Creeping Fascism: From Nazi Germany to Post 9/11 America

"Americans today are seeing the same sheepish submissiveness that characterized Germany after the burning of the Reichstag." Is democracy slowly disappearing? Hitler and Franco did it in Germany and Spain. Is Bush doing it in the USA?

http://www.alternet.org/story/71881/

Top Ten Signs Your Country May Be Going Fascist

How to tell if you will soon be living in a fascist state.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSuWCIYi7T4

The Delicate Matter of the Truth About Santa

Some parents may worry about the effect of the Santa story on kids once they figure out who's really been eating the cookies and milk left by the fireplace, but giving kids an immediate dose of reality on the subject isn't necessary.

http://www.livescience.com/health/071220-santa-belief.html

Texas Voting Machines - Rig an Election with 1 Password

The Hart Intercivic voting system, used in at least 16 States, allows anyone with access and a passcode to modify vote totals from an election without leaving any record of the modification. Even worse, the same passcode resides on all machines and in every storage device, waiting to be extracted and exploited.

http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6529

Climate Change Performance Index 2008 Released

The Climate Change Performance Index from European non-profit group Germanwatch was released Saturday in Bali, and it doesn't paint a pretty picture.

USA #55 just ahead of the last on the list #56 Saudi Arabia.
Finland is #36 with a performance rating of "poor".

http://www.greendaily.com

Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms

The Washington Post reports that researchers are poised to cross a dramatic barrier: the creation of life forms driven by completely artificial DNA.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Report: Ohio voting machines have 'critical flaws'

All five voting systems used in Ohio, a state whose electoral votes narrowly swung two elections toward President Bush, have critical flaws that could undermine the integrity of the 2008 general election, a report commissioned by the state’s top elections official has found.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/us/15ohio.html

FOX denigrates Al Gore in real time during Nobel Prize award

AS the former Vice-president (and 2000 popular-vote winner) received the Nobel Peace Prize, the classless clowns at FOX and Friends read a litany of complaints and insults about him. It was a shameful moment for Americans, who are by and large proud of and grateful to Al Gore for his tireless campaigning on the planet's behalf.



http://www.newshounds.us

Impeach Bush & Cheney NOW!

Google Caught Red Handed Censoring Sites with Pagerank

It appears Google has been caught in violation of their own slogan, "Don't Be Evil", as they have stepped in to interfere with the pagerank of several webpages. Due to content that does not fit in with their ideology, Google manually and permanently set the page rank of the Rob Levin and Megan Meyer articles in Encyclopedia Dramatica to ZERO.

http://weev.livejournal.com/274773.html

Our Debt-based Money System, and its Consequences

If the three and a half hour documentary on fractional reserve banking left you overwhelmed, this series of animations explaining how our debt based money system works should clarify the confusing aspects - and leave you indignant at a system that lets banks make money out of nothing to loan you at interest or foreclose on your property.

1. Corrupt Banking System - Cartels Robbing the Public