–Worthy of a read and some thought. Religion has come back into style in the pages of the analytical journals but they rarely talk about the systematic use of religious propaganda by the elite. Looking back through history shows us who it is that needs to take on religious symbolism and who, in the end, benefits from it. We must start looking deeper than religious reasons for these conflicts if we are going to see the real reasons for war and oppression.

–Exxon continues its pseudo-science lobby against the idea that global warming is happening and that burning oil is causing it George Monbiot reports.

On the letters page of the Guardian last week, a Dr Alan Kendall attacked the Royal Society for “smearing” its opponents. It had sent an official letter to Exxon, complaining about the oil company’s “inaccurate and misleading” portrayal of the science of climate change, and its funding of lobby groups which deny that global warming is taking place. The letter, Dr Kendall argued, was an attempt to “stifle legitimate discussion”(1).

–Yep. The Federal Conservatives have once again cut services so that all working peoples’ lives get that much harder but those that already have easy lives get that much easier. The fight continues.

More from the Public Service Alliance of Canada: PSAC News Release – Conservatives don’t need to belt-tighten with a $13.2-billion surplus

–Private Health Care is more costly to the consumer than public healthcare. The US is the prime example of this. The only reason that it has not stopped completely in the US is that there has been a middle socio-economic class that has been able to subsidise it but that is changing fast.

–Now, does this mean that the US government is actually going to give some aid to the AU so that it can have some independence or is the US just going to use this opportunity to take a little more from the African people? Hmmm, I wonder…

–Agreed.

–Workers’ co-ops are rescuing capitalism as it continues its slide into crisis after crisis in Western Canada. The problem here is that if you want things to start to change then you are going to have to organise politically as well as taking over the capitalists bankrupt enterprises.

–You can have everything right now (and by the way, you also need it right now or we might look upon you as a *gasp* working class person — which you are if you need this loan) … if you give us your life and work for the bank for 10% of your wage as well as the company you work for. Yep, it is just one more reason that your work is not your own, your car is not yours, your house is not yours, your kids are not yours, your decisions are not yours….

–Yet another example of “Charity” by big oil. There is nothing that a company does that is not in its own best interests… the problem is that those best interests are usually not in the best interests of everyone else.

-The war in Afghanistan is turning into the exact thing that the Left has been warning about before the conflict started. You cannot fight a people on their own soil while telling them that you have come to take all their money and have them invite you in.

–You can say that again. Not only has it hurt living standards, it has hurt the potential for standards to increase.

–Griping about deaths? One could shout back,” start questioning why so many of your people are dying!” We both should not be laying our lives down for imperial ambitions of the elite. We must start standing up to this false dichotomy given to us by the war machine. It is not us or them, it is war or peace. We want peace, we want an end to needless death in the fight for land, ideology, and imperialism. Troops out now! Start the process of peace and restart the political process.

–The Federal Conservatives are going to cut spending… this means cutting services to those that need them in favour of tax breaks to those that have too much to begin with.

–Lay them off, hire them, lay them off…. these people better unionise or they are going to be looking at job security like that of a part-time gas attendant.

–Irving can try to polish its image as a “green” company but we know that they are just focusing on a few PR sensitive areas. The mistakes that they are making that result in the destruction of habitat and the environment generally are a result of systematic processes of exploiting the environment for profit.

–When the Conservative government cannot even get businesses on-board with their plans then I think that it is time to really ask who is pulling the strings… and why does it look like they are coming straight across the boarder.

–The House of Representatives is not exactly representing the interests of those that elected them.

I doubt that the contents of this article won’t be increasingly publicised in the not so distant future …

“For many months, the George W. Bush administration has been complaining that Iranian meddling in Iraq is a threat to the country’s stability and to U.S. troops. The irony of this publicity campaign over Tehran’s alleged bid to undermine the occupation is that Iran may well be the main factor holding up a showdown between militant Shiites and U.S. forces.”

No kidding.

Juan Cole’s analysis of the partially declassified report is rather interesting as well; and can be viewed on his blog: Informed Comment

“Hezbollah is a problem to the U.S. not because it is a religious group … but because Hezbollah is a national resistance organization.”

Date of Action: Sept 25
Location: University of New Brunswick Engineering Building

It was a smalll action in terms of numbers, but maybe calling it small is a bit of a misnomer because it seemed to take on a much larger character in terms of the responses it produced and the overall disruption of Exxon Mobil’s recruitment party.
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“…Felipe Calderon, with support of Bush, FOX News’ Dick Morris, Wal-Mart, Craft, and yes, Halliburton, has been “declared victorious.” “