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Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week
An anonymous reader writes "Another undersea cable was taken offline on Friday, this one connecting Qatar and UAE. 'The [outage] caused major problems for internet users in Qatar over the weekend, but Qtel's loss of capacity has been kept below 40% thanks to what the telecom said was a large number of alternative routes for transmission. It is not yet clear how badly telecom and internet services have been affected in the UAE.' In related news it's been confirmed that the two cables near Egypt were not cut by ship anchors." Update: 02/04 07:13 GMT by Z : A commenter notes that despite the language in the article indicated a break or malfunction, the cable wasn't cut. It was taken offline due to power issues.
Remember this, "No one has ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the average American." P. T. Banum
Also read up "Rise of the Vulcans" Give a convincing case that the neo-cons are more directly descended from the southern wing of the Democratic party pre-1964. Also that Vulcans, Powell, Armatige, Wolfawitz, Rice, Cheney, Fukiyama, Kerpatrick, Bush et al. are in fact a sub-set of the neo-cons.
My personal opinion is that they represent a far worse variant, that they represent a radical anti-federalist kakistocracy designed to weaken the federal government so much that we go back to a states centric system of government. You know, "may the south rise again! ba-na-na-na-na-nanana-nah-nah-nah!" Katrina, Iraq, the tax cut, and pretty much everything in the last eight years was so poorly done as to be criminally negligent. You also cannot discount the issue of the Dominist Party (Dominion of biblical law over secular law) which Bush has been a pawn of through the evangelical movement.
Religious conservatives have allowed all sins to be committed in the name of ending abortion. They have cut off the technocracy and institutional memory of our bureaucracies in petty partisan power grabs. The CIA was gutted by Porter Goss, the Justice Department is in shambles, FEMA is seen as the touch of death, the State Department has been publicly emasculated by the Pentagon, and Iraq has now blackened the eye of the Pentagon. Seriously who the fuck is left? The TSA... wait where's my "Kip Hawley is an idiot t-shirt." Oh there it is next to the copy of the constitution George Bush used to wipe his ass with after he sodomized the body in the grave of the unknown soldier.
These people are domestic enemies of the constitution and should be tried for high treason.