Friday, 24 September 2010 08:01 'After a six-month test, Italy's government will drop the use of full-body scanners for security checks in airports, judging them slow and ineffective, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported Thursday. The scanners in the airports of Rome, Venice and the southern city of Palermo are no longer in use, and Milan's airport is likely to stop using the machines in the near future.' Friday, 24 September 2010 07:50 'Thinking about selling your house - A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill) This is unbelievable! Only the beginning from this administration! Home owners take note & tell your friends and relatives who are home owners! Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced. The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 per year.' Friday, 24 September 2010 07:45 Friday, 24 September 2010 07:41 'Mark your calendars. This week goes down in history as the most bizarre health news weeks in the history of the mainstream media. I've noticed more truly strange and illogical health stories this week from the conventional press than ever before, and I'll share a few of those with you below.' Read more: Media Goes Crazy With Bizarre Health News Friday, 24 September 2010 07:29 'Bono's anti-poverty foundation ONE is under pressure to explain its finances after it was revealed that only a small percentage of money it raises reaches the needy. The non-profit organisation set up by the U2 frontman received almost £9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed out only £118,000 to good causes (1.2 per cent). The figures published by the New York Post also show that £5.1million went towards paying salaries.' Read more: Bono's ONE Foundation Under Fire for Giving Little Over 1% of Funds to Charity Friday, 24 September 2010 07:13 'US President Barack Obama is the latest voice from the “great and good” to bemoan the lack of achievement in the United Nation’s Millennium goals, first declared 10 years ago, to drastically reduce world poverty and generate sustainable development. Earlier in the week, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and ex-UN chief Kofi Annan espoused similar sentiments of disappointment with the fight against poverty and all its miseries. Welcome to the Theatre of Absurd. Here we have the very managers and apologists for the economic system that generates poverty and environmental destruction on a massive scale seeming to lament those manifestations. Not only that, but they affect a demeanour of brooding puzzlement over why poverty remains so entrenched across the world, with over one billion people (and counting) deprived of basic necessities for a decent life.' Read more: Obama Deplores World Poverty: Welcome to the Theatre of Absurd Friday, 24 September 2010 05:27 'Israel threatens to decide against potential military cooperation with Russia, outraged at Moscow's refusal to cancel its weapons sales to Syria. "We will have to reconsider all the proposed deals with Russia. Moscow did not show the needed understanding to our requests," the British aerospace weekly Flight International quoted a senior Israeli official as saying on Wednesday.' Read more: Israel Threatens Russia Over Syria Thursday, 23 September 2010 10:17 'International police networks are needed to thwart the radicalization of the world's youth, the head of Interpol said Tuesday in Paris. Interpol Secretary-General Ronald K. Noble told those attending the Association of Chiefs of Police summit the Internet has made it easier for terrorist organizations to radicalize youth. And the worldwide nature of the Internet, he said, requires a global law enforcement response.' Read more: Here Come the Global Police Force 'The United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization, better known as Interpol, have been meeting to discuss the formation of a worldwide police operation that would have access to a global database of DNA, biometric and fingerprint records. At the centre of these discussions is Ronald K Noble, an advisor to the Chinese government on policing major events and the man who agreed to the attacks on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993 when 56 men and women and 20 children were burned to death or shot by the federal government of Bill Clinton. Noble was Undersecretary for Enforcement at the United States Department of the Treasury and after the horrors at Waco he worked to suppress the truth of what really happened. Noble was selected to become secretary general of Interpol by Clinton’s attorney general, Janet Reno, another architect of the Waco mass murder.' - David Icke, Human Race Get Off Your Knees, page 538. Thursday, 23 September 2010 09:04
This is all very well - but Dawkins himself is a wide-eyed evangelist for his own religion of Scientism which has its own unyielding dogma and ridicules and seeks to undermine anyone who has a different version of reality to his set-in-concrete this-world-is-all-there-is belief system.
Dawkins, too, is an 'enemy of education', a term he uses against the Pope here, because he would be just as aghast and outraged at other views about the nature of reality being taught in schools as the Pope would be about students being taught that Roman Catholic beliefs are flawed and mistaken.
This is a case of the kettle calling the teapot, as the saying goes.
Friday, 24 September 2010
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