Fri 05 September, 2008

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zombietime: Berkeley CA June 21, 2008: Supporters and detractors of the United States military battled it out in Berkeley for at least the sixth time this year: the latest in a relentless series of protests and counter-protests trying to seize the upper hand in the controversy over the "Marine Corps Officer Selection Office" on Shattuck Square. IBD editorial Democrats' reintroduction of militant Michelle Obama in Denver was supposed to show her softer side. But it only highlighted a radical part of her resume: Public Allies. Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992, resigning...
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The Shi'ite tribal association in the city of Karbala, Iraq has demanded that the Iranian Consulate and Iranian charity organizations and cultural centers in the city be shut down, and that the Iranian consul be expelled, claiming that they are ...
September 5, 2008, 3:56 pm
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) meets Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem August 26, 2008... Rice began on Monday another Middle East visit aimed at bridging gaps holding up an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that Washington says it still hopes to reach this year. REUTERS / Moshe Milner / GPO Handout ISRAEL ALLOWS WEAPONS TRANSFER TO PALESTINIANS JERUSALEM - Israel allowed Palestinian security forces in the West Bank to receive a shipment of about 1,000 Kalashnikov rifles and tens of thousands of bullets in a step aimed at bolstering the moderate Palestinian government there, an Israeli defense official...
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Vill bara tipsa om ett projekt som i samarbete med Israel i Sverige möjliggjort en RSS-feed av svenska Israelvänliga bloggar, “i realtid och allt samlat på en sida”: http://israelisverige.no-ip.info/lilina/index.php?hours=168 Al Hamatzav finns naturligtvis med och i dagsläget är det cirka 25 bloggar som deltar och det kommer säkerligen bli fler. Ett trevligt initiativ som uppskattas av oss [...]
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Text: 31 percent rise in electricity prices Source: Roznama Jang, Pakistan, September 4, ...
September 5, 2008, 1:30 pm
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Text: Roti = Bread; Kapra = Clothes; Makan = House Source: Roznama Nawa-i-Waqt, Pakistan, September 3, ...
September 5, 2008, 1:32 pm
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Cartoonist: Amjad Rasmi Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, September 5, ...
September 5, 2008, 1:50 pm
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Syria and France yesterday signed seven agreements, memorandums of understanding, and protocols for cooperation in the areas of oil, gas, electricity production, and railroad lines. One of the documents signed was an agreement extending the ...
September 5, 2008, 11:26 am
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Following the September 3 summit in Damascus, a source close to France’s Elysee Palace said that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad had stressed during the meeting that Syria was willing to establish immediate diplomatic relations with Lebanon, but ...
September 5, 2008, 11:16 am
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Det är 1996. I Jerusalem. Dagen efter Netanyahus valseger. Min flickvän har åkt till Tel Aviv för att delta i en konferens (för statsvetare och mediafolk). Jag intar frukosten i vår vildvuxna men extremt attraktiva trädgård. (Brödet från kvarterets bageri, nere på hörnan. Färskpressad mangojuice. Scrambled eggs. Ost från Mahane Yehuda, från den pålitlige Yossi B. Oliver [...]
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mu'alem has said that an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines is to be the basis for beginning direct negotiations with Israel, and that this issue is not one to be discussed during negotiations. He said that ...
September 5, 2008, 10:58 am
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Assad points at Lebanon and tells Sarkozy: "We won't give up one centimeter of the Golan Heights" Cartoonist: Hassan Bleibel Source: Al-Mustaqbal, Lebanon, September 4, ...
September 5, 2008, 10:59 am
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At a press conference convened by the presidents of Syria and France, the emir of Qatar, and the prime minister of Turkey, following the quadripartite summit in Damascus, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said that Lebanon was still in a "delicate" ...
September 5, 2008, 11:01 am
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UPI's Arnaud De Borchgrave is reporting that one of the reasons that Russia started a war with Georgia last month was as a pretext to raid two airfields that Tbilisi allowed Israel to use as forward bases for an attack against Iran's nuclear facilities. In a secret agreement between Israel and Georgia, two military airfields in southern Georgia had been earmarked for the use of Israeli
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While John Sidney McCain was accepting the Republican nomination for President on Thursday night, Democratic nominee Barack Hussein Obama appeared on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor - his first appearance on Fox in a long time. This is only the first part of the interview - the rest is going to be shown next week. Note that Obama obfuscates on what he will do about Iran, he refuses to admit that he
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These are the images from a new media campaign broadcasted throughout Lebanon in an effort to obtain information on the fate of captured Israeli soldiers. The campaign was initiated by the organization "Born To Be Free" which is fighting for the return of Israeli Air Force navigator Ron Arad, who was captured in Lebanon over 20 years ago. Given the huge 10 million dollar reward for those able to
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Förre överrabbinen Mordechai Eliahu (som jag har hört tala live, bl a i en synagoga i Tsfatt - verkligen en psykospirituell kick) ger sitt stöd till den framgångsrike affärmannen Nir Barkat. Dahaf:s opinionsundersökning ger också klara besked - Barkat leder racet. Det vore förstås galet att räkna bort Meir Porush, men Arkadi Gaydamak tycks, Baruch [...]
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Walking through the tunnels of Grand Central Terminal today, commuters see a new "Better World" ad campaign for iShares, along the theme of "see through the clouds." That's good advice for investors, to make sense of murky investment options. The test-heavy print ads are quite acceptable.

The subway posters, however, are unintentionally jarring, in a major way.

I'll update this entry with a photo soon, but I'll describe the posters. They show New York buildings through clouds that look to me much more like . . . smoke. With 9-11's seventh anniversary next week, the imagery is so stunningly reminiscent of photos of that day that I cannot believe somebody at iShares' agency didn't see, wait a minute, let's rethink this.

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