John Mortell’s blog

To try and express how disappointed I am is difficult. Yet the fact that having made the decision to go that I feel a lot happier says a lot. Frankly this week and a day that I was in Boston has been the worst of my life. Or at least feels like it now. What’s been most dissappointing has been the fact that several groups of people, some of whom I really would not have expected it of, have abandoned me when I really needed help. One of them, getting a call from me that I could not have sounded good during, responded with ‘I really need my sleep’ … Others, in their attitude have given me the response of ‘hope that homeless thing goes well for you’… While some people have suggested travelling, to be honest, I really am just so sick and tired after this week that I don’t think I could even enjoy it. I hope, that by going tomorrow, I can use the money I have to come back some other time…

Boston’s been a bit of a disaster, currently unemployed and homeless. can’t travel easily either. anyone know anything that could help get in touch please!

Currently in Boston. If you want to contact me use my bebo/facebook. Unsurprisingly enough,given that this is the plan for the next 3months, expect blogging to be intermittent.

While I have to say the ‘yes’ side of the Lisbon treaty haven’t been very good at promoting their message, one of the things that has struck me is the general shadiness of the ‘no’ campaign. While I’m also somewhat wary of Indymedia, there’s an interesting article here on the Libertas group and why it exists:

So, at this stage we’ve established a few things. The figures behind Libertas are extremely closely connected to the US military and Intelligence community; their arguments appear to be clearly disingenuous; the US military and intelligence community are indeed opposed to the treaty. The facts are, by themselves, strong circumstantial evidence in favour of the idea that Ganley and McEvaddy’s connections to the US military provide the underlying motives for opposing Lisbon. But can we do any better? Can we turn up any positive evidence to support our tentative conclusion?

Ganley’s underlying message is clear – the more tightly integrated the EU is politically, the harder it will be for the US to influence it. The non-popularly elected president will be able to resist the ‘bad-behaviour’ of supporting US imperial adventures. Thus Lisbon does not “advance US national interests”.

The article is a bit long, and as I say, I’m wary of the source. But you can read it in full here

Well Eugene who used to be here has moved his blog. He’s now on wordpress! Take a look

Listening to him you actually feel like he’s a parody except, well he isn’t:

I hadn’t even heard about this until this morning. Benefit of packing for the U.S. I guess

Some guy called Duncan did it apparently:

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