One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Sunday, 3 October 2004

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Listening to the Republican spin on CNN....

Listening to the Republican spin on CNN. One-word summary: Desperate. Three words: Clutching At Straws. They have nothing substantial to argue with Kerry about so they make up stuff. One more word: Pathetic. It's a failed presidency, now that's being uncovered. [Scripting News]

< 12:35:25 PM >

NY Times: "Fox News's Web site posted a fabricated news item on Friday with quotations attributed to Senator John Kerry that the cable network later said had been written in jest." [Scripting News]

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Still all to fight for in White House battle as Kerry rides Miami wave. [Guardian Unlimited World Latest]

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Prisoner interrogations at Guantánamo Bay have not prevented a single terrorist attack, according to senior Pentagon officer. [Guardian Unlimited World Latest] 'Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Christino, who retired last June after 20 years in military intelligence, says that President George W Bush and US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have 'wildly exaggerated' their intelligence value.

Christino's revelations, to be published this week in Guantánamo: America's War on Human Rights, by British journalist David Rose, are supported by three further intelligence officials. Christino also disclosed that the 'screening' process in Afghanistan which determined whether detainees were sent to Guantánamo was 'hopelessly flawed from the get-go'.'

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AP - Thousands of students, union leaders and radical activists flooded the streets of Mexico's capital Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the Oct. 2, 1968, massacres of protesters in Tlatelolco plaza. [Yahoo! News - World]

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The White House embraced the theory that aluminum tubes bound for Iraq were for nuclear centrifuges despite contrary views from America's leading nuclear scientists. [New York Times: International] 'Senior administration officials repeatedly failed to fully disclose the contrary views of America's leading nuclear scientists, an examination by The New York Times has found. They sometimes overstated even the most dire intelligence assessments of the tubes, yet minimized or rejected the strong doubts of nuclear experts. They worried privately that the nuclear case was weak, but expressed sober certitude in public.'

This NYT report is 15 pages long.

< 12:44:53 AM >

In this week's InfoWorld column, I look back on my first year of using a PowerBook as my primary work machine:

About a year ago, I enthusiastically switched to OS X running on a PowerBook laptop. Since then I’ve experienced the ups and downs of managing enterprise IT from a PowerBook. As a personal device, my PowerBook has become the center of my digital life in a way that my Windows laptop never did, mainly because I love the look and feel. Yet running OS X in a typical enterprise is not problem-free. A positive experience, yes, but not perfect.[read the rest here]

[Chad Dickerson]

< 12:37:10 AM >

Newsweek: "The president's lead in the race for the White House has vanished, according to the latest Newsweek poll." [Scripting News]

Please let this be true and please let the momentum continue.