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Inside The Church of Scientology: An Exclusive Interview with L. Ron
Hubbard, Jr.

"Scientology and all the other cults are one-dimensional, and we live in a
three-dimensional world. Cults are as dangerous as drugs. They commit the
highest crime: the rape of the soul." L. Ron Hubbard Jr.

http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/penthouse-LRonHubbardJr-interview-1983.h...

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Pucker your lips for the Apocalypse!

Johnny Asia, Guitarist from the Future
http://music.download.com/johnnyasia

"These are the times that try men's souls." - Thomas Paine

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/revealed-british-plan-to-build-training...

Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in
Afghanistan

By Jerome Starkey in Kabul
Monday, 4 February 2008

Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in
southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides,
intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a
memory stick seized by Afghan secret police in December.

The Afghan government claims they prove British agents were talking to the
Taliban without permission from the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, despite
Gordon Brown's pledge that Britain will not negotiate. The Prime Minister
told Parliament on 12 December: "Our objective is to defeat the insurgency
by isolating and eliminating their leaders. We will not enter into any
negotiations with these people."

The British insist President Karzai's office knew what was going on. But Mr
Karzai has expelled two top diplomats amid accusations they were part of a
plot to buy-off the insurgents.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Maria_Shrive_gives_surprise_endorsement_to_0203.ht...
Maria Kennedy Shriver gives 'surprise endorsement' to Obama
Nick Langewis and David Edwards
Published: Sunday February 3, 2008

Maria Kennedy Shriver, wife of California governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger, showed up unexpectedly at a UCLA campaign rally this
afternoon.

In sharp contrast to her husband, a Republican and supporter of
Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Shriver took the opportunity to show her
support for Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) for the presidency in this
year's national election.

"Sometimes, when you're following your own truth and voice, it's
scary," Shriver says in her speech. "But that's the only thing you can
do, if you're living your own life, and not someone else's life, is
follow your own truth."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Bush_s_3_trillion_budget_is_US_firs_02032008...

Bush's $3 trillion budget is US first

Bush Seeks to Preserve Legacy in Defense and Taxes With Final Budget
That Hits $3 Trillion

MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP News

Feb 03, 2008 17:31 EST

In the nation's first-ever $3 trillion budget, President Bush seeks to
seal his legacy of promoting a strong defense to fight terrorism and
tax cuts to spur the economy. Democrats, who control Congress, are
pledging fierce opposition to Bush's final spending plan — perhaps
even until the next president takes office.

The 2009 spending plan sent to Congress on Monday will project huge
budget deficits, around $400 billion for this year and next and more
than double the 2007 deficit of $163 billion. But even those estimates
could prove too low given the rapidly weakening economy and the total
costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which Bush does not include
in his request for the budget year beginning Oct. 1.

Superbowled!
Turf wars eliminate broadcast; show up integral problems in system
©Bryan Zepp Jamieson
2/3/08
http://www.mytown.ca/zepp

The power is back on (we had a bit of snow, about fourteen feet in the
past month, and so the lights got a bit iffy from time to time), but I
still wonÂ’t be watching the Super Bowl. Now, this isnÂ’t a big deal for
me, since I wasnÂ’t planning on watching it anyway. Or rather, I might
tune in at some point near the end of the game and watch the last ten
minutes or so if itÂ’s a close game and I donÂ’t have something else to
do.

OK. I admit it. Football bores the hell out of me. But, of course,
other people find it more interesting. I respect that. I like hockey
and footie, which most of my neighbors find boring.

Most of my neighbors are going to be a little upset this afternoon,
and it wonÂ’t just be cause of the ten foot berm the snowplow left at
the end of their driveway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS37LCU9DLA&NR=1

On February 10 Anonymous will show the Church of Scientology the collective
might of an army of individuals united under one cause and one belief.

The world must be cleansed of the dangerous cult of Scientology, which
violates the basic human rights of its members, destroys the lives of the
followers who question its authority, and will stop at nothing to suppress
the knowledge of its wrongdoing.

For Lisa McPherson and the list of others who have been tortured, maimed and
killed by Scientology, either through direct action or negligence, Anonymous
fights.

For the thousands who have given all of their possessions to Scientology in
an attempt to cleanse their bodies of sickness both real and imagined, both
physical and psychological, Anonymous fights.

For everyone who has believed the lies of L. Ron Hubbard's cult of
disinformation, Anonymous fights.

Our cause is the dissemination of information and the dismantling of the
Church of Scientology and all its front groups. Our belief is the simple,
undeniable truth, that knowledge is free and should be given out freely,
without ulterior motive or goal.

Proposed $3 trillion Bush budget makes history

Bush Seeks to Preserve Legacy in Defense and Taxes With Final Budget That
Hits $3 Trillion

MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP News

Feb 03, 2008 17:31 EST

In the nation's first-ever $3 trillion budget, President Bush seeks to seal
his legacy of promoting a strong defense to fight terrorism and tax cuts to
spur the economy. Democrats, who control Congress, are pledging fierce
opposition to Bush's final spending plan - perhaps even until the next
president takes office.

The 2009 spending plan sent to Congress on Monday will project huge budget
deficits, around $400 billion for this year and next and more than double
the 2007 deficit of $163 billion. But even those estimates could prove too
low given the rapidly weakening economy and the total costs of the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, which Bush does not include in his request for the
budget year beginning Oct. 1.

Boortz blames Katrina on 'parasites' in 'New Orleans.'
On his nationally syndicated radio show this week, right-wing talker Neal
Boortz attacked victims of Hurricane Katrina, saying that "the disaster that
followed" was not "George Bush's fault" because, in Boortz' mind, "the
primary blame goes on the worthless parasites who lived in New Orleans who
you - couldn't even wipe themselves, let alone get out of the way of the
water when that levee broke." Earlier in the same show, Boortz claimed that
"when these Katrina so-called refugees were scattered about the country, it
was just a glorified episode of putting out the garbage."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200802010015?f=h_latest

Boortz, himself, the human parasite who feeds off the blood of Bush's dead.

Typical tactic of the neofascists, blame the victims.

Next he'll be saying it is the fault of the 1 million Iraqis killed due to
the war because they lived there. They didn't have the sense to get out of
the way of horrific violence.

McCain Claims Iraq 'Casualties Are Coming Down,' But Casualties Actually
Increased In January
On Fox News Sunday today, when Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was asked about his
claim that 100 years in Iraq "would be fine" with him, he said "it's not a
matter of how long Americans stay, it's a matter of American casualties."
"And those casualties are coming down," added McCain.

McCain then declared that "we don't need to have casualties" because of the
"surge," which he says is "experiencing significant success":

One of the obligations, unfortunately of being a great superpower, is that
we have to take care of the world's security. But we don't need to have
casualties because we can succeed in this strategy called the surge, which
is now, I think experiencing significant success.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/

Unfortunately, McCain's claim that U.S. troop "casualties are coming down"
is misleading happy talk. In reality, casualties actually increased this
past month:

Not only did casualties increase in January, but the number of U.S. troops
who "died from hostile action" was higher in January than the total number
of casualties in December 2007.