Anyone else getting repeatedly flown over by an airplane tonight?

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Antonia Juhasz at the Capitol Theater at 7 PM on Monday, October 20th, 2008 will present her new book The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do To Stop It.

Link to event details: Antonia Juhasz at the Capitol Theater October 20, 2008

Juhasz will also appear at SPSCC earlier in the day at 2 PM. More details about that event: Antonia Juhasz at South Puget Sound Community College

more about the book on the flipside:

October 22, 2008

National Night Out

Against Police Brutality

Please join us for an informal tour of Olympia’s downtown, guided by local Copwatch Organizer Drew Hendricks.

We begin at 6PM, at Sylvester Park. (Corner opposite of Starbucks)

Wear Black
...and consider masks – last year they took photos of people participating...

(October 22nd this year is also a training day for the Olympia Police)

www.olycopwatch.org
360-870-3127

Stump on Stump 

 a: A stump on top of a stump.

 b: a roving alien entity that feeds on stumps in the guise of a stump. Who will stop it?

 c: Proof that stump cannibalism exists.

 d: Stump Zombies. Only scary to other stumps. Disregard.

 Tree Fungus

a: An asian delicacy.

b: A terrible omen.

c: A new drug.

d: Food of the Gods.

Interesting and informative news article:

Chinese Muslims Ordered Released From Guantanamo

By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 8, 2008; A01

A federal judge yesterday ordered a small band of Chinese Muslims being held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison released into the United States by Friday, rejecting the Bush administration's contention that it could detain them indefinitely without cause.

It was the first time a U.S. judge has ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, and the first time a foreign national held at the facility in Cuba has been ordered transferred to the United States.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina issued his ruling in dramatic fashion from the bench in a packed courtroom, saying he was ordering the release of 17 Uighurs because the government provided no proof that they were enemy combatants or security risks. Under the order, the men will live with Uighur families in the Washington area until a more permanent situation can be found.

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LURA coming to The Washington Center October 23rd.

French Afro-pop, Brazilian rhythms and earthy, traditional African music.

Student Rush Tickets Day of Performance - $10!

Hiya all, I was curious if folks would want to post the sites/places they get news from on this thread-

-I'm gonna make a list of the sites I feed off of and encourage folks to do the same (I'll post my list tonight or tomorrow).

From Democracy Now!: Antonia Juhasz interviewed by Amy Goodman:

October 07, 2008

The Tyranny of Oil: Antonia Juhasz on “The World’s Most Powerful Industry—What We Must Do to Stop It”

Along with so-called clean coal technology, both of the major presidential candidates also supporting expanded offshore oil drilling. We speak to Antonia Juhasz, author of the new book The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry—And What We Must Do to Stop It. [includes rush transcript]

Guest:

Antonia Juhasz, author of the new book The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry—And What We Must Do to Stop It. Her previous book, The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time.

AMY GOODMAN: Along with so-called clean coal technology, both the major presidential candidates—Barack Obama, John McCain—are also supporting expanded offshore oil drilling. Last month, the Democratic-led Congress let expire a twenty-six-year-old ban on offshore oil drilling.

Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is now pushing to also allow for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Palin’s campaign slogan has become “Drill, baby, drill.”

To me, the real question is, "will this election take place in the voting booth or in the courtroom?"

I guess I'm already skeptical about this election, and am curious if anyone else around here is feeling the same way?

I think that 2008 is gonna be close, and I am more than 50% convinced that the court will be involved-

-and, musing along those lines, I feel that if McCain is promoted by the court over a popular vote for Obama (or vice versa), there could be real problems for American democracy & domestic safety.

I don't want to be alarmist or fan the flames, but I just don't have any trust or confidence in the system (not that I had any since 2000).

I think this "debate" as moved beyond parties and is hovering on the precipice that separates the rule of law from chaos and hegemony