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Monday, May 28, 2007

Have a good Memorial Day

Have a good Memorial Day. Of course me being me, I morn the loss of our young while morning the waste of the battles that killed them.

Since WWII, the US has wasted its finest young men and some women in Korea, Vietnam, Kampuchea, Panama, Lebanon and Grenada just to name a few.






Friday, May 25, 2007

The spark of a prairie fire

The spark of a prairie fire

It was inevitable that the Fighting in Iraq would spill over to Lebanon. The war in Iraq is like a fire that is out of control. Now organizations are spreading to nearby countries where stability is fragile. There is also fighting in parts of Palestine now.
This is the results of the so called "American Century" that President George Bush's people believed they could force on the whole Middle-East.

From the BBC:
"Thousands flee Lebanon violence
Thousands of people have been fleeing from a refugee camp in northern Lebanon after three days of heavy fighting between troops and Islamist militants.

Palestinian residents of the Nahr al-Bared camp were trapped as troops exchanged fire with Fatah al-Islam fighters holed up in the camp.
Witnesses said many took advantage of a lull in the fighting to leave.
UN head of humanitarian affairs John Holmes appealed to the warring sides to allow aid supplies into the camp.
He said it was outrageous that a relief convoy had been forced to turn back after coming under fire on Tuesday.
There was a reduction in the fighting, although sporadic clashes were reported.
UN aid convoys entered the camp to deliver food and water, but one was forced to leave after shells exploded near its vehicles.
'No power, no food'
Witnesses said that as the fighting lessened, a mass exodus began."


It was just a question of time before the Chaos in Iraq would spill over into other countries. Fighting has broken out in Lebanon, a country that had just recovered from a long and bloody civil war. Now there is fighting among the militant Islamic factions of Palestinians and the more secular militias. And today Israel fired missiles into Lebanon. We all know Israel is not going to miss getting in on a good round of violence.

So what will our idiot president do? So far he is trying to convince us that his war is stopping terrorism. No intelligent person is buying that load of crap, but he continues to create a worsening situation that in time may engulf about half the Mid-East into a war filled with suicide bombings terrorism and plain old war.

It looks like the "American Century" That so many Republican politicians were backing is turning into the American Nightmare. Terrorist have already made plans to attack out main land according to our evening news and experts believe Prez George Bush has turned Iraq into a terrorist training ground while it had no connection with al Qaeda before the war started.

Even the next president we elect is probably going to have to find solutions to this crisis and it will be costly no matter what is done. This country has stepped into a quagmire that has no easy, painless or inexpensive way out.




Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Ronald Reagan was a cock-sucking bastard

Every time I hear someone say that Reagan was a great president, my skin crawls. I remember those 8 years of hell. I woke up each morning hoping that the man I kept seeing on TV was just a bad dream. Each morning I was disappointed.



These two were hard to tell apart.

So when he died, I just had to write this:




Ronald Reagan 1911 - 2004

On the death of the Great Communicator

And the Great Deceiver

Originally printed in F5

-June 10, 2004




PRESIDENT REAGAN WAS A CON ARTIST



According to the mainstream news media, especially the local Wichita Eagle and KAKE TV, Ronald Reagan was one of the greatest men of the century. The Eagle devoted six full pages to him on Sunday.
About the only part that I think we can all agree on is that he had a major impact on this country. What we don't agree on is what kind of impact. For some of us, the Reagan years were a bad dream from which we could not awake.
It was during the 1960s and 1970s that so many idealist, with so many important thinkers emerged — Martin Luther King, Jr.; Robert and John Kennedy; Nelson Mandela; and Salvador Allende, of Chile — to name a few. Compared to these inspirational leaders, Reagan stands out like a rotten apple. It is ironic that John Lennon died the same year Reagan was elected. Lennon's "Imagine" became an anthem for the idealism of the '60s and '70s. Reagan now symbolizes the death of this idealism and the death of a dream. These earlier heroes fostered equality, justice, freedom, peace, tolerance of others and the hope for a better society. Reagan stood for the exact opposite, fostering a country of greed, self centeredness, arrogance and mean spiritedness.
From the beginning he fed us nothing but lies. During his first election campaign he made ridiculous claims that President Jimmy Carter "gave away our ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Panama Canal." It was never ours to begin with. I could always tell when he told a lie because his lips moved.
He promised to attack welfare and every program to help the poor or minorities. He kept those promises. Carter said it best a few years later: "He makes us comfortable with our prejudices."
Every time I hear a poor working-class person tell me how "great" he was I feel like I'm back in La La Land. Reagan succeeded in his efforts to lower the standard of living for the working class and help out U.S. businesses. He broke unions, froze the minimum wage, which encourage other wage freezing and with inflation at between 1 to 2 percent a year, the average worker lost 12 percent of their wages. And yet Reagan had enough charisma to win support of a large portion of the working class. He was the perfect con artist. He robbed the working class and they thanked him for doing it.
Reagan was a drug warrior, reversing the idea the small amounts of pot possession was no big crime. He carried on a holy war against pot and all other drugs, just as Nixon had. He reversed years of progress in loosening our marijuana laws then he gave us drug testing.
The Gipper was especially hard on those of us who considered ourselves leftists. His attacks were relentless. He bitterly attacked the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. He tried to make them sound as bad as Pol Pot. He ridiculed, belittled, threatened and even supported armed insurgents against the Sandinistas. He politically isolated and embargoed them, to choke their economy to death.
This "totalitarian communist government" the Sandinistas founded held elections with a variety of political parties, both left and right. We only have two political parties. They abolished capitol punishment, while Reagan was expanding it in this country. They guaranteed freedom of religion.
Reagan wanted to lump everyone on the left, including liberals, with Soviet communism. He moved the political center to the far right. Even today being called a liberal is just about the same stigma as being called a communist. We still have not recovered from this.
Right-wing kooks, including the staff at the Eagle, like to claim Reagan ended the cold war and brought down the Soviet Union. I didn't realize he took part in Korean War, Vietnam, or launching the space race. I suppose everyone from Harry Truman to Kennedy had no impact on the cold war.
Let's not forget the character of the man himself. He was a song and dance man… an actor who knew how to charm. He had the same first name as a clown who hawks hamburgers and the clown has more integrity. He played second fiddle to a chimp named Bonzo, in the movies, and he played the country for a chump when he got elected.
For those of us who were not dazzled by his showmanship, his misrule was a ghoulish nightmare. For myself I can only say: "Mr. Reagan I will not miss you at all."





To this I add:

Let me add that the Genocide problem in Darfur, Africa, which our astute (AKA asinine) Senator Sam Brownback has taken such an interest in is just one of the many results of a policy developed by Reagan during his presidency.

In Reagan's blind hate of communism and his inability to distinguish between progressive national liberation movements which intended to bring economic independence and a higher standard of living in Africa, have been completely smashed and replaced by gangs of warlords who are simply fighting over the last few scraps of resources that the western powers have not looted yet.

Friday, May 18, 2007

New drug History book coming out soon

Can You Pass the Acid Test?

A History of the Drug and Sex Counterculture

and Its Censorship in the 20th Century


By Steve Otto

The "acid test" was a name for large concerts, with groups such as the Grateful Dead, were free LSD (then legal) was available for those in attendance. The title of this book comes from a flyer advertising one such event. But the outbreak of LSD and marijuana in the 1960s was not the beginning of the drug counter culture as we know it today. This book presents examples of drug use and sex promoting cliques around music, magazines, newspapers, clothing and other forms of culture that countered the established norms and often brought about the government's wrath. This book is a comprehensive look at these counter culture trends from the 1990s back through the late 1800s. Here is a comprehensive reference book to songs, publications and objects of art that reflected the last century's counter-cultures as well as government and mainstream press attempts to censor them.

WARNING:

This is a non-fiction book without explicit sex or debauchery. If you want to read those things, buy a copy of Memoirs. http://steveottosbooks.tk/



I might write another sex book, eventually, but I need to come up with a story line first. It seems there are a lot of perverts that love to read.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Jerry Falwell - another asshole has gone home to hell!!

So our dear tormentor and Christian Taliban leaders have died.

So two minutes of silence…..Hey!!! I hear the Champaign corks popping.



Here's my tribute:


"So throw another asshole on the pyre,

While you're at it, get us all a beer,

Don't forget to add a box of Bibles,

They burn well and stink for less than him,

Someday we'll sing the song of freedom,

When the last fundamentalist meets his grave,

Christians can pray and stay at home on election day,

The fundis can crawl back under their rocks,"



Amen brothers!!! - 史蒂夫 奥多



Sunday, May 13, 2007

Communist Party of India (Maoist), Press Release

Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Central Committee


CARRY FORWARD THE HEROIC ANTI-IMPERIALIST TRADITIONS OF 1857!! HAIL THE FIRST WAR OF INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE!!
CELEBRATE THE OCCASION ON A GRAND SCALE FURTHER DEVELOPING THE ANT-IMPERIALIST TRADITIONS OF OUR COUNTRY!!!
---- CALL OF THE CPI (MAOIST)
Press Release: May 5, 2007
Exactly 150 years ago on May 10th the first salvo of this great rebellion was fired. What started as a mutiny of the Indian soldiers soon turned into a prairie fire and became a great people's war. This people's war engulfed large parts of India embracing Oudh, Rohilkhand, Bundelkhand, Sagar, Narmada, Nagpur, Hyderabad, many districts of Bihar, Agra, Meerut, Punjab, Delhi, parts of Bengal and other places. In magnitude, depth, as also in significance, this rebellion was unparalleled in the long history of both independent and colonial India. Primarily anti-colonial, it was at the same time directed against the feudal forces. It was the soldiers of Meerut who set the ball rolling on the 10th of May. Mutinies followed in several stations of the north. In Bundelkhand, Jhansi took the lead. In many areas, British army officials were attacked and killed. At Jhansi, the rebel soldiers released all prisoners.
But this no longer remained a revolt of the armed forces. It spread to the entire peasantry and artisans. A few weeks after the Revolt began, British rule was virtually wiped out in north India. In all cases of rural uprising, violence was directed against those institutions of power with which they interacted directly and immediately, namely tehsils and thanas. Thanas and tahsils were attacked, records destroyed and government officials driven out. All vestiges of colonial rule were in the process eliminated. While confiscating the ill-gotten property was the principal form by which people asserted their power, arming themselves was the principal means by which they did so. The weapons chosen were anything that was available from matchlocks, spears, scythes, and iron-bound lathis, axes, etc to weapons seized from the British. British political power and that of their lackeys were practically demolished over entire Northern India.
The revolutionaries set up their own `Court of Administration' for an independent India free from foreign control. It was set up with representatives from soldiers and civilians with two representatives each from the infantry, cavalry and infantry and four from the civilians. Each of these representatives was elected by majority vote from their own constituencies. This smaller body elected a president and a vice-president by a majority vote. This supreme body acted in a judicial capacity and also established different courts for discharge of judicial duties. Taking of bribes and other malpractices were firmly suppressed. The body took upon itself the task of administration of the land, maintenance of peace and order in the captured territories, collection of loans from the mahajans and the conduct of war. The emperor exercised no control over these affairs.
Not only did the militant masses fight the British and their lackeys they also established a new power in a rudimentary form. Such is the heroic history of this great uprising, which is as relevant today as it was over 150 years back. The direct British colonial rule has been replaced by the neo-colonial rule of the imperialists. The country continues being robbed through indirect means ever since the so-called independence of 1947. This robbery has increased phenomenally ever since the implementation of the policies of imperialist globalization in the country. The loot of our country today by the imperialists and their lackeys has reached gigantic proportions. Nothing but another Great War for Indian Independence can save this country from total devastation. On this occasion of this 150th Anniversary it is only such a message that must be sent to the vast masses of our motherland. It must be shown that if the masses revolt it is possible to seize power and smash the rule of the robbers, both Indian and foreign.
Today, while all establishment parliamentary parties are celebrating the event they are primarily doing so to hide their outright betrayal of the country and its people to the imperialists, particularly the US. While taking up a mass campaign we must expose their hypocrisy and false pretenses. We must call on the masses to continue in the revolutionary traditions of 1857 and also Bhagat Singh whose birth centenary is being celebrated this year. Both represent the great anti-imperialist and patriotic traditions of the masses of our country which is being taken forward by the Maoists and other democratic and revolutionary forces of the country.
Let us turn this 150th year of the historic 1857 uprising and Bhagat Singh birth centenary into a great festival of revolt in all parts of the country. Let us build this anti-imperialist tempo in every nook and corner of the country; starting from May 10th and culminating in huge actions/meetings/ celebrations on Sept.28, the birth centenary day of Bhagat Singh.

Azad
Spokesperson,
Central Committee,
Communist Party of India
(Maoist)


Your Flag Decal

The war in Vietnam wasn’t that different from today in that we fought for imperialism and our young died for that while swallowing the lie of “freedom.”
The following song was relevant then and now.


Monday, May 07, 2007

Poem from the Marxist-Leninist-Revolutionaries (MLR) of IRAQ

The following poem was printed earlier in Arabic. This is the transaltion minus the poetic flow.

Address Camilio Central gunpowder
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a Tanko, Tsafhua burned all the blessings and assumed assumed selected to all the blessings and assumed assumed selected to all receivables assumed assumed and Atefaeoa
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Sunday, May 06, 2007

wedding in Peru

While the original leadership of the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) seems to have given up on armed struggle, others outside the leadership seemed determined to keep the fight going. In the mean time, here is a story of romance among the SP prison leadership:

Peru's Shining Path founder to wed longtime lover
By LESLIE JOSEPHS
Associated Press Writer

LIMA, Peru (AP) - A cellblock wedding is reportedly in the works for the founder of Peru's Shining Path guerrilla movement, whose 20-year clash with the government left more than 70,000 dead.

Abimael Guzman proposed marriage last fall and will wed his second-in-command Elena Iparraguirre on an unknown date, Iparraguirre told Caretas magazine this week. The longtime lovers are serving life sentences for terrorism in separate prisons.

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Guzman, 72, inspired a cultlike obedience among his Maoist guerrilla insurgency which grew to 10,000 armed fighters. The rebels sowed fear across the country, blowing up bridges and factories, assassinating public officials and activists and massacring villagers _ including 69 peasants shot and hacked to death in the village of Lucanamarca.

Iparraguirre, 59, who used the nom de guerre Commander Miriam, expressed no regret about launching an armed struggle aimed at seizing power from the white elite.

"We made errors, but the revolution was worth it because the Peruvian state was garbage," she said.

The Shining Path faded after Guzman's capture in 1992. But rebel factions continue to operate in the coca-growing jungle region, where several hundred guerrillas provide protection for cocaine traffickers.

Iparraguirre did not say when the two might wed, though apparently Peruvian law does not prohibit the marriage and would, according to Caretas, allow them six conjugal visits a year.



Thursday, May 03, 2007

Careful analysis of Rupert Murdoch

After a careful analysis and study of the subject I have reached one simple conclusion:

Rupert Murdoch Sucks!!!!!!!!!!



And in case your wondering who the scum bag is, here is a snip from Wikidpedea:


Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG, (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-American global media executive from Australia and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York City in the United States. Beginning with newspapers, magazines and television stations in his native Australia, Murdoch expanded into British and American media, and in recent years has become a powerful force in satellite television, the film industry, the Internet, and other forms of media.

by 史蒂夫 奥多