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Monday, May 12, 2014

Rialto Assignment Asking Students to Question Holocaust to Be Revised | KTLA 5

Rialto Assignment Asking Students to Question Holocaust to Be Revised | KTLA 5: "The Rialto school district planned to revise an eighth-grade assignment that raised red flags by asking students to consider arguments about whether the Holocaust — the systematic killing by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews and millions of others — was not an “actual event” but instead a “propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain.”"



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An Israeli Soldier to American Jews: Wake up! | Hen Mazzig | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel

An Israeli Soldier to American Jews: Wake up! | Hen Mazzig | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel: "This new form of bigotry against Israel has been called the “new anti-Semitism,” with “Israel” replacing “Jew” in traditional anti-Semitic imagery and canards, singling out and discriminating against the Jewish state, and denying the Jewish people alone the right to self-determination. The new anti-Semitism is packaged in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS), which claims to champion Palestinian rights though its real goal is to erode American support for Israel, discredit Jews who support Israel, and pave the way for eliminating the Jewish state."



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Video Compressor - Compress Video MPEG, MKV, AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV...

Video Compressor - Compress Video MPEG, MKV, AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV...: "When try to upload video to YouTube, Vimeo and other video sites or send video by email, only to find the video file size is too large to upload or send. And in this case, we need to compress the video to a smaller file size. Though there are many Video Compressors, they either compress video in poor output quality or support few video formats.

This article just aims to introduce a powerful video compressor and a step by step guide on how to reduce the file size of various video with almost no loss of video quality."



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KidsCash: Online Money-Management for Kids - The Next Web

KidsCash: Online Money-Management for Kids - The Next Web: " Parents can sign their kids up, or kids can sign themselves up, and the parents are then notified by e-mail. When a child joins, they are immediately given a virtual $5 to experiment with on the site, and can only begin real purchasing once parents give the OK, and put in their credit card information.

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New Social Media Site - Profit to Charity | Indiegogo

New Social Media Site - Profit to Charity | Indiegogo: "As a successful entrepreneur putting in 12 to 15 hours of work a day, it hit me; I could focus my efforts on something that really makes a difference. There will be businesses who want to advertise on the site - and herein lies the difference between our site and other social media giants. The profits generated from advertising will be donated to non-profits.

It's not an innovative idea, nor a cutting edge technology; it is completely free and will impact so many people in an amazing way."



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Social Media for Social Change: New Site UnscriptiD to Donate Ad Profits to Charity - SocialTimes

Social Media for Social Change: New Site UnscriptiD to Donate Ad Profits to Charity - SocialTimes: "
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Social Media for Social Change: New Site UnscriptiD to Donate Ad Profits to CharityChristie Barakat on May 9, 2014 3:30 PM


Project Change the World (CTW) is an Indiegogo campaign to crowdfund and create the world’s first social media site that will donate its advertising dollars to charity. The plan is to give people a fun and easy-to-use platform, while generating funds that will change the world in positive ways.

Money raised from the Indiegogo campaign will fund the site and app, called UnscriptiD, with successive advertising dollars donated to local and worldwide not-for-profit initiatives."



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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Warsaw Ghetto Fights and Polish Home Army Q's and A's

Warsaw Ghetto Fights and Polish Home Army Q's and A's: "By now (March 1943) every partisan was equipped, on average, with one pistol (and ten to fifteen rounds for it) four or five hand grenades, four or fife Molotov cocktails. Two or three rifles were assigned to each ‘area’. There was just one machine gun in the entire Ghetto". (5)
Apart from help given to the Jewish Combat Organisation (ZOB) by the Home Army, another Warsaw Ghetto resistance group, "



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