North Korea and movies.

A truly bizarre story about a South Korean filmmaker that was kidnapped by the North... to make movies for them. Life is always stranger than fiction.

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Bob Wells. "For every action there is an equal and opposite government program."  

NY Times: "Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties activist, has resigned from the board of Groove Networks after learning that the company's software was being used by the Pentagon as part of its development of a domestic surveillance system." [Scripting News]  

The question of where American Jews stand on the war gained urgency this week after Representative James P. Moran, Democrat of Virginia, was condemned by members of both parties for saying that influential Jews were driving the United States toward war and was forced to apologize.

While Jewish leaders acknowledge that some Jewish policy makers helped devise the president's strategy on Iraq, and some Jewish lobbyists have backed it, there is strong evidence that American Jews are as divided as the rest of the nation.
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Malcolm Hoenlein, executive director of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said, "Nobody says that because Colin Powell is black and Condoleezza Rice is black that this is an effort of the black community to stimulate the war." [Laurie Goodstein, via NY Times]