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Monday, Oct 24, 2005

equal rites

"Seymour Hersh and Scott Ritter on Iraq, WMDs and the Role of the Clinton Administration in the 1990s"

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sartorial witlessness

dear national review - ive noticed lately that the homeless people outside my window dress better than me. should i be concerned......................that theyre too well cared for or is it encumbent upon me to inquire as to their preferred haberdasher?


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hens in the foxhouse

juan cole suggests that the media climate in the post 911 world "forced" the new york times to give miller more lattitude in her coverage. basically, the papers leadership got sand kicked in their face by fox, and after they were done crying, they ran home and ordered the charles atlas booklet from the back of a comicbook so they could stand up to o' reilly next time he tried to steal their lunch money. please, they should have done what every other sane liberal does, not even bother to listen to those assholes. but if this is about market share, as he cole contends, then all hope is already lost for them.

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knickerbocker press

lots of chatter over a brent scowcroft related piece in the new yorker yesterday but i see today that they havent put it up for our delectation. if im not mistaken, the new yorker was predominantly liberally hawkish in the run up to war. in fact, i believe the guy who wrote the scowcroft piece was one of its biggest cheerleaders. so, thanks for nothing, then and now, unless you find this q&a with the author satisfactory.

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Tuesday, Oct 18, 2005

times select

theres a link to "blogger reaction" to judith miller on the times home page.

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Saturday, Oct 15, 2005

here comes president zod again

what we need is a ruler with an iron fist who doesnt mince words.

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be not proud

i think we should put politicians and their scum sucking consultants to death for egregious campaign ads. anybody opposed?

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Thursday, Oct 13, 2005

cant hardly wait

"With major companies and nations large and small adopting similar logic, the Arctic is undergoing nothing less than a great rush for virgin territory and natural resources worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Even before the polar ice began shrinking more each summer, countries were pushing into the frigid Barents Sea, lured by undersea oil and gas fields and emboldened by advances in technology. But now, as thinning ice stands to simplify construction of drilling rigs, exploration is likely to move even farther north."

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Wednesday, Oct 12, 2005

damaged truth

""Washington and London did not trust the peoples of their democracies to come to the right decisions," Gardiner explains. Consequently, "Truth became a casualty. When truth is a casualty, democracy receives collateral damage." For the first time in US history, "we allowed strategic psychological operations to become part of public affairs... [W]hat has happened is that information warfare, strategic influence, [and] strategic psychological operations pushed their way into the important process of informing the peoples of our two democracies.""

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Friday, Oct 07, 2005

weaponized prize

"This morning's announcement that the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to the IAEA sends a strong message to the White House that it is time to get serious about non proliferation and arms control. Unfortunately, the White House is not listening."

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