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ACTION ALERT: Spy for Israel

If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Yesterday Aljazeera Arabic TV showed the leaflet which Gazans awoke to find scattered everywhere by the terrorist Israeli air force.
After a long search for a copy of the leaflet, [...]

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Caught One Million Spam and Counting

One of the reasons I closed comments on this blog was the huge amount of Spam I had to deal with everyday. Since then, the Spam reduced dramatically. Now I don't have to deal with Spam comments, but Trackback and Pingback Spam only. Of course I can close Trackback/Pingback too, but so far they come [...]

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Watch Propaganda

Israel launches Arabic YouTube channel to bypass Arab media
The Foreign Ministry has launched a YouTube channel in Arabic which is meant to bypass Arab media and give Israel's version of current events directly to Arab viewers, Haaretz has learned.
The ministry's Arab media department chief Ofir Gendelman told Haaretz on Wednesday that they seek to reduce [...]

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Updated: Lost Palestinian Refugee Camps on UN-Google Earth Map

It was a happy moment when I heard the news that UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched in coordination with Google Earth, a new layer that focus on refugee camps around the world. This should be a great tool to follow the crisis of Palestinian refugees under occupation and expose it to the world [...]

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Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook

The latest crime "in the name of social customs and religious rules."
A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.
The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the [...]

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Apple iRack

You gotta watch this:

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Microsoft reading your mind!

"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 you [...]

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iPhone or Sex?

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 iPhone [...]

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Israel Goes on the Virtual Offensive

By Gregory Levey
The Israeli government is deploying new tactics to deepen ties with American youth and evangelicals.
For the moment at least, the state of Israel has 553 friends. One of them is Leonardo DiCaprio.
The 20-something Israeli official who is showing me Israel's new MySpace page, however, says she isn't sure if the link to the [...]

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Who's your online enemy?

Web-savvy criminals have turned Israel into the world's highest ranking source of malicious Internet activity per user, security experts have told The Jerusalem Post.
From July through December 2006, 9 percent of all such activity could be traced back to Israel. Taiwan came next with 8%, while Poland and the US tied at 6%, according to [...]

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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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Will the human race ever populate another planet?

This article is in response to the question posted by a new site just launched today - Love to Lead - where:
Each week for the next 16 weeks L2L will pose a question designed to stimulate debate between bloggers. Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite article and the blogger whose post receives [...]

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US Electromagnetic Weapons: To Invade a Person's Body Without Their Consent

It was July 2005 when first published some information about the deployment of a new weapon in Iraq called "Active Denial System weapon." The weapon was deployed in Iraq for testing free-fresh-flesh-samples (to make "Fried Chicken"). This weapon fires a 95GHz microwave beam at "rioters" to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five [...]

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Desperate Housewives & Sabbah!

I just ran by Quantcast, which is still on beta but providing some interesting stats that some bloggers might like to check.
If your blog is lucky to be profiled, you can see some fine statistical analysis that estimates some figures about your visitors, like, their age, gender, ethnicity, even education and income.
The statistics also estimate [...]

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AOL-Netscape launches social news, Digg copy

Netscape, the brand that kick-started the dot-com boom only to lose the browser war to Microsoft, launched its latest reincarnation today with a portal focused on community-driven news. It�s not exactly a Digg clone. Submitted stories are voted on in much the same way, and the more votes a story gets the higher it appears [...]

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