M a r k D i l l e y: 2003-12

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Interesting use of the weblog for union purposes! But what has happened recently?
AFSCME 3800 Negotiations News

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Tentative Agreement Reached!!
Borders Readers United

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For Jackie,
Meatball Wiki: UniversityWiki

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Geek post, for my venture into movable type
Invisible Adjunct: Teach Yourself Movable Type

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Jim Henley is not right, neither is Kynn, Googlebombing and other forms of culture jamming are needed. They are creative outlets for the crushing weight of the military state. What needs to happen, and both Jim and Kynn point to this, is that that can't be ALL that we do.
Shock and Awe: Brief note on "Googlebombing"

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"Union Factory Workers are middle class."
EdgeWise 28.12.2003: "Union Factory Workers are middle class."

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raging grannies, bush in 30 seconds
Bush in 30 Seconds

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Discussion of knitting circles here, maybe it will happen
ann_arbor_ypsi: Does anybody know of any knitting circle

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Warning: offensive
seat of the revolution :: XXX-mas Guide 2003

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"The Headline Game: Dean: I'm joining al Qaida!
Crescat Sententia: December 21, 2003 - December 27, 2003 Archives

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"I can't think of a better place to reflect on the awesome love of our lord Jesus than to be here at Lawtey Correctional. God bless you.""
Crescat Sententia: December 21, 2003 - December 27, 2003 Archives

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"First, it gave a context for the failed promise of Reconstruction and placed black life in a global context. Mr. Du Bois wrote against the backdrop of a world where the European powers at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 "with great gusto" carved up Africa and where America, as a result of the Spanish-American War, strode onto the international stage as an imperial power."
Negrophile. One who admires and supports Black people and their culture.

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"Just a little reminder of all the countries the US has bombed since WWII: China (1945-1946, 1950-1953), Korea (1950-1953), Guatemala (1954, 1967-1969), Indonesia (1958), Cuba (1959-1960), the Belgian Congo (1964), Peru (1965), Laos (1964-1973), Vietnam (1961-1973), Cambodia (1969-1970), Grenada (1983), Libya (1986), El Salvador (1980s) Nicaragua (1980s), Panama (1989), Bosnia (1995), Sudan (1998), Yugloslavia (1999), Afghanistan (2001-?), Iraq (1991-?). How many innocent lives do you think were lost? I'll give you a good guess: MILLIONS. Millions of people dead. Millions of people who were mostly just poor and in the wrong political place at the wrong political time. Is that not terror? Oh, and are the rich countries or the poor countries the ones that produce and sell almost all of the weapons throughout the world? Also, Is there not a clear and distinguishable connection between the arms industry, the oil industry, major media networks, and US foreign policy makers? I would like to thank Arundhati Roy for this little reminder. Oh yeah and btw, Happy Consumption Day, i.e. Christmas and all the other consumer holidays!"
:: jakeneck | freers of the lead world ::

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"Nafta 10 Years Afta, The North American Free Trade Agreement took hold 10 years ago, after a bruising, arm-twisting debate. Today it is more than ever a politically charged symbol of the promises and perils of free trade.
The accord, known as Nafta, brought under one canopy three hugely different economies: the wealthy United States, middle-class Canada and striving Mexico. The disparities made Nafta the boldest gamble ever on the proposition that free trade could benefit all.
Leaders promised the accord would create millions of good jobs, curb illegal immigration and raise living standards "from the Yukon to the Yucatan." A decade later, the verdict, even among Nafta's strongest supporters, is that for those goals free trade by itself is not enough."
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"Still, it's the end of the year, so let's break out the champagne for good news around the world for women in 2003--accomplishments, activism, bold deeds and grounds for hope."
Good News for Women

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"I also have a message for all Americans: The capture of Saddam Hussein does not mean the end of violence in Iraq. We still face terrorists who would rather go on killing the innocent than accept the rise of liberty in the heart of the Middle East. Such men are a direct threat to the American people, and they will be defeated."
Shock and Awe: Pessimistic Bush Not Ready To Pronounce Saddam Guilty

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"In November, Republican House negotiators blocked a provision that would have created criminal penalties for war profiteers and cheats who try to defraud American taxpayers and cash in on the relief and reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The provision has now been introduced as a stand-alone bill and should be passed as soon as possible. "
RuminateThis: CUTTING OFF THE WAR PROFITEERS

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"How about tons of coffee made by growers cooperatives, rather than by exploited farmers."
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: What Would Jesus Drink?

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Interesting weblog, needs rss feed and comments though
detroitblog

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"Saddam Hussein is an evil guy, but given our military support for him during the time he was murdering Iranians and many of his own people, the US is hardly in the position to sit in single judgment."
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: The Fog of War

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"A New Hampshire National Guardsman was pardoned Monday for an assault conviction involving his wife and son so he could be deployed to Iraq."
Shock and Awe: Settling In, In Iraq

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Very interesting the breakdown of the numbers, as if to minimalize the total dead.
"In the Iraq war, 474 U.S. troops have died -- 326 under hostile circumstances. Eleven troops have been killed since the beginning of the week."
CNN.com - Five GIs killed in Iraq insurgency attacks - Dec. 26, 2003

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"Christmas Day, 2003, Jenin, West Bank -- Night has fallen, and I am staring at mounds of rubble. This used to be a neighbourhood in the Jenin Refugee Camp. The Israeli army levelled the houses with people inside, in what is known here as the Jenin Massacre. The rubble mounds are pulverized so fine they appear to be crematory remains."
ei: Sharon's pattern of provocation

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"The Republican National Committee has, for the first time in their 150 year history, selected New York for their Convention from August 29-September 4, 2004. In a shallow attempt at exploiting the lives lost at the World Trade Center, the RNC has pushed the Convention date to September."
RNC NOT WELCOME IN NYC!

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"According to a military report that outlined the use of passenger and cargo airlines in the Iraq conflict, the government paid $636.2 million to 10 airlines that flew troops overseas during a 131-day emergency mobilization from February through June. It also paid $574 million to 14 cargo carriers to deliver equipment to Iraq and neighboring countries in that period."
Goodspeed Update 2003: News and Information for Students at the University of Michigan

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Shock and Awe: A Barbarous Occupation
"Iraqis stand on top of a house destroyed by the U.S. forces Friday Dec. 26, 2003 in Khalidiya, some 100 kilometers (some 60 miles) west of Baghdad. The house alledgedly belonged to a suspected rebel leader who was arrested by U.S. forces a week ago, locals said."

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Blog Left: Critical Interventions Warblog (war blog, Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Bush, Gulf War II, left)
And Nathan Newman comments:
"Atrios predicts that the new media meme (pumped by the GOP) will be that Dean is "pessimistic." Since Dean thinks he can get rid of Bush and solve our economic problems, I'd say that makes him optimistic.
So I'd say this calls for a positive google bomb promoting the idea that Dean is optimistic. "

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"In a recent speech at Columbia University, Noam Chomsky strongly criticizes the Bush Administration's war against Iraq. He speaks against the power investors have over world affairs, the media's capitulation to them and much more."
Democracy Now! | An Hour With Noam Chomsky on Iraq, War Profiteers & The Media

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"For the Romans, the putting down of Jewish rebellions, or the persecution of Christians, was all part of empire-maintenance. They were equal-opportunity oppressors. In the National Museum of Damascus is a replica of Trajan's Column, built in second-century Rome by Apollodorus, who hailed from Damascus. The friezes on the column depict Trajan's conquest of Dacia - modern-day Romania. In blood-loving detail, the sculptures depict the carnage of battle, even the mass suicide of Dacians, unwilling to be enslaved by the Romans. Trajan, not satisfied with that conquest, went on conquer Mesopotamia - our Iraq. "
Are We Ready, Able to Be Romans?

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"Today is the first day of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is an African-American celebration created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor at Cal State Long Beach in Southern California. It celebrates seven cultural principles on seven days from December 26 to January 1."
Shock and Awe: Kwanzaa Day One: Umoja

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"The FBI was obsessed with Martin Luther King, who they saw as the most powerful and popular leader of the the Civil Rights movement."
Uppity-Negro.com: A VASpider Fansite: Ain't nothing changed

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"Well the Pentagon is ticked about troops acquiring their own equipment again -- Army Thin-Skinned Over Homemade Armor (Lieb, Wa. Post, 12/26/03). Appararently the 428th Reserve Army Transportation Company got their hometown (Jefferson City,Mo.) funeral director to pitch in $4000 to pay for extra armior for their vehicles. The Pentagon may not allow delivery of the armor because they haven't approved it. The problem faced by the 428th is that their vehicles were not designed for combat and won't repel even small arms fire."
Uncommon Thought Journal: Where does the DoD budget go?

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" If you Watch Nothing Else This Year. It will take a while to download this interview with Dennis Kucinich on Link TV . "
mousemusings weblog

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Entertaining, but WTF?!
O r b i t J u i c e (dot) C o m

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.: SPEARHEAD :: B O M B T H E W O R L D :.
Flash, nice job.

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"Within this site you will find a wealth of information by and about England's crop circlemakers."
"Top of the crop: 2003"
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~mousemusings weblog
"1. Saint Nicholas is the patron Saint of children in Siberia (Russia), a supplanter to the indigenous Shaman."

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.What Are They Reading?
"Historical equivalencies are tricky. Most of the particulars of Hitler's ascent to power didn't correspond at all with the rise of Reagan. Or of George W. Yet, since reading Bright Room for the first time some years ago, I have sought it out a few times since Bush Jr. took office. Something about the plight of Kushner's German characters hits painfully close to home."

This is a friend of mine over at Labor Notes