Saturday, April 29 | T-Shirts, Resource Areas and the 10 Most Wanted WE HAVE joined the ranks of websites that offer T-shirts. We have done this merely to improve our credibility. It's the next best thing to a White House press card. We've taken the Café Press business model -- they print the shirts on demand, and we don't have to turn somebody's kitchen into a drop-shipping agency. The shirts are based on Deirdre Tanton's designs from the Parallel Worlds artwork. You can see them here: http://www.cafepress.com/planetwaves/ After shipping and everything is paid for, we make $7 per shirt. We don't expect to make bank in the concessions industry, but they are nice shirts.      Next Case: Resource Areas EARLIER in the week I introduced our Sept. 11, 2001 resource area. You will notice that my mascot for Sept. 11 is Orson Welles performing the greatest media hoax of the 20th century, "The War of the Worlds." This is me being literary. This is me putting up a tarot card that says Sept. 11 was essentially a hoax. Something real happened, yes, real people were killed, but -- what we think happened is something different than what did happen, as most ordinary Americans now seem to accept. Here is the link: http://www.planetwavesweekly.com/resources/pworlds911.html However, FYI, this is one of seven (rather diverse) Planet Waves resource areas. The others are: Alice Bailey; Avian Influenza; Options to Hysterectomy; Peace Groups; Sexuality; and Water. Please post these to your Internet site, pass the link on, and most of all, use it. Many, many people have contributed to these areas. I have actually done very little of the work and only some of the thinking; usually what I do is say, "how abut this or that?" and if somebody is excited about it, it happens. Mandy Hall has, however, been coordinating and doing the heavy lifting (research, evaluation of the sites, coordinating the various streams of input, coding the pages) on the newer areas. Here is the link to all of them: http://www.planetwavesweekly.com/resources/ America's 10 Most Wanted SPEAKING of resource areas, I came up with a really perverse idea earlier in the week, which was to base one on the FBI list of America's 10 Most Wanted. Who are these people? How can you collect your $25 million if you manage to offer information that gets one of them popped? How can you get on the list for yourself? So I wrote to Mandy Hall, our Resource Areas editor and we started poking around the page. Here it is: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm I knew Osama bin Laden would be there, but I figured there would be a lot more "Arab terrorists" listed. There are actually not so many as there were the last time I checked. You will read about all kinds of interesting real-life outlaws on this list, you will see the "should be considered armed and dangerous" warning, you will meet a Mafia boss who travels armed with a knife at all times. It's an interesting lot, and some of these people have been fugitives for a very long time. When you click on Osama, and read what he is wanted for, you may notice something extremely odd: he's not wanted in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. Remember how many times his name and likeness have been used to promote the cause of Sept. 11 and the war with Afghanistan, which was a friend to Al Qaeda until we kicked out the Taliban and it really became a massive haven for Al Qaeda, opium growers, etc.? How many times was he blamed? Why is Osama not listed as wanted in connection with Sept. 11? Well, presuming the FBI updates its web page at least once every four years, there can be only one reason. There's not enough evidence to even say that. Wot are they afraid he's going to sue for slander? They think nobody but nut cases such as myself reads their 10 Most Wanted page? But, if anyone has an alternative theory, I would be excruciatingly thrilled beyond imagination to hear it. So please tap away to francis@planetwaves.net and join our first-annual competition for The Best Reason bin Laden is Not Wanted in Connection with Sept. 11. And don't miss the ever so artsy FBI Art Crime Team internet logo: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/topten/images/toptenartbanner594a.jpg But this is really sad: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/topten/iraqi.htm