20 million people were sentenced as criminals between 1935-1941 in the USSR. Half of those were executed. The other half were sent to labor camps and rehabilitation camps where most of them died. The gulag system provided a free work-force of millions in mining and timber industries in Siberia. All farmers were collectivized into labor units and told what to grow and were shot if they were caught stealing. By the blood of millions of people the USSR catapulted from a third world agrarian culture to an economic power. But all the agriculture and industry was taken by the state, and exports just made a few communist bureaucrats wealthy.

It seems that it really doesn’t matter what the system is. One thing is clear, and that is that from time immemorial there is always a gang of thieves who obtain the power necessary with which they can control most of the resources of a nation. Politics is the same in every country no matter what kind of system of control. It tries to dictate what is acceptable and how to be acceptable through propaganda, while politicians debate one another in fixed forums. With their henchman like Rupert Murdoch they dream of questions to address the answers they have already formulated and then circulate them on the evening news entertainment shows.

All state history boils down to coalitions that strive to gain power over the state’s assets. A state’s net worth is its natural resources and the ability of its workforce to create assets. It doesn’t matter if it’s communism or capitalism. They are opposite sides of the same objective, to hold power in order to gain can control of the nation’s assets. It’s why regulations that would benefit everyone, and that everyone obviously would agree to, are not even discussed in the so-called elected congress. People must have healthcare, drugs, utilities, banking services. But if a group of people can control the assets of any of these industries they obviously can get extraordinarily wealthy.

We have a modern equivalent of the boom and bust economic measures taken by Stalin in the 1930s and the American capitalist equivalent of the 1920s lacking the interest in developing resources and industry in America, and willing to use its power over the Congress and the President to pass laws not only making it legal to fire its labor force and profit from cheap labor, but in an added measure of outrageous audacity allows these companies tax breaks for doing so. Governments are pretty much the same. They hide behind quantitative figures, ignoring the individual elements that make up the totality behind the methods utilized to achieve success.

The horrific crime shocked a nation. Three young boys, cub scouts, were tied up, murdered and their naked bodies dumped in a drainage ditch.

As a Deep South community bayed for justice, attention focused on a group of misfit teenagers, heavy metal fans accused of killing the children in a Satanic ritual. The case became a sensation at a time when a ‘Satanic panic’ over cults was gripping 1990s America. All three were found guilty. Jason Baldwin, then 16, and Jessie Misskelley, 17, got life sentences. Damien Echols, 18, was put on death row, where he remains.

Now evidence, including DNA samples, has emerged to suggest the real killers are still at large and that three innocent men have been behind bars for almost 15 years. ‘No reasonable juror would convict… knowing what we know today,’ said defence lawyer Dennis Riordan.

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We tend to think of the relationship between organised religion and totalitarian regimes – as in the Soviet Union – as one in which freedom of religious belief and expression are ruthlessly suppressed in the name of the unity of the state. But if that is the case, what exactly is taking place in our notional Christmas scene – one which could be taking place in any German town from 1933 to 1943? Does the substitution of the swastika for the cross reveal the Nazis’ transformation of a key Christian festival into a pagan rite, an appropriation of a popular tradition for political ends or an uneasy coexistence between the German people’s old-fashioned Christmas pleasures and the imperatives of their new masters?

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This video has received a great deal of play on YouTube, and contrary to what most are saying, I want to know the religion of the candidates. I want to know what they believe, because GW Bush has proven that a person’s religion can’t help but influence the decisions we make. If it’s a philosophy that closes the mind to the ways of others. And since a great deal of ideology plays into a President’s decisions such as judge nominees (one need only elicit the name of Samuel Alito to strike anger in the minds of civil libertarians everywhere), cabinet members, ambassadors and cabinet officials. Stem cell research hasn’t been explored to the degree as it should in America because of Bush’s ideological decisions. So, no, I don’t agree with the prevailing the opinion that religion isn’t important. It is very important as it gives us a hint of what kind of decisions we can expect from a candidate.

Watch this short video describing the fiction cum scripture of Mormonism.

The Romantic Spaniards conquered a continent searching for gold and a fountain of youth. Sadly, they lacked the spin of our current “heroes” conquering kingdoms and handing over assets to businessmen. Gallantry was more fashionable for the Spaniards, while currently, GW Bush is like an emcee telling the audience, the American public, “let’s hear it for the troops folks. Freedom,blah blah. Protecting our quality of life, blah blah. Good show. Good show. How ’bout those troops folks? Let’s give ‘em a hand.

Thomas Jefferson Foretold the Truth About American Banking

Thomas Jefferson understood, the problem is not taxes per se but rather a monetary system rigged by the bankers. “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

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“While timorous knowledge stands considering, audacious ignorance has done the deed.”
-Samuel Daniel(16th Century English Poet)

I can think of no statement more apt than this to describe to the world the state of our polarized, corrupt political system in America, and why America’s position as a cultural power and voice of integrity has been all but destroyed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people’s private communications and financial information.

Kerr’s comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act.

Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.

The original law required a court order for any surveillance conducted on U.S. soil, to protect Americans’ privacy. The White House argued that the law was obstructing intelligence gathering because, as technology has changed, a growing amount of foreign communications passes through U.S.-based channels.

The most contentious issue in the new legislation is whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people’s private e-mails and phone calls without a FISA court order between 2001 and 2007.

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The horrific crime shocked a nation. Three young boys, cub scouts, were tied up, murdered and their naked bodies dumped in a drainage ditch.

As a Deep South community bayed for justice, attention focused on a group of misfit teenagers, heavy metal fans accused of killing the children in a Satanic ritual. The case became a sensation at a time when a ‘Satanic panic’ over cults was gripping 1990s America. All three were found guilty. Jason Baldwin, then 16, and Jessie Misskelley, 17, got life sentences. Damien Echols, 18, was put on death row, where he remains.

Now evidence, including DNA samples, has emerged to suggest the real killers are still at large and that three innocent men have been behind bars for almost 15 years. ‘No reasonable juror would convict… knowing what we know today,’ said defence lawyer Dennis Riordan.

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