Month July 2005

From The East African It is puzzling that there is no mass movement on environmental degradation in the West similar to the whole “Make Poverty History” thing.  The rich world is said to emit half of the planet’s carbon dioxide…

Rove told reporter of Plame’s role but didn’t name her, attorney says. That is technically true, he identified her as the wife of Charles Wilson, and not by her name. This ploy was known in the Nixon days as the…

Schwarzenegger paid 8 mil in conflict of interest Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to “further the business objectives” of a national publisher…

To quote that great philospher Daffy Duck, it’s “because I’m a greedy little duck.” Corporate America wants to sell undocumented immigrants cars and mortgages and insurance, etc. Embracing IllegalsCompanies are getting hooked on the buying power of 11 million undocumented immigrants.  At…

Stealing WiFi Access. Interesting: Police have arrested a man for using someone else’s wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice. Near as I can tell, there was no other criminal activity involved.…