[LAAMN] Re: [change-links] The myth of fair elections in America
Typical of so-called progressives and liberals, the Collier brother's book, VOTESCAM: The Stealing of America (published in 1992), has been systematically ignored as a source on history and methodology of vote fraud in the US going back decades (to read the first 19 chapters of Votescam, go to: http://www.constitution.org/vote/votescam__.htm, http://www.votescam.com/home1.php) Why has this book been disregarded for nearly 15 years by the prog/libs? Because the Collier's didn't play political favorites in terms of which party's election fraud they were exposing. One of the (then Republican) Collier's ran for US Congress against Democrat Claude Pepper in Florida and experienced vote rigging in that election, yet prog/lib Dems don't want to discuss that story. There is no doubt that Democrats and Party machinery around the country stand to lose a lot of credibility if and when a more complete history of vote rigging in this country is given credence. And now the NY Times says election fraud may well have happened in the 2004 Ohio election. Well who woulda thunk? The plain truth of it is, both parties have been deep in election rigging for the entire history of this country, while organized crime and CIA cutouts are in the wings, covering up the trail before it pops up in a newspaper somewhere. Now it doesn't even matter if the rigging is exposed in the light of day - look at the Kerry and Democratic Party response to Ohio in 2004!. No problem, the CIA doesn't even bother anymore to veil it's election rigging operations in foreign countries targeted for destabilization and coups d'etat, why should they or their Republican and Democratic party sponsors bother with domestic election rigging if no one cares enough to stop it. Now the CIA openly brags about its kidnapping and torture operations yet like bleeding parrots, the prog/libs are content to call it Extraordinary Rendition and scratch their Democratic Party hat festooned noggins without a clue as to what to do about it. Most so-called progressives and liberals just smile and shrug their shoulders when the facts of election rigging in Illinois in the 1960 Presidential election are brought up. Of course we are all glad that JFK was installed in the White House over Tricky Dick, but is that the only measure of political impetus in the 'land of the free and the home of the brave'? It would seem so. And again, after two frauded-up Presidential election cycles come and gone, the liberals and progressives are still mired in the muck of Democratic Party control as the current Let's all get on the bandwagon and defend Bill Clinton on 911 operation is in full swing (while sober questions about the facts about the 911 events are still avoided and questionable investigative exposes on the events are promoted without consideration that some of the information smells of red herring). Welcome to the land of programmed political failure of the ignorant and stupid. All Hail Hillary for 2008, as the feminist contingent gleefully prepares itself to be baited into a sea of house parties promoting dead end narrow political platforms and Bush gang operatives in centrist clothing, while the police state burgeons and the genocide flourishes with DU for all. I still see Gore/Lieberman and Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers on cars in LA, their drivers with that typical progressive/liberal, deer-in-the-headlights look on their face, yapping on their cell phones as they drive their SUV's and Subaru Foresters to Whole Foods. As if ANY of the Democrats have any intention of being an obstacle to the Bush/CIA juggernaut to unfettered totalitarianism and broad genocide (how else are we going to depopulate the planet, right?). John Kerry still hasn't made an issue of the stolen 2004 election. He only has one more year before the statute of limitations runs out on those crimes. Don't hold your progressive breath. What a fraud. The Democrats, our only hope? Make no mistake, the 2006 general election will see only those Democrats winning their elections who are actually in alignment with the Bush gang's foreign policy goals. The model? Sen Barbara Boxer, Rep Nancy Pelosi, etc. The Dems may actually gain control of the House but what Democrats will those be? I say they will be Demopubs in collagen and greasepaint, ready to suck the cock of the military industrial complex and the national security state like they always have. JM Original Message Subject: [change-links] The myth of fair elections in America Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 06:20:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Geraldo Cienmarcos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The myth of fair elections in America http://tinyurl.com/k42q7 The debacle surrounding the Republican victory in 2000 demonstrated to the world that America's electoral process is wide open to abuse. But as Paul Harris discovers, the system has
[LAAMN] Norman Finkelstein on the New Anti-Semitism, Gaza's Darkness
Hi. Here's an exchange which prompted today's essays. Ed - Original Message - From: To: Ed Pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:26 PM Subject: Re: Ilan Pappe: Genocide in Gaza, Alyah Strauss visits Los Angeles On Sep 7, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Ed Pearl wrote: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5656.shtml Genocide in Gaza Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, 2 September 2006 Ilan Pappe is an anti-Semite, a Marxist, and in 1996 was a Communist Party candidate for the Knesset. He has openly advocated the destruction of Israel. I'm astonished that you would give column space to this revisionist who pulls faux history out of his ass. And if you subscribe to Pappe's garbage about Israel, then your newsletter is no longer welcome in my mailbox. Please remove my name from your mailing list. - Original Message - From: Ed Pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 6:14 AM Subject: Re: Ilan Pappe: Genocide in Gaza, Alyah Strauss visits Los Angeles Look at what you write. You haven't addressed a single issue or position Dr. Pappe poses in his article. Not one. About those you pose, he is in favor of one democratic state for both Jews and Arabs, the same position of Einstein and Freud, and of my own upbringing. Karl Marx was as Jewish as you or I, a brilliant analyst who changed the reading of history, with no relation to Josef Stalin. Einstein's fear for the soul of Judaism being severely damaged is exemplified by your ill-tempered blast, designed not to enlighten, discuss or debate, but to close the mouths, minds and spirit of Judaism. I'll go with Albert. I honestly have no idea why you waited for Pappe to appear before wanting off my list, but your request is granted, with sadness. Ed Pearl Norman Finkelstein on the New Anti-Semitism excerpted from an interview on Democracy Now - Aug 30, 2006 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/30/1418200 AMY GOODMAN: Our guest is Norman Finkelstein, professor at DePaul University in Chicago, professor of political science, author of Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. The issue of Human Rights Watch -- I guess he's talking about Amnesty International -- and then to the New York Times of being anti-Israel. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: Well, it depends on what standard you're using. Throughout most of the world, I think American media, generally, and the New York Times, in particular, are considered very pro-Israel. I suppose in certain extreme fanatical corners of the universe, they're considered anti-Israel, but if you look at -- you know, you take an ordinary incident, and it's useful to look at ordinary incidents. Take the case in June of this year when there was the killing of the Palestinian family in Gaza Beach, and there was the famous scene of the ten-year-old girl wailing beside her father. Now, there were two ways the story could have been reported. There was the official Israeli version. They claim they had nothing to do with the killing of the family and the firing of the shell. And then you had the version of Human Rights Watch, which is one of the leading human rights organizations in the world. They sent over an expert to examine all the available evidence. He concluded that the evidence was overwhelming that the Israeli government was responsible for the deaths of that family. What did the New York Times do? It reported the Israeli government version. Then it reported the Human Rights Watch version. And then, a few days later, the Human Rights version disappeared, and the New York Times stated that the deaths that occurred on Gaza Beach, we don't include as among those for whom Israel is responsible. Why? Because the Israeli government said it wasn't responsible. Now, that kind of reporting you haven't found in the United States since the days of the Daily Worker, when it reported on the Stalin purge trials to take the word of a government against the word of a human rights organization, and then to simply deposit the findings of the human rights organization in Orwell's memory hole. Human Rights Watch disappeared. Israel wasn't responsible. Why? Because the Israeli government said it wasn't responsible. AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go to this issue of criticizing organizations or people who criticize Israeli military policy, calling them anti-Israel, and then there's always the step beyond, anti-Semitic. Your comment. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: Well, first of all, it has a long history. Every time Israel comes under international pressure, as it did recently because of the war crimes committed in Lebanon, it steps up the claim of anti-Semitism, and all of Israel's critics are anti-Semitic. 1974, the ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, puts out a book called The New Anti-Semitism. 1981, the Anti-Defamation League puts out a book, The New Anti-Semitism. And then, again in 2000, Abraham Foxman and people like
[LAAMN] So Pas Vigil Event- Film this Sat.at the LIbrary narrated by Amy Goodman. SpecialMedia Guests and Lots of Giveaways!.
DON'T LET CORPORATE MEDIA MAKE A MONKEY OUT OF YOU! We're Back! Just in time for our event this Saturday- The subject of our event is our great Alternative and Independent Media- where many of us go to get informed: It's where millions of Americans now go, too - disillusioned with the commercial mainstream media which have shown themselves to be lapdogs for Bush and the big corporations, without the interests of us the people -nor our democracy- in mind . We- you and me - are the vanguard - we're leading the pack - the mainstream media Alphabet soup CBS NBC CNN ABC - yes they are fat cats, but they are also Dinosaurs. Come be entertained with the Real Life Media the whole rest of the world is tuned into! We start with a 30 minute film featuring Amy Goodman of Democracy Now speaking on Independent Media in a Time of War. Afterwards,we will have speakers from various new media in the area, such as Joe Piasecki. Deputy Editor of the Pasadena Weekly, Change-Links, representation via video of Air America, LINKTV, and DemocracyNow, Internet,KPFK, and even the blogesphere PLENTY OF GOODIES TO GIVE AWAY, and -maybe finally, we'll get a chance to BASH THAT BUSH PINATA we've been talking about for weeks! - Get a bag full of special goodies ( that aptly describe the 'Presi-DUNCE, as a local radio host calls him. Here's the Flyer - LOOK FOR IT AROUND TOWN!( please forward this e-mail to everyone you can think of- we need the publicity for this event - It would be a great help!) South Pasadena Neighbors for Peace and Justice Presents INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR, narrated by Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow. An offereing of Alternative media with speakers, Film and take-home goodies! Saturday Sept 9th South Pasadena Library Community Room--Doors open 6:30 pm SEE, SPEAK, and HEAR THE REAL NEWS! Where Millions of Americans now go to find out the real news : Air America, LinkTV, KPFK, the Pasadena Weekly, internet news sites and the up and coming Blogesphere! Why is satellite better than cable? Unspun news that gets at the root our life today. Meet Special Guests and get Take-away goodies. A fun and informative way to open your eyes and ears to the real world of today. The So. Pas. Library is at 1115 El Centro (corner Diamond) South Pasadena, 91030; Metro Gold Line Mission stop. For More information call: 626-441-1324 Suggested Donation $5. Seniors and Youth $2. Free refreshments!. This Event Not Sponsored by the City of South Pasadena nor the So. Pas. Library Please forward this newsletter - we need publicity for the event - badly- PLEASE, help us out in that way for this event! The truest and greatest power is the power of Peace, because Peace is the Will of the Great Spirit. (Hopi) .Oh, Great Spirit, enter the hearts of the war makers, that they bow their heads, and make war no more. John Johnson Change-Links Progressive Newspaper [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://change-links.org Subscribe to our list server. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 782-1412 Cell (818) 681-7448. === __ NOD32 1.1743 (20060907) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.comhttp://www.eset.com John Johnson Change-Links Progressive Newspaper [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://change-links.org Subscribe to our list server. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 782-1412 Cell (818) 681-7448. === [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo!
[LAAMN] Another Inconvenient Truth: Meat is a Global Warming Issue, E mag
E - The Environmental Magazine August 2006 Another Inconvenient Truth: Meat is a Global Warming Issue By Dan Brook Al Gore's movie (and book), An Inconvenient Truth, is playing to rave reviews. His laudable project is an urgent message on the vital issue of global warming. We all must heed the call. If we didn't realize it already, we now know that we are overheating our planet to alarming levels with potentially catastrophic consequences. 2005 was the hottest year on record. Think of an overheated car; now imagine that on a planetary scale. Organizations from Greenpeace to the Union of Concerned Scientists, World Bank and the Pentagon, all agree that global warming is, perhaps, the most serious threat to our imperiled planet. The Pentagon report, for example, states that climate change in the form of global warming should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern, higher even than terrorism. The effects of global warming are not hypothetical: waves are already washing over islands in the South Pacific, coastal cities and low-lying countries face severe flooding, extreme weather conditions like hurricanes are intensifying, the polar ice caps and the world's glaciers are melting, polar bears and other species are threatened with extinction, diseases are spreading more easily, crop failures are mounting. We are standing at a precipice. There are many human activities that contribute to global warming. Among the biggest contributors are electrical generation, the use of passenger and other vehicles, over-consumption, international shipping, deforestation, smoking and militarism. (The U.S. military, for example, is the world's biggest consumer of oil and the world's biggest polluter.) What many people do not know, however, is that the production of meat also significantly increases global warming. Cow farms produce millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane per year, the two major greenhouse gases that together account for more than 90 percent of U.S. greenhouse emissions, substantially contributing to global scorching. According to the United Nations Environment Programme's Unit on Climate Change, There is a strong link between human diet and methane emissions from livestock. The 2004 State of the World is more specific regarding the link between animals raised for meat and global warming: Belching, flatulent livestock emit 16 percent of the world's annual production of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. The July 2005 issue of Physics World states: The animals we eat emit 21 percent of all the CO2 that can be attributed to human activity. Eating meat directly contributes to this environmentally irresponsible industry and the dire threat of global warming. Additionally, rainforests are being cut down at an extremely rapid rate to both pasture cows and grow soybeans to feed cows. The clear-cutting of trees in the rainforest - an incredibly bio-diverse area with 90 percent of all species on Earth - not only creates more greenhouse gases through the process of destruction, but also reduces the amazing benefits that those trees provide. Rainforests have been called the lungs of the Earth, because they filter our air by absorbing CO2, while emitting life-supporting oxygen. In a nutshell, according to the Center for International Forestry Research, cattle ranchers are making mincemeat out of Brazil's Amazon rainforests. Of course, the U.S. should join the other 163 countries in ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. Of course, we should sharply reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and shift towards renewable sources of energy. Of course, we need to stop destroying the rainforests. Of course, we need to stop the war in Iraq and drastically reduce the U.S. military budget (presently at half of the entire world's total military spending), which would increase, not decrease, national and global security. But as we're struggling and waiting for these and other structural changes, we need to make personal changes. Geophysicists Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin from the University of Chicago concluded that changing one's eating habits from the Standard American Diet (SAD) to a vegetarian diet does more to fight global warming than switching from a gas-guzzling SUV to a fuel-efficient hybrid car. Of course, you can do both - and more! It has been said that where the environment is concerned, eating meat is like driving a huge SUV Eating a vegetarian diet is like driving a mid-sized car [or a reasonable sedan, according to Eshel]. And eating a vegan diet (no dairy, no eggs) is like riding a bicycle or walking. Shifting away from SUVs and SUV-style diets, to much more energy-efficient alternatives, is key to fighting the warming trend. Global warming is already having grave effects on our planet and we need to take action. Vegetarians help keep the planet cool in more ways than one! Paul McCartney says, If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do
[LAAMN] 9/28 Los Angeles, CA: Immigrant Workers March and Mass Civil Disobedience
Call to Action This Fall the Next Stage of the Immigrant Rights Movement begins… September 28th Los Angeles, CA March and Mass Civil Disobedience for Immigrant Rights a Living Wage This past spring the world witnessed the rise of a powerful new civil rights movement. Millions of immigrants across our nation marched, closed shops, left work, and walked out of school in an historic protest for equal rights. Though the struggle to win a legal path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants continues, it is only half the battle. As millions of immigrants who have obtained legal documents but still struggle to survive know, legalization alone will not lift us and our communities out of poverty. To bring the American Dream within all our reach, we must take the fight to the corporations that continue to exploit documented and undocumented immigrants every day. September 28th will mark a new stage in the immigrant rights movement. We will demand that corporate America open the road out of poverty for all workers and support a path to citizenship for all immigrants. We will start with the largest industry of immigrant workers, the hotel and restaurant industry, in the economic center of one of the poorest parts of Los Angeles , the LAX-area cities of Lennox, Hawthorne , and Inglewood . On September 28th, thousands will join the LAX Century Blvd hotel workers in a mass march that will end with one of the largest acts of nonviolent civil disobedience in the history of Los Angeles . Hundreds of people will risk arrest and shut down Century Boulevard to send a message to the airport hotels and to corporations everywhere: Respect our work, our rights, and our community – now. Join us and Make History!! Rally 4:30pm @ Radisson LAX Meet on corner of Century Sepulveda Blvds March begins @ 5:30pm Reverand James Lawson, Board Member of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) and a working colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1957-1968, will hold a training on non-violent civil disobedience on September 14th at 6pm. The training will take place at Angelica Lutheran Church located at, 1351 Burlington Ave. in Los Angeles. This event will be open to the press. If you are participating in the Civil Disobedience on September 28th, or even if you are just contemplating it but are not yet sure if you will, or if you just want to learn more about non-violent civil disobedience as a form of resistance, we recommend that you attend this training. It is very inspirational hearing from a man who trained so many of the civil right leaders in non-violent resistance during the civil rights movement. Hope to see you there. For more information: 213-488-4440 _http://www.september28th.org_ (http://www.september28th.org/) _http://myspace.com/september28th_ (http://myspace.com/september28th) = ActionLA Action for World Liberation Everyday! Tel: (213)403-0131 URL: _http://www.ActionLA.org_ (http://www.actionla.org/) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Please Donate to ActionLA! Send check pay to: ActionLA/SEE ActionLA / The Peace Center 8124 West 3rd Street, Suite 104 Los Angeles, California 90048 (All donations are tax deductible) = The web page has been design by Activist Design Studio Please visit: _http://www.ActivistDesign.net_ (http://www.activistdesign.net/) Toll-Free: (888)635-3307 = Please join our ActionLA Listserv go to: _http://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/actionla_ (http://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/actionla) or send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Please join our new Asian American Labor Activism Alert! Listserv, send-e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
