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While there has been an international arms embargo on China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, this ban did not cover espionage and computer security hardware and software. China has exploited this by importing all the hardware and software they could get access to. Some items were considered illegal for export for national security reasons. But lots of valuable gear is available to sale, although sometimes only to government agencies. The Chinese have been particularly keen to obtain the latest corporate Internet security and user management software. This stuff has been a key component in the Chinese effort to manage...

Deputies use Valentine's Day ploy to round up scofflaws By HEATHER RAWLYK, Staff Writer Published February 15, 2008 They thought they were getting a heartfelt gift from an unknown admirer, but instead more than a dozen men and women were served with outstanding warrants on Valentine's Day from county Sheriff's Department deputies disguised as florists. On Wednesday, Sgt. Tonya Pfaltzgraff of the county Sheriff's Department called about 50 men and women wanted on various charges under the guise of "Maria," a representative from the fictitious company "Flowers By Ron." Sgt. Pfaltzgraff told each person she reached that a gift was...

Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama took issue with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ characterization of a judge’s role as similar to that of an umpire at a baseball game. “Justice Roberts said he saw himself just as an umpire,” Obama said. “But we need somebody who’s got the empathy to recognize that the rules may need to be different for some people. Should a batter with bad eyesight or slow reflexes get the same number of strikes as a more capable player? Should an obese runner have to run the same 90 feet between bases? Roberts’ attitude of indifference...

After enlisting in the Minnesota Army National Guard, the Kamunens had second thoughts and didn't return to basic training after Christmas. ________________________________ CARLTON, MINN. -- Luke Kamunen began to wonder if he'd made a mistake the moment he arrived for basic training. He was still in the airport at Fort Jackson, S.C., with other members of his Minnesota National Guard unit, when an officer reprimanded him publicly for leaving a paper cup on his seat in the airport. "I was thinking, is this what it's going to be like the whole time?" Luke said. "I'm not even on the bus...

What exactly does a noncitizen have to do to get deported around here? I guess Peter “Borat” Berdovsky, native of Belarus, won’t answer that because it’s not a hair question. And the Russky Rastaman is now officially a victim - a victim of Chernobyl, as his lawyer/foster father put it in court yesterday, before they went out outside to discuss his hair, which he doesn’t appear to have washed since leaving his native Third World hellhole. The subcontractor on the moronic Turner Broadcasting terror stunt arrived here as an exchange student, then sought asylum as a political refugee - stop...

LAGUNA NIGUEL - Dismiss them if you like, but these people baring their behinds to passing trains are your neighbors, your children's teachers, your attorneys, your policemen, your World War II veterans and yes, even your mothers! Once they were a bunch – a small bunch – of crazies. Now they are a nation. You had ladies from the Red Hat Society standing next to members of the Hessians motorcycle gang, standing next to a group of nudists, standing next to a 70-year-old (normally sedate) mom standing next to an avowed libertarian. All laughing, chatting and waving. With their pants...

Now that Lil Kim is Free Will She Fight For Other Prisoners? by Davey D Last week during the BET Awards, Lil Kim's mother and brother came into the press gallery to field questions about her incarceration. They emphasized how unfair it was for her to be locked up and how the justice system is screwed up.  I think it was her brother who pointed out how all sorts of people who have committed heinous crimes do very little time, while Lil Kim got locked down for perjury. It was also pointed out how there are many who done more...

2 charged with filing fake obituary Pair submited obituary for son to newspaper Published: 04/10/2006 12:53 PM Updated: 04/10/2006 2:47 PM WATERLOO, IA - Two people who police say conspired to get off of work for a few days by filing a fake obituary with a newspaper have been arrested. James Ralph Snyder, 36, and Mary Jo Elizabeth Jensen, 33, both of Waterloo, participated in the scam by filing an obituary saying Jensen's 17-year-old son had died, police said. Snyder was charged with tampering with records. Jensen was charged with being an accessory after the fact. Snyder, claiming he was...

Observations of the World from the Heart of Jesusland! Friday, February 03, 2006Shameful DNC-Black History Attack on Bush! A new pathetic low for the Democratic Party! After five years of Bush McHitlerburtonism in the White House absent of any frog marching, and still without "a plan"... And, with unemplyment at 4.9% (Oops! 4.7%), the economy rolling, the stock market up, wins in the War on Terror and in Iraq, and democracy breaking out all over the planet, about all you can whimper is We can do better"... Or, you can do what Democrats do best, Bush Bash! Yeoarraaah! The DNC...

When the Firm Foundation Worship Center got the call that a family of nine escaping Hurricane Katrina had arrived in Westminster needing a house, church members jumped into action. "They came here with nothing," said Marge DiMaggio, the church's co-pastor. As quickly as possible, church members made a house on church property look like a home. When the Brown family left on Sunday, the DiMaggios were horrified to find the house in shambles. "Hurricane hits Firm Foundation," said Marge DiMaggio. While answering the call in September, church members' hearts were filled with compassion for the unknown family. "We brought our...

MIDI - DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET I want to be a big time public figure So gather 'round, there's something I must say Listen, it is not a great big secret...I do not care whom you tell Whoa, whoa, whoa closer I'll be saying it aloud...every time there is a crowd My wife is a spy...that's Valerie-e Listen...I have told it to my mailman...to the guys down at the club And to my stock broker There's a pizza guy who knows...and the guy who cleans our clothes My wife is a spy...that's Valerie-e One night her...

The Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Sign the call now!Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights. Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it. Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night. Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its...

MIDI - FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH There's something happening here Get the pretzels and nice frosty beer Grab your keyboard, get ready to post Let us have a DemocRAT roast (HA-HA-HA-HA-HA) Look, moonbats everywhere...between both their ears is only air Today they take to the street First some speeches, oh boy, what a treat C-SPAN shows these fools to everyone Spewing beer through our nose is fun (HA-HA-HA-HA-HA) Look, moonbats everywhere...between both their ears is only air Look, moonbats everywhere...between both their ears is only air Ramsey, come kiss my behind Stuck on stupid is being too kind What...

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFPN) -- Scenes of chaos and destruction resulting from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have left Airmen nationwide wondering how they can help those affected by the tragedy. Like many Americans across the nation, Airmen and their families seek to help in the hurricane recovery. While these Samaritans donate their hard-earned money for the worthy cause, a criminal element has already swept across the Internet seeking to cash in on the crisis. "When a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina occurs, fraudulent activities associated with donations often take place," said Brig. Gen. Charles J. Dunlap...

Profiteering ghouls have been using debit cards distributed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina - intended to buy essentials for evacuated families - in luxury-goods stores as far away as Atlanta. "We've seen three of the cards," said a senior employee of the Louis Vuitton store at the Lenox Square Mall in affluent Buckhead, who asked not to be named. "Two I'm certain have purchased; one actually asked if she could use it in the store. This has been since Saturday." The distinctive white cards were distributed by the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and carry a...

I find this website so unbelievable. Surely this site cannot be a mouthpiece for the common democratic voter. I am appalled at the language, tenor, ignorance and hate that is fomented on this site. Freepers may be for Republicans, but you don't see the vitriol spewing forth on this site (if there is they are booted) that you see on the dem site. If that is how the dems actually feel, I hope they never again gain power. This site should be exposed to the general public. I signed up and posted a reply that was not pro Bush, just...

MIDI - SATISFACTION We'll look into his adoptions...because we are out of options We will pry, we will spy...we'll make sure he won't fly His adoptions...his adoptions Bush picked him from the right wing...he's dividing us, as always He should not do such things Our side had given a warning that's loud and clear But Bush stuck it in our ear We'll look into...oh, yeah, yeah, yeah We're the TIMES, and we will slime We'll look into his adoptions...because we are out of options We will pry, we will spy...we'll make sure he won't fly His adoptions...his adoptions We...

So I have been trying to rent an apartment in my home...and all I have answering the ads are boyfriends and girlfriends. No matter what social status, no matter what income level, I am seeing unmarried twenty, thirty and forty year old couples who want to live together. If I question them, they don't even understand why I am asking. These are Christians and Jews. I was so surprised to find that it would be so difficult to find a young married couple. Tell me Dear Freeper...am I totally out of the ballgame to expect to find a young married...

MIDI - ANTICIPATION They know that their hopes really have been dropping fast And their ideas are so yesterday Full-fledged panic...because their glory days have long since passed They keep grasping for some straws before they're sent away Their desperation...their desperation's showing...like a blue thong For DemocRATS everything is going wrong Weasel Joe Wilson has led them out onto the building's ledge Join me in chanting to them --- jump, jump, jump Mental health pros...would surely tell them they're over the edge We can laugh because what they try bites them in the rump Their desperation...their desperation's showing...like a...

IN MY ROOM Jane had caught them one month after she had married Ted In her bed...in her bed "We are only watching news on CNN," he said In her bed...in her bed It's a nooner...that's not tough for anyone to see Ted was doing what Jane did to our military Then she took her cell phone and she whacked him in head In her bed...in her bed In her bed...in her bed...in her bed...in her bed......ETC