Is America right to demonise President Ahmadinejad of Iran?

Why are we asking this question now?

Because of the furore surrounding the visit of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New York for the UN general assembly session. He was greeted by headlines in the New York tabloids which screamed "The Evil has Landed" and "Madman Iran Prez".

How did he do?

He set out the policy of Iran's "peaceful" nuclear programme, and responded to questions about his troubling statements concerning his denial of the Holocaust and on seeking the destruction of Israel. But he destroyed his own credibility by asserting, in response to a question, that "in Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country".

So was the US right to try to silence him?

Of course not. The president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, undermined his own case for freedom of speech in his insulting introduction in which he described the university's guest as exhibiting "all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator" and expressed the hope that Mr Ahmadinejad would not remain in office.
he personal insults aimed at the Iranian president during his New York visit could also end up increasing his popularity at home, rather than the reverse.

s he convincing on the nuclear issue?

Yes, actually. He noted that Iran is within its rights under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. He argued that Iran needs to be self-reliant in producing its own nuclear fuel for energy because it had been let down by several western suppliers since the days of the Shah.

Is the US likely to attack Iran?

Yes...

* Sanctions won't stop Iran from pursuing uranium enrichment

* President Bush has promised that he won't leave office without solving the Iran problem

* US air power can be freed up to strike Iranian targets, despite military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan

No...

* The US is too bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan to free up military resources for such an offensive

* Economic sanctions need time to work, and there can be a diplomatic solution if the UN security council is united

* Iran could harm US interests across the Middle East by retaliating in case of military action

for more from this interesting article of independence newspaper visit this link

VW tube?

Do you remember the famous VW bus from the 60s? Here is an interesting new version exclusively developed for cool metros around the world :-)
Photoshop did it again...

Too much sleep as dangerous as too little: study

Sleeping too much, just like sleeping too little, could be linked to a person's risk of an early death, a new British study indicates.
With seven hours seen as the optimal amount of sleep for the average adult, the study subjects who cut the duration of their sleep from seven hours to five hours a night had a 1.7-fold increased risk of death from all causes within the ensuing 11-17 years, according to the research. They also had twice the increased risk of death from a cardiovascular problem.More surprisingly, scientists found those individuals who increased the number of hours they slept per night from seven to eight hours or more were more than twice as likely to die within 11-17 years as those who kept sleeping for seven. They were more likely to die from non-cardiovascular diseases.

read more for this study here

The World's Weirdest/Stupidest Conspiracy Theories

• The driver shot JFK.
  
• The Beatles were designed and sent to the U.S. by the British Psychological Warfare Division, to undermine the morals of American teenagers.
  
• Christ's Crucifixion was staged. Christ eloped with Mary Magdalene, and one or both of them fled to France to raise their family.
  
• HIV/AIDS was created in a lab.
• Man never landed on the moon. It's not even possible. But there is an alien base there.
• Stephen King killed John Lennon.
• WWII was staged. It never really happened. The Illuminati employed elaborate special effects, stage magic, and phony journalism to scare the world into pacifism.
  
• Queen Elizabeth I was a man. The real Elizabeth died as a child.
• The 1939 War of the Worlds radio broadcoast was a psychological warfare study funded by C.D. Jackson on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation, designed to find out how Americans would react to an enemy invasion. Funny... in a trailer for his mockumentary F is for Fake, Orson Welles did say the WoW broadcast had "secret sponsors".
  
• A really old one that just won't die: Jews drink the blood and eat the flesh of Gentile children during Passover. Some Catholics still revere the relics of Medieval child saints supposedly slaughtered and devoured by Jews.
• The doomed Franklin Expedition was sent to the Arctic not only to find the Northwest Passage, but to secretly investigate UFO sightings that had been reported since the 1700s. The men were captured, experimented upon, and eaten by giant aliens.
  
• Hitler and some associates escaped to the Arctic in a submarine, to live with super-advanced aliens who reside within the hollow earth.
• Scientology: Billions of years ago the intergalactic overlord Xenu used a film to brainwash our souls ("Thetans") into believing in the world's major religions, which he invented.
• Gnosticism: The entire material world is an evil trap created by the imposter God of the Bible.
• Jesuits sank the Titanic to kill some of the world's richest, most powerful Jews.
• Aspartame, flouride, genetically modified foods, and vaccines are used specifically to keep us sick and open to suggestion, and/or as part of a secret depopulation plan designed by the world's elite.

for more facts and theories please visit this blog

Columbia President Bollinger Introduces Ahmadinejad

Just watch it... America's hospitality is outrageously ridiculous and dangerous. Ridiculous is the guy that speaks in this video and dangerous are the supporters of the massacres of the US all these years. Iran is not "clean" but US is far more dangerous for the world than them. Why a flawed nation (as Iran is) cannot have a nuclear program (or even atomic bombs) while a more flawed and dangerous for the global peace US can have whatever they want? Since when they can judge and not be judged?

"Google trends" shows you the real winners

This is a really useful service from google that allows you to add to variables (seperated by comma) and compare their search volume in the google's searches. By clicking enter you can see a graph like that:
The graph shows who is the real winner in the "3rd generation war of the consoles".
The service allows you to compare whatever you want and even select the country and year of search.
Just try anything you want. Who will be the winner between "WWI" and "WWII"? Surprise, surprise (?)...

Clockwork Orange

"Clockwork Orange". A cult masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick. A personal favourite... please watch the film and fall in love!

for more about this film click here.

Blog Action Day 2007

Daft Punk's Electroma

This video is the final and touching scene of the latest film of Daft Punk, "Electroma". A film that cannot expressed in words, neither bad or good. You just have to watch it... even in fast forward...

Barcelona's Camp Nou set for redevelopment

FC Barcelona unveiled plans for a new-look Camp Nou at the weekend with club president Joan Laporta promising the stadium will be a "world reference point".
The new plans mark the arena's third major upgrade. First opened on 24 September 1957, to replace the old Les Courts Stadium, the new-look Camp Nou will boast a dramatic Antoni Gaudí-inspired façade and is being reworked by English architect Sir Norman Foster. "It's a personal project," said Foster, who also designed the new Wembley Stadium. "I have based this on three inspirations: football, the city of Barcelona and Catalunya, and Barça.
The stadium will have ten extra levels, using a cable structure which will protect spectators from the wind and rain but it will be flexible to allow sunlight on to the pitch. President Joan Laporta and his board have now decided it is time for a complete face-lift, the most dramatic feature of which will be the spectacular exterior, with blue, yellow and red panels coating the stadium, while capacity will rise again to 104,000. from uefa.com

Promising new production for Greek television

"Stous 31 Dromous" is the first Greek serial drama television (for Mega) that filmed primarily on location in New York, US. The trailer looks promising and the young cast includes the daughter of the famous Greek singer Anna Vissi, Sofia Karvela.

The most advanced airport in the world...

...is the Beijing airport!

The world’s largest and most advanced airport building - not only technologically, but also in terms of passenger experience, operational efficiency and sustainability – Beijing Airport will be welcoming and uplifting. A symbol of place, its soaring aerodynamic roof and dragon-like form will celebrate the thrill of flight and evoke traditional Chinese colours and symbols.

for more exciting pics click here

Echochrome

In Echochrome, Sony's wacky new puzzle game for PlayStation Network and PSP, things are not as they seem. Or rather, they are as they seem, but only until you change the camera angle.

The idea is to "follow the echo", a little smoky outline that appears at different points along the solid white beams and pillars that make up the abstract levels, but you don't literally control your character - instead, you rotate the camera to change the rules governing the surfaces he/she/it is walking along, and in doing so the character's path is altered. from eurogamer.net

A very interesting game indeed...

Congrats Kanye!

The great new album of Kanye West "Graduation" sold a million records in just a week and it already declared "album of the year". This also puts an end to the competition between Kanye West and 50 cent. Curtis (the real name of 50 cent) failed to sell more records and he can now quit performing solo as he promised...

New technology turn entire buildings into LED ads

AG4 and GKD Metal Fabrics, a German architecture and design company and a woven metal fabric company, respectively, have designed Mediamesh and Illumesh—an LED technology to turn regular building sides into gigantic colorful ads. These two new methods of cabling and lighting let developers place LEDs even over windows—which was verboten before—thanks to the fact that it's sleek enough to still be transparent and not obscure views. However, ads this large moving at regular speeds could be disorienting and vomit-inducing, something that we're sure they're working on avoiding. fromPrintMag

Greek PM wins again!

The governing conservative party of PM Costas Karamanlis has won Greece's general election, retaining a slim majority in parliament.

George Papandreou's socialist Pasok party trailed Mr Karamanlis's New Democracy party by nearly four percentage points.

With 99% of the votes counted, New Democracy's majority has been cut to 152 seats in the 300-seat parliament.

Pasok had 38.1% of the vote giving it 102 seats and Mr Papandreou is under pressure to resign for failing to capitalise on criticism of the government's response the forest fires.

Mr Karamanlis told his supporters that the party had been given a "clear mandate" to continue reforms.

"I feel doubly responsible to be more effective and avoid mistakes," he said. from bbcnews.com

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Smirnoff (amazing commercial)

Sakis Rouvas - Ola Giro Sou Girizoun

Don't take me wrong. I'm not Sakis Rouvas fan or something. I just like this song and I'm glad that Greek music stopped using only bouzouki.

Back home from training

I didn't post anything for like 16 days because I was inside the training camp of Greek Air Force. I was trained under difficult conditions (no water, fires all around the camp, 0 degrees Celsius at night and 35 during the day; among the most notable ones) and finally I became "airman". Now I have 15 days off to sleep and enjoy the temporary sense of freedom until I return back and continue my duty. I was not able to send any photos form my mobile to the blog as I promised because mobile phones with cameras are strictly prohibited in the camp so I chose to keep my mobile always in my pocket instead of holding it up to take photos.

The pause is over... let's continue blogging...