Sat 21 Apr 2007
Putin makes Rose Colored Glasses Official View
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars , MSM/Journalism
50% Good News Is the Bad News in Russian Radio - New York Times
At their first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia’s largest independent radio news network, the managers had startling news of their own: from now on, they said, at least 50 percent of the reports about Russia must be “positive.”
In addition, [...]
Wed 31 Jan 2007
Urban Spam becomes Terrorist Act
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars , Social Studies
BREITBART.COM - Man Arrested in Boston Marketing Ploy
Several illuminated electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon. Most if not all of the devices depict a character giving the finger.
Highways, bridges [...]
Tue 4 Jul 2006
BREITBART.COM - N. Korea Launches Missile Into Sea of Japan
Not trusting missile defense systems, Vice President Dick Cheney disintegrates N. Korean Taepodong 2 long range missile with his enormous brain shortly after launch, once again saving America from terrorism.
Tue 4 Jul 2006
“The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.” - Alexis de Tocqueville
Hiring Federal Lobbyists, Towns Learn Money Talks - New York Times
So this is how it works:
A political insider becomes a Lobbyist.
The residents of Town A and Town B pay the same amount [...]
Sat 1 Jul 2006
Bush Administration Drops All Pretense of Being “Not Evil”
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars
United Press International - Security & Terrorism - Bush may seek law of war changes in UCMJ
WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) — The Supreme Court Thursday said there can be no fewer legal protections for U.S. enemies than those provided by the Uniform Code of Military Justice and therefore ruled illegal the separate military court system [...]
Sat 24 Jun 2006
More news from Backwards World II
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars , MSM/Journalism
White House becoming more secretive after leaks - Examiner.com
In an exclusive interview with The Examiner, [Homeland Security Director Michael] Chertoff criticized newspapers that revealed the financial tracking program on Friday. President Bush earlier complained that some of the same newspapers damaged national security by disclosing a classified terrorist surveillance program.
[…] The damage is particularly acute [...]
Fri 23 Jun 2006
Are Jack Boots Coming Into Fashion? IX
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars
BREITBART.COM - Media Refuses to Hold Surveillance Story
The Bush administration and The New York Times are again at odds over national security, this time with new reports of a broad government effort to track global financial transfers.
The newspaper, which in December broke news of an effort by the National Security Agency to monitor Americans’ [...]
Fri 23 Jun 2006
Are Jack Boots Coming Into Fashion? VIII
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars
Bad:
Data brokers gave Americans’ phone records to police
Federal and local police across the country, as well as some of the nation’s best-known companies, have been gathering Americans’ phone records from private data brokers without subpoenas or warrants.
These brokers, many of whom market aggressively across the Internet, have broken into customer accounts online, tricked phone [...]
Tue 13 Jun 2006
What’s Truth got to do with it?
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Education , Class Wars
If you are still wondering why so many people believe that the Bush administration lies to the American public, it is because there are so many examples of positions defended in spite of the facts.
The latest example:
A Student’s Forest Paper Sparks One Hot Debate - Los Angeles Times
Oregon State University graduate student, Daniel Donato’s research [...]
Tue 13 Jun 2006
Ahmadinejad is going to love this
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars
…or not.
BREITBART.COM - Labs Compete to Make New Nuclear Bomb
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are competing to design the nation’s first new nuclear bomb in two decades.
[…] Proponents of the project say the U.S. would lose its so-called “strategic deterrent” [...]
Sat 10 Jun 2006
Are Jack Boots Coming Into Fashion? VII
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars
New Scientist Technology - Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites
New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the [...]
Fri 2 Jun 2006
The Raw Story ¦ EPA scientists say agency is ‘besieged’ by pesticide interests
In an unprecedented action, representatives for thousands of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists are publicly objecting to imminent agency approval for a score of powerful, controversial pesticides, according to a letter released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The scientists cite [...]
Thu 1 Jun 2006
Are Jack Boots Coming Into Fashion? V
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars
It appears that the judicial branch has promoted the executive branch from civil servants to civil rulers.
Justices trim rights of whistle blowers
The Supreme Court scaled back protections for government workers who blow the whistle on official misconduct Tuesday, a 5-4 decision in which new Justice Samuel Alito cast the deciding vote.
In a victory for [...]
Fri 19 May 2006
Where are those record oil profits going?
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars
Apparently a portion of them are going to the Competitive Enterprise Institute to produce misleading propaganda about global warming. As Lloyd Alter at Tree Hugger put it, “[W]e thought we would look at them to see if they could be parodied, but they cannot, they are already parodies.”
The ads, either hysterically funny or hysterically scary [...]
Wed 3 May 2006
Gangs claim their turf in Iraq
The Gangster Disciples, Latin Kings and Vice Lords were born decades ago in Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods. Now, their gang graffiti is showing up 6,400 miles away in one of the world’s most dangerous neighborhoods — Iraq.
Armored vehicles, concrete barricades and bathroom walls all have served as canvasses for their [...]
Sat 29 Apr 2006
Prostitution Alleged In Cunningham Case
Federal authorities are investigating allegations that a California defense contractor arranged for a Washington area limousine company to provide prostitutes to convicted former congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.) and possibly other lawmakers, sources familiar with the probe said yesterday.
In recent weeks, investigators have focused on possible dealings between Christopher D. Baker, [...]
Sat 8 Apr 2006
Are Jack Boots Coming Into Fashion? IV
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars
Local Teacher’s Run-In With Homeland Security Creates Insecurities - Yahoo! News
A local school employee said a rough run-in with a couple of Homeland Security officers has left him with a strong sense of insecurity.
Leander Pickett, a teacher’s assistant at Englewood Elementary, said he was manhandled and handcuffed by two plain clothed Homeland Security officers [...]
Fri 17 Mar 2006
The Impact of Emerging Technologies: The End of NASA Science - Technology Review
When President Bush unveiled his proposed budget last month, it was clear that the winners at NASA were the Space Shuttle program and International Space Station (ISS), and the losers were science missions. Now it’s becoming clear just how bad those losses are. [...]
Sun 12 Mar 2006
Are Jack Boots Coming Into Fashion? II
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars
DeWine to alter eavesdropping bill
Reporters who write about government surveillance could be prosecuted under proposed legislation that would solidify the administration’s eavesdropping authority, according to some legal analysts who are concerned about dramatic changes in U.S. law.
But an aide to the bill’s chief author, Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, said that is not the intention of [...]
Sun 12 Mar 2006
Are Jack Boots Coming Into Fashion?
Posted at The Hairy Reasoner under Politics , Scary , Culture Wars
The ineffectual jeremiads of David Horowitz are troubling enough, but what happened to Professor Miguel Tinker-Salas is down right scary.
Deputies’ Questions Unsettle University - Los Angeles Times
A Pomona College professor of Latin American history said Friday that he was questioned about his Venezuela connections by two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies working for a federal [...]