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hello, hello!!! 2007-05-15 23:25:00 As you can see this blog is still under construction, soon i will start posting, but for now i have to add many things to make it work.
Senators strike deal on immigration overhaul 2007-05-18 07:28:00 By Donna SmithWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. senators reached an agreement on Thursday on immigration reform that would strengthen U.S. borders and grant lawful status to millions of illegal immigrants, a deal that could lead to a major legislative victory for President George W. Bush.This sets the stage for what is expected to be a passionate Senate debate over the plan, which would give some 12 million illegal immigrants legal status, create a temporary worker program and set up a merit-based system for future newcomers.Continue Reading...
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Catholics say blog spreads BBC "slander" to Italy 2007-05-19 23:01:00 By Phil StewartROME (Reuters) - Italy
's leading Roman Catholic newspaper lashed out at bloggers on Saturday for spreading "slander" by posting a BBC documentary that alleged a Church cover-up of child sexual abuse.The documentary aired on the BBC in October, but never in Italy. The bloggers translated it and it now ranks as Google Video Italia's (www.video.google.it) most popular item.Continue Reading...
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“Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!” 2007-05-23 14:14:00 Computer specialist Didier Stevens put up a simple ad, with the help of adwords, on the Internet offering downloads of a computer virus
for people who did not have any.Surprisingly, he found as many as 409 people clicking on the ad saying "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected
here!" during a 6-month advertising campaign on Google's Adword " 1. I bought the drive-by-download.info domain. .info domains are notorious for malware hosting. 2. I setup a web server to display a simple page saying “Thank you for your visit!” and to log each request. That’s all. I want to be absolutely clear about this: no malware or other scripts/code were ever hosted on this server. No PCs were harmed in this experiment. 3. I started a Google Adwords campaign with several combinations of the words “drive by download” and the aforementioned ad, linking to drive-by-download.info 4. I was patient for 6 months"Continue Reading...unfortunately the game was over, after he posted the article on h
U.S. immigration compromise survives first bout 2007-05-23 14:06:00 By Donna SmithWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fragile immigration pact in the U.S. Senate withstood its first major test on Tuesday.The Senate voted 64-31 against the first of what is expected to be many challenges to the bipartisan deal that ties tough border security and work place enforcement measures to the guest worker program and a plan to legalize an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.Continue Reading...
Cannes 2007-The Awards 2007-05-27 15:10:00 Cannes 2007:The Awards
Palme d´Or4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days - Cristian Mungiu (RO)Grand PrizeThe Mourning Forest - Naomi Kawase (JP)Prize of 60th AnniversaryGus van Sant - Paranoid Park (FR)Best ActressJeon Do-yeon, Secret Sunshine - Lee Chang-dong (KR)Best ActorKonstantin Lavronenko, The Banishment - Andreï Zviaguintsev (RU)(The article continues below - Commercial information)Best DirectorLe Scaphandre et le papillon - Julian Schnabel (FR)Best ScreenplayFatih Akin - The Edge of Heaven (DE)Jury PrizeSilent Light - Carlos Reygadas (FR)Persepolis - Marjane Strapi and Vincent Paronnaud (FR)Caméra d´OrJellyfish (FR)Special Mention:Control (GB)Palme d´Or for the Best Short FilmVer Lllover - Elisa Miller (MX)Special Mention:Ah Ma - Anthony Chen (Singapour)Run - Mark Albiston (NZ)
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The Nazis learned from the U.S 2007-05-31 04:30:00 I found this article online from the first post an online magazine, it's just a small article on the hatred and racism in American."A brilliant new book by a Mexican-American historian documents how, in the Twenties and Thirties, the Nazis
were inspired by what the United States had been doing to their Mexican neighbours since 1917."Mexican visitors were forced to strip naked and subjected to 'screening' (for homosexuality, low IQ, physical deformities like 'clubbed fingers') and to 'disinfection' with various toxic fumigants, including gasoline, kerosene, sulfuric acid.....Romo, quotes Hitler writing in 1924, "The American union itself... has established scientific criteria for immigration... making an immigrant's ability to set foot on American soil dependent on specific racial requirements on the one hand as well as a certain level of physical health of the individual himself." FULL ARTICLE
HOSTEL PART 2: Leaked to the internet via torrents 2007-05-31 04:12:00 A workprint version of the film was leaked to the internet on or about May 28th, 2007. This is just the latest high profile film to be leaked to the internet in some form prior to its release.(wiki)After thinking about it, i have decided to give away the link to watch the movie without the downloading....JUST press play.HERE AND HERETorrents: LINK LINKScene release BY pukka
Growing frustration with the performance of the Democratic Congress over the Iraq war 2007-06-07 15:49:00 Dissatisfaction with the Democrat's over the failure to stand up against the Iraq
war is staring to show in the polls, and the media. Source: The washington post"Disapproval of Bush's performance in office remains high, but the poll highlighted growing disapproval of the new Democratic
majority in Congress
. Just 39 percent said they approve of the job Congress is doing, down from 44 percent in April, when the new Congress was about 100 days into its term. More significant, approval of congressional Democrats dropped 10 percentage points over that same period, from 54 percent to 44 percent."
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YouTube Adds Related Videos To Embedded Players: Check it out!!! 2007-06-07 11:20:00 Source: YouTube
blog"Does watching a YouTube video on another site leave you hungering for more like it? We just turned on a new embedded player with a scroll-through feature that shows related videos to your embeds. It's fun to play with and lets you discover new, related videos without leaving your site. Just hover over the video after pressing "play" and watch the magic unfold..." you just have to love, the Mac dock effect in the video.
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How To Make Windows look like Ubuntu Linux: Including Beryl 2007-06-26 17:07:00 This article is a complete step by step guide of how to transform the entire look of your windows PC into UbuntuLinux
. It includes, icons,graphics, cursor, toolbar, theme, background, boot and logon screen, it also has the alternative to Beryl
for linux. Check it out, you'll love it.read more | digg story
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