<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="font-family: Futura; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">USA! USA! USA!<br></b><br><b>We’re #1!</b> In locking our citizens up; in obesity; in energy use per person; in small arms exports; in per capita health expenditures; in student loan debt.<br><br><b>We’re #1!</b> In oil consumption; in gun ownership; in breast augmentation; in death by violence; in anxiety disorders.<br><br><b>We’re #1!</b> In military spending, spending more than the next twenty largest military spenders combined.<br><br>The corporate media force feeds the public a brand of nationalism that puts ‘American exceptionalism’ front and center in all their news and editorial decisions.</font></span></div><div style="font-family: Futura; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Futura; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">From: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/">www.commondreams.org</a></font></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br></body></html>