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Thursday, August 14, 2003As you go into Baghdad from the west there is graffiti on the walls that says "Welcome to the Republic of Darkness and Unemployment".
Salam Pax [The Guardian]
11:46:34 AM
comment [] trackback [] The real WMD
Gamma-ray weapons could trigger next arms race: "An exotic explosive that blurs the distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons could shift the global balance of power."
New Scientist [Follow Me Here...]
1:21:14 AM
comment [] trackback [] Study of Bush's Psyche Touches a Nerve
"A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in 'fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity'.
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.
All of them 'preached a return to an idealized past and condoned inequality'.
Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance."
Guardian/UK [via CommonDreams] [Follow Me Here...]
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