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LifestreamIt would seem large chunks of the blogosphere are abuzz with commentary on Stephen Colbert’s appearance at the White House Correspondents’ dinner. The satire was more than most could digest, especially George W Bush who was sitting a few feet from the podium. Colbert’s faux right-wing pundit persona was hilarious, and yet the funniest thing […]
Archive for April, 2006
A country driven foremost by militarism, secrecy and “Catch 22″ type logic can never be a good thing.
NYT - The government asked a federal judge here Friday to dismiss a civil liberties lawsuit against the AT&T Corporation because of a possibility that military and state secrets would otherwise be disclosed.
The government’s filing said the authorities […]
A little gem I missed.
The greenback is also under pressure from concerns about the growing US trade deficit. The move by Sweden’s central banks to reduce their dollar forex reserves also hit the US currency.
Euro steps closer to dollar in FX reserve contest
The euro hit a seven-month high above $1.24, while euro zone government bonds […]
Sploid: The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
Despite the natural optimism of Americans, poor people in the United States have almost no chance of ever becoming wealthy — and poor blacks have even less chance of ever escaping poverty.
A shocking new study by American University economists shows how painfully unlikely it is that people […]
As many well know, the American Psychiatric Association publishes a little something called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short. Now it turns out that the majority of the experts “who wrote the manual widely used to diagnose mental illness have had financial ties to drug makers such as research […]
As Americans continue to moan about “outrageous” gas prices, what does the government do, aside from the toothless promise to look into the matter (and examine its cronies)? They temporarily suspend environmental rules for gasoline so that big oil can hopefully make big bucks while prices are slashed a few cents for show. Slick move, […]
So, I don’t believe anyone has failed to notice that U.S. is pondering souping up the its DMCA restrictions with a barrage of new proposals (CNet). The proposed law, among other things:
Permits wiretaps in investigations of copyright crimes, trade secret theft and economic espionage. It would establish a new copyright unit inside the FBI and […]
Get it now. It’s just that good. Robert Newman’s History Of Oil
Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, the places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion. This innovative history programme is […]
Boing Boing reports that “commercial” sites in the U.S. may soon be forced to “place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years.” Whatever commercial means? In the near future, any of the following may land you in prison:
sexual intercourse of all types; bestiality; masturbation; sadistic or […]
Apparently what they have learned so far is that “blogs now have become very big on the Internet.” They also imply that the stuff they get out of reading blogs at the Open Source Center is as good as what the other divisions of the CIA come up with.
What if the CIA really went back […]
