Friday, August 17, 2012
'Cancerous Tumour' of Israel will soon be destroyed: Ahmadinejad
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told an annual anti-Israel protest in Tehran on Friday that the Jewish state was a "cancerous tumour" that will soon be excised, drawing Western rebukes.
Washington said Ahmadinejad's statements were "reprehensible", while Paris viewed them as "outrageous."
Ahmadinejad's diatribe against Israel in his Quds (Jerusalem) Day address was the latest in a long line to have drawn criticism from Western governments.
"The Zionist regime and the Zionists are a cancerous tumour," he said.
"The nations of the region will
soon finish off the usurper Zionists in the Palestinian land.... A new
Middle East will definitely be formed. With the grace of God and help of
the nations, in the new Middle East there will be no trace of the
Americans and Zionists," he said.
The diatribe took place amid heightened tensions between Israel and Iran over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme.
The Jewish state has in recent weeks intensified its threats to possibly bomb Iran's nuclear facilities to prevent it having the capability to produce atomic weapons.
Iran, which is suffering under
severe Western sanctions, denies its nuclear programme is anything but
peaceful. Its military has warned it will destroy Israel if it attacks.
"They (the Israelis) know very
well they don't have the ability" to successfully attack Iran, foreign
ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying by the ISNA
news agency.
"If they make a mistake, our nation's reaction will lead to the end of the Zionist regime," he said.
Arab Spring run amok: 'Brotherhood' starts crucifixions
Opponents of Egypt's Muslim president executed 'naked on trees'
The Arab Spring takeover of Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood has run amok, with reports from several different media agencies that the radical Muslims have begun crucifying opponents of newly installed President Mohammed Morsi.
Middle East media confirm that during a recent rampage, Muslim Brotherhood operatives, “crucified those opposing Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi naked on trees in front of the presidential palace while abusing others.”
“Arabic media call them ‘supporters,’ ‘followers,’ and ‘partisans’ of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Ibraham said.
Ibrahim also says the victims can be anyone, including Egyptians and Christians.
“It’s anyone who is resisting the new government,” Ibrahim said. “In this particular case, the people attacked and crucified were secular protesters upset because of Morsi’s hostile campaign against the media, especially of Tawfik Okasha, who was constantly exposing him on his station, until Morsi shut him down.”
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Pentagon DARPA to Develop Robots for Humanitarian Aid Assistance
The Department of Defense’s strategic plan calls for the Joint Force
to conduct humanitarian, disaster relief and related operations. The
plan identifies requirements to extend aid to victims of natural or
man-made disasters and conduct evacuation operations. Some disasters,
however, due to grave risks to the health and wellbeing of rescue and
aid workers, prove too great in scale or scope for timely and effective
human response. The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) will attempt to
address this capability gap by promoting innovation in robotic
technology for disaster-response operations.
The primary technical goal of the DRC is to develop ground robots capable of executing complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments. Competitors in the DRC are expected to focus on robots that can use standard tools and equipment commonly available in human environments, ranging from hand tools to vehicles, with an emphasis on adaptability to tools with diverse specifications.
To achieve its goal, the DRC aims to advance the current state of the art in the enabling technologies of supervised autonomy in perception and decision-making, mounted and dismounted mobility, dexterity, strength, and platform endurance. Success with supervised autonomy, in particular, could allow control of robots by non-expert operators, lower the operator’s workload, and allow effective operation even with low-fidelity (low bandwidth, high latency, intermittent) communications.
The DRC consists of both robotics hardware and software development tasks and is structured to increase the diversity of innovative solutions by encouraging participation from around the world, including universities, small, medium and large businesses, and even individuals and groups with ideas on how to advance the field of robotics. Detailed descriptions of the participant tracks are available in the DRC Broad Agency Announcement.
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The primary technical goal of the DRC is to develop ground robots capable of executing complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments. Competitors in the DRC are expected to focus on robots that can use standard tools and equipment commonly available in human environments, ranging from hand tools to vehicles, with an emphasis on adaptability to tools with diverse specifications.
To achieve its goal, the DRC aims to advance the current state of the art in the enabling technologies of supervised autonomy in perception and decision-making, mounted and dismounted mobility, dexterity, strength, and platform endurance. Success with supervised autonomy, in particular, could allow control of robots by non-expert operators, lower the operator’s workload, and allow effective operation even with low-fidelity (low bandwidth, high latency, intermittent) communications.
The DRC consists of both robotics hardware and software development tasks and is structured to increase the diversity of innovative solutions by encouraging participation from around the world, including universities, small, medium and large businesses, and even individuals and groups with ideas on how to advance the field of robotics. Detailed descriptions of the participant tracks are available in the DRC Broad Agency Announcement.
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Abortion Biz Closes in Knoxville, Tennessee; Can’t Comply With Law
An abortion business in Knoxville, Tennessee is closing because it can’t comply with a law to ensure women receive emergency medical care in case an abortion goes wrong and their life and health are at risk.
Deb Walsh, owner of Knoxville’s Volunteer Women’s abortion facility, commented its closing.
“I found out last night that I will have to close Volunteer Women’s Medical Clinic, effective today,” she said. “A law that went into effect July 1st 2012 called “The Life Defense Act,” made it illegal for our local, Board Certified OB-GYN physician to perform abortions in our fully licensed Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center.”
“The law requires Drs. Who perform abortions to have local hospital admitting privileges,” she added. “I’ve been able to keep the doors open and the phone staff working up until this week. We’ve been working on legal remedies, injunction, etc., but I was unable to bridge the financial gap of paying the monthly lease and operating expenses without knowing when we could resume seeing patients.”
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Deb Walsh, owner of Knoxville’s Volunteer Women’s abortion facility, commented its closing.
“I found out last night that I will have to close Volunteer Women’s Medical Clinic, effective today,” she said. “A law that went into effect July 1st 2012 called “The Life Defense Act,” made it illegal for our local, Board Certified OB-GYN physician to perform abortions in our fully licensed Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center.”
“The law requires Drs. Who perform abortions to have local hospital admitting privileges,” she added. “I’ve been able to keep the doors open and the phone staff working up until this week. We’ve been working on legal remedies, injunction, etc., but I was unable to bridge the financial gap of paying the monthly lease and operating expenses without knowing when we could resume seeing patients.”
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Sept. 11 Memorial Defends Display of Steel Cross
A judge should toss out a lawsuit by a national atheists group seeking
to stop the display of a cross-shaped steel beam found among the
wreckage of the World Trade Center, lawyers for the operators of the
Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero say.
The lawyers said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Monday that the 17-foot-tall beam will be displayed as a historical object because it tells part of the story of the rescue and recovery effort after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which destroyed the twin towers and killed thousands of people.
They said the display of the cross among 1,000 artifacts, photos, oral histories and videos is no different from the showing of hundreds of religious paintings routinely displayed at government-supported art museums.
The nonprofit group American Atheists sued the National September 11 Memorial & Museum's operators last year, saying the beam's display would be unconstitutional. A message left with a lawyer for the group was not immediately returned Wednesday.
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The lawyers said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Monday that the 17-foot-tall beam will be displayed as a historical object because it tells part of the story of the rescue and recovery effort after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which destroyed the twin towers and killed thousands of people.
They said the display of the cross among 1,000 artifacts, photos, oral histories and videos is no different from the showing of hundreds of religious paintings routinely displayed at government-supported art museums.
The nonprofit group American Atheists sued the National September 11 Memorial & Museum's operators last year, saying the beam's display would be unconstitutional. A message left with a lawyer for the group was not immediately returned Wednesday.
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Iran: Israel's existence 'insult to all humanity'
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Israel's existence is an "insult to all humanity," Iran's
president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the
Jewish state, as Israel openly debates whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said confronting Israel is an effort to "protect the dignity of all human beings."
"The existence of the Zionist regime is an insult to all humanity," Ahmadinejad said. He was addressing worshippers at Tehran University
after nationwide pro-Palestinian rallies, an annual event marking Quds
(Jerusalem) Day on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.
Israel
considers Iran an existential threat because of its nuclear and missile
programs, support for radical anti-Israel groups on its borders and
repeated references by Iranian leaders to Israel's destruction.
Ahmadinejad himself has repeatedly made such calls, as has Iran's
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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