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MELTING HIMALAYAN GLACIER GLOBAL WARMING OR MILITARY ACTIVITIES
Q Isa Daudpota and Arshad H Abbasi

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It is for opinion-makers in India and Pakistan to tell their respective governments to stop ruining the future of our water supplies and our weather system. Bringing their troops down from the inhospitable heights of Siachen would be the first step. This would be welcomed by the troops as well as the mountain wildlife that has been displaced by the war

Back in 2003 one of us (QID) signed an email petition titled the Siachen Peace Park Initiative located at the glacier that bears this name. It had to do with getting India and Pakistan to withdraw from the futile conflict in the mountains and to let nature revert to...

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To answer the question, “Can computers think?” personally I think computers today cannot think. Computers require programs which are compromised of software that include "if and then" statements "else" statements, and so on. The computer is doing its purpose based on the instructions it was given. But that may also raise another question, “Will there be instructions for a computer to think and be conscious?” I will not say it’s impossible, but I do not see this happening in my lifetime.

John Searle’s reading clearly explains how even the most advanced artificial intelligence may never have the ability to think. One particular example that made things very clear was the person who understood English, and was left in a room with Chinese symbols. Comparing the processes the person took to...

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Controversial Assignment Leads To Teacher's Resignation

POSTED: 4:43 pm EST November 17, 2006
UPDATED: 7:58 pm EST November 17, 2006

SMITHFIELD, N.C. -- A Spanish teacher at Smithfield-Selma Senior High School resigned this week after handing out an assignment that some students and parents said teaches hate.

Khalid Chahhou, who was in his first year of teaching in Johnston County, gave students a worksheet in which they were to translate words and find them within a word-search puzzle.

Some students started uncovering strange words in the process.

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11/13/06 Mark Levin Show

Conservatives vs. Liberals

We keep hearing conservative, liberal. We keep hearing lectures about it and we should. But we really do need to understand the terms here. There’s a huge difference between conservatives and liberals.

You’re seeing it played out on television every night. With this detestable Carl Levin of Michigan with his spectacles at the end of his nose. Somebody buy that man a pair of new glasses!

What is Conservatism? It’s not a political philosophy folks; it’s a life philosophy. Conservatives believe that each individual is unique. We believe that each individual is responsible for his development. We believe that family is the best support group for individuals. And we believe that private institutions like churches and synagogues,...

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Alright so here I am sitting on my laptop ready to let everybody know what I think of the world these days. Yes Yes, you are quite right in considering me slightly arrogant for believing that anybody really cares what I think. In fact I should be lucky to have anybody read this at all. But what the hell, maybe some data-archeologist in the future will find my opinion interesting.

Nevertheless here goes:

I’m half Danish and half Pakistani. Since Denmark is a teeny country of only 5 million inhabitants, and has a slightly xenophobic culture, there are not many of us Danistanis around. To be honest the world never really cared. Until recently.

12 cartoons were printed in a Danish newspaper. Muslims got ticked off. This is the situation.

I don’t care who is at fault. I don’t care who...

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This is a little piece that I wrote regarding Alaska. I wrote this in response to a letter to the editor. After submitting the letter, I was asked if I could change it into a column for possible publication. While I am waiting to hear back from the editor, I wanted to share this with you and get your thoughts upon it.

Like any other conservative, I am abhorred when our federal government spends far too much money. Normally I would applaud the efforts of Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) to reduce governmental pork spending. Senator Coburn introduced Senate Amendment 2165 to House Resolution 3058 that would have redirected $452 million dollars from two bridges in Alaska to help reconstruct the Twin Spans Bridge in Louisiana.
I am sure that by this time we have...

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Mike Harris
Responding to Genocide

October 12, 2005- A nameless crime for so long, it took a single dedicated man, named Raphael Lemkin, to gee the world to recognize the neologism known as genocide. Stemming from the Greek word geno meaning tribe and cide meaning to kill; Webster defines it as the deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. It is difficult and terrible to imagine how such a horrible crime against humanity could occur, but it has, numerous times. The most well known event was the Holocaust in Europe, it was supposed to be the last but it was not so. After the holocaust there was Cambodia, the gassing of the Kurds in Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Kosovo.

It’s hard to believe because it’s not in the news, Be A Witness, but there is a genocide going on...

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All honor to Rosa Parks for having the courage to do what she did.

And by the way: I suppose the news stories will tell you that she was just an ordinary person, a local seamstress, who just got tired one day and sat down in a "White" bus seat and refused to get up.

Utter nonsense, of course.

She was an officer of the local NAACP, and had received training in how to fight segregation at the far Left wing Highlander Folk School.

The Far Right made a big deal of this and shrieked about "Communist infiltration" and "outside agitators".

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During many elections, we have heard proposals from politicians to alter or change Social Security benefits. In this paper, I’m going to research and analyze these proposals to find out whether or not they would be beneficial to the Social Security fund, how it will affect all of us in the future, and the current beneficiaries who receive Social Security.

“The key problem for Social Security is that, as the population ages, soon there will not be enough people paying Social Security taxes to provide benefits for every retired person.” (Dilulio & Wilson 486). This is why so many politicians have proposed changes to the current system. The people in my generation might not see any benefits when it’s our time to retire. “In 1950, there were 16 workers to support every one beneficiary of...