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March
4, 2002
David
Vest
Grammy's
of Constant Sorrow
March
3, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
War
on Terrorism for Dummies
Paul Cox
Boycott
Mel Gibson's
"We Were Soldiers"
Frederick
Hudson
Toward
a Nonviolent Africa:
Bill Sutherland's Quest
Eric Schaeffer
Dear
Christie Whitman:
Take This Job and Shove It
John Chuckman
Why
the Rest of Planet is Unnerved by America
March
2, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
Sweat,
Sex, Feet and
the Working Class
March
1, 2002
Brendan
Sexton III
What's
Wrong With Black Hawk Down: an Actor Speaks Out
Terry
Diggs
Why
Twain's Pudd'nhead
Wilson Still Matters
David
Krieger
Nuclear
Terrorism
and US Nuclear Policy
February
28, 2002
James
T. Phillips
Baghdad,
Spring 1992
Gideon
Samet
Sharon
Must Go
Rep. Ron
Paul
Before
We Bomb Iraq
M. Shahid
Alam
Samuel
Huntington:
Peddling Civilizational Wars
St. Clair
/ Cockburn
Rumble
from the Jungle:
Ecaudorian Farmers Fight
DynCorp's ChemWar
February
27, 2002
Eric Hobsbawm
The
Future of War and Peace
John Troyer
About
that WTC Memorial
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Wired
for Democracy
or Business?
Alexander
Cockburn
Daniel
Pearl: Should His
Editors Have Sent Him There?
February
26, 2002
Jonathan
Steele
Kabul's
Loss
Vasily
Streltsov
The
Pentagon in
the Transcaucusas
CounterPunch
Wire
How
Corporations Use Shadowy "527" Groups to Influence
Politicians
Lt. Col.
Robert Bowman
ABM
Treaty: Alive or Dead?
Rep. Dennis
Kucinich
A
Prayer for America
February
25, 2002
John Clarke
Interrogated
at US Border
Blankfort,
Poirier, Zeltzer
ADL
Blinks, Settles Spying Case
Alex Lynch
Naked
from Sin:
The Ordeal of Nahla
and Sami Al-Arian
John Chuckman
Ashcroft
Speaks in Tongues
February
24, 2002
David
Vest
Skate
Date
February
23, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Axis
of Evil and
Media Monopolies
Bahour/Dahan
Cracks
in the Occupation
February
22, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
Axel
of Evil: Sex Crimes
and the Constitution
February
21, 2002
Gary Leupp
The
Philippines: Second Front in US's Global War
David
Vest
Reagan
Clone Project?
Mokhiber
and Weissman
Chicago
School and Corporate America: Rotten to the Core
February
20, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
The
Shallow Throat Document
Kay Lee
The
Prison Guard Who Never Owned Up to His Crimes
February
19, 2002
David
Orr
Waylon
Jennings, the Duke,
and the Navajo
John Chuckman
The
Devil and Georgie Bush
Prudence
Crowther
Giblet
Gravitas
Ramzi
Kysia
Caught
in the Iraq DMZ
February
18, 2002
Ron Jacobs
The
US and Iran
George
Lewandowski
Empire
in Declline
Lenni
Brenner
Life
and Death of a Folk Hero
February
17, 2002
Robert
Fisk
Lost
in a Pit of Desperation
February
16, 2002
Phillip
Cryan
Colombia
in War Time
February
15, 2002
C.G. Estabrook
From
New York to Porto Alegre
Robert
O'Brien
The
View from Porto Alegre
Mokhiber/Weissman
Resisting
the Assassins
February
14, 2002
Levy and
Easton
Ante
Pavelic
Real Butcher of the Balkans
Joan Claybrook
Dear
Jeb Bush,
About You and Enron
John Chuckman
Time
for a Woman Prez
Alexander
Cockburn
Banning
the Koran
February
13, 2002
Sen. Russ
Feingold
War
Powers and
the War on Terror
Tom Turnipseed
Bush's
Folly
George
Monbiot
American
Imperialism
February
12, 2002
Uri Avnery
The
Great Game:
Oil, Sharon and Iran
Tommy
Ates
Black
Land Loss
February
11, 2002
Walt Brasch
The
Synergizing of America
John Troyer
Enron's
Deep Throat?
February
9, 2002
John Blair
Criticize
Cheney, Go to Jail
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in an Afghan Refugee Camp
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March 4, 2002
"Ten Women
To One Man"
Strangelove Scenario
for Shadow Govt. Bunker
From
The Washington Post, March 1, 2002
"President Bush has dispatched
a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to
live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the
first time long-standing plans to ensure survival of federal
rule after catastrophic attack on the nation's capital.
[...]
"Officials who are activated
for what some of them call "bunker duty" live and work
underground 24 hours a day, away from their families.[...]
"The two sites of the shadow
government make use of local geological features to render them
highly secure. They are well stocked with food, water, medicine
and other consumable supplies, and are capable of generating
their own power."
From 1964's "Dr.
Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb," by Stanley Kubrick, script by Terry Southern.
DR. STRANGELOVE Mr. President,
I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human
specimens. It would be quite easy... heh heh... At the bottom
of ah... some of our deeper mineshafts. The radioactivity would
never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep. And in a
matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in dwelling space could
easily be provided.
PRESIDENT MUFFLEY How long would
you have to stay down there?
DR. STRANGELOVE Well let's see
now ah... cobalt thorium G... Radioactive halflife of uh, ...
hmm.. I would think that uh... possibly uh... one hundred
years.
PRESIDENT MUFFLEY You mean, people
could actually stay down there for a hundred years?
DR. STRANGELOVE It would not be
difficult mein Fuhrer! Nuclear reactors could, heh... I'm sorry.
Mr. President. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely.
Greenhouses could maintain plantlife. Animals could be bred and
slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the
available mine sites in the country. But I would guess...
that ah, dwelling space for several hundred thousands of our
people could easily be provided.
PRESIDENT MUFFLEY Well I...
I would hate to have to decide.. who stays up and.. who goes
down.
DR. STRANGELOVE Well, that would
not be necessary Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished
with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to
accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence,
and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it would be
absolutely vital that our top government and military men
be included to foster and impart the required principles of
leadership and tradition. (Slams down left fist. Right
arm rises in stiff Nazi salute.) Arrrrr! (restrains right arm
with left) Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh?
There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper
breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male,
I would guess that they could then work their way back to the
present gross national product within say, twenty years.
PRESIDENT MUFFLEY But look here
doctor, wouldn't this nucleus of survivors be so grief stricken
and anguished that they'd, well, envy the dead and not want to
go on living?
DR. STRANGELOVE No sir... (His
right arm rolls his wheelchair backwards.) Excuse me.(He struggles
with wayward right arm, ultimately subduing it with a beating
from his left.) Also when... when they go down into the mine
everyone would still be alive. There would be no shocking memories,
and the prevailing emotion will be one of nostalgia for
those left behind, combined with a spirit of bold curiosity for
the adventure ahead! Ahhhh! (Right arm reflexes into Nazi salute.
He pulls it back into his lap and beats it again. Gloved hand
attempts to strangle him.)
GENERAL TURGIDSON Doctor, you mentioned
the ration of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate
the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship,
I mean, as far as men were concerned?
DR. STRANGELOVE Regrettably, yes.
But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the
human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required
to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will
have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will
have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
COMRADE DESADESKI I must confess,
you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
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