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Sabra-Shatila Foundation: XO Laptops to the children of Palestinian camps

Donations to Support Our XO Laptop Program are Greatly Appreciated
Note: The Sabra Shatila Foundation is funding the purchase and shipment of as many XO laptops as possible from the MIT One Laptop Per Child program. These unique self-powered, wind-up, internet-ready laptops cost approximately $180 per unit to manufacture, but they are offered in lots of [...]

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CAMERA’s broken lens

EI study refutes CAMERA media bias accusation
By Shervan Sardar, The Electronic Intifada, 18 August 2008
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9711.shtml
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) is a media monitoring organization with a large database of supporters known for its staunch support for Israeli policies and its ability to influence media coverage. While CAMERA claims to [...]

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US Dept of Justice IP address blocked after 'vandalism' edits to Wikipedia

Wikinews has learned that a United States Department of Justice (DOJ) IP Address has been blocked on Wikipedia after making edits to an article which were considered "vandalism". In two separate instances, the IP address from the DOJ removed information from the Wikipedia article about the organization Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in [...]

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Facebook: Danger to Israeli Security?

Read and laugh:
Israeli soldiers warned about Facebook [USA TODAY]
Israeli defense officials say they've identified an unlikely new threat to national security - Facebook.
A new list of rules aims to prevent soldiers and Defense Ministry employees from revealing classified information on social networking sites. The officials say some soldiers have uploaded pictures of themselves with classified [...]

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Google and Facebook Celebrate Israel's 60th

Blair, Gorbachev, Streisand to attend Israel's 60th
President Shimon Peres is bringing in top personalities from around the world to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday.
United States President George W. Bush, Barbra Streisand, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev and Rupert Murdoch …
But guess who is joining the celebration too:
The list of confirmed guests also includes Henry Kissinger, Nobel laureate [...]

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Israeli city demand Google Earth to erase Nakhba - Palestinian Catastrophe - info, Google says NO!

Israeli occupiers in the city of Kiryat Yam filed a police complaint to force Google to delete what they called as "false information that hurts the city's image".
The so called "false information" was placed a Palestinian doctor as user-generated notation placed on the image of Kiryat Yam and gives brief historical information about the location [...]

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Desperate to Censorship Facebook! (Updated)

"You know you are doing well when Zionists and their alike are desperately trying to silence you."

Image by: Carlos Latuff

This is exactly what is happening to me on Facebook for two consecutive days now.
As you know, beside Sabbah's Blog, I also run the aggregator, Palestine Blogs - The Gazette.
Yesterday I received an email from Facebook [...]

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Sabbah and Palestine Blogs Facebook App

My Facebook App! Available now! I hope you will add the app to your profile and support Sabbah's Blog as well Palestine Blogs - The Gazette.
Grab them here:
Sabbah's
http://apps.facebook.com/sabbahblog/

Palestine Blogs - The Gazette
http://apps.facebook.com/palestineblogs/

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Oh, how surprising! BBC: "Google ranked 'worst' on privacy"

Google has the worst privacy policy of popular net firms, says a report.
Rights group Privacy International rated the search giant as "hostile" to privacy in a report ranking web firms by how they handle personal data.

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Microsoft Web 2.0 and Refugees

I feel sick to my stomach when I see a multi-billion giant like Microsoft using “children refugees” as a cover up to market their latest web 2.0 businesses called live.com!
While doing my search for my previous story, I came across a press release by UNHCR which said: “Microsoft launches “Click for Cause” initiative to support [...]

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Internet Enemies and Corruption Index 2006

Yesterday, Transparency International published the annual report, where it showed that most Arab states are among worst ranked (UAE - 31, Qatar - 32, Bahrain - 36, Oman - 39, Jordan - 40, Kuwait - 46, Tunisia - 51, Lebanon - 63, Saudi - 70, Egypt - 70, Morocco - 79, Algeria - 84, Mauritania [...]

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MAHMOOD'S BLOG TO BE BLOCKED

Update Nov 2nd: Mahmood's Blog is back!
It's official, Mahmood's Blog (http://mahmood.tv) will be blocked effective immediately, by the orders of the Bahraini Ministry of Information.
Together with 6 other web sites (listed below), the official memo was delivered to all the ISP's in Bahrain this afternoon.
Mahmood is a prominent Bahraini/Arab blogger. His blog is the most [...]

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Israel backed by army of cyber-terrorist

Now I know why all of a sudden my blog was full with pro-Israel-terrorist in the last few weeks:
WHILE Israel fights Hezbollah with tanks and aircraft, its supporters are campaigning on the internet.
Israels Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide [...]

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Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken, War and Women Rights

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices…
Summer holidays, women rights, war in Iraq and war in Palestine. These are some of the permanent scene in the Arabic language blogsphere these days. Here is some of what few bloggers said:
The daily life of a [...]

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