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Bay Bridge drivers vent, joke and 'freak out' @Twitter

As the bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area back up and Caltrans tries to fix an eyebar that fell from the upper deck... more

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Twitter shuts down phony accounts Republicans created to bash Democrats

Twitter shut down 33 fake Twitter accounts created by Republicans using the names of Democratic state representatives. The... more

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Tweets from the jury box: jurors using Twitter jeopardize trials

In one case, a juror divulged a verdict on Twitter before it was announced. Now, some judges are trying to manage how members of... more

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Hollywood Waiter Claims Run-In With 'Hung' Star Cost Him His Job

A Hollywood waiter is claiming an encounter with "Hung" star Jane Adams cost him his job at a popular eatery.

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Drew Carey Bids $100K For Twitter Name

Comedian and game show host Drew Carey wants to be just plain old Drew -- @Drew, that is.

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“The Holocaust Is A Lie” – Ahmadinejad

"The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false ... It is a lie based on an unprovable and... more

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Political Prisoner in America!! Native American Activist Peltier Speaks on Denied Parole

Sept 15 2009
"The United States Department of Justice has once again made a mockery of its lofty and pretentious title.

After releasing an original and continuing disciple of death cult leader Charles Manson who attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford, an admitted Croatian terrorist, and another attempted assassin of President Ford under the mandatory 30-year parole law, the U.S. Parole Commission deemed that my release would “promote disrespect for the law.”

If only the federal government would have respected its own laws, not to mention the treaties that are, under the U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of the land, I would never have been convicted nor forced to spend more than half my life in captivity. Not to mention the fact that every law in this country was created without the consent of Native peoples and is applied unequally at our expense. If nothing else, my experience should raise serious questions about the FBI's supposed jurisdiction in Indian Country.

The parole commission's phrase was lifted from soon-to-be former U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley, who apparently hopes to ride with the FBI cavalry into the office of North Dakota governor. In this Wrigley is following in the footsteps of William Janklow, who built his political career on his reputation as an Indian fighter, moving on up from tribal attorney (and alleged rapist of a Native minor) to state attorney general, South Dakota governor, and U.S. Congressman. Some might recall that Janklow claimed responsibility for dissuading President Clinton from pardoning me before he was convicted of manslaughter. Janklow's historical predecessor, George Armstrong Custer, similarly hoped that a glorious massacre of the Sioux would propel him to the White House, and we all know what happened to him.

Unlike the barbarians that bay for my blood in the corridors of power, however, Native people are true humanitarians who pray for our enemies. Yet we must be realistic enough to organize for our own freedom and equality as nations. We constitute 5% of the population of North Dakota and 10% of South Dakota and we could utilize that influence to promote our own power on the reservations, where our focus should be. If we organized as a voting bloc, we could defeat the entire premise of the competition between the Dakotas as to which is the most racist. In the 1970s we were forced to take up arms to affirm our right to survival and self-defense, but today the war is one of ideas. We must now stand up to armed oppression and colonization with our bodies and our minds. International law is on our side.

Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence. In Iran, political prisoners are occasionally released if they confess to the ridiculous charges on which they are dragged into court, in order to discredit and intimidate them and other like-minded citizens. The FBI and its mouthpieces have suggested the same, as did the parole commission in 1993, when it ruled that my refusal to confess was grounds for denial of parole"......
"In America, there can by definition be no political prisoners, only those duly judged guilty in a court of law. It is deemed too controversial to even publicly contemplate that the federal government might fabricate and suppress evidence to defeat those deemed political enemies. But it is a demonstrable fact at every stage of my case.

I am Barack Obama's political prisoner now, and I hope and pray that he will adhere to the ideals that impelled him to run for president. But as Obama himself would acknowledge, if we are expecting him to solve our problems, we missed the point of his campaign. Only by organizing in our own communities and pressuring our supposed leaders can we bring about the changes that we all so desperately need"...Leonard Peltier
Full Letter can be read @
http://blogs.myspace.com/freepeltierSept 15 2009 "The United States Department of Justice has once again made a mockery of its lofty and pretentious title.... more

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BT ~ An American Original ~ This Binary Universe

This Binary Universe BT's fifth studio album, This Binary Universe, released in 2006, is his second studio album released... more

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Heavenly Creatures Unique Blend of Classic, Electronic and Gothic Music ~ LIVE

A 10 mn overview of the gig (December 27th 2008 at La Cantada, Paris, France), with Jean-Noël playing the violin and Morgane... more

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Twitter Now Knows Where You Are

The microblogging company made upgrades that could let users automatically share their location and organize 'tweets'... more

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Social networks leak personal data

A new study has found that social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace and Digg are making personal information available... more

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California Governor Schwarzenegger meets with Twitter founders

SAN FRANCISCO (BNO NEWS) -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger participated in a moderated question and answer session with... more

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Twitter Announces Project Retweet

Twitter just announced “Project Retweet”, on both its blog and on the developer group API. Specifically, they’re... more

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Denial of Service Attack

On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious... more

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More twitter funniness

Like a live action version of twouble with twitters

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Woman tweets during bank robbery

NEW YORK , July 15 (UPI) -- A New York woman who witnessed a bank robbery provided a play-by-play report on the heist by posting... more

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In Their Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents

So a Twitter employee's account gets hacked, and the hacker decides to send all of the info to several news outlets, one of... more

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Web site publishes hacked Twitter information

Technology news Web site TechCrunch published on Wednesday sensitive internal documents belonging to Twitter, including financial projections, offering a rare glimpse into the wildly popular microblogging site.

TechCrunch reported that a hacker had gained "easy access" to hundreds of pieces of internal Twitter information — from pass codes to meeting minutes — and then forwarded the data to the site en masse.

This marks the third time this year the popular San Francisco-based site was the victim of a security breach stemming from a simple end-run around its defenses: A hacker guessed the password for an employee's personal e-mail account and worked from there to steal confidential company documents.

Twitter, a social networking company that permits users to post tweets of 140 characters or less, has catapulted to prominence in past months, particularly after it was used by protesters in Iran following a disputed election there.

"We are in touch with our legal counsel about what this theft means for Twitter, the hacker and anyone who accepts and subsequently shares or publishes these stolen documents," Twitter said in an official blog post.

Dangers highlighted
The techniques used by the attackers to obtain access to Twitter highlight the dangers of a broader trend promoted by Google Inc. and others toward storing more data online, instead of on computers under your control.

The shift toward doing more over the Web — a practice known as "cloud computing" — means that mistakes employees make in their private lives can do serious damage to their employers, because a single e-mail account can tie the two worlds together.

Stealing the password for someone's Gmail account, for example, not only gives the hacker access to that person's personal e-mail, but also to any other Google applications they might use for work, like those used to create spreadsheets or presentations.

That's apparently what happened to Twitter, which shares confidential data within the company through the Google Apps package that incorporates e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet, calendar and other Google services for $50 per user per year.

Co-founder Biz Stone wrote in a blog posting Wednesday that the personal e-mail of an unnamed Twitter administrative employee was hacked about a month ago, and through that the attacker got access to the employee's Google Apps account.

Separately, the wife of co-founder Evan Williams also had her personal e-mail hacked around the same time, Stone wrote. Through that, the attacker got access to Williams' personal Amazon and PayPal accounts.Technology news Web site TechCrunch published on Wednesday sensitive internal documents belonging to Twitter, including financial... more