Unity 2020

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— Bret Weinstein (@BretWeinstein) August 5, 2020

How do you prep a male rhino for a future IVF?

His race's last hope: Only surviving male northern white rhino is put under armed guard 24 hours a day

No more news and photos from Daylife, apparently since August.

Unarresting the Arrested:FBI Profiler John Douglas on Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito (via VFR)

The end of an era?

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, Cook becomes CEO

Well, he won't be blamed if Apple starts doing poorly because the failing economy catches up to it.

Anders Behring Breivik

I'm surprised some have not try to characterize him as sexually frustrated single white male, and thus explaining his actions that way. Will the sheep use the power of the state to put down the wannabe sheepdogs because they are a potential menace to society? What sort of pushback is this? Could he not find like-minded individuals in Norway to form some sort of community which would give him some solace?

Some discussion at VFR and CHT.
Why the European Right Can't Be Blamed for the Tragedy in Norway by Joshua Foust

Life is fragile and short.

Judgment comes sooner than you think.

Kyrie eleison.

Hormiz David, Ramina Badal, and Ninos Yacoub Dead in Vernall Fall at Yosemite Park
Search For Three Yosemite Victims Continues, Family Speaks Out
Family of Manteca woman swept over Vernal Fall releases statement

Items of Interest, 8 July 2011

Medieval News: Latest News on the theft of the Codex Calixtinus

Breaking the Spell of Money
To fix the economy, we first have to change our definition of wealth
by Scott Russell Sanders

Uranium Supply Update

One home grower is hit by the city's tyrannical code: Does Michelle Obama Know About This?

Shannon Hayes, The Unsupportive Partner

Basketball patches and plastic jug blossoms
Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books

John Michael Greer, Salvaging Energy

Ten Steps to Save the Cities
The new economics agenda for thriving local economies

Alberto's Paleo Transformation

medievalists.net: Codex Calixtinus stolen from Santiago de Compostela

30 pound goldfish

REEL BIG FISH: Fisherman lands 30-pound goldfish

Live Science

Giant jellyfish crop circle baffles Britons

AP: Ga. judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf

AP: US special forces launch rare attack inside Syria

A U.S. military official said the raid by special forces targeted the network of al-Qaida-linked foreign fighters moving through Syria into Iraq. The Americans have been unable to shut the network down in the area struck because Syria was out of the military's reach.

"We are taking matters into our own hands," the official told The Associated Press in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the political sensitivity of cross-border raids.

also via Drudge: Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits

Wasn't the threat over-hyped to begin with, as the news article seems to hint at? More of a PC campaign than anything else? (And is what we call AIDS really responsible for what is happening in Africa?)


Perhaps the most well-known dissenter on the official theory: Peter Duesberg on AIDS - Duesberg.com - HIV / AIDS research ...
HIV & AIDS - Peter Duesberg
A Modern-Day Copernicus: Peter H. Duesberg by Donald W. Miller, Jr ...



Also, his 'controversial' theory on cancer:
Peter Duesberg on Cancer

What is the truth about Pat Tillman's death?

AP: New Details on Tillman's Death
via Lew Rockwell blog

Taliban kidnap South Korean Christians

S. Korea contacts Taliban for kidnapped nationals
Taliban kidnap South Korean Christians, Germans
Taliban kidnap 23 Koreans from Afghan bus: officials
Police: Taliban stop bus and kidnap Koreans

The Western Confucian has a photo of the group. (Here's another copy of the same photo.)

Iran: Fashionable chadors to encourage women to conform to Islamic dress code

Fashionable chadors to encourage women to conform to Islamic dress code
Iranian authorities launch new clothing lines to get women to cover their heads, but ‘immoral’ dresses are still traded in underground sales.

The More Moles the Better?

The More Moles the Better
Their number indicates the body's ability to fight off aging.

Hmmm... I still think their aesthetic value is rather negative.

The government of Iran

CIA - The World Factbook -- Iran: Government
Islamic Republic of Iran Constitution
IRI's Constitution
The Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran
The Office of the Supreme Leader, Sayyid Ali Khamenei (his homepage)
Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khameini
Global Security: Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution
President News

wiki
Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran
Supreme Leader of Iran
President of Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Politics of Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

source of the following:

The Structure of Power in Iran
SUPREME LEADER

At the top of Iran's power structure is the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who succeeded Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, the father of the Iranian Revolution, upon Ayatollah Khomeini's death in 1989. Khomeini and Khamenei are the only two men to have held the office since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979.

According to Iran's Constitution, the Supreme Leader is responsible for the delineation and supervision of "the general policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran," which means that he sets the tone and direction of Iran's domestic and foreign policies. The Supreme Leader also is commander-in-chief of the armed forces and controls the Islamic Republic's intelligence and security operations; he alone can declare war or peace. He has the power to appoint and dismiss the leaders of the judiciary, the state radio and television networks, and the supreme commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He also appoints six of the twelve members of the Council of Guardians, the powerful body that oversees the activities of Parliament and determines which candidates are qualified to run for public office. The Supreme Leader's sphere of power is extended through his representatives, an estimated 2,000 of whom are sprinkled throughout all sectors of the government and who serve as the Leader's clerical field operatives. In some respects the Supreme Leader's representatives are more powerful than the president's ministers and have the authority to intervene in any matter of state on the Supreme Leader's behalf.

PRESIDENT

The president is the second highest ranking official in Iran. While the president has a high public profile, however, his power is in many ways trimmed back by the constitution, which subordinates the entire executive branch to the Supreme Leader. In fact, Iran is the only state in which the executive branch does not control the armed forces. The president is responsible for setting the country's economic policies. Though he has nominal rule over the Supreme National Security Council and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, in practice the Supreme Leader dictates all matters of foreign and domestic security. Eight vice presidents serve under the president, as well as a cabinet of 22 ministers. The Council of Ministers must be confirmed by Parliament.

Private contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Iraq

Private contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Iraq
New U.S. data show how heavily the Bush administration has relied on corporations to carry out the occupation of the war-torn nation.
By T. Christian Miller, Times Staff Writer
July 4, 2007

The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort and the government's capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campaigns.

More than 180,000 civilians — including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis — are working in Iraq under U.S. contracts, according to State and Defense department figures obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

Including the recent troop buildup, 160,000 soldiers and a few thousand civilian government employees are stationed in Iraq.