While symbolism might not matter much to atheists, it's powerful juju to the superstitious, and this - an "actual" item from "Oz," stolen in the wicked year 2005, but returned to "reality" in 2018 - definitely could signal an ending to the last era of magical thinking for many believers.At least that's the hope. TMR also hopes those witches out there "binding the president" are paying attention: The Universe doesn't seem to be at one with you.
And if you thought Haiti had a problem with education, wait until you get a load of this shit:Walid Muhammad Hajj: The most common method to wear down the brothers was witchcraft.
Interviewer: How did they do this?
Walid Muhammad Hajj: There were, of course, Jews among the [staff of] the Guantanamo Base, and they would set traps for the guys.
Interviewer: Give me an example of witchcraft.
Walid Muhammad Hajj: Witchcraft was used on most of the guys.
Interviewer: They would cast a spell on them?
Walid Muhammad Hajj: Yes, but by the grace of Allah, through frequent reading of the Koran and invocation of the names of Allah, they managed to withstand this.
Interviewer: How did you know that somebody was under a spell?
Walid Muhammad Hajj: Someone like that would change.
Interviewer: In what way?
Walid Muhammad Hajj: For example, somebody would take his clothes off, all of a sudden, or would sit on his bed for three days straight without sleeping.[...]
They would use all kinds of witchcraft against the guys.
Interviewer: Tell me more.
Walid Muhammad Hajj: I will tell you how the witchcraft affected the guys. A person would suddenly see his brothers and sisters naked before him.
Interviewer: And they weren't really there?
Walid Muhammad Hajj: Absolutely not. It was as if he was in a different world.
Interviewer: You mean, his brothers and sisters from back home.
Walid Muhammad Hajj: That's right. I remembered an incident with a guy who sat next to me in the morning. When they brought the milk, he began to urinate into the milk.
Interviewer: In front of you?
Walid Muhammad Hajj: Yes. I said to him: "Why are you urinating in the milk?" That's when we knew that he was under a spell. After he had recovered a little, after we read Koranic verses to him, he said to me: "The birds on the barbed wire would talk to me, and tell me to urinate in the milk. When the guards pass by my cell, the sound made by their pants talks to me."
Interviewer: They tell him to urinate in the milk?
Walid Muhammad Hajj: Yes.[...]
Interviewer: Did they ever use witchcraft on you?
Walid Muhammad Hajj: There was one attempt.
Interviewer: How did they do it?
Walid Muhammad Hajj: Once, when I was sleeping – on the floor, not on a bed – I suddenly felt that a cat was trying to penetrate me. It tried to penetrate me again and again. I recited the kursi verse again and again until the cat left.
Interviewer: But there wasn't really any cat there?
Walid Muhammad Hajj: Absolutely not.
We know what you're thinking:
"Residents of a small outback Australian town have been left speechless after fish began falling from the sky.-- Richard Shears, making the unexplainable explainable - and reminding us of something we forgot that we already know - while too many protest we can't know everything, reading The Daily Mail.
Hundreds of spangled perch bombarded the 650 residents of Lajamanu, shocking local Christine Balmer, who was walking home when the strange 'weather' started.
She said: 'These fish fell in their hundreds and hundreds all over the place. The locals were running around everywhere picking them up.
'The fish were all alive when they hit the ground so they would have been alive when they were up there flying around the sky.
'When I told my family, who live in another part of Australia, about the fish falling from the sky, they thought I'd lost the plot.
'But no, I haven't lost my marbles. All I can say is that I'm thankful that it didn't rain crocodiles!'
Meterologists say the incident was probably caused by a tornado. It is common for tornados to suck up water and fish from rivers and drop them hundreds of miles away.
Mark Kersemakers from the Australian Bureau of Meterology said: 'Once they get up into the weather system, they are pretty much frozen and, after some time, they are released.'"
"We are beginning to see that the media is about to add humiliation to its moral failure, as it grasps that once you worship a Messiah, you cannot leave the cult. Mr. Obama tolerates no dissent among the believers. The recent Obama press conference showed what happens to the shunned New York Times or Washington Post once you even consider climbing over the fence of the compound. What were these sycophants thinking as they watched Obama produce all sorts of bogus figures in assuring that tripling the deficit, then halving it will translate into lessening the present red-ink? Again, imagine a sequel to the Wizard of Oz, where everyone goes on thinking that the floating image on the screen with the smoke really is Oz, despite seeing the tiny man behind the curtain with his hands busy with the levers. The media knows what they’ve become, and already have seen the flip side of their one-eye Jack—and is now trapped in culthood."
This is rich: 
"Homeopathic medicines will be subjected to tougher regulation under a bill before the federal parliament.
Under the draft law, a regulatory framework will be put in place for homeopathic and anthroposophic medicines.
Currently, many of these medicines aren't legally required to be listed on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods and are exempt from manufacturing requirements.
Health Minister Nicola Roxon said the government had consulted extensively with homeopathic and anthroposophic practitioners and suppliers on an appropriate level of regulation for these substances.
She said the July 2011 start date for the tighter regulations would give the industry time to comply and allow for further consultation.
The bill also gives the health minister the power to issue lists of permitted and banned ingredients for different classes of medicines.
A person wishing to have a new ingredient included on the list must apply to the minister.
Debate on the Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 was adjourned."
O.K., so what do we have here? 
Well, for starters, they're discussing the regulation of water - H2O - which already puts this item in the realm of the ridiculous. Instead of regulating water, Australia should be busting these homeopathalogical fakes for fraud, because that's their crime.
Second, they're calling this "medicine," which is really stupid because - though they mention "permitted and banned ingredients" and "A person wishing to have a new ingredient included on the list" - anyone with a familiarity of Homeopathy knows there are no ingredients in their "preparations" what-so-ever, because of the massive amount of dilution (delusion?) they put them through. 
This so-called "Health Minister," Nicola Roxon, is either an idiot or in on the scam, because, whatever she's doing, she isn't protecting Australia's health - mental or otherwise - or the wallets of it's citizens. 
Rather than being the Health Minister, she's acting more like the Wicked Witch of the West.
Or better yet, The Wizard of Oz himself, perpetuating a fraud and hoping no one notices her, frantically working the 
Doesn't anyone have the courage to stop this nonsense?
Or how about brains? We'd settle for brains.
But most importantly - since this is Oz - where the FUCK is Toto?
"The jury is still out on the Feline Butcher -- holistic health guru to such stars as Tom Cruise, Lisa Marie Presley and Queen Latifah -- who is facing 17 counts of practicing medicine without a license and one count of grand theft.-- Dan Cox, on another quack with a messed-up name, for Media Bistro.
The jury's verdict could put Butcher's holistic health clinic out of business, but it could also put her behind bars. It would weigh heavily on the Church of Scientology, which is a big supporter of Butcher's anti-drug regimen for treatment. Butcher is an avowed high-ranking church member.
The trial for the faux practitioner came to a close Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court with numerous Scientology disciples present in the courtroom and the jury has been deliberating ever since.
Butcher, who has treated with holistic techniques other stars like Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson, was investigated specifically by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Halt Authority Task Force in the case of photographer Clive McLean, who died in 2005.
Mclean's widow, Erica McLean, says that Butcher, being a Scientologist, encouraged her husband to abandon chemotherapy in favor of a regimen of "vitamins and magic drops."
McLean, who was assisted by private investigator Paul Barresi, claims that the couple paid close to $120,000 on useless treatments. Barresi was a friend to Clive McLean as well, having been photographed by McLean for Hustler Magazine. Barresi turned over a cache of information about Butcher to the Halt Authority Task Force.
'I contacted Detective Kathleen Miller with the Halt Authority Task Force and gave her everything I had on Butcher and her partners in crime.' Barresi said.
In her first exclusive interview since the end of trial, Erica McLean told FBLA, 'The facts in this case speak for themselves. There were 99 pieces of evidence presented. Feline Butcher's partner, David Chuah, being the coward that he is, fled the country. But it is now up to the jury to decide.'
She added: 'It was a bad joke she (Feline Butcher) played on me and my husband. We played into her quackery. Her partner, David Chuah, who is still at large, invented some kind of cancer cure-all machine, right out of the 'Wizard of Oz', supposedly charged with a magic level of electrical frequency, we were told would dry up the cancer cells in Clive's body. Then he'd take a colonic to wash them away.'"
