Iran Ups The Ante

Muslims Building Reactors amount to killing people. 
If you think the U.S. is isolated now, wait till that happy event occurs. Add to that Iran’s stated intent to rid the world of Israel, and its reason for having nukes is clear. The Center for Strategic and International Studies reckons an Israeli-Iran nuclear war would kill [...]

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Javno – World

 
Porn for the Taliban
In a dark tea room amid the dusty Kandahar, 23-year-old Latif stares with mouth agape.
 
Ivona Barić
Japan Today, T.T.
A young boy smiles and giggles nervously as he stares at a pair of nude breasts; he has never seen anything like this as far as he can remember. 
Satellite receivers arrived [...]

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Turkey’s US-Backed Strike in Iraq – TIME

 
Turkey’s US-Backed Strike in Iraq
Monday, Dec. 17, 2007 By ANDREW PURVIS

A villager walks through a rubble in Qlatooka, near Iraq’s border with Turkey on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. Turkish war planes bombed Kurdish rebel targets inside northern Iraq, Sunday.
The official U.S. line is that Washington did not approve Turkey’s Sunday air strike on Kurdish [...]

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TPMmuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Today’s Must Read

 
Today’s Must Read
By Paul Kiel – December 18, 2007, 9:54AM
Abu Zubaydah was:
A) A high-ranking Al Qaeda operative who largely confounded U.S. interrogators with his literary and tactical genius until they submitted him to waterboarding and other forms of torture. After that, he provided key information that likely preempted future attacks.
B) A low-ranking and mentally ill [...]

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The New York Times > Science > Space & Cosmos > Dying Star Flares Up, Briefly Outshining Rest of Galaxy

 
By KENNETH CHANG Published: February 20, 2005
or a fraction of a second in December, a dying remnant of an exploded star let out of a burst of light that outshone the Milky Way’s other half-trillion stars combined, astronomers announced Friday.
Even on Earth, [...]

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The Daily Star – Opinion Articles – A rivalry transcending a nuclear Iran

 
It was certainly unsettling that Bush and Cheney were talking about a war with Iran when they knew, or should have known, that their stated justification for war was no longer valid. However, the rush toward advocating dialogue and flexibility was equally incomprehensible.
A dialogue over what? No one seemed particularly clear on that point. [...]

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Huckabee Hides His Full Gospel?

 
Huckabee Hides His Full Gospel?

Washington Dispatch: Is Mike Huckabee the presidential candidate shunning Mike Huckabee the preacher? Before entering politics, he was a pastor at two Baptist churches. Now his campaign tells Mother Jones it won’t make his sermons available to the media and the public.
By David Corn and Jonathan [...]

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News | Africa – Reuters.com

 
Egypt won’t sign nuclear deal protocol -minister
Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:39 GMT
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CAIRO, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Egypt will not sign on to a nuclear non-proliferation agreement which gives the U.N. nuclear watchdog the right to make intrusive short-notice inspections of nuclear facilities, the foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Egypt, which said in late [...]

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Seed: Who Speaks for Earth?

 
David Grinspoon • Posted December 12, 2007 12:05 PM
Images transmitted by the Cosmic Calls.
Alexander Zaitsev, Chief Scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, has access to one of the most powerful radio transmitters on Earth. Though he officially uses it to conduct the Institute’s planetary radar studies, [...]

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Boeing’s 12,000lb chemical laser set to fry targets from aircraft | NetworkWorld.com Community

 

Boeing this week said completed work on and installed a 12,000-pound chemical laser in a C-130H aircraft and will now test the weapon, which will fire through a rotating turret that extends through the aircraft’s belly, until an official demonstration set for 2008.

Boeing’s 12,000lb chemical laser set to fry targets from aircraft | NetworkWorld.com Community

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