Monthly Archive: February 2004

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Dirty Bullet Fallout Confirmed In Iraq

So the US/UK’s use of radiological “dirty bullets” of depleted uranium has indeed produced significant confirmed uranium contamination of humans within Iraq. I am unsurprised, especially after the Pentagon specifically barred UN radiation pollution...

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New Comix

Matroska is a cool innovation, I like the way you can have multiple subtitle tracks associated with the multimedia content. This really internationalizes media data. Unlike DVD’s primitive VOBs, the subtitles are time/frame-coded content...

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The Fatter They Are

The harder they fall. Dr Atkins was obese and had heart problems when he died. Figures. Dr. Robert Atkins, whose popular diet stresses protein-rich meat and cheese over carbohydrates, weighed 258 pounds at his...

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Four Legs Good, Two Legs BETTER!

Wal-Mart and China have forged themselves into the ultimate joint venture, their symbiosis influencing the terms of labor and consumption the world over. With sales of more than $245 billion a year, Wal-Mart is...

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Yiddish Yakuza

DEA reporting demonstrates the involvement of Israeli criminal organizations in Ecstasy smuggling. There are indications that some of these smuggling groups include individuals of Russian or Georgian descent, who hold Israeli citizenship. The Israeli...

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Different Strokes

Israeli Arab figures like Azmi Bishara – a Member of Israel’s Parliament – dismiss those concerns and resent what he calls the demographic “obsession” of the Israeli establishment. “What you have here are people...

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Uncle Al’s Log Cabin Republicanism

So Roger Stone is bankrolling and organising Al Sharpton’s political campaigning. Quite a career change for Watergate alumni Stone, who began his career organising CREEP (the Committe to Re-Elect the President). Doubtless CREEP’s burglaries...