One Canuck's Radio WeblogA 'news items' 'clipping service' for myself and anyone else who's interested |
| Last modified: |
|
30/1/2006; 6:33:15 |
|
Uh oh! [If you find this posting at some point in the future please take not of the date] .< 10:25:08 PM  >Rumsfeld and Myers Assail Complaints About War Strategy Pentagon officials declared that complaints about the handling of the war are misinformed, inaccurate and harmful to American forces in combat. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] Ahhhh. We hurt their feelings. It's incompetence by the highers up that's harming US forces. Quit whining you losers. .< 4:13:00 PM >Mirror.co.uk - THIS WAR IS NOT WORKING 'I am still in shock and awe at being fired. There is enormous sensitivity within the US government to reports coming out from Baghdad. They don't want credible news organisations reporting from here because it presents them with enormous problems.' .< 3:59:55 PM >The New Yorker: Fact [Daypop Top 40] '"This is tragic," one senior planner said bitterly. "American lives are being lost." The former intelligence official told me, "They all said, "We can do it with air power." They believed their own propaganda." The high-ranking former general described Rumsfeld's approach to the Joint Staff war planning as "McNamara-like intimidation by intervention of a small cell" - a reference to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and his aides, who were known for their challenges to the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Vietnam War. The former high-ranking general compared the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Stepford wives. "They"ve abrogated their responsibility."' An extraordinary condemnation of Rumsfeld. The military seems almost contemptuous of this creep. There is a disastor brewing and it's largely because Rumsfeld micro-managed the invasion. At this point the USUK and Iraq are in a stalemate and it will be weeks before new troops and equipment arrive. Unbelievable incompetence. .< 3:40:44 PM >Iraq goes offline The latest round of bombs appears to have finally cut off Iraqi access to the Internet. [Salon] .< 3:35:27 PM >Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time Happy April Fools Day! This story isn't about Iraq, and it isn't a prank. It's simply a pointer to the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time, part of Alex Boese's Museum of Hoaxes Web site. [Kuro5hin.org] .< 3:30:17 PM >Gates' Hefty Aid to HIV Research The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donates $60 million for research into microbicides to help women prevent HIV infections. The non-profit recipient says results of their work could prevent up to three million new HIV infections in the next three years. [Wired News] Credit where credit's due. Bravo. .< 2:11:15 PM >Catching Up with the Voice of Macintosh:... Catching Up with the Voice of Macintosh: Fred (01-Apr-2003; 3.9K) [TidBITS] .< 2:06:07 PM >In pictures: Iraqi civilians' plight Images of Iraqi civilians, many of whom have to endure daily horrors of the war and scramble for basic food and water. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] Victims of the USUK invasion. .< 2:05:24 PM >In quotes: War in Iraq Views from the protagonists as all sides struggle for propaganda as well as military victories. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 2:04:10 PM >A donor's guide to aid for Iraq Nick Cater untangles the politics and logistics of choosing which aid agency to support. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 1:59:13 PM >'You didn't fire a warning shot soon enough!' Daily briefing: A journalist's account of the killing of a car full of Iraqi civilians by US soldiers differs widely from the official military version, says Brian Whitaker. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 1:45:03 PM >Iraqi civilian casualties mount At least 11 members of the same family are reported killed in an air strike in central Iraq as US-led forces advance on Baghdad. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] Bodycount .< 1:41:25 PM >Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US backs checkpoint killings soldiers 'A statement purported to be from the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, was read out on Iraqi television tonight, calling for Muslims to join in a holy war against the coalition invasion and that jihad was a "duty".' .< 1:25:47 PM >CARROUSO [Information Access and Filtering] Faithfully recreating a sound field from source to a remote location The key objective of the CARROUSO project is to provide a new technology that enables the transfer of a sound field, generated at a certain real or virtual space, to another usually remote located space, this with full interactive control of its perceptually-relevant natural temporal and spatial properties, especially in combination with the transmission of visual data. The basis for this technology is the concept of wave field synthesis (WFS) which opens windows to a wide range of new audio applications. To fulfil this objective, new modelling, recording, encoding, decoding and rendering techniques have to be specified, developed, implemented, evaluated and validated.' .< 1:36:44 AM >Rumsfeld's Design for War Criticized on the Battlefield Officers on the Iraqi battlefield complain that the Pentagon has not sent enough troops to wage the war as they want to fight it. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] I will pound on Rumsfeld every chance I get. I wish Wofowitz were in the headlines more. He's an evil dude too. .< 1:35:15 AM >The Test for Rumsfeld: Will Strategy Work? Critics charged that Donald H. Rumsfeld's principles of a new American military have been applied in Iraq and found wanting. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] Dump him. The creep has been backpeddling and sounding nervous. I'm an audio person so I like to listen to the voices of the speakers. He's in trouble. .< 1:20:13 AM >CBC News: Flooding hitting parts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick 'Heavy rains are turning some rivers in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into torrents, leading to the closing of schools and highways. Up to 100 millimetres of rain has fallen in some areas since Sunday.' It snowed today in Toronto. The gloves, scarves and hats came back out on Sunday. .< 1:17:40 AM >A Gruesome Scene on Highway 9 [washingtonpost.com] '"Cease fire!" Johnson yelled over the radio. Then, as he peered into his binoculars from the intersection on Highway 9, he roared at the platoon leader, "You just [expletive] killed a family because you didn't fire a warning shot soon enough!"' .< 1:02:36 AM >Apple's QuickTime 6.1.1, available via Software Update, is said to deliver "important bug fixes for MPEG-4 streaming." [One wonders if it may also relate to Apple's unannounced music distribution service, rumored to be due soon.] [Macintouch] .< 12:49:58 AM >Blair acts to reassure Europe on US plans Politics: Tony Blair has started the daunting task of rebuilding relations with France, Germany and Russia. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 12:48:54 AM >George Monbiot: It will end in disaster Comment: The US and British governments have dragged us into a mess that will last for years, says George Monbiot . [Guardian Unlimited] 'Even if, having held out for many weeks or months, Saddam Hussein is found and killed, his spirit may continue to inspire a revolt throughout the Muslim world, against the Americans, the British and, of course, Israel. Pakistan's unpopular leader, Pervez Musharraf, would then find himself in serious trouble. If, as seems likely in these circumstances, he is overthrown in an Islamic revolt, then a fundamentalist regime, deeply hostile to the west, would possess real nuclear weapons, primed and ready to fire.
I hope I've missed something here, and will be proved spectacularly wrong, but it seems to me that the American and British governments have dragged us into a mess from which we might not emerge for many years. They have unlocked the spirit of war, and it could be unwilling to return to its casket until it has traversed the world.' Amazing. The two solutions they are fighting over are both sure to completely unacceptable to the Iraqis. What a pile of clowns. Wolfowitz or some creep that neither the CIA or Iraqis trust. Brilliant. These guys have really got their crap together. .< 12:16:42 AM >Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Britain - how the world sees us: part 1 'These days when a foreigner flags me I will take them into the cab and then ask them where they are from. If they say Britain or the United States I pull to the side and ask them to leave the car. I am very polite; there is nothing personal about it. For all I know they could be very nice people. But how can I take money from them, drive them where they want and act like everything is normal, when their governments are killing our people?' .< 12:10:05 AM >Civilians shot dead at checkpoint American soldiers shot dead seven women and children when their car failed to stop at a checkpoint. [Guardian Unlimited] '"A civilian is always a threat until proven innocent," Lieutenant Jason Davis of the 101st Airborne Division told Reuters.' Couldn't blow out the tires guys? |
| Archive: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On this day in |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Navigation: |
|
Home The Arts Audio Canuck Fallout Macs Microsoft Music Photography thingsUserland Weblogging 
 |
|