8.7.05

london calling

the latest episode in the terror saga has reared it's ugly mug. let's go over the major events starting with the great depression, shall we?

1929 (or so) - stock market go boom.
30s & early 40s - people are broke, starving, suffering, unemployed, angry and until '33 unable to drink a drop of alcohol to drown their monetary woes. prohibition... *shakes head*
1933 - hitler schmitler becomes chancellor of germany.
1939 - britain and france declare war on germany.
1939 - 1941 - american public wants nothing to do with the war. who can blame them, war blows. but the american gov't sees opportunity in the war. opportunities painted for them by general motors, one of the largest corporations in america at the time. they paint a picture of a united america at war, a happy, wealthy america building tanks and jeeps and artillery and selling them to the good guys (and secretly the bad guys). but how to get the american public to support a declaration of war?
december 6th, 1941 - the white house recieves a telegram that there will be an attack on pearl harbor the following day. much discussion ensues and the decision is reached, they will not let on that they know. it's the perfect reason to declare war and get the country out of it's stinkin' depression. they issue an order to move all the aircraft carriers out of the harbour (they're a zillion times more expensive than anything else that was there, might as well save 'em).
december 7th, 1941 - pearl harbour is blown up like a bowl of soup with a firecracker.
december 8th, 1941 - fdr declares war on japan, with the overwhelming support of the people.
1942 - present - the united states of america become and remain one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations in the world. looks like the plan worked. but how to become even more wealthy?

OIL


i could get into the cold war here, but time is an issue.

2000 - oil shortages are being predicted and the american oil reserves only give the gov't a half-stock, so schemes begin to stew in the white house.
2001 - a plan is hatched to build a pipeline from the caspian sea, identified as one of the world's largest untapped oil resources. the only problem is getting into afghanistan and iraq to build it.
leading up to sept. 11th, 2001 - warnings of a major terror attack on US soil emerge and as part of the caspian sea plan, are ignored.
sept 11th, 2001 - someone, we'll never really know who, hijacks planes, takes down the wtc, etc. you all know. it sucks. it's sad. no more or less sad than the daily killings in the middle east or sudan or rwanda, etc, etc, but are treated as much more important.
sept 18th, 2001 - a string of anthrax attacks hits the US and people are instructed to and begin to wrap their houses in plastic and duct tape. hysterical. "saran. 2 million cases of anthrax thwarted and counting. now available in military surplus stores!!"
january 29, 2002 - the axis of evil is born! no, this is not an entity out of a bad super hero movie, this is iraq, iran, north korea and syria or "regimes that sponsor terror". i love the loose use of the word terror. but anyway. al qaeda is blamed for everything that has gone wrong in america for the last decade and bin laden is the principal offender. being as afghanistan is harbouring such a terrorizing international criminal, it's only natural that an overpowering american military show up and kill the country's men, women and children in search of ol' bin laden. a search that never delivered it's fruit and has since been forgotten. it may seem like the invasion was for nothing, but we can't forget the caspian pipeline. one country down, one to go.
late 2002, early 2003 - whispers of iraq's involvement in 9/11 start to surface and become louder until threats of war are made. no one wants the war. people protest in numbers larger than anything in history. NO ONE WANTS IT. this is key.
march 2003 - regardless of the fact that the entire world, including most americans, is against a war in iraq, and regardless of the fact that the US gov't is supposed to be a gov't by the people for the people in which majority should always rule, prez dubya ignores his countrymen and declares war on iraq. the war continues to take the lives of bad guys, american soldiers and innocent civilians to this day. the english and australian are the only militaries of any power really, who join forces with the yanks. every other major country in the world has rejected a proposal to support dubya's murders.
early 2005 - bush's best buddy, tony blair, is facing an election in england. but everyone's mad at tony because he sent english troops to fight a war that wasn't theirs to fight, nor legal, nor justified. tony's in the hot seat. but he wins nonetheless.
june 2005 - the g8 summit is comin' and one of the topics of discussion is oil being "the key to stability". loose translation: we gotta get the ball rolling on the caspian sea project! but how? with so much resistance in the middle east and so little support from the western world for extinguishing that resistance! i'd imagine dubya piped up at this point and said something along the lines of "when we needed to join the war to get out of the depression, we 'allowed' pearl harbour to be bombed. when we needed oil, we blamed afghanistan and iraq for the 9/11 attacks which has enabled us to begin building a pipeline to the caspian sea to tap that shit. it's easy to get support. now here's my plan....*whisper whisper whisper*
july 7th, 2005 - london is bombed.

you figger it out.







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The guardians: The true story of the Saints of Dannemora

By Joseph M Sauter

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3.7.05

10th combo free

"Courtney,

Well this is version 3.0 of tonight's letter to you. I just scrapped the last one cause I took a half hour break to watch the fucking amazing lightning storm going on outside and couldn't pick up where I left off. I may throw in a 'letter' from a week ago I started writing but didn't finish. We'll see, I've got to read it first and approve. I figure you may get a kick out of it though, for some unknown reason. But hey, if it makes you happy to read drivel a la Mike then I'm happy to supply it. Whatever I can do to put a smile on your face.

I'm listening to Jimmy Eat World (again). The song 'Work' on their newest album. That's my jam, yo. 'Can we take a ride? Get out of this place while we still have time.' 'When the dance is through it's me and you, come on would it really be so bad?'. The jam..."


it's pretty heartbreaking to read about the guy who got me into mogwai, blonde redhead, sonic youth & tons of other cool music, is being forced to develop a taste for jimmy eat world. i have no choice but to suffer right along side him.

me: ech
it's killin me
i wish it would start to feel better
u know?
missing mike
it never feels any better
and i have 7 more yrs of it
god knows how he feels

someone else: yeah that sucks

me: http://www.deathpenaltyreligious.org/education/sermons/rubinstein.html
i read about this case yesterday
izzy zimmerman
26 yrs in prison for something he didnt do
then when he was finally released he sued the state
and got a million
then dropped dead 4 months later
then his wife dropped dead not soon after
and the money he had just won was handed back to the state because he hadn't made up a will
heartbreaking

someone else: thats fucked

me: do you know how often people are wrongly convicted
on death row alone it's 70 percent how fucked is that
innocent people make up the majority of death row
and state courts continually deny inmates the right to have a DNA test to clear their name
it's so sad
if for no other reason, that is why there shouldn't be a death penalty
it's design to stop innocents from being killed is what it's ended up being guilty of

someone else: yeah

me http://www.geocities.com/mnsocialist/richey.html
that guy is in the same prison as mike
his conviction was overturned
he was accused of burning down a house and killing a little girl in the process
but at the time his arm had been in a cast
and he couldn't strike a match
which is what it was determined started the fire
and witnesses had reported seeing the girl playing with matches
i think he's spent 17 yrs on death row in ohio
and they have 90 days to retry his case
or let him out

someone else: thats pretty fucked

me: “I’ve spent 17 years thinking about it. I’ve faced the reality. I’ve had 13 execution dates. Nine years ago, I came within an hour of going to the electric chair. My head was shaved and I’d said a final goodbye to my mum and family, and then a stay came through."
ugh can u imagine
being innocent and still facing that







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Futures

By Jimmy Eat World

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