‘Medical Intuitive’ Threatens to Sue Bloggers *

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Says his friend Deepak Chopra is considering suing too.… Read the rest



Jesus and Mo Are Offended by Elton John *

Feb 19th, 2010 | Filed by

For different reasons.… Read the rest



Photographer Busted for ‘Insulting the Uzbek People’ *

Feb 19th, 2010 | Filed by

Umida Akhmedova was accused of denigrating her country in her work on poverty and the condition of women. … Read the rest



Mary Midgley Reviews ‘What Darwin Got Wrong’ *

Feb 19th, 2010 | Filed by

There is now no need to ‘privilege’ natural selection over ‘a crowd of other possible causes.’… Read the rest



Orac on Andreas Moritz *

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What is it with cranks and trying to shut down criticism?… Read the rest



Michael Ruse Reviews ‘What Darwin Got Wrong’ *

Feb 19th, 2010 | Filed by

‘A whole book putting in the boot and absolutely no serious understanding of where the boot is aimed.’… Read the rest



Wot?

Feb 19th, 2010 11:51 am | By

We need an expert in Vatican jargon, or Catholic doctrine, or Jesuitical Vaticanesque doctrinal legalistic jargon. Hamilton Jacobi alerted us in a comment on ‘The pope invited the bishops to explain’ to the possibility that the pope’s 2001 letter didn’t mean what The Observer reported it to mean. I took a look at the English version* and I’m not at all clear on what it’s saying. It’s not unmistakably saying ‘Bishops must hide clerical sex abuse of children from the police’ and it could well not be saying that at all – so I have to withdraw some of what I’ve said on that subject in the last few days about the coverage of the pope’s scolding the Irish Read the rest



The BBC nearly fainted when he phoned

Feb 18th, 2010 12:47 pm | By

This is disgusting! I can’t say anything more coherent than that – it’s just a showy display of complete abject belly-crawling disgustingness. The BBC is dribbling all over itself with ecstasy because that reactionary theocratic bastard Joseph Ratzinger might consent to give its poxy theocratic patronizing stinking Thought for the Day. What is the matter with everyone?!

The Pope is in negotiations to appear on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day slot after Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general, made a personal approach to the Vatican. The planned broadcast on the Today programme would be timed to coincide with Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain later this year and would represent a coup for the corporation.

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BBC Totally Excited: Pope Might Do TFD *

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‘A papal broadcast would delight BBC executives and the country’s four million Catholics.’ … Read the rest



The Vatican Itself Helped Spawn the Problem *

Feb 18th, 2010 | Filed by

By hushing upclerical abuse and putting its own prestige above the welfare of millions of children.… Read the rest



Does the US Need a Special Envoy to the OIC? *

Feb 18th, 2010 | Filed by

The OIC is dedicated to supplementing the UDHR with a sharia-compliant version.… Read the rest



MSF Cites Bangladesh for Rohingya Crackdown *

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‘We have treated many victims of violent attacks, who tell us they have been beaten by police.’… Read the rest



Martin Ssempa Screens Gay Porn Film in Church *

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In attempt to gain support for vicious new legislation.… Read the rest



BBC on Pope’s Meeting With Irish Bishops *

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Pope invited bishops ‘to explain why so many cases had been systematically covered up.’… Read the rest



The pope invited the bishops to explain

Feb 18th, 2010 5:20 am | By

It really is extraordinary how deferential the news media are toward the Vatican and how completely they are letting the pope get away with pretending to be outraged by the fact that the Irish church concealed sexual abuse of children when in fact the pope told them to do exactly that less than a decade ago. It really is extraordinary the way journalists simply fail to point that out. One is tempted to think they’re not doing their jobs properly.

Pope Benedict spent two days in one of the Vatican’s sumptuous marble audience halls closeted with 24 Irish bishops who both individually and collectively confessed to him their shortcomings and omissions in the paedophile clergy scandal which has shocked the

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Why Did UK Not Ban ‘Bomb Detectors’ Sooner? *

Feb 17th, 2010 | Filed by

The British government imposed an export ban on the devices only after the BBC investigation.… Read the rest



WLUML Statement in Support of Gita Sahgal *

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Sahgal has devoted her career to exposing rights violations in Britain, South Asia and internationally.… Read the rest



North Carolina: Xian Students Harrass Teacher *

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Science teacher was given Bible, postcard of Jesus; students sang ‘Jesus Loves Me’ in class.… Read the rest



Scotland: Violence Against Women is Justified *

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Most students said it was justified if the woman had an affair, or if she was late in making the tea. … Read the rest



Poland: 22d Exorcists’ Congress Meets *

Feb 17th, 2010 | Filed by

Participants argued that demonology lessons should be treated more seriously in seminaries.… Read the rest