Hi. Yesterday's letter from Ilan Pappe was sent to me the day before from a quite reliable source, but turns out to have been written in 2002. Pappe's note
is below. The general thrust of the mailing remains, though, for us and for him. The articles below extend the theme. They read better with the image maximized. Ed Dear Friends, someone by mistake or by intention has resent my letter from May 2002 with regard to the attempt to expel me from the university. This generated hundreds of emails of support. Alas, it is a hoax. if it is a mistake, at least i am comforted by the widespread support and thankful for it. If it is by intention, worse can happen. yours ilan pappe *** Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:04:57 -0800 (PST) From: Mary Oishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: SWM-D State of the Union Advance Read To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I, Mary Oishi, do hereby certify that I went into a trance and it was revealed to me exactly what Bush is going to say tonight in his state of the union address: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, distinguished guests, my fellow Americans: Tonight I stand before you with a mandate, a mandate from voters in the former slave states, a mandate from the friendly folks at Diebold, and a mandate from Almighty God Himself. This term I will no longer be just your War President. This term I am going to be your Freedom Messiah, bringing Freedom and Liberty to the world -- and a new birth of Freedom right here to this great nation. Everyone could see a foreshadowing of this calling in my first term as your War President, when with God's help and my steadfast resolve, we liberated over 100,000 Iraqi men, women, and children into the unparalleled Freedom of the afterlife. Now, as your Freedom Messiah, priority one is to set us all free from the old chains of the New Deal. I have a clear mandate to take the liberty to plunge us trillions of dollars deeper into debt and to liberate as much social security tax into the pockets of my Wall Street friends as possible. We're gonna transform social security into personal security, so when you're liberated from your retirement by corporate scandals, well, it's just your personal loss, my fellow Americans. As the Freedom Messiah, I am going to set juries free of evil trial lawyers like John Edwards; I am going to set doctors free from worrying about amputating the wrong leg or leaving a little ole scalpel inside a patient here and there. The whole world knows I have already set us free from the confines of the Kyoto Accords on Global Warming. But I have also set us free from the Montreal Accords on ozone protection, so the CFCs are free to keep eating as much ozone as is their God-given right-and we are free to get all the melanomas God wants us to have. I truly am the Freedom Messiah, folks! I have appointed an energy secretary who will free us of our fear of nu-ku-lar power plants, and we'll be free to build lots and lots of them-and we'll be free to bury all the nu-ku-lar waste way out there in New Mexico and Nevada. Plus, I want to set us free to cut down even more of our national forests. And we have languished too long without the freedom to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. As the Freedom Messiah I will make sure we remain free of the jurisdiction of the international courts and the bondage of world opinion. Like I said, a new birth of freedom. In this faith-based era, we are free of the oppressive rule of law, free of the confines of common sense, freed from slavery to the constraints of reality. Tonight I have ascended this podium, not to announce a new program, my fellow Americans, but to usher in a new messianic age of Freedom. An age where: Blessed are the wealthy, for they shall not be taxed. Blessed are they that cause others to mourn, for they shall never see a flag-draped coffin. Blessed are the arrogant, for they shall inherit the Presidency. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after privatization, for they shall be obscenely filled. Blessed are the unmerciful, for they shall be named ambassador to Iraq. Blessed are the corrupt in heart, for they can blame it on flawed intelligence. Blessed are the warmongers, for they shall be granted no bid contracts. Blessed are they who condone persecution through torture, for they shall be named Attorney General. Blessed are they which say all manner of evil against other candidates falsely for my sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is the reward of loyalty-at the expense of integrity-in my kingdom. God has already blessed America with a Freedom Messiah, and now may God continue to bless America with the Freedom to hasten the apocalypse. Amen, goodnight, and HU-AHH! *** Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:44:24 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent by Simon McGuinness [Bush will make the US poor pay for the deficit. Remember "Money-to-tight-to-mention" Reganomics?, well its back. Cuba, already ahead on all key social indicators, will pull ahead of the US in terms of educational achievement, healthcare, pensions, disaster recovery planning, crime, drugs, prisons and biotech research. i.e. all areas where government has the lead role. The US will continue to advance in the production of WMDs only.] BBC NEWS - Feb 7, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/business/4243807.stm Bush budget seeks deep cutbacks US President George W Bush has presented his 2006 budget to Congress, cutting 150 domestic programmes in a bid to lower the record US deficit. The $2.58 trillion (�1.38 trillion) budget includes reduction in subsidies to farmers, and lower spending on the environment, education, and health. The budget document projects the deficit will rise to $427bn this year, before starting to decline. Military spending will, however, rise 4.8% to $419.3bn in 2006. The budget does not include the cost of running military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, for which the administration is expected to seek an extra $80bn from Congress later this year. Congress will now spend several months debating the outline. Oil reserves Another key policy spending missing from proposals is the cost of funding the administration's proposed radical overhaul of Social Security provision, the federal programme on which many Americans rely for their retirement income. Some experts believe this could require borrowing of up to $4.5 trillion over a 20-year period. Neither does the budget include any cash to purchase crude oil for the US emergency petroleum stockpile. Concern over the level of the reserve, created in 1970s, has led to rises in oil prices over the past year. The Bush administration will instead continue to fill the reserve through a program which sees energy companies providing a portion of oil drilled under federal leases in lieu of cash royalties. Spending restraint The outline proposes reductions in budgets at 12 out of 23 government agencies including cuts of 9.6% at Agriculture and 5.6% at the Environment Protection Agency. The spending plan for the year beginning October 1 is banking on a healthy US economy to boost government income by 6.1% to $2.18 trillion. Spending is forecast to grow by 3.5% to $2.57 trillion. But the budget is still the tightest yet under Mr Bush's presidency. "In order to sustain our economic expansion, we must continue pro-growth policies and enforce even greater spending restraint across federal government," Mr Bush said in his budget message to Congress. Mr Bush has promised to halve the US's massive budget deficit within five years. The deficit, partly the result of massive tax cuts early in Mr Bush's presidency, has been a key factor in pushing the US dollar lower. The independent Congressional Budget Office estimates that the shortfall could shrink to little more than $200bn by 2009, returning to the surpluses seen in the late 1990s by 2012. But its estimates depend on the tax cuts not being made permanent, in line with the promise when they were passed that they would "sunset", or disappear, in 2010. Most Republicans, however, want them to stay in place. And the figures also rely on the "Social Security trust fund" - the money set aside to cover the swelling costs of retirement pensions - being offset against the main budget deficit. � BBC MMV [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help save the life of a child. 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