"Obligatory" First Diary Entry
Hello DKOS People. Spanish is not "my born language", but seriously: Muchos gracias, all y'all who keep this going, as it goes, in all. There's some comments, of my own, below — in the text, extended –...
View ArticleHR 1217 and SOA/WHINSEC
From SOA Watch: Information, about HR 1217, "The Latin America Military Training Review Act of 2005"Excerpt of SOA Watch's page:This month Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) reintroduced legislation in the 109th...
View ArticleWe can start something, here, about "the new Iraq"
You know, there is not any great understanding, about how and why anything has happened in Iraq. I'd say, there is barely-even any common knowledge, in "these lands", as to what has happened. I,...
View ArticleIn Open Discourse, an Introduction To "The Millenium Syndrome"
There is such a syndrome, which may be determined of a social body — I have called it, "millenium syndrome"— and there, you see some words of it, in form, indeed — a tangible syndrome, however,...
View Article"Bloggign theory", one pt.
One point, regarding "blogging" and, I suppose, more of social going – a matter become of some experience, in other community, quite really – the thang, in incidence: "Do not rush into audience,...
View Article"Sallie Mae" : The name and agency, in some "expansion"
"Out from right-field", linked: A plain, real definition of the name and (in short form) the agency, "Sallie Mae".Another page— at the same (really, reasonable) site as the first, linked here — marks...
View Article"Looking Back at Posse Comitatus" (?)
Of the Washington University Law Quarterly, Volume 75, time of reference, 1997 : THE POSSE COMITATUS ACT: A PRINCIPLE IN NEED OF RENEWAL Brief summary, excerpted:In response to the military presence in...
View Article"Here's Something Odd"
Intriguing, "odd" pages: ParaScope's Dossier: Covert Ops and Secret Documents That section of their site does seem to be made in some better humor — I don't know whether to call it sarcasm, but maybe...
View Article"What, why, and how is the U.N?" — "I said", ago
There is a broader form, existing to and of the United Nations, broader than what I have realized, in any prior year. Conventionally, the UN has been not such that seems to occur, ever, in education...
View ArticleContemp Ref : Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
From the GPO's Access service, there are two publication-type-things, which I thought might bear a mention:Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: 2005 Compilation (ongoing; already includes...
View Article"A page about the modern Minuteman Project"
A DKos search didn't seem to bring up any entries, about this, before, so I figured that I'd put a mark, to the page, about it, in some form:They call themselves "The Minuteman Project". They regard...
View ArticleRepresenting "the Nonparitsans" (?)
While I do not intend to make cross-currents in the Democrat community, yet I figure that it bears mentioning, here: I am formally registered as a non-partisan voter.As such:I am excluded from the...
View ArticleRumsfeld in Iraq, Sharon in DC, Arabia Responds
Video stream: Mosaic: Selected TV World News from the Middle East, Tue, 12 Apr 2005 (It's from a few days ago, I realize; it caught my attention, for the day-summary of it) (note: That link should...
View Article"Writ on the Tech at the Pol"
Well, perhaps I cannot expect everyone to trust a random link, in any practical audience, or to realize what a link would mean, before it would be followed (or not, if so). I know, also, not anyone has...
View ArticleResource X of Y - Context, Legal
Chilling Effects ClearinghouseA joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, and George Washington School of...
View ArticleThe nation threatened with savage ignorance
perhaps to be taken with a heaping spoonfull of grains of salt Intro: "Having spotted some smoke, one might get close to the fire, maybe to see how it may burn." I realize, this is a generally normal...
View ArticleOrder 81 - It's the WHEAT Seeds
"I call it as I sees it."This one came up, today, an article from The Ecologist, a UK area periodical An excerpt — for its part, unadulturated:Under the guise of helping get Iraq back on its feet, the...
View ArticleUN Could Be in Flux ?
In the text/more, I'll mention how this was found. To persons, whom would find an interest about the UN, in its breadth, and about any of the many nations in which the UN has any place for itself, it...
View ArticleBecause it's not a small world, after any and all.
Online Resources, for and of International Agencies That I Know Of and Which I Think are Darned Special:Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (+++++)Nuclear Threat Initiative; also works about...
View ArticleSpeaking of the UN -- substantively and/or newly
The UN — among all of the UN's domains, URLs, and underlying information systems — the UN does have the Dag Hammarskjöld Library (highly available, online), and it does appear very big, very...
View ArticleExtracted Resource: Glossaries of Terms Pertaining to World Stuff
Unofficial Record: Links from the internet resources pages, of The Glossary of Terms for UN-based Diplomats: Referenced, in XBEL formatReferenced, in HTML formatIndex on the both, with references and...
View ArticleThe oil we don't have.
"We will find additional oil; there's no doubt about it. Prices will drive exploration"— Richard Perle I wanted to mark his words - right about at minute 63 of the audio record for a meeting of the...
View ArticleIre, inherently reasonable, in response to hideous unreason
"Come to find out"General Wesley Clark (ret, US Army) came under some ugly fire from some frittering nincomimbeciles in this state of Caly.All the while, Mr. Clark is:Presidential Medal of Freedom...
View ArticleTwo Resources and One Article: Oil-For-Food Programme
Independent Inquiriy Committee into The United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme— a.k.a. "The Volcker Committee", explained elsewhereOil for Food: Facts — from the UN Foundation ---- Article: Annan...
View Article"Central American Free Trade Agreement"?? gyesh.
A new form of an "old" cliche, in a largely dysfunctional economic system: CAFTA. It may already be mandated; it might actually be worth thinking about.From California Institute for the Study of...
View ArticleNew report from Carnegie Non-Proliferation News, Key: Iran
First tip, on the Q.T: IRAN IS NOT BUILDING BOMBS, and I seriously doubt they're making warheads. Pardon the vocalness, but people just aren't getting it. Regardless, there was a report from the...
View ArticleWhy, some news is terribly outdated, and wrongly spun
Dateline July 7, 2003 - Iran Conducts Missile Test upon the Shahab 3, demonstrating their intention to retain their national sovereignty.Dateline April 24, 2005, this finally appears in the...
View ArticleDow be scrubbed and bubbled!
Well, on the tail and the back of some discourse regarding CAFTA, this may be terribly relevant: Bhopal is still not re-set right. I cannot summarize this more. The International Campaign for Justice...
View ArticleGOTV, Rove, Mehlman, VISA, and Stats
I heard, today, about the GOTV of Karl Rove (and Mark Mehlman) I thought that I would put a note of some commentary, aside, in this journal: Statistical projections may be worth not necessarily so...
View ArticleCovert propaganda in news
Today, The News Hour ran a piece, regarding the executive bureaucracies' use of video news releases, and some response about such, which is becoming of our marvelous congress. There's some realaudio...
View ArticleCovert Propaganda, in more detail
Reference: GAO-05-643T (title given, below) From page 2 (emph. added)Our opinions have emphasized that the critical element of covert propaganda is concealment of the government's role in producing the...
View Article"Progressives Rock Too"
and garages might rock. and old Cadillacs might. somehow — maybe on rough roads. WXYC's Webcasting's 10th Anniversary Celebration— about 23 individual bands, there, with 24 individual tracks. You can...
View ArticleHow WXYC Came Up, Tonight: Mumia 911
Mumia 911 was a record that I was looking for info about. Note, please: 911 is still the emergency-dial phone number in the U.S.I've yet to find decent record, on the compelling album, pardon.eMusic...
View ArticleBipartisan Activity on Global Warming
The following was addressed from Wesley Clark (general, ret., US Army, and previous SACEUR for NATO, and more), addressed across a mailing list made of WesPAC. I find that this is OK to repeat, and...
View ArticleIt echoes, now?
From Senator Kerry, in the 2004 Presidential Debates, one more notable expression: What I want to find, if I am privileged to have the opportunity to do it -- and the Supreme Court of the United States...
View ArticleBush team in CPB? NPR gets hit?!
"Mr. Orwell, how on earth did you know this was coming?"NY Times:A Battle Over Programming at National Public Radio Excerpt: Executives at National Public Radio are increasingly at odds with the Bush...
View Article? : Internet Broadcasting Sysetms, Inc
Well, this isn't a glaring item. [update: actually, this could be pretty weak, unless you want to visit sites for about 65 individual television broadcasters. IBS just provides "web-presence",...
View ArticleSnapshot of the UN Foundation's Homepage
I noticed the homepage of the United Nations Foundation, today. I noticed how pretty it is, today, in particular. I won't try to represent it, here, save for some short reference, of the three major...
View ArticleUS, Bush Team, Bolton, nee UN
Well, this didn't bear letting-slip, I think, even if it would be thought "old hat", by now: Excerpt from H.R.260 Thanking John R. Bolton, President George W. Bush's nominee [...], slandering the...
View ArticleSo, I heard of IRI - republican, international
This hit my wires, today: International Republican InstituteSenator McCain is the chariman of their board of directorsThere are two Reprsentatives (Jim Kolbe and David Drier) and two Senators (John...
View ArticleAdv, Rel: Writing, Formal and Evocative
Introductory ExpressionsThere are issues of concern, which have been apparent, for a while. Not everyone has spoken up, immediately, about such, or taken action, about such — myself included. There are...
View ArticleOn "Right Character"
The Characteristically Aggressive Spectatorship of the Right Well, no, that's not how they call it. They call it Right-Wing Stuff Conservative Republican T-Shirts It's bunk, on any table. I thought I'd...
View ArticleFormal record on Iraq and "WMD"
Well, firstly, this is a work made for juxtaposition. Says a body of the righty-spun, in real living color, of a kindWMD:The Murderous Reign of Saddam Hussein is the history/story of the Butcher of...
View Article"Bridging the Digital Divide"
Well, there's a whole lot of information that's a matter of software, and a whole lot of software that's a matter of information. Not all of it is bite-sized. Some of it is great for keeping things of...
View ArticleKuwait, GW 1 ... Iraq, GW 2 ... & what?
I was reading through the transcript of an interview (respectfully) with the US four-star general (ret) Joseph P. Hoar, when I noticed this thing of mention:I think there was a basic flaw in the way we...
View ArticleEstrangement and non-partisanship
[revision note: Well, on second thought, this bore revision. To explain the comments, in any: It was rougher, ago. The 300-min-character limit of Scoop is also, sometimes, rather annoying.] Two words,...
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