December 2004

Read It And Weep

December 7, 2004

With the US military death toll in Iraq reaching the 1000 mark (as if a nice, round 4 digit number makes a goddamned bit of difference) and a phony Iraqi election around the corner, it is just befitting to hear that even the CIA doesn’t think this war is going anywhere. In the day and [...]

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Bhopal And Bears

December 3, 2004

Can anyone believe it has been 20 years? Thousands dead, thousands more still dying. While some argue that the residents of Bhopal took their chances by living near this plant, the fact that safeguards didn’t work clearly shows the level of emphasis Dow / Union Carbide placed on its operations in developing countries. What about [...]

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Stranger Quotes Found This Week

December 1, 2004

From the Project Gutenberg Newsletter: Rewriting The History Of The 1968 Chicago Police Riots “The police and demonstrators were going after each other. The protestors were provoking the police.” — Tom Brokaw 11/16/04 This seems to be quite at odds with his former commentaries, which you can find searching “tom brokaw police chicago 1968″ in [...]

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CIA Funded Study To Eavesdrop On Internet Chat Rooms

December 1, 2004

From CNet: The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of Internet chat rooms as part of an effort to identify possible terrorists, newly released documents reveal. In April 2003, the CIA agreed to fund a series of research projects that the documents indicate were intended to create “new capabilities to combat terrorism through [...]

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