Bird Flu Monitor > Everything in moderation? A tale of two global problems
[In Perspective] These potential catastrophes have several things in common: they both are at a global scale with vast impact, both are scientific, and both are hyped, in one way or another (downplayed or over-played). More bird flu deaths and spreading have brought that issue back in the headlines and a recent report of notable significance by the IPCC have evermore raised awareness on climate change and its partly human causes.
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[Blog.kievukraine.info] Kiev Ukraine News Blog: In order to reassure his party comrades that there would be no going back to the arbitrary violence of the past, he had to blame Stalin for all the evils of the system over which the late Soviet dictator had presided for so long without implicating himself and his supporters in those crimes or disowning the accomplishments of the system -- the collectivization of agriculture, the construction of a powerful industrial base, and the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
[Ibloga.blogspot.com] Infidel Bloggers Alliance: February 2006: "[The] painting is a fitting emblem for the new Europe, the Europe in which the Swedish government closed down a political partys website for displaying the cartoons of Muhammad, the Norwegian editor who ran the cartoons abjectly apologized, and European companies doing business in the Middle East cant dissociate themselves quickly enough from Denmark and the cartoons of shame. This is the New Europe, the New Dhimmi Europe, the Europe that is eager to 'give the Muslim world the message: We are aware of the consequences of exercising the right of free expression.'
[Allthingsbeautiful.com] All Things Beautiful: Current Affairs: , what about this one: Shortly after Thug-In-Chief Ahmadinejad's surprise election last year, he read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and had an epiphany. Just when the West comes to terms with the fact that Christ was the Prophet he knew him to be all along, a mere man, not a God, our Thug-In-Chief would explode onto the world stage and proclaim the arrival of salvation for all through the return of the 12th Caliphat, the realization of the global Dar-al-Islam, the time when Islam has subjugated the whole world, the time when Islam will be 'tolerant' for there will be none left to oppose or differ.
[Confederateyankee.mu.nu] Confederate Yankee: War on Terror Archives: Sanity's Systematic Subversion and the Ultimate Triumph of Freedom, which I think was supposed to optomistic about the ultimate triumph of freedom over tyranny, but it's stopping points along the way, highlighting how terrorists support Democratic politics becuase they indeed share some of the same goals (if not for the same reasons), the impression of anomie upon the American people by a mindlessly self-destructive media and the majority of our political leadership, and questions about whether Islam was compatible with freedom, and what the answer to that question meant for the future, left me rather emotionally exhausted.
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