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Street Medicine: Volunteers for Pepper Spraying?
Street medicine and action medics are in great demand as police violence increases against activists. This article reviews street medicine wisdom and organizations....
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2003 2:05pm PDT
Aug 19 - From California to Cancun: Challenging the Economics of Empire
A free event against the WTO . . . and war by other means! Join us Tuesday, August 19th at 7 pm at New College....
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2003 1:32pm PDT
Bush Ordered Blackout for Evil Energy Bills
Bush & Company gave us the 9/11 Hoax and now we have the 4/11 Hoax, the Big Blackout which occurred at 4:11 p.m. "suddenly" shutting down a hugh power grid, mysteriously overriding the stop gaps. Read this excellent repost with timeline from New York Indymedia showing how Bush & Co benefit from coal-burning & nuclear plants instead of renewable energy systems....
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2003 12:27am PDT
BUSH PLAN BLOCKED BY MILLIONS OF PROTESTORS
Millions turned out for a SURPRISE protest in New York yesterday about the PRIVATE MANAGEMENT OF TRANSMISSION GRIDS which should be managed by the citizens of the whole country because the grids are interstate devices. I am still investigating the matter....
Posted: Fri, Aug 15, 2003 7:07pm PDT
BUSH ADMITS KNOWING BLACKOUT CAUSE
Bush was quoted on CNBC as blaming the "grid" for the blackout by saying that it "indicates a need for modernization". Others say the cause is still unknown and will take several days to figure out if possible....
Posted: Fri, Aug 15, 2003 2:12pm PDT
POWER OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB IN WHITE HOUSE
The Tale of The Brits Who Swiped 800 Jobs From New York, Carted Off $90 Million, Then Tonight, Turned Off Our Lights...
Posted: Fri, Aug 15, 2003 12:16pm PDT
GLEN EPSTEIN GRABS FOR CASH ON CNBC
This man apparantly works for Intermagnetics and seems to know what caused the power outage in the Northeast. He also claimed to have a patented solution. Others are claiming it was caused by over demand although no evidence was given....
Posted: Fri, Aug 15, 2003 11:08am PDT
terrorist solar flares cause eastcoast blackouts
huge x class solar flares cause east coast electrical disturbances...
Posted: Thu, Aug 14, 2003 3:30pm PDT
Deconstructing Dinner Caravan
We're coming through San Fran on Friday , August 15th, and we're eager to hook up with the Critical Mass that day starting at Justin Herman Plaza....
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2003 11:30pm PDT
KPFT PATCHED A GEEK
"Technology Bytes", an ever changing radio show about electronic technology on Pacifica's KPFT radio in Houston changed their engineering disposition this week on the same day that "Democracy Now" exposed another computer fraud by interviewing a professor from Rice University....
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2003 10:59pm PDT
Libertarians who loathe Israel
Irrational hatred for "an isolated Sparta, bristling with weaponry and little else" prompts libertarians to forget their welfare economics. For example, Raimondo menacingly warns that without US aid, Israel would cease to exist... Come again?...
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2003 6:58pm PDT
WTO CANCUN - latest updates
The next ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization will take place in
Cancun, Mexico on September 10-15. From the 8th on, a huge mobilization will
greet the meeting with creative protest and visions of alternatives. Below is
our report on some of the preliminary organizing we did last week in Cancun and
Mexico City....
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2003 9:20am PDT
GOP breaking up over Gay Marriages? (Moralist vs Libertarian)
There’s evidence of friction at all levels of the party. Most prominently, between Bush and Dick Cheney, whose own daughter is gay. Meanwhile Howard Dean was governor of Vermont in April of 2000, when the state became the first to recognize single sex unions....
Posted: Tue, Aug 12, 2003 11:51am PDT
EARTHLINK STEALS REGISTERED TRADEMARK
Earthlink, advertiser on CNBC, a 24 hour TV business propaganda network, claims to have a computer program that can control the business interests of a canned meat company. CNBC does not claim to be "fair and balanced"....
Posted: Tue, Aug 12, 2003 9:38am PDT
"Stop GATS!" Against Privatization of Services
"The `Washington Consensus' from the 80s promised that a neoliberal policy would be good for everyone. In fact, local structures.. are destroyed, human lives are annihilated through hunger and poverty and enormous environmental damage continued."...
Posted: Mon, Aug 11, 2003 11:05am PDT
Words to Seduce the Left
Watch as I make a seemingly "anti-business" argument designed to fit within the Left's world view, but ... TA-DA!!! ... I actually make an argument in favor of laissez-faire... now that's how to "serve it up with a LEFT SPIN"...
Posted: Fri, Aug 8, 2003 6:59pm PDT
Daschle-cide Against The Lakota
Senator Daschle (of the illegal "state of South Dakota") is the sponsor of many congress acts which violate the rights to nationhood of the Lakota "Sioux" Nation, and allows for the continuing theft of Lakota gold, coal, timber and oil upon 1851 Treaty Homelands...
Posted: Thu, Aug 7, 2003 5:16pm PDT
PROGRAMERS NEEDED FOR COMMUNITY PROJECT
News of unemployed computer programers entertains me when there is so much work to be done. A children's distribution of Linux (tux just looks like that) would be an excellent product. The technology derived would also serve a restricted teen version....
Posted: Thu, Aug 7, 2003 11:54am PDT
HOW TO GIG A GEEK
Technology Bytes, often mispelled and popular radio show on KPFT radio in Houston, attempted to bring news about electronic technology and computers yesterday, and failed. A panel of geeks provided service, not to be confused with a hacker....
Posted: Wed, Aug 6, 2003 11:22pm PDT