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The Continuing Foolishness of Man and the World in New Year Celebrations

Absolutely sickened by the perpetual foolishness exhibited by the celebrative mood during year-to-year transitions that we call the 'New Year'. The difference remains at the tick of the clock and there is so much spiritualizing about the entire experience.  One should know better to come to reality - it's just another day, after all.  No one is immune from the ills of the past simply by welcoming a 'new' year.  The one and only way out is to repent of them, altogether.

מבצע יהונתן\ארץ הצבי

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Theme song from the Israeli movie "Mivtsah Yonatan" (Operation Jonathan) - titled "El Eretz Tzvi" (The Land of the Deer, i.e. Israel), played to scenes from the climatic battle sequence between Israeli commandos and the terrorists in order to rescue the hostages in Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976. Source of the song details here: http://zemerl.com/cgi-bin//show.pl?title=El+Eretz+Tzvi

Hine Ma Tov (Psalms 133:1)

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Well-known Jewish folk song based on Psalm 133:1, advocating the goodness of all peoples, Jew and Gentile, to live in peace with one another, even more so for Jew and Arab.

Quad-ski

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A true-to-life transformer vehicle for the commercial/consumer world. Now all it takes is to add some weapons to it for the military !

DT-30 Vitaz - Russian tracked offroad vehicle. Part 3/3

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Concluding part of the Russian documentary on this amazing vehicle

DT-30 Vitaz - Russian tracked offroad vehicle. Part 2/3

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Continuation of the Russian documentary on the heavy all-terrain tracked carrier

DT-30 Vitaz - Russian tracked offroad vehicle. Part 1/3

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Documentary on the impressive Russian heavy articulated all-terrain vehicle built during the Cold War.

RussiaTech: DT-30 tracked all-terrain amphibious transporter

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This is the Russian version of our BRONCO ATTC, although it had been designed and built way much earlier during the Cold War. Even more impressive than ours I must say !

"The Lost Language of Lament" of Weeping Prophets

Came across the quoted topic, to be covered in an upcoming conference in February next year.   http://www.sksbooks.com/pages/EL_SHADDAI_CONFERENCE_200 http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=36675&event=1010SBF%7C1156301%7C1010   Poignantly brings to mind the prevailing pattern of much of our ways of worship nowadays - the sadness within our inner persons, and then repressing them whenever we gather in the throngs of our corporate worship, for the apparent sake of abiding in an attitude of lifting one another's burdens by the mere token of words and speech.  Perhaps we may all too easily provide for the excuse of priviledge of privacy in excluding such pertinent influences of our faith, especially in times of trouble, from our corporate worship.    But doing so is implicitly tantamount to relegating our faith to a rewards-based value system (meritocracy) revolved around imagined blessings and curses in the light of cir...

Inspiring A Citizen's Army In This Day and Age

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Video commercial about how the US Army appeals to its reservists. Almost akin to our approach with our NSmen.