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Gambits don't hide Darfur crisis
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Gambits don't hide Darfur crisis
Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Posted: 8:28 PM EDT (0028 GMT)
Powell gets earful from relief groups, U.N. officials
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was the leather shoes that caught the eye of U.S. officials with Secretary of State Colin Powell in a camp for Sudanese uprooted by ethnic violence.
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Thursday 08 July 2004 - 09:30:41
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Viewpoint: Why the French Act Isn't Funny Anymore
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Viewpoint: Why the French Act Isn't Funny Anymore
Tuesday, Jul. 06, 2004
Their resistance to helping in Afghanistan and Iraq is now downright dangerous
It is easy to make fun of the French and their pompous pretense to the grandeur they shed a half-century ago when their loss of honor under Vichy, and then their loss of empire, relegated them to the rank of second-class power. But the fun is over. Before Sept. 11, France's Gaullist anti-Americanism as a form of ostentatious self-aggrandizement was an irritant. With a war on — three, in fact: Afghanistan, Iraq and the larger war on terrorism — France's willful obstructionism becomes dangerous and deadly.
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Wednesday 07 July 2004 - 18:19:33
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Nowhere To Hide
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Nowhere To Hide
Monday, Jun. 28, 2004
How the ethnic cleansing of western Sudan has created a humanitarian crisis that threatens 500,000 lives
By SIMON ROBINSON
The rains have started to fall across the sandy plains of western Sudan. Soon the dry riverbeds will swell with water and the wadis will become impassable. The change in season may bring some respite from the killing campaign that has convulsed the region of Darfur over the past 16 months — but it will bring fresh horrors as well. More than a million people seeking refuge and huddled in makeshift camps outside the largest towns are unable to get back to their farms to plant their crops. The rains will make it harder to distribute food rations. Delivery by road will become impossible, and airstrips may wash away. The camps are becoming open sewers, fueling the spread of diseases like cholera and dysentery. As many as half a million people could starve to death or succumb to illness.
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Wednesday 07 July 2004 - 18:16:40
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Don't Mess With Wal-Mart's RFID Pilot
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Don't Mess With Wal-Mart's RFID Pilot
July 6, 2004
By Larry Dignan, Baseline
At a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Denton, Texas, a hallway leading to the retail floor has two pairs of gray and black, 6-foot-high silhouettes with yellow eye-like lights within 10 feet of each other. The mission: Detect and record goods that contain tags emitting radio waves.
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Tuesday 06 July 2004 - 20:50:27
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What is RFID?
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What is RFID?
An overview from CASPIAN's Spychips website (http://www.Spychips.com)
RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, a technology that uses tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items at a distance. RFID "spy chips" have been hidden in the packaging of Gillette razor products and in other products you might buy at a local Wal-Mart, Target, or Tesco - and they are already being used to spy on people.
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Tuesday 06 July 2004 - 20:42:34
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RFID: Tracking everything, everywhere
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RFID: Tracking everything, everywhere
by Katherine Albrecht, CASPIAN
[Excerpted from: Albrecht, Katherine. "Supermarket Cards: The Tip of the Retail Surveillance Iceberg." Denver University Law Review, Volume 79, Issue 4, pp. 534-539 and 558-565.]
"In 5-10 years, whole new ways of doing things will emerge and gradually become commonplace. Expect big changes." 1 - MIT's Auto-ID Center
Supermarket cards and retail surveillance devices are merely the opening volley of the marketers' war against consumers. If consumers fail to oppose these practices now, our long-term prospects may look like something from a dystopian science fiction novel.
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Tuesday 06 July 2004 - 20:29:20
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Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record Takings
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Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record Takings
The BBC is reporting that the movie industry, in yet another illustration of just how much damage the Internet is doing to the long-suffering members of the MPAA, has just endured a record breaking $1Billion dollar takings for the single month of June. Clearly there is a desperate need to tighten up copyright laws in the face of this huge mountain of cash that is literally being metaphorically syphoned into the studios' pockets. How will they survive?
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Tuesday 06 July 2004 - 16:47:17
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Yet another rant...
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Yet another rant
by bassgravi
This site *still* needs more meant because *somebody*..and I won't say who...*ahem* ....isn't updating much and has added that special little something, that personal flair, that pinache! (lol..I said pinache...)
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Tuesday 06 July 2004 - 16:44:50
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The Customer's always right -- unless the customer is a demon
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The customer is always right? Not anymore
- JOSHUA FREED, AP Business Writer
Monday, July 5, 2004
(07-05) 16:36 PDT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) --
So much for the customer always being right.
Some retailers are deciding that the customer can be very, very wrong -- as in unprofitable. And some, including Best Buy Co. Inc., are discriminating between profitable customers and shoppers they lose money on.
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Tuesday 06 July 2004 - 13:47:23
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