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Someone called Mark S. Price has filed a patent (pdf) application in the USA for an anti-suicide bomber device. Here’s the suggested warning notice:
WARNING
DETONATION OF EXPOSIVE IS GREATLY DISCOURAGED
PORCINE CONTENTS- PORK
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the frangible glass amulet
affixed to this Shield contains a significant quantity of pig’s blood in a
liquid state. It has been [...]
Chas Newkey-Burden explains why he blogs in support of Israel:
I grew up in south west London in an area with few Jewish people. I had a couple of Jewish friends at school and some of my parents friends are Jewish, but I can’t say I was particularly exposed to Jewish [...]
Not everyone lost out from the Israeli blockade of Gaza:
The company’s revenue grew to $1.8 million in 2009 from $145,780 in 2006, Qannan said. Staff has quadrupled since 2006 to 65
Which company?
The blockade initially made it difficult for Gaza City- based Palestine Food, which is owned by the Palestinian Authority’s Palestine Investment Fund, to get [...]
If ever a political advertising campaign were designed to be parodied, it’s this one.
Why don’t we see demonstrations against Islamic dictatorships in London, Paris, Barcelona? Or demonstrations against the Burmese dictatorship? Why aren’t there demonstrations against the enslavement of millions of women who live without any legal protection? Why aren’t there demonstrations against the use of children as human bombs where there is conflict with Islam? Why has [...]
It was inevitable, wasn’t it? The only question being, which bearded loon in a skirt would be the first. And the winner is…
A Palestinian cleric preaching on Hamas TV said the volcano in Iceland and the volcanic ash that paralyzed European air travel were sent by Allah to punish “Infidels and polytheists with fear and [...]
Yet again:
A new mathematical analysis of the collapse of the World Trade Centre has been published by a Cambridge University academic, with results that challenge conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11th attacks.The new paper, by Dr Keith Seffen, uses established engineering models to demonstrate that once the collapse of the twin towers began, it [...]
Secular Iranian refugees have been arrested in Turkey. Azarmehr reports:
Five Iranian secular dissidents who have been accepted as bonafide refugees by UNHCR, were beaten up by the Turkish police and their whereabouts is currently unknown. Despite the numerous witnesses who saw the Turkish police beat up the five Iranians, the Turkish authorities say they have [...]