Blog_Errant: 05/01/2004

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US intelligence fears Iran duped hawks into Iraq war:
"An urgent investigation has been launched in Washington into whether Iran played a role in manipulating the US into the Iraq war by passing on bogus intelligence through Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, it emerged yesterday.
Some intelligence officials now believe that Iran used the hawks in the Pentagon and the White House to get rid of a hostile neighbour, and pave the way for a Shia-ruled Iraq. "

Weekly Review (Harpers.org): "President George W. Bush held a prime-time press conference and refused several times to apologize or accept responsibility for his government's failure to prevent the September 11 attacks; the [New York Times] president defended his decision to conquer Iraq and said that the Iraqis were 'deceptive at hiding things"

Bush Began to Plan War Three Months After 9/11 (washingtonpost.com): "
Bush Began to Plan War Three Months After 9/11
Book Says President Called Secrecy Vital
By William Hamilton
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 17, 2004; Page A01
Beginning in late December 2001, President Bush met repeatedly with Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks and his war cabinet to plan the U.S. attack on Iraq even as he and administration spokesmen insisted they were pursuing a diplomatic solution, according to a new book on the origins of the war. "

netrudite ~ technology | business | opinion: MP3'jay

Welcome To The Retro Future

davidszondy.com
Future Past

The New York Times > Magazine > Essay: The Greening of the City: " ESSAY
The Greening of the City
By JANE JACOBS

Published: May 16, 2004

Even the most startling cultural and economic developments do not arise out of thin air. They are always built upon prior developments and upon a certain amount of serendipity and chance."

Libération :Civiques placebos

Libération :Priorité à l'environnement

Fast Company Now: "Activate Your Influentials
Ed Keller is CEO of NOP World Consumer and co-author of The Influentials. His after-lunch session, delivered to an almost-packed room, explored the demographics and psychographics of influential Americans, as well as what marketers can do to better reach -- and work with -- these decision makers and agenda setters. What follows is a partial transcript of his talk at Ad:Tech:"

Micro Persuasion: A Bloggerside Chat with Feedster�s Devine Feedmaster, Betsy Devine: "A Bloggerside Chat with Feedster�s Devine Feedmaster, Betsy Devine
Feedster is one of the most powerful online tools available to PR pros interested in Micro Persuasion (integrating Weblogs into traditional campaigns). The search engine indexes over a million blog posts on an hourly basis. It is a powerful tool that can be used to monitor online discussions about clients, competitors and more."

What Are Webfeeds (RSS), and Why Should You Care?: Contentious Weblog: "What Are Webfeeds (RSS), and Why Should You Care?
This 12-part tutorial is a major revision and expansion of an article I originally published Oct. 18, 2003 under the title 'What Is RSS and Why Should You Care?'"

Sensitive Light
Photoblog

Boyd & Military Strategy: "Boyd & Military Strategy"

Global Guerrillas: BOYD ON GRAND STRATEGY: "BOYD ON GRAND STRATEGY
Col. John Boyd (he died in 1997) is considered one of America's best military thinkers. His thinking dramatically influenced the plan of attack in the first gulf war. Boyd's thinking also serves as a good basis for a deeper understanding 4GW (fourth generation warfare). "

New Model: "What is wrong with our concept of organization?
Shifting our organizational metaphor from Machine to Nature

"What form should the industrial system have? That of bureaucratic industrialism, in which the individual becomes a small, insignificant cog in the social machinery or that of a humanistic industrialism, in which alienation and the sense of impotence are overcome by the fact that the individual participates actively and responsibly in the economic and social process" [1] "

Robert Paterson's Weblog

Canadian Fantasy and Sc Fi - A brilliant Group of Writers
I am beginning to be aware that something special is going on in Canada. We not only dominate the world of comedy on TV and film but are also becoming dominant in Fantasy and Sc Fi writing.

The most promising Sc Fi newcomer Julie Czerneda

The ultimate Fantasy World Creator Steven Erikson

The ultimate Fantasy writer Guy Gavriel Kay

The man who wins all the Hugos and Nebulas, Robert J Sawyer

I am sure there are more but these are in the front row. The links I have included are to the Author sites. All of these are very inclusive.

Who do you like?

kitab chap6 part5

Top News Article | Reuters.com
Bush to Israel: Show Restraint, Respect Innocent Life

Blog greut grafx

Portfolios: "Student portfolios
The main task in this course is for each student to build up the student portfolio. We use many Internet based tools in course and students are expected to work during the course at building up their on-line portfolio . It consists of all their assignments and a description of the learning process. "

Mathemagenic: learning and KM insights - Wednesday, December 11, 2002

Here's a better plan: find something you're really interested in, learn as much as you can about it, and start working on it. Don't worry about the money, the money will come. Invest your time and your energy in your passion, not your job - reinvent your job if you have to, or plan to leave it if you can't.

DidTheyReadIt: You Sent It, But Did They Read It?

Indigo Ocean - Currents of Mind

Le Monde.fr : Sale guerre à Gaza

Fanatics & Fools

Gratuisoft : Logiciels gratuits, Tutoriaux (counter strike, ftp...) , Astuces pour Windows XP

The Observer | International | US guards 'filmed beatings' at terror camp

Le Quotidien Permanent du Nouvel Observateur - Sévices : Rumsfeld aurait approuvé

TUNeZINE : L'art tunisien de la langue de bois

Le blog de Torpedo :: Mai :: 2004

How to Save the World
Dave Pollard
Make your own cartoon

Le Matin
L'accord d'association monopolise le débat

The New Yorker: Fact
THE GRAY ZONE
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib.
Issue of 2004-05-24
Posted 2004-05-15

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Warnings of abuse in Iraq's prisons that were ignored: "Warnings of abuse in Iraq's prisons that were ignored

Photographs of American and British troops humiliating prisoners could change the public mood across the world. But the coalition has brushed aside similar complaints for six months "

Victims of our own high-flown morality (2 May 04) :: Radio Free USA :: Unflinching and unembedded independent news: "The 'Good Guys' who can do no wrong
ROBERT FISK
Independent
Why are we surprised at their racism, their brutality, their sheer callousness towards Arabs? Those American soldiers in Saddam's old prison at Abu Ghraib, those young British squaddies in Basra came -- as soldiers often come -- from towns and cities where race hatred has a home: Tennessee and Lancashire. "

xymphora: "'I thought of the Fox network's Bill O'Reilly when I heard about the recent prisoner abuses in Iraq. Not because of the normal abuse you get on his show. But I was on The Radio Factor With Bill O'Reilly last week and in the intro to our discussion he referred often to The Globe and Mail as left-wing. I said I had to defend it against that charge, since The Globe has always been a conservative, business paper here. Oh, come on, he scoffed, noting that The Globe is 'secular.'"

Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Police Chief Denies Arresting Beheaded American

Yahoo! Actualités - Irak: la génération Napster en guerre contre le secret militaire

U-blog / sansblog / 2004/05/14
Imene

U-blog / karimmhb / Image de la femme dans les clips arabes

Arabic Song Lyrics

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Ink of mass destruction
Ink of mass destruction

Friday May 14, 2004
The Guardian

I've just ordered an ink cartridge for my printer through the Dell website. After asking me three standard market research questions about who was going to use the cartridge, was it for home or office use etc, the system hit me with question four: "Will the product(s) be used in connection with weapons of mass destruction, ie nuclear applications, missile technology, or chemical or biological weapons purposes?" So that's how Bush is going to catch Osama.
Adam Barnes
London

Le Matin
La chronique de Mohamed Benchicou
L'Irak, miroir algérien

Le Matin

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Our last occupation

"Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.
Your city and your lands have been subject to the tyranny of strangers, your palaces have fallen into ruins, your gardens have sunk in desolation, and your forefathers and yourselves have groaned in bondage. Your sons have been carried off to wars not of your seeking, your wealth has been stripped from by unjust men and squandered in distant places.
It is our wish that you should prosper even as in the past, when your lands were fertile, when your ancestors gave to the world literature, science, and art, and when Baghdad was one of the wonders of the world."
--Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Maude, The Proclamation of Baghdad; March 19, 1917, three years before Britain began gassing Iraqi civillians.