Yahoo announced it will disregard "Do Not Track" settings and profile users anyway.

"Do Not Track" does not really mean users are not tracked. Sites that honor that system agree to limit how they use the tracking data, but they do not stop collecting it, so it does nothing to reduce the dossiers available for Big Brother to view at will. Thus, I have mostly not paid attention to Do Not Track.

However, this defiance by Yahoo might heat up the surveillance battle.

>Protesters convinced Condoleezza Rice to cancel a highly paid speech at Rutgers.

The UK Labour party proposes to undo the privatization of British Rail.

I'm in favor, but what's crucial, in the economy, is to make the rich and businesses pay more taxes.

The ANC, which nobly fought apartheid, has since become corrupt through and through.

A local leader of al-Qa'ida in Arabia was killed in a fight with the Yemeni army.

The world is better off without him, but we should not get our hopes up that this will do great damage to al-Qa'ida. Underground organizations depend most of all on their ability to recruit.

If US drones providing air support, this is much better than the usual use of war-drones — assassination, far away from any battlefield. People will understand and forgive the use of arms on a battlefield, and civilians usually won't be threatened because usually they will have fled the area.