July-August 2006
Our World Today
the good and the bad...
General News
...
Some of the Front and Center
Sanjay Suri
'Taliban taking over'
How *NOT* to win Hearts and Minds
The poppy-eradication program has been a disaster, he said. "It is a direct attack on the livelihood of the farmers, so there is a clear connection between the eradication and this humanitarian crisis. All this is being used by the Taliban to say ... 'When we were there we were maybe hard and cruel, but you could feed the family; now look what's going on.' They are more and more providing support [and] social services to the local population."
The US-led nation-building efforts have failed because of "ineffective and inflammatory military and counter-narcotics policies", the report says. "At the same time, there has been a dramatic underfunding of aid and development programs."
CNN Video
Bank of Hezbollah
How *TO* Win Hearts and Minds
CNN Video
9/11 -- Turning Point
YouTube
Shock & Awe & 9/11
From: "Hijacking Catastrophe"
Stephen Jones
Proof Thermite was used on 911
Wikipedia
Shock and Awe is: Terror
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Ad hoc warfare
Israel says Hezbollah fighters are "cowards" who hide among civilians. But that happens to be rule one for all guerrilla forces in transition to becoming armies -- e.g., Algeria's FLN "terrorists"; North Vietnam's Vietcong "terrorists"; East Pakistan's Mukti Bahini "terrorists" who became Bangladesh's army; South Africa's ANC "terrorists"; Zionist "terrorists" who fought the British mandate to create Israel. The list is long...
Beverly Darling
Why The U.S. Soldier
Raped Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi
�and why it IS only the tip of the iceberg.
WHOSE YOUR BAGHDADDY NOW!
The horrific crime of rape and sexual assault are often repeated each year, if not in the millions then at least in the hundreds of thousands. The Uniform Crime Report of the FBI revealed that between 1972 to the present, reported rapes increased 128%. Each year, the U.S. Department of Justice statistics reveal that between four and five hundred thousand women in America are the victims of rape or sexual assault...
From computers to television, young males are saturated with sitcoms, movies, porn sites, song lyrics, pornographic publications, and video games that send a message that women are objects and property to be bought, sold, manipulated, and forced into having sex. Today, one-eighth of movies in the U.S. contain at least one rape scene, while the majority of sitcoms are filled with hidden sexual aggression...
You Tube
Dr Mohamed Chattah / Larry King Live
Associated Press
Israeli Aircraft Attack Central Beirut
AFP
US, major allies differ in response to Israeli attack
Arnaud de Borchgrave
The Impossible Dream?
Particularly galling to the Israeli government is the belated discovery that "security fences," no matter how robust, can be flown over by hundreds of homemade Qassam rockets and tunneled under by Palestinian fighters to kidnap an Israeli soldier on the other side.
Snaking in and out of Palestinian territory to protect Israeli settlements, the $.2.5 billion, 456-mile barrier is in some parts twice as high (8 meters) and twice as wide (104 meters) as the defunct Berlin Wall that divided East and West Berlin.
Donald Kirk
N Korea's ace threatens US-Seoul alliance
Cheong-Pyeong
Midnight Prayer
Entering January 1st 2006
The sixth year of Cheon-il Guk
Moon Sun-Myung Moksa Nim (Cham Pumo Nim):
... The pain of the Palestinians and the Koreans need to be resolved, so that all the satanic world can be loved as true Brothers and Sisters. From the Parents' position, all are in the position of Brothers, all nations from one to a hundred and twenty.
Sun-Myung Moon
Motto 2006 ...
Some of the Good
...
CNN Video
On The Rise: Threadless
Michaele Weissman
Sharing the wealth over coffee
Sarah Webb
Short film delivers nanotech for the masses
Newsweek
What Makes a High School Great?
Gold stars: The answer depends on the school, and the student. With its annual list, NEWSWEEK honors top schools that help regular kids succeed in college...
Cheong Shim Students
Sky Blue Dreams :
An online Journal of CSIA Students
Donald Greenlees
Indonesia's cultural war :
Riots over Playboy part of larger debate
SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2006 -- JAKARTA Ponti Carolus, the publisher of the Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine that stirred Islamic militants into a rock-throwing protest during the past week, has one thing in common with many Western guys: he says he reads Playboy for the articles.
Francesco Sisci
Why the West must reOrient
Some of the Mid-lands
...
John Morrison
'Clash of civilizations': Who's to blame?
Kevin Zeese
The Corporate-U.S. Takeover of the Iraq Economy
John Maxwell
Haitian Election Sends World a Message
News Target
The link between monosodium glutamate (MSG) and obesity
Wikipedia
Monosodium glutamate
Some of the Bad
...
Chris Hedges
Mutually Assured Destruction in the Middle East
Meg Bortin
For Muslims and the West, antipathy and mistrust
Henry Weinstein
Filmmaker Sues U.S. Over Iraq Detention
Cyrus Kar's civil case is said to be the first to test the legality of Pentagon policies on detainees.
Mike Davis
A HISTORY OF THE CAR BOMB
PART 1: The poor man's air force
"You have shown no pity to us! We will do likewise. We will dynamite you!"
- anarchist warning (1919)
On a warm September day in 1920 in New York, a few months after the arrest of his comrades Sacco and Vanzetti, a vengeful Italian anarchist named Mario Buda parked his horse-drawn wagon near the corner of Wall and Broad streets, directly across from J P Morgan Company. He nonchalantly climbed down and disappeared, unnoticed, into the lunchtime crowd...
BBC
Student murder in Russia 'racist'
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War(s) On Terror
...
John Morrison
'Clash of civilizations': Who's to blame?
Arnaud de Borchgrave
The fifth horseman
Max Hastings
The west's moral erosion has undermined the war on terror
It is essential for the US and its allies to abide by the same rules they seek to impose on others. This principle is being flouted
The Associated Press
Annan Says US Should Close Gitmo Prison
The Observer
The drone, the CIA and
a botched attempt to kill bin Laden's deputy
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War(s) of Terror -- Africa Again?
?
BBC
Sudan dispute dogs African summit
Riek Machar
Colonial Britain Hands Over
South Sudan to the North
Olivier Barlet
The modernity of genocide
A burning question remains : why the horror ?
. . . What is behind the genocides of the twentieth century if it is not the egocentrism and insecurity accompanying the affirmation of the individual's autonomy which characterizes modernity ? The temptation to project onto the other what is ours is strong. And a Rwandan proverb tells us : "Nta wiyanga nk'uwanga undi (Nobody hates himself more than he who hates others)".
In their quest to surpass, artists open themselves up to all influences and facilitate the removal of projections. They thus explore a fraternity in which the identities of each and everyone are no longer the centre of human identities : not a fraternity of blood, but a fraternity of sharing.
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What is Institutionalised Terror
?
Wikipedia
Shock and Awe is: Terror
Shock and awe is a military doctrine and a method of unconventional warfare that attempts to destroy an adversary's will to fight through spectacular displays of power. Its authors label it a subset of rapid dominance, a doctrine that advocates defeating an adversary by swift action against all aspects of their ability to resist, rather than by strictly military forces. It is a product of the National Defense University of the United States, and has been notably applied in the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
However, "shock" and "awe" are both synonyms of terror. To that extent, or from the perspective of the insurgent forces fighting conventional forces in military theatres such as the Middle East who frequently use terrorist doctrines or methods, or both, shock and awe is difficult to distinguish from terrorism because of the large number of indiscriminate civilian deaths. Mortality due to violence in Iraq since 2003, for example, has been due to coalition forces far more than insurgents.
Borzou Daragahi
Death's at the Door in Iraq
The massacre in Jihad was efficient. Someone in uniform with a list of names. A son taken. On the street, gunfire. At home, calls for help.
Michel Chossudovsky
charred and mutilated bodies
Dahr Jamail
Refugees Speak of Catastrophic Bombing
Henry Weinstein
Filmmaker Sues U.S. Over Iraq Detention
Internation Herald Tribune
Mossad murdered 530 Iraqi scientists
Numerous reports for many months have stated that with collaboration from American occupation forces, Israel’s espionage apparatus, Mossad, slaughtered at least 530 Iraqi scientists and academic professors.
Internation Herald Tribune
An Indictment of America -- Editorial
Daily Kos
US Army Admits Use of White Phosphorus as Weapon
Dahr Jamail
'Pacified' Fallujah
Joseph Lelyveld
The Strange Case of Chaplain Yee
Asian Times
CIA's 'black sites' breed more evil
Amnesty International
CASE SHEET 12 -- Ethiopian national/UK resident:
Benyam Mohammed al Habashi
Neil Mackay
One victim's story
Wikipedia
Johan Galtung's Notion of "Structural Violence"
Adam Curie
Structural Violence and
Making Peace: Building a new belief network
Peter Beaumont
Revealed: grim world of new Iraqi torture camps
Ashraf Fahim
The perils of colonial justice in Iraq
Andrew Buncombe and Kim Sengupta
Secret U.S. Jails Hold 10,000
Professor Manning Marable
9/11: Racism in a Time of Terror
I think that as Americans, we must also make a clear distinction between "guilt" and "responsibility." The Al Qaeda group is indeed guilty of committing mass murder. But the United States government is largely responsible for creating the conditions for reactionary Islamic fundamentalism to flourish. During Reagan's administration, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provided over three billion dollars to finance the mujahadeen's guerilla war against the Soviet Union's military presence in Afghanistan. The CIA used Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, or secret police, to equip and train tens of thousands of Islamic fundamentalists in the tactics of guerilla warfare. . . .
There is a clear link between 9/11 and the shameful political maneuvering committed by the U.S. at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, only days before the terrorist attacks. There the U.S. government opposed the definition of slavery as "a crime against humanity." It refused to acknowledge the historic and contemporary effects of colonialism and racial segregation on the underdevelopment and oppression of the non-European world. The majority of dark humanity is saying to the United States that racism and militarism are not the solutions to the world's major problems. Transnational capitalism and the repressive neoliberal policies of structural adjustment represent a dead end for the developing world. We can only end the threat of terrorism by addressing constructively the routine violence of poverty, hunger, and exploitation that characterize the daily existence of several billion people on this planet. Racism is, in the final analysis, only another form of violence. . . .
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Historisists... Ain't that odd
?
Warren Hedges
New Historicism Explained
Max Hastings
The west's moral erosion has undermined the war on terror
It is essential for the US and its allies to abide by the same rules they seek to impose on others. This principle is being flouted
Jean-Marc Mojon
Is Nasrallah a hero or reckless?
Arabs are left torn between criticism of Hezbollah chief and praise for him for restoring Arab pride.
Andrew Rawnsley
It wasn't the 'Yo' that was humiliating, it was the 'No'
Tony Blair wanted Britain to look big in the world. But being a satellite of George Bush is making him and us look small
Leader, The Observer
Britain still has a role in our less than ideal world
Nation of Islam
The Murder of Malcolm X
The Effect on Black People
Multimedia Video Webcast by
the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
February 1990, Malcolm X College, Chicago, IL
The Memory Bank
Teaching Social Anthropology
Web's Biggest
The World's Top Anthropology Web Sites
Exposition of the Principle
The Foundation for the Messiah
... In conclusion, Jacob was victorious in taking responsibility for
the indemnity course to pay for Abraham's mistake. By using his wisdom
for the sake of God's Will, Jacob triumphed as an individual in his
struggle with Esau to win the birthright. He entered Haran and, as a
family, triumphed in a twenty-one-year struggle with his uncle Laban
to win the birthright. On his way back from Haran to Canaan, Jacob was
victorious in the fight with the angel. He was the first fallen man to
fulfill the indemnity condition to restore dominion over the angel.
Thereupon, he received the name "Israel,"75(Gen. 32:28)
signifying that he set the pattern and laid the groundwork upon which
the chosen people would be established. After returning to Canaan with
these victories, Jacob won Esau's heart, and together they fulfilled
the indemnity condition to remove the fallen nature.
Jacob thus victoriously completed the model course to bring Satan to
submission. Moses, Jesus, and even the people of Israel would walk
this course after the pattern set by Jacob. The history of Israel can
serve as a good historical source for understanding the course to
bring Satan to submission on the national level. For this reason, it
is central to the study of the providence of restoration.
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Israeli-Palestinian Re-unification...
Rabbi Michael Lerner
End the Suffering in the Middle East
July 17th, 2006 -- Michael Lerner, Gila Svirsky, Uri Avnery and Gideon Levy discuss the political and moral significance of this summer's violence.
Tariq Ali
A protracted colonial war
Thursday July 20, 2006 -- With US support, Israel is hoping to isolate and topple Syria by holding sway over Lebanon
Sandy Tolan
The Palestinian Catastrophe, Then and Now
The Guardian
A new war, but both sides recall old ones
Arnaud de Borchgrave
The Impossible Dream?
Mike Whitney
Why Israel must Renounce Violence
Homeostatic Truths
May we see in the enemy the face of our Father
Surah 41. Ha Mim Sajdah: Revelations Well Expounded
http://www.ishwar.com/islam/holy_quran_(pickthall)/sura041.html
34
The good deed and the evil deed are not alike. Repel the evil deed
with one which is better, then lo! he, between whom and thee there was
enmity (will become) as though he was a bosom friend.
35
But none is granted it save those who are steadfast, and none is
granted it save the owner of great happiness.
Nur AbdurRashid
Impotence
Phyllis Bennis
Hamas Wins the Palestinian Elections
Ali Abunimah
Hamas Election Victory: A Vote for Clarity
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North and South Korean Re-unification...
Choe Sang-Hun
South Koreans Rally Against Free Trade Pact With US
Mike Whitney
North Korea and the vanishing American Empire
Donald Kirk
N Korea's ace threatens US-Seoul alliance
All Empires dot Com
North Korea claims they have
dug up the mausoleum of Tang-gun,
and date it at 5067 year ago.
Kim Rahn / Korean Times
Changing face of Korea seen in evolution of common terms
Push to change everyday language to reflect more multi-racial identity
Ryu Jin / Korean Times
School offers fast track for languages
Kim Rahn / Korean Times
Robert Kim Arrives in Homeland After 9 Yrs
Lee Jin-Woo / Korean Times
Uri Criticizes GNP for Inflaming Ideology Issues
An Sang-Nam
Why North Korea isn't talking
The View from Pyongyang
Moon Sun-Myung
North and South, East and West;
Proclaiming "God's Fatherland and
the Era of the Peace Kingdom" in 2004
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African Re-unification
...
Kwaku A. Danso
Ghana & China: Is It Time To Change Our Masters?
BBC
Thousands demand Aristide return
Thousands of people have demonstrated in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, demanding the return of exiled former President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Manning Marable
Inheritance, Wealth And Race
Craig S. Smith The New York Times
Migrants reported found in desert
The New York Times
Veronica Nmoma
The Civil War and the Refugee Crisis in Liberia
American Historical Review
Autobiography of Omar ibn Said,
Slave in North Carolina, 1831 (b. 1770?)
UNC.edu
Portrait of Omar ibn Said
Molefi Kete Asante
Afrocentricity: Toward a New Understanding
of African Thought in this Millennium
James Dunn
Imhotep, Doctor, Architect,
High Priest, Scribe and Vizier to King Djoser
Tour Egypt
Netjenkhet Djoser, (reigned 2630-2611 BC)
the 2nd King of Egypt's 3rd Dynasty
Wikipedia
The Land of Punt
(in Egyptian called "Ta Netjeru", meaning "Land of the Gods"), was a fabled and exotic site in eastern Africa, which carried on extensive trade with Ancient Egypt, China and Arabia. It was also the land to which the ancient Egyptians traced their origin.
Wikipedia
Khoisan
UPI
Niger food crisis raises alarm
UPI
Severe child malnutrition growing in Niger
Emira Woods
Mandela's Powerful Message,
"Africa's Time Has Come"
The fifth and final step is
affirming Africa's resource rights.
Ninety percent of all U.S. engagement with Africa is in the extractive industries--oil, mining, timber, and minerals. Countries like Nigeria are perhaps the most egregious. In spite of the rich oil flowing onshore and off, the average Nigerian has the same standard of living as his or her grandparents did in 1960, before any oil was drilled. Firestone in Liberia signed 99-year leases to extract rubber for 3 cents per hectare. This rape of Africa is unconscionable. Africa's resources must benefit its own people. Demands of accountability, transparency, and ethics must be made not only on African governments but also on U.S. companies.
Life Site
UNICEF Nigerian Polio Vaccine Contaminated
with Sterilizing Agents Scientist Finds
Scientist says things discovered in vaccines
are "harmful, toxic"
African-Union.Org
African Union in a Nutshell
African Front
In 2002 the Secretariat of
the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was
transformed into the Commission of
the African Union (AU)
LEADERS of the AFRICAN UNION (AU)
African Front
Brief Overview of the HIstory of the African Union
Towards African National Sovereignty
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Completed Testament
...
Good News / bad news
Frontlines / Spiritual-Physical Resurrection
...
Reverend Sun-Myung Moon
God's Ideal Family - the Model for World Peace:
Inaugural Convocation of
the Universal Peace Federation
Friends of Dr. Pak
Background of Bo Hi Pak's Trial
and Incarceration in Korea
For the past several years Dr. Pak has been working on some projects to raise a large endowment fund for the continued operation of the Korean Cultural Foundation, the Little Angels and the Universal Ballet. In addition he was trying to set up a new foundation called "The Korean Peoples Unification Foundation" in order to promote and realize the dream of the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. He had many other ideas and programs that he wanted to realize for the spiritual and ethical revitalization of the Korean people. As anyone who is acquainted with Dr. Pak knows he is an irrepressible man of action to whom retirement or idleness is an impossibility.
For these reasons he was desperately pursuing some ill advised and ill-fated fundraising schemes introduced to him by some church members. To make a long story short Dr. Pak became a victim of international criminal scam artists who defrauded him of all of his money with the promise of huge financial support to the foundations.
Bo Hi Pak
Excerpt from "Messiah" -- On Reverend Moon's
Meeting with President Nixon,
Regarding Watergate
Rev. Michael Jenkins
Building Trust With Religious Leaders
in The Holy Land
American Clergy Leadership Conference
Exchanging the Cross for the Crown
Christian Leaders to Carry Cross,
Then Take It Down in Effort for
Peace and Reconciliation
Homeostatic Truths
My Favorite Sun-Myung Moon
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Frontlines / Sexual Identity
...
Douglas Brown
Porn epidemic?
THE INFUSION OF SEX INTO POPULAR CULTURE HAS BEEN SO SEAMLESS THAT SOME CRITICS ARE CALLING IT A PUBLIC-HEALTH CRISIS
Lorna Martin at Negril Beach
Sex, sand and sugar mummies in a Caribbean beach fantasy
A controversial new West End play will explore sex tourism in Jamaica, where lonely women flock for flings with young black men. But are these holiday romances sleazy or simply harmless?
The Associated Press
Philadelphia may evict Boy Scouts council
Neela Banerjee
Episcopal Church backs down on gay bishops
The New Yorker
Faith Matters:
Gay Bishops / Episcopal Church
SikhPal.com
Sikh Religion versus Gay Marriage
Sharon Hughes
A New Face for Gay Pride The Gay Culture II
In "The Overhauling of Straight America: Waging Peace Part Two" written in 1987, it outlines the recommended steps to be taken in order for America to accept homosexuality as normal... "To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion...if you can only get them to think that it is just another thing, with a shrug of their shoulders then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won..."
To bring a balance of resource sites I recommend visiting Changing Worldviews' Issues Library under Dr. Christopher Wolfe's and Dr. Warren Throckmorton's interviews with us for links such as People Can Change, and Is Homosexuality Genetic?
See:
changingworldviews.com/IssuesLibrary.htm#homosexuality
Changing World Views
Resources on the issue of Homosexuality
Dennis Prager
Judaism's Sexual Revolution:
Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality
When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity.
This revolution consisted of forcing the sexual genie into the marital bottle. It ensured that sex no longer dominated society, heightened male-female love and sexuality (and thereby almost alone created the possibility of love and eroticism within marriage), and began the arduous task of elevating the status of women.
It is probably impossible for us, who live thousands of years after Judaism began this process, to perceive the extent to which undisciplined sex can dominate man's life and the life of society. Throughout the ancient world, and up to the recent past in many parts of the world, sexuality infused virtually all of society.
Henry Makow, PhD
Let's Reserve Sex for Marriage
... Gay or straight, we are all becoming homosexual because we cannot achieve the spiritual union or permanent intimacy that we really crave.
Sex is mistaken for love and replaces it, thereby assuming a deceptive importance. We are obsessed with it. Because it cannot satisfy our real need, we continue to up the ante and become kinkier.
We judge people strictly by their sex appeal and are cruelly indifferent to those who are not physically attractive. Women develop eating disorders. The aged naturally are treated with contempt.
We compensate for failure to find permanent love by making a public display of our promiscuity. This is supposed to affirm our freedom and identity. TV and movies testify to this perverse trend. In many cases homosexuals now are defining heterosexual norms. ("Sex and the City"; "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"; "Kinsey: Let's Talk About Sex")
We are in constant denial about our malaise and the forces that enslave us. . (See my "Is this Gay Behavior Sick? http://www.savethemales.ca/201101.html )
In contrast, heterosexuality is monogamous, exclusive and private. It is concerned with procreation, nurturing, and personal development.
Russell D. Moore
Homosexuality, Racism, and
the Eclipse of the Gospel
Carlton Johnson
Cultural diversity and Moral diversity are
two different constructs...
Steve Chin
Marriage is multicultural
BigEye.com
Sex Education
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Frontlines / Species-Race Identity
...
Ruth Gledhill
Pope condemns geneticists 'who play at being God'
THE Pope will deliver a blistering attack on the “satanic” mores of modern society today, warning against an “inane apologia of evil” that is in danger of destroying humanity.
In a series of Good Friday meditations that he will lead in Rome, the Pope will say that society is in the grip of a kind of “anti-Genesis” described as “a diabolical pride aimed at eliminating the family”. He will pray for society to be cleansed of the “filth” that surrounds it and be restored to purity, freed from “decadent narcissism”.
Particular condemnation is reserved for scientific advances in the field of genetic manipulation. Warning against the move to “modify the very grammar of life as planned and willed by God”, the Pope will lead prayers against “insane, risky and dangerous” ventures in attempting “to take God’s place without being God”.
Madeleine Bunting
There is No Stop Button in the Race for Human Re-Engineering
Science will soon give some of us the tools to make ourselves cleverer and stronger. What will it mean for our humanity?
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Living forever
... "The knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will merge with the vastly greater capacity, speed and knowledge-sharing ability of our own creations."
The event Kurzweil envisages -- the "singularity" -- will occur when technological change becomes so rapid and profound that our bodies and brains merge with our machines. Singularity depicts what life will be like after the brain-machine fusion and the shift of our experiences from actual to virtual reality...
Bill Sardi
Shamed South Korea scientist coerced women for eggs: TV
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean scientist whose work on tailored embryonic stem cells has been discredited, coerced junior female colleagues on his team to donate their own eggs for his research, a television network reported late on Tuesday.
The donor went back to Hwang's laboratory and conducted the cloning experiment on the eggs that she herself had contributed that morning, her colleague said.
Shahar Ilan
Does a clone have a soul?
Nick Buchan
'Human-brained' monkeys
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Words of Wisdom -- Let it be
...
Peace in Corporate Life
Nur abdur Rashid
Longings of the Soul
Peace in Family Life
Reuters
Two NBC affiliates throw book at 'Daniel'
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Two NBC affiliates in Arkansas and Indiana are turning the page on upcoming series "The Book of Daniel," which has been drawing criticism for its portrayal of Christianity.
The series depicts an Episcopalian minister, played by Aidan Quinn, struggling with an addiction to Vicodin, among other problems in his diocese. Jesus is actually a character on the series, depicted in imagined conversations with the minister.
Nur abdur Rashid
The Torque of Remembrance
Buddhist Perspectives
Filial Piety
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Humor / Cartoons
...
Paul Krugman
Defending Imperial Nudity
Hans Christian Andersen understood bad rulers. �The Emperor�s New Suit?doesn�t end with everyone acclaiming the little boy for telling the truth. It ends with the emperor and his officials refusing to admit their mistake.
I�ve laid my hands on additional material, which Andersen failed to publish, describing what happened after the imperial procession was over.
The talk-show host Bill O�Reilly yelled, �Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!?at the little boy. Calling the boy a nut, he threatened to go to the boy�s house and �surprise?him.
Fox News repeatedly played up possible finds of imperial clothing, then buried reports discrediting these stories. Months after the naked procession, a poll found that many of those getting most of their news from Fox believed that the emperor had in fact been clothed...
Aaron McGruder
The Boondocks
Splitting Images
Celebrity Look-Alike Agency
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Music / The Arts
...
You Tube
Gospel Videos of Note
Fusion Videos of Note
Jazz Videos of Note
InJin
Crimson Sketches
Cosmica
Learning How to Undraw the Line Between
Stevie Wonder
Hear 3 Songs from "A Time To Love"
Bandbuilder.Com
Listen to Seal's New Music (SEAL IV)
Seal.Com
Seals Official Home Site
Nur abdur Rashid
Spring Breeze
Play Lists @ GarageBand.Com / unsigned musicians
Instrumentals to study by
Sometimes we need some tunes that won't get our minds distracted into the deeper significance of the lyrics.
Classical, World, Jazz Aire
More music to study by: Sometimes you need to lead off with some classical aire
Tell Me Something Good
More Music with Lyrics that uplift and inspire
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