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Israel Packs Plastic Shrapnel Into Rockets- Leaving Palestinians Painful Deaths from Undetected War Debris

The folks in Geneva with ICC need to take a serious look at this.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Another war crime flying below the radar... the use of plastic shards intentionally placed in rockets that leave behind undetectable shrapnel in humans.

That puzzled doctors because they amputate human limbs by heat, and the massive killings of Palestinian farm animals and wildlife through the use of Israeli-manufactured tablets deposited on Palestinian land.

Anonymous Hacks Millions to Cancel Debt

News release from Anonymous.

(LONDON) - Anonymous hackers compromised over twenty million user accounts world-wide this year to promote Operation Jubilee.

Streamcourse.com Ready to Go LIVE With The Classic Golf Club, Spanaway

A local company takes golfing high-tech.

(Spanaway, WA) - Streamcourse.com provides immediate high-definition streaming video of each hole on the course.

A New Chapter in Publishing

Digital books save rain forests.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Flip-flop is a term applied to describe what politicians do when they change their minds about a political issue.

Rarely do academics flip-flop about the issues they teach or the material they use. I'm an academic about to do just that.

Verizon/Big Cable Deal: Fewer Choices, Higher Prices

This information monopoly will continue to funnel money out of the pockets of consumers and into the pockets of cable and wireless executives.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Verizon Wireless and the nation’s largest cable companies including Comcast and Time Warner have inked a deal to come together and sell each other’s products and services.

If the deal between Verizon Wireless and large cable companies goes through, it will end up costing much more than the price of your cable bill.

Fifth TAALEM Board of Directors Meeting Held in PMU Campus

PMU Rector gave an overview of the University’s study programs. He briefed about implementation of the latest information technology that helps the University run its operations smoothly.

(AL-KHOBAR Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) - The Chairman of the Board of Directors of TAALEM and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU), HRH Prince Turki Bin Mohammed Bin Fahd chaired the 5th TAALEM Board of Directors Meeting in the university campus.

Several issues came under discussion in this second session meeting.

Hindus & Jews Urge AT&T & Intel Withdraw QuakeCon Sponsorship over Hindu Gods Trivialization

Thousands of computer gamers from all over the world reportedly attend QuakeCon.

(DALLAS, TX) - In a remarkable interfaith gesture, Jews backing upset Hindus have urged AT&T and Intel to withdraw sponsorship of internationally renowned 4-day gaming festival “QuakeCon 2012”, starting at Dallas (USA) on August two, for allowing a video game, which Hindus say trivializes their highly revered deities.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed and Rabbi ElizaBeth W. Beyer say prestigious companies like AT&T and Intel should stay away from such events which hurt the feelings of a section of the populace.

Less Videogames, More Reading

Many critics believe that videogame-abuse negatively affects teenagers by increasing violent behavior in them.

(MADRID, Spain) - It was unthinkable to see TV commercials promoting videogames, until now.

Videogame Developer Removes Website Image of Goddess Kali After Hindus Protest

Game developer follows suit with Portland brewery in choosing not to offend Hindu people.

(RENO, NV.) - The image of Hindu goddess Kali, to which Hindus objected saying that it gave the appearance of a porn-star, seems to have been removed from the home page of official website of online action video game SMITE.

A look at the website today revealed that Kali’s image has been replaced by a dragon like character.

Fabric of Space

Einstein was a commendable physicist and mathematician but his concept of “The fabric of space” has resulted in a major detraction and the failure of the scientists to determine the true nature of magnetic field energy in the universe.

(SAN DIEGO) - In a July 21, 2012 Nova program titled “What Is Space”, physicist Alex Filippenko, U.C. Berkeley said: “What is space. We still don’t really know.”

And, physicist S. James Gates, Jr, U. of Maryland, said: “It is one of the deepest mysteries in physics.”