Emerald Warrior???

When are we going to grow out of this comic book reality?

As seen through a night-vision device,

US Army soldiers prepare for a training mission as part of exercise Emerald Warrior near Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on March 15, 2010. Photo via the US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster.

RIP EV1

3.15.2005

thank you General Motors!

"One of the biggest blunders in automotive history"

Baywatch" actress Alexandra Paul was among

dozens of electric car supporters

holding an around-the-clock vigil

outside a General Motors Corp training center in Burbank,

where more than 70 EV1s had been stored en route

to a recycling plant near Mesa, Ariz.

GM declined the group's offer

to pay a total of $1.9 million for the vehicles.

GM didn't do much for no emission streetcars either

- but that's another story...

isn't the caffeine bad enough?

Moment of Zinn

“I suggest that if you know history,

then you might not be so easily fooled by the government


when it says you must go to war

for this or that reason

that history is a protective armor against being misled"

Weekly moment of Zinn

"I wonder how the foreign policies
of the United States would look
if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world,
at least in our minds,
and thought of all children everywhere
as our own."





'When the power of love overcomes the love of power
the world will know peace"









when prevention becomes more profitable than cure,

peace more profitable than war...
maybe then

Pledge of Obedience

Weekly Moment of Zinn

"Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.”









During the Civil War J. P. Morgan bought
five thousand rifles for $3.50 each from an army arsenal
and sold them to generals in the field for $22 each.
The rifles were defective and would shoot off the thumbs of the soldiers using them.

A congressional committee noted this in the small print of an obscure report, but a federal judge upheld the deal as the fulfillment of a valid legal contract.


the tradition continues...
David H. Brooks, the founder and former chief executive of DHB Industries, Inc., and Sandra Hatfield, the former chief operating officer, are accused of falsely inflating the value of the inventory of the company's top product, the Interceptor vest, to help meet profit margin projections.


What really makes David H Brooks' $250 million in war windfalls particularly obscene is that the equipment which boosted his fortunes appears not to work very well.
In May 2005, the US Marines recalled more than 5,000 DHB armored vests after questions were raised about their effectiveness in stopping 9 mm bullets.
In November, the Marines and Army announced a recall of an additional 18,000 DHB vests.