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User talk:Lactocrit~enwikinews

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Lactocrit. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Lactocrit~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:33, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:204.19.128.15

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User talk:200.214.223.1

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User talk:208.42.50.165

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User talk:Slambo

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Help
I'm calling on you because you're a sysop in en.wikipedia. I've been trying for over a week to report to en.wikipedia sysops new information about an old LTA using proxies and socks cross-wiki who's recently restarted disrupting. I've provided differences between revisions proving the identicalness of his old and new edits, I've quoted the admins who'd dealt with him in the past and blocked his proxies and socks, so I'm not inventing anything. But every time I try reporting this issue to en.wikipedia sysops, they block me. Can yu guess why? Because the first account I'd created to report this vandal was blocked because "not here to contribute to the encyclopedia" (?!), while the others I've tried creating were all immediately blocked for "sockpuppetry"! Do you understand? Me, the one who wanted to report a vandalic sockpuppetteer to sysops, continuously blocked for vandalism! That's absurd... No, better: kafkian, literally. I've never ever disrupted nor made vandalisms anywhere, but I'm being continously prevented from reporting this issue, both to single sysops in their talk page and publicly by using the special pages existing for this purpose. I'm wordless. And the sysops who keep blocking me are always the same, as if their aim was to prevent anyone from reporting this particular vandal, but I can't believe this, not at all, not in Wikipedia. That's why I'm asking for your help. What can I do? I have no bad intentions, the only thing I want is to report the new identities of this well know vandal, nothing else, and I've never done anything else with my blocked accounts. May I tell you the information I know about this vandal, including differences? You'll be able to see for yourself and judge whether what I'm saying is true or false. Then you might either take care of this vandal yourself or report him to another sysop or a higher level user. Please, give me a hand, and a chance to prove I'm well-meaning! Let me know in case you can and want to help me out with this issue, once solved it I won't disturb you nor any other sysop, try me and let me show you I'm saying the truth. Thanks in advance if you will! 80.82.115.130 (talk) 11:44, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

 * I sympathize with your difficulty in reporting abuse, but I have very little time this week to work on a project like this that needs quick action. I am a professional photographer and right now is my busy season. Slambo (talk) 12:03, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

 * Thank you very much for your kind answer! Well, if you don't have time at the moment because you're busy I'm leaving you alone. Do you think that, maybe after another week, when you'll be more free you'll be able to help me with my request? 80.82.115.130 (talk) 13:16, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I will be busy for a while. I'm booking work out through October right now. Weddings are a growing part of my business, and the majority of them occur in the summer. Slambo (talk) 12:50, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

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User talk:Aciel

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User talk:24.252.34.205

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User talk:203.154.156.82

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User talk:200.174.116.88

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User talk:69.143.45.122

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User talk:194.166.250.169

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User talk:209.6.113.185

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User talk:80.186.1.52

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User talk:220.192.70.199

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User talk:66.188.102.75

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User talk:207.245.14.100

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Canadian PM article
If you'll provide a couple sources, I'll try to put something together unless you plan to. --Chiacomo (talk) 16:19, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:128.226.30.176

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User talk:220.238.199.244

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User talk:12.222.69.144

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US flag burning amendment approved by House

June 23, 2005

The United States House of Representatives today passed an that would allow Congress to prohibit the  of the. The bill (H.J.Res.10), whose main sponsor was (-Calif.), was passed by a vote of 286 to 130. The required two-thirds was present. This is the fifth time a has passed the House.

The bill will now move on to the Senate, where it stands the best chance of passing ever. If a majority of two-thirds passes the bill, it will then move on to the states to be ratified with a seven-year window open on the ratification. Each time an amendment like this was passed in the House, it died in the Senate, the last time being in 2000.

An informal survey conducted by the Associated Press suggested that the vote will be close — 34 senators surveyed opposed the amendment, the exact number required to defeat it. However, supporters of the amendment are optimistic that the amendment will pass because four seats were gained by the Republicans in the election last November.

The amendment seeks to bypass the 1989 Supreme Court case  which ruled that desecration of the flag was legal; flag burning was established to be a form of protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In New Zealand, a 22-year-old law banning the destruction of their flag was also as it was considered an act of free speech.


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 * Court legalizes same-sex marriage in New Brunswick
 * Killen gets 60 years for civil rights killings
 * Canadian military accused of Agent Orange cover up
 * Canadian PM vows to push ahead with same-sex marriage bill
 * Zimbabwe bans crop growing in urban areas
 * No resolution in North Korean nuclear stalemate
 * Australian Deputy Prime Minister resigns
 * Solar sail craft may have made orbit
 * US flag burning amendment approved by House
 * Jack Kilby, Nobel laureate and inventor of integrated circuit, dies at 81

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Tennessee Governor signs budget bill

June 22, 2005

Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen signed a bill Wednesday authorizing the state's new budget of nearly $26 billion. The new budget increases spending for education and fulfills Bredesen's commitment to decrease TennCare spending. The new budget also includes an increase in spending for the state's preschool program, as much as $100 million in funding for TennCare disenrollees, and a significant contribution to the state's reserve fund. Bredesen also signed into law a bill authorizing the General Assembly to begin drafting new ethics laws.

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Australian Deputy Prime Minister resigns

June 23, 2005 Australia's Deputy Prime Minster John Anderson resigned today citing health concerns.

Anderson suffers from a benign tumor in his prostate and said he feels that only by cutting back his official and policial commitments would his condition improve.

Anderson also said in a speech to parliament he will be stepping down as leader of the National Party of Australia -- the junior partner in the current Liberal Party of Australia coalition government. Deputy Leader of the Nationals Mark Vaile will replace Anderson.


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 * And while you're at it, please add the publish date, June 18, 2005 and an archive tag to this article. —Zachary talk 08:24, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hi SL, nice to see you over here :-) Dan100 (Talk) 10:32, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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OK, I'm going to make a few guidelines for this, I hope people think they're a good idea Dan100 (Talk) 11:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC):

 * Golden rule: Don't list stuff you wrote yourself. Be objective.
 * Only chose the best few from a month - these articles should be our "best of the best"
 * They must be formatted correctly (including sources)
 * Have pictures (they should make a good visual impression)
 * Be well-written - see the Style guide
 * Cover the news event comprehensively,
 * But don't ramble - let's highlight good, tight prose here
 * Try and chose articles that were worked on by several editors, to highlight the collaborative nature of Wikinews
 * Try and highlight original reporting - but only items which are in some way more interesting than average, or were missed by the mainstream media

There's only one goal I feel *must* be used - you can't list your own work :-). Oh and please don't edit articles to "bring them up to standard" - our articles are supposed to be a record of what happened at the time, and you'll also make them float to the top of DPLs, which is b a d. Anyway there's no point - this is supposed to be the best of what we published, not the best that we can make now :-)

 * It's perfectly fine for users to list their own work. If someone has a problem with it, they can easily remove it.  NGerda 17:39, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't be so arrogant. If other people think you're good enough, they'll say. Don't presume you're "the best". Dan100 (Talk) 18:18, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I never said I was the best, I just said that people should be able to list their own works, and if someone else disagrees with that person's listing as one of the best, they can discuss and possibly remove that piece. NGerda 19:02, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * The way WP gets around this issue (and I agree, it can be an issue), is by nominating artcles to this level, and having them voted on. In this way, there is not a flood of articles that are considered "featured" with no real way to catch them. Lyellin 19:13, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * We can definitely do that in the future, but the purpose of the page right now is for Eloquence's conference presentation, which is within a few days. NGerda 19:15, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

 * Regardless, I'd personally prefer a stable process that is unbiased and not flooding the system established first. Do note that articles are already being added, even with the self-nomination rule being there. Having the "Best" means nothing if 40% or some other high number are on the page. Lyellin 19:17, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I agree, so here it is Dan100 (Talk) 22:26, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Non-nominated articles removed
I have removed articles from the list that had not gone through Featured article candidates. As far as I can tell, that's all of them :-). The reason is that it is very annoying to have to go through the list again at some later point and "re-nominate" articles which haven't gone through the process -- we did this on Wikipedia. Let's try to get it right from the start.--Eloquence 3 July 2005 17:22 (UTC)

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Zimbabwe bans crop growing in urban areas

June 23, 2005

Farming in urban areas has been banned in the latest turn in the Zimbabwean government's 'crackdown' on the country's poor.

Zimbabwe is in the grip of a chronic drought and with food supplies running low, thousands fear starvation after they were told they could no longer supplement their food supply with crops grown themselves. A police spokesman told a UN news agency that they were under government instruction to prevent urban farming.

Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena said "a lot of harm is being done to the environment. Why can't those who want to cultivate crops go to rural areas, where people are being allocated farms under the land reform programme?"

People living in urban areas had taken to growing their staple crop - maize - and other grains in patches of land near their houses. Much of the land being used had already been earmarked for cultivation, but the police have been told to ignore any such designations.

A non-governmental organisation,, agreed with some of the policy. "We totally understand and appreciate the need for urban people to supplement their incomes, but they should not do it the wrong way. Ideally, farming should be done on farms, not in towns. What we have witnessed is an irreparable damage to the environment, which will certainly have dire consequences for our beloved cities," said an official.

A spokesman for the opposition — the (MDC) — said that while planting on undesignated land, especially amid a maze of houses in townships, was not something they could approve, planting on designated areas should be allowed.

Such urban farming could produce up to 100,000t of grain in a good year, the spokesman added. He believes the government aims to drive urban people — who are often MDC supporters — out into the countryside, with the promise of getting land under the "reform program".

As international concern about Zimbabwe grows, Kofi Annan plans to send a special envoy to assess the situation. However, he has not scheduled a date for the visit.


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No resolution in North Korean nuclear stalemate

June 23, 2005

North and South Korea today agreed to continue the quest for a peaceful resolution to the ongoing nuclear crisis in North Korea but did not agree on a date for continued talks, delegates from North and South Korea announced.

Issuing a joint statement, South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said in part, "The South and the North have agreed to take real measures for peaceful resolution of the nuclear issue through dialogue as the atmosphere is created with the ultimate goal of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said last week that he would consider rejoining negotiations if the United States would give North Korea the respect it deserved as a nation.


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Talk:U.S. Senator Biden may run for Presidency

I wonder what Biden's position is on this flag burning issue? Clinton says she opposes it. -Edbrown05 14:43, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Biden is the only Senator with a child(son) fighting in Iraq. That should be in the story; I'll look for a source later. Paulrevere2005 12:41, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * After losing a wife and his daughter in a tragic automoble accident, Biden may be understandably be scared to death of losing one of his two sons to war. -Edbrown05 14:37, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Solar sail craft may have made orbit

June 23, 2005

The Planetary Society have stated that their experimental solar sail craft Cosmos 1 is probably lost, but intermittent signals have given them some hope the mission has made orbit.

The 100kg vehicle was launched atop a converted ICBM from a Russian nuclear submarine, however it is believed the first stage of the Volna booster rocket failed 83 seconds into the flight. The team behind the $4m craft have a slim hope that it managed to reach a low orbit, and efforts to pick up the tracking beacon are continuing.

Signals have apparently been received by at least two tracking stations around the globe - in the Czech Republic, and in the Marshall Islands. The Planetary Society are being assisted by the US Strategic Command in an effort to find the spacecraft, if it did make orbit.

However a scientist from the Czech station has said they have received only noise.

If Cosmos-1 is in orbit, the onboard computer may still be functioning and could begin to unfurl the 30 meter diameter sail in three days time.

A solar sail harnesses pressure exerted upon the sail by photons from the sun to push the craft along. Although its acceleration is very slow, it can go on nearly indefinitely (as long as the Sun exists). It was hoped Cosmos-1 would use a 30 m diameter sail to reach an orbit 800km above the Earth, as a demonstration of the potential of the technology.

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Draft proposal
I have been working on a proposal for Wikinews. I first sent something to the Foundation board, who kindly replied and suggested I put it up on the Proposals page. Since then, the details of the conference organisation have remained sketchy so I don't think this is going to be a formal proposal but hopefully it will be something we will look at at the conference.

The proposal is for a Wikinews ‘Special’ report section on a conference taking place in Kigali, Rwanda at the beginning of June. It would involve original reporting and interviewing conference participants. I should be coordinating a small team of young journalism students who will be reporting live on an international youth conference about genocide. The main aspect that makes it differ from just being a series of articles that we could post as news is that we hoped the reporting could be in English and French. If this project is a success, I would like to look at how Wikinews volunteers could run more projects like this, getting young people involved in reporting what’s going on around them.

background I’m part of a network called Never Again which works a lot in Rwanda. In June we are holding a conference which will engage young people from around the world in issues around genocide. My part of it is in organising a team of young Rwandans to run a news website and possibly produce a printed publication at the end of it. I have been looking for a suitable way to host it but am unsure of what computer equipment I will have there, so the Wiki interface would be accessible from almost anywhere. My plan was to have the team writing and editing each other’s work and this would also fit in with what Wiki does.

I also think our aims may be in harmony: other Never Again media projects seek to promote journalism and critical debate in order to build a society where genocide cannot take place, people are able to tell their stories and readers can be educated about issues such as HIV in a way that speaks to them.

This is what I think it would look like, but I’m not too sure how it will fit with Wiki as a whole:
 * a ‘special’ news section of Wikinews from the conference in Kigali which would be created and edited both by my team and the Wikinews community as a whole
 * the section would span both the English and French editions as we hoped to have reporters able to write in both
 * The edition would have original reporting on our international youth conference on genocide in the second week of June: the conference should have some very high profile participants from the UN, international governments and the media.
 * The conference will be ‘newsworthy’ in that we will be able to report new debate and ideas from experts on issues including genocide, media responsibilities, current problems in Rwanda and Darfur including the plight of widows with Aids, proposals for the future of the UN etc

The participants will need to face all the issues about neutral reporting that have been issues at Wikinews, particularly as they are writing about sensitive and controversial subjects like race and genocide. Responsible, neutral reporting is a big issue in Rwanda as the media was so involved in inciting/ignoring genocide and because it is so sensitive there are still problems with free reporting there. We will be working to an agreed constitution which will try to ensure reporting based on respect for human rights and tolerance.

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Talk:US flag burning amendment approved by House

I wrote my congressmen, I think he voted against this measure. I sure hope the Senate doesn't approve it, or if they do, that the states don't.

ARGH, He did vote for it!

Flag Fetish
The American symbol fetish (come on now, how many countries have a national bird?) I find truly bizarre.

Perhaps this is an compensatory outcome of Americans lacking any genuine commonal heritage, as in other countries, whose citizens can identify with a common ethnic, cultural or historic background..

Burners Must Go
To burn the flag is a statement of disgust, or even hatred, toward America. It's one thing to write your congressman and another to go torching the symbol that represents a history of blood, sweat, and tears that formed and preserved this great land. If you burn the flag you obviously don't agree with what this country stands for.

This begs the question why someone who feels that way would want to stay? Probably because they don't want to forfeit the privileges that come from citizenship here. The irony is the very principles they oppose are what offers them those privileges.

Also, why would you take the time to openly burn the flag? If the US doesn't fit your lifestyle just move on. Find another country to live in. Start your own. What good comes from disrespecting our country, or any country for that matter? Just leave.

Basically flag-burners are bitter people with personal agendas freeloading off our country. Thus this law should pass. And the charge for breaking the law should be deportation. - Sandog 15:39, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC).
 * Yes, and basically peace-lovers are bitter people has a with personal agendas freeloading off our country. :) NGerda 22:51, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * In my country, I have the freedom to burn, or not to burn, a flag as an expression of my support, or non-support, of the government. 99.9% of the people in my country do not burn the flag, because they support the government. But it is this very freedom to speak out which makes my country free. But my government is deciding whether or not I can express myself in this manner. What else are they going to decide for me? - Amgine/talk 22:44, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * In response to "Basically flag-burners are bitter people with personal agendas freeloading off our country.", I think that flag burners are people with a piece of cloth to burn. I don't think it's the job of the government to regulate which pieces of cloth we are or are not allowed to burn.
 * The flag is of course a symbol. But it means different things to different people. Just like a Christian cross may mean your religion to some, and the religion of your oppressors to others. A country is a very random construct, a consequence of only the last five hundred years of innovation in social structures. I don't think that a country carries as much weight in people's minds as does their ethnicity, nationality, race. To select a sacred symbol — a flag — and forbid its desecration is a foolish attempt to prove that patriotism is somehow more important than these other, more innate, features of a person.
 * The people who burn a flag make a statement, but it's not a statement that one can interpret easily. Do they hate the design pattern? Do they think the current administration is doing something wrong? Do they dislike a particular policy? One doesn't know, just from watching a flag burn. Indeed, had the burner used almost any other means of communication, they would have said more about what they mean. They could have spoken, sung, drawn, typed, emailed, faxed, whispered, proselethyzed. But they choose to simply burn some symbolistic cloth.
 * So who is it that burns a flag? And why do they do it? To show us they hate America? Well, if they hated it, they would leave. But they don't leave, and that's because they want to make the US a better place. They want to make changes that they believe will bring a positive change, in their eyes.
 * The US is a pluralistic country. We are built upon the notion that sometimes there are just different opinions, and we must agree to live with these different opinions. Indeed, this is what makes places like Wikipedia work: you agree on a common set of notions that allow you to carry out your lives, and leave the differences to be resolved elsewhere or later. Flag burning is such a difference: it is a way for some people to express dissatisfaction, and to make a call for change. I don't think they're any different than those writing "I want change" on a letter to the editor, or in an email to their senator. They are just more visible. But they are still in the US, and that's to be encouraged. Burners must burn, and they must stay, even if you really disagree with their message. -- IlyaHaykinson 02:46, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Way to go America! One more step towards the police state! --

a duck!
As hilarious as i thought the duck comment was, is it really NPOV? ;)

Not deleted because i didn't know how and didn't want to mess up the page.

Flags on Napkins, clothes, towels, bumper stickers?
Proper flag etiquette does not allow for the image of the flag to be on clothing, towels, napkins, shoes,paper cups, tableclothes, etc.... Although improper but popular, how does this amendment affect these items?

 * If passed, the amendment would read: "The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." So presumably Congress would have the power to prohibit this as well if they want, though I doubt they would. Wouldn't be very popular with the "patriots" who want the amendment in the first place. - TalkHard 03:14, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Canadian PM vows to push ahead with same-sex marriage bill

June 23, 2005 Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal government is planning on passing the same-sex marriage bill, Bill C-38, before the spring session winds up. The gay-marriage bill is being linked with the passage of a $4.6 million budget bill that provides more money directed at social services and foreign aid. The two bills will be the final confidence vote until the fall.

The opposition, the Conservative party, has vowed to do everything it can to defeat the Liberal government unless they pull the vote and wait until fall. Liberal House leader Tony Valeri tabled a notion early Tuesday to extend the spring sitting, delaying the scheduled summer break. The Liberal party is facing resistance from several of its backbenchers, some of who believe the marriage bill should be delayed until the fall.

At least three Liberal MPs have indicated that they might vote against the gay marriage bill along with the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois. If the motion were defeated, the government would be forced to resign.


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Yahoo closes user-created chat rooms over sexual conduct

June 24, 2005

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) closed all of its user-created chat rooms due to controversy over sexually explicit channels aimed at minors. After a Houston, Texas television station KPRC reported on chat room names such as "Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys" and "Girls 13 And Up For Much Older Men" that were aimed at sex with children, the publicly held business Yahoo! was compelled to act by shutting down all chat rooms created by users and stopped the ability to create new user chat rooms. Online chat rooms created by the company itself are still in service and use.

Major brand name advertisers such as PepsiCo Inc., Georgia-Pacific Corp., State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., Countrywide Mortgage and T-Mobile withdrew ads placed on Yahoo! web pages that may have come under association with the offensive chat rooms. The company is also faced with a lawsuit seeking $10 million in damages that was filed by watchdog groups of internet portals on behalf of the parents and a 12-year-old victim of molestation. A man, who once operated a Yahoo Groups site where members traded child pornography, is also involved in the suit.

Other internet portals, such as AOL and MSN, also allow users to create their own chat rooms. These internet portals are different from Yahoo! in that they are subscription based, and only allow access to the rooms if the user is a subscriber to the service. MSN in its earliest versions of chat had monitors watch activity on its servers, but it was abandoned. Efforts to monitor chat for any effect appear to be futile. Geoff Sutton, the European general manager of Microsoft MSN, told Wired News at the time it cut free chat service in 28 countries that, "The straightforward truth of the matter is free, unmediated chat isn't safe."

According to a Reuters news story by Duncan Martell, an investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation that was targeted at Yahoo Groups users resulted in the arrest of more than 100 people in the United States. The lawsuit now brought against Yahoo! was filed on May 9 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. It charges that Yahoo! breached its duties in internet providership by allowing co-defendant Mark Bates and others to share child pornography on a chat room site called 'Candyman'.

Yahoo!'s terms of use requires persons who create chat rooms to agree not to make available content that is "unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous or otherwise objectionable." Legal rulings to date imply that if internet service provider's do monitor the activity in chat rooms, they incur some responsibility for its content, similarly to a publisher's responsibility for the content found in one of its books.

The result is software providers who take a "hands-off" approach grant internet users the ability to add and create content to the World Wide Web that opens the door to contributions that range from great to sometimes objectionable, to out-right illegal, and often enlightening.


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Canadian military accused of Agent Orange cover up

June 23, 2005

Canadian military officials are being accused of covering up the use of the deadly chemical agent Agent Orange and other defoliants during the 1950s and 1960s at a New Brunswick base.

At a public meeting attended by at least 200 people, defence officials said only a small amount of the herbicide was used, over a total of seven days between 1966 and 1967 at the army base to clear foliage to prevent fires during artillery training and to clear the view for soldiers.

The American military was also given permission by the Canadian military to test Agent Orange, Agent Purple, and Agent White during the Vietnam War on less than 500 acres of the Canadian base.

Thursday’s public meeting followed in the aftermath of recent media reports that a U.S. army report indicated the use of Agent Purple, which is considered three-times more toxic than Agent Orange, as part of the spraying program.

When revelations about the use of Agent Purple first surfaced in mid-June, retired sergeant, Earl Graves, said, “They were out in the exercise area and the planes flew over spraying and they were told to just put ponchos over their head, that it wouldn’t hurt them.”

He said 170 soldiers in his regiment died of cancer and many of them died young.

At the public meeting held Thursday afternoon, angry and fearful civilians and veterans voiced fears that the chemicals were responsible for illnesses later developed.

Veteran John Chisholm said soldiers were told the sprays were harmless and to keep their mouths shut. “Now we found out this stuff here is killing us. No wonder all my buddies are dead.”

The Defence Department said Thursday that it was conducting tests to determine the dioxin level in the soil and consulting with the U.S. military to find out the exact carcinogen levels in the sprays used.


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Killen gets 60 years for civil rights killings

June 23, 2005

Judge Marcus Gordon passed sentence on 80 year old Edgar Ray Killen who was convicted Tuesday of three counts of manslaughter in the slaying of three civil rights workers in 1964. The judge sentenced Killen to the maximum 20 years for each count -- a total of 60 years.

Judge Gordon noted some people "would say a sentence of 10 years would be a life sentence" for Killen. The minimum time Killen could serve is one-third, or 20 years.

The conviction came 41 years to the day after James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were murdered. They had been registering minority votes in Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964.

Killen's attorneys say they will appeal the verdict.


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Basketball: Djordjevic's farewell game to be played July 3

June 24, 2005 Popular Serbian basketball player Aleksandar "Sasha" Djordjevic will play his last game in Belgrade on July 3. More then 60 players and coaches who worked with Djordjevic throughout his career will attend the game, and all ticket proceedings will go to the UNICEF "School without violence" program.

Djordjevic played in the Yugoslavian, Italian, Spanish and NBA leagues, as well as for the Yugoslavian national team. The 38 year-old won two European Championships and one World Championship. He is retireing as a player of Armani Jeans Milano and an MVP of the Lega A Basket.

"Everything hurts: my shoulder, elbow and joint. Everything ends, and so does a basketball career. They still have to invent medicines that would ease this pain," said Djordjevic.

Croatian basketball player Dino Radja decided not to come to Belgrade. He told Djordjevic that he doesn't want any booing, which would ruin the farewell game.


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 * Citizen reporters meet at OhmyNews forum in Seoul, Korea
 * Yahoo closes user-created chat rooms over sexual conduct
 * Most of Greek workforce participating in a general strike, say unions
 * Seventy arrested after fight in Moscow
 * Iranians vote in runoff election
 * US city police officer disciplined for drawing gun -- Original Reporting
 * African Union rejects calls for action on Zimbabwe
 * President Mugabe bulldozes homes of 200,000 across Zimbabwe
 * England and Wales see 60% increase in public injured by police vehicles
 * Dublin gets ready to be rocked once again by U2
 * Senator Biden intends to run for United States Presidency
 * Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as South African deputy president
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Court legalizes same-sex marriage in New Brunswick

June 23, 2005

A New Brunswick judge ruled in favour of same-sex marriage in a Moncton court today. Court of the Queen's Bench Judge Judy Clendening ruled in favour of four gay couples who argued that New Brunswick's current definition of marriage violated their rights.

In a written decision, the judge said that the definition of civil marriage would have to be changed from a lawful union between a man and a woman to a lawful union "between two persons." It gives New Brunswick a 10-day grace period to implement this change.

Alison Menard, the lawyer who represented the couples, says that in effect same-sex marriage is now permitted in New Brunswick. "What it means is that anybody that meets the definition of capacity to marry is able to go and get a marriage licence," Menard said. "So in this particular circumstance, couples of same gender will be able to obtain marriage licences and celebrate marriages."

As a result of this ruling, same-sex marriage is permitted in all Canadian provinces and territories except Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Prince Edward Island.

Although Premier Bernard Lord has said he believes in traditional (heterosexual) marriage, he will not put up a fight if the courts or Parliament decide otherwise.

Several religious groups applied for intervener status in the case to argue against same-sex unions, but they were turned down by Judge Clendening on the grounds that her ruling would not preclude churches from opting not to perform same-sex unions.

The minority Liberal government in the Canadian House of Commons is pushing ahead with the legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide in the controversial Bill C-38, even though courts have legalized it in most provinces and territories of Canada.


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Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as South African deputy president

June 24, 2005 Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was sworn in as deputy president of South Africa Thursday becoming the first woman ever to hold that position. Other Cabinet members applauded as she was sworn in to office in Cape Town. Her appointment comes after former deputy president Jacob Zuma was sacked after being accused of corruption relating to a bribery scandal.

She stated that she will perform much the same function as Zuma, namely "looking after the second economy", HIV/AIDS issue, and other assignments President Thabo Mbeki give her. "I will be looking after women and youth," she also said.

Mlambo-Ngcuka, a former school teacher, travelled to Geneva, Switzerland to work with the YWCA. She returned to South Africa in 1987 and assumed a leading role in the Ecumenical Action Group and other anti-apartheid groups. She was later elected to parliament and appointed deputy trade and industry minister.

In 2003 she publicly accused Jacob Zuma of corruption, though the case was never formalized due to insufficient evidence. Her husband, former national director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka, investigated Zuma and concluded that prima facie evidence of corruption existed.

Individuals opposed to her appointment accuse her of involvement in the transfer of large sums of taxpayers' money to the African National Congress' election fund through an oil company. Her brother, who asserts that the transaction was completely above board, has been implicated in South African news reports.


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Hi T. Pitch in on any topic you feel like - we don't really cover anything that well. However some gay rights stories would be interesting, I must say - something we've had very little coverage of.

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African Union rejects calls for action on Zimbabwe

June 24, 2005

The African Union has rejected Western calls for action in Zimbabwe, with South African spokesman Bheki Khumalo saying he is 'irritated' by UK foreign secretary Jack Straw's demands.

He told the BBC: "South Africa refuses to accept the notion that because suddenly we're going to a G8 summit, we must be reminded that we must look good and appease the G8 leaders. We will do things because we believe they are correct and right."

The leaders have said that Zimbabwe's actions, which have made an estimated 200,000 homeless, destroyed businesses and stopped farming in urban areas, are justified to restore order in the country.

Yesterday a coalition of 200 human rights groups, both African and international, also demanded that the issue be discussed at the AU. In the press release for Amnesty International, a representative of the coalition said: "The appointment of a UN Special Envoy to investigate the mass violations taking place in Zimbabwe is welcome. But effective action must also be taken immediately to help those already sleeping on the streets, beside the rubble of their homes and to ensure that the evictions and demolitions stop immediately."

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Dublin gets ready to be rocked once again by U2

June 24, 2005 240,000 ] fans are preparing for Ireland's most successful band ever to return for a hometown gig in. The supergroup is playing Friday, Saturday and Monday in front of 80,000 people a night at. have put in place a massive traffic management plan to cope with the influx of people. Fans have been queing since Thursday morning when a group of fans from, Italy and Canada started queuing outside the stadium.

The concert forms part of U2's current "" world tour. The support acts include emerging Irish bands and  along with already very popular Paddy Casey. and will cap it off as warm up acts on Monday.

The gates for the gig will open at 4pm with the actual band not expected until around 8.30pm. Irish media has entered a frenzied anticipation of the concert all this week, with constant coverage on radio stations. The national broadcaster,, is set to dedicated almost 3hr 30min to the band with an exclusive interview by Dave Fanning forming the centerpiece of the stations coverage of the "U2 weekend". frontman, who played in front of a sell out crowd in Dublin earlier this week told fans that U2 were "still the best band in the world".

Croke Park is the fourth largest stadium in Europe, with an official capacity of 82,000 - bigger than both  and. Croke Park is used to host GAA matches in sports such as and  and regularly attracts audiences of 60,000 or more in the summer months.


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