The Revolution Is Not Being Televised.
"On Your Feet. Or On Your Knees."

Wednesday, October 26th 2005

Because the REALITY of it all is even scarier than those fictitious spooks.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!!

2001 US Military Deaths in Iraq since March 19, 2003
15,220 Wounded
est. 100,000+ Iraq Civilian Deaths
26,732 Iraq Deaths confirmed
as of October 26th 2005
See All The Stats (updated daily)

~ Rayvn

Friday, November 18th 2005

Okay, so how many lives have been changed Forever
since Bush & Co. took office in 2001 ?
In short, Everyone on the planet has been a witness to this.
The number of lives Lost, Maimed & Wounded:

*172,743++... (and counting '07)

September 11, 2001	World Trade Center	Towers	2,595
		Flight 11	92
		Flight 175	65
September 11, 2001	Pentagon	Building	125
		Flight 77	64
September 11, 2001	Shanksville, Penn.	Flight 93	45
as of 2.23.06		* TOTAL	2,986

CNN Report

October 7, 2001 Afghanistan as of 11.17.05		Operation Enduring Freedom		Fatalities	311
Americans	251	Australian	1	Briton	5
Canadians	7	Danes	3	French	3
German	18	Italian	2	Norwegian	1
Romanian	3	Spaniards	17	Wounded	2,986
				* TOTAL	957

CNN Report & John Hopkins Study (indep. adjusted since)
Includes suicides, amputees, wounded, injured, mentally ill

March 19, 2003 Iraq as of 11.17.05		Various Enduring Operations		Fatalities	2,279
Americans	251	Australian	1	Briton	97
Bulgarian	13	Danes	2	Dutch	2
Estonian	2	Hungarian	1	Italian	26
Kazakh	1	Latvian	1	Poles	17
Salvadoran	1	Slovaks	3	Spaniards	11
Thai	2	Ukrainians	18	Wounded	48,100
				Casualties	117,000
				* TOTAL	167,379

Source: Wikipedia
Response time absentia cause & effect Bush, Chertoff, Brown & Co.

August 25, 2005 as of 11.12.05	Hurricane Katrina	Fatalities	1,302+
		Evacuees	300,000
September 24, 2005 as of 10.3.05	Hurricane Rita	Fatalities	119
		Evacuees	200,000
* TOTAL FATALITIES			1,421

Katrina's Toxic Legacy

*172,743++... (and counting '07)
2001 - 2005
The number of lives Lost, Maimed & Wounded.
Take that number and multiply it by at least 4.
That Number Represents Their Most Immediate Family Members
That Are Mourning / Dealing with it.
Which doesn't even include the many displaced from the hurricanes,
or the 5,241 Military Desertions.

' LIES AND DISTORTIONS '

What is in a Name ? Would a Lie, by any other name, stink as much ?

Lie: 2. (1) a falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception;
an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.
(2) a fiction; a fable; an untruth.
(3) anything which misleads or disappoints.
(3) to utter falsehood with an intentional to deceive;
to say or do that which is intended to deceive another,
when the right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
~ Webster's Dictionary

Call it what you want ; fib, exaggeration, not the whole truth, cover-up,
Pinocchio Syndrome, pathological lie, spin, little white-lie, mislead,
sweep it under the rug, withhold information, overlook, perjure, untruth,
stretch, misguide, flim flam, fairy tale, yarn, delude, distort, malarkey,
baloney, bullshit, con, buncha' bull, cock-and-bull story, misinform, falsehood,
bunch of hooey, twisted, fugazi, obfuscation, deceive, snow job, Whopper.

12.20.2005 Update: Thank you to my readers who pointed out I missed some more:
Farce, bait & switch, carpet bagged, bamboozled, hoodwinked.

"It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency."
~ George W. Bush, June 14, 2001
--speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson,
unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
~ George W. Bush, June 18, 2002

"Some ask how urgent this danger is to America and the world. The danger is already significant, and it only grows worse with time. If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today --and we do-- does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him
as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons ? "
~ George W. Bush in a speech to outline his case against Saddam Hussein 10-07-02

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production."
~ George W. Bush, State of the Union Address 01-28-03

"C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorists and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the U.N. route..
There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

At the same meeting, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw confirmed
Sir Richard's assessment:

The Foreign Secretary said he would discuss this with Colin Powell this week. It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."
~ Excerpts from the Downing Street Meeting Minutes, July 23, 2002 ; attendees Blair & Co.

"Iraq had no WMD after 1994" Iraq weapons program was dormant
~ United Nations Inspector Report March 2004

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and
over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
~ George W. Bush, Greece, NY  May 24, 2005 (audio)

"After more than 18 months, the WMD investigation and debriefing of the
WMD-related detainees has been exhausted" The hunt has "gone as far as feasible"
and has found nothing.
~ Charles Duelfer, Head of the Iraq Survey Group in a report released Fall 2004

In 2001, both Condi Rice & Colin Powell said there were NO WMD in Iraq.
Watch the Video HERE

"He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999. 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."
~ Mickey Herskowitz, Former Ghost Writer for G.W. Bush's autobiography

"Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere.
Nope, no weapons over there. Maybe under here."
~ George W. Bush Can't find those WMD's
watch the video HERE
(What is so funny about that ? ! !)

"I think the American people -- I hope the American -- I don't think, let me --
I hope the American people trust me."
~ George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. 12-18-02

So, what's the response from the Chicken hawk, War Mongers ?

A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests
that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of
George W. Bush as well as the GOP and
"restore his image as a leader of the American people."

Well, those terrorists are just waiting for an invitation from you Bill O'Reilly ~
"...every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco.."
(...Hello, Daddy ? It's Me. Why does rabid, crazy Bill O'Reilly want Me to die ?)

"Coit Tower's a monument to San Francisco's firefighters.
They put out the fires in San Francisco after the great quake.
American heroes -- they were there on Sept. 11 and now
you want Al Qaeda to blow up Coit Tower ? Give us a Break.
You are out of line.
Coit Tower is a monument to the bravery of the men and women
of the San Francisco Fire Department"
~ John Hanley, President San Francisco Firefighter's Union Local 798

Thank you Mr. Bush. On top of it all -- instead of honoring ALL Veterans --
You, and/ or Your Handlers, thought that was Your platform to forcefully attack
the millions of people that do not agree with You & Yours.

"When I made the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power,
Congress approved it with strong bipartisan support.
While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war,
it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began."
~ George W. Bush, Tobyhanna Army Depot, Nov. 11, 2005

With so many changing stories, Mr. Bush,
I really don't believe you even know how this war began.
(Note in his quip above -"that" war Mr. Bush, THIS War is still going on !)

"He told me that as a leader, you can never admit to a mistake,
that was one of the keys to being a leader."
~ Mickey Herskowitz, Former ghostwriter for George W. Bush's autobiography.

"Our country is at war, and our government has the obligation to protect
the American people. Any activity we conduct is within the law. We do not torture."
~ George W. Bush, November 7, 2005

'Whiskey Pete' used on
Fallujah Assault Nov. 2004
This video was aired on Italian TV 11.8.05. The first 1-2 minutes starts with information on the Napalm used in Vietnam.
This video is about the use of White Phosphorus on the city of Fallujah, Iraq.

Warning: Video contains graphic images.

Nov / Dec. 2004 U.S. Dept. of Defense issued a denial of the chemical weapons charge:
"The United States categorically denies the use of chemical weapons at anytime in Iraq,
which includes the ongoing Fallujah operation. Furthermore, the United States does not
under any circumstances support or condone the development, production, acquisition,
transfer or use of chemical weapons by any country. All chemical weapons currently
possessed by the United States have been declared to the Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and are being destroyed in the United States
in accordance with our obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention."

Nov. 16, 2005 - Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that U.S. troops used white phosphorus as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November. But they denied an Italian television news report that the spontaneously flammable material was used against civilians.

"It was not used against civilians." ~ Lt. Col. Barry Venable, Pentagon spokesman.

But now new information has surfaced, including hideous photographs and video and
interviews with American soldiers who took part in the Fallujah attack, which provides
graphic proof that phosphorus shells were widely deployed in the city as a weapon.

"Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone..
I saw the burned bodies of women and children.
Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud.
Anyone within a radius of 150 metres is done for."

"A rain of fire fell on the city, the people struck by this multi-coloured substance started
to burn, we found people with strange wounds, the bodies burned but the clothes intact."
~ Mohamad Tareq, Biologist - interviewed for the film, Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre

"I gathered accounts of the use of phosphorus and napalm
from a few Fallujah refugees whom I met before being kidnapped.
I wanted to get the story out, but my kidnappers would not permit it."
~ Giuliana Sgrena, Manifesto Reporter  to RAI 24 news Italy
(You'll need to translate through babelfish for this one.)

Italian Journalist Wounded In Hostage Drama Recalls Her Ordeal
The freed Italian hostage wounded by American troops at a checkpoint in Baghdad
shortly after her release said in an article Sunday that her Iraqi captors had warned her
U.S. forces "might intervene." USA Today 3.15.05

Of course Georgie Boy gets by with a little help from his friends..

"Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president,
I've severed all my ties with the company,
gotten rid of all my financial interest.
I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had,
now, for over three years."
~ Dick Cheney, Meet the Press in 2003.

Cheney continues to hold 433,333 Halliburton stock options and continues to receive a deferred salary from the company. According to financial disclosures forms, he was paid $205,298 in 2001; $162,392 in 2002; $178,437 in 2003; and $194,852 in 2004.

Dick Cheney appeals to senators to allow CIA exemptions
to a proposed ban on torture. The administration needed an exemption
from any legislation banning "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment
in case the president decided one was necessary to prevent a terrorist attack.
~ November 5, 2005

"Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counter proliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA."
~ Patrick Fitzgerald, Special Counsel, Oct. 28, 2004
CIA Leak Investigation Indictment # 1

Bush's 2003 uranium claim fueled criticism from Plame's husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson, that the administration twisted intelligence to bolster its case for war.

Wilson based his criticism in part on a CIA-sponsored mission he made to Africa in 2002
to check out reports that Iraq sought uranium from Niger.
Wilson said the report was unsubstantiated, and later accused the White House
of leaking his wife's identity in retaliation. It has been determined that
the Iraq-Niger documents are forgeries.

Okay.... right now the attack on Wilson from his detractors is --
....he often introduced his wife at parties as, "My wife, the CIA operative."
HAAAAhhhaaa. Are you kidding ? Is that the best they've got ?
That doesn't even make any sense.
Yeah, sure....that's how she was outed...wink, wink.

"The President and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory,
or their backbone -- but we're not going to sit by and let them rewrite history,"
~ Dick Cheney, Nov. 16, 2005  - Cheney says war critics 'dishonest, reprehensible'

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 Trillion in transactions."
~ Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 10, 2001 in a press conference to disclose that
over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for.

The chief Pentagon agency in charge of investigating and reporting fraud and waste
in Defense Department spending in Iraq quietly pulled out of the war zone
a year ago(2004) -- leaving what experts say are gaps in the oversight of how
more than $140 billion is being spent.

The Comptroller of the Pentagon is Dov Zakheim, who was appointed in May of 2001.
Before becoming the Pentagon's money-manager,
he was an executive at System Planning Corporation,
a defense contractor specializing in electronic warfare technologies including
remote-controlled aircraft systems.

"It's essentially a matter of physics,
not a matter of money. It's a matter of production and the capability of doing it.
As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want.
You can have all the armor in the world on a tank, and it can [still] be blown up."


~ Donald Rumsfeld, Dec. 8, 2004 -
speaking to Iraq-bound soldiers at Camp Buehring, Kuwait

In April '04, the Pentagon said it was spending $400 million to replace the Army's
thin-skinned Humvees in Iraq with the so-called "uparmored" reinforced versions.

Oct 23, 2005 - Hundreds of new, top-of-the-line armored Humvees are parked in Texas
and Kuwait and won't be shipped to troops in Iraq even though those soldiers face daily
roadside bombs, the Army acknowledged.

What goes through the mind of a man that Poisons his own people ?

The evidence shows that, Rumsfeld as the CEO of G. D. Searle, Co.,
"called in his markers" to achieve U.S. FDA approval for the
artificial sweetener Aspartame, known by its trade name "NutraSweet."
Hear James Turner, Atty, explain how Don Rumsfeld called in his markers to get
Aspartame, a deadly chemical poison approved when the FDA said no.

Within weeks of Aspartame's approval for use in beverages,
cans of diet sodas and other sweet drinks were on the market.
To help sell Americans on using the artificial sweetener, intense advertising campaigns
began programming the public to believe that sugar has lots of calories;
calories make us fat and NutraSweet has no calories -therefore it won't make us fat.

In the market since 1981, this almost universally-accepted oversimplification of
biochemical reality, Aspartame has enjoyed 22 years of marketplace success
and is now found in diet and regular beverages, most chewing gums,
coffee sweeteners, jams and jellies, yogurt, children's vitamins, Listermint Strips
and in an estimated 7,000 different products consumed by 70% of the population
and 40%of children in at least 100 countries.
This includes over the counter and prescription drugs.

When Searle was absorbed by Monsanto in 1985,
Rumsfeld reportedly received a $12 million bonus.

Read more of the History of Aspartame HERE
More Aspartame info HERE

And Now.. Dr. Donald Death & Co. want to help us with the Bird Flu --

The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe,
but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other
politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company
that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought
after drug in the world.

Rumsfeld served as Gilead's chairman from 1997 until he joined the
Bush administration in 2001,and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at
between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures
filed by Rumsfeld.

U.S. FDA regulators are studying the deaths of 12 children in Japan who took Tamiflu,
and said it was "concerning" that 32 psychiatric events, such as hallucinations
and abnormal behavior, also had been reported in children who took Tamiflu.
Tamiflu is in high demand because it is considered to be one of the best
defenses against avian flu in people.
It is difficult to tell whether the drug played a role in any of these cases.

"The truth is useless. You have to understand this right now.
You can't deposit the truth in a bank. You can't buy groceries with the truth.
You can't pay rent with the truth. The truth is a useless commodity that will
hang around your neck like an albatross --all the way to the homeless shelter.
And if you think that the million or so people in this country that are really
interested in the truth about their government can support people who would
tell them the truth, you got another think coming. Because the million or so people
in this country that are truly interested in the truth don't have any money.
The rest will follow those of us who do have money."
~ Jeb Bush, 1986, interview with Al Martin in the office of Jeb's
Miami real estate business.

(We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique points of view.
One day Y'All WILL eat those words of yours.
I'd pay a dollar to watch !)

"Irresponsible, Reprehensible, Dishonest, Re-writing History"
These are the newest labels that are being placed onto anyone that opposes & questions
The Administration's actions in dealing with Domestic & Foreign Policies.
One can only wonder, in which direction will "the language" go from here ?
The History is being recorded and catalogued.

...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, --
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,
as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established
should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shewn,
that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty,
to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security...
~ Declaration of Independence

So what do Libby, Zakheim & Rumsfeld have in common ?
'Til next time...

The Battle For America Has Begun

It's Duck Season.

Question Everything.
~ Rayvn

In spite of all kinds of crap, There is Much to Be Thankful For.
Happy Thanksgiving

P. s. For Anyone that works with these machines --

Solvent Printers and Solvent Inks.

If you are exposed to these vapors on a consistent / daily basis,
if you work around this large-scale solvent printer(60"),
this is what you're being exposed to:

Warning: Although many solvent inks are marketed under names such as
Eco, Safety, Healthy, Environmentally-friendly, etc. and are sold as
"healthier" inks, they all contain some types of solvents.
http://www.seiko-i.com/america/products/ColorPainter64S/ink.html

6.25.06 UPDATE: Seiko has discontinued Manufacturing the Color Painter 64S
The solvent inks are still available for printers that are still being used.
http://www.seiko-i.com/america/products/discon/64S.html

Brochure (pdf.) http://www.seiko-i.com/brochure/CP64SEU.pdf

MSDS - SII Color Painter 64S Ink -
http://www.anitech.com.au/resources.php?command=viewcategory&categoryserial=17

http://www.anitech.com.au/public/64s_ink_msds.zip

According to the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) the solvent inks contain:
2-Butoxyethanol acetate (CAS 112-07-2)
N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (CAS 872-50-4) -this is listed on CA's Prop65 list

Solvent Inks contain VOCs, Volatile Organic Compounds.
I tend to believe at this point the word organic is a misnomer.
The word 'Volatile' is enough for me.
Warnings of breathing vapors from spray paint cans are pretty clear. Huffing will kill you.
Some states have even prohibited products containing VOCs from being sold.
Note the "voc compliant" on those cans.
Printers using solvent inks, from what I understand, are under no specific regulations
at this time.

Niosh Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards --
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgsyn-a.html

Contact OSHA if you need help.

Question Everything.
~ Rayvn

Disclaimer: My Own Blog, My Own Musings.