Archive for September 18th, 2006
Voices of Dissent
Vietnam’s dissidents are using Internet telephony to push their cause, but the police are listening
Time magazine, Asian edition | Sept. 18, 2006
By KAY JOHNSON | HANOI
Free-speech advocates once dreamed that the Internet might make it impossible for repressive governments to control information and stifle dissent. But while the Internet has given dissidents more ways to communicate with [...]
Mobile Edge WSS Passport Wallet Protects RFID Passports
Gearlog | Sept. 18, 2006
A couple weeks ago, we asked readers to weigh in on the news that the U.S. was going to be issuing passports with RFID chips embedded in them. Even though the passports are supposed to be shielded, and the chips will have a very short range, many of us are concerned [...]
Major Problems At Polls Feared
Washington post | Sept. 17, 2006
By Dan Balz and Zachary A. Goldfarb
An overhaul in how states and localities record votes and administer elections since the Florida recount battle six years ago has created conditions that could trigger a repeat — this time on a national scale — of last week’s Election Day debacle in the [...]
FCC ordered TV study destroyed
Associated Press | Sept 15, 2006
WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says.
The report, written in 2004, came to light during the Senate confirmation hearing for [...]
Bush Tacitly Implies WTC Controlled Demolition?
Makes strange ‘explosives in U.S. buildings’ reference during torture speech Friday
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | September 18 2006
During his speech Friday in which the President argued for the gutting of the Geneva convention and the legal classification of torture, Bush made a strange comment about explosives and their placement in U.S. buildings. Was this a [...]
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