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New translation, the Magna Carta

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german bishop drunk in charge of machinery

“Over the weekend, the head of the Protestant church in Germany was caught drunk driving. While German commentators condemned Margot Kässmann's actions, most did not feel that she should lose her job. Nevertheless on Wednesday it became clear that the bishop felt her position was untenable.

“The head of the Protestant church in Germany, Bishop Margot Kässmann, has announced her resignation. Her decision to step down came after she was caught driving with three times the legal blood alcohol limit on Saturday night in Hanover.”

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priest sacked for being a heterosexual - archbishop says he’s ill

“The Archbishop of Toledo has now relieved the sinner of his priestly responsibilities, while the bish's representatives asked worshippers to forgive Martin because he was evidently "ill"

“Posing as "Hector" (see pic), he punted himself in a net ad which read: "Heterosexual man for women and couples. Real photos. Well hung (15cm) to give you pleasure and happiness." ”

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mp resigns over false claim for £25 - when will the clown resign over £12,000+ false claims?

“Phil Heatley, a politician in New Zealand immediately tendered his resignation to the Prime Minister when it appeared that a $70 receipt for two bottles of wine at a party conference had been accidentally claimed on his expenses. Heatley told the press “I believe I’ve failed to live up my own standard and for that I’m embarrassed and immensely sorry.” He immediately repaid the money.

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ideal parenthood - the world is changing, adjust

Pitt is 46, Jolie is 34.
Moving on - will they, won’t they?
Shades of Burton and Taylor.

“For most of her life, Jolie has suffered from emotional instability. She has said she contemplated suicide several times as a child, and later when she lived in New York she planned to end her life with a knife or pills but couldn't go through with it.”

“ Then it begins, as it has so many times. The screaming and swearing. The wild accusations of affairs on both sides - Jolie with a young actress, Pitt with an African model.

“It is the latest in a series of rows sometimes so loud and abusive that the staff have felt obliged to remove the children from the house.” [Quoted from dailymail.co.uk]


six children so far, and counting

“Maddox and Zahara were adopted by Brad Pitt, the biological father of Jolie's daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.

“Shiloh Nouvel was born in Namibia on May 27, 2006, by cesarean due to a breech presentation. Pitt was there to cut the baby's umbilical cord.

“Pax Thien, was adopted at age 3 1/2 from Vietnam in March 15, 2007. There was some controversy as many complained that the adoption was "fast-tracked" and went against Vietnam law as unmarried couples are not allowed to adopt. Which is why Jolie initially filed alone. Brad Pitt did adopt Pax once they arrived home.

“2008 brought the birth of twins to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt! Jolie gave birth to a boy and a girl on July 12 in Nice, France. Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt weighed 5lbs 3 oz. and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt weighed 5 lbs.” [Quoted from adoption.about.com]

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britain’s no. 1 jew also now attacking socialist ‘new’ labour on civil rights

The first article is recommended reading.

“There are times when human rights become human wrongs. This happens when rights become more than a defence of human dignity, which is their proper sphere, and become instead a political ideology, relentlessly trampling down everything in their path. This is happening increasingly in Britain, and it is why the Pope’s protest against the Equality Bill, whether we agree with it or not, should be taken seriously.”

“ Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman impressed by American democracy, said that in America (and England), religion and liberty are friends; in France they were enemies. He was writing in 1832, but what he said still holds true today. Religion in Britain is part of the ecology of freedom because it supports families, communities, charities, voluntary associations, active citizenship and concern for the common good.” [Quoted from timesonline.co.uk]

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Benedict [Pope] has also complained about the socialist ‘new’ Labour attacks on civil liberties.

“...the Pope has allied himself to an attack already well advanced by Church of England bishops. He framed his denunciation in terms of religious freedom, which nowadays seems to take second place to other sorts of freedom. The Equality Bill, he suggested, would "impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs". That is a very serious charge to be levelled against the Government by the leader of some one billion Catholics, five million of them in the UK.” [Quoted from telegraph.co.uk]

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Rome has been railing against the curse of Marxism from the very early times:

“8 December 1849: On the Church in the pontifical states / nostis et nobiscum: Pope Pius IX
Written the year following the publication of the Communist Manifesto

“18. As regards this teaching and these theories, it is now generally known that the special goal of their proponents is to introduce to the people the pernicious fictions of Socialism and Communism by misapplying the terms "liberty" and "equality." The final goal shared by these teachings, whether of Communism or Socialism, even if approached differently, is to excite by continuous disturbances workers and others, especially those of the lower class, whom they have deceived by their lies and deluded by the promise of a happier condition. They are preparing them for plundering, stealing, and usurping first the Church's and then everyone's property. After this they will profane all law, human and divine, to destroy divine worship and to subvert the entire ordering of civil societies.” [Quoted from papal encyclicals and marx - some extracts: on socialism and liberalism]

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best quality of life listing

Out of a 94-country list, the first ten are

  1. France
  2. Australia
  3. Switzerland
  4. Germany
  5. New Zealand
  6. Luxembourg
  7. United States of America
  8. Belgium
  9. Canada
  10. Italy

The United Kingdom is no. 25. Note that other European Union member countries are ahead of the UK.

Tabulated listing of results.

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