Olmert warns US against 'premature pullout' from Iraq - "Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned the United States, in an interview published on Sunday (local time), against a "premature pullout" from Iraq as US officials ponder a new strategy following a sweeping Democratic win in the mid-term elections."
To Israel with love - "Why America gives Israel its unconditional support."
DU behind the surge in Cancer rates in Iraq - "Many reports and political experts confirmed that the U.S. and British troops fired more than 940,000 depleted uranium projectiles during the 1991 conflict. The Pentagon refuses to clarify the exact effects of depleted uranium, but Iraqi doctors attribute the significant increase in cancer and birth defects in the region to the U.S. and British troops’ use of DU. Many researches conducted outside Iraq, and by several U.S. veterans organizations, suggested that depleted uranium could have played a role in Gulf War Syndrome, the still-unexplained malady that has plagued hundreds of thousands of Gulf War veterans."
Mother Tells All About White House Sex Slave Ring And Son's Kidnapping - "Patricia Johnson-Holm connects the dots with Robert Gates, Jack Abramoff and Bush pedophilia riing. Mother claims son kidnapped in 1985 when he was 12, and she feels gruesome pictures reveal he was involved in the same ring who kidnapped Johnny Gosch."
Trafficking now 'worse than African slavery' - "Human trafficking, including women forced to become prostitutes or minors forced to do child labor, is worse now than the trade in African slaves of past centuries, a top Vatican official said on Tuesday."
'Arrows for the War' - "Quiverfull parents try to have upwards of six children. They home-school their families, attend fundamentalist churches and follow biblical guidelines of male headship--"Father knows best"--and female submissiveness. They refuse any attempt to regulate pregnancy. Quiverfull began with the publication of Rick and Jan Hess's 1989 book, A Full Quiver: Family Planning and the Lordship of Christ, which argues that God, as the "Great Physician" and sole "Birth Controller," opens and closes the womb on a case-by-case basis. Women's attempts to control their own bodies--the Lord's temple--are a seizure of divine power. ... Only a determination among Christian women to take up their submissive, motherly roles with a "military air" and become "maternal missionaries" will lead the Christian army to victory. Thus is Quiverfull part of Mary Pride's whole-cloth solution to women's liberation: embracing an opposing way of life as total and "self-consistent" as feminism, and turning back the tide on a society gone wrong by populating the world with right-thinking Christians. ... Pastor Heneghan of Gospel Community Church sees the issue of population growth in more biblical terms, specifically those taken from Genesis and Revelation. "Some people think that what I'm doing--having eleven children--is wrong. I don't really get into that much. The Bible says 'be fruitful and multiply.' That's my belief system. They don't believe in God, so they think we have to conserve what we have. But in my belief system, He's going to give us a new earth." Overpopulation isn't a problem in a universe where God promises a clean global slate. ... But if the Quiverfull mission is rooted in faith, the unseen, its mandate to be fruitful and multiply has tangible results as well. Namely, in Rick and Jan Hess's words, to provide "arrows for the war."" -- Jesus these people.
Outrage as Church backs calls for severely disabled babies to be killed at birth - "The Church of England has broken with tradition dogma by calling for doctors to be allowed to let sick newborn babies die."
Catholic bishops debate gay ministry - "The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is debating how parishes can be welcoming to gays while also upholding the teaching that gay relationships are "disordered. The proposed guidelines before the bishops Tuesday, called "Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination," condemn discrimination against gays, acknowledge that many try to live faithfully and state that it's not a sin to be attracted to someone of the same gender. But the document also directs gays to be celibate and reaffirms church opposition to same-sex marriage and adoption by the couples. It also discourages gays from disclosing their sexual orientation outside of a close circle of parish friends and advisers."
South Africa legalizes gay marriage - "The South African parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved legislation recognizing gay marriages -- a first for a continent where homosexuality is largely taboo."
World's most deadly bugs... in the hands of terrorists - "NEW technology that would give terrorists the power to create deadly bacteria and viruses from scratch is only years away from completion and threatens to make existing controls on biological weapons obsolete, experts warned yesterday. Synthetic biology is an emerging field that allows scientists to build micro-organisms from simple genetic material, in theory enabling the creation of deadly pathogens such as ebola or anthrax without access to existing stockpiles of the bugs. The technology could also allow terrorists or scientists in rogue states to jumble the genetic signature of the bugs in order to render them unrecognisable to health experts dealing with an outbreak, potentially delaying treatment and preventing authorities from tracing the origin of an attack."
Rich countries 'blocking cheap drugs for developing world' - "Poor people are needlessly dying because drug companies and the governments of rich countries are blocking the developing world from obtaining affordable medicines, a report says today."
Mobile phones that track your buddies - "For nearly a decade, technology visionaries have talked of a day when people would be able to use their cell phones to get directions, track their friends, keep tabs on their kids or simply find the nearest coffee shop. Now those services are finally starting to take trickle into the marketplace."
Caught in the Web - "More People Say Heavy Internet Use Is Disrupting Their Lives, and Medical Experts Are Paying Attention."
Home Buyers Back Out Of Deals in Record Numbers - "A little over a year ago, buyers couldn't wait to sign contracts to purchase homes. Now, many can't wait to get out of them."
AP Interview: Bill Gates says U.S. education system needs work - "Gates, whose children are in private schools, said every state should require students to take three or four years of math and science to graduate from high school -- 25 states currently have such requirements. He wants states to have the power to intervene at low-performing schools."
Books teach toddlers life skills - "The finding suggests that picture books may play a much greater role than simply entertaining toddlers and may help them understand the world."
Breast Cancer Risk Linked To Red Meat, Study Finds - "The study of more than 90,000 women found that the more red meat the women consumed in their 20s, 30s and 40s, the greater their risk for developing breast cancer fueled by hormones in the next 12 years. Those who consumed the most red meat had nearly twice the risk of those who ate red meat infrequently."
Roche's Tamiflu to Add Warning on Psychiatric Risks - " The Food and Drug Administration approved a labeling revision to include information on those risks after reports of self-injury and mutilation among Japanese patients using the drug, the agency said today in an e-mailed statement. Most of these side effects were reported in children."
No Fluoride for Infants, Say Dentists - "To prevent tooth damage, the American Dental Association (ADA) warned its members that fluoridated water should not be mixed into concentrated formula or foods intended for babies one year and younger, in a November 9th ADA e-mail alert."
Blow to chest can be fatal in child athletes, study finds - "Children who play hockey, football, lacrosse or baseball risk sudden death from a hard blow to the chest even if they are clad in protective gear, researchers said Monday."
Want to live to a healthy 85? Stay trim - "One of the largest, longest studies of aging found one more reason to stay trim and active: It could greatly raise your odds of living to at least age 85."
China love boat wants rich, good-looking - "A matchmaking love boat cruise open only to male millionaires and "good-looking and desirable" women is slated to set sail later this month, a state-run Chinese newspaper said Tuesday."
Sea urchins are part-human - "Scientists who have sequenced the genome of the sea urchin say these brainless and limbless invertebrates are surprisingly similar to humans."
T-shirt releases your inner rock star - "It could make an ideal Christmas present in years to come. Australian scientists have built a t-shirt that lets you play 'air guitar' for real."
Quote of the Day
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."
~ Ariel Sharon
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