tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911282011-04-21T15:28:06.475-04:00the westerby reportjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comBlogger1641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-763476472002-05-09T12:21:00.000-04:002002-05-10T14:48:41.000-04:00I'm going to have to shutter the shop for a while, indefinitely, maybe permanently, at least until the demands of work (and more pleasantly the demands of children and love and obligations social and personal to numerous and tedious to mention) allow me more time to support this project with any minimal regularity of attention.
Thank you to every one who supported this little effort with visitsjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-757821692002-04-24T17:24:00.000-04:002002-04-24T17:37:52.000-04:00Kissinger confesses, sort ofHenry Kissinger, today admitted... it was possible that "mistakes were made" by the US administrations he served in.
But the former secretary of state questioned whether a court was the right place to examine them, saying it would be impossible to recall every one of thousands of cases.But whaaaaa? Apparently Kissinger believes he should be immune to prosecution jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-757737972002-04-24T13:17:00.000-04:002002-04-24T17:35:01.000-04:00Lucid Robert Young Pelton
I caught this guy's t.v. show, Dangerous Places or something like that, on cable once and I didn't think much of him. But he offers some pretty cogent analysis of the current unpleasantness in this Salon interview. jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-755045282002-04-17T10:01:00.000-04:002002-04-17T10:02:36.000-04:00Robert Fisk: Fear and Learning in AmericaYes, Osama bin Laden told me he thought Americans didn't understand the Middle East. Maybe he was right then. But not any more.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-754314192002-04-15T14:38:00.000-04:002002-04-15T14:41:16.000-04:00The George Lucas-Joseph Campbell-Bill Moyers Axis of Banality
[via AKMA]jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-751694712002-04-08T13:36:00.000-04:002002-04-08T13:38:17.000-04:00Frankfurt School scholar and critical theorist Douglas Kellner gets his own blog
[via phil agre]jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-114259252002-04-03T16:18:00.000-05:002002-04-03T17:00:13.000-05:00A Down Under Defense of American Exceptionalism
The U.S. is the most experienced nation:The fact is, though, that the United states is an older country than Germany, Italy, and a dozen other European states, not to speak of Latin America, Africa, and most of Asia. It is the oldest extant democracy on earth, the oldest republic, and the oldest federal system-as well as the largest, most complex, jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-114259002002-04-03T16:16:00.000-05:002002-04-03T16:59:48.000-05:00Imperialists: They're Out and They're Proud"People are now coming out of the closet on the word 'empire,'" said the conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer. "The fact is no country has been as dominant culturally, economically, technologically and militarily in the history of the world since the Roman Empire."
Americans are used to being told - typically by resentful foreigners - that they arejerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-113804522002-04-02T12:08:00.000-05:002002-04-02T12:08:45.136-05:00War on Terror trumps War on Drugs
Bush to allow Afghan opium to marketThe Bush administration has decided not to destroy the opium crop in Afghanistan. President Bush, who previously linked the Afghan drug trade directly to terrorism, has now decided not to destroy the Afghan opium crop.(...)
Several sources inside Capitol Hill noted that the CIA opposes the destruction of the Afghan opium supplyjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-113549482002-04-01T17:11:00.000-05:002002-04-02T10:34:44.000-05:00Professor Francis Boyle v. Wedgie the Kangaroo
Yale law professor Ruth Wedgewood defended President George W. Bush's military tribunals to protesters who believed these courts violate human rights.
Wedgewood helped draft proposals to prosecute about 150 detained, suspected terrorists in military tribunals rather than jury trials. She explained in a Thursday afternoon lecture that tribunals jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-113459192002-04-01T11:26:00.000-05:002002-04-01T11:31:25.000-05:00Henry Kissinger: Fugitive
Kissinger wanted for questioning in Chile, cancels speaking engagement in Brasil out of fear of capture. In perhaps the most prominent of the cases, an investigating judge here has formally asked Mr. Kissinger, a former national security adviser and secretary of state, and Nathaniel Davis, the American ambassador to Chile at the time, to respond to questions about the jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-112152332002-03-28T11:49:00.000-05:002002-03-28T12:02:06.000-05:00Nixon on pot and gays (and of course Jews)"You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists."
...
Northern California, he says, has gotten so "faggy" that "I won't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-109718642002-03-21T10:56:00.000-05:002002-03-21T14:14:25.000-05:00Attack of the Chickenhawks
Over the last couple of days I have noticed an explosion of web interest in the mysterious phenomenon of known physical cowards in high places who somehow find a blustery bravery while crouching behind the teenage sons and daughters of others. I'm of course referring to our draft-dodging Republican leadership. I am routinely (as in every election cycle and every jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-108614092002-03-18T11:35:00.000-05:002002-03-19T00:58:29.000-05:00US to export raw material for global torture industryThe US has been secretly sending prisoners suspected of al-Qaida connections to countries where torture during interrogation is legal, according to US diplomatic and intelligence sources. Prisoners moved to such countries as Egypt and Jordan can be subjected to torture and threats to their families to extract information sought by the US in thejerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-108606732002-03-18T11:12:00.000-05:002002-03-21T11:45:04.000-05:00Bush watches Army "exercises"
When I first saw this story in my local paper I read the headline and skipped it thinking that the President was watching routine Red team v. Blue team stuff. However, the "enemy" in these maneuvers were anti-American street demonstrators:Kicking up dust amid the explosions and commotion, an MH-6 "Little Bird" helicopter fired blanks into the crowd that shook sticksjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-105301732002-03-08T13:27:00.000-05:002002-03-08T13:36:34.000-05:00You've probably noticed the sporadic nature of reporting on the Westerby Report of late. There exist a multitude of reasons for my negligence in attention. A major one is lack of time due to work. This reason should evaporate in a few short weeks. However there still exists another reason that has borne on the productivity of this journal in the past and which may or may not in the future. Jerry jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-103744232002-03-04T14:33:00.000-05:002002-03-04T14:34:28.000-05:00Irish protest Henry Kissinger as war criminalFormer US Secretary of State Dr Henry Kissinger denied he was a war criminal yesterday, saying it was an insult to human intelligence for protesters in Cork to compare him to Slobodan Milosevic.
I have to agree. The parochial thug Milosevic cannot be compared to the monstrous Kissinger and his global reign of terror.
jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-103719722002-03-04T13:21:00.000-05:002002-03-04T13:23:50.000-05:00Curtis White on Paul Virilio on the permanent and Pure WarBeyond Total War is Pure War. In Pure War the state is on an implicit war footing even in times of "peace." (I suppose we know this condition best as the Cold War.) Technology, the media, industrial production, the economy and certainly politics are first about a war so diffuse and ubiquitous that few people even recognize it for what it jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-95239132002-02-08T14:31:00.000-05:002002-03-04T23:43:42.000-05:00Dept. of Self-tooting Horns
US Commandos Kill Innocents, CIA Pays Off Kin--A Model Program? How right was I? See the archives for calculating the monetary value of Afghan lives.
jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-95143712002-02-08T08:35:00.000-05:002002-02-08T08:35:25.000-05:00sorry, circumstances have forced another unexpected hiatus. be back next week.
jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-92019492002-01-30T13:29:00.000-05:002002-01-30T22:35:34.000-05:00The question is now not how much has he plagiarized, rather
has Stephen Ambrose ever written an original sentence?
Yet more accusations have surfaced, but Viacom supports their multimedia profit machine:"We assert once again that Stephen Ambrose is one of America's most original and brilliant historians," Simon & Shuster spokeswoman Victoria Meyer said today. "We are saddened to see him become jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-91662212002-01-29T14:00:00.000-05:002002-03-04T13:26:28.000-05:00Pierre Bourdieu, pesimismo liberador por Marc Saint-Upery
quick and dirty translation:Pierre Bourdieu was one of the giants of 20th century sociology. In the last decade of his life, he broke with the relative political silence that had characterized his career until the eighties and sent himself into battle for social justice and against neoliberal globalization. In a mixture of audacity and jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-91625882002-01-29T11:56:00.000-05:002002-01-29T12:24:37.000-05:00Concise remembrance of Bourdieu from The GuardianIn October 1999 he spoke to some 70 leading patrons of the audio-visual arts in Paris. "Masters of the world, do you know what you are doing?" was his question. His answer was that, since they obeyed the law of maximum profits in the shortest possible time, they were killing culture.The direct quote is, "Are you even aware of what you are doing? Dojerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-91589492002-01-29T09:43:00.000-05:002002-01-29T12:08:33.000-05:00Barry Crimmins' month by month analysis of GWB's Year OneCAN IT REALLY be a year since we didn’t elect George W. Bush president?
Time sure flies when you’re going straight to hell.
Let’s take a look back at our first 12 months with the court-appointed chief
executive.
December 2000
Happy holidays! The Republicans, hell-bent on returning ethics to Washington,
formalized the theft of the jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-90388072002-01-25T11:13:00.000-05:002002-01-25T11:13:28.920-05:00US ally attacks US citizen as terroristNoam Chomsky, one of America's greatest philosophers and linguists, has become the target of Turkey's chief of "terrorism prosecution".
Scarcely two months after the European Union praised Turkey for passing new laws protecting freedom of expression, the authorities in Ankara are using anti-terrorism legislation to prosecute Mr Chomsky's Turkish publisher..jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-90369122002-01-25T10:00:00.000-05:002002-01-25T22:50:02.000-05:00Bourdieu remembered by friend
nice interview with Loic Wacquant, coauthor of Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
Bourdieu ist tot
obituary from Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung
Bourdieu esta muerto
obituary from La Jornada
jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-90200942002-01-24T20:08:00.000-05:002002-01-24T22:49:41.000-05:00Update: My apologies to the newspaper of record for earlier calling into question their cultural vigilance and suggesting their intellectual sophistication may not be up to that of dailies on the Continent and Latin America. They have now noticed the death of Pierre Bourdieu.
Reprint of unsigned, bland Reuters obit of 'Leading French Thinker' on page somewhere near the classifieds.
However, jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-90105472002-01-24T14:24:00.000-05:002002-01-24T14:39:01.000-05:00The good Doctor Menlo's new collective project, American Samizdat.
Thankyou Menlo.
jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-90095012002-01-24T13:48:00.000-05:002002-01-24T15:59:37.000-05:00Pierre Bourdieu est mort
One of the great minds of our time and this world has passed. But at least we still have these:
Reproduction: In Education, Society & Culture.
Outline of a Theory of Practice.
The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art & Literature.
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.
State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power.
Acts of jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-90039812002-01-24T10:35:00.000-05:002002-01-24T16:32:13.000-05:00Was Enron a Cult? And if so why didn't the FBI firebomb the Enron compound with Ken "Kenny Boy" Lay inside? Enron is a big company going down the tubes, to be sure. But was it also a corporate version of the Branch Davidians or Heaven's Gate? And did Enron's chairman, Kenneth L. Lay, operate in much the same way as David Koresh and Marshall Applewhite?
"There are elements of cultish behavior in jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-89701992002-01-23T11:32:00.000-05:002002-01-23T14:08:03.000-05:00Clintonista faction of Democratic Party again attempts to out right the RightThe Bush administration needs to develop a comprehensive policy encouraging law enforcement to use the latest high-tech gadgetry and information-sharing tools if it wants to maintain any hope of preventing the next terrorist attack, a think-tank said today.
The recommendations were detailed in a pair of policy reports jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-89388462002-01-22T13:57:00.000-05:002002-01-23T14:07:50.000-05:00How to write fiction in the absence of an aesthetic theory or a conscience1. Keep characters simple. Good people are good; bad are bad. No ambiguities, please. Focus on the movement of the story and any high-tech or military aspects. Here, for instance, is what the official Amazon review -- traditionally a kiss-up -- says of Stephen Coonts's recent novel "America," which features Rear Admiral jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-89347002002-01-22T11:05:00.000-05:002002-01-22T12:14:35.000-05:00"Unbreakable" Oracle breakable "I don't like it when marketing jargon takes over reality," says Schneier. "The word 'unbreakable' has a meaning in English. When they say their software is unbreakable, they're lying."And Larry Ellison wants to be the sysadmin for a national i.d. scheme.
jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-89313422002-01-22T08:38:00.000-05:002002-01-22T12:15:36.000-05:00Why not just merge the CIA and the FBI into one agency, like the KGB?Congress has given the C.I.A. new legal powers to snoop on people in the United States — not limited to investigating groups like Al Qaeda. It has been granted these new powers, along with billions of dollars, without any public post-mortem into how all these guardians of national security failed to protect against the Septemberjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-88176602002-01-18T11:51:00.000-05:002002-01-18T13:35:22.000-05:00Yesterday was the anniversary of the assassination of Patrice LumumbaIn a meeting held with security advisers in August 1960, two months
after Congo achieved its formal independence from Belgium, Eisenhower ordered
the CIA to "eliminate" Lumumba, according to Johnson's account.
"There was a stunned silence for about 15 seconds and the
meeting continued," Johnson recalled.
The CIA's director, jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-87920882002-01-17T16:35:00.000-05:002002-01-17T16:35:42.016-05:00When in doubt, invade the PhillipinesU.S. Special Forces have begun arriving in the Philippines to assist Philippine troops in their fight against Muslim guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden, part of a significant expansion of the U.S. war on terrorism outside Afghanistan..jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-87919102002-01-17T16:29:00.000-05:002002-01-17T16:29:24.510-05:00Unions are threat to national security, says WInvoking security concerns, President Bush has issued an executive order barring union representation at United States attorneys' offices and at four other agencies in the Justice Department.
Although federal law bans strikes by federal employees, White House officials said Mr. Bush had issued his order out of concern that union contracts could jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-87529932002-01-16T13:25:00.000-05:002002-01-16T13:55:28.000-05:00Memo to the alleged Christians running the US Government: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stoneSome time in the next few weeks, the vast apparatus of the US State Department will disgorge a large report grading the human rights performance of pretty much anything worth calling a country.
The Americans, being Americans, have been producing these reports annually since 1977, jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-87142022002-01-15T10:34:00.000-05:002002-01-18T13:33:04.000-05:00Bruce Schneier, predictably lucid, on National ID'sWhat problem are IDs trying to solve? Honestly, I'm not too sure. Clearly, the idea is to allow any authorized person to verify the identity of a person. This would help in certain isolated situations, but would only have a limited effect on crime. It certainly wouldn't have stopped the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- all of the terrorists showed IDs jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-87139402002-01-15T10:24:00.000-05:002002-01-15T13:30:47.000-05:00Terry Jones discusses the War on GrammarWHAT really alarms me about President Bush's "war on terrorism" is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? It's rather like bombing murder.
Imagine if Bush had said: "We're going to bomb murder wherever it lurks. We are going to seek out the murderers and the would-be murderers, and bomb any government that harbours murderers."
The other thingjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-87136452002-01-15T10:11:00.000-05:002002-01-15T13:31:09.000-05:00The John Ashcroft Players present Our Bill of Rights
jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-87130262002-01-15T09:44:00.000-05:002002-01-15T13:29:53.000-05:00Houston Chronicle on Enron, Ari, and WAri Fleischer, that simpering twit of a White House spokesman, urged Thursday that the Enron debacle not be turned into a partisan witch hunt. OK, Ari, let's make it a bipartisan witch hunt.
But all the news seems so Republican-specific at the moment. You know they're getting edgy at the White House when both President Bush and Fleischer -- within about 30 jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-86827382002-01-14T12:19:00.000-05:002002-01-14T12:19:47.166-05:00Terry Jones, President of the Humane Society for Putting Bags Over Suspects' HeadsWe in HSPBOSH have been trying for years to get more armies to put bags over the heads of anyone they suspect of anything. For one thing, the placing of a bag over the heads of suspects protects those of us who are not involved from unpleasant feelings of sympathy for the prisoners. There is nothing more offensive jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-86823792002-01-14T12:06:00.000-05:002002-01-14T12:28:47.000-05:00Hitch back in dissent biz, sort ofThat would-be martyr John Walker--the mujahid of Marin County--has done something more than give a bad name to my favorite Scotch whiskey. He has illuminated the utter unfitness of our police and intelligence chiefs for the supreme power they now wish and propose to award themselves. And he has also accidentally exposed the stupidity and nastiness of the Patriot jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-84895742002-01-07T14:32:00.000-05:002002-01-07T14:32:27.406-05:00elegant dialectic from George Monbiot in The Guardian:Nothing has threatened the survival of "Western values" as much as the triumph of the West.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-84893522002-01-07T14:24:00.000-05:002002-01-07T14:28:53.000-05:00Swans' Stephen Gowans on The Tape and The Credibility:Not only did well-known liars make an allegation without even deigning to adduce a scrap of evidence to back up their claim, they used the charge to justify a war against one of the world's poorest countries, on grounds that the country's rulers wouldn't give up the guy they had no evidence on in the first place. But there was a hole in the jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-84395762002-01-05T17:29:00.000-05:002002-01-05T17:29:53.596-05:00westerby is not defunct. the 2002 edition will begin next week.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-78709942001-12-12T13:01:00.000-05:002001-12-12T13:01:52.700-05:00Due to unforseen occupational and social intrusions, westerby probably will not be updated until next week. I recommend all of the fine links to the left.
jwjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-78236442001-12-10T22:33:00.000-05:002001-12-10T22:33:15.603-05:00Democracy Now in exile reports on a University of New Hampshire economist's estimate of over 3700 civilian casualties in Afghanistan to date. The figures are compiled from mainstream news sources. If correct, then Afghan civilian casualties (trending upward) have surpassed the official (trending downward) World Trade Center body count which stands as of today at 3045.
Professor Marc Herold's jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-78077852001-12-10T12:42:00.000-05:002001-12-10T12:42:16.970-05:00Robert Fisk delivers a lesson in grace.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-77348222001-12-07T14:58:00.000-05:002002-01-07T14:08:02.000-05:00Jonathon Alter, oh so tastefully, criticizes Bush, then apologizes for Bush, then euphemizes anew for us:
Of course, several hundred men-most charged with minor violations-are still being detained. As long as they're told why they are being held, and have access to lawyers, is this such an outrage? The old ACLU notion that it's better to let 10 guilty men go free than to imprison one innocent jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-77178662001-12-06T23:56:00.000-05:002001-12-06T23:57:13.000-05:00From Rick Bass:
What if there were an enemy among us, a corporation, (like W.R. Grace, for instance), possessing the rights of an individual but none of the responsibility, that willfully spread the spores, the phantom dust, the tiny fibers of a material - call it tremolite - so deadly that there is no cure? And that this enemy killed hundreds of people with that contamination, and inflicted somejerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-76646892001-12-05T09:49:00.000-05:002001-12-05T09:50:58.000-05:00Bork enthusiastically supports (surprise) military tribunals But he has one tiny problem:
If there is a problem with Bush's order, it is the exemption of U.S. citizens from trials before military tribunals.The Goddess of Liberty was smiling on the United States the day the Senate voted to keep this maniac off the Supreme Court.
[via phil]jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-76432362001-12-04T16:33:00.000-05:002001-12-04T16:51:12.000-05:00Laughter during Wartime:
New Tom Tomorrow
New mnftiu
jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-76342032001-12-04T10:03:00.000-05:002001-12-04T10:29:38.000-05:00Fisk on terror strikes in Israel:
The Palestinian suicide bombings in Jerusalem and Haifa are disgusting, evil, revolting, unforgivable. I saw the immediate aftermath of the Pizzeria suicide bombing in Jerusalem last August: Israeli women and children, ripped apart by explosives that had nails packed around them – designed to ensure that those who survived were scarred for life...
So let me tell jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-76325342001-12-04T08:45:00.000-05:002001-12-04T08:51:58.000-05:00Longish Bruce Sterling speech on crypto culture vs. spook culture.
[via null device]jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-76071862001-12-03T12:59:00.000-05:002002-01-07T15:02:48.000-05:00
A Klee painting named 'Angelus Novus' shows an angel looking as though he
is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes
are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one
pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we
perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps
piling wreckage upon wreckage jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-75385922001-11-30T15:34:00.000-05:002001-11-30T15:34:04.256-05:00Afghanistan uber alles
Tariq Ali in The Guardian introduces the once and future king:
And if the 87-year-old King Zahir Shah is wheeled over from Rome, what then?
Nothing much, thinks the west, except to convince the Pashtuns that their interests are being safeguarded. But judging from past form, Zahir Shah might not be satisfied with the status quo.
A document from the German Foreign Office, jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-75369642001-11-30T14:27:00.000-05:002001-11-30T14:30:43.000-05:00Erratum corrected by world's best newsmagazine (right wing division), The Economist
In the issues of December 16th 2000 to November 10th 2001, we may have given the impression that George Bush had been legally and duly elected president of the United States. We now understand that this may have been incorrect, and that the election result is still too close to call. The Economist apologises for jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-75357852001-11-30T13:39:00.000-05:002001-11-30T13:41:20.000-05:00Robert Mokhiber wants a piece of Ari,
on US sponsored terrorism in Lebanon
Q Ari, over the weekend there were reports in the British press that a catastrophic error by U.S. Air Force bombers killed 150 Afghan civilians. Do you have -- does the administration have any numbers on how many civilians have been killed by U.S. bombs since the bombing started?
MR. FLEISCHER: Let me make two points on jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-75331952001-11-30T11:47:00.000-05:002001-11-30T12:04:59.000-05:00 Eighty-something Helen Thomas gives young punk Ari Fleischer the what for,
on Spain's refusal to extradite al-Qaeda terrorists to backward land with medieval justice system
Q Does the President feel the United States has the right to bomb or invade any country harboring terrorists? Is he going to invade Spain?
MR. FLEISCHER: Helen, the President, as I mentioned, is focused on phase one --
Q jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-75328612001-11-30T11:35:00.000-05:002001-11-30T11:35:02.006-05:00Revolt spreads through Oregon
CORVALLIS, Ore (Reuters) - Police chiefs in three Oregon cities Thursday joined Portland's chief in balking at a request by federal officials to question foreigners who may have information regarding terrorist attacks.
The police department in Eugene, the state's second largest city, joined Corvallis, a college town in the central portion of the state, and jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-75296082001-11-30T09:14:00.000-05:002001-11-30T09:54:03.000-05:00Problem: religious fundamentalism, solution: globalization (surprise), Thomas Friedman
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World War II and the cold war were fought to defeat secular totalitarianism — Nazism and Communism — and World War III is a battle against religious totalitarianism, a view of the world that my faith must reign supreme and can be affirmed and held passionately only ifjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-75286142001-11-30T08:24:00.000-05:002001-11-30T09:21:42.000-05:00Give me your snitches, your rat finks, your huddled masses yearning to turn in their neighbors
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Attorney General John Ashcroft today offered a deal to foreigners — if they provide useful evidence against terrorists, the administration will help them remain in the United States and may even offer a fast track to American citizenship.
If Americans don't jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-75078562001-11-29T15:21:00.000-05:002001-11-29T15:26:13.000-05:00Fisk on Mazar-i-Sharif massacre:
We are becoming war criminals in Afghanistan. The US Air Force bombs Mazar-i-Sharif for the Northern Alliance, and our heroic Afghan allies – who slaughtered 50,000 people in Kabul between 1992 and 1996 – move into the city and execute up to 300 Taliban fighters. The report is a footnote on the television satellite channels, a "nib" in journalistic parlance. jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74755462001-11-28T13:46:00.000-05:002001-11-29T13:32:37.000-05:00Et tu, Nort?
Eric Chien, chief researcher at Symantec's antivirus research lab, said that provided a hypothetical keystroke logging tool was used only by the FBI, then Symantec would avoid updating its antivirus tools to detect such a Trojan. The security firm is yet to hear back from the FBI on its enquiries about Magic Lantern but it already has a policy on the matter.If it was under the jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74716732001-11-28T11:09:00.000-05:002001-11-29T13:31:05.000-05:00Robert Fisk is without doubt the foreign correspondent of the century, maybe the last century inclusive. While dispatching the most comprehensive, knowledgeable, balanced, relevant, informative, and current reports from amidst the smoke and blood of the Afghanistan other journalists fear (and are forbidden) to tread, he still finds time to cover the proceedings in Belgium concerning the 1982 jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74476332001-11-27T15:18:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:25:05.000-05:00McAfee AV will stay on my computer for now.
Slippery Network Associates flacks deny deal with FBI. That company's always been filled with NSA types though, and Phil Zimmerman leaving early this year doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
NAI Labs is the world leader in research and development of advanced network and information systems security technology. Its international reputation for jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74456332001-11-27T13:53:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:30:35.000-05:00I read this article about Magic Lantern, the keystroke reporting virus the FBI is using to steal PGP passphrases, a few days ago. But I missed this nugget in my original scan:
At least one antivirus software company, McAfee Corp., contacted the FBI on Wednesday to ensure its software wouldn't inadvertently detect the bureau's snooping software and alert a criminal suspect.
McAfee contacted the jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74424642001-11-27T11:24:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:32:42.000-05:00So you want to be an Intelligence Specialist,
or what to say when someone asks you, "what do we bomb next sir?"
Online study guide for Naval Intelligence Specialist Rating Exam
From the section entitled Targeting and Weaponeering:
A target is a geographic area, complex, installation, or its contents that has military action planned or directed against it.
Military Targets
Military targets jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74414182001-11-27T10:35:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:36:02.000-05:00A new New Statesman means new John Pilger:
keywords=afghanistan, iraq, somalia, revenge, greed, caspian oil, dulles brothers, empire
Behind the jargon about failed states and humanitarian interventions lie thousands of dead. John Pilger on how liberals tolerate the sufferings of Innocents.
Polite society's bombers may not have to wait long for round two. The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74338642001-11-27T01:52:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:37:10.000-05:00Defense lawyers completely hobbled by Ashcroft monitoring rule
Randall Hamud sat across from Mohdar Abdoulah in a basement room of the San Diego federal courthouse Nov. 20. Abdoulah, a Yemeni student detained in connection with the September terrorist attacks, was scheduled for a bail hearing that morning.
"Be careful about what you say," Hamud cautioned his 23-year-old client, "because we're jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74333992001-11-27T01:24:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:38:05.000-05:00Birth of the Security-Industrial Complex. Why should government have all the fun? Especially when their are profits to be made for the well-connected swells and the fast-talking grifters. (NYT login:westerbyreport password:westerby)
Tom Ridge, the director of homeland security, likes to say the home-front battle against terrorism is not just the business of government but of business. Business jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74192062001-11-26T15:51:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:43:22.000-05:00CNN continues the slide from mediocrity to complete uselessness. Craven coward Walter Isaacson hires talentless Bush cousin. This story broke on Hotlinescoop last week. However a search of CNN's site yields nothing, which is really neither here nor there considering a search of the site on almost any event of importance yields little to nothing. I'll wait for confirmation or refutation from the jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74120502001-11-26T10:44:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:44:40.000-05:00More incredible reporting from the The Independent's indefatigable, indispensible Robert Fisk, the only Western journalist in Taliban-held Kandahar province, Blood, tears, terror and tragedy behind the lines:
[T]hen a refugee with a cracked face and white hair matting the brow below his brown turban he looked 70 but said he was only 36 stumbled up to us. "The Americans just destroyed our jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74101292001-11-26T09:10:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:45:23.000-05:00One of the few remaining reputable offices of our government, the Library of Congress, has just made available online its collection of Frederick Douglass papers.
Find out just what the people will submit to and you will have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. FD, jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74045972001-11-26T01:57:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:46:14.000-05:00Blowback on "NY Times resident globo-gasbag, Thomas 'give war a chance' Friedman:"
Hello? Hello? I've got a message here on your writing, Tom. Are you ready? ARE YOU READY? It's your hyperbole, stupid! Even when you present a vaguely reasonable position, your rhetoric bom-blasts all traces of sentience, leaving only trite corporatist platitudes scattered amongst the wreckage of your prose. jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74040802001-11-26T01:20:00.000-05:002001-11-26T10:55:32.000-05:00This is the actual headline of a Jonathon Alter Newsweek column, Secret Military Tribunals? When Did the United States Become Peru? When? Probably about the time the same Jonathon Alter began blathering hysterically in favor of state- sanctioned torture. And anyway, let's not wax superior about Peru. The most recent election-stealing, rights- repressing, dissent-squelching Peruvian president is jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74034902001-11-26T00:48:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:46:54.000-05:00The Westerby Report's 2001 Baltasar Garzon award for the judicial harassment of butchers goes to...Belgium:
Belgian court summons Ariel Sharon to answer for 1982 massacres at Sabra and Shatila.
The runner-up for the Baltasar Garzon award was...Baltasar Garzon:
Spain refuses to extradite terror suspects to U.S. because of barbaric American judicial system.
Spain cannot extradite suspected jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74031812001-11-26T00:31:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:47:31.000-05:00The Westerby Report's 2001 Le Chambon award for community resistance to tyranny goes to... Portland, Oregon:
Portland PD refuses to cooperate with FBI's Arab internment plan
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The Portland, Ore., police will not cooperate with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in its efforts to interview
5,000 young Middle Eastern men nationwide because such
jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-74029312001-11-26T00:18:00.000-05:002001-11-26T01:01:42.000-05:00Apologies for the hiatus, but the provincial harvest festival was even better than expected.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-73252162001-11-22T13:55:00.000-05:002001-11-22T14:00:10.000-05:00814
One Day is there of the Series
Termed Thanksgiving Day.
Celebrated part at Table
Part in Memory.
Neither Patriarch nor Pussy
I dissect the Play
Seems it to my Hooded thinking
Reflex Holiday.
Had there been no sharp Subtraction
From the early Sum --
Not an Acre or a Caption
Where was once a Room --
Not a Mention, whose small Pebble
Wrinkled any Sea,
Unto Such, were such Assembly
'Twere jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72753732001-11-20T16:19:00.000-05:002001-11-20T16:25:46.000-05:00CIA-backed SafeWeb shuts down anonymous web service; cypherpunk-backed Anonymizer prospers.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72747202001-11-20T15:53:00.000-05:002001-11-20T16:00:35.000-05:00Mondo 2001
R.U. Sirius' new project, The Thresher, looks very appetizing:
America's War on You
An excert from the forthcoming book Snitch Culture by Jim Redden
Mercenaries Again
Who's Been Hiring the Dogs of War? by Hank Hyena
The Indiscreet Charm of the Bush Nazi Web Conspiranoids
by Phil Leggiere
Romanticizing the De-Evolution of the State
by Jason Lubyk
[via Menlo]jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72731062001-11-20T14:52:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:49:47.000-05:00From tenure to censure: Howard Zinn at high school
School officials are being asked to justify a recent speech given by peace activist Howard Zinn at Newton North High School in which he equated the U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The controversial historian and former Boston University professor stressed that the U.S. bombing raids aimed at toppling jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72720392001-11-20T14:08:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:53:28.000-05:00From A-list to Blacklist: Danny Glover at Princeton
"When I say the death penalty is inhumane. I mean [it's inhumane] whether that person is in a bird cage [jail] or it's bin Laden."
Glover spent the first 30 minutes of his presentation at McCosh 50 auditorium deriding the death penalty, which he called "homicide as the official tool of the state."
He went on to chide the U.S. government for jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72694712001-11-20T12:18:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:52:50.000-05:00Abbey's Web
Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun.
Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently.
A couple of apropos quotes from the late, great Cactus Ed:
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
[via wood s lot]jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72680882001-11-20T11:22:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:54:54.000-05:00As my privacy shrinks, theirs grows:
Since Sept. 11, it has become much harder to get such information from the federal government, a growing number of states and public libraries as heightened concern about national security has often trumped the public's "right to know:"
* At least 15 federal agencies have yanked potentially sensitive information off the Internet, or removed Web sites jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72672772001-11-20T10:48:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:55:43.000-05:00Sec. 241.Title 18 U.S. Code: Conspiracy against rights
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or
intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession,
or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege
secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or
because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72658082001-11-20T09:33:00.000-05:002001-11-20T14:24:53.000-05:00Jesuits brag on their brightest child: James Joyce.
Sculpture by Ronan Gillespie dedicated at
Denver's Regis University this summer.
[via j-joyce list]jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72458252001-11-19T15:48:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:56:30.000-05:00Department of recovered commentary
(or why I rely on the foreign press):
The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the
intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of
a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72456762001-11-19T15:41:00.000-05:002001-11-19T15:41:32.290-05:00Lament for lost America
by Bill Kauffman
Those whose knowledge comes from the idiot box will believe America to be the sum of Friends and Madeleine Albright and the preppies of the Family Bush, and they will hate us – understandably. But there is an untelevised America, a land of Iowa poets and rural volunteer fire departments and villages of faith and neighbourliness and the continuity of jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72452572001-11-19T15:24:00.000-05:002001-11-19T15:26:12.000-05:00Laughter during wartime
Tom Tomorrow wishes you Happy Thanksgiving,
and questions the legitimacy of the current regime.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-72390882001-11-19T11:00:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:56:56.000-05:00Patriotic Porn
Warning: this site contains scenes of explicit irony.
American flag, the symbol of American patriotism, has an almost magical effect on all possible negativities, including immoral, criminal or inhuman behavior. A clear example was its impact on the tragic scenes of recent huge destruction in New York and Washington on September 11. Exposing of American flag in days and months jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-71790652001-11-16T16:17:00.000-05:002001-11-28T16:00:42.000-05:00Bottom 10 journalists in the United States
from Mokhiber and Weismann
in order of repulsiveness:
Michael Kelly (Washington Post): "American pacifists … are on the side of future mass murders of Americans," they are "objectively pro-terrorist," "evil" and "liars."
Jonathan Alter (Newsweek): Wondered whether torture would "jump-start the stalled investigation into the greatest crime in Americanjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-71789352001-11-16T16:11:00.000-05:002001-11-28T16:02:06.000-05:00Top 6 unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act
from John Kaminski
Violates the First Amendment freedom of speech guarantee, right to peaceably assemble provision, and petition the government for redress of grievances provision; it violates the First Amendment to the Constitution three times.
Violates the Fourth Amendment guarantee of probable cause in astonishingly major and repeated waysjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-71745902001-11-16T12:44:00.000-05:002001-11-28T15:59:07.000-05:00Deputy fuhrer Cheney: Some humans don't deserve human rights
The terrorists who launched the Sept. 11 attacks, and the people who helped them, are war criminals who do not deserve the protections of the U.S. Constitution, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Vice President Dick Cheney argue in defense of a plan to prosecute foreign terrorism suspects in American military tribunals.
"They don't jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-71737632001-11-16T12:07:00.000-05:002001-11-16T12:07:58.846-05:00Georgia completes 2001 execution trifectajerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-71733812001-11-16T11:48:00.000-05:002001-11-16T11:48:51.136-05:00Get to know the new protectorate
Comprehensive, and I mean comprehensive, collection of online Afghanistan maps from the University of Texas Libraryjerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3191128.post-71722912001-11-16T10:58:00.000-05:002001-11-16T10:58:12.423-05:00Happy belated birthday to the finest daily read on the internet, Follow Me Herejerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451960333314523586noreply@blogger.com