short notes:
will brady's ruminations
Backlash.com I'm certain I don't agree with this guy on a number of issues; on the other hand, some of the stuff he comments on seem true to the mark. | furthermore, his perpsective makes me think, and I do like that |
Billionaire's for Bush | Satire. Well, presumably satire. Though ya never know since Richard Perl and other fanatic war profiteers have been straightforward about their objectives since the 1970s. So maybe it's real | The page this links to gives you the site's values and objectives, just in case you have any doubts |
The military industrial complex | Those of you who actually read the diary page will recognize that the following stuff is also on the 1-10-04 page of the
rondak diary | But, frankly, not everybody goes there first, and Eisenhower's speech is important, dammit! People ought to read it |
The paranoid streak in me wonders if the powers that be might start hacking into webistes where the speech is located, put pornographic images on the page, and then bust people for going online and looking at it |
Until then, here ya go | Dwight Eisenhower's famous warning about the
Military Industrial Complex Speech | Sad that it is so timely |
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960, p. 1035- 1040
human rights links | While surfing tonight I came across a website and group with whom I was unfamiliar | I rush, now, to correct that | The site
Medical Advocates for Social Justice, states as their objective:
The mission of Medical Advocates for Social Justice is to advocate for and facilitate access to timely and appropriate healthcare for all who have or are at risk of life- threatening endemic and epidemic infectious disease and who are disenfranchised from such access because of poverty and/or discrimination.
This organization has some initial funding from Abbot pharmaceuticals | I don't know how one comepletely rids themselves from this kind of support when working on a global scale | I have to go,then, on the advice of Ron Thomson, to go with others when they are just, and stand apart from them when they are not |