When two cables were cut off the Egyptian port city of Alexandria last week, about a 100 million internet users were affected, mainly in India and Egypt. Now a third cable has been cut, this time near Dubai. That, along with new evidence that ships' anchors are not to blame, has sparked theories about more sinister forces that could be at work.Online columnist Ian Brockwell says the cables may have been cut deliberately in an attempt by the US and Israel to deprive Iran of internet access. Others back up that theory, saying the Pentagon has a secret strategy called 'information warfare'.As it happens, Australia's protection against such incidents was boosted just last week. Activities that could damage submarine communications cables have been prohibited off Perth's City Beach since Friday.
When we wrote about the influence that bandwidth caps would have on ITunes and Amazon Unbox, we thought we were really pushing the envelope. The good part is that we are not the only ones thinking that there is something else going on here, and that the same kind of idea is coming from the [...]
When Mike Huckabee calls John Hagee "one of the great Christian leaders of our nation", Huckabee is declaring that foreign policy based on conspiracy theories about satanic influence on the European Union are just the ticket for the USA. Remember that Mike Huckabee is running for President on the basis of his own status as a Christian leader. Thus John Hagee's eccentric ramblings about Satan's impact on American foreign policy can be seen as at the core of Mike Huckabee's plan for the White House, if he should win it.
Backed by years of his UFO sleuthing, Knapp said the sheer size and complexity of the subject is daunting."Unproven theories abound," Knapp continued. "We are pretty sure the visitors are ETs...or inter-dimensionals...or time travelers from our future...or manifestations of the collective consciousness. We also know they are benevolent guardians, evil reptilians, harvesters of souls or genetic materials, angels from heaven, demons from hell, or maybe androids dispatched by incomprehensible super-beings. It's a proven fact that they are here to help us, teach us, or eat us, or mate with us, or mess with our heads, or save their own species while they carve up our livestock, doodle in our wheat fields, and befuddle our most sophisticated technology."Are UFOs driven by teenage pranksters on a joyride through the cosmos, Knapp questioned, or perhaps anthropologists from a parallel universe, modern manifestations of pixies and leprechauns, or pragmatic politicians from Serpo--a planet of Z
Now with talk of conspiracy theories behind September 11th 2001 attack of thinking about that question today. I don’t think so to be honest but if I close my mind, saying it is not possible because anything is possible with the good and the bad in life. However, we do need to know why 911 happened along with who was really behind it with something that big to happen many had to behind it and have knowledge of it. I am not saying I believe the conspiracy theories but I do want to find out the truth for the reason that the truth is important no matter what the truth of that reality is. - Blog 911 Workers Need Help - Blog 6 Years Since 911
Author: Craig DilworthPaperback: 333 pagesPublisher: Springer; 2nd ed. edition (April 2006)Language: EnglishISBN: 1402038372(R)The Metaphysics of Science provides a clear, well-founded conception of modern science, according to which its core consists of particular metaphysical principles. On this view, both the empirical and the theoretical aspects of science are the result of the attempt to apply these metaphysical principles to reality. There is a flexibility in the application of the principles, however, so that, in their scientific guise, they may come to be reformed over time through scientific revolutions. This approach to modern science provides a unified conception of the enterprise, explaining such of its various aspects as the principle of induction, the nature of scientific knowledge and scientific reduction, the fundamental difference between the natural and social sciences, and the role of essentialism with respect to natural kinds. Furthermore, it pr
Author: J.E. RoeckeleinPaperback: 692 pagesPublisher: Elsevier Science; 1 edition (March 2, 2006)Language: EnglishISBN: 0444517502In attempting to understand and explain various behaviour, events, and phenomena in their field, psychologists have developed and enunciated an enormous number of best guesses or theories concerning the phenomenon in question. Such theories involve speculations and statements that range on a potency continuum from strong to weak. The term theory, itself, has been conceived of in various ways in the psychological literature. In the present dictionary, the strategy of lumping together all the various traditional descriptive labels regarding psychologists best guesses under the single descriptive term theory has been adopted. The descriptive labels of principle, law, theory, model, paradigm, effect, hypothesis and doctrine are attached to many of the entries, and all such descriptive labels are subsumed under the umbrella term theory.The
There are a number of conspiracy theories running around the internet this morning about why Peter Moore of Xbox fame decided to depart. Well beyond the standard HR response of “We are sorry to see him go” the speculation on the departure as either an accountability measure, or as part of a long range plan to move back to California, or some other reason about the 1 Billion dollar charge that Xbox is going to take to fix the Red Rings oh Death, it all adds up to a great morning.
On the Mini Microsoft/MSFT Extreme Make over.
The conspiracy theory runs around the idea of accountability
Of course, even if Mr. Moore was asked to head for the nearest exit, we wouldn’t want to piss him off over at EA. So, I’m marking this up as how it was presented, with zero amount of accountability being exhibited. Source: Mini Microsoft
The focus of my initial post on the latest Xbox fiasco was primarily on the seemingly endless trail of management incompetence. In thinking about the iss
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Not like this hasn't been going on since before Ahmadin-jihad's time, but the Seattle & Los Angeles Times try to analyze why it's sped up (or the media has given it more attention) in recent months.Why the regime has cracked down now remains unclear, although analysts offered several overlapping theories. The widespread purges and arrests are expected to have an impact on parliamentary elections next year and the presidential contest in 2009, either discouraging or preventing reformers from running against the hard-liners who dominate all branches of government, Iranian and U.S. analysts say. The elections are one of several motives behind the crackdowns, they add. Public signs of discontent — such as students booing Ahmadinejad on a campus in December, teacher protests in March over low wages and workers demonstrating on May Day — are also behind the detentions, according to Iranian sources....The current crackdown is a way to instill fear in the population in order to discoura
Using relic radiation from the birth of the universe, astrophysicists at the University of Illinois have proposed a new way of measuring the fine-structure constant in the past, and comparing it with today.By focusing on the absorption of the cosmic microwave background by atoms of neutral hydrogen, the researchers say, they could measure the fine-structure constant during the “dark ages,” the time after the Big Bang before the first stars formed, when the universe consisted mostly of neutral hydrogen and helium.The fine-structure constant characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic force, which is one of the four fundamental forces in physics. But, the fine-structure constant may not be constant. Recent observations of quasars – starlike objects billions of light-years away – have found a slightly different value for the fine-structure constant.“If the fine-structure constant does vary over time and space, we could use it as a probe of new physics beyond the standard m
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