Sounding Circle

Monday, July 7, 2003

Metaphorical Mayhem 7 comments

7 Jul 2003 @ 17:25 Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. -- Sue Lin Chong, Washington His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. -- Chuck Smith, Woodbridge He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. -- Joseph Romm, Washington She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again. -- Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. -- Russell Beland, Springfield McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. -- Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30. -- Roy Ashley, Washington Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze. -- Chuck Smith, Woodbridge Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center. -- Russell Beland, Springfield Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake. -- Ken Krattenmaker, Landover Hills Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. -- Unknown He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree. -- Jack Bross, Chevy Chase The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. -- Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. -- Jennifer Hart, Arlington The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can. --Wayne Goode, Madison, AL They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth. -- Paul Kocak, Syracuse NY John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. -- Russell Beland, Springfield The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play. -- Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon. -- Unknown He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River. -- Brian Broadus, Charlottesville Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut. -- Sandra Hull, Arlington The door had been forced, as forced as the dialogue during the interview portion of Jeopardy. -- Jean Sorensen, Herndon Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. -- Jerry Pannullo, Kensington The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. -- Malcolm Fleschner, Arlington The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. -- Malcolm Fleschner, Arlington "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night. -- Bonnie Speary Devore, Gaithersburg He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something. -- John Kammer, Herndon Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. -- Barbara Collier, Garrett Park She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. --Susan Reese, Arlington It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before. -- Marian Carlsson, Lexington The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) in her first several points of parliamentary procedure made to Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton. -- J.F. Knowles, Springfield The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. -- Jennifer Hart, Arlington The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM. -- Paul J. Kocak, Syracuse The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan set on medium. -- Unknown It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools. --Brian Broadus, Charlottesville He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up. -- Susan Reese, Arlington She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword. -- Tom Witte, Gaithersburg Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser. -- Chuck Smith, Woodbridge She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. -- Brian Broadus, Charlottesville She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs. -- Jonathan Paul, Garrett Park Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened. -- Sue Lin Chong, Washington It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall. -- Brian Broadus, Charlottesville Ah,but wait there's more...  More >

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7 Jul 2003 @ 16:37

Battery Will Deliver 5 Hours Of Power For Laptops 0 comments

7 Jul 2003 @ 15:43 Battery Will Deliver 5 Hours Of Power For Laptops NEC Says Develops Fuel-Cell Battery for Laptops JAPAN: July 1, 2003 TOKYO - Japanese chips-to-computers giant NEC Corp said yesterday it has developed a small fuel cell, which it aims to test on the market within two years, that will dramatically improve the battery life of notebook computers. The fuel cell would enable notebooks to operate for 40 consecutive hours, or around 10 times the life of regular lithium-ion batteries, a company spokesman said. NEC is locked in fierce competition with domestic rivals such as Toshiba Corp, as well as U.S. and South Korean rivals that are rushing to bring fuel cell technology for notebooks to the mass market. NEC aims to test the market in 2004 with a notebook computer having a built-in fuel-cell battery with a life of five hours, the spokesman said. Toshiba said in March it aimed to release a methanol-powered fuel-cell laptop in 2004 that will provide five hours of battery life. Fuel cells, which take in hydrogen and oxygen and turn them into electricity, do not need recharging like regular batteries. They require a refill of fuel such as hydrogen gas or liquid methanol in order to keep operating. NEC shares got a boost from the announcement, closing up 7.53 percent at 600 yen and outperforming a 0.92 percent rise in the electrical machinery subindex. REUTERS NEWS SERVICE From AP Story

Website Turns Tables on Government Officials 1 comment

7 Jul 2003 @ 15:04 Website Turns Tables on Government Officials By Hiawatha Bray Boston Globe July 4, 2003 Annoyed by the prospect of a massive new federal surveillance system, two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are celebrating the Fourth of July with a new Internet service that will let citizens create dossiers on government officials. The system will start by offering standard background information on politicians, but then go one bold step further, by asking Internet users to submit their own intelligence reports on government officials -- reports that will be published with no effort to verify their accuracy. "It's sort of a citizen's intelligence agency," said Chris Csikszentmihalyi, assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab. He and graduate student Ryan McKinley created the Government Information Awareness (GIA) project as a response to the US government's Total Information Awareness program (TIA). Revealed last year, TIA seeks to track possible terrorist activity by analyzing vast amounts of information stored in government and private databases, such as credit card data. The system would use this information to analyze the actions of millions of people, in an effort to spot patterns that could indicate a terrorist threat. News of the plan outraged civil libertarians and prompted Congress to set limits on the scope of such activity. The Defense Department then renamed the program Terrorist Information Awareness, to ease public concern. But the controversy gave McKinley the idea for the GIA project. "If total information exists," he said, "really the same effort should be spent to make the same information at the leadership level at least as transparent -- in my opinion, more transparent." McKinley worked with Csikszentmihalyi to design the GIA system. It's partly based on technology used to create Internet indexes such as Google. Software crawls around Internet sites that store large amounts of information about politicians. These include independent political sites like opensecrets.org, as well as sites run by government agencies. McKinley created software that ferrets out the useful data from these sites, and loads it into the GIA database. The result is a one-stop research site for basic information on key officials. The site also takes advantage of round-the-clock political coverage provided by cable TV's C-Span networks. McKinley and Csikszentmihalyi use video cameras to capture images of people appearing on C-Span, which generally includes the names of people shown on screen. A computer program "reads" each name, and links it to any information about that person stored in the database. By clicking on the picture, a GIA user instantly gets a complete rundown on all available data about that person. The GIA site constantly displays snapshots of the people appearing on C-Span at that moment. If there's a dossier on a particular person, clicking on the picture brings it up. A C-Span viewer watching a live government hearing could learn which companies have contributed to a member of Congress's reelection campaign, before the politician had even finished speaking. All of the information currently on the site is available from public sources. But GIA will go one step further. Starting today, the site will allow the public to submit information about government officials, and this information will be made available to anyone visiting the site. No effort will be made to verify the accuracy of the data. This approach to Internet publishing isn't new. It resembles a method known as Wiki, in which a website is constantly amended by visitors who contribute new information. The best known Wiki site, www.wikipedia.org, is an online encyclopedia created entirely by visitors who have voluntarily written nearly 140,000 articles, on subjects ranging from astronomy to Roman mythology. Any Wikipedia user who thinks he has spotted an error or wants to add information can modify the article. Unlike at a standard encyclopedia operation, there is no central authority to edit or reject articles. The GIA approach, though, raises the possibility that people could post libelous information, or data that unreasonably compromises a person's privacy. That troubles Barry Steinhardt, director of the Technology & Liberty Program of the American Civil Liberties Union. "We think that there should be some restrictions on the publishing of personally identifiable information, whether it involves government officials or not," he said. But he noted that the public has a right to know some things about a politician that would be properly kept private about an ordinary citizen. For instance, voters have a right to know where a politician sends his children to school, if that politician has taken a strong stand on school vouchers. "Do they have the right to publish every piece of data they're going to publish?" Steinhardt asked. "It's going to depend on what they publish." In any case, Steinhardt said, McKinley and Csikszentmihalyi have a First Amendment right to set up the GIA project. And he said that it's a valuable response to the government's TIA surveillance. "I assume the point of this is, turnabout is fair play." On a page of the GIA website, at opengov.media.mit.edu, McKinley and Csikszentmihalyi give their answer to questions about the legitimacy of their actions. "Is it legal?" the site reads. "It should be."  More >

The Price On Bush's Head 1 comment

7 Jul 2003 @ 14:28 The Price On Bush's Head A successful war against Iraq couldn't guarantee his father a second term as US president so, with more than $400 million set aside to fund his re-election campaign, George W Bush isn't taking any chances. My friend Greg who sent me this has this to say: "Bush Sr. didn't lose his second term, he threw it. The Iran-Contra scandal was running full bore and there was no way that Bush Sr. could have kept the scandal away from himself for a second four year term. So he picked a Democrat he knew would keep the secret of the drug running side of the Iran Contra operation, the governor of the state that was home to the US end of the guns and drugs pipeline, Arkansas, and threw the election to him. Once Bush Sr. was out of the White House, Iran Contra was buried, then resurfaced briefly as the Whitewater affair."  More >

Fake Terror - The Road To Dictatorship 1 comment

7 Jul 2003 @ 13:57 FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP Note: This article first appeared as a post written by Michael Rivera at Free Republic in late 2000. He was surprised to learn that it was copied re-posted at dozens of sites around the world. So, he saw it only fitting that the article (with some updating) should re-appear on his own What Really Happened web site. It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need.  More >

A Milestone in the History of Buddhism 0 comments

7 Jul 2003 @ 13:30 A Milestone in the History of Buddhism The Great Enlightener Golden Crown Dharma King Los Angeles, July 4, 2003 Buddhism began with Buddha Shakyamuni. The transmission of Buddhadharma, or the esoteric lineage, reached its first culmination with Bodhisattva Nagarjuna. Nagarjuna passed the esoteric lineage to Nagabodhi, Nagabodhi to Vajrabodhi, and Vajrabodhi to Amoghavajra. Amoghavajra passed the lineage to Huiguo in China. History records that the esoteric lineage went on to Japan and had became extinct in China. Today, most seekers of Dharma would either seek the teaching from the Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu or Gelug traditions of Tibet, or from the Shingon tradition of Japan. Who knew the true lineage of Buddhadharma, which is with the holder of Mahavairocana, from Nagarjuna to Amoghavajra, has continued in China as Hanmi Buddhism. In 1989, a discovery was made in the Heaven Chamber of the North Pagoda at Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province. They found sharira, or relics of the Buddha, sutra and tantra engraved in silver plates in Chinese, two Chinese Stupas of the Garbhadhatu (Womb Realm) and of the Vajradhatu (Diamond Realm), and the Stupa of the Five-Wisdom-Buddhas. Later, a Hanmi mandala was also discovered in the Earth Chamber of Famensi (Dharma Door Temple) at Fufeng County, Shanxi Province. Interestingly, Chaoyang's old name was Longcheng, which means the Dragon, and Fufeng, which means the Phoenix. Meeting of heaven and earth, dragon and phoenix, an auspicious sign in the East. These discoveries predict the revival of Hanmi -- the key lineage of Buddhism. A historical moment is gradually unfolding, like a sudden dawning of light, in the ancient East. Beijing, June 26, 2003. The Blue Jewel Crown Vajra Dharma King, H.H. the 19th Tilopa Rinpoche of the Kagyu tradition, personally delivered the Golden Crown to the residence of Dechan Jueren, the 49th Great Acharya, or Mahavairocana Tathagta Dharmaraja, which means the Great Enlightener Dharma King. The living Buddha Tilopa presented the Golden Crown and addressed Dechan Jueren as "The Great Enlightener the First Golden Crown Dharma King -- the 49th Great Acharya", and informed that the enthronement ceremony will take place on September 14 at Agui Vajra Temple in Inner Mongolia. Agui Temple, over a thousand years old, is a highly revered temple of the Nyingma tradition and is at a place where Padmasambhava had meditated. After thorough investigation and verification by the religious circle, many rinpoches, in their past life, were the students of the Great Dharma King. The Golden Crown is an offering from the 17th Karmapa, the 19th Tilopa and many rinpoches. The Golden Crown was deliver by special envoy from India to Hong Kong, where it was adored for seven days, and later under the protection of four Hong Kong police officers it was escorted to Beijing. There were about 100 living Buddhas, lamas and venerable monks receiving the arrival of the Golden Crown at the airport. The Golden Crown was escorted by everyone to Yonghe Gong (the Palace of Harmony) and was adored for three days. Finally, in the care of H.H. the 19th Tilopa, the Golden Crown was delivered to the residence of the Great Dharma King. Dharma King Dechan Jueren's lineage, thought to be extinct, has now been official recognized, meaning the word will spread and more of us will benifit from what Buddha brought to people of all faiths. For more information go to the Hanmi Introducty SlideShow at http://www.buddha-dharma.org or Dari Rulai

Noam Chomsky on Independence Day 1 comment

7 Jul 2003 @ 11:54 A Few Words On Independence Day Excerpt from a 1995 letter to Covert Action Quarterly by Noam Chomsky ... Independence Day was designed by the first state propaganda agency, Woodrow Wilson's Committee on Public Information (CPI), created during World War I to whip a pacifist country into anti-German frenzy and, incidentally, to beat down the threat of labor which frightened respectable people after such events as the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) victory in the Lawrence, Mass., strike of 1912. The CPI's successes greatly impressed the business world; one of its members, Edward Bernays, became the leading figure in the vastly expanding public relations industry. Also much impressed was Adolf Hitler, who attributed Germany's failure in World War I to the ideological victories of the British and U.S. propaganda agencies, which overwhelmed Germany's efforts. Next time, Germany would be in the competition, he vowed. The influence of the great generalissimo on the propaganda front, as Wilson was described by political scientist Harold Lasswell, was not slight. Independence Day was one contribution. This particular propaganda exercise began with business-government initiatives to Americanize immigrants, to inculcate loyalty and obedience and expel from their minds alien notions about the rights of working people. Such programs would turn immigrants into the natural foe of the IWW and other destructive forces that undermine the country's ideals and institutions, the CPI founding document read. At a major conference of civic organizations (organized labor excluded), government and private organizations of all kinds and creeds had pledged themselves to cooperate in carrying out Americanization as a national endeavor, the organizers reported, while issuing plans for a successful Americanization program for the coming Fourth of July. The CPI took up the cudgels, now using the wartime fanaticism it had helped engender as another weapon against pacifists, agitators and other anti-American groups, notably the hated Wobblies. The Generalissimo joined in with a May 1918 endorsement. The title of the indoctrination ceremonies was to be Americanization Day; on reflection, Independence Day seemed preferable. Labor leaders were aware of what was happening. A United Mine Workers (UMW) official objected that the business-government project was attempting to set up a paternalism that will bring the workers of this country even more absolutely under the control of the employers, ... strengthening the chain of industrial tyranny in this country. ... [That is what lies behind these efforts] to sanctify and confirm oppression by waving the American flag in the face of its victims and by insidiously stigmatizing as unpatriotic any attempts they may make to throw off the yoke of the exploiting interests [that the organizers] represent. But labor could not compete with state-corporate power, and lost this battle just as it failed to save May Day. (A jingoist holiday in the U.S., it is celebrated elsewhere as a labor festival which was begun in solidarity with the struggles of brutalized American workers.) ...  More >

Remembering Our Forefathers 1 comment

7 Jul 2003 @ 11:48 Remembering Our Forefathers The Men Who Signed The Declaration Of Independence The Signers of the Declaration of Independence ---------------------------------------------- Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward. Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General, Cornwallis, had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.  More >

Greenpeace Accuses US 0 comments

7 Jul 2003 @ 11:35 Greenpeace accuses US of breaching Geneva Conventions in Iraq Agence France-Presse Baghdad, July 4 Environmental group Greenpeace accused US-led authorities in Iraq on Friday of breaching international law and refusing to allow United Nations experts to assess contamination at a nuclear plant near Baghdad. The head of the group's Iraq investigation team, Mike Townsley, said that the US-led occupation authority was breaching the Geneva Conventions "by failing in its responsibility to ensure the health of Iraqi people". The group says that it has detected worrying levels of radioactivity in schools and homes around the Tuwaitha nuclear plant, around 20 kilometres east of the capital, but that the coalition refuses to recognise the problem. The conventions lay out the legal obligations of an occupying power, as well as the rules of war and treatment of prisoners. Townsley said that coalition authorities were ignoring an urgent environmental health crisis caused by a "frightening array of radioactive material". The group brought a barrel containing a radioactive sample of yellow cake -- one of the main ingredients used for making nuclear fuel -- to coalition headquarters in Baghdad to press its case. Radioactive material was looted from the plant in the chaos that followed the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime on April 9. Greenpeace says that it has noticed an increase in reports of illnesses with symptoms consistent with radiation poisoning, adding that local doctors are ill-equipped to deal with the situation. The group brought the barrel together with a letter addressed to the top US civil administrator, Paul Bremer, to his offices in a former palace in central Baghdad, but was refused entry, Townsley said. In the letter, which was accepted by a coalition official, the group urged Bremer to protect the health of those who live around Iraq's nuclear sites. "We urge you to immediately meet your obligation to protect public health by calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to mount an urgent investigation into radioactive contamination around Al-Tuwaitha." The group said it believed there was sufficient evidence for Bremer to reassess his view that there was no health risk posed by the plant. The group says Bremer's administration has repeatedly denied that the Tuwaitha plant represents a threat to public health and says it has blocked efforts to allow the IAEA to access the plant. The Iraqi atomic energy commission, along with the IAEA and the US army's own radiation protection unit's chief, Colonel Mark Melanson, has recommended that a UN team be allowed to assess the situation at the plant, Townsley said. Greenpeace said last week that it had uncovered radioactivity in a number of buildings, including one source measuring 10,000 times above normal and another, outside a primary school, measuring 3,000 times above normal. Locals were still storing radioactive barrels and lids in their houses and several objects carrying radioactive symbols lay discarded in the community. But an IAEA team last month found most of the uranium feared stolen from Tuwaitha, Science magazine reported on June 20.

Mad As Hell 1 comment

7 Jul 2003 @ 11:24 This is a viwpoint article from the Memphis Flyer online magazine. Mad As Hell Cheri Delbrocco WMDs LOCATED! am happy to announce the WMD’s have been located. For months, we have been told WMD’s are out there. Because of WMD’s, our troops are still suffering casualties daily in Iraq. According to George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, and Condeleeza Rice, WMD’s pose a great threat to the world. Imagine how surprising it is to learn the WMD’s have been prolifterating right here in the good old U.S. of A. Such weapons include psychological, political, and propagandizing devices. Those who launch the attacks know thousands could become more hopeless and apathetic, but their fundamental motive is to strike constant and continued fear and panic in millions of Americans. In an effort to better inform readers on the threat to America, this Weapons of Mass Deception Guideline is being offered. “Perpetual War Makes Us Safer” Mindcontrol History: Since September 11, 2001, we have been told by George W. Bush that we are at war, and that being at war will bring freedom and peace to the world. Weapons: Exploitation of 9/11, the American flag, fundamentalist Christianity, the Republican Party Delivery System: Media outlets- especially television news ; AM talk radio- especially Rush Limbaugh; most members of Congress; the White House Symptoms: Certitude, intolerance, banal speeches, right wing punditry passed as objective journalism, failure of public to express dissent due to fear of being called unAmerican. Treatment: Perpetual War mindcontrol often takes months or years to take its toll. Voters often cannot pinpoint it right away, because many elected officials publicly claim to oppose it, but eventually captitulate to the will and wishes of George W. Bush by refusing to stand up to his wrongheaded ideas of pre-emptive and ceaseless military invasion. During the Presidential debates of 2000, George W. Bush said, “ I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.” Shock and awe. “It’s Not the Economy, It’s the War, Stupid” Germfare History: For three years, we been told by Bush, the economy is getting better and will rebound soon. We have been told the largest tax cut in the history of our nation will benefit working middle-class Americans and that another interest rate cut will stimulate the economy. We have been told the record number of personal bankruptcies do not matter and that the corporate criminals who blew our pension plans will be be punished. We have been told the growing unemployment rate is only a temporary problem. Blah blah blah blah blah. Weapons: Distortion of Facts about who is benefitting from tax cuts, attempts to privatize retirement accounts, social security, and the healthcare system. Delivery System: Alan Greenspan; The Wall Street Journal; MSNBC; Financial Talking Heads on television networks; the Republican Party; George W. Bush Symptoms: Unemployment rates at a 9 year high, government surpluses lost to skyrocketing debt, elimination of taxes on corporations and wealthiest Americans, scamming of retirement funds, corporate criminal corruption with no penalties, millions with no healthcare or access to prescription drugs. Treatment: Making the next generation as poor as church mice will not be an easy problem to solve. Driving this country further into debt by financing war without end, and tax cuts for only the wealthiest, is hard to treat, as long as Republicans are in power. The best treatment will be to elect leaders who want peace and prosperity for all Americans. “United We Stand” Propaganda Warfare History: The first use of propaganda warfare took place in 2000 after George W. Bush was selected by the Supreme Court justices who had been appointed by his father. The American public was told he was elected by voters, although all the votes were never counted. Weapons: Complicity by media to allow fabrications, exagerrations, and cover ups of facts regarding corruption and deception by this government. Delivery System: Most media outlets; the Republican Party; Ari Fleischer; the entire Bush cabinet, George W. Bush. Symptoms: Confusion, Distrust, Apathy, Hopelessness Treatment: Turn off and tune out. Question the Bush administration and start asking why the right wingers who voted for him say dissenters are un-American, un-patriotic, or un-Christian. Register to vote and get facts on all candidates running for the Presidency. By using Weapons of Mass Deception, the Bush administration has managed to tank the economy, put government into debt for generations, run roughshod over two centuries of civil liberities, and launch unending global war. This has happened in less than 30 months. The American public should enact an Emergency Alert System that will be activated by all voters at the direction of the White House and Congress. It should be sent out to a national network of grassroots efforts coast to coast. Action should be taken immediately so that the Weapons of Mass Deception are detonated immediately.  More >

Looming Economic Crisis? 1 comment

7 Jul 2003 @ 11:09 UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE WORLD’S LOOMING FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISES This was written by an anonymous subscriber to The Hutton Commentaries Mostly this website seems to address earth changes, however this look at economics is an interesting read. William Hutton - the editor and owner of The Hutton Commentaries, is a geologist by profession. He has taught at three universities, written scores of research papers, and worked as a director of geoscience research programs funded by the United States government. He has also written extensively on the topic of Earth Changes and been a member of the Association for Research and Enlightenment for some forty years.  More >