Moving out of San Francisco

It's getting way too expensive for me to stay here so I'm afraid I'll have to do my blogging somewhere else. I'd appreciate all the kind thoughts and prayers you could send my way, it's never easy to uproot oneself, esp. after they've stayed way longer than is their custom, as I've done here (can you blame me? I think San Francisco is the most beautiful city in the world! I sure had to put up with a lot of crap to stay here though).

I've heard this was a really good article, I've only had time to read half of it, though ... The Great American Bubble Machine.

What a disappointment this administration has turned out to be! Looks like Obama staged his first coup in Honduras after the Western hyped-up mess in Iran failed to acheive the results the CIA wanted. Then, in another colossal monument of hypocrisy, it's terror on the high seas as Israeli pirates hijack "the Spirit of Humanity" with a nobel prize winner and one of my personal heros, Cynthia McKinney, on board.

Obama's not going to save us, folks. He's a repeat of the Great Disappointment of 2006 -- the Democratically controlled House and Senate. Nothing's changing, people have just gotten complaisant. This may be a very dangerous time for us all.

Why do we give $$ to Israel when our states are broke?

Calif. Aid Request Spurned By U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/15/AR2009061503249.html

According to this website, the U.S. is providing Israel with at least $7.0 million each day in military aid:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/usaid.html

And you know what? We can't afford these stupid wars we've been funding, either.

The dangerous ease of being silent

I've been meaning to write about ...

the 20th anniversary of China's "spring of '89"

the disconnect modern people have from our politics, our food, our land, our communities, our relationships ...

the horror of knowing some of those pictures from Abu Ghraib Obama now refuses to release include the rape of children

... but it turns out that I never quite found time to do any of that. Can you blame me? It's true I don't get much time on the Internet, I don't have my own computer, my life is one continuous struggle and the state of California cut my benefits twice this year while my rent just went up, and I never had enough money to cover the bills even before that, but ...I really am sorry. I'll try to do better. If I don't write about these things, that's just one less voice that's trying to say that it *cares*, and it seems like a lonely wilderness out here ...

9-11 Lessons From Star Trek

For all you fellow original Trek fans :)



Video by ThoughtCrime7
From the Star Trek episode "Day of the Dove"

This about says it all for the last 8 years ...

Paul Krugman, blogging at the New York Times:

"Let’s say this slowly: the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So it tortured people to make them confess to the nonexistent link. There’s a word for this: it’s evil.”

Another 11th

As usual, I handed out flyers at San Francisco's cable-car turnaround with a loose band of like-minded activists. If you're still not ready to wrap your mind around the idea that the conspirators behind the horrible events of Sept. 11th, 2001 extend far beyond bin Laden and a few dozen cave-dwelling Muslems, I recommend the following movies (free on the web):

9/11: Press for Truth

Loose Change Final Cut

More 9-11 documentaries and all sorts of materials for activists can be found here: http://theblackpacket.com/

Truth starts with you.

How can we not prosecute these crimes?

Don't tell me private Lynndie England instigated this on her own: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13379

Don't tell me her and her boyfriend were the "bad apples" who orchestrated what Seymour Hersh charged in a speech to the ACLU -- children being sodomized in front of women at Abu Ghraib: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/07/15/hersh/index.html

There can be no healing without justice. There must be a full investigation of these alligations. If American taxpayers financed the torture of innocent human beings, they are complicit until they demand one.