Archive for August 29th, 2006


Cuba and Ernesto

From a National Hurricane Center discussion on aircraft monitoring Ernesto

“Special thanks to the government of Cuba for permitting the recon aircraft fly right up to their coastline to gather this critical weather data.”

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Democrats same as Republicans on Lebanon

Tom Lantos, the highest ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, wants aid to Lebanon frozen until the government of Lebanon does the bidding of the US. In condescending language, he said the aid should be “withheld until the Lebanese government displays responsibility.”

His action, which happened after he met with Israeli PM Olmert, was quickly endorsed by the Zionist Organization of America (”founded 1897″) so I’m guessing he doesn’t have the interests of starving Lebanese civilians who need medical supplies uppermost in his mind. Let ‘em starve and bleed to death, “they’re animals anyway”, right, Tom?

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Death squads in Oaxaca

Tens of thousands of demonstrators have seized the streets and radio stations in Oaxaca in a protest that has now lasted for three months. The US State Department is  advising Americans to think twice about going there.

And now paramilitary death squads are in Oaxaca, going after the protestors.

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Foxmarks. Sync bookmarks in Firefox

FoxMarks is an amazing FireFox add-on that keeps bookmarks in sync across multiple computers.

It’s free and simple to install. After you sync the first time it keeps bookmarks in sync on as many computers as you want, even if they run different operating systems, and you can sync manually too.

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