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ArmsControlWonk | an arms control weblog: Iran's 164 Centrifuge Cascade "In the preliminary stages of the work, we noticed that our machines broke down frequently. We couldnʹt discover the cause, since we didnʹt have any scientific sources or books to refer to. After great efforts we discovered that our experts didnʹt wear fabric gloves during the assembly phase. We found out that when you assemble the parts with bare hands, germs are transferred to the machinery from the smallest amount of sweat which comes off the hands.
This little amount of germs is enough to trouble and destroy the machine. When we say a machine is destroyed we mean that it turns into powder."
This little amount of germs is enough to trouble and destroy the machine. When we say a machine is destroyed we mean that it turns into powder."
- toledoblade.com - Documents released recently allege that Mr. Noe wrote checks from money in the state’s coin funds to his friends, forged their signatures, and then deposited the money — a total of $440,200 — into accounts he controlled.
Thursday
The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town: "muddling through the rest of the Bush Presidency, without being forced to admit defeat, until January of 2009, when the war will become a new President’s problem"
Wednesday
Monday
Bush challenges hundreds of laws - The Boston Globe: "Bush has been aggressive about declaring his right to ignore vast swaths of laws "
Thursday
Projected Iraq War Costs Soar: "The cost of the war in Iraq will reach $320 billion after the expected passage next month of an emergency spending bill currently before the Senate, and that total is likely to more than double before the war ends"
Tuesday
CJR Daily: Faced With Lie Detectors, Anonymice Reach for the Phone That sound you hear is Porter Goss's head exploding.
The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town: "The catch, of course, is that the audience-of-one that most urgently needs to see the film and take it to heart—namely, the man who beat Gore in the courts six years ago—does not much believe in science or, for that matter, in any information that disturbs his prejudices, his fantasies, or his sleep. Inconvenient truths are precisely what this White House is structured to avoid and deny."
Monday
Spell 'No Comment' for Us, Please - New York Times: "The first glimmerings of what is happening come from those whose message the White House cannot control easily"
Friday
Contractor picked up dinner tab for Harris - Orlando Sentinel : Elections: "In her interview Wednesday, Harris acknowledged for the first time that [Mitchell] Wade had paid for the dinner at Citronelle, reversing a statement from her congressional spokeswoman earlier this year.
But in the interview, Harris also said her campaign had, at some point, 'reimbursed' the restaurant.
When asked how she could have reimbursed a business that was owed no money -- Wade paid the bill that evening -- she abruptly ended the interview and walked off.
Her spokesman called back an hour later and asked a reporter not to publish anything Harris had said Wednesday night about the dinner.
On Thursday, Harris' campaign released a two-paragraph statement that differed from her explanation a day earlier. It stated that Harris thought her 'campaign would be reimbursing' her share of the [$2800] meal but later found out that hadn't happened.
To resolve any questions, the statement said, 'I have donated to a local Florida charity $100 which will more than adequately compensate for the cost of my beverage and appetizer.'
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But in the interview, Harris also said her campaign had, at some point, 'reimbursed' the restaurant.
When asked how she could have reimbursed a business that was owed no money -- Wade paid the bill that evening -- she abruptly ended the interview and walked off.
Her spokesman called back an hour later and asked a reporter not to publish anything Harris had said Wednesday night about the dinner.
On Thursday, Harris' campaign released a two-paragraph statement that differed from her explanation a day earlier. It stated that Harris thought her 'campaign would be reimbursing' her share of the [$2800] meal but later found out that hadn't happened.
To resolve any questions, the statement said, 'I have donated to a local Florida charity $100 which will more than adequately compensate for the cost of my beverage and appetizer.'
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Tuesday
Ethics Lapses by Federal Judges Persist, Review Finds At least they're not legislating from the bench.
Israeli occupation at root of violence: Hamas PM - Yahoo! News This story was quicky removed from Yahoo's AFP headline page.
Pessimism About Iraq Is a Common Thread Among Rumsfeld's Critics and Defenders - Los Angeles Times: "Everyone is assuming and agreeing we botched this"
Saturday
Friday
Rockford's Newspaper Rock River Times | rockford illinois news information: "state documents were being shredded on orders of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush"
- toledoblade.com -: "The party’s bylaws say the executive committee must approve all obligations exceeding $5,000. Neither in 2002 nor in 2004 did the committee vote on the loans. Instead, they were reportedly accepted by Mr. Noe’s wife, Bernadette, when she was chairman of the party."
Tuesday
Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War: "The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true."
Sunday
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KRT Wire | 04/07/2006 | Libby testimony shows a White House pattern of intelligence leaks: "the information that the administration leaked or declassified, however, has proved to be incomplete, exaggerated, incorrect or fabricated"
Friday
Thursday
Bush Administration Unveils Nuclear Weapons Complex Blueprint - Los Angeles Times "a large-scale bomb manufacturing capacity"
Wednesday
Consortiumnews.com: "this doctrine – that the Bush administration has the right to invade other nations for reasons as vague as social engineering – represents a repudiation of the Nuremberg Principles and the United Nations Charter’s ban on aggressive war, both formulated largely by American leaders six decades ago."
Tuesday
Los Angeles Times: Bone drugs' reverse danger: "Serious adverse reactions that weren't apparent in premarket tests emerge in half of all prescription medications."
FCC Chairman Martin: Repeal of Cross-Ownership Ban Overdue: "newspapers must “educate the public about the changing media landscape,” and the benefits of ending the 31-year-old ban on same-market ownership of newspaper and broadcast stations.
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Secrecy News: "the Buyer proposal would effectively transfer to the executive branch the power to approve or deny membership on the intelligence or defense appropriations committees"
Monday
How the GOP Became God's Own Party: "there is a potent change taking place in this country's domestic and foreign policy, driven by religion"
Sunday
Think Progress » VIDEO: Gen. Zinni Calls on Rumsfeld and Others to Resign for ‘Disastrous Mistakes’ in Iraq: "those that have been responsible for the planning, for overriding all the efforts that were made in planning before that, that those that stood by and allowed this to happen that didn’t speak out — and there were appropriate ways within the system you can speak out, at congressional hearings and otherwise — I think they have to be held accountable."
Friday
Statement Of Sen. Patrick Leahy On Sunshine Week 2006 And The Assault On The Public's Right To Know The article that got the AP's Vermont Bureau chief fired.
Wednesday
Infections Take Heavy Toll on Patients, Profit: "'Not only were we harming patients, but look at what this is doing to the bottom line,' he said in an interview. He speculated that most hospitals do not realize it is possible to virtually eliminate infections and they 'don't understand the economic imperative to do so.'"
Tuesday
Sunday
Former DeLay Aide Enriched By Nonprofit: "DeLay's former chief of staff, Edwin A. Buckham, who helped create the group while still in DeLay's employ, and his wife, Wendy, were the principal beneficiaries of the group's $3.02 million in revenue, collecting payments totaling $1,022,729" Oh Dear Lord, please give me more money and power.
See how easy it is?
See how easy it is?
CREW FILES IRS COMPLAINT AGAINST PA PASTORS NETWORK FOR ASSISTING SEN. SANTORUM IN RE-ELECTION EFFORTS - CREW: "In a February 24, 2006 speech, IRS Commissioner Mark Everson stated that the IRS plans to step up enforcement actions against churches and charities that violate the prohibition against political intervention." So long as it doesn't affect Republicans. Amen.
Saturday
The Columbus Dispatch - Local/State: "a third of the state funding received by each school was pocketed by Brennan’s operation"
Friday
Bush's Requests for Iraqi Base Funding Make Some Wary of Extended Stay - Los Angeles Times: "It's the kind of thing that incites terrorism"
Thursday
Monday
Some Say Civil War Already Started - Los Angeles Times: "Bush and top advisors tout progress, but U.S. lawmakers and Iraq's Allawi sharply disagree."
The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town: "Bush deserves censure, not only for the warrantless wiretapping but also for the many other catastrophes his Administration has generated, including the manipulation of intelligence to justify the Iraq war, the willful failure to heed warnings of what the invasion’s aftermath would entail, the sanctioning of torture, and the neglect of “homeland security”—to say nothing of a set of domestic policies that sacrifice solvency, safety, the environment, and elementary fairness on the altar of enriching the rich in the name of Christian compassion."
Sunday
The 'Long War'? Oh, Goodie: "the Pentagon has decided to fight what it is now calling 'the Long War.' Has anyone asked you about this? Me, neither. Nor has anyone asked Congress. The administration — mostly Donald Rumsfeld — just decided we would have a long war and declared it, and is now committing us to fight against a fuzzy ideology no one seems to be able to define."
Friday
Barbara Lee Barbara Lee Amendment on Permanent Bases Approved in Debate on Iraq War Supplemental Spending Bill
Thursday
Wednesday
Eight Easy Pieces: News You May Have Missed if You Rely on the Deficit Disorder Mainstream Media (ADD MSM): "Odd, how they stuck with that Lewinsky thing – a private affair with no public consequence – for three years, with almost daily headlines, but haven’t been able to hang in there for even three days on lies and incompetence that directly effects us all in the most profound manner."
Tuesday
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US postwar Iraq strategy a mess, Blair was told: "We may have been seduced into something we might be inclined to regret. Is strategic failure a possibility? The answer has to be 'yes'"
Monday
What Portion of Our FY05 Federal Taxes Supports Current and Past Military Activities? - FCNL Issues: "An estimated 42 percent of our federal income tax dollars was spent on past and present military activities. "
Householder investigation lost in shuffle: "Spokesmen for the Justice Department, FBI and IRS all declined to comment on the investigation, which has focused on allegations that Householder traded legislation for campaign contributions and violated campaign-finance laws."
TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine -- The Mission: Find a Way to Stay Relevant: "Through the challenges, the President has kept his human touch. Touring New Orleans last week, he met a man who had survived for days on canned goods before being evacuated to Utah. 'Were you the only black man in Salt Lake City?' Bush asked."
Tuesday
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CJR Daily: In a Party Mood, USA Today Gets It All Wrong: " if you're handy with a calculator and put all the numbers together -- something that USA Today did not do for its readers -- you get this: What once was a city of close to half a million, 325,000 of them black, has been reduced to a current city of 189,000, only 70,000 of them black. In short, in Katrina's aftermath, New Orleans has lost 255,000 black citizens, but only 37,000 white citizens, reversing the racial demographic that has marked the city for many decades."
Wednesday
Over-the-counter drug works well for allergies - Yahoo! News And now, the real reason why they've made it so hard to get pseudoephedrine.
Saturday
Guarding the TruthFemale former civilian guard at Nazi concentration camp speaks out. The story doesn't explicitly make the connection to present-day wartime prison guards and soldiers, but it's inevitable. "'So many of them came for such banal reasons -- to get out of their parents' house, make money, maybe get a man. We have to try to understand these women -- and yet at the same time not understand the fact that they stayed.'"..."Even when police were explicitly excused from the mass slaughter of Jews, without adverse consequences, no more than 10 of 400 refused to shoot. 'You realize with horror...that it was easier to decide to participate in mass murder than to break away from the dominant group.'"
Alan Maass: War Crimes and Hunting Misdemeanors: "all the qualities we've come to expect from Cheney and the Bush administration--arrogance, obsessive secrecy and sleazy attempts to avoid blame for anything that goes wrong."
Friday
Secrecy News: "The idea that the government can penalize the receipt of proscribed information, and not just its unauthorized disclosure, is one that characterizes authoritarian governments, not mature democracies.The idea that the government can penalize the receipt of proscribed information, and not just its unauthorized disclosure, is one that characterizes authoritarian governments, not mature democracies."
Tuesday
Declassification in Reverse: The Pentagon and the U.S. Intelligence Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program: "many of the recently withdrawn documents contain information which could easily be construed as embarrassing to the U.S. intelligence community."
The White House's Chilling Effect: "how is it possible this information wasn't sought and considered before the fact?"
Foreign Affairs - Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq - Paul R. Pillar: "During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, writes the intelligence community's former senior analyst for the Middle East, the Bush administration disregarded the community's expertise, politicized the intelligence process, and selected unrepresentative raw intelligence to make its public case."
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Telegraph | News | Rents in Baghdad's Green Zone are now a match for Mayfair: "perks include views of Saddam Hussein's old palaces and a personal Iraqi shopper to avoid the need for death-defying grocery trips."
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