Possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims: “Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users. The nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation, which runs the forum, briefly closed the site Sunday to purge the offending messages and to boost security.” (Wired News)
Daily Archives: 30 Mar 08
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Five Things* You Need to Know to Understand the Latest Violence in Iraq
“The traditional media is incapable of reporting what’s going on in Southern Iraq.” (AlterNet)
*(Only question I cannot for the life of me figure out is whether this, Dubya’s explanation, is one of them:)
“My first reaction to watching the Iraqi government respond forcefully and to make it abundantly clear that — I think the exact — I can’t remember the exact words of the Prime Minister, but “criminal elements” I know were a part of his declaration — would be dealt with. I thought that was a very positive moment in the development of a sovereign nation, that is willing to take on elements that are — you know, that believe they’re beyond the law.”
Bush: Iraq is Returning to Normal
“Some … seem unwilling to acknowledge that progress is taking place,” Bush said in a speech at the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. He accused war opponents of constantly shifting their critique, adding: “No matter what shortcomings these critics diagnose, their prescription is always the same — retreat.” (McClatchy )
Pot? Kettle? Black?
American Enterprise Institute’s Fred Kagan:
“The civil war in Iraq is over…” (Salon)
British TV company accused of bringing epidemic to isolated Indians
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“A fierce controversy is raging in the Peruvian Amazon over the activities of a film crew working for the British TV company Cicada Films. Local Indians, government officials and independent scientists have accused the film-makers of visiting very isolated Indian communities, despite being warned not to. The isolated Indians reported later that the visit provoked an epidemic of respiratory disease that left four people dead and others seriously ill.” (Survival International)
Iraqi disease Named After Blackwater
“What Iraqis now call Blackwater Fever is really a well-known medical condition, and while it has nothing to do with Blackwater Worldwide, Iraqis in al-Anbar province have decided to make the connection between the disease and the lethal U.S.-based company which has been responsible for the death of countless Iraqis.” (IPSNews)
Five Things* You Need to Know to Understand the Latest Violence in Iraq | War on Iraq
“The traditional media is incapable of reporting what’s going on in Southern Iraq.” (AlterNet)
*(Only question I cannot for the life of me figure out is whether this, Dubya’s explanation, is one of them:)
“My first reaction to watching the Iraqi government respond forcefully and to make it abundantly clear that — I think the exact — I can’t remember the exact words of the Prime Minister, but “criminal elements” I know were a part of his declaration — would be dealt with. I thought that was a very positive moment in the development of a sovereign nation, that is willing to take on elements that are — you know, that believe they’re beyond the law.”
Bush: Iraq is Returning to Normal
“Some … seem unwilling to acknowledge that progress is taking place,” Bush said in a speech at the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. He accused war opponents of constantly shifting their critique, adding: “No matter what shortcomings these critics diagnose, their prescription is always the same — retreat.” (McClatchy )
Pot? Kettle? Black?
American Enterprise Institute’s Fred Kagan:
“The civil war in Iraq is over…” (Salon)
