Pope says condoms can be justified for male prostitutes

I found this story somewhat bizarre. I will clarify that I have a great deal of respect for members of the Catholic Church and for the office of Pope. Both are clearly trying to make this world a better place.

The Catholic church has always maintained a strict position on no birth control and no divorce. Their position on divorce was what triggered King Henry to start his own church that would allow divorce so he wouldn't have to keep executing his ex's.

The no birth control position does seem a bit extreme. Yet the new declaration seems even stranger. After generations of saying no divorce and no birth control for married couples, the Pope announces that in some cases condoms may be used. Male prostitutes may use them to help prevent the spread of Aids. Where on earth did that come from?

So not only is it OK for a male prostitute to use a condom but not a married couple who can't afford to have more children, but it's somehow OK to be a male prostitute? I'm kinda scratching my head over this one.

I'm totally OK with revelation. I'm fine with giving new instructions to a changing world. I'm just having trouble processing this new exemption. It's OK for a male prostitute to use a condom but it's not OK for a female prostitute to give one to her John? There seems to be many strange things about this new rule.

I will add that the media reports that the Pope made this statement when discussing his new book and claims the Pope accepts responsibility for this decision as an individual not on behalf of the church. I guess I'm just a little confused.

Nevertheless, the world will still turn and good Catholics will remain good Catholics and contributing members of society within our crazy world that just got a little bit crazier.

Huge Fire in Shanghai Tower

A huge fire engulfed a Shanghai high rise building on Monday which burned for hours and gutted the building. Last count the death toll was 53. It's amazing more people weren't killed. This is what happens when a steel framed tower burns for several hours.

This is not what happens when a steel frame building burns. The Third Tower in New York did not fall due to heat and fire. Explosions were heard going off and Larry Silverstein admitted they Pulled the building.

Chemical Weapons in Iran

I guess this photo could be labeled Judas' kiss of death in the form of a handshake. Donald Rumsfeld setting up Saddam Hussein.

I spoke with a lady at work recently who was from Iran. She left with her husband and young children during the Iran Iraq war. I mentioned the fact that the Americans had sold Iraq chemical weapons to use on Iran during that war and she started to explain the effects of those chemical weapons used on civilians in Iran.

She said it was mustard gas. I was a bit surprised but recall hearing that mustard gas was commonly used in World War One. My grandfather had mustard gas burns on his back from the trenches of that war.

She explained the horrible condition Iran was in when they escaped. She said they dropped mustard gas on entire villages. She said it was horrible. People would swell up huge and there were birth defects for generations.

Despite the fact that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq after the US invasion, Saddam Hussein was hanged for using mustard gas on Kurds in northern Iraq during a 1987-88 campaign known as the Anfal. Yet the Americans sold him the Mustard gas to use on Iran and that was fine with them at the time. Somewhat hypocritical.

Iran may be politically unstable but England and America has always been the root of that instability. When they hanged Saddam, they forgot to hang his accomplices.

Don't get me wrong. Stalin was evil but so was Hitler. A right wing dictator is no better than a left wing dictator. Both have used false flag attacks to deceive the masses.

Pearl Harbor

I saw a clip from the movie pearl harbor last night. Indeed it was very dramatic and soul stirring. Seeing young wounded soldiers cry out they didn't want to die was stirring. Almost as stirring as hearing the same innocent cries from Japanese children surrounding Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obviously all the men women and children that were murdered in those cities died instantly. Except for all the ones living on the boundary of the explosions that died to radiation sickness. Thus the story of the paper crane.

Most people are so outraged by the very thought of a false flag attack that they will refuse to discuss it. Yet Hitler used false flag attacks twice to deceive his nation. First he had his soldiers bomb parliament and blame it on terrorists to rationalize giving him extra emergency powers of a chancellor. Then he bombed one of his own radio stations and blamed it on Poland to justify invading Poland. The rest is history.

Operation Northwoods was a declassified intelligence document defining treason on paper. That document was not speculation. It does exist and needs to be addressed.

It is important to realize that Pearl Harbor was not unprovoked. The US put a naval blockade on Japan so Japan attacked a Navy base. I will add that Japan attacked a military base while the Americans attacked a city full of civilians, twice. Nevertheless, recalling the air support for the USS Liberty was indeed shocking.

Photos of Earth from the Space Station

Here's a picture of the Nile and the Red sea from space.

Sales are down at the Royal Mail

Well Moya Greene is at it again. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised yet it's so disheartening. Someone from the UK posted on my blog about Moya Greene being a virtual axe murder. He claimed that Moya Greene has already laid off his wife at the Royal Mail. She worked in sales. Nice Christmas present Moya.

My first response was the adage that Moya Greene has no concept of business revenue. If you cut all your services you will reduce your business revenue. I bumped into a former coworker at the Post Office the next day. I told him about Moya Greene laying off sales staff in the UK. His response was automatic.

Of course. They want to privatize it. They lay off the sales staff and then complain sales are down so they'll have to privatize. He's right. We know their MO here. Now they are doing the same thing in England. They are killing profits which will rationalize them privatizing it so they can avoid being publicly accountable.

There are some people who are so opposed to publicly owned anything they will spend billions of taxpayers dollars to privatize public services just so it is private not public. This political group has two sections. One section believes that the private sector is more financially responsible than the public sector and can do a better job at making a profit than the public sector. They are primarily concerned with profits. They don't want a publicly run service to be a cost burden on the public.

The other group are crude business sharks who covet the huge salaries of private sector CEOs at the public expense. They flatter the others with talk of profits but they are simply interested in circumventing public accountability. They are not concerned with what's in the public interest.

Take Moya Greene for example. She claims the private sector doesn't want to be told anything by the public and sees the public as stupid in the area of downsizing, implementing new technology, and strategic planning. Turning a profit making tax paying revenue creating corporation into a hollow shell billions in debt is not strategic planning.

Those are lies to convince the other section of the privatization group that circumventing public accountability by killing profits is somehow a good thing.

Take note England: Moya Greene is laying off sales staff so she can then complain sales are down and privatize the Royal Mail. It's sabotage.



Remember Remember the 5th of November!

Gordon Campbell steps down

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell is stepping down and has asked his party to hold a leadership convention. Campbell made the announcement during a surprise news conference Wednesday morning in Vancouver. This should be a national holiday. Oh Happy Day!!!