I picked this up from a post by Chuck on a UFPJ list dealing with recruitment and counter-recruitment. US Army forces 50,000 soldiers into extended duty By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 29 2006(Reuters) – The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called “stop-loss,” […]
List of Grievances Appropriate to Give to a Tyrant
These are the original Grievances that our Founding Forefathers gave to Thomas Jefferson and from which he wrote the Declaration of Independence and that he chose to include within the Declaration. Some present day writers have chosen to rewrite these Grievances. I believe it is important for all Progressives to review the original Grievances and […]
How to Foil Search Engine Snoops
If you are concerned about government agencies and this current administration’s “if you have nuzzing to hide, you should not mind if zwe search” fascistic policies, you might be interested in this Wired article. buildpeace.blogspot.com
Warming Globe, Cooling Freedoms
I am not happy this morning. Read the article, James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years ( attached at the end of this article.) Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis which states that the world is one huge inter-connected living system, now […]
SDS, Comix and Women
Last night a conference call demanded my attention so I could only strafe over the topic of the apparent reemergence of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) as a coordinating body for counter-establishment sentiments and actions. This deserves examination, but I want to look at it in light of today’s article in the San […]
Wowie Zowie! The SDS Is Back
Many folks who stumble across this won’t even know what the SDS is/was. Students for a Democratic Society were pretty big players in the Vietnam Anti-war Movement and were a bit left of center… and well a bit left of left. Well I stumbled (as I am so very good at doing) across this site […]