Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos comments from 11/2000
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: NEOLIBERAL FASCISTS - - SKEPTICAL HOPEFUL
Topic: POLITICS
I thought these comments by Subcomandante Marcos were fitting.
The follow two topics are copied from HERE

******** NEOLIBERAL FASCISTS *******
In one of his books, Umberto Eco provides some pointers as to why fascism is still latent. He starts by warning us that fascism is a diffuse form of totalitarianism, then defines its characteristics: refusal of the advance of knowledge, disregard of rational principles, distrust of culture, fear of difference, racism, individual or social frustration, xenophobia, aristocratic elitism, machismo, individual sacrifice for the benefit of the cause, televised populism, and use of Newspeak with its limited words and rudimentary syntax.
These are the values that right-wing intellectuals defend. Take another look at the giant screen. All that gray is a response to disorder, reflected in demands for law and order from all around us. But, is Europe once more the prey of fascism? We may well see skinheads, with their swastikas, on the screen, but the commentator is quick to reassure us that they are only minority groups, already under control. But it may also take other, more sinister forms.
After the fall of the Berlin wall, both sides of the political spectrum in Europe rushed to occupy the center. This was all too obvious with the traditional left, but it was also the case with the far right. It went out of its way to acquire a new image, well removed from its violent, authoritarian past, enthusiastically espousing neoliberal dogma.

****** SKEPTICAL HOPEFUL ******
The task of progressive thinkers-to remain skeptically hopeful-isn't an easy one. They have understood how things work and, noblesse oblige, they must reveal what they know, dissect it, denounce it, and pass it on to others. But to do this, they must also confront neoliberal dogma, backed by the media, banks, major corporations, army, and police.
What is more, we live in a visual age. And so, to their considerable disadvantage, progressive thinkers must fight the power of the image with nothing but words. But their skepticism will get them out of that trap, and if they are equally skeptical in their critical analysis, they will be able to see through the virtual beauty to the real misery it conceals. So, perhaps there is reason to hope.
There is a story that when Michelangelo sculpted his statue of David, he had to work on a "second-hand" piece of marble that already had holes in it. It is a mark of his talent that he was able to create a figure that took account of these limitations. The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care, and do not forget that ideas are also weapons.

Want to be an Actor? Don't be a political One ..... or you may become a Terrorist Suspect
Mood:  incredulous
Now Playing: Political Actors Held at Briton's Border = Terrorism = My Arse
Topic: TORTURE
The men, who play British inmates at the detention camp, were returning from the Berlin Film Festival where the movie won a Silver Bear award.

Read the BBC Link HERE

One of the actors, Rizwan Ahmed, said a police officer asked him if he intended to make any more "political" films. The men were released quickly and not arrested, said Bedfordshire police.


Although not suprising, Mr Ahmed (one of the actors)also alleges that he was verbally abused by a police officer and had his mobile phone taken from him for a short period.

So, just because these guys were in a Film that has shown the horrors of TORTURE BEING DONE AT Guantanamo Prison and the Innocent imprisonment of NON-TERRORISTS, and the torture they endured by the US & by Briton Military ...they are now considered Suspects?

Come on !! What the Hell? They are ACTORS!

This is what Joe Anybody means when he say that the Homeland Security and The Terrorism Task Force use their clout and positions to intimidate, arrest, detain, SPY, inquire, search, grill, sneak n peak, and flat out violate Citizens Civil Rights.

ALL OF THIS IS DONE TO LAW ABIDING CITIZENS BECAUSE OF THEIR POLITICAL OUTSPOKENNESS AGAINST THE WAR FASCISTS AND TORTURE PRACTICE'S THAT ARE CONDONED BY BRITON AND THE USA.

Where your freedom to speak out against These tyrants that are destroying this world ...you risk being a called a Terrorist and treated as if you were one.

More Innocent Truth Tellers Stopped and questioned as if they were TERRORIST "How Insanly Wrong"

Ironically the Film is about a TRUE story.
The Road to Guantanamo, directed by British Film-maker Michael Winterbottom, tells the story of the Tipton Three.
The men from the West Midlands went to Pakistan to arrange a wedding and eventually found themselves at the US camp "Guantanamo".
They were picked up in Afghanistan and believed to be terrorist suspects and were eventually released from Guantanamo Bay in 2004 without charge.

The Film, shot in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, was made at a cost of #1.5m.
As I mentioned few days ago {Sat Z3 blog} you can see the films Trailer on CNN here-->
CNN video about new Movie on Torture

Oil
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: 5 Kidnapped Workers ~ Milliants ~ Shell Oil ~
Topic: BIG MONEY PLAYERS
According to Reuters...
In response to attacks on communities in the Niger Delta by the Nigerian army, units of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta moved into Delta State yesterday to commence an attack on installations, along with kidnapping and killing.

The rebels identified their 5 captives as three Americans, a Briton, two Egyptians, a Filipino and two Thais and warned that they planned to step up their war on the oil industry in retaliation for government air strikes, in regards to Saturday's attack followed a week in which the Nigerian military carried out two air strikes against barges used by the militants to smuggle stolen crude.
In a statement emailed from an address used by the militia, the group also claimed to have severely damaged the export terminal, a major pipeline manifold and a gas pipeline supplying energy to Lagos, and that is in besides the 5 military solider killed in the platform attack.

*** OIL ***

Last month, the same gang had kidnapped four foreign oil workers and held them for 19 days, demanding that two ethnic Ijaw leaders be released from jail and that Shell pay $1.5 billion to the tribe. They released the two, but didn't pay, the group and its allies also attacked a number of oil facilities, killing at least 22 soldiers and police in two assaults, and blew up a major pipeline.

Shell's production was already down by 106,000 barrels per day when the latest violence broke out and the company has closed four of its oil flow stations in the western delta because of security fears.

Wow... Blood For Oil is right!

America Land Of The Free * free to torture you if we want to!
Mood:  loud
Now Playing: American Torture Has No End - - *new* Hundreds of Pictures and Videos *just* Released
Topic: TORTURE

DON'T YOU WONDER WHY THIS TORTURE CRAP KEEPS COMING UP FOR THE PAST 3 YEARS?

Z3 READERS GET USED TO THIS.
IT'S THE USA MILITARY OF TODAY UNDER
THE BUSH~CHENEY~RUMSFELD COMMAND


BUSH AND RUMSFELD ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MESS

Yet they lie and say it is "bad info" or "we don't torture" or that we are "Following the Geneva Guidelines"

Joe Anybody says "HOGWASH!!!"

And to prove it --> read this article that is getting the Info right from a US Army source RECENT 2/17/06 link HERE

"www.Salon.com Runs new report with*MORE* Abu Ghraib Torture Photos Leaked right from an Internal Army Source

Of course "Don't Forget" there is always the article that just came out the other day, about Flying across Europe in CIA planes and using FAKE call signs.

As we say we don't torture. But there is proof everywhere, as in the aforementioned article/link.

**NEW** Read about these CIA planes and the use of ?extraordinary rendition? HERE
Doesn't that make you sick?
The sneaky lying ways are shameful to our integrity and I am embarrassed for our country and saddened by this abuse of Power and Human Life?

Joe Anybody
Mood:  suave
Now Playing: War on Terrorism.... War on Drugs......
Topic: WAR



MORE of this Comic Here-->http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html

Bush wants to Spy - But will not explain - "Our Secret Lying Leaders"
Mood:  loud
Now Playing: NSA is spying for BUSHMAN. As they keep secrets The US People are being duped
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS


(quote from Newsweek)
The sessions were apparently not very revealing. Even congressional leaders who had been briefed all along on the NSA program have complained to NEWSWEEK that they were largely kept in the dark about the real workings of the program.


There has been some talk about getting a new law specifically to authorize the NSA's warrantless eavesdropping. Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee that a "bipartisan group of leaders" was consulted in 2004 about whether a new law was needed—and the "consensus" was that legislation couldn't be written without exposing secret taps. But contacted by NEWSWEEK, Rep. Peter Hoekstra said the issue never came up when he was briefed by Vice President Cheney after he became GOP chair of the House
Intelligence Committee in August 2004. Three Democratic leaders briefed on the program that year—Rep. Jane Harman, Sen. Jay Rockefeller and former Senate minority leader Tom Daschle—recalled no discussion of a new law. "I'm confident it never occurred," said Daschle. On the other hand, Roberts did recall discussing new legislation. No transcript was made and members were not allowed to take notes or consult with aides afterward, making it all but impossible to establish exactly what was said.
(end quote)

Read Complete Article Here

LEADERSHIP FAILURES = RUMSFIELD IS SUED FOR ALLOWING TORTURING
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: US ABUSE WILL HAVE ITS TOLL
Topic: TORTURE
ACLU DISCUSSION-VIDEO-CLIP ON
'TORTURE and ABUSE and RUMSFELD'

Also this Jan 2006 pdf article on the LAWSUIT
Click HERE



Read this "Shut Guantanamo prison camp"
--> CNN Torture Article



CNN video about new Movie on Torture
* A movie about 3 innocent guys who end up in Guantanamo Prison *

BEN WAITING FOR TORTURE TO END?
Mood:  on fire
Now Playing: UNITED NATION SAYS SHUT IT DOWN
Topic: TORTURE
******BREAKING NEWS********



ITS TIME TO SHUT DOWN THE USA TORTURE CAMP

*************************************************
***************** - GITMO VIDEO HERE - *********************

GENEVA - The United States should shut down the prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay and either release all detainees being held there or bring them to trial, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday

The United States is holding about 500 men at the U.S. naval base on the southeastern tip of Cuba, so far only 10 have been charged since the detention camp opened in January 2001.
Five U.N. experts had sought invitations from the United States to visit Guantanamo since 2002. Three were invited last year, but refused to go in November after being told they could not interview detainees

Read the MSNBC report --> HERE!

One more link --> HERE

~ Z3 Short Movie Download of The Week ~
Mood:  lyrical
Now Playing: 'Get your Popcorn' The Show is About To Start
Topic: CORPORATE CRAP

click picture to download
or
CLICK HERE to go to that download site
The download link will be at the top of the page




3 min film that is about Corporate power.
The film is a parady of the Ring series
....a very interesting short download quicktime player is required.

I never seen the lord of the rings ...but this is cool how the short film was mixed, nice message about BUSHMAN, Protesters, and the WTO.I reccomend this to all Z3 Readers

Enjoy
~Joe

Oh By The Way I Thought You Might Want To Know!
Mood:  hungry
Topic: POLITICS
Hey they are selling our Land!
President Bush?s budget for FY07, ignoring the recent defeat of similar proposals in Congress, is proposing to sell off nearly $1 billion worth of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands to raise money for the federal treasury, ooopsss i mean for bombs!


In Virginia
BATFE agents copied lawful gun purchase transaction records and provided this information to local police officers, who in turn conducted "residency checks."


End of the Internet?
Well that or bring your fat wallet with you when you log in.