Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger
News services are reporting that US Troops, who have been holding regular drunken parties at the Baghdad Zoo, have shot and killed the Zoo's rare Bengal tiger. It seems not only civilians are in danger from US Troops in the Occupied Iraqi Territories. In my opinion, the tiger was worth more than all the US Troops currently occupying Iraq. An occupation in violation of international law as part of Shrub's unprovoked War of Aggression to settle his family grudge with Saddam Hussein, control the world's oil supply, and take out one of the two regimes that refused to pressure the Palestinians to make peace on Israel's terms. A few years ago, I said there were no civilians in Israel, and therefore no retaliation by the Palestinians against Israeli military aggression could be considered a terrorist act. If AmeriKKKa freely re-elects Shrub, because Americans admire his bullying the rest of the world, and the American people freely support and fund such activities as the Pax AmeriKKKana, and unprovoked wars of aggression, then it's probably true there are no civilians in AmeriKKKa either. I no longer consider 9/11 a terrorist act. Some URLs on the tiger... http://us.rediff.com/news/2003/sep/20iraq1.htm http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12796568,00.html -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 06:27 PM, Eric Cordian wrote:
News services are reporting that US Troops, who have been holding regular drunken parties at the Baghdad Zoo, have shot and killed the Zoo's rare Bengal tiger.
It seems not only civilians are in danger from US Troops in the Occupied Iraqi Territories.
Even the Evil Baathists had the sense and respect to keep the zoos and other institutions running. Now that the cowboys and good ole boys have taken over, it's target practice on civilians and shooting caged tigers. And worse things. And we are paying an average of $3000 per year per taxpayer, charged to our collective credit cards of course, to pay for Dick Cheney's company to grow richer, for George Bush's oil interests to benefit, and for the creation of a state more inimical to American interests than anything a guy living in the mountains of Afghanistan could ever have imagined. Which was probably the intent all along for those who support and benefit from the National Security State. But, the other side of me is chortling. A clusterfuck which is unfolding nicely. Deaths of imperialist soldiers on a daily basis, thefts of the electoral process by their Democrap opponents back home, more unwinding of U.S. support, and the growing prospects for some true strikes at the heartland. What's not to like? (Just steer clear of the major population centers which are pawns in this game.) Me, I don't fly on Jet CIA Blue or Delta Delta Operations, or any other of the Big Brother-controlled airlines. (And now they are financially suffering and want citizen-unit taxes to bail them out...any airline which takes tax subsidies deserves to have its airplanes blown out of the sky....KA_BOOOOOOM.) And I rarely leave Santa Cruz these days. And I keep my claymores in good shape and my perimeter alarms armed. This fascist and communist nation has danced to the tune of the Mud People too long. --Tim May
-- For a long time the US has been the center of the world monetary system, and the US dollar the base money of which all others are derivatives. The primary way of doing transactions on the internet is by credit card, with the headquarters and computers located in the USA. The secondary way is by paypal, located in the USA. Paypal and credit card requires information that ultimately links to your true name and social security number, and people in those peripheral and backward countries that do not yet have their system of government issued identity well integrated to that of the USA, for example Poland, cannot use Paypal. The US government makes a big profit out of this, effectively gaining an interest free loan on each dollar it prints, and it also leverages it into a source of power. Those it disapproves of are cut off from the mainstream money system. Now if one cuts a few terrorists off from the money system, no problem, but when one cuts off large numbers of terrorists, suspected terrorists, suspected child pornographers, suspected money launderers, suspected tax dodgers, and the entire population of Poland, who is being cut off? The terrorists or the US? Well people, I think the money system has just turned upside down. The money launderers are not being cut off from the US led international monetary system. Instead the US is being cut off from the money launderer led international monetary system. The two most popular no-true-name accounts are e-gold an moneybookers. I googled for web pages containing both the word "egold" and the word "moneybookers". Got lots of hits, seems that lots of quite ordinary people are finding it cheaper or more convenient to mediate international transactions through computers that are not located in the US and whose accounts are not coupled to true names. The great majority of people and money are still going through the US led system, and since people are reluctant to change, that will continue for a long time. But they no longer have to, and for most people in the world, there is no longer a good reason why they should. A no-true-name account is inherently cheaper than a true-name account, because of the high cost of managing true names. The early adopters seem to be largely people who are sensitive to the cost of setting up accounts. However, a no-true-name account still faces the problem that it is reversible, dragging the issuer into the arbitration business, which most issuers are not competent to do. All users have to pay a transaction cost reflecting arbitration costs, whether they want their transactions to be arbitrable or not. The solution to that cost, is chaumian money. The fact that no-true-name money seems to be beating true-name money leads me hope that economics can beat inertia and regulation. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ForgDjc+maghCgZHGp2ILgpQ1EJ4weji+guNpA6d 4V0E4la174KcnGEHgMo0C/zJlMQlOcMwzRGJ+HQ5W
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Eric Cordian wrote:
In my opinion, the tiger was worth more than all the US Troops currently occupying Iraq.
Maybe the tiger "shot" first.
If AmeriKKKa freely re-elects Shrub, because Americans admire his bullying the rest of the world, and the American people freely support and fund such activities as the Pax AmeriKKKana, and unprovoked wars of aggression, then it's probably true there are no civilians in AmeriKKKa either.
I'm sure that the opposition shares that view already. And I may agree. Unfortunately if true, then that means that "the enemy peoples" are also all combatants and the US would be justified (as in a naval battle with no civilians) of ending the whole thing in 30 minutes by applying some advanced physics to enemy landscapes. Rough on the oil market though. DCF
On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 11:43 AM, James A. Donald wrote:
The two most popular no-true-name accounts are e-gold an moneybookers.
Do you know of any other good online paypal-esque services that have some level of reputation? I was looking through the details at moneybookers, and it appears you can't do more than EUR15000 in transactions per quarter, which is far too little for the purposes I have in mind. All suggestions welcomed. Paul
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