Sunday, December 15, 2002

Carter warns of "uncontrollable violence". In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, former President Jimmy Carter blasts the idea of a preemptive war with Iraq. [Salon.com] 4:18:19 PM

Helms Defends Lott Before his election in 1972, Helms sometimes used his television and radio commentaries to defend the owners of segregated businesses and condemned civil rights marchers. He also fought a Martin Luther King holiday in 1983. [Daypop Top 40] 4:11:22 PM

Rich against Poor: What the US current regime exposes through its policies and actions is a much less complex and more typical struggle: rich against poor. The Bush regime's economic, environmental, and military adventures can all be understood quite easily as the maintenance of the short-term interests of the wealthy over the long-term interests of the poor. [Douglas Rushkoff Weblog] 4:05:08 PM

Financial Times: A threat to innovation on the web. Lawrence Lessig. But increasingly, the providers of internet connectivity are pushing a different principle. US broadband companies are trying to ensure that they have the power to decide which applications and content can run. [Tomalak's Realm] 3:51:17 PM

The ugly truth about Republican racial politics. The GOP needs to do a lot more than rebuke Trent Lott to make up for its legacy of pandering to white bigots and suppressing the black vote. [Salon.com] The Republican Party has prospered for almost 40 years by doing exactly what Lott did at Thurmond's 100th birthday party last week: Quietly appeasing its retrograde Southern base with coded symbols of solidarity, while disavowing overt racism for a national audience. Richard Nixon's "Southern strategy" -- rebuild the party by luring whites repelled by the Democrats' pro-civil rights stance -- didn't die with his presidency. And Lott's not the only one using it today. 3:49:07 PM

Bush Administration cuts home heating grants, in the dead of winter "They will either shut their program early, when they run out of money, or cut benefits," spokesman Mark Wolfe said. "It is colder than last year. Unemployment is higher ... We are starting to hear from some states that their caseloads are going up." [Daypop Top 40] 3:45:10 PM

National Review: Lott Should Go A bad Majority Leader gets worse [Daypop Top 40] This is the National Review -- a deeply conservative organization -- saying this. Should we begin a countdown on Lott's numbered days...?" 3:43:24 PM

Lott: Apology No. 4. The Senate's top Republican tries again to persuade America that he's not a closet segregationist. [Salon.com] The more you look into Lott's record, the more you realize that his apologies are token. His idea of a colorblind society is one where he doesn't have to see anyone who isn't white... 3:37:11 PM

Dangerous tshirt seized [Daypop Top 40] What do you want to bet the student gets expelled? Probably criminal charges, too. Freedom of speech, unless you criticize Dumbya... 3:34:42 PM

Forbes.com: How to Ruin American Enterprise As a casual observer of what makes this country work and what stops it cold, I hereby offer a few suggestions on how we can ruin American competitiveness and innovation in the course of this century. I think the reader will agree with me that we are already far down the road on many of them. [Daypop Top 40] 3:30:01 PM

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