BBC: State of Mind - Life in North Korea

Revolutionary History Lesson:
-How many types of greatness does the Great Leader have?
-Three: firstly?
-Greatness in ideology.
-Second?
-Greatness in leadership.
-Third?
-Greatness in aura.
-When we receive the Great Leader’s leadership we are destined to be eternally happy.

Chain-Smoking Indonesian Baby Continues Smoking

Japan Angry over 'The Cove'

The Cove Trailer

Kenya's Televangelism Empire

Televangelism is growing across Africa, but especially in Kenya where religious programmes are led by powerful and charismatic pastors who often preach unconventional ideas, like miracle cures for HIV and Aids.



Survey Finds Africa Is Most Religious Part Of World

Belgian Police Raid Catholic Church HQ in Sex Abuse Probe

Has Globalization Revved Up Religious Fundamentalism?

James Hoge, editor of Foreign Affairs, argues that globalization has contributed to the rise of religious fundamentalism over the last 30 years. Citing a sense of identity loss following increased mobility, Hoge theorizes that people have returned to religion in order to regain a sense of security.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Real Time with Bill Maher

DHIMMI: A BRIEF OVERVIEW
7th-21st century. The notion of Dhimmitude, originating in the 7th century, still applies today to non-Muslims under Islamic rule—whether Jews or Christians, whether in Saudi Arabia or in Sudan. Dhimmitude began in 628 CE when Mohammed and his forces conquered the Jewish oasis at Khaybar. They massacred many of the Jews and forced the rest to accept a pact ("Dhimma") which rendered them inferiror to their Muslim conquerors. Over the centuries, the ideology of Dhimmitude expanded into a formal system of religious apartheid. MORE

Maldives: First Man to Renounce Islam in almost 500 Years Threatened with Death

In the Muslim-majority nation of Maldives, a man stunned an audience during questions and answers period in a lecture given by an Islamic cleric, by stating that he had chosen freedom of conscience not to follow Islam. The man, Mohamed Nazim, was promptly attacked, taken into custody, and has been threatened with death and beheading, or other punishments for choosing his freedom of conscience. Maldives media are reporting that it is the first time in many hundreds of years that a Maldivian has publicly renounced Islam, since Sultan King Hassan IX converted to Christianity in 1552 and was deposed. ARTICLE

PZ Myers Points Out: Here's a real twist, though: The Maldives is on the UN Human Rights Council. I like the idea of an international tribunal like the UN, but this is the kind of insanity that makes it a joke.

6-Year-Old On Terror Watch List

AOLNEWS: Ohio 6-Year-Old Turns Up on Terror Watch List

Kapparot - Chicken Swinging for the Soul

Kapparot (Hebrew: כפרות) is an ancient Jewish ritual where one takes a chicken (or hen in the case of women) and moves it around one's head three times, symbolically transferring one's sins to the object, also known as Atonement. The object is then slaughtered or donated to the poor, preferably eaten at the pre-Yom Kippur feast.



Chabad: Kapparot: The Chicken Thing

The Jerusalem Post: Chicken ritual is foul, animal rights groups say

Supreme Court overturns Chicago handgun ban

IRON-WOMAN

World Builder - Short Film

A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production.

Sexy Ladies of E3

From LikeTotallyAwesome

The Creation of Mario

Original LINK

Glenn Beck Warns of Future Glenn Beck's Red-Baiting

Beat Poem 'Storm' by Tim Minchin

Tim Minchin's amusing beat poem describes a dinner party in which he confronts a hippy. Recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in December 08.



Storm Movie - The Official Trailer

10 Great Minds on God & Religion - Part 2

See Here: 10 Great Minds on God & Religion - Part 1

#1 - Richard Dawkins - British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author.


#2 - Ayn Rand - Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter.


#3 - Christopher Hitchens - English-American author and journalist.

This has a PART 2

#4 - Douglas Adams - English writer, dramatist, and musician.


#5 - Noam Chomsky - American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist.


#6 - Stephen Fry - English actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter and film director.


#7 - Marcus Brigstocke - English comedian and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television and radio.

This has a PART 2

#8 - Jacques Fresco - self-educated social engineer, industrial designer, author, lecturer, futurist, inventor, and the creator of The Venus Project.


#9 - Sam Harris - American neuroscientist and non-fiction writer.


#10 - Steven Weinberg - American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.