…since our societies - or rather their governments and big corporations - aren't willing to really go about solving our economic and social and political problems, they have hit upon a simple technique (technique, not solution) by which they are going to make us fit, rather than any solution fit. We, as human beings, will be changed so that the problems cease because we cease to be humans any longer, in any real sense.
"The idea blossomed in the 17th century into the 'plurality of worlds' debate, but it remained controversial," said Dick, who has written several books on the topic.
The Whole Story Is HereOne of the most influential proponents for extraterrestrial life was Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, who wrote Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds in 1686.
Despite the interest, there was no recorded discussion of how we might locate or contact these potential aliens until more than a century later.
Florence Raulin-Cerceau of the Alexandre Koyre Center in Paris has documented the early attempts at communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI), or what is now often called active SETI."As early as the 19th century, inventors imagined "sky telegraph" equipment to communicate with the supposed inhabitants of the solar system's planets," Raulin-Cerceau recently wrote with her colleague in the French magazine Pour la Science.
The first of these inventors was Carl Friedrich Gauss, the German mathematician. In the 1820s, he spoke of reflecting sunlight towards the planets with his land surveying invention, the heliotrope. He is also credited with the idea of cutting a giant triangle in the Siberian forest and planting wheat inside.
"The size and color contrast should have made the object visible from the moon or Mars, and the geometric figure could only be interpreted as an intentional construction," Raulin-Cerceau wrote.
Twenty years later, the astronomer Joseph von Littrow came up with a similar idea to pour kerosene into a 30-kilometer-wide circular canal that would be lit at night to signal our presence.
second half of the 19th century saw more realistic proposals, according to Raulin-Cerceau.
In 1869, the French inventor and poet Charles Cros imagined using a parabolic mirror to focus the light from electric lamps towards Mars or Venus. He figured the light could be flashed on and off to encode a message.
" light-based "Morse code" was also considered by the British statistician Francis Galton in 1896. He took care not to assume that Martians would have our same base-10 counting system, as they probably wouldn't have 10 fingers.
Around the same time, A. Mercier, a member of the Astronomical Society of France, devised a plan to place several reflectors on the Eiffel Tower that could direct sunlight towards Mars. He also considered using the moon as a giant screen on which to project light beams.
When President George W. Bush visited the West Bank a year ago, Palestinian militants in Gaza vented their anger by ransacking the American International School here, smashing windows, stealing computers and torching a small fleet of buses.Now they have none.It was just the latest episode in a decade-long string of bombings, kidnappings and lootings at the elite private school, which isn't connected to the U.S. government but has an American-style curriculum and coed, English-only classrooms, which have made it a favorite target of Islamic extremists.
On Jan. 3, the school finally was destroyed, but not by Islamist extremists. An Israeli airstrike flattened the two-story building and sprayed shards of steel and stone over the manicured lawns and soccer field. The night watchman was killed. Books, computers, science equipment and art supplies were crushed beneath the wreckage.
Within moments, Gaza's perhaps most pro-Western institution — a symbol of possibility in a sealed-off, war-torn land — was gone.
The Israeli army told McClatchy that its forces hit the school because Hamas militants had launched rockets from the grounds. School officials and neighborhood residents rejected that explanation, however, saying that the hilltop campus offered few places to hide and that the militants themselves often had attacked the campus.
"It seems that targeting our school . . . was one of the very few things that fanatic groups and Israel could agree on," said Sharhabeel al Zaeem, a member of the school's board of directors.
...of the 25 schools and hospitals that Israeli forces hit during the 22-day war, according to a tally by Palestinian officials, only the American International School was destroyed. Days after the airstrike, Israeli bulldozers and tanks returned to the campus and plowed over the basketball court and the jungle gym, school officials and residents said.
In conservative Gaza, it was one of the only schools in which boys and girls sat side by side in classrooms, and older students even dared to date.
"This was not a base of terror," Zaeem said. "We are trying to bring the best education to Gaza."
Khalid Ghanan, a senior who's on a full academic scholarship, sat in his family's living room in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza one morning last week — a day he should have been in class — and cursed Israeli forces and Gaza militants.
"The militants are stupid. They're unhappy with this place because of the word 'American' and they don't even know what it's doing for the students," the poised 17-year-old said. "And Israel bombed us just because they don't want us to be well educated."
"It's really very sad to see Israel target a place that Gaza needs to reach a common understanding between cultures and promotes openness and diversity," Salem said. "We should have a hundred schools like ours in Gaza, not one."
Question :
"In July last year the respected scientist and astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, who was the sixth man to walk on the moon, spoke on a British radio station.
"He said the American government had had contact with extra terrestrials on multiple occasions and that these were ongoing.
"He spoke about the Roswell event in 1947 where wreckage of a downed UFO was recovered and found to contain alien bodies.
"He said this event was real but was covered up by the government for many years.
"Do you agree with me that the British people have a right to know if we have been visited, and if so, when you become prime minister will you seek to lift the veil of secrecy and give the public the truth that they deserve?"
David Cameron :
"I have no idea there is intelligent life out there and no idea whether any of the sightings which have taken place or whether any incidents which have taken place have any basis in truth.
"When people have looked at the Roswell incident, or when people have looked at pictures... a rational explanation tends to be produced to try and show what has happened is not what those who believe in UFOs suggest.
"But I think we should be a open as possible, so I would be quite happy to give you a guarantee that if I became prime minister I would always be entirely open and frank about these things.
"I don't think any of us have any clue whether there's intelligent life out there and it is certainly not something that any government should seek to hide from anyone."
The BBC ran the following photo with the story on its website, but didn't include an explanation for what the image is showing :
A revolutionary missile that can stalk a target until the perfect moment to strike is being developed by the Ministry of Defence for use against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The so-called lurker bomb will also be able to shadow British troops for up to ten hours or 100 miles, ready to take out enemy targets with surgical precision at a minute’s notice.
Fire Shadow’s ability to ‘stooge’ above the troops means it can be guided to a target within seconds. And its deadly precision requires only a small warhead of 50lb, compared with the RAF’s smallest bomb of 500lb.
Fire Shadow can be guided to its target by troops on the ground with lasers, by operators in aircraft or helicopters, or by the Army’s new Watchkeeper surveillance drone.
The concept of a lurker bomb is the cornerstone of the MoD’s Indirect-Fire Precision Attack project. Fire Shadow is one of six projects that include an artillery shell that can electronically ‘sense’ its target, a new anti-aircraft missile for the Royal Navy, and advanced guidance for the new Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS).
It will also make one hell of a convincing blackmail-extortion weapon.
You get a phone call, you're told to deposit $5 million into an account, the missile is flying, you can't escape it, it knows exactly where you are, you have six hours to come up with the cash or the missile takes you, and whoever happens to be around you, out.
....393 people were killed and 20,000 were injured in crashes involving pedestrians and bicyclists in driveways, parking lots, private roads and trails in 2007.
...168 people were killed from 2003 to 2004 when they were pinned or trapped under vehicles, usually while working on a vehicle that fell from its supports.
....147 people were killed from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning from vehicle exhaust.
And from a study of non-traffic car-versus-human victories in 2003-04 :
....88 deaths from falling from a vehicle, typically from the tailgate or roof
...57 fatalities from vehicle fires
...44 deaths from being struck by an object such as a tree, a rock or cargo
...37 deaths from excessive heat
...14 deaths from excessive cold.
And 150,000 people slammed the car doors on their fingers or hands hard enough to cause injury, more than 80,000 more were injured trying to unload overloaded cars, or pushing vehicles that had broken down.
Incredibly, five people were killed when they got their heads caught in closing windows.
Deaths from this bizarre accident are frequent enough that there is an official term for it :
"Vehicle Window Asphyxia."
And finally, this :There were an estimated 6,420,000 cars involved in accidents in the US in 2005....2.9 million injury cases and 42,636 car accident deaths.Its Carmageddon out there.
An average of 115 persons die each day in motor vehicle crashes in the United States -- one every 13 minutes.
According to the World Health Organization about 3000 people die in crashes each day worldwide.
More here :
While decades of Hollywood imagery may conjure up a vision of a target disintegrating in a sparkle of light, the actual workings of the laser beam are probably more prosaic. For instance, the beam from Boeing's much, much larger Airborne Laser, which is intended to disable long-range missiles in flight, uses heat to create a weak spot on the skin of the missile, causing it to rupture in flight.Maybe Boeing is getting in early selling the next generation of weapons to fight the Flying Killer Robot war, the war that hasn't begun, yet.
The United Nations' crime and drug watchdog has indications that money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat in the global financial crisis, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.(snooorrrrt)Vienna-based UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in an interview released by Austrian weekly Profil that drug money often became the only available capital when the crisis spiralled out of control last year.
"In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital," Costa was quoted as saying by Profil. "In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor."
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime had found evidence that "interbank loans were funded by money that originated from drug trade and other illegal activities," Costa was quoted as saying. There were "signs that some banks were rescued in that way."
I have no wife nor children good or bad to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they act their parts, which methinks are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene.Three and a half centuries ago, Burton all but perfectly described a life of a news-junkie blogger in 2009.
I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours of war, plagues, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies, apparitions, of towns taken, cities besieged in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, Poland, &c., daily musters and preparations, and such like, which these tempestuous times afford, battles fought, so many men slain, monomachies, shipwrecks, piracies and sea-fights; peace, leagues, stratagems, and fresh alarms.
A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances are daily brought to our ears. New books every day, pamphlets, corantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion,...Now come tidings of weddings, maskings, mummeries, entertainments, jubilees, embassies, tilts and tournaments, trophies, triumphs, revels, sports, plays: then again, as in a new shifted scene, treasons, cheating tricks, robberies, enormous villainies in all kinds, funerals, burials, deaths of princes, new discoveries, expeditions, now comical, then tragical matters. Today we hear of new lords and officers created, tomorrow of some great men deposed, and then again of fresh honours conferred; one is let loose, another imprisoned; one purchaseth, another breaketh: he thrives, his neighbour turns bankrupt; now plenty, then again dearth and famine; one runs, another rides, wrangles, laughs, weeps....
This I daily hear, and such like, both private and public news, amidst the gallantry and misery of the world; jollity, pride, perplexities and cares, simplicity and villainy; subtlety, knavery, candour and integrity, mutually mixed and offering themselves; I rub on....as I have still lived, so I now continue...left to a solitary life, and mine own domestic discontents: saving that sometimes, as Diogenes went into the city, and Democritus to the haven to see fashions, I did for my recreation now and then walk abroad, look into the world, and could not choose but make some little observation, not as they did, to scoff or laugh at all, but with a mixed passion.
It was a day of carnage that left 56 people dead and a dark shadow for ever cast over the history of London. But for Jérôme Kerviel, the French rogue trader, 7/7 was the jackpot.Mr Kerviel, whose wild bets on the stock market ended with record losses, celebrated as Britain’s worst terror attack helped him to register a €500,000 profit and to continue a winning streak that brought him “orgasmic pleasure”.
“The best trading day in the history of Société Générale was September 11, 2001,” he said.
There's something you don't hear admitted in public very often. The July 7 attacks in London were extremely profitable as well.
A few days earlier he had bet on a fall in the share price of Allianz, the German insurance giant, he told Le Parisien. Everyone was losing money when the 7/7 bombings sent the insurance sector into a downward spiral “except for me”, he said. “Thanks to the positions I had, I earned €500,000 in a few minutes. It was the jackpot. I was jubilant.”
Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, have proven to be quite the moneymaker for those who seek to profit from terrorism. And war.
Israeli soldiers fighting in the Gaza Strip offensive this month were ordered to kill themselves rather than be captured, and if necessary to kill any Israeli soldier they saw being taken into captivity, the Yediot Achronot newspaper has reported.
"No matter what happens, no one will be kidnapped," the paper quotes one company commander telling his troops before the fighting began.
In the past, there were standing orders, known as "Hannibal mode", for firing at a vehicle taking Israeli troops into captivity to disable it and permit a rescue team to reach it, even at risk to the captive soldiers inside the vehicle. The new orders tighten those instructions, reportedly by permitting the vehicle to be blown up.
A soldier in a commando unit that operated behind Hamas lines said his unit was equipped with "special weapons". "We were instructed to use them also against any vehicle carrying a kidnapped soldier," he said.
Kill yourself, and kill your fellow soldiers, so your government can avoid nasty headlines.
Plenty more here.Vietnam: The blaxploitation era sprung out of the post-Vietnam time, where the brothers were not treated right in Vietnam and they came back to no jobs. A lot of the heroes were cats who came from Vietnam and had soldier-type skills that they used to take down The Man or clear the streets of drugs.
Stick it to The Man: Black paranoia is usually right in there. There's usually this conspiratorial thing that The Man is plotting your doom. There's a lot of real blaxploitation movies that involve a plot to exterminate black people. It's a constant storyline. In these movies, white people spend 95% of their time coming up with plots against black people.White people by the pool: Every one of those ['70s blaxploitation flicks] depicted white people beside a swimming pool.
Kung fu: Martial arts is a big thing in blaxploitation movies and that [includes a] love affair with kung fu. A lot of the blaxploitation heroes didn't know kung fu, but they wanted to try the moves anyway.
The exploding car off a cliff: Cars always exploded for no reason.
Amira Qirm lay on a hospital bed today with her right leg in plaster, and held together by a line of steel pins dug deep into her skin. For several days after her operation Amira, 15, was unable to speak, and even now talks only in a low whisper.
In her past are bitter memories: watching her father die in the street outside their home, then hearing another shell land and kill her brother Ala'a, 14, and her sister Ismat, 16, and then the three days that she spent alone, injured and semi-conscious, trying to stay alive in a neighbour's abandoned house before she could be rescued last Sunday.
Only now, after most of the dead have been buried, is the first properly researched reckoning of the toll emerging. What already stands out is the striking cost borne by the children of Gaza, who make up more than half of the 1.5 million people living in this overcrowded strip of land.The Palestinian death toll after three weeks of Israel's war was 1,285, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, or 1,268, according to the al-Mezan Human Rights Centre. Among those dead were at least 280 children.
The impact will be felt by many more for years to come. Among the more than 4,000 people injured more than a quarter were children, some left with severe disabilities. The Gaza Community Health Programme estimates that half Gaza's children – around 350,000 – will develop some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Imagine if that even came close to becoming true. Hundreds of thousands of traumatised children going on to hit full maturity in the Gaza cage.
And yet the standard question with the same ugly truth will be pointlessly asked for years to come : Why Do They Hate Israel So Much?
Despite watching her family getting massacred by the soldiers of "the only real democracy in the Middle East", 15 year old Amira Qirm just can't wait to embrace all the western freedoms and blessings of Democracy that she can get, when she recovers from her massive injuries. For now there's her dream :
"I want to be a lawyer," she said today, "and to stand in court facing the Israelis for what they have done."
Not really. pygmy chimpanzees are not known for vomiting copious amounts of white fluid from their nostrils and mouth simultaneously onto a stranger's breakfast tray.The three-month-old ape had his own animal export documents for the Lufthansa flight from Birmingham to Frankfurt but was given a special pretend passport complete with his name and picture.
Wrapped in the white cotton security blanket he has been nursed in since he was born, Bili could have been mistaken for a baby as he clutched on to his new keeper.
Cow : "People chant and then they milk me by hand"
The RSPCA in the UK made a small screw-up. They killed a cow on the grounds of a Hindu temple. That would be a sacred cow, and they did it while monks were praying. They donated a new cow to stop the angry chanting. Cows may be dimmer than flourescent bulbs, but even this cow has to be thinking, 'I'm not sure exactly what's going on, but this is pretty sweet' :
It sounds even better if you're a cow.Munching contentedly on a carrot and surrounded by besotted admirers, two-year-old Aditi may be one of Britain's luckiest cows. A fortnight ago, she was just another ordinary member of the bovine family, facing a life of servitude on a dairy farm, or worse, heading towards the abattoir.
But this week she is settling down to a new life of luxury in hay-filled pen on a "vegetarian working farm" at a Hindu temple once owned by the late former Beatle George Harrison, where the monks have already dubbed her "the Paris Hilton of Cows".
From now until the day she dies, Aditi will be doted on by devoted Hindu monks who will lavish her with the same love and attention they would a member of their own family, chanting sacred Sanskrit mantras as they milk her by hand.
George Harrison bought the building in 1973 with proceeds from his solo album Living in a Material World. Inside the Victorian mock-Tudor mansion, the oak-panelled halls echo with the Sanskrit chanting of praying monks amid the aroma of sandalwood paste, celebrating the arrival of Aditi.
"It's not exactly a bad life is it?" says Radha Mohan Das, with a smile.
"Sorry, I forget to send you all the winners of the Oscars as promised. I meant to do it a while ago, but hey, shit happens. Here's the list of winners now. The Ledger tribute was legendary, and those robots presenting the visual effects award were wicked. The Obama-friendly Hollywood's Tribute To Black American Presidents movies was overbaked, seriously Deep Impact? WTF? But Chris Rock was funny as."He's also upset with me. Apparently I sent him a very abusive e-mail shortly after the Academy Awards were held, railing at him for getting a couple of the awards wrong and thereby making me look like an idiot.
Best Actor : Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler
Best Actress : Kate Winslett for The Reader (fulfilling Ricky Gervais prophecy that if she starred in a Holocaust movie she would finally win an Oscar)
Best Supporting Actor : Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight.
Best Supporting Actress : Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Best Director : David Fincher for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
The Godfather, Parts I & IIChoosing The Godfather I & II shows the man likes the best of the best, and appreciates the potential of violence to advantage business negotiations.
Casablanca
Lawrence Of Arabia
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
"....the caretaker comes in and Marlon Brando is sitting there and he’s saying 'You disrespected me. You know and now you want a favor.' It sets the tone for the whole movie. There’s this combination of old world gentility and ritual with this savagery underneath.”Here's the actual scene :
Groucho Marx is freelancing for the Toronnto City News :When he finally did come downstairs, she pushed him aside when he got in her way, and police say the belligerent teen responded by hitting her on her arm and then throwing a taco in her face.
The infuriated mother called 911 to report the assault, hoping to teach her son a lesson. She claims he's done it before and he probably never believed her threats to call the cops on him.
But this time she did.
He's been charged with domestic battery.
She wasn't hurt but the taco was a write-off.The uncredited writer notices another recent food-based assault in Florida :
I hope the journo at the Toronto City News who wrote this finds lots more stories where people attack each other with food.Push led to shove and then Catolico is accused of attacking him with, of all things, a bagel.
She's accused of hitting him in the head with the baked good and is now facing charges of battery as well as violating her probation.
She's being held on $10,000 bail.
...it's not immediately clear if the bagel was seedless
Man Uses Banana To Hold Up 7-11Not so funny :
Woman Sues Husband After Carrot AttackBut, food-related attacks and assaults don't appear to be on the rise. There's not really many at all to be found.
"stupid hippie"
"come on just kick em in the nutts :S fuck it"
Israel's newest weapon on the public relations front is "an army of bloggers," according to a statement issued by the Absorption Ministry Sunday afternoon.
In cooperation with the Foreign Ministry's Public Relations Department, the Absorption Ministry has initiated a statewide effort to locate volunteers who speak other languages, to take part in the country's PR efforts over the Internet.
The volunteers will post comments in their native languages - including English, French, Spanish, German and others - on anti-Israel Web sites and blogs, presenting an Israeli perspective on the Middle East.
During the past few years, a significant change has occurred in the realm of public relations communications, the ministry statement said, noting that the Internet has created a new arena of "PR warfare."
The main weakness in Israel's hasbara (public diplomacy) efforts is the current lack of people willing to sit in front of their computers and comment in languages other than Hebrew. The comments would concentrate on positive aspects of Israeli life and accounts of the hardship Israelis suffer while living under a constant threat of terror.
I don't think they're going to have much success, for a while at least, convincing anyone who saw on TV what they did in Gaza that Israelis live "under a constant threat of terror."
The volunteers will be briefed, given up-to-date material and referred to problematic Web sites where an Israeli perspective is badly needed.
"In recent years, the Absorption Ministry has invested many resources in developing work in cyberspace out of an understanding that the Internet is a key to the future," Absorption Minister Eli Aflalo said. Aflalo added that the ministry had decided to "answer the challenge and attempt to form a pool of Israeli commentators in languages that can bolster Israel's public relations in the virtual world and answer all the Israel-bashers who spread the seeds of hate."
So, the official Israeli government line remains the same : criticise Israel and you are spreading "the seeds of hate."
"Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren't they?"
(after touring the Auschwitz death camp, Chicago Sun-Times, 29th January 1992)
"You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order..."
(Message to Iraqi people, Washington, April 2003)
"The vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."
(28th October, 2003)
You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that."
(Bush talking to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005)
"I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel."I'm not sure Bush will be anywhere near as funny in retrospect, a decade from now.
(May 4, 2006 )
"You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone."
(May 5, 2006)
"The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany."
(May 5, 2006)
"That's called, A Charge To Keep, based upon a religious hymn. The hymn talks about serving God. The president's job is never to promote a religion."
(May 5, 2006)
"I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max...
(April 24, 2006)
* Androids used for slave labor have issues.I'm not sure if many or any of the above life lessons make sense to people who haven't read Philip K Dick, but I suspect that they might. It's hard to know for sure. Once you've read lots of Philip K Dick, you never look at the world, or reality, or slime mould, or robots disguised as humans, the same way again.
* It's easier to believe a lie than dismiss the truth.
* Paranoia is ideal for the adventurous.
* Some memories are best left repressed.
* Words control people.
* Use what you have at hand before it regresses...
* Just because you're an under-employed, substance addled, square peg of a man doesn't mean you won't save the world and get the girl.
* All evidence that you may be living in a simulated reality, no matter how seemingly trite, hallucinatory or just plain goofy, should be pursued with relentless credulity.* Living on other planets actually kinda sucks.
* To be on the safe side, just use it as directed
* Not only are things not what they seem to be, quite often they're not what they don't seem to be as well.
To which I will add these PKD-derived life lessons :
* Your toaster may be plotting to kill you.
* Coin-operated front doors should not be fitted with speaking computers that drip attitude and sarcasm.
* Empathy is everything.
* Those who promise The Cure sometimes also manufacture The Cause
* That lone dog barking frantically in the early morning just might be trying to warn you of an alien invasion.
* You can write about a reality in fiction and watch it come true in the supposedly real world.
* Books, newspapers, cat litter bags, when left unsupervised for short periods of time can self-replicate.
* If you spend too much time alone, experimenting with drugs like PCP and mega-doses of vitamins, you can convince yourself that you have the ability to travel back in time and visit yourself, as a much younger person. And then remember it, suddenly, as having already occurred.
Anti-terror bosses last night hailed their latest ally in the war on terror — the Black Death.In all the ways that viruses and bacterium can kill a human, plague is by far one of the most painful and horrific, and terrifying to witness.At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.
The killer bug, also known as the plague, swept through insurgents training at a forest camp in Algeria, North Africa. It came to light when security forces found a body by a roadside.
One security source said: "This is the deadliest weapon yet in the war against terror. Most of the terrorists do not have the basic medical supplies needed to treat the disease."
Hamas announced an immediate cease-fire by its militants and allied groups in Gaza on Sunday, giving Israel a week to pull out its troops from the coastal territory.Israel is claiming victory, but they also claimed victory after the second Lebanon war of 2006, and nobody believes that crap, either.
Israel, which mounted an offensive against Hamas three weeks ago to halt years of rocket attacks, agreed to silence its guns and ground its aircraft early Sunday.
"We the Palestinian resistance factions declare a cease-fire from our side in Gaza and we confirm our stance that the enemy's troops must withdraw from Gaza within a week," said Damascus-based Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk.
Ayman Taha, a Hamas official in Cairo for talks with Egypt on a truce deal,
demanded that Israel open all of Gaza'sw border crossings to allow in food and other goods to meet the "basic needs for our people."
The cease-fire came after 22 days of fighting that killed some 1,200 Palestinians, about half of them civilians, according to Palestinian and United Nations officials. Ten Israeli soldiers and three Israeli civilians were killed during the campaign.
"I've always wanted to kill Hitler. I hate that guy,'' said Cruise.Tom Cruise was born 17 years after Hitler killed himself in his Berlin bunker in 1945.
During the rally, they also set on fire the effigy of prime Minister of Israel and former US President, George W. Bush.Presumably it won't be the last George W. Bush effigy burned during protests in Pakistan, or the Middle East.
Deuteronomy 25
Samuel 1So many minds on both sides of 'The War On Terror' are poisoned by ancient beliefs and millennia old vengeance that do not belong in the 21st century.
Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, and infant....
"There's a real pleasure in finding a new panel," says Richard Stroud, a former civil servant and now volunteer co-ordinator on the project. "The sense that you're up on the moor and someone else was up here 5,000 years ago in the same spot, doing his best work on that rock. It connects you with the past in an amazing way."Read The Full Story Here
