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Hemos
on from the removing-things-from-the-domain dept.
SnapShot writes "There's a very scary article at slate about the revision and reclassification of public, U.S. Government documents made available over the last thirty years. This is supposedly to protect us from the terrorists. Do you feel safer?"
Build Your Own A-Bomb
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Hinkkanen
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Perhaps they are already searching out and destroying copies of Analog Science Fiction, April 1979, which included George W. Harper's fine article "Build Your Own A-Bomb and Wake Up the Neighborhood". It had useful information on how to convert a small house to a nuclear facility for building your own nuclear devices.
The current administration doesn't want to help compile their own "I messed up..."-list.
For example, if they disclose the former environmental data from the Environmental Protection Agency, nobody can easily compare actual data with the old data.
-- Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
Amazon (like) Link
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NoSuchGuy
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· Score: 2, Interesting
-- Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
Welcome to Nazi Germany.
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Interesting
Papers please.
How long before one group of people in the US is forced to wear an emblem on their person? No, not Jews and the Start of David. Maybe the government will come up with another symbol for "trouble-makers" that refuse to stand by and allow our rights to be trampled?
Sure, they're slowly taking away access to previously public data and information. These aren't necessarily rights per se. But where's it going to stop? We're already required to show our "papers" for interstate travel. How long before its INTRASTATE travel?
Democrats are still destroying themselves.
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AtariAmarok
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· Score: 3, Interesting
"Until you learn that a vast majority of the US citizenry is on the same side you will continue to be blasted in "fair elections.""
Things are not looking too good for those of us who think that America is best served with at least two viable parties. The Democrats are diminishing themselves even further under the leadership of Howard Dean. A few weeks ago, he called Republicans and those who support them "evil". Just recently he called them "brain dead". I'm sorry, it is just not a winning strategy to go out of your way and attack and write off HALF of the U.S. population.
Clinton was successful, and helped the Democrats, because he knew it was important to appeal to the middle, including those who nominally sympathized with Republicans and their causes. Clinton won only due to "Clinton Republicans", just like Reagan only won with "Reagan Democrats". Howard Dean is problematic not because he is a "left wing extremist" or any other sort of extremist. He isnit. However, he is problematic because his mean and divisive manner turns off a lot of people. It is no surprise that Rush Limbaugh loved him. While Dean fires up "the base", he tends to turn off way too many outside the base with insulting language.
When you attack half of the people as "evil", you are automatically making sure that 50% will not vote for you. Since you can't get everyone in the 50% you have left, you have ensured that you will lose.
-- Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Re:Democrats are still destroying themselves.
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Anonymous Coward
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I would more compare it to pre-reveloution China , than nazi era Germany
And what evidence do you have of any attacks on American citizens or property by Saddam Hussein or any individual or group under his direct influence since we kicked him out of Kuwait?
Or do you believe that he is somehow linked to the 9-11 attacks and Al-Qaeda.
Replace American with Israeli and you'll then have a case for Israel to have done the job instead of us.
Saddam Hussein did not start the war. We were attacked by a fanatic group supported by oil-rich Saudis who hold a similar fanatic world view.
If feeble-minded Americans continue to believe whatever their mass-media and government spoon feed them we will be worse off as a country than Germany in May of 1945.
George wants to be seen as some sort of conquering hero. A 'hero of freedom' throughout history. Such megalomania by anyone in power is extremely dangerous in any age.
-- Fantasy and superstition should be used for entertainment purposes only.
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Perhaps they are already searching out and destroying copies of Analog Science Fiction, April 1979, which included George W. Harper's fine article "Build Your Own A-Bomb and Wake Up the Neighborhood". It had useful information on how to convert a small house to a nuclear facility for building your own nuclear devices.
The current administration doesn't want to help compile their own "I messed up..."-list.
For example, if they disclose the former environmental data from the Environmental Protection Agency, nobody can easily compare actual data with the old data.
Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
George W. Harper's fine article "Build Your Own A-Bomb and Wake Up the Neighborhood for US$ 20,00.
Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
Papers please.
How long before one group of people in the US is forced to wear an emblem on their person? No, not Jews and the Start of David. Maybe the government will come up with another symbol for "trouble-makers" that refuse to stand by and allow our rights to be trampled?
Sure, they're slowly taking away access to previously public data and information. These aren't necessarily rights per se. But where's it going to stop? We're already required to show our "papers" for interstate travel. How long before its INTRASTATE travel?
Things are not looking too good for those of us who think that America is best served with at least two viable parties. The Democrats are diminishing themselves even further under the leadership of Howard Dean. A few weeks ago, he called Republicans and those who support them "evil". Just recently he called them "brain dead". I'm sorry, it is just not a winning strategy to go out of your way and attack and write off HALF of the U.S. population.
Clinton was successful, and helped the Democrats, because he knew it was important to appeal to the middle, including those who nominally sympathized with Republicans and their causes. Clinton won only due to "Clinton Republicans", just like Reagan only won with "Reagan Democrats". Howard Dean is problematic not because he is a "left wing extremist" or any other sort of extremist. He isnit. However, he is problematic because his mean and divisive manner turns off a lot of people. It is no surprise that Rush Limbaugh loved him. While Dean fires up "the base", he tends to turn off way too many outside the base with insulting language.
When you attack half of the people as "evil", you are automatically making sure that 50% will not vote for you. Since you can't get everyone in the 50% you have left, you have ensured that you will lose.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
And what evidence do you have of any attacks on American citizens or property by Saddam Hussein or any individual or group under his direct influence since we kicked him out of Kuwait?
Or do you believe that he is somehow linked to the 9-11 attacks and Al-Qaeda.
Replace American with Israeli and you'll then have
a case for Israel to have done the job instead of us.
Saddam Hussein did not start the war. We were attacked by a fanatic group supported by oil-rich Saudis who hold a similar fanatic world view.
If feeble-minded Americans continue to believe whatever their mass-media and government spoon feed them we will be worse off as a country than Germany in May of 1945.
George wants to be seen as some sort of conquering hero. A 'hero of freedom' throughout history.
Such megalomania by anyone in power is extremely dangerous in any age.
Fantasy and superstition should be used for entertainment purposes only.