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Friday, April 13, 2007 |
RIANovosti: "Deployment of U.S. missile-defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic is an attempt by the U.S. to control Europe, the former Soviet president said Thursday.
'It is all about influence and domination in Europe,' Mikhail Gorbachev said. 'I believe it is wrong that America did not even bother to consult its NATO allies.'"
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NYTimes: "The White House said Thursday that missing e-mail messages sent on Republican Party accounts may include some relating to the firing of eight United States attorneys.
The disclosure became a fresh political problem for the White House, as Democrats stepped up their inquiry into whether Karl Rove and other top aides to President Bush used the e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee to circumvent record-keeping requirements."
CREW: "Today, CREW issued a new report, WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and Violations of the PRA, and made the shocking new disclosure that the Bush White House has lost over FIVE MILLION e-mails in a two year period. The report also details the legal issues behind the growing controversy over the White House e-mail scandal."
TheCarpetbaggerReport: "President Bush's aides are lying about White House e-mails sent on a Republican account that might have been lost, a powerful Senate chairman said Thursday, vowing to subpoena those documents if the administration fails to cough them up.
'They say they have not been preserved. I don't believe that!' Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy shouted from the Senate floor.
You can't erase e-mails, not today. They've gone through too many servers,' said Leahy, D-Vermont. 'Those e-mails are there, they just don't want to produce them. We'll subpoena them if necessary. E-mails don't get lost,' Leahy insisted. 'These are just e-mails they don't want to bring forward.'"
Losing e-mails during a 'war on terror' and in a system of super surveillance when every e-mail is recorded and stored for years, just isn't possible.
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Wikipedia: "While a prisoner of war, Vonnegut witnessed the aftermath of the February 13-15, 1945 bombing of Dresden, Germany, which destroyed much of the city. Vonnegut was one of just seven American prisoners of war in Dresden to survive, in an underground meatpacking cellar known as Slaughterhouse Five."
Guardian: "Vonnegut's writing career spanned more than half a century and saw him produce 14 novels (many of which were bestsellers) as well as dozens of short stories, essays and plays. He ranged from the conventional science fiction of his 1963 novel, Cat's Cradle (which hangs around the discovery of 'ice-nine', a substance with the properties of water but which is solid at room temperature) to the satirical Breakfast of Champions (1973) and the semi-autobiographical Slaughterhouse-Five, the catalyst for which was his own experience as a soldier with the US 106th Infantry Division and as a prisoner of war during world war two."
Custodians of Chaos by Kurt Vonnegut.
Kurt Vonnegut on The Daily Show.
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