And getting more fun by the second!
http://costofwar.com/
Oh and THIS
North Korea attack 'totally out of the ordinary'
North Korea has fired dozens of rounds of artillery onto a populated South Korean island near their disputed western border, with South Korea returning fire and scrambling fighter jets, according to official reports. At least one South Korean marine is said to have been killed during the attack.
Donald Kirk, of the Christian Science Monitor, said that North Korea fired 200 rounds and South Korea responded by firing some 80 rounds back.
But he told Today presenter Sarah Montague that it was not believed that South Korea would take any retaliatory action. He added that stocks of fish in South Korean waters around the island may have been a factor in the attack.
The incident comes as tensions have been raised following North Korea's claim that it has a new uranium enrichment facility and just over a month after North Korean leader Kim Jong-il unveiled his youngest son Kim Jong-un as his heir apparent.
The BBC's Chris Hogg told the programme that Kim Jong-il "felt he had to keep the North Korean military onside" over the succession, adding that the military was "allowed to do what it wanted".
"China has been surprised by its lack of influence" over North Korea, he said. A Chinese spokesman has said that it was aware of the incident, which it viewed with "concern".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9218000/9218753.stm
scary? Do you even care? Do you even care that South Koreans sleep with a little more ease because they know America will take care of it? Actually, just stay tuned to Dancing With The Stars. I'm SURE they'll have full coverage on the subject. Maybe they'll even have an interpretive dance showing the relation between north and south Korea. I don't know. Im all out of ideas for these n/dumb Americans.
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And then there's this
Am I the only one that sees something wrong with the pope's justification for ok'ing condoms? For prostitutes? NOT because we have a population problem. But to protect prostitutes. Don't get me wrong, I know I'm pulling my own assumptions a little, but it was still said!
From BBC today
'Condoms OK in some cases' - Pope
The comments appear to soften the Roman Catholic Church's hardline stance on contraception
Pope Benedict XVI has said the use of condoms is acceptable "in certain cases", according to a new book.
He said condoms could reduce the risk of infection with HIV, such as for a prostitute, in a series of interviews he gave to a German journalist.
The Vatican newspaper ran excerpts on Saturday.
The comments appear to soften the Roman Catholic Church's hardline stance, which until now had banned the use of any form of contraception.
When asked whether the Catholic Church is "fundamentally against the use of condoms", the Pope is said to have replied, in the book entitled Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times:
"It of course does not see it as a real and moral solution.
"In certain cases, where the intention is to reduce the risk of infection, it can nevertheless be a first step on the way to another, more humane sexuality," he said.
The Pope gives the example of the use of condoms by prostitutes as "a first step towards moralisation", even though condoms are "not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection".
The pope says that the "sheer fixation on the condom implies a banalisation of sexuality" where sexuality is no longer an expression of love, "but only a sort of drug that people administer to themselves".
Aids crisis
The Church's hardline stance over contraception has led the Vatican to being heavily criticised for its position in the context of the Aids crisis.
On a visit to Cameroon last year, the Pope said the use of condoms could endanger public health and increase the problem of HIV/Aids, rather than help to contain the virus. This drew criticism from several EU states.
Campaigners say condoms are one of the few methods proven to stop the spread of HIV.
The book is due to be published on Tuesday.
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From BBC today
'Condoms OK in some cases' - Pope
The comments appear to soften the Roman Catholic Church's hardline stance on contraception
Pope Benedict XVI has said the use of condoms is acceptable "in certain cases", according to a new book.
He said condoms could reduce the risk of infection with HIV, such as for a prostitute, in a series of interviews he gave to a German journalist.
The Vatican newspaper ran excerpts on Saturday.
The comments appear to soften the Roman Catholic Church's hardline stance, which until now had banned the use of any form of contraception.
When asked whether the Catholic Church is "fundamentally against the use of condoms", the Pope is said to have replied, in the book entitled Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times:
"It of course does not see it as a real and moral solution.
"In certain cases, where the intention is to reduce the risk of infection, it can nevertheless be a first step on the way to another, more humane sexuality," he said.
The Pope gives the example of the use of condoms by prostitutes as "a first step towards moralisation", even though condoms are "not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection".
The pope says that the "sheer fixation on the condom implies a banalisation of sexuality" where sexuality is no longer an expression of love, "but only a sort of drug that people administer to themselves".
Aids crisis
The Church's hardline stance over contraception has led the Vatican to being heavily criticised for its position in the context of the Aids crisis.
On a visit to Cameroon last year, the Pope said the use of condoms could endanger public health and increase the problem of HIV/Aids, rather than help to contain the virus. This drew criticism from several EU states.
Campaigners say condoms are one of the few methods proven to stop the spread of HIV.
The book is due to be published on Tuesday.
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on Imperialism and the spread of Awareness
I'm sitting here trying to surf facebook while simultaneously watching CSPAN discuss the cyber warfare we're faced with in the next couple of years by Japan.
And while I TRY TO DESPERATELY to equally focus on both items of attention, i cant help but think about how blind most of us are in terms of what is really going on in our life (truth)
so then i remembered my fascination with this photo:
so i went to look it up on my phone and THIS is what first popped up.. which i think is equally as amazing:
[in robot voice] "cannot compute. mind.overload.over."
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