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Luciferian News Hour December
23 Welcome to the pre-Xmas edition
of the Luciferian News Hour. I am your host, Dragon Kloud who with producer James Donahue will be bringing you our perspective
of this week’s world events that will be affecting your lives. The Santas, many of them apparently drunk, went on a rampage
through The rampage, part of a world-wide movement known as Santarchy,
began early on Saturday afternoon when the men, wearing cheap, ill-fitting Santa costumes, threw beer bottles and urinated
on cars from an overpass. The group carried the concept of Christmas rebellion a bit farther
than it was ever supposed to go. First organized in This year the theater concept got out of hand. Police said the men and possibly some women rushed through a central
city park, overturning rubbish bins, throwing bottles at passing cars and spraying graffiti on office buildings. One man climbed the mooring line of a cruise ship before being ordered
down by the captain. Other Santas, objecting when the man was arrested, attacked security staff who were later treated by
paramedics. The remaining Santas entered a store and carried off beer and soft
drinks. The shop owner, said: "They came in, said 'Merry Christmas' and then
helped themselves." Two security guards were treated for cuts after being struck by beer
bottles. Three people, including the man who climbed on the cruise ship, were
arrested and charged with drunkenness and disorderly behavior. Alex Dyer, a spokesman for the group of Santas, said Santarchy is
a worldwide movement designed to protest against the commercialization of Christmas. Police said identification was a key issue as they tried to sort
out which of the 40 men and women in Drunken
Santas on a rampage in New Zealand, armed German robbers in Santa disguises, a British St. Nick wanted for flashing,
and a Swedish vandal in a Santa outfit are giving the big man in red a bad name this year. Reports of "Bad Santas" breaking
the law or otherwise wreaking havoc have been circulating around the world. Armed with a gun, a man in
a Santa outfit held up a furniture store in the German town of He is still on the loose,
but police in Tuebingen were able to nab a bank robber armed with a machine gun in a Santa costume with the aid of an infrared
camera and helicopter. They found him hiding in a ditch in a nearby forest. "The machine gun was fake,"
a police spokesman said. Dressed in a Santa cap, beard and wearing sun glasses, he was wanted for stealing 500,000 euros in
four separate bank robberies. One Santa was stopped by
police for driving 90 mph on a northern German motorway. "He said he was in a rush
because he still had packages to deliver," said a spokesman for the police. They gave Santa a fine and took away his license.
Last week an inebriated half-naked
Santa disrupted a Christmas market in Dabringhausen before police intervened. In About two dozen gunmen
on Tuesday briefly seized Some
Germans would rather spend Christmas with a tree than with their families, a new poll shows. The survey in Thursday's
Focus weekly news magazine found 75 percent of Germans could not contemplate Christmas without their beloved "Tannenbaum,"
the traditional tree many cover lavishly with candles, lights and decorations. But only 65 percent said spending time with
relatives was also essential for a good Christmas. The modern tradition of the Christmas tree originated in Few Asians
are Christian but people across the vast continent are embracing the holiday as a great excuse for shopping, partying and
even romance. Come December, Christmas lights brighten shopping streets in cities from Emerging from decades of civil war and
years of isolation, largely Buddhist The commercial insanity has
spread world-wide! In other
news: The Bush
effort to bring Democracy to war-torn Warnings of fresh violence
and of a Sunni Arab boycott of the new parliament soured the honeymoon atmosphere that followed Thursday's vote, when an informal
ceasefire by guerrillas keen for a role in politics helped promote a big turnout across Sunni Arabs alleged that last week's parliamentary
elections were fraudulent, especially in Baghdad province, and they said if the irregularities are not corrected, new balloting
must be held in An electoral commission official said that he didn't
expect the allegations to change the overall result, which will be announced in early January. The United Iraqi The Iraqi Accordance Front, a coalition of three major
Sunni groups, rejected those results, warning of "grave repercussions on security and political stability" if the mistakes
were not corrected. By Thursday, dozens of Sunni Arab and secular Shiite
groups threatened to boycott A joint statement issued by 35 political groups that
competed in last week's elections said the Independent Electoral Commission of It also said the more than 1,250 complaints about fraud,
ballot box stuffing and intimidation should be reviewed by international organizations such as the United Nations, the European
Union, the Organization of the Islamic Conference or the Arab League. President Bush has authorized new cuts in Two army brigades that had been scheduled for combat tours _ one from "The effect of these adjustments will reduce forces in The Trial of Saddam Hussein opened Wednesday and was highlighted
by the former leader's allegation that he was beaten by his American captors. "I have been hit by the Americans and tortured. Yes, I've been beaten on every
place of my body and the signs are all over my body," the deposed Iraqi president said on Wednesday. On Thursday, the trial adjourned again until Jan. 24
following a day of testimony. An investigating judge said officials never saw evidence verifying Saddam's claims he was beaten
while in American officials denied Saddam's allegations as "completely
unfounded." Saddam, in turn, denounced those denials as "lies" and said "the marks are still there." Five witnesses testified during the two-day session
that started Wednesday. Saddam and seven co-defendants are on trial for the deaths of more than 140 Shiites after a 1982 attempt
on Saddam's life in the town of Dujail, north of In a theatrical exchange becoming increasingly common
at the trial, an assistant prosecutor asked to resign and the defense team threatened to walk out. Saddam also mocked President
Bush's claims that Faced with an increasingly
hard line from Iran, the United States and Europe have stepped up planning for tougher diplomatic action should Tehran follow
through on threats to resume critical nuclear activities. The Russia, which is building Iran's nuclear power plant
in southern Iran, remains a serious impediment. The The But negotiations appear at an impasse and new Iranian
President, whose name we will not try to pronounce on the air, (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) has alarmed the world with aggressive
calls for President
George W. Bush said the monitoring of phone calls and e-mails without a warrant was a "vital tool" to protect the In an effort to take the
heat off Mr. Bush, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the decision to eavesdrop on people within the Democratic opponents have
charged that they never voted to authorize Mr. Bush to secretly wiretap on anybody without first getting a court order. And
so the wrangling continues. It appears that our leadership
has freely taken away our liberty in the name of protecting us. A draft
plan approved by World Trade Organization (WTO) states on last week’s Hong Kong conference set 2013 as the date
for ending agricultural export subsidies after European Union and major farm goods' exporters struck a compromise. The understanding between
The text, proposed after
six days and almost as many nights of wrangling between rich and poor nations, must be approved by the full 149-state WTO
membership at the ministerial conference. The plan also proposed eliminating
export subsidies on cotton -- a sensitive issue for the It left open the possibility
of dismantling rich nation cotton subsidies, a key African demand, at a faster pace than other farm goods under any final
trade deal. From what we understand about
the complex world of government farm subsidies, governments pay farmers to produce certain products to assure them a profit.
In some cases, farmers are paid not to grow certain crops or produce too much of a produce, like for instance, milk. Eliminating
these subsidies will destabilize agricultural operations in the The question then must be
asked . . . if we put the world’s best and most efficient farmers out of business are we creating an artificial world
food shortage? Just something to think about. Evo Morales, a leftist candidate won the
Bolivian election and become that nation’s first indigenous president, after his main rival conceded defeat amid reports
that he was trailing far behind. Morales, a former coca farmer and union leader, has raised hackles
in Washington with promises to fully legalize coca leaf production and nationalize the country's oil and gas industry. He also has close ties with Unofficial results tabulated by four local television stations gave
between 47 per cent and 50 per cent of the votes in Sunday's election to Morales, who heads the Movement Toward Socialism
party. Morales' pledge to protect
coca crops to help Indians, who celebrate the leaves as a centerpiece of their ancient culture, could antagonize Bolivia's
neighbors and the United States who fear only cocaine traffickers will benefit. For years Morales led coca
farmers against joint U.S.-Bolivia eradication campaigns in the 1990s, saying the programs hurt many indigenous farmers who
grow the leaf -- the raw ingredient used to make cocaine -- for religious and cultural uses. The But guess what? Deep under the earth in In a development that health
experts are calling alarming, two bird flu patients in Vietnam died after developing resistance to Tamiflu, the key drug that
governments are stockpiling in case of a large-scale outbreak. The experts said the deaths were disturbing because
the two girls had received early and aggressive treatment with Tamiflu and had gotten the recommended doses. The new report suggests that the doses doctors now
consider ideal may be too little. Previous reports of resistance involved people who had taken the drug in low doses; inadequate
doses of medicine are known to promote resistance by allowing viruses or bacteria to mutate and make a resurgence. Dr. Anne Moscona, a flu expert at Weill Cornell Medical
College in New York City, called the deaths frightening and said they demonstrate the dangers of hoarding drugs. "People who stockpile will naturally share or take
drugs at the wrong dose, and that's really a bad idea," said Moscona, who wrote an accompanying commentary in Thursday's We aired an earlier report, also from "Intelligent design"
cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Dover Area School Board members violated
the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on Earth was produced by
an unidentified intelligent cause, The school board policy, adopted in October
2004, was believed to have been the first of its kind in the nation. Ironically, the school board that took
this action was put in office by voters who threw incumbent board members out. That original board voted against teaching
intelligent design. You remember when Televangelist Pat Robertson said the good folks of South Korean researcher
Hwang Woo-suk faked results of at least nine of 11 stem-cell lines he claimed to have created, a deliberate deception that
has undermined the credibility of science, his university said Friday. The announcement by Seoul National University of results
so far in its investigation into Hwang's work were the first confirmation of allegations that have cast a shadow over his
entire list of breakthroughs in cloning and stem-cell technology. "This kind of error is a grave act that damages the
foundation of science," the panel said. In a May paper in the journal Science, Hwang claimed
to have created 11 stem-cell lines matched to patients in an achievement that raised hopes of creating tailored therapies
for hard-to-treat diseases. But one of his former collaborators last week said nine of the 11 cell lines were faked, prompting
reviews by the journal and an expert panel at Turning
to Environment issues: It has
been a battle and so far the environmentalists have won in their efforts to block the Bush Administration’s attempts
to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling. Early in the week Congress
opened the way for oil drilling by attaching it to a major defense bill that forced many house opponents of the oil drilling
proposal to vote for it. Thus it squeaked through the House by a vote of 212 to 206. But the Senate on Wednesday
stopped the measure in its tracks 56-44. Democrats accused Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who promoted the bill, of holding the
defense bill hostage to drilling in ANWR. We are sure that this issue isn’t settled yet. Three
environmental groups are suing the The suit asks the Interior
Department to make an initial ruling on a petition to bestow the broad federal protection of the Endangered Species Act upon
polar bears by designating them as "threatened." An "endangered" species is
one that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range, according to the The lawsuit was filed by
the Center for Biological Diversity, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace, which say the department should
have ruled on its petition within 90 days of its filing in February. The groups argue that rising
global temperatures endangers polar bears by melting the ice floes on which the giant predators prowl and hunt. Emissions of gases blamed
for warming the atmosphere grew by 2 percent in the The so-called greenhouse gases, led by carbon dioxide,
methane and nitrous oxide, rose to 7.12 million metric tons, up from 6.98 million metric tons in 2003, the Energy Department's
Energy Information Administration said. That's 16 percent higher than in 1990, and an average
annual increase of 1.1 percent. About 80 percent of The U.N. conference's Instead, The Environmental Protection Agency has emerged unexpectedly after several
years of silence. The EPA has proposed stricter daily limits for how many microscopic particles of air pollution, or soot,
are safe for all Americans to breathe from the nation's smokestacks and tailpipes. The proposed new health-based air standards represent
one of government's most far-reaching decisions. They affect millions of lives, and could force states to make industries
spend billions of dollars to clean up coal-burning power plants, diesel-powered equipment, trucks and industrial boilers.
Health and environmental groups had sued the government
to force it to tighten its limits. Meeting a court-ordered deadline of midnight Tuesday, EPA ignored the recommendations of
an expert clean air scientific advisory committee, which in June called for even tougher limits. Once the EPA finishes its rule-making next September,
states must order cleanups in at least 50 counties, mainly in southern Drinking water may have
a lot more in it than just H20 and fluoride, according to an environmental group's analysis of records in 42 states. A survey by the Environmental Working Group released
on Tuesday found 141 unregulated chemicals and an additional 119 for which the Environmental Protection Agency has set health-based
limits. Most common among the chemicals found were disinfection byproducts, nitrates, chloroform, barium, arsenic and copper.
The research-and-advocacy organization compiled findings
from the states that agreed to provide data they collected from 1998 to 2003. That data comes from nearly 40,000 water utilities,
serving 231 million people. The utilities were required by federal law to report that data to consumers. For the unregulated chemicals, EPA is still identifying
and considering the potential risks for possible future regulations. Nineteen of those chemicals exceeded EPA's un-enforced
safety guidelines for tap water systems serving at least 10,000 people, according to the advocacy group. A restless
volcano near A Japanese
whaling fleet and Greenpeace environmental activists are involved in a stand-off in the remote Southern Ocean near
the coast of Severe flooding
in The death toll from floods across southern At least 40,000 people had fallen ill across nine provinces, most of them
with influenza, the Public Health Ministry said on Sunday, adding it had sent 1,000 mobile medical units and 100,000 medicine
kits to the affected provinces. At
least five more people froze to death as unseasonably cold weather gripped northern Back
In The States: The U.S.
Senate on Wednesday approved a budget bill that would cut spending on social welfare and other programs by $39.7 billion,
but only altering it slightly to force the House of Representatives to reconsider it, possibly in late January or February.
The Senate needed the help
of Vice President Dick Cheney to pass the budget bill. As president of the Senate, he voted for the bill, breaking a 50-50
tie. Even with Cheney's tie-breaker,
Republicans could not quite declare victory in their year-long attempt to slow the growth in spending on Medicare and Medicaid,
the health-care programs for the poor and elderly. The measure may not win final congressional approval until next year. With all the money the Bush
Administration is spending on the mass slaughter in The In Business
News: OPEC has revised its forecast and now envisions an increase in oil
demand. The increase in demand was expected to be led by Shares of General
Motors fell to an 18-year low after New Yorkers begged rides
on the Internet, dusted off their bikes and put on their skates on Wednesday in the battle to beat a mass transit strike that
hit business and raised tempers at the height of the holidays. The strike that stopped a biggest mass transit system in the
The The
bill, which also includes legislation that covers federal healthcare policy and student loans, sets the timetable for the
switchover of TV transmission from a digital-analog mix to all-digital signals. The
legislation, which passed the Senate on Wednesday, also makes available up to $1.4 billion to help the estimated 21 million
The
budget reconciliation bill, which focuses on cuts in government spending, required the vote of Vice President Dick Cheney
to break a 50-50 tie in the Senate. The
bill passed the Senate Committee and then the House of Representatives by a fairly easy margin on Monday, but it must go back
to the House because of changes made to the bill in the Senate. A
number of consumer groups have opposed the overall bill on the grounds that it unfairly burdens consumers, particularly low-income
families, minorities, and the elderly. But
while measures that change federal healthcare policy or student loan programs seem for most like business as usual in Washington
D.C., the thought of the household TV going dark gets the attention of the U.S. public on a visceral level It's an unprecedented move by the government. After all, Uncle Sam
didn't make us switch from records to CDs or VHS machines to DVD players. Members of Congress say the move is designed to
make valuable broadcast signals available to police and firefighters in emergencies. Actually, it is more Bush business for
big business. Have you priced those big digital television sets lately? What's not often said is that much of the signal spectrum will be
auctioned off to wireless and broadband companies that want to provide ever fancier phone and Internet services. That auction
is expected to bring $10 billion or more to the The richest
man in the world, Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, were named Time magazine's "Persons of the Year" along with Irish
rocker Bono for being "Good Samaritans" who made a difference in different ways. And that just goes to prove you can’t
trust the mind of contemporary editorial boards these days. They are blinded by wealth and bleeding hearts in the midst of
a dying world. Time Managing Editor James
Kelly said the three had been chosen as the people most effective at finding ways to eradicate such calamities as malaria
in Africa, HIV and AIDS and the grinding poverty that kills 8 million people a year. Time also named former Presidents
George Bush and Bill Clinton as "Partners of the Year" for their humanitarian efforts after the Asian tsunami and Hurricane
Katrina, and the unlikely friendship that developed from that work. Two new studies are challenging
the notion that the desolate Martian plains once brimmed with salty pools of water that could have supported some form of
life. Instead, the studies argue, the layered rock outcrops
probed by NASA's robot rover That would suggest a far more violent and dry history
than proposed by the scientists operating The new scenarios, published in Thursday's journal
Nature, paint a rather pessimistic view of whether the ancient Martian environment could have supported life. On
The Light Side of the News: A giant bronze statue worth 5.3 million dollars
by the late British sculptor Henry Moore has been stolen from a museum outside Two vehicles entered the courtyard of the museum and three men then loaded
the sculpture, measuring more than 11 feet long and weighing 2.1 tons, on to the back of a truck using a crane. The second vehicle used by the men is thought to have been a four-wheel drive
truck with spotlights. The melted-down metal might only reach 5,000 pounds on the open market. Barbie, beware. The iconic plastic doll is often
mutilated at the hands of young girls, according to research published Monday by British academics. "The girls we spoke to
see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity, and see the torture as a 'cool' activity," said Agnes Nairn, one of the
Researchers from the university's marketing and psychology departments questioned
100 children about their attitudes to a range of products as part of a study on branding. They found Barbie provoked the strongest
reaction, with youngsters reporting "rejection, hatred and violence," Nairn said. "The meaning of 'Barbie' went beyond an expressed antipathy; actual physical
violence and torture towards the doll was repeatedly reported, quite gleefully, across age, school and gender," she said. Group
sex among consenting adults is neither prostitution nor a threat to society, the Supreme Court of Researchers at the The spot in rats' brains makes sweet tastes more "liked"
than other tastes, biopsychology researchers Susana Pecina and Kent Berridge found. Sweetness by itself is merely a sensation, they note.
Its pleasure arises within the brain, where neural systems actively paint pleasure onto the sensation to generate a "liking"
reaction. The pair detailed their findings in the Dec. 14 issue
of the Journal of Neuroscience. An advertisement
for a statue of the Virgin Mary veiled in a condom has embarrassed the publishers of the America, a weekly run by
the Jesuit order of priests, said in a statement it was embarrassed and offended by the ad, which it said was published unknowingly
in its December 5 edition. The apparent prank by a London-based
artist offered what he called the "Extra Virgin" statue for sale, "a stunning ... statue of the Virgin Mary standing atop
a serpent wearing a delicate veil of latex." A color photograph showed
a statue of magenta-robed Mary, who according to Christian teaching was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus, covered with
a translucent but clearly visible condom. And
that concludes our Luciferian News Hour for another week. Be sure to listen to Psychic and Prophet Aaron C. Donahue
and his Psychic sister, Jennifer Sharpe, during Voice of Lucifer each Sunday night. Thank you for listening. |
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