We survivors have tried for 29 years to learn why we were denied the
immediate air support that we were promised in case of trouble. There are no answers. The Navy still will not even admit that help was not sent, even though one of the aircraft carrier commanders has offered to testify that he was forbidden to help us.

...

The United States military continues to support its best enemies.

USS Liberty: Did Israel commit one war crime to hide another?

WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The Bush administration has promised Israel $2.16 billion in military assistance in 2004, a slight increase over the $2.1 billion it has asked Congress to provide in 2003, the State Department said on Thursday.

"The administration fully appreciates the dangers Israel faces from proliferation and conventional arms build-up in the region, as well as acknowledges the substantial risks Israel has taken to pursue peace," a State Department statement said.

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Your tax dollars at work supporting a regime that creates "peace" by suppressing the indigenous population.

US promises Israel $2.16 bln military aid in 2004

In DARPA's brilliance the new IAO (Information Awareness Office) carries the logo of the Illuminati. The all-seeing eye atop a pyramid.

Here come the conspiracy theories!

DARPA IAO and the all-seeing Illuminati eye

ilsundal wrote:
] Once again, Veterans Day went by without anybody in the
] mainstream media pointing out that our Commander in Chief is a
] draft dodger. It is well documented that George W. Bush's
] daddy pulled some strings and got him into the Texas Air
] National Guard. Then he got himself transferred to Alabama,
] where he was destined to serve with distinction... except, he
] never showed up. Basically, Bush decided to ditch his military
] duties for about a year. And yet, for some reason, he was
] never charged with desertion. Not to mention the fact that
] Bush was grounded for several months after refusing to submit
] to a routine physical exam in 1972. [One possible motive: the
] exam would have included a compulsory drug test.]

This is worth re-recommending simply because it's so unbelievable. The other humorous piece to this story is that the conservative right generally attacks the mainstream media for it's "liberal" bias.

Not that I was ever horribly impressed by Clinton, but he sure looks good after a couple years of Dubya.

RE: Media Continues to Ignore Bush's Military Record

] Unions and management agree that we ought to sell the
] time of our lives in exchange for survival, although they
] haggle over the price. Marxists think we should be bossed
] by bureaucrats. Libertarians think we should be bossed by
] businessmen. Feminists don't care which form bossing
] takes so long as the bosses are women. Clearly these
] ideology-mongers have serious differences over how to
] divvy up the spoils of power. Just as clearly, none of
] them have any objection to power as such and all of them
] want to keep us working.

The Abolition of Work--Bob Black

Moon Pie wrote:
] Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone makes milk cheaper by
] causing cows to pump out more of the stuff, and brings in lots
] of money for Monsanto. It also induces very elevated levels
] of IGF-1 (Insulin Growth Factor-1) which is a powerful tumor
] growth promoter. Only one test of safety was ever done, and
] the FDA will not allow anyone to see the raw data for peer
] review. Cheaper milk also means more small dairy farms go out
] of business. You won't find this out from Fox News, who is
] now suing the reporters who uncovered the story to keep them
] from independently publishing their findings. Find the full
] story of food industry business-as-usual here....

I don't know about the rest of you, but I definitely don't touch this stuff. No BGH for me, thanks.

[ Slightly edited. --Rek ]

PR Watch: Monsanto and Fox: Partners in Censorship

w1ld wrote:
] ] "International DJs are lining up to sing the praises of
] ] Stanton's Final Scratch, as the revolutionary new product
] ] makes its long-awaited debut in MI and DJ equipment shops
] ] around the globe this August.
] ] Final Scratch is the definitive access route for
] ] professional and bedroom DJ's to enter and control the
] ] digital world. Its unique and patented technology allows
] ] real-time manipulation and scratching of digital music
] ] files such as .wav and MP3 - from conventional analogue
] ] decks.
] ] Using any standard turntable and mixer set-up, a DJ can
] ] manipulate digital sources - just as he has always done
] ] %u2026 by hand, and with vinyl."
]
] Check out the pictures section!

I remember when this first came out. They sure have done a lot of work on it. It's very slick looking. I'm glad it looks like they are going to make it. It's a sweet product. It's probably expensive now. Back in the day it was $300.

Just reference for me. This is cool shit.

Wow. Read this:

Minewt is a minimal "testbed" implementation of a stateful address translation gateway, rendered so entirely in userspace that not even the hardware addresses of the gateway correspond to what the kernel is operating against. Minewt implements what is common referred to as NAT, as well as a Doxpara-developed technique known as MAT. MAT, or MAC Address Translation, allows several backend hosts to share the same IP address, by dropping the static ARP cache and merging Layer 2 information into the NAT state table. Minewt's ability to manipulate MAC addresses also allows it to demonstrate Guerilla Multicast, which allows multiple hosts on the same subnet to receive a unicasted TCP/UDP datastream from the outside world. Minewt is not a firewall, and should not be treated as such.

Is this a potential mechanism for maintaining state on a couple of VRRP'ed OpenBSD pf firewalls???

I know it's not what it's intended for, but you might be able to leverage his MAT capability in such a way.

More:

Paratrace traces the path between a client and a server, much like "traceroute", but with a major twist: Rather than iterate the TTLs of UDP, ICMP, or even TCP SYN packets, paratrace attaches itself to an existing, stateful- firewall-approved TCP flow, statelessly releasing as many TCP Keepalive messages as the software estimates the remote host is hop-distant.

How slick is that???

Slashdot | Black Ops of TCP/IP: Paketto Keiretsu 1.0 Release

Domain disputes are a dime a dozen, but legal experts say Visa's recent win over a one-man website is the first time a corporate trademark has prevailed over a word in the dictionary.

[ Remember kids, Corporations have more rights than people. --Rek ]

Visa Suit: Dictionary Discredited

] "The Justice Department has broad discretion in the use
] of wiretaps and other surveillance techniques to track
] suspected terrorists and spies, a federal appeals court
] panel ruled Monday."

Bogus...

Appeals panel upholds wiretaps