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How ironic. On somewhat of a lark, I recently stopped by a liquidation sale at a nearby, soon-to-be-extinct, Tower Records store. On even more of a lark, I purchased a CD which content was originally recorded in late 1977 and early 1978 by the British progressive / classical rock band "Rennaissance." I was a bit tired of listening to more recent things I have and remembered that I had quite liked the album when I had a tape of it during the late 70s and early 80s (long since worn out and degraded then eventually misplaced). Little did I realize...

Today, as is wont to happen from time to time, I overheard a hall way conversation at the headquarters of a major US based multinational that I simply could not avoid hearing. The topic of discussion was the current campaign to "help the poor Africans" being lauded by entertainment figures such as Bono and Bob Geldoff. Those conversing were two low level managers. It got me to thinking about the way in which globalist utopianism truly is a bourgeois, grass roots thing, which affects many highly educated, overall "respectable" and "normal" people across our society. How is it that the...

Assuming that you worked at a US (or other Western) based firm, what would you do if a Mainland Chinese "firm"* acquired your employer? What would you do: 1) During the "courtship" period 2) During the "consumation" period 3) During the "integration" period? Please share your ideas! * By way of operational definitions, as I see it, there is no such thing as a firm - in the traditional Western sense - in Mainland China. To one extent or another, every enterprise headquartered there incurs some form of involvement by either local or national government. CCP representatives are placed within...

Ezboard Inc. Victim Of Vicious Internet Attack By D.L. McCracken Jun 1, 2005, 11:30 Ezboard systems touted as the "largest online community network site on the planet", was virtually brought to its knees Tuesday as the result of "a very precise and malicious internet attack resulting in the loss of a significant amount of current and historical board postings and interrupted services across all systems", according to Ezboards' CEO, Robert Labatt's message to Ezboard members. Tuesday's attack caused denial of service errors throughout the system and affected millions of users across approximately 9,000 message boards. The attack resulted in massive...

Simple question. Has EZBoard been hacked? Certainly, there is a major outage under way over there. There was a rumor of malicious code and hacking. I reckon a few of you also use EZBoard. I welcome your observations.

I would say that pretty much since the bloody and muddy stalemate of WWI, there has been a growing orthodoxy amongst Western opinion leaders that is contra Von Clausewitz. In a nutshell, the orthodox logic goes something like this: 1. The Flanders mud, and the horrors of stalemate trench battles, endless artillery bombardment and chemical warfare, taught us that modern, mass, mechanized, highly destructive warfare is so damaging to civilization that war of any serious magnitude must now be considered uncivilized. 2. The League of Nations was the right idea but the implementation was flawed. 3. The leaders who started...

On a US based forum, focused on matters regarding the PRC and Chinese affairs world wide, the following was posted. It has been theorized in the past, given the apparent jubilation expressed by Jiang Zemin, upon viewing video of the 9/11 attacks on the US, that the PRC may have, in some way, played some sort of role in helping or facilitating either the attacks themselves, or, helping Al Qaida. I will not weigh in one way or the other regarding this thesis. I simply found it interesting that, seemingly out of the blue, over 3 years after the attacks,...

Tech companies building bridges with China IDG News Service 9/27/04 John Chambers, the chief executive officer (CEO) and president of Cisco Systems Inc., doesn't care when economists think China is going to become the world's largest economy. He's just thinking about what needs to be done for Cisco to tap into that market. "We can have a healthy discussion about whether that's in 2020 or 2040, but it will (become the world's largest economy) and China will become the IT center of the world," Chambers said, speaking at a press conference in Beijing last week. Chambers tied his comments about...

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The Lessons of 11 September 2001 A.D. Many will write over the next few days regarding the events of 3 years ago. Most such writings, no matter how good they are, will fall into a fairly predictable set of bounds and few will be truly challenging or discomforting. Well, so much for that. I will launch straight into what I believe to be the most critical lessons learned from the events of 11 September 2001 as well as their precursors and their aftermath. Lesson 1: Silence the Utopians As early as 1943, Western liberal intellectual utopians were hard at work...

Just felt a shaker here in San Mateo County. Developing.

Since when was one man's opinion that a given post is "Tin Foil" on par with racist, violent, and other clearly offensive posts? This is a serious ethical challenge to those who run this site that requires an intellectually honest response in order to full credibility to be restored. See below: This thread has been pulled. Pulled on 08/14/2002 4:59 PM Pacific by Admin Moderator, reason: Tin foil

The Fifth Column    By John Tremaine    August 2, 2001 The Diving Catch  It's the bottom of the ninth inning, two outs, the Giants are leading by two. The Dodgers are at bat with bases loaded, Shawn Green in the batter's box. Thus far, he's fouled two away and has not had a hit yet this game. He's hungry! The pitch is thrown, a fastball right in the middle of the strike zone. Almost as if choreographed, he swings perfectly, connecting towards the end of the bat. Barry Bonds has been waiting out there in left field for this...

Dear EmailNation Subscriber, For those in the NYC-Area, this weekend marks the 20th Annual Socialist Scholar's Conference: THE SOCIALIST SCHOLARS CONFERENCE April 12-14, Cooper Union, New York City Now in its 20th year, this Conf. has become the longest-standing annual gathering of the US left. Two days of more than sixty panels will feature leading activists and thinkers debating a wide-range of charged political and cultural issues including the war in the Middle East, the September 11 attacks, civil liberties and democracy, the Enron scandal and the globalization movement. The Conference will take place this weekend at Cooper Union at...

This call to action is to send a message. The message is one of much needed intolerance. That's right, I wrote those letters - I-N-T-O-L-E-R-A-N-C-E. No longer will we tolerate: 1. Cultural decay. We abhor intentional undermining of our long standing core values that are based on natural law, demonstrated effective eons old principles of clean and upright living, and, personal responsibility and accountability. 2. Treason. By either the lowest profile private citizen or the highest profile public citizen. 3. Communism. Whether imposed from within or without. 4. Abortion. Legalized murder. What more can I say? 5. Intolerance of religion ...