18-year old French pop diva Alizée Jacotey is featured here, live on March 3rd, 2003. This performance is dedicated to the memory of Laurette Fugain, a young woman who had died from leukemia in 2002. Alizée was part of a live performance that was for charity work, encouraging people to donate the precious gift of blood & to raise money in the fight against diseases of the blood. The mother of Laurette, Stéphanie Fugain, was in attendance for this show, featured here at 3:57 & at the very end, 4:17
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Alizée has an extraordinary reputation for selflessness. She offers a great deal of her time & energy towards charity work, helping in the fight against hunger as well as raising awareness for blood donations & the fight against blood disorders.
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This was one of only 6 appearances where she wears her unforgettable short skirt dress, knee-high boots, & thigh-high black stockings while performing her smash hit song, J'en Ai Marre. This performance was done en direct live on French HDTV .
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The music is composed by legendary composer Laurent Boutonnat while the lyrics are written by famed French singer & cultural icon, Mylène Farmer.
Alizée's popularity, thanks to spectacular performances such as this, has spread far beyond the borders of the great French Republic. -yt

Happened to me too on March 20th, 2003. I posted a doc on here called "We Interrupt This Empire" and there's a scene in there that captured it. They blocked us in (I was just taking photos) and the cops started randomly hitting people, I looked the cop in front of me in the eyes and said "don't do it - I'm not doing anything" and then he hit me in the stomach with his baton and I flew into four other people who all fell to the ground. People don't forget shit like that. I was 20 and it was the beginning of my anger towards corporations, the pigs, the government & the fact that "we" are no longer in control of anything except the fight to take it back.

I may be a bit frenzied, but it's only because I felt I should provide some counter-input to your many (frenzied?) uploads of Chomsky videos in the last few days.

I found this pdf of 200 infuriating - and yes, cherry-picked - Chomsky-quotes:
http://www.paulbogdanor.com/200chomskylies.pdf

A quote in the introduction sums up my position nicely:

“After many years, I came to the conclusion that everything he says is false. He will lie just
for the fun of it. Every one of his arguments was tinged and coded with falseness and
pretense. It was like playing chess with extra pieces. It was all fake.”
- Paul Postal
(The New Yorker, March 31, 2003)

1. I have lived through a coup attempt in Zambia, perpetuated by a military officer who called himself Captain Solo. Which was the name of a cheap straight to VHS movie that was shown on local TV just a week before.

2. I have lived through Gulf War 2 in March of 2003. Everyone assumed we would die in Kuwait because Iraq was going to use chemical, biological and possibly nuclear SCUD warheads. I felt sorry for all the troops forced to put on their MOPP suits every time there was an alarm. It was surreal.

3. I nearly got kidnapped in a car in Lusaka, a car thief was trying to break into our car while I was sleeping in the back. I stopped him by locking down the doors fully before his hanger wire could decouple it. He looked at me with accusing eyes like I just took candy from a child.

4. I learnt English entirely by sound and watching American movies. My entire grammar structure is based around what sounds right. As such I used to have a very American accent.

5. I was born Muslim but only ever practiced it culturally. I went to the mosque only once before realizing I could not be a servant to any god because am simply too lazy to give a shit either way.

6. I spent most of my early childhood on my uncle's farm, raising chickens, doing masonry work and harvesting potatoes. This experience has made me humble.

7. I cannot live in comfort in my country because I have severe life threatening allergies to its environment.

8. I nearly drowned as a child at a water park when I got sucked in the water intake for the slipping slide ride. I vividly remember how it felt looking up through the water up at big African man who was drying himself near the pool. He jumped in and saved me. I was so scared I never got to look at his face or thank him. I regret this.

9. Africa was the best place I have lived in. Its more beautiful then most people realize. The people are in desperate poverty but are gentle and kind. You will never see more beautiful clouds anywhere else.

10. I have a purple belt in Karate that I got as a kid. I think it's totally useless and has no baring on any combat ability I have.

11. I used to stay up late at night in high school watching MTV Europe, MTVChillout and MTVAlternative nation, back when it was good.

12. Kuwait proved to me that money does not buy happiness nor does wealth make people better individuals.

13. My favourite city will always be Montreal. I had the best and worst of times there.

14. I do alot of drugs. Most of the time I don't look for a high. I look for relief. Its quite healthy for my psyche. I like psychedelics and exploring the limits of my psyche. I like to disassociate.

15. I have a heart problem and in all likely hood will die prematurely. This doesn't bother me that much.

16. I have been arrested while being high on mushrooms, the experience was surreal and hilarious and depressing all at once. My arresting officer was the splitting image of Spud from Trainspotting.

17. Deja vus scare and confuse me.

18. I been to more countries then I care to mention. People are really all the same all over.

19. I love music, I have music collection I have maintaining since middle school. I will be very sad to lose it. I love only particular songs and moments, its hard for me to say I like any particular artist. The question what is your favourite genre of music always troubles me, its hard to pick one. Alot of my music I listen to in particular moods. I would be the first person to implant a music player into my brain.

20. I love cinema, I think cinema is humanity reflected, our dreams, desires, hopes, fears and experiences.

21. I wish I could stop being so cynical.

22. I don't know what to do with my life.

23. I used to go to the roof of my building in Africa and sleep under a full starry sky. Trying to pick out the satellites.

24. Life is hard to take seriously, I feel like I have been here before, and did all this before. I expect to wake up any minute now.

25. I feel like I shared too much.

The police falsified information to obtain a search warrant to raid the house of a suspected drug dealer. The judge never actually gave authorities a search warrant, but said they could raid the house anyways. Officers busted down the door to the suspected drug dealers house house on March 20, 2003, conducting an illegal search for the illegal drugs, but found nothing. They decided to kill the drug dealer anyways. Every since, the officers have been living in the deceased drug dealers house.

The authorities won the war on drugs.

Replace the relevant nouns/verbs with "Bush administration, invade, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Saddam Hussein, Congress, congressional approval, Military, bombs, planes, guns, occupation, loss, terror"

The NLG is a great group. On March 20th 2003 (the day we began formally bombing Iraq) I was walking around taking photos when all of a sudden riot cops shut down whole blocks, beating people, entrapping people and illegally mass arresting everyone. I joined a class action lawsuit against the SFPD through NLG and my charges of "inciting a riot" were dropped. I just wish there was more to be done to punish lawless police enforcement... it's rampant in cities, especially if you want change and you're not fighting for neocon agendas that damage the world and people further.

Riot cops are the real pigs. Dirty, rotten, fucking pigs.

^tagomi, QM is not-so-slyly referring to Obama's gaffe when he accidentally claimed he visited 57 states. He should have said 51. We added the 51st state on March 20, 2003.

Some of us knew all of this before March of 2003, before a shot was ever fired.

It only took 4 years, billions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands dead for everyone else to catch up. Way to go, everybody.

An update:

This program originally aired back in March of 2003, and Cobb County's "intelligent design" policies were stricken down by a federal judge in Atlanta as unconstitutional in 2005.

Thank God.

My favorites in a trove of qm 'truths':

"We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." –Vice President Dick Cheney, "Meet The Press" March 16, 2003

"I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons." –Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, June 24, 2003 DoD press briefing

State of Denial.

I am sure that the Oxycontin pig, Rush Limbaugh, has some wit or wisdom that substantiates nukes in Iraq, though. Maybe Clinton took WMD from Iraq and hid them in Egypt in 2002.