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July 7, 2003
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TROOP MORALE IN IRAQ HITS 'ROCK BOTTOM'. . . BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE NOW
DOUBTS WMDS. . . BRITAIN CONDEMNS US TERROR TRIALS. . . CONFESS OR DIE,
US TELLS JAILED BRITS. . . U.S. LEAVES INJURED IRAQIS UNTREATED. . .
IRAQI ELECTRICITY AND WATER SUPPLIES DWINDLE. . . COALITION FORCES
LOOTED BAGHDAD AIRPORT. . . LETTERS FROM GITMO PRISONERS FACING DEATH. .
. JUST POLITICS. . . PRIVATE ROAD RACES. . . GAY BISHOP ROW CONTINUES. .
. LIGHTNING STRIKES WOMAN'S TONGUE STUD. . . THE WAR AGAINST BASSISTS. .
. POLICE RAID FILM IN AUSTRALIA. . . . . .
WORD
The White House is where embedded journalism began. They're not really
journalists over there; they're more like theater critics who never
bother to tell their readers and viewers that what they're describing is
only a play, and a pretty bad one at that - Josiah Swampoodle
A SHORT HISTORY OF PRESIDENTIAL LYING ABOUT WARS
By Joan Hoff
So George W. Bush mislead us into the second Gulf War by using
hyperbolic rhetoric based on problematic data about weapons of mass
destruction. Big deal. This is perfectly in keeping with most presidents
who committed US troops to battle going as far back as the nineteenth
century.
Yet pundits on the left are up in arms about Bush's mendacity and even a
few on the right like Watergate's (in)famous John Dean think that this
could be an impeachable offense if it can be shown that our
self-righteous president knew he was lying. Not likely. The
self-righteous believe whatever they say is the absolute truth,
regardless of facts to the contrary.
While the Bush administration's frenetically successful campaign to whip
up popular support for a pre-emptive strike against Iraq by stressing
the imminent threat to the United States from WMD is particularly
deplorable, it is not a new tactic. After all, democracies are supposed
to have mass opinion behind going to war. During the Cold War it
mattered little whether there was informed public opinion or even
Congressional support for doing so. And since the War of 1812 almost
all official reasons given for taking the nation into war have been
untrue. They represent myth rather than reality because the American
people need to be convinced they are fighting and dying for a noble, and
usually mythical cause - not crass economic or narrow nationalist
motivations.
Consider the less than truthful official words used by past leaders when
taking the nation into war in contrast to their real reasons as later
documented by historians. President Madison declared in 1812 that
violation of trade and territorial water rights, impressment of American
seamen, and English incitement of Native Americans required going to
war. In fact, desire for land on the part of Anglo Americans living in
the South and West, and a grandiose belief in national honor on the part
of Republicans, who controlled the government but were in a vicious
partisan fight with Federalists, actually accounted as much or more for
the declaration of war against England.
While President Polk told the country in 1846 that Mexico had shed
"American blood upon American soil," he neglected to mention that he had
ordered American troops into disputed territory and was responding to
the regional racist desire for territory that was sparsely populated
with Indians or Mexicans. The underlying economic and socio-cultural
differences between the North and South and the breakdown of the party
system in the 1850s contributed as much to the outbreak of the Civil war
as the more publicized one about the moral evil of slavery.
President McKinley's remarks in 1898 about going to war to "free" Cuba
and to protect American property and trade, belied the role played by
the "yellow press" in promoting war, the expansionist views of prominent
Republicans, and the fear of the business community that unstable
conditions in Cuba were adversely affecting the stock market and
retarding economic recovery from the lingering 1894 depression.
Woodrow Wilson, probably wins the contest for concocting high-sounding
mythical reasons when he took the country into World War I, saying it
was because of the violation of U.S. neutrality rights (when the country
had not in fact been acting neutrally between the belligerents) and, of
course, "to end all wars," and "to make the world safe for democracy."
This from the president who intervened at will against democracy in
Mexico and on behalf of US business interests in the Caribbean.
Moreover, Wilson used this moralistic rhetoric to stomp on civil rights
at home, a practice that became common place during all subsequent wars
in the twentieth century and now again at the beginning of the
twenty-first century.
Even though the attack on Pearl Harbor logically prompted US entrance
into World War II, it took historians decades to find out how economic
pressure on Japan contributed to this attack and a two-front war. By
1941 President Roosevelt simply had been unable to concoct a popular
reason for going to war with Germany, but public opinion polls favored
going to war against Japan. So he was able to use the attack on Pearl
Harbor to rationalize sending US troops into the European battlefront.
Truman took the nation into the Korean war after months of border
skirmishes between north and South Korean troops appeared to have
resulted in an unprovoked attack by north. This allowed him to undertake
the first "limited" war of the Cold War in the name of an ostensible
multilateral operation and collective security. As is all too apparent
today, the Korean war never ended in a peace treaty and it set in motion
the precedent for Cold War presidents systematically to ignore or
mislead Congress (and the public) - even after passage of the 1973 War
Powers Act - whenever they wanted to commit American combat troops to
far-flung areas of the world, especially after Eisenhower initiated
covert actions which could be lied about at will.
And so it goes. LBJ easily duped Congress into voting the Gulf of Tonkin
resolution and Nixon simply chose secretly to expand the war in Vietnam,
obviating the need to outright lie until his double bookkeeping system
was exposed. Reagan's cockamamie reason for invading Grenada to save US
medical students from communists was swallowed hook, line, and sinker by
the American public.
Little wonder that George Bush the elder was able to commit 500,000
troops before Congress finally narrowly approved the first Gulf War in
part because the administration could not disguise that oil and oil
alone was the reason for fighting to liberate Kuwait. UN approval of the
1991 invasion masked the fact that it represented, in the words of
Middle Eastern scholar Eqbal Ahmad, "the use of a multilateral
instrument to carry out a unilateral war" by the first Bush
administration.
In the 1990s it became common place to rationalize U.S. military
interventions in the name of humanitarian concerns without ever
explaining to Congress or the American people the real (and often petty
domestic or thinly disguised imperialistic) reasons prompting such
actions. Of course, recent political leaders have never admitted the
often less than humanitarian results of these interventions or
sanctions. This was particularly true of the largely unilateral and
fitful military actions of the Clinton administration in Somalia
(initiated under Bush Sr., then the UN), Bosnia, Haiti, Iraq, Sudan and
Afghanistan, and finally, Kosovo.
Therefore, whether wars are discussed before being declared by American
presidents, their official reasons should be carefully scrutinized
because they are likely to be fabrications. As has turned out with the
weapons-of-mass-destruction argument, if the past is any indication
equally suspicious or fallacious arguments will initially prevail at the
onset of any future US military conflict, regardless of which party
controls the presidency or Congress.
What historian Charles G. Sellers said about Polk's determination to go
to war with Mexico remains true today: "The sobering fact is that. . .
our representative institutions seem incapable of restraining a
determined President from an unwisely aggressive foreign policy." -
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
[Joan Hoff is Research Professor of History at Montana State University
and author of Nixon Reconsidered]
TROOP MORALE IN IRAQ HITS 'ROCK BOTTOM'
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0707/p02s01-woiq.html
ANN SCOTT TYSON, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - US troops facing extended
deployments amid the danger, heat, and uncertainty of an Iraq occupation
are suffering from low morale that has in some cases hit "rock bottom."
Even as President Bush speaks of a "massive and long-term" undertaking
in rebuilding Iraq, that effort, as well as the high tempo of US
military operations around the globe, is taking its toll on individual
troops.
Some frustrated troops stationed in Iraq are writing letters to
representatives in Congress to request their units be repatriated. "Most
soldiers would empty their bank accounts just for a plane ticket home,"
said one recent Congressional letter written by an Army soldier now
based in Iraq. The soldier requested anonymity.
In some units, there has been an increase in letters from the Red Cross
stating soldiers are needed at home, as well as daily instances of
female troops being sent home due to pregnancy.
"Make no mistake, the level of morale for most soldiers that I've seen
has hit rock bottom," said another soldier, an officer from the Army's
3rd Infantry Division in Iraq. . .
Experts warn that long, frequent deployments could lead to a rash of
departures from the military. "Hordes of active-duty troops and
reservists may soon leave the service rather than subject themselves to
a life continually on the road," writes Michael O'Hanlon, a military
expert at the Brookings Institution here.
BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE NOW DOUBTS WMDS
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,6711085,00.html
SIMON WALTERS AND JASON LEWIS, ADVERTISER, AUSTRALIA - British Prime
Minister Tony Blair's claim that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass
destruction will be found eventually was dealt a massive blow last night
after it was revealed that the Foreign Office no longer believes they
exist. Senior Government sources have told The Mail On Sunday that the
Foreign Office has given up hope of finding chemical and biological
weapons in Iraq. The source said: "We live in hope but we just can't
find them. Most people at the Foreign Office don't think we ever will.
The Prime Minister still thinks they will be found – perhaps he has more
information."
U.S. LEAVES INJURED IRAQIS UNTREATED
http://electroniciraq.net/news/946.shtml
ALI ABUNIMAH, ELECTRONIC IRAQ - United States occupation forces in Iraq
are refusing to treat wounded and sick Iraqis if their injuries are not
directly caused by the United States. This shocking behavior is a
violation of the Geneva Conventions. On June 30, dozens of Iraqis were
killed and scores injured in an explosion at an abandoned ammunition
dump at Haditha, 260 kilometers northeast of Baghdad. The victims had
apparently been searching for shell casings to sell as scrap. According
to the BBC, a spokesman for US Central Command in Baghdad said that,
because the dump was Iraqi, not American, US forces in the area were not
taking responsibility for caring for the wounded.
As the occupying power, the US is supposed to provide security for
Iraq's people. The fact that Iraqi civilians can walk into abandoned
Iraqi Army stores shows that the US is dismally failing to do that. A
few weeks ago, Iraqi villagers became ill after taking radioactive
canisters from a known Iraqi nuclear site that US forces had failed to
secure.
Second, the US is legally and morally obliged to render assistance to
the injured. Article 16 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: "The
wounded and sick, as well as the infirm, and expectant mothers, shall be
the object of particular protection and respect." Article 55 states: "To
the fullest extent of the means available to it, the occupying power has
the duty of ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population; it
should, in particular, bring in the necessary foodstuffs, medical stores
and other articles if the resources of the occupied territory are
inadequate."
Almost three months into the occupation, the US has done little to meet
its legal obligation to restore Iraq's collapsed medical system. Richard
Alderslade, a spokesman on health policy for the World Health
Organization, told Reuters on June 26 that Iraq's health system was
"extremely fragile," and running at no more than 30-50 percent capacity
at a time when the public health situation is deteriorating, with an
increase in child sickness, communicable diseases, and threats from
unexploded munitions.
IRAQI ELECTRICITY AND WATER SUPPLIES DWINDLE
http://electroniciraq.net/news/941.shtml
IRIN - The United Nations says electricity and water supplies to the
Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have fallen by 40 percent over past week due to
sabotage and looting. Veronique Taveau, the spokeswoman for the Office
of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, said the task of restoring
power and water in the city was not only an enormous one but also of
serious concern now that temperatures were rising towards 50 C. . .
Iraqi civilians who can afford it have bought generators, but most are
struggling to cope with extended periods without power - and without any
warning as to when it will be cut.
COALITION FORCES LOOTED BAGHDAD AIRPORT
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030714-463062,00.html
SIMON ROBINSON, TIMES - Much has been written about how Iraqis
complicated the task of rebuilding their country by looting it after
Saddam Hussein's regime fell. In the case of the international airport
outside Baghdad, however, the theft and vandalism were conducted largely
by victorious American troops, according to U.S. officials, Iraqi
Airways staff members and other airport workers. The troops, they say,
stole duty-free items, needlessly shot up the airport and trashed five
serviceable Boeing airplanes. "I don't want to detract from all the
great work that's going into getting the airport running again," says
Lieut. John Welsh, the Army civil-affairs officer charged with bringing
the airport back into operation. "But you've got to ask, If this could
have been avoided, did we shoot ourselves in the foot here?"
What was then called Saddam International Airport fell to soldiers of
the 3rd Infantry Division on April 3. For the next two weeks, airport
workers say, soldiers sleeping in the airport's main terminal helped
themselves to items in the duty-free shop, including alcohol, cassettes,
perfume, cigarettes and expensive watches. Welsh, who arrived in Iraq in
late April, was so alarmed by the thievery that he rounded up a group of
Iraqi airport employees to help him clean out the shop and its storage
area. He locked everything in two containers and turned them over to the
shop's owner. "The man had tears in his eyes when I showed him what we
had saved," says Welsh. "He thought he'd lost everything."
Coalition soldiers also vandalized the airport, American sources say. A
boardroom table that Welsh and Iraqi civil-aviation authority officials
sat around in early May was, a week later, a pile of glass and
splintered wood. Terminal windows were smashed, and almost every door in
the building was broken, says Welsh. A Time photographer who flew out of
the airport on April 12 saw wrecked furniture and English-language
graffiti throughout the airport office building as well as a sign
warning that soldiers caught vandalizing or looting would be
court-martialed. "There was no chance this was done by Iraqis" before
the airport fell, says a senior Pentagon official. "The airport was
secure when this was done." Iraqi airport staff concede that some of the
damage was inflicted by Iraqi exiles attached to the Army, but these
Iraqis too were under American control.
BRITAIN CONDEMNS US TERROR TRIALS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3046064.stm
BBC - The UK Government has expressed its concern at the possibility
that British citizens held in Guantanamo Bay may have to face trial by
military tribunals.
There are at least 680 suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban members at the US
naval base in Cuba. US President George W Bush decided on Thursday that
six of them, including Britons Moazzam Begg and Feroz Abbasi and
Australian David Hicks, should face trial in a military tribunal rather
than in a regular court. The announcement sparked a wave of protest from
human rights groups who said the tribunals would be a "legal black
hole."
The UK's Foreign Office Minister Baroness Symons said the government was
concerned about the men's access to lawyers, the standards of evidence
and their rights to appeal in the case of any guilty verdicts. Roger
Godsiff Mozzam Begg's MP "America has decided that they want to be the
detaining power and that they want to hold the trials there. . .
Roger Godsiff, the Labor MP who represents Moazzam Begg said any
military tribunal would be "totally unacceptable." "It would be very
wrong of us not to put these people on trial in a proper court of law,"
he told the BBC. "We are upholders of civilized values and we can't
devalue those by not allowing people access to a proper legal system
which is one of the building blocks of democracy.
CONFESS OR DIE, US TELLS JAILED BRITS
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,992467,00.html
OBSERVER, UK - The two British terrorist suspects facing a secret US
military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay will be given a choice: plead guilty
and accept a 20-year prison sentence, or be executed if found guilty.
American legal sources close to the process said that the prisoners'
dilemma was intended to encourage maximum 'co-operation.' The news comes
as Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, prepares to urge US Secretary of
State Colin Powell to repatriate the two Britons. He will say that they
should face a fair trial here under English law. Backed by Home
Secretary David Blunkett, Straw will make it clear that the Government
opposes the death penalty and wants to see both men tried 'under normal
judicial process.'
LETTERS FROM THE GITMO PRISONERS FACING DEATH
http://www.sundayherald.com/35128
JUST POLITICS
AL SHARPTON - For the president to say, `bring it on,' almost like
daring and provoking Iraqis to kill American soldiers, he sounds more
like a gang leader in South-Central L.A. than one that is trying to
institute a policy of democracy and reconstruction in the world.
BRITISH RAIL UNION CUTS CASH FOR LABOR PARTY
CLINTON MANNING, DAILY MIRROR, UK - Tony Blair's relationship with the
unions sunk to a new low yesterday as the RMT slashed financial support
for the Labor Party. The country's biggest rail union said it would now
donate just £12,000 a year, compared with £150,000 in 2001, and seek
closer ties with other political parties. General Secretary Bob Crow
said branches should be allowed to support other parties because New
Labor had "betrayed" its grass roots. He said: "Like a marriage,
sometimes it is better if there is a divorce. I am not urging a divorce
but how long can we sit back and support a party that has gone further
than the Tory party? "People say do we want the Tories in again. I say,
how would we know?" A stream of delegates were cheered as they attacked
New Labor at the union's annual conference in Glasgow. Craig Johnston,
from Carlisle, said: "We waited 18 years for this Government only to
find out that we have Tony's Tories in Downing Street."
ELITE ETHNOGRAPHY
PRIVATE ROAD RACES
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0707/p01s01-ussc.html
ABRAHAM MCLAUGHLIN, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - Deep in New Hampshire's
north woods, up past Lake Winnipesaukee's bustling resort towns, stands
a verdant mountainside that may soon be buzzing with the latest trend in
America's love affair with cars. Sprawled on 320 acres would be a
members-only "car country club" - complete with clubhouse, swimming
pool, weekend villas, and a 3.3-mile racetrack winding through the
woods.
Forget leisurely golfing on the back nine: This place would be about
testosterone, octane, and speed - so much of it, in fact, that some
locals worry the club would forever spoil their picturesque town.
Still, the car-club concept is catching on. Plans are afoot for
members-only tracks near the Appalachian Trail in eastern Pennsylvania
and in Joliet, Ill. And existing tracks are offering pricey memberships
and country-club amenities They're all signs of an American cultural
convergence - NASCAR meets the Hamptons. It's a kind of upscale go-kart
track in a gated community, a place where wealthy and increasingly
footloose baby boomers can live out their fast and furious fantasies. .
.
Not that everyone can afford Ferraris. But more people may covet them
these days. Baby boomers have more money - thanks to corporate seniority
and inheritances from parents. And with their kids out of the house,
they have more time. Car trends reflect this fact. There's a
proliferation of "midlife-crisis cars" - everything from the Porsche
Boxster to the Honda S2000. And there are the many weekend Mario
Andrettis who are members of Porsche clubs, BMW clubs, Corvette clubs,
and more.
Now many car nuts are ecstatic at the prospect of car country clubs.
About 40 people have invested $100,000 or more as "founding members" of
Joliet's Autobahn Country Club, which bills itself as "Your own private
Autobahn." But others are less than thrilled. Residents near all three
projects have protested the idea of muscle cars thundering through their
pristine settings.
GAY BISHOP ROW CONTINUES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,993029,00.html
STEPHEN BATES, GUARDIAN - The first openly gay bishop to be appointed in
the Church of England yesterday succumbed to pressure from the
Archbishop of Canterbury and withdrew from his appointment as Bishop of
Reading.
While the official line from Lambeth Palace was that Cannon Jeffrey John
personally decided to step down, it emerged last night that he had bowed
to pressure from key members of the archbishop's staff at the end of an
extraordinary six-hour meeting at the palace on Saturday.
A spokesman for the archbishop said: "There has been a lengthy
consultation period. Only Canon John could take the decision as to what
he was going to do. It is very sad." But that version of events was in
stark contrast to the one emanating from his supporters. One of his
closest friends last night described Dr John as "completely battered,
devastated, bewildered."
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, appealed for calm within
the divided Anglican communion as he attacked the "very unsavory"
campaign which brought about the situation. In a statement indicating
the archbishop's alarm and despair at the virulence of the campaign,
waged by some bishops from developing countries and evangelicals within
the church, Dr Williams spoke of "a shocking level of ignorance and
hatred towards homosexual people" shown by opponents of the ordination
of Canon John to the suffragan bishopric of Reading.
LIGHTNING STRIKES WOMAN'S TONGUE STUD
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/berkshire/3047436.stm
BBC - A holidaymaker narrowly escaped death when lightning struck her
tongue stud in an electrical storm. Becky Nyang, 26, was temporarily
blinded, unable to talk and badly blistered by the bolt of electricity
that surged through her body via the piercing. Ms Nyang, an airport
worker from Reading, Berkshire, was on holiday in Corfu when she and a
friend were caught in a downpour.
A flash of lightning bounced off a nearby archway and hit her in the
face, where it was conducted by the metal jewelery in her tongue. The
charge was so hot it left her with blisters on her mouth, face and feet
and she could not speak for three days.
JUST AS WE ALWAYS SUSPECTED
DRUDGE REPORT - Hillary Clinton tells London: Margaret Thatcher inspired
me. For Clinton, the Sunday Times reports, it was her political
opposite, Margaret Thatcher, who inspired her physical transformation.
"Someone sent me a video years ago about Margaret Thatcher's career, and
I followed it from afar," Clinton explains.
THE ESTABLISHMENT'S BILL O'REILLY GETS ANOTHER PLUG
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17715-2003Jul6.html
HOWARD KURTZ, WASHINGTON POST - Sen. John Edwards was widely panned
after an appearance on "Meet the Press" last year, and in January, he
called Tim Russert and said he wanted to come back. But Edwards has
apparently thought better of a Russert rematch. "There's a great elite
audience that watches 'Meet the Press,' but that's not the audience we
need to reach this summer," spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri says. Insiders
call it the Russert Primary, and no television show looms larger in
presidential politics these days. As Howard Dean learned two weeks ago,
faltering on "Meet the Press" brings an avalanche of negative headlines.
But a strong appearance can kick-start a campaign. . . Russert's
prosecutorial approach -- "You said this in 1991, let's put it on the
screen" -- turns each interview into a deposition. If the candidate has
uttered an inconsistency since the dawn of Nexis, Russert's five-member
research team, led by executive producer Betsy Fischer, has likely
vacuumed it up. . .
SAM SMITH - Well, you get the idea. Kurtz' log rolling for Russert fails
to note a number of interesting questions such as how much money did
Howard Dean raise because voting "outsiders" failed to agree with the
assessment of Washington "insiders" after watching Dean on Russert?
Further, Kurtz' paean poops out when he tries to give examples of
Russert's excellence in journalism:
"One likely area involves budget deficits and Social Security, a Russert
obsession. When he asked Dean about once having called for cutting
Social Security benefits, the former Vermont governor said: 'I don't
recall saying that, but I'm sure I did if you have it on your show,
because I know your researchers are very good.' Dean added that Social
Security is 'actually in fine shape until, I don't know, 2040 or
something like that.'
"'No, no, no, no, no,' Russert interrupted, adding: 'When the baby
boomers retire, we have a real impending crisis.' Dean quickly backed
off.'"
Well, it turns out that Dean was closer to the truth then Russert and
Kurtz, probably because the latter spend too much time talking with
politicians and too little looking at the facts.
According to the Social Security trust fund trustees, fund income will
fall below fund expenditures in 2024 and will be depleted in 2037. It
should be noted that this figure has been adjusted several times by the
trustees; over one four year period that depletion date has been
extended by eight years, which is a deadline that's pretty hard to catch
up with.
There are other problems:
- The Social Security fund projections are based on an inordinately dour
view of the American economy, essentially predicting a continuing near
recession in the coming decades.
- As the Left Business Observer has pointed out, while there will be a
bulge in older Americans, the total ratio of non-working people (which
includes children) to employed Americans will be much better than it has
been in the past.
- Finally, the trust fund is an accounting artifice, representing a
political and not an economic choice of how money should be spent.
Should it run dry, we might even have to take some money out of the
imperial invasion budget of the Pentagon.
But all this would be far too complex for Russert's liking and so he
dismisses Dead ex cathedra and Kurtz laps it up.
In another example, Kurtz writes:
"In January, Russert pressed Joe Lieberman about his 1995 criticism of
affirmative action, which the senator now says he supports: "You took to
the Senate floor and said this: 'Affirmative action is dividing us in
ways its creators could never have intended' . . . Jesse Jackson said
your position, as stated there, was indistinguishable from Jesse Helms."
Jackson may have said it but it was stupid, and just as stupid for
Russert to repeat it. In fact, Lieberman's statement, at least as cited,
was factually correct but Russert made it appear a gaffe.
THE WAR AGAINST BASS PLAYERS
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/187/living/Hanging_by_a_string+.shtml
NICK MARINO, BOSTON GLOBE - After decades of thumping away on the
upright, jazz and blues players laid their tender fingers on the first
electric bass guitar, the Fender Precision, in the early 1950s. Since
then, rock bands have discovered any number of uses for the instrument.
The electric bass can pop or hum. It can be slapped or plucked. It can
anchor the low end with steady timekeeping or step out front for a solo.
It can conjure a feeling of menace or provide sensual warmth. Or, as
several of today's hottest bands have discovered, the bass can play
nothing at all.
From the White Stripes to the Black Keys, a much-hyped cadre of bassless
bands has emerged at the vanguard of rock. White Stripes drummer Meg
White has said that her two-piece band is "not against the bass," a
sentiment the other artists hasten to echo. Still, one way or another,
the leading bassless bands have figured out a way to get low-end sound
without one of rock's core instruments. These bands may not be against
the bass, but they say they don't really need one, either. . .
With a few notable exceptions, rock bassists tend to stand dutifully in
the shadows; that's the nature of their instrument and, stereotypically,
the nature of their personalities. "It does take a special kind of
person to be that person in the band who is willing to play their part
and provide support and make everyone sound better, which is kind of the
bass player's role," says Bill Leigh, the editor of Bass Player
magazine. Lately, though, that special person has moved from the shadows
to a position entirely off the stage.
Stripped-down band configurations have obvious aesthetic appeal for any
raw garage band or primal blues act. A bassless sound is a wild sound.
If the bass is a connective instrument, then a bassless band is quite
literally unhinged.
Eliminating the bass creates a liberating space in the music. Guitars
have a panoramic sweep with fewer instruments in the picture. Drums
swing freely. . .
"The coolest thing was the electric guitar," [Jon] Spencer says. "Who
would want to play the bass? If you had a choice between playing the
bass and the electric guitar, you would always choose the electric
guitar."
Bass Player editor Leigh has heard that sort of thing before.
Nevertheless, he cautions against equating the rise of the bassless band
with the death of the bass guitarist. "My overarching feeling is that
it's a trend," he says. "Different trends are always going to come and
go in music. I don't think there's any reason for bass players to be
threatened by this. I hear just as much music with lots of bass."
IN DEFENSE OF BASS PLAYERS
SAM SMITH - Your editor has long held the view - although quietly for
fear of being mugged - that one of the earliest signs of America's
cultural collapse was the introduction of the disco drum machine. I was,
to be sure, a drummer at the time, so the opinion may have been a bit
premature and biased. Nonetheless, since then popular music has become
increasingly stripped of melody, chord range, internal variety and
surprise, and dynamics. With the arrival of rap, music itself became
virtually irrelevant.
These are not matters of taste, but observable phenomenon. For example,
the history of western music, until fairly recently, was in part the
story of expanding the number of acceptable chords, something that can
be readily seen in comparing, say, a traditional folk song to the works
of Thelonious Monk. This does not mean that the folk song was bad, only
that the later work was far more venturesome at the least, and more
creative at best. Growing cultures keep breaking ground. Declining ones
just wear it out and break it up. Retrenchment and regression replaces
exploration and adventure.
Anyone who grew up with jazz grew up with this sense of adventure,
sometimes found in a single tune. It has been described by one music
teacher as being in part the interplay between repetition and surprise.
Just when we think we know what is coming thanks to previous
reiteration, the music surprises us. Further, as far back as Jelly Roll
Morton, jazz musicians borrowed from different musical traditions,
blending them in new and unusual ways.
There have been two anchors in all of this: the drums and the bass. And
even though I was once a drummer, after I switched to piano I found
myself increasingly of the opinion that the bass was the sina qua non of
jazz. In fact, in my own mainstream group - blessed by a superb bassist
- I did away with drums entirely, leaving room for two horns in just a
quartet.
Bassists are remarkable people, all the more so because most pay them so
little mind. I have, in fact, never met a mean or nasty bass player.
They tend to be musicians of good humor, extraordinary patience, and a
sense of modesty that can be lacking in the front of the band.
The elimination of bassists from bands is another reflection, I fear, of
America's growing passion for power without the balance of community and
cooperation, and without the magnificent gift of an individual who is
always quietly there doing exactly the right thing at the right time
and, in the process, making everyone else sound good as well.
JOKES BASS PLAYERS TELL ABOUT GUITARIST
http://justabassplayer.com/
What does it mean when a guitar player is drooling out both sides of his
mouth?
The stage is level.
How do you get a guitar player to play softer?
Give him some sheet music.
What do a vacuum cleaner and an electric guitar have in common.
Both suck when you plug them in.
How many lead guitarists does it take to change a light bulb?
None -- they just steal somebody else's light.
What do you call two guitarists playing in unison?
Counterpoint.
What did the guitarist do when his teacher told him to turn his
amplifier on?
He caressed it softly and told it that he loved it.
What's the best thing to play on a guitar?
Solitaire.
POLICE RAID FILM IN AUSTRALIA
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/03/1057179099732.html
KIRSTY NEEDHAM, THE AGE, AUSTRALIA - Police last night raided a town
hall in Sydney to stop a planned screening of banned film Ken Park.
Critic Margaret Pomeranz and four others were asked to give their
particulars as officers considered whether to lay charges. "It is a
shame it has come to this point," Ms Pomeranz had told a packed Balmain
Town Hall before pressing "play" to begin showing the illegal DVD copy
of the film.
Ms Pomeranz had asked all those who wanted to share the responsibility
of exhibiting the film to raise their hand. Hundreds did. As police
surged on to the stage the audience booed. After some resistance, which
allowed a few seconds of the film to be screened, police seized the DVD.
The superintendent of the Leichhardt local area command, Arthur
Katsogiannis, said police were acting on a written complaint. "The Ken
Park film has a 'refused' classification. Our sole purpose is to prevent
any breach of the law," he said. The independent film was refused
classification in May because of its depictions of teenage sex, incest
and auto-erotic asphyxiation.
Media Watch host and free speech advocate David Marr warned that
Australia risked returning to the 1960s. "In a couple of months anyone
here will be able to buy a copy from Amazon.com and get a DVD through
the post," he told the hall, which was filled to standing room.
The crowd was reported to be more than 500-strong with another 100
outside due to overcrowding.
U.S. OFFICIAL: WHITE HOUSE "TWISTED" IRAQ NUKE INTEL
http://64.207.156.228/
DEFENSE TECH - "Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence
about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq?"
Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador to Gabon, asks in a Sunday New York
Times op-ed. "Based on my experience with the administration in the
months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that
some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was
twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."
ONION: NEWSWEEK EDITORS DEBATE HOW TO SCARE AMERICANS NEXT
http://www.theonion.com/onion3925/index.html
ONION - Having devoted cover stories to the threats of Hepatitis C,
identity theft, and airport security, the editors of Newsweek spent
Monday arguing over what they should stoke fears of next. "We could do
the dangers of caffeine-that'd get people pretty worked up," managing
editor Jon Meacham said. "Or how about daycare workers? There must be
some alarming new study revealing just how few of them undergo
background checks." Among the other ideas the editors proposed: the
possible link between laptop computers and stomach cancer, the potential
threat of water-supply poisoning by terrorists, and stunning new
Biblical evidence pointing to April 4, 2004, as the date of the
apocalypse.
THE LIST
TERROR STATS
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4009.htm
[By Christine Pelisek, LA Times]
- Number of al Qaeda or allied terror suspects arrested by officials
since 9/11: 2,700.
- Number of U.S. citizens indicted by a federal grand jury for al
Qaedarelated activities: 5.
- Number of immigrants detained after 9/11 - some up to eight months:
762.
- Number of convicted al Qaeda members: 0.
- Number of people the Justice Department charged with terrorism in the
first two months of 2003: 56.
- After a Philadelphia Inquirer investigation, the number of those cases
that were found to have nothing to do with terrorism: 41.
- Number of cases that involved Latinos using phony Social Security
numbers: 28.
- As of April 22, number of passengers in San Francisco who have been
detained for questioning because of the government's "no-fly list": 339.
- Since the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, the number of people
secretly detained without charges as "material witnesses" in the 9/11
attacks: 50.
- Percentage of librarians who said they "probably" would defy an
agent's order to see patrons' records: 16.1.
- Percentage of librarians who said they "definitely" would defy an
agent's order to see patrons' records: 5.5.
[Lots more where this came from]
PEACE GROUP BANNED FROM JULY 4 PARADE
http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/070303/new_0703030073.html
MIKE O'ROURKE, BRAINERD DISPATCH, MN - The Brainerd Area Coalition for
Peace was denied a spot in Friday's July 4 parade on the basis of safety
issues, Community Action officials said today. Nancy Cross, executive
director of Brainerd Community Action, said her board made the decision
on the basis of general safety after consulting with Brainerd Police
Chief John Bolduc and City Attorney Tom Fitzpatrick.
"The police told us they were spread absolutely too thin," Cross said.
She said the decision was not made haphazardly. Cross said Community
Action offered to reserve a spot on the parade route where the coalition
could display its signs but the peace group rejected that idea.
Larry Fisk, spokesman for the BACP, said the option of setting up a
booth would not have given his group the same exposure and was not the
same manner in which other groups were treated. . . As of mid-morning
Fisk said he had received no response to his letter and had not yet
decided whether any legal action would be taken. Attorney Ed Shaw said
he had discussed the issue with Fisk but was not representing the group.
He said his own opinion, while he was not a constitutional attorney and
had not researched it, was that Community Action should be content
neutral when it came to deciding on applications.
RECOVERED HISTORY
WAS LIBERIA FOUNDED BY FREED U.S. SLAVES?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2085169/
MARY KAY RICKS, SLATE - In Tuesday's Washington Post, an editorial
urging President Bush to send peacekeepers to civil war-wracked Liberia
noted that the country was "founded by freed U.S. slaves." Is that true?
Not quite. Although some freed American slaves did settle there, Liberia
was actually founded by the American Colonization Society, a group of
white Americans -including some slaveholders - that had what certainly
can be described as mixed motives. In 1817, in Washington, D.C., the ACS
established the new colony (on a tract of land in West Africa purchased
from local tribes) in hopes that slaves, once emancipated, would move
there. The society preferred this option to the alternative: a growing
number of free black Americans demanding rights, jobs, and resources at
home. Notable supporters of transporting freed blacks to Liberia
included Henry Clay, Francis Scott Key, Bushrod Washington, and the
architect of the U.S. Capitol, William Thornton - all slave owners.
WEST AFRICA'S CIVIL WARS SPILLING ACROSS BORDERS
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1893195
ECONOMIST - West Africa's civil wars are usually reported as tragedies
befalling individual states. This month, the spotlight is on Liberia. A
couple of months ago, the conflict in Côte d'Ivoire received more
attention. Before that, it was Guinea, and before that, Sierra Leone. In
fact, all these wars are intertwined, and it is impossible to understand
one without reference to the others. . .
Liberia's instability threatens Sierra Leone, which is struggling to
recover from a devastating war for which Mr Taylor is largely to blame.
Mr Taylor has also backed rebels in Guinea. Guinea's president, Lansana
Conté, beat them back, but his country remains fragile. Mr Conté is
thought to be terminally ill, yet he refuses to name a successor, so
most Guineans expect a coup-or worse-when he dies. Most important,
Liberians have fought on both sides of a new war in Côte d'Ivoire, the
most sophisticated economy in West Africa and the second-largest, after
Nigeria. If Côte d'Ivoire were to go the way of Liberia, it would
cripple the three landlocked states-Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger-that
depend on remittances from migrant workers in Côte d'Ivoire. Taken as a
whole, West Africa's crisis is one of the world's worst. The regional
war has claimed perhaps half a million lives, and continues to blight
millions more.
IRAQI FUNDS FOUND IN CAYMAN ISLANDS
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_297293,00050004.htm
[The last time we checked the Cayman Islands had some 800 banks and one
bank regulator. It might be interesting to find out what US banks are
doing with their branches there]
HINDUSTAN TIMES - Banks in the Cayman Islands have transferred $140
million in frozen Iraqi assets to the US Federal Reserve, the British
territory's government said. The money's transfer was confirmed Monday
by Assistant Financial Secretary Deborah Drummond. She said the funds
were turned over by various US banks with branches in the Cayman Islands
to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in March. . . The British
territory south of Cuba has a large offshore banking industry and is the
world's fifth largest financial sector. Iran and Syria 'greater danger
than Saddam' · Blair stakes reputation on row over weapons dossier
WASH POST RUNS FRONT PAGE HATCHET JOB ON DEAN
HEADLINE - Howard Dean Short-Fused Populist, Breathing Fire at Bush
LEAD - Howard Dean was angry. Ropy veins popped out of his neck, blood
rushed to his cheeks, and his eyes, normally blue-gray, flashed black,
all dilated pupils.
FROM BODY - If Dean is the candidate crowds come to hear, he has also
become the one pundits have come to watch, for better or worse. They
won't soon forget his dour sparring with Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.)
during the Democratic candidates' first debate in South Carolina in May,
or his shaky appearance on NBC's "Meet The Press" two Sundays ago. And
that mouth. A product of New York, Dean can speak so fast that words
come tumbling out, landing in a messy heap. In recent months he has been
called "brusque," "brash," "blunt" and "belligerent"; a few more choice
words on his part, and critics will be questioning whether Dean has the
diplomatic skills needed to be the leader of the free world.
One story circulating in Washington is about the time he met with the
editorial board of Roll Call. Elections analyst Stuart Rothenberg, who
writes a column for the Capitol Hill newspaper, asked Dean why, if he
was so proud of signing the first same-sex civil union bill in the
country, he had done so in a closed-door meeting rather than in a public
ceremony, as a Democrat in Vermont had described. Dean, Rothenberg
recalled, paused, leaned back in his chair and exclaimed: "That's
[expletive]! Nobody from Vermont said that!"
"Sometimes Howard's tongue is faster than his brain," said Peter Freyne,
a columnist for Seven Days, a weekly newspaper in Burlington, Vt. It
doesn't help matters that Dean speaks off the cuff; out of hundreds of
campaign speeches he has delivered, only four were written in advance.
The rest were ad-libbed. "He's smart and energetic," Freyne said. "I've
been calling him Ho-Ho for years, because he's like the little engine
that could.". . .
Most Vermonters would say that Dean the Passionate Populist who extols
health care and equal rights for all is a Different Dean from the one
they know. He did sign a universal health care bill for children while
governor. . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11710-2003Jul5.html
MEDICARE BILL FALL SHORT OF FEDERAL COVERAGE
CECI CONNOLLY, WASHINGTON POST - President Bush often tells audiences
that when it comes to health care and prescription drugs, what's good
enough for Congress is good enough for America's senior citizens. Many
lawmakers agree, saying Medicare recipients deserve the same medical
benefits they receive. . . But the reality is that the two Medicare drug
bills passed by the House and Senate do not come close to providing the
level of coverage given to 8.5 million federal workers, including
lawmakers, White House staff and the president. Both measures would
require senior citizens to buy an auxiliary prescription plan, whereas
all 188 health plans offered to federal employees include drug coverage
-- and at far more generous reimbursement rates.
The most popular plan among federal employees, a standard Blue Cross
Blue Shield policy, covers about 80 percent of total prescription drug
costs, said Kenneth E. Thorpe, chairman of the health policy department
at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. Senior citizens
and disabled people signing up for the proposed Medicare coverage would
be reimbursed for about 49 percent of total medication costs under the
Senate bill and 55 percent in the House version, he said, based on a
computer-driven comparison of the plans. The gap between the political
rhetoric on Medicare and the benefits proposed in the two bills, which
eventually must be reconciled, is largely a matter of money.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13558-2003Jul5.html
JEWISH VOTERS STANDING BY THEIR PARTY
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13704-2003Jul5.html
THOMAS B. EDSALL, WASHINGTON POST - There is good news for Democrats
concerned that President Bush has been making inroads with Jewish
voters: They remain decisively more Democratic than the rest of the
electorate and far less supportive of the Bush administration, according
to an analysis by the National Jewish Democratic Council. Combining data
from five national surveys taken by the independent Ipsos/Cook Political
Report Poll between January 2002 and March 2003, the NJDC found that
while "46 percent of all Americans would definitely vote for Bush, only
25 percent of American Jews would do so." The NJDC findings show that
"American Jews remain strongly Democratic -- 64 percent describing
themselves as Democrats, and 26 percent as Republicans," compared with
the electorate as a whole, which is evenly split.
RETAILERS DISCOVERING THAT PEOPLE WANT SUMMER CLOTHES IN SUMMER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/129627_fashiontiming05.html
ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, ASSOCIATED PRESS - A growing number of retail chains
including Old Navy, Payless Shoe Source, Express, American Eagle
Outfitters and Abercrombie & Fitch are trying to increase sales by
offering clothes more in sync with the climate, a change from the
decades-old policy of stocking winter clothes in July and summer clothes
in January. That means consumers will find more lightweight clothes and
sandals through August - not a rehash of spring and summer styles, but
new fall products that can be worn now. And in some areas, they won't
find a lot of heavy outerwear until October.
Consumers' growing tendency to put off buying clothes until needed is
behind the shift. Unusual weather patterns have exacerbated the problem
- last year, a warmer-than-usual fall left stores with mounds of bulky
sweaters that were leftovers from July. And this spring, which was
unusually wet in parts of the country, resulted in shorts and swimwear
languishing in April and May. Another factor for stores is that a
growing number of children are going back to school earlier and need
clothes that can be worn in warm weather.
FILE SWAPPERS CONTINUE TO DIS RIAA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7359-2003Jul3.html?nav=hptoc_tn
LESLIE WALKER, WASHINGTON POST - The Recording Industry Association of
America's announcement on June 25 that it will start tracking down and
suing users of file-sharing programs has yet to spook people, say
developers of these applications. "Forget about it, dude -- even
genocidal litigation can't stop file sharers," said Wayne Rosso,
president of Grokster, one of several systems that allow users to upload
and download files -- many of which are unauthorized MP3 copies of songs
published by the RIAA's member companies. Rosso said file-trading
activity among Grokster users has increased by 10 percent in the past
few days. Morpheus, another file-trading program, has seen similar
growth.
Maybe MP3 downloaders are interpreting the recording industry's threat -
an escalation from its earlier strategy of targeting file-sharing
developers - as a sort of "last call" announcement. Starting June 26,
RIAA President Cary Sherman said in a news conference, the group would
collect evidence against consumers illegally trading files of
copyrighted music, with lawsuits to follow in a couple of months.
Or maybe consumers figure the odds of getting busted by the RIAA's legal
team are low: A recent report by research firm Yankee Group estimates
that 56 million people use file-swapping software in the United States.
Either way, the number of users seems to have grown last week.
BEHIND THE BUSHES
MICHAEL LEEDEEN'S EARLY INTEREST IN FASCISM
http://www.amconmag.com/06_30_03/feature.html
JOHN LAUGHLAND, AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE - [Michael] Ledeen's conviction
that the Right is as revolutionary as the Left derives from his youthful
interest in Italian fascism. In 1975, Ledeen published an interview, in
book form, with the Italian historian Renzo de Felice, a man he greatly
admires. It caused a great controversy in Italy. Ledeen later made clear
that he relished the ire of the left-wing establishment precisely
because "De Felice was challenging the conventional wisdom of Italian
Marxist historiography, which had always insisted that fascism was a
reactionary movement." What de Felice showed, by contrast, was that
Italian fascism was both right-wing and revolutionary. Ledeen had
himself argued this very point in his book, Universal Fascism, published
in 1972. That work starts with the assertion that it is a mistake to
explain the support of fascism by millions of Europeans "solely because
they had been hypnotized by the rhetoric of gifted orators and
manipulated by skilful propagandists."
"It seems more plausible," Ledeen argued, "to attempt to explain their
enthusiasm by treating them as believers in the rightness of the fascist
cause, which had a coherent ideological appeal to a great many people."
For Ledeen, as for the lifelong fascist theoretician and practitioner,
Giuseppe Bottai, that appeal lay in the fact that fascism was "the
Revolution of the 20th century.". . .
Ledeen was especially interested in the role played by youth in Italian
fascism. It was here that he detected the movement's most exciting
revolutionary potential. The young Ledeen wrote that those who exalted
the position of youth in the fascist revolution - like those who argued
in favor of his beloved "universal fascism" - were committed to
exporting Italian fascism to the whole world, an idea in which Mussolini
was initially uninterested. When he was later converted to it, Mussolini
said that fascism drew on the universalist heritage of Rome, both
ancient and Catholic. No doubt Ledeen thinks that the new Rome in
Washington has the same universalist mission.
He writes that people around Berto Ricci - the editor of the fascist
newspaper L'Universale, and a man he calls "brilliant" and "an example
of enthusiasm and independence"- "called for the formation of a new
empire, an empire based not on military conquest but rather on Italy's
unique genius for civilization. . . They intended to develop the
traditions of their country and their civilization in such a manner as
to make them the basic tenets of a new world order." . . .
FURTHERMORE. . .
FARM RAISES CROPS ON SEA WATER
http://www.seawaterfarms.com/frameset_why.htm
WHY BABIES ARE NAMED WHAT THEY ARE
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/magazine/06BABY.html
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