Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: Media finally starting to report the President's systematic lawbreaking

Subject: Re: BUSH PLANS ON USING THE BOMB ON IRAN
Date: April 21, 2006 8:28:31 PM GMT-06:00

Dear Rose:

Yeah! I'm angry, upset, worried, and all those things we all should be feeling, but the reality is that we're all doomed anyway. I've given up even hoping. The fact that the man remains in power is example enough of what we are facing. Think of if this way: You go to the doctor and he tells you he has good news and bad news. The bad news is that every vital organ system in your body is decaying at an alarming and unstoppable rate and that you have at most a month to live. There is no cure and nothing to help you endure the pain. The good news is that you are not alone. Everyone else on the planet has the same problem including the doctor. Something (no one knows for sure what) has caused a total breakdown of the human genetic structure. There is absolutely no hope for the species Homo sapiens. You leave the doctors office in shock. The news is just too enormous and horrible to absorb. But as you are walking to your car you notice that thousands of people are partying - laughing, dancing in the streets, celebrating. More are joining the throngs of revelers all the time. You ask someone, "Why are people celebrating? The species is doomed. All humans will be dead within a month!" "Yeah," some people answer. "That's why we're celebrating! Once humans are extinct there is a chance for the rest of life on the planet to survive. Can't you see that we have been doomed all along. Our only hope was that other living things wouldn't be doomed along with us. We knew it would be either war, global warming, unstoppable pandemics, a nuclear holocaust, or any one of a hundred real clear and present dangers just sitting out there waiting for us. The odds of surviving all those threats were virtually nil. So now we know that we'll all go together and it wil be soon and it won't affect other living things. God apparently built in a self-destruct mechanism when He designed us so when things got really out of hand . . ." You are reminded of the old Tom Lehrer song and begin singing it out loud happily as you go home to prepare your painless suicide.

It's a good thing I'm on Prozac!

Fondly,
Mary

ARTIST: Tom Lehrer
TITLE: We Will All Go Together When We Go
Lyrics and Chords


When you attend a funeral
It is sad to think that sooner or later
Those you love will do the same for you
And you may have thought it tragic
Not to mention other adjec-
Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do
But don't you worry

/ Em - / B7 - / Em - C7 B7 / Em - / B7 - / Em F#7 B7 / - /

No more ashes, no more sackcloth
And an armband made of black cloth
Will someday never more adorn a sleeve
For if the bomb that drops on you
Gets your friends and neighbors too
There'll be nobody left behind to grieve

/ Em - / F - / B7 - E - / E E7 A F#7 / B7 - E B7 /

And we will all go together when we go
What a comforting thought that is to know.
Universal bereavement, an inspiring achievement
Yes, we will all go together when we go

/ E - A - / - F#m B7 - / E E7 A F#m / B7 - E C7 /

We will all go together when we go
All suffused with an incandescent glow
No one will have the endurance to collect on his insurance
Lloyd's of London will be loaded when they go

/ F - Bb - / - Gm C7 - / F F7 Bb Gm / C7 - F C#7 /

Oh we will all fry together when we fry
We'll be french fried potatoes by and by
There will be no more misery when the world is our rotisserie
Yes, we will all fry together when we fry

/ F# - E - / - - Eb - / - - / E - / Bb7 - Eb - /

Down by the old maelstrom
There'll be a storm before the calm

/ Eb F7 Bb7 - / Bb7 G7 Cm B7 /

And we will all bake together when we bake
There'll be nobody present at the wake
With complete participation in that grand incineration
Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak

Oh we will all char together when we char
And let there be no moaning of the bar
Just sing out a Te Deum when you see that ICBM
And the party will be "come as you are"

Oh we will all burn together when we burn
There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn
When it's time for the fallout
And Saint Peter calls us all out
We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn

You will all go directly to your respective Valhallas
Go directly, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollahs

/ G#m C#7 / F#m B7 /

And we will all go together when we go
Ev'ry Hottentot and ev'ry Eskimo
When the air becomes uranious, we will all go simultaneous
Yes we all will go together, when we all go together
Yes, we all will go together when we go

/ E - A - / - F#m B7 - / E E7 A F#m / B7 - C#7 - / F#m B7 E - /

On Apr 21, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Rose Rubio wrote:

NOOOOOOOOO WE CAN'T NUK IRAN OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY. THE MAN IS NUTS. PLEASE READ. OMG, BUSH WILL START WW3....

ANIMAL LOVER

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042106B.shtml

How To Start Each Day With A Positive Outlook:

1. Open a new file in your PC.
2. Name it "George W. Bush."
3. Send it to the trash.
4. Empty the trash.
5. Your PC will ask you, "Do you really want to get rid of George W. Bush?"
6. Answer calmly, "Yes," and press the mouse button firmly

Interesting liner notes from "Everything Is Wrong" ... a 90s CD by Moby
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Facts That I have Collected by Moby

--in the past 20 years approximately 1 million species have disappeared
from the world's tropical forests.

--from 1960-1985 over 40% of the Central American rainforests were
destroyed to create grazing land for cattle.

--the United States imports over 100,000 tons of beef from Central America
each year.

--it takes 23 gallons of water to produce a pound of tomatoes, it takes
5,214 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef.

--one acre of land can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes. one acre of land
can produce 165 pounds of beef.

--the U.S. cattle industry produces 158 million tons of waste per year.

--livestock production is the #1 cause of water pollution in the U.S.

--22 million acres of land have become unusable due to desertification.

--85% of the topsoil loss in the U.S. is the result of livestock production.

--in the U.S. 33% of ALL raw material consumption is used solely in the
production of meat, egg, and dairy products.

--it takes 1 pound of grain to make 1 pound of bread.

--it takes 20 pounds of grain to make 1 pound of beef.

--75% of the grain sent to 3rd world nations goes to livestock production.

--the countries with the highest in animal products are also the countries
with the highest rates of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis,
etc. 50 percent of men who eat meat regularly die of heart disease.

--4 percent of men who eat no animal products die of heart disease.

--80% of USDA chicken inspectors no longer eat chicken.

--if the average commuter passenger load in the U.S. were increased by just
1 person per day we would save 33 million gallons of gas each day.
Americans spend over 1 billion hours stuck in traffic each year.

--30% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from cars.

--air is sold in Mexico city for $1.15 a minute by sidewalk vendors.

--what Greenpeace spends in a year general motors spends in 4 hours.

--3.5 million children under the age of 6 suffer from lead poisoning.

--in Europe 50% of the cars still use leaded gas.

--2 million gallons of motor oil are dumped in American waterways each year.

--over 8 million tons of oil are spilled into the world's oceans every year.

--5 billion gallons of water are flushed each day in the united states

--sewage treatment facilities in the U.S. discharge 5.9 trillion gallons of
sewage wastewater into coastal waters every year.

--U.S. tuna fishermen are permitted to kill over 20,000 dolphins every year.

--2 million sharks die in driftnets in the north pacific every year.

--only 1 in 10 baby chimpanzees survive the trip from the jungle to the zoo.

--1 billion animals are killed each year in experiments.

--17 million animals are trapped in the U.S. each year for fur.

--many traps are so painful that animals chew through their own limbs to
escape.

--for every fur animal trapped two other animals (dogs, cats, deer, etc.)
are trapped and killed.

--in 1987 450,000 minks died on fur farms from heat exhaustion. 1 ton of
recycled paper saves 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, & enough energy to
heat the average home for 6 months.

--six times more jobs are created by recycling as opposed to landfill
operations.

--the amount of money spent on trash disposal in American schools is equal
to that spent on new textbooks.

--out of every $10 that Americans spend on food, $1 pays for packaging.

--65% of garbage in the U.S. is packaging.

--50% of all trash thrown away could be recycled into new products.

--500 new dumps are built each year in the united states.

--over 1 billion trees are used to make disposable diapers every year.

--Americans throw away 20 billion disposable diapers each year.

--Americans dump the equivalent of 21 million shopping bags full of food
into landfills every year.

--2.5 billion batteries are thrown away each year by Americans.

--over 700,000 tons of hazardous waste is produced in the U.S. every day.

--Americans throw away 10 million cigarette lighters every week.

--500,000 people die of cigarette related diseases in the U.S. each year.

--pesticides that are banned in the U.S. (such as ddt) are regularly sold
to third world countries.

--90% of all food borne pesticides are found in meat and dairy products.

--10% of nursing mothers who were vegetarians had ddt in their breast milk.

--90% of nursing mothers who were meat eaters had ddt in their breast milk.

--in 1945, before widespread pesticides were use, U.S. corn growers lost 3%
of their crops to insects, last year they lost over 12%.

--74 different kinds of pesticides have been found in drinking water.

--over 100 chemical contaminants have been found in the breast milk of
nursing mothers in the U.S.

--of the 34 chemicals most widely used on lawns, 25% are widely believed to
cause birth defects, genetic mutation, and cancer.

--Americans spend 6 billion dollars on their lawns each year.

--25% of U.S. nuclear reactors would not be able to contain a core breach
meltdown.

--a 1985 study predicted a 45% chance of core breach meltdown in the U.S.
before 2005. in 1992, 430,000 people in the world died from cancers
resulting from nuclear testing radiation.

--more money is spent in the U.S. on nuclear weaponry in one year than was
spent on housing from 1980-1992.

--to date, cleaning up storage facilities for nuclear debris has cost
taxpayers 200 billion dollars.

--in 1989 the U.S. military used 200 billion barrels of oil, enough to keep
all American public transit systems running for 22 years.

--1 ton of toxic waste is produced by the U.S. military every minute.





I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet
is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people
open.
Dean Ornish, MD




I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race in its
gradual improvement to leave off eating animals.
henry david thoreau



Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than
any other action you might take.
former surgeon general C. Everett Koop



Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of
life in earth as much as the evolution to an vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein




Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, ,man
will not himself find peace
Albert Schweizer





Essay One

by 'everything is wrong' i mean EVERYTHING. i look
around me - i'm typing on a plastic and metal and glass
computer perched on a desk made from cut down trees
and toxic paint. i sit in a building made of wood and
bricks that were taken from the earth on a street made of
poisonous asphalt that was laid over an ecosystem that
had thrived for hundreds of thousands of years. i'm
clothed in cotton that was saturated with pesticides
while it grew and treated and dyed with toxic chemicals
while it was being processed. all of my possessions
were made hundreds or thousands of miles away and
shipped in Styrofoam and plastic wrap via gas burning
engines and destructive road and air ways to me. my
food, although organically grown and completely vegan,
is shipped from where it was grown to my local store and
is often packaged in paper, plastic, metal, and toxic inks.
i know tons of people that eat meat, smoke cigarettes,
drive cars, use drugs, etc., even though they know that
these things will ultimately hurt the quality (and length)
of their lives. i live in an apartment building where no one
is on a first name basis. i know more about idiot actors
in hollywood that i've never met than i do about the
woman who lives next door to me (and is probably more
interesting). while walking to work i inhale toxic exhaust
from cars sitting in traffic.

to make sure that eating 3 cans of oven cleaner will make
you sick, or to make sure that pouring nail polish
remover into your eyes will hurt you, we torture mice,
rabbits, dogs, cats, etc, we use toxic chlorine bleach to
keep our underpants white. we cut down the rainforests
to drill for oil so that we can drive to the video store. do
you see what i mean? everything really is wrong, even
the back to nature people still drive cars and use prod-
ucts made from materials ripped out of the earth, people
struggle all of their lives doing work that they hate just to
be a functioning member of a system that is wasteful,
destructive and unhealthy.

what i advocate is this a sensible, pragmatic, and non-
destructive approach towards existence. we need to re-
evaluate our practices. just as it doesn't make sense to
hire an elevator operator to run an automatic elevator it
doesn't make sense for billions of people to drive to
work alone in their cars, it doesn't make sense to con-
sume animal products, it doesn't make sense to use pes-
ticides on agricultural products, it doesn't make sense to
derive power from nuclear, coal, and petroleum when we
have solar, hydro, and wind power, it doesn't make
sense to maintain destructive systems just because peo-
ple earn their livings from them, it doesn't make sense to
pour billions of tons of toxic chemicals onto our lawns so
that they'll look pretty and green, i could go on but
you're probably either bored or overwhelmed by now, i
advocate change; massive, massive change,
basically we should stop doing those things that are
destructive to the environment, other creatures, and
ourselves and figure out new ways of existing, - that's it







Essay Two

the christian right is neither. god is angry, i think. here in
the u.s. vast numbers of politicians and religious leaders
(the line between the two being blurry) are masquerading
hate, racism, sexism, and ignorance under the banner of
conservative christian values.

conservative christian values are these - humility, mercy,
compassion, love, honesty, etc. nowhere in the bible does
christ encourage his followers to be intolerant, greedy
bigots. nowhere in the bible does christ encourage his
followers to lie, slander, steal, or be divisive along eco-
nomic or cultural lines. preserving the 'american way' has
nothing to do with christ. in fact, the 'american way' of
greed, cruelty, environmental destruction, racism, sex-
ism, homophobia, etc. would seem to have nothing to do
with christ. christ is wonderful, loving, compassionate
and honest. today's right wing evangelical christians
seem to be insecure, hate-filled creatures and although i
should probably pity them, right now i'm angry.

we sit back and watch as the christian right tries to legislate
their petty morality at the city, state, and federal level. they
successfully ousted the best chairman the new york city
school system ever had because he encouraged condom
distribution and an open-minded curriculum. here's a ques-
tion - how are teen pregnancy, hiv/aids, and a redundant,
ineffectual curriculum christian? instead of spreading hate,
ignorance and a narrow-minded social agenda why doesn't
the christian right go out and spread mercy, compassion
and selflessness?

two thousand years ago christ called the religious & politi-
cal leaders of his day 'whitewashed tombs, clean on the
outside but inside full of evil.' god sent prophets, the reli-
gious & political leaders killed and tortured them. god sent
christ, the religious & politicai leaders killed and tortured
him. the religious and political leaders of 2,000 years ago
were 'whitewashed tombs, full of evil.' and the religious
and political leaders of today seem to be just as bad.