US and India seal nuclear accord - "The US and India have finalised a controversial nuclear deal after talks in Delhi between President George W Bush and Indian PM Manmohan Singh. Energy-hungry India will get access to US civil nuclear technology and open its nuclear facilities to inspection."
Nationwide protests as Bush arrives in New Delhi - "An unusually massive half million protesters, mostly belonging to the Jamiat ul Ulema-i-Hind had gathered at Delhi’s historic Ramlila Grounds, the milling crowd running more than a mile deep. The placards told President Bush to go back home, that he was not welcome in India."
Patriot Act wins final congressional approval - "Capping months of partisan wrangling, the U.S. Senate gave final congressional approval on Thursday to renewing the USA Patriot Act, a centerpiece of President George W. Bush's war on terrorism."
Politics of Choice - "“Women who are thinking about ending a pregnancy are not asking, ‘Is this a life?’ They know that it is. They are asking, ‘Can I take care of this baby?” explains the Center’s Kirsten Moore."
Teacher's suspension protested - "Overland High School students protest today, some in support and others against, a teacher who was at the center of a controversy over statements he made comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler."
Why Americans Know More About The Simpsons Than The Constitution - "Similarly, the Rockefeller Education Board—which funded the creation of numerous public schools—issued a statement which read in part: "In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way." These are the founders of the public education system in America. The agenda from the very start was to eliminate all forms of objective thought and use education to produce automatons of the state who would shrink from embracing higher forms of intellectual pursuit and truly understanding their role and potential to advance freedom in human society. No wonder that today a portion of Americans think that the 1st Amendment includes the right to own a pet. Lack of sufficient education about our freedoms and where they came from puts the free world in peril and if we don't increase our efforts to inform and enlighten tyrants will not squander their opportunity to create a prison planet."
Blasphemy and Power - "The phrase "a world of domination" is in fact a far more apt description of American ambition and power than it is of Islam. Islam is not credibly threatening to take over Europe or America, but the US has in fact taken over Iraq and has well advertised designs on Syria and Iran. And the long and bloody history of Western colonialism throughout the Islamic world can not simply be ignored. We have a lot more credibility when it comes to torture than when it comes to freedom."
Phones stolen in Iraq used for sex chatlines - "It certainly was not part of Britain's plans to win the hearts and minds of the people of Iraq. But the Foreign Office has been apparently paying for an adult sex chatline in a Baghdad street for 17 months without knowing it."
Cheney Urges Americans to Save More - "Last year, Americans' personal savings rate dropped to its lowest point since the Great Depression. The dismal state of savings comes as a big wave of baby boomers will soon start retiring."
America's Younger Workers Losing Ground on Income - "A new survey shows that median incomes fell for householders under 45, even as they rose for older ones, between 2001 and 2004. Income fell 8 percent, adjusted for inflation, for those under 35 and 9 percent for those aged 35 to 44. The numbers add new weight to longstanding concerns about whether younger generations of Americans will achieve living standards that are better — or at least equal to — those of their parents." -- Ok, Dick, how do you save money when you don't have any?
Calif. School Suspends 20 Who Saw Web Site - "A middle school student faces expulsion for allegedly posting graphic threats against a classmate on the popular MySpace.com Web site, and 20 of his classmates were suspended for viewing the posting, school officials said."
Soft Drinks Found to Have High Levels of Cancer Chemical - "Traces of a carcinogenic chemical have been found in soft drinks at eight times the level permitted in drinking water, it was revealed last night. Tests conducted on 230 drinks on sale in Britain and France have identified high levels of benzene, a compound known to cause cancer, according to the Food Standards Agency."
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