Robert Fisk: The forgotten holocaust
The photographs, never before published, capture the horrors of the first Holocaust of the 20th century. They show a frightened people on the move – men, women and children, some with animals, others on foot, walking over open ground outside the city of Erzerum in 1915, at the beginning of [...]

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Huge Hole Found in the Universe
The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise.
The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of [...]

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Salt Lake Tribune – Bush off course: Instead of pushing Sunnis against Iran, the U.S. must include Tehran in regional talks

Salt Lake Tribune – Bush off course: Instead of pushing Sunnis against Iran, the U.S. must include Tehran in regional talks: “So the most mind-blowing stories during my absence were those that made clear that the Bush administration is heading in the exact opposite direction – trying to organize Sunni Arab states into a bloc [...]

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Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power
The vice president’s lawyer advocated what was considered the memo’s most radical claim: that the president may authorize any interrogation method, even if it crosses the line into torture. U.S. and treaty laws forbidding any person to “commit torture,” that passage stated, “do not apply” to the commander in chief, [...]

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Iran Trains Militiamen Inside Iraq, U.S. SaysIran’s government has consistently denied any connection between the Revolutionary Guard Corps and insurgents fighting U.S. forces in Iraq, and some military intelligence analysts have concluded there is no concrete evidence of such a link. But U.S. military leaders in Iraq have repeatedly maintained that Iran is providing money, [...]

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HATE-BASED, VIOLENT, RELIGIOUSLY INTOLERANT,EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN VIDEO GAME“Eternal Forces” is based on the runaway best selling book series “Left Behind” by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Both the game and books follow dispensational beliefs — a subset of pre-millennial theology. This is a belief system that is a relatively recent development in Christianity. It was [...]

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Military proselytizing, a Baldwin brother, and apocalypse by design… « Scholars and Rogues

Military proselytizing, a Baldwin brother, and apocalypse by design… « Scholars and Rogues: “As more information becomes available about the infiltration of the military by fundamentalist Christian groups via Pentagon approved proselytizing, worrisome issues regarding the long term aims of evangelizing the troops present themselves. First there’s this exploration of the power of “Operation Straight [...]

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America is headed for a soft dictatorship by the end of Bush’s second term. Whether any American has civil rights will be decided by the discretionary power of federal officials. The public in general will tolerate the soft dictatorship as its discretionary powers will mainly be felt by those few who challenge it.“ICH” — – [...]

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AIST develops 3D image projector
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has developed a device that uses lasers to project real three-dimensional images in mid-air. The institute unveiled the device on February 7 in a demonstration that showed off the device’s ability to project three-dimensional shapes of white light.
AIST developed the projector [...]

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Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of nanocomposite paper Along with its ability to function in temperatures up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and down to 100 below zero, the device is completely integrated and can be printed like paper. The device is also unique in that it can function as both a high-energy battery [...]

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