Even the puppets are protesting
Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2006 15:22 - Category: Unfiled ;
Iraqi PM: U.S. rushed Ishaqi probe
Said ‘questions and doubts’ still hover over civilian killings
Archive for June 3rd, 2006
More Big Brother from the Bushies
Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2006 00:18 - Category: Government spying ;
Big Internet and telephone companies are girding to fight an unprecedented call by the Bush administration for them to keep detailed records of customers’ online activities for two years.
Well, I certainly trust them not to use this information to attack political enemies, don’t you? Yeah, right…
Oil workers abducted from rig off Nigeria
Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2006 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
“Normally … they can disappear into the jungle or wherever they happen to be. Now they have 40 kilometres of ocean to get to land. Nigeria does have a navy and they do have aircraft so it’s a risky move on behalf of whoever’s carried out this kidnapping,” he said.
Or a move by someone who had it wired and had inside help. Like, how did they get onto the rig, kidnap eight people, then escape? Something’s not quite adding up here.
The insurgency in Nigeria continues to slowly build. Attacks on oil infrastructure and personnel are the primary targets.
Ya think?
Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2006 00:11 - Category: Unfiled ;
Hey Rolling Stone, it would have helped a whole lot more if you’d published this in November 2004, not June 2006… It’s not like lots of us didn’t know it then.
Heroin: The solution?
Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2006 00:05 - Category: Unfiled ;
An approach to ending heroin addiction that actually works, but is far too sensible to be adopted in here in the States.
Drugs charities called yesterday for Britain to abandon its tough approach to heroin use after research showed one European city had cut the number of new addicts by transforming the image of heroin into a “loser drug”.
The UK should follow the example of Zurich, which adopted a liberal drug policy a decade ago, and has seen an 82 per cent decline in new users of heroin, experts say.
Whoa, best not do that here. Prisons might become dangerously empty. That in turn would mean the end of the gravy train for prison guards, for the contractors who build prisons and the suppliers who supply them, and for the politicians who howl about gittin’ tough on crime. Can’t have that be happening.
