tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38275462011-09-23T16:30:00.808-07:00Thomas PainePropaganda for revolution and resistance!Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-1120168195583641992005-06-30T14:49:00.000-07:002006-02-21T17:06:06.320-08:00There is a changing in the consciousness of the people of the Appalachian Mountains afoot, a Pan-Appalachian awareness if you will. Since Mountain Justice Summer began over 24 people have been arrested defending out mountains in nonviolent acts of civil conscious. Mountain Justice Summer has broken across state lines. The people of Appalachia who are fighting for our mountains are beginning to Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-1117500376681667442005-05-30T17:43:00.000-07:002005-05-30T17:47:36.056-07:00 1000 years of resistance or why we fightThe other day I was at a hearing for a Florida based coal company. National Coal was demanding the right to turn a highland stream into an industrial drainage ditch. They were in the process of blowing the top off of a mountain and discovered that a stream was Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-1116300613761058282005-05-16T20:29:00.000-07:002005-05-16T20:30:13.766-07:00The 14 Characteristics of Fascismby Lawrence BrittSpring 2003http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.htmlPolitical scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-1115876080507969002005-05-11T22:34:00.000-07:002005-05-11T22:34:40.510-07:00Bush is Osama's bitch,It's a matter of PUBLIC RECORDFROM THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE!Eldest son George W. Bush made his first Middle East connection in the late 1970s with James Bath, a Texas businessmen who served as the North American representative for two rich Saudis (and Osama bin Laden relatives) - billionaire Salem bin Laden and banker and BCCI in-sider Khalid bin Mahfouz. Bath put $50,000 Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-1115870897695878412005-05-11T21:04:00.000-07:002005-05-11T21:10:18.303-07:00Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-1115517167679566772005-05-07T18:49:00.000-07:002005-05-07T18:52:47.693-07:00Mountain Justice Summer is a call to action and a request for help from the people of the Appalachia mountains for help in saving our mountains, streams, and forest from greedy coal companies. But why are we asking for help? Frankly it's because we are losing. More than 1,000 miles of stream have been buried and destroyed and countless mountains and ridge tops have been blown up–gone for all Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-1112062712617291332005-03-28T18:15:00.000-08:002005-03-28T18:52:10.093-08:00We need a new vocabulary for destruction and greed.I feel the lack of two vocabularies. I feel the lack of words to describe the scope of destruction being done to our mountains in Tennessee my home. I also feel the lack of words to describe the people who would destroy a thousand year heritage of water for a few years boost in the profit margin. Pictures are a good way I suppose. But we need a Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-1076990275011561852004-02-16T19:57:00.000-08:002004-02-17T19:35:24.076-08:00There is a lyrical revolution quietly taking place in our midst. But first a shout out to:
Davey D, Public Enemy, Zion-I, Mystic Kam,Dead Prez, The Conscious Daughters, Shorty and Da Lench Mob, DJ Shadow, Claytoven, The Coup,The Roots, Common, Living Legends, Blackalicious, Dilated Peoples, Michael Franti, Talib Kweli, Askari-X, Mos Def, KRS-One (double shout), Rage Against The Machine, Angie Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-927097862003-04-16T04:52:00.000-07:002003-04-16T04:52:32.000-07:00
I just read Attica's Scott's analysis of the Peace movement and it being predominately white and have some comments.
First—our entire society is racist—we are the first post Apartheid generation. Pointing at the Peace Movements racist tendencies is like pointing at a fish in the ocean and accusing it of being wet. Our entire society is racist and segregated.
Second—Malcolm X once saidChris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-914541322003-03-26T19:20:00.000-08:002003-03-26T19:32:19.000-08:00 The mass media is commiting the most convienent lie of all about this war in Iraq, the lie of omission. Our troops are engaged in fierce firefights across Iraq right now. Apparently its so fierce that the mass media was telling us that over 500 Iraqi soldiers may have died from one battle along. American tanks have been destroyed, deadly ambushes laid and in general a brutal war is being Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-902126902003-03-05T18:44:00.000-08:002003-03-07T08:05:01.000-08:00Last week Bush finally had someone connect the dots for him and he expressed worry that we have troops scattered across the globe and the potential for attack of those troops--well duh.
What scares me is that this is just now becoming apparent to the current administration. We are faced with an attack from a decentralized largely denationalized terrorist structure that is cell based and Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-896886662003-02-24T19:53:00.000-08:002003-02-24T19:53:06.793-08:00We are at war in Columbia protecting an oil pipeline, in Afganistan securing untapped oil fields, soon to be at war in Iraq where the largest nationalized oil fields in the world are located and our oil barron president is taking us to war in the Phillipines just for the hell of it. This is combined with our having troops stationed in thousands of locations worldwide including every former sovietChris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-889325542003-02-11T13:25:00.000-08:002003-02-11T13:25:05.370-08:00“Sand Nigger!” she screamed. “Sand Nigger! All of you all are going to die! Sand Nigger!”
I was walking through fort sanders in knoxville the other evening and my partner and I had this shouted at us a few times. If this is the sort of thing we can expect as a result of war I for one say screw it, like the banner said—let Exxon send in it’s own damn army.
I’m Scotch Irish for gods sake. I Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-885333312003-02-04T07:05:00.000-08:002003-02-04T07:47:12.000-08:00 The shuttle blew up and the mainstream media along with Bush are all rushing to reassure us that we will continue with the militarizaion of space so don't worry. What they aren't talking about is what would of happened if the shuttle had been on it's way up--with yet another radioactive payload. Texas would be a national sacrafice zone right now. The last shuttle of NASA's to explode was a Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-881596412003-01-28T07:45:00.000-08:002003-01-28T07:57:36.000-08:00Lately I have noticed a illusionary counter to the argument that the coming bloodshed in Iraq is about oil. The argument is based on the idea that if we wanted the oil all we would have to do is lift the embargo and viola! All the Iraqi oil we want. Hence the war cannot be about oil. There is one rather large gaping gap in this logic that never seems to be addressed--who proffits? If the embargoChris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-868924142003-01-03T13:25:00.000-08:002003-01-03T13:32:53.000-08:00 What is democracy? Its rule of the people it's what the people want. Are you living in a real democracy? Is this what you want? If your going to fight for anything in life--perhaps freedom and democracy are better values than dying for the proffits of oil and other corporations. Gandhi was asked once what he thought of western civilization to which he replied to the effect that it sounded Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-867251272002-12-30T19:38:00.000-08:002002-12-30T19:44:29.000-08:00UN Adds Sanctions on Consumer Goods
Under threat by the Bush Administration, the UN Security Council added certain consumer goods to the list of those goods which the Security Council must approve for import into Iraq. The argument is that the included items can be used for either civilian or military purposes. However, protection of US troops is no justification for the suffering the Thomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-866672632002-12-29T11:59:00.000-08:002002-12-29T12:06:26.000-08:00 Mini nukes, the so called bunker busters will be used in Iraq in the coming invasion, bet on it. I believe its been the plan all along--witness all the anti nuclear treaties that bush began breaking the moment he got in power. The plan is to break the back of the Iraqi resistance using the bunker busters which convienently will erase any evidence of mass destruction. Want evidence? Use aChris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-866468122002-12-28T20:24:00.000-08:002002-12-28T20:24:59.873-08:00New Site Info
There's been a bit of a site shake down, as those who've been reading us can probably attest. We've taken a hiatus from posting and during the interim have made some changes. The site has a new title and address. Unfortunately, however, Gena Lewis is no longer on board, having too much work to do in law school. We wish Gena all the best and welcome you to Thomas Paine. Thomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-854629872002-12-03T19:57:00.000-08:002002-12-03T20:05:43.000-08:00 Watch the mass corporate owned media and you may get the impression that everyone is willing to be led in the country to war like lambs to the slaughter. Cruise some mass internet media and you get a different picture. Try yahoo.com--sell out mass media if there ever was. But go to the bottom of each of their news articles and you will see that there a rolling comment boards. Sometimes on Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-851662972002-11-27T08:11:00.000-08:002002-11-27T08:18:30.000-08:00 Why is it the acquistion of weapons of mass destruction is such an evil, yet the possesion is a-ok? America is the number one producer of weapons of mass destruction in the world. America has polluted its groundwater with uranium and plutonium as a result of this production. Somehow though other countries attempting to create their own weapons is an untolerable evil. Could it be that the Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-851212452002-11-26T11:10:00.000-08:002002-11-26T11:10:11.596-08:00The Blank Slate
If only you could read the New Yorker’s piece on Stephen Pinker. Unfortunately, you can’t, since the New Yorker’s cheap, and won’t post its content. Simon Blackburn’s article in TNR is almost as good, however.
Genanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-851212112002-11-26T11:09:00.000-08:002002-11-26T11:09:39.690-08:00Michael Crichton
Does nanotechnology - and the New Yorker reviews the book.
Genanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-851210902002-11-26T11:06:00.000-08:002002-11-26T11:06:34.033-08:00What’s Wrong With This Picture?
No links that’s what’s wrong with it. No articles. No content. Just a table of contents. I completely agree with Lewis Lapham that corporations are evil and they’ve taken over our government. However, coming from a man who refuses to share his content on the web, it all sounds a little, well, hypocritical.Genanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-851209582002-11-26T11:03:00.000-08:002002-11-26T11:03:35.920-08:00TNR
Tries to puzzle out the latest CBS/ NY Times poll.
“The most puzzling result from today's New York Times/CBS poll is the lack of evidence that national security and foreign policy helped Republicans much in the recent midterm elections. According to the poll, only 3 percent of voters considered foreign policy the most important issue when casting their vote for the House, only 2 percent Genanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-851204562002-11-26T10:52:00.000-08:002002-11-26T10:52:33.036-08:00Something for the War Crowd
My Translation of Hoelderlin's Stimme des Volks
Voice of the People
You are the voice of God, so I once believed
In holy youth; yes, and I’ll say it still!
Untroubled by our wisdom
The streams still rush as well, and yet,
Who does not love them? And always they move
My heart, if I hear far away the disappearing
The presentiments-filled my road not
But more Genanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-851196492002-11-26T10:33:00.000-08:002002-11-26T10:33:57.430-08:00Old Movies from Other Places
We believe some things
as the gray light of the propaganda film flickers back upon us
the shadows of the rubble
Collapsed across your face
Like a destroyed city falling
And the people moved across the screen
Scarcely more real than the ghosts that watched with us
From the red seats
Empty as we laughed
And told ourselves the things
we believed
Genanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-851194332002-11-26T10:29:00.000-08:002002-11-26T10:29:23.286-08:00Question for today, what exactly did the CIA train Osama and his network to do? To often the current corporate owned regieme tries to ignore or manipulate history to suit its own purposes of the day. One prime example of this is the implication that somehow, someway, Osama is linked to Saddam and as such attacking Iraq is related to the war on "terrorism."
The Bush administration is implying Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-850922162002-11-25T20:42:00.000-08:002002-11-25T20:53:53.000-08:00Here we go again
I’m a masochist. I’ve finally figured this out. I hate, loathe, and despise Caitlin Flanagan to the point where I honestly wouldn’t be sorry if she fell victim to a car accident or some horrible disease. However, whenever the new Atlantic comes out, I invariably catch myself reading whatever awful, offensive bit of tripe she’s managed to turn out. There’s a certain perverse Genanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3827546.post-850314882002-11-24T18:03:00.000-08:002002-11-24T18:08:13.000-08:00Neither Nazi nor Moron but Corporate Puppet.
Recently an official in Canada referred to Bush as at “Moron” while several weeks before a German official compared Bush’s manipulation of the events of sept 11 and the resulting attack on civil liberties to Hitler’s manipulation of the burning of the German parliament and the resulting attack on his countries civil liberties. If we are to read Chris Irwinnoreply@blogger.com0