The Source (1)
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As a result of recommendations from several people, over the past two months I have been reading The Source by James Michener. I finally finished it, but it was slow going. Many years ago, I read Michener's The Bridge at Andau about the Hungarian uprising of 1956, and before going to the University of Hawaii on sabbatical I read Michener's Hawaii. I recall that both of those books provided me with a sense of what ...
A Reader Responds to Project Better Place Getting Wired (1)
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again –– Israel’s electric car scheme Project Better Place –– needs some serious rethinking. Shai Agassi, who founded the company (pictured above), proposes new infrastructure for the swappable batteries, leased and paid for much in the same way as the cellular phone industry: you pay for use and not the device. Israel and Denmark are buying. In August Wired magazine featured Agassi on the cover (you can ...
Memo From Jerusalem: Support for 2-State Plan Erodes (1)
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Prominent mainstream Palestinians are warning that they may pursue a one-state solution based on a long-term fight for equal rights within Israel.
A modest Saudi proposal (1)
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Elder of Ziyon tells the story of Shaymaa Samir Qudeih: Shaymaa Samir Qudeih is a brilliant student attending school in Saudi Arabia. She has received top honors from her high school in Jeddah, and she ranked eighth in all of Saudi Arabia in her science exam, gaining a score of 99.76%. Her dream was to go to the King Abdulaziz University medical school in Jeddah to become a doctor. But she was rejected - because ...
Galten’s Squeezing Biofuel from the Jatropha Seed (1)
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The inedible South American native jatropha plant, could be a winning biofuel alternative, according to the Israeli company Galten. I spoke with Galten’s Doron Levi yesterday. He in Ghana, me from my home office in Jerusalem. The biofuel industry, he said recognizes the potential in the jatropha’s oily seed (up to about 40 percent oil), but haven’t yet devised an efficient method for extracting it. Having developed a superior method for squeezing out the oil ...
"Επικείμενη επίθεση" κατά Ιράν (1)
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Οι ολλανδικές μυστικές υπηρεσίες ανέστειλαν την επιχείρηση διείσδυσης στο Ιράν με στόχο το σαμποτάζ των στρατιωτικών εγκαταστάσεων της χώρας καθώς εκτίμησαν ότι οι ΗΠΑ πρόκειται να "χτυπήσουν άμεσα" τις πυρηνικές εγκαταστάσεις της χώρας, υποστηρίζει ρεπορτάζ της εφημερίδας De Telegraaf . Σύμφωνα με το ρεπορτάζ -απόσπασμα του οποίου δημοσιεύεται στην Jerusalem Post - μέλη της μυστικής υπηρεσίας AIVD δρούσαν μέσα στο Ιράν "με μεγάλη επιτυχία" αλλά διέκοψαν την αποστολή τους όταν εκτίμησαν ότι οι ΗΠΑ θα ...
The Judean Desert #1 (1)
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justavessel has added a photo to the pool: The Judean Desert is bordered by the Mountains of Judea to the west and by the Dead Sea to the East. It is considered a relatively small desert, spanning only 1,500 square kilometers. Mountains, cliffs, and chalk hills stand alongside plateaus, riverbeds, and deep canyons. The width and breadth of the desert is crossed by several rivers that have created canyons up to 500 meters deep. The ...
Waltz with Bashir Review, Telluride 2008 (1)
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Waltz with Bashir is a stunning exploration of war, memory, and the disturbingly subjective nature of truth. It’s one of the few films that can claim to be both a documentary and an animated feature, and it uses both forms to a superb end. The film opens with an animated Ari Folman, the writer/director/star, having a drink with an old friend from the Israeli Defense Force during the war with Lebanon in the early ’80s. ...
Dead Sea Scrolls Set for Posting Online (1)
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Filed under: Computers The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most important finds of the twentieth century. Discovered in the 1940s, the badly deteriorated pieces of parchment that make up this 2,000-year-old edition of the Hebrew Bible have been carefully preserved, but continue to fade and fall apart with each handling. This has led to reluctance in granting scholars access for viewing and studying, but that's changing with an effort to digitally photograph all the ...
Car Friends Electric? (1)
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A news paper in Flanders (Belgium) published a translated version of this New York Times opinion piece by Op-Ed Columnist Thomas Friedman. He highlights two persons: Boone Pickens, a billionaire Texas oilman obsessed by wind power and Shai Agassi, a former software senior at SAP, now obsessed by electric cars. I was rather interested in reading about the latter person, since I’ve met/seen Mr Agassi a couple of times in the annual SAP Teched events ...
Bank of China Denies Aiding Terrorists (1)
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The Bank of China has denied that it transferred money to terrorist groups as alleged in a recent lawsuit. From AP: The lawsuit filed last Thursday by victims of terrorism in Israel accused the bank of putting through dozens of wire transfers totalling several million dollars to Hamas and Islamic Jihad and ignoring Israeli demands to stop the practice. The lawsuit said the money helped to finance attacks between 2004 and 2007. The Beijing-based bank ...
Humans Evolved to Fear Snakes, Not High-Risk Mortgages or Risks at Traffic Lights (1)
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(Screenshot from the film Snakes on a Plane) Is technology, made to better our lives, killing us? Kids have stopped playing on trees, and this isn’t healthy, reported TreeHugger’s Lloyd last week, citing a UK study that found more and more kids staying inside (playing on computers and video games) are avoiding risky play. According to the study, kids need the adventure of “risky” play: “Risk-taking increases the resilience of children,” said one researcher. “It ...
Pergaminos de 2.000 años de antigüedad estarán disponibles en Internet (3)
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Con mucho esfuerzo y gran expectación por parte de la comunidad Cristiana y Judía, un grupo de científicos israelíes han comenzado el proceso de digitalizar una serie de rollos encontrados en unas cuevas cerca del Mar Muerto en 1947. Los pergaminos dan a conocer eventos que esclarecen ciertos aspectos de la vida de los judíos y los primeros cristianos en la época de Jesucristo. Corresponden a las copias más antiguas de la Biblia hebrea e ...
Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Online (1)
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The Israel Antiquities Authority is working on taking digital photos of the Dead Sea Scrolls in order to make the 2,000- year -old documents available to the public online.read more
Las chicas del ejército israelí (3)
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En el ejército no todos son fortachones comandantes que te hacen gritar a las 4.15 de la mañana (apenas te levantas) “¡Señor, si, señor!”. Aunque no lo creas hay algunas cosas lindas y, estas soldadas israelíes, son una de esas pocas cosas bellas. Rachael Papo es una fotógrafa que nació en Ohio pero que fue criada en Israel, comenzó a fotografiar en la adolescencia y este, en mi opinión, es uno de sus más interesantes ...
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Who is REALLY funding terrorism in Israel? (1)
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Reuters has discovered that US taxpayer money is funding racist apartheid Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians: JERUSALEM, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The United States says Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank threaten any peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- yet it also encourages Americans to help support settlers by offering tax breaks on donations. But this is the quote that kills me: "Are you saying you can get a charitable deduction ...
Medinat Weimar (1)
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Medinat Weimar wishes to establish a Jewish state in Thuringia, Germany, with the city of Weimar as its capital. A land without a people for a people without a land! Oh, wait ... The site's homepage contains the 13 principles of the movement; a video with anthems and manifesto in four languages (Yiddish, English, Russian, and German - but no Hebrew); and plenty of links. Graduate student pushes for Jewish state in Germany - an ...
Hamas leader: We’ll retrieve Jerusalem only by way of jihad (1)
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What a surprise! A muslim proclaiming that his islamic terror group will only achieve their goal through violent jihad! No way!!! I am flabbergasted! ‘Jerusalem will be returned to the Palestinians not by way of negotiations or hugging and kissing the enemy, but through blood, shahids and resistance,’ Haniyeh says, adding ‘Muslims must protect Al-Aqsa Mosque’ Ali Waked Published: 08.21.08, 18:42 / Israel News Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Wednesday that the Islamist group will ...
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After beta testing, getting our ducks in a row, etc. The Covert Radio Show is now a Daily (Mon-Fri) 1 Hour Radio show, available here at Covert Radio Show.Com as well as Itunes etc. Let me know what you think, by email at CovertRadio@Gmail... or at host@covertradios... I appreciate your support throughout the Summer and into the remainder of 2008. BTW…big news coming soon about The Covert Radio Show, coming to a radio station near ...Shared by Joe Mezzanini (16)Contribute comment
