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“Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it!” - George Carlin
To: Guardian of the Holy Index of Proscribed Books at the Vatican From: Your Deep Cover, Ever Faithful Agent in Godless America
You want to know, Your Worshipfulness, how bad things are here, then consider this: The “National Enquirer,” a weekly scandal sheet, is selling out faster than President Barack Obama can break his campaign promises! All you hear about is Tiger Woods and his bimbos. Every day, (…)

By David Glenn Cox
These are dark days to be a Democrat and dark days to be a Republican and even darker days still to believe in democracy. When you state publicly that we live in a corporate oligarchy you are dismissed as naive, denigrated as cynical, or dissed and told, “Well, welcome to the real world.”
As I’ve watched the health care debate roll through Congress I‘ve carried a secret fear of a corporate bait and switch. One good thing added, one bad thing added, one good thing (…)

Germany is examining what happened when German Occupying Forces in Occupied Afghanistan ordered in US airstrikes that killed 142 Occupied Afghans (see “German military filmed Kunduz strike from ground”, The Local, Germany: ).
However Germany ignores the horrendous 3.4 million non-violent excess deaths (non-violent avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) associated with occupation of Afghanistan by the war criminal US Alliance composed of the US, UK, France, Germany, other (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
"In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope. We believe in God, good and just. We believe that God’s goodness will finally triumph over the evil of hate and of death that still persist in our land. We will see here ’a new land’ and ’a new human being’, capable of rising up in the spirit to love each one of his or her brothers and sisters," concluded a document (“Kairos Palestine Document”) released by Palestinian Christian leaders on December 11, 2009. (…)

ComRes survey shows a majority of businessmen detect no signs of recovery
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor
Businessmen have become more gloomy about the economy in the past month, raising fears that Britain may slip into a "double-dip" recession next year.
A ComRes survey of 257 business leaders for The Independent found that the proportion detecting "green shoots" in their sector had dropped from 49 per cent in November to 36 per cent this month. For the first time since July, a (…)

The following letter about the Australian, US and First World sabotage of the Copenhagen Climate Conference has been sent by Dr Gideon Polya (Convenor, 300.org) to Island Nation leaders, Developing Nation leaders and global media in the interests of Australia, the Great Barrier Reef, Humanity and the Biosphere.
LETTER.
Developing Nations must urgently defend themselves from Australia-, US- and First World-imposed climate genocide.
Top climate scientists, including the UK Royal Society (…)

In 1969 I was spending my second summer working in Ben Tillman’s crew refinishing desks for the Baltimore City Public School system. They only paid us as teachers for the ten months school was in session, and needless to say it wasn’t much, so we were glad to have a chance to earn some extra money. We’d spend a couple of weeks at each school, sanding down the desktops and re-varnishing them, although the latter task was reserved for Tiny Shaw, a huge man who could handle the spray gun and (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
Nowhere it is more obvious than in Iraq that the existence of an election law, elections themselves and the constitution they are based on are not indicators of democracy or legitimacy, because these mechanisms are merely symbols of the antithesis of the mechanisms of democracy as practiced back home by the U.S. occupying power.
An editorial of The Washington Post on December 8 hailed the passing two days earlier of an amended version of the 2005 election law by the (…)

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
By Jack Random
It is a great shame that in America we cannot criticize our nation without being painted in the colors of betrayal and treason by the self-righteous and self-proclaimed defenders of American pride. Yes, even those who only yesterday led the nation to the edge of economic collapse and left our reputation torn and tattered before the eyes of the world retain their hold on power by defining patriotism with unwavering praise and (…)

Australia, the US and the EU are sabotaging Copenhagen COP15 climate summit and sabotaging Climate Justice which requires (a) equal per capita GHG pollution for all men plus (b) a penalty for huge First World historical pollution (73% of 1750-2006 carbon pollution; see Dr James Hansen’s 2008 Open Letter to PM Kevin Rudd of Australia: ).
In order to calculate “annual per capita GHG pollution” in “tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year” we can use data on the past and projected (…)