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From Time.com, Photo Essay – Martin Luther King, In His Own words. Martin Luther King, Jr. – “I Have a Dream” – link includes access to his speech in text format, PDF, Real Video Long Excerpt of Address, Audio mp3 of Address, and Audio mp3 Stream of Address.
AP reports Sen. Arlen Specter, Chief of Judiciary Panel, Says He’s Skeptical of Domestic Spying Program. Related news: U.S. Attorney General Gonzales to Testify at Spying Hearings, January 13, 2006 Postings on domestic surveillance
Zittrain, Jonathan, The Generative Internet. Harvard Law Review, 2006. Abstract: “The power and flexibility of the Internet has ignited growth and innovation in information technology and in associated creative endeavors, its generativity soliciting contribution from varied audiences. This very power and flexibility projected across millions of mainstream users has also become a vehicle for security …
The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning of the Conflict, By Linda Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz Working Paper Number: RWP06-002 (37 pages, PDF). Submitted: 01/11/2006. “”We have not attempted in this paper an overall assessment of whether the war was conducted in the most cost efficient manner, …
American Libraries Online, January 13, 2006: “The American Library Association’s Executive Board intends to file a Freedom of Information Act request with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine if the FBI has been collecting information on the Association and its leaders as a result of their opposition to certain provisions of the USA Patriot …
Related to this January 12, 2005 posting, Pew Research Report Gauges Public Response to Recent High Profile Washington News, Most Americans Can’t Name Any Supreme Court Justices, Says FindLaw.com Survey.
This January 13, 2006 New York Times article, Even Law Firms Join the Trend to Outsourcing, raises questions about outsourcing expert legal services.
DHS press release: “A live test of e-Passports, that contain contactless chips with biographic and biometric information and the readers that are capable of reading these e-Passports, begins January 15, 2006 at Terminal G at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). This test is a collaborative effort between the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore …
National Information Exchange Model (NIEM): “…establishes a single standard XML foundation for exchanging information between DHS, DOJ, and supporting domains…” Mission: “To assist in developing a unified strategy, partnerships, and technical implementations for national information sharing laying the foundation for local, state, tribal, and federal interoperability by joining together communities of interest. That foundation …
Spirit of America sponsors The Anoniblogging Wiki: “This wiki contains our five initial guides on how to blog more safely [targeted to citizens in Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Malaysia and Zimbabwe]. Across the globe, countries that discourage free speech have followed their citizens into the blogosphere. According to one count, in the last two years …
A January 12, 2005 ABC News Nightline interview with former President Clinton clarified information on the use of warrantless wiretaps during his administration. According to Clinton: “My attitude was that once the Congress had spoken on it and given us the tools that we needed, we used it…We used the law. We either went there …
From the Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management, National Research Council: Summary of a Workshop on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management
