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Galician Oil Spill

Twice the size of the Exxon Valdez! All over the northern and Western Coast of Spain… mainly IN GALICIA… OIL is WASHING UP! Birds and wildlife and liming around onshore… covered in black sludge! How many times does this have to happen? They fight terrorism, drugs, crime…. all things having to do with violence. A violence that is far more a threat to the world… environmental.. is ignored! WHY? Because it’s profitable! Because your world leaders are involved in the oil business. The Sheiks… the Royals.. the AMERICAN GOVERNMENT… they all receive money from or OWN oil companies. Yet its not in the new york times right now. No… it’ll appear later in small print… “LArgest Oil Spill Ever” will instead be reduced to “Oil Tanker has a little Spill” and it’ll be a cute story that we can read over breakfast before we get in our SUV’S and go to work where we use one sheet of paper for each word we write.

They’re sending a probe over to Venus…. hmmm.

Who’s the Warmonger?

Last night, dicussing Iraq-US over dinner, a friend who studies international relations suddenly exclaims, “The man agrees to the inspectors! He agrees to everything they wrote! Now they’ll go into his presidential palaces and if his bed isn’t made correctly, they’ll bomb!”

He couldn’t have been more right. The word warmonger becomes more and more correct to describe not Saddam… but the administration occupying (illegally since they weren’t elected) the white house.

– They wanted to bomb if he didn’t allow inspectors back in, in September he says he will allow them!

– They don’t accept his answer, they say he lies and they will bomb him if he’s lying

– they demand a new resolution, filled with all sorts of humiliating and barely legal terms, and it gets approved, if Saddam doesn’t like it – they’ll bomb him!

– He accepts the resolution! All of it! The white house response: He’s a liar, we’re getting ready to attack!

Once again… it’s difficult to see who’s a threat to the world… then again.. maybe it has become obvious. The only one who actually has all the weapons that can destroy the world 5 times over.

Wellstone Conspiracy

Bicyclemark refuses to drop this issue of Paul Wellstone’s death! The investigation is taking, strangely enough, much longer than expected. Heres whats come out about the pilot according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

– According to records from Conry’s (the pilot) criminal fraud conviction, his training experience at American Eagle was sandwiched between his indictment in the fraudulent home-building scheme and his sentencing to a federal prison camp in South Dakota in connection with that case. He was sentenced April 27, 1990, and was released from prison in November 1991.

– Conry never was named a first officer or co-pilot at the airline and never flew a passenger flight at American Eagle.

– Conry never disclosed his criminal history to Executive Aviation

Just a plane crash? Sure… that’s what the major political parties.. especially the one in power, would like it to be remembered as. They don’t care much about justice and the truth!

 

ESF Italy

450,000 thousand people. That’s alot of people! Thats about half a million. Thats many many football stadiums put together. Over this past weekend, thats how many people marched through the streets of Florence, Italy for the first ever European Social Forum. A forum where people from any corner of the world, including europeans, could come and exchange ideas and strategies for combatting those organizations like the WTO, WEF, and the IMF who are not accountable to anyone and adopt plans that effect the lives of everyone. The conference lasted 5 days during which students, activists, and regular people from every continent participated in forums on subjects like political campaigns, sustainable development, environmental education, and organizing. It should also be mentioned that there were no major incidents of violence. No major injuries. No police attacked. No major property damage.

Here’s the big question: Was this Forum reported about in your major media? Did it make the evening news? Was it on the front page or the second page of the big newspaper? No? 450,000 people….. thats not enough to be seen as important?

Oh, but did you hear?…. they wanted to kidnap Posh Spice (something like that)… that made lots of newspapers.

Silent Chechen War

The pretend battle for congessional control is over. And little has changed. Little would have changed anyway.

The situation in Chechnia is awful. In last weeks “Courrier International” they printed the conversations between the journalist, who was negociating for the Russians, and the Chechen rebel leader. It was so sad. These men knew they were going to die. They wanted the war to end… Russian military to leave Chechnia….. But Russia is so bent on making war that they would never do it… they preferred to kill innocent hostages.

There was a comic in the Moscow Gazzeta (the name sounds like that)… it shows the Theater where the hostages were being held, and all the military outside with guns pointed…. a Russian man is walking by and looks distracted and says…. “War in Chechnia…. theres no war in Chechnya”…. there you have it. The biggest problem of all.

For my take on the US and ISraeli political futures, see my blog from three days ago. (ps… this is a blog.. what youre reading)

Today some attention will be given to the politics of Latin America…. commonly known as… the American sandbox… where US business frolic and seek profit. Something wonderous has been happenning in Latin America… and it should be kept quite quiet or else the CIA may start assasinations again….

THE LACKIES ARE BEING VOTED OUT! You heard right… all the US boot lickers are getting the boot… and in their places the people are electing independent, critical, and grassroots leaders of the “left”. Course, left is a relative term… as left as you can get when youre up to your eyelids in globalization and foreign debt…. But nonetheless, its quite a site to see… its quite pleasant to listen to…. the whining and complaining from rich american and latin-a businessmen who are shaking in their armani’s that their industries are going back into the hands of the public… or that their profit is going to disappear… can you hear them? Oooh theyre scared.

Lets count them shall we…. its so fun… Well… theres Chavez in Venezuela…. rough around the edges and frequently drawing protests; there’s (i believe) Lagos in Chile… a mildmannered socialist, first one since Allende got couped out by the CIA; In Equador theres that military guy…. loved by the common folk.. hes going to win…. In Brasil we have the sweetest of all – LULA! Working class all the way… no matter what they say… its only a matter of time before Argentina joins em… cause lets face it… where did all that libralization privatization get them….. poor and hungry! Why is this happenning? Cause people are tired of being shit on by big business.. and thats whats been happenning for far too long! The only drawback is that these elected officials may not have the power or the will to really fix the situation. STILL — ITs SWEET TO WATCH!

(please note Colombia doesnt count… its an American colony under military rule) (Peru is still getting over being mugged by their pres. so they dont count either… and Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia…. I didnt have time to research)