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A battle for the soul of the Internet by Elliot Noss , CNET News.com Published: 6/3/05 If U.N. agencies wrest control of Internet governance from ICANN, potential damage to the global economy could be incalculable. News provided by: With little fanfare, there is a battle going on for the soul of the Internet. The United Nations and the ITU (International Communications Union) are trying to wrest control of domain names, the DNS and IP addresses from ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). This battle manifests itself through the U.N.-created World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) and the ITU-lead...

Second Term, Second Chance Saturday, November 06, 2004 By Radley Balko President Bush is now the first president since his father in 1988 to win the majority of the popular vote. Both houses of Congress are now under Republican control. With this decisive victory, Bush no longer has to fight the “selected, not elected” rhetoric of 2000, nor does he have to worry about a divided Senate or his own re-election. So what should a second Bush term look like? The president's own campaign promises would be a good place to start. During the campaign, President Bush said he’d like...

The Case for George W. Bush i.e., what if he's right? by Tom Junod | Aug 01 '04 Page 1 of 3 It happened again this morning. I saw a picture of our president—my president—and my feelings about him were instantly rekindled. The picture was taken after his speech to the graduating seniors at the Air Force Academy. He was wearing a dark suit, a light-blue tie, and a white shirt. His unsmiling visage was grim and purposeful, in pointed contrast to the face of the elaborately uniformed cadet standing next to him, which was lit up with a cocky...

<p>July 22, 2004 -- IF this or the next administration heeds the advice of the 9/11 Commission, we'll see an intelligence czar in the president's cabinet. While this may do no harm — as long as it doesn't further stifle dissenting opinions — it's like trying to save the horse-and-buggy trade by adding another boss to the livery stable.</p>

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DNC Convention Schedule Day 1 Got this from a highly placed source in Boston... DNC convention schedule: 6:00pm - Opening flag burning ceremony. 6:30pm - Anti-war rally no. 1. 6:40pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast. 7:00pm - Tribute theme to France. 7:10pm - Collect offerings for al-Zawahri defense fund. 7:20pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast 7:25pm - Tribute theme to Spain. 7:45pm - Anti-war rally no. 2. (Moderated by Michael Moore) 8:00pm - John Kerry presents one side of the issues 8:25pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast. 8:30pm - Terrorist appeasement workshop. 9:00pm - Gay marriage ceremony....

Life in Israel: Yossi Klein Halevi The news from Israel has become so depressingly familiar, it could almost be written in a template. A suicide bomber detonates him or herself in an Israeli town; the Israeli army moves into the West Bank; each side blames the other for the violence. The cycle repeats itself - again and again and again - with the only differences being the time, date and place of the next bombing. At the same time, Israelis also consider themselves to be under a different type of siege: Hated by their neighbors, criticized in the world press,...

Not sure if these pictures/link was ever posted here. But when i saw them I knew this had to be posted here. I dunno how to post pictures but, click or copy and paste this link for some amazing and excellent pics of our troops and the REAL stories of Iraq. http://www.rock103.com/warpics/

<p>CONIFER, Colo. — As talk of war escalates, school boards across the country are grappling with the First Amendment: from first graders making peace posters to whether teachers can wear anti-war pins.</p> <p>Some parents in Conifer, Colo., are fuming that a sixth-grade teacher wore a pin that said, "Not My President, Not My War," on a class trip.</p>

Critical flaw exposes Internet e-mail Servers that process most e-mail messages at risk MSNBC By Bob Sullivan March 3 — A newly discovered flaw in a critical piece of Internet infrastructure software could put more than half the Internet’s e-mail servers at risk, researchers say. The flaw exists in Sendmail, a program that sorts and delivers most e-mail. A single message sent at a flawed e-mail server could allow an attacker to take control of the server, read its contents and use it to organize a massive denial of service attack. But officials are hopeful that a month’s work of...

Top Ten Signs Saddam Hussein Is Planning To Move To Your Neighborhood 10. While watching CNN your daughter exclaims, "That's the guy who brought my Girl Scout cookies!" 9. Predator drones circling overhead 8. Your mailman made a mistake and gave you a shipment of plutonium 7. Streets have fewer minivans, more tanks 6. Sign on lawn: "Trespassers will be gassed and tortured" 5. Sean Penn keeps coming over 4. Your address: 145 Murray Street; newspaper's headline: "82nd Airborne Deployed To 148 Murray Street" 3. At Home Depot, you notice four Saddam doubles arguing about carpet 2. In driveway, Humvee...

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Bloody Friday Chemical massacre of the people of Halabja by the Iraqi regime March 1988 Prepared by Alex Atroushi Every murder destroys a measure of human dignity. Every genocide murders a piece of the whole world. We were burnt as newly-grown plants, In the current of poisonous winds, And showed our dreadful wounds, From one side of the world to the other. But the unjust eyes of the world Were never opened truly towards the oppressed. The world only confined itself to a false regret, And once again, We became a target as heaps and heaps of martyrs, We were...

"Francisco's Money Speech" An Excerpt from Ayn Rand's Novel Atlas Shrugged (August 31, 2002) [CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM] The following is an excerpt from Atlas Shrugged, © Copyright, 1957, by Ayn Rand. It is reprinted with permission from the Estate of Ayn Rand. "So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one...

<p>Amtrak is facing another fiscal crisis that could lead to a systemwide shutdown in the spring if Congress fails to approve more money, the railroad's president said Wednesday.</p> <p>"I really can't believe anyone wants to go through what we went through last summer for a couple hundred million bucks," David Gunn told a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. "We almost bought the farm."</p>

<p>KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Al Qaeda has been associated with high-profile, explosive terror -- September 11, bombings in Pakistan, Kenya, Indonesia and the Philippines -- but appears to be turning from mass killings to the assassination of political figures.</p> <p>Coalition intelligence sources tell CNN that al Qaeda plans to target Western diplomats and other public officials wherever it can.</p>

<p>NEW YORK — They don't look like '60s-style hippies, haven't coined catchy slogans like "Make Love, Not War," and maybe weren't even alive when John Lennon wrote "Give Peace a Chance."</p> <p>But members of the American anti-war movement are already busy in their efforts to oppose President Bush's campaign to forcibly disarm Iraq -- even though a military effort against Saddam Hussein is by no means assured, or that it seems to be backed by a majority of Americans.</p>

Death, terror in N. Korea gulag A satellite image of the barracks and other facilities of Camp 22 at Haengyong in northeastern North Korea. Jan. 15 -- NBC's Lisa Myers reports on the horrific accounts emerging from North Korea's prison labor camps. By Robert Windrem MSNBC Jan. 15 — In the far north of North Korea, in remote locations not far from the borders with China and Russia, a gulag not unlike the worst labor camps built by Mao and Stalin in the last century holds some 200,000 men, women and children accused of political crimes. A month-long investigation by...