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Marek
Edelman's stunning account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Richard Feynmann on Cargo Cult Science:
"... a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought
that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty--a kind of leaning
over backwards...to show how you're maybe wrong, that you
ought to have when acting as a scientist ..."
Miller Lab journal access and
meeting info
The Hunger Site: If you
have time to surf the web, you have time to click on the Hunger Site to
make a free food donation to fight hunger.
If you are as disgusted with the Bush administration as I am,
here are two excellent ways of getting involved that require almost no
time:
- Sign up for the
mailing list of
Moveon.org . This is the most
important internet political organization around, demonstrating how
networking millions of people can have powerful effects whether in
sending letters, mobilizing phone calls, or raising donations.
At most a few emails a week, allowing you to take action with
minimal effort.
- Sign up for the
mailing list of
Truemajority.org. Set up by Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's, they send
occasional email alerts that let you send faxes or emails to your
congresspeople on burning issues with a click of a mouse.
Just a gentle reminder that the problems we face in the age of
Bush are as old as the hills. The struggle for what is good and decent in
the face of these forces is a never-ending one, perhaps nothing less
than the human condition:
- "To think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one
was a coward; any idea of moderation was just another attempt to
disguise one's unmanly character; ability to understand the question
from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action;
fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man... Anyone who held
violent opinions could always be trusted, and anyone who objected to
them became a suspect."
-- Thucydides, the Father of History, writing about the Greek Civil
Wars of 427 B.C. (full
source)
- "Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in
England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is
understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who
determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the
people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a
Parliament or a Communist dictatorship ... the people can always be
brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to
do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for
lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the
same way in any country."
-- Herman Goering, Nazi leader, while being held in Nuremberg jail
during the war crimes trials. (full source)
- "`[Bush] was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999,' said author
and journalist Mickey Herskowitz [KM: Herskowitz was working in 1999
as ghost-writer of Bush's autobiography and had around 20 meetings
with him; he was later replaced]. `It was on his mind. He said to me:
'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a
commander-in-chief.' And he said, 'My father had all this political
capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted
it.' He said, 'If I have a chance to invade....if I had that much
capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed
that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful
presidency.''
...
"Bush and his advisers were sold on the idea that it was difficult for
a president to accomplish an electoral agenda without the record-high
approval numbers that accompany successful if modest wars."
(Source)
"First, we simply do not defeat an incumbent president in
wartime. After wars surely, but never in their midst. Republicans have
been spinning this fact for months, and they are correct."
-- Mark Mellman, Kerry pollster, in an analysis written
two days before the Nov. 2004 election that accurately predicted
Bush's vote to 0.1%.
(KM adds: and of course it's not just the war in Iraq. The key part
of the strategy is to preside over the eternal and never-ending "War
on Terror".)
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