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SENATOR DEMANDS DETAILS ON APPLE'S ALLEGED IPHONE TRACKING
The tech press was abuzz Wednesday with reports that devices running iOS 4 are tracking your whereabouts. Apple has not commented publicly on the controversy and it's unclear whether Cupertino is even collecting this data, but Minnesota Senator Al Franken has penned a letter asking Apple for more details.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: AT ODDS WITH CLEAR DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS TOWARD MULTIRACIAL PRIDE
It could have been a historic teaching moment. Instead, President Obama, the most famous mixed-race person in the world, checked off only one race - Black - last year on his census form. And in so doing, he missed an opportunity to articulate a more nuanced racial vision for the increasingly diverse country he heads.
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SUMERIAN AND INDO-EUROPEAN
Sumerians, Cimmerians, Samarians - People of One Origin?
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SUMERIAN AND LATVIAN LEXICAL EQUIVALENCES
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THE SUMERIAN SONS OF GOD
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JUST SAY NO: APPLE AND INTEL STOP USING CONFLICT MATERIAL
While the US government hasn't issued an outright ban against the use of "conflict minerals" coming from the Congo, it has passed a law that will require companies who use them to tell all of us when our gadgets have been paid for (in part) with blood.
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SHLOMO SAND'S "THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE"
Last Spring, I asked my father over dinner why it was such an outrageous proposition, leaving aside whether or not true, that Judaism is solely a matter of confession, as opposed to an ethnonational identity. He answered with some trepidation "because it contradicts 2,000 years of history." When I went on to concede that for most of Jewish history there existed isolated ethnic-tribal groupings who adopted Judaism - in other words, numerous Jewish peoples - but that the idea that they constituted a single pan-Jewish volk was absurd, my father rigidly retorted "they just are."
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ARMENIANS DENOUNCE KOBE BRYANT DEAL WITH TURKISH AIRLINES
American basketball star Kobe Bryant has agreed to become the new celebrity face of Turkish Airlines
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YOUR APPS ARE WATCHING YOU
A Journal investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users
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JEWS AND SLAVERY
It would not be an unfair assumption to say that the majority of Americans think of slavery as an institution peculiar to the ante-bellum south. And if not thought of as exclusive to it, at least practiced there in a manner uniquely unjust in world history. This underlying theme of slavery as a peculiarly white European habit has been implied by Hollywood and the American media in general. And the media as has been noted elsewhere is majority Jewish owned and controlled.
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CONAN THE SOLIPSIST
The Comedian's Slide into Self-righteousness Is Anything but Funny
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WHY IS THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SHUTTING DOWN POPULAR RAP SITES?
Last week, the US Department of Homeland Security seized over 80 websites for alleged copyright and trademark violations.
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TIM BERNERS-LEE - "FACEBOOK THREATENS WEB FUTURE"
Tim Berners-Lee has dubbed Facebook a threat to the universality of the world wide web.
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WELCOME TO THE CONSPIRACY
In a clear sign that the powers that be are getting worried, an article appeared in Vanity Fair recently that explored the world of "conspiracy theories." That is unusual enough. Vanity Fair portrays itself as sophisticated and intelligent, a magazine that embodies the ethos of the East Coast establishment. The one thing it is not is an "alternative" magazine. Nonetheless, in its May issue it jumped in at the deep end with "Welcome to the Conspiracy."
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SPEAKING OF JEWS AND BLACK SLAVERY
With the publication of the first volume of The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews in 1991 came the revelation that before the time of Christopher Columbus and through the European expansion into the western hemisphere, Jews were active participants in the epic racial crimes committed by the "New World's" European invaders. An abundance of Jewish scholarly writings provided extensive evidence directly contradicting the popular notion that Jews had ever been the friends or allies of the suffering and oppressed Black man and woman.
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JEWISH LEADERS DEMAND FARRAKHAN DENOUNCE SECRET RELATIONSHIP BOOK
Details emerge of meeting with Jewish leaders and Minister Farrakhan
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3D, WHO NEEDS IT?
The latest wave of 3D technology seems destined to fail, unless the industry changes the way it presents 3D content.
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Oral Sex at Any Cost
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MEL AND OKSANA
Al Gore, the man who, by himself, lied about inventing the Internet, and, with many other liars and institutions, lied about Global Warming, has been in the news of late for his innovative propositioning of a number of masseuses with the only Al-Gore-rhythms he knows - rolling over, motioning to his penis, and insisting, "Are you going to take care of this?" But he's still got nothing on Mel Gibson in the way of respecting himself, and respecting and endearing himself to women.
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EVEN REAGAN WASN'T A REAGAN REPUBLICAN
Conservatives would claim that the Republican Party can only regain power by "returning to its roots" and banishing heretics. But a funny thing happened on the way to winning national elections again: The GOP has drifted so far right that it's retroactively disqualified the only Republicans since 1960 who've actually managed to, you know, win national elections. Based on their public statements, policy proposals, and accomplishments while in office, none of the modern Republican presidents - not Richard Nixon, not Gerald Ford, not George H W Bush, not even Ronald Reagan or George W Bush - would come close to satisfying the Republican base if they were seeking election today.
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MESSAGE TO ALL BLACK NATIONALISTS AND AFROCENTRISTS
For centuries our people have been in search of an identity, after having our true identity taken away. Our search has lead us down many different paths; some paths we've taken have lead us closer to the true path. There is only one path of truth, everything else is a road that leads to the true path or takes us farther away from it.
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THE COMPUTER IS A COMMUNICATIONS DISEASE
We're in the midst of attempting to figure out how the computer went from being a mathematical tool used for calculations, to a communications device used for elemental interaction. These days, the machines are used more often to interact than to calculate - that is, unless the calculation is needed for an interaction.
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POT, MEET KETTLE - A RESPONSE TO STEVE JOBS'S LETTER ON FLASH
Steve Jobs's recent missive on the deficiencies of Adobe's Flash is still reverberating around the Internet. In this guest editorial, John Sullivan of the Free Software Foundation responds, arguing that Apple is presenting users with a false choice between Adobe's proprietary software and Apple's walled garden.
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THOUGHTS ON FLASH
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe's founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers - Mac users buy around half of Adobe's Creative Suite products - but beyond that there are few joint interests.
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GAYS AND LESBIANS TORTURED AND KILLED IN IRAQ
According to Ali Hali, chairman of the Iraqi LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) group, a London-based human-rights group, at least 680 gays and lesbians have died in Iraq since 2004. A number are also reported missing. However a reliable number of the victims is not known due to the failure of authorities to investigate such crimes and the stigma preventing families from reporting the deaths or incidents.
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GOOGLE BUZZ PRIVACY CRITICIZED BY TEN COUNTRIES
Privacy officials from ten countries on Tuesday penned a letter to Google criticizing its approach to privacy, pointing to its Buzz and Street View products as examples.
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FORD GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH FOCUS EV
Electricity really is the ideal form of propulsion for the automobile because it is clean and quiet. They knew this at the turn of the century, but the problem was batteries and range - that was the main concern back then and it is the main concern people have now.
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IS MICROSOFT ABOUT TO DECLARE PATENT WAR ON LINUX?
Microsoft's comments on happenings outside its immediate product portfolio are rare, and all the more valuable when they do appear. Here's one from Horacio Gutierrez, "Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel", entitled "Apple v. HTC: A Step Along the Path of Addressing IP Rights in Smartphones."
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ALL HAIL OUR BENEVOLENT CORPORATE OVERLORDS
After reading "Electronics Manufacturers Use US Legal System to Thwart Hardware Hacks," I was all set to type a fiery response, but Linux Today readers beat me to it. In a nutshell, the tech industry is accelerating its attacks on our rights to do what we want with our own property.
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STUDENT SLAPS GOOGLE BUZZ WITH PRIVACY LAWSUIT
Despite the changes being made by Google, there seems to be no end to the criticism against the Internet search giant. Now a student at Harvard Law School has filed a class action suit against the company for making personal information of the users public.
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GOOGLE KNOWS YOU'RE BUZZING ABOUT BUZZ
You can't say Google is resting on its globe-encircling laurels. Recently the massive search company created Google Wave, an innovative collaboration tool that brings people together so they can work to figure out what Google Wave is good for.
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THE TRUE IDENTITY OF THE SO-CALLED PALESTINIANS
In this essay I would like to present the true origin and identity of the Arab people commonly known as "Palestinians," and the widespread myths surrounding them. This research is intended to be completely neutral and objective, based on historic and archaeological evidences as well as other documents, including Arab sources, and quoting statements by authoritative Islamic personalities.
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THE IPHONE IS RUINING THE COUNTRY
Cell phones are nothing but time-wasters. It's time to get rid of them and refocus on the PC.
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Activists Protest Swedish Journalist Donald Bostrom, Who Accused Israel of Stealing Organs From Dead Palestinians
ISRAEL HARVESTED ORGANS WITHOUT PERMISSION
Jerusalem (CNN) - Israel harvested organs from bodies in the 1990s without permission of family members, the former head of a state-run forensic laboratory said in a newly released interview.
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WILL WINDOWS 7 PROMOTE LINUX ADOPTION?
I've done a bit of research on Windows 7 Enterprise to discover some of its new features and to uncover its secrets. From what I've seen so far, Microsoft has provided some interesting Linux-esque features that might accidentally boost Linux adoption as a side effect. The two primary features to which I refer are 7's ability to natively use virtual hard disks (VHDs) and the easy to add on UNIX-compatibility services and applications.
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GOOGLE CHROME OS - A THREAT TO WINDOWS 7?
Google OS has been warmly embraced by the anti-Microsoft crowd, but Davey Winder is less than blown over by the announcement.
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WINDOWS 7 IS A WINNER, MOSTLY
Win 7 is good, but it has factors working against it-including Microsoft's track record.
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WINDOWS 7 VODKA AND THE MICROSOFT HANGOVER
Microsoft can't change perceptions if it doesn't get its marketing and PR acts together.
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MICROSOFT BLOWS UP THE CLOUD
The EULA is the problem; it lets companies be lax about their products and services.
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WHY OPEN SOURCE MISSES THE POINT OF FREE SOFTWARE
When we call software "free," we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: The freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of "free speech," not "free beer."
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MARIJUANA'S NEW HIGH LIFE
Cannabis is moving into the mainstream, with fashion, films, TV, and politicians acknowledging it's here to stay.
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WHAT IS HAPPENING TO WINDOWS 7?
Blame the tricky upgrade process - and, by extension, the registry - for the backlash against Windows 7.
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IT CAME FROM WASILLA
Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her story. But what Alaska's charismatic governor wants the public to know about herself doesn't always jibe with reality. As John McCain's top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick, the author tracks the signs-political and personal-that Palin was big trouble, and checks the forecast for her future.
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THE RIAA HAS GOT TO STOP
The RIAA, whose officers are generally reviled, continues to do a disservice to its members - if research data is correct.
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ESCAPING THE MATRIX
The defining dramatic moment in the film The Matrix occurs just after Morpheus invites Neo to choose between a red pill and a blue pill. The red pill promises "the truth, nothing more." Neo takes the red pill and awakes to reality - something utterly different from anything Neo, or the audience, could have expected. What Neo had assumed to be reality turned out to be only a collective illusion, fabricated by the Matrix and fed to a population that is asleep, cocooned in grotesque embryonic pods. In Plato's famous parable about the shadows on the walls of the cave, true reality is at least reflected in perceived reality. In the Matrix world, true reality and perceived reality exist on entirely different planes.
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WHAT WAS THE SPHINX?
There has never been a satisfactory answer to what the Sphinx actually is or was. Anyone who goes to Giza can see for himself or herself that there is something `wrong' with the Sphinx. It only takes an instant. The body is gigantic and the head is just a pimple. The Egyptians never did anything like that, they were always meticulous about proportions in their art. So how is it that we have this monster with a tiny head sitting there in the sand, then?
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BRAIN ZAPPING - PART 1
Tense nervous headache? Always run down and irritable? Not feeling yourself? Well maybe that's because you're not yourself, rather, you are being controlled from somewhere else by someone or something else.
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BRAIN ZAPPING - PART 2
But mind control operations may go much further than the use of advanced psycho-technologies. Over recent decades thousands of people have reported being abducted by `aliens'. These countless stories cannot simply be dismissed as the result of `psychiatric disorder' as the vast majority of the individuals do not have a background of mental illness. However, they all share in common the experience of being subject to the UFO/alien phenomenon on TV, at the movies, or in books. We will return to this point later.
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THE NEW AGE CULTURE SHIFT
These are among the multitudes of concepts that are important in the development of a New Age culture shift. Here is an explanation (or an excuse for such) of some of the post-modernist spin-offs of New Age philosophy. First understand that New Age is far too extensive in a comprehensive undertaking to do it justice in under a few thousand pages. So we are left with crass generalizations. Hopefully we do it adequately so as not to incorrectly characterize any particular facets of the movement. If you are already familiar with the terms, you can save time by glossing over the definitions.
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JUDGE OBAMA ON PERFORMANCE ALONE
With the noon sun high over the US Capitol, Barack Obama yesterday took the oath of office to become president of the United States. On one level, it was a simple matter of political process - the symbolic transfer of power. Yet words alone cannot convey its meaning.
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ALEF Speeches - Barack Obama - Inaugural Address
THE FREEDOM QUIZ
I've noticed that a lot of people who claim to believe in Freedom of Speech (or Freedom of Religion) are, in fact, just zealots of one kind or another who only believe in such freedoms for themselves. They may claim to believe in freedom, but when it comes down to it, they really can't tolerate opposing views or religions, and they secretly support the idea of "thought crimes."
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LEE IOCOCCA SPEAKS
Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder! We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, 'Stay the course.'
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RALPH NADER OPEN LETTER TO BARACK OBAMA
Dear Senator Obama, In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your political character that succumbs to contrary centers of power that want not "hope and change" but the continuation of the power-entrenched status quo.
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HAS SARAH PALIN BEEN PICKED AS THE TITULAR HEAD OF THE COMING POLICE STATE?
Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.
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FASCIST AMERICA IN 10 EASY STEPS
There are some things common to every state that's made the transition to fascism. Author Naomi Wolf argues that all of them are present in America today.
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THE INTERNET AS YOU KNOW IT IS SLATED FOR DEATH BY 2012
It's probably safe to say that many of you reading this article right now came upon the NaturalNews.com Website while you were roaming around on the Internet looking for empowering information to help get healthy or to protect the good health you have. Can you imagine what it would mean to you to lose your freedom to search for free, unlimited, and uncensored information on the Internet? You may soon find out as the two largest Internet service providers in Canada, Telus and Bell Canada, use the Canadian people as the first test in the efforts of the power elite to drastically and forever change the delivery of Internet service.
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HATRED AND DISGRACE
Turn rocks in the shade and expose strange worms beneath
Jim Morrison
It's the Twenty-first Century and, whether by subsequent revelation or by blatent public display, we still must be confronted on a daily basis with Racism, anti-Semitism, Sexism, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Domestic, Child, and Animal Abuse, Shameful Behavior, reckless Elitism and Entitlement, and myriad other forms of Hatred, some yet to be imagined, by well-rewarded and high-profile role models entrusted with our sensibilities, privileged and self-entitled individuals of fame and celebrity, and by highly-visible corporate and institutional entities, all generated, encouraged, and sanctioned by shadowy and amorphous powers, self-ordained warders of history and the future, that work tirelessly in secret behind the scenes to disrupt the natural state and progression of human relations. We are their "useless eaters" and are always at risk of upsetting their balances of political, financial, and social control. As our populations grow and new means of controlling us continue to be explored, the traditional methods of sabotaging cooperation and community and of fostering disarray, disrespect, and hatred among us continue to suffice. It is an aptly-named trickle-down phenomenon from which we are helpless to find relief as they routinely relieve themselves.
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