Techdirt: The RIAA Says No Dancing To Music On YouTube
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Thursday, June 15, 2006
Well-funded terrorist
... could be achieved by a well-funded terrorist with access to a basic lab and PhD-level personnel.
Like the kind of well-funded terrorist enjoying his stay at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
By the way, a well-funded terrorist could simply buy a couple of DC-9s in the US and do whatever terrorists do in the US with airplanes. The FAA will look the other way, I promise.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Revealed: the lax laws that could allow assembly of deadly virus DNA
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Monday, June 12, 2006
Powell? Fuck.
Another controversial part of his career is that Powell also had an operational role in the illegal Iran-Contra affair, acting as the initial coordinator for selling missiles to Iran in exchange for American hostages.
Why is it that allmost every time I look at a politican currently in charge in US government, some link to Iran-Contra comes up? I don't know chickenshit about Colin Powell, but I thought he was one of the nice guys...
Colin Powell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saturday, June 10, 2006
How practical
First the US Military finds a video of Zarqawi, then the house he is in and then find two bombs their way to this house. How very practical. Now if they could find the WMDs or any proof that Osama is responsible for 9/11, that would be really neat.
I'm sure, if they need any other proof, they will find it.
TP: Archaische Bilder vom Sieg
I'm sure, if they need any other proof, they will find it.
TP: Archaische Bilder vom Sieg
Friday, June 09, 2006
Lost Chances in Iran (washingtonpost.com)
What's poignant about these wary U.S.-Iranian feelers is that just over a year ago, they yielded a plan for an "anti-terrorist" deal that both countries should have loved: Iran would hand over some senior al Qaeda operatives in its custody and the United States would transfer to Iran some prisoners it was holding from the Iraqi-backed Mujaheddin-e Khalq organization, a group America has officially branded as terrorist.
The State Department is said to have favored such a deal, but the Pentagon balked -- arguing that the Mujaheddin-e Khalq might be useful in fomenting regime change in Tehran. Sadly, this internal dispute between administration pragmatists and ideologues over Iran is similar to the feuds that have obstructed policy on North Korea and Iraq.
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During and immediately after the Afghanistan war, meetings were held at least once a month. One former U.S. official says flatly that without Iranian help, it would have been impossible to establish the new government in Afghanistan under President Hamid Karzai.
A new issue arose as al Qaeda operatives fled from Afghanistan into Iran after the war. The Iranians arrested more than 500 of them in late 2001 and early 2002, according to one senior Iranian official. He said Tehran transferred many to be interrogated in their countries of origin, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Italy and the Netherlands. A number of al Qaeda operatives charged with mounting terrorist attacks in Iran remained there, and they will be tried in Iranian courts later this year.
Lost Chances in Iran (washingtonpost.com)
Is there an Iranian partner? - Haaretz - Israel News
Hence, Judaism is not Ahmadinejad's problem; Zionism is.
Is there an Iranian partner? - Haaretz - Israel News
The WTC 1 and WTC 2 were not "pulled"
As the joists on one or two of the most heavily burned floors gave way and the outer box columns began to bow outward, the floors above them also fell. The floor below (with its 1,300 t design capacity) could not support the roughly 45,000 t of ten floors (or more) above crashing down on these angle clips. This started the domino effect that caused the buildings to collapse within ten seconds, hitting bottom with an estimated speed of 200 km per hour. If it had been free fall, with no restraint, the collapse would have only taken eight seconds and would have impacted at 300 km/h. It has been suggested that it was fortunate that the WTC did not tip over onto other buildings surrounding the area. There are several points that should be made. First, the building is not solid; it is 95 percent air and, hence, can implode onto itself. Second, there is no lateral load, even the impact of a speeding aircraft, which is sufficient to move the center of gravity one hundred feet to the side such that it is not within the base footprint of the structure. Third, given the near free-fall collapse, there was insufficient time for portions to attain significant lateral velocity. To summarize all of these points, a 500,000 t structure has too much inertia to fall in any direction other than nearly straight down.
These are facts. Anybody claiming that WTC 1 or WTC 2 were demolished in a controlled way, claiming that the fire could not bring down WTC 1 or WTC 2 don't know what they are talking about.
Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Science, Engineering, and Speculation
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
The CIA - Your friendly Nazi helper agency
US suppressed Eichmann whereabouts
Different conflict, same story. The ones in the three letter agencies in the USA will never learn. After all, the Taliban were once USA's best buddies, fighting the "evi" Soviets.
The historians, who examined newly released CIA documents, told a news conference that America's use of war criminals in Cold War intelligence mainly produced unreliable information, sometimes with disastrous consequences for U.S. interests.
"We have not found any evidence that hiring these tainted individuals brought little other than operational problems and moral confusion," Naftali said.
Different conflict, same story. The ones in the three letter agencies in the USA will never learn. After all, the Taliban were once USA's best buddies, fighting the "evi" Soviets.
Kill yourself with a T-Shirt
The mockup used to illustrate the Times story looks strangely like a t-shirt with wires stuck on, and the apparent lack of payload space makes one doubt whether a suicide bomber could successfully kill themselves with it. The Times science writer, possibly baffled, appears to agree with us here.
Homebrew chemical terror bombs, hype or horror? | The Register
Orwell was a pretty smart cookie
A much more neglected theme of the novel is the suggestion that the supposedly opposing regimes in Orwell’s world are ideologically indistinguishable and not really enemies. They are engaged in a perpetual, unwinnable war whose only purpose use up human labour and the fruits of human labour so that each superstate's economy cannot support a decent standard of living for every citizen.
According to 1984, it is perfectly possible that the entire world is controlled by a single entity.
Famous for 15 megapixels: Cynicism
Suicide pigeon shot dead outside busy shopping centre
A new terror alert has been issued across the country after an overweight pigeon stuffed with explosives was shot and killed outside a Birmingham shopping centre.
TheChickenCount () Next Months News Today™ : Suicide pigeon shot dead outside busy shopping centre
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