On September 10th, Scientists in Switzerland will turn on a particle accelerator larger than the city of Geneva. It will smash atoms together at near the speed of light. The experiment is intended to reveal the secrets of the Big Bang.
Whatever dream you had about what America is, it isn’t that anymore. It’s gone.
Posted by bruni
on September 17, 2008
Tomorrow is here. The game is over. The crisis has passed — and the patient is dead. Whatever dream you had about what America is, it isn’t that anymore. It’s gone. And not just in some abstract sense, some metaphorical or mythological sense, but down in the nitty-gritty, in the concrete realities of institutional structures and legal frameworks, of policy and process, even down to the physical nature of the landscape and the way that people live.
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We’ll Nuke Poland
Posted by bruni
on September 02, 2008
By STAFF REPORTERS
RUSSIA threatened to NUKE Poland yesterday as the world faced the prospect of a terrifying new Cold War.
The chilling threat was issued by a top general of Vladimir Putin amid mounting tensions over the war in Georgia.
Gen Anatoly Nogovitsy lashed out after Poland agreed to help the US create a “missile shield” over Europe. He said: “Poland is making itself a target. Such targets are destroyed as a first priority.”
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How many civilians did the Georgian goverment kill?
Posted by bruni
on September 02, 2008
I keep hearing how evil Russia is but im curious as to how many civilians died when Georgia attacked?
Honestly, dont you guys think if Georgia did something like this to America they would get even worse of a beatdown?
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Honestly, dont you guys think if Georgia did something like this to America they would get even worse of a beatdown?
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or israel
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I’d like to understand the logic of the typical Global Warming denier
Posted by bruni
on August 21, 2008
This is how I look at it;
1. The Earth is a closed system
2. Oil is a finite resource
3. In the last 40 years the Earth’s population has doubled from 3 billion to over 6 billion.
Now you could go on and on about how much human activity is influencing the world climate, but I just don’t understand how someone can look at this picture and think that it will have no effect on anything. You may think that the only thing that matters in the world is the economy, but the economy is just a subsystem of the larger system it inhabits… the ecosystem.
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Doctors oppose US health plan
Posted by bruni
on August 18, 2008
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The Massachusetts healthcare programme widely seen as a test case for universal health coverage in the US faces mounting opposition from doctors who say the reform is failing. More than 250 physicians in the state have signed an open letter warning that the healthcare plan, which was signed into law in April 2006 by Mitt Romney, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, is “already proving fiscally unsustainable”. Repel the calls to contain competitive markets
Posted by bruni
on August 16, 2008
By Alan Greenspan Published: August 4 2008 18:54 | Last updated: August 4 2008 18:54
The surprise of recent months is not that global economic growth is slowing, but that there is any growth at all. The credit crunch of the past year has not followed the path of recent economically debilitating episodes characterised by a temporary freezing up of liquidity – 1982, 1989, 1997-8 come to mind. This crisis is different – a once or twice a century event deeply rooted in fears of insolvency of major financial institutions. It was not the advocates of Capitalism who helped…
Posted by bruni
on August 11, 2008
It was not the advocates of Capitalism who helped Wilson to whip up a reluctant peace-loving nation into the hysteria of a military crusade. It was the liberal magazine, The New Republic. Its editor, Herbert Crowley, used such arguments as: "The American nation needs the tonic of a serious moral adventure." Just as Wilson, a liberal reformer, led the United States into World War I, to make the world "safe for democracy," so Franklin D. Roosevelt, another liberal reformer, led it into World War II in the name of the "Four Freedoms." |