Dear Thom. Can you please stop being a pretend journalist reporting on the pretend version of world politics and focus on the oligarchs who create this illusion. There is only one side to politics and they feed us the lie that there is choice etc etc. You're an educated man so why not start reporting on the real world that we are waking up to. Instead of this stale old version, it don't matter which party wins. They are all just puppets for oligarchs and the industrial and financial elites. Who at the very top are an inbred bloodline of psychopaths and we are their herd. Stop trying to convince people that there is real choice. This would suggest that there is real freedom. We are an enslaved race that is waking up to this fact, despite their best attempts with tech and environmental  abuse to keep us dumbed down. The end of time is near. The end of time for the slave masters and not the slaves. That's the true apocalypse scenario. Start exposing the rot at the very core and stop reporting on the pantomime you mesmerised fool. It's 2012. You should be awake by now you lazy boy..