On last Friday’s “Real Time,”Bill Maher painted Steve Jobs as “not a corporate type” only to minutes later accurately note, “Apple makes their s–t in China. And they could still make it here and make a big profit, but they make more of a profit by making i[...]
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ACADEME: Note to Rick Perry: The US National Academy is Full of Liberals!
Turkish Academy of Sciences to Lose Its Independence The decree, issued on 27th August, which was just after the start of a nine-day holiday in Turkey, says that one-third of the members of the academy will now be appointed by the government and a further one-third by the Council of Higher Education[...]
Courts Make Bad Ruling on Who Owns a Gene
Ruling Upholds Gene Patent in Cancer Test By ANDREW POLLACK Published: July 29, 2011 NY Times excerpted The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent cases, said that Myriad Genetics was entitled to patents on two human genes used to predict if women have an increased r[...]
Ayoon wa Azan : American Jews are All Agents of Israel and are Betraying the Interests of America)
The strangest thing is that Weiner had been married since 2010 to a woman named Huma Abedin, and that her mother is Saleha Mahmoud Abedin, active in the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. And since she is a Muslim, she cannot legally marry a non-Muslim. I do not imagine that Weiner converted to Islam to m[...]
June 18th, 2011 - 6:06 am § in Religion
Juju Juice Decoded
‘Juju Juice’ to go to Nairobi for Testing from Freethought Kampala, by James Onen On November 6th 2010 I witnessed an attempt by a witchdoctor to try to catch a car thief. I posted a detailed account of what I witnessed, in which I also narrated how I was able to retrieve a sample of a [&hell[...]
Saudi for Saudis?
‘Nitaqat’ may wipe out 40% of private firms By ARAB NEWS Published: May 18, 2011 00:42 Updated: May 18, 2011 00:42 RIYADH: Labor Minister Adel Fakieh expects that about 40 percent of private firms will fail to employ Saudi nationals and cease to exist with the implementation of the new Saudizati[...]
May 11th, 2011 - 6:42 am § in Religion
Earth Will Be SRO, Before 2100!
from National Geographic, by Robert Kunzig One day in Delft in the fall of 1677, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek… became a bit obsessed . Though his tiny peephole gave him privileged access to a never-before-seen microscopic universe, he spent an enormous amount of time looking at spermatozoa, as they�[...]
May 10th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in Religion
佛誕日 부처님 오신 날 The Mitzvot for Buddha’s Birthday
Ed. Central to Judaism is the idea of “mitzvah.” Mitzvah is one of those words that do not translate well. It can mean law, good deed, and religious obligation all at the same time. Moreover, in Judaism, the mitzvot (plural) are themselves eternal, not so much mandated by God, but li[...]
Flowering of Science, 1687 in Tibet
Seventeenth-century Tibet witnessed a blossoming of medical knowledge, with the construction of a monastic medical college and the penning of several influential medical texts. Tibetan anatomists counted a total of 360 bones in the human body—significantly more than the 206 bones described in West[...]
May 1st, 2011 - 1:54 pm § in Religion
Sunday Revelations: The heritage of the divinity of Rome’s Emperors taints the last remnant of the Roman empire.
Can you imagine Germany without holocaust guilt or America without its knowledge of the crimes of slavery? At this year’s Vatican Easter service , students of the Legion of Christ provided the liturgical service at the vigil. The Vatican took over the Legion last May 1 after confirming its fou[...]