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Gaza victims describe being used as human shields by Hamas
Seeded on Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:38 PM EST (IMRA)
Gaza family describes how they were used as body shields by Hamas and there was nothing they could do to prevent this.
World duped by Hamas death count
Seeded on Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:31 PM EST (JPost.com)
An article that covers the casualty count from the Israeli operation in Gaza. Excerpt:
UN: IDF did not shell UNRWA school
Seeded on Thu Feb 5, 2009 7:16 PM EST (JPost.com)
A clerical error led the UN to falsely accuse Israel of shelling one of its Gaza schools in the Jabalya refugee camp during Operation Cast Lead, the international organization admitted this week.
Gazan doctor says death toll inflated
Seeded on Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:51 AM EST (ynetnews.com)
Physician at Gaza's Shifa Hospital tells Italian newspaper number of dead in Israeli offensive 'stands at no more than 500 or 600, most of them youths recruited to Hamas' ranks'.
The 9/11 Presidency
Seeded on Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:29 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal discusses that, irrespective of what criticism people may be voicing now with respect to President Bush, there is a lot to the eight years that he has been in office.
Hamas calls upon all Gaza children to gather near a house to form a human shield
Seeded on Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:50 PM EST (Liveleak)
This is a video showing Hamas calling for kids to form a human shield
Alan Dershowitz: The CNN strategy
Seeded on Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:59 PM EST (National Post)
A Harvard law professor weighs in on Hamas tactics and need for objective coverage. The following is the beginning of the article:
Nuclear or Biological Attack Called Likely
Seeded on Tue Dec 2, 2008 8:39 AM EST (The Washington Post)
The odds that terrorists will soon strike a major city with weapons of mass destruction are now better than even, a bipartisan congressionally mandated task force concludes in a draft study that warns of growing threats from rogue states, nuclear smuggling networks and the spread …
Saudi Blogger Arrested for Political Web Content
Seeded on Tue Jan 1, 2008 10:48 PM EST (Mashable!)
The Middle East has had quite a time with legal issues surrounding the use of free speech in regards to the web and other publications, along with a handful of other countries around the globe.
John R. Bolton - The Flaws In the Iran Report
Seeded on Thu Dec 6, 2007 12:11 AM EST (The Washington Post)
Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week. Rarely has an administration been so unprepared for such an event.
Fighting ALS: what would make you give? (with VIDEO)
Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:00 AM EST
You are healthy. Then you have problems with coordination.
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(Semi-verified) Iraq: Unemployment Down from 50% to 20%, Inflation Down from 60% to 16%
Seeded on Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:30 AM EDT (Gateway Pundit)
Iraqi Prime Minister announced yesterday that unemployment has declined from 50% to 20% and inflation has gone down from 60% to 16% in Iraq.
Bush Asks for $46 Billion More for PEACE
Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:50 PM EDT
Is Bush seeking funding for war or for peace? Having recently read Bush Asks for $46 Billion More for Wars I was struck with the cognitive dissonance of this statement.
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New NV Group: Iraq Success Stories
Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:43 PM EDT
A lot of us complain that there is a gross lack of balance with respect to attention that the good news coming out of Iraq gets compared to the bad news.
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Seam Carving for content-aware image resizing (VIDEO)
Seeded on Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:26 PM EDT (EW.com)
An amazing new technique for resizing images by Dr Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science demonstrated at SIGGRAPH.
USAID: Assistance for Iraq - Success Story: Community Leaders and Entrepreneurs Gain Business Skills at Baghdad Center
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 6:19 PM EDT (USAID)
On July 11, 2007, the first graduates of a business-skills pro-gram developed in partnership between a local district council and the Baghdad Small Business Development Center (SBDC) received certificates marking their completion of "How to Start Up or Improve a Business." Su …
U.N. Approves Darfur Peacekeeping Force
Seeded on Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:41 PM EDT (PBS)
The resolution, sponsored by Great Britain and France, would authorize sending around 19,500 military personnel and 6,500 civilian police to the region. More than 200,000 people have died in the past four years during fighting between rebels and militia forces in Darfur, and mil …
NikitaB Vs. ?
Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:57 PM EDT
It has been brought to my attention that I am not a pleasant person. Tom, in a brilliant display (no sarcasm) has identified quite a list of references to my discussions where I called people "idiots", "aggravating morons", and other such pleasantries.
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Harvard Fellow writes a document on why the Lancet Iraq study is wrong.
Seeded on Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:33 PM EDT (Michelle Malkin)
One of the most useful roles of the blogosphere is its service as an open-source intelligence-gathering medium. You can draw on the expertise of people around the world at the touch of a button.
How to Get Noticed on Newsvine?
Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:34 PM EDT
NewsVine is an interesting system. It takes information and creates a social-style analysis of content making it ebb and flow depending on people's attention, time of day, whether top users seeded something to eclipse everything else, weather, etc. What can you do about it?
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Pew poll: Support for suicide bombings drops throughout Muslim world
Seeded on Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:47 PM EDT (Hot Air)
Discusses a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. The full survey can be found here:
Libya frees 6 jailed medics: Sciam Observations
Seeded on Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:08 AM EDT (Sciam)
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor returned to Bulgaria today after serving eight years each of life sentences for allegedly deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. Libya commuted the six medics' sentences from death to life imprisonment last wee …
Not A Good Time To Be Sunni And Arab In Iraq
Seeded on Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:27 PM EDT (StrategyPage)
The surge has basically been chasing the terrorist and criminal gangs around the suburbs of Baghdad, or even into northern or western Iraq. This has taken its toll. Time spent in flight cannot be spent planting IEDs or killing people.
NV Automatic Article Removal: Why Bush Will Be a Winner
Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:04 AM EDT
Update: Apparently, this was a feature, not a bug. See Mike's comment below. Update: This was a bug in the system. The article was restored. The article seeded by Ardith has been removed from NV:
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U.S. hopes Iran meeting will show results this time
Seeded on Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:34 PM EDT (Reuters)
The United States hopes a meeting between the U.S.
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Creative and productive use of the NV tools that are provided for the Hezbollah vs. Israel: Can we agree? exercise. I'm not sure that this is what News Vine had in mind during development, but they should have.
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