Calling RickyMonet: Your Wedding Pic is in TIME

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Wednesday March 02, 2005 · 10:34 AM PST

2005/03/02 · 10:34

I'm hoping RickyMonet sees this, but here's some background for everyone else.

Remember the attack ad on the AARP put out by USANext, showing a red "X" through a picture of an American soldier and a green "check-mark" over the picture of two very happy gay men in tuxedos kissing? Well the wedding picture was purloined from an Oregon newspaper's website, spurring a nascent lawsuit by the outraged couple.

Now, the current issue of TIME Magazine has a little squib on the ad and the dkos and TPM role in getting it pulled, but makes no mention of the "hot" photo.

The story after the jump-- Read More

Thai Tsunami Warning Arrived, But Was Ignored

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Tuesday January 04, 2005 · 6:37 PM PST

2005/01/04 · 18:37

Last week I posted a diary about the technological and communications barriers that resulted in no warning to Thailand citizens and other people at risk in countries bordering the Indian Ocean. Among other problems I noted there was the fact that the official Thai contact for the American-based tsunami center for the Pacific Ocean (ITSU) included NO phone number, NO fax number, NO email address, and NO website contact, but instead listed only a SNAIL MAIL contact address.

Today, we learn that despite these communications barriers, Thailand knew, and its officials deliberately sacked the warning, due to fears that THEY would be sacked if an issued warning proved false. Read More

Tsunami Warning Systems: The Technology and Communications Barriers

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Thursday December 30, 2004 · 2:26 PM PST

2004/12/30 · 14:26

I have been posting a lot of comments over the past few days questioning WHY, with over two hours notice that a 9.0 earthquake had hit in an underwater area the size of California, the Asian countries most likely to bear the brunt of the ensuing tsunami were not warned. While the reports are confusing, it turns out that the main explanation being given, that the Indian Ocean does not have its own technology-based system for detecting local earthquakes, is not why so many people died. They were warned, but ineffectively, and then they failed to take action. Read More

BLUE Christmas: Make Sure You Have the Right Facts!

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Wednesday December 22, 2004 · 11:03 AM PST

2004/12/22 · 11:03

I got an email today, exhorting me to make sure that my hard-won dollars that I shell out for sentimental gifts for family and friends don't end up in the Republican Party's coffers. The email had a list of companies with statistics purportedly showing how much they gave in political contribution and to which party. Problem is, some of the information is wrong. Read More

Charitable Giving Actually Funds the Terror Watch List

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Wednesday December 08, 2004 · 9:46 AM PST

2004/12/08 · 09:46

Any government employee knows about the Combined Federal Campaign, a program to funnel charitible giving by federal employees to worthy charities who register with the program. Employees simply fill out a form and designate one or more charities they want to support, and the deduction comes right out of the paycheck. Simple. Simply harassment also, as the emails, and broadcast voicemails, and signs, and "keyworker" visits pile up at the end of the year. But this year, there is a new outrage: charities who register with the CFC must "certify" that they don't employ terrorists. OK, I get that. But the Bush Administration says this means they have to vet their employee roster against the terrorist "watch lists". Read More

Gonzales and the Torture Memos

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Wednesday November 10, 2004 · 11:11 AM PST

2004/11/10 · 11:11

Gee, this title sort of has the ring of a Winnie the Pooh story, but that is definitely NOT what we are in for with Bush's new appointment to the post of Attorney General.

Just a reminder to all that a February 7, 2002 Justice Department memo, addressed to (and presumably requested by) White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez, says torturing a suspect in captivity "may be justified" if the US government employee involved "would be doing so in order to prevent further attacks on the United States by the al-Qaeda terrorist network."

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/torture/bybee20702mem.html

In a January 25, 2002 memo, Gonzales wrote:

"In my judgment, this new paradigm [the war on terror] renders obsolete Geneva's [i.e., the Geneva Convention's] strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions."

http://www.adamhodges.com/WORLD/docs/gonzales_memo.pdf Read More

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