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 Pakistan PM vows to free judgesCategory: Politics - Posted by: KingM on Mar 25th, 2008New Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gillani has said he will order the release of all judges detained under emergency rule, minutes after being elected by MPs. President Pervez Musharraf in November sacked dozens of judges as the Supreme Court was set to rul...e on whether his re-election was legal. Former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was among those still held. Mr Gillani's Pakistan People's Party heads a government for the first time in 12 years after February's elections. It will lead a coalition that has a substantial majority. |
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 “Plan Mexico” Claims its First Victims in the Murky Floodwaters of TabascoCategory: Politics - Posted by: rapvirus on Feb 10th, 2008Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco State, is currently underwater. The heaviest rains in memory have thrust the waters of at least seven rivers in the State above their banks. In many neighborhoods in the capital, rooftops are the only thing peekin...g out of the flooded waters from the Grijalva river, and in other barrios houses have sunk completely below the depths. Just like we saw in New Orleans in the days following Hurricane Katrina, countless lives have surely been swallowed by the muddy waters. But just like the tragedy that struck in Louisiana, this disaster is not entirely natural. It is a tragic natural occurrence whose effects might have been mitigated if not for a Mexican government so dangerously prostrate to the Bush administration, that it signed away its most basic responsibilities to its citizens by agreeing to a 1.4 billion dollar package from the U.S. to “fight drugs” that has been dubbed “Plan Mexico.” |
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 Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie Is In IraqCategory: Cinema & TV - Posted by: KingM on Feb 8th, 2008Angelina Jolie brought her star power to Baghdad on Thursday on a mission as a U.N. goodwill ambassador to highlight the plight of Iraqi refugees. The actress said there needs to be a more coherent plan as the more than 2 million internally displaced... Iraqis begin to trickle back to their homes amid a recent lull in violence that had threatened to spark a civil war in the country. “There’s lots of goodwill and lots of discussion, but there seems to be just a lot of talk at the moment,” Jolie said in excerpts of an interview aired on CNN. |
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 Angelina Arrives in BaghdadCategory: Cinema & TV - Posted by: KingM on Feb 8th, 2008Angelina Jolie flew to Amman, Jordan this week and decided to stop in Iraq while she was in the neighborhood. She did an interview with CNN this morning from Baghdad and said she felt compelled to visit the war-torn region to bring attention to the p...light of refugees. Ange explained, “This trip is to get a better picture of the internally displaced people and to discuss with the local government, with our government … and with local people, the situation and try to understand what is happening.” |
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 Witness: 50 burn to death in Kenya churchCategory: Other - Posted by: KingM on Jan 1st, 2008A mob torched a church sheltering hundreds of Kenyans fleeing election violence on Tuesday, killing as many as 50 people as the convulsion of bloodshed continued after the disputed vote that gave the president a second term. The opposition leader acc...used the government of "genocide." President Mwai Kibaki said political parties should meet immediately and publicly call for calm after rioting killed at least 263 people in what had been east Africa's most stable and prosperous democracy. The church fire in Eldoret, some 185 miles from the capital, killed at least 50 people, said a Red Cross volunteer who counted the bodies and helped the wounded. She asked that her name not be used for fear of reprisals. "There was a huge mob; they attacked the church," said a witness, who also asked that his name not be used. |
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 Top US government research labs infiltrated by hackersCategory: Other - Posted by: rapvirus on Dec 10th, 2007Hackers successfully infiltrated Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), one of the nation's leading military research facilities. The attackers gained access by sending e-mails infected with trojan horses to ORNL employees. The lab claims that no clas...sified information was retrieved, but admits that the perpetrators managed to acquire a database containing personal information about ORNL visitors and employees, including Social Security numbers. "A hacker illegally gained access to ORNL computers by sending staff e-mails that appeared to be official legitimate communications. When the employees opened the attachment or accessed an embedded link, the hacker planted a program on the employees' computers that enabled the hacker to copy and retrieve information," ORNL revealed in a statement. "No classified information was lost; However, visitor personal information may have been stolen. If you visited ORNL between the years 1990 and 2004, your name and other personal information, such as your Social Security number or date of birth, may have been part of the stolen information." ORNL believes that the intrusion was part of a larger coordinated attack on numerous research facilities in the United States. Representatives of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have acknowledged that an attack on their network took place last month, but ORNL is the only organization so far that has publicly confirmed an actual breach. A memo sent to LANL employees that was subsequently leaked to the public states that "malicious and determined hackers have accessed the Lab's unclassified Yellow Network and removed a significant amount of unclassified material." LANL and ORNL were originally constructed during during World War II for highly sensitive nuclear weapons research. Today, the two facilities are used for research in numerous areas including national security, nanotechnology, advanced materials, and energy. The identity of the hackers is not known, but some speculate that it was orchestrated by a foreign government. Various countries have recently detected widespread cyber attacks from from computers inside of China. Although certain foreign governments are suspects, the attack could have been planned and carried out by almost anybody. It doesn't really take much to infiltrate highly secure facilities in the United States. Consider hacker Gary McKinnon, the self-described "bumbling computer nerd," who infiltrated almost 100 servers owned by the Defense Department, Navy, Army, Air Force, and other government agencies back in 2002 while looking for evidence of a UFO cover-up. McKinnon executed what the government describes as the biggest military computer hack on record and he did it with little more than a brute-force Perl script. These recent attacks reflect the vulnerability of technological infrastructure in the United States and demonstrate the clear need for better security standards. Trojan horses should not be able to worm their way into military research facilities. |
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