Thursday, February 02, 2006

Blasphemy is in the Eye of the Beholder

I see a huge hue and cry going on in the MSM over the Danish cartoonist and his representations of Mohammed bin Laden.

Even the Blogging Tories,
Post this cartoon and frighten a terrorist and the Progressive Bloggers are commenting about the Muslim outcry and censorship of what they are calling blasphemous representations of their prophet.

Islam bans any representation of G*D or his prophets. Which is why Islam developed a wonderful culture of architecture and abstract geometric art forms.

So with that in mind ANY representation, whether positive or negative of Mohammed, may his name be blessed, and A***h the merciful ,is BLASPHEMY.

It seems that fear of the Muslim masses has caused the usually staid and established European media to cringe at having masses of outraged muslims torch their buildings.

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Muslims, that peaceful religion, like to hold mass rallies and do the "villagers meet Frankenstein" thing. Sorta like brownshirts during the 1930's. This is what religious ideology does, it inflames the souls of their followers, who believe that there is no higher power than their G*D.

Christian and Muslim alike suffer this particular evangelism, sometimes called fundamentalism. It means that man made laws, the social contract of society is less important than the BOOK.

Which is why this text is considered Blasphemy in Islam and great literature in the West.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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In this recent case of the controversial cartoon Muslims are being forgiven for their outrage, and outrageous threats, cause they are minority religion.

They are a patriarchical belief system based on the Old Testament, which has been the basis of the modern state since Constantine. They are just a later adaption of Judeo-Christian monotheism.

Jews are a minority religion as well, one that has faced genocidal persecution for centuries by Christians and Christian States. As an outcast minority in 19th and 20th Century Europe, not unlike the Muslims of today but unlike them they faced annihilation at the hands of the Nazi's which reminds us of the damage ideology gone rampant can cause. Today they demand the State defend them against anti-semitism by using anti-hate laws. Something that Muslims should consider if they are so outraged.


Where Islam is the State this is how they treat religious minorities:

Christian faces death for 'blasphemy'
Granted unprecedented final hearing before Pakistan Supreme Court


And in newly liberated Afghanistan, home of Americas newest Democracy, liberated by the U.S. army. Where Canadian troops hunt down the Taliban, and look for Osama bin Laden. Afghanistan where the Bush adminstration claimed they were going to free the Women of Afghanistan. Well it's still a muslim country.

AFGHANISTAN: Editor goes on trial for blasphemy


New York, October 11, 2005—
The editor of a monthly magazine about women's rights went on trial today in Kabul's provincial court on blasphemy charges for publishing articles purported to offend Islam.



You see Christians sue, or write letters to the editor, or blog their outrage. But that is because they are the established religion of North America, Latin America and Europe. They are the state religion.






'Jesus Juice' gets
corked for good

Couple won't market wine with image some call blasphemous

Posted: December 22, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com


A wine called "Jesus Juice" that includes a label with the image of a Michael Jackson look-alike in a Christ-like position on a cross will not be marketed, now that the California media power couple behind the effort has decided to abandon the idea.

As WorldNetDaily previously reported, "Jesus Juice" merlot was the pet project of actress Dawn Westlake and veteran CBS Evening News producer Bruce Rheins, who covered the Michael Jackson child molestation case.

Rheins and Westlake registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office the name "Jesus Juice" in January of 2004, only two months after Jackson was arrested and several days after news sources reported that Jackson referred to the wine that he purportedly gave to minors as "Jesus Juice."


I find myself agreeing with Steve Janke at Angry in the Great White North when he says;

As for peace-loving Muslims who are offended, well, too bad. Being offended is the price of freedom. Be offended, but don't be frightened or terrorized. Get used to being offended. I feel offended at least three times a week by things I read and by the opinions I hear voiced. I write about it, I defend my point of view, I try to show where others are mistaken or duplicitous, but I never ask that people be silenced.


Blasphemy is liberation. It comes in many forms, mainly those challenging accepted ideas. The Devil's Dictionary It allows us to challenge the idiotic belief systems of authority and the establishment, whether the domain of the ivory tower or the church or the state.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if He is as little as that, He is beneath it.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

Now this is a site I like Positive Blasphemy

Also see:

The Need for Arab Anarchism

No Suitcases At Mecca

Antinominalist Anarchism


Gnostic Heresy Cries Vatican

Blasphemy

Gnostic Heresy in Islam


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George Walker Liar


The pre-media release of the U.S. Presidents State of the Union Speech the other night focused on oil man George Bush announcing that 'America must overcome it's oil addiction', in particular oil from the Middle East.

It was a lie.

It made all the headlines pre and post STOU.
Bush Acknowledges U.S. Reliance on Oil

It was a lie.

It made the blogs. It was a major focus of discussion.

It was a lie.

Like his father before him it was George W. Bush's 'read my lips' line of the night.

It was a lie.

Bush aides clarify statements about oil


Mideast Still a Player in Oil Markets

On Wednesday, Hubbard and Bodman acknowledged that Persian Gulf oil may, in fact, not be replaced at all, even if overall oil imports were to drop because of the increased availability of alternative motor fuels.

Bodman said the president's reference to a 75 percent replacement of Persian Gulf oil was "purely an example" of the kinds of reductions in overall imports that might be possible if U.S. demand for oil were reduced.

"It was not meant to suggest anything related to the politics of the situation. ... It was merely meant to give an example," Bodman added.

Hubbard, when pressed further, abandoned the suggestion that Middle East oil would be "replaced" as the president said. Instead, he said the oil savings would be "equivalent" to three-fourths of the projected imports from the Persian Gulf.

Bush running out of energy

Bush's focus on reducing the percentage of oil imported from the Middle East, which currently accounts for only about 17% of all US oil imports, even drew scorn from neo-conservative allies of the president. They have argued that the impact on global prices created by Washington's demand for oil - regardless of its origin - is what empowers and enriches Middle Eastern exporters, such as Saudi Arabia, that in their view contribute directly or indirectly to radical Islamist movements that threaten the US and Israel.

"It doesn't matter if we don't buy oil from the Middle East," Gal Luft, a co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, told the New York Times. If the US doesn't buy oil from the region, "someone else will, supporting the same regimes".

One commentator, the Washington Post's economics columnist, Steven Pearlstein, took a particularly cynical view of Bush's proposals. "Does anyone really believe that a president and vice president who became wealthy from their association with the oil and gas industry, who never failed to tout the industry line and who presided over the biggest transfer of wealth from consumers to industry in the history of mankind - that these same leaders will move us beyond a 'petroleum-based economy' to one based on 'wood chips, stalks or switch grass'?" he wrote, referring to Bush's description of the sources of cellulosic ethanol.

On the eve of Bush's address, the world's largest energy company, ExxonMobil, announced that it had set a record last year for profits among US companies - $36 billion - apparently as a result of skyrocketing oil and gas prices, as well as generous tax breaks and other subsidies promoted by Bush and the Republican-led Congress.

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Yo Ho Ho


While George Bush told America "not to worry" that the victory in Iraq was all but assured and the War on Terror was progressing he missed this little fact.

That the destabilization of the region has now, for the first time, made Iraq is a hotbed of piracy.

Iraq stood out "as a new world piracy hotspot," with 10 attacks in 2005 after none the year before.

"Opportunists whose main motivation is robbery and financial gain, and who use extreme violence towards crews in most cases perpetrate these attacks," the IMB report said.

Most of Iraq's attacks were on vessels anchored near the Basrah oil terminal and Umm Qasr off the country's southeastern coast, it said.



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Gay Liberal Leader

I think Paul Martin pulled the ultimate Jean Chretien, exploding issue thingee when he announced on election night he was stepping down as Leader of the Liberals and the official opposition.

Like the Chretien Adscam which dominated his short lived reign as PM, now Paul has made the Liberal party news again. It's overshadowing the Harper victory with masses of media speculation on who will be running for the Liberal leadership. Clever.

The one successful tactic that worked for the Liberals in the whole election comes the night they lose.

Lots of speculation has dominated the political blogs, left, liberal and right. And frankly I could really care less.

But Adam Rawdwaski makes an interesting point in his National Pest column;

Last week, I got into an online debate with a fellow blogger about why urbanites are so obsessed with the Conservatives' position on gay marriage.

There's another reason for Harper to hurry up with this. To this point, the Liberals haven't been able to fully exploit gay marriage as a wedge issue because Paul Martin was himself unwilling to make a proper case for it. The next Liberal leader probably won't be so squeamish. If the Conservatives wait even until later in this parliament to hold the vote, they'll be handing him a ready-made cause to wrap himself around.


Which is why it is likely this guy will run for the Liberal leadership.

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Brison getting calls to lead - Calgary Sun - 30 Jan 2006
Scott Brison mulls Liberal leadership run - Toronto Star - 29 Jan 2006
Brison says he's getting calls about running for Liberal ... - Canada.com - 29 Jan 2006

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Seperated at Birth

In his State of the Union Address the other night U.S. President George Bush called for a ban on human cloning.Could this be the reason why?


O George Bush tem toda a pinta de Alfred E. Newman?


"Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research, human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling or patenting human embryos," Bush said to a joint session of Congress (Bush speech text, 1/31). After the U.N. General Assembly 59th Session in March 2005 approved a nonbinding statement urging governments to ban all forms of human cloning, including cloning for embryonic stem cell research, Bush said, "I look forward to working with members of Congress to enact legislation to ban all human cloning in the United States" (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 3/9/05). Congress is considering at least six bills relating to embryonic stem cell research and human cloning (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 7/25/05).
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President panders to anti-manimal lobby! Dr Moreau flees country in rage!



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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Majority of Americans Defend Privacy

If you are innocent you have nothing to hide, so why worry about wire tapping.

Can we translate this stupid arguement into German so it can be put into context, complete with sound track of jack boots marching off to the Nuremburg rally.


Wenn Sie unschuldig sind, haben Sie nichts sich zu verstecken, so warum Sorge über Leitung das Klopfen.

There thats more like it.

However often it has been repeated at least Americans are not sucked in by it.


They oppose the illegal (and dare I say IMPEACH - able offense, a real impeachable offense, not like lying to the American public about a girl and a cigar, ) wiretapping of the Bush Administration.


NBC Wall St. Journal poll finds 53% oppose the warrantless wiretapping.

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Workers Control Versus Trade Unions


Workers control of production is directly opposite of trades unionism. Trades or craft unionism attempts to secure work by limiting access to their trade or craft. Hence on a large industrial site you can not have multitasking or flexible work conditions as it would be a violation of a trades area of work.

Toyotaism created the modern form of multitasking which challenges even non-trades/craft industrial unions which still modeled themselves on the specialist does one job notion.

Toyotaism and self management models of team work orginated in the workers councils movements that arose during the Russian revolution and in Italy and Germany and later appeared in spontaneous workers revolts around the world through out the twentieth century.

Peter Drucker was one of those who recuperated this radical socialist idea for use as a modern management method. But the contradiction still occurs. When workers seize control of production, as I said here, they produce for the good of society not just shareholders. They also challenge the trades union model of production, by adapting flexible, work choices, rotational skills, and multitasking because it makes sense and it makes work easier.

This is what Zanon workers (made famous by the NFB film the Take) reported at a special meeting on Workers Control at the World Social Forum last week;

Under workers’ control, the workers’ assembly is now the maximum authority in the factory, and the workers themselves elect the ones who coordinate the work, decide upon all the in-goings and out-goings, makes decisions on employment, and so on. They also have a certain rotation in the factory so that everyone learns new abilities and knows how all the machines work, how the process of production functions, etc. Thus the productivity of the plant is being raised.

The situation they faced was that none of the three main trade union confederations in Argentina gave them any kind of support. But a key to the situation, as they explained, was the unity of the workers, not just in their own factory, but as a class. Therefore, they had gone to the other nearby factories to appeal for help and support and received a massive response.

Workers Self Management is also community self management, it means that the factory becomes a community insitution, with support from other workers and members of the communtiy where the workers live and work.

While these workers called for the nationalization of their plant, it is because we as a community have no other way of owning it under the current conditions of capitalism.

Something that even the free market libertarians understand is the limitation of capitalism as it exists today.


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International Solidarity

Iran and Iraq are in the news, what is not in the news is the treatment that workers and their unions face under these regimes. A tip o the blog to Leftnews for this.

Iranian workers are in trouble

The state owned bus company and the Iranian government have colluded to raid the homes of Union executives and supporters, throwing their wives and children in jail. This is absolutely disgusting. Canadians have to support these workers in any way we can.

Trade Unionist murdered in Iraq

Alaa Issa Khalaf, a member of the Executive Board of the Baghdad branch of the mechanics union, and a prominent member of the recently created General Federation of Iraqi Workers, GFIW, has been killed. He was shot dead at around 7.30 am on January 25 by several unidentified men as he left for work from his home in Baghdad. In a letter to the authorities of the country, the ICFTU firmly condemned what it considers to be a targeted attack on a trade union activist.


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The Gloves Are Off


Wow what a short honeymoon. Harper is still only a designated hitter, err PM, has no cabinet yet isn't sworn in and already King Ralph of Alberta has come out swinging. It gives new meaning to the Battle of Alberta. Calgary Premier against Calgary PM.

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is considering legislation that would no longer recognize the supremacy of the Canada Health Act, would allow doctors to practice medicine concurrently in the private and public systems and could open the door to for-profit hospitals operated by foreign corporations, the Edmonton Journal has learned.

The new Alberta Health Care Assurance Act, which Premier Ralph Klein insists will be tabled in the legislature this spring, replaces three existing laws, including the once-controversial Health Care Protection Act, known widely as Bill 11.

Some members of the government are worried Mr. Klein is deliberately testing the limits of the federal government, and that he will cause a rift between Alberta and the newly elected Conservative government.

In a worst-case scenario, Ottawa could cut some of the $2-billion in health transfers it sends to Alberta for public health services.

Blogging Tory Dissonance and Disrespect chortles with glee (what did you expect with a blog title like that) that Harper is between a rock and a hard place. He is hopeful of course that Harper will allow Klein to dismantle medicare in Alberta, which he and other rightwingers call a public monopoly.

I would rather have a public system (it's far from a monopoly there are hospitals, and health clinics as well as specialist services covered by medicare) than a private one any day.

The creation of the private utility monopolies/oligopolies with electrical deregulation in Alberta has meant increasing costs to consumers.
Something we will look forward to if Klein gets his way with privatizing health care.

Specialists will move out of public hospitals to create competing services in the private sector. Which will not reduce wait times.
Wait times main barrier to specialized care: study

A clear example is the abundance of private laser surgery eye clinics in Alberta. Ironically laser eye surgery was first developed in the Soviet Union, to reduce cataract operation wait times.

On the other hand the rational Blogging Tory Political Staples is worried about the Klein challenge to Harper and well he should be, it will be the first real crisis the new PM faces.

Klein likes to talk about how much money Alberta spends on healthcare, which is just behind Newfoundland in per person spending. But our healthcare still costs less than the privatized system south of the border costs each person! And as the Conference Board report on health care issued today says;

the findings demonstrate that "money is not the panacea in providing better health care. Spending larger sums of money does not necessarily translate into high performance. It is how the money is spent rather than how much, that appears to make the difference."

Also see:

Showdown at the OK Corral

Klein My Way Healthcare Reform

Klein Dares Harper

Beware the Boogey Man


Two Tier Alberta


Alberta Cowboys Hijack Health Care


Whose The Real Rodeo Clown


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Marriage Debate

A year ago when I launched this blog I posted this as one of my first articles:

The Sanctity of Marriage Debate What’s Love got to do with it?

An Anarchist Response to The Sanctity of Marriage Debate

Today I see it is still relevant, since there are idiots out there saying this:

Marriage is not merely a right. It is an institution that predates all states.

Once again the christian fundamentalist right wing will try any arguement to deny the reality that Same Sex Marriage is now legal in Canada. And will probably remain so despite the Harper government promise to revist this.

Originally posted by Burkean Canuck, which should tell you something of his politics, aristocratic apologist that Edmund Burke was. Appropriately he has a union jack on his blog page, still thinks we are a bloody colony of the British Empire. Probably a loyalist, slave owners that they were.

Which is not that far off since the Author,
Russ Kuykendall is also a Research Director for t the Work Research Foundation.

WRF is a front group for the anti-union right wing labour 'association' CLAC (Christian Labour Association of Canada). Both the WRF and CLAC were founded by members of the Dutch based Christian Reformed Church of Canada. The CRCC was one of the last of the Reformed churches to break with it's partner in Aparthied the CRC of South Africa.

The article was cross posted to the Shotgun blog, where it has generated much heat and little light, around sixty or more comments. Some libertarians going to battle for the fact that human sexual relationships were not based on marriage but on communal sexual relationships in tribes. This is true, they were also not based on private property which is the sole source for the institution of marriage, property relations, as I argued. Matrilinear inheritance was that the child carried the mothers name, not the fathers in these societies.

To sum up my arguement contrary to the B.S. floated around by right wing fundamentalist christians, MARRIAGE IS A STATE INSTITUTION AND A PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP. It is a modern development of the city states of the Ancient world, post Etruscan, where the woman owned property as did her husband, and is codified into law by Greeks and Romans.


A tip o the blog to Ianism for this.

Also see:

Whose Family Values?

Marx on Bigamy

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Stick This In Yer Pipe


And smoke it. Anti-smoking activists who claim that their attack on our right to smoke in well ventilated public spaces advocating laws against smoking and forcing us to butt out completely, has no economic or minimal economic impact are LIARS.

Ontario May Lose C$500 Mln From Casino Smoking Ban, Study Says

Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Ontario may lose as much as C$500 million ($438 million) a year by implementing a smoking ban in casinos because it will drive some smokers to U.S. gambling halls, an Ontario government study said.

To make up for this shortfall from their stupid smoking ban the Ontario government has a solution. Ont. tobacco taxes up $1.25 a carton


Also see:
Smoking Mad

Smoking At Home Will Be Banned


Where there's Smoke there's Smokers




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If This Is Success

If this is the new definition of success I would hate to see the definition of failure.

Enron's Lay called 'an American success story'




Also see:
Are Income Trusts A Ponzi Scheme

Alberta Fleeced by Enron


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Profiting from Contracting Out

As I have reported here before on this bust; The Neo Liberal Canadian State this is a perfect case of why contracting out and P3's , in this case IT or computer services, by the Federal Government was an abysmal failure. It cost us billions in the Firearms Registry boondoogle. And now this.....

Former bureaucrat faces fraud charges
Toronto Star - 30 Jan 2006
OTTAWA—The Mounties have charged a former Defence Department bureaucrat and two other men in a multimillion-dollar fraud involving computer maintenance contracts.
Charges laid in DND computer billing case Ottawa Citizen
Charges laid in $100-million DND billing scheme CBC News
580 CFRA Radio - Ottawa Business Journal - Ottawa Sun - all 11 related »


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Psychological Problems or Gun Problems

Another gun related massacre in the U.S., this time a woman postal worker. So the U.S. media covers it as a case of a psycho killer. The question is not her psychological state, but how come she had access to guns.

But of course the gun nut culture of the U.S. will never ask that question.

Proving once again in the negative, that gun control works. Sure we have the occasional gun incident up here in Canada but not with the regularity that they do in the U.S.

Official: Shooter had 'psychological problems'

Witness: 'We all hightailed it out real quick'

Tuesday, January 31, 2006; Posted: 11:30 p.m. EST (04:30 GMT)

GOLETA, California (AP) -- A former postal worker who had been put on medical leave for psychological problems shot five people to death at a huge mail-processing center and then killed herself in what was believed to be the nation's deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out by a woman.

The attack Monday night was also the biggest bloodbath at a U.S. postal installation since a massacre 20 years ago helped give rise to the term "going postal."

See my other articles on guns

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Mercedes Benz State of the Union


CNN's Lou Dobbs is an excellent example of the contradictions of capitalism.

He wants American Capitalism to be unique. It should not be a national capitalism in competition with other national capitalisms but rather it should be fair and balanced as some other network says.

It should take care of its workers, it should be Fordism.

He critiques Amercian corporations for outsourcing and offshoring Amercian jobs in one breathe, low wages paid to Amercian working families, then he attacks immigration err sorry illegal aliens in the next.

Somehow he believes that there is a mythical level playingf ield out there. That the problem is corporate America isn't being fair, to Americans. That capitalism is about fairness not dog eat dog competition. Boy talk about an idealist. When he isn't being a jingoist.

Last night on CNN before the State of the Union Lou did a special where he spoke out for the besieged American working class, opps I mean Middle Class (whatever that is).....

ANNOUNCER: This is a special edition of LOU DOBBS TONIGHT for Tuesday, January 31, "The State of Our Union: The View Outside the Beltway."

Here now, Lou Dobbs.

LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening, everybody.

Three hours from now, President Bush will deliver his fifth State of the Union speech. Tonight on this broadcast we will report on the real state of our union, no spin, no denial, but a nonpartisan, non- ideological view of the reality that makes up this country coast to coast.

We're live all across the nation with our special reports on the issues that matters most to working men and women, middle class Americans, from health care to educational opportunity, to the outright war on our middle class.

DOBBS: And the middle class should be, one would think, the center of the focus of both the Democrats and the Republicans. To this point, they've given themselves up to their corporate masters, and, in fact, neither party, even the Democratic Party with its traditions, is focusing on the needs of what is the foundation of this country, our middle class.

GERGEN: Well, that's right. There's a fellow named Ernie Cortez (ph) who's a big organizer of the Hispanic community in the South, and he told me once a couple years ago, you know, the Republican Party increasingly speaks for people who make more than $200,000 a year and the Democratic Party increasingly speaks for people who make more than $100,000 a year. Who speaks for people who make $40,000 to $50,000?

DOBBS: David Gergen, thank you.
Lou asked his viewers this question:

QUICKVOTE

Do you expect to hear President Bush say anything approaching these words: "The middle class is the foundation of American society" in his State of the Union address?
And the result was 94% of his viewers figured the President wouldn't. Guess we know who the majority of Americans think he speaks for.....those folks who make more than $200,000 a year.

So Lou explain this to me, how come Mercedes-Benz was the offical sponsor for President George Bush's State of the Union Address on CNN last night.

Mercedes-Benz. And its new S-Class


While the Mercedes-Benz is distributed in the U.S. by German owned DaimlerChrysler it is still produced in Germany.

Mercedes S-Class the sponsor of the State of the Union on CNN, costs
$86,175, is way out of reach of Middle Class Americans Lou was concerned about.
Guess thats why its called S-Class. Superior.

Hey Lou, will CNN now make your corporate bad guys list for accepting sponsorship from NON American corporations?

And for having a sponsor offering a foreign made car only affordable by George Bush Republicans, not middle class Americans?

Inquirying minds want to know.

There is another irony here.

Lou the jingoist patriot is promoting the The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund is constructing a world-class state-of-the-art advanced training skills facility at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. The center will serve military personnel who have been catastrophically disabled in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Mercedes Benz ad for its S-Class is Even Cars Need a Hero.

Someone once said capitalism knows no nation. Lou should learn this lesson soon.

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A Libertarian defense of Communism


Libertarian communism is the idea of workers councils, workers self management, the syndicalist ideal of workers control, Soviet power, Soviets without Bolsheviks that is. The Soviet Union Versus Socialism, by Noam Chomsky

Fire your Boss and Do It Yourself, the economics of self liberation.

Brad Spangler does it again from his position as a free market Libertarian he defends what others think is non-libertarian, oh you unbelievers you. Better yet he says that workers councils and workers control of the means of production is the highest expression of free market libertarianism.


This results in a dawning realization that quasi-Bolshevist seizure of state-allied corporations by their own non-managerial workers, such as Carson suggests, is entirely justified on libertarian grounds and that there is nothing in such actions incompatible with respect for genuine property rights and dedication to the free market ideal. Indeed, it would be the highest expression of that ideal.

The Emerging Anarcho-Centrist Agenda for Socialist Revolution with Free Market Characteristics


Or as Herr Dr. Marx put it the workers struggle is the struggle of the working class to eliminate itself as a class to become the human race. To eliminate classes by the radical realization of each individual as having self and social worth. Not just value as part of the creation of capitalism.

From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs, can only result when the producers/consumers are individuals and not wage slaves. Where the social abundance produced by all of us is not privatized for the use of only one class but for all.

That is to become the owners of the socialized means of production. You need to understand socialized to be the corporatized structure of advanced capitalism not state ownership. Thats where most rightwhingnuts get confused.


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State Of The Union Deja Vu

Gee was it just me or did King George II State of Dis Union speech last night seem familiar. Like his comments on the war in Iraq.

Could have sworn I heard that in December when he did his whirlwind speaking tour defending the indefensible, after his polling numbers ended up in the basement. Yep I did. It was word for word.

Most of what he had to say was well same old same old. He gave that huyuck Texas bubba look, pause wait for applause, pause guys waiting for applause, oh boy they are applauding, smirk. Half the house failed to applaud on key points, and only Senator McCain applauded vigorously when el presidente said that he would do something about cleaning up lobbying. Yeah right when hell freezes over.

Ho hum nothing new here lets move on.

Bush: U.S. must kick oil addiction

U.S. President George W. Bush uses his fifth State of the Union speech to propose weaning America from its addiction to imported oil and stands firm on staying in Iraq.

DEVELOPING STORY

Special Report: Scorecard: Rate the speech | Reaction
Anderson Cooper 360 blog: Taking the offensive
Gallery: Photos | Quiz | Slide show | Fact check
Highlights: Domestic issues | International issues | In full


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Not very diplomatic

Those John Wayne types in the U.S. armed forces in Iraq are at it again. This time they shot up the Canadian Amabasador to Iraq's car. More friendly fire. Lets see we had Canadian troops killed when Americans dropped bombs on them in Afghanistan. We have had an ambassador killed and troops injured since we have taken over for the fleeing err withdrawing U.S. troops in Kandahar. And now this.

Oh yeah remember its just an accident. This is what happens when you give 18 hear olds live ammunition. An accident like when they killed the Italian Spy chief and injured the Italian reporter after shooting up their car.

With allies like these who needs enemies.

Guess this wasn't worth a news flash last night cause the Canadian newsmedia probably didn't want to interrupt err embarass Georgie Bush during his state of dis Union speech.

Apparently now that the orgy of self congratulations in the U.S. is over CNN is now reporting on this.

(CNN) -- U.S. forces in Baghdad accidentally shot at the car of the Canadian ambassador to Iraq, John Holmes, but no one was injured, a State Department official said.

It was not immediately clear whether Holmes was inside the vehicle.

"It's an unfortunate incident," the official said of Tuesday's incident. "We are in close contact with the Canadians about the matter."



Tip o the blog to
Right of Center Ice for this

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Ralph Likes Brokeback Mountain

Looks like the Klein government having lost the infamous Vriend case and then having been defeated over the issue of Same Sex Marriage, has now accepted the inveitable. It is praising in official press releases the fact that the gay content film Brokeback Mountain is on the way to the Oscars. Thats because the film was made in Alberta. Gay sex on the silver screen made in Alberta. Come home Bruce and Steve all is forgiven. A tip o the blog to daveberta for this.



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