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By Sylvie Barak 23 January 2009 06:16AMTags: ink | semiconductor | ntype | able | charge | carries

Researchers in the US claim to have developed a type of soluble semiconductor ink which could help to make bendable computer screens a reality.
The breakthrough is also said to enable cheap sensor tagging mechanisms that allow retailers to [...]

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War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields
by Michel Chossudovsky

The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. 
This is a war of conquest. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline. 
British Gas [...]

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Why the Gaza war is a crime against the State of Israel
Uri Avnery considers the role of propaganda in the war on Gaza. The battle for the TV screen is one of the decisive battles of the war.
Nearly 70 years ago, in the course of World War Two, a heinous crime was committed [...]

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Burns victim vows to be suicide bomber while Israelis ask: ‘Was it all worth it?’

(Holly Pickett )
Sabah Abu Halima, who lost her husband and four of her nine children in attacks on Gaza, prays for revenge and dreams of killing herself among Israelis
Sheera Frenkel in Gaza City and James Hider in Jerusalem
Two days after their [...]

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AIC staff member Mohammad Abu Humus was taken from his home at 3am today by masked members of the Israeli security forces, who stormed and searched his home with drawn weapons. Abu Humus was subsequently brought before a judge, who acquiesced to the police request and extended his detention for 11 days. All of the [...]

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Researchers say technology they have developed would let boats or small aquatic robots glide through the water without the need for an engine, sails or paddles.
A University of Pittsburgh research team has designed a propulsion system that uses the natural surface tension that is present on the water’s surface and an electric pulse to move [...]

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Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza
Amnesty warns Israel could be guilty of war crimes

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 January 2009 11.58 GMT
Article history

Israeli soldiers prepare white phosphorus 155mm artillery shells (light green) as troops keep position on the Israel-Gaza border. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images
Israel has admitted – after mounting pressure [...]

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Self-defence is no defence
As more testimony emerges from the ruins of Gaza, evidence is stacking up that Israel has a war crimes case to answer

Michael Paulin

Under Article 51 of the UN Charter, a state can take military action without the prior authorisation of the Security Council if it is acting in self-defence. Yet, as [...]

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Israel Recruits Army Of Bloggers To Troll Anti-War Websites
Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.comMonday, January 19, 2009

Israel has announced that it is setting up a network of bloggers to combat websites deemed “problematic” by the Zionist state, presumably to propagandize about the necessity of killing babies and infants in the name of self-defense.
Israel’s global reputation for [...]

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