 |
Zebra 3 Report by Joe Anybody
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Greg Palast has a short article for you Z3 Report Readers
Mood:
 chatty
Now Playing: God Damn America
Topic: FAILURE by the GOVERNMENT
[Sunday, March 23, 2008, Forest City, PA ] This is reprinted from an email I recieved from greg palast GOD DAMN AMERICA – ESPECIALLY PENNSYLVANIA
By Greg Palast
The kids were snoozing so I drove along the back roads skirting the Lackawanna River on a dawn hunt for black coffee and a newspaper.
I think even Norman Rockwell would have found this place too sticky sweet, too postcard: the weathered barns, the fallow fields perfectly snow-frosted; red, white and blue flags already up on the clapboard farmhouses and the white-washed church in the valley already full for Easter prayers.
At a gas station, I scored the paper and coffee, spilled some on the front page – the closest thing I’ve got to a religious ritual – then parked in front of a row of insanely pretty salt-box houses shining like mad teeth on the river bank.
One was missing a pick-up in the driveway; its screen door was left half-open, and there was a letter taped to the window. The Sheriff’s Notice of eviction. Another foreclosure.
God damn America.
I know that’s what Obama’s spiritual guide would say.
But why? It seems likes He’s already done a pretty good job of damning these United States.
And He seems to have really taken it out on this corner of Pennsylvania.
The gargantuan Bethlehem steel works have dwindled to a few robot-operated mills controlled from Mumbai, India. The only remainders of nearby Carbondale’s mining industry are in display cases at the ageing Coal Inn. But you could still get out by selling your home to ski tourists from New York – until this year when mortgage markets turned cancerous.
That leaves Forest City’s one industry, lumbering – which we can kiss goodbye since a recent ruling by the NAFTA board which allows the import of cheap Canadian wood.
Some local kid has made the paper having been thrown, helmet first, into the volcano called Iraq. The Scranton Times-Tribune, two pages after the photo of a priest blessing a bowl of who knows what, noted that three soldiers killed in yesterday’s bombing are, “pushing the death toll in the five-year conflict to nearly 4,000” – which is true if you don’t count Iraqi dead. But Someone must be counting them. (From way up in heaven, I wonder if we look like a nation of Christians – or an empire of Romans.)
Phil Ochs, before he killed himself, wrote,
“This is a land full of power and glory,
Beauty that words cannot recall.
But her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom.
Her glory shall rest on us all.”
Whatever. It’s a difficult place to be an atheist, in this America, surfeited as it is on every vista with signs of His overwhelming grace and His exasperated wrath. It’s as if the Lord Himself is just as confused and frustrated and disappointed as the rest of us by blessings so abused.
There’s one consolation. He has apparently granted Pennsylvanians the privilege, come April 22, of choosing which Democrat will lose in November.
Which may not mean much to Sandy Ryder on whom the spirit of Easter has landed like a ton of bricks. Sandy, says the flyer tacked up at the Bingham diner, was, “Recently diagnosed with Inflammatory Breast Cancer.” She’s a, “Single mother of two – Tony and Brandon – and Grandmother of one – Jason.”
And there they were in a photocopied portrait, the earnest elder son and little Jason to her right, the young slacker (Tony? Brandon?) slouched to her left. The town’s hawking a benefit for Sandy, $10 at the door, “including Food and Beverage” and a “Chinese auction.”
(I’ll bet Al Qaeda could pick up some recruits here – if Osama would offer health insurance.)
Whatever. This is, after all, Holy Week, which marks the anniversary of the grounding of the Exxon Valdez, the day the giant oil corporation soaked 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coast with crude sludge. March 24 marks 19 years since the grounding and 19 years since Exxon’s promise to compensate the ruined fishermen. You should watch the 19-year-old video-tape of Exxon’s man in Alaska. I especially like the part where he tells the fishermen, “You have had some good luck – and you don’t realize it."
I know some of the fishermen on the TV footage, like the Anderson family, Eyak Natives. I can tell you, the Eyak don’t feel so lucky, still waiting for the Supreme Court to act on Exxon’s latest stall on payment. They’ve seen plenty of Sheriff’s Notices these past 19 years.
So Happy Easter.
George Bush tells us he’s, “feeling just fine.” And we should be glad for him, I suppose.
Bush ends his most belligerent speeches by saying, “God bless America.”
So, why hasn’t He?
Maybe you can tell us, Mr. President: Why hasn’t He?
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 6:40 PM PDT
Updated: Wednesday, 26 March 2008 4:31 PM PDT
NADER tells Democrates "Your time has passed"
Mood:
 celebratory
Now Playing: Ralph Nader for President "TROOPS HOME NOW"
Topic: POLITICS
What do - Code Pink Move On The Nation The Progressive In These Times And the liberal intelligentsia have in common? They all see clearly that the Democrats will not get us out of Iraq. They all see clearly that the Democrats will not crack down on corporate crime. They all see clearly that the Democrats will not support a single payer national health insurance system. They all see clearly that the Democrats will not cut the bloated, wasteful military budget. And yet, they refuse to stand up to the Democrats and say - out! Get out! Get out now! We are going to start new. You are a corrupt party. And your time has passed. Time to build something new. Instead, the liberal intelligentsia continues to hope. Against hope. That Clinton. Or Obama. Will stand up to the military corporations and their bloated, wasteful military budget. Even though they know deep down that they will not. Even in the face of 4,000 Americans dead. And more than a million Iraqis dead. And tens of thousands wounded. They refuse to abandon hope in a corrupt party. The Democratic Party is gone. And the liberal intelligentsia is gone. Yet, as we have seen over the past two months. Tens of millions of Americans are ready for change. To move past the two parties. Toward something new. And that is what Nader/Gonzalez is about. Step by step, we are getting on ballots all across the country. In New Mexico, our volunteers are well on their way to getting Nader/Gonzalez on the ballot. 
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 11:43 AM PDT
Friday, 21 March 2008
Fuck The Corporate Media _ Student Walkout Protest Interview
Mood:
 on fire
Now Playing: Joe Anybody tells Corporate camera news-crew "This war is your fault"
Topic: PROTEST!
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 2:02 AM PDT
Updated: Friday, 21 March 2008 5:42 AM PDT
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Semantic Web - A new way of surfing the Internet?
Mood:
 cheeky
Now Playing: Organizing the Internet. - By using "Twine" ?
Topic: MEDIA
(Gadgets, Discoveries) Permanent link 
The jumbled mess that is the internet has a certain charm. Masses of confusing information and useless web pages sit neatly along side important sites, with Google standing as one of the only ways to tell them apart. Google is still the top dog in organizing the web, but the internet has evolved since the company began 12 years ago (that’s about 90 in web years). In fact, Tim Berners-Lee, who’s credited with inventing the World Wide Web, told the Times Online that he believes Google will be “superseded” by the Semantic Web. Instead of simply focusing on web pages, the Semantic Web would, in theory, organize all kinds of information from bank statements to maps to photos to medical research studies. In a video for Technology Review, Berners-Lee talks about how Semantic Web technology could help doctors compare different kinds of medical data, combining the information with nutrition data or seemingly unrelated data like air travel patterns, illuminating trends and information that could literally save lives. For now, much of the promise of the Semantic Web has yet to be realized, but companies are busy preparing to take advantage of the new technology. The latest incarnation is a website called Twine, created by Radar Networks, currently in private beta testing. CNet News reports that the company has raised $18 million in two stages to implement the technology. Right now, Twine looks a lot like Facebook, MySpace, or other social networking sites. Users create a profile, upload a picture, and connect with other users on the site. The company hopes that users will soon begin dumping massive amounts of emails, research data, and other work-related information into the site, so that people will begin to make sense of the information in new ways. The difference between Twine and MySpace, Facebook, or other social networking sites is that “a social network that is about who you know, Twine is more about what you know,” Radar Networks founder Nova Spivack told CNet News. If the Semantic Web works as well as Spivack and Berners-Lee hope it will, people will soon start to know a lot more. —Bennett Gordon Image by Noah Sussman, licensed under Creative Commons. Just for fun, here’s a very cool video about organizing the web:
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 6:24 PM PDT
Monday, 17 March 2008
M - 15 Peace March PORTLAND
Mood:
 cool
Now Playing: Sucessful Peace March - And a Grannies Special Video
Topic: PROTEST!
The Portland Peace March was successful and was positive There were no clashes nor any reports of "police abuse" I have about 3 hours worth of video from the event that should be on-line by the end of the week here (3/21/08) I will be adding it to my website and YouTube-&-Google as well up on www.PDXpeace.org and www.Portland.Indymedia.org I will have a heading under my videos titled "" M15 "" For all the video's I will have from the March 15 event in Portland Ore ---------------------------- Meanwhile ---------------------------------- Stay tuned .... I just spent the past 24 hours working on a video called "Seriously Pissed Off Grannies 2007" I have a completed "quick-rushed-copy" finished and it will be used in a presentation tonight. I really rushed it an d will be going back over it in the real near future to dial it in better. I didn't have the time I wanted to in order to make this as professional as possible. I will be posting "what I got so far" in regards to the Grannies 2007 ....but expect to see it "modified" in the weeks to come. I also have a project on the burner of a special Grannies Video with music provided by one of the Seriously Pissed Off Grannies daughters..... now that one is gonna be "special"
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 1:29 PM PDT
Updated: Monday, 17 March 2008 1:45 PM PDT
Thursday, 13 March 2008
WINTER SOLIDER
Mood:
on fire
Now Playing: streaming LIVE video from Washington DC
Topic: WAR
Live telecast on the BIG SCREEN at Portland State University: Winter Soldier II. Iraq/Afghanistan
veterans will testify giving an accurate account
of what is really happening in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is information you won't find in the mainstream media. |
THURSDAY, MARCH 13: 4 P.M. - 6 P.M.
FRIDAY, MARCH 14: 6 A.M. - 5:30 P.M.
SATURDAY, MARCH 15: 6 A.M. - 5:30 P.M.
Also on Portland Cable Access TV:
Fri. 3/14 Channel 23: 6 a.m.-9 a.m. and 10 a.m.- noon
and On Channel 11 at 7 p.m. Jim Lockhart discussion
Sat. 3/15: Channel 23: 6 a.m.-10 a.m.
Veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts will give public testimony and share the eyewitness stories that have been censored from the American public about the true human cost of these occupations. Spread the word about this historic and profoundly significant four day event - and please join us for live internet telecast presentations of testimony and panels.
In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
In 1971, a courageous group of veterans exposed the criminal nature of the Vietnam War in an event called Winter Soldier. Once again, we will demand that the voices of veterans are heard.
Once again, we are fighting for the soul of our country. We will demonstrate our patriotism by speaking out with honor and integrity instead of blindly following failed policy. Winter Soldier is a difficult but essential service to our country.
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan will feature testimony from U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground.
The four-day event will bring together veterans from across the country to testify about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan - and present video and photographic evidence. In addition, there will be panels of scholars, veterans, journalists, and other specialists to give context to the testimony. These panels will cover everything from the history of the GI resistance movement to the fight for veterans' health benefits and support.
|
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 11:37 AM PDT
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
person of interest? in the 2001 anthrax attacks and one reporter refuses to talk
Mood:
 not sure
Now Playing: Media reporter told to give up source
Topic: MEDIA
I ran across this article today ...not sure what day it came out. __________________________________________ __________________________________________ A former reporter for USAToday newspaper who was ordered to pay hefty fines starting at midnight Tuesday for refusing to name confidential sources for a story, has been granted a stay, court sources said. “It is ordered that the motion for a stay pending appeal be granted,” a clerk at the US court of appeals in Washington told AFP, reading from the order. “Appellant has satisfied the stringent standards required for a stay pending appeal,” the clerk read, hours before the first payment of 500 dollars (325 euros) was due. Reporter Toni Locy was last week ordered by US District Court Judge Reggie Walton to pay a daily fine of 500 dollars, rising in steps to 5,000 dollars, for refusing to name the sources for a story she wrote about Steven Hatfill, the former army bioweapons scientist named a “person of interest” in the 2001 anthrax attacks. The judge also ordered that Locy pay the fines with no help from her employer, friends, family or even anonymous supporters. Gannett, the parent company of USAToday, on Monday filed a motion with the court of appeals for an emergency stay of the contempt citation, and a coalition of about two dozen media companies and non-profit journalism organizations also filed an ‘amicus brief’ in support of Locy the same day. Hatfill, meanwhile, filed a response on Tuesday, seeking to bar the stay. The former army scientist was named a “person of interest” by investigating authorities in the United States after anthrax-laced letters were sent to several lawmakers and television offices in October 2001. Five people, including two post office workers in Washington, died of anthrax inhalation. In the original complaint Hatfill filed against Locy in August 2003, he alleged that “the Justice Department had violated the Privacy Act by making unauthorized disclosures about him to the news media — that is, by intentionally ‘leaking’ investigative information,” his response to the motion for a stay said. Locy has said in court that she could not remember all her sources, and was ordered to pay the rising fines, on her own, until such time as she did name them. She also faced prison if she failed to name the confidential sources by early April. “We’ve never seen anything like this,” Gregg Leslie, the legal defense director at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said of the rising fines imposed on Locy, and the judge’s order that she pay them on her own. “The only authority the judge tried to base it on were cases that had to do with whether a lawyer who was found in contempt of court could have a client reimburse him. So we think he based it on a pretty poor precedent and, yes, there isn’t anything like it in any other contempt case,” Leslie told AFP. “It is troubling that courts are going to allow this kind of examination of a reporter’s work product,” he added. Locy, who is currently a professor of journalism at West Virginia University, said she was delighted to be given a stay and would now “let the appellate process play out.” No date has been set for the appeal hearing.
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 11:15 PM PDT
Updated: Wednesday, 12 March 2008 11:17 PM PDT
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Winter Solider - in Washington DC (3 days) Watch it - LIVE STREAMING
Mood:
 crushed out
Now Playing: Iraq Veterans Against War
Topic: WAR
PLEAS PASS THIS INFORMATION TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW Thanks Z3 Readers, from joe-anybody From March 14th to 16th, Pacifica Radio will suspend regular programming to broadcast the historic Winter Soldier gathering in Washington, DC. The three day live broadcast will be co-hosted by Aaron Glantz and former Army medic and KPFA Morning Show host Aimee Allison. A live web-stream of the broadcast will be available through the War Comes Home as well as at KPFA.org -
http://warcomeshome.org/wintersoldier2008
What's Winter Soldier In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." 
Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicised incidents of U.S. brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not the isolated incidents perpetrated by "a few bad apples", as many politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the group says, of "an increasingly bloody occupation."
"What's going on is were trying to create a space for veterans to speak out and change the rhetoric around the war from these politicians with these ideologies that have no real experience on the ground," said Aaron Hughes, a former member of the Illinois National Guard who spent a year running convoys in Iraq. "There are human beings on both sides. There are not just numbers. That's what missing in our culture. This was has been statistics, it's been rhetoic, and it's not personal. But for the American soldiers who've served there it is personal and for the Iraqi people who live there it's personal. That's why our testimony is important." "The problem that we face in Iraq is that policymakers in leadership have set a precedent of lawlessness where we don't abide by the rule of law, we don't respect international treaties, so when that atmosphere exists it lends itself to criminal activity," argues former U.S. Army Sergeant Logan Laituri, who served a tour in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 before being discharged as a conscientious objector. 
Laituri explains that precedent of lawlessness makes itself felt in the rules of engagement handed down by commanders to soldiers on the front lines. When he was stationed in Samarra, for example, he said one of his fellow soldiers shot an unarmed man while he walked down the street.
"The problem is that that soldier was not committing a crime as you might call it because the rules of engagement were very clear that no one was supposed to be walking down the street," he said. "But I have a problem with that. You can't tell a family to leave everything they know so you can bomb the shit out of their house or their city. So while he definitely has protection under the law, I don't think that legitimates that type of violence." The veterans also want to stress the similarities between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "The exact same units that are getting the exact same training and the exact same orders are getting sent to both Iraq and Afghanistan," explains Perry O'brien, a former US Army Medic who became a conscientious objector after his tour in Afghanistan. "What we're seeing is a lot of similarities between practices in both countries and both are equally criminal." "Something that I personally witnessed and that I'm going to be submitting testimony on is the use of civilian corpses for medical practice," he added. "When a patient would die we would hear over the PA system we would hear an announcement through the clinc saying 'Who wants to learn how to do a chest tube?' or 'Who wants to know what a human heart looks like?' Rather than giving the proper treatment of the dead, the body would become a cadaver for medical practice with no consent from the victim." Winter Soldier is modeled on a similar event held by Vietnam Veterans 37 years ago. In 1971, over 100 members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War gathered in Detroit to share their stories with fellow citizens. Atrocities like the My Lai massacre had ignited popular opposition to the war, but political and military leaders insisted that such crimes were isolated exceptions. 
Among those in attendance was 27-year-old Navy Lieutenant John Kerry, who had served on a Swift Boat in Vietnam. Three months after the hearings, Nicosia notes, Kerry took his case to Congress and spoke before a jammed Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Television cameras lined the walls, and veterans packed the seats.
"Many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia," Kerry told the committee, describing the events of the Winter Soldier gathering. "It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit - the emotions in the room, and the feelings of the men who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam. They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do." In one of the most famous antiwar speeches of the era, Kerry concluded: "Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be - and these are his words - 'the first president to lose a war'. We are asking Americans to think about that, because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War can prove similarly historic – especially in encouraging an increase in the amount of GI Resistance against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "This event is going to empower soldiers to follow their conscience whaterver that means for them," says Camilo Mejia, the Chair of the Board of Iraq Veterans Against the War. "The kinds of things we're talking about are non-partisan. They're non-political. They have to do with human being trapped in this atrocity producing situation."
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 2:51 PM PST
Sunday, 24 February 2008
A Call Out by Joe Anybody For Solidarity Towards Peace
Mood:
 loud
Now Playing: Stand Up - Get Active - List Of Joe Anybody Video Links All Right Here
Topic: PROTEST!
Hello One n All,Have I been busy? Well let’s just say …I am not sleeping my Life Away 
So who am I voting for …well let me say so far Ralph Nader is the “only” kind of possible hope the Nation has And he announced he is running…. Seems no one else running, really cares about what is important, so he has to “give the people some representation” That’s not why I send this email updateIt is sent to alert, brag, and beg for activism for the peace movement Who doesn’t want peace you say?Let me reply …. If you do “Step Forward … Step up…. You are being summoned!”This is a call to action By your friendly neighborhood average “joe anybody” I have been working to end this war 24-7 I am calling out for help!Everyone that is reading this email , I am asking for you to do something for me…well for peace actually!Which in turn will influence many others, actually the “more you engage” this will create an even bigger impact and influence! You and me all need to do something for promoting “peace” and “ending this war”
I am asking for one major effort …. Be it any kind of action or endeavor, what ever you choose will be fine …make the effort to challenge this war and the acceptance of it The theme is (Same as is in the 5 year anniversary march theme which is coming up in 20 days)“World With Out War” – “Stop The War Bring The Troops Home Now” What I am really asking is for everybody who is reading this to do something to extra … something more than what you may already be doingOn March 15 a Hugh rally and march is going on in Portland in the Park Blocks outside of my work In commemoration and in solidarity I am seriously asking you all to “ramp this up” and start “demanding Peace Now!”
Come on down on the 15th to Portland or start a rally vigil march in your area Look around things are going on, join a peace group , make a sign, talk to your neighbors!!Engage …network….. plug in……. do something to make change !
Did you know March 20 is a “Student Walk-Out Day across America?” This is a good bold necessary statement I support 100%Organize …engage …resist war and Imperialism! If you choose to sit idle or as a spectator you will be ….sad to say “condoning this blood bath, waged by these neocons in charge at the moment” Millions are now dead and its continuing every minute… soon more and more it will be people we know as we do now ….who are the victims of this illegal war….!Get up …. Get Out ….. Stand for what you know is rightYou can not just read about what the corporate press keeps telling you… they will convince you the surge is working or terrorist want to get you…. They will Lie to you, they will tell you 911 had something to do with Iraq, etc! They are lying and have been lying all along about this WMD war…..they serve the military complex and the war profiteers….. Your country and Constitution has been “high jacked”The fourth amendment is disappearing before your eyes (PS the government is reading this email without a warrant) I working 24/7 on being a peacemaker….. I am asking for and calling for Solidarity… I am calling out or re-enforcements I need your help …… I need you all to also ask for help with your own Families and friends ….. the request is to help promote and encourage peace and stop the killing! Spend one minute looking at the horrors of this occupation in IraqAnd you better do something other than escape it … you have to …. I ask you as a favor to me, lets help those families who are being killed, and those soldiers who are dieing for lies
I think you all understand my message For an example of one thing to do could be in helping with….On March 9 the Iraq Body Count Flag Display will be coming to Portland for a couple weeksIt will take days to put flags into the PSU lawn that will represent all those that have died from this illegal occupationI will be their filming it through out the day as well as helping with the thousands of flags that need to be put into the earth
The Veterans will be putting in the “red flags” …. I bet that will be a sight to bring a man to his knees!Will you, or can you stop in to help with this powerful display (it is stated as being non-political)It will be up for a few weeks Will you write a letter to your editor about ending this war? …Will you call your Senator? Will you please do something, to help try to end the occupation, or Impeach the criminals that are doing this to the world, families across the globe?I have personally talked with and filmed refugees begging for help and the madness to stop….. I can hear them ….. I ask …can you….? Anyway …I have lots to do …so I will be moving on Please hear my call for Solidarity Check my website out often …..especially the Video Tracker this page:www.joe-anybody.com/id104.html Every single video I make goes up there on that tracker page Also there is my blog page “The Zebra3 Report”: http://zebra3reporttripod.com/zebra3report/Many times it is just important topics I copy paste to here that I feel need to be passed alongMany times its letters like this that I will post on that page or my thoughts and opinions It is constantly updated My home page is as you all should know is: …. www.joe-anybody.com it changes all the time as well My ID “mission page” is here: www.joe-anybody.com/id1.html This Link here will show you every YouTube video I ever made and the latest ones are always on topThese video are all under 10 minutes (the max limit) I now have over 150 YouTube video’s online(This link is the good one to see my recent uploads to YouTube so be sure to keep it handy)http://www.youtube.com/user/zebra334 I have some of the same video on Youtube also on this website called BlipTV (all under 10 min)http://joeanybody.blip.tv/ And then I also have put some of the same video over here on MetaCafe as well (all under 10 min)http://www.metacafe.com/channels/Joe+Anybody/ My oh My … I do have a Myspace ..but don’t use it too much but it is here:www.myspace.com/joecouldbeanybody Of Course I also Post on Portland Indy Media as my main news outlet www.portland.indymedia.org And, there is www.PDXpeace.org that gets a health dose of my videos and good peace related info That’s where I read and then filmed the student led Peace March that goes on weekly here in Portland The longer videos all go onto Google the latest list is at the bottom of this page….Some of these people who I have filmed are spectacular …. Take a look !! Speaking of spectacular I filmed a 24 hour Peace Vigil in Sandy Oregon and stayed there 21 hours I missed the first few hours because I was at the weekly Pioneer Square Peace march and filming it Also I cam home from the 24 hr vigil to upload to YouTube what was going on “right now” then head back out to join them Stephan came out and joined me around that time for about an hour as well around 5 amYou should really see some of these COLD wet videos I filmed (I’m still editing them too and its been over a month) Thanks for reading this far.Sorry for my rambling and also lack of partaking in non-political involvements…. I am super busy trying to stop a war …..seriously!!! Please do something to meet my challenge, to bring peace to our worldIf you have anything you want published in this realm on my website or “help with” let me know ….or if you have any ideas “lets do it!”I am promoting Peace and Justice…. If I don’t who will ? No Justice …No Peace! Just came back (yesterday) for this event titled “People of Color Against The War” .. This is the first clip I have edited <so far> from that day…but man this Reverend Dr Haynes is one heck of an empowering speaker, you got to hear this! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8324257986546789484 Oh by the way every Thursday I skip lunch to film the Impeachment Vigil We are on week 30 ..its been going on for over 210 days (we all show up on Thursdays at noon) to encourage our House Rep Earl Blumenauer to support the Impeachment Hearings …. (He doesn’t listen)I have filmed every one except the very first one that The Lone Vet has organizedShow up on Thursday’s from 12 – 2 at his Portland Office if you want to help urge him (Earl) to honor the Constitution and his oath he took. Videos from that Impeachment vigil are all here for your enjoyment http://www.joe-anybody.com/id96.html Love
Mike ____________This is My Google Video List of all my video’s over 10 minutes in length _____________ Take Care Joe Anybody
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 11:49 PM PST
Updated: Monday, 25 February 2008 12:00 AM PST
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
A message to Iranians: In response to the New York Times
Mood:
chatty
Now Playing: Propaganda - NY Times - And The Iranian People
Topic: WAR
A message to Iranians: In response to the New York Times A repost to Z3 Readers by Kuros Yalpani, Munich/Germany, CASMII http://www.payvand.com/news/08/feb/1165.html 02/17/08 A short February 4th, 2008 editorial in the New York Times (NYT) insert of the German "Süddeutsche" newspaper, entitled "How to Deal With Iran," criticizes the U.S. administration for not being resolute in its approach to Iran, i.e. not making a "grand gesture" to Iran, a code phrase for coercing Iran into a compromise, the details of which casually undisclosed. Furthermore, the editorial criticizes the other powers, Europe, Russia, China and the Arab states, for not enforcing sanctions against Iran, even though they have no legal basis. Finally, the editorial concludes with the following remedy "... send a strong message to the Iranian 'people' about the folly of their leaders." In spite of the flagrantly arrogant tone of the editorial, one must be mindful of its message, albeit not the one explicitly stated. Judging by its tone, the editorial is directed primarily at the elite policy makers close to the Iranian issue, who presumably read the NYT. Furthermore, since the editorial is not credited to a specific author, it does not reflect any particular author's view, rather the NYT's doctrinal views. Since the NYT is arguably aligned with the primary goals of U.S. foreign policy, the article reflects these interests. Most importantly, it reveals that U.S. foreign policy is directed at the Iranian people and not just its leadership, as media propaganda and U.S. administration officials (including George Bush) to date consistently claim. Iranians in general seem to have agreed with their leadership on the legitimacy of the Iranian atomic program. Furthermore, given the unfolding catastrophes resulting from U.S. interventions in neighboring countries, Iranians are not keen to assist a U.S. military intervention in their own country. Nor are they responding in an effective manner, from the vantage point of U.S. policy makers, to U.S. demands for a regime change. Necessarily, the NYT propaganda is shifting gears from promoting a war against the Iranian leadership to advocating a war against the Iranian people. While the U.S. propaganda has shifted gears, actual U.S. foreign policy has always been a policy of plain old imperial conquest, in this case, about subjugating the Iranian people, no matter how it is masked as being against the Iranian regime. This "dual" approach in foreign policy is clearly by design and is an attempt, so far unsuccessful, to co-opt Iranians against their own national interests. As admitted by the former U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, it worked in 1953, in the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Mossadegh. It would be a mistake though to think that this particular episode of U.S. foreign policy is limited to Iran and to the current historical era. Every U.S. intervention in history caused civilian causalities by design and was directed against the respective people: beginning with the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans (estimated 20,000,000+ killed), commencing with the kidnapping of African Americans (80,000,000+?) from their continent, their enslavement and dispossession in an Apartheid state, the Mexican War of 1845 (as a result of which Mexico lost 40% of its territory), the declaration of the Monroe Doctrine (a flagrant manifesto dated 1823) in order to subjugate Central and South America for the next 200 years, the sinking of the USS Maine to justify the war with Spain, the war on the Korean peninsula, the murder of 800,000+ individuals after the U.S.- orchestrated coup against the democratically elected government of Sukharno, the national hero of Indonesia, the Indochina wars, and all of the since World War One ongoing wars and interventions in the Middle East, to name just a few well known cases. Due to the distances involved in history and huge advances in technology, it is very difficult to compare the U.S. Empire to any previous empire. Nonetheless one can draw parallels between the effects of U.S. foreign policy and the conquest of previous empires, e.g. the empire of the Mongols or the Nazi Regime. A few days after the fall of Baghdad, American soldiers were seen plundering priceless treasures in Baghdad's museums, among many of these, "the mask of Ur," which presumably will never be returned to their rightful owners, the people of Iraq, the descendants of the Mesopotamians. Events in U.S. history have consistently taught us that these acts are a design of their instigators, in this case a coalition of Western elites. It is also an attempt to erase the collective memories of the subjected peoples, thereby more easily coercing them into subjugation. Western media skillfully mask all such pillages and all the killings of wholly uninvolved people, portraying them as "collateral damages." Because there is such a stark contrast between the brutality of U.S. foreign policy and the spinned, clean-cut and complex media portrayal, it is very hard for most, not directly involved, observers to make the connection between these two systems. Occasionally, I see old footage of Nazi propaganda news reels and I must confess that from today's vantage point and compared with today's standards, they seem quite crude! I wonder if 50 years from now our descendants will not think the same of today's modes of justifying wars of aggression. In light of the shift in the NYT propaganda and the re-doubling of efforts of the U.S. and their allies to impose sanctions on Iranians for their defiance, Iranians, concerned citizens and activists world-wide ought to stand united in informing the world public opinion about the real motives of the U.S. and no longer give in to its historic demand. |
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 6:10 PM PST
Newer | Latest | Older
|
| « |
March 2008 |
» |
 |
| S |
M |
T |
W |
T |
F |
S |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| 2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
| 9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
| 16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
| 23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
| 30 |
31 |
|
OH i told them in a rambling non stop way what I thought was going on
not sure if my camera was on ..I still havent seen all my videos yet
But I blamed them (Corporate Media) for this war and mess we are in now ..told them they have been sitting on their asses for 5 years
i said they fucked this up by not reporting the real news
I yelled at them for ..."me having to buy a camera and do their fucking job"
I angerly loudly said "You fuckers I have over 200 videos on the INTERNET and you never show up and report the truth in any of them...I need to do what your not doing ...............
shit I dont know what came over me ...i let em have my 2 cents worth ......
Doubt that will make the news (Ch 2)
I looked up and the horse cops were all staring at me as I walked away ....
The two news people stood there staring at me dumbfounded!
FUCK THE CORPORATE MEDIA..... they come out for some sugar cube reporting / spin
Fuck them ...thats how come we are in this mess in the first place
Thank God For Portland Indy Media and "other independent news sources"
**********************
AND WAIT TILL YOU SEE MY 2 HOUR VIDEO OF 1 to 2 THOUSAND KIDS MARCHING FOR PEACE
SEE THE COPS GET MEAN WITH JAY WALKERS ...SEE THE KIDS ROCK THE FUCIN HOUSE
THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR !!! There line went for blocks and blocks
THESE KIDS ALL WERE PEACEFUL AND MADE JOE ANYBODY "SUPER PROUD"
I WAS ECSTATIC TO SEE THIS ..... IT WAS *GREAT*
(CEPT THE COPS BEING MEAN)
YOU WONT FRICKING BELIEVE THESE KIDS ...300 hundred "MY ass!!"
.....THE LINE OF KIDS WENT FROM BURNSIDE TO TO MAIN STREET
DAMN CORPORATE MEDIA !!!
********************