tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51459082012-02-16T18:38:49.635-06:00Just One Minute - moreNews, Politics, Technology, Space, Ecology, Art, LiteratureWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.comBlogger2671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-2354159922193820282011-10-12T00:25:00.000-05:002011-10-12T00:25:11.647-05:00I have not written on this blog for over two years. My only exude, too busy, too happy too much the newlywed, but as we move into election season I feel a great fear of losing all that has been gained during Obama's Presidency. While, he has certainly not been perfect in his administration, he really did not have perfection situations to deal with. At the very least Barrack Obama has returned Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-61681506306916775482009-08-26T21:45:00.007-05:002009-08-26T22:26:30.064-05:00Today, I note, with deep sadness the passing of a great statesman. Teddy was at times a man full of human frailties and mistakes and yet capable of self redemption, a man that at all times strove to be a great Senator, Statesman and American. "I think about my brothers every day," Kennedy told Reuters. "They set high standards. Sometimes you measure up, sometimes you don't." A 2009 survey by Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-42463986553160896042009-01-20T14:20:00.002-06:002009-01-20T14:23:33.468-06:00President Barack Obama's inaugural address, as prepared for delivery:My fellow citizens:I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.Forty-four Americans have now Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-67011155525576694732009-01-17T22:18:00.002-06:002009-01-17T22:33:50.928-06:00Barack Obama is the first president I have been excited about in 48 years. Not since Jack, Bobby and Teddy have I been so optimistic. It is fitting that this historical event occurs the day after we celebrate Martin. After so much effort, sacrifice and blood, the country grows up. Free at last, free at last, free at last, thank God I'm free at last. For the record I'm a 58 year old white Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-19257924743695982262008-11-22T18:30:00.003-06:002008-11-22T18:38:58.077-06:00Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-44652233266257315242008-11-22T12:32:00.028-06:002008-11-22T19:51:30.372-06:00Father along than I imagined It is hard to realize that it was a few weeks ago, give or take a few centuries, that the USA finally made strides towards living up to it's declared promise of equality. I knew the day would come when the content of one's heart would matter more than outward apperance I just didn't know it would be this year, this decade or even the next decade We are about twenty Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-51197567533957779022008-10-17T21:11:00.004-05:002008-10-17T21:21:04.375-05:00 A Legacy of Resentment I finally understand the switch of doom that tripped somewhere deep in my soul during Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention. Her rhetorical star turn—the exuberant snideness, the gut-level rapport with the audience, the frank pleasure at being a yokel on the big stage—reprised the great gifts of the politician who dominated my youth: George Corley Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-42441963619829630542008-09-20T13:14:00.008-05:002008-09-20T13:31:51.378-05:00 Hard Truths About the Bailout ...Americans need to be told a more fundamental truth: This crisis is the result of a willful and systematic failure by the government to regulate and monitor the activities of bankers, lenders, hedge funds, insurers and other market players. All were playing high-stakes poker with the financial system, but without adequate transparency, oversight or supervision. Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-84795646850333835642008-08-30T09:32:00.001-05:002008-08-30T09:36:59.685-05:00On Thursday night, August 28th, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-29165675534696781822008-08-23T10:07:00.000-05:002008-08-23T10:08:03.757-05:00Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-5250827725258947912008-08-11T13:48:00.002-05:002008-08-11T13:58:13.486-05:00Im sick and tired of hearing thingsFrom uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocriticsAll I want is the truthJust gimme some truthIve had enough of reading thingsBy neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politiciansAll I want is the truthJust gimme some truthNo short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dickyIs gonna mother hubbard soft soap meWith just a pocketful of hopeMoney for dopeMoney for Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-680616115180020822008-05-02T09:24:00.002-05:002008-05-02T09:29:16.347-05:00 Fair Play for False Prophets In March, Obama tried to explain the anger in the black community and insisted that "to condemn it without understanding its roots only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races."In light of this racial gap, it's worth pondering why white, right-wing preachers who make ridiculous and sometimes shameful statements usually emerge with Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-78065154483232111182008-05-01T13:42:00.004-05:002008-05-01T13:46:16.740-05:00 Wright's wrongs AFTER he became notorious as the man who urged God to damn America, Jeremiah Wright claims he wrestled with two impulses. The first was to heed the proverb: “It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” The second was to “come across the room” and fight back. Mr Wright's decision to come across the room with his mouth wide open is Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-81858709651924259642008-04-28T00:49:00.007-05:002008-04-28T01:01:49.776-05:00 Iraq five years on THOMAS JEFFERSON once said, speaking of slavery, that America was holding a wolf by the ears: it could neither continue to do so, nor afford to let go. Something similar might be said about America’s role in Iraq, five years after the American-led invasion began in March 2003. EconomistWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-83036692017376638952008-04-24T11:09:00.000-05:002008-04-24T11:10:24.023-05:00Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-21301871130511895372008-04-23T01:26:00.008-05:002008-04-23T01:39:37.099-05:00Dear Barack and Michelle While this is certainly not a time to panic, if winning not just the nomination but the general election is the point then concern is certainly in order. On the one hand you have demonstrated that a large number of white men will vote for you, the truth remains that a sizable portion of the country will also vote against you simply because you're a black male. Does thisWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-775307317969787342008-04-18T13:25:00.015-05:002008-04-18T15:08:02.679-05:00 I have watched the primaries with interest and at times even with relish. Once upon a time I even thought I would be content with any of the Democrat nominees. But now as the debates and political ads near the lowest possible level of pettiness, I find, to my surprise, that should Hillary Clinton be the Democratic nominee, I may actually vote for a Republican presidential nominee. This would Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-38960602911518534392007-12-29T20:52:00.000-06:002007-12-29T20:56:22.731-06:00 Infection Hits a California Prison Hard In the past three years, more than 900 inmates at the prison have contracted the fever, a fungal infection that has been both widespread and lethal. NY TimesWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-83642506398568471372007-12-28T19:10:00.000-06:002007-12-28T21:34:53.002-06:00While the west gives money and troops to fight terrorism, our real crisis is found in how how we treat one another and what we do or don't' do for the non conforming social misfits. We jail rather than reform. Jails 'failing to treat inmates The public is being put at risk from drug addicts and mentally ill offenders released from jail without treatment, leading prison doctors have said. BBC Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-4353169906950906292007-08-05T19:57:00.000-05:002007-08-05T20:00:29.818-05:00Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-35006199611522362482007-07-04T14:30:00.000-05:002007-07-04T14:52:35.977-05:00 "Even Richard Nixon knew it was time to resign"From Iraq to Scooter Libby, Bush and Cheney have broken America's trust and stabbed this nation in the back. It is time for them to go.By Keith OlbermannJul. 04, 2007 | Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on what is, in everything but name, George Bush's pardon of Scooter Libby."I didn't vote for him," an American once said, "But he's myWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-71600793871408251682007-03-14T20:00:00.000-05:002007-03-14T22:20:20.515-05:00 The Coulterization of the American Right The "faggot" episode isn't about Ann Coulter. It's about the deal conservatism made with the devil -- a deal that has cost it its soul.By Gary KamiyaMar. 13, 2007 | So Ann Coulter has done it again. She called John Edwards a "faggot" at a major conservative conference and everyone is outraged. But do we have to go through this ridiculous charade againWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-53503724096777773702007-02-15T11:36:00.000-06:002007-02-15T11:39:08.570-06:00 Russian Court Throws Out Microsoft Piracy Case A Russian court has dismissed a criminal case against a village school teacher accused of using pirated Microsoft software.Aleksandr Ponosov, the headmaster at a school in the Perm region, went on trial after prosecutors accused him of violating Microsoft's intellectual property rights. Radio Free EuropeWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-57552527038965598782007-02-15T10:14:00.000-06:002007-02-15T10:24:31.423-06:00 Growing concern about Russia leads to new defence thinking in Sweden ..."The strategic map has changed. We must now analyse what resources are needed here at home, if tension in the north of Europe were to grow", said Colonel Stefan Gustafsson in a recent interview with the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. As Gustafsson sees it, Russia’s armed forces have passed their nadir, and Russia isWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-26913478706027230692007-02-14T22:09:00.000-06:002007-02-14T22:14:40.227-06:00Peterson/The Sun/Vancouver, Canada/CartoonArts InternationalWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-48135773747910853352007-02-14T13:48:00.000-06:002007-02-14T14:00:05.021-06:00 A countdown to confrontation THE streets of Iran are festooned this week with revolutionary bunting. Black and green banners commemorating the martyrdom of the third Shia imam, Hussein, still flutter from lamp-posts, even though the mournful Ashura rites of late January are over. They now hang beside flags looking forward to February 11th, when Iranians mark the anniversary of the Islamic Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-35319276127119970842007-02-14T13:00:00.000-06:002007-02-14T13:54:15.115-06:00 Suffer the children? JUDGING by the loud howls of concern this week, the lot of children in Britain and America is a rather terrible one. On Wednesday February 14th Unicef published a report comparing the well-being of young people in 21 rich countries, and concluded that British and American youths endure the worst quality of life of any. In contrast, North European children, especially the Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-32369089962560827452007-02-14T11:36:00.001-06:002007-02-14T11:41:00.115-06:00 The myth of Finnish incorruptibility An often-repeated quotation believed to date back to the 1970s, and attributed to Nokia director Harry Mildh, states that "there is no person so insignificant as to not be worth bribing." ... For years, Finland has been at the top of the list maintained by Transparency International of the world's least corrupt countries. So we are incorruptible. Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-18677025134427082732007-02-14T11:23:00.000-06:002007-02-14T11:26:53.151-06:00 Pierre Loti at the height of controversy In much of Istanbul, place names come and place names go. But when the name change proposes replacing “Pierre Loti,” the famous French poet who etched Istanbul into the minds of generations of Europeans, well, that means controversy. “Let Pierre Loti's name may become Eyüp Sultan,” read the headline in Tuesday's mass daily Vatan, telling the story of aWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-77468796023883211732007-02-12T15:37:00.000-06:002007-02-12T15:45:57.656-06:00 FBI loose 160 laptop computers and have 160 missing weapons The FBI lost 160 laptop computers in less than four years, including at least 10 that contained highly sensitive classified information and one that held "personal identifying information on FBI personnel," according to a new report released today.The bureau, which has struggled for years to get a handle on sloppy inventory proceduresWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-78410135762679042872007-02-12T09:48:00.000-06:002007-02-10T10:16:05.455-06:00 How the US is doing Iran's killing in Iraq New evidence is emerging on the ground of an Iranian hand in growing violence within Iraq, but not necessarily as the US claims Tehran is involved, that is, by providing arms to Shi'ite Muslim militants. The massacre in Najaf last month indicates that Iran could be working through the Iraqi government, local leaders in Najaf say. The killing of 263 Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-15078285606867180742007-02-10T10:09:00.000-06:002007-02-08T21:48:35.278-06:00 Return of Somalia's Warlords "This has blown up in our face, frankly." This blunt assessment by John Prendergast—a former adviser to the National Security Council and the State Department who is currently working for the International Crisis Group—wasn't about the January bombing of villages in southern Somalia by the United States. Prendergast was speaking some eight months ago about the Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-31767821054990839122007-02-08T21:45:00.000-06:002007-02-06T23:15:05.121-06:00 Korea nuclear talks 'make progress' ...South Korea's envoy to the negotiations, Chun Yung-woo, said: "We have confirmed that there is a consensus among the countries that there must be an agreement on the early steps on implementing the September 19 joint statement at this round [of negotiations]." He was referring to the North's agreement with the five other countries in September 2005, so far Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-22419127237075951062007-02-06T23:07:00.000-06:002007-02-06T23:15:05.153-06:00 The caricatures of Mahomet carry out “Charlie Hebdo” in front of justice The lawsuit of the satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo opens, Wednesday February 7 in front of the correctional court of Paris. The newspaper and its director of the publication, Philippe Valley, are continued by the Union of the Islamic organizations of France (UOIF) and the Large Mosque of Paris (GMP) to have Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-27622332146085915162007-02-06T19:48:00.000-06:002007-02-06T19:58:09.221-06:00 Abbas: Dig near Al-Aqsa Mosque likely to endanger peace efforts Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said that Israeli excavation works near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem were likely to endanger regional peace efforts, Israel Radio reported.Abbas added that the excavations demonstrated Israel's intentions to destroy holy Islamic sites, according to the radio.Jordan's King Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-64322805819781410692007-02-06T19:35:00.000-06:002007-02-06T19:39:48.936-06:00 Palestinians arrive for Mecca talks Palestinian leaders have arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at ending months of factional fighting in Gaza between Hamas and Fatah.However as they convened in Jeddah ahead of the talks on Tuesday a commander from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, was shot dead in Gaza City.Meanwhile Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, said onWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-24360911052605069512007-02-06T13:57:00.000-06:002007-02-06T14:02:45.402-06:00 Bush's Iran madness You wouldn't think that the masterminds who dreamed up the Iraq war could possibly match that grand plan, but they have. The ignorant ideologues who brought us Iraq have learned nothing. They are still reading from the same delusional neoconservative script. So, with Iraq a bloody nightmare, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process dead, Lebanon and Gaza on the brink of civil Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-52401118483404504232007-02-05T22:32:00.000-06:002007-02-05T22:54:01.472-06:00Deal ends Beatles' Apple battle Technology giant Apple has reached a deal with the Beatles to end the dispute over the use of the Apple name. Apple Inc will now take full control of the Apple brand and license certain trademarks back to the Beatles' record company Apple Corps for continued use.The two companies have been wrangling over the use of the Apple name and logo for more than 25 years. Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-13451814513835581292007-02-05T22:17:00.000-06:002007-02-05T22:20:13.707-06:00 Gaza abductions on eve of talks A series of tit-for-tat kidnappings of Hamas and Fatah members have taken place ahead of crucial talks due to be held between Fatah and Hamas in Mecca on Tuesday. Gunmen in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun have stormed the headquarters of Force 17, which is loyal to Fatah, and abducted six members.Fatah officials blamed Hamas for the abductions. AljazeeraWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-83849508961453119792007-02-05T22:09:00.000-06:002007-02-05T22:15:06.880-06:00 German leader on Middle East tour Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is meeting Middle East leaders as part of a push to shore up support for renewed efforts for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.Before heading to Riyadh on Sunday, Chancellor Merkel held talks in Egypt with Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, and Amr Moussa, the Arab League secretary-general, who stressed the need to Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-41143868500545446212007-02-05T21:39:00.000-06:002007-02-05T21:52:46.612-06:00 Analysis: Will the real Mossad please stand up? In the classic joke, two Berlin Jews are sitting side by side on a park bench in the mid-1930s. One is reading a Jewish newspaper with growing concern, the other is chortling over a Nazi Party newspaper.The first one scolds him, "It's bad enough you're reading that anti-Semitic rag, but you're laughing also?" His friend answers, "If I read your Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-40412030296352667962007-02-05T19:03:00.000-06:002007-02-05T19:08:00.527-06:00 Crime Down, But Europeans Still Feel Threatened European citizens feel the crime rate has dropped in the last decade but about one person in three is still concerned about personal safety in the streets, according to a survey released Monday.Fifteen percent of Europeans questioned said they had been the victim of a common crime -- including 10 categories of crime ranging from bicycle theft to Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-32679775607631200012007-02-04T18:53:00.000-06:002007-02-04T18:56:35.635-06:00 Jakarta on high alert as dramatic floods make 340,000 homeless Boats carried emergency supplies to desperate residents of Indonesia's flood-stricken capital yesterday as overflowing rivers again burst their banks following days of rain. At least 20 people have been killed and almost 340,000 others made homeless, officials said.Hundreds of people remained on the second floors of their houses, Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-9599745971674106212007-02-04T18:41:00.000-06:002007-02-04T18:46:16.455-06:00 Taleban has '2,000 suicide bombers primed for spring war THE white flag of the Taleban still flies above the northern Helmand town of Musa Qala, as the group yesterday issued a chilling battle cry promising the bloodiest year since its fall in 2001, with legions of willing suicide bombers. As the snows melt and the weather warms, NATO troops are preparing for the bloodiest spring offensive Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-39883659901616746672007-02-04T18:27:00.000-06:002007-02-04T18:34:21.774-06:00 Amidst bloodshed, millions of Muslims pray for peace ONGI, Bangladesh (AP) -- Some 3 million Muslims put aside their country's violent struggle with political corruption and Islamic extremists and raised their hands in prayer for global peace at one of the world's largest religious gatherings.The final prayer Sunday capped a three-day Islamic gathering on the sandy banks of the River Turag in a Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-27884327055434005442007-02-04T17:48:00.000-06:002007-02-04T18:02:56.513-06:00 Infighting hurting their case, Palestinians fear he fierce internal clashes among Palestinian factions have shocked many Palestinians and Arab governments, who fear that the bloodshed is damaging the Palestinian case before the world.Even as the Bush administration moves in its second term to try to press for significant progress toward peace, Palestinians say their own infighting is making it Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-12470085784938183072007-02-04T17:22:00.000-06:002007-02-04T17:55:37.890-06:00 France and 45 other countries call for world environmental monitor Forty-five nations joined France in calling for a new environmental body to slow global warming and protect the planet, a body that potentially could have policing powers to punish violators.Absent were the world's heavyweight polluter, the United States, and two booming nations on the same path as the United States, China and Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-82383113254005087092007-02-02T11:15:00.000-06:002007-02-02T11:24:48.538-06:00 ....Global warming .... has become a runaway train that cannot be stopped. .... The warming of Earth and increases in sea levels "would continue for centuries … even if greenhouse gas concentrations were to be stabilized," according to a 20-page summary of the report that was leaked to wire services..../ The report also says scientists' "best estimate" is that temperatures will rise 3.2 to Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-13976488088092386612007-02-02T10:55:00.000-06:002007-02-02T11:02:16.322-06:00 The debate on global warming is over That's the ultimate message from the report released in Paris today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.N. body of leading researchers charged with analyzing climate science and producing the final word on what is happening — and will happen — to our planet. IPCC scientists now say that it is "very likely" that global warming Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-41924063238452413332007-02-01T22:42:00.000-06:002007-02-02T08:42:50.539-06:00 France 'dims' for climate protest The lights of Paris dimmed for five minutes on Thursday in a nationwide "lights out" campaign, aimed at raising public awareness over global warming.The Eiffel Tower, lit by 20,000 bulbs, also went dark at 1955 (1855 GMT).During the switch-off, the power grid operator RTE observed a fall of 800 megawatts, representing just over 1% of France's total consumptionWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-17014842223763845852007-02-01T21:54:00.000-06:002007-02-01T22:23:58.216-06:00A view of Rome's ancient Colosseum with its lights switched on after a five-minute "lights-out" gesture between 7:55 p.m. and 8 p.m. (1855-1900 GMT) part of an environmental campagin, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007. The move was to show solidarity with the French activists who have asked citizens to turn off their lights and other illuminated devices such as televisions and computers in a show of unity Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-47255813187444927942007-02-01T12:56:00.000-06:002007-02-01T13:00:52.024-06:00 Exxon posts biggest annual profit ever ..(more than $75,000 every minute..) Exxon Mobil Corp. Thursday reported the biggest annual profit on record for a U.S. corporation - earning more than $75,000 every minute of 2006 on the back of record oil prices.The world's biggest publicly traded company by revenue posted net earnings of $39.5 billion on revenue of $377.6 billion last year, topping its Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-31767714630055959902007-01-31T10:43:00.000-06:002007-01-31T10:48:24.550-06:00 French to explore value of napping on the job The French already enjoy a 35-hour workweek and generous vacation. Now the health minister wants to look into whether workers should be allowed to sleep on the job.France launched plans this week to spend $9 million this year to improve public awareness about sleeping troubles. About 1 in 3 French people suffer from them, the ministry says. Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-63792844144297975802007-01-30T14:28:00.000-06:002007-01-30T14:33:44.769-06:00 World's scientists say climate change is much worse than they thought ... The final version of the IPCC's latest report is to be published on Friday but a draft copy, seen by The Independent, makes it clear that climate change could be far worse than previously thought because of potentially disastrous "positive" feedbacks which could accelerate rising temperatures.A warmer world is Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-70863689891879725312007-01-30T11:40:00.000-06:002007-01-30T14:28:11.150-06:00 Stonehenge workers' village found Archaeologists have uncovered what may have been a village for workers or festival-goers near the mysterious stone circle Stonehenge in England.The village was located at Durrington Walls, about two miles from Stonehenge, and is also the location of a wooden version of the stone circle.Eight houses have been excavated and the researchers believe there were at Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-77099654400698815822007-01-29T15:45:00.000-06:002007-01-29T15:48:07.785-06:00 Commuters in cages ... Obtained by the Herald under a freedom of information request, they show much of the dissatisfaction is due to overcrowding and insufficient carriages during peak periods.One passenger complained: "It was standing room only to Thirroul today. And it is likely to get worse, as Mondays and Fridays are usually the quieter commuting days. How dare you treat us like livestock."Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-54246102330439297322007-01-23T20:03:00.000-06:002007-01-23T20:05:54.815-06:00 Silicon Valley's lead over Europe is narrowing MUNICH: A technology and media conference held here this week provided ample evidence that Silicon Valley's dominance of Internet-style technology innovation is waning. ... Several organizers noted that Silicon Valley's original success as an innovation center was in large part the result of business and social networks developed over several Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-67838475171452875652007-01-22T15:14:00.000-06:002007-01-22T15:16:56.064-06:00 Beyond the Multiplex You can start out a weekend at Sundance, as I did, irritated by all the minor inconveniences of this place and end it, as I also did, sitting in a roomful of strangers weeping at an impromptu late-night speech delivered live by Dick Gephardt. In between came a lot of other things: a grisly horror movie about a girl blessed with a unique ability to repel sexual advances, a Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-23582724102556424492007-01-21T02:14:00.000-06:002007-01-21T02:17:53.940-06:00 New Orleans of Future May Stay Half Its Old Size NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 20 — The empty streets, deserted avenues and abandoned houses prompt a gnawing question, nearly 17 months after Hurricane Katrina: Is this what New Orleans has come to — a city half its old size? ....Hurricane Katrina may have brutally recalibrated the city’s demographics, setting New Orleans firmly on the path its underlying Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-42228639123433602782007-01-20T23:38:00.000-06:002007-01-20T23:45:21.846-06:00 Filmmakers at Sundance look to indie video game industry PARK CITY, Utah--Imagine a Sundance Video Game Festival, an event that might showcase new work from some of the world's best independent game makers.Such an idea is not a stretch to video game makers who view themselves much like the independent filmmaking pioneers of decades ago--innovators whose work led the creation of the annual Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-80816668206305160032007-01-19T13:27:00.000-06:002007-01-19T13:32:21.887-06:00 Murdered Turkish-Armenian writer shunned silence Hrant Dink spoke with quiet intensity about Turkey's most controversial issue. He wrote about it openly and bravely.His murder is another challenge to the forces of modernisation in a country locked in a bitter internal debate about how it should deal with its past. BBC NewsWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-54088654496150305662007-01-18T22:18:00.000-06:002007-01-18T22:27:52.476-06:00 Sundance 2007 Invited from the same short film program as its namesake event, this exclusive collection of premiere work in short filmmaking premieres first in Park City, Utah -- and then rolls-out streaming to you. Free from anywhere in the world. Sundance Film Festival Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-24274632627594802552007-01-17T14:07:00.000-06:002007-01-17T14:13:17.712-06:00 Cancer deaths finally on decline in U.S. About 3,000 fewer people died from cancer in the United States from 2003 to 2004, the American Cancer Society reported on Wednesday.It said the big decrease shows that not only has the death rate from cancer been reversed -- but it has been reversed so much that fewer people are dying, even though the population of elderly people, who are most Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-42824630774236703582007-01-17T10:23:00.000-06:002007-01-17T11:34:08.599-06:00 Doomsday Clock Advances We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices. North Korea’s recent test of a nuclear weapon, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a renewed U.S. emphasis on the military utility of nuclear weapons, the failure to adequately secure nuclear materials, and the Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-65423203424360639552007-01-16T11:29:00.000-06:002007-01-16T12:10:20.916-06:00 Where's the outrage? A real antiwar movement would end our Iraq disaster. But the middle class doesn't care enough to protest, so the kids who go to community college will keep dying.So now we wait for the end. The man who led America into the most disastrous war in its history has run out of tricks, out of troops and out of time. It is no longer a question of whether George W. Bush's Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-68731865343519541532007-01-15T13:56:00.000-06:002007-01-15T14:00:40.941-06:00 Writings show King as liberal Christian, rejecting literalism ... King was not a conformist Christian. He not only eschewed literalism, he was a strident critic of how the Christian church perpetuated injustices such as slavery and segregation."Too often has the church talked about a future good 'over yonder,' totally forgetting the present evil over here," King wrote in 1952 to Coretta Scott, Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-28877011037527812182007-01-15T12:36:00.000-06:002007-01-15T12:40:24.073-06:00 The many faces of American Muslims American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion," by Paul Barrett, is the ideal book to enlighten a whole host of people who don't realize they need it. That includes everyone who claims that moderate Muslims haven't spoken up against fundamentalist militants or that all Muslim women go around veiled or that the religion is inherently warlike. It also Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-7038470023073710412007-01-12T21:42:00.000-06:002007-01-12T21:44:37.651-06:00 Archaeologists find ancient stone tools What appear to be crude stone tools may provide evidence that people lived in Minnesota 13,000 to 15,000 years ago, which if confirmed would make them among the oldest human artifacts ever found in North America, archaeologists said Friday.Archaeologists in the northern Minnesota town of Walker dug up the items, which appear to be beveled scrapers, Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-40574719712629875682007-01-12T11:24:00.000-06:002007-01-12T11:33:52.577-06:00Top 10 Discoveries of 2006 How do you know it's been an extraordinary year in archaeology? When the discovery of the earliest Maya writing and a 2,500-year-old sarcophagus decorated with scenes from the Iliad don't crack ARCHAEOLOGY's Top 10 list:1. Valley of the Kings TombKV63 was the first tomb to be excavated in the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun's in 1922. The chamber held seven 18th Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-86250262142671327282007-01-12T10:49:00.000-06:002007-01-12T10:53:45.594-06:00 Greece hunts new generation of militants Greek police spent nearly 30 years hunting far-left terror groups, whose aging members were captured before the 2004 Olympics. Now authorities say they are dealing with copycat militants -- styled on those 1970s radicals -- who were blamed for Friday's attack on the U.S. Embassy in Athens.The pre-dawn rocket attack, which was aimed at the embassy seal andWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-17873926268799087392007-01-12T10:37:00.000-06:002007-01-12T10:40:14.668-06:00 Warlords agree to disarm Nairobi: Key Somali warlords have agreed to disarm their fighters and join the transitional government, an official said on Friday.The announcement followed a meeting on Friday between Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf and clan leaders that proceeded even as - just outside the presidential residence - clan gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade and exchanged gunfire Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-26779881688224532842007-01-11T22:48:00.000-06:002007-01-11T22:51:42.278-06:00 German Comedy About Hitler Criticized ..."Mein Fuehrer," which opens in Germany Thursday, could generate empathy for the former Nazi dictator by its portrayal of him as a comic figure who had a bad childhood."It gets people to suffer with him, to say `this poor guy," said Kramer,.. SF GateWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-15617687197688088842007-01-11T22:36:00.000-06:002007-01-11T22:42:24.812-06:00 A speech that ignored the real disaster ... George W. Bush told Americans last night that failure in Iraq would be a disaster. The disaster is Bush's war, and he has already failed. Wednesday night was his chance to stop offering more fog and be honest with the nation, and he did not take it.Americans and the world needed to hear a clear plan to extricate U.S. troops from the disaster that Bush Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-42383486694755340292007-01-11T22:12:00.000-06:002007-01-11T22:17:55.335-06:00 Al-Majid admits ordering executions Ali Hassan al-Majid, the former head of the Iraqi military's northern command, has said that he ordered troops to execute villagers who refused to leave their homes during an operation against the Kurds in 1988.... "Yes, I gave my instructions to consider these villages as prohibited areas and I gave orders to the troops to catch anyone they find there and Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-5119122789860018552007-01-11T12:04:00.000-06:002007-01-11T12:26:03.111-06:00HOW TO CLOSE GUANTÁNAMO Enough is enough! Join activists worldwide TODAY in showing solidarity with the detainees and their families, demanding once more, and louder than ever, that the US government close Guantánamo! Ammesty InternationalWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-19048666422554497732007-01-11T11:50:00.000-06:002007-01-11T11:56:17.994-06:00 Peace activists target Guantanamo ... Protests will be held in several cities around the world, including Rome, London, Tokyo and New York.Critics say the detention centre should close because it has damaged US credibility. They believe momentum is growing towards closing it.... BBC NewsWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-10460787752317901692007-01-10T12:20:00.001-06:002007-01-10T12:37:15.234-06:00 MySpace Refused Common Cause AdBy Dawn Holian IypePosted on Wed Jan 10, 2007 at 10:32:19 AM ESTWith just one week left to send messages to the FCC about media ownership, we thought we'd try to reach out to the next generation of media activists by posting an ad on MySpace. But they said 'no'. MySpace told us that they "won't allow that to be shown." And that's exactly the problem: Big Media (Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-22463924839061434642007-01-08T20:10:00.001-06:002007-01-08T20:10:55.303-06:00Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1166806513091427962006-12-22T10:54:00.000-06:002006-12-22T10:55:13.090-06:00Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1166806232516871902006-12-22T10:47:00.000-06:002006-12-22T10:50:32.516-06:00 Contemporary Islamic Terrorism The roots of international Islamic terrorism can be found at first glance in the war in Afghanistan in the 1980's, a proxy war fought during the height of the Cold War. The Afghan mujahideen fought their holy war — jihad — with the help of the Wahhabi regime in Saudi Arabia and with the help of Pakistan. U.S. support was crucial during the war where the American Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1166805851478245972006-12-22T10:42:00.000-06:002006-12-22T10:44:33.646-06:00 Iraq 'Fatally Weakened': Report Iraq today is "hollowed out and fatally weakened" and "prey to armed militias, sectarian forces and a [self-serving] political class," according to a study released this week by the Brussels-based independent think-tank the International Crisis Group (I.C.G.). World Press OrgWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1164926982682441922006-11-30T16:44:00.000-06:002006-11-30T16:49:57.896-06:00 The Turkish train crash MELANCHOLY is Istanbul's defining characteristic, writes Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's Nobel prize-winning novelist. And melancholy has now descended on the country's relationship with Europe. “Almost everyone I know has lost heart,” says Soli Ozel, a political scientist at Istanbul's Bilgi University who wants Turkey to join the European Union. ... It was always going to be Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1164925556095784312006-11-30T16:19:00.000-06:002006-11-30T16:27:53.080-06:00 Blood, tears and still no victory GEORGE BUSH returned to the Middle East this week a diminished figure. At home he has been thumped by the voters. In Iraq his dreams of an example-setting democracy have trickled away in blood. For all the brave words he exchanged with Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, in Amman at mid-week, it is widely assumed that his real aim now is simply to arrange a Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1164909131416790502006-11-30T11:49:00.000-06:002006-11-30T11:52:58.540-06:00 Generation Dem The midterm elections of 2006 may be among the most momentous in two generations -- if their trends carry through the 2008 presidential election and beyond. These changes include a Democratic Congress that reflects a more politically cohesive national majority than any previous one; shifts of crucial constituencies that may represent a decisive repudiation of the Republican Party Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1163781129290656602006-11-17T10:30:00.000-06:002006-11-17T10:32:09.303-06:00 Heart-broken victims united in bid for peace Father of captured Israeli consoles Palestinians at hospital In a moving scene of reconciliation and hope, the father of the Israeli soldier whose capture started the current round of fighting in Gaza visited a Tel Aviv hospital Thursday to see Palestinians injured in last week's Israeli bombardment of Beit Hanoun. And two Palestinians whose familiesWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1163478256418454272006-11-13T22:22:00.000-06:002006-11-13T22:26:48.423-06:00 Neoconservatism -- RIPThe moralistic ideology has utterly failed. But as long as Bush still abides by it, his disastrous "war on terror" will drag on.Nov. 14, 2006 | The neoconservatives who dreamed up America's Iraq nightmare are rushing desperately about, searching for scapegoats. Their favorite whipping boy is yesterday's jutting-jawed hero, Donald Rumsfeld, who has been unceremoniously Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1163225542161991212006-11-11T00:08:00.000-06:002006-11-11T00:13:43.580-06:00 Doctor Who octor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known as "The Doctor", who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. It is also the title of a 1996 television movie featuring the same character.The programme is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-runningWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1162572504894470802006-11-03T10:46:00.000-06:002006-11-03T10:50:49.840-06:00 The antiwar GIs Today, there are echoes of the Vietnam experience in the protracted Iraq war -- including a growing protest movement in the military. Its trappings are starkly different this time. Rather than insubordination and violence, it has formed around a form-letter campaign, presumably conducted within the bounds of military regulations that restrict what soldiers are allowed to say. Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1162517733542598172006-11-02T19:33:00.000-06:002006-11-02T19:37:49.416-06:00 Only 50 years left' for sea fish There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study. ... Bigger vessels, better nets, and new technology for spotting fish are not bringing the world's fleets bigger returns - in fact, the global catch fell by 13% between 1994 and 2003.Historical records from Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1162428185318007342006-11-01T18:40:00.000-06:002006-11-01T18:43:05.330-06:00 Global sex survey dispels misconceptions ... There is much greater equality between women and men with regard to the number of sexual partners in rich countries than in poor countries, the study found. For example, men and women in Australia, Britain, France and the US tend to have an almost equal number of sexual partners. In contrast, in Cameroon, Haiti, and Kenya, men tend to have multiple Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1162427155657757262006-11-01T18:23:00.000-06:002006-11-01T18:29:49.286-06:00 Alcohol abuse most common killer of working-age Finnish men Alcohol abuse became the largest single cause of death among Finnish men aged 15 to 64, bypassing coronary heart disease as the main cause of death in the age group. Alcohol-related deaths have risen by nearly one third in recent years. Among women, the figure has doubled within a decade. Helsingin Sanomat Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1162426569234502192006-11-01T18:13:00.000-06:002006-11-01T18:18:07.680-06:00 UK youths 'among worst in Europe ...Measured against German, French and Italian youngsters, British 15-year-olds are drunk more often and involved in more fights, and a higher proportion have had sex.... Britons are also more immersed in consumerism than American youngsters, the research claimed. BBC NewsWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1162411889216893362006-11-01T13:56:00.000-06:002006-11-01T14:50:38.563-06:00 Substance in Red Wine Could Extend Life, Study Says (A) report, published electronically today in Nature, implies that very large daily doses of resveratrol could offset the unhealthy, high-calorie diet thought to underlie the rising toll of obesity in the United States and elsewhere, should people respond to the drug as mice do.Resveratrol is found in the skin of grapes and in red wine and is Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1162324226924787992006-10-31T13:42:00.000-06:002006-10-31T13:54:13.790-06:00 'New' Europe Reunites With Its Old Demons The West introduced market capitalism in central Europe immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Those ruthlessly implemented neoliberal economic policies today have destabilized the region. .. Nearly 17 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, we witness the rise of nationalism, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism in the "new" Europe; those ghosts that Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1162323431585083192006-10-31T13:04:00.000-06:002006-10-31T13:37:11.600-06:00 Water Is Running Out: How Inevitable Are International Conflicts? The world's population is growing and water consumption is increasing, but water resources are decreasing. "The world is running out of water," stated Tony Clarke and Maude Barlow, activists and experts on water issues, in their article "Water Wars," published by the Polaris Institute in 2003. They said that by 2025, world Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1162318583446975972006-10-31T12:10:00.000-06:002006-10-31T12:21:02.060-06:00 Trick or Treat? For Many Britons, the Reply Is Neither ... It is ... a rude culture shock for a generation of older people whose need for a macabre fall festival was traditionally satisfied by Bonfire Night. That holiday is celebrated by building a fire around a homemade effigy of Guy Fawkes, the Catholic perpetrator of the failed plot to blow up Parliament in 1605, and shouting happily as it Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1161704479306024692006-10-24T10:37:00.000-05:002006-10-24T10:42:13.316-05:00 Staying the course is no longer an option There are no good options left in Iraq. To those who have lived through the daily carnage wrought by organized criminals, sectarian militias and jihadist terrorists, the idea that the U.S. can prevent a full-scale civil war--let alone transform Iraq into a stable democracy--has been dead for months. The main question is, How long will it take for Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1161452990659174842006-10-21T12:43:00.000-05:002006-10-21T12:57:10.626-05:00 Fortress Europe Fights Immigration Helicopters, boats, and planes were sent by EU member states to control the Southeast European costal border. But the new anti-immigration operation does not stop there: they work hand in hand with three Senegalese patrol boats and one plane. Their mission is clear: scan the coasts of Mauritania, Senegal, and Cap Verde, intercept "cuyucos," small fishing boats Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1161236790222344532006-10-19T00:42:00.000-05:002006-10-19T00:46:30.236-05:00 The Death of the Dead Sea The Dead Sea has fallen more than 20 meters over the past 40 years. Studies by scientists at the University of Jordan have shown that the sea now drops one meter in depth each year. World Press ReviewWildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145908.post-1161234632830995112006-10-19T00:05:00.000-05:002006-10-19T00:10:32.853-05:00 Iraq a 'catastrophic blunder The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, having made such a catastrophic foreign and security policy blunder, are now trapped in a dilemma of their own making," he said. The Sydney Morning Herald Wildmagic7http://www.blogger.com/profile/04319763893975723445noreply@blogger.com0