A great podcast by Ian Kath

clipped from yourstorypodcast.com

Your Story Ep 32 : Andrew. Trash Video, Film Making and Filipino Search for Wang Wang.

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My mate Ian Kath (@iankath) who joined me on last week’s live podcast, does his own terrific podcast “Your Story”. I listened to his most recent episode where he interview Andrew Leavold, owner of Brisbane’s infamous “Trash Video”. It’s a terrific story about a guy with a passion for obscure films who realizes his dream to own a boutique video store but it’s more than that. Andrew also is making a documentary about forgotten Filipino “midget-xploitation” film star “Weng Weng”. You have to check out the clips on Ian’s site to realize how brilliant this guy was. An 84cm-tall action film star who made James Bond spoofs – as the James Bond character. And listen to Andrew’s story, it’s one of the most entertaining podcasts I’ve heard in ages.

Particles Have “Free Will”?

clipped from www.princeton.edu

The gist of it is this: They say they have proved that if humans have free will, then elementary particles — like atoms and electrons — possess free will as well.
Princeton mathematician John Conway (best known in geek circles for his “Game Of Life“) and his colleague Princeton mathematician Simon Kochen, are apparently about to give a series of lectures in which they intend to demonstrate that elementary particles have “free will”. However the advance press is quoting them as saying that these particles have free will “if humans have free will”, which, of course, I have demonstrated many times that we DO NOT.

I’ll have to invite Conway onto the show to debate this in more detail. He and Kochen are obviously super-smart guys, so I look forward to seeing what evidence they have that humans have free will, let alone elementary particles.

17 Catholic Priests In One Diocese Accused Of Sexual Molestation!

clipped from www.pressdemocrat.com

Oswald was the 17th priest in the Santa Rosa diocese to have been accused of sexual molestation, church officials have said. The church has acknowledged paying nearly $25 million to an undisclosed number of people who asserted they were molested by at least six priests. Most victims were preteen boys when the incidents were alleged to have occurred.

The Roman Catholic Diocese in Santa Rosa, California, has agreed to pay out another $1.3 million to settle another two sexual abuse lawsuits. The most shocking paragraph in this story, however, is the one above. SEVENTEEN PRIESTS IN THE ONE DIOCESE HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MOLESTATION???!!

Tell me why the authorities haven’t stepped in and SHUT THE PLACE DOWN? That is what you call ENDEMIC. Something is broken. Of course, I argue that the Catholic Church is broken, full stop. It needs to be held to account for its crimes, just like an Enron or an AIG.

John Pilger on “The News” and the US Agenda

Watch this video from Australian journalist John Pilger if you’re at all interested in where our modern “news” organisations came from, why they can’t be trusted, and how they support the agenda of the elite, both Republican and Democrat, Liberal and Labor. This is one of the most inspiring speeches I have heard in a long, long time.

clipped from http://www.wikileaks.org/

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