Vice Agent

    The financial, economic and social crisis is deepening. For a few months, some people were able to believe that Asian economies, especially the Chinese and Indian economies, would hold firm in the storm. That illusion was quickly dissipated. Everywhere in the world, leaders are plugging up breaches, running as fast as they can, schooled by the distant or recent past in the risk that the whole structure could collapse like a house of cards.

Women who side with Jennifer Aniston tend to be:

●Women who are scorned wives, ex-wives, or single women who have been victims of infidelity.

●Women whose husbands or boyfriends are cheating on them now.

●Women who feel Angelina deliberately seduced Brad away from Jen.

●Women who blame Angelina for Brad and Jen’s divorce.

●Women who see Angie as a home wrecker.

●Women who view Angelina as a predator with a hidden agenda which included seducing Brad while they were filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith. (Angelina admitted in an interview once that she always falls in love with her male co-stars.)

●Women who identify with Jen’s sweet, innocent, girl-next-door image.

●Women who believe Angelina’s self-described role of being a shoulder for Brad to cry on was all a part of her scheme to snare him.

●Women who are convinced that showing Brad what a wonderful mother she is, was part of Angelina’s strategy to win Brad’s heart -- especially since children are his hot button.

●Women who feel that Jen got a raw deal near the end of her marriage to Brad Pitt.

●Women who feel that Jen has handled this whole situation with dignity and class.

●Women who agree with Jen that Angie’s statements about falling in love with Brad while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith were “uncool.”

●Women who see Jen as an innocent victim.

●Women who feel sorry for Jen.

Women who side with Angelina Jolie tend to be:

●Women who strongly identify with the mistress or the “Other Woman” or who have been one themselves.

● Women who admire sexy, sultry, seductive women, or identify with these traits.

●Women who subscribe to the theory of "put your man first and do whatever it takes to keep him."

●Women who fault Jen for putting her career ahead of her husband.

●Women who feel that since Brad felt so strongly about having children, Jen should have given him a child. Since money was not an issue, they could have easily hired a Nanny so Jen could continue to pursue her acting career.

●Women who feel that if a woman doesn’t do the things necessary to hold onto her man, then she deserves to lose him.

●Women who feel that Angelina was not to blame for Brad and Jen’s divorce.

●Women who feel that Brad and Angelina make a better ( sexier, more interesting) couple than Brad and Jen.

●Women who love children.

●Women who themselves, were adopted.

●Women who admire all of Angelina’s charitable work.

●Women who like Angie simply because she has tattoos.

●Women who feels it’s Jen’s own fault that she lost Brad.

●Women who think Jen is selfish and shallow.Who do you side with, and why?

Guy Ritchie is seeking solace in the bosom of Elle Macpherson according to latest on gossip grapevine.

Madonna recently shacked up with Jesus in her New York apartment and Guy isn’t sitting at home and crying over a tub of Ben and Jerry’s. He has been entertaining supermodel Elle ‘The Body’ Macpherson. Last night the Daily Mirror caught the two hit up Notting Hill’s Brasserie. They talked for hours before leaving separately around 12:30 in the morning.

Powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill are clamoring for creation of a bipartisan "9/11 style" commission to investigate the legality of the Bush administration's antiterrorism tactics--especially its use of harsh interrogation techniques. President Obama has been notably cool to the idea. But the case for a "truth" commission was bolstered by the disclosure this month that the CIA had destroyed 92 videotapes of the interrogations and confinement of Al Qaeda suspects. A dozen showed the use of "enhanced" techniques routinely described by human-rights groups as torture.

Lawmakers say the obvious model for such an inquiry would be the 9/11 Commission--an independent bipartisan body praised for its authoritative account of the attacks. But as a reporter who covered the commission from start to finish and later wrote a history of its investigation, I wonder if Congress understands the deep irony of establishing a "new 9/11 Commission" on these issues. Former commission investigators have acknowledged to me over the past year that the panel had a serious blind spot on questions about torture.

Joseph Romm continues to speak the truth about climate change, including in this item about non-coverage in the US media of the results of the recent Copenhagen Climate Science Congress: Conspiracy of silence.

In the last two years, our scientific understanding of business-as-usual projections for global warming has changed dramatically. Yet, much of the U.S. public — especially conservatives — remain in the dark about just how dire the situation is.

Why? Because the U.S. media is largely ignoring the story.

Romm goes on to summarize the key messages to come out of the conference, including that worst-case IPCC scenario trajectories for atmospheric CO2 concentrations (or worse) are being realized, and that “inaction is inexcusable.” Romm’s response?

What is inexcusable is US media coverage and the blinkered conservative strategy of scientific denial — what can only be described as a murder-suicide pact with the human race.

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