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We all know that volunteering can strengthen community bonds as well as helping people in need. But finding the freedom for this isn’t as straightforward as you would hope, and arranging what you want to do can easily eat up free time that could be used to actually work. This is a call, then, for other companies to follow the lead of far-sighted firms like Adaptive Marketing LLC. As well as financial and shopping benefits programs including Privacy Matters Identity created for the benefit of consumers, Adaptive Marketing tackles the organizational duties to give its employees the time to help the local community.

Company based initiatives like these were always annual activities — but nowadays that can be seen as just the beginning. Running shoe recycling initiatives and more energetic campaigns like tree replanting events — these and other activities have been arranged by Adaptive Marketing for its workforce. For events like these, the times, locations and dates of the events were posted, making it simple for employees to know what to expect, and how much of their time it would expectably take. Naturally, it’s essential to let volunteers find activities that fit their hobbies. At Adaptive Marketing, the company bringing you Privacy Matters Identity, members of staff can pick and choose from a diverse list of volunteer activities in their local area. Previous projects have ranged between a wide variety of areas including education for children and young adults, environmental awareness activities, and events cultivating the area’s artists. The result is that Adaptive Marketing volunteers have the chance to use their time as efficiently as possible and enjoy participating in the process.

Typically, when firms urge their members of staff to think about volunteering at local schools, it is commonly in support of a specific event or a regularly scheduled, perhaps weekly or monthly task. Regardless of how little time you can spare, you’re sure to find some activity to suit, so time is no block against volunteering. Commercial history is full of tales of companies supporting the citizens of their home town. The activities of the staffers at Adaptive Marketing and businesses like it create precious goodwill around their home base. Helping around your home town leaves you feeling much better about yourself — just the sort of feeling to motivate employees both in their volunteer activities and back behind their desks. It’s our hope that by now the rewards of a company supported volunteer program for everyone involved are should have become perfectly obvious for everyone.

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Volunteering — building a community bond, and assisting the local needy. To quote the old saying, charity begins at home. Doing it yourself, however, making arrangements to be free to volunteer can waste some of that valuable free time. Let’s not forget that you’ll have more fun volunteering with your colleagues pitching in by your side! This is a call for other companies to look to the example of firms like Connecticut’s Adaptive Marketing LLC. In addition to shopping and financial benefits programs including Leisure Exclusives (MVQ*LSUREXCLUSIVE) designed to benefit consumers, Adaptive Marketing handles the organizational necessities to give its employees more time to give back to the local community.

Luckily, company sponsored charitable work has grown beyond once-a-year charitable giving. Looking at just one company, Adaptive Marketing has provided its employees with the opportunity to get involved in everything from tennis shoe recycling efforts to local tree planting events. With all pertinent information — date, location, time, specifics of event, etc — displayed it became very simple for staff to set aside the time they’d volunteer and what program they’d join.

The spirit of volunteering means a choice between activities, naturally. Companies involved in this like Adaptive Marketing, (as you’d expect from the company behind Leisure Exclusives (MVQ*LSUREXCLUSIVE)) offer their employees a diverse list of events in their community. Prior projects have seen improvements made in a wide assortment of areas including education for children and young adults, green programs, and events supporting arts and culture. Often, the more they enjoy it, the more gets done, and as a result by offering so many initiatives Adaptive Marketing guarantee that their workforce will make progress on all the initiatives.

When businesses urge their staff help at schools, it is often to help with an individual event or a regular job. Even employees who claim they haven’t the time can usually commit to the public library’s sale of used books or a Saturday morning park clean-up.

Commercial history is full of tales of companies giving back to the people who live around them. A sense of community goodwill is created by the projects undertaken by Adaptive Marketing’s staff members over the course of company supported initiatives like those outlined earlier. Helping around your home town makes you feel like a better person — just the sort of thing to motivate staff members both in their volunteer activities and back behind their desks, too.

They do not allow the criticism of the president in any kind, whether it would be an animated file, a joke, the poster or the broadcast. So they believe in Minsk and don’t understand humour.

For the first time in the world, they threaten creators of flash with 5 years in prison if authorities prove that hero of films and the president of Belarus is the same person. Public Prosecutor has brought criminal case on the fact of distribution on the Internet site: www.mult.3dway.org cartoon films (translated to the English too), discrediting honor of the president of Belarus.

The animated films are small plots of satirical character which main hero looks like Alexander Lukashenka. The criminal code provides punishment for a similar crime (slander concerning the president of Belarus) up to 5 years’ imprisonment.

Site Multclub became popular the last year after a referendum in Belarus. The majority of citizens on the official information supported Lukashenka granting him of an opportunity to take part in presidents’ elections once again. This site offered rather severe flash cartoons. Their authors directly accused the head of the state in every possible sins - from a trickery of voters until stealing of state capital and a genocide of own people.

They called hero in cartoons Batka. Here he lays on the money stolen at citizens as devil, here he commands to break up demonstration, here he looks at a brotherly cemetery into which Belarus has turned, here he forges results of a referendum and cooks false attempt at own life and so on. Though it is written on main page of a site, that “coincidence of working characters of a flash serial to real persons is casual coincidence”, all this in situation of modern Belarus looks rather fearlessly.

The most ridiculous in cartoon films are citations. The citations taken from official sources like the state TV.
Here, for example the description of a plot of one of flash begins with the known citation made by Lukashenka:

- In the storming sea, there is quiet Small Island…

So once Lukashenka explained where Belarus is situated. Among waves and ships, there’s island with outlines of Belarus. Here sounds the Song Island of bad luck. On perimeter of island, there’s a barbed wire and watchtowers, in the middle of island - the big monument - Alexander Lukashenka on the cow.

Moreover, on the fence from a barbed wire there’re posters with Lukashenka’s citations:

- We are in an enemy environment as in 1941.

- I will not lead the state to the civilized world.

- The monstrous monster, the NATO, has crept to our blue-eyed Belarus

- It is not for us the Europe. The West is not ours!

- All have fallen upon us, in the West and in Russia not because we make something wrong. Because of envy…

On this background, inhabitants drag bamboo stretcher with hero in a loincloth to a hut with inscription Presidency.

Don’t think, that 28 series flash serial is devoted only to one hero. These are animated cartoons about the country and a life. - The most ridiculous in our films is a life in Belarus, - the coordinator of the project Paul Morozov speaks.

Authors of this site are members of youth movement The Third Way, which idea is more freedom and less Lukashenka. Members are mostly students. They claim, that members of virtual community which names they do not know created this cartoon films.

- We were in touch with authors only by e-mail. I found the first flash on the Internet, contacted the author and offered our technical support. Besides, people leave the wishes and ideas visiting a forum of our site. Actually all scripts are thought out with people. They are ridiculous but who take offence on clowns? In middle Ages, they were especially at court!

Last days they interrogated the manager of a site Andrey Obuzov and the coordinator of the project Paul Morozov. KGB made a search in their apartments. 12 items of PC equipment and tens disks and papers are withdrawn.

The representative of OSCE recently emphasized, that Belarus is unique country where they sentence citizens to imprisonment for slander of the president. For last year, two have been condemned under similar clause. One of them is still not free.

All over the world have popularity cartoons on political themes, but no one country start criminal case against their authors. American brothers, cartoon’s authors about Bush and Kerry at which laughed all America, stated that their site have overtaken all mass media on popularity. Nevertheless, heroes of flash have not counted themselves offended.

The coordinator of the project Morozov told that for a long time felt steadfast attention of special services. - When some times per diem you see the same persons and the cars at various times and in different places, it is not without purpose.

According to authors, at the Belarus forums it is possible to find so much discrediting honor of the Belarus president, that their animation is simply harmless.

Audience of site Multclub has increased until 50 thousand visitors per day. For two days after scandal, popularity of a site has grown in 55 times. Struggle against animated cartoons has turned back their free-of-charge advertising. Founders of a site are even grateful to authorities for this.

Many other websites are showing scandal flash films now. In case, authorities will block Multclub. The Russian TV channels twisted with pleasure in news fragments from cartoon films.

Michael Garmahis (27) is journalist working in one of the Belarusian newspaper. Some time was engaged in NGO’s social work and also worked as a tutor of German and English in college.

For further information, please visit his web site: http://garmahis.worldfreeweb.com (Michael Garmahis-My stories, jokes, drawings, photos, links from Belarus)

Submiting the Criminals to The ICC!

Everybody concerns about justice in the World should be
delighted because the call to submit the criminals in Sudan
to the International Criminal Court(ICC) becomes a reality
last Thrusday in the UN’s corridors!

The UN Security Council voted 11-0 to refer a sealed list of
51 people accused of crimes against humanity in the Sudanese
Darfurian region to the ICC.

The USA, China, Brazil and Algeria abstained after the last
minute wrangling led by the US to exempt its citizens from
submission to the ICC, some media sources said.

Now the suprise at the UN was the abstention of the USA and
China.

Each of those two countries has its own attitudes and
interests towards the sitution in Sudan. The USA has always
been the sole player in the International Channels to accuse
the Sudanese Dictatorial Regime of terrorism.

It launched an air-raids against a terorrist location in the
capital city of Khartoum in 1998, nevertheless the air raids
missed its targets.

That had happened because of the wrong information the USA
received about the location of the terrorist factory.

Up to this point, the air raids on Khartoum were not as
successful as those attacks led by the suspect terrorists
against the American Ambassies in Nairobi and Dar-a-Salam.

So, what has happened today to encourage the USA to change
its attitudes and be “neutral” at the Security Council
during the last vote?!!

Seems that the USA did not want the resolution to be a
precedent and to be implemented Internationally so as not to
take effects on the interantional American policy not in
Sudan alone but in Iraq too.

The question is why Buch Administration afraid of such
investigations and discovery to crimes committed by any US
citizen in the Darfurian case?

It’s obvious that some of the Darfurian rebels has an
American nationalities. But that’s not the strong case,
since the question is, is there any “American finger” in any
Darfurian crimes?

This situtaion declares very well that Buch Administration
is not after justice and it’s not up to its human tasks to
protect human rights over seas.

Well, I can see well that during the corridor’s talks, news
was heard that China will use the Veto against any
resolution to submit those dictators to the ICC. But China
chose to be “neutral” in the last vote.

This Chinese attitude indicates that China has been forced
by the USA to withhold with the Veto. But China played the
game through the American pressures in a manner that will
prevent any lose to it’s interests in the Sudanese Oil
Industry.

Aha, Money talks too the same way as politics does!

A lot of people in Africa and the Middle East now believe
that those International powers do not care about human
rights. Their cry for human rights is only allegations to
hide their economical interests.

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There is an old saying, “He who laughs last laughs best.” At the beginning of the Iraq War, American commentators including President Bush were laughing their heads off at Muhammad Saaeed al-Sahhaf, Iraq’s Information Minister. As the American Army approached Baghdad, “Mission Accomplished”, in April 2003, Comical Ali aka Baghdad Bob said, “There are no American troops in Baghdad…The Americans are committing suicide by the hundreds at the city’s gates…The Americans are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks…They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.” American and British commentators and President Bush raked Comical Ali over the coals for his obvious lies, they said.

It is now three years down the road. Comical Ali was captured and then released and now lives happily in the United Arab Emirates with his family. Yesterday President Bush hired some stooge from Fox News to be his new Press Secretary. Fox News and CNN are the President’s press secretary and minister of disinformation. CNN is owned by AOL which is owned by the Saudi Royal Family, on whose board of directors sits George Bush Sr. The Saudi Bin Laden family financed the oil company of Junior. The 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. Why didn’t the United States capture Saudi Arabia in revenge, instead of waging war against the coke heads in Afghanistan and the innocent people of Iraq? Do we smell conflict of interest here President Judas?

If you want to have a genuine idea of what is going on in the world then you can forget about watching Wolf Blitzer. You are better off typing in watchingamerica.com. On watchingamerica.com you can read newspapers from all over the world and watch videos of what the rest of the world is saying about the United States. It is hard to believe that in 2006 the United States Government could have such absolute control of their entire media, launching a campaign of disinformation, lies and propaganda. Did the German people cheering Adolf Hitler wildly at the 1936 Berlin Olympics realize that he was a blind guide leading them all into disaster?

Prior to the Iraq war President Bush screamed that he had to invade Iraq because they were about to attack New York with nuclear weapons. The President did everything possible to silence the evidence from his own CIA that Iraq had never purchased nuclear materials from Niger, including giving the order to out the wife of the truth teller Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, according to Scooter Libby, who got it first hand from the guy really running the government, with a 13% approval rating, the guy who can’t shoot straight, Dick Cheney. The American media is so twisted that they now are condemning some reporter for printing that America has secret torture prisons in Poland, instead of condemning the President for using torture and for stripping America of its civil rights. The rest of the world sees what’s going on, an American land grab for the middle east oil fields.

Comical Bush promised that the Iraqi Oil would pay for the Iraq War. Did no one at the Pentagon realize that the Iraqi Muslims may resent being colonized by the American Christians? Right now the American Media is sweeping under the rug the hottest story ever. In the companion Gospel to the Gospel of Judas, The Gospel of Seth, “The Second Treatise of the Great Seth”, Jesus Christ himself tells Simon that He, Jesus, was not on the cross drinking the gall and vinegar, and He, Jesus did not bear the cross nor wear the crown of thorns, but his look alike substitute impostor did as Jesus laughed from the hills above the crucifixion at the ignorance of the Roman soldiers for thinking it was Jesus who they were crucifying. This is the exact story in the Koran. What happens to President Bush’s Christian Crusade into the Middle East to meet Jesus in Jerusalem when it comes out that Jesus did not die for the President’s sins and Christianity crumbles into the dust?

During the Vietnam War, in which Communist Russia and China backed Communist North Vietnam, American General Westmoreland said, “We’ll be pulling our troops out as soon as we train the South Vietnamese Army to defend themselves.” 250,000 American casualties later, the United States lost the war. The United States thinks that it is invincible, as did the Roman Empire. Today Iran received missiles capable of nuking Paris and London from North Korea. China and Russia are poised with their vast nuclear arsenals and billion man armies to take the Middle East oil fields. As in Vietnam, it will be the Americans who will surrender. How do you spell the word D-R-A-F-T?

The crash of 1929 is just around the corner, President Bush having thrown the economy into Chapter 11, with his trillion dollar tax cut and his trillion dollar lost war in Iraq, causing a trillion dollar deficit. And Bush mocked President Clinton, who had the country in a surplus. So what. Clinton was stimulated in the oval office to relieve some of the pressure. At least he didn’t sink the country to the bottom of the Ocean like the captain of the Titanic all the while laughing with his oil buddies as the price of oil and oil stocks went through the roof and the Saudis filled his Swiss Coffers. Even Koffi Annan the Secretary General of the United Nations called the Iraq War illegal. When is Bush being tried at The Hague?

What Bush’s folly into Iraq has done long term is poised the Islamic Nuclear Arsenal right at Washington DC. Islamic and World hatred of the United States is so off the charts right now, that the boy who called “wolf” is now the butt of the taunts of President Ahmindejad, who realizes that the American forces are spread so thin that they couldn’t fight off a mosquito. What country with 300 million available people twice elects a lying comical alcoholic deserter to run the country right into the ground? The time has come to put President Clinton back into the White House through the back door. At least the Harem Boys can respect a guy with a young mistress.

Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com/