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Archive for October 17th, 2002
Oops – more housekeeping
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Housekeeping
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I have finally gotten some new links up. These are all very good sites, and should have been here a long time ago. My apologies to everyone I told would have links, and then did not get them up in a timely fashion. I plead family visitors. Anyway, I enjoy these sites, so I urge [...]
A victory for open government
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Judicial Watch – Because no one is above the law! Cheney has to turn over his Energy Task Force Documents: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, reported today that a federal court ruled that Vice President Cheney and The Bush White House must produce documents about his Energy Task [...]
Bush to drop force from UN resolution?
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Atrios points us to this story Amid a continuing and often contentious U.N. debate on Iraq on Thursday, the United States appeared to back down from its demands for a U.N. resolution authorizing military force against Iraq. Diplomats told the Associated Press that the U.S. is now floating a compromise that would drop the tough [...]
ACLU gets Media Savy
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I found this story – ACLU Takes on Ashcroft – via Free Pie. I wish this was going to air in a more widespread manner, but it si good to see that someone on civil liberties side is beginning to see the need to show people how Ashcroft’s moves are all connected: ACLU’s 30-second spot [...]
N. Korea Admits trying to build nuclear bomb
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U.S. Not Certain if Pyongyang Has the Bomb This is interesting, if not necessarily scary: North Korea’s surprise revelation, which confronts the Bush administration with a nuclear crisis in Asia even as it threatens war with Iraq, came 12 days ago in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. A senior American diplomat, James A. Kelley, confronted [...]
4 in 10 Americans want to annex Canada
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CTV.ca – Canadian Television’s Web Destination This is weird: Should Canada become the 51st American state? Four out of 10 Americans answered “sure” in a recent poll conducted by Leger Marketing of Montreal. While 38 per cent of respondents said they would be “in favour of Canada being annexed to the United States,” 49 per [...]
Saudis turn blind eye to al-Queda funding
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Report: Terror Funds Flow Through Saudi Arabia (washingtonpost.com) A bipartisan report demonstrates that Saudi Arabia’s government tolerates its citizens raising money for al-Queda: While the United Nations and others have recently warned that the financial war on terror was sputtering, analysts inside and outside government said the conclusions of the panel carry particular weight because [...]
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