Vatican: Pope discovers yet another scapegoat

They’ve tried blaming the devil. They’ve tried blaming atheists. They’ve tried blaming the Seventies. Now it’s capitalism’s turn:

Australia: ‘My headmaster made me a pedophile’

If I get him the wool, will he make me one too?

Australia: Catholic sect admits supporting and covering up pedophilia

THE Christian Brothers admit they were aware of abuse complaints against two brothers at Ballarat in Victoria but failed to tell police.

Scotland: Jewish event cancelled after threats made by Muslims

Why bother to be rational, when intimidation works just as well?

El Salvador: Want an abortion?

Then die, witch, die!

Australia: Salvos paid $15m to child sex abuse victims

THE Salvation Army has told a Victorian sex abuse inquiry it is ashamed of the treatment of children that occurred in its homes, as it revealed it has paid out more than $15 million to victims and that 50 Salvation Army officers had been named as abusers.

The Australian

Now everybody wants to get into the act!

Australia: Rabbi admits sex abuse at Melbourne Jewish school

VICTIMS say the admission of guilt by a former teacher at a Jewish Orthodox school accused of sexually abusing students is a watershed for Australia’s Jewish community.

Australia: CSIRO wouldn’t lie to us!

Well, only for money…

Afghanistan: Six more deaths

A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American civilian died in a separate attack in the east.

Afghanistan: 53 killed in Taliban attack on court building

TALIBAN militants have stormed an Afghan court, killing at least 44 people in a bid to free insurgents standing trial, officials said, in the deadliest attack for more than a year.

Germany: What troop of blood-sucking parasites finds it hard to operate in cold weather?

If you guessed ‘global warming alarmists’, you’re right. But here’s another:

Pakistan: Female teacher killed by Taliban

Shahnaz Bibi was shot dead on Tuesday by two motorbike riders as she disembarked from a passenger van near the school where she taught in the Khyber tribal region.

BBC News

UAE: Life under theocracy…

…even visitors get shafted.

Nigeria: Islamists kill seven hostages

A NIGERIAN Islamist group claims it has killed seven foreign hostages abducted from a construction site last month.

US: Can you get fired for having sex?

Only if you’re a woman.

Malaysia: Daily Life Under Islam, Part 4 — 31 dead

Malaysian troops began a ground and aerial assault on armed insurgents in the eastern state of Sabah today to end a standoff with a Muslim clan from the Philippines that invaded last month to assert a territorial claim.

UK: Scottish Cardinal resigns after ‘inappropriate behaviour’ allegations

Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien resigned as Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh on Monday, saying he won’t attend the coming conclave of cardinals to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI…

US: Wind power even more loony than thought in previous post

…the latest research in mesoscale atmospheric modeling, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggests that the generating capacity of large-scale wind farms has been overestimated.

US: EPA has ‘nothing to hide’ — and boy, do they hide it well!

Caption redacted

EPA officials got serious in the second tranche of emails they released to CEI late Friday, pursuant to a court ruling that ordered the agency to comply with our FOIA requests. This time, we got actual emails … that revealed a lot … about the fine art of redaction. Remember, this is the production of the most powerful regulatory agency of the most transparent administration in history. “We have nothing to hide,” the EPA has told us. Sure doesn’t seem that way to us:

www.globalwarming.org

Australia: Gay sex in Catholic Church needs immediate action, Pell says

Child abuse, not so much.

AUSTRALIA’S Cardinal George Pell yesterday called on the Vatican press office to respond “in some constructive way” to reports of an internal investigation by three senior cardinals that told Pope Benedict XVI about an insidious web of blackmail, corruption and homosexual sex inside the Vatican.

The Australian

Global: “We won’t know if global warming is real until after I retire” — Pachauri

With a healthy superannuation plan, of course.

THE UN’s climate change chief, Rajendra Pachauri, has acknowledged a 17-year pause in global temperature rises, confirmed recently by Britain’s Met Office, but said it would need to last “30 to 40 years at least” to break the long-term global warming trend.

Dr Pachauri, the chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that open discussion about controversial science and politically incorrect views was an essential part of tackling climate change.

The Australian

Vatican: Like a ‘map of bad fish’

Or did we lose something in translation?

Pope Benedict XVI resigned after an internal investigation informed him about a web of blackmail, corruption and gay sex in the Vatican, Italian media reports say.

Three cardinals were asked by Benedict to verify allegations of financial impropriety, cronyism and corruption exposed in the so-called VatiLeaks affair.

On December 17, 2012, they handed the pontiff two red-leather bound volumes, almost 300 pages long, containing “an exact map of the mischief and the bad fish” inside the Holy See, La Repubblica said.

“It was on that day, with those papers on his desk, that Benedict XVI took the decision he had mulled over for so long,” said the centre-left newspaper. It said its article was the first of a series.

SMH

Canada: Now EVERYONE wants to get into the act!

105-year-old Zen master accused of sexually assaulting students.

Global: Welcome to the sausage factory!

How AGW alarmist ‘statistics’ are manufactured:

Australia: Child sex abuse — not just for Catholics any more!

A TRARALGON child has clubbed his pocket money together with three others, paying $69.70 to launch a private criminal prosecution against the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

US: Take the last train to Clarksville…

…I’ll be hangin’ round the station.

US: Catholic cardinal admits to no original thought since 1964

Which should come as no surprise to anyone.

Germany: Carbon criminals all the way up

Jürgen Fitschen, co-chief executive, and Stefan Krause, a director, are involved in the investigation that on Wednesday saw hundreds of police and tax officials raid the bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt, as well as private addresses in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt.

The investigation is centred on 25 of the bank’s staff, according to German prosecutors, and involves allegations of tax evasion, money laundering and obstruction of justice linked to carbon trading certificates.

Telegraph

As a commentator on WattsUpWithThat put it: “This is how to make money out of thin air”.

Canada: Green guru calls for cash, books buxom bodyguards

We all know David Suzuki is a saint. Especially now that he’s 76, and refers to himself in the third person, as “an elder.” Recently, Suzuki told his fellow CBC employee George Stromboulopoulos, ” I feel though, at my age, no one can accuse me of wanting more fame or power or money.”

That’s what he says. But what does he do? Suzuki’s visit to a small junior college in Montreal last October paints a different picture.

UK: Health warning — your doctor may believe in demons

Although people who call themselves Christians vary hugely, organisations with “Christian” in the title are usually dangerous extremists. The only immediate exception I can think of is Christian Aid. Here in the UK we have:…

The Christian Medical Fellowship, who worry me the most. If my GP believes my sickness is a result of my sins, I want to be informed before my appointment. And as I’m about to explain, CMF members might also believe your sickness is the result of demonic possession. Yeah, you read that right….