Friday, November 16, 2007

Islamic State: Against Democracy

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The Islamic State of Iraq released a graphic video decrying the failures of democracy in Iraq. The production advocates the return to triba...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Musharraf, One of Our Thirty Tyrants

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President Pervez Musharraf's imposition of a state of emergency is regrettable, inevitable, and a harbinger of ill times to come. The U....
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

News Reports All Muslims are Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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The British publication Guardian ran a story about a survey which shows a 'demonisation' of Muslims. I wouldn't want to suggest...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

India the New Player On the Block

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India is making its presence known in the exclusive group of supercomputing nations. This is the arrival of India in the HPC crowd. The U.S....
Monday, November 12, 2007

Russia and India: Just Like Old Times

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In a singularly good move for regional stability Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in key talk...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

Upcoming Research

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Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations ; Terrorist Hunter The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the R...

Tracking Terrorists in the Dark Web

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While there are those who do not see terrorist web sites as a threat a project seeks to track the posts. One such page is entitled: "A ...
Saturday, November 10, 2007

The End of Faith

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I'd like to compare Sam Harris with some other recent reading. Harris has controversially, but correctly I think, identified recent mov...
Friday, November 9, 2007

Have You Seen Alicia?

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You may not have seen Alicia Keys like this but interesting information is included about her. Her MySpace web page was hacked and was infe...
Thursday, November 8, 2007

Lyrical Terrorist Takes a Fall

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  Samina Malik, the so-called "Lyrical Terrorist," became the first Muslim woman in Britain to be found guilty of terrorism charge...
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Sarkozy Cozy?

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Bush and Sarkozy are indeed just that, cozy over Iran but I have my doubts. Sarkozy and Bush speak warmly of French-US relations but I remem...

Too Much Jihadist Web Spew?

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  Who would want the West to stop Web radicals? Radicals on the Web open themselves up to refutation which is a good thing and is what usual...
Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Yahoo is Evil

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I've been advocating a hard line in the Yahoo vs. Chinese human rights issue. The advantage for human rights advocates will increase as ...
Monday, November 5, 2007

Ready for a Serve?

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HP is the first major manufacturer to team up with Microsoft Windows Home Server (WHS) software and will release its MediaSmart Server. Medi...

Who 'Ya Gonna' Call?

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In an emergency, can you call Grandma on your cell phone? The real question of course is can network overload be prevented? All of us who ha...

Government Open to Open Source

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  Open source is increasingly attractive to decision makers in the U.S. government. 55% of all U.S. government executives have implemented o...
Sunday, November 4, 2007

On Islamofascism

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Stephen Schwartz, who claims to have coined Islamofascism, describes American Muslims offended by the term. According to Schwartz, "the...
Saturday, November 3, 2007

Egypt Appoints the Same Authoritarian

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Egypt is going to stick with its ruling party and will keep Hosni Mubarak in power. The National Democratic Party congress voted to keep Mub...
Friday, November 2, 2007

I've Met Nurse Ratched

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest addresses the issue of how authorities control individuals through subtle and coercive methods. Nurse R...
Thursday, November 1, 2007

Bullets for Bullies

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Gulf states are pitching the idea of offering Iran uranium. Prince Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia said that the plan was meant to stop a nuc...