More than forty members and friends of the St Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee (STL-PSC) gathered at Best Buy and AT&T for a flash mob urging holiday shoppers to Boycott Israeli Apartheid and Hang Up on Motorola!

One of the participants was arrested as he was attempting to leave the parking lot. Call the police in North St Louis and you’re lucky if someone shows up, but disrupt 3 minutes of Christmas shopping and you are busted!

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVqFqXJh3oQ
(If video gets removed again, check the official website here)

Press Release: YouTube Censors Pro-Palestine Flash Mob Video

Prompts Questions about Selective and possibly Unlawful Shut-Down

Who: Members and friends of the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee

Where to view Flash Mob: http://www.stl-psc.org/?p=149

Removed video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGAdfvGQ-xg

Dancing and singing to a parody of Lady Gaga and Beyoncé’s “Telephone,” more than forty members and friends of the St Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee (STL-PSC) serenaded holiday shoppers at Best Buy and AT&T stores in Brentwood, MO. They urged patrons to join the boycott of Motorola due to the company’s involvement in Israel’s unlawful military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. A video of the flash mob was posted on YouTube December 13th, quickly going viral, with coverage in media around the world including Israel’s Ynet News. It acquired more than 35,000 hits in less than a week.

Shortly after the count hit 35,000, YouTube removed the video in apparent response to a notice of claimed copyright infringement from "WMG." The STL-PSC is firmly convinced, as advised by legal representation, that the flash mob video does not infringe Warner Music Group's copyright, as it constitutes a "fair use" of the song and parodies of songs are protected under a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose.

While it is unclear how WMG has any interest in the copyright, WMG’s relationship with Motorola is well-known.

STL-PSC believes that this is an infringement on freedom of expression and plans to challenge the take-down.

STL-PSC member, author, and national organizer for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Anna Baltzer, on the removal of the video: “There are more than 1,000 Lady Gaga flash mob videos on YouTube. None of them has been shut down by WMG. What does WMG not want the world to know about Motorola’s connection to Israeli apartheid and war crimes?”

Washington University graduate, Banan Ead, explained why she participated in the flash mob: "I’ve lived in the West Bank for a few years and visited several times, and every time I go back, with every airport interrogation or checkpoint I get stopped at, I feel only a sliver of the degradation of what the Palestinians permanently living there have to go through. It was also important for us to show that there are ways to non-violently resist that occupation. Plus, I like to sing and dance!"

86-year-old Holocaust survivor, Hedy Epstein, also participated, saying: "During my five visits since 2003, to the Israeli Occupied Territories, I was repeatedly asked by Palestinians I met as follows: When you return home to the U.S., please tell people there what you have seen and experienced on the ground, because the media does not convey that. I have tried to honor that commitment.”

To interview Flash Mob participants, call the contact above. To find out more about the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee, visit: www.stl-psc.org

Motorola provides equipment to the Israeli military used to maintain the occupation and illegal settlements. More on Moto here…

By Tim Coles* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz

This is the HAARP Research Station in Gakona, Alaska.

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 Dick Cheney's Project for the New American Century, however, it did not go far enough. The doctrine was expanded further by the Obama administration, from dominating "land, sea, air and space" to doctrine, ideology and cyberspace. Everything America and its pillars (Britain and Israel) do must, therefore, be understood within the context of "full spectrum dominance".

In 2003 the United States Air Force Space Command announced a "vision call[ing] for prompt global strike space systems with the capability to directly apply force from or through space against terrestrial targets". In order to achieve this, the air force has to control "natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counter-space control", hence "weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary," thereby allowing the US to "own the weather" and master "the science of chao", as the US Air Force explained in 1996. Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) revealed in 2010 that far from reversing these trends, "Weather modification will continue to be explored".

A decade earlier, in 1999 the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy warned that, "despite the existing conventions", referring to the UN General Assembly Resolution banning environmental warfare, "military research is ongoing on environmental manipulation as a weapon, as demonstrated for example by the Alaska-based HAARP [High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program] system", putting into practice then Secretary of Defence William Cohen's suggestion that "electromagnetic waves" could alter the climate and control earthquakes and volcanoes remotely"¹. This was compounded by a Czech military paper, which stated that "HAARP can ionize and heat the atmosphere significantly affecting the airflow, and thus should cause storms, tornados and extreme heat or frost", going on to say that "it can be anywhere in the world to create artificial lightning, stronger than any natural [lightning]".. The latter point was confirmed by the US Air Force paper:

Possible mechanisms to investigate would be ways to modify the electropotential characteristics over certain targets to induce lightning strikes on the desired targets as the [generated] storm passes over their location. ... Even if power levels achieved were insufficient to be an effective strike weapon, the potential for psychological operations in many situations could be fantastic.

"BAE Systems designed and built the [HAARP] facility," according to the war corporation's website, "operating software, and controls under a series of contracts valued at more than 250 million US dollars from the Office of Naval Research". HAARP, according to its Alaska website, "employ[s] the capability of stimulating to a varying degree small, localized regions of the ionosphere", causing an ionospheric lift, "in order to study methodically, and in a detailed manner what nature produces randomly and regularly on a much larger scale". That is only HAARP Alaska, however, and that is only what they are telling us. According to the website, there are HAARP facilities in Latin America and Tajikistan, about which nothing is known, and, unlike HAARP Alaska, they are not open to selected members of the public.

This means that HAARP is funded by the Pentagon, contracted to (and designed by) private war corporations, developed through America's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, and owned by the US Air Force and Navy - yet we are expected to believe that it is not a weaponized military application. This official position cannot be taken very seriously, especially given that those agencies are committed to "full spectrum dominance".

"The ionosphere is the part of the atmosphere between space and the earth in which electrically charged atoms, or ions, reflect radio waves," BAE explained in a news release, "making long-distance radio communication possible". This is achieved by irradiating the ionosphere in order to send Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) waves down to submarines and other earthbound appliances. According to HAARP, it is also designed to "x-ray" the earth in order to find oil, gas, minerals, hidden submarines and subterranean bunkers. The tomographer Brooks Agnew explained how:

In 1983 I did tomography with 30 watts, looking for oil in the ground. I found 26 oil wells over a nine State area, and 100 per cent of the time was accurate, with just 30 watts of power beaming straight into solid rock.²

The resulting vibrations give mineral tomographers information about what is under the surface. HAARP, however, by its own admission, uses 3.6 million watts, with the aim of producing an apocalyptic 100 billion watts³. Testifying to the European Parliament in 1998, the physicist Rosalie Bertell

described the background to HAARP... If radiation is projected into the ionosphere, huge amounts of energy can be generated and used to annihilate a given region... [HAARP] enables communications to take place with submerged submarines and can, in theory, create geomagnetic pathways to guide particle beams which could then deposit large amounts of energy anywhere on the globe. In simpler terms, HAARP, with its power of intimidation, of delivery or denial of electrical energy on a global scale and its control of communications, is an element of a system which could control the global village in some frightening ways.

In 1998 a European Parliament committee demanded that the US yield its HAARP secrets, which, of course, it refused to do. In 1999, the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection published a Report on the Environment, Security and Foreign Policy, incorporating a Draft Resolution, which read:

The military are developing ever more powerful weapons which inflict widespread and devastating damage on the environment. A modern war entails greater environmental destruction than any other environment-destructive activity... [Article 27 of the Draft Resolution] considers HAARP by virtue of its far-reaching impact on the environment to be a global concern and calls for its legal, ecological and ethical implications to be examined by an international independent body before any further research and testing; regrets the repeated refusal of the United States administration [then Clinton's] to send anyone in person to give evidence to the public hearing or any subsequent meeting held by its competent committee into the environmental and public risks... [HAARP] could result in changes in weather patterns. It could also influence whole ecosystems... Another damaging consequence of HAARP is the occurrence of holes in the ionosphere caused by the powerful radio beams. The ionosphere protects us from incoming cosmic radiation. The hope is that the holes will fill again, but our experience of change in the ozone layer points in the other direction. This means substantial holes in the ionosphere that protects us... If used as a military weapon this can have a devastating impact on an enemy. HAARP can deliver millions of times more energy to a given area than any other conventional transmitter. HAARP has links with 50 years of intensive space research for military purposes, including the Star Wars project, to control the upper atmosphere and communications. This kind of research has to be regarded as a serious threat to the environment, with an incalculable impact on human life. Even now nobody knows what impact HAARP may have. We have to beat down the wall of secrecy around military research, and set up the right to openness and democratic scrutiny of military research projects, and parliamentary control.

The Resolution was delayed until 2003, and subsequently dismissed: HAARP "for Arctic Europe is a military programme. The [European] Commission has no competence, nor indeed the expertise, to carry out the examination requested by the Parliament". In other words, everyone got paid off and/or threatened. In 2000, Rosalie Bertell informed The Times (London) that America and Britain "are working on weather systems as a potential weapon. The methods include the enhancing of storms and the diverting of vapour rivers in the Earth's atmosphere to produce targeted droughts or floods", which the US Air Force recommended in 1996, and the MoD tacitly reaffirmed in 2010. Bertell has also stated that

[i]t would be rash not to associate HAARP with the space laboratory construction which is separately being planned by the United States... The ability of the HAARP/Spacelab/rocket combination to deliver very large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth via laser and particle beams, are frightening. The project is likely to be "sold" to the public as a space shield against incoming weapons or, for the more gullible, a device for repairing the ozone layer.

Or simply not mentioned at all. The topic is completely off the media agenda: Rok Golob, a social scientist at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, wrote that "[g]eophysical weapons today is a taboo topic that is often only superficially treated," going on to explain, rather ominously, how

Geophysical weapons are an important aspect of the true integrity of modern warfare, which, in addition to all the most modern weapons also use the scheduler Earth and the natural processes as a weapon... Many scientists believe that a possible cause for ecological disasters are secret and unpunished geophysical weapons in use. This view is confirmed by a number of warnings from international organizations such as NATO, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the official documents the Ukrainian and Russian parliament on the dangers of Geophysical weapons [and now the EU]. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to US President Carter, and J.F. McDonald, Science Advisor to Lyndon Johnson, have published a document on geophysical weapons, which were described as having the real possibility of negative effects on the civilian population.

Compounding Golob's research, particularly in relation to using natural cycles, a Czech military intelligence article explained how, "Under certain meteorological conditions (which are constantly changing, but they can be predicted) ionoféře can "steal" a large amount of electromagnetic energy that is there due to ions located in difficult to imagine quantities". The resulting amount of electromagnetism can be directed against earthbound targets, as the EU commissions have warned, making it the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

According to a pro-HAARP article in Wired magazine, which otherwise dismisses all of the above as a conspiracy theory, "A Russian military journal warned that blasting the ionosphere would trigger a cascade of electrons that could flip [the] Earth's magnetic poles. "Simply speaking, the planet will 'capsize'," it warned." HAARP is "so strong it could trigger earthquakes. And by dumping all those radio waves into the ionosphere, HAARP could turn a miles-wide portion of the upper atmosphere into a giant lens."⁴

On the subject of the "giant lens", shortly before the Haiti, Chile, China, Japan, and New Zealand earthquakes in 2010, "strange lights" were reported in the skies above many of those countries (these from the China earthquake in 2008 (see Video 1 and Video 2). Writing about something else, Wired noted how, "At about 125 miles up, HAARP's waves can energize free electrons, which collide with neutral atoms to produce a glow like the aurora borealis"⁵, which would explain the lights observed prior to the 2010 earthquakes. In 2010, Haiti, which has been subjected to centuries of brutal French and American colonial intervention, was hit by a devastating earthquake which killed 200,000 people. Russian Intelligence reported that

[s]ince the end of the decade of the 70s in the last century, the US "advanced a lot" in the state of its earthquake weapons and, according to these reports, they now use equipment with Pulse, Plasma and Tesla Electromagnetic and Sonic technology together with "shock wave bombs".

This would be consistent with the "experiments" conducted by the psychopaths at HAARP.

According to the Russian report, the State Department, USAID and the US Southern Command began its work of "humanitarian invasion" by sending at least 10,000 soldiers and contractors, to control Haitian territory, rather than the UN, after the devastating "experimental earthquake".

It should be noted that, although Obama's Quadrennial Defence Review 2010 does not mention geophysical weapons or weather modification, it does clarify the new doctrine of militarizing aid relief, thereby giving the US a pretext to occupy a given country:

extreme weather events may lead to increased demands for defence support to civil authorities for humanitarian assistance or disaster response both within the United States and overseas.

One official source that does mention such weapons is the MoD's Strategic Trends Programme 2010, which states that Directed Energy Weapons will be capable of discrete target discrimination, producing a strike beam or field of electromagnetic energy, acoustic energy or atomic scale particles to cause disruptive or damaging effects, at near instantaneous speeds, to equipment, infrastructure or personnel. They will [emphases in original] have widespread employment including: hand emplaced "suitcase" devices; and ground, sea and air-based systems, with applications that include engine disablement and infrastructure attack [emphasis added. These are consistent with HAARP].

"As regards the final result of the tests of these weapons, the [Russian Northern Fleet] report warns that there is a US plan to destroy Iran through a series of earthquakes". "It can't reach Iran, if that's your question," quipped one of HAARP's developers, "Dennis Papadopoulos" - not his real name - speaking to Wired. This statement, buried at the end of an otherwise propagandistic article, is a tacit admission that HAARP is indeed a weapon, otherwise why say such a thing? "Papadopoulos" added: "But if I put HAARP on a ship, or on an oil platform, who knows?"⁶

Why would "Papadopoulos" and his psychopathic colleagues need to put a HAARP facility on a sea platform when they could establish a HAARP facility in a country near to the one they wish to destroy? Contrary to the HAARP Alaska facility, which is partly open to the public, there are numerous HAARP facilities, according to the official website, one of which is in Tajikistan, which is near Iran and borders China. This is in keeping with the statement of "Papadopoulos" about building a facility near Iran in order to "reach" it.

Furthermore, Britain's Ministry of Defence had already written about using unspecified new weapons (possibly neutron) in "outfacing irresponsible nuclear powers and in opposing demographically strong nations". The most "demographically strong nation" is China. Afghanistan separates China from Iran, and is occupied by Britain and America. Tajikistan, which borders Afghanistan and China, is close enough for a HAARP facility, assuming "Papadopoulos" is right, in order to attack China (which suffered an earthquake and flood in 2010), and to attack Iran, especially given Tajikistan's poverty, lack of defence, and weak government. As noted above, HAARP Alaska's website explained how

[a]ll of these installations have as their primary purpose the study of the ionosphere, and most employ the capability of stimulating to a varying degree small, localized regions of the ionosphere in order to study methodically, and in a detailed manner what nature produces randomly and regularly on a much larger scale.

In other words, HAARP can and does cause natural disasters - they claim on a miniscule level and "to a varying degree". Not wanting to limit their deterrence capabilities, the Russians have built several HAARP facilities. As the US Air Force noted in 1996, the "beauty" of "owning the weather" and mastering "the science of chaos" is that nobody can prove if the given event is anthropogenic or not. Added to which, Obama announced an increase in US exports at a time when Russia is banning exports after its unprecedented droughts in 2010. Wreck another country's economy with a weather weapon, and force it to borrow from the IMF (as we have seen with Pakistan), in order to get them to purchase American exports.

The circumstantial evidence is getting too much to ignore. In 2010, we have had: a "sink hole" form in the ground in Guatemala; landslides in Guatemala and Italy; severe droughts in Russia; forest fires in Russia and Bolivia; floods in China, Taiwan, Pakistan, Niger and Mexico; a hurricane which missed Mexico; a hurricane which hit Burma; a volcanic eruption in Iceland; and earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, China, Japan, and New Zealand; added to which Britain's Ministry of Defence anticipates how new technologies could create "disastrous outcomes, planned and unplanned" - note the word planned - the culmination of which is a "doomsday scenario" meaning "the end of the world, or at least of humanity".⁷ What use is "full spectrum dominance" if there is nothing left to dominate?

Notes

1. Shachtman, N., "Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere, Fans Conspiracy Flames", Wired, Issue 17, No. 8, 20 July 2009. This has subsequently disappeared from the internet, but if you type the quotes into a search engine, you can find traces of it from Wired's "Danger Room", etc.

2. Brooks Agnew interviewed in Wendy Robbins (director) and Paula Randol-Smith (co-producer), 1998, Holes in Heaven? HAARP and Advances in Tesla Technology. Robbins's film is very informative, hence very well hidden, and actually contains interviews with HAARP maniacs who essentially admit they do not know what they are doing. Her film is serious and very different from the popular CBC broadcast film on HAARP, which can be found at here. Needless to say, there are massive efforts to make all of this seem like a conspiracy theory, hence the Canadian film shows activists in shadow, making the whole thing seem like science fiction. Added to which, HAARP is also the subject of another propaganda film by former Navy SEAL-turned-pro-wrestler Jesse Ventura - clearly another effort to undermine serious discussion. Furthermore, HAARP has been the subject of X Files episodes and Marvel Comics, as well as Wired magazine's dismissals of its opponents as "tinfoil-hatted lunatics". The propaganda trying to undermine the serious discussion about HAARP is disgraceful, but, considering the kind of world we live in, completely predicable.

3. Official documents cited in Nick Begich and Jeane Manning, Angels Don't Play This HAARP (Anchorage: Earthpulse Press).

4. Shachtman, N., "Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere".

5. Shachtman, N., "Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere".

6. Shachtman, N., "Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere".

7. Shachtman, N., "Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere".

* Tim Coles is a writer and filmmaker.

Peace Now releases 'Facts on the Ground' application in which the settlements are marked in blue, the outposts in red, and clicking on a place name displays demographic statistics.

Want to know what's happening in the West Bank settlements in real time? In addition to 'Sudoku' and 'Street Fighter,' iPhone owners will now be able to install the "Facts on the Ground" application, which monitors the expansion of settlements in Judea and Samaria, created by Americans for Peace Now.

“This new app shows the unfiltered realities that settlements create on the ground of the West Bank. While people are entitled to their opinions on this divisive issue, there is only one set of facts, and our app makes these facts available in unprecedented clarity and detail,” said Debra DeLee, APN’s President and CEO.

Settlements are symbolized by little blue houses on the map. Clicking once on the icon gives its land area. A second click brings up a window with more details: the year it was established, population, ideology (or lack of), character (secular or religious), amount of 'private Palestinian land' it occupies, and a graph that tracks its population growth.

iPhone users can also zoom in on outposts marked in red. The map includes the route of the Green Line, Jerusalem's municipal boundaries, and the various zones under different security arrangements, Area A and Area B.

“One of the things that make this tool so powerful is that it democratizes data,” DeLee said. “In the past, not many were able to tour the settlements with an expert guide. With the introduction of our app, anyone can explore the West Bank with just a click of a mouse or a touch of a finger.”

APN intends to update the map regularly with new information, including the establishment of outposts and their dismantlement, and violent incidents on the part of Palestinians and settlers. Their intention is to turn the app into a "comprehensive real-time view of what is happening on the ground in the West Bank."

The application is currently only available in English for the iPhone and iPad, and for a desktop or laptop web browser, but Americans for Peace Now has said that a Hebrew version of the mobile phone app is under production, and that they are in the process of porting it to the Android operating system.

The application can be downloaded here.

(By Natasha Mozgovaya and Haaretz)

By Steve Amsel

This morning when I logged in I noticed a few visits from a site that I never heard of..... I clicked on it and found that I was a member of it, as are the others that were responsible for THIS post a few weeks ago.... I AM NOT A MEMBER OF SUCH A VILE SITE.... neither are the others that appear there.

The site I am talking about can be visited by clicking HERE....

A photo of me appears as well, one that is very much available on Google Images, if you search for Steve Amsel (me). 'She' could have taken it from there or from the 'Jewish S H I T List' , where I AM a proud member.

The conversations that appear on this new NING site are SICK..... none of which originated from the people in question.

ALL of the above is obviously the work of Vera Perks, the troll that was exposed by us in the first link I gave. She is a VERY SICK individual..... a warning to ALL not to post ANY personal information ANYWHERE on the Web.

These SICKOS don't seem to know when to stop... but we know who they are. DON'T FEED THEM!

NOTE: This applies on Me, Mary and Steve! So you've been warned...

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, I finally found it on Ma'an News (a Palestinian news agency). The leaflet gave me an idea for action that might help our people in Gaza a little. Let's read this leaflet first then follow the action.

The leaflet reads:

To the residents of the Gaza Strip,

Take responsibility for your fate!

If you wish to provide help and assistance to your people in the sector, call the number below to provide us with the needed information. The projectile launchers and the terrorist elements pose a threat to you and your families.

The power to stop the massacre is in your hands.
Don't hesitate!

We will be glad to receive any information you have and it is not necessary to give us your personal information.

Your anonymity is guaranteed.

Call us at the following number:
02-5839749

Or you can e-mail us at: helpgaza2008@gmail.com to provide us with any information on the terrorist factions.

Note: To protect your safety, we ask you to be secretive when you call us.

Head of the Israeli Defense Forces

It is clear that these Israeli terrorist pamphlets are marketing the blind insane destruction services of Israel to anyone who is WILLING to advise them of a target. In other words, to Spy for Israel!

These are the desperate and bankrupt measures (referring to 'Targets Bank' the IOF is supposed to attack) that this terrorist gang has reached. Note that they themselves understand that they engage in massacres, and that their actions are premeditated. They also offer no guarantees of safeguarding the informants.

As you notice in the pamphlet, they ask Gazans to call 02-583-9749, therefore for those outside of Palestine that's +972-2-583-9749. Also they left an email to contact them: helpgaza2008@gmail.com

So, what can be done? Simply, I encourage everyone to call above mentioned number (from your land line, mobile phone, Skype, etc.) and say in Hebrew "Atem Poshim, tafsiku laharog palestinayim, Palestien Meshuchreret, Aza meshuchreret."

The above is an oral Hebrew translation of: "You are Criminals. Stop Killing Palestinians. Free Palestine. Free Gaza."

Alternatively, use the above mentioned email (for your privacy, read below) and attach one of the following photos or album link to show them the result of their war crimes in Gaza.

Photos (click to enlarge):

Photo album:

Link: http://tinyurl.com/9sta9r

Your privacy:

For privacy reasons, we don't want the IOF to record your email, IP address, ISP, country, etc and track you down and maybe hack your PC or something worse. Therefore, don't use your original email account to contact them. To overcome this, you can send them ANONYMOUS emails. This way they can't track you or find any info about the sender (you).

There are two ways to send an anonymous email.

(1) The easy way:

All you need to do is go to the following address and register for a new email account. I suggest you create a completely random pseudonym (username). It will take you only 5 sec. to register and start sending emails (you don't have to give any personal info and they will not record any info about you, e.g. IP address etc. More: http://tinyurl.com/6wxmxk )

Go here to register and send your email:
http://tinyurl.com/6wxmxk

(2) The hard way:

Create and use your own anonymous email by using reliable remailers and GnuPG. This method is for high-tech wizards who like to do it the hard way:
Here is a step-by-step tutorial:
http://tinyurl.com/f6h2l

Update: As indicated by Shaltaf here, the anonymous email service won't allow you to attach a file unless you upgrade to the paid version. Fair enough! You still can paste the link of the album mentioned above (and few strong words of your liking).

Update 1:
A clearer version of the same leaflet found on Facebook (Hat tip: Omar):

Update 2: As indicated by Shaltaf here, the anonymous email service won't allow you to attach a file unless you upgrade to the paid version. Fair enough! You still can paste the link of the album mentioned above (and few strong words of your liking).

Update 3: Here is a list of most terrorist Israeli officials. Feel free to bombard them with your words of condemnation and pictures of their war crimes. [Hat tip: Shadia]

Shimon Peres (president@president.gov.il); Ehud Olmert - Prime Minister (eulmert@knesset.gov.il); Ehud Barak - Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Defense (minister@mod.gov.il); Tzipi Livni - Acting Prime Minister , Minister of Foreign Affairs (zlivni@knesset.gov.il); Abraham Dicter - Minister of Internal Security (adichter@knesset.gov.il); Ariel Atias - Minister of Communications (aatias@knesset.gov.il); Binyamin (Fouad) Ben-Eliezer Minister of National Infrastructure(binyaminb@knesset.gov.il); Eli Aflalo - Minister of Immigrant Absorption (eaflalo@knesset.gov.il); Eliyahu Yishai - Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor (eyishay@knesset.gov.il); Gideon Ezra - Minister of Environmental Protection (gezra@knesset.gov.il); Isaac Herzog - Minister of Welfare and Social Services, Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and Fight Against Antisemitism (iherzog@knesset.gov.il); Jacob Edery - Minister of the Development of the Negev and Gal); (yedri@knesset.gov.il); Meir Sheetrit - Minister of Internal Affairs (mshitrit@knesset.gov.il); Raleb Majadele - Minister of Science, Culture, and Sport (gmagadla@knesset.gov.il); Ruhama Avraham Bal);a - Minister of Tourism (ravraham@knesset.gov.il); Shalom Simhon - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (ssimhon@knesset.gov.il); Shaul Mofaz - Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Transportation and Road Safety(shaulm@knesset.gov.il); Ze'ev Boim - Minister of Housing and Construction (zaevb@knesset.gov.il); Haim Ramon - Vice Prime Minister (ChaimR@knesset.gov.il); Rafi Eitan - Minister of Pensioner Affairs - (reitanhantman@knesset.gov.il); Ronnie Bar-On - Minister of Finance (rbaron@knesset.gov.il); Yacov Ben Yizri - Minister of Health (ybenyizri@knesset.gov.il); Yitzhak Cohen - Minister of Religious Services (izchakec@knesset.gov.il); Yuli Tamir - Minister of Education (ytamir@knesset.gov.il); Majalli Whbee - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (mwahaba@knesset.gov.il); Matan nai - Deputy Minister of Defense - (matanv@knesset.gov.il); Meshulam Nahari - Minister Without Portfolio (mnahari@knesset.gov.il); Benjamin Netanyahu (bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il); Ehud Olmert - Prime Minister (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Raanan Dinur - Director General Of the Prime Minister's Office (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Ovad Yehezkel - Government Secretary (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Ya'akov Galanti - Head of Communications Division and Media Adviser to the Prime Minister (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Shalom Tourgeman - Foreign Policy Adviser for Prime Minister (MEDINI@IT.PMO.gov.il); Amnon Ben-Ami - Deputy Director General (amnon.benami@it.pmo.gov.il); Tzahi Gavrieli - Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister (TzahiG@it.pmo.gov.il); Shlomit Barnea Farago - Legal Adviser (legal@pmo.gov.il); Joseph Strauss - Accountant (J.strauss@it.pmo.gov.il);Marit Danon - Director of the Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women (women@it.pmo.gov.il); Uzi Keren - Adviser to the Prime Minister (Settlement Affairs) (Uzi.Keren@it.pmo.gov.il); Hagar Biran - Advisor to the Prime Minister for Liaison with the Knesset (hagar.biran@it.pmo.gov.il); Ruti Avramovitz - Pub);c affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); 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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 in manageable count.

Last week, my spam counter crossed one million, thanks to Akismet for doing such a great job. This tool is the biggest single time saver in my blogging since I installed it couple of years ago.

Doing a little calculations to see how much time could have been wasted on this and assuming that if I had to moderate spam manually it would take around 4 seconds to track each of them:

* 1,001,169 comment spams X 4 seconds = 4,004,676 seconds needed for moderating comments.
* 4,004,676 seconds = 66744.6 minutes
* 66744.6 minutes = 1112.41 hours
* 1112.41 hours / 24 = 46.35 days (that's 1.5 months if I worked blogging non-stop 24 hours a day)
* 1112.41 hours / 8 = 139 days (that's 4.6 months if I worked blogging full-time job, 8 hours a day)

More if I took time off for weekends and holidays!!

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 Israel's dependency on Arab media channels, who tend to give Israeli spokespersons relatively limited airtime.

He also said that the amount of coverage depends on Israel's fluctuating relationship with Arab channels. Thus, for example, Israeli spokespersons have recently shunned Al Jazeera over its allegedly unbalanced coverage of Middle East affairs.

Read more!

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 through one of the most used Web 2.0 applications (Google Earth claims to have more than 350 million downloads and counting).

In their press release, UNHCR said:

Google Earth's new mapping programme takes you on a virtual reality tour with the UN refugee agency of some of the world's major displacement crises and the humanitarian efforts aimed at helping the victims.

The first use of this geospatial tool focuses on refugees and displaced people located in remote areas of Chad, Iraq, Colombia and Sudan's volatile Darfur region. Sit in front of your computer and, with a few clicks, see, hear and develop an emotional understanding of what it is like to be a refugee.

Highlighted are not only the physical area of the camp and surrounding country, but key parts of daily life such as education and health in photo, text and video format. Within seconds, Google Earth brings the daily life of a refugee camp into your home thousands of kilometres away.

To start your journey, click here.

However, my happiness did not last for long when I discovered that NONE of the Palestinian refugee camps within the Occupied Palestinian Territories are published there (see map below). So, even if you "Sit in front of your computer", with a few clicks you can "see, hear and develop an emotional understanding of what it is like to be a refugee", but not the Palestinian refugees' experience. They don't exist!

(Click image to enlarge)

Note: Blue icons are original bookmarks by UNHCR of Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, but nothing in West Bank and Gaza.

This misfortune seems to be a result of one of two things:

1. Either the issue of the Palestinian refugees under Israeli occupation got solved and nobody told me (in this case I only blame myself for missing last night's news), or;

2. The UNHCR does not recognize the Palestinian refugee camps in the Occupied Palestinian Territories all together as "refugee camps who needs emotional understanding", so they are not one of the "major displacement crises," thus do not require "the humanitarian efforts aimed at helping the victims"! We understand that UNHCR mandate is to take care of refugees all around the world, but not those inside Occupied Palestinian Territories, UNRWA does that. However, one of UNHCR's mandates is to offer refugees to return to their home country, an act that is rejected by Israel. Hence, this does not justify the UNHCR to wash its hands of Palestinian refugees under occupation and not mention them altogether. They are still refugees no matter if they have been able to make the best of a horrible situation, and they all should be represented.

It is disturbing to see such a horrible mistake (intentional or unintentional, we need to know) spread by a UN agency which claims to be taking care of refugees all around the world. The UNRWA lists the name of all the refugees camps in West Bank (19 camp) and Gaza (8 camps) and their population (West Bank 486,479, Gaza 478,272, total 964,751). Not only that, but they also have location maps for these refugees camps on their website:

(Click image to enlarge)

The question is, how can UNHCR ignored a total of 27 Palestinian refugee camps in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, populated with almost one million inhabitants?

Understanding that in general, refugee camps almost by definition have limited visibility, and the Palestinian refugee camps in Palestine are located in a war zone, such camps go unseen by most of the world except when the occasional crimes conducted by Israel are fortunately picked up by some reporters who might write a small segment for the evening news about that "incident".

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) claims and hopes to give more visibility to the work that it does in refugee camps around the world by bringing the reality of refugee life into the laptops and living rooms of web surfers, but not the Palestinian refugee camps under occupation!!! This is not acceptable.

Action Alert:

1. Use UNHCR contact form here http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/contact and ask them to correct this mistake immediately. Sample letter can be as follows:

Dear UNHCR,

We are pleased to know that UNHCR launched it's 'Google Earth Refugee World' layer to take Google Earth users on a virtual reality tour with the UN refugee agency of some of the world's major displacement crises and the humanitarian efforts aimed at helping the victims.
Reference: http://www.unhcr.org/events/47f48dc92.html

However, we are disappointed to see that Palestinian refugee camps in Occupied Palestinian Territories were not shown anywhere.
Reference: http://tinyurl.com/4jnpoy

We are sure that this is an oversight on UNHCR part, but 27 Palestinian refugee camps that exist in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are not shown on your new Google Earth Refugee World layer. Over one million people live in these camps. Do you not believe that they are living under most non humanitarian conditions and should be mentioned on UNHCR's 'Google Earth Refugee World' like all other refugees?

Please correct your listings to include these camps. They DO EXIST and they MUST be known about.

Alternatively, you may write to Mr. Antonio Guterres (the UN high commissioner for refugees) and ask him to correct this mistake immediately (Headquarters contact form here: http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/contact?hq=y). Sample letter can be as follows:

Dear Mr. Guterres,

We are pleased to know that UNHCR launched it's 'Google Earth Refugee World' layer to take Google Earth users on a virtual reality tour with the UN refugee agency of some of the world's major displacement crises and the humanitarian efforts aimed at helping the victims.
Reference: http://www.unhcr.org/events/47f48dc92.html

However, we are disappointed to see that Palestinian refugee camps in Occupied Palestinian Territories were not shown anywhere.
Reference: http://tinyurl.com/4jnpoy

We are sure that this is an oversight on UNHCR part, but 27 Palestinian refugee camps that exist in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are not shown on your new Google Earth Refugee World layer. Over one million people live in these camps. Do you not believe that they are living under most non humanitarian conditions and should be mentioned on UNHCR's 'Google Earth Refugee World' like all other refugees?

Please correct your listings to include these camps. They DO EXIST and they MUST be known about.

2. Sign this petition asking UNHCR to correct this mistake and add all Palestinian refugees camps within the Occupied Palestinian Territories to their "Google Earth Refugee's World Layer".
Petition: http://tinyurl.com/4re8du

3. Republish, share and e-mail this post. Click following "ShareThis" link below.

Update (Apr 11, 2008): Good news! I just got a positive reply to my email to Mr. Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

from: Antonio Guterres
to: haitham.sabbah@gmail.com,
date: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:27 PM
subject Re: Palestine Refugee Camps on Google Earth

Dear Mr. Sabbah,

Thank you for your email. You are absolutely right. However, as we have only just launched "Google Earth Refugee World" layer, we only have three sites for the moment: Iraq, Colombia and Darfur. Other sites will follow.

With best regards,
António Guterres

I replied to Mr. Guterres and urged him to put adding Palestinian Refugee Camps on top of their priorities.

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 al-Arabiya website reported.

The case was reported on a Saudi Arabian news site as an example of the "strife" the social networking site is causing in the Islamic nation.

Saudi preacher Ali al-Maliki has emerged as the leading critic of Facebook, claiming the network is corrupting the youth of the nation.

"Facebook is a door to lust and young women and men are spending more on their mobile phones and the Internet than they are spending on food," he said.

The woman was murdered in August but her death was highlighted following Maliki's comments.

Social customs and religious rules oblige women in Saudi Arabia to cover their head and figure with a veil so that men are not distracted by the female form.

Critics also allege that Facebook is an avenue for the promotion of homosexual relations in Saudi Arabia. More than 6,500 people have signed the online petition in a bid to stop the conservative Muslim kingdom following Syria in banning access to the network from local internet servers.

There are estimated to be more than 30,000 Facebook users in the oil-rich kingdom. Many Saudi women use nicknames and post comic images or drawings on their pages instead of photographs. Some Saudi bloggers have dubbed the network "Faceless".

Women users' contact details and email addresses are often pseudonymous. The popularity of sites for singles has broken taboos on people making contact outside family and class connections.

One of the most popular Facebook groups among Saudi Arabian youth is Single and Looking in Saudi Arabia, which has 1,823 members and hosts many sexually explicit images. [Source]

I just hopes this is not "April's Fool", but even if it is, I have no doubt that sooner or later this will happen!

You gotta watch this:

"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 work away. In fact they got a patent for their mind reading application, which is based on using electroencephalograms (EEGs) to record electrical signals within the brain.

Whether humans will accept Microsoft reading their brain waves or not, the company claims that the data will better enable to them to design user interfaces that people find easy to use!!!

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 which he just got 'unlocked' to work on our Zain network. To be honest, I liked the phone and the crazy feature I tested. In fact I was waiting for the 16G iPhone to purchase it. All until I came across this disturbing news from Greenpeace.

According to "independent laboratory" tests cited on Greenpeace's International's website, about half of 18 tested internal and external components of the iPhone contain bromated compounds. What does this mean? Let's first have a quick look at this short clip:

"An independent scientific laboratory tested 18 internal and external components of the iPhone and confirmed the presence of brominated compounds in half the samples, including in the phone's antenna, in which they made up 10 percent of the total weight of the flexible circuit board. A mixture of toxic phthalates was found to make up 1.5 percent of the plastic (PVC) coating of the headphone cables." [Source: Greenpeace]

Here is the scary part:

Dr. David Santillo, Senior Scientist at the Greenpeace Research Laboratories, commented, "Two of the phthalate plasticisers found at high levels in the headphone cable are classified in Europe as 'toxic to reproduction, category 2' because of their long-recognised ability to interfere with sexual development in mammals. While they are not prohibited in mobile phones, these phthalates are banned from use in all toys or childcare articles sold in Europe. Apple should eliminate the use of these chemicals from its products range."

Greenpeace reveals that "The tests uncovered two types of hazardous substances, some of which have already been eliminated by other mobile phone makers." They called upon Apple to truly revolutionize the mobile phone by producing an environmentally friendly handset for the iPhone's European launch.

OK. We might not agree with Greenpeace on everything, but it safer to stay away until proven else.

But what if it was true? Yes, iPhone is sexy, but can't give it the chance to replace MY SEX? :-)

Greenpeace post includes a slide show, pointing to various iPhone internal components and noting where the hazards might be.

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 Hollywood heartthrob really leads to him. We're sitting in the offices of the Israeli Consulate in New York, where Israel's official MySpace page was launched in January under the direction of officials from the Foreign Ministry. The 20-something official mentions that the Philippines also now has its own MySpace page, adding excitedly, "They're one of our friends, too. Isn't that nice?"

According to its profile, Israel is a single female, 58 years old, a Taurus, who lives in Jerusalem.

58 years is not a coincidence, that is the age of occupation of Palestine.

(When asked if Israel's close ties with the United States meant that she should perhaps be listed as "in a relationship," the young official demurred.) The MySpace page automatically greets visitors with a sleekly produced hip-hop song called "Peace in the Middle," with lyrics in both English and Hebrew that include "Stop this holy war" and "What are we dying for?" It shows pictures of Israel's beaches, glitzy hotels and the Tel Aviv skyline. In the section labeled "Who I'd Like to Meet," it presents a slideshow of attractive young people who look lifted straight out of a fashion magazine. Israel, it seems, is mostly interested in meeting models.

In other words, SEX. That was and still is the best, easiest and cheapest way to seduce people.

The MySpace page is part of a wider effort, including Internet television and other online initiatives, led by an Israeli diplomat named David Saranga. Under Saranga's direction, Israel hopes to reach out to young Americans by adding some hip and stylish gloss to Israel's image and building a greater sense of connection in the process. Citing research on Israel's image in the United States, Saranga told me recently: "We saw that we had a problem with the age group of 18 to 35, and the reason is that this group doesn't see Israel as relevant. So we have to talk to them in their language, in platforms that they are using, and the new media is one of the ways to do so."

Probably it is time to watch out your kids and what they are exposed to online. Of course that does not apply to 18 to 35 or over, but I don't have to worry about this group age as much as I worry about teenagers and what the Zionist propaganda can do to them.

In addition to the MySpace page, the state of Israel also now has its own blog -- the first country-as-a-whole to have one, according to Saranga. The blog is called "isRealli" so as to incorporate the word "real." It also sports the slightly odd subtitle, "The New Blog of Israel." ("You can tell that the person who named it thinks they speak English better than they actually do," one of the young officials in the consulate commented to me.)

Am I surprised?

Updated several times a day by anonymous government employees, some of the blog's recent posts have been titled "Hummus Up to My Eyeballs," "'Mamma Mia' in Israel," and "Who Says We Can't Dance?" Although these entries valiantly attempt to fit in with the informal and irreverent tone common to the blogosphere, they carry an unmistakable whiff of government talking points. The blog entry used to introduce the state of Israel's MySpace page, for example, began, "We all know that Israel sometimes has a tough time making friends," before urging readers to "join our friends list" and "check out our favorites." A post from Thursday titled "Maximum Israel" notes that the widely read American men's magazine Maxim has a forthcoming spread on the beauty of Israeli women -- a feature the Israeli consulate pushed for as "part of our latest efforts to show a little more of Israel's sexier side." (The post further notes that Maxim's editors were reluctant at first, but after they were sent pictures of 12 Israeli models, "it was smooth sailing from that moment on.")

SEX again. Not literally, but seducing and perception of women figures/shape/sex, etc... is the old game of any and all 'Inelegance' Systems.

Israel is reaching out with other online initiatives. Both its blog and MySpace page link to videos on YouTube -- many of them posted by a mysterious user named "Hollyyyyyyy" -- which aim to make Israel look attractive in the eyes of young Americans and disarm the conflict-centric image so prevalent in the Western media. The videos highlight Israel's achievements in technology, medicine, business and entertainment. They also show a lot of people wearing bikinis. There is nobody wearing a military uniform in the videos, even though military service is compulsory for all Israelis after they turn 18.

Did I hear SEX again? Oh, it's just bikinis, which are a symbol of CIVILIZATION only!

Another video, posted by a user called "Koshergirl2007," is called "Gay Scene in Israel" and shows scenes from Israel's Gay Pride Parades and gay nightclubs. It is meant to demonstrate to America's gay population that Israel is a gay-friendly country. This is also a theme frequently highlighted on the blog. Saranga says that this is just "presenting the reality" in Israel. "When we speak in front of gay audiences" in the United States, he says "sometimes they are amazed at how liberal Israel is."

SEX? AGAIN? Oh well, what better they can do!

Inevitably, though, Israel's new media push could not be free from politics, which arrived in part with Israel's recent blog posting about the big European music competition, Eurovision. For the competition -- which takes place this May and is wildly popular in Europe and all over the Middle East -- each country chooses a representative band and song. Not everyone is happy with Israel's choice. There was talk recently by the event's organizers of banning Israel's entry for politicizing the Eurovision competition, though they have elected not to do so. Teapacks, the band representing Israel, will be singing a song called "Push the Button," an apparent criticism of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. Israel's blog promotes the country's Eurovision entry and links to a YouTube video that shows the band performing the controversial song. The multilingual lyrics include "There are some crazy rulers/ they hide and try to fool us/ with demonic, technological willingness to harm," and the refrain, "They're gonna push the button, push the button, push the button, push the button."

Warmongers! Yeah, thats another master key the Zionist play very well in this world.

In fact, in the near future the Foreign Ministry will launch a second blog, one devoted exclusively to politics. The plan is to have Israeli Foreign Ministry officials post their thoughts on the current political situation in Israel and the Middle East, and allow readers around the world to post responses. Some worry it is an online war waiting to erupt, but Saranga remains optimistic. "The government of Israel will have a direct dialogue with readers everywhere," he explains.

I'm looking forward for that. Lets see how can - if they can - face the truth. It is a great sign that what we are doing is the right thing. I'm not happy that they will have their own blog because that will raise the scale of cyberwar, but it is good to have some official place where activist can express their feelings and uncover the lies of the Zionist regime.

In April, Saranga and his colleagues are also set to launch an Internet television station aimed at American evangelicals and other Christians. According to one of the officials involved in the project, the station will have content that "speaks to Christians of all denominations" and "shows Christian movies and clips." All this, he said, would be accompanied by a "really funky design" that is being coordinated by "Christian experts" hired by the Israeli government. It's not clear whether the site will include a link to the "Gay Scene in Israel" video on YouTube.

I wonder if they will show them the video of Jewish settlers saying: "We killed Jesus and we are proud of it."

Saranga and other Israeli officials are proud of Israel's MySpace page and other nascent efforts to break into new media. They point to some early improvement in relations that have gone beyond American youth. "We were surprised by the kinds of people who wanted to be friends with Israel," one of them told me, mentioning that the blog sometimes receives visitors from Saudi Arabia and Iran. For a while, he said, Israel's bloggers were regularly conversing with someone from the United Arab Emirates, though eventually it became clear that he was only interested in trying to sell them real estate. Still, the official remained enthusiastic about the overall effort to show "the young lady that Israel is and what she's got to offer!"

As of this publication, she now has 937 friends on MySpace, though it is still unclear whether one of them is the real Leonardo DiCaprio. [Source: Spiegel Online]

I'm sure Israel can make a lot more REAL friends in real life if and only if the chose to live in Peace with themselves and Palestinian!!!

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 a report issued in March by security software giant Symantec, based in Cupertino, California...

The sophistication of Israel's Internet users and its developed hi-tech sector have contributed to the high level of malicious Web activity, said Arie Danon, Symantec manager for the Mediterranean region...

Reznik chalked the high amount of criminal Internet activity here up to the fact that Israel, according to a study his company performed in February, is a large exporters of spam, accounting for approximately 2% of world junk mail in 2006...

"The figures clearly show that spammers are operating intensively in Israel on an international level" said Yaniv Barzilai, TrekIT deputy managing director of sales, referring to the TrekIT report. Although spam is not itself considered malicious by the researchers and is not necessarily illegal, the Symantec report found that it is increasingly intertwined with malicious criminal activities. [Source: The Jerusalem Post]

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 UNHCR web campaign“.

UN Refugee Agency led campaign to raise awareness and funds for education and sport programs for refugee youth. The campaign website can be found at Ninemillion.org.

The merciful Micro$oft decided to support the campaign under one condition; you have to use their new web 2.0 search engine/start page enable that they generate few more billions to give some peanut to UN refugee campaign.

Under the initiative, every Internet search performed at http://click4thecause.live.com using Microsoft’s Live Search facility will result in a financial donation to ninemillion.org. The donation programme will be coupled with a broad online awareness campaign for ninemillion.org to include advertising and editorial space on Microsoft online properties, such as MSN and microsoft.com, in 26 markets around the world.

Microsoft has agreed to host the search site until the end of March and to promote it by creating a downloadable “gadget,” developing online advertising to appear on the MSN portal websites in certain countries and purchase advertising inventory from the MSN/Live network.

The company will guarantee a minimum donation of US$100,000 to UNHCR based on the number of queries that are generated from the search site. The rate for each query will be US$0.01. The maximum donation payable by Microsoft will be US$250,000, which would be equivalent to 25 million search queries.

Cheap, very cheap!!

Although I don’t personally recommend live.com as a search engine, however, I’ll use it for a while for the sake of supporting the refugee youth around the world.