| Israeli Oppression in Hebron
It was once a thriving commercial and residential area. Today it's a "Ghost Town" because Israel destroyed its fabric of life through a state-imposed policy of land seizures, extended curfews, harsh restrictions on free movement and unaddressed violence. Combined, they terrorize Palestinians and prohibit them from driving or even walking on the area's main streets. That, in turn, makes life impossible for them. The consequences have been devastating with peoples' lives uprooted. The material below reviews the evidence B'Tselem and ACRI revealed in their study. Consider the consequences. Since the territories were occupied in 1967, Israel expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians throughout the OPT. In Hebron alone, thousands of residents and merchants were removed or had no other option than to leave the City Center because of Israel's "principle of separation" policy.
Spring items, wet cleanup stood out at Wal-Mart debut
I wandered through the new Wal-Mart Superstore in Belleville on opening day Wednesday. It's laid out pretty much like the store in O'Fallon. I liked all the skylights, though for such a sunny day, the store seemed a bit dim. I expect the staff will get the self-checkout lanes open soon. Spring has definitely sprung, because I saw lots of bathing suits, beachy purses and lawn furniture. Chester Cheetah, the mascot for Cheetos, was near the electronics section, all 7-foot or so of him in an inflatable costume. He was having a hard time attracting children for photos (looks of terror and back-pedaling) while I was there, but adults were stepping right up. As I was checking out the pet supplies at the other end of the store, I couldn't help but laugh when the public address system announced: "We need a wet cleanup by the Cheetos guy." ...
Mandan residents ask for noise ordinance
It's just too bad so many ordinarily pleasant people are getting so worked up over such a silly thing. Life is about more than fighting a bar and restaurant over a zoning permit. That's just the chance you take when you buy next to undeveloped land. " .
CAMPAIGN 2008
John Kerry endorsed Obama last week, he and his staff got some of the cool stuff. As for the Bush-last-day merchandise, Joseph says sales have been "phenomenal." Joseph says the company is sure that people like Obama as much as they loathe Bush. Not so with their attempt to sell Hillary Clinton with the message "Hillary 11.4.08." "When we first brought out Hilary, our customers were still too fed up with Bush to concentrate on anything else," she says. more >> .
Rudy survives the Russert crucible
On paper, Rudy Giuliani is the candidate most likely to create major fireworks in a "Meet The Press" grilling. His public and private record is so checkered with personal and professional misdeeds that one could easily imagine NBC's Tim Russert tearing him apart. But Giuliani, a veteran of the New York press corps, also knows how to handle tough questions. He doesn't get flustered. He can takes control of the facts. And so on Sunday, with some help from a restrained Russert, Giuliani mostly skated through his big Sunday test. Mostly, he survived by frankly admitting some of his mistakes, and then arguing others. When asked why he had not been better briefed as New York mayor on the al-Qaida threat, he said bluntly, "I didn't see the enormity of it, neither did the administration at the time." When asked about abandoning the 9/11 commission to give speeches, he said he should never have joined the panel, since he had other concerns at the time, including his own possible presidential run.
Hunters for the Hungry falling short of goal
Irwin Jacobs, chairman of FLW Outdoors, says he would be wiling to merge the BASS Federation into his tournament operation. The Federation and its parent organization, BASS, have been warring. BASS recently dismissed several Federation leaders, including Roger Fitchett of Virginia Beach. A Bass Fan report said that Jacobs had offered the Federation an open door, saying he would provide dollars to help grow grassroots bass programs. BASS would not be able to survive without the Federation, said Jacobs. “These people at BASS are single-handedly destroying the Federation," he said.. Jacobs had unkind works for Ray Scott, the founder of BASS. Scott has taken the side of BASS against the Federation, Jacobs said. .
Microchips everywhere: A future vision
Elliott Maxwell, a research fellow at Pennsylvania State University who serves as a policy adviser to EPCglobal, the industry's standard-setting group, says data broadcast by microchips can easily be intercepted, and misused, by high-tech thieves. As RFID goes mainstream and the range of readers increases, it will be "difficult to know who is gathering what data, who has access to it, what is being done with it, and who should be held responsible for it," Maxwell wrote in RFID Journal, an industry publication. The recent growth of the RFID industry has been staggering: From 1955 to 2005, cumulative sales of radio tags totaled 2.4 billion; last year alone, 2.24 billion tags were sold worldwide, and analysts project that by 2017 cumulative sales will top 1 trillion - generating more than $25 billion in annual revenues for the industry.
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