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The Face of Terrorism

By defining terrorism and the terrorist exploitation of religious extremists in nations abroad and within the United States , an accurate understanding of a terrorist cell in the making will emerge and reveal the terrorist profile.  This profile is the Face of Terrorism that the United States and all civilized nations of the world face. On September 1, 2001, the impact of Islamic radicalism, which is the most notorious form of the new culture of terrorism, experienced first hand by the people of the United States.  It is far from the only variety of cultural trends motivating terrorist activity.  None of the identifiable international terrorist groups that have been active since the beginning of tracking international terrorism in 1968 classified as religious or having aims and motivations of a predominantly religious nature, they are secular terrorist.  At the height of the cold war, the majority of terrorist groups were left wing, revolutionary Marxist-Leni...

Asteroid That Flew Past Earth Today Has Moon

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January 26, 2015 This movie of asteroid 2004 BL86 was generated from data collected by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, on Jan. 26, 2015. Twenty individual images were used. Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, have released the first radar images of asteroid 2004 BL86. The images show the asteroid, which made its closest approach today (Jan. 26, 2015) at 8:19 a.m. PST (11:19 a.m. EST) at a distance of about 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers, or 3.1 times the distance from Earth to the moon), has its own small moon. The 20 individual images used in the movie were generated from data collected at Goldstone on Jan. 26, 2015. They show the primary body is approximately 1,100 feet (325 meters) across and has a small moon approximately 230 feet (70 meters) across. In the near-Earth population, about 16 percent of asteroids that ar...

Bright Asteroid Flyby

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SpaceWeather.com   < swlist@spaceweather.com > 4:28 PM (3 hours ago) to  SpaceWeather.c. Space Weather News for  Jan. 21, 2015 http://spaceweather.com Early next week, a large asteroid named 2004 BL86 will fly past the Earth-Moon system.  There's no danger of a collision, but NASA radars will be monitoring the mountain-sized space rock as it passes by only 745,000 miles away. Amateur astronomers can watch the flyby, too. Glowing like a 9th magnitude star, 2004 BL86 will be an easy target for backyard telescopes on the night of closest approach,  Jan. 26-27 .  Check  http://spaceweather.com  for observing tips and more information.

Sparse and short pleasure, but long Tribulation!

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Web Clip CNN.com Recently Published/Updated  -  Saudi beheadings:  -  3 hours ago Buddha-Direct 3803: Just a Flash... Inbox x Friends Forums x Bhikkhu Samahita 2:33 PM (2 hours ago) to  1A ,  2A Friends: Sparse and short pleasure, but long Tribulation! Pleasures obtained by contact at the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or the mind all fade away and vanish instantly, right when their contact ceases! They are all: Like a drop of honey on the edge of a razor blade: Short joy, but much later pain! Like a show seen in a flash of lightening: Momentary and exceedingly brief... Like a drink made thin and tasteless: Dissatisfying, frustrating and disappointing! Like food all rotten inside or poisoned: Afflicting and causing many problems later! Like a baited hook: First juicy, later torturing and tormenting and finally fatal! Like ...