‘America needs to drop its obsession with being number one. It is time for the United States to become a member of the world community rather than a murderous bully.

Obscene over-consumption has become a hallmark of the United States. While not all Americans fall prey to Madison Avenue's propaganda glamorising gluttony, many do.

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At the moment, the US has around 10000 prisoners in their security compounds including the ill-famed Abu Ghraib jail. Statistically with each of these prisoners one can attach conservatively a direct family of about five adults and five children. Extended families can reach up to 20 adults on average.

This means that the Americans are actually directly affecting the lives of a minimum 50,000, and indirectly the lives of 200,000 adults, without firing a shot.

It is also to be counted that the Americans on average kill 20 “insurgents

‘Why do they hate us? 

President George Bush posed this question to the American public shortly after 9/11. 

The 'everyday low prices' super-chain refuses to carry books & music that dare criticize conservative values.  

As you have probably heard, the "everyday low prices" at these concrete boxes of utopian consumption have tremendous costs for our environment, our workers, our wages, our communities & the public coffers.

‘This is the model for the future - a model that takes its cues from historical success of sharpening an ideology that truly speaks for America's middle class, not the historical failure of trying to simultaneously appease both the Big Money perpetrators and their middle-class victims in a corrupt political system gone mad.

This is a grassroots model that comes from America's most successful political stories, not from the class of professional election losers in Washington who preach an ineffective, split-the-difference politics.

This, in short, is the way our country can take its government back. It is up to us to take the first step. If we do, America will follow.’

BELOW IS A TRANSCRIPT OF THE ADDRESS GIVEN TODAY AT THE VP DAY COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONY, AT THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, CANBERRA, BY THE PRIME MINISTER THE HON JOHN HOWARD MP

BELOW THAT IS A LETTER WRITTEN BY ROBIN GOLLAN OF SCULLIN, ACT, PUBLISHED IN THE CANBERRA TIMES ON AUGUST 13

This film shows how the U.S. attacked Panama and killed 3 or 4 thousand people in an invasion that the rest of the world was against.  (Sound familiar?)

The excuse given was to get the drug lord, General Noriega, who had been on the CIA's payroll for 20 years.  

We see not only the devastation we did to poor cities in Panama, but also how our media was complicit in the way all of this was presented to the American public.