a misaligned movement ??

Nehru didn’t want to call his misaligned movement “The Misaligned Movement” so he came up with: “The Non-Aligned Movement”…

"The term Non-Alignment itself was coined by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his speech in 1954 in Colombo, Sri Lanka."

the influence of the US in international affairs… okay thats nice… Indian can poke their nose on sri lankan issues… but its wrong for the US to poke their nose… personally i’d prefer a US nose than an Indian one… and i would def prefer an aligned nose… dont want any misaligned noses poking in… they are all a bunch of misaligned cigar smoking comi hypocrites

and i def dont want a misaligned comi cigar as my nose poker…
quote: Fidel Castro was also elected President of the Movement.

"The 2006 meeting in Havana has leaders discussing a strategy on dealing with the increasing influence of the United States on international affairs."

" The Non-Aligned Movement, or NAM, is an international organization of over 100 states which consider themselves not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. The purpose of the organization as stated in the Havana Declaration of 1979 is to ensure the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries in their struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, apartheid, racism, Zionism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics. They represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations’s members and comprise 55% of the world population."

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pope makes a boo boo

quote: In the speech, the Pope referred to criticism of the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who said everything Mohammad brought was evil “such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached”.

hmmmm… lemme get this right… the church has a “convert or die” policy in during the 16th and 17th century… but thats all fine ‘cos they had guns then so the sword was kinda obsolete…

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Saturday the Pope was sorry Muslims had been offended by a speech whose meaning had been misconstrued, but Morocco withdrew its ambassador as anger at his words flared on.

“The Holy Father thus sincerely regrets that certain passages of his address could have sounded offensive to the sensitivities of the Muslim faithful,” Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said in a statement.

The New York Times said in an editorial the Pope must issue a “deep and persuasive” apology for quotes used in his speech.

“The world listens carefully to the words of any pope. And it is tragic and dangerous when one sows pain, either deliberately or carelessly,” it said.

In the speech, the Pope referred to criticism of the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who said everything Mohammad brought was evil “such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached”.

Using the terms “jihad” and “holy war”, the Pope said violence was “incompatible with the nature of God”.

But Bertone said the Pontiff “had absolutely no intention” of presenting Emperor Manuel’s opinions on Islam as his own.

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"Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center and charged into the midday Florida sky on a mission to boost power on the International Space Station. The launch was on time, with liftoff at 11:15 a.m. EDT. Over the 11-day mission, the six-member crew will perform three spacewalks to install the P3/P4 integrated truss and solar arrays on the station, doubling the current power generating capability of the orbiting outpost."

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pluto was demoted demoted as categorized as a plant a few days back!!!

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pluto is not a planet according to the IAU… pluto is demoted to a “pluto-class object”
so there are only eight planets now: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.