So appalling has the UN become that even its slavish worshippers in Europe are beginning to notice. The Guardian reports that, according to a new study by the European Council on Foreign Relations, The west's efforts to use the United Nations to promote its values and shape the global agenda are failing... Fancy! A sea change in the balance of power in favour of China, India, Russia and other emerging states is wrecking European and US efforts to entrench human rights, liberties and multilateralism. Western policies in crisis regions as diverse as Georgia, Zimbabwe, Burma or the Balkans are suffering serial defeats in what the study identifies as a protracted trend. The haemorrhaging of western power, as reflected in longer-term voting patterns in key UN bodies, is mirrored by the increasing clout of China, Russia and One further point about the current hysteria over creationism. Much of it of course has centred around Sarah Palin, who is constantly misrepresented as believing in creationism – the belief that the world was literally created in six days -- when there has been no indication that, along with millions of people who believe in God, she believes in anything other than a Creator. All she has ever been recorded as saying on the subject is that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in schools -- and all she meant by that, she explained, was that discussion of alternative views should be allowed to arise in Alaska classrooms: ‘I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn't have to be part of the curriculum’. Yet when the
Thursday, 18th September 2008
Sadder -- but wiser?
...The creation of hysteria
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Thursday, 18 September 2008
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