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open road
"Welcome to OSS.NET. Since 1992, we have championed open source intelligence (OSINT), intelligence reform, and the creation of Smart Nations. Beginning in 2002 we are also championing a global intelligence grid that brings the seven tribes of intelligence (national, military, law enforcement, business, academic, NGO-media, and religious-clan-citizen) into effective relations with one another, in part through the creation of ISO standards for those elements of intelligence that are open, ethical, legal, and generic."
via kos
century marketers
"100 People Who Changed New York"
via gawker
prim objective
"You will be happy to learn that the former head of the KGB (the secret police of the former Soviet Union), General Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security. Do you think he will share his expertise in "security" to prepare US citizens for domestic internal passports under the pretense of fighting the never-ending "War on Terrorism"?"
via american samizdat
defense poet laureate
"As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know. "
interesting prospects
congrats to matt for climbing out of the primordial blogosphere into the bright sunshine of paychecks and future bylines. and what a novel concept too, having a job lined up before you graduate. next time i go to college ill have to consider that route.
back to iraq to the future
"He makes a phone call to the Sirnak jandarma post, the regional HQ, apparently. They’re checking our press credentials. He smiles at me. “In five, ten minutes, Christopher, you go to Cizre.”
“Great!” I said, and stood up.
“You will sit down, please,” he said. I did.
The major wanted to ask me a few more questions.
“Your name is Christopher, no?”
I nodded. “Evet,” I said. Yes.
He paused to think for a moment. Then he looked at me again.
“Who is that actor, in ‘Back to the Future’? With Michael J. Fox?”
“Christopher Lloyd?”
“Yes!” he said."
sheep judging
"It's hard to imagine a bright spot in all this, but judging from Keith Olbermann's first outing, "Countdown" is surely one. He's even-handed, quick, a great writer, fast paced, funny as hell at the right moments, and most importantly of all, assumes that his audience aren't mindless sheep, that they can actually be trusted with ALL the information from which to make up their minds, and that they deserve better than blatant jingoistic propaganda spewed ad nauseam by every other cable news show.
Let's see how long MSNBC suits hold up when some freedom-hating right-wing groups start organizing a flood of semi-literate hate mail against the truth being shown or when some corporate exec's wife finds it offensive -- or, worse yet, when Karl Rove finds someone to put the arm on them and let them know it's being "noted" in the White House and that calls have been made to the CEOs of sponsors.."
Ask Dick Cheney!
"This simulated government official is taking questions in conformance with the Official Simulation Act of 2002. All quotes are authentic. No government official was harmed in the making of this simulation."
fool me one hundred
"Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes"
chick magnet
"Today's column is devoted to a reply to my column from last week, "Shut Up and Sing?" I received many, many replies to that column about the Dixie Chicks' lead singer Natalie Maines' remarks regarding President Bush. I feel strongly that you should read this response to that column from my old friend and mentor and fellow Texan Bill C. Malone. Bill is the dean of country music historians. His groundbreaking book Country Music USA in 1968 set the standards for country music scholarship, and Bill has kept those standards high with a series of books ever since. Bill sent a response to my column, and it is well worth your attention."