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NATO recently put up new radio towers in the Denver as a security measure for an upcoming defense ministers’ conference. Suddenly, no one?s automatic garage doors work anymore.

Eileen Kelley writes in the DenverPost.com that the Overhead Door Company of Colorado Springs received hundreds of phone calls on a single day from people who couldn’t get their garage doors to open. People with computer keypad entry systems were even locked out of their homes. Overhead Door employee Tina Oetken says, “With over 600-plus calls, it’s hard to believe that it can be anything but” NATO.
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In the Middle East, Muslim are women are killed for disobedience, becoming too ?westernized? or refusing to marry the men selected for them by their families. But it happens in the West as well. Some countries are so disturbed by this that they?re sending immigrants home who refuse to modernize.

Terri Judd writes in The Independent that a Muslim father living in the U.K. slit his daughter’s throat because he believed she had become too westernized. When Abdalla Yones found out his 16-year-old child Heshu was seeing a Christian teenager, he stabbed her 11 times, after breaking down the door to the bathroom where she was barricaded.
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A molecule that makes the immune system think our body has been invaded is absorbed into our bodies when we eat red meat and milk products. Despite this, we?ve been eating meat and rejecting fish every chance we?ve gotten since prehistoric days.

The molecular sugar called N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc), which is found in non-human mammals, occurs naturally in lamb, pork and beef. Researchers have found that eating red meat causes this molecule to become absorbed into our tissues. This can set off an immune response, since our bodies may see the molecule as an invader. They?ve also found small amounts of Neu5Gc in human cancer tissues, leading to the theory that eating red meat may eventually cause cancer.
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A lot of tired, disgruntled Americans have decided that we work too much, especially compared to Europeans. Now NOAA says our 5-day workweek creates climate conditions that give us lousy weather almost every weekend?the only time we can enjoy ourselves.

Amanda Onion writes in abcnews.com that after examining more than 40 years of temperature data from 10,000 weather stations, NOAA found that temperature differences between day and night appear to follow a five-days-on, two-days-off workweek pattern. They tried to find out what natural influences might be causing this, such as the lunar cycle, but the only reason they could find was pollution caused by the Monday through Friday workweek.
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