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Tehran this week secretly appealed to a number of computer security experts in West and East Europe with offers of handsome fees for consultations on ways to exorcise the Stuxnet worm spreading havoc through the computer networks and administrative software of its most important industrial complexes and military command centers. debkafile's intelligence and Iranian sources report that local efforts backfired; the malworm became even more aggressive. ...Read More

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman used to have a clean public image. Until she got into politics, that is. The Republican California gubernatorial candidate is being sued by her former housekeeper.

Said housekeeper hired none other than celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who most recently represented the marketing contractor who got Mark Hurd kicked out of HP. Reuters has more:


This season’s emerging Democratic message to voters seems so crazy that I need to highlight it. In short, Democrats are saying “vote for us, so we can raise your prices.” Of course, they are not using those words, but what they are advocating boils down to exactly the same thing, that coupled with bringing China bashing out of the election cycle war chest seems to be their only strategy...Read more here


On this day in Ancient History - September 29th The Rogue Classicist says this is another possible date for the anniversary of the decapitation of Pompey upon landing in Egypt in 48 B.C. Unfortunately, many ancient dates are questionable. ...

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