SPOOK REBELLION
"An unprecedented array of US intelligence professionals, diplomats and former Pentagon officials have gone on record to lambaste the Bush administration for its distortion of the case for war against Iraq. In their view, the very foundations of intelligence-gathering have been damaged in ways that could take years, even decades, to repair.
A new documentary film beginning to circulate in the United States features one powerful condemnation after another, from the sort of people who usually stay discreetly in the shadows - a former director of the CIA, two former assistant secretaries of defense, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even the man who served as President Bush's Secretary of the Army until just a few months ago. "
(COMMON DREAMS, unearthed by CubaNews Digest)
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003
CUBA POLITICS WORRY FARMERS
Cuba is now the United States' 35th largest agricultural export market, up from 208th just two years ago...
"doing business with Cuba is a lesson in working with paranoid, controlling bureaucrats who require loads of unnecessary paperwork at frequent stages of the deal. And he's not talking about the communist government in Havana. 'The difficult part has been, for the most part, working with our government: "
(VOA, unearthed by CubaNews Digest)
Cuba is now the United States' 35th largest agricultural export market, up from 208th just two years ago...
"doing business with Cuba is a lesson in working with paranoid, controlling bureaucrats who require loads of unnecessary paperwork at frequent stages of the deal. And he's not talking about the communist government in Havana. 'The difficult part has been, for the most part, working with our government: "
(VOA, unearthed by CubaNews Digest)
Monday, November 10, 2003
AT WHAT PRICE?
Government officials have typically responded to terrorist attacks by enacting "antiterrorism" legislation designed to assuage public fears by making "the dubious claim that they can prevent terrorism by curtailing the privacy and civil liberties of the people."
(CATO)
Government officials have typically responded to terrorist attacks by enacting "antiterrorism" legislation designed to assuage public fears by making "the dubious claim that they can prevent terrorism by curtailing the privacy and civil liberties of the people."
(CATO)
US BLOCKS EFFORTS BY US TROOPS TO RECOVER DAMAGES
"The Bush administration is seeking to block a group of American troops who were tortured in Iraqi prisons during the Persian Gulf war in 1991 from collecting any of the hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen Iraqi assets they won last summer in a federal court ruling against the government of Saddam Hussein."
(NYT)
"The Bush administration is seeking to block a group of American troops who were tortured in Iraqi prisons during the Persian Gulf war in 1991 from collecting any of the hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen Iraqi assets they won last summer in a federal court ruling against the government of Saddam Hussein."
(NYT)
Sunday, November 09, 2003
CONSUMER LEVEL ANTI-SURVEILANCE
This is an interesting piece of spam that I just got. It's the answer to the ubiquitous mini video cam, a device that can "detect the presence of a hidden camera or any device that emits an electronic signal". Supposedly can also "detect wireless audio transmitting devices commonly used for wiretapping, perfect for security checks prior to any sensitive meetings and discussions."
This is an interesting piece of spam that I just got. It's the answer to the ubiquitous mini video cam, a device that can "detect the presence of a hidden camera or any device that emits an electronic signal". Supposedly can also "detect wireless audio transmitting devices commonly used for wiretapping, perfect for security checks prior to any sensitive meetings and discussions."
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