Archive for March, 2005
EFF Warns Consumers about the Dangers of EULAs
New White Paper Outlines How Click-Through Agreements Erode Privacy, Fundamental Liberties
San Francisco - Today (17/02/05) the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released a white paper warning consumers about how they can be harmed by end user license agreements (EULAs) for consumer electronics and online services. Many EULAs contain terms that damage consumer interests, including invitations […]
Why is English so Hard to Learn? - a radio primer
English is the most idiosyncratic of languages and also, at the same time, the most important language for communication in the world today. From the problems of how to pronounce POLISH - is Pole-ish or pol-ish? to the ways to punctuate sentences: the teacher said the boy is an idiot - who said what about […]
Congressional Testimony of Robert S Meuller III - February 2005
Testimony of Robert S. Mueller, III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Before the Senate Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate
February 16, 2005
Introduction
Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman, Senator Rockefeller, and members of the Committee. I appreciate this opportunity to discuss our current view of threats to the United States and the FBI’s efforts to address […]
“Some People Push Back” - On the Justice of Roosting Chickens
Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Band Cherokee) is one of the most outspoken of Native American activists. In his lectures and numerous published works, he explores the themes of genocide in the Americas, historical and legal (re)interpretation of conquest and colonization, literary and cinematic criticism, and indigenist alternatives to the status quo. Churchill is a Professor of […]
The CIA and Nazi War Criminals
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National Security Archive Posts Secret CIA History Released Under Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 146
Edited by Tamara Feinstein
February 4, 2005
National Security Archive has posted the CIA's secret documentary history of the U.S government's relationship with General Reinhard Gehlen, the German army's intelligence chief for the […]
Website Closed by Department of Homeland Security
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Primum non nocere"
By Douglas J. Hagmann (Homeland Security)
22 January 2005: National Public Radio is reporting that Internet website was taken down on Friday by federal officials for publishing "reports about tips on possible terrorist activity that have been filed with the Department of Homeland Security." At first read, that statement causes concern as […]
