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First of all, I don't agree with how you were moderated as a troll for bringing in your point of view.

No, its not. You go right ahead and live on the block where 10 guilty guys went free.

Try telling that to the guy who lost 26 years of his life rotting in prison for a crime that he didn't commit. A study in 2004 suspects thousands of more cases based on 328 criminal cases where the defendant was exonerated. A quote from the study:

The study identified 199 murder exonerations, 73 of them in capital cases. It also found 120 rape exonerations. Only nine cases involved other crimes. In more than half of the cases, the defendants had been in prison for more than 10 years.

I put the word "suspects" in bold because I'm trying to be realistic; there is no way to tell the exact number and the study only looked at 328 cases.

The way to deal with police mistakes is with sanctions and fines. This is the way it was before the 1960s.

I completely respect your view of how we should deal with this, but I do have to disagree. I'm all for the pre-1960's method of sanctions and fines if there was some way to guarantee that an innocent person didn't have to spend an extended period of time behind bars until proven innocent. Hell, we can't even guarantee that right now.

I may be wrong, but I think that you're under the assumption that with the pre-1960's method, the mistake is quickly caught and the defendant only spends a short period of time in the slammer before released. Unfortunately, they can be in there for decades, and even after the mistake is caught, it may take even more years for paperwork unless they get an immediate pardon.

In 2004 it was estimated at $10 billion a year, according to CBS

Nazi's/Sun

That's not right. The Nazis used IBM computers Sun wasn't even around.

Just in case anyone wondered what the administration's position is: Vice President Joe Biden warned of the harms of Internet piracy at a private event organized by the MPAA in Washington, D.C. At the gala dinner on Tuesday evening, Biden lauded Hollywood, assailed movie piracy, and promised film executives that the Obama administration would pick "the right person" as its copyright czar. Biden also singled out Canada for criticism for not signing the treaty that led to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or placing other anti-circumvention restrictions on its citizens.

Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the administration knows which side of the bread is buttered.

you can't be treated because access to your online health records are down

Well THAT problem has existed for some time.

I'm waiting for the day when specifying Microsoft is an automatic termination. It's coming.

Yes, just as we saw with the FISA amendment. First Obama said he would fight to get rid of the telecom immunity Then when he flopped I seem to remember some supporters here spewed the same constitutional scholar crap saying he would probably get rid of the immunity clause when he was elected. Now we see that was completely false. The only thing that his being a constitutional scholar means is that he has a good idea of what rights of the people he's violating as he's doing it.

Reported by those conspiracy theorists over at CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

flashy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU

Dogs can already be used to detect cancer. Why rely on computers? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/06/60minutes/main665263.shtml

As I unfortunately found out yesterday, one of the more common ways the virus spreads is through removable drives.

You must be new here. FFS it was even '60 Minutes' did a piece on it.

tl;dr Turn in your geek card at the door.

And for this our pork exports are plummeting?

The apparent overreaction/misunderstanding affecting on the pork industry is even worse in some other places.
Egypt plans to kill about 300,000 pigs

I'm not sure why you think that their birth rates mean that their society is going to die. Typically nations that accumulate a good amount of prosperity end up with lower birth rates. America is also following along this trend. What this means is that elderly care will become an issue until the population starts rising again. You do know that just because it is lowering now, doesn't mean it will continue to, right?

Your little bit of hyperbole about roving barbarian gangs are amusing. A riot in Paris does not extrapolate to roving bands of barbarians across all of Europe. Or at least, if they do have such problems, then I'm certainly worried about living in America, which ranks pretty poorly compared to many European nations.

Your little xenophobic rant is also a little bit of right-wing hyperbole. Care to provide any evidence that this is actually a serious problem? Because every time I've been to Europe or talked to Europeans they don't seem to think this is a problem. Well, other than a minority of people trying to fan the flames of bigotry by taking things grossly out of context to win weak-minded fools over to their side.

And this is in addition to the fact that Europe has equal or better relative economic mobility (that means that a poor guy is more likely to upgrade his social status in Europe... so much for the American dream), better life expectancy, better overall education, and arguably better, more efficient, and cheaper health care. About the only part of your rant grounded in fact is the tax rate, which is a between 10%-20% more. But I know a lot of Europeans who are happy with that tax rate, given all of the benefits that they get from it above.

Your rant is thoroughly amusing since its so far detached from actual reality. Having lived in Europe, and working with people who live, and lived, in Europe, I can safely say you've cranked the hyperbole up to 11. Its actually a very nice and safe place to live. You really need to stop getting your info from whatever echo chamber you get it from and find some sources that are at least a bit closer to reality.

On the plus side, you've pretty much proven my point. You're close-minded. You reject anything that doesn't match your reality. This isn't doing your side any favors.

Good video at 60 minutes about the bionic arms being developed by DARPA for this project.

They are starving because of the ongoing beer wars.

most likely they pushed developers to focus first on microsoft based search engines, but really, I also find it hard to believe not a single person would have tried google first

Actually there is a high probability that the Microsoft employees used google until they were given their top down directions.

Utilizing a monopoly position to crush competition has worked for Microsoft in the past, why would anyone expect tactics to change now.

Well please post the rest of the list, because both of your examples are invalid. The first refers to a proposed settlement (ie. it hasn't been built) and the second refers to an expansion of existing settlements.

Invalid? We're talking about Israel expanding its borders, and removing Palestinians from their lands. Call it expansion, call it proposed, call it whatever you want. Don't claim it isn't happening. If you would like a list, Google can provide you with several. Here is a CBS 60 minutes video which describes much of what you claim isn't happening. You may find it interesting.

if Canadians were regularly launching rockets at New York and teaching their children from infancy to hate Americans, then you might have a point.

This where you have to imagine what things would be like if America had continued with it's policy of Manifest Destiny where they were determined to conquer the entire northern continent. If they had, we would be at war with them, and probably we would be full of American "settlements".

If the Palestinians were willing to stick to a ceasefire agreement, and sat down to work out a workable compromise, Israel would be more than happy to abandon either all or the vast majority of their settlements.

Again you have been misinformed.

Bush: "I find it very interesting that when the heat got on, you dug yourself a hole, and you crawled in it."

A couple years earlier, a small group of murderers with a handful of commercial jets had managed to immediately drive Cheney into a hole^H^H^H^H^H undisclosed location and Bush into underground shelter. A couple years later, it just took a single report of an off-course plane to send Bush underground again. Was it so tactically unreasonable to expect Saddam to hide from a hundred thousand men armed with the best military technology in the world?

Even if this was propaganda for the Iraqis' benefit, it seems like condescending propaganda. Go for the root of the problem, and persuade people that a strongman ruler is illegitimate if he isn't democratically supported and/or if he violates human rights. Don't just cop out and try to paint yourself as the stronger man.

Because life is all about you?

Parthogenesis is pretty much an unknown concept in mammals. (Of course, this assumes that the OP is a mammal....).

Or is your point that implementing progressive taxation for the purpose of helping all members of society have opportunities available to them is even comparable to illegally seizing private property for merely speaking against corruption?

Yes, it is comparable — and increasingly so. First of all, your priorities are screwed up. "Progressive taxation" is a fact of life, because of the principle, that your taxes are based on your ability to pay. This principle existed since long before the politicians recognized, that they can get elected by promising the poor to "take care" of them. It was neither meant to "give opportunities", nor is it achieving that goal. Despite the poorer half of the Americans paying less than 3% of the total tax, the upward mobility in the country has slowed over the decades.

And now back to the validity of comparing to the case at hand... Contrary to your accusations, the guy's property was seized neither illegally (explicit accusation) nor permanently (implicit). In fact, most of his property is still with him, thankfully. He is, by all appearances, being harassed by the government (incidentally — Democratic government) he criticized, which is very wrong.

But the 90% punitive taxes (except, of course, on the government employees), government's takeover of firms (on the Executive's whim), and refusal to release control of the firms willing and able to pay back the government's money are much worse.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/31/scitech/pcanswer/main4905580.shtml:

Crazy as it seems, some prosecutors have gone after kids for taking and sending pictures of themselves. There was a case in Florida a couple of years ago where a teenage boy and girl photographed themselves nude and engaged in "unspecified sexual behavior." One kid sent the picture to the other and somehow the police got involved. They were tried and convicted for production and distribution of child porn and the teen who received the image had the additional charge of possession. An appeals court upheld the convictions.

http://news.cnet.com/Police-blotter-Teens-prosecuted-for-racy-photos/2100-1030_3-6157857.html:

By a 2-1 vote, the appeals court didn't buy it. Judge James Wolf, a former prosecutor, wrote the majority opinion.

Wolf speculated that Amber and Jeremy could have ended up selling the photos to child pornographers ("one motive for revealing the photos is profit") or showing the images to their friends. He claimed that Amber had neither the "foresight or maturity" to make a reasonable estimation of the risks on her own. And he said that transferring the images from a digital camera to a PC created innumerable problems: "The two computers (can) be hacked."

They called the police and what? Your story stops dead there, and I bet I can guess why.

The person was arrested and had to hire a lawyer.

See these:

• Column: High Court Child Porn Ruling Erodes Free Speech
• Supreme Court Upholds Child Pornography Law
• Baby photos that fall foul of the PC police
• Is this child pornography?
• Julia's pictures: could it happen to you?

Falcon

I live in the midwest... and while the recent power outage was pretty widespread, it wasn't so deep an effect on our lives that we were scavenging the streets for food or killing anyone that looked like they wanted our food.

Honestly, the power going out is never as detrimental as many people would like to proclaim. Worst case scenario, it happens in the winter or they can't get generators to the water pumping stations.

Life goes on.

Seriously, there's a bank on every corner. Unless you have some compelling reason to stay with Capital One, open an account elsewhere. You don't even have to close your Capital One account -- save it as a backup.

That's what I did when Bank of Texas (aka Bank of Oklahoma) added so-called "security questions". The first time I failed at answering "What was your first pet's favorite food?" (or something similarly stupid), I changed my direct deposit to put $1 a paycheck there, and move the rest to an account at a financial institution with a better understanding of Internet security.

Speaking of financial institutions, why are you still banking at a for-profit (ha!) institution, anyway? I've got one credit union that doesn't charge an overlimit fee on my credit card, and another that's paying over 4% interest on my checking account. Why can they do that? Because they didn't take stupid risks 10 years ago. I should know -- they wouldn't give me a home loan. The bank that did was first in line for a taxpayer bailout.

Turns out he's walking in jail now! :

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/16/national/main4870337.shtml?source=mostpop_story

(Former Paraplegic Man Who Claims Spider Helped Him Walk Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges)

The lesson here is clear: women should not drive.

And now for the followup...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/16/national/main4870337.shtml?source=mostpop_story

CBS 60 Minutes did a piece on FMRI at CMU in January. Watch it -- http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4697682n.

http://www.malepregnancy.com/

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4234033n

Barbara Walters Exclusive: Pregnant Man Expecting Second Child
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=6244878&page=1

Was yours a pregnant assumption? (Disclaimer: i am willing to be open that the above links may be hoaxes...)

David Li's formula is not the root cause of the problem.

Actually, it is the Democrat's philosophy of "Welfare housing" which is the key reason for the mess we are in.

Under the Democrats, housing for the poor (in the form of "the projects") was not good enough; they wanted to provide actual houses for the poor -- which is a noble ideal in an ideal world, but a disaster in practice. If Democrat President Lyndon Johnson began the welfare generation with his "Great Society" vision, Democrat President Jimmy Carter escalated it with the "Community Reinvestment Act", and thereafter Democrat President Bill Clinton amended Carter's act to enable subprime mortgages, such as those facilitated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to be sold as securities on Wall Street. Indeed, in the press conference for Clinton's amendments, Clinton's economic policy assistant stated the following:

An important component of that strategy is to deal with the problems of the inner city and distressed rural communities -- pursuant to his [Bill Clinton's] belief that we must make real progress in those areas if this country is going to be successful in the future for all of us. The reform of the Community Reinvestment Act is an essential building block in the efforts I've just mentioned. (Source: "Press Briefing Secretary of the Treasury, Lloyd Bentsen, Robert Rubin..., and Eugene Ludwig...", December 8, 1993, available at the National Archives and Records Administration at http://clinton6.nara.gov/1993/12/1993-12-08-briefing-by-bentsen-and-rubin.text.html)

Securitization of subprime mortgages is the root of the current problem.

What is a subprime mortgage? It is a loan to a "subprime" borrower, who has a bad credit rating and is in danger of being unable to repay the debt.

The subprime mortgage crises of 2008 is fully explained in the CBS program "60 Minutes", as reported in the segment "House of Cards" by Steve Croft , which was broadcast on January 27, 2008 (and updated May 23, 2008). It is available for free viewing at http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4126094n, and the transcript is available at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/25/60minutes/main3752515.shtml?source=search_story (which also contains the video embedded in the picture) . For those of you who cannot access the video, here is an excerpt of the transcript by CBS:

Since last summer, Americans have seen their investments shrink and their property values plummet. At the heart of the problem is something called the subprime mortgage crisis, which began back then and continues to ricochet through the economy.

It sounds complicated, but it's really fairly simple: banks lent hundreds of billions of dollars to homebuyers who can't pay them back. Wall Street took the risky debt, dressed it up as fancy securities, and sold it around the world as safe investments. If it sounds like a shell game or Ponzi scheme, in some ways it was a house of cards rife with corruption, greed, and negligence. ...

Almost all of the people involved in the transactions made huge amounts of money, then passed the risk on to somebody else. Instead of keeping the dicey loans in their own portfolios, the big banks and giant mortgage companies that originally underwrote them resold the mortgages to big New York investment houses.

Firms like Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch sliced the loans into little pieces and packaged them up with other investments, then sold them to their best customers around the world as high-yield mortgage-backed securities, turning sows' ears into silk purses, all with the blessing of rating agencies like Standard & Poor's. ...

It

David Li's formula is not the root cause of the problem.

Actually, it is the Democrat's philosophy of "Welfare housing" which is the key reason for the mess we are in.

Under the Democrats, housing for the poor (in the form of "the projects") was not good enough; they wanted to provide actual houses for the poor -- which is a noble ideal in an ideal world, but a disaster in practice. If Democrat President Lyndon Johnson began the welfare generation with his "Great Society" vision, Democrat President Jimmy Carter escalated it with the "Community Reinvestment Act", and thereafter Democrat President Bill Clinton amended Carter's act to enable subprime mortgages, such as those facilitated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to be sold as securities on Wall Street. Indeed, in the press conference for Clinton's amendments, Clinton's economic policy assistant stated the following:

An important component of that strategy is to deal with the problems of the inner city and distressed rural communities -- pursuant to his [Bill Clinton's] belief that we must make real progress in those areas if this country is going to be successful in the future for all of us. The reform of the Community Reinvestment Act is an essential building block in the efforts I've just mentioned. (Source: "Press Briefing Secretary of the Treasury, Lloyd Bentsen, Robert Rubin..., and Eugene Ludwig...", December 8, 1993, available at the National Archives and Records Administration at http://clinton6.nara.gov/1993/12/1993-12-08-briefing-by-bentsen-and-rubin.text.html)

Securitization of subprime mortgages is the root of the current problem.

What is a subprime mortgage? It is a loan to a "subprime" borrower, who has a bad credit rating and is in danger of being unable to repay the debt.

The subprime mortgage crises of 2008 is fully explained in the CBS program "60 Minutes", as reported in the segment "House of Cards" by Steve Croft , which was broadcast on January 27, 2008 (and updated May 23, 2008). It is available for free viewing at http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4126094n, and the transcript is available at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/25/60minutes/main3752515.shtml?source=search_story (which also contains the video embedded in the picture) . For those of you who cannot access the video, here is an excerpt of the transcript by CBS:

Since last summer, Americans have seen their investments shrink and their property values plummet. At the heart of the problem is something called the subprime mortgage crisis, which began back then and continues to ricochet through the economy.

It sounds complicated, but it's really fairly simple: banks lent hundreds of billions of dollars to homebuyers who can't pay them back. Wall Street took the risky debt, dressed it up as fancy securities, and sold it around the world as safe investments. If it sounds like a shell game or Ponzi scheme, in some ways it was a house of cards rife with corruption, greed, and negligence. ...

Almost all of the people involved in the transactions made huge amounts of money, then passed the risk on to somebody else. Instead of keeping the dicey loans in their own portfolios, the big banks and giant mortgage companies that originally underwrote them resold the mortgages to big New York investment houses.

Firms like Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch sliced the loans into little pieces and packaged them up with other investments, then sold them to their best customers around the world as high-yield mortgage-backed securities, turning sows' ears into silk purses, all with the blessing of rating agencies like Standard & Poor's. ...

It

When's the last time you recall anything good coming out of hollywood?

Two years ago, although sadly they put it out before it reached the rest of LA.

(j/k; I like SoCal... even LA ;) )

I think this all started with Neutron Jack Welch. The thing about good ole Jack is that his purpose, basically was to eliminate American manufacturing jobs and turn his company into something else that didn't do manufacturing. In fact, he turned it, General Electric, into yet another useless financial company, while the jobs that generated the real national wealth shifted overseas. In the future, I think he'll be seen for what he was, a parasite who reduced America to third world status and made billions doing it.

The thing is, if you are essentially just cutting your losses and planning on eliminating business divisions completely, you have no reason to care about the years of experience walking out the door. He's considered a success because he "made money," but he didn't make G. E. competitive with the Japanese. Here's a quote from an article, "I came into a company that had at least an extra 100,000, maybe 150,000 extra people. It was the early '80s. We were making television sets in Syracuse, N.Y., and the Japanese were selling them at the mall cheaper than we were making them." Jack Welch: 'I Fell In Love' So, essentially, he made money from failure.

Well, we've had years of this as the U. S. transformed into a nation of middlemen, shady accountants, lawyers, and "would you like fries with that" type jobs. The U. S. is basically the B-Ark from Life, the Universe, and Everything, with all the thinkers and doers being in the Eastern part of the world now. Good for them, not so good for us.

New York has contributed nothing so why should it profit from that which it has contributed nothing to?

This amounts to nothing more than a sales tax on internet commerce. Don't act so surprised. You didn't honestly think government was going to sit idly by, forever passing up yet another opportunity to milk taxpayers for all they're worth, did you?

On a different note, I found the following excerpt from TFA quite hilarious.

But not everyone is on board with the idea of profiting off porn. The chairman of New York's Conservative Party says that taxing it legitimizes it.

The National Republican Congressional Committee had no problem taking money from the porn industry at a 2005 fundraiser attended by President Bush.

Christian evangelical leaders called for an explanation. The only one they got, at least in public, was from a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, who said: "We'll take that money and use it to elect more Republicans."

I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. It smells like... politics.

Wonder why those agencies are using such an "unsecure" platform...?

Me too.

DHS has been hacked
FBI has been hacked
Navy has been hacked
Air Force has been hacked.

Actually I voted for myself and I'm not even 100% lockstep with the guy I voted for.

Sincerely,
Barack Obama

According to the story at CBS News the person can turn it off on their phone at will. The video shows a test with a family. The reporter says the kid can disable it when ever they want and the parents say don't tell the kids that!
Some interesting results, one try showed the dad in the middle of the river!

Cc the cloned cat.

Actually some studies are debunked and more recent studies are showing that smoking marijuana can help prevent lung cancer. I am sure there is a lot of info out there about the evils of marijuana, studies done by the government to back up their reasoning of illegality. Doesn't make it true.

Do you believe in democracy?

What does democracy have to do with it? Democracy and social services are not incompatible. Regardless, you might want to take a look at this:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/opinion/polls/main2528357.shtml

Like that lady trying to win a Wii for her kids by drinking water?

In the constitution, it says he has to swear to the best of his abilities. It's near impossible for the president of the United State to break his oath of office.

Is this really the best of his abilities? Presidents with major health issues have taken less vacation days than him...

While this doesn't detail the plight of a U.S. citizen, it does show that the United States' method of gathering prisoners after the 9/11 attacks isn't what would be called logical or fair. It also shows that the U.S. has no compunctions about holding citizens of other westernized, ally nations even after being proven that they have no connections to Al Queda or any intelligence value: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/20/terror/main4110731.shtml

"Here's the story about the mall shooting Feb 13 2007. If that off-duty officer (or someone else that was legally carrying a handgun) wasn't there, how many more people would have been killed? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/13/national/main2466711.shtml [cbsnews.com]"

See my other post, that's a few lives saved, but way more people get killed because of the wide availability of guns in the US than get saved once in a while in these shootings. An some of these shooting would not even happen whitout this easy access to fire arm.

Saying that guns save lives is the slippery slope fallacy, more gun = more deaths.

  "Homicide rates tend to be related to firearm ownership levels. Everything else being equal, a reduction in the percentage of households owning firearms should occasion a drop in the homicide rate".

Evidence to the Cullen Inquiry 1996: Thomas Gabor, Professor of Criminology - University of Ottawa

http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF01.htm

The "last resort" is when it's either you (or perhaps your child or other individual) or the other guy.

If someone breaks into my home, of course I'm going to yell "get out" and try to get out myself instead of shooting at them. If they come at me, they're getting shot.

Here's the story about the mall shooting Feb 13 2007. If that off-duty officer (or someone else that was legally carrying a handgun) wasn't there, how many more people would have been killed? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/13/national/main2466711.shtml

A very reasonable post, right until you made the leap of faith about diet sodas being bad. Your whole previous post was about sugar content, so how does that reasoning go?

Take a look at this report from a year or two back, then. Diet sodas don't work in practice, despite what your personal thoughts on Aspartame might be.

Amongst many others, CBS News.

1) Do you really think that the people of this village wake up in the morning and think "By gum, I can't wait for another day of handling toxic materials with no protection whatsoever. My only hope is that those meddling foreigners, and their insipid health and safety standards, don't rob me of this, my most beloved pastime!"

Someone else posted this video, but I'll link to it again as it shows the village. These people aren't working in some factory, they are in huts with dirt floors.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4586903n

2) If we really wanted to leave these people alone, perhaps we shouldn't be sending them tonnes upon tonnes of toxic materials?

To answer "And I care why?" - Well because all of us consumers of electronic devices are partially responsible for the suffering of these people. Because this computer you are sitting at right now may very well end up in a village in China where it will poison people.

> TIME suggests checking out recycling brokers and accredited e-stewards the
> next time you're ready to toss a gizmo.

I guess TIME doesn't watch 60 minutes.

'"This is a photograph from your yard, the Executive Recycling yard," Pelley told Richter, showing him a photo we'd taken of a shipping container in his yard. "We followed this container to Hong Kong."'

Did anyone catch the recent 60 Minutes story on this. The gist of it was that even some of the most respected e-waste companies end up exporting to China, despite their promises to do otherwise. You can watch the story HERE.

You've mentioned an uncertain chain of command, but have not even attempted to prove that there is no documentation that defines it.

Here's a story about it: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/04/23/60II/main287292.shtml. But let me make it simple for you: the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Advisor, got together just after Reagan was shot. The Vice President was, more or less, unreachable while on a plane. So, those two Secretaries and the National Security Advisor, took control of the executive branch. Did they have the authority? Even they disagreed. But those three were giving orders to the military.

Let me make it clear. Even those three knew that they probably didn't have the power they were claiming. The problem was, no one else did either. So they took it. If the top cabinet officers and the National Security Advisor had no clear idea what the plan was in those circumstances, I don't think anyone else did either.

dude, transsexualism has nothing to do with being gay. most homosexuals aren't transsexuals. they're just males/females who are attracted to their own sex.

the city you are looking for is Trinidad, Colorado, which has been dubbed the Sex Change Capital of the U.S.

By the way, all the news of what's going on in Gaza is from Hamas and they don't want anyone there to ruin their little propgand bonaza.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/01/10/world/worldwatch/entry4711989.shtml