before the ny times' latest reveal of tools in the war on terror, the usa today went big with 'domestic eavesdropping' (a term to make it sound as nefarious as possible).
Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees confirm that the National Security Agency has compiled a massive database of domestic phone call records. But some lawmakers also say that cooperation by the nation's telecommunication companies was not as extensive as first reported by USA TODAY on May 11. [emphasis added]after briefings on the program, lawmakers pliantly ran to the press to give the MSM more classified details. (can they be prosecuted?)
Other lawmakers who were briefed about the program expressed concerns that gaps in the database could undercut its usefulness in identifying terrorist cells.still a robust but not complete database can still yield results
since buying the washington redskins in 1999, daniel snyder's moves greatly increased the value of the team. fresh off that success, snyder looked to repeat the success with six flags amusement parks.
the nba goes with a new ball for next season.
the blogging brothers at iraq the model have remained hopeful, resolute and perseverant despite trying times.
a north korea missile launch appears less imminent than the MSM had us believe.
love or hate her, ann coulter proves a compelling interview.
essentially coinciding with its 10 year anniversary, slate unveils a new look.
seemingly in response to the network neutrality debate and all the hubbub that surrounds it, south carolina senator jim demint proposes neutrality in search engine results.
The latest amendment to this year's doorstop telecomms legislation, S.2686, was tabled by Jim DeMint (R), and targets search sites which "prioritize or give preferential or discriminatory treatment in the methodology used to determine Internet-search results based on an advertising or other commercial agreement with a third party".of course, content providers like google and yahoo support traditional 'network neutrality' while, at the same time, giving preferences based on payments.
Who could object to such a proposal? Certainly not Google and Yahoo!, which having gone to Washington DC to argue against network discrimination, can't really be seen fighting for the right to discriminate on a selective basis.while i understand the concept of 'network neutrality', i'm not a big fan of government regulating private enterprise (even if there's a monopolistic nature). broadband providers can't 'cripple' service otherwise they would risk losing their customers. so in a sense, it could be self-regulating
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The three most popular search engines, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN are principally advertising resellers. So the more pages bearing their advertisements they return, the more likely they are to prosper. It's a commercial conflict of interest that none of the big three have yet to address, let alone resolve.
similar to the story based on a leak of the classified terrorist surveillance program
Officials described the Swift program as the biggest and most far-reaching of several secret efforts to trace terrorist financing. Much more limited agreements with other companies have provided access to A.T.M. transactions, credit card purchases and Western Union wire payments, the officials said.doesn't it essentially make the program public knowledge? ...to the terrorists, too
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Data from the Brussels-based banking consortium, formally known as the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, has allowed officials from the C.I.A., the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies to examine "tens of thousands" of financial transactions, Mr. Levey said.
would be underreport them...
even i couldn't watch that much tv (found via tv tattle)
what if (america's favorite child murderer advocate) left and not much happened?
despite the impending dismissal of dan rather, the 'fake but accurate' legacy lives on in entertianment media, the antiwar crowd, anti-western groups, certainly the MSM (some of those overlap...)
at its core, soccer is a simple game. yet, worldwide interest and big money make it not-so-simple.
slate marks it upcoming 10th anniversary, with a lookback at developments good and bad
corrections of mistakes by news media types often take the form of hushed under the radar, lame, or just plain late--if at all (although (if you want the)truth(get)out(of here) is technically a blog)
with pittsburgh steeler quarterback ben roethlisberger's release from the hospital, it's time to reflect on the bigger picture: the 'chunky soup curse' which appears to afflict the company's nfl spokesman
Reggie White. Donovan McNabb. Terrell Davis. Kurt Warner. Brian Urlacher. Michael Strahan.the article continues with a reference to the 'madden curse' which befalls the video game franchise covers
And now Roethlisberger.
Each tasted soup and then tasted ruin.
in light of his advocacy of 'fake but accurate' news and the recent broadcast news turnover, dan rather's slo-mo release from cbs remains only a formality
... the one who thinks he's much smarter and funnier than he is...
note: my dislike of ebay stems from its crime-enabling ways and its overall lameness
following up on the 'what will heretofore obsessed chris matthews do?' sentiment earlier...
uwe boll 'specializes' in video game movie adaptations which get savaged on the internet (think a poor man's paul ws anderson).
To be eligible you must be a critic who has posted on the internet or have written in magazines / newspapers at least two extremely negative articles in the year 2005.including the "Dr." is a nice touch
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Dr. Uwe Boll’s invitation to fight and / or appear in his film is extended to all his harshest critics. Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino are among the most eligible candidates.
The following posters to the IMDb have earned the right to be placed on the list of the most extreme anti-Boll critics and are therefore eligible to enter the contest. Contestants will be chosen to be an extra and physically box Dr. Uwe Boll.
apparently, karl rove won't be indicted with regard to the joe wilson-plame-cia leak-what's it called now? investigation. this is bad news for partisan liberals/democrats who hate him.
I am convinced that Karl Rove will, in fact, be indictedwhoops!
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Don`t bet on Karl Rove getting out of this.
recently, jimmy kimmel live enjoyed ratings increases.
With a more compatible lead-in, “Live” became the only late-night talk show to deliver a ratings increase among adults 18-49 during May sweeps, jumping 17 percent year to year from a 0.6 rating to a 0.7.ted koppel's nightline proved very serious stuff, thus not necessarily a compatible lead-in for a late night talker. kimmel's numbers benefited from the 'new' nightline catered more towards a younger audience (even competing with letterman on some nights).
despite open hostility in liberal strongholds including academia, the military personnel continues the positive trend which began shortly after negative reports last year. however compared to the trumpeting of the negative, the MSM appears to whisper the positive news (found via lucianne)
check out the headline and the byline of this article...
the national review online's media blog wraps-up initial media reaction-coverage of the death of zarqawi in a 'good, bad, and ugly' format. the WaPo and NYT go with unqualified stories [but i'm fully expecting the 'yeah, but...' pieces shortly] while reuters and BBC chip in with caveat full reports.
the recent success of amd has hurt behemoth intel and forced formerly intel-only dell to finally include amd into the mix.
in the spirit of conservative satire site ScrappleFace, the nihilist in golf pants hypothesizes possible refrains today's anti-war protesters could have said about D-Day. some of my faves
8. All this death and destruction is because the neo-cons are in the pocket of Israeland the grieving mothers of the 10,000 D-Day casualties would be trotted out in the MSM
7. The soldiers are still on the beach, this invasion is a quagmire
6. Sure the holocaust is evil, but so was slavery
5. We are attacked by Japan and then attack France? Roosevelt is worse than the Kaiser!
note: all stories found via tv tattle
the baby brangelina pics that a coupla magazines paid alot for got leaked on the web.
if one liberal blogger gives a reacharound to another liberal blogger in a MSM publication...
the whackos behind tv turnoff week--which incidentally doesn't appear to have gathered much support--try to broaden the failure--i mean campaign to other screens
i'm no fan of jacques chirac and france, but this is getting ridiculous...
As if to underline M Chirac’s declining power, his ministers have been unable to impose the reform on their own ministries, which are also stopping work. In the private sector nearly half of French businesses will be on holiday, while the rest will remain open.the resistance to work assures france's better days are long gone
on last night's the situation with tucker carlson, guest robert f kennedy jr pushes his rolling stone article about how the 2004 election was stolen from john kerry.
the Nature article about the arctic hot spot apparently included another angle not emphasized in previous coverage.
Several of the researchers said they were reluctant to focus on that aspect of the work, saying it would be unfortunate if their climate studies prompted new oil exploration that could liberate more greenhouse gases and further warm the climate.the weird thing is i didn't hear this reported in 2004
But one of the authors, Henk Brinkhuis of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, was not shy when he first pointed this out to reporters in 2004. This week, he said he remained confident that the prospect was real. [emphasis added]
the sunny and warm arctic...
Yet when he ran in 1992 for vice president, Gore made very little of the greenhouse effect. It was the Republicans who raised the issue, to tease him as an environmental extremist. Climate change was not a major theme of the Clinton years, and little progress was made while Gore served in the White House. His only significant act over eight years was to help negotiate a Kyoto treaty that the Clinton administration never submitted to the Senate for ratification. One might argue that the problem was Gore's limited power within the administration. But a better explanation is probably that Gore was too worried about his own future to press the case harder. Running for president in 2000, he downplayed environmental concerns in general, for fear of again being caricatured as "ozone man." Faced with what his political consultants viewed as a potential liability, he abandoned the cause nearest his heart.in any case, humans and/or global warming will somehow get blamed for natural disasters and beyond
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