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Objective:  This newsletter came out of my experiences dealing in a new culture and a new history plus my experiences in the USA and Canada. The purpose of the newsletter is to provoke serious thought about musical art.  What is it? Where should it be going?  In addition, what is going on in China?  I write about my personal experiences and my thoughts about them. My music is here.  Am I really who I say I am.  The proof is here just listening. http://greghenrywaters.com/mp3 104 Songs to listen to!

So much has happened in the last month moving back to New York City. I cannot tell you all about it because it is too personal. But with 9/11 here in New York and the memorial service, cleaning the apartment, arranging my life again here. Trying to find some friends has been kind of trying, but I am home and happy to be here.

Shenzhen, I will always remember the flowers. It is your biggest asset. I talk to my friends here about my experiences there and it is surprising that most of them know a lot about China and the business ethics there. Some of the personal differences for me are water pressure, hot water, quality of water, internet service, cooking stove and food. These were the things I missed most about my apartment in New York. I hope soon I can find some music work in a coffee bar and create some more music like I did in Shenzhen.

Of course the music in New York is tremendous there is so much of it and you go into an average music store and they have so many instruments and books and maybe even someone who knows something. My taste has changed in music. I have been listening to a lot of jazz on the radio and I must say I do not like much of it. I do not know where I am at now with music. I have started to practice about a week ago. I just mostly stay in my neighborhood for now I do not go to Manhattan yet. Maybe I will soon however now it is too soon.

The USA is changing now with 9/11. I hope we will grow up as a nation and really become the nation we should be and not the nation of the greedy and stupid. I hope we soon give up this idea of an immigrant nation and close our borders for a while and concentrate on our nation. Too many people just want to use the USA and not be apart of it or friends with it. We as a nation must now change our attitude and become a nation of nations. Having lived in three other nations I know more about what this nation should be. I think it is good to travel and see what is going on in other places. I must say. The USA is the best even though sometimes it seems it is the worst.

I hope you can enjoy this piece about Bush and immigration here in the states. Two big problems we have here.

Thanks and Always Greg Henry Waters

election time again

just so you know:
•I attacked and took over 2 countries.

•I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury.

•I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not
easy!).

•I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12
month period.

•I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock
market.

•I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.

•In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on
vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did).

•After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over
the worst security failure in US history.

•I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any president in
US history.

•In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.

•I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other
president in US history.

•I set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-month
period.

•I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any
president in US history.

•I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president, since
the advent of TV.

•I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any
other US president in history.

•I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to
intervene when corruption was revealed.

•I cut health care benefits for war veterans.

•I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take
to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for
protest against any person in the history of mankind.

•I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.

•I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US
history.

•Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history.
(The poorest multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker
named after her.)

•I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union
simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy.

•I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in
any country in the history of the world.

•I am the first president in US history to order a US attack AND military
occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the
United Nations and the vast majority of the international community.

•I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history
of the United States, called the "Bureau of Homeland Security"(only one
letter away from BS).

•I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases,
more than any other president in US history (Ronnie was tough to beat, but I
did it!!).

•I am the first president in US history to compel the United Nations remove
the US from the Human Rights Commission.

•I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove
the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.

•I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of
congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

•I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. I withdrew from the World
Court of Law.

•I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default
no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

•I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election
inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.

•I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign
donations.

•The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best
friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in
world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

•I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US
history.

•I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and
then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)

•I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.

•I took the world's sympathy for the US after 9/11, and in less than a year
made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest
diplomatic failure in US and world history).

•I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of
Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and
stability.

•I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government
contracts.

•I set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees who
violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations
bidding for gov't contracts.

•I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any
other president in US history.

•I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than
two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

•RECORDS AND REFERENCES: I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in
Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).

•I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during time of
war.

•I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
(wink,wink)

•All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my
fathers library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

•All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt
companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

•All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served on the
board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

•Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public
energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

With Love,
GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House, Washington, DC
Note: this information should be useful to voters in the 2004 election.
Circulate to as many citizens you think would be helped to be reminded about
this record