http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20007418-38.html

Senators propose granting president emergency Internet power

June 10, 2010

A new U.S. Senate bill would grant the president far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of or even shut down portions of the Internet.

The legislation announced Thursday says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines, or software firms that the government selects "shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed" by the Department of Homeland Security. Anyone failing to comply would be fined.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100609/ts_nm/us_korea_north_letter

New Ground Zero Deal Gives Plaintiffs $712.5 Million

By A. G. SULZBERGER and MIREYA NAVARRO

Lawyers for the city and some 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers at ground zero said Thursday that they had negotiated a new settlement that would give the workers more compensation for health damages and reduce the fees paid to their lawyers.

Brief Commentary...

Being myself a casual gamer as well as enlightened to the "real" world, I have often wondered what type of psychological effects transpire from the modern, highly realistic war-based videogames are having on the public, our youth in particular.  Take for instance this trailer for the yet to be released game 'Call of Duty: Black Ops', which depicts and describes "working the dark side" (to borrow a phrase from Cheney circa 2001) of war and assisinations. 

  http://www.hulu.com/watch/150684/ign-call-of-duty-black-ops-trailer?c=Videogames#s-p1-sr-i4

  Quotes from the trailer:  "A lie is a lie.  Just because they write it down and call it history, doesn't make it true.  We live in a world where seeing is not believing.  Where only a few know, what really happened.  We live in a world, where everything we know, is wrong."