A good example of a completely ineffective government.
"Congress has effectively given in to the administration, allowing it to grant immunity to any telco. Apparently, all that talk about not allowing the worst of this bill to go through was just talk. It's difficult to know where to begin in reviewing this "deal." It's hardly a compromise -- it's a get out of jail free card."
Link to Techdirt article
Friday, June 20, 2008
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
To: The Shareholders of ExxonMobil and Chevron Corporations, and All Peace Loving People of the World
From: Hassan Juma'a Awad, President, Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU)
We call upon the governments, corporations and other institutions behind the ongoing occupation of Iraq to respond to our demands for real democracy, true sovereignty and self-determination, free of all foreign interference.
Five years of invasion, war and occupation have brought nothing but death, destruction, misery and suffering to our people. In the name of our "liberation," more than a million of our citizens have been killed or wounded, our nation's schools, hospitals and other infrastructure have been destroyed, our neighbourhoods have been bombed, our homes have been broken into, our children have been traumatized, many of our family members and neighbours have been assaulted and arrested, our national treasures have been looted, and nearly twenty percent of our people have been turned into refugees.
The continued occupation fuels the violence in Iraq rather than alleviating it. The occupation has helped to foment and then exploit sectarian divisions and terror attacks where there had been none.
The Ba'athist legislation of 1987, which banned trade unions in the public sector and public enterprises (80% of all workers), is still in effect and continues to be enforced against us. Our union offices have been raided. Union property has been seized and destroyed. Our bank accounts have been frozen. Our leaders have been beaten, arrested, abducted and assassinated. Our rights as workers are routinely violated. This is an attack on our rights and the basic precepts of a democratic society. It is a grim reminder of the shadow of dictatorship still stalking our country.
We call upon you and all the world's peace-loving peoples to help us to end the nightmare of occupation and restore our sovereignty and national independence so that we can chart our own course to the future.
We demand an immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from our country, and utterly reject the agreement being negotiated with the USA for long-term bases and a military presence. Iraq must be returned to full sovereignty.
We demand the passage of a labour law promised by our Constitution, that adheres to ILO principles to protect the rights of workers to organize, bargain and strike, independent of state control and interference and on which Iraqi trade unionists have been fully consulted.
We demand an end to meddling in our sovereign economic affairs by the International Monetary Fund, the USA and UK, and multinational energy corporations, and recognition that no major economic decisions concerning our services and resources can be made while foreign troops occupy our country.
We demand that the US government, oil companies and others immediately cease lobbying for the oil law which would fracture the country and hand control over our oil to multinational companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron. We demand that all oil companies be prevented from entering into any long-term agreement concerning oil while Iraq remains occupied. The Iraqi government must tear up the current draft of the oil law, and begin to develop a legitimate oil policy based on full and genuine consultation with the Iraqi people. Only after all occupation forces are gone should a long term plan for the development of our oil resources be adopted.
We seek your support and solidarity to help us end the military and economic occupation of our country.
We look forward to the day when we have a world based on co-operation and solidarity. We look forward to a world free from war, sectarianism, competition and exploitation.
This is a statement made by the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions on May 28 during the shareholder meetings of ExxonMobile and Chevron. Now my question is, why aren't any of the major news outlets covering this, I think this is big news.
We call upon the governments, corporations and other institutions behind the ongoing occupation of Iraq to respond to our demands for real democracy, true sovereignty and self-determination, free of all foreign interference.
Five years of invasion, war and occupation have brought nothing but death, destruction, misery and suffering to our people. In the name of our "liberation," more than a million of our citizens have been killed or wounded, our nation's schools, hospitals and other infrastructure have been destroyed, our neighbourhoods have been bombed, our homes have been broken into, our children have been traumatized, many of our family members and neighbours have been assaulted and arrested, our national treasures have been looted, and nearly twenty percent of our people have been turned into refugees.
The continued occupation fuels the violence in Iraq rather than alleviating it. The occupation has helped to foment and then exploit sectarian divisions and terror attacks where there had been none.
The Ba'athist legislation of 1987, which banned trade unions in the public sector and public enterprises (80% of all workers), is still in effect and continues to be enforced against us. Our union offices have been raided. Union property has been seized and destroyed. Our bank accounts have been frozen. Our leaders have been beaten, arrested, abducted and assassinated. Our rights as workers are routinely violated. This is an attack on our rights and the basic precepts of a democratic society. It is a grim reminder of the shadow of dictatorship still stalking our country.
We call upon you and all the world's peace-loving peoples to help us to end the nightmare of occupation and restore our sovereignty and national independence so that we can chart our own course to the future.
We demand an immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from our country, and utterly reject the agreement being negotiated with the USA for long-term bases and a military presence. Iraq must be returned to full sovereignty.
We demand the passage of a labour law promised by our Constitution, that adheres to ILO principles to protect the rights of workers to organize, bargain and strike, independent of state control and interference and on which Iraqi trade unionists have been fully consulted.
We demand an end to meddling in our sovereign economic affairs by the International Monetary Fund, the USA and UK, and multinational energy corporations, and recognition that no major economic decisions concerning our services and resources can be made while foreign troops occupy our country.
We demand that the US government, oil companies and others immediately cease lobbying for the oil law which would fracture the country and hand control over our oil to multinational companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron. We demand that all oil companies be prevented from entering into any long-term agreement concerning oil while Iraq remains occupied. The Iraqi government must tear up the current draft of the oil law, and begin to develop a legitimate oil policy based on full and genuine consultation with the Iraqi people. Only after all occupation forces are gone should a long term plan for the development of our oil resources be adopted.
We seek your support and solidarity to help us end the military and economic occupation of our country.
We look forward to the day when we have a world based on co-operation and solidarity. We look forward to a world free from war, sectarianism, competition and exploitation.
This is a statement made by the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions on May 28 during the shareholder meetings of ExxonMobile and Chevron. Now my question is, why aren't any of the major news outlets covering this, I think this is big news.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
$^&*!$* Thieves Stole My Bike!
They got the RecycloBurningManGrocerygetter Granola Bike. Right out of my carport, maybe I'll get lucky and spot it, or one of the people that I have looking out for it will see it...
In the meantime, F%^k thieves!
In the meantime, F%^k thieves!
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery
If you like bicycling, and you like comics, or even if you just like comics, check out Yehuda Moon... It's good schtuff mate!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
World Rally Championship 2007 Compilation
My second compilation of the 2007 WRC season, set to Deftones Engine #9
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Calling all Portland Looky-Loos...
Yeah, I'm talking to you Portland Looky-Loos, the ones that backed up traffic for ~10 miles, and for what? An accident, yes an accident, THAT WAS IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION on I-84.
I hate you all, made my commute go from 1 hour to 2, jackasses.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
New Bike = Not Smoking???
The idea is that I'll be riding my bike to work, therefore life will suck if I keep smoking (15 mile ride to work).
Well that's the plan anyway. I was supposed to stop smoking last week, but I had a hell of a time, here's to this week!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Where I spend my days...
In my cubicle, yes I have CRT monitors, those will be changed to LCD's when I get my permanent cubicle. Also yes I have 2 computers, I support both Windows and Mac software. This is actually the first time I have used a Mac extensively since high school, though OSX is nice (it's basically Linux with a pretty window manager), I could never justify the exorbitant prices Apple wants for their hardware, so PC and Linux it is for me.
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Hears the The Internet Stalkers
Nice try! But look here ____________^_________ I just take a break and everything you say is gone. I hope you have a Great New Years.....(insert sarcaism)........ and on to the Next day :0
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
New Jorb...
Just got done with my first day at the new jobby job, so far so good. Though there are things I will miss about working in construction, I think there are more things I will like about tech support (particularly the lack of working in the rain).
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Merry Christmas
Well I know that Im the only lonley loser that checks this blog anymore but This is Just a friendly Merry Christmas message to The Mire.
Friday, November 02, 2007
I am teh awesoming...
Friday, August 17, 2007
It is past time...
...that i make a return to the Mire. Alot of crazy shit has been going down in my life this past couple of days and Soon I will need a place to vent before I burst
Void, canceled, simply annulled.
Endlessly aching, unconsoled.
Life without you, cause without reason.
Touch without sense, time without season.
I face life now facing a cancerous sore,
A sordid parasite that eats at my core.
All that makes me whole, all I hold deep within,
Leaving me lifeless, or at least not livin'.
A shallow face, anguished and marred.
An empty space, scaled and scarred.
Sweetly abiding to a cynical charade.
Secretly hiding 'hind a fictitious facade.
Still, lost within this heart of glass,
This fragile and yet unfeeling mass.
Lies the remains of a love that glowed,
The gift to you I once bestowed.
But honor and pride now bereaved-
By your love for me so misconceived,
Ripped from my inner depths, impeding-
Mind and body and spirit, bleeding;
Now's crushed to sand from thy ruthless hand,
A cold stare I just can't understand.
I feel that somehow, somehow I'm dying,
At least my soul and all that's underlying.
A simple void, is that what I've become?
The hollowed sphere on a pendulum.
Swinging back and forth, emotion to emotion,
Never once stopping, nor slowing the motion.
No reason, no answer, no justification.
The creation of a sterile imagination.
Just passing through time as time passes me.
Merely a nothing- nothing, merely, left to be.
Sightless and soundless, unseen and unheard.
Mindless and boundless, obscure and absurd.
All empathy lying ungraced, unemployed,
I live my life dying, unembraced, a void.
Void, canceled, simply annulled.
Endlessly aching, unconsoled.
Life without you, cause without reason.
Touch without sense, time without season.
I face life now facing a cancerous sore,
A sordid parasite that eats at my core.
All that makes me whole, all I hold deep within,
Leaving me lifeless, or at least not livin'.
A shallow face, anguished and marred.
An empty space, scaled and scarred.
Sweetly abiding to a cynical charade.
Secretly hiding 'hind a fictitious facade.
Still, lost within this heart of glass,
This fragile and yet unfeeling mass.
Lies the remains of a love that glowed,
The gift to you I once bestowed.
But honor and pride now bereaved-
By your love for me so misconceived,
Ripped from my inner depths, impeding-
Mind and body and spirit, bleeding;
Now's crushed to sand from thy ruthless hand,
A cold stare I just can't understand.
I feel that somehow, somehow I'm dying,
At least my soul and all that's underlying.
A simple void, is that what I've become?
The hollowed sphere on a pendulum.
Swinging back and forth, emotion to emotion,
Never once stopping, nor slowing the motion.
No reason, no answer, no justification.
The creation of a sterile imagination.
Just passing through time as time passes me.
Merely a nothing- nothing, merely, left to be.
Sightless and soundless, unseen and unheard.
Mindless and boundless, obscure and absurd.
All empathy lying ungraced, unemployed,
I live my life dying, unembraced, a void.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Busy Little Bees!
Working in Utah, I used this title because the Utah State symbol is a beehive... Damn those productive Mormons!!!
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Yay!
I'm home for a week, it's nice to be back in Portland, I forgot how much I love this place.
So glad to see Steph and Lilly too!
:D
So glad to see Steph and Lilly too!
:D
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Murray Retirement...
Clean slab, ready for framers...
After two days of framing...
After two days of framing...
Taken while hanging on to the forklift from 65' up.... Yes according to OSHA illegal, but god damn, its fun... I can't wait till the crane gets lit up (then I'll be 100+ feet up)
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Checking in from Utah!
Assistant Foreman Jacob (soon to be Foreman Jacob!)
At the Salt Lake City Jazz Fest
Hiking in the mountains above SLC
My dads dog Hack, I found that hat outside my jobsite, and just had to put it on him. :D
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