I’m becoming more and more an advocate of buying local things and rejecting corporate-best-interest-driven garbage. Obviously, modern life imposes limits on what is practical in terms of “saying no to the man”, but when I read things like this:

http://stopnestlewaters.org/

I realize there are things that can be done. Let’s stop buying Nestle products! Hey, it’s a start.

Are we in too much of a hurry to forget what happened on September 11, 2001?

Here’s an interesting cryptome.org article on the subject.

One person said the Germans blew up the crematoria at Auschwitz to erase the horror. But the ruins are now being promoted as an essential record of what should never be erased.

Ruins are what’s missing at WTC, and visitors continue to lament their lack, and express shock that there’s nothing to see there except the usual banalities of development, kitschly decorated and celebrated.

Saving WTC

This dangerous law is barrelling through the current lame-duck session of Congress. It must be stopped. Hopefully the repulsive nature of its components have already doomed it, but we still need to make our voices heard.

Here’s a good explanation of why it is bad:

Why the Intellectual Property Protection Act is lame and what you can do about it

Go here to contact your congress person and tell them to stick this bill where the sun don’t shine:

http://www.publicknowledge.org/action/IPPA2391

This is a nightmare.

Do they have the same Bush in “the red states” that we have here?

I appreciate Conservative ideas. I can bring myself to agree with a lot of them. But none of them can justify voting for this evil man.

I just don’t understand it.

Read this for some fascinating insight into al-Qaeda objectives.

Aljazeera.Net - Full transcript of bin Ladin’s speech

Obviously it’s hard (impossible!) to feel sympathy for the man behind the 9/11 terror attacks. But that event didn’t come out of nowhere.

Fear is a fundamental distraction. Right and Wrong blur when one’s life is in danger.

The Bush Administration relies on fear. Terror has justified their most heinous actions, and it has headlined their campaign.

What are they distracting us from?

I believe they represent a very dangerous hidden agenda, and they must not be allowed to continue.

Cheney is a professional warmonger, for Pete’s sake.

Bush has a record of drugs, arrests, mediocre academic performance, and failed business ventures — the perfect puppet, but not exactly the perfect figurehead (how did that happen!).

Furthermore, I believe Bush’s faith is a political invention, engineered to appeal to Conservative America. But, I digress.

There are too many unanswered questions surrounding this group of people.

Here are some links:

• Halliburton investigated by FBI
• Bush really wore a device during the debates
• Bush is dumb

Here you go:

George W Bush is the AntiChrist

The main problem with this theory (I mean aside from the seriously flawed logic) is that not enough people like him. The Antichrist will be welcomed with open arms by the people of the earth, who look to him as the solution to the world’s problems.

Here’s an interesting video by some guy named Barry at Knife-party.net.

what barry says (25MB Quicktime)

I’m not sure who this guy is, or even what he’s talking about, but the video is very interesting.

The video refers to the Project for the New American Century, which describes itself thusly, on it’s website:

The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle; and that too few political leaders today are making the case for global leadership.

In the video, the Project is described quite differently:

The project is a neo-conservative manifesto which includes in its toolbox the unbridled use of war in clearing a path for U.S. interests.

Something to investigate, perhaps.

Definitely interesting.