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Wheeling and Dealing for raw Beltway Power
Glenn Greenwald calls our attention to the apparent slimeball tactics of U.S. politician Steny Hoyer, who pays lip service to opposing immunity for the lawbreaking US Telecoms Companies who willingly gave the U.S. government unlimited access to private... |
18-Jun-2008 |
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Quoted Without Comment
"The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly.... We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that... |
16-Jun-2008 |
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The Pentaganda Scandal
News continues to filter out of the US mainstream media. Bits of news, that is. But mostly bafflegab lead by the Pentagon and the Administration. If you think there's a grain of truth in US news coverage, you should read what the NY Times has to say. A... |
23-Apr-2008 |
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Bit o' good news, The real 'An Enemy of the State', etc.
In the U.S. Congress, the House Democrats finally stood up to be counted, voting through their own bill which does not provide a unilateral amnesty for all the law-breaking that went on after 2001-09-11 by the big telecoms violating everybody's privacy... |
16-Mar-2008 |
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RepRap and The End of Want
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, one of the most pervasive inventions was the "replicator&quo... |
9-Mar-2008 |
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Ian's Top Ten Today, #1
Here are some links that I found worth passing on recently. This is not a monthly or even a regular listing; I'll repeat this when I have another ten. End Software Patents Jacob C. Hornberger: Hillary Should Have Apologized for Waco in Waco ... |
6-Mar-2008 |
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2008: A Year of Tipping Points?
I meant to write this for New Year's but got distracted. Perhaps it's a case of "better late than never". I predicted that 2008 will be a year of several "tipping points". First the Good News: I had planned to say that 2008 would ... |
15-Feb-2008 |
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Voting on the Unknowable
No, this blog entry is not about whether Ms. Clinton or Mr. Obama will win or should win. It's about something more fundamental. Some United States Citizens no doubt believe their country has free and fair elections. Some, perhaps, also still refuse t... |
6-Feb-2008 |
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IPv6 or Bust, and, Farewell IPv6 Samurai
In case you've been off-net for the last ten years, you should know that the Internet is running out of IP addresses - the telephone numbers of the Internet - at an alarming rate, and will reach the failure point within three or four years. IP is the I... |
31-Oct-2007 |
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Bomb-boozled in Boston
Nineteen-year-old Star Simpson went to pick up a friend at the airport, and wound up in jail. Her "crime"? Wearing a flashing electronic name badge that the MIT Electrical Engineering / Computer Science Undergrad had made up for Career Day. N... |
26-Sep-2007 |
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Quoted without comment
"It was this week in 1974 that Richard Nixon resigned the presidency after getting caught lying and violating the Constitution. Remember when that kind of thing used to get you kicked out of office?" -- Jay Leno, The Tonight Show, quoted in t... |
14-Aug-2007 |
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A Muslim answers a Texan's 'Why do they hate us?'
All I can say is: Read it. Read it and understand why so much is wrong with the world today. We've been saying for decades that U.S. policy is way out of line; it's nice to see the mainstream press catching up. Related reading in this Toronto Sun arti... |
25-Jul-2007 |
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Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt: An Eternal Brown Triangle
In the bad old days of computing - the mainframe era - it was common for IBM to try to prevent customers from using cost-effective third-party solutions in conjunction with expensive IBM mainframes by spreading "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" ... |
21-May-2007 |
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Alternate Realities: A Physicist looks at American Politics
I'm neither an American nor a Conservative, but this article in American Conservative is must reading for anyone who wants to think about what's happening in Washington today. |
18-Apr-2007 |
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Things you probably never learned in high school history
Strange but true - estimates from Ohio State history professor Robert Davies put the estimate at 1 to 1.5 million whites taken as slaves by the North Africans during the slave era. Interesting reading material in the full article. |
22-Mar-2007 |
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I was wrong (it's worse than I thought)
I used to think, and tell people, that the United States' preoccupation with international meddling began in 1898, with the sinking of the Maine and the resulting Spanish-American war. But I was wrong. It started earlier. Five years earlier, with the... |
26-Jan-2007 |
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Behind the news of "A few air strikes in Somalia"
Eric Margolis provides a damning indictment of Bush's latest criminal aggession overseas in the name of power^H^H^H^H^Hright... |
15-Jan-2007 |
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Back to the future for US Foreign Policy
Congressman Ron Paul reminds Americans that their nation was founded on principles spelt out in its Constitution, and that one such principle is that of Non-Interventionism (as distinct from Isolationism). This principle - like many freedom-leaning pri... |
20-Dec-2006 |
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George W Bush's real Legacy
Despite all his talk of freedom, George Bush will leave behind an America whose citizens are far less free, and far less safe, than when he took office. Karen Kwiatkowski blogs: 'America won't change in November, even as Congress begins to awaken from ... |
14-Oct-2006 |
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Public campaign to impeach the U.S. President
Under the Constitution of the United States of America, the President can be removed from office by an impeachment vote of the House and trial by the Senate. While Americans have often talked about impeaching their President, and President Clinton was ... |
1-Oct-2006 |