It seems the Bush administration and US interests are helping to prop up another ruthless dictator and creating of another terrorist hotbed over in Uzbekistan. I was just reading through telegrams written by former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. “The Register“:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/30/murray_lets_slip_blogs/ has the story on the documents. Below are some excerpts from Murray’s telegrams. […]
While visiting my parents, I asked my dad (who used to work for the National Security Administration) what he thought about their spying on civilians. He said with a wink, “There’s no such thing as the NSA.”
Then I returned home and saw this:
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Chicago Card - Never worry about having cash for the train or bus. Get […]
A group in San Francisco reclaims some public open space and redefines “parking” one Wednesday afternoon.
Update: We are still not in a good place here in NYC, but most of us are at work, the Mayor still has a temporary residence in Brooklyn, and the Governor is inexplicably in New Hampshire. At 7:15 a.m. TWU Local 100 leader Roger Toussaint announced “a series of strikes” that would begin with two […]
The Daily News reports that Larry Silverstein, the principal developer of the World Trade Center site, let these words fall from his mouth yesterday. He also stated, “And I don’t think, after all of this time, all of this delay … people in New York want any more uncertainty.” But Silverstein surely cannot think that […]
The rules go into effect today on New York City’s subways and buses. The rules look innocuous and some, like Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign in a comment to New York Newsday, have noted that they are an obvious matter of common courtesy. What is obvious, of course, is that in NYC no rule […]