Independent Online Edition
Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a […]
12 22 05 NSA letter.pdf
Nothing too surprising. No general assertion of FISA being unconstitutional because of Article II powers but a broad assertion of powers relating to the AUMF and that this authorization satisfies FISA statutory requirement.
It didn’t mention the targetting of individual U.S. citizens portion of FISA that I noticed, leading me to believe […]
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Washington Post
Iraqis, if not all of their leaders, have unmistakably chosen to try democracy as a means of constructing a new political order.The results, however, may make it more difficult to build that order than the Bush administration hoped. The Shiite religious coalition that dominates the present government appears to have obtained a slightly lower […]
csmonitor.com
Let’s abandon this struggle to demarcate and instead let’s liberally apply the label “science” to any collection of assertions about the workings of the natural world. Fine, intelligent design is a science then - as is astrology, as is parapsychology. But what has a claim to being taught in the science classroom isn’t all science, […]
Winds of Change.NET: Tidbits from Turkey on Iran
This seems to be something we should pay attention to. Go read it.
MOSNEWS.COM
Ukraine bared its teeth in a row with Russia over the price of its natural gas on Tuesday, making a veiled threat it might consider raising the rent on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, Reuters reported.By introducing the Fleet issue, pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko injected new tension into relations already strained since he came […]
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has started a blog: timbl’s blog
Strangely enough, the web took off very much as a publishing medium, in which people edited offline. Bizarely, they were prepared to edit the funny angle brackets of HTML source, and didn’t demand a what you see is what you […]
CNN
Jeanine Pirro, the longtime prosecutor who had been set to run against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton next year, has decided to drop out of the U.S. Senate race in New York, she announced Wednesday.Pirro instead will run for state attorney general.
“I have decided that my law enforcement background better qualifies me for a race for […]
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