Tag: Israel
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Friday Mushroom Open Comments
Ever heard that phrase “I feel like a mushroom – I’m kept in the dark and people keep throwing (Word I Shouldn’t Say) on me?” Let’s see what the Main Stream News is doing to shed sunlight on certain topics: Obama’s “Transparency”: Let’s see…the visitor logs to the White House have been made public, but…
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Friday Jews In Space Open Comments
You gotta hand it to the Israelis. They have that indomitable spirit that yearns to see new things and make discoveries wherever that may be. If Yariv Bash, Kfir Damari and Yonatan Winetraub succeed and send a robot to the moon, they’ll donate their millions in prize money to promote science among Israel youth. Yesterday…
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A Tale of Many Countries, Many Faiths, Many Cultures, and (In)Tolerance
The always-readable and always-informative Michael Totten took a slight detour from his usual topics to compare and contrast several different Middle/Near Eastern & Southwest Asian countries faiths and cultures. His jumping-off point was the question “What is Iran’s most repressed religious minority?” I initially thought “Jews”. Then I thought “Zoroastrians”. I was wrong on both…