Barack Obama has first telephone conversation with the Pope: At a press conference on Tuesday the Vatican on infant mortality, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan of Mexico, the Pope’s “health minister”, strongly reiterated the Vatican’s opposition to using embryos for research purposes when asked about signs that Mr Obama might reverse or relax the Bush administration’s executive order banning the use of embryos and limiting federal spending for stem cell research. He said embryonic stem cell research “served no purpose”.
Hold on, there is more:
Religion can never justify terrorism or killing of innocents, General Assembly declares: “Concerned about serious instances of intolerance, discrimination, hatred expressions, and harassment of minority religious communities of all faiths, participating States underlined the importance of promoting dialogue, understanding, and tolerance among human beings, as well as respect for all their diverse religions, cultures and beliefs,” according to a declaration read out at a news conference by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the meeting concluded.
Last but not least:
Evolution, Creationism and Intelligent Design in the USA
The United Nations has a whole “Secretariat of the Agreement on the Conservation of the Populations of European bats” (EUROBATS):
Also there is an Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS), and a Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA).
Si algo ha quedado claro en esta crisis, o lo que quiera que sea, es que la revolución como motor de cambio de la estructura social ya no es posible. La subversión ha sido aplacada sin llegar a tener lugar. Ni un chispazo. Ni un disparo. Ni una sola gota de sangre. Sólo editoriales tibios y presidentes sin poder alguno pidiendo calma y confianza en quienes se burlan de nosotros en cada dólar, en cada euro, en cada libra. En el siglo XXI el cinismo es moneda única, y la furia un arrebato adolescente de mal gusto, reducto de blogs y unas pocas conversaciones de cafetería.
