There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell

Don't read Wage Peace if you want the Orwellian official truth, rather consider blindly believing the corporatocracy endorsing Fox "News" media and listen to imbeded functionaries, not journalists. The state of the world is important to me, as it should be to you - especially if you care about the future we create for the children of today and their children of tomorrow. This site holds my subjective opinions and what I believe to be truths and facts (though I am open to alternatives to black and white). I am doing the best I can at making this site as accurate as possible while also emotionally compelling, as detrimental facts (about the evils of war, corpratism, against the environment, etc.) alone don't seem to be enough to save the planet. I hope to open a forum eventually and in the meantime I welcome feedback, criticism and information. I am not a reporter, radical activist, lawyer, or investigator. I am simply a concerned member of Earth.

The blind are in power and have declared it a crime to see colors.
- unknown

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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A very dangerous assumtion: If the enemy is evil then your side must be good.
- Howard Zinn

There are three steps to the truth: first ridiculing, then denial and finally acceptance.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The United States government is an imperialist terrorist regime but they call their tactics freedom fighting. Unfortunately the American public is brainwashed by the monopolized self-serving corporate media and the corporate super powers that finance it.

The Bush Administration has lied continually. Americans must stop believing their lies:
    • Election 2000.   (Election 2004? Was there a difference?)
    • Iraq is involved with 9-11.   (But Bush knew.)
    • Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
    • Iraq needed democracy.   (Or a puppet regime.)
    • If the US pulls out Iraq will fall into chaos.   (More chaotic than war?)
    • Foreign policy.   (Policy or hegemony?)
    • Environment policy.   (Is there even one?)

The Bush Administration denies that the next targets are Iran, Syria, the 'Stans' of Asia, Venezuela, and Columbia. Perhaps even the oil in Nigeria. Let's wait and see or do something about it. Marines are not on a feminist mission to free women of their burkhas by bombing their children.

The International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, and The World Trade Organization are non-democratic American-based greedy evil entities that are running the world and running away with your rights. This must stop.

American way of life is not sustainable because it does not acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
- Arundhati Roy

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= (I Know Why You're) Semper Fi =

= A Wicked Sunshine + Ian Rhett Production =

I animated this activist music video to Ian Rhett's beautiful song he composed for his sister serving in the Marines.
Please visit the official (I Know Why You're) Semper Fi site and watch the music video for free.

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As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations.
When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

There is only one country in the world which has dropped nuclear weapons on other people
turning 200,000 people to dust and ashes.
- Kurt Voneget, unprinted letter to the editor of the New York Times, September 12, 2002

Animated design essay about the American war government, brilliant in every way,
by Knife Party (Simon Robson visuals with Barry McNamara's voice):
http://www.Knife-Party.net/flash/barry.html

Brilliant non-violent resistance speech to beautiful Flash design and animation:
http://www.WeWillNotBeSilenced.com/
Also at:
http://www.DJPaulEdge.com/wewillnotbesilenced/
WeWillNotBeSilenced-NonViolentResistance.swf

This beautifully simple educational animation explains the problem facing all life on Earth,
"The Story Of Stuff" with Annie Leopard:

"More" the Academy-Award nominated, claymation short film (the first animation in IMAX)
about a consumer-based society, by Mark Osborne. Are You Ready to Get Happy?:
http://www.GetHappy.com/more1.html

The United States financial cost of war and comparive analysis to pre-school, kid's health, public education, college scholarships, public housing, world hunger, the AIDS epidemic, and world immunization.
(The cost of suffering is uncalculatable.)
http://CostOfWar.com/

The cost of the war in Iraq:

America By The Numbers - the US is sliding.
Every American should read these very interesting numbers that defy the common propaganda that the US is #1:
http://citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12985.asp

Not everyone in the United States is pleased with their US Government. Submit your apology photos as well:
http://www.SorryEverybody.com/

"When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History" (many spooky comparisons between Hitler and Bush):
http://www.CommonDreams.org/views03/0316-08.htm

Steve Nicholson, Erin Nicholson's father, interesting and informative 3 emails:
Steve Nicholson Interesting Emails

Bush Family Values (Nazi background - deja vu?):
http://www.HereInReality.com/familyvalues.html
Here In Reality, other conspiracies revealed:
http://www.HereInReality.com/

Bush Administration Keen on New Nuclear Weapons:
http://www.Mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Bush-Nuclear-Weapons6may03.htm

Oil Empire addresses important issues:
http://www.OilEmpire.us/

Guardian Unlimited - US begins secret talks to secure Iraq's oilfields:
http://www.Guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,880437,00.html

US War Crimes In Iraq:
http://www.MediaMonitors.net/gowans22.html

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
- George Orwell, from Nineteen Eighty-Four

San Francisco DJ KJ Faces Deportation:
http://www.SFLNC.org/kj/

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.
- H.L. Mencken

Why should these images be censored? To hide the truth? For every soldier there are 20 Iraqis with the same fate (not including civilians suffering from violence, oppression, starvation, radiation, disease, etc. for years to come).

If any question why we died, tell them because our fathers lied.
- Kipling

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It's harder to listen than it is to hate.
- from a poster near Webster / Oak, San Francisco July 2002

Optimistic email about the UN and the world Waging Peace:
Wage Peace Email

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		AntiMagnet.com

From an uncredited email, I'd vote for this person if I were American:
Ideal US Presidential Platform

 

Positive News - from around the world:
http://www.PositiveNews.org.uk/

Open Source Tools for eActivism:
http://www.MakeWorlds.org/

Stop War - Vancouver's Anti-war Coalition:
http://www.StopWar.ca/

Mindfully.org:
http://www.Mindfully.org/a.htm

® ™ Ark - Tactical Embarassment - How It Works:
http://www.RTmArk.com/tactics/te-en.pdf

PR Watch - Center for Media and Democracy:
http://PRWatch.org/

Ad Busters - Culture jammer headquarters:
http://www.AdBusters.org/

Participate on your local Freecycle list:
http://www.Freecycle.org/
Similar to Freecycle, ABC Free also helps local schools with first dibs and contributions (soon in Canada and Australia): http://www.ABCfree.com/

This bus full of guys tours Canada being extremely kind and spreading the good vibe:
http://www.ExtremeKindness.com/

Proletarian Threads makes radical T-shirts and stuff:
http://www.ProletarianThreads.com/

Buy Nothing Day
November 26, 2004

To love
To be loved
To never forget your own insignificance
To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you
To seek joy in the saddest places
To pursue beauty to its lair
To never simplify what is complicated, or complicate what is simple
To respect strength, never power
Above all to watch, to try, and understand
To never look away, and never, never to forget
- Arundhati Roy

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Newton Great Mind

Galileo Brilliant Mind

Einstein Genius Mind

Hawking Extraordinary Mind

Bush Never Mind

Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.
- quote from source unknown

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