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A serious proposal for a solution to the Iraq situation
Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:56 PM EDT
There is one solution to the Iraq war that would satisfy all obstacles and dead-ends. It would cost as much as full American military presence, but actually provide positive results that would have the support of the international community and the Iraqi population.
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Eustis chief: Iraq post-war plan muzzled
Seeded on Fri Sep 8, 2006 11:14 PM EDT (dailypress.com)
Months before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists from developing plans for securing a post-war Iraq, the retiring commander of the Army Transportation Corps said Thursday.
Wired News: Intel Layoffs Could Be Huge
Seeded on Tue Sep 5, 2006 4:48 PM EDT (Wired News)
With Intel apparently poised to announce the latest stage of its restructuring effort, speculation has centered not on whether the world's largest chipmaker would be cutting jobs, but on how many.
Shorter Ehud Olmert: democracy is a bummer
Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:20 PM EDT
In response to obvious requests about the events that lead the Israeli government to pursue the military invasion of Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said it would be an expensive "luxury" to allow the creation of an investigative body with the power to assign personal …
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Cheney 2002 flashback: "there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction"
Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:10 PM EDT
Four years ago to this day, the Vice President of the United States had this to say:
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Emboldened, really?
Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:19 PM EDT
There is an undisputed belief in conservative America: that criticism of elected leaders emboldens its enemies. This belief is parroted by all major news media tribunes without questioning; except when that government is not Republican.
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Bush administration seeking immunity from legal prosecution
Seeded on Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:42 PM EDT (villagevoice.com)
The Bush administration is trying to retroactively grant itself immunity for breaking FISA, a criminal law which makes domestic spying illegal without court approval, and the War Crimes Act, which makes it illegal to judge individuals for war crimes outside of civilian courts.
Electronic voting: hype, reality and solutions
Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:20 PM EDT
I have just finished watching a 2004 Ohio House Judiciary Committee hearing on tampering of electronic voting machines, which shows how little public understanding there is on the subject.
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What a Moronic Presidential Press Conference! By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine
Seeded on Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:21 PM EDT (Slate)
Among the many flabbergasting answers that President Bush gave at his press conference on Monday, this one—about Democrats who propose pulling out of Iraq—triggered the steepest jaw drop: "I would never question the patriotism of somebody who disagrees with me.
How can we take our governments seriously?
Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:54 PM EDT
On top of insanities of the past few years, this is causing increasing discomfort about the capacity of our governments to do their job: Woman held over plane diversion
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Audit Finds U.S. Hid Cost of Iraq Projects - New York Times
Seeded on Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:23 AM EDT (The New York Times)
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 29 — The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects there and knowingly withheld information on schedule delays from Congress, a federal aud …
Detainee Abuse Charges Feared
Seeded on Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:15 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts.
zoomchina - Dream of limitless energy moves a step closer
Seeded on Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:22 PM EDT (zoomchina.com.cn)
Chinese scientists from the Chinese Academy of Science will test the first nuclear fusion device capable of producing more energy than it uses. The first discharge is scheduled for 15 August, 2006.
Google Code Blog: A New Google Service
Seeded on Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:56 PM EDT (Google)
Greg Stein, Google engineer and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, among his works, announced on the new official Google Code blog a new Google service for the open source development community.
Sources: Negroponte Blocks CIA Analysis of Iraq "Civil War" (Harpers.org)
Seeded on Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:43 PM EDT (Harper's Magazine)
NIE (National Intelligence Estimates) are the most significant evaluations of a country's security assessment. The last NIE produced about Iraq in 2004, though grim and rejected by the Bush administration as too negative, turned to be highly accurate.
Want to help cure cancer? AIDS?
Sat Jul 22, 2006 11:33 AM EDT
The World Community Grid has recently added another weapon to its arsenal: fighting cancer. The Help Defeat Cancer project will analyze scans of cancerous tissue, looking for patterns and markers that will help differentiate the various types of cancer and their signatures.
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