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Sunday, February 2, 2003 |
When an expert NASA panel warned last year that safety troubles loomed for the fleet of shuttles if the agency's budget was not increased, NASA removed five of the panel's nine members and two of its consultants. Some of them now say the agency was trying to suppress their criticisms.[New York Times]
9:31:30 PM 
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[Guardian]: Over Bosnia, Kosovo and over Afghanistan, voices on both the Left and Right have been consistently raised to object to the use of force. Where these voices have belonged to pacifists, they have my respect, but most often they have belonged to the purely selfish, the pathologically timid, or to those who somehow believed that however bad things were in Country X, the Americans were always worse.
It does seem noteworthy that the left favored US military intervention in Bosnia, and opposes it in Iraq, and vice versa on both counts for the right.
[More interesting links at bottom, if you read all the way through the article.]
11:57:31 AM
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 Futureboy. In the budget bill now making its way through the Senate, there's a rider that would effectively stop the Total Information Awareness (TIA) project dreamed up by John Poindexter.
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[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
Time to call your Senators. Keep that rider in.
10:51:33 AM
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Ah, Those Principled Europeans. I don't take seriously all the Euro-whining about the Bush policies toward Iraq for one very simple reason: It strikes me as unserious. By Thomas L. Friedman. [New York Times: Opinion]
One pundit observed last week that when you consider Germany and France dependence on oil imoprts, and Britain's oil independence, the political map makes more sense.
10:50:28 AM
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The New Yorker. Seymour Hersh. Great article in the New Yorker last week about the administration's North Korea and Pakistan policies. If you think we are going to be done with war and the economic effects of impending war soon, you should read it to get the real story.
[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
10:38:21 AM
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Angry, Sad, Frustrated.. I'm sad for the seven who died in the Columbia. For their families. For everyone who is hurting at NASA.
I'm frustrated that this space bus crashed on a routine neighborhood mission. It's like the tires coming off on the freeway.
I'm angry that congressmen for the last 30 years haven't fully funded space exploration. The Columbia should have been bringing back tourists from the moon, settlers from Mars. And this wouldn't have been the 28th mission but the 1000th.
I'm angry that I feel so strongly for the few, to the point of tears, but not for the millions who will die this year of AIDS, hunger, and war.
[a klog apart]
Well said. So true.
10:34:59 AM
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Quake here three minutes ago. 3 miles N of Dublin.
USGS says "magnitude 4.2"
No big whoop, but palpable here in Berkeley, about 20 miles away.
Always lively...
10:27:04 AM
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Ken Wiwa (son of Ken Saro Wiwa), in the
Toronto Globe and Mail:
...the naked truth of our world is that it is made up of entities competing for natural resources. And because the United States hoovers up 25 per cent of the world's fossil-fuel energy supply, it is having to perform verbal gymnastics to persuade the rest of us to subscribe to a story whose basic plot is about fuelling the U.S. economy.
8:40:32 AM
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