This morning police raided about 40 places, including social centres and several private homes in Berlin and Hamburg as well as the alternative web provider so36.net . Police forces searched the "Rote Flora" in Hamburg as well as parts of the "Bethanien" in Berlin, both places planned to be decentral convergence spaces for the G8 protest. see de.indymedia.org for detailed info.

And also..

"The reason for some of the raids is the "forming a terrorist associontion" paragraph 129a.

How typical for the humourless German poilice, they take everything just sooo seriously!"

Hooray for the New World Order, and for Germany returning to it's Nazi roots.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370110 .html

and

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370131 .html

The pursuit of Wikipedia is to reduce all things existant to black and white terms while trying to fit it in the limits of the English language while fitting it within the limits of absolute instant access and attempting to destroy any written physical record of any opposition. An impossible goal, mind you, but it's still the death march that they walk.

At 5/3/07 11:37 AM, Reverend-Kyle wrote: fundamental issues

Wow, you read like a TV news ticker. Go to hell, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

The Romans stole everything that they knew from the Greeks. Just thought I'd through that out there. So, Democracy is better than a Republic. And Democrats are better than Republicans. point in principle, my friend. There is, and never will be, anything Grand and Old about the GOP.

Suck it.

Being a 13 year old once too, I can remember the hopelessness that young adolescents feel when they see their old-time friends have their personalities dissolve into 2 dimensional cliche-types. When you're ostracized and hopeless you'd do anything to make your point clear.

Now that I've nailed the psychological perspective on the head, I'll make another point, killing people is NEVER EVER okay. It's something that only people enduring extreme amounts of rage or people on the lunatic fringe ever do. It's not cool, it's not hip, it's not hop, it's just tasteless and criminal. Now, moving on.

Unfortunately psychological intervention and closer social monitoring isn't important to many teachers and school authority figures. School used to be a place for fun and learning. You could have snowball fights and rounds of capture the flag. Today, what's left? Just GPAs and personal isolation for far too many teens.

Hope, for kids, that they actually have a future sticking to the education system as it is, has become a faint memory. To prevent further incidents, it's important that teachers should step in, as should all school authorities, to make the education experience more positive and caring for each and every student. Also, the music scene has a large effect on the attitudes of kids. Today, all we have is hyper-depressed versions of Alice Cooper for kids to look up to, like what the fuck? And the abundance of firearms in the US of A also has a large affect on how easy it is to execute insane fantasies of adolescents. Thankfully, in Canada, only people few and far between own guns.

What has happened to all the positive hip music that America used to produce in bontiful and abundant amounts? Bob Dylan, the Grateful dead, CCR, the Dead Kennedys, and far too many other bands of great and expressive music.

At 5/12/07 12:12 AM, Suppose wrote: Sounds like a useless achievement, and wouldn't he have to walk on water to literally walk around the world?

HALLELUJAH!!! CHRIST HAS RETURNED!!

Ah, so YOU'RE BIG BROTHER, it's finally such an honor to really meet you!!!

6 - 12 months, which is the least.

This wasn't really long distance, this was a 15 minute trip in and out of the city. Which is all unfortunate people like me ever get to taste of real urban life.

Togas are superior .... but I'll let it slide, but only this time.

Come on, somebody else must have some similar unscathing loathesome appreciate of certain cars. Suburbia is hell. I live in it, it's just a monster that grows over all lifeforms at an ecstatically faster rate each year. In place, we put humanoid people that are easily wooed by simple pleasures and refuse to have anything within walking distance.

Ahem. I have experienced hell today. Yes, the hot death immortality version of hell. As a messenger from god or another spiritual being, it came, I rode, I left, and I pray to never return.

I don't mean to bash cars, I love cars, especially when they are made with sense and logic. But what I rode in today was not a car, it was as a computer - A TABULATING TURING COMPLETE COMPUTER - with wheels.

The windows on this car, they never opened. There was no knob or anything. The radio, was unable to be tuned, there was just a small selection of frequencies on what appeared to be a screen in the car.

The temperature - eternally fixed - at room temperature. A glass bubble, locked inside for child safety, 15 minutes at 120km per hour on the freeway, no drag, just pure killing power of a jumungoid SUV drilling away at the life around me at a ludicrous speed. The radio, reruns of old songs, of the past. This is what I percieve to be hell. I was not raised to like this. I will not die, ever, liking this.

This is hell, this is the Chevy HHR, there is no name, just letters. This is hell. This is the end, this is the new, improved, genetically modified, 21st Century freak.

This is hell - and it has just frozen over. God, I hope to never visit another mall within my lifetime, for if I do, let's hope I can just take the bus home instead.

The cause of socialism can never be killed. Right-wing politicians have proven time and time again to not protect the benefit of humanity and to protect the greedy.

I see no reason to elect these types of people.

Best
Lincoln - Ended slavery
Kennedy - Stopped third World War with Russia during the Cuban missile crisis, furthered civil rights
D. Roosevelt - Began New Deal, instrumental in ending an outbreak of fascism across europe.

Worst
Adams - spied on American citizens.
Nixon - evil man, killed hundreds of thousands in Vietnam, corrupt and tyrannical.
Reagan - evil man, sold guns to iranians, very corrupt.
Bush Sr. - Responsible for first Gulf War.
Bush Jr. - began "War On Terror", evil man, openly tortures people without heed for constitution. Responsible for Iraq War. Began clandestine "PATRIOT Act".
Clinton - Serbian War, dropped cluster bombs on former yugoslavia.
T. Roosevelt - Philipino War.

Fuggen new age 21st century yoga freaks. They are their own undoing, you don't even have to punish them.

Both stores are equally racist, sexist and made by and for the White Elite middle class of America.

On a lighter note, we're all doomed to be eating soylent green in the next ten years, so let's just enjoy what's left of western civilization and just binge on everything.

I've had to many delightful experiences in my years to say the least. Too much fun and glee - not that the matter that fun doesn't happen in today's world - but it's more of a matter that it's too controlled and watered down to be what I grew up with as "Fun".

All forms of recreation is labelled today. Tallied, bar-coded, translated to binary and processed by a computer in the most efficient way. Vacations or family trips - let alone family structures - don't exist any more. Freedom of transportation is now a fleeting memory. We claim that people can't buy happiness - yet people think they buy and sell it every day. And the things that can't be bought, this list, shrinks more and more as the attempt to "modernize" everything sinks in.

And nobody notices.

But me.

You can't buy good weather. You can't buy perfect kids grown in test tubes, and you can't buy or medicate people in happiness and a good time. For one, if a god exists, we won't allow it. For two, it's flat out evil.

You can't buy snowball fights or soccer games or all-nighters with your best friends and games of hide-n-seek (in the dark, mind you) in the basement. The pursuit of "pleasantville" and happily-ever-after will be the end of us and our civilization, not to mention that people seek these things at any cost.

And when I see those squirrels dancing on the power lines and scavenging for another nut my heart warms. And when I see that our style of life has geographical and metereological limits - that every place is not suitable for building a housing development and that the wrath of mother nature is limitless, I smile. Not at the tragedy, but at the realization that life, in all it's forms and all of it's natural liberty always ressurects itself in more powerful forms against this evil of happily-ever-after we aim for ourselves.

I'm not sure on religion, but I am sure that peace, happiness, subsistence and independence and liberty is up for grabs for anyone wishes to climb that tree and pick that fruit.

And as the sun's wrath continues, and Atlas gets his revenge, we witness ourselves getting fried up like ants under a hoodlum's magnifying glass. The only solution is to a) stop living like ants looking for another queen/king ant to worship like Martin Luther King or John or Bobby Kennedy and b) accept reality and take action. And don't tell me people don't live like ants, I've seen pictures of child laborers working in mineshafts the size of a vent shute, so don't bullshit me.

I ask you, do you have the balls to ressurect what remains of western democracy or are we headed for the apocolypse and maybe one day we could be eating soylent green. So bring fun back, let kids be kids. Do that, and all else will follow. We should stop thinking of the kids, and start letting the kids think for themselves like any decent human being would should and can.

Suburbia is thawing, it is only a matter of time until we accept that our lifestyles can no longer continue themselves and that our society as we know it is doomed for great and drastic change. It isn't the end, but rather, it's the beginning. The beginning of a better civilization.

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In short, you don't fuck mother nature, mother nature fucks you.

When you ostracize and isolate people, they get pissed off at the rest of the world for doing this to them.

That's the easiest way to explain what happened here, and what's always happened throughout the length of our education system. Some people don't want to grow up doomed to work in a cubicle farm and wearing a 3-piece suit everyday, and others don't wanna work on an assembly line either.

Now, I'm not defending the kid, I'm just providing you answers as to why this happened. You have to understand that there are five W's every journalist knows - Who, what, where, why, when - and sometimes how.

That, followed with a keen eye for grammar and a lot of social networking, is neccesary knowledge for every good reporter. As well, it's good to know that unless we learn from this, it's doomed to happen again.

Orwell prophecised a totalitarian take-over in the USA after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, read that man's essays, he's a political genius.

Carpel tunnel is god's wrath for computer nerds. Don't forget, sloth is a deadly sin.

Guns should be controlled, I mean, sure it IS in your constitution. But your constitution is full all sorts of crazy puns and synonyms and loopholes.

Shit, did you really think that the lexicon of the late 18th century would remain the same for hundreds of years? Har har har har har har har.

Bin Laden came to the US of A in the late sixties and did Acid at an American University. That's why he's crazy. Don't believe it? FIne, be my guest.

It's easily corruptible. I don't like it.

For example, in Cuba, the Castros are like some kinda royal family. Is that really fair?

Weed supports terrism, don't do weed.

Who else remembers those commercials? Those were great....

It really pisses me off when I read all these reports on studies that say "Prayer ACTUALLY WORKS!!!" in the newspaper. But people don't get it, prayer is always an experiment.

This is a pretty fascinating essay, it's changed the way that I'll probably write ( and speak ) for ever. Any body who ever, ever, wants to get into politics should read all of Orwell's works. Liberals, conservatives, greens, libertarians, whatever - read his works. They change the way you think for ever!

So here's his essay - Politics and the English language.

Enjoy!

http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.ht ml

Boo friggety hoo, what do you expect from all wealthy oligarchial figures of authority? Neo-conservatives sell anger, not ideas. Same thing for a lot of politicians in America. Unfortunately, American politics is slowly going from land of the brave, to land of the cowards. Incredibly fast.

Back when progressive politics dominated, some 40 years ago, people were never afraid to call eachother fascists or communists or stand up for some brand of principal of some sort. Now, just to get elected, you've got to lie your ass off and sell out to corporations and hit people oer the heads with political ads 24/7, then after the election, you can count your lucky marbles that you got elected.

Sorry brothers, but Al Gore is all America has at the moment. Unless more Americans refuse to sell-out to the television attitude of good-rhetoric, fancy flashed up commercials and so forth, and in general not being corporate rodents who can't think for themselves, shit ain't going to happen.

Who knows, one day progressive, couragous politics will come back in style, the future is what you make it.

I have to admit, this shit is really far out. Balloon planets...

Crazy...

Unless of course, planets have some time of fission / fusion energy machine, where they're constantly turning external solar energy into matter. It's a little far out, but plausible? Possibly...

And this isn't a conspiracy, a conspiracy is a criminal plot, this is a theory.

The original poster really appears to be at the top of the human race intellectually.

This just looks to me like the fundamentalists are getting more desperate as time goes on and the forces of reason move forward.

Given American support of dictators internationally that protect it's interests (yes, it is terrible), i.e. Egypt, Japan (technically democracy, but it's a one party state), now Russia, formerly Iran and Chile, the Phillipines and god knows how many other states.

While Bush's current policies are incrementally more visionary (i.e. Spreading democracy, not dictatorship) it generally means little for anything but principle. And even on that element, there are serious ethical issues in telling other nations on how to run themseles and is both extremely bold and stupid.

Which are two tenets of every succesful empire. I can't understand why people can't see the United States as an empire they've got a) the belief that everybody else wants your lifestyle, and b) extremely abundant in resources, people and money to achieve these ends and c) interests to protect. Now, this isn't some elitist evil illuminati, it's more of a movement on behalf of the psyche of every god-fearing american that their nation is biggest, the best and should be forever number one.

Now, how does this apply to the Russians? Well, the Russians have for years struggled against American influence, do you really think that the CIA would let them get away that easily? No, the United States wants a submissive Russia and want to manipulate the internal politics of the nation and long have and were probably incredibly instrumental in it's downfall. Sure, the United States does not want to be the "World Police", that would be far too noble, it just wants to protect its own interests. Or that's at least what the dominant Republican party would like to do. We haven't seen the Democrats in any real action since '63, so who knows whats in the future. Maybe the left in America will grow some balls and take action or maybe they won't. Do you think that the United States would ever be in favor of any foreign dissent not in their favor? No way, game over, man.