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News :: Media
Free Wi-Fi Services Spearheaded By Network Execs
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06 Dec 2004
The growth of a national wi-fi infrastructure, however, is likely to go through “this messy period where all kinds of players are trying to figure out how to use it and how it should be organized,” said Christian Sandvig, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor who specializes in telecommunications technology and public policy.

“The impetus is often frustration with the current system,” Sandvig said.
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News :: Economy
Oil Prices Rise Above $43; Dollar "Collapsing"
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06 Dec 2004
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News :: Israel / Palestine
Valuing Arab Lives
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06 Dec 2004
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LOCAL News :: Elections & Legislation
400 Support Petition for City Council
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06 Dec 2004
Thanks to everyone who helped and continues to help, we got 16 times the required number of signatures to get on the ballot for the February 22 primary!
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Israel / Palestine : Media : Political-Economy : Regime
All Mosquitos, No Swamp; No Elephants Either
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05 Dec 2004
It is easy to understand that the Defense Department had no incentive to advertise the DSB panel’s embarrassing and potentially explosive findings. How often have we seen a Pentagon-sponsored report contradicting a sitting president on a matter of such significance—and before a crucial election? It is not so easy to grasp why the media missed or ignored the story. Or perhaps it is.

Maybe the clue is in the timing. I gave a long interview on US intelligence matters to another Ndew York Times reporter a few weeks before the election and at the conclusion of the interview I commented that I certainly hoped his story would appear before November 2. This reporter turned out to be as candid as he was embarrassed. No, he confessed, his superiors at the Times had made it clear that there was an embargo on criticism of the administration of the kind I had offered until after the election.
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News :: Elections & Legislation : Environment : Government Secrecy : Regime
Bush Sets Out Plan to Dismantle 30 Years of Environmental Laws
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05 Dec 2004
Republicans say that the election gave them a mandate for the measures - which, ironically, will overturn a legislative system originally established by the Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford - even though Mr Bush went out of his way to avoid emphasizing his environmental plans during his campaign.
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News :: Civil & Human Rights
Amnesty Int. condemns torture in Spain
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05 Dec 2004
Amnesty International has released a report condemning the torture of Basque detainees and immigrants in Spain.
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Announcement :: Arts : Economy : Labor : Political-Economy
ERR Communique from the Cultural Front
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04 Dec 2004
The Ever Reviled Records Worker Collective is proud to announce the launching of our new website: another step in on our on going efforts to undermine capitalism and the state while building the counter-culture. We got our cyberspace guns loaded and ready to storm the internet front!
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Commentary :: Elections & Legislation
Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election
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04 Dec 2004
According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives to rig the election for Bush.
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LOCAL Announcement :: Arts
Invite to Installation Piece-December 9
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04 Dec 2004
Installation Piece- takes up the post 911 war condition
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