- Between 1998 and 2000, Halliburton Energy did $73 million worth of business with Iraq while Dick Cheney was CEO. Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton Energy has the $900 million contract to rebuild post-war infrastructure in Iraq. Brown and Root also got the contract to build cells for detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Brown and Root also just won the contract to put out the fires in the oil wells in Iraq.
- Between 1984 and 1994 the poverty rate in Mexico hovered around 34%. Since NAFTA 65-75% of the population now lives in poverty.
- "Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others." Emma Goldman
- The purpose of the CIA is to carry out secret and usually illegal activities for the executive branch. These activities are kept secret because the population would not approve of them.
- "Terrorism", as described in official U.S. documents is; "the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature. This is done through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear." This usage of the term only applies to acts committed against us or our allies.
- Current estimates suggest that there may have been about 80 million Native Americans in Latin America when Columbus "discovered" the continent, and about 12 to 15 million more north of the Rio Grande. By 1650, about 95 percent of the population of Latin America had been wiped out, and by the time the continental borders of the United Sates had been established, some 200,000 were left of the indigenous population. In short, mass genocide, on a colossal scale, which we celebrate each October when we honor Columbus-a notable mass murderer himself-on Columbus Day.
- The bombing of Operation Desert Storm destroyed infrastructure, electrical, sewage, and water systems. Combined with U.S.-led sanctions, over a million innocent Iraqi people have died, half of them children.
- fas-cism (fbsh'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
--American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin, 1983)
- Taco Bell tomato-farm workers are paid 50 cents for every 32-pound bucket they pick (that's 1.5 TONS to gross $50 in a day). They are denied overtime pay, health insurance, sick leave, vacation, pensions, and the right to organize. Where you ask- Florida.
- The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Japan, South Korea and Taiwan for their efforts to restrict U.S. tobacco imports and advertising. The purpose of The War On Drugs is to distract the population, increase repression, and build support for attack.
- The Carlyle Group employs George Bush as senior advisor. They have billions of dollars of state and teacher pension funds invested in the defense and telecommunications industries. They have extensive ties to Global Crossing, Enron, and Arthur Anderson, but as a private firm they are not subject to SEC inspection or regulations. Many other former government officials are working for The Carlyle Group. United Defense, a subsidiary of Carlyle, has the contract to provide the Defense Department with combat vehicles and systems. Until October 2001, The Saudi Bin Laden Group was heavily invested in Carlyle.
- With only 5% of the world's population, the United States consumes 40% of the world's resources. 50% of the U.S. wealth is owned by the top 1% of the U.S. population. 1% of the U.S. population owns 25% of the world's wealth. That means that .06% of the world's population (Americans) owns 25% of the world's wealth.
- Authoritarians notoriously mix up anarchy, anarchist and anarchism with authoritarian tendencies: Chaos, disorder, mob rule, lawlessness, the law of the jungle, criminality, riots, theft, corruption, drugs, mafia, terrorism, autocratic rule, the right to the strongest, antisocial tyrannic behavior, etc. i.e. different types of superiors and subordinates. The word anarchy origins from greek. The prefix "an" means "negation of" as in anaerobe versus aerobe and "arch" means "superior, i.e. in contrast to subordinates", as in archbishop, archangel, archduke, arch villain, etc. Thus anarchy, anarchism, anarchist, a.s.o., mean coordination on equal footing, without superiors and subordinates, i.e. horizontal organization and co-operation without coercion. This is the opposite of the above mentioned authoritarian tendencies, i.e. different types of superiors and subordinates. The above mentioned mixtures of anarchist and authoritarian tendencies are principal contradictions similar to the Newspeak slogan "peace is war" in Orwell's "1984", and have correspondent repressive functions. Anarchists won't have any of that! For obvious reasons significant mixtures of anarchist and authoritarian tendencies should be denounced, i.e. as a general anarchist opinion, now and in the future. These actions may be taken on individual, municipal or international level, dependent on the situation.
- Canadians value their system of health-care, called Medicare . The private sector uses the media to tell us otherwise. For-profit health care is expensive, inefficient and inequitable.
- The G8 countries are: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The members of the G8 influence the direction of the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and trade agreements like NAFTA. These countries are the most responsible for the globalization process.
- Trade unionists fought hard to end child labor, to establish old age pension, Workers' Compensation, unemployment insurance, a minimum wage, occupational health and safety legislation, social assistance for the poor, free education, and health care. These achievements are now being taken from us.
- Before Columbus, the inhabitants of North and South America were a remarkably healthy race. Because they had built up no resistance to the microbes that the Europeans and their slaves brought to them, millions of them died. Pilgrim's, believed that God was clearing the land for their claim. This is the origin of Thanksgiving.
- Over $900 Billion is spent on military budgets every year. 50% of this amount is spent by the U.S. 47% of the U.S federal budget is spent on military expenses. According to the U.N., the amount needed to adequately feed, educate and provide safe water to everyone in the world is $30-40 billion, or 5% of the world's military expenditures.
- Since WW2 86 million people have died as a result of war. Here's a list of the countries and dates since the end of WW2 that the U.S. has bombed. China (45-46), Korea (50-53), China (50-53), Guatemala (54), Indonesia (58), Cuba (59-60), Guatemala (60), Congo (64), Peru (65), Laos (64-73), Vietnam (61-73), Cambodia (69-70), Guatemala (67-69), Grenada (83), Libya (86), El Salvador (80s), Nicaragua (80s), Panama (89), Iraq (91-present), Sudan (98), Afghanistan (98), Yugoslavia (99), Afghanistan (2001). Not one democratic government respectful of human rights resulted.
- The U.S. government spent more money per capita to get the presidential candidate it favored elected in Chile in 1964 than was spent by both candidates (Johnson and Goldwater) in the 1964 election in the United States.
- James Madison believed that the primary goal of the government is to "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority." As his colleague John Jay was fond of putting it, "The people who own the country ought to govern it."
- Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was infact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations.
- Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth.
- "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate." Noam Chomsky
- You know gehrig that ass-hole zionazi scum that hangs out at this indy is a lying sack of shit zionazis bombed the USS Liberty and killed americans it was no accident, By 1992, Israel violated over 65 UN resolutions. Between 1972 and 1990, the U.S. and Israel vetoed more than 30 UN resolutions. Eight countries are known to have nuclear weapons. Iraq has none. The U.S. has over 10,000. Israel has over 400. Israel has never allowed UN weapons inspections. 42% of Palestinian territories are illegally occupied by Israeli settlements.
- In 1945, corporations paid 50 percent of all federal tax revenues. Today they pay 7 percent.
- EPW's, also known as "bunker busters," are designed to penetrate up to 6 meters of concrete or 30 meters of earth before exploding. Two bunker busters were dropped in Baghdad on March 28. The bombs hit a communications tower and dug "huge craters" around the main telephone exchange center. Little information has surfaced from the attack, and there has been no indication as to why a penetrating bomb was used on an above ground target. In addition, this weapon inevitably disperses radioactive dirt and debris over several square kilometers and could result in fatal doses of radiation to tens of thousands of victims. Some EPW's are nuclear. This bomb has been used in other campaigns as well.
- Used in anti-tank shells since the first Gulf War, depleted uranium (DU) is uranium 238, the isotope remaining after uranium 235 has been enriched for use in nuclear weapons or reactors. When DU-tipped shells are fired at high speeds from tanks or planes, the radioactive material burns through tank armor, igniting the vehicle. After exploding, 70% of the shell is vaporized into tiny particles and can be carried by the wind for many miles. Although DU is only half as radioactive as uranium 235, the tiny particles can become trapped inside the human body for long periods of time, creating serious health problems.
During the first Gulf War, US tanks fired 14,000 DU shells, and anti-tank aircraft fired another 940,000 rounds, leaving a total of 564,000 pounds of DU either vaporized or unexploded on the desert floor. The increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994 was 700%.
- 6,000 retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by U.S. tanks with ploughs mounted on the front during the Gulf War.
- Secretary of Treasury during Iran-Contra and the Chief of Staff during the Gulf War, James A. Baker now works as Senior Counsel to The Carlyle Group, a Washington D.C. investment firm with extensive Saudi ties, including the Bin Ladens. Baker watched the 9-11 attacks with the Bin Laden family at the Washington, D.C. Ritz-Carlton.
- James A. Baker also works through his law firm, Baker & Botts, personally assisting energy companies in their quest to get contracts for Caspian Sea oil, which will require a pipeline through Afghanistan.
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