Reagan’s Star Wars Alive and Growing

name keeps changing but not
the goal to militarize space remains
take New Mexico (they did)
surprise! A corporation: Virgin Galactic
“50,000 people to fly
seat price $200,000 per ride”
Advertise one happy customer
70% of 8th graders can’t do 8th grade math

“Experts predict that thousands of jobs and
hundreds of millions of $’s of private investment
will be created in the next 20 years.”

Ask Alaskans there experience:

“In April 2001, it was finally admitted; only 1 or 2 maintenance
jobs for Kodiak residents would be produced at the site.”

and “…each rocket releases 11.5 tons of hydrochloric acid
which also destroys ozone”
(read – Planet Earth: the Latest Weapon of War)

“It is also in Alaska that the US plans to break the Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty with Russia, made in 1972.”

(full story: http://www.iicph.org/docs/Kodiak.htm)

It’s called the Military/Industrial Complex honey
or Fascist State – Mussolini called it
or when the Pentagon helps finance corporations
like Virgin galactic
it is not what the High Rollers led us to fear –
the wedding of State and Religion
(though that is fearful enough)
while we the people argue over abortion and gay rights
the High Rollers belly laugh all the way to their High Rises
including stockholders of Lockheed Martin, Haliburton
et all weapons manufactures
This time set for a perpetual “Cold War”.
Ever seen a row of Dominoes fall down?
It begins with we the people
taking back our Beautiful America
politicians telling us what they can do for US
Let them listen to US tell them what we want.

In the beginning it was
“Owe my soul to the company store.”
In new Mexico it is becoming
“Owe our state to the company store.”
In the US of A, without the help of
we the people, we shall become
“Owe our homeland to the company store.”

Today, 50% of American workers tax dollars pay for
current and past military spending. When it reaches
80%, High Rollers will control 100% of our privacy rights.

Nothing to hide and you don’t care?
It was not the Jews, Hitler first led away,
it was the dissenters.

Billionaires 793 vs Poverty 3 billion

War of the Worlds: Rich vs Poor

brought to you by corrupt politicians or
it was never about “keeping up with the Joneses”
it was about BECOMING the Joneses

billionaires worldwide increased in 2006 to 793
largely due to bullish global stock markets
TOTAL NET WORTH JUMPED to $2.6 trillion.

3.0 billion live on less than two dollars per day
global population of over 6.0 billion people (April 2001)
ILO – 2005 – of the more than 2.8 billion workers
1.4 billion below US $1 a day poverty line
just as many as 10 years ago – or
NO JUMP IN NET WORTH

THAT is not counting the jobless

Over one billion people on the planet lack adequate housing,
while around 100 million have no housing whatsoever.

It is estimated that about 8 million people die
each year because they are too poor to survive.

The needle is in the haystack
growing ever smaller
will soon take a microscopic Camel
to fit thru the eye.

Weeks and Weeks by Mark Phillips

(“Wisdom puts more strength in one wise person than ten strong men give to a city.” Ecclesiastes 7:19 [The Message])

The strafing lasted longer than expected,
striping the pastimes like highway lines
and everyone thought the heat snakes
rising from the road had been told they
could not last till winter.

And I’m sure no one found the cure
for cancer while
they reloaded their repeaters with
neutron seekers that leave buildings
standing.

It takes a blink to kill a thousand,
a millennium to cure a single disease.

It takes an army to decimate
and decades to recreate the
damage done so quickly by boots
trod upon the careless plains.

It takes night and day to reject
each hypothesis that does not measure
against the truth.

It takes weeks and weeks to run equations,
to make persuasions,
to cajole the old-guard into new-peace
by reason.

It takes a careless glance to kill,
a loving gaze to heal
and strong men to gently guide
the weak men who flex their muscles
before audiences who long ago

grew weary of the show.

Randy Cunningham and Partners in Crime

Republican Congressman Randy Cunningham
was sentenced for taking $2.4 million in bribes
from at least three defense contractors.

Defense contractior taking bribes?
Who would have guessed.

It is also a crime to bribe a government official!!!
Which defense contractors?

Where is the list of criminals that bribed
Ex-Congressman Randy Cunningham?

Where are the indictments?
We the people got beef!

Don’t Blame Dominos- Monaghan sold out

NAPLES, Florida…Domino’s Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan;
new town being built in Florida will be governed according to
strict Roman Catholic principles, with no place to get an abortion,
pornography or birth control.

Monaghan…at least $250 million and calls it “God’s will.”

God will call it just more junk.

God laments. “Why not donate $250 mil to rebuild New Orleans?”

anti-Semite – rewrite history by changing definitions?

Semite

CATEGORY: culture; language
DEFINITION: A name applied to the speakers of a set of related languages who inhabited portions of southwestern Asia since the time of the first cities.The Semites are first recorded on the steppe margins of the Arabian desert, encroaching upon the Sumerians to form the kingdom of Akkad c 2400 BC. The Amorites appear c 2000 in the same area and in Syria-Palestine, where they settled to become the Canaanites.

The Khabiru (Hebrews) appear in the same context. In the 12th century BC, the Amorites were followed by the Aramaeans, particularly in inland Syria.The Phoenicians from the 9th century BC carried their Semitic language over much of the Mediterranean.

Arabic and Hebrew are the most important surviving Semitic languages.Most, probably all, alphabetic scripts derive from the Semitic alphabet, created sometime in the 2nd millennium BC.The Semitic script was invented by speakers of some Semitic language, possibly Phoenician, who lived in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

(from Archaeology Wordsmith online)

“We have to get over our addiction to oil” – George W. Bush

Macon Hawkins, of Kosciusko, Texas,
a diabetic 69-year-old American hostage
released on his birthday (today) said,
“I have no animosity toward them at all.
I’ve seen their little villages, they’re dirt poor,
poor as field mice.”

Nigerian militants want a greater share
of proceeds from the oil pumped
from beneath their southern lands,
which remain deeply impoverished.

Report Released on February 23, 2006
Nigeria (1.174 million barrels per day)
exported to the Good Ol’ Addicts US of A

What US abet we owe atonement,
and the dues are way past due.

Cowboy George Bush meets Ghandi

when sleep won’t come
and the moon is full
when arms are empty
will we remember?

play must be work
when day is done
and previous distractions
no longer distract

when all is said
and nothing done
no place to hide
no place to run

naked of masks
we face our feet
are we walking our talk
or splitting our tongue?

we made God
in our image then swear
He made us
in His

we make our enemy
the Devil and swear
who is not with us
is against us

nono nannette declares
never more
Poe’s raven cries
some of us wear sandals

walking in the sand
across lines drawn
blown clean
by feathered wind

Pen Chant response to Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

the first temptation is little
yer a good ol’ cowboy
all you hafta do to stay out of Vietnam
is become a fly boy
Son you’re so special head on down to Atlanta
and take the helm of a fighter jet
Mock I is guaranteed to scar the shit out of a home boy
“You can either go to jail for missing guard duity or
become a Governor of the great state of Texas”

Governor Bush, prince in waiting,
followed the directions of The Great Persuader
now Texas is in the state our Molly Ivins decries.

The stage is set, our once innocent cowboy
now is given the temptation to be the king of the hill
he can become “The most powerful ruler in the world.”
All he has to do is let Cheney pull the strings
Now cowboys have a way of slicing thru the bull
Cowboy George still could see
we saw him look and feel the Twin Towers disaster
and he spoke to we the people sincerely
and promised to get his man “Dead or Alive”
But was turned aside by the power brokers that brought him here
he followed, he saw, he heard
today his popularity dropped to 34% in spite of the advice he receives
down from high 60’s or 70’s

has it happened yet – i think yes
in comes the Jackal and gives Cowboy George the choice
“In this pocket is the key to all the riches in the world
In the other pocket is a gun.
If you don’t choose the riches, you choose death.

Now the cowboy loves his children, and maybe loves his wife,
but he sure likes livin’ (even if not Mock I)
Who has there been to vote for since John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
nobody – now surely
George Bush growing up in Midland and Huston
studied history at Yale, graduating in 1968,
learned of the assassination of JFK
and the controversy still alive in 2006

Mr. President can follow orders
but Cowboy George was country too
before country was born

The Master Manipulators Grand plans
crumble beneath their feet
the nature of the beast exposed
and all the world is watching

Beautiful America is what we have
if we can restore her wings they broke
yes storm clouds brew on the horizon
one we recognize
paranoia is contagious only if it is true
past abuses of presidential powers we know
we were fooled once, shame on them
If we are fooled in 2006
or whenever it is “they” figure Bush a liability
will we be fooled again?
Shame on us if we are.

Speak to us Cowboy John Wayne Bush fan,
watch your popularity rise to the highest ever
for a sitting president.

If you try we will remember, always.

Holy Cussing by Robert Morgan

When the most intense revivals swept
the mountains just a century ago,
participants described the shouts and barks
in unknown tongues, the jerks of those who tried
to climb the walls, the holy dance and laugh.
But strangest are reports of what was called
the holy cuss. Sometimes a man who spoke
in tongues and leapt for joy would break into
an avalanche of cursing that would stun
with brilliance and duration. Those that heard
would say the holy spirit spoke as from
a whirlwind. Words burned on the air like chains
of dynamite. The listeners felt transfigured,
and felt true contact and true presence then,
as if the shock of unfamiliar
and blasphemous profanity broke through
beyond the reach of prayer and song and hallo
to answer heaven’s anger with its echo.

First printed in Southern Poetry Review, Vol. 43, No. 1 2004
© 2004 by Robert Morgan