“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” -- Thomas Pynchon
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December 2003
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FBI: People Carrying Almanacs May Be Terrorists.
Deliberate release of nerve agents
Media Blackout as Bush Signs Parts of Patriot Act II
Cow Parts Used in Candles, Soaps Recalled
U.S. blurs aerial shots of Washington
Introverts Are More Vulnerable to Viruses, Illness
'Super-TB' created by scientists
Every day the U.S. looks more like a police state.
Secret Service: Best Practices for Seizing Electronic Evidence
Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone
Lost? Hiding? Your Cellphone Is Keeping Tabs
The heat is on
"If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst."
Australia: Warning on 'killer' wasps
Scientists say Seattle area vulnerable to 9.0 quake
Whatever Happened to Mars Polar Lander? U.S. Spy Agencies Might Know
Blackboard Campus IDs: Security Thru Cease & Desist
Blackboard Erases Research Presentation with Cease-and-Desist, TRO
Can I legally use electronic countermeasures on my vehicle in California?
Hole in Mac OS X could have allowed hackers to take control.
UK police call for remote button to stop cars
Europe's last wild reindeer herds in peril
Microsoft: Evil Inc. or what?
OK, this is not a real patent. But . . .
Mapquest Yanks Satellite Images
Compromised Remailers
How can I become a hacker?
What's in the strawberry flavouring of a Burger King Milkshake?
Minn. Private Police Database Shut Down
Mass Extinction Underway
Sky falling? It happens sometimes,
Yellowstone Is Still An Active Volcano
Soon, Marketing Will Follow You
A free big brother in every pack
The Coming Internet Power Grab
Clear Channel Radio Slashes Local News
Internet: tool of corporate and government power
US Revises Encryption Export Controls
FBI applies new rules to surveillance
Man changed climate for 8,000 years?
Many of us will live to see North Pole's icecap disappear altogether.
Pesticide study fuels GM risk debate
Non-contact speed and distance measurement using GPS
Bug devices track officials at summit
WSIS: UN Internet Summit Held, Dissenters Ignored
Physical Access Security to WSIS: A Privacy Threat for the Participants
FBI HQ: No Records on FBI/NY Visit to Cryptome
Dirty Bomb Warheads Disappear
Electronic voting brings conspiracy theories
Another myth bites the dust
American Military Interventions of the 20th Century
Gold-Dealers conscripted to spy on you?
The privitization of war
"Mercenaries are useless."
Wakenhut Corporation and the Inslaw PROMIS Software
What is Wackenhut?
Blackout: the conspiracy theory
Airport Fingerprint Check-in
Dwarves, and rumors of dwarves.
Experts: Global Warming May Cool Europe
Florida won't require printouts of touch-screen votes
Changing one gene launches new fly species
Anthrax Powder: State of the Art?
FBI HQ: No Records on FBI/NY Visit to Cryptome
Mind control, surveillance, brain entrapment, etc.
Could GPS spell the end for slackers?
Classification of Jaw Tracking Device
Harvest of Women
Melting ice 'will swamp capitals'
"We can implant entirely false memories"
CAPPS II Back From the Dead -- Galileo Will Be Opening Up A Dossier On You
Thousands to Abandon Vesuvius 'Red Zone'
What Makes Volcanoes Explode?
Volcanoes May Pose Bigger Risk Than Asteroids
Tsunami triggered by volcano in Canary Islands could wipe out East Coast
Yellowstone super volcano alert: civilization as we know it would end
DIY Tesla Earthquake Machine: Original Patents, New Blueprints
Secret Service listening to Eminem lyrics for threat to president
Al Giordano on Eminem, Moby and 9/11
Global warming 'could close half of Alpine ski resorts by 2050'
911 Victim Cites Prescott Bush's Nazi Dealings as Evidence of Bush Family War Profiteering
Web virus authors 'winning battle'--Microsoft
How Much Is Privacy Worth?
Autopsy means "see for yourself".
The world is running out of oil - so why do politicians refuse to talk about it?
Eating Fossil Fuel
More drug war insanity: Student expelled for possession of Advil
Marketing Dispair
Patriot Act allows limitless secret searches, ACLU argues; government seeks to dismiss lawsuit
A year of extremes provides evidence of global warming.
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
Danger of gene-swapping bacterium
Food Biotech Is Risky Business
Constitutional for police to wait 20 seconds before knocking down the door of a drug suspect
Expanded Patriot Act Reach Would Hit The Net, Too
Preventing and Reducing the Impact of Social Engineering
Second international airport in Canada implements iris-recognition technology
Who is Profiting from Transgenic Crops?
Accelerated global warming from nutrient shortages for trees and soils
Military gets break from environmental rule
Microsoft Probes Reports of New Holes in Explorer
Smallpox Provisions Hidden in Homeland Security Bill
Ebola blamed in tragic decline of great apes
Eels face extinction
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