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Great Article on Obama

Tokyo released the document in Japanese, while China published the Chinese language version two days later.

That was when Japanese officials noticed that some passages had been deleted.

For any one who doesn't already know - watch this:
statesman.com/news/mplayer/other/32386 [statesman.com/news/mplayer/other/32386]

Hyper-targeting with topical keyword domain names is a very effective method to build focused online / web communities of interest -- thereby catapulting the user's attention ahead of so-called "meaningful noise" ("Meaningful noise is something that would normally be considered an interference or distraction but can't be truly an interference or distraction because the noise was selected by the non-conscious as something worthy of notice."

The Pentagon had established a secret domestic counterintelligence program, known as TALON, to gather 'non-validated threat information and security anomalies indicative of possible terrorist pre-attack activity.' What that bit of jargon meant in practice, according to documents obtained by NBC and Newsweek, was monitoring peace groups and other political groups deemed hostile to the administration. In TALON's database files were thousands of pages of dossiers devoted to antiwar meetings and protests.

The Questions that CNN Viewers May Not See

While I don't by any means condone prostitution, I do recognize that in other countries it is legal... I thought this lady did a good thing with her services at least, AND I thought she made a good point!

From the page: A Chilean prostitute has auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise money for the country's largest charity during an annual fund-raising campaign.

Interesting enough, but for the people who condemn her she has some well chosen words:

But Maria Carolina, who advertises her services on the Internet, defended her money-raising scheme.

"There are people who are going to be donating money that's a lot more questionable than mine," she said. "The only thing I did was publicize it."

Federal prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena seeking the identities of thousands of people who bought used books through online retailer Amazon.com Inc., newly unsealed court records show. "The (subpoena's) chilling effect on expressive e-commerce would frost keyboards across America," U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker wrote in a June ruling.