Fri, Oct 01 2004
Looking Presidential
DNC Video from last night's
debate here
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TRIUMPH OF THE STULTOCRACY
Ted Rall launches a rant against dumb voters here.
"At this writing, the world's greatest nation flails under the rule of buffoons and madmen, bogged down in two optional wars we're actually losing. The world's richest economy is shedding jobs, running up debts and building nothing for the future. Voters, offered an election year alternative to the subliterate idiot who single-handedly created this mess, spurn him for a leader even dumber than they are. America has become a stultocracy: government by morons, for morons."
Oddly enough, Neal Boortz - hardly a leftwinger - authored a very similar opinion. Read it here.
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Mon, Sep 27 2004
Preparations Underway for the Next Battle
Israel may not be able to destroy nukes
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel would not be able to destroy Iran's nuclear installations with a single air strike as it did in Iraq in 1981 because they are scattered or hidden and intelligence is weak, Israeli and foreign analysts say. Full story here
...and...
Iran seeks Indian radar to protect its nuke facilities
New Delhi, Sep 27 (UNI) Iran has approached India for an upgraded western-origin radar system to help protect its nuclear weapons facilities -- and the United States is closely monitoring the potential 70 million dollar deal. ...more
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Dress Rehearsal for the October Surprise?
Full story here in this excellent Asia Times article
KARACHI - Even as President General Pervez Musharraf played to the international gallery on his trip to the United Nations and beyond, at home, Pakistan was cooking up another treat to be served on the tour.
On Sunday, Pakistan announced that paramilitary police had killed Amjad Farooqi, a suspected top al-Qaeda operative wanted in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl two years ago, as well as for two assassination attempts against Musharraf last December.
Asia Times Online contacts, however, are adamant that Farooqi was in fact arrested some months ago, and that the "incident" resulting in his death in the southern Pakistani city of Nawabshah was in fact stage-managed by Pakistani security forces.
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Sun, Sep 26 2004
Edward Markham - Visionary Poet?
O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
How will the Future reckon with this man?
How answer his brute question in that hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores?
How will it be with kingdoms and with kings--
With those who shaped him to the thing he is--
When this dumb terror shall rise to judge the world,
After the silence of the centuries?
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