HEX

Paul Harrington of Hexperia California sees what others won’t:

With all these systems problems your having looks like President Bush has put the Hex on you.

THE MARKET FALLS

DXM: If the CNN business analysts would have been listening to the Randi Rhodes Show, they wouldn’t have had to wonder why China dumped a bunch of stock enough to send Wall Street into a 400-500 point tailspin.

Eugene Duran: Danny, Time to pay the piper. Wall Street is in freefall but no worry. Can you say Plunge Protection Team? I suspect they will be up early tomorrow trying to stem the hemorrhaging of the Stock Market and so far they have been quite successful. Any bets they fail this time and the Dow continues its long-overdue correction. The difficult times for our planet are beginning. Get ready for tough times. It’s not like we have not been warned.

George K Clarke writes:

I remember being at the Soldiers and Sailor’s monument in downtown New London, CT, holding up my peace sign while believing that there were no WMD’s and, at the same time, hoping that there were because it would be so embarassing if there were none. I mean, the UN was looking for a long time and did not find any.

I wrote to Gen. Colin Powell and asked for him to quit in protest over this pretense to start the war. We all know what happened then when he went to the UN.

There is a cary passage in Norman Mailer’s new book about Hitler and the demon who helped to bring it all about.

“For the Maestro often pointed to my work on this matter: “There is no better way to usurp the services of a high political leader,” he would tell us, “than by this method. They must not be able to distinguish certain lies from the truth. They are of considerable use to us when they do not even know that they are lying, because the mistruth is so vital to their needs.”

From pp: 316 “The Castle in the forrest” Norman Mailer 2007

WENDI MEREMARK WRITES:

I know, I know, one trick pony, one note samba, beating it to a pulp — Danny, you don’t have to believe, or re-believe, but you are going to burst like a floodwall going on ignoring this tide is rising. Easing into the truth could actually use your help importantly, by taking yourself as a model of how to do it gradually and what works for you in getting to the ‘optical illusion’ moment of image reversal when suddenly, all you saw one way becomes background, and what you mind had fixed in the background becomes the foreground image.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=3046

Greg Fuller poses a Question for the 4th Estate:

I too have a question for our 4th Estate , why is it that discussion of less than noble motives for our insolvent in Iraq are limited to discussions of Bush’s personal failings of obsession and/or hubris and that discussions of duplicity , depravity and avarice as motives for our involvement in Iraq are off the table “ And who deemed that deprvity and avarice universally implausible in our high public officials “ The rest
of the world* and large numbers of the American public hold no such illusion of presumed nobility of purpose on the part of the Bush crowd . If nothing else, the testimony in the on going Libby trial underscores the basis for a more full and critical analysis of all motives and moves in the Iraq war - it beseeches it

Leith Elder writes from Australia:

y journalism? The Dirty Digger Rupert Murdoch’s flagship in this country “The Australian” carried the following article on
the morning of a court action by David Hicks’ lawyers charging the Australian government with breaching its duty to protect its citizens. In para 3 the journalists blatantly state that the claims they are writing about have already been RETRACTED! If this isn’t contempt of court as well as lousy journalism I’m a marsupial’s uncle!

CHRIS HEDGES ON RALPH NADER

Doug Latimer writes;

Danny, I imagine you know Ralph Nader. May I suggest that you post a link to this piece at your blog, and give your own take on the man?

I don’t know diddley about him personally. All I’ll say is that it seems to me that his actions over the decades have not been the most efficient he could have chosen if his primary goal was egotistical self-promotion.

I’m sure he’s not Jesus on a stick … I have a deep aversion to making anyone out to be an icon, even Dr. King or Fannie Lou Hamer. But the man seems to have more than a modicum of mentschiness … would that be a fair assessment?

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0226-28.htm

GO SEE DAYS OF GLORY’

MOVIES: I think New York Mayor Emeritus Ed Koch missed his calling as a film review. Here’s one of his latest. Not bad:

The battle scenes in this marvelous World War II movie rival those in “Band of Brothers” which in my opinion is the best film ever made about World War II.

“Days of Glory” also provides insight into the terrible way France treated its African (black and Arab) supporters from North Africa seeking to help liberate the “motherland,” France. They were treated with distain and prejudice, the blacks worse than the Arabs. A truly emotional moment occurs when a black African soldier is prevented from taking a fresh tomato at dinner because they were reserved for whites. If you already hold the French government in minimum high regard, as I do, this film will reinforce your feelings.

LISTEN TO JANE FONDA DISCUSS GI RESISTANCE
http://www.sirnosir.com/archives_and_resources/audio/jane_dave_rabbit.html

POETRY FROM INSIDE GITMO

Poetry’s capacity to rattle governments is not, it appears, confined to totalitarian regimes. A collection of poems by detainees at the US military base in Guantánamo Bay is to be published later this year, but only in the face of strong opposition by suspicious American censors.

Twenty-one poems written “inside the wire” in Arabic, Pashto and English have been gathered together despite formidable obstacles by Marc Falkoff, a law professor at Northern Illinois University who represents 17 of the detainees at the camp. The collection, entitled Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak, will be published in August by the University of Iowa Press with an afterword written by Ariel Dorfman.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2021897,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10

FROM YHE UK: TO VIEW TONY BLAIR SINGING WAR! (WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?)
http://tinyurl.com/25nzk4

A BRONX CHEER

I will be showing my film WMD at the Bronx Campus of Fordham Univesrity tonight in media professor Robin Andersen’s class.

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