Notes to my Friends

Is Not Linear

ozai — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:48:11 GMT

Somehow i have been receiving this same message form different people in different places. So many times i am starting to see it in my "reality" evendo i admit i have no idea where is taking me. Is amazing how fast the reality i knew is changing, i also feel myself in some kind of synchronicity with the moon cycles in these last few months, every new and full moon seem to be stimulating changes or maybe just opening doors to who knows where. I figured i share this with all.

Time to change colors to the old house

ozai — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:33:28 GMT

I know who i will be voting for President this year, Paris Hilton. --------------- "Hey America, I'm Paris Hilton and I'm a celebrity too," Hilton declares breezily. "Only I'm not from the olden days and I'm not promising change like that other guy. I'm just hot! "But then that wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means I'm running for president. So thanks for the endorsement white-haired dude, and I want America to know I'm, like, totally ready to lead." Hilton then offers an alternative US energy strategy, suggesting that she plans to combine elements from McCain and Democratic rival Barack Obama's policy platforms. "We can do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars. ... Energy crisis solved, I'll see you at the debates, bitches!" Hilton then signs off by declaring that she is now mulling her choices for vice president. "I'm thinking Rihanna," she said, referring to the singer-songwriter. "I'll see you at the White House," Hilton adds. "Oh, and I might paint it pink. Bye!"

Vital unresolved anthrax questions

ozai — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:48:09 GMT

The 2001 anthrax attacks remain one of the great mysteries of the post-9/11 era. After 9/11 itself, the anthrax attacks were probably the most consequential event of the Bush presidency. One could make a persuasive case that they were actually more consequential. The 9/11 attacks were obviously traumatic for the country, but in the absence of the anthrax attacks, 9/11 could easily have been perceived as a single, isolated event. It was really the anthrax letters -- with the first one sent on September 18, just one week after 9/11 -- that severely ratcheted up the fear levels and created the climate that would dominate in this country for the next several years after. It was anthrax -- sent directly into the heart of the country's elite political and media institutions, to then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt), NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, and other leading media outlets -- that created the impression that social order itself was genuinely threatened by Islamic radicalism. If the now-deceased Ivins really was the culprit behind the attacks, then that means that the anthrax came from a U.S. Government lab, sent by a top U.S. Army scientist at Ft. Detrick. Without resort to any speculation or inferences at all, it is hard to overstate the significance of that fact. From the beginning, there was a clear intent on the part of the anthrax attacker to create a link between the anthrax attacks and both Islamic radicals and the 9/11 attacks. http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/index.html

Agriprocessors Kosher Standards

ozai — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:33:24 GMT

"A Guatemalan named Elmer L. who said he was 16 when he started working on the plant’s killing floors, said he worked 17-hour shifts, six days a week. In an affidavit, he said he was constantly tired and did not have time to do anything but work and sleep. “I was very sad,” he said, “and I felt like I was a slave.” " "At first, labor officials said the raid had disrupted federal and state investigations already under way at Agriprocessors Inc., the nation’s largest Kosher plant. The raid has drawn criticism for what some see as harsh tactics against the immigrants, with little action taken against their employers. " Sonia Parras Konrad, an immigration lawyer in private practice in Cedar Rapids, is representing many of the young workers. She said she had so far identified 27 workers under 18 who were employed in the packing areas of the plant, most of them illegal immigrants from Guatemala, including some who were not arrested in the raid. "Some said they worked shifts of 12 hours or more, wielding razor-edged knives and saws to slice freshly killed beef. Some worked through the night, sometimes six nights a week." "Jewish managers oversee the slaughtering and processing of meat at Agriprocessors to ensure kosher standards." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/us/27immig.html?em&ex=1217217600&en=d2d878e61520c568&ei=5087%0A

Cannabis and Hemp Seeds Oil for Fuel

ozai — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:29:31 GMT

All petroleum produced products may be made from the non-toxic oils and fibers found in the cannabis and hemp plants, yet not one of the presidential candidates promotes it. • Hemp grows from border to border in America; so shortages are unlikely. And, unlike gasoline or diesel, unless we run out of soil, hemp is renewable. • Growing and harvesting the stuff has much less environmental impact than procuring oil. • Hemp fuel is biodegradable; so oil spills become fertilizer not eco-catastrophes. • Hemp fuel does not contribute to sulfur dioxide air poisoning. • Other noxious emissions like carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons are radically slashed by using “biodiesel.” • Hemp fuel is nontoxic and only a mild skin irritant. • Growing hemp for fuel would be a tremendous boon for American farmers and the agricultural industry, as opposed to people like, say, the Bush family. http://rockhawk.com/gasoline_and_hemp.htm http://www.ffhboo.com/hemp.html http://www.nirvana-shop.com/untoldstory/

Only Little War Criminals Get Punished

ozai — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:51:28 GMT

Bush and Blair's crimes against humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan dwarf, at least in the number of deaths and displaced persons, the terrible situation in Darfur. The highest estimate of Darfur casualties is 400,000, one-third the number of Iraqis who have died as a result of Bush's invasion. Moreover, the conflict in the Sudan is an internal one, whereas Bush illegally invaded two foreign countries, war crimes under the Nuremberg Standard. Bush's war crimes were enabled by the political leaders of the UK, Spain, Canada, and Australia. The leaders of every member of the "coalition of the willing to commit war crimes" are candidates for the dock. But of course the Great Moral West does not commit war crimes. War crimes are charges fobbed off on people demonized by the Western media, such as the Serbian Milosovic and the Sudanese al-Bashir. Every week the Israeli government evicts Palestinians from their homes, steals their land, and kills Palestinian women and children. These crimes against humanity have been going on for decades. Except for a few Israeli human rights organizations, no one complains about it. Palestinians are defined as "terrorists," and "terrorists" can be treated inhumanely without complaint. Iraqis and Afghans suffer the same fate. Iraqis who resist US occupation of their country are "terrorists." Taliban is a demonized name. Every Afghan killed – even those attending wedding parties – is claimed to be Taliban by the US military. Iraqis and Afghans can be murdered at will by American and NATO troops without anyone raising human rights issues. The International Criminal Court is a bureaucracy. It has a budget, and it needs to do something to justify its budget. Lacking teeth and courage, it goes after the petty war criminals and leaves the big ones alone. http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=13148

The Zionist regime is pushing the White House to prepare for a military strike on Iran

ozai — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:21:43 GMT

"If such a stupidity is done by them, Tel Aviv and the U.S. naval fleet in the Persian Gulf will be the first targets which will be set on fire in Iran's crushing response." Shirazi Antiwar Info: http://www.antiwar.com/orig/sahimi.php?articleid=13104

US missiles killed 27 civilians

ozai — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:14:46 GMT

Afghan officials said fighter aircraft battling militants accidentally killed up to 27 Afghans walking to a wedding ceremony in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, the second military attack in three days with reports of civilian deaths. The U.S. military blamed the claims on militant propaganda and said its missiles only struck insurgents.

9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics

ozai — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:11:54 GMT

"The unthinkable – that elements inside the state would conspire with criminals to kill innocent civilians – has become not only thinkable but commonplace in the last century. A seminal example was in French Algeria, where dissident elements of the French armed forces, resisting General de Gaulle’s plans for Algerian independence, organized as the Secret Army Organization and bombed civilians indiscriminately, with targets including hospitals and schools.1 Critics like Alexander Litvinenko, who was subsequently murdered in London in November 2006, have charged that the 1999 bombings of apartment buildings around Moscow, attributed to Chechen separatists, were in fact the work of the Russian secret service (FSB).2 Similar attacks in Turkey have given rise to the notion there of an extra-legal "deep state" – a combination of forces, ranging from former members of the CIA-organized Gladio organization, to "a vast matrix of security and intelligence officials, ultranationalist members of the Turkish underworld and renegade former members of the [Kurdish separatist] PKK."3 The deep state, financed in part by Turkey’s substantial heroin traffic, has been accused of killing thousands of civilians, in incidents such as the lethal bomb attack in November 2005 on a bookshop in Semdinli. This attack, initially attributed to the Kurdish separatist PKK, turned out to have been committed by members of Turkey's paramilitary police intelligence service, together with a former PKK member turned informer.4 On April 23, 2008, the former Interior Minister Mehmet Agar was ordered to stand trial for his role in this dirty war during the 1990s." http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9289

Wall Street dives as jobless toll leaps and oil hits a record

ozai — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:40:55 GMT

Banking stocks on Wall Street bore the brunt of a brutal sell-off across the equity market in New York last night on fears that the United States was facing a 1970s-style stagflation crisis triggered by record oil prices. The Dow Jones industrial average suffered one of its worst trading days this year, closing down 394.60 points – a 3.13 per cent slide – to close at 12209.80. But banking stocks fell more steeply, Morgan Stanley by 9 per cent and Lehman Brothers by 5 per cent. The decline on the New York stock market was sparked by a sharp increase in the price of oil – up $11 to $139 a barrel – and official data which showed that the number of Americans out of work had risen at the fastest rate in 22 years. The cost of sweet light crude oil shot up to a record after Morgan Stanley told its clients that the price would hit $150 a barrel within a month. The bank predicted that investors would continue to buy oil to offset the impact of the weakening US dollar on their portfolios. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/united_states/article4083351.ece

Home foreclosures set record in first quarter

ozai — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:21:48 GMT

The latest snapshot of the mortgage market, released Thursday, showed that the proportion of mortgages that fell into foreclosure soared to 0.99 percent in the January-through-March period. That surpassed the previous high of 0.83 percent over the last three months in 2007. The report by the Mortgage Bankers Association also found that more homeowners slipped behind on their monthly payments. The delinquency rate jumped to 6.35 percent in the first quarter, compared with 5.82 percent for the three months earlier. Payments are considered delinquent if they are 30 or more days past due. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/06/05/national/w070041D33.DTL&tsp=1

Gas theft changing

ozai — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:02:55 GMT

The soaring price of crude oil has turned gas tanks into a cache of valuable booty, and mechanics are replacing tanks punctured or drilled by thieves thirsting for the nearly $4-a-gallon fuel inside. "That's the new fad," said the co-owner of Dearborn Auto Tech in Detroit. "I'd never seen it before gas got up this high." While gas station drive-offs and siphoning are far more common methods of stealing gas, reports of tank and line puncturing are starting to trickle into police departments and repair shops across the country. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/27/financial/f113013D93.DTL

Accounting Gimmicks (Shadow Government Statistics)

ozai — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:06:31 GMT

"Misleading accounting used by the U.S. government, both in financial and economic reporting, far exceeds the scope of corporate accounting wrongdoing that has received partial credit for recent stock market turbulence. The bad boys of Corporate America, though, still were subject to significant regulatory oversights and the application of GAAP accounting to their books. In contrast, the government’s operations and economic reporting have been subject to oversight solely by Congress, America’s only "distinctly native criminal class."" "The U.S. government’s fiscal ills have spun wildly out of control and no longer are containable within the existing system. As detailed in this article, the actual annual shortfall in U.S. government operations for fiscal year 2003 (September 30) was $3.7 trillion. Put in perspective, that means if the U.S. Treasury had seized all wages and salaries in 2003 with a 100% income tax, there still would have been a deficit! The outlook for fiscal 2004 numbers is even worse. Considering that the popularly reported 2003 budget deficit was $374 billion, one-tenth the number cited above, this installment on government reporting concentrates on where the incredulous $3.7 trillion number comes from, how and why the Treasury is reporting it, and why the financial press and federal politicians are ignoring it." http://www.shadowstats.com/

For All The Bush Lovers (and others)

ozai — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:41:46 GMT

Our Commander in chief at his best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqLvBUSJucg

Street wars going on right now over grease

ozai — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:14:07 GMT

A few years ago, drums of used french fry grease were only of interest to a small network of underground biofuel brewers, who would use the slimy oil to power their souped-up antique Mercedes. http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/05/21/oil.theft.ap/index.html

One day Alice came to a fork in the road ....

ozai — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:31:52 GMT

... and saw a cheshire cat in the tree "Which road do i take?" she asked. His (or her) response was a question: "Where do you want to go?"... "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter." --Lewis Carroll " the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. they must be felt with the heart." -helen keller (thoughts from SoulFriend's page, thank you )

The world is full of persons (people if you prefer) ...

ozai — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:40:45 GMT

... but few of them are human Graham Harvey

After hitting $126 for a barrel of Oil , is $150 or even $200 far behind ?

ozai — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:40:24 GMT

A Goldman Sachs report released Tuesday suggested that the price of crude oil could reach as high as $150 to $200 a barrel. While the high price of oil has kept demand limited in the U.S., demand in developing counties such as India and China has been surging, supporting the spiking price of crude. China had a very cold winter, and so the United States exported a lot of distillate oil, which is used to make home heating fuel and diesel fuel, to the region. "This is truly a global market," said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Alaron Trading in Chicago, who said the U.S. also exported heating oil to Japan and Europe. For oil to hit $150 a barrel, "demand would have to continue as it is abroad," said Lebow. http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/09/markets/oil_records/?postversion=2008050911

Oil sets new record above $120 a barrel

ozai — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:19:49 GMT

I really think most people in the USA does not realize what this means to the poorest countries. The effect of the credit crisis in the United States is reducing people's disposable incomes and you'd expect this to have an impact on the oil price, but it's not having any impact. Collectively, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Conoco Phillips, BP PLC and Royal Dutch Shell PLC earned $36.9 billion in the first quarter, a 25 percent increase from last year.

Foreclosure filings of all kinds ...

ozai — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:11:42 GMT

... delinquency notices, auctions sale notices and bank repossessions - were up 112% during the first three months of 2008 compared with the same period a year ago. Community advocates and policy makers are worried that the problem will worsen as the interest rates on as many as 1.8 million mortgages reset this year. Because of price drops, many of the borrowers are now "upside-down," meaning they owe more than their homes are worth. Many of the owners had counted on the idea that their home values would continue to soar, increasing their home equity, which they could then tap to pay their bills. Now, they can't afford to pay off their mortgages and they have no assets to rely on. 156,000 families lost their homes during the first three months of the year So many people argued with me that this would never happen

Mano Negra - Sr Matanza

ozai — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:39:07 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXRvJlNqOVU manu chao

On any given day ...

ozai — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:18:54 GMT

About 31,000 people who are not American citizens are held in detention in a patchwork of county jails, privately run prisons and federal facilities while the government decides whether to deport them. Getting details about those who die in custody is a difficult undertaking left to family members, advocacy groups and lawyers. As the immigration detention system has ballooned to meet demands for stricter enforcement of immigration laws, Congress has listened to complaints about the secrecy and confusion surrounding deaths in custody. In January 2008, the House passed a bill that would reward states that require jails to report all deaths. But the bill is stalled in the Senate, and even if it becomes law, it will not cover deaths in federal facilities.

5 de Mayo

ozai — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:17:45 GMT

In 1858, Benito Juárez was elected President of the United States of Mexico to defend the Mexican Constitution established on February 5th, 1857. After much internal struggle, Juárez was re-elected in 1861. Because of financial instability, mainly due to the Mexican-American war, the Mexican Congress suspended foreign debt repayment for two years. The creditors in Europe (England, Spain and France) decided intervention was needed to collect the debts. France had its own agenda. France wanted to dispose of the Mexican Constitutional Government and set up a monarchy favorable to France. Napoleon III, Emperor of the Second French Empire had grandiose plans to impose a monarchical government upon the nations of Central and South America. This was to provide raw materials and trade for the European nations as well as check the growing power of the US Republic following the annexation of California, Arizona and New Mexico. France's designs were formented and abetted by the plutocratic and conservative land owners of Mexico who feared loss of land and political power to the newly elected constitutional government of Benito Juárez. On December 8th, 1861 the European powers landed and occupied Veracruz, Spain arrived first. By April 11, 1862 after realizing France's intent, England and Spain withdrew their support. Meanwhile, in Mexico City, President Juárez (a full blooded Zapotec Indian, and a lawyer who had studied to become a priest), was taking countermeasures: "There is no help in defense but I can assure you... the Imperial Government will not succeed in subduing the Mexicans, and its armies will not have a single day of peace... we must stop them, not only for our country but for the respect of the sovereignty of the nations" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo

Clandestino

ozai — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:47:50 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btx2eiQ2gKs Manu Chao

Economy Stimulus Check

ozai — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:29:31 GMT

Some important information regarding the economy stimulus checks, Your Tax Rebate: The federal government is sending to each and everyone of us a $600 rebate. However, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China. If we spend it on gasoline it will go to the Arabs. If we purchase a computer it will go to India. If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala. If we purchase a good car it will go to Japan. If we purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan...and none of it will help the American economy. The only way to keep that money here at home is to buy prostitutes, weed, beer, and tattoos since these are the only products still produced in the USA. Thank you for your help & please support the USA.