Mytob worm turns to phishing - ZDNet UK News
I know a few that were not fully protected and did not practice common sense with their e-mail and got 'hit' -- so I thought I would share this.
The emails masquerade as a legitimate email from the recipient's IT department or Internet service provider, and include references to the recipient's domain name and email address to give the message more legitimacy. Recipients are told that a security problem has been found with their account and they should click on the link to confirm the account.
Google it
Interesting way to get the message out.
Click on the picture to view the announcement.
Dean Pledges to Talk Tough - Yahoo! News
Well this is good news for future elections -- I continue to say "I hope he[Dean] continues to make asinine comments like this and insulting the very people he is charged with enticing to vote Democrat."
NO RETREAT: Howard Dean says positive responses from supporters have reinforced his determination to keep talking tough. Some congressional Democrats have suggested that the party chairman tone down his rhetoric.
CNN.com - Marines: 40 insurgents killed
Our men and women are continuing to do their job -- I hope all, weather you agree or disagree with the reasons for Iraq, remember they are doing their job, doing it well, and need our thanks, always.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Marine airstrikes in western Iraq killed about 40 insurgents Saturday, the Marines said.
Durbin blames 'right wing'- Washingtonians.comHere we go again -- grab the tinfoil hats! Let's not blame Dean no it's a conspiracy.
The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate yesterday blamed 'the right wing' and elements of the press 'in service to it' for repeating Howard Dean's remarks about Republicans and inflating them out of proportion.
'I think we all understand what's happening with you all,' said Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin, in remarks echoing Hillary Rodham Clinton's blaming a 'vast right-wing conspiracy' for her husband's legal-ethical woes.
Dean's Remarks Draw Fire From Both Sides of Aisle - New York TimesI truly like Dean in his current role -- as I said on
March 10th -- "Well I cannot tell you how excited I continue be of Howard Dean's DNC position! I hope he continues to make asinine comments like this and insulting the very people he is charged with enticing to vote Democrat"... Well I stand behind that statement and looks like some democrats believe I might be right and want him muzzled... Will he make it the mid-term election? That is the question.
WASHINGTON, June 9 - Just four months into his tenure as chairman of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean has found himself on unforgiving - if familiar - terrain. As he visited Capitol Hill on Thursday, he faced a growing number of critics and received a private scolding from leading members of his party for several derogatory remarks he has made about Republicans in recent weeks.
ABC News: Bush Open to Possibly Closing Gitmo Camp
I am fine if Guantanamo is closed because it has run it's due course and we have found other means. However, to cave to pressures from Amnesty International, Jimmy Carter, and liberals -- say it ain't so!
WASHINGTON Jun 8, 2005 � President Bush on Wednesday left open the possibility that the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be shut down following mounting criticism from former President Carter and others.
'We're exploring all alternatives as to how best to do the main objective, which is to protect America,' Bush said when asked in an interview with Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto if he would close the detention center.
Don't raise taxes - Yahoo! NewsI also found this interesting today -- the effects that are sold as a gotcha to the "rich"(whoever defines that), by liberals, actually has a broader impact.
According to the Heritage Foundation, raising the payroll tax cap would directly raise taxes on 9.8 million American workers, including 3 million small-business owners. This would also reduce Gross Domestic Product by $33 billion per year, on average, over its first 10 years and reduce total employment by an average of 340,000 jobs per year over that period. For these reasons, House conservatives vigorously oppose proposals to 'reform' Social Security by raising taxes.
The American people now see a very clear choice before them: The president's bold vision for reform based on fiscal discipline and choice, and the Democrat vision for reform based on higher taxes. The cure for what ails Social Security is new ideas, not higher taxes.
Taxing the rich won't solve Social Security's problems - Yahoo! NewsThis is an interesting take on increasing the social security tax and it comes from people that have criticized the Bush tax cut. Note that it mentions the 'small business owner" that liberals supposedly care about and a segment they wish to grow... Well I thought it interesting anyway.
But as with a lot of things that seem easy, this tax-the-affluent-minority idea has real drawbacks. Any plan that would fix Social Security solely by taxing a relatively small number of wage earners would undermine its support. Social Security enjoys broad public backing because it is seen as a retirement savings and disability program, not a welfare program. Workers contribute while they work, then collect when they retire.
If the nearly 10 million people who make more than $90,000 a year are asked to pay in a great deal more than they will get out, that principle would be shattered. A 12.4% Social Security tax on all income, combined with other federal and state taxes, would result in affluent self-employed people paying more in taxes than they keep for themselves. That is hardly the way to bolster support for a program about which Americans are expressing increasing doubts.
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That fellow behind the tree isn't responsible for the problem. Making 6% of earners responsible for the whole solution would only show that the other 94% don't care enough about the program to make the necessary sacrifices to save it.
N.Korea seen buying time on nuclear talks-analysts - Boston.com - Asia - NewsMaybe some know the history of the game.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's signal to Washington that it is willing to return to nuclear talks could be a tactic to buy time and block Washington from referring the issue to the United Nations, analysts said on Wednesday.
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"This is probably a diplomatic tactic to stall while hanging on to its nuclear programs," said Lee Dong-bok, senior associate with the CSIS think-tank.
"North Korea basically is not going to give up its nuclear programs, so it will come to the talks with demands not acceptable to the United States," he said.
N. Korea agrees to 6-party talks - The Washington TimesWell we have them back on again, at least until the next round of the
game -- and as I have stated and proven when it is off again it will be blamed on the US by both North Korea and the media.
North Korea told the United States it would return to six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program but no date was set, U.S. officials said yesterday. China said negotiations are likely to resume in the next few weeks.
The Bush administration played down the message it received from Pyongyang, saying it lacked specificity.
The message was delivered in New York on Monday, but the administration kept silent about it until yesterday, when officials offered differing and confusing accounts.
BBC NEWS - Deserter Jenkins plans US visit
I prefer if this gentlemen stays out of the United States. He gave up mom, apple pie, and baseball four decades ago -- just my opinion.
A former US soldier who deserted to North Korea in 1965 is to visit the US for the first time in four decades.
Charles Robert Jenkins, who now lives in Japan after being given a dishonourable discharge from the US military, wants to visit his mother.
Guantanamo prison guards attacked - Webindia123.comThere are two sides to every story -- however, US media proves that they don't care... This is covered in one US newspaper as I write this (or at least I could only find it in one after searching Google News and Yahoo News).
Two U.S. Army guards have told of being attacked by a terror suspect at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Speaking with the Washington Times on the condition of anonymity, the soldiers said the attack came last month after they discovered a jagged rectangular piece of metal hidden in a cell while its occupant was taking a shower.
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It's an extreme slap in the face to me frankly that the American public is being led to believe that we're abusing, or mistreating detainees, said Col. Michael Bumgarner, the senior officer at the prison, which holds 585 enemy combatants on suspicion of working for the Taliban and al-Qaida.
'Don't know for sure' about Guantanamo: Amnesty USA - Yahoo! NewsCan you believe this -- after making outrageous claims we get the "we really don't know"... Again an example of liberals attempting to justify their means, false accusations, outrageous claims, etc., with what they define as 'well intentions'...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite highly publicized charges of U.S. mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, the head of the Amnesty International USA said on Sunday the group doesn't "know for sure" that the military is running a "gulag."
"Executive Director William Schulz said Amnesty, often cited worldwide for documenting human rights abuses, also did not know whether Secretary Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved severe torture methods such as beatings and starvation.
Schulz recently dubbed Rumsfeld an 'apparent high-level architect of torture' in asserting he approved interrogation methods that violated international law.
'It would be fascinating to find out. I have no idea,' Schulz told 'Fox News Sunday.'
CNN.com - Detainees, not soldiers, flushed Quran
Weather they believe or support it they got the headline correct -- the headline contains no innuendo opposing the military's statement - refreshing; however, I am not holding my breath that the usual spin is gone.
(CNN) -- A U.S. military investigation into the mishandling of the Muslim holy book at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has determined that detainees -- not U.S. soldiers -- attempted to flush the Quran down the toilet there.
CNN.com - Suspected al-Zarqawi associate nabbedAlthough some may not want to admit it, but the "War on Terrorism" continues with progress.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suspected deputy of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been captured in the restive city of Mosul, the Iraqi military said Saturday.
Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces on Friday arrested Mullah Mahdi and five other suspected terrorists -- Mahdi's brother, three other Iraqis and a Syrian, Iraqi Maj. Gen. Khalil al-Obeidi said.
Remember my post,
On Again, Off Again, It's On Again (NK), where I said "However, I can assure you when the "off again" is given to South Korea, North Korea will again blame the United States" -- well here it is.
CNN.com - North Korea demands U.S. apology(CNN) -- North Korea has vowed not to return to the nuclear bargaining table unless it receives an apology from the United States for making hostile remarks about its leadership.
Israel frees nearly 400 Palestinian prisoners - Reuters.com
Well with the mass coverage of the old news known as 'deep throat' it appears many may have missed this... I believe it is significant.
BETUNIA, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel freed nearly 400 Palestinian prisoners on Thursday in a long-delayed gesture that fulfilled a ceasefire pledge to President Mahmoud Abbas, but Palestinians said the release did not go far enough.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon acted under U.S. pressure to help strengthen Abbas, who faces a Hamas challenge that could undermine Israel's plans to evacuate Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip starting in August.
Amnesty leadership aided Kerry - The Washington Times
This story just confirms what I already assumed -- so no big news here just validation:)
The top leadership of Amnesty International USA, which unleashed a blistering attack last week on the Bush administration's handling of war detainees, contributed the maximum $2,000 to Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign.
Federal Election Commission records show that William F. Schulz, executive director of Amnesty USA, contributed $2,000 to Mr. Kerry's campaign last year. Mr. Schulz also has contributed $1,000 to the 2006 campaign of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.
