Google Tries to Defend Itself, Fails

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Sunday January 29, 2006 · 11:47 AM PST

2006/01/29 · 11:47

There has been a massive outcry against Google's unethical partnership with the Chinese government. People around the world, online and off, are shocked that a company claiming to be for the free flow of information and operating while not doing evil would hypocritically push Chinese propaganda and censor the truth. Over 15,000 letters have been sent by Tibetans and Tibet supporters to executives at Google through Students for a Free Tibet's online action.

Not surprisingly, Google has posted a very defensive justification of their actions on their blog. Google senior policy counsel/shill Andrew McLaughlin penned the defense (you can email him here), which, not surprisingly is filled with hypocrisy, misinformation, half-truths, and a hell of a lot of crap. Let's get to the heart of the matter right away: Read More

JAMMED: Google's NEW Logo & Action Alert to Google's CEOs

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Friday January 27, 2006 · 2:42 PM PST

2006/01/27 · 14:42

Learn more about Google's unprecedented censorship program for the Chinese government and how you can take action to tell Google's corporate executives what you think about this. Read More

Google Makes A Bad Situation in China Worse

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 · 3:40 PM PST

2006/01/25 · 15:40

Let's be clear: Google hasn't created a bad situation, it's made a bad situation worse. Apparently, though, Google thinks explicitly presenting people with falsehoods or the wrong information is a good thing for people inside of China and Tibet.

Much more below, including information on a protest at Google's HQ in Cali today 4-6pm PST!!! Read More

Ending Banality & Giving Meaning to US Troops' Deaths

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 · 5:08 PM PST

2006/01/11 · 17:08

I recently diaried on the creeping banality of the ever-mounting deaths of American soldiers, and to a greater extent Iraqi civilians. The question that naturally rises from observing that the deaths of our fellow citizens three years after Bush declared victory in Iraq is how can we reverse this banality? How do we restore meaning and consequence to each tragic death to the nation on whole? Is it possible to give the same attention and weight to the deaths of twenty-four of our troops last week as we do to twelve miners? Or is the Iraq quagmire too far beyond our daily lives and has our country moved beyond caring about the lives of grunts in Iraq? In this post I'll try to address some of these questions and hopefully provide hope that all is not lost.

Hail Mary Pass below the fold. Read More

Bush: I Have Made The Death Of American GIs Banal

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Tuesday January 10, 2006 · 5:28 AM PST

2006/01/10 · 05:28

In the last week twenty-four American soldiers were killed in Iraq. I have been frustrated to no end by the Bush administration's persistant demand to treat the Iraq war (a) as the war to end all wars and (b) not a war worthy of sacrifice, other than civil liberties, for any American who doesn't wear a uniform. It's the world's most prominent example of wanting to eat your cake and have it too. It's simply absurd.

And yet the absurdity is born out by the realities of the war.
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Impeaching Bush Will Help Defeat Al Qaeda

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Saturday December 24, 2005 · 11:12 AM PST

2005/12/24 · 11:12

I was watching a bit of National Treasure last night and I was struck by the sheer reverence Nick Cage, John Voight, and Diane Kruger show towards the Declaration of Independence. Granted they've stolen it to find hidden Masonic treasures, but in all aspects of their treatment of our founding document they take utmost care to preserve it from harm. And I'm not just talking about making sure it isn't torn or burned, but actual religious reverence of the ideas written on the page. To damage the physical well-being of the Declaration would have been a body blow to the pillars of our republic. Cage's reverence for the preamble takes a sacred tone in his recognition that no truer conclusions may ever been written in the history of philosophy and politics than "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." Read More

War in Iraq Prevents Your Kids from Getting Xmas Presents

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Wednesday December 21, 2005 · 2:49 PM PST

2005/12/21 · 14:49

I had an incredibly troubling conversation with a postal worker at the NY Peter Stuyvesant office (10009) earlier this week. While waiting in line for about 45 minutes to mail some packages I asked the guy who was helping people fill out forms in line why the hell there were only three of nine windows open the week before Christmas. His answer: George W. Bush's war in Iraq.

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No Doubts: Republicans Advocate Nihilism

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Monday December 19, 2005 · 10:41 PM PST

2005/12/19 · 22:41

There is a word that precisely describes what the Republicans are doing with our government and, more specifically, the ideology they promote through their actions. Today's Republican Party is based on nihilism.

Follow me below the fold for the hints, clues, and aspirations that lead me to this conclusion. Read More

Crackdowns and the Pending Collapse of the CCP

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Tuesday December 13, 2005 · 2:41 PM PST

2005/12/13 · 14:41

Crossposted at The Baltimore Group and Tibet Will Be Free.

For all the discussion of China's thriving economy and surging power in the international community there has been a major absence of discussion on China's internal legal and political structure. Despite major economic development, China remains a communist, totalitarian state with a single party. In most multi-party systems of governance the public tries to correct what they see as failures in government by voting an alternative party into power. The public in single-party states, on the other hand, can only change the whole government when they are dissatisfied. The Chinese Communist Party knows that there is no real avenue for change in their system. Recently a stream of events have occurred that makes one wonder: what the hell is going on in China?

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