Israel will have to act on Iran if UN can't - "If the U.N. Security Council is incapable of taking action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Israel will have no choice but to defend itself, Israel's defense minister said on Wednesday."
Iran will be stopped, Cheney vows to Israeli lobbyists - " Vice President Dick Cheney has vowed unshakeable solidarity with Israel, and condemned the new Palestinian government.Cheney made it clear Iran would not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, described the Iranian regime as "irresponsible," and warned the United States had "all options on the table."" -- That means the nuclear option, as well.
Government: Neither By the People Nor For the People - "A spate of different opinion polls within the last few months or so has revealed that on almost every major issue the people of the United States and the people of Britain, in the majority are directly opposed to the actions of their governments. Despite this the Bush and Blair governments continually cite the backing of the people in their respective countries and argue that they are nurturing freedom and Democracy at home and around the world."
Gunmen kidnap at least 50 at Iraq security firm - "Gunmen in camouflage uniforms stormed the offices of a private Iraqi security company and kidnapped as many as 50 employees, police said Wednesday, as U.S. and Iraqi patrols discovered 24 bodies in various parts of the capital."
US envoy to Iraq: 'We have opened the Pandora's box' - "The US ambassador to Baghdad conceded yesterday that the Iraq invasion had opened a Pandora's box of sectarian conflicts which could lead to a regional war and the rise of religious extremists who "would make Taliban Afghanistan look like child's play". Zalmay Khalilzad broke with the Bush administration's generally upbeat orthodoxy to present a stark profile of a volatile situation in danger of sliding into chaos."
“No Immunity”; Israel’s policy of targeted assassinations - " Gangland violence is making us safer. That’s the message we hear today from Israel’s Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, who not only defended the practice of "targeted assassination" but threatened to use the controversial tactic against Palestine’s new Prime Minister-designate, Ismail Haniya. "We will continue the targeted killings at this pace," Mofaz stated. "No one will be immune."" -- This is humanity?
Kabuki Congress - "Imagine being stopped for speeding and having the local legislature raise the limit so you won't have to pay the fine. It sounds absurd, but it's just what is happening to the 28-year-old law that prohibits the president from spying on Americans without getting a warrant from a judge. It's a familiar pattern. President Bush ignores the Constitution and the laws of the land, and the cowardly, rigidly partisan majority in Congress helps him out by rewriting the laws he's broken."
Wanted: A Democratic Plan - "How about returning government to the people? How about a giant check representing the perks that guys like Tom DeLay and Duke Cunningham got in exchange for corrupt political deals? How about tearing up a big no-bid contract with corporations and promising to use the money that has gone to Halliburton, instead, for rebuilding our own infrastructure at competitive rates?"
The Last Patriot - "A third of this nation doesn’t really care who did what. They want this war and you’ll have little success changing their minds. Another third of this nation remains totally ignorant of the situation and probably prefers to stay that way. All the while, the last third is trying to educate the second, mostly over the Internet…but the problem seems to be, the second third “don’t surf”."
Another state's giant step backward for women - "The issue is seen as a flag-waving moment. For God and decency we will outlaw abortion. For God's sake, where is the human decency of forcing a 13-year-old child -- a child -- into carrying a baby to term? What will we say to the tortured and raped woman lying in the dark with a torn hymen, a broken jaw and green-and-blue bruises up and down her body? That she, too, must bear the penalty of her horror? "Compassionate conservatism." I am sick of the phrase. It has lost all meaning for me. I now dedicate myself to doing what I can for those women caught in a legislative hell that has no interest in their souls. We will not return to the back-alley, wire-hanger abortions."
Retirement Fund Tapped to Avoid National Debt Limit - "The Treasury Department has started drawing from the civil service pension fund to avoid hitting the $8.2 trillion national debt limit. The move to tap the pension fund follows last month's decision to suspend investments in a retirement savings plan held by government employees."
Reich: U.S. headed for 'day of reckoning' - "The United States is headed for a "day of reckoning" as oil prices and the budget deficit remain high, consumers keep spending and not saving, wages remain stagnant, housing prices rise and the working population ages, warned Robert Reich, former Department of Labor secretary in the Clinton administration."
Do Americans plan for the long haul? - "The national savings rate for Americans is at its lowest point since the Great Depression, yet 78 million Americans will retire in the next 20 years. These statistics cast doubt on the ability of Americans to plan for the long term and whether Americans consider long-term planning important, experts say. The savings rate in 2005 was at minus 0.5 percent, according to a report released by the Commerce Department in January. The rate has been negative for seven consecutive months, according to David Wyss, an economist with Standard and Poor's." -- Negative 0.5? How depressing.
House GOP unites to kill ports deal - "Republican House leaders last night split with President Bush and said they would derail a Dubai-owned company's bid to take control of operations at six major U.S. ports."
Decades later, Marines hunt Vietnam-era deserters - "Thirty years after the war ended, hundreds of Vietnam-era deserters are still on the loose. Conti's attorneys, Louis Font and Tod Ensign, say the Pentagon, and the Marine Corps in particular, are cracking down on long-term cases in an effort to warn current-day troops in Iraq against deserting."
Darwin smacked in new U.S. poll - "A new poll shows 69 percent of Americans believe public school teachers should present both the evidence for and against Darwinian evolution. ... The Discovery Institute noted Americans also support students learning about evidence for intelligent design alongside evolution in biology class – 77 percent." -- Welcome to the new Dark Ages.
Most Americans believe abortion wrong - "With the abortion debate in focus following South Dakota's new law challenging the Roe decision, a new poll finds 55 percent of Americans believe abortion is morally wrong most of the time."
Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1833-1965) - "The United States claims to be the world leader in medicine. But there's a dark side to western medicine that few want to acknowledge: The horrifying medical experiments performed on impoverished people and their children all in the name of scientific progress. Many of these medical experiments were conducted on people without their knowledge, and most were conducted as part of an effort to seek profits from newly approved drugs or medical technologies."
Surveillance on drivers may be increased - "Drivers talking on mobile phones or failing to wear seatbelts could find themselves tracked down through a widened use of road surveillance cameras, under proposals due to be floated in parliament tomorrow. The plans would form part of a major expansion of camera surveillance which critics say is already transforming Britain into the most watched country in the world."
The numbers behind the lies - "Fun with numbers. Corporate America likes to play that game, the better to boost stock prices. Folks might be surprised to learn that "Governmental" America also plays the game in its compilation of macroeconomic data. Beneath the surface are undesirable, sobering consequences for us all."
Women in science--and ramblings thereof - "As a woman in science myself, I have to say I don't 100% buy this argument: ... So, anyhoo, Greenspun's hypothesis, if true, suggest that women shouldn't major in science in the first place, because of lack of good-paying jobs compared to other potential majors. But the stats show otherwise. In 2001, there were roughly 200,000 female science and engineering graduates awarded bachelor's degrees, equal to the number of men:"
Body Artists Customize Your Flesh - "On a purely technical level, the process is neither controversial nor novel. Surgeons and gynecologists make a similar skin pocket for pacemakers, infusion lines for chemotherapy and the implantable birth control known as Norplant. But most piercers who are asked to perform implants have no medical background, and that's where the controversy begins."
Quote of the Day
"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
~ Adolf Hitler
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