terrorism, depravity, posit, adhere, Off Terror List, Rendition Report

Actually no, as the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is finding out the hard way. The ACMA, Canberra's equivalent of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, put together such a list and sent it to more than a dozen companies. It was part of a trial program to develop software that would allow Australian ISPs to block the sites. But to ACMA's evident surprise, at least one person who received the list handed it over to Wikileaks, an online clearinghouse for anonymous submissions of sensitive material. The ACMA "blacklist", as it became known, was promptly posted online, becoming a handy compendium of internet depravity in one convenient package — courtesy of the Australian government. After it was posted, a surge in traffic caused Wikileaks to crash temporarily. (See the 10 most interesting finds on Google Earth.)


North Korea Is Off Terror List After a Deal With the U.S. By HELENE COOPER
Saying North Korea had agreed to adhere to nuclear concessions, the U.S. removed the country from a list of terrorism sponsors.


This deeply religious play( “The Power of Darkness,”) follows a man who has lost his way: a philandering servant, Nikita (played by Mark Alhadeff as a somber brooder) conspires to kill his boss, marries the man’s wife and then sleeps with his own stepdaughter. And he’s just getting started. Tolstoy doesn’t search for psychological explanations for this behavior or bother to posit that all of us have the capacity for depravity. He seems instead to blame desperate poverty and greed.


But if you think that there must be some ultimate explanation for the improbable leaping-into-existence of the harmonious, biofriendly cosmos we find ourselves in, then the God hypothesis is at least rational to adhere to, isn't it?
--> No, it's not, says Dawkins, whereupon he brings out what he views as "the central argument of my book." At heart, this argument is an elaboration of the child's question "But Mommy, who made God?" To posit God as the ground of all being is a nonstarter, Dawkins submits, for "any God capable of designing a universe, carefully and foresightfully tuned to lead to our evolution, must be a supremely complex and improbable entity who needs an even bigger explanation than the one he is supposed to provide." Thus the God hypothesis is "very close to being ruled out by the laws of probability."

The New York Times Chinese -Traditional 紐約時報中文網

布魯塞爾恐襲暴露了比利時安保機構的短板，更令人擔憂的是，富有同情心的、開放的歐洲正在為恐怖分子團伙形成、躲藏和行動提供土壤。在恐怖主義面前，歐洲是孱弱的。

恐怖主義橫行，開放的歐洲暴露致命軟肋

CN.NYTIMES.COM

C.I.A. Confirms Rendition Report

By JOHN F. BURNS

Published: February 22, 2008

LONDON — In tones freighted with frustration, Britain’s foreign secretary, David Miliband, on Thursday told the House of Commons that “contrary to earlier explicit assurances” the Central Intelligence Agency had confirmed using an American-operated airfield on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean for refuelling two American “rendition” flights carrying terrorism suspects in 2002.

rendition
ren·di·tion (rĕn-dĭsh'ən) 

n. ━━ n. 翻訳, 解釈; 演出, 演奏.

1. The act of rendering.
2. An interpretation of a musical score or a dramatic piece.
3. A performance of a musical or dramatic work.
4. A translation, often interpretive.
5. A surrender.

[Obsolete French, from Old French rendre, to give back. See render.]

第五義--Rendition Report

terrorism不是恐怖主義

terrorism 

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛrərɪzəm/ 

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims:the fight against terrorisminternational terrorism

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Origin

Late 18th century (in reference to the rule of the Jacobin faction during the the period of the French Revolution known as the Terror): from French terrorisme, from Latin terror (seeterror)..

1. [名詞]
2. 1 テロリズム，テロ行為.
3. 2 テロによる恐怖状態.
4. 3 恐怖政治.

adhere

(ăd-hîr')
v., -hered, -her·ing, -heres.
v.intr.

1. To stick fast by or as if by suction or glue.
2. To remain devoted to or be in support of something: adhered to her beliefs.
3. To carry out a plan, scheme, or operation without deviation: We will adhere to our plan.

v.tr.
To cause to adhere; make stick.

[French adhérer, from Latin adhaerēre, to stick to : ad-, ad- + haerēre, to stick.]

posit Show phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL ━━ vt. 置く; 【論】仮定する; 自明のこととみなす.
to suggest something as a basic fact or principle from which a further idea is formed or developed:
[+ that] If we posit that wage rises cause inflation, it follows that we should try to minimize them.


depraved Show phonetics
adjective
morally bad or evil:
a depraved character/mind
Someone who can kill a child like that must be totally depraved.

deprave Show phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL
to make someone depraved

depravity Show phonetics
noun [U]
the state of being morally bad