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TK 804/2 model for the solar energy industry

This machine is a special application of the TK804/2 machining line used for the machining of the aluminium profiles that make up the major structures of Concentrating Solar Power stations. These plants use reflecting mirrors to convert the sunlight into electricity, focusing the sun’s energy to boil water which is then used to provide power. In this specific case, the profiles that are machined using the special version of the TK804/2 model are implemented in the construction of the frames that held these reflecting mirrors.
The TK 804/2 model features an automatic cutting system for aluminum profiles and it is designed to minimize the manual intervention of the operator during the machining cycle, allowing the operator only to load/unload profiles.
The machining line comprises:
In-sequence loader
Loading table with a 1-3 axis CNC pusher
Cutting unit
Unloading table
Thanks to the versatility of its components the TK 804/2 model can meet the manufacturing needs of every customer: profiles loading/unloading systems, clamping and handling can be customized according to the characteristics of the workpieces, to the working cycles and to the type of machining to be performed.
The high automation of the TK 804/2 model significantly reduces machining times while improving the production process.
For the solar energy industry Tekna has developed various machining lines. In addition to the above described machine, Tekna has manufactured several other cutting and machining lines of profiles that are used to build the frameworks for photovoltaic panels.

December 28, 2009

Nigerian rebel group condemns plane attack

AFP
Monday, Dec 28th, 2009

LAGOS – Nigeria’s main rebel group has warned that the
country has become a “threat to world peace” and a fertile
ground for Islamic extremism following a Nigerian’s botched
attempt to blow up a passenger jet over the United States.

The group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
(MEND), has been conducting a long-standing insurgency in
Nigeria’s oil-rich southern Niger Delta region.

It said in a statement it “condemns the attempted act of
terrorism on Delta flight 253 into the United States by a misguided
Islamic extremist from the Northern part of Nigeria”.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, the son of a prominent banker from
Northern Nigeria, was charged on Saturday with trying to blow up a
Northwest Airlines flight as it was coming into Detroit airport from
Amsterdam on Christmas Day. He had flown to Amsterdam from Lagos.

Full article here

Kucinich: Obama should fire generals who spoke out on Afghan surge

Daniel Tencer
Raw Story
Sunday, Dec 27th, 2009

Obama ‘giving his generals a little too much leeway’

Congressman Dennis Kucinich says President Barack Obama ought to
fire the generals who publicly aired their views on the war in
Afghanistan during this fall’s deliberations on a troop surge.

The Ohio Democrat known for his anti-war views said there is
“no question” that the president was pressured by the
military into approving a 30,000-troop surge.

“Some of [Obama’s] generals made remarks publicly,
which is unheard of,” Kucinich told Russia Today. “Generals
are subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief. When generals start trying
to suggest publicly what the president should do, they shouldn’t
be generals anymore. That’s the way it works. And frankly,
President Obama, who is a good man, has given his generals a little too
much leeway.”

Kucinich also said that the Constitutional mechanism for declaring
and waging war, which gives authority over the issue to Congress, has
been eroded by successive presidencies that have not seen fit to ask
Congress for permission for military campaigns abroad.

“We’ve had a series of presidents who have basically
taken the initiative to go to war and hadn’t really checked with
Congress,” Kucinich said. “Richard Nixon prolonged a war in
Vietnam and he did so when many efforts were made by members of
congress to cut off funds.”

Kucinich has tabled a resolution in Congress that calls for a vote on a withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.

The following video was broadcast on Russia Today, December 23, 2009.

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Tehran police shoot dead four protesters, reports say

Robert Tait
London Guardian
Sunday, Dec 27th, 2009

At least four people were reported dead today after Iranian security
forces opened fire on opposition protesters who took to the streets in
Tehran for a religious ceremony.

The shootings took place as tens of thousands of demonstrators
gathered in the capital for the Shia Ashura ceremonies and to voice
anger at the government.

The reformist website Rah-e Sabz reported that an elderly man was
among the dead after being shot in the forehead at a crossroads in
Tehran city centre. Three others were said to have been shot nearby at
Kalej bridge, in Enghelab Street. Rah-e Sabz, citing witnesses, said
crowds held up the elderly man and started chanting slogans against
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Crowds prevented security forces from taking away those wounded in
the shootings. According to other eyewitness reports, members of the
hardline Basij militia attacked demonstrators with daggers and knives.
Disturbances were also reported in Isfahan and Najafabad, where the
Rah-e Sabz described the situation as “severe”.

Full article here

Airline bomber suspect ‘defended Taliban’

Stephen Adams
London Telegraph
Sunday, Dec 27th, 2009

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of
trying to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253, defended the Taliban
in classroom discussions, his high school teacher has said.

Abdulmutallab, now 23, believed the Taliban were
“right and proper” to blow up the Bamiyan statues of Buddha
in March 2001, said history teacher Mike Rimmer.

The terrorist suspect, accused of trying to detonate a bomb on board
the Airbus A330 as it came in to land at Detroit airport on Christmas
Day, also defended their crackdown on harmless activities such as kite
flying.

At the time Mr Rimmer, a Briton who taught teenage Abdulmutallab at
the British School of Lomé in Togo, west Africa, did not think
such talk truly indicated extremist views.

Mr Rimmer described the Nigerian as a “model pupil” who was interested in world affairs.

Full article here

El regreso de los tablets. Tendencia 2010

Joo joo

Apuntar que el 2010 va a ser el año de los tablets en el terreno de la informática personal es a todas luces ventajista, después de la serie de lanzamientos de este año y de la multitud de anuncios y rumores cuya cristalización se espera para los próximos meses. Merece la pena subrayar que fue Microsoft el gran propulsor del concepto y de los primeros modelos que salieron a principios de siglo, aunque también que la primera generación de estos modelos no consiguió la experiencia que se prometía un dispositivo tablet: más ligero y autónomo que un portátil, interfaz efectivo alternativo al ratón / teclado (tanto la voz como la experiencia tácil o de escritura dejaban bastante que desear) y una ergonomía que abriese otros casos de uso del ordenador como leer en la cama.

Todo apunta a que será en este nuevo cuando algunas de estas promesas estén más cerca de hacerse realidad. Para ello será necesario que los avances en interfaces de pantalla táctiles sean llevados a pantallas de mayor tamaño, que el equilibrio autonomía / peso / calor desprendido esté mucho más ajustado que en ultra portátiles (todavía pesados para ser usados con una mano) y que en los móviles (se quedan sin batería con uso intensivo de inmediato) y, sobre todo, software que se adapte y explote los tablets. Porque de lo que se trata es de abrir el ordenador a nuevos hábitos de uso – esa revista que leemos tumbados en el salón – que están siendo colonizados por otros dispositivos como los móviles y los lectores de libros electrónicos.

¿Candidatos? Con la salida de Windows 7 la mayoría de fabricantes ha visto la puerta abierta a retomar el lanzamiento de tablets, pero desde la propia Microsoft se habla de utilizar un sistema específico. También tenemos los rumores sobre el “iSlate” de Apple y algunos nuevos actores nuevos que pugnan por hacerse un hueco. Algunos destacados:

Asus T91, como era de esperar en este fabricante, una solución aceptable a bajo precio. Basado en XP, no pasará a la historia pero servirá de base para que Asus aprenda sobre el tipo de dispositivo. Otros fabricantes – HP, Dell, Lenovo – tienen también sus modelos, pero todavía no han presentado nada que se pueda entender como un giro respecto a lo que han sido siempre los tablets PC.
Archos 5 Internet Tablet. Archos lleva años haciendo buenos productos hardware y éste no es una excepción, bien colocado como reproductor multimedia / navegador GPS / cliente web aunque con una pantalla más pequeña que la de lo que se entiende habitualmente por tablet.
Nokia también ha sido un desarrollador histórico de mini tablets como el 770. Con un año complicado por delante, es posible que veamos aproximar su línea Maemo a los tablets, con dispositivos a caballo entre el N900 y su portátil.
Joo joo, el que iba a ser “CrunchPad” tiene un sorprendente buen aspecto estético y funcional, al menos los vídeos que se han mostrado de su funcionamiento. Su sistema parte del mismo concepto que el sistema operativo de Google, un entorno para ejecutar el navegador y acceder a aplicaciones web.
Microsoft Courier es la esperada renovación del concepto de tablet que se viene anunciando desde Redmond. El vídeo que ilustra Courier resulta muy prometedor, aunque no hay fechas de lanzamiento ni de la estrategia de Microsoft para esta posible gama de productos. Si lo ven como consumo (XBox, Zune), realizarían el producto por completo (hardware + software), si lo encuadran en informática personal, estaríamos en un escenario en que su filosofía de siempre ha sido muy clara: buscar partners entre los fabricantes.
Y, por supuesto, tenemos el rumor que nos acompañará las próximas semanas, el supuesto tablet de Apple y su posible lanzamiento en Enero.

En 2010 también seguiremos hablando de smartphones, de lectores de libro electrónicos y de cámaras reflex que graban vídeo, pero apostaría por los tablets como tendencia a seguir en lo que a dispositivos se refiere.

December 28, 2009

Russia: No proof of military N-plans in Iran

Press TV
Saturday, Dec 26th, 2009

As Western powers batten down the hatches and prepare
sanctions against Tehran, a senior Russian official says there still is
no proof of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.

In remarks published on Friday, deputy Russian foreign minister
Alexander Saltanov reiterated that Moscow is not convinced that Iran
seeks to weoponize its nuclear program, and moreover he has not been
shown any corroborative evidence confirming that the country has any
such plans.

“Russia has no concrete information that Iran is planning to
construct a weapon. It may be more like Japan, which has nuclear
readiness but does not have a bomb,” Primakov told The Jerusalem
Post.

In order to pressure Iran into halting its nuclear work, Washington
and a number of European countries have vowed to push for new UN
sanctions early next year.

But the calls for renewed pressure were once again snubbed by China and Russia.

Saltanov said while “Iran has a positive potential” to
cooperate with the West on its nuclear case, it is most evident that a
military solution against the Tehran government would only make matters
worse.

“If Israel attacks Iran it will cause great instability and
will only postpone the Iranian program, not end it,” noted the
Russian official.

Israel routinely threatens to bomb Iran’s enrichment sites,
arguing that the country’s nuclear work is a mortal threat to Tel
Aviv, which ironically is reported to have the Middle East’s sole
nuclear arsenal and 200 nuclear warheads at its disposal.

This is while Iran, unlike Tel Aviv, is a signatory of the nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has opened its nuclear facilities to
routine inspections by the UN nuclear watchdog.

In response to Israeli war threats, Tehran warns that if Tel Aviv
steps out of line, it will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz to
maritime traffic, including the 15 or so supertankers that sail through
on a daily basis to deliver the world’s oil supplies.

A recent report by the US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) has
confirmed that if the United States or Israel decide to bomb
Tehran’s nuclear sites, Iran’s naval modernization and
maritime capabilities have reached a point where it can shut down the
strategic Strait of Hormuz.

“Given the importance of the Strait, disrupting traffic flow
or even threatening to do so may be an effective tool for Iran,”
said the intelligence report, which was revealed by Joseph
Farah’s G2 Bulletin in November.

It notes that while Iran’s ability to shut down the Strait of
Hormuz may be transitory, the impact would undoubtedly have
far-reaching consequences for the already-fragile world economy.

“[World economies would suffer] a serious economic impact from
a sustain closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to greatly reduced
supplies of crude oil, petroleum supplies and (liquefied natural
gas),” ONI said.

On the same note, the report adds that not only has Tehran acquired
“increasingly sophisticated systems” from China and Russia,
but the “modernization” of the Iranian navy is to an extent
that would help the government carry out such a closure if need be.

Taliban planned to use Americans in Pakistan attacks

Reuters
Saturday, Dec 26th, 2009

Taliban insurgents had planned to use five Americans
detained in Pakistan, who had contacted the militant group through the
Internet, to carry out attacks inside the U.S. ally, a police official
said on Saturday.

Usman Anwar, police chief in Sargodha, where the men
were arrested this month, said emails had also revealed plans for the
young men from Virginia to travel to a Pakistani nuclear power plant.

“We believe that they were supposed to be used inside Pakistan,” Anwar told Reuters by telephone.

“In their last email to the Taliban, we found they mentioned
the Chashma Nuclear Plant and that’s why they were going to
Mianwali (district).”

Full article here

New climate pact will be ‘firmer’ against defaulters: Pachauri

Indian Express
Saturday, Dec 26th, 2009

With many rich nations failing to
meet Kyoto Protocol goals, top climate expert R K Pachauri on Wednesday
said a “stronger and firmer” regime envisaging punitive
action against the defaulters awaits in a new climate treaty, whenever
it is framed. “Kyoto Protocol did not work as it does not
have provisions for stringent measures against the defaulters.

“But there is clearly strong expression (among global
community) for punitive measures of sort against those countries that
don’t meet their commitments,” Pachauri said noting that
the rich nations were not serious in taking any legally binding
commitments.

“They (developed countries) just want to push the burden on
the developing countries which have done pretty well to combat climate
change, whether it was taking up CDM projects or submitting national
communication on climate change to the UN…,” he told
reporters.

Full article here

Pope Benedict XVI’s security under review after attack

Caroline Gammell
London Telegraph
Saturday, Dec 26th, 2009

The Vatican has placed security arrangements for Pope
Benedict XVI under review after a woman managed to break through
security guards at Christmas Eve Mass and knock the pontiff to the
floor.

Susanna Maiolo, 25, leapt over a barrier at St
Peter’s Basilica to attack the Holy Father as he proceeded down
the main aisle.

As she tussled with guards protecting the 82-year-old, Miss Maiolo
managed to grab the Pope’s gold and white vestments and send him
toppling to the ground.

A senior French Cardinal, Roger Etchegaray, 87, fractured his hip in the ensuing melee as the service came to a sudden halt.

Full article here

Israel Admits Harvesting Palestinian Organs

Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Israel now shares a monstrous distinction with China. It illegally
harvests organs from the dead. The former head of Israel’s Abu
Kabir forensic institute has admitted the ghoulish practice, according
to a reported published by The New Zealand Herald.
Abu Kabir’s forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead
bodies, primarily Palestinians, without the permission of their
families.




Palestinians have feared for many years that Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank and Gaza have targeted them for organ harvest.

In August it was reported by Aftonbladet, Sweden’s largest
circulation daily, that Israeli troops killed Palestinians specifically
to harvest their organs. The report appeared after an American Jew was
arrested in the United States for illicit organ trafficking. The story
made news in Israel, where some commentators compared it to medieval
libels that Jews killed Christian children for their blood. Daniel
Seaman, who heads Israel’s government press office, said the
article played on “vile anti-Semitic themes,” according to
the Associated Press.

The Swedish newspaper reported that Israeli soldiers targeted Palestinians specifically in order to harvest their organs.

Journalist Donald Bostrom
wrote in the article that Palestinians “harbor strong suspicions
against Israel for seizing young men and having them serve as the
country’s organ reserve – a very serious accusation, with
enough question marks to motivate the International Court of Justice
(ICJ) to start an investigation about possible war crimes.”

An Israeli official
called Bostrom’s story “hate porn” and the American
magazine Commentary wrote that the story was “merely the tip of
the iceberg in terms of European funded and promoted anti-Israel
hate.”

“The fact is, however, that substantiated evidence of public
and private organ trafficking and theft, and allegations of worse, have
been widely reported for many years. Given such context, the Swedish
charges become far more plausible than might otherwise be the case and
suggest that an investigation could well turn up significant
information,” writes Alison Weir, executive director of If Americans Knew.

The latest accusation was revealed in connection to the Swedish
report. The former head of Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr Jehuda
Hiss, was interviewed in 2000 by an American academic who released the
interview because of the report in Aftonbladet and the denials of the
Israeli government. “We started to harvest corneas,” Hiss
told the academic. “Whatever was done was highly informal. No
permission was asked from the family.”

“We’d glue the eyelid shut,” Hiss added. “We
wouldn’t take corneas from families we knew would open the
eyelids.”

Israel’s Channel 2 TV aired parts of the interview over the weekend.

In addition to corneas, skin, heart valves, and bones were taken
from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and
foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.

Hiss also said skin was taken from the backs of dead Palestinians
and the families of the dead never discovered the theft because they
did not examine the bodies before burial. Muslim custom dictates that
the deceased be buried as soon as possible after death, avoiding the
need for embalming or otherwise disturbing the body.

After the interview aired on television, the Israeli military admitted the macabre practice.

Palestinians have feared for many years that Israeli Occupation
Forces in the West Bank and Gaza have targeted them for organ harvest.

In an article published in the Washington Report on Middle East Affair, Mary Barrett
reports on the killings of young Palestinians. Her report contains an
interview with Dr. Hatem Abu Ghazalch, the former chief health official
for the West Bank under Jordanian administration and director of
forensic medicine and autopsies. Barrett asks Ghazalch about “the
widespread anxiety over organ thefts which has gripped Gaza and the
West Bank since the intifada began in December of 1987.”

“There are indications that for one reason or another, organs,
especially eyes and kidneys, were removed from the bodies during the
first year or year and a half,” Ghazalch responded. “There
were just too many reports by credible people for there to be nothing
happening. If someone is shot in the head and comes home in a plastic
bag without internal organs, what will people assume?”

In 2000, Nancy Scheper-Huges
characterized organ harvesting as a form of modern cannibalism.
“Today, China stands alone in continuing the use of organs of
executed prisoners for transplant surgery,” she wrote.

Now Israel joins China as an international outlaw in this gruesome practice.

Organ harvesting will now be added to the list of Israel’s war
crimes and human rights violations in the Occupied Territories.

Sen. Conrad ‘Assumes’ Constitution’s Commerce Clause Gives Congress Power To Mandate Buying Health Insurance

Edwin Mora
CNS News
Thursday, Dec 24th, 2009

Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) told CNSNews.com that he does not know
specifically where in the Constitution Congress is given the authority
to require that Americans buy health insurance, as mandated in both the
Senate and House health care bills, but Conrad said he assumes the
power is granted through the Constitution’s Commerce clause.

At the Capitol on Tuesday, CNSNews.com asked Senator Conrad:
“Could you specifically say where in the Constitution does
Congress get the authority to mandate that individuals get health
insurance?”

Conrad said: “No, but I’ll refer you to the legal counsel
for the Senate and they’re the ones that lead there as the full
legal basis for the individual mandate — and I assume it’s
in the Commerce clause.”

The Commerce clause, found in Article 1, Section 8
of the Constitution, states that Congress has the power “To
regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among several States, and
with the Indian tribes.”

Full article here

Hillary Clinton: We’ll Still Be In Afghanistan in 50 or 60 Years

Washington’s Blog
Thursday, Dec 24th, 2009

On December 1st, President Obama talked about withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan within 18 months.

Everyone now knows that there is no firm withdrawal date from Afghanistan. See this and this.

But in testimony
to the Senate Armed Services Committee on December 2nd, Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton actually gave a much longer horizon for the
presence of U.S. troops in America:

Senator UDALL.— So, in an ideal world, we would
get the job done militarily in the short term; in the medium and long
term, we would have a presence in the region, economically, diplomacy,
and politically.

Secretary CLINTON. Well, as we have with so many other
countries— obviously, we have troops in a limited number of
countries around the world; some have been there for 50, 60 years, but
we have long-term economic assistance and development programs in many
others. And we think that’s a likely outcome in both Afghanistan
and Pakistan, that we would be there with a long-term commitment.

Does this mean that U.S. troops will be in Afghanistan in 50 year?

On the surface, Clinton’s statement could be interpreted to
mean that troops will leave sooner, but that America will have
long-term economic assistance and development programs in Afghanistan
for many decades to come.

However, U.S. charities working in Afghanistan report
that they are subject to Pentagon sponsorship and control, and so the
Afghani people view them as part of the U.S. military (which hampers
their aid work).

Therefore, whether or not troops will remain in Afghanistan for a
half century or more, the Afghani people and the rest of the world may
consider it a permanent occupation.

Remember also that – while the U.S. government has promised to withdraw by December 31, 2011 from Iraq – the U.S. is building numerous permanent military bases in that country. (see this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this). So talk is cheap.

Russia to work on new nuclear missiles: Medvedev

Reuters
Thursday, Dec 24th, 2009

Russia will work on a new generation of nuclear
missiles to ensure its nuclear deterrent remains effective, President
Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.

Medvedev said the new missiles would be developed in full accordance with arms agreements made with the United States.

“Of course, we will develop new systems, including delivery
systems, that is, missiles,” Medvedev said in an end-of-year
interview with state-controlled television channels.

“This process will be continued, and our nuclear shield will
always be efficient and sufficient to protect our national
interests,” Medvedev said.

Full article here

Washington ‘forged’ nuclear documents: Ahmadinejad

AFP
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Documents revealed last week that appear to show Tehran is working
on a nuclear bomb trigger were “forged” by Washington,
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told a US news network.

“They are all fabricated bunch of papers continuously being
forged and disseminated by the American government,” Ahmadinejad
told ABC News in an interview aired Monday when asked about the
confidential documents first revealed in London’s The Times
newspaper.

The obtained documents describe a four-year plan to test a neutron
initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion.

The Times claimed that foreign intelligence agencies dated the
documents to early 2007 — four years after Tehran was thought to
have suspended its weapons programme.

Full story here.

We’ll force a vote on whether to stay in Afghanistan – Congressman Kucinich

Russa Today
Wednesday, Dec 23rd, 2009

US Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who is circulating a
resolution to end the war in Afghanistan, says he is simply trying to
reclaim the forgotten constitutional responsibility of Congress to
start and end war.

Kucinich reminds the basic principles that “It is
not appropriate for generals to be making decisions on their own about
whether the United States goes into battle. They do not have the final
judgment, not in a democracy. In a democracy this final judgment has to
go to the elected officials.”

Kucinich says more defense spending may lead to the collapse of the US economy.

“I can understand that [Afghan President] Karzai wants the US
to be there pumping a $100 billion year after year. I don’t know
where he thinks we are going to get the money from,” questions
the Congressman. “Because we have over 15 million people
unemployed, 10 to 12 million will lose their homes in the next year, 47
million Americans go to bed hungry every night and don’t have any
healthcare, millions of Americans have lost their investments, their
pensions, their retirement security. We have those to take care here at
home. And we cannot continue to spend money on these foreign
adventures.”

Kucinich says you don’t need to be a general or a politician
to understand that the strategy to buy off the opposition in
Afghanistan is perverse.

“You cannot buy friends, everyone knows this… The
friends who you try to buy are the least reliable of your friends. The
friends we try to buy in Afghanistan are with us one day, and the next
day they are shooting at us.”

“War is a drain on the economy because war is capital
intensive,” goes on Kucinich. “War spends money on high
technology, which costs a lot of money. War is capital intensive, not
labour intensive.”

He points out that “war is not a way to create jobs – it’s a way to kill jobs.”

“Each soldier costs on average about a million dollars a year.
For $1 million a year you could create 25 jobs that would pay $35,000 a
year. So the ratio is at least 25:1, jobs in the civilian sector as
oppose to the military sector with spending a million dollars.”

Kucinich says American government wants now to put the bill for unemployment benefits into a bill to fund the war.

“What they are telling the American people is this: If you
agree to put your sons and daughters on the firing line, then we will
pay you for standing on the unemployment line. They have tied the two
together. It is grossly immoral.”

“What they are saying is that war is a part of our permanent
economy and a war-based economy is eventually going to collapse,”
Kucinich warns.

Iran comes out on top in secret simulated war games

James Hider
London Times
Wednesday, Dec 23rd, 2009

Iran has emerged as the victor in secret war games that simulated an Israeli attack on one of its nuclear facilities.

According to the scenario, the Obama Administration decided to
pursue a diplomatic approach to Tehran, leaving America’s closest
military ally in the region in the lurch.

The exercise, staged by Tel Aviv University’s Institute for
National Security Studies last month, showed that even an Israeli
commando raid on Iran’s heavy water plant at Arak would not draw
the US into a military conflict with Iran.

“Our leverage over the Americans, when we could prise them
away from the Iranians and Europeans and others, was limited,”
said Giora Eiland, a former Israeli national security adviser who
played the role of the Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, in the
simulated conflict.

Full article here

Hello all!

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December 28, 2009

Gaza Ceasefire in Jeopardy as Six Palestinians are Shot

‘Israeli troops yesterday shot dead six
Palestinians in two separate incidents, as evidence emerged that an
increasingly fragile ceasefire between armed groups loyal to President
Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement and Israel appeared to be in danger of
breaking down.

The shootings, the most serious violence
in months, came a day before today’s first anniversary of the outbreak
of Israel’s war against Gaza in which almost 1,400 Palestinians died
– and as allegations have emerged from Israeli human rights
campaigners who opposed the war that they are facing concerted attempts
to silence them.’

HTC HD2 beats iPhone in top 10 mobile phones of 2009 list

UK online phone retailer Omio.com have listed their top 10 phones of 2009, and HTC’s latest smartphones firmly head the top of the list.

The HTC Hero takes the first postion, but second is HTC’s monster smartphone, the HTC HD2. Calling the HD2 is “the perfect poster boy for the next generation of Windows phones”, the note the device is the “equally at home being a business device as it is a multimedia powerhouse.”

The iPhone 3GS was felt to merely re-iterate rather than revolutionize, and took up the number 3 spot.

Another much vaunted handset, the Palm Pre, only took up 6th spot after disappointing UK sales.

See the full list at Omio.com

December 28, 2009

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