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IAEA to press Iran for access, West suspects site "clean-up"
U.N. nuclear inspectors will press again for access to a major military facility in talks with Iran this week but the chances of finding any evidence of suspected atom bomb research may have dimmed because the site has been "cleaned up", Western diplomats and experts say.
US teen invents advanced cancer test using Google - Video Interview
Fifteen-year-old high school student Jack Andraka likes to kayak and watch the US television show Glee.
And when time permits, he also likes to do advanced research in one of the most respected cancer laboratories in the world.
Jack Andraka has created a pancreatic cancer test that is 168 times faster and considerably cheaper than the gold standard in the field. He has applied for a patent for his test and is now carrying out further research at Johns Hopkins University in the US city of Baltimore.
And he did it by using Google.
RT's 'Occupy' coverage nominated for Emmy news award
RT has been nominated for the International Emmy Award in the news category for its coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement which began in New York last year. RT was one the first channels to thoroughly report about OWS.
RT has been closely following the OWS movement and continues to report on their domestic and global developments from its Moscow and Washington studios in English, Arabic and Spanish.
Two years ago RT became the first Russian channel to be the finalist for the Emmy award in the news category.
“We are very happy and proud to once again become the only candidate from Russia to be nominated for this major television award,” said RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan. She added that the channel hopes to win this time.
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Good morning.
Good morning Vots!
Afghanistan, our never-ending war. The NYT devotes 4 pages to pictures of the fallen.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/us/war-in-afghanistan-claims-2000th-am...
Thanks for the link.
I hadn't seen that.
What "we're" willing to do under the guise of "security." Bleh.
Brian Williams held up the four page spread...
of the "Faces of the Dead" tonight on NBC Nightly News. After reminding the television audience that the war is still going and by far the longest war in American history he had Richard Engel on to discuss the surge that nobody ever heard about. I thought that was a bold move, considering what the state of network news has been.
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On the PBS NewsHour there were fifteen more photos of fallen soldiers shown in silence.
Maybe some powerful people . . .
are getting fed up with the profligate violence and waste. Jeez, it's like a sacred annual event, showing the faces of the dead as representative of what those in arenas see every day. Let's have an all-American puffed-up, self-righteous, national-anthem moment. (Sorry to be so bitter. I do know that those are real people in those photos.) Hey, everybody, let's remember there's a war going on and prove to ourselves again that really we are a wonderful caring people who can feel strong feelings on cue and for short periods of time. Now for something completely different. If they start showing the daily violence, the troops will be home in less than a year.
My apologies for predicting bad things even when something good happens. I don't mean to curse this. It's certainly better than what has come up til now. My take is that photos of the dead invoke a sort-of prefab, habitual, at-the-funeral kind of predictable emotion. If people were shown video of the very upsetting things that are happening there, especially close to live, then the reaction would be visceral and unpracticed. This is what we need to see.
I was in France for three weeks about 2 or 3 years into this criminal invasion, and the coverage was upsetting. I knew in my head what we are talking about here and I tried to keep the destruction in my awareness, but actually experiencing coverage of the violence had a sobering impact on my thoughts about it. The fighting feels very close and important when brought home every day, even in very small doses.
Sorry for rambling. I get upset when talking about this horror.
the powerful people could not care less about the soldiers
Television saturated the public with coverage of Vietnam. People turned out and held massive protests. An entire undergound movement started (the Weather Underground, et al) to fight the government, and at the root of their complaints was our war in S.E. Asia. Nixon bombed Cambodia. Everyone knew. Nothing happened. There was nothing that would stop that war.........until congress stopped authorizing the money. That was what stopped the war. Not the protests, not the coverage, not the low grade resistence being waged against the government, it was only the cutting off of funds that stopped the war. That did not happen until 19 freaking 73. The whole country was turned upside down by that war. Did they care? No. Soldiers dying are that last thing that anyone cares about. Perhaps 2 million Vietnamese died as a result of our invasion. Tough shit for them, right? The number of Afghans, Iraqis and Pakistanis that have died is probably over 250000. Tough shit for them, right? The war will end when our sychophatic psychophantic idiotic gutless amoral representatives stop funding the war. Not One Second Before.
Some call it genocide
what we did in SE Asia. You should talk to traveler about it some time. He was there. He has linked me to some stunning records of that destructive time.
It doesn't make any difference to the analysis, but I wonder if you will be as shocked as I was upon learning the following numbers. These numbers show that Nixon was drawing down troop levels dramatically from 1968 onward. What is stunning to me about this is how completely surprised I am to learn this was happening. Did you know this was going on at the time?
1968: 536,100
1969: 475,200
1970: 334,600
1971: 156,800
1972: 24,200
1973: 50
Thank for you posting that, otherwise I would have
missed it.
I find it sad that they think it's a bold move on the NYT's part.
Because this is EXACTLY what the media should be focusing on at least in part. It's a sad and shameful fact that they're not.
And the NYT, in my opinion, should be doing everything they can to report on this.... especially because of their shameful drumbeats and misleading and disingenuous things they reported in the run-up to the Iraq invasion.
I'd love to see someone do a poll of Americans and ask how many troops they think were sent to attack Afghanistan after 9-11. I'd bet big bucks that a tiny, almost nonexistent minority would know that it was less than 10,000.
The last week before school starts
and my house is in an uproar. I never remember being like this as a kid.
Hello
A lot has changed during my lifetime. There are a few things I never imagined possible: one of them is a Russian media outlet providing more complete and objective coverage than domestic media of a domestic protest movement. Wow. Just another example of our self-image being way behind who we have become.
The Condoleeza Rice joins Augusta National story seems typical in some way I can't fully articulate. How are liberals to react to this? "Hoory, a toady for one of the most aggressively anti-liberal administrations in history has broken through sexism." It seems a perfect example of co-option. Liberals are vilified and marginalized. When it turns out that their causes are just too common sensical and popular to defeat, then these causes are co-opted with no acknowledgement of their liberal roots. Then, even in what should be a major win for liberals, it is done in such a way that they still manage to stick it to the DFH's. I don't know if anyone else is feeling this way. I'm finding it annoying. "Yeah, we'll give in, but we'll find a way to say eff you at the same time."
Re Rice and Moore, it came across as breaking news.
From wikipedia:
"The golf club's exclusive membership policies have drawn criticism, particularly its refusal to admit black members until 1990,[3] a former policy requiring all caddies to be black[4] and its refusal to allow women to join.[5] In August 2012, it admitted its first two female members - Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore.[6] The golf club has defended the membership policies, stressing that it is a private organization.[7]"
And we are celebrating in 2012 the first women members? fcol.
I guess they have their own private water and food supply, their own private roads, their own private everything. In fact, I'm sure they could all live in their own private world without the help of anyone else.
And instead of accepting the membership, they should have declined.
Major corporate sponsor, IBM
New CEO Virginia M. Rometty, game over.
They are not as private as they claim.
Completely off-topic question here.
Why do people think that everybody loves their music so much that they must blast it for all to hear? And instead of turning it on and expecting others to object, why don't they ask first if its okay?
I hate sharing office space. Inconsiderate labmates suck.
Are these the same people who email you all the time?
Maybe buy cheap earphones and say, "I just bought these, they're great, so I decided to buy a pair for you. I hope you enjoy these as much as I will." hee hee
That's a great idea!
Cheap earphones for everybody as a welcome back to school gift this fall.
Someone will go whine to my adviser that I am being mean. But whatever.
Or in the alternative, when you're trying to concentrate,
YOU wear ear muffs that drown out noise.
I actually have something similar that cost me $20 that I wear when family members play the TV way too loud and I'm trying to concentrate on a task.
It's kind of eerie, though, because I really can't hear anything. It's really weird, but I got used to it and can get my work done.
Or.... just try some good ear plugs.
http://www.opticsplanet.com/remington-m-shooting-ear-muffss.html
Anyone need a pocket bicycle?
That's pretty amazing.
I wonder exactly how far he can ride that. Better yet, approximately how far can someone who is not in the best shape ride it ;)
I think I'd opt for a Big Wheel.