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Remembering What Most Forget
Today, the innocent victims of September 11th, 2001 deserve to be remembered. And they will be, all over the place. Here I choose to remember the victims of September 11th, 1973, the date on which a...
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A Cultural Shift Of Serious Proportions
Business Insider has the fascinating details about a major cultural shift in North America that is happening today: the demise of the soap opera in the face of competition from social networking and...
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Your Tax Dollars At Work
Having failed through the judicial route to shut down publication of an expose, the CIA is negotiating to buy the entire first-run printing of 10,000. When purchased they will be pulped, according to...
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Would The Founders Approve?
Just how screwed up the US system of government is was startlingly displayed today when the Democrats had a majority of 56 to 43 in the Senate to push through the Military Appropriations bill (with...
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Get Ready For The Big Attack On Internet Freedom
The New York Times has an important story today about plans by US authorities to raid and curtail our freedoms on the Internet. Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable...
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The Cost of Big Government
I don’t like the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party folks in the US because they have medieval ideas about society and culture; they tend to be racist and bigoted in a whole mess of ways. However, their biggest...
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Publicly Supporting Torturers
The US has always tended to the strong-man theory of governance outside the US itself. Let “democracy” be a useful but distant aim, but let’s have stability before freedom. That’s how Mubarak, as the...
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Crash Test Dummies
The Indian Air Force is about to spend $10 billion on new fighter planes. That’s a lot of employment and corporate profit for whoever wins the bid. They have now disqualified both US proposals, one...
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They ARE Watching You
If you were at all unsure about just what the US NSA was tracking about YOUR life, then this long and detailed report in the Guardian should set you straight. They can and do track everything every...
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American Taliban Redux
My earlier blogs were significantly more concerned with foreign politics than is this one. In fact, one of the reasons I started Jaksview3 was to escape from the vicious madness of rightwing bloggers...
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