I watched this last night. The message needs to spread.

DES MOINES, Iowa — The most controversial season of the reality show “Survivor” premieres Thursday night.

“Survivor: Cook Islands” divides its teams along racial and ethnic lines. That’s upsetting to many people, including some students at Drake University, who are calling for people to boycott the show and its sponsors.

“Survivor: Cook Islands” divides tribes into African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanics and whites. Ronda Menke , an associate professor at Drake, and some of her public relations students said they don’t like the show’s premise this season.

“I really don’t think that’s appropriate, especially with what (is) going on in the world right now,” said MacKenzie Roebuck-Walsh, a Drake student.

They said their goal is not to censor the program, but to boycott companies that sponsor it.

“We think it’s an advertisers responsibility to step in and say, ‘This is not really good content. We don’t want our products associated with it,’” Roebuck-Walsh said.

“Think about the message you’re sending. Think about the public you want to reach,” Menke said.

Excuse me MacKenzie Roebuck-Walsh, but the new season of Survivor has nothing to do with the “what’s going on in the world.” It’s simply a television show that is using a casting stunt in order to rank in ratings. That’s all.

I’ve done a little bit of digging and found that MacKenzie Roebuck-Walsh is part of Drake’s PRSSA, Drake Public Relations Student Society of America. I’m afraid creating a ‘grassroots’ campaign against Survivor is probably just part of the Drake press relations curriculum. Unfortunately they don’t teach current events and common sense.

The NAACP has even waited until the show aired before passing judgement. What gives the students of Ronda Menke the authority on the issue?

I’ve been pondering the “Postwar Findings About Iraq” Phase II report from the United States Senate. The report states that there was no known link between Saddam Hussein and the terror organization Al Qaeda. I think we were played.

Now here me out on this. I’m not going to be placing blame on President Bush or anyone in our government. They were simply acting on the intelligence that we and other nations had gathered prior to 2003. Since then Bush has repeatedly confirmed that the intelligence was faulty. As White House press secretary Tony Snow said, there is “nothing new” here.

Were we all, including President Bush, played by our enemies? Were we unknowingly duped into ousting Saddam? I’m beginning to believe that this is the likely case. Al Qaeda’s leadership is a ragtag fleet of strategist and war gamers who have a very clear endgame. They want to put an end to the western culture, destroy non-believers, and create a world government based on Islam, known as a caliphate. Is it at all possible that Saddam Hussien was the lesser of two evils in the Middle East?

According to wikipedia Saddam believed in spreading Pan-Arabism, which is a secular movement for unification among the Arab peoples and nations of the Middle East. In other words he wanted to become the person who controlled the entire region. Al Qaeda and Iran have similar ambitions, but they want to spread Pan-islamism, the religious movement of reunification among all muslims in the world. Both movements were opposed to each other because they basically had the same goal.

Did Al Qaeda have the resources to plant false information about its own involvement in Iraq? Is it possible that Al Qaeda, not President Bush tugging at the American people’s emotions when we learned there might have been a possible link between Al Qaeda and Iraq? Isn’t that what a terror organization does?  What better way for someone to lie about Al Qaeda’s involvement if it were coming directly from the mouth of an Al Qaeda informant.

This entire post deals with conspiracy theories and I have no information to back up my claims. Though it surely seems plausible…

Glenn Beck seems to be the only guy on TV who has a highlighter and is taking notes. On tonight’s “Real Story” segment Glenn quoted President Bush’s speech from Tuesday. In the speech the President linked together the war on terror and the war in Iraq using Osama Bin Laden’s own words.

These terrorists hope to drive America and our coalition out of Afghanistan, so they can restore the safe haven they lost when coalition forces drove them out five years ago. But they’ve made clear that the most important front in their struggle against America is Iraq — the nation bin Laden has declared the “capital of the Caliphate.” Hear the words of bin Laden: “I now address… the whole… Islamic nation: Listen and understand… The most… serious issue today for the whole world is this Third World War… [that] is raging in [Iraq].” He calls it “a war of destiny between infidelity and Islam.” He says, “The whole world is watching this war,” and that it will end in “victory and glory or misery and humiliation.” For al Qaeda, Iraq is not a distraction from their war on America — it is the central battlefield where the outcome of this struggle will be decided.

The reason we need to stay in Iraq and defeat the enemy from Bin Laden’s mouth. They want to establish a world government based on Islam and Iraq is going to be the caliphate’s Washington.

Drudge Reports:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to attend the summit of Non-Aligned Movement countries in the Cuban capital Havana in mid-September, an official said Wednesday.

“The president will take part in the summit of Non-Aligned countries in Havana,” said the official from the president’s office, who asked not to be named.

The summit of the 116-nation grouping is to take place between September 11-16, and Ahmadinejad is also expected to attend the UN General Assembly in New York that starts on September 12, the official said.

There was no indication as to when Ahmadinejad would be arriving in Havana and New York.

Flashback a few days ago Iran stated that the U.N. should relocate away from NYC.

(Tehran, Iran, Sep. 04)– Iran suggested on Monday that the United Nations headquarters be relocated from New York to a country other than the United States.

“The U.S. tries to pressure Iran in any way possible. We are convinced that considerations should be made regarding the United Nations which is based in this country”, government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham told reporters during his weekly press conference.

“Either the UN must be relocated from the U.S. and set up in a different country or the U.S.’s provisions in this regard must be limited so that the UN plays a more serious role”, Elham said

More from Drudge…

Ahmadinejad said in Tehran Wednesday that his attendance of the UN General Assembly would be a “suitable opportunity” to challenge Bush in a television debate.

“My forthcoming visit to New York for the UN General Assembly would be a suitable opportunity to hold the debate and all world people, especially the Americans, could hear and watch it without censorship,” the news agency ISNA quoted the Iranian president as saying in a cabinet session.

More quotes from President Ahmadinejad

(The Peninsula Online) “I hope that the Americans will not hide from such a debate which is the best way to create peace,” Ahmadinejad said in a statement. “We are ready to make suggestions to help the world better to install justice, calm, wellbeing, peace, friendship and kindness and destroy the climate of violence, threats and bad humour,” he added.

In a fiercely religious speech to a conference in Tehran, Ahmadinejad had earlier said Bush was “nothing” compared to God and was struggling against a current that was inexorably taking the world towards divinity. “I am telling him (Bush) that all the world is threatening you since the general path that the world is taking is towards worshipping God and divinity,” Ahmadinejad said.

China wants the Iran conflict to be solved through dialogue. Nothing new here as it’s something that’s been assumed. As I said before, I believe in the dialogue route, just with the Iranian people and not the current Iranian Regime.

(Beijing) - China said again on Tuesday that it hoped the Iran nuclear standoff with the West could be resolved through dialogue.

“We have consistently stood for the resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue through negotiation and dialogue,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Qin Gang told a regular news conference.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan shares the same opinion as China.

(Hindustan Times) “The international community should not isolate Iran,” Annan told the Madrid daily El Pais in an interview during his stop in Doha, Qatar, after visiting Iran over the weekend.

Annan has made clear he wants a negotiated solution to the impasse, which deepened after Iran ignored an August 31 UN Security Council deadline to stop its uranium enrichment programme. That set the stage for possible UN economic and political sanctions.

Annan said confrontation with the Security Council “will not be in Iran’s favour or that of the region.”

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El Presidente of Iran has called for liberal teachers to be removed from their jobs immediately. Earlier this year that was a similar call from conservatives in our own nation. They too wanted the liberalism that is being taught in the school to cease to exist. I’m more realistic on the matter, I don’t believe you can have a yin without a yang. While I might disagree with liberal teachings I believe there is a place for them in our schools. The purpose of college is to take on new ideas and challenge those ideas. If students kept that perspective in mind I doubt this would be an issue in our schools. Too much yang is unhealthy.

(Canoe) “Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities,” the agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a meeting with a group of students.

Ahmadinejad complained that changes in the country’s universities were difficult to accomplish and that the country’s educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 150 years, but said “such a change has begun.”

Earlier this year, Iran retired dozens of liberal university professors and teachers. And last November, Ahmadinejad’s administration for the first time named a cleric to head the country’s oldest university in Tehran amid protests by students over the appointment.

Baby steps…

(GENEVA) North and South Korea have made progress on forming a unified team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The rivals, who have agreed in principle to field one team for the games, have struggled to find a blueprint on how to combine their squads.

After meetings Tuesday mediated by IOC president Jacques Rogge, the two countries’ top Olympic officials said they were hopeful that all remaining issues could soon be hammered out.

“The meeting today was very positive, very constructive,” said Kim Jung-kil, head of South Korea’s Olympic committee. “There are still outstanding issues at hand, but we hope that we will still have further progress.”

Kim’s North Korean counterpart, Mun Jae Dok, expressed optimism, even if he also warned that “things remain to be discussed and have yet to be finalized.”

I have an email box full of stories that I would love to share. I believe I’m going to start numbering the same topics like they do on the bigger websites since each post is just continuation of the topic.

WrestlingBlog and TNA WrestlingBlog comment system was changed. I think I’m fine by keep open comments here…

Why let all the official countries have all the fun when you too can have your very own air defense system? Not available in the United States, Canada, or Northern Ireland.

(TEHRAN, Iran) “Iran said on Monday it had tested a new air defense system to counter missiles and aircraft during large-scale military exercises throughout the country, state-run television reported.

“The upgraded missiles successfully destroyed the presumed enemies‘ missiles in low altitude simultaneously in several points,” said Gen. Amir Amini, deputy commander of Iran’s Air Force.

The television footage showed at least four surface-to-air missiles being fired from mobile launching pads. The report did not say if the missile is equipped with a guidance system.

During maneuvers dubbed “The Blow of Zolfaghar,” which began in August 19, Iran test fired short range surface-to-surface and sub-to-surface missiles.

Iran’s military test-fired a series of missiles during large-scale war games in the Persian Gulf in March and April, including a missile it claimed was not detectable by radar that can use multiple warheads to hit several targets simultaneously.

I wonder which country leader gave him this great idea…

(People’s Daily Online) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday said he would call a referendum in 2010 on ending the presidential term limits if he wins another six-year term in December’s election.

He revealed his intention to his supporters who were greeting him upon his return from a foreign tour.

“In the year 2010, when I’m three years into my next term, I will call a referendum” on whether he should stay on and whether the constitution bar on running for subsequent terms would be removed, he said.

“No one will have to go around collecting signatures for this (as) I am going to call the referendum myself,” he said, noting the Venezuelan people “should decide on the mandate of the president.”

Updated: Chavez officially announces his intentions to become a term-limitless president.

(The Peninsula) “In the year 2010, when I am three years into my next term, I will call a referendum. I will call a referendum to ask Venezuelans at least two questions,” he said.

Re-election would require an amendment of the Constitution, which was written and ratified under his careful watch. He added that his new presidential term would mark a new phase of his economic and political plan, to transform Venezuela into the Venezuelan Socialist Republic.

“Now, between 2007 to 2021, we have 14 years to plant, deepen the roots and extend the revolution in all directions so that Venezuela becomes the Socialist Bolivarian Republic in every way, for true equality, liberty — a democracy that is deep, of the people, participatory and proactive,” he said.

He outlined the plan, which he named after Simon Bolivar, liberator of Venezuela and much of South America. “One: a new socialist ethic; two, a socialist mode of production, a socialist economy; three, a revolutionary heroic democracy where the power of the people will be the maximum power of the republic; four, supreme social joy; five, a new national geopolitic, decentralised development, development in the fields and development in the cities; six, a new international geopolitic, a multipolar world, a balanced world; seven, Venezuela as an energetic world power, a world oil power,” he said.

“Now comes the Bolivarian hurricane,” Chavez said, referring to the election battle of the next three months, which will, he said, open “the way to a socialist Venezuela in the 21st century.”