tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39850052011-10-11T20:09:03.418-07:00one planetIt's about everybody being together, like all one people and not having anything to keep us apart- no countries, no religion, no borders to separate us and fight about.
And we need understand that all the children in the world are everyone's children, so we will start to care for them like they are ours. Because they are.paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-16280828604736354812010-10-08T20:32:00.000-07:002010-10-08T20:52:02.340-07:00We are now entering the tenth year of murdering Afghanistan. No one know why we keep on doing this. When Obama got to be president he started escalating the murders with more troops. Then made everything a lot worse with attacks by drones- pilotless planes operated by remote control from Nevada. A cowardly way to "fight", using remote control,planes, but perfectly suited to the u.s.a. and it's paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-998940044189900462010-04-10T18:19:00.000-07:002010-04-10T18:52:39.766-07:00Some excitement this week about a video shot from an Apache helicopter killing a bunch of Iraqi guys who were just hanging out. It came from wikileaks if you haven't seen it yet. We got to see it mostly because among those killed were two Reuters photographers, and so Reuters kicked up a ruckus. otherwise it probably would not have seen the light of day. What impresses most people is the paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-68268752520393233442010-04-03T17:15:00.000-07:002010-04-03T18:16:35.378-07:00Hard to know just where we are right now. In the bush days many people thought somebody was pulling his strings- that he himself was not creating and carrying out the big plans. Starting the wars, opening the gulag, all those things. And looking back it still seems that way. But what's up with obomber? He was something different in the campaign. So what happened? It's increasingly difficult to paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-16652884282619508112010-01-13T21:35:00.000-08:002010-01-13T21:54:29.098-08:00This is about Copenhagen. Here were all the great world leaders of all the great industrial countries, the ones causing climate change by their ever increasing burning of fossil fuels. Then there were the people from the rest f the world. The ones who suffer the consequences of climate change. Small island nations drowning in the rising sea waters. The entire continent of Africa staring at a paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-21326067298210731052009-08-21T19:59:00.000-07:002009-08-21T20:01:01.901-07:00The indigenous Dongria Kondh people of India live on and around a mountain called Niyamgiri. A british aluminum mining company has found out that there is bauxite, from which aluminum is made, in this mountain.Because they are "civilized" and so have no way of understanding indigenous people or their deep spirituality, the Vedanta mining corp, based in London, is using its considerable power andpaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-43953797557819864982009-06-20T19:43:00.000-07:002009-06-20T20:31:13.818-07:00It will not matter how many nice things the new president might do if he can't stop bombing Afghanistan. This was a crazy idea from the beginning, and it only happened because the u.s. citizens were out of their minds with fear and hate when the towers got hit. They wanted revenge, and it did not much matter to them who got hit. But that was 8 years ago. It seems reasonable to expect people to paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-56819727240672460452009-01-19T18:05:00.000-08:002009-01-19T18:42:26.698-08:00I didn't say a word about Gaza, and I'm really sorry. I apologize to my sisters and brothers in Gaza, and to all of Palestine. On the other hand I have been vert busy everywhere else, talking about it. Also I have become a proud member of Palestinian Mothers. Anyway I suppose everyone else has heard and seen and read enough. So we should all know by now.There is one thing though. My own paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-16231242134603392232008-12-22T20:02:00.000-08:002008-12-22T20:45:26.429-08:00I can't remember now why I called this "oneplanet". But anyway it's still what I want. Up here in the north it seems like it is way too easy to forget the Global South. Forget all those hungry people. Forget they even exist.But we can't. The businessmen don't forget them. However, while they do think about thee poor people, all those thoughts are about how they can squeeze more money out of them,paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-55245312769504199532008-11-01T20:04:00.000-07:002008-11-01T20:05:50.035-07:00In John Pilger's new book, Freedom Next Time, there is a chapter about Afghanistan. He had been visiting a couple villages that had been bombed by the u.s. In Kabul he visited a bombed high school, where the students were trying to carry on in makeshift classrooms of cardboard and plastic sheeting. The headmaster explained to him that the kids could no longer remember their lessons, that paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-41199308522727527382008-09-04T16:18:00.000-07:002008-09-04T17:12:56.326-07:00Now they are having elections in the U.S. These are not like the ones they have in some other countries, where there is only one guy running so it's not a real election. Here we have two people running from the two wings of the capitalist party. Anyway, they can get very excited about it. Today there is lots of ink in the papers bout the Republicans, because it's their turn now, and also have paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-80394679463801284362008-05-09T16:39:00.001-07:002008-05-09T16:39:46.131-07:00Omar Khalid is back in the dock, facing charges of being a child soldier (he was captured when he was 15) and getting shot in the back twice by our brave and courageous fighting crybabies. Shouldn't really be hard to get an acquittal if we were dealing with any known form of jurisprudence in the history of the western world except for the one currently operating out of the white house. to begin paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-56690255772585308902008-03-29T20:13:00.000-07:002008-03-29T21:09:29.778-07:00Now Pakistan is going to evict the Afghan refugees, and bulldoze their camps. Those people became refugees because after 9/11 the americans started looking around for somebody to bomb, to get revenge. Afghanistan was selected because they were the most pitiful and defenseless country on the planet. I know that a lot of people believed the stupid excuses that were offered- it must have been Osama,paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-32052568653674243122008-01-25T18:55:00.000-08:002008-01-25T19:04:57.893-08:00When I first heard about biofuels- this was about 20, 30 years ago- I thought “My God the Americans have gone completely crazy! They are putting food in their gas tanks!" Back then though it was just a crazy idea. Now it is really happening. The results in just this one year have been devastating. Indonesian farmers have been evicted from their land so transnationals could plant palm oil. Meantpaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-23308959829851031612007-08-11T18:01:00.000-07:002007-08-11T18:22:57.432-07:00Many rporters and editors and generals, people who participated in selling the assault on Iraq, are now coming forward to admit they were wrong, misguided and deceived, and they kind of wish they hadn't done it. OK, fine. but look I am not a journalist. it is not my job to investigate claims of weapons and nukes before publishing them. But even so, I, a simple ordinary citizen, knew paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-71725461393362124292007-06-19T12:56:00.000-07:002007-06-19T13:14:01.385-07:00Many people have been calling for the closing of the prison at Guantanamo. Let’s not. Gitmo must not be shut down until all the other prisons in the great American gulag are opened, and their inmates released. Gitmo is the only visible part of the gulag. What happens to all the innocents locked away in secret prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the countries known only to themselves and the CIA? paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1170463679514671842007-02-02T16:47:00.000-08:002007-02-02T16:47:59.526-08:00SOME THINGS AMERICANS NEED TO REMEMBER1. When the United States invaded Iraq They did so for no legitimate reason. It was an act of unprovoked aggression.2. The excuses offered by the government were lies, and everyone knew they were lies. Iraq posed no threat to the U.S. or England or Israel.3. Launching a war of aggression was pronounced the ultimate war crime at Nuremberg. Nothing has changed paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1169862941776017302007-01-26T17:46:00.000-08:002007-01-26T17:55:41.786-08:00Land of the Crybabies, Home of the ScaredycatsThe united states could go down in history as the biggest crybabies ever. Also the biggest scaredycats.For a long time this country was famous for being able to wage war without getting hit. While much of Europe was nearly destroyed in World War I and again in World War II, no bombs fell on the U.S.. And so it has been. Other countries get in wars, paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1166920189443392012006-12-23T16:02:00.000-08:002006-12-23T16:29:49.453-08:00Sometimes I don't blog cause I figure everything has been said. But today I do not think this is the case. What I'd like to hear is somebody start wtriting true stories. To do this you cannot use the same lingo the empire uses. You should not say "war on terror" for example. This is what they call it I know. But if you say "The president announced today a change in strategy for his War for Oil...paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1162158012172601652006-10-29T13:38:00.000-08:002006-10-29T13:40:12.190-08:00There are 12,14,16,000 people being held in the black hole of american military prisons. Nobody can know exactly how many. Nor can we know their names or anything else about them. Their families will not be told where they are. The military refers to them as suspects or enemy combatants but they are neither- they have never been charged or tried or convicted of anything. 90 % of them are there paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1151961173564607102006-07-03T14:07:00.000-07:002006-07-03T14:12:53.573-07:00A Poem for the 4th of JulyA woman in El Salvador holds in her handthe picture of her sonwho never went to warbut was disappeared anywayby a CIA death squadIn Guatemala a woman weeps for her childrenwho were in the tiny housewhen the guards sent by Eisenhowerburned it downbecause she is Indigenashe has no photosthey live only in her memoryA woman in Iraq holds the pictures of her three paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1148872422363950052006-05-28T20:00:00.000-07:002006-06-23T19:14:35.026-07:00Today I write to remember all the innocent people of Afghanistan and all the innocent people of Iraq who have been murdered by the American military. All the people bombed in their houses, all the people bombed during their wedding parties, all the people shot down at checkpoints, all the people of Fallujah and all the other cities and villages who have been killed because a cowardly, lying, paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1140576187539750952006-02-21T18:15:00.000-08:002006-02-21T18:43:07.550-08:00Well I came back after all this time to tell about 9/11. i've been getting emails lately about it- I don't quite know why now, but anyway. There was one story from a new organoization called Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Bunch of really smart, knowledgable people, and they are saying flat out "the events may have been orchestrated by elements within the administration to manipulate Americans into paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1128297707977758312005-10-02T16:35:00.000-07:002005-10-02T17:01:47.983-07:00So Lynndie gets 3 years in the slammer for fooling around with prisoners, and her boyfriend with the camera. When will Rumsfeld and gen. Myers and while we're at it the president himself be tried for prisoner abuse? Because I mean they are the people who made the policies of systemic abuse that is going on right now all over the american gulag from Afghanistan to Iraq to Gitmo. It's been going onpaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1120177392364779762005-06-30T16:32:00.000-07:002005-10-02T17:10:38.943-07:00Almost a year and it only gets worse. More killing, more lies. The Downing street memos came out last month and now everyone in the whole world knows for sure they were lying all the time. They are even beginning to find out about this in the United States. Imagine that. Well it's not like the authoities decided to level with us, or the press decided to start reporting, it was just about how theypaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1093820729213745232004-08-29T14:33:00.000-07:002004-08-29T16:05:29.213-07:00Right now they are assualting Iraq more fiercely than ever. Why? Who's the "enemy" now?. Let's review.
First they said Saddam was a menace, an imminent threat, he can nuke London in 45 minutes. Not only that, he was an international terrorist, probably, and connected to Osama. Because they could get no one in their right mind to believe any of this, they had to go and attack anyway. Then they gotpaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1083702326182648392004-05-04T13:23:00.000-07:002004-05-04T13:29:09.543-07:00Let's try to get this straight. There is a country called Iraq. And in this country are foreign soldiers. These foreigners are bombing, shelling and sniping Iraqi people. The natives, the people who live in Iraq, occasionally take exception to this kind of thing and shoot back. They are then pronounced insurgents or even “terrorists” by the bombheads directing the foreign army, which makes it ok paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1083372938958788592004-04-30T17:54:00.000-07:002004-04-30T17:59:50.623-07:00Terrorists are people who wage a kind of war against powerful, heavily armed forces they can not fight in traditional warfare. They don't expect real victories. What they want is to make people jittery and nervous wondering where and at whom they will strike next. Or just walk around scared all the time. In this sense, Osama scored big time on 9-11, because that one act has made the U.S. a nationpaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1082339034558657492004-04-18T18:41:00.000-07:002004-04-18T18:47:50.733-07:00Now we are getting reports of 600+ civilians killed in Fallujah. Most of the details are supplied by aid workers and medics who have bravely gone into a very dangerous war zone to try to rescue as many people as they can manage. But there are others- even the New York Times itself reports kids and old men and women getting shot or hit by artillery. This is not accidental or unintnded. It is paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1081378623687370712004-04-07T15:31:00.000-07:002004-04-07T16:03:31.826-07:00People who like peace are opposed to war for many reasons, mostly cause so many peple get killed when you have wars. But another reason is it seems so unbelieably stupid. A stupid cycle of violence begetting more violence, answered by still more violence and it never ends. What is so hard to understand about that? Israel gets hit with a suicide bomber. Sharon says "I know what. I will bulldoze paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1080175336214420202004-03-24T16:41:00.000-08:002004-03-24T16:45:39.106-08:00we don't want free trade cause it's not free. What it is is it means fabulously wealthy megacorporations from rich countries take over and control what people in poor countries can do. Or can't. when some country is flat broke, they need to borrow money, from where it is, in the very rich countries banks. With the loan come instructions what these countries need to do. They need to, privatize paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1078707095151103102004-03-07T16:51:00.001-08:002004-03-07T16:54:35.513-08:00paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1078707070363875742004-03-07T16:51:00.000-08:002004-03-07T16:54:10.733-08:00paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1075670979669905252004-02-01T13:07:00.000-08:002004-02-01T13:31:53.780-08:00David Kay says we had no excuse to go to war in Iraq. He also says it was the spooks' fault. They convinced a naive and too credulous pres, and the scretary of war, and Karl and Condi, they just had to go to war. Across the pond judge Hutton says the same thing happened there too, only the BBC did it to poor Tony. My my. What duplicitous pervarications will they think up next? Will there be no paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1074486170254341362004-01-18T20:20:00.000-08:002004-01-18T20:24:46.326-08:00Nothing changes. Well more people get killed. But no one says "can anyone think of something else to do? Besides killing people I mean?" Why don't they ever think of that? I saw them in today's paper, they had a couple teenagers they had caught trying to flee the scene of this huge explosion. You know? Like duh, we're supposed to stay here? Yes they are because when they start running they becomepaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1071252287279231652003-12-12T10:03:00.000-08:002003-12-12T10:05:54.293-08:00paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1071246371750156052003-12-12T08:25:00.000-08:002003-12-12T08:27:18.483-08:00 So anyway the pres called me up and said what do I think about 87 billion for more war in Iraq. I said Do you know how many kids you could feed and give clean water and vaccines for that much money? he said no I don't and besides I don't know how to feed kids. I know bombs, is all. So I said I noticed that. I already told you to quit with the bombs, the weapons, all of them. Send food to the paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-1057280291096355762003-07-03T17:58:00.000-07:002003-07-03T18:02:34.243-07:00This Independence day how about we try to do some independent thinking for a change. See how many thoughts you can think that you did NOT hear from Cheney and Bush and Rumsfeld. Try thinking about prace. It really should not be too hard. the U.S A got started first to be independent from England, then to try a new way of making a government. "Deriving their just powers from the consent of the paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-951668152003-06-01T15:57:00.000-07:002003-06-01T15:57:26.186-07:00I did not blog during the Iraq thing. Not that I didn't have anything to say. I don't know what it was. Anyway now that the heavy bombing has stopped, here's what I think.
Too much lying. mr. pres., the seceretary of war, the general at state- all lies. The assault on Iraq was about WMD which did not exist, about al Qeda, ditto, or whatever else they were saying. All lies. Now they do not even paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-888096562003-02-09T11:50:00.000-08:002003-02-09T11:50:30.426-08:00Now it's getting too scary. Powell goes to the UN and holds up his silly pictures, his thimbleful of anthrax (yeah right) and shows a "transcript" translated from the Arabic, and everyone goes oooh gee geberal, we really gotta drop lotsa bombs now for sure what else can we do. Well I'll tell ya what else. Number one do not believe anything Powell tells you. Or bush or rumsfeld or any of that lot.paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-878112462003-01-21T16:30:00.000-08:002003-01-21T16:30:48.876-08:00Why I think about people and children living in countries far a way is I teach ESL and literacy in a public high school multicultural program. It's for students for whom there's no bilingual program, kids who spaek fula, swahili, hindi, mandinke- languages like that. Many are refugees from places like Somalia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Kurdistan, where there has been lots of war. Often the paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-864131682002-12-22T16:46:00.000-08:002002-12-22T16:46:20.753-08:00I read a story today about how Nestle wants Ethiopia to pay them millions because the old dictator, like 20 years ago, nationalized their whatever factory. Now Ethiopia is in the grip of a terrible famine, people dying all the time. It also has one of the worst AIDS epidemics in the world. Yet Nestle says "give us money". Not really a surprise. These are the greed crazed swine who have been paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-852750752002-11-29T17:09:00.000-08:002002-12-11T16:55:55.000-08:00What that's about is, during the Gulf War, in 1991, the U.S. bombed what they called Iraq's "infrastructure". These were essentially civilian targets, and the idea was if they take out the water treatment plants and electric grid, the Iraqis would never be able to fix anything, because we had a blockade in place to stop that. So the result would be epidemic levels of water borne diseases- cholerapaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3985005.post-852747532002-11-29T16:57:00.000-08:002002-11-29T16:59:08.000-08:00well today I was thinking I sure do hope they don't start bombing Iraq because those people over there, they are so miserable from what we've been doing to them the last eleven years, what I thought would be a great idea is spend all that war money to rebuild the water treatment plants we bombed, fix the electricity, rebuild the hospitals, send food, send doctors. Oh yeah and the vaccines we paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532888828186345525noreply@blogger.com0