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Fallen among the Humorless, and other Impious Recollections

George Orwell was right, of course, when he observed that the only thing the rich and powerful ever really fear is to be laughed at publicly.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - The recent news that my old Alma Mater, the Vancouver School of Theology, has just been sold off to become a wing of the Economics Faculty at the University of BC strikes me not only as highly appropriate, considering the spirit of the place, but a definite kind of poetic justice.

It also prompted me to compose the following fond remembrances of my life as a budding young theologian there, in the late 1980's.

Peace Now to Israeli Government: Remove Belligerent West Bank Outpost

Peace Now’s lawyers point out that demolition orders have been issued in the past against Esh Kodesh’s illegally-built homes and other structures.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Israel’s Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) movement today sent a letter to the Israeli government, demanding that it enforce the law and remove Esh Kodesh, a West Bank settlement that was established in violation of Israeli law, whose residents have repeatedly attacked neighboring Palestinians.

Residents of this illegal outpost yesterday attacked Palestinians in the neighboring village of Kusra, near Nablus after Israeli law enforcement officers removed saplings that the settlers had planted in an attempt to illegally take over more land that they don’t own.

The CIA, Amazon, Bezos and the Washington Post: An Exchange with Executive Editor Martin Baron

Why not provide a sentence in the Post’s substantive coverage of CIA activities, to the effect that “The Post’s owner Jeff Bezos is the largest stakeholder in Amazon, which has a $600 million contract with the CIA”?

(WASHINGTON, DC) - "A basic principle of journalism is to acknowledge when the owner of a media outlet has a major financial relationship with the subject of coverage.

"We strongly urge the Washington Post to be fully candid with its readers about the fact that the newspaper’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, is the founder and CEO of Amazon which recently landed a $600 million contract with the CIA. The Washington Post’s coverage of the CIA should include full disclosure that the sole owner of the Post is also the main owner of Amazon -- and Amazon is now gaining huge profits directly from the CIA."

NILC Protests Senate Conservatives` Attacks on Poor Children

On 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, senators cynically pit unemployed and veterans against kids

(WASHINGTON, DC) - In a cynical political ploy, conservative senators are pitting millions of children and their families against the unemployed and retired veterans by proposing to reduce the number of people eligible for the refundable Child Tax Credit (CTC) in order to pay for extending unemployment benefits and repealing military pension cuts that were part of the recent budget deal.

The extension of unemployment insurance benefits has traditionally been considered an emergency item that does not require a budgetary offset.

Oregon State Police Reluctant to Investigate Prison Racism Case

A Nazi movie played to please a prison's white supremacist population, drug dealing by guards, Murder, Attempted Murder; yet a former guard's documented exposure of crimes in the Oregon State Prison gains little merit with the state police?

(SALEM) - Former Oregon corrections officer turned Whistleblower, William Coleman, says he survived a nightmarish scenario after trying to expose, "extreme levels of official corruption, racism and hate crimes," while employed at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.

Coleman says he has compelling evidence proving that inmate Terrence Kimble's civil rights were violated at the Oregon State Penitentiary by state officials, but the state police aren't interested.

New TV Channel; Truth Commission Petition; Official Story Crumbles, Washington Blames Saudi for 911

We will support any new investigation of the 9/11 attacks so long as it is run by uncompromised people with a range of opinion including those inclined to disbelieve the official 9/11 story, and follows the evidence wherever it leads...

(LONDON) - Welcome to the latest roundup of information from the group Reinvestigate 9/11 in London, where people are far less reluctant to discuss the real story of what happened in the United States on the 11^th of September 2001.

Ian Henshall with Coffee Plant in London has done a fantastic job in keeping the information flowing, below are the latest six news items relating to the group's efforts to raise awareness of 9/11 truth.

Indo-Americans Object to Derogatory Remarks in Jason Bateman Movie

Directed and starred by Golden Globe winner Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) and rated R (Restricted), “Bad Words” is scheduled for release in USA in March next.

(RENO) - Indo-Americans are upset over stereotyping their community in upcoming Jason Bateman comedy “Bad Words”.

Referring to Red Band trailer of the movie, distinguished Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that addressing an Indo-American kid as “Hey Slumdog” and using the words “curry hole” for him smelled of xenophobia and racism.

Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis

People have been dying since before recorded history, and yet only those who pretend to believe nobody dies can be considered serious, honest, upstanding folk.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - A poll of people in 65 countries, including the United States, finds that the United States is overwhelmingly considered the greatest threat to peace in the world.

The consensus would have been even stronger had the United States itself not been polled, because the 5 percent of humanity living here is largely convinced that the other 95% of humanity -- that group with experience being threatened or attacked by the United States -- is wrong.

An Off-the-Cuff Interview with Kevin Annett

The real problem is that the killers are still in charge, and they always have been. So they get to pose as official truth, they call themselves the law, and all of you lap it up and obey their orders, even if you don't want to. - Kevin Annett

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - In this interview, Salem-News.com writer Kevin Annett, a Nobel Prize Nominee for his tireless work in exposing the Genocide of Native American children in Canada, explains what it is like to fight for what is right as a minister, only to have your own religious organization turn its back over bad publicity.

Lies, corruption, coverup, these are the "qualities" that today define the Catholic Church's role in society.

Is Anything Left?
Privacy Rights

There are many provisions in the constitution and in the history of court rulings that prescribe privacy for individuals from government intrusion.

(BEIRUT) - The answer to this question is being pondered across America in light to the two seeming mutually contradictory US Federal Court decisions handed down this month from Courts in Washington DC and New York.

The legal issue of what rights are left to American citizens that can prevent governmental intrusions into their privacy and also governmental invasions using heavy handed searches and seizures following the launching of the Bush administrations ‘war of terrorism’...