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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Amateur photography banned in NYC?
Not quite, or maybe we should say, not quite yet. The danger in these types of oppressive laws and licensing requirements is obvious, isn’t it? Selective enforcement (within vague, poorly defined guidelines of “right” and “wrong”) could lead directly to greater government management … Continue reading
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CIA documents: mind-control research on children
from Robert Lusetich, for The Australian Easily lost, on page 425 in the mass of the CIA’s notorious “Family Jewels” files, is a short paragraph outlining “potentially embarrassing Agency activities”. “Experiments in influencing human behaviour through the administration of mind- … Continue reading
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How China’s Missiles Could Hit U.S. Satellites
At 5:28 PM EST on Jan. 11, 2007, a satellite arced over southern China. It was small — just 6 ft. long — a tiny object in the heavens, steadily bleeping its location to ground stations below, just as it … Continue reading
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Report: ‘Shadow Goverment’ Of Private Contractors Has Grown Dramatically
A new report by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform concludes that, under the Bush administration, the “shadow government” of private companies working under federal contract has exploded in size. read more | digg story
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New IBM Supercomputer Achieves 3 Quadrillion Operations a Second
IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer–the Blue Gene/P–that will be capable of processing more than 3 quadrillion operations a second. read more | digg story
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Moving this week
My family and I are moving this week, from Southern California to Northern Illinois, US. You know how moving is; I might not be as responsive via e-mail as I’d like to be for several days, and the site won’t … Continue reading
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CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry
As chilling as this material is, take just a moment, and imagine what they’re not releasing… -jh The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of its worst illegal abuses – the so-called ‘family jewels’ documenting … Continue reading
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DHS acknowledges own computer break-ins
Senior DHS officials admitted to Congress that over a two year period there were 800 hacker break-ins, virus outbreaks and in one instance, hacker tools for stealing passwords and other files were found on two internal Homeland Security computer systems. … Continue reading
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Gallup Poll: Congress Approval Rating at All Time Low
Just 14% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in Congress. This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was … Continue reading
Details of Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act Posted
Read Congressman Ron Paul’s current legislation to get rid of the FED… read more | digg story
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Ron Paul Excluded in Iowa
I just received this via e-mail. Amazing. June 19, 2007 Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance will host a presidential candidates forum on Saturday, June 30th in Des Moines. Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, … Continue reading
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Security Researchers Uncover Massive Attack on Italian Websites
Security researchers at Symantec have verified that a large-scale web attack targeting Italian web sites and their users is underway. The attackers exploited vulnerabilities at the ISP and web hosting provider level to add snippets of IFRAME code to hundreds … Continue reading
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