Nuclear Talks in Iran Not Going Well

The latest reports from the Nuclear talks going in Iran as an attempt to make Iran back down from its previously overly aggressive stance tell that things have not been going well. The Iranian government suspects that the U.S. has alternate motives for making this appearance in their government suddenly, and Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated that

"If you stretch your hand towards us honestly, we will press it. But if there is any conspiracy, Iran's nation will respond in the same way as it did to Bush and his likes."

The Obama administration is in a tricky situation, because we do not want to turn Iran into an enemy, but with the way they have been playing around with nuclear weapons, they are an increasing threat to the world. Hopefully the U.S. ambassadors can get their acts together and pull out of these talks successfully, because yet another unstable country with nukes is a scary thought.

With Guantanamo Soon to Close, Where will the Prisoners Go?

President Obama has promised to close Guantanamo Bay by the end of his first year in office, and as that date rapidly approaches, the question arises: what will be done with the prisoners?

Many advocates for the prisoner's rights argue that they should all be tried in a federal court on American soil and be given fair punishments for their crimes. Many disagree, telling of how the criminals at Guantanamo Bay are a completely different brand and should be treated much differently and, in most cases, more harshly than the average miscreant.

But the idea that some of the prisoners should be kept in prison indefinitely is one that has faced and continues to face a good amount of opposition. However, no matter who is in the maximum security prison, if they ever want to be free again they still have a very long way to go.

NASA's Ares Program Takes Flight

This morning, NASA launched a test rocket from the Kennedy Space center in Cape Canaveral, Florida to see how the new design of rocket that is set up to be the replacement of the space shuttles will work. The aging shuttles have been in and out of orbit many times, and are growing increasingly more obsolete, and a time for change had come. NASA's new Ares design is of a rocket much taller and thinner than the previously used space shuttles, and the test today proved this new model to be a great success.

Unfortunately, NASA doesn't predict this model to be approved and launching with human occupants until 2015, a good amount of time from now, but by then NASA will also be working on building rockets meant for much longer spaceflight, such as traveling to the moon and beyond. But for now the focus of our nation's space program is the Ares project.

Is the iPhone Being Thrust Aside by Androids?

Even though it has absolutely dominated the marketplace for smartphones and other computer handheld devices with the iPhone, Apple is about to be facing some serious competition with the rise of other companies, headed by Google, as the Android, basically an iPhone but with more versatility as opposed to being the same rigid structure and controlled way of going about business as an iPhone, is gaining ground.

Joe Wilcox, a tech researcher, predicts that

"Put another way: iPhone is to Android -- and somewhat Symbian OS -- handsets as Macintosh was to the DOS/Windows PC in the 1980s and 1990s."

And that the android will be likely to overtake iPhone sales, even with spiffy new colors and such by 2012. Pretty far away, but this doesn't bode well for Apple, although who really knows what will be the new gadget to have in 2012.

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Nuclear Talks in Iran Have 'Good Start'

After finally agreeing to be part of various diplomatic talks with the rest of the world about their new Iranian power plants, and trigger happy missile tests, Iran appears to be going into the talks optimistically and agreeably: "We're off to a good start. We have had a constructive meeting. Most technical issues have been discussed." says Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

A 'good start' is always good, but whether or not these talks will actually end up going anywhere, or if any real changes will be instated remains to be seen. All participating countries in the talk have agreed to a second meeting, so at least some progress is being made. However, there is still a long way to go from "technical issues" to actual change.

Their Economy's Great, Yeah, But What About Freedom?

Although China is seemingly the leader economically in the world right now industrially, as its totalitarian rule has made the government able to regulate all product and survive through the economic recession the world has been going through over the past year. Although it may seem like China is the place to be, with all this greatness, life across the Pacific is not exactly 'the land of the free.'

Basically any and all contact with the world outside of China, or any way to see how much better life could be is cut off by the government. Popular sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and even Youtube are all unavailable in China. There is no solid reason given by the government as to the reason for these censors, but basically they are just there to only allow the flow of government approved information to go in and out of China, so the only thing the people see is what they are supposed to see.

Like I said, although China may be forming into the world's biggest superpower economically, you still want to stay away unless you want to see only what you are 'supposed' to see.

'Cash for Clunkers' Ends, So Do Auto Sales

In the wake of the highly popular government program that purchased people's old cars so they would buy new ones in order to jump start the economy back to life, auto industries were able to keep their heads above water, and continue to function in the rough economic times. However, now that the government stimulus program has been brought to an end, auto sales have wasted no time in dropping right back down. A small drop was to be expected, but the real test will be if the auto companies will be able to continue on their current path towards getting out of the recession.

Cash for Clunkers ending will produce a drop in the economy, but more importantly, it will show to the people of America that the economy is coming back. Slowly but surely our economy is crawling back up and out of this massive recession that has enveloped the country, so that eventually we will be back up to the efficient superpower we have been.

US Hopes to Make China 'Go Green'

In a few back to back talks scheduled for next month in China, Obama and his administration will work towards making both the U.S. and China more environmentally friendly countries so that we can together catch up to and hopefully eventually guide the rest of the world into becoming completely unreliable on 'fuels from hell.'

These talks will hopefully not simply help out China to turn away from solid industrialization through any means possible, but help America turn away from the fossil fuels that are so ingrained in our culture.

Finally the Health Care Bill is Making Some Progress

Obama's health care bill, heavily ratified and changed from its original layout, has been approved by the Senate Panel to be approved for voting on in the Senate. This is a historic step for the country, and will undoubtedly lead to the eventual passing of the health care bill, maybe further ratified by congress, but still eventually pass.

The bill has and still is taking heaving opposition by many republicans who are completely opposed to nationalized health care, but their numbers are falling, as the majority of the nation is beginning to see these few die hard righties as the stuck up rich.

But as always there are those who still believe the bill is not enough for the country. Many still are pushing for the public option, voted off the bill a few weeks ago, and some are calling for an entire re-write of the bill, however, overall the bill has reached a happy medium, containing still some flaws, but overall is almost ready for passing. It remains to be seen however, if congress will think the same way, and Obama's bill is about to come under some heavy fire as it enters the Senate.