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A New Pope and "The Most Corrupt Vatican Since the Borgias"

Vatican Summoned Before UN Committee on Rights of the Child

Today, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an alternate report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child documenting the ongoing worldwide sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. The UN committee has summoned the Vatican to report on its record of ensuring children are protected from sexual violence and safeguarding children’s well-being and dignity, the first time the Holy See will have been called to account for its actions on these issues before an international body with authority. The first meeting will take place in Geneva in June.

Vatican Summoned Before UN Committee on Rights of the Child

Tibetan monks protest IOC lack of action towards China

Tibetan monks have been on a hunger strike to protest the Olympic committee's lack of action on the human rights situation in China. Stating that with the awarding of the Olympic games to China in 2008, the IOC pledged to monitor the human rights situation in China, but the IOC has not followed up on it's promise. In fact in it's current statements and refusal to meet with the protesters, it maintains that it has no role to play in the human rights issue. At issue is the 55 year old Chinese occupation of Tibet and it's extraordinarily harsh treatment of dissenters. One of the monks spent 29 years in a Chinese prison in Tibet.

Tibetan Hunger Strikers Put IOC in a Jam

Pat Robertson invokes God's wrath

I always had the idea that people who invoked God's wrath or that of their favorite superpower, were in essence Black Magicians, followers of the left hand path, invokers of Black Magic. Evidently, Robertson in his inflated identification with his own version of a superpower, fueled by the ego inflating situation of being on his own TV show, is now calling on God to bring down his wrath on those poor benighted citizens in Pennsylvania who dared to reject all 8 candidates for the local school board who were proselytizing for the teaching of scientifically unproven religious theories in the public schools. It will be interesting to follow this one to see who is struck down first, the enlightened citizens of Dover, Pennsylvania or the eminent televangelist Pat Robertson.

Robertson warns Pennsylvania voters of God's wrath

P.S. Yeh, yeh, I know Moses did it in the bible, but remember who Moses was and where he learned his tricks.... He was raised in Egypt by Egyptians. His was no Christian magic. Did Christ strike down the Romans, the Scribes and Pharasees? It makes me wonder who these guys are worshiping.

Onward Christian Soldiers

Now the army of the US will definitely be a Christian army fighting those Muslim infidels.

Group Trains Air Force Cadets to Proselytize

Christian Values?

Christian ideals and Republican policies

Bush's Christianity vs. Christ's Christianity

The Gospel According to Dubya

Armageddon

Over the past few years a number of articles have come to my attention that deal with a set of beliefs about the biblical prophesies concerning Armageddon. These beliefs are held by a segment of the evangelical christians in the US. Their belief centers around certain interpretations of the bible that specify the "signs", the things that will occur before Armageddon begins. One of these things is the total control of the ancient state of Israel by the Jews and the re-building of the temple after the destruction of the Dome of the Rock, the Islamic temple which now occupies the site where the Temple of Solomon once stood. When the prophesies come to pass, a nuclear war will ensue in which most of the population of the earth will be destroyed, except for the "elect", and of course those believing in these prophesies hold themselves to be that "elect". The elect will be whisked up to heaven without having to die and will be saved from all of this suffering.

Truth (once again)

The Truth-Telling Project encourages whistleblowing in the national interest. It urges current and recently retired government officials to reveal the truth to Congress and the public about governmental wrongdoing, lies and cover-up. It aims to change the norms and practices that sustain the cult of secrecy, and to de-legitimize silence that costs lives....

Daniel Ellsberg's Truth-Telling Project

Truth (secrecy)

The qwest of the US government to prevent it's citizens from knowing what it is doing has increased significantly during the current administration. In previous posts I have discussed the fundamental problem of governments that operate in secrecy. The secrecy not only involves the present, but the future and the past as well.

As citizens of the US and the world, we are cut out of the discussion about what our country is doing, has done and will do. History is little more than a fiction created by spin doctors and fed as pablum to the masses. Democracy is impossible under these circumstances. The only thing left is the appearance of democracy... the word democracy. We are living in a world of faith based intelligence.

NEW REPORT SHOWS BUSH INCREASING GOVERNMENT SECRECY