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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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| 12:05a |
A nose for politics "I don't know if Barack Obama's getting tired or what but he was briefly seen wearing his flag-pin through his nose late last night.' Actually, Barack Obama slipped up this past week. You know, this campaigning, it's endless, it's hard. Like, in an interview, he said he campaigned in all 57 states. That's what he said. But, see, they all make mistakes. Like Hillary Clinton, the only two states she knows are Florida and Michigan. John McCain, he still thinks there's only 13 colonies." --Jay Leno Obanana gives Hellery the finger again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_cloud"Have you heard about this? This is kind of an interesting idea. In a move they say could revolutionize politics, John McCain and Barack Obama said they might campaign together, go out together. Yeah, they're going to bill themselves as 'Ebony and History.' No, but they would go out and they would debate each other on the road. You got the older, grumpy white guy, and you got the young, smooth-talking black guy. Doesn't that sound like the premise for the worst sitcom of all time? Coming to NBC, it's 'Grandpa and the Brother!'" --Jay LenoAnd President Bush announced this week that he will go to Saudi Arabia and meet with King Abdullah. That's got to be nerve-wracking for President Bush, huh? Being called to the carpet by the big boss." --Jay Leno "With all the problems we have going on right here, how many think it's a mistake for him to leave the country? I'm curious. How many think the mistake is him coming back?" "Yesterday, on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton gave a speech. She said, this is a quote, 'A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she's in hot water.' That's true, yeah. Then Hillary pointed to her husband and said, 'And a man is like a douchebag.' ... I can't believe she said that." --Conan O'Brien Hillary Clinton, big blowout in West Virginia's primary tonight. Yeah, she's the big winner in West Virginia. Which means that one day, she could be president of West Virginia." -Jay Leno "You know, Hillary's campaign [is] $20 million in debt. $20 million, which proves, if anything, she could be president." --Jay Leno ( Wheres my money people?) "In fact, money is so tight in her campaign, I understand today, she was wearing a rented pantsuit." --Jay Leno "Here's the thing that troubles me. I mean, win, lose or draw, at the end of the day, the bottom line, cut to the chase, it's a lot of money. It's a lot of money to elect a president, don't you think? Really it's an awful lot of money. Hillary Clinton's campaign right now, this very minute, is $20 million in debt. Now, when she gets that 3 a.m. call, it's from a collection agency." --David Letterman "But they're not even pretending. Hillary Clinton is so broke now, and this is true, some friends of mine spotted her, in the middle of the night last night, at a laundromat, honest to God, with a hamper full of pantsuits" --David Letterman | | 12:21a |
Pulled off by murderers
Bush's Idea of Sacrifice
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, May 14, 2008; 1:12 PM
The nation is in despair over the war in Iraq and the toll it is taking on our troops and their families. But President Bush shows no outward sign of inner pain.
He is chipper in his public pronouncements. His weekly bike rides and daily workouts have put a perpetual spring in his step. He's always ready with a wisecrack. He just hosted his daughter's wedding at his multi-million dollar estate in Texas. He takes more vacations than any president in history. He has made clear that he doesn't lie awake at nights.
And yet now it turns out that Bush has indeed made a personal sacrifice on account of the war. According to the president yesterday, his decision to stop playing golf five years ago wasn't just an exercise in image control or a function of his bum knee -- it was an act of solidarity with the families of the dead and wounded.
Here's the relevant exchange in an interview Bush gave to Mike Allen of Politico:
Allen: "Mr. President, you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?"
Bush: "Yes, it really is. I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as -- to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."
Allen: "Mr. President, was there a particular moment or incident that brought you to that decision, or how did you come to that?"
Bush: "No, I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man's life. And I was playing golf -- I think I was in central Texas -- and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, it's just not worth it anymore to do."
This is the latest in a series of statements by Bush, the first lady and Vice President Cheney illustrating how far removed they are from the consequences of the decision to go to war -- and stay at war.
But giving up golf?
Not only is it a hollow, trivial sacrifice at best, Bush's story doesn't hold water. While he dates his decision to abjure golf to Aug. 19, 2003 -- the day a truck bomb in Baghdad killed U.N. special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello and more than a dozen others -- the Associated Press reported on Oct. 13, 2003, that he'd spent a "cool, breezy Columbus Day" playing "a round of golf with three long-time buddies.
"Bush played at Andrews Air Force Base with Clay Johnson, Office of Management and Budget deputy director, Richard Hauser, Department of Housing and Urban Development general counsel and another friend, Mike Wood."
On that outing, he was typically full of what passes for good humor at the White House. The AP reported: "'Fine looking crew you got there. Fine looking crew,' Bush joked to reporters. 'That's what we'd hope for presidential coverage. Only the best.'
"He hit a couple of practice balls before flaring his tee-off shot into the right rough."
Dan Eggen writes in The Washington Post: "Democrats have criticized Bush for allegedly not requiring Americans to sacrifice enough while waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and for urging people to keep shopping as a way to fight terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Bush was also widely criticized in August 2002 when he decried terrorist bombings in Israel while golfing and then told reporters: 'Now watch this drive.'
"Although Bush says he has given up golf, he is a mountain-biking enthusiast who has been photographed taking part in rides. He took up biking after an injury sidelined him from running.
"Presidential historian Robert Dallek. . . said Bush's remarks about Iraq 'speak to his shallowness.' Dallek added: 'That's his idea of sacrifice, to give up golf?'"
In the Blogosphere
Jonathan Martin of the Politico called the golf revelation "a striking news nugget" and wrote: "You can be sure that this will launch a thousand liberal jabs and late-night jokes."
Indeed, the reaction in the blogosphere has been blistering.
Even the golfers aren't impressed.
William K. Wolfrum blogs for worldgolf.com: "In an insipid interview with the web site Politico that featured no less than 20 questions about his daughter's wedding, baseball, American Idol and who does the best impersonation of him, President George W. Bush was hit with a haymaker - Has he stopped golfing? . . .
"Bush has spent more time on vacation than any other president. . . . He's never attended a slain soldier's funeral. He's spent time fishing and endlessly clearing brush on his ranch, and attending his daughter's lavish wedding, among other things. But golf? Well, that would just send the wrong signal to the thousands killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families.
"War supporters take note - put away your golf clubs. It's just disrespectful."
Kevin Hayden blogs on the American Street: "Military funerals he's attended: 0
"Annual National Press Club comedy routines he's participated in: All of them.
"Times he played guitar while the Gulf Coast was drowning: 1
"Estimated number of returning veterans not being treated for PTSD and other disorders: tens of thousands.
"He's biked, run, worked out, met with members of athletic teams, thrown out first pitches, dismissed the importance of finding Osama Bin Laden, opposed expanding the GI Bill, but our troops and country can go to sleep happily assured that their Commander In Chief is not dissing their sweat and sacrifice, blood and tears by playing any of that dastardly golf stuff."
Blue Girl, Red State blogger Warren Street is skeptical of Bush's explanation: "Actually, it is far more likely that Bush quit playing golf because he was suffering from knee problems throughout the latter half of 2003," he writes.
And a Wonkette commenter suggests: "Has he thought about giving up Iraq for golf?" | | 12:38a |
Gop in Himmel
Slate: Panic at the House (news round-up)
NY Times: Republican Election Losses Stir Fall Fears
canada.com: GOP officials despair as 'safe' seats choose the other team
globeandmail.com: Wake up and smell the disenchantment
cqpolitics: GOP Seeks to Rebrand After Childers Victory (good luck with that, boys)
AFP: Shaken Republicans look to McCain as savior (good luck with that, too)
WaPo: After String of Losses, Republicans Face Crisis
Reuters: US Republicans scramble in wake of defeats
USAToday: Republicans fear public has lost confidence (pssst... they have)
AP: Third House loss shakes GOP, raises fears for fall
MSNBC: GOPer compares brand to bad 'dog food' (points for originality and honesty) | | 1:18a |
Neocon Che Guevara cut off behind enemy lines
Today's Must Read
By Paul Kiel - May 15, 2008, 10:09AM
OK, that's it! Let no one say that the administration has not handled the situation with its typical forbearance and caution. Other, rasher leaders would have shunned Ahmad Chalabi after it became apparent that his network of informants were liars and that he could not be trusted. But the U.S. has not been overly swift to act. Sure, there were suspicions that he had passed classified information to Iran, but this is not a group that rushes to judgment.
Now, however, the straw has finally broken the camel's back:
Sources in Baghdad tell NBC News that as of this week American military and civilian officials have cut off all contact with controversial Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi, the former favorite of Washington's once powerful neoconservatives.
The reason, the sources say, is "unauthorized" contacts with Iran's government, an allegation Chalabi denies. Iran has been accused of arming and training rebel Shiite forces in Iraq....
Since September 2007... American military officials and civilian officials working out of the U.S. Embassy had contacts with Chalabi. At that time he was installed as the head of a "services" committee for Baghdad that was to coordinate the restoration of services to the city's residents.
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the Multi-National Forces-Iraq, even escorted Chalabi on a trip, on U.S. helicopters, to address reconstruction issues. And American officials attended meetings with him and supported his efforts. ( snip)
I say we helicopter him into the middle of Basra and let him fend for himself.
Bush can join him.
Posted by josephcast | | 1:57a |
Over over By far the funniest piece in Mortification, Robin Robertson's anthology of "writers' public shame", is Michael Bracewell's account of his attempt to interview Mark E Smith on stage at the ICA back in the bright and garish dawn of Britpop. Arriving backstage with a clanking carrier bag, the Fall frontman first demanded a bucket, into which he proceeded sedulously to urinate. Up on stage, staked out beneath the merciless light and the stares of the uncomprehending – or perhaps all too comprehending – audience, Bracewell, by his own admission, lost it big time. Did his guest remember, ah, those early gigs in the Manchester working men's clubs, he diffidently proposed? "Of course I do. I'm not bloody amnesiac," Smith confirmed. And was there anyone in his, ahem, family with musical interests? "Me uncle played the saw. It's a lovely instrument," Smith deadpanned back. MORE ON http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/renegade-the-life-and-times-of-mark-e-sm ith-by-mark-e-smith-815125.html
Punk rock? "They were all public schoolboys." | | 9:57a |
Knock knock
Ex-officer tells court he covered up botched raid
A former Atlanta police officer on trial for a botched drug raid that led to the death of a 92-year-old woman said he went along with a cover-up because he felt threatened by his fellow officers. Kathryn Johnston was shot 39 times by plainclothes narcotics officers busted into her house using a “no-knock” warrant on Nov. 26, 2006. During nearly eight hours of testimony, Arthur Tester said he was instructed by two other officers after the shooting to memorize a cover-up story that they had witnessed an informant buying drugs at Johnston’s home.
MAKETHEMACCOUNTABLE | | 10:21a |
Cry Bushit
Sen. Joe Biden, piling on to Democratic complaints about President Bush’s speech in Israel today:
“This is bulls**t, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset . . . and make this kind of ridiculous statement.” | | 10:24a |
Monkey business
From the Hart
Historians of early 21st century American politics will remark the degree to which radical forces, usually called neoconservatives, perverted language as recommended by the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany... Open up entire electronic networks, such as Fox, and chains of radio stations, such as Clear Channel, and buy enough newspaper chains, and make all these media available to pre-programmed neoconservative ditto heads, and sure enough a subculture will emerge which distrusts its own government and believes that an entire political party is not to be trusted.
This has all happened before. And where it has happened, authoritarian government emerges....Gary Hart | | 12:44p |
Death warrants out '...Let's Move On & Test Out Our Positions 'We've been united in the fight against Stalinism for decades and next thing you are comparing your comrades to the Sisonites.' Come on Peter: the post says nothing of the kind. It says: in the context of breaking with Sisonism in the Philippines it is dangerous to start make claims that factions should dissolve and have time limits etc is one lesson of the DSP purge. A systematic comparison would say the Sisonites are bellicose Stalinists: issuing death warrants and the like to former members. The DSP has come from a tradition of anti-Stalinism that allows internal debate and factions and indeed there have been thousands of hours and pages of debate. The problem has been that the majority has wriggled and whittled away at these norms and processes. Kerry's document is spot on with the issue of conflating accepting and agreement. On one level it is small semantic difference. On the conceptual level there is a gulf between the two AND THIS IS THE TRAP THE MAJORITY HAS FALLEN INTO...' - MORE ON http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/53919Watch the Plats fall into this trap - mark my words, if they really are growing this same deal will happen to them sure as I'm sitting here eating fish and chips and enjoying a cleansing Coopers ale. | | 12:53p |
Oh I get it now See the only problem the few , the proud, the insane revolutionary Marxist Leninists couldn't hook up with the Craig Johnsons and Dave Kerins in the union movement. Oh and some crane jockeys , living in Mcmansions ,pulling in 80k a year and sending their snot-nosed brats to private schools. Those lumpen elements on Palm Island and Macquarie Fields? Fuggedabout. Anti-social elements burning down unionized police stations and cars! To the CHEKA cellars with them! To the GULAGS! Off with their HEADS! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/53929Yes Virginia - there is a revolutionary working class here. Never doubt that the few, the proud and the insane can change the world. Indeed lately it is only the Trotskycons who have. | | 1:07p |
Provassic
Johann Hari describes his experiment taking Provigil, the pill that college students describe as "Viagra for the brain":
I picked up a book about quantum physics and super-string theory I have been meaning to read for ages, for a column I'm thinking of writing. It had been hanging over me, daring me to read it. Five hours later, I realised I had hit the last page. I looked up. It was getting dark outside. I was hungry. I hadn't noticed anything, except the words I was reading, and they came in cool, clear passages; I didn't stop or stumble once.
Perplexed, I got up, made a sandwich — and I was overcome with the urge to write an article that had been kicking around my subconscious for months. It rushed out of me in a few hours, and it was better than usual....The next morning I woke up and felt immediately alert. Normally it takes a coffee and an hour to kick-start my brain; today I'm ready to go from the second I rise. And so it continues like this, for five days: I inhale books and exhale articles effortlessly. My friends all say I seem more contemplative, less rushed — which is odd, because I'm doing more than normal. One sixty-something journalist friend says she remembers taking Benzadrine in the sixties to get through marathon articles, but she'd collapse after four or five says and need a long, long sleep. I don't feel like that. I keep waiting for an exhausted crash, and it doesn't seem to come.
Professor rat describes his experience taking 'provassic', a new type of DMA.
' I was able to survive a bus crash and train wreck, run cross country, drive an ambulance, dive down a waterfall, hitchhike to the nearest large city, work in a hospital, help save a kids life, expose a one-armed murder and a phony doctor in time for the evening news. I keep waiting for the Oscar that never seems to come'. | | 1:37p |
Desert panic
PANIC IN THE RANKS....The sense of panic among Republicans after their congressional loss in Louisiana on Tuesday is palpable. You can smell it from Australia.
Thank you Your eminence. By destroying our empire through your disastrous war profiteering adventures in a territory we can't possibly hope to secure or govern, you are following in the footsteps of great morons of the past who have guided their nations from long slow declines into precipitous chaotic declines.
I am in awe of the efficiency with which you are depleting our armed forces, eroding our credibility, tarnishing our reputation, wasting our resources and foreclosing our options. You may surpass every idiot king in history with respect to the damage done during a single reign.
Of course, a lot of the credit goes to your idiot subjects.
Posted by: lobbygow
Karl 'Turd Blossom' Rove is saying "We haven't hit bottom yet?
Maybe they need a new slogan?
Gott mit uns. Not exactly new, but fitting, in a way.
Posted by: Swan
I think their new slogan should be:
All libruls lick grocery carts! So you should stay awy.
Posted by: optical weenie
G.O.P.
Government of Poland
Don't forget Poland
Posted by: CSTAR
I know one southern fundie (business associate) that now swears Bush is the Anti-Christ.
Maybe he has something there.
Posted by: Ex - Republican Yankee
I think the problem is they have a leader in the House called Boener.
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr
New slogan - ' Get behind the Frist'
Cornered rats are the most dangerous. America has entered a very dangerous time, and the Republican government may act out in ways that doom the future even more than they already have.
Posted by: Brojo | | 1:42p |
Moron not moron
Andrew Tobias, responding to Jon Stewart's characterization of George Bush as a moron:
"Bush is hardly a moron. He wanted the rich — in particular the oil guys — to do well and they have (phenomenally well). He promised to appoint more Justices like Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia and he did. He didn't want to work terribly hard and he hasn't. He wanted to show that government can't do things very well, and he has. Morons are not usually so successful in getting what they want."
IMO the moron had enough insight to realize he fucked up around late 2005. Since then he's aged noticeably and been placed on some sort of anti-psychotic/depression regime. Now just lately he's perked up a bit and seems happier. I put this down to the prospect of retirement next year. Of course he may not make it that far. Cheney could have already arranged a permanent 'retirement program' for him around October.
Another crisis that could be engineered is the Canary Islands land slip. Some cheap bunker-busters here could pay enormous dividends in any National Emergency situation. With the east coast as toast a national emergency and indefinite state-of-siege would be eagerly accepted by every democrat I know. | | 2:12p |
Black Osama offends America's young blond women Its true - someone had to say it. Black Osama can't even defend an old friend trampling on Old Glory...so how in heck can he defend the Nation's attractive young white women? http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/195339.phpSock it to em' Kevin! Czechoslovakia 38? Cuban missile crisis? Fuck that baloney! IFGNORANCE IS STFENGTH! And you can take that to the world bank. | | 6:59p |
Are our children Leninism yet?
Leninism for dummies
A very opportunistic political cult a few central personalities, who use every trick in the book to try to present themselves as some kind of majority first...
a) Engineer split
b) Have yr minority declared the majority
c) Have yr mercenary secret police take out the trash
d) Rewrite history - those who control the past construct the future
Works the same in any country. | | 7:05p |
Bob Gould - Stand-up comedian The entertainer '...For the past few months I’ve been involved in a mass revolt in the Labor Party and the union movement against the neoliberal fifth column of bankers and speculators that has so publicly become a force in the NSW Labor Party...' http://ozleft.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/politicsofdsppurge/OH. MY. GOD! Bankers and speculators and the NSW labor party - oh my! What a scream. That it ever became public I mean. What with the net and all it's hard to keep a secret these days by the look of it. But it even gets funnier when you study up on Bobs old Marxist mate Michael Costa. This quasi-neocon who was once the self-diagnosed, self-medicating Minister for Police (!) has stated recently that by selling off the states generators this will lead directly to the long sought holy grail of Marxism - the withering away of the state! Excuse me while I go and change my underwear! The revolution is the Soviets of Sussex st plus ancien-regime electrification...Que? ( Btw I have no real beef with selling off infrastructure like this - I just think...shouldn't the Tories be doing it? It seems quite bleedin' obvious that where the workers are strong they can take it back anytime they like and the capitalists can go hang.) | | 8:03p |
These are not the Leninist droids yr looking for '...And now political differences have developed in the revolutionary vanguard that are so serious that one of the founders and people who have spend most of their adult life building the Party are regarded as some sort of renegades. All I can say to Luke and Alex is wait till its your turn. Duroyan's 'bored' response speaks volumes - and Alex's response that the LPF faction never being up to much is so reminiscent of Trotsky's arguments about the Spanish anarchists - not only were they political wrong - the current conjuncture shows that they were always suspect from the beginning (of course Alex can't push this too far what with the founder now being in the 'out-group'). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/53958Politically wrong and suspect from the beginning - I can live with that. | | 8:34p |
Left wrongs '...in relation to the issue of the email hacking, I would point out that this was the single most incident that broke down the comradely relationships between the minority and the majority. Not only was Linda’s account hacked into, but a leader of the majority and DSP NE member made several additionaly attempts to hack into the list – something he later forced to admit as he was caught red handed. I have an Israeli friend from the Israeli Communist Party, which as you know comes from a Stalinist tradition, and when he heard about the email hacking he was extremely shocked and his reaction was that this was not a minor organisational issue, but in his word a political issue because “it said a lot about that majorities politics and their lack of political and comradely respect for other comrades”. And he is right...' http://www.leftwrites.net/2008/05/12/split-in-dsp/#more-1239Learnt nothing - forgotten nothing | | 8:52p |
Tiananman Tiananmen Square: The Tank Man - Friday 16th May 8:30pm 14 May 2008 | 15:50 - By SBS This program reveals the mystery behind the stance of one unarmed man before a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in what represents one of the most startling and confronting acts towards sovereignty ever filmed. * Join the discussion On June 5, 1989, one day after the Chinese army’s deadly crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured on film and video by Western journalists, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the struggle for freedom around the world. Tianamen Square: The Tank Man draws on interviews with Chinese and Western eyewitnesses and asks who “was the Tank Man?” What was his fate? What does he mean for a China that today has become a global economic powerhouse? The events of 1989 began as a student protest in Tiananmen Square, the symbolic central space of the nation and spread throughout much of the rest of the country. Several weeks later, when the government sent in the army to end the demonstrations, the citizens of Beijing poured into the streets in support of the students. The demonstrations, witnessed by the rest of the world, ended in a massacre on the night of June 3-4, when the government sent the troops into the city with orders to clear Tiananmen Square. Almost 20 years after these events, the educated elite who led the protests have benefited from China’s rapid economic growth, but many Chinese workers still face brutal working conditions and low wages. In face, some experts see the emergence of two Chinas: one modern, wealthy and urban; the other rural, poor and disenfranchised. There is evidence that unrest among workers and peasants is growing; in 2005, there were more than 87,000 “civil disturbances” in the country. “China is on a knife’s edge,” says Dr Nicholas Bequelin of Human Rights Watch. “If we in the West are not aware of this, the leaders in Beijing are very much so, and this is their top concern. They know that the stability is very fragile.” The Chinese government has responded to this threat by cracking down on dissent, and on the media. The regime has managed to erase the Tank Man’s image from Chinese memory. Central to the regime’s efforts to control access to information, is its filtering of the Internet, a complex undertaking that raises serious issues about the role of Western IT companies in China’s censorship strategy. The identity of the Tank Man remains a mystery, but the symbolism of his act of defiance continues to have a powerful impact. “That story … is not getting weaker because of time. Because we don’t know who he is, it’s actually getting stronger,” says Professor Xiao Qiang of the China Internet Project at the University of California at Berkeley. “In the long frame of history … human freedom, courage, dignity will stay and prevail, and that’s what that picture will testify (to) forever.” http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107859/tiananmen-square-the-tank-man | | 8:58p |
How many?
How many yachts can you waterski behind?
“The unprincipled course of action by the majority leadership only raises a much more important question: if the majority leadership is willing to carry out such a violation and destroy all trust within the membership of the DSP, what could their ends be? It also raises other questions: where will the majority leadership draw the line? When you are set on your objective and willing to carry out such actions as these email hackings, where will it stop? What else are you willing to do and what party rules, norms and traditions would you be willing to distort and destroy in pursuit of your objective?” | | 9:09p |
Ema Corro - Tool '...In my particular case, because I was one of the most outspoken leaders of the LPF in Melbourne, an 18 month organisationally based campaign to isolate me in relation to Palestine solidarity work was mounted. The majority leadership in Melbourne were so intent on isolating me that they were prepared to organisationally and politically support one of their hardline supporters even if it meant junking the DSPs long held position on Palestine. Their factionalism was so rife that when the majority of the DSP branch in Melbourne VOTED AGAINST THE PARTY POSITION in April 2007, they refused to redress the situation (and they have still not addressed until today). Because I continued to defend the party position on Palestine and refused to sit down and shut up and because I would not go quietly, this very vicious organisatonal campaign finally resulted in me being told that I was not longer assigned to Palestine solidarity work at a branch level in Melbourne (the final catalyst for this was that I had attempted to get the Melbourne Palestine Solidarity Network (MPSN) which had not had an open or democratic organising meeting for more than 10 months to be politically opened up to have democratic and open organising meetings rather then it be a SA/DSP front where decision were autocratically made)...' - Kim Bullimore http://www.leftwrites.net/2008/05/12/split-in-dsp/#more-1239 | | 9:15p |
Candace Bushnell demands answers! '...Yet I do have take issue with Tom characterising this as a ‘minor’ issue. Is it truly a minor issue when the leadership of a revolutionary party by their own admission engage in spying on their membership? Is this the sort of leadership we want to organise the working class to take power and build a post-capitalist society? When my rights are better protected in a bourgeois workplace than in my own party something is going awry. How can we make the arguments that revolutionary socialism is more democratic than late monopoly capitalism when there is no accountability of the leadership for its own actions? Remember this crime was kept a secret from the victim (myself) and the rest of the DSP membership. At no time has anyone in the DSP leadership (except the LPF comrades on national and branch leadership bodies) ever acknowledged I have been wronged or ever apologised to me for the hurts I have suffered. Instead I have been lied about, blamed for their own actions, and their crimes have been justified using pseudo-Trotskyist rhetoric...' FROM http://www.leftwrites.net/2008/05/12/split-in-dsp/#more-1239Well of course its minor! When you compare it with most CHEKIST tortures that is. | | 9:30p |
Bought to youse by Siemens U.S. Congressman Chris Smith said that top American technology companies are failing to prevent censorship and other human rights abuses in China, writing Saturday in a letter to The Wall Street Journal. "There is enormous profit potential, but entering the Chinese market means challenging a repressive regime on basic human rights tenets. Sadly, some of America's largest tech firms are currently failing this new test of corporate responsibility," wrote Smith, a Republican from New Jersey and a member of the Foreign Services Committee. Smith said that representatives from Yahoo, Google, Cisco Systems, and Microsoft appeared at an April, 2006 Congressional hearing he convened and "they all acknowledged that their companies have enabled dictatorships to censor democracy and human rights promotion on the Internet." He also said that "Yahoo and Cisco have even helped the Chinese government incarcerate Internet users for pro-democracy activity." - More on http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/02/12/HNcongressmanchinaet hics_1.html | | 9:33p |
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Nazi appeasers sweetie
You mean there's not a man here
who has an opinion on this matter?
All right.
Mr. Harding...
...you've stated on more than
one occasion...
...that you've suspected your wife
of seeing other men.
Oh, yes!
Yes, very much, I suspect her.
I suspect her.
Maybe you can tell us why...
...you suspect her.
Well, I can onl...speculate as to the reasons why.
Have you ever speculated, Mr. Harding...that perhaps you are...impatient with your wife...because she doesn't meet
your mental requirements?
Perhaps. But you see, the only thing I can really...speculate on, Nurse Ratched...is the very existence of my life...with or without my wife...in terms of the human relationship, the juxtaposition of...one person to another,
the form, the content.
Harding, why don't you knock off the bullshit and get to the point?
This is the point. This is the point, Taber. It's not bullshit.
I'm not just talking about my wife, I'm talking about my life!
I can't seem to get that through to you.
I'm not just talking about one person,
I'm talking about everybody!
I'm talking about form!
I'm talking about content!
I'm talking about interrelationships!
I'm talking about God, the Devil,
Hell, Heaven!
Do you understand? Finally? | | 10:10p |
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