Random comments on technology, politics and fnord
The United States military is running a multimillion-dollar covert campaign to plant paid propaganda in the Iraqi news media and pay friendly Iraqi journalists monthly stipends, military contractors and officials said.
Even as the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development pay contractors millions of dollars to help train journalists and promote a […]
Don’t call it an ‘insurgency’: Rumsfeld:
“U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld argued on Tuesday that the guerrillas fighting U.S.-led foreign forces and the American-backed government in Iraq do not deserve to be called an ‘insurgency.’…
Rumsfeld instead referred to the guerrillas in Iraq as ‘the terrorists’ and ‘the enemies of the government.’ U.S. military statements also have […]
EFF Convinces North Carolina Judge To Throw Out Diebold E-Voting Case
E-Voting Company Forced to Comply with Election Transparency LawsRaleigh, North Carolina - Responding to arguments made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a North Carolina judge today told Diebold Election Systems that the e-voting company must comply with tough North Carolina election law and dismissed […]
Former judge calls drug war a ‘failure’:
“North Carolina should consider decriminalizing illegal drugs as it tries to stem the need for additional prisons, a former state Supreme Court chief justice said Monday.Burley Mitchell, the state’s top judge from 1995 to 1999, said the war on drugs in North Carolina and nationwide has been ‘a total […]
Everyone should know this:
WSJ.com - Bush’s Approval Rating Falls Again, Poll Shows: “Bush’s current job approval rating stands at 34%, compared with a positive rating of 88% soon after 9/11, 50% at this time last year, and 40% in August.”
My five-year-old daughter found a new area of the PBS Kids web site about a week or so ago. She seems pretty excited about it, and wanted me to play it with her. She said it was a place where you could build creatures and make them live in a world, and you get points. […]
A leading critic of teaching evolution in a Pennsylvania school district denied on Thursday he wanted students to learn about biblical accounts of the origins of life.
William Buckingham, who headed the curriculum committee of Dover Area School Board, told federal court he had not meant to cite creationism as an alternative to evolution when interviewed […]
“Millions of Iraqis believe that suicide attacks against British troops are justified, a secret military poll commissioned by senior officers has revealed.
The poll, undertaken for the Ministry of Defence and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, shows that up to 65 per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks and fewer than one per cent think Allied […]
