Daily Dreamtime - February 23rd, 2006

RUL] Arab Co., White House Had Secret Agreement

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Arab Co., White House Had Secret Agreement
By TED BRIDIS (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
February 22, 2006 9:20 PM EST

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration secretly required a company in the
United Arab Emirates to cooperate with future U.S. investigations before
approving its takeover of operations at six American ports, according to
documents obtained by The Associated Press. It chose not to impose other,
routine restrictions.( Read more... )

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Secret Service agents say Cheney was drunk when he shot lawyer

Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:32 PM
Subject: [RUL] Was Cheney Drunk?

From Capitol Hill Blue
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/

The Rant
Secret Service agents say Cheney was drunk when he shot lawyer
By DOUG THOMPSON
Feb 22, 2006, 07:35

Secret Service agents guarding Vice President Dick Cheney when he shot
Texas
lawyer Harry Whittington on a hunting outing two weeks ago say Cheney was
"clearly inebriated" at the time of the shooting.
( Read more... )

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February 23, 2006
David Pogue
Wi-Fi to Go: The Hot Spot in a Box
YOU know what would be so cool? A portable Wi-Fi hot spot. Whenever you wanted Internet access, you wouldn't have to hunt for a wireless coffee shop or pay $24 a night to your hotel.

Instead, you'd travel with a little box. Plug it into a power outlet — or even your car's cigarette lighter — and boom, you and everyone within 200 feet could get onto the Internet at high speed, without wires.
( Read more... )

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http://www.coop99.at/darwins-nightmare/darwin/html/startset.htm

Darwin's Nightmare is a tale about
humans between the North
about globalization, and about

and the South,
fish.

Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world.

Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo… Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark center of the continent.

This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world’s biggest tropical lake: an army of local fishermen, World bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots.

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South Africa was never quite a totalitarian society, but it was authoritarian, and it had a very tou

Legendary South African Journalist Allister Sparks on Wiretapping and Torture, Under Apartheid and Bush
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/1454239
We spend the hour with legendary South African editor and reporter Allister Sparks. Sparks gained fame as editor of South Africa's Rand Daily Mail in the late 1970s where he helped bring down a South African Prime Minister in a government propaganda scandal. He also helped expose the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko at the hands of South Africa's security forces. In 1995, South African president Nelson Mandela appointed Sparks to the Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

Sparks discusses wiretapping and torture, under apartheid last century and under the Bush administration today. He also discusses indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and his ties to the apartheid regime. [includes rush transcript - partial]

( Read more... )

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someone crashed a $1 million Ferrari crashed into a utility pole on the Pacific Coast Highway in Mal

Rare Ferrari busted in half

Yesterday, someone crashed a $1 million Ferrari crashed into a utility pole on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. Bel-air resident Stefan Eriksson claims that he was just a passenger in the car and that the driver, who he knew only as "Dietrich," ran away from the scene. Apparently, investigators haven't yet determined who owns the car either.

"We're investigating as to who was actually driving," said Sgt. Philip Brooks of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department today. "His (Eriksson's) story has inconsistencies that need to be cleared up...
Officials are trying to determine whether (Eriksson) is the noted Swedish game designer whose firm, perhaps not surprisingly, was involved with car-racing themed video games....
Eriksson "had a .09 blood-alcohol level, but if he's a passenger, that's OK," Brooks said. "But he had a bloody lip, and only the air bag on the driver's side had blood on it. The passenger-side air bag did not. My Scooby-Doo detectives are looking closely into that.
"Maybe the 'driver' had a friend who picked him up. Maybe he thumbed a ride," the sergeant added. "Maybe he was a ghost."

Link (Thanks, Paul Saffo!)

UPDATE: Thanks to all the readers who point to the latest Ferrari crash news articles that include info about Eriksson's history with game company Gizmondo. Link

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Ms. Brown did succeed in turning her life around — all the way around, to the point where she now pr

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/23/books/23masl.html

February 23, 2006
Books of The Times | 'A Piece of Cake'
Annals of Addiction and Recovery, Chapter Umpteen
By JANET MASLIN
On the first page of her calamity-packed addiction memoir, Cupcake Brown explains how the name Cupcake wound up on her birth certificate. For some people, being named Cupcake by a mother still woozy from childbirth might rank as life's most delirious moment.( Read more... )

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