Fuck, I don't even seem to be shocked...
Bank Records Secretly Tapped
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Kennedy for President?
Mr. Kennedy called the silence of leading Democrats "a great disappointment," but declared himself undeterred. If anything, he said, the experience has left him more likely to run for office than before.
Another Kennedy Living Dangerously - Page 3
Another Kennedy Living Dangerously - New York Times
Anne Clark - Wallies
Just got some old CDs from a friend. British electronic rap with an accent by Anne Clark. Contempary music by Philip Glass. Clawfinger with a wonderful panoramic poster for the album a whole lot of nothing. A love hearing new music, at least music that is new to me. :-)
Too bad my iTunes is on strike, it won't grab music at the moment...
So this is where the future lies, in a beer gut belly, in a open fly
Brilcremed, acrylic, mindless boys, punching, kicking, making noise
From the cradle to the city streets they spill out their aggression
By punching what they don't understand and stopping all forms of expression
Teaching each other to be men by spewing in the street
Well now I know just what to do to make my man complete
Against the power of their misguidance we must learn to fight
To be just what we want to be morning, noon and night
Night is for the hunters and the hunted are you and me
Hunted for just retaining some form of identity
Night is for the hunters and the hunted are you and me
Hunted for just having some individuality
Too bad my iTunes is on strike, it won't grab music at the moment...
Friday, June 23, 2006
"conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim people overseas"
For a second, I thought they were talking about Bush...
Jos�Padilla (alleged terrorist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jos�Padilla (alleged terrorist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FBI to Terrorists: Let's do an attack!
The group thought that they ''were doing [the attacks] in conjunction with al Qaeda'' but were really dealing with undercover law enforcement, the official said.I just can imagine how these people got talked into talking about maybe making an attack...
It was ''pretty much talk, we were on top of them,'' the source said.
A law enforcement source said the group had photographs of the Sears Tower, the FBI's Miami field office and Miami police headquarters.The probably got the photos from the FBI. Or google. Expect to be hustled the next time you make photos of the Sears Tower...
'But whenever we undertake an operation like this, we would not do it without the approval of a judge. We've got search warrants and arrest warrants and the like,'' Mueller told host Larry King.Thank god, I was thinking that would be uncommon now the US. Wow, what a piece of investigative journalism.
MiamiHerald.com | 06/23/2006 | Terrorism raid targets a warehouse in Miami
Of Fizzling Fanfares
The United States has launched a number of terrorism prosecutions with great fanfare since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by al Qaeda on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon although many cases later fizzled out.
FBI arrests seven in terrorism plot | WORLD | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz
Muslim? Christian? Davidian? Quaeda?
Later, federal sources said that the terrorist group may have no ties at all with Al Qaeda. This would be a group named "Seas of David" which is very keen on the Bible and which has "soldiers" in Chicago according to an alleged member named 'Brother Corey'. Corey told they're nonviolent and didn't plan any terror attack. Yet neighbors of the group's teenagers and young adults members said they introduced themselves as muslims and tried to recruit young people. Authorities worried about their 'military'-like organization.
Most plotters are americans. Some told they are Black Muslims. No one knows if they're really muslims or not.
It doesn't matter. Just put them all in a big pot, stirr and tell the public "Terrorist plot by Quaede uncoverd".
"Perhaps it's only a Davidian-related threat, a new conflict between 'Davidians' who fight with 'Babylonians' (federal authorities). It needs a thorough investigation" a US source told ISRIA.
Thorough investigation? That'll be something new in the US. The officials and the media are more focused on putting away "cold-blooded murderers" without evidence, trial or conviction.
'Seas of David': Seven Suspects Arrested, FBI
Ami go home? Ami, where were you!
The mass media in Hungary and abroad were at pains to stress that Bush's visit to Budapest was to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution of 1956. What pundits failed to point out was that the revolution occurred in late October, not June. The timing here is important: many Hungarians -- especially the few remaining survivors of the revolution -- didn't want the American president in Hungary during the official anniversary in October, when Bush was initially invited.
Many still look back with bitterness and pain at how the US reacted to the revolution 50 years ago. After promising the occupied nations of Central and Eastern Europe assistance if they break free from the chains of communism, when this actually happened in October 1956 and no help had come, many felt betrayed.
TP: Occupying Forces
fivepointfive
This is a joke. Or maybe it is just one load of cocaine going arround...
16 SEIZURES OF 5.5 TONS OF COCAINE
16 SEIZURES OF 5.5 TONS OF COCAINE
Thursday, June 22, 2006
24 hours drinking games?
Many people see the Kim subplot in season two to be the low point of the show, but I've kind of lightened up on them. While they add little to the drama of the show, her plot line is ridiculous to the point of being surreal, and given enough liquor (24 is practically made for drinking games) unintentionally hilarious.Ah, Kim, the trouble magnet.
Dave's DVD Shelf: 24: Season Two
Windows is one giant root-kit
Why does lsass.exe write to my harddisk? Why does it have the file "C:\Windows\Debug\PASSWD.LOG" open? why is my Virus Scanner so quiet? And why does Process Explorer say that lsass.exe is verified to be published by Microsoft?
[Update] It seems like a part of Terminal Server, but is strange never the less...
[Update] It seems like a part of Terminal Server, but is strange never the less...
Saturday, June 17, 2006
What a piece of Bushshit
John le Carre:
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
Dr. Dave:
It's 1938 all over again. Bombings in Israel, Malaysia, the Philippines. Insane tyrannical despots in North Korea and Iraq intimidating the world. Unfriendly allies in Germany, France and Belgium. Slavery and baby rapes in Africa. 9/11 in the States. Deadly Ricin found ready to distribute in apartments in the UK. And WE'RE mad?
Africa? Since when does the uSA care about Africa? And Ricin in the UK? And if I remember correctly about 1938 (or was it rather 1939?), not that I was alive back then, it was the US that didn't want to get involved in the European shenanigans.
What a giant piece of BUSHSHIT. And yes, the US are mad.
Celebrity Hypocrites
Friday, June 16, 2006
Excellent writing, as always
Telling Pilgrim that he’s making a mistake because Ubuntu doesn’t have as refined or cohesive a UI as Mac OS X is like telling someone who is switching from a Chevy Tahoe to a Toyota Prius that he’s not going to have as much cargo room. He knows it.
Daring Fireball: And Oranges
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Bomb owner or really stupid?
[Iran] lied for 20 years to inspectors about its uranium and plutonium activities
Any nation lying for 20 years about its nuclear program either already has the bomb or is really, really stupid.
Nuclear disarmament | The long, long half-life | Economist.com
(via fefe)
What makes Tony tick?
Well, I don't understand all the motives behind the acts of the US goverment, but the more I read about it, the more I get the feeling that they are simply a bunch of morally corupt, selfcentered, arrogant, ignorant, incompentent Assholes (with a capital A). Take for example this about Dick Cheney. The people in power in the US don't care much about the impact their actions have, they just play the game of "Staying in Power".
By the way: Starting a war based on lies and killing at least 30,000 civilians in Iraq comes very close to my definition of a terrorist.
Now that many other nations in the region can't keep their feet still is a natural reaction. Not that I think that is good what they do, but it explains why so many nations mengle with the affairs of their neighbours. E.g. Iran has no interest that its neighbour Iraq is destablized by US and is made into a staging area for all kinds of acts against itself (Don't get me wrong, I would like regime in Iran removed, but it is a sovereign nation and should be treated the same as other nations like the US or China).
Ok, I'm slowly getting the picture why the people act how they act. but what really puzzles me: What's in it for Tony Blair?
I don't know much about British politics. I don't know what drives the people in power in the UK. The British government is a willing member of the coalition of the Terror Fighting Nations, troops in Iraq, people being shot and arrested for nothing both abroad and at home (Menezes, Wolverhampton, Derby, Croydon, Forest Gate). Now if Marget Thatcher, member of the Conservative Party, would still be in power and Reagan invaded Iraq, well, I wouldn't be surprised if the British stood very firmly by the side of the US. But Tony Blair? Is this Labour Party thing just a propaganda stunt? He is still a member of the Labour Party, right? The people arround Bush are the same that made Iran-Contra happen. But who are the people arround Blair?
Why the fuck does Blair what he does? I truely don't understand it. Did he get bullied into this? For sometime I thought maybe it is a US-UK friendship thing since WWII. And I would have understood this. The UK pays back a dept to the US, removes some WMD from Saddam, makes right a wrong. Afterall, it were the US and many European countries that delieverd weapons to Saddam so he can fight the Mullahs in Iran.
But Blair knew it was a lie. Why the fuck didn't he call it a bluff?
By the way: Starting a war based on lies and killing at least 30,000 civilians in Iraq comes very close to my definition of a terrorist.
Now that many other nations in the region can't keep their feet still is a natural reaction. Not that I think that is good what they do, but it explains why so many nations mengle with the affairs of their neighbours. E.g. Iran has no interest that its neighbour Iraq is destablized by US and is made into a staging area for all kinds of acts against itself (Don't get me wrong, I would like regime in Iran removed, but it is a sovereign nation and should be treated the same as other nations like the US or China).
Ok, I'm slowly getting the picture why the people act how they act. but what really puzzles me: What's in it for Tony Blair?
I don't know much about British politics. I don't know what drives the people in power in the UK. The British government is a willing member of the coalition of the Terror Fighting Nations, troops in Iraq, people being shot and arrested for nothing both abroad and at home (Menezes, Wolverhampton, Derby, Croydon, Forest Gate). Now if Marget Thatcher, member of the Conservative Party, would still be in power and Reagan invaded Iraq, well, I wouldn't be surprised if the British stood very firmly by the side of the US. But Tony Blair? Is this Labour Party thing just a propaganda stunt? He is still a member of the Labour Party, right? The people arround Bush are the same that made Iran-Contra happen. But who are the people arround Blair?
Why the fuck does Blair what he does? I truely don't understand it. Did he get bullied into this? For sometime I thought maybe it is a US-UK friendship thing since WWII. And I would have understood this. The UK pays back a dept to the US, removes some WMD from Saddam, makes right a wrong. Afterall, it were the US and many European countries that delieverd weapons to Saddam so he can fight the Mullahs in Iran.
But Blair knew it was a lie. Why the fuck didn't he call it a bluff?
How difficult could this be?
During one of the performances, Else was shooting some stagehands playing checkers. In one corner of the room was a television set. Playing on the television set, while the stagehands played checkers and the opera company played Wagner, was The Simpsons. As Else judged it, this touch of cartoon helped capture the flavor of what was special about the scene.
Years later, when he finally got funding to complete the film, Else attempted to clear the rights for those few seconds of The Simpsons. For of course, those few seconds are copyrighted; and of course, to use copyrighted material you need the permission of the copyright owner, unless "fair use" or some other privilege applies
LIBREria.org's Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
All your songs belong to us
Well, I didn't know how that will help because I own the license and never put anything on the Internet.
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