by Editors

 

You will never receive a more important message…than this one.  Ever.  It’s just a message, however.  I can’t supply you with a solution to this one. The solution must come…if it ever will…from the great collective us.  Part of what might empower us to join together, face and deal with the problem is the attitude of gratitude…That’s why I entitled this message B.E.A.ppreciative”…

 

Not long ago I sent some of you an op/ed of mine on the Hansen issue.  If that doesn’t strike a bell, you need to read it again. My piece is here attached preceded by an extraordinarily powerful and prophetic address authored by the staff of the one in regard to whom we should all—I suggest–feel  “appreciative” .  Please realize and “appreciate” the fact that this address, as of the present moment is being made available to you because I recorded and transcribed it for you. It’s not yet in print anywhere in the universe, although it is due to be posted on the internet next week, at least on or after March 31^st. *

 

FOR THE CANARY, BE GRATEFUL…

 

When miners in times past (before coal mining got ‘safe” in the U.S.) went down, there were no mechanical methane gas detectors.

Miners therefore carried a canary in a cage with them when they went below, and when they entered harm’s way, the canary did his very utmost to warn them and …died.  The canary’s lungs and immune constitution are such that mere traces of toxic  methane gas will cause it to succumb long before men feel the first effects of the gas.

 

My comfort in and appreciation for Bill Mayer is analogous to the gratitude those miners should have felt for their avante guarde

avian saviors.  The more I write truthful protest messages for the newspapers, B.E.A., and now Democratswrite.com (the website Bob Davidson and I now co-edit), the more I have misgivings about the safety of my routinely calling spades spades in this free country.  Bush and his neo-con corporate cronies and oily puppeteers are fascists.  His crimes and treasons accumulate at the same rate his dominant Republican defense system rallies and strengthens such that the more (even than I) zealous fringe of the liberal elements among us look to the growing number of presently empty FEMA internment camps (for future “concentration” ?) and ponder their individual prospects for future residency.

 

I am personally grateful because I have a canary in my company of independent, anti-neocon warriors for restoring domestic and international  lawfulness and morality to our presently imperialistic and fascist governance.  There cannot be a legitimate “war on terror” when common sense, Webster’s Dictionary and international law all define terror as a tactic rather than an entity.  Bin Laden and Al Qaeda may have been our enemies, but Afghanistan and Iraq, whom we have attacked, invaded and presently occupy were not.  We are imperialist, fascist invaders.  End of story. But not the end of the present message.

 

Thanks, Bill Maher, for being my canary.  When you’re involved in a freak accident on the freeway and your corpse is conveniently encapsulated in the compressed wreckage of your Toyota Prius between the hulking chassis of two government-owned SUV’s or military transport vehicles,  I will know it’s time to climb out of this dark pit  of corporate criminality that used to be the brightest point on Democracy’s star  since ancient Greece and head to Panama, where so many Americans of my ilk are reconnoitering refuge. 

 

Not yet, though…not quite yet.  In a little under three years we will know if there’s enough of America’s old spirit and soul left alive and worth…fighting for.  I’ll stay even when every asset around us is owned by the geriatric potentates  of Peking or the sleazy  Sheiks of Dubai.  But if and when they start killing the beautiful canaries around us, like Bill Maher,  it’s Panama City Time for this old-styled American.

 

Now, sit back, relish…and APPRECIATE  THE RISK BILL MAYER HAS TAKEN FOR US MINERS OF AMERICA’S ANCIENT HEART…IN TELLING US THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GREATEST RISK FACING MANKIND IN THE HISTORY OF EARTH….AND IT IS NOT GLOBAL WARMING….RATHER , IT’S THE PEOPLE AND POWERS TRYING TO CONCEAL IT…

 

GLOBAL WARMING IS LIKE THAT LETHAL METHANE GAS IN THE DEPTHS OF THE GLOBAL MINE WE ARE NOW FORCED TO COHABIT…ALONG WITH THE CORPORATE MONSTERS WHO, WITH JACKHAMMER AND DERICK, ARE CONTIUING TO DRILL THE PREMORDIAL FOSSIL BLOOD FROM EARTH’S HEART AND SPLEEN UNTIL SHE AXPHYXIATES ON HER OWN STALE BREATH.  LISTEN CLOSELY TO YOUR CANARY AND MINE, SPEAKING TO US—WHILE HE STILL LIVES FROM OUR TV SCREEN TO THE WORLD….

 

NEW RULES FOR … GLOBAL WARMING

 

New Rules

By: Bill Maher

March 24, 2006

 

“New Rule:  Nobody can use the term ‘the big problem’ any more unless he’s talking about Global warning!

 

President Bush has been saying ‘we’re in a war against Terror’ and now I get it—He’s not saying ‘terror’, he’s saying ‘terra’…terra firma…as in the earth! Bush is an alien sent here to destroy the earth! (I know it sounds crazy but it made great sense to me when Tom Cruise explained it to me last week.)

 

Now, last week on 60 Minutes, James Hansen, NASA’s leading expert on the science of climate, delivered the world’s most important message:  He said we have to in the next ten years decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out. If that doesn’t happen within 10 years, we’re going to be passing certain ‘tipping points’. If the ice sheets begin to disintegrate, what can you do about it? – You can’t tie a rope around an ice sheet.  Although I know a certain cowboy from Crawford who might think you could.

 

And that cowboy and his corporate goons at the White House tries to censor Mr. Hansen from delivering that message claims such warnings were ‘speculative’…This from the crowd who rushed to war based on an article in the Weekly Standard.  This from the guy who thinks Kyoto is that Japanese emperor dude his dad threw up on.

 

Global warming is not speculative. It threatens us enough it should be considered a national security issue. Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction—and that’s what global warming is—in order to protect oil company profits…well that fits for me the definition of treason.  Uncodified treason.

 

The guy in the White House who made the edit was Phil Cooney, who had been an oil industry lobbyist before being given this job—as ‘White House Counsel on Environmental Quality’.  That’s the office that’s supposed to be watching out for us.  But  that’s where Phil busied himself crossing stuff out in scientists’ reports.  Apparently Phil hadn’t switched jobs—he was just doing his old job—oil industry lobbyist—from a different office…you know…in the peoples’ house.

 

Republicans have succeeded in making the environment about some tie-dyed dude from Seattle who lives in a solar-powered tent and eats twigs.  It’s not. This issue should be driven by something conservatives are much more familiar with…utter selfishness.  That’s my motivation.  I don’t want to live my golden years having to put a hat and mask on just to go down and get the mail.  Those are my Viagra years.  When I’ll be thinking about having children…

 

But I wouldn’t know what to tell a kid about our world in 20 years.  ‘Dad, tell me about the birds and bees’.  ‘They’re all gone…so go ahead and eat your Soylent Green.’

We are letting dying men kill our planet for cash and they’re counting on our being too greedy or distracted or just plain lazy to stop them. 

 

So on this day—the 17^th anniversary of the Exxon Valdese Oil Spill,  let us pause to consider how close we are to making ourselves fossils from the fossil fuels we extract. In the next 20 years almost a billion Chinese people will be trading in their bicycles for the automobile.  Folks, we either get our shit together on this quickly or we’re going to have to go to plan B—inventing a car that runs on Chinese people.”

 

Thank you my friends….

 

 

Bill Maher

Real Time With Bill Maher

March 24, 2006

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Thank you, Bill Maher.   Nobody could have said it better.

 

 

Now, for those of you who missed (or didn’t “get”)
my own piece….please click the title below.

BUSH LIES…WE ALL DIE

Now He’s Lying About the Most Lethal WMD of all:

GLOBAL WARMING

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