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Creating Water from Thin Air
Iphtashu Fitz writes "In order to provide the U.S. Military with water in places like Iraq, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency gave millions of dollars in research funding to companies like LexCarb and Sciperio to try to extract water from the air. Amazingly, a company that DARPA didn't fund, Aqua Sciences, beat them all to the punch by developing a machine that can extract up to 600 gallons of water a day from thin air even in locations like arid deserts. The 20 foot machine does this without using or producing toxic materials or byproducts. The CEO of Aqua Sciences declined to elaborate on how the machine works, but said it is based on the natural process by which salt absorbs water."
Its particularly interesting how the Israelis are performing a very cunning and subtle form of genocide; there is a semi-official Israeli line is that there has never been any such thing as a 'Palestinian'. That the people who claim to be Palestinians are really just Arabs. That as Arabs they should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world (ie Israel isn't part of the Arab world). Thereby attempting to write the Palestinian people out of history, as if they never existed.
The argument seems to involve some ancient history (doesn't *everything* in the middle east?) where (supposedly) the Romans artificially created a connection between the Philestines and the non-hebrew Semites living in 'Israel', thereby inventing 'Palestinians'.
The Philestines were the survivors of the ancient Phoenecian civilisation and as such might have had some political leverage as in 'the Palestinians were here before the Hebrews so they have more rights'.
In modern terms, this would be similar to the argument that aboriginal people have prior claim (eg NZ Maori or Native Americans).
Regardless of whether any of it has any basis in fact, the Israelis are most certainly visiting a holocaust on the people who are, for all intents and purposes, the Palestinians.
Its almost as if they are *trying* to prove the Nazis right... which is a pity because most of the non-Israeli Jews I've known have been very decent people.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
I have to ask (almost on-topic): how can your Suburban burn less gasoline than my Prius?