Saturday, April 19, 2003
A tale of two photos
"You have probably seen the photos of the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled, and TV footage of jubilant Iraqis rolling the bronze head around, bringing back memories of so many previous popular uprisings – 1989, 1956, 1953..."
The photos tell a different story, though I'm pretty skeptical bout this page.
The photographs tell the story...
Is This Media manipulation on a grand scale? Four new photos of the elleged crowd at the tearing down of Hussein's statue in Baghdad.
The Warmongers Were Right! / A gutted Iraq, a low slaughter rate, an Exxon can for every peasant. See? Peacenik losers!
"Let us not mention that no one ever doubted the U.S. military could destroy Iraq. Let us not mention the war the peaceniks referred to all along was about hate, and religion, and power, and was far larger and deadlier and more culturally deleterious than any meager battle for Baghdad. No no no. Bush rules! We won! Just wave the flag right in the face of the damn peace-lovin' hippies!"
Google Toolbar
"The Google Toolbar increases your ability to find information from anywhere on the web and takes only seconds to install.
When the Google Toolbar is installed, it automatically appears along with the Internet Explorer toolbar. This means you can quickly and easily use Google to search from any website location, without returning to the Google home page to begin another search."
Couldn't live without it. Its drop-down menu also has Google Image Search.
World Week for Animals in Laboratories
"World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL) is an annual event designed to expose the plight of animals used for testing and research. WWAIL seeks to arouse concern for animal in laboratories as well as educate the public about the scientific, moral, and economic objections to animal experimentation, also known as vivisection.
WWAIL is observed during the week of April 19 - 27th"
Steelpan Research - Science and Technology of the Steelpan
The Steelpan is the National Instrument of Trinidad and Tobago. You can play their virtual steelpan for fun.
Monkeyfist.com: Justice Entails Ending 'White Privilege'
"According to the latest Survey of Consumer Finances, non-white Americans own 10 or 11 cents of wealth for every 100 cents of wealth owned by white Americans. And, even more troubling, the wealth gap between whites and non-whites expanded 21% from 1998 to 2001."
Internet Anagram Server
Happy Easter from GagsPlus! - Don't tease the rabbit!
One Thing is Crystal Clear: Clear Channel is a Subsidiary of Bush, Inc
"'Rally for America', the supposedly politically neutral, homegrown events that started sprouting up in cities across the nation earlier this year, drew thousands of flag-waving, Dixie-Chick-hating folks who favor President Bush's war with Iraq ..."
Human Rights Watch report and recommendations on Australia's immigration policies
A real eye opener on the appalling record of the Australian government's inhumane treatment of human beings.
Friday, April 18, 2003
B A X T E R WATCH :: Tearing down the fences of the Baxter detention centre...
Psychological torture, electric fences, solitary confinement, remote control zoom cameras, beatings, and microwave sensors. Baxter is just one of many dreadful detention centres for asylum seekers, run by the Aussie government: Australia's Guantanamos.
Meanwhile, BBC News website reports:
"Scuffles broke out as 500 protesters faced off against about 300 police, and some fell as police horses forced the demonstrators back."
Also, ABC Radio news (Australia) reports Police facing more protests. Good. Wish I could be there in the South Australian desert.
Privacy International - Stupid Security Competition
"Winner - The Australian Government for a litany of pointless, irritating and self-serving security measures"
So who really did save Private Jessica?
"THE rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, which inspired America during one of the most difficult periods of the war, was not the heroic Hollywood story told by the US military, but a staged operation that terrified patients and victimised the doctors who had struggled to save her life, according to Iraqi witnesses."
Editorial: Forgotten wars / The deaths Americans don't mourn
"Consider the war in the vast Democratic Republic of the Congo, for instance. Launched in 1998 when Rwanda and Uganda invaded to upend the Congolese government, the conflict is blamed for 3.5 million deaths ..."
The Village Voice: Nation: Mondo Washington: Our Man in Baghdad by James Ridgeway
"The CIA was providing Iraq with battlefield intelligence gained from a Saudi AWACS plane. It was during this period that Rumsfeld visited the dictator to see if there was anything the U.S. could do to help out."
Nothing much new here, but I just love hearing this again about Rummy so I'm posting it.
The Village Voice: Nation: Mark Fiore: Looting...American as Apple Pie! by Mark Fiore
Mark Fiore's animations are always well executed and have something to say. Maybe not so funny, but they're good.
Thursday, April 17, 2003
The Second Superpower
"There is an emerging second superpower, but it is not a nation. Instead, it is a new form of international player, constituted by the “will of the people” in a global social movement. The beautiful but deeply agitated face of this second superpower is the worldwide peace campaign, but the body of the movement is made up of millions of people concerned with a broad agenda that includes social development, environmentalism, health, and human rights."
What a fantastic article! James F Moore's article is what I've been searching for words, time, energy and guts to say. Thanx Colleen Spence for alerting me to it.
t r u t h o u t - Hands off Syria
"Bashar needs to be warned to cease playing with fire. But in the long run, the soundest way to alter the totalitarian politics of the region is to help foster democracy in postwar Iraq and a just and durable peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians."
Take Back The Media! Cities In Dust
A short slide show about the Iraq war.
Daypop - a current events/weblog/news search engine
For searching headline stories and weblogs.
BigPictureSmallWorld
Another part of the Big Picture site, an amazing array of meters showing expenditures on war.
winningpeace
Flash animations. Worth entering this site, Big Picture, Small World.
¤ GrandMother Drum Project ¤ Ring Of Fire World Tour ¤ While we have recently seen the escalation of fear, separation, war and violence in our world community, the birthing of the GrandMother Drum Project in Alaska could not have been any timelier. The seven-foot diameter, kettle-shaped drum was born on June 5, 2001, after thirteen years of prayer, ceremony and physical labor by the Alaskan community. The GrandMother Drum is a living, beating symbol and message from the hearts of Alaskans that we are truly all one people; that Mother Earth is our one country; that love is stronger than fear, and that peace is the birthright of all humanity.
t r u t h o u t - Carving Up The New Iraq
"There is more to this than just kickbacks. The Americans call it "the favour bank'', we call it more simply cronyism. The connections between the reconstructors is staggering. If these people aren't in the same think-tank together, then they work for the same companies, have the same friends and interests."
This article is hugely important -- and frightening -- and deserves to be forwarded far and wide. The nerve of the neo-cons in the US administration is mindshredding.
BLOGGER
Welcome to Pip's Picks. I'm new to blogging, and if you don't know what blogs are, you have less experience of weblogs than my mighty 24 hours.
I got this free weblog from blogger.com and I'm very pleased with it so far.
One of the best features, to me, is something called 'Blog This!'. When you make a weblog with blogger, and as you're actually setting it up (which takes just a few minutes and is simple), you will see a link to Blog This!. You drag it onto where it says Links on the menu bar of your Web browser (in my case, Internet Explorer). Then, whenever you're on a webpage you want to enter the URL of into your blog, you just click Blog This in your menu and it automatically brings up a dialog box. This box (which I'm using now while my browser is on blogger.com) has the URL ready to add to your blog (see where it says BLOGGER above this -- that's how I did it), and space for you to write comments, like these I'm sharing with you now.
You can write, or copy and paste, any text you want in the dialog box. For example, I'll paste here some text from blogger.com, like so:
"Introducing AudioBlogger! So, imagine this: You're driving down the road, chatting at a party, or whatever. You have a phone. You call your blog on the phone. You leave a message. The message gets instantly posted to your blog as an MP3 file for the world to listen to."
I'm impressed. If you can do html you can post images and all sorts of stuff. I think they can improve some features, but it's pretty good, and free. It also comes with customizable templates, if you have basic html skills ... which is all I have. Tres cool.
YellowTimes.org
Great! Yellow Times is back online after twice being kicked off by ISPs. Good to see you back, YT!
Yellow Times has some of the best current affairs commentary online. Also, check out the Almanac's Yellow Times Page.
:: best flash sites dot de >>> archive of the best flashsites on the web ::
I'm trying to learn Flash MX animation (which I find hard) and my teacher showed the class this site with some cool Flash-designed sites.
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
The Observer: Syria could be next, warns Washington
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Is Google too powerful?
"Welcome to freedom, and have a nice day!"
Iraqis have paid the blood price for a fraudulent war
More bloodlust than a real war
Bush made articulate for Tribune readers - or for Bush?
EgyptianIntellectual Speaks Of the Arab World's Despair
Ex-CIA director: USA faces 'World War IV'
The Night After, by Uri Avnery
Meet the New Butcher of Baghdad
Who is Ahmed Chalabi, Bush's choice for Baghdad?
More on Chalabi from Time Magazine
Wag the Kennel?
The Kenneth Joseph Story
Arundhati Roy on the war - great article
Did Brits steal credit for Neptune discovery?
Visitors flock to Michael Moore site
A Shameful Oscar Night
Michael Moore: My Oscar "Backlash"
US was a key supplier to Saddam
This war was not worth a child's finger
How America Lost the War, William Rivers Pitt
Hollywood exec fired for comments about USA
After Iraq: Perpetual War and a Nuclear World
The War for the White House is on
GreenStar Co-op Products that Feed Globalization
Bush's Napoleonic Complex: Telltale Signs of Empire
Why I Oppose the US War on Terror: ex-Marine Sergeant
The Toppling of the Saddam Statue
Bring Troops Home, Before They Learn to Like Killing
The culture jammers' encyclopedia
They Rule: Clever Flash site shows who rules the world
Chickenhawks: Pro-war, but didn't serve
Our BIG directory of 1,000+ peace-related URLs
More questions: An overview of the War on Terrorism
13 Myths: a brief version of our 31 myths
Operation Northwoods, 1962: US Army fake terrorism plan
Powell and CNN lied: what Osama's tape really said
How US policies betray desire for a non-compliant Iraq
Here it is, conclusive proof against Iraq
A warmonger explains war to a peacenik
Personal Voices: An Open Letter to the US President
Peace Planet: new Webring for your planet-friendly site
George Bush Sr warns George Bush Junior on Iraq
Activists in Baghdad Brace for Consequences of War
Almanac's Yellow Page: Ex-Iraqi nuke scientist reveals
51% of Americans still think Iraq did Twin Towers
The Chilling Effects of Anti-Terrorism
Oxfam's appeal to undo our damage in Iraq
"Shut Your Mouth": Assault on civil liberty (Salon mag)
Very funny mpeg: Bush and Blair
Indymedia
Peace Planet: new Webring for your planet-friendly site
Late Night Live, top discussions (with audio)
Paul Kelly's Woomera Song, free download
Bring on the spanners - why we are lucky to have Bush
The Miscalculations of Yes-Men, William Rivers Pitt
The Euro, the $, and the real reasons for the war on Iraq
Links for the February 15 antiwar rallies worldwide
Is Bush nuts? This might explain it all
Naked for peace
Foreknowledge of 9-11?
Huge gallery of photos of February 15 peace rallies
Al-Qaeda and Bush's very strange media conference
Afghanistan has been well and truly betrayed
Pentagon Threatens to Kill Independent Reporters in Iraq
Why Not Kill Dictators with Kindness?
White House spies on UN delegates; US media ducks
Is Bush hearing voices?
US vetoes in UN: allowing Hussein's chemical weapons
Boycott Brand America Campaign
Beyond War, excellent free audio program
Bush Family Values Photo Album
Norman Mailer on US and war (audio)
George Monbiot, commentator
Richard Perle: Death of the UN
US vetoes in UN: allowing Hussein's chemical weapons
Collateral Language: User's Guide to America's New War
