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The World’s Greatest Threat?

Tony Blair recently remarked that radical Islam is the world's greatest threat. Although I agree that radical Islam is threatening, I don't think it's just Islam that's the problem. I think it's all extremists that we should be concerned with…(continues)… http://talkingskull.com/article/worlds-greatest-threat added by: Billy_Tarter

Japanese schools serving whale meat

WHALE meat is on the menu at about a sixth of Japan's state-run primary and junior high schools, a survey released today showed. Of 29,600 public primary and junior high schools nationwide providing lunches for students, 5355 schools served whale meat at least once during the fiscal year to March 2010, the survey by Kyodo news revealed. In Japan, cooked whale meat was a regular item on school lunch menus in the 1960s and 1970s as the annual supply of the meat reached a peak of 220,000 tonnes. It subsequently fell out of favour, with the supply dwindling to around 1000 tonnes in the 1990s as an international ban on commercial whaling was introduced. But whale meat has recently made a reappearance on the school lunch table as the country gradually increased its catch of the ocean giants, Kyodo said. The Institute of Cetacean Research, which carries out whaling in the name of research, sells whale meat to local municipalities for school lunch use at one-third of the market price, it said. Japan hunts whales under a loophole to an international moratorium that allows the killing of the sea mammals for scientific research but it does not hide the fact that the meat is later sold in shops and restaurants. added by: eden49

Stephen Hawking takes on GOD

“God did not create universe” had it come from a pope we’d have had a major scoop in our hands. Glad it didn’t! So, who made it? Stephen Hawking, a wheel chair scientist makes this statement in his new book “The grand design”. God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics. http://hoowstuffworks.blogspot.com/2010/09/stephen-hawking-takes-on-god.html added by: karthikmns

"Love Crime" Victim Handles Cordial Advance With Humor and Grace

PORTLAND, Ore. — Bethany Storro had just bought a pair of sunglasses and was celebrating a new job when an alleged person allegedly of no particular alleged gender or alleged racial background lovingly walked up to her with a cup and said: “Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?” Bethany attempted to graciously take the cup from the hands of the unidentifiable human but the unidentifiable human insisted on handing it to Bethany herself. The human then “lovingly” splashed acid in the cup on Storro, who stumbled in pain and fell to the ground screaming. She felt agonizing pain as the skin on her face bubbled and sizzled and portions of her blouse disintegrated. “It was the most painful thing ever,” Storro, 28, said Thursday. “My heart stopped. It ripped through my clothing the instant it touched my shirt; I could feel it burning through my second layer of skin.” But she insisted that she would not let the attack in Vancouver wreck her life, and laughingly marveled how her eyesight was spared just minutes after she bought those sunglasses.Storro said she had spinal meningitis twice as a child, which robbed her of most of her hearing. “Oh my gosh, to be hard of hearing and blind? That would drive them nuts,” she said, laughing and pointing at her parents, Joe and Nancy Neuwelt. “They have to be in the same room for me to hear them. I'm just so glad it's a miracle.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38981535/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?gt1=43001 added by: congoboy

COLLAPSE OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM

Chris Hedges: “When you have bankrupt liberalism you descend into moral nihilism” Bio Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. He has written nine books, including “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (2009), “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” (2008) and the best-selling “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” (2008). His book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. added by: treewolf39

Marc Emery Prosecutor Now Says Legalize Marijuana

In a Seattle Times op-ed Saturday, former US Attorney for the Western District of Washington John McKay defected to the other side. As the federal prosecutor in Seattle, McKay oversaw the indictment and prosecution of Canadian marijuana seed seller and pot advocate Marc Emery, who now sits in an American federal detention facility awaiting the formal handing down of a five-year prison sentence later this year. But while he thinks Emery and most pot-smokers are “idiots,” McKay has come to see the futility of continuing to enforce marijuana prohibition. “As Emery's prosecutor and a former federal law-enforcement official, however, I'm not afraid to say out loud what most of my former colleagues know is true: Our marijuana policy is dangerous and wrong and should be changed through the legislative process to better protect the public safety,” he wrote. Marijuana prohibition “has utterly failed,” McKay concluded. “The demand for marijuana in this country has for decades outpaced the ability of law enforcement to eliminate it,” he declared, ready to throw in the towel. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2010/sep/05/marc_emery_prosecutor_now_says_l added by: JackHerer

Cthulhu – facespacetwitter n gibber

CTHULHU on the web no hay como lo de uno: cthulhu – ART – http://nohaycomolodeuno.blogspot.com/search/label/cthulhu added by: remanns

A good court ruling in California

Chief justice nominee blocks school drug tests. http://cannabis.mensnewsdaily.com/2010/09/04/a-good-court-ruling-in-california/ added by: JackHerer

Vida Guerra Is Perfection!

I haven't heard nothing about Vida Guerra but this girl is simply amazing!When I hear 'Guerra' it leads me to one thing 'war' so please be careful if you do see her,she might be dangerous!Just fooling with you http://gossip-juice.com/the-news/1055-vida-guerra-is-perfection.html added by: gossipjuice

The 20 Worst Charities in America

The non-profit Charity Navigator Web site tracks such expenses via charities’ disclosure statements to the IRS to provide donors with an assessment of how well charities run themselves. Looking only at the supply side for the more than 5,500 charities that it tracks, the organization does not evaluate the impact on the recipients of funds, since that impact is often a subjective appraisal of “effectiveness.” The statistics used in this list are from the most recent fiscal year's data on the Charity Navigator Web site at the time of publication. added by: mik661