トリノ閉会式

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核を巡る　文明の衝突
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"The government at the time was like a machine and I was just a part of the machine," Sarwari told the court, the Associated Press news agency said.
A former Afghan intelligence chief has been sentenced to death for ordering hundreds of killings during the communist era in the late 1970s.
BBC NEWS | Death penalty for Afghan spy head
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4750726.stm

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Road to nowhere
The US left loses its way in changing multi-channel world |BBC NEWS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4747254.stm
Al Gore won more votes but lost the 2000 presidential race.
No, it is more than that. The American left has faded away.
Only their bumper stickers remain, like cockroaches after a nuclear holocaust.
"Re-defeat George Bush," they whine. Not knowing, not caring that the world has changed.
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"The anti-war movement has failed"
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The Chomsky/Blankfort Polemic
Israeli influence is central to US policy and the anti-war movement has failed because of their inability to understand the importance of this lobby.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article136002.html

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The United States has 500 Minuteman III ICBMs in service, and plans to keep them until about 2020. At that point, a new ICBM would have replaced the Minuteman, which first entered service, as the Minuteman I, in the 1960s.
Strategic Nuclear Weapons
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/hticbm/articles/20060225.aspx

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toy six guns (or sticks) or little toy bluecoats, Indians, and cowboys, or green, inch-high plastic sets of World War II soldiers.
Our Indian Wars Are Not Over Yet　　Political Affairs Magazine
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/2847/1/151/
"I want justice. And there's an old poster out West... I recall, that said, 'Wanted, Dead or Alive.'" Of course, that "poster" came not from any real experience he had in the West, but directly from the thrilling cowboy films of his childhood. So did his John-Wayne-like urge to "hunt" the terrorists down, or "smoke ‘em out," or (for Iraqi insurgents) "bring ‘em on."
From that same childhood undoubtedly came the President's repeated urge to dress up in an assortment of "commander-in-chief" military outfits, much in the style of a G.I. Joe "action figure." (Think: doll).

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第20回オリンピック冬季競技大会（2006／トリノ）
期間 2006年2月10日〜26日　17日間
JOC - トリノ2006
http://www.joc.or.jp/torino/
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2月26日（日） 21:00〜24:30 テレビ東京
アイスホッケー「男子決勝」