The film Bomb It will be shown during the upcoming OFS Film Festival on Wednesday, November 7th @ 10pm. Here's a clip involving an interview of Lady Pink.

According to Rep. Baird, after "working very hard" to find Iraqis who support the surge, he was successful in finding 13 people. Two were MPs. 11 were Sheiks from a specific area of Iraq. But the Representative wasn't able to find support amongst ordinary, common Iraqis for either the surge or the occupation.

Beyond Hiroshima is pleased to announce that Joseph Gerson, activist and author of Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World will be visiting Olympia on October 30th. See the attached postcard for additional information.

You have two chances to meet this incredible activist and writer and hear him speak on October 30th:

“Nuclear Weapons and U.S. Middle East Hegemony”

“Empire in Decline: The Rise, Coming Fall and Alternatives to U.S. Empire”

Traditions Café & World Folk Art
7:00 pm

For more information on Joseph Gerson, visit www.afsc.org/newengland/joseph-gerson-bio

For a review of Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World, visit
www.jamesclayfuller.com/2007/09/terrifying-book-but-read-it-anyway

For more information on Beyond Hiroshima, visit www.beyondhiroshima.org

At first glance I could swear this was what Sarah's title read. So I thought I would indulge the blog

Here are the National Weather Service watches, warnings, and advisories for Western Washington - including a high wind watch for our own area.

This might be a good time to batten down the hatches.

It's As Ridiculous As If They'd Given Goebbels One in 1938

Al Gore's Peace Prize

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Put this one up on the shelf of shame, right next to Henry Kissinger's, or the peace prize they gave to Kofi Annan and the entire UN in 2001, sandwiched between the UN's okay for the bombing of Serbia, the killing of untold numbers of Iraqis, many of them babies and children in the years of sanctions, and its greenlight for the bombing of Baghdad in 2003. In 1998 the Nobel crowd gave the prize to Medecins Sans Frontieres, whose co-founder Bernard Kouchner is now France's foreign secretary urging the bombing of Iran. Like Gore, Kouchner was a rabid advocate of the dismemberment of the former Yugoslavia and onslaughts on Serbia.

The UN often has an inside track on the "Peace" prize. The UN Peace-Keeping Forces got it in 1988. In 1986 another enthusiast for attacking Iraq and Iran, Elie Wiesel, carried off the trophy. Aside from Kissinger, probably the biggest killer of all to have got the peace prize was Norman Borlaug, whose "green revolution" wheat strains led to the death of peasants by the million.

When Gore goes to get the prize he shares with the pr hucksters and falsifiers at the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Gore should be forced to march through a gauntlet of widows and orphans, Serbs, Iraqis, Palestinians, Colombians, and other victims of the Clinton era.

Back in Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign Gore was told to earn his keep with constant pummeling of George Bush Sr for having been soft on Saddam. Gore duly criss-crossed the country yoking Saddam and Bush in fervid denunciation, his press aides passing out speeches flatteringly footnoted with references to the work of the journalists covering his campaign. Gore charged that Bush had given Saddam "one of those milquetoast routines George Bush is so famous for". "The cover-up of Bush's arming of Saddam was", Gore shouted, "bigger than Watergate ever was." Right before the 2000 election Gore called for expansion of the no-fly zones in Iraq and said that any Iraqi plane venturing into such zones should be shot down.

Read the rest here.

Here in Thurston County we have Safeplace, an advocacy agency and confidential shelter for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

24 hour crisis line: 360-754-6300, TTY 360-943-6703

Another fun geeky one:

R2-D2 75% Luke Skywalker 72% Obi-Wan Kenobi 71% Han Solo 69% Chewbacca 66% Qui-Gon Jinn 64% Yoda 64% Boba Fett 63% Mace Windu 62% Lando Calrissian 61%

What you lack in height and communication skills, you make up for in industriousness, technical know-how and being there when others need you most.

Find out here!

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