Dave Streater-- Thoughts on the Goin'-down-the-tubesness of the World and What We Can Do About It....
(Those Farenheit 911 jokers sure are achin' to TORCH stuff like this! That is, I will make an attempt to illuminate a few truths, along with my diary- like entries on s%!t that is going down- probably a rather risky behavior these days. Again, note the warning! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR any ,uh, ....'damages'... caused by any THINKIN' (as opposed, of course, to, ..., uh, ...'thinking'...) that these pages may inspire!))
Here's some of the areas of concentration we should all be thinking about:
urban ecology / transportation-action: TA (Transportation Alternatives),Green Party, Union of Concerned Scientists, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, TransportaionOptions, environment, Alliance for a Paving Moratorium, other auto-free,car-free; bicycle & other alternative transportation advocacy... and etctera..
email: nocarsdave@clarityconnect.comNOTE:
Please let me know about any accessibility problems or warnings I should have given accessibility- wise! (for links given on these pages) ALSO, this is a ...'COOKIE'... - FREE SITE!!!! Thus, please advise me if this page gets hacked by some corporate criminals and it attempts to infect your 'puter with any &^(%ing ...'cookie'...'s
(I've seen such things happen before-- for example, with my (somewhat milk-toast) yahoo geocities page!)
SO, yes; it would be nice ('nice'...?) to just play our music and do our own thing and watch our poor world being destroyed between our very eyes, but I for one can't do it. Here's some thoughts: (... ...'DANGER'... ...- you read these pages at your own, uh,... ... 'risk'...-- see the warning in 'fine print' below!)
But first, the, uh, recently "broken" news and things which remain on the very top of the growing heap of STUFF THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED:
EMERGENCY-- *UCKING pataki IS TRYING TO ALLOW @$$holes, and various poor souls who have been tragically brainwashed by such, to RUIN our public lands with their ...F'NG ...'a. t. v.'s'....!! PLEASE CALL FOR THIS SCUMBAG's IMMEDIATE REMOVAL FROM OFFICE! There MUST be some mechanism for such, when a (even, uh, ...'elected' (yeah, right?)) ..'leader'... advocates in any way this kind of heinous crime!! PLEASE, all you hiding champions of humanity, CALL NOW; WRITE (and right) NOW!!!!
...I know, I know, we're all completely over-extended-- there's SO much SH**T..., but some--HOW, some--WAY we MUST stop it from hitting the fan any more than it has already!!
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Here's a log that "burned" in April, '05:
Let me preface the following note by stressing that, in the past I have found officers of the Ithaca Police Department most helpful in a huge variety of cases, including several serious assaults by errant 'motorists'. In all of those instances the officers knew the law and showed considerable understanding of issues with bicyclists' safety. For these instances I am most grateful. And as far as I could see, the Ithaca Police Department always had a good relationship with the community, and were looked upon favorably. I hope that that basically hasn't changed, but you'd never have guessed it from what I experienced on Friday, 4/8/05.
On that day, at 10 a.m., a certain police officer, who was SUPPOSED to be protecting us and upholding the laws of the land, instead spent a sizable portion of the morning harassing and issuing a citation to me, a law abiding cyclist, trying to force me to ride in an extremely unsafe manner on a network of roadways which it is hard to believe were not formulated with the intention of causing the death of as many cyclists as possible. Because I would not ride in an unsafe manner, since I know the New York State vehicle laws do not require me to do so, this officer ISSUED ME AN ILLEGAL CITATION, trying to SCARE ME INTO riding in an unsafe manner. (I did not even realize immediately what he was trying to force me to do, finding it hard to believe that a police officer was actually commanding me to do ssmething that would make it highly likely that I would be killed, given my past observations and experience)
The New York State traffic code is very clear on this.
Section 1234 reads:"Section 1234. Riding on roadways, shoulders, bicycle lanes and bicycle paths. (a) Upon all roadways, any bicycle shall be driven either on a usable bicycle lane or, if a usable bicycle lane has not been provided, near the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway or upon a usable right- hand shoulder in such a manner as to prevent undue interference with the flow of traffic except when preparing for a left turn or when reasonably necessary to avoid conditions that would make it unsafe to continue along near the right-hand curb or edge. Conditions to be taken into consideration include, but are not limited to, fixed or moving objects, vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, animals, surface hazards or traffic lanes too narrow for a bicycle and a vehicle to travel safely side-by-side within the lane."
Here is my statement:To: Chief Lauren Signer, Ithaca Police.
Bob Wigden, Chair
Community Police Board
From:
Dave Streater
102 Homestead Rd.
Ithaca (tel. 272-5015)
__On Friday, April 8. 2005, I was riding on Seneca Street, a one way, two- lane street, where traffic was light. I was between Meadow and Fulton. The light ahead was red, with a line of cars at a standstill. There were no parked cars on either side of the street.. However, there were on the right side of this street numerous drain grates, and the usual rocks and pieces of debris that make it unsafe or damaging to ride on.
_At that time a car came up and stayed close behind me. I became wary, as drivers who tailgate so long often do dangerous things. There was plenty of room in the other lane for this car to pass, if this was the intent of the driver. Thus, to be safe, and considering the road surface situation, as well as the low traffic conditions, I rode far enough from the curb that the driver of the car would easily see me and recognize that this was no place to try to "squeeze by" at the risk of my life. At this point, the driver pulled up alongside of me. To my surprise, he turns out to be a police officer (officer Wright) who began yelling at me to ride on the side of the road. I told him that I did not feel comfortable doing so under the prevailing conditions. At this point, the officer turns on his flasher and orders me to pull over, get off my bike, and to stand in front of his car. He then immediately proceeded to write the citation. I tried to point out to him that the law clearly allows for a cyclist not to ride near the right hand curb or edge of the roadway when reasonably necessary to avoid unsafe conditions (NY State Traffic Code, Section 1234). Seemingly not listening nor giving consideration to anything I said, his only verbal response was to volunteer his personal opinion that he would understand if drivers, frustrated by my 'slowing them down', would try to run me off the road. With this surprisingly offensive statement, officer Wright left me with my frustration and the citation.
Here is the section of the NYS traffic code that applies:"Section 1234. Riding on roadways, shoulders, bicycle lanes and bicycle paths. (a) Upon all roadways, any bicycle shall be driven either on a usable bicycle lane or, if a usable bicycle lane has not been provided, near the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway or upon a usable right- hand shoulder in such a manner as to prevent undue interference with the flow of traffic except when preparing for a left turn or when reasonably necessary to avoid conditions that would make it unsafe to continue along near the right-hand curb or edge. Conditions to be taken into consideration include, but are not limited to, fixed or moving objects, vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, animals, surface hazards or traffic lanes too narrow for a bicycle and a vehicle to travel safely side-by-side within the lane."
__The feeling that certain automobile operators seem to have, of 'being slowed down by bikes'... is a completely false notion. This is due to the vast amount of road space taken by a car. In times of "heavy traffic" I probably speed up traffic considerably by being on a bike instead of in a car, even if I must sometimes take a full lane. When there are even just a few bikes, even though traffic flow is substantially improved, certain automobile users see something-- a cautious cyclist, to which they can attribute this falsely conceived 'slowness'. Note that this analysis assumes bikes are being ridden in traffic and not along the very edge of the road.
__As the reader has no doubt noticed, an uncomfortably large percentage of automobile drivers seem to think they are going too slow MOST OF THE TIME. But crash, death, and injury statistics irefutably and repeatedly tell us the opposite-- that, in fact these drivers must be ALMOST ALWAYS GOING TOO FAST!
__Note: When there is a bikelane, or a large enough lane which is obstacle-free all the way to the curb (neither of which is the case on Cayuga Street), each bike represents the near removal of an entire car from the traffic pattern, providing an even greater reduction in traffic. (you'd think this would be a strong motivation for the city to build safe, efficient bike lanes on all major roads!)
__This officer gave a citation to a person who had committed no crime. Officers who commit sich offences should of course be dismissed from the force. This officer's crime could cause me to think twice about being careful in a dangerous situation, resulting in my death, or at least, serious injury, if I happen to be very lucky. (On the other hand, I have observed an officer watch an automobile blatantly run a stop sign right in front of him, and take no action.)
__I have not been injured or nearly killed (though I have had my bicycle run over by a malicious driver and was hit and knocked down with a car door, receiving some injuries, by another), since I made the decision to be completely careful, and to not automatically allow motor vehicle operators to risk my life to save two seconds, or to get ahead of me in a line of cars. Before I became as careful as I am now I had several injuries and close calls caused by negligent drivers; these still occasionally occur if I let down my guard, which is easy for me to do, since I am by nature, to which all the people who know me will attest, a most considerate person.
Thus, if I am killed by a car, I hereby declare that the driver is guilty of clearly intentional murder, and should be brought to appropriate justice! That is my last will and testament. Otherwise the killers would have to live with that mark, as it were, on their lives. There is no excuse for such a viciouis, demonic crime. Society, to further civilization, must no longer condone such overt violence.
UPDATE--- Of course they turned a blind eye. The court threw the case right out, but that's not satisfactory to me, at this point. I spent an entire afternoon having to go down to town in ...'good'.... clothes, sit in the courtroom being forced to listen to case after case, then having to give a little talk.. and I didn't get paid a cent. I intend to pursue this farther, so that at least this kind of thing stops happening. And think how many LEGITIMATE tickets this guy could have given to truly dangerous 'motorists' in the time he took to illegally detain me! I should be re-inbursed for that time, at the very least!
OK- now we got that off our chest... So, going on...--
.....NOPE, WE CAN"T
, uh, 'go on' QUITE
yet..
It happened AGAIN, on Friday, 5/13/05 approx2:30 p m ! A supposed 'police officer' that must have been buddies with officer Wright-- they must have cut the same classes...) was following me on the part of East Street which lies East of where Mitchell Street turns off. There were big trucks and much traffic in the oncoming lane. There were big trucksand other vehicles, for a while. Then a break occurred in the traffic, and this supposed ..'officer'.. pulled up along side of me and, in a fashion not too unlike that of officer Wright (I'm not COMPLETELY sure, actually, that it wasn't officer Wright, though it seems unlikely he would put his job this much at risk, havng learned about the law before, most hopefully..), proceeded to harass me, including the ludicrous suggestion that I "ride on the side walk", which ended only a few hundred feet down the road! (not to mention was not at all contiguous even up to that point,from town (which this ..'officer' did not even seem to know, either..))... When I told him it was against the law, he said he was giving me special permission. "So is it ok to smoke pot if a police officer gives me 'special permission'"? I asked; ";you are telling me I can do something illegal as long as you tell me it's ok? Hmmmmm! All this went right by him and he tried this approach: He said, "Well I just don't want to be scraping you off the pavement", and " it's not my fault if You get killed"-- NOW WAIT A MINUTE-- DOES THAT MEAN THIS ,uh, ...'officer'... IS THREATENING NOT TO DO ANYTHING IF SOMEBODY ILLEGALLY KILLS ME WITH A DEADLY INSRUMENT? ISN'T THAT PART OF the JOB DESCRIPTTION, for a "law enforcement officers"...? Or is he in fact inferring that he just might decide to run me over if I'm holding him back', not letting him try to squeeze by when it would be very difficult to do so without killing me? THIS IS CLEAR GROUNDS FOR HIS DISMISSAL!
WHERE ARE THEY GETTING THESE JOKERS?
Again, these incompetent ...'law enforcement officers'.... are ENDANGERING CYCLISTS LIVES, LEADING CYCLISTS and MOTORISTS ALIKE TO DRIVE IN EXTREMELY UNSAFE WAYS. IF I AM KILLED BY A CAR, EVEN IF ONE OF THESE ignorant 'policemen' is not at the wheel, I WAS PROBABLY INADVERTENTLY RIDING IN AN UNSAFE MANNER BECAUSE OF THEIR ILLEGAL HARASSMENT OF ME. THUS THEY MUST ALSO BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE FOR SUCH A MURDER ("..murder.?, you ask-- YES, knowingly taking the life of another human being- this includes putting others at unreasonable risk!)
_ OF COURSE, they ultimately will meet justice, by the law of "what comes around goes around; the law of deep causual connection! They will be far better off if they are called to task for this now. I have done my best- I called the chief and described what happened the best I could. I hope that these errant officers are corrected before they have much real blood on their hands; who knows how much they have already! (so THAT log is STILL burning; its gonna be pretty hard to put that fire out!
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-look, they nailed a spammer! Maybe this will be a harbinger of victory for the movement to bring these suckers- spammers- to justice. I hope they force him to pay that 700 million or whatever it was, to be split among all the people he has tormented through his garbage. This loser probably sent pernicious mail that will still be noodling and re-cycling through netspace long after he is in prison!
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The site linked here explores evidence that ..nush-oops, I mean, bush, and his staff were ACTUALLY COMPLICIT IN THE "911 attacks" and mentions all sorts of other things that maybe we don't want to hear, but that we better listen to, as true patriots, for the sake of America's future/!
This would not be surprising to me, given the plethora of other illegal and rotten (in amerika, many things that are illegal are not at all rotten, at this point, and many REALLY ROTTEN things are perfectly legal; even encouraged...) acts these jokers have committed. THE UPPER ECHELON of our ...'government'... sure is rotten to the core!
Thoughts on The great ... uh, ..'amerikan'.. coup d'etat of the years 2k - 2004
My politically savvy (NOT "dough-faced"...)friends from the Lymenet "off topic" page shared this work with me:
DOUGH-FACED NATION. (What multifaceted similes that title implies!)
Now this "ashhole" ..., um, ..'attorney general'.. is trying to revise our laws and tell us what they mean. Please speak out against this attempted coup!
_Here's something eveybody should read-- especially those who have somehow been sucked into the foul-smelling corporate- controlled "bush camp"...:
Former U.S. Attorney General RAMSEY CLARK speaks on the bush COUP...
Here is an interview with John Dean about HIS new book, 'Worse Than Watergate', (Little, Brown, and Co., Time- Warner (!))
--I've looked around a bit, but have only been able to find the text to one chapter of Worse Than Watergate on-line. But somebody should have more soon, I would expect.
It IS happening here, AND NOT JUST ...'AT A THEATER NEAR YOU'...!!! Let us "JUST SAY NO" to FASCISM, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! (WARNING--f'ing, uh,...'cookie'... alert!-- another case of good content, bad code. There is NO valid reason for, um uh, ...'cookies'... (...'yum'..., eh?- yeah right- who cares if the computer's slow as rocks if it's gagging on something as ...'delicious'... as ...'cookies'...?!!! Has anyone invented "counter-cookies" yet? ))
Hey, LOOK!- These days, when election fraud is demonstrated to have happened in The Ukraine, THEY HAVE ANOTHER ELECTION!!!
-- UN-like WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ELECTION FRAUD HAS CLEARLY OCCURRED HERE IN 'amerika'. Yikes!--- the tables have turned. Now we're the aggressors, starting wars to keep our resource supply lines going... Now the ...'amerikans'... are the ones with the illegitimate government, and, on a different level, a new kind of dictatorship; the corporate dictatorship, which puts up a well-thought-out facade of ...'democracy'...(yeah, right...), and controls all the weapons, resources, and has multitudes of people living in near-slavery.-TAKE A GANDER AT THIS:...'our' (yeah, RIGHT!) congress VOTES TO BUY the SCUMBAG, bush, a ,er.....'precidential (sic(k!)) yacht'... ...WITH OUR MONEY!
Now, doesn't THAT make you feel WARM AND FUZZY!...
....................................................................MOREl still more, lamentably.... ON ELECTION FRAUD:
SORRY, FOLKS-- I JUST DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE THAT MANY morons, selfish (and masochistic, if they have any brains and aren't really rich) jerks, or oppression-victims who are completely hypnotised or deluded by the bushwazian corporate dictatorship into behaving like one. Anyone who REALLY voted for that criminal, disgusting piece of excrement, gee dubya bush, must, of course, fall into one of these three categories!
EVER MORE scum leaks are appearing in the fabric of the corporate dictatorship's ROTTEN facade! --
Have a Look at: The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy, by Thom Hartmann
If you want to win an election, JUST CONTROL THE VOTING MACHINES!
If you want to win an election, JUST CONTROL THE VOTING MACHINES! (local version with appropriate musical accompaniment, in case the common dreams site gets snuffed by the flaming repugnantans...)
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We MUST write letters to the editor protesting the censorship of the 'news' media, and its refusal to report any of the many clear indications of massive fraud in the 2004 ..'election'...
I wrote this letter to a local paper here, The Ithaca Journal, and they printed it. Then somebody else wrote in. You could just FEEL the awareness skyrocketing! We MUST send more letters of this sort! We CAN make a difference!
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NOW,.. To BEGIN to HAVE AN INKLING of how big a scumbag we are dealing with here, check Out:
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It's just AMAZING to me, that originally, this country WAS FOUNDED BY RELIGIOUS DISSIDENTS THAT HAD FACED PERSECUTION IN EUROPE.
Separation of church and state was a really big issue.
BUT NOW LOOK!- "church and state" are in bed together, fornicating away! And these, uh,...'pious'... um, ....'leaders'... are PUSHING all kind of UNAMERICAN things like FORCED PRAYER IN SCHOOLS, the teaching of PROVEN falsehoods as ...'science'..., abortions done in basements with meat cleavers and coat hangers, and intolerance of people who have developed or inherited "belief systems" different than the ones which were forced on them. These, uh, ...'leaders'... put on a show of being real, ...'pious'.., then suddenly initiate unimaginably violent attacks against certain people, most of whom are defenseless and who did not in any way do anything to hurt 'us'. Such immedieate military ...'solutions'... only foment hatred among many peoples of the world at a time when nuclear arsenals are becoming more and more available. And I have learned recently that censorship, unconstitutional though it may be, is in "full swing"!
(WARNING- the next link may cause old computers to crash!!!)
If you have a fancy new computer, you may want to check out the "bellaciao" website: "Too Many Voting Irregularities To Be Coincidence"
- good content, but BAD CODE!!! inaccessible. Unprintable, (unless, perhaps, you have the ..'fanciest'.. new computer!)
_' DS note-- I thought this kind of insidious indirect oppression came almost exclusively from, uh. ....'entities'... such as the repugnantan 'party' and their filthy affiliates, or other such money-grubbing, uh, "exclusive" sorts. The ...'fancy' (yeah, right...) formatting represents a victory by the corporate dictatorship; this ever faster ...'introduction' of 'new' formats that require more and more and more memory and faster and faster cpu's greatly hinders progressives' communications!
PLEASE THINK ABOUT THIS, ALL YOU GREEN "WEBMASTERS" OUT THERE!!! We NEED to KEEP THE REAL INFO FLOWING!
FIGHT for MORE ACCESSIBILITY!
STRONGLY ADVOCATE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMPATIBILIY!
USE PLAIN TEXT WHEREVER POSSIBLE!!!
(resizable by the reader- see ****Web Accessibility Initiative; Evaluating sites for Accessibility)
--Well, Bellaciao does in fact now have stuff in plain text. But it's TOTALLY plain... That's good, but I still feel the main part of the page DOESN'T have to be so, uh, ..'high end'...!It could look nearly the same and still be accessible to almost any browser, though the algorithm for keeping it updated might not be quite as ,...'easy'... ... to carry out. (but may well ultimately take less total effort if everything is counted.(such as learning new techniques, dealimg with the inevitable software ...'bugs', etc.). And the page would be printable by a simple keystroke.) Imagine how many people might happen upon it and start to THINK!
THINKING is very dangerous for the scumbags.Hence this is an important issue.
Here's the link:
Some text on the Bellacio site
YIKES- LOOK AT THIS!:
...'whitehouse'-linked clandestine operation PAID FOR VOTE-SWITCHING SOFTWARE
ALWAYS KEEP IT PRINTABLE!
(even on an old computer with little memory)!
RESIST pernicious mail! (is this ...'mime'.--there must be SOME kind of buzzword for anything that sucks as bad as pernicious e-mail, so that people will just kind of EAT IT UP (kind of like ...'cookies'..., you know?);"mime" could be that buzzword
("pernicious email" is a much more accurate name for it, though!))
RESIST ...'java'... (except for the real kind, if you must (the kind that smells good when brewing)), 'mime, 'cookies', and "postscript- error"- generating printer codes, etc! BEWARE of ...'new'.. 'technology' that makes it hard for progressives with modest means to disseminate information Much of this ...'new' 'technology'... is promulgated by certain jokers --believe me, they're around!--who want to extract dough out of you for every information (or ...'information'...) transfer that you make! (its no accident, of course, that these jokers are ALMOST ALWAYS REPUGNANTANS!)
And of course, we all, I would hopefully assume, know about: BlackBoxVoting.org.
This essay: "How Bush, uh, ...'won'... the 2004 election" may actually have been written BEFORE the'04 ....'election'... by one of the many "bloggers" who saw it coming.
.....Democracy...; Yeah, RIGHT!
ANYWAY,..., , I voted for Shumer and Kerry- guess i'm a 'traitor' but it seems there's two choices- tweeledee and tweedleDUMBassDUBYA himself. --so tweedle dee it shall be- he actually might turn out to be very good- kind of a "wild card", but a wild card is better than the four of clubs!_ In ANY case, this antiquated ... 'electoral 'college' system HAS GOT TO GO!
It is time to revamp and re-establish democracy in America. What ever happened to the spirit of the "Boston Tea Party"? ("terrorism", cried the repugnantans, then known as 'tories') -So this country, AMERICA, WAS FOUNDED VIA 'TERRORISM'- fairly brutal 'terrorism', in fact.
... So will it take another revolution? It may, since democracy has been lost. And there are more and more of us with nothing to lose.
However, the orwellian age has dawned. The oppressive 'intelligence' morons watch your every move. Alarm bells ring if more than a handful of people gather, and the cops, or the FBI, are there in an instant. There is no hope. The typical out-of-control tower of power. The most ruthless assholes go right to the top of the economic hierarchy. The best fakers (and biggest assholes, since they have the financial towers of power funding them) get elected- or, if that doesn't work, get …'appointed'… by the corporate controlled (since its justices have been chosen by corporate controlled (to varying degrees) presidents) court.
And where do the ..'churches' fit in this? Well, almost every one of these is (sing it- to the tune of that great old Allman Brothers song)--
"just One More
Corporation",
for whom money is
the "bottom line" . . .
And, speaking of such where does all this leave us musicians?
Well, once upon a time, the biggest scumbags always used musicians to help generate "fervor". In particular, brass bands evoked a sense of militancy, of 'inevitable progress'; of ..'victory'
But now we have "sound bites"! Who needs musicians any more? Now studies of the effects of various ..'sound bites' can be computer- generated, tested, and the 'most effective' (meaning, those inhibiting logical thought and independent thinking) can be ...'determined'.... And these ...'most successful'..sound ..'bites' can be widely disseminated at almost no cost!
(--so I guess I could become a ..'sound bite'... artist and prostitute myself that way, but no thanks--
I'm going to play REAL MUSIC, both actually and figuratively. Even though I apparently might well end up in prison for either one of these ...'unamerikan'.... activities'... ...
Dave Streater
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This may be worth reading:
Gore's thoughts on certain rank- smelling incumbent scum that has squatted in (or perhaps, OVER, if you catch the drift here?..) the white, um, ...'house'...
And, being like cnn, we must be ...'fair and balanced'... so, click the link to read and hear some of bush's , uh,... .....(snicker).... ...'wisdom'... (Yeah, RIGHT...!)
...And the idiotic counter-American (that is, uh, ugh, .....'amerikan'...) iraq war CONTINUES.....
UMMMMMMMMM.... as you might remember, if you've managed to avoid blanking out your brain with too much telescreen exposure.. we were told quite awhile ago that we had, uh,.... ... ..., youknow, uh,......
... ... um, ...'won'... ... the war. UH, yep, yep,-- ... ... ... , YEAH, And just for the record, here's a letter similar to one many of us sent to desperately try to stop up the terroristic tubes down which our figurehead dictator "george w." is for some reason (... which I sure hope is his ignorance and mental incompetence (but the jury seems to be out on whether that ignorance is just a put-on by an evil madman!... ...!)) seemingly aiming to send the world...
--well, a lotta good THAT did, eh?....but we incessantly keep trying!
But let's get back to more information that must be considered before any of us ever again goes a-lever-pulling behind ever-flimsier curtains:
(article in "Capital Hill Blue" --Well whadya know... as if this wasn't OBVIOUS...- THE SCUM IS STARTING TO LEAK OUT! (it's odiferously seeping. out of certain scumbags in and around the ...'white' uh, 'house')-- that unelected, uh, ...'precident'... of ...'ours' is one deranged, sick pruppy!)
--actually, he's even SICKER than I thought-> Check out:
this 'DubyaSpeak' site, which I fear probably shows bush at his best moments, though we readers certainly hope otherwise... (Don't let yourself get overcome with negative feelings; we must always have compassion for mentally compromised individuals. But if such an individual, by some mistake, or through election fraud or other, um, ...'ACT OF GOD'... happens to be put into into such a position of responsibility, he or she is going to need some very competent, as well as selfless, assistants. If bush is not amenable to this and insists on choosing the kind of, you know, ...'assitants' with which he has alligned himself in the past, the courts or a multipartisan panel of citizens, should step in and pick the assistants, to guard against the kind of extreme actions such indviduals are prone to.take, often without warning.
(but maybe it would be better just to have a recall election-- they did it in California; why not for the U.S. presidency?!) (but it would have to be a REAL ELECTION, with PAPER BALLOTS counted by REAL HUMANS, with double and triple checks against corruption!)))
NOTE:
***Click HERE to see that ACTUALLY, election fraud HAD ALREADY BEEN TESTED by the repugnantans CONSIDERABLY BEFORE 2004!
And now, some other current action an issues, if I can manage to keep anywhere near up with all of them:
-Hey, LOOK!--..there JUST MIGHT be some HOPE!
(a multitude of voices of reason is continuing to rise above the pitiful war- mongers' belligerent grunts!!).
...but we're still not likely to see anything about THESE important events in the F^(%ing ....'news'.. (i.e., the 'news', yeah, right; the "corporate news", that is.....)! Hmmmm mmm... ...
But we gotta keep singin to ourselves, " There Just Might Be Some Hope."..... ... ...WELL,... That hope was ONCE AGAIN dashed against the rocks bigtime !
'amerika'... (yeah, RIGHT...) .. has had YET ANOTHER, errrrr, ... UM, ... , ahem, another, uh, ... ,'ee.., .., 'eee-, ... .. ... ...'eeeelection'.... ... (i.e., an election, YEAH, ... ...... ...RIGHT)... ...
SO IT DID HAPPEN AGAIN!!! BUT WE CAN't GIVE UP; WE CAN'T LET OURSELVES BE DEFEATED! THIS TIME, there's CLEAR EVIDENCE BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT-- the correlation between vote tallying method and "exit poll" descrepancy is BLATANTLY indicative of massive fraud! (Luckily, the repugnantans were too stupid to think of how suspicious that would look- if they had been just a little smarter, they could possibly have bought off the folks who prepared the results of polls- but you can only do so much of this stuff before somebody "spills the beans"- thus I think they were hoping that if they worked on raising doubts about the polls' accuracy, that would be good enough. So that's what they're trying now. However, they might have a hard time with this one. It's typical of criminals that they desperately come up with more and more far-fetched ...'explanations' when evidence starts leaking out.)
SO, let's (sing it now...) NevaGive UP, NevaGiveUP, (buomp buomp bomp-,)
-DE-SPITE WHAT'S-BEEN GOING DOWN!
(and down, down, down, it certainly HAS BEEN GOING!
(except for the prices, which go UP, UP and
UP!)
And here's another little historical note for you, from the eve of the latest bushwazian war, when, in the middle of our demonstration for peace we got the bleak news, so I went back and sadly corrected it, putting it in the past tense!:
>> Here we have some MORE of what's REALLY been happening in ...'our'.... god-...'blessed'.... (or maybe it's more like , um, GOD! ...um, uh, .'blessed'....(as in, yeah, RIGHT!..) ...??) ...'amerika'... ....
So We here the cry echoing.... PLEASE, PLEASE, HELP! ------HERE's the REAL AMERICANs'
PLEA FOR HELP!
..................HELLLLLLP!!!!!!
............................AMERICA! is in grave danger; is dying FAST
(and all the while ... efffing...'amerika'... (...yeah, right....) gets stronger and stronger......)
check out: Boycottamerica.org-- --for some things that are ACTUALLY BEING DONE to fight the corporate dictatorship's ruthless iron fisted control of your life!
(I'm sure they'll try to snuff that one pretty fast so dig it while you can...)
But before we proceed further in our observations about what's going on "below the surface" in our poor pitiful 'amerika', we need, OF COURSE. the all too familiar ...'amerikan' anthem, the 'disclaimer', as well as the link to another lesser-known but FAR MORE IMPORTANT American tune (REAL AMERICAN, that is!), a Fair Use copyright statement:1) WARNING: READING (not just...'viewing', of course-- theres a DIFFERENCE, you know!..) ...
... ...the following pages may inspire the tendency abhorred in our american automoburbian "buy- this- no- buy- that- well- buy- something- before-your- money- can't- buy- ANYTHING- because- we- can- hardly- cut- down-enough- trees- to- print- enough- money- to- build- enough- weapons- to-keep- enough- oil- coming- in- to- keep- our- ***- cars- spewing- poison-in- that- daily- ratrace- that- we- waste- most- of- our- valuable-time- energy- and- life- perpetuating"......TV CULTURE..., to ...............THINK CLEARLY!!! (so now, since you had the opportunity to tire your eyes squinting to read the fine print, you can't sue ME (it wouldn't do you any good monetarily, even if you won, anyway!) if you read this and as a result, start THINKING CLEARLY and are therefore rejected by ...'american'.... society, discriminated against in every area of your life, denied employment,or even institutionalized!)
2) for the incidental use of any copyrighted material on this site, I hereby claim "fair use". (The copyrights to almost all of the material on this page are 'owned' by me, Dave Streater, anyway)
A NOTE ON ....'terrorism'... vs. TERRORISM!!!:
The United States Congress kills far more Americans than terroristsdo. 18,000 Americans die yearly because 40,000,000 of us can't afford health insurance. 440,000 Americans are killed yearly by the tobacco industry,helped by tax breaks. Thousands of Americans are murdered on 'amerika's roads yearly, while railroads lose funding. The weakening of urban air standards,to "suit" the "auto interests", kills thousands more. Shifting federal funds toward the
military-- and away from clean food and water, and energy alternatives-- is more deadly than explosions.
And not only that - The corporate dictatorship's transportationsystem (a mass of 'private'... automobiles) is DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR the demise of evenmore- MANY more-- americans and other world citizens, and what a lovely demise it is-- ... the survivors often face such devastating injuries and prejudice that they might well wish that they, too, could have been among the casualties!!!
... ... And now that we "got" sadam, or at least some poor sucker that looks kind of like Sadam,
Well, as of today I see they're seriously thinking of 'giving' sadam to the iraqi puppets the amerikan war machine has installed there. I think they underestimate the hatred that amerika has fomented among Iraqis. While I'm sure they've got a careful staging meticulously planned for sadam's uh, 'turnover', so they can maintain power and make sure sadamn is killed, and that he appears to have been killed by his own people, I suspect it's gonna be really, really hard to pull this one off!
(--wow, look how long I've had this on here, and it's still going on!
That IMMORAL FAKER, gee dubya bush and his handlers are TRUE SCUM. -- such a good faker tht most ..'amerikans' can't even see this!
Here's some more links:
Now THIS group is hot! -I either heard a program about them on NPR; then I heard a talk at Cornell, several months ago. I have a tape or cd of the talk somewhere;
I will try to put the sound up from the program. Joan Bakauer, I believe, was the name of the speaker. It was very eye-opening; almost UNBELIEVABLE! -- AND WE THOUGHT IT WAS BAD THEN!!! Think how much worse it will be, now that these criminals, ahem, think they can act like theythink they can claim to have some kind of a ....'mandate'... from the voters!
The name of the group is: THEOCRACYWATCH!
"Third World Traver"- some more real news for you!
democracy NOW-- a famous progressive real-NEWS group that the corporate dictatorship has so far been unable to stamp out ( but not for lack of trying!)
Transportation (prime ecological...)
Some Other Ecological and Social Considerations and Action:
Andthey sawed...
We can STOP SAWING!***
...but, how do we find the strength in the depths of our lives to stop this pitiful, self-destructive branch-sawing?"***-In case this link dies: HEREwill be the place to click for the same info!)
(I know- The corpoeate dictatorship has SNUFFED that link. (worse-than-snuffed, in fact- they've APPROPRIATED it!) I'll fix it as soon as I can manage! (I should have saved it-- sorry about that)-in the meantime, after being sure you never buy ANYTHING that's advertised on that page, you can search underenvironmental activism, peace, human rights, animal rights, etc.)(If you find any good links along these lines, please let me know!)...AND THERE ARE YET MORE ways to STOP SAWING on those branches "on which we sit"--
--Note: If only we could end this state of being so divided into all these little groups. To DO ANYTHING we need to all GET TOGETHER- perhaps under the banner of the Green Party, I would suggest. This is of course difficult for us, because our ranks (necessarily) contain all of the people who areboth intelligent enough to see and courageous enough to act on our vision, and people with both intelligence and courage are the hardest in the world get together on anything! But we CAN DO IT- We MUST- we are at the end of our rope; of our lifeline, as it were.....! Spread the word, in whatever way you can! ...Well excuse the tirade-- here's the continuation of thelist:
(especially any I find out about that that I didn't see on the list above.
"Other Ecological...")
Worldwatch Institute--a prime source of totally objective and forward-looking information containing lots of numerical data; i.e., lots of dismal statistics, but if you wade through these (and overcome any depression you encounter as a result ofTHINKING...), you get to some really well-thought-out ideas on some ofthe things we really need to do, and other things we might want to try,to ensure the future well-being of the children of the world who will have to deal with what we leave them!
(To go directly to some of their essays, clickthis hypertext!)Zero Population Growth-- Now here's a group who notices that population growth is the most pressing issue for human beings at this time-- the way things are rapidly going, if we DON'T take the bull by the horns and completely reduce our population growth to 0 (preferably less!) within the next 50 years, we will witness (and be part of!...) the most intense misery ever faced by humanity. It is interesting to observe that the use of ANY MEANS POSSIBLE, to prevent this catastrophe will probably cause less suffering than to do nothing, or less than nothing (as the so- called"conservative" (certainly a misnomer here!) politicians say they want...(perhaps having interpreted certain religious teachings with a nihilistic twist...)). Of course I'm too much of an optimist to advocate violence in any way, but if our numbers increase much more our very existence becomes violence by definition!
TWO or LESS; LESS IF AT ALL POSSIBLE!
(I'd even go so far as "TWO OR LESS, OR YOU'RE A ****ing MASS- MURDERER!" (alot more of one than any abortionist ever is!!!-THINK about it!))(but only, of course AFTER you READ this page... (so are the 'view'ers off the hook? (maybe not when they read THIS (but ignorance and inabiliy to READ are rampant, so,...(but even, after reading THAT? ---no-- it is indeed most difficult, to really think. The more one is admonished, the more he or she will stick to the wrong views and ignore their higher nature's clamoring...( But please, folks; let's try- the stakes are REALLY HIGH!))))).Sing it: "Please, folks, (*ta daoupa daoupa doaupa*) lets TRY!/
The Stakes are gettin' really really really really high!!"
(*daoupa ta daoupa , pa daoupa zaoup toaupa,..*)
(****= "mandatory expletive deleted--PLEASE excuse the vulgarity"!
--Hey!.. LOOK!.. SOMEBODY HEARS THIS CUCKOO!
...Somebody BESIDES "yours truly"!!! Wow!--
--Check it out: "Earth Meanders": "Viva La Earth Revolution: a Sustainable Future by All Means Necessary", By Dr. Glen Barry (http://www.environmentalsustainability.info/), January 30, 2005.)
--If that link dies, here's a copy (permission to copy is posted on the site) "Earth Meanders, Viva La Earth Revolu....".
Natural Resources Defence Council--(These guys seem o.k., from what I've read.)
"Our" Green Party in tompkins Co.,or Green Party (Ireland),or Green Parties in America--(the key to undoing activists' fragmentation-- they're starting to really do it in some countries!--see comment above! (..but why is there a Chicago address on this page? Well, maybe not having a "main page"-- decentralizing--is good, but only if the same result can be achieved, which I doubt....)
HERE's kind of a "clearinghouse for action" on various issues. HOPEFULLY it's not a ... ...'clearinghouse for action'... set up by the TRASHERS to divert the concerned citizens' attention and waste their time so they become less effective! I see more and more of this kind of thing all the time. ALWAYS CHECK YOUR SOURCES! And stay with the most important issues! It's somerimes hard to figure these out, but let's do the best we can!
People For the American Way
--not what you might suspect- these folks are in fact working to preserve and restore what the "founding fathers" had in mind in 1783 or thereabouts, as far as liberty and basic rights go-- that is, the real American ideal, not all this 'patriotic' b.s. that's being bandied about these days by the reigning corporate dictatorship!
And here's another source "to expand and inspire the movement for Environmental sustainability" (all kinds of interesting looking links; I'd tested many as of 7/27/97, but who knows now--I'll check it out when possible...):
Institute for Global Communications.
And .. Do you like DIRECT ACTION!? With NO COMPROMISE? Then here are thefolks for you (but lets get them with the green party too.--NO COMPROMISE,but we need to at least make the situation better for us than it is! Wecan't do much direct action if we're all sittin' in jail, and thats wherethose rectal abysses like Newt and George (NY governor-I'm from the east) want us; weve GOTTA stop 'em from getting elected! ):
EARTHFIRST!
NO- this one got snuffed, too- see below.They HAD a great gopherpage too, with lots of essays! Yes! --what we need is WORDS! A picturemight be like a thousand words in some cases, but takes a thousand timeslonger for us less-financially-fortunate persons' computers to load! Andonly WORDS! have the power to coordinate ACTION!-- BUT the CORPORATE DICTATORSHIP DOES NOT LIKE WORDS! It likes things that go ding-a-ling, things that buzz, and things that seem to go fast enough to leave all the havok it has created far behind, where responsibility for seas of suffering has long been kost! As a result the scumbags have apparently seems SNUFFED it OUT!
However, now Earth First DOES have this page: Earth FIRST! (but the corporate dictatorship does have a victory to show here, nevertheless (ding-a-ling-a-ling!)-- older browsers probably can't read this ...'new'... Earth First page.....)-- let E.F. know if that's the case for you! KEEP IT READABLE!! PLAIN TEXT!! I mean, look how fast my page loads! Why can't all pages be like this? Or has our confidence about what we're doing sunk THAT low, having been under brutal atack for so long?
Now, WHICHOF US IS ACTUALLY DOING ALL THIS SAWING-on those wonderful brancheson which we sit? (click the hypertext for what most of us know but thatsome of us don't have the COURAGE to admit.)
..Now here is Onething we can all do to help slow the progress of the world as it careensdown those proverbial tubes which are being greased diligently by numerous leaders who, mislead and coerced by anti-environmental interests of various sorts waving wads of greenish gray paper, keep their heads pointedly inthe sand: WRITE TO THEM! I try to do this to ... (click the hypertext above for the rest of my little schpiel and some (as current as I can manage, but I may have difficulty at times maintaining this section) examples...)
...AND... ... Talk about horrible stories about lack of BAsic freedoms! Do we have the right to hear what our leaders are ACTUALLY SAYING, or should we, "the proletariat", as they say, be FORCED to hear only what the corporate dictatorship-run ...'media'.. WANTS US TO HEAR? A person was ARRESTED after he got MUGGED by police and they stole his tape recorder, with which he was taping the democratic national convention, I think it was..... (this story, even though it reeks of ..'objectivity'.. (yeah, right...) will surely be snuffed out by the 'media', I'd bet...)(to make the media medi...OCRE!, at best, is their apparent plan..) And if nobody has a hard copy, well, what was said was ....'never said'; was "just 'blogger's hearsay'", in the current lingo.... ...EH?) What ISZZZZZ this?! ...You're about20 years late, but welcome home, big brother!Please let me apologize for my HORRIBLE language here-[- the whole page should be full of expletives, when describing such unbelievably criminal government police state actions; not to have it such is, I admit, extremely vulgar!] DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHERE I CAN GET A COPY OF WHAT REALLY WENT DOWN? Anybody that has a tape or a (REAL) transcript, please send it to me- I'll try to get it posted all over.Also, next time there is an important speech that should be recorded, I believe the americans with disabilities act (passed when we had a freely, (or at least, a little, more freely than today...) elected government) may allow people who, for example, have memory impairment due to an injury or illness, to tape such speeches freely-- thus it may may be harder for them to deny such a person's rights. Then tapes would be in existence, and could even be subpoenaed to be heard-- ...but isn't there some kind of 'freedom of information act'?What ever happened to THAT???
