The Guerrilla Campaign

Everybody knows the dice are loaded everybody rolls with their finger crossed Everybody knows the war is over everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed the poor stay poor the rich get rich That's how it goes everybody knows Everybody knows the boat is leaking everybody knows the captain lied...... -Leonard Cohen Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman October 26, 2005 http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1529 As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling. The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the General Accounting Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage. The governme...

Woman Sees Husband Off to Iraq, Gets Fired 10/26/05 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051026/ap_on_re_us/soldier_s_wife_fired CALEDONIA, Mich. - A woman who took an unpaid leave of absence from work to see her husband off to war with an Indiana National Guard unit has been fired after failing to show up for her part-time receptionist job the day following his departure. "It was a shock," said Suzette Boler, a 40-year-old mother of three and grandmother of three. "I was hurt. I felt abandoned by people I thought cared for me. I sat down on the floor and cried for probably two hours." Officials at her former workplace, Benefit Management Administrators Inc., a Caledonia employee-benefits company, confirmed that Boler was dismissed when she didn't report to work the day after she said goodbye to her husband of 22 years. "We gave her sufficient time to get back to work," Clark Galloway, vice president of operations for Benefit Management, told The Grand Rapids...

the following news release describes a new effort by a national grassroots coalition to stop yet ANOTHER nefarious grab of our kids by the pentagon. the release was sent to toledo press and has an ohio quote, but also explains the national issue. if you want more information from the national group organizing this, their contact information is included below. from Mike Ferner 10/18/05 **************************** For more information: www.epic.org/privacy/student/doddatabase.html Coalition Of 75 Groups Demand End To Pentagon’s Youth Database Toledo -- More than seventy-five local, state, and national organizations sent a letter today to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the Congressional oversight and appropriations committees for the Department of Defense (DOD), seeking an end to a data collecting project called the Joint Advertising and Market Research Studies ( JAMRS ) Recruiting Database. Toledo's Student and Family Rights and Privacy Committee, the group now pressu...

Rice calls war part of post-9/11 plan By Nicholas Kralev The Washington Times October 20, 2005 http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20051019-095906-4805r.htm […] The testimony, during which Miss Rice was interrupted several times by senators on both sides because they did not feel she was answering their questions, culminated in objections by three Democrats to the administration's mission to rebuild the Middle East. "Unless we commit to changing the nature of the Middle East, and if we tire and decide that we are going to withdraw and leave the people of the Middle East to despair, I can assure you that the people of the United States are going to live in insecurity and fear for many, many decades to come," Miss Rice said. Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California, Barack Obama of Illinois and Bill Nelson of Florida said that was not the reason the administration had given Congress for the Iraq war; rather, it was the threat dictator Saddam Hussein was said to have po...

posted at http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1014-27.htm Published on Friday, October 14, 2005 by the Independent/UK by Harold Pinter The following remarks were adapted during Mr. Pinter's acceptance speech on winning the Wilfred Owen Award earlier this year. The great poet Wilfred Owen articulated the tragedy, the horror - and indeed the pity - of war in a way no other poet has. Yet we have learnt nothing. Nearly 100 years after his death the world has become more savage, more brutal, more pitiless. But the "free world" we are told, as embodied in the United States and Great Britain, is different to the rest of the world since our actions are dictated and sanctioned by a moral authority and a moral passion condoned by someone called God. Some people may find this difficult to comprehend but Osama Bin Laden finds it easy. What would Wilfred Owen make of the invasion of Iraq? A bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concep...

By Mitchel Cohen October 11, 2005 http://www.counterpunch.org/cohen10112005.html For about 1 hour beginning at 5 pm Monday afternoon, members of the Brooklyn Greens leafletted at the front entrance of the Atlantic Terminal against Chuck E. Cheese's showing of military videos to their 4-11 year-old clientele. We were joined by activists from Times Up! (one of whom had ridden his bike all the way from Queens to be there), Bay Ridge Greens, and an IndyKids photographer -- with a special guest appearance by the legendary Yippie Pieman Aron Kay. Three of the young kids had earlier leafletted inside the inner sanctum of Chuck E. Cheese itself. All of the 13 leafletters (including 4 children) reported they received an excellent response by everyone visiting the mall, including several relatives of soldiers who are currently stationed in Iraq. No negative incidents occurred, despite the presence of 4 U.S. soldiers with machineguns at the entrance to the Long Island Railroad 100 feet up the...

Thanks to Kierstan for the pic.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1586978,00.html Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did." Whoo hoo! the bush is gone. somewhere in the ozone. the boy really needs some professional help. Unfortunately for us, his veep, the cheney ain't any closer to reality. Reading bush's speech from the other day, it's obvious he's drifting somewhere between today and fantasy land. Which would be ok if he wasn't president.

By Alister Doyle 10/7/05 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051007/ts_nm/nobel_peace_dc OSLO (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog and its head Mohamed ElBaradei, who clashed with Washington over Iraq, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting the spread of nuclear weapons. The Nobel Committee praised the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and ElBaradei, a 63-year-old Egyptian, for their battle to stop states and terrorists acquiring the atom bomb, and to ensure safe civilian use of nuclear energy. In Vienna, ElBaradei said the $1.3 million Nobel award, widely viewed as the world's top accolade, would give him and his agency a much needed "shot in the arm" as they tackle nuclear crises in Iran and North Korea. ElBaradei said he had been sure he would not win because he had not received a traditional advance telephone call from the Committee, worried by media leaks. He learned of his win at home while watching television with his wife, Aida. He said he jumped to hi...

American Progress Action Fund The Progress Report On September 16, President Bush made a vague promise to " cut unnecessary spending " to pay for reconstruction in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Yesterday, he specified what spending he considers "unnecessary." At a press conference on the White House law, Bush said he will ask Congress to " make even deeper reductions in the mandatory spending programs than are already planned." The major mandatory spending programs are Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. (The category also includes a few smaller program related to income security such as unemployment insurance and school lunches.) In other words, President Bush want the the poor, the sick and the elderly to pay for Katrina reconstruction by giving up their health care and retirement security. Meanwhile, the President is pressing forward with billions in new tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans .

The corruption and cronyism of the bush administration couldn't be more open if they put a sign over the White House saying 'crooks-r-us'. And now we have a new appointment to the Supreme Court where the chief and only qualification seems to be friendship. I have my own doubts about the morality and conscience of anyone who would remain a years-long friend with a crook and a mass-murderer such as our little georgie. I guess toadies don't care who they hang with, as long as things go their way, and they get to play power broker. I'd like to remind the 'opposition' that this appointment is not for village justice of the peace. There are real-world consequences that result from the decisions the Court makes. For an example, read this article by Vincent Bugliosi from January, 2001. None Dare Call It Treason

The timeless truth of creation By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist October 2, 2005 Boston Globe http://tmars.iwarp.com/guerrilla_campaign/document/051002-timeless-truth.html Jeff, I doubt that Mr. Henderson meant his FSM as a comedic chuckle producer, but rather as a way to point out the ridiculousness of teaching 'intelligent design' in science classes. The whole concept is built around one religious concept (monotheism), and ignores all other alternate stories of creation. The operative word here is 'stories'. In truth, intelligent design isn't a scientific theory but a restatement of a timeless argument: that the regularity and laws of the natural world imply a higher intelligence -- God, most people would say -- responsible for its design... In truth, nobody is arguing against the teaching of creationism. What they are arguing about is its inclusion in a science class. As you state, it's not science. Teach it as philosophy, religion, whatever, but not science. O...