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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS) ― Police agencies from coast to coast are furious with a new website on the internet. RateMyCop.com has the names of thousands of officers, and many believe it is putting them in danger. Officer Hector Basurto, the vice president of the Latino Police Officers Association, recently learned about the site. "I'd like to see it gone," he said. "Having a website like this out there puts a lot of law enforcement in danger," he said. "It exposes us out there." Kevin Martin, the vice president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, agrees. "Will they be able...

Islamic Links on Obama Web Site Stir Criticism By Fred Lucas CNSNews.com Staff Writer February 25, 2008 (CNSNews.com) - A page for Muslim supporters of Sen. Barack Obama -- hosted on Obama's presidential campaign Web site -- promotes events sponsored by controversial Islamic groups. Muslim Americans for Obama '08, found on Obama's main campaign site, allows users to create their own page through a "My Obama" option. The Muslim Americans for Obama page also links to a Web site that features lectures by people who have expressed radical Islamic views in the past. A portion of the Muslim Americans for...

This page on Obama's website seems quite tranquil on its face, but hidden within the page is an "upcoming event calendar" that lists events hosted by Islamic organizations that have insidious ties to terror groups. Two of those groups are the Muslim American Society, and ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America). The Muslim American Society has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and has recently sent a delegation to Cairo with, Cindy Sheehan, as one of the delegates protesting an Egyptian trial of members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Their Muslim Brotherhood ties are well documented in these two articles: http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/461 http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/651lbxol.asp...

When Will Anyone Ask Him Tough Questions? Or stupid and naive questions like Did you vote against the war in Iraq, Mr. Obama?

Fred on the Issues (from www.Fred08.com) National Security The first responsibility of government is to protect the American people, the homeland, and our way of life. Today we face the urgent threat of radical Islamic terrorists. Al Qaeda is committed to attacking us here at home, and wants to use weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to kill millions. We must never give them that opportunity. We must defeat the terrorists abroad, and that begins in Iraq and Afghanistan—the central fronts in this global war. We must show the world we have the will to fight and win. A weakened America...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's intelligence services are investigating an Islamist Web site that says it is establishing a branch of al Qaeda in Britain, BBC television reported on Tuesday. According to the report, security experts fear a posting on the site, www.alekhlaas.net, declaring "the creation of the al Qaeda organization in Britain" may be genuine. "You don't ignore this sort of thing," Pauline Neville-Jones, the former head of the British joint intelligence committee, told the program. "It may not be a threat from an existing cell... but it does represent a move in the propaganda game and the propaganda game...

BEIJING (AFP) - The website of China's new anti-graft bureau crashed shortly after going online due to the huge volume of messages from the public complaining about rampant corruption, state media said Wednesday. The website (yfj.mos.gov.cn) of the National Bureau of Corruption Prevention, which was set up to collect information on corrupt activities, was so popular it crashed on Tuesday, just one day after it was launched. "The enthusiasm that greeted the launch of the website reflects the growing frustration felt by the general public towards corruption at government level," Xinhua news agency said. The website had received more than...

I posted some bad poetry and a picture of myself on a poetry website about 12 years ago when I first got an internet account. I wanted to see if I could upload pictures etc. It worked. It should be noted that when I uploaded the poems/pictures, I did not see anything relating to a $5 charge for change for removal of each item, as is the policy today. I simply would not have done it if that had been the case. Well, today I did a search and just found out that they are all still up, along with...

This is the website associated with the Fox Business cable channel, which debuts today. This is the first time I've seen actual stories on the site, as against teasers for future content. I'll be checking the site to see if there's any live streaming, which I imagine is a possibility given the CNBC's giant distribution advantage of 90 million v. Fox's 30 million homes. Any reports from those who have access to the cable channel itself would be greatly appreciated. Here's a NYTimes story from today on the Fox Business debut: Can Fox Win Its Frontal Assault Against CNBC? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/business/media/15fox.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

I've been trying to get on Rush's site this morning but it asks me for a password. Is this normal? Perhaps the server is down or something but given the recent controversy, it wouldn't surprise me if the site was under attack. Can anyone confirm what's going on with his webpage? I tried typing in rushlimbaugh.com and tried the link at Drudge and nothing.

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Duncan Hunter's presidential campaign Web site was briefly hacked earlier this week when a starkly anti-war image was posted by an attacker operating from Turkey. The Web site, gohunter08.com, was hijacked either late Sunday or early Monday morning so that visitors were greeted by images of two unhappy-looking children - one peering out between two iron bars with a blood-stained bandage on his head, the other seated on a bleak plateau with a tank in the background. The hacker left an apparent calling card over the graphic - "Hacked by Adnali fOr Turkstorm.Org." Underneath were the words...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2007 – Military families have a new tool to help them share everyday happenings with deployed loved ones thanks to a national troop-support group. CinCHouse.com started planning its Family Hub program after the success of its similar free Spouse Club Hub program, which family readiness groups use as a communication tool. “We had a lot or families requesting to make Family Hubs, but (the Spouse Club Hubs) just weren’t designed for that at the time, so we had to turn away a lot of families,” said Amy Palmer, Operation Homefront’s interim chief executive officer and vice...

While I was reading along at the Merced Sun Star today, I noticed the allow comments on their stories. Not locked down, you have to register and accept our newsletter comments, but just plain old "free speech for everyone" type of comments. The story I linked to (http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/43326.html) is a very local story, but apparently has stirred up quite a bit of controversy... but did they start to crack down on the growing comments? No, the actually had the guts to leave them out there - the good, bad and ugly! I also love the fact that they ask the...

Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., may have announced his candidacy for president from Jay Leno's couch in Los Angeles, but when it came to his campaign Web site, he brought his business to Chattanooga. Mr. Thompson's site, Fred08.com, was developed and is maintained by episode49, a Chattanooga-based Web development company. Episode49 also maintained Mr. Thompson's "testing the waters" Web site, ImWithFred.com. "We're totally responsible for Fred08," said Ken Smith, managing partner for episode49. Mr. Smith said the company's relationship with the campaign grew through work episode49 did for the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "That's...

WASHINGTON - The State Department said Monday it would revise a portion of its Web site after a Jewish group accused it of minimizing the Holocaust and Germany's role. The department's special envoy for Holocaust issues said a section of the site devoted to "background notes" on Germany would be altered following a protest from The Simon Wiesenthal Center. The center said the entry omitted key information. "We intend to change the language in order to more accurately reflect historical facts," said the envoy, J. Christian Kennedy. The department's Bureau of European Affairs, which compiled the section on Germany that...

Given the recent top-100 conservative web sites , what are some top liberal web sites? I'm aware of DU and DailyKos. DiscovertheNetworks has a listing of liberals people and organizations, though not explicitly web sites.

Potential Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson has a website that should be a model for anyone aspiring to political office. Well over a year remains before the 2008 Presidential election takes place. Candidates like Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, and John McCain have been staking out spots online, with the aid of their campaign machines, in the hopes of engaging voters. At this early date, money remains the first, second, third, and probably twenty-fourth most significant concern for White House aspirants. The Thompson website, I'm With Fred, features links to donate and raise funds should the actor/Senator pursue a...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon said Wednesday it has created a new Web site to help veterans who face difficulty returning to their old jobs or finding new ones after deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Michael Dominguez, principal deputy under secretary of Defense, said the program, dubbed TurboTAP, seeks to improve on its current Transition Assistance Program by letting National Guard and Reserve servicemembers get job information, build a resume online and do a job search all in one place. In addition, veterans would be able to create a customized transition plan from military to civilian life. They also would...

Telegraph wins website usage case Last Updated: 4:15am BST 25/04/2007 The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld the Telegraph Media Group's right to describe Telegraph.co.uk as "Britain's No. 1 quality newspaper website,'" dismissing a complaint about an advertising campaign in the first two months of 2007. The Telegraph advertisement was based on research by Hitwise, which monitors web usage by more than eight million British users. According to Hitwise, Telegraph.co.uk had more UK visits than any other quality newspaper website in 2006.

NEW YORK - A reporter for the new Politico Web site apologized for reporting that John Edwards was suspending his campaign for president more than an hour before Edwards said Thursday he was staying in the race. The incorrect report rocketed through the media before Edwards held his news conference announcing the recurrence of his wife's cancer. Some outlets used Politico's information; others steered clear. Ben Smith, a former New York Daily News reporter, posted the report on his Politico Web log at 11:06 a.m. EDT. Quoting but not identifying "an Edwards friend" as his source, Smith reported that Edwards...

The people who exposed the discount-mats scandal are gong to be on FOX NEWS Tomorrow! I have been informed that one of the writers for EuphoricReality.com will be interviewed on John Kasik's HEARTLAND on FOX news tomorrow night!!

N.Korea says South's Web ban violates freedom Fri Jan 26, 10:40 AM ET North Korea said on Friday the South Korean government was violating the public's basic right to information by blocking access to Web sites sympathetic to the North. South Korea has denied access to more than 30 Web sites that it has designated "pro-North Korea" since 2004, including the North's official KCNA news agency's Web service and sites operated outside. "This is a fascist action against democracy and human rights as it infringes upon the South Koreans' freedom of speech and deprives them of even their right to...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Police and prosecutors are worried that a Web site claiming to identify more than 4,000 informants and undercover agents will cripple investigations and hang targets on witnesses. The Web site, WhosaRat.com, first caught the attention of authorities after a Massachusetts man put it online and named a few dozen people as turncoats in 2004. Since then, it has grown into a clearinghouse for mug shots, court papers and rumors. Federal prosecutors say the site was set up to encourage violence, and federal judges around the country were recently warned that witnesses in their courtrooms may be profiled...

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo., Nov. 17, 2006 -- In advance of the holiday season and its 51st season of tracking Santa Claus on his annual journey around the world, the North American Aerospace Defense Command today activated its “NORAD Tracks Santa” Web site for 2006. The U.S.-Canadian command’s program began in 1955 when an errant phone call was made to NORAD’s predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The call was from a local child who dialed a misprinted telephone number in a local newspaper advertisement. The commander who answered the phone that...

11/6/2006 - BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- In August 2003, a Maryland family started the AnySoldier.com Web site as a way for people to support deployed Soldiers. Two years later, the family created separate sites to help those in the sister services. Their site for those in the Air Force, AnyAirman.com, lists Airmen who volunteered as points of contact at deployed locations. People who wish to support Airmen can send mail to the volunteers, who then distribute the letters and care packages to other Airmen. "It's a special thing for people back home to be able to connect with...

Below the radar screen of Western intelligence and security services, there is a global re-education process on the Internet to proselytize on the true meaning of an Islamic state. This "cyberwar" is transforming the political landscape of the Middle East. It is a slow, stealthy but massive campaign. Salafist ideologues are reinventing Islam, firing the imagination of Internet-savvy Muslim youth from Morocco to Mindanao and from Sweden to Spain. Mohamed Atta trained his 9/11 teams face-to-face. The successor generation now meets in an Open University of Jihad on the worldwide Web. We can no longer measure success as we did...

A SCHOOLGIRL was quizzed by Secret Service agents after posting anti-George W. Bush comments on a popular Internet chat room, a US newspaper has reported. Julia Wilson, described as a freckle-nosed 14-year-old who wears braces and has a love heart on her school backpack, was yanked out of a biology class at her school in Sacramento, California to answer agents' questions. The Sacramento Bee newspaper reported that she posted a cartoon photo collage of a knife stabbing President George W. Bush's hand beneath the words "Kill Bush" on MySpace, which is hugely popular amongst teens. It was one of several...

Hi there! Do you remember me? (PLEASE DO NOT ZOT ME, I'M YOUR FRIEND). I'm Claudia, an Italian FRiend of FR. I really love the United States, read my home page if you don't trust me! Some days ago I asked for your help with the traslation of a web site the Major of my town asked me... Well, you all were really so kind with me! AND I WANNA THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT HELP. I know my English is really bad, and I apologize for that. Well I wanna show you the web site of the Tourist Office...

Edmonton -- An Edmonton man convicted of promoting hatred through his website has been sentenced to 16 months in jail. Reni Sentana-Ries, 63, was told by Mr. Justice Philip Clarke of the Court of Queen's Bench that his views are appalling, that he showed no remorse and that he is a high risk to reoffend. After his release, Mr. Sentana-Ries, formerly known as Reinhard Gustav Mueller, will face 36 months of probation during which he will not be allowed to use the Internet. He has also been ordered to take down his website. Mr. Sentana-Ries was convicted last December because...

See for example this thread first. Mohammed Ahmedijenad has a blog--or should I say "had"? The website got hacked defaced, and attacked (but by the wrong folks). That's just sad!

An interesting site ranking actors and their political affiliations. Not really sure how scientific it is. Streisand, Lear, Michael Douglas, Rob Reiner and Katzenberg are off the scale on the moonbat side and Pat Boone is leading the charge for the Good Guys. Click on the link above or cut and paste: http://www.celebpolitics.com/search_results_actors.php?result=0&&

WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of prominent political strategists on Tuesday announced an Internet information venture designed to interact with America's opinion leaders and serve as an antidote to the right-left clash that typifies political discourse on the Web. The site, called Hotsoup.com, will debut in October and will be edited by Ron Fournier, former chief political writer for The Associated Press. Hotsoup is the brainchild of some of the best-known practitioners of partisan politics in Washington, including Matthew Dowd, chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004, and Joe Lockhart, former White House press secretary under President Clinton and...

NASA's Space Shuttle Tracking Page It's taking a LOOONG time to load...but it's pretty cute with the little shuttle!

We may pull plug on our censored Chinese website, says Google By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles (Filed: 08/06/2006) The co-founder of Google has acknowledged that the internet search giant compromised its principles by agreeing to Chinese censorship demands and says it may reverse its decision. During a visit to Capitol Hill, Sergey Brin said the company's much-criticised deal to allow politically sensitive information to be filtered from web searches in China was struck only after Beijing blocked its main service. The Google.cn search engine blocks politically sensitive terms Google was examining whether the compromise - "a set of rules...

The FBI has established a Website to make it easier for the public to pass along tips on corrupt government officials, FBI Director Robert Mueller said Thursday. More than 1,000 corrupt government employees have been convicted in the last two years as a result of FBI investigations, many of which begin with tips, Mueller said. While there are 2,200 federal, state and local public corruption cases pending, Mueller said even more went unreported out of indifference, fear of retribution or because witnesses were unsure what to do with the information. "There is a growing intolerance by the American people of...

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Racist, sexist and disparaging comments on a Montgomery County police union Web site have some police officers calling on union and department officials to take steps to curb the name-calling. Some officers complain that the union has refused to require officers to identify themselves on the web site, a step they say would lead to more civil discussions. Commanders, meanwhile, could restrict access to the site from department computers.

This might be the first time Freepers and Kossacks have agreed on anything. From the conservative website Free Republic to the liberal Daily Kos, Internet users of all ideologies are uniting in opposition to federal regulation of political blogs. As early as this afternoon, the Federal Election Commission will publish regulations that, for the first time, could put limits on what bloggers can do and say in support of political candidates. The FEC is trying to define the line between offering political opinions and operating as part of a political campaign. The full commission is expected to vote Thursday on...

For anyone that has used Wikipedia, you are vastly aware of the bias and the vandalism that occurs on that online encyclopedia. Conservatives are constantly bashed, and censored on the site. This is why we have decided to launch www.wikiright.com, the first Conservative Encyclopedia and Online Opinion Library. This is not meant to compete with any other site, since I love FR, but it's rather meant to offer a research tool for Conservatives. If you'd like to get involved, visit the site, it's help section, and begin posting articles. It's still a small site, but since Conservatives rule the web,...

I need help with setting up a website against a RINO politician. I have plenty of experience with editing the webpage etc, I need to know some of the places I can go to register the RINO's name. Since this will be the real name of the incumbent (county official) I am concerned that they could shut down the website, because I am using their real name. I know my name will be known, I am not afraid of being found out. I just want to list the facts about this idiot under their own name. I want to use...

A middle school student faces expulsion for allegedly posting graphic threats against a classmate on the popular MySpace.com Web site, and 20 of his classmates were suspended for viewing the posting, school officials said. Police are investigating the boy's comments about his classmate at TeWinkle Middle School as a possible hate crime, and the district is trying to expel him. According to three parents of the suspended students, the invitation to join the boy's MySpace group gave no indication of the alleged threat. They said the MySpace social group name's was "I hate (girl's name)" and included an expletive and...

The world skidded to a halt Thursday when the Medway Golf Club, in Melbourne, Australia, declined the former President’s request for immediate play – believing the crude and outlandish demand to be a hoax - that he be allowed to cut in line with the full panoply of his traveling entourage during the hectic mid-week championships.

A website that encourages young people to post personal information about themselves and has been linked to a series of rapes and other crimes by sexual predators is wholly owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which also owns the Fox News Channel. Murdoch sealed the deal for MySpace.com and its parent, Intermix Media, for $580 million in July. When the deal was announced, Murdoch said in a statement: "Intermix's brands, such as MySpace.com, are some of the Web's hottest properties and resonate with the same audiences that are most attracted to Fox's news, sports and entertainment offerings." California Web entrepreneurs...

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) -- From his home in Nanwalek, Vince Evans can stare across the water at Augustine Volcano as it pumps out clouds of ash and steam, but like many residents in the isolated village, Evans prefers to check the Internet for the latest on the erupting island mount. The Alaska Volcano Observatory's popular Web site lets the public track Augustine's activity, from live earthquake data to hourly updates on the blasts of ash and rocky pyroclastic flows that have rumbled down the snowy volcano since it began erupting in mid-January. "When I wake up, I turn it on...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (CNA) – Far ahead of the May 19 film release of the “DaVinci Code,” Sony Motion Pictures corporation has decided to address the film’s numerous critics by providing them a Web platform. The film, which goes by the same name of the popular and controversial Dan Brown fictional work, stars Tom Hanks. The plot of the book, and now film, makes claims that Jesus married and never rose from the dead, and that the Catholic Church, along with the apostolate Opus Dei, orchestrated a massive cover up of this information. The site (www.thedavincichallenge.com) features essays and opinions of...

I was thinking of starting a website of a very simple concept: every week I'd post a new cartoon of Muhammad -Muhammad in all sorts of comical and probably offensive situations. I'm thinking it would be called TheAdventuresOfMuhammad.com. The only problem is, I can't draw. So if anyone is an artist, or knows an artist who would like to participate in this, please email me. I'll set up the website. I just need someone who's willing to commit to a new cartoon everyweek. Or if I can get several artists on board, I might need just one a month from...

FORT BENNING, Ga., Mar 06, 2003 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Pamela Bates worried about getting depressed after her husband shipped out to Kuwait for the possible war with Iraq. Her solution was a project that keeps her busy 16 hours a day and lifts the spirits of thousands of soldiers living in tent cities in the Kuwaiti desert. Her Adopt-A-Soldier Web site - Hugs to Kuwait - was originally intended to serve only members of her husband's unit, the First Battalion of the 10th Artillery Regiment from Fort Benning. But the overwhelming response from soldiers, military families and...

Meeting the international media in Manhattan this week, the 53-year-old stood in his uniform of black jeans and grey shirt, trying to convince sceptical reporters that his eponymous Craigslist is not out to destroy the newspaper business. The geeky former systems engineer for IBM has come a long way in the last 11 years. The listserv, or electronic mailing list, he began for like-minded friends in the San Francisco Bay area now has "well over three billion page views" per month he says, which makes it the seventh biggest presence on the internet. He may be breathing down the necks...

Jerusalem, 5 Jan. (AKI) - The Israeli foreign ministry is planing to launch a new website in Farsi to counter the anti-Israel campaign of the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Anti-Zionist propaganda, which calls for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map and defines the Holocaust as a myth than needs reviewing, is part of the rhetorical and political baggage used by the new Iranian president and representatives of his administration. According to Israeli sources, the site will be managed by Menashe Amir, a well-known journalist of Iranian origin who a few weeks ago became the director of programmes...

A third gender choice available to young participants of a poll on the Barbie doll website was changed after initially offering children the options of "I am a Girl," "I am a Boy," and "I don't know" – eliciting charges that Mattel, the company that owns Barbie, is intentionally promoting gender confusing among kids. Barbie poll's original options. Apparently due to the criticism, the third gender option has now been changed to "I don't want to say." Concerned Women for America, or CWA, believes by including the "I don't know" choice the company was promoting the homosexual agenda. "It's...

ESR's Tenth Annual Person of the Year By Steven Martinovich web posted January 3, 2005 My memory is probably failing me but for the past four years I've started out each Person of the Year by writing "It wasn't even close." Well, this year, it wasn't even close. What changed were the results. U.S. President George W. Bush didn't win this year. Although the American president finished strongly in second spot, ahead of other worthy nominations which included the people of Iraq, the U.S. military, Pope John Paul II, Joe Leiberman, ESR scribe/presidential candidate/actor Michael Moriarty, Angela Merkel and Tom...