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The road to tyranny, we must never forget, is the destruction of the truth. -- Bill Clinton
John Schwartz at the Washington Post -
Online and Unidentifiable? 
Introduces the Publius system, which
makes it very difficult to censor or identify the source of
information on the internet. Yay! Technical info is at
www.cs.nyu.edu/waldman/publius (or
cs1.cs.nyu.edu/waldman/publius or
cs.nyu.edu/waldman/publius)
They're looking for volunteers to test the software in August and
September. It will be available for download on 7/21.
Slashdot commentary
here. [xray]
The idea of making the Internet truly resistant to censorship is not new, and a number of online projects with names like "freenet" and "Anderson's eternity service" attempt to evade the controls that currently exist over Internet content. But the entry of the prestigious AT&T Labs researchers into the field raises the movement to a new level.Publius works by encrypting files--from text to pictures and music--and dividing them into fragments like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle to be distributed over a number of servers, the computers that store and distribute information on the World Wide Web.
Dave Munger at The American Partisan - The Democrats' Dictionary: Volume 3: Hilarious! [wnd]
YOUNG: The voting block made up of people least likely to have their own children, thus potentially useful to us if we get to them in time to exploit their concern for the hypothetical well being of other people's children. Once they reproduce, they usually become more concerned about the actual well being of their own children, and they are often lost to us at that point.
Kevin Tuma - The 400 Pound Jerk: Cartoon commentary on Jesse Ventura's metamorphisis from Libertarian to Liberal.
Lew Rockwell at LewRockwell.com - Lone Star of Liberty: commentary on the Texas Republican Party platform. They got just about everything right, much to the dismay of Bob Herbert at the New York Times. [lew]
Andrea Frick at Andrea's Weblog - Homeschooling - Unterricht zu Hause: Andrea did some research in the German constitution, and discovered that it is illegal to homeschool your children in Germany. Doing so is tolerated in some areas, but officially it is a reason for the state to kidnap your children. [iowa]
Keith Dawson at Tasty Bits from the Technology Front - HavenCo / Sealand harassment begins: There was a pulse of press about HavenCo a little while ago. HavenCo is a "data haven" on a WW-II anti-aircraft platform off the coast of England. Britain has apparently "started turning away known HavenCo employees at the airport." [tbtf]
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - True Free Trade Benefits Texas Farmers: On Tuesday, the house reached an agreement on permitting export of food and medicine to Cuba. More importantly, it prohibits the president from restricting food and medicine sales to other coutries without congressional approval. The president has never had this power, but presidents have been using it anyway.
Yahoo News - US Congress postpones vote on easing Cuban sanctions: Apparently it was too early to celebrate. On Thursday, the lifting of export restrictions to Cuba was postponed until after July 4. [wnd]
Douglas Montero at the New York Post -
Will End of Saga Finally Mean End to the Embargo? Cubans rejoiced
at the return of Elian Gonzalez. "It's a victory against the
blockade," said Pedrosa. [lew]
Remember: A piece of bread and sugar water is all that plenty of Cuban children get to eat for dinner - because of the embargo.
Robert Scheer at the L.A. Times - Elian's Case Gave Cuba a Timely Lesson in Freedom: Me. Scheer thinks that law-and-order won out over "a Cuban emigre political machine." I'm linking to this article because of the quote below. Hijacks of planes to Cuba were the primary reason I remember for the initiation of "airport security". So why is it still happenning? [lew]
There is by now a well-documented public record of the many steps taken by the CIA to topple the Cuban government and assassinate Castro.There is no comparable history of attempts to reconcile with Castro through diplomatic, nonviolent channels, although there have been some successes of that sort. Most important is the long-standing agreement between the U.S. and Cuba to arrest and return hijackers. As a result, the once-common phenomenon of U.S. air travelers experiencing harrowing detours to Havana was ended more than a decade ago.
James Jefferson of AP via Capitol Hill Blue - Arkansas Supreme Court Committee Wants Clinton Disbarred: A committee of the Arkansas Supreme Court sued to disbar Clinton. He has 30 days to respond. [wnd]
