Hezbollah leader said to be hiding in Iranian Embassy - "Intelligence reports indicate the leader of Hezbollah is hiding in a foreign mission in Beirut, possibly the Iranian Embassy, according to U.S. and Israeli officials."
Iran: The Next War - "Even before the bombs fell on Baghdad, a group of senior Pentagon officials were plotting to invade another country. Their covert campaign once again relied on false intelligence and shady allies. But this time, the target was Iran."
U.S. may send 5,000 more troops to Baghdad - "Military commanders in Iraq are developing a plan to move as many as 5,000 U.S. troops with armored vehicles and tanks into the country's capital in an effort to quell escalating violence, defense officials said Thursday."
Detainee Abuse Charges Feared - "An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts."
US must abolish secret detention facilities: UN rights panel - "The UN Human Rights Committee has called on the United States to immediately abolish all secret detention facilities, in a report raising deep concerns about the conduct of the "war on terror". Information on secret detentions was "credible and uncontested", the panel said in its final report after an examination of the United States's human rights record."
Analysis: Bush Foreign Policy Struggling - ""This president has a very firm world view that is not about to be changed by facts or realities. There are good guys and bad guys," said Ivo Daalder, who was director of European affairs in the National Security Council in the Clinton administration. "Right now, Israelis are the good guys and Hezbollah, Syria and Iran are the bad guys," said Daalder, now a fellow with the Brookings Institution. He said the administration's refusal to deal directly with Hezbollah, Syria or Iran "is a manifestation of this world view: We don't talk to bad people.""
Strange, "End-Times" beliefs of some Fundamentalist, "Evangelical" Christians - "Is this all wild, "science fiction"? Maybe. But again, no one knows. Does it hurt to believe in this "unbelievable" scenario? These "Evangelical" Christians seem to say that it won't hurt at all to believe that such scenarios could come true. They say that they have nothing to lose by believing in it even if it doesn't come true, but everything to gain if it indeed takes place, if one is a believer."
Would $100 oil slam the global economy? - "Economists have been surprised how little the current high price of oil has damaged the U.S. and world economies. After all, prices have already soared by 300% since 1999, yet nearly all regions of the world continue to chug along. That's a big contrast to the oil crises of the 1970s and 1980s, which sent economies into major funks. What would happen, though, if the price of a barrel of oil topped the psychologically significant level of $100? The answer varies by region, with the worst likely impact in Asia and the least impact in Europe. But no question, oil prices one-third higher than they are now would sting everywhere."
BP Profit Rises to a Record on Oil Prices, Refining - "BP Plc, Europe's biggest oil company, reported a 30 percent jump in second-quarter profit to a record as crude prices surged and refining earnings increased."
Poland reluctant to give America sovereignty over missile base - "Concerns have been raised over America's insistence that the base would be a sovereign US installation on Polish soil, and beyond the scrutiny of local legal and defence officials. "I approach the problem of extra-territoriality with reserve, I won't hide that," said the president, Lech Kaczynski. The Warsaw newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported this week that Poland's government would be kept in the dark about the US base's operations and would not be consulted about missile launches. Poland, a staunch American ally which is increasingly at odds with its European neighbours and partners under a national-conservative government, is the frontrunner to host the sole national missile defence site outside the US."
Chat rooms could face expulsion - "Web sites like Amazon.com and MySpace.com may soon be inaccessible for many people using public terminals at American schools and libraries, thanks to the U.S. House of Representatives. By a 410-15 vote on Thursday, politicians approved a bill that would effectively require that "chat rooms" and "social networking sites" be rendered inaccessible to minors, an age group that includes some of the Internet's most ardent users. Adults can ask for permission to access the sites." -- Ask for permission? Welcome to fascist America.
Teens Online: Not a Freak Zone - "She has also seen ignorance, confusion and nervousness among adults -- about the technology more than about teen sexuality. Many parents, teachers and counselors discover what teens are doing online almost entirely through the media. "Media always portray new technology in alarmist, 'the world ends tomorrow' fashion," she says. "You get the sense that MySpace is an online sexual orgy where adults and kids sleep together in some kind of culty illicit community. That's really not what's going on." To show adults a more accurate picture of how teens use the internet, Gowen developed the Virtual Mystery Tour workshop to guide grown-ups through the tools and communities popular among young people."
Legalizing Warentless Wiretapping - "New legislation that would rewrite the rules governing foreign surveillance wiretaps is making its way through the Senate Judiciary Committee. The legislation's content is predictable: The GOP-controlled Congress is giving the President essentially what he wants, by approving his NSA wiretapping program."
Lactivists: Where is it OK to breastfeed? - "These readers weren't complaining about a sexually explicit cover, but rather one of a baby nursing, on a wholesome parenting magazine -- yet another sign that Americans are squeamish over the sight of a nursing breast, even as breast-feeding itself gains more support from the government and medical community. ... The evidence of public discomfort isn't just anecdotal. In a survey published in 2004 by the American Dietetic Association, less than half -- 43 percent -- of 3,719 respondents said women should have the right to breast-feed in public places." -- The world is full of idiots.
A Brief History of Human Sex - "Birds do it, bees do it, humans since the dawn of time have done it. But just how much has the act really changed through the millennia and even in past decades? Are humans doing it more? Are we doing it better? Sort of, say scientists. But it's how people fess up to the truth about their sex lives that has changed the most over the years."
Quote of the Day
"Nobody knows anything. Everybody knows that."
~ Melanie Boyer
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