[05#15] 1.15=6=12.6=#36: Old Home to Home to O.H.; 1.Cascadia Proj.,SusanBourlalnd 2.India>China. 3.China=Venequela Oil. 4.US Gulag

Cloudy cool, up 7:25, counting 2 months accounts of old house's rental left by Luis, 11:55 reaching sofa for diary, mails, etc., then driving mom to Marina(Yung-ho) supmkt after tofu-bean-carrots with onion-oil-cake, Mei and much later rent-looker cell tel near home: tel pay comcast Internet $100, managing emails keeping some urls for this blog, Jun tel from Oregon then again to Mei, Lung tel Mei asking about dinner Mei taking, to bath time to o.h. for NHK Korean "Winter Sonata" at 8:05 and finishing this blog? 7:15 now to below. 7:45, not time for bath. Reach o.h. at 8:05 for the 1st of "w.s.", not very special, but there are roots of coming songs and emotion almost hidden, bed 11:55. 1) Cascadia Project, ETC. (1) "The Cascadia Project", http://www.reemergence.org/ "" Based in Seattle, WA, The Cascadia Project is a resource and meeting place for people interested in the process of creating or devolving systems of governance. The framework in which we operate is the proposed nation of Cascadia. In order to more completely explore the relationship of people to the power inherent in their existence -not only their citizenship- we host an ongoing dialogue in our forum. "" (2) "Re: [Cascadian_Bioregionalism] Time for real action ..." "" I am a freelance writer in exile in Texas. I maintain a blog about the northwestern cultural and political difference and write regularly on the topic of "environmental policy and cultural secession", or the idea that the Northwest, including California, is well on its way to a de facto secession through an environmental policy that runs counter to the feds and by virtue of its progressive culture, so different from the rest of the U.S. I support the idea of an organized site wherein ideas, articles, links, information, etc. are stored. Know that I would try to contribute to such a site and do all that I could to help such an endeavor. http://blogs.salon.com/0004300/ Susan Bourland "" 2) India > China " India, China will be global giants by 2020: US report", S Rajagopalan, Washington, January 14, 200514:48 IST http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1198806,0005.htm 3) China=Venezuela oil - US "The U.S.-Venezuela Oil Split Approaches A Boiling Point: Will Washington Tolerate A Chinese-Venezuelan Petro Pact?", on Friday, January 14, 2005 - 06:03 PM ::: Posted by: Admin: http://www.canadiandemocraticmovement.ca/displayarticle559.html 4) US Gulag (1) "A global gulag to hide the war on terror's dirty secrets: Bush is now thinking of building jails abroad to hold suspects for life", Jonathan Steele, Friday January 14, 2005, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1390317,00.html "" The promise of imminent release for four British detainees held at the notorious US prison at Guantánamo Bay is obviously welcome, but it is only a tiny exception in the surge of bad news from the Bush team on the human rights front. The first few days of the new year have produced two shocking exposures already. One is the revelation that the administration sees the US not just as a self-appointed global policeman, but also as the world's prison warder. It is thinking of building jails in foreign countries, mainly ones with grim human rights records, to which it can secretly transfer detainees (unconvicted by any court) for the rest of their lives - a kind of global gulag beyond the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, or any other independent observers or lawyers. The other horror is the light shone on the views of Alberto Gonzales, the White House nominee to be the chief law officer, the attorney general. At his Senate confirmation hearings last week he was revealed to be a man who not only refuses to rule out torture under any circumstances but also, in his capacity as White House counsel over the past few years, chaired several meetings at which specific interrogation techniques were discussed. As Edward Kennedy pointed out, and Gonzales did not deny, they included the threat of burial alive and water-boarding, under which the detainee is strapped to a board, forcibly pushed under water, wrapped in a wet towel, and made to believe he could drown. "" (2) "US 'should not rule out torture'", Last Updated: Saturday, 15 January, 2005, 00:47 GMT: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4175713.stm "" The outgoing head of the US Department of Homeland Security has said torture may be used in certain cases in order to prevent a major loss of life. ""