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🔗 Mandaeism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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There are thought to be between 60,000 and 70,000 Mandaeans worldwide,[1] and until the 2003 Iraq war, almost all of them lived in Iraq.[3] Most Iraqi Mandaeans have since fled the country under the threat of violence by other Iraqis and the turmoil of the war.[4] By 2007, the population of Iraqi Mandaeans had fallen to approximately 5,000.[3] Most Iraqi Mandaeans now live in Syria and Jordan, with smaller populations in Sweden, Australia, the United States, and other Western countries.

🔗 Open Source Science? Or Distributed Science? : Common Knowledge

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I propose that the point of this isn't to replicate "open source" as we know it in software. The point is to create the essential foundations for distributed science so that it can emerge in a form that is locally relevant and globally impactful. We can do this. But we have to be relentless in questioning our assumptions and in discovering the interventions necessary to make this happen. We don't want to wake up in ten years and realize we missed an opportunity by focusing on the software model instead of designing an open system out of which open science might emerge on its own.

🔗 24 hours in pictures - News - guardian.co.uk

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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: An Arabic translator censors out news before detainees are given the paper in the US military prison

🔗 - وقيدت الجريمة .. ضد بدوي! نهضة مصر

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ربما لا توجد فئة في مصر اكثر اجراما من فئة البدو والاعراب الذين يسكنون الصحراء المترامية الاطراف ولا تخلو محافظة في مصر من ظهير صحراوي تسكنه مجموعات من البدو في مجتمعات مهمشة تحولت مع الوقت الي صداع في رأس الحكومة خاصة الاجهزة الامنية التي تعتبر هؤلاء البدو مجموعات من الخارجين علي القانون ومطاريد في الجبال يشكلون تهديدا للامن الداخلي بما يرتكبونه من جرائم سواء تهريب المخدرات او الاتجار في السلاح او فرض السيطرة والاتاوات والاستيلاء علي املاك الدولة كما يشكلون ايضا تهديدا للامن القومي الخارجي بعدما فتح بعضهم احضانه لاستقطاب الارهاب الاسود خاصة في اعقاب تفجيرات سيناء فضلا عما يرتكبونه من جرائم تهريب وهجرة غير شرعية لاسرائيل."