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.

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

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

More details on the underground cinema in the catacombs of Paris

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 update
Then 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.