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2003-02-08
The scum also rises.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
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Richard Perle, "the Pentagon's senior civilian adviser" has said that
France is no longer an ally of the United States:
France is no longer an ally of the United States and the NATO alliance
"must develop a strategy to contain our erstwhile ally or we will not
be talking about a NATO alliance" the head of the Pentagon's top
advisory board said in Washington Tuesday.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030204-031831-1626r
Happily, Germany is still under control, despite Schroeder's attempts to
"incite pacifism". Thank goodness for that.
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Good article trashing Colin Powell's reputation.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-07.htm
“Mr. Blix took issue with what he said were Secretary of State Colin L.
Powell's claims that the inspectors had found that Iraqi officials were
hiding and moving illicit materials within and outside of Iraq to
prevent their discovery. He said that the inspectors had reported no
such incidents”
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/international/middleeast/31BLIX.html
If Blix is correct, this suggests that Powell is willing to deceive on
matters that are easily checked. What would such a man be capable of
when presenting “evidence” that is not subject to verification?
Goes through a share more lies, disinformation and villainy. All
referenced elsewhere to mainstream news outlets. Very interesting.
Postscript at the end deals with Colin's record on Colombia:
Human Rights Watch's executive director Kenneth Roth said that Powell’s
State Department twice in 2002 issued “fictitious” certifications that
Colombia had met the human-rights and rule-of-laws conditions attached
to Colombia aid. Congress required him to make an honest judgment, and
HRW, Amnesty International and the Washington Office on Latin America
demonstrate in a collaborative report that Powell did no such thing He
says Colombia met all of the conditions; they say none.
http://hrw.org/backgrounder/americas/colombia-certification4.htm
Also goes on to deal with Colin's form regarding Nicaraguan contras
“Working for Ronald Reagan as his deputy national security adviser and
national security adviser, I worked very hard, fought very hard to get
adequate support to the contras, the freedom fighters, who were
resisting the communist government of the Ortegas in Nicaragua.... I
have no regrets about my role.”
http://www.fair.org/extra/9601/powell.html
Lucky for him.
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NYTimes story (Lisa Rein has the whole content mirrored), about how the US
Law Enforcement establishment will now have acces to the database of 50
million applicants for US visas, including 20 million pictures:
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000897.php#000897
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Seeing as we are getting electronic voting machines soon, thought these
three links might be of interest:
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php#000896
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000895.php#000895
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000894.php#000894
Appears there are some conflicts of interest in the US implementation of
the idea, tied to some odd results and the failure of exit-polling:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm
http://www.blackboxvoting.com
It had not occurred to me before that exit-polling was a possible check on
the honesty of the electoral apparatus.
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Getting Close to the Machine, some quotes
http://www.ftrain.com/ullman_machine.html
other links on the page could be of interest also. Further down there is
discussion of typesetting, a link:
http://www.textism.com/bucket/fibsquare.html
and mention of TeX/LaTeX, Lout (a LaTeX alternative, apparently... supposed
to be easier to script/extend, but harder to find other users or add-ons)
and comparisons between these packages and Quark which is supposed to be
more popular with designers. Sort of of interest to me.
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Eritrea:
http://www.counterpunch.org/mountain01242003.html
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One week before:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&th=4ca2a4ec1b9ef9b6&rnum=1
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Analysis of anti-vegetarianism spinning by meat industry and Time:
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/January_2003.html#1043902800
The Cool-to-be-Real website is quite funny in itself:
http://www.cool-2b-real.com/
The PR-Watch story is really very nice. Read the Time story, and then read
the University report on the research Time cites. The university report of
the research is basically the exact opposite of the Time interpretation.
In fact the University write-up goes so far as to say:
http://www1.umn.edu/systemwide/enews/05-16-02.html#Anchor-Teen-47857
"It seems that rather than viewing adolescent vegetarianism as a
difficult phase or fad, the dietary pattern could be viewed as a
healthy alternative to the traditional American meat-based diet."
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Interesting interview, in particular comments on the whole issue of water
rights and privatisation. Also, a nice precis of the Californian energy
"crisis" of not so long ago. Some funny quotes on GWBush too:
"They own George W.'s brain I mean it may not be big, it fits in Ken
Lay's pocket and there's room for spare change but they own it."
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=128&row=1
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I didn't know this was physiologically possible:
The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that anyone who inflicts fatal
injuries to the testicles should face first-degree murder charges. The
ruling was handed down in a case in which a man had kneed another in
the testicles, killing him instantly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2703355.stm
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Can listening to MP3s ruin your hearing?
http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logologie/MP3-Gefahr/MP3-risk.html
Probably not, actually. But i thought the idea was good.
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Report on tecnical writing, at the NACA server:
http://naca.larc.nasa.gov/reports/1921/naca-tm-7/
(article 183)
NASA technical report search system:
http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/NTRS
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A tutorial on letter writing with LaTeX:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3387
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