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HARPER’S WEEKLY
December 27, 2005

WEEKLY REVIEW
It was Christmas. The Senate, with Dick Cheney casting the deciding vote, cut $40 billion in funding for foster care, child support, and student loans. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress for $50 million to support African troops in Darfur, but her request was rejected. Americans had spent $18.48 billion on gift cards this holiday season. The House voted to extend the Patriot Act by five weeks. President George W. Bush called nine U.S. servicemen and servicewomen and wished them a Merry Christmas, while British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Iraq. It was revealed that undercover police in New York City had infiltrated anti-war protests, street vigils, and pro-bicycling rallies. At one march, police provoked protesters—some of whom they later arrested—by staging a fake arrest. The FBI was spying on Greenpeace, Catholic Worker, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and PETA. It was reported that the United States had, without warrants or court orders, been monitoring radiation levels at over 100 Muslim mosques, homes, businesses, and other sites in the Washington, D.C., area. It was also reported that the NSA had, with Presidential approval but without warrants, spied on much more Internet and phone traffic than was previously acknowledged. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that there was “absolutely nothing wrong” with President Bush authorizing the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans.
A judge in Pennsylvania ruled that teaching Intelligent Design in schools violated the constitutional separation of church and state, while an appeals panel in Kentucky ruled that a courthouse there could continue to display the ten commandments because they are of “historical” significance. “The First Amendment,” wrote Circuit Judge Richard Suhrheinrich, “does not demand a wall of separation between church and state.” The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that swingers clubs do not harm society. Montgomery County, Maryland, bought the original Uncle Tom’s cabin. Workers for the New York City Mass Transit Authority went on strike for three days, and 4,000 London Tube workers voted to hold a 24-hour walkout on December 31. Investigators in New York City were trying to find out who stole Alistair Cooke’s bones. Authorities in Vienna, Austria, determined that people dressed as devils can legally smack the rear ends of strangers on Christmas, and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered that all western music be banned from state-controlled radio and TV stations. In South Africa a mugger running from security guards fled into a tiger enclosure, where he was mauled to death. The United States denied Saddam Hussein’s claim that he had been tortured while imprisoned. “I have been beaten on every place of my body,” said Hussein, “and the signs are all over my body.” It was discovered that bad hay had led to the deaths of 900 goats in Saskatchewan.
A senior member of the International Olympic Committee revealed that London probably only won the right to host the Olympics in 2012 because of a voting error. Prebiotic organic molecules—which are found in DNA—were discovered in constellation Ophiuchus, 375 light-years from earth. The Pope was worried that “intellectual and technical achievements” were leading to “spiritual barrenness and emptiness of heart.” A study found that good dancers are sexually attractive because they are more symmetrical. In Hubbard, Ohio, a Santa clutched his chest and collapsed as he appeared before 750 elementary schoolchildren, and in Warren, Michigan, a 14-year-old boy raped a 12-year-old girl in a church bathroom during a Christmas play. In Lawrence, Kansas, three women quit their gym because there was a Christmas tree decorated with plastic fetuses in its lobby. A Missouri woman swallowed a cell phone to keep it away from her boyfriend. New rings were found around Uranus, and gay marriage became legal in the U.K. Elton John married his partner David Furnish in Windsor, and two gay druids who perform in amateur pantomime productions were registered as legal partners in Wrexham. Scientists in Switzerland found that taking didgeridoo lessons cuts down on snoring, while scientists in Mauritius discovered the bones of 20 dodos. In the Isle of Wight, England, authorities were looking for Toga, a three-month-old Jackass penguin that they believe was stolen so that it could be given as a Christmas present. “Toga,” said a zoo manager, “is very, very vulnerable.”

Ophiuchus is the occulted 13th step of the Zodiac.... also called, the Red Serpent.
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YEARLY REVIEW
The number of people killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami rose to 230,000. A study showed that 310,000 Europeans die from air pollution each year, and the U.N. predicted that 90 million Africans will have HIV by 2025. An international task force of scientists, politicians, and business leaders warned that the world has about 10 years before global warming becomes irreversible. The U.S. Congress officially ratified President George W. Bush’s election victory after a two-hour debate over voting irregularities in Ohio. Terri Schiavo, Johnnie Cochran, Frank Perdue, Mitch Hedberg, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, and the pope died, as did the man who wrote the theme song to “Gidget.” An Australian tortoise named Harriet turned 175. General Motors was spending more for health care than for steel, and an increasing number of Americans were heating their homes with corn. El Salvadoran police arrested 21 people for operating a smuggling operation and seized 24 tons of contraband cheese. NASA announced that it wanted to return to the moon.
A study found that the worldwide percentage of land stricken by drought has doubled within the last 30 years. The Jordan River was filled with sewage, and the last of Gaza’s Jewish settlers left their homes on armored buses. Terrorists in London set off bombs on four trains and a bus, killing 52 people; President Bush condemned attacks on innocent folks by those with evil in their hearts. A 13-year-old boy in Kalamazoo accidentally burned down the family meth lab. New Orleans flooded after levees broke in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; many evacuees were not allowed to take their pets with them. “Snowball!” cried a little boy after police took away his dog. “Snowball!” At least 42,000 people died in an earthquake in Pakistan. It was announced that Cookie Monster would cut back on cookies. Authorities in Malaysia arrested 58 people who worship a giant teapot. Poor people rioted in France.
In North Carolina Kenneth Boyd became the 1,000th prisoner executed since the United States reintroduced the death penalty in 1976. A 1,600-inmate faith-based prison opened in Crawfordville, Florida. Police began random bag checks of subway passengers in New York City. It was revealed that the CIA had set up a secret system of prisons, called “black sites,” around the world; it was also revealed that the National Security Agency was spying on Americans without first obtaining warrants. Journalist Judith Miller was released from jail and said she wanted to hug her dog. U.S. Congressman Tom DeLay was arrested; U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was indicted. The Pentagon admitted to using white phosphorus during the 2004 attack on Fallujah, Iraq, and allocated $127 billion to build a robot army. The total number of American soldiers killed in the Iraq war rose to 2,174, while the total number of Iraqi civilians killed rose to 27,636. “We are all waiting for death,” said an Iraqi soldier, “like the moon waiting for sunset.” The U.S. Defense Department, in violation of the federal Privacy Act, was building a database of 30 million 16- to 25-year-olds. The Department of Homeland Security announced that it had wasted a great deal of money and needed much more. Starbucks came to Guantanamo Bay. Scientists began work on a complete, molecule-level computer simulation of the human brain. The project will take at least ten years.
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"The world is like a ride in an amusement park and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and around and around and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, and they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because... this is just a ride." - Bill Hicks

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