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Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Wednesday, Jul 21st, 2010

An increasing clamour to restrict and control the internet on behalf of the government, the Pentagon, the intelligence community and their private corporate arms, could result in a staged cyber attack being used as justification.

Over recent months we have seen a great increase in media coverage of inflated fears over a possible “electronic Pearl Harbor” event, with reports claiming that the U.S. could be “felled within 15 minutes”.

Vastly over-hyped (and in some cases completely asinine) claims that the power grids and other key infrastructure such as rail networks and water sources are wired up to the public internet have permeated such coverage.

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College Summer Time Trips – Your Summer Holiday Destination for Less

Summer is here..

Thinking that possibly you didn’t quite obtain sufficient respite and relaxation during spring break? Pack up your troubles.. Summer has arrived, and moreover it really can be a excellent occasion to loose the frenzied school schedule and change your pace.

Although many people pronounce the summer season is among the craziest seasons to go ahead and decide to travel, and consequently regularly the most expensive, you might just be surprised to discover that if you are agreeable to be a bit accommodating regarding your booking time and locality, you can actually take advantage from low-priced summer escape offers.

In fact, Summer Break could possibly be the best time in which to book a vacation. With rates lessening on numerous getaways across the globe and terrific spots to pay a visit during the off time of year, you can take pleasure in unique places and not sense that you’re only one within a mob of tourists.

The truth is.. should you understand where to search, you can experience something truly extraordinary this summer season and in addition conserve oodles of cash into the deal. And never suppose you must settle for some poor quality, out of the way resort, or poor service.

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Spoon comes back with a follow-up to their break through to main stream record Ga Ga Ga with Transference. This is really what I expected from this band and the more I listen I can see the mindset.

Spoon’s greatness to me has always been there studio song writing. I love all the editing and effects around seemingly simple tunes.  With this one boasting as self produced it takes a step forward in my direction. I love the effects and loops or what seems like they must be looping. There are a couple songs on this one that really take rhythm to different places then you would expect and I’m a sucker for that.

All in all it’s one of those records that caters to It’s fans. I’m sure Spoon won’t reach stadium performances or even main stream radio plays from Transference but their just that much cooler for sticking to what they do best, and that is their own sound. There’s only one Spoon and for that reason alone I recommend this one.

Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

By DAVID STRINGER (AP) – 2 days ago

LONDON — Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.

The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, said in a statement Saturday that the hackers had entered the server and stolen data at its Climatic Research Unit, a leading global research center on climate change. The university said police are investigating the theft of the information, but could not confirm if all the materials posted online are genuine.

More than a decade of correspondence between leading British and U.S. scientists is included in about 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents posted on Web sites following the security breach last week.

In one leaked e-mail, the research center’s director, Phil Jones, writes to colleagues about graphs showing climate statistics over the last millennium. He alludes to a technique used by a fellow scientist to “hide the decline” in recent global temperatures. Some evidence appears to show a halt in a rise of global temperatures from about 1960, but is contradicted by other evidence which appears to show a rise in temperatures is continuing.

Jones wrote that, in compiling new data, he had “just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline,” according to a leaked e-mail, which the author confirmed was genuine.

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Associated Press Writer Meera Selva in London contributed to this report