01-17-2004 nytimes
Gore  Environmental Speech Becomes an Assault on Bush
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN

Published: January 16, 2004

Former Vice President Al Gore said yesterday that the Bush administration was "wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility and mining ndustries" and that President Bush was a "moral coward" for not standing up to his campaign contributors when their interests conflicted with those of the public.

Mr. Gore's speech in New York, billed as an attack on Mr. Bush's environmental record, proved to be a far broader critique.

The former vice president used environmental issues to highlight what he called moral failures and deceptions by the Bush administration.

"While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors he is a moral coward, so weak that he seldom if ever says `no' to anything, no matter what the public interest might mandate," Mr. Gore said to a standing ovation.

The speech, co-sponsored by the group MoveOn.org, was his fourth in a series that takes the administration to task while helping keep Mr. Gore in the nation's political dialogue. He is not a candidate for office, but he looked and sounded like one with a speech that blended humor with outrage.

The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ed Gillespie, called Mr. Gore's remarks "political hate speech" and said in a statement: "Instead of repudiating these tactics, Al Gore chose to embrace the vile tactics that are becoming the hallmark of the Democrat Party at its highest levels.

"Like the Democrat presidential candidates, Al Gore has once again chosen to use his time at the podium to attack the president rather than put forward a positive agenda of his own."

But Mr. Gore appeared to give the crowd what it wanted. Organizers said they had distributed 3,500 tickets in just two hours via the Internet and despite frigid temperatures, the Beacon Theater on Broadway was packed. On several occasions Mr. Gore could hardly be heard above the applause.

The speech began as a familiar tutorial on climate and mankind, of the kind Mr. Gore has been giving for two decades. But it soon encompassed foreign policy and the president's recent proposal to try to build a base on the moon, which Mr. Gore called an "unimaginative and retreated effort." He accused the Bush White House of often operating in secret, of intentionally deceiving the public and of "radical changes that reverse a century of American policy designed to protect our natural resources."

Mr. Gore assailed Mr. Bush as having criticized the concept of "nation building" during the campaign in 2000 only to invade and occupy Iraq. He said Mr. Bush's promise as a candidate to regulate carbon dioxide as a polluting greenhouse gas "was instantly transformed by the inauguration into a promise to the generators of CO2 that it would not be regulated at all."

Mr. Gore's impassioned delivery prompted several people in the audience to remark afterward that had he been as forceful as a candidate in 2000,he might have won.

Doug Hattaway, Mr. Gore's national spokesman in 2000, said he believed that Mr. Gore was speaking out with one goal in mind: to help defeat Mr. Bush in 2004. "He is helping to add fuel to the fire and keep issues in the news that are problematic for the administration," Mr. Hattaway said.

But while Mr. Gore may have helped rally the Democratic faithful, the political cast to his speech drew concern that he might be undermining the very cause he said he was addressing.

"In many ways it is the politicization of the climate issue that has stifled discussions of new and innovative policy options," Roger Pielke
Jr., director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado commented after reading the speech. "As
opposing sides use the issue for political gain, it is very difficult for new ideas to enter the discussion. The politics is all well and good, but meanwhile we lack effective options on climate."

 Empire By Alan Sondheim

Sounds like the Re-puke-i-can foreign policy moto. It is this kind of rhetoric and thinking that will guarantee that the seeds are planted for more terrorist attacks, from within and without. JAR2
 
 We are the first successful Empire in a century.

 We are the world's first and last Superpower.

 We are not Amerika or Amerikkka.

 We are America.

 We are proud of what we do.

 You are weak and we are strong.

 We are the proudest people on earth.

 We own you.

 We control your economy through our own and through force.

 You are using our Internet.
 Your country exists because we allow it to exist.

 We invented radio and television.

 We invented the airplane and the automobile.

 We are the new people.

 We are the freest people on earth.

 We are determined to protect ourselves against you.

 We control you.

 It doesn't matter what you think of us.

 It doesn't matter what our people think of us.

 The Three Branches of Government are owned by us.

 The Three Branches of Government will do what we tell them to.

 We are the Three Branches of Government. 

 You can complain all you want.

 You can think your country is yours.

 You can think whatever you want.

 You will bark if we say bark.

 If you do not bark you are evil.

 If you are evil we will destroy you.

 We will destroy you and your culture.
 Our culture is Christian and good.

 We do not care if you are Godless.

 We do not care what you believe.

 We will give you democracy.

 We own your banks.

 You will free trade with us.

 We will starve you if you do not obey.
 Your sports are stupid sports.

 Your songs are stupid songs.

 Your movies are boring.

 Your television is backwards.

 You are infidels.

 We have the best sports.

 We really have the best sports.

 We will take what we want.
 You are nothing.

 You have earthquakes and fires and volcanos.

 You have flooding rivers and millions killed.

 You are living in the bad areas of the world.

 Our country is God-Given.

 Our country will take what we want.
 Our soldiers are the most powerful who ever lived.
 Our planes will bomb you any time we want them to.

 Our military is perfect.

 There is no destroying our country.

 The United States are stronger than any bomb.

 We are stronger than any disease.

 You are punished with disease.

 We will let you die if we want.

 We will take anything we want.
 We will sell you our drugs.

 We are a great mixed salad of wealthy people.
 Our women are the most beautiful in the world.

 Our men are the best athletes in the world.
 We are the wealthiest people on earth.

 We live longer than anyone else on earth.

 We deserve our lives.

 We deserve our wealth.
 We work harder than anyone else for our wealth.

 Other people are lazy but we are not.

 Other cultures are old but we are new.

 Other cultures are slow but we are fast.
 We will never be slow and we will always be new.

 We own the moon and Mars.
 We will own anything we want to own.

 Your words mean nothing.

 Your books mean nothing.

 Your ideologies mean nothing.

 We will do what we have to do.
 We have heard your stories over and over again and they are boring.

 The Three Branches of Government will not listen to your complaints.

 The Three Branches of Government will take what they want, build what they want,
 destroy what they want, kill what they want to kill.
 Your thinking is irrelevant.

 Your words are irrelevant.

 The Three Branches of Government are tired of listening to you.

 You talk and talk because we own everything you have.

 Your wars and revolutions are stupid.

 We will entertain you with our world of entertainment.

 You will buy our entertainment.

 You will let us manipulate you.

 You will beg for more.

 This is coming to you from our Internet.

 Capitalism is successful and good.

 You are irrelevant.

 We own you.

 We own everything you have.

 We own everything you think.

Benefits of Terrorism  CRYPTOME

Now, 28 months after 9-11, not a single government, military, or intelligence official has been punished for failing to protect the US, and not a single officeholder, building code official, architect, engineer or builder has been penalized for the collapse of WTC.

All senior federal, state and local officials serving on 9-11 remain in office (or have left for unrelated reasons); all leading congressional members, especially those on the intelligence, defense and government oversight committees, remain in office; all contractors, lobbyists and financial supportors of these remain in place; and all these appear to have increased their power, wealth and position as a result of 9-11: in Washington the mil-intel committee members, the President, intelligence agencies and military departments, the Justice Department, FBI and law enforcement; in New York Governor Pataki, ex-mayor Guiliani, the Port Authority, celebrated architects, engineers and builders, Wall Street and downtown developers; and across the US pundits, lobbyists, flacks and apologists churning their accounts.

Beneficiaries of the 9-11 failure of duty and responsibility hope the 9-11 Commission investigating the disaster -- the reasons it was not prevented and how to prevent its recurrence -- will not be extended. That the warmaking, homeland protection, and creating enemies will continue to climb the charts.

They hope the public will continue to buy into the notion that the disaster could not have been prevented, but that it will likely be repeated unless people like them are trusted to protect the nation, that preventive war is necessary whereever the US is challenged.

They warn that because of worldwide envy of US success there's really only so much can be done to protect the nation unless the American people gives up more freedom, accepts more secrecy, supports overwhelming military action against those opposed to US principles and beliefs, and trusts those who have a vested interest in promoting fear, uncertainty and doubt.

An uncowed, clear-thinking person might wonder who is benefiting from terrorism, who wants it never to end, and who pays the burgeoning cost in money and lives.

Said a brave man, "I have a dream."

01-18-2004 US Casualties in Iraq reach 500. Deserter has no comment.    500 brave soldiers all of whom  died for the self-interests of a deserter. May they rest in peace.. May justice be done.

01-17-2004 New Windows Operating System (Longhorn) already on-sale at the local kiosks, price? 80.00 Roubles, that's about three bucks to you. Beta Version of Longhorn will be tested and reviewed this week. Comments to come.

01-14-2004 Now, I know nothing has been written here for a while, but this does not mean we have gone soft. George Bush is still the shits. We are back with a big F.U. for George, as he tries to divert attention from his treasonous reign, towards Mars. Perhaps where he belongs. Don't like that? Get your own site! I'm back on the side. For now!