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An excavation in a part of Jerusalem known as the City of David has uncovered stone markings that date back thousands of years. Nobody has any idea what they are or what they mean. But whatever it is? It's important.

The v-shaped markings (not be confused with our ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/18 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:19:49 ROME (Reuters) - Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centers in drought-hit eastern Africa, U.N. aid officials said Monday.

Josette Sheeran, executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, told a co... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/17 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:04:46 History was made on Thursday when the Iron Dome counter-rocket defense system intercepted a Grad-model rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, proving its capabilities for the first time in combat.

IDF sources said that the rocket was detected shortly after it was launched in the direction ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/16 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:46:36 Consumer Reports said in a blog post and accompanying video on Monday that widely reported signal problems with the iPhone 4, Apple’s latest mobile phone, are a result of a flaw in the phone’s antenna design, and that it cannot recommend purchasing the phone. That contradicts earlier claims by Apple... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/15 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:12:45 Source: [b]IDF[/b]

Video taken by IDF naval boat shows the passengers of the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships in the ‘Free Gaza’ Flotilla, violently attacking IDF soldiers who were trying to board the ship after having sent repeated requests for the boat to change course.

Large groups of passenger... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/14 Mon, 31 May 2010 13:09:37 In a forty-eight hour period beginning on Christmas Eve 2008 the Christian fundamentalist Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) killed, dismembered and burned at least 200 Congolese civilians. Soldiers raped women and girls, twisted the heads off babies, and cut the lips and ears off those they did not kill.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/13 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:25:40 ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2010) — A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric in... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/12 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:22:04 In 1994, Israel asserted, and the PLO accepted, that construction would continue on existing Jewish settlements. For the next 15 years, negotiations were never stopped by that building.

In January 2009, the Palestinian Authority (PA) stopped negotiations because Hamas attacked Israel from the Gaz... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/11 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:55:35 In the world of Israeli popular culture, the most popular maternal figure at the moment is a very different kind of Jewish mother — a proud Arab Muslim who prays five times daily, calls the Koran her favorite book, obsessively puffs on a hookah pipe and proudly wears a keffiyah.

Futna Jabber is o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/10 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:06:40 PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' perceptions of 20 nations that figure prominently in the news or U.S. foreign policy held quite steady in the first year of the Obama administration. Canada retained its top position in Gallup's annual country ratings, with 90% of Americans viewing it favorably, unchanged... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/9 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:40:25 This article explains it better than I can:

Cigarette smoke is a deadly delivery device for a benign but habit-forming
product: nicotine. [b]Nicotine isn't especially dangerous -- about like caffeine.[/b]
Good policy toward tobacco use would reduce the grave harm of smoking by
replacing cigare... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/8 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:01:57 The "Just War Tradition"

On December 27, 2008, after sustaining eight years of rocket attacks, Israel launched a military operation against Hamas in Gaza. How are we to evaluate the Israeli incursion from a moral and ethical perspective?

As in any moral evaluation of a war, we must begin by ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/7 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:45:22 Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah this week announced the publication of a new political manifesto, outlining the goals of his movement. The document is the successor to Hizbullah's first manifesto, published in 1985, and many regional analysts have hailed it as reflecting the group's "Le... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/6 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:26:49 RAWABI, West Bank - Dusk has fallen on a terraced hillside, and workers clearing the red earth hurry to finish planting trees in the twilight, their labor the initial step in the construction of the first-ever planned Palestinian city.

The city, with a construction price tag of some $350 million,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/5 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:40:22 In a downtown Manhattan courtroom, where the lawyers and clients up front outnumbered the observers seated in the back, where a forgotten Jewish Egyptian victim challenged an omnipresent multibillion-dollar multinational corporation; in a case where history itself was both on trial and being made, t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/1 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:19:41 ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2009) — Despite advances in treatment regimens and the best efforts of nurses and doctors, about 70% of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at Tel Aviv University could cut that number dramatically.

Prof... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/2 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:58:42 By Erich Follath and Holger Stark

In September 2007, Israeli fighter jets destroyed a mysterious complex in the Syrian desert. The incident could have led to war, but it was hushed up by all sides. Was it a nuclear plant and who gave the orders for the strike?

http://www.spiegel.de/internation... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/4 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:08:09 snip

The new case making the rounds, however, appears to have some legs. It is getting international news attention, and I am being flooded with e-mail requests to analyze the case.

This is the story of Desiree Jennings, who is a 28 year old cheerleader who was apparently healthy until August ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Mosby/3 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:21:27