Kissinger warns of possible "war of civilizations" - "Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger warned that Europe and the United States must unite to head off a "war of civilizations" arising from a nuclear-armed Middle East."
Bush: US committed to Israel's security - "President George W. Bush said during a meeting with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni at the White House that he "is deeply committed to Israel's security.""
Powell joins opponents of Bush tribunal plan - ""The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism," Powell, a retired Army four-star general, wrote in a letter Wednesday to McCain, whose amendment last year opposed the use of torture."
Constant Conflict - "We live in an age of multiple truths. He who warns of the "clash of civilizations" is incontestably right; simultaneously, we shall see higher levels of constructive trafficking between civilizations than ever before. The future is bright--and it is also very dark. More men and women will enjoy health and prosperity than ever before, yet more will live in poverty or tumult, if only because of the ferocity of demographics. There will be more democracy--that deft liberal form of imperialism--and greater popular refusal of democracy. One of the defining bifurcations of the future will be the conflict between information masters and information victims."
Pope's speech stirs Muslim anger - "Questioning the concept of holy war, he quoted a 14th-Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things." ... Benedict said "I quote" twice to stress the words were not his and added that violence was "incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul"."
Suit claims UAE rulers enslaved boys - "Rulers of the United Arab Emirates were accused in a lawsuit of enslaving tens of thousands of boys over three decades and forcing them to work as jockeys in the popular sport of camel racing."
Air Force chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs - "Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday."
The Day America Changed, Except Me - "Now, five years later, almost everything that makes us quintessentially American has been stripped away in the Patriot Acts, with a literal coup d'etat still ruling after five years. Gone is habeas corpus, destroyed by military tribunals and congressional laws for detention without even knowing what the crime is. Gone is freedom of speech, where writing anything that seems contrary to the administration puts us onto no fly lists, under surveillance, and into those god forsaken sterilized "free speech zones." Gone is our right to privacy, against self-incrimination, where the flagrantly illegal wire-tapping doesn't even revolt the typical white American... but from what I've seen, it revolts the rest of us colored Americans. Oh yes, plenty of Asians, Blacks and Hispanics know all too well how tenuous our rights can be."
VA study: Gulf War syndrome doesn't exist - "The study acknowledges that nearly 30 percent of all those who served in the first war in Iraq suffered or still suffer from an array of very real problems."
State Of Emergency - " Vogue Italia September 2006" -- I'm not sure of even what to say. Check out the pictures.
Princeton prof hacks e-vote machine - "A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines."
The New Naysayers - "In the midst of religious revival, three scholars argue that atheism is smarter."
Godless BY CHOICE - ""I left the church not because I didn’t like it," he said. "I left it because I thought it wasn’t true." While dwarfed by the number of Christians, Muslims and Hindus in the world (about 4.3 billion altogether), those who don’t believe in a god number 500 million to 750 million, according to sociologist Phil Zuckerman’s survey, published in The Cambridge Companion to Atheism last year. That makes the godless the world’s fourth-largest segment in religious surveys. In the United States, the proportion of nonbelievers is smaller than in many other parts of the world. Zuckerman’s survey put the U.S. total at 3 percent to 9 percent, or between 9 million and 26 million people."
Pontiff Admonishes Catholics Not to Lose Their Souls to Science - "Under glorious skies in this Bavarian capital where he once lived, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday warned Roman Catholics against letting modern concerns drown out God's word, adding that technology alone could not solve the world's problems."
Men are more intelligent than women, claims new study - "It is research that is guaranteed to delight men - and infuriate the women in their lives. A controversial new study has claimed that men really are more intelligent than women. The study - carried out by a man - concluded that men's IQs are almost four points higher than women's."
Michigan legislation would require girls to get HPV vaccine - "Michigan girls entering the sixth grade next year would have to be vaccinated against cervical cancer under legislation backed Tuesday by a bipartisan group of female lawmakers."
Report: One in five children will become obese - "One in five children is predicted to be obese by the end of the decade. But efforts to turn that tide are scattershot and underfunded, and the government killed one of the few programs proven to work, specialists said Wednesday."
Experimental AI Powers Robot Army - "Neural networking pioneer Stephen Thaler is adapting his Creativity Machine theories to power self-organizing swarms of cockroach-size robots for the military. Is an artificial intelligence breakthrough on the horizon?"
Arctic ice melting rapidly, study says - "Scientists point to the sudden and rapid melting as a sure sign of man-made global warming. "It has never occurred before in the past," said NASA senior research scientist Josefino Comiso in a phone interview. "It is alarming... This winter ice provides the kind of evidence that it is indeed associated with the greenhouse effect.""
Astronomers find distant, fluffy planet - "The largest planet ever found orbiting another star is so puffy it would float on water, astronomers said Thursday."
City removes fluoride from water - "The Del Rio City Council made that decision Tuesday night after a presentation by John Morony, a retired college biology professor, who characterized fluoride as a poison and showed the council numerous research references that link fluoride to higher rates of cancer and other health hazards."
Advertising seeps into the cell phone - "After years of balking at the idea of opening up their networks to advertising, the four biggest mobile operators in the United States are edging closer to incorporating banner ads, text message marketing and short video commercials into their business models in an effort to reduce the cost of offering new multimedia services to subscribers."
Quote of the Day
"There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy."
~ Ted Turner
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