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November 21, 2005
Election commercials have been everywhere on TV and radio these past weeks. I've frankly been ignoring most of them. But one I heard just prior to election day really caught my attention. The radio spot urged people to "honor what our ancestors died for." Now, I'm thinking it's some "defeat this amendment" or "say no to new taxes" message, at least loosely connected to freedom and less government, both things of which I happen to wholeheartedly approve. But no, apparently what our ancestors fought and died for was to join a union. Yes, a union. And the commercial melodramatically went on to say that we should join a union "before we lose the right" to do so. Huh? It's entirely true that unions are in trouble. Back in 2001, the World Socialist web site took note that union membership in the US was at its lowest level in 60 years. Since then, things haven't markedly changed. In a November 4, 2005 article, The Labor Research Association writes that, "Although high ongoing unemployment in a number of industries has depleted union membership and pushed the unionization rate down to record lows, job losses in heavily unionized sectors do not account for the decline in union membership since the 2001 recession." (Read the rest here)
Ellsberg
of the American Resistance I asked Dr. Daniel Ellsberg this question on Tuesday, November 15th, after he had just completed his lecture to instructors, professors, students and members of the public that were in attendance to hear him speak at William Patterson University in Wayne, New Jersey: Dr. Ellsberg, which bomb do you think will go off first - Fitzgerald bringing another indictment, or the military attack on Syria and Iran? His answer was frightening - he offered that the war would probably come first, initiated in all likelihood as an engineered distraction to negate the effect of the expected upcoming indictments. Daniel Ellsberg is an American achiever and a TRUE patriot akin to the Spirit of '76 inculcated into our national psyche by the writings and documents of our Founding Fathers. Ellsberg achieved national notoriety when he exposed the "Pentagon Papers" to The New York Times in 1971. Ellsberg is yet another high-credentialed achiever and newsmaker that summarily ignores any and all obstacles thrown in his way to block his getting the truth out to the American people. He is the latest in a growing number of high profile members of the American Resistance, forced to inform the American people by going around the mainstream media. (Read the rest here) (Secone article linked on the page.)
The
Wangdangdoodle Cellular Phone Company
Me: Beep beep boop boop. Computer-generated female voice: Hello. Welcome to the Wangdangdoodle Cellular Phone Company. If you would like to activate your phone, please type in the 16-digit number on the back of your box, that begins with XEM. Me: Beep beep boop boop. Voice: I heard 'beep beep boop boop.' Is this correct? (Read the rest here)
UN
Resolution 1325: The World Body Goes On A Loony Streak Ten years ago a recrudescence of age-old ethnic tensions spilled over into the worst bloodbath that Europe had witnessed since World War II. The United Nations report duly noted the grisly details of the Srebrenica massacre: "The mortal remains of close to 2,500 men and boys have been found on the surface, in mass graves, and in secondary burial sites. Several thousand more men are still missing.Numerous eyewitness accounts, now well corroborated by forensic evidence, attest to scenes of mass slaughter of unarmed victims." Apparently that report never made it to desks of the UN bigwigs in Turtle Bay. Because a few years later the Security Council came out with a resolution that made this surreal claim: "women and children account for the vast majority of those adversely affected by armed conflict." (Read the rest here)
The
New Al Qaeda: More Dangerous than the Old Version Say good-bye to the old al Qaeda and hello to a new, more dangerous version created by President George W. Bush. The recent suicide bombings by Iraqis in Amman, Jordan are ominous because they provide hard evidence (confirmed by U.S. intelligence analysis) that the war in Iraq—far from pinning terrorists down within that country’s borders, as the president alleges—is incubating combat-hardened jihadists for export to other countries. As many opponents of the Iraq war predicted beforehand, a non-Islamic nation’s invasion of another Muslim country has spawned the same radical Islamic terrorism that occurred after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s and Russia invaded Chechnya in the 1990s. The former invasion ultimately led to the rise of Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda’s leader and once dominant force. After 9/11, the United States made considerable progress in eliminating al Qaeda’s safe haven and training infrastructure in Afghanistan and isolating bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, his deputy, from their forces in the field. Yet the U.S. invasion of Iraq allowed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a previously independent actor who didn’t care that much about the United States, to grab the spotlight by joining al Qaeda and becoming the face of the Iraqi insurgency against the U.S. occupation. Zarqawi and his “al Qaeda in Iraq” organization make the treacherous bin Laden and Zawahiri look like choirboys. Zarqawi’s trademarks are the brutal videotaped beheadings and the wanton slaughter of Muslim innocents, as well as the foreign occupiers and their Iraqi allies. (Read the rest here)
The Mailbag for This Week
Libertarian
Commentary on the News, 14-18 NOV 2005 The
Coming Fall of Europe Switzerland:
Driver threw speed camera off cliff Clearly, this man had reached his limit. It really is too bad that he went as far as he did: there was no need to throw it off a cliff and get caught. How many more will go this way? Mama's Note: Seems to me that a good slingshot would do. It's hard to "register" or trace rocks... (Read the rest here) (Two full pages!)
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