One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Saturday, 13 March 2004

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Apple posts Compaq iTunes as HP music store goes live

Sooner than the Summer [The Register]

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The United States said it had won a victory at the World Trade Organization that could save people billions of dollars on phone calls to Mexico. [New York Times: Technology]

I use a phone card that costs 10 Canuck bucks and let's me talk to Mexico City for over 7 hours!

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Michael Watkins: "It becomes increasingly obvious that 'we was had' on Iraq, because we had faulty intelligence, or manipulative interpretation of it by the administration." [Scripting News]

It was very clear to some of us a long time ago.

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The first British suspect to be released from Camp Delta, Manchester-born Jamal al-Harith, gives a damning account of life in Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta in a three part article in today's Daily Mirror. He describes torture, systematic beatings, forced medication, exposure, inadequate sanitation and denial of religious rights, along with the claim that prostitutes were hired to humiliate inmates. [Kuro5hin.org]

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In an outstanding show of national unity, massive crowds also gathered in Barcelona, Seville, Valencia and even in Spain's Canary Islands off Western Africa. Nationwide, more than 11 million people -- about a quarter of the population -- marched, state TV said.

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The Globe and Mail-Injured woman calls in vain for husband
The young couple were typical of many of the victims of yesterday's attacks, which hit commuter trains at 7:30 a.m., long before Spain's white-collar work force heads into the office. Many of those killed at Atocha railway station were immigrants, Latin Americans and Eastern Europeans who do many of the construction, cleaning and restaurant jobs shunned by affluent Spaniards.

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Spanish protesters assail government for bomb investigation...

Spanish protesters assail government for bomb investigation
Angry protesters assembled in Madrid Saturday outside the headquarters of the ruling Popular Party, calling for more transparency in the investigation of Thursday's bomb attacks that killed 200 people. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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UK: Freed Guantánamo prisoner also condemns British government. [Guardian Unlimited] 'A second Briton released from Guantánamo Bay last night savaged the United States for gross breaches of human rights which he alleged included interrogation at gunpoint.'