Welcome to 1994... "A turning point."

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Monday September 19, 2005 · 9:07 AM PDT

2005/09/19 · 09:07

Remember the good ole days when the Bush administration derided former president Clinton's efforts to negotiate a deal whereby North Korea would forego producing enriched, nuclear-weapon-grade materials in exchange for various forms of aid, most importantly energy and economic aide?

That was called the Agreed Framework.

On October 21, 1994, the United States and North Korea signed an agreement-the Agreed Framework-calling upon Pyongyang to freeze operation and construction of nuclear reactors suspected of being part of a covert nuclear weapons program in exchange for two proliferation-resistant nuclear power reactors. The agreement also called upon the United States to supply North Korea with fuel oil pending construction of the reactors. An international consortium called the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) was formed to implement the agreement.

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Monday December 06, 2004 · 6:09 PM PST

2004/12/06 · 18:09

This diary is a recap of a lead article on Slashdot.

The Slashdot article is in turn based on a report by Mediaweek.com. The article describes a Congressional hearing where Michael Powell testified shortly after the height of the "oh my God I saw Janet Jackson's nipple" scandal. The take home message of the article is that the Parents Television Council (PTC), a Christian religious fundamentalist group has accounted for nearly all of the complaints received by the FCC. Read More

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Sunday July 18, 2004 · 10:30 AM PDT

2004/07/18 · 10:30

I remember Byrd being the only Senator wondering aloud on the Senate floor why there couldn't just be a couple more hours of debate on the war resolution. Not days, not weeks, just a few more hours. Of course he was rebuked. Read More

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