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 Tuesday, 4 March 2003
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US condemns deadly Gaza raid. Washington attacks Israel after its latest onslaught in the Gaza Strip leaves eight Palestinians dead - including a pregnant woman and child. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 'Palestinians however see Israel's latest offensive as an effort to deal militant groups a fatal blow before any US campaign. They believe that afterwards, Israel may be constrained by US pressure to compensate the Arab world by reining in the Jewish state.'
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Canada's Iraq plan raises interest at UN
Canada's ambassador to the United Nations says a Canadian proposal on
Iraq was well-received Monday by non-permanent members of the United
Nations Security Council.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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Net Hacker Tool du Jour: Google. Hackers often use underground software to gain access to private information on the Net or private computer networks. But the newest trick up their sleeves is a tool all Web users are familiar with. By Christopher Null. [Wired News]
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Kevin Marks: "Plan your route so you pass an Apple store once a day, and upstream using their open 802.11 network. Plenty of bandwidth for photos and audio." [Scripting News]
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U.S., Iraq dominate foreign policy town hall
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham began a series of town hall
meetings Monday night to sell Canadians on Ottawa's current foreign
policy.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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Last week I got a demo of the new Microsoft Office suite. Been burned by Microsoft too many times. Don't tell me it's open, because I expect, fully, that you will break anything I build in the next corner-turn. Microsoft's track record is really bad. It would be like booking a seat on an airline known for never making its schedule. Interop is not a feature you can sell if you don't honor past agreements. And Microsoft doesn't. [Scripting News]
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mickeyD ban. TV watchdogs ban McDonald's ad. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
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Classical anti-war play performed in 59 countries
Monday's night Toronto performance of Lysistrata, an ancient Greek
comedy with an anti-war message, was joined by more than 1,000 readings
in 59 countries to protest against war in the Gulf.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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Fallacies and War 'When facts are not available or convenient, there are many tricks one can use to present an argument. Here are a few examples of tactics the current administration is using to convince you and the world that invading Iraq is necessary.'A very clear explanation of how the Bush administration is trying to fool the people. Techniques include: false dilemma, argument from ignorance, slippery slope, ad hominem attack, fallacy of exclusion, appeal to authority. Fortunately, it's not the people who are the fools. We see through them.
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kuro5hin.org || Logical Fallacies and The Rush To War 'Dave Koehler of PhillyBurbs.com has written an outstanding summary of the logical fallacies used by the Bush administration to try to convince the world at large of the necessity of invading Iraq in the absence of any sort of compelling evidence.'
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Cameras barred in US sniper trial. A judge rejects requests to allow cameras in court for the trial of Lee Boyd Malvo, one of two suspects in the US sniper killing spree. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] Good. It's time the US Americans took the circus out of their courtrooms.
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Organizers of Antiwar Movement Plan to Go Beyond Protests (washingtonpost.com) '"We still believe we can stop this war before it begins," said Chris Nineham, one of the British organizers of this weekend's conference, held at the Stop the War Coalition's offices in northeast London. "But if not, we're putting the warmongers on notice that there will be massive protests on the day war breaks out and the following weekend."'
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How the Protesters Mobilized. The Internet has changed protests by allowing mobilization to emerge from free-wheeling amorphous groups. [New York Times: Technology]
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Senate report: FBI still unprepared. A bipartisan report says the agency is still too cautious in dealing with terror suspects -- and has promoted the agents who bungled the Moussaoui case. [Salon.com]
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Powell's moment of truth. He went from being the Bush administration's voice of moderation to its leading advocate for war. With a diplomatic meltdown looming, the secretary of state is in the hot seat.
[Salon.com]
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Sex boycott urged over war. Women opposed to the war with Iraq are being urged to withhold sexual favours if their men are pro-war. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
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US angry over N Korea jet intercept. Washington will protest after four North Korean fighters tailed a US spy plane in international airspace. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
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Canada's Iraq plan raises interest at UN
Canada's ambassador to the United Nations says a Canadian proposal on
Iraq was well-received Monday by non-voting members of the United
Nations Security Council.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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Lance Knobel quoting Joshua Micah Marshall: "[I]f you want some evidence of this administration's diplomatic incompetence, consider this. We publicly sold out the Kurds to get this deal. We really should have made sure we had a deal before we tipped our hands to the Kurds about the price we were willing to pay for it." [Scripting News]
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Observation at the Spectrum conference. The vast majority of laptops were Macs. Second place seemed to be Sony Vaios. Apple had a good idea in putting a backlit Apple logo on the top of each laptop. Makes it easy to see how many there are in a room at a quick glance. [Scripting News]
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US prepares to use toxic gases in Iraq 'The US is preparing to use the toxic riot-control agents CS gas and pepper spray in Iraq in contravention of the Chemical Weapons Convention, provoking the first split in the Anglo-US alliance. "Calmative" gases, similar to the one that killed 120 hostages in the Moscow theatre siege last year, could also be employed.' Disarm Bush
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US orders more troops to Gulf. The Pentagon deploys another 60,000 troops, but says they might arrive only after a war with Iraq has begun. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
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38 percent of US adults know what Wi-Fi is: And 14 percent of those adults (or 5 percent of all adults) have Wi-Fi in the home. Good numbers. [80211b News]
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Ziff-Davis aggregates wireless articles into site: Ziff-Davis launched (quietly) its Wireless Supersite, which aggregates articles across all of its publications and sites into a single superstructure. [via Alan Reiter]
[80211b News]
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kuro5hin.org || Bad credit? No credit? Then you might just be an airline security risk 'All airline passengers meeting certain criteria will be assigned security risk levels of green, yellow and red. Those with red levels will not be allowed to fly. Passengers will not be allowed to view their personal information used in such determinations, and the information used will be on file for 50 years.'
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NOW: Commentary - Bill Moyers on Patriotism and the American Flag | PBS 'I put it on to remind myself that not every patriot thinks we should do to the people of Baghdad what Bin Laden did to us. The flag belongs to the country, not to the government. And it reminds me that it's not un-American to think that war ? except in self-defense ? is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomacy. Come to think of it, standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.'
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Stop clapping, this is serious - smh.com.au 'Tom Lehrer is still feisty and funny, but the king of sophisticated satire tells Tony Davis there's no place for his style of humour now: the world just wouldn't get it. 'I'm not tempted to write a song about George W.Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them."'
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MoveOn.org:
Emergency Appeal to the U.N. 'Dear Member of the U.N. Security Council,
We are citizens from countries all over the world. We are speaking together because we will all be affected by a decision in which your country has a major part -- the decision of how to disarm Iraq.'This is the beginning of a letter whcih moveon.org will send to UN security council members this week. Please go to the site and sign the letter.
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"The world isn't run by a clever cabal. It's run by about 5,000
bickering, sometimes charming, usually arrogant, mostly male people who
are accustomed to living in either phenomenal wealth, or great personal
power. " [Daypop Top 40] An interesting report from Davos. Skip the silly intro and get into the meat.
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