KBOO's Membership Drive is hovering above us like a shiny silver saucer. Time to grab that tinfoil hat, your checkbook and a set of clean underwear: Going Up! And as long as we're on Membership, how's yours? Please, don't make me explain Why. Get the membership because it is the right thing to do for all your reasons, all my reasons and all #$@%*'s, the Captain First Class of this sparky ship we're on. Self respect, Oh My Sisters and Brothers: it's universal.
During Membership Drive we at 'Air Cascadia' want to keep on bringing you regional news plus the usual red carpet-load of guests. But how? Here's How: The whole 15 minutes, reduced to 12 in order to 'Drive' faster (Like 'Uncle Wiggly'; remember 'Uncle Wiggly'?). But I digress...Solution: the program will be all interview - because I've got some great people mlined up - and the bits I normally read will appear here in this box-like appendage on the website.
Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) has launched a billboard campaign as part of a continuing effort to expose the misuse of U.S. taxpayer money to support Israel’s ongoing discrimination against the Palestinian people. With the slogan “EQUAL RIGHTS FOR PALESTINIANS – Stop Funding the Israeli Military,” . The billboards follow SeaMAC’s Metro bus ad campaign launched last December: “ISRAELI WAR CRIMES: Your Tax Dollars At Work,” which was first approved, accepted and printed, then suddenly cancelled by King County. With legal representation by the ACLU, SeaMAC has filed a lawsuit against King County for violating SeaMAC’s constitutional rights by refusing to honor a contract to run the ads.
Reservoir Dog Day High Noon...
The debate over whether to cover our reservoirs is coming to an ugly head. All the sound scientific evidence sides with keeping the water uncovered. On the opposite side, the companies that stand to cash in on the covers claims that we are under attack by cryptosporidium. If you yell that word in a crowded mall, people stampede for the parking lot. But cryptosporidium is endemic to life on earth. It is everywhere. We coexist with it always and everywhere. Everywhere except Bull Run water. But if any large body of water is covered in plastic, then the die is cast and the future is already festering with a microbial zoo In the middle of the controversy are the taxpayers who will pay for the impending mistake of covering the reservoirs. And all because of fear.
Salam Pax, the 'Baghdad Blogger'
So far the new face of Empire isn't looking so good. In Iraq America's efforts to destroy a nation and rebuild it as a playground for private enterprise isn't going as planned. Turns out that Iraqi citizens are a lot smarter than the US corporados imagined. In fact they are probably smarter than the corporados. And they are not happy about the American presence in Iraq. Jarrar was born in Baghdad, the son of a Shiite mother and a Sunni father, and the oldest of three boys. He attended the University of Baghdad and began graduate school in Amman, Jordan, where he studied architecture, focusing on postwar reconstruction. As the world's eyes turned to Iraq in late 2002, a friend and fellow architect who went by the nickname "Salam Pax" started an English-language blog. Because he often had trouble reaching Jarrar, he named it "Where Is Raed?" Jarrar started blogging there as well, and to the friends' surprise, their musings on stockpiling food and the gyrating value of the dinar were read by people all over the world looking for a glimpse of the final days of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/
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