Internet cut in Myanmar, blogger presses on - from CNN

Internet cut in Myanmar, blogger presses on - CNN.com
From the story: According to The Associated Press, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday he believes the loss of life in Myanmar has been “far greater” than is being reported.
A Burgundy Revolution? - Time
While the official government-released death toll is 9, witness claim as many as [...]

Protests in Burma

Here is a little tid bit from democracy now about whats going on in Burma
Burmese Troops Shoot at Protesters
The military junta in Burma is intensifying its two-day crackdown on the most vocal popular uprising against its rule in nearly two decades. Up to eight people have been killed over the last two days. There are [...]

Cynicism and Hope conference flyer

Download one for yourself, print it off and put it in a local coffee shop, and email it to all your friends!
Cynicism and Hope conference flyer

I-69 planners on ‘High Alert’

story from Evansville Courier-Press
I-69 is essentially the NAFTA highway.
NAFTA superhighway built under the radar screen - from WorldNetDaily
NAFTA superhighways threaten North America - from Asphalt Strawberry
If completed, it would stretch from Canada to Mexico and would be a part of the corporate strategic machine for enabling the more efficient flow of goods, workers (legal and [...]

Free The Jena 6. UPDATE!!!!

Great News.  Mychael Bell who was supposed to be sentence on the 20th has had the adult charges dropped.  Now he is awaiting a juvinel trial.  Thank the Lord almighty.  Here is a link to the recent update.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070914/…s/school_fight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jena_Six
Above is a link to a wikipedia article about the Jena 6.  There is tons of information about [...]

Super Bomb!

So I just watched a little AP news cast on the new Super Bomb. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/68556170-60ff-11dc-bf25-0000779fd2ac.html
What I found interesting about the video I watched was a few things.
1. This bomb is better for the environment. Keeping up with the line of eco-friendly products coming out this fall Russia has made their bomb as powerful [...]

The obligatory 9/11 post

I wasn’t going to do this, I was just going to let the post about Stirling Bridge stand as my statement about 9/11, but I just wrote this for my Livejournal and thought it was worth sharing here.
“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, [...]

This day in history, September 11

810 years ago, in 1297, the Scots under William Wallace and Andrew de Moray defeated the English under Edward I in one of the major battles of the First War for Scottish Independence. The Scottish army was vastly outnumbered, but after a number of the English had crossed the bridge they attacked and forcibly divided [...]

Madeline L’Engle dies at 88

A Wrinkle in Time will always be one of my favorite books, as well as Walking on Water.
New York Times obituary

Cynicism and Hope conference

I have just been asked to conduct a workshop at at the Cynicism and Hope conference in Evanston, Illinois in November.
The info:
“Cynicism and Hope: Reclaiming Discipleship in a Post-Democratic Society”
November 2-3
Reba Place Church (directions)
Cost is $30, though a reduced rate of $20 is available for those with need. They are also looking for people who [...]

Iran war began in 2005?

This article by Scott Ritter, hosted at Commondreams.org (originally published by Al-Jazeera) argues it did.
Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March [...]

Bakunin on freedom

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men [sic], far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. — Mikhail Bakunin
Anarchy is freedom… order without control.

Iran and Nuclear Energy

Given the connections we hear on the official news and in the government’s pronunciations literally every day, probably multiple times per day, between Iran and terrorism, one cannot help but get the strong impression that the only (or at least primary) motives Iran would have for wanting nuclear power would be military. We have been [...]

Pentagon draws up plans for air strikes against Iran

I wish I was surprised by this. From Democracy Now.

Report: U.S. Military Planning Massive Air Strikes Against Iran
The Sunday Times in London is reporting the Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive air strikes against twelve hundred targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days. Alexis Debat of the Nixon [...]