Western governments have long criticized Israel for isolating the West Bank and Gaza Strip and for walling itself off from the Palestinians, but parts of Iraq under U.S. control are starting to resemble these areas. Is it possible for the West and the Middle East to coexist without a wall?

The town of Awja, outside Tikrit, the place where Saddam Hussein grew up that still contains many people who are loyal to him, has been surrounded by razor wire and its entrance is guarded by soldiers with machine guns. Just like the Israelis, we are trying to contain the guerillas and suicide bombers who are attacking troops and civilians and just like Israel, we don?t always succeed. One Iraqi policeman says, “Hey, this is just like Gaza, isn’t it?”
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Haarp, the research grid in Alaska, will quadruple in power over the next 3 years. The government claims it was designed to study the ionosphere in order to enhance civilian and military communications, but how it actually does this remains unclear. Some people say that Haarp is intended to control the weather. Others say it’s a vast mind-control tool. So what will happen when it’s 4 times as powerful as it is now?

Greg Taylor writes in Phenomena News that the increase in Haarp’s power was reported on Eham.net, a website for Ham Radio fans. The ionosphere contains free electrons that are produced by solar activity and their densities vary according to the activity level of the sun, which is extremely high at the moment.
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A lot of women are taking soy supplements to help with the symptoms of menopause, because it contains a vegetable form of estrogen. However, new tests show it can reduce normal sexual behavior as much as 70%. Women may accept the end of fertility, but few want this to include the end of their sex lives as well.
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Using PET scans, scientists can now observe the brain at work. They already know that “real” and “false” memories activate different parts of the brain, which could validate the experiences of abductees, if an objective test of them is ever conducted. Now it’s been discovered that PET scans can reveal whether or not an individual is racially prejudiced. Tests have revealed that the brain area associated with self-control becomes active when prejudiced Causasians are shown photos of, or interact with, people of a race they dislike, even if they claim no racial prejudice. Discoveries like this may lead to an ability to virutally read the mind–for scientists to discover our most hidden thoughts and feelings.
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