- News, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. At least
the public relations packaged corporate media of gleeful sterility. These
supposed "experts" that you see belong to Public Relations stables
and are assigned to various major media to give the prescribed spin. Much
like Gulf War (fiasco) I, when we got the Pentagon News.
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- And now the dying has started. When missiles were flying
yesterday it was reported that President Bush and Vice President Cheney
were lunching. Lest we forgot one of the very first things GWB said upon
his 'selection' to the highest office in the land was that he was really
happy because he heard the food was great, most especially the desserts.
Oh, yawn, he's a bit tuckered out from all this war stuff and will be taking
off today for Camp David. It puts me in mind of Waco when the children
were being gassed and incinerated, Janet Reno went to a luncheon in Maryland.
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- Democracy Now..you can listen if you don't have satellite:
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- http://www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/demnow/ reported
last night the words from a citizen of Baghdad from his home. Gazwan Al
Mukhtar, a retired engineer-educated in the U.S. was extremely distraught.
When asked what he was doing to protect himself and family he replied,
"What can we do nothing. We wait inside and can do nothing. Why is
America doing this? I can tell you for oil. We do not wish for this liberation
and we will die first, this is our country."
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- Arudhati Roy the great Indian peace activist and writer
"God of Small Things" was quite upset in her interview. Her voice
trembling she remarked that people do not know what to do with their rage.
They feel like they are in a mad house and are being told there is something
wrong with them for caring. She went on about the lunacy of first bombing
a country for 12yrs., forcing it to disarm and then going in and attacking
it.
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- Note: I for one, having listened to all the Hearings
after Gulf I, and the lies, subterfuge and propaganda that was revealed,
but oops, never made the mainline news, do not believe for one instant
these air raids, incoming missiles BS. I mean, please, they have to have
it LOOK like a WAR. It's just like the reports of Iraqi soldiers throwing
babies out of incubators. NOT. In Senate Hearings it came out that the
Kuwaiti's ambassador's daughter was used for this one, manufactured by
the Public Relations firm Kuwait had hired here in the U.S. Howard and
Knowles.
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- Today's supposed "news" is totally under the
control of the Pentagon. The corporate media has "embedded" (new
war term) hundreds of journalists with the military. But not one with an
Iraqi family. The journalists are all assigned handlers and are on the
bombing part of the "news" not the receiving end. Twelve time
Emmy Award winning TV journalist Jon Alpert wanted to create dialogue and
bring the voices of ordinary Iraqis to ordinary Americans. He traveled
to Baghdad last month to set up a video conference with Iraqi students
in Baghdad and American students in New York. The American Museum of Radio
and Television was sponsoring the event. But as Jon Alpert drove from Amman,
Jordan on the road to Baghdad, they called him, and backed out. He produced
the video dialogue anyway. When he returned to the US, not ONE network
would air his peace. It is called Bridge to Baghdad. Democracy Now will
be airing it as will World-Link. Jon says that the thing of it is, you
can't have the 'enemy' humanized...they need to be seen as deserving of
death. I saw part of it last night on Democracy Now...the youngsters; Iraqi
and Americans are a helluva lot brighter than those who've come to town
with their cheap carny show.
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- Swartzkoff looks fit, but then a 5 million dollar book
deal when he came home helped things, along with his lucrative salary of
60,000 per speech when he goes out, plus his working for a Public Relations
firm as an "expert". Oops, too bad about the Gulf War I vets,
who had to go on welfare for medical care. He gave the lowdown last night
on "decapitation" and taking out "the center of gravity".
Yep, if you can do that the game is just about over. Center of Gravity
refers to Saddam and his royal guard. General McCaffrey, responsible for
the Highway of Death, incinerating peasant cannon fodder AFTER the so called
war was declared over, has himself a job as "expert'. The man makes
one want to wretch with his coffin-eyes and glee at death.
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- And now and now the War of The Worlds..the end forever
of all that's been. Mushroom clouds, Rumsfeld's "A" Day as he
refers to it. Peter Arnett reporting, does not realize that his laughter
can be heard as he reports the carnage. One feels shattered in every part
of their being at the booming fire storms and the cackling chuckes with
Peter saying, "It's just like an action movie only this is real. Ha
ha, was that the palace?" My God-My God what has been unleashed this
day brings the end of all that's ever been. And the clowns with hatchets
are now gone completely mad in front of the whole of the world...and none
to stop them. The children? The terrified-screaming-incinerated children
that we would not dare expose to cigarette smoke, unsafe swings, or intolerance!
What of our 80 year old Iraqi grandmother this night-with her poetry? Did
we murder her words with our video war games? "The wind asks, who
am I? I am its confusedd spirit, whom time has disowned. I, likeit, never
resting continue to travel without end/ continue to pass without pause/
should we reach a bend/ We would think it end of our suffering/and then----void/
Time asks who am I?" Nazik al Malaika. Did we murder her this night?
Could she not wait, did she not comprehend, we came to liberate her...all
of them?
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- Masters of War
- By Bob Dylan
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- Come you masters of war
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- You that build all the guns
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- You that build the death planes
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- You that build the big bombs
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- You that hide behind walls
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- You that hide behind desks
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- I just want you to know
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- I can see through your MASKS
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- You that never done nothin'
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- But build to destroy
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- You play with my world
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- Like it's your little toy
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- You put a gun in my hand
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- And you hide from my eyes
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- And you turn and run farther
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- When the fast bullets fly
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- Like JUDAS of old
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- You lie and deceive
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- A world war can be won
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- You want me to believe
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- But I see through your eyes
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- And I see through your brain
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- Like I see through the water
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- That runs down my drain
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- You fasten the triggers
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- For the others to fire
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- Then you set back and watch
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- When the DEATH count gets higher
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- You hide in your MANSIONS
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- As young people's blood
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- Flows out of their bodies
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- And is buried in mud (or sand jm)
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- You've thrown the worst fear
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- That can EVER be hurled
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- FEAR to bring children
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- Into the world
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- For threatening my baby
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- Unborn and unnamed
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- You ain't worth the blood
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- That runs in your veins
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- How much do I know
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- To talk out of TURN
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- You might say that I'm young (or woman)
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- You might say I'm unlearned
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- But there's one thing I KNOW
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- Though I'm younger than you
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- Even Jesus would never
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- Forgive what you do
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- Let me ask you one question
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- Is your money that good
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- Will it buy you forgiveness
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- Do you think that it could
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- I think you will find
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- When your death takes its toll
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- All the money you made
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- Will never buy back your soul
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- And I hope that you die
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- And your death'll come soon
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- I will follow your casket
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- In the pale afternoon
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- And I'll watch while you're lowered
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- Down to your deathbed
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- And I'll stand o'er your grave
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- 'Til I'm sure that you're dead
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- ...Bob Dylan
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