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q: what is the difference between capitalism and communism?

a: in capitalism, man exploits man. in communism, it's the other way around.



q: what is socialism?

a: the painful transition from capitalism to capitalism.

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i've been getting a lot of positive (and a few negative) responses on the anti-war material i've recently been posting on my aa page. here are some of them:

for the most part, its so easy to look away, but not the case today...not now passing by here. im sorry to say that i overlook very important things like this, i am ashamed for doing so. im not apologizing to you but to the innocent victims of war. maybe its the photographs that cant be ignored, but whatever it is should never be ignored. and thank you for your page, for allowing myself to see the reality i avoid. those poor children, not just them but the millions we dont even know about, or have never seen. THANK YOU. i was really bored at school so i was just fuckin' around, looking at random shit. i got to your page and i was thoroughly disgusted. not at you, but at the lie that we live within. it's horrible, but if the public keeps feeding their children CNN and NBC, what will the world be like in 20 years? thank you for having the balls to show people what the u.s. is really like. *the pledge is the same thing the nazis did in germany. so..., what are we REALLY saying? PLEASE READ im losing faith in humanity. im losing faith in the ppl we choose to run our countries. ppl make me sick!! sometimes i feel like i forget that there are good people in this world. i am so blinded because of all the hate in this world. it seems to overpower the good things...the following may be disturbing but i find it very important because when i saw it, it opened my eyes and i cried. what kind of world do we live in?? wow. your page is very moving and VERY POWERFUL! you're has the most meaning about this war. i am all for war, but after seeing your page, i think i might've changed my mind. wow. you're page is really.........wow. im speechless. your page should be on CNN or something. it's really good. wait that doesn't describe it. it's way better. hey man. wow. your site made me realize how serious the war was. i mean.... i never really thought about the impact that it had on the families and children. that's sooooo shitty.. thanks for the awakening. talk to you later. okay. bye! wow.. you have a very cool page. everything is very well written and profound. here comes that aa cliche.. but i do sincerely mean it, "keep up the great work." i wish ur page was motw.. people arent aware of everything u see. cuz MOST ppl are ignorant. good for you. ur page is dope. love your page n messages that you have to say... i was the member of the week on march. n i know a way to qualify for motw is being able to express yourself n get the message across to others, n i think you did a good job on it. you should be the motw instead. haha :) saved ya woah dude your page spoke to me...that's some really disturbing shit... hiya. you have an awesome page!! i agree with you...if only people would step out of our western thinking frame. hey dude. very powerful page. and i'm very in line with your point about the war. some needless information though - the girl in the picture from vietnam is now forty something and living in toronto. i remember seeing a news special and an interview conducted of her some time last year. i think it was during the aniversary of the end of the vietnam war. just thought i'd like to share that with you. hey. omg..i totally understand you with that war thing..those pictures are soo depressing and to think this is what we are doing...=o( byee lyke ur pg. so tru. keepitup. :) the pictures on your page are really disturbing and i'm glad you put them up. i'm not sure what i think of the war because i don't know much of the details but i do know that innocent people are dying and THAT'S horrible. i read your quotes too, they gave me alot of insight into things. it's good to know that my time spent lulling around on aa isn't a total waste. hey. nice page........BGM.....rock!!!!yeah the war is horrible.... hey. i like ur page...i read it several times before i send u note. and ur name is not related to ur page(who care eh?) i'll tell(recommend?) ur page to my friends,esp. those in military. yes,i saved u as friend. it's sad how the iraqi people are always put last...whether it be by their leader or by the u.s. hey! hows it goin? i enjoy reading your page, you always have interesting tidbits to share. dude, your page is incredible. everything on it has so much merit, i just wanna say how much i respect your views, and how much they are agreed upon by myself and a lot of my friends. im a friend of karie's. wow. some crazy pictures man... great site, shows the truth behind all this war thing happening .. oh yeah and rawk on \m/ my uncle's troop just left. they're in kuwait now. all this war stuff is making me ill. whether or not our troops are dieing... people are.... like michael jackson said "heal the world make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dieing." i love this page. people NEED to open their eyes. i'm out of denial hey, i saw ur page and what can i say..wow, its good to see someone so passionate about anti-war. I share all your views and i just wanted to say that your page sends a good message to people who are blinded by the media. peace. p.s - i hope you dont mind if i take some of those brutal iraqi pics and put them on my page...please let me know. i'm lovin da pics of how the people in iraq is living right now. u made me realize alot ok the pictures of those little kids are just SAD!!! i think i'm gonna cry! wow. hi, just got to let you know...i LOVE this page and i totally agree with no war in Iraq. i was wondering what the painting was from?(the 3rd picture)and also, the sixth picture of the children running in the streets?(i remember this famous picture from somewhere--the vietnam war?) if so, what is the name of it? thanks and ciao hi. ur page is moving it really made me think. you should be member of the week, and i like your calvin comic hi. just wanted to tell you that i think you're page is really great, one of the few aa pages that actually has meaning to it. i saved you as a friend, alright hope you take care. aloha. moving. very informative page...i like it...keep it up man- nice page!!! wow, you have some great points! the captions/cartoons are so funny xP all i can say: word OMG! your page is so scary and its so sad. i like your page thoughs. its meaningful. well just here to say that and leave a little ..MARK.. here so laters. this should of been MOTW. some people are blind... your page is key. i love all the pix and stuff written. i completely agree with everything on your page! rock on man, you know your wrong when there is death involved. well i just wanted to tell u how bomb your page is and i've always been against the war and government but your page just took it to a new level.lol. bye~~ wow. very insightful hey... yes.. war's not right... i really like your page. later =( ooOohh. everytime i see that black & white photo of the vietnam war, it's the vietnam war right? w/ the kid running nude.. i'm thinkn' it is, b/c everyone should know since it's a popular photo.... i just want to cry.. all this subscribing to the newspaper and u.s.news&world report. i thought it was going to be good since i am like in a jail cell, but it talks all about war and fighting makes me even more angry... i am living in such a sad sad world, makes me not want to have children, i don't want them to live the pain that i'm living in.... b/c underneath it all, no body knows. hey. i think your page really mean something i agree what you wrote and the sufferings of all people.. keep it up someday everybody's voices will be heard... its so scary!!!!! W0W.. thats all i can say!!!!! heyy. i just wanted to say that your page is really awesome! it has a great message and we seriously should not go to war!!!! .., well i'll see you around bye i'm happy to see some ppl who actually care about others, justice and peace . anyway i like ur page war is not the anwser to peace . punks not dead

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"how many hundreds of pictures must we see before we begin to care and to act?"

- noam chomsky

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spring break is over.

on one hand, i wish the week would have lasted a little longer. but on the other hand, i'm glad this sorry excuse for a "break" is finally over.

i haven't accomplished anything i wanted to do this week. no shows, no skating, no photography... nothing. hell, i didn't even work on my website, like i planned to.

at least i finished coding up my programming project today. however, i still haven't started my film essay, or my ahupua'a project. both due on wednesday, and on thursday, respectively. i'm seriously fucked. i think i might have to miss work for a day or two, so i could get some time to work on them. i don't know if my boss is going to be too happy about that.

none of this is interesting, i realize that.

i'm going to bed! *sad face*

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yesterday, i got home from work at about 6. i was dead tired, so i went directly to bed. then i woke up this morning at 6:45, and got ready to go back to work again.

this is the worst fucking spring break, ever. :/

the damaging effect that the war has had on hawaii's economy is evident at my workplace. workload has decreased significantly. which is not really a problem for me—i get paid just the same—but my boss does a good job in making sure that his problem is our problem.

i repeat, this is the worst fucking spring break ever!

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"from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."

- karl marx

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as you may or may not have noticed, i took down some of your links. if you got deleted, that's because i hate you.

just kidding.

i took them down because i can't link to aa pages directly from my site anymore. so please don't take it personally. i still love you.

i only say this because, last year, there was this guy that got his panties in a bunch when i deleted an album review he had submitted for my aa page.

of all the things to get pissed about...

but i'm not even going to bother wasting my breath, or my limited web space, or the patience of my dear readers, talking about this any further.

if you have a website, and you wish to be linked, send me an e-mail with your first name and your url. don't use my guestbook, because the same guy has taken a fanatical level of interest in my guestbook entries, also.

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"by the most brutal methods of terrorism, a regime sought to maintain an existence that was condemned by the overwhelming majority of its people... i have tried to persuade the responsible authorities that it is impossible for a great nation, because it is unworthy of it, to stand by and watch millions belonging to a great, an ancient civilized people be denied rights by their government... i have endeavoured to find some way to alleviate a tragic fate. one agreement was signed only to be broken. i then tried a second time to bring about an understanding. a few weeks later, we were forced to the conclusion that the government of austria had no intention of carrying out this agreement in the spirit that had inspired it, but in order to create an excuse. i have determined, therefore, to place the help of our country at the service of these millions. since this morning, our soldiers are on the march across all of austria's frontiers."

- adolf hitler

"we have no interest in oppressing other people. we are not moved by hatred against any other nation. we bear no grudge. i know how grave a thing war is. i wanted to spare our people such an evil. it is not so much the country of czechoslovakia; it is rather its leader, edward benes. he has led a reign of terror. he has hurled countless people into the profoundest misery. through his continuous terrorism, he has succeeded in reducing millions of his people to silence. the czech maintenance of a tremendous military arsenal can only be regarded as a focus of danger. we have displayed a truly unexampled patience, but i am no longer willing to remain inactive while this madman ill-treats millions of human beings."

- adolf hitler

"the wave of appalling terrorism against the minority inhabitants of poland, and the atrocities that have been taking place in that country are terrible for the victims, but intolerable for a great power which has been expected to remain a passive onlooker. we will not continue to tolerate the persecution of the minority, the killing of many, and their forcible removal under the most cruel conditions. i see no way by which i can induce the government of poland to adopt a peaceful solution. but i should despair of any honourable future for my own people if we were not, in one way or another, to solve this question."

- adolf hitler

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"and so the time has finally come. the bourgeoisie have signed the war decree with proletariat blood. and that blood which flows from their pen is the closest that they've ever been to the people."

- antiflag

watched the nazi propaganda film, "triumph des willens," in class, and as usual, we've got some questions to think over for the class discussion on wednesday. one of the question, in particular, that i've found interesting was, "what are the parallels between the war in this film and the imminent war with iraq?"

well, they both claim to be "peace loving," for starters.

it should be an interesting discussion on wednesday.

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"we're not going to go quietly to our deaths into some retirement home, eating prozac. this is what they're planning for us, unless we do something about it. always being a punk rocker is something everyone can do. and i mean that by attitude. attitude!"

- joe strummer

watched the rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony on vh1.

i liked the part when mick ended their speech by saying, "cheers up to the sex pistols!"

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"i always get this thing where people say, 'oh you must be really pissed off, or fed up, or depressed, or mentally ill, or crazy or something like that.' the weird thing is that every time i've been to see people like poets, who write about flowers and trees and all this affirmation of life and the soul, and this upbeat, uplifting stuff, they're always really miserable bastards. they're always really fucking miserable depressed bastards. it's like comedians. they're always really miserable depressed bastards in real life."

- irvine welsh

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i got a 85.5% on my genetics midterm. obviously i'd have rather prefered an A, but i'm content with the grade i've received. i can't complain as long as i don't fuck up really bad.

stopped at tower's after classes. not to look for any music—i prefer to get my cds at the cheapos down at manoa, because i get a 10% discount with my u.h. id—but to get some magazines. i picked up this month's issuse of mojo. guess who's on the cover? the clash!

after that, i went to wiki wiki's to get some food before work. i think wiki wiki is starting to become my favorite place to eat in downtown. i probably go down there at least three times a week.

nothing noteworthy happened at work. i got to leave half an hour earlier than usual, though.

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"i'm gonna pull out of my pocket one vote. what i like to say to anyone who could care to listen to me is that this is our only vote. i'm saying that because we got democrat votes and we voted in this guy two years ago (tony blair), and he's become... what he was not supposed to be. we can't get rid of him. maybe we got a fifteen year run with this guy. what can we do? fold our tents on the field. we'll lose the battle but not the war. :so it occured to me that since my real vote is useless, null and void, therefore we ain't gonna start running down the street burning and a-looting either 'cause our ass is gonna get canned. so that leaves the only vote anybody's got, this dollar bill. all i'm trying to say is, when i wanna buy a record, i'm gonna take my dollar bill and go to some corner guy with his weird, kooky little shop. i'm not giving this to virgin megastore. the same when i'm going to buy some clothes—i ain't gonna go to gap no more. i wanna go to ditsy louie's junk clothing box. i'm using my vote here, this dollar bill is my vote. i'm not gonna go to a fast food joint. i'm going to go to a place where people own it, where the owner is standing behind the bar, picking his teeth. "this is my new philosophy. use your vote, your dollar bill is your vote. it's time we stopped giving it in the bucket-loads to these giant corporations. they're not to be trusted with that amount of money. they're only gonna bland us out, robot us out. they're gonna crush us and pulverize us. all they want is our money. they'd rather that we just sat on the pavement, saying nothing and giving them dollar bills. that's what they want to world to be while they have their cocaine and champagne. the dollar bill is your only vote."

- joe strummer

the clash has been inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame!

okay, normally, i couldn't care less about the rock and roll hall of fame—or who's on it, for that matter—but when my favorite band, the clash, is involved, it's only natual that i would take interest. it's awesome, and i feel a certain amount of pride to see the band inducted alongside with the likes of the beatles, bob marley, dave bowie, ramones... in another words: the legends. wish joe strummer were still alive—i'd kill to see them play together again.

the ceremony will air on vh1 this sunday.

i was looking at the list of inductees, and i don't see much punk bands on there. in fact, i see only two: the ramones and the clash. hopefully, the sex pistols will get inducted next year. kind of ironic that the clash had been inducted first, considering they were greatly influenced by the sex pistols.

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"the regime of saddam hussein is not democratic, it does not permit opposition parties, or dissent. we would love to see 'regime change' in iraq... and in syria, iran, egypt, israel, and... in our own country. but the job of 'regime change' always belongs to the people of that country. you cannot easily build a democracy on the basis of military victory."

- david mcreynolds

china (1945-46)
korea (1950-53)
china (1950-53)
guatemala (1954)
indonesia (1958)
cuba (1959-60)
guatemala (1960)
vietnam (1961-73)
laos (1964-73)
congo (1964)
peru (1965)
cambodia (1969-90)
guatemala (1967-69)
grenada (1983)
libya (1986)
el salvador (1980s)
nicaragua (1980s)
panama (1989)
iraq (1991-1999)
sudan (1998)
afghanistan (1998)
yugoslavia (1999)
afghanistan (2001)
iraq (2002 - ?)

question: in how many of the u.s. bombings, listed above, did a democratic government, respecful of human rights, occure as a direct result of the bombing?

answer: none.

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i swear i remember finishing off all my midterms last week, but now i've got two more exams to study for. and on top of that, a paper to write, and a programming project to do. i'm staying up tonight so i can catch up with all my work. i hope i don't pass out tomorrow.

i'm looking forward to spring break.