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>>>> ROBOTS UNLIMITED - LIFE IN A
VIRTUAL AGE - Consider this: Robots will one day be able to
write poetry and prose so touching that it will make men weep;
compose dozens or even hundreds of symphonies that will rival
the work of Mozart; judge a court case with absolute impartiality
and fairness; or even converse with the natural ease of your
best friend. Robots will one day be so life-like that a human
could fall in love and marry one.
>> UNPRECEDENTED MUSLIM CALL FOR PEACE
WITH CHRISTIANS - More than 130 Muslim scholars
from around the globe called on Thursday for peace and understanding
between Islam and Christianity, saying "the very survival
of the world itself is perhaps at stake."
>> A CLIMATE MEETING WITH NOBEL LAUREATES - Sixty-two years after the victorious Allied leaders convened
in this stately Prussian town to create the post-World War
II world, 15 Nobel Prize laureates assembled here this week
for another momentous task: saving the world from global warming.
>> AL GORE, UN PANEL SHARE NOBEL FOR PEACE - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s climate change
panel won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for spreading
awareness of man-made climate change and laying the foundations
for counteracting it.
>> NEW EVIDENCE THAT THE OFFICIAL STORY
ABOUT 9/11 IS INDEFENSIBLE -
Hoping that my new book would be found even more convincing
than my earlier ones, I was very pleased to see that John
Whitbeck, an international law specialist, had written: “After
reading David Ray Griffin's previous books on the subject,
I was over 90% convinced that 9/11 was an inside job. Now,
after reading Debunking 9/11 Debunking, I am, I regret to
say, 100% convinced.”
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>> FOLLOWUP: AL GORE'S INCONVENIENT JUDGMENT -
While skeptics will claim this decision "proves" Al
Gore and AIT are alarmist and false and will use it to spread
disinformation, in the context of the acceptance by the judge
that climate change is real and happening, the nine alleged
errors are relatively minor matters that do not challenge the
major message in the film: that climate change is real and
that individuals and governments need to take action to prevent
it.
>> BUSH TO ATTEND CEREMONY HONORING DALAI LAMA - US
President George W. Bush will risk angering China by attending
a ceremony next week to award a Congress medal to the exiled
Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, at the bastion of American
democracy.
>> FIRST MAJOR TELESCOPE DEVOTED TO SEARCHING FOR ET
FULL TIME -
Today, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will join scientists
from SETI -- the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
-- to unveil the first major telescope devoted full time to
answering the question: Is anyone out there? "It's the
longshot of longshots, but if we did hear a signal from another
civilization, that would be world-changing," said Allen,
who paid half the $50 million price tag for the observatory
in Hat Creek, Calif.
>> AL GORE'S INCONVENIENT JUDGMENT -
Mr Justice Burton identified nine significant errors within
the former presidential candidate’s documentary as he assessed whether it should
be shown to school children. He agreed that Mr Gore’s
film was “broadly accurate” in its presentation
of the causes and likely effects of climate change but said
that some of the claims were wrong and had arisen in “the
context of alarmism and exaggeration”.
>> CARTER CLAIMS BUSH ALLOWS TORTURE -
US President George W. Bush's administration tortures detainees
in defiance of international law, former US president Jimmy
Carter charged Wednesday. "I don't think it, I know it, certainly," Carter
told CNN television when asked if he believed the US administration
allowed the use of torture.
>> DOCUMENTARY: 'THE CANARY EFFECT' - The Canary Effect
takes an in depth look at the devastating effect that US policies
have had on the Indigenous people of America. Using beautifully
crafted imagery it presents a chilling case to what many believe
is an ongoing genocide of the American Indian. Featuring interviews
with some of the leading scholars and exponents of Indigenous
struggles, alongside revealing insight from those who work
and live on reservations today, The Canary Effect creates a
link between the past and present in a unique way never before
explored on film.
>> DAN RATHER INTERVIEWS THE DALAI LAMA - Dan Rather
Reports features a rare in-depth interview with the Dalai Lama,
one of the world's most influential figures, who in just two
weeks will receive the Congressional Gold Medal -- the highest
honor paid to a civilian by the United States Congress.
>> HOW BABOONS THINK (YES, THINK) - Dorothy Cheney and
Robert Seyfarth, a husband-and-wife team of biologists at the
University of Pennsylvania, have spent 14 years observing the
Moremi baboons. Through ingenious playback experiments performed
by themselves and colleagues, the researchers say they have
worked out many aspects of what baboons use their minds for,
along with their limitations.
>> UN REPORT: GREENHOUSE GAS HAS ALREADY REACHED CRITICAL
LEVELS - Strong worldwide economic growth has accelerated the
level of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere to a dangerous
threshold scientists had not expected for another decade, according
to a leading Australian climate change expert.
NEW
PLASTIC STRONG AS STEEL, BUT LIGHTER & TRANSPARENT - By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found
in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a
composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and
transparent.
TOOTH LOSS IN ELDERLY LINKED TO MENTAL IMPAIRMENT - Older
people who have lost their teeth are at more than three-fold
greater risk of memory problems and dementia, UK researchers
report.
>> MOBILE PHONE CANCER RISK 'HIGHER
FOR CHILDREN' - Children should not be given mobile phones because
using them for more than 10 years increases the risk of brain
cancer, a leading scientist has said.
>> AL GORE TIPPED TO WIN NOBEL - The environmental
campaigner Al Gore is being tipped as a favourite to win the
Nobel peace prize in Oslo this Friday in a controversial move
that could place saving the planet above saving people from
war and conflict.
>> DARPA HATCHES PLAN FOR INSECT CYBORGS
TO FLY RECONNAISSANCE - Cyborg insects with embedded
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) will run remotely controlled
reconnaissance missions for the military, if its '"HI-MEMS" program
succeeds. Hybrid-Insect MEMS -- a program hatched earlier this
year at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)
-- aims to harness insects the way horses were harnessed by
the cavalry.
>> FACTORY FARMING OVERVIEW - Public and
environmental health is being severely threatened through the
institution of animal factory farming, which pollutes our water,
air, soil and even our bodies with harmful chemicals and pollutants.
Corporations now have taken over the practice of family farming
and have developed cost-saving mass-production strategies that
are not only dangerous to public health, but are also cruel
to the animals being processed.
>>>> APPENDIX MAY BE USEFUL AFTER
ALL - Some scientists think they have figured out the real
job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces
and protects good germs for your gut.
>>>> THOM HARTMANN ON CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS - When Columbus first landed on Hispaniola
in 1492, virtually the entire island was covered by lush forest.
The Taino "Indians" who lived there had an apparently
idyllic life prior to Columbus, from the reports left to us
by literate members of Columbus's crew such as Miguel Cuneo.
When Columbus and his crew arrived on their second visit to
Hispaniola, however, they took captive about two thousand local
villagers who had come out to greet them. Cuneo wrote: "When
our caravels… where to leave for Spain, we gathered…one
thousand six hundred male and female persons of those Indians,
and these we embarked in our caravels on February 17, 1495…For
those who remained, we let it be known (to the Spaniards who
manned the island's fort) in the vicinity that anyone who wanted
to take some of them could do so, to the amount desired, which
was done."
>>>> THE
MAN WHO PREVENTED NUCLEAR WAR & SAVED MILLIONS OF LIVES - Just past midnight, Petrov
received a computer report he'd dreaded all his military career
to see, the computer captured a nuclear military missile being
launched from the US, destination Moscow... He had two options.
Go with his instinct and dismiss the missiles as computer errors,
breaking military protocol in the process or take responsive
action and commence full-blown nuclear actions against America,
potentially killing millions.
>> CANADIAN ISLAND CHANGING DRAMATICALLY -
Normally Melville Island’s 42,500 sq kms are locked
in sea ice all year round, as it is part of the high region
that has been relatively unaffected by the dramatic declines
in Arctic sea ice over the past decade. Until this year, that
is. This summer, southern parts of the island were free of
sea ice. The extraordinary heat thawed the tundra permafrost
-- permanently frozen ground -- to depths of more than a metre.
At that depth, there is mostly ice and when it melts, it destabilises
the thin, top layer of plants and soil that has patiently built
up over thousands of years.
>> REFLECTIONS OF THE WORLD'S FIRST FACE
TRANSPLANT PATIENT - In these riveting diary extracts, the
world's first face transplant patient reveals how, two years
on, she's still tortured by living with another woman's face...
>> SCANDAL BREWING AT ORAL ROBERTS -
Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading
a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise
$8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called
home." Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President
Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to
deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf
this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal.
>> WHITE HOUSE CAUGHT RED-HANDED SECRETLY
AUTHORIZING TORTURE - The White House confirmed
the existence of two secret memos, first reported in The New
York Times, that appear to authorize the Central Intelligence
Agency the ability to use its most extreme interrogation techniques,
including simulated drowning known as “water-boarding.”
>> BUDDHISTS RALLY WORLDWIDE TO PROTECT
BURMESE MONKS -
A diverse group of Buddhist communities are uniting and taking
to the streets this weekend in support of Burma’s monks
and nuns. Vigils and peace walks are planned for major cities
including Barcelona (Spain), Chiang Mai (Thailand), London,
New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland, and Chicago.
HOLE IN OZONE LAYER SHRINKS 30 PERCENT - The
gaping hole in Earth's ozone layer has shrunk 30 percent in
size compared to last year, according to new measurements made
by the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite.
>>>> U.S. SCIENTIST TO ANNOUNCE 'FIRST
NEW ARTIFICIAL LIFE FORM ON EARTH' - Craig Venter, the controversial
DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic
code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals
and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial
life form on Earth.
>>>> SEVEN
CIA VETERANS CHALLENGE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT -
Seven CIA veterans have severely criticized the official
account of 9/11 and have called for a new investigation. “I
think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11
Report is a joke,” said Raymond McGovern, 27-year veteran
of the CIA, who chaired National Intelligence Estimates during
the seventies. “There are a whole bunch of unanswered
questions. And the reason they’re unanswered is because
this administration will not answer the questions.”
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