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  1. FUCKING SHIT THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD ALBUMS COMING OUT LATELY Blueprint - 1988
  2. And how unfortunate would it be if he died on april fools day. We still have a few hours left I think.
  3. It's like a fucking corporate police force then. I can see corporations controlling laws, it's in their best interest. Although only a few corporations are large enough to man handle the government or federal law; as federal power is reduced a lot of the smaller corporations are able to get what they want by threatening to leave the state if they don't have things their way.(deregulation/corporate welfare/substaties) Republicans are always talking about reducing the federal government. Remember when Microsoft was talking about leaving the country during that big trial some years back? I wonder how that would affect our economy if they left the states.
  4. Link here: BBC news Venezuela and Spain have signed a number of trade agreements, including the controversial sale of Spanish military equipment. Opposition parties in both countries have criticised the deal reached in Venezuela's capital, Caracas. But Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said the equipment would be used for peaceful purposes. It includes Spain's naval patrol vessels and military transport planes. 'Instruments of peace' The agreements were signed at the end of Mr Zapatero's two-day visit to Venezuela. Several of the deals involve Spain's and Venezuela's respective oil companies, PDVSA and Repsol. But the most controversial is the sale of Spanish coastal patrol vessels and C-295 transport planes to the Venezuelan military. Opposition parties in the two countries have criticised the arms deal, echoing earlier concerns by the US of Venezuela's plans to buy helicopters and guns from Russia. But President Chavez said these were not weapons of war but instruments of peace. The boats will be used, he said, to step up Venezuela's coastal patrols against the drugs trade. While the transport planes would be used mainly for humanitarian missions inside and outside the country. Mr Zapatero said he believed the criticisms levelled by the Spanish opposition were based on lack of information rather than any other intention. And another article for contrast --------------------------------------------- http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=11019 ISN SECURITY WATCH (31/03/05) - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced on Wednesday that his country would sell €1.3 billion worth of military equipment to Venezuela, risking harsh criticism from the US and from opposition groups at home, who have called the deal a “monstrous error”. Zapatero made the decision during a visit to Venezuela on Wednesday, where he joined a summit of Latin American leaders, including the presidents of Colombia and Brazil, Alvaro Uribe and Inacio Lula da Silva. In its largest arms deal in years, Spain will sell Venezuela 10 C-295 transport planes, four coastal patrol corvettes, and four small coastguard patrol boats that would be used by the army to monitor the country’s coastlines, combat terrorism, fight drug traffickers, and launch natural disaster rescue operations, the British daily Independent reported. Spanish opposition leader Mariano Rajoy of the Popular Party harshly criticized Zapatero’s announcement, calling the deal “irresponsible”. The Spanish prime minister has shrugged off all criticism, saying that “none of this equipment has any offensive capability whatsoever” and that the deal was only intended to fight terrorism and hunger. Washington is concerned about Venezuela’s growing arms stockpile. Both Russia and Brazil have recently sold weapons and military equipment to left-wing President Hugo Chavez. Washington is most concerned that Chavez - whom it labels as authoritarian - could undermine US influence in the region. In April 2002, Washington backed a coup against Chavez that failed.
  5. sHUT THE FUCK UP HIPPY AL GORE IS THE REASON!!! i'M VERY OPINIONATED AND UNINFORMED AND I WAS IN THE ARMY SO I'M ALWAYS RIGHT SISSY ASSHOLE FAGG YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR DUMB SHUT YOU'RE MOUTH
  6. Isn't Al Gore the reason we're on the internet?
  7. I don't wish him harm, but it's extremely arrogant for a man to create god in his own image, and that's my beef with popey.
  8. I have this pair of jeans that are about 8 years old now, I fucking love them, and I'm still wearing them to this day, although they are nearing the end even after all of the patch work I've done it's getting hopeless. All the tags say 'moss' on them but I think they're mossimo. I bought them at a pacific sunwear store or something. I've been searching around the internet periodically over the years and again tonight with no luck still. If I had the means I would buy 10 pairs of these fucking things just so I'd never have to buy jeans again. I cut off the tags a while back so I could keep the RN, fabric, and cut numbers just in case. I usually don't sweat the clothing too much, but I've never wanted a specific piece of clothing so bad before.
  9. true and the more i read about this the more it's starting to look like bush shifting the blame onto the intel community, so i'm becoming more skeptical of the intentions
  10. Coincidence? This report hits the news the exact day that Schiavo dies.
  11. I know it's beating a dead horse, as everyone should know this by now. Link here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7331220/ Bush panel rips U.S. intelligence abilities 'Dead wrong' on Iraq; little known about today's enemies NBC News and news services Updated: 9:26 a.m. ET March 31, 2005 WASHINGTON - In a scathing report released Thursday, President Bush’s commission on weapons of mass destruction found that America’s spy agencies were “dead wrong” in most of their judgments about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction capabilities. The commission was also highly critical of U.S. abilities to assess what existing adversaries have, stating that the United States knows “disturbingly little” about their weapons programs. On Saddam, the commission stated that “we conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong in almost all of its prewar judgments about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. This was a major intelligence failure.” The main cause, the commission said, was the intelligence community’s “inability to collect good information about Iraq’s WMD programs, serious errors in analyzing what information it could gather and a failure to make clear just how much of its analysis was based on assumptions rather than good evidence. “On a matter of this importance, we simply cannot afford failures of this magnitude,” the report said. But the commission also said that it found no indication that spy agencies distorted the evidence they had concerning Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, a charge raised against the administration during last year’s presidential campaign. “The analysts who worked Iraqi weapons issues universally agreed that in no instance did political pressure cause them to skew or alter any of their analytical judgments,” the report said. But it added: “It is hard to deny the conclusion that intelligence analysts worked in an environment that did not encourage skepticism about the conventional wisdom.” Unanimous advice: Strengthen intel chief The commission called for dramatic change to prevent future failures. It outlined more than 70 recommendations, saying that President Bush must give John Negroponte, the new director of national intelligence, broader powers for overseeing the nation’s 15 spy agencies. “It won’t be easy to provide this leadership to the intelligence components of the Defense Department or to the CIA,” the commissioners said. “They are some of the government’s most headstrong agencies. Sooner or later, they will try to run around — or over — the DNI. Then, only your determined backing will convince them that we cannot return to the old ways,” the commission told Bush. The panel, which was unanimous in its report and advice, also recommended that Bush demand more of the intelligence community, which has been repeatedly criticized for failures as various investigations have looked back on the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. “The intelligence community needs to be pushed,” the report said. “It will not do its best unless it is pressed by policymakers — sometimes to the point of discomfort.” It said analysts must be pushed to explain what they don’t know and that agencies must be pressed to explain why they don’t have better information on key subjects. At the same time, the report said the administration must be more careful about accepting the judgment of intelligence agencies. “No important intelligence assessment should be accepted without sharp questioning that forces the (intelligence) community to explain exactly how it came to that assessment and what alternatives might also be true,” the report said. The commission also called for sweeping changes at the FBI to combine the bureau’s counterterrorism and counterintelligence resources into a new office. Problems with 'Curve Ball' The proposals were prompted in part by an Iraqi defector code-named “Curve Ball” who may have had a drinking problem and who provided suspect information on Saddam’s purported mobile weapons labs, officials said. The defector and the questions about his veracity have been described in recent government reports. The information the defector provided was included in the much-maligned October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, a high-level collection of intelligence that the White House used to argue for invading Iraq. That document said Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, but no such weapons have been found. The commission's report will single out that document, which said there was “compelling evidence” that Iraq sought uranium for nuclear weapons. The document included dissent in the form of cautionary footnotes from the State Department’s intelligence bureau, the Energy Department and the Air Force. But a senior administration official acknowledged in July 2003 that Bush and then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice did not read footnotes in the 90-page document. By glossing over or omitting dissenting views about Iraq’s weapons programs, the estimate overstated the accuracy of U.S. intelligence, according to an official who described the commission’s report. “There’s a need for more complete reporting,” the official said. The estimate was also the basis for then Secretary of State Colin Powell going to the United Nations Security Council in February 2003 to lobby for military action. Powell this week told the German magazine Stern that he was “furious and angry” that he had been misinformed about Iraq’s capabilities. “It was information from our security services and from some Europeans, including Germans. Some of this information was wrong. I did not know this at the time,” he said. “Hundreds of millions followed it on television. I will always be the one who presented it. I have to live with that.” 600-page report The commission released its final report, spanning more than 600 pages, after more than a year of work that included closed-door sessions with Bush and other top administration officials. Numerous government reports have detailed intelligence failures since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. This commission is the first formed by Bush to look at why U.S. spy agencies mistakenly concluded that Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, one of the administration’s main justifications for invading in March 2003. The panel also considered a range of intelligence issues beyond Iraq, including congressional oversight, satellite imagery and electronic snooping. Among numerous soft spots, officials familiar with the findings say “human intelligence” — the work of actual operatives on the ground — is lacking. Some of the recommendations Among other things, the report: Recommends forming a new intelligence center to focus on weapons proliferation. Chastises intelligence agencies for their continued failure to share information, despite numerous reforms aimed at improving coordination. Stresses the need for ongoing training for analysts and operatives and new procedures for considering dissenting intelligence analysis. Calls on intelligence agencies to take concrete steps to ensure information from their sources is valid — a move prompted in part by 'Curve Ball'. Proposes updating the FBI’s computers and creating a new national security division within the Justice Department. Bush formed the commission — led by Republican Laurence Silberman, a retired federal appeals court judge, and Democrat Charles Robb, a former senator from Virginia — as it became clear that U.S. weapons inspectors were not going to find stockpiles of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Top intelligence officials were already taking steps to soften the impact of the criticism. The head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which analyzes satellite imagery, told employees in an e-mail that they should “take on the lessons learned, and drive on.” “You may find the report difficult to read and you may not agree with the commission’s analysis, opinions, or recommendations,” retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper wrote. “I understand that it’s much more difficult to be criticized rather than praised in public.” Little known about adversaries The unclassified version of the report does not go into significant detail on the intelligence community’s abilities in Iran and North Korea because commissioners did not want to tip the U.S. hand to its leading adversaries. Those details are included in the classified version. “The bad news is that we still know disturbingly little about the weapons programs and even less about the intentions of many of our most dangerous adversaries,” the report said. The commission did not name any country, but appeared to be talking about nations such as North Korea and Iran. “Our review has convinced us that the best hope for preventing future failures is dramatic change,” the report said. “We need an intelligence community that is truly integrated, far more imaginative and willing to run risks, open to a new generation of Americans and receptive to new technologies.”
  12. How's that working out for you?
  13. Rare Bird - Beautiful Scarlet
  14. Quad City Djs - C'mon 'n Ride It (the Train) Or the Opeth album Deliverance
  15. When I used to work overnights I'd have some custom cut tag board with a few pieces of velcro I'd slap over the window for total darkness when needed.
  16. It's been thunder storming all morning and I can't tell you how badly I wanted to rock some digable planets on repeat and lay in bed all morning with the windows open. It's been in the 60's the past few days and after this rain it's going to be greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen. I fucking love spring, it always gives me a good kick in the ass.
  17. One thing I have learned, is that in a situation like this it's always the womans fault. i kid i kid
  18. Hey look, it's my one post outside of zero or crossfire. I managed to dig up the originals. (from a few years ago) And with the temp hitting upper 60's in the land of ice and snow, I'll be doing this again real soon.
  19. Æ°

    Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    I just found this on eMule, downloading now.
  20. Is it true that OJ never paid the man? I didn't even know he was ill.
  21. I think it's about time dinosaurs rule the earth again.
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