Heritics of Heroin

The following is excerpted from an article by Michael Ventura, written 02/03/05. No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1", "the greatest". Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No.1". Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled "un-American". We're an empire, ain't we? Sure we are. An empire that must borrow 2 billion dollars a day from our competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We're no.1. Well, this is the country you really live in: The United States is 49th in the world in literacy -- The United States ranked28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy -- Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolvews around the sun once a day -- Our workers are so ignorant and lack so many basic skills that american businesses spend$30 billion a year in remedial training. No wonder they relocate elsewhere! -- The World Health Organization ranked the countries of the world in terms of overall healthcare performance, and the US was 37th. In the fairness of healthcare, we're 54th. The irony is that the US spends more per capita for health care than any other nation in the world -- The US and South Africa are the only two developed countries in the world that do not provide healthcare for all their citizens. Excuse me, but since when is south Africa a developed nation? Anyway, that's the company we're keeping -- The leading cause of death for pregnant women in the US is murder -- Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea hold 40 percent of our government debt. (That's why we talk nice to them) By helping to keep mortgage rates from rising, China has been playing an important but little noticed role in sustaining the American housing boom. Read that twice. We owe our housing boom to China because they want us to keep buyibg all the stuff they manufacture -- As of last June, the US imported more food than it exported -- Americans are spending more money on gambling than than on movies, videos, DVDs, music, and books combined -- Nearly one out of four Americans believe that using violence to get what they want is acceptable behavior -- No.1? In most important categories we're not even in the top ten anymore. The USA is "No.1" in nothing but weaponry, consumer spending,debt, and delusion. http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12985.asp Did you know that 1)80% of all votes in america are counted by only two companies? Diebold and ES&S 2)There is no federal regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry 3)The vice president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers 4)The chairman and CEO ofDiebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year 5)Republican senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines 6)Republican senator Chuck Hagel, long connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Comitteee 7)...8)...9)Diebold's new touchscreen voting machines have no paper trail of any voting actions. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machines is the same as what was legitimately put in by the voters 10) Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail 11)All -not some- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or republican candidates... It goes on and on. It makes you want to kill them. We should nuke D.C. and the Pentagon and any other major edifice or location of governmental control. Democracy is dead and has been for a long time, it is now what the corporations tell the governments what to do, at the behest of the international financial elite. THEY MUST BE EXTERMINATED! Fellow psychonauts, loveth to alleth in HoH, flapjack

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