Iran - Ready to attack - "American military operations for a major conventional war with Iran could be implemented any day. They extend far beyond targeting suspect WMD facilities and will enable President Bush to destroy Iran's military, political and economic infrastructure overnight using conventional weapons."
737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire - "With more than 2,500,000 U.S. personnel serving across the planet and military bases spread across each continent, it's time to face up to the fact that our American democracy has spawned a global empire."
Where Your Income Tax Really Goes - "What you pay (or don’t pay) by April 17, 2007, goes to the federal funds portion of the budget. The government practice of combining trust and federal funds began during the Vietnam War, thus making the human needs portion of the budget seem larger and the military portion smaller." -- Check out the charts.
Obama to Haaretz: U.S. must help protect Israel - "U.S. Senator Barack Obama (Illinois), who is competing for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, told Haaretz yesterday that the United States should help protect Israel from its sworn enemies."
The Voice of the White House - "“There may be a concept of freedom of the press but the American media is certainly a controlled entity. As much of the print and television media is controlled by Jewish interests we never see criticism of Israel but we do see attacks on their enemies, such as Iraq and Iran. If a Palestinian sets off a bomb in Israel, the press is filled with it but if the IDF is thrashed in battles with the Hezbollah or sets fire to an Arab day care center, it never sees the light of day on this side of the Atlantic. Members of AIPAC stealing secrets? Back page if at all. But “evil Iran” (who might bomb Israel with an atomic weapon) is constantly on the front page."
Clinton urges start of Iraq pullout in 90 days - "U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the early front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has called for a 90-day deadline to start pulling American troops from Iraq."
Russia threatens to quit arms treaty - "Russia threatened on Thursday to pull out of a landmark nuclear arms control treaty unless the US backed away from plans to install its missile defence shield in Eastern Europe."
Dems go after Attorney General Gonzales - "The point of the Democratic attack is dismissal of seven U.S. attorneys, all involved in probes of public corruption."
Driver’s License Emerges as Crime-Fighting Tool, but Privacy Advocates Worry - "Other biometric databases are more useful for now. But DNA and fingerprint information, for instance, are not routinely collected from the general public. Most adults, on the other hand, have a driver’s license with a picture on it, meaning that the relevant databases for facial-recognition analysis already exist. And while the current technology requires good-quality photographs, the day may not be far off when images from ordinary surveillance cameras will routinely help solve crimes. Critics say the databases may therefore also represent a profound threat to privacy. “What is the D.M.V.?” asked Lee Tien, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a privacy advocate. “Does it license motor vehicles and drivers? Or is it really an identification arm of law enforcement?”"
Russia Proves 'Peak Oil' is a Misleading Zionist Scam - "Profoundly disturbing hard intelligence like this does not sit well with the frantic cries of western academic shills and lobbyists, determined to convince you all that the end of the oil world is nigh, or, more accurately, that America faces an imminent catastrophe when global production capacity "Peaks", i.e. when world demand for crude oil finally exceeds the rate at which we can physically pump the required product out of the ground."
Tensions high in Mediterranean over oil field - "Warnings and threats backed by gunboat diplomacy have electrified the eastern Mediterranean region, where news of a possible major oil and natural gas field has created visions of unexpected wealth."
Study sees harmful hunt for extra oil - "All the world’s extra oil supply is likely to come from expensive and environmentally damaging unconventional sources within 15 years, according to a detailed study."
Christians not being persecuted - "In order to believe bringing Christianity back into public schools would increase the morality of kids, you have to believe two equally false things: First, that being Christian makes someone moral, and secondly, that non-Christians are inherently immoral. We often find examples of Christians doing immoral things and of non-Christians leading exemplary lives. Faith is not a cure-all for social ills, and the premise is shaky at best. I'm always amazed at the Christian sense of persecution when they are required to follow the same rules as non-Christians. Christians are not being persecuted. The idea is laughable. ... Christians aren't being persecuted. They've been privileged. They've been privileged for so long that they must feel picked-on whenever they are subjected to a level playing field."
Anti-evolution memo stirs controversy - "The Anti-Defamation League is calling on state Rep. Ben Bridges to apologize for a memo distributed under his name that says the teaching of evolution should be banned in public schools because it is a religious deception stemming from an ancient Jewish sect."
Why Creationism and Intelligent Design Do Not Belong in Public Schools - "Creationism and ID are not science, as they violate the scientific method. Creationism, for example, begins with its conclusion. A second grade student knows that scientists begin with evidence, examine it, and attempt to draw conclusions from it. Creationists begin with the Bible and attempt to find evidence to legitimize it."
The real theory, fueled by evidence, and the stupid one, powered by vitriol - "There are really two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory, and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage. The talk-radio version had a packed town hall up in arms at the "Why Evolution Is Stupid" lecture. In this version of the theory, scientists supposedly believe that all life is accidental, a random crash of molecules that magically produced flowers, horses and humans — a scenario as unlikely as a tornado in a junkyard assembling a 747. Humans come from monkeys in this theory, just popping into existence one day. The evidence against Darwin is overwhelming, the purveyors of talk-radio evolution rail, yet scientists embrace his ideas because they want to promote atheism. ... Real evolutionary theory explains how life forms change across generations by passing on helpful traits to their offspring; a process that, after millions of years, gradually transforms one species into another. This does not happen randomly but through nature's tendency to reward the most successful organisms and kill the rest. This is why germs grow resistant to antibiotics and why some turtles are sea animals and others survive quite nicely in the desert, and why dinosaurs — and more than 99 percent of all other species that have ever lived on Earth — are extinct."
U.S. Beliefs in Pseudoscience Worry Experts - "A panel of researchers expressed concern that people are giving increasing credence to pseudoscience such as the visits of space aliens, lucky numbers and horoscopes. In addition, these researchers noted an increase in college students who report they are "unsure" about creationism as compared with evolution."
CARDINAL GEORGE PELL: Keeping a cool head amid warming hysteria - "What we were seeing from the doomsayers was an induced dose of mild hysteria -- semi-religious if you like, but dangerously close to superstition."
Warmest January ever recorded worldwide in 2007: US scientists - "World temperatures in January were the highest ever recorded for that month of the year, US government scientists said."
McCain: Roe V. Wade Should Be Overturned - "Republican presidential candidate John McCain, looking to improve his standing with the party's conservative voters, said Sunday the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned."
Woman Becomes Quadruple Amputee After Giving Birth - "Claudia Mejia gave birth eight and a half months ago at Orlando Regional South Seminole. She was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando where her arms and legs were amputated. She was told she had streptococcus, a flesh eating bacteria, and toxic shock syndrome, but no further explanation was given. The hospital, in a letter, wrote that if she wanted to find out exactly what happened, she would have to sue them."
Women will be paid to donate eggs for science - "Women will be paid to donate their eggs for scientific research in a landmark decision that will prompt a fierce backlash from leading figures in the medical world."
Children's TV 'is linked to cancer, autism, dementia' - "It is the number of hours and the age at which they start which produces the biological effects. It is because of the medium, not the message, that these effects are occurring."
FCC report: TV violence should be regulated - "Television networks are free to sprinkle their programs with shootings, slashings, torture and other gore because the government has no regulatory authority over violent programming. But a draft report being circulated at the Federal Communications Commission says Congress can change that, without violating the First Amendment."
Yahoo endorses end to copy protection - "Software that prevents people from copying digital music may be gone from more than half of the songs offered by Yahoo Inc.'s music service by the end of the year, Vice President Dave Goldberg said this week."
Robot-driven cars on roads by 2030: scientist - " Scientists are developing vehicles which will not only be driven by robots independently, but will be able to operate in a simulated city environment."
Science Finding Ways to Regrow Fingers - "Researchers are trying to find ways to regrow fingers _ and someday, even limbs _ with tricks that sound like magic spells from a Harry Potter novel."
So men are the germier sex? Well, think again - "Women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items as men do, according to a new study from University of Arizona germ guru Charles Gerba, professor of soil, water and environmental sciences."
Quote of the Day
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
~ Abraham Lincoln
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