George. W. Bush will win the USA November 2004 election. He will win, not because a majority of people will vote for him, but because he controls the voting system.

It's been demonstrated that the Diebold voting software is utterly insecure. Votes can be changed without anyone knowing, including the officials who run the election,

The voting software has a backdoor that allows this easy manipulation of votes, but in a way that passes all spotchecks and verifications. According to internal Diebold memos, this backdoor appeared just after embezzler Jeffrey Dean became the senior programmer. Prior to working at Diebold, Dean was convicted of 23 counts of embezzlement which he admitted to commiting due to being blackmailed over killing someone in a fight (!).

This software, complete with Dean's backdoors, has been in use in elections for over four years. It was used in November 2000, where Bush famously stole that election, and it will be used again this year.

Appeals to the use of the software, or to implement measures preventing the kind of known backdoors are all being refused. The independant observation process is a joke. The press are even publishing fake poll information showing Bush ahead of Kerry, to manage expectations. Everything is set up perfectly.

"We are succeeding in Iraq. We are succeeding against the forces of evil."

This isn't fucking Lord of the Rings. This isn't an episode of the power-puff girls. We aren't the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Tony Blair isn't He-Man. George Bush might live in a little world of his own, but he's not in The Chronicles of Narnia. Dick Cheney isn't Pokemon.

These people that we're 'succeeding' against are not zombies, or decepticons or armies under the control of Baron von Greenback. They are people. They are fighting for what they think is right and what is invaribly being proved to be the truth.

Between Batman at Buckingham Palace and pro-hunt protestors breaking into parliament this week, I'm starting to get a little worried. Not for the safety of our sovereign or glorious leaders but because these assorted right wing causes have started to realise something: public protests get more headlines, therefore makes more impact on our media obsessed society, than bribing a couple of MPs to mutter incoherently about their token issue of the week in the House of Commons.

It worries me that they're taking to the street/palace because this is our space. And them entering our territory has not automatically allowed us to enter theirs: we don't have the money for sly backhanders and party donations, we don't have the backing of big business and big media business to do our bidding, and, critically, with a few rare exceptions, we don't have their unity.

Also, the police/security services have been criticised for being "heavy handed" and bumbling - which will be read by the right-wing press as an attack on freedom and individuality, and the failure of Blair to maintain order. In reaction to this, the police will over-compensate and become more right-wing in tendencies/reactions: they will show they're just as "heavy-handed" with lefties at the next anti-exploitation demonstration (whatever it might be). Someone (else) will get killed by them. Murder will be the only way they can prove their objectivity.

As usual, the right want it all and will take it from us, just because they can.

They say that the things you own really own you.

I wish they would sell me and buy someone new.

I don't feel the need to go to low impact stretching classes like yoga any more because I'm now flexible enough after putting my foot in my mouth on a regular basis. Beating myself up about everything (particularly foot-in-mouth things) is also really goood aerobic exercise for my general cardio-vascular fitness. Yes, you read it here first, low self-esteem is the new path to total body fitness. Sign up today!

"Professor Katsuma Yagasaki ... calculated that the 800 tons of DU used in Afghanistan is the radioactive equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The amount of DU used in Iraq is equivalent to 250,000 Nagasaki bombs."

"In 1989 there were 11 abnormalities per 100,000 births; in 2001 there were 116 per 100,000—an increase of over a thousand percent. In 1989 34 people died of cancer; in 2001 there were 603 cancer deaths. The 2003 war has increased these figures exponentially."

"There is no treatment and there is no cure."

"67% [of post-Gulf War babies of veterans] were found to have serious birth defects or serious illnesses. They were born without eyes (anophthalmos), ears, had missing organs, missing legs and arms, fused fingers, thyroid or other organ malformations."

"babies are born without brains, organs are outside the body, or women give birth to pieces of flesh. In babies born in Iraq in 2002, the incidence of anophthalmos was 250,000 times greater than the natural occurrence."

http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/4.html

I filled the iron up with water from a cup that had apple juice in it. Now when I use the iron my shirts smell of apple pie.

Lady Diana, pools of blood at your feet
Wondering which bits you, and which bits are car seat
Who finds the money? Who'll now pay the rent?
Did you think that royalty was heaven sent?

Lady Diana, gear-stick in your breast
Wondering if your driver will pass the test

Lady Diana, what was it that you said?
for now you're listening to your brains leak from your head

too soon?