Today in thought.
Did you ever take a moment to listen to “More than a Feeling” by Boston? It is such a great song. You know, it has everything you could want in a song, moving lyrics jaw dropping guitar and amazing vocals. This song just makes me feel good, even though it is not supposed to…
I guess I need to say some things, for my own personal benefit. Life is not easy, you don’t get every thing you want, nothing is handed to you and you do not get a choice in absolutely everything you do. If you think that simply going to class and expecting to automatically learn every thing about that discipline is not only absurd, but undoable and unrealistic. You have to read the books, no matter how tedious; you have to do the research. The fact is that college is not easy, it isn’t high school, It is not a joke and you should not be there if you are simply going to fuck around and not make an honest attempt to learn.
Without drive, you won’t make it. Without an interest you won’t succeed, that is just how things are. It is a hard lesson to learn. Giving up is not an option, because once you give in and accept defeat life becomes worthless. You will spend the rest of your days regretting your decision, and when you die a sad pitiful lonely death, no one will be there with you. You wont have a legacy to look back upon, and you name will not be recorded in history. You will not become immortal; you will not live forever in the minds and memories of those who come after you. You become that which you should fear most, damned.
So what can one do to save themselves from this horrible fate? You can start by working as hard as you can, to accomplish your dreams, to make you wildest thoughts real. You must sacrifice everything, to accomplish this goal. Regardless of what anyone says, it is never too late to start all over again. You never loose your chance, just as long as you keep it alive were it matters.
Well here is some news for you lovely people today.
We begin with France, they want to do what?!
PARIS, France (AP) -- France's foreign minister warned Sunday that the world should prepare for war if Iran obtains nuclear weapons and said European leaders were considering their own economic sanctions against the Islamic country.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called for more effective sanctions on Iran.
Negotiations and two sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions have failed to persuade Iran to stop its uranium enrichment program, a process that can produce fuel for nuclear power plants as well as material used in atomic weapons.
Iran insists its atomic activities are aimed only at producing energy, but the U.S., its European allies and other world powers suspect Iranian authorities of seeking nuclear weapons.
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, speaking on RTL radio, called for "more effective sanctions" against Iran if it continues to resist the demands to suspend uranium enrichment.
"We will not accept that such a bomb is made. We must prepare ourselves for the worst," he said, specifying that could mean a war. He did not elaborate on what kind of preparations that would entail.
"We have decided, while negotiations are under way ... to prepare for eventual sanctions outside the United Nations, which would be European sanctions," he said.
Kouchner was not specific about what penalties Europe might impose, other than to say they could be "economic sanctions regarding financial movements."
"Our German friends proposed this. We discussed it a few days ago," he said.
Sarkozy reportedly floated the possibility of European sanctions against Iran this summer. In a major foreign policy speech last month, he mentioned the possibility of an attack on Iran, which he said would be as "catastrophic" as Tehran getting a nuclear bomb.
In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Bush administration is committed, for now, to using diplomatic and economic means to counter the potential nuclear threat from Iran.
"I think that the administration believes at this point that continuing to try and deal with the Iranian threat, the Iranian challenge, through diplomatic and economic means is by far the preferable approach. That's the one we are using," the Pentagon chief said.
Meanwhile, Iran's foreign minister was quoted as saying on state television that enriched uranium fuel is ready to be shipped from Russia to Iran's first nuclear power plant.
The project has been beset by repeated delays due to payment problems on the Iranian side, according to the Russians. Iran, however, maintains it is because Moscow has been caving into Western pressure to halt the project.
Sunday's announcement comes after talks in Moscow between Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Russian nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko to address delays in completing the $1 billion Bushehr power plant.
Iran currently has the ability to enrich small amounts of uranium for nuclear fuel but still nowhere near enough to power a nuclear plant, much less create a weapon. Russian officials say the Bushehr plant cannot open until six months after the current fuel is delivered
Ok did he actually just say this? “In a major foreign policy speech last month, he mentioned the possibility of an attack on Iran, which he said would be as "catastrophic" as Tehran getting a nuclear bomb.”
I mean holy shit the French want to have our back on the middle east 7 goddamn years after it began. Your just a little bit late there guys. If this is payback for our tardiness response to Germanys invasion of your country in the forties, way to go, dudes…
Oh, but we are not finished yet, Look! Iran Responds!
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's foreign ministry criticized France on Monday for a blunt warning over the weekend that Europe must prepare for war if Tehran continues to flout international demands to stop producing nuclear fuel.
Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, shown here in April 2007, criticized France on Monday.
"We hope that such statements are superficial and do not reflect France's realistic and strategic points of view," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said Monday, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a televised interview Sunday that European nations should consider sanctions outside the U.N. framework if Iran continues to ignore a Security Council call to halt its production of enriched uranium -- and he added, "We must prepare ourselves for the worst."
Asked what "the worst" meant, Kouchner -- co-founder of the the Nobel Prize-winning relief agency Doctors Without Borders -- replied, "That is war, sir."
Kouchner quickly added that he does not believe war to be imminent, but that further sanctions are. He said major French companies including those in the energy sector are being told to stop any further investments in Iran.
Hosseini also said that the use of "convulsive words" ran counter to "the historical, cultural and civilizational dignity and position of France," according to IRNA.
European Union members Britain, France and Germany have led Western powers in negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program, which Iranian officials insist is aimed at producing civilian electric power. The United States accuses Iran of working toward a nuclear weapon.
"At a time when the issue of Iran's peaceful nuclear activities was removed from the agenda of the EU ministerial session recently, Kouchner's claims are not only in contradiction with EU's macro policies on the Islamic Republic of Iran but are also aimed at questioning credibility and competency of the International Atomic Energy Agency," said Hosseini.
The IAEA, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency, says it has been able to verify that Iran's declared nuclear material has not been diverted from peaceful use. While the IAEA has been unable to verify some "important aspects" regarding the nature and scope of Iran's nuclear work, the agency and Iranian officials agreed on a plan to resolve all outstanding issues, Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei said Monday.
While France opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Kouchner's remarks on Iran follow previous hard-line statements by France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy. In August, the conservative Sarkozy said a nuclear-armed Iran was "not acceptable."
"I think there is a new France since Sarkozy came to power," Dominique Moisi, an analyst at the French Institute on Foreign Relations, told CNN. "There is a new style of diplomatic content, and obviously there is a new relationship with the U.S. and Washington."
Meanwhile, the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East Gen. John Abizaid said Monday the U.S. and its allies can "live with" a nuclear-armed Iran, but they should continue pressuring the Islamic Republic to keep it from developing an atomic bomb.
Abizaid, who retired from the Army in March after three years leading U.S. Central Command, told a Washington think tank that Iran's leadership is pursing "reckless" policies and seeks to dominate the Middle East.
"We need to press the international community as hard as we possibly can, and the Iranians, to cease and desist on the development of a nuclear weapon, and we should not preclude any option that we may have to deal with it," he said.
But he added, "I believe the United States, with our great military power, can contain Iran."
"Let's face it -- we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we've lived with a nuclear China, and we're living with nuclear powers as well," he told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"Clearly the development of a bomb in Iranian hands will cause other nations in the region to move in a like direction, and in a very unstable region like that, that is not good news," Abizaid said.
But he said the United States "can deliver clear messages to the Iranians that makes it clear to them that while they may develop one or two nuclear weapons, they'll never be able to compete with us in our true military might and power."
Is it just me or do you feel stupid for reading that too?
"Clearly the development of a bomb in Iranian hands will cause other nations in the region to move in a like direction, and in a very unstable region like that, that is not good news," Abizaid said.”
REALLY?! I cant believe that, why would it be a bad thing for the middeleastern people to have atomic wepons. You are so concerned about it? Right?
Well what about this then?
Russia's 'father of all bombs'
Explosive ... bomb test
\September 12, 2007
RUSSIA has tested the world's most powerful vacuum bomb dubbed the 'father of all bombs'.
It is capable of unleashing a destructive shockwave with the power of a nuclear blast, the military said today.
The bomb is the latest in a series of new Russian weapons and policy moves as President Vladimir Putin tries to reassert Moscow's role on the international stage.
The test blast was broadcast on Russian TV with commentary from Alexander Rukshin, Russian deputy armed forces chief of staff.
He said: "Test results of the new airborne weapon have shown that its efficiency and power is commensurate with a nuclear weapon.
"You will now see it in action, the bomb which has no match in the world is being tested at a military site."
It showed a Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber dropping the bomb over a testing ground. A large explosion followed.
Pictures showed what looked like a flattened multi-storey block of flats surrounded by scorched soil and boulders.
Russia's defense ministry insists the military invention does not contradict an international treaty and they are not unleashing a new arms race.
Rukshin added: "At the same time, I want to stress that the action of this weapon does not contaminate the environment, in contrast to a nuclear one."
The new bomb is said to be much stronger than the US-built Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb - MOAB, also known under its name "Mother of All Bombs".
Rukshin said the bomb will aid the fight against terrorism.
He said: "It (the bomb) will allow us to safeguard our state's security and fight international terrorism in any circumstances and in any part of the world."
Meanwhile, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov has reportedly asked the Kremlin to dissolve his government.
The news, from Russian news agencies, came with less than three months remaining before parliamentary elections.
Fradkov made the decision based on “the approaching major political events in the country and a desire to give the president full freedom in making decisions, including personnel,” Fradkov was quoted by ITAR-Tass as saying.
A Kremlin spokesman could not immediately comment on the report.
"At the same time, I want to stress that the action of this weapon does not contaminate the environment, in contrast to a nuclear one."
Oh thank god, I was worried there for a moment.
Putin was quoted in saying, “Once dropped this weapon annihilates all life within 10 Kilometers with out the side effect of radiation poisoning the environment.”
So you can take a country away from someone else?
Any way there is your news for the day, Have a wonderful afternoon kiddies, I have a class.
I guess I need to say some things, for my own personal benefit. Life is not easy, you don’t get every thing you want, nothing is handed to you and you do not get a choice in absolutely everything you do. If you think that simply going to class and expecting to automatically learn every thing about that discipline is not only absurd, but undoable and unrealistic. You have to read the books, no matter how tedious; you have to do the research. The fact is that college is not easy, it isn’t high school, It is not a joke and you should not be there if you are simply going to fuck around and not make an honest attempt to learn.
Without drive, you won’t make it. Without an interest you won’t succeed, that is just how things are. It is a hard lesson to learn. Giving up is not an option, because once you give in and accept defeat life becomes worthless. You will spend the rest of your days regretting your decision, and when you die a sad pitiful lonely death, no one will be there with you. You wont have a legacy to look back upon, and you name will not be recorded in history. You will not become immortal; you will not live forever in the minds and memories of those who come after you. You become that which you should fear most, damned.
So what can one do to save themselves from this horrible fate? You can start by working as hard as you can, to accomplish your dreams, to make you wildest thoughts real. You must sacrifice everything, to accomplish this goal. Regardless of what anyone says, it is never too late to start all over again. You never loose your chance, just as long as you keep it alive were it matters.
Well here is some news for you lovely people today.
We begin with France, they want to do what?!
PARIS, France (AP) -- France's foreign minister warned Sunday that the world should prepare for war if Iran obtains nuclear weapons and said European leaders were considering their own economic sanctions against the Islamic country.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called for more effective sanctions on Iran.
Negotiations and two sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions have failed to persuade Iran to stop its uranium enrichment program, a process that can produce fuel for nuclear power plants as well as material used in atomic weapons.
Iran insists its atomic activities are aimed only at producing energy, but the U.S., its European allies and other world powers suspect Iranian authorities of seeking nuclear weapons.
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, speaking on RTL radio, called for "more effective sanctions" against Iran if it continues to resist the demands to suspend uranium enrichment.
"We will not accept that such a bomb is made. We must prepare ourselves for the worst," he said, specifying that could mean a war. He did not elaborate on what kind of preparations that would entail.
"We have decided, while negotiations are under way ... to prepare for eventual sanctions outside the United Nations, which would be European sanctions," he said.
Kouchner was not specific about what penalties Europe might impose, other than to say they could be "economic sanctions regarding financial movements."
"Our German friends proposed this. We discussed it a few days ago," he said.
Sarkozy reportedly floated the possibility of European sanctions against Iran this summer. In a major foreign policy speech last month, he mentioned the possibility of an attack on Iran, which he said would be as "catastrophic" as Tehran getting a nuclear bomb.
In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Bush administration is committed, for now, to using diplomatic and economic means to counter the potential nuclear threat from Iran.
"I think that the administration believes at this point that continuing to try and deal with the Iranian threat, the Iranian challenge, through diplomatic and economic means is by far the preferable approach. That's the one we are using," the Pentagon chief said.
Meanwhile, Iran's foreign minister was quoted as saying on state television that enriched uranium fuel is ready to be shipped from Russia to Iran's first nuclear power plant.
The project has been beset by repeated delays due to payment problems on the Iranian side, according to the Russians. Iran, however, maintains it is because Moscow has been caving into Western pressure to halt the project.
Sunday's announcement comes after talks in Moscow between Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Russian nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko to address delays in completing the $1 billion Bushehr power plant.
Iran currently has the ability to enrich small amounts of uranium for nuclear fuel but still nowhere near enough to power a nuclear plant, much less create a weapon. Russian officials say the Bushehr plant cannot open until six months after the current fuel is delivered
Ok did he actually just say this? “In a major foreign policy speech last month, he mentioned the possibility of an attack on Iran, which he said would be as "catastrophic" as Tehran getting a nuclear bomb.”
I mean holy shit the French want to have our back on the middle east 7 goddamn years after it began. Your just a little bit late there guys. If this is payback for our tardiness response to Germanys invasion of your country in the forties, way to go, dudes…
Oh, but we are not finished yet, Look! Iran Responds!
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's foreign ministry criticized France on Monday for a blunt warning over the weekend that Europe must prepare for war if Tehran continues to flout international demands to stop producing nuclear fuel.
Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, shown here in April 2007, criticized France on Monday.
"We hope that such statements are superficial and do not reflect France's realistic and strategic points of view," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said Monday, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a televised interview Sunday that European nations should consider sanctions outside the U.N. framework if Iran continues to ignore a Security Council call to halt its production of enriched uranium -- and he added, "We must prepare ourselves for the worst."
Asked what "the worst" meant, Kouchner -- co-founder of the the Nobel Prize-winning relief agency Doctors Without Borders -- replied, "That is war, sir."
Kouchner quickly added that he does not believe war to be imminent, but that further sanctions are. He said major French companies including those in the energy sector are being told to stop any further investments in Iran.
Hosseini also said that the use of "convulsive words" ran counter to "the historical, cultural and civilizational dignity and position of France," according to IRNA.
European Union members Britain, France and Germany have led Western powers in negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program, which Iranian officials insist is aimed at producing civilian electric power. The United States accuses Iran of working toward a nuclear weapon.
"At a time when the issue of Iran's peaceful nuclear activities was removed from the agenda of the EU ministerial session recently, Kouchner's claims are not only in contradiction with EU's macro policies on the Islamic Republic of Iran but are also aimed at questioning credibility and competency of the International Atomic Energy Agency," said Hosseini.
The IAEA, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency, says it has been able to verify that Iran's declared nuclear material has not been diverted from peaceful use. While the IAEA has been unable to verify some "important aspects" regarding the nature and scope of Iran's nuclear work, the agency and Iranian officials agreed on a plan to resolve all outstanding issues, Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei said Monday.
While France opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Kouchner's remarks on Iran follow previous hard-line statements by France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy. In August, the conservative Sarkozy said a nuclear-armed Iran was "not acceptable."
"I think there is a new France since Sarkozy came to power," Dominique Moisi, an analyst at the French Institute on Foreign Relations, told CNN. "There is a new style of diplomatic content, and obviously there is a new relationship with the U.S. and Washington."
Meanwhile, the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East Gen. John Abizaid said Monday the U.S. and its allies can "live with" a nuclear-armed Iran, but they should continue pressuring the Islamic Republic to keep it from developing an atomic bomb.
Abizaid, who retired from the Army in March after three years leading U.S. Central Command, told a Washington think tank that Iran's leadership is pursing "reckless" policies and seeks to dominate the Middle East.
"We need to press the international community as hard as we possibly can, and the Iranians, to cease and desist on the development of a nuclear weapon, and we should not preclude any option that we may have to deal with it," he said.
But he added, "I believe the United States, with our great military power, can contain Iran."
"Let's face it -- we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we've lived with a nuclear China, and we're living with nuclear powers as well," he told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"Clearly the development of a bomb in Iranian hands will cause other nations in the region to move in a like direction, and in a very unstable region like that, that is not good news," Abizaid said.
But he said the United States "can deliver clear messages to the Iranians that makes it clear to them that while they may develop one or two nuclear weapons, they'll never be able to compete with us in our true military might and power."
Is it just me or do you feel stupid for reading that too?
"Clearly the development of a bomb in Iranian hands will cause other nations in the region to move in a like direction, and in a very unstable region like that, that is not good news," Abizaid said.”
REALLY?! I cant believe that, why would it be a bad thing for the middeleastern people to have atomic wepons. You are so concerned about it? Right?
Well what about this then?
Russia's 'father of all bombs'
Explosive ... bomb test
\September 12, 2007
RUSSIA has tested the world's most powerful vacuum bomb dubbed the 'father of all bombs'.
It is capable of unleashing a destructive shockwave with the power of a nuclear blast, the military said today.
The bomb is the latest in a series of new Russian weapons and policy moves as President Vladimir Putin tries to reassert Moscow's role on the international stage.
The test blast was broadcast on Russian TV with commentary from Alexander Rukshin, Russian deputy armed forces chief of staff.
He said: "Test results of the new airborne weapon have shown that its efficiency and power is commensurate with a nuclear weapon.
"You will now see it in action, the bomb which has no match in the world is being tested at a military site."
It showed a Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber dropping the bomb over a testing ground. A large explosion followed.
Pictures showed what looked like a flattened multi-storey block of flats surrounded by scorched soil and boulders.
Russia's defense ministry insists the military invention does not contradict an international treaty and they are not unleashing a new arms race.
Rukshin added: "At the same time, I want to stress that the action of this weapon does not contaminate the environment, in contrast to a nuclear one."
The new bomb is said to be much stronger than the US-built Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb - MOAB, also known under its name "Mother of All Bombs".
Rukshin said the bomb will aid the fight against terrorism.
He said: "It (the bomb) will allow us to safeguard our state's security and fight international terrorism in any circumstances and in any part of the world."
Meanwhile, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov has reportedly asked the Kremlin to dissolve his government.
The news, from Russian news agencies, came with less than three months remaining before parliamentary elections.
Fradkov made the decision based on “the approaching major political events in the country and a desire to give the president full freedom in making decisions, including personnel,” Fradkov was quoted by ITAR-Tass as saying.
A Kremlin spokesman could not immediately comment on the report.
"At the same time, I want to stress that the action of this weapon does not contaminate the environment, in contrast to a nuclear one."
Oh thank god, I was worried there for a moment.
Putin was quoted in saying, “Once dropped this weapon annihilates all life within 10 Kilometers with out the side effect of radiation poisoning the environment.”
So you can take a country away from someone else?
Any way there is your news for the day, Have a wonderful afternoon kiddies, I have a class.