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Zebra 3 Report by Joe Anybody
Monday, 12 March 2007
I Posted My First YouTube Video That I Made
Mood:
 celebratory
Now Playing: Iraq Body Count Flag Memorial Video I Made
Topic: WAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYW8SLibZCg I am sort of excited ....first time at uploading to the the big "You" ! I and my 14 year old son enjoyed helping with this project Taking these videos and pictures was engaging and well worth the message that I hope I can help share For more information on this project please visit the website of the ones behind this great idea http://iraqpeaceproject.org/index.htm I am going to have a few more videos or pictures soon. My hands are a little sore i probably did a few thousand or so flags. I love the soldiers .... I love my country.... I love the Innocent Iraqi's Victims now at the mercy of this evil war. I want it all to stop. There is no reason for this madness. For every time I put a white flag in I felt like it represented a whole Family from Iraq. I feel the powerful message in all these flags ....it took all day for this to be installed. My fellow Z3 readers, That is a lot of dead people for this stupid war. Look at all those white and red flags..... all representing lost lives. Contact your congress man now Tell your Congressmen there is enough dead..... tell them 6 x 1 white flag x 60 thousand is ENOUGH ! ...... I love all-people and want Peace on Earth ....... End The War Now ~joe 
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 3:51 AM PST
Saturday, 10 March 2007
Worldwide Blogging and Prison
Mood:
 irritated
Now Playing: Blogger, Lack of Corporate Media and Prison Terms
Topic: MEDIA
So I read that an Egyptian blogger is looking at a 4 year sentence for expressing his opinion. Ha ... don't let the Gonzales/Bush thugs hear about this ..... they would love to apply the same oppression! Obviously freedom of speech is somewhat still protected here in the US. But it is under attack and being challenged constantly, post 911, here in the USA and around the world. Censorship for National Security reasons requires no explaination....."Do it, or go to prison for a long time" oh do as a under the umbrella of terrorism and it will be prison for life with no trial ....... amazing my friends isn't it? Check this link from the Washington Post that explains a little more on Abdel Kareem Nabil the Egyptian free speech civil rights hero facing jail: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022700065.html I found that link here on this blog: http://freedomforegyptians.blogspot.com/search/label/Freedom%20of%20expression One more covering this censorship is here: http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/02/25/free-kareem-egyptian-bloggers-speak-out/ 
{Quote from Washington Post} CAIRO, EGYPT-- Lawyers filed an appeal Monday on behalf of a blogger who was sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt's president. Abdel Kareem Nabil, a former law student at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, used his blog to advocate secularism and criticize conservative Muslims For more "Media" topics Go to Joe Anybody Media webpage : http://www.joe-anybody.com/id45.html
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 12:30 PM PST
Updated: Saturday, 10 March 2007 1:20 PM PST
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Paradigm Shifting
Mood:
 caffeinated
Now Playing: the 60 & 70 shift happened - now 35 years latter it shifts again
Topic: ANYBODY * ANYDAY
A Paradigm Shift Is when a significant change happens - usually from one fundamental view to a different view. In most cases, some type of major discontinuity occurs as well. Thomas Kuhn wrote about Paradigm Shift during the early 1960s, and explained how "series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions" caused "one conceptual world view to be replaced by another view." In laymen terms, Paradigm Shift is a popular, or perhaps, not so popular shift or transformation of the way we Humans perceive events, people, environment, and life altogether. It can be a national or international shift, and could have dramatic effects -- whether positive or negative -- on the way we live our lives today and in the future. Paradigm Shift: A Summary In today's society, we've all witnessed a major shift already. When we look back upon "counterculture" (More information here: http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Counterculture), we trace some of the origins to the definition of "Paradigm Shift." During the counterculture era (1960s-1970s), younger generations opposed authority and were very much at odds with society's accepted belief systems and standards of living. In the counterculture movement (fueled by the Vietnam War), social conservatives were deemed "social repressionists." The enlightening Paradigm Shift exploded into innovative ideas about religion, society and spirituality, notwithstanding traditional Western ideologies. In today's society, we see a shift toward a more blinded-oppresionistic view; breed by censorship. The ironic juxtapositions between the Paradigm Shift of nearly half a century ago and society's youth today are chillingly revelational. Youth's opposition to authority may not have always been in the best interest of humanity; however, it was the Paradigm shift that led to revolutional changes that improved racial tensions and relationships, opened communication lines to outside nations, and ended the Vietnam War. The end result included varying degrees of negative and positive transformations that allowed people to open their hearts and minds to multicultural diversity; and promoted liberty and freedom -- on the flipside of the shift, there was increased promiscuity, higher divorce rates, higher drug use, and imposed socialistic views and applications of welfare systems. Today's Paradigm Shift In lieu of recent times; however, a Paradigm Shift has been evolving. Have you been paying attention? Youth -- today, is seemingly under the hypnotic spell of invisible censorship. What is "invisible censorship?" Local news stations often report half-truths, or biased news reports in relation to national and international events; including: environmental, global, and political reports. Many traditional educational systems are imposing personal political views upon students; and incorporate these beliefs and attitudes into instructional plans. Other invisible censorship, is the fact that many events are brushed under the rug and are not given adequate media coverage as opposed to propaganda-style news. So, in essence, what does this Paradigm Shift translate to with regard to human life and environmental habits? What could be the possible outcome of such dynamic and interventional metamorphosis? copied by Joe Anybody from: http://ezinearticles.com/?What-is-a-Paradigm-Shift?&id=68933 Paradigm Shift: A Summary
By C. Bailey-Lloyd {2005} 
Kuhn used the duck-rabbit optical illusion to demonstrate the way in which a paradigm shift could cause one to see the same information in an entirely different way.
Wikipedia Link For Paradigm Shift CLICK HERE
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 10:44 AM PST
Updated: Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:57 AM PST
Sunday, 4 March 2007
Liberty and Justice For All
Mood:
 lyrical
Now Playing: April 5 2007 - mark your calender
Topic: HUMANITY
http://www.rightsworkinggroup.org/ This is a program that is affiliated with the work shop I am going to twice a week on Immigration and Refugee Rights. The event is happening on April 5 and it is a nation wide event. I have posted the link just to get the word out, yet I have not even read the info yet. Their principles are laid out here: http://www.rightsworkinggroup.org/? 
q=principles Last Friday I received this pamphlet that pointed out this website. So this is all new fresh information. My fellow Z3 readers, I do find the topics and principles very interesting and wanted to share this with you all. Liberty & Justice For All More on Port Indy Media http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/03/355393.shtml
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 5:27 PM PST
Updated: Saturday, 10 March 2007 5:06 PM PST
Ghost Prisoner
Mood:
irritated
Now Playing: This is not my America - Read this and you will agree
Topic: TORTURE
The 50-page report, “Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA Detention,” contains a detailed description of a secret CIA prison from a Palestinian former detainee who was released from custody last year. Human Rights Watch has also sent a public letter to US President George W. Bush requesting information about the fate and whereabouts of the missing detainees.
“President Bush told us that the last 14 CIA prisoners were sent to Guantanamo, but there are many other prisoners ‘disappeared’ by the CIA whose fate is still unknown,” said Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch. “The question is: what happened to these people and where are they now?”
In early September, 14 detainees were transferred from secret CIA prisons to military custody at Guantanamo Bay. In a televised speech on September 6, President Bush announced that with those 14 transfers, no prisoners were left in CIA custody.
The former CIA detainee, Marwan Jabour, told Human Rights Watch about a number of other people who were in CIA detention but whose present whereabouts are unknown. Jabour saw one of these men, Algerian terrorism suspect Yassir al-Jazeeri, as recently as July 2006 in CIA custody.
“The Bush administration needs to provide a full accounting of everyone who was ‘disappeared’ into CIA prisons, including their names, locations, and when they left US custody,” Mariner said.
Human Rights Watch’s letter to Bush contained two lists of missing detainees. The first list names 16 people whom Human Rights Watch believes were held in CIA prisons and whose current whereabouts are unknown. The second list names 22 people who may have been held in CIA prisons and whose current whereabouts are unknown.
Human Rights Watch expressed concern about what may have happened to the missing prisoners. One possibility is that the US may have transferred some of them to foreign prisons where they remain under the CIA’s effective control.
Another worrying possibility is that prisoners were transferred from CIA custody to places where they may face torture. A serious concern is that some of the missing prisoners might have been returned to their countries of origin, which include Algeria, Egypt, Libya and Syria, where the torture of terrorism suspects is common.
The new report provides the most comprehensive account to date of life in a secret CIA prison, as well as new information regarding 38 possible detainees. The report explains that these prisoners’ treatment by the CIA constitutes enforced disappearance, a practice that is absolutely prohibited under international law.
Marwan Jabour was arrested by Pakistani authorities in May 2004 in Pakistan and held for more than a month at a secret facility in Islamabad operated by both US and Pakistani personnel, during which time he was badly abused. In June, he was flown to another secret prison, which he believes was in Afghanistan, where all or nearly all of the personnel were American.
His clothes were taken from him when he arrived, and he was left completely naked for a month and a half, including during questioning by women interrogators and filming. He was chained tightly to the wall of his small cell so that he could not stand up, placed in painful stress positions so that he had difficulty breathing, and told that if he did not cooperate he would be put in a suffocating “dog box.”
During the more than two years that he was held in this secret prison, Jabour spent nearly all of his time alone in a windowless cell, with little human contact besides his captors. Although he worried incessantly about his wife and three young daughters, he was not allowed even to send them a letter to reassure them that he was alive.
“It was a grave,” Jabour later told Human Rights Watch. “I felt like my life was over.”
The wife of another former CIA detainee whose whereabouts remain unknown told Human Rights Watch that she has had to lie to her four children about her husband’s “disappearance.” She explained that she could not bear telling them that she did not know where he was.
“What I’m hoping,” she said, “is if they find out their father has been detained, that I’ll at least be able to tell them what country he’s being held in, and in what conditions.”
Enforced disappearance involves arbitrary, secret and incommunicado detention, and poses a serious risk to the right to life and to protection from torture and other mistreatment. As these cases make clear, enforced disappearance also inflicts severe mental pain and suffering on the “disappeared” person’s family.
Human Rights Watch expressed grave concern about President Bush’s stated view that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 permits the government to restart the CIA’s secret prison program. Human Rights Watch called upon the Bush administration to reject the use of secret detention and coercive interrogation as tactics in fighting terrorism, and announce that the CIA’s detention and interrogation program has been permanently discontinued.
“The CIA program – and the civilian leaders who created it – have inflicted tremendous harm on the reputation, moral standing, and integrity of the United States,” Mariner said. “It’s time for President Bush to repudiate this program, and to take steps to repair the damage it has done.”
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 2:08 AM PST
Saturday, 3 March 2007
Restore Habeas Corpus
Mood:
 loud
Now Playing: Support Senator Dodds New Bill & Restore The Constitution
Topic: HUMANITY
From Senator Dodds Website: 
Last Tuesday, Senator Dodd re-introduced the Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007. The bill will restore Habeas Corpus protections to detainees, bar information acquired through torture from being introduced as evidence in trials, and limit presidential authority to interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions. Become A Citizen Co-Sponsor: Please take a moment to watch the video and read the text of the Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007, sign on as a citizen co-sponsor, and forward the bill to your personal networks. While you and I are acutely aware of the damage President Bush has done to our country's national reputation, too many of our family, friends and neighbors have no idea how far this Administration has gone. Sign On To Co-Sponsor The Bill Here:http://restore-habeas.org/
Watch the You Tube video of Senator Dodd explaining the
Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007 Consider filming your own short clip discussing why this bill is important to you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAYXGyUGVFg
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 8:33 PM PST
Updated: Saturday, 3 March 2007 8:50 PM PST
Would You Like Some Torture With Your Soup Today Sir?
Mood:
 hungry
Now Playing: How can I be Hungry when the USA is allowing Torture?
Topic: TORTURE
The Following is copied from a Dissent Is Patriotic email that I received Grassroots News Vol 6 No.2 http://www.bordc.org/newsletter/bordcnews6-2.php News on the ProgramDespite the Bush administration's assertion that it transferred the sum total of men, 14, who were in the rendition program to Guantánamo, many more men remain unaccounted for. Ghost Prisoner is a Human Rights Watch report of what happened to Marwan Jabour and lists others who have been captured and whose whereabouts are still unknown. The Italian government has indicted 25 CIA agents and a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force in the kidnapping of an imam, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr. German prosecutors have issued warrants for 13 CIA agents whom they suspect of kidnapping Khaled el-Masri. (See the 2/17 Washington Post article.) What You Can Do: Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) plans to reintroduce his Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act (H.R. 952 when it was introduced in the 109th Congress), which would prohibit the United States from transferring people to countries where torture or other inhuman treatment is known to occur for purposes of interrogation or detention. Markey is currently seeking co-sponsors. Grassroots activists are actively involved in shutting the program down: Work Continues in North North Carolina Stop Torture Coalition held a Vigil at US 1 and NC 56 highways when President Bush was taking a flight a helicopter from RDU to Novozymes. The vigil and street theater activities were covered by News 14 Charlotte. (Click on "Bush protestors" to view the video.) Read the transcript of a powerful interview with coalition member Christina Cowger. 
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 7:26 PM PST
Updated: Saturday, 3 March 2007 8:00 PM PST
Friday, 2 March 2007
USA Building Atomic Warheads
Mood:
loud
Now Playing: NEOCONS to build nuke Warhead and Lie about Iran / N. Korea
Topic: WAR
I can not believe I just read these two headlines on Yahoo News today. I am am dumbfounded and amazed that these headlines are even being written. Where is citizen outrage? Where is the masses that should step up and say "this is wrong and unacceptable"? The first link is about how the USA has faulty <again?>weapon information this time about Iran and N. Korea. See the link and short paragraph I copied from the news cast on the faulty information: VIENNA, Austria - New doubts are arising about the accuracy of U.S. intelligence on the nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran, only a few years after faulty warnings about weapons of mass destruction helped President Bush justify the invasion of Iraq. North Korea agreed earlier this month to dismantle its plutonium-producing nuclear facilities in exchange for economic aid and security assurances from the United States and four other world or regional powers. The pact successfully put aside for now the possibility of military action. But the Western standoff with Iran remains tense. The Bush administration says it won't rule out an attack if Tehran refuses to end its nuclear enrichment program. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070301/ap_on_re_as/nuclear_iran_nkorea Yes my fellow Z3 Readers, this administration is lying again, like they did in telling all us citizens, Bin Ladin was behind the 911 attack. (When really they were behind it --> see my link here on the 911 Truth) They (Neocons) are lying like they did in the Downing Street memo which was more proof that they had premeditated plans on invading Iraq over "phony" WMD charges. <Lies!> Lies and Faulty - Misleading Intelligence = Neocon Agenda The second story in todays headlines is about the USA using NUKE warheads. Can you believe I am telling you we, in the USA, are pursuing the building of Nuclear Warheads? Well it is out of hand and here is the AP News Report on this lovely Neocon death wish: WASHINGTON - The Bush administration selected a design Friday for a new generation of atomic warheads, taking a major step toward building the first new nuclear weapon since the end of the Cold War nearly two decades ago. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/new_warheads So there are two outragous headlines Z3 Readers How do these facts set with you? Are you paying attention?
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 12:46 PM PST
Updated: Friday, 2 March 2007 2:07 PM PST
Thursday, 1 March 2007
WOMENS DAY MARCH 8
Mood:
 cool
Now Playing: In Appreciation of The Women From All Over The World
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
Women Day: Body, Mind & Spirit 
March 8th Why Women's Day  Lesson Activities
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Why dedicate a day exclusively to the celebration of the world's women?
The United Nations General Assembly, composed of delegates from every Member State, celebrates International Women's Day to recognize that peace and social progress require the active participation and equality of women, and to acknowledge the contribution of women to international peace and security. For the women of the world, the Day is an occasion to review how far they have come in their struggle for equality, peace and development.  You might think that women's equality benefits mostly women, but every one-percentile growth in female secondary schooling results in a 0.3 percent growth in the economy. Yet girls are often kept from receiving education in the poorest countries that would best benefit from the economic growth.
Until the men and women work together to secure the rights and full potential of women, lasting solutions to the world's most serious social, economic and political problems are unlikely to be found. In recent decades, much progress has been made. On a worldwide level, women's access to education and proper health care has increased; their participation in the paid labor force has grown; and legislation that promises equal opportunities for women and respect for their human rights has been adopted in many countries. The world now has an ever- growing number of women participating in society as policy-makers. However, nowhere in the world can women claim to have all the same rights and opportunities as men. The majority of the world's 1.3 billion absolute poor are women. On average, women receive between 30 and 40 per cent less pay than men earn for the same work. And everywhere, women continue to be victims of violence, with rape and domestic violence listed as significant causes of disability and death among women of reproductive age worldwide. < copied from > http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/womensday/pages/why_content.asp 
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My Blog From Last Year Women Day Click Here: index.blog/1431082/today-we-set-a-moment-aside-to-appreciate-the-rights-of-women/ 
KBOO Honors International Women’s Day With a full 24 hours of special programming celebrating Women: Body, Mind & Spirit 90.7 FM RADIO Portland Oregon http://www.kboo.fm/ Streaming 5:30 AM “Women in Early Country Music” hosted by Jane Keefer
7:00 AM A special edition of the KBOO Morning News, focused on conditions of women around the world.
7:30 AM News about Palestinian Issues
8:00 AM “Women of a Certain Age” a panel discussion hosted by Martha Odom
9:00 AM Theresa Mitchell explores “Gender & Patriarchy”
9:30 AM Martha Odom interviews Dorothy Mackie regarding “Women in the Military”
10:00 AM Xicanisma! A special edition for IWD, hosted by Ivonne Rivero 10:30 AM “Oaxacan Resistance” a bilingual look at the struggle in Oaxaca, produced by Trill and Gloria Keeth
11:00 AM Democracy Now!
Noon Women in Revolutionary Music, hosted by Robyn Shanti
1:30 PM Robyn Shanti interviews Doris Colmes, who escaped Nazi Germany as an adolescent, and continues to explore issues of justice and activism today, especially in light of the Patriot Act.
2:00 PM “Health at Any Size” is the topic that Helen Honey will explore with interviews about size acceptance.
3:00 PM “Young Women’s Issues” will be hosted by BreAna and Amber Loranger, exploring competition between women and other topics.
3:30 PM “Local freelance writers speak out” Shanna Germain, Managing editor/co founder of Nervy Girl and Claire Sykes, Assoc. editor of Poetry Northwest discuss the perks, process, and perils of writing for a living. This program is hosted by Jade Pekkala, and welcomes listener call-ins.
4:30 PM “Women Singing Around the World” musical selections by Gloria Keeth
5:00 PM The APA Compass Collective interviews Chie Abad, who speaks from personal experience about the hardships endured by millions of workers in sweatshops around the world.
6:00 PM The Bread and Roses Collective will explore many issues effecting women’s minds, bodies and spirits, including women’s sports. 7:00 PM “Working Class Women vs. the War on Terrorism” – A panel of activists speak out on the impact of the Patriot Act and how to fight the creeping police state. From the profiling of Muslims and immigrants to the branding of environmentalists as ecoterrorists, these women have felt the brunt of homeland insecurity. Panelists include Mona Mayfield, Muslim mother who has fought FBI surveillance and the arrest of her husband, Brandon, under false premises, Kristen Bebell, activist for animal rights and against unjust sentencing for environmentalists, Christine Haboush, Lebanese American feminist, Jen Laverdure, former federal contractor fired for non-compliance with Homeland Security Presidential Directive and Radical Women organizer. 8:00 PM “International Women in Song” brought to you by Kathy Fors
9:00 PM Laura Young interviews the founder of an international crisis line, which supports U.S. women abroad who are in an abusive situation.
9:30 PM Shelly Anderson host “Roles that Christianity has put on Women”
10: 00 PM Alea Adigweme hosts an hour of readings by women.
11:00 PM “Loud Women” a music show hosted by Melanie Hall.
Midnight “Misogyny Blues Hour: Blues for the Other 364 Days of the Year”. Tune-in for musical commiseration and rejuvenation from our most beloved blues women. Leigh Anne Kranz hosts.
1 AM “The International Women of Punk Rock” hosted by Erin & Callie
3 AM “The Known Unknowns” screaming women / performance artists / diatribes and more, hosted by Ani * International Womens Day Link http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 11:16 PM PST
Updated: Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:26 PM PST
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