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Tom Chartier: The Land Without Hope

Seeded on Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:09 PM EDT (LewRockwell.com)

Tom Chartier looks at President Bush's September 19th address to the United Nations in a way that should make more people afraid, but won't.

politics, bush, united-nations, commentary, opinion, reform, propaganda, extremism, hopeless-dream

Wired News: NSA Bill Performs a Patriot Act

Seeded on Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:30 PM EDT (Wired News)

Say, remember that time when that judge declared President Bush's domestic surveillance program unconstitutional?

senate, legislation, surveillance, us-news, nsa, unconstitutional, theyre-at-it-again

Chris Floyd's "Crazy for You: Mental Illness as Propaganda Tool"

Seeded on Fri Sep 8, 2006 10:58 AM EDT (-)

Chris Floyd puts forth an interesting and slightly disturbing suggestion: that the United States Government is taking advantage of the mentally ill and using them to manufacture threats to keep everyone else scared.

terrorism, politics, miami, torture, insanity, mental-illness, zubaydah

Schneier: Refuse to be Terrorized

Seeded on Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:00 PM EDT (Wired News)

Just heard about more high-profile alarms raised in the "Global War on Terror?" Consider:

terrorism, world-news, opinion, psychology, bruce-schneier

MD Judge moves to strike law allowing "early voting"

Seeded on Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:22 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

A measure was previously approved by the legislation that would allow polling stations to open a week before election day and to use polling stations outside their precints.

politics, judgment, partisan, early-voting, state-constitution

Some lucky commuter will blow up DC's Woodrow Wilson Bridge.

Seeded on Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:53 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

The managers of the new Woodrow Wilson bridge project are holding a contest (warning: PDF) to find the commuter who has been most inconvenienced by traffic jams and blockages over the years.

demolition, construction, odd-news, washington-dc, woodrow-wilson-bridge, rt-95

More Reasons Why RFID-tagged Passports is a Bad Idea

Seeded on Thu Aug 3, 2006 5:46 AM EDT (Wired News)

A German security consultant has criticized the inclusion of an RFID chip in US passports, and criticized the design of the chip itself for providing very little security.

technology, security, terrorism, passport, rfid, hacking, bad-idea

Flock's Uphill Battle to Rule a Nonexistant Roost (and Why It Would Be Nice if they Won)

Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:28 AM EDT

First off, congratulations to new browser on the block Flock for consolidating their assets, moving into their offices, and building an attractive product which promises to act as the ultimate interface to Web 2.0.

Continue reading this entry ...

technology, web-2-0, internet, dot-com, browser, success, opinion, failure, flock, flock-browser

House approves measure keeping minors from chat sites on public terminals

Seeded on Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:08 PM EDT (CNET)

By a 410-15 vote on Thursday, politicians approved a bill that would effectively require that "chat rooms" and "social networking sites" be rendered inaccessible to minors, an age group that includes some of the Internet's most ardent users.

technology, tech, schools, social-networking, libraries, house-of-representatives, pubic-terminals

Homeland Security gets a free pass into the average traveler's laptop

Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:40 PM EDT (CNET)

Homeland Security may now search the laptops of people crossing the border into the U.S. without a search warrant or even a good reason, compliments of the (who else?) 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

technology, tech, homeland-security, laptop, search-and-seizure

Great. Now we've got "Neolibertarians."

Seeded on Fri Jul 7, 2006 2:02 PM EDT (LewRockwell.com)

You know how many people get confused by the differences between "libertarian" and "conservative"? Turns out there's more differences than you know, as evidenced by this report of events from the recent 2006 Libertarian Convention in Portland, OR.

politics, convention, libertarian, conservative, schism

"Why Are Americans So Angry?": The Answer

Seeded on Wed Jul 5, 2006 12:16 PM EDT (LewRockwell.com)

Susan Fassanella was inspired by Ron Paul's question to answer it. At great length and in excruciating detail. (See previous seed.) Her answers may resonate with many readers.

politics, commentary

"Why are Americans So Angry?": The Question

Seeded on Wed Jul 5, 2006 12:14 PM EDT (LewRockwell.com)

Ron Paul, a regular writer on that modern-day liberal rag lewrockwell.com (and yes, that tangy smell is a blend of sarcasm and irony) , asks why so many Americans seem angry.

politics, commentary

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