links for 2007-02-22
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“They want us to play a role that isn’t really our role. Our role is to ask questions and get information. … It’s not a chance for the opposition to take on the government and grill them to a point where they throw their hands up and surrender.
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This week, NOW reports on new evidence suggesting the existence of a secret government program that intercepts millions of private e-mails each day in the name of terrorist surveillance. News about the alleged program came to light when a former AT&T empl
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NEW YORK — Spike Lee’s HBO documentary on New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and an NBC News investigation into a U.S. Army contract on Tuesday were among the winners of the George Polk Awards for Journalism.
“When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four
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Let’s see if this one doesn’t make me calm and cheerful again. Worth a try, though I could have given the post some other name, such as “fuck off, you plague-chewed asshole”. I’m beginning to sound like a real bigoted feminist blogger here! Hee!
Here a
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Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian
leaders cook up between themselves. It happens when the followers submit too
much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do
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It is truly astonishing that the people who enabled the administration to spew one falsehood after the next — and who aided and abetted the worst strategic disaster in our country’s history by mindlessly passing those falsehoods along to their readers, c
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What’s the biggest hurdle to setting up a colony on the Moon or getting mankind to Mars and beyond? Aliens? Asteroids? Money? Try: humans themselves. Experts poring over plans to return to the Moon by 2018 and later stride to Mars believe the greatest-eve
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Diverting money from the orbiting research outpost to President Bush’s goal of sending astronauts back to the moon and eventually on to Mars is preventing some scientific experiments on the space station, Glenn told an audience of about 300 high school st
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States that imposed identification requirements on voters reduced turnout at the polls in the 2004 presidential election by about 3 percent, and by two to three times as much for minorities, new research suggests.
The study, prepared by scholars at Rut
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Most of the Justice Department’s major statistics on terrorism cases are highly inaccurate, and federal prosecutors routinely count cases involving drug trafficking, marriage fraud and other unrelated crimes as part of anti-terrorism efforts, according to
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – US officials failed to sideline dozens of domestic spying lawsuits on Tuesday as a federal judge ordered the war on terror-connected cases to proceed despite a pending appeal.
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VENICE, La. — State and federal plans for a massive hurricane protection bulwark for Louisiana would sacrifice dozens of coastal communities, some with thousands of residents, to the next Katrina-sized hurricane. The reason: Protecting them would cost t
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Hospitals in Mogadishu yesterday struggled to treat more than 40 wounded, including several children, as the death toll rose to 12 after the worst fighting since Ethiopian troops ousted the Islamists from the Somali capital in late December.
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Baum’s murder was indicative of a disturbing trend.
A National Coalition for the Homeless report says last year, there were 122 attacks and 20 murders against the homeless, the most attacks in nearly a decade. (Coalition report on 2006 homeless attacks) -
A sane immigration policy would involve wage incentives for manual labor, greater worker health and safety enforcement, and chartered, air-conditioned buses crossing the border to bring people to the workplaces that need them. Instead, the US has criminal
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“A year had passed since Katrina had blown through, and we sort of assumed that after 12 months the wealthiest nation on earth would have fixed it. But we were wrong.”
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