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The Last Straw?.........It Should Be!

by messenger Friday, Jan. 06, 2006 at 10:43 PM

The administration is saying that huge damage was done to our intelligence gathering capabilities by the person who leaked the story to the NY Times.

The Bush Administration, who has exposed a CIA agent and caused

Immense damage to this countries national security, is now spewing

out that the leak of his illegal spying has "severly damaged our national

security". What a classic case of neo-con spin........call your opponents

what YOU actually are, accuse your opponents of things that YOU

actually did.

You may remember that over the past five years, every rotten thing

that this administration has done, they have cleverly turned it around

and accused the Democrats of it. I won't bore you with each instance,

but Kerry being labeled unpatriotic is one of the best examples.

The administration is saying that huge damage was done to our

intelligence gathering capabilities by the person who leaked the

story to the NY Times. If you think that the terrorists have been

under the illusion that the CI A has not been trying every way

possible to listen to their communications, your I Q must be in

the single digits. This leaked story has done exactly nothing to

hurt our intelligence gathering capabilities.........unlike the damage

caused by this administration's outing of Valerie Plame.

The CIA now cannot find anyone willing to be an informant and they

have lost the informants that they had. This was divulged to a Congressional

Committee several months ago by three ex-CIA agents in no uncertain

terms.........they were appalled.

It is just another example of the neo-con tactic of confusing the public who

may not be paying close enough attention to what is happening. Let's

hope that this will be clear enough to the US Public, because it should

be the last straw for the Bush Administration.

Iraqi and US Media Producing Documentary

by deybok drahcir Saturday, Jan. 07, 2006 at 11:12 AM

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Iraqi and US Media Producing Documentary



Iraqi and US media are producing a living documentary of Fundamentally Retarded Democracy.



One can safely wager a bet that the captive Christians in Iraq are true and spiritually sound servants of their faith, because they do the necessary works that would encourage others to respect the intentions of their faith. It is also presumable that the hostages’ courage to request no ransom paid and leave their country behind, to face the desolation of a foreign nation at war, might not look good on some. Christians taking care of strangers whom certain Islamic spiritual leaders have not yet proselytized could be a poor reflection on the gospel of those who proselytize for majority voting power.



Let the captors in Iraq prove the degree of their rationality, and the just deserts of their spiritual leadership before the world media, and release all non-fundamentalist Christians in a safe and timely fashion. We do not need the fundamentalists – let them see where fundamentalism and theocracy leads, or let them renounce their inherent fundamentalist requirement to pit their faith against other faiths, and safely return home.



Fundamentalism is a religious bubble that will soon pop, and the issues of racism, scapegoats, hostage takers, attention-seeking terrorists and fundamentalist warlords will do the popping.



Who are the biggest cowards – captors in Iraq, or the world media for not suggesting or encouraging fundamentalist airtime in exchange for physical and spiritual hostages?



Besides attention, do terrorists want a democratic vote? No – they would rather proselytize before establishing democracy.



Would the Council for National Policy want CNN to do a documentary about them and their tax-exempt ‘educational’ foundation and how their agenda might parallel the Shiite’s and all other political religious machines? Would they sue for libel?



[Imagine Pat Robertson or Ralph Reed playing their lawyer and Howard Stern playing the judge.]



Vote for those who uphold the wall of separation between church and state, and vote against those who think that their religion is trustworthy enough to climb up on top and crush that mighty wall and call forth the so-called “the marriage of the lamb”. Those who call forth a judgment that is truly required, remain humble in that they judge not the lusts of fellow humanity, but the lusts of Inhumanity and the deceptive veils that provide Her freedom.



Yes, we ought to give Fundamentalism a swift kick in the butt – only because She is not a person whom the courts can serve justice, and because She killed many who desired to disqualify imposing religious organization. Yes, “the veil of the temple” should have remained torn.



Let us hope that the ‘Bubblementalists’ will wake up to the sound of jubilee and celebration, and not the sound of apocalyptic warfare on those who refuse to surrender. Let us make 2006 the year of popping 'the bubble'.



Greetings from Canada…

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http://michiganimc.org/newswire/index.php

http://richmond.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11462/index.php

http://dc.indymedia.org/mod/comments/display/133553/index.php

https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4050/index.php



Sometimes one must rely on trusting strangers to help transmit messages to the attention of those who reign over the dominant broadcast mediums.



One little letter of grievance might be discarded, but many of the same would concern even Caesar. One single posting on an independent media message board might get overlooked, but if it has the power to draw many affirmations, appendages and links, it might concern even President Bush.



We have seen evidence of secret services snooping around Indy Media Centers before. They come in with little or no apparent reason but legal entitlement. We see this more as a calculated plan to instill fear in those who might otherwise instill fear in authority. If the CIA were able to stamp out the inception of independent media, they would have done so in a New York second; nevertheless, they want us to believe that they have the manpower and key word sequences programmed to spy on all daring dissidents.



In the quest for justice, people seek technologies to collectively forward petitions and referenda, while battling those few people who have no desire to appease those who seek attention in the court that counts most – mainstream broadcast media.



When we place our grievances in order of priority, we immediately recognize the one grievance we share in common – not getting attention where it counts most. Collectively, this one petition to the government for a redress of grievance will NOT fall prey to backroom sweet-talkers who would persuade our elected representatives to find a lid for it.



Elected officials will either be seen as evasive, dishonest and self-serving, or they will be commended for being open and honest and willing to address these issues head-on, but not only after they are cast into the realm of mainstream broadcast media.



Let us choose leaders who will escort this grievance above all forces of adversity and suppression, and bring it clearly into the light of the mainstream media world, whereby all other grievances of majorities and minorities may be considered.



What does US Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito mean by demonstrating restraint on the bench? ‘Restraint’ smells like an arrogant, fundamentalist, politically stifling Pat Robertson kind of judicial term.



In light of worldwide fundamentalism, judges ought to be talking about restraint of fundamentalism rather than the restraint of liberty, and have the wisdom to admit the difference between them.



What will Supreme Court Justice Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. choose to restrain - the freedoms of the people, or the freedoms of the existing order of political greed and religious corruption of democracy? After all, he will make the United States Supreme Court 55.55 percent Catholic. Nevertheless, some will still try to argue that the Catholic Church is not a fundamentalist organization, and that Judge Alito will not serve an agenda, but will he serve the Church when it comes down to sparing Her embarrassment and once again suppressing light of Her apostasy?



Come let us reason together through our mediums, and let us not deny the anger, aggression, bloodshed and misery rendered to that ancient goddess of suppression and confusion which prophecy students call ‘Spiritual Babylon’. Blame that rotten whore for spawning psychotic terrorism!



http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/143344_comment.php#143394



Those in power, who truly care about security and justice for all, would not exercise the violence of suppression, but provide a safe place where fundamentalist attention-seekers can have all the attention they want. We have nothing to fear but the fear of letting would-be terrorists attempt to justify their ‘divinely ordained’ reasons for blowing up innocent people. When true diplomats start sharing the microphone with the disgruntled, the disgruntled will begin to diminish – and so will the need to build walls.



The only place to deal a deadly blow to fundamentalist tendencies before they ripen is in the media battlefield. Only here do we possess the collective intelligence to disrobe the sorcerers of fundamentalism and suicide-terrorism in the presence of those who are vulnerable to their deceptions. The only adversity we would face is the fear of those who realize that this measure would also bring judgment upon less obvious sorceries.



It seems inconceivable that a suicide bomber could fearlessly entrust his departure to a promised place that gives its blessings to those who enter in through bloodshed. He or she would have to be greatly deceived and confused. (Again, it is the collective responsibility of media to enlighten ensnared minds.) It is more likely that so-called zealots who are recruited to carry out suicide bombings are given only two diabolical choices; they can blow themselves up and earn money for the families they leave behind, or they can spare their own lives and witness the murder of their families.



Fundamental Concerns:



Iranian Shiites have infiltrated Iraq to exploit their democratic elections, in the same way that right wing American leaders and their Council for National Policy are trying to infiltrate Canada through the Conservative Party.



With their war on drugs, and their war on the LGBT community, and their war on women’s rights and worker’s rights and many other facets of liberty – not to mention their apocalyptic, waiting for God, forget about the environment attitude - it would be safe to call all theocratic activists fundamentalists. As the wise teachers know, it has always proven impossible to enforce theocracy without the blood of dissenters and scapegoats.



As Election Day nears, it is important for Canadians to know what they definitely DO NOT want. The mudslinging that transpires during the heated race for Ottawa will not divide the agenda of the many Canadians who are opposed to Harper’s theocratic leanings.



Frankly, Mr. Martin ought to reach out to the NDP to help spare their democracy the threat of regressive Conservative theocracy. Furthermore, with Jack Layton’s stance on accountability and his endorsement by the president of the BC Marijuana Party, a Liberal call to accountability seeks to encompass far more than a Conservative call.



Conservatives are inherently poised to enforce prohibition, through a vote of rich young craftspeople and stuffy old people with stuffy old flat-earth pseudo-scientific antisocial values. Also by their spoon-fed religious biases, they would determine what is not suitable for publication, circumvent the voices of so-called sinners and blasphemers, and push society back into dark times – definitely not the key to the golden age.



Will Canadians sacrifice their freedoms for the sake of joining the Conservatives in pinning some issue on Prime Minister Paul Martin that has much less bearing on their civil liberties than a Conservative leader who panders to the likes of the American religious conservative Council for National Policy? To give Canadians more credit than Harper does, the answer will have to be NO.



A Message for Bigots:



“Last Halloween, I saw four boys in their late teens sitting in a restaurant with their faces painted dark and wearing badly designed turbans. Not to mention the tacky floral print towels they used, they were apparently oblivious to how foolish, ignorant and irresponsible they looked. Although I would have been amused if a gang of like-minded individuals confronted them, but mercifully, I would have been more impressed if a group of decent citizens confronted them with a dose of diplomatic sensitivity.



“The only thing my children will have to do with bigotry is educating those who lack the intelligence and understanding to overcome it, and make sure that bigots who create scapegoats lose their influence on dividing and conquering society.



“Genuine spiritual liberators have long been aware that Authorized religious information often replaces socially progressive and liberating truths with empty prayers, useless customs, obligatory denouncements, and fear of eternal separation. Dormant idolatress religion even covers up what science and spiritual progress uncover, but Her priests use these discoveries to work scriptural sorcery against those who would proselytize Her adherents and undermine Her authoritative stronghold.



“The bigotry of spiritual Babylon is that to Her any good prophet is a dead profit, because She must securely guard the profits of Her false prophets. Her false prophets are the preachers who have the luxury of airtime and the open support of politicians. As they said in ancient Rome, he who rules the religion rules the region.



“It is pathetic when common people foolishly give in to bigotry, and allow it to consume them, thus quenching the divide and conquer strategy of the real enemies on top of this ailing world of uncivilized religious dogma.



“Is this message rational? Let us ask fellow human beings like Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Supreme Leader of the Iran’s Shiites who want religious control of Iraq, and let us ask President Bush and other theocratic politicians who want to be in control of other countries.” - yezbok drahcir



How many nations have endeavored to ward off the evil spirits of theocratic infiltration? How many nations have shed blood for theocracy? How many more nations will endure this menace? When will this world have a spiritual rebirth, and find no place for the shelter of suppression and the religious sorceries that she allows to freely rein?





Evil has nothing to fear but the loss of those who fear it.



“Oh look. The beast is knocking on my nation’s door, asking the police to talk to me for going outside the ‘legal’ bounds of acquiring attention and seeing justice served. I invite the unjust national leaders who have out-sinned me, to invite me to court. If a threat is what you call it, argue it a threat, libel, argue libel, but my defense speaks for itself. You seek to make a public example, and so too does the witness of my testimony.” (Ibid)





Let this help in the restoration of the true testimony of Jesus Christ and other martyrs who stood up against the beast that would not die – religious fundamentalism. Amen, Adios, Inshallah.



"to be trustworthy, confirm, or support."

"I commend you to God"

"if Allah wills (it)."





Are not people like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly secular equivalents to Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell? Have they not said enough already?



It seems like Pat Robertson maintains the very kind of destructive hypocritical Pharisee propaganda that Christ sought to disrobe. How dare he speak such bold words against Hugo Chavez and Ariel Sharon, and then attempt to use scripture in order to justify his tax-exempt apostasy when he serves the very ‘Devil’ that the nations abhor?



How infuriating it is that loved ones must use up their energies winning back the minds of those blinded by such peace-defying idiocy. How sad that people went to their graves misjudging the hearts of those who did not adhere to such horrible rubbish.



Go to Hell Babylon, you nasty old soul sucking, murderous, slanderous, lying whore - and take all of your judges, priests and politicians with you…



FORWARD THE JUDGMENT



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Let Independent Media establish educational entertainment centers where artists can create documentaries of social visions that win favor over documentaries produced by existing social conservatism.





Speaking of..

by Scorpio Sunday, Jan. 08, 2006 at 1:23 AM

Speaking of "peace-defying idiocy", have you seen what Muslims have been up to lately?


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