Happy New Year 2010... and some thoughts for survival

Every year this subject is one of my favorites because it proves just how out of tune we are with GOD, our world and our own will to survive.

Project Censored specializes in covering the top stories which were subjected to censorship either by being ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media each year. Project Censored is a research team composed of more than 200 university faculty, students, and community experts who annually review up to 1,000 news story submissions for content, reliability of sources, and national significance. The top 25 stories selected are submitted to a distinguished panel of judges who rank them in order of importance. The results are published each year in an excellent book available for purchase at their website, amazon.com, and major book stores.

A summary of the top 25 media censorship stories of 2009 provided below proves quite revealing and most informative.
Top 25 Stories of 2009 Subjected to Media Censorship


1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street (For full story, click here)

Americans get the best democracy money can buy, money coming more than ever today from Wall Street. Since 2001, eight of the most troubled financial firms have donated $64.2 million to congressional candidates, presidential candidates and the Republican and Democratic parties. Is it surprising how much they control them? Influential House and Senate finance and banking committee members got $5.2 million from bailout recipients like Goldman Sachs, Citibank, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and others. In the last election cycle, Obama received at least $4.3 million from the same institutions. From 1998 - 2007, financial and banking companies spent $1.7 billion on federal campaign contributions and another $3.4 billion on lobbyists. In 1999, the Glass-Steagall Act was gutted – the landmark 1933 law that prevented banks from getting into the insurance business. In January 2000, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act legitimized swap agreements and other hybrid instruments, at the core of today's problems, by preventing regulatory oversight of derivatives and leveraging, thus letting Wall Street legally pillage and speculate. The result was a financial coup d'etat cementing the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders who choose candidates, control elections, weaken financial regulations, and basically run the country for their own self-interest. As a result, Washington today has become largely a subsidiary of the Wall Street financial giants.

Sources: Truthout/McClatchy, Oct. 2, 2008, “Lax Oversight? Maybe $64 Million to DC Pols Explains It,” by Greg Gordon. Rolling Stone, Mar. 19, 2009, “The Big Takeover,” by Matt Taibbi. OpenSecrets.org, Feb. 10, 2009, “Congressmen Hear from TARP Recipients Who Funded Their Campaigns,” by Lindsay Renick Mayer.


2. US Schools Are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s (For full story, click here)

According to a UCLA Civil Rights report, "schools in the US are 44 percent non-white, and ... Latinos and blacks, the two largest minority groups, attend schools more segregated today than during the civil rights movement forty years ago." The result is: unequal education which denies disadvantaged youths access to college and better jobs; growing numbers of these youths becoming "virtually unemployable" for anything more than menial labor or the military; greater vulnerability to future poverty, poor health, gangs, crime, and prolonged incarceration in America's vast prison/industrial complex. The report stresses the need for "leaders who recognize that we have a common destiny in an America where our children grow up together, knowing and respecting each other, and are all given the educational tools that prepare them for success in our society." The UCLA Civil Rights Study shows that most severe segregation in public schools is in the Western states, including California – not in the South, as many people believe. Eighty-five percent of the nation’s teachers are white, and little progress is being made toward diversifying the nation’s teaching force.

Source : The Civil Rights Project, UCLA, January 2009, “Reviving the Goal of an Integrated Society: A 21st Century Challenge,” by Gary Orfield.


3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates (For full story, click here)

The international community has come out in force to condemn and declare war on the Somali fishermen pirates, while discreetly protecting the illegal, unreported and unregulated fleets from around the world that have been poaching and dumping toxic waste in Somali waters since the fall of the Somali government eighteen years ago. Foreign interests have been using hundreds of vessels to loot the country's food supply, according to the High Seas Task Force (HSTF), stealing "an estimated $450 million in seafood from Somali waters annually" and ruining the livelihoods of Somali fishermen. Somalia has also been used as a dumping ground for hazardous waste starting in the early 1990s, and continuing through the civil war there. Instead of rectifying the problem, the UN passed "aggressive resolutions that entitle and encourage transgressors to wage war on Somali pirates." NATO, the EU, and other countries issued similar orders. Some say that the acts of piracy may actually be born of desperation. What is one man’s pirate may be another man’s Coast Guard.

Sources: UK's Independent, January 5, 2009, “You are being lied to about pirates,” by Johann Hari. Al Jazeera English, October 11, 2008, “Toxic waste behind Somali piracy,” by Najad Abdullahi. WardheerNews, January 8, 2009, “The Two Piracies in Somalia: Why the World Ignores the Other,” by Mohamed Abshir Waldo.


4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina (For full story, click here)

North Carolina's Shearon Harris nuclear plant contains the largest radioactive waste storage pools in the country. If the cooling system malfunctions, the resulting fire would be virtually unquenchable and could trigger a nuclear meltdown. Between 1999 and 2003, there were twelve major problems requiring the shutdown of the plant. In 2002, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) put the plant on notice for nine unresolved safety issues detected. When the NRC returned to the plant a few months later, it determined that the corrective actions were “not acceptable.” Between January and July of 2002, Harris plant managers were forced to manually shut down the reactors four times. Problems at Shearon Harris continue with chilling regularity. Yet the NRC ignores the potential risks. A recent study by Brookhaven Labs estimates that a pool fire could cause 140,000 cancers, contaminate thousands of square miles of land, and cause over $500 billion in off-site property damage. The plant is a nuclear time bomb, and millions in the region are at risk.

Source: CounterPunch, August 9, 2008, “Pools of Fire,” by Jeffrey St. Clair.


5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products (For full story, click here)

Unlike in America, European countries are moving toward a model of insisting on environmental and consumer safety that requires assessing thousands of chemicals for their potential toxic effects. New regulations will mandate that companies seeking market access eliminate toxic substances and produce safer electronics, automobiles, toys and cosmetics. Without compliance henceforth, the products of hundreds of US companies may be excluded from European markets, and according to Mark Schapiro, author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products, "only five percent of all chemicals in the US have undergone even minimal testing." Further, new EPA requirements consider the "costs to industry" in assessing threats to public health as a reason to side with industry and keep regulations minimal. The divergence between US and European regulation has made America the dumping ground for toxic toys, electronics and cosmetics. The US produces and consumes the toxic materials from which other countries around the world are protected.

Sources: Scientific American, Sep. 30, 2008, “European Chemical Clampdown Reaches Across Atlantic,” by David Biello. Environmental Defense Fund, Sep. 30, 2008, “How Europe’s New Chemical Rules Affect US.”


6. Lobbyists Buy Congress (For full story, click here)

In 2008, The Center for Responsive Politics reported that "special interests paid Washington lobbyists $3.2 billion in 2008," higher than any year on record and 13.7% more than 2007. That amounts to $17.4 million for each day Congress was in session, or $32,523 per legislator per day. Health interests spent the most for the third consecutive year, $478.5 million, followed by the FIRE sector (finance, insurance and real estate) at $453.5 million. It's a small investment yielding big returns for these and other industries, competing at the public trough for as much as they can get. The payoff is in the billions for some corporations, and for Wall Street trillions have been pledged, as well as interest free money from the banker-owned Federal Reserve.

Source: OpenSecrets.org, “Washington Lobbying Grew to $3.2 Billion Last Year, Despite Economy,” by Center for Responsive Politics.


7. Obama's Military Appointments Have Corrupted Pasts (For full story, click here)

After promising not to politicize intelligence and to keep lobbyists out of top government posts, Obama appointed many former lobbyists and board members of companies doing business directly with the Pentagon. He retained Robert Gates as Defense Secretary despite his history at CIA of having cooked the books for political reasons. According to Agency insiders who knew him, he "corrupted the intelligence product" to suit the White House and further his own self-interest. When Bush nominated him for CIA Director in 1991, a virtual insurrection among CIA analysts erupted over his penchant for having politicized intelligence. Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh states that, despite Gates' touted memory, he "denied recollection of facts thirty-three times." Obama's Deputy Defense Secretary, William Lynn, is just as tainted. The former Raytheon vice president and company lobbyist caused Republican Senator Charles Grassley to object to his "very questionable accounting practices" as Pentagon comptroller during the Clinton years. He and Obama's Undersecretary of Defense, Robert Hale, who served as Assistant Air Force Secretary Financial Comptroller under Clinton, are claimed to have lost enough taxpayer money to pay for Obama's stimulus plan four times over. They now again oversee DOD spending. The list goes on. Most of Obama's national security team is composed of recycled appointees committed to continued imperial wars and outlandish amounts of military spending for them.

Sources: The Hill, November 24, 2008, “Ties to Chevron, Boeing Raise Concern on Possible NSA Pick,” by Roxana Tiron. Truthout.org/Consortium News, November 13, 2008, “The Danger of Keeping Robert Gates,” by Robert Parry. Global Research, February 13, 2009, “Obama’s Defense Department Appointees - The 3.4 Trillion Dollar Question,” by Andrew Hughes.


8. Bailed Out Banks Cheat IRS Out of Billions (For full story, click here)

It's an old story. "Only the little people pay taxes," according to former tax cheat Leona Hemsley (1920 - 2007), and rarely does anyone like her get caught. In 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that 83 of the top publicly held US companies have operations in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and the Virgin Islands. 14 of these companies, including AIG, Bank of America, and Citigroup, received money from the government bailout. In addition, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) helped wealthy clients cheat the IRS out of over $20 billion in recent years, according to the Department of Justice. Other notorious tax havens include Austria, Luxembourg, Singapore, Hong Kong, Monaco, Gibraltar, and the Bahamas. In 2008, havens like these saved Goldman Sachs billions of dollars through "changes in (its) geographic earnings mix." For many other companies, it's much the same through legal provisions in the tax code. According to some estimates, trillions of dollars in both corporate profits and personal wealth have migrated offshore, and the offshore banking world now harbors $11.5 trillion in individual wealth alone.

Sources: Bloomberg, December 16, 2008, “Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1% or $14 Million,” by Christine Harper. The Huffington Post, February 23, 2009, “Gimme Shelter: Tax Evasion and the Obama Administration,” by Thomas B. Edsall.


9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza (For full story, click here)

For decades, America has supplied Israel, population 7.5 million, with tens of billions in aid, interest-free loans, and the latest in new weapons and technology, including illegal white phosphorous shells used against Gazan civilians during Operation Cast Lead. In addition, Washington has supplied F-16 fighters, attack helicopters, tactical missiles, bunker-buster bombs, a wide variety of other munitions, and undisclosed new weapons for testing in real time combat situations against Palestinian or other Arab civilians. In Gaza, shell fragments revealed names of US defense contractors, including Raytheon. Another was marked the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas. In shocking support for Israel's questionable attacks, and in violation of international and US law, both Houses of Congress overwhelmingly endorsed the continued aggression. Obama stayed silent on the subject in the run-up to his January 20 inauguration.

Sources: Human Rights Watch, Mar. 25, 2009, “White Phosphorus Use Evidence of War Crimes Report,” Fred Abrahams. Guardian, Feb. 23, 2009, “Suspend Military Aid to Israel, Amnesty Urges Obama,” Rory McCarthy. Inter Press Service, Jan. 8, 2009, “US Weaponry Facilitates Killings in Gaza,” Thalif Deen. Consortium News, Jan. 18, 2009, “Is Israel’s Gaza War a New War Crime?” by Dennis Bernstein. Foreign Policy Journal, Jan. 09, 2009, “US Senate Endorses Israel’s War on Gaza,” by Jeremy R. Hammond.


10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate (Full story here)

In November 2008, Ecuador became the first country to undertake an examination of the legitimacy and structure of its foreign debt. In violation of Ecuadorian law, predatory international lenders were involved in hundreds of illegitimate irregularities. Billions in foreign debt at exorbitant interest rates resulted in debt service far exceeding the principal borrowed, and at a staggering human cost. In December, President Rafael Correa announced his country would default. In April 2009, he was re-elected overwhelmingly. Ecuador exposed the corrupted international finance system in a way that could set a precedent for the poorest of indebted countries. Correa asked other Latin American nations "to forge a united response, (and for) the United Nations to help develop international norms to regulate the foreign debt market." The April 2008 House passed Jubilee Act was a positive step forward. However, the Senate failed to pass its S. 2166 version, then cleared the legislation from its books. In June 2009, Ecuador agreed with 91% of its creditors to pay 35 cents on the dollar for its debt. Other countries may now follow suit, especially those most impacted by the global economic crisis.

Sources: Alternet, Nov. 26, 2008, “Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate and Illegal,” by Daniel Denvir. Utube, Fall 2008, “Invalid Loans to Ecuador: Who Owes Who,” by Committee for the Integral Audit of Public Credit. Institute for Policy Studies, Dec. 15, 2008, “Ecuador’s Debt Default,” by Neil Watkins, Sarah Anders.


Other Media Censorship Stories in the Top 25

11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine (For full story, click here)

US, Israeli, and other international corporations profit from the occupation of Palestine. They lead real estate deals, develop Israeli settlements and infrastructure, and help solidify the continued land theft, economic exploitation, and apartheid separation of Muslims and Jews, in violation of international law.

12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell - Karl Rove's Election Thief (For full story, click here)

As Karl Rove's chief IT consultant, Connell was a key figure in 2004 election manipulations for George Bush. Under subpoena to testify on his role in Ohio, he died mysteriously in a Dec. 19, 2008 plane crash. IT expert Stephen Spoonamore, a conservative Republican, explained how Connell's vote tabulation system worked. "It allowed (for) the introduction of an additional single computer between computer A and computer B." The centralized collection of all incoming statewide results made it easy for a single operator, or a preprogrammed computer to change the results in any way desired by the team controlling the inserted computer.

13. Katrina's Hidden Race War (For full story, click here)

After Hurricane Katrina, a Nation magazine report explained that "white vigilante groups patrolled the streets of New Orleans ... shooting at least eleven African American men." Falsely portrayed as looters and thugs, they were gunned down in cold blood by "gun-toting white males," yet city police didn't intervene or investigate. In addition, Blackwater mercenaries were deployed in New Orleans right after the storm. In full battle gear, they terrorized black residents, removed them from choice areas for development, and assured they didn't return.

14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts (For full story, click here)

According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, over 151 congressional members have invested up to $195 million in major defense contractors, thus profiting from America's imperial wars. Major investors include: Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) - $49.1 million; Senator John Kerry (D-MA) - $38.2 million; Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) - $37.1 million; Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) - $8.4 million; Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) - $7.6 million; Rep. Jane Harmon (D-CA) - $6.3 million; and Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI) - $5.8 million.

15. World Bank's Carbon Trade Fiasco (For full story, click here)

On the pretext of environmental protection, the World Bank is brokering carbon emission trading arrangements that destroy indigenous farmlands around the world and do little to cut pollution or reduce the threat of climate change. The scheme is similar to Obama's cap and trade bill (HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act) that lets corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by charging consumers more for energy and fuel.

16. US Repression of Haiti Continues (For full story, click here)

The US government plans to demolish the homes of hundreds of Haitians to expand an occupying UN force’s military base. The New York Times has also published a revealing article titled "Rights Groups Assail US for Withholding Aid to Haiti, Citing Political Motives." The Bush administration may have caused the deaths of thousands of Haitians by blocking aid for cynical and self-interested political purposes.

17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan (For full story, click here)

Huge potential oil reserves explain the significance of Darfur. Washington's genocide claim is exaggerated for political purposes. It's part of America's chess game with China for control of the region's resources. Beijing already gets up to 30% of its oil from Africa. Under cover from International Criminal Court's fraudulent indictment of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and other contrived reasons, America has exploited the region militarily for geopolitical advantage.

18. Ecuador's Constitutional Rights of Nature (For full story, click here)

In September 2008, Ecuador became the first country ever to declare constitutional rights to nature, thus codifying a new system of environmental protection. Its Constitution declares nature "has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution." Ecuador's Rights of Nature hold hope that other nations may adopt them and start to more fully protect the environment.

19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor (For full story, click here)

After receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America organized opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) - legislation to guarantee workers the right to bargain more fairly and collectively with management. Business is firmly opposed. On March 10, S. 560: Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 was introduced in the Senate. It was referred to the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee where it's pending. Given the Obama administration's opposition, its passage looks doubtful.

20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates (For full story, click here)

Since 1987, the Republican and Democrat-controlled Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) has run the process, dictates terms, and excludes unwanted participants. During the 2008 presidential cycle, the Obama and McCain teams secretly cut a deal on who could participate, permissible topics, and the debate format structure. Before he died, Walter Cronkite called the CPD an "unconscionable fraud."

21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare (For full story, click here)

Faced with huge budget shortfalls and little help from Washington, states have been forced to make major expenditure cuts, many affecting vital social services, including health care, education, and welfare. Yet cutting Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) began prior to the present crisis so funds could be redirected to other priorities. Nationally, welfare rolls dropped over 40% between 2001 and June 2008, and in some states, like Georgia, up to 90%. America's social safety net is fast disappearing.

22. Obama's Trilateral Commission Team (For full story, click here)

Obama appointed 11 members of the Trilateral Commission (TC) to top positions in his administration in his first ten days in office. He was groomed for the presidency by key TC members. Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the TC with David Rockefeller in 1973, has been Obama’s principal foreign policy advisor. Since the Carter administration, Trilateralists have held the following very influential positions: six of the last eight World Bank presidents; all presidents and vice-presidents of the US (except Obama and Biden); over half of all US secretaries of state; and three quarters of the secretaries of defense. The original stated purpose of the TC was to create a "new international economic order." For more on powerful secret societies, click here.

23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud (For full story, click here)

Organized every three years since 1997, activists have blasted the World Water Forum as a corporate trade show promoting privatization of water. The Forum's main organizer, the World Water Council (WWC), is dominated by two of the world's largest water companies, Suez and Veolia. WWC promotes expensive and destructive dam and water diversion projects, as well as putting water services in private hands through the establishment of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). The result has been huge price hikes, water pollution, depletion, and cut-offs that deny people the right to water if they can't pay the exorbitant cost.

24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion (For full story, click here)

Economist Michael Hudson first addressed this topic in his 1972 book, "Super Imperialism," updated in a 2003 edition. He revisited it in an award-winning article which explained the inter-related dynamics of: surplus US dollars pouring into the rest of the world for financial speculation and corporate takeovers; global central banks recycling these dollar inflows into US Treasury bonds to finance the federal budget deficit; and most important (but suppressed in the US media), the military character of the US payments deficit.

25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon (For full story, click here)

Home to the world's most biodiverse and intact rainforest, the Western Amazon may soon be covered with oil rigs and pipelines. Vast parts of of this region will be opened for oil and gas exploration, putting some of the planet's most pristine and biodiverse forests at risk.

It is really amazing that we are busy cutting our own oxygen and the very air that we breathe for some oil and gas. GOD help us.

Amen

He that is of GOD hears HIS words! He who hears them not is not of GOD!

GOD gave me two gifts today.

I found a long "lost" friend. THANK YOU LORD!

And GOD also gave me a Bible quote that pertains to all the self appointed "Christians" out there, who are lying, waging war on weaker and peaceful real Christians who turn the other cheek. And then I read in a forwarded email, that a "liberal" newspaper "surprisingly" printed the statement of a person saying that they have a deep belief in GOD. To the right wing fascist so-called Christians the liberals are obviously Godless. Another proof of the right wing's amazing ignorance. Jesus was a liberal by every word of their description. The problem is that they don't listen to GOD's word or follow Jesus Christ and his message. And here is the Bible quote GOD gave me today and that might just help them to see the Truth:

John 8:42-51: Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me. And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

Doesn't that sound familiar? Just listen to the right wing treating the ones who speak the truth as liars.

Truth and Revolution

Hypocrisy – one of the very things Jesus Christ fought against – is the mainstay of the right wing Christian fascists and their Republican representatives.  The ones that fight against gays turn out to be gay, the ones that condemn adultery are caught one by one being adulterers themselves, as the recent case of Nevada Republican Senator Ensign proved again.  Another interesting development is IRAN, where we can see how the change of the political climate changes the inner politics of a country.  Since W. and his boss Dick Cheney are gone and the US are not trying to start another unnecessary war in the Middle East, the enemy that the Iranian regime could use as a unifying factor for their people to distract from reality is gone. Now the Iranians have time to think about their situation and they decided that it is bad. With President Obama not getting involved and declaring so, the Iranians are taking matters in their own hands.  It looks like we will see the next Revolution, much like we did 1979. And the US is not involved this time, so Iran might become the country their people want and not another dictatorship created by the US, like Saddam Hussein was, whose power was solely by grace of the CIA and the US.

Jesus Christ is under attack. Open minded Christians see the facts that many of Jesus Christ’s attributes were merely copied from the Egyptian God Horus and many others whose mystical status much depends on virgin birth, violent death and resurrection.  Some people come to the conclusion that is why Jesus Christ has never lived, which is being concluded in the Zeitgeist movie that I have recommended and still recommend, because their facts are correct, just their conclusions are subject to serious doubt. So please watch the Zeitgeist Movie and the Addendum – both available for free download at www.zeitgeistmovie.com and with your own thoughts and my help, you will reach the right conclusion yourself.

I know GOD is. I believe Jesus Christ lived. He is GOD’s son and he has a special place in the history of Faith. We are all GOD’s children and created in his image. Jesus Christ’s message created the basis for our Christian belief. He died on the cross for our sins, so we are not born in sin. He is the messenger and the message for us Christians. Jesus Christ stands for the new, changed message from GOD: No more hate, now the message is LOVE.  And that is what Jesus Christ is about.  Jesus sent the apostles only to the Jews. With little success. Only the Catholic Church was “founded on Peter”, who was actually the messenger to the Jews, and hence the pope is basically the leader of a Jewish Church.

So Jesus Christ recruited Paul as his messenger to the Gentiles. They actually embraced and listened to the message, but many obviously misunderstood what it was about. Martin Luther criticized the Catholic Church for their hypocrisy and started the Christian revolution that led to the founding of the Protestant church and subsequently to the founding of many so called ‘Christian’ churches.

Being Christian means actually following Jesus Christ’s words and message.  Whoever does not do this, has not right to call him or herself Christian. The worst example of such churches are many so called Christian Churches in the US. They preach violence and war, and their sole goal is to extort money from their congregation. And they do this with surprisingly great success.  As surprisingly as this fact is the fact that their victims – or congregation, as they call them - obviously never read the bible.  All you have to do is PICK UP A BIBLE AND READ it. If you do, you see the context of the quotes your pastors present to you and you will see that almost everything they tell you is a lie.  So please read.  Let me make this clear. Jesus Christ came to change the message. So the Old Testament is out.  Read the New Testament to have the background to understand Paul.  The writings of Paul are for us. Nothing else, because even Jesus Christ is only speaking to the Jews. Another reading suggestion is the Gospel of Thomas, older than any of the other Gospels, and it has not been edited through the ages.  It contains only quotes from Jesus himself and you will find many of them in the known Gospels, so you know where Matthew, Mark Luke, and John got them from.  We know that the Bible has been compiled and edited to the taste of the Dictators through the centuries, so the Gospel of Thomas is one of the few scriptures that are actually pure and the untainted word of GOD.

Murder, Lies and CIA

Zeitgeist Addendum gives food for thought

Yesterday I had a chance to watch the movie “Zeitgeist Addendum”. Looking at the evidence I can absolutely live with the fact that Jesus shared the same fate with Horus, an Egyptian God who also rose from the dead and also shared several similarities in other aspects of his life. This is something I could even agree with. I know there is GOD, I believe in Jesus. I speak directly with GOD, not with Jesus. Like one of my friends stated recently: “Why should I talk to the son if I want to reach the father? I talk directly to the Boss.” And yes, there is a God! A GOD of love, peace and understanding. Jesus Christ changed the message from the violence of the Old Testament to love, peace and understanding.

But apart from the interesting religious statements made in the movie, everything else is also well thought out and well researched as well as less controversial. The way the richest and wealthiest deal with the poorest in their country, as well as the assassinations of heads of state, have never been a secret to me and the western world. And the events stated in the movie have not been secret either - at least to the Western world outside the United States.

Such as addendum shows the truth how nations are being mistreated and handled in the name of big capital, how people are being killed for money, how heads of state who are trying to do the right thing for their countries are being blackmailed first and then if this doesn't help being assassinated by the US is not new, but a necessary reminder of what has been going on in our country. One of the few who resisted and survived was Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who not surprisingly asked the Russians for military support against the people who are trying to kill him, the United States.

And once again we prove that big politics are free from ethics and free from moral restraints. And those are the people who call the Moslems murderers. They go to church. They claim Jesus Christ as their savior and appear to the public to abide in the moral rules of the church. If you claim to follow Jesus Christ, you HAVE to follow his commandments and rules:

1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

2. Love your neighbor as yourself.

3. Honor your father and your mother.

4. You shall not murder.

5. You shall not commit adultery.

6. You shall not steal.

7. You shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

8. You shall not covet anything that is thy neighbor's.

9. Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

Jesus said:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' (Matthew 22:36-40)

You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. (Matthew 5:43)


[Romans 13:8-11] Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Click here to download a pdf file with the commandments.



As it seems, there are no moral rules that apply to heads of state. All they adhere to is the orders of the richest people and the call of money. It is beyond me how anybody could claim to be Christian and at the same time kill people, rob their own people of their money and declare a whole religion to be enemies or terrorists or whatever we are calling the Muslim world. Not to say that that some Muslims don't do the same thing. The radical leaders in the Middle East do exactly the same thing that the radical “fascist right wing Christians” are doing here, they are just heading in the opposite direction.

Zeitgeist Addendum points out which other options we would have. Instead of supporting big oil and the war machines we could actually produce clean energy from wind, solar, or geothermal processes and everybody could live happily without starving. And this would not apply only to the richest and wealthiest in industrialized countries, it would apply to everybody. The so-called Venus project is showing ways to realize these dreams and it is at least worth watching what the suggestions are.

If you should get a chance to see Zeitgeist Addendum - before that you should actually watch Zeitgeist - you should definitely do it. You can get the movies and watch the movies on www.Zeitgeistmovie.com.

I also had time to watch some 9/11 movies and I am still deeply concerned how it is possible that the marketing of B.S. can be so successful in suppressing and altering the truth. All the American government did was market a lie. All the efforts to show the truth, including film footage and unaltered photos make it so clear even to the dumbest person that the story the government has been selling to us cannot possibly be true.

But the government is able to present their very own, well paid, government contractors lying on television. People like Bill O'Reilly, Beck, Sean Hannity, and others are only too willing to keep their careers by the grace of the right wing fascist and treat people who tell the truth like dirt. One highly embarrassing example is the initial mistranslation of a remark the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made and the following interview, held by – seemingly a CIA interrogator – who falsely accused the President of telling lies. The – democratically elected (other than W. Bush who was appointed by his brother’s superior court protégée and who also fixed the election the second time around) President of a sovereign country patiently insisted that he was telling the truth, but the US interviewer insisted that it was a lie. A few days later, the whole world knew that the President of Iran had spoken the truth and the ignorant American had been lying. That is the picture the Cheney administration showed to the world over and over again. It is sad and embarrassing to see people act this way. And yes, he calls himself a Christian.

Especially with my journalistic background it is hard to understand how anybody who remotely claims to be something like a journalist can act this way. Those so-called journalists are government puppets and have sold out. They sold their soul to the devil and traded the truth for money. Yes and they all do it in the name of Christ.

But the systematic mistreatment and elimination of people who tell the truth has a long tradition in the world. The latest one that has been prosecuted, also by the US, was the Nazi regime in Germany and there, besides Marketing genius Joseph Goebbels, the President of the highest German Court, Roland Freisler, who made sure no one could answer a question he posed in cutting the victim off and yelling at them without even giving them a chance to say the truth.

Today’s Show trials are being held by ignorant right wing (which already implies ignorant) servants of the likes of Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly and others who try to discredit their interview partners in the worst way imaginable. These are Freisler-like show trials, not interviews. If you doubt this statement, feel free to listen to Roland Freisler, there is plenty of footage available, and then to one of the aforementioned Clowns. And please keep in mind that Freisler’s verdict meant death. The best place to hold these modern trials against the truth is the Fox television network. FOX News is the only “News-station”, and I use the word VERY loosely, in the world that has a court ruling in their favor, that their news do not have to contain any truth. And as you can tell, they don’t.

Suppressed Truth in the US - Here are the 25 Top Articles

If you read my commentaries regularly, you know that I am criticizing the suppression of the truth or the telling of lies. To give you a heads up what is going on in the Media department, here another article from our friends at www.WantToKnow.info, who keep track of the Truth.

Top 25 Stories of 2008 Subjected to Press Censorship

1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation? (For full story, click here)
Nobody knows exactly how many lives the Iraq War has claimed. But even more astounding is that so few journalists have mentioned the issue or cited the top estimate: 1.2 million. During August and September 2007, a British polling group surveyed 2,414 adults in 15 of 18 Iraqi provinces and found that more than 20 percent had experienced at least one war-related death since March 2003. Using common statistical study methods, it determined that as many as 1.2 million people had been killed since the war began. Estimates range wildly and are based on a variety of sources. In October 2006, the British medical journal Lancet published a Johns Hopkins University study vetted by four independent sources that counted 655,000 dead. In January 2008, the World Health Organization and the Iraqi government did door-to-door surveys of nearly 10,000 households and put the number of dead at 151,000. The 1.2 million figure is out there, too, which is higher than the Rwandan genocide death toll and closing in on the 1.7 million who perished in Cambodia's killing fields. It raises questions about the real number of deaths from US aerial bombings and house raids, and challenges the common assumption that this is a war in which Iraqis are killing Iraqis. The Brookings Institute has reported that US troops have, over the past four years, conducted about 100 house raids a day. Brutality during these house searches has been documented (See #9 below). The aggressive "element of surprise" tactics employed by soldiers is likely resulting in several thousands of deaths a day that either go unreported or are categorized as insurgent casualties.
Sources: "Is the United States killing 10,000 Iraqis every month? Or is it more?" Michael Schwartz, After DowningStreet.org, July 6, 2007; "Iraq death toll rivals Rwanda Genocide, Cambodian killing fields," Joshua Holland, AlterNet, Sept. 17, 2007; "Iraq conflict has killed a million: survey," Luke Baker, Reuters, Jan. 30, 2008; "Iraq: Not our country to return to," Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service, March 3, 2008.

2. Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA (For full story, click here)
Coupling the perennial issue of security with Wall Street's measures of prosperity, the leaders of the three North American nations convened the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The White House-led initiative — launched at a March 23, 2005, meeting of President Bush, Mexico's then-president Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin — joins beefed-up commerce with coordinated military operations to promote what it calls "borderless unity." Critics call it "NAFTA on steroids." However, unlike NAFTA, the SPP was formed in secret, without public input. "The SPP is not a law, or a treaty, or even a signed agreement," Laura Carlsen wrote in a report for the Center for International Policy. "All these would require public debate and participation of Congress, both of which the SPP has scrupulously avoided." Instead the SPP has a special workgroup: the North American Competitiveness Council [NACC]. It's a coalition of private companies that are, according to the SPP website, "adding high-level business input [that] will assist governments in enhancing North America's competitive position and engage the private sector as partners in finding solutions." The NACC includes the Chevron Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Merck, Procter & Gamble Co., and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. A look at NAFTA's unpopularity among citizens in all three nations is evidence of why its expansion would need to be disguised. "It's a scheme to create a borderless North American Union under US control without barriers to trade and capital flows for corporate giants, mainly US ones," wrote Steven Lendman in Global Research.
Sources: "Deep Integration," Laura Carlsen, Center for International Policy, May 30, 2007; "The Militarization and Annexation of North America," Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 19, 2007; "The North American Union," Constance Fogal, Global Research, Aug. 2, 2007.

3. InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business (For full story, click here)
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have effectively deputized 23,000 members of the business community, asking them to tip off the feds in exchange for preferential treatment in the event of a crisis. "The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does — and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials," Matthew Rothschild wrote in the March 2008 issue of The Progressive. InfraGard was created in 1996. Membership now includes 350 of the nation's Fortune 500 companies. The group's 86 chapters coordinate with 56 FBI field offices nationwide. While FBI Director Robert Mueller has said he considers this segment of the private sector "the first line of defense," the American Civil Liberties Union issued a grave warning about the potential for abuse. "There is evidence that InfraGard may be closer to a corporate TIPS program, turning private-sector corporations ... into surrogate eyes and ears for the FBI. The FBI should not be creating a privileged class of Americans who get special treatment," stated Jay Stanley, public education director of the ACLU's technology and liberty program. And they are privileged: a DHS spokesperson told Rothschild that InfraGard members receive special training and readiness exercises. They're also privy to protected information that is usually shielded from disclosure under the trade secrets provision of the Freedom of Information Act. The information they have may be of critical importance to the general public, but first it goes to the privileged membership
Source: "The FBI deputizes business," Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Feb. 7, 2008.

4. ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America? (For full story, click here)
The School of the Americas [SOA] earned an unsavory reputation in Latin America after many graduates of the Fort Benning, Ga., facility turned into counterinsurgency death squad leaders. The International Law Enforcement Academy recently installed by the Unites States in El Salvador — which looks, acts, and smells like the SOA — is also drawing scorn. The school is funded with $3.6 million from the US Treasury and staffed with instructors from the DEA, ICE, and FBI. It's tasked with training 1,500 police officers, judges, prosecutors, and other law enforcement agents in counterterrorism techniques per year. It's stated purpose is to make Latin America "safe for foreign investment" by "providing regional security and economic stability and combating crime." ILEAs aren't new, but past schools located in Hungary, Thailand, Botswana, and Roswell, N.M., haven't been terribly controversial. Salvadoran human rights organizers take issue with the fact that, in true SOA fashion, the ILEA releases neither information about its curriculum nor a list of students and graduates. Additionally, the way the school slipped into existence without public oversight has raised ire. As Wes Enzinna noted in a North American Congress on Latin America report, "Members of the US Congress were not briefed about the academy, nor was the main opposition party in El Salvador." Now, after more than three years in operation, critics point out that Salvadoran police, who account for 25 percent of the graduates, have become more violent. A May 2007 report by Tutela Legal implicated Salvadoran National Police (PNC) officers in eight death squad–style assassinations in 2006.
Sources: "Exporting US 'Criminal Justice' to Latin America," "Community in Solidarity with the people of El Salvador,"Upside Down World, June 14, 2007; "Another SOA?" Wes Enzinna, NACLA Report on the Americas, March/April 2008; "ILEA funding approved by Salvadoran right wing legislators,"CISPES, March 15, 2007; "Is George Bush restarting Latin America's 'dirty wars?'" Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet, Aug. 31, 2007.

5. Seizing War Protesters’ Assets (For full story, click here)
Protesting war could get you into big trouble, according to a critical read of two executive orders recently signed by President Bush. The first, issued July 17, 2007, and titled, "Blocking property of certain persons who threaten stabilization efforts in Iraq," allows the feds to seize assets from anyone who "directly or indirectly" poses a risk to the US war in Iraq. And, citing the modern technological ease of transferring funds and assets, the order states that no prior notice is necessary before the raid. On Aug. 1, Bush signed another order, similar but directed toward anyone undermining the "sovereignty of Lebanon or its democratic processes and institutions." In this case, the Secretary of the Treasury can seize the assets of anyone perceived as posing a risk of violence, as well as the assets of their spouses and dependents, and bans them from receiving any humanitarian aid. Critics say the orders bypass the right to due process and the vague language makes manipulation and abuse possible. Protesting the war could be perceived as undermining or threatening US efforts in Iraq. "This is so sweeping, it's staggering," said Bruce Fein, a former Reagan administration official in the Justice Department who editorialized against it in the Washington Times. "It expands beyond terrorism, beyond seeking to use violence or the threat of violence to cower or intimidate a population."
Sources: "Bush executive order: Criminalizing the antiwar movement," Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, July 2007; "Bush's executive order even worse than the one on Iraq," Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, August 2007.

6. The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act (For full story, click here)
On Oct. 23, 2007, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed — by a vote of 404-6 — the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act," designed to root out the causes of radicalization in Americans. With an estimated four-year cost of $22 million, the act establishes a 10-member National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism. The bill's author, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Los Angeles) said, "Free speech, espousing even very radical beliefs, is protected by our Constitution. But violent behavior is not." In a later press release Harman stated: "the National Commission [will] propose to both Congress and [DHS Secretary Michael] Chertoff initiatives to intercede before radicalized individuals turn violent." Which could be when they're speaking, writing, and organizing in ways that are protected by the First Amendment. This redefines civil disobedience as terrorism, say civil rights experts, and the wording is too vague. "What is an extremist belief system? Who defines this? These are broad definitions that encompass so much. It is criminalizing thought and ideology," said Alejandro Queral, executive director of the Northwest Constitutional Rights Center in Portland, Ore. The story didn't make it onto the CNN ticker, but enough independent sources reported on it that the equivalent Senate Bill 1959 has since stalled. After introducing the bill, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Me.), later joined forces with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a report criticizing the Internet as a tool for violent Islamic extremism.
Sources: "Bringing the war on terrorism home," Jessica Lee, Indypendent, Nov. 16, 2007; "Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act," Lindsay Beyerstein, In These Times, Nov. 2007; "The Violent Radicalization Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007," Matt Renner, Truthout, Nov. 20, 2007.

7. Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking (For full story, click here)
Every year, about 121,000 people legally enter the United States to work with H-2 visas, a program legislators are touting as part of future immigration reform. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) called this guest worker program "the closest thing I've ever seen to slavery." The Southern Poverty Law Center likened it to "modern day indentured servitude." They interviewed thousands of guest workers and reviewed legal cases for a report released in March 2007, which concluded "Unlike US citizens, guest workers do not enjoy the most fundamental protection of a competitive labor market — the ability to change jobs if they are mistreated. If guest workers complain about abuses, they face deportation, blacklisting, or other retaliation." When visas expire, workers must leave the country, hardly making this the path to permanent citizenship legislators are looking for. Still, Mexicans are literally lining up for H-2B status, the stark details of which were reported by Felicia Mello in The Nation. Furthermore, thousands of illegal immigrants are employed throughout the country, providing cheap, unprotected labor and further undermining the scant provisions of the laws. Labor contractors who connect immigrants with employers are stuffing their pockets with cash, while the workers return home with very little money. The Southern Poverty Law Center outlined a list of comprehensive changes needed in the program, concluding, "For too long, our country has benefited from the labor provided by guest workers but has failed to provide a fair system that respects their human rights and upholds the most basic values of our democracy. The time has come for Congress to overhaul our shamefully abusive guest worker system."
Sources: "Close to Slavery," Mary Bauer and Sarah Reynolds, Southern Poverty Law Center, March 2007; "Coming to America," Felicia Mello, The Nation, June 25, 2007; "Trafficking racket," Chidanand Rajghatta, Times of India, March 10, 2008.

8. Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly (For full story, click here)
The Bush administration's Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice has been issuing classified legal opinions about surveillance for years. As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) had access to the DOJ opinions on presidential power and had three declassified to show how the judicial branch has, in a bizarre and chilling way, assisted President Bush in circumventing its own power. According to the three memos: "There is no constitutional requirement for a President to issue a new executive order whenever he wishes to depart from the terms of a previous executive order"; "The President, exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, can determine whether an action is a lawful exercise of the President's authority under Article II"; and "The Department of Justice is bound by the President's legal determinations." As Whitehouse rephrased in a Dec. 7, 2007, Senate speech: "I don't have to follow my own rules, and I don't have to tell you when I'm breaking them. I get to determine what my own powers are. The Department of Justice doesn't tell me what the law is. I tell the Department of Justice what the law is." The issue arose within the context of the Protect America Act, which expands government surveillance powers and gives telecom companies legal immunity for helping. Whitehouse, a former US Attorney, legal counsel to Rhode Island's governor, and Rhode Island Attorney General who took office in 2006, went on to point out that Marbury vs. Madison, written by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1803, established that it is "emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is."
Sources: "In FISA Speech, Whitehouse sharply criticizes Bush Administration's assertion of executive power," Sheldon Whitehouse, Dec. 7, 2007; "Down the Rabbit Hole," Marcy Wheeler, The Guardian (UK), Dec. 26, 2007.

9. Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify (For full story, click here)
Hearing soldiers recount their war experiences is the closest many people come to understanding the real horror, pain, and confusion of combat. One would think that might make compelling copy or powerful footage for a news outlet. But in March, when more than 300 veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convened for four days of public testimony on the war, they were largely ignored by the media. Winter Soldier was designed to give soldiers a public forum to air some of the atrocities they witnessed. Winter Soldier was originally convened by Vietnam Vets Against the War in January 1971 when more than 100 Vietnam veterans described their war experiences, including rapes, torture, brutalities, and killing of non-combatants. The testimony was entered into the Congressional Record and shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Iraq Veterans Against the War hosted the 2008 reprise of the 1971 hearings. Former Marine Cpl. Jason Washburn said, "his commanders encouraged lawless behavior. 'We were encouraged to bring 'drop weapons.' In case we accidentally shot a civilian, we could drop the weapon on the body and pretend they were an insurgent.'" Interviews with 50 Iraq war veterans also revealed a general disregard for the traditional rules of war. Though most major news outlets sent staff to cover New York's Fashion Week, few made it to the Winter Soldier hearings. Fortunately, KPFA and Pacifica Radio broadcast the testimonies live. They were "deluged with phone calls, e-mails, and blog posts from service members, veterans, and military families thanking us for breaking a cultural norm of silence about the reality of war." Testimonies can be heard at www.ivaw.org.
Sources: "Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan eyewitness accounts of the occupation,"Iraq Veterans Against the War, March 13-16, 2008; "War comes home," Aaron Glantz, Aimee Allison, and Esther Manilla, Pacifica Radio, March 14-16, 2008; "US Soldiers testify about war crimes," Aaron Glantz, One World, March 19, 2008; "The Other War," Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian, The Nation, July 30, 2007.

10. American Psychological Association Complicit in CIA Torture (Full story here)
Psychologists have been assisting the CIA and US military with interrogation and torture of Guantánamo detainees — which the American Psychological Association [APA] has said is fine, despite objections from many of its 148,000 members. A 10-member APA task force was convened on the divisive issue in July 2005 and found that assistance from psychologists was making the interrogations safe. The task force was criticized by APA members for deliberating in secret, and later it was revealed that six of the 10 participants had ties to the armed services. Not only that, but as Katherine Eban reported in Vanity Fair, "Psychologists, working in secrecy, had actually designed the tactics and trained interrogators in them while on contract to the CIA." In particular, psychologists honed a classified military training program known as SERE [Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape] that teaches soldiers how to tough out torture if captured by enemies. Eban's story outlined how SERE tactics were spun as "science" despite a lack of data and the critique that building rapport works better than blows to the head. It's been misreported that CIA torture techniques got Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah to talk, when it was actually FBI rapport-building. In spite of this, SERE techniques became standards in interrogation manuals that eventually made their way to US officers guarding Abu Ghraib. Ongoing uproar within the APA resulted in a petition to make an official policy limiting psychologists' involvement in interrogations.
Sources: "The CIA's torture teachers," Mark Benjamin, Salon, June 21, 2007; "Rorschach and awe," Katherine Eban, Vanity Fair, July 17, 2007. [Note that a highly revealing essay by a leading psychiatrist details how many psychiatrists and even the former president of the APA were involved in government mind control programs.]
Other Stories in the Top 25

11. El Salvador's Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror (For full story, click here)
El Salvador's new Anti-terrorism Law – based on the USA PATRIOT Act – criminalizes political expression and social protest. Close range shooting of rubber bullets and tear gas was used against community members for protesting the rising cost, and diminishing access and quality, of local water under privatization. Fourteen were arrested and charged with terrorism, a charge that can hold a 60-year prison sentence under the new Anti-Terrorism Law.

12. Bush Profiteers Collect Billions from No Child Left Behind (For full story, click here)
No Child Left Behind has consistently proven disastrous in the realm of education. Yet the architect, President Bush's first senior education advisor Sandy Kress, has turned the program into a huge success in the realm of corporate profiteering.

13. Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq (For full story, click here)
Starting one month after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and continuing for over a year, the United States Federal Reserve shipped a total of $12 billion in U.S. currency to Iraq. The U.S. military delivered the bank notes to the Coalition Provisional Authority to be dispensed for Iraqi reconstruction. At least $9 billion of that amount is unaccounted for due to a complete lack of oversight.
14. Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste (For full story, click here)
Radioactive materials from nuclear weapons production sites are being dumped into regular public landfills and being used as recycled metals. The Nuclear Information and Resource Service has tracked the Department of Energy's (DOE) release of radioactive scrap to unaware and unprepared recipients such as landfills, businesses and recreation areas. Under the current system, the DOE releases contaminated materials directly, sells them at auctions or sends the materials to processors who can release them from radioactive controls.

15. Worldwide Slavery (For full story, click here)
Twenty-seven million slaves exist in the world today, more than at any time in human history. Globalization, poverty, violence and greed facilitate the growth of slavery, not only in the Third World, but in the most developed countries as well. Behind the façade in any major town or city in the world today, one is likely to find a thriving commerce in human beings.

16. Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights (For full story, click here)
The first Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights to be published by the year-old International Trade Union Confederation documents enormous challenges to workers' rights around the world. The 2007 edition of the survey, covering 138 countries, shows an alarming rise in the number of people killed as a result of their trade union activities, from 115 in 2005 to 144 in 2006. Many more trade unionists around the world were abducted or "disappeared."

17. UN's Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights (For full story, click here)
In September 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The resolution called for recognition of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples' right to self-determination and control over their lands and resources. Three months following the passage of the Universal Declaration, a delegation of indigenous peoples were forcibly barred from entering the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bali, despite the fact that the delegation was invited to attend.

18. Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers (For full story, click here)
In states across the U.S., child advocates have harshly condemned conditions under which young offenders are housed — conditions that involve sexual abuse, physical abuse and even death. The U.S. Justice Department has filed lawsuits against facilities in 11 states for supervision that is either abusive or harmfully negligent.

19. Indigenous Herders & Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction (For full story, click here)
The industrial model of livestock production is causing the worldwide destruction of animal diversity. At least one indigenous livestock breed becomes extinct each month as a result of overreliance on select breeds imported from the United States and Europe.

20. Marijuana Arrests Set New Record (For full story, click here)
For the fourth year in a row, U.S. marijuana arrests set an all-time record, according to 2006 FBI Uniform Crime Reports. Marijuana arrests in 2006 totaled 829,627, an increase from 786,545 in 2005.

21. NATO Considers "First Strike" Nuclear Option (For full story, click here)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials are considering a first strike nuclear option to be used anywhere in the world a threat may arise. The authors of the plan insist "the first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction."

22. CARE Rejects US Food Aid (For full story, click here)
In August 2007, one of the biggest and best-known American charity organizations, CARE, announced it was turning down $45 million a year in food aid from the United States government. CARE claims the way U.S. aid is structured causes rather than reduces hunger in the countries where it is received.

23. FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs (For full story, click here)
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) turns a blind eye, drug companies are making false, unsubstantiated and misleading claims in their advertising, often withholding mandated disclosure of dangerous side effects. Though companies are required to submit their advertisements to the FDA, the agency does not review them before they are released to the public. [For a powerful two-page essay by a top U.S. physician on this key topic, click here]

24. Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror (For full story, click here)
Testimony in the Japanese parliament, broadcast live on Japanese television in January 2008, challenged the premise and validity of the Global War on Terror. Parliament member Yukihisa Fujita insisted that an investigation be conducted into the war's origin: the events of 9/11. [Watch a video with English subtitles of Fujita speaking to parliament available here]

25. Bush's Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer (For full story, click here)
The exposure of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer's tryst with a luxury call girl may have been the result of a planned event. Timing suggests that Spitzer was likely a target of a White House and Wall Street operation to silence one of its most dangerous and vocal critics of their handling of the current financial market crisis. [See the Washington Post article Spitzer wrote just weeks before the accusations against him emerged]

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Bush administration crushed economy

That the people around Bush who are slavishly devoted to serve the wealthiest and most abominable people in the world are actively destroying our country is not a secret anymore. It is embarrassing that no action is taken against these acts of treason against our USA. Selling the people out to the banks is treason against our country. The President's oath has been broken over and over again and the members of this administration - as well as the ones standing idly by and watching this happen - can not be ashamed enough of themselves.

While Bush is engaging in acts of comedy with his devoted servant Charles Gibson on ABC and claims that the intelligence that he had previously fixed by his own people - namely Cheney - would have been different, and there would have been weapons of mass destruction, things could have been different... the economy is falling in shambles.

Other countries, so Bush's claim had the same intelligence. Yes, they had the previously fixed US intelligence which was given to them by the US. The countries which had the information that had not been tampered with by the CIA refused to go to war under these false pretenses. France and Germany were ousted and insulted by Rumsfeld and Bush for making this correct decision and as we found out later everything France and Germany had claimed was true. I have not heard an apology so far, just the outrage of the criminals in the Bush crime family who were furious that some countries were smart enough not to participate in their crime and the illegal occupation of Iraq.

Now the Bush crime family makes the last push: Citibank and City Group which are owned by Saudi Arabia get bail outs thrown at them, Billions and Billions of Dollars while the only US car manufacturers have to beg on their knees to get $34 Billion Dollars to save three Million jobs. Are we really going nuts here? The fascist Republican right is blaming the Democrats for this crisis? More information here from our friends at www.WantToKnow.info:

US diluted loan rules before crash
December 1, 2008, ABC News/Associated Press
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/business&id=6532267
The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents. "Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories," California mortgage lender Paris Welch wrote to U.S. regulators in January 2006, about one year before the housing implosion cost her a job. Bowing to aggressive lobbying - along with assurances from banks that the troubled mortgages were OK - regulators delayed action for nearly one year. By the time new rules were released late in 2006, the toughest of the proposed provisions were gone and the meltdown was under way. The administration's blind eye to the impending crisis is emblematic of its governing philosophy, which trusted market forces and discounted the value of government intervention in the economy. Its belief ironically has ushered in the most massive government intervention since the 1930s. Many of the banks that fought to undermine the proposals by some regulators are now either out of business or accepting billions in federal aid to recover from a mortgage crisis they insisted would never come. In 2005, faced with ominous signs the housing market was in jeopardy, bank regulators proposed new guidelines for banks writing risky loans. Those proposals all were stripped from the final rules.

Note: For many revealing reports on the Wall Street bailout from reliable sources, click here.

The correct answer to Prop. 8 in California

Having been a fan of Jack Black for a long time, his participation in this video is a special treat for me. But not only that, it also gives me the opportunity to continue my Love against hate sermon that outrages so many American Christians who are fighting for their hateful and vengeful GOD. If they would ever bother to actually read the Bible - a task that "W." avoided as well - they would be amazed and surprised what the "good Book" really says. Yes, the Bible allows you to stone your wife and sell your daughters into slavery. And according to Leviticus eating Shellfish (Shrimp among others) is equal to or worse than being gay.

[[Lev 11:10 - 11:12] And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.]]

I am fortunately not in a dilemma, because I rightly divide the Bible into the proper parts: The Old Testament is the history and the law of the Jews. The New Testament is also for the Jews and the Apostles were sent explicitly to the Jews and NOT to us Gentiles:

[[Mat 10:5 - 10:6] These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.]

And our Apostle is Paul and we follow Jesus Christ's example of Love, the commandments that were given by Jesus Christ and verified by Paul. There is no hate in Jesus Christ. He threw the traders out of the temple. Something we should also do here in America.

[Mat 21:12 - 21:13] And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.]

So all the Hagees, Hinns and the other misguided liars and all their likes should be cast out. Because they are thieves and they do not preach GOD's word. They want money and they don't care where they steal it, how many souls are being lost along the way and how many people despair about their lies. GOD is Love, Jesus is Love. And the religious thieves who preach anything else but love are the incarnation of hate, which is the opposite of Love. Which is ... but this is easy to figure out. The opposite of GOD is...? But now enjoy the video.

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