TRIAL SARS VACCINE APPEARS SAFE(click here)

people in the modern era have taken science and technology for granted.  although medical advances have taken giant leaps where 70 year life expectancy is a given, people still need to take life a bit more seriously and rationally prudent...the expectations of medecine to prolong and enhance life is a given as people sit on time to wait for researches to find cures to natures deadliest cancers.

People need to understand that as with the innate creation of this world, not all things are curable, understandable.  and as each pebble of the world is overturned by science, new unknowns will be unleashed or the development of a vaccine will open the door to the evolution of a new disease....SICK EH?

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al harrington looks like a teenage mutant ninja turtle

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American Arrogance -

America has adopted a self proclaimed land of dominance since its inception over 200 years ago.  Back then, it's white leaders led this country to be dominant against other races in this country, and when that racial barrier was broken, its international diplomacy has continued to follow this trend of pompous behavior. 

Torture in these Abu Gharib prisons show a little more than just torture and humiliation.  In fact, relevantly speaking, this is probably not a good example of torture at its best.  I'm sure on the Nazi's far surpassed the level of torture and fear during the holocaust.  HOWEVER, although it is common for soldiers to take snapshots of their prisoners, it was not common for Nazi's to take photo's WITH their victims, whereas Americans have been synonymous to this idea of victim-trophying - publicized pictures of KKK's next to burned skulls, hanged bodies and now military erotic displays of humiliation.

As Susan Sontag writes in her times magazine article this week, "The notion that apologies or professions of ''disgust'' by the president and the secretary of defense are a sufficient response is an insult to one's historical and moral sense...It is a direct consequence of the with-us-or-against-us doctrines of world struggle with which the Bush administration has sought to change, change radically, the international stance of the United States and to recast many domestic institutions and prerogatives. The Bush administration has committed the country to a pseudo-religious doctrine of war, endless war -- for ''the war on terror'' is nothing less than that. Endless war is taken to justify endless incarcerations."

Endless incarcerations justified by personal gain (see previous posts on OPEC). This administration has gone to as far lengths for Rumsfeld to state in 2002 regarding Unlawful Combatants kept at Guantanamo Bay:

As I understand it, technically unlawful combatants do not have any rights under the Geneva Conventions

US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld

 

 these are open caged prisons...how could they be humane!  The road to Abu Gharib began at Guantanamo Bay.

 

 

 

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i will post next on Amercia: the real state of Israel...(hopefully i can get this out without sounding racist i'll have to do a lot of editing before getting it out)