Sunday, July 09, 2006
The Count
Next to the garbage can residing one, my favorite Sesame Street character was always The Count. He might describe the Further Left Library, Forum, and Chat as follows.
In the last one year, July 9 2005 through July 8 2006, the Library and Forum together have had 16,809 page loads from 9,926 unique visitors, of which 6,391 were first time visitors and 3,535 were returning. Daily averages over that period are 46 page loads from 27 unique visitors, of which 18 were first time and 9 returning.
Usage patterns changed when the Forum was installed October 11 2006. The current last 100 page loads show the Forum now accounting for 82% of the total and the Library 18%. Joint Library and Forum daily averages since then are 47 page loads, 31 visitors of which 21 are first time and 10 returning.
This extrapolates to a yearly expected use of the Forum and Library jointly to 17,155 page loads and 11,315 unique visitors of which 7,665 are first time and 3,650 returning. Narrowing that to a Forum's 82% share gives an expected 14,067 annual Forum page loads from 9,278 visitors of which 6,285 are there for the first time and 2,993 returning.
The Further Left Chat Room would normally experience one to 12 participants at any single time when it was a part of Yahoo chat madness. Twenty two was the maximum I recall. There was no noting then of how many came and went during any particular period.
The Chat's activity diminished greatly after moving to the EWC chat system in mid June 2005. But, so did the madness as it rapidly dropped to zero. There were 9 distinct chat participants yesterday, 16 during the past week, 30 in the past month, and 248 since the June 17 2005 move to the EWC chat system. Those figures varied little over the past year.
We are not a large chunk of the world of information but neither are we invisible. You can't kick a rock out of the path until you see it there. Hopefully we have and will continue to shed a bit of light along the way.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Who Knows?
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Why Not Feed Them?
And then you think of a country that wants to steal the place of world leader, United States of America, that spends its billions on war for its own profit. Whose business is starving children?
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Celebration Of Sorts
In a way, my neighbors may be right (political entendre intended). Though my years of life now span a third of their nation's 230 year blood and pillage stained history, there is no denying that US birth and subsequent early residence account for a quarter of those of the nation they commemorate today. I cannot similarly calculate the fraction of our close to 20 years expatriation to Mexico in terms of its longevity. That is because it is impossible to finger the coming to nationhood for one where European conquest tended toward marriage to rather than slaughter of most of its original inhabitants. We will not attend the neighbors' festivities but instead, mark here my and many's others views of that which they celebrate.
A few years ago, Guadalajara fútbol fans chanted "OSAMA, OSAMA" during a match with the US after one of its players disrespected Mexico, its team, and fans by blatently urinating on the field of play. The story was carried in indignant news from the north but without mention of the instigating event.
One of my neighbors was so offended she hung American flags outside her house. I followed suit and hung something on ours too, an impressionistic rendering of that flag. It brought no mention to my face from passing gringos but many V and thumbs up signals from Mexican's. That picture was the very first post on this Forum last October. It seems appropriate today to offer it again as my comment on the birthday party at hand.
Some words in line with thoughts underlying generation of that graphic are better presented by one more talented in such realm than I. It was found and stolen from a chat room acquaintance and appears on the August 31, 2005 archive of her impotentire blog. Letter to an American Know-All
Dear Sir,
I had an opportunity of going through your website and all its articles. It so happened that somebody in one of the chat rooms happened to paste this link on the mains and I decided to glance through it. Without beating around the Bush (wish I could literally do that!!!) I’d like to thank you for your articles which were indeed very well written (as I’m sure many have told you) albeit, unconventionally written.
I seize this opportunity to put across my point of view. Naturally you’d like to know who I am. Well my name is Sucheta and I am a 3rd year law student, studying in Calcutta (that’s in India in case you don’t know and do not ask me where India is …George Bush raised this query at the time he assumed office-this isn’t a rumour, by the way! ). I’d like to put the view of most third world nations across, which happen to be cowed down by the sheer money and muscle power of the U.S. At this point, you may in all probability delete my mail because listening to what the people of starving nations think or feel is naturally of no significance. I mean if they’re poor, and starving… they probably deserve to kick the bucket and make space for others (applying American logic).
American arrogance has been reflected time and again in its foreign policy. It would be interesting to note that the U.S., like Frankenstein, has this habit of creating monsters which rebel against their creator. Take Saddam for instance. He was well supplied with arms and ammunition and placed in a position of power in order to keep Iran in its place. But Saddam had ambitions of his own and since he refused to toe Uncle Sam’s line, he was deftly removed, thousands of innocents massacred and a nation pulverized… all for its brimming deposits of liquid gold. After all, surely the U.S. has permanent sovereignty over the natural resources of all the nations of the world. Saddam should have meekly handed over those accursed oilfields to the Big Boss. The funniest thing is that the U.S. still expects the world to digest its fabrications about those weapons of mysterious disappearance.
The U.S., of course, is the world’s self-appointed moral guardian. It will tell us what leaders we ought to elect, what ought to be our system of governance, what products we ought to use (including rubber goods, I suppose) and who deserves to live, who deserves to perish. Take Afghanistan for instance. The Taliban was set up in order to oust the Soviet Russia from Afghanistan but yet again, Frankenstein’s monster turned against its creator and had to be done to death ( how many innocent children were bombed to smithereens of course does not matter…they were Asians after all and their lives of scant value).
The United States has set new standards in hypocrisy. It attempted to keep out goods manufactured by the “lesser” nations by going high on rhetoric…ostensibly talking about the fact that child labour had been used and as such the States’ heart was crying out for those pitiable creatures ( the fact that U.S. sanctions drive millions of children to their deathbeds is another insignificant detail). Yet the United States, along with Somalia, are the only nations which refused to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. We, the “lesser” nations are, of course, not surprised. I mean the U.S. can never be accused of consistency in anything apart from perpetrating terror.
The Kyoto Protocol controversy is yet another example which exposed the States’ contemptuous attitude towards international will and international obligations. The U.S. chooses to use the United Nations as an instrument to spread its reign of terror and when it falters in its designs, the U.N. is naturally termed “redundant”.
The United States, in its fight against “terror” chooses to overlook the terrorism perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians and by Pakistan upon the Kashmiris, the reason being that they happen to be allies of the U.S. in their bid to colonise the world. America will teach the world what being “civilized” is, it will decide our foreign policy for us, it will hand us weapons to fight one another ( the arms lobbies’ interests are definitely paramount…lives don’t count) and then preach love and peace! The U.S. representatives showed their true colours at the Cancun meet where their anger at the solidarity expressed by the third world led them to abandon their veiled warnings in order to proceed with open (and vulgar) threats. This is The Great United States of America for you…long live the Americans, the rest of the world can go hang!
Irrespective of who wins the elections, whether Kerry or Bush, to the rest of the world, it would make no difference because the tyrant will live on… the tyrant called The United States. The rest of the world cowers in fear.
Yes, life is of no value…unless it’s an American life. The rest of the people are mere lumps of flesh and bone…destined to survive…never to live.
Thank you America!!!
Sucheta.
O bless you Pocho for posting the peace flag and the letter it realy does show me how the world veuws usa people .I also wanted to thank you for the use of it as you know i think of it as a peace flag and you call it the war flag .Sad thing is not all usa people are like as the leaders.
Pocho, you have found a post that is full of truths. I hope many read it here and recognize it. My respect to the author for telling it.
Oh so true Redwine i miss her to she was allways nice and kind to me but a Tiger when crossed bless her i pray she knows shes missed.
Also she was a very very smart Lady.
Monday, July 03, 2006
And Get On With It
"If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?" - Eduardo Galeano
There is another map called 'Peter's Projection' which shows the Earth with its actual land areas - very interesting, gives a completely different perspective on world politics.
Thanks to Pisces for informing us that Peter’s World Map is only one that represents countries, continents, and seas accurately according to their surface areas. Here it is (inverted) for comparison.
We have been duped into believing false facts about the Earth and for self serving political reason. Traditional Mercator maps show countries incorrectly in proportion or relative size to one another, to the advantage of the European colonial powers who drew the maps as they dominated and exploited the world, while the southern continents (Africa, South America, Australia) are shown far too small. Observe these 4 blatant fallacies:
1)- Traditionally, Europe, with its 9.7 million sq kms appears to be larger than South America which is 17.8 sq kms. But in fact, South America is nearly twice the size of Europe!
2)- Traditionally, North America, having 19 million sq kms, appears to be considerably larger than Africa which has 30 million sq kms. The fact is that Africa is really the largest continent in the world and its true dimensions have been fudged by colonial England to play it down.
3)- Traditionally, Scandinavia, having 1.1 million sq kms, appears to be as large as India which has 3.3 sq kms. In fact, India is three times the size of Scandinavia, and its true form is very elongated.
4)- Traditionally, Greenland, having 2.1 million sq kms appears larger than China when in fact China with 9.5 million sq kms is more than four times larger!
And, then we have the USA Dumbdowner Projection. The view presented here is its normal Far Right side up to more easily read the labels and better grasp the profound mental depth behind its construction.
Ok to laugh or cry how about i do both .o where o where is the total truth oh man what is the plan????
“I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.”
Another quote by Eduardo Galeano
All America seems to see on a map is their own country and the rest a big back yard for its use.
i read this and my heart broke.
"All America seems to see on a map is their own country and the rest a big back yard for its use. "
American is the whole place the U>S>A> is the fenced off country .America is the whole land or was called turtle island to many but seams no mater what .WE are all judged by the eleat and the rich and the people who just want a simple life and not a wroldly life o well .Kepp it of mark it off how i feel
Looks like I was born in Dragon Country - I just love that US Dumbdowner Projection - I think I just wet myself laughing.
Just think i was born in the year of the wood Dragon .Dont change i was born in the USA on the land mass called america but then im dumb i think the whole thing is america not just the fenced in part.
"Peter’s World Map is only one that represents countries, continents, and seas accurately according to their surface areas"
Unfortunately that is not true. Equal area maps have been around for centuries. The Peters Projection itself is identical to the Gall Orthographic Projection of 1855,. That in turn was a modification of an equal area projection created in 1772.
The Peters Map is a good counter to the Mercator as it does get land mass areas more or less right but this is at the expense of shape.
The problem with any map is that it tries to render a sphere onto a cylinder. There is not a world map in existence that can do this without some distortion of size, shape or distance.
The bottom line is that if you want to see what the world looks like, get a globe.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Privacy Invasion
yeah i finaly able to get to the blog after 1 days of not being able to hehe and i wish stock marit was not so but it is how people pretent to know what will be in the future your gambling on what people will buy and if you know the latest trends and work for the goverment and companys wooohooy your rich if you play
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Another Theft
*Below is a post from one of the victims of this battle.
They have been taking our land since 1492. They took even more in 1848, and now they take yet another piece. The historical continuity of this should not be shocking. Our land is constantly being gentrified. Gentrification means the taking of La Gente's land and using it for the benefit of the rich and powerful like was done in the Chavez Ravine to build Dodger Stadium or in East LA to build freeways. We will continue to see this here in Los Angeles with the renovation of Downtown displacing working class renters to build luxury lofts. One rich white man took the land of over 350 families who worked the land at the South Central Farm. That is true institutional power. One rich white man had the power of the state behind him, which meant that the full force of the police, sheriff and if necessary the National Guard, while 350 families have only themselves.I am often told of the wonderful gains Raza have made since the civil rights movement. "Look," I am told, "There is even a Latino Mayor." However, what difference does that make? It does not matter who we vote into office. It does not matter how many Raza are placed in political office. The results are the same. One rich white man can take the land of over 350 families, while a Hispanic Mayor sits on the sidelines and watches. Let us stop wasting our energy on such foolish endeavors as voting for democrats or electing sell-out Hispanics into office. This has never yielded results and we can see losing the farm as a prime example. Instead, we must organize! We must build our "people power" to combat institutional power. We must join community organizations and build strong alliances with other working class and oppressed communities. We must learn form our past victories, such as, Chicano Park and from successful organizations like the Crusade for Justice in Denver. The struggle for land will continue. And we shall continue to struggle for the land.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Let Them Learn
Cuba has been teaching millions world wide to read with a program called Yes I Can Do It. UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, does not want to recognize this fact and acts as if it does not exist. Perhaps because it is not the program Laura Bush promotes, which is not as effective.
In 2000 there were 130 million children excluded from school systems and 880 million illiterates. All methods should be recognized and encouraged with a problem this size.
It was this method that has all but eradicated illiteracy in Venezuela. Cuba's medical expertise and its willingness to share it is also a shining example to the rest of the world.
Its a good thing to be able to read and find out the truth yourself from all view points i think.yeahhh cuba
Dog and all the time i thought school was a punishment.Pick up pencil in left had wack .Cry about it wack .Did not talk right so lets put rocks in her mouth spit them out wack .Back then i guess moms could not stop abuse and being forsed to do things not natural o well .But a good caring eduacation im glad is what my step kids had cause thay tryed that with them i told them hit my kids and ill go to jail and you will go to a hospital thay where nice to my kids .
UNESCO LITERACY AWARD FOR “YO, SÍ PUEDO”
Paris, June 19 — Cuba’s Latin American and Caribbean Pedagogical Institute (IPLAC) has received the UNESCO 2006 Ray Sejong Literacy Award for its promotion of a literacy campaign, the institute reported. Héctor Hernández Pardo, Cuba’s ambassador to the UNESCO, stated that the prize is an acknowledgement of a program specially created by the Cuban education system for helping other countries.
Cuba sets so many fine examples of what a country can do for others. It is always good to hear when they get the recognition they deserve for it.
Underlying all of this is the fact that while the US has demonised Castro and is doing its best to do the same to Chavez, these guys are at least attempting to improve the lot of their citizens.
While the US administration calls Chavez a mad dictator illiteracy in the US remains surprisingly high.
o so true i know a lot who i went to school with well the many schools i went to as long as you showed up thay keep passing you i know some who even graduated and could not read in a 8th grade level .And not the no child left behind is doing just that leaving so many behind and funding gets cut .But what do i know i was thrown out lol In a way i guess its keep then simply stupid. scary how well it seams to have worked.
Do not feel bad RC. You have a lot of company in that. There are not many in the USA who know much about what occurs in the rest of the world and purposely so. That includes even happenings taking place in territories of their latest invadee. It is nice you now know something of which most of your nation will not be told. Hope you return to visit us often and possibly pick up some more.
Change Of Course?
By Patrick Seale, Special to Gulf News
This past week, the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq passed the 2,500 mark. At least ten times more have been so severely maimed, in mind or body, as to be unable ever to fight again.
The American financial sacrifice has been on the same large scale. Following the latest appropriation by Congress of $66bn, the cost to the American taxpayer of President George W. Bush's "global war on terror"' has reached the very considerable sum of $450bn.
What will future historians say of this wanton squandering of resources?
They are likely to conclude that America lost its mind after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In a fever of angry, vengeful nationalism emotions exploited and manipulated by a cabal of pro-Israeli officials the US embarked on a world-wide campaign against "Islamic terrorists", which was profoundly misconceived.
The war against Iraq, in particular, was waged on false, even fraudulent, premises, which had more to do with enhancing Israel's security environment than with protecting the United States against further attacks.
The same "neocon" officials, publicists and lobbyists who pressed for war against Iraq, are now clamouring for the use of force to end Iran's nuclear programme.
Indeed, far from containing or defeating the "terrorist threat", America's aggressive policies are greatly enhancing it.
Is it utopian to speculate how American resources could have been better spent? With a good deal less than $450bn, the US could have paid Israel to remove its colonists from the West Bank and settled and compensated the Palestinian refugees, thereby resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has bedevilled the region for a century.
It could have eliminated poverty and disease in a great part of Africa. And it could have rebuilt Iraq, freed from the scourge of occupation troops.
Iraq has indeed suffered a great deal more from the war than the United States. Its human losses are estimated to be in the tens of thousands, some would say well over 100,000, while the material and societal damage has been enormous.
Iraq as a major Arab country, as a functioning unitary state, as an ancient civilisation has been smashed, probably beyond repair.
The blood-letting in Iraq is all the more deplorable and disquieting because there is no end in sight.
Last December, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that the US would this year start reducing its troops in Iraq.
But this policy now appears to have been reversed, largely because the US feels obliged to give maximum support to the new Iraqi government of Nuri Al Maliki.
On a surprise visit to Baghdad last week, President Bush repeated his pledge that the US would stay in Iraq, until that country was secure and whatever the sacrifice. An attempt by Democrats in Congress to get the administration to fix a date for withdrawal has been defeated.
On Friday, the House of Representatives voted 256 to 153 in favour of a resolution promising to "complete the mission" in Iraq, prevail in the global fight against terrorism, and oppose any "arbitrary date for withdrawal" of American troops.
The agony for both the US and Iraq is, therefore, likely to continue at least until Bush leaves the White House in over two years' time.
Catastrophe
The shockwaves of this American-made catastrophe will undoubtedly be felt throughout the region for decades to come.
Among the many casualties are the gravely weakened geopolitical position of the Arabs versus both Israel and Iran, the severe damage to relations between Sunnis and Shiites, and the devastating blow to the image of the United States in the Arab and Muslim world, which has now become a focus of anger and hate as never before.
America's violations of basic human rights at foul places such as Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, its disregard of international law, the blatant hypocrisy of Bush's campaign to spread "democracy", his abandonment of "collective internationalism" in favour of policies of pre-emption and world-wide domination all these have led to a collapse of confidence in the United States, not only in the Arab and Muslim world, but even among America's closest European allies.
Can the United States correct its aim? Can it change course? The answer is likely to be no, if only because the US has never been ready to examine candidly why it has become a target for terrorists.
In particular, its intimate relationship with Israel, the source of much of the problem, has rarely been the subject of objective analysis in the United States.
For more than half a century, the US has grossly favoured Israel over its neighbours, arousing bitter Arab resentment.
In the 1960s, the US turned a blind eye to Israel's nuclear weapons programme at Dimona. In the decades after the 1967 war, it allowed even financed Israel's illegal settlement of occupied Palestinian territories.
After the 1973 October war thanks to Henry Kissinger, America's secretary of state at the time America's annual subsidy to Israel rose from millions to billions.
In 1982, the US did not object to Israel's invasion of Lebanon and its siege of Beirut.
Indeed, it even sought to reward Israel by attempting to broker a separate Israel-Lebanon peace, which would have put Lebanon in Israel's sphere of influence. Nor did the US object to Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon for the next 18 years.
The US has protected Israel from international anger by vetoing scores of resolutions at the UN Security Council.
And, above all, it has allowed Israel to oppress the Palestinians and steal their land over the years, culminating in its current campaign to destroy the democratically-elected Hamas government.
These are among the roots of terror, for which the United States and its Israeli ally will continue to pay dearly, until these policies are reversed.
Patrick Seale is a commentator and author of several books on Middle East affairs.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Neighbours
Here’s an interesting perspective on the history of US-Mexican relations
Thank you Pisces for finding information on this little spoke of subject and bringing it to attention here. Mexicos disaproval and actions of Americas desire and insistence for slaves. And I also learned there was a black community very near my town, I will look into it more. Mexico is always proud we do not carry this shame that stains our neighbor.
I agree but i was guifted a great movie and in it the whole place was called america and all the greed taking over and uncaring is what started a doctor to become a warrior .
Monday, June 12, 2006
Corn & Crossing
An article from El Universal describing the details of it.
Monday, June 05, 2006
Killer Communications
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such truer words may not have been spoaken we need to look at the whole world and the damage being done in so called name of freedoms and civilised and so called uncivilised worlds on 1 earth
RAPE AS A WEAPON TO DESTROY A CIVILIZATION
SO I CAN USE A COMPUTER
We can't prevent the carnage above unless we are aware it's happening...
We can't make a difference if we're kept in the dark...
Obviously - the Dogs of Corruption don't care to inform We, The People...
Therefore - WE, The People must inform ourselves...
We should be informed that our purchases can cost the lives of an entire population, enslaved for a product most of us have never heard of, let alone imagine that we use in our everyday lives... can our rejected old products be recycled - can the VALUABLE COMMODITIES be reclaimed and reused and if they can be, why aren't we told why they SHOULD BE?
We, The People have the ultimate right and choice to determine what is and is not acceptable to our futures...
Everytime you lift that cell phone to your ear, think of the woman that may have had her hands chopped off because she couldn't produce enough of the 'superior product' that makes your cell phone 'more effective'...
Each time you flick that TV on with that remote - just check your kids haven't been too beaten up in their days work in the Western World and then spare a thought for the millions who are driven by slavery everyday so you don't have to get up to change the channel on your Television that you couldn't watch if it wasn't for the blood, sweat and death of the People of the Congo...
And while you're thinking about how that can be justified, maybe forward this article to everyone you know and ask if they know whether you can all recycle the some 50 000 000 Cell phones that go to dump sites a year... a few of those 'out of date computers' sitting in the back of the closet... and maybe we could show a little more respect for those remote controls that can be 'replaced if lost'...
The life that it may cost to give you that option can't be replaced...
Send the Link - make a difference...
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i posted it when i read it the first time and some the cold peoples words but thanks pocho for says so on here i passed it and linked it in a few places hope it enuff to help wake us all up soooooooo sleeeeeeeppppppy
To bad unions or people are not respected or dont thay have people to protect there human rights so much to learn so little time.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Going Left
*The worlds third richest man, Carlos Slim Helu from Mexico, is taking an interest in leftist politics here. It is less than a month to the elections and his influence plays a large part.
His idea, Slim said in a March interview with Reuters, is to push "the development of Latin America through the development of human capital and structural investment."
He said: "What we need is investment, education, growth and jobs. What makes opportunities more equal in the world of today, more than anything else are good nutrition, health and education."
"Wealth is like an orchard," Slim said in the Reuters interview. "You have to share the fruit, not the orchard. With the orchard, what you have to do is make it grow, reinvest it to make it bigger, or diversify into other areas."
He said: "What we need is investment, education, growth and jobs. What makes opportunities more equal in the world of today, more than anything else are good nutrition, health and education." I just had to add it nice to see someone of heart and wise money maters speak up i just hope it means less cymicals and more fruite have to feed the trees and care for the roots.
I have an idea there may be some reading due between Slim's lines. Given his backgrounds and involvements detailed at Wikipedia, he may be looking with concern at current political developments in fear being being touched. Base motivation for his speaking forth may just be the recent advent of the rise of Chavez of Venezuela and Morales of Bolivia as they move closer to Cuba's Castro, show trend to socialist directions, and initiate process of appropriating private holdings for distribution to and benefit of the poor whose labors pay for Slim's exhaulted ranking among the rich. Slim's Mexico itself seems to be looking south with Andrés López talking populism in his run for the presidency and in a tight race with Felipe Calderón who appears to favor continuing to gather crumbs pushed from tables of United States oligarchs and corporations. It may be that Slim is engaging in a bit of preventative inoculation against what he percieves as a disease going around. "You have to share the fruit, not the orchard....". I read that to say "Oh my god Felipe, save me (and mine) from the likes of that crazy López and his misquided poor!". He may get his wish this time around, but sorry Slim, the times they are a changin', and you, we, and Mexico may yet live to see the pancake flipped.
I would rant on but have to go pay the phone bill to Carlos Slim's national monopoly telephone company through which passes this intenet connection. Blame Slim if you hear from me no more.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Yellow Stain
*The Yellow Stain From Texas
Sung to the Yellow Rose Of Texas
With apologies to no one!
By The Bush Wackers
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There's a Yellow Stain from Texas , in Washington DC, The leader of the free world representing you and me. He claims to stand for values. What values might those be? The only one he's shown so far is called hypocrisy.
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He loves domestic spying, ignores the Bill of Rights The only group he represents is the religious right. He's defied the constitution, he's a scoundrel, plain to see. The Yellow Stain from Texas is no president to me.
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He panders to big oil, serves the rich but not the poor He represents the end of all this country once stood for He says he's got compassion, then kills thousands in Iraq While oilmen and 'Born agains' just pat him on the back.
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He stole the Oval Office, he's trampled on our rights, But just the same we're all to blame, if we don't set things right. He's tossed away due process, your right to privacy. The Yellow Stain from Texas is no president to me.
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He points to "nine-eleven," and that is his excuse For torture, war and deficits. and prisoner abuse. He's a Yellow Stain from Texas, our nation's greatest shame. His lies killed more Iraqis, than Saddam Hussein.
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Bill Clinton's Presidency sure had its share of flaws We all recall the problems that a little stain can cause So let's remove this BIG stain, serve justice while we can We'd best impeach him quickly, before he bombs Iran .
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Oh the Yellow Stain from Texas is a stain upon us all Got to do some stain removing, or democracy will fall. He's the Yellow Stain from Texas , a traitor, plain to see. The Yellow Stain from Texas is no president to me.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Highlights Lowlights
Conflict And Wisdom
We have a saying in Mexico, "Hay mucho trecho entre dicho y hecho", which means being said is a long way from being done. Yet, saying is important in its own right. It guides judgment when gathered and reflected and serves in that as precursor to modification of current doing. There is such saying in an opinion article written by Le Daiyun, professor from the Chinese Department at Peking University. It appeared in today’s People’s Daily and is pointed to because, though clearly a long way from doing, It bears possibly of providing desperately needed guidance.Conflicts born of differences in belief, ethnicity, life style, and resource allocation, have always been a part of planetary existence. Rapid technological advances in transportation and communication however have recently brought them two new dimensions. One is that we are now aware of their universality through history and across the globe. The other results from that awareness and melds the mix of previously separated violence into one that threatens all.
Professor Le brings a message from China in offering solution from combined perspective of Confucius and Taoist thought. His article is titled “To Dissolve Cultural Conflict With Oriental Wisdom”. It is worth reading in entirety. Some excerpts are below.
“History tells us that cultural conflict can't be solved by taking over or wiping out the other culture. Culture is rooted in people's heart. Conquering or wiping out a culture is only temporary, but will sow the seeds of hatred and create new hatred...
“In China, the basis of Confucius thought was to deal with relations between people while the foundation of Taoism … was to deal with relations between man and nature. But both of them dealt with issues on how to be in harmony despite the differences. The lofty ideal of traditional Chinese culture is that all things in the universe will grow together but not harm each other and their ways are coexisting but not against each other.
“… capitalist individualism has created the self-centered isolation. The blind economic development in the western world has caused the ethical and psychological dilemma and the separation between different fields … Science and technology has promoted the social progress, but it has also brought about damage to environment and culture and caused new round of inequity. The old-style slavery is simply replaced by the new style, in particular, the pollution in cities and the non-ethical nature of science has brought tension and harm to people and leads people and the ecology to demise. …
“… Chinese culture can become an inspiration to western culture. … Chinese civilization is the longest human civilization and has developed without any influence from the European culture. China has seen the western culture from an outsiders' view and tried to see the ideal image of the west.
“These studies can be a step forward … and promote the dissolution of culture conflict. … “
Hay mucho trecho entre dicho y hecho? Yes, to be sure. But, nothing else seems to work. The analysis of Le Daiyun may point to the only better future, or for that matter, any future at all.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Four wives in my life
He also loved the 3rd wife very much. He's very proud of her and always wanted to show off her to his friends. However, the merchant is always in great fear that she might run away with some other men.
He too, loved his 2nd wife. She is a very considerate person, always patient and in fact is the merchant's confidante. Whenever the merchant faced some problems, he always turned to his 2nd wife and she would always help him out and tide him through difficult times.
Now, the merchant's 1st wife is a very loyal partner and has made great contributions in maintaining his wealth and business as well as taking care of the household. However, the merchant did not love the first wife and although she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her.
One day, the merchant fell ill. Before long, he knew that he was going to die soon. He thought of his luxurious life and told himself, "Now I have 4 wives with me. But when I die, I'll be alone. How lonely I'll be!"
Thus, he asked the 4th wife, "I loved you most, and owed you with the finest clothing and showered great care over you. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?" "No way!" replied the 4th wife and she walked away without another word.
The answer cut like a sharp knife right into the merchant's heart. The sad merchant then asked the 3rd wife, "I have loved you so much for all my life. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?" "No!" replied the 3rd wife. "Life is so good over here! I'm going to remarry when you die!" The merchant's heart sank and turned cold.
He then asked the 2nd wife, "I always turned to you for help and you've always helped me out. Now I need your help again. When I die, will you follow me and keep me company?" "I'm sorry, I can't help you out this time!" replied the 2nd wife. "At the very most, I can only send you to your grave." The answer came like a bolt of thunder and the merchant was devastated.
Then a voice called out: "I'll leave with you. I'll follow you no matter where you go." The merchant looked up and there was his first wife. She was so skinny, almost like she suffered from malnutrition. Greatly grieved, the merchant said, "I should have taken much better care of you while I could have!"
Actually, we all have 4 wives in our lives.
The 4th wife is our body. No matter how much time and effort we lavish in making it look good, it'll leave us when we die.
Our 3rd wife is our possessions, status and wealth. When we die, they all go to others.
The 2nd wife is our family and friends. No matter how close they had been there for us when we're alive, the furthest they can stay by us is up to the grave.
The 1st wife is in fact our soul, often neglected in our pursuit of material, wealth and sensual pleasure.
Guess what? It is actually the only thing that follows us wherever we go. Perhaps it's a good idea to cultivate and strengthen it now rather than to wait until we're on our deathbed to lament.
(No origin of the story. Found it randomly on some forum.)
Thank you for adding it shows how much we humans have forgotten the true selfs .thanks so much for sharing it and who ever wrote it may thay also be blessed i growing as it may help someone else see a light. be safe walk in peace allways and best to love the soul the most i think.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Heritage
Well best to have a family to go and want your visit and learn then have a falimy who dont want you to go visit for a whole summmer.Or even want to be around you .Or be able to go see the ones who wanted to see you just not your mom So bless that cartoon and there fatancy familys. Be safe walk in peace allways and keep all the babys of the world safe and whole.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
No Bravery
I welcomed Alexandros' link to bpilgrim's work not only for its powerful content, but also for personal reason. Pilgrim is an online friend from early days of my own entrance to online agitating. Conception for extending that to chat rooms developed through interaction on one of his sites. That seeded our initial Further Left Chat Room, which gave birth to the Library, then the Forum, and here we are. I emailed compliments to pilgrim. He returned other examples just as potent.
Women Say No To War
Tap This
Rummy's War Room
It was good to see bpilgrim in our Chat Room today.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
With What You Got
The Further Left Library evolved from a public Yahoo Government and Politics category chat room titled Further Left, which had existed since August 2003. Yahoo shut down its user created chat rooms in mid June 2005. Anticipating that, we then immediately installed the chat room where it now rests on the IRC EveryWhereChat system. This posting Forum was created in early October 2005.
There is a Forum post below titled "Where Are We From". It indicates contacts with the Further Left Chat Room, Library, and this Forum, taken together and since August 2003, have been from 128 of the world's 192 nations, 64 colonies, and other claimed regions.
We began paying attention to origins of those showing in the EWC chat room in mid July 2005, a month after its inception. Since then, 211 distinct users from 34 nations entered it.
Their locales break down to US 113 (54%), UK 27 (13%), Canada 13 (6%), Australia 9 (4%), Mexico 7 (3%), India 5 (2%), Egypt & Ireland 3 each (2%), China, France, Germany, Malaysia, South Africa 2 each (1%), 21 others 1 each (0%). That makes no comment on quantity or quality of participation but only that they entered the room and said enough to indicate their presense.
A little counting shows that about 80% are from conquest directed imperialist nations mostly populated and run by and for benefit of well off white people and at the expense and suffering of the world's far greater dark majority. It seems to say something about our problem in encouraging change, and If so, it tells even more about the problem faced by the remaining 20% we do get and still more so for that grander share of those of the world from which we hear not. Perhaps most apparent is what it indicates about what kind of people have time, facility, and inclination to mess around with a computer chat room.
A quick conclusion is we are the wrong kind of people. Probably so, but as goes the song: "If that ain't love it'll have to do, Until the real thing comes along." I once hesitated taking a direction in movement activity by proclaiming, "I'm the wrong kind of person". What prompted action was the never forgotten responsive lesson, "You go with what you got, and that is you."
A relatively small number of very dedicated people who lack sophisticated weaponry are showing they can bring to a halt the largest military colossus ever loosed by stealing airplanes and booby-trapping roads and bodies, often their own. Others eschewing such risk stand and oppose oppression by massing in the streets. They all go with what they got, heart. In the manner we have here available, so will we.
