 by Flemming Funch
Woody Harrelson: I'm an American tired of American lies: "I am a father, and no amount of propaganda can convince me that half a million dead children is acceptable "collateral damage". The fact is that Saddam Hussein was our boy. The CIA helped him to power, as they did the Shah of Iran and Noriega and Marcos and the Taliban and countless other brutal tyrants. The fact is that George Bush Sr continued to supply nerve gas and technology to Saddam even after he used it on Iran and then the Kurds in Iraq."
On what he would do if he were in Bush's shoes: "I'd honour Kyoto. Join the world court. I'd stop subsidising earth rapers like Monsanto, Dupont and Exxon. I'd shut down the nuclear power plants. So I already have $200bn saved from corporate welfare. I'd save another $100bn by stopping the war on non-corporate drugs. And I'd cut the defence budget in half so they'd have to get by on a measly $200bn a year. I've already saved half a trillion bucks by saying no to polluters and warmongers. Then I'd give $300bn back to the taxpayers. I'd take the rest and pay the people teaching our children what they deserve. I'd put $100bn into alternative fuels and renewable energy. I'd revive the Chemurgy movement, which made the farmer the root of the economy, and make paper and fuel from wheat straw, rice straw and hemp. Not only would I attend, I'd sponsor the next Earth Summit. And, of course, I'd give myself a fat raise."
A Wired reporter has his DNA scanned, to look for predisposition to disease. And his genetic ancestry examined. Interesting first-person account. We're getting close to Gattaca.
The ACLU has started a Media Campaign to challenge the U.S. Patriot Act.
Pravda has been publishing more and more UFO stories. Whitley Strieber thinks the Russians might be getting ready to take the veils off of what they know. It is probably more likely to come from there, even though there apparently is motion towards disclosure in the U.S. as well.
Paul Ray suggests a new political compass. Mainly he identifies a group of "new progressives". Hm, ok, maybe. Maybe there's such a group, but I'm not sure how much that helps. Really I think the political "spectrum" is totally bogus, and it takes a lot more than drawing the lines a little differently. The political left-right spectrum is just a way of giving people the same thing no matter which direction they turn, just with different flavors. A clever application of Hegelian Dialectism. It is centralized authority, no matter which direction you look. The left wants to control the money up front, so they can give it away; the right wants to control your mind, so that you'll give your money to their corporations and religions. I think it all needs to be rejected as a big scam. Or a Communist Plot if you will. I want freedom to think and talk and act like I feel is right, and I want to collaborate in community with other people to make our civilization work. There's no place on the political spectrum for that.
"Nobody gives you power. You just take it." --Roseanne
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