http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news6.htm
Iran Moving Its Foreign Currency Reserves - " The move suggests Iran has taken the issue of possible U.N. sanctions seriously. However, it has insisted that it won't give up its right under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel."
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/20/D8F8ERL02.html
Duke Professor Skeptical of bin Laden Tape - "He thinks bin Laden is dead and has doubts about the tape. Lawrence recently analyzed more than 20 complete speeches and interviews of the al Qaida leader for his book. He says the new message is missing several key elements. "There's nothing in this from the Koran. He's, by his own standards, a faithful Muslim," Lawrence said. "He quotes scripture in defense of his actions. There's no quotation from the Koran in the excerpts we got, no reference to specific events, no reference to past atrocities." -- It's good to be skeptical.
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=local&id=3828678
Are You Ready to Be Bugged and Tortured By George W. Bush? - "Those who support giving Bush these powers are undoubtedly ready and willing to be tortured and bugged themselves. As for the rest of us, there can be no compromise with tyranny."
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0119-22.htm
IRS Abuses Offer Insight Into Dangers of Wiretap Program - "It's a useful technology, but according to a new government study, almost two-thirds of the refund requests identified as fraudulent through IRS data-mining are actually honest and clean. Of those returns categorized by the IRS as "conclusively fraudulent," 46 percent weren't fraudulent at all. In other words, IRS data-mining falsely identifies hundreds of thousands of American taxpayers as tax frauds every year. ... And in the end, that's the real problem with President Bush's insistence that the NSA spying program be immune to control by federal law, by Congress or the courts. Such unchecked government power will always — always — lead to abuse, and when the technology in question is as powerful as that controlled by NSA, the consequences for innocent individuals can be profound."
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0119-28.htm
FAQ: What does the Google subpoena mean? - "Preparing to defend a controversial Internet pornography law in court, the Justice Department has demanded search logs from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and America Online.
The department asked the search giants to hand over millions of records involving what search terms people have used on the sites and what Web sites are accessible via the search engines. On one level, the situation involves a straightforward question of whether the department's demands are too onerous and therefore not permitted under federal law. On another, the dispute raises novel questions about search engines' privacy protections and the relationship that four tech giants have with the federal government. What does it all mean, and what happens next? Read on."
http://news.com.com/FAQ+What+does+the+Google+subpoena+mean/2100-1029_3-6029042.html?tag=nefd.lede
Google refuses to give up data - "The subpoena requested that Google provide a random sample of 1 million Web addresses and "the text of each search string entered into Google's search engine over a one-week period (absent any information identifying the person who entered such query)," according to the motion filed Wednesday in San Jose, Calif., by Justice Department lawyers."
http://www.washtimes.com/business/20060119-105801-2649r.htm
Legislatures consider potential political bias in colleges - "To some conservatives, the case represents a national trend by some liberal professors to infringe on conservative students' right to free speech at public colleges and universities. ... Rep. Dan Surra, a member of the Pennsylvania committee who has questioned the need for the investigation, said nothing so far has swayed him. Students in his rural district complain about such issues as tuition, but not about professors' biases, the Democrat said. "I've said it's the educational equivalent of the hunt for Bigfoot," he said."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/19/academic.freedom.ap/index.html
Chain of Fools - "Things are looking a bit grim for the Bush faction these days. Their chief bagman, Jack Abramoff, is in the clink, naming names. Their top congressional enforcer, Tom DeLay, is in the dock, sinking fast. Their "war of choice" in Iraq has stalled in murderous quagmire. Their poll numbers are plummeting as scandal after scandal turn the American people against them. What, then, will be the fate of these brutal, bungling, bloodstained goons when they face the voters in the coming elections? Why, victory, of course!"
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/01/20/120.html
Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post - "The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to Republicans. ... There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper's staff could not "keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff," and so the Post shut down comments on the blog, or Web log, said Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com."
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/19/D8F82TA80.html
Pre-crime and proactive policing - "Wanting to avoid the traffic, I simply turned around and took a different route. A friend who passed through the checkpoint informed me however that the police were asking every driver what they had been doing exactly one year ago and if they were in the same area at that time. Apparently there had been a murder committed there exactly a year ago. Now correct me if I am wrong but is this the way the police conduct murder investigations now? Stopping every vehicle that passes through the same area and questioning the drivers, demanding to know what they have been doing? And one year later? I don't have the worst memory in the world but I'm struggling to remember exactly where I was a year ago."
http://infowars.net/articles/january2006/190106precrime.htm
Study: Most College Students Lack Skills - "Nearing a diploma, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food. Those are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college campuses, the first to target the skills of students as they approach the start of their careers. More than 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks. That means they could not interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school. The results cut across three types of literacy: analyzing news stories and other prose, understanding documents and having math skills needed for checkbooks or restaurant tips."
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/19/D8F7UO204.html
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"Everything I know is wrong."
~ Claire Fisher, Six Feet Under
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