NOVEMBER 2004
doremus observes
Doremus Jessup, editor of the Fort
Beulah The Daily Informer, in Sinclair Lewis'
famous book "It Can't Happen Here", at its
conclusion, "drove out saluted by the meadow larks,
and onward all day, to a hidden cabin in the Northern
Woods where quiet men awaited news of freedom.....still
Doremus goes on, into the sunrise, for a Doremus Jessup
can never die......
The citizens of the USA are very
similar to frogs in a pot of water.
Frogs are cold-blooded creatures, you see. So, if you put
one in warm water, they appreciate it, and they will just
stay there and enjoy it. You have created a 'comfort
zone' for them. They have no idea who you are, or how you
did it, but they are self-motivated, and take advantage
of it.
But here's the thing. If you heat it up a little, the
frog won't hop out. To him, it's still enjoyable, and
he'd rather take a little discomfort than give up his
'pleasure zone'.
If you heat it up more, he still won't hop out. He
adjusts to the heat, and finds it still worth laying
around in the bath, dispite a minute aspect of
discomfort.
You can keep on heating that water, and heating it until
it reaches a boil. But our frog will not leave his
'comfort zone'. By that time, it's too late,
At most anytime up until the boiling, the frog could jump
out, but he won't. He will just say in that water until
he is dead.
As you can plainly see. The citizens of the USA are very
similar to frogs in a pot of water. They are not wanting
to give up their domestic pleasures, no matter what they
lose.
They have no idea it is their own government and it's
handlers that are turning up the heat. Soon, and I mean
very soon, they will realise there is nothingthey can do.
That it's too late, despite the cries from the other
frogs to vacate the boiling pot.
(From DS, thank you! And we might remember
reminiscence of GWBush as a boy whose spare time was
occupied with sadistic pleasure blowing up
bullfrogs.JB,editor)
Chicken?
12/30/2004 09:15:32 EST
McDonald's Looks at Chicken Slaughtering OAK BROOK, Ill.
- McDonald's Corp. is considering whether to require its
processors to use a method for slaughtering poultry that
animal rights groups say is more humane. The fast-food
giant said it is studying the possibility of
"controlled atmosphere killing," in which
chickens are put to sleep with an inert gas, such as
nitrogen or argon. McDonald's animal welfare council
suggested a study of the newer method, said Bob Langert,
McDonald's senior director of social responsibility. It
would replace a slaughtering process in which chickens
are hung by their legs on a moving conveyor line and
pulled through an electrified vat of water. "There
has been very little study of this process as to impact
on animal welfare," Langert said Wednesday.
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Eulogy to The
Chickens
pity to you scared broadway birds
in a coop you wait
by the thousands in
chicken coops you wait.
you await the chop
of your neck.
they await
your liver
your delicious suck-u-lent thighs.
pre broadway birds reigned free
pecking in order far beyond the house
far into grain fields hens pecked.
momma hens went early to roost
dropped warm eggs below many colored wings
then she sat and sat until eggs hatched.
roasters puffed up their chest
always first;
he went peck, peck, peck
roaming the fields
for feed and hens,
daring other cocks.
now your crown removed
your chest shaved
they prepare you for war
unto yourself.
then cocks crowed every chicken awake
before the dawn
before the clock.
the cock crowed /for Judus /for Macbeth /for Hamlet
Cock ah Do Do cock ah do do / never late.
then birds roamed feed fields
now they linger in their coops
awaiting carnivores.
awaiting the guillotine!
first come first served!
waiting!
for your necks
for your liver
for your big succulent breast
for your dark and lovely
thighs.
Joseph nyerere
©
3/07/02
Three Monkeys
by Tony Naz
WarFolly.com
We
are all cogs in the great corporate machine. Our brave
sons and daughters die needlessly in Iraq. Why? Why do we
tolerate this? We dance to the media's fairy tale of
liberating Iraqi and bringing them the blessings of
democracy. Those poor innocent people in Iraq are being
subjected to the most heinous criminal military action in
all of history! Yet we all pour out our sympathy and
support for the tsunami victims, 200,000 at last count.
Our military already mercilessly killed that many during
the war in Iraq! And they do it on a daily basis, witness
the massacre in Fallujah. Where is the outpouring of
support for our sons and daughters who are over there
fighting in Iraq? Why don't their parents come out in the
street and tell Bush to bring them all home and that
enough is enough! We must stop the bloodshed and the
killing. We are living in the 21st century. We still
behave like barbarians. Human beings want peace but they
won't stand up to the bullies that subjugate them and
make them fight corporate wars. Why? Because we fear our
government, not the terrorists!
Read full article
Also Worthy of Your Immediate Attention:Just
One Senator.. An Open Letter to the U.S. Senate
by Michael Moore
Bush Urges
Dismissal of Election Lawsuit
Tolerating injustice and doing nothing but
keeping silent makes us all accomplices in the
destruction of our great country.
It's
time to get this monkey off our back!
Tony Naz
thinking about what needs to be done:
John Kaminski.....
- Of course, merely contemplating the capture of the world's money supply means considering the complete disintegration of the world's financial networks, which are inextricably intertwined with the cancerous Rothschild octopus, and rescuing control of the currency from these criminals would result in the instant collapse of almost every government on Earth.
- Who would accomplish such a fantastic feat? Who would control the new system? Would the world revert into piratical barbarism? Probably. But that's what we have now, only with a smile for the cameras, which are owned by the pirates in control.
- This process, should it make any headway, would take a century or more, and be accomplished gradually, as states around the world recalibrate their objectives from pure profit to sensible self-sufficiency and actualized independence.
- Of course, with heartless predators like the United States manipulating all these little countries into bankruptcy at every opportunity, there would be difficult times. But they would not be as difficult as the situation now, where the New York and London banks immorally reap the lion's share of profits for the labor of most of the people on the planet.
- The tradeoff has always been security or liberty. Ben Franklin still has the last word on this: "Those who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Sooner or later, we all have to bite the bullet and decide that we don't want to be slaves to the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, or it's curtains for freedom.
DID THEY TRADE YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOR A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY?
Those who would trade their constitutional rights for a
false sense of security deserve neither.
Provisions in the Intelligence
Reform bill which authorize National ID cards and create
large government databases on the private affairs of
Americans do not enhance our security. They diminish it.
On November 24, 2004, GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt
and former Rep. Bob Barr teamed up to place an editorial
in The Washington Times. Among other things, their
editorial notes how this National ID card will be "a
driver's license that, more than likely, will include a
radio identifier chip and some biometric data, allowing
the government to track individual Americans' movements
with ease. Every time we pass through a toll, or board an
airplane, or enter a state or federal government
facility, that will be tracked and recorded."
This microchip requirement is not yet in H.R. 10, but the
momentum is obviously pushing in that direction. I'm sure
you are aware of the fact that the passports which will
be issued by the end of 2005 will have microchips which
can read electronically from as far away as 30 feet.
Let's be honest: allowing the government to track U.S.
citizens is not going to do anything to stop real
terrorists. Israel has a national identification card
that uses biometric identifiers -- a requirement that has
hardly stopped suicide bombers from detonating bombs in
crowded areas.
Satan's Home Cooking
When the devil
comes knocking on your front door, looking for a way to
spread his evil inside, he won't be sporting horns and a
tail. He's going to come dressed as your sweetest dream,
clean as a whistle, pious, sincere. He's going to speak
your lingo, ape your ways -- and when he opens up his
little box of poison, it's going to look like the heaven
your mama sang about when she rocked you to sleep in your
cradle.
Then one day, when the mind-fog lifts, you see him
sitting at the head of the table, the walls of the room
smeared with filth, dead bodies swelling on the
blood-mucked floor, the still-living victims hog-tied and
naked, screaming for mercy as the whipcords strike. He
beckons you forward with a welcoming smile. You pause for
a moment. It seems so strange: All this horror -- it
would have once made you sick, but now it just feels like
... home. You shrug, you grin, you take your place beside
him at the feast.
In just this way,
while Americans were finishing their Thanksgiving dinners
and preparing to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, a
series of stories exposed -- once again -- the torture
chamber at the heart of their feast: a government gone
insane, embracing terror, atrocity and tyranny. Yet there
was no public outcry against these desecrations. Few even
noticed; fewer still cared.
Last week, the minions of George W. Bush announced, in
open court, that he has the power to seize anyone on
earth -- even "little old ladies in
Switzerland" -- and imprison them forever if he so
chooses, The New York Times reports. The minions said
that anyone Bush declared "an enemy combatant"
-- even if they never took up arms against America, even
if they didn't know their actions were related to
terrorism in any way -- could be abducted from any
nation, friend or foe, or in the Homeland itself, and
held indefinitely, "at the president's
discretion," stripped of all rights under the U.S.
Constitution or the Geneva Conventions.
Assistant Attorney General Brian Boyle said Bush's
captives were entitled only to a single hearing, alone
before a military tribunal, without legal counsel or
access to the evidence against them -- evidence which
Boyle cheerfully admitted could be obtained by torture in
foreign countries, The Associated Press reports.
Overturning centuries of Anglo-American jurisprudence,
Boyle said there were no restrictions whatsoever on using
torture evidence, as long as the president or his
military agents arbitrarily decide it is
"credible."
Days earlier, The Sunday Times tracked down the
"private" planes of CIA front companies that
Bush uses to carry victims of his lawless abductions to
torture chambers in Jordan, Egypt, Libya and Uzbekistan,
where "credible" evidence can be obtained with
fists, cattle prods, rape, drugs and starvation. For
example, witnesses told of hooded American agents
grabbing captives in Sweden, stripping them, jamming
drugs up their rectums, putting them in diapers and
chains, and bundling them off to Egypt's hellhole prisons
-- whose tortures have already produced generations of
violent extremists.
But outsourcing is only one aspect of Bush's Torture,
Incorporated; he has plenty of domestic production as
well. Last week, the Pentagon released a report --
completed long before the election -- confessing that the
"aberrations" of Abu Ghraib were in fact part
of a broad system of state terror spread throughout Iraq,
the Washington Post reports. Elite squads of
"Special Operations" officers and CIA agents
beat and abused prisoners across the country, the
Pentagon said, while regular troops committed
"technically illegal acts" by rounding up
thousands of innocent people at random and holding them
for months in crowded prisons, where they were often
turned over to those same "elite" squads for
"special handling." Some of this blood-soaked
"intelligence" was "sent directly to the
White House," interrogators noted. The report also
admitted that American forces had taken innocent people
hostage -- especially "female family members"
-- in an effort to pressure wanted men to surrender: a
clear war crime, as if such things mattered anymore.
Meanwhile, the
International Red Cross revealed that Bush has even
perverted the healing professions at his concentration
camp in Guantanamo Bay, using doctors and nurses to help
"set the conditions for interrogation" by
withholding medical treatment and using their diagnostic
skills to determine captives' "vulnerabilities"
to various physical and psychological torments -- "a
flagrant violation of medical ethics," said the Red
Cross. Its investigators also found that the Guantanamo
regime -- "an intentional system of cruel, unusual
and degrading treatment, and a form of torture" --
was growing worse over time, Salon.com reports.
In such a moral sink, it was hardly even news that more
photos of prisoner abuse -- taken months before the Abu
Ghraib atrocities -- were uncovered last weekend, Reuters
reports. This time it was "elite" teams of Navy
SEALs mugging for the cameras with bloodied captives --
some with guns to their heads. Nor did anyone blink when
Bush military brass announced plans last week to create
forced labor camps for all male citizens in
"liberated" Fallujah, the Boston Globe reports.
This Satan's Rout of blood and abandon comes directly
from the White House, where Bush's legal counsel, Al
Gonzales, engineered memos "justifying" torture
and exalting unrestricted presidential power, beyond the
reach of any law, foreign or domestic. As a reward for
this violent outrage of American honor, Gonzales --
sweet-talking, pious and sincere, just like his boss --
will soon become the chief law officer of the land.
And the American people, what do they do about all the
horror being wrought in their name? They shrug. They
grin. They sit down to the feast.