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The Devil’s HAARP: weather weapons and recent “natural” disasters

by SR Editor September 24, 2010

By Tim Coles* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In 1997 the US Space Command declared war on the world by committing America to “full spectrum dominance” by 2020, “to close the ever-widening gap between diminishing resources and increasing military commitments”. This do1ctrine was approved and expanded by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2000. For [...]

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Saudi supercomputer

by Haitham Sabbah October 26, 2008

At last, something worth the money spent: Saudi supercomputer lures researchers By Asma Alsharif JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – A new science and technology university in Saudi Arabia will house one of the world’s largest supercomputers and it is helping lure top researchers to the conservative desert state. The King Abdullah University of Science and [...]

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Links: Daily Roundup

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2008

lifestreams – your life live lifestrea.ms – life is just another feed Handy Designer’s Tools “On The Fly” Noupe is a design weblog created to inspire creativity by sharing innovative resources and websites to bloggers, freelancers and web designers. Site-Perf.com – Know all about your site performance Website performance analyzing tool. This online tool emulates [...]

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Microsoft reading your mind!

by Haitham Sabbah October 18, 2007

“Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” Microsoft says. The company is not happy with evaluating human response while they interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers, so, they wants to read the data straight from your brain as [...]

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Dubai Floating Bridge

by Haitham Sabbah October 16, 2007

One of the biggest criticisms of Dubai has always been the traffic congestion, ask me about it as I lived there for six years. In an effort to reduce the traffic, Dubai, opened a floating bridge which connect the two sides of the creek – Deira and Bur Dubai. (Click thumbnail to enlarge) The Floating [...]

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iPhone or Sex?

by Haitham Sabbah October 15, 2007

In the last two months I received countless spam emails, ads and invitations to join iPhone groups such as those at Facebook, all of which entice me to buy the new Apple mobile called, iPhone. Until couple of weeks ago I didn’t even think of it, when a friend of mine showed me his new [...]

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Clockwise or counterclockwise?

by Haitham Sabbah October 14, 2007

OK, it’s Eid holiday, so this is not politics-related, but it is a cool way to find out if you are a right-brain or left-brain dominant. Look at the dancer and decide which way she’s spinning. Focus! If you think she’s going clockwise, you’re apparently right-brain dominant (imaginative, philosophical, touchy-feely, impetuous); if you see her [...]

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Fireplace: Date Palm Style

by Haitham Sabbah January 11, 2007

I know it is cold out there. In fact, this is one of the coldest years over here in Bahrain. Anyway, here is a new idea to get you warm. This invention won the prize for “Best Dumbass Idea of the Year.” It is called “Date Palm Fireplace”: Click image to enlarge! As you can [...]

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Engineering for dummies

by Haitham Sabbah January 9, 2007

I am in a terrible “time-waste” mood these days, so have fun! This is how illiterate miscalculate it: and this is how the literate’s calculate it (more accurate to the target):

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Technology and online activism

by Haitham Sabbah September 26, 2006

Tunisian Treasure Prison Map The first project is the brave, superb Tunisian Prison Map by Sami Ben Gharbia. Sami made a Tunisian Prison Map, which is madeup using a Google Maps API + GMapEZ + video YouTube + flash animations + the Yahoo Y !Q Beta. [Hat tip: Rachel] Link to the map: http://www.kitab.nl/tunisianprisonersmap Link [...]

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Raining Red Aliens in India

by Haitham Sabbah June 4, 2006

As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis�s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples�water taken [...]

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Religion: The Root of All Evil?

by Haitham Sabbah April 8, 2006

Some interesting readings to start your cyber day: Via Channel 4: In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as ‘a process of non-thinking called faith’. Dawkins is well known for bringing to a wide audience the complex scientific concepts that underpin evolution. His first book, The Selfish Gene was [...]

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Ras Al Khaimah Spaceport

by Haitham Sabbah February 17, 2006

Few days ago, the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah has announced the creation of RAK Airways, the UAE’s fourth national carrier which will start operations by the end of 2006. I thought, what the heck? Four carriers in UAE, what do they need all that for? And RAK… how many traveler do they actually have [...]

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Today’s Time Waster

by Haitham Sabbah January 17, 2006

Should you have any to waste, read these: 1. Pigs glow in the dark: Scientists in Taiwan have used jellyfish genes and created pigs that glow in the dark. They are the only ones that are green from the inside out. Even their heart and internal organs are green. Although the pigs glow, they are [...]

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Physics Professor Explores Explosion Demolition Hypothesis on 9/11

by Haitham Sabbah November 16, 2005

Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? I’ve got this alert today by email. Honestly, when I first read the title “Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?” I said to myself; not again! But then went on to explore what’s in the research. And to be honest with you, the guy caught my attention. [...]

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