Tuesday, November 26, 2002

Interesting Finds

www.capsite.net
with NEW pictures of She1 works and interview.

The International Children's Digital Library

Rocketbox Comics - A Resource for the Web Comics Community

Planet Ark environmental news

Illuminated Isamic manuscript

DjVu Editions free digital books, reader

Book of Visions - an index of socially innovative ideas and publications

Technology Review - The Conservation Bomb - overpopulation didn't happen yet

the Chechnya problem

How the IMF messed up Argentina

theARTproject - Artists express 9/11 tragedies

Fallacies - One of the best things I ever learned. How to spot a bad argument. How to reason logically. Highly recommended reading.

GET OFF MY BOZACK

Blade (France)

If you have to use Outlook Express, disable html with noHTML for $20.

The Chimera Project - Mac OSX browser - simple, small, fast. You could wait a few months; it's still in beta. Or help them get the bugs out of it by using it now.

Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going. Find out why you don't want to go there.

PCWorld.com - 'Critical' Outlook Express Hole Plugged: another upgrade for you.

MSN Messenger Henpeck worm

Freedom Force International

Participate in The People's Investigation of 9/11
www.911pi.com

Read something Ratical
Augmenting Our Perspectives of 11 September 2001
pdf version print out
txt version PDA


Contents

* The 9-11 Bombings are not * Domestic Terrorism:
Acts of War Homeland Security
The 9-11 Bombings are Paving the Way for Our
Crimes Against Humanity Constitutional Dictatorship

* Rejecting the Foundations * How the War on Terrorism
of International Law Affects Access
U.S. "Unsigns" International to Information and
Criminal Court Treaty the Public's Right to Know

* Making Nuclear War Thinkable * Domestic Terrorism: General
Might-Makes-Right Ashcroft's "Enemy Citizens,"
Instead of Rule of Law Martial Law and Internment Camps

* Bush I: * Domestic Terrorism: The Big Lie
Crimes Against Humanity, The "War" On Terrorism
Rejection of Rule of Law is a Total Fabrication

* Since 1991, a World Trade * 9-11 Timeline: minute-by-minute
Center's worth of Iraqi children Stand Down from Incompetence
continue to die every month or Complicity?

* U.S. Development of Biological * Official 9-11 Misrepresentations
Weapons - Watch What We Say, Reclaiming Our Voice
Not What We Do and Liberties

* Domestic Terrorism: * Footnotes
The "USA PATRIOT Act" of 2001
Serial Assaults on * References
Constitutional Liberties



| * The October 2001 "USA PATRIOT Act" is turning the U.S. into a |
| permanent police state. It vastly expands the structures of |
| government secrecy and surveillance, utterly relinquishes any |
| semblance of due process, categorically violates the First, |
| Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments, and unacceptably |
| mixes aspects of criminal investigations with aspects of |
| immigration and foreign intelligence laws, while it |
| simultaneously extinguishes the accountability of elected and |
| non-elected government officials. |




What does it say about our society and culture that since 1991, a
"World-Trade-Center's worth of Iraqi children continue to die every
month" as a direct result of the crimes against humanity perpetrated
under the direction of the last three Presidents of the United
States? What does this fact mean to each and every person in this
nation-state who pays annual taxes, the largest portion of which goes to
the ongoing expansion of the United States military? As tax-
paying members of the United States, can we reconcile our culpability
for these Iraqi deaths with the deaths of people one year ago in New
York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania?
--David Ratcliffe,
Augmenting Our Perspectives of 11 September 2001


Thursday, November 14, 2002

Big Brother: Homeland Security Bill

Read this immediately and write to your Senator to stop the madness. This is the most important kind of emergency, so don't think that someone else will make it all okay. We must stop this legislation, because if the system is put in place we may never be able to dismantle it later. It could make Stalin's Russia look like a free country compared to the US.

"November 14, 2002

You Are a Suspect
By WILLIAM SAFIRE

WASHINGTON - If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:

Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend ? all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database."

To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you ? passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance ? and you have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen.

This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented power he seeks."

more in the article at the URL above.

Monday, November 11, 2002

It's too late to do this, but it still needs to be done...

"The turntables might wobble, but they don't fall down."

Run-DMC's King of Rock was the first hip-hop album I ever bought. Run-DMCs Raising Hell tour was the first big rap show I ever saw (with the Beastie Boys--before they had their License to Ill, LL Cool J and Whodini..damn!!). To say Run-DMC has had a huge impact on my life is an understatement.

I'm just like millions of other people that had Run-DMC usher hip-hop into their lives on a full time basis. Their music is the blueprint and holds up better than most from that era.

Jay, you'll be missed.

Check out a Memorial by Mone, Tlone, Cavs, The Bronx