Cubelogic Improv

The Department of Homeland Security is requiring thousands of employees and contractors to sign nondisclosure agreements that prohibit them from sharing sensitive but unclassified information with the public. [...]
“Its likely consequence will be to chill even the most mundane interactions between department employees and reporters or the general public,” [...] “Employees will naturally fear that even the most trivial conversation could mean a violation of this draconian agreement, and so the result will be a new wall between the government and the public.” [...]
Violators risk administrative, disciplinary, criminal and civil penalties. One provision provides that signers consent to government inspections “at any time or place” to ensure compliance. [...]
Read the entire article by Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post at the Washingtonpost website or at michaelmoore.com.

I think whoever buys this car, has some serious psychological issues: www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1110-26.htm

On November 10th, 2004, during a peaceful demonsration, two large U.S. military tanks drove past the protestors on Wilshire Boulevard two times. The second time, the tanks stopped directly in front of a group of about 50 protestors for nearly five minutes.
La visione di carri armati a Los Angeles durante una protesta civile è strana. Qui c’è un filmato:
http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/tanks-on-la-streets.mov. (If download fails, email me.)

Ci sono prove che Bush era radio comandato durante i dibattiti televisivi con Kerry.
David Lindorff made an article about the suspicious bulge on Bush’s back during the 2004 presidential debates. He published the article on salon.com, way before the election (Oct. 8 2004). He also proposed the story to the New York Times. However, the NYT killed the story. They decided to _not_ publish it before the election (bastardi! and it’s the NYTimes, not even FOX!):
www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/08/bulge
www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/11/10_407.html
www.commondreams.org/news2004/1105-12.html
The photos are pretty revealing, and have been analized by an imaging expert with NASA.
There’s also an audio interview with David Lindorff here (free MP3 / Real audio download):
www.fair.org/counterspin/110504.html
(the interview begins 17 minutes into the show)

George W. Bush ha pubblicamente insultato Adam Clymer, giornalista del New York Times. Ciò fa parte di una guerra contro il New York Times iniziata dal clan dei Bush: read here and here.

There is an interesting article with plenty of data and facts at commondreams.org (in my opinion, a very nice source of news), about how the recent presidential elections in the US of A have been manipulated: www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm.
The article also lead me to 2 very important web sites:
1. blackboxvoting.org ## the consumer procection against election irregularities. Started by Bev Harris, a grandmother who started questioning the way elections are being done here in the US. She is my hero now, and a good inspiration.
2. votergate.tv ## a short shoking documentary about how votes can be manipulated without leaving any traces. The short film explains the problems of the current situation in the US, where a corporation (Diebold) makes electronic voting machines, these machines are controlled by proprietary software and do not release a paper trail, this software is considered a trade secret and nobody can look at it to see how it is manipulating the votes, and the government largely adopted this flawed and faulty implementation in the 2004 race. The documentary also shows how a voting result in one county can be completely turned upside down in a matter of 90 seconds. Free download available at the home page. If download doesn’t work, email me.

US citizens: you can sign your name to the campaign to repeal part of the U.S.A. P.A.T. R.I.O.T. Act. This would make the police once again have to get search warrants before they can get information from bookstores or libraries about what you have read or borrowed. See: www.readerprivacy.org
This is a step in the right direction, but it does not go far enough. The PATRIOT act was extended in December 2003 to give the police equally easy access to many kinds of transaction records about you. The PAT RIOT act attacks your freedom in other ways, too, and not all of them will expire in 2005. See http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree/. Also, here is a direct link to contact your members of congress.

There’s an article on the New Yorker explaining how (the US) Congress gave away the EM digital spectrum for TV transmissions to broadcasting corporations for free. The digital spectrum is worth tens of billions of dollars now. The articles also raises an interesting matter, about the fact that Americans would prefer to pay to have “television for all” instead of having health care for all. Health care is a basic need for a society, yet the richest implementation of human societies – the US-american’s – refuses to give free health care to everyone of its citizen. This is one of the most absurd things I can think of.