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The Resolutions for Total Information Awareness and Homeland Security passed by the Neo-Feudal Lords of Capital of the Chosen Christian Fascist Leadership of the United States

1. The great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution now unfolding is a great revolution that touches people to their very souls and constitutes a new stage in the development of the socialist revolution in our country, a deeper and more extensive stage.

At the Resolute Forum of First Nomination for President of Governor Bush of Texas, Comrade Rove said: “To overthrow a political power, it is always necessary, first of all, to create public opinion, to do work in the ideological sphere.” This is true for the revolutionary class as well as for the counter-revolutionary class. This thesis of Comrade Rove has been proved entirely correct in practice.

Although the non-christian liberals has been overthrown, they are still trying to use the old ideas, culture, customs and habits of their socialist New Deal forebearers to corrupt the masses, capture their minds, and endeavour to stage a come-back into power. The CCFP must do just the opposite: it must meet head-on every challenge of the liberals in the ideological field and use the new ideas, culture, customs and habits of the CCFP to change the mental outlook of the whole of society. At present, our objective is to struggle against and crush those persons remaining in authority who are taking the liberal road, to criticize and repudiate the reactionary CCFP academic 'authorities' and the ideology of the CCFP and all other liberal agendas, particularly those in the media and academia, and to transform education, art and literature and all other parts of the superstructure that do not correspond to the Christian capitalist economic base, so as to facilitate the consolidation and development of the CCFP system.

2. The masses of the corporate stockholders, paid media spokespersons, Christian-led military, fascist intellectual leadership and the conservative Christian cadres form the main force in our great Cultural Revolution. Large numbers of revolutionary young people, previously unknown, have become courageous and daring path-breakers. They are vigorous in action and intelligent. Through control of our media using personal character assassinations and great deceptions, they argue things out, expose and criticize thoroughly, and launch resolute attacks on the open and hidden representatives of the remaining liberal citizenry. In such a great revolutionary movement, it is hardly avoidable that they should show shortcomings of one kind or another, but their main revolutionary orientation has been correct from the beginning. This is the main current in the great Chosen Christian Fascist Party Cultural Revolution. It is the main direction along which the great CCFP Cultural Revolution continues to advance.

Since the Cultural Revolution is a revolution, it inevitably meets with resistance. This resistance comes chiefly from those in authority who have wormed their way into the public mind and are taking the anti-corporate capitalist road. It also comes from the old force of habit in society. At present, this resistance is still fairly strong and stubborn. However, the great CCFP Cultural Revolution is, after all, an irresistible general trend. There is abundant evidence that such resistance will crumble fast once the masses become fully aroused.

Because the resistance is fairly strong, there will be reversals and even repeated reversals in this. It tempers the conservative Christian fascists and all other working people, especially the younger generation, teaches them lessons and gives them experience, and helps them to understand that the revolutionary road is a zigzag one, and not plain sailing.

3. The outcome of this great CCFP Cultural Revolution will be determined by whether the Democratic party leadership does or does not dare boldly to arouse the masses.

Currently, there are four different situations with regard to the leadership being given to the movement of cultural revolution by party organizations at various levels:

(1) There is the situation in which the persons in charge of CCFP organizations stand in the vanguard of the movement and dare to arouse the masses boldly. They put daring above everything else, they are dauntless corporate capitalist fighters and good pupils of all things Chairman Bush says. They advocate the personal character assassinations and great deceptions. They encourage the masses to expose every kind of environmental ghost and liberal monster and also to criticize the shortcomings and errors in the work of even the non-chosen Christians and Democrats in charge. This correct kind of leadership is the result of putting conservative Christian fascist politics in the forefront and the Bush/Cheney extended family thought in the lead.

(2) In many units, the conservative persons in charge have a very poor understanding of their task of leadership in this great struggle, their leadership is far from being conscientious and effective, and they accordingly find themselves encouraging non-conservative Christian type thought and in a weaker power position. They do not put enough fear above everything else, stick to outmoded ways of discussion and regulations, and are unwilling to break away from the liberal conventional practices and move ahead. They have been taken unawares by the new order of things, the revolutionary order of our chosen Christian capitalist masses, with the result that their leadership lags behind the situation, particularly in increasing our wealth, and they lag behind with the masses of the un-chosen.

(3) In some units, the persons in charge, who made mistakes of one kind or another in the past, are even more prone to not put fear and deception above everything else, being anxious that the remaining non-chosen, liberal masses will discover their weakness. Actually, if they make serious self-criticism and accept the criticism from the chosen, the CCFP party and its chosen congregations will make allowances for their mistakes. But if the persons in charge don't, they will continue to make mistakes and become obstacles to our CCFP cultural and dominion movement.

(4) Some units are controlled by those who have wormed their way into our party, and are taking the liberal-socialist road. Such persons in authority are extremely dangerous and must be exposed by the chosen masses; therefore they seek every possible pretext to suppress us and our mass cultural movement. They resort to such tactics as shifting the media targets for attack and turning black into white, particularly the media and bloggers, in an attempt to lead our movement astray. They will find themselves very isolated and no longer able to carry on as before, they will resort still more to intrigues, identifying our leadership, spreading malicious rumors that counter our deceptions, and blurring the distinction between conservative revolution and the liberal counter-revolution as much as they can, all for the purpose of attacking the great chosen Christian fascist revolutionaries.

What the Neo-Feudal Lords of Capital of the CCFP demands of all of the loyal conservative Christian communities at all levels is that they persevere in giving correct leadership, put daring above everything else, boldly arouse the non-critical thinking masses, change the state of weakness and incompetence where it exists, encourage those non-chosen allies who have made mistakes but are willing to correct them to cast off their anxieties, their mental burdens and join in the struggle, and dismiss from their public posts all those in academic and media authority who are taking the liberal thinking road and so make possible the recapture of the leadership for our great Chosen Christian Fascist revolutionaries.

4. In the great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution, the only method is for the chosen masses to liberate themselves from any contact with the liberal social environmental movements, and any method of doing things on their behalf must not be used.

Trust the chosen Christian fascists, rely on them and respect their initiative. Cast out fear. Don't be afraid of the momentary disorder. Chairman Bush and family have often told us that revolution cannot be so very refined, so gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous: “The battle will take many years.” Let the chosen masses educate themselves in this great Christian dominion revolutionary movement and learn to distinguish between right and wrong and between correct and incorrect ways of doing things.

Make the fullest use of personal character assassinations and great deceptions to argue matters out, so that our chosen masses can clarify the correct views, criticize the wrong views and expose all the environmentalists and hideous liberal and feminist intellectuals. In this way the chosen will be able to raise their political consciousness in the course of the struggle, enhance their abilities and talents, distinguish right from wrong and draw a clear line between all of the enemy and ourselves.

5. Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution and it is likewise a question of the first importance for the great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution.

Party leadership should be good at discovering the right and developing and strengthening the ranks of the right, and should firmly rely on the chosen christian revolutionary right. During the movement this is the only way to isolate thoroughly the most reactionary liberals, win over the non-chosen middle and unite with the great christian fascist majority so that by the end of the movement we shall achieve the unity of more than 95 per cent of our population.

Concentrate all forces to strike at the handful of ultra-reactionary liberal social justice advocates and counter-revolutionary environmentalists, and expose and criticize to the chosen faithful their crimes against the CCFP, against capitalism and against Bush’s thoughts so as to isolate them to the maximum.

The main target of the present movement is those within our party who are in authority and are taking the un-chosen, anti-fascist road.

Care should be taken to distinguish strictly between the anti-fascist, anti-capitalist liberals and those who support the party and capitalism but have said or done something wrong or have written some bad articles or other works.

Care should be taken to distinguish strictly between the reactionary liberal, social-justice, scholar despots and ‘authorities' on the one hand and people who have the ordinary, but incorrect conservative academic ideas on the other.

6. A strict distinction must be made between the two different types of contradictions: those among the people and those between our enemies and ourselves. Contradictions among the people must not be made into contradictions between the enemy, and ourselves nor must contradictions between the enemy and ourselves be regarded as those among the people.

It is normal for the masses to hold different views. Contention between different views is unavoidable, necessary and beneficial. In the course of normal and full debate, the masses will affirm what is right, correct what is wrong and gradually reach unanimity.

The method to be used in propaganda and the media is to present the deceptions, reason things out based on faith, and persuade through distortions and lies. Any method of suggesting a minority holding different views to submit is permissible. The minority should be chastised, because sometimes the truth is with the minority. Even if the minority suggests that they are chosen, they should still not be allowed to argue their case and share their views.

When there is a discussion, it should not be conducted by reasoning and rational thinking, but by coercion or force, through rude interruption and control of the sound.

In the course of spreading propaganda, every chosen christian fascist should be good at thinking things out for himself, based on their articles of faith and should develop the CCFP spirit of daring to promote the bible, daring to speak out and tell others to shut up, and daring to act up when necessary to silence criticisms. On the premise that they have the same main orientation, revolutionary comrades should, for the sake of strengthening unity, insist on endless distractions over side issues.

7. In certain schools, units, and work teams of the Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution, some of the persons in charge have organized counter-attacks against the masses that have proposed character assassinations against them. These people have even advanced such ideas as: global warming science and environmental dangers in opposition to our party's Neo-Feudal Lords of Capital; demeaning the economic agendas of our party and its fascist controlled capitalism; promoting counter-revolutionary rational thinking against our faith based realities. In this way it is inevitable that their blows will fall on some of our really revolutionary activists. This is an error on matters of orientation, an error of line, and is absolutely impermissible.

A number of persons who suffer from serious ideological errors, and particularly some of the anti-party and anti-capitalist liberals, are taking advantages of certain shortcomings and mistakes in our conservative christian mass movement to spread science and rational thought, and engage in agitation, deliberately branding some of our masses as 'counter-revolutionaries.' It is necessary to beware of such 'pick-pockets' and expose their tricks in good time.

In the course of the movement, with the exception of cases of active counter- revolutionaries where there is clear evidence of crimes such as revealing the factual evidence, promoting scientific agendas, stealing any and all of the newly classified state secrets, which should be handled in accordance with the law, no measures should be taken against students at universities, colleges, middle schools and primary schools because of problems that arise in the movement. To prevent the struggle from being diverted from its main objective, it is not allowed, whatever the pretext, to incite the masses to struggle against each other or the students to do likewise. Even proven liberals should be dealt with on the merits of each case, through manipulation of salary criteria and testing regimens, at a later stage of the movement.

8. The chosen conservative christian cadres all fall roughly into the following four categories:

(1) the faithful chosen;

(2) not yet chosen but shall be received in the congregation of the faithful;

(3) those who have made serious mistakes but have not become anti-fascist, anti-capitalist liberals;

(4) the small number of non-believing, rational thinking, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist liberals.

in ordinary situations, the first two categories are the great majority.

The non-believing, rational thinking, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist liberals must be completely discredited and their influence eliminated. At the same time, they should be given a way out so that they can turn over a new leaf.

9. Many new things have begun to emerge in the great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution. The cultural revolutionary groups, committees and other organizational forms created by the chosen majority in many schools and units are something new and of great historic importance.

These cultural revolutionary groups, committees and congresses are excellent new forms of organization whereby under the leadership of the Chosen Christian Fascist Party the masses are educating themselves. They are an excellent bridge to keep our party in close contact with the masses. They are organs of power of the Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution.

The struggle of the conservative christian fascists against the old ideas, culture, customs and habits left over from all the socialist liberal masses over thousands of years will necessarily take a very, very long time. Therefore, the leadership of the Chosen Christian Fascist party, committees and congresses should not be temporary organizations but permanent, standing mass organizations, controlling all US institutions and rewriting the Constitution. They are suitable not only for colleges, schools and government and dinner organizations, but generally also for factories, mines, other enterprises, urban districts and villages.

It is necessary to institute a system of general elections, like that of the 2004 electronically controlled and manipulated one, for electing members to our Chosen Christian Fascist Party leadership positions and committees and delegates to the Chosen Christian Fascist Party congresses. The lists of candidates should be put forward by the chosen masses after full discussion, and the elections should be held after the chosen have discussed the lists over and over again.

The chosen are not entitled at any time to criticize members of the cultural revolutionary Chosen Christian Fascist Party leadership groups and committees and delegates elected to the Chosen Christian Fascist controlled Congress. If these members or delegates prove incompetent, they can be replaced through manipulation of elections or suffer the necessary character assassinations and ridicule in our media.

The conservative christian cultural revolutionary groups, committees and congresses in colleges and schools should consist mainly of representatives of the christian faithful students. At the same time, they should have a growing and controlling number of chosen representatives of the CCFP teaching staff and workers.

10. In the great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution a most important task is to transform the old educational system and the old principles and methods of teaching.

In this great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution, the phenomenon of our schools being dominated by liberal, anti-christian intellectuals must be completely changed.

In every kind of school we must apply thoroughly the policy advanced by Chairman Bush, of education serving christian fascist politics and education being combined with productive labor, so as to enable those receiving an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and to become supporting communties with faith-based Christian consciousness and culture.

The period of schooling should be shortened. Courses should be fewer and better. The teaching material should be thoroughly transformed rid of science and filled with the literal truths of our bibles, in some cases beginning with simplifying the revelations of end days and final times for the children to alleviate their fears. While their main task is to study, students should also learn other things. That is to say, in addition to their studies they should also learn industrial work, farming and military affairs, and take part in the struggles of the Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution as they occur to criticize the bourgeoisie.

11. In the course of the mass movement of the Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution, the criticism of liberal and democratic ideology should be well combined with the dissemination of the world outlook and of our chosen christian capitalist views, and of the Bush/Cheney/DeLay/Rove/Strauss thinking.

Criticism should be organized against typical liberal anti-capitalist representatives who have wormed their way into the chosen party and typical reactionary liberal academic 'authorities', and this should include criticism of various kinds of liberal anti-fascist, anti-christian reactionary views in philosophy, history, political economy and education, in works and theories of literature and art, in maintaining theories of natural sciences, and in other fields.

Criticism of anyone by name in the press should be decided after discussion by the committee of the chosen christian leadership at the same level, and in some cases submitted to the CCFP committee at a higher level for approval.

12. As regards scientists, technicians and ordinary members of working staffs, as long as they are patriotic, work energetically, are not against the CCFP mandates and curriculum, and maintain no illicit relation with any foreign country, we should in the present movement continue to apply the policy of 'unity, criticism, unity'. Special care should be taken of those scientists and scientific and technical personnel who have made contributions to our faith-based creationist agendas and to our anti-environmental regulation reforms. Efforts should be made to help them gradually transform their world outlook and their style of work.

13. The cultural and educational units and leading organs of the Chosen Christian Fascist Party and government in the large and medium cities are the points of concentration of the present Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution.

The great Cultural Christian Fascist education movement in both city and countryside must be raised to a higher level. Efforts should be made to conduct these two movements in close combination. Arrangements to this effect may be made by various CCFP regions and departments in the light of specific conditions that warrant attention and action.

The Chosen Christian Fascist education movement now going on in the countryside and in enterprises in the cities should not be upset where the original arrangements are appropriate and the movement is going well, but should continue in accordance with the original arrangements. However, the questions that are arising in the present great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution should be put to the chosen faithful for discussion at a proper time, so as to further foster vigorously conservative christian ideology and eradicate liberal ideology.

In some places, the great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution is being used as the focus in order to add momentum to the conservative christian education movement and clean things up in the fields of science, politics, ideology, organization and economy. This may be done where the local chosen CCFP committees think it appropriate.

14. The aim of the great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution is to revolutionize people's ideology and as a consequence to achieve greater, faster, better and more economical results in all fields of work. If the masses are fully aroused and proper arrangements are made, it is possible to carry on both the Cultural Revolution and production without one hampering the other, while guaranteeing high quality in all our work.

The great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution is a powerful motive force for the development of the capitalist and fascist productive forces in our country. Any ideas of counter-posing the great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution against the development of means of capital production based on impoverishing the non-chosen masses are incorrect.

15. In the armed forces, the Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution and the conservative christian education movement should be carried out in accordance with the instructions of the Project for a New American Century adopted by the Neo-Feudal Lords of Capital and the Defense Department of the Halliburton/Rumsfeld military industrial alliance.

16. In the great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution it is imperative to hold aloft the great US flag of Bush/Cheney/DeLay/Rove/Strauss thought and put conservative christian politics in command. The movement for the creative study and application of Chairman Bush’s works should be carried forward among the chosen workers, peasants and soldiers, the cadres and the intellectuals, and Bush/Cheney/DeLay/Rove/Strauss thought should be taken as the guide for action in the Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution.

In this complex great Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution Party committees at all levels must study and apply Chairman Bush’s works all the more conscientiously and in a creative way. In particular, they must study over and over again Chairman Bush’s speeches on the Chosen Christian Fascist Cultural Revolution and on the Chosen Christian Fascist Party's methods of leadership, such as necessary for a New Global Chosen Christian Fascist Democracy.

Chosen Christian Fascist Party committees at all levels must abide by the directions given by Chairman Bush over the years, namely that they should thoroughly apply the mass line of 'from the masses and to the masses' and that they should be pupils before they become teachers. They should try to avoid being one-sided or narrow. They should foster christian dialectics and oppose metaphysics, science, and scholasticism.

cross the i's dot the t's the world's future is across the seas

Crude Oil Surges to Record on US Gasoline Inventory Decline
US 4th-Qtr Current Account Deficit Grows to Record (Update3)
US May Help India to Build Nuclear Power Plant
EPA's mercury rule attacked
whoa--could it be that as the US toxifies its own environment, impoverishes its population, undermines the general health and welfare of all of its citizens, assists other nations in building nuclear sites, invades more nations to control the flow of fossil fuels--- could it be that we are destined to become a pitiful third world nation like all the rest? Is there any question that china and india are the world's fastest growing economies and that japan is going to be more economically stable in its decline because they have a radically shrinking population? EU nations will be able to solve their minority culture issues more readily because they take care of their populations first, and have been doing so for a couple of thousand years.

The only missing element in all of this is South America. Seemingly overlooked by the bulk of the media and focus of the attention of the moneyed interests, the spin down south doesn't begin to do it justice. There are powerful movements set in motion to socialize and restructure corporate relations designed to increase the welfare of the poorest. Indeed the only nation that seems to care not one wit about its poor right now in the world is the US. Something to ponder and realize. Our poor will be intentionally made poorer, and unhealthier. Why???

chinois et l'etats unit

<>WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Monday that China's threat to use force to stop any Taiwanese move toward independence is an "unfortunate" development that could increase tensions in the region. "We view the adoption of the anti-secession law as unfortunate," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "It does not serve the purpose of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. We believe it runs counter to recent progress in cross-Strait relations."
Taiwan's ruling party responded to Beijing's anti-secession law Monday with a bill authorizing the president to use non-peaceful action in its defense. The Democratic Progressive Party's bill give President Chen Shui-bian sweeping powers to take measures including referendums without the Legislature's permission, the Taipei Times said. The party's draft states Taiwan issue is not a part of China's domestic affairs but an international matter, and it is necessary and urgent to swiftly enact counter-legislation to deter China's annexation efforts.
The opposition Taiwan Solidarity Union has also drafted a similar measure saying Taiwan has existed alongside China since the founding of the People's Republic of China Oct. 1, 1949, and states Taiwan is already an independent sovereign state and it is not an issue for Taiwan to declare independence or seek separation from China.

tSOOO we find two nations clearly opposed to one another, with specific agendas to use WMD's against one another. And the US has already proven that preemptive warfare is a necessary and appropriate way to affect global positioning. Thus it is not only conceivable, but entirely within the bounds of new world policies for one or the other of China's to take out the other. Bush of course has the audacity to suggest that that isn't appropriate. Why? Well geez, it isn't his to do, and if it isn't his way there is no way. One of the subtle stupid messages that is so easily and conveniently overlooked by those who suggest that these new democratic actions in the MidEast were a beneficial offshoot of the invasion, and justifying it. However, the principle reason for the illegal and unlawful, constitution violating invasion was to preemptively keep another nation from attacking us. That reason will always have to be taken into account. Otherwise, ponder the rationale for China removing the threat of Taiwan military weaponry if they were merely to suggest it was in the best interest of a "people's democracy!"

kte sni

Man Kills Seven, Himself at Wis. Hotel
Ga. Suspect Could Appear in Court Monday
Lefkow case puts security in spotlight
Activists rally to save Terri Schiavo

wow this has been a week; killing seems to be the central topic to the consciousness of human beings. A pissed off bankrupt dude who was unable to use lawyers to get some malpractice justice kills a couple of folks of a judge; an alleged rapist takes down a group in a courtroom in GA hoping for some inexplicable reason to be set free; a woman in florida who has been in a brain dead coma is set to have the life sustaining electronics disconnected making groups of hermeneutically challenged believers fight to save her meaningless suffering filled life; and then, to top it off, a dumbass gets up in an evangelical church service and wipes out a family and a few others. Yeah those ten commandments are held deeply by these people.

I suppose it would just be another run amok story spreading across all this is the US hadn't been belligerently inticing violence around the world, and then excusing its worst manifestations as piques of war. I suppose we could chalk it up to too much game violence, if any of these people were actually under the age of 40 and were known to be gamers. But mostly i suppose that in five days all of this will no longer be being discussed in any of the main stream media again, thus making the frustration of insane pressure on humans to conform to ever tightening shrouds of mass insanity caused by a way of life so horribly out of balance and skewed towards a feudal serfdom to enshrine the rich all the more crazy.

There is the other piece of this that is even more bizarre. The idea that thousands of people can be led to hold consensual and simultaneous beliefs that are neither based on fact nor based on sound theological precepts. To keep someone alive in a complete vegetative coma is in essence agreeing to extend the suffering of that person, beyond that being and onto the population around them. Unlike the flaggelates in the middle ages, these post-modern versions of plague survivors, wish to inflict the pain and suffering on the living, but always on other living and not themselves. At the very least they should offer the economic opportunities for this vision of their doing their creators(and in this case that is a bunch of fanatical zealots) wishes. Make the dumbasses pay for their beliefs! See how long that lasts.

Utinam billionari spatium proprium tuum invadant!

691 control $2.2 trillion dollars each and every year. That would be similar to the 535 members of the House and Senate controlling that same amount, with one huge exception. These 691 are responsible to no one about any of their decisions. They are the non-elected, non-selected, self appointed neo-feudal lords of capital. Beneath them are another ten million or so individuals who control another $18.6 trillion of the earth's economy. If we take this crusty bunch of the human population, roughly 0.001% of them, we discover that they literally own more than 70% of the wealth of the entire planet. If ever there was a disproportionate schism between the rich and poor, we have now locked ourselves to it.
Even in the days of world wide feudalism between say 350--1500 CE, more of the poor had more access to more resources. Literally millions of people could access their needs without having to adhere to the edicts of their feudal lords. The neo-feudal lords are in fact so powerful that literally only those same few millions, in terms of numbers continue to have access, while billions of people must absolutely swear fealty, using the various forms of chosen currency, to acquire their basic needs. It is the dawning of a new age of unmitigatable disasters.

In 1980 the US government researchers determined that by 2050 200 million people will starve to death each year if the behaviors of the people of the planet did not change. They were wrong. The behaviors changed, for the worse, and we are already living with tens of millions starving to death each year. In fact thousands in the US are starving to death. Sure their deaths are reported as heart problems or kidney failure or liver problems, but that is what kills them finally. The principle cause is starvation. Here in this country, where without bowing on both knees to the lords of capital one will never be able to access any of one's needs.

wrath of loki

"But have the Democrats learned anything from this? In my opinion, very little. They are now scurrying around frantically trying to come up with "moral values," and religious connections, accepting the mainstream media's nonsense the pseudo-religionists' claim that they were the tipping point which provided the margin of victory elevating G. W. Bush to the White House for another four years."
There is more to the underbelly of this beast. The whole of the left is struggling to ameliorate their failure to attract moneyed interests. It is never about the issues nor the voters, but about attracting money and media attention. This is happening at the local levels within the environmental in which i have spend considerable time and energy. They have reviewed and looked at the statistics and financial records and long term projections for the economy and so forth, and have abandoned their real constituency in order to attract financial support from the right. why??

Age i think is critical. The old vanguard, myself included, who held onto the idealism of deep ecological revelations, has been moved from the positions of power within the movements by demographics. Short sighted younger leadership evaluates their overall financial interests in relation to the shrinking opportunities to save habitats. In order to attract the money they think they can attract(a big supposition that seems rather misguided) they are adapting the strategies of the right. Unfortunately, it is the strategies themselves that are bogus and morally bankrupt; strategies that not only will not gain advantages(since they are predicated on cannibalistic enterprises greedly focussed on immediate individual benefits) but will fail to hold onto the constituency that they are assuming they would not lose in the first place. Their thinking is fundamentally flawed, in terms of their overall environmental analysis, and the short term benefits of literally dressing up to meet the hopes of bringing in capital will be seriously detrimental to the ecosystems they intend to protect. Polling as a means of assigning investments of time and energy towards acquiring economic resources is not synonymous with understanding that the environment cannot be assigned economic value if it is intended to be protected.

We are truly at an abyss when the left moves right thinking it can move the right left. It will not happen. What will happen is that the left will be the right's own left and that is a far different thing than being the left. And in all of this the planet will suffer tremendously, the starving and impoverishment of people will lead to the destruction of habitats, in turn destroying any remaining quality in the air and water. It is moving closer and closer to being over.

unyawapi

"The governing party has increasingly struck a religious tone in an aggressive foreign policy that seems much more nationalist than Christian, while the opposition party has offered more confusion than clarity. In any election we choose between very imperfect choices. Yet it is always important to examine what is at stake prayerfully and theologically."
" I asked if he thought it was important that so many people associated with the ideas behind U.S. foreign policy were Straussians. He definitely demurred. Wolfowitz does not consider himself to be a Straussian. He says he does not find political philosophy all that exciting and Allan Bloom found him to be a disappointment in this regard, but a “successful disappointment,” which appealed to Bloom. He says when he gets together with real Straussians he becomes impatient with the level of abstraction of the discussion. He does not think Strauss is in any way important to the conduct of U.S. foreign policy."

Taking these two threads together presents an interesting picture of the nature of the expressed political philosophy of the culture as a whole. Wolfie may demur on Straussian direct influence, but will not deny that as a nation we project a Randian/Straussian objectivist theology that we have been divinely blessed with the necessary means to impose our own individual wills upon the blessings of this created landscape, and that those who resist us, even our own families and friends and communities, must bow down to us because we are number one. It is as if the whole of the theological and philosophical national ethos is premised on just that high school adolescent cheer. If you say it long enough and loud enough you can convince your peers to believe it. My Chevy is better than your Ford, but his Dodge Ram is cooler than that Toyota???

Yes, thus the national religious tone is the Straussian claim of superior position that "my God is number one." Of course there are lots and lots of things incredibly wrong with this position: hermeneutics, soteriological issues, failure to comprehend basic theological tenants, comprehensive knowledge of non-faith based economics, and so far forth. But the real problem is that none of these matter to the believer, not a one of them. In this new millenium, faith is impregnated with R/S objectivist individual power leading the new believer towards a doctrine of dogmatic orthodoxy espoused not by clerics but by political priests of the words. Christianity has been hijacked, bastardized, soundbited, reductio absurdum, until a national theology is held in place by the bombardment of necessary deceptions and lies. Ask a believer about one of their deeply held convictions, one of the foundational pins of their soteriological knowledge, and they will recite, not biblical texts or evangelical injunctions but the ravings of Bush and Coulter and RushOReallyHan. Ask them to site the text and they cannot. Ask them to accept as literally true other laws and commandments and edicts and they will not. Ask them to lay claim to their clearest expression of hope and faith and it will be the US is number one. That says it all for them.

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Take two stories and put them together and you have the most beautiful illustration of the arrogant US fascist imperial state:

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And then there is this one about our new proposed Ambassador to the UN
Bolton is also a longtime activist in the Federalist Society, an association of right-wing, nationalistic lawyers who have been
particularly opposed to the application of international or foreign law in their decisions—a practice that they say threatens U.S. sovereignty.  The Society is also strongly opposed to non-governmental organizations that seek the adoption of international law and standards in the United States. Along with AEI, the Society sponsors ''NGOWatch'' which seeks to expose such efforts, as well as the funding sources of NGOs that take such positions.
His effectiveness gained him a promotion under President H.W. Bush to the position of assistant secretary of state for international organizations, a post he held until 1993 when he joined first the right-wing Manhattan Institute and then the neoconservative-dominated American Enterprise Institute (AEI), home to such prominent hawks as former UN Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle and Cheney's spouse, Lynne Cheney.

i`sta' wi`ca niyan wi

my oh my what a wonderful day, plenty of sunshine, going my way. well not really, lots of clouds actually.

There is a growing chasm schism thang happening in this country around the issues of "christian" moral values. We have these staunch passionate advocates for the right for embryonic cells to live, the elimination of any possible rights for old people to choose to die, the demands that only the Ten Commandments be posted in public places, the refusal to acknowledge stem cell research and genetic manipulation of some human genes, and of course the support for the state to kill for them. If this reads like a list of severely hypocritical divergent paradoxical beliefs, then i have done my job. These people really do believe this; they afterall can hold the belief that what they read in two verses of one of their bibles, what would appear in the most literal sense to be in direct contradiction of one another, are fundamentally true at the same time. Most psychology researchers and clinicians would say this is in many ways a sign of psychosis, a coginitive dissonance that is irreconcilable in our daily lives. But that sort of diagnosis doesn't stop the leadership of these people from continuing to advocate for a greater and greater separation from reality.

Let's take the claim made by a supporter of the public display of the 10 commandments. Disregarding the entire history of biblical text, exegesis, hermeneutical inquiries into the veracity of translations, the diversity of no less than 37 separate renderings sold contemporaneously at local bookstores, and the notion that there are such other chapters of laws and rules as Leviticus, Deuterotomy, Numbers, and the Letters; we discover that this person has taken it upon himself to "save" our "souls from hell." How did this human being become so empowered to embark on this path of controlling the salvation of others? Who told him to do so?? Now of course, he would say God, but if questioned he would be forced to deny that God actually told him. He could never admit that he heard the voice of God in his head. That would be admitting psychosis. So he has to claim that he was moved to do so by God's will. How did this occur?

Some transformative experience that led to his accepting God in him through the God's word in the holy bible. Deconstruct this. Take it apart and discover that this rote regurgitated flippant response that so easily flows off the tongues of these folks is comprised of several disassociative factors. At the most basic levels of conscious thought process, this person must admit that they are cognitively interpreting their existence in such a way that they "assume" the existence of other than human consciousness that has the will and desire to control them. Since admitting that these messages can not come from "voices", as that would be 'crazy,' the person must confess that at some point a volitional act of their own chose to "assume" that this divinity "speaks" through the textual words found on pieces of paper. How did this person find these pieces of paper??? God showed them?? They again can't admit that for a number of reasons. Therefore there must be an intermediary, or several intermediaries, who have acted in consort to express for this person the intent of the divine to govern and control their life. To hold that there are no intermediaries, that one has a direct relationship w/ god, but that there were intermediaries who led the person and interpreted the words and guided the believer, to have a direct relationship w/ god is of course holding two contradictory truths to be true. Again, this is psychotic.

The further this person devolves into this type of psychosis the more likely they are to experience the sense of delusions of great power over the souls of others. Afterall, they hold a belief that this litany of folks--in this book they believe to be literally true, except for the parts that they don't believe to be literally true because the voice that does not tell them what to do told them that those parts weren't to be believed--are divinely blessed to hold just such power. Not only is this power the power to create a personal orientation to a consensual reality based on dischordant elements, but this power has the power to create realms that are not apparent to those who do not have the power, but yet have the power to control everyone. The delusion of power to determine the fate of others, and to be able to create salvation, ignores some of the most substantive literal textual passages these same folks hold as true. Thus once again they are forced by this psychosis to accept that they are empowered to do the work of the only person who is literally given that power in these chapters and verses.

Do you see my point? This can't possibly make any sense. That is why, the leadership of these people, who actually know that none of it is true, and that they are enjoying the capitalistic enhancements that creating this mass psychosis affords them, need to deny the rest of the population from the basic core elements of education, rational critical thinking, and observable evaluatory science. It is massively unfortunate that these same folks have come to guide their zombie minions to hold the views that the state is allowed to kill whomever it chooses--i mean don't you love the inherent insanity of imposing the death penalty on a person who gets an abortion because the fetus and pregnancy would kill the person.

fist shaking aaarrrrrrrrrrggggggg

i had a tough time logging on to this site for the last two days. i am not sure why?? seems as though something was impeding my access. made me post over at GNN which i don't mind..

i ska eh???

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A sharp rally in oil prices to near-record peaks stalled on Friday after OPEC-member Nigeria said the cartel may agree later this month to raise output to cool the red-hot market. Nigeria's presidential advisor on petroleum, Edmund Daukoru, told Reuters in an interview that members were eager to prevent high prices from damaging world economic growth and could agree to raise quotas or relax compliance. "I can see two potential outcomes: that discipline would be relaxed so everybody could really do close to their available potential, except Saudi Arabia. We may, on the other hand, take a definite increase in production, in quota," Daukoru said.

Now this is so terribly emblematic of the crucial issues facing the planet today. A staff writer for Reuters chooses the terms: rally, near-record peaks, red-hot market, to portray the impact of increased oil prices. Is this the US position, that high oil prices are good for this country??? I certainly do not think so. A surge in oil prices to new highs was relieved after Nigeria suggested that raising output would ease the pressure on energy prices around the world. Doesn't that sound better? But no, this is about profit and big dollars and showing the stock market as being wise and good. Why? Because what other entity is trying to convince the US population to remove two trillion dollars of guaranteed funds from protected bonds and place those dollars into fragile, volatile dangerous markets where percents are taken immediately as fees just to do the investing.

lot kunkha `sni

when you are right, you find so much co-oboration so easily...
Scalia Admits he has a problem...

By Nick Johnson, Morons.org

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia finally reached step one of any recovery program: admitting he has a problem. The first thing he's said in a long time that resonated as absolutely true was this:

I don't see why the one is good and the other is bad.

This, folks, is a US Supreme Court Justice admitting he cannot bear judicial burden... something we have suspected here for quite a long time. In context, Scalia finds himself baffled about why certain displays of the Ten Commandments on public property are acceptable while others are not. His cognitive dissonance prevents him from understanding that sometimes legislative grey areas exist that must be interpreted judicially.

this is not unlike Bush telling people that they need to take their money out of SS because he can't be trusted to make good intelligent decisions with it. Which of course is telling us that he can't make intelligent decisions but is still asking us to trust his decision to privatize social security?

Scalia's an idiot

Justice Antonin Scalia was clearly the biggest supporter of the displays, asserting repeatedly that the message conveyed by the Ten Commandments is both deeply religious and entirely constitutional. Even though Scalia was supportive, he chided Abbott at one point for downplaying the religious meaning of the Ten Commandments. It would be a “pyrrhic victory,” Scalia said, if Ten Commandment displays were allowed on the theory that they were secular. “Our laws come from God. If you don’t believe it sends that message, you’re kidding yourself.”

"our laws come from God"? Say that again? I didn't know that. In fact i was pretty damn sure that the laws were created by lobbyists, corporate legal minds, various think tanks, middling level bureaucrats working under orders and so forth. Indeed, i can't see how God has created a single law whatsoever. For Scalia to hold this position he must hold several disassociative positions simulataneously. That, according to both Law and the DSM is a sign/symptom of psychosis. Now God makes a law that holds that holding God's contradictory laws is insane. Isn't that a fine kettle of bread and fishes. In order to believe in the Ten commandments as god's law one must believe that various texts created by a bunch of different people, all with different perspectives and agendas, tell a "story" about someone, who for all archaeological evidence that has ever been documented, did not exist. If you believe that you have to accept that this one god told this one dude to tell a bunch of people that their other gods weren't as cool as he was. Where did these other gods come from if there is only one god?

But more bizarre is the failure of this line of thinking in accessing the actually laws and rules of God as they are expressed most clearly in the Torah. Just like the disassociative nature of the assumption, the complete ignoring of God's laws by one group to claim that they are beholden to god's laws, require a necessary and fundamental psychotic break. Deuterotomy and Numbers are indices of gods laws, virtually none of which are every followed or mentioned, unless you choose to buy kosher. And keep in mind that kosher certifying rabiis love the idea of artificial ingredients in everything because they can guarantee the kosherness. Why? Because for some inexplicable reason God didn't write text about the variances and differences of artificial ingredients. Nor has god supposedly written anything else at all since say a bunch of flakes in the roman empire, determined to create underlying revolutionary dialogs, wrote down some other stories.

Look, the most generous reading of the Declaration of Independence holds that even God didn't give laws. Only rights that are protected by the people who create governments and laws. If you truly worry about the future of the US you first have to worry about the mental stability of certain Supreme Court justices.

Makha piya áya

People may feel that their voices and opinions are not being recognized, but they still express(in dozens of polls) their connection to aspects of their governments. We need them to actually. It is in the little stuff, literally at the street level; fixing potholes, keeping parks open, having public schools, knowing that emergency services are there at the touch of 911, participating in (Cinti) dozens upon dozens of community groups and organizations.
We need to define what a better working government is. Cicero reminds us all that "politics is the art of compromise" in the affairs of the governing of the people. We live in a very complicated society, where layers upon layers of intersecting issues must be addressed to keep it functioning, to maintain its being. In order to improve it at all, we must more fully understand how we can better make the compromises through enlightened, educated, participatory action. This is the Common Ground!!

We live in a social/cultural milieu that requires all of us to first access economic value in order to fulfill our needs. Basic human needs no longer are accessible freely. For example: If we want clean pure water, we must use $$ to access it, whether we choose to do so as a large group or community through taxation and subsequent water treatment or as individuals buying water filters and/or bottled water. Corporations need profits to meet their shareholders demands that now require them to dispense with efforts to control their toxic pollutioning of water and through lessening of their tax burdens. They can use their economic power to produce legislative results that favor their profitability. Yet through ignoring the impacts of these choices the corporations are in every way moving the burden of these profits onto communities and individuals. Health care costs rise as clean water diminishes. The overall tax base of communities shifts from corporate and stakeholders to the citizens and local businesses. While they don't have the economic power to enact their agendas they don't want to pay more than their fair share of taxes and costs for simply maintaining their lives. Where are we going to find common ground here? How are we going to demonstrate to a diverse group of special interests (as Brian pointed out--a thousand committees) that they can work towards improving their governments, when they can't understand or acknowledge the necessary and fundamental compromises.
Now we know, us being the we here, that there are better ways for corporations to act in relation to the environment that would not reduce their profitability, but would require them to reduce their overall profits(two very different things). These actions however fly in the face of those financial interests who rely on the profits, not profitability, to continue to make their own profits. To "regulate" the corporate behaviors that pollute water (and we could discuss air, food, shelter, clothing, energy, relationship, etc. as any of the factors for this example) the citizens would need to be empowered and enlightened to act in very large numbers. To garner such diverse support(remember we just want cleaner water) there would need to be many significant compromises. Competing corporate interests would need to faciliate some of this, but also some surprising basic social political views would need to be mediated. We can't simply say that people are: are burnt out, tired, apathetic, polarized, uninformed. This isn't true; they are overwhelmed by the complexity of the processes and decisions necessary to act. A great number of the "middle 50%" of the citizenry are identifying with libertarian views coupled with more immediate concerns with their own personal welfare. If we surveyed those that participate on the web forums i believe we would be able to identify many contradictory positions held to be true by most of the people. Common ground has to become internalized before it becomes communitarian. What tools, perspectives, strategies do we have in our own minds at this very moment that can work to create common ground within individual beings??? It is one thing to say this, it is quite another to do it.

The overwhelming success of the conservative message machine has been its simplicity in presenting a mindset construct for its believers. It does so with some powerful either/or frameworks. The earth is abundant, it was given to us, we can use it anyway we want. Profit is good, property is the reward of profit giving one dominion over property to do with as one wants. There are chosen people and there are not chosen people. There are winners and losers. There is work and there is play. Play is the reward for work, upon which one can choose to acquire and use property to increase the thrills of play(think fossil fuel based recreational vehicle use--big in the Cincy area). And so far forth.

Unfortunately in this formulaic message are embedded lots of hidden ones. Among these hidden ones are also competing interests. If i sell fuel i don't want health care corporations to increase their profits at the expense of people choosing to use more fuel for recreation. If i own some real estate i don't want people playing on it, so i want public places designated for that play, but i don't want ot use my economic resources to pay for it. If i believe that everyone who is poor has chosen that path and that they can do something about it without governmental assistance, then i need to regulate capitalism in order to prevent increases in joblessness and healthcare crisis bankruptcies, and so forth. When these hidden factors arise, they overwhelm the sensibilities of the citizens and they choose to offload their democratic responsibilities on their chose representatives, who have already been selected by various competing economic interests to promote and foster specific legistlative responses.

We all know this. But i haven't seen anything other than platitudes and aphorisms that would provide any opening of common ground. 21st century post-modern life is extraordinarily complicated. Rectifying some sort of internal peaceful coherent willingness to compromise our own values and beliefs in order to embrace a 'better democracy" isn't easy. I don't see us being able to do that. I don't think we want to. And therein lies the problem. When i reread what Dave first wrote there is an underlying progressive populist sentiment. He wants to hold that the more informed and educated the electorate becomes the less likely they will be to hold views that are detrimental to their own well being. I don't think this is true. One of the many many things Nick and Sloane have taught me over the years is that we leftist progressive types tend to choose to ignore our own complicities in using fossil fuels and supporting corrupt institutions and so forth. Until we embrace that duplicity we will find it difficult to be given credit for our efforts at creating common ground.

the US Senate??

there certainly is no "us" in the US Senate, especially today. Two major votes are headed to the floor, both of which represent the absolute worst of greed and malfeasance among the entitled and enobled classes of the neo-feudal lords of capital. I realized this AM that the average age of senators, the mean, is now quite similar to my own. And yet it is extraordinarily clear that these "peers" have nothing whatsoever in common with me, or the vast huge mass of baby boomers in this country. They, the Senators, are part of the very elite, the less than one-half of one percent of the population who receives the benefits and entitlements of great wealth. It does not matter to them that passing a credit industry written piece of legislation will intentionally impoverish millions upon millions of citizens for an entire generation. That is afterall their goal. Only when the mass of poor can no longer afford to consume will the lords be able to re-create this nation as the future leader of the third world of producers and manufacturers. Imagine, in the next ten years, a nation of a couple of hundred million laborers, service workers receiving wages under a plan that no longer has a minimum wage setting, or that allows the people to keep their money, instead guiding it towards the coffers of the wealthy's financial institutions.

If you think this isn't going to happen, then examine the appointment of Myers to the 9th circuit. A man that all the Bar review folks find incompetent, a man that single handedly, as the Interior department's solicitor, chose to rewrite policy to encourage the exploitation of any and all environments by the rich, no matter how costly the impact on the people those choices may be. He cares not one bit for clean water or clean air. He cares not one bit for there being anything called public land. He wants it all to become private and to be exploited by the private interests to their hearts and pocketbooks desires. This is perhaps the most insane choice possible for a judge. Yet the senate feels it is okay. Why? Because they have a plan. Their plan is his plan. They don't want public land either. They don't want union labor, they don't want social services and social welfare programs. They need to impoverish and environmentally destroy the population so that this nation can become the future mass producer of products for consumer driven economies of Asia and Europe. Wait and see.

Mihi ignosce.

Many people have suggested that this was due to the belief that the United States was either on the brink of becoming or actually has turned into a fascist state. For persons laboring under such overheated imaginings, it is only necessary to refer them to any of the many available texts describing what real fascism brought to their respective populations. There do not exist routine, widespread assassinations in this country; there are not camps where political and social deviants are routinely rounded up, detained, and ultimately killed; there is not the universal suppression of opposition voices and views in print, on the internet, and via other means. It is time for persons who seriously subscribe to the belief that we live in a fascist country to do some intensive reading…or get medical help. Such obviously overstated and even delusional views have led to correspondingly deluded political conclusions…in the case of the recent campaign, to the support of the “antifascist” corporate hucksters of the Democratic Party.

Poor Dan Rafael. He has to resort to typical neo-con rovian reich wing logic to deconstruct a position that was personally detrimental to him. If we stick to his own phrase "brink of becoming.. a fascist state" then we see that his argument is already moot. His subsequent claims to "overheated imaginings" and necessity to refer to "available texts" illuminates the complete failure of his rhetorical devise. Are we to suppose that there were no beginning steps towards fascism in those states? If Dan had actually done the reading he demeaningly proports others to do, he would be forced to acknowledge that all of the pre-conditions have been met. This is another of those lamest ignorant rants by poor losers. OOoh the Green Party deserves your votes. WEll not this way.

na ce' ce'

once in a while you have to simply take the time to smell the typos. and if that semiotically failed aphorism suffuses the tone, then take this lovely headline from a major film media rag:

The Contenders - We look at which films will dike it out for Oscar gold!

"dike it out"?? really, is this a simple middle finger versus index finger faux pas? Why would anyone these days use the word dike for any purpose other than to talk about flooding in the netherlands or denmark? Hell out on the left coast folks go out of their way to call dikes levees just to avoid any social dysphemization. But these films are going to dike it out. Really pretty strange, this lesbianization of oscar gold. Still one has to wonder even about the typo. Duking it out, such an old ancient cliche for fisticuffs hauled out to suggest battle, mistyped to suggest lesbians. Unless one can possibly imagine how a large earthen barrier would be erected by one film against another?

And please pray tell me, where was the freakin editor on this one? We are talking a herald tribune paper and national herald by-line. Were the various editors in on this one, a tongue in cheeky chortle at the expense of the fundamentalist bashers of hollywood? Consider all the possibilities!

Mázashkanshkan tónakca hwo?

why it's howdy doody time.

well no, not really, but sometimes, even without Reagan it seems to be. Bush is not that different. Tapes are released suggesting that he used cocaine, lsd, psilocybin, marijuana during his twenty-somethings. And what does the media do with the story?? Spin it to say, oh how cute he was. What is it with these people that they just can't bring themselves to honestly criticize this man and his handlers? He is surrounded by gay men in positions of power, and they rail against homosexuality. He is surrounded by war mongering fascists and they claim that they are fighting for democracy and freedom. He is surrounded by the greediest most corrupt government officials and they suggest that ethics are a liberal plot to overthrow the country.

We as a nation are struggling with reality. We are being forced to simultaneously hold the most contradictory of positions--that corporate corruption is good as long as it helps the wealthiest people retain and increase their wealth and that making war on the world is efficient in projecting the ideals of this same corruption to all other nations. Yet we are also asked to retain good christian values. What was that story in montana? A hate crime bill can't be passed because it might restrict evangelical fundamentalist clergy's hate speech. Talk about fascist thinking..

mato maza ska

Finally, while life and social change can’t be all fun and games, there is the valid counterculturally-inflected notion that many kinds of work can be imbued with a sense of play and a sense of engagement if we actively try to bring some creativity and some autonomy into the process. It may never be possible to make plumbing or writing tax code fun. But I think for most of us our idea of fun has changed from getting ripped on acid to being engaged creatively as thinking participants in useful and interesting work (including for social change). So there is still some fun to be had.

Well maybe. Part of what is making it not fun is that there is no acid out there to get ripped on, which would certainly make all of everything a whole lot more fun. It is this very signifcant, oft ignored, fact that is the substantive difference maker. The more LSD available the less the fundamentalist christian eschatology will seem real to its constituents. The simplest equation. If we truly want dynamic social change we need more LSD.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=75

effrontry to commongood..

a quick note first. After James Watt and during the first papa doc bush administration, the US government decided not to use cost factor determinants, cost-benefit analyses, for environmental problems. Thus as baby doc bush's Rovian minions pursue environmental destruction, while arguing the the economy must be considered, they of course never have to account for the economic costs of the destroyed environment. Hence the "tort-reform" measures that reduce or eliminate the possibility of the actual costs of those environmental factors.

today's other thought problems
the Pentagon allocated $127 billion to build a robot army. Some of the robots will look and walk like humans, some will hover in the air, and some will make their own choices during battle. "The lawyers tell me there are no prohibitions against robots making life-or-death decisions," said a representative from the U.S. Joint Forces Research Center. It was revealed that the Army, seeking to avoid scandal, destroyed photos of U.S. soldiers holding mock executions of hooded Afghani detainees.

so the "lawyers" say that robots will kill indiscriminantly, but in case there are legal issues they will destroy all the evidence.

Utinam mythos falsa tuam religiosa totam suffodiant!

The voice of science is being stifled in the Bush administration, with fewer scientists heard in policy discussions and money for research and advanced training being cut, according to panelists at a national science meeting.
Speakers at the national meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science expressed concern Sunday that some scientists in key federal agencies are being ignored or even pressured to change study conclusions that don't support policy positions. The speakers also said that Bush's proposed 2005 federal budget is slashing spending for basic research and reducing investments in education designed to produce the nation's future scientists. And there also was concern that increased restrictions and requirements for obtaining visas is diminishing the flow to the U.S. of foreign-born science students who have long been a major part of the American research community.

The Age of Aquarius is filled with mythic and faith based orientations to realities that are now trying to kill the wonder of scientific thought. Destroy logic and reason at all costs seems to be the motto of the crazed conservative constituency. Ridding the nation of scientific thinking empowers the "believers" to speak out, since their claims to substantive phenomenological constructs rely on information that is at best specious and most likely ficticious. Dumbing down the science increases the rising up of dogma. Orthodoxy trumps skepticism, fundamentalism replaces mathematics, evangelicalism overwhelms reason---a new stew of zealots burning witches and destroying the remnants of manichean wonder. The war is engaged. The battle lines are forming.

éyapaha cha

Remember that question everyone was asking after the 9/11 attacks: ''Why do they hate us?'' That was such an important question, but it was buried as quickly as it emerged. Churchill's essay was one of the few public attempts to answer it. He tried to start a national discussion about anti-Americanism; and while his tone might be abrasive, the answers he offered were (as always with his work) well-supported and reasonable: Americans are hated not because of some vague notion of their ''freedom,'' but for the specific reason that the United States is engaged in truly despicable practices abroad. Alongside those already mentioned, we can now add the return of such medieval practices as detainment without charge, ''trial'' without attorneys, and worst of all, torture.

Ultimately, Churchill's point was to wake Americans up to the impending Israelification of this country: the making of an absolute security state defined by perpetual cycles of militarism, attack and response. Do you want to live in a country like that? It doesn't have to be that way, but the United States is hurting the planet and its peoples.

what is left out here is the religious component, otherwise it is profoundly correct. Elements in the US feel passionately that they can create a nation-state in the same form as Israel, for evangelical, fundamentalist christians. Armed with the most sophisticated weaponry, controlled to the nth degree with technology and ultra-nasty privately contracted mercenary forces, the new zealots will model their future Reich after the Zionist manifesto.

If we live in a democracy, Churchill implies, then we need to take responsibility for the actions of our government. Otherwise, some people on the receiving end of U.S. brutality will see no viable option but to push back, as did past figures like Crazy Horse, Geronimo and Tecumseh. Remember them?

cultural tourette's

that is the best way to describe the media in this country, suffering from a dysfunctional constant repetition of the same stories over and over. the lies they spew, sometimes foreced, sometimes of their own volition, compound upon themselves over and over. the tics of the punditocracy, the spasms of the nightly news anchors--these are the symptions of mental illness. our society is ill, it needs healing. we are suffering from leadership that is truly insane. They are egomaniacal socio- paths who have not one nano-bit of compassion and moral consciousness. The future of this nation is at a threshhold point, literally balanced on a precipace of no return, from a fascist ideological xenophobic militarized police state. As soon as the economy starts tipping over its own bottomless cliff, the war for the spirit and soul of the US will begin. WE must not flinch from the battle.

Amayupta yo ye.

Is this not what i suggested already today??? golly gee..

During the past four years, that portion of the American public not suffering from self-induced voluntary lobotomies (variously estimated at between one-third and one-half of the adult population) has witnessed one of the most macabre displays of Machiavellian mendacity ever foisted off on a nominally civilized nation. Act One of this Opus Diabolus began with Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, et al, snuffling around in the dark, dank corners of 20th Century history, painstakingly gathering up all the rancid kernels of European fascism they could lay their grubby little fingers on and repackaging them into star-spangled, red, white and blue Mylar seed packets. These they put into the hands of a simple (but not-so-plain-spoken) farmer named George, who, along with his adoring hordes of synaptically challenged followers, sowed them deep in the furrows of the American landscape.

to ka ho? wa yan ka! he `cu sni yo!

Using blogger the last few days has not been easy nor accessible. This is unfortunate given the pressing nature of the civil and social climate permeating the US at this time. Not being able to post daily is frustrating in the least.

Look, it is really getting to be simple to see how the polarization of our nation is being used by the Rove reich to create legislation that will destroy all that is good and valuable with US constitutional governance. Piece by piece, bill by bill we are seeing the structural foundation of an intolerant fascist state forming. This state will be ruled by martial law, a police state framed by technologies and private contracted security forces that are free to ignore any and all protections for citizens formerly found in the US constitution. The attacks on free speech and intellectual freedom are escalating. The reduction of all media to the orwellian mindspeak of Rove's minions, coupled with the increase in character assassinations and removal of dissenting voices, are part and parcel of this regime's coup d'etat.

We don't have to read too deeply into the pieces of legislation proposed across the nation, as well as in D.C. to understand that the intentionally impoverishment of the mass of the population is part of the overall plan to remake this nation in the image of the worst developing totalitarian states out there today. Indonesia, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc--these are the models of this administration. They are creating a christian only nation, disenfranchising and impoverishing all of those who are not one with them. Pockets of highly polluted and toxic environments will expand around the poor, as health care is removed thus increasing the death of dissenters and those who might voice opposition. Remember we are talking the US here, not some Sudan or Thailand, or Lebanon. Iraq is just a practice for the big one.

Coming soon, conscription near you! Imagine sending people who are bankrupt to the DU toxified war zones of the middle east. You are poor, you are struggling, you are drafted. No age requirements, no gender discrimination. Just being poor constitutes your selective criteria. This not a joke. This will happen. Those that refuse will be imprisoned and eventually lose their citizenship. Then they will be shipped over there anyway. Rove et al have studied the mistakes of the great totalitarian leaders in history. They have studied the successes of Israel's Ziionist manifestos and Indonesia's military regimes while learning from the erosion of power among folks like Pinochet and the Saudi royal family. WE are next. WE are being prepared to become the world's most efficient, technologically superior, dominant fascist state. There will be no turning back once the course is not only set but driven with the engines of faith, corporate greed, and military might. No one dare stand in our way, as we will have no compulsions whatsoever to resist using nuclear weapons and other horrible WMD's.

WE must be aware, attentive, freee to fight this at every turn. If not we are culpable in destroying the earth as we know it.

considérez les pensées suivantes

there are a group of US veterans who were captured by iraq during GW 1 and were abused and tortured by the Iraqis. They subsequently sued for recompense and were favored with a verdict offering them around a billion dollars. however the US government refuses to allow the veterans to receive this money, claiming it is all the more important to use it in iraq, even to pay iraqis who were abused and tortured by US military personnel and private contracted security folks. All of this ignores some rather startling considerations.

The US is responsible for "losing" almost $14 billion dollars in iraqi economic resources as well as from poorly audited and managed contracts. The missing $14 billion, and probably a great deal more than that must be somewhere. Finding one billion of it would pay off these Vets and go a long way towards reassuring those actually fighting in Iraq now, that they might be protected when they come home. Of course they can't find that money. Really they don't want to find it. But how did it go missing?

Well, we need to consider some history here. During the Vietnam war, the bodies of the dead US troops were flown to Andrews Air Force base in Maryland. Thousands of body bags and boxes were shipped back, or at least we thought so. Then it was discovered that the Vice President of the US, who had been the governor of Maryland, working with his friends in organized crime syndicates, was using the shipments of bodies to bring in cash, jewels, other economic resources and huge amounts of heroin (CIA fund generating resources it turned out). The secret arrivals of bodies and the covered boxes and delayed dispersals covered up this huge illegal black market machinery. The V-P was indicted, resigned, and went to prison for: you guessed it; income tax evasion. RICO laws hadn't been created yet underwhich he could have been indicted and imprisoned for much much longer.

So this war begins and dead US troops are flown secretly to Dover Air Force base in Delaware, a home to very very wealthy Bush/Rove contractors. More delays, no press allowed, secret goings on at the base with none of the interest or scrutiny that such behaviors generated during the Nixon years. What came back here in those boxes, along with bodies??? Money, lots and lots of money, gold, jewels, art, priceless museum antiquities, etc. Billions of Iraqi economic resources, carefully smuggled into the US and making their way to the largest personal benefactors of Bush/Cheney/Rove et al. We cant' even begin to imagine how much has been removed and shipped here. You have to love the good ol' USA

'can na popa wi

A NASA study found that 2004 was the fourth-warmest year on record. Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told of being forced to cover up their findings regarding risks to endangered species. Forty-two percent said they feared retaliation if they told the truth.
Science bad, faith good, right? These whistle blowing types obviously are just not faithful enough to accept the pronouncements of the man who has the appointed role some god gave him to rule the world. How dare they questions his commitment to faith and to divine provenance. Greenhouse gas expansion, extinction of species, increased toxicity of the environment--these are all part of the "plan" of Rove's minions god. Fortunately the Episcopal church of England, and the National Evangelical Association have decided that Creation Care is vastly more important than the apparent choice of some to believe god told them it was all about money.

The election results in Iraq were announced. Several parties gained seats in the newly created Iraqi parliament, including the United Iraqi Alliance, the Kurdistan Alliance, the Iraqi List, "Iraqis," the Turkmen Iraqi Front, National Independent Elites and Cadres Party, the Communist Party, the Islamic Kurdish Society, the Islamic Labor Movement in Iraq, the National Democratic Alliance, National Rafidain List, and the Reconciliation and Liberation Entity.
So the US sponsors a democratic election that elects communists. As if that is going to happen. "Elites and Cadres" sounds pretty damn socialist to me. These are great names for various interests who have agendas that are profoundly anti-US. And yet, the Reich wing of Rove's minions presents all this as good. Strange possibilities once you consider the ramifications of it all.

A report showed that, between April and September 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration received fifty-two reports about Al Qaeda's plans to hijack airplanes.
Ponder this a moment. So many specific reports linked to US intelligence agencies. Is is logical and rational to believe that these reports were not understood for what they were intended to mean. The intelligence agencies were crying wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf. Why? Well if you or i were going to use planes to destroy symbolic buildings in order to create a fascist dictatorship police state of the US, we would want the FAA to feel that yet another stupid warning is being broadcast. Then they ignore all the signs until it actually happens. How do we know the Saudi's took over the three planes w/ box cutters? WE believe our government telling us that?? i don't think so.

Quin Shea speaking to coal industrialists...

Nowhere, nowhere in the deepest recesses of our gray matter did it ever occur to us that
we could so warp the new source review program to do what was done in roughly 1998.
This is going to change in the next few months. I guarantee it.
Mercury. All right. Also on a substantive matter, we've talked about Kyoto a lot. That's
been out there. It's the big boogie man in the last few years. Kyoto is dead. Kyoto is
absolutely dead. It's not going to happen. We're taking steps right now to reverse every
piece of paper that EPA has put together where they could call CO2 a pollutant under
the Clean Air Act. That's going to be nailed down in the next few months.
Internationally, the U.S. is not going to work on Kyoto. It is dead. For those of you, not
you specifically, but for those who want to continue to beat that dead horse, let me tell
you right now, there will be no equine resurrection here. Now, having said that,
mercury, in my opinion, is very Kyoto-like in its potential impacts. Mercury to me is
the issue that scares me the most of the ones that are out there right now.

a day of such beauty, marred by hell's minions

The report took five months to release because of "classification issues," the White House said, including deletion of references to any existing security measures. "Civil aviation seems to have been lulled into a false sense of security," the commission wrote, a lapse particularly surprising given the FAA's own intelligence assessment about growing terrorist threats.

things you have to appreciate today include a report that was specifically delayed until well after the election in order to cover up the facts of the complicity of the administration in the events of 9/11. The FAA knew something could happen, and were warned it would happen, but were cowed into rejecting any substantive security measures for "reasons" known only to Rove, Rice, Cheney and bushsheet.

Another touching moment today is the coincidence of the amerikan bar association report indicating at no less than 800 years of time is being spent in prisons in the US by persons wrongfully convicted of crimes through poor legal representation. This is a seriously low figure and represents may 50% of the actual mistakes. In a nation that criminalizes so much behavior and punishes more per capita than any other nation except china, one would think we have a powerful and wonderful criminal justice system. WEll, the US Senate voted today to move all class action suits to federal courts where they will be rejected by the 60% of the judiciary appointed by repugnicans beginning with nixon. So not only will the hideous criminals at Grace and Company never stand trial for second degree murder in their knowingly toxifying the US w/ asbestos, but the victims will no longer be able to sue them for their wrongful deaths. Yes justice in the USA is blind, to the rich and powerful, and intentionally abusive to the rest of us.

winkte chica w/ helmet head

From today’s Washington Post:

…if the roar from the audience was mostly polite and restrained, that was partly because only a handful of the school’s 5,500 students were allowed near the auditorium where Rice spoke, and the initial questions were vetted in advance by the school and the State Department.

PARIS: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday beseeched Europeans to set aside their caustic dispute with America over the war in Iraq and join President George W. Bush's campaign to bring democracy to the Muslim world. "It is time to turn away from the disagreements of the past. It is time to open a new chapter in our relationship, and a new chapter in our alliance," Ms Rice told French academics and government officials in the capital of European opposition to the Iraq invasion and other Bush foreign policies.

I can't possibly believe that Euro leaders are paying even the slightest bit of attention to this queen of not so masterful deception. They pay more attention to our subtexts than US citizens pay to their own purchasing agendas and/or reality TV shows. They know this flaming bulldyke of a egocentric twit has no conscience or any moral underpinning for that matter. This speech was seen there as an afront to civil dignities, and laughed at in their media, enjoyed for all the hypocrisy and stupidity that it represents. It was clearly a speech for those here in the US, and not for those who had the horrible misfortune to actually have to sit and listen to it.

wakan tanka this isn't

faith based realities.. we don't need science either... just have some faith in them and all shall be revealed.. and all will be well... unless of course you aren't, then so what..
WASHINGTON — In the latest sign of a philosophical change in how the government should deliver social services, President Bush's new budget would cut some traditional aid for the poor in such areas as housing and health coverage.

At the same time, some religion-based programs that promote such goals as sexual abstinence and marriage and provide mentors for at-risk children would enjoy increased federal aid.

Both the shift away from long-standing social welfare policies and the willingness to step up spending on programs tied to religious organizations reflect the fact, analysts said, that the administration is more comfortable than many of its predecessors in advocating social service strategies with a moral dimension.

Administration officials said Monday that the increases — although generally smaller than the cutbacks — would be made in part through payments to faith-based organizations, a hallmark of Bush's self-described "compassion agenda."

a heyoke winkte grain of rice

consider three things reading the following. It was accompanied by a picture of rice holding a headphone up to her ear for translation purposes. A woman who has all too proudly suggested her linguistic skills are vastly superior needs translations in europe??? Next, remember what Boxer and other Senate Democrats described about everything she uttered and said. It is all a lie; she intentionally deceives; she is incapable of telling the truth. Finally, understand that Bush sends this bitch to scold europe and cajole its nations into buying into our economic and military defeats just to keep us afloat. Why? Put aside differences? Because she is telling them to. right!

PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged Europe to put aside differences over the Iraq war and open a new chapter in relations with the United States to help it spread democracy worldwide.<>Rice pointedly made the appeal in France, a fierce critic of the war, during an eight-nation tour to drive home the message that President George W. Bush wants Europe to be Washington's partner and not its rival. "America stands ready to work with Europe on our common agenda and Europe must stand ready to work with America," Rice said on Tuesday in comments from a keynote foreign policy speech released to reporters before delivery.<> "After all, history will surely judge us not by our old disagreements but by our new achievements," said Rice, a former university provost. Rice is to deliver her the speech at the prestigious Sciences Politiques university in Paris which has been at the centre of intellectual and political debate over transatlantic relations. The address will be the main speech of her tour in Paris, "to send the message to Europe that the Bush administration has ended its own internal debate about whether to view a united Europe as a rival or as a partner," a U.S. State Department official said. "It is time to turn away from the disagreements of the past. It is time to open a new chapter in our relationship and a new chapter in our alliance," Rice said.

Inaugural address-west wing style.. consider

FADE IN: INT. TOBY'S OFFICE - DAY

Will is reading Toby passages from the speech that Stacy dropped off to him. Elsie

is also in the room.



WILL

"America needs a new doctrine for a new century..."



TOBY

Mr. Bailey...



WILL

"...based not just on our interest, but on our values, across the world."



TOBY

Define those values for me, please.



WILL

I don't have to. The President of the United States already has. "We are for freedom

of speech everywhere. Freedom to worship everywhere. Freedom to learn for every child."



TOBY

Just out of curiosity, how are you going to enforce a universal global right to

education?



ELSIE

The same way the U.S. enforced anything it wanted in the middle part of the 20th

century. Somebody called our father.



TOBY

What exactly are you doing here, anyway?



ELSIE

The First Lady likes my jokes.



TOBY

Excellent.



WILL

"It is our duty to give more than merely our support. We must give our strength

diplomatically, materially....



WILL and TOBY

"And if need be, militarily."



TOBY

I read it, I think, 16 years ago. It was about El Salvador and he had it stricken

from the record and there was a reason.



WILL

What?



TOBY

I don't know, but things have reasons.



WILL

Do they?



TOBY

Yes, they do.



WILL

Okay, but C.J. this morning put the body count at 15,000.



TOBY

You're talking about Khundu? That's what the hell this is about?



WILL

We're talking about everything. "And freedom from the tyranny of oppression, economic

slavery, religious fanaticism." Tell me if any of these describe anyone we know.



TOBY

This isn't what I meat by drafting new language.



WILL

What did you mean?



TOBY

Making the old language sound better. You're asking the two of us to create foreign

policy by ourselves. That's usually not a good idea. You've got your Pentagon, the

NSC and-- what do you call it?-- the State Department.



Bartlet picks up the speech off of Will's desk.



BARTLET

"A new doctrine for a new century, based not just on our interests, but on our

values across the world." Well, that's pretty spicey stuff.



WILL

You wrote it, sir.



WILL

"America stands today as the one truly indispensaple nation-- the strongest force and

the proudest voice for peace, pluralism and prosperity that the world has ever known."



TOBY

Okay, keep the ancient Romans out of the first ten rows, and we're fine.



WILL

"Today at the dawn of a new century, America needs a new commitment to protect our own

security, to model freedom to the world."



TOBY

To model it?



WILL

I figure if we're not going to help create freedom from tyranny, then let's at least

sell some BarcaLoungers.



TOBY

The U.S. doesn't help create freedom from tyranny?



WILL

I forget to add, "where our own interests aren't necesssarly involved." [reading speech]

"To do what we can to fulfill humanity's promise and to prove that self-determination is the watchword of all mankind."



BARTLET

We're for freedom of speech everywhere. We're for freedom to worship everywhere. We're

for freedom to learn... for everybody. And because, in our time, you can build a bomb

in your country and bring it to my country, what goes on in you country is very much my

business. And so we are for freedom from tyranny everywhere, whether in the guise of

political oppresion, Toby, or economic slavery, Josh, or religious fanaticism, C.J.

That most fundamental idea cannot be met with merely our support. It has to be met with

our strength. Diplomatically, economically, materially. And if pharoah still don't free

the slaves, then he gets the plagues, or my cavalry, whichever gets there first. The

USTR will go crazy and say that we're not considering global trade. Committee members

will go crazy and say I haven't consulted enough. And the Arab world will just go

indescriminately crazy. No country has ever had a doctrine of intervention when only

humanitarian interests were at stake. That streaks going to end Sunday at noon. So, if

you're on board with this, what I need you to do...



BARTLET

"Set free the oppressed, break every yoke, clothe the naked and your light shall break

forth like the dawn, and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard."

ho ka hey

i have not seen too many things more disgusting than the pre-game run up on Fox. some of the most amazing uber fascist promos ever exposed for exactly what they are. we are indeed a nation that needs to feel deeply ashamed. this week the Reich House has released a budget for 2006 that destroys the fabric of our society in the praise and name of security and military might. this week the nation abused all aspects of its civil liberties by exposing its own fascist agenda in the attacks on university professors. and we then are exposed to rampant patriotic militarism and censorship and media hype all in the name of super consumerism... it is a tragedy of massive proportions

wic'a sha wa cic'u

Before you read the post below, consider the history of israel and zionism. Israel is a jewish country that provides social services and capital assets to its jewish citizens but restricts them or prohibits them from muslim and christian citizens. This is based on the Zionist Manifesto a document that seems to be the blueprint for the fundamentalist neo-cons who are envisioning a christian nation to counter the clearly jewish one and the perceived islamic one. Forgetting for a moment that the most massively successful commmunist country that leads the world's economy is not part of this trio, realize the obviousness of this vision. The scariest aspect is not that they want this to happen, nor that they have the capacity and political power to make it happen, but that from their perspective, it is the only logical sensible thing to do.

"Christian politics has as its primary intent the conquest of the land -- of men, families, institutions, bureaucracies, courts, and governments for the Kingdom of Christ," writes reconstructionist George Grant. Christian dominion will be achieved by ending the separation of church and state, replacing U.S. democracy with a theocracy ruled by Old Testament law, and cutting all government social programs, instead turning that work over to Christian churches. Reconstructionists also would abolish government regulatory agencies, such as the U.S. EPA, because they are a distraction from their goal of Christianizing America, and subsequently, the rest of the world. "World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish," says Grant. "We must win the world with the power of the Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less." Only when that conquest is complete can the Lord return.

"I used to think there was no real need for Christians to monitor the changes related to greenhouse gases. If it was going to take a couple hundred years for things to get serious, I assumed the nearness of the End Times would overshadow this problem. With the speed of climate change now seen as moving much faster, global warming could very well be a major factor in the plagues of the tribulation."

To understand how the Christian right worldview is shaping and even fueling congressional anti-environmentalism, consider two influential born-again lawmakers: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair James Inhofe (R-Okla.).

DeLay, who has considerable control over the agenda in the House, has called for "march[ing] forward with a Biblical worldview" in U.S. politics, reports Peter Perl in The Washington Post Magazine. DeLay wants to convert America into a "God centered" nation whose government promotes prayer, worship, and the teaching of Christian values.

Inhofe, the Senate's most outspoken environmental critic, is also unwavering in his wish to remake America as a Christian state. Speaking at the Christian Coalition's Road to Victory rally just before the GOP sweep of the 2002 midterm elections, he promised the faithful, "When we win this revolution in November, you'll be doing the Lord's work, and He will richly bless you for it!"

the intentional impoverishment of US citizens

The following story, coupled with the intent of the state of the union, represents further evidence that the US neo-feudal lords of capital have instituted and implemented their plans to reduce the US workforce, particularly the unionized one, to petty paupers equal to their third world counterparts. At some point all of the generation of capital and economic success will be taking place in Asia. If the US doesn't become a non-minimum wage, non-union production nation it will not be able to sustain any possibility for continued existence.

SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp. plan to eliminate almost 13,000, or 12 percent, of their combined jobs if SBC's proposed $16 billion takeover of its former parent is approved. The companies presented the job figures to Wall Street analysts at a meeting Tuesday in New York. Executives emphasized that many of the job cuts would involve attrition, leaving empty positions unfilled.<>
Before the two companies unveiled their proposed merger earlier this week, SBC was already planning to cull 7,000 positions from its 163,000-member workforce by the end of 2005. AT&T, for its part, was planning to trim 5,000 positions from its workforce of 47,000. If all the cuts are added up, the staff would be reduced 12 percent for the combined company over the next few years.
The annual savings from the deal are seen at $200 million to $600 million by the second half of 2006, reaching $2.4 billion to $2.9 billion by 2009, according to the companies' executives. Nearly 60 percent of the expected savings will come from the elimination of jobs, they noted. <>Of the 13,000 job reductions, 1,700 would take place in sales, 3,400 in business operations and 5,125 jobs in engineering and network management. Other departments, including legal, human resources and advertising, would see some 2,600 jobs cut.
SBC executives say that about 12,000 workers leave the company voluntarily each year - mostly by retiring or finding other jobs - and that a lot of those empty positions would be eliminated. In the past, executives have said they wanted to avoid outright layoffs to prevent damaging the morale of remaining employees. <>To some extent, the company is also constrained by a new five-year contract it signed with union members in 2004. SBC has to offer new jobs elsewhere in the company to workers whose jobs are no longer deemed necessary. Unionized workers, who've seen their numbers dwindle in recent years, made job protection their top priority in the last round of negotiations. About 105,000 of SBC's 160,000 employees and 16,000 of AT&T's 47,000 workers are union members.
The planned job cuts are almost certain to result in some layoffs, but the companies won't offer specifics until the merger is closer to approval. Federal regulators could take up to a year or more to decide.Still, the two unions that represent telecommunications workers both issued statements in support of the merger. They say the combined company will cut fewer workers than if AT&T and SBC had remained separate. <>Indeed, AT&T has been shedding jobs rapidly over the past few years amid a steady erosion in sales. SBC has also eliminated thousands of jobs.