The report by the CIA-based Open Source Center states that Huawei’s chairwoman, Sun Yafang, worked for the Ministry of State Security (MSS) Communications Department before joining the company.
The report on Huawei’s board members states that Ms. Sun used her connections at MSS to help Huawei through “financial difficulties” when the company was founded in 1987.
Based in part on Chinese media reports and Huawei’s website, the report reveals that the Beijing government paid Huawei $228.2 million for research and development during the past three years.
I'm sure you can figure out why this might be important. . . well, maybe not.
This gives a rough estimate of 270 million killed by jihad.
By my recollection / estimate, 270 million is far, far more than were killed in all of the above wars.
Other than the Crusades, which were a defensive reaction against Islamic invasion and conquest, none of those wars was motivated by religion. On the other hand, Jihad is still with us.
The estimates of the deaths caused by communism are staggering indeed: 65 million in China, 20 million in the former Soviet Union, two million each in Cambodia and North Korea, 1.7 in Africa, one million each in Vietnam and Eastern Europe and 150,000 in Latin America. -- Human Events review of The Black Book of Communism
By definition any country that is experiencing an insurgency, civil war, civil uprising or state of war with another country cannot be counted as having had a "terrorist" attack.
If it is a terrorist attack it is a terrorist attack, even if there is an insurgency, civil war, civil uprising, or state of war with another country. The United States is still technically at war with North Korea - 9/11 was still a terrorist attack. There are still Arab countries technically at war with Israel - when a suicide bomber blows himself up in an Israeli pizza parlor it is still a terrorist attack. Iraq is still facing an insurgency from Sunni nationalists - when Al Qaeda blows up a car bomb in a marketplace it is still a terrorist attack.
You are correct - it isn't terrorism to rebel against a government, but anti-government rebels can engage in terrorism. Various anti-apartheid guerilla movements did conduct terrorist attacks. The Viet Cong often engaged in terrorism and atrocity, such as the during the Battle for Hue.
This from an anti-Muslim hate site. No supporting citations to their numbers, but they promise to "supply sources upon request". Instead of each item linking to some citation, they link to other pages on the anti-Muslim hate site that says the exact same thing as the item.
I decided to test your assessment. I took the first six news items they listed:
The List of Islamic Terror Attacks from 2012 2012.06.18 Pakistan Quetta 5 69 Five Shiite students are blown to bits by Taliban bombers. 2012.06.18 Afghanistan Tagab 6 13 At least six locals are exterminated when religious extremists detonate a bomb at a bazaar. 2012.06.17 Nigeria Trikania 5 40 A Shahid suicide car bomber crashes through a church gate and blows up at least five Christians. 2012.06.17 Iraq Fallujah 6 12 Two children are among six slain by Jihadi bombers. 2012.06.17 Nigeria Zaria 34 125 Holy Warriors walk into two church services and detonate, leaving over thirty worshipers dead in the carnage, including at least ten children. 2012.06.16 Pakistan Landi Kotal 26 65 Sharia advocates detonate a truck bomb amid a crowd at a market, sending over twenty-six souls to Allah.
And this is what I found after a minute or less of Google news search for each - reasonable evidence for each of the six items listed.
Now then, the links below are from a side bar labeled "News" on the front page. Apparently the sites you complain about as being hate sites include Reuters, the BBC, the CS Monitor, The Telegraph, the Emirates 24/7, and other lesser lights. In short, you are full of baloney - to be polite about it.
19,187 separate attacks? Can we get a citation for this? Or some methodology?
4.75 attacks per day in the world is a lot? Hardly.
You'll need to follow up on this yourself, but just to get you started.. . ..
If memory serves me, there are at least 20 countries experiencing either an Islamist insurgency and/or terrorism include: India, Iraq, Afghanistan, Thailand, Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, Somalia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Yemen, and others.
Afghanistan: Update. Daily reporting from Afghanistan indicates the Taliban have sustained at least 100 attacks and security incidents per day since the start of the spring offensive. That is a high number for a group supposedly on the ropes.
Negotiations are certain to be part of the mix in any attempt to resolve the crisis. The military situation is getting worse. There were 400 attacks in the past week in Afghanistan, 60 percent of them by roadside bomb There were over 1,000 roadside bomb attacks in April 2010, twice as many as in April 2009.
This number of attacks per day, some 57, about 34 of them roadside bombs, is breathtaking. That level of violence is what characterized Iraq in March, 2005, before the Sunni-Shiite civil war. The year 2005 was a bloody year in Iraq, and nobody but then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld doubted we were mired in a vicious guerrilla war.
That is only two countries out of the many marked by Islamist violence. What about Thailand?
Looking at the Thai news, one can notice that almost every day people are being killed or injured due to terrorist attacks in South Thailand. Federal Foreign Offices around the world warn tourists to visit these areas because of mortal danger
The worst incident occurred on August 14, 2007, when four coordinated truck bombs exploded in two Yezidi villages, killing at least 500 people and wounding more than 1,500. It was the second deadliest terrorist attack in world history after 9/11.
Of course there are plenty more mass casualty attacks. I'll leave that as an exercise for you. You could check out the Bali bombing, the 7/7 bombing, the Madrid bombing, plenty of markets being bombed in Iraq.
The US has been fortunate in that it has been able to foil many attempts by would-be Jihadis, but sadly not all, including the "workplace violence" of Major Hasan at Fort Hood (13 dead, 31 wounded). (May Justice be done upon him.)
You are correct that many of the victims of Islamist terrorism are other Muslims. That is one of the key reasons that Al Qaeda lost so much support from the fighting in Iraq. Muslims in the heart of Islam could see up close what was happening, the vicious cruelty of the Islamists. To a Muslim, living under Sharia seems like a dream as they believe it will drive away the corruption, crime, and so many other problems that plague them in their day to day life. All that most of them need is a small taste of what Al Qaeda as in store with its interpretation of Sharia to realize that was a huge mistake. The same thing is happening in other Muslim nations. That doesn't mean that the Islamists won't win. The recent victories of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt show that. I doubt that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt will have the sensibilities of the Iraqi Shia Quietist movement, which is what gives the Iraqis a real chance of building a decent country.
As to the United States - The call of Jihad is an ever present temptation to the Muslim young, and faithful. There are probably hundreds of young American Muslims whom have gone missing, and are now fighting in Somalia, Yemen, and other places. Some have tried to commit attacks in the US. Here is just a sample from a couple of months in the recent past. Fortunately the attacks themselves have been thwarted. American citizens may not always be so lucky.
Denver: Man Arrested for Providing Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization
Jamshid Muhtorov was arrested by members of the FBI’s Denver and Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Forces on a charge of providing and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic Jihad Union, a Pakistan-based designated foreign terrorist organization. Full Story
Baltimore: Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Use of a Weapon of Mass Destruction in Plot to Attack Armed Forces Recruiting Center
U.S. citizen Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain, pled guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against federal property in connection with a scheme to attack an armed forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Maryland. Full Story
Washington Field: Man Pleads Guilty to Shootings at Pentagon, Other Military Buildings
Yonathan Melaku, of Alexandria, Virginia, pled guilty to damaging property and to firearms violations involving five separate shootings at military installations in northern Virginia between October and November 2010, and to attempting to damage veterans’ memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Full Story
1.Tampa: Florida Resident Charged with Plotting to Bomb Locations in Tampa
A 25-year-old resident of Pinellas Park, Florida was charged in connection with an alleged plot to attack locations in Tampa with a vehicle bomb, assault rifle, and other explosives. Full Story
2.Baltimore: Former Army Solider Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to al Shabaab
A man who secretly converted to Islam days before he separated from the Army was charged with attempting to provide material support to al Shabaab, a foreign terrorist organization, and was arrested upon his return to Maryland after traveling to Africa. Full Story
It may not be politically correct point out uncomfortable things about our own country, and you may get all offended and call it "America Bashing," but it is reality.
You're joking! America bashing is at the heart of much political correctness, especially among "progressives" . . . "Oh Gawwd Peak Oil". (nudge, nudge)
Some news reports said the 'Legalize Love' campaign would push for worldwide legalization of same-sex marriage, but a Google spokesman called that inaccurate. The campaign's focus is on human rights and employment discrimination, he said.
Google has spoken out before on same-sex marriage issues, most prominently when it came out in 2008 against California's "Proposition 8" ban on same-sex marriage.
No offence meant to your brother here, but your evidence that the Taliban is evil is that your brother, a foreign soldier and member of an occupying army, has been attacked?
Wow.
Afghanistan has a legally formed government based on UN monitored elections. The Taliban is trying to overthrow that and reestablish their dictatorship. Along the way they are chopping off heads and hands, blowing up markets with bombs, hanging 7 year olds as spies, banning kite flying, destroying schools, driving out or killing foreign aid workers, and working hand in glove with the drug cartels. The main reason the brother was there to begin with was the Taliban government hosted Al Qaeda, who greatly admired the Talibans work in building a 7th century society, and allowed them to use Afghanistan as a base to conduct their campaigns of terror, shooting, bombing, and killing tens of thousands with the goal of bringing this sort of governance to the entire world in stages. None of this seems to set your "moral sensitivities" a tingling. All I can say is, wow. You don't really seem to have much claim to be a commentator on evil and other people's views. No offense.
When the Allies occupied Germany in 1945, who was evil then? Apparently it would be consistent with your thinking that it was the Allies. Now that the US and its allies have withdrawn from Iraq, is this now a bad thing? Or was it still bad before? Since the US and its NATO allies are still in Afghanistan, does that mean this is OK with you? How can it be bad if there are "occupiers" in the country?
Tehran, May 30 — Iran has sent its troops to help the regime of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fight opposition forces, a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards has said.
Iran is increasing its paramilitary Qods force operatives in Venezuela while covertly continuing supplies of weapons and explosives to Taliban and other insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Pentagon’s first report to Congress on Tehran’s military.
So then, should we look at what the atheists of the Soviet Union and other Communist countries produced in the last 100 years? That would be 100,000,000 dead and unimaginable suffering.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Oh, well then, never mind. At least there is truth in your disclaimer.
It's not about evidence, it's about conditioning children to accept fairy stories as valid epistemology.
It's all fairy tales, until you catch fairy.
Fossil Record: Prior to 1938 coelacanths were known only from fossils and were thought to have gone extinct approximately 65 million years ago (mya), during the great extinction in which the dinosaurs disappeared. The most recent fossil record dates from about 80 mya but earlier records date back as far as approximately 360 mya. At one time coelacanths were a large group comprising about 90 different valid species that were distributed around the world in both marine and freshwaters. Although Latimeria is a genus distinct from the fossil forms, all coelacanths share numerous features and are easily recognized by their distinctive shape and lobed fins. . ..
The first living coelacanth (seel-a-canth) was discovered in 1938 and bears the scientific name Latimeria chalumnae. The species was described by Professor J.L.B. Smith in 1939 and was named after its discoverer, Miss Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer. Until recent years, living coelacanths were known only from the western Indian Ocean, primarily from the Comoros Islands, but in September 1997 and again in July 1998, coelacanths were captured in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, nearly 6,000 miles to the east of the Comoros. The Indonesian discovery was made by Mark V. Erdmann, then a doctoral student studying coral reef ecology in Indonesia. Although the Indonesian specimens superficially resemble those in the western Indian Ocean, analyses of DNA from tissue samples removed from one of the Indonesian specimens have revealed significant genetic differentiation from the Indian Ocean population. The authors of two studies have suggested that the two populations have been separated for at least several millions of years. The Indonesian form was described as a new species, Latimeria menadoensis, in April 1999, by L. Pouyard and several Indonesian colleagues. All Latimeria are considered to be endangered and are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna - - The Coelacanth: More Living than Fossil
It is also well established that scientists aren't omniscient, and can disregard direct observations that don't fit with their personal belief or theories.
Enormous waves that sweep the ocean are traditionally called rogue waves, implying that they have a kind of freakish rarity. Over the decades, skeptical oceanographers have doubted their existence and tended to lump them together with sightings of mermaids and sea monsters.
But scientists are now finding that these giants of the sea are far more common and destructive than once imagined, prompting a rush of new studies and research projects. The goals are to better tally them, understand why they form, explore the possibility of forecasts, and learn how to better protect ships, oil platforms and people. -- Rogue Giants at Sea, by WILLIAM J. BROAD, Published: July 11, 2006
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. -- Max Planck
Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas. -- Max Planck
Once that's done, the story is changed to suit whatever purpose is required.
You mean like "punctuated equilibrium" and "quantum evolution"?
Or are you referring to the extraordinary results of
All four variants share the same basic core: a nuclear system which is 10.75 inches diameter (270 mm), about 15.7 inches long (400 mm), and weighs around or slightly over 50 pounds (23 kg).
It looks like the only thing that might save us is that there isn't luggage that is 1.5" longer than the Ativa® Mobil-IT Ultimate Workmate. Apparently it is physically impossible to build luggage as large as 11"x16" since the above is the "Ultimate".
Oh oh, bad news! Although we might not be at risk from suitcase nukes until they can breach the 1.5" barrier in suitcase length that protects us, it appears that tuba case nukes look like a sure thing. So, maybe we aren't safe after all?
So, my cant the question him at their embasy in london, or question him over the phone ?
If its not a setup, then why is the prosecution prepared to waste time and money trying trying to put him in a cell before they ask questions.
So, is it common practice for your country to fly prosecutors or judges to speak to people who refuse to surrender and fight extradition for crimes like rape? Or does the government simply seek extradition? Your question is nonsense - countries don't do that. Do you think you could phone up the judge and tell him you don't want to come to his court despite a summons? That he can just conduct the business over the phone? Not so much.
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Pervasive espionage.
Chinese step up computer espionage against United States
FBI estimates there are currently more than 3,000 corporations operating in the United States that have ties to the PRC and its government technology collection program.
Chinese telecom firm tied to spy ministry
I'm sure you can figure out why this might be important. . . well, maybe not.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
**NEWSFLASH**
Countries run by anti-religious bigots commit all manner of evil acts and promote despicable hatred.
More news at 11 !!
And now for news INSIDE the USA . . .
Who gives to charity?
They are becoming increasingly insulated from other ways of thinking and increasingly bigoted
Pot, meet kettle.
Tears of Jihad
This gives a rough estimate of 270 million killed by jihad.
By my recollection / estimate, 270 million is far, far more than were killed in all of the above wars.
Other than the Crusades, which were a defensive reaction against Islamic invasion and conquest, none of those wars was motivated by religion. On the other hand, Jihad is still with us.
This may help:
The estimates of the deaths caused by communism are staggering indeed: 65 million in China, 20 million in the former Soviet Union, two million each in Cambodia and North Korea, 1.7 in Africa, one million each in Vietnam and Eastern Europe and 150,000 in Latin America. -- Human Events review of The Black Book of Communism
By definition any country that is experiencing an insurgency, civil war, civil uprising or state of war with another country cannot be counted as having had a "terrorist" attack.
If it is a terrorist attack it is a terrorist attack, even if there is an insurgency, civil war, civil uprising, or state of war with another country. The United States is still technically at war with North Korea - 9/11 was still a terrorist attack. There are still Arab countries technically at war with Israel - when a suicide bomber blows himself up in an Israeli pizza parlor it is still a terrorist attack. Iraq is still facing an insurgency from Sunni nationalists - when Al Qaeda blows up a car bomb in a marketplace it is still a terrorist attack.
You are correct - it isn't terrorism to rebel against a government, but anti-government rebels can engage in terrorism. Various anti-apartheid guerilla movements did conduct terrorist attacks. The Viet Cong often engaged in terrorism and atrocity, such as the during the Battle for Hue.
I decided to test your assessment. I took the first six news items they listed:
The List of Islamic Terror Attacks from 2012
2012.06.18 Pakistan Quetta 5 69 Five Shiite students are blown to bits by Taliban bombers.
2012.06.18 Afghanistan Tagab 6 13 At least six locals are exterminated when religious extremists detonate a bomb at a bazaar.
2012.06.17 Nigeria Trikania 5 40 A Shahid suicide car bomber crashes through a church gate and blows up at least five Christians.
2012.06.17 Iraq Fallujah 6 12 Two children are among six slain by Jihadi bombers.
2012.06.17 Nigeria Zaria 34 125 Holy Warriors walk into two church services and detonate, leaving over thirty worshipers dead in the carnage, including at least ten children.
2012.06.16 Pakistan Landi Kotal 26 65 Sharia advocates detonate a truck bomb amid a crowd at a market, sending over twenty-six souls to Allah.
And this is what I found after a minute or less of Google news search for each - reasonable evidence for each of the six items listed.
Pakistan Bus Bombing Kills Students In Quetta
Blast in French-controlled Afghan town kills six
Islamists Bomb Three Churches in Kaduna State, Nigeria
Iraq bombings kill four, wound 32
At least 50 dead in three Nigeria church bombings, reprisal attacks
Around the World
Now then, the links below are from a side bar labeled "News" on the front page. Apparently the sites you complain about as being hate sites include Reuters, the BBC, the CS Monitor, The Telegraph, the Emirates 24/7, and other lesser lights. In short, you are full of baloney - to be polite about it.
Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty in Toy Plane Bomb Plot...
Kenyan Muslims Help Guard Churches Following Attacks...
British Muslims Accused of Plotting EDL Massacre...
Islamists Pool Forces to Kill African Christians...
Iran Seeks to Legalize Marriage for Girls Under 10...
Clerics in Egypt Call for Pyramids to be Destroyed...
(Egypt) Unaccompanied Woman Spotted on Train, Quickly Raped...
Sword-Wielding Imam and Wife Brought Down by Police...
19,187 separate attacks? Can we get a citation for this? Or some methodology?
4.75 attacks per day in the world is a lot? Hardly.
You'll need to follow up on this yourself, but just to get you started.. . . .
If memory serves me, there are at least 20 countries experiencing either an Islamist insurgency and/or terrorism include: India, Iraq, Afghanistan, Thailand, Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, Somalia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Yemen, and others.
577 glorious pages of incidents at Iraq Body Count (The observant among you will notice that attacks against Iraqis haven't stopped despite the US pullout, so no, the war didn't end.
Taliban Attacks 100 Times per Day
From 2010 - Afghanistan: 57 Insurgent Attacks a Day (the insufferable)
That is only two countries out of the many marked by Islamist violence. What about Thailand?
Terrorism in South Thailand
That doesn't include Iran's attempts to kill Israeli diplomats in Thailand, as they have in various other nations in the last several months.
Pity the Yezhidi.
The Vanishing Yezidi of Iraq
Of course there are plenty more mass casualty attacks. I'll leave that as an exercise for you. You could check out the Bali bombing, the 7/7 bombing, the Madrid bombing, plenty of markets being bombed in Iraq.
The US has been fortunate in that it has been able to foil many attempts by would-be Jihadis, but sadly not all, including the "workplace violence" of Major Hasan at Fort Hood (13 dead, 31 wounded). (May Justice be done upon him.)
Just a few recent reports from the US:
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012
You are correct that many of the victims of Islamist terrorism are other Muslims. That is one of the key reasons that Al Qaeda lost so much support from the fighting in Iraq. Muslims in the heart of Islam could see up close what was happening, the vicious cruelty of the Islamists. To a Muslim, living under Sharia seems like a dream as they believe it will drive away the corruption, crime, and so many other problems that plague them in their day to day life. All that most of them need is a small taste of what Al Qaeda as in store with its interpretation of Sharia to realize that was a huge mistake. The same thing is happening in other Muslim nations. That doesn't mean that the Islamists won't win. The recent victories of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt show that. I doubt that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt will have the sensibilities of the Iraqi Shia Quietist movement, which is what gives the Iraqis a real chance of building a decent country.
As to the United States - The call of Jihad is an ever present temptation to the Muslim young, and faithful. There are probably hundreds of young American Muslims whom have gone missing, and are now fighting in Somalia, Yemen, and other places. Some have tried to commit attacks in the US. Here is just a sample from a couple of months in the recent past. Fortunately the attacks themselves have been thwarted. American citizens may not always be so lucky.
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 13, 2012
FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending December 9, 2011
What kind of backwards country would modify their curriculum to fit religious ideals?
Good question.
It may not be politically correct point out uncomfortable things about our own country, and you may get all offended and call it "America Bashing," but it is reality.
You're joking! America bashing is at the heart of much political correctness, especially among "progressives" . . . "Oh Gawwd Peak Oil". (nudge, nudge)
More proof as if we needed any . . . "Religious" governments are ALWAYS a bad idea.
Of course the anti-religious governments tend to be as bad or worse.
Wish I could have given you a nudge with this... thank for posting.
You might be interested to in the results of rule by atheist governments.
the company has announced an international campaign to promote legal marriage equality for same-sex couples, called "Legalize Love."
FTA:
Some news reports said the 'Legalize Love' campaign would push for worldwide legalization of same-sex marriage, but a Google spokesman called that inaccurate. The campaign's focus is on human rights and employment discrimination, he said.
Google has spoken out before on same-sex marriage issues, most prominently when it came out in 2008 against California's "Proposition 8" ban on same-sex marriage.
2 Percent of Americans Identify as Gay
Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples
No offence meant to your brother here, but your evidence that the Taliban is evil is that your brother, a foreign soldier and member of an occupying army, has been attacked?
Wow.
Afghanistan has a legally formed government based on UN monitored elections. The Taliban is trying to overthrow that and reestablish their dictatorship. Along the way they are chopping off heads and hands, blowing up markets with bombs, hanging 7 year olds as spies, banning kite flying, destroying schools, driving out or killing foreign aid workers, and working hand in glove with the drug cartels. The main reason the brother was there to begin with was the Taliban government hosted Al Qaeda, who greatly admired the Talibans work in building a 7th century society, and allowed them to use Afghanistan as a base to conduct their campaigns of terror, shooting, bombing, and killing tens of thousands with the goal of bringing this sort of governance to the entire world in stages. None of this seems to set your "moral sensitivities" a tingling. All I can say is, wow. You don't really seem to have much claim to be a commentator on evil and other people's views. No offense.
When the Allies occupied Germany in 1945, who was evil then? Apparently it would be consistent with your thinking that it was the Allies.
Now that the US and its allies have withdrawn from Iraq, is this now a bad thing? Or was it still bad before?
Since the US and its NATO allies are still in Afghanistan, does that mean this is OK with you? How can it be bad if there are "occupiers" in the country?
Correcting bad link:
Experts: Iran's Quds Force Deeply Enmeshed in Iraq
I'm amazed the Iranians have been so restrained.
I'm amazed that anyone would say that they believe that.
Malaysia court orders extradition of Iranian over bomb plot
Israel says Thai bombs similar to those in India, Georgia
Good 'ole peace loving Iran.
Iran sends troops to Syria
Iran boosts Qods shock troops in Venezuela
Iran's Quds Force: Supporting Terrorism Worldwide
Experts: Iran's Quds Force Deeply Enmeshed in Iraq
State Sponsors: Iran
Tehran Attempts to Deceive U.S. President Obama, Sec'y of State Clinton With Nonexistent Anti-Nuclear Weapons Fatwa
Chairman of the Gulf Forum for Peace and Security Fahed Al-Shelaimi Accuses Iran of State-Sponsored Terrorism
So then, should we look at what the atheists of the Soviet Union and other Communist countries produced in the last 100 years? That would be 100,000,000 dead and unimaginable suffering.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Oh, well then, never mind. At least there is truth in your disclaimer.
It's not about evidence, it's about conditioning children to accept fairy stories as valid epistemology.
It's all fairy tales, until you catch fairy.
More: The Fish Out of Time, Coelacanth
It is also well established that scientists aren't omniscient, and can disregard direct observations that don't fit with their personal belief or theories.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. -- Max Planck
Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas. -- Max Planck
Once that's done, the story is changed to suit whatever purpose is required.
You mean like "punctuated equilibrium" and "quantum evolution"?
Or are you referring to the extraordinary results of
Threats to cabinet-level officials aren't overblown... a nuclear bomb hidden in a suitcase detonated in Washington could leave a headless government.
No, not overblown in the slightest.
That's right, it isn't. The gentleman on the left is pointing to the warhead of an atomic demolition munition.
Specifications of W54
All four variants share the same basic core: a nuclear system which is 10.75 inches diameter (270 mm), about 15.7 inches long (400 mm), and weighs around or slightly over 50 pounds (23 kg).
Ativa® Mobil-IT Ultimate Workmate, 14"H x 14.25"W x 14.25"D, Black
It looks like the only thing that might save us is that there isn't luggage that is 1.5" longer than the Ativa® Mobil-IT Ultimate Workmate. Apparently it is physically impossible to build luggage as large as 11"x16" since the above is the "Ultimate".
Oh oh, bad news! Although we might not be at risk from suitcase nukes until they can breach the 1.5" barrier in suitcase length that protects us, it appears that tuba case nukes look like a sure thing. So, maybe we aren't safe after all?
A language that can't be used for bible translations is a win in my book (pun intended).
I guess that would be "winning", especially since so many prominent formally atheist societies have been such successes.
Alas, it is your destiny to be frustrated.
I don't know about you, but Stuxnet and Flame scare the hell out of me. . . . . And I don't even begin to represent their targets.
What you just described is a personal problem, a psychological issue, not terrorism.
So, my cant the question him at their embasy in london, or question him over the phone ?
If its not a setup, then why is the prosecution prepared to waste time and money trying trying to put him in a cell before they ask questions.
So, is it common practice for your country to fly prosecutors or judges to speak to people who refuse to surrender and fight extradition for crimes like rape? Or does the government simply seek extradition? Your question is nonsense - countries don't do that. Do you think you could phone up the judge and tell him you don't want to come to his court despite a summons? That he can just conduct the business over the phone? Not so much.