From Dave Winer

I’ve been hearing rumors that Google is readying an iTunes-clone, based on RSS 2.0, and fully podcast-capable. Multiple sources on this one.

Google Becoming a Bank, Too?.

The AP, following up on a Wall Street Journal story, reports that Google seems ready to introduce an electronic payment system. The story focuses on the business threat to eBay’s PayPal unit, but that misses the larger point.

Google’s possession of your personal information is growing exponentially. Depending on which tools you use, your browing habits and searches are finding their way into the company’s databases. So are your e-mail archives, if you use GMail (and Google doesn’t even guarantee to delete from its own databases what you’ve deleted from your own inbox).

Now add your financial transactions? I’ll think twice before considering that.

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Sue and I have started a blog about gardening, Downtown Tomatoes, check it out!

What’s that you say, Bob the Fire-Breathing Radical has a gardening blog? Well, yes. After a hard day on the protest lines being screamed at by right wingers it’s nice to come home and see how the tomatoes are doing.

PS Besides, I’m now helping businesses set up blogs and do podcasting. Showing them Polizeros as an example of what I can do could be problematic unless I secretly interrogate them about their politics first. A gardening blog is nice and neutral and presents no such problems!

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Iraq war started too early Attacks preceded congressional OK

From Sue

Why is this news? We knew that the US was bombing Iraq well before Congress officially approved of the war — it was discussed fully in the then news.

And the ANSWER Coalition loudly proclaimed this on their website, via listservs, in speeches at antiwar demonstrations etc. etc. Now suddenly the mainstream has discovered that Bush and Blair were breaking the law, lying through their teeth the whole time and are shocked, just shocked. Who knew, they gasp?  

War crimes

British bombing raids were illegal, says Foreign Office

A sharp increase in British and American bombing raids on Iraq in the run-up to war “to put pressure on the regime” was illegal under international law, according to leaked Foreign Office legal advice. 
 
The decision to provoke the Iraqis emerged in leaked minutes of a meeting between Tony Blair and his most senior advisers — the so-called Downing Street memo published by The Sunday Times shortly before the general election.

Democratic congressmen claimed last week the evidence it contains is grounds for impeaching President George Bush.

Bush and Blair are weak and getting weaker. Now is the time to organize, mobilize, and force these war criminals out of power.

PS Bush even lies to supposed allies

US lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war

American officials lied to British ministers over the use of “internationally reviled” napalm-type firebombs in Iraq.

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