Since 9/11, much of the common causes of the left have had to contend with an increasing amount of indifference or even hostility to their traditional struggles, as people have been more wont to see them as more and more irrelevant in the more vital struggle for security from terrorism. Over the last year, many who were concerned moderately with typically “progressive” causes, such as ending poverty and environmentalism, have turned their attention elsewhere, and many of those people that were indifferent to them have become openly contemptuous or dismissive. This has had the opposite (but by no means surprising) effect on the “true believers” of the left, who have used 9/11 as a reason to cling ever more faithfully to their ideals, and typically to ratchet up the shrillness of their rhetoric a few notches. There are a few who simply discount 9/11 as not important at all, in context of the “greater horrors” that the world faces. I remember seeing a picture of a typical refugee of the radical 60’s, wearing a shirt with the slogan that said something like “Fuck patriotism, I’m busy mourning for a million innocent Iraqis.” After all, what’s 3,000 white collar capitalist stock brokers compared to a million Iraqi children senselessly and brutally murdered by heartless sanctions? This kind of stance only exists on the most hardcore wing of the left: those people who are really unconcerned with actually convincing or winning anyone over to their cause, but who are so religiously committed to their political extremism that their activities seem to play out almost as a fantasy ideology.
However, it’s been a much more common reaction for the true believers to take the events of 9/11 and the global war on terror and insert them as the keystones in their progressive ideology. A casual perusal of the Guardian, the Nation or any other typically left-leaning media outlet will illustrate this. And true to form, the Independent has them all beat in terms of the degree to which it adheres to these principles as a matter of almost pure faith and the sheer absence of any real argumentitive sense.
Terrorism in Moscow and Bali; impending war with Iraq; breakdown in Ireland and Israel: it is easy in the urgency of important events to forget the underlying trends and forces shaping our world. The vast issues of increasing poverty and environmental degradation only rarely Ц as at last month’s Earth Summit in Johannesburg Ц bubble to the surface of political consciousness bestality gay sex. Yet they lie at the heart of many of the gravest crises afflicting the world, and have the potential to cause many more.
Poverty and the environment. You can hear the faint whisper of those who suggested on 9/12 that the fact that Bush didn’t sign the Kyoto Accord was the reason Osama decided to fly some planes into the towers. At the heart of this argument is the same fundamental reasoning that churns on quietly within the mind of any good conspiracy theorist: there are other pernicious forces that really cause these problems, and the fact that they cannot be seen or proved, only hinted at vaguely, is just more evidence for their real deviousness.
The threat of conflict over Iraq Ц the most dangerous since the Cuban missile crisis 40 years ago Ц is complicated by the world’s need to secure plentiful supplies of cheap oil from the Middle East to fuel our gas-guzzling society. It need not have been like this. A quarter of a century ago the new Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jimmy Carter, tried as President to get his country to save fuel and develop new sources of energy. He called it “the moral equivalent of war” (unfortunately, lacking an Alastair Campbell, he failed to notice that the initial letters spelt the word “meow”, which attracted media ridicule). It fell foul of the vested interests of the US energy industries, as did a rather more half-hearted attempt by President Clinton to impose an energy tax. Had Carter succeeded, and won support, most of the world might not now be desperately trying to restrain the US from plunging headlong into what might well become a third world war.
Forget the fact that the author repeats a popular myth that has been widely discredited from which his entire argument proceeds zoophilia bestiality fiction. Let’s just assume for one hot minute that oil really is the reason for the coming war with Iraq.
Even then, he takes the position of, “Oh, if only we had listened to that geopolitical sage, Jimmy Carter, we would all be driving whisper quit non-combustion cars, living in cities with perfectly clear skies and Saddam Hussein would never have bothered us in the first place.”
Of course, it’s never mentioned exactly what means of generating power we would be using to replace oil, but that’s a minor detail. It’s no matter that there didn’t exist then, and does not exist now, any even remotely credible means of replacing fossil fuels as our primary source of energy. That’s not the point. The point is we weren’t trying hard enough. If only we had followed Carter’s advice we would have… um, well, we would have either discovered very quickly how impossible it was to follow, or we would have had to vastly shrink our economy. One can argue that we shouldn’t go to war over oil (they’d first have to establish however that oil was the reason, something no one is ever able to reliably do, because it’s simply not true), but one cannot say, “Oil, and hence this war, is completely unecessary if you would just put down the fuel pump for a sec and start looking for some alternative energy sources!”
The seemingly uncontrollable spread of terrorism Ц from the twin towers to Bali, from Kuwait to Moscow Ц is made much more intractable by poverty Dog sex stories. It is, of course, over-simple to say that destitution is its direct cause. Most of the 11 September hijackers were middle-class Saudis. The running sore of the Israeli-Palestine conflict provides great motive power. But poverty does provide much of the oxygen in which terrorism thrives. As hard-pressed Third World countries have cut back on providing public services, for example, (often at the insistence of the IMF and World Bank), extremist religious groups have moved in to provide education and health care. This Ц and the gross and visible disparities in wealth between rich and poor countries Ц has helped to create the supportive population that all terrorism needs if it is to flourish. It has to be said, however, that Mr Bush’s and Mr Blair’s over-reaction in the Afghanistan war also played its part.
A nice bit of fudgery, there. “Extremist religions,” eh? Which ones could those be? Is the author referring to all those radical Christian groups that have fueled terrorism? Or perhaps it’s the spread of Buddism that he means? Even if this model of religion replacing a lack of economic well-being held any truth whatsoever, it glosses over the very pertinent fact that so far, every single one of these “extremist religions” has involved Islam, and in the vast majority of cases, the virulent strain of Wahabbism. The author is being deliberately dishonest by claiming it’s somehow the case that any kind of extremist religion will end up growing wherever there is poverty, because it diverts one’s attention away from the particular facets of certain kinds of Islam that foster terrorism, and describes religious extremism as a general problem. And in order to solve that problem, all we could possibly do is eradicate all religion, and we can’t do that, can we? So the real problem that must be dealt with is, of course poverty fantasy beasts.
Furthermore, Al Qeada did not need an impoverished populace supporting it to flourish. All it needed was a sympathetic government, not to mention some cowed Western nations to not act to immediately stamp it out in its cradle. Nor did poverty send destitute Muslim men with no prospects in life into the arms of Osama Bin Laden, as the article itself admits. The paragraph is a very crude and poorly-executed sleight of hand, aimed at distraction away from uncomfortable issues about Islam and Arab culture and towards that old and dear boogeyman of all social ills, poverty. And of course, the article accuses the concpirators of global capitalism as the reason that much of the muslim world is mired in poverty in the first place. Again, seeking to divert attention away from the glaring problems of the culture and certain aspects of the religion.
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
In theory, I was of course angry, but I had a vaguely detatched sense about the whole thing. A large part of that of
Wheeler Hall last spring.
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
let you know when there's a mushroom cloud over New York, because that's the only "final proof" that seems to be able to
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
rivals.
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight
being the reaction described above.
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
of fist.
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
computer systems.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
or any other simply crappy country in the world, because none of them satisfy both those propositions.
I finally went and did it.
but they make up for any lack of actual existence with pure unadulterated enthusiasm.
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
In your face, Space Coyote!
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
again soon, didn't we?"
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
"approach parody" is too mild. They sprinted towards parody, jumped on top of it and proceded to give parody a spirited
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
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The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
looks like a green light, no?
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
It is time for a new day to dawn in the Blogosphere, my gnome brothers. A glorious day. A day when no longer will we
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
for the life of me, cannot see it. The news showed a clip of a guy trying politely to walk around a woman so self-righteous
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
Why are you still here?!
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
My sentences, thus decreed, will be subsequently carried out by my elite brigade of Beheading Gnomes, whom I made up
some of their cohorts are actually being held accountable by the university for their disruptive, illegal actions at
that extended anger and sadness bring, or maybe even from just the fact that my threshold of human suffering sufficient
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
a terrorist and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader reportedly called for his death.
only be revealed as more useless than it already seems), there is right now a coalition prepared to go into Iraq with the
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
But for now if you all don't mind, I'd just like to stew in my rage for a while, and remind myself in a truly visceral
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
A taste, just a taste...
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
attack against the United States. Even though President Bush acknowledged in his speech that Iraq does not currently
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
that has the temerity to look at us cock-eyed.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
the Feds know about it.
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
superiority.
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
jerkwad I encounter, an order for them to be beheaded with extreme prejudice until the the point at which they are dead
to get a good smack upside the head (or as I call it, a "hippie hello"), but that was apparently too much for the niggardly
But for now if you all don't mind, I'd just like to stew in my rage for a while, and remind myself in a truly visceral
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
the real fault of that government or its citizens, or the West in general, or capitalism, or any other ridiculous boogeyman
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran have reacted with rage at the Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling Islam's prophet
of fist.
really just put Saddam in a better situation than he was before because the presence of inspectors invites complacency and
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
let you know when there's a mushroom cloud over New York, because that's the only "final proof" that seems to be able to
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
I have to admit I'm pretty curious just to see what he's going to do. The guy has shown himself to have an overpowering
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
I'll get a chance to ask why they've been glorifying images of Hamas murderers on their flyers.
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
A taste, just a taste...
Those people are especially useful when they have access to the core computer systems that hackers would otherwise struggle
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
the not-being-a-jerk department.
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
That is, until this morning. Now I'm glad to say that I've gotten over getting over it, and am thoroughly pissed again.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
When they aired some actual interviews with the protesters, I started to honestly think they were part of some sort of
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
cause, but I,
to get a good smack upside the head (or as I call it, a "hippie hello"), but that was apparently too much for the niggardly
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
One middle-aged woman who looked like she hadn't combed her hair since Jerry Garcia died had this to say, when asked
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
predictable frequency. Follow a politician to a school photo-op,
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
to make the first world poor and make sure the third world stays that way.
I've been blogging since July 2005, and in that time, I've had a few inter-blog arguments with the folks on the other
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
Many in the global community also distrust the Bush administration's expanding war aims. It is not easy for our friends around
Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed," the Farsi-language daily Abrar reported Saturday.
coming off them. It was really a terrible sight," she said. "You could just hear people crying up in the Bounty foyer -
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
trying to get an education
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
hacky-sack?"
off a bunch of secretaries and other office workers who probably agree with them on the war anyway will further their
and that it wasn't fair for these people to stop them, the girl started literally screaming at her about selfish she was.
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
be replacing the old site that was hosted on that evil of evils, that bane of banes, that something-really-awful of
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
getting an education. When she tried to talk to one of the organizers after her test about how some people were just
that off my list of things to do. Now, on to learning how to square-dance."
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
cause, but I,
computer systems.
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
You try to make it seem as if the Joint Chiefs were lying around on a Sunday afternoon and said to themselves, "Yeah sure,
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
lying in order to gain information that gave him access to restricted systems.
The Muslim world -- whose support is vital to any real effort to end the causes of terrorism -- is adamantly opposed.
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
I finally went and did it.
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
Whereas the Cold War doctrine of deterrence and containment rested on strength, the new idea of pre-emption insists on U.S.
but I hope to do that soon. I also hope to win the Nobel Prize in Kickboxing, and judge each of those things to be of
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satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
they're done, hang them on his wall next to the framed heads of Iraqi dissidents and say to himself, "Well, I can check
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
Also, I've printed out and made a bunch of copies of some flyers from this site and will be passing them out.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
cause, but I,
vulnerability.
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
destroying the technological infrastructure of Western civilization again. And it's only 3 months away!
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
Such as this quote by Teddy Roosevelt concerning his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, posted now
for the life of me, cannot see it. The news showed a clip of a guy trying politely to walk around a woman so self-righteous
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
At the very least, don't let me hear any of these things when you're standing in my presence, unless you want a faceful
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
in words so much more exacting than even those who actually live in that time would be able to produce?
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
has been built up around Mitnick, a basically curious guy who just as often used old face-to-face (or voice-to-voice)
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
course grew out of the experience of 9/11.
Containment and deterrence were responses to US weakness, you silly-headed dunderpate. It was obvious that using direct
psychopathic fancy without fear of retribution.
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
let you know when there's a mushroom cloud over New York, because that's the only "final proof" that seems to be able to
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
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morally, that this is the right thing to do.
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
of constant uncertainty and increased insecurity where almost anything could lead to war.
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
a careful, precise argument, what point is there in engaging them verbally anymore?
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
You must be triple jointed to be able to twist words like that.
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
What it does not mean however, is that this suddenly signals that we are going to be going after China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
Finally, long after the fad has grown tiresome, everyone's attention turns to another scrap of dogma for the next decade.
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
just now. Admittedly they do face significant challenges in carrying out their duties due to their imaginary nature,
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
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