Archive for February, 2008
You can’t burn all the books in the world with a single match…
Pakistani Government causes worldwide YouTube outage
By PETER SVENSSON, Associated Press Technology Writer
NEW YORK – Most of the world’s Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan’s government to block access domestically affected other countries.
The outage highlighted [...]
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Tags: internet, flow of information, YouTube, Pakistan Telecom, internet vulnerability, Pakistani Government
Who Owns the Press, Part 1
I came across a book by various lefty political cartoonists called The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government, probably the only book of cartoons with accompanying footnotes and bibliography. As I am the type of person who likes to verify sources, I looked up the books referenced in bookstores and on Amazon. [...]
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Tags: Amazon, AT&T, booksellers, Cody's Books, communication, conspiracy, context, democracy, Editorial Reviews, flow of information, freedom of information, government and corporate transparency, independent bookstores, internet, knowledge, neoconservatives, the Culture Industry, Who Owns the Press
Support WikiLeaks!
Judge Orders Wikileaks Web Site Shut
By ADAM LIPTAK and BRAD STONE
Published: February 19, 2008
In a move that legal experts said could present a major test of First Amendment rights in the Internet era, a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday ordered the disabling of a Web site devoted to disclosing confidential information.
The site, Wikileaks.org, [...]
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Tags: Cayman Islands, corporations, Cryptome, disclosure, Federation of American Scientists, First Amendment, Government Secrecy, governments, hiding, Julius Baer Bank, money laundering, tax evasion, unethical behavior, Wikileaks
McCain: Bush should veto torture bill
By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said President Bush should veto a measure that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects.
McCain voted against the bill, which would restrict the CIA to using only the 19 interrogation techniques listed in [...]
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Tags: CIA, flip-flopping, John McCain, President Bush, torture, waterboarding
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Bush recognizes Kosovo, says will bring peace
By Deborah Charles
Reuters
Tuesday, February 19, 2008; 1:07 AM
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Tuesday recognized the independence of Kosovo from Serbia and said it would bring peace to the Balkans.
He told reporters in Tanzania: “History will prove this will be a correct move to [...]
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Tags: Balkans, foreign relations, independence, Kosovo, missile systems, NATO, President Bush, Russia, Serbia, Vladimir Putin, War on Terrorism, world order
