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A Texas lawyer is going to try to to take the popes diplomatic immunity from him. According to the lawyer the pope is a head of a church, and not the head of state.

He is half right, because the Vatican has a special sovereign status within the Republic of Italy. Just like Monaco has within France. But okay, nice thing to try!

The step is one to get recognised that the Catholic Church didn’t do enough against the abuse of children, in fact facilitated it. In The US this is a big case now.

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German researchers found out that coffee and vitamin C are not working against a headache after drinking to much.
The test were conducted on sea horses (?) and rats and did show some effects. But not so on humans.

There are quite some new mix drinks that claim to be great for that purpose. But according to the researchers the only component that would work is fructose. But you need 3 grams per kilo body weight.

Ready to throw up again? ;-)

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Related on the crab: I and II

St. John Ambulance, a UK-based charity has made an iPod ready first aid guide available for anyone.

My first idea was that the information would be in any text based form, but the files are on their site in MP3, AAC and Real-format.
If you need them, they are on your device, that’s the idea.

It is for sure a very nice initiative and goal, but from my critical point of view I am always curious whether it will be helpfull in the situation when you need it.
If you are going to listen to it before, just like a first aid course, okay. It is ready for podcasting too!
But listen to it while you are IN the specific situation. I have my doubts.

BUT: Use it, to save lives!

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St. John Ambulance iAid files

I have mixed feeling about the good initiative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF – Reporters Sans Frontières). You know why?
They are putting a how-to guide for publishing material as anonymously as possible on the Internet.
This guide could also help terrorist and others with bad ideas.

That is for sure right. But in that case we could close the whole Internet (if possible) with its possibilities to obtain information on subjects we don’t like. And there are lots of subjects that others don’t like.
It could be the fact that you collect dolls of fighting samurai. For it’s violence.

An yes, I have my own subjects I don’t like.

But back to the how-to-guide. Everything about this is published before, but now it is collected and put together.

So let us try to give anyone his or her space. For the freedom of speech.

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And not only do some pilots suck, but so do some air traffic controllers. And we’re not talking sexual things here.

I know I am repeating what I said earlier, but now I saw that I am not alone with my thoughts.

IATA and it’s European counterpart JAA say that pilots that can’t or refuse to speak English are a serious threat for flight security.
Dutch pilots are really concerned about the ongoing confusion in the air.

A European survey pointed out that in 23% (!) of the incidents are communication related. Recent figures tell that 31,5% of air traffic controllers and 10,2% of the pilots speak the English language NOT fair enough to do their job right and safe.

“Dutch air traffic controllers do always speak English, even when they are speaking with Dutch pilots.”

Hey, we are talking safety here!! You can speak any language you want. With the wife…

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Before on the crab

Discovery Channel Europe is starting a new series of programs on Thursday, their Crime Night. It is called “Guilty or Innocent?” and is quite actual here.

There has been a case in court where the police, and other officials knew that the guy in court was not guilty.
Just because the evidence has proven it. And still they went on with the case.

But in the US, where this series – of course – is from, this is regularly the case. The main IRL (in real life) convicts are often black men, as far as I know.
Has this still something to do with the position of black people in the US? And what is the reason of that?

There are study groups and voluntary organizations (on leading universities) in the US that are looking in old cases, to find out if justice was done. And they succeeded to free quite a number of innocent people.

Not because quite a lot (most?) of them have a black skin, but just because the only thing we need is: Justice.

For black AND white…

The Innocence Project
The Innocence Project 2nd Link