First pictures from Portland BND, where we spoke with shoppers, non-shoppers, and city dwellers, asking what the holidaze meant to them. Video to come...
Okay okay ... so all your coworkers are hanging up those misleading red state maps, and pissing the hell out of you. Well, here's a little response ... FUCK THE SOUTH!
With the holidays upon us, we take this moment to reflect on the cuisines of the past and look forward to cuisines of the future. A future Thanksgiving without turkey meat or other animal by-products. If there is any meat that should be included in our gravy, it should be Pilgrim meat. This year, let us be thankful for the inventions of meat substitutes as we love all animals, especially flightless birds. As a delicious alternative to caged, factory fowl, we offer this tantalizing morsel. It may be seitan but it won't look like this golden brown fetus.
turkey seitan
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
3 cups wheat gluten flour
1 1/2 firm tofu
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup condoleeza rice
1/2 cup white or garbonzo beans
1/2 cup tapioca starch (or corn starch)
1 part 800 Fallugian civilians
3 Tbsp. fake dead bird seasoning (rosemary, sage, thyme)
3 Tbsp. nutritional yeast
3 1/2 cups chlorinated water
1/4 cup soy sauce or braggs liquid aminos dude
1/8 cup Iraqi oil (unless you can only afford olive or canola oil)
Lightly stir and blend above ingredients. Put into two bread pans to form loaves. Set aside for 15 minutes. Cover and bake at 400 for 45 minutes.
Groovy gravy
2 cups sliced mushrooms
1 clove diced garlic
1 large onion diced
4 Tbsp. herb mixture ( Rosemary, Cumin, Sage, Thyme)
1/4 cup soy sauce or braggs liquid aminos dude
4 Tbsp. nutritional yeast
1/4 cup dark molasses or vegan sugar
1/8 cup corn starch
1/8 cup olive oil
6 cups water
Saute mushrooms, onion and garlic in oil. Combine this mixture with other ingredients in a sauce pan. Bring to a boil and then simmer until desired consistency is reached.
Serve seitan warm, covered with gravy, and with all of your favorite vegan vittles.
A truly, truly horrific legislative "rider" has been attached to the US Senate's appropriation bill (the money they use to fund the government bureaucracy). The bill would immediately invalidate all lawsuits that have thus far stopped Southern Oregon's Biscuit timber sale (the largest logging project in the history of US public lands; see www.siskiyou.org for more info), including the lawsuits on the 12.5 SQUARE MILES of pristine, untouched roadless areas. In essence it would make the complete logging of all of the Biscuit timber sale the law and 100% unstopable by legal means.
Furthermore, it would reverse one of Bark's major environmental victories of this year, the court ruling that found that the Forest Service had failed to protect Spotted Owls by frequently allowing logging in the owl's "critical habitat" (see http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/08/294184.shtml).
Lastly, it would legislate the so called "no surprises" rule, which essentially offers a warranty to property owners who take part in the conservation plans, guaranteeing that once they commit to a plan, no new scientific data can affect their ability to build (see http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp...).
If you are the Senator-calling type please do so ASAP!
Save the Wild Siskiyou from Lawless Logging!
Calls Needed Today!
Oregon Senator Gordon Smith is continuing to push a salvage logging rider that would suspend all environmental laws and expedite clearcutting across vast roadless and old growth forests in the Biscuit fire area in the Siskiyou National Forest in southern Oregon. This extreme rider may move through Congress this week. Our rights, our taxpayer dollars and our wild Siskiyou forests hang in the balance!
Gordon Smith's lawless logging rider would:
- legislate the largest Forest Service logging project in modern history
- allow the government to violate environmental laws without accountability
- degrade more than 48,000 acres of wild, roadless forest
- clearcut across roughly 12.5 sqare miles of roadless forest and an additional 10 square miles of 'old growth reserve' areas.
Join people from across the country in stopping this extreme threat to the wild Siskiyou. The time to act is immediately -- the rider could move through Congress within days!
TAKE ACTION NOW! Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or call toll free at 1-800-839-5276 and ask to be transferred to the elected officials listed below.
Tell elected officials to:
1. Oppose Senator Gordon Smith's lawless logging rider and any legislation that locks courthouse doors and legislates logging in Biscuit fire affected parts of the wild Siskiyou.
2. Create a Siskiyou Wild Rivers National Conservation Area to protect this special place for future generations.
If you live in Oregon, the most important officials to call are:
1. Senator Ron Wyden (thank him for opposing the Biscuit rider, and ask him to fight hard against it).
2. Representative Peter DeFazio (ask him to speak out forcefully against this rider in his district).
3. Senator Gordon Smith (ask him to withdraw his extreme lawless logging rider).
If you live in Washington state, the most important officials to call are:
1. Representative Norm Dicks (ask him to oppose the addition of a Biscuit rider to the Omnibus Appropriations bill moving forward this week).
2. Senator Maria Cantwell.
3. Senator Patty Murray.
If you live elsewhere, please call your Senators.
To find the names of your Senators, go to: http://www.senate.gov/.
Call 1-800-839-5276 to connect toll-free to any member of the US Congress. Ask for the elected official you would like to speak with.
In addition to calls, you can always send a free fax from the Siskiyou Project website to Oregon officials: www.siskiyou.org (select "Stop Smith's Lawless Rider" from the "Take Action" menu on the front page).
MORE INFO
Why would Gordon Smith push such an unreasonable, extreme scheme on the American public? During his last election campaign, Gordon Smith received $151,559 from politically-connected logging corporations; more than any other Senator in the United States. Unfortunately, in today's America, political paybacks are business as usual for politicians, and Gordon Smith seems more than willing to sacrifice the wild Siskiyou for dirty politics.
A lawless logging rider may happen whenever appropriations bills (large bills that fund the government) are taken up by Congress. An omnibus appropriation bill (one that combines several large appropriations bills) is expected to move through Congress before the Thanksgiving recess. Unlike normal bills in Congress, a rider can appear without warning, so if we wait for it to be attached to an appropriations bill, it will be too late. This means we need to work hard right now to shield the wild Siskiyou from this unprecedented attack. We need everyone (yes, you!) to stand together now.
Thanks to all of you who called and wrote Oregon's Senator Ron Wyden over the last year: he has publicly stated that he will oppose a Biscuit rider. While this is good news, we cannot rest. We need to thank Senator Wyden and hold him to his promise. We need to make sure that Senator Wyden's stated opposition to a rider includes actively fighting against it, not just publicly opposing it. If we create enough pressure, he will defend the wild Siskiyou.
OTHER WAYS TO HELP
1. Help organize a slideshow in your home, business, faith center, school or community. The Siskiyou Project offers free slideshows that motivate, educate and empower participants to help save the wild Siskiyou. It is easier than you think. Call (503) 222-6101 (outside of southern Oregon) or (541) 592-4459 to learn more.
2. Volunteer! The Siskiyou Project needs volunteers for mailings, phone-banking and more. Call (541) 592-4459 if you live in southern Oregon or northern California. Call (503) 222-6101 anywhere else.
You can send a free fax to elected officials from the Siskiyou Project website: www.siskiyou.org.
For more information, contact the Siskiyou Project:
Siskiyou Project
9335 Takilma Road, Cave Junction, OR 97523
(541) 592-4459
Siskiyou Project - campaign office
917 SW Oak, suite 407
Portland, OR 97205
(503) 222-6101
homepage: http://www.bark-out.org
phone: 503-331-0374
ABOVE: Logging from the Inde timber sale in the Biscuit Timber Sale complex earlier this fall.
Brian Frank
Office Administrator / Volunteer Coordinator
Bark
503.331.0374
brian@bark-out.org
www.bark-out.org
Join us on 2nd Sunday Bark-about! We meet the second Sunday of every month at the Daily Grind (SE Hawthorne & 40th) promptly at 9:15 am and carpool to hike a different controversial timber sale on Mt. Hood National Forest. Email, call us or visit www.bark-out.org for more information!
IS FASCISM POSSIBLE HERE?
[Col. Writ. 10/28/04] Copyright 2004 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Fascism.
The very word evokes dark, menacing images of troops, marching in lockstep, in support of a terrible, malevolent ideology.
In a word, it suggests the followers of Mussolini in Italy, or Hitler in Germany.
To most of us, its very mention suggests its foreign nature; its Otherness.
Therein lies its danger. For, because it is seen as a foreign ideology, the inevitable idea arises: "It can't happen here."
Those who say this, either don't know, or don't want to know, American history. They prefer the safe myths, to the ugly truths of how this country came to be what it is.
What is fascism? In short, it is the merger of state and corporate interests.
What is totalitarianism? On April 23rd, 1976, the U.S. Congress issued its Final Select Committee report, which charged:
We have seen segments of our Government adopt tactics unworthy of a democracy and occasionally reminiscent of the tactics of totalitarian regimes. ... [T]he chief investigative branch of the federal government [FBI], which was charged by law with investigating crimes and preventing criminal conduct, itself engaged in lawless tactics and *responded to deep-seated social problems by fomenting violence and unrest.* [From Dr. Huey P. Newton, *War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America* [Ph.D. Dissertation (New York: Harlem River Press, 1996), p. 110]
Six months earlier, then-Sen. Walter Mondale (D-Minn.) would make similar comments as he opened hearings into the COINTELPRO revelations. On Nov. 19, 1975, he stated:
.... Yesterday, this committee heard some of the most disturbing testimony that can be imagined in a free society. We heard evidence that for decades the institutions designed to enforce the laws and Constitution of our country have been engaging in conduct that violates the law and the Constitution. We heard that the FBI, which is part of the Department of Justice, took justice into its own hands by seeking to punish those with unpopular ideas. We learned that the chief law enforcement agency in the federal Government decided that it did not need laws to investigate and suppress the peaceful and constitutional activities of those whom it disapproved.
Sen. Mondale added, on the floor of the Senate:
We heard testimony that the FBI, to protect the country against those it believed had totalitarian political views, employed the tactics of totalitarian societies against American citizens. We heard that the FBI attempted to destroy one of our greatest leaders in the field of civil rights [here, he refers to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.], and then replace him with someone of the FBI's choosing. [From: U.S. Senate, *Hearings Before the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities:* [ (Vol.6)-F.B.I. (Wash., DC: U.S. Gov't Printing Office, 1976), p. 61.]
The state waged war against its own alleged 'citizens', with impunity.
But now, years after these hearings, thanks to the cleverly-named U.S. PATRIOT Act, what was illegal during the COINTELPRO era, is legal today. People who have opposed the Iraq War, or other actions of the Bush Regime, have been beaten, pepper-sprayed, framed, jailed, and tortured, in Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, and beyond -- for following their alleged 'rights' under the 1st Amendment. They have been caged, and corralled into so-called 'Free Speech Zones!' Which almost literally begs the question: If cages are 'free speech zones', what do you call the huge tracts of land and air that are outside these cages? Non-free-speech zones? And virtually every judge who has been asked to protect the people's rights to protest and assemble, over the cop's 'right' to cage and repress, has gone the cops way.
Fascism -- the merger of state and corporate power -- has made the struggle of workers for an 8-hour day, for the right to unionize, for vacation days, for collective bargaining, one stained with the blood of thousands of martyrs, martyrs for labor, like many of the members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as the Wobblies. They were beaten, thrown off trains, jailed by the dozens, framed, and slain, for defending worker's rights.
Fascism is more than a funny-sounding word; it is dyed deep into the fabric of American life; and creeps forward today, under cover of 'Law.'
[*Sources*: Newton, H.P., *WATP*.; Donner, Frank. *The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America's Political Intelligence System*. (NY: Vintage, 1981); McGuckin, Henry E., (Memoirs of a WOBBLY) (Chi.: Kerr, 1987).]
Copyright 2004 Mumia Abu-Jamal
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The bad news- GWB represents global domination and earthly destruction.
The good news- at least one billionaire was made sad by this outcome (JFK2). We're already fully aware of GWB's tactics and motives, so we're already onto him.
Mourn time is over, we resume to our regularly scheduled actions against oppression and empire.
We now know who the leader (villan) is, it's clear what the majority(31% of voting pop) want, and we now get back to work.
This doesn't change anything, this just establishes who's leading this bomb-bag we call the USA. Back to work people!
This machine needs more wrenches in it than ever before!
He won the popular vote.
He won the trust of the people of the United States. He had to because George W. Bush is a wartime president.
The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it" - Adolf Hitler
America cannot be the world's bully forever, but perhaps this will spell the end of the Bush administration's virility to shock and awe us with their lies. How many of them can still operate government under such a heavy wet blanket of lies and deceit?
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors" - Plato
So many Americans are suffering from lumpen proletariate disease. They simply think that we all should trust the government in all of its decisions and follow everything the president says. If the president says he can lead us in the fight in the war on terror, then goddamnit he will do this!
Wake up, America. The war on terror is going to be fought like the Communist red scare was fought: for a long, long time. Four more years of Bush will not resolve the war on terror. To fight the war on terror is like fighting a war on your invisible friend. Where is terror? Who makes terror? Where is my invisible friend? He's in Iraq. The picture this administration is painting is the Iraqis are at the hub of 'realizing' that they're being 'set free' from terrorists by the democratic hand of America. It's worth it to the Bush administration to fight this war, because that's what Bush's family does best. They're war profiteers. Everything else is just business.
And so the President says he can win the war on terror. He also says he talks to God on a regular basis, praying frequently and trusting the guidance that God gives him. This, seemingly, would make him God's choice.
So if George Bush does really talk with God, and he really believes that he is on God's course for victory, then we are witnessing history being unfolded by the almighty interpreter of God. All this must be what God wants.
God apparently does not want the Iraqi people. He wants pretty white folks to recolonize the Holy Land. God wants the war on terror to be fought by George Bush.
But even the devil can quote scripture.
IF george W. Bush really IS God's choice, then I have no chice but to reject God until He gets His shit together.
Courtesy of Uncommon Thought
Rather than throwing things at your TV when some blow-dried idiot talking head bloviates during the elections, grab your laptop and send them an e-mail. Who knows----- if enough of us actually do that, they just might start to listen------ although if we stopped watching, or stopped buying from their advertisers, that would probably outweigh any logic, but thats also not easy to do.
So------------- here's the best list of news media web sites and e-mail addresses that I've ever seen. Hope it helps.
ABC News, 20/20, http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/2020/2020friday_email_form.html
ABC News, Barbara Walters, 2020@abc.com
ABC News, Good Morning America, http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/GMA_email_form.html
ABC News, John Stossel, 2020@abc.com
ABC News, Nightline, nightline@abcnews.com
ABC News, Primetime Thursday, http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/2020/Primetime_email_form.html
ABC News, Ted Koppel, nightline@abc.com
ABC News, World News Now overnight, http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/WorldNewsNow/wnn_email_form.html
ABC News, World News Tonight weekend, http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/WorldNewsSaturday/weekend_wnt_email_form.html
ABC News, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/WorldNewsTonight/WNT_newemail_form.html
Associated Press (AP), Feedback, feedback@ap.org
Associated Press, Jennifer Loven, jloven@ap.org
Associated Press, Kathleen Carroll (Executive Editor), kcarroll@ap.org
Associated Press, Larry Margasak, lmargasak@ap.org
Associated Press, Michael Silverman (Managing Editor), msilverman@ap.org
Associated Press, Michelle DeArmound, opinion@thewire.ap.org
Associated Press, Nedra Pickler, npickler@ap.org
Associated Press, Ron Fournier, rfournier@ap.org
Associated Press, Sandra Johnson (Washington Bureau Chief), sjohnson@ap.org
Associated Press, Seth Sutel, pr@ap.org
Associated Press, Terry Hunt, thunt@ap.org
Associated Press, Tom Raum, traum@ap.org
Chicago Sun-Times, Avis Weathersbee (Deputy Features Editor), aweathersbee@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Bill Zwecker (Columnist), zwecker@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Business Desk, stbusiness@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Christine Ledbetter (Features Editor), cledbetter@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, City Desk, metro@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Dan Miller (Business editor), dmiller@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Deborah Douglas (Red Streak Editor), ddouglas@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Don Hayner (Managing Editor/News), metro@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Features Desk, showcase@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Jack Barry (General Manager), jbarry@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Jeff Wisser (Assistant Features Editor), jwisser@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, John Barron (Executive Managing Editor), jbarron@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, John Cruickshank (Publisher), jcruickshank@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, John W. Cary (President - Digital Chicago), jwcary@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Letters to the Editor, letters@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Mary Mitchell (Columnist), marym@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Cooke (Editor in Chief), mcooke@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Sneed (Columnist), sneed@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Phil Rosenthal (Television critic), prosen@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Photo Desk, stphoto@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Richard Roeper (Columnist), rroeper@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Robert Feder (TV/Radio columnist), feder@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert (Movie Answer Man), answerman@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Ron Rapoport (Sports columnist), rjr@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Steve Huntley (Editorial Page Editor), shuntley@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Terry Savage (Personal finance columnist), savage@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Zay Smith (Quick Takes), zays@suntimes.com
Chicago Tribune, Achy Obejas (Q Section Writer), aobejas@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Ann Marie Lipinski (Editor), ctc-editor@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Bob Kemper (National Correspondent), rkemper@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Bruce Japsen (Business Health Care Reporter), bjapsen@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Cam Simpson (National Correspondent), csimpson@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Celeste Garrett (Urban Affairs Editor), cgarrett@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Frank James (Economics Correspondent), fjames@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Gary Washburn (City Hall Reporter), GWashburn@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, George de Lama (Deputy Managing Editor) - News, gdelama@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, James O'Shea (Managing Editor), joshea@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Jan Greenburg (Washington Correspondent), jgreenburg@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Jeff Zeleny (National Political Correspondent), jzeleny@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Jill Zuckman (Washington Correspondent), jzuckman@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, John Crewdson (Senior Writer), jcrewdson@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Judith Peres (Metro Reporter - Legal Affairs), JPeres@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Letter to the Editor, http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/site/chi-lettertotheeditor.customform
Chicago Tribune, Maurice Possley (Criminal Justice Reporter), MPossley@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Michael Dorning (Washington Correspondent), mdorning@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Michael Kilian (Washington Correspondent); Columnist, cptkilian@aol.com
Chicago Tribune, Mike Tackett (Senior Correspondent), mtackett@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Naftali Bendavid (Washington Correspondent), nbendavid@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Paul Singer (Washington News Editor), psinger2@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, R. Bruce Dold (Editorial Page Editor), bdold@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Rich Anderson (Senior News Editor), rranderson@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Rick Pearson (Political Reporter), RAP30@aol.com
Chicago Tribune, Stephen Hedges (Washington Correspondent), shedges@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman (Editorial Board Member), schapman@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, Vickie Walton (Washington Bureau Chief), vwalton@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune, William Neikirk (Chief Washington Correspondent), wneikirk@tribune.com
Christian Science Monitor, Feedback, http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/contactus.pl
CNN Headline News, CNN Headline News, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?33
CNN Headline News, Judy Fortin comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?21
CNN Headline News, Kathleen Kennedy comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?24
CNN Headline News, Linda Stouffer comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?75
CNN Headline News, Mike Galanos comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?28
CNN Headline News, News Segment Comments, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5c.html?4
CNN Headline News, Renay San Miguel comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?23
CNN Headline News, Report Errors, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form6a.html?3
CNN Headline News, Robin Meade comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?20
CNN Headline News, Rudi Bakhtiar comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?27
CNN Headline News, Sophia Choi comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?25
CNN Headline News, Stephen Frazier comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?26
CNN Headline News, Thomas Roberts comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?22
CNN, Aaron Brown, aaron.brown@turner.com
CNN, Aaron Brown, comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?3
CNN, America Votes 2004 comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?21
CNN, American Morning, am@cnn.com
CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, 360@cnn.com
CNN, Anderson Cooper comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?5
CNN, Andrea Koppel, andrea.koppel@turner.com
CNN, Bill Hemmer comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?10
CNN, Bill Schneider, bill.schneider@turner.com
CNN, Bruce Morton, bruce.morton@turner.com
CNN, Candy Crowley, candy.crowley@turner.com
CNN, Carlos Watson comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?81
CNN, Carol Costello comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?6
CNN, Carol Lin, carol.lin@turner.com
CNN, Christiane Amanpour comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?1
CNN, Crossfire, crossfire@cnn.com
CNN, Daryn Kagan comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?11
CNN, Daryn Kagan, daryn.kagan@turner.com
CNN, David Ensor, david.ensor@turner.com
CNN, Daybreak, daybreak@cnn.com
CNN, Fredricka Whitfield comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?17
CNN, Heidi Collins comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?4
CNN, Howard Kurtz, kurtzh@washpost.com
CNN, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?39
CNN, In The Money, inthemoney@cnn.com
CNN, Inside Politics, insidepoliticts@cnn.com
CNN, James Carville, crossfire@cnn.com
CNN, Jeanne Meserve, jeanne.meserve@turner.com
CNN, Jeff Greenfield comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?8
CNN, Jeff Greenfield, jeff.greenfield@cnn.com
CNN, Jim Walton (President of CNN News Group), jim.walton@turner.com
CNN, Judy Woodruff comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?18
CNN, Judy Woodruff, deirdre.walsh@turner.com
CNN, Kelly Wallace, kelly.wallace@turner.com
CNN, Kyra Phillips comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?16
CNN, Kyra Phillips, kyra.phillips@turner.com
CNN, Larry King comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?73
CNN, Live At CNN, live@cnn.com
CNN, Live From, livefrom@cnn.com
CNN, Live Today, livetoday@cnn.com
CNN, Lou Dobbs comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?7
CNN, Lou Dobbs, lou.dobbs@turner.com
CNN, Lou Dobbs, loudobbs@cnn.com
CNN, Miles O'Brien comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?14
CNN, Miles O'Brien, miles.obrien@turner.com
CNN, Moneyline, moneyline@cnn.com
CNN, news tips, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form11.html?1
CNN, Newsnight, newsnight@cnn.com
CNN, other anchor/reporter comments, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4a.html?1
CNN, Paul Begala, crossfire@cnn.com
CNN, Paula Zahn comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?19
CNN, Paula Zahn Now, paulazahnnow@cnn.com
CNN, Paula Zahn, paula.zahn@turner.com
CNN, Paula Zahn, paulazahn@cnn.com
CNN, report errors, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form6a.html?2
CNN, Rick Davis (Executive Vice President - CNN News Standards and Practices), rick.davis@turner.com
CNN, Robert Novak, robert.novak@turner.com
CNN, Soledad O'Brien comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?15
CNN, Tom Hannon (Political Director), tom.hannon@cnn.com
CNN, Tucker Carlson, crossfire@cnn.com
CNN, War in Iraq comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?19
CNN, Weekend American Morning, wam@cnn.com
CNN, Wolf Blitzer comment, http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?2
CNN, Wolf Blitzer, wolf@cnn.com
CNN, Wolf Blitzer, wolf@cnn.com
Dallas Morning News, Letters to the Editor, http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/lettertoed.cgi
Don Imus, Don Imus, imusshow@yahoo.com
Economist, Letters to the Editor, letters@economist.com
Financial Times, Amity Shlaes (Senior Columnist - Political Economy), amity.shlaes@ft.com
Financial Times, Letters to the Editor, letters.editor@ft.com
Financial Times, Martin Wolf (Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator), martin.wolf@ft.com
Financial Times, Philip Stephens (Associate Editor and Senior Commentator), philip.stephens@ft.com
Financial Times, Quentin Peel (International Affairs Editor), quentin.peel@ft.com
Fort Myers News-Press, Gail Palmer, gpalmer@news-press.com
Fox News, After Hours, afterhours@foxnews.com
Fox News, At Large with Geraldo Rivera, atlarge@foxnews.com
Fox News, Brian Wilson, brian.wilson@foxnews.com
Fox News, Brit Hume, brit.hume@foxnews.com
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Electing to Leave
A reader’s guide to expatriating on November 3
Posted on Wednesday, November 3, 2004. Originally from Harper's Magazine, October 2004. By Bryant Urstadt.
Sources
So the wrong candidate has won, and you want to leave the country. Let us consider your options.
Renouncing your citizenship
Given how much the United States as a nation professes to value freedom, your freedom to opt out of the nation itself is surprisingly limited. The State Department does not record the annual number of Americans renouncing their citizenship—“renunciants,” as they are officially termed—but the Internal Revenue Service publishes their names on a quarterly basis in the Federal Register. The IRS’s interest in the subject is, of course, purely financial; since 1996, the agency has tracked ex-Americans in the hopes of recouping tax revenue, which in some cases may be owed for up to ten years after a person leaves the country. In any event, the number of renunciants is small. In 2002, for example, the Register recorded only 403 departures, of which many (if not most) were merely longtime resident aliens returning home.
The most serious barrier to renouncing your citizenship is that the State Department, which oversees expatriation, is reluctant to allow citizens to go “stateless.” Before allowing expatriation, the department will want you to have obtained citizenship or legal asylum in another country—usually a complicated and expensive process, if it can be done at all. Would-be renunciants must also prove that they do not intend to live in the United States afterward. Furthermore, you cannot renounce inside U.S. borders; the declaration must be made at a consul’s office abroad.
Those who imagine that exile will be easily won would do well to consider the travails of Kenneth Nichols O’Keefe. An ex-Marine who was discharged, according to his website, under “other than honorable conditions,” O’Keefe has tried officially to renounce his citizenship twice without success, first in Vancouver and then in the Netherlands. His initial bid was rejected after the State Department concluded that he would return to the United States—a credible inference, as O’Keefe in fact had returned immediately. After his second attempt, O’Keefe waited seven months with no response before he tried a more sensational approach. He went back to the consulate at The Hague, retrieved his passport, walked outside, and lit it on fire. Seventeen days later, he received a letter from the State Department informing him that he was still an American, because he had not obtained the right to reside elsewhere. He had succeeded only in breaking the law, since mutilating a passport is illegal. It says so right on the passport.
Heading to Canada or Mexico
In your search for alternate citizenship, you might naturally think first of Canada and Mexico. But despite the generous terms of NAFTA, our neighbors to the north and south are, like us, far more interested in the flow of money than of persons. Canada, in particular, is no longer a paradise awaiting American dissidents: whereas in 1970 roughly 20,000 Americans became permanent residents of Canada, that number has dropped over the last decade to an average of just about 5,000. Today it takes an average of twenty-five months to be accepted as a permanent resident, and this is only the first step in what is likely to be a five-year process of becoming a citizen. At that point the gesture of expatriation may already be moot, particularly if a sympathetic political party has since resumed power.
Mexico’s citizenship program is equally complicated. Seniors should know that the country does offer a lenient program for retirees, who may essentially stay as long as they want. But you will not be able to work or to vote, and, more important, you must remain an American for at least five years.
France
Should one candidate win, those who opposed the Iraq war might hope to find refuge in France, where a very select few are allowed to “assimilate” each year. Assimilation is reserved for persons of non-French descent who are able to prove that they are more French than American, having mastered the language as well as the philosophy of the French way of life. Each case is determined on its own merit, and decisions are made by the Ministère de l’Emploi, du Travail, et de la Cohésion Social. When your name is published in the Journal Officiel de la République Français, you are officially a citizen, and may thereafter heckle the United States with authentic Gallic zeal.
The coalition of the willing
Should the other candidate win, war supporters might naturally look to join the coalition of the willing. But you may find a willing and developing nation as difficult to join as an unwilling and developed one. It takes at least five years to become a citizen of Pakistan, for instance, unless one marries into a family, and each applicant for residency in Pakistan is judged on a case-by-case basis. Uzbekistan imposes a five-year wait as well, with an additional twist: the nation does not recognize dual citizenship, and so you will be required to renounce your U.S. citizenship first. Given Uzbekistan’s standard of living (low), unemployment (high), and human-rights record (poor), this would be something of a leap of faith.
The Caribbean
A more pleasant solution might be found in the Caribbean. Take, for example, the twin-island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis, which Frommer’s guide praises for its “average year-round temperature of 79°F (26°C), low humidity, white-sand beaches, and unspoiled natural beauty.” Citizenship in this paradise can be purchased outright. Prices start at around $125,000, which includes a $25,000 application fee and a minimum purchase of $100,000 in bonds. Processing time, which includes checks for criminal records and HIV, can take up to three months, but with luck you could be renouncing by Inauguration Day. The island of Dominica likewise offers a program of “economic citizenship,” though it should be noted that Frommer’s describes the beaches as “not worth the effort to get there.”
Speed is of the essence, however, because your choice of tropical paradises is fast dwindling: similar passport-vending programs in Belize and Grenada have been shut down since 2001 under pressure from the State Department, which does not approve. In any case, it should be noted that under the aforementioned IRS rules, you might well be forced to continue subsidizing needless invasions—or, to be evenhanded, needless afterschool programs.
Indian reservations
Our Native American reservations, which enjoy freedom from state taxation and law enforcement, might seem an ideal home for the political exile. But becoming a citizen of a reservation is difficult—one must prove that one is a descendant of a member of the original tribal base roll—and moreover would be, as a gesture of political disaffection, largely symbolic. Reservations remain subject to federal law; furthermore, citizens of a reservation hold dual citizenships, and as such are expected to vote in U.S. elections and to live with the results.
The high seas
You might consider moving yourself offshore. At a price of $1.3 million you can purchase an apartment on The World, a residential cruise ship that moves continuously, stopping at ports from Venice to Zanzibar to Palm Beach. Again, however, your expatriation would be only partial: The World flies the flag of the Bahamas, but its homeowners, who hail from all over Europe, Asia, and the United States, retain citizenship in their home nations.
To obtain a similar result more cheaply, you can simply register your own boat under a flag of convenience and float it outside the United States’ 230-mile zone of economic control. There, on your Liberian tanker, you will essentially be an extension of that African nation, subject only to its laws, and may imagine yourself free of oppressive government.
Micronations
The boldest approach is to start a nation of your own. Sadly, these days it is essentially impossible to buy an uninhabited island and declare it a sovereign nation: virtually every rock above the waterline is now under the jurisdiction of one principality or another. But efforts have been made to build nations on man-made structures or on reefs lying just below the waterline. Among the more successful of these is the famous Principality of Sealand, which was founded in 1967 on an abandoned military platform off the coast of Britain. The following year a British judge ruled that the principality lay outside the nation’s territorial waters. New citizenships in Sealand, however, are not being granted or sold at present.
A less fortunate attempt was made in 1972, when Michael Oliver, a Nevada businessman, built an island on a reef 260 miles southwest of Tonga. Hiring a dredger, he piled up sand and mud until he had enough landmass to declare independence for his “Republic of Minerva.” Unfortunately, the Republic of Minerva was soon invaded by a Tongan force, whose number is said to have included a work detail of prisoners, a brass band, and Tonga’s 350-pound king himself. The reef was later officially annexed by the kingdom.
More recently, John J. Prisco III, of the Philippines, has declared himself the prince of the Principality of New Pacific, and announced that he has discovered a suitable atoll in the international waters of the Central Pacific. As of publication, the principality has yet to begin the first phase of construction, but it is already accepting applications for citizenship.
Imaginary nations
Perhaps the most elegant solution is to join a country that exists only in one’s own—or someone else’s—imagination. Many such virtual nations can be found on the Internet, and citizenships in them are easy to acquire. This, in fact, was the route most recently attempted by Kenneth Nichols O’Keefe, the unfortunate ex-Marine. In February 2003,
O’Keefe went to Baghdad to serve as a human shield, traveling with a passport issued to him by the “World Service Authority,” an outfit based in Washington, D.C., that has dubbed more than 1.2 million people “world citizens.” While laying over in Turkey, however, he was detained; Turkey, as it turns out, does not recognize the World Service Authority. O’Keefe was forced to apply for a replacement U.S. passport from the State Department, which rather graciously complied.
Upon his arrival in Baghdad, O’Keefe promptly set the replacement passport on fire. But he remains, to his dismay, an American.
About the Author
Bryant Urstadt’s last article for Harper’s Magazine, “A Four-Year Plague,” appeared in the May issue.
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Ralph Nader as he ended his bid for the 04 Presidential sElection...
"Look at our media. Have we ever had more stations and cable channels? Have we ever had less opportunity to speak in other than sound bites heading for a decade of sound barks? Look at our sovereignty, the principal mode of representing people, our nation state being undermined by W.T.O. and NAFTA; autocratic systems of international governance whose architects were the multi-national corporations and their law firms. Look at the level of poverty in this country; 40% of all households are really in poverty. The official figure is ridiculous. The official figure says if you're family of four according to the Department of Labor and you make $19,000 a year gross, you're not poor. 40% of our nation's households live poor in the richest country of the world that has more billionaires than any other country, whose 1% of the richest people has financial wealth equivalent to the bottom 95%. When you go into low-income areas of our country such as here in Washington, D.C., there is no rule of law. There is only rapacity, predatory behavior, anarchy. People can't even cash their checks without paying 5% to the cashing-in stores. Predatory lending, landlord abuses, lesser municipal services in the poorer areas, crumbling housing, libraries that fall apart, consumer exploitation, dumping grounds for shoddy merchandise, including dirty meat and poultry. And most of those cities were run by Democrats and the Democratic party for years. After November 2, it's not the end. It's just the end of the beginning. We'll continue out of the box between now and inauguration, to push those liberal groups who were so reticent in advancing their life's work like the anti-war groups in the last year and others to come to grips with their own introspection needs and that is the moment they go for the least worst that will be their fate. There will always be a least worst between the Democrats and Republicans, every four years, every two years. And least worst means that you exert no pull on the least worst, and, therefore, your own influence and your own impact is self-limited. "
text of the most recent tape from Osama bin Laden
Praise be to Allah who created the creation for his worship and commanded them to be just and permitted the wronged one to retaliate against the oppressor in kind. To proceed:
Peace be upon he who follows the guidance: People of America this talk of mine is for you and concerns the ideal way to prevent another Manhattan, and deals with the war and its causes and results.
Before I begin, I say to you that security is an indispensable pillar of human life and that free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom.
If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike for example - Sweden? And we know that freedom-haters don't possess defiant spirits like those of the 19 - may Allah have mercy on them.
No, we fight because we are free men who don't sleep under oppression. We want to restore freedom to our nation, just as you lay waste to our nation. So shall we lay waste to yours.
No one except a dumb thief plays with the security of others and then makes himself believe he will be secure. Whereas thinking people, when disaster strikes, make it their priority to look for its causes, in order to prevent it happening again.
But I am amazed at you. Even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11th, Bush is still engaged in distortion, deception and hiding from you the real causes. And thus, the reasons are still there for a repeat of what occurred.
So I shall talk to you about the story behind those events and shall tell you truthfully about the moments in which the decision was taken, for you to consider.
I say to you, Allah knows that it had never occurred to us to strike the towers. But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the American/Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind.
The events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed and injured and others were terrorised and displaced.
I couldn't forget those moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy.
The situation was like a crocodile meeting a helpless child, powerless except for his screams. Does the crocodile understand a conversation that doesn't include a weapon? And the whole world saw and heard but it didn't respond.
In those difficult moments many hard-to-describe ideas bubbled in my soul, but in the end they produced an intense feeling of rejection of tyranny, and gave birth to a strong resolve to punish the oppressors.
And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children.
And that day, it was confirmed to me that oppression and the intentional killing of innocent women and children is a deliberate American policy. Destruction is freedom and democracy, while resistance is terrorism and intolerance.
This means the oppressing and embargoing to death of millions as Bush Sr did in Iraq in the greatest mass slaughter of children mankind has ever known, and it means the throwing of millions of pounds of bombs and explosives at millions of children - also in Iraq - as Bush Jr did, in order to remove an old agent and replace him with a new puppet to assist in the pilfering of Iraq's oil and other outrages.
So with these images and their like as their background, the events of September 11th came as a reply to those great wrongs, should a man be blamed for defending his sanctuary?
Is defending oneself and punishing the aggressor in kind, objectionable terrorism? If it is such, then it is unavoidable for us.
This is the message which I sought to communicate to you in word and deed, repeatedly, for years before September 11th.
And you can read this, if you wish, in my interview with Scott in Time Magazine in 1996, or with Peter Arnett on CNN in 1997, or my meeting with John Weiner in 1998.
You can observe it practically, if you wish, in Kenya and Tanzania and in Aden. And you can read it in my interview with Abdul Bari Atwan, as well as my interviews with Robert Fisk.
The latter is one of your compatriots and co-religionists and I consider him to be neutral. So are the pretenders of freedom at the White House and the channels controlled by them able to run an interview with him? So that he may relay to the American people what he has understood from us to be the reasons for our fight against you?
If you were to avoid these reasons, you will have taken the correct path that will lead America to the security that it was in before September 11th. This concerned the causes of the war.
As for it's results, they have been, by the grace of Allah, positive and enormous, and have, by all standards, exceeded all expectations. This is due to many factors, chief among them, that we have found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration in light of the resemblance it bears to the regimes in our countries, half of which are ruled by the military and the other half which are ruled by the sons of kings and presidents.
Our experience with them is lengthy, and both types are replete with those who are characterised by pride, arrogance, greed and misappropriation of wealth. This resemblance began after the visits of Bush Sr to the region.
At a time when some of our compatriots were dazzled by America and hoping that these visits would have an effect on our countries, all of a sudden he was affected by those monarchies and military regimes, and became envious of their remaining decades in their positions, to embezzle the public wealth of the nation without supervision or accounting.
So he took dictatorship and suppression of freedoms to his son and they named it the Patriot Act, under the pretence of fighting terrorism. In addition, Bush sanctioned the installing of sons as state governors, and didn't forget to import expertise in election fraud from the region's presidents to Florida to be made use of in moments of difficulty.
All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.
This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.
All Praise is due to Allah.
So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.
That being said, those who say that al-Qaida has won against the administration in the White House or that the administration has lost in this war have not been precise, because when one scrutinises the results, one cannot say that al-Qaida is the sole factor in achieving those spectacular gains.
Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations - whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction - has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results.
And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team towards the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ.
And it was to these sorts of notions and their like that the British diplomat and others were referring in their lectures at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. [When they pointed out that] for example, al-Qaida spent $500,000 on the event, while America, in the incident and its aftermath, lost - according to the lowest estimate - more than $500 billion.
Meaning that every dollar of al-Qaida defeated a million dollars by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs.
As for the size of the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.
And even more dangerous and bitter for America is that the mujahidin recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, which is evidence of the success of the bleed-until-bankruptcy plan - with Allah's permission.
It is true that this shows that al-Qaida has gained, but on the other hand, it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something of which anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced. And it all shows that the real loser is ... you.
It is the American people and their economy. And for the record, we had agreed with the Commander-General Muhammad Ataa, Allah have mercy on him, that all the operations should be carried out within 20 minutes, before Bush and his administration notice.
It never occurred to us that the commander-in-chief of the American armed forces would abandon 50,000 of his citizens in the twin towers to face those great horrors alone, the time when they most needed him.
But because it seemed to him that occupying himself by talking to the little girl about the goat and its butting was more important than occupying himself with the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers, we were given three times the period required to execute the operations - all praise is due to Allah.
And it's no secret to you that the thinkers and perceptive ones from among the Americans warned Bush before the war and told him: "All that you want for securing America and removing the weapons of mass destruction - assuming they exist - is available to you, and the nations of the world are with you in the inspections, and it is in the interest of America that it not be thrust into an unjustified war with an unknown outcome."
But the darkness of the black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America.
So the war went ahead, the death toll rose, the American economy bled, and Bush became embroiled in the swamps of Iraq that threaten his future. He fits the saying "like the naughty she-goat who used her hoof to dig up a knife from under the earth".
So I say to you, over 15,000 of our people have been killed and tens of thousands injured, while more than a thousand of you have been killed and more than 10,000 injured. And Bush's hands are stained with the blood of all those killed from both sides, all for the sake of oil and keeping their private companies in business.
Be aware that it is the nation who punishes the weak man when he causes the killing of one of its citizens for money, while letting the powerful one get off, when he causes the killing of more than 1000 of its sons, also for money.
And the same goes for your allies in Palestine. They terrorise the women and children, and kill and capture the men as they lie sleeping with their families on the mattresses, that you may recall that for every action, there is a reaction.
Finally, it behoves you to reflect on the last wills and testaments of the thousands who left you on the 11th as they gestured in despair. They are important testaments, which should be studied and researched.
Among the most important of what I read in them was some prose in their gestures before the collapse, where they say: "How mistaken we were to have allowed the White House to implement its aggressive foreign policies against the weak without supervision."
It is as if they were telling you, the people of America: "Hold to account those who have caused us to be killed, and happy is he who learns from others' mistakes."
And among that which I read in their gestures is a verse of poetry. "Injustice chases its people, and how unhealthy the bed of tyranny."
As has been said: "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure."
And know that: "It is better to return to the truth than persist in error." And that the wise man doesn't squander his security, wealth and children for the sake of the liar in the White House.
In conclusion, I tell you in truth, that your security is not in the hands of Kerry, nor Bush, nor al-Qaida. No.
Your security is in your own hands. And every state that doesn't play with our security has automatically guaranteed its own security.
And Allah is our Guardian and Helper, while you have no Guardian or Helper. All peace be upon he who follows the Guidance.
Courtesy of Aljazeera
