Sound Familiar?

The same lessons repeat over and over again but we seem not to get it! The wrong people suffer, the wrong people pay the price.

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Freedom at all Cost

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and who do you want for president?

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The Delusion of Some...

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George Orwell on War

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ahhhh rudy.....

clipped from www.counterpunch.org What Giuliani's Sex Life Tells Us About Him By JoANN WYPIJEWSKI here is something untrustworthy about a man who can't conduct a decent affair. Rudy Giuliani never could. He flaunted his girlfriend Judi Nathan (now a proper lady with a proper lady's name, Mrs. Judith Giuliani) at public events while he was mayor and married to Donna Hanover, with whom he had no understanding about elective affinities. He used his son Andrew as his beard, claiming he was teaching the boy golf those many weekends when he was cavorting with Judi in Southampton. He announced his new love, and concomitant dumping of the old, at a 2001 press conference, thus informing Donna their marriage was over at the precise moment that any New Yorker listening to 1010 WINS learned of it. Then he tried to push her and the children out of Gracie Mansion so he could get on with his life.

love vs. power

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Christmas in Bethlehem 2007

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any-body.org

clipped from anybody.squarespace.com PETITON RESPONSES TO BRING DIVERSITY TO LFW! Sunday, May 13, 2007 at 05:29PM Posted by anybody WOW! We had over 1180 signatures on our petition to bring model diversity to the London Catwalks...and while LFW didn't enforce healthy models on the Winter Catwalks, we are still trying to ensure that LFW rectify that in time for the Summer catwalks in September 2007.  Keep supporting us, as AnyBody toils away behind the scenes in discussions with the LFW to make that petition a reality! We wanted to thank everyone for signing...and show a sample of some of the wonderful supportive comments we recieved here! We will keep you posted on our progress!

Size Matters

A great site and organization: any-bo.y.org

clipped from anybody.squarespace.com Size matters - Milan takes action through bilboards Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 07:27AM Posted by anybody Yes, the pictures of Isabelle Caro are shocking, but since our visual culture encourages body hatred, it's time to respond to that in a visual medium. Article by AnyBody member Susie Orbach The Guardian September 27, 2007

"A Photo that Moved You"

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Portraits of the New American Century

Multiple faces of modern-day war: the soldier, the civilian, the terrorist. My brother's work: see and read more at tobeyanderson.com.

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HOLODOMOR

On November 24, Ukraine marked the 75th anniversary of HOLDOMOR or "death by hunger," when millions of Ukrainians starved to death ( estimates range from 2.5 to 10 million victims). The so-called Great Famine of 1932-33, is believed by many to be a genocidal crime, the deliberate imposition of collectivization, requiring the destruction of private property, individual ownership and cultivation of land and relocation to collective farms. Stalin was intent upon paying for the USSR's industrialization with grain exports even though it meant the intentional death of millions of people.

Genocide, the targeting of ethnic Ukrainians? The desire to eradicate the social class of private land owners? Both? Historians argue and debate. In the end, unconscionable mass starvation as a public policy, a political tool.

genocide

Such an obscenity, the relentless slaughter driven by notions of ...what? Superiority. Ah, somewhere in this terrible perpetual tale is the rehearsal of 'the difference,' real or imagined abuses/resentments told in ongoing stories that come to tell a people's history through bloody chimera.


Genocide...we must talk of it as well. Why is it so less noisy than terrorism?

The Profitability of Violence

More details in the article...check it out. Then
we will talk again about violence, the roots
of terrorism et al.

clipped from articles.moneycentral.msn.com While policymakers in Washington wrangle over how much progress we've made in Iraq, one thing is clear: The war on terror is making some people rich. President Bush's military buildup has caused defense-contractor revenue to double, triple and even more during the past five years, and their executives have reaped huge bonuses and stock windfalls as the companies' share prices have jumped. ake a look: CEOs at top defense contractors have reaped annual pay gains of 200% to 688% in the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The chief executives at the seven defense contractors whose bosses made the most pocketed nearly a half-billion dollars from 2002 through last year. CEOs at top defense contractors have reaped annual pay gains of 200% to 688% in the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The chief executives at the seven defense contractors whose bosses made the most pocketed nearly a half-billion dollars from 2002 through last year.

Nine Eleven

Day before yesterday, 2001, civilians on U.S. soil were targeted, for what purpose? To frighten and demoralize a population. Brutal and without warning, hallmarks of terrorist acts. But the word "terrorist" is troublesome. One person's terrorist is another's patriot, another's warrior or hero.

The targeting of civilians, noncombatants, in times of conflict has increased dramatically in the last hundred plus years: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, London, Tokoyo, Leningrad, Ledice........Beyond the numbers of innocent casualties for each, beyond considerations of geography, and culture, these historic events hold in common the tactical and strategic terrorization of civilians for political and military purposes.

Another common feature has to do with the judgements made about each, whether justified or not. Such judgements define loyalties to one party or another. Nothing more. A terroristic act is one that you--the Other--commit, not me. I am justified, you are not.

Bullshit, huh? Soulsickness.......

whooops!!

Attribution: the image of skulls in the prior post is by Rafal Jurkowski.

the nature of evil

Just finished reading The Exception by Christian Jungersen, "...a
gripping dissection of the nature of evil and of the paranoia and
obsessions that drive ordinary people to commit unthinkable
acts." (from the dustcover)

Unthinkable acts by ordinary people. Unthinkable by whom? And who are these "ordinary people?" You and me I guess, the nay-sayers. It is extraordinary (or not?) how one can live a bifurcated life in which said individual can, in one context commit rape, torture, murder yet in another can sincerely denounce such behavior. That word "sincerely" is troublesome, yes? How can one sincerely, honestly affirm such personal beliefs regarding individual human rights and conduct while fully aware of his/her participation in activities wholly contrary to such values?

A hell of a question. One dare not settle for simple answers, nor settle only for judgements that point fingers elsewhere. Such is Jungersen's effort, to be a contributor to this painful dialog.

the mind of entropy: say something!

why am i doing this? on one hand, why not, but that's too cavalier. i can talk to myself about anything, post some of my pix, give 'sage' advice, to be ignored by all who so choose. a journal of sorts i guess.

day one: involuntary dying still shadows all else. let's see, a gargoyle of the day. hell, why not mr. president...........