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I have been exceptionally busy lately, as well as exceptionally tired (and somewhat busy) in the evenings; hence, an unacceptable delay in news postings. Solution? A news review!
China and Russia are set to cooperate on a Mars probe. This is an interesting move for the Chinese, given that the Soviet Union/Russia has had relatively little success with Mars missions.
In a rare (possibly unique) instance, I agree with Fidel Castro on something. Castro has recently gone on record denouncing the American government for promoting the use of corn crops for the production of ethanol. Sustainable energy is a very pressing need for the United States and the world. While I think that ethanol is an interesting concept, I don't think that its use should come at the cost of food crops, particularly in developing countries. The price of corn is already on the rise due to the increasing demand for ethanol. It's one thing to use leftover corn and by-products as a stop-gap solution, it's quite another to go from being dependent upon Middle Eastern oil to being dependent upon foreign corn. Now, Chairman Fidel is most likely using this as a pet issue so that he can rail against American "imperialism" and "the evils of capitalism", and their combined evils against the "noble worker" and the "proletariat"; but I think that the issue is worth investigating and discussing futher, since it's not in America's best interests to jump from one difficult energy policy to another.
Continuing in the vein of reporting anything and everything I see about Mauritania, there are apparently entire villages and towns that are being buried beneath mountains of sand.
Also, following up on previous posts about Representative Pelosi's recent excursion to Syria and Saudi Arabia, Vice President Cheney has criticized Pelosi's botched attempt to carry a supposed message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. More details about Representative Pelosi's trip can be seen at Cox and Forkum.
Military.com has a great editorial from an Army officer serving in Iraq that details the shortcomings of the new ACU uniform: New Army Uniform Doesn't Measure Up. Having worked around soldiers wearing the ACU uniform for nearly a year now, I can confirm all of the shortcomings described by Coulson. The Army would do well to adopt either the Multicam pattern, or the MARPAT desert pattern. The fabric pattern of the ACU uniform is a good one, but the camouflage pattern and the materials used need improvement.
Zounds! Reaganomics works!
Australia is sending more troops to Afghanistan (AP, Reuters, BBC), and moderate Muslims in Pakistan have staged demonstrations against radical Islamism. In Waziristan, native tribesmen continue their campaign to oust al Qaeda/Taliban-linked Uzbek militants; meanwhile, in Iraq, terrorist groups have issued a call to bin Laden to exert more control over al Qaeda in Iraq, as al Qaeda in Iraq has resorted to indiscriminate killings of Sunnis, Shi'is, and even rival terrorists.
Algeria has suffered from multiple clashes between Islamist militants and Algerian troops, as well as multiple bombings (CNN, BBC) that killed at least twenty-four and injured more than two hundred. Responsibility for the bombings was claimed by al Qaeda in the Maghreb, formerly known as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.
And finally, what news update would be complete without a story... About Somali pirates! That's right, those wacky Somali pirates were at it again, hijacking an Indian ship carrying supplies for the city of Mogadishu. (AP, Reuters, BBC. The pirates later released the ship (along with another ship they'd hijacked).
Alright, folks, more later; work continues on the missile defense article, I promise.
China and Russia are set to cooperate on a Mars probe. This is an interesting move for the Chinese, given that the Soviet Union/Russia has had relatively little success with Mars missions.
In a rare (possibly unique) instance, I agree with Fidel Castro on something. Castro has recently gone on record denouncing the American government for promoting the use of corn crops for the production of ethanol. Sustainable energy is a very pressing need for the United States and the world. While I think that ethanol is an interesting concept, I don't think that its use should come at the cost of food crops, particularly in developing countries. The price of corn is already on the rise due to the increasing demand for ethanol. It's one thing to use leftover corn and by-products as a stop-gap solution, it's quite another to go from being dependent upon Middle Eastern oil to being dependent upon foreign corn. Now, Chairman Fidel is most likely using this as a pet issue so that he can rail against American "imperialism" and "the evils of capitalism", and their combined evils against the "noble worker" and the "proletariat"; but I think that the issue is worth investigating and discussing futher, since it's not in America's best interests to jump from one difficult energy policy to another.
Continuing in the vein of reporting anything and everything I see about Mauritania, there are apparently entire villages and towns that are being buried beneath mountains of sand.
Also, following up on previous posts about Representative Pelosi's recent excursion to Syria and Saudi Arabia, Vice President Cheney has criticized Pelosi's botched attempt to carry a supposed message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. More details about Representative Pelosi's trip can be seen at Cox and Forkum.
Military.com has a great editorial from an Army officer serving in Iraq that details the shortcomings of the new ACU uniform: New Army Uniform Doesn't Measure Up. Having worked around soldiers wearing the ACU uniform for nearly a year now, I can confirm all of the shortcomings described by Coulson. The Army would do well to adopt either the Multicam pattern, or the MARPAT desert pattern. The fabric pattern of the ACU uniform is a good one, but the camouflage pattern and the materials used need improvement.
Zounds! Reaganomics works!
Australia is sending more troops to Afghanistan (AP, Reuters, BBC), and moderate Muslims in Pakistan have staged demonstrations against radical Islamism. In Waziristan, native tribesmen continue their campaign to oust al Qaeda/Taliban-linked Uzbek militants; meanwhile, in Iraq, terrorist groups have issued a call to bin Laden to exert more control over al Qaeda in Iraq, as al Qaeda in Iraq has resorted to indiscriminate killings of Sunnis, Shi'is, and even rival terrorists.
Algeria has suffered from multiple clashes between Islamist militants and Algerian troops, as well as multiple bombings (CNN, BBC) that killed at least twenty-four and injured more than two hundred. Responsibility for the bombings was claimed by al Qaeda in the Maghreb, formerly known as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.
And finally, what news update would be complete without a story... About Somali pirates! That's right, those wacky Somali pirates were at it again, hijacking an Indian ship carrying supplies for the city of Mogadishu. (AP, Reuters, BBC. The pirates later released the ship (along with another ship they'd hijacked).
Alright, folks, more later; work continues on the missile defense article, I promise.
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