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VIRGIN
MEDIA TO WARN FILE-SHARERS -
Virgin Media, and the British Phonographic Industry have just announced
they will start sending warning letters to users who they believe are
sharing pirated music files. The organizations say they intend to
simply educate customers about piracy and don’t intend to
disconnect subscribers now — but will threaten people that
they might be disconnected in the future.
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FOR 1 MOVIE: TIME WARNER'S NEW MATH -
The sorry state of broadband access in the U.S. just got a little
sorrier with Time Warner’s new bandwidth caps. The cable
giant tomorrow will start testing a plan to charge users based on how
much they upload or download per month. For the initiative, taking
place in Beaumont, Tex., customers can choose from a range of plans. At
the low end it’s $29.95 a month for speeds of 768 Kpbs and a
5GB cap. The most expensive is $54.90 for speeds of 15 MBps and a
monthly cap of 40GB. Customers who exceed their limits will be charged
$1 for each extra GB.
SYMANTIC
TOOL CLEANS UP XP, SP3 REGISTRY CORRUPTION
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Symantec Corp. yesterday released a free tool that wipes spurious
entries from Windows' registry that had crippled some PCs running the
company's security software after they were upgraded to Windows XP
Service Pack 3 (SP3) or Vista SP1.
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IMAGE ORIENTED EMAILS NOT GETTING THROUGH
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It's back to the drawing board for marketers, whose image-oriented
email campaigns are increasingly being blocked by default and Web mail
clients.
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BUSH
IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION -
Former Democrat Presidential Candidate, Congressman Dennis Kucinich
(D-OH) has introduced a 35-count article of impeachment for President
George W. Bush on June 9, 2008. Kucinich introduced a similar
resolution last year, which
failed to garner enough votes, to impeach Vice-President Richard
Cheney. President Bush was visiting European
heads of state as the resolution was read on the floor of the Congress.
A
Congressional vote on the article of impeachment is expected sometime
this week. Kucinich accused Bush of executing a "calculated and
wide-ranging strategy" to deceive citizens and Congress into believing
that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States. More
- Reuters / Congressional
Record via C-Span
AUSTRALIA
RUSHES ARMY REINFORCEMENTS TO EAST TIMOR
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DILI, East Timor: Australia rushed troop reinforcements into East Timor
on Tuesday to help enforce a security clampdown a day after separate
assassination attempts on President José Ramos-Horta and
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão prompted fears of a resurgence
of unrest. Following the attacks, which left Ramos-Horta, co-winner of
the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, in "extremely serious" condition with
gunshot wounds, East Timor's Parliament agreed to impose a state of
emergency and restrict civil freedoms. The East Timorese police and
soldiers, backed by United Nations forces, erected roadblocks and
searched all vehicles entering or leaving the capital, Dili, as the
hunt continued for renegade East Timorese soldiers blamed for the
attacks. - IHT.com
DANISH
POLICE ARREST 3 IN PLOT TO ASSASSINATE CARTOONIST - COPENHAGEN,
Denmark (AP) - Danish authorities on Tuesday arrested three people
suspected of plotting a cartoonist's assassination for his depiction of
the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban that enraged Muslims
two years ago. Three of Denmark's largest newspapers said they would
reprint the cartoon on Wednesday to show they would not be intimidated
by fanatics. "That shows that terror is not only despicable, but also
at the end powerless," Politiken's chief editor, Toeger Seidenfaden,
said. It was one of 12 Muhammad cartoons published in 2005 and then
again in 2006 that led to protests in Muslim countries. Investigators
said they foiled the plot in its early stages in a pre- dawn raid in
the western Denmark city of Aarhus. The police intelligence agency,
PET, said two Tunisians and a Danish citizen of Moroccan origin were
arrested. - Breitbart.com
ARIZONA SEEING FLIGHT OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS -
PHOENIX — The signs of flight among Latino immigrants here
are multiple: Families moving out of apartment complexes, schools
reporting enrollment drops, business owners complaining about fewer
clients. The Arizona economy, heavily dependent on growth and a Latino
work force, has been slowing for months. Meanwhile, the state has
enacted one of the country’s toughest laws to punish
employers who hire illegal immigrants, and the county sheriff here in
Phoenix has been enforcing federal immigration laws by rounding up
people living here illegally. State Representative Russell K. Pearce, a
Republican from Mesa takes reports of unauthorized workers leaving as a
sign of success. An estimated one in 10 workers in Arizona are Hispanic
immigrants, both legal and illegal, twice the national average.
“The desired effect was, we don’t have the red
carpet out for illegal aliens,” Mr. Pearce said, adding that
while “most of these are good people” they are a
“tremendous burden” on public services. - NYTimes.com
NAVY
PLANES SCRAMBLE AS RUSSIAN BOMBER BUZZES USS NIMITZ AIRCRAFT CARRIER
TWICE - U.S.
fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers, including one that
buzzed an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific during the
weekend, The Associated Press has learned. A U.S. military official
says that one Russian Tupolev 95 flew directly over the aircraft
carrier USS Nimitz twice, at a low altitude of about 2,000 feet, while
another bomber circled about 58 miles out. The official was speaking on
condition of anonymity because the reports on the flights were
classified as secret. The Saturday incident, which never escalated
beyond the flyover, comes amid heightened tensions between the United
States and Russia over U.S. plans for a missile defense system based in
Poland and the Czech Republic. - ABCNews.com
GM POSTS BIGGEST ANNUAL US AUTO LOSS - DETROIT
(AP) -- General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 on
Tuesday, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and
said it is making a new round of buyout offers to U.S. hourly workers
in hopes of replacing some of them with lower-paid help. The earnings
report and buyout offer came as GM struggles to turn around its North
American business as the economy weakens. - Biz.Yahoo.com WOMEN FALLING FOR 'DEMOCRAT IDOL' OBAMA - College
Park, Maryland - You can see it in their flushed-face smiles and hear
it in their screams. They say the phenomenon is difficult to describe,
but once they experience it they tell their friends, sisters, mothers
and daughters, and they come back for more if they can. "He's very
charismatic. It was a 'you-had-to-be-there' kind of experience," said
Lolita Breckenridge, 37, after hearing Democratic White House hopeful
Barack Obama address a packed rally at the University of Maryland on
Monday. A dedicated supporter, she brought two of her friends to hear
the Illinois senator deliver one of his much-talked-about speeches.
"Not too much of the speech was new to me," she admitted. "But hearing
him live..." she trailed off, shaking her head and grinning. When Obama
addressed the crowd of 16 000 on the eve of primaries which he is
tipped to win in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC, he carried
himself with his habitual worldly confidence, interspersed talk of
foreign policy with recollections of his childhood and even poked
political fun at his Republican adversaries. He did not flinch when
women screamed as he was in mid-sentence, and even broke off once to
answer a female's cry of "I love you Obama!" with a reassuring: "I love
you back." - News24.com
RUSSIAN
PRESIDENT PUTIN THREATENS TO AIM NUKES AT UKRAINE - Russia
May Target Nuke Missiles On Ukraine - Russia has said it may target its
missiles at Ukraine if its neighbour joins Nato and accepts the
deployment of the US missile defence shield. Russian President Vladimir
Putin made the comments in Moscow alongside Ukraine's President, Viktor
Yushchenko. Mr Putin has condemned US plans to include Poland and the
Czech Republic in its missile defence shield. - BBC.co.uk
TEXAS PRIMARY: 'SUPER LATINO' SLAMS CLINTON -
A prominent member of the national Democratic Party has circulated a
sharp e-mail saying the removal of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign
manager Patti Solis Doyle was disloyal to Hispanics and should give
"pause" to superdelegates and voters. The e-mail from, Steven Ybarra, a
California superdelegate who heads the voting-rights committee of the
DNC Hispanic Caucus, was sent to fellow caucus members in the hours
after word broke that Solis Doyle - the most prominent Latina in
Clinton's campaign - would be replaced by another close Clinton
loyalist, Maggie Williams, who is black. The e-mail noted that Clinton,
who is looking to Latino voters for a boost in the Texas and Ohio
primaries on March 4, scored heavily with Hispanics in her California
win. "Apparently, loyalty is not a two-way street," he wrote. "Latino
superdelegates like myself . . . will have cause to pause." - NYPost.com
MEXICO
PREZ DECRIES ANTI-IMMIGRANT TONE - CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
(AP) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday decried
anti-immigrant perceptions in the United States and argued that Mexican
immigrants complement American workers. On his first trip to the U.S.
as Mexico's president, Calderon said he is working to combat
anti-Americanism in Mexico and to improve job prospects there to reduce
migration. He said he hopes that Americans resist anti-Mexican
sentiments. "The worst thing that happened in this country is this
anti-Mexican or anti-immigrant perception of people. We need to contain
this," Calderon said after a speech at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School
of Government. "I need to change in Mexico the perception that the
Americans are the enemy, and it is important to change the perception
that the Mexicans are the enemy," he said. "We are neighbors, we are
friends and we must be allies." The combination of American wealth and
Mexican labor is an irresistible economic force, Calderon said. - MyWay.com
GERMANY HARDENS TRADE STANCE WITH IRAN - Germany
is cracking down on business with Iran far more systematically than
suspected, unpublished figures from the economics ministry showed on
Monday. The new data show a dramatic drop in export credit guarantees
granted to German exporters doing business with Iran last year, and a
steady drop in exports to the country since 2005. - FT.com
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