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Society News Archive Jan., Feb. and March '08

Hunger fuels violence around the globe. 3/31
Refugees Int. claims US & UN increased Somalia atrocities. 3/31
Preschoolers who talk to themselves perform better? 3/28
Internet access to any vehicle in N. America? 3/28
N. Korea tests missiles as nuclear disarmament is deadlocked. 3/28
Cooperating students achieve more than w/ competition? 3/27
Fingerprint scans replacing time clock card punches? 3/27
In-flight broadband access coming quickly? 3/27
US charges against Puerto Rico governer "political persecution"? 3/27
Iraq set for "a dramatic escalation in violence"? 3/27
Free version of Adobe Photoshop is now available. 3/27
Foreign journalists allowed in Tibet w/ escort witness protests. 3/27
Comcast & BitTorrent seek to bury the hatchet? 3/27
"Miss Landmine Survivor" pageant to be held in Angola April 2. 3/26
US presidential election campaign funding is breaking all records. 3/26
US State Dept. joins doubting of fair 3/29 Zimbabwe elections. 3/26
Military efforts to control mid-East oil is counterproductive? 3/26
Excel vulnerability used to hack computers. 3/26
US ignores WTO on royalties, trade marks & internet gambling. 3/25
Upgrade to US census taking poses costly problems. 3/25
China's control of Tibet for resources, e.g. lithium? 3/25
OpenSocial Foundation gains legitimacy. 3/25
Food prices increasing world wide. 3/24
All women teams remove anti-personnel & tank mines in Sudan. 3/23
Citing profit concerns, city wireless plans get squelched. 3/22
Review of Safari 3.1 browser. 3/21
Mozilla Firefox 3 browser ready for public use. 3/21
Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 Beta, Linux operating system, released. 3/21
TV spectrum auction ends with Google a "happy loser." 3/20
US/world ignore "one of the largest humanitarian crises of our time" 3/20
Zimbabwe presidential candidate details vote fraud evidence. 3/20
Most Republicans believe US health care is the best. 3/20
New Jersey primary voting machines show discrepancies. 3/19
Intimidation by current gov. to bias Zimbabwe general elections? 3/19
"...winners don't punish." 3/19
8 European countries have greater broadband penetration than US. 3/19
"The Tibetan people are going crazy" 3/19
Auction sale of TV spectrum nets record $19.59 billion 3/19
Contaminant.in imported heparin identified; close to 20 US deaths 3/19
Millions strike Greece pension reforms. Protestors & police clash. 3/19
Famed scientist/writer Arthur C. Clark passes away at age 90. 3/18
US income tax: institutionalized crime? 3/18
China aggresively censors Tibet protest news 3/18
Urgent need of food aid for Mozambique cyclone victims. 3/17
Digital piracy increases media sales? 3/17
Food prices rising fast. 3/17
Pregnancy: law would mandate dangerous & costly psychotropics? 3/17
Egypt's army to make bread for the masses? 3/17
FDA worse than ever, causing unnecessary deaths. 3/17
Botnet denial of service attacks "as big a business as ever." 3/16
40% of internet computers used for malicious botnets. 3/16
Iraq & Afghanistan veterans tell of US war crimes. 3/16
Iraqis still lack basics since invasion destroyed them 5 years ago. 3/16
FCC ignores more than 80% of the complaints it receives. 3/16
Tibet protests spread to neighboring China provinces. 3/16
Japan to deny internet access to illegal file sharers? 3/15
China's response to largest Tibet protests in 20 years kills dozens. 3/15
Video games "being used to foster and teach hate." 3/14
Bush admin. denies science in favor of cronyism. 3/14
Chemtrails; part of military eugenics strategy to depopulate the earth? 3/14
Lawsuit to reveal RIAA's file sharing investigation methods? 3/14 More
Review of iGoogle personal home page. 3/14
Sweden moves to crack down on file sharers. 3/14
P2P sharing w/ geographic "tuning" lessens bandwidth needs. 3/13 More
US judge rules 3 pharmaceutical companies defrauded Medicare. 3/13
Gold hits all time high, $1,000 per ounce. 3/13
"God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human." 3/13
Pentagon finds no link between Saddam Hussein & al-Qaida. 3/13
Help get Health Ranger radio show on an AM station in your area. 3/12
Human rights abuse increases in Mozambique? 3/12
Gas prices at all-time high w/ Calif. & Hawaii paying the most. 3/12
China troops teargas protesters of Tebetan monks' detainment. 3/12
Nigeria police commonly torture detainees. 3/11
Red light cameras lead to more accidents? 3/11
Health hurting pesticide aerial spray on San Francisco for 5 years? 3/11
Hawaii House Aspartame ban bill delay for '08, No senate schedule. 3/11
Native Americans seek to restore balance & harmony to our world. 3/11
Sudan gov. & rebel forces both guilty of human rights abuses? 3/10
Bandits blamed for 50% reduction of aid to Darfur. 3/10
Hands free phone conversations while driving distracts drivers. 3/9
Major US contractor sickens dozens of troops with foul water. 3/9
Anti-life & anti-Christian? Bush vetoes anti-torture bill. 3/8
Wilileaks for global boycott of eNom & Demand Media. 3/7
4 day Cyber Storm II wargame w/ 5 nations starts March 11. 3/7
Zimbabwe bars EU/US monitors from general elections. 3/7
Africa: 25% of world's diseased but only 3% of health workers? 3/7
"failure by the senior Washington leadership" denies aid to soldiers? 3/7
FCC defends corporate rights' infringement upon human rights. 3/7
Google removes some map images at Pentagon's request. 3/7
Sudan enacts daily censorship of newspapers. 3/6
Internet Explorer 8 Beta released. 3/6
Pentagon bans Google street map photo crews from military bases. 3/6
Price of oil hits all-time record high. 3/6
Record US home foreclosures last year. 3/6
$23.3 million settlement for Airborne cold "remedy" false claims. 3/5
Japan finds Sudan too dangerous for investment. 3/5
Swiss bank drops lawsuit that lead to Wikileaks temporary ban. 3/5
US Fed. court ruling fuels vaccine-autism link debate. 3/5
Highlights of the 2008 Consumer Electronics show. 3/5
Racism still widespread in South Africa? 3/4
Nigeria court trying Pfizer drug giant grants bail to executives. 3/4
Oil venture forceably evicts thousands, harms Sudan environment. 3/4
EPA removes award winning toxicologist at industry request. 3/4
New online social site seeks to promote ecological strategies. 3/4
Windows based ATMs are easily hacked? 3/4
Web 4.0: "technology and human become one" may be on its way. 3/4
Darfur violence keeps 20,000 trapped without aid? 3/3
San Francisco bay area to get aerial spraying of untested pesticides? 3/3
US renewable energy concerns seek to reverse tax disincentives. 3/3
Seattle house fires blamed on Earth Liberation Front. 3/3
AIDS victims hike from Zimbabwe to Mozambique to get drugs. 3/2
Millions of drugs imported to US without inspection? 3/2
EPA formalizes block of Calif. plan for stricter emission regulations. 3/1
Why did Sun Microsystems buy MySQL Corp.? 3/1
Armenia declares emergency rule at protests of rigged elections. 3/1
Judge removesWikileaks ban, site for posting gov./corp. nonethics. 3/1
Virginia Supreme Court upholds spammer's 9 year jail sentence. 2/29
Intel mislabeled PCs as Vista ready. 2/29
13,000+ refugees flee Darfur for Chad this February. 2/29
Most long distance internet communications by the rich and poor? 2/29
Banned Wikileaks, gov./corp.non-ethics, still available. 2/29 HERE
US Air Force prevents personnel from reading blogs. 2/29
US Federal claims court rules vaccines caused autism. 2/28
Liberia has 122 doctors for a population of 2.3 million. 2/28
Company sued for reserving internet domain names. 2/27
Killer robots pose threat to humanity? 2/27
Computer sales jump 20% in India. 2/27
Rape of children increases at least 42% in Zimbabwe in 3 years. 2/27
Fomenting Sudan conflict could dwarf Darfur violence. 2/27
Anti-integration racial abuse film triggers riots in South Africa. 2/27
EFF awards AT&T whistle-blower, copyright fighter & Firefox. 2/27
European Union fines Microsoft record 1.4 billion. 2/27
Healthcare organizations suffer increase in cyberattacks? 2/27
FreeBSD 7.0 operating system is now available. 2/27
Credit & debit card readers vulnerable to hacking? 2/27
US Supreme Court to disallow law suits against pharmaceuticals? 2/26
Firefox 3 beta web browser faster than all the competition? 2/25
Anti-freedom "free trade" part of plan for North American Union? 2/25
Entire web site for whistleblowers shut down by court order. 2/23
Hard disk encryption security measures can be hacked. 2/21
The iPhone alternative. 2/21
Russia surpasses China as top malware producer. 2/20
Fidel Castro to retire from Cuba leadership. 2/19
Zimbabwe inflation tripled last December. 2/15
Electronic democracy is in its infancy. 2/14
IPs want media companies to face lawsuits from accused file sharers. 2/12
RFID ecosystem coming, all people & things tracked continuously? 2/12
Browser attacks, ID theft "at a rate never before seen on the Internet." 2/12
Russia warns weaponization of space could fuel new arms race. 2/12
England uses high pitched sound to disperse groups of teenagers. 2/12
Britain to cut internet access to copyright infringers? 2/12
Blue Cross "use their doctors against their patients' health interests" 2/12
Post election violence has led to 600,000 displaced from Kenya? 2/11
Hardware strategies offer most reliable computer security. 2/11
Vista patch fails to prevent passing illegitmate copies as genuine. 2/10
2 of 3 mid-East ocean internet cables repaired. 2/10
12,000 flee Darfur after heavy bombing by Sudanese forces. 2/10
People w/ power are more closed minded. 2/7
Europe overtakes US as top source of spam. 2/6
Another undersea cable failure takes Iran offline. 2/5
Peace Corps pulls out of Kenya due to violence. 2/5
Media industry targets China's top search site, Baidu, over copyrights. 2/5
Kenya election turmoil reaches 1,000 dead. 2/5
After 8 months, Pfizer workers face Nigeria court over '96 drug trials. 2/4
Thousands of refugees flee Chad rebellion conflict. 2/4
Danish court orders IP to block access to Pirate Bay torrent tracker. 2/4
AMD donates high end servers to major torrent search site. 2/4
Egypt seals Gaza border breach. 2/3
Doctors Without Borders exits Somalia after 3 killed by land mine. 2/1
Microsoft makes unsolicited $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo 2/1
3rd mid-East ocean internet cable cut, repairs for first two start Tuesday 2/1
72 tips for secure computing 2/1
Python 3.0 releases in early 2009, will be backward incompatible? 2/1
Trafficking of Mozambican children increased 10x in last two years.. 1/31
Kenya crisis talks suspended after parliament minister is killed. 1/31
US Cyber Storm 2 war game in March targets bloggers as threats. 1/31
Internet service disrupted for 8 mid-East countries. 1/31
Part of FCC spectrum auction surpasses validataing reserve price. 1/31
US & Europe defy human rights by calling dictatorships democracies. 1/31
US Army active military personnel suicide attempts skyrocket. 1/30
High definition format war undecided between Blu-ray & HD DVD. 1/30
China's online videos challenge political censorship. 1/30
Cut ocean cables hamper internet in Egypt, Gulf Arab states & India.. 1/30
US medical system ranks last amongst developed nations. 1/29
Evidence mounts that Comcast blocks more than just torrent traffic. 1/29
Crisis talks formally commence as Kenya violence escalates. 1/29
Europe court preserves IP not revealing subscriber data for civil cases. 1/29
Price of precious metals hits new record. 1/28
Congo ceasefire breaks as clashes erupt. 1/28
Coming widescale RFID creates new opportunities for criminal acts. 1/28
Sweden to fine Pirate Bay for copyright infringement. 1/28
Kenya violence killed 800 since Dec.'s disputed election & continues. 1/28
Gaza border crossers head home after Egypt cuts supplies. 1/27
$600 million Katrina housing funds go to port development instead? 1/25
Lawsuits against manufacturers of Vytorin & Zetia grow. 1/25
File sharing tracking company, Logistep, violates Swiss law. 1/25
"Vytoringate - one of the biggest drug frauds in history." 1/25
Electricity emergency declared for South Africa. 1/25
700 mHz auction may not reach its reserve price. 1/25
Calif. Sup. Court: medical marijuana use grounds to fire employee. 1/25
Last May's Estonia cyber-attacks blamed on one 20 year old student. 1/24
Geologists suggest new current geologic epoch, the anthropocene. 1/24
Treated mosquito nets/immunizing drop Ethiopia child mortality 40%. 1/23
Convoy attacks threaten aid to 2 million in Darfur. 1/23
5.4 million died from turmoil in Congo since 1998. Peace deal signed. 1/23
Tens of thousands escape Israeli apartheid. 1/23
FCC auctions airwaves left by analog TV in 2009 starting tomorrow. 1/22
Bush admin's "methodically propagated" "erroneous information" war. 1/22
Computer worm forces Skype to close down video sharing feature. 1/22
Internet Explorer version 8 in development, releases this year? 1/22
EU Committee.refuses efforts to privatize media as in the US. 1/22
Tips to survive the economic downfall of America. 1/22
45,000 die each month in Congo, world's worst humanitarian crisis. 1/22
Sierra Leone, Angola & Afghanistan have highest infant mortality. 1/22
"obviously panicked" US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates. 1/22
W3C publishes first draft of HTML 5. 1/22
Zimbabwe has second nation wide power outage in three days. 1/21
Global stocks fall on expected US recession. 1/21
Zimbabwe has nation wide power outages. 1/20
FBI covers up sale of nuclear secrets by US gov. officials. 1/20
Walmart to charge suppliers for no RFID tags. 1/19
EPA refuses to disclose data about denying Calif. emission standards. 1/19
Half of Ethiopian women suffer domestic violence. 1/19
Personal data on 650,000 w/ 150,000 SS#s lost by GE Money. 1/18
CIA reveals hackers successfully shut down cities' power grids. 1/18
NIH research grants allow conflict of interest? 1/18
Zimbabwe w/ worst inflation to issue 10 million dollar bill, about $4. 1/17
Protests over vote fraud have led to more than 600 deaths in Kenya. 1/17
RIAA suffers double defeat in file piracy litigations. 1/17
US court orders Libya to pay $6 billion for 1989 airliner bombing. 1/16
ID theft rises 600% in one year? 1/16
Sun Microsystems to buy MySQL firm for $1 billion? 1/16
NYC to criminalize possession of pollution monitors? 1/15
FDA plans on eliminating vitamin and supplement suppliers? 1/15
FCC considers complaints about Comcast throttling P2P traffic. 1/15
News, reviews and videos on the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. 1/15
Solar cell production increases 50% in one year. 12/31
Video on how the Google phone will work. 1/15
Humanitarian aid deliveries frozen as West Darfur violence continues. 1/14
Music publishers abandon DRM, experiment with watermarks. 1/12
Blackwater mercenary firm alters pending criminal case evidence. 1/12
Nigeria court grants bail to arrested Pfizer staff member. 1/11
Net neutrality symposium in san Francisco, January 26. 1/10
Free trojan removal tool available for Apple's OS X. 1/9
Ballot name ordering change cost Obama the NH primary election? 1/9
FCC mandated to pursue broadband but doesn't start this wiki? 1/9
70,000 SQL-based sites attacked & corrupted over last weekend? 1/9
Hunger to add to woes in Darfur? 1/7
Darfur violence to escalate with too small a peacekeeping force. 1/7
India manufacturer to start offering $2600 car. 1/7
850 nuclear smuggling tries in Russia last year, guards sleep in the US. 1/2
"World Wide Web is becoming one vast, programmable machine." 12/20
US, UK, China & Russia have most encroaching gov. surveillance. 1/7
Pharmaceuticals spend more on advertising than research.. 1/7
Bristol-Myers to pay $515M to avoid criminal charges. 1/3
All versions of MS Windows subject to boot record editing viuses. 1/2
Recording industry seeks ripping CD tracks to computers illegality. 1/2
Racial profile reflected in pain drugs given at emergency rooms. 1/2
Open source algorithms for new search engine debuts next week. 1/2
Violence & bad weather send oil to record high, over $100/barrel. 1/2
Kenya disputed election violence kills hundreds. 1/2

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