1 month ago
deusx : Update: Pie apparently a threat to security after all » Upgrade: Travel Better - "America 2006, summed up in five words: Pie is not a liquid."
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3 month ago
deusx : President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war - Times Online - "President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a “guy really anxious for war” in Iraq. He said that his aim now was to leave his successor a legacy of international diplomacy for tackli
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3 month ago
deusx : Bruce Schneier: Are photographers really a threat? | Technology | The Guardian - "Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer? Because it's a movie-plot threat."
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5 month ago
deusx : There's No Such Thing as the Homeland | Threat Level from Wired.com - "There is no such thing as a Homeland. The United States is not Franco's Spain, the National Socialist Party's Germany, or Mussolini's Italy. We do not face imminent destruction of our country or way of life."
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deusx : FBI issues prosthetic pregnant belly bomb alert | The Register - I predict airports will soon demand childbirth at security checkpoint to prove it's a real belly.
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11 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : 9/11 Is Over - “Our government has been exporting fear, not hope: ‘Give me your tired, your poor and your fingerprints.’” ∞
deusx : 9/11 is Over - "We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy."
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deusx : Bed-wetter Nation | Campaign for America's Future - "But look now what we have lost. Now when a bad guy crosses our threshhold, America becomes a pants-piddling mess."
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16 month ago
cobra libre : "Verschärfte Vernehmung" - "The interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new.... The very phrase used by the president to describe torture-that-isn't-somehow-torture--'enhanced interrogation techniques'--is a term originally coined by the Nazis. The tec #
deusx : The Daily Dish: "Verschärfte Vernehmung" - "As you can see from the Gestapo memo, moreover, the Nazis were adamant that their "enhanced interrogation techniques" would be carefully restricted and controlled, monitored by an elite professional staff, of the kind recommended by Charle
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16 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: TSA donates potentially explosive liquids to homeless - "Could it be that the FAA ban on liquids is really a plot to rid the country of homeless people, through the use of explosive liquids?"
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17 month ago
gleuschk : You Who Are the Bureaucrats of Empire, Remember Who We Are - Don Mitchell: "Smullen was as mad as I had ever seen anyone and he told me that my remarks were completely inappropriate and had no place in a classroom."
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18 month ago
deusx : WIRED Blogs: Danger Room - "By taking out three spanners, Graham showed how you could isolate relatively homogeneous chunks of the network, rendering it stupider and less adaptive than before."
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19 month ago
deusx : Schneier on Security: Is Everything a Bomb these Days? - From a comment: "Ignore then, laugh at them, try to understand them, but for gods sake do not give them a victory."
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19 month ago
deusx : Schneier on Security: Non-Terrorist Embarrassment in Boston - "Refuse to be terrorized, people!"
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deusx : Wired News: Chertoff's 'Web of Terror' - "We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the internet" I'm radicalizing right now, in fact. The tubes are chock full of radicalizing agents.
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23 month ago
deusx : A Question Bush Can't Answer - washingtonpost.com - "But if the public doesn't know what torture is or is not, as defined by the Bush Administration, how can the public make a decision on whether your policy is right or wrong?"
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23 month ago
deusx : The Unsolved Case Of Anthrax - washingtonpost.com - "It's been five years since the anthrax attacks shook our country and took the lives of five Americans. We cannot permit another five to pass before we close this chapter and prepare for the next one."
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24 month ago
deusx : Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice - washingtonpost.com - "Afterward, Tenet looked back on the meeting with Rice as a tremendous lost opportunity to prevent or disrupt the Sept. 11 attacks. Rice could have gotten through to Bush on the threat, but she just didn't get it in time, Tenet thought."
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24 month ago
deusx : Crooks and Liars � Keith Olbermann takes a “look back†at Bush’s first months in office leading up to 9/11 - "Our goal in this report is to rise to Mr. Clinton’s challenge, and assess the record of Mr. Bush’s efforts against al Qaeda in his first eight months in office."
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deusx : The Raw Story | 2001 memo to Rice contradicts statements about Clinton, Pakistan - "A memo received by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shortly after becoming National Security Advisor in 2001 directly contradicts statements she made to reporters yesterday, RAW STORY has learned."
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24 month ago
deusx : War Room - Salon.com - Revisiting GOP attacks on President Clinton - "The claim that Clinton paid insufficient attention to terrorism was one that virtually no Republicans made during the Clinton presidency."
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24 month ago
deusx : CNN - President wants Senate to hurry with new laws - July 30, 1996 - "But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican lawmakers hardened their stance against some of the proposed anti-terrorism measures."
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24 month ago
deusx : 9/11 Toxic Dust Whistleblower Raided By SWAT Team - "Ground zero hero Major Mike McCormack says he was deliberately targeted for helping release documents on EPA government cover-up, says 75% of police, firemen believe 9/11 cover-up"
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24 month ago
deusx : Crooks and Liars � Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture - "Matt Lauer went after Bush over his secret prisons and the use of torture on the captured terrorists via The Today Show this morning. He was uncommonly strong and didn’t back down when Bush gave his pet answer."
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25 month ago
deusx : Schneier on Security: Dropped iPod Leads to Terror Alert - "This is a surreal story about a guy who accidentally drops his iPod into an airplane toilet, prompting a full-scale terror alert. Overreaction at its worst."
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25 month ago
deusx : Crooks and Liars � Ann Coulter gets her freak on - "Whenever Ann is faced with the reality that Osama hasn’t been caught yet by this administration–well–Poor Ann. Kirsten Powers actually responds to Coulter’s ridiculous line that Afghanistan is going swimmingly and brings up th
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