TRUFFULAUT #14
http://home.earthlink.net/~truffulaut/id25.html
14 May 2004
As always, share freely and feel free to contact me:
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Current events are not all that deserve further research,
but they seem to be accumulating at a rapid rate. If you are not already registered to vote, do so
immediately. No one knows when
Truffulaut #15 will be ready, but it is already started. Many items on the back burner are stirred
only occasionally because of more time-sensitive events. I am still trying to focus on source
material and any other items which would be forwarded if not for this attempt
to gather them all in one place.
QUESTIONS?
UK MAGAZINE COVER
WASHINGTON PRESS CORPS
Their focus on trivia
is an addiction a raging, millionaires mental illness. Their opinion leaders are multimillionaires,
and they do behave like a perfumed court like Marie Antoinettes inner
circle. As theyve long shown, they are
impervious to serious thought, as their class has always been. And they continue to clown at a dangerous
time, at a time that imperils the world.
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh042904.shtml
I WILL NOT SHUT UP
Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma freelance writer and a
former US Army Public Information Officer.
She is a proud member of the Order of Saint Barbara -- the Field
Artillery's Patron Saint. She will
accept praise and atta-boys at:
rsamples@sirinet.net
Complaints and death threats should be directed to her
cousin, Junior Samples, at:
BR-549
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6097.htm
UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
This handy site gives the current time on the East Coast of
the United States, as well as in Afghanistan, Qatar, and Iraq.
http://www.centcom.mil/
ARTICLE 15-6 INVESTIGATION
OF THE 800th MILITARY POLICE BRIGADE (THE TAGUBA REPORT)
In addition, four Soldiers from the 320th MP Battalion
had been formally charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
with detainee abuse in May 2003 at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF) at
Camp Bucca, Iraq.
http://www.npr.org/iraq/2004/prison_abuse_report.pdf
ANSWERS!
CODE PINK
Those of us who were watching Donald Rumsfeld, existential poet (1) and
Secretary of Defense (b), testify to the Senate may have witnessed a disruption
of shouting protestors (available for a limited time http://c-span.org/). The disruption was organized by Code
Pink. CODEPINK is a women initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that
seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protest and
non-violent direct action.
http://www.codepinkalert.org/
(1) http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1761585
(b) http://www.defenselink.mil/osd/topleaders.html
VETERANS FOR PEACE
The organization includes men and
women veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, other conflicts
and peacetime veterans. Our collective
experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt
are often the innocent. Thus, other means
of problem solving are necessary.
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
ACLU LISTS LIES ABT PATRIOT ACT
The
administration is making a series of deliberate misstatements to deceive the
American public.
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=15525&c=206
LETTER TO BLAIR
The letter from 52 former ambassadors and heads of
mission who held the most senior postings in the Foreign Office, lambasted Mr
Blair for abandoning his principles over the road-map to peace in the Middle
East and criticised the United States-led coalition in Iraq for failing to plan
for the post-Saddam era.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=515706
The letter itself:
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=515676
AND HUMOR J
THE WAR PRAYER
More properly labeled satire, it
was dictated by Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] in 1904 in advance of his death
in 1910, and published after his death.
http://lexrex.com/informed/otherdocuments/warprayer.htm
THE WAR OF THE WORDS
Terry Gilliam is a writer, film director, actor,
and Python.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1206691,00.html
http://www.terry-jones.net/
http://www.pythonline.com/
WIDDLE BABY PWESIDENT
Isnt he adorable playing dress-up?
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0418/sutton.php
PAX
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