Showing us how…
What’s happening in Oaxaca is absolutely amazing. A broad coalition of local and groups, organizations, with (by and large) the support of much if not most of the populace, is facing down the PRI governor (the long-term stalinist-like organization that has ruled Oacaca since the 1920’s) and the corporatist President of the Republic.
They have faced off against the State police, plain-clothes thugs/operatives of the Governor and the PRI, and now the Federales (Federal police).
They aren’t backing down, and their resistance has been by and large heroic, dignified and largely non-violent in the face of violent assaults murders, kidnappings and torture by the Governor’s operatives and, most recently, the Federales.
Simply amazing.
Perhaps its a “Mayan” kinda thing ?
A renaissance of people who are truly sick to death of the tyrants who have reduced this earth – OUR planet and its inhabitants down to commodities, to be used and abused at their leisure.
My heart goes out to these guys. This life simply shouldnt be this way. Plain and simple.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 6 2006 8:24 utc | 3

kurt nimmo hosts video of wayne madsen

Posted by: annie | Nov 6 2006 11:03 utc | 5

Uncle, I owe you a pint for turning me on to Lenin’s Tomb. Cheers!
How about this piece of hilarity to send your barrel over the Niagra of despair? Apparently the Army is telling potential recruits that the war in Iraq is over. On second thoughts, they might be right…

Posted by: Tantalus | Nov 6 2006 15:20 utc | 7

interesting to note that here there is acceptance of the victory of ortega in the nicaraguan elections based on using the observors independent yet if i read anything in english – they are either not reporting it or giving an appossite perspective – still saying the ultraliberal has a chance
the monster empire will not allow the people any self determination – it is the opposite they require

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Nov 6 2006 16:40 utc | 9

Borat: The Movie
My son was at me all weekend to take him, I refused saying that it was Zionist propaganda against the Muslims, saying the Kazaks are full of anti-semitism. He looked at me funny when I said that and he went along with his friends last night to see it.
Halelujah, he says to me this morning; crap movie and what did the Kazaks ever do to insult Jews?
PS: For those not aware, Borat, I believe, is Jewish.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Nov 6 2006 17:26 utc | 11

pour b real et monolycus

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Nov 6 2006 17:53 utc | 13

ralphieboy
as you say
as my son did
but beyond watching the trailers
Don’t go

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Nov 6 2006 18:07 utc | 15

thanks, r’giap. i’m still trying to get caught up on everything i missed last week. did catch this piece over at COHA from before the election,

Nine years after his ousting by Chamorro, and after being defeated yet again in the 1996 presidential race, Ortega consulted then-President Arnoldo Alemán, a hard-right conservative, with a power-sharing proposal that would satisfy the personal requirements of both men. At the time, Alemán desperately needed to solidify his own power base and ward off a growing swarm of critics who took him to task for his gross venality. He found Ortega’s suggestion – that they divvy up control of the nation’s basic institutions and seek legislative immunity from prosecution for any charges of delinquencies – highly attractive. Also, Alemán hoped that this step would alter the public’s perception that he was trying to rule as a dictator by promoting cooperation with the Sandinistas in order to help diversify his rule. Ironically, this allowed Alemán to rule with a heavier hand.
Once El Pacto was in effect, Ortega and Alemán revised legislation to permit a candidate who has 40 percent of votes, or 35 percent along with a 5 point or greater margin over his closest competitor, to be able to claim victory (which could be the key to Ortega’s victory on November 5)

your link shows the FSLN @ 40.04.

Posted by: b real | Nov 6 2006 18:41 utc | 17

I wasn’t looking forward to it, but I saw Borat with my kids this weekend because they wanted me to go with them.
The movie is really not about any other country…it’s about America. His “mother country” is just a set up for physical jokes and his real target – Americans. This is where the movie takes place.
Yes, he starts out and sets up the premise that he is a Jew-hating misogynist innocent abroad from a country that has third world aspects.
Borat takes a road trip across America and spends time with upper class racists, a-hole frat boys, gay-hating Texans…in the quest for America’s ideal: Pamela Anderson.
The actor uses real people, not actors, to give America a glimpse of itself. The nicest people he finds are ones who are the targets of hatred here.
he does things that are absolutely appalling, engages in physical gross out humor like I’d never seen before and transgresses many boundaries.
and I laughed a lot — and that laughter had nothing to do with another country. The entire theater, in fact, was laughing constantly — about the Americans (and one bit of physical humor that could be done any male, not just one from another country.)
You cannot really tell what the movie is about from the trailers. He doesn’t give it away. But, again, it is extremely transgressive of all polite society, so don’t go see it if you easily offended.

Posted by: fauxreal | Nov 6 2006 19:17 utc | 19

yea, r’giap, let’s hope so. how strange all this, including carter being there to monitor the elections that hands the FSLN the presidency. expecting to hear jeane kirkpatrick lay all blame on him again any moment now.
conchita, cryptome has been collecting AP photos from oaxaca, in case you haven’t seen them yet

Posted by: b real | Nov 6 2006 19:43 utc | 21

Présidentielle au Nicaragua: Ortega se rapproche de la victoire
L’ex-guérillero sandiniste Daniel Ortega maintenait son avance, avec 40,1% des suffrages, pour être élu au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle après le dépouillement des votes dans 40% des bureaux, a annoncé lundi le Conseil Suprême électoral (CSE).
Daniel Ortega, candidat du Front Sandiniste de libération nationale (FSLN), obtenait 40,1% des voix devant Eduardo Montealegre de l’Alliance Libérale nicaraguayenne (ALN, droite) avec 32,72%, Jose Rizo du Parti libéral constitutionaliste (PLC, droite) avec 20,33%, Edmundo Jarquin du Mouvement de rénovation sandiniste (MRS) avec 7,50% et Eden Pastora de l’Alliance pour le changement (AC) avec 0,29%.
Pour être élu au premier tour, Daniel Ortega doit obtenir au moins 35% des voix avec 5 points d’avance sur le candidat arrivant en second.
Après avoir renversé le dictateur Anastasio Somoza en 1979, Daniel Ortega a dirigé le Nicaragua jusqu’en 1990, face à une rébellion armée financée par les Etats-Unis. Battu à l’élection de 1990, il a perdu par la suite deux scrutins présidentiels face à des candidats de droite.
Des milliers de partisans de Daniel Ortega ont déjà fêté la victoire. A bord de voitures et camionnettes, ils sillonnaient dans la nuit, drapeaux noir et rouge au vent, les rues de Managua.
Une polémique s’est par ailleurs ouverte avec l’ambassade des Etats-Unis, accusée de vouloir remettre en cause le résultat.
Le président du CSE Roberto Rivas a pris à partie l’ambassade des Etats-Unis à Managua, l’accusant de mettre en doute “la transparence des élections” et “d’organiser des réunions” avec des institutions au Nicaragua pour défendre ce même point de vue. “Grâce à Dieu ce sont les Nicaraguayens qui font les élections”, a-t-il plaisanté.
Comme dans la plupart des élections récentes en Amérique latine (Bolivie, Equateur, Pérou, Mexique), la lutte d’influence entre les Etats-Unis et les régimes vénézuélien et cubain s’est inscrite en toile de fond de l’élection nicaraguayenne.
agence france presse

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Nov 6 2006 20:11 utc | 23

Fox News reporter says after self-experience water boarding is “efficient”.
if so – why not use it on any Faux News source?

Posted by: b | Nov 6 2006 20:47 utc | 25

this is kinda freaky

Posted by: b real | Nov 6 2006 21:04 utc | 27

I wonder if many are paying attention to anything bar the amerikan poll today.
This article is about a UN appointment which some would doubtless prefer went through un-noticed.
UN to appoint former Moonie as head of World Food Programme
· Candidate was Unification Church figure for 20 years
· Bush administration is backing application

Kofi Annan will this week put a former leading “Moonie” in charge of the UN’s biggest humanitarian aid agency after vigorous lobbying by the Bush administration.
Josette Sheeran is to be appointed executive director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), according to diplomatic and UN sources.
Ms Sheeran, also known by her married name Shiner, was a member of the Rev Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church for more than 20 years. She became one of its most influential figures as managing editor of the Washington Times newspaper, which was founded by Mr Moon.
A US state department spokesman said last week that Ms Sheeran, the under-secretary of state for economic, business and agricultural affairs, was “our candidate”. He acknowledged that a pamphlet circulated in support of her application had been funded by US taxpayers and said Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, had “made phone calls in support of Josette’s candidacy”.
The spokesman told the Guardian that Ms Sheeran had not been a member, or had any association with, the Moonies for more than a decade and that it had no bearing on her work. “In America, we regard religion as a private matter,” he said.
However, in Rome, where WFP has its headquarters, some officials privately expressed concern. “She has never distanced herself from the views of this group which, given its extreme nature, you would think was appropriate,” said one. He referred to Mr Moon’s claims that the Holocaust was a result of the death of Jesus. “It’s sufficiently bizarre to warrant an explanation – that, and the duration of her involvement.”
Her departure from the Unification Church was reported by the Washington Post in 1997, which said Ms Sheeran had been worshipping at an Episcopal (Anglican) church for the previous 18 months.
Any perceived link between the Moonies and WFP is particularly sensitive because of the agency’s role on the Korean peninsula. Since the mid-1990s WFP, the UN’s leading supplier of food aid, has handed the communist-ruled North hundreds of millions of dollars worth of food.
Mr Moon, who was born in what is now North Korea, has close ties with the communist regime despite being a fervent anti-Marxist. Companies associated with the Unification Church own two hotels in Pyongyang, the capital, and a car assembly plant. In 1991, Mr Moon visited the country’s then dictator, Kim Il-sung.
The next year, Ms Sheeran became the first US reporter in 20 years to interview the “Great Leader”. She described him as “presenting the image of a self-confident, reflective elder statesman rather than the reclusive, dogmatic dictator he is usually portrayed as in the west”.
Ms Sheeran joined the Moonies as a young woman. She married another member of the Unification Church, Whitney Shiner, who trained at its Theological Seminary. They are now divorced and Mr Shiner, a Washington professor, has also left the group. In 2001, she entered the US administration as an associate trade representative.
WFP’s executive directors are chosen by the UN secretary general and the director-general of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), notionally in consultation with the WFP board. A senior western diplomat said a provisional decision was due to be forwarded to the board last week, but the process was held up to allow consultation with the incoming secretary general, Ban Ki-moon of South Korea. Mr Ban is not related to Mr Moon and is not linked to the Unification Church.
According to a UN source, Mr Annan and FAO director-general Jacques Diouf had discarded Ms Sheeran before Mr Ban’s intervention. But this was denied by other UN and diplomatic sources in New York and Rome, who said she was the first choice. The WFP board is due to meet this week to approve the decision.

I doubt the poor are going to eat better as a result of this appointment. Doesn’t old Moon spout a “Blame the poor for their poverty” sort of an ethos?

Posted by: Debs is dead | Nov 6 2006 21:36 utc | 29

jj-
Fox News reporter says after self-experience water boarding is “efficient”

Posted by: b real | Nov 6 2006 22:05 utc | 31

Billmon,
can we get a prediction for tomorrow’s election? House +18, Senate +4 is my guess.

Posted by: jg | Nov 7 2006 0:01 utc | 33

nicaragua – memories that will come back to haunt you

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Nov 7 2006 0:55 utc | 35

I gotta say, I thought the funniest scene in Borat was the nude fight scene that made all of the men in the audience groan and squirm (and caused a few of them to leave the auditorium). Imagine: turning the tables to show the same scene with women would be just one more–yawn–stupid porn flick.
The rest of the film–incredibly insensitive, politically incorrect, very funny, very revealing satire. It has nothing to do with real Kazakhs, and everything to do with America’s weird AIPAC/antiSemitism dichotomy.

Posted by: catlady | Nov 7 2006 1:15 utc | 37

Trust Debs to unmask the Zionist conspiracy behind Borat. Once the Zionists have made hapless America hate its natural ally, Kazakstan, they will move on to mock the true enemy, the homeland of Freedom, Kiwistan. There is no end to this depravity.

Posted by: citizen k | Nov 7 2006 2:07 utc | 39

beq- ah yes, the ole’ “figure w/ an iguana growing out of their forehead” archetype… damn, did billmon leave some of his ‘shrooms in the snack bowl again? cause i’m seeing all kinds of things now.
check out these wild butterfly patterns. for instance, this one’s guaranteed to keep the predators awake at night. the whole site is full of really neat photos. you’re guaranteed to be see ingpink elephants by the time you get thru browsing

Posted by: b real | Nov 7 2006 2:19 utc | 41

Those who choose to have read my interpetation of Baron Sacha Cohen’s tedious and repetitive anti-islamic prejudices, which along with his homophobic (Bruno the Austrian fashion reporter) tirades appear in virtually every piece of ‘comedy’ he peforms as an attack by me on some grand zionist conspiracy can’t get past their own prejudices.
Although I did suggest that Cohen’s anti-Islamic prejudice may be a function of his orthodox jewish heritage, at no stage did I accuse him of being a zionist since I don’t know whether he is or not.
The reason I raised the issue of the movie about a jewish settler wasn’t just to say that would be equally bad, but to say that there is every chance in that circumstance a/ the amerikan airwaves would be screeching with endless tirades calling for it’s ‘ban’ and b/ a method would be found to ‘limit it’s distrubution’. That wouldn’t take a zionist conspiracy since most amerikans have been cajoled by assorted politicians of all races and stripe into believing that limiting anything even vaguely anti-jewish or anti- semetic as the MSM insists on calling that stuff, isn’t an infringement of their freedom of speech.
Take a look at the stories in the USuk media on the Cohen movie any criticism of it’s nastiness and inherent racism is avuncular and more critical, postively patronising in fact, of those who don’t laugh at racist ‘jokes’.
I would be writing a similar post condemning Cohen’s lame attempts to stereotype a culture or race and call it humour no matter what race or culture had been selected as the butt. Apparently that isn’t the case for all of us.
According to some ( eg a TV station in the ME broadcast the protocols of zion), if examples of racism have appeared in a medium published by a nation of a definable racial culture, then the entire race are fair game to be ridiculed and lambasted by ignorant assholes.
That sorta means that any race is fair game since I don’t have to go far to find a white amerikan skinhead publication advocating the destruction of people of african heritage, a white supremacist NZ group wanting to ‘kill the Horis’, or a fundamentalist jewish description of Arabs as dirty sub-humans who need to be destroyed.
Staines is a middle class english suburb and although predominantly white it also has upwardly mobile families of other races living in it. Cohen was playing upon white resentment of asians who don’t know their place when he invented ‘Ali G’.
The Baron Cohen brand of humour relies entirely on casting people in demeaning stereotypes then lampooning them for their stereotypical behaviour.
At no stage did I argue for it’s censorship, if people want to patronise that shit fine, praise it defend it all you need to, but I will exercise my right to critique it. It is unfortunate that some regard an attack upon a movie they like as an attack upon themselves, but there you go.
Now sorry for whoever it was that imagined I was calling them a white supremacist, but not everything is about them. Just as some blokes end up at “chick flicks” or listening to ‘boy bands’, just because a movie is slanted toward white supremacist values, it doesn’t feature white supremacists in the audience to the exclusion of everyyone else.
One last point. There is no connection between Billmon’s use of black-face imagery and this discussion because of one stunningly apparent difference. At no stage was Billmon’s article criticising a particular race or culture.

Posted by: Debs is dead | Nov 7 2006 3:13 utc | 43

That’s great Debs. I’m sorry I thought you were attacking Cohen’s motivations on the grounds of his possible Zionism, when you were really attacking his motivations on the much more reasonable grounds that he is a yid.
Here’s the inimitable Debs:
Cohen was playing upon white resentment of asians who don’t know their place when he invented ‘Ali G’.
And here is Wikipedia
Ali G (Alistair Graham) is a gang member of the “West Staines Massiv”, and lives with his grandmother in a semi-detached house at 36 Cherry Blossom Close, in the heart of the “Staines Ghetto”. He was educated at what he calls “da Matthew Arnold Skool” which is a real secondary school in Staines. Staines is a middle-class town to the west of London that has been the butt of jokes for many years, and it is demographically very distant from the inner city ghetto that Ali G makes it out to be; still, he believes himself to exemplify gangsta culture.
So Ali G. is a stupid white kid pretending to be hip-hop cool according to most people, only a discerning anti-zionist intellectual like Debs could see that really, he is a nasty Jewish/White-supremacist assault on Asian strivers. The very name “Alistair Leslie Graham” evokes anti-asian stereotypes, no?
What can one expect from a Jewish comedian?

Posted by: citizen k | Nov 7 2006 3:44 utc | 45

So Ali G. is a stupid white kid pretending to be hip-hop cool according to most people, only a discerning anti-zionist intellectual like Debs could see that really, he is a nasty Jewish/White-supremacist assault on Asian strivers. The very name “Alistair Leslie Graham” evokes anti-asian stereotypes, no?
Man; it’s so clear now. What a slime that guy must be, sticking it to Asians like that in his overwhelming White Supremacist-with-wierd-accent way. Bet he really made some points with his pals in the Aryan Nation, huh?
And, all this time, I thought he was a mildly over-the-top British comedian making very sly fun of the same targets the Marx Brothers went after — narrow, bigoted, arrogant and shitheaded — a spectrum of consciousness which still exists in a fair percentage of the American population.
But, Bill Maher thinks Ann Coulter is really a very nice person when you get to know her, so what the hell do I know.

Posted by: Austin Cooper | Nov 7 2006 4:59 utc | 47

@alamet –

“First I want to point out, that this appears not at all being a site with credible background. I have checked a little and it appears that there is but
one person (Horst Teubert) running the site, or no-one else wants to be officially affiliated. Teubert is obviously an emplyoee of the university of Duesseldorf in Germany. His big theme is “Germany’s renewed attempts to regain great power status.” In other pieces it appeares that he is a engaged in spreading conspiracy-theories.”

very right wing idiot …

Posted by: b | Nov 7 2006 6:30 utc | 49

b real @44
Thanks for the Dean-Blitzer piece. It is amusing when “progressives” look to empty suits as saviors of the party. Not much talk of “Fitzmas” this year. Maybe Obama in ’08?
It is so frustrating that principled and progressive policies must be jettisoned for “practical reasons”. Yeah, don’t forget to vote. Funny, that.

Posted by: Anonymous | Nov 7 2006 6:47 utc | 51

I like this one:
Zidane using his messiahly powers for yogurt.
And some neat publicity for microcredit along the way.
Go, Zizou!

Posted by: Dismal Science | Nov 7 2006 12:11 utc | 53

#53 that is a cool`story.
Zizou for messiah!

Posted by: citizen k | Nov 7 2006 13:15 utc | 55

Report from Beit Hanoun, Gaza: Incursion ‘Like an Earthquake’
07/11/2006 15:18 – (SA)
Operation “Autumn Clouds”

Beit Hanun – “Everything’s destroyed. Like an earthquake,” sighed Khaled al-Kafarna, his eyes wild with shock as he returned to his ruined Palestinian home as Israeli armour rumbled out of Beit Hanun.
Israel’s six-day operation in which more than 60 Palestinians were killed and over 200 wounded has reduced the northern Gaza Strip town to a wasteland.
Roads were left gouged out, homes, two mosques and a school destroyed, the historic old town pockmarked with bullet holes and shell craters, electricity pylons ripped from the ground and sewage spewing freely in the streets.
Israel charged that militants hijacked Beit Hanun as a launch pad for rocket attacks aimed at its territory.
Local residents, picking their way through the wreckage, mourned their “martyrs”, eyes red with fatigue, and filled with hate and tears.
“Like all the men in town, the Israelis arrested me at the beginning of the incursion. This is the first time I’ve come home but I have nothing left,” says Khaled. The front of his home has collapsed. Walls have been ripped apart.
“They committed a war crime in Beit Hanun,” he cries, his voice cracking, his hands gesticulating towards the heavens.
Around 40 Palestinians once made their home in the three-storey building in the old town of Beit Hanun, which saw the fiercest fighting between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli troops.
“We’ve lost everything,” weighs in Khaled’s sister-in-law, Aida Ali Yasji. “The only thing I have are these clothes lent to me by the neighbours where I was staying.”
800-year-old mosque destroyed
In the same spot, a lone minaret that withstood Israeli bulldozer teeth and shell fire is all that remains of one of the oldest mosques in Gaza, the Nasser mosque. Singed copies of the Koran were being gathered up by children.
“This mosque is more than 800 years old. It is part of our heritage and thousands of people visited it every year,” laments Akram Abdel Jawd Qassam, whose family have been caretakers of the holy site for half a century.
“The Jews want to destroy everything. Even our heritage and our history. It’s a tragedy,” adds the old man.
“They said there were fighters in the mosque but they are liars. I have the keys and it was closed. They occupied my house for two days and never asked me to open the doors to show them that it was empty,” he said.
Like the faces of all local residents, there is anger etched across his heavily lined face. “Why did they destroy the houses? Did the houses fire rockets? And the electricity network and drinking water? Did they fire rockets as well?”
Fathiya Abu Zareq, whose house is next to the mosque, interrupts him.
“They are crazy. They fired on everyone. Children, women, the elderly. Afterwards they say the Palestinians are terrorists but it’s not these people who are the real terrorists,” he adds.
Men rounded up
Moin Abu Arbid receives condolence calls from relatives who solemnly line up in their dozens to pay their respects over the death of his 48-year-old brother Marwan, killed when his home collapsed following an Israeli bombardment.
“They bombed blindly,” he sighs, his eyes red. But pain takes a back seat when recounting the humiliations suffered when Israeli soldiers rounded up all the local men aged between 16 and 45.
“They penned us like dogs in a field of the agricultural college (in northern Beit Hanun). They were perhaps 5 000 people. For six days, the Israelis turned Beit Hanun into a giant Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib prison”.
Palestinians said they were ordered to strip down to their underwear upon arrival, fed only bread with tomatoes during a three-day detention in the field while they were brought one-by-one for questioning in the college.

Posted by: Bea | Nov 7 2006 17:51 utc | 57

mac users
have a dumb question – my macbook for some reason or other rejects windows media player & flash player – am i doing something wrong – because i have installed them but each time i need one or the other it tells me it needs to be installed
for us europeans – is cspan good for coverage of this election

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Nov 7 2006 18:36 utc | 59

r’giap
I do not run mac, but I will take a stab at it anyway. As you say “each time i need one or the other it tells me it needs to be installed” I guess it is when you try to open a file with your webbrowser?
If yes, then I have two more questions:
Do windows media player work if you run it directly?
What browser do you use?

Posted by: a swedish kind of death | Nov 7 2006 19:21 utc | 61

@r’giap:

The Macbook, like most other newer Macs, uses an Intel processor instead of a PowerPC. Although there is emulation which allows the Macbook to run PowerPC software, there is no way to mix a PowerPC plugin with an Intel program. (Or vice versa.)

All the recent versions of web browsers are Intel-native. Microsoft has long since ceased to update Windows Media Player for Mac, so it’s still PowerPC, and the plugin does not work with any current web browser.

Flash, on the other hand, works, but for some reason or another, some of the file types just aren’t supported. (I suspect they use stuff that’s proprietary to Microsoft, and thus can’t be played on other platforms.)

Possible solutions (ignoring “do without”):

1. Use the Windows Media Player program by itself. (This may be a bit difficult, but should be possible.)

2. Go to Microsoft’s page and download flip4mac, which apparently works the same way, but integrates in QuickTime instead.

3. Buy a copy of VirtualPC from Microsoft. This will allow you to run Windows as a program on top of the Mac, and switch back and forth as you like. (I don’t recommend this. VirtualPC has always needed an update any time an engineer sneezes, and since Microsoft bought out Connectix, I haven’t heard good things about it.)

4. Download and/or buy (they have a free demo; the full product costs $80 U.S.) a copy of Parallels Desktop for Mac and install a copy of Windows on it, then run Windows Media Player in Windows. This is similar to VirtualPC, but instead of emulating the PC side, it runs a chip-level virtualization, which is faster. (Except for the price, Parallels is pretty nice. The interface is slightly less elegant than VirtualPC, and it doesn’t come with Windows, but the performance is good and they seem to really want to support the Mac.)

5. Install Apple’s Boot Camp and then install Windows on the Mac. You won’t be able to switch back and forth without a reboot. (I don’t recommend this, honestly. It’s great if you’re Mac-savvy and know how to deal with backups and so on. But it’s still beta software and you haven’t been using a Mac that long.) (And, of course, it doesn’t come with Windows.)

Someday, maybe VMWare will be available for Mac — it’s the same principle as Parallels, but free. (Or maybe the Darwine project will eventually bear some fruit. Stranger things have happened.)

Posted by: The Truth Gets Vicious When You Corner It | Nov 7 2006 20:15 utc | 63

truth gets vicious
thank you
you clarify the problems in a way i can understand
my literacy with the computer even after ten years is still based on necessity
y’vr been a help
venceremos ( speaking of which it seems it is only in the english langiage media that they refuse to say that daniel ortega has won – “appears”, “seems”, “looks likely” “possible” & with each the warning of the u s that it will not offer aid to nicaragua – i’m a little worried)

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Nov 7 2006 20:28 utc | 65

b
just finding out how illiterate i am
i have neverheard of rosetta (& is she nicaraguan)

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Nov 7 2006 20:39 utc | 67

Quite interesting and develish: Senior U.S. official: Israel will not attack Iran’s nuclear program

Israel will not strike Iranian nuclear facilities, a senior American official said Tuesday.
He said that Israel understands that the solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis has to be reached through diplomatic means. He said that destroying Iran’s nuclear plants would be far more complicated than Israel’s attack on the Iraqi facilities at Osirak in 1981, as in this case, there are more than 200 facilities.
Even if not everyone shared this conclusion, he said, it would be difficult to guarantee that Iranian nuclear program would be destroyed, adding that there is nothing worse than an unsuccessful military operation.
…
Also on the agenda for the meeting between the two leaders are the current attempts to form a Palestinian unity government.
According to the official, the U.S supports the establishment of a government of technocrats in the Palestinian Authority that would accept the principles presented by the Quartet – recognizing Israel, respecting prior agreements, and denouncing violence.
Such a government would be an acceptable partner for Israel in implementing the road map, the official said.
The U.S. government expects Israel to authorize a series of moves to strengthen Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. According to previous reports, these include the transfer of thousands of rifles from Egypt to Abbas’ Presidential Guard for the purpose of deploying the Palestinian Bader Division from Jordan to the Gaza Strip.

On the first story – “Israel will not attack” could well mean that someone else, who has the capacity, does …
On Palestine – Abas is probably much weaker that the US thinks he is – instigating civil war as planned by the US and Israel, will not work.

Posted by: b | Nov 7 2006 21:33 utc | 69

FOX News Correspondent Gets Waterboarded
America’s “professionals” at work
Desensitized yet?

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 7 2006 23:11 utc | 71

Clashes in Gaza leave dozens dead

“I don’t know what message Israel is trying to give, but certainly such incursions will not help in bringing quiet,” said Khaled Abdel Shafi, the head of the United Nations Development Program’s Gaza operation, as he stood outside the mosque. “It will deepen the hate…”
When members of the Hamad family emerged Tuesday morning, they discovered that all 100 of their ducks and 50 rabbits had been plowed under along with their trees.
The latest operation, which began last Wednesday, ravaged parts of Beit Hanoun. Muddy tank treads cut wide paths through orchards and roads. The stench of sewage from broken pipes drifted through neighborhoods. Families sifted through the rubble of their demolished homes.
In one of the more contentious steps, Israel opened fire last Friday as dozens of unarmed women streamed toward one of the town’s mosques to try to help cornered militants escape. Two women were killed and the mosque was destroyed. The militants were able to flee.
Near the ruins of the mosque, members of the Nasil family baked flat bread Tuesday on a small wood-fed stove in the ruins of their living room, now fully exposed to the street…
This was the second time that an Israeli incursion had leveled the Hamad brothers’ fields. The first time came several years ago, when the Israeli military still held bases in Gaza. Afterward, the family replanted its fruit trees and tried to rebuild.
The brothers said they’d tried to steer clear of politics and had even pulled out their guns three months ago to chase away militants who were trying to launch rockets from their orchards.
“We don’t want rockets. We don’t want militants,” said Yassir, who’s 48. “We just want peace.”
But now, with their farm destroyed, the brothers said they weren’t likely to try to stop the militants again.
“After this, there’s nothing left,” said Hikmat, 49.
His brother added: “If they want to launch, let them launch. I don’t care anymore.”

That’s what the Israelis are trying so deperately to achieve… some kind of reaction to their unspeakable war crimes from the Palestinians that will “justify”, in their own minds, the utter and complete destruction of the Palestinian nation.
The rest of the world looks on… with tacit approval.

Posted by: John Francis Lee | Nov 7 2006 23:23 utc | 73

Thanks to RGiap at 13 for the link to the Sandinista Web Site: take
a look at Page 7 of the CIA handbook of dirty tricks to see just how low they’ll stoop. (Obviously there are much worse crimes that don’t get a cartoon, or
even an admission of their existence.)

Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Nov 8 2006 8:29 utc | 75

HKO’L, that is a good cartoon at Hannah’s link — it shows how to mess up someone’s house in mostly pictures and some Spanish too.
Cut the phone lines, cut the power lines, ok, and plug up the toilets? Why the toilets? so they can’t flush the drugs or so they can’t take a leak?
I’d love to see a translation if anyone has time to look at page 7, or the rest of the thing.
It’s pretty interesting — pictures of water, a farmer carrying a sack on his shoulder, a big vehicle running over a campesino, pouring sugar into a gas tank.
What is this?

Posted by: jonku | Nov 8 2006 9:52 utc | 77

(who was Debs?)

Posted by: annie | Nov 8 2006 17:01 utc | 79

fauxreal, thanks for the Debs update. Vonnegut quotes Deb in the linked essay,
“As long as there is a lower class, I am in it.
As long as there is a criminal element, I’m of it.
As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Great stuff.

Posted by: jonku | Nov 8 2006 17:48 utc | 81

From an article in Le Temps, 8.11.06 freely blurbed ..
Sacred Union between extremist Jews and Extremist Muslims.
Sodomites are animals. They are an abomination, condemned by God. the Gay Pride in Jerusalem will profanate the town.
So said Daniel, a Yeshiva student, who every night, with his friends, burns tires and garbage cans in the streets. Some attack buses and taxis.
Tel Aviv has had a regular gay pride for 7 years or so, attended by up to 50 000 people. Palestinians participate masked, as they are afraid of reprisals when they go back to the Territories.
((Tel A is THE gay town in this part of the world. S F is out, old hat, too many people caught aids, it is said Americans won’t wear condoms))
Jerusalem is another story. Etc. About 50 000 people were to go there but Top Rabbis of Israel have mobilised 300 000 opponents. Catholics and American Evangelists have also joined the movement. Schoolchildren have been roped in.
((Can the Palestinians lynch homosexuals in Jerusalem as well? It appears not.))
An ultra orthodox Jew and a Palestinian Star have made an anti-gay record. It is aired endlessly in both in Pal. and Isr.
Meny Mazous has refused to ban the parade in the name of democracy. 12 000 soldiers have mobilised for the occasion. All the reservists have been called up, all passes / holidays cancelled.
((Riots are taking place right now.))
Treated under this angle by TIME. – with a US down play / slant, natch.
link
and the Daily Telegraph.
link
((=my comments))

Posted by: Noirette | Nov 8 2006 19:50 utc | 83

My position is that I only get one death, I want it to be a good one. Wouldn’t it be better to stand for something or make a statement, rather than a fiery collision with some drunk driver? Are not smokers choosing death by lung cancer? Where is the dignity there? Are not the people the people who disregard the environment killing themselves and future generations? Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country. I will not participate in your charade – my conscience will not allow me to be a part of your crusade. There might be some who say “it’s a coward’s way out” – that opinion is so idiotic that it requires no response. From my point of view, I am opening a new door.
What is one more life thrown away in this sad and useless national tragedy?
http://www.savagesound.com/gallery99.htm
On November 4, 2006, Chicago activist, artist, and music enthusiast, Malachi Ritscher, immolated himself alongside Chicago’s Kennedy Expressway, seemingly motivated by discontent with the United States’ occupation of Iraq. He published a “personal statement” and self-written obituary on his website, SavageSound.com. Next to his body was found a videotape and a small sign, on which the phrase, “Thou Shalt Not Kill” was printed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation
Here is an excerpt and explanation of the self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc.
“…the self-immolation can be seen as a “political act” aimed at calling attention to the injustices being perpetrated against the South Vietnamese people by a puppet government of Euro-American imperialism. In this context, Thich Nhat Hnah describes the act of self-immolation as follows:
“The press spoke then of suicide, but in the essence, it is not. It is not even a protest. What the monks said in the letters they left before burning themselves aimed only at alarming, at moving the hearts of the oppressors, and at calling the attention of the world to the suffering endured then by the Vietnamese. To burn oneself by fire is to prove that what one is saying is of the utmost importance…. The Vietnamese monk, by burning himself, says with all his strength and determination that he can endure the greatest of sufferings to protect his people…. To express will by burning oneself, therefore, is not to commit an act of destruction but to perform an act of construction, that is, to suffer and to die for the sake of one’s people. This is not suicide.”
Thich Nhat Hanh goes on to explaining why Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation was not a suicide, which is contrary to Buddhist teachings:
“Suicide is an act of self-destruction, having as causes the following: (1) lack of courage to live and to cope with difficulties; (2) defeat by life and loss of all hope; (3) desire for nonexistence….. The monk who burns himself has lost neither courage nor hope; nor does he desire nonexistence. On the contrary, he is very courageous and hopeful and aspires for something good in the future. He does not think that he is destroying himself; he believes in the good fruition of his act of self-sacrifice for the sake of others…. I believe with all my heart that the monks who burned themselves did not aim at the death of their oppressors but only at a change in their policy. Their enemies are not man. They are intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred, and discrimination which lie within the heart of man.”
(full article)
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/self_immolation.htm

Posted by: dk | Nov 9 2006 1:00 utc | 85