juanpe

very well stated, Doc... the main problem is that most of the countries have the impression that although whatever they decide in the UN is a "join decision", it seems that everything depends on what the USA decides: if there is a veto, it is always the USA the ones who control the situation... how many UN resolutions against the nazist behavior of Sharon and Israel against Palestinians have the other countries tried to pass and they have never been passed because of the USA's veto? this is what makes me mad and sad: that the UN is an international forum but everything depends on what the USA "likes" or "dislikes" and one way to solve that could be - as Doc suggests - that there wouldnt be that rigid division between permanent and non-permanent members who have the power to decide lonely on something

a more social and progressive pope at least would've been more concerned with social issues and wouldn't have been totally against social improvement like the same-sex marriages, the use of condoms, the improvement of men-women and homosexuals equality... the problem with such a conservative (and almost radical conservative) is that he (and as a consequence, religion) will always be far away what social improvments are: religion is supposed to worry about society and with such decisions like the election of this pope they are very far away from what society in the world is

Radford (a very very good band, only have one album called "sleepwalker" but it's great ;) )

My paper heart - The All-American rejects

and I totally agree with you... apart from geographical differences, both religion and language are one of the main divisive reasons

Anne Clark - Our darkness

Anne Clark - Sitting room

Depeche Mode - World in my eyes

how many of you would be for the separation?

you couldn't have explained better... that's the best sentence that could explain my point of view too thanx for summarizing it so clearly

Bush - Golden State

Bright Eyes - One jug of wine two vessels

Elkland - Golden

Thompson Twins - The greatest hits

The Mission - Aura

no, that's right, nobody has mentioned that and it is true, his look is scary, creepy, sinister, a nazi...

Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain

Thompson Twins - Quick step & side kick (2004 remastered) (and congratulations to all of us for having reached page 200 here ;) )

Pavel, that was what happened in California too, right? I quite remember something like that in the news in Spain but with respect to California (I may be wrong)

The Streets - A grand don't come for free

Prodigy (The)

Muse - Live Toulose, France (2004)

fuck the Pope people like the new Pope opposing to all social improvements, taking Church to its worst conservative, nazist, inquiring and represive times and doing the worst to society I'm atheist, specially because (as it is mentioned in another post in the Forum) religion has done much more harm to society than good

I would NEVER consider ;) a "social group"...

Placebo - Black eyed