from the Los Angeles Times:
"Order freezing alleged terrorist funds ruled down"
By Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writer
November 29, 2006
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that the Bush administration violated the Constitution when it froze the assets of more than two dozen alleged terrorist groups after the Sept. 11 attacks.
See the full article here.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
75 Ways to Resist War
This PDF file, titled 75 Ways to Resist War, comes from YouthNoise.com. While some of the methods are outrageous, the spirit is right on, my friend. Download it here.
Oh, Yoko
In May, 2002 the NY Times posted this mystery:
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Mystery continues over who or what organization posted message on 14th Street billboard reading 'Jihad Is Over! (If You Want It); message is reference to Times Square billboard John Lennon and Yoko Ono made famous in 1969 as part of their peace campaign.
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DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Mystery continues over who or what organization posted message on 14th Street billboard reading 'Jihad Is Over! (If You Want It); message is reference to Times Square billboard John Lennon and Yoko Ono made famous in 1969 as part of their peace campaign.
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Yesterday, Yoko Ono paid for a full-page advertisement in the "This Week In Review" section of the NY Times in which she asks that we consider December 8th, the anniversary of John Lennon's death, to be a day of healing. See the ad here.
Make Jokes, not War
At the end of her modest proposal in the LA Times (November 26, 2006), Barbara Garson wrote,
"So I have written to the U.S. government, volunteering to travel through these dark corners of the Middle East, collecting ethnic jokes for our assault. Yet, so far, the CIA, National Security Agency and Pentagon have not responded to my offer. I'd like to believe that's because they already have their own operatives at work on the plan.
Our commander in chief has made it clear that he feels obliged to destabilize the Iranian government because of the threat it poses to world peace. If he must go ahead, I think we owe it to the world at least to try ethnic jokes before we escalate to nuclear weapons.
Speaking of which, has anybody heard any good North Korean jokes?"
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"So I have written to the U.S. government, volunteering to travel through these dark corners of the Middle East, collecting ethnic jokes for our assault. Yet, so far, the CIA, National Security Agency and Pentagon have not responded to my offer. I'd like to believe that's because they already have their own operatives at work on the plan.
Our commander in chief has made it clear that he feels obliged to destabilize the Iranian government because of the threat it poses to world peace. If he must go ahead, I think we owe it to the world at least to try ethnic jokes before we escalate to nuclear weapons.
Speaking of which, has anybody heard any good North Korean jokes?"
Check out the full article (you have to log in, but it's free) here.
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