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5/16/06 to 5/30/06

June 14, 2006

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Yesterday, World Net Daily published this astonishing story:

Bush sneaking North American
super-state without oversight?

Mexico, Canada partnership underway with no authorization from Congress

Despite having no authorization from Congress, the Bush administration has launched extensive working-group activity to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada.

The membership of the working groups has not been published, nor has their work product been disclosed, despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

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Then watch Lou Dobbs' reaction:

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The Bilderberg Group just wrapped up its meeting in Ottawa. Hear anything about it in American media?
     The report from Canada.com
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Republican party mouthpiece Ken Melman with Jon Stewart.
"You're the one who has to go in and spray perfume on these turds."

June 13, 2006

Here's my collection of the short films of Milies from the early 1900s.
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What's the best way to deal with global warming? (1)  Cut funding for satellite programs "designed to give scientists critical information on the earth's changing climate and environment." (2) Put head in sand.
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Horowitz was on Larry King defending Ann Coulter's attack of the 9/11 widows. When he said Coulter didn't write the book for money, you can hear the production crew crack up with laughter.  Video-WMP Video- QT
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Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., the commander of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. Commenting on the suicides of three detainees, Harris offered this analysis:      
     "They are smart, they are creative, they are committed," Admiral Harris said. "They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."
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According to a Reuters story out of Kiev,  when the zoo was crowded with visitors, a man lowered himself by rope into the lion enclosure and walked up to the lions shouting, "God will save me if he exists," thus proving himself to be a man of faith. Unfortunately, the lion, who had more faith, prayed "God give me strength to rip out this guy's throat." Which the lion then proceeded to do.
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"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."      -- Samuel Adams

June 12, 2006

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL 
WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 149 AM PDT MON JUN 12 2006 

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO...NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. 
     TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY FOR ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN.. LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH OR GREATER. 
     THERE IS ALSO A SMALL RISK OF AN ISOLATED WEAK TORNADO.
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Here's what we're supposed to believe: 
Two 500-pound bombs were dropped directly on top of Zarqawi's head (see below).

Then they show us a picture of his remains that look no worse than Nick Nolte's mug shot? After a direct hit of two of the most powerful non-nuclear weapons on earth? Hang on, it gets better...

Reports are coming out that also found in the rubble were women's lingerie and a picture of Franklin Roosevelt. (What, they couldn't find any pictures of Clinton?) Tuck this one away with the story about the mythical passport that fell from the sky on 9-11.
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KREM news just reported a story about a body found at Boundary Dam, "a North Idaho dam." You know, that dam just north of Metaline Falls, WASHINGTON.
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Specter denies giving Amnesty over NSA wiretapping
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Here's a link to videos of the speakers at the Yearly Kos blogger's convention in Las Vegas this weekend.
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From the tin foil hat crowd...literally.

June 10, 2006

Republicans give Bush a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card. 
Again Cafferty cuts to the crux of the matter..

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It is better to dwell 
in the wilderness, 
than with a contentious 
and an angry woman.

Proverbs 21:19

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And finally, a little something to help you sleep less well tonight...

June 9, 2006

His son was personally beheaded by Zarqawi. Michael Berg was interviewed on CNN's American Morning show. Here's his extraordinary reaction to the news of Zarqawi's death. 
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Remember the old bathroom wall scrawl: "In days of old when knights were bold and rubbers weren't invented..."? Well, apparently they really did "wrap a sock..."
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This will be of little interest to OtherSpokane's general readership. Some of our employees asked me to post this video which we use for workplace sensitivity training.

June 8, 2006

Retrospect: 
Didn't turn on my computer today. Rode my bike instead. Might try it again in a couple of days.

June 7, 2006

RIP, B.P.

Jon Stewart takes on Bill Bennett - Video-WMP Video-QT (from Crooks and Liars)
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Some examples of the temporary psychosis suffered by the media yesterday:

6/6/06

Get it?  666? Oooh, spoooky...

Here's an MP3 of over an hour of scary music and sound effect to play in the background as you struggle to survive this horrible day.

Look, I'm usually not superstitious. But I start to wonder after I hear that the ultra-right, mud flinging, liberal-behind-every-rock, paranoid, über-wench Ann Coulter chose this day to launch her new book: Godless - The Church of Liberalism.

I just watched Coulter plugging the book on the Today Show. And there it was again - the Adam's apple! I'm sure she's really a man disguised as a woman; am I the only one who sees this?
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Speaking of Satan, here's the Top Ten Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics of All Time.
Here's a photo collection of Bush and pals flashing the devil's horns.
A Christian radio broadcast on satanic messages in rock music.
A truly horrific recording produced by Anton LaVey - Satan Takes A Holiday
And finally, Abbott and Costello meet the Anti-Christ.
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And now, on to the truly scary stuff:

A few weeks ago, there was a "news report" released stating that Iran had passed a law that would require Jews to wear yellow ribbons and other non-Muslims to wear various ribbons or badges. Later, it was revealed to be a fabrication of Amir Taheri, who started the rumor in an op-ed piece in a Canadian newspaper. The upshot? Taheri was invited to the White House as an "expert" to give his opinions to George W. Bush on Iraq.
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Watch The Corporation - an extraordinary film about the creation of the American corporation, its legal organizational model, its global economic dominance and its psychopathic tendencies, and its incredible ambition to influence every aspect of culture in its unrelenting pursuit of profit. 
Download Windows Media File - Download Real Video File
[I think it's a bootleg, so it might not be here long.]
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Thirty years ago, the richest one percent owned less than a fifth of America’s wealth. Now, according to a recent report by the Fed Reserve Board, they own more than a third.
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Jimmy Carter traces America's "moral crisis" to the rise of fundamentalism.
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The Pentagon moves to omit a ban on prisoner humiliation from the basic guide to soldier conduct.

June 5, 2006

 Woke up. 
Became obsessed with the need to finish something. 
So I did.

June 4, 2006

The Justice Department is asking Internet companies to keep records on the Web-surfing activities of their customers to aid law enforcement, and may propose legislation to force them to do so.
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Here's the BBC's report on the Haditha massacre. 
Windows Media   Real Media
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Professor David Ray Griffin argues that "omissions and distortions" in the report amount to a cover-up by government officials and says that the available evidence suggests that the Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. Broadcast On C-Span 2 - Thursday, April 28, 2005
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How government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populous. Watch Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. wmp
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Have aliens already landed!!!??? (seriously)
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June 3, 2006

My short film Perfect Haunted House won the Best Film award at the Spokane Falls Community College Film Festival yesterday. You can watch it online here. Or, join us at The Spread tomorrow night in beautiful downtown Spokane for another showing.
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Okay, this will be hard to believe. Click here to listen to a cheery calypso song about a sex change operation. The hard-to-believe part is that it was written and sung by the future leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan. He was originally known as Gene Walcott, a kid who grew up with a passion for the violin and Caribbean music. He used his love of music to form a nightclub act where he was known as The Charmer. 
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Want more? Here's Muhammad Ali singing the record straight about American history. "Who rode the ride of Paul Revere? ... ALI! ALI!"
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German artist Martin Kippenberger once proposed a subway system for the entire world, connecting Los Angeles to Helsinki, Tokyo to Rome, Münster to Dawson City. Greek islands, Canadian towns, Swiss lakes, pharaonic tombs – there would be entrances everywhere.

June 2, 2006

Check out the Blood & Guts Horror Film Festival tonight in the SUB Lounge at Spokane Falls Community College. My associates and I are presenting a number of short films: The Perfect Haunted House, Cork, The Feeding, The Nativity, and a new one by James and Jesse called A Party for Gunther. It starts at 7 pm. OtherSpokane Productions representative Jesse will be there (somewhere) to field your questions.
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Gen. Wesley Clark discussed the Haditha massacre and John Murtha with Bill O'Reilly. Apparently no one told Clark that you don't shut down the Big O on his own show. Stik's Prediction: Clark's days as a Fox News "analyst" are numbered.

Watch the video  from crooks and liars
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Peter Chase, above, is one of the courageous Americans who stood up for the rights of library patrons and of every library user in America. He refused to flinch when confronted by abuses of government power in a deeply personal way.

Video: Hear Peter's story in his own words. (Video is in Windows Media format. View a lower-speed version here or download Windows Media Player.)

We owe it to him and his colleagues to stand up to the government’s abuse of power in whatever way we can.

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The BBC has uncovered new video evidence that US forces may have been responsible for yet another deliberate killing  innocent Iraqi civilians.
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Rightwing bloggers are going wacko trying to defend the Haditha massacre. Michelle Malkin just posted photos of Palestinian children carrying weapons - the implication being that shooting children is justified. 
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Robert F Kennedy Jr. writes in Rolling Stone how the Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted.
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Shiite death squads are killing gays as part of a so-called "sexual cleansing" - and the U.S. isn't doing a thing about it.
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Here's three songs recorded by Van Morrision in 1968 to get out of his recording contract with Bang Records. I have to admit: "Ring Worm" is kind of catchy.

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