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NYT Editorial Observer: A Tale of Three (Electronic Voting) Elections
"Electronic voting has made great strides in reliability, but it has a long way to go. When reformers push for greater safeguards, they often argue that future elections could produce the wrong result because of a computer glitch or be stolen through malicious software. That’s being too nice."Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, July 31, 2008
NYT Op-Eds (2)
"The most important election this November that you’ve never heard of is a referendum on animal rights in California" (Kristof); "In the absence of a clear federal policy on immigration, states and cities are enacting draconian and constitutionally questionable laws" (Guest Op-Ed)Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, July 31, 2008
Truthdig – Acts of War
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 31, 2008The Consortiumnews.com Wave of ‘Capitol Crimes’ Continues
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 31, 2008NYT (3): National News
"McCain is trying to define Obama as out of touch" (talk about not taking the log out of your own eye before taking the splinter out of another's!); hiring "loyalists" at the Justice Department; and in a long-overdue move, the House votes to allow the FDA to regulate tobacco.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, July 31, 2008
 Let’s Speak the Truth About Afghanistan : Information Clearing House – ICH
Remember Alexander the Great, Mongols, British, Russians went down for the count. We are next, unless we get out. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 31, 2008
The Consortiumnews.com WPost Calls Out ‘Uppity’ Obama
Shame on the Washington Post. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 31, 2008
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 31, 2008NYT (4): International News
Turkey avoids a political crisis; Brazil as economic powerhouse; and China not only limits Web access during the Olympics (despite its promises to the contrary), but sends a school employee to a labor camp for a year simply for posting photos of Quake-collapsed schools on the Internet.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, July 31, 2008
Truthdig – Sucking Up to the Bankers: A Bipartisan Lovefest
More about, as my Gramps used to call, "those damn Eastern bankers". MBPosted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 31, 2008
AlterNet: Obama and McCain Offer Two Very Different Kinds of Heroism
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 31, 2008The Death of Reaganomics
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 31, 2008NYT (2): Environment/Energy
Environment and economics at the Everglades; and the U.N. goes green.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, July 31, 2008
Obama up, McCain on low road
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, July 31, 2008McCain’s true voice
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, July 31, 2008America is already committing acts of war against Iran
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, July 31, 2008Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet (The Onion…)
go to articleAl Gore—or, as he is known in his own language, Gore-Al—placed his son, Kal-Al, gently in the one-passenger rocket ship, his brow furrowed by the great weight he carried in preserving the sole survivor of humanity's hubristic folly. "There is nothing left now but to ensure that my infant son does not meet the same fate as the rest of my doomed race," Gore said. "I will send him to a new planet..."
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
I am beholden to Annette and Richard Caleel for sending me this book. They know how concerned I have been over this problem. Since 1958, that is 50 years ago, I reported to Sen. John F. Kennedy on the Middle East. I advised Jack that the Israel / Palestine problem was the ground for WWIII. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, July 30, 2008
NYT Blog: The Power of the Protest Vote
"Even a little support for a third- or fourth-party candidate could make a big difference in November."Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, July 30, 2008
NYT Op-Eds (3)
"If we aren’t careful, we’re going to repeat the history of the oil industry by creating a bandwidth cartel" (Guest Op-Ed); "Has anyone stopped to think about what political slogans really mean?" (Friedman); "Given his inability to get lift off, even flying close to the sun, Barack Obama will need all the cunning intelligence he can muster" (Dowd)Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, July 30, 2008
NYT: With Security at Risk, a Push to Patch the Web
"Since a secret emergency meeting of computer security experts at Microsoft’s headquarters in March, Dan Kaminsky has been urging companies around the world to fix a potentially dangerous flaw in the basic plumbing of the Internet."Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, July 30, 2008
NYT: After 7 Years, Talks on Trade Collapse
"World trade talks collapsed here on Tuesday after seven years of on-again, off-again negotiations, in the latest sign of India’s and China’s growing might on the world stage and the decreasing ability of the United States to impose its will globally." You gotta love those last five words.Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, July 30, 2008
