March 22, 2005

IBM launches spam filter CNN - IBM unveiled a service Tuesday that sends unwanted e-mails back to the spammers who sent them.  The new service, known as FairUCE, uses a giant database to identify computers that are sending spam. 12:53:19 PM

Michael Moore's Minute Men Jihadists kill Iraqi women as 'betrayers' of Islam "Rebels kill Iraqi women as 'betrayers' of Islam," from the TimesOnline THE terrible screams will haunt Najat al-Alloussi every time she remembers her last telephone conversation with her kidnapped daughter. "Mama, mama," cried Hadeel, 24. "They have just executed my husband in front of my eyes. Please help me. They just shot him in the head. Please help me, mama." A male voice then told Alloussi, a prominent Iraqi gynaecologist: "We have killed him and now we shall kill your daughter as well." She begged for the young woman's life, promising to hand over gold, cash and a valuable building if her captors would set her free. But the line went dead. Two bags containing the bodies of her daughter and son-in-law, graduates in medicine who had taken internships at al-Qaem hospital close to Iraq's border with Syria, were dumped near their Baghdad home 48 hours later. 10:56:22 AM

School-shooting suspect admired Hitler Kansas City Star, MO -  Although his people had long suffered oppression and were nearly annihilated, Jeff Weise identified with the oppressor and annihilator. "I guess I've always carried a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideals, and his courage to take on larger nations," Jeffrey Weise, an American Indian, wrote in an online forum frequented by neo-Nazis and wannabes last year. The postings give a glimpse into the thoughts of a troubled young man, now suspected of going on a killing rampage Monday before turning the gun on himself. He said he was interested in finding like-minded Indians, a goal other posters on the forum encouraged. He also admitted he was a suspect in a threat at school. "Once I commit myself to something, I stay until the end," he replied. For Weise, the end came Monday afternoon when he allegedly shot himself at Red Lake High School on the Red Lake reservation, about 300 miles north of the Twin Cities. Authorities said he took his own life after killing seven others at the school, including six fellow students, and his grandfather and a woman at their home before going to the school. UPDATE: From Secular Blasphemy we find out that Steve Martinez on nazi.org has posted a statement on the school shooting that sounds alot like the reaction Ward Churchill had about 9/11.  Basically this "Libertarian green nazi" feels that this is to be expected.  The Libertarian National Socialist Green Party, on whose messageboard Jeff Weise posted one year before shooting people at his Minnesota high school, today refused to wring hands over a "tragedy," instead pointing out that such events are to be expected when thinking people are crammed into an unthinking, irrational modern society. According to the LNSG, the school shooting itself is not our failure; society is our failure, and the school shooting is a symptom. Libertarian green nazis? 8:44:33 AM