An Israeli scientist whose research has found a link between excessive cell phone use and the development of both benign and cancerous tumors is urging her countrymen to practice greater moderation.
In remarks carried by Ha'aretz, Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, head of the Gertner Institute of Epidemiology and the senior Israeli member of international cell phone study, noted that "in Israel we exaggerate everything we do, including talking on cell phones."
Sadetzki said she is not advocating the elimination of cell phone use, but is worried that the public at large is not even debating the possible health hazards.
Her recommendation is for Israelis to spend less time on their cell phones, and to either hold the phone away from one's head when talking or to use a speaker phone. She said preventing young children from holding cell phones to their heads is especially important.
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by Daniel Pipes
Yoram Schweitzer wants me not to judge decisions made by the Israeli government.
I recently criticized the Israeli government for its exchange with Hizbullah in "Samir Kuntar and the Last Laugh" (The Jerusalem Post, July 21); to this, the eminent counterterrorism expert at Tel Aviv University, Yoram Schweitzer challenged the appropriateness of my offering views on this subject. In "Not That Bad a Deal" (July 24) he explained to Jerusalem Post readers how the "contents and tone" of my analysis "patronizing and insulting, overlooking as they do the fact that the government and public have the right to decide for themselves …, and to shoulder the resulting price." He also criticizes me for offering an opinion on Israeli issues from my "secure haven thousands of miles away."
Schweitzer does not spell out the logic behind his resentment, but it rings familiar: Unless a person lives in Israel, the argument goes, pays its taxes, puts himself at risk in its streets, and has children in its armed forces, he should not second-guess Israeli decisionmaking. This approach, broadly speaking, stands behind the positions taken by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other prominent Jewish institutions.
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By Dave Hanson
Tekiah, shevarim-teruah, tekiah; tekiah, shevarim, tekiah; tekiah, teruah, tekiah gadola
The sound of the shofar horn proclaims a time of worship. Hot on its heels come cordial calls of "Shabbat Shalom" as the congregation prepares for another festive day of praise. Thus begins another service at my local messianic synagogue. Their level of devotion to biblical study and passion for Yeshua is enough to leave many American McChurches blushing. That's what keeps me coming back for more over the past few years. Authenticity is a diminishing national resource.
And so it pains me to see beloved Israel continue to be crippled by the United States' ever-growing foreign welfare program. Annually, the U.S. provides approximately $3 billion in subsidies to Israel. With these tax dollars, we have created a dependent welfare recipient whose sovereignty and safety are ever compromised. Fundamentally, my objection to this policy stems from my support for a foreign policy of strategic independence as mandated by the founders of our country. George Washington understood the proper care of a republic: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." However, my stance is equally grounded in ...   more »

Aaron Klein also says most believe Jewish state will need to handle Iran
Israel, Iran, and the November election
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A Jerusalem-based journalist says the overwhelming sentiment in Israel right now is that Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States, and that the Jewish state will have to take care of the Iranian nuclear problem on its own.
Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily, covered Senator Obama's recent visit to the Holy City. Even before Obama's arrival in Israel, says Klein, the people there had already made up their minds about the inevitability of Obama becoming president. So the clock may already be ticking for a unilateral Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear program, he says.
"In Israel, there already is an assumption that Obama is going to win," the journalist states. "And then Israel knows that the window to do anything about it [Iran] would have to be before...the November elections or before the next president, which Israel does assume to be Barack Obama, is installed in January."
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By P. David Hornik
Is Barack Obama the pawn of evil Jewish minions? Yes, according to cartoons that appeared in the Palestinian media.
Despite his portrayal as an ape, Obama has rewarded his detractors, and Israeli Jews' killers, with a naive indulgence for “peace talks” not seen since the days Bill Clinton helped set the stage for the Palestinian intifada.
“I believe the next U.S. administration should move quickly,” Barack Obama told far-Left Israeli journalist Akiva Eldar last Wednesday. “I have had in-depth discussions today with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and encouraged all of them to make as much progress as they can in their negotiations this year.”
He added, “The next U.S. administration should...help the parties build on the progress that has been made thus far, and continue to work toward the goal of two states living side by side in peace and security.”
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 "Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth . . . He . . . forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark. . .'' -- Revelation, Chapter 13.
I am penning this column from an undisclosed location.
You may as well know this is the last place I expected to find myself. A fugitive of my own making, squirreled away in a comfortable yet remote dwelling on the coast of M___.
I am healing, however, from my unfortunate injuries, thanks to a kindly grandmére who schleps fruits, fish and flat breads up the long, winding staircase before dawn each day. Sometimes the old woman serves up a powerful
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Christopher Howse reviews The Templars: History and Myth by Michael Haag
In the open country outside the walls of Segovia a couple of weeks ago, I found myself caught up in a throng of teenagers scrambling into the cave-like undercroft of the mysterious round church of La Vera Cruz. Here their guide told them the bloodcurdling history of the Templars, who built it in 1208.  
The Templars were accused of spitting on the crucifix
Except that they didn't build it, and the bloodcurdling history was fantasy. Most Templar churches were not round and this round church, like many others, is not Templar. Vera Cruz belonged to the Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, who did not, like the Templars, ride around putting infidels to the sword.
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By George H. Wittman
According to Keyvan Imani, a ranking member of the Iranian delegation that recently came to Geneva, there is no possibility of negotiation on the issue of Iran's enrichment of uranium. "There is no chance for that," he is reported to have said. What then was the purpose of this session held with representatives of the five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany and attended by U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns? Equally, why were the Persians given another two weeks to consider the matter?
The simple answer is that the UN group once again did not want to close down the possibility of more talks before advising on the increase of economic sanctions against Tehran. For their part, the Iranians are using the North Korean method of negotiation: Keep talking about fringe matters and avoid as long as possible concrete discussions of the basic issues.
Tehran wants to extend any negotiation in order to make eventual nuclear weapon acquisition a fait accompli. The next step is for the UN Security Council to vote an increase in the economic sanctions already in place. Iran will use every device in its not inconsiderable bag of tricks ...   more »

By Michael Ha
A top U.S. scientist warned American lawmakers of a possible catastrophic national security scenario: a possible development of Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons by rogue states, including North Korea, and a potential detonation of such a device on American soil.
William Graham, chairman of the U.S. government-sponsored ``Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States," told U.S. lawmakers that the Stalinist state has the required technologies to develop such weapons.
In a testimony to the U.S. House Armed Services Committee this month, the scientist said EMP weapons are ``one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences."
Graham told lawmakers that the detonation of such devices over the middle of the continental United States ``has the capability to produce significant damage to critical infrastructures that support the fabric of U.S. society and the ability of the United States and Western nations to project influence and military power."
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By KATHARINE EUPHRAT WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says. According to a recent RAND Corp. study, roughly one in five soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan displays symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, putting them at a higher risk for suicide. Researchers at Portland State University found that male veterans are twice as likely to commit suicide than men who are not veterans.
     This month, a former Army medic, Joseph Dwyer, who was shown in a Military Times photograph running through a battle zone carrying an Iraqi boy, died of an accidental overdose after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder for almost five years. Janet Kemp, national suicide prevention coordinator for the Veterans Affairs Department, said the hot line is in place to help prevent deaths such as Dwyer's. "We just want them to know there's other options and people do care about them, and we can help them make a difference in their lives," she said in an interview.
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Bruce Loudon,
A CRISIS meeting of Pakistan's new coalition Government has been warned that it could lose control of the North West Frontier Province, which is believed to hold most of its nuclear arsenal.
The warning came yesterday from the coalition leader, who, although he is part of the new Government, is regarded as having the closest links to al-Qa'ida and Taliban militants sweeping through the region.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman bluntly told his colleagues: "The North West Frontier province is breaking away from Pakistan. That is what is happening. That is the reality."
This came just days before new Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's scheduled meeting with US President George W. Bush to discuss al-Qa'ida and Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan.
Reports last night said Maulana Fazlur Rehman, regarded as having unparalleled insight into the mood of the three million tribesmen in the NWFP, and leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, was backed in his assessment by members of the coalition Government from the Awami National Party, which rules in the province's capital, Peshawar.
They, too, told the meeting of jihadi militant advances throughout the province, with their influence extending to most so-called "settled areas", including Peshawar.
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U.S. with 1 nuclear bomb
Tests missiles for electromagnetic pulse weapon
that could destroy America's technical infrastructure
By Joseph Farah
Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for almost 30 years.
WASHINGTON -- Iran is not only covertly developing nuclear weapons, it is already testing ballistic missiles specifically designed to destroy America's technical infrastructure, effectively neutralizing the world's lone superpower, say U.S. intelligence sources, top scientists and western missile industry experts.
The radical Shiite regime has conducted successful tests to determine if its Shahab-3 ballistic missiles, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, canbe detonated by a remote-control device while still in high-altitude flight
Scientists, including President Reagan's top science adviser, William R. Graham, say there is no other explanation for such tests than preparation for the deployment of electromagnetic pulse weapons – even one of which could knock out America's critical electrical and technological infrastructure, effectively sending the continental U.S. back to the 19th century with a recovery time of months or years.
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And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”
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Just noticed that Barack Obama and John McCain are slated to attend the doings at Bohemian Grove in late July. As most know, this is an "exclusive gathering" of establishment figures. Letting off steam in a grove filled with redwoods may be a needed recreation for the high-powered, but it would appear that the overtones of the gatherings are less than savory. Do you think Barack would be wise attend a woodland romp where folk allegedly dress up like Klan figures and conduct simulated human sacrifices? Check out this TruthNews page for details. I have appended a quote from the page, but have not ported the video which is reason enough, I sense, to answer my question with a resounding Yes!
Outgoing President George W. Bush and both of his presumptive replacements John McCain and Barack Obama are rumored to be in attendance at this year's Bohemian Grove gathering, an annual get-together of the global elite staged inside a sprawling forest encampment which kicks off tonight and runs until July 27.
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