Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill

Individual Senators can place holds on pending legislation, in this case meaning proponents of the bill will be forced to reintroduce the measure and will not be able to proceed until the next Congress convenes.

ctivist group DemandProgress, which is running a petition against the bill, argued the powers in the bill could be used for political purposes. If the whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks is found to be hosting copyrighted material, for instance, access to WikiLeaks could be blocked for all US Internet users, they suggested.
A group of academics, led by Temple University law professor David Post, have signed a petition opposing COICA.
"The Act, if enacted into law, would fundamentally alter U.S. policy towards Internet speech, and would set a dangerous precedent with potentially serious consequences for free expression and global Internet freedom," Post wrote in the petition letter (PDF).
"Blacklisting entire sites out of the domain name system," explained the Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF), a privacy and digital rights advocate group, is a "reckless scheme that will undermine global Internet infrastructure and censor legitimate online speech."
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North Koreans Unveil Vast New Plant for Nuclear Use

The speed with which it was built strongly suggests that the impoverished, isolated country, which tested its first nuclear device in 2006, had foreign help and evaded strict new United Nations Security Council sanctions imposed to punish its rejection of international controls.
A delegation of American experts that included Dr. Hecker has already reported that it confirmed satellite photographic evidence of another new advance by the North — a light-water reactor being built on the site of a facility the country had dismantled as part of an agreement with the international community to end its nuclear weapons program.
The White House is clearly eager to use the new information to show that North Korea, in violation of United Nations mandates, continues to make significant progress toward advancing its nuclear program, even though it remains under international sanctions for its past violations.
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The USA has been at war with Korea through proxy war in South Korea for what, 58 years now without adhering to any agreements it makes to induce North Korea to stop using nuclear power - which is basically the way the USA/UK have perverted and trashed the Nuclear nonProliferation Treaty ; Third Pillar assuring unhampered use of peaceful civilian technology notwithstanding. If a better demonstration exists that United States/United Kingdom/UN Security Council policies of sanctions, economic warfare, and propaganda fearmongering has instead spurred them to show that they can retaliate for nuclear aggression in kind I would like to see it. And I'm sure Iran will be taking notes of the outcomes despite its greater interest in getting the Israeli nuclear threat gone.
Nor is it likely that China has forgotten that it was her interest in preserving North Korea as a buffer zone and throwing out US led UN forces from North Korea that caused the everlasting stalemate. Adding expanding NATO resources openly to the US beck and call since is not likely to provide any reassurance lulling them into a false sense of security. Taiwan is still a bone of contention as well.
A reality check that I have noted before

"1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto
"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.)
Russia to monitor nuclear programs jointly with NATO — Medvedev
( Anyone who has read 'The Guns of August' should recall the role of interlocking 'defensive' treaties in initiating World War I - The Great War. And it's only 10 days since the cautions of Remembrance Day...'Lest We Forget' I added a piece from Doug's Darkworld that includes a shot of the beach landing in Normandy. And for any youngsters who don't have a clue about these old stories, they are fine reading.
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GORDON DUFF: Are Terrorists Supplying Our Airport Scanners?
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The New Great Game
The Greater Indian Ocean - a region that stretches “eastward from the Horn of Africa past the Arabian Peninsula, the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent, all the way to the Indonesian archipelago and beyond."
Although it became something of a strategic backwater during the cold war, this maritime domain is emerging as the global system’s center of gravity. Through it pass huge tankers carrying a large fraction of the world’s energy. At its western end, from Somalia to the monarchies of the Persian Gulf to Iran and Pakistan along the shores of the Arabian Sea, lie the main sources of Islamist extremism. Most important of all, it is in the Indian Ocean that the interests and influence of India, China and the United States are beginning to overlap and intersect. It is here, Kaplan says, that the 21st century’s “global power dynamics will be revealed.”

'Lost Canadians' seek citizenship at home
Tessier found out she was stateless when her older sister applied for a driver's license in Manitoba, a process that requires proof of citizenship. The sisters appeared before a parliamentary committee studying the cases of "lost Canadians" in 2007.
The committee was moved by their stories and offered the pair a special grant of citizenship. Her sister took it, but Tessier refused, on the grounds that if she deserves citizenship, so do all the others facing the same hardship.
"They've not done the right thing," said the B.C. resident, who now has a British passport. "I'm waiting for them to do the right thing."