Bob Morris @ Oct 5th 2002 22:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
Ireland heating up big time
A suspected Provisional IRA spy operating at the heart of government passed hundreds of sensitive political documents to Sinn Fein, it has emerged after a series of dawn raids by police in Belfast.
Bob Morris @ Oct 5th 2002 22:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bin Laden is alive
Osama bin Laden is alive and regularly meeting Mullah Omar, the fugitive leader of the Taliban, according to a telephone call intercepted by American spy satellites.
Bob Morris @ Oct 5th 2002 22:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
1.5 million people protest Iraq war in Italy
You read that right. 1.5 million
More than 1.5 million Italians took to the streets of dozens of cities Saturday afternoon and evening to protest possible U.S. military action against Iraq — a surprise show of discord that could be fervent enough for the Italian government to re-think its support of Washington.
Bob Morris @ Oct 5th 2002 19:52 - Category: Unfiled ;
Why the Net was broken Thursday
UUNet, who handle 50% of the world’s Net traffic, was doing a router upgrade and they botched it.
Network experts were troubled at UUNet’s choice to deploy a wide-scale upgrade without testing and retesting the configurations first.
Actually, installing without testing goes beyond botching it and straight into idiocy.
Be scared, UUNet is owned by Worldcom
WorldCom, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after a major corporate accounting scandal, claims that 60 percent of Fortune 1000 businesses use its UUNet network services.
But, if they’re bankrupt, I guess customers can’t sue them…
Bob Morris @ Oct 5th 2002 19:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
Disconnect between American People and their elected representatives.
Last evening, as usual my wife and I listened to Friday’s offerings on the local PBS station: Jim Lehrer Newshour, Washington Week, and Bill Moyers’ NOW. All day, though, I had been in a funk about what I thought was Dick Gephardt’s “double cross” to the American people by declaring that he will vote for Bush’s Resolution on Iraq. Evidently Gephardt’s move had effectively deflated a move in the Senate by Biden and Lugar to propose an alternative wording to Bush’s Resolution.
Slowly as I listened, my depresssed state changed a little, as I heard more and more bits of encouraging news, the kind that I had not discovered cruising the newspapers and other sources on the Internet: by an estimated 20 to 1 margin, the American people are telling their representatives in Congress that they are against the prospect of war with Iraq.
What these pundits expressed in addition was interesting: if the mail being received by Congress is in that 20 to 1 range against a ware with Iraq, “Why is there such a strong support in favor of Bush’s Resolution?” The answers, as I recall, were not very plausible. Something like “To be at the side of the President in a time of national crisis.”
Yesterday I posted a piece from the CSM: Forget Desert Storm. Instead Expect Urban Storm. and Nicholas Kristof’s Op Ed in the NYT . Both had virtually the same message: although the Iraqi people hate Saddam, they hate the US more, and will respond to an invasion with determined resistance.
Here’s the disconnect, the America people are telling their representatives, “No, we don’t want war!” It’s disgusting. Via [Blog Left: Critical Interventions]
Indeed, the people are screaming NO WAR and Congress is ignoring them. Why? It is very odd…
Bob Morris @ Oct 5th 2002 10:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
California Latino Caucus rejects Gray Davis
This is an extraordinary move by the Latino caucus.
A group of Democratic Latino lawmakers rejected an endorsement of Gov. Gray Davis’ re-election campaign Friday, angered about the governor’s veto of a measure that would have allowed illegal immigrants to get a driver’s license.
The decision by the Legislative Latino Caucus was a blow to the Davis campaign, which has relied on strong support from the traditionally Democratic Latino community. The caucus, which ostensibly represents the state’s 22 Latino Democratic lawmakers, voted four years ago to endorse Davis.
Hey, imagine there was a candidate who favored the the drivers license initiative, and who was also a Latino. Could the Latino caucus back him? Could there be such a candidate? Why yes, there is.
Bob Morris @ Oct 5th 2002 10:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
Shut up Tony, says Bush
Humiliating rebuff for Blair initiative
Now Bush is attacking allies. I tell ya, this guy is just out of control.
Tony Blair’s drive for Middle East peace talks has suffered an embarrassing setback at the hands of the US president, George Bush, only days after the prime minister flagged up his plan at the Labour party conference in Blackpool.
Mr Blair is pushing for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks, backed by an international conference, before the end the year. He has told colleagues that, with war looming in Iraq, he regards it as essential to deal with one of the main causes of Arab resentment against the west.
But the Guardian has learnt that Mr Bush has blocked the initiative and has made it clear to Mr Blair that he does not want such talks to be held in the near future.
Bob Morris @ Oct 5th 2002 00:58 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Oct 5th 2002 00:58 - Category: Unfiled ;
What a guy
Tom Daschle flies to L.A. last weekend for a six million dollar fundraiser attended by progressive Democrats at Barbra Streisand’s. Then he goes back to D.C. and announces he is for Bush’s war.
Tell me progressive Democrats, when will you tire of being abused and backstabbed?
Bob Morris @ Oct 5th 2002 00:57 - Category: Unfiled ;
No kidding???
Water privatization a touchy issue for California
The apparent breakdown of a deal between private Cadiz Inc. and the public Metropolitan Water District (MWD) to build a $150-million water storage facility in the Mojave Desert has called into question the role of private enterprise in supplying water to public.
The Los Angeles Times reported the issue evokes fears of the kind of corporate profiteering and market manipulation alleged in the wake of energy deregulation in the state. <You betcha we got fears about that>
“Opposition to water transfers is extraordinarily emotional, and it evolves into a theological issue,” Ric Davidge, head of World Water, an Alaska company proposing to tap two Northern California rivers and ship the water to Southern California in enormous floating plastic bags <Golly, why would anyone have fears about plans like that?>
Hmm, gigantic floating bags of water being towed from Northern California to San Diego. What a big fat tempting target for radical enviros.
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