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sCrAwLz foR Saturday, April 05, 2003
PNAC.info - Exposing the Project for the New American Century
An effort to investigate, analyze, and expose the Project for the New American Century, and its plan for a "unipolar" world.
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Virus may trigger global recession
THE DEADLY virus sweeping the Far East could tip the world economy into recession, Wall Street experts forecast yesterday.
Morgan Stanley became the first leading bank to predict that severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) could trigger a global downturn, and lowered its world growth forecasts because of the rapid spread of the condition. Other investment banks also gave warning that, with the world economy already weak because of war with Iraq, Sars could have repercussions across the globe.
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Parasite T.V.
Warning! Silly fun zone ahead! | Via MeFi
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sCrAwLz foR Friday, April 04, 2003
Lower income=more video games
Study finds homes with income less than $35,000 spend 50% more time than those over $74,000.

The study from Jupiter Research, released at the start of a two-day games industry conference in Los Angeles, also found that overall, teenagers spend less time playing games than watching TV, going online or listening to the radio. However, game playing occupied more of their time than reading books and magazines, it said.

Comment: Instead of clamping your hands to your face and gasping, "Oh, for shame!" why not admit that we may be witnessing the emergence of a new language form here. I heard that writing didn't go over very well either with the older, staid minds of the time when it first emerged.
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JM: What do you see in the future for poetry and literature?

DD: I would like to see authors really use Magick to reach themes. I'd like to see more work coming out of visioning and trance. I'm really tired of reading about human beings! There's all these other beings, I'd like to see a real dimensional jump and I'd like to see people working on the technical problems. Like when you come back from trance or visioning, or drugs and what you can write down about it at that moment. What you can make into an actual piece, we haven't figured it out yet. Yeats certainly didn't figure it out. It's more than needing a new language. There are actual forms we need to find or the forms have to find us, that will hold all that material without trying to make it reductive. The attempts at visionary painting in the 60's and Yeats' last poems show how vision didn't translate into these old artistic forms. Of course taking the raw material and presenting that as a piece doesn't work either. Maybe a blending of vision, word, and sounds can achieve something. We haven't really had time to think about what the computer is. Most of us still think of it as a typewriter, or a calculator. We don't think of it as it's own dimension. It has it's own medium, possibilities, to bring this kind of material across. I also think about deliberate invocation to find the plane or thing you want to write about.

JM: Do you see us as heading into a post literate society?

DD: Yes, we might be. I don't think that will stop poetry, in fact it won't stop any of the arts at all. Even if it's oral there may be a split like there was in Europe when there was the written literature in Latin and then there was the oral poems of the singers in the Vulgate. We have that to a degree already with the poetry of the great song writers. Really though, I don't think literate or post literate really matters. Were cave paintings literate or pre-literate? Did they read those paintings or just look at them?(laughs) Of course the only reason a completely literate society was developed was for thought control, and now that thought control can be done via T.V, etc. it's not really needed anymore. They don't want everyone reading Schoepenhauer!

-Diane Diprima and Joseph Matheny: 1992
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Perri the obnoxious, booze-loving clown is dead at 51
Perri, a recreational drug user, started abusing cocaine. He grew a long white beard, something you don’t often see on clowns. “I probably was too messed up on drugs to shave regularly. Or, ya know, I didn’t want any razor blades next to my face while I was high up on coke.” Gossip spread through the French Quarter about Perri’s drug habit. Rumors had it that his rubber chicken was stuffed with a bag full of coke. And, at the same time he was blowing balloons for the kiddies on Jackson Square, he was dealing marijuana out of his clown box to pay for his $200 a day habit. Perri attributes his downfall to being “too high and mighty. I was showboatin’. Let too many people know my business......"

Also see: R.I.P. “PERRI THE HOBO" | Oh my. DW has fallen off the 12 step clown wagon again...
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None of your sense of humor are belong to us
What started as an April Fool's joke involving bad grammar landed seven people in jail Tuesday.
Sturgis police arrested seven Sturgis men for placing more than 20 threatening letters on various businesses, schools, banks and at the post office. The letters all read "All your base are belong to us and you have no chance to survive, make your time."But police were not in on the joke.
Information about the letters was forwarded to the FBI and U.S. postal authorities, said Sturgis police Chief Eugene Alli.
"This is no joking matter," he said. "During a time of war and with the present concern for homeland security, terrorist acts will not be tolerated and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." | Via Mailbag
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The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld
Recent works by the secretary of defense.

Glass Box
You know, it's the old glass box at the—
At the gas station,
Where you're using those little things
Trying to pick up the prize,
And you can't find it.
It's—

And it's all these arms are going down in there,
And so you keep dropping it
And picking it up again and moving it,
But—

Some of you are probably too young to remember those—
Those glass boxes,
But—

But they used to have them
At all the gas stations
When I was a kid.

—Dec. 6, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing
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Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
In the fall of 1958 Theodore Kaczynski, a brilliant but vulnerable boy of sixteen, entered Harvard College. There he encountered a prevailing intellectual atmosphere of anti-technological despair. There, also, he was deceived into subjecting himself to a series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments -- experiments that may have confirmed his still-forming belief in the evil of science. Was the Unabomber born at Harvard? A look inside the files.
    Through research at the Murray Center and in the Harvard archives I found that, among its other purposes, Henry Murray's experiment was intended to measure how people react under stress. Murray subjected his unwitting students, including Kaczynski, to intensive interrogation -- what Murray himself called "vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive" attacks, assaulting his subjects' egos and most-cherished ideals and beliefs. Thanks Jason
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sCrAwLz foR Thursday, April 03, 2003
Can Your PC Become Neurotic?
It is true that machines are becoming more complex and "intelligent" everyday. Does this mean that they can exhibit unpredictable behavior like HAL, the supercomputer in 2001: A Space Odyssey? Do we have to fear our PCs?

The last book by Thomas M. Georges, Digital Soul: Intelligent Machines and Human Values, explains how our machines can develop neurosis and what kind of therapy exist.
    Autonomous, goal-seeking machines that can reprogram their own goals and subgoals could, in effect, develop "minds of their own" and set off in unpredictable directions. If they create goals that make no sense whatsoever to us, then we may see those choices as "crazy." If you think that nutty people can wreak havoc, just imagine the potential for chaos when a supercomputer in charge of some critical aspect of our lives gets confused about its goals and purpose in life. | Via Smart Mobs
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The Worst Novel Ever Written...is Now Free
A while back, we pointed to Gene Weingarten's Washington Post review of the so-called "Worst Novel in the World", Robert Burrows' The Great American Parade. We recieved an email this morning from a reader that said; " I wanted to let you know that the place where I work, Lulu.com, has the book available for sale in print, and free for online reading. Any of your readers who were interested in seeing what the book was about can now get a copy or read it online if their interest was piqued by your earlier blog entry."

You'll see there are two versions of the book, one in print for sale, and the other is online, priced at $0.00.

Editor's note: Here's the deal- You have to register, log-in and purchase this book for $0.00. No CC info, or anything like that is taken. You may also use the account that we set up: username- stare@incunabula.org password- stare2003. Look in the "bookbag". The book should already be there.
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Bacteria talking to to each other, squid with no shadows...
Bonnie Bassler, an associate professor of molecular biology at Princeton and a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation 'genius' grant has discovered a secret about microbes that the science world has missed for centuries. The bugs are talking to each other, and plotting against us. -chiaroscuro
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KGB General Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security
When the NICA (National Identity Card Act) gets passed, the Posse Comitatus Act gets overturned, a few other pieces of legislation yet to be proffered get passed, the White House will have more control over the American people than the Kremlin had over the Russian people when Stalin was alive. He said that and then he laughed.
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The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head
There is an emerging second superpower, but it is not a nation. Instead, it is a new form of international player, constituted by the “will of the people” in a global social movement. The beautiful but deeply agitated face of this second superpower is the worldwide peace campaign, but the body of the movement is made up of millions of people concerned with a broad agenda that includes social development, environmentalism, health, and human rights. This movement has a surprisingly agile and muscular body of citizen activists who identify their interests with world society as a whole—and who recognize that at a fundamental level we are all one. These are people who are attempting to take into account the needs and dreams of all 6.3 billion people in the world—and not just the members of one or another nation. Consider the members of Amnesty International who write letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience, and the millions of Americans who are participating in email actions against the war in Iraq. Or the physicians who contribute their time to Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres. | Ok, you've probably seen this one. It's making the rounds, but it's still interesting. Besides, some of us around here are supposed to be taking a little break/vacation, etc. Deal with it. ;-)
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sCrAwLz foR Wednesday, April 02, 2003
Baghdad Envoy Plays a Prank
A couple hundred thousand troops have invaded his country and his capital is under daily airstrikes, but that didn't stop Iraq's ambassador to Russia from getting into the spirit of April Fools' Day on Tuesday.

At one of his now-daily news conferences, a steely-faced Abbas Khalaf Kunfuth read what he said was a news flash from Reuters: The Americans had accidentally fired a nuclear missile into British forces, killing seven.

After a shocked pause, the still-steely faced Abbas revealed it was all a joke.
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Reptilian Agenda
Better to be safe than sorry? One can never know for sure can they? Therefore, dig in and be prepared, just in case. Besides, we've heard that the Crocodile Hunter may soon be serving Mr. Icke with a cease and desist letter (something about stealing his schtick), so it may not be around much longer.
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WHITE HOUSE TO END DRUGS & TERROR ADS
Also Stops Study That Found Campaign Wasn't Working

The White House anti-drug office will end its controversial drugs-and-terror advertising campaign and, in a reversal, shift more of its
'You killed me,' says the ghost of a little girl to a U.S. office worker in one of the White House anti-drug campaign's cancelled ads.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy will also cease a polarizing $8 million annual study that found the ads aimed at youth were not working and that pitted the drug office against the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.
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The Fight to Control Your Mind
Should the government have the right to alter the biochemistry of your brain? Richard Glen Boire, codirector and legal counsel of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, says no, and he's making his case before the Supreme Court. In Sell v. US, the government argues that it can drug Charles Sell, a dentist from Missouri, in order to make him competent to stand trial. Boire, whose amicus brief argues that Sell has a right to integrity of mind, explains why cognitive liberty goes way beyond this one case. | Via Libertythink
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sCrAwLz foR Tuesday, April 01, 2003
Chinese hacker groups to hack U.S. & U.K
Chinese hacker groups are planning attacks on U.S. and U.K. based Web sites to protest the war in Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security warned in an alert that it unintentionally posted on a government Web site yesterday.
Read More about this story here.

The hackers are planning “distributed denial-of-service” attacks, which render Web sites and networks unusable by flooding them with massive amounts of traffic. They also are planning to deface selected Web sites, according to the alert, though the government said it did not know when the attacks would occur.

The Homeland Security Department said it got the information by monitoring an online meeting that the hackers held last weekend to coordinate the attacks. The department sent the alert to government and industry officials over the weekend but accidentally posted the link on the home page of the National Infrastructure Protection Center. The alert was pulled hours later.
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Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time, part of Alex Boese's Museum of Hoaxes Web site.
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Boo Cheney
In solidarity with Make Fun of the Cheneys day, we bring you the Ask Dick Cheney! Unofficial Official Simulator. It’s as plausible as the man himself:
    Sample question: Isn’t this war a complete fiasco?

    I think from the standpoint of this basic proposition, we are right I think people know we’re right and we’ll do everything we can to sustain that position. Containment is not possible when dictators obtain weapons of mass destruction, and are prepared to share them with terrorists who intend to inflict catastrophic casualties on the United States. The President has asked Congress for a one-year increase of more than $48 billion for national defense, the largest since Ronald Reagan lived in the White House. Great decisions and challenges lie ahead of us. He has not complied with the Resolution, he’s now kicked the inspectors out, there’s a lot of evidence that he does in fact have and is continuing to develop weapons of mass destruction.

The Unofficial Official Simulator also comes in four other exciting fruit flavors: Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Condi Rice, and Paul Wolfowitz. | Via Making Light
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It's Alright, Maw-I'm Only Bleeding
This "lost interview" between Mondo 2000 Editor-in-Chief R. U. Sirius (Ken Goffman) and Todd Brendan Fahey, author of Wisdom's Maw, marks the beginning of an exhaustive research project on the elusive "Captain" Al Hubbard, the legendary OSS agent-turned-psychedelic messiah, and who turned the CIA, Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and thousands of others on to LSD | Via NWD
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The Vortex Theory?
Site claims: This new and revolutionary thesis has just passed the refereeing process in Russia. Five of Russia’s most distinguished scientists from three of Moscow’s most prestigious universities have reviewed, authenticated the mathematical proof of the Vortex Theory Thesis, and have authorized its publication. "There no doubts, that all is correct. I myself and the scientific employees of the Leading Institutes of Russia.
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Street Servers: Open Source Networked Neighborhood
The always-fertile minds at Headmap have published a think-piece about the way existing information about places could be used as infrastructure for open source geoinfo systems. A few intriguing examples mentioned were San Francisco, London, and Barcelona. | Via SmartMobs
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A friendly piece of advice
When invading an oil-rich country like Iraq you might not want to name your helicopter bases in the country "Exxon" and "Shell" -- especially when some of the world believes your war against terrorism is really a war for oil. | Via John Paczkowski
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sCrAwLz foR Monday, March 31, 2003
Supafly: Location-Based Virtual Soap Opera
In Chapter One of Smart Mobs, I described the evening I spent driving around Stockholm with a car full of fanatic players of a mobile, location-based game, Botfighters. Steven Johnson, in a recent Slate article, tipped me to a new game, also location-based, from the same company: Supafly. -Howard Rheingold

Supafly - a location-based virtual soap opera where intrigues, gang conflicts, and romance are the tools of the trade for becoming a virtual celebrity.
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Drunks Tank Dollar
According to the Washington Post- three drunks brought the dollar down!
"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three men climbed on a New York bridge in a drunken prank on Friday, shutting the bridge, sparking an anti-terrorism response and sending the dollar down in morning trading, officials said."

"Traders have been watching for the possibility of retaliatory attacks on the United States in response to the war and reports of suspicious activity on the bridge caused an immediate fall in the dollar." | Via Xaos
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Students for an Orwellian Society: Because 2003 is 19 years too late.
What is SOS?
Students for an Orwellian Society (SOS) is a nationwide student group. Although SOS has always been a nationwide student group, there is evidence to suggest that it first appeared at Columbia University. The mission of SOS is to promote the vision of a society based upon the principles of Ingsoc, first articulated by George Orwell in his prophetic novel, 1984. SOS is active at Columbia, Oberlin, Penn State, NYU, UMass, Minuteman High School, FSC, CalTech, UVA, RIT, Murray, JHU, UC-Berkeley, and a number of other schools. However, while we of course have a complete list of schools available, we do not list them here until we are contacted with information of their existence. | Via Libertythink
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Ten Thousand Monkeys 47th Issue
Such strange times. I'm having a hard time unfocusing from the news reports long enough to be able to think of what to write for this intro. It should be something about spring, rebirth, and all that jazz, don't you think? ANYWAY, rather than headlessly blither on about it all, I think it's best if I just say: This is the 47th issue of M10K, it's damn good, and I hope you enjoy it.
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Stanford expert on artifical intelligence dies at 68
Robert Engelmore, a long-time Stanford University computer expert and an authority on artificial intelligence, has died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 68. The Menlo Park scientist died Tuesday. He was helping to rescue his 5-year-old grandson while swimming in Hawaii when he apparently suffered a seizure.Engelmore and his grandson Jack were swimming when they were overwhelmed by several large waves. After helping lift the boy to safety, Engelmore was pulled out to sea. Lifeguards who reached him a few minutes later found that his heart had stopped.
Engelmore for many years was the executive director of the Heuristic Programming Project at Stanford's Computer Science Department. He was also an editor of A-I (Artificial Intelligence) magazine and was an expert on medical and military applications of artificial intelligence. | He was a friend to several here on STARE, and we all wish the family peace.
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The Museum of Unworkable Devices
Perpetual motion machine proposals are often dismissed by scientists in a manner which appears to the layperson as hasty rejection using dogmatic assertions that such machines are prohibited from working by the "laws of thermodynamics". This does not satisfy the person who knows a little physics, but considers the laws of thermodynamics a bit mysterious. The very character of such laws is off-putting to the average person, because they have an air of finality and negativity.

Also see: The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices | Via MeFi
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Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
Once more, from the top...

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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sCrAwLz foR Sunday, March 30, 2003
Geeks Without Borders
San Francisco's North Beach has a long history of eccentric street culture, but if you find yourself in the neighborhood this Saturday, you are likely to witness a new twist: small groups of people clustering together to read text off of cell-phone screens, then embarking on some kind of oddball group activity—retrieving a suitcase that's been hidden atop a tree, persuading strangers to try on insane outfits—and then huddling together again to peer at their cell phones.
scrawled on the wall by TheLoneDeRanger : 3/30/2003 10:26:45 PM GMT: permalink

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NSA Behaviorial Modification Procedure
"The following procedural outline documents typical techniques, processes, explanations, and definitions of the National Security Agency's Behavioral Modification Procedure using Subliminal Implanted Posthypnotic Suggestions through acoustically delivered phonetically edited language elements combined into scripts without somnambulistic preparation in the subject." | Via abuddhas memes
scrawled on the wall by TheLoneDeRanger : 3/30/2003 08:47:00 PM GMT: permalink

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Avenging Angels of Western Civilization: Paroxysms and Orgasms of War
Sometimes I can almost empathize with those screaming for Saddam Hussein's blood. The appeal of martial drums and trumpets can, after all, be very seductive to those of a certain psychological bent. I imagine there is a vicarious thrill in the prospect of (watching other people) risking their lives. Adrenaline races through the body. Limbs tremble in excited anticipation. All the senses are engaged. Primitive passions buried deep within the reptilian centers of the brain are awakened.
scrawled on the wall by TheLoneDeRanger : 3/30/2003 08:20:21 PM GMT: permalink

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the... Vault...
Lots of press and discussion popping up about cheating in online games, and its effects on the gaming communities in which it happens. The New York Times recently ran this piece, which was an interesting look into the issue, and the wonderful folks over at GameGirlAdvance linked back to the year 2000 piece at the Game Developers Conference on the same topic. All very interesting stuff - but the thing that blew me away was a fairly recent development on the Stormhammer Server of Sony's Everquest Legends. The names here are removed to protect the innocent...
scrawled on the wall by TheLoneDeRanger : 3/30/2003 08:11:34 PM GMT: permalink

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half baked cookies in the oven fruitcakes on the street
Dear Future Employer:
When you have tried everything, and nothing works, then go with nothing. I am nothing. I am nothing. You will see. I will not disappoint you. I am nothing, you royal goof. You sizzling flare. You video cologne. You white box of colored sands.

:: absorbed into the form letter

...and the poster gallery...
scrawled on the wall by TheLoneDeRanger : 3/30/2003 07:43:41 PM GMT: permalink

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My Comment to Gary Hart's New Blog
Good Evening Mr. Hart,

I have a question for you:

Does your role in the Council on Foreign Relations make you privy to matters of Homeland Security that the rest of us are not?

For example, I am curious as to why you warned Condoleezza Rice on Sept. 6, 2001 of an impending terror attack.

I am also curious why you named specific cities (Denver, Dallas, and Cleveland) of a risk of smallpox attack "sooner rather than later".

I am also puzzled by some recent comments of yours such as: "Don’t be surprised if in the coming hours or days we go to Code Red, It is almost inevitable."

I was hoping that you could clear some of this up, as the safety of our families is at stake, and this topic will undoubtedly arise during your possible campaign.

Thank you for your time.

Now deleted. Seemed like a legitimate question to me.
scrawled on the wall by valis : 3/30/2003 02:34:51 AM GMT: permalink

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Israelis Trained US Troops In Jenin-Style Urban Warfare
Israeli soldiers prevented ambulances from reaching the wounded and refused the Red Cross access. Using bulldozers, the Israeli army demolished an entire neighbourhood – home to 800 Palestinian families – reducing it to dust and rubble.

Martin van Creveld, a professor of military history and strategy at Jerusalem's internationally respected Hebrew University, has told reporters that, following his advice to US Marines, the American military bought nine of the converted bulldozers used in the Jenin demolitions from Israel. [more] See also: Jenin Jenin, the film.

scrawled on the wall by Dr. : 3/30/2003 12:00:06 AM GMT: permalink

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