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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

30 August - News Notes

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Spoofing Life: Reality Altering Technologies Enable Crime

In a phenomenon known as “Swatting,” criminals have been able to telephone police 911/emergency phone systems with spoofed telephone identities and reporting non-existent crimes resulting in the response of heavily-armed police SWAT units to various locations.  In many cases, the offenders placed calls that appeared to come from legitimate addresses several states away and reported ongoing kidnapping or hostage scenarios in progress.  Using these technologies, it was possible for a man in Ohio (USA) to use a spoofed phone identification to report a nonexistent hostage crisis, sending armed police bursting into the homes of innocent people.

As author Dean Koontz has noted, "In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable."  Moving forward, technologies that alter reality will open the door to entirely new classes of crime as malicious actors deftly exploit the old adage that perception is reality.


Bahrain's contribution to the Arab Spring 

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British gov’t minister says ‘wall is a land grab’– and is censored by UK Israel lobby

The Jewish Chronicle reported last week that a video made by Alan Duncan, UK minister for international development, infuriated the Israeli lobby so much that it was withdrawn from the ministry’s website.
In the video Duncan said that, "The wall is a land grab. It hasn't just gone along the lines of the proper Israel boundary. It's taken in open land which actually belongs to Palestine". He added: "Israeli settlers can build what they want and then immediately get the infrastructure so that takes the water deliberately away from Palestinians here."

 



Netanyahu examining possible future borders of a Palestinian state

Eric Cantor Won’t Support Any Hurricane Disaster Funding Without Massive Cuts To First Responders 

FEMA is quickly running out of money

 

Perry calls for aggressive foreign policy

It's a dangerous world that we live in today,” Perry said. “As the 10th anniversary of the attacks of 9-11 approach, we must renew our commitment to taking the fight to the enemy, wherever they are, before they strike at home.”

Sun and Sanity

Nation’s Largest Environmental Organizations Stand Together To Oppose Oil Pipeline

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