government has accumulated the greatest mountain of debt in human history would be incredibly distressing to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the founders. But perhaps most of all, our founders would be absolutely disgusted that the land where Americans could once be free to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness has become so tightly regulated and controlled that Americans dare not even squeak without the permission of the federal government.

Needless to say, our founders would certainly not understand many of our institutions or many of the advanced technologies that we have today. But without a doubt they would be able to grasp how far we have fallen as a nation and how far we have strayed from the fundamental principles that they enshrined in our founding documents. The United States is a much different place today than it was in 1776, and unfortunately many of the changes have been for the worse.

The following are 50 mind blowing facts about modern America that our Founding Fathers never would have believed….

#1 In 2010, not only does the United States have a central bank, but it also runs our economy and issues all of our currency. The Federal Reserve has devalued the U.S. dollar by over 95 percent since 1913 and it has been used to create the biggest mountain of government debt in the history of the world.

#2 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that U.S. government agents can legally sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, place a secret GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of you everywhere that you go.

#3 The 50 wealthiest members of Congress saw their collective fortunes increase by 85.1 million dollars to $1.4 billion in 2009.

#4 The U.S. government has accumulated a national debt that is rapidly approaching the 14 trillion dollar mark.

#5 All over the United States, asphalt roads are being ground up and are being replaced with gravel because it is cheaper to maintain. The state of South Dakota has transformed over 100 miles of asphalt road into gravel over the past year, and 38 out of the 83 counties in the state of Michigan have now turned some of their asphalt roads into gravel roads.

#6 Americans now owe more than $849 billion on student loans, which is more than the total amount that Americans owe on their credit cards.

#7 In 2010, Americans waste an astounding amount of food. According to a study by the California Integrated Waste Management board, 63 percent of the average supermarket’s waste stream is food. When you break that down, it means that each supermarket wastes approximately 3,000 pounds of food each year.

#8 The city of Cleveland plans to sort through curbside trash to ensure that people are actually recycling properly. If it is discovered that some citizens are not recycling they will be hit with very large fines.

#9 Once upon a time, U.S. industry was the envy of the world. But since 1979, manufacturing employment in the United States has fallen by 40 percent.

#10 Even though the U.S. population has exploded in size, the number of Americans with manufacturing jobs today is smaller than the number of Americans who were employed in manufacturing in 1950.

#11 Having one out of every eight Americans enrolled in the food stamp program is now considered “the new normal” and Americans continue to drop into poverty in astounding numbers.

#12 One out of every six Americans is now being served by at least one government anti-poverty program.

#13 A family of four actually has difficulty surviving on an income of $50,000 a year in America in 2010.

#14 Barack Obama is backing a proposal to create a national database that will store the DNA of all individuals who have been arrested, even if they end up not being convicted of a crime.

#15 In 2010, it takes the average unemployed American worker over 8 months to find a job.

#16 The U.S. government has made some parts of Arizona off limits to U.S. citizens because of the threat of violence from Mexican drug smugglers. The federal government has actually posted signs more than 100 miles north of the Mexican border warning travelers that certain areas are unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers.

#17 One recent survey of last year’s college graduates discovered that 80 percent moved right back home with their parents after graduation.

#18 In one of the very first military commissions held under the Obama administration, a U.S. military judge ruled that confessions obtained by threatening the subject with rape are admissible in court.

#19 The average American worker now pays literally dozens of different kinds of taxes each year.

#20 In recent years the U.S. government has spent $2.6 million tax dollars to study the drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes and $400,000 tax dollars to pay researchers to cruise six bars in Buenos Aires, Argentina to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior when drunk.

#21 Christians are being arrested and thrown in jail in some areas of the United States for quietly passing out Christian literature on public sidewalks.

#22 The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice has announced that it will begin using cutting edge analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents and will place “potential offenders” in prevention and education programs.

#23 Organic milk is now considered such a national crisis that the FDA has been conducting military style raids on Amish farmers in the state of Pennsylvania.

#24 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that they are considering a crackdown on farm dust.

#25 According to a new CDC report, nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis.

#26 Oakland, California Police Chief Anthony Batts says that due to severe budget cuts there are a number of crimes that his department will simply not be able to respond to any longer. The crimes that the Oakland police will no longer be responding to include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism.

#27 Today, Americans are losing their homes in staggering numbers. One out of every seven mortgages was delinquent or in foreclosure during the first quarter of 2010.

#28 Many of our leading scientists are now calling themselves “transhumanists” and are openly proclaiming that a future where men have fully merged with machines is inevitable.

#29 Americans who spend large amounts of cash are viewed as “potential criminals” by the U.S. government in 2010.

#30 New full body security scanners going into airports all across the United States can actually see through our clothing and produce very clear and very detailed images of our exposed bodies as we walk through them.

#31 The U.S. financial system has become a massive gambling parlor in 2010. As a result, a horrific derivatives bubble has developed that threatens to destroy our entire economy at any moment. Nobody knows exactly how big the derivatives bubble is, but low estimates place it at around 600 trillion dollars and high estimates put it at around 1.5 quadrillion dollars. Once that bubble pops there simply will not be enough money in the entire world to fix it.

#32 The U.S. government is spending an amount of money equivalent to approximately 25.4 percent of GDP this year.

#33 Today, 10,000 people make 30% of the total income in the United States.

#34 A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation discovered that 250 employees of the Defense Department used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual situations. However, the investigation also found that the Pentagon investigated only a handful of those cases.

#35 According to a recent poll of Americans between the ages of 44 and 75, 61% said that running out money was their biggest fear. The remaining 39% thought death was scarier.

#36 Approximately 57 percent of Barack Obama’s 3.8 trillion dollar budget for 2011 consists of direct payments to individual Americans or is money that is spent on their behalf.

#37 A recent Department of Justice guide for investigators of criminal and extremist groups lists “constitutionalists” and “survivalists” alongside organizations like Al-Qaeda and the Aryan Brotherhood.

#38 The U.S. trade deficit has exploded to nightmarish proportions over the past two decades. Every single month tens of billions more dollars goes out of the United States than comes into it. Essentially, the United States is becoming far poorer as a nation each and every month.

#39 Factories are closing in droves across the United States because the American people would rather buy things made in China.

#40 Millions upon millions of good paying middle class jobs are being shipped off to China and they are never coming back. Meanwhile, U.S. politicians stand by idly and do nothing.

#41 Some analysts now believe that China could become the largest economy in the world by the year 2020.

#42 If the U.S. government was forced to use GAAP accounting principles (like all publicly-traded corporations must), the annual U.S. government budget deficit would be somewhere in the neighborhood of four to five trillion dollars.

#43 According to one recent survey, 28% of all U.S. households have at least one person that is currently searching for a full-time job.

#44 The U.S. dollar continues to rapidly decline in value. An item that cost $20.00 in 1970 will cost you $112.35 today. An item that cost $20.00 in 1913 will cost you $440.33 today.

#45 Major international organizations are actually proposing that the United States start considering the adoption of a truly global currency.

#46 Students at a high school in Missouri have built a car that they claim can get up to 450 miles per gallon. On another note, some of the top energy experts in the world believe that thorium could solve our energy problems and supply very cheap energy for society for hundreds of thousands of years. But in today’s world technologies such as these are endlessly suppressed by the rich and powerful.

#47 One Colorado high school student is seeking an explanation from officials at his school after he was ordered by security guards to remove American flags from his truck because they might make other students at the high school ”uncomfortable”.

#48 Three California high school students were recently forced to remove their American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.

#49 Memorial crosses erected along Utah public roads to honor fallen state troopers have been found unconstitutional by a federal appeals court and now must be removed permanently.

#50 One group of high school students made national headlines recently when they revealed that a security guard ordered them to stop singing the national anthem during a visit to the Lincoln Memorial.

Genetically engineered seeds are not breaking news; however a biotech company called AquaBounty has been working on genetically engineered salmon. The fish will be a combination of Atlantic salmon and part Ocean Pout. Jeffrey M. Smith says that it is ridiculous to evaluate the safety of this food with no long term feeding studies six and refuses to consume this genetically engineered salmon, if approved.

So here’s a quick review of some of the cultural, social and biological differences between coffee and energy drinks:

Culture: Few drinks can claim a place in the creation of the English, American, French and Russian revolutions, but coffee can. Beyond activating the minds of revolutionaries, coffee drinking is highly social, and for centuries coffeehouse owners have tried to make their businesses centers of community life. You don’t bring kids to a bar. Coffeehouses can be a place to meet business colleagues, future mates and listen to the lonely local poet as you surf the net. By comparison, you drink energy drinks alone, unless your sports team is imbibing them together at half time.

Food and food products: Few would dispute that coffee is a food. Though often adulterated with a bewildering list of ingredients that begin in an organic garden and end in a petrochemical can, coffee does come from trees. Many advertisers hope coffee drinkers believe those trees are tended by picturesque third world planters who love their mountain misted arbors as much as their barefoot children, if only to justify the exorbitant price they pay for each cup. Some researchers argue half the antioxidants obtained by Americans come from their coffee cups, which as Michael Pollan would point out, tells you a great deal about the average American diet.

Energy drinks are not attached to such sentimental images. They are at best food products, legal pharmaceuticals, delivering a certain dose of caffeine plus sugar (with its quick calories) and vitamins. In real ways their “energy” components may originate with energy companies like BP, extending from the PET bottles from which they are normally dispensed to the flavorings, stabilizers and preservatives within.

Age: Coffee drinking starts early but often extends through a lifetime. The ritual of awakening and brewing a fine cup to activate the still sleepy brain is common to teenagers and 80-somethings. Yet few of us would expect grandma to knock back one or two cans of Monster Energy Drink every night. Energy drinks are the perceived province of youth.

Dose: Coffee comes in many different caffeine doses, from the 4-12 mg of decaffeinated brews to the 40-80 mg of the average cup to the hundreds of milligrams of special Starbucks and cappuccino brews. Energy drinks can range upward from low numbers to 200-300 mg of caffeine. Used regularly all such drinks create caffeinism, the addiction to caffeine which can move from the buzzing speed of the addict to the withdrawal hell of headaches, nausea, vomiting and terrifying sleeplessness.

Why Are Energy Drinks So Popular?
If coffee and tea are such culturally accepted ways to obtain caffeine, why are energy drinks so increasingly popular? The usual suspects can be trotted out: they provide a quick hit; the high doses; you can guzzle energy drinks anywhere and nobody will ask you to sit down and talk with them. However, there’s a bigger invisible elephant lurking around — the abolition of rest, and its biggest time component, sleep.

Rest Deprivation and the Need for Energy
Americans have knocked off 90 minutes of sleep in the last 40 years, and we’re working overtime to shave off more. Working women are madly multitasking, hoping for 6.5 hours of shut eye before the next fast-paced day. Rest, as a chance to think, consider and reflect, seems as quaint an idea as scheduling a coffee break in an auto plant.

The situation is worse for adolescents and young adults. Teenagers lose about a third of their brain’s synaptic connections when they enter puberty. Building the growing brain requires time and energy, and adolescents need about 9.5 hours of sleep to function and do marginally well in school.

These days they’re getting perhaps 6.5 to 7.5 sleep hours a night. There’s no point in resting when you’re text messaging two hours a day, netsurfing, doing homework and playing video games while taking cell phone calls from Mom and Dad. Not getting enough rest to grow and rebuild their brains, let alone stay awake through morning classes, kids turn to energy drinks. Suddenly they’ve got the power to keep going.

Until they can’t. Caffeine’s drug half life is perhaps 5-10 hours for many, though it can extend to 16 or more hours for some. That means, in the good case, half the caffeine dose is gone in 5 hours, three-quarters in 10 hours, seven-eighths in 15 hours. For many, sizable blood levels of caffeine never go away — which means they never properly sleep.

Stealth Energy Drinks
Adults differ only in degree. The parents of caffeinated children drink coffee to get through working days and nights to meet deadlines, or resort to the energy drinks that dare not speak their name, century old brands like Coke and Pepsi. Colas are just stealth energy drinks.

Yet from a national health standpoint, we’re getting close to a tipping point. When people sleep less than six hours a night, they:

1. Gain weight

2. Start to look prediabetic

3. Get more coronary artery disease

4. Get more infections, especially colds

5. Get more depressed

6. Feel perpetually cranky, irritable and uncivil

Since sleep and rest are required for learning and memory, many of us suffer from buzzing brains with incessantly broken attention, making creative and productive thinking increasingly difficult, as Nicholas Carr demonstrates in his book “The Shallows.”

And what’s the standard answer to all this fatigue and tense exhaustion? More caffeine.

What We Can Do To Fix the Caffeine Fix:

1. Recognize rest is like food — necessary for function and survival. Sleep deprive any animal long enough and it gets sick and dies. People need to get rest.

2. Recognize that caffeine is a drug — an enormously pleasant and useful drug, but a drug whose “normal use” can abuse our bodies.

3. Use caffeine the way it’s meant to be used — as a food we love. Energy drinks may have their use in sports, where even the slightest edge can mean everything to competitors, or for shift workers tending a nuclear reactor at 1 a.m. But foods are social glues, cultural treasures and forms of celebration. We want to dine, not feed. We want to talk to our fellow imbibers, appreciate the taste of whatever caffeinated brew we’re ingesting. It’s fun to sip a cup among peers, family and friends, giving us a better chance to enjoy the buzz and enliven our brains.

About 21 percent of U.S. adults were smokers in 2009, about the same percentage as the year before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The smoking rate – which fell dramatically since the 1960s – has basically been flat since about 2004.

Teen smoking, at nearly 20 percent, has not been improving lately, either.

Health officials believe they’ve lost momentum because of cuts to anti-tobacco campaigns and shrewd marketing by cigarette companies.

The new report suggests that more than 46 million American adults still smoke cigarettes

“It’s tragic,” said CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden, who calls smoking the No. 1 preventable cause of death in the United States. He estimates that smoking kills 1,000 Americans a day.

Some experts were particularly disheartened by a CDC finding in a second report that nearly all children who live with a smoker – 98 percent – have measurable tobacco toxins in their body.

Experts say tobacco taxes and smoking bans are driving down rates in some states. But nationwide, they say progress has been halted by tobacco company discounts or lack of funding for programs to discourage smoking or to help smokers quit.

The annual smoking report was based on government surveys. The second report looked at levels in the blood of cotinine, a chemical from tobacco smoke, in a total of more than 30,000 nonsmokers between 1999 and 2008.

Overall, detectable levels of cotinine dropped over the 10 years – from about 52 percent to 40 percent. That may be due in part to more smoking bans in workplaces, restaurants and other places.

But there were several bits of bad news in that report, too:

_Most of the decline came about 10 years ago.

_More than half of U.S. children ages 3 to 11 are exposed to secondhand smoke, and the CDC says there is no safe level of exposure.

_There’s been virtually no improvement for children who live with a smoker, noted Matthew L. Myers, president of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a Washington-based research and advocacy organization.

Although the statistics are largely unchanged, advocates said the reports are important. They plan to use the data to pressure national, state and local governments to do more against smoking.

“Without bold action by our elected officials, too many lives, young and old, will suffer needlessly from chronic illness and burdensome health care expenses,” Nancy Brown, chief executive of the American Heart Association, said in a statement.

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Online:

CDC report: http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns

The Cannabis Therapy Institute is asking advocates to oppose the draft rules by the Colorado Department of Revenue because they say it will lead to fear.

The rules, released at the end of August, consist of 92 pages of proposed regulations. Much of it will become the basis for permanent regulations for the burgeoning medical marijuana industry in Colorado, and perhaps set a template for states across the nation.

But while state regulators say they are only developing “protections,” patients and advocates are arguing that the rules would violate constitutional rights to privacy as a patient.

“Caregivers reluctantly gave up their constitutional right to provide medicine to their patients, and now they are faced with volumes of new regulations and thousands of dollars more in costs to bring their ‘centers’ into compliance,” states an e-mail to supporters from the Cannabis Therapy Institute, referring to Medical Marijuana Centers, or dispensaries.

One of the draft rules calls for dispensaries to use surveillance cameras to record every transaction and processing step, known as seed-to-sale monitoring, says the Cannabis Therapy Institute, which has reviewed the entire proposal several times since it was released at the end of August at a Department of Revenue workgroup meeting on medical marijuana regulation.

Dispensaries would also be required to link their point-of-sale systems with their video surveillance systems, and patients would be required to place their medical marijuana registry cards and driver’s license in a space on the counter so that the cameras could capture it. Advocates fear this move will lead to patient tracking and privacy violations.

Matt Cook, head of the Colorado Department of Revenue’s Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, explains the Web-based tracking system as necessary for enforcement. The system will be able to tell if a patient has visited multiple dispensaries, seeking to have multiple primary caregivers. Under Colorado law, a patient is technically only allowed to have one primary caregiver. Dispensaries will then be encouraged to turn the patient away.

“They have begun writing the hundreds of pages of regulations, which are forcing these formerly legal business owners out of business,” says the Cannabis Therapy Institute.

The advocacy group for medical marijuana patients also believes the Web-based tracking system will scare people away from registering.

“If patients have to swipe a card and get into a government database every time they buy medicine, no patient will want to be part of the program,” states the Cannabis Therapy Institute.

Cook, however, sees the issue as being about enforcement and fairness.

“This is all about a level playing field and putting some protections in place,” he said.

Rev. Terry Jones plans to burn qurans on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.

“We are still determined to it, yes,” the Rev. Terry Jones told the CBS Early Show.

Jones’ plans drew criticism from Attorney General Eric Holder, who, according to a Justice Department official, called the bonfire idiotic and dangerous during a private with religious leaders Tuesday.

Holder’s words were echoed Wednesday by presidential adviser David Axelrod, who told NBC’s Today show that the pastor’s plan is “wrong in so many dimensions,” offends U.S. values and is a threat to U.S. security.

Axelrod told CNN Wednesday morning: “The reverend may have the right to do what he’s doing but it’s not right. It’s not consistent with our values … I hope that his conscience and his good sense will take hold.”

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has also voiced her disapproval. At a Tuesday dinner in observance of Iftar, the breaking of the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Clinton said, “I am heartened by the clear, unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful, disgraceful act that has come from American religious leaders of all faiths.”

Gen. David Petraeus took the rare step of a military leader taking a position on a domestic matter when he warned in an e-mail to The Associated Press that “images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan — and around the world — to inflame public opinion and incite violence.”

Gen. Ray Odierno, the former top commander in Iraq, said Wednesday he fears that extremists will use the incident to sow hatred against U.S. troops overseas.

“This feeds right into what they want,” Odierno said on NBC’s “Today Show. Odierno now heads of U.S. Joint Forces Command.

Jones responded that he is also concerned but is “wondering, ‘When do we stop?’” He refused to cancel the protest at his Dove World Outreach Center but said he was still praying about it.
“How much do we back down? How many times do we back down?” Jones told the AP. “Instead of us backing down, maybe it’s time to stand up. Maybe it’s time to send a message to radical Islam that we will not tolerate their behavior.”

Supporters have been mailing copies of the holy text to his Gainesville church of about 50 followers to be incinerated in a bonfire on Saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Jones says he has received more than 100 death threats and has started wearing a .40-caliber pistol strapped to his hip since announcing his plan to burn the book Muslims consider the word of God and insist be treated with the utmost respect. The 58-year-old minister proclaimed in July that he would stage “International Burn-a-Quran Day.”

Jones gained some local notoriety last year when he posted signs in front of his church declaring “Islam is of the Devil.” But his Quran-burning idea attracted wider attention. It drew rebukes from Muslim nations and at home as an emotional debate was taking shape over the proposed Islamic center near the ground zero site of the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York.

His actions most likely would be protected by the First Amendment’s right to free speech. The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear in several landmark rulings that speech deemed offensive to many people, even the majority of people, cannot be suppressed by the government unless it is clearly directed to intimidate someone or amounts to an incitement to violence, legal experts said.

The fire department has denied Jones a required burn permit, but he said lawyers have told him he has the right to burn the Qurans, with or without the city’s permission.

Local religious leaders in this progressive Florida city of 125,000 anchored by the sprawling University of Florida campus also criticized the lanky preacher with the bushy white mustache.

At least two dozen Christian churches, Jewish temples and Muslim organizations in the city have mobilized to plan inclusive events — some will read from the Quran at their own weekend services. A student group is organizing a protest across the street from the church on Saturday.

Gainesville’s new mayor, Craig Lowe, who during his campaign became the target of a Jones-led protest because he is openly gay, has declared Sept. 11 Interfaith Solidarity Day in the city.

In Afghanistan, Jones’ planned burning continued to provoke outrage.

“It is the duty of Muslims to react,” said Mohammad Mukhtar, a cleric and candidate for the Afghan parliament in the Sept. 18 election. “When their holy book Quran gets burned in public, then there is nothing left. If this happens, I think the first and most important reaction will be that wherever Americans are seen, they will be killed. No matter where they will be in the world they will be killed.”

Kabul resident, Rajab Ali said, “If this (burning of the Quran) happens there will be chaos in Afghanistan and being a Muslim, if we don’t defend the Quran then what else we can do?”
The Quran, according to Jones, is “evil” because it espouses something other than biblical truth and incites radical, violent behavior among Muslims.

Muslims consider the Quran along with any printed material containing its verses or the name of Allah or the Prophet Muhammad to be sacred. Any intentional damage or show of disrespect Quran is deeply offensive.

Jones’ Dove Outreach Center is independent of any denomination. It follows the Pentecostal tradition, which teaches that the Holy Spirit can manifest itself in the modern day. Pentecostals often view themselves as engaged in spiritual warfare against satanic forces.

The world’s leading Sunni Muslim institution of learning, Al-Azhar University in Egypt, accused the church of stirring up hate and discrimination, and called on other American churches speak out against it.

Last month, Indonesian Muslims demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, threatening violence if Jones goes through with it.
Jones dismisses the response of the other churches as “cowardly.”
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Associated Press writers Robert Reid in Kabul, Curt Anderson in Miami and Matthew Lee, Mark Sherman and Anne Flaherty in Washington contributed to this report.

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For the first time, debt belonging to college students has over taken that number one spot. “Students graduating in 2008, 2009 and 2010 are facing the worst job markets in a generation at least. And so you have people with more debt that we have ever seen before, who are having a harder time finding any job, let alone a job that pays them enough to somehow pay off all this debt.”

Pakistan’s Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast and said it would launch attacks in the United States and Europe “very soon” — repeating a threat to strike Western targets in response to drone attacks that have targeted its leadership.

In Washington, the White House condemned the Quetta attack on a Shi’ite rally expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people, saying it was “even more reprehensible” because it came during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as Pakistan reels from disastrous flooding.

A U.S. counterterrorism official said the threat by the al Qaeda-linked Taliban against the United States and Europe could not be discounted.

The attack came just two days after Washington added the Pakistani Taliban to its list of “foreign terrorist organizations” and charged its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, with plotting a bombing that killed seven CIA agents at a U.S. base in Afghanistan last December.

In Quetta, dozens of dead and wounded people lay in pools of blood as fires engulfed vehicles. Senior police official Hamid Shakeel told Reuters at least 54 people were killed and about 160 wounded.

Hours later, the Taliban said the bombing was revenge for the killing of radical Sunni clerics by Shi’ites, further challenging Pakistan’s unpopular civilian government.

“We take pride in taking responsibility for the Quetta attack,” Qari Hussain Mehsud, a senior Pakistani Taliban and mentor of suicide bombers, told Reuters.

Earlier in the day, the Taliban also claimed responsibility for bombings on Wednesday at a Shi’ite procession in the eastern city of Lahore in which at least 33 people died.

Those blasts were the first major attack since the worst floods in Pakistan’s history began more than a month ago. The Taliban and its allies often target religious minorities in a campaign to destabilize the government.

ATTACK THREAT

Aside from its battles against homegrown Taliban, Pakistan is under intense American pressure to tackle Afghan Taliban fighters who cross the border into Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas to attack U.S.-led NATO troops.

The United States has stepped up missile strikes by pilotless drone aircraft against militant targets in Pakistan’s Pashtun tribal lands since the start of 2010.

On Friday, U.S. drones fired missiles at two targets in the North Waziristan tribal region, killing seven militants, including two foreigners, intelligence officials said.

Pakistan’s Taliban has responded to drone attacks by saying it would strike Western targets.

“We will launch attacks in America and Europe very soon,” Mehsud told Reuters by telephone on Friday from an undisclosed location.

The group claimed responsibility for a failed bomb plot in New York’s Times Square in May and, in December 2009, a Spanish court jailed 10 Pakistanis and an Indian for attempted suicide bombings on Barcelona’s metro in 2008, saying they were inspired by the Pakistan Taliban’s then leader.

“No one is discounting the threat they pose and we and our partners are working hard to disrupt their terrorist activities,” a U.S. counterterrorism official said on condition of anonymity.

U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the group was designated a “foreign terrorist organization” because “it is a threat to the United States but most importantly a threat to Pakistan itself.”

Pakistan has said the army would decide when to carry out a full-fledged assault in North Waziristan, where Washington says the militants enjoy safe havens.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, visiting troops in Afghanistan, said the flooding “is probably going to delay any operations by the Pakistani army in North Waziristan for some period of time.”

In another attack in the northwest, a suicide bomber killed one person outside a mosque of the Ahmadi sect, who consider themselves Muslims but whom Pakistan declares non-Muslims.

ECONOMIC CRISIS

Islamist charities, some linked to militant groups, have joined in the relief effort for the millions of people affected by the floods. U.S. officials are concerned the involvement of hardline groups in relief work will undermine the fight against militancy.

Anger is spreading over the Pakistani government’s sluggish response to the disaster, raising the possibility of unrest.

Pakistan is also facing economic catastrophe, with the floods causing damage the government has estimated at $43 billion, almost a quarter of the south Asian nation’s 2009 gross domestic product.

The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid and disburse funds in September to help the economy cope with the devastation.

Talks in Washington with a delegation led by Pakistan’s Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on the terms of an $11 billion IMF loan program left him satisfied with the country’s commitment to reforms, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said.

Under the 2008 IMF loan program, Islamabad promised to implement tax and energy sector reforms and give full autonomy to the State Bank of Pakistan.

It wasn’t the “ew!” factor that caught my attention, but the idea that someone somewhere was actually making something for me. Of course, they weren’t retooling their production line to suit my “Princess and the Pea” tendencies, but some designer had thought about what I might like. It was a welcome contrast to the generic, faceless feel of most products.

This summer I hung out with a bunch of students and professors who do exactly that: imagine men and women like us and create digital products that meet our needs.

They’re working in Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone, a collaborative space that supports the commercialization of digital innovations from young entrepreneurs. It’s a wonderful thing to behold: all of these super-bright people working across the traditional silos and with people from outside academe, too. Here are three of the inventions that have just emerged from this space (it opened last spring):

Burstn (Dave Senior and Josh Davey)
You take photos on your phone. Then you want to share them, but first you have to go to a site and upload them (or you can’t be bothered and they linger on your phone). Sound familiar? Well, now you can use a brand-new service that allows you to share your photos automatically on Facebook and Twitter. Like them, tag them, follow your friends. And no need to do “context shots” because Burstn includes GPS. Yes, there’s even an app for your iPhone. In fact, check out the founder’s accounts to see how they’re using Burstn. Here’s Dave Senior. And Josh Davey. (Young people look away now, parents read on: imagine being able to look over your fledgling’s shoulders on this first weekend at school. Shhh!)

Soapbox (Brennan McEachran)
Know London’s Hyde Park soap box tradition? Where someone with an axe to grind — or something beautiful to say — climbs atop an upturned box and shares with passersby? Now there’s a way for less vocal — yet equally passionate — students to share what’s on their minds. They sign onto Soapbox, which invites them to make a comment, vote on each other’s submissions and, in doing so, uncover the collective voice of the community. Even better, students aren’t the only ones who see what rises to the top — the administration does, too. Conversations happen. Stuff gets done. Students feel heard. What’s not to love? Soapbox was launched as part of Ryerson’s frosh weekend. Coming soon to a uni near you.

Mobile Transit Companion (Hossein Rahnama, Petar Karmaric, Justin Lam, Damyan Petkov, Alexey Adamsky)
When I met Val Fox, director of the DMZ, in May, she told me she was off to Paris. “Oh?,” I replied, casually, as if I, too, am a regular in those environs. Turns out she was going for the prototype test of a DMZ-designed application for users of the Paris subway system. By law, the Paris Metro has to be completely accessible by 2014, and this gadget may be just the ticket. The MTC will recognize you when you enter the system (you fill out a profile when you download it to your phone), and give you the information you need. Tourist? Get directions and prompts at each stop. Local? Find out when the next train is due. In a wheelchair? Locate the closest elevator. Can’t hear or type? Draw a letter on your screen, like E for elevator, or H for help. And if you choose “help” you’ll get a message from a real-life operator assuring you that assistance is on the way. This is one smart gadget, that’s designed with real people — in all our complexity — in mind.

All of these creative acts made me think of my grandfather, Jock Ritchie. He built houses. And he signed every one of them, usually on a piece of lumber inside a wall — there to be discovered by future residents. I wonder if coders do the same thing, leaving traces of who they are deep inside the workings of the technology that finds its way into our lives?

More DMZ stories to come. In the meantime, check out the Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone site. You’ll love the good works of the EDGE Lab (follow them on twitter, @edgelab), the eerily real augmented reality of ARB Labs, and the totally insane Sodoku3D.

One more “inventors” story (did you know that August was National Inventor’s Month in the U.S.?). I’ll be writing about some of these folks this fall, but thought you might like a sneak preview. BBC Earth has been running a fascinating series of people whose inventions were inspired by animals and plants. Not to be missed.

One more New Radical update. It’s not too late to register for the annual Peter C. Alderman Foundation walk — raising funds to help support this foundation that works on behalf of victims of traumatic depression and PTSD around the world. Sept 10. Questions? jane@petercaldermanfoundation.org.

Julia Moulden is an author, speaker, and columnist. Follow Julia Moulden on Twitter to keep track of the New Radicals, and to hear more about her new book. For more, please see Julia Moulden’s HuffPost archive.