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Sweden plans to be world’s first oil-free economy

Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years - without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.

The attempt by the country of 9 million people to become the world’s first practically oil-free economy is being planned by a [...]

Daily Illini Editor Sacked for Publishing Cartoons

The New York Times reports that editors responsible for publishing cartoons offensive to Muslims in the Daily Illini, University of Illinois’ student newspaper, have been fired in retaliation.

Shaz Kaiseruddin, a third-year law student and president of the Muslim Student Association, is quoted as saying, “I was in disbelief that they would do this, that our [...]

Bush Fought Hard to Keep You From Seeing This

More images from Abu Ghraib shown on Australian television, watch the video. I guess there’s more photos of that one chic that lead the prisoner around on a leash having sex with one of the other soldiers. Some prisoner with the skin ripped off his face. Some other guy with little holes all over his [...]

President Jonah

Gore Vidal has another great post on Bush that you should read. He also pointed out some more disturbing statistics.

Meanwhile, the indoctrination of the people merrily continues. “In a ‘State of the First Amendment Survey’ conducted by the University of Connecticut in 2003, 34 percent of Americans polled said the First Amendment ‘goes too far’; [...]

Here’s The Actual Muhammad Cartoon

( Opinion and Religion )

You’d think a cartoon that has gotten so much attention would be a little easier to find on the internet. I guess the protests are working. Anyway, so here one of them, seems there where 12?

Pretty damn offensive, huh? Completely baffling to me. Am I not the only one that looks at the cartoon and [...]

Sam Harris on the Reality of Islam

Sam Harris has posted some interesting comments about the lunatic Muslims upset by cartoons of Islamic prophets.

The idea that Islam is a “peaceful religion hijacked by extremists” is a dangerous fantasy–and it is now a particularly dangerous fantasy for Muslims to indulge. It is not at all clear how we should proceed in our [...]

Has BYU Professor Found AIDS Cure?

Found an interesting article about a family of compounds called Ceragenins (CSAs) that have had some really interesting preliminary success in fighting the HIV virus.

What studies to date show is a compound that attacks HIV at its molecular membrane level, disrupting the virus from interacting with their primary targets, the “T-helper” class white blood cells [...]

The Good Thing About Bush