This article will describe the creation of two artificial societies including the design and implementation of a new religion specifically for that new planned society as discussed in Bertrand Russell's 1931 book The Scientific Outlook [1]. The two societies described are: Japan following their 1867 revolution and Russia following the Bolshevik revolution.

"a war that was complicated by considerable international intervention has become over simplified into a morality tale of good versus evil...such a simplification further obscures the truth about what happened in Rwanda in 1994 and whitewashes the role of Western intervention more broadly.."

"In the old days it was expected that about half the children in a family would die before they grew up; this involved pain, illness, and sorrow to the mother, often great suffering to the children, and a waste of natural resources in the care of children who never lived to become productive." - Bertrand Russell, 1931

Will USA destroy the world? With the push towards war with Iran and now the Georgia war in the Caucasus things look that way. But the answer to the question must surely be: only if we allow them to...

I don't think that this is a trick question. I've started an exercise by asking this question. And I am finding the responses most revealing. I ask: How many buildings collapsed on September 11, 2001 in New York?

by Zoltán Dujisin - Inter Press Service

Georgia's step towards military confrontation comes after an increase in authoritarian and militaristic tendencies in a country that dealt catastrophically with Russia's pressure...On Aug. 8 Georgian troops tried to take control of the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia, de facto independent since 1992, by engaging in heavy fighting in the regional capital Tskhinvali, 100 km north-west of the Georgian capital Tbilisi...Russia, officially in South Ossetian territory on a peacekeeping mission, responded by launching an extensive military operation in South Ossetia and beyond.

"There will, of course, be a universal language, which will be either Esperanto or pidgin-English. The literature of the past will for the most part not be translated into this language, since its outlook and emotional background will be considered unsettling: serious students of history will be able to obtain a permit from the Government to study such works as Hamlet and Othello, but the general public will be forbidden access to them on the ground that they glorify private murder; boys will not be allowed to read books about pirates or Red Indians; love themes will be discouraged on the ground that love, being anarchic, is silly, if not wicked. All this will make life very pleasant for the virtuous." - Bertrand Russell, 1931

The political arena has turn an old and familiar leaf. False hopes and false promises. Tell them what they want to hear. Like PT Barnum once said, "A sucker is born every minute"

Is it the limelight the Clintons can't seem to get away from or is it just more of the slimelight they are famous for?

by GRAEME SMITH - August 5, 2008

Afghanistan's flourishing opium trade has ranked among the most contentious issues between the Kabul government and its backers in recent years, but the disagreements have rarely surfaced in public.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - CBC News

Rita MacNeil was as surprised as anyone to learn she was the target of RCMP undercover agents investigating the women's movement nearly 40 years ago...She represented the Toronto Women's Caucus at a March 1972 meeting of women's groups in Winnipeg, and, as an RCMP memo states, was the "one who composes and sings women's lib songs."

Andrew Mayeda and Meagan Fitzpatrick - Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The RCMP should limit its use of Tasers to "combative" suspects and take the weapons out of the hands of inexperienced officers, the RCMP's watchdog agency urged Wednesday in a report that threatens to withdraw support for the devices unless the Mounties change their policies...[I]n his final report, released Wednesday, [Paul] Kennedy scolded the RCMP for ignoring his primary recommendations, and suggested the force would lose his backing if it continues to do so.