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POPSThe Buckminster Fuller Challenge - SEE THE MOVIE! THE BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE Catalyzing the vanguard of a design science revolution Each year, BFI will offer a single $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a solution with significant potential to solve the world's most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth's ecological integrity.
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POPSBulldoze then claim Ancient Village never existed! In 2003 all the townships ranked among the eight poorest areas of Israel. But of the newly built communities around Beer Sheva, with their predominantly Jewish populations, two were in the top five wealthiest areas of the country. However, the seven townships to which it wants the Bedouin to move are already overcrowded and have poor living conditions - in stark contrast to the new communities being built nearby for Israelis relocating to the Negev.
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POPSWhy did the Muslim Middle East become so violent - dar al-Islam, the land of Islam and peace, - dar al-harb, the land of infidels The theological foundation of the Arab Empire was the supremacy of Islam and the obligation of each Muslim to advance its domination. The notion of Jihad, in particular, served to establish the Muslim community's permanent state of war against the dar al-harb until the infidels' conclusive submission and the absolute world supremacy of Islam.
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One reason is we're not really comfortable with ideology, either ours or anybody else's. Insofar as we have an ideology it's a belief in the virtues of "multiculturalism," "tolerance," "celebrate diversity" — a bumper-sticker ideology that is, in effect, an anti-ideology which explicitly rejects the very idea of drawing distinctions between your beliefs and anybody else's. Less sentimental chaps may (at least privately) regard the above as bunk, and prefer to place their faith in economics and technology. In Britain in the 1960s, the political class declared that the country needed mass immigration. When the less enlightened lower orders in northern England fretted that they would lose their towns to the Pakis, they were dismissed as paranoid racists. The experts were right in a narrow, economic sense: The immigrants became mill workers, but the mills closed anyway, and mosques sprouted in their place and Yorkshire can now boast among its native sons the July 7th London Tube bombers.
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POPSGory. Do NOT LOOK. Do NOT, unless you must! Israeli PM Ehud Olmert said the strike, which hit a civilian area, was the result of a "technical failure". "I'm very uncomfortable with this event. I'm very distressed." "I checked it and I verified it. This is not the policy,"
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POPSSUDAN, OIL or humans rights, or may be another Iraq? What the western countries are after in Sudan??? Sudan's 40 million population is 70% Sunni Muslim, 25% indigenous beliefs, and 5% Christian. Sudan's African Muslims killing African Muslims in tribal warfare is tragic, but cannot correctly be described as genocide - the systematic destruction by the government of Sudan of a national, racial, ethnic, or religious group.
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POPSa shared vision can come from many angles The paragraph below provides an interesting peek into the rationale for running shared space/coworking facilities. It's been fun sharing ideas and buzz around this issue, because the issue of motivation is so interesting, and the varying motivations put a spotlight on the different parts of the very ecosystem we're talking about.
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POPSMissing in Syria - Nicole Vienneau YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-t0tyHMxDw LiveJournal: http://vienneau.livejournal.com/39588.html Missing in Syria since March 31st (36 days), near the town of Hama, while on a day-trip to see Qasr Ibn Wardan (a nearby castle) and the "Dead Cities" of al-Bara and Serjilla. If you have any details or contacts in the area, please contact me at mattv99@hotmail.com Does anyone have any Bedouin connections? Does anyone have connections in "Al Andarin"? Does anyone have connections in Al Hamra or Al Muntar, please contact them. This is in addition to our search for people with connections to the local tribes around the castle. we're still trying to reach people that live or work along the route to Qasr Ibn Wardan. Along this route is the town of al-Hamra where she likely got off the mini-bus and attempted to walk or hitchhike the remaining distance. If you have any details or contacts in the area, please contact me at mattv99@hotmail.com
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POPSDeath by Sewage Two years ago UN aid agencies warned that this could happen, but no new sewage treatment facility was built to handle the extreme overload of waste. Why was this? Terrorist activities (Palestinian and Israeli) in the area? Foreign aid suspension when Hamas came to power? Disregard for the people whose health and livelihoods were in danger from the sewage? A terrible tragedy in itself, made worse by the fact that it was foreseen yet was not averted.
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POPSWho Needs an Office This is a skill I'm trying to master. Having everything with me wherever I go. I'm far from there yet, but this article was a great read.
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POPSIsrael destroys Negev Bedouin village for second time On Tuesday, January 9th, Israeli forces entered the Bedouin village of Twail Abu Jarwal in the Northern Negev for the fifth time, in order to demolish it. Large police forces, with the aid of special-task forces and with the aerial help of a helicopter and two bulldozers, demolished the entire village. Twenty-one homes, shacks, brick rooms, and tents were destroyed. During the last battle Israel waged against the residents of this village, on 6 December 2006, Israeli forces demolished 17 homes - more than half the village. But the villagers, with the help of friends and the Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages, managed to rebuild roofs over their heads, to protect them from the harsh Negev winter weather. Today, however, it seems that Israel might have won the battle -- and the war -- against its citizens in the Northern Negev. SO BRAVE, YOU LEARNT NOTHING FROM THE NAZIS!!!!!!!
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POPSGhaf - National Tree of UAE "The Emirates Wildlife Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature (EWS-WWF) with the support of Al Fahim Group launched a campaign to designate the ghaf as the national tree, Bedouin gave it their full support."
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