Posted in My Thoughts on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dalai Lama and foreign ministries bugged • Cambridge researchers point finger at Beijing
Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
The Guardian, Monday 30 March 2009
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An enormous electronic espionage programme run from servers in China has been used to spy on computers in more than 100 countries, according to two reports published at the weekend.
The reports, published by [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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AT ODDS Some secular liberals say religious nationalists set a tone that encouraged abuses during recent fighting in Gaza.
By ETHAN BRONNER
Published: March 21, 2009
JERUSALEM — The publication late last week of eyewitness accounts by Israeli soldiers alleging acute mistreatment of Palestinian civilians in the recent Gaza fighting highlights a debate [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles – the dreaded drones – caused at least 48 deaths in Gaza during the 23-day offensive
Civilian casualties from Israeli drones Link to this video
Mounir al-Jarah slowly takes down the bricks he used to wall up the entrance to his sister’s courtyard. Inside, flesh still clings to the walls; blood-soaked furniture and [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IDF soldiers in the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead.(IDF Spokesman’s Office)
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel News, IDF, Hamas, Gaza
During Operation Cast Lead, Israeli forces killed Palestinian civilians under permissive rules of engagement and intentionally destroyed their property, say soldiers who fought in the offensive. The soldiers are graduates of the Yitzhak Rabin pre-military [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Soldiers’ Accounts of Gaza Killings Raise Furor in Israel
By ETHAN BRONNER
Published: March 19, 2009
JERUSALEM — In the two months since Israel ended its military assault on Gaza, Palestinians and international rights groups have accused it of excessive force and wanton killing in that operation, but the Israeli military has said it followed high ethical [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Material scientists from the University of Southern Mississippi have created a new polymer that can fix its own scratches under regular sunlight, a feat that has no end of practical applications.
By Yun Xie | Last updated March 12, 2009 1:00 PM CT
An example of a self-repairing plastic.
Janet Sinn-Hanlon, Univ. Ill.
When we get scratched, our skin [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
• Confidential report attacks ‘illegal’ house demolitions • Government accused of damaging peace prospects
40-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud al-Abbasi stands amid the rubble of his home after it was demolished by the Jerusalem municipality in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. Photograph: Gali Tibbon
A confidential EU report accuses the Israeli government of using settlement expansion, house demolitions, [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In ‘brutal’ third quarter, 26 banks had Texas ratios over 100%
By RUSSELL GRANTHAM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sunday, January 11, 2009
More Georgia banks faced deeper problems from souring loans and other challenges in the third quarter, based on a commonly used measure of their financial health.
The number of banks with high “Texas ratios” — a figure that attempts [...]
