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The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Conservatives Ignore GWB Record on Terrorist Trials | Crooks and Liars. Effective push back against Liz Cheney and others of her ilk by Jason Sigger at Crooks & Liars. Turns out the Bushies made frequent and effective use of civilian courts to try [...]

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Security vs Safety? Not So Much…

The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Glenn Greenwald points out that the massive increase in government surveillance has made us less safe, not more safe.  This fearful response to isolated acts of sabotage provokes stupid reactions that clogs our intelligence system with useless, unrelated stuff that prevents us from [...]

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Re-Thinking The Terror War

The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Re-Thinking The Terror War – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan File this one under “no shit?” The great unanswered question of the last six and a half years is: why haven’t we been attacked again? There are logically two – not [...]

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The New President’s First Duty

EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect I strongly agree with Ezra’s post. Job one: Close Guantanamo. No dallying around thinking about it. Scrap the military tribunal kangaroo court. Put them in a Federal maximum security facility and start civilian trials. The issue will be that evidence gained through torture won’t be admissible, and it shouldn’t [...]

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Yes Bush and Cheney should go

George McGovern lays out a powerful argument for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney: Why I Believe Bush Must Go – washingtonpost.com Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. [...]

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A logical conundrum

White House hints, but won’t say, that waterboarding is legal – The Carpetbagger Report A CIA employee says they used waterboarding on a prisoner. The US uses only legal methods of interrogation. Therefore waterboarding is legal. Seems pretty straight forward, but the White House spokesperson Dana Perino refuses to say if it’s legal or not. [...]

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Apparently all are “quaint” notions. Has widely reported all over the place: Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry – New York Times But the battle is really about something much bigger. At stake is the federal government’s extensive but uneasy partnership with industry to conduct a wide range of secret surveillance operations in [...]

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Torturing people to keep us safe…

CIA still peddling the lie that low-level crazy man proves waterboarding is a good thing – AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth So we tortured the al-Qaeda village idiot, then claimed a great victory against a high level operative. Despite being briefed about the real value of the poor fool by the CIA, Bush [...]

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And what do we get for the money?

‘Hidden Costs’ Double Price Of Two Wars, Democrats Say – washingtonpost.com Did $1.5 trillion get us more secure? Buy an awe-inspiring display of American military might? Cheaper oil? A sound dollar? Exactly what did we purchase for so high a price? A generation of hatred? Worldwide disdain? A near total loss of moral authority on [...]

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Intelligence deputy to America: Rethink privacy – CNN.com Anyone who would trust the government on this is a deluded fool

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Keith on the significance of the Daniel Levin story. It was revealed that Levin, an Assistant Attorney General had himself water boarded to determine that it was ethically, legally and morally torture: The presidency of George W. Bush is a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of George W. Bush. Levin was fired for daring [...]

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Rice Says U.S. Will Review Aid To Pakistan – washingtonpost.com Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that the United States would review its $150 million-a-month assistance program to Pakistan in response to the declaration of emergency rule by the president, Gen. Pervez Mushar. Pakistan has long been a safe harbor for terrorists in the [...]

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Blast at Mall Kills 8 in Philippines – New York Times

Blast at Mall Kills 8 in Philippines – New York Times Eight people were killed and as many as 130 others wounded Friday when a powerful explosion ripped through a shopping mall in Makati City, the Philippine capital’s financial district. Wow, that’s frightening. My wife and I have been to that mall many times. It [...]

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