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Cem and Volker on free speech.

Cowards

“I loved getting those calls,” Mr. Guthrie said in an interview. “Since my wife passed away, I don’t have many people to talk with. I didn’t even know they were stealing from me until everything was gone.”

What a coward and a bastard do you have to be to use modern technology against help- and clueless 90 year olds? And what will be when I’m 90?

Full story @ NY Times.

Goin’ for the soft target

He worked for KBR driving trucks in Anbar Province to supply Marine bases with ammunition, water and other essentials. He said that by late 2006 truck drivers and their Marine convoy escorts were finding 20 to 30 roadside bombs on each convoy trip through Anbar, the restive Sunni heartland.

In today’s NY Times there’s an article talking about the death toll of civilian contractors. We wouldn’t know about it if it weren’t for a free press in a free country.

Plain Text

The most powerful weapon against “Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen” (1, 2) is Plain Text:

Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen (2)

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