The Royal Navy and Satanism - Freedom of Religion.

Royal Navy to allow devil worship

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A devil-worshipping sailor in the Royal Navy has become the first registered Satanist in the British Armed Forces. Chris Cranmer, 24, a technician serving on the Type 22 frigate Cumberland, has been officially recognized as a Satanist by the ship's captain. That allows him to perform satanic rituals aboard and permits him to have a non-Christian Church of Satan funeral should he be killed in action. A spokesman for Britain's Ministry of Defence told CNN Sunday that it had a duty to allow members of the forces to practice their religion. He added that the MoD was an "equal opportunities employer" which did not stop anyone having their own religious values. "The Royal Navy allows this kind of approach because it is clearly in line with current regulations. We are not aware of any other individuals who want to be registered as Satanists."

(CNN)

Freedom of Religion is alive and well in the U.K.

A PEDOFILIA EM PORTUGAL

A report finished in 1999 from the SIS (Information and Security Service), which I found at Do Portugal Profundo (In Portuguese), about child molestation in Portugal.
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It is time to protect those who are least able to protect themselves

José Manuel Durão Barroso

Hard Nose
Incoming European Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso has stared down soldiers and tamed Portugal's budget. His greatest challenge lies ahead
By Karen Lowry Miller

When Barroso's first transition adviser, Brussels insider Mario David, heard that Barroso might have a rough go in parliamentary approval hearings, David insisted that the normally closed sessions be made public. This played to Barroso's strengths: he fielded questions in several languages, made self-deprecating jokes and won the M.E.P.s over by a vote of 413 to 251.

Europe soon got a hint of what Barroso is made of when it came to selecting his commission. The big powers, including France, Germany, Britain and Italy, demanded the posts governing internal markets or competition, which will be critical to the reform process. So Barroso denied them all and gave the posts to small countries. He spoke personally to the leaders of all the European member states about their nominees, and, he says, insisted that at least three change their choices. "Voices were raised," says a close aide. Yet so deft was Barroso's bargaining, even the French and Germans insist they are now pleased. One suspects he will settle the Buttiglione brouhaha just as easily. As for his broader agenda, Tim Evans, a prominent liberal analyst, says that "once or twice a century you get a politician who makes a profound difference," and that Barroso "could just have the sheer will to change the direction of Europe." The moment is right. Is the man?

(Newsweek)

Our ex-prime minister seems to have his work cut out for him!

Another use for Depleted Uranium

Depleted Uranium Released During Canadian Plane Crash
Little-Known Use of DU in Commercial Jets Exposed
By Christopher Bollyn

The recent crash of a Boeing 747 in Halifax, Canada, raises a number of questions about the use of depleted uranium (DU) in airplanes, public health concerns and the 9-11 attacks. When a Boeing 747 crashed and burned on takeoff at Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, on Oct. 14, an official accident investigator said the aircraft probably contained radioactive depleted uranium. Bill Fowler, an investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said the plane was likely equipped with DU as counterweights in its wings and rudder. “A 747 may contain as much as 1,500 kilograms [3,300 lbs.] of the material,” the Canadian Press reported. It took 60 firefighters and 20 trucks about three hours to control the fire. Fowler said: “there is no threat or concern” about DU exposure to those working on the wreckage. “That’s baloney,” Marion Fulk, a retired staff scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Lab, told American Free Press. Fulk, 83, is currently researching how low-level ionizing radiation causes cancer, birth defects and a host of other health problems. Burning depleted uranium creates a “whole mess of oxides,” Fulk said, “which is what makes it so wicked biologically.”

(www.americanfreepress.net)

One has to wonder where else depleted uranium is being used. We seem to live in the world of the three monkeys...
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil

Found This on the Uncommon Thought Journal

The lighter side of life

Search and rescue operation leads to apartment

EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) -- TV hardly gets much better than this.

An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old Toshiba Corporation
flat-screen TV was emitting an international distress signal picked up by a satellite, leading a search and rescue operation to his apartment in Corvallis, Oregon, 70 miles south of Portland. The signal from Chris van Rossmann's TV was routed by satellite to the Air Force Rescue Center at Langley Air Base in Virginia. On October 2, the 20 year-old college student was visited at his apartment in the small university town by a contingent of local police, civil air patrol and search and rescue personnel.

(CNN)

Remind me to turn the TV off...

Brazil and Nuclear Energy

Brazil Reacts Angrily to Report on Nukes

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazil on Friday denounced a U.S. magazine report saying Brazil's uranium enrichment plant will give it the potential to build nuclear warheads. In its latest issue, Science magazine said that Brazil's uranium enrichment plant in Resende, about 60 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, will be able to refine enough uranium to build up to six nuclear warheads. The report said that at its "announced capacity" the plant will be able to enrich enough uranium "to make five to six implosion-type warheads per year. By 2010, as capacity rises, it could make enough every year for 26 to 31 and by 2014 enough for 53 to 63."

But the president of Brazil's National Nuclear Energy Commission, Odair Dias Goncalves, called the magazine's arguments "frivolous." "They can only be the result of misinformation or motivated by shadowy interests," he said. "Both motives are incompatible with the tradition of such a prestigious magazine like Science." The magazine report, "Brazil's Nuclear Puzzle," was written by two writers from the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. Goncalves said the Resende plant was designed to enrich uranium to low levels for fuel to generate nuclear power plants. For nuclear warheads, he said, the uranium has to be enriched to 90 percent, "and we simply do not have the technology for that."

(news.yahoo.com)

When a Stranger comes to town.

Stranger moves in, redecorates while woman's on vacation

DOUGLASVILLE, Georgia (AP) -- A woman came home from vacation to find a stranger living there, wearing her clothes, changing utilities into her name and even
ripping out carpet and repainting a room she didn't like, authorities said. Douglas County authorities say they can't explain why Beverly Valentine, 54, broke into an empty home and started acting like it was her own. During the 21/2 weeks the owner, Beverly Mitchell, was on vacation in Greece, Valentine allegedly redecorated the ranch home, ripping up carpet and taking down the owner's pictures and replacing them with her own. Mitchell was a complete unknown to Valentine, said Chief Sheriff's Deputy Stan Copeland. He said he had no idea how Valentine knew Mitchell was gone.

"In 28 years, I've never seen something this strange," Copeland said

(CNN)

The John Kerry endorsement?

Terrorists Endorse Kerry

"Praise be to Allah, it increased the joy in our hearts that John Kerry, the presidential candidate criticized the Bush governmentfor taking so long in making this declaration. The one who may be president of America [John Kerry] is already struck with terror by our brothers from the Tawheed wal-Jihad Movement[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group]. The repeated atacks that have targetted the evil Bush are now echoing on Kerry, even though he is not yet a president. This is what Allah means when he commands us to 'terrorize your enemy and the enemy of Allah."

(The PDF document at globalterroralert.com)

Thanks to the Outside the Beltway

I don't know what to make of this. Fact or Fiction? The circus has definately come to town

Hostage Margaret Hassan

Aid worker pleads for UK Iraq withdrawal

The aid worker said she did not want to 'die like Bigley'. Hostage Margaret Hassan has made an emotional appeal for British forces to withdraw from Iraq in a video broadcast on Aljazeera TV. "Please help me, please help me," Hassan, who works for aid agency Care International, was shown saying while crying. "This might be my last hour." "Please, the British people, ask Mr Blair to take the troops out of Iraq and not to bring them here to Baghdad ... That's why people like Mr Bigley and myself are being caught," she said, referring to British captive Kenneth Bigley, who was decapitated by his captors earlier this month. "Maybe ... I will die like Mr Bigley," Irish-born Hassan appealed, before burying her head in her hands in tears.

Hassan, has lived in Iraq for 30 years and holds Iraqi, Irish and British citizenship. She was kidnapped in Baghdad on Tuesday

(aljazeera.net)

This saga has no end in sight. Hostages kidnapped and then murdered for the world to see. The "Big Brother" show of the 21st century. It doesn't shock me anymore. Instead it leaves me so angry I can barely contain it. These cretins have gone way too far. Not only do they totally disregard the tenets of a religion they profess to follow but so to any other human standard of dignity and moral.

And for what?

They are obviously not stupid. They know that their demands will not be meet. So they do it for the shock value it has on those watching at home...

Couldn't agree more...

NEGATIVE EXPOSURE

Now that George Bush and John Kerry no longer have to face one another, they have also decided to turn their backs on facts and reasoned argument, as they continue to campaign across our nation's battleground states.

At a rally with the faithful in New Jersey, President Bush attacked Kerry, saying, "In our debate a few weeks ago, he declared when we went into Iraq, there were three
countries: Great Britain, Australia, and the United States. He left out Poland." With that, he gave considerable pause to some undecided polka musicians standing nearby.

At least the senator wasn't resorting to scare tactics, unless, of course, you have ever known an elderly person or a mother. He told the crowd at a speech in Florida, "With senior citizens standing in line for hours, mothers frantic about how to protect their children, the president gave the public his solution: don't get a flu shot." To drive his point home, the senator then sneezed on everyone in the front row.

As it happens, President Bush was also in Florida – there’s just something about that state that makes the candidates want to focus on it - but unlike Senator Kerry, the president decided to let his opponent's own liberal words destroy him, saying, "He doesn't like that label. He dismisses it as just a word. He must have seen it differently when he told a newspaper, 'I am a liberal and proud of it.'" Perhaps it is possible that Senator Kerry could have seen things a bit differently when he said that. After all, it was in July of 1991.

Though the candidates’ sometimes misleading statements of possible fact could be a matter of honest misinterpretation, when it comes to what can only be described as the most egregious lie told on the campaign trail to date, that honor goes to President George W. Bush, who said, "It is great to be back in the state of New Jersey."

Both candidates also invoked the name of an earlier beloved president, although for different reasons. Bush said, "After the war was over, Harry S. Truman, president of the United States, believed that liberty could transform an enemy into an ally." Meanwhile, elsewhere in Florida, Kerry offered, "In a message that was sent to congress nearly 60 years ago, president Harry Truman said, and I quote, we should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern." The two candidates then returned to bitchslapping each other after learning that Harry Truman was dead and therefore ineligible to vote.

(The Daily Show Headlines)

Serious political debate is all but dead in the U.S. presidential elections. Here we have two candidates whose greatest strengths seem to be the verbal attacks against the opposite number. Is this the best that the "inspirational" U.S. democracy can dish up? I'm at times horrified by the lack of class in these two candidates.

And then I remember Abraham Lincoln

"Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."

Rua da Judiaria

Cabala - as Morfologias de um Velho Ódio

"A palavra cabala é um dos vocábulos da língua portuguesa onde a linguística e a filologia se intersectam com o fanatismo histórico e a intolerância. E com o antisemitismo institucional que durante séculos vigorou em Portugal graças à
Inquisição"

Um post excelente na Rua da Judiaria sobre a palavra "Cabala".

As usual we may have the cat by the Tail!

Scientists ponder the problem with gravity
By Robert Roy Britt

Imagine the weight of a nagging suspicion that what held your world together, a constant and consistent presence you had come to understand and rely on, wasn't what it seemed. That's how scientists feel when they ponder gravity these days. For more than three centuries, the basics of gravity were pretty well understood. Newton described the force as depending on an object's mass. Though it extends infinitely, gravity weakens with distance (specifically, by the inverse square of the distance). Einstein built on these givens in developing his theory of relativity. Then more than a decade ago a researcher noticed something funny about two Pioneer spacecraft that were streaming toward the edge of the solar system. They weren't where they should have been. Something was holding the probes back, according to calculations of their paths, speed and how the gravity of all the objects in the solar system — and even a tiny push provided by sunlight — ought to act on them. Now scientists have proposed a new mission to figure out what's up with gravity.

Staggering possibilities

Pioneer 10 and 11 launched in 1972 and 1973. Today each is several billion miles away, heading in opposite directions out of the solar system. The discrepancy caused by the anomaly amounts to about 248,500 miles (400,000 kilometers), or roughly the distance between Earth and the moon. That's how much farther the probes should have traveled in their 34 years, if our understanding of gravity is correct. (The distance figure is an oversimplification of the actual measurements, but more on that in a moment.) Scientists are quick to suggest the Pioneer anomaly, as they call it, is probably caused by the space probes themselves, perhaps emitting heat or gas. But the possibilities have been tested and modeled and penciled out, and so far
they don't add up. Which leaves open staggering possibilities that would force wholesale reprinting of all physics books:

- Invisible dark matter is tugging at the probes
- Other dimensions create small forces we don't understand
- Gravity works differently than we think

(www.msnbc.msn.com)

Reminds of one of my favorite quotes " There is more in heven and hell, Horatio, than is dream't of in your philosophies"

Spain Disrupts Terror Plot

Islamic Radicals Planned to Blow Up Court Complex

By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service

PARIS, Oct. 19 -- Spanish authorities said Tuesday they disrupted a plot by a cell of Islamic radicals to blow up a Madrid court complex that serves as the home for the country's top anti-terrorism investigators and judges. Police arrested eight suspects in six different cities on Monday and Tuesday in an effort to break up the cell, which was composed primarily of people with criminal records, according to statements released by the Spanish Interior Ministry. Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said the suspects were planning an attack on the National Court building in Madrid. "Police are not ruling out other possible targets," he told reporters Tuesday.

Authorities carried out searches in several locations across Spain but said they did not find any explosives or signs that an attack was imminent. Investigators also said they found no evidence to suggest that the alleged plotters were connected with the train bombings in Madrid in March that killed 191 people. The Interior Ministry said the cell included four Algerians and one Moroccan. Some members of the group had been in touch recently with individuals in other European countries, as well as the United States and Australia, according to ministry officials, who did not elaborate on the contacts or give other details about the alleged plot.

(www.washingtonpost.com)

Other Reports of the same Story
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(www.cbsnews.com)
(Reuters)


So much for pulling their troops out of Iraq to prevent futher attacks. What was at the time, a classic knee-jerk reaction, is now proving to have been useless. All countries are viable targets...

The price for helping Iraq...

Charity worker kidnapped in Iraq

The humanitarian aid group Care International today announced that the British-born head of its Iraqi operation had been kidnapped in Baghdad. Al-Jazeera, the Arabic language news channel, later broadcast a video of Margaret Hassan - an Iraqi national - who was abducted this morning. Ms Hassan had been working for Care in Iraq for more than a decade. The Reuters news agency said the video showed her sitting in a room, looking anxious. No audio could be heard. The station showed close-ups of her identification cards, and said the video had been accompanied by a claim of responsibility from an unnamed Iraqi group.

Earlier, a spokesman for Care International confirmed that Ms Hassan, who was employed by Care Australia, had been kidnapped at 7.30am local time (0930 BST) today. Although born in the UK, she has lived in Iraq for 30 years. Spokesman Robert Glasser told Sky News that, as far as the charity knew, Ms Hassan was unharmed. Officials were being careful not to reveal too many details, fearing that could jeopardise Ms Hassan's chances of being released.

(www.guardian.co.uk)


Other News Sites with the same Story
(www.abc.net.au)
(www.reuters.co.uk)


Is this the price that humanitarian aid organisations are going to keep on paying for helping Iraq?

What the Bleep Do We Know?

"WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?!” is a new type of film. It is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality.

She is literally plunged into a swirl of chaotic occurrences, while the characters she encounters on this odyssey reveal the deeper, hidden knowledge she doesn’t even realize she has asked for. Like every hero, Amanda is thrown into crisis, questioning the fundamental premises of her life – that the reality she has believed in about how men are, how relationships with others should be, and how her emotions are affecting her work isn’t reality at all!"
"http://www.whatthebleep.com"

I´m keen to see this one. Seems the critics can't decide wether it's a good or not, but that's usual...

(www.usatoday.com)
(www.filmjournal.com)
(seattlepi.nwsource.com)

Oil Prices Fall...

Bush vs Kerry...

The Battle of the Bulge

Found this at Gregorian Rants

Global defense spending!

World --------------------------- $950 billion(2004 estimate)
Rest-of-World [all but USA] -- $500 billion(2004 estimate)

(www.globalsecurity.org)

That's around $150 for every man,woman and child on the planet.

John Stewart and "The Daily Show"

'The Daily Show' covers America in a hilarious book
Frazier Moore

NEW YORK - Jon Stewart knows the key to democracy is an informed electorate. How he acts on this knowledge is another matter. Some would say "The Daily Show," a fake newscast where he's the phony anchorman, is a half-hour of silliness meant to poke fun at politicians and everyone else who warrants it, with no higher goal than making you laugh. Others argue that, by accepting the presidential race on its own twisted terms, "The Daily Show" can treat you to rare moments of clarity - while making you laugh, too. "The Daily Show" makes a convincing case that, with journalism, bogus is the new real. But even in a political season when fact and fantasy seem more interchangeable than usual, Stewart shoots down any notion that "The Daily Show" is some kind of truth teller.

(www.azcentral.com)


Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, left, and CNN's Tucker Carlson, getting cross with each other on "Crossfire," which Carlson hosts with Paul Begala.

Jon Stewart and Tucker Carlson got into a brawl yesterday when the faux newsman began to lecture CNN's Richie Rich about journalism on the cable news network's "Crossfire."

Stewart, who set the tone by asking Carlson why he and Paul Begala argue so much on the show, noted that he made a "special effort" to come on the daily program, in which hosts representing the political left and right scream at each other. Stewart said he made this special effort because he has said so publicly, so often that "Crossfire" is very, very bad.

"I felt that wasn't fair, and I should come here and tell you that it's not so much that it's bad, as it's hurting America," Stewart told Carlson and Begala. "So I wanted to come here today and say . . . stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America. "You're helping the politicians and the corporations."

"By beating up on them?" Begala asked, one of the few times he got involved in yesterday's melee. "You just said we're too rough on them when they make mistakes."

"No, you're not too tough on them. You're part of their strategies. You are partisan -- what you call it? -- hacks!" Stewart snapped.

But Carlson had a trick or two up his sleeve, noting that on "Crossfire" they ask politicians "pointed questions." "I want to contrast our questions with some questions you asked John Kerry recently."

At that moment, up on the screen popped some of the questions Stewart had asked the candidate when he appeared on "The Daily Show," Stewart's Comedy Central late-night program. "If you want to compare your show to a comedy show, you're more than welcome to," Stewart sneered.

(www.washingtonpost.com)


'Daily Show' viewers ace political quiz
Survey reveals late-night TV viewers better informed
By Bryan Long

Viewers of Stewart, Letterman and Leno scored better on a quiz of political knowledge than people who do not watch late-night comedy. One turns on Jay Leno. One tunes into David Letterman. And the other watches Jon Stewart. Who's better informed politically?

In a recent survey, viewers of Stewart's "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central tested better than Letterman and Leno viewers on a six-question politics quiz. Viewers of all three shows know more about the background of presidential candidates and their positions on issues than people who don't watch late-night TV. On top of that, "Daily Show" viewers know more about election issues than people who regularly read newspapers or watch television news, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey.

(CNN.com)

The Daily Show is one of my weekly Must See. Fortunately here in Portugal we can watch on SIC Radical (a cable TV channel).

THE DAILY SHOW