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Seemingly not - he's been very outspoken on the Falklands apparently, saying Britain usurped the islands, should hand them back etc. I anticipate nothing but trouble on that front. The one bit of good news is that he does not get on with President Koechner, differing on homosexuality and gay rights. -
No, just giving my opinion. No payment involved.Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
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So he's a complete nutter, but the good news is one aspect of him being a complete nutter is potentially in conflict with another aspect of him being a complete nutter?Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
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it seems that Frank's past is just as dodgy as Benny's:-
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The Catholic Church was complicit in horrible crimes in Argentina, Hugh O'Shaughnessy wrote in the Guardian in 2011: "Yet even the execution of other men of the cloth did nothing to shake the support of senior clerics, including representatives of the Holy See, for the criminality of their leader General Jorge Rafael Videla and his minions."Originally posted by Pikaia View Post
Shaughnessy's indictment of the church in Argentina singles out Bergoglio:
What one did not hear from any senior member of the Argentine hierarchy was any expression of regret for the church's collaboration and in these crimes. The extent of the church's complicity in the dark deeds was excellently set out by Horacio Verbitsky, one of Argentina's most notable journalists, in his book El Silencio (Silence). He recounts how the Argentine navy with the connivance of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now the Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, hid from a visiting delegation of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission the dictatorship's political prisoners. Bergoglio was hiding them in nothing less than his holiday home in an island called El Silencio in the River Plate. The most shaming thing for the church is that in such circumstances Bergoglio's name was allowed to go forward in the ballot to chose the successor of John Paul II. What scandal would not have ensued if the first pope ever to be elected from the continent of America had been revealed as an accessory to murder and false imprisonment
One would have thought that the Argentine bishops would have seized the opportunity to call for pardon for themselves and put on sackcloth and ashes as the sentences were announced in Córdoba but that has not so far happened.
It's in the Guardian though, so it can't be true.
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Written in 2011:
The most shaming thing for the church is that in such circumstances Bergoglio's name was allowed to go forward in the ballot to chose the successor of John Paul II. What scandal would not have ensued if the first pope ever to be elected from the continent of America had been revealed as an accessory to murder and false imprisonment.
Moral: never underestimate the Catholic Church.
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Originally posted by Julien Sorel View PostSo he's a complete nutter, but the good news is one aspect of him being a complete nutter is potentially in conflict with another aspect of him being a complete nutter?
I'm just pleased they don't agree on everything. (She being a nutter as well). Chilling links.
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostAn example of Sky News being 'best, as usual' ...
Poor Jeremy, I say
Talk about an end to being taken seriously. I'm not sure whether sleep deprivation or alcohol were to blame, but from being a pompous buffoon, Boulton elevated himself amusingly to the status of complete a*se in that minute or two
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I have to agree. I tend not to watch anything Sky, but on this occasion, being anxious to join the waiting crowds to find out who'd been elected, I switched between BBC, Sky, CNN, Al Jazeera (!) and Euronews to find the best coverage. BBC was bottom of the heap, while Sky were outright winners. Only they adopted the right tone, had contributors who had something of interest to say, and actually knew when to allow the pictures to speak for themselves.Originally posted by scottycelt View PostComment
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Apparently the Vatican thought the seagull - as far as I could tell a yellow-legged gull Larus michahellis (which for pedants used to be known as Larus cachinnans, and before that as a subspecies of herring gull Larus argentatus) - that was warming its feet on the chimney cowl was attracting too much attention, so they altered the camera angle on their live feed so that you could only just see its legs
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i have a feeling that this is the election that will really matter ....
amazing the difference in coverage as well ... mebbe Xi is old newsLast edited by aka Calum Da Jazbo; 14-03-13, 13:18.According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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The link's a dud, Mr J, on my machine at any rate...Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostApparently the Vatican thought the seagull - as far as I could tell a yellow-legged gull Larus michahellis (which for pedants used to be known as Larus cachinnans, and before that as a subspecies of herring gull Larus argentatus) - that was warming its feet on the chimney cowl was attracting too much attention, so they altered the camera angle on their live feed so that you could only just see its legs
Yes. it was a cunning and devious Jesuit plot funded by a right-wing South American Junta with a vicious record in persecuting seagulls, and, as the seagull was thought also to be female, Vatican TV's concentration on its legs was clearly sexist, and Professor Dawkins is now calling for the new Pope's immediate arrest, The Guardian reliably reports ...
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Has to be right ofcourse!! 
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