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Name: Adam
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Birthday: 8/3/1984
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his photo is disturbing, it certainly reflects the military training and indoctrination of the troops, which encourage them to kill civilians indiscriminately as confirmed in numerous reports.
It also confirms the crudest form of war crimes committed by an Occupation Army: murder and rape.
The two smiling children on the picture do not know what is written on the card-board poster.
We are not dealing with an isolated event.
We are dealing with a code of conduct which emanates from the US occupation high command. The war is criminal and it instills criminality among occupation forces.
Is this what Bush means when he says: "We the Civilized World"
Circulate this posting. An international inquiry into Bush Administration war crimes is long overdue. The individual in the picture should be arrested and judged not by the US Military but by the people of Iraq.
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research (Canada), 24 March 2004. | | |
| Here's a great article that sums up all of the shit that has been going on my hometown. Some of the highlights:
"Cheating, bomb making, death threats--Saratoga High School brews a potent mix of fear and privilege."
"Nearly one-third of Saratoga's students have 4.0 grade averages. Almost the same proportion take AP honors classes. The average SAT at the high school is almost 1250. And it is ranked as the top public school in the state."
"'I don't feel anywhere near as much competition here," said Philip Sung, who started at MIT last fall.'"
"the stress he suffered at Saratoga, and the subsequent finding Jesus, has an almost recovering-addict flavor to it, like a former convict... as if he had undergone unbearable pain on a wrong path. The path of competing at Saratoga High"
"when you scratch the surface of Saratoga, all you get is more surface."
"Not only have I been frustrated by this lack of a soul, but it's been just about the most nerve-wracking article I can remember working on. I found myself wilting in the face of all of this temperate beauty, wealth and surface niceness. In my career as a journalist, I have covered gunfire, revolutions. I have had death threats phoned and faxed to me, and faced lawsuits from scary people who you are not allowed to lose to. But nothing has been as daunting as facing suburban Saratogans and all of their beautiful, perfect, nice coldness. I began to doubt my own style, honed in some of the world's roughest places, as soon as I drove down Saratoga Avenue. This place is like kryptonite.
I have worked for years in the former Soviet Union, in a violent, post-totalitarian landscape where people speak another language, and I have never had such difficulty in gaining access to people's mouths--or when I did, to their hearts--as I have in trying to get to know Saratogans again. In part this is because I believe people here have far less heart to reveal, only ambition and results; it is more a case of nothing to articulate than a case of people being inarticulate. It's as if there isn't an inner world, a "deep underlying current," to expose."
"As I pulled out of the parking lot in my Corolla, through a forest of SUVs, all I could think of was getting out of this place and back to Russia--violent, bloody, wonderfully imperfect Russia.
Saratoga is a beautiful privileged place, and it makes you feel, if you don't love it and become a part of it, that something is wrong with you. It's a debilitating feeling, a special venom, that paralyzed me within a day of arriving. Because the only place you can go from Saratoga is down."
Welcome to my hometown... Comments Please! Read the article at http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/02.19.04/saratoga-0408.html | | |
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Here's an interesting story - completely scrubbed from the media - can hardly get it by google - 
WALMART COMPLICIT IN DRUG TRADE
Police say $30 million in cocaine found amid toys in truck
The Associated Press
FORREST CITY, Ark. --
Police found an estimated $30 million worth of cocaine hidden among a tractor-trailer full of toys headed for Wal-Mart stores in North Carolina.
State police pulled over a tractor-trailer Sunday on Interstate 40 near Forrest City, saying it was speeding.
Troopers said the truck's driver was cited for driving on a suspended license and that he and a passenger appeared nervous during the traffic stop, so officers asked for permission to search the rig.
According to police, officers found cocaine inside 12 boxes, each containing about 25 kilograms. The total weight of the drugs is estimated at 300 kilograms, or 660 pounds.
Police charged Francisco Galvan, 36, of Lynwood, Calif., and his passenger Hector Aquilar-Corona, 37, of Tucson, Ariz.
Aquilar-Corona was charged with permitting an unauthorized driver to drive and possession with intent to deliver drugs. Galvan is charged with driving on a suspended drivers license and possession with intent to deliver drugs.
In a hearing Monday in St. Francis County District Court, bond for the pair was set at $2 million. Both were still being held Tuesday.
WAL-MART is the World's Biggest Corporation. Of the Top 10 richest people in the world, 5 are Waltons, with S. Robson Walton ranking above Bill Gates for the #1 slot w/ $65 Billion personally. Rabidly anti-union, the #1 private employer in the US has an average turnover rate of 50% a year, but in some cases it has to replace 100-300% of its employees every year. Wal-Mart is also the largest importer of chinese-made products in the world, accounting for 10% of all of China's exports, where child labor practices of 16 hour days, 7 days a week, 13 cents/hour, and sickening treatment and conditions are the norm.
The reason I'm writing this is because here in Chico CA, guess who wants to build a new supercenter? This concrete box they want to drop will enclose an area about the size of 3 football fields, and come with a produce department. This is part of Wal-Mart's plan to open up 40 of these in CA in the coming few years. This will undoubtabley hurt local farmer's and businesses, as well as the environment and must be stopped. There is a city council meeting this thu to address these concerns. The real cost of Wal-Mart's low prices must be acknowleged, and I hope you all vote with your dollars to stop the madness. & check out http://www.walmartwatch.com/ Peace | | |
|  "In the first half of the speech, the words "terror" or "terrorists" were used 14 times; some form of "kill" ("killers," "killed," "killing") 10 times; war 7 times; and that doesn't count the various stand-ins for war or warlike actions ("aggressive raids," "attack," "offensive," "patrols," "operations," "battle," "armored charges," "midnight raids," "on the offensive," and the slightly more opaque "pursuing a forward strategy of freedom in the Greater Middle East," a favorite phrase of our vice president as well);"weapons" was used 8 times (usually in the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" or "of mass murder," or in one case in the extraordinarily convoluted phrase, "weapons of mass destruction-related program activities..." from Tom Dispatch at http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/indexprint.mhtml?pid=1202
Bush says "no one can doubt the word of America." But how about the CIA? They just announced that Iraq is on the path to civil war. Bush just glossed over the whole issue in his SOTU address. The Bush Administration is relying on the same technique of scaring the shit out of everyone in order to maintain control over the population and the resources of the world.
The real state of the Union: An average of 9 soldiers/day have been injured in Iraq since we ivaded,
16,000 Iraqis have died, $100 BILLION spent as of 2003,
$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that Bush became President in 2001,
$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for 2003,
10: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held since beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at this point in his administration, and Bill Clinton 33,
2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the three years of the Bush administration,
221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts took effect. He promised the measure would add 306,000
43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002
40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which the US is responsible
88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and dividends taxes
$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes
58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road building, logging and drilling
200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has attempted to downgrade or weaken
from http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0120-01.htm
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check out presidential candidates positions on marijuana laws at http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5895 | | |
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