Cartoon: The Changing World

A vintage cartoon from John T McCutcheon demonstrates to us that we’re seemingly again starting to look into some topics in a similar way as before the great depression in the 1920…

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Music: Janelle Monae – Many Moons

Wouldn’t it be great to switch people on and off like Androids – the wet-dream of any totalitarian state and dictatorship.

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Quote of the day: Politics and Business

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference.”

Ralph Nader – American attorney, author, lecturer, political activist

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Christmas: Adeste fidelis – Venite Adoremus

Adeste Fideles laeti triumphantes,
Veníte, veníte in Bethlehem.
Natum vidéte, Regem Angelorum:
Veníte adoremus,
Veníte adoremus
Veníte adoremus Dóminum

While the “fidelis” this year like in the years before merely get some kind of fair ground in Bethlehem – if they are allowed to go there with specially arranged package travel or diplomatic passports – one thing is different from the days this song and its lyrics have been composed.

While the shepherds around Bethlehem still speak a language that today is called Arabic (or some local dialects) there would be no “…En grege relicto, Humiles ad cunas Vocati pastores approperant …” (translated in the English version as: See how the shepherds, Summoned to His cradle, Leaving their flocks, draw nigh with lowly fear) –
there are guys with machine guns and tanks hindering the shepherds to even get close to the cradle – so Christmas would not happen these days again.

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Video: Christmas at the White House 2009

A glimpse of this year’s holiday decorations at the White House.

When you see the decorations put up and created by many volunteers across the country you can feel their joy, love, wishes and hope with those who have some chance to make this world a better place for many and not just a very few.

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Music: Placebo – Running Up That Hill

One for the night – certainly fitting pretty well with some of our more recent posts.

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