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My First War – UK Jewish Film Festival

"Unexpectedly drafted as a reservist in the Second Lebanon War, Tel Aviv film school graduate Yariv Mozer made a casual decision to take his video camera along. The resulting film offers an extraordinary insight into the campaign against Hezbollah, and rarer still, into compulsory army service in Israel during active conflict." Screened this November in London, as part of the UK Jewish Film Festival.

(tags: israel lebanon war conscription idf documentary 2008 festival)

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goosh.org – the unofficial google shell

"This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell. You type commands and the results are shown on this page."

(tags: inspired google search shell)

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Met Police could close trafficking bureau – Channel 4 News

"Plans to shut a Metropolitan Police unit dedicated to tackling human trafficking would be a "major blow" to the fight against exploitation, charities warn." A statement from the Met, says the existing Clubs & Vice unit can be expanded and financed to take on the role.

(tags: channel4 uk london policing humantrafficking ngo women)

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[from elizrael] Blackberry gets filter in the UAE | TheNextWeb, Dec 27, 2009

[from ibnaddunya] Mahmoud Saber's blog » Between Cronyism And Cohesion Force !

[from ibnaddunya] BBC - Podcasts - World Book Club

[from martinstabe] The Scoop: The Gift of Data

Derek Willis on providing local context to a national story using data: You can’t provide locally relevant information for a mass audience in a story ... That constraint – which still exists on the web, albeit it less so than for print publications – makes it easier to justify working with hundreds of thousands or millions of rows of data to build an interfa […]

[from martinstabe] NYU Journalism "Primary Sources": Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky

Interesting discussion from about the 7:16 mark, where Rosen discusses the "sociology of the newsroom" research of the 1970s and 1980s and its implications for a world where the production routines of the media are changing.

[from elizrael] Coordination Center for National Iranian Armed Resistance Forces declares its existence. - MikVerbrugge, Dec 27, 2009

mutiny in the Iranian army

[from righthand] It Is Time to Bury the Brutish Empire! British Deception Responsible for Palestinian Bloodshed Today

The history of the British manipulation of Arabs and Jews is, as the incredible suffering of the people of Gaza attests to today, a sad story. It is a pathetic one too, because the world, and the involved parties, who have failed to understand the evil nature of the British Empire, and thus, failed to react decisively to its machinations, before, during, and […]