NYPD geek squad wasting taxpayer monies “interdicting” bicyclists..

thirty three people were arrested..UNLAWFULLY..at fridays Critical Mass
over one thousand costumed riders took to the streets in a joyous celebration
of transportation alternatives..anarchist bastards!
at about 1am..NYPD closed down the eastbound lane of houston street
and cleared the block of onlookers..no reason to upset the yuppies
they then tried to ILLEGALLY enter the Times Up! space..
where the Critical Mass Halloween party was taking place
and after being thwarted..began randomly pepper spraying individuals and cutting bikes
off the fences and posts..IN DIRECT CONTEMPT OF A FEDERAL COURT ORDER.

“authority figures” should set a better example..
adherence to the rule of law is the cornerstone of so-called civilized society

IF police break the law………………

“Americong” offers this bit of “advice” (included here for info-tainment purposes ONLY)

HOW TO BOOBY TRAP A U-LOCK

If you want to set up a very unpleasant suprise for cops slicing off bikes, here’s how you do it. Some of the larger U-locks have a very hefty shackle. You replace that with a hollow tube, capped at both ends and filled (via a shrader fitting at one end) with your favorite mix of CS, pepper spray, or whatever. Pressurize to 125 psi with your pump, and use it as a replacement shackle in any U-lock whose shackle can be removed.

When the cops slice that thing open, the slicer blade will throw the pepper spray all over them. Even if the cop with the slicer wears a face shield, he will get it in the crotch and other cops nearby will also be sprayed.

…YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?.. - Lennon/McCartney

TIME’S UP! (a NYC direct-action environmental group that uses events
and educational programs to promote a safer, quieter, friendlier,
and more environmentally sustainable city.)
WON two different cases in US District Court! First, the City’s request for a
preliminary injunction to require a permit for Critical Mass was NOT granted.
In addition, the judge ruled that NYPD cannot violate due process, a Fourth
Amendment right, by seizing bikes without charging their owners with a crime.

the NYC critical mass has suffered unprecedented police intimidation since the
historic Bike National Convention during the RNC
..in which over 300 cyclists were illegally detained.

Halloween critical mass TONIGHT Union Square North (as always) 7pm..Dress For TERROR!

STILL WE RIDE!!

In what is being hailed as one of the most spectacular paleoanthropological finds of the past century,
researchers have unearthed the remains of a dwarf human species
that survived on the Indonesian island of Flores until just 13,000 years ago.
The discovery significantly extends the known range of physical variation in our genus, Homo,
and reveals that H. sapiens shared the planet with other humans much more recently than previously believed.

Scientists describe a partial skeleton from a limestone cave on the island known as Liang Bua.
Dubbed LB1, the specimen appears to have belonged to an adult female who stood barely a meter tall
and had a skull the size of a grapefruit–the smallest member of the human family yet.
Although closer in overall size to the much older australopithecines, such as Lucy,
the new hominid apparently resembles members of the genus Homo in features related to chewing and upright-walking.
Discoverers Peter Brown of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, and his colleagues
assign LB1 to a new species of Homo, H. floresiensis.
They further propose that it was a dwarfed descendant of H. erectus,
which is thought to have arrived in Southeast Asia by around 1.7 million years ago.

Dwarfing is well known to occur in island-dwelling mammals larger than rabbits,
presumably because islands tend to have limited food supplies.
Indeed, H. floresiensis wasn’t the only miniature on Flores:
pint-size bones of an elephant relative known as Stegodon have turned up at Liang Bua as well.
Islands can also breed giants, however, and Liang Bua has yielded evidence of these as well,
including Komodo dragons and very large rodents.

Just as astonishing as H. floresiensis’s small size are the tools it is said to have used.
In a report in Nature, Michael Moorwood, also at the University of New England,
and his collaborators describe stone artifacts found in association with the hominid remains.
Most are simple flake tools, but the researchers also found points, perforators, blades and microblades
that they say were most likely hafted as barbs.
These more advanced tools–comparable in their complexity to those crafted by H. sapiens
–turned up amidst baby Stegodon bones, suggesting to the team that this tiny human was hunting tiny elephants.

An isolated arm bone found deeper in the Liang Bua deposit,
as well as the remains of several other individuals recovered more recently,
indicate that H. floresiensis had a long history on the island, and was present there 95,000 years ago.
This bantam human therefore significantly overlapped in time with Homo sapiens,
who arrived in the region sometime between 55,000 and 35,000 years ago.

How they interacted, however–if they ever even met face to face–remains a mystery.

due to the flood of interest in the URL: http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/sss092203.html
the Fed has decided to remove the page AND requested that Google remove the cache from their archive

WHY methinks would anyone want to DEemphasize the revitalized creation of local draft boards?

here is the citizen x snapshot of the CENSORED page:

hey all you Kerry fans..
wipe the blue greasepaint out of your eyes
and start doing situps
the Fed is already gearing up
to DENY any claim you might have against going to war.
NOW..go look at yourself in the mirror..and have a good chuckle.

Boston police “take full responsibility”
for the murder of Victoria Snelgrove..
Red Sox fan and jounalism student at Emerson College
killed while celebrating the historic pennant victory outside Fenway..
police used the FN Herstal 303 “less than lethal launcher”

(a staple in the array of ballistics used against peaceful protesters..)
perhaps this tragic event will result in an investigation into..
crowd control methodologies ABUSED by police nationwide.
Refuse and Resist organizes annual protests on october 22nd against police brutality
and today is the day..so go smile at a cop and tell em to be nice.
or come on down to Olympic and Broadway and get a beating yourself!

Global warming threatens to reverse human progress
and make international targets on halving world poverty by 2015 unattainable, a study published today said.

The claim comes from charities including Greenpeace, Oxfam and Action Aid who have joined forces,
under the banner of the Working Group on Climate Change and Development,
they released their report, called Up In Smoke, in London yesterday.

The group’s warning follows a summer in which hurricanes wreaked havoc across the Caribbean
and Bangladesh saw its worst flooding for years.

In a world in which global warming is a reality, it says,
such severe weather events are likely to become more frequent and extreme - and the poor will be hardest hit.

The group is urging the international community to take urgent action to introduce:

· A global risk assessment of the likely costs of adaptation to climate change in poor countries

· Cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases by industrialised countries
of between 60% and 80%, relative to 1990 levels, by the middle of this century.
This goes far beyond the targets of the Kyoto protocol on climate change.

The report says the cuts are vital in order to stop climate change running out of control
- defined as a rise in global average temperatures of more than 2ºC (4ºF) above pre-industrial levels.

· New funding to help poor countries adapt
- bearing in mind that rich countries’ subsidies to their own fossil fuel industries stood at $73bn (£40bn) a year in the late 1990s.

· Effective and efficient arrangements to respond to the increasing burden of climate-related disaster relief.

· Small-scale renewable energy projects promoted by governments and community groups
that can be copied and developed in order to help tackle poverty and reduce climate change.

This move will require political commitment in the form of new funds from governments in all countries
and a major shift in priorities by the World Bank and other development bodies, the report says.

· Coordinated local and international plans for relocating threatened communities
with appropriate political, legal and financial resources.

The report says the prime minister, Tony Blair, has signalled
that he will use the UK’s presidency of the G8 nations in 2005
to bring the issues of climate change and Africa…
- where many of the world’s poorest countries are found
- to the top of the international political agenda.

Welcoming this commitment,
the coalition says an either/or approach to climate change and poverty reduction is not an option:
the world must face up to the inseparable challenges of poverty and a rapidly warming global climate.

Andrew Simms, author and policy director of the New Economics Foundation, said:
“Thousands of people, from the grassroots to Gordon Brown, are aiming to make poverty history,
-but global warming has been critically overlooked…
Like a fire smouldering in the basement it threatens to burn down all they have built up.”

“To rescue the situation we need a global framework to stop climate change that is based on equality,
and we have to ensure that plans for human development are made both climate proof and climate friendly.”

Archbishop Tutu, Nobel Peace laureate and former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, said:
“I urge governments and development and environmental organisations to work together to find sustainable solutions
to avert a catastrophe that will exacerbate human suffering to a magnitude that perhaps the world has not yet seen.”

The environment secretary, Margaret Beckett, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme
that Mr Blair would make climate change a priority during Britain’s presidency of the G8.

Ms Beckett said:
“No one can welcome what the report says,
but … I very much welcome the direction of the report
and the way that it is bringing people with these concerns together.”

She said she hoped the report would increase pressure on the US to shift its stance on global warming.

“It is true that the present American administration - and the last one - were not prepared to sign up to the Kyoto protocol,
but we are moving on without America,” she said.

The environment secretary rejected claims that climate change could only be halted by a switch to nuclear power.

The government has not ruled out the future development of nuclear power,
but Ms Beckett made it clear that she did not accept the argument that
it was a “clean” fuel because it did not produce carbon emissions.

here are 12 points that our esteemed candidates NEGLECTED to debate…

(1) When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003,
it violated international laws against “preemptive” and “preventive” war
(enacted after Hitler used these excuses to justify invading Czechoslovakia, Poland, and France);
and violated the U.S. Constitution’s limit on the deployment of armed forces..
to immediate protection of U.S. borders {Article I, Section 8}
and requirement that the U.S. adhere to international treaties {Article VI}

(2) When Sen. John Kerry and a majority of Congress
voted in October, 2002 to surrender Congress’s power to declare war over to President Bush,
they violated the constitutional separation of powers {Article I, Section 8}
and set the scenario for President Bush’s abuse of power when he ordered the invasion of Iraq.

(3) When the Bush Administration deceived the American people about the need to invade Iraq
(Mr. Bush’s January 28, 2003 State of the Union address;
Secretary of State Powell’s address to the U.N. on February 5, 2003),
it was already known that Saddam Hussein probably didn’t possess WMDs,
there was no plausible link between Saddam and the 9/11 attacks,
allegations over aluminum rods and nuclear weapons materials from Africa were fraudulent,
and Iraq’s own neighbors claimed Saddam had no capacity to invade other nation.

(4) When Iraq administrator Bremer decreed in 2003..
that Iraqi business could be owned up to 100% by foreign companies,
the resulting mass loss of jobs and small business drove thousands of Iraqis
to join the anti-U.S. insurgency. Bremer’s mandate violated international laws against pillage;
the Bush Administration’s reckless plan to use Iraq as a lab experiment for its corporate-friendly
‘free-trade’ ideology placed U.S. troops in Iraq at great risk.

(5) Whether Mr. Kerry or Mr. Bush wins,
it will probably be necessary to institute a draft in order to maintain the occupation of Iraq.

(6) The USA Patriot Act violates numerous rights afforded by the U.S. Constitution,
especially freedom of speech, freedom from search and seizure without a warrant, and guarantee of due process.
Whether Mr. Kerry or Mr. Bush is elected, if another terrorist attack occurs…
there are already plans to extend the USA Patriot Act even further, effectively nullifying the Constitution.

(7) If we intend to avert catastrophic global climate change, the U.S. must rejoin the Kyoto agreement,
strengthen and adhere to its provisions, and make conversion to non-fossil and non-nuclear energy
the great project of the 21st century.
(Mr. Bush withdrew the U.S. from Kyoto, Mr. Kerry is silent about rejoining the accord.)

NOTE: EVERY INDUSTRIALIZED NATION ON EARTH HAS RATIFIED KYOTO..except Australia and the U.S.

(8) Republicans and Democrats have abandoned working people,
while coddling CEOs and major shareholders with a $137 billion tax break package for corporations.
Neither Mr. Bush nor Mr. Kerry mentioned a national guarantee of livable wages,
or repeal of Taft-Hartley limits on workplace organizing.

(9) Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry rejected “government-run” coverage,
but Congress’s General Accounting Office has determined…
that the only health care reform that will save money is single-payer national health insurance.
Under single-payer, all Americans would be guaranteed quality treatment and medicine
regardless of income, employment, age, or prior medical condition,
and patients will enjoy choice of physician.
Middle and lower income Americans will pay far less for single-payer coverage
than they do now for private coverage through profit-driven HMOs and insurance firms.

(10) The ‘War on Drugs’ has not only failed to stem drug abuse,
it has resulted in the highest number ever of Americans incarcerated
(over 5.6 million have served time, the highest percentage in the world)
— especially young people, poor people, African Americans, and Latinos.

(11) Thanks to the 1996 Telecommunications Act and other deregulation measures,
fewer and fewer corporations own more and more of the media and regulate our news and entertainment.
Democrats who voted for the Telecommunications Act have only themselves to blame..
for the Sinclair Broadcast Group’s plan to air an anti-Kerry documentary on 62 TV stations.

(12) At-large winner-take-all elections have allowed two parties corrupted by corporate lobby money to dominate our political system.
We can restore our democracy through various reforms: Instant Runoff Voting, Proportional Representation,
“clean election” options that enable candidates to run without taking corporate money,
free time for candidates on our publicly owned airwaves, and auditable paper ballots.

More information on election reforms

Sgt. Larry O. McCook
343rd quartermaster company
“first pebble roller”

is this the beginning of an avalanche
of insubordination in U.S. troops in Iraq?

keep your eye on Larry..
he has ALREADY been transferred..
wouldn’t it be convenient IF he were to..

i dont know..lets say…

BE KILLED.

a long shelved collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney…
an animated short..set to the ballad “DESTINO” by Armando Dominguez..
finally premiered in New York this week..
the six minute film was started in 1946.

when citizen x last visited haiti
Aristide was being kidnapped by US troops
and the CIA coup was in full swing..

as always.. American intervention
is working wonders for the people of haiti..

we NOW see…
on the 10th anniversary of Aristides return from exile…

CHAOS
BEHEADINGS
UNCHECKED MISERY

sound like anyplace else?

A 18-member Army Reserve platoon..
from the 343rd quartermaster company…
deployed to Iraq is under arrest..
for refusing a “suicide mission”…
to deliver contaminated helicopter fuel.

this from a lecture in Berkeley CA.. given by Seymour Hersh..
journalist responsible for breaking the news of..
the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and…
more recently…
the Abu Ghraib torture scandal..

HERSH: I got a call last week from a soldier — it’s different now, a lot of communication, 800 numbers. He’s an American officer and he was in a unit halfway between Baghdad and the Syrian border. It’s a place where we claim we’ve done great work at cleaning out the insurgency. He was a platoon commander. First lieutenant, ROTC guy.

It was a call about this. He had been bivouacing outside of town with his platoon. It was near, it was an agricultural area, and there was a granary around. And the guys that owned the granary, the Iraqis that owned the granary… It was an area that the insurgency had some control, but it was very quiet, it was not Fallujah. It was a town that was off the mainstream. Not much violence there. And his guys, the guys that owned the granary, had hired, my guess is from his language, I wasn’t explicit — we’re talking not more than three dozen, thirty or so guards. Any kind of work people were dying to do. So Iraqis were guarding the granary. His troops were bivouaced, they were stationed there, they got to know everybody…

They were a couple weeks together, they knew each other. So orders came down from the generals in Baghdad, we want to clear the village, like in Samarra. And as he told the story, another platoon from his company came and executed all the guards, as his people were screaming, stop. And he said they just shot them one by one. He went nuts, and his soldiers went nuts. And he’s hysterical. He’s totally hysterical. And he went to the captain. He was a lieutenant, he went to the company captain. And the company captain said, “No, you don’t understand. That’s a kill. We got thirty-six insurgents.”

You read those stories where the Americans, we take a city, we had a combat, a hundred and fifteen insurgents are killed. You read those stories. It’s shades of Vietnam again, folks, body counts…

You know what I told him? I said, fella, I said: you’ve complained to the captain. He knows you think they committed murder. Your troops know their fellow soldiers committed murder. Shut up. Just shut up. Get through your tour and just shut up. You’re going to get a bullet in the back. You don’t need that. And that’s where we are with this war.

ABC news reports
that a las vegas firm
which registers voters
has engaged in destroying
registrations of Democrats…

TRANSFORM your view

in case you may have forgotten..
kush and berry ARE NOT the only candidates
to select from in the november election..

and NO..
im not talking about the arch-fiend Nader

protesting their exclusion from the debates
Libertarian Michael Badnarik AND David Cobb..
(the Greens answer to Ralph..)
HAVE BEEN ARRESTED in St.Louis, MO.
Badnarik was carrying an Order to Show Cause
which he intended to serve the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD)

I HOPE THEY SEE THE GALLOWS BEFORE DAWN..
how DARE these upstarts meddle in matters beyond their station!

reposted from IMC:

Thursday morning, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace
ordering them to hand over Indymedia web servers to the requesting agency.
Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20 Indymedia sites at its London facility,
complied and turned over the requested servers, effectively removing those sites from the internet.

Since the subpoena was issued to Rackspace and not to Indymedia,
the reasons for this action are still unknown to Indymedia.
Talking to Indymedia volunteers, Rackspace stated that..
“they cannot provide Indymedia with any information regarding the order.”
ISPs have received gag orders in similar situations..
which prevent them from updating the concerned parties on what is happening.

It is unclear to Indymedia how and why a server that is outside the US jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.

At the same time an additional server was taken down at Rackspace
which provided streaming radio to several radio stations, BLAG (linux distro), and a handful of misc. things.

The last few months have seen numerous attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government.
In August the Secret Service used a subpoena in an attempt to disrupt the NYC IMC before the RNC..
by trying to get IP logs from an ISP in the US and the Netherlands.
Last month the FCC shut down community radio stations around the US.
Two weeks ago the FBI requested that Indymedia takes down a post on the Nantes IMC..
that had a photo of some undercover Swiss police..
IMC volunteers in Seattle were visited by the FBI on the same issue.
On the other hand, Indymedia and other independent media organizations were successful..
for example, against Diebold and the Patroit Act.
Today however, the US authorities shut down IMCs around the world.

The list of affected local media collectives includes:
Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes,
Lilles, Marseille (all France), Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen,
Antwerpen (all Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil,
UK, part of the Germany site, and the global Indymedia Radio site.

RTA Incorporated is recognized by federal Employer Identification Number 06-0768741.
It is a corporation that acquired tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) public charity in 1966
and is classified as a B99 N.E.C. entity in the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities.

It is the very same RTA Incorporated that provided programs
in which United States Senator John Forbes Kerry and United States President George Walker Bush
both directly participated in during 1966 and 1968,
their respective senior years at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Described in tax filings only as “Educational Programs,”
these RTAI-sponsored activities are more commonly recognized by the public as “Skull & Bones.”

Now, before reverting into any number of possible attitudes that particular phrase might trigger,
at the very least, please consider the following:

RTA Incorporated is not, nor does it provide for, a fraternity, alumni association, academic or professional society,
or any other discernable student service. Any perception to the contrary is false and unsupported by the facts.
Check the National Center for Charitable Statistics to verify for yourself how that could even remotely be possible.

For nearly four decades, RTA Incorporated has preserved millions of tax-free dollars in assets and expenditures
by claiming its primary purpose for exemption to be “Educational Programs” in support of Yale University.

This is evidenced in the Form 990 filings that are open and accessible to public inspection.

Instructions on Form 990 are clearly indicated:

Part III: Statement of Program Service Accomplishments (See Specific instructions.)

What is the organization’s primary exempt purpose?

RTA Incorporated’s consistent response: “Educational Programs”

All organizations must describe their exempt purpose achievements in a clear and concise manner
State the number of clients served, publications issued, etc Discuss achievements that are not measurable.
(Section 501(c)(3) and (4) organizations and 4947(a)(1) nonexempt charitable trusts…
must also enter the amount of grants and allocations to others.)

RTA Incorporated’s consistent response: “Educational Programs”;
accompanied by a six-figure monetary value under Program Service Expenses.

Apparently, no mind is paid to the perspective reminder at the end of Part IV:

Form 990 is available for public inspection and, for some people,
serves as the primary or sole source of information about a particular organization.
How the public perceives an organization in such cases may be determined by the information presented on its return.
Therefore, please make sure the return is complete and accurate and fully describes,
in Part III, the organization’s programs and accomplishments.

According to IRS Publication 557, Tax-Exempt Status for Your Organization (p.21):

The term educational relates to:

1) The instruction or training of individuals for the purpose of improving or developing their capabilities, or
2) The instruction of the public on subjects useful to individuals and beneficial to the community
…
Advocacy of a particular position or viewpoint may be educational if…
there is a sufficiently full and fair exposition of pertinent facts to permit an individual…
or the public to form an independent opinion or conclusion.
The mere presentation of unsupported opinion is not educational.

What instruction or training did Kerry/Bush receive from RTA Incorporated in 1966/1968?
Under what specific conditions and circumstances was that instruction or training conducted?

How is the American public to perceive this public charity that, from JUL97 to JUN03,
claimed $1,135,907 in tax-free financing for the unspecific educational programming of 75 students,
as compared to the $10,000 in grants and allocations to Yale University over the same period of time?

What independent opinion or conclusion is the American public, government,
or any individual to form about a public charity that provides neither sufficient, nor full,
nor fair exposition of pertinent facts with respect to its tax-exempt activities?

What are American voters to think about Kerry/Bush..
when both publicly maintain a vow of secrecy to the aforementioned public charity?

Did Kerry/Bush ever swear oath or allegiance to RTA Incorporated prior to, during, or since 1966/1968?
If so, does such an act supersede the oaths of public office within the United States?

What relationship does Kerry/Bush currently have with RTA Incorporated?

citizen x learned that RTA Inc. is in fact the re-incorporated Russell Trust Association

The new papers of reincorporation that erased the century-old Russell Trust Association
were filed at 10:15 A.M. on April 14, 1961.
Two hours later, at noon on that day, the orders went out to begin the Bay of Pigs operations
—the covert CIA-financed invasion of Castro’s Cuba, a bloody fiasco that still haunts us four decades later.
Coincidence? Probably.
But then it’s also true that one of the CIA’s masterminds for the Bay of Pigs operation…
was a man named Richard Drain, Skull and Bones ’43.
And the White House planner of the Bay of Pigs operation was McGeorge Bundy, Skull and Bones ’40.
And the State Department liaison for the Bay of Pigs Operation was his brother William P. Bundy, Skull and Bones ’39.
And the man who filed the reincorporation papers..
that erased the Russell Trust Association from existence on the day of the Bay of Pigs..
was Howard Weaver, Skull and Bones ‘45W (George [H. W.] Bush’s class), who retired from the CIA in 1959.
All of which might lead one to suspect that..
the Skull and Bones corporate shell had been used as a clandestine conduit for the Bay of Pigs,
and then erased from existence to cover up the connection as the invasion got underway.

IN ANY CASE:
VOTE SKULL & BONES..you have NO choice

i remember seeing 2001:A Space Oddysey
with my father at the 66th st. playhouse
in Manhattan when it was released in 1968
i am not sure why or how BUT..
i took the movie as a de facto PROMISE
of what the “next millenium” held in store.

SPACE MIGRATION was central to this vision.

well..35 years later…
AND three years after the movies title date..
no such future has manifested…

WHY?

a million reasons i suppose BUT..

simple disappointment gave way to feelings of
intense betrayal when i saw THIS STORY

movie suggestion: SILENT RUNNING starring Bruce Dern