
Make sure the 110th Congress does not become the second Rubberstamp of the New American Century... And keep the Rubberstamp Republicans like Green out of the Govenor's office. Lets not make our children pay in ways far worse than the Congressional Pages have paid.
Here's more...
Views on Views
RightWing Propaganda
Speak Truth to Power- Keep Democracy Alive!
Lyrics: For What Its Worth
ARTIST: Buffalo Charlie
TITLE: For What It's Worth
Lyrics and Chords
__________________________
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man been elected unfair
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
/ E - A - / / / / E D A C /
There's battle lines being drawn
If you're not on the right then you really must be wrong
Good people not speaking their minds
Getting so much confusion as they're reading the signs
I think it's time we stop, hey, stand our ground
Everybody turn their tvs down
What a field-day on the streets
a thousand protesters on their feet
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, you're not on our side
It's time we stop, hey, wake this town
Everybody bring that white house down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when they make you afraid
Change the laws, the man come take your freedoms away
We better stop, hey, look around
Everybody get our country found
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody turn your tv down
Stop, now, look what we found
Whole lotta lying going down
Stop, Bush and his crowd
Before they bring our nation down
People dying in Taqrit
Iraqi lives not worth more than meat
Our soldiers crossing the line
between whats right and what others want to find
Its time we stop leave that ground
no reason to tear that country down
Stop hey look around
no nuclear weapons to be found
yeah stop now look around
only corporations gaining ground
stop now before too late
lets fuck that bush and make our country great
we gotta join together with our friends
stretch out our arms tell them now its time to end
no more manipulation of the words
we stand for truth and it really must be heard
Its time to stop hey turn around
send our soldiers homeward bound
stop now listen round
burn a bush in washingtown
stop yeah whats that sound
everyone turn you tv down
stop hey wake this town
everyone tear the whitehouse down
ORIGINAL LYRICS
ARTIST: Buffalo Springfield
TITLE: For What It's Worth
Lyrics and Chords
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
/ E - A - / / / / E D A C /
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
TITLE: For What It's Worth
Lyrics and Chords
__________________________
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man been elected unfair
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
/ E - A - / / / / E D A C /
There's battle lines being drawn
If you're not on the right then you really must be wrong
Good people not speaking their minds
Getting so much confusion as they're reading the signs
I think it's time we stop, hey, stand our ground
Everybody turn their tvs down
What a field-day on the streets
a thousand protesters on their feet
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, you're not on our side
It's time we stop, hey, wake this town
Everybody bring that white house down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when they make you afraid
Change the laws, the man come take your freedoms away
We better stop, hey, look around
Everybody get our country found
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody turn your tv down
Stop, now, look what we found
Whole lotta lying going down
Stop, Bush and his crowd
Before they bring our nation down
People dying in Taqrit
Iraqi lives not worth more than meat
Our soldiers crossing the line
between whats right and what others want to find
Its time we stop leave that ground
no reason to tear that country down
Stop hey look around
no nuclear weapons to be found
yeah stop now look around
only corporations gaining ground
stop now before too late
lets fuck that bush and make our country great
we gotta join together with our friends
stretch out our arms tell them now its time to end
no more manipulation of the words
we stand for truth and it really must be heard
Its time to stop hey turn around
send our soldiers homeward bound
stop now listen round
burn a bush in washingtown
stop yeah whats that sound
everyone turn you tv down
stop hey wake this town
everyone tear the whitehouse down
ORIGINAL LYRICS
ARTIST: Buffalo Springfield
TITLE: For What It's Worth
Lyrics and Chords
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
/ E - A - / / / / E D A C /
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Saturday, September 30, 2006
7 deadly sins?
This administration has gone to great lengths to illuminate religious beliefs (Christianity) and nationalism (Patriotism) as the headlights shining forth from their vehicle of agenda. With God and Country as their justification, they seem to possess the fervor of the nation. Why is it that millions of good Christian citizens would rather accept the mere suggestion of piety and righteousness, than actually defend their beliefs?
For as the Bush administration uses the words of the faithful as a shield to advance a global dominion strategy and relgious belief as their richeous sword, they seem be able to break the very tenents that serve to define faith itself. Lets us examine one of the foundational teachings of Christianity to see how the neo-conservative strategy of corporate colonialism has hyjacked our morality and ethical foundation.
In Dante's Inferno, part one of the 11th century Florentine poet's The Divine Comedy, considered the greatest literary statement of middle ages Europe, he detailed the structure of the seven deadly sins. They represented the fixation on one's self over others—in order of severity, culminating in pride, the worst of all sins.
Lust - uncontrolled or illicit sexual desire or appetite, an overmastering desire or craving.
Gluttony - wasting of food and drink through overindulgence, hoarding, or as punishment
Greed - desire to possess more than one needs, or has need or use for.
Sloth - laziness, complacency or wastefulness - causing others to have to work harder
Wrath - inappropriate feelings of rage, revenge, denial or punitive desire that falls outside the justice system
Envy - jealousy - coveting - resentment of others for their possessions
Pride/Vanity - desire to hold ones self out of proper position toward God or others. Or desire for self importance or attractiveness in relation to others or to self. Or as Danté himself referred, "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor"
Each sin is a particular way of failing to love the creator with all one's resources or to love others as much as self. Take a few moments to look into each deadly sin and ask yourself: How has my government, as an entity, respected or rejected these vices? How have most (not all) corporate citizens respected or rejected these vices? (enron, halliburton, general electric, exxon, oscar mayer, monsanto, conagra, bridgestone, sears, or walmart) Now the important one... just between you and whatever creator you respect. How have you respected or rejected these vices?
Lust- How is it that we condone our nation and its corporation's use of sex and coveting? How is it that our military regularly preys upon the religious fortitude of its detainees by using women interrogators who act suggestively, touch inappropriately and fake the smearing of menstrual blood on the faces and Korans of their captives? And why do we choose to defend these actions as free speech and our rights, rather than creating a climate where this behavior is not encouraged? Do we really need a law to tell us what is moral and immoral? Do we really need to better define Article Three of the Geneva Conventions?
Gluttony- How can there be no moral concern when as a nation we consume 80% of the planets resources yet constitute less than 8% of its population? How is it that we, the wealthest and most technologically adavanced nation on the Earth, allow gluttonous exploitation of our nation's underprivileged as well as those in developing nations round the world? Why is it that we turn our heads when it comes to holding our government or the corporations accountable for creating impoverished conditions throughout the world? Are our stock dividends worth our immortal souls?
We look away as our leaders force lesser nation's to turn on their own peoples rights, in order to finance debts incurred through intentional WTO lendings that served to help first-world corporations better extract their resources. Is it that we don't want our stock portfolios to suffer at the hands of true justice being served?
And how easily their agenda translates to the third deadly sin, Greed. Our insane quest for materialism and consumption is unparalleled in human history— Never before in the history of mankind have so many been marginalized to profit so few. Few of us are capable of distinguishing our roles as consumers from that of us trying to lead a good life. Our nation's willingness to break down trade barriers to enrich the corporations who's interest profits the shareholders rather than stakeholders, serves to disenfranchise the working and middle class in favor of the ultra-wealthy who benefit most by their stock holdings. But by giving the everyone a chance to benefit in shareholding, they make it increasingly hard for us to descern right from wrong.
We are victims of our own corporate creations-and we alone have the power to reign in the monster. But we feel powerless in the face of huge corporate interests. And how has our greed been further exacerbated by our society elevating material possessions and wealth generation to god-like levels-look at how our culture treats Donald Trump or Bill Gates, or Snoop Dog and Paris Hilton... look at your neighbors and their need to show wealth, perhaps even look in the mirror.
The very nature a corporation is to externalize costs and maximize profits.... and along the way make a product or service. Because publicly held corporations are beholden to shareholders first... their greed, their need for ROI is insatiable. If companies do not continually show profit, then heads roll. Job security is directly linked to the bottom line and the only goal is keeping it ever increasing. Greed set in motion by a political agenda that removes any oversight or governance to the corporations is the pandoras box of out times.
Sloth means taking the easy way out. Got a remote? Got a microwave? instant coffee, tv dinner? While it may seem these items help us stay "on-the-go", they rob us from the ability to take refuge in the simple pleasures of the mundane. While we're busy flip-pin channels and pop-pin pizza rolls in the micro for the kids. We're actually getting less pleasure from each event in and of itself. We no longer enjoy the pleasure of making a meal, of grinding the coffee or brewing it up... we can cram seven actions into any given moment... when we should really be assessing why our society demands so much of us every day? Sloth can be read two ways, just being lazy, but also being fixated on gadgets that are a means not and end.
Wrath- is like shoot-in fish in a barrel... oops ... how wrathful of me! Road Rage, gang violence, hostile take-overs, hostile workplaces, domestic violence, all shown on prime time television with our babies staring wide-eyed into the set... studies show a child born in 1990 will have seen more the 18,000 acts of violence And then there's our DOD and government. Yes we elect new politicians periodically... but we don't elect our military leaders do we? We may choose to listen to them or not, but they are doing their jobs every day... and they have a vested interest as does anyone working- to insure viability and fruitfulness for their chosen career- don't they? hmmm.... should make you wonder.
And what about us, we don't like terrorists, or russians, or hmong or liberals or republicans we don't take direct action for our hatred, but we do tend to look away or marginalize an incident or action taken against one of those demographics.... they deserved it, serves em right... gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet...
Look at this administration and its press to allow for torture by our forces. Even one act of torture is heinous, that's why it is illegal by the Geneva Convention and countless UN sanctions—but not the US— we're the 800lb gorilla yet we need to commit torture to keep our freedom? Careful how you answer that one.
Envy... gee, who's oil is it anyways? for that matter who's everything is it anyways? Our nation assassinates leaders it doesn't do not like, it kills thousands of civilians who don't think its right to allow our corporations to descend on their lands exploit them of everything down to the water they drink and the air they breathe... and somehow we're considered the ones being hurt by policy? We train hundreds of soldiers out of Ft Benning in the School of the Americas to become government sponsored terrorists... enforcing martial law over anyone trying to organize the peoples to resist our corporate domination.... no coveting here, right?
How bout at home, we are being conditioned to covet and envy? Every prime time show pits people against each-other to outdo the other and win something. We envy the winners, we envy the apprentices and fantasize how we'd do much better if in their shoes... Soap operas teach us all about hypocrisy and envy. Erika Kane has won how many daytime emmys for being the ultimate bitch... or was that Joan Collins an Dallas????
The last and worst of all deadly sins, pride. It is pride that emboldens a nation to become wrathful,jealous, greedy or vane. And I know from my studies in spirituality, regardless of the flavor, every religion asks you to let go of your ego to embrace the universal truth... or something like that. What does the military do to condition recruits in boot-camp? Break their spirit and they become like putty. Then you reshape them into your ideal. Same with prisoners, break their pride and they become like sheep. How have we been flaunting our pride? How is it that we have to be important, have to be noticed, have to attract attention?
Take a moment to reflect on these teachings, how is it we can allow such violations to mankink, both at home, and abroad?
Listen to Dante's description of our fate
THIE INFERNO
The Inferno begins on Holy Thursday of the year 1300, a significant holiday, "In the middle of our life's journey". Dante is thirty-five years old, half of the biblically alloted age of 70, lost in a dark wood (allegorically, contemplating suicide), assailed by beasts (sins) he cannot evade, and unable to find the "straight way" to salvation. Conscious that he is ruining himself, that he is falling into a "deep place" where the sun is silent, Dante is at last rescued by Virgil after his love Beatrice intercedes on his behalf, and he and Virgil begin their journey to the underworld.
Dante and Virgil enter the Gate of Hell, on which is inscribed the famous phrase "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" Virgil guides Dante through the nine circles of Hell. The circles are concentric, each new one representing further and further evil, culminating in the center of the earth, where Satan is held, bound. Each circle's sin is punished in an appropriately revengeful way to fit the crime. The nine circles are:
Circle 1. Limbo-the unbaptized and virtuous pagans, who did not accept Christ. They are unable to reach Heaven and denied God's presence for eternity.
Circle 2. Lust, depicted by the lovers in an embrace, never to touch each other again.
Circle 3. Gluttons, face-down in the mud and gnawed apart by a monster.
Circle 4. The greedy and indulgent, forced to push giant rocks in opposite directions.
Circle 5. The wrathful, fighting each other in the swamp-like water of the river Styx, and the slothful, trapped beneath the water.
The lower parts of hell are contained within the walls a city surrounded by the river Styx. These are the active (rather than passive) sins; first are the sins of violence:
Circle 6. Heretics, trapped in flaming tombs.
Circle 7. The violent. These are divided into three rings:
Outer ring: The violent against people and property, in a river of boiling blood.
Middle ring: The violent against themselves—suicides —turned into thorny black trees [Uniquely among the dead, they will not be bodily reincarnated after the final judgment. Where others will continue to occupy Hell (and Heaven) in corporeal (rather than merely spiritual) form, suicides—because they alienated themselves from their own bodies—spend eternity in the body of a tree, their own corpses hanging from the limbs.] Also punished in this circle are profligates, chased perpetually through the trees by ferocious dogs. They are held here with the suicides because, during Dante's time, one's property is seen as an extension of one's physical body. Hence, doing violence to one's property is kin to suicide.
Inner ring: The violent against God, art, and nature—blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers—in a desert of flaming sand where fire rains from the sky (Cantos 14 through 17).
The last two circles of Hell punish sins of malice, or sins of the intellect; that is, sins involving conscious fraud or treachery, and can only be reached by descending a vast cliff into the "pit" of Hell:
Circle 8 The fraudulent—those guilty of deliberate, knowing evil—are located in a circle named Malebolge. This is divided into ten ditches:
Ditch 1: Panderers and seducers, running forever in opposite directions, whipped by demons.
Ditch 2: Flatterers, steeped in human excrement.
Ditch 3: Faith Preachers, placed head-first in holes, flames burning on the soles of their feet.
Ditch 4: False prophets, their heads on backwards so they can only see what is behind them.
Ditch 5: Corrupt politicians, trapped in a lake of burning pitch.
Ditch 6: Hypocrites, made to wear brightly painted lead cloaks.
Ditch 7: Thieves, chased by venomous snakes, who after being bitten, turn into snakes themselves.
Ditch 8: Fraudulent advisors, trapped in flames.
Ditch 9: Sowers of discord, whose bodies are ripped apart, then heal, only to be attacked again.
Ditch 10: Falsifiers, counterfeiters, perjurers, and impersonators. Each group is punished by being afflicted with a different type of disease.
The passage to the ninth circle contains classical and Biblical giants.
Circle 9. Traitors, distinguished from the "merely" fraudulent, in that their acts involve knowingly and deliberately betraying others, are frozen in a lake of ice. Each group of traitors is encased in ice to a different height, ranging from only the waist down to complete immersion.
This is divided into four concentric zones:
zone 1 (Caïna): Traitors to their kindred. Named for Cain.
Zone 2 (Antenora): Traitors to political entities, such as party, city, or country
Zone 3 (Ptolomæa): Traitors to their guests. Named for Ptolemy, captain of Jericho, who invited Simon the High Priest and his sons to a banquet and there killed them.
zone 4 (Judecca): Traitors to their lords and benefactors. This is the harshest section of Hell, containing Satan, who is eternally consuming the bodies of Brutus and Cassius for assassinating Julius Caesar, and the head of Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus, after whom this zone is named.This is where Satan is trapped in the frozen central zone.I wonder where Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz will end up?
For as the Bush administration uses the words of the faithful as a shield to advance a global dominion strategy and relgious belief as their richeous sword, they seem be able to break the very tenents that serve to define faith itself. Lets us examine one of the foundational teachings of Christianity to see how the neo-conservative strategy of corporate colonialism has hyjacked our morality and ethical foundation.
In Dante's Inferno, part one of the 11th century Florentine poet's The Divine Comedy, considered the greatest literary statement of middle ages Europe, he detailed the structure of the seven deadly sins. They represented the fixation on one's self over others—in order of severity, culminating in pride, the worst of all sins.
Lust - uncontrolled or illicit sexual desire or appetite, an overmastering desire or craving.
Gluttony - wasting of food and drink through overindulgence, hoarding, or as punishment
Greed - desire to possess more than one needs, or has need or use for.
Sloth - laziness, complacency or wastefulness - causing others to have to work harder
Wrath - inappropriate feelings of rage, revenge, denial or punitive desire that falls outside the justice system
Envy - jealousy - coveting - resentment of others for their possessions
Pride/Vanity - desire to hold ones self out of proper position toward God or others. Or desire for self importance or attractiveness in relation to others or to self. Or as Danté himself referred, "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor"
Each sin is a particular way of failing to love the creator with all one's resources or to love others as much as self. Take a few moments to look into each deadly sin and ask yourself: How has my government, as an entity, respected or rejected these vices? How have most (not all) corporate citizens respected or rejected these vices? (enron, halliburton, general electric, exxon, oscar mayer, monsanto, conagra, bridgestone, sears, or walmart) Now the important one... just between you and whatever creator you respect. How have you respected or rejected these vices?
Lust- How is it that we condone our nation and its corporation's use of sex and coveting? How is it that our military regularly preys upon the religious fortitude of its detainees by using women interrogators who act suggestively, touch inappropriately and fake the smearing of menstrual blood on the faces and Korans of their captives? And why do we choose to defend these actions as free speech and our rights, rather than creating a climate where this behavior is not encouraged? Do we really need a law to tell us what is moral and immoral? Do we really need to better define Article Three of the Geneva Conventions?
Gluttony- How can there be no moral concern when as a nation we consume 80% of the planets resources yet constitute less than 8% of its population? How is it that we, the wealthest and most technologically adavanced nation on the Earth, allow gluttonous exploitation of our nation's underprivileged as well as those in developing nations round the world? Why is it that we turn our heads when it comes to holding our government or the corporations accountable for creating impoverished conditions throughout the world? Are our stock dividends worth our immortal souls?
We look away as our leaders force lesser nation's to turn on their own peoples rights, in order to finance debts incurred through intentional WTO lendings that served to help first-world corporations better extract their resources. Is it that we don't want our stock portfolios to suffer at the hands of true justice being served?
And how easily their agenda translates to the third deadly sin, Greed. Our insane quest for materialism and consumption is unparalleled in human history— Never before in the history of mankind have so many been marginalized to profit so few. Few of us are capable of distinguishing our roles as consumers from that of us trying to lead a good life. Our nation's willingness to break down trade barriers to enrich the corporations who's interest profits the shareholders rather than stakeholders, serves to disenfranchise the working and middle class in favor of the ultra-wealthy who benefit most by their stock holdings. But by giving the everyone a chance to benefit in shareholding, they make it increasingly hard for us to descern right from wrong.
We are victims of our own corporate creations-and we alone have the power to reign in the monster. But we feel powerless in the face of huge corporate interests. And how has our greed been further exacerbated by our society elevating material possessions and wealth generation to god-like levels-look at how our culture treats Donald Trump or Bill Gates, or Snoop Dog and Paris Hilton... look at your neighbors and their need to show wealth, perhaps even look in the mirror.
The very nature a corporation is to externalize costs and maximize profits.... and along the way make a product or service. Because publicly held corporations are beholden to shareholders first... their greed, their need for ROI is insatiable. If companies do not continually show profit, then heads roll. Job security is directly linked to the bottom line and the only goal is keeping it ever increasing. Greed set in motion by a political agenda that removes any oversight or governance to the corporations is the pandoras box of out times.
Sloth means taking the easy way out. Got a remote? Got a microwave? instant coffee, tv dinner? While it may seem these items help us stay "on-the-go", they rob us from the ability to take refuge in the simple pleasures of the mundane. While we're busy flip-pin channels and pop-pin pizza rolls in the micro for the kids. We're actually getting less pleasure from each event in and of itself. We no longer enjoy the pleasure of making a meal, of grinding the coffee or brewing it up... we can cram seven actions into any given moment... when we should really be assessing why our society demands so much of us every day? Sloth can be read two ways, just being lazy, but also being fixated on gadgets that are a means not and end.
Wrath- is like shoot-in fish in a barrel... oops ... how wrathful of me! Road Rage, gang violence, hostile take-overs, hostile workplaces, domestic violence, all shown on prime time television with our babies staring wide-eyed into the set... studies show a child born in 1990 will have seen more the 18,000 acts of violence And then there's our DOD and government. Yes we elect new politicians periodically... but we don't elect our military leaders do we? We may choose to listen to them or not, but they are doing their jobs every day... and they have a vested interest as does anyone working- to insure viability and fruitfulness for their chosen career- don't they? hmmm.... should make you wonder.
And what about us, we don't like terrorists, or russians, or hmong or liberals or republicans we don't take direct action for our hatred, but we do tend to look away or marginalize an incident or action taken against one of those demographics.... they deserved it, serves em right... gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet...
Look at this administration and its press to allow for torture by our forces. Even one act of torture is heinous, that's why it is illegal by the Geneva Convention and countless UN sanctions—but not the US— we're the 800lb gorilla yet we need to commit torture to keep our freedom? Careful how you answer that one.
Envy... gee, who's oil is it anyways? for that matter who's everything is it anyways? Our nation assassinates leaders it doesn't do not like, it kills thousands of civilians who don't think its right to allow our corporations to descend on their lands exploit them of everything down to the water they drink and the air they breathe... and somehow we're considered the ones being hurt by policy? We train hundreds of soldiers out of Ft Benning in the School of the Americas to become government sponsored terrorists... enforcing martial law over anyone trying to organize the peoples to resist our corporate domination.... no coveting here, right?
How bout at home, we are being conditioned to covet and envy? Every prime time show pits people against each-other to outdo the other and win something. We envy the winners, we envy the apprentices and fantasize how we'd do much better if in their shoes... Soap operas teach us all about hypocrisy and envy. Erika Kane has won how many daytime emmys for being the ultimate bitch... or was that Joan Collins an Dallas????
The last and worst of all deadly sins, pride. It is pride that emboldens a nation to become wrathful,jealous, greedy or vane. And I know from my studies in spirituality, regardless of the flavor, every religion asks you to let go of your ego to embrace the universal truth... or something like that. What does the military do to condition recruits in boot-camp? Break their spirit and they become like putty. Then you reshape them into your ideal. Same with prisoners, break their pride and they become like sheep. How have we been flaunting our pride? How is it that we have to be important, have to be noticed, have to attract attention?
Take a moment to reflect on these teachings, how is it we can allow such violations to mankink, both at home, and abroad?
Listen to Dante's description of our fate
THIE INFERNO
The Inferno begins on Holy Thursday of the year 1300, a significant holiday, "In the middle of our life's journey". Dante is thirty-five years old, half of the biblically alloted age of 70, lost in a dark wood (allegorically, contemplating suicide), assailed by beasts (sins) he cannot evade, and unable to find the "straight way" to salvation. Conscious that he is ruining himself, that he is falling into a "deep place" where the sun is silent, Dante is at last rescued by Virgil after his love Beatrice intercedes on his behalf, and he and Virgil begin their journey to the underworld.
Dante and Virgil enter the Gate of Hell, on which is inscribed the famous phrase "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" Virgil guides Dante through the nine circles of Hell. The circles are concentric, each new one representing further and further evil, culminating in the center of the earth, where Satan is held, bound. Each circle's sin is punished in an appropriately revengeful way to fit the crime. The nine circles are:
Circle 1. Limbo-the unbaptized and virtuous pagans, who did not accept Christ. They are unable to reach Heaven and denied God's presence for eternity.
Circle 2. Lust, depicted by the lovers in an embrace, never to touch each other again.
Circle 3. Gluttons, face-down in the mud and gnawed apart by a monster.
Circle 4. The greedy and indulgent, forced to push giant rocks in opposite directions.
Circle 5. The wrathful, fighting each other in the swamp-like water of the river Styx, and the slothful, trapped beneath the water.
The lower parts of hell are contained within the walls a city surrounded by the river Styx. These are the active (rather than passive) sins; first are the sins of violence:
Circle 6. Heretics, trapped in flaming tombs.
Circle 7. The violent. These are divided into three rings:
Outer ring: The violent against people and property, in a river of boiling blood.
Middle ring: The violent against themselves—suicides —turned into thorny black trees [Uniquely among the dead, they will not be bodily reincarnated after the final judgment. Where others will continue to occupy Hell (and Heaven) in corporeal (rather than merely spiritual) form, suicides—because they alienated themselves from their own bodies—spend eternity in the body of a tree, their own corpses hanging from the limbs.] Also punished in this circle are profligates, chased perpetually through the trees by ferocious dogs. They are held here with the suicides because, during Dante's time, one's property is seen as an extension of one's physical body. Hence, doing violence to one's property is kin to suicide.
Inner ring: The violent against God, art, and nature—blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers—in a desert of flaming sand where fire rains from the sky (Cantos 14 through 17).
The last two circles of Hell punish sins of malice, or sins of the intellect; that is, sins involving conscious fraud or treachery, and can only be reached by descending a vast cliff into the "pit" of Hell:
Circle 8 The fraudulent—those guilty of deliberate, knowing evil—are located in a circle named Malebolge. This is divided into ten ditches:
Ditch 1: Panderers and seducers, running forever in opposite directions, whipped by demons.
Ditch 2: Flatterers, steeped in human excrement.
Ditch 3: Faith Preachers, placed head-first in holes, flames burning on the soles of their feet.
Ditch 4: False prophets, their heads on backwards so they can only see what is behind them.
Ditch 5: Corrupt politicians, trapped in a lake of burning pitch.
Ditch 6: Hypocrites, made to wear brightly painted lead cloaks.
Ditch 7: Thieves, chased by venomous snakes, who after being bitten, turn into snakes themselves.
Ditch 8: Fraudulent advisors, trapped in flames.
Ditch 9: Sowers of discord, whose bodies are ripped apart, then heal, only to be attacked again.
Ditch 10: Falsifiers, counterfeiters, perjurers, and impersonators. Each group is punished by being afflicted with a different type of disease.
The passage to the ninth circle contains classical and Biblical giants.
Circle 9. Traitors, distinguished from the "merely" fraudulent, in that their acts involve knowingly and deliberately betraying others, are frozen in a lake of ice. Each group of traitors is encased in ice to a different height, ranging from only the waist down to complete immersion.
This is divided into four concentric zones:
zone 1 (Caïna): Traitors to their kindred. Named for Cain.
Zone 2 (Antenora): Traitors to political entities, such as party, city, or country
Zone 3 (Ptolomæa): Traitors to their guests. Named for Ptolemy, captain of Jericho, who invited Simon the High Priest and his sons to a banquet and there killed them.
zone 4 (Judecca): Traitors to their lords and benefactors. This is the harshest section of Hell, containing Satan, who is eternally consuming the bodies of Brutus and Cassius for assassinating Julius Caesar, and the head of Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus, after whom this zone is named.This is where Satan is trapped in the frozen central zone.I wonder where Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz will end up?
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Rambo Coast Guards!
News broke of a story today that the Coast Guard has been quietly preparing for creating 34 live-weapon shooting zones along the coastlines of the Great Lakes without public participation!
Seems they plan to replace life rafts with 50cal machine guns on our Coast Guard cutters and helicopters as their mission under the Bush administration (and the post-9/11 era) has transformed from one of search and rescue to hunt and kill. After all, we all know Canadian terrorists, like AlQaeda, hate our freedom and wish to harm our boaters and beachgoers.
This negates a 200 year old treaty with Canada raising tension with our neighbor to the north and puts boaters and citizens in harms way. Is this the "New American Century" you voted for in 2000 and 2004?
Here the red areas denote where live-fire exercizes are to be held throughout the year. Citizens are somehow going to be notified to avoid these areas while or brave lifeguards learn how to use eco-friendly hot lead to "save" victims.
Now our Coast Guard most often thought of as lifeguards with serious toys.... David Hasselhofs with a flying "Kits" are being trained to be executioners from the skies! The NeoCon global war on terror has come home and lets hope they never have orders to shoot civilians.... but how far away are we from that???
Particularly if you pay attention to the immigration strategy the Bush Administration is executing... Do you know who is and who is not an American? These days the definition is under debate. During Rumsfeld's 2005 BRAC Plan (Base Re Alignment and Closure) hundreds of military bases are being disarmed and/or closed... oddly too, they seem to be the ones concentrated closer to urban centers -typically in Blue States. While this may not seem important, think of the job loss and economic trouble closings of this magnitude bring... and oddly, all the Bases being fortified are in Red States bringing jobs and further partisan afiliation by constituants.
Now understand too, many of these closed bases have plans to convert them to prisons and detention centers.... by Halliburton subsidiary KBR(Kellogg Brown and Root) who won no-bid contracts from Homeland Security worth millions. So gigantic prisons are being built outside urban population centers whos lower income citizens will suffer most by the loss of jobs related to the military.. not many rich kids are in the army... But when poor people don't have jobs, they usually get into trouble don't they?
Here's the deal, Bush alienates and impoverish's Blue State urban centers, imprisons blue voters as they become further economically strapped, enriches and alligns red state support and moves weapons away from citizens, concentrating them in privatized bunkers in only a few locations in the country. Gee, if the citizens ever felt a need to rise up against a tyrannical leader, they'd have no means to do it now wouldn't they? And now the Coast Guard would be waiting at the shoreline to gundown these citizen terrorists... hmm go George!
Seems they plan to replace life rafts with 50cal machine guns on our Coast Guard cutters and helicopters as their mission under the Bush administration (and the post-9/11 era) has transformed from one of search and rescue to hunt and kill. After all, we all know Canadian terrorists, like AlQaeda, hate our freedom and wish to harm our boaters and beachgoers.This negates a 200 year old treaty with Canada raising tension with our neighbor to the north and puts boaters and citizens in harms way. Is this the "New American Century" you voted for in 2000 and 2004?
Here the red areas denote where live-fire exercizes are to be held throughout the year. Citizens are somehow going to be notified to avoid these areas while or brave lifeguards learn how to use eco-friendly hot lead to "save" victims.
Now our Coast Guard most often thought of as lifeguards with serious toys.... David Hasselhofs with a flying "Kits" are being trained to be executioners from the skies! The NeoCon global war on terror has come home and lets hope they never have orders to shoot civilians.... but how far away are we from that???
Particularly if you pay attention to the immigration strategy the Bush Administration is executing... Do you know who is and who is not an American? These days the definition is under debate. During Rumsfeld's 2005 BRAC Plan (Base Re Alignment and Closure) hundreds of military bases are being disarmed and/or closed... oddly too, they seem to be the ones concentrated closer to urban centers -typically in Blue States. While this may not seem important, think of the job loss and economic trouble closings of this magnitude bring... and oddly, all the Bases being fortified are in Red States bringing jobs and further partisan afiliation by constituants.
Now understand too, many of these closed bases have plans to convert them to prisons and detention centers.... by Halliburton subsidiary KBR(Kellogg Brown and Root) who won no-bid contracts from Homeland Security worth millions. So gigantic prisons are being built outside urban population centers whos lower income citizens will suffer most by the loss of jobs related to the military.. not many rich kids are in the army... But when poor people don't have jobs, they usually get into trouble don't they?
Here's the deal, Bush alienates and impoverish's Blue State urban centers, imprisons blue voters as they become further economically strapped, enriches and alligns red state support and moves weapons away from citizens, concentrating them in privatized bunkers in only a few locations in the country. Gee, if the citizens ever felt a need to rise up against a tyrannical leader, they'd have no means to do it now wouldn't they? And now the Coast Guard would be waiting at the shoreline to gundown these citizen terrorists... hmm go George!
Saturday, August 26, 2006
eVote Machines are Hacked!
This unedited testimony under oath deserves to be seen in its entirety. Right till the end it only gets more outrageous. Will somebody please explain why this is not on every news show and why no one has been indicted. The election is only weeks away. Voters who see this might want to order an absentee ballot and "cross their fingers?"
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Retroactive Immunity
Here at least some newscasters in mainstream media are able to pierce the bubble of silence that surrounds the insane GOP takeover of our government.Bush, flanked by his partners in crime, Senate leader Bill Frist and House head Haskert, ramrod a bill through Congress that renders them immune from any prosecution for war crimes back-dated to 9/11/2001!
Sounds like their lawyers informed them that the recent judgement by the Supreme Court upholding the Geneva Convention Rules puts them squarely at risk of being tried as the War Criminals they are!
At least Nixon had the decency to have President Ford do his dirty work!
Though it popped up this once the big screen it is hardly making a wave in the rest of the news media.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Americo® The Bounty's Full
America the Beautiful. School teacher, Katharine Lee Bates, wrote this historic anthem in 1893. She wrote a second version in 1904 and her final version in 1913. It remained in tact until in 2004 when a majority of American voters were again exploited for their beliefs. A corrupt administration had devisively used religious, moral and free speech issues–once held sacred from partisanism by our forefathers–to swing an election and keep them in power. With a “majority” mandate, they engaged their directives and began systematically dismantlng America’s Bounty.
A disillusioned American Patriot rewrote the verse to instill the thirst– To regain the nation’s life, liberty and pursuit of true free-market Democracy–from the devisive forces intent on conquest and imbalance under the guise of freedom and democracy. The following is the rewritten version from Charlie Koenen and then final draft of Katherine Lee Bates Anthem.
For since 2000, and substantially more since the 2004 election, laws and constitutional ammendments are being rewritten like this anthem, to tell a different story. Regain you thirst for Liberty and Justice for All the world.
Our precious flag should fly overturned, above our country in disarray.
–to symbolize the battlecry - let TRUE Liberty Justice and Freedom Reign.
AmeriCo® the Bounty’s-Full 2004
O beautiful for acid skies,
For bioengineered waves of grain,
For purple mountaintop strip mines
Whose wastestreams foul our plains!
America! America!
God’s mandate’s charged to thee
And crown the Hoods to destroy the good
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for corporate greed
Whose motives hide from us
A thoroughfare for capital
To pave the wilderness!
American! American’t!
God rewrite every law,
Confirm thy goal is no self-control,
Class separation for all!
O beautiful more nations to free from strife.
Who’s resources we herd without a word
Their existence not considered life!
AmeriCo®! Halliburtono!
May God permit our course
Till all the death is nobleness
Net profits gain divine!
O beautiful the Patriot Act
That sees inside our souls
With reams of Rights to vanquish whole
Unstopped by human fears!
Amerikan! Amerikan’t!
God’s righteousness unweilds
And jail our Just, conceal the trust
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for righteous cries,
For pockets lined with gold,
While interest groups jump through the hoops
Above the law –free reign!
Americo! WeOwnTheOil!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls we tax for earth and air
No music-without a fee!
O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America ! America !
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
Wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!
O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life !
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!
–Katharine Lee Bates 1913
O beautiful for workers feet,
Who’s production hours we increase
A thoroughfare for profit beat
Less benefits let them reap!
Amarikar ! AmeriCo® !
Thy love of God makes blind your free
Confused by Hoods
Vote against what’s good
And in the end you’ll see!
Once beautiful our glory assailed
Terror resides in us
With twisted vice,
From down on high
Our leaders have their way
Amerigas! Monsanto!
God forgive us for our deeds
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
O beautiful recaptured dream
Reclaim our solemn States
We’ll rid the scene
Of these foul machines
With a renewed refocused faith!
America! America!
God may we one day smile again
When nobler men keep once again
Truth, Justice and Liberty!
–Charlie Koenen 2004
No greater a call for patriotism has been made in generations.
Our enemy is within us- our ignorance and alienation of one another.
UNITED WE STAND–DIVIDED WE FALL
America the Beautiful - 1913
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife.
Who more than self the country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!
A disillusioned American Patriot rewrote the verse to instill the thirst– To regain the nation’s life, liberty and pursuit of true free-market Democracy–from the devisive forces intent on conquest and imbalance under the guise of freedom and democracy. The following is the rewritten version from Charlie Koenen and then final draft of Katherine Lee Bates Anthem.
For since 2000, and substantially more since the 2004 election, laws and constitutional ammendments are being rewritten like this anthem, to tell a different story. Regain you thirst for Liberty and Justice for All the world.
Our precious flag should fly overturned, above our country in disarray.
–to symbolize the battlecry - let TRUE Liberty Justice and Freedom Reign.
AmeriCo® the Bounty’s-Full 2004
O beautiful for acid skies,
For bioengineered waves of grain,
For purple mountaintop strip mines
Whose wastestreams foul our plains!
America! America!
God’s mandate’s charged to thee
And crown the Hoods to destroy the good
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for corporate greed
Whose motives hide from us
A thoroughfare for capital
To pave the wilderness!
American! American’t!
God rewrite every law,
Confirm thy goal is no self-control,
Class separation for all!
O beautiful more nations to free from strife.
Who’s resources we herd without a word
Their existence not considered life!
AmeriCo®! Halliburtono!
May God permit our course
Till all the death is nobleness
Net profits gain divine!
O beautiful the Patriot Act
That sees inside our souls
With reams of Rights to vanquish whole
Unstopped by human fears!
Amerikan! Amerikan’t!
God’s righteousness unweilds
And jail our Just, conceal the trust
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for righteous cries,
For pockets lined with gold,
While interest groups jump through the hoops
Above the law –free reign!
Americo! WeOwnTheOil!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls we tax for earth and air
No music-without a fee!
O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America ! America !
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
Wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!
O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life !
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!
–Katharine Lee Bates 1913
O beautiful for workers feet,
Who’s production hours we increase
A thoroughfare for profit beat
Less benefits let them reap!
Amarikar ! AmeriCo® !
Thy love of God makes blind your free
Confused by Hoods
Vote against what’s good
And in the end you’ll see!
Once beautiful our glory assailed
Terror resides in us
With twisted vice,
From down on high
Our leaders have their way
Amerigas! Monsanto!
God forgive us for our deeds
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
O beautiful recaptured dream
Reclaim our solemn States
We’ll rid the scene
Of these foul machines
With a renewed refocused faith!
America! America!
God may we one day smile again
When nobler men keep once again
Truth, Justice and Liberty!
–Charlie Koenen 2004
No greater a call for patriotism has been made in generations.
Our enemy is within us- our ignorance and alienation of one another.
UNITED WE STAND–DIVIDED WE FALL
America the Beautiful - 1913
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife.
Who more than self the country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Colbert-Truth to Power!
This year's White House Correspondent's Dinner had the greatest roast of a standing administration in history. Steven Colbert stood a mere meter from pResident Bush as he spoke truth to power in a way only Colbert could do. Faces in the crowd, the most influental newsmakers on earth, sat with their mouths agasp, blank stares as they witnessed a defiancy never before seen to standing power.
Several of Bush's aides and supporters walked out during Colbert's speech, and one former aide said that the President had "that look that he's ready to blow."
Prior to Colbert, Bush mocked himself with the help of a celebrity impersonator, Steve Bridges. Many bloggers would criticize the fact that most news sources focused on Bush and his impersonator, and devoted little space to Colbert, sometimes not even mentioning him at all.
Truly the greatest day for America's true patriots.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Helen's Question
Helen Thomas, the "First Lady" of the press corps who's covered every President since JFK has been silent in the Bush Administration.... until now. pResident Bush decided to field one question from her and she didn't waste the moment.
A beleagered Bush fumbled for his correct soundbite, and clearly messed up.
But what is really interesting beyond the fact that pResident Bush has no concept of what his Administration has him doing, is the way he will fight like a caged animal to defend whatever it was they told him he was doing. Listen to his intensity as he defends his righteousness.
Now that should scare even the most ideologically challenged of his constituants...shouldn't it?
A beleagered Bush fumbled for his correct soundbite, and clearly messed up.
But what is really interesting beyond the fact that pResident Bush has no concept of what his Administration has him doing, is the way he will fight like a caged animal to defend whatever it was they told him he was doing. Listen to his intensity as he defends his righteousness.
Now that should scare even the most ideologically challenged of his constituants...shouldn't it?
Friday, March 10, 2006
Habeas Schmabeas
Today, Arlen Spector did a 180, now supporting Unitary Executive Privilege! Now he says FISA laws are antiquated...who's been over to pay him a visit? Bush speaks about Iraq... says the tv lies... don't believe your eyes... believe my lies! This must be what it was like to be a Jew in 1932 Germany.... difference being that Hitler WAS elected.
Please listen to this broadcast of This American Life with Ira Glass....search for Episode #310 Habeas Schmabeas 3/10/06 in the 2006 archive.
Tune to the audio story that discusses Habeaus Corpus. It is very interesting. The right of habeas corpus has been a part of this country's legal tradition longer than we've actually been a country. It means the government has to explain why it's holding a person in custody. But now, the war on terror has nixed many of the rules we used to think of as fundamental. At Guantanamo Bay, our government initially claimed that the prisoners should not be covered by habeas – or even by the Geneva Conventions – because they're the most fearsome terrorist enemies we have. But is that true? Is it a camp full of terrorists, or a camp full of our mistakes?
Who are the terrorists now?
PS. When Seton Hall Professor Baher Azmy discusses the classified file of his client, Murat Kurnaz, in ActOne, he is referring to information that had previously been made public and published in the Washington Post. That material has subsequently been reclassified.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Happy Mothers Day
Julia Ward Howe, founder of Mother's Day, author of the Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870 following the Civil War, called for peace and disarmament.
An excerpt follows:
From the voice of a devastated Earth
a voice goes up with our own.
It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women,
to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel
with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Today we celebrate her courage and efforts... by screening the film The Promise of America.
An excerpt follows:
From the voice of a devastated Earth
a voice goes up with our own.
It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women,
to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel
with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Today we celebrate her courage and efforts... by screening the film The Promise of America.
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