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NOTE: There were two essays submitted to the Middle-East Myth Busters Portal by Dafna Yee. That portal will soon be archival only and as stated previously, several portals, including that one, will be consolidated into new upgraded portals. I expect that when the transformation takes place there will be a total of 4-6 portals to replace the older 11 portals. There are several reasons for this, the most important and most urgent among them is the absolute need to upgrade. Since I first installed the portals (and have gone through multiple upgrades) there developed some security vulnerabilities in the methods everyone has been using in their writing of the software to _inject_ data to the database. Another-words, MySql is buggy and some of the programming has become deprecated. This means I have been re-writing software to overcome the security vulnerability, but not fast enough because I have been hacked twice in the last couple of months). Thats right, twice I have had portals _defaced_ by jerks using kiddie scripts off the net. They don't even have to know what they're doing. When vulnerabilities become known, somebody writes a script to crack it using known code and hackers share the code in IRC groups. I must admit I have been a little lazy about getting all the portals fixed and decided since my portals are so hacked by me to do various things and so personalized code-wise that I must reconstruct them starting from scratch. It is very time consuming so I do not rush to do it. If I am hacked I simply close the portal and deconstruct my DB and reconstruct THE WHOLE THING.... Therefore submissions to some portals will not be posted. Secondarily, submissions must conform to some SPECIFIC guidelines. They must have a _progressive_ orientation (and I will generally be the judge of that). A wide latitude will be given to divergent viewpoints however so two sides of an issue may be presented, but this SHOULD BE DONE IN THE FORUMS, not in the portals. The portals are mostly for NEWS and to promote a progressive agenda -- which is sometimes subject to interpretation (mine). For example, the Israel/Palestine issue has the tendency of being emotional and while logic is assumed, it is usually right or left wing logic. Another-words, you can make a case for anything. What should be considered in this debate is what is right and just and how often people tend to generalize when to assume attitudes are monolithic, they never are. If 60% of a population group maintain a certain attitude, there is still 40% (or even 10-20%) who hold the opposite position. Not all Islamists are terrorists and not all Jews are smart. And certainly not all Jews have money and some are like Shylock, though many are not. Blanket judgments will be challenged. AND I do not like to see that kind of certainty from otherwise so-called informed conferees. There are nuances and almost always there are also some abstractions. So let us at least try to be progressive (PNEWS-L is egalitarian-progressive). Another-words, anyway the LEFT WIND BLOWS - but be fair and consider that there are shades of gray. So, when there is doubt, again I will not subject those who read the portal to it, but I will likely put it in RHETORIC and you can debate it here and decide for yourselves if it is progressive (left-wing) or not?? The next two submissions to the Mid-East Myth Buster portal are being posted to Rhetoric, not because they have been reviewed and approved, but for you to decide if it has merit and to discuss it. Posting to RHETORIC is direct and is not reviewed. If you agree with it, say so. If you do not, say so. That is what this forum (RHETORIC) is about. (If your sub here is not direct, let me know and I'll set your authorization up so you can post directly to this discussion forum.) Hank Roth http://pnews.org/ --- / o o \ PNEWS Topic Specific Portals (Vortals) ===OO=====OO============================================ [1] http://pnews.org/NWO/phpnuke/ (Piss Off George Portal) [2] http://pnews.org/MEP/phpnuke/ (Myth Busters Portal) [3] http://g0lem.net/PHP/phpnuke/ (Insane Planet Portal) [4] http://g0lem.net/HTH/phpnuke/ (Wacko World Portal) [5] http://g0lem.net/AAA/phpnuke/ (Bad-Ass Truth Portal) [6] http://pnews.org/AAA/phpnuke/ (Naked Truth Portal) [7] http://pnews.org/portal/ (PNEWS Portal) [8] http://g0lem.net/portal/ (TheGolemsPortal) ======================================================== \_/ \_/
