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Israel's Constant Crisis It's a survival mechanism By Justin Raimondo December 31,2008 As the Israelis continue to pound Gaza, killing Hamas cadre, traffic cops, and civilians alike, Americans shake their heads and wonder: why can't they all just get along? Why must we be involved? The...

Half of middle class home owners fear their properties could be repossessed next year Nearly half of middle-class home owners fear that they could lose their properties next year because they are struggling to pay their mortgages, research shows. By Christopher Hope December 30 ,2008...

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World's 'largest dinosaur fossil site' found in China December 30, 2008 The remains of an enormous platypus have been found in China amongst what is believed to be the largest group of fossilised dinosaur bones ever discovered. Palaeontologists have dug up more than 7,000 bones in 15...

Facebook facing protest over removal of nursing photos WASHINGTON-Facebook is facing an online protest after removing pictures of breastfeeding mothers found to be overly revealing from the pages of members of the social network. A Facebook group entitled "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is...

Sci-fi "IRON FIST" Vs Rocks & Primitive Rockets In Gaza While Hamas is throwing rockets by hand, the Israeli military is unveiling high-tech weaponry like the new "Iron Fist", capable of exploding a missile before it's even reached its target. Will technology make all the difference in...

Banker Buys $37 Million Apartment After Getting $25 Million Buyout -- for Doing Virtually Nothing Tuesday, December 30, 2008 By CLEMENTE LISI THAT'S LIVIN! Living Room feature a fireplace HEAVEN & HALL-Foyer with its chandelier and inlaid floors TOP SHELF-Mahogany-paneled...

Land in Dispute

Israel's Four Real Objectives in the Gaza Attacks Israel claims its assault on Gaza is a response to rocket attacks, but it's anything but. By Neve Gordon, December 29, 2008. The first bombardment took three minutes and forty seconds. Sixty Israeli F-16 fighter jets bombed fifty sites...

Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic Mon Dec 29, 2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly -- a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. They mixed samples of the 1918 influenza strain...

Thursday, December 25, 2008 A Computer Inside A Molecule Over the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth in computing over the next...

Anarchy In The UK (and the birth of SGS - STOP GAZA SLAUGHTER) By Yvonne Ridley December 28, 2008 THE murderous military campaign which has been unleashed by Israel has provoked people across the world to demonstrate, rally and protest in their hundreds of thousands. Soon the...

To Be In Gaza Is To Be Trapped By Peter Beaumont December 29, 2008 Gaza. Always the suffering of Gaza, most potent symbol of the tragedy of Palestine. In 1948, during the Nakba – or "The Catastrophe" as Palestinians describe the war that gave birth to the state of Israel – 200,000...

Recession is predicted to cost Britain 1m jobs • Report warns of 'winter surge' in unemployment Kathryn Hopkins and Chris Tryhorn December 29, 2008 Next year will be the worst for jobs for almost 20 years, with a net reduction of at least 600,000 people in employment, according to a...

New research shows the commercial slump could trigger nationalisation for some lenders. By Ben Harrington Dcember 28, 2008 Britain's banks face up to £70bn of losses on commercial property loans, enough to force some of them into a further round of taxpayer bail-outs. Investment bank...

China's new export: farmers China has a shortage of land, Africa a shortage of food. So one entrepreneur had the bright idea of persuading Chinese farmers to emigrate Clifford Coonan Dec 29, 2008 Liu Jianjun is wearing a brightly coloured African tunic, the tall hat of a tribal...

University of Idaho research zaps cancer with gold-coated nanowires by IBR Staff December 22, 2008 An international group of researchers at the University of Idaho is developing a new cancer-fighting technology that could mean the end of painful radioactive and chemical treatments...

Analysis: 'I don't see how this ends well' in Gaza By Dion Nissenbaum December 28, 2008 JERUSALEM — As Israel clamps down on the Gaza Strip and prepares for the possibility of sending thousands of soldiers into the Palestinian area controlled by the militant Islamic group Hamas, its...

Analysis: The Hamas army By YAAKOV KATZ Dec 27, 2008 Hamas, once known for its suicide attacks inside Israeli cities, is no longer a small-time terrorist group, but a large guerrilla army that has well-trained forces deployed throughout the entire Gaza Strip. Were the IDF to...