Bush Confident Bin Laden Will Be Captured - "Standing alongside Karzai outside the presidential palace, Bush pledged that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and other planners of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks would be caught."
Who will extinguish the fires of this warfare? - "Since the fall of Baghdad to U.S. troops on April 9, 2003, a new kind of war has started in our country which is more barbaric, more vicious and more evil the modern world has ever seen. Instead of planting democracy, tolerance, human rights and reconciliation, the U.S. occupation has bred sectarian and ethnic strife and an atmosphere of insecurity in which human life has become worthless."
Bush denies Iraq heading toward civil war - "President George W. Bush, hit by polls showing America's support for the Iraq war at an all-time low, denied on Tuesday Iraq was sliding into civil war, despite the worst sectarian strife since a U.S. invasion."
Soldiers in Iraq know they are fighting and dying for a lie - "In another direct contradiction of stated White House policy, just 24% said that "establishing a democracy that can be a model for the Arab World" was the main or a major reason for the war."
http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=310 - "He said it again. Bush said that the world was a safer place without Saddam! OK…I’m listening…now tell me exactly how the world is safer? Show me one single person on the planet that is safer now? Are the tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died as a result of “Operation We call Iraqi Freedom Even Though We Told You it Was Operation Protect Us From WMDs, And You Fell For It” safer?"
Has America's conscience fallen victim to 9/11? - "The Bush administration is fond of reminding us that we are in a "post-9/11 world." The effect of this grave reminder is clear to all around the world:"
Terra, Terra, Terra. Cry `terra` and let loose the dogs of war. - "Never before has one word, or its relentless repetition, done so much for one man as the word `terror’ (`terra` in Texanese) has for this Texan from Crawford that now resides in the White House. No other single word, it seems, is so much responsible for Bush`s continued fame among certain naive American quarters. ... The only other word that comes a close second, especially in the run ups to and the durations of external fiascos e.g. the upcoming Iran war, is the word ‘freedom’. The entire presidential tenure of the current White House incumbent is laced with the two words terra and freedom. Though most Americans have begun to suspect that freedom at home, like any fixed commodity, is depleting by the exact proportion of its alleged export abroad, there are still some out there who heed this incessant chant of terra, terra, terra."
Gonzales Seeks to Clarify Testimony on Spying - "Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appeared to suggest yesterday that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance operations may extend beyond the outlines that the president acknowledged in mid-December."
Bush arrives to Indian protests - "Ahead of his arrival, tens of thousands of people protested in India. Huge protest rallies were held in Delhi and Calcutta. Speakers said he was not welcome and condemned the Iraq war."
Miss. House committee votes to ban most abortions - "A Mississippi House committee voted Tuesday to ban most abortions in the state - an unexpected move that left abortion opponents grappling to stake out a position on a proposal that could prompt a lengthy court battle."
Americans and Jews villains in blockbuster - "A virulently anti-Semitic film about the Iraq war has provoked a storm of protest in Germany after it sold out to cheering audiences from the country's 2.5-million-strong Turkish community within days of being released." -- Why is it "anti-Semitic?" The only thing I have seen mentioned is that a Jewish doctor removes the organs from Iraqi prisoners, comparing it to Nazi Germany. That makes it anti-Semtitic?
The Origin of Darwin - "Just as geography could create variation, Darwin began to see, so too could the passage of time. Wilson points to the skeleton of an armadillo-like creature about the size of a small pony. "That's a glyptodont. This was one of the extinct forms that planted a second seed in Darwin's mind," he says. "In Darwin's day, conventional wisdom held that extinct species hadn't made it onto Noah's ark. Darwin looked at the similarity between forms, like the glyptodont and the modern armadillo, and wondered why God would trouble replacing one species with another so similar.""
Unintelligent Design - "A monstrous discovery suggests that viruses, long regarded as lowly evolutionary latecomers, may have been the precursors of all life on Earth. ... This is striking news, especially at a moment when the basic facts of origins and evolution seem to have fallen under a shroud. In the discussions of intelligent design, one hears a yearning for an old-fashioned creation story, in which some singular, inchoate entity stepped in to give rise to complex life-forms—humans in particular. Now the viruses appear to present a creation story of their own: a stirring, topsy-turvy, and decidedly unintelligent design wherein life arose more by reckless accident than original intent, through an accumulation of genetic accounting errors committed by hordes of mindless, microscopic replication machines. Our descent from apes is the least of it. With the discovery of Mimi, scientists are close to ascribing to viruses the last role that anyone would have conceived for them: that of life's prime mover."
Study: Few Americans Know 1st Amendment - "Americans apparently know more about "The Simpsons" than they do about the First Amendment. Only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.) But more than half can name at least two members of the cartoon family, according to a survey."
Space Hawks Chase Death Rays - "As tourists line up to ride private rocket ships into space, the galaxy has never seemed closer as a theater for war. The evidence goes beyond surreptitious surveillance of peace-loving space activists. Even now, lobbyists from the fledgling commercial space industry are besieging Capitol Hill, hoping to persuade the government to hand out contracts to help put the U.S. military into orbit."
Japan unveils fastest supercomputer - "Japan's fastest supercomputer system, running 59 trillion calculations per second, began operations Wednesday."
Study: Reading Key to College Success - "One major factor separates high school graduates who are ready for college from those who aren't, a new study shows: how well students handle complex reading. Trouble is, most states don't even have reading standards for high school grades, and not a single state defines the kind of complexity that high school reading should have."
Cat Gets MBA Degree - "Colby Nolan (pictured, left) is probably the first animal to hold this distinction -- an executive MBA from a university. Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert isn't amused, since Colby is a pet cat and a Texas-based online college allegedly gave the feline a degree for $399."
Quote of the Day
"America, like no other country that ever waged a war, demonstrated to the whole of the world that wars begin not in Iraqi sands or in the Persian Gulf, not in Munich pubs or in Afghani mountains. Wars originate in the human minds and end there."
~ Andrey Sokolov
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