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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

So I've done the math and at the rate that I work, factoring in overtime and a wage of decent compensation I should be making $66,000+ a year.

I never in my life thought that I would be running my own company or even in this realm of business. I wanted to be a solar engineer when I was little.

Did you know there's a paint that you can paint your house with that just turns your house into a big solar panel? You can seriously make the investment (it's pretty expensive), never pay an electric bill again, and then sell the excess electricty back onto the grid. You can turn a profit on it in about 15 years.

Here's the first quarter of Why We Fight. Oh man this movie is good.


Saturday, February 17, 2007

Does anyone know the statistic of how many smart bombs missed their targets when we first invaded Iraq?

Or the number of depleted uranium tipped artillery that we shot into tanks and the surrounding ground... and in turn the stats on the increased cancer rates in concentrated areas?

I forget the exact figures but i'm pretty sure that we hit something like 1-2% of the specified targets and everything else hit elsewhere. Like we tried to bomb one of Saddam's palace's and we ended up hitting a neighborhood right beside it and killed 8-10 civilians. We dropped something like 350-600 smart bombs during the first phase of the war alone.

Does anyone else think that we may be creating more of a problem than we realize? I know that if some foreign force came in and accidentally killed some of my family I would be pretty upset. I can only imagine how many people we drive into being our enemy.

Look at our relationship with Vietnam now. Some Vietnamese tell us now that they felt like they were simply being invaded and fought back on instinct alone. It's a shame it took us this long to find that out.

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I highly recommend the following movies for their respective biases (or for a lack thereof: in most cases)

Why We Fight
Control Room
Battleground - 21 Days on the Empire's Edge
The Fog of War

Also, completely not war related:

Capturing the Friedmans
The Trials of Henry Kissinger

Blockbuster has most of them for rent.

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I'm working late, and writing my thoughts as they come out. I'm ridiculously tired. I will get to sleep as soon as these are done. Things to say boo to:

- the weather
- the process of reclaiming screens
- the weather

Things to look forward to

- the spring
- new press
- more time off
- more time spent with the best people i know
- more time spent with you... yes, you.

The sooner I finish these the sooner I can go to bed.

Thank the Lord for this day He has made.

Blinz is getting married today and I'll be wearing a nice tie and have a shaved face. Oh boy.

Good night / morning,
-Ryan

 

 

 


Monday, October 16, 2006

 

EDIT: Well, President Bush signed this act today. New laws! woohoo!

In case you haven't been keeping up to date on what our Governement has been doing lately, here's a little update that you may want to read about. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 was passed by both the House and the Senate over 2 weeks ago but has yet to be signed into law by President Bush as of today. The following is a list of the facts about what this new set of laws entails.

WHAT THE MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006 "LEGISLATES"

- Doesn't suspend, as is accommodated for in the Constitution, but completely abolishes Habeas Corpus permanently - the right of the detainee to see the evidence against him and not be locked up for eternity based on the arbitrary will of the state.

- Contains a definition of "wrongfully aiding the enemy" which labels all American citizens who breach their "allegiance" to President Bush and the actions of his government as terrorists subject to possible arrest, torture and conviction in front of a military tribunal.

- The definition of torture that the legislation cites is US code title 18 section 2340 . This is a broad definition of torture and completely lacks the specific clarity of the Geneva Conventions. This definition allows the use of torture that is, "incidental to lawful sanctions." In alliance with the bill's blanket authority for President Bush to define the Geneva Conventions as he sees fit, this legislates the use of torture.

- Destruction of any property is defined as terrorism, which is deemed punishable by any means of the military tribunal's choosing.

- Any violent activity whatsoever is defined as terrorism if it takes place near a designated protected building, such as a charity building.

- A change of the definition of "pillaging" turns all illegal occupation of property and all theft into terrorism. This makes squatters and petty thieves enemy combatants.

- In light of Greg Palast's recent hounding by Homeland Security , after they accused him of potentially giving terrorists key information about U.S. "critical infrastructure" when filming Exxon's Baton Rouge refinery (clear photos of which were publicly available on Google Maps), sub-section 27 of section 950v. should send chills down the spine of all investigative journalists and even news-gatherers. It defines collecting information clandestinely which is then used against the interests of the U.S. government as terrorism.

- The bill allows hearsay evidence (obtained via phony confessions after torture) to be considered by the military tribunal and bars the suspect from even having knowledge of the charges against him - making a case for defense impossible. This is guaranteed to produce 100% conviction rates as you would expect in the dictatorships of Uzbekistan or Zimbabwe and other torture protagonists who are in many cases allied with the Bush administration and provide phony confessions obtained from torture that allow the U.S. government to scare its people with the threat of imaginary Al-Qaeda terror cells waiting to kill them.

- All of these provisions apply to American citizens. Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman states in the L.A. Times , "The compromise legislation....authorizes the president to seize American citiz ens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights." Similarly, law Professor Marty Lederman explains : "this [subsection (ii) of the definition of 'unlawful enemy combatant'] means that if the Pentagon says you're an unlawful enemy combatant -- using whatever criteria they wish -- then as far as Congress, and U.S. law, is concerned, you are one, whether or not you have had any connection to 'hostilities' at all."

- In section 950j. the bill criminalizes any challenge to the legislation's legality by the Supreme Court or any United States court. Alberto Gonzales has already threatened federal judges to shut up and not question Bush's authority on the torture of detainees.

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This makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end just thinking about it and its effect on the future. I have my doubts that America will turn into a facist state but theres groundwork being laid that no one cares to question or really even understand for that matter. Being informed isn't helping too much either, as it just creates a stress that I can't shake. Undoubtedly though I just need to turn these things over to the big Guy in the sky and trust that everything will be ok one of these days. I can't complain when I'm dead right?

It's been awhile since I've posted on here. I've been busy as all else. I'm pressing hoodies for Metal Blade tonite. The last screen is probably dry about now that I'm done writing all of this.

love you all,
ryan


Tuesday, July 04, 2006

I done gone and found myself the perfect woman.


Wednesday, June 28, 2006

I'm at work cranking away. I miss my beloved. Right now I'm eating dinner and reading the news. Here's an article I just read. Check out the links in this article if you have the time, really interesting stuff.

EDIT: Some of the links here have changed and I can't find the original pages anymore. Most of them do work though.

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N. Korea Has Already 'Mock Nuked' Alaska - With US Government Help
New reports about threat of missile launch omit key facts

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | June 19 2006

Reports today concerning the completed fueling of North Korea's long range Taepodong-2 missile and its planned launch within a month omit several key aspects of the story, including the fact that North Korea already launched a missile that hit Alaska, with the help of the US government.

In March 2003, the Korea Times reported that the U.S. National Assembly included a startling admission in its final report regarding Pyongyang’s missile capabilities.

A nuclear-capable North Korean test warhead was found in Alaska.

``According to a U.S. document, the last piece of a missile warhead fired by North Korea was found in Alaska,’’ former Japanese foreign minister Taro Nakayama was quoted as saying in the report. ``Washington, as well as Tokyo, has so far underrated Pyongyang’s missile capabilities.’’

A story that would have expected to garner front page headlines for days was completely blacked out in the US, with not one single newspaper choosing to report it.

The reason?

How could the Bush administration sell a war against a country with no means to defend itself and as it later transpired with no weapons of mass destruction, when a country with WMD was firing long-range nuclear capable missiles that were hitting the western coast of the US?

The 1994 Agreed Framework deal gave North Korea the capacity to generate enough nuclear fuel to produce almost 100 nuclear bombs per year. A 1999 congressional study undertaken by the House North Korea Advisory Group warned,

“Through the provision of two light water reactors [LWRs] under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the United States, through KEDO, will provide North Korea with the capacity to produce annually enough fissile material for nearly 100 nuclear bombs, should the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [DPRK] decide to violate the Nonproliferation Treaty [NPT].”

In April 2002 the Bush administration announced that it would release $95 million of American taxpayer’s dollars to begin construction of the ‘harmless’ light water reactors. Bush argued that arming the megalomaniac dictator Kim Jong-Il with the potential to produce a hundred nukes a year was, “vital to the national security interests of the United States.” Bush released even more money in January 2003, as reported by Bloomberg News,

“President George W. Bush is seeking $3.5 million for the international consortium that continues to build two nuclear reactors for North Korea, even as the U.S. confronts the communist regime over nuclear arms.”

The company that got the contract to deliver equipment and services to build the two light water reactor stations was ABB (Asea Brown Boveri), which describes itself as, “a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact.” The contract was valued at $200 million and was signed in January 2000.

It should not surprise us that our old friend Donald Rumsfeld, the man who paved the way for U.S. companies to sell Iraq chemical and biological weapons in 1983, was an executive director for ABB from 2000-2001. Rumsfeld resigned when he was appointed U.S. Secretary of Defense. Wolfram Eberhardt, a spokesman for ABB confirmed that Rumsfeld was at nearly all the board meetings during his involvement with the company. The meetings were held quarterly in Zurich, Switzerland. However, Rumsfeld again displays his uncanny ability to forget things in stating that he ‘doesn’t remember’ the issue of North Korea being brought before the ABB board. Swiss Info concluded,

“Rumsfeld’s position at ABB could prove embarrassing for the Bush administration since while he was a director he was also active on issues of weapons proliferation, chairing the 1998 congressional Ballistic Missile Threat commission.”

North Korea is controlled by a hereditary Stalinist dictatorship that has starved two million of its citizens to death in favor of building a million-man army. Some people put the figure at four million, one-quarter of the population. In the far north of the country there is a network of forced labor gulags where people who have ‘expressed a bland political opinion’ are, along with their entire families, tortured, raped and executed. Horrific bio-chemical experiments are performed on mass numbers of people. Babies are delivered and then stamped to death by the camp guards. If the mother screams while the guards are stamping on the baby’s neck, she is immediately assassinated by a firing squad. These guards are rewarded with bonuses and promotions for ripping out prisoners’ eyeballs.

The North Korean people are enslaved by a government that is using food as a weapon. Perhaps this is why the EU and the United States, via the UN World Food Program, resumed the shipment of hundreds of
thousands of tons in food aid at the end of February 2003. This goes directly to the sitting dictatorship, which then decides who gets it by their level of allegiance to the state. Food aid only increases the power of Kim Jong-Il and yet it is veiled by the UN in bleeding heart humanitarian rhetoric. The money goes straight to enabling the North Korean leadership to live in the lap of westernized luxury with casinos and lavish new cars.

President Bush publicly claims to loathe Kim Jong-Il and yet his administration, like Bill Clinton before him, has armed North Korea to the teeth with anything up to and beyond 200 nuclear bombs.

Under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the Clinton administration agreed to replace North Korea’s domestically built nuclear reactors with light water nuclear reactors. So-called government-funded ‘experts’ stated that light water reactors couldn’t be used to make bombs. Not so according to Henry Sokolski, head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington,

“LWRs could be used to produce dozens of bombs' worth of weapons-grade plutonium in both North Korea and Iran. This is true of all LWRs -- a depressing fact U.S. policymakers have managed to block out.”

Sokolski has also gone on the record as saying,

“These reactors are like all reactors, they have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we're trying to prevent it acquiring.”

The U.S. State Department contends that the light water reactors cannot be used to produce bomb grade material and yet in 2002 urged Russia to end its nuclear co-operation with Iran for the reason that it doesn’t want Iran armed with weapons of mass destruction. Russia is building light water reactors in Iran. The State Department announced on its own web site,

“In the official answer to a question asked at the January 31 State Department daily briefing, the State Department said the United States has "consistently urged Russia to cease all [nuclear] cooperation with Iran, including its assistance to the light water reactor at Bushehr.”

“We have underscored to Russia that an end to Russian nuclear assistance to Iran would allow the United States and Russia to reap the full promise of our new strategic relationship, benefiting Russia economically and strategically far more than any short-term gain from construction of additional reactors or other sensitive transfers to Iran.”

According to the State Department, light water reactors in Iran can produce nuclear material but somehow the same rule doesn’t apply in North Korea.

Despite this it seems that the Iranians are beginning to learn an important lesson.

Rogue states with absolutely no means to defend themselves are picked off by the Globalists on a whim, but countries that have amassed a nuclear arsenal, with receipts from the US government to prove it, seem to become immune to the Bush administration's global democracy drive, no matter how atrocious their human rights record.

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I've been having lots of dreams lately. Lots of crazy stuff about the future, World War III, my family, and everything inbetween. I had a dream that China, Russia, Venezuela, and North Korea attacked the US and that most of Europe just stood back and watched. It played out like a cartoon with big arrows on a map all converging on the west coast of the US. The year was 2018 in my dream. It felt like I was reading a textbook or watching an informational video.

I've got to get back to shirts. Anyone want to come out and fold some shirts? Like tonite? If you read this and feel inclined Joe and I will probably be here all night.

EDIT:
I'm up here taking a break, and now, for something light-hearted  and somewhat humorous, here's a sweet story I just found. - CLICK HERE DUMMY!



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