by cameron | Mar 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
An interesting article in the Washington Post today, written by a Catholic, which calls for the impeachment of Pope Benedict. I’d like to see this go one step further – the Catholics, and all other religious sects, should be forced to abide by the same laws as any other business. That means abolishing any practice which is discriminatory on the grounds of gender or sexual preference. That means mens rea charges are brought against them for inciting their “flock” to commit crimes (which is exactly what the Pope is doing when he instructs men in Africa not to use condoms) or for helping child molesters in your ranks avoid charges being brought against them for their crimes, thereby allowing them to continue committing them.
Calling yourself a religion should no longer be a get out of jail free card for criminal behaviour.
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Let’s start a movement within the Catholic Church to impeach Pope Benedict XVI and remove him from office. While we’re at it, let’s replace him with a woman.
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I am a Catholic and the idea that such a man is God’s spokesperson on earth is absurd to me.
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by cameron | Mar 18, 2009 | climate change, Podcast
This episode was recorded LIVE on Tuesday March 17, 2009. We have an audience following in a chat room on the G’Day World uStream page and my guests include:
Ian Kath – The Polyamorist
Nick Beaugeard – The Climate Change Skeptic
and
Kate Edwards – The Polyamory Skeptic
by cameron | Mar 18, 2009 | climate change, Uncategorized
George Monbiot’s article today says that climate scientists around the world are mostly in agreement that it’s too late. We’ve squandered any opportunity we might have had in the last decade to mitigate climate change by curbing our CO2 emissions. And last night on G’Day World Live I was *still* debating with Nick Beaugeard about whether or not climate change was caused by humans. The recording of that show, which also features Ian Kath and Kate Edwards discussing polyamory, will be up shortly this morning.
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Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere
are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than 2C
of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the
opportunities squandered by denial and delay. On current trajectories
we’ll be lucky to get away with 4C. Mitigation (limiting greenhouse gas
pollution) has failed; now we must adapt to what nature sends our way.
If we can.
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by cameron | Mar 17, 2009 | Uncategorized, Wikileaks
The Australian Government is officially fascist. They have officially stepped way, WAY over the line. There is no way they can justify blacklisting the Wikileaks site on the basis of “protecting the children from pornographers”. This is straight-up abuse of power, as Asher Moses points out in his article on the SMH:
Last week, Reporters Without Borders, in its regular report on enemies of internet freedom, placed Australia on its “watch list” of countries imposing anti-democratic internet restrictions that could open the way for abuses of power and control of information.
I wonder if ACMA considers it illegal to post TinyURLs to banned sites?
I wonder if its illegal to stick up posters on walls with the urls of banned sites?
I wonder if its illegal to stand in the street and speak the name of a banned url out loud?
I wonder if it’s illegal to even think the url of a banned site?
Read more below:
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The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people
who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further
expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower
site Wikileaks.
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Wikileaks was added to the blacklist for publishing a leaked
document containing Denmark’s list of banned websites.
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by cameron | Mar 16, 2009 | GDay World Live, science
So… I’ll be doing another live show tomorrow night (ie Tuesday) at 8pm QLD time / 9pm Sydney time. Put it in your diary and log in here. Will hopefully be road testing a new co-host (@joshuawithers), a Christian radio DJ, so that should provide some fun!
On the advice of Rai, I’ve got a rough plan. Each week, the live show will contain the following (roughly 15 minute long) segments:
BAD RELIGION – a story exploring how religious folks are a danger to us all
THE MASTER PLAN – a recent story concerning the game plan of the global elite
SCIENCE WORKS – a story from the world of science, unlocking the secrets of the ‘verse
CAM’S LIBRARY – as you know, I read a lot. So I thought I’m share one of the books I’m reading at the moment.
I’m going to try to set it up so you can actually come ONTO the show as well, audio style. Either just using uStream or via Skype. So if you’re interested in being on the show, let me know.
Hope you’ll join me.
