Le BotCast with Cheese – Le BotCast

BotCast #21 Scientifiques non objectifs, Charest dépense trop en avion, Mandela est mort, prostitution DynCorp, on ne connait pas les autochtones, McDo infecte, de la censure, des milliards perdus, Boston freak encore, et des choses à faire quand l’internet coupe. www.mp3surround.com pour écouter en surround. (23 septembre 2007)

BotCast-0021.mp3 BotCast-0021.m3u,
Break: MWayne ‘subliminal’ Friedly, Sad Damn (2:31) http://users.zhonka.net/idresponse/r0ck/
OutTro: Elwood, Sick on Monday (4:40) SURROUND http://elwoodproductions.com/
Remerciements: www.simple-net.ca , www.TacticalFM.com et Ministère Fédéral de l’encodage et de la vulgarisation non-distinctive par désassociation linguistique aliénable (MFDEEDLVNDPDLA?).

BotCast #20 Le BotCast en direct de l’Allemagne! On fait un tour de char en Allemagne et on jase de l’expérience germaine, avec de l’audio d’une expérience spéciale en arrivant à une destination secrète! www.mp3surround.com pour écouter en surround. 26 Aout 2007.

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Break: MWayne ‘subliminal’ Friedly, Sour Morals (5:23) http://users.zhonka.net/idresponse/r0ck/
OutTro: Elwood, Experience (3:03) SURROUND http://elwoodproductions.com/
Remerciements: www.simple-net.ca , www.TacticalFM.com et FuckYouTube.com.

BotCast #19 Avec invité super spécial Aprizm de l’émission Pendant que Dormais! Fedex ramasse votre info illégalement, la prison pour 20 secondes d’enregistrement au cinéma, le Fleuve est une bécosse, laptop et écureuil bien cuits, docteur coupeur de queue, créationnisme au Québec, maladie de Morgellons et des zionistes à la tête des médias (voyons, j’y crois pas sti!) .Voici le Botte Casque Whip Cheeze! www.mp3surround.com pour écouter en surround. 8 Aout 2007.

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Break: MWayne ‘subliminal’ Friedly, Talk is cheap (4:59) http://users.zhonka.net/idresponse/r0ck/
OutTro: Elwood, Unknown Phuture (5:04) SURROUND http://elwoodproductions.com/
Remerciements: www.simple-net.ca , www.TacticalFM.com et FuckYouTube.com.

BotCast #18 La Police musicale pognée sur le fait, des politiciens amis avec la drogue, servants publics crosseurs, l’hôpital apelle 911, les surtaxes de iPod, des rats électriques. Cours de natation requis contre la noyade dans la désinfo, gratuitement offert par le BotCast with cheese! www.mp3surround.com pour écouter en surround. 23 Juillet 2007.

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Break: MWayne ‘subliminal’ Friedly, The Way it Should Be (4:23) http://users.zhonka.net/idresponse/r0ck/
OutTro: Elwood, Dead Lock (4:17) SURROUND http://elwoodproductions.com/
Remerciements: www.simple-net.ca , www.TacticalFM.com et l’Agence du Camouflage Laineux du Québec.

BotCast #17 Sénateurs sur le weed, la planète était bien plus chaude dans le temps, des Zunes avec du Porn, le nucléaire supposément propre, science Flinstones et visitez www.QuebecBalado.com pour d’autres podcasts québécois. Pour écouter en surround optionel: www.mp3surround.com pour downloader le codec ou le Player surround. 9 Juillet 2007.

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Break: MWayne ‘subliminal’ Friedly, Try the best we can (3:41) http://users.zhonka.net/idresponse/r0ck/
OutTro: Elwood, One Fine Day (5:00) SURROUND http://elwoodproductions.com/
Remerciements: www.simple-net.ca , www.TacticalFM.comet www.VolezMonIdentite.com

BotCast #16 Espionnage, de la torture approuvée, des fonctionnaires qui nous fourrent, journalistes arrêtés pour poser des questions, le président américain toujours au dessus de la loi, et Jean Charest avec un message spécial pour nous dire qu’il nous fourre. DOPE de Jugi en full surround pour votre toune de la fin!! Pour écouter en surround optionel: www.mp3surround.com pour downloader le codec ou le Player surround. 27 juin 2007.

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Break: MWayne ‘subliminal’ Friedly, HallMark Hollidays (1:49)
OutTro: Jugi, DOPE (7:32) SURROUND
Remerciements: www.simple-net.ca , www.TacticalFM.com et Le Pink Taco

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-Date    27 juin 2007
 
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OUTTRO
Tune:             Dope
Artist:              Jugi
Group:  Complex Media Labs
Year:             1996?
From demo:     Dope
Duration:         7:37
Type:             MOD
Channels:         28
Samples:         23 samples
Size:                1011
Patterns: 117,62 ,  different  19 unused

Details:            Je l’ai modified pour finaliser

Why:

Le restaurant Pink Taco est fier de présenter le “petit guide des pick-up lines qui vous garantiront une claque au visage”.

Vous y trouverez des exemples comme:

 – Venez vous passer la langue entre les lèvres au resto Pink Taco (ouvert 3 semaines sur 4)…: Vous y trouverez des exemples comme:
“Aye chérie, si je te ramène à la maison, ça me déranges pas que tu fake l’orgasme, moi je fake les préliminaires…”
“Comme ça, t’es encore vierge toi? Ca adonne bien, j’aime pas la critique…”
“Toi je te marierais tout de suite. Avec ta belle robe blanche, tu irais tellement bien dans ma cuisine avec mon four et frigo.”

Pink Taco, ouvert 3 semaines sur 4
(1:14:55 PM) Botrax: nice

Moé j’aime ça manger des Pink Taco… oh yeah…..

http://www.riqiradio.com/Personnel.html

Look who owns U.S. debt now

Other nations hold a record 52% of it, leaving U.S. economy vulnerable.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Navy submariner pleads guilty to trying to sell classified data

A sailor accused of stealing a Navy laptop and peddling its classified contents to an undisclosed foreign government pleaded guilty today to espionage, desertion and other charges.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Hummer O2 concept brings shame to the nature-terrorizing brand

Filed under: Transportation

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/57177669/

U.S. “Theft” of Mexican Territory

Did you know that until 1848 California, New Mexico and other portions of the Southwest were internationally recognized provinces of free Mexico, until the U.S. decided it wanted those provinces, declared war on Mexico, and stole them?

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

President Authorized Abu Ghraib Torture, FBI Email Says

Repeated references in an internal FBI email suggest that the president issued a special order to permit some of the more objectionable torture techniques used at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prison facilities around Iraq.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Un fonctionnaire fédéral refilait sa facture d’essence aux contribuables

Un fonctionnaire fédéral a utilisé, pendant cinq ans, une carte de crédit gouvernementale pour faire le plein d’essence présentait ensuite les dépenses comme des frais de déplacement.

URL: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070623/CPACTUALITES/70623053/1019/CPACTUALITES

New 9/11 Study Has Direct Links To Government, Pentagon Black Ops

A newly released Purdue University animation showing how fire caused the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 claims to be independent but in reality has been federally funded and was conducted by individuals with direct links to the Pentagon and the White House.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Cheney ordered Secret Service logs destroyed, paper reports

“Experts in and out of government said Cheney’s office appears to have invented that designation, which alludes to “sensitive compartmented information,” the most closely guarded category of government secrets,” the Post adds. “By adding the words “treated as,” they said, Cheney seeks to protect unclassified work as though its disclosure would cause “exceptionally grave damage to national security.”

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Hillary: woman with strained relationship with truth & “a very airbrushed view of herself”

During his research, Bernstein made a number of discoveries that clashed with the New York senator’s own account of her life. These include the fact that her father “humiliated and abused” his wife, that she kept failure in her bar exam secret for 30 years, and the extraordinary lengths she went to to suppress the details of her husband’s infidelities, which repeatedly threatened to derail his political career. This she did not only by hiring private detectives to investigate his lovers, but also by obtaining signed legal statements from them saying that they had not had sex with her husband.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Israeli Army of Cyber-Soldiers Target Our Right to Know

The Israeli government’s Foreign Ministry is involved in efforts to influence public opinion on the Internet. Israel’s Foreign Ministry orders Internet propagandists, so called “trainee diplomats,” to skew online polls and public forums to conform with the Israeli line.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/technology/07copy.html?_r=3&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
(c’est plus un replicator qu’un transporter mais bon…)

PASADENA, Calif. — Sometimes a particular piece of plastic is just what you need. You have lost the battery cover to your cellphone, perhaps. Or your daughter needs to have the golden princess doll she saw on television. Now.

In a few years, it will be possible to make these items yourself. You will be able to download three-dimensional plans online, then push Print. Hours later, a solid object will be ready to remove from your printer.

It’s not quite the transporter of “Star Trek,” but it is a step closer.

Three-dimensional printers have been seen in industrial design shops for about a decade. They are used to test part designs for cars, airplanes and other products before they are sent to manufacturing. Once well over $100,000 each, such machines can now be had for $15,000. In the next two years, prices are expected to fall further, putting the printers in reach of small offices and even corner copy stores.

The next frontier will be the home. One company that wants to be the first to deliver a 3-D printer for consumers is Desktop Factory , started by IdeaLab, a technology incubator here. The company will start selling its first printer for $4,995 this year.

The Pirate Bay piraté

Des pirates ont réussi à voler une liste contenant 1,6 million de noms d’utilisateurs et de mots de passe appartenant aux internautes enregistrés au site The Pirate Bay.

Le site Internet, qui recense les fichiers de partage Bit Torrent, a annoncé sur son site Internet qu’un groupe appelé «Arga Unga Hackare» («Jeunes pirates en colère») avait réussi à s’emparer des informations.

«Ils ont une copie de notre base de données d’utilisateurs. C’est-à-dire, votre nom d’usager et votre mot de passe. Mais les mots de passe sont encryptés», dit The Pirate Bay sur son blogue ( https://thepiratebay.am/blog/68 ), qui précise: «ils sont très encryptés».

Un des responsables du site, Peter, a affirmé à un média suédois que les pirates avaient profité d’un «bogue de programmation», mais que celui-ci a été réparé.

N’empêche, le site Internet encourage ses utilisateurs à changer leurs mots de passe aussi vite que possible et, s’ils ont le même mot de passe à plusieurs endroits, à changer ceux-ci également.

Mon point par rapport a ca: pourquoi est-ce qu’ont utilise les médias canadiens pour essayer de retrouver un gars qui faisait du vol à l’étalage. Est-ce la vraie raison? Si oui, est-ce que c’est si plate que ça à Sherbrooke? Qu’elle est la vraie raison?

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070514/CPACTUALITES/70514123/-1/CPACTUALITES

Était-il vraiment en train de magasiner?

Que faisait cet homme dans ayant l’air de faire son magasinage dans les allées d’une pharmacie? Du côté du Service de police de Sherbrooke, on croit qu’il s’adonnait à du vol à l’étalage.

Le suspect a été capté par des caméras de surveillance le 24 février dernier, vers 10 h, à la Pharmacie Fortier et Toutant (située au 103, rue Saint-Lambert à Sherbrooke). On rapporte à ce moment un vol à l’étalage.
Le SPS demande donc la collaboration du public afin d’identifier le suspect, un homme de race blanche d’environ 40 ans.
Il mesure 1,72 mère et pèse 85 kilos. Ses cheveux sont bruns.
Pour toute information à ce sujet, on peut contacter les enquêtes du SPS au 819 821-5544.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54758

A roundhouse kick to credit card companies

Posted: March 19, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Though the fastest growing form of slavery is trafficking (recruited or forced transport of people into various types of oppression), the most common form of slavery is debt bondage, which ensnares tens of millions of people in loans they can never pay off.

Debt laborers

The slope to debt bondage (also known as “bonded labor”) begins by the simple slip of one assuming some form of debt as a term for employment. Once employed, the terms change and become more restrictive, the debt grows, and the employer takes coercive advantage over the employee. As time progresses, so do unfair work conditions and labor hours, and the balance due, accruing with insurmountable interest rates, hardly ever (if not never) reduces.

Le vendredi 25 mai 2007

Le Japon interdit le piratage des films

Tokyo

Le Japon s’est doté d’une nouvelle loi interdisant l’enregistrement pirate de films dans les salles de cinéma, a indiqué vendredi un porte-parole du Parlement.

La loi, promulguée mercredi, interdit l’enregistrement, notamment au moyen de caméscopes, pendant au moins huit mois après la sortie du film.

Selon la MPAA, le piratage de films au Japon a coûté 742 millions de dollars à l’industrie du cinéma en 2005.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070607/CPACTUALITES/70607127/1019/CPACTUALITES

La Cour suprême du Canada a décidé qu’un homme d’affaires canadien ne peut invoquer la Charte des droits et libertés pour contester les fouilles effectuées à l’étranger par la Gendarmerie royale du Canada dans le cadre d’une enquête internationale.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/06/spy_room

A civil liberties group suing telecom giant AT&T for allegedly installing illegal secret surveillance rooms in its internet facilities at the behest of the National Security Agency published substantial portions of long-sealed case documents Tuesday.

Des agents de métro refusent d’intervenir

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070619/CPACTUALITES/70619226

Presse Canadienne

Montréal

Des agents de surveillance du métro de Montréal ne sont pas intervenus, lundi, à la station Berri-UQAM, lorsqu’un individu a battu sa conjointe devant eux.

La toute nouvelle présence des policiers dans le métro leur interdirait d’agir.

Virginia Introduces $3550 Speeding Ticket
Virginia legislator introduces new speeding ticket tax that boosts penalties beyond $3550, driving business to his traffic law firm.

Virginia motorists convicted of minor traffic violations will face a new, multi-year tax beginning July 1. Led by state Delegate David B. Albo (R-Springfield), lawmakers slipped a driver responsibility tax into a larger transportation funding bill signed by Governor Tim Kaine (D) in April. Albo, a senior partner in the Albo & Oblon, LLP traffic law firm, can expect to see a significant increase in business as motorists seek to protect their wallet from traffic tickets that come with assessments of up to $3000 in addition to an annual point tax that tops out at $700 a year for as long as the points remain.

Source: Civil Remedial Fees (Executive Secretary, Virginia Supreme Court, 6/21/2007)

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070626/CPMONDE/70626154/1014/CPMONDE

Les visiteurs entrant aux États-Unis devront fournir leurs dix empreintes digitales à partir de la fin 2007, a annoncé P.T. Wright, un haut responsable du Département américain de la sécurité intérieure.

Des scanners d’empreintes digitales utilisant les technologies les plus récentes vont être testés à partir de la fin 2007 dans dix aéroports américains, dont celui de New York-John F. Kennedy, a-t-il expliqué lundi lors d’un déplacement à Bruxelles pour présenter le nouveau dispositif à l’Union européenne. L’actuel système de contrôle, en vigueur depuis 2004, requiert une photographie du visage et deux empreintes.

UN arms trade bill: US casts sole ‘no’ vote against

The United States, which is the world’s biggest exporter of arms and accounts for more than 50 per cent of all arms exports, on Wednesday became the only country in the United Nations to vote against letting work begin on a new treaty to bolster arms embargoes and prevent human rights abuses by setting uniform worldwide standards for arms deals. The vote in the 192-nation UN General Assembly was 153-1, with the United States casting the sole “no” vote.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Corruption, crime inside Homeland Security

Transportation Security Administration employees, including federal air marshals, found themselves arrested for stealing from passengers, child pornography, money laundering, and drug smuggling.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Cancer expert was paid by chemical companies

A leading scientist was paid by chemical companies while investigating the cancer risks of their products, it emerged yesterday.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Anniversaire de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme – Québec et Ottawa accusés de négliger les droits des femmes et des plus démunis

À l’occasion de l’anniversaire de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme, des groupes ont distribué hier de mauvaises notes aux gouvernements canadien et québécois en matière de respect des droits des femmes et des plus démunis. Suite

URL: http://www.ledevoir.com/2006/12/11/124561.html

Big Oil stiffs US billions in royalties

Almost every time a company drills for oil or gas on federal property, it’s supposed to pay a royalty or tax to the government , CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports. But CBS News has learned from a Congressional source that the federal agency responsible for collecting billions of dollars in those royalties has routinely failed to hold the companies accountable.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Rezko cash triple what Obama says

During his 12 years in politics, Sen. Barack Obama has received nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted businessman Tony Rezko and his associates than he has publicly acknowledged, the Chicago Sun-Times has found.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Israel destroys trees in Ertas village

Israeli soldiers destroy Palestinian fruit trees in Ertas village near Bethlehem to make way for the sewage facilities of a nearby illegal Israeli settlement. Despite the Palestinians inviting the soldiers for tea, their trees, from which they earn their living, are uprooted the next morning.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Top scientist debunks global warming

Solar activity is a greater driver of climate change than man-made carbon dioxide, argues Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide and winner of several notable science prizes. “When meteorologists can change the weather then we can start to think about humans changing climate,” Prof Plimer said.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Reservations to receive FEMA trailers

American Indian tribes throughout the country will receive 2,000 unused trailers that were intended for but never given to Hurricane Katrina victims.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

9/11 workers from Michael Moore film fear political attack

“It’s ridiculous after what we did for the city and the country on that day, that they won’t allow us to go 90 miles offshore to get treated,” said Reggie Cervantes, a 46-year-old EMT who worked with only a thin dust mask after the World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.All three workers said they were denied treatment for various conditions by U.S. insurance companies that refused to pay for coverage. Each received treatment in Cuba.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_Paper_reveals_Pentagon_propaganda_campaign_0509.html

Documents show US had propaganda campaign plan two months before invasion

Months before the US invaded Iraq, Pentagon planners were developing an elaborate propaganda campaign to ensure US government-“approved” information was broadcast to the Iraqi public, according to a previously classified White Paper released Tuesday by the independent National Security Archives.

The White Paper, prepared in January 2003, lays out plans to install American-friendly media with an Iraqi face and to silence local anti-US news outlets, referred to in the paper as “hate media.” Also released by the National Security Archives were a Power Point presentation outlining the goals of the media plan and other briefing materials.

Transformation of Iraq’s media would be accomplished by a Rapid Reaction Media Team, which planners envisioned as a bridge between the state-controlled outlets of Saddam Hussein’s regime and a long-term “Iraqi Free Media” network, which would broadcast America-friendly programming.

READ THE FULL WHITE PAPER HERE.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB219/iraq_media_01.pdf

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http://technaute.lapresseaffaires.com/nouvelles/texte_complet.php?id=81,12399,0,052007,1353136.html&ref=cyberpresse

AFP 
14 mai 2007 – 14h29
 
Le groupe d’électronique japonais Fujitsu a indiqué lundi avoir été choisi par un consortium de sept opérateurs japonais et américains pour renforcer les capacités d’un câble de transmission en fibres optiques sous-marin reliant le Japon aux États-Unis.

Le débit potentiel de ce câble sera plus que doublé par rapport à la configuration initiale pour atteindre 1,28 téraoctet par seconde (1280 gigaoctet par seconde), a précisé Fujitsu dans un communiqué.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55825

Bush grants presidency extraordinary powers
Directive for emergencies apparently gives authority without congressional oversight

President Bush has signed a directive granting extraordinary powers to the office of the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight.

The “National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html )” was signed May 9, notes Jerome R. Corsi in a WND column.

It was issued with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive.

WTC: accord sur les indemnités versées

New York

Le détenteur du bail du World Trade Center et ses assureurs ont trouvé un accord, mettant un terme à près de six ans de conflit sur la question des indemnités liées à la destruction du site le 11 Septembre 2001, a annoncé mercredi le gouverneur de New York.

Selon cet accord, qui met fin aux actions judiciaires en cours, les sept compagnies d’assurance s’engagent à payer 2 milliards de dollars de montant restant dû, au promoteur Larry Silverstein, détenteur du bail du WTC, en plus de quelque 2 milliards précédemment versés.

À l’issue de plusieurs recours, la justice avait déjà déterminé que la société Silverstein pouvait espérer jusqu’à 4,68 milliards. Jusqu’à présent, environ seule la moitié de cette somme avait été réglée, les assureurs contestant le versement du reste.

Dès après les attaques, le désaccord était apparu sur le montant des indemnités, Silverstein soulignant que les lieux ayant été victimes de deux attentats, cela signifiait toucher deux fois l’indemnité, soit deux fois 3,5 mds de dollars.

Le vendredi 25 mai 2007

De nouveaux détecteurs de mensonge high tech

Suzanne Schafer

Fort Jackson, Caroline du Sud

À l’«école du détecteur de mensonge», sur une base de l’armée américaine, on ne se contente pas de former des spécialistes capables de manier ces machines. On mène également des recherches sur de nouveaux systèmes sophistiqués censés permettre de confondre les menteurs.

L’Académie de la défense pour l’évaluation de la crédibilité (Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment – DACA), basée à Fort Jackson (Caroline du Sud), forme des experts au maniement du polygraphe, ou détecteur de mensonge, pour le compte de l’armée américaine et de 23 agences fédérales.

Une centaine de nouveaux experts du polygraphe, appelés «examinateurs», sortent chaque année de ce centre du département de la Défense. La DACA dispense également une grande partie des 80 heures de remise à niveau que chacun des 650 «examinateurs» travaillant pour les autorités américaines doit suivre une fois tous les deux ans.

Les «élèves» apprennent à étudier la tension, le rythme de la respiration et l’activité des glandes à l’origine de la transpiration, autant d’indicateurs supposés permettre de découvrir les signes d’un possible mensonge chez la personne interrogée. La formation dure 14 semaines.

Les soldats de la base servent de «cobayes». Reliés à des capteurs, les militaires sont interrogés lors d’exercices filmés, le détail de certaines de leurs réactions physiologiques apparaissant sur des écrans de contrôle. «Nos étudiants doivent apprendre à poser les bonnes questions pour voir si les soldats disent vrai ou pas», explique Bill Norris, directeur de la DACA.

Parallèlement, des chercheurs de l’académie testent de nouveaux appareils expérimentaux. La technique de l’imagerie thermique, qui mesure la température du visage de la personne interrogée à l’aide d’une caméra spéciale, est prometteuse par sa capacité à associer mensonge et changement de température de la peau, selon M. Norris.

Une autre technologie porte sur l’étude du mouvement de l’oeil devant une scène familière ou inhabituelle. «Les enquêteurs pourraient peut-être utiliser cette technique en montrant par exemple à une personne la photo d’une scène de crime» pour voir si elle la reconnaît, précise M. Norris.

Les chercheurs étudient également un système de «vibrométrie laser Doppler» qui analyse la contraction des muscles, la respiration et l’activité cardiovasculaire. Un laser pourrait ainsi être dirigé vers une artère du cou pour étudier le flux sanguin du sujet à distance, explique Debra Krikorian, biologiste moléculaire de la DACA.

Les cyberattaques sont-elles du terrorisme?

AFP 
07 juin 2007 – 14h45
 
L’Estonie proposera à la réunion des ministres de la justice de l’Union européenne la semaine prochaine que les cyberattaques soient considérées par l’UE comme des actes de terrorisme, a indiqué jeudi le ministre estonien de la justice, Rein Lang.

«Nous sommes partisans d’assimiler de telles choses à des actes terroristes, comme le font maintenant les Américains», a déclaré M. Lang lors d’une conférence de presse.

«Je m’attends à une discussion très intéressante sur ce point» lors de la réunion mercredi, a-t-il ajouté.

Le Premier ministre estonien Andrus Ansip a réitéré lors de la même conférence de presse ses accusations selon lesquelles plusieurs attaques informatiques contre des sites d’institutions estoniennes, survenues après le déplacement fin avril d’un monument soviétique à Tallinn, étaient lancées depuis les ordinateurs du Kremlin.

MM. Lang et Ansip ont affirmé que ces attaques, indépendamment du fait que le Kremlin en soit conscient ou non, avaient été bien organisées et constituaient une grave atteinte à la sécurité.

«Ces attaques sont venues directement des adresses IP du bureau du président russe», a affirmé M. Ansip.

«Si les ordinateurs (du Kremlin) étaient utilisés non-intentionnellement, cela veut dire que les ordinateurs de l’administration russe peuvent servir à des attaques criminelles», a déclaré M. Lang.

Moscou a démenti une quelconque implication dans les cyberattaques massives qui avaient forcé les autorités estoniennes à fermer temporairement l’accès à leurs sites internet. Plusieurs attaques avaient aussi visé des intérêts privés, comme les banques.

À lire aussi:

– Acte de guerre cybernétique contre l’Estonie? ( http://technaute.lapresseaffaires.com/nouvelles/texte_complet.php?id=81,12399,0,052007,1357277.html&ref=recherche )
– Cyberattaques: l’Otan a aidé l’Estonie ( http://technaute.lapresseaffaires.com/nouvelles/texte_complet.php?id=81,12399,0,052007,1355313.html&ref=recherche )
– Les cyberattaques se multiplient ( http://technaute.lapresseaffaires.com/nouvelles/texte_complet.php?id=81,12399,0,052007,1354996.html&ref=recherche )
– Estonie: l’Otan enquête sur les cyberattaques ( http://technaute.lapresseaffaires.com/nouvelles/texte_complet.php?id=81,12399,0,052007,1354281.html&ref=recherche )
– Les cyberattaques risquent de se multiplier ( http://technaute.lapresseaffaires.com/nouvelles/texte_complet.php?id=81,12399,0,052007,1354280.html&ref=recherche )
– Cyberattaque contre une banque estonienne ( http://technaute.lapresseaffaires.com/nouvelles/texte_complet.php?id=81,12399,0,052007,1354282.html&ref=recherche )

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/050607_reporter_arrested_giuliani_orders.html

Reporter Arrested on Orders of Giuliani Press Secretary Charged with Criminal Trespass Despite Protest of CNN Staff and Official Event Press Credentials at GOP Debate in New Hampshire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOerYpJse30

Manchester, NH – Freelance reporter Matt Lepacek, reporting for Infowars.com, was arrested for asking a question to one of Giuliani’s staff members in a press conference. The press secretary identified the New York based reporter as having previously asked Giuliani about his prior knowledge of WTC building collapses and ordered New Hampshire state police to arrest him.

Jason Bermas, reporting for America: Freedom to Fascism, confirmed Lepacek had official CNN press credentials for the Republican debate. However, his camera was seized by staff members who shut off the camera, according to Luke Rudkowski, also a freelance Infowars reporter on the scene. He said police physically assaulted both reporters after Rudkowski objected that they were official members of the press and that nothing illegal had taken place. Police reportedly damaged the Infowars-owned camera in the process.

Reporters were questioning Giuliani staff members on a variety of issues, including his apparent ignorance of the 9/11 Commission Report, according to Bermas. The staff members accused the reporters of Ron Paul partisanship, which press denied. It was at this point that Lepacek, who was streaming a live report, asked a staff member about Giuliani’s statement to Peter Jennings that he was told beforehand that the WTC buildings would collapse.

Le FBI s’attaque aux PC zombies

 
Marie-Eve Morasse
14 juin 2007 – 16h17
 

La police fédérale américaine a recensé plus d’un million d’ordinateurs qui servent de PC zombies aux criminels qui oeuvrent sur Internet.
 

C’est dans le cadre de son opération «Bot Roast» que le FBI a trouvé des réseaux d’ordinateurs zombies qui permettent d’envoyer des millions de pourriels, de voler des identités et d’attaquer des sites Web.

Les propriétaires de ces ordinateurs, dont on a retracé les adresses IP, seront contactés par le FBI, qui estime qu’il s’agit une «menace grandissante à la sécurité nationale».

«La majorité des victimes ne sont même pas au courant que leur ordinateur a été attaqué ou que leur information personnelle est utilisée», dit James Finch, co-directeur de la division informatique au FBI.

Bien qu’elle ait l’intention de contacter les gens dont les ordinateurs ont été infectés, la police fédérale américaine avertit toutefois qu’elle ne contacte jamais les gens par Internet et qu’elle ne demande pas d’informations personnelles.

«Méfiez-vous des fraudeurs qui demandent ce type d’information, surtout par courriel», écrit le FBI dans un communiqué.

Le FBI exhorte en outre les gens à protéger leurs ordinateurs en installant des antivirus efficaces et en étant vigilants dans leur utilisation d’Internet.

Jusqu’ici, l’opération «Bot Roast» a mené à l’arrestation de trois personnes qui auraient utilisé des réseaux de PC zombies à des fins criminelles.

La plus connue des trois personnes arrêtées est sans doute Robert Soloway, 27 ans, surnommé le «roi du pourriel».

L’homme de Seattle aurait utilisé des PC zombies pour envoyer des millions de pourriels entre 2003 et 2007.

À lire aussi :

Le «roi du pourriel» arrêté aux États-Unis

DHS Acknowledges Own Computer Break-Ins

By TED BRIDIS
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department, the lead U.S. agency for fighting cyber threats, suffered more than 800 hacker break-ins, virus outbreaks and other computer security problems over two years, senior officials acknowledged to Congress.

In one instance, hacker tools for stealing passwords and other files were found on two internal Homeland Security computer systems. The agency’s headquarters sought forensic help from the department’s own Security Operations Center and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team it operates with Carnegie Mellon University.

In other cases, computer workstations in the Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration were infected with malicious software detected trying to communicate with outsiders; laptops were discovered missing; and agency Web sites suffered break-ins.

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said such problems undermine the government’s efforts to encourage companies and private organizations to improve cyber security.

“What the department is doing on its own networks speaks so loudly that the message is not getting across,” Thompson said.

Congressional investigators, expected to testify Wednesday during an oversight hearing about the department’s security lapses, determined that persistent weaknesses “threaten the confidentiality, integrity and availability of key DHS information and information systems,” according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office being released later in June.

The Homeland Security Department’s chief information officer, Scott Charbo, assured lawmakers his organization was working to prevent such problems.

“We need to increase our vigilance to ensure that such incidents do not happen again,” Charbo wrote in testimony prepared for Wednesday’s hearing. “The department takes these incidents very seriously and will work diligently to ensure they do not recur.”

The computer problems disclosed to the House Homeland Security subcommittee occurred during fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2006, and occurred at DHS headquarters and many of the department’s agencies, including TSA, the Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Customs and Border Protection and others.

The subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., said break-ins to government computer networks and theft of information are “one of the most critical issues confronting our nation, and we must deal with this threat immediately.”

All the problems involved the department’s unclassified computer networks, although DHS officials also have acknowledged to lawmakers dozens of incidents they described as “classified spillage,” in which secret information was improperly transmitted or discussed over nonsecure e-mail systems.

http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jul/27-595713.html

How can a journalist or a news consumer tell if a story is true or false?  There are no exact rules, but the following clues can help indicate if a story or allegation is true.

Does the story fit the pattern of a conspiracy theory?

Does the story claim that vast, powerful, evil forces are secretly manipulating events?  If so, this fits the profile of a conspiracy theory.  Conspiracy theories are rarely true, even though they have great appeal and are often widely believed.  In reality, events usually have much less exciting explanations.

The U.S. military or intelligence community is a favorite villain in many conspiracy theories.

For example, the Soviet disinformation apparatus regularly blamed the U.S. military or intelligence community for a variety of natural disasters as well as political events.  In March 1992, then-Russian foreign intelligence chief Yevgeni Primakov admitted that the disinformation service of the Soviet KGB intelligence service had concocted the false story that the AIDS virus had been created in a US military laboratory as a biological weapon.  When AIDS was first discovered, no one knew how this horrifying new disease had arisen, although scientists have now used DNA analysis to determine that “all HIV-1 strains known to infect man” are closely related to a simian immunodeficiency virus found in a western equatorial African chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes troglodytes.  But the Soviets used widespread suspicions about the U.S. military to blame it for AIDS.  (More details on this.)

In his book 9/11: The Big Lie, French author Thierry Meyssan falsely claimed that no plane hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.  Instead, he claimed that the building had been struck by a cruise missile fired by elements within the U.S. government.  No such vast conspiracy existed and many eyewitness accounts and evidence gathered on the scene confirmed that the hijacked airliner had struck the building.  But, nevertheless, the book was a best-seller in France and has been translated into 19 languages, demonstrating the power that even the most groundless conspiracy theories can have.  (More details on 9/11: The Big Lie.)

Does the story fit the pattern of an “urban legend?”

Is the story startlingly good, bad, amazing, horrifying, or otherwise seemingly “too good” or “too terrible” to be true?  If so, it may be an “urban legend.”  Urban legends, which often circulate by word of mouth, e-mail, or the Internet, are false claims that are widely believed because they put a common fear, hope, suspicion, or other powerful emotion into story form.

For example, after the September 11 attacks, a story arose that someone had survived the World Trade Center collapse by “surfing” a piece of building debris from the 82nd floor to the ground.  Of course, no one could survive such a fall, but many initially believed this story, out of desperate hope that some people trapped in the towers miraculously survived their collapse.  (More details (http://www.snopes.com/rumors/survivor.htm) on this.)

Another September 11 urban legend is that an undamaged Bible was found in the midst of the crash site at the Pentagon.  In reality, it was a dictionary.  But, if a Bible had survived unscathed, that would have seemed much more significant, and been seen by many as a sign of divine intervention.  (More details (http://www.snopes.com/rumors/bible.htm) on this.)

Since 1987, the false story that Americans or others are kidnapping or adopting children in order to use them in organ transplants has been widely believed.  There is absolutely no evidence that any such event has ever occurred, but such allegations have won the most prestigious journalism prizes in France in 1995 and Spain in 1996.  (More details on this.)

This urban legend is based on fears about both organ transplantation and international adoptions, both of which were relatively new practices in the 1980s.  As advances in medical science made organ transplantation more widespread, unfounded fears began to spread that people would be murdered for their organs.  At the same time, there were also unfounded fears about the fate of infants adopted by foreigners and taken far from their home countries.  The so-called “baby parts” rumor combined both these fears in story form, which gave it great credibility even though there was absolutely no evidence for the allegation.

In late 2004, a reporter for Saudi Arabia’s Al Watan newspaper repeated a version of the organ trafficking urban legend, falsely claiming that U.S. forces in Iraq were harvesting organs from dead or wounded Iraqis for sale in the United States.  This shows how the details of urban legends can change, to fit different circumstances.  (More det

BotCast #15 Des CowGirls sous attaque, des politiciens payés, des condoms trop grans pour l’Inde, le groupe Carlyle, du code avec des gros mots, et des armes fatales légalement introduites dans le métro. Pour écouter le cast en surround, visitez www.mp3surround.com pour downloader le codec ou le Player surround. Joue dans tous les lecteurs MP3 sans surround. 4 juin 2007.

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Break: Benoit Campeau, Squeaky Clean (5:39), www.BenoitCampeau.com
OutTro: Esem, obbe (bleecermx), (4:40), http://esem.name/
Remerciements: www.simple-net.ca , www.TacticalFM.com et Les productions BWC

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Subject: Re: Les botcast

Cool ben merci de l’info, c’est apprécié :-). Si y’a quoi que ce soit, n’hésites-pas svp!

On 5/22/07, LastCall_ wrote:

Salut

eh bien maintenant j’écoute le show religieusement et ça je trouve ça
super. J’en manque pas un, jles load dans mon mp3 player pis j’écoute ça
en allant à la job.

La seul affaire que j’ai à dire sur les past show, c que l’utilité du
surround sound jla vois pas (jécoute ça dans mon mp3 player?) en juillet
jvas avoir un système 5.1 on s’en reparlera.. mais d’ici la jme dis que
c un talk show et pas Jurassic Park, hehe

Pour le futur il reste juste à voir ce que tacticalFM va changer dans
votre behavior.. à date jcrois pas que vous changez grand chose (j’ai
pas écouter le #14 encore), mais ce que j’ai peur c que ça vienne trop
politique sérieuse et moins conspiration et affaires marrantes.

Fak en bref, excellent show, le faite que vous soyez 2 est effectivement
ce qui manquait au Botcast au départ… ah pis j’adore les pubs du
début.. c’est en faite ce qui me rappelle quel show j’ai écouter ou pas,
ça la une utilité très pratique en plus d’être funny ;-)

Seul affaire qui me manque un peu c’est le “live”.. j’avoue que c’est
toffe avoir du monde qui écoute live, mais c’était ce qui me fesait
tripper un peu dans le temps.. faut croire qu’on est réellement rendu à
l’aire des podcasts.

Sur ce, keep on the good work ;-)

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– Last

On 2007-05-22 16:31, wrote:
> Salut Last,
>
> tu m’avais donné tes commentaires sur le botcast #8, le premier qu’ont a
> fait ensemble Botrax et moi. Est-ce que t’a écouter les autres et si oui,
> que peux tu me dire pour améliorer le tout et tes commentaires si tu
> veux svp?
>
> Merci!!
>
>

decax says:
Le site web:
decax says:
http://politicalcompass.org/
decax says:
T’as l’option “Take the test” en haut à gauche
decax says:
Et la charte que ça va te donner, c’est ça:
decax says:
http://dgivista.org/Politics/sparky/uploaded_images/internationalchart-738237.gif

Subject: Botcast #14

Salutation à vous deux,

Dans votre Botcast #14 vous faisiez réfférence à un certain missile Russe dans le cadre des informations démontrant l’innefficassité du système anti-missiles. Il s’agit probablement d’une évolution du missile Topol SS27 dévoilé en 1997 par les Russes et qui contient plusieurs méchanismes autres que sa très grande vitesse.

Le Topol SS27 à continuer à évoluer par la suite et il est à noter qu’une première annonce de Vladimir Poutine en 2005 et une seconde quelque part en 2006 ont chacunes marqués une hausse de sa popularité dans la fédération de Russie.

Les derniers détails révèlent qu’une fois lancé le missile parcour sont trajet en changant continuellement de cap pour réduire l’anticipation de la cible exacte. En plus de sont système de brouillage, il peut également effectuer des esquives s’il détecte l’approche d’objet suceptibles de l’intercepter, déployer des leures et se diviser en 4 à 6 missiles selon le nombre de kilotonnes par ogives voulu.

Pour conclure, puisqu’il est évident que les anonces de Mr Poutine sont pour en mousser la vente, qui sont les intéressés? Il est déjà connu que les chinois produisent leur propre version nommé Dong Feng 41 (Vent de l’Est #41) avec l’assistance du Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology.

Cordialement,

Fogman

Subject: Grossière erreur dans un de vos articles

Bonjour,

Dans l’article suivant « Le 30e anniversaire de Star Wars célébré à L.A. » disponible sur ce lien « http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070525/CPARTS01/705250384/1043/CPARTS01 », il y une erreur grossière erreur.

Dans le 7ème paragraphe, svp, veuillez corriger « DARK VADOR » pour DARTH VADOR ». Il m’apparaît évident que quelqu’un qui ne connais pas l’univers Star Wars ne devrais pas écrire d’article sur le sujet, mais bon, ce n’est pas mon choix.

Merci et bonne journée.

Is Alan Greenspan “DBCB”?

Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan is now delivering a speech on the lecture circuit where he states that the housing bubble created under his watch at the Fed was really the result of the Berlin Wall coming down, and not because he pumped massive liquidity into the monetary system.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

ZOG, again

Nancy Pelosi’s no dummy. She’s been outed as a crazed Zionist, so she can hardly go around placing other crazed Zionists in positions of power in order to finalize the Zionist Occupation Government. Total Israeli control over America can’t be allowed to be that obvious. Thus the head-fake over Murtha. By pretending to support John Murtha as majority leader, she managed to have crazed Zionist Steny Hoyer installed without a hint of Pelosi fingerprints on the maneuver.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Gingrich: US may be forced to reexamine freedom of speech

A former Republican Speaker of the House mulling a possible presidential run said that America may need to reexamine freedom of speech in order to prevent future terrorist attacks.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Bush says U.S. won’t pull out of Iraq

“There’s one thing I’m not going to do, I’m not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete,” he said in a speech setting the stage for high-stakes meetings with the Iraqi prime minister later this week. “We can accept nothing less than victory for our children and our grandchildren.”

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

what about Mission Accomplished?

British baroness chastised for ‘pro-Israel lobby’ comments

The leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrat party is considering recommendations to discipline and perhaps expel Baroness Jenny Tonge from the party’s membership in the House of Lords following comments she made last week on the power of the “pro-Israel lobby.”

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

FBI agent tried to run over anti-Zionist protestor

“He could have just rolled down his window and said, ‘I’m an FBI agent,’ and that would have been the end of it,” Ahmed said. “There was nothing improper going on.” Instead, according to Ahmed, the driver revved his engine threateningly and began pushing him backward with the car’s front bumper.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Dozens of armed police swoop on fancy dress cowgirls after reports of gun threat

Terrified teenagers Holly Spedding and Fatima Rupp were chased by dozens of police marksmen, tracked by hovering police choppers and hotly pursued by six police cars who thought the 19-year-olds were gun wielding felons. But when police, and their van loads of snarling dogs, finally cornered the duo after the motorway chase they discovered the angelic looking students were just drving home from a Wild West fancy dress party and the only gun they were carrying was a toy pistol.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

University shuts down rather than allow holocaust revisionist to speak

An Italian university has closed down one of its campuses to prevent a planned lecture by a controversial French professor

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Fiji declares war on bloggers and open internet access, click to help!

Military authorities in Fiji are cracking down on politically-active bloggers, and blocking access to the internet throughout the nation.

URL: http://digg.com/tech_news/Fiji_declares_war_on_bloggers_and_open_internet_access_click_to_help

IRONY: Anti-Cellphone Senator Crashes while talking on CELLPHONE

Carole Migden — former voter on a state bill that fines people for using their cellphones while driving — rear-ended her state-issued SUV into a Honda sedan on Highway 12 in Solano County, today.

URL: http://digg.com/gadgets/IRONY_Anti_Cellphone_Senator_Crashes_while_talking_on_CELLPHONE

Just by searching for “keygen”, “serial”, “name”, and some well known cracker groups you can come by the keygen sources (how serial numbers are generated) to some very popular programs. I found WinZip, Photoshop, mIRC, and a few others.

URL: http://digg.com/programming/WinZip_Serial_Number_Algorithm_Found_on_NEW_Google_CodeSearch

We all know programmers swear a lot. Google recently released the Google Code search, which searches through open source tarballs and zips, and tries to find the number of occurences of a specific query. Guess what this guy was looking for…

URL: http://digg.com/programming/Swears_in_the_Source_Code

More useful than a Woz Card, is a business card that converts to a set of lockpicks.

URL: http://digg.com/gadgets/More_Useful_Than_Woz_Card_Business_Card_That_Converts_To_Set_Of_Lockpicks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR2007050902719.html

By Spencer S. Hsu

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 10, 2007; Page A12

President Bush issued a formal national security directive yesterday ordering agencies to prepare contingency plans for a surprise, “decapitating” attack on the federal government, and assigned responsibility for coordinating such plans to the White House.

The prospect of a nuclear bomb being detonated in Washington without warning, whether smuggled in by terrorists or a foreign government, has been cited by many security analysts as a rising concern since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/05/hundreds_click_.html
Best white hat scam of the month: security researcher Didier Stevens bought a Google ad six months ago that said, “Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!” 409 people clicked on the ad — people who would have been owned up or infested with malware had Stevens been a true scammer instead of a security geek with a weird sense of humor. Stevens writes:

During this [six month] period, my ad was displayed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times. That’s a click-through-rate of 0.16%. My Google Adwords campaign cost me only €17 ($23). That’s €0.04 ($0.06) per click or per potentially compromised machine. 98% of the machines ran Windows (according to the User Agent string).

It’s hard to say whether people clicked on the ad because they assumed it was a joke, or because they simply misread it as an anti-virus ad. Still, the numbers are pretty scary. The other shocker here is that Google, which does quite a bit of policing on ad content, didn’t notice the scammy ad. Stevens says, “I designed my ad to make it suspect, but even then it was accepted by Google without problem and I got no complaints to date.” Apparently, he’s still running the ad, with slightly different experimental parameters. Can’t wait to see what he finds out next . . .

http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/14/drivebydownload1.png

The Social Security card faces its first major upgrade in 70 years under two immigration-reform proposals slated for debate this week that would add biometric information to the card and finally complete its slow metamorphosis into a national ID.

The leading immigration proposal with traction in Congress would force employers to accept only a very limited range of approved documents as proof of work eligibility, including a driver’s license that meets new federal Real ID standards, a high-tech temporary work visa or a U.S. passport with an RFID chip. A fourth option is the notional tamper-proof biometric Social Security card, which would replace the text-only design that’s been issued to Americans almost without change for more than 70 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6161691.stm

Condoms ‘too big’ for Indian men

By Damian Grammaticus
BBC News, Delhi

There is a “lack of awareness” over condom sizes

A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.

The study found that more than half of the men measured had penises that were shorter than international standards for condoms.

Le huard touche 92 cents

22 mai 2007 – 09h12

LaPresseAffaires.com

Le dollar canadien reprend là où il avait laissé la semaine dernière.

À l’ouverture des marchés intérieurs, mardi matin, le dollar canadien valait 92,12 cents US, en hausse de 0,33 cent.

Plusieurs économistes croient que les deux monnaies seront à égalité d’ici un à deux ans.

La publication de résultats plus forts que prévu pour les ventes au détail, la solide performance économique du Canada en général et le prix élevé des ressources naturelles expliquent en partie cette hausse accélérée du huard.

L’augmentation anticipée des taux d’intérêt par la Banque du Canada y a aussi contribué.

La Banque du Canada se prononcera d’ailleurs sur les taux la semaine prochaine.

Los Angeles Times: Les États-Unis, premier marchand de canons de la planète

Personne ne semble y prêter trop d’attention, mais la principale exportation des États-Unis est également la plus meurtrière.

On ne nous a pas surnommé «la seule superpuissance» pour rien. Paul Wolfowitz est peut-être aujourd’hui à la recherche d’un nouveau boulot, mais le terme «hyperpuissance» qu’il utilisait pour décrire l’omniprésence de la puissance américaine du temps où il n’était que secrétaire adjoint à la Défense, reste tout à fait approprié.

La sous-traitance à l’étranger ne menacerait pas l’emploi

La croyance voulant que la sous-traitance de services à l’étranger ait un effet négatif marqué sur l’emploi au Canada ne serait pas avérée, estime une étude publiée mardi par Statistique Canada.

URL: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070522/LAINFORMER/70522153/1019/CPACTUALITES

Le mardi 22 mai 2007

La sous-traitance à l’étranger ne menacerait pas l’emploi

Presse Canadienne

La croyance voulant que la sous-traitance de services à l’étranger ait un effet négatif marqué sur l’emploi au Canada ne serait pas avérée, estime une étude publiée mardi par Statistique Canada.

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La croyance voulant que la sous-traitance de services à l’étranger ait un effet négatif marqué sur l’emploi au Canada ne serait pas avérée, estime une étude publiée mardi par Statistique Canada.

«Rien ne porte à croire que les industries, dont une part relativement importante des professions était sujette à la délocalisation des services au milieu des années 1990, avaient récemment vu ralentir la croissance de leur effectif comparativement aux autres industries», conclut l’étude réalisée entre 1987 et 2006.

Government overrules war-crimes arrest order

Attorney-General Michael Cullen has over-ruled a District Court judge’s decision to issue an arrest warrant against a visiting former Israeli general the judge believed was answerable for Middle East war crimes.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Phoenix Motorcars intros a truly plug-and-play car

Filed under: Transportation

A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/56174060/

SAS men get £100,000 to bribe Iraqi fighters

British Army officers in Iraq are being handed stashes of up to £100,000 in cash for “operational expenses” without formal controls on how it is spent.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

DHS official admits taking bribes to fake documents

A federal immigration official pleaded guilty Thursday to receiving more than $600,000 in bribes for falsifying documents for illegal immigrants.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Newsweek: Gov’t. motion to silence Padilla defense

U.S. citizen Jose Padilla was infamously accused by John Ashcroft of wanting to set off a “dirty bomb” for Al Queda. After being held incommunicado in solitary confinement for three years, and tortured, the government dropped the bomb charge and now wants to put him away on vague charges of supporting terrorism. But, as Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball report, the government wants to silence Padilla’s attorneys, not allowing them to bring up Padilla’s treatment by the government, and not allowing public testimony of any kind, in the name of “national security” (of course).

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

US may waive Israeli visa requirement

Israelis may no longer have to apply for visas to visit the US under bills before both houses of Congress.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

9/11 Toxic Dust: Official Who Knowingly Lied Refuses To Testify

The former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who knowingly lied and signed off on falsified scientific research on the toxicity of the air in the aftermath of 9/11, has refused a request by Rep. Jerrold Nadler that she testify before a congressional hearing on the federal government’s response to be tabled later this month.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Police get new powers to evict anti-social residents from their own homes

Officers in England and Wales will be allowed to temporarily throw out nuisance neighbours, whether they are council tenants, private renters or even own the properties.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Armed police raid home after mistaking Lara Croft dummy for gunman

Armed officers burst into the house, shouted at the owner to lie on the floor, and ordered him to surrender his weapon. But efficiency turned to embarrassment when the “gunman” turned out to be a life-sized model of the video game character Lara Croft, complete with trademark outsized pistols.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

The Idolatry of Judeo-Christianity

The death of the Reverend Jerry Falwell gives us a moment to contemplate that sinister movement within Protestant evangelicalism deemed “Zionist” and to reflect on the deconstruction it has wrought on true Christianity. Falwell, Hagee and other clerics have whole-heartedly supported this movement and given it both moral and financial backing. This is the sad reality of modern evangelical and fundamentalist thought, or in this case, lack of thought or genuine reflection.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Not a question,

I just want to complement the development team on a job well done. The

game playability is very nice. The game is allot of fun to play up to leve

25 or so. But I have decided to go back to Everquest for one simple

reason. I can’t enjoy a game and all it has to offer when all I do is

watch the my character die over and over because of player killers. These

types of people seem to be everywhere in this game and that is

unfortunate. But it is a nice game and a worthy attempt at competing with

Verant:-)

Thanks,

Tim Ketner

On Dec. 29, 1977, Christians in Israel and the occupied territories protested a new law passed by the Israeli parliament…

URL: http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1846&Itemid=0

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Bush met with Dobson and conservative Christian leaders to rally support for Iran policy

President George W. Bush met privately with Focus on the Family Founder and Chairman James Dobson and approximately a dozen Christian right leaders last week to rally support for his policies on Iraq, Iran and the so-called “war on terror.”

Plusieurs des 133 agents du SPVM qui patrouilleront sous peu le métro seront munis de pistolets électriques communément appelés «pistolets Taser».

Pour la première fois à Montréal, des policiers utiliseront cette arme controversée dans le cadre de leurs patrouilles quotidiennes.

Le coroner rappelle l’importance d’être prudent près des lignes électriques

Les campagnes de sensibilisation appelant les citoyens à être prudents près des lignes électriques demeurent essentielles car il semble qu’on ne le rappelle jamais assez.

URL: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070516/CPACTUALITES/70516066/1019/CPACTUALITES

e mercredi 16 mai 2007

Le coroner rappelle l’importance d’être prudent près des lignes électriques

Presse Canadienne

Québec

Les campagnes de sensibilisation appelant les citoyens à être prudents près des lignes électriques demeurent essentielles car il semble qu’on ne le rappelle jamais assez.

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C’est ce qu’il faut conclure à la lecture du rapport du coroner Jacques Ramsay sur le décès accidentel d’un émondeur, Christian Vallières, 48 ans, qui est mort électrocuté le 5 juin 2006 à Cowansville en Montérégie.

Washington, une nuit. Deux responsables de la Maison-Blanche arrivent au chevet d’un ministre en soins intensifs pour lui faire signer un document illégal. Lors d’une audition mardi au Sénat, un ancien adjoint du ministre a décrit la pire soirée de sa carrière.

Ce soir du 10 mars 2004, James Comey, alors numéro deux du ministère de la Justice, assurait l’intérim du ministre de l’époque, John Ashcroft, qui avait subi la veille une ablation de la vésicule biliaire.

All Pregnant Women Tested Had At Least One Kind Of Pesticide In Their Placenta, According To Researcher

Human beings are directly responsible for more than 110,000 chemical substances which have been generated since the Industrial Revolution. Every year, we “invent” more than 2,000 new substances, most of them contaminants, which are emitted into the environment and which are consequently present in food, air, soil and water. Nonetheless, human beings are also victims of these emissions, and involuntarily (what is known in this scientific field as “inadvertent exposure”). Every day humans ingest many of these substances which cannot be assimilated by our body, and are accumulated in the fatty parts of our tissues.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Science Daily — Human beings are directly responsible for more than 110,000 chemical substances which have been generated since the Industrial Revolution. Every year, we “invent” more than 2,000 new substances, most of them contaminants, which are emitted into the environment and which are consequently present in food, air, soil and water. Nonetheless, human beings are also victims of these emissions, and involuntarily (what is known in this scientific field as “inadvertent exposure”). Every day humans ingest many of these substances which cannot be assimilated by our body, and are accumulated in the fatty parts of our tissues.

21 Questions to Determine if You’re a Stupid Computer User

Should you stay away from a computer? Take this test to prove just how stupid you really are. Then unplug and go read a book.

URL: http://digg.com/hardware/21_Questions_to_Determine_if_You_re_a_Stupid_Computer_User

 1. Do you proclaim, out loud, your three year old knows more about computers than you do?
2. Are you still looking for the “Any Key”?
3. Do you really think you win something for being the 421,232th visitor?
4. Is your only solution to call the family “computer geek”?
5. Do you call the thing above the 8 a snowflake?
6. Is Netscape 4.7 your default browser?
7. Do you believe that the Firefox people are talking about is the 1982 movie about a really cool jet?
8. Do the blinking ads compel you to click?
9. Are your passwords on a sticky note on your monitor?
10. Do you ignore those messages that tell your anti-virus subscription has expired?
11. Is your home network’s name “linksys”?
12. Do you not believe in a firewall?
13. Have you paid for any Geek Squad services?
14. Do you anxiously open every attachment in your email?
15. When someone is explaining something technical, do you dismiss it as “computer talk”?
16. Do you think you can get a free iPod for filling out your zip code?
17. Do you believe the IT people have magical powers?
18. Do you have a collection of AOL discs?
19. Have you hit your monitor when your computer gave an error?
20. Do you still the think the Internet is a fad?
21. When someone asks what’s wrong with your computer, do you respond with, “It’s running slow”?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group

The Carlyle Group is a Washington, D.C. based global private equity investment firm with more than $56 billion of equity capital under management.[1] The firm operates four fund families, focusing on leveraged buyouts, venture & growth capital, real estate and leveraged finance investments. The firm employs more than 395 investment professionals in 18 countries with several offices in North America, Europe and Asia; its portfolio companies employ 200,000 people worldwide. The academic qualifications of its staff include 160 MBAs, 28 JDs and 14 Ph.D/MDs from many of the world’s most prestigious universities. Carlyle has over 1000 investors in 57 countries.

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Carlyle was founded in 1987 by William E. Conway, Jr., Daniel A. D’Aniello, Stephen L. Norris, Greg A. Rosenbaum, and David M. Rubenstein[2]. Rosenbaum left in 1987[3]

BotCast #14Le sexe terroriste, des enfants à fusil, un PS3 à 1$, Bush n’a pas d’influence et des abeilles malades. Le cast toujours en surround, visitez www.mp3surround.com pour downloader le codec ou le Player surround. Pas grave si vous n’avez pas de Surround, ça joue pareil sur votre lecteur MP3 standard. 16 mai 2007.

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On va lire son commentaire sur le cast.

Prepare your comments.

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From: Danny
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 6:09 AM

Subject: commentaire

Salut, j’aime bien le concept de vos potcast  !

J’écoutais l’émission #7 où tu disais que ceux qui ont voté pour Harper sont

des caves !!?

Les libéraux on les 2 mains dans la grosse magouille , il fallait les tasser

de la !!

Alors je vote pour qui si je veux me débarrasser des libéraux. Certainement pas le bloc !?!  Pas le choix d’élire harper.

Et en passant, j’avais quand même certaines réticences avant qu’il soit au pouvoir, mais, maintenant que je l’ai vu à l’oeuvre, je suis très satisfais.

  Je crois que c’est le meilleur premier ministre qu’on n’a jamais eu.  Il n’a pas peur de mettre ses couilles.  Il a réglé plus de dossier en  1 ans que les libéraux en 12 ans.  Et tout ça avec un gouvernement minoritaire.

J’ai hâte de voir quand il sera majoritaire.

Alors j’aimerais savoir 2 choses.  Qu’est-ce qui est mauvais et cave chez les concertateurs et quel était selon toi un choix intelligent et pourquoi ?

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Subject: Expliquer pourquoi dans le #13 ont dit que le pétrole se renouvelle

http://www.nutech2000.com/webtext/forum/oilhoax.html

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Supplies of oil may be inexhaustible

By Bruce Bartlett

On April 16, Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, published a startling report that old oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico were somehow being refilled. That is, new oil was being discovered in fields where it previously had not existed.  Scientists, led by Mahlon Kennicutt of Texas A&M University, speculate that the new oil is surging upward from deposits well below those currently in production. “Very light oil and gas were being injected from below, even as the producing was going on,” he said.  Although it is not yet known whether this is a worldwide phenomenon or commercially important, the new discovery suggests that there may be far more oil and gas within the Earth’s core than previously thought. 

http://www.detnews.com/2002/editorial/0205/29/a11-500860.htm

OIL – A RENEWABLE and ABIOTIC FUEL?

“Oil is often called a ‘fossil’ fuel; the idea being that it comes from formerly living organisms. This may have been plausible back when oil wells were drilled into the fossil layers of the earth’s crust; but today, great quantities of oil are found in deeper wells that are found below the level of any fossils. How could then oil have come from fossils, or decomposed former living matter, if it exists in rock formations far below layers of fossils the evidence of formerly living organisms? It must not come from living matter at all!”

Crude oil was made to be thought of as “Fossil” fuel by the Nineteenth Century oil producers to create the concept that it was of limited supply and therefore extremely valuable. This fits with the “Depletion”allowance philosophical scam and current day price fixing. During one of our C.S.I.S. “International Nights” (1978) the Common Market Energy boss, M. Montibrial of France, told us that while petroleum was being marketed then for $20.00 per barrel or more, it cost no more than 25 cents per barrel at the wellhead. There is our petroleum problem! We were paying more than $1.50-$1.60 per gallon, one 42nd of a barrel, at that time.

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http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/Energy.html

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47675

BLACK-GOLD BLUES
‘Fossil fuel’ theory takes hit with NASA finding
New study shows methane on Saturn’s moon Titan not biological

“Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil”

Previous stories:

Huge natural gas field ‘discovered’ in Texas

Abandoned oil wells uncapped ( http://www.wnd.com/2005/11/33621/ )

‘Black Gold’ strikes Big Oil ‘nerve’

‘Hundreds of years’ of oil available

Forget everything you know about oil

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46888

WND BOOKS
Forget everything you think you know about oil
‘Black Gold Stranglehold’ explodes common myths

“Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil” is available at ShopNetDaily.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:1er0bOeQQSgJ:www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040608-092733-4642r.htm+abiotic+fuel&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10

Oil unlimited?

Top Evangelist Rev. Ted Haggard Resigns Amid Allegations of Gay Affair

The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals on Thursday after being accused of paying a man for sex in monthly trysts over the past three years.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

U.S. vetoes U.N. resolution condemning Israel on Gaza

The United States on Saturday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution urging an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and condemning an Israeli attack there that killed 18 Palestinian civilians.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Name Generator: See your Name spelled in Google Earth ‘Letter’ Buildings

Actually, you can spell anything you want. Give it a shot…

URL: http://digg.com/software/Name_Generator_See_your_Name_spelled_in_Google_Earth_Letter_Buildings

Mid-flight sexual play lands US couple afoul of anti-terrorism law

A couple’s ill-concealed sexual play aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles got them charged with violating the Patriot Act, intended for terrorist acts, and could land them in jail for 20 years.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Dérapage immobilier à l’UQAM

Désastre financier à l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM): la construction du tout nouveau Complexe des sciences Pierre-Dansereau a coûté 40 millions de plus que ce qui était prévu, un imprévu de taille qui n’a jamais été révélé au conseil d’administration de l’établissement. Suite

URL: http://www.ledevoir.com/2006/11/15/122890.html

Son Of JFK Conspirator Drops New Bombshell Revelations

As the explosive revelation of E. Howard Hunt’s deathbed confession, in which the former CIA agent and Watergate conspirator admits that he was part of a CIA conspiracy to assassinate JFK, continues to rage across the Internet, the establishment media remains almost mute on what is undoubtedly one of the biggest stories of the decade.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Father’s Gun Saves the Day!

Two armed illegal aliens, who had already stabbed a 50 year old man to death, invaded a home in Montana where 11 year old Patricia Herrington was alone. It is believed that the thugs waited for her father to leave before entering the home. There is no telling what horror and/or torturous death awaited the young girl had it not been for her father who first taught her how to handle a gun at a very young age.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Neo-Con Threats Force Virgin To Pull Loose Change

Virgin Airlines have pulled Loose Change from their in-flight movie roster after a cadre of Neo-Con slugs, bullies and enemies of free speech sent threatening complaints to the company, smearing the documentary and comparing it with Nazi propaganda films.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Transportation Security Administration loses hard drive

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), often regarded as the cornerstone of the United States’ homeland security, has lost a hard drive containing information of over 100,000 people.

URL: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/31923/118/

GM crop taints honey two miles away, test reveals

The tests found alien GM material in honey from beehives two miles from a site where GM crops were being grown under government supervision. It is believed to have been carried there by bees gathering pollen in the GM test sites.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

As a professional web developer with a few too many years of implementing ridiculous requests, I’ve acquired quite a knack for convincing a client that background music is a bad idea. This article contains 9 arguments I use to achieve that goal.

URL: http://digg.com/design/How_to_convince_a_client_their_site_doesn_t_need_background_music

Posted by Matthew Inman (Oatmeal) ( http://www.seomoz.org/team/matthew ) on Mon (10/2/06) at 06:13 PM Webdev ( http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/29 )

I’ve lost count of how many clients have requested that music be playing in the background of their website.  As a professional web developer with a few too many years of implementing ridiculous requests, I’ve acquired quite a knack for convincing a client that music is a bad idea.  There are obvious exceptions: such as band websites or sites heavily involved in multimedia.  I’m talking about content-rich sites where the user does not expect (or want) a multimedia experience. 

The next time a client decides that a bit of oontz-oontz might give them a bit of an  “edge,”  refer to this list to convince them that they’re really just making their site suck.

http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/12360/MSNBC_Calls_Out_Thompson.html

The rush to judge games as responsible for the V-Tech massacre was spearheaded by christian conservative and anti-game campaigner Jack Thompson, but now that the (http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/12287/No_Games_Found_in_Shooters_Dorm_at_Virginia_Tech.html) shows Cho didn’t own a single video game, the media are starting to question his fervant accusations.

A new article published by media giant MSNBC reads:

“it didn’t require much skill for Cho to shoot as many people as he did. After all, eye witness accounts indicate many of the victims were shot at point-blank range.

And for all of Thompson’s claims that violent video games are the cause of school shootings, Sternheimer [a sociologist at the University of Southern Calfornia and author of the book “Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions About Today’s Youth”] points out that before this week’s Virginia Tech massacre, the most deadly school shooting in history took place at the University of Texas in Austin… in 1966. Not even “Pong” had been invented at that time.

“One thing that people often don’t realize is that in the years since video game sales have really exploded, not only have youth violence rates decreased but violence rates in the U.S. have declined precipitously,” she added.

Meanwhile, Sternheimer says the rush to blame video games in these situations is disingenuous for yet another reason. Although it remains unclear whether Cho played games, it seems nobody will be surprised if it turns out he did. After all, what 23-year-old man living in America hasn’t played video games?

“Especially if you’re talking about young males, the odds are pretty good that any young male in any context will have played video games at some point,” Sternheimer says.

“I think in our search to find some kind of answer as to why this happened, the video game explanation seems easy,” she says. “It seems like there’s an easy answer to preventing this from happening again and that feels good on some level.”

The blame game

Jason Della Rocca agrees. “Everyone wants a simple solution for a massively complex problem. We want to get on with our lives.”

As the leader of an organization that represents video game creators from all over the world, Della Rocca knows the routine all too well.

Someone opens fire on a school campus. Someone blames video games. His phone starts ringing. People start asking him questions like, “So how bad are these games anyway?”

Of course, he also knows that this is far from the first time in history that a young form of pop culture has been blamed for any number of society’s ills. Rock and roll was the bad guy in the 1950s. Jazz was the bad guy in the 1930s. Movies, paintings, comic books, works of literature…they’ve all been there.

Still, Della Rocca believes that people like Thompson are “essentially feeding off the fears of those who don’t understand games.”

For those who didn’t grow up playing video games, the appeal of a game like “Counter-Strike” can be hard to comprehend. It can be difficult to understand that the game promotes communication and team work. It can be hard fathom how players who love to run around gunning down their virtual enemies do not have even the slightest desire to shoot a person in real life.

“It’s the thing they don’t understand,” Della Rocca says. “It’s a thing that’s scary.”

Un record de vitesse battu sur Internet

Que diriez-vous de transférer vos fichiers à la vitesse de l’éclair? Un groupe de chercheurs dirigés par l’Université de Tokyo a battu un record et réussi à transférer des informations sur Internet à une vitesse de 7,67 Gb par seconde.

C’est le 30 décembre dernier que les opérateurs du réseau Internet2 ont atteint cette vitesse de transmission, en utilisant un protocole de communication standard.

Le jour suivant, l’équipe a battu un nouveau record en envoyant des données à 9,08 Gb par secondes selon un protocole modifié.

Les données sont parties de Tokyo, avant de passer par Chicago, Amsterdam et Seattle pour finalement retourner au Japon.

Ce n’est pas la fin de la course à la vitesse sur Internet. Le consortium Internet2 envisage de bâtir un nouveau réseau avec une capacité de transmission de 100 Gb par seconde.

À cette vitesse, transférer un film comme The Matrix prendrait quelques secondes plutôt que les deux jours nécessaires sur les connections résidentielles haute vitesse.

Le consortium Internet2, qui regroupe plus de 200 universités américaines, a fait l’annonce de ces nouveaux records dans le cadre d’une rencontre qui se déroule ces jours-ci en Virginie.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070430/CPACTUALITES/70430107/6488/CPACTUALITES

Le Canada averti avant l’attentat d’Air India de 1985

Les autorités canadiennes avaient reçu des avertissements de l’imminence d’une attaque avant l’attentat en 1985 contre un avion d’Air India (329 morts), selon des témoignages présentés lundi devant une commission d’enquête.

Un ancien membre de la police de Vancouver, Rick Crook, a indiqué qu’en octobre 1984 un homme incarcéré dans une autre affaire et espérant se concilier les bonnes grâces de la police lui avait parlé d’un «plan visant à mettre une bombe sur un avion d’Air India».

La commission doit examiner les affirmations répétées des autorités canadiennes selon lesquelles «il n’y avait eu aucun avertissement spécifique que ce vol d’Air India ferait l’objet d’un attentat», selon Mark Freiman, conseiller juridique de la commission d’enquête.

M. Freiman a déclaré que la commission entendrait au cours des prochains jours une série d’«informations et d’avertissements» venant d’informateurs, des services de renseignement ou de pays étrangers. Selon la chaîne CBC, plusieurs de ces témoignages font état d’avertissements préalables, contredisant la thèse officielle.

Le 23 juin 1985, un Boeing 747 parti de Vancouver à destination de l’Inde via Londres, avait explosé au large de l’Irlande, faisant 329 morts, pour la plupart des citoyens canadiens. Une deuxième bombe destinée à un autre avion d’Air India avait explosé quasi simultanément à l’aéroport Narita de Tokyo, tuant deux bagagistes.

Le procès avait conduit à l’acquittement, l’an dernier, des deux principaux suspects, les militants sikhs présumés Ripudaman Singh Malik et Ajaib Singh Bagri, le tribunal ayant jugé les preuves insuffisantes.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese354.html

It’s been said often that while everyone is entitled to his own opinion, no one is entitled to his own facts. Today, we hear misstatements all the time. Some of them are deliberate lies. Some of them are just mistakes.

A House committee has just exposed the terrible fact that Army officials fabricated a story about the death of Pat Tillman and lied through their teeth. The Army knew from Day One that Tillman died from so-called friendly fire, but it was five weeks before Army officials got around to telling the family.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/03/bush-to-be-removed-from-welcome-to-texas-signs/

“Two years after writing a law requiring highway ‘Welcome to Texas’ signs to tout the state as the home of President Bush, state Rep. Ken Paxton [yesterday] passed a bill that will remove the designation once the 43rd president leaves office.

Le vendredi 04 mai 2007

Bouclier antimissile: Moscou craint le déploiement de missiles stratégiques

Agence France-Presse

Moscou

Le chef d’état-major de l’armée russe a dit vendredi craindre que les États-Unis ne déploient des missiles stratégiques de longue et moyenne portée dans les sites où seront installés des éléments du bouclier antimissile américain.

«Nous n’excluons pas la possibilité qu’ils (les États-Unis) déploient dans les mêmes silos des missiles balistiques d’attaque de longue et de moyenne portée», a déclaré le général Iouri Balouïevski, dans une tribune publiée dans le quotidien gouvernemental Rossiïskaïa Gazeta, où il critique largement le projet américain.

Les menaces émanant de l’Iran et de la Corée du Nord évoquées par les États-Unis pour justifier l’extension de leur bouclier antimissile en Europe «servent à masquer l’objectif réel du système: un changement de l’équilibre stratégique en leur faveur grâce à la création de conditions pour une utilisation plus efficace de leurs forces stratégiques nucléaires», a estimé le général Balouïevski.

«La cible principale du bouclier antimissile en Europe est la Russie», a-t-il relevé, ajoutant que «le déploiement d’éléments de la défense antimissile américaine en Europe est le début d’une nouvelle étape de course incontrôlable aux armements».

Les États-Unis veulent installer dix missiles intercepteurs en Pologne et un radar ultra-perfectionné en République tchèque, dans le cadre de leur bouclier antimissile.

Ce projet a été très mal accueilli par la Russie qui y voit une atteinte directe à sa sécurité.

Justin Timberlake, Oprah Winfrey, Osama ben Laden, Hillary Clinton, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Tara Banks, Brad Pitt and Sacha Cohen (Borat) are all on but Bush is not. What does that say of a country…

Playboy met Couche-Tard dans l’embarras

Cachez ce sein que nous ne saurions voir chez Alimentation Couche-Tard.

C’est en quelque sorte ce qu’exige une association américaine de militants chrétiens qui vient d’entrer en guerre contre la société lavalloise, propriétaire de quelque 3000 dépanneurs aux États-Unis.

La Florida Family Association a lancé la semaine dernière une campagne appelant au boycottage des dépanneurs Circle K aux États-Unis, détenus par Alimentation Couche-Tard.

«Jusqu’à ce qu’ils arrêtent de vendre des magazines pornographiques comme Penthouse et Playboy», a indiqué l’association sur son site web et dans un courriel expédié à ses dizaines de milliers de fidèles.

«Ces magazines ne sont pas illégaux. Et Couche-Tard a le droit de vendre tout ce qu’il veut si c’est légal», a affirmé le directeur exécutif de l’association, David Caton, interrogé par La Presse.

«Mais nous avons le droit de dire que ce matériel est dégradant à l’égard des femmes et fait la promotion de comportements irresponsables. Le droit d’éduquer les gens et de les encourager à magasiner ailleurs», a-t-il ajouté.

La Florida Family Association a été fondée par M. Caton en 1987 dans le but d’améliorer et de protéger «l’environnement moral» aux États-Unis. Depuis, avec la collaboration enthousiaste de nombreuses autres organisations de la droite chrétienne, elle s’est dotée d’un impressionnant tableau de chasse.

Lotus unveils the world’s fastest biofuel-powered car (w/ video)

Not only is the Lotus Exige 265E the most powerful road version of the Exige ever, it runs on Bio Fuel. The 265E sports a supercharged, 1.8L inline-4 (2ZZ VVTL-i) that produces 264hp @ 8000rpm and 184 lb-ft torque @ 5500rpm — rocketing it from 0-60 in just 3.88-seconds.

URL: http://digg.com/gadgets/Lotus_unveils_the_world_s_fastest_biofuel_powered_car_w_video

U.S. Government Official Insults Americans

“The IT work force is not skilled enough and almost never can be skilled enough,” said Robert Cresanti, undersecretary of commerce for technology

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Tesla Roadster: The World’s Only Cool Electric Car

Everyone seems to want to drive a “green” car these days but Prius’ and Hybrid Civics suck. However, it looks like the Tesla Roadster could be the first to be good for the enviroment and look good too. But is it worth the $90,000 price tag?

URL: http://digg.com/gadgets/Tesla_Roadster_The_World_s_Only_Cool_Electric_Car

PS3 for $0.99 on Ebay

Waiting in line: 40 hoursExtra controller and games: 180$2 year extended warrant: 200$PS3 new in box: 599$Starting Bid: 0.99$Not realizing you set “buy-it-now” instead of “starting bid” PRICELESS!

URL: http://digg.com/hardware/PS3_for_0_99_on_Ebay

Musée de la guerre: la direction rejette l’interprétation de vétérans

Le Musée canadien de la guerre n’a pas l’intention de modifier la formulation d’une exposition sur les bombardements en Allemagne qui indigne d’anciens combattants de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

URL: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070502/CPACTUALITES/70502167/1019/CPACTUALITES

OGM: Ottawa écarte l’étiquetage obligatoire

Les produits alimentaires contenant des organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM) ne sont toujours pas identifiés comme tels au Canada et les conservateurs n’ont pas du tout envie d’intervenir pour faire changer les choses.

URL: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070502/CPACTUALITES/70502180/1019/CPACTUALITES

Transports Québec durement écorché

L’armature d’acier déficiente mise en cause dans l’effondrement du viaduc de la Concorde, à Laval, a été partiellement dénudée par le ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ) lors des travaux de réparation réalisés en 1992. Mais elle n’a pas été corrigée, malgré des défauts évidents qui sont passés inaperçus.

URL: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070503/CPACTUALITES/705030555/1019/CPACTUALITES

43% of Iraqis live in absolute poverty – government report

The survey by the Central Statistical Bureau says that 43 percent of Iraqis suffer from ‘absolute poverty’ and another 11 percent of them live in ‘abject poverty’.

URL: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Teacher sells student’s coat on eBay

A Hillsboro teacher is accused of stealing a student’s coat and then selling it on eBay.

URL: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/31898/118/

(Suite à une pétition du meme gars se plaignant de gens qui parles mal dans le /info channel) DATA= Oh an d one more thing, now my son is asking what masterbation is.

This must stop. If I do

DATA= not hear back from you on corrective action by Monday night I will ask for a refund.

DATA= Thanks, Bill C.

Greetings fellow player!

Thank you for contacting the Shadowbane Customer Care team.

If I understand correctly, you are having difficulties with masturbation, herein refered to as “deliberate fondling of one’s self”, in relation to your son and is age I presume.

In order to better assist you and your family, the loving and caring Shadowbane team has compiled a list of very interesting links to help you and your son understand masturbation.

Whenever you have time and feel like dealing with masturbation, we invite you to get yourself something to drink (beer preferably), sit down, relax, next to a box of tissues (just in case, you know allergies and such), and casually browse what you want to browse. It is your choice whether to click one link or the other, and the order has no relevance:

http://www.hopeforfamily.org/expl_sexuality_to_teen_f01.htm

http://www.drspock.com/topic/0,1504,156,00.html

And this one by the Domestic Church:

http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19980701/ARTICLES/SEXUALITY.HTM

So I sincerely hope that you can get a grip with this matter and really explain, while details, pictures and videos are optional, what masturbation is to your son. You might want to have your wife/girlfriend/whore to provide a helping hand, also just in case your son asks about masturbation and women. This way, your son will be armed with powerful knowledge when it’ll be time to “get it on” with the ladies.

You cannot find more information about masturbation in our Faqs at Http://care.ubi.com.

Please contact us again if you have any other sexually related problems.

The Shadowbane Customer Caring and Loving team.

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Ben non! J’ai pas répondu ca…

Voici ma vraie réponse ( je suis pas un sauvage tsé! )

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Good day Mr. Chavez,

I understand the issue that may have arisen with your son but like in any community, you will always get people who do not care about others and will talk and do anything to either provoke or harass. Considering the size of the community, it is difficult to catch all these disruptive players in time to act accordingly. That is why we gave you, the players, the tools to help you deal with this matter until we can. They are not 100% fullproof but they provide a helping hand. Remember that you should always have your profanity filter activated (accessible through your game menu, under settings –> preferences, and check the box next to Profanity filter), or you can choose to ignore the player completely. To do so, in your chat window, type “/ignore player name” (without the quotation marks) and everything that player says will not be displayed in your chat window(s).

I’m sorry for the troubles it may have caused you, and I hope that with these tools activated, you can live amusing and uneventful times with your son through Shadowbane. Good luck.

You can find more information about Shadowbane in our Faqs at Http://care.ubi.com .

Please contact us again if you have any other problem.

The Shadowbane Customer Care team.

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Not a single video game found.

Just after the shooting, Dr. Phil and religious anti-game crusader Jack Thompson were all-too-quick to point the finger at video (http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/12287/No_Games_Found_in_Shooters_Dorm_at_Virginia_Tech.html) as being somehow at blame. We can now confirm that not a single video game was found in the dorm room of the killer. Of course, even if they found a huge collection of games, that would hardly prove it was the cause, assuming there is a cause, for the killings.

Here’s what they did find:

There you have it, no (http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/12287/No_Games_Found_in_Shooters_Dorm_at_Virginia_Tech.html) at all. Also, according to Cho Seung Hui’s roommates, the man never even played video games during his rare appearances in the common living area in the dorm.

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=2f4f9e37-678f-45d6-b74d-95d44cfe7df6&k=62043

BotCast #13 Des pétards dans le cul, assaisonnements fusilables, la Calgaria, du Wifi dans l’espace, la bécosse Alqaïda et nos commentaires sur Jack Thompson. Le cast toujours en surround, visitez www.mp3surround.com pour downloader le codec ou le Player surround. Pas grave si vous n’avez pas de Surround, ça joue pareil sur votre lecteur MP3 standard. 21 avril 2007.

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Break: Benoit Campeau, Somewhere in Beat Win, 4:56 www.BenoitCampeau.com
OutTro: Erik Stridell, Shelter, 4:40
Remerciements: www.simple-net.ca , www.TacticalFM.com et les jambons SPAM

-Show number 13
-Date  21 avril 2007

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Tune: Shelter
Artist:  Erik Stridell, Fikonknecke
Group:  Cascada
Year: 1994
From demo: Holistic, in Assembly 1994
Duration: 4:40
Type: MOD, ProTracker
Channels: 8
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Size:  596k
Patterns: 73,69  different 5 unused

  Official Transcript: President Bush
admits bombs were in World Trade Towers.

“For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks
of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them
out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the
responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had
been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high — a point
that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping. “

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

  Shredding with Dick

Spotted on 10/19, by an eagle-eyed Wonkette reader: The Mid-Atlantic
Shredding Services truck making its way up to the Cheney compound at the
Naval Observatory.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

mit> No Internet Access at United Nations “Internet” Summit

After failing to resolve connection issues, a United Nations summit on the
Internet goes on without Internet access!

url:
http://digg.com/tech_news/No_Internet_Access_at_United_Nations_Intern…
it

  ‘Just Push the Yellow Button and Vote
as Many Times as You Want’ on Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machines!

It seems there’s a little yellow button on the back every touch-screen
computer made by Sequoia Voting Systems, that allows any voter, or poll
worker, or precinct inspector to set the system into “Manual Mode” allowing
them to cast as many votes as they want.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

  Virginia Sheriff, 12 Employees
Indicted

A sheriff and 12 uniformed employees were charged in a racketeering
indictment unsealed Thursday that claims drugs and guns seized from
criminals were resold to the community.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

o_public_verification> Federal “automated targetting” database offlimits to
public verification

The new US “Automated Targeting System” is assigning risk assessments to all
Americans who travel in or out of the United States, and despite the fact
that plenty of non-government agencies can learn all about you, you can’t
view the records to even see if they are accurate.

url:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Federal_automated_targetting_database_offli…
_public_verification

  Japanese
researchers build 512-core math coprocessor

Filed under: Desktops

 
While we’re just getting used to dual-cores
 and have our eyes on those upcoming
quad-core chips <http://www.engadget.com/tag/quad-core> , Japanese computer
scientists at the University of Tokyo have built a 500MHz 512-core math
co-processor chip that can perform up to 512 billion floating-point
operations per second. The Grape DR chip is designed to fit on a PCI-X card
and act as a secondary chip for the main CPU. The project, which has been
ongoing since 1989, expects to reach two petaflops (that’s two quadrillion,
or 2,000,000,000,000,000) floating-point operations per second sometime
around 2008. No doubt that Intel, which is planning on an 80-core
s-now-80-cores-later/> processor by 2011, is watching this research very
very closely.

Via Channel
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/11/06/japan_512-core_co-pro

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD
  A new documentary
series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System
edia&cm_pla=engadget&cm_ite=rsslink>  Packs the power to bring games to
life!

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/46029796/

_shot_is_ready_to_Cook> Shoot Bird with Seasoning Pellets! The Bird you just
shot is ready to Cook

Season Shot is made of tightly packed seasoning bound by a fully
biodegradable food product. The seasoning is actually injected into the bird
on impact seasoning the meat from the inside out. When the bird is cooked
the seasoning pellets melt into the meat spreading the flavor to the entire
bird. Forget worrying about shot breaking your teeth!

url:
http://digg.com/gadgets/Shoot_Bird_with_Seasoning_Pellets_The_Bird_yo…
shot_is_ready_to_Cook

  FBI investigates taped LAPD beating

The FBI announced it is investigating Los Angeles police after viewing a
videotape that shows officers repeatedly beating a suspect in the face while
he cries out that he cannot breathe.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

  Briton hurt after lighting firecracker
in buttocks

A 22-year-old man suffered internal injuries after lighting a small
firecracker he had inserted into his buttocks, paramedics said Thursday.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Ultrasone  
Edition 9s headphones will set you back $1,500

Filed under: Portable  
Audio

 
We’ll probably never have the ears to distinguish a $1,500 pair of
headphones  from a $200 pair, but
Ultrasone clearly thinks the Edition 9s are worth that extra fistful of
cash. The company’s press release claims that the technology in the ‘phones
“reduces sound pressure to the eardrums by an astonishing 40 percent” and
that the headphones reduce EM field radiation (you know, like radio signals
given off by your cellphone) by “up to 98 percent.” These headphones have a
frequency range of 8Hz to 35Hz, and come with Ethiopian sheep leather (is
that good?) in the ear pads and headband pad.

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URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/33227791/

ht_second> Knowledge should be public good first, private right second

A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research looks at the
reasons behind intellectual property rights and suggests a new way forward:
thinking about knowledge as a public resource first, and a private asset
second. Is this idealistic, anti-business pinko blue-skying? The group says
no, and we agree.

url:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Knowledge_should_be_public_good_first_priva…
t_second

ivate_right_second> Knowledge should be public good first, private right
second

A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research looks at the
reasons behind intellectual property rights and suggests a new way forward:
thinking about knowledge as a public resource first, and a private asset
second. Is this idealistic, anti-business pinko blue-skying? The group says
no, and we agree.

url:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Knowledge_should_be_public_good_first_priva…
t_second

  Hate Crime Charges Filed Against Five
Jewish Teenagers in Brooklyn

Five Jewish teenagers have been charged with hate crimes for attacking a
Pakistani-American man with brass knuckles in the Midwood section of
Brooklyn and calling him a “terrorist,” officials said.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

  War simulation in 1999 pointed out
Iraq invasion problems

A series of secret U.S. war games in 1999 showed that an invasion and
post-war administration of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, nearly three
times the number there now.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

  Windows XP to be Phased Out by Year’s
End Despite Strong Demand

Windows XP to be Phased Out by Year’s End Despite Strong Demand.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

  Vista DRM could hide malware

A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept program that hackers
could use to exploit Windows Vista digital rights management processes to
hide malware.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

  BREAKING: White House lost Over FIVE
MILLION e-mails in two year period

Through two confidential sources, CREW learned that the Executive Office of
the President (EOP) has lost over FIVE MILLION emails generated between
March 2003 and October 2005. The White House counsel’s office was advised of
these problems in 2005 and CREW has been told that the White House was given
a plan of action to recover these emails, but to date nothing has been done
to rectify this significant loss of records.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

  Texas A&M Fails to Report Stricken
Student in Bioweapons Lab for 14 Months

Texas A&M; University failed to report in a timely manner to Federal
authorities that a biology student was stricken with the dangerous brucella
pathogen in its College Station laboratory for bioweapons agent research on
February 9th of 2006. The university made its disclosure this April 10th, 14
months later, and only after insistent prodding by the Sunshine Project, an
Austin, Tex.-based arms control watchdog organization.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

  Email to CIA Operative Bill O’Reilly

Mr. O’Reilly, do you work for the CIA, or have you ever worked for the CIA?
I ask this after reading an entry posted on Wikipedia, the online
dictionary. It appears the journalist Carl Bernstein has evidence you worked
for Operation Mockingbird, the CIA’s operation to “influence the domestic
and foreign media,” as Wikipedia deems it.

url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Americans
642,00.asp> Win Nobel For Backing Big Bang

Americans John Mather and George Smoot were the winners of the 2006 Nobel
prize for physics on Tuesday for guiding a satellite program that suppoted
the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.

URL:
http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~r/ziffdavis/extremetech/~3/31782512/0,155…
42,00.asp

Atta’s Father  
Says Video Fake, Credibility of ‘Hijackers Tape’

Atta’s Father Says Video Fake, Credibility of ‘Hijackers Tape’ Crumbles
Islamic Terror Expert: “Was this a video by al-Qa’ida or by a security
agency?” “New”

url: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infowarsnews/message/1091

Atta’s Father Says Video Fake, Credibility of ‘Hijackers Tape’ Crumbles
Islamic Terror Expert: “Was this a video by al-Qa’ida or by a security
agency?”
“New” footage was previously used in a docudrama

  Steve Watson & Paul Watson | October 3 2006

Related:

Surprise Surprise, It’s Another Al Qaeda Blockbuster Release

New revelations about the so-called ‘laughing hijackers’ tape expose its
release as a stage-managed politically timed trick. The father of Mohammed
Atta blasts the video as a “fake” while contradictory claims of its origin
and nature baffle even mainstream terror experts – while even the media
admits that the tape was released not by Al-Qaeda but by the U.S.
intelligence apparatus.

Firstly, the father of Mohammed Atta, who has previously stated that his son
is still alive, has
.0.346051476&par=> blasted the video as a total fake. “The video-testament
of my son is false and I continue to believe he is innocent” Muhammad
al-Amir al-Sayd Atta, 71, told Saudi daily al-Watan. “The Americans tampered
with and falsified that video” he alleged, ” they want to change the truth
in order to achieve their goals in the Middle East.”

“There is a big difference between this photo and the images shown by the
Americans – that one is not my boy.” he went on to say.

In a separate revelation,

AP is reporting that an expert on Islamic extremism has deemed the latest Al
Qaeda footage as so out of character for al-Qa’ida it could have been taken
by a security agency.

Diaa Rashwan, an Egyptian expert on militant groups, said he found it
strange that the cameraman focused not only on bin Laden but also on his
audience. He said al-Qa’ida videos of bin Laden usually focused on him
alone.

“Was this a video by al-Qa’ida or by a security agency?” Dr Rashwan asked.
“I have never seen such a video.”

Also questioned is the strangely different appearances of Mohammed Atta and
Ziad Jarrah : “Both seem younger, are bearded, and the infamously bleak gaze
of Atta, the ringleader, is replaced by a somewhat softer expression.”
reports AP.

Indeed, the two may even be Dopplegangers, especially given the strange case
of Ziad Jarrah, photographic evidence of whom confirms that he was not a
9/11 hijacker.

Jarrah #1: Authentic photo of alleged hijacker Ziad Jarrah taken in 1996.
BBC <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1664161.stm>
Jarrah #2: FBI Photo of Jarrah
Jarrah #3: Passport photo of “Ziad Jarrah” found in the wreckage of Flight
93.
Jarrah #4: Another Passport photo of Jarrah CNN
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/U
S/08/01/cia.hijacker/vert.jarrah.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/index.html&h=242&w=180&…
j2mM:&tbnh=110&tb http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/U%3Cbr%20/%3ES/08/01/cia.hijacker/vert.jarrah.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/index.html&h=242&w=180&…%3Cbr%20/%3Ej2mM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=82&prev=/images?q=Jarrah&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&rls=com.micr%3Cbr%20/%3Eosoft:en-us&sa=N%3E

Jarrah #5: Student visa photo of “Ziad Jarrah”.

These are clearly not the same man, there are up to three different people
feature\d here! The passport found in the wreckage does not show the face of
the Jarrah in the latest video release who is Jarrah #1.

As I reiterated in yesterday’s article, Ziad Jarrah’s family
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/09/18/inv.terror.jarrah
provided evidence days after 9/11 that Jarrah, wasn’t even onboard Flight 93
and that if he was, it was only as a passenger who was just as much of a
victim as the rest of the people on the plane.

Diaa Rashwan is just another in a long list of terror analysts who can smell
the stench of fake intelligence agency propaganda from a mile off. In my
http://infowars.net/articles/October2006/021006video.htm article
yesterday i questioned the contradictions over where this tape originated
from, stating “Not questioned also is the fact that although the London
Times says it “obtained” the tape, other reports say things like “The video
released this weekend was found when the United States invaded Afghanistan
in 2001. NBC News has obtained an analysis of the tape by U.S. intelligence
experts, which scrutinizes every frame.”

It also seems that this tape has been seen before, it is not new. The very
same footage of the Rally featuring Osama Bin Laden on January 8th 2000 ,
features in the docudrama Road to Guantanamo (they are not sure whether its
8/1 or 1/8 in the dramatization). At 1hr and 14 mins into the docudrama, an
inmate at Guantanamo Bay is shown the same footage.

The dramatization of the experience of three British inmates who were later
released and went public, portrays US interrogators forcing Guantanamo Bay
prisoners to admit to appearing in fake videos in which their likeness has
been doctored to suggest their presence at Al-Qaeda meetings.

It was admitted on Sunday that the US Government has had the footage since
2002. See the news report below for this admission and the confusion as to
who released it. The media know that the government has had this video since
2002 but they deny reality and engage in literal doublethink by becoming
confused over who released it. Note that the reporters also say that Al
Qaeda “forgot to add the sound”.They “cannot lip read” the footage and
there’s no audio, but they know Atta is reading his last will? How? He could
be reading the football scores, it is amazingly pathetic journalism.

How
ge> to Convince a Client They Don’t Need a Splash Page

Many clients love splash pages (especially flash intros), this article
provides a list of effective arguments to use when talking a client out of
the splash page death knell.

url:
http://digg.com/design/How_to_Convince_a_Client_They_Don_t_Need_a_Spl…
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Search engines will spider the splash page instead of the real content
Search engines look at the text on a page to determine what the page is all
about.  If your page is entirely in flash or some other kind of multimedia,
chances are the search engines won’t be able to spider any text on it.  This
will result in both you not ranking for the terms you want and the spidered
page having a description next to it in the search results that says
something like “Click to Enter.” Examples include: accuplacer.com
http://www.google.com/search?hs=QVZ&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=fire
fox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=site:accuplacer.com&btnG=Search
johnellis.com
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:johnellis.com&start=0&ie=utf-8
&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
reachmediatv.com
http://www.google.com/search?hs=iWZ&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=fire
fox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=site:reachmediatv.com&btnG=Search .
A search at Google for “Click
http://www.google.com/search?q=Click+to+Enter&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=
utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official to Enter” or “Skip
http://www.google.com/search?q=Skip+Intro&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-
8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Intro” reveals many sites
that have non-descriptive text associated with them due to their use of
splash pages.  These results aren’t likely to get clicks.

Client: “So use a flash intro but stuff text in the meta keywords tag”
Search engines stopped caring about meta keyword tags a long time ago–it’s
all about what’s actually on the page now.

Client: “So use a flash intro but hide keywords in the page”
Search engines can figure this out and you can get banned for it.
From Google’s
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=3576
9#quality Webmaster Guidelines:

Make pages for users, not for search engines. Don’t deceive your users or
present different content to search engines than you display to users, which
is commonly referred to as “cloaking.”

Search engines won’t be able to spider beyond the splash page
If your splash page is done entirely in flash or with some other kind of
multimedia plugin, the search engines might be unable to spider your content
and your content will be absent from the search results.

Straight from the horses mouth
I found a great quote on MarketingSherpa
http://www.marketingsherpa.com/sample.cfm?contentID=2529  from
Jared Spool of User Interface
Engineering at Macromedia.  When asked, “Flash intros, good or bad?”, this
was his response:

When we have clients who are thinking about Flash splash pages, we tell them
to go to their local supermarket and bring a mime with them. Have the mime
stand in front of the supermarket, and, as each customer tries to enter, do
a little show that lasts two minutes, welcoming them to the supermarket and
trying to explain the bread is on aisle six and milk is on sale today.

Most users immediately click “skip intro”
Pretty much everyone I’ve spoken to on the subject of splash pages always
admits to immediately clicking “skip intro” before watching the animation
they’re presented with.  Newfangled
http://www.newfangled.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/3519  did
some digging into their access logs and had this to say about their
findings:

The number one reason for getting rid of our splash page was that it turned
away at least 25% of our site visitors, sometimes more. This percentage has
actually been researched and it turns out that at least 25% of site visitors
will immediately leave a site as soon as they see a  message for a Flash
splash screen (even if there’s a ‘skip intro’ link). Our access logs
confirmed this for us and this over all the other reasons caused us to get
rid of it. The opportunity to improve our creativity was not worth the loss
of such a high percentage of visitors.

Slower connections will have to wait for the page to load
Dialup users are basically screwed (SCREWED!), especially if the skip button
isn’t readily available.

“Click to Enter” is redundant
By visiting your site they’ve already agreed to enter, why do they have to
do it again?  It’d be like opening the door to a store only to find another
door that says, “haha, just kidding.  Open this door to enter for reals this
time.”

Minimizing steps
You want to minimize the number of steps involved in reaching your
offerings. Having an extra click from a splash page does not align with this
idea.

Content from the splash page can probably work inside the home page
Most of the time the splash page can be trimmed down and worked into the
homepage of the site.  This is an effective compromise with the client
because they get to keep whatever idea they were trying to promote but
aren’t necessarily forcing it on the user.  It also wraps the content from
the splash page in a uniform navigation (which is good usability).
A great example of this is Adobe’s http://www.adobe.com/
website.

Uniform navigation – For The Win
Most splash pages don’t have the same primary navigation as the rest of the
site; some even drastically change the design when you go from the splash
page to the real site. This is confusing to users who respond best to
navigation that is persistent. Splash pages also enforce the idea that they
are visiting two separate sites.

Software
_S> Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S.

A consortium of major universities, using Homeland Security Department
money, is developing software that would let the government monitor negative
opinions of the United States or its leaders in newspapers and other
publications overseas.

url:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Software_Being_Developed_to_Monitor_Opinion…
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est_0403.html

SAN DIEGO — Potrero, California boasts a broad swath of meadowland that
currently houses derelict chicken coops.

Surrounded by the Cleveland National Forest, the property boasts a former
chicken ranch and includes an environmentally sensitive, protected
agricultural preserve southeast of San Diego.

But if private security contractor Blackwater USA gets its way, this
850-strong community will soon host an 824-acre military training base,
replacing the erstwhile chicken ranch with fifteen firing ranges and an
emergency vehicle operator’s course the length of ten football fields.

A RAW STORY investigation has already led to the removal of one lawyer
connected to the project. The inquiry has also discovered that California
congressman and current presidential candidate Duncan Hunter — who is the
ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee — is a client of the
firm, Blackwater USA, a massive US security contractor in Iraq.

Minutes of a planning meeting raise questions about whether Hunter was
involved in lobbying for the project. At the Feb. 8, 2007 planning meeting,
Vice President for Blackwater West Brian Bonfiglio said Hunter was one of
the firm’s clients.

“We talk with Duncan about many things,” Bonfiglio
http://rawstory.com/images/other/Potrero%20Meeting%20Minutes%20Raw%20….
pdf said (emphasis in original).

Blackwater isn’t a stranger to controversy. In February 2004, families of
four security contractors killed in Fallujah, who are suing the firm for
information regarding their deaths, testified before the House Government
Reform Committee.

The private security contractor has seen its federal contract revenues swell
since Sept. 11. Six years ago, the firm raked in $250,000; today a single
Iraq contract is valued at $300 million. Much of its work takes place in
Iraq; the company was at one time responsible for the security of interim
Iraq consul Paul Bremer. Blackwater now aims to expand operations by
establishing several new training camps in addition to its headquarters in
North Carolina.

Townspeople and environmentalists are squaring off against the company and
public officials. The Potrero Planning Group approved the facility by a 7-0
vote in December – but since then more than half of the town’s registered
voters have signed a petition opposing the facility. Residents also say they
are organizing a recall against members of the Planning Group who voted in
favor.

Chairman of the Planning Group Gordon Hammers says he won’t reconsider the
board’s decision.

“I think it’s good for the community,” he said in a recent interview with
the East County Californian. “It provides jobs.”

“It will improve the general economy of the community and as a result,
improve property values,” he added. Hammers contended that arguments against
the project “have absolutely no rhyme or reason” and that some opposition is
based on misunderstanding of the project’s scope.

In a later email to RAW STORY regarding questions about whether noise would
disturb nearby residents, Hammers wrote, “If the good science shows that
Blackwater’s claims are true then I will be a proud supporter of a vital
partner with law enforcement and the war on terror,” he said in an e-mail.
“If good science shows that their claims are not true then they will lose my
support.”

Internal documents

Internal documents acquired by RAW STORY show that the company had
discussions about potential “fatal flaws” in the Potrero project in 2006.

Of most concern to the company seems to be the camp’s effect on the local
eagle population. On page two of an “Internal Working Draft,” the authors
identify that the eagle population in the area is a “potential fatal
flaw.”

This runs in direct opposition to public statements by the company. In
pdf> the minutes in which Blackwater’s Vice President admits the company has
a contract with Hunter, he remarks, “Has anybody seen eagles?”

The firm also identifies a public versus private road “reduced potential
to be a fatal
flaw” and that plans for traffic had also ” reduced
potential fatal
flaw.”

The opponents

Jan Hedlun is the lone Potrero planner opposing the project. Elected in
November, Hedlun didn’t vote at the December meeting because she says she
wasn’t told she was eligible.

“I’m in the middle of a battle,” Hedlun said. “I am a lamb in a lion’s den.
They’re pushing this through quicker than anything I’ve ever heard in my
entire life.”

Although the Potrero Planning Group has met monthly for several years,
Hammers has refused to convene an April meeting, saying that only quarterly
meetings are required and a quorum can’t be met.

When Hedlun pressed Hammers to schedule a meeting in order to allow public
input, Hammers responded in an email acquired by RAW STORY, “Jan, get over
it. There is not going to be a meeting.”

The proposed Blackwater West training facility at Potrero would include 15
firing ranges for automatic and semi-automatic weapons and small caliber
guns, as well as an emergency vehicle operator’s course the length of ten
football fields — 3,280 feet in length and 1,320 feet in width, according
to a project description. The facility would also include bunkhouses and
commando-type training facilities, ship simulators, and law enforcement and
rescue safety training towers with rock-climbing walls and platforms.

Multiple San Diego County records indicate that “hazards” — including
“explosives” – “should” be stored in an “armory” at the site.

Blackwater West’s Bonfiglio denied that the project would use explosives.

“No bombs,” he said. “No tanks, no heavy artillery.”

Residents contend Blackwater’s proposal is being fast-tracked through the
planning process under streamlined procedures recently adopted by San Diego
County to expedite processing of major projects such as housing
developments. A public “Notification of Preparation” hearing is scheduled
for Apr. 5 at the San Diego Department of Planning and Land Use; citizens
have until Apr. 27 to respond.

Some residents have voiced concern that the noise from the firing range will
disrupt their lives. In response, Blackwater has proposed anti-skid pads and
other measures to lessen noise from the driving course, which would operate
for up to an hour and a half after sundown.

According to Bonfiglio, a helicopter pad would only be used for emergency
landings and could benefit the community in the event of a medical
emergency.

Conflict of interest

Residents also raise concerns over the role of San Diego County officials in
expediting the project. An article
<http://www.sdreader.com/php/cityshow.php?id=1566>  in the San Diego Reader
concluded that Potrero residents are being “ambushed” by “county bureaucrats
marching alongside Blackwater USA.”

Documents filed with the county indicate Blackwater officials have been
meeting privately with Department of Planning and Land Use personnel since
at least May of 2006. Members of the public in Potrero did not learn of the
proposed project until Oct. 12 at the earliest. One whistleblower contends
that failure to notify the public until late in the planning process may
violate the California Environmental Quality Act; others allege that County
planners may have violated the Brown Act, which mandates open meetings.

Environmentalist Duncan McFetridge questions why residents weren’t included
in early planning.

“It is as close to collusion as you can get without actually being illegal,”
McFetridge says. “I am convinced that one of the main reasons that
Blackwater came to San Diego is that we are the capital of privatization
where lines between private and public sectors is a total blur.”

“In San Diego we don’t have revolving doors,” he added, “we have tunnels
between politicians and profiteers.”

A spokesperson for San Diego Supervisor Dianne Jacob denied that Blackwater
has received special treatment.

“That would be illegal,” the employee said, declining to be named. The
streamlined procedures, she said, were created after “ample public input,”
in response to complaints that development projects were taking four years
for approval.

Jacob’s representative suggested that it would be inappropriate for the
supervisor to speak with media regarding the Blackwater project, as she may
have to vote on it eventually. Several community members noted, however,
that Jacob had no such qualms about speaking out against a proposed
high-rise Indian casino near her own ranch in Jamul.

One citizen opposed to the project revealed that Lori Spar—listed with the
California Bar Association as an attorney with a law firm representing
Blackwater on July 31, 2006 —has since unexpectedly surfaced as a land
use/environmental planner for the Department of Planning and Land Use.

“She walked into our Mar. 1, 2007 Save Potrero meeting, representing the
County,” said former Potrero planner Carl Meyer.

After RAW STORY inquired about her ties to Blackwater, the Department of
Planning removed her from the project.

Quality of life concerns

Area residents express alarm about disruption of their quiet, rural
lifestyle and are skeptical of reassurances offered by Blackwater and local
officials.

Dania Raum purchased property in Potrero three years ago “because it was so
beautiful and peaceful.”

Asked about the proposed project site, she replied, “It’s a secret, hidden
valley. There are wetlands up there and all kinds of raptor birds.” Golden
eagles nest 3,500 feet north of the meadow, she observed.

Blackwater has offered to supply foraging materials for the eagles. But Raum
scoffed at the idea of raptors foraging near a firing range.

“Right,” she said. “Those eagles are going to be so gone… I believe we are
being railroaded into this disaster.”

“Can you imagine tire squealing and crash ’em ups?” she added. “They are
pushing this as a night time course … so they will have machine guns going
all day and cars going all night.”

Raum doesn’t believe Blackwater’s claims that noise can be muffled. “My son
was way across the valley on a horse, and I could hear him coughing,” she
said. “It echoes for miles up there.”

Hammers insists that the planning group is relying on scientific evidence
that residents will not hear noise from the proposed facility. A recent
noise test was canceled, reportedly due to liability concerns on the part of
property owners.

San Diego County is now relying entirely on computer models to assess noise
levels.

Safety and environmental concerns

Residents also cite safety issues involving excessive traffic on a winding
access road measuring at some points just 20 feet wide. Critics cite high
fatality rates on nearby Highway 94 and raise alarm over Blackwater’s plan
to bus in local trainees and bring additional people from the airport on
shuttles. Blackwater says its vehicles would be no larger than trucks that
previously serviced the ranch.

Fire safety also concerns locals. Blackwater’s Brian Bonfiglio asserted that
the company proposed to local fire authorities a plan to not only
shelter-in-place its own employees and facilities in the event of wildfire
but also make Blackwater’s site a “safe haven for the community.”

However, a February 2007 report on guidelines for wildland fire and fire
protection prepared for the County describes shelter-in-place as a “last
resort design concept.” Critics warn that the policy could prove a death
sentence in the event of a firestorm similar to the nearby 2003 Cedar
wildfire, where twelve people died as 300-foot high flames reached
temperatures of thousands of degrees.

“This strategy has, to my knowledge, never been put to the test on a large
scale during a major wildland fire,” Joseph W. Mitchell, Ph.D. of M-bar
Technologies and Consulting in Ramona, California wrote in response to the
County’s proposal. “There are reasons to believe that it could lead to
civilian and firefighter deaths and injuries as currently envisioned.”

Duncan McFetridge, of Save Our Forests and Ranchlands, has raised additional
concerns about the loss of potentially crucial wilderness areas, noting that
national forest lands have shrunk from two million to 650,000 acres.

“Meadowlands are the biological heart of our forest,” he said at a recent
meeting. “We cannot lose our meadows without losing our forest.”

Bonfiglio responded to criticisms on environmental grounds with the
observation that no studies have been approved by San Diego County.

“There are people concerned about habitat and open space, but they are doing
it based on no science, no information,” he said.

McFetridge successfully blocked a proposed RV park in neighboring Descanso
after citing a study by the University of California, Davis, tracking
mountain lion movement. The Potrero valley proposed for Blackwater’s project
is also frequented by deer and mountain lion, he said.

“This is a contest,” McFetridge remarked. “Blackwater USA is very good at
what they do — and Save Our Forests and Ranchlands is very good at what we
do. This battle will be won or lost on land use issues.”

Citizen activism

To win approval of the project, Blackwater must obtain a change in zoning on
the property, which is currently zoned agricultural. McFetridge believes the
project can be defeated on land use issues and cites data from
radio-tracking of cougars that highlights the sensitive nature of
meadowlands on the property.

Other groups have also joined the battle to block Blackwater’s camp.

“I will work hard to block this deal,” said Raymond Lutz, head of Citizens
Oversight Panels, a grassroots organization. “Blackwater is well known as
one of the most egregious violators of human rights in the Iraq War … We
don’t need a `black-ops’ training camp in San Diego.”

Bob Davis, a member of the San Diego Peace & Justice Coalition, fears that
civil disobedience may be needed to halt the project, stating “We may have
to put our bodies on the line.”

Citizens are organizing opposition and public protests for the Apr. 5
meeting at the Department of Planning and Land Use.

“You can bet that Blackwater is lobbying the DPLU and its staff,” Sierra
Club land use committee chair Jeanette Hartman said. “Your only hope is to
lobby back. Fight everything. If you don’t, they’ll just roll right over you
here.”

Correction: Due to an editing error, Lori Spar’s status change was
incorrectly identified. She was removed from the Blackwater project, not the
planning board.

UALITES> Peter MacKay : la mort des soldats canadiens est «le prix de la
liberté»

La mort dimanche de six soldats canadiens en Afghanistan, journée la plus
meurtrière dans ce pays pour le Canada, est «le prix de la liberté», a
affirmé lundi le ministre des Affaires étrangères Peter MacKay, comparant la
mission afghane à la bataille de la crête de Vimy, en 1917 en France.

url:
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070409/CPACTUALITES/70409029/1019…
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Canada blocks bid by Arab countries for vote Israel’s nuclear capabilities
VIENNA, Austria (AP) – More than a dozen Arab countries were blocked by a Canadian motion in their bid to…
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Semiconductor Execs Indicted for DRAM Price Fixing
A U.S. grand jury has indicted three former semiconductor vendor executives, two from Samsung Electronics and one from Hynix Semiconductor America, for their alleged roles in a “global conspiracy” to fix DRAM prices, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
url: http://digg.com/tech_news/Semiconductor_Execs_Indicted_for_DRAM_Price_Fixing

Electronic Voting Machines Could Skew Elections
ABC News has obtained an independent report commissioned by the state of Maryland and conducted by Science Applications International Corporation revealing that the original Diebold factory passwords are still being used on many voting machines.The SAIC study also shows myriad other security flaws, including administrative over-ride passwords that cannot be changed by local officials but can be used by hackers or those who have seen the discs.
url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Ethnic cleansing comes (further) out of the closet in Israel
Lieberman’s party believes what all Israelis believe: that Israel is a Jewish state. Unlike the more respectable Israeli parties, however, Lieberman’s party is willing to add that since Israel is a Jewish state, non-Jews are not welcome. Even if they were born there.That is to say, Lieberman and his party call openly for the “transfer” (expulsion) of non-Jewish Israelis from the borders of Israel. And while ethnic cleansing has been the policy and practice of the state of Israel since its founding (and even before), rarely has it been so openly defended and advocated as it is by Yisrael Beitenu. A party which is now joining the U.S.-backed, U.S.-funded Israeli government.
url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Des DVD avec l’étiquette «Fumer nuit à la santé»
Los Angeles — Certains DVD de films commercialisés aux États-Unis porteront bientôt des étiquettes portant la mention «Fumer nuit à la santé», comparables à celles présentes sur les paquets de cigarettes, après un accord annoncé hier entre un studio de cinéma et les autorités de 41 États. Suite
URL: http://www.ledevoir.com/2006/10/25/121254.html

Program’s Creator Is Hired to Assess It
The government contractor that set up a billion-dollar-a-year federal reading program for the Education Department and failed, according to the department’s inspector general, to keep it free of conflicts of interest is one of the companies now evaluating the program.
url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Israel tops the world in rate of malicious Internet activity
>From July through December 2006, 9 percent of all such activity could be traced back to Israel. Taiwan came next with 8%, while Poland and the US tied at 6%, according to a report issued in March by security software giant Symantec, based in Cupertino, California.
url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Fire destroys Neturei Karta synagogue, rabbi’s residence in NY
A fire deemed suspicious destroyed a New York suburban synagogue of an anti-Zionist Jewish group heavily criticized for attending a conference last year where participants debated whether the Holocaust occurred.
url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Ethanol-blend auto emissions no greener than gasoline: study
An unpublished federal report appears to undermine the belief that commercially available ethanol-blended fuel produces cleaner emissions than regular gasoline.
url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
Deuxième coup dur pour la loi antiterroriste
Pour la deuxième fois en moins d’une semaine, une importante partie de la loi antiterroriste a été invalidée hier par un tribunal ontarien, dans la cause du présumé terroriste Mohammed Momin Khawaja, au motif qu’elle brime les libertés d’association, de conscience et de religion. Suite du texte réservée aux abonnés
URL: http://www.ledevoir.com/2006/10/25/121274.html
Microsoft(R) Firefox 2007 Professional
“The new award-winning browser from Microsoft is now faster, securer and quicker anything else on the market. Why use anything else?”
url: http://digg.com/tech_news/Microsoft_R_Firefox_2007_Professional
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Police Toy drops the F-Bomb when the Nightstick is removed from Cop’s Belt
“It must have been a faulty chip”…The toy set, named the “Elite Operations Role Play Set: Police,” includes a nightstick and a utility belt. A recorded message that includes what sounds like a curse word plays when the nightstick is removed from the belt. “I’ve had to explain to parents why my so
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Sunita’s USB VoIP Mouse Phone: enough already
Filed under: Peripherals

Oh yes it is, more of that integrated VoIP phone and mouse nonsense. This is the bigazz, USB VoIP Mouse Phone from Sunita Telecom, which, as that overly pragmatic name implies, is a USB 2.0, 800-dpi optical mouse which doubles as a Skype-compatible VoIP phone. It can be picked up for use as a traditional handset or used handsfree while presumably allowing you to mouse around beneath your muffled man-hand. And yeah, the LED apparently shuts off when held up to your noodle just in case you fear any damage from that glowing LED. No word on pricing or availability but we have to ask, do you really care? Another picture from up-under after the break.

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time

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School Safety Drill Upsets Some Parents
A school safety drill that included police officers in riot gear with weapons has caused concern among some parents who say it was too realistic and frightened some students.
url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

FLASHBACK: Bush confesses to war crimes
George W. Bush’s speech on September 6 2006 amounted to a public confession to criminal violations of the 1996 War Crimes Act. He implicitly admitted authorizing disappearances, extrajudicial imprisonment, torture, transporting prisoners between countries and denying the International Committee of the Red Cross access to prisoners.
url: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

Siemens board member arrested in payola scandal
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
With all of the bribery, corruption, and kickback scandals plaguing German giant Siemens at the moment, we’re half expecting to wake up tomorrow and learn that one of their executives drunkenly wrapped his exotic car around a tree after a night of boozing it up with notorious Deutchland bad boy Dietrich. The latest player to get caught up in this mess — and the highest ranking — is board member Johannes Feldmayer, who was detained yesterday while prosecutors tore his life apart executed search warrants on three o ffices. Interes

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Texas Governor Signs Deadly Force Bill
Texans will be able to use deadly force to defend themselves in their homes, cars and workplaces under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Rick Perry.
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Vista Can Be Taken Down by an Animated Cursor
“In what could be the most embarrassing exploit to impact Windows Vista since its commercial launch in January, security engineers at McAfee’s Avert Labs confirmed today – and posted the video to prove – that the operating system can be caused to enter an interminable crash-restart-crash loop…”
url: http://digg.com/microsoft/Vista_Can_Be_Taken_Down_by_an_Animated_Cursor

Latest plugin lets you fry eggs on Apple TV
AwkwardTV has what is the most unusual hack for the Apple TV to date: Stove.frappliance, a plugin that effectively turns the Apple TV into a heating device capable of rewarming dishes, keeping coffee hot or even frying eggs (for the really adventurous) by generating 100% CPU and GPU load, overclocking the bus and throttling the internal fan.
url: http://digg.com/apple/Latest_plugin_lets_you_fry_eggs_on_Apple_TV

Le FBI et René Lévesque
Le Bureau fédéral d’enquêtes (FBI) des États-Unis était dans l’attente d’une possible tentative d’assassinat contre René Lévesque, en 1977, lorsque le premier ministre québécois s’est rendu à New York, selon des documents internes du service de la police fédérale américaine. Suite
URL: http://www.ledevoir.com/2006/10/02/119531.html

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070319/CPMONDE/703190496/6551/CPMONDE
Déserter au Canada
Alexandre Sirois
La Presse
Toronto
Entre 200 et 300 soldats de l’armée américaine ont trouvé refuge au Canada ces dernières années, pour la plupart dégoûtés par la guerre en Irak. Hantés par les horreurs de ce conflit, ils tentent de refaire leur vie même si, jusqu’ici, Ottawa refuse de leur accorder l’asile politique. La Cour d’appel fédérale se penche aujourd’hui sur le cas de ces « réfugiés », que notre journaliste a rencontrés à Toronto.
Contrairement à ce qu’on pourrait croire, Dean Wolcott est dans une forme resplendissante.

Il dort dans une étroite cuisine d’une propreté douteuse, sur un vieux canapé fleuri qui empêche la porte du four de s’ouvrir. Il reçoit de l’aide sociale depuis peu, n’a pas de permis de travail et a besoin d’antidépresseurs pour fonctionner en société.

Le comble : il ne pourra peut-être plus jamais retourner dans son pays d’origine, les États-Unis, sans se faire jeter en prison.

Pourtant, Dean, âgé de 25 ans, nous assure qu’il va très bien. Lorsqu’on le questionne, il nous répond généralement avec le ton désinvolte et l’air serein d’un homme profondément soulagé.

« C’est comme si j’étais redevenu moi-même. Je peux marcher dans les rues d’une ville et y prendre plaisir. Il y a longtemps que ça m’était arrivé. »

Il y a quatre mois, Dean a retrouvé sa vie d’homme libre. Il fait partie des quelques centaines de déserteurs de l’armée américaine qui ont trouvé refuge au Canada depuis le début des guerres en Irak et en Afghanistan.

Ingénieur en électronique, il a séjourné deux fois au pays de Saddam Hussein depuis 2003. Mais c’est en Allemagne qu’il a découvert l’horreur de ce conflit. Là où l’armée américaine traite ses blessés les plus graves.

On l’avait nommé officier de liaison responsable des contacts entre ces victimes et leurs familles. « La plupart étaient là en raison de graves brûlures. À un point tel que, dans certains cas, on ne pouvait même pas dire qu’il s’agissait d’êtres humains », se souvient-il.

À l’abattoir

Ce jeune homme originaire du Connecticut a pété les plombs, mais il a néanmoins continué à servir son pays. Jusqu’au moment où, de retour aux États-Unis, on lui a demandé d’entraîner les réservistes – des Américains qui consacrent généralement deux jours par mois à leur carrière militaire – pour les expédier en Irak.

« Des enfants de 17 à 22 ans », lance l’ancien soldat, qui pourrait lui-même passer pour un adolescent. Avec son visage poupin, son jean trop large et son ample kangourou bleu, il ressemble plus au rappeur Eminem qu’à un militaire.

Ces réservistes allaient hériter des tâches les plus ingrates en Irak. Ramasser les restes des soldats tués par les bombes des insurgés, par exemple. « Ça voulait dire les envoyer à l’abattoir », dit-il.

C’était l’automne dernier. Dean, qui dit s’être enrôlé avant tout faute d’argent pour payer ses études, a alors cherché un moyen de s’en sortir. Il a découvert sur le Web que son salut passerait par Toronto.

Plus précisément par la War Resisters Campaign : une trentaine de bénévoles qui accueillent les militaires américains désabusés. Dean partage d’ailleurs l’appartement de l’un d’eux, organisateur communautaire de 23 ans.

Environ 45 soldats américains ont fait appel à cet organisme depuis sa création en 2004 à Toronto. La plupart de ces militaires ont d’ailleurs trouvé refuge dans la Ville reine.

De nombreux autres soldats vivraient illégalement au Canada, affirment les responsables de l’organisme. Entre 200 et 300, estiment-ils d’après le volume d’appels reçus.

Déserteurs déboutés

Quatre ans après le début du conflit en Irak, quelques mois après l’annonce de l’envoi de renforts par George W. Bush, le nombre de déserteurs en sol canadien augmente rapidement.

« Depuis octobre dernier, nous en accueillons un, parfois deux par semaine », indique le coordonnateur de la campagne, Lee Zaslofsky.

Ce sexagénaire coloré et exubérant accueille les déserteurs dans un petit bureau situé tout près de l’Université de Toronto. Il a lui-même traversé la frontière en 1970, pour fuir la guerre du Vietnam. Il se souvient de ses débuts euphoriques au Canada.

« Quand on arrive ici, on n’a plus la pression de l’armée et on se sent en sécurité parce qu’on ne sera pas arrêté. On sent aussi qu’on fait un nouveau départ avec des possibilités infinies », explique-t-il.

Un état d’esprit temporaire, ajoute ce déserteur. Après un certain temps, le quotidien s’installe et le naturel revient au galop, avec son lot de stress et d’inquiétudes.

L’avenir des nouveaux venus au Canada demeure par ailleurs incertain. L’accueil officiel du Canada n’a pas été très chaleureux. La Commission de l’immigration et du statut de réfugié du Canada (CISR) a jusqu’ici refusé l’asile politique à tous les déserteurs qui l’ont demandé depuis 2004.

Les soldats déboutés – il y en aurait une dizaine – ont tous décidé de contester les décisions rendues par la CISR. Le premier, Jeremy Hinzman, s’adresse aujourd’hui à la Cour d’appel fédérale dans l’espoir d’un jugement en sa faveur.

Aucun regret

Les responsables de la War Resisters Campaign réclament l’intervention du gouvernement de Stephen Harper. « On demande une politique qui permettrait à tous les résistants à la guerre d’avoir un statut de résident permanent », dit Michelle Robidoux, bénévole rencontrée lors d’une réunion du comité logement de l’organisme, dans un sous-sol d’église.

C’est ce qu’avait fait Ottawa à l’époque de la guerre du Vietnam, rappelle-t-elle. Entre 50 000 et 60 000 conscrits en avaient profité pour s’établir au Canada.

Même si son sort reste en suspens, Dean Wolcott dit pour sa part n’avoir « aucun regret ». « C’est la première fois en six ans que je me sens utile », lance-t-il.

Il collabore dorénavant aux activités de l’organisme qui l’a accueilli, multiplie les entrevues avec les médias et rencontre les étudiants des universités canadiennes pour leur parler de la guerre en Irak.

Quatre ans après le début du conflit, il milite activement pour le retrait d’Irak de ses anciens camarades. « Il n’y a plus aucune raison d’être là. C’est une guerre civile et on est au beau milieu de cette instabilité, dit-il. Et notre “nouvelle” stratégie, c’est d’envoyer plus de troupes. En fait, rien n’a changé. »

De moi: “L’étincelle?”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6484279.stm

UK sailors captured at gunpoint

Fifteen British Navy personnel have been captured at gunpoint by Iranian forces, the Ministry of Defence says.
The men were seized at 1030 local time when they boarded a boat in the Gulf, off the coast of Iraq, which they suspected was smuggling cars.
The Royal Navy said the men, who were on a routine patrol in Iraqi waters, were understood to be unharmed.
The Foreign Office has demanded the immediate and safe return of the men, who are based on HMS Cornwall.
That vessel’s commander, Commodore Nick Lambert, said he was hoping there had been a “simple mistake” over territorial waters.
“There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that they British personnel were in Iraqi territorial waters. Equally, the Iranians may claim they were in Iranian waters.
“I hope we find this is a simple misunderstanding at the tactical level.”
Helicopters had reported seeing two British boats being moved to Iranian bases and there had been no evidence of fighting, he added.
He said that despite scant communication, the 15 people were understood to be safe and had reacted in an “extremely professional way, in line with the rules of engagement”.
“I look forward to seeing them on their return and congratulating them.”
He said naval authorities were doing everything possible to ensure their safe return.
The Ministry of Defence said: “The group boarding party had completed a successful inspection of a merchant ship when they and their two boats were surrounded and escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters.
“We are urgently pursuing this matter with the Iranian authorities at the highest level.
“The British government is demanding the immediate and safe return of our people and equipment.”
Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has summoned the Iranian ambassador in London to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in an attempt to get the men released as quickly as possible.
In a statement, leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell, also called for their immediate release.
“Whatever the rights and wrongs of military action, British forces in Iraq are now there with the authority of a UN security council resolution… and the Iranian government should be left in no doubt of the serious implications of their action,” he said.
The incident comes as British Army Colonel Justin Masherevski, who is based in Iraq, says most of the violence against UK forces in Basra is being engineered by Iranian elements.
Col Masherevski said Iran was providing “sophisticated weaponry” to insurgents and “Iranian agents” were paying local men to attack British troops.
In 2004, Iran detained eight British servicemen for three days after they allegedly strayed over the maritime border.
The UK claimed the men were “forcibly escorted” into Iranian territorial waters.
While they were being held, the men were paraded blindfold and made to apologise on Iranian TV before their release was agreed.
The BBC’s diplomatic correspondent James Robbins said the difference this time, and a cause of concern, is that the present Iranian government under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was much more hardline.
“The political climate is worse with Britain among those confronting Iran over its controversial nuclear programme,” he added.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070323/CPMONDE/70323222/1014/CPMONDE
Mexico propose d’échanger son 9 mm contre un ordinateur
Agence France-Presse
Mexico
Les habitants de la ville de Mexico pourront à partir de la semaine prochaine échanger leur arme à feu contre un ordinateur et un programme Microsoft dans le cadre d’un plan de lutte contre la violence annoncé vendredi par la municipalité.

Pour avoir droit à l’ordinateur, il faudra toutefois proposer une arme d’un calibre d’au moins 9 mm. Si l’arme est d’un calibre inférieur, son propriétaire recevra 2500 pesos (un peu plus de 200 euros) et un panier de produits alimentaires pour une valeur de 500 pesos (environ 35 euros).

Le plan a été bouclé la semaine dernière lors de la visite de Bill Gates, le patron de Microsoft, à Mexico où il a rencontré le maire de gauche de la capitale, Marcelo Ebrard.

Notre objectif «est de réduire la violence et l’usage des armes à feu dans les rues de la ville», explique un communiqué de la sécurité publique de la capitale.

Chaque possesseur d’une arme de gros calibre recevra donc un «office» Microsoft et une encyclopédie informatique.

http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/F/FRANCE_UFOS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Le GEIPAN publie ses archives sur Internet
22 mars – Après 30 ans de collecte de témoignages et d’enquêtes sur le terrain, le Groupement pour l’Etude et l’Information sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non identifiés (GEIPAN) publie aujourd’hui ses archives sur Internet.

France Puts Secret UFO Archive on Web
PARIS (AP) — The saucer-shaped object is said to have touched down in the south of France and then zoomed off. It left behind scorch marks and that haunting age-old question: Are we alone? This is just one of the cases from France’s secret “X-Files” – some 100,000 documents on supposed UFOs and sightings of other unexplained phenomena that the French space agency is publishing on the Internet.
France is the first country to put its entire weird sightings archive online, said Jacques Patenet, who heads the space agency’s UFO cell – the Group for Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena.
Their oldest recorded sighting dates from 1937, Patenet told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. The first batch of archives went up on the agency’s Web site this week, drawing a server-busting wave of traffic.
“The Web site exploded in two hours. We suspected that there was a certain amount of interest, but not to this extent,” Patenet said.
The archive includes police and expert reports, witness sketches (some are childlike doodlings), maps, photos and video and audio recordings. In all, the archive has some 1,650 cases on record and about 6,000 witness accounts.
The space agency, known by its French initials CNES, said it is making them public to draw the scientific community’s attention to unexplained cases and because their secrecy generated suspicions that officials were hiding something.
“There’s always this impression of plots, of secrets, of wanting to hide things,” Patenet said. “The great danger would be to leave the field open to sects and charlatans.”
He said many cases were unexplained lights in the sky. “Only 20 to 30” could be classified as “Objet Volant Non Identifie” – UFOs that appeared to be physical objects, leaving “marks on the ground, radar images,” he said.
Even Charles de Gaulle, France’s wartime hero who became president, got the UFO bug.
“In 1954, there was a wave of sightings of phenomena in France, and it went up to the highest levels of state. Gen. de Gaulle himself assigned … an aide and told him, ‘Look into this for me, study it to see if something needs to be done,'” Patenet said.
That year, there were hundreds of sightings over several months, but generally there are 50 to 100 reported each year.
Only 9 percent of France’s strange phenomena have been fully explained, the agency said. Experts found likely reasons for another 33 percent, and 30 percent could not be identified for lack of information.
Other cases were impossible to crack. The most baffling were labeled “Class D aerospace phenomena” – which the agency defines as “inexplicable despite precise testimonies and the (good) quality of material information gathered.” Some 28 percent of sightings fall into this category.
Patenet singled out the January 1981 case of the saucer-shaped object that a witness said he saw land in Trans-en-Provence, a village inland from the French Riviera.
Some 8 feet across, the zinc-colored object made a whistling noise as it landed. The witness later drew a picture: It resembled a wok with a lid and legs.
“The machine stayed a few seconds on the ground and then left very quickly but it left marks that were analyzed and allowed us to determine that the ground had been heated up, that the object must have weighed several hundred kilos (pounds), and that surrounding plants underwent biological changes,” said Patenet.
“So something really happened. It really defies analysis,” he said.
The agency said everything in the archive would be published, except for psychological reports about witnesses and their names.
Most of the time, witnesses were sincere about what they saw, Patenet said.
“Very few look for publicity because they fear most of all that they will not be taken seriously.”
Still, there were frauds.
In 1979, in Cergy-Pontoise outside Paris, a man showed up at a police station claiming his friend had been abducted by a UFO – a bright light that appeared on the road and swallowed up his car. Several days later, the man purportedly reappeared in a field, emerging out of a sphere of light.
Investigators went so far as to test the man’s blood for signs that he had recently experienced weightlessness – and they found none. The agency labeled it a hoax.
Some cases took years to unravel. In 1985, two farmers near the Atlantic coastal city of Royan saw a burning object drop into a field nearby.
Experts initially concluded that it was part of the propulsion device of a recently launched satellite. Eventually they realized it was a piece of German World War II ordnance that spontaneously exploded four decades after the war.
Among the unexplained cases, one of the most perplexing concerned a 1994 Air France flight. While flying over the Paris region, the crew noticed a large brown-red disk hovering on the horizon and constantly changing shape. The case “has never been explained to this day, and leaves the door open to all possible hypotheses,” the agency wrote.
So, do we have neighbors out there, after all?
“I don’t have an answer to that,” said Patenet. “Even if there is such a planet, given the size of the universe, what is the probability that two civilizations … will meet or come across each other? I really don’t know. It’s very complicated. It’s incalculable.”
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Le site de l’agence spatiale francaise est tres long a loader a cause de l’immense intérêt: https://cnes.fr/fr

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070326/CPINSOLITE/70323116/0
Deux chiens renifleurs de disques piratés menacés de mort
Associated Press
Kuala Lumpur
Leur museau est mis à prix. Les auteurs malaisiens d’actes de piratage musicale et cinématographique, furieux, ont offert une récompense à quiconque éliminera Lucky et Flo -deux Labrador qui ont aidé à débusquer près d’un million de DVD de contrebande dans le cadre d’une opération de police.
Selon le New Strait Times, les chiens renifleurs, prêtés pour un mois par la Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), ont été installés dans un endroit sûr après que les autorités eurent appris que les têtes des deux chiens étaient mises à prix. Le montant de la somme offerte aux chasseurs de primes n’a pas été révélé.

«Les chiens sont une véritable menace» pour les pirates, ce qui explique qu’une récompense ait été promise pour leur élimination, explique Firdaus Zakaria, du ministère du Commerce intérieur et des affaires de consommation.

C’est la première fois au monde que des autorités font appel à des chiens pour mettre la main sur des disques de contrebande, selon Mike Ellis, directeur régional de la MPAA.

Lucky et Flo sont entraînés à détecter des polycarbonates – des produits chimiques utilisés dans le processus de fabrication des disques. La prise, d’une valeur de 2,8 millions de dollars, qui vient de les rendre célèbres, a eu lieu le 19 mars dans le sud de la Malaisie. Cinq Malaisiens et un Vietnamien ont été arrêtés dans le cadre de l’opération.

Faith in GPS sends Mercedes downstream
Filed under: GPS, Transportation
So far, over-dependence on GPS devices has resulted in more inconvenience than actual danger, but things took a turn for the worse earlier this month when a U.K. woman sent her £96k Mercedes SL500 flying into a river, trusting the car’s optimistic GPS guidance instead of the road signs warning of impending doom. Matters we worse as the r

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/104702821/

http://consumerist.com/consumer/google/google-suggests-you-swim-across-the-atlantic-ocean-248199.php

Google Suggests You Swim Across The Atlantic Ocean
You can’t always rely on the advice of computers, especially when it comes to transoceanic driving directions. From Upgrade: Travel Better:
Google, either encouraging physical fitness or zero population growth, offers the above helpful suggestion when mapping the route from Chicago to London.
Click here for the full directions and map of the route.—MEGHANN MARCO
Screw air travel: Google suggests you get out and swim Upgrade: Travel Better

MPAA names its Top 25 movie piracy schools

The MPAA may be gearing up for an RIAA-inspired assault on US colleges and universities. Last week the group announced its support for the “Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act (2007),” and MPAA head Dan Glickman said that his organization would work with school administrators to put an end to movie piracy on campuses, which Glickman says costs the industry $500 million annually.
Most telling, the group has heard the call of Representative Howard Berman and has compiled a list of the most piracy-ridden schools in higher education. This is a page straight out of the RIAA playbook. Here they are, the schools that made the MPAA’s “dishonor roll” and the number of students identified as making unauthorized use of copyrighted materials:
1. Columbia University – 1,198
2. University of Pennsylvania – 934
3. Boston University – 891
4. University of California at Los Angeles – 889
5. Purdue University – 873
6. Vanderbilt University – 860
7. Duke University – 813
8. Rochester Institute of Technology – 792
9. University of Massachusetts – 765
10. University of Michigan – 740
11. University of California at Santa Cruz – 714
12. University of Southern California – 704
13. University of Nebraska at Lincoln – 637
14. North Carolina State University – 636
15. Iowa State University – 586
16. University of Chicago – 575
17. University of Rochester – 562
18. Ohio University – 550
19. University of Tennessee – 527
20. Michigan State University – 506
21. Virginia Polytechnic Institute – 457
22. Drexel University – 455
23. University of South Florida – 447
24. Stanford University – 405
25. University of California at Berkeley – 398
A number of schools have the dubious distinction of being on both the MPAA and the RIAA list. The overachievers are: Ohio University (#1 RIAA/#18 MPAA), Purdue University (#2, #5), University of Nebraska at Lincoln (#3/#13), UMASS (#6/#9), Michigan State (#7/#20), North Carolina State (#9/#14), University of South Florida (#11/#23), Boston University (#15/#3), and the University of Michigan (#18/#10). In all, 10 schools appear on both lists, and Purdue University wins the Gold Medal for highest overall ranking between the two combined.
Whether or not the MPAA will get into the trenches and follow the RIAA’s pre-litigation strategy is not yet clear, and historically the MPAA has been less eager to wage a public campaign against file sharing. But like Santa, the MPAA is making a list and checking it twice… the question is, are they merely humoring Representative Berman or planning something more aggressive?

http://www.mondialisation.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GRA20070330&articleId=5231
Le plus grand déploiement de forces navales des Etats-Unis aux larges des côtes iraniennes

Mondialisation.ca, Le 30 mars 2007
Granma internacional
BAGDAD, le 27 mars. – Les Etats-Unis ont commencé aujourd’hui, dans les eaux du Golfe Persique, des manœuvres militaires considérées comme le plus grand déploiement de ses forces navales dans cette région depuis le début de la guerre contre l’Irak en 2003, a rapporté PL.
L’armée dispose de deux porte-avions et d’avions qui simulent un combat aux larges des côtes iraniennes.
Participent aux manœuvres deux groupes de bateaux de guerre étasuniens et quelque 200 avions de combat, qui exécutent des simulations d’opérations de guerre dans les canaux du Golfe.
Environ 10 000 soldats nord-américains dans des bateaux et des avions de guerre participent à la simulation d’attaques contre des bateaux, l’aviation, des chasseurs de sous-marins et des chercheurs de mines ennemis.

Iranian Videogame Depicts Attacks on U.S. Targets
A new Iranian computer game sets players the task of blowing up a U.S. tanker in the Gulf to block the sea route for much of the world’s oil supplies, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

url: http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~r/ziffdavis/extremetech/~3/31144310/0,1558,2022942,00.asp

http://duggmirror.com/politics/Cheney_Betting_on_US_Economic_Collapse/
The Veep’s Curious Investment Portfolio
Is Cheney Betting On Economic Collapse?
By MIKE WHITNEY
Wouldn’t you like to know where Dick Cheney puts his money? Then you’d know whether his “deficits don’t matter” claim is just baloney or not.
Well, as it turns out, Kiplinger Magazine ran an article based on Cheney’s financial disclosure statement and, sure enough, found out that the VP is lying to the American people for the umpteenth time. Deficits do matter and Cheney has invested his money accordingly.
The article is called “Cheney’s betting on bad news” and provides an account of where Cheney has socked away more than $25 million. While the figures may be estimates, the investments are not. According to Tom Blackburn of the Palm Beach Post, Cheney has invested heavily in “a fund that specializes in short-term municipal bonds, a tax-exempt money market fund and an inflation protected securities fund. The first two hold up if interest rates rise with inflation. The third is protected against inflation.”
Cheney has dumped another (estimated) $10 to $25 million in a European bond fund which tells us that he is counting on a steadily weakening dollar. So, while working class Americans are loosing ground to inflation and rising energy costs, Darth Cheney will be enhancing his wealth in “Old Europe”. As Blackburn sagely notes, “Not all bad news’ is bad for everybody.”
This should put to rest once and for all the foolish notion that the “Bush Economic Plan” is anything more than a scam aimed at looting the public till. The whole deal is intended to shift the nation’s wealth from one class to another. It’s also clear that Bush-Cheney couldn’t have carried this off without the tacit approval of the thieves at the Federal Reserve who engineered the low-interest rate boondoggle to put the American people to sleep while they picked their pockets.
Reasonable people can dispute that Bush is “intentionally” skewering the dollar with his lavish tax cuts, but how does that explain Cheney’s portfolio?
It doesn’t. And, one thing we can say with metaphysical certainty is that the miserly Cheney would never plunk his money into an investment that wasn’t a sure thing. If Cheney is counting on the dollar tanking and interest rates going up, then, by Gawd, that’s what’ll happen.
The Bush-Cheney team has racked up another $3 trillion in debt in just 6 years. The US national debt now stands at $8.4 trillion dollars while the trade deficit has ballooned to $800 billion nearly 7% of GDP.
This is lunacy. No country, however powerful, can maintain these staggering numbers. The country is in hock up to its neck and has to borrow $2.5 billion per day just to stay above water. Presently, the Fed is expanding the money supply and buying back its own treasuries to hide the hemorrhaging from the public. Its utter madness.
Last month the trade deficit climbed to $70 billion. More importantly, foreign central banks only purchased a meager $47 billion in treasuries to shore up our ravenous appetite for cheap junk from China.
Do the math! They’re not investing in America anymore. They are decreasing their stockpiles of dollars. We’re sinking fast and Cheney and his pals are manning the lifeboats while the public is diverted with gay marriage amendments and “American Celebrity”.
The American manufacturing sector has been hollowed out by cutthroat corporations who’ve abandoned their country to make a fast-buck in China or Mexico. The $3 trillion housing (equity) bubble is quickly loosing air while the anemic dollar continues to sag. All the signs indicate that the economy is slowing at the same time that energy prices continue to rise.
This is the onset of stagflation; the dreaded combo of a slowing economy and inflation.
Did Americans really think they’d be spared the same type of economic colonization that has been applied throughout the developing world under the rubric of “neoliberalism”?
Well, think again. The American economy is barrel-rolling towards earth and there are only enough parachutes for Cheney and the gang.
The country has lost 3 million jobs from outsourcing since Bush took office; more than 200,000 of those are the high-paying, high-tech jobs that are the life’s-blood of every economy.
Consider this from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) June edition of Foreign Affairs, the Bible of globalists and plutocrats:
“Between 2000 and 2003 alone, foreign firms built 60,000manufacturing plants in China. European chemical companies, Japanese carmakers, and US industrial conglomerates are all building factories in China to supply export markets around the world. Similarly, banks, insurance companies, professional-service firms, and IT companies are building R&D and service centers in India to support employees, customers, and production worldwide.” (“The Globally integrated Enterprise” Samuel Palmisano, Foreign Affairs page 130)
“60,000 manufacturing plants” in 3 years?!?
“Banks, insurance companies, professional-service firms, and IT companies”?
No job is safe. American elites and corporate tycoons are loading the boats and heading for foreign shores. The only thing they’re leaving behind is the insurmountable debt that will be shackled to our children into perpetuity and the carefully arranged levers of a modern police-surveillance state.
Welcome to Bush’s 21st Century gulag; third world luxury in a Guantanamo-type setting.
Take another look at Cheney’s investment strategy; it tells the whole ugly story. Interest rates are going up, the middle class is going down, and the poor dollar is headed for the dumpster. The country is not simply teetering on the brink of financial collapse; it is being thrust headfirst by the blackguards in office and their satrapies at Federal Reserve.
Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He can be reached at: [email protected]

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27/03/2007 17:31 MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) – Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran’s borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday.
“The latest military intelligence data point to heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran,” the official said, adding that the Pentagon has probably not yet made a final decision as to when an attack will be launched.
He said the Pentagon is looking for a way to deliver a strike against Iran “that would enable the Americans to bring the country to its knees at minimal cost.”
He also said the U.S. Naval presence in the Persian Gulf has for the first time in the past four years reached the level that existed shortly before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Col.-Gen. Leonid Ivashov, vice president of the Academy of Geopolitical Sciences, said last week that the Pentagon is planning to deliver a massive air strike on Iran’s military infrastructure in the near future.
A new U.S. carrier battle group has been dispatched to the Gulf.
The USS John C. Stennis, with a crew of 3,200 and around 80 fixed-wing aircraft, including F/A-18 Hornet and Superhornet fighter-bombers, eight support ships and four nuclear submarines are heading for the Gulf, where a similar group led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has been deployed since December 2006.
The U.S. is also sending Patriot anti-missile systems to the region.

Inspector Lists Computers With Atomic Secrets as Missing

WASHINGTON, March 30 — The office in charge of protecting American technical secrets about nuclear weapons from foreign spies is missing 20 desktop computers, at least 14 of which have been used for classified information, the Energy Department inspector general reported on Friday.
This is the 13th time in a little over four years that an audit has found that the department, whose national laboratories and factories do most of the work in designing and building nuclear warheads, has lost control over computers used in working on the bombs.
Aside from the computers it cannot find, the department is also using computers not listed in its inventory, and one computer listed as destroyed was in fact being used, the audit said.
“Problems with the control and accountability of desktop and laptop computers have plagued the department for a number of years,” the report said.
In January, Linton F. Brooks was fired as the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Agency, the Energy Department agency in charge of bombs, because of security problems. The agency was created in the 1990s because of security scandals.
When the most recent audit began, the Counterintelligence Directorate was unable to find 141 desktop computers. In some cases, documents were found indicating that the computers had been taken out of service.
Previous incidents of wayward computers have also involved nuclear weapons information. But the office involved in this breach has a special responsibility, tracking and countering efforts to steal bomb information. Its computers would have material on what the department knew about foreign operatives and efforts to steal sensitive information.
The report includes a response from the security agency that generally agrees with the findings. But the inspector general, Gregory H. Friedman, noted in his report that “the comments did not include planned corrective actions with target completion dates.”
A spokesman for the department, Craig Stevens, said Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman “recognizes that we need to manage this place better.”
The counterintelligence office was recently merged with the intelligence office to improve operations, Mr. Stevens said.

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http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2007/04/RAMONET/14597
Pologne parano
Loi de « lustration », ils l’appellent. C’est-à-dire, selon le dictionnaire : de « purification rituelle ». Ce qui ne manque pas d’avoir, dans ce pays au catholicisme chevillé à l’histoire, une signification forte de repentir et de pénitence. Sept cent mille Polonais devront donc, en vertu de cette loi votée en octobre 2006 et entrée en vigueur le 15 mars dernier, confesser s’ils ont collaboré avec les communistes entre 1945 et 1989. Tous les hauts fonctionnaires, les professeurs, les avocats, les directeurs d’école et les journalistes nés avant août 1972 ont désormais jusqu’au 15 mai pour avouer leur « faute ».
Tous doivent remplir un formulaire et répondre à la question : « Avez-vous collaboré secrètement et consciemment avec les anciens services de sécurité communistes ? » Ils devront le remettre à leur supérieur hiérarchique, lequel l’adressera à l’Institut de la mémoire, à Varsovie. Celui-ci vérifiera dans ses archives et délivrera un certificat de « pureté politique ». En cas de col
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