You can strive to snag the carrot that is held in front of you, yet just like the dumb mule you will never reach it. Most of the times the mule will just run itself to death. Yet when it falls the driver does not care.

When people fall though and they are crushed, they have families. How do they react? They react all kinds of ways. Here is an example:

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Bush supported this. Reagan made it get worse! Clinton did nothing to stop it. Obama is just like all the rest!

You want change? Change the system! Quit supporting it by voting for the assholes they say are your choices! Quit giving grand names to your pathetic efforts. "We are having a revolution!" What? Where were the guns? "It was a revolution based on love." NO! Revolutions are based on guns and violence. On overthrowing a system, by taking revenge on the oppressors! Malcolm X knew this. Napoleon knew this! Yet the people who have grown so soft in the 21st century try to convince themselves differently. The greater the cause, the greater the fight for it. You must give more than blood, sweat and tears for change. You must risk your humanity. Because you cannot win a revolution by dying for it, you win by killing your enemies!

Fuck Obama!
Fuck Bush!
Fuck McCain!
Fuck Hillary and Bill!
Fuck Reagan!
Fuck Bush squared and cubed! (daddy Bush and Jeb)
Fuck Ron Paul! (racist ass, brain dead, piece of shit)
Fuck Republicans!
Fuck Democrats!
Fuck Conservatives!
Fuck fake ass Liberals! (real liberals are not democrats, in the usa they are Green or independents)
Fuck Rudi!
Fuck Romney!
Fuck Kucinich!
Fuck drugs!
Fuck sports!
Fuck your faith! (if it makes you think your culture or people are in anyways superior to anyone else on this planet)
Fuck China! (so much is so wrong there, I do not know where to start)
Fuck Harper! (eh)
Fuck Osama!
Fuck Israel and Palestine! (one people, one planet, get over your nationalistic bullshit!)
Fuck corporations! (every damn one of them)
Fuck old money! (you fuckers are the original criminals)
Fuck thugs! (you have no culture)
Fuck anarchists! (makes about as much as the present system)

and if I offended you... FUCK YOU! Look at the link about and wonder why I am offended!

I decided to add the story in the link, so one day when the link is dead, the story will still be understood.


With no job and 5 kids, 'better to end our lives,' man wrote

* Story Highlights
* Police believe man killed five children and their mother, then took own life
* Man left note detailing the his family's plight and blaming former employer
* Officials say man killed family after he and his wife were terminated from jobs
* Deaths related to economic woes "all-too-common story" lately, mayor says

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- It was described as one of the most grisly scenes Los Angeles police had ever encountered: the bodies of five small children and their parents, all shot to death, in two upstairs rooms of the family's home.

"The reaction on their faces was not a pretty sight," neighbor Jasmine Gomez told CNN. "There was an officer who came out of the house throwing up."

But even more incomprehensible to some was the story that emerged after the bodies were found Tuesday: A father who, after he and his wife were fired from their jobs, killed all six family members before turning the gun on himself.

In a letter faxed to Los Angeles television station KABC before his suicide, Ervin Antonio Lupoe blamed his former employer for the deaths, detailing his grievance against Kaiser Permanente's West Los Angeles Medical Center, where he and his wife Ana had worked as technicians. VideoWatch how the note brought police to the home »

Lupoe, 40, claimed the couple was being investigated for "misrepresentation of our employment to an outside agency for the benefit to ourselves's [sic], childcare." He said the initial interview was held on December 19, and when he reported for work on December 23, "I was told by my administrator ... that 'You should not even have bothered to come to work today. You should have blown your brains out.'"

"Oh lord, my God," the letter concludes. "Is there no hope for a widow's son?"

Kaiser Permanente said in a statement Tuesday night that while the company is "saddened by the despair in Mr. Lupoe's letter faxed to the media ... we are confident that no one told him to take his own life or the lives of his family."

The Lupoes' employment was terminated over a week ago "after an internal investigation," the company said.

"While we may never fully understand why today's senseless deaths occurred, everyone who worked with the Lupoes is shocked and terribly saddened by the tragedy," said the statement. "It never should have happened."

Lupoe wrote in the fax, "after a horrendous ordeal, my wife felt it better to end our lives; and why leave our children in someone else's hands ... we have no job and 5 children under 8 years with no place to go. So here we are."

Ana Elizabeth Lupoe was 38, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office. The children were identified as 8-year-old Brittney Nicole; 5-year-old twins Jaszmin Lissette and Jassely Lisbeth; and 2-year-old twins Christian De Shawn and Benjamin Ryan.

Lupoe and the girls were found in what appeared to be an upstairs bonus room, police said Wednesday. Ana Lupoe and the boys were found in the master bedroom.

Police believe Lupoe also called KABC and threatened suicide, prompting the station to notify police. At about the same time KABC contacted police, Lupoe called 911 and reported returning home and finding his family dead, authorities said.

Among those struggling to comprehend the news was Lupoe's 83-year-old grandmother, Josephine Lupoe of Atlanta, Georgia. She sobbed as she told CNN, "I just can't believe it."

She said Lupoe was born in Atlanta, but moved to Detroit, Michigan, with his parents as a child before moving to California. She recalled visiting the family when they lived in San Jose, California, "but that was years ago," she said. "I hadn't been to visit them since he got married and moved."

She said she last heard from him when he called her to say they were having a second set of twins.

"Every time I called, he was at work," Josephine Lupoe said. "He worked a lot, and even when I talked with him, he would be at work." But she said she had no indication of problems within the family.

She said she spoke with Lupoe's mother a couple of days ago, and they discussed his sending pictures of the boys. "And then I hear this," she said tearfully.

Lupoe's mother was traveling to California on Wednesday, she said, but Josephine Lupoe said she is unable to travel.

Lupoe's co-workers told the Los Angeles Times they remembered the Lupoes as cheerful, good workers and caring parents.

Ana Lupoe was "always talking about the kids," said co-worker Hamlet Narvaez.

On Ervin Lupoe's Facebook page, which previously displayed pictures of the family, he describes himself as a graduate of the University of Southern California.

The page could not be found Wednesday. In a written statement, Facebook spokeswoman Rebecca Hahn told CNN, "When it comes to our attention that a user has passed away, we put the profile in a memorial state. In the memorial state, certain profile sections and features are hidden from view to protect the privacy of the departed. We encourage users to utilize groups and group discussions to mourn and remember the deceased."

Cherise Pounders-Caver, principal of the children's school, Crescent Heights Elementary, said Lupoe showed up to check the three older children out of school about two weeks ago and told her the family was moving to Kansas, the Times reported.

Police said Wednesday school administrators were notified "several weeks prior" to the deaths that the children would no longer be attending.

The deaths sent shock waves across the city and beyond.

"No matter how desperate you are, no matter how frustrated you are, to think this was the only answer -- to take your whole family with you in death -- is just too much to understand," said City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who represents the city's Wilmington neighborhood where the slayings took place. She and other city officials urged those who may be despondent to seek help from available resources.

"It's sad that this happens anywhere, you know?" neighbor Jose Rodriguez told KABC. "You see it on the news but you never really become accustomed to it.

"I have kids, too, and grandkids," he said. "It hits home."

CNN's Stan Wilson, Ashley Broughton and Paul Vercammen contributed to this report.

I strongly suggest that everyone goes and looks at this video. It is very powerful and does in 5 minutes what would take me an hour or more of shouting and screaming. It leaves an impact on you!

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I was told that I should warn people that the last two minutes can be disturbing, however it is what exists in the world!

Also I wrote something on another online resource that I will share here as well. got to make the journal a little longer.


The truth about Christmas, both with me and overseas. So I am getting ready to cook my christmas dinner. I will be having Top Ramen that smells of either dead chicken or dead shrimp. Do not have a pity party for me, I am content with it. This is just another day, another day that so many people talk such a good game and do nothing to back it up. So I am thankful for my top ramen dinner, because there are millions across the world that will not be eating such a humble meal today. Plus there are billions that do not possess the simple things that I do. But do not pity them either. Demand real change, continue to walk down the path of change and revolution. Do not stop because the jungle is too thick to tread through. Use a machette and make a path if you are the first one there. If you want the easy life, then just stay on the highway to self destruction. Because you never really know when you will see the last off ramp. But remember that highway is paved with the blood of our brothers and sisters all over the world. We are all one people, homosapiens.


*then I attached the above video**

I hope this works out good, because I am not going to edit it all pretty tonight...



This is the machine that not just the military represents, but the entire government. To believe that the government cares about the common people is an illusion and lie. It has always been an illusion and lie. History is full of Suzanne Swifts. People that have been steamrolled by the machine that is the usa. The government does not say it is in the name of progress, they do not try to justify their actions in any way. The simply refuse to acknowledge the importance of anyone, except those in power!

--Esteban Najid--




Tell people about her.
You can help by spreding this message

Suzanneswift.org

<h2>Stop 'Command Rape' in the Military</h2>

Imagine a 20 year old girl singled out, isolated and used as a sex-victim repeatedly by a highly respected commander? Imagine when she finally stands up to him that she is brutalized repeatedly.

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Imagine her trying to get away from him.
Imagine her entire platoon disbelieving and taunting her.
Imagine her being subject to rape by everyone after that.
Imagine her being redeployed to IRAQ.
Imagine her refusing to go.

Imagine her being thrown into prison....

Imagine her mom setting up a website for her.

Imagine her abuser free & making $15 grand a week for "BLACKWATER SECURITY" this year.

Her name is Suzanne Swift and she has an incredible story. She also has the "luck" (sorry) to be in prison during the "tipping point" of internet activism. We can help her.


Tell people about her.


REPOST THIS.

Suzanneswift.org

Thank You for Considering This

Ever since the human species has attempted to distance itself from the beasts of nature we have always debated what the "truth" is. This debate takes place on all levels: religious, philosophical, economic and political. The reason that this debate even takes place is because the truth is relative, according to our own perception which is influenced by our life experiences. However what is not relative are the facts that must be provided to back up what is said. Mathematics has always been pointed to as such an absolute, 2+2=4. That is a fact, a fact that cannot be denied by anyone that has different notions of what a particular truth is. Is it any wonder that George Orwell made such a point of breaking the main character of his novel 1984 into not only saying that 2+2=5, but he had to actually see it! This is altering the facts upon which everything is based, by altering the facts you can assume anything. However without facts everything you assume cannot be proven. This is the problem with what is happening in the world today.

I would not say that this documentary has all the facts, or that they have all their facts correct. This leaves many unanswered questions and issues that are not at all confronted or even mentioned. We must remember that there are many other factors that come into play. However there is much that ads up and makes more sense than what the governments are telling us. So I strongly suggest you take the time to watch all 3 episodes below. Do not look upon them as truth or even absolute facts. But something that contradicts which we have been told by those in power. This is why we need absolute facts to debate our issues (truths). Without absolute facts in government, in the media, we are doomed to walk down the path of Orwells 1984 nightmare world.

--Esteban Najid--

I am sorry to everyone in DA that I am not talented enough to get a player to work on DA. However I really do STRONGLY suggest that you watch the videos attached to the links.



<centeR>The Power of Nightmares
A 3-part BBC series of documentary films, written and produced by Adam Curtis

In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares. In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media.

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Part 2/3

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Power of Nightmares re-awakened
By Adam Curtis
Writer, Producer and Narrator, The Power of Nightmares


The Power of Nightmares is to be turned into a feature film to be screened at the Cannes film festival. It was first screened on BBC Two in Autumn 2004 as a series of three one hour documentaries questioning whether the threat of terrorism to the West is a politically driven fantasy and if al-Qaeda really is an organised network.

For latest information:
Cannes to screen BBC's Nightmares

The BBC was inundated with correspondence, some critical much of it very positive. Viewers were invited to put their questions to the creator of the series, Adam Curtis. Here he responds to some of those correspondents, chosen to represent a broad selection of your questions.




"I know you have already been asked, but PLEASE, PLEASE, release the series on video or DVD"

Peter Grant, London


The problem is that the films are full of archive film and music from a multitude of sources. The reason my series are normally not released on DVD is that it is prohibitively costly and a nightmare - no pun intended - to clear the rights.

But so many people have now asked for the series to be released in this form that I think it probably will happen.

NOTE: We are very keen that the programmes are made widely available including in America and although the main networks have shown little interest, we are confident that the programmes will be shown in some form. There are however no plans for a book or that the BBC should publish transcripts in addition to the unofficial ones already existing on the internet. Further news about the Power of Nightmares and in particular availability of a DVD or video will be published here.

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"I have sat through your documentary tonight. I hope your programme is shown again following the next terrorist attack. You sound like the hedgehog who claims that cars won't hurt you!!!! I'm amazed!!!!!!!"

Iain Foster, Portsmouth


In the face of much more tangible threats in the past - like the IRA, the Soviet Union and even Nazi Germany - British governments did not encourage the people to behave like hedgehogs.

Why roll up into a ball now in the face of what is a serious but in no way an overwhelming threat to our nation and our freedoms?

The programmes did not say that there was no threat. What they argued was that although there is a serious threat of terrorism from some radical Islamists, the nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden organisation waiting to strike our societies is an illusion.

The question the series tried to answer was why contemporary politicians and other elites, like the media, want you to feel frightened - to behave and feel like a hedgehog trapped on a motorway - when the reality and the scale of the threat is actually very different.




"Do you believe that there have been any real threats to Western countries that have been 'pre-empted' by the authorities, or have all the arrests fallen down on a lack of evidence? Is the pre-emptive strategy a successful one, and is it not best to be safe rather than sorry?"

Dylan Crosby, Birmingham


On the surface the policy of pre-emption - detaining people ahead of time before they can do their attacks - is logical and sensible.

The problem with it though is that it does undermine one of the fundamental principles of our legal system and democracy, the ability to prove your innocence.

If we lock up people on the basis of "future crimes", in other words things that haven't even happened, then you have a huge responsibility to get it right in what you imagine might happen.

At the moment, as the programmes showed, in both Britain and America we are detaining people on the basis of a series of assumptions about international terror networks that when one examines the evidence largely do not exist.

In other words we are locking people up on the basis of an magnified and distorted vision of what might happen - a process driven by the politicians' dark imaginations rather than reality.

Those who have been detained then find it impossible to disprove this because there is, by definition, no substantive proof in a policy of pre-emption.

In the recent Law Lords judgement on the British detainees, Lord Hoffman argued that this may be eroding the very basis of the democracy we are supposed to be defending.




"Would you acknowledge that the mujahideen in Afghanistan became radicalised by Zawahiri after the US became involved, rather than because of the US involvement and that many radical Islamic groups around the world have members that were in Peshawar at the time of the Afghan war and would have had contact with Bin Laden & Zawahiri? Here I am thinking of Jamal Islamija, Khattab from Shamil Basaev's group and members of Ansar al Islam in particular."

Harry Schmauzer, London


Many of the mujahideen became radicalised through their experience in Afghanistan. The major influence in this, as the second film in the series showed, was not Ayman Zawahiri but Abdullah Azzam.

He inspired many with the idea that the Afghan experience could transform them as individuals and that they could return to their own countries and lead revolutions that would create Islamist societies throughout the Arab world.

Initially the idea was that this could be achieved politically, but with the failure of Islamist political parties in the 1990s many mujahideen became further radicalised and turned to violence.

But it is important to realise that the overwhelming majority of the Islamists in the camps in Afghanistan in the 1990s were training to go and fight in their own countries - Chechnya, Uzbekistan, Kashmir - not to attack America.

If one looks at the film of the camps at the time one sees fighters being trained in the tactics of urban guerrilla warfare not the terrorism feared by the West.

The idea of attacking the West directly came from Zawahiri and a small group of Islamists who were frustrated by the failure of Islamism to achieve its goal.

Many of the Islamists in Afghanistan were against this strategy, including the Taliban leadership.

The point is that Islamism is a complex political and revolutionary movement with many different strands and theories. Zawahiri's strategy and argument are just one extreme part of that movement.

The common idea that all the mujahideen flooded out of Afghanistan with the sole intention of attacking and destroying the West is just wrong.

Zawahiri's ideas are out there and as the films showed they have inspired groups and individuals around the world - and they are dangerous.

But to search for a hidden organised network is to miss and misunderstand the real nature of the threat that we face from some radical Islamists.




"How can we not take the nightmare scenario seriously with the increasing threat of available WMD? How will this programme be remembered when that happens?"

Kevin Dale, Manchester


The world is full of threats. But you cannot let your judgement be distorted or overwhelmed by the politics of fear. Cf: Iraq.




"Why did you omit the economic element - oil, trade, globalisation, privatisation etc. The crucial project of imperialism."

Shosh Morris, London


I think this is a serious and important criticism. To put it at its simplest it says that the neocons are being used. That their ideas and their myth of America as a revolutionary force that can spread democracy and freedom around the world are a convenient disguise for a much more ruthless and anti-democratic exploitation of the world.

My problem with it as an argument is that it is itself based on a simplistic ideology that doesn't fully explain what is happening.

Underlying the argument is what some people call a "vulgar Marxism", the belief that business and corporate interests shape the world and that all ideas and political ideology are just froth on the surface that disguise the real, hidden forces underneath.

The neoconservatives and the Islamists believe the complete opposite - that ideas can fundamentally change the world. In the neoconservatives' own words: "Ideas do have consequences."

I don't believe either of these positions. I think the reality is far more complex - that ideas do have widespread effects but not in the way those who developed them necessarily intended. They are taken up, used and distorted by many other forces which include business and corporate interests.

But the essential point is that it is not business that leads the way. And in this area in particular I do think that the ideas had a primacy.

The reality is that both the neoconservatives and the Islamists became powerful and influential because of the power of their ideas and I wanted to make a series of films that explained the roots of these ideas and how they were taken up, simplified and distorted.

This was the focus of the programmes, and I made them this way because very few people know anything about the history of these ideas and I thought it was important to tell that history from the point of view of those involved and to critically analyse the development of their ideas.

I think it may well be true that there is a synergy, a fit, between the neoconservatives' particular individualistic version of democracy and the neo-liberal economic policies that suit American business interests but I really don't think that is what is driving the neo-conservatives.

As I said in the films I see them as the last political idealists - they are driven by an extraordinary and epic vision of transforming the world which reflects America's own revolutionary history as much as it does its capitalist economics.




"Do you believe it possible that the American Neo-Cons engineered the 9/11 atrocity as a catalyst for their program?"

Cliff Babbs, Daventry


No.




"Is it possible that the ideology of radical (political) Islam has a better chance of succeeding where it failed in the 1980s now that the West has responded as it has to the perception of its threat in Afghanistan, Iraq etc?"

James, London


I can only repeat what I said in my previous responses on this site. I think one has to be very careful about this.

The films showed that Islamism is not a new phenomenon. Its trajectory in the 1980s and 90s is that of rise and fall. It tried to create a pan-Arab revolution and failed because it couldn't inspire the masses.

The answer is that no-one knows whether the war on terror is re-creating mass Islamism and giving it a new revolutionary appeal, or whether it is actually fuelling a more nationalist opposition that uses an Islamist rhetoric - as seems to be happening in Iraq.

The problem is that it is so dangerous to report anything in Iraq, that everyone - both pro and anti - project what they want to see onto the insurgency.

Yet again our perception of reality is being driven by political fantasies rather than an accurate understanding drawn from reality.




"Hearing so much that we are being misled by the government, how could I determine that programmes like yours isn't misleading as well? Of course the government has their reasons to mislead the public, but I think there are also reasons for people like yourself and Michael Moore to release information such as the ones shown in your documentary. Other than the goal to show "the truth." I don't think I am alone being paranoid with all this information contradicting with each other."

Sung Choi, New York


Welcome to the modern world. I agree with you, I think that "the truth" has become a much more contentious issue since the end of the Cold War.

Back then the world was much simpler and more certain, and patrician elites on both sides of the Iron Curtain were confident in putting forward the received wisdom on all important issues.

Today we all have to work much harder to weigh up the different versions of the truth that are being presented to us. This is exactly what I tried to do in the series.

I looked at both historical and contemporary factual evidence and judged the politicians' and the media's versions of what we were threatened by against this evidence. In doing this I found a severe mismatch between the rhetoric and the evidence.

I then put forward an argument which tried to explain why this has happened - that in this new and uncertain world politicians have found in fear a way of restoring their patrician authority.

My aim in doing this was to say to people: "Look, have you thought of it this way?" as a means of encouraging them to question the received wisdom they are told by governments and the media.

You don't have to agree with my argument about why this has happened, but what I do hope is that the basic journalism and evidence in the programmes will make people see how weak and partial the official version is.

In a bewildering and confusing time I think that is proper public service broadcasting.




"Has there been any response (official or unofficial) from the government to the arguments put forward by your series? As someone who still just about manages to trust Tony Blair I would be particularly curious to know if he has seen any of the programmes."

Miles Doubleday, Oxford


None - either official or unofficial. But the Archbishop of Canterbury liked it and the President of Venezuela has asked for a tape.




"Surely, the danger is from the primitive belief in a god of whatever kind. Don't you agree that all sane people must reject religion whether Islamic, Christian, Judaist or whatever, as only such fanatical beliefs claim there is an absolute truth?"

Keith Hose, London


Stalin managed perfectly well without religion. To be blunt I think that religion has very little to do with this.

In the case of Islamism I think religious ideas were taken up and used by thinkers like Sayyid Qutb for political purposes to drive what is essentially a nationalist movement that flourished in the wake of the failure of the secular politics of Nasser.

I would suggest you read a fascinating article in this month's edition of Prospect magazine by Michael Hirsh. He argues that it was the marginalisation of Islam in Arab societies by Kemal Ataturk and Nasser that left Muslim societies unprotected against dictatorships. His view is that Islam will come to play a crucial role in the growth of future democracies in the Middle East.




"You succeeded in avoiding any mention of Israel which may have been sensible but perhaps somewhat economic with the truth?"

E Asseily, London


My focus was the history of Islamism as a political movement. Its aim is a revolutionary one, to create a new type of society in countries throughout the Middle East.

If the Palestinian question was solved tomorrow, that would not alter the Islamist's aims or strategy at all.

Bin Laden, Zawahiri and all Islamists, moderate and extreme, speak out against Israel's occupation of the Palestinian homeland.

They do this because they see it as part of the American domination of the Middle East and they may see this as a part of their strategy. But it is not their primary focus. This is why I did not concentrate on it.




"Since the programme's first screening and the recent repeats, have you noticed any significant impact the programme has had among politicians and/or the public?"

Michael Kenny, Northampton


I don't think that television programmes really change things. Television is a reinforcing medium - it tends to express and amplify already existing changes that are in motion.

In the case of the Power of Nightmares I think the series gave a sharp and focussed expression to a widespread and growing disquiet about the way governments and the media had been reporting the threat.

If there is a terrorist attack in the coming months - which there may be - then I think there will be a counter-reaction from within both the political and media elites.

They will seek to say loudly that this proves there is a hidden and terrifying network unlike anything we have faced before.

But I think that there is now a strong enough body of opinion that will challenge this and say that it shows nothing of the kind.

We have faced urban terrorism before and dealt with it calmly and bravely and I would hope that our politicians will help us do so again without hysterical overreaction.

But I really don't think that this state of fear will last. The Law Lords ruling is very very important and it shows members of the establishment are really beginning to ask questions.

I would point you towards Lord Hoffman's speech and in particular to paragraphs 94 - 97.


LAW LORDS RULING
The real threat to the life of the nation, in the sense of a people living in accordance with its traditional laws and political values, comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these
Lord Hoffman, December 2004
UK Parliament website: full transcript
Two Garden Court Chambers website: Key extracts
Standard disclaimer: The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites

Like Lord Hoffman I am optimistic, I'm sure we will survive not only "al Qaeda" but also the politics of fear.

Of course when the fear goes and people see just how much it was exaggerated then there will be a further loss of trust in politicians and their authority.

But that in itself may provide an opportunity for a new and more progressive form of politics to emerge.




"Is there a track list available for all music used. I like the music (recognise some of it) but would like to find out what the other tracks are called."

Suzanne Costello,Oxford


There is too much music and noise to list everything. But the main pieces used are these:

John Carpenter - The theme from The Prince of Darkness - the 1987 movie. Plus the repetitive piano bit from Halloween in the haunted house.

Brian Eno - From Another Green World - Big Ship - and In Dark Trees

Charles Ives - Symphony number two - 5th movement. Putnam's Camp from Three Places in New England. Plus a bit from Central Park in the Dark

Ennio Morricone - Theme from the 1970 film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion And a Morricone piece from the 1980 Pontecorvo film Ogro

Shostakovich - Lyric waltz from the Ballet Suite No 1 and a bit from The Young Lady and the Hooligan

John Barry - The Ipcress File

Soundtrack to The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Paul Sawtell and Jerry Goldsmith

Colours by Donovan

Baby It's Cold Outside - the 1949 version by Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting

The best noises come from Skinned - which is a whole lot of samples from the archives of the band Skinny Puppy




"Please can you attach to the website some suggestions for further reading"

Chris Drinkwater, Rochdale


For Islamism the best books are:

Jihad - The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel and his earlier book, The Prophet and the Pharaoh

The best insight into the ideas behind all this are in the writings of Sayyid Qutb - in particular Milestones (also translated as Signposts Along the Road)

Olivier Roy - The Failure of Political Islam and Globalized Islam.

Jason Burke - Al Qaeda

By far the best book on Afghanistan is The Fragmentation of Afghanistan by Barnett Rubin and his follow up called The Search for Peace in Afghanistan.

And Zawahiri's own account of the struggle which is actually very revealing - It is translated as Knight's under the Prophet's Banner (I think you can still find it on the internet)

For the history of Neoconservatism try:

The Rise of the Counterestablishment by Sidney Blumenthal

Neoconservatism by Irving Kristol

Leo Strauss and the American Right - Shadia Drury

Antiliberalism by Stephen Holmes

Recasting Conservatism by Robert devigne

Neoconservatism by Irving Kristol

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

And for the weirdness of the 1990s:

Blinded by the Right - David Brock

The Gang of Five - The Leaders at the Centre of the Conservative Ascendancy - Nina Easton

Adam Curtis wrote, produced and narrated the series, Power of Nightmares first broadcast on BBC Two in Autumn 2004 and repeated in January 2005.

I attached comments to a dialogue that I forwarded to people I know. It was a series of e-mails between a local LA hip hop artist and some Minuteman member. I was amazed at the feedback to my comments and since I have not updated DA recently I decided to post it here. By the way if anyone knows where in DA I can upload some MP3s, please tell me I have been going crazy playing with the new system.







I do not believe in online debates, however it is worth reading to see the mentality that is faced. People like this cannot be dealt with on a rational level. You have 2 real choices, even though you could fool yourself that you have more.

#1- Support the people that oppose the minutemen and their racist mentality of elistist bullshit. I mean look at some of them fuckers!!!!

#2- You support the minutemen in their efforts to continue their racist agenda that they hide in words of naitonalism and pride (putting some of their aguments nicely).

#3- The problem with any other choice is that by not supporting the enemies of the Minutemen you are enabling that mentality to continue. The next person that falls victim to their witch hunt could be someone close to you, or that special someone could fall for their con and start to support them.

Sorry but everyday is war, every action is war. It is no longer just a class war issue, but a war of survival for the entire human race. We may already be too late to save our species, our future. Or we may still have hundreds of years to organize. However none of us truly know what limits nature will place on technology to adapt. We must realize this, we must face the facts. The only way the Western lifestyle can continue is at the expense of others. Because there is not enough raw materials on the planet to support everyone at the level that people live in the West. So do you let others suffer so you can live your life of a little luxury. Or do you try to make a difference in the world? Not for you, maybe not even for the children that are here already, but for the generations not yet born. Because they are the ones that will truly inherit the earth. They are the ones who are innocent and have the right to the planet. Plus MOST IMPORTANTLY!!!! We cannot allow the smallest minority to live at a level of luxury that can only be described as obscene. The 100 richest americans have more combined wealth than the combined wealth of the poorest half of the planet. There is NO justification for such gross difference in lifestyle between people that were concieved the very same way. By the joining of a sperm and egg... I am not saying all people are equal. However when 100 people have more wealth than over 3 billion, that is beyond wrong. When 100 people waste more money in a day on bullshit they do not need than most make in a year and countless millions go hungry because they do not have enough to eat. What social system, what economic system, what religion, what philosophy, what God justifies this?






Up and coming, my excuse for art. How I will attack concepts of nationalism and patriotism because we need to be considered only one race, one people, we are all human! I did it in a seperate profile because it is sure to piss people off more the Carl Latuff does and that takes effort So keep an eye on The Flag Artist [link]