2 days ago
deusx : Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site - "Athens failed in Syracuse – and doomed their democracy – not because they fought in the wrong place and at the wrong time, but because they weren’t ruthless enough."
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4 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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adamrg : The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto | The New York Times
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11 month ago
deusx : Suicide Bombing Makes Sick Sense in 'Halo 3' - "I have (I think) a strong intellectual grasp of the roots of suicide terrorism, something about playing the game gave me an "aha" moment that I'd never had before: an ability to feel, in whatever tiny fashion, the strategic logic and emoti
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12 month ago
nelson : Bhutto's near assassination - Creepy situation in Pakistan
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12 month ago
nelson : 75% of bombs can board the plane - Meanwhile, we're not allowed a bottle of water
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12 month ago
plasticbag : Are you angry that the threat of terrorism has been used to sanction human rights abuses in our own countries? Then visit the Amnesty International 'Unsubscribe Me' campaign - It feels a bit like you're just saying 'not in my name', but that's a start right? Saying that you don't want to be complicit with this activity - that you abhor it?
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15 month ago
Andy Baio : Terrorist organization logos, grouped by design motifs - see also: terror groups gone corporate
nelson : Terrorist logos - From the design labs of violence
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16 month ago
jimray : Faulty fax, mistaken as threat, prompts evacuation of stores - I've said it before, I'll say it again: we'll know that we're in The Future when people are no longer using fax machines.
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18 month ago
deusx : Daily Kos: A Post-Bush Mentality - "Collectively, we need to start thinking about what the post-post-9/11 world looks like, a world where terrorism will certainly still exist. It can either be a world of arm-waving fear, or a world of informed resolve"
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18 month ago
nelson : non-persons list - Text version of the list of thousands of names of people with whom Americans are not allowed to do business
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18 month ago
nelson : More on non-persons - Some background to the latest list
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20 month ago
cameron : Mercedes to release a 'terrorist-proof limo' - It's armor protects against "military-standard small-arms projectiles and provides protection against fragments from hand grenades and other explosive devices."
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20 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : About a week ago, here's what Boston actually thought. [video] - About a week ago, here's what Boston actually thought. [video]: oh, man.... that's funny. I hope people in boston feel evern more dumb now.
Andy Baio : Video: Osama Team Hunger Force - "we will disrupt their workday with a mildly offensive blinking neon light!" [via]
cameron : Osama Team Hunger Force - "Why? What is in Boston?" "Average people." (via waxy)
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22 month ago
jimray : Theater of the Absurd at the T.S.A. - First mainstream press look at how the utter inanity of T.S.A. I've seen. Obligatory nod to Bruce Schneier as well
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22 month ago
deusx : What to do in a Terrorist Attack - "If you spot terrorism, blow your anti-terrorism whistle. If you are bald, yell really loud."
fastclemmy : What to do in a Terrorist Attack - What to do in a Terrorist Attack by fastclemmy Hilarious parodic version of ready.gov. terrorism bushism humor hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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24 month ago
cameron : EBay building bombed - Crazy. I never thought Valleywag would be reporting on real news
jimray : eBay building bombed: Exclusive IMs from an eBayer inside the building - Holy crap, somebody bombed eBay
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24 month ago
jimray : Battle over tactics raged at Gitmo - Our first big piece from Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist Bill Dedman. Good stuff here, I'm proud to work at this place.
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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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25 month ago
kellan : Was Rome ruined by its own "war on terror"? - NYT op-ed. (via Rafe) [via] #
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25 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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25 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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25 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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25 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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