“President George W Bush faced renewed pressure over the September 11 attacks last night when it emerged that a secret CIA briefing a month before the attack had focused mainly on the threat to targets in America itself – and not on the risk to United States interests abroad as the White House had claimed,” [...]
From MSNBC's George W. Bush should learn the lessons of history: The terrorist attacks aren't the “fault” of anyone except the terrorists. But that hardly excuses what until now has been an astonishing lack of interest in who was asleep at the switch. By contrast, the last sneak attack stirred immediate interest in that question. [...]
Help… Someone explain this Colin Powell line to me, please? “The ABM treaty is about to lapse. The geo-strategic situation is not collapsing and no arms race is breaking out.”
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Hah! A federal judge tells the U.S. government to do its job and enforce the Clean Water Act, thus hampering the mountain-top removal mining industry. I think I'll say that again. Mountain-top removal mining: They rip off the tops of the mountains, sift through for ore, then pile the castoffs back where they got it. [...]
…and free trade, too. “In another setback for free trade, Bush said he would sign legislation passed by the U.S. House on May 2 that would raise farm spending by $45.1 billion over six years, increasing by $31 billion subsidies to growers of grain, cotton and other crops. The Senate is scheduled to consider the [...]
“…the best-kept secret of hybrid-electric vehicles is that this technology can have performance advantages in addition to better mileage. “The reason you never hear about hybrids winning Formula 1 races is because the international sanctioning body banned the technology. Hybrid cars would have had an unfair advantage on the track because the electric motors would [...]
…and your international science experts. “What sort of pluperfect arrogance prompts a scientifically illiterate MBA to reject the considered conclusions of 2,000 world-class scientists, and then, to arrange the ouster of the scientist in charge of the intergovernmental panel that came to those conclusions?” asks this article.
“The net effect of these transactions is that Enron gets paid for moving energy to relieve congestion without actually moving any energy or relieving any congestion,” said one of two Enron memos which were just released. The sad part is, there is some question as to whether the activities described in the memos are technically [...]
Somebody explain to me why Congress didn't launch a probe of 9-11 until *February*? Anyhow, Congress accuses CIA and Justice Department of hindering 9-11 investigation. And in case you missed it, here's Greg Palast's reports from the BBC on Nov 6 and The Guardian on Nov 7, revealing that Bush blocked investigations of several Bin [...]
From what I've heard of They Rule, it rules. But I'm still not freaking installing freaking Flash.