Bob Morris @ Oct 8th 2002 23:59 - Category: Unfiled ;
Yet another reason to go to Linux
Microsoft: Users may have to pay for security.
Microsoft is considering charging for additional security options, and admits it didn’t move on security until customers were ready to pay for it
Microsoft “may offer new security abilities on a paid basis”
Bob Morris @ Oct 8th 2002 19:46 - Category: Unfiled ;
Kazaa, LA Times missing in action
From the happily acerbic L.A. Examiner
A group of recording and motion picture companies has asked a Los Angeles federal judge to find the people behind the file-swapping service KaZaA, who they say are contributing to copyright infringement and financially benefiting from it. Problem: No one knows where the bigwigs are.
“Sharman Networks, the distributor of the program, is incorporated in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu and managed from Australia. Its computer servers are in Denmark and the source code for its software was last seen in Estonia,” the New York Times reports. KaZaA’s original developers are thought to be living in the Netherlands, but entertainment lawyers have been unable to find them. Kazaa, remember, has an extremely tight relationship with Woodland Hills-based Brilliant Digital Entertainment. This is a case being brought by some of Hollywood’s biggest guns in a Los Angeles courtroom.
Sure glad the New York Times is there to keep Angelenos informed.
Bob Morris @ Oct 8th 2002 16:47 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Venezuela;
Military Coup Attempt Imminent in Venezuela
Both StratFor, a right wing intelligence providing service, and NarcoNews, a left-wing website specializing in South American politics, are predicting a coup attempt in Venezuela real soon now.
First from the lofty, formal StratFor:
A military coup attempt against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is imminent, according to STRATFOR sources in Caracas and the United States. The attempt could be launched within days or even hours.
The Chavez regime already has deployed hundreds of soldiers throughout Caracas. The government also has begun conducting raids on the homes of politicians and military officers suspected of direct involvement in the plot.
Then from the informal, street-level NarcoNews
I’d say that a coup attempt is very likely, a successful coup attempt is very much less likely, but still a possibility. One thing that may affect the coup plotters is that the US ambassador Shapiro indicated, although very gently, that he would prefer that the anti-Chavez groupings work through constitutional means, which most people here interpret as opposition to a coup. Talk is cheap, but people here are very conscious of the US preoccupation with Iraq, and their inability to devote a large amount of attention and support to a possible coup.
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Bob Morris @ Oct 8th 2002 14:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
In Florida, Reno Campaigns For McBride.
“The little red truck that Janet Reno rode across Florida in her quest to challenge Gov. Jeb Bush now sports a Bill McBride for Governor bumper sticker,” the Miami Herald reports. “As she conceded defeat to McBride a week after the primary, Reno pledged to do ‘everything possible’ to see that McBride is elected. And she has kept her word.” [Taegan Goddard's Political Wire]
Bob Morris @ Oct 8th 2002 13:47 - Category: Unfiled ;
News shocker: Iraq war is about OIL
Five months before September 11, the US advocated using force against Iraq … to secure control of its oil.
Strategic Energy Policy Challenges For The 21st Century describes how America is facing the biggest energy crisis in its history. It targets Saddam as a threat to American interests because of his control of Iraqi oilfields and recommends the use of ‘military intervention’ as a means to fix the US energy crisis.
The report is linked to a veritable who’s who of US hawks, oilmen and corporate bigwigs. It was commissioned by James Baker, the former US Secretary of State under George Bush Snr, and submitted to Vice-President Dick Cheney in April 2001 — a full five months before September 11. Yet it advocates a policy of using military force against an enemy such as Iraq to secure US access to, and control of, Middle Eastern oil fields.
Bob Morris @ Oct 8th 2002 12:03 - Category: Unfiled ;
From those wacky Lefties at The Daily Enron
Smiley’s People - At the SEC?
During the Cold War moles were a preoccupation for the intelligence community and juicy fodder for spy thriller authors. Just how high in the intelligence apparatus had the Soviets placed moles? It was only after the fall of the Soviet Union that we discovered some of the answers. Remember Aldrich Ames?
Well, here’s a new piece of paranoia to chew on. Have corporate evildoers placed a mole at the head of the SEC?
Silly, isn’t it? I mean really now. Too silly to be taken seriously. Right?
Next thing these loonie Lefties will be telling us that extreme Christian fundamentalists hold powerful positions in D.C.
Bob Morris @ Oct 8th 2002 10:00 - Category: Unfiled ;
Corporate reforms? Ha…
NYT. Krugman. Very disturbing report on the corporate reform efforts going on in Congress.
What’s amazing is that the enemies of reform felt free to take off their masks even before the election. One can only hope that the media report what’s happening, and that voters, as they look at their shrunken 401(k)’s, remember the false promises of summer. Fool me once . . . [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
Bob Morris @ Oct 8th 2002 09:58 - Category: Unfiled ;
Poll: America less supportive on Iraq.
USA Today - President Bush prepared to make his case for war against Iraq in a Monday night speech as the latest USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll showed Americans are increasingly skeptical about attacking Baghdad.
Bob Morris @ Oct 8th 2002 09:51 - Category: Unfiled ;
US marine killed in Kuwait shootout
American marines say they have come under attack during military exercises on Kuwait’s Failaka island. The US regional command says a US soldier was killed in the shootout.
Bob Morris @ Oct 8th 2002 09:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
Sheesh…
For a wonderful example of the biased coverage mentioned in the article directly below, check the L.A. Times “reporting” of the Brazil election. It is so slanted against da Silva that, by reading it, you’d think the poor man - who came in first, polling 47% vs 23% of second place Jose Serra - hasn’t a chance of winning the runoff.
And, in the print edition, they printed a much larger picture of Serra than da Silva - rather odd considering that da Silva came in first.
This “article” should have been on the Op-Ed page.
Bob Morris @ Oct 8th 2002 00:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
Friends don’t let friends rely on the commercial media
Lula da Silva polled 47% in the Brazil presidential election Sunday, virtually guaranteeing he will win in the runoff on Oct. 27.
NarcoNews, as usual, just scooped the mainstream media with startling news.
“Socialist Party that received 17% has already declared itself united with Lula’s 46.7% vote heading into the second round on October 27th, just 20 days away.
That information hasn’t been told by the commercial wire services or the U.S. media yet. Perhaps the rest of the world will have to wait until October 27th to recognize the peaceful electoral revolution underway in our América. But, kind readers, those of you tuning in to Narco News will not be surprised at all.”
P.S. NarcoNews was the website that broke the actual story of the recent aborted Venezuela coup. While US media was reprinting White House press releases as news saying the President Chavez of Venezuela had resigned, NarcoNews came out of nowhere and blasted the truth to its mailing list - the news that he had not resigned, that it was a botched coup, and that the US was involved. From there, word spread rapidly. A few days later the NY Times and Washington Post, ate their words.
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