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Current Topic: Current Events

Howard Dean guestblogging for Lawrence Lessig
Topic: Current Events 5:01 pm EDT, Jul 12, 2003

Lessig is going on vacation.

] So it is time for me to take a break from this space too.
] But I’ve arranged for a much more interesting guest
] blogger while I’m gone: former governor, and presidential
] candidate, Howard Dean.

Interesting..

Howard Dean guestblogging for Lawrence Lessig


Dissertation Could Be Security Threat
Topic: Current Events 1:56 pm EDT, Jul  8, 2003

] "He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade --
] and then they both should burn it," said Richard Clarke,
] who until recently was the White House cyberterrorism
] chief.

And it's your ignorance and inability to face reality that will continue to put our lives in jeopardy, you twit. If this grad student can build such a database, then obviously someone with a lot more motivation could as well. Burying our heads in the sand doesn't help.

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat


Iraq war actually isn't over.
Topic: Current Events 8:47 am EDT, Jul  3, 2003

] The United States is now clearly involved in a guerrilla
] war in the Sunni regions of Iraq. As a result, U.S.
] forces are engaging in counterinsurgency operations,
] which historically have proven most difficult and trying
] -- for both American forces and American politics.
] Suppressing a guerrilla operation without alienating the
] indigenous population represents an extreme challenge to
] the United States that at this point does not appear
] avoidable -- and the seriousness of which does not appear
] to be broadly understood.

While the US media is so confident that the US won the Iraq war that the subject has become passe, it turns out that the capitulation of troops was part of a deliberate strategy. Hussein may in fact still be in control of his military. The war is not over. The US has not won.

Iraq war actually isn't over.


The Memory Hole: US Forces Make Iraqis Strip and Walk Naked in Public
Topic: Current Events 8:47 am EDT, Jul  3, 2003

] On 25 April 2003, the newspaper Dagbladet (Norway)
] published photos of armed US soldiers forcing Iraqi
] men to walk naked through a park.

] On the chests of the men had been scrawled an Arabic
] phrase that translates as "Ali Baba - Thief."

] A military officer states that the men are thieves,
] and that this technique will be used again.

The Memory Hole: US Forces Make Iraqis Strip and Walk Naked in Public


Yahoo! News - World Photos - AP
Topic: Current Events 5:15 am EDT, Jul  2, 2003

] Tens of thousands of people pack Hong Kong's Victoria
] Park before march to Hong Kong government headquarters
] Tuesday, July 1, 2003, to protest the Hong Kong
] government's plans to enact an anti-subversion bill that
] critics fear will curtail civil liberties. The government
] says the bill is necessary to protect national security.
] It was one of the biggest protests in Hong Kong against
] the government. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

I am totally positive this picture was taken from the Park Lane Hotel.. I know that view. Just over to the right is where people do Ti Chi in the morning.

Yahoo! News - World Photos - AP


Hong Kong breaks into protest
Topic: Current Events 5:42 pm EDT, Jul  1, 2003

] HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of protesters
] took to Hong Kong's streets on Tuesday to denounce the
] government and its planned anti-subversion law in the
] city's biggest demonstration since the 1989 Tiananmen
] Square massacre.

Hong Kong breaks into protest


Yahoo! News Photos - Iran Protesters Set Fire to Selves
Topic: Current Events 4:15 am EDT, Jun 20, 2003

] A tv image shows an Iranian protester engulfed in flames
] after he set himself alight in Berne, Switzerland June
] 19, 2003 during a demonstration to protest the arrest of
] Iranian exiles in France on Tuesday. Police said the man
] had been taken to hospital suffering from burns.

Damn, this is hardcore.

Yahoo! News Photos - Iran Protesters Set Fire to Selves


EE Times - U.S. 'negation' policy in space raises concerns abroad
Topic: Current Events 9:08 am EDT, Jun  4, 2003

] The nation's largest intelligence agency by budget and in
] control of all U.S. spy satellites, NRO is talking openly
] with the U.S. Air Force Space Command about actively
] denying the use of space for intelligence purposes to any
] other nation at any time not just adversaries, but even
] longtime allies, according to NRO director Peter Teets.

NeoCons in Spaaaaaaaace.

EE Times - U.S. 'negation' policy in space raises concerns abroad


Michigan might ban high-tech weapon; Bills would add e-bomb to state's criminal code
Topic: Current Events 3:31 am EDT, Jun  1, 2003

] Michigan lawmakers took a tentative first step Wednesday
] to criminalize a bizarre high-tech weapon called the
] e-bomb, which sounds really scary but might not exist at
] all.
]
] Acting on the better-safe-than-sorry model of
] legislating, the House Criminal Justice Committee voted
] unanimously to add e-bombs -- also called electromagnetic
] bombs -- to Michigan's criminal code along with dynamite
] and other explosives.

The "better-safe-than-sorry model"? Interesting..

] At Wednesday's committee meeting, one witness used the
] movie "Ocean's 11," in which thieves use an e-bomb to
] disable electronics for a casino heist, as an example
] of its use.

... when Hollywood drives security awareness.

Michigan might ban high-tech weapon; Bills would add e-bomb to state's criminal code


Photos Raise Allegations of Torture
Topic: Current Events 2:13 am EDT, May 31, 2003

] The film depicted a bound and gagged Iraqi inside a net
] that was suspended from a forklift, according to The Sun,
] which first reported the story this morning. The Sun also
] reported that the roll included pictures of soldiers
] performing sex acts near Iraqi prisoners.

Sex acts?

Photos Raise Allegations of Torture


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