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Seattle Suicide Watch
by Saab Lofton

"I'm distributed by studios that are owned by large corporate entities. Now, why would they put me out there when I am opposed to everything that they stand for ... it's because they don't believe in anything. They put me on there because they know that there's millions of people that want to see my film or watch the TV show, and so they're gonna make money. And I've been able to get my stuff out there because I'm driving my truck through this incredible flaw in capitalism, the greed flaw. The thing that says that the rich man will sell you the rope to hang himself with if he thinks he make a buck off it."
--Michael Moore, The Corporation (2003)

Dan SavageA Tale of Two Savages
by Saab Lofton

"The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
--Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)

"No romance without finance ... your silky words are sweet, but your pockets sure look empty."
--from the song Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent by Gwen Guthrie

Support Your Protesters!
by Saab Lofton

"Although publicly I continued to ignore the raging anti-war controversy … I knew, however, that after all the protests and the Moratorium [the nationwide protests of October 1969] American public opinion would be seriously divided by any military escalation of the war."
--The Nixon Memoirs

So Near Yet So Far
by Saab Lofton

Skip: Man, I can't believe this. They was gonna burn all this shit. All this shit, and a nigger can't even find a job.

Kirby: Well, that's Uncle Sam for you, baby. Money to burn.

--from the movie, Dead Presidents

It's a pain that never ends -- to be capable of so much but allowed to do so little ...

Who Needs Martial Law?
by Saab Lofton

"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip."
--George Orwell

Declaring martial law in America would be redundant because there's already more than enough in place to curb dissent. For instance, whenever I explain how we the people need to tax the rich and cut the military budget so that revenue can be freed up for job creation (a Greenpeace version of FDR's New Deal is long overdue), I hear the following imbecilic excuses ...

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4.Consumer Blues
5.Cheney: I-R-A-Q-A-O-K
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7.Sim Treason
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President Bush singing at the Gridiron Club's Annual Spring Dinner on March 8, 2008. Many Republicans in the audience raised cigarette lighters after the performance.

Lyrics:
Yes you're all gonna miss me, The way you used to quiz me, But soon I'll touch the brown, brown grass of home.

I spent my days clearing brush
I clear my head of all the fuss
But the fuss you made over harriet and brownie

The Dalai LamaTibetans Expect Little Help From World
AP[Sunday, March 23, 2008 01:06]

(AP) DHARMSALA, India - Nearly six decades of struggle against the might of China has taught the Tibetans one thing: Ask the world for little, expect less.

As Tibetans rose up in recent weeks against China’s harsh rule over the Himalayan region and China sent forces to quell the protests, Tibet’s government-in exile-sent its envoys to far-flung capitals with appeals for help.

With the Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq, protests against the continual occupation sprung up all over the United States. In a somewhat dramatic example, the protest in San Francisco California had conflicts with the police and 140 people were arrested.The UpTake's Schlomo Rabinowitz was there to capture it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG8lra8XSWE

Iraq War Protesters Take to the Streets
By Michael Ruane, Sue Anne Pressley Montes and Petula Dvorak
The Washington Post

Wednesday 19 March 2008

Hundreds of antiwar demonstrators this morning tried to stop workers from entering federal government buildings, sat down in busy streets to block traffic, and staged a "March of the Dead" parade from Arlington National Cemetery into the District to protest five years of fighting in Iraq.