Food for thought

I'm about to head back to San Francisco. Here's some stuff I felt worth recording on my blog:

How to Erode and Destroy Democracy:
a Dozen Tested Strategies By Rob Kall
1. Kill the strongest opposition candidate and then pretend that elections should go on as normal, without allowing the opposition party to reorganize. Examples:
Benazir Bhutto: strategy - hamstring security abilities to the extent that the candidate actually writes a letter accusing the government leadership of intentional sabotage of security [...]

Who's Got the Power?
(an inspirational, quote-filled article I wish I'd written myself)
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/12/whos-got-power.html

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I'm ashamed to admit I haven't been following much of the Sybel Edmonds story, but I'm set to do a lot of reading on it because it looks like it could be a hell of a breakthrough into getting at the Pakistani-Turkish-Israeli Axis of Espionage (and their treasonous enablers!) that have been hounding this country for so long:

Sibel Edmunds tells of the nuclear secrets deals of Pakistan, Israel and Turkey
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/01/370684.shtml

Nukes, Spooks,and the Specter of 9/11
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12166

Sybel names name in pictures
(do these guys look familiar?)
http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/2008/01/sibel-names-names-in-pictures.html

Pearl Jam: Just gimme some truth