"I don't know there is a God."
- Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, BBC Radio 4, 31 Oct 2006

(if you need to find God, avoid religion and use entheogens)

there were riots in Hungary because the Prime Minister lied

amazing!

in the UK there'd be riots if the Prime Minister told the truth

Jesus of Nazareth said, "love your enemy" (Luke 6: 27-38)

he didn't say, "kill your enemy"

so why do Bush and Blair call themselves Christians?

because they are are part of a proselytising fundamentalism which stretches back to when Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire - when Bush talked about a "crusade" in the context of sending his army to invade Moslem countries, that's exactly what he meant

"This War on Drugs originally started as a War on Religious Experiences, and it is nothing new..." – Jonathon Ott

the difference between prophets and their followers is that prophets think for themselves

having been labelled by the US President as "evil", North Korea appears to have chosen to develop it's own nuclear weapons rather than risk being invaded

Guantánamo Bay is the world's supreme symbol of injustice and the abuse of power

British arms manufacturer BAe Systems is developing a range of environmentally friendly weapons, including 'lead free' bullets (because lead bullets "pose a risk to people")

preachers teaching you about god
are like virgins teaching you about sex

"I will hate Americans for the rest of my life"

the US military has created a global network of overseas prisons, keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law

hypocrite of the week

war criminal US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

(he accused Iran of interfering in Iraq)

US scientists spent millions of dollars designing a pen that could
write in space

Russian cosmonauts were advised to use pencils

a single fill of ethanol for a four-wheel drive SUV uses enough grain to feed one person for a year

more than 100 Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli security forces in the last 2 weeks

in every country, those wearing uniforms get paid to kill with impunity

Smithfield Packing slaughters 32,000 pigs a day

if it slaughtered 32,000 dogs a day, there'd be a public outcry

i expect it's because they don't taste the same

having attempted to destroy Lebanon's infrastructure, Israel is now defending itself by arresting members of the Palestinian Government, bulldozing homes in Nablus and attacking the Gaza strip with missiles

the world's 16,000 commercial jet airlines generate more carbon dioxide than the total output of Africa

depleted uranium is 60% as radioactive as natural uranium

there's up to 650,000 tons in US hazardous waste storage sites

so they're using it to make shells and armoured tanks

requiem in pacem

the rare Desmoulin's whorl snail which infamously stopped work on the Newbury Bypass in 1996 has died out in the new home created for it after a High Court challenge failed

which two Middle Eastern countries have the most Jewish citizens?

Israel and Iran