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I remember reading several months ago about some drug they developed from a tree or plant in africa. When people take it they go through this introspective journey and meet with some sort of spiritual being that sets them straight...? No I dont buy it but a "friend" wanted to read it. Thanks

Halliburton's division Kellogg, Brown & Root has a long history of no-bid contracts with the government, but much more important, it was Brown & Root that made plenty of money during the Johnson Administration.

Saudis promise to root out all the al-Qa'eda 'deviants' By Robin Gedye, Foreign Affairs Writer (Filed: 01/06/2004) Five of the the six terrorist cells known to be active in Saudi Arabia have been dismantled in the past year, a senior Saudi official claimed yesterday as his country vowed to hunt down al-Qa'eda "deviants". In an attempt to reassure the outside world that the security situation was under control, Prince Turki al Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to London, said there appeared to be no new recruits to the core of al-Qa'eda members identified last year by the Saudi intelligence services. Prince...

This article intends to trace the roots of Islamic terrorism, with special focus on Afghanistan. Notes are added on practical and philosophical problems of world media in finding the right track. From systematic errors in revealing little details, to serious misconceptions about basic facts and principles, we can relatively easily learn how much of "common knowledge" rests actually on superficial research and popular myths. Instead of becoming critical and aware of the traps laid around the issue, both Islamists and Islamophobes fail to recognize how they are manipulated. Terrorism is real Terrorism is not as difficult a concept as some...

O-088: Sun passwd(1) Command Vulnerability [Sun Alert ID: 57454] March 2, 2004 22:00 GMT PROBLEM: The passwd command computes the hash of a password typed at run-time or the hash of each password in a list. A vulnerability exists in this command. PLATFORM: Solaris 8, 9 (SPARC and x86 Platforms) DAMAGE: A local unprivileged user may be able to gain unauthorized root privileges due to a security issue involving the passwd(1) command. SOLUTION: Install the security patch. VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT: The risk is MEDIUM. A local unprivileged user may be able to gain unauthorized root privileges. LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-088.shtml ORIGINAL...

Package : kernel-image-2.4.18-1-alpha, kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386, kernel-source-2.4.18 Vulnerability : userland can access full kernel memory Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CAN-2003-0961 Recently multiple servers of the Debian project were compromised using a Debian developers account and an unknown root exploit. Forensics revealed a burneye encrypted exploit. Robert van der Meulen managed to decrypt the binary which revealed a kernel exploit. Study of the exploit by the RedHat and SuSE kernel and security teams quickly revealed that the exploit used an integer overflow in the brk system call. Using this bug it is possible for a userland program to...

The Jesse TreeRev. Johann G. Roten, SM Sometimes called the root of Jesse or radix Jesse in Latin, the Jesse tree is a visual representation of Jesus' genealogy which dates back to the father of David who was Jesse.  The biblical references used habitually to establish Christ's descent from David are the following: Isaiah 6,14; 11,1; 53,2 Num 24,17 Mat 1,1-16 Lk 3,23-38 Rev 22,16 In sacred art Mary is also depicted as part of Christ's family tree named after Jesse. The Fathers of the Church and Latin hymns refer to the tree of Jesse not only when speaking about...

Hi, *NB* bear in mind that: a) the information on the break-in in comes from compromised machines and thus has to be taken with appropriate skepticism. b) the investigation is still ongoing - as I was writing this draft further information came to light which may invalidate a lot of it. [Or not - as it turns out]. Detection --------- On November 20 it was noticed that master was kernel oops-ing lots. While investigating this it was discovered that murphy was showing the exact same oops, which was an overly suspicious coincidence. Also klecker, murphy and gluck have aide installed...

Mac OS X Security Advisory Vulnerability: Malicious DHCP response can grant root access Affected Software Mac OS X 10.3 (all versions through at least 26-Nov-2003) Mac OS X Server 10.3 (all versions through at least 26-Nov-2003) Mac OS X 10.2 (all versions through at least 26-Nov-2003) Mac OS X Server 10.2 (all versions through at least 26-Nov-2003) Probably earlier versions of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server Possibly developer seeded copies of future versions of Mac OS X Abstract A series of seemingly innocuous default settings can cause an affected Mac OS X machine to trust a malicious...

CHRIST’S RETURN TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES John Blanchard Evening of September 6, 2002 Feast of Trumpets We have learned, brethren, that God’s thoughts are higher than man’s thoughts. God’s thoughts are so high compared to man’s thoughts that man cannot comprehend the difference actually. I want you to turn to our first scripture of the day. Turn to Isaiah chapter 55, verse 8: “’For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts...

<p>Sacramento -- Few groups oppose the recall of Gov. Gray Davis more vehemently than California firefighters. Their labor union was the first special-interest group to donate thousands of dollars, key staff and enthusiasm in support of the governor.</p> <p>And few organizations have more to lose if the Democratic governor disappears.</p>

In the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, the left paid a lot of lip service to the "root causes" of terrorism. They chastised President Bush for going to war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, rather than trying to "understand" what motivated the 9/11 terrorists. If terrorist training camps all over a country do not constitute a root cause for terrorism, then what does? Now that a war with Iraq is being debated, the root cause argument has suddenly faded into the background. Perhaps that’s because Saddam Hussein is one of the root causes of terrorism and by...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - Since Dick Cheney became vice president, a subsidiary of his former company was chosen the exclusive contractor for overseas Army troop support and Navy construction despite being under federal investigation for fraud.</p> <p>The Navy contract went to the Halliburton Co. subsidiary, Brown & Root Services, despite a recommendation from the auditing arm of Congress that new bids be solicited for the construction contract. That recommendation was ignored.</p>