Support our troops!
Sunday, December 19, 2004
Thursday, December 16, 2004
"The ranking Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee,
Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, plans to ask the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and a county prosecutor in Ohio today to explore
"inappropriate and likely illegal election tampering" in at least one
and perhaps several Ohio counties..." (from the NYT)
The mainstream media finally starts to take the possibility of election fraud seriously
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Monday, December 13, 2004
University of Oregon professor's analysis of 2004 Presidential election finds "compelling evidence of fraud"
Sunday, December 12, 2004
"The issue isn't whether or not we are the same as the Nazis, the issue is that we aren't different enough." --Avi Schlaim
Friday, December 10, 2004
"A veteran sergeant who told his commanding officers that he witnessed his colleagues torturing Iraqi detainees was strapped to a gurney and flown out of Iraq - even though there was nothing wrong with him...
Over the past few weeks, the number of different account of torture and abuse by the United States has been staggering. Here is a quick run-down of some of the most recent:
- The Pentagon warned intelligence specialists as recently as June not to report the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
- FBI agents witnessed US soldiers abusing detainees at Guantanamo Bay as early 2002 but the Pentagon did little to investigate the complaints.
- New photographs emerge showing U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees as early as May 2003.
- The U.S. government argues it has the right to use evidence gained by torture in deciding whether to detain people at Guantanamo Bay.
- U.S. generals in Iraq were warned more than a month before the Abu Ghraib scandal emerged that detainees were being beaten and abused in Iraq."
More on the new torture allegations here
Sunday, December 05, 2004
Saturday, December 04, 2004
Thursday, December 02, 2004
"I know you think the fundamentalist triumph is complete. America is going to be just like The Handmaid's Tale now. The Bush Administration will take orders from Christian ayatollahs who command all-glass mega-churches in the suburbs of Denver and Houston. The president will be proclaimed a Protestant Pope, God's infallible messenger on Earth. Roe v. Wade will be overturned. The minimum wage will be lowered to $1 an hour, where it was in the 1950s, when everything was perfect. The FCC will order all radio stations to play Toby Keith, and Congress will so brazenly destroy the wall between church and state that the next federal budget will include $10 million for the 700 Club Pledge Drive.
Stop worrying. I am here to bring you hope. I am here to tell you that the cultural Cold War now wracking America will be won by the liberals, by the forces who want to take this country forward into the 21st century, not backward into the 12th..."
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Errors in exit polls still a puzzle to many by John Allen Paulos, Professor of Mathematics at Temple University and winner of the 2003 American Association for the Advancement of Science award for the promotion of public understanding of science
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
"A German writer whom I love and whom I've translated, Erich Kastne, gives advice, in one of his poems, to a would-be suicide. He tries to give this man various reasons for not blowing his brains out. The man remains unconvinced, so Kastner says, in essence, "All right, the world is full of idiots and they're in control of everything. You fool, stay alive to annoy them!" And that, in a sense, is my function in life, and my consolation. If I can't convince these imbeciles of anything, I can at least annoy them..." --John Simon
Monday, November 29, 2004
A Democratic candidate for Ohio Chief Justice recieved 257,000 more votes than Kerry
"Statistically, Kerry, as the Democratic presidential candidate, should have more votes than Connally. In a presidential election, most voters have the priority of casting a vote for president and the votes for president are almost always much higher than those of candidates farther down the ticket... Many voters simply don’t vote for Supreme Court justices. It is highly improbable that Connally’s vote totals would be so much higher than Kerry’s"
Monday, November 22, 2004
"In 2002, I was an on-air commentator at MSNBC, and also senior producer on the "Donahue" show, the most-watched program on the channel. In the last months of the program, before it was terminated on the eve of the Iraq war, we were ordered by management that every time we booked an antiwar guest, we had to book 2 pro-war guests. If we booked two guests on the left, we had to book 3 on the right. At one meeting, a producer suggested booking Michael Moore and was told that she would need to book 3 right-wingers for balance. I considered suggesting Noam Chomsky as a guest, but our studio couldn't accommodate the 86 right-wingers we would have needed for balance...
NBC, CNBC, MSNBC are owned by GE. When I worked at MNSBC, some of the constraints imposed on the "Donahue" show were the result of GE ownership and a conservative NBC boss who'd come out of GE Financial and GE's plastics division.
Fox News is owned by the right-wing Rupert Murdoch (and News Corporation), and does Murdoch's ideological bidding.
ABC is owned by Disney. You'll remember that CEO Michael Eisner said that Disney wouldn't distribute "Fahrenheit 911" because Disney "didn't want to be in the middle of a politically-oriented film during an election year." Eisner's comment was allowed to pass only because so few people realize that Disney is one of the biggest purveyors of political opinion this election year and every recent election year -- almost all of it right-wing political opinion. Each day in major radio markets nationwide, Disney radio stations serve up hour after hour of Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Matt Drudge, etc. etc.
CBS News, owned by Viacom, got taken in by forged documents -- and then censored accurate reporting critical of Bush, apparently at the behest of Viacom's CEO, Sumner Redstone. Six weeks before the election Redstone endorsed Bush on behalf of Viacom: "From a Viacom standpoint, the election of a Republican administration is a better deal. Because the Republican administration has stood for many things we believe in, deregulation and so on."
Sunday, November 21, 2004
"The Swiss novelist and playwright Max Frisch tells the story of an ambassador's visit to the Hermitage in Leningrad: 'He wanted to see the art known to be hidden in the Hermitage and not shown to the public. Works of the old Russian avant-garde. The museum functionary -- a woman who is a connoisseur -- showed him this and that. His last wish: The Black Square of Malevich. Why that? Because it exists, said the ambassador, and it's here, in the Hermitage.... And the two of them stood, thrilled, before Malevich. Why don't you go and hang it right next to the paintings of soial realism in which the Soviet people recognize themselves at work for society, and people would see -- Malevich is baloney! The woman listened. Seriously, though, said the ambassador, you don't have to hide Malevich in the cellar; nobody would look at it. The woman laughed: You're wrong, she said. People wouldn't understand the point of a black square, but they would see that something else exists beside the society and the state.'" --Joyce Carol Oates
Saturday, November 20, 2004
"If I were president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United states in a few days. Permanently.
I would first apologize—very publicly and very sincerely—to all the widows and orphans, the impoverished and tortured, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism.
Then I would announce to every corner of the world that America's global military interventions have come to an end.
I would then inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the union but—oddly enough—a foreign country.
Then I would reduce the military budget by at least 90 percent and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims and repair the damage from the many American bombings, invasions, and sanctions. There would be more than enough money. One year's military budget in the United States is equal to more than $20,000 per hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was born. That's one year.
That's what I'd do on my first three days in the White House. On the fourth day, I'd be assassinated." --William Blum
Not What You Think claims the US is in Iraq because of Israel, not oil
While Iraq and the hidden euro-dollar wars argues that it is about the oil after all, through which the US influences the rest of the world and keeps the dollar strong
While Iraq and the hidden euro-dollar wars argues that it is about the oil after all, through which the US influences the rest of the world and keeps the dollar strong
Friday, November 19, 2004
"What's the difference between Aunt Jemima and Condoleeza Rice?
One is a 2 dimensional fictional character, used to sell a product, a play on stereotypes in order to allow the consumer to feel safer because their "black mammy" would never lead them astray...
And the other is Aunt Jemima."
Before a recount can be started in Ohio the vote must be certified, but it looks like the Ohio Secretary of State (coincidentally a zealous Bush campaigner and notorious minority vote suppressor) is dragging his feet on certifying the vote:
"Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, co-chair of President Bush’s 2004 Ohio Campaign Committee had told the press recently that certification of the vote would not take place until around December 6th, leaving only a week for the recount before the Ohio members of the Electoral College convened on December 13th.
“What’s the point of having a recount if it won’t be completed in time? Everyone knows what happened in Florida in 2000 and no one wants to see that happen again,” said Blair Bobier, Media Director for the Cobb-LaMarche campaign"
"For 40 years, the Dayton Daily News reports this morning, Shirley Wightman has worked at polling places on election days. Two weeks ago, she says, turnout was high - 611 voters.. in Washington Township, Ohio... Yet when the votes were tallied, 168 of the 611 voters had made no choice for president. Unless these were the famed undecideds we heard so much about in the closing weeks of the campaigns, something went terribly wrong..."
Thursday, November 18, 2004
"It’s the right debating the far right," said Amy Goodman of mainstream American media in an interview on the Tucker Carlson show.
She's also "concerned about a right-wing takeover at PBS,", referring to the recent departure of Bill Moyers and the addition of a show featuring The Wall Street Journal editorial board and also Mr. Carlson’s show.
Here's a transcript of the show itself
"Secret laws will become commonplace. Already no one is allowed to see the regulation calling for additional screening for airline passengers. The regulation is regarded as sensitive security information. In short Americans can now be obligated to comply with legally binding regulations that are unknown to them, and that indeed they are forbidden to know..."
"This election is not the first suspicious venture into electronic voting. In Georgia, in November 2002, Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes led by 11 percent and Democratic Sen. Max Cleland was in front by 5 percent just before the election – the first ever conducted entirely on touch-screen electronic machines, and counted entirely by company employees, rather than public officials – but mysterious election-day swings of 16 percent and 12 percent defeated both of these popular incumbents. In Minnesota, Democrat Walter Mondale (replacing beloved Sen. Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash), lost in an amazing last-moment 11 percent vote swing recorded on electronic machines. Then, in 2003, what's known as "black box voting" helped Arnold Schwarzenegger – who had deeply offended female, Latino and Jewish voters – defeat a popular Latino Democrat who substantially led in polls a week before the election..."
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
"It was the Germans who began bombing civilian populations rather than military targets... Hitler describes the tactic as "Schrecklichkeit" (frightfulness), the use of terror to break a country's will to resist"
"Our strength is in our quickness and our brutality. Ghengis Khan had millions of women and children killed by his own will and with a gay heart. History sees only in him a great state builder. What weak Western European civilization thinks about me does not matter … Thus for the time being I have sent to the East only my “Death's Head Units” with the order to kill without pity or mercy all men, women and children of Polish race or language. Only in such a way will we win the vital space that we need. Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?"
On the Moral Implications of Torture and Exemplary Assassination
The Bush administration has more CEOs working in it than any administration in history... So where does that get us?
If the US can increase the fuel efficiency of its automobiles by one mile per gallon, it would conserve as much oil as there is in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge that Bush has been pushing to drill in. Increasing the fuel efficiency to 7.6 miles per gallon would conserve as much oil as we use from the entire Gulf region...
Instead, the Bush administration has eliminated tax breaks to buyers of the most fuel-efficient hybrids, and increased tax breaks to purchasers of the biggest gas guzzlers... so much so that for some people it's cheaper to buy a Hummer than to buy a $22k fuel-efficient hybrid. It's not so surprising then to hear that when he was a Senator, Bush's Energy Secretary got more money from the automobile industry than any Senator in history...
The head of the Forest Service is a timber industry lobbyist... The head of the Public Lands is a mining industry lobbyist who believes that public lands are unconstitutional... The head of the Air Division at the EPA is a utility lobbyist who has represented nothing but the worst air poluters in America... The head of Superfund (hazardous waste cleanup program) is a woman who's last job was teaching companies how to evade Superfund...
Monday, November 15, 2004
"If, for example, touchscreen (or DRE - “direct recording electronic”) voting enabled widespread fraud, then the size of the discrepancy between the exit polls and reality should increase as the percentage of votes cast by DRE increases. The charts show no such pattern by any type of voting equipment, so the CalTech/MIT researchers concluded, “there is no evidence that electronic voting machines were used to steal the 2004 election for George Bush.”"
"One problem though... the CalTech/MIT report used the "corrected" exit poll data now available online at CNN.com..."
Analysis of the CalTech/MIT election fraud paper
Wikipedia page on 2004 U.S. Election controversies and irregularities
(the article itself has stirred up controversy on Wikipedia)
(the article itself has stirred up controversy on Wikipedia)
"The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the President's agenda"
The end of the CIA as we know it?
More...
Sunday, November 14, 2004
"He leaves early to avoid traffic — the crush of cars makes him jumpy. On more than one occasion, he has imagined snipers with their sights on him in the streets. Diesel fumes cause flashbacks. He keeps a vial of medication in his pocket and pops a pill when he gets nervous..."
""I'm taking enough drugs to sedate an elephant, and I still wake up dreaming about it," LaBranche said. "I wish I had just freaking died over there.""
Psychiatric fallout from the Iraq war
Saturday, November 13, 2004
November 9 study of the exit poll and official tallies in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania finds the figures totally incompatible.
“The likelihood of any two of these statistical anomalies occurring together is in the order of one-in-a-million. The odds of all three occurring together are 250 million to one,” the MIT Ph.D calculated. “As much as we can say in social science that something is impossible, it is impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote counts in the three critical battleground states of the 2004 election could have been due to chance or random error.”
Friday, November 12, 2004
"Facticity denotes the conditions according to which one’s possibilities are determined and limited by one’s circumstances, one’s “being-in-the world.” [Heidegger's] interest in scholasticism focuses on categories of living language that have no correspondence with objects in the world, like marks of privation and negation and categories for non-existent entities like “Nothing”... the empty word “being” figures at the heart of questions about the generation of sense in everyday human experience.
At this stage the problem of what [Heidegger] calls “the hermeneutics of facticity” lies in the self-reflexive puzzle according to which facticity must be considered, already, as a kind of hermeneutics. Everyday experience already articulates and interprets its world, so that any attempt to interpret facticity would be an attempt to interpret interpretation..."
The head of Ohio's elections commision, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, "also co-chairs the Ohio committee to re-elect George Bush... he publicly spearheaded Republican efforts in the state to reduce the number of his fellow African-Americans whose votes would go to the Democrats
In some cases, the courts over-ruled him, and - much to their credit - most black voters stood up his harassing tactics. But Blackwell never stopped trying...
Edward S Herman's landmark essay, The Banality of Evil, has never
seemed more apposite. "Doing terrible things in an organized and
systematic way rests on 'normalization'," wrote Herman. "There is
usually a division of labor in doing and rationalizing the
unthinkable... It is the function of the experts, and the mainstream
media, to normalize the unthinkable for the general public."
Normalizing colonial crimes like the attack on Fallujah requires such racism, linking our imagination to "the other". The thrust of the reporting is that the "insurgents" are led by sinister foreigners... No irony is noted that the foreigners in Iraq are overwhelmingly American...
Fallujah, The Us Elections And 9/11
Thursday, November 11, 2004
"In 1998, for no special reason, Orrin Hatch decided that only one senator needed to object to a nomination. This made it easier for Republicans to obstruct Bill Clinton's nominees.
In 2001, when one of their own became president, Hatch suddenly reversed course and decided that it should take two objections after all. That made it harder for Democrats to obstruct George Bush's nominees..."
In 2001, when one of their own became president, Hatch suddenly reversed course and decided that it should take two objections after all. That made it harder for Democrats to obstruct George Bush's nominees..."
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
"'All of the Middle East and indeed the whole world is now extremely suspicious that US Marine forces slaughtered civilians in Fallujah indiscriminately,' Joseph Arrieta wrote at the time. 'Not only that, it appears Marine snipers did a lot of killing. This is not some errant bomb or missile that created "collateral damage," it’s the alleged deliberate, careful sighting of civilian targets with spotters targeting men, women, children and ambulances,' all war crimes.
Now, 'A hospital has been razed to the ground in one of the heaviest US air raids in the Iraqi city of Falluja,' reports the BBC.
What Sort of Criminal Monsters Bomb Hospitals?
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
More voting weirdness in Ohio
A call to action regarding the election fraud
Votergate 2004: We Don't Need Paper to Prove Fraud, But We Do Need Money and Leadership, NOW
More on the owners of the voting machine manufacturers
"one precinct in Youngstown, Ohio, recorded a negative 25 million votes, which was discarded from official results"
Tonight I'm going to party like it's 1999
Monday, November 08, 2004
Media Black Out on Vote Fraud Allegations
Kerry Conceded But Did He Really Lose?
a DemocracyNow interview with Avi Rubin and Bev Harris
Analysis Of Exit Polls Vs. Supposed Ballot Counts
10,000 vote overcount in Nebraska
Conflict of interest in voting machine manufacturers
Phil Foster of Sequoia Systems (one of the largest electronic voting machine manufacturers) was indicted for money laundering and bribery in 2001
Tom Eschberger of BRC (now part of another very large electronic voting machine manufacturer, ES&S) was involved in a bribery and kickback case in 2002
Sunday, November 07, 2004
Some embarrasing technical details about the electronic voting machines
British trying to impeach Blair over WMD claims that led to war
Citizens for Legitimate Government
The Numbers Don't Add Up: Nader supporters voting for Bush?
Saturday, November 06, 2004
"When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who hacked it and how. And not just this year, he said, but that these same people had previously hacked the Democratic primary race in 2002 so that Jeb Bush would not have to run against Janet Reno, who presented a real threat to Jeb, but instead against Bill McBride, who Jeb beat."
Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
Friday, November 05, 2004
Kerry won by Greg Palast
Interview with Greg Palast (starting at 00:06:00)
Interview with Greg Palast (starting at 00:06:00)
Was the Ohio Election Honest and Fair?
official Ohio Secretary of State web site on the 2004 elections
Global monitors find faults [in 2004 US elections]
Discrepancies between electronic voting machine totals
Bug in electronic voting machines "subtracts votes after the absentee tally hit 32,500 -- a ceiling put in place by the software makers"
Exit polling discrepancies
Another take
The Associated Press reports on electronic voting machine miscounts
North Carolina electronic voting machine tallies 11,283 too many votes for Bush
Voting irregularities in seven Southern states
Running tally of voting machine malfunctions
Voting in 2004 was more problematic than in 2000
Republican Senator and former Senate Ethics Director resigned after revelations that he owned the largest electronic voting machine company ES&S
Much more on voting fraud in 2004 election
Finally Democrats demand a little action
Nader challenges electronic voting machine counts in NH
"This chart makes the trend obvious. In states with paper ballots and audit trails, the exit polls accurately predicted the vote results. In states using electronic machines, the vote results were distorted in favor of Bush."
Thursday, November 04, 2004
Monday, November 01, 2004
"He didn’t give interviews, or write political essays... But he did want
to get a school of students to see what he had seen: that Western
liberalism led to nihilism, and had undergone a development at the end
of which it could no longer define itself or defend itself. A
development which took everything praiseworthy and admirable out of
human beings, and made us into dwarf animals. Made us into herd
animals—sick little dwarves, satisfied with a dangerous life in which
nothing is true and everything is permitted...
Strauss believed that the liberal idea of individual freedom led people to question everything—all values, all moral truths. Instead, people were led by their own selfish desires. And this threatened to tear apart the shared values which held society together. But there was a way to stop this..."
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Don't Buy Your International Tickets Online
"Unlike deregulated domestic USA airfares, international airfares are regulated both by international treaties and by an international airline price-fixing cartel, the International Air Transportation Association (IATA).
It's worth noting that every USA-based airline operating scheduled international passenger flights has voluntarily joined IATA. USA airlines' invocations of "open markets", "free trade", and "open skies" can be dismissed as completely hypocritical and self-serving drivel until such time as they exercise their right to withdraw from IATA, as any of them could at any time. USA airlines are allowed to participate in IATA "traffic conferences" only because of a special exemption granted them from USA anti-trust laws which normally forbid such industry-wide collusion on prices..."
But there's a loophole in the system: travel agents can sell tickets at a discount from the "official" (overinflated) prices. However, electronic ticketing systems like Travelocity can't:
"All official fares are "published" either in hardcopy in the Official Airline Guides (OAG) or the Air Tariff, or electronically in the computerized reservation systems (CRS's) such as Sabre, Apollo, Amadeus, Worldspan, and Gabriel. By the very nature of the IATA price-fixing system, airlines cannot admit any knowledge of the fact that agents are selling tickets for less than the official fares. So only published fares are shown in any CRS."
"The essential cruelty of Bush's game is that he takes an astonishingly selfish and greedy collection of economic and political proposals, and then cloaks them with a phony moral authority..."
Al Gore's latest attack on Bush
Friday, October 22, 2004
Monday, October 18, 2004
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Monday, October 11, 2004
"We are at risk of becoming an autocracy in three key respects.
First, Republican parliamentary gimmickry has emasculated legislative opposition in the House of Representatives...
Second, electoral rules have been rigged to make it increasingly difficult for the incumbent party to be ejected by the voters...
Third, the federal courts, which have slowed some executive-branch efforts to destroy liberties, will be a complete rubber stamp if the right wins one more presidential election."
Sunday, October 10, 2004
"President Bush and his administration have embarked on a reckless and extreme course that endangers the long-term economic health of our nation ... The differences between President Bush and John Kerry with respect to leadership on the economy are wider than in any other presidential election in our experience. President Bush believes that tax cuts benefiting the most wealthy Americans are the answer to almost every economic problem... Here, as elsewhere, Bush is dead wrong, and too dogmatic to admit it." --Joseph Stiglitz, professor of economics at Columbia University and Nobel prize winner
Friday, October 08, 2004
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Some PATRIOT Act provisions temporarily defeated in US District court. The ruling is subject to appeal.
Carnival of Chaos: a collection of collages inspired by the violent response of George W Bush to the suicide attacks on the twin towers in New York on September 11th 2001, and his increasingly megalomaniacal behaviour since that event.
Monday, September 27, 2004
Friday, September 24, 2004
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
The Campaign for Reader Privacy - Fighting Ashcroft's PATRIOT Act provisions which allow the government to spy on your library records and bookstore purchases
Monday, September 20, 2004
How do the Democrats and Republicans fare on economic policy?
"...The Clinton administration presided over the longest peacetime economic expansion in U.S. history. The national debt fell dramatically, the industrial sector boomed, wages grew and more Americans found jobs. In contrast, the Bush administration has presided over the weakest job-creation cycle since the Great Depression, record household debt, the highest-ever bankruptcy rate and a substantial increase of those who live in poverty..."
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Monday, September 13, 2004
"Despite consistent efforts to turn Ronald Reagan in to a minor deity, the philosophical progenitor of our current conservative government is Barry Goldwater... who energized fledgling conservative Republican cadres and began the march toward political dominance.
But it was a grassroots evangelical Christian campaign that made that dominance possible..."
Evangelism in Social, Domestic and Foreign Policy
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Created some new debs: one for
obpager another for qlogtools, and another for xhkeys
To get them just add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list
For Debian stable add:
deb http://debian.shyper.com/debian stable/ deb-src http://debian.shyper.com/debian stable/
or
For Debian unstable add:
deb http://debian.shyper.com/debian unstable/ deb-src http://debian.shyper.com/debian unstable/
And then run
apt-get updateThen you should be able to use apt-get as usual to install obpager, qlogtools, libblowfish, and zebedee.
3 books and 35 movies:
Fahrenheit 9/11
Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War
Unprecedented - 2000 Presidential Election
House of Bush, House of Saud: The secret relationship between the world's two most powerful dynasties
The Iron Triangle: Inside the secret world of The Carlyle Group
The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money
The Great Unraveling: Losing our way in the new century
Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron
Rise of the Vulcans: The history of Bush's war cabinet
Bushwomen: Tales of a cynical species
The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a national disorder
Crude Politics: How Bush's oil cronies hijacked the war on terrorism
Worse than Watergate: The secret presidency of George W. Bush
The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity -- A Diplomat's Memoir
Battle Ready by Tom Clancy, with General Tony Zinni
The President of Good & Evil: The ethics of George W. Bush
The Book on Bush: How George W. (mis)leads America
Fraud: The strategy behind the Bush lies and why the media didn't tell you
and 19 others in Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government
"the most visible -- overwhelming and intimidating -- presence on the street was the police... To "march," that is, actually meant to step from pen to pen, hemmed in everywhere, your protest at the mercy of the timing, tactics, and desires of the police..."
Nick Turse reports from the RNC in NY.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Sunday, August 08, 2004
Saturday, August 07, 2004
"What does the government of the United States do when faced with a choice between supporting: (a) a group of totalitarian military thugs guilty of murdering thousands, systematic torture, widespread rape, and leaving severely mutilated corpses in the streets ... or (b) a non-violent priest, legally elected to the presidency by a landslide, whom the thugs have overthrown in a coup? ... But what if the priest is a "leftist"?"
Killing Hope: American atrocities around the world
Thursday, August 05, 2004
"When the party Mr. Bush is hosting in his world ends, you'll be left picking shrimp toast out of the carpet." --Ronald Reagan's son speaks out against Bush
Monday, August 02, 2004
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Monday, July 19, 2004
socketlock is a dynamic library that wraps libc's bind() and connect()
functions. Its purpose is to force bad programs to bind to specific IP's on multihomed machines.
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Monday, July 12, 2004
Monday, July 05, 2004
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Monday, June 14, 2004
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Friday, May 28, 2004
Thursday, May 20, 2004
"In March 2003, a teenage girl named Courtney presented one of her poems before an audience at Barnes & Noble bookstore in Albuquerque, then read the poem live on the school's closed-circuit television channel.
A school military liaison and the high school principal accused the girl of being 'un-American' because she criticized the war in Iraq and the Bush administration's failure to give substance to its 'No Child Left Behind' education policy.
The girl's mother, also a teacher, was ordered by the principal to destroy the child's poetry. The mother refused and may lose her job..."
Roses are red...
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
"At the Camp War Horse detention centre in Baguba, north of Baghdad, it is a surreal scene: US soldiers handing out cash to freed prisoners along with a note saying 'You have not been mistreated.'
'Have you been mistreated?' the governor asks the detainees, dressed in orange boilersuits. 'No. We have never been tortured,' chorused those behind bars as some 50 soldiers stood nearby...
One interrogator explained his methods for getting prisoners to talk.
"I try to build a relationship and get their view point, and make them comfortable... I try to be friendly and open-minded," he said.
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Very interesting and informative article on the systematic causes of the torture of Iraqi prisoners, written by the man who first published the torture photos in the New Yorker (and, incidentally, who also exposed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam), Seymour Hersh.
Monday, May 10, 2004
Friday, May 07, 2004
Saturday, May 01, 2004
Transcript of Bush and Cheney's testimony before the 911 Commission, obtained from a secret recording of the meeting.
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Thursday, April 08, 2004
"With the ratification of HR 3077... professors whose ideological principles may not support U.S. practices abroad can have their appointments terminated, any part of a course's curriculum containing criticisms of U.S. foreign policy can be censored, and any course deemed entirely anti-American can be barred from ever being taught."
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Friday, March 26, 2004
"Evola charges American society with creating a totally vacuous kind of human being, whose terms of reference are exclusively related to personal enrichment, whether financial or 'psychological'; one incapable of autonomous choice, an abject conformist; someone who has been made crass and incapable by a materially easy life which is without idealist impulse. Far from being the acme of human progress, American society is in fact at the most advanced stage of disintegration of modern civilisation..."
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Saturday, March 13, 2004
"What is clearer proof of Roman wickedness than the sight of many nobles, to whom Roman citizenship should be valued as a splendid and dignified state, so distraught by their nation's savagery that they no longer wish to be Romans? ...far and wide they migrate either to the Goths, the Bagaudae or other tribes wherever they be in power ...preferring to live as freemen under a veneer of captivity than as captives under the guise of liberty ...the title of Roman citizen, at one time both greatly valued and dearly bought, is now repudiated and evaded." --Salvian of Marseilles
Thursday, March 11, 2004
"The problem to be solved is to output a value judgment about operating systems. The assumptions being (of course) that UNIX is good and Windows is bad." Understanding Object Oriented Programming
Monday, March 08, 2004
Sunday, March 07, 2004
When writing numerical dates please use the "YYYY-MM-DD" format, as per ISO 8601. For example, 2004-03-07. It makes life simpler for us all.
Friday, March 05, 2004
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Saturday, February 28, 2004
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Sunday, February 22, 2004
"It’s a rejection card. How impersonal. Most places at least scribble something with a pen like “Good, but we’re out of business” or something. This was just a stupid card with some little ditty about plums..."
Slushkiller
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
"Once upon a time, mighty Indra, lord of the heavens, king of the dawn, paused by the shores of the sea of milk and listened to the song it sang. "Just for a moment", he thought to himself. "That can't do any harm." But before he knew it, the song drew him headlong into the sea and he vanished, to be reborn in the world as a mortal..."
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Monday, February 16, 2004
Thursday, February 12, 2004
"Java actually isn't a terrible language, compared to something like Perl for example, but there are some tremendous problems with it that I think don't get discussed openly enough..."
Java: Language of Tommorow ;)
Monday, February 09, 2004
Friday, February 06, 2004
Thursday, February 05, 2004
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
"As an adjective, "childfree" refers to one who does not have children, does not wish to have them, believes that he or she will never want children, actively plans his or her life so that he or she will not have children, and does not consider his or her life diminished by the absence of children. As a noun, it refers to someone who is childfree or a group of people who are childfree. Another word for this concept is "childless by choice...""
Sunday, February 01, 2004
Friday, January 23, 2004
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Monday, January 19, 2004
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Monday, January 12, 2004
Sunday, January 11, 2004
"With GNU id-utils many text-searching tasks become simpler and faster. For example, you can list all files that reference a particular `#include' file throughout a huge source hierarchy, search for all the memos containing references to a project, or automatically invoke an editor on all files containing references to some function or variable. Anyone with a large software project to maintain, or a large set of text files to organize, can benefit from the ID utilities."
"Wipe repeatedly writes special patterns to the file or files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access, in order to lessen the chance of data recovery using techniques such as magnetic force microscopy."
Friday, January 09, 2004
Sunday, January 04, 2004
Saturday, January 03, 2004
Thursday, January 01, 2004
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