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Right now, Islam is portrayed as a terrorist religion. Because a few terrorists are Muslims, the whole religion has that image. If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message. Moustapha Akkad

Daily crono

Nothing much: landlord visited in the morning with a couple interested tenant candidates. Lunch at Buddha's delight, walking to the North Station, back home, desperation, back to MIT, good amount of work done, dinner in the Student center, back home. Quite an ordinary day. Definitely, writing thesis all alone is not for me. I suffer greatly. And the amount of work I get done is so small, when compared with team work situations.

A slow transport

I decided to move my lazy ass to the library. Being lazy, and the sidewalks being submerged in salt-water, I decided to take the T. But the red line is out of service between Park and Kendall. There is a shuttle bus. It took the bus exactly 30 minutes to make the trip. How lucky is Boston to have the T!

A decent proposal

If it's not torture, then it's OK to use it on Cheney and

Stick Karl Rove on the water board and we can see who really leaked what in just a couple of minutes. That would be fair, wouldn't it? After all, his boss says it's not torture, right?

Come on, let's take them by their words, as they are never telling lies!

Naomi Klein on USA and torture

Naomi Klein writen USA and torture in her column in the Guardian. Her main claim is the embrace of torture by US officials has been integral to US foreign policy since the Vietnam war. and that the only difference now and then is that the Bush administration has brought torture in the open, admitted it, and required laws to justify it. Read the column and decide for yourself. Really disturbing. If what Klein writes is true, USA is really a country of uncivilized barbarians, or at least run by such people.

Some climate links

So, Bush's boys do not play with others. They walked out. Guardian tells that 150 countries signed the deal and that

USA is diplomatically more isolated now than at the start of the talks. Friends like Saudi Arabia and Australia have distanced themselves from the administration. Britain and other countries tried to find a way to bring the US in but failed. A consensus is growing in rich countries that it is impossible to work with the Bush administration on climate change.

But, according to NY times

The United States dropped its opposition early Saturday morning to nonbinding talks on addressing global warming after a few words were adjusted in the text of statements.

This is becoming hard to follow. Anyway, it is good that besides USA and China, most other countries are starting to take global warming seriously. In USA, individual states and cities are also waking up and introducing mandatory cuts of greenhouse gases. Let's see, whether the Supreme Court will tell them not to, due to such mandates interfering with inter-state commerce.

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