Ahmadinejad Tells UN His Vision of A World Without Israel
September 26, 2007
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to unveil a vision of a world without Israel, in which America and Europe would be freed of what he said was Zionist oppression.
Culminating a concerted assault on what he described as the injustices and oppressions practiced by the “big powers” since World War II, he said that the ungodly era of lewdness and violence was coming to a close and that “the age of monotheism has commenced.”
The world was “nearing the sunset of the time of empires,” he said, and urged the dominant world powers to eschew their “obedience to Satan” and “submit to the will of god.” If they did so, “they will be saved.” If not, “calamities will befall them.”
But whether or not these powers chose to reform themselves, he said, the day was fast approaching when “occupied lands will be freed. Palestine and Iraq will be liberated from the domination of the occupiers.” And the people of America and Europe would be liberated from Zionist oppression. “This is the promise of god,” he said. “Therefore it will be fulfilled.”
Earlier in his address, the Iranian president insisted again that his country’s nuclear program was peaceful and transparent, and repeated and elaborated on the charges he had levelled at Columbia University on Monday against Israel - which he did not mention by name, but rather called “the illegal Zionist regime.”
He told the assembled world leaders that the people of Palestine had been punished for 60 years for what had happened in Europe. They had been held “under occupation of the illegal Zionist regime,” he said. “The Palestinian people have been displaced,” he went on, “incarcerated under abhorrent conditions.” They were being deprived of water and medicine “for the sin of asking for freedom.”
Ahmadinejad accused Israel of terrorism and castigated “the brutal Zionists” for carrying out targeted assassinations.
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New TV Show Urges You To Be One of Satans Tools
September 26, 2007
The devil is full of fun and hilarious hijinks on a new show debuting tonight on the CW Television Network that urges viewers to “be one of Satan’s tools.”
“Reaper,” airing at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, revolves around a “20-something slacker” named Sam Oliver, played by Bret Harrison, who has an unexpected encounter with Satan while driving on a neighborhood street.
Sam then finds out from his father a deep, dark family secret, according to a trailer on CW’s website
“I probably should have told you this a long time ago,” his father says. “Your mom and I sold your soul to the devil.”
Sam learns of his new obligations after asking the devil, “Do I have to go to hell now?”
“You’re going to work for me here,” says Satan, played by Ray Wise. “You’re just going to bring escaped souls back to hell. You know, like a bounty hunter. That’s cool!”
San Francisco Street Fair Mocks ‘Last Supper’ With Sex-Toys Twist
September 26, 2007
Organizers of San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair, sponsored by Miller Brewing Co. have portrayed Christ and his disciples as half-naked homosexual sadomasochists in the event’s promotional advertisement, and the conservative group Concerned Women for America is complaining about the hypocrisy of it.
“The bread and wine representing Christ’s broken body and lifegiving blood are replaced with sadomasochistic sex toys in this twisted version of Da Vinci’s The Last Supper,” CWA said on its Web site.
Because of the offensive nature of the picture we have decided not to post it or provide a link.
“‘Gay’ activists disingenuously call Christians ‘haters’ and ‘homophobes’ for honoring the Bible, but then lash out in this hateful manner toward the very people they accuse,” said said Matt Barber, CWA’s policy director for cultural issues.
“In their version of The Last Supper, Christ, Who gave His life for our sins, is despicably replaced by sin itself as the object of worship.”
CWA is calling on California politicians — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sens. Feinstein and Boxer among them — to “publicly condemn this unprovoked attack against Christ and His followers.
“We further challenge the media to cover this affront to Christianity with the same vigor as recent stories about cartoon depictions of Mohammed and other items offensive to the Muslim community,” CWA said.
The Folsom Street Fair describes itself as “the world’s largest leather event.”
“We hope to see the fairgrounds filled with people in their most outrageous leather/rubber/fetish attire enjoying the worlds largest and best loved Leather fair,” the Web site says.
Concerned Women for America called it “shocking and offensive” that California taxpayers are forced to foot part of the bill for the Folsom Street Fair. The City of San Francisco sanctions the event by shutting down several city blocks and providing police for security.
The Folsom Street Fair Web site says young people are welcome: “While we don’t have any age restrictions at the gates we do inform attendees of the adult oriented nature of our events.” The fair organizers say beer and liquor age restrictions are strictly enforced.
Putin Turns His Face to Tehran, His Back to Bush and Sarkozy
September 26, 2007
Iran’s suspect nuclear program is further polarizing the big powers.
As American and European officials discussed a third round of UN Security Council sanctions, Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, more pugnacious than ever, addressed a military parade Sat. Sept. 22 marking the 27th anniversary of the onset of the Iraq-Iran war of the eighties.
“Those (countries) who assume that decaying methods such as psychological war, political propaganda and the so-called economic sanctions would work and prevent Iran’s fast drive towards progress are mistaken.”
“The Iranian nation is ready to bring any oppressive power to its knees,” read a slogan from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, inscribed on a massive board on a truck as a new, improved long-range, 1,800-km range surface missile trundled by.
Other slogans called for “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” Western military attaches, apparently warned in advance, boycotted the rally for the second year running.
But there is no escape: These are the messages Ahmadinejad takes with him this week to the UN General Assembly and Columbia University in New York.
The French president Nicolas Sarkozy meanwhile stands shoulder to shoulder with President George W. Bush. Friday, Sept. 21, he said: “Iran is trying to obtain an atomic bomb. That is unacceptable and I tell the French people it is unacceptable.”
A week ago, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner warned that the world faced war if diplomacy and sanctions failed to curb Iran’s nuclear activities.
But Vladimir Putin pulled in the opposite direction from his two fellows in the UN Security Council when he decided to be the first Russian president to visit Tehran on Oct. 16. The visit, in the framework of the Caspian Asian Summit, is planned to encompass much more than state ceremonial and ritual photo-ops, although there will be plenty of that too.
Ahmadinejad Questions 9/11 and Holocaust During Columbia Talk
September 25, 2007
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended Holocaust deniers and raised questions about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense showdown Monday at Columbia University where the school’s head introduced the visitor by calling him a “petty and cruel dictator.”
Ahmadinejad, appearing shaken by what he called “insults” from his host, sought to portray himself as an intellectual and argued that his regime had respect for reason and science. But the former engineering professor soon found himself drawn into the type of rhetoric that has alienated American audiences in the past.
He provoked derisive laughter by responding to a question about Iran’s execution of homosexuals by saying: “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country … I don’t know who’s told you that we have this.”
At times, however, he drew audience applause, such as when he bemoaned the plight of the Palestinians.
But his first stab was at Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger, who said in his introduction of Ahmadinejad: “Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator.”
Ahmadinejad said Bollinger’s opening was “an insult to information and the knowledge of the audience here.”
“There were insults and claims that were incorrect, regretfully,” Ahmadinejad added, accusing Bollinger of falling under the influence of the hostile U.S. press and politicians.
Appearing agitated at times, Iran’s president often declined to offer the simple answers the audience sought, responding instead with his own questions or long discursions about history and justice.
Bollinger opened by aggressively taking on Ahmadinejad’s past statements about the Holocaust.
“In a December 2005 state television broadcast, you described the Holocaust as the fabricated legend,” he said. “One year later, you held a two-day conference of Holocaust deniers.”
Bollinger said that might fool the illiterate and ignorant.
“When you come to a place like this, it makes you simply ridiculous. The truth is that the Holocaust is the most documented event in human history,” he said.
Ahmadinejad denied he had questioned the existence of the Holocaust.
“Granted this happened, what does it have to do with the Palestinian people?” he said.
But Ahmadinejad went on to say that he was defending the rights of European scholars, an apparent reference to a small number who have been prosecuted under national laws for denying or minimizing the Holocaust.
“There’s nothing known as absolute,” he said.
Asked why he had asked to visit the World Trade Center site — a request denied by New York authorities — Ahmadinejad said he wanted to express sympathy for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Then he appeared to question whether al-Qaida was responsible, saying more research was needed.
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Father of Columbine Victim - Sons Life Taken In Godless School
September 25, 2007
The father of one of the victims in the 1999 Columbine school shooting in Colorado has triggered a battle of words with his choice of inscription for the newly completed memorial for the 13 students killed in that murderous rampage.
Brian Rohrbough, who now serves as president of Colorado Right to Life, submitted an inscription for the memorial in a park close to the school that blames the violence in today’s culture on the choice society makes to remove God from the equation.
The inscription, in honor of his son, Dan Rohrbough, one of students killed on that April 20 by suicide attackers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, says:
Dad, I have a question. Why?
My son in a Nation that legalized the killing of innocent children in the womb; in a County where authorities would lie and cover up what they knew and what they did; in a Godless school system your life was taken … Dan I’m sorry.
Russia Defends Weapons Sales To Syria
September 25, 2007
Russia Monday rejected U.S. contentions weapons sales to Syria are further destabilizing the Middle East.
“We are doing exactly what many other arms producers are doing,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in New York.
Lavrov said Russia mainly supplies Syria with defensive weapons and then follows up with inspections to be sure the weapons are not resold, RIA Novosti reported.
“All of our sales are completely transparent and in line with both our international obligations and our national export control laws — some of the toughest in the world,” Lavrov said.
Lavrov said Russia stands willing to be investigated if evidence exists that Russia is upsetting the balance of power in the Middle East.
U.S. and Israeli authorities have accused Syria of supplying Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants with Russian-made anti-tank missile systems.
Atheism Services On The Rise At Colleges
September 25, 2007
To some people, God is one entity. To others, there are many gods — and still to others, there are simply none.
Across college campuses in Boston, student atheists and similar organizations are on the rise, but some of these groups have taken a different approach to their atheism. Both Harvard University and Tufts University have student clubs in the Secular Student Alliance, an umbrella group for atheists and nonbelievers that take their beliefs one step further and hold services for atheists.
Although Boston University has no alliance and its atheists do not congregate, Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein said the idea of atheist services will catch on at other schools.
“Already there are a small group of schools that have humanist chaplains like Harvard,” Epstein said.
The new idea of bringing atheists together is an aspect Boston Atheists Director Zach Bos says is important.
“A congregation is just a group of people that come together,” said Bos, a Core curriculum administrative coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Atheist congregations can use the same methods churches do to draw nonbelievers together, Bos said.
“[Use] the aesthetic pleasure of song, the humane hunger to address questions of ultimate meaning and just remove from it all those things that religion comprises for the sake of its own perpetuation,” he said.
Even though there are no atheist groups on the Charles River Campus and there have not been any for several years, Bos said there were chapters of Campus Freethought Alliance and BU Religion of Nonbelievers in the 1990s, so a resurgence of the group is possible.
Marsh Chapel Dean Robert Hill said he is open to the idea of services being held for nonbelievers because he wants to provide services to everyone.
The services offered at Harvard range from weekly services, such as a the Humanist Passover Seder, to community-service congregations.
“Some of our events lately have been sold out while others have been a smaller group of 15 to 20 people,” Epstein said. “Some students might perceive it closely to a religious service and do not want to be a part of it. My main goal is to make this world which will never be perfect a better place.”
Boston Atheists’ activities includes group dinners, philosophical discussions and film screenings.
Source - Daily Free Press News
Quake Fault Possible Beneath Nuclear Dump Surface Facility
September 25, 2007
New rock samples show preliminary evidence of an earthquake fault right underneath where Yucca Mountain project planners want to handle highly radioactive waste.
That’s according to a Las Vegas Review-Journal report citing a May 21st letter and U.S. Geological Survey maps.
The documents show the fault beneath where officials hope to build concrete pads to store spent radioactive fuel canisters for cooling before they are entombed in tunnels inside the mountain.
The head of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects calls the finding an example of technical work being done after-the-fact.
No comment yet from an Energy Department spokesman for the Yucca Mountain project.
Congress picked Yucca Mountain in 2002 to become the nation’s nuclear waste dump.
Project officials say they’re still developing repository design, construction and operating plans — and preparing to apply next June for a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Financial Institutions Nationwide Undergo 3-week Test Of Fake Flu Pandemic
September 25, 2007
Don’t be alarmed if your local bank teller is looking a bit sickly over the next three weeks. It is only a cyber-illness.
Hundreds of banks and other financial institutions are participating in the largest test of its kind ever conducted to ensure the nation’s financial system can keep functioning in case of an outbreak of pandemic flu.
The test began today and is scheduled to run for three weeks. More than 2,700 financial institutions have signed up to participate, about five times the number the Treasury Department expected.
“This shows how much the business sector is focused on pandemic flu planning,” Valerie Abend, Treasury’s deputy assistant secretary for critical infrastructure protection, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Treasury, aided by other federal agencies and the private sector, has devised a three-week script for how a serious outbreak of bird flu might affect operations at banks, from the very biggest to the smallest, as well as at credit unions, securities firms and insurance companies.
The exercise also covers companies that provide critical behind-the-scenes processing to keep the flow of checks and money circulating around the country.
According to the doomsday scenario devised by Treasury, a number of cases of bird flu in humans are reported overseas and the illness spreads quickly to the United States by people traveling on international flights.
From that beginning, the Treasury scenario presents financial institutions with a number of challenges over the course of the three-week exercise. The financial institutions got the first week’s scenario during the weekend from an Internet site where the test is being conducted.
The whole exercise is part of a plan unveiled by President Bush in May 2006 directing various government agencies to upgrade their planning for pandemic outbreaks. The Government Accountability Office earlier this month criticized the administration for failing to conduct sufficient tests to make sure that the agencies understand their responsibilities.
One of the biggest challenges financial institutions will face is how to cope with absenteeism. In week one, the Treasury exercise directs the financial organizations to assume that 25 percent of their work force is not coming to work, either because of illness or because of fear of being infected or because they are staying home to take care of children who can’t go to school because the schools have closed.
To decide who is absent, the Treasury directs the institutions to assume that everyone whose last name begins with certain letters, which could cover the bank president down to the local teller, cannot come to work. The 25 percent absentee rate will jump to 49 percent in week two.
Abend said the various projections were compiled with the help of government scientists. Government financial regulators also helped put together scenarios on how the stock market will behave as well as what the value of the dollar and various commodities such as oil will be doing.
The dollar is projected to rise as investors seek a safe haven with the spreading global illness while stock prices are projected to fall because of worries about what the pandemic will do to economic activity.
Absent employees won’t be the only troubles facing the financial institutions. Under Treasury’s scenario, they also will have to cope with shrinking Internet bandwidths as more and more people try to work from home. Cash withdrawals from ATM machines are expected to rise sharply and getting the machines refilled will present problems because of rising absentee rates at the armored car companies and the difficulty of getting fuel for the armored trucks as gasoline refineries curtail their production.
By the end of the three weeks, Abend said the government and the institutions participating will have a much better idea of just what a flu pandemic will mean in the United States. She said the test should get the institutions thinking about where they need to improve their contingency plans.
“What would you do if you don’t have access to key people? Have you cross-trained enough employees to sufficiently cover that?” she asked. “We want to do a really robust test.”
Of the more than 2,700 organizations participating, two-thirds are banks, 20 percent are securities firms and 10 percent are insurance companies. The size of the firms ranges from the very largest with more than 100,000 employees to small institutions with fewer than 250 employees.
After the three-week exercise is completed, Treasury plans to write a report detailing how institutions performed and where planning needs to be upgraded. The organizations will also be given the opportunity to make suggestions on any areas where they believe government regulations need to be amended to allow for a better response to a pandemic.
“The after-action report will allow institutions to benchmark their capabilities against other institutions,” Abend said.
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