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No Amnesty for Telecom, Uphold Constitutional Rights

No Amnesty for Telecom, Uphold Constitutional Rights

“The legislation directly conflicts with the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, requiring the government to obtain a warrant before reading the e-mail messages or listening to the telephone calls of its citizens, and to state with particularity where it intends to search and what it expects to find. Compounding these wrongs, Congress is moving in a haphazard fashion to provide a “get out of jail free card” to the telephone companies that violated the rights of their subscribers. Some in…

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Valerie Plame Answers Questions

Valerie Plame Answers Questions

This question and answer session with Valerie Plame at the Washington Post is really worth a read. Plame Wilson was online Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 1 p.m. ET to discuss her book, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, which details her CIA training, covert status, experiences, responsibilities, the outing and her life now. Portions of “Fair Game” are blacked-out and indicate, say the publishers, places where the CIA has demanded redactions. The extensive…

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Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)

Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)

The fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4), the most comprehensive United Nations assessment report on environment, development and human well-being has been officially launched at the UN Information Center. See the BBC special report on the state of the planet in graphics. How many earths again? Download the entire report (pdf, 21.9 mg). United Nations Environment Programme brochures and reports Over the last 20 years, the human population has increased by a third, global trade has tripled, and per capita income…

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Recent Posts in My Blogosphere

Recent Posts in My Blogosphere

I haven’t done a roundup in a while. For each blog (alpha-order) I’ve selected my favorite among recent posts. 3-Way Watch Blog – Mercs in a Corporate World AMERICAblog – Condi has to force State Dept. officials to Iraq Amanda’s Engima – More great Wallpapers from WallpaperStock An und für sich – The Complication of Nature and Grace in Aquinas Arianna Huffington – Midnight in America: the Mainstreaming of the GOP’s Lunatic Fringe Atheist Revolution – Christian Extremist Links CA…

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Destructive Leaders and Groups

Destructive Leaders and Groups

Rick Ross has been working on destructive cults and movements for some time now. I check his site on a regular basis. Rick has put together a very pointed list of warning signs that you might be dealing with an unsafe group and/or leader. Compare it to the list of signs of a safe group and/or leader. I’m not sure that the unsafe/safe dichotomy is the best way to describe the difference, but other than that, I think this is…

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David Horowitz and “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week”

David Horowitz and “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week”

There is an important post today at The Progress Report about the “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” program run by David Horowitz at college campuses this week. The whole crusade is counter-productive in a number of ways, but it’s cleverly planned. Of course, mislabeling international terrorism is not a great idea. What we are dealing with bears little resemblance to definitions of fascism, and tying it to Islam as a religion rather than toward the violent radicals of any religion (or none)…

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