Newshog 21-11-2004

Here is my first of at least a weekly roundup of news and opinion that caught my interest. Hopefully this section will get longer by the next time I post it.I have kept the Daily Grail format because I like it! Thanks Greg.

• The Founder of Betterhumans feels that America is experiencing a creative decline - and that the economy will follow.
  
• The US plans to spray Afghanistans opium harvest from the air - and it appears nobody else is happy about it.
  
• The soldiers' story: the war the video cameras do not see. The story manages to convey the humanity of many Marines and contrasts senior officers well with their UK counterparts.
  
• However, the carnage in Fallujah may not be excuseable no matter how human the perpetrators. Is it a case of ruling by fear or just a Carthiginian solution?
  
• Faith based parks? Creationists tackle the Grand Canyon.
  
• Defence Tech's Noah Schactman wonders why the US military are so secretive about I.E.D.s
  
• The British Government proposes it's own version of the Patriot Act. Is it just me or is Blair even beginning to look like Maggie Thatcher?
  
• The video of a Marine shooting an injured Iraqui leads a Texan Democrat to call for a ban on imbedded reporters.
  
• iS President Putin planning to glue together the world's most powerful coalition superpower?
  
• Conservative scientists and pressure groups tell the U.S. Senate that pornography is worse than crack.
  

Quote of the Day:



Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.


Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor.