“U.S. authorities want to try a Briton who hacked into top military sites to see what he could learn about aliens. They’re upset, the hacker says, because it was so easily accomplished. As usual, sieve-like Microsoft software offered the way in.” (Wired News)
Daily Archives: 28 Apr 06
Atlantic City May Lose in New Monopoly
“…Hasbro has announced plans to update [Monopoly] to a ‘here and now’ version, raising rents and letting the public vote on streets, neighborhoods and national monuments to fill the 22 properties on the board. And Atlantic City is not among the choices.” (New York Times )
The classic, Atlantic City-based version of the game will apparently still be sold as well.
Gas prices: Bush’s rebound fuel
Dick Morris: “Bush is never going to solve the massive negatives he is suffering as a result of the war in Iraq. His best shot is to distract Americans with a stellar performance in a new crisis, and the rise in gas prices comes along at just the right time.” (The Hill)
Two problems with Morris’ thesis. First, BushCo is incapable of responding effectively to a crisis, and in particular the windfall giveaway to their sponsors in the oil sector is not a trend they can buck.
Second, Bush’s rebound strategy is probably already being planned, and it will likely have more to do with engineering an ‘October surprise’ to shore up his anti-terrorist credibility. Whether that entails provoking a Tonkin-like act of Iranian aggression against US intersts which would call for massive retaliation and muster jingoistic sentiment; or — not too outlandish to rule out — facilitating a well-timed terrorist attack on U.S. soil, it will allow the Shrub an ludicrous and outrageous opportunity to try and look decisive (you know his ‘decisive monkey’ scowl?) and shore up Republican prospects.
FOXNews Exclusive, Believe it or not!
Neil Young’s ‘Impeach the President’ Lyrics: “When ‘Living with War’ starts streaming on www.neilyoung.com on Friday, my guess is the servers will overheat. The real test will come next week, when the album is available for downloading on several sites.
For now, though, here are the lyrics many parents are going to be hearing their kids singing in the next few days. Young has been clever enough to write the catchiest protest song since Country Joe and the Fish’s anti-Vietnam ditty, “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die.”
Here, for the first time, the lyrics to Neil Young’s “Let’s Impeach the President”:
Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the doorHe’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to warLet’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephonesWhat if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglectedThank god he’s cracking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is cleanThank God”
Update: stream the song here.
Lies, Damned Lies and Karl Rove
The Gaping Hole In Rove’s Defense: “Yesterday, Karl Rove testified for almost four hours before a federal grand jury about his previous statements pertaining to the leak of an undercover CIA agent’s identity. Rove offered this stunning defense:
“…it would have been a suicide mission” to “deliberately lie” about his conversation with Cooper because he knew beforehand that it eventually would be revealed…
Rove wants the grand jury to believe that he wouldn’t have lied in 2003 about his role in the Plame affair because he knew journalists would ultimately tell the truth. But in fact, President Bush and the White House believed in 2003 that journalists would remain silent about the case and would refuse to name their sources…” (Think Progress)
Visit by Rumsfeld, Rice Sets Off Criticism in Iraq
“We didn’t invite them”, says one Shiite legislator close to the prime minister-designate. (Los Angeles Times)
More Than 600 Implicated in Detainee Abuse
“Two years after the Abu Ghraib scandal, new research shows that abuse of detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at Guant?namo Bay has been widespread, and that the United States has taken only limited steps to investigate and punish implicated personnel.” (Human Rights Watch)
"Army of Shadows"
“A 1969 French film examining patriotism that’s just now debuting in the U.S. may be among the greatest movies ever made.” (Salon)
Setting Grandmotherhood Aside, Judge Lets 18 Go in Peace
“Eighteen ‘grannies’ who were swept up by the New York City police, handcuffed, loaded into police vans and jailed for four and a half hours were acquitted yesterday of charges that they blocked the entrance to the military recruitment center in Times Square when they tried to enlist.
After six days of a nonjury trial, the grandmothers and dozens of their supporters filled a courtroom in Manhattan Criminal Court to hear whether they would be found guilty of two counts of disorderly conduct for refusing to move, which could have put them in jail for 15 days. The women call their group the Granny Peace Brigade and said they wanted to join the armed forces and thus offer their lives for those of younger soldiers in Iraq.” (New York Times )
Acts of civilly disobedient nonviolent resistance to the war effort and militarism should always, IMHO, be highlighted and publicized widely. Spread the news.
