Following an article in the "Spiegel"  59% of all Spanish people believe in God in a traditional sense, 18% are not believers at all, whereas 74% of all Italians do believe in God in a tradional sense, whereas only 6 % are  not believers.  The numbers come from a survey conducted by the EC, 4 years ago.

What I liked: Barack Obama, in his inauguration speech mentioned non believers on the same level as Christians, Muslims, Jews and others.

Fair Game - The End of Banking as We Know It - NYTimes.com

In all fulminant crises between the enemies in Near East I always sided with Israel, in 1967 my first staggering into politics were leaflets in the school to support the Israelian troops against their Arab Enemies. With the exception of my maoist deviation in the 70th, this has never changed.

From: https://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/01/brunswick_north_carolina_grou..., an excellent Blog of the Biologist MZ Myers

I just  commented a post of my friend Gerhard Stamer at   https://stamer-reflex.com/node/140#comment-19. It is about the brain researcher Singer and his negation of human freedom.  It is in German, so a click is worthwhile only for those who understand this language.

my state of mind

another partner for cecilia

family property and family consistence

I found this in one of my favourite Blogs : https://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/01/innovation-policies-for-the-21st-...

"Zwei Wochen vor der Inauguration   Barack Obamas (47) als Präsident der Vereinigen Staaten wurde in Rotterdam zu Beginn der Woche der marokkanisch-niederländische Doppelstaatler Ahmed Aboutaleb (47) in
sein neues Amt als Oberbürgermeister der größten europäischen Hafenstadt eingeführt."
https://www.zeit.de/online/2009/02/rotterdam-aboutaleb

I found the following  (https://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2007/02/atheism-faith-position.html) and I agree very much with Stephen Laws position.   There is no (0/1) distinction between "knowledge" and "faith" or "Wissen" und "Glauben".  Any allegation/argument/assertion/claim has different degrees of probability.

I am just back from dinner. I am literally alone on the ILRI campus here in Nairobi. I went to the Bar to have dinner. I was the only one to be present. As compensation I had a very interesting chat with the waiter, a young Kenyan student. He is studying Turism at Kenyatta University and he is just about to get his degree. He is financing his survival by working as a waiter at ILRI, but this would not be enough to pay also the University fees, which are 20,000 KSH/year (this is about 260 USD, but he mentioned 1000 USD) Whatsoever!