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Cul was still actively posting just last Sunday. He made no mention of any major problems in weeks worth of blogging, by my count. Suddenly, his domain expires on Monday. No explanation, no warning. His site's email address is gone, too. Does anyone know what happened, or how to get in touch with Cul?

http://www.deeperwants.com/cul1/homeworlds/journal/

I will pay his domain name fee, and the fee to his web-host , if we can find it. Anybody know it, or how to find it? Write me here or at my blog.

http://blog-me-no-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/04/wheres-cul.html

P! has, for several years provided radical and progressive commentary and news in the name of truth, peace, and non-violent revolution.

At present, the founder and editor of P!, ddjango, is going through some very rough times and needs your help to ensure that P! stays alive. To that end, P! is conducting a fundraiser to help ddjango out.

Donations as little as five dollars go a long way. Sine.Qua.Non, a co-editor at P! has issued a matching funds challenge, so your donations produce even more value.

If you can spare any amount, please visit P! and donate what you can. Also, let your friends and network know about this by posting or emailing them.

Thank you and, as always . . .
Be at peace.

US Homeland Security demand for DNS master key alarms world

Slashdot and Cryptome report that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is demanding the master key for the DNS root zone - a demand that has other nations alarmed.

From the Far-Left Bloggers Union:

It’s clear that the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the racism that surrounds it, are key issues at the moment. The majority of people in most countries, including Australia, the United States and Britain oppose the war in Iraq. The FLBU is calling on all bloggers to express this opposition by posting a picture of you holding a placard/sign expressing your opposition on your blog. Email me your link and I’ll add it to a list at the bottom of this post. Include the details of your local anti-war or anti-racism rally and encourage others to take a stand against the war.

I'm on the verge of having this story published that is set in the context of a teacher discussing with his students what an inarguable nightmare Bush and his enabling Republicans are. Most of the students are portrayed by people of notoriety so it has a lot of humor despite how infuriating it is. I'm sending it out to like-minded people to help get the buzz going. Hopefully the following samples of praise I've received for it, along with an excerpt, will intrigue you enough to put this on the top of your to-do list. If you're averse to opening attachments from strangers you can access it from my yahoo group UndoBush where the preface and corresponding political cartoon are: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UndoBush/ http://www.geocities.com/hail111mary/The_Switch.doc

"I was blown away by how brilliant it is." --Dell Long, B.B. King's former PR manager

not everything blair has done has been bad, this protest has too many aspects to it; we should be protesting against only the ones that really matter, such as iraq

To sign the statement below, already signed by over 9,000 individuals and over 100 organizations, go to http://www.porcuba.org/index.php?lang=2

"As a result of the communication of Fidel Castro on his state of health and the provisional delegation of his responsibilities, high ranking U.S officials have formulated more explicit statements about the immediate future of Cuba. The Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez said that 'the moment has arrived for a true transition towards a true democracy' and the White House spokesman Tony Snow said that his government is 'ready and eager to provide humanitarian, economic and other aid to the people of Cuba', as was recently reiterated by President Bush.

"Already the 'Commission for Assistance to a free Cuba', presided over by the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, pointed out in a report issued in June 'the urgency of working today to ensure that the Castro regime's succession strategy does not succeed' and President Bush indicated that this document 'demonstrates that we are actively working for change in Cuba, not simply waiting for change'. The Department of State has emphasized that the plan includes measures that will remain secret 'for reasons of national security' and to assure its 'effective implementation'.

ACT NOW and sign the petition
WWW.FIRSTFREEDOMFIRST.ORG

The founders of our nation believed that all Americans should have
the right to worship according to their own beliefs, or not to
worship at all. So strong was their commitment to religious freedom
that they enshrined it in the first sentence of the Bill of Rights.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

This constitutional guarantee is often known as the "first freedom."

Religion is a deeply personal matter. Americans must be free to
practice their religion without coercion. Government exists to
provide for the general well-being of all people, and its workings
must be independent of specific religious doctrines. Simply put,

Below is a statement/petition on the current situation in Palestine being circulated by Britain's Palestine Solidarity Campaign. It is currently being forwarded to British public figures, organizations, trade unions and others who are asked to sign it. The British Palestine Solidarity Campaign has asked sympathizers in other countries to undertake similar initiatives in their own countries. The British initiative has already received considerable support. Here is the text of the British statement:

Emergency in Palestine

The Israeli government's behavior at present is to be comdemned. The failure of our government to speak out against Israel's oppression of the Palestinian population is complicit with those actions of the European Union, the United States and Israel. It is in effect a coordinated attempt to collectively punish the Palestinian people for electing a government of which they disapprove .

Crossposted from the Republic of T.
If you're a regular reader of my blog, or just happened by from another link, I have a favor to ask of you. I need you to make a phone call for me. The number is 202-224-3121, and the phone call actually isn't just for me. It's for my family, and for thousands of families like mine.

You see, the phone number above is for calling your Senator. Tomorrow (Monday) the Senate will start debating the Federal Marriage Amendment. The amendment would effectively make families like mine second class citizens by constitutionally denying even the possibility of accessing right's and protections that you and your family probably take for granted. Here's a brief rundown from an email sent by the Family Pride Coalition.

Jack Straw, the Brits' Foreign Secretary, keeps denying that the USUK imperial coalition has any intention of using military force against Iran. Meanwhile his fuehrer, Bliar, swaggers across the world-stage, this time to New Zealand and Australia, to chivvy-up the Anglo-Saxon alliance and muster more support for his 'Clash of Civilizations' against Islam.

Let's see, now. According to Britain's caped-crusader, what we are in is a 'war against terrorism', a struggle to defend our 'traditional values' and our 'special relationship' of 'shared values' with our mighty cousin, the USA. Perfect Orwellian newspeak that doesn't bear to be examined in any detail.

A letter recently leaked by a very senior civil servant, John Sawer, Political Director of the British Foreign Office, blows the whistle on the Bliar regime's plans for manipulating the UN Security Council nations into paving the way for a war against Iran. The entire, macabre staging of events via the IAEA and the UNSC is, as a Russian diplomat described it in Geneva, déja vu.

The letter Sawer has leaked reveals the intentions of the Foreign Office over the next few weeks to persuade both Russia and China on the need to attack Iran. To achieve this it would be necessary to coordinate a strategy involving the US, France and Germany to obtain UN approval for such an attack.

The recent deluge of expressions of “concern” about Iran by Cheney, Bolton, Blair, Rumsfeld et al should be setting alarm bells ringing throughout the world.

These dangerous and sinister players are back on the warpath and humanity is in danger- first and foremost the people of Iran, who have committed the cardinal sin of standing up for their own rights

But it is no exaggeration to say that the future of every single one of us is at risk. Having gone along with the “diplomatic process” in the hope of persuading Iran to forfeit their rights under international law, Russia is now backpedalling but it is probably too late. As a consequence US/UK has a vetoed Security Council resolution in their grasp and the scent of blood in their nostrils.

Almost two-hundred-and-thirty years ago a group of fifty six American colonials signed a Declaration of Independence in which they declared themselves to be finally free from the corrupt, decadent and manifestly unjust rule of the British Crown. In that most sacred declaration its signatories recognized the essential rights of all men and women to live freely, in the pursuit of their happiness.

An Annual March is Simply not Enough to Stop World War III

It was nauseatingly predictable that Iran should have been referred to the United Nations' Security Council (UNSC) for further punitive action. Despite the IAEA's findings that no evidence existed of a nuclear-weapons programme and the preparedness of the Iranians to enrich most of their uranium in another country such as Russia, the war-hungry US was having none of it.

Last Wednesday, 1 March, the English-language newspaper, THE HINDU, reported the latest findings of the International Atomic Energy Authority that there was no evidence whatsoever "that Teheran had diverted material towards making atomic weapons".

Quite unsurprisingly the BBC's war-propaganda machine kept quiet about this, not wishing to put Iran in a favourable light and thus compromising the inevitable bellicose posturing we can expect from its controller and paymaster, the quisling Bliar.

WHY DO WE FIGHT?

AMERIKA's ADDICTION TO WAR

You come down, one morning, and switch on the tv set.

While preparing the coffee you hear the voice of the newscaster announce the breaking news that next March George Bush is planning to conduct an aerial assault against Iran using both conventional and nuclear weapons.

"Nuclear weapons? Did I hear that right?" you say to yourself, spilling the cofee on the carpet as you rush from the kitchen to the tv lounge.

"It is estimated that the resulting deaths among the population," continues the poker-faced announcer, "will be somewhere between a few hundred to ten thousand or more."

How Do You Act? Help Organize Resistance to The U.S. War on Iran!

For the last year, you have witnessed the U.S. Government and their Corporate Media Partners laying the foundation for an invasion of Iran. 3 years ago, we could not have imagined the destruction and carnage this same government has executed on the people if Iraq but we have watched the horror unfold, haven't we? Incredibly, this same rogue government are now laying plans to attack the people of Iran, based on the same pretext - Weapons of Mass Destruction. What is happening! How can they do this? We have proof-positive that they do whatever they want unless we stop them.

Declaration of the People of the Union of the Earth

Issued by the MUJCA-Planetization Truth Alliance

http://mujca.com

http://www.planetization.org

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for all people to dissolve the political bands which have separated them from, and subjugated them to, one another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the equal and united station to which the Laws of Nature and of God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to Union.