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- France: Iran faces high risk of military strike. Russia practices
Iranian reprisal [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/349b246a16d29ed3
- Off The 3D Printing Press: World's First Printed Car [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/31ab348ba0d6f446
- A Time For Evil To Flourish [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/b988af9f1e614f38
- Fall TV Post-Feminist Shows Flip Gender Roles [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/e5d2dca0aa3e0d2b
- Professor Drives Research Of Humanoid Robots [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/bc20ef1839929699
- Squid Extract Bridges Human / Machine Divide, Cyborgs To Become
Very Real [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/5cfe4bf98d30ddf8
- Like It Or Not, We Are Moving Into A Hybrid Age In Which All
Living Things -- Plants, Animals And Humans -- Will Be Synthetically
Recalibrated [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/bd68adbe37166103
- Emory Professor Says Jewish Law Supports The Creation Of
Human-Animal Chimeras, Genetically Engineered Humans, Cloning [1
Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/e5265bac8fcf0dab
- Fifth Graders Quizzed on Proper Condom Use [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/7efbac177609dc67
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Topic: France: Iran faces high risk of military strike. Russia
practices Iranian reprisal
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/349b246a16d29ed3
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28 07:12PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/e5511a4f6d6e204a
France: Iran faces high risk of military strike. Russia practices Iranian
reprisal
DEBKA*file* Special Report September 28, 2011, 2:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Iran <http://www.debka.com/search/tag/Iran/>
France<http://www.debka.com/search/tag/France/>
Britain <http://www.debka.com/search/tag/Britain/>
US<http://www.debka.com/search/tag/US/>
Iranian Navy <http://www.debka.com/search/tag/Iranian%20Navy/>
Russia<http://www.debka.com/search/tag/Russia/>
Russian-Central Asian armies exercise defense of US Caspian oil fields
France's UN Ambassador Gerard Araud warned Wednesday, Sept. 28 that Iran
runs a high risk of a military strike if it continues on the path to nuclear
proliferation. "Some countries won't accept the prospect of Tehran reaching
the threshold of nuclear armament," he said. "Personally I am convinced that
it would be a very complicated operation …with disastrous consequences in
the region."
Ambassador Araud's comment confirmed reports from debkafile's military
sources in recent months that US and European sanctions against Iran had
been ineffectual and the ayatollahs had no intention of slowing down on
their drive for a nuclear weapon.
The French diplomat was not the only one to raise the alarm this week about
regional war clouds circling over Iran.
Sept. 9-26, the Russian army, joined by Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and
Kyrgyzstan, deployed 12,000 troops in a huge combined military exercise
code-named Center-2011 which simulated an Iranian attack on Caspian oil
fields operated by American firms in reprisal for a US strike against
Iranian nuclear sites.
Russian intelligence postulated an instantaneous Iranian reprisal for
this strike and based the war game staged by Russian-led Collective Rapid
Force and the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region
–CSTO – on this assumption.
Our military sources disclose that the forces taking part in the exercise
were briefed for a two-stage scenario:
Stage One: An naval attack on the Caspian Sea coast coming from the south
(Iran).
Stage Two: A large-scale air and ground attack from the south by 70 F-4 and
F-5 fighter-bombers, namely, the bulk of Iran's air force, along with
armored divisions, marine battalions and infantry brigades landing on the
northern and eastern shores of the Caspian Sea.
The Russian briefing conjectured that the Iranian offensive would single out
the Kazakh oil field at Mangustan on the Caspian coast, a field which debka
file reports Exxon Mobile is operating.
Moscow clearly attached the highest importance to the exercise and extreme
credibility to the hypothetical scenario. Russian chief of staff Gen.
Nikolai Makarov personally commanded the drills and on Monday, Sept. 26,
President Dmitry Medvedev toured the field commands and units.
Tehran was not idle: Tuesday, the day before the war game ended, Adm.
Habibollah Sayyari, commander of the Iranian Navy, stated that Iranian
warships would be deployed "close to US territorial waters," since the
Islamic Republic of Iran considers the US presence in the Persian Gulf
"illegitimate and makes no sense."
After Tehran rejected a recent US request to establish a "red phone" link
between the countries to avoid unwanted confrontation between their armed
forces in the Gulf region, Ali Fadavi, Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Navy
chief, commented enigmatically: "When we are in the Gulf of Mexico, we will
establish direct contact with the United States."
A significant remark on the intentions of another nuclear rogue government
came from Peter Hughes, the British Ambassador to North Korea, when he
stopped over in Seoul on his way home from a three-year tenure in Pyongyang.
"I have had discussions with high-level officials, who have made clear to me
their view that if Colonel Qaddafi had not given up his nuclear weapons,
then NATO would not have attacked his country," he said.
The ambassador therefore held out little hope of the long-stalled US-South
Korea talks with the North resumed lately getting anywhere on Pyongyang's
denuclearization.
All these ominous events – pointed comments by French and British diplomats
and the large-scale Russian-Central Asian war game – add up to widespread
skepticism about any chance of halting Iran's race for a nuclear weapon or
disarming North Korea.
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Topic: Off The 3D Printing Press: World's First Printed Car
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/31ab348ba0d6f446
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28 07:12PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/df80bb14c5d50a58
*Off The 3D Printing Press: World's First Printed
Car*<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2041106/Urbee-The-worlds-printed-car-rolling-3D-printing-presses-.html>
The world's first 'printed' car has finally rolled off the printing press.
The 'Urbee' was made using a special printer which built up layer upon layer
of bodywork - almost as if the car was 'painted' into existence, except
using layers of ultra-thin composite that are slowly 'fused' into a solid.
But unlike most 'innovations' in cars, this one won't break down after 5
years - Urbee is built to last 30. Project leader Jim Kor, told MailOnline
today: 'For us, this unveiling was quite a milestone.
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Topic: A Time For Evil To Flourish
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/b988af9f1e614f38
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28 07:10PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/4cba24a19842375a
*A Time For Evil To
Flourish<http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/evil_studies_history.html>
*
Evil is silent. It sneaks up in the night, gaining footholds one drib at a
time; one drab at a time. While the good people sleep, it sets a trap for
its prey. When morning comes and the people awaken, they find themselves
impossibly ensnared by the power of the beast, as it rains terror down upon
the land, with full abandon. How does evil do this, time and again? Evil
studies history. It analyzes previous evil doing, making note of what
worked, as well as what didn't work. It uses the playbook of any and all
evil which came before it, adding new dialogue and vocabulary, simply to be
current with the times -- *progress.* The core of the playbook remains
intact throughout time: agitate the poor; create division among the
people...
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Topic: Fall TV Post-Feminist Shows Flip Gender Roles
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/e5d2dca0aa3e0d2b
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28 07:09PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/44aeb4a65d8c5fa3
*Fall TV Post-Feminist Shows Flip Gender
Roles*<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/21/mean-women-milquetoast-men/>
If the fall TV season is any guide, the sexual revolution that was supposed
to liberate men and women from traditional sex roles seems to have resulted
instead in a straight-up role reversal. The male characters are messes —
insecure, jobless, barely able to dress themselves without a wife or
girlfriend and/or living in mom's proverbial basement. Their female
counterparts, meanwhile, are flaunting the same selfish, boorish ways that
once got men called "chauvinist pigs." The only difference today is that
when these female characters act like jerks, we are expected to cheer them
on as "empowered."
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Topic: Professor Drives Research Of Humanoid Robots
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/bc20ef1839929699
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28 07:09PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/a005cdf09d5a3afe
*Professor Drives Research Of Humanoid
Robots*<http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2011/09/27/professor-drives-research-humanoid-robots>
Watching machines completely independent of human manipulation face off on
the soccer field is one way for non-computer science majors to understand
the real world capabilities of artificial intelligence and to provide a
taste for the future of robotics. Peter Stone, associate computer science
professor, talked about his UT RoboCup team, autonomous vehicles and other
parts of his research yesterday. Stone's research focuses on how to create
"robust, fully autonomous agents in the real world." Part of creating that
independence is a concept called machine learning, where the robot can learn
from its mistakes and ideally improve from experience, he said.
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Topic: Squid Extract Bridges Human / Machine Divide, Cyborgs To Become Very Real
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/5cfe4bf98d30ddf8
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28 07:08PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/8a73f4a3d331ba1
*Squid Extract Bridges Human / Machine Divide, Cyborgs To Become Very
Real*<http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/21/squid-extract-bridges-human-machine-divide-cyborgs-to-become/>
Enterprising minds at the institution's materials science and engineering
department have discovered a use for chitosan -- an extract made from squid
pen or crab shells that could lead us down a cybernetic road to human /
machine interfaces. The team incorporated the organic compound into their
field-effect transistor prototype, and effectively created the first
protonic circuitry "that's completely analogous to [the way] an electronic
current" can be manipulated.
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Topic: Like It Or Not, We Are Moving Into A Hybrid Age In Which All
Living Things -- Plants, Animals And Humans -- Will Be Synthetically
Recalibrated
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/bd68adbe37166103
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28 07:08PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/de43f9ea8568b52d
*Like It Or Not, We Are Moving Into A Hybrid Age In Which All Living Things
-- Plants, Animals And Humans -- Will Be Synthetically Recalibrated
*<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/15/technology_will_take_on_a_life_of_its_own?page=0,1>Scientists
believe it is time to revive the Tofflers' methodology as we try to
understand an incipient future in which technology has insinuated itself
into every sphere and nook of human activity -- from the manipulation and
replication of DNA to space exploration -- and in which humans continuously
seek ways to speed up their biological evolution to match the breakneck pace
of technological evolution. The only way to do that is to incrementally
integrate* *with technology, launching an era of change and innovation that
we call the Hybrid Age. If the first wave was agrarian and tribal, the
second industrial and national, and the third informational and
transnational, then the Hybrid Age is what the Tofflers might call the
"Fourth Wave." In this new era, human evolution has become human-technology
co-evolution: We're becoming part of the machine, and it is becoming part of
us.
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Topic: Emory Professor Says Jewish Law Supports The Creation Of
Human-Animal Chimeras, Genetically Engineered Humans, Cloning
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/e5265bac8fcf0dab
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28 07:07PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/2b31416c653ed73d
*Emory Professor Says Jewish Law Supports The Creation Of Human-Animal
Chimeras, Genetically Engineered Humans,
Cloning<http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/09/jewish-law-supports-reproductive-technologies-says-emory-professor.html>
*
Genetic engineering (GE), in which the traits of different individuals, or
animals, are combined, already has resulted in amazing combinations, such as
the Mayo Clinic's recent development: bioluminescent cats marked with
glowing jellyfish genes. Jewish law would support similar intentional
human-human chimerism, in which the embryonic material of two fetuses is
mixed, or human-animal chimerism, in which the cells of a human are mixed
with cells of another mammal, for the purpose of curing a disease in the
human, and reproductive xenotransplant, which involves placing a fertilized
embryo of one species into the uterus of another species. While parental
genetic choices should always be limited by the "best interest of the
child," he says, processes and technologies that result in healthy, or
healthier, children are intrinsically good and should be embraced, not
feared.
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Topic: Fifth Graders Quizzed on Proper Condom Use
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/7efbac177609dc67
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28 07:05PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/a123b8d6cc042874
Fifth Graders Quizzed on Proper Condom Use Posted 10:36AM EDT
9/22/2011 Jennifer
LeClaire
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[image: condom use taught to fifth graders] A child holds condoms ripped off
an banner reading SIDA (AIDS) during an HIV/AIDS awareness event staged by
the Red Cross. (AP Images/Vadim Ghirda)
Does your fifth grader know how to use a condom? They may soon learn if they
go to school in Washington, D.C.
The District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent on Education is
pushing out standardized tests for sex education. The District takes its
authority to administer sex education tests to fifth, eighth, and tenth
graders from the Healthy Schools Act of 2010.
Here's how it works: Children as young as 10 will be asked 50 questions. One
of the questions reads: "TJ wants to remain abstinent, but also wants to
know how to properly use a condom in case he is ever in a situation where he
might become sexually active. Give TWO reasons why using a condom properly
is important and describe THREE people or places that could give TJ accurate
information about condom use."
"The guideline questions necessitate age-inappropriate instruction for 10
and 11-year-olds. Previously, comprehensive sex education advocates would
have the minimal—but insufficient—courtesy of allowing parents to opt their
children out of their classes," says Emmett McGroarty, executive director of
the Preserve Innocence Initiative. "Now, parents are being informed that a
non-mandatory class is being replaced by a mandated test."
McGroarty argues that sexual decisions have serious moral and spiritual
implications, and even comprehensive sexual education curricula openly
acknowledge it. As he sees it, now is time to find solutions that empower
parents to address issues related to STDs rather than undermining parental
authority, meddling in admittedly spiritual decisions and imposing a
one-size-fits-all test on local schools.
"As a man who was raised in inner-city Washington, I know that many District
families believe that sex is more than biological—that it should be a full
expression of committed, life-giving love," McGroarty says. "Many families
will be horrified that the District education establishment is demeaning
sex-related education topics to the level of a standardized test."
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