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By
thudfactor on
February 15, 2006
It’s not that I don’t care. But.
Maha posted an article on the 13th that titled “Let’s see how the righties bury this one”:http://www.mahablog.com/2006/02/13/lets-see-how-the-righties-bury-this-one/, refering to a report that Valarie Plame’s outing significantly disrupted the US nuclear anti-proliferation treaty.
Now what’s everyone talking about? Cheney shooting an old man in the face.
Is that the answer? Have they really [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged United States, Valarie Plame
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By
thudfactor on
February 2, 2006
I see that Bush has already had to back off his SOTU promise to replace 75% of Middle-Eastern oil imports with renewable resources.
bq. One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged America, Bush, energy, energy sources, Knight-Ridder, Middle, middle east, New York Times, oil, oil imports, oil supplier, oil supplies, Persian Gulf, Prince Turki, Saudi Arabia, Turki al-Faisal, United States, Washington
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By
thudfactor on
January 30, 2006
An “article in Wired”:http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70100-0.html clued me into the existence of “this searchable interface to Enron corporate email”:http://orange.sims.berkeley.edu/~atf/enron/enron.cgi. A few minutes searching pulls up some interesting stuff, like…er…”Enron’s email retention policy”:http://orange.sims.berkeley.edu/~atf/enron/enron.cgi?artid=232395.
bq. …Imagine if we were required to sift through and digest 12-24 months of e-mail traffic. This has happened to a number of companies in litigation the [...]
Posted in Technology
| Tagged Bill Gates, Enron, HTML, Microsoft, United States
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By
thudfactor on
January 26, 2006
One question that’s bugged us about the President’s domestic surveilence program is this: if the law was insufficient for their needs, why not ask Congress for a change in the law?
That question has not been answered, but it has been made _obsolete_. The new question is: if the law was insufficient, why did they “oppose legislation [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged Bush administration, Congress, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Glenn Greenwald, Mike DeWine, Ohio, senate, United States, Washington Post
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By
thudfactor on
January 7, 2006
I’ve been watching with some interest for a decent explaination about how whistleblowers in the NSA harmed national security enough that someone like Dean Esmay thinks we should try the leakers with high treason, then “hang them by the neck until they are dead, dead, dead.” It just doesn’t make much sense to me, [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Dean Esmay, Glenn Greenwald, high-tech eavesdropping dragnet, law._, United States
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