Despite predictions to the contrary, the pro-European party of President Boris Tadic won the parliamentary election in Serbia, according to preliminary estimates. However, Tadic still lacks a clear majority to form a government. His opponent, Tomislav Nikolic, wants nationalist parties to join forces to govern.

Tadic declared victory for his Democratic Party (DS) on Sunday evening. "Serbs have undoubtedly confirmed a clear European path. This is a great victory," he said. At the same time, he warned: "The government we are building will not recognize Kosovo."

Ultranationalist Tomislav Nikolic of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), which favors closer ties to Moscow, warned Tadic that the pro-Europe camp hadn't won yet. He said his party also had very clear possibilities for creating a coalition that would not include the Democratic Party.

This article is pure rhetoric; nationalists are also pro-European but they don't support a bureaucratic federation ruled by a small elite in Brussel. By addressing EU-supporters as "Pro-European," which sounds positive, and nationalists as "ultranationalists," which sounds negative, we're supposed to cheer the direction of Serbia - and, in extension, Kosovo. The "European future" German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier talks about is rather an entrance into "oligarchy future," led by the people who currently support the Kosovo independence. Hamburger restaurants, bureaucratic institutions, empire-controlled currency and cosmopolitan culture will enrich yet another nation.

An established brand in its own right, Sex and the City is cosmopolitan - its cocktail of choice as well as the lifestyle celebrated in the newspaper column turned best-selling book turned blockbuster television series turned A-list film.

Detractors deride it as little more than women obsessed with men and shoes. But this does it a disservice. Kate Smurthwaite says that as a feminist and comedienne, she is a big fan. "In fact I would go so far as to say that if you enjoy Sex and the City, you ARE a feminist.

"If you can watch the amount of sex Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda have without shouting 'harlot' at the screen; if you're not horrified by the idea of women having professional jobs, living alone, talking about sex, drinking alcohol, having children out of wedlock, experimenting with lesbianism, owning vibrators and all the other stuff they do, then you support a level of freedom for women that is a very long way off for a majority of women in today's world."

I think the comment Smurthwaite makes speaks for itself. She believes that binge drinking, a confused emotional life, sex toys, and office work constitute "freedom." She might be right that these are freedoms, but the question is if any woman really needs them to feel happy and be successful in life? Smurthwaite, like most Smurfs in our world, don't mention the societal impacts of this lifestyle, nor does she include things like family, children, emotional life, culture, or any values above making money and satisfying physical pleasures. Money is important and it's nothing wrong with having sexual desires - but should people, not just women, be entirely motivated and led only by printed paper and shallow wants?

What's interesting about soft-patriotic media like this is that it highlights the tension between the Eastern and Western powers. Bush is shown calling Putin, but no one gives a dime. It's a deliberate way of saying: "We've got the oil you need. We know you want to provoke us into attacking Europe, so that you can justify an attack against us, just like you did with Iraq." During the press conference at the 32nd G8 summit, Putin told Bush: "We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I will tell you quite honestly." Putin is highly aware of the Anglo-American globalist forces that conspire against him, as well as other obvious targets like Iran.

So, while this is a silly video, it has serious underpinnings.

A group of Russians have set up a village where they live on their home-grown food and practice pre-Christian Slavic traditions. Their lifestyle is just a short train ride away from Moscow.

The people in Popovka village have traded modern civilisation for age-old traditions and the mercy of nature. They welcome the summer with an ancient Slavic rite, and feed idols with bread, milk and oil to ask for a plentiful harvest.

“You know, I lived in Moscow while studying at a university. I had enough. The big metropolis destroys our communication with nature,” says Aleksey.

This is a real world example of how the Corruptian concept of parallelism can be applied. These proud people have chosen to reject the lifestyle of modern society and establish their own community. They don't seek to impose their lifestyle on others, they simply wish to follow the traditions and values of their ancient forefathers, and live in harmony with nature. This is a future possible for all of those who are tired of our current society and seek to restore a traditional order among intelligent, creative and positive-spirited people.

Prince Philip emerges in a television interview this week as the model royal “eco-warrior” who believes overpopulation has contributed to the pressures on the world and that anyone who believes in God should go green.

“Food prices are going up,” he tells his interviewer, Sir Trevor McDonald. “Everyone thinks it’s to do with not enough food, but it’s really that demand is too great – too many people. Basically, it’s a little embarrassing for everybody. No one quite knows how to handle it. Nobody wants their family life to be interfered with by the government.”

“You’ve got to be fairly hard-hearted about it. Conservation is not a romantic business. It’s a very practical business, trying to ensure as many different species of wildlife can exist, and which means in some cases controlling some so the others can have a better chance.”

Prince Philip is the next official person to speak out about the overpopulation problem. His analysis of why the food prices are going up is spot on; we're simply too many people that consume a limited amount of resources, including food and fresh water. Prince Philip knows this and that is why he has adopted a pragmatic stance on the topic. We need to stop whining about green products and green technology in the third world. We have a multitude of species to preserve and the only way to do that is to stop the destruction of natural habitat, by limiting the human expansion.

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England is an irritating and insular country full of overweight, binge-drinking, reality TV addicts, a new guide warns tourists.

But in the new Rough Guide to England, the English are also hailed as a nation of animal-loving, tea-drinking charity donors who love nothing better than forming an orderly queue.

Gone, it seems, is the image of a genteel country awash with Englishmen politely tipping their bowler hats, groping through the London fog and being kinder to pets than kids.

I'm not sure if this is entirely accurate or not, but one thing is certain: if this was about a non-European people, the man who wrote this guide would be in jail a long time ago.

Bees in the German state of Baden-Württemburg are dying by the hundreds of thousands. In some places more than half of hives have perished. Government officials say the causes are unclear -- but beekeepers are blaming new pesticides.

Meanwhile, Germany's beekeepers were pointing fingers at one of Germany's largest companies, blaming a popular, recently-introduced pesticide called clothianidin for the recent die-off. Produced by Monheim-based Bayer CropScience, a subsidiary of German chemical giant Bayer AG, clothianidin is sold in Europe under the trade name Poncho. It's designed to attack the nervous systems of insects "like nerve gas," says Hederer. The chemical was used last year to fight an outbreak of corn rootworm, and its success against the pest led to a much wider application this spring up and down the Rhine.

No shit Sherlock; spray with pesticides that are "highly toxic to honey bees" and then play surprised once your bees drop dead to the ground. We're so short sighted that we're neglecting the context of our decisions. This mirrors all of our other problems in society, where we spend all the energy on symptoms while the root causes are left behind in the mess we've created for ourselves. The symbolic action looks good on TV, but it's not effective nor is it in tune with reality. Back to square one!

Confronted with distributing food rations to hungry orphans, people would rather be fair than efficient, even if it means letting some of the food go to waste, a US study shows.

But the tests demonstrated that most people preferred equity in distributing food -- that all the hungry mouths got fed equally -- rather than an efficiency that perhaps meant that one orphan got almost nothing but also that no food went to waste.

Hsu said in a summary of the study that the research aimed at examining the neurological side of moral decision-making, and also what role was played by emotion.

There's something fishy about this study. Maybe these people have been brainwashed by society to try appear "fair" rather than being pragmatic and effective? I think a lot of modern people like concepts such as justice, equality and fairness, because it makes them look important and special. They get to help others, like Jesus - and it feels good to be Jesus! People living in a healthier age would probably choose to be effective instead. They lived under different conditions and knew you couldn't moralize over individual lives when food and water shortages threatened your everyday existence. Thanks to the overpopulation, we're reaching that state of living again.

What goes around, comes around.

Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about halcyon -- all presuming they're off camera. Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality.

This documentary exposes what goes on behind the scenes of the democratic smokescreen. Because political candidates have to cater to the interests of the voting mass, popularity and media image become more important than speaking the truth to the people. The product is a vast media empire where opinions, views and perspectives are twisted into absurdum, so that the smiling idiots we see on television can fool us into voting for their campaign. Democracy is legalized fraud.

Corrupt believes in a political leadership that's based on ability and experience, not media popularity. We want to replace the democratic puppet figures with skilled, honest and compassionate leaders that perform their duty to the people they serve. In our goal we state:

Among our people there are those who lead intelligently, nobly and compassionately. Rigorous education in history and philosophy can round these people out, and we can start them out as local leaders and promote those that do the best job. Further, we should breed them in a special category of people, or "caste," so that we pass on the genes that produce great leaders.

We can build for a better future where we're no longer being subject to the exploitation of televangelists as seen in this documentary. If you are tired of hearing lies and share our vision of a society where honest, intelligent and capable leaders do what's best for you, not only for themselves, join Corrupt today and help us fight the global media empire. Together we are stronger!

As seeds get better, much of the world's soil is getting worse and people are going hungry. Scientists say if they can get the world out of the economically triggered global food crisis, better dirt will be at the root of the solution.

Soils around the world are deteriorating with about one-fifth of the world's cropland considered degraded in some manner. The poor quality has cut production by about one-sixth, according to a World Resources Institute study. Some scientists consider it a slow-motion disaster.

Again, people attack the symptom without understanding the root cause. Of course the farm conditions, in this case the quality of the soil, will deteriorate - too many people trying to farm too much out of limited resources = FAIL.

Let's look at this maturely, shall we? Reduce the world population, simplify lifestyle, localize all food production as much as we can = SUCCESS. And there you have it.

America's aging sewer systems continue to dump human waste into rivers and streams, despite years of fines and penalties targeting publicly owned agencies responsible for sewage overflows, a Gannett News Service analysis shows.

The analysis of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data found that since 2003, hundreds of municipal sewer authorities have been fined for violations, including spills that make people sick, threaten local drinking water and kill aquatic animals and plants.

An EPA 2004 report to Congress estimated that 850 billion gallons of storm water mixed with raw sewage pour into U.S. waters every year from older, combined sewer systems that were designed to overflow in wet weather. These combined systems, built by cities in the 19th and early 20th centuries, are now considered antiquated and a threat to public health and the environment, according to the EPA and environmental groups.

This is how you know when an empire is about to fall: it pays more attention to external factors, like symbolic enemies, than it does to internal factors, like the fact that the sewer systems are outdated and pose a danger to public health. We're too busy chasing terrorists and voting, that we forget the immediate critical problems we need to face as a nation.

Simple logic: what goes in, must come out. We can't fill the water with contraceptives, pills and other chemical products that later end up in the drinking water and change our hormones. Maybe we'll look like zombies in 200 years? You know, I don't care; as far as I'm concerned, we're already trained zombies and we sold our brains to TV long ago. Right now we need to think about how to avoid becoming more zombified than we already are.

Brussels is eyeing Serbia nervously as May 11 parliamentary elections approach. Polls suggests the ultra-nationalist Radical Party may become the strongest group in parliament, which would mean a foreign policy nightmare for the EU and could exacerbate tensions with ethnic minorities within the country.

But after Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence, as well as recognition of the new country by the United States and many members of the European Union, the angry Serbs are practically traumatized by the notion that the West is doing its utmost to completely dismantle their country.

Kosovo is a strategical area for the Anglo-American globalists where they can secure the nearby natural resources. Note how for example Russia opposed the Kosovo independence. The powers in the East, including countries like Iran and Iraq, know that the West is after their resources as well (Iraq is already taken, by "freedom," e.g. profit). In the middle of this power conflict is Serbia and it's no wonder that nationalism is about grow in this country. Kosovo is now an artificial profit machine and Serbia knows it. In the words of Brett Stevens: Let them stand or fall on their own. Decaying nations are already half-dead.

A common weedkiller in the U.S., already suspected of causing sexual abnormalities in frogs and fish, has now been found to alter hormonal signaling in human cells, scientists from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) report.

The herbicide atrazine is the second most widely used weedkiller in the U.S., applied to corn and sorghum fields throughout the Midwest and also spread on suburban lawns and gardens. It was banned in Europe after studies linked the chemical to endocrine disruptions in fish and amphibians.

How lucky are we that they test these products before they start selling them in the shops! The reason to why a failure such as this one occurs is that we first look at profit, and then worry about any consequences that might turn up. And, keep in mind, the more we pollute and alter our ecosystems, the more inbalance will disrupt the natural order and force us to use more herbicides and other artificial ways of trying to keep nature in check. Double-failure!

Corn prices worldwide have increased by 50 percent over the past year. John Sununu, a Republican senator opposed to farm subsidies, says corn prices have risen in part because America is using increasing amounts of corn to produce fuel for automobiles.

"When you're diverting a third of the [corn] crop to ethanol it has a real impact on prices," said Senator Sununu. "To produce a gallon of ethanol takes 1700 gallons of water. Thirty million acres of land, going to produce the corn for ethanol."

This equation will never work, as long as we're 6,6+ billion people who want to live the lifestyle we do in the West. We could turn tampons, diapers, excrement, TVs and poll booths into fuel; we're still overcrowded on this planet of limited resources. If 5 billion people suddenly were turned into earth, we could use this to grow flowers instead and stop worrying about this problem in the first place.

What Ingmar Bergman is saying is this: Art is both form and content, but out of the two, content is what's ultimately of importance. If you have something meaningful to say, you can communicate that via art, despite that you're tweaking the guitar too much, that the drumer dropped the pace in one passage, or that the singer had to improvise the last part of a song. It works, because we're immersed by a meaningful, emotional experience and it speaks to us.

But you could also perfect and style art until it becomes a slick product (Britney Spears, or 99,8 % of all Hollywood movies), and you will still have form only and no serious content. It's like hipsters who dress out in fancy clothes and adopt politically correct stances to appear important, but once we inspect what's behind the form, we see morally corrupt and emotionally broken people who lack direction in life.

Ingmar Bergman was a rare genius who managed to refine and perfect both form and content, and for those who are open to understand his legacy that reflects the human nature in its very essence, his art will continue to demonstrate the value of this insight for generations to come.

All politics stink. Even democracy stinks. Imagine if our clothes were selected by the majority of shoppers, which would be teenage girls. I'd be standing here with my bellybutton exposed. Imagine deciding the dinner menu by family secret ballot. I've got three kids and three dogs in my family. We'd be eating Froot Loops and rotten meat.

But let me make a distinction between politics and politicians. Some people are under the misapprehension that all politicians stink. Impeach George W. Bush, and everything will be fine. Nab Ted Kennedy on a DUI, and the nation's problems will be solved.

But the problem isn't politicians -- it's politics. Politics won't allow for the truth. And we can't blame the politicians for that.

Politics is corruption, because it's a game play between financial competitors who care more about their self-image and their salaries, than what they do about the common citizen who's being exploited and lied to. The problem is not Bush. The problem is democracy, and in extension, politics. We need real political leaders whose work is to make decisions for the best of the nation, not a bunch of media clowns that cater to lobby interests and the shallow trends among the crowd.

Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities.

egardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.

The rationalization measure included statements such as: "It is not really that big a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others," and "This country would be better off if we worried less about how equal people are."

Equality is a word without reference to something in reality. Equality of ability doesn't exist and this is what conservatives have recognized. However, we are not conservatives. We know society is broken in many ways, but refuse to trouble ourselves with concepts that are not realistic. Instead we focus on rebuilding and not worrying about the casualties because they will be too many to count - and why would we spend time on negativity when we have goals to achieve?

Some people say we live in a world of shit. I tend to agree. What I'm seeing though is that many of these people end up giving up on life and handing in the towel because of all the problems around them. You don't have to suffer from a weak mind to feel that all the world's problems are here to hunt us down. I believe it's important, first of all, to recognize the state that we're in. Yes, we are living in a world of shit. But you know what; nothing's lost. Nothing's over.

Why do we celebrate ancient civilizations and cultures? Because they had a noble, heroic outlook on life. Life was not always fairy tale for Mayans, Romans, Greeks or Vikings. But they held on to their beliefs and ideals - not because they were inhuman and therefore weren't afraid, but despite all fears and doubts. They believed that once you transcend the mental images of failure and follow your dreams, you become immortal. What we modern people need to recognize is that we must revive this spirit again, if we are going to survive this. And we will, because I and many other people who are aware of the problems around us, believe in You. We believe in You, because together we can create change.

We will not back down. We will continue to march through fire and darkness. There will be much pain, much sorrow, and much anger. But we will still be marching forward toward our goal of creating a new society for the people who deserve it. We will revive art, we will revive spirit, we will revive tradition, we will revive unity, and we will revive new gods, new paths, new ideals, new visions, and new dreams. Right now You're standing by the side and watching us moving across the battlefield. We're few so far, but in turn we're stronger than most, and we continue to grow by the numbers. When You make the decision to be one of us who chose to move forward in an age of decay and madness, You will contribute to make this group stronger and more powerful. New challenges await us and we see them as an opportunity to grow as individuals and fight for truth. We are here to say that we're ready to face them. Bring it on!

Repeat the motto of Change: Onward into countless battles!

- A. Birch

The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb.

As soon as people start bloviating about how democracy will save us from all evil, I point out that the 120,000 people who lost their lives after the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, probably wouldn't accept that definition of "freedom." And before you say "but...," remember the Dresden bombings, where innocent civilians were practically roasted alive. Together with the meaningless wars in Middle East, we see that democracy is not the innocent image of Good that it portrays itself as in the media. Rather ironically, championing world peace and equality, it always manages to find new enemies to crusade against (Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Saddam, bin Laden - next up Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?).