UNRWA spokesman Johan Eriksson told the British Broadcasting Corp. via phone from Jerusalem that he had just spoken to the agencys boss in Gaza City, who confirmed to him that at least three shells containing white phosphorus hit their sprawling compound.
Fire is raging inside our compound. It is inside a mechanical workshop, Eriksson told the BBC, adding that shipping pallets loaded with humanitarian aid were also on fire inside the compound.
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The Body Soviet: Propaganda,
Hygiene and the Revolutionary State
by Tricia Starks
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – By making the personal political, hygienists in the early days of the Soviet Union attempted to improve public health dramatically and played a key role in the establishment of the Soviet state. In The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene and the Revolutionary State, historian Tricia Starks examines the extensive collections… Continue
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PACIFICA – About 700 Israelis have been arrested for protesting against the war on Gaza since the beginning of the deadly offensive, said Neve Gordon, chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel on Monday.
"700 Israelis have been arrested since this war began, because they protested this… Continue
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: January 13, 2009
WASHINGTON — It is true, President Bush sounded alarms about Barack Obama during the campaign season. On Tuesday, Mr. Bush went one step further: He declared Mr. Obama’s inauguration an actual emergency.
The declaration, though, was not a political statement about Republicans being run out of town. Rather, it was a bureaucratic move intended to provide additional federal money to help Washington cope with the huge… Continue
Study says 'error-monitoring' signals keep us from being too different from others
Your brain may be wired to go along with popular opinion in social situations, a new study suggests.
Scans done with functional magnetic resonance imaging showed that people whose opinion differed with that of a group of people experienced a neuronal response in the brain's rostral cingulate zone (RCZ) and nucleus accumbens (NAc) -- areas that seem… Continue
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WASHINGTON (AP) The first veto threat has been issued even though President-elect Barack Obama hasn't even taken the oath of office yet. Obama told fellow Democrats he would not be denied use of the remaining $350 billion in federal bailout funds. He also pledged to revise parts of the plan that have been criticized for not actually helping homeowners facing… Continue
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Balad Chairman Asks Why Lieberman is so Afraid of Democracy
antiwar.com
Posted January 12, 2009
By a margin of 26-3, the Israeli Central Elections Committee decided to ban the Balad Party from running in next month’s election. By a margin of 21-8, they also banned the United Arab List-Ta’al (UAL-T). The two bans will prevent more than half of the current Arab members of Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset, from running for… Continue
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN -- As a way of fighting cash shortages amid spiraling inflation.
Zimbabwe's dollar is virtually worthless, with foreign currency now being used to purchase basic items.
The country's acting finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, made the announcement in a government gazette released Saturday.
Although Chinamasa did not give the date on which the $50 billion and new $20 billion notes would come into… Continue
CALL THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO COMMIT ERIC HOLDER TO ENFORCING THE LAW FOR PAST BUSH CRIMES
We scored an amazing mass media victory this week, which we must immediately build on and expand, when first Keith Olbermann took note of the fact that the number one question on the Obama "change" site was asking about a special prosecutor for the torture and wiretap crimes of the Bush administration.…
My name is Omer Goldman. I am 19 years old. I am one of the Shministim. Thank you for signing the Shministim letter to support me and my friends. Tell your friends to send a letter to the Israeli Minister of Defense.
I first went to prison on September 23 and served 35 days. I am lucky, after 2 times in jail, I got a medical discharge, but I'm the only one.… Continue
Added by Maas on January 13, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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As Time has recently reported, there is a vicious online war being carried out on forums, blogs and social networks as a result of the Israeli incursion of Gaza. Bloggers, amature as well as professional are having a war of words on a multitude of topics including the Hama's use of human shields, the launching of thousands of… Continue
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Social-networking websites may have started out as online cliques where friends could swap opinions on music, pop culture and other bits of innocuous personal trivia. But as the conflict in Gaza has unfolded, it's becoming evident that… Continue
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January 12, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" --- As an American citizen, born and raised in Gary, Indiana, I want America to be the beacon for democracy that Ialways felt we were and that or government said we were. Unfortunately, as I look at the world from events in my lifetime, it appears that after we defeated Hitler and Japan, we forgot about our true mission of democracy and its attendant morality.
The United States unfortunately, has a long record… Continue
Added by Marklar on January 13, 2009 at 1:31am —
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Anonymous: Still Alive from blue on Vimeo.
For a full year, Anonymous has battled the Church of Scientology online and on the street. From humble beginnings, an army awoke almost overnight determined to end Scientology's systematic abuses of the legal system to infringe on the right to freedom of speech and information.
So yet again the people of the virtual-concentration camp, known officially as 'Gaza', are being bombarded from the sky and from the ground by the bully-boys of Tel…
DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...