2005.10.15=6[#288]:9.13=#(60x4+9)[US#69] Internet, Can.China US Vnzl. Clean rooms, check banks. #1.US spies.2.Global army.3. 80's.4. Racism. 5.Wars.

Internet Addiction: http://tinyurl.com/8esa2 AOL Deception Dark: http://tinyurl.com/desbs Canada=China > USA: http://tinyurl.com/c54re Cindy Sheehan:1965: http://tinyurl.com/79dhg H Pinter > US Wars: http://tinyurl.com/89qjx UK Prime Minister: http://tinyurl.com/cj6dc WOwen: War poetry: http://tinyurl.com/d2z4p Vnzula>US mssonars: http://tinyurl.com/byhhg UScntrct>Venezuela: http://tinyurl.com/cwn3o USA Fallen Legion: http://tinyurl.com/7k74o Bit wet cloudy cool. About 5am Chen tel reaching Oregon home, since 8:30pm, it's only 8 1/2 hours drive! Up 8:10 after 2 hours newspapers, arrange interior, 9.22 Book tv on #1, then 10.4 on #2. Clean & arrange 3 rooms. Mei back, cooks for lunch at 3pm, Book tv on 6/28 on #3. Now 4:22pm lunch Book tv on 2/11/02 on #4, then Book tv's After Words long talk on #5. Late afternoon, Mei checks our credit card and Costco card statements. Jun back then gone. Check bank statements etc. Now 12:42am. Bed 1:25am #1. US Domestic "Spies": http://tinyurl.com/bju2w 1. Tram Nguyen: http://tinyurl.com/7lkug 2. "We Are All Suspects Now : Untold Stories from Immigrant America After 9/11", (Paperback), by Tram Nguyen; Beacon Press (September 15, 2005): http://tinyurl.com/9dhl2 "" Editorial Reviews: Book Description: Known as Little Pakistan, the community of Midwood, Brooklyn, has suffered a remarkable exodus in the years since 9/11. One sixth of the community—20,000 people—has left in search of liberty. In an ironic reversal of the American dream, this immigrant community now lives in fear, witnessing the unjust detainment or deportation of family members, friends, and neighbors. Tram Nguyen reveals the human cost of the domestic war on terror and examines the impact of post-9/11 policies on people targeted because of immigration status, nationality, and religion. Nguyen"s evocative narrative reporting—about the families, detainees, local leaders, community advocates, and others—is from those living and suffering on the front lines. We meet Mohammad Butt, who died in detention in New Jersey, and the Saleems, who flee Queens for Canada. We even follow a self-proclaimed "citizen patroller" who monitors and detains immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. We Are All Suspects Now, in the words of Mike Davis, "takes us inside a dark world . . . where the American Dream is fast turning into a nightmare" and suggests proactive responses to stop our growing climate of xenophobia, intimidation, and discrimination. "In this brave and deeply moving book, Tram Nguyen chronicles immigrant lives caught in a sinister web of suspicion, bigotry and state-sponsored terror." —Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities and Planet of Slums "" #2. American Global Empire soldiers: http://tinyurl.com/8whx5 1. Robert D. Kaplan: ""Robert D. Kaplan is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and the author of ten previous books on foreign affairs and travel, which have been translated into many languages; these books include Balkan Ghosts, Eastward to Tartary, Warrior Politics, The Coming Anarchy, and The Ends of the Earth. He lives in western Massachusetts."" 2. "Imperial Grunts : The American Military on the Ground" (Hardcover), by Robert D. Kaplan; Random House (September 13, 2005): http://tinyurl.com/ddw6u "" From Publishers Weekly America is no less an imperial power than Britain and Rome in their times, claims veteran journalist Kaplan (Balkan Ghosts, etc.)—one that is backed by the same sort of enforcers. To illustrate, he travels to seven nations and describes how American troops are, if not ruling the world, working to persuade it to follow our lead. The author joins elite units (generally marines or special forces) sent to shore up friendly governments, win people's hearts, train security forces and defeat terrorism—an increasingly vague term that includes narco-guerrillas, local warlords, unruly tribes and criminal gangs. Living among working soldiers, Kaplan makes no secret of his admiration for their camaraderie, practicality and rational if politically incorrect views. All roll their eyes when our leaders proclaim that defeating terrorism requires democratic governments; according to Kaplan, they believe this is nonsense in Colombia, Kenya, Yemen and the Philippines—all democracies. Forbidden to fight in these countries, Americans are building infrastructure and gathering intelligence as they instruct local units, hoping American-trained leaders will eventually rise to positions of authority. Military buffs will prefer the chapters on Iraq and Afghanistan, where the soldiers are slugging it out. Stabilizing all these nations may take decades, these men and women say—except in Iraq, where it may take longer. (On sale Sept. 13) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. "" #3. American Eighties: 1. John Ehrman: http://tinyurl.com/7mo45 ""John Ehrman is a foreign affairs analyst for the federal government. He was formerly a lecturer in history at George Washington University and writes on modern American conservative politics. His previous book, The Rise of Neoconservatism, was published by Yale University Press."" 2. "The Eighties : America in the Age of Reagan" (Hardcover), by John Ehrman; Yale University Press (March 11, 2005): http://tinyurl.com/7asvz #4. American Racism: from Yellow: 1. Frank Wu: http://tinyurl.com/a3qda ""The first Asian American to serve as a law professor at Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C., Frank H. Wu has written for a range of publications including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Nation, and writes a regular column for Asian Week. He lives in Washington, D.C."" 2. "Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White" (Paperback), by Frank H. Wu; Basic Books; Reprint edition (March, 2003): http://tinyurl.com/7kzls #5. Iraq War: 1. Bing West: http://tinyurl.com/ca5q9 http://tinyurl.com/9a8y2 ""BING WEST is the author of several books, including the award-winning The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines and the Vietnam classic The Village. He served as a Marine in Vietnam and was assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan. He lives in Rhode Island. Visit his website at www.westwrite.com."" 2. "No True Glory : A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah" (Hardcover), by Bing West; Bantam (September 27, 2005): http://tinyurl.com/cwhxy "" From Booklist: The most hard-fought campaign since the invasion of Iraq by coalition forces in April 2003, the battle for Fallujah seems here to embody most every facet of the American military experience in that country--inordinate courage by the fighting men and their immediate superiors, indecision and contradiction by U.S. leaders from the top down, a disconnect between military will to succeed in Iraq and a lack of dollars and troops to support it, and a treacherous relationship between Fallujans and those Americans who would do everything to "help" them. West, who coauthored The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines (2003), does touch on the larger policy decisions made by U.S. leaders concerning Iraq but really only as they affect the soldiers trying to execute those decisions in Fallujah. Instead, West's focus is on the "frontline," putting the reader at the negotiating table with U.S. military commanders and Fallujan sheiks, imams, and rebel leaders; in the barracks; and on the street, fighting hand to hand, house to house, in some of the fiercest battles of the Fallujah campaign and the Iraq war. Appearing neither pro- nor antiwar, West simply delivers a remarkably detailed, vivid firsthand account of the American military experience, 2004-05, in a highly combustible part of Iraq. Alan Moores Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved ""