US plans attack on Iran - "US contingency planning for military action against Iran's nuclear programme goes beyond limited strikes and would effectively unleash a war against the country, a former US intelligence analyst said on Friday."
US under secretary of state: We won't allow nuclear Iran' - "Nicholas Burns says ‘There is no doubt Iran seeking nuclear military weapons; stationing of two battle groups in Persian Gulf is part of our response’; adds: We are committed to being Israel's strongest security partner."
Pentagon sees U.S. war cost in Iraq rising - "The steadily rising Iraq war price tag will reach about $8.4 billion a month this year." -- You read that corretly.
Czechs give go-ahead for US 'son of star wars' base - "The Americans have already built two missile interceptor sites, in California and Alaska, but the proposed project in the Czech Republic is the first in Europe. It has alarmed Russia, which claims it and not "rogue states" in the Middle East or Asia is the target of the missile shield. The US says the installations are aimed at thwarting potential North Korean long-range missiles, while the European sites guard against long-range missiles from Iran or other regional foes."
Space Arms Race Is Most Definitely On - "Any notion that the war machine in Washington has not brought this on themselves is laughable. The US has consistently carried out research on lasers that could knock out enemy satellites and the Bush administration has repeatedly ruled out the idea of a global treaty banning putting weapons in space."
Website offers whistleblowers chance to go global - "THE internet could become even more difficult for governments to regulate with a new website, Wikileaks, promising to provide a safe haven for whistleblowers to upload confidential documents."
Man kicked off flight for Bush-bashing T-shirt - "An airline passenger barred from a flight for wearing a T-shirt labeling President Bush a terrorist has threatened legal action against Australia's flag carrier Qantas." -- Who is a 'terrorist' is really in the eyes of the beholder.
ACLU Report Shows Widespread Pentagon Surveillance of Peace Activists - "The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report revealing that the Pentagon monitored at least 186 anti-military protests in the United States and collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in an anti-terrorist threat database."
Ben Bova: Has the Internet made our speech a little too free? - "So the danger of the Internet’s unfiltered babble is not with the Internet per se, but with our own attitudes. Most people lack the will to seek out opinions that contradict their own, to deliberately and conscientiously attempt to sift through the avalanche of information available to them in an honest attempt to arrive at the truth."
Sorry, There Is Little Hope For America - "I keep thinking about the one word that best describes current day America and it has to be the word “shallow”. Most of our nation is too wrapped up in shallow endeavors to really be challenged with thinking or something they might have to face and deal with before it is too late."
Federal Workers Owe Billions in Unpaid Taxes - "More than 450,000 active and retired federal employees did not voluntarily comply with federal income tax requirements for the 2005 tax year, according to documents obtained by WTOP through the Freedom of Information Act."
Rising numbers of nonbelievers increase popularity of atheism - "One encouraging aspect of the new popularity of atheism is that a growing numbers of people are abandoning their religious faith in favor of an evidence-based view of the world."
Atheism scary in its sheer conceit - "Ernie Barrington, a retired teacher, wondered why it was that in a predominantly secular society like ours people running for election never deny the possibility of a higher power. ... Atheism is scary, as is religious dogma in someone who wants to be entrusted with power. But atheism is more scary, I suspect, in its sheer conceit."
Why I can't be an atheist - "Why should someone be an atheist? Some, who want to take the intellectual high ground, will say they are forced into that conclusion because religious beliefs are inherently irrational. But are they really? They are only irrational if one must try to prove them using the presuppositions held by the atheist. If you get aboard another traveler's tour bus, you will go to his destination. The quintessential question in examining either atheism or theism as a system of thought, would be in determining whose presuppositions are justified."
Question Authority When that Feeling in Your Stomach is Stronger than the Thoughts in Your Head - "Growing up there was one thing one never did and that was to question authority. If someone was older, they were right. If they were an adult and I was just the kid, they were right. If they were elected or appointed by some group for some reason, they were right. If they were a minister, priest or even a preacher, by God then, they were really right. Problem is, they were often wrong and people suffered for it."
Support grows to make English official - "The push to make English the nation's official language is building momentum, with a congressional bill on the horizon and seven states pushing legislation to make English the official language or to strengthen laws already in place."
Taking a cue from program in Indiana, new technology would allow callers to send crime-scene images - "Now the city is moving to simplify your ability to share telltale evidence of subway flashers, house burglars or even a suspect pothole, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday. "If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous building condition, you'll be able to transmit images to 911 or online to nyc.gov," Bloomberg said in his State of the City address."
Fla. City Plans Homeless-Only Village - "The village will provide shelter, psychiatric help and the support of neighbors. "This is for the people who can't work and can't integrate themselves into society," Arth said. "The answer is not to build a Hooverville of tents and trailers but to make these buildings attractive enough so that if you or I would went there, we would say, 'Wow, I'd live there.'" Critics worry that the Tiger Bay Village will only promote homelessness and that the population will relocate to rural areas."
Climate scientists feeling the heat - "Problem is, global warming may not have caused Hurricane Katrina, and last summer's heat waves were equaled and, in many cases, surpassed by heat in the 1930s. In their efforts to capture the public's attention, then, have climate scientists oversold global warming? It's probably not a majority view, but a few climate scientists are beginning to question whether some dire predictions push the science too far. "Some of us are wondering if we have created a monster," says Kevin Vranes, a climate scientist at the University of Colorado."
As harmful as cigarettes? - "MOBILE phones could turn out to be as damaging to health as cigarettes, a world expert says."
A new crop of kids: Generation We - "Researchers say this kind of environment, in which parents aren't afraid of or are clueless about technology, is fostering a new generation of kids who are naturally adept with technology and comfortable with having virtual access to friends, family and the world at large. They have a much more global outlook at a younger age, and experts from the research firm Iconoculture say that unlike the picture of entitled teens and 20-somethings that many pundits have dubbed the Me Generation, today's kids under the age of 11 are part of what Iconoculture dubs "Generation We.""
US under secretary of state: We won't allow nuclear Iran' - "Nicholas Burns says ‘There is no doubt Iran seeking nuclear military weapons; stationing of two battle groups in Persian Gulf is part of our response’; adds: We are committed to being Israel's strongest security partner."
Pentagon sees U.S. war cost in Iraq rising - "The steadily rising Iraq war price tag will reach about $8.4 billion a month this year." -- You read that corretly.
Czechs give go-ahead for US 'son of star wars' base - "The Americans have already built two missile interceptor sites, in California and Alaska, but the proposed project in the Czech Republic is the first in Europe. It has alarmed Russia, which claims it and not "rogue states" in the Middle East or Asia is the target of the missile shield. The US says the installations are aimed at thwarting potential North Korean long-range missiles, while the European sites guard against long-range missiles from Iran or other regional foes."
Space Arms Race Is Most Definitely On - "Any notion that the war machine in Washington has not brought this on themselves is laughable. The US has consistently carried out research on lasers that could knock out enemy satellites and the Bush administration has repeatedly ruled out the idea of a global treaty banning putting weapons in space."
Website offers whistleblowers chance to go global - "THE internet could become even more difficult for governments to regulate with a new website, Wikileaks, promising to provide a safe haven for whistleblowers to upload confidential documents."
Man kicked off flight for Bush-bashing T-shirt - "An airline passenger barred from a flight for wearing a T-shirt labeling President Bush a terrorist has threatened legal action against Australia's flag carrier Qantas." -- Who is a 'terrorist' is really in the eyes of the beholder.
ACLU Report Shows Widespread Pentagon Surveillance of Peace Activists - "The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report revealing that the Pentagon monitored at least 186 anti-military protests in the United States and collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in an anti-terrorist threat database."
Ben Bova: Has the Internet made our speech a little too free? - "So the danger of the Internet’s unfiltered babble is not with the Internet per se, but with our own attitudes. Most people lack the will to seek out opinions that contradict their own, to deliberately and conscientiously attempt to sift through the avalanche of information available to them in an honest attempt to arrive at the truth."
Sorry, There Is Little Hope For America - "I keep thinking about the one word that best describes current day America and it has to be the word “shallow”. Most of our nation is too wrapped up in shallow endeavors to really be challenged with thinking or something they might have to face and deal with before it is too late."
Federal Workers Owe Billions in Unpaid Taxes - "More than 450,000 active and retired federal employees did not voluntarily comply with federal income tax requirements for the 2005 tax year, according to documents obtained by WTOP through the Freedom of Information Act."
Rising numbers of nonbelievers increase popularity of atheism - "One encouraging aspect of the new popularity of atheism is that a growing numbers of people are abandoning their religious faith in favor of an evidence-based view of the world."
Atheism scary in its sheer conceit - "Ernie Barrington, a retired teacher, wondered why it was that in a predominantly secular society like ours people running for election never deny the possibility of a higher power. ... Atheism is scary, as is religious dogma in someone who wants to be entrusted with power. But atheism is more scary, I suspect, in its sheer conceit."
Why I can't be an atheist - "Why should someone be an atheist? Some, who want to take the intellectual high ground, will say they are forced into that conclusion because religious beliefs are inherently irrational. But are they really? They are only irrational if one must try to prove them using the presuppositions held by the atheist. If you get aboard another traveler's tour bus, you will go to his destination. The quintessential question in examining either atheism or theism as a system of thought, would be in determining whose presuppositions are justified."
Question Authority When that Feeling in Your Stomach is Stronger than the Thoughts in Your Head - "Growing up there was one thing one never did and that was to question authority. If someone was older, they were right. If they were an adult and I was just the kid, they were right. If they were elected or appointed by some group for some reason, they were right. If they were a minister, priest or even a preacher, by God then, they were really right. Problem is, they were often wrong and people suffered for it."
Support grows to make English official - "The push to make English the nation's official language is building momentum, with a congressional bill on the horizon and seven states pushing legislation to make English the official language or to strengthen laws already in place."
Taking a cue from program in Indiana, new technology would allow callers to send crime-scene images - "Now the city is moving to simplify your ability to share telltale evidence of subway flashers, house burglars or even a suspect pothole, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday. "If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous building condition, you'll be able to transmit images to 911 or online to nyc.gov," Bloomberg said in his State of the City address."
Fla. City Plans Homeless-Only Village - "The village will provide shelter, psychiatric help and the support of neighbors. "This is for the people who can't work and can't integrate themselves into society," Arth said. "The answer is not to build a Hooverville of tents and trailers but to make these buildings attractive enough so that if you or I would went there, we would say, 'Wow, I'd live there.'" Critics worry that the Tiger Bay Village will only promote homelessness and that the population will relocate to rural areas."
Climate scientists feeling the heat - "Problem is, global warming may not have caused Hurricane Katrina, and last summer's heat waves were equaled and, in many cases, surpassed by heat in the 1930s. In their efforts to capture the public's attention, then, have climate scientists oversold global warming? It's probably not a majority view, but a few climate scientists are beginning to question whether some dire predictions push the science too far. "Some of us are wondering if we have created a monster," says Kevin Vranes, a climate scientist at the University of Colorado."
As harmful as cigarettes? - "MOBILE phones could turn out to be as damaging to health as cigarettes, a world expert says."
A new crop of kids: Generation We - "Researchers say this kind of environment, in which parents aren't afraid of or are clueless about technology, is fostering a new generation of kids who are naturally adept with technology and comfortable with having virtual access to friends, family and the world at large. They have a much more global outlook at a younger age, and experts from the research firm Iconoculture say that unlike the picture of entitled teens and 20-somethings that many pundits have dubbed the Me Generation, today's kids under the age of 11 are part of what Iconoculture dubs "Generation We.""
Quote of the Day
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
~ Stephen Henry Roberts
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