One of the few places I will syndicate for... http://www.wikileaks.org has just released the follow information that I would like to pass onto you. Please be sure to read the full report linked to at the end of this post.

Kenya's missing billions. A suppressed investigative report into Presidential grand corruption finally sees the light.

The suppressed U.K auditors report reveals that currency worth billions of U.S dollars was looted from Kenya by former Kenyan President Moi and his associates. The money was laundered across the world, from million pound properties and shell companies in London, properties in Newyork and South Africa and a 10,000 hectare ranch in Australia, to US$200-$700 million laundered via Swiss bank UBP.

The countries involved in the laundering operation include Australia, Belgium, Brunei, Canada, Dubai, Finland, Germany, Grand, Cayman, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Leichtenstein, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malawi, Namibia, the Netherlands, Puerto, Rico, Russia, Somalia, South, Africa, Sudan, Switzerland, Uganda, the United Kingdom, the United States and Zaire.

The intricately detailed report, commissioned by President Kibaki after his 2002 election victory but later suppressed, forensically investigates corrupt transactions and holdings by several powerful members of the Kenyan elite.

The sums are comparable in magnitude to the looting of infamous kleptocrats such as Mobutu (Zaire), Marcos (Philippines), Abacha (Nigeria), Suharto (Indonesia) and Fujimori (Peru). The leaked material is extremely politically sensitive. Ex-President Moi has become a key player in political life in Kenya, and is now an essential pillar in President Kibaki's campaign for re-election in December 2007.

Original KTM report: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/KTM_report.pdf
Full analysis : http://wikileaks.org/wiki/The_looting_of_Kenya_under_President_Moi

It was not too long ago I was speaking to a friend about how awesome it would be to be able to use an application like Google Earth to look around our solar system with.

It seems the guys at Google are way ahead of me. Have a look at how to use the recent version of Google Earth to explore the universe around you.

Click on this link to download the latest version of Google earth for both Linux and Microsoft: http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

The Public Library of Science is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. A most excellent link for those of you wanting access to some amazing science.

Its not often I am a supporter of assassination as a method to deal with a problem, but the actions of the South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang have put her up there with disgusting people like Robert Mugabe and Dr. Josef Mengele.

Manto is without a doubt the most dumb and openly corrupt health minister South Africa has ever had, (and if you know anything about our history you will realize this is a pretty tall order to achieve). In the past her actions have hampered the efforts of the compassionate and thinking world to get treatment to people suffering from HIV/AIDS, but the world quickly realized she was an agenda pushing alcoholic that had sold herself out to the vitamin companies. Manto completely threw any international credibility she had out the window at a recent HIV/AIDS conference when she suggested the use of the African potato and beetroot on suffering patients instead of anti-retroviral drugs. I will pause a moment for the reader of this article to get over their hysterical laughter. Pause. (1)

Since almost no one believed her information dishonesty and thanks to intervention from the Constitutional Court forcing Manto to hand out anti-retrovirals, this lie from her, hopefully, did not lead to too many more deaths. I wrote about this woman's stupidity in the way she dealt with the HIV/AID’s problem a couple of months back so right now I want to move forward and talk about a recent issue that would make Dr Josef Mengele proud.

The Frere Hospital in East London in the Eastern Cape has come under a lot of fire recently thanks to an exposé by the East London newspaper, the Daily Dispatch, (2) showing the dreadful conditions of the hospital and exposing the high infant death rate. How to our health minister and president respond? The normal thing any tyrannical leadership would do! Mbeki and Manto attack the Dispatch for exposing the story and then whitewash the results to pretend that everything is okay. So basically, Manto is allowing young children to die for her own popularity and our President's denialistic approach to everything. These actions by Manto are so sick and decrepit that this single act escalates her into category of, "People I would like to shoot if it was legal"

I can just imagine Mengele looking up from hell with big doe like eyes saying the words, "You make me so proud" to Manto. It’s at this point in this article that I have to use a lot of restraint from breaking out into endless sentences of profanity and resisting the urge to go out an purchase a firearm. I have major issues with baby killers.

A couple of you might wish to explain that all this information is second hand knowledge and the Daily Dispatch may have got the facts wrongs, so I thought I would recount my last personal experience with the Frere Hospital. A friend of mine, Joeleen, gave birth in that hospital a year or two back and I made sure I was there to assist her in any way I could. I remember arriving and working my way through the packed throng of human misery and on my way up to the ward in which Joeleen resided. I remember arriving in her ward and being shocked by the conditions.

Her hospital gown and bed were soaked in blood, not a single nurse or doctor was around to assist. In a bit of a panic I ran around the hospital trying to find a doctor or nurse to help her, but the time was “lunch time” and the staff were clearly not interested in helping my friend. I tried to get the required items to help clean her up but the nurses would not even give me a roll of toilet paper, so I jumped in my car, drove to the chemist and purchased all the items that she would need for both her and her baby that was to be born shortly.

Joeleen is now the proud mother of a very healthy son, and I can honestly say that it is due to sheer human endurance and not the “sanitary” conditions provided by the Frere hospital. If anything they could have contributed more towards the possible death of the infant than to the survival.

Manto is an alcoholic, as we have stated before, and her recent drinking binge (3) put her in hospital for a liver replacement (must be so great to drink through at many livers as your want because you are the minister of health). When Manto goes to hospital she only uses private hospitals (Why not use a public hospital if you believe in the system Manto?) and she was constantly requesting alcohol be brought to her hospital bed.

A wonderfully intelligent woman who was the then deputy minister of health, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge was given the reigns (while a liver was being wasted on Manto) of the Health Department.

Nozizwe made the fatal mistake of actually trying to do the right thing… something Mbeki appears unable to tolerate. She believed that the Health Department needed to take a scientific approach to dealing with health issues and even used her intuition to make an unannounced trip to the Frere Hospital to see for herself the conditions in the hospital. Her report slammed the Frere Hospital for their gross misconduct as the conditions she found there were unacceptable. (4)

Her reward for this was to be fired by Mbeki for not towing the government line of denial. Her crime according to Mbeki was that she was a politician and she should not have attended a HIV/AIDS conference with only 'technocrats and scientists'. Gosh... Mbeki is an idiot.

I hope this event has woken up many South Africans who thought there was any good coming from Mbeki and Manto as it is pretty clear there is none. Manto, our lying potato pushing alcoholic is allowing babies to die for her own popularity and Mbeki who appears to have his head so far up Mugabe`s ass is allowing this to happen. Mbeki, Manto, Mugabe and Mengele not only share the letter M in their names, but also are cut from the same cloth when it comes to human right’s abuses!

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, I salute you for your dedication towards the interests of the people of my country. History will judge you kindly and the people of this country will not forget what you tried to do for us. As for Manto and Mbeki... well I am sure you and Mengele will have a lot to chat about after you die. History will remember your crimes against the people of our country for your own greed.

1 - http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A249459
2 - http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/07/31/Leader/lp1.html
3 - http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=539071
4 - http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3978278

I really wish Christian fundamentalists would try be more honest. The more I find out about these people, the more sick I get in my stomach at their just outright dishonesty and their method of using slimy dirty tactics to try push their point of view onto the unsuspecting.

Their latest form of deception involves buying Google ads on topics that they know nothing about. Let me give you an example. Go to http://www.google.com and start a search for the phrase, "evolution". Have a look at the sponsored links that pop up!

Clearly that tithe that God.. or more correctly... his "followers", tell you to pay (we all know how short on cash a God can be) ...is being terribly spent. Apparently paying out of Church coffers to push your own information dishonesty agenda is allowed in some circles in Christendom. How sick.

What is it with Christian fundamentalists and their lack of honesty? Surely such deception should also upset the intelligent and moderate Christians as much as it has upset me? One of the smartest people I know in the Christian world (also one of the smartest people I know all round) Francis Collins, said that people who push this type of information dishonesty... "make faith look foolish".(1)

It was people like these Christian fundamentalists that where the first to push me away from Christianity. I grew up with a pretty conservative background so I was dropped in the deep end, but being the person I am, I don't take "facts" at face value and usually end up researching things I am told. When I found out I was being lied to constantly by Christian fundamentalists I started loosing a lot of my faith. If they are lying about this simple concept to me.. what else are they lying to me about?

I could not accept that God wanted me to push a lie to make himself look better. It is also these Christian fundamentalists that are either by design or stupidity... upsetting a lot of intelligent people out there and forcing a schism between Christianity and secular society.

Since I am really annoyed at the moment by what these Christian fundamentalists are doing, I thought I would clear up a few things, so I would like to educate you on the most common lies and dirty tactics that Christian fundamentalists practice:

1) You cant believe in the theory of evolution and be a Christian.

Well that's a whopper of note but lets have a look at their reasoning to making a daft statement like that. Since they are absolutely convinced that the Bible is the infallible word of God, they believe that the theory of evolution contradicts the Moses books of Genesis, and step on Gods toes in the matter of Creation.

However to be more clear, Genesis conflicts with most modern science, including and not limited to; biology, geology, anthropology, archaeology, cosmology, astronomy and countless others. However, Genesis only conflicts with those areas of study if you have a literal interpretation of it. Yes, there are actually some people who believe that Genesis should be taken literally and not as the metaphorical explanation of Creation it is.

You can very much be a Christian and believe in evolution. As a matter of fact, more Christians believe in evolution than those who do not.

2) Evolution is a theory, not a fact.

When you hear this lie you should instantly know you are dealing with someone who has absolutely know idea on how science works and therefore should not pretend to debate it with any type of authority. As I have explained in previous posts, a theory does not become a fact. A theory explains a fact. Fact.. things fall, the theory of gravity explains how and why they fall. Fact.. life changes and is different, the theory of evolution tries to explain why life changes and why their is diversity.

Also, a theory in science is not used in the same way that the word theory is thrown around in normal day to day speak. So I have taken this bit of information straight out of wiki for you to digest:

"In common usage, people often use the word theory to signify a conjecture, an opinion, or a speculation. In this usage, a theory is not necessarily based on facts; in other words, it is not required to be consistent with true descriptions of reality. True descriptions of reality are more reflectively understood as statements which would be true independently of what people think about them. In this usage, the word is synonymous with hypothesis.

In science, a theory is a mathematical or logical explanation, or a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theories commonly used to describe and explain this behaviour are Newton's theory of universal gravitation, and general relativity." (2)

Christian fundamentalists love warping the English language to suite their needs so watch out for this.

3) The theory of evolution can not be proved

There are many proofs to the theory of evolution. Since this is a pretty silly lie, I will give you a couple of links to research the proofs behind the theory of evolution yourself:

- http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/essays/courtenay1.htm (The short proof of evolution)
- http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/ (29 evidences for evolution)

I would also like to counter this argument with the following statement. YOU CANT PROOVE THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION WRONG. Yup, and if you know someone who says they can, be sure to drop me an email so I can get them nominated for a Nobel Prize. They would surely rock the academic world and would definitely deserve it.

4) Darwin said we evolved from monkeys and chimps

Darwin said no such thing. If anyone could show me a single peer reviewed scientific article that says such a thing I will personally print out an apology on this side. The truth of the matter is Darwin did not say we evolved from monkeys. He said monkeys and humans evolved from the same ancestral primate. I believe our genetic lines split around seven million years ago.

5) Darwin recanted on his death bed (yes Rudy.. you told me this one.. I wont forget)

I'm going to quote directly from a source for this one as it deals with this lie pretty nicely;

"This is completely fabricated and has no foundation in truth whatsoever. A woman named “Lady Hope” spoke to a church group shortly after the death of Charles Darwin. She claimed that she was at Darwin’s bedside on the day of his death. She also claimed that Darwin recanted on evolution and accepted Jesus on his deathbed. Her claims are not only unsupported, but are directly opposed by Darwin’s daughter, Henrietta. Henrietta stated “I was present at his deathbed, Lady Hope was not present during his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her, but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of thought or belief. My father never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. I am upset that the U.S. Christians have fabricated this conversion nonsense. The whole story has no foundation whatever.” February 23, 1922."

6) Evolution is about the origins of life and the universe

This is about the biggest whopper of a misconception in the theory of evolution. Its also one of the favorite lies used by fundamentalists, because the whole "primordial ooze" concept is pretty hard for a lot of people to understand and get their heads around.. but this has nothing to do with the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution has NOTHING to do with either the origin of life.. or the creation of the universe.

The origin of life is covered by a hypothesis called abiogenesis. Evolution simply assumes that there was a life form, and from there it takes over. It does not cover the origin of life on any level.

I will stop at those for now, there are a real lot more, but those are by far the most common Christian fundamentalist lies I have come across while researching and talking about the theory of evolution. Before I leave the topic of Darwin and evolution though I thought I would just share this bit of trivia with you. Darwin did not use the word, "evolution" once in his book on natural selection called, "Origin of the species". The theory had being around long before Darwin got onto the scene and was even being discussed back in the days of ancient Greece. Darwin was able to identify and document the important process of natural selection.

To the Christian fundamentalists who read this I would like to close off with the ninth commandment:

Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Now I am sure that if you are a Christian fundamentalist, and have a literal interpretation of the Bible (I really hope you truly do follow ALL the laws in Leviticus and Deuteronomy), that at the very least.. you can obey God and those all important commandments. Otherwise you are simply just your every day bigot and hypocrite.

1 - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1553986-1,00.html
2- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory

This is a topic that has being brewing for a long time, and for quite awhile I have let it slide, but today I read a “news” article that really was the straw that broke the camel’s back. So I am writing this article to give different perspective to this non-issue.

Lets have a quick look at the news article that got me all annoyed titled 'No sex with meat eaters' (1), which is about a New Zealand group who wont have sex with anyone who eats meat claiming that people who eat meat have, “bodies are made up of animal carcasses”.

Humans continue to stun me at the stupidity they can accomplish. Einstein was very right when he said the only thing he was sure about was the infinity of human stupidity. Firstly this little New Zealand group where able to invent a new form of bigotry. Now not only will you be judged on your skin colour or religion... the fact that you are surviving to live also counts against you! Go New Zealand vegans! that one is under your belt.

Now let’s have a closer look at their claim that our bodies are made up of human carcasses. Well, they do’ have a point there, but completely not in the way they perceive. Yes, your body is covered with dead body cells, and we call this the outer layer of the skin, and since we are animals, I suppose they almost do have a point. However, we can take that point further. On that dead layer of skin (as well as inside us).. are millions of other dead microbial life. So in essence, its a hard world down on that level, and imagine how many more casualties those darn vegans add to it every time they have a shower. We could take this point even further, within each cell are the mitochondria, and the mitochondria.. while a part of us now, used to be a separate life form, and today, still replicates independently of the cell. So in theory, every time a cell dies two life forms die. I am making these silly points because they will have more relevance later.

Since biologically humans are designed to eat, and our prehistoric “leaf and grass” stomach, the appendix, is useless to us now we have to assume that evolution in this case, knows what’s best for us.

When the ancestors of man were still early primates a group of them were living here in Africa. The area underwent some intense climate changes and the lush forests that our ancient ancestors enjoyed disappeared and the primates had to change or die. So our ancestors changed.. they learnt to walk up right to spot danger from far away as they had less places to scramble for safety. They also learnt to to survive on meat. Understand this is early hominid evolution so we are talking approximately two million years ago.

At the same time we started eating meat we invented tools (wow talk about a coincidence hey vegans!), the ability to process meat enabled our ancestors to have a much richer source of nutrition and to therefore evolve into smarter and more complex creatures. When we learnt how to fish the omega 3+6 that was introduced into our diet enabled our brains to develop better. Studies (2) have shown that primates that have meat in their diet (yes most other primates have a percentage of their diet that is meat) that the primates who ate meat, evolved faster and better than those who were restricted to just a herbivores diet.

The evolutionary advantages in eating meat and the importance it as played in our development are very clear and should not be underestimated. Nature has being pushing our phenotype in this direction for five billion years and it’s clearly working. I have often seen a lot of propaganda comparing us to other herbivorous primates as an argument not to eat meat. All primates eat meat.. even in the gorilla.. it makes up 1 % of their diet. In chimpanzee’s it makes up 13% of their diet. Both these primates require the trace element in their systems and branched away from us about seven million years ago. Another branch of primates called Cebuella such as the Pygmy Marmoset, require as much as 50% of their diet to be meat.

There is however a big difference between us and a gorilla and other herbivorous apes;

“Our stomachs have evolved to consume both meat and plant matter. In humans, more than half (56%) of the total gut volume is found in the small intestine whereas all apes have by far the greatest total gut volume (>45%) in the colon. In addition, the overall size of the human gut in relation to body size is small in comparison to that of apes.

Hindgut dominance in apes suggests adaptation to a diet lower in quality than that consumed by humans, a diet containing considerable bulky plant material, such as insoluble fiber and seeds. In contrast, the proportions of the human gut, dominated as it is by the small intestine, the principal site of nutrient digestion and absorption, suggests adaptation to a high quality diet, one that is nutritionally dense and highly digestible relative to that of any wild ape” (2)

Unfortunately I still have a little more of a biology lesson to teach the vegans so I am going to move onto “why meat is good for us nutritionally” before we can move onto the juicy morality issues.

I am sure at some point or another you have come across sites that have (miss) informed you that eating meat is bad for you and you don't need it nutritionally. Well that's bullsh!t. Meat is extremely good for you. The fact is, meat is the most naturally occurring, well balanced and easily obtained and digested package of proteins, essential acids and source of iron and Vitamin B 12 that you can find. Also, a protein rich meat diet is extremely good for you (3).

If fat concerns you, eat lean meat, and don’t forget to watch out for industrial grade vegetable fats such as hydrogenated and hydrogenated vegetable oils (trans-fatty acids (now banned in certain countries). When given the choice, I stick to the natural fat that’s found in meat.

While researching this topic I was speaking to a vegetarian friend in another city over MSN. I told her the topic I was writing and she let me know about her personal experience. She did not like the taste of meat and that was her reasoning for staying away from it for 9 years. However things changed when she fell pregnant. The baby growing up in her stomach required lots of iron (readily available in meat), and because she was a vegetarian, a large portion of her iron content in her body was given to the baby and the result effects was that her teeth turned grey and she started having serious health problems. Eating meat solved that problem and today she has a stunning healthy vibrant daughter.

Now that I have got the basic biology and nutritional lessons out the way lets move onto the morality of this one because It’s actually quiet ludicrous. In fact, the paragraph where I spoke about my friend and her experience is a good place to start from, because if you notice on the link I posted about our New Zealand bigoted vegans you will notice there is a related story together with a more grim reality;

The headline reads, 'Vegan couple starved baby'

"Atlanta - A vegan couple was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison in the death of their malnourished six-week-old, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soymilk and apple juice." (3)

Wow, quiet the moral high-ground you hypocrites take. You seem to completely lack perspective. Humans like all other animals on this planet are predators to one form of life or another. The only honest forms of life out there appear to be most plants. They absorb base nutrients, sunlight and water which they convert into the energy that they require to survive... and not even- all plant are honest to this form of existence. There are more than a few carnivorous plants as well. That said, all animals above them are predators. Herbivores are predators to plants. Plants try defending themselves against this onslaught in every way they can come up. From chemical warfare through to creating sharp weapons to protect themselves. Most plants clearly do not like being eaten.

Vegans are life hypocrites. They seem to think that a plants life is not as important as an animal’s life for its right to exists. They are able to draw this weird moral line at where it’s okay to take life and when its not okay to take life. Life is life no matter exist its form. Humans are also a natural part of that life. We have just as much right to live a chicken and if you have larger scope, were way more important than a chicken.

Let’s assume for a moment that the only life in the universe is found on this rock we call earth. Let’s also assume that we want life to continue to exist. It’s not going to do that forever without help. Assuming that asteroids don't hit us, our molten core does not stop and that some other freak accident does not wipe all life off the face of the earth.. life on this planet has a count down clock. In a couple of billion year’s time our sun is going to become useless to us. It’s going to kill all life on earth. So humans may be life's last chance to create a sentient life form with the capability to allow life to exist beyond the confines of this very vulnerable planet. I think evolution would be hard pressed to push out a decent enough life form in the time we have left assuming we all kill ourselves.

Meat is important to our development and evolution and will continue to be so. Our bodies and brains consume massive amounts of energy and all for good reason. Sure we could build more factories, hire more cheap labour in 3rd world countries to produce them and add more toxic chemicals and fumes into the environment to make those in vogue designer vitamins you considering taking as a substitute for meat, or you can use natures own resource and simply eat meat.

Vegans propose they take the moral high-ground, but I propose they don't. Not only are they not using economical natural sources of nutrition, they are also denying the evolutionary advancement the trillions of ancestors that came before them fought for. You want propaganda vegans? How about this!. Stop killing our oxygen supply! Eat more meat!

Oh yes, I am well aware the title is sensationalist. Just thought I would get some vegan attention.

1 - http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2156182,00.html
2 - http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/133/11/3886S
3 - http://www.powerofmeat.com/High_Protein_Diets.htm
4 - http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2110953,00.html

Special thanks to Suz who is helping me work through my grammar block.