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Archive for August, 2006
Online Music Piracy
Aug 31st
Online Music Piracy Effects
Online music piracy has had serious effects on the music industry. Online music piracy has caused some record stores sales to drop by 20% every year. Sources reveal that online music piracy is responsible for 2.6 billion downloads of copyrighted files every month through the use of such peer-to-peer services such as KaZaA and Grokster. KaZaA, the leader in online music piracy, has become the most downloaded software program in the world. 278 million people are now signed up to participate in online music piracy.
Star Wars In Iraq
Aug 30th
Is The U.S. using new experimental “Tactical High Energy Laser” weapons in Iraq?
“Star Wars in Iraq†is a new investigative report by Maurizio Torrealta and Sigfrido Ranucci.
RAI 24 News – Run Time 25 Minutes: Video and Artivle
According to official Pentagon sources, military vehicles equipped with this laser device have been used in Afghanistan to explode mines. According to two reliable military information sites – Defense Tech and Defence Industry Daily – at least three such vehicles are being used in Iraq as well and some people report having seen them.
TRANSCRIPT
St by Majid Al Ghezali They used incredible weapons
Patrick Dillon Experimental weapons?
Majid Al Ghezali Yes… Yes, I think. They shoot the bus. We saw the bus like a cloth, like a wet cloth. It seemed like a Volkswagen, a big bus like a Volkswagen.
Majid Al Ghezali Just the head was burnt. In the other parts of the body there wasn’t anything.
Majid Al Ghezali There wasn’t any bullet. I saw their teeth, just the teeth, and they had no eyes, all of them, there was nothing on their bodies.
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Why should Europeans protect Israel?
…the truth is that the only real way in which they, the (US) military, sees the prospects for the deployment of these is in their domestic use. And you know quite well… that if the United States adopts these weapons for their domestic defence… Nato in Italy are not far behind…
Italy defies doubters with foreign policy drive
Aug 30th
By Stephen Brown
ROME, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has defied forecasts that his centre-left government would fail on foreign policy and antagonise Washington with his surprising success in rallying Europe behind the U.N. mission in Lebanon.
His strategy could backfire if Italian troops come under fire in southern Lebanon as they try to keep the truce between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas…. Continued
“The problem will be when an Italian soldier or any blue helmet is at the wrong end of an Israeli tank”
US Accused of Bid to Oust Chavez with Secret Funds
Aug 30th
by Duncan Campbell
The US government has been accused of trying to undermine the Chávez government in Venezuela by funding anonymous groups via its main international aid agency. Millions of dollars have been provided in a “pro-democracy programme” that Chávez supporters claim is a covert attempt to bankroll an opposition to defeat the government.
Continued… http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,1860867,00.html
Reality Behind the ‘Net-Neutrality’ Debate
Aug 30th
by Lee Drutman
In recent months there has been an increasing amount of excitement in Washington, D.C., about something called “Net neutrality.” If one is to believe the frenetic rhetoric on both sides, the future viability of the Internet depends on either enacting it or not enacting it.
If only it were that simple. And if only somebody would talk about the real threat to the viability of the Internet.
Jon Benet Died – And Bush Lied?
Aug 30th
by Thom Hartmann
I was on the air doing my radio program two weeks ago when the story came down the wire that the killer of Jon Benet Ramsey had been captured in Thailand just hours earlier. I opened the microphone and said words to the effect of, “Today there must be something really awful going down for the Republicans. Maybe Rove really will be indicted. Maybe Cheney. Maybe some terrible revelation about Bush. And if there isn’t, today will be the day they’ll toss out the unsavory stories – like gutting an environmental law or wiping out pension plans – that they don’t want covered.”
Apparently it was worse than I’d imagined.
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