From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 2 08:23:50 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 2 08:24:10 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: White people "find", while black people "loot"!?!? Message-ID: <200509021223.j82CNnm14898@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Black People Loot.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 224745 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050902/fef3a7f9/BlackPeopleLoot-0001.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag. Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with? Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her! I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike? And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ! On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that. There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland. No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this! You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit. Yours, Michael Moore MMFlint@aol.com www.MichaelMoore.com P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st. --- You are currently subscribed to Mike's Message as: phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au To unsubscribe click on the link below: http://go.netatlantic.com/u?id=37672086F &l=michaelmoore -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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War profiteering is obviously nothing new - particularly since the industrialization of warfare - nor is the use of mercenaries, but it seems to me that the increasing reliance upon PMCs outlines precisely the way that 'regime change' has become a sort of '(ad)venture capitalism'. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edpnewvoices08080805aug08,0,4800426.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines Ian Ian Roderick, PhD Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University http://ianroderick.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050902/8594de65/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 2 12:03:52 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 2 12:03:56 2005 Subject: [LNC] =?iso-8859-1?q?FW=3A_New_Upolads__M=E1s_obras?= Message-ID: <200509021603.j82G3qm28631@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> _____ From: Critical Discourse/Language/Communication Analysis [mailto:CRITICS-L@NIC.SURFNET.NL] On Behalf Of beaugrande Sent: September 2, 2005 11:56 AM To: CRITICS-L@NIC.SURFNET.NL Subject: New Upolads M?s obras Dear friends and/or colleagues! Caros/as colegas! In addition to those recently notified, the following papers and books have been reconstituted and uploaded to my website: www.beaugrande.com Adem?s de las obras ya avisados, se encuentran disponibles las siguientes en M?s obras disponibles: The Story of Grammars and the Grammar of Stories Smartly polished for upload! Rhetoric and Stylistics in Light of Large-Corpus Data Function and Form in Language Theory and Research: The Tide is Turning Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Disconnection, Conflict, or Dialectic? (takes on Stephen Krashen) The rationality of Noam Chomsky The genetic psychology of Jean Piaget The Discourse of Dictionaries The Geopolitics of Culture from a Systemic Functional Standpoint Cognition and Technology in Education: Knowledge and Information - Language and Discourse Theory and Practice of Translation in the Age of Hypertechnology Terminology and Discourse between the Social Sciences and the Humanities Closing the gap between linguistics and literary study: Discourse analysis and literary theory Theory versus practice in language planning and in the discourse of language planning (takes on Joshua Fishman and Robert Cooper) University Students as Naive Readers: Anarchy or Self-Reliance? Interpreting the Discourse of H.G. 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URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050902/9b6d9541/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 2 12:07:19 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 2 12:07:20 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: [Air-l] off topic: Hurricane Katrina Relief for affected students and faculty Message-ID: <200509021607.j82G7Im29799@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Hunsinger Sent: September 2, 2005 11:43 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] off topic: Hurricane Katrina Relief for affected students and faculty VIRGINIA TECH TO OFFER ADMISSIONS TO STUDENTS AFFECTED BY HURRICANE KATRINA BLACKSBURG, Sept. 2, 2005 -- Virginia Tech will offer specialized admissions to students displaced by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. "We will offer admission for non-degree status on a case by case basis to qualified undergraduate or graduate students for the fall and/or spring semester. .... snip.... Displaced faculty in hurricane affected areas interested in visiting faculty status are encouraged to contact Provost Mark McNamee, (540) 231-6123. jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Associatiion of Internet Researchers _______________________________________________ The Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 2 12:17:02 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 2 12:17:05 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: Iraq is here Message-ID: <200509021617.j82GH2m02553@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> _____ From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] Sent: September 2, 2005 11:46 AM To: mark.miller@nyu.edu Subject: Iraq is here --> From: ImpeachGeorgeWBush@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ImpeachGeorgeWBush@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rita Pickering Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 7:46 AM To: Progressive; ImpeachGeorgeWBush Subject: [ImpeachGeorgeWBush] A Sign of Things to Come Subject: Gulf Coast "Chaos" -- A Sign of Things to Come Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:34:21 EDT Look closely at what's going on in the Gulf states: You're seeing America's future, when the infrastructure (cannibalized for Iraq and a nonsensical "war on terror") further decays and a Great Depression finally hits. You're seeing how politicians in Washington, D.C., really feel about the poor. People living without food, water, clothing, shelter, or medical care -- especially if they're black -- are just told to "be patient," day after day, until, predictably, they simply die. You're also seeing just how effective "Homeland Security" and FEMA will really be at "protecting the American people" in the event of a massive terrorist attack. They're worrying primarily about getting the OIL pipelines running again. The lives of tens of thousands of people coldly left to die are glossed over as just "collateral damage," as 3000 were at the World Trade Center. Watch: Soon you'll see how the federal government's military forces "restore order," under martial law, as the starving and doomed-to-die who dare to trespass on "private property" to steal food or water are shot dead in the street in cold blood. The first response of Washington bureaucrats is always an itchy trigger finger -- "security" (suppressing "insurgents") is their main concern, not "disaster relief." Welcome to living conditions in Iraq, in the United States. (The Iraqi people too are outraged that there's no electricity, no water, and nobody cares so long as the oil and blood money is flowing into the right hands. Unlivable conditions like that are natural breeding grounds for "insurgents.") So look carefully: This is what the Bush Administration's foreign policy looks like when applied as domestic policy. http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/nation/12537489.htm Federal Officials Pressed to Explain Pace of Response BY MATT STEARNS, SCOTT CANON AND CHRIS ADAMS Knight Ridder Newspapers, Monterey Herald September 1, 2005 NEW ORLEANS -- (KRT) -- Hungry and desperate people trapped in a destroyed city. A police department in what one official called "survival mode." Dead bodies on the streets, blankets flung over them -- sometimes. Capt. Michael Pfeiffer of the New Orleans Police Department said the department's communication system failed during the storm and police districts now were working their areas often unaware of what was happening elsewhere in the city. Pfeiffer still has a handheld radio, but he's almost out of battery power and needs to keep it off most of the time. "We're in survival mode here," Pfeiffer said. With New Orleans degenerating toward anarchy and other areas hit by Hurricane Katrina still awaiting assistance [AFTER FOUR DAYS], federal, state, and local officials are under mounting pressure to explain why they haven't moved faster to get aid to people and places devastated by the storm. Terry Ebbert, the head of New Orleans' emergency operations, called the federal government's response "a national disgrace." Citing the complexities of trying to assist people in a 90,000-square mile area, much of it still flooded, officials in Washington on Thursday offered little more than empathy, pledges that the pace would pick up and pleas not to engage in finger-pointing. "We certainly understand frustration coming from people on the ground who are in need of help, and we will continue working to get them the assistance that they need," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. There was evidence Thursday that Americans believed what they saw on television more than what they heard from government officials. A Survey USA poll of 1,200 adults nationwide found that 59 percent of Americans thought the federal government wasn't doing enough to help victims of the hurricane and its aftermath, up from 50 percent the previous day. Fifty-five percent of the whites and 75 percent of the African-Americans polled said the federal response had been inadequate. In Mississippi, three days after Katrina, officials opened 20 sites in Harrison County to deliver water and ice to frustrated residents. While people had been reduced to searching through garbage for food, authorities didn't expect to be able to distribute any food until Friday. There's still no timetable for making temporary shelter available to those without homes. Col. Joe Spraggins, the director of the Harrison County Emergency Management Agency, said debris had hampered local authorities' ability to get supply trucks to distribution sites. He said 18 trucks with water and ice had been in a staging area before the storm, but the hurricane destroyed it all. Spraggins said Mississippi and federal authorities were under stress from the demands of a storm whose impact stretched across three states, including most of Mississippi. "FEMA is scattered all over the place," Spraggins said, noting that the situation was more "critical" in New Orleans than in Mississippi. "That's not their fault." Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who oversees FEMA, said "flooding ... has dramatically impeded our ability to get supplies into New Orleans." Even in Houston, which had begun to receive thousands of refugees from New Orleans, plans seemed uncertain Thursday. Only about 2,000 cots had been put on the floor of the Astrodome, leaving many without places to lie down. Harris County Judge Robert Eckels said the plan was never to house all 25,000 refugees at one time. Officials still didn't know when all of them would arrive in Houston. "There's very little communication from New Orleans," Eckels said. "It's very frustrating." Critics charged that the delays and confusion were a product of the Bush administration's misplaced priorities. William Waugh, a disaster-management specialist and public-administration professor at Georgia State University, said the federal government appeared slow to pre-position medical and other disaster supplies in the Gulf region, and slow to get federal troops and other disaster workers into places that Katrina had pummeled. Frannie Edwards, the director of emergency preparedness for the city of San Jose, Calif., charged that the Department of Homeland Security overreacted to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks four years ago by bleeding money out of conventional emergency-response programs. "Our natural disasters in the United States are seasonal, not preventable, and we know they're definitely going to happen," Edwards said. "Money for mitigation of them has been siphoned off to deal with terrorism activity, which we don't know is going to happen and which can sometimes be prevented. The federal government's change in emphasis away from all-hazards emergency management and to a very strong focus on terrorism has lessened the resources to respond to events like Katrina." Asked whether more could have been done to prepare for the disaster, McClellan said: "This is a time when the whole country needs to come together to help those in the region. And that's where our focus is. This is not a time to get into any finger-pointing or politics or anything of that nature." --- [Stearns, a Washington correspondent for "The Kansas City Star," reported from Washington. Canon, also of the Star, reported from Kansas City and Adams reported from New Orleans. Gary Fineout of "The Miami Herald" contributed to this report from Gulfport, Miss.; David Wethe of the "Fort Worth Star-Telegram" contributed from Houston and Seth Borenstein contributed from Washington.] _______________________ New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes By ALLEN G. BREED The Guardian (UK) September 2, 2005 Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday, as corpses lay abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out and storm survivors battled for seats on the buses that would carry them away from the chaos. The tired and hungry seethed, saying they had been forsaken. "This is a desperate SOS,'' mayor Ray Nagin said. "We are out here like pure animals,'' the Rev. Issac Clark said outside the New Orleans Convention Center, where he and other evacuees had been waiting for buses for days amid the filth and the dead. "I'm not sure I'm going to get out of here alive,'' said tourist Larry Mitzel of Saskatoon, Canada, who handed a reporter his business card in case he goes missing. "I'm scared of riots. I'm scared of the locals. We might get caught in the crossfire.'' Four days after Hurricane Katrina roared in with a devastating blow that inflicted potentially thousands of deaths, the frustration, fear, and anger mounted, despite the promise of 1,400 National Guardsmen a day to stop the looting, plans for a $10 billion recovery bill in Congress and a government relief effort President Bush called the biggest in U.S. history. New Orleans' top emergency management official called that effort a "national disgrace'' and questioned when reinforcements would actually reach the increasingly lawless city. About 15,000 to 20,000 people who had taken shelter at New Orleans convention center grew increasingly hostile after waiting for buses for days amid the filth and the dead. Police Chief Eddie Compass said he sent in 88 officers to quell the situation at the building, but they were quickly driven back by an angry mob. "We have individuals who are getting raped, we have individuals who are getting beaten,'' Compass said. "Tourists are walking in that direction and they are getting preyed upon.'' A military helicopter tried to land at the convention center several times to drop off food and water. But the rushing crowd forced the choppers to back off. Troopers then tossed the supplies to the crowd from 10 feet off the ground and flew away. In hopes of defusing the situation at the convention center, Mayor Ray Nagin gave the refugees permission to march across a bridge to the city's unflooded west bank for whatever relief they could find. But the bedlam made that difficult. "This is a desperate SOS,'' Nagin said in a statement. "Right now, we are out of resources at the convention center and don't anticipate enough buses.'' At least seven bodies were scattered outside the convention center, a makeshift staging area for those rescued from rooftops, attics, and highways. The sidewalks were packed with people without food, water or medical care, and with no sign of law enforcement. An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet. "I don't treat my dog like that,'' 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair. The street outside the center, above the floodwaters, smelled of urine and feces, and was choked with dirty diapers, old bottles, and garbage. "They've been teasing us with buses for four days,'' Edwards said. "They're telling us they're going to come get us one day, and then they don't show up.'' Every so often, an armored state police vehicle cruised in front of the convention center with four or five officers in riot gear with automatic weapons. But there was no sign of help from the National Guard. At one point, the crowd began to chant "We want help! We want help!" Later, a woman, screaming, went on the front steps of the convention center and led the crowd in reciting the 23rd Psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd ...'' "We are out here like pure animals,'' the Issac Clark said. "We've got people dying out here -- two babies have died, a woman died, a man died,'' said Helen Cheek. "We haven't had no food, we haven't had no water, we haven't had nothing. They just brought us here and dropped us.'' Tourist Debbie Durso of Washington, Mich., said she asked a police officer for assistance and his response was, "'Go to hell -- it's every man for himself'." "This is just insanity,'' she said. "We have no food, no water ... all these trucks and buses go by and they do nothing but wave.'' At the hot and stinking Superdome, where 30,000 were being evacuated by bus to the Houston Astrodome, fistfights and fires erupted amid a seething sea of tense, suffering people who waited in a lines that stretched a half-mile to board yellow school buses. After a traffic jam kept buses from arriving for nearly four hours, a near-riot broke out in the scramble to get on the buses that finally did show up, with a group of refugees breaking through a line of heavily armed National Guardsmen. One military policeman was shot in the leg as he and a man scuffled for the MP's rifle, police Capt. Ernie Demmo said. The man was arrested. Some of those among the mostly poor crowd had been in the dome for four days without air conditioning, working toilets or a place to bathe. An ambulance service airlifting the sick and injured out of the Superdome suspended flights as too dangerous after it was reported that a bullet was fired at a military helicopter. "If they're just taking us anywhere, just anywhere, I say praise God,'' said refugee John Phillip. "Nothing could be worse than what we've been through.'' By Thursday evening, 11 hours after the military began evacuating the Superdome, the arena held 10,000 more people than it did at dawn. National Guard Capt. John Pollard said evacuees from around the city poured into the Superdome and swelled the crowd to about 30,000 because they believed the arena was the best place to get a ride out of town. As he watched a line snaking for blocks through ankle-deep waters, New Orleans' emergency operations chief Terry Ebbert blamed the inadequate response on the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "This is not a FEMA operation. I haven't seen a single FEMA guy,'' he said. He added: "We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans.'' FEMA officials said some operations had to be suspended in areas where gunfire has broken out. A day after Nagin took 1,500 police officers off search-and-rescue duty to try to restore order in the streets, there were continued reports of looting, shootings, gunfire, and carjackings -- and not all the crimes were driven by greed. When some hospitals try to airlift patients, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesan said, "there are people just taking potshots at police and at helicopters, telling them, 'You better come get my family'." Outside a looted Rite-Aid drugstore, some people were anxious to show they needed what they were taking. A gray-haired man, who would not give his name, pulled up his T-shirt to show a surgery scar and explained that he needs pads for incontinence. "I'm a Christian. I feel bad going in there,'' he said. Earl Baker carried toothpaste, toothbrushes, and deodorant. "Look, I'm only getting necessities,'' he said. "All of this is personal hygiene. I ain't getting nothing to get drunk or high with.'' While floodwaters in the city appeared to stabilize, efforts continued to plug three breaches that had opened up in the levee system that protects this below-sea-level city. Helicopters dropped sandbags into the breach and pilings were being pounded into the mouth of the canal Thursday to close its connection to Lake Pontchartrain, state Transportation Secretary Johnny Bradberry said. He said contractors had completed building a rock road to let heavy equipment roll to the area by midnight. The next step called for using about 250 concrete road barriers to seal the gap. In Washington, the White House said Bush will tour the devastated Gulf Coast region on Friday and has asked his father, former President George H.W. Bush, and former President Clinton to lead a private fund-raising campaign for victims. The president urged a crackdown on the lawlessness. "I think there ought to be zero tolerance of people breaking the law during an emergency such as this -- whether it be looting, or price gouging at the gasoline pump, or taking advantage of charitable giving or insurance fraud,'' Bush said. "And I've made that clear to our attorney general. The citizens ought to be working together.'' Donald Dudley, a 55-year-old New Orleans seafood merchant, complained that when he and other hungry refugees broke into the kitchen of the convention center and tried to prepare food, the National Guard chased them away. "They pulled guns and told us we had to leave that kitchen or they would blow our damn brains out,'' he said. "We don't want their help. Give us some vehicles and we'll get ourselves out of here!'' -------- Original Message -------- Subject: (2) Gulf Coast Chaos Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:39:26 EDT There are times when America actually looks like the Third World county it is. Local: Chicago Doctor Stranded in New Orleans Treats Victims Thursday, September 1, 2005 / 7:26 a.m. by Steve Grzanich WBBM Newsradio 780 A Chicago doctor, who is stranded in New Orleans, is helping victims of the hurricanes and has some harsh criticism of the emergency response to the disaster. "The misery in the city, we can see it from our windows. It is just unbelievable," said Dr. James Sullivan, an infectious disease specialist at Chicago's Saint Joseph Hospital. Sullivan has a third floor room in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New Orleans which is surrounded by five feet of floodwater. "This is going to deteriorate every day," said Sullivan about the growing human toll in New Orleans. He had an ominous prediction. "Three to 12 days from now, we will start to see massive diarrhea outbreaks, vomiting, and illness from all out virus. Thats what is going to happen and there are no medical facilities. When that starts people will die." With several colleagues and police, Dr. Sullivan raided a nearby pharmacy and turned the hotel into a makeshift clinic. He and his colleagues have treated dozens of people. "Where the hell are the aircraft that are over in Iraq that ought to be coming down and taking people out. I am so furious at the lack of response here," Sullivan said. >From the roof of his hotel, Sullivan said he can see looting, fires, and he can hear gunfire. He had no idea when he might be able to return to Chicago. ) Copyright 2005 WBBM Newsradio 780. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Love is all there is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ImpeachGeorgeWBush SPONSORED LINKS Trademark united state United state military United state patent United state grant United state coin United state citizenship _____ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS * Visit your group " ImpeachGeorgeWBush" on the web. * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050902/22f9161f/attachment.html From johnerichardson at cds-web.net Fri Sep 2 13:11:08 2005 From: johnerichardson at cds-web.net (John E Richardson) Date: Fri Sep 2 13:09:59 2005 Subject: [LNC] Privatization of warfare Message-ID: Dear Ian, many thanks for this. You may also be interested to look up this book, if you hadn't already: P. W. Singer (2003) Corporate Warriors: The rise of the privatised military industry. Ithaca/London: Cornell Uni Press. all the best John > This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to > consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to > properly handle MIME multipart messages. > > > Hello all, > > I stumbled across this list during the summer and I'm pleased to discover it is still in use. > > At the bottom is an op ed piece that identifies well the advantages of privatizing military engagements particularly in the context of what Martin Shaw terms risk-transfer warfare (http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/205shaw.htm). Not only do military planners seek to transfer risks to over to local ground forces but increasingly they see the advantages in transferring duties and risk to PMCs which do not face the same sorts of public scrutiny as does the military. Death again becomes a private affair. > > War profiteering is obviously nothing new - particularly since the industrialization of warfare - nor is the use of mercenaries, but it seems to me that the increasing reliance upon PMCs outlines precisely the way that 'regime change' has become a sort of '(ad)venture capitalism'. > > http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edpnewvoices08080805aug08,0,4800426.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines > > Ian > > > Ian Roderick, PhD > Communication Studies > Wilfrid Laurier University > http://ianroderick.com > > > John E Richardson Dept of Social Sciences Loughborough University From irenaknezevic at hotmail.com Fri Sep 2 16:01:11 2005 From: irenaknezevic at hotmail.com (irena knezevic) Date: Fri Sep 2 16:01:13 2005 Subject: [LNC] new orleans stories Message-ID: the links to "white people find" and "black people loot" have already been altered due to a "controversy" below is another interesting story. Sep. 2, 2005. 09:55 AM The Toronto Star New Orleans on a hair-trigger Star duo caught in crossfire between police and gunmen 'Stop the car right now,' reporter told. `Back up, or I'll shoot' TIM HARPER WASHINGTON BUREAU NEW ORLEANS - I wheeled the car around and headed back to the scene of the shooting, looking for Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk, when the officer turned, spotted me and pointed the shotgun right at the windshield. "Stop the car right now. Back up, or I'll shoot," he screamed. A couple of others cocked their weapons and trained their guns on the car, purpose in their eyes. Instinctively, I raised my hands above the wheel and gunned the Pontiac in reverse over fallen tree limbs and debris in the street. This was our indoctrination into a Big Easy that'll never make a picture postcard. Minutes earlier, as Oleniuk and I first saw downtown New Orleans looming after a long odyssey to get into the locked-down city, he shouted at me to stop when he spotted armed officers crouched behind a cruiser, training their guns on an apartment block. His welcome to the besieged city came the second he left the vehicle when three shots rang out — a quick "pop-pop-pop." Oleniuk stumbled behind a lamppost for protection and began shooting photos. In seconds, as many as 40 officers sped to the scene, most in marked cars — but one in a Kinko's van — some of whom set up behind Oleniuk, their guns aimed over his left shoulder. Others, guns drawn, shouted at me to get out of the way. Realizing he was in the line of fire, Oleniuk raced for cover behind a cruiser and worked alongside a group of police as they fired into the building. After 15 minutes, the last of more than 350 images shot by Oleniuk depicted officers delivering a fierce beating to the two suspects, an assault so fearsome one of the suspects defecated. Realizing their frontier justice had been captured for posterity, the police turned on the photographer, one ripping a camera from his neck with such force it broke its shoulder strap. Another grabbed a second camera and, somewhere in the melee, Oleniuk's press pass was ripped from his neck. The officers fumbled with the cameras, finally pulling out the memory cards with the photos. Oleniuk pleaded for the return of his cameras, was rebuffed, then, after retreating about a block, approached them again and asked for his cameras back. One of the officers who had been hunkered down with Oleniuk during the 15-minute shootout said he could have his cameras, but when he asked again for his pictures, he was gruffly told: "If you don't get your ass out of here, I'm going to break your motherf---ing jaw." In the chaos that is New Orleans, police menacingly pointed loaded weapons at me four times, and Oleniuk and I watched later when four officers armed with machineguns, after first demanding to know where we were going, turned on an approaching cab and screamed at the Hispanic driver to get his hands off the wheel or they'd open fire. When he wouldn't do so immediately, it appeared for a split second that he would be shot on the spot. Mercifully, his shaky hands finally appeared above the dash. Because New Orleans is under martial law, police need no reason to stop and search anyone or pull them off the street. There's no doubt they see journalists as an impediment to their efforts to regain control of their city. But they have also been shot by snipers and looters in the nighttime chaos, and anyone who drives through this city these days knows what it's like to get a little twitchy. As one navigates ravaged New Orleans from the east, through Kenner and Jefferson Parish, past the airport and toward the French Quarter, driving flooded streets till the filthy water gets too deep, then trying alternate routes, it is the human toll, not the physical toll, which worsens. First, there is a single barefoot man walking aimlessly along Airline Highway. Then others slogging through the floodwaters of Metairie. Then families trudging dispiritedly along the roads of Kenner. Then, by the time you get to Napoleon and St. Charles in New Orleans, close to 100 sit silently in the middle of debris, watching the strange car navigate among the downed trees in their neighbourhood. Later, down St. Charles, some try to stop you to ask for rides — "I have a baby ..." — others glare sardonically, while others peer at the car blankly. Through downtown, toward the French Quarter, the refugees congregate in groups of 10 or 20. Some have guns, some have crowbars or iron bars, and, mindful of carjackings, you dispense with the hurricane etiquette of treating darkened intersections as four-way stops. When you park on Canal St. to get a sense of the enormity of the refugee flow as people come down the Interstate overpass, many pushing shopping carts or luggage racks, you sense the desperation. You park close to where others are parked and you regret that you can't pack them all in your backseat and get them out of there. And you wonder where the relief workers are. Additional articles by Tim Harper From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 2 20:22:42 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 2 20:22:45 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: A way for the phoneless to communicate Message-ID: <200509030022.j830Mfs26338@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Also, a discussion emerges about these same photos that you have posted. - Kandace On Sep 2, 2005, at 5:23 AM, Phil Graham wrote: > > > From: Allan LUKE (CRPP) [mailto:aluke@nie.edu.sg] > Sent: September 2, 2005 2:33 AM > To: Phil Graham; OSBORNE Margery Diane (CRPP, NSSE); James Ladwig; > KRAMER-DAHL Anneliese (ELL); KWEK Beng Kiat, Dennis (CRPP); Ruth > Wokak (E-mail); Gunther Kress; Hilary Janks; Lilie chouliaraki > Subject: FW: White people "find", while black people "loot"!?!? > > this from kris gutierrez - worth a look. > > > Professor Allan Luke > > Dean > > Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice > > National Institute of Education > > Nanyang Technological University > > Singapore 637616 > > > Tel : 65-67903185 > > Fax: 65-68969845 > > Email: aluke@nie.edu.sg > > http://www.crpp.nie.edu.sg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kris Gutierrez [mailto:krisgu@ucla.edu] > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:22 PM > To: alfredo; maria.s; Allan LUKE (CRPP) > Subject: Fwd: White people "find", while black people "loot"!?!? > > hope this pictures come through. kris > Kris D. 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Grewal) Date: Sat Sep 3 19:43:49 2005 Subject: [LNC] BUSH AND THE RACISM LABEL GATHERING STENGTH In-Reply-To: <431A200D.7060401@uq.net.au> References: <431A200D.7060401@uq.net.au> Message-ID: Here is the view of one of the defenders of Bush and a committed "left" basher http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_212498.shtml It shows Bush afficianadoes are slowly coming out in force. Baljit On 04/09/05, John Matson wrote: > > > > http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/85A3FD8F-F6C6-4A13-9FE1-4BF54FD3CEF4.htm > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/opinion/03dowd.html?th&emc=th > > _______________________________________________ > LNC mailing list > LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We invite commentaries that seek to question, reframe, and think through the gender politics of religion, religious nationalism, and religious communities especially as they are constituted in and through the media. How are women constituted as subjects of the discourses of religion, nation, and community? Are women active agents and actors in constituting these powerful imagined communities? What feminist perspectives can be developed on questions that involve religion, media, and imagined communities? How might these contribute to feminist activism in relation to both marginal and mainstream forms of global media? We invite short contributions (a maximum of 2,000 words, which may incorporate photographs), in relation to these increasingly significant and contentious issues, that set up the parameters of debate, or promote a polemical point of view, report on work-in-progress or activist initiatives, or review recent publications or conferences. Please send via email to jane.arthurs@blueyonder.co.uk and ushazs@yahoo.com before October 14th 2005. Jane Arthurs, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Usha Zacharias, Westfield State College, Massachusetts, USA. John E Richardson Dept of Social Sciences Loughborough University From johnerichardson at cds-web.net Sun Sep 4 06:52:12 2005 From: johnerichardson at cds-web.net (John E Richardson) Date: Sun Sep 4 06:50:53 2005 Subject: [LNC] New online journal: Fifth Estate Online Message-ID: http://www.fifth-estate-online.co.uk/ Fifth-Estate-Online is an international, interactive on-line journal of radical media thinking and critical practice. It is a forum for all those who are deeply concerned about the historical and current role and power of the mass media in society, and who seek radical change. If you are interested in radical mass media criticism (RMMC), its ideas, practice and actions, this site is one to stay in contact with. Fifth-Estate-Online is based on the understanding that the mass media have, over the last 150 years, systematically failed to act as the critical 'fourth estate' that they have pretended to be. Instead they have consistently represented the interests of, and functioned as an integral component of the elites controlling society and determining policy. They have thus sabotaged rather than promoted democratic processes and civic interests. More recently, globalisation and the implementation of new technology have reinforced this position, to the extent that the mass media now often look like the first estate. John E Richardson Dept of Social Sciences Loughborough University From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Sun Sep 4 18:38:02 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Sun Sep 4 18:38:20 2005 Subject: [LNC] Fallujah Floods the Superdome Message-ID: <200509042238.j84Mc7C19610@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Frank Rich | Fallujah Floods the Superdome http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090405D.shtml Frank Rich: As the levees cracked open and ushered hell into New Orleans on Tuesday, President Bush once again chose to fly away from Washington, not toward it, while disaster struck. We can all enumerate the many differences between a natural catastrophe and a terrorist attack. But character doesn't change: it is immutable, and it is destiny. From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Mon Sep 5 18:54:37 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Mon Sep 5 18:54:58 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: "This place is going to look like Little Somalia" Message-ID: <200509052254.j85MsfK08913@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> _____ From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] Sent: September 5, 2005 5:36 PM To: mark.miller@nyu.edu Subject: "This place is going to look like Little Somalia" --> http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1077495.php Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans By Joseph R. Chenelly Times staff writer NEW ORLEANS - Combat operations are underway on the streets "to take this city back" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "This place is going to look like Little Somalia," Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard's Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. "We're going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control." Jones said the military first needs to establish security throughout the city. Military and police officials have said there are several large areas of the city are in a full state of anarchy. Dozens of military trucks and up-armored Humvees left the staging area just after 11 a.m. Friday, while hundreds more troops arrived at the same staging area in the city via Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters. "We're here to do whatever they need us to do," Sgt. 1st Class Ron Dixon, of the Oklahoma National Guard's 1345th Transportation Company. "We packed to stay as long as it takes." While some fight the insurgency in the city, other carry on with rescue and evacuation operations. Helicopters are still pulling hundreds of stranded people from rooftops of flooded homes. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and police helicopters filled the city sky Friday morning. Most had armed soldiers manning the doors. According to Petty Officer 3rd Class Jeremy Grishamn, a spokesman for the amphibious assault ship Bataan, the vessel kept its helicopters at sea Thursday night after several military helicopters reported being shot at from the ground. Numerous soldiers also told Army Times that they have been shot at by armed civilians in New Orleans. Spokesmen for the Joint Task Force Headquarters at the Superdome were unaware of any servicemen being wounded in the streets, although one soldier is recovering from a gunshot wound sustained during a struggle with a civilian in the dome Wednesday night. "I never thought that at a National Guardsman I would be shot at by other Americans," said Spc. Philip Baccus of the 527th Engineer Battalion. "And I never thought I'd have to carry a rifle when on a hurricane relief mission. This is a disgrace." Spc. Cliff Ferguson of the 527th Engineer Battalion pointed out that he knows there are plenty of decent people in New Orleans, but he said it is hard to stay motivated considering the circumstances. "This is making a lot of us think about not reenlisting." Ferguson said. "You have to think about whether it is worth risking your neck for someone who will turn around and shoot at you. We didn't come here to fight a war. We came here to help." Back to top -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050905/4f7d6914/attachment.html From jhuns at vt.edu Tue Sep 6 12:55:44 2005 From: jhuns at vt.edu (Jeremy Hunsinger) Date: Tue Sep 6 12:56:09 2005 Subject: [LNC] Fwd: Katrina -- one week after References: <00aa01c5b303$4fe81210$90bce244@familyroom> Message-ID: <4487C87B-844B-4B77-8EEA-A45DDC766B8C@vt.edu> Distribute as appropriate: Begin forwarded message: > From: Wesley Shrum > Date: September 6, 2005 12:52:05 PM EDT > To: 'jeremy hunsinger' > Subject: Katrina -- one week after > . > **** > > On Sept 5, one week after Katrina, a team of ten people conducted > qualitative interviews in the parking lot with approximately 50 > displaced > persons at a central Baton Rouge location. Afterwards, we met for > a couple > of hours, to abstract a consensus view of what we had learned. It is > important to keep in mind that we spoke with individuals with some > mobility > (own car, other?s car, bus) that had been displaced by Hurricane > Katrina and > we have not yet interviewed those living in collective shelters. > > --The vast majority are from the New Orleans metropolitan area > (including > Kenner, Metairie, Chalmette, but not the New Orleans North Shore or > Plaquemines). The vast majority of displaced persons are staying > in private > homes. > > --The further one goes away from hurricane areas, the more, the > better, and > the quicker is the assistance (people came back to Baton Rouge > because they > want to be closer to home, even in spite of reduced assistance). > > --Crime and fear of crime was universally unobserved or > insignificant, both > for early and late evacuees. > > --Blacks are more committed to returning home to New Orleans than > whites, > who express more reservations about returning (note, this does not > take into > account social class). > > --Displaced people have received assistance from (in order of > importance), > family, friends, and strangers. Churches have helped. Public > (government) > assistance was not just negligible?no member of the team recalled any > instance of government assistance reported by this group of > individuals (in > the rare cases where help was requested, it was not provided). > > --Most people consider themselves to be very lucky, doing well, or > doing > reasonably well given the circumstances. They are not requesting > assistance > (beyond that they are receiving, and some of the most fortunate > have their > own means). But the minority of persons who are not doing well > DESPERATELY > NEED HELP. > > --The main concerns are financial, for a place to stay, and > education for > their children. > > Put simply, depending on how long before they move back (if they > do), people > are worried that they will wear out their residential welcome. > > Summarized by W. Shrum, 5 September 2005 > http://worldsci.net World Summit event in Tunisia > http://worldsci.net/global Science & Development Project site > http://4sonline.net Society for Social Studies of Science > http://www.lsu.edu/sociology > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Tue Sep 6 19:36:31 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Tue Sep 6 19:36:56 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: William Rivers Pitt | Washing Away the Conservative Movement Message-ID: <200509062336.j86Nabo07851@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> -----Original Message----- From: t r u t h o u t [mailto:messenger@truthout.org] Sent: September 6, 2005 5:16 PM To: pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca Subject: William Rivers Pitt | Washing Away the Conservative Movement William Rivers Pitt, Nicholas D. Kristof, Woolsey renews push for Iraq exit strategy, rebels respond to US efforts to secure an Iraqi town and more ... Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org Mayday Mississippi Delta http://www.truthout.org/mayday.shtml TO begins round-the-clock information support for everyone impacted by Katrina. We will provide the best sources available for the most up-to-date and expansive coverage possible. Go directly to our coverage of Cindy Sheehan's courageous stand in Crawford, Texas. http://truthout.org/cindy.shtml Join fellow bloggers at the t r u t h o u t Town Meeting. Get perspective on today's important issues from TO's editorial team and prominent guest bloggers. Join the debate! http://forum.truthout.org/blog t r u t h o u t | 09.06 William Rivers Pitt | Washing Away the Conservative Movement http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605A.shtml William Rivers Pitt argues that what we are seeing in New Orleans is the end result of what can be best described as extended Reaganomics. Small government, budget cuts across the board, tax cuts meant to financially strangle the ability of federal agencies to function, the diversion of billions of what is left in the budget into military spending: This has been the aim and desire of the conservative movement for decades now. The house of cards has fallen in. A generation of conservative thinking, combined with five years of neoconservative thrashing, has finally come to an unavoidable head. Senator Clinton: Oil Firms Turn Katrina Into Profits http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605B.shtml Pressed by constituents alarmed by skyrocketing gasoline prices in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) accused oil companies of manipulating energy markets to enhance profits and decried a lack of national leadership for a plan to free the country from dependence on foreign oil. Woolsey Renews Push for Exit Strategy in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605C.shtml In her latest attempt to pressure the Bush administration to revise its Iraqi policies, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), is planning to bring several national security experts before a hearing next week to discuss strategies to conclude the conflict. Nicholas D. Kristof | The Larger Shame http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605D.shtml The wretchedness coming across our television screens from Louisiana has illuminated the way children sometimes pay with their lives, even in America, for being born to poor families. It has also underscored the Bush administration's ongoing reluctance or ineptitude in helping the poorest Americans, Kristof remarks. But Hurricane Katrina also underscores a much larger problem: the growing number of Americans trapped in a never-ending cyclone of poverty. Michael Parenti | How the Free Market Killed New Orleans http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605E.shtml Parenti explains how the free market played a crucial role in the destruction of New Orleans and the death of thousands of its residents. Forewarned that a momentous (force 5) hurricane was going to hit that city and surrounding areas, officials, announced that everyone should evacuate. Everyone was expected to devise their own way out of the disaster area by private means, just like people do when disaster hits free-market Third World countries. Brutal Attack By Soldiers Left Innocent Iraqi Dead http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605F.shtml An army court martial yesterday heard the first graphic account of how seven British soldiers allegedly carried out a "brutal" and "unprovoked" attack on a group of Iraqi civilians that led to the death of an unarmed teenager from severe head injuries. As US Tries to Secure an Iraqi Town, Rebels Respond http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605G.shtml The American military recently moved into this small town 10 miles south of Fallujah, one of the most violent locales in Iraq, to secure it for the coming elections, and the insurgents took all of a day to respond. They fired a rocket that missed the Americans and landed instead in a nearby playground, killing a 12-year-old boy and wounding eight other children. Mega-Disaster, Live! http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605H.shtml Resurrected from their patriotic torpor after the shocks of the September 11 attacks and their recruitment into the Army on the battlefield in Iraq, American television networks revealed the drama that unfolded in Louisiana, their journalists discovering and living the disaster of 200,000 people abandoned to their fate. Bush Fails to Stem Anger http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605I.shtml Mr Bush's visit was his second to the disaster zone in four days, as more reports of government incompetence surfaced amid calls for the dismissal of top officials, particularly at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The City Where the Dead Are Left Lying on the Streets http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605J.shtml In a makeshift grave on the streets of New Orleans lies the body of Vera Smith. She was an ordinary woman who, like thousands of her neighbours, died because she was poor. Abandoned to her fate as the waters rose around her, Vera's tragedy symbolises the great divide in America today. Rebels Take Control of Town of Qaim http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605K.shtml Fighters loyal to militant leader Abu Musab Zarqawi asserted control over the key Iraqi border town of Qaim on Monday, killing US collaborators and enforcing strict Islamic law, according to tribal members, officials, residents and others in the town and nearby villages. San Jose Mercury News | Congress Must Block Move to Name Far Right Judge http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605L.shtml The stakes are high: Senate Democrats and moderate Republicans must not waiver or compromise. They must warn Bush: They will not confirm an ideologue to the court or elevate a conservative activist - justices Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas - as chief justice. Tom Engelhardt | The Perfect Storm and the Feral City http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605M.shtml Tom Englehardt comments that in the last week we've seen many of the black poor of New Orleans not only left behind in a new Atlantis, but thousands upon thousands of them - those who didn't die in their wheelchairs, or on highway overpasses, or in the ill-fated convention center, or unattended and forgotten in their homes - sent off on what looked very much like a new trail of tears. Annan Fights to Keep UN Reform Measure Alive http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605N.shtml With next week's UN summit looming, Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned the world's nations Monday that they have just a few days to salvage "a once in a generation opportunity" to fight poverty and overhaul the United Nations. J. Sri Raman | Bush-Singh Nuclear Deal Creates Fresh Sino-Indian Strains http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605O.shtml The US Congress session beginning September 6 is set to discuss legislative changes that the recent US-India nuclear deal will need. India will be watching the Congress proceedings in this connection with interest. The concern of some Indians, however, will be about whether the US lawmakers will consider at all the consequences of the deal for peace and stability in South Asia and in a larger part of Asia. GOP Agenda Shifts as Political Trials Grow http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605P.shtml As the pressure on Republicans builds, Democrats are sounding emboldened. One sign of GOP unease: The Senate was supposed to vote this week on whether to permanently repeal the estate tax, but Frist said yesterday that the bill will be temporarily shelved. Helping Katrina's Victims http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605Q.shtml As the nation watches stunned by the images of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, an Indian tribe has opened its doors to shelter victims while individual Natives are heading to the damaged areas to help out. Marjorie Cohn | John Roberts: Uncompassionate Conservative http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605Y.shtml Marjorie Cohn's documentation of Roberts' record reveals a callous disregard for the rights of people very much like the tens of thousands who have died and been rendered homeless by Katrina. John Roberts' career has established his credentials as an uncompassionate conservative. A Roberts Court, Cohn warns, would threaten the rights of all but the rich and powerful. It is time for the Democrats to utter the "f" word: Filibuster. Iraqi Rebels Launch Daring Daylight Assault http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605Z.shtml Rebels launched a daring daylight assault Monday against the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, killing two police in a surge of attacks by al-Qaida's arm in Iraq. Two British soldiers died in a roadside bombing in the south. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ You are subscribed as: pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca Click to REMOVE -> mailto:leave-259254-92679Y@news.truthout.org Go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org Click to SUBSCRIBE -> http://truthout.org/subscribe.htm Our Privacy Policy -> http://truthout.org/privacypolicy.htm From jhuns at vt.edu Wed Sep 7 17:19:02 2005 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Wed Sep 7 17:19:27 2005 Subject: [LNC] michael berube vs the Bush media machine Message-ID: this is an interesting critique of some recent media. http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/comments/717/ From iroderick at wlu.ca Thu Sep 8 09:39:28 2005 From: iroderick at wlu.ca (Ian Roderick) Date: Thu Sep 8 09:40:26 2005 Subject: [LNC] More on the privatization of warfare Message-ID: >From The Heritage Foundation "Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense." http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/hl896.cfm "In the future, the private sector--not the government--will likely make the largest investments in the basic research and product development that create the technologies with the greatest capacity to change the nature of combat. In turn, how the private sector chooses to develop these technologies, apart from the guidance or prohibitions established by governments, may determine how future conflicts are fought." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050908/affb7943/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 11:35:13 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 8 11:35:38 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina Message-ID: <200509081535.j88FZCR24060@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> One thing that continues to plague me: how do we analyse or understand significant absences? Any ideas?? Phil _____ From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] Sent: September 8, 2005 11:14 AM To: mark.miller@nyu.edu Subject: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina --> Federal Government Attempts to Block Press Access To New Orleans In New Orleans the federal government is being accused of trying to censor the images coming out of the devastated city. The Reuters news agency is reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is now rejecting requests by journalists to accompany rescue boats searching for storm victims. In addition journalists are being asked not to photograph any dead bodies in the region. Critics of FEMA's request compared the policy to the Pentagon's policy that bars reporters from taking photographs of the caskets of soldiers killed in Iraq. NBC News Anchor Brian Williams is reporting that police officers have been seen aiming their weapons at members of the media. And a blogger named Bob Brigham has written a widely read dispatch that the National Guard in Jefferson County are under orders to turn all journalists away. Brigham writes *Bush is now censoring all reporting from New Orleans Louisiana. The First Amendment sank with the city.* -- http://www.democracynow.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050908/bc779851/attachment.html From joumib at langate.gsu.edu Thu Sep 8 11:51:06 2005 From: joumib at langate.gsu.edu (Michael Bruner) Date: Thu Sep 8 11:53:39 2005 Subject: [LNC] mapping absence Message-ID: Hi Phil, This is a rather typical, and highly disturbing, attempt at controlling public memory. I've attempted to explain a procedure for mapping absence in a relatively recent essay. M. Lane Bruner, "Rhetorical Criticism as Limit Work," Western Journal of Communication 66 (Summer 2002): 281-99. I know that many graduate students here in the US have begun to employ such a methodological approach when attempting to understand and map rejected or "transgressive" (unspeakable) speech (which is often, of course, truthful speech). Michael M. Lane Bruner Assoc. Professor of Critical Political Communication Graduate Director, Doctoral Program in Public Communication Department of Communication Georgia State University 1052 One Park Place Atlanta, GA 30303-4000 USA 404-651-3465 (o) 404-651-1409 (f) ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:35 AM >>> One thing that continues to plague me: how do we analyse or understand significant absences? Any ideas?? Phil _____ From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] Sent: September 8, 2005 11:14 AM To: mark.miller@nyu.edu Subject: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina --> Federal Government Attempts to Block Press Access To New Orleans In New Orleans the federal government is being accused of trying to censor the images coming out of the devastated city. The Reuters news agency is reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is now rejecting requests by journalists to accompany rescue boats searching for storm victims. In addition journalists are being asked not to photograph any dead bodies in the region. Critics of FEMA's request compared the policy to the Pentagon's policy that bars reporters from taking photographs of the caskets of soldiers killed in Iraq. NBC News Anchor Brian Williams is reporting that police officers have been seen aiming their weapons at members of the media. And a blogger named Bob Brigham has written a widely read dispatch that the National Guard in Jefferson County are under orders to turn all journalists away. Brigham writes *Bush is now censoring all reporting from New Orleans Louisiana. The First Amendment sank with the city.* -- http://www.democracynow.org From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 11:56:08 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 8 11:56:40 2005 Subject: [LNC] mapping absence In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks Michael. Do you have an electronic copy. I'm very interested to read it. Best, Phil On 08/09/2005, at 11:51 AM, Michael Bruner wrote: > Hi Phil, > > This is a rather typical, and highly disturbing, attempt at > controlling public memory. > > I've attempted to explain a procedure for mapping absence in a > relatively recent essay. M. Lane Bruner, "Rhetorical Criticism as > Limit Work," Western Journal of Communication 66 (Summer 2002): > 281-99. I know that many graduate students here in the US have > begun to employ such a methodological approach when attempting to > understand and map rejected or "transgressive" (unspeakable) speech > (which is often, of course, truthful speech). > > Michael > > M. Lane Bruner > Assoc. Professor of Critical Political Communication > Graduate Director, Doctoral Program in Public Communication > Department of Communication > Georgia State University > 1052 One Park Place > Atlanta, GA 30303-4000 > USA > 404-651-3465 (o) > 404-651-1409 (f) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >>>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:35 AM >>> >>>> > One thing that continues to plague me: how do we analyse or understand > significant absences? > > Any ideas?? > Phil > > _____ > > From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] > Sent: September 8, 2005 11:14 AM > To: mark.miller@nyu.edu > Subject: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina > > > --> > > Federal Government Attempts to Block Press Access To New Orleans > > In New Orleans the federal government is being accused of trying to > censor > the images coming out of the devastated city. The Reuters news > agency is > reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is now > rejecting > requests by journalists to accompany rescue boats searching for storm > victims. In addition journalists are being asked not to photograph > any dead > bodies in the region. Critics of FEMA's request compared the policy > to the > Pentagon's policy that bars reporters from taking photographs of > the caskets > of soldiers killed in Iraq. > > NBC News Anchor Brian Williams is reporting that police officers > have been > seen aiming their weapons at members of the media. And a blogger > named Bob > Brigham has written a widely read dispatch that the National Guard in > Jefferson County are under orders to turn all journalists away. > Brigham > writes *Bush is now censoring all reporting from New Orleans > Louisiana. The > First Amendment sank with the city.* > -- > http://www.democracynow.org > > _______________________________________________ > LNC mailing list > LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc > From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 13:25:22 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 8 13:25:54 2005 Subject: [LNC] The Visible Hand Message-ID: <1371A3A0-EE6B-49A6-80D6-A45965B013CF@uwaterloo.ca> Government Intervention in Stock Market is Detailed by New Report, GATA Says Tuesday September 6, 8:30 am ET http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050906/65371.html MANCHESTER, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2005--A major Canadian financial management firm that a year ago published a compilation of evidence of central bank manipulation of the gold price has just done the same in regard to the U.S. stock market and has reached a similar conclusion. ADVERTISEMENT The new report is titled "Move Over, Adam Smith: The Visible Hand of Uncle Sam," and has been published by Sprott Asset Management of Toronto. It was written by the firm's president, John P. Embry, and his assistant, Andrew Hepburn, and concludes that the U.S. government has intervened to support the stock market so many times that "what apparently started as a stopgap measure may have morphed into a serious moral hazard situation, with market manipulation an endemic feature of the U.S. stock market." The new report relies largely on reports of news organizations and the essays and research papers of economics academics that, as might be expected, have not been well-publicized in the United States. But some of these reports have been circulated by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee over the years. The Sprott report does not maintain that the government should never intervene in the stock market; it recognizes that certain emergencies may argue strongly for temporary intervention, such as the 1987 stock market crash and the terrorist attacks of September 2001. But, the Sprott report notes, frequent surreptitious intervention, conducted through intermediaries, the government's favored financial houses in New York, gives those intermediaries enormous advantages over ordinary investors. Frequent intervention, the Sprott report adds also makes it impossible to distinguish between national emergencies and political expediency. The Sprott report concludes: "Given the available information, we do not believe there can be any doubt that the U.S. government has intervened to support the stock market. Too much credible information exists to deny this. Yet virtually no one ever mentions government intervention publicly, preferring instead to pretend as if such activities have never taken place and never would. "It is time that market participants, the media and, most of all, the government acknowledge what should be blatantly obvious to anyone who reviews the public record on the matter: These markets have been interfered with on numerous occasions. Our primary concern is that what apparently started as a stopgap measure may have morphed into a serious moral hazard situation, with market manipulation an endemic feature of the U.S. stock market. "We have not taken a position on the wisdom of intervention in this paper, largely because exceptional circumstances could argue for it. In many respects, for instance, the apparent rescue after the 1987 crash and the planned intervention in the wake of September 11 were very defensible. Administered in extremely small doses and with the most stringent safeguards and transparency, market stabilization could be justified. "But a policy enacted in secret and knowingly withheld from the body politic has created a huge disconnect between those knowledgeable about such activities and the majority of the public, who have no clue whatsoever. "There can be no doubt that the firms responsible for implementing government interventions enjoy an enviable position unavailable to other investors. Whether they have been indemnified against potential losses or simply made privy to non-public government policy, the major Wall Street firms evidently responsible for preventing plunges no longer must compete on anywhere near a level playing field. It is most unfair that the immensely powerful have been further ensconced in their perched positions and thus effectively insulated from the competitive market forces ostensibly present in our society. "In addition to creating a privileged class, the manipulation also has little democratic legitimacy in the sense that the citizenry has not given its consent. This has tangible ramifications. By not informing the public, successive U.S. administrations have employed a dangerous policy response that is subject to the worst possible abuse. In this regard, the line between national necessity and political expediency has no doubt been perilously blurred. "We can only urge people to see what the evidence indicates and debate what is and ought to be a very contentious matter. The time for such a public discussion is long overdue." The Sprott report can be found in Adobe Acrobat format at the Sprott Internet site here: http://www.sprott.com/pdf/pressrelease/ TheVisibleHand.pdf It also can be found at the GATA Internet site here: http:// www.gata.org/SprottReportTheVisibleHand.pdf Contact: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Chris Powell, 860-646-0500 Source: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050908/8afa1eeb/attachment.html From joumib at langate.gsu.edu Thu Sep 8 14:48:28 2005 From: joumib at langate.gsu.edu (Michael Bruner) Date: Thu Sep 8 14:50:52 2005 Subject: [LNC] mapping absence Message-ID: Hi Phil, I tracked down a late draft on my old computer, and it is 99% of what the final article turned out to be . . . so hopefully it will suffice (it is in Word 97, hope you can read it). If not, let me know and I'll keep looking. Thanks for your interest, and I'd love to know what you think if you get around to reading it. Michael >>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:56 AM >>> Thanks Michael. Do you have an electronic copy. I'm very interested to read it. Best, Phil On 08/09/2005, at 11:51 AM, Michael Bruner wrote: > Hi Phil, > > This is a rather typical, and highly disturbing, attempt at > controlling public memory. > > I've attempted to explain a procedure for mapping absence in a > relatively recent essay. M. Lane Bruner, "Rhetorical Criticism as > Limit Work," Western Journal of Communication 66 (Summer 2002): > 281-99. I know that many graduate students here in the US have > begun to employ such a methodological approach when attempting to > understand and map rejected or "transgressive" (unspeakable) speech > (which is often, of course, truthful speech). > > Michael > > M. Lane Bruner > Assoc. Professor of Critical Political Communication > Graduate Director, Doctoral Program in Public Communication > Department of Communication > Georgia State University > 1052 One Park Place > Atlanta, GA 30303-4000 > USA > 404-651-3465 (o) > 404-651-1409 (f) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >>>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:35 AM >>> >>>> > One thing that continues to plague me: how do we analyse or understand > significant absences? > > Any ideas?? > Phil > > _____ > > From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] > Sent: September 8, 2005 11:14 AM > To: mark.miller@nyu.edu > Subject: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina > > > --> > > Federal Government Attempts to Block Press Access To New Orleans > > In New Orleans the federal government is being accused of trying to > censor > the images coming out of the devastated city. The Reuters news > agency is > reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is now > rejecting > requests by journalists to accompany rescue boats searching for storm > victims. In addition journalists are being asked not to photograph > any dead > bodies in the region. Critics of FEMA's request compared the policy > to the > Pentagon's policy that bars reporters from taking photographs of > the caskets > of soldiers killed in Iraq. > > NBC News Anchor Brian Williams is reporting that police officers > have been > seen aiming their weapons at members of the media. And a blogger > named Bob > Brigham has written a widely read dispatch that the National Guard in > Jefferson County are under orders to turn all journalists away. > Brigham > writes *Bush is now censoring all reporting from New Orleans > Louisiana. The > First Amendment sank with the city.* > -- > http://www.democracynow.org > > _______________________________________________ > LNC mailing list > LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc > _______________________________________________ LNC mailing list LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If not, let me > know and I'll keep looking. > > Thanks for your interest, and I'd love to know what you think if > you get around to reading it. > > Michael > > >>>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:56 AM >>> >>>> > Thanks Michael. Do you have an electronic copy. I'm very interested > to read it. > Best, > Phil > On 08/09/2005, at 11:51 AM, Michael Bruner wrote: > > >> Hi Phil, >> >> This is a rather typical, and highly disturbing, attempt at >> controlling public memory. >> >> I've attempted to explain a procedure for mapping absence in a >> relatively recent essay. M. Lane Bruner, "Rhetorical Criticism as >> Limit Work," Western Journal of Communication 66 (Summer 2002): >> 281-99. I know that many graduate students here in the US have >> begun to employ such a methodological approach when attempting to >> understand and map rejected or "transgressive" (unspeakable) speech >> (which is often, of course, truthful speech). >> >> Michael >> >> M. Lane Bruner >> Assoc. Professor of Critical Political Communication >> Graduate Director, Doctoral Program in Public Communication >> Department of Communication >> Georgia State University >> 1052 One Park Place >> Atlanta, GA 30303-4000 >> USA >> 404-651-3465 (o) >> 404-651-1409 (f) >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> >>>>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:35 AM >>> >>>>> >>>>> >> One thing that continues to plague me: how do we analyse or >> understand >> significant absences? >> >> Any ideas?? >> Phil >> >> _____ >> >> From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] >> Sent: September 8, 2005 11:14 AM >> To: mark.miller@nyu.edu >> Subject: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina >> >> >> --> >> >> Federal Government Attempts to Block Press Access To New Orleans >> >> In New Orleans the federal government is being accused of trying to >> censor >> the images coming out of the devastated city. The Reuters news >> agency is >> reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is now >> rejecting >> requests by journalists to accompany rescue boats searching for storm >> victims. In addition journalists are being asked not to photograph >> any dead >> bodies in the region. Critics of FEMA's request compared the policy >> to the >> Pentagon's policy that bars reporters from taking photographs of >> the caskets >> of soldiers killed in Iraq. >> >> NBC News Anchor Brian Williams is reporting that police officers >> have been >> seen aiming their weapons at members of the media. And a blogger >> named Bob >> Brigham has written a widely read dispatch that the National Guard in >> Jefferson County are under orders to turn all journalists away. >> Brigham >> writes *Bush is now censoring all reporting from New Orleans >> Louisiana. The >> First Amendment sank with the city.* >> -- >> http://www.democracynow.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LNC mailing list >> LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu >> http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > LNC mailing list > LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc > > > > _______________________________________________ > LNC mailing list > LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc > From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 15:14:45 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 8 15:15:22 2005 Subject: [LNC] Fwd: Murder References: Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: Mark Crispin Miller > Date: 8 September 2005 2:18:24 PM > To: Mark Crispin Miller > Subject: Murder > > > http://buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/09/mai05241.html > > -snip- > > Subject: FEMA Wants No Photos of Dead 9/7 > > Just like Operation Iraq Freedom. No photos of the dead. > > I went to the Bring the Troops Home Tour in Evanston, IL last > night. I heard many heartbreaking and breathtaking speakers. Many > were Gold Star Parents. Some were anti-war and Peace activists. > There was a Blue Star wife - her husband is awaiting deployment to > Iraq in November. One of the most heartbreaking story I heard was > that told by the father of a soldier who - if I have the timeline > correct, was scheduled to return from Iraq, and was killed > reportedly by his own hand, just hours before his return. The > family wanted to attend his return in Dover. They were denied. They > were told that this soldier had committed suicide (only minutes > after a phone conversation with his family) but were not allowed to > see his body. > > They requested an open casket funeral. They were denied and > discovered the casket had been locked shut. They finally convinced > a person at the funeral home to open the casket in order to see > their son before he was to be buried. They discovered he had been > shot in the back of his head. They were told by his fellow soldiers > that this happened when he was showering following his phone call. > Upon further investigation, they also learned (from his friends in > the military) that his own firearm had not been used. Days later, > when they went to the funeral home they learned that the worker who > had opened the casket for them to see their beloved son had been > fired from her job. > > No photos. No viewings. Not at Dover, nor at the funeral home. If > they don't see their beloved family members, then this government > can say whatever it wants. The stories are just that - stories. > They don't have to make sense. They don't have to be true. > > Now no photos. No viewings. Not in New Orleans. Not in the > Superdome. Not in the nursing homes. Not in the streets. The > stories will be just that - stories. They won't have to make sense. > They won't have to be true. > > We must keep the lies of being safe at home alive. No matter how > many dead we have. > > We must have accountability and we will never get it from this > government. We will have more lies, more tax breaks for the rich, > more moneys for Halliburton. This government must be impeached! > (can we impeach a government?) > > There is a march and rally at the White House on September 24. > People are coming from all over the nation. > > We must show our disgust and anger toward this administration's > lack of humanity. Please join the thousands already committed to > demand accountability and change. > > Leslie Evanston, IL > -snip- > quentin mar? > qmare@mac.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thom Hartmann (in my opinion, the BEST talk radio host in the nation) dropped me this note last night: "I got a call this morning from what was almost certainly a quickly-thrown-together Rove Operation Republican boiler room operation. He was calling from "northern Virginia" and couldn't possibly have heard KPOJ's signal here in Portland (this was when I was doing our local show) - even at 25,000 watts, we only weakly reach all the way to Seattle. No way we're bouncing over the Rockies. And he didn't know my name. Some guy working off a list of talk shows, asking why we weren't talking more about the failures of the Mayor and Governor in LA/NO..." Thom If you haven't listened to Thom, online if you have to, you should. And read his op-eds too at our Thom Hartmann article archive. The lying dirtball rightwing extremist Republican leader, Tom Delay, stumbling to talk the right wing party lie, said that emergency response starts from the bottom up, beginning with the mayor, then the governor. Too bad Bush issued an order saying the federal government was taking charge on August 27, the same day the governor of LA requested such aid. Now DeLay is saying that it would be better to postpone hearings, so FEMA officials are not dragged away from the disaster response. I say drag the incompetent losers away. They have not helped. They have hindered. If there was a disaster in my area, I'd prefer that the current FEMA team stay away. Well, since there are more registered Republicans in my precinct than Democrats, maybe FEMA would do its job. But, being close to Philly, which votes 80-85% democratic, I'd surely want FEMA to stay away. They'd let the city be destroyed, then move people to the reddest state, using their newest election theft strategy, gerrymandering by disaster. I'll repeat what I said in my last email: Now is the time that we must wake up Americans to the destruction right wing Republicans (and I'll add} right wing democrats (like Lieberman, Biden, Schumer and their DLC friends) have already inflicted upon the US, and the awful potential of three more years of Republican rule to lay waste to the US and make it a true third world nation. We have to get rid of these right wing extremists. The Washington Post was duped into supporting the right wing echo-chamber lie, shifting the blame to the mayor and governor, but they wised up and offered a retraction, stating: A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina incorrectly said that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had not declared a state of emergency. She declared an emergency on Aug. 26. 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URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050908/d5680690/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 19:13:38 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 8 19:14:11 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: Paramedics: Police Prevent People from Leaving New Orleans Message-ID: <200509082313.j88NDau04217@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> This just keeps getting stranger. First, soldiers to get everybody out. Now police to keep everybody in. Phil ************** t r u t h o u t | 09.08 Paramedics: Police Prevent People from Leaving New Orleans http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805A.shtml Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky, paramedics from California who were attending the EMS conference in New Orleans, detail their own experiences during and after Katrina. Their reports show that official relief efforts were callous, inept, and racist. Offers Pour In, But the US Is Unprepared http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805B.shtml Generous offers of aid for Hurricane Katrina victims are pouring in from scores of nations, but in many cases the United States is unprepared to receive the goods. Macabre Reminder: The Corpse on Union Street http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805C.shtml Six National Guardsmen walked up to the corpse on Union Street Tuesday afternoon. One soldier took a parting snapshot like some visiting conventioneer, and they walked away. Norman Solomon | "Bush the Protector" vs. "Bush the Menace" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805D.shtml The media storyline for the cataclysm of 9/11 - echoing countless narratives from Bush and others in the administration - was a continuous tale of American virtue in a mortal struggle with its opposite. Few journalists challenged that simplicity, but now, Norman Solomon explains, to the extent that the media storyline for the catastrophe of New Orleans has a villain, it's the Bush Administration itself. Newsweek | Wrong Priorities? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805E.shtml Angry state officials accuse the White House of ignoring warnings that its focus on terror left the nation unprepared to cope with natural disasters. Schwarzenegger to Veto Same-Sex Marriage Bill http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805F.shtml Governor Schwarzenegger announced Wednesday night that he will veto landmark legislation that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry. Feingold: Provide Airtime for Hurricane Survivors http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805G.shtml In a letter to the five major news networks, US Senator Russ Feingold today asked each of them to provide airtime to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina who are spread out across the country in relief staging areas. America Takes a Dive http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805H.shtml Barely a word of compassion for Katrina's victims and the perpetual, endless, everlasting excuse that he had already used after the September 11, 2001, attacks: no one could have predicted. It is even more of a lie today than it was four years ago. Edwards, Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry, Dean Step Up Criticism of White House http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805I.shtml Democratic leaders unleashed a burst of attacks on the White House on Wednesday, saying the wreckage in New Orleans raised doubts about the country's readiness to endure a terrorist attack and exposed ominous economic rifts that they said had worsened under five years of Republican rule. Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805J.shtml On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake. Cindy Sheehan | What Kind of Extremist Will You Be? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805K.shtml Cindy Sheehan laments that now oceans of blood - both Iraqi and American - have been spilled for ruinous and disturbing policies of very bad people in our government who have based their reasons for invasion and occupation on their twisted imaginations and their seemingly bottomless lust for power, profits, chaos and confusion. UN Report: Parts of America Are as Poor as Third World http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805L.shtml Parts of the United States are as poor as the Third World, according to a shocking United Nations report on global inequality. Sidney Blumenthal | What Didn't Go Right? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805M.shtml The Bush administration's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina stands as the pluperfect case study of the Republican Party's theory and practice of government. Sidney Blumenthal reminds us that for decades conservatives have funded think tanks, filled libraries and conducted political campaigns to promote the idea of limited government. Now, in New Orleans, the theory has been tested. The floodwaters have rolled over the rhetoric. Journalist Groups Protest FEMA Ban on Photos of Dead http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805N.shtml "It's impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story," Larry Siems of the PEN American Center told Reuters. Democrats Seek Roberts Papers, but Administration Balks http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805O.shtml In 1990, the Federal Communications Commission asked the first Bush administration to defend a policy aimed at encouraging more minority ownership of broadcast stations. As the number two man in the solicitor general's office, John G. Roberts Jr. played a critical role in the government's decision to reject the request, according to documents that came to light yesterday. Max J. Castro | Katrina Exposes Ugly Aspects of Bush and America http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805P.shtml It is not merely an emotional outburst when a top rap singer says on national television that George Bush doesn't care about black people; Max J. Castro says it's a solid argument backed not just by the evidence of the past few days but also by the policies of the last five and a half years. Now: Did Race and Class Affect the Relief Effort? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805Q.shtml How did race and class affect the relief effort in the aftermath of Katrina? William Rivers Pitt | Let the Dead Teach the Living http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805Y.shtml "What have the dead taught the living in the last two weeks," William Rivers Pitt asks. We have learned that priorities matter. We have learned that the conservative small-government model is a recipe for catastrophe. We have learned that government is sure to absolutely fail its citizens when it is run by people who hate government. Responsible and effective government matters. At this moment, we have neither. We are, simply put, on our own. Dean: Race Played a Role in Katrina Deaths http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805Z.shtml Race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina, Howard Dean told members of the National Baptist Convention of America on Wednesday at the group's annual meeting. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ You are subscribed as: pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca Click to REMOVE -> mailto:leave-260832-92679Y@news.truthout.org Go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org Click to SUBSCRIBE -> http://truthout.org/subscribe.htm Our Privacy Policy -> http://truthout.org/privacypolicy.htm From sotillos at mail.montclair.edu Thu Sep 8 23:11:50 2005 From: sotillos at mail.montclair.edu (Susana Sotillo) Date: Thu Sep 8 23:15:34 2005 Subject: [LNC] Trying again from OpEdNews Message-ID: <4320FD76.1010402@mail.montclair.edu> THE STORY OF THE HURRICANE COWBOY WHO FIDDLED WHILE NEW ORLEANS DROWNED How Bush Spent His Summer Vacation by Amanda Lang, PhD http://www.opednews.com Why did Bush vacation - cut wood, clear brush, bike, and read -- for days while the world watched Katrina develop then slam as a category 4 hurricane into the Gulf Coast? Just as he did on September 11, 2001, he froze. They don't have cable or telephones in Crawford? The unfolding catastrophe has Bush leadership skills, or lack thereof, written all over it. He treats his own citizens with the same contempt and callousness as he does the Iraqi civilians - as "collateral damage." If a category 4 hurricane is not a "bomb" dropping on American soil, what is? Bush remained on vacation one whole day after Katrina hit, WAITING FOR WHAT? The federal government was 'missing in action' and has failed its citizens abysmally. And Congress... where the hell are they? They rushed back to Washington over night for one woman's feeding tube, but can't seem to find the way back for a destructive hurricane that most likely killed thousands. Are these citizens too poor or not expounding the right religion to garner the attention the Trade Tower victims received? They all sat and watched this train wreck, now they are screwing up the rescue and salvage, probably busy searching for the 'scapegoat' du jour. Do the Bush administration and Congress want to create a situation where they could declare martial law? Looks like it. New Orleans has become a war zone. Martial law declared. Since when is a policy of "you loot, we shoot" appropriate for people just trying to survive until help arrives? THEY ARE DYING. So are they 'looters' or 'survivors' (like the TV show "Survivor" Americans loves to love)? So what if in addition to food, water, diapers, and medical supplies, they take some jeans? They've been wearing oil, chemical and sewer-soaked clothes for days. They're wading through floating, decaying dead bodies. New Orleans is and will be uninhabitable for three to six months at least, so the merchandise is already a write-off. Think about it? Would you want this merchandise? Let good come from it while it can. The 'survivors' have obtained weapons and are using them. Escaped prisoners riot and hold hostages. People go 'feral' displaying 'pack' and/or 'mob' behaviors when threatened and their lives are in 'great peril.' Unfortunately, in America you can find a gun anywhere in virtually any caliber, so chaos reigns. A "loot-shoot" policy only exacerbates the problem. Relief workers received orders to divert efforts from 'saving people' to 'crime fighting'. Why choose 'property' over 'life'? The policy lacks common sense, compassion, or understanding of the survival instinct. CNN has images of people dead and dying on camera. Their reporters are watching people - children and elderly - die before their eyes. The sick, injured, dehydrated, starving, and scared feel abandoned. In the hot, stinking Superdome, where 25,000 refugees await evacuation, fires and fighting are breaking out. Fear, anger, and hopelessness will push conditions to a boil, and more people than necessary will die - mostly the innocent victims of this horrible disaster. Do we need to request U.N Aid and Peace Keeping Forces? It appears we lack the expertise and leadership to prevent or deal with a major national crisis. Why aren't these convoys and helicopters dropping in water, food, and medicine to these trapped individuals? Yes, conditions are deteriorating, but our National Guard soldiers fly helicopters through Iraq every day taking gunfire for a far less legitimate cause. Is the relief necessary beyond the Bush administration's capabilities? We do not posses the numbers of National Guard soldiers and relief workers necessary to get this situation under control. Just like Iraq - not enough bodies on the ground to do the job. Bush cut funding to New Orleans hurricane preparations by $72.1 million and gave eight jets to Pakistan - FREE - valued at $36 million each = $288 million. Get the picture. 'Survivors' of this crisis sure could use that $288 million and the $5.6 billion per month [this breaks down to almost $186 million a day] or $67.2 BILLION PER YEAR the Neocons are throwing at Iraq, plus the billions in pork given to corporations this year alone. Even worse, image you're a National Guard soldier in Iraq that has family, friends, and property in 'harm's way, but are stuck policing the streets of Iraq. The irony of the situation is macabre. You were sent to fight an urban guerilla war based on a 'buffet' of evolving lies and rationales -- perhaps on your second or third tour -- and your family is back home dealing with this mess alone -- homeless, injured, starving, drowning, or dying -- and you are not there and you don't have a clue what their condition is because no one else does. Tragic irony. They face an uncertain future and still may die themselves on a street or road in Iraq. In the news, they hear of over-the-top CEO salaries, while Florida hotels evict refugee families so fans can attend a football game. How would you feel to discover your loved ones where not evacuated, even though it was known a category 4 or 5 hurricane was approaching? Or even worse, they still stuck in the disaster area because at your pay scale, they just couldn't afford to leave. A reckoning time is here. The 'Hurricane Cowboy' has a lot to answer for, as do the 'knuckled-headed' Neocons and the 'do-nothing' Congress. This tragedy should have been prevented. Hundreds of thousands of Americans lives completely destroyed and while Bush fiddled with a guitar, went on a two-day speaking jaunt/fund-raiser to California and Arizona, and 'read' a speech, ironically to a group of sailors and WWII veterans: "This morning, our hearts and prayers are with our fellow citizens along the Gulf Coast," Bush said. "We know that many are anxious to return to their homes. It's not possible at this moment." His heart and prayers may have been there, but his ass sure wasn't. This article was cited by UK's Guardian. But they made a mistake. The paragraph below corrects it. Amanda Lang was an E-5, 52B-D, in Gasoline and Diesel Depot Power Generation Equipment Repair. She enlisted in 1976 and per her enlistment contract, ETS date 79, honorably discharged. She adds this due to the continuing attack of honorable military men and women by these Neocon Chickenhawks. Think John McCain, Max Cleland... She is not or has never been an officer...she worked for her living in the military. Amanda Lang, PhD conducts research in Organizational and Technological Innovation primarily in the area of New and Strategic Business Development. 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In deliberately naming the issue "Muslim" instead of "Islamic" education, we would like to emphasise the concrete historical agency of Muslims as they strive towards their ideals and grapple with the educational issues of their times. We open this international platform to give scholars the opportunity to define and engage in debates on the forms that Muslim education should take and what it may offer to the world. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcomed. Several strands of interest for this special issue are: - Islamisation of knowledge - Equity and Muslim education - Equity in access to opportunities - Integrating Muslim education to/within a national system - Muslim education and gender equity - Muslim education and social change - Role of Muslim intellectuals and intelligentsia - Contributions of Islamic education theories to general education Abstracts and expressions of interest are due by 15 December 2005. Papers for full refereeing will be due by 1 May 2006. 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URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050909/cdc35985/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 15:14:45 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 9 09:45:55 2005 Subject: [LNC] Fwd: Murder References: Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: Mark Crispin Miller > Date: 8 September 2005 2:18:24 PM > To: Mark Crispin Miller > Subject: Murder > > > http://buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/09/mai05241.html > > -snip- > > Subject: FEMA Wants No Photos of Dead 9/7 > > Just like Operation Iraq Freedom. No photos of the dead. > > I went to the Bring the Troops Home Tour in Evanston, IL last > night. I heard many heartbreaking and breathtaking speakers. Many > were Gold Star Parents. Some were anti-war and Peace activists. > There was a Blue Star wife - her husband is awaiting deployment to > Iraq in November. One of the most heartbreaking story I heard was > that told by the father of a soldier who - if I have the timeline > correct, was scheduled to return from Iraq, and was killed > reportedly by his own hand, just hours before his return. The > family wanted to attend his return in Dover. They were denied. They > were told that this soldier had committed suicide (only minutes > after a phone conversation with his family) but were not allowed to > see his body. > > They requested an open casket funeral. They were denied and > discovered the casket had been locked shut. They finally convinced > a person at the funeral home to open the casket in order to see > their son before he was to be buried. They discovered he had been > shot in the back of his head. They were told by his fellow soldiers > that this happened when he was showering following his phone call. > Upon further investigation, they also learned (from his friends in > the military) that his own firearm had not been used. Days later, > when they went to the funeral home they learned that the worker who > had opened the casket for them to see their beloved son had been > fired from her job. > > No photos. No viewings. Not at Dover, nor at the funeral home. If > they don't see their beloved family members, then this government > can say whatever it wants. The stories are just that - stories. > They don't have to make sense. They don't have to be true. > > Now no photos. No viewings. Not in New Orleans. Not in the > Superdome. Not in the nursing homes. Not in the streets. The > stories will be just that - stories. They won't have to make sense. > They won't have to be true. > > We must keep the lies of being safe at home alive. No matter how > many dead we have. > > We must have accountability and we will never get it from this > government. We will have more lies, more tax breaks for the rich, > more moneys for Halliburton. This government must be impeached! > (can we impeach a government?) > > There is a march and rally at the White House on September 24. > People are coming from all over the nation. > > We must show our disgust and anger toward this administration's > lack of humanity. Please join the thousands already committed to > demand accountability and change. > > Leslie Evanston, IL > -snip- > quentin mar? > qmare@mac.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050908/7b683071/attachment-0002.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 9 16:26:47 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 9 16:27:30 2005 Subject: [LNC] Fwd: Help Ben Marble! References: Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: Mark Crispin Miller > Date: 9 September 2005 3:44:37 PM > To: mark.miller@nyu.edu > Subject: Help Ben Marble! > > > This column is also at > http://opednews.com/articles/ > opedne_jackson__050909_physician_who_told_o.htm > > > Physician who told off Cheney lost his home in Katrina, arrested by > Cheney's M-16-carrying goons, selling video of confrontation on eBay > > By Jackson Thoreau > > Dr. Ben Marble, a young emergency room physician who plays in > alternative rock bands and does art on the side, needs our help. Since > he was the one who told Dick Cheney to "go fuck yourself" on Thursday, > that's the least we can do. > > Marble is a complex guy, to say the least. Some of the lyrics he > writes can be considered harsh by some - personally what I've heard is > very much on target - but he has a softer side as an organizer of > breast cancer fund-raisers, not to mention an ER doctor. > > When he, like thousands of others, lost his home due to Hurricane > Katrina last week, it was the single most traumatic week of his life. > That led to his confrontation with the man who best represents the > worst of the most callous, heartless, shittiest administration in U.S. > history on Thursday. > > As Marble explains, he was driving to his destroyed house Thursday in > Gulfport, Ms., when military police refused to allow him to cross a > barricade that was about 200 feet from his home. They forced him to > drive an extra 20 minutes and spend even more on gasoline. > > "Thanks to Dubya Gump and Mr. Cheney, gas is really expensive and > extremely hard to get anywhere Katrina has destroyed," Marble wrote. > "So needless to say, I was extremely aggravated that they wouldn't let > me pass." > > Suddenly a long line of dark cars pulled up, and they honked at Marble > to back up to let them through the barricade that supposedly no one > could drive through. That only made Marble madder so he did what most > of us would do - or at least consider doing. > > "I waved a middle finger at the caravan," Marble wrote. > > After driving the extra 20 minutes and filming video of destruction > along the way, he made it to his home. Marble overheard a neighbor say > that Cheney was down the street talking to people. That's when he got > the idea to go meet Dr. Evil himself. > > "I am no fan of Mr. Cheney because of several reasons," Marble wrote. > "For those who don't know, Mr. Cheney is infamous for telling Senator > [Pat] Leahy 'go fu** yourself' on the Senate floor. Also, I am > not happy about the fact that thousands have died due to the slow > action of FEMA, not to even mention the wrong war in the wrong place > at the wrong time, i.e. Iraq." > > So Marble asked a couple police officers if he and a friend could walk > down to Cheney. They told him Cheney was "looking forward" to talking > to "the locals." > > "So we grabbed my Canon digital rebel and my Sony videocamera and > started walking down the street," Marble wrote. "And then right in > front of the destroyed tennis court I used to play on Dick Cheney was > giving a pep rally, talking to the press. The secret service guys > patted us down and waved the wands over us, and then let us pass." > > As he stood about 10 feet away from Cheney and his friend and some > camera operators from CNN and other media filmed the scene, Marble > suddenly yelled, "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go fuck yourself, you > asshole!" > > Hey, at least Marble was polite. After all, he referred to Cheney as > "Mr. Cheney." > > "I had no intention of harming anyone but merely wanted to echo Mr. > Cheney's infamous words back at him," Marble wrote. "At that moment, I > noticed the Secret Service guys with a panic-stricken look on their > faces, like they were about to tackle me, so I calmly walked away back > to my former house." > > His friend videotaped a little bit longer and then came back to > Marble's house. As they were salvaging a few things from Marble's > home, two military police waving M-16's showed up and said they were > looking > for someone who fit Marble's description who had cursed at Cheney. > > "I told them I was probably the person they were looking for, and so > they put me in handcuffs and 'detained' me for about 20 minutes or > so," Marble wrote. "My right thumb went numb because the cuffs were on > so tight, but they were fairly courteous and eventually released me > after getting all my contact info. They said I had NOT broken any laws > so I was free to go." > > So let's get this straight: A physician with a newborn baby loses most > everything he owns in the hurricane, does what most of us WANT to do > and "echoes" Cheney's words he spoke on the god-damned Senate floor > last year, walks away harmlessly, mission accomplished, and then once > the media cameras leave, he is treated like a foreign terrorist as > Cheney's goons waving M-16s handcuff him in front of his destroyed > home? Had it not been for the media cameras filming the initial scene, > I doubt Cheney's goons would have just let Marble go after 20 minutes. > > America, land of the free? > > Marble and his family have been in the media spotlight before, > including his wife, Lisa, and baby, Sofia Grace, who was born shortly > after the storm, on CNN. Marble has also been interviewed in art > magazines and the Biloxi Sun Herald about his concert fund-raisers and > musical success - one of his bands, dR. O, has had at least 20 No. 1 > songs on the MP3.com charts. > > "The truth is even with all our losses, we are still luckier than many > people down here because at least we didn't die," Marble wrote. "But I > thought I could try to raise some awareness to the bad policies of the > Dubya Gump administration and also possibly raise some money to > replace the many things we lost, and so I decided I would auction the > videotape my friend shot of the event. I will also grant an interview > to the winner if so desired." > > So go to eBay at > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? > ViewItem&item=7712048060&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 > and place a bid for this important video to help Marble raise some > needed funds. I have done so and was at least at one time the high > bidder. > > Marble also has an Internet site with photographs of some damage in > his town at www.HurricaneKatrinaSucked.com. A photo of him is at > http://www.theharbinger.org/xix/000919/smith.html and you can also > email Marble at clone9@yahoo.com. > > Dr. Ben Marble, you rock. May we all return the favor. > > Jackson Thoreau is a Washington, D.C.-area journalist/writer. The > latest book to which he contributed, Big Bush Lies, was published by > RiverWood Books of Ashland, Ore. He is working on another book called > "Thou Shalt Not Cheat: How Bush and Rove Broke the Rules, From the > Sandlot to the White House." He can be contacted at > jacksonthor@gmail.com. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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