Remains
Remains
Oil-For-Kickbacks
- FCC Mandate Forces ‘Backdoors’ in Broadband ISPs and VoIP — the government will be asking broadband providers— as well as companies that manufacture devices used for broadband communications —to create new backdoors for surveillance
ELECTIONS: Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed — Hoo! What a title. Here is an article about certain of the GAO’s findings:
Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings — The United States is the only major democracy that allows private partisan corporations to secretly count and tabulate the votes with proprietary non-transparent software.
Conservatism Being Criminalized — “We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.” — Only because we elect criminals. –(0) ¶
$9.92 Billion
Thats nine-point-motherfucking-nine-two billion (with a ‘b’) dollars. In three months! No surprise really. . . . But, damn!
ABC News: Exxon Mobil, Shell Post Record Profits
- ‘Exterminate white people’ — It seems “racial fanaticism” isn’t just for white nationalist teen pop duos: “We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem.” —Kamau Kambon, bookstore proprieter, author and former instructor at N.C. State University; at a Black Media Forum on the Image of Black Americans in Mainstream Media in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The Man Who Would Murder Death — If you should manage to survive the race wars: A rogue researcher challenges scientists to reverse human aging — Yes. I want to live forever. There. I’ve said it. BUT, what would happen if people keep getting born, yet nobody dies? (Just a thought.) –(0) ¶
CORRECTED: Have we made our position very clear?
CORRECTED: Click “more” to see the text of the Amendment.
Fake interview with the White House:
Stump Lane: So where we at on the treatment of detainees?
Scott McClellan: [Whining] For goodness’ sake would you stop it with the torture?!
SL: Actually, I didn’t intend to limit it only to torture but also inhumane or—
McClellan: Let me express my irritation with your inane line of questioning by switching from whining to scolding:
[T]he president has “made our position very clear: We do not condone torture, nor would he ever authorize the use of torture.“
SL: What about clandestine counterterrorism operations overseas by agencies other than the Pentagon? Will they even be affected by Senator McCain’s amendment that would “establish the Army Field Manual as the uniform standard for the interrogation of Department of Defense detainees” and “prohibit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of persons in the detention of the U.S. government”?
McClellan: Mr. Vice President?
Dick Cheney:
[I] and CIA Director Porter Goss [have] suggested language that would exclude clandestine counterterrorism operations overseas by agencies other than the Pentagon “if the president determines that such operations are vital to the protection of the United States or its citizens from terrorist attack.”
SL: But hasn’t the president made it clear that we do not condone torture, nor would he ever authorize the use of torture? I mean, Scott just said…
Cheney: Of course.
SL: So doesn’t that make the language you suggest moot? If these agencies fall outside the scope of the Pentagon, don’t they also fall outside the scope of Senator McCain’s amendment already? Is your proposed language even necessary?
Cheney: Of course.
SL: OK. Well, that settles that. Thank you, White House, for shedding so much light on this very important issue, and thank you readers for reading.
Associated Press: Negotiators on Torture Bill Feeling Heat
US Senator John McCain: McCain Statement on Detainee Amendments
- I meant to link this yesterday: Rosa Parks in her own words — A radio interview from 1956. –(0) ¶
- FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations — “The FBI and the people who work in the FBI are very cognizant of the fact that people are watching us to make sure we’re doing the right thing…” —while we’re watching you without proper paperwork or oversight.
Pentagon purchases: Millions in markups — Remember the bad old days of $600 toilet seats? Now we have 20 dollar, 85 cent ice-cube trays. — The Pentagon paid $20 each for plastic ice-cube trays that once cost 85 cents. –(0) ¶
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