Dec 31, 2007
Gestatten: Der neue deutsche Spießer (Stern.de)
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Dec 30, 2007
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Iran, Israel and Nuclear War: An Illustrative Scenario Analysis
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) -
"Iran, Israel and Nuclear War: An Illustrative Scenario Analysis"
"There is no way to predict the forces each side
will have in the future, or how they might target those forces and use them in war. It does seem clear, however, that both sides would probably be forced to target the other's population centers in any scenario that escalated beyond an initial demonstrative strike..."
Brief summary on Jpost.com -
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847416688&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Link to the CSIS website - http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4172/type,1/
Hit the picture or click on the link for the whole report -
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071119_iran.is&nuclearwar.pdf
Dec 23, 2007
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Thomas L. Friedman - Losing Weight in the Gulf
"The Gulf Arabs feel like they have this neighbor who has been a drug dealer for 18 years. Recently, this neighbor has been very visibly growing poppies for heroin in his backyard in violation of the law. He's also been buying bigger and better trucks to deliver drugs. You can see them parked in his driveway.
In the past year, though, because of increased police patrols and all the neighbors threatening to do something, this suspicious character has shut down the laboratory in his basement to convert poppies into heroin. In the wake of that, the police declared that he is no longer a drug dealer.
"But wait," say the Gulf Arabs, "he's still growing poppies. He was using them for heroin right up to 2003. Now he says he's in the flower business. He's not in the flower business. He's dealing drugs. And he's still expanding the truck fleet to deliver them. How can you say he's no longer a drug dealer?"
Sorry, say the police. We have a very technical, legal definition of drug-dealing, and your neighbor no longer fits it..."
Thomas L. Friedman: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,522844,00.html
Dec 11, 2007
Lizas Welt - Renaissance eines Gesinnungstextils
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Mearsheimer, Walt, and "cold feet" - by Martin Kramer
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Dec 10, 2007
dershowitz - "stupid intelligence"
Read the whole article here or hit the picture
Dec 9, 2007
Dec 8, 2007
Hey RudeBoy.......
Dec 7, 2007
Dec 4, 2007
How to get a job!!!
Bill Gates advertised for a new chairman of Microsoft Europe. 5000 candidates are assembled in a large room. One of them is Maurice Cohen, a little French Jew.
Bill Gates thanks the candidates for coming but asks all those who are not familiar with the JAVA program language to leave; 2000 people rise and leave the room. Maurice Cohen says to himself, "I do not know this language but what have I got to lose if I stay? I'll give it a try".
Bill Gates then asks all those who have no experience of managing teams of more than 100 people to leave. Another 2000 people go. Maurice Cohen says to himself, "I have never managed anybody but myself but what have I got to lose if I stay? What can happen to me?"
Then Bill Gates asks all candidates who do not have outstanding academic qualifications to rise and leave; 500 people remove themselves. Maurice Cohen says to himself, "I left school at 15 but what have I got to lose if I stay? So he stays in the room. Lastly, Bill Gates asks all of the candidates who do not speak the Serbo-Croat language to rise and leave; 498 people rise and leave the room. Maurice Cohen says himself, "I do not speak Serbo-Croat but what the hell! Have I got anything to lose?"
He finds himself alone with one other candidate. Everyone else has gone. Bill Gates joins them and says: "Apparently you are the only two candidates w! ho speak Serbo-Croatian. I'd like to hear you converse with one another in Serbo-Croatian."
Calmly Maurice turns to the other candidate and says to him: "Baruch ata Adonaï."
The other candidate answers: "Elohénu melech ha'olam."
Dec 3, 2007
Dec 2, 2007
Kasparov's report about his short jail visit
Dec 1, 2007
Hola Hovito!
AND A BIT MORE FOR YOUR PLEASURE......
Top 10 reasons to go to work naked
2. Can take advantage of computer monitor radiation to work on your tan.
3. "I'd love to chip in, but I left my wallet in my pants."
4. To stop those creepy guys in Marketing from looking down your blouse.
5. You want to see if it's like the dream.
6. So that with a little help from Muzak you can add "Exotic Dancer" to your exaggerated resume.
7. People stop stealing your pens after they've seen where you keep them.
8. Diverts attention from the fact that you also came to work drunk.
9. Gives "bad hair day" a whole new meaning.
10. No one steals your chair.
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Simon Says
New York City gritty committee, pity the fool that
act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty. Duh Duh Duh Duh!
Nov 20, 2007
you know we got the VOCAB!
"Back in the days I used to listen to Kool G Rap, way back when before guns became gats..."
Dude
This guy has mastered the universal language of "Dude."
Join him as he navigates the obstacles of everyday life.
Android Demo
Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform.
Nov 19, 2007
Hijos de la Guerra
Trailer - Documentary Feature Film tells the story of the Mara Salvatrucha (aka MS-13), a transnational Hispanic street gang founded by Salvadorian civil war refugees which the U.S government says is the fastest-growing and most violent gang in this country. The film explores root personal reasons for gang membership and the ensuing explosion of fratricidal violence as well as the complex role of social and government policy in both containing and aggravating gang proliferation.
The Most Curious Canned Goods
Nov 18, 2007
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Nov 15, 2007
"Bionade-Biedermeier"
"Man kann im Prenzlauer Berg einfach im linken Habitus weiterleben. Das ist ja das Schöne. Man kann sich tolerant fühlen, weil Toleranz nicht auf die Probe gestellt wird. Keine Parabolantenne beleidigt das Auge, kein Kopftuch sorgt für Debatten, keine Moschee beunruhigt die Weltbürger. Es gibt hier kaum Telecafés, die Wohnungen sind zu teuer für Menschen wie Yunus Uygur. Es gibt keine Hip-Hop-Höhlen für türkische Jungs aus dem Wedding oder Kreuzberg, keine Infrastruktur für die lärmenden Kinder der Unterschicht – wenn sie sich nur rauchend auf einen der vielen Spielplätze setzen, stürzen schon die hysterischen Mütter herbei...."
Nov 12, 2007
just a joke
Nov 11, 2007
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Arab freedom can be delayed, not denied...
Interesting article by Emanuele Ottolenghi, head of the Transatlantic Institute.
http://transatlanticinstitute.org/html/pu_articles.html?id=368
Oct 31, 2007
Rules of the game, Palestinian-style
"...These tenets are fatal to the hope of getting a Palestinian state, of the Palestinian polity becoming more moderate, of ending terrorism, or stopping even officially sponsored PA incitement. Palestinians know these rules well; outsiders seem largely unaware of them. Exceptions can be found but few, and since these are considered shameful they go unpublicized and thus form no precedent for changing the rules, which are: ..."
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SHARE RUDEBOY
Oct 30, 2007
Oct 29, 2007
think again
"...His administration will go down, say historians such as Columbia’s Eric Foner and Princeton’s Sean Wilentz, as a disaster. As Wilentz put it, “Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history...”
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what men talk about
interesting article on jpost.com:
Shmuley Boteach - "What men talk about"
Oct 26, 2007
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so close to war
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hillary beware
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Oct 19, 2007
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Sep 30, 2007
oh tel aviv, i love you...
Hit the picture or here for the full text: Gelobte Stadt - von Michèle Roten
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Sep 25, 2007
why he wanted to speak at columbia
"Ahmadinejad's agenda is different, though, from that of the traditional autocrat. His goal is not merely to hold power in Iran through sheer force, or even through a standard 20th-century personality cult. His goal is to undermine the American and Western democracy rhetoric that poses an ideological threat to the Iranian regime..."
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