For your smartphone – Science triumphs again! If you’ve got a “smartphone,” which is the “Swiss Army Knife” of cell phones, you’re probably constantly looking for new “apps” to buy for it. Here’s one you didn’t expect: an app that detects toxic chemicals in the atmosphere.
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What we’re REALLY fighting about! – Some researchers think that al-Qaeda IS NOT fighting a war of religion, it’s fighting a WATER WAR.
On Alternet.org, Steven Solomon writes: “The unfolding global water crisis increasingly influences the outcome of America’s two wars, homeland defense against international terrorism, and other key US national-security interests. At first blush, water and national security may not seem to be interlinked.” But he insists that they are.
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if marriage customs changed – Suicide bombers are recruited through a sad kind of conspiracy: According to promises made in the Quran, “When a martyr for Allah takes his place in Paradise, he will marry beautiful-eyed young women, will be spared the torments of the tomb, will not submit to the Day of Judgment and will have one of the world’s best precious stones adorn his crown.” Those are attractive prospects for a man who is unattractive, poor, low on the social rung (or all three), and some Islamic extremists use those promises as a recruiting tool when seeking suicide terrorists. To Westerners, these ideas seem so naive that we assume that most suicide bombers are uneducated but alas, this is not the case.
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As suicide bombers – As well as the potential of cyberattacks that would knock out Western computer networks, terrorists are using their own internet children’s websites to recruit suicide bombers, especially among girls, who are faring the worst in these Jihadist battles.
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