10 September 2005
katrina w/ green day soundtrack
karmagrrrl: tales of a karmically challenged life...: Wake Me Up When September Ends
|...because I have to be dreaming ...having a nightmare, in which case, please pinch me now - hard. |
|...because I have to be dreaming ...having a nightmare, in which case, please pinch me now - hard. |
Anti-War images
Anti-War signs. FREE. Borrow and contribute!
|"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
"I feel it is a patriotic thing for me to resist this war. I am against those who have brought it on, Saddam and George. I am also 100% behind those who are serving, and hope and pray for their quick return to their homes and families."
- Bill Dawes, 2005|
|"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
"I feel it is a patriotic thing for me to resist this war. I am against those who have brought it on, Saddam and George. I am also 100% behind those who are serving, and hope and pray for their quick return to their homes and families."
- Bill Dawes, 2005|
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tune into the realm of Beastmaster Romance & the Earl of Bandwidth...
|Readers of this site may have noticed that we here at RHD are a bit obsessed with recombining things: humans with dragons, faces with beards, text with image, and so on. In an attempt to explain why this is so, and why we see recombinance as an important condition of our times, with serious consequences for our culture, we offer the reader the following manifesto pour les temps.|
16 March 2005
finally, an answer for PNAC!
Project for the OLD American Century-liberal news from unbiased sources
The Project for the OLD American Century is a grass-roots organization that strives to protect and strengthen democracy primarily by disseminating unreported and underreported news stories from a perspective untainted by political or corporate sponsorship.
The Project was founded in 2002 in response to a rigged election, reduced civil liberties, a hijacking of our domestic and foreign policies by the energy/defense industries, and a compliant corporate media that refused to make these problems prominent in our national consciousness. We felt it our duty as patriots to create a web-based independent media outlet where we can not only debunk the myth of the liberal media but expose the corruption and cronyism taking place at the highest levels of government and corporate power.
The Project for the OLD American Century is a grass-roots organization that strives to protect and strengthen democracy primarily by disseminating unreported and underreported news stories from a perspective untainted by political or corporate sponsorship.
The Project was founded in 2002 in response to a rigged election, reduced civil liberties, a hijacking of our domestic and foreign policies by the energy/defense industries, and a compliant corporate media that refused to make these problems prominent in our national consciousness. We felt it our duty as patriots to create a web-based independent media outlet where we can not only debunk the myth of the liberal media but expose the corruption and cronyism taking place at the highest levels of government and corporate power.
17 February 2005
Simon Mason, numbers stations expert
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|If you have ever tuned a radio beyond the medium wave band, you will have entered the weird and wonderful world of short wave. You will hear many strange transmissions, such as ranting American evangelists warning you that the end of the world is near, people trying to sell you gold and silver before the economic collapse (SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT SOME!), jammed clandestine radio broadcasts from Iraq, aircraft flying over the Arctic, barely understandable Scots fisherman on their trawlers and many other bizarre sounds.
Perhaps the strangest of all transmissions are the “Spy Number Stations”. These do not officially exist and no one has ever explained what the purpose of these stations is. They consist of the most boring content imaginable. A strange non-human voice reading out series of numbers, sometimes accompanied by weird tones or odd melodies.
Some Americans even use them as background music at intellectual dinner parties and they even turned up in the film "Vanilla Sky". On this site you can read my book on this subject; “Secret Signals”, as well as explore articles and sound clips from the height of the Cold War era.|
|If you have ever tuned a radio beyond the medium wave band, you will have entered the weird and wonderful world of short wave. You will hear many strange transmissions, such as ranting American evangelists warning you that the end of the world is near, people trying to sell you gold and silver before the economic collapse (SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT SOME!), jammed clandestine radio broadcasts from Iraq, aircraft flying over the Arctic, barely understandable Scots fisherman on their trawlers and many other bizarre sounds.
Perhaps the strangest of all transmissions are the “Spy Number Stations”. These do not officially exist and no one has ever explained what the purpose of these stations is. They consist of the most boring content imaginable. A strange non-human voice reading out series of numbers, sometimes accompanied by weird tones or odd melodies.
Some Americans even use them as background music at intellectual dinner parties and they even turned up in the film "Vanilla Sky". On this site you can read my book on this subject; “Secret Signals”, as well as explore articles and sound clips from the height of the Cold War era.|
05 February 2005
VotersUnite!
VotersUnite!
|A non-partisan national grassroots network for fair and accurate elections!
Active local communities increasing your voice by uniting with others across the nation.|
|A non-partisan national grassroots network for fair and accurate elections!
Active local communities increasing your voice by uniting with others across the nation.|
a study of voting machines in Snohomish County, WA
Seattle Weekly: News: The Minus Touch by Rick Anderson
|Lehto and Hoffman theorize that computers might also have automatically assigned under-votes—when a voter fails to choose one candidate or another—to a candidate not of their choosing, and they say a forensic analysis or audit of the machines' programming could settle that and other claims. The county and the machine maker, Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, Calif., won't allow that. Lehto says he might sue. Sequoia, and particularly another touch-screen voting-machine maker, Diebold of North Canton, Ohio (whose CEO promised to do whatever it took to get George W. Bush elected president), have had to fend off accusations of electronic ballot rigging ever since the 2000 Florida election debacle. On its Web site, Sequoia says its systems are tamperproof, adding that "Sequoia's customers from Palm Beach County, Florida, to the suburban Seattle county of Snohomish, Washington, continue to enjoy the accolades that result from having carefree, accurate, electronic elections in partnership with our seasoned team of dedicated technicians and former election administrators."|
|Lehto and Hoffman theorize that computers might also have automatically assigned under-votes—when a voter fails to choose one candidate or another—to a candidate not of their choosing, and they say a forensic analysis or audit of the machines' programming could settle that and other claims. The county and the machine maker, Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, Calif., won't allow that. Lehto says he might sue. Sequoia, and particularly another touch-screen voting-machine maker, Diebold of North Canton, Ohio (whose CEO promised to do whatever it took to get George W. Bush elected president), have had to fend off accusations of electronic ballot rigging ever since the 2000 Florida election debacle. On its Web site, Sequoia says its systems are tamperproof, adding that "Sequoia's customers from Palm Beach County, Florida, to the suburban Seattle county of Snohomish, Washington, continue to enjoy the accolades that result from having carefree, accurate, electronic elections in partnership with our seasoned team of dedicated technicians and former election administrators."|
Washington voting shenanigans
Untested voting systems used
|"We had (counties using) untested, uncertified software (to run voting systems) ... and we had the secretary of state making up last-minute emergency rules to circumvent the law to let them do it," said Linda Franz, a member of the non-partisan activist group Citizens For Voting Integrity-Washington. "In my opinion, it raises a lot of questions."
Counties with voting systems that did not receive the federal-standards testing include Chelan, King, Kitsap, Klickitat, Pierce, Snohomish and Yakima. In all, voters in those counties account for more than half of the 2.9 million votes cast in the state's general election. |
|"We had (counties using) untested, uncertified software (to run voting systems) ... and we had the secretary of state making up last-minute emergency rules to circumvent the law to let them do it," said Linda Franz, a member of the non-partisan activist group Citizens For Voting Integrity-Washington. "In my opinion, it raises a lot of questions."
Counties with voting systems that did not receive the federal-standards testing include Chelan, King, Kitsap, Klickitat, Pierce, Snohomish and Yakima. In all, voters in those counties account for more than half of the 2.9 million votes cast in the state's general election. |
17 January 2005
when sympathy is a high crime...
The Seattle Times: James Yee Investigation
|"Some of the things he said sounded extremely sympathetic to the detainees," said Army Reserve Capt. Jason Orlich, a newly arrived intelligence officer. "I mean, it made the hair on the back of your neck stand up at attention."
That simply, Capt. James Yee became a suspect.
For the next two years — 76 days of it in solitary confinement — Yee would live under the cloud of treason. On Friday, he walked away from the Army with an honorable discharge but forever scarred by the treatment he received from his colleagues in arms.
This week, The Seattle Times will give the first detailed account of how this highly praised officer went from soft-spoken defender of Islam to accused spy.
It is a story of officers so eager to root out traitors that they let small suspicions and misunderstandings escalate into an international investigation, then zealously tried to salvage the case as it unraveled.
At the same time, it is a story of the enormous challenges of a war in which "the enemy" is defined not by national borders but by ideology, in which a nation burned by overlooking a villainous plot is determined not to miss another.
It is a story of post-9/11 America. |
|"Some of the things he said sounded extremely sympathetic to the detainees," said Army Reserve Capt. Jason Orlich, a newly arrived intelligence officer. "I mean, it made the hair on the back of your neck stand up at attention."
That simply, Capt. James Yee became a suspect.
For the next two years — 76 days of it in solitary confinement — Yee would live under the cloud of treason. On Friday, he walked away from the Army with an honorable discharge but forever scarred by the treatment he received from his colleagues in arms.
This week, The Seattle Times will give the first detailed account of how this highly praised officer went from soft-spoken defender of Islam to accused spy.
It is a story of officers so eager to root out traitors that they let small suspicions and misunderstandings escalate into an international investigation, then zealously tried to salvage the case as it unraveled.
At the same time, it is a story of the enormous challenges of a war in which "the enemy" is defined not by national borders but by ideology, in which a nation burned by overlooking a villainous plot is determined not to miss another.
It is a story of post-9/11 America. |
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* bringing distinguished voices from across the world to local audiences everywhere;
* strengthening the independence of printed media in transition and developing countries as well as upgrading their journalistic, editorial, and business capacities.|
