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Dave finally gets it. Rumsfield is an evil man. .< 9:46:48 PM  >Salon.com | "Cakewalk" 'Bush administration officials and their hawkish supporters now say they never promised an easy war -- but the record shows otherwise.' .< 9:41:53 PM >UMG Commits to Make Music Available on DVD-Audio Santa Monica, CA (March 31, 2003)--Universal Music Group (UMG) has committed to make music available on DVD-Audio. Beginning with 20 U.S. releases slated for the second half of 2003, UMG plans an ongoing program to make a combination of best-selling artists and core catalog titles available on DVD-Audio in major markets worldwide. [ProSound News] .< 9:40:35 PM >World's Smallest Broadcast Voice Transmitter Now Available Toronto, Canada (March 31, 2003)-VFGadgets has unveiled the QT-256 Mini Voice Transmitter, reportedly the world's smallest broadcast-quality voice transmitter. [ProSound News] .< 9:36:56 PM >BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Taleban 'aims to regain power' 'Mullah Dadullah, a known Taleban commander, said the Taleban had regrouped under the leadership of their supreme leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, and were now attacking US-led coalition troops with renewed vigour and ferocity.' .< 9:30:39 PM >Guardian Unlimited | World dispatch | Keeping it quiet 'It is also worth noting that this week, while the headlines were clogged with war, President Bush signed an executive order making it easier for government agencies, including the White House, to keep documents classified and out of public view. The order does a number of things. It authorises a further three-year delay to the declassification of any government materials. It adds any documents sent by foreign governments to the US, no matter how routine, to the classified category, and it expands the powers of the CIA to prevent declassification of sensitive documents. However, of most concern to White House detractors is the power given, for the first time, to the vice president to veto the release of information by designating what should be classified. Given Mr Cheney's clear disregard for the public's right to know what is going in inside the White House, that is a worrying development. [snip] It is difficult to escape the feeling, say critics, that the world's largest power is being run by a private club.' .< 9:25:54 PM >Battle over Iraqi mobile network begins Business: With the war in Iraq barely nine days old, a Republican congressman has begun campaigning over the country's postwar telecommunications network. [Guardian Unlimited] These guys have no shame. .< 3:59:00 PM >Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Baghdad strike 'kills 55' 'There were grim reports tonight that a missile strike on a busy marketplace in Baghdad had killed up to 55 people and left scores more wounded. Osama Sakhari, a doctor at nearby al-Noor Hospital, told the Reuters news agency that he had counted 55 bodies, and more than 47 wounded people. "Most of the injured are children and are in very serious condition," said hospital director Haqi Ismail Razouq.' .< 3:50:16 PM >CBC News: PM won't go to Washington to receive award .< 2:52:53 PM >Spreading democracy, by any means necessary. The island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, was home to hundreds of people: former slaves that had been there since the 1800s. Britain forcibly removed these people in the 1960s to make way for the construction of a United States military air base. That base is now being used to spread freedom and democracy in Iraq. [Kuro5hin.org] .< 2:50:32 PM >Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush fiddles with economy while Baghdad burns 'In plain English, America relies on the rest of the world to finance its deficits. The rest of the world was happy to do so when the US economy was strong and returns were high, but investors will put their cash elsewhere if America looks weak economically. America borrows hundreds of millions of dollars from the rest of the world each day to cover its savings gap and, under George Bush, US dependence on foreign capital is set to increase. [snip] The twilight of empires can last a long time, but judging from his reckless unilateralism and his economic vandalism, George Bush seems to be determined to do his level best to hasten that decline.' .< 2:41:26 PM >US journalists disappear in Iraq Media: A US newspaper has appealed to the Red Cross and the Vatican for help in finding a reporter and photographer missing in Iraq. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 2:40:41 PM >BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Hans Blix to leave post '"Is three months enough to say there's an impasse and you won't get there, or do you feel that a couple of months more is something you can try without a guarantee of getting there?" the New York Times newspaper quoted him as saying recently. ' .< 10:28:59 AM >CBC News: Ontario issues new orders: 'We're not taking any chances with SARS' ' The World Health Organization is now considering Toronto severely affected. It's a daunting scene even trying to enter a Toronto hospital. Security guards wearing protective face masks scrutinize people about any possible exposure to SARS. They're preventing many people from entering.' .< 10:25:56 AM >CBC News:Top musicians play for peace album 'Paul McCartney, Avril Lavigne and Celine Dion are among the top musicians contributing music to an album benefiting a Canadian charity for child victims of war.' .< 10:23:45 AM >IT Exec Says Macs Save Money Quoting Dan Tully, executive VP of Conduit Systems, an information technologies services company, Peter Cohen writes on MacCentral, "Tully estimates that a company running a Windows-centric server environment will spend about two thirds less time and money managing its IT resources by doing the same things with Mac OS X Server and an Xserve instead." [Mar 27] .< 10:23:04 AM >The Village Voice: Features: Bracing for Bush's War at Home by Chisun LeeGround Laid for Historic Presidential Powers Push [Daypop Top 40] .< 10:16:27 AM >Back to Iraq 2.0: On the road to Ankara 'Aykut said that if I went out and asked the people on the street, half would say the United States committed 9/11 so it could go after Iraq. (Interestingly, almost half of Americans ? 45 percent ? believe Saddam was personally behind 9/11.) Turkey is also rippling with an anti-Bush sentiment. Turks like Americans and sometimes, even America. But more than 90 percent oppose this war and a similar percentage absolutely loathe George W. Bush.' .< 10:04:19 AM >Iraqi Dead Counted, Not Forgotten With mounting civilian fatalities in Iraq, a unique website is drawing thousands of hits and increased media attention. The site, Iraq Body Count, keeps a running total of civilian deaths in the Iraq war. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] I've been pointing to Body Count in my bookmarks on this page since 17 March. At the time of this posting we're at 253-333. .< 9:51:58 AM >Huge anti-war march in Iran Tens of thousands of people march through the Iranian capital condemning the war in Iraq - and also Saddam Hussein. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 9:50:18 AM >Nowhere is safe Iraq diary: Although the skies over Baghdad have cleared after the sandstorms, the view from the ground is one of mangled bodies and shattered lives, reports Jo Wilding. [Guardian Unlimited] 'Dialla is where the farmhouse was attacked a couple of days ago. Home isn't safe, the farms are not safe, the market isn't safe. Nowhere is safe.' .< 9:46:45 AM >Unfinished business Briefing: Richard Perle's resignation raises questions about US economic involvement in postwar Iraq, writes Brian Whitaker. [Guardian Unlimited] 'According to a report to be published today by the US watchdog Center for Public Integrity, at least 10 out of 30 members of the Pentagon committee are executives or lobbyists with companies that have tens of billions of dollars' worth of contracts with the US defence department and other government agencies.' .< 3:22:24 AM >Why Treat Us Like Idiots?There is a creepy, propagandistic tone to much of what our government says about the war. It's not just annoying and insulting, it's unnecessary and would seem to be objectionable even to hawks and Bush-boosters. [EdCone.com] Ed Cone has been a breath of fresh air for me the past couple of days. It's such a relief to read an American who's thinking and asking questions. I don't mean for this to sound patronizing. It's just so strikingly different from what I see in the Bush administration and the news coverage that comes out of the US. I think most Americans are smart and know when they're being had. And they are sick of having their intelligence insulted. .< 2:47:07 AM >Rage or reason Antiwar activists debate: Should they take over the streets or work to defeat Bush in 2004? [Salon] Dump Bush. .< 2:44:49 AM >War coverage: Timely or Amateur? During operations in Grenada, Panama and Desert Storm, the press howled about being cut off from the troops and the action. They seemed to have learned that sitting in a press briefing put on by the military does not make for accurate reporting. In Desert Storm, for example, the accuracy of US Precision Guided Munitions was greatly exaggerated by the military. This was almost entirely ignored until after the war, as was the fact that PGMs accounted for only a tiny percentage of ordnance used in the air campaign. [Kuro5hin.org] .< 2:44:00 AM >Top US hawk Perle resigns Veteran US Government hawk Richard Perle resigns as chairman of a top Pentagon advisory group amid conflict of interest claims. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] ' A former assistant secretary of defence under Ronald Reagan, Mr Perle was nicknamed the "Prince of Darkness" for his opposition to arms control. Mr Perle had also not only argued for the need to go to war with Iraq, he had strongly suggested that the Iraqis would put up minimal resistance.' The timing is just far too delicious. These are the kind of men running the US. .< 2:37:47 AM >Bombs fuel Baghdad anger Convinced that a US missile killed 17 people in a Baghdad suburb, many ordinary Iraqis are voicing anger against the coalition. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 2:36:48 AM >Lack of trust in media turns many to alternative sources Media: Al-Jazeera and alternative websites sought out amid suspicions that western networks are biased. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 2:36:21 AM >IMF warns of prolonged conflict Business: Prolonged war in Iraq could depress financial markets and put global economic recovery in jeopardy. [Guardian Unlimited] It's the economy stupid. .< 2:35:27 AM >Israelis fear Blair's influence over Bush World: Sharon furious as Britain steers White House to strong commitment on independent Palestinian state. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 2:34:58 AM >No 10 backtracks on execution claim Politics: No "absolute evidence" that two British soldiers were executed as the PM had earlier suggested. [Guardian Unlimited] Propaganda like this will be put forward throughout the war. .< 2:33:23 AM >Interview with Hans Blix "Nothing I could have said would have stopped this war." Gary Younge meets Hans Blix. [Guardian Unlimited] Because it never had anything to do with weapons. .< 1:56:17 AM >"Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan." [Daypop Top 40] 'To most Americans, this would sound like a frightening state of affairs, the kind that would lead them to wonder how and why we had got ourselves into this mess in the first place. But to the Bush administration hawks who are guiding American foreign policy, this isn't the nightmare scenario. It's everything going as anticipated. In their view, invasion of Iraq was not merely, or even primarily, about getting rid of Saddam Hussein. Nor was it really about weapons of mass destruction, though their elimination was an important benefit. Rather, the administration sees the invasion as only the first move in a wider effort to reorder the power structure of the entire Middle East.' .< 1:52:39 AM >""Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan."" [Daypop Top 40] 'To most Americans, this would sound like a frightening state of affairs, the kind that would lead them to wonder how and why we had got ourselves into this mess in the first place. But to the Bush administration hawks who are guiding American foreign policy, this isn't the nightmare scenario. It's everything going as anticipated. In their view, invasion of Iraq was not merely, or even primarily, about getting rid of Saddam Hussein. Nor was it really about weapons of mass destruction, though their elimination was an important benefit. Rather, the administration sees the invasion as only the first move in a wider effort to reorder the power structure of the entire Middle East.' .< 1:43:00 AM >"A teacher in Detroit notes the strange... "A teacher in Detroit notes the strange disappearance of an Iraqi student." [Daypop Top 40] .< 1:42:34 AM >Ananova - US admits '8,000 Iraqis captured' claim was false 'Defence Department officials reported on Friday that they had won the surrender of the entire 51st Division, a regular Iraqi army unit deployed in southern Iraq to defend Basra, the nation's second largest city. On Saturday, officials backtracked, saying they had only taken a couple of commanders and the rest of the men had "melted away" - a term used for those who laid down their arms and returned home.' Brilliant. The US claimed that Iraqi soldiers would surrender en masse. Then they had no desire to take care of POWs so they took their weapons and sent the men home. Now they are caught up in battles with those same people. .< 1:38:22 AM >The Independent: Robert Fisk 'It was an outrage, an obscenity. The severed hand on the metal door, the swamp of blood and mud across the road, the human brains inside a garage, the incinerated, skeletal remains of an Iraqi mother and her three small children in their still-smouldering car. Two missiles from an American jet killed them all ? by my estimate, more than 20 Iraqi civilians, torn to pieces before they could be 'liberated' by the nation that destroyed their lives.' |
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