But would an ancestor-worshipping Vietnamese person identify themselves an atheist? Or a Swede that goes to the Lutheran Church of Sweden, which 72.9% of the country considers themselves a part of (despite only 23% belief in god)? The options in the Eurobarometer poll were:

-You believe there is a God.
-You believe there is some sort of spirit or life force.
-You do not believe there is any sort of spirit, God, or life force.

The third option seems to be the atheist one. The second option could technically be atheist, but not in a religious sense. Richard Dawkins and a family that leaves oranges on a plate in front of a picture of deceased relatives as an offering to their spirits can't be part of the same religious classification. When you look at atheism as a type of religion, which this video does, it has a stricter meaning than just "nonbelief in any deity," it means "nonbelief in any deity and nonparticipation in other religious classifications."

This is in the video's intro: "Utilizing the results generated from each of the ten most Islamic, Christian and Atheist nations I have compared them directly as to express the clear correlation between religion and conflict." Yet the majority atheist countries he goes on to list are in fact majority religious (except Czech Republic).

^ I made the point that the percentage of atheists numbers they use are often exaggerated and in Vietnam's case, just false. At the very least, people that participate in regular spiritual rituals should be excluded from the "atheist" classification, right? Or can atheists be religious/spiritual too?

It's really deserving of a lies tag. Here's wiki's tally of the percentage of religious people in the most peaceful countries according to the video:

Sweden: 76% religious (23% belief in god + 53% belief in spirituality)
Vietnam: 85% identify as Buddhist
Denmark: 80% religious (31% belief in god + 49% belief in spirituality)
Norway: 79% religious (32% belief in god + 47% belief in spirituality)
Finland: 82% religious (41% belief in god + 41% belief in spirituality)
Germany: 72% religious (47% belief in god + 25% belief in spirituality)

Czech Republic's estimate of 60% atheist was accurate. The Europe numbers all come from a Eurobarometer poll in 2005.

Yeah but thats how "science" works. Most of what the lady says is probably pretty solid, and based on evidence...but science doesn't just stop with observations and data - the whole point of science is the hypothesis - a "guess" based on observations and data. Maybe her hypothesis is wrong, but its our job to disprove it - and you don't do that by calling it "retarded."

I'll summarize the facts, and you can draw your own conclusions (hypothesis):

1. WHO gives funds, support and cover to labs such as the CDC to bio-prospect for pathogens, bio-engineer them to make them more deadly, and also patent them.

2. WHO has been actively searching for ways to weaken the immune system.

3. WHO gives deadly bio-engineered pathogens to companies such as Baxter in Austria, so that Baxter could use those viruses to deliberately, systematically contaminate vaccine material.

4.If the contamination of the 72 kilos had not been detection on time by a lab technician in the Czech Republic, millions of people would have caught the “bird flu” from the injections.

5. WHO orders a compulsory vaccines for all 194 countries, following “recommendations” by an advisory vaccine group on which executives of Baxter also sit.

6. WHO awards Baxter, Novartis, Sanofi and other companies lucrative contracts to supply those vaccines.

7. Under special pandemic plans enacted around the world… including the USA in 2005, national governments are to be dissolved in the event of a pandemic emergency Governments will be replaced by special committees answerable to the WHO and EU in Europe and to the WHO and UN in North America.

8. The Model Emergency Health Powers Act makes it a criminal offense for Americans to refuse the vaccine.

So far, nobody has refuted ANY of these claims. Maybe the "total picture" is incorrect, but all the pieces certainly seem to be correct. Whether the WHO is trying to dominate the world or not, looking at that list, pretty much all of them look pretty fucked up to me.

>> ^direpickle:
And furthermore the crazy part of the original story is not "omg someone screwed up and the vaccine is contaminated!" It's: "The WHO secretly controls the world is and is going to dissolve all of the world governments by purposefully infecting everyone with murderous (not contaminated) vaccines. (And also all of the governments consented to this four years ago by putting through seeeeecret directives)."

Yall are really something else. The amount of trust you place in people you don't know is really quite amazing.

THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. Or were these historical events "conspiracies" as well:

Baxter Pharmaceutical Mixed Deadly Avian Flu H5N1 with a Flu Vaccine about to be shipped to 180,000 people!
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html
"The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.

The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic inoculated ferrets with the product and they died. Ferrets shouldn’t die from exposure to human H3N2 flu viruses. "

Bayer knowingly sold HIV-contaminated vaccines!
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000647_Bayer_vaccines_HIV.html
"In 2006, it was discovered that Bayer found out a vaccine it was selling in the United States was accidentally contaminated with HIV.

In order to cover its tracks, say the journalists in this video (below), Bayer pulled the vaccines off the market and sold them to consumers in Japan, France, Spain and other countries, where hemophiliacs were then contaminated with HIV due to the vaccine."

Mandatory Polio vaccines contaminated with SV40, causes Cancer!
http://www.healthy.net/scr/Article.asp?Id=2703
"The sudden rise in the number of deaths from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma may be linked to the polio vaccine given to children in the USA until 1963.

Researchers have found the polyomavirus known as simian virus 40 (SV40) in a large number of lymphoma sufferers - the same virus that was in the contaminated batch of polio vaccines.

The vaccine was prepared in rhesus monkey kidney cells, but some of the animals were infected with the SV40, which was then passed on to the vaccinated children. In all, millions of children from all 50 states were exposed to the virus from 1955 until 1963, when the vaccine was finally withdrawn.

Latent viruses were such a problem with primary monkey kidney cells that a worldwide moratorium on the licensing of all polio virus vaccines was called in 1967 because of death and illnesses that occurred in monkey kidney workers and vaccine manufacturing facilities"

Doc_M,

You wanna do the world a favor? Buy some off-the-shelf vaccines and do a complete chemical and biological analysis on them, and report your findings publicly. Unless you are giving us a technical lecture, or presenting experimental data, your opinion is really not worth any more than any of us non-virologists.

I love the framing of the original question too:

GARRETT: In your speech this morning, you said the Cold War reached its conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years. Mr. President, are the Russian sensitivities so fragile that you can't say the Cold War was won? The West won it? And it was led by a combination of Democratic and Republican American presidents?

Seriously? What journalism school did you go to? Let's just say for the sake of argument that the entire topic of "why didn't you say we won" is important. If you were a real journalist, mostly interested in trying to reveal the answer, wouldn't you ask it more like this?

NetRunner: In your speech this morning, you said the Cold War reached its conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, carefully avoiding characterizing the end of the conflict as a victory for the United States. Don't you believe that the United States did in fact prevail in that conflict? If so, why didn't you say that in your speech this morning?

It's still incisive, it's still challenging, and at the same time doesn't make it look like you're a partisan hack who's just trying to trump up a bogus charge about the President being ignorant or disloyal to his country.

Ultimately Obama would've answered the question I phrased the same way, though it would have given him less wiggle room to imply that my question's frame was somehow excluding the actions of other countries...

Personally though, if I'd had an opportunity to ask Obama questions while on a mission to Russia, I would've talked about the plans for setting up missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, what's being done to secure "loose nukes", whether we can expect Russia to help us diplomatically in preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons, and maybe toss in a few things about environmental or trade policy...

I sure as shit wouldn't waste my time trying to accuse him of hating America because he didn't speak to the Russians as if he was some conquering emperor who came to receive the pleas of mercy from a defeated, evil, foe.

He calls Poland and the Czech Republic courageous for holding missile silos for the USA. How is that different to Khrushchev calling Castro courageous for holding missiles for them?

Russia have already declared that they see this as a direct threat, and why wouldn't they?

If Obama continues with Bush policies and objectives, then Obama is just as bad as Bush.

the creator has left the following comment:

I just found out through the digg comments that this video has been blocked in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, France, Brazil, Russia and other countries, because it is apparently illegal in those places to use any symbol of the Nazis except for art and education, according to Wikipedia.

I would consider this as art, but who knows? Some people may have bad tastes.

Anyway a hastily edited version of the video safe for German (etc.) eyes should be done and uploaded tomorrow.

Perhaps we can switch to the censored video or, preferably (IMO), slap a link to it in the description when it becomes available.

Is that in Prague, Czech Republic?

>> ^EDD:
Doc_M, I don't think I really have to explain this, but as long as there's no Anti-Religion channel, everything that _concerns_ religion goes in the current channel. It's not the community's fault that most have a strong dislike towards any kind of religion, it's rather the religion advocates' fault they can't find (or produce to begin with) decent pro-religion material to Sift. I know I have upvoted videos where religious scientists expressed themselves, so it's not like all the Atheists on the Sift instantly downvote anything that's even remotely pro-religion.
And by the way, these two (from the 1st Sifted page of the Religion channel):
http://religion.videosift.com/video/The-Church-of-Bones-Czech-Republic
and
http://religion.videosift.com/video/62-year-old-Heavy-Me
tal-Monk-Inspired-by-Metallica
are pro-religion (popularizing, etc.) more than anything else. You should have at least checked before making that bold claim there are no pro-religion sifts at all. Or is only proselytization pro-religion in your book?


Perhaps my recent disappointment with the choice of videos on that channel led to my exaggeration. I guess I should have said "it has been a really long time since there has been a video supporting religion that has gotten through the sift."

Doc_M, I don't think I really have to explain this, but as long as there's no Anti-Religion channel, everything that _concerns_ religion goes in the current channel. It's not the community's fault that most have a strong dislike towards any kind of religion, it's rather the religion advocates' fault they can't find (or produce to begin with) decent pro-religion material to Sift. I know I have upvoted videos where religious scientists expressed themselves, so it's not like all the Atheists on the Sift instantly downvote anything that's even remotely pro-religion.

And by the way, these two (from the 1st Sifted page of the Religion channel):
http://religion.videosift.com/video/The-Church-of-Bones-Czech-Republic
and
http://religion.videosift.com/video/62-year-old-Heavy-Metal-Monk-Inspired-by-Metallica

are pro-religion (popularizing, etc.) more than anything else. You should have at least checked before making that bold claim there are no pro-religion sifts at all. Or is only proselytization pro-religion in your book?

Clam down MG, Eklek is from Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada (French-speaking), Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Faroes, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, or Vietnam, so it's okay for him/her to use this convention.

I asked the internet.

Comments from his former common-law partner, and from other Poles:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=021c49f2-2074-46ff-8997-5f83e66110ba&k=51707


Dubon's analysis, while rambling and alcohol-blurred, was in many ways consistent with that of one of Poland's best-known psychiatrists.

Stanislaw Telesniski, who specializes in courtroom testimony in nearby Krakow, told CanWest News Service that Dziekanski was obviously weakened by fatigue, hunger, fear, nicotine deprivation, and panic over an inability to speak any English.

"All those things make the self-defence system weaker," said Telesniski, who analyzed the video for TVN-24, Poland's largest private television network.

"And you're starting to be more intuitive, like an animal. And after a while you feel you are surrounded by animals, because your rational way of thinking has been stopped because of stress.

"In that state of mind there is a disintegration of your personality, and you start to be aggressive and irrational, behaving in a way no one around you can understand.

"And aggression is one of the ways of communicating to people and showing the sign that something's wrong with you."

He said the four RCMP officers made a fundamental mistake when they approached him aggressively and sent jolts of electricity through his adrenalin-charged body.

"They should have been trained to deal with this situation, and the first rule is to become his friend as fast as possible, and not increase his stress more and more. Make him calm."

Most Poles interviewed in a shopping mall in the nearby city of Katowice, in the heart of Poland's once powerful coal-mining industry about 70 kilometres north of the Czech Republic, agreed that the police were brutally quick.

Several also said the incident has affected their previous view of Canada as a peaceful country.

"You expect something like that in America, but not in Canada," said Adrian Wawrzynczak, 31, a clothing store manager.


BTW, the "once powerful" part is lame writing - it rather still is, especially considering world energy prices.

lol at the pretty map.

read below...
Shown here is the percentage in each country which chose the response "I believe there is a God" above other possible answers (not included in this image), which were: "I believe there is some sort of spirit or life force", "I don't believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force" and "don't know".

Then read the conclusion of the report:
Looking at the results of the survey we have firstly seen that in Europe religion and spirituality are still important: four in five EU citizens have religious or spiritual beliefs and only 18% declare that they don’t believe that there is any sort of spirit, God or life force. Nevertheless this spirituality is heterogeneous and is felt with different intensity across Europe: there is seemingly a move away from religion in its traditional form - “I believe there is a God” - which seems to affect the Protestant countries as well as countries with a strong secular tradition. At the same time, there is an affirmation of traditional religious beliefs in countries where the Church or Religious Institutions have been historically strong, as well as in some Eastern European countries. The third tendency is the development of a new kind of religion characterised by the belief that “there is some sort of spirit or life force”. This new religion or spirituality is more marked in certain Protestant countries, such as Sweden or Denmark as well as in the Czech Republic and Estonia.

Lithuania's low score for "belief in god" is probably something to do with the fact that they are basically pagans.

So, pretending this report is accurate and not in any way political, what conclusions shall we draw now? What wikipedia graphic shall we link to next?

pah. statistics. bunch of leading questions and people saying "urrrm...." but never saying "i don't know".

from YouTube:
"World Statues 2006 Arnhem
The Dutch WK Living Statues - World Statues Arnhem 2006, part of the Arnhem Rijnfestijn. Living Statues from countries like USA, Spain, United Kingdom, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, the United States and Russia.
With participants like Alison Johnson (Velocity Circus) United States, Antonio Gomes Dos Santos (Guinness Book of Records 1988 - motionless for 15 hours 2 minutes and 55 seconds), Sophie Malraye aka Piétà (France), Iris van der Sar (Netherlands). Nomination: Guinness Book of Records - Largest Living Statue Championship."

This game just looks like teh sex0r.

Armed Assault (ArmA) is a computer game by Bohemia Interactive (BI). It is currently available in the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. A multiplayer demo version of the game was scheduled for a 21 December release on Fileplanet, and is currently available for download. It is a tactical military first and third person shooter which is considered to be a successor to Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. The game is anticipated to be fully updated with modern graphics, physics and a complete game engine overhaul, including a new streamlined campaign and game editing tool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Assault http://www.gamingtarget.com/article.php?artid=6363