Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 20:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
Your daily terrorism and bombing news
Shooting reported in suburban Va.
Five die in Phillipines bombings.
Moscow blast ‘could have been terrorist attack’.
Copycat sniper in Ankara.
Indonesia suggests cleric had no part in Bali attack.
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 14:48 - Category: Unfiled ;
A surprise to absolutely no one
I.R.A. Rejects Blair’s Disarmament Demand
The Irish Republican Army was reported today to have delivered a sharp rebuff to demands for its disarmament by Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, in what was taken here as a significant setback to efforts to cement Northern Ireland’s frail peace.
Nor will they disarm until the Protestant paramilitaries do the same. The IRA, lest we forget, invented urban terrorism. Yes they did…
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 14:44 - Category: Unfiled ;
Germans Greens endorse coalition agreement
Ah, to live in a country where Greens are major political players… Maybe it’ll happen here one day too.
After several hours of intense debate over a nuclear power plant, the Green Party rank and file voted to support the coalition agreement with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s ruling Social Democrats. <thus allowing Schröder to take power>
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 14:42 - Category: Unfiled ;
Ancedotal evidence
My parent’s are in their 80’s and live in a retirement home in New England. Most people there are life-long Republicans with backgrounds in the corporate world. They of course lived through WWII. They overwhelmingly favored the Afghanistan bombing because 9/11 understandably reminded them of Pearl Harbor - my Dad included.
I asked him today what the consensus in the retirement home was towards Bush and an Iraq War and he said he couldn’t think of a single person favoring it. No one. Not even the die-hard Republicans.
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 14:40 - Category: Unfiled ;
Rumsfeld alientates Pentagon
I tell ya, this Rumsfeld guy is just out of control…
Nearly two dozen current and former top officers and civilian officials said in interviews that there is a huge discrepancy between the outside perception of Rumsfeld — the crisp, no-nonsense defense secretary who became a media star through his briefings on the Afghan war — and the way he is seen inside the Pentagon.
Many senior officers on the Joint Staff and in all branches of the military describe Rumsfeld as frequently abusive and indecisive, trusting only a tiny circle of close advisers, seemingly eager to slap down officers with decades of distinguished service. The unhappiness is so pervasive that all three service secretaries are said to be deeply frustrated by a lack of autonomy and contemplating leaving by the end of the year.
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 11:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
Arundhati Roy - Am I Anti-American?.
…Donald Rumsfeld said that his mission in the war against terror was to persuade the world that Americans must be allowed to continue their way of life. When the maddened king stamps his foot, slaves tremble in their quarters.
So, it’s hard for me to say this, but the American way of life is simply not sustainable. Because it doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America…
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power: 21st-century market-capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. [machination.org]
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 11:13 - Category: Unfiled ;
Slashdot | Lucky Green vs. Palladium.
CodeTrap writes “Wired has an interesting story “Can a Hacker Outfox Microsoft” on a fellow named Lucky Green that is attempting to force the issue surrounding MS’s Palladium Gambit using a very creative method involving patents. If his patents are granted, MS will be unable to use Palladium to enforce software licensing. If MS challenges his patent, then we all know their true intentions. Very clever indeed.” Via [Privacy Digest]
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 10:57 - Category: Unfiled ;
Wisconsin lawmakers face criminal charges
Republicans: For the second day in a row, prosecutors filed criminal charges today accusing legislative leaders in Wisconsin of misconduct in office. This time it was Republicans in the Assembly, charged with illegally running campaign operations from state offices, using government employees.
Democrats: Charles Chvala, a Democrat who was charged on Thursday with 20 felony counts, including extorting lobbyists
for campaign contributions, will be replaced as Senate majority leader when his caucus meets on Monday.
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 10:55 - Category: Unfiled ;
This probably isn’t even news anymore
Law assuring hospital’s revenue signed after owner gave $200,000 to Gray Davis campaign.
On a single day in August 2001, four companies controlled by a wealthy hospital owner gave $200,000 to Gov. Gray Davis’ campaign. A week later, Davis signed a law assuring the donor’s hospital millions in continued revenue for a controversial surgery that is its specialty.
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 10:53 - Category: Unfiled ;
Maybe they wanted to play 150 bpm techno music?
Police find meth lab in college music room
Math labs are standard features of college campuses, but campus police at Southern Methodist University were surprised when they found what they say was a meth lab in a campus music practice room, campus police said.
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 00:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
Uncle oSAMa Says:
I Want YOU To Invade Iraq
Go ahead. Send me a new generation of recruits. Your bombs will fuel their hatred of America and their desire for revenge. Americans won’t be safe anywhere. Please, attack Iraq. Distract yourself from fighting Al Qaeda. Divide the international community. Go ahead. Destabilize the region. Maybe Pakistan will fall — we want its nuclear weapons. Give Saddam a reason to strike first. He might draw Israel into a fight. Perfect! So please — invade Iraq. Make my day. From TomPaine.com, -this ran as a full page ad in the NY Times.
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 00:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
Please Help The War Effort
Ten sticky and nicely blasphemous things true patriots can do right now to help keep America free
Among them
1. Choose not to believe much of the disinformation spinning forth from the White House at this time. Look at Donald Rumsfeld’s shockingly beady and pitch-black eyes and realize this man, these people, they are deeply convoluted and power blinded and do not have your best interests at heart.
2. Choose, furthermore, not to believe the world is really full of these vile power-mad slugs and lizards and prevaricators and fools and Rumsfelds. Stop thinking this is all there is, war and suffering and apparently very pale and egomaniacal and spiritless men running the world into the ground.
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10. And, finally, believe you are a part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable. You can breathe like this is the most lucid thing there is to believe. You can walk down the street like you are full of divine free wet secrets.
The nation needs your help. This is a time of warmongering and bitterness and semi-literate Texas cowboy wanna-bes who want nothing more than to careen us down the path of perpetual violence and isolationism and dread.
You can do something. You are being implored. Now is your chance. Please help keep America free. Please show your love for your country.
Read the entire article. (Thanks to Booknotes for the link)
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
Naqoyqatsi
Na-qoy-qatsi: (nah koy’ kahtsee)
N. From the Hopi Language.
1. A life of killing each other.
2. War as a way of life.
3. (Interpreted) Civilized violence.
Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio is no great fan of technology. In his early films Koyaanisqatsi (Life Out of Balance) and Powaqqatsi (Life in Transition), machines were at the center of what he saw as an increasingly self-destructive, dehumanizing world. With his new movie, Naqoyqatsi, Reggio takes his mission a step further.
Naqoyqatsi offers an apocalyptic vision: Humans have forsaken nature for binary code, robotics and acceleration. The Miramax film, which opens Oct. 18 in New York and Los Angeles, is perhaps the most forceful critique of technological culture since Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times.
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 00:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
Rockstars against the War
Based in NYC, they want to make sure you are going to the D.C. Peace Rally on Sat. Oct 26. You ARE going, right?
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 00:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
In a startling development
Sinn Fein Chief Rejects IRA Disband
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)–Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on Friday rejected Britain’s call for the outlawed Irish Republican Army to cease all activities.
Bob Morris @ Oct 19th 2002 00:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
Phoenix 0.3 browser released
Phoenix is a souped up, stripped down version of Mozilla (the foundation of the Netscape browser). It is open source, cross-platform, and is designed to run fast and lean.
I’ve been using Phoenix since version 0.1 and even in this early beta stage it is way more stable than my Internet Explorer! Faster too, and wit. New features too - with this version they now have the best Bookmarks/Favorites management of any browser.
And check this out - with each beta release they add more features AND make the code smaller. They estimate the final Windows version will be a petite 6 mb installed.
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