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Mark's new page of news clips pertaining to the U.S. / Syria situation is really well done. If you have an account you can add it to your front page here.

I hope this style becomes a trend. It seems important that we try to remember what these people actually say leading up to an event, because afterwards there is so much spin it is very easy to become confused. WMD? Regime change? Liberation? Why did we start this war again?

This same style would be great for the coming election season. I wish I had one with all the juicy GWB quotes made during the last campaign. The distance his policies (especially foreign) have come since then is amazing. Or disturbing. Maybe this type of exhaustive record keeping could help hold people to account.

And I also have to mention Bruno's weblog ruminatrix. This is my new first stop on the daily round of global political analysis pages. It's really great to have him writing.

Of course Dave and Tom (despite sporadic attempts to actually run an art page ;-) are still going strong, but you already knew that...
- jim 4-14-2003 11:26 pm [link] [38 comments]

David Reed is worried about the Total Information Awarness program. And he has some advice for building arguments against it.

In fact, the privacy and liberty folks, by expressing concern in the form of risks to "privacy" tend to reinforce the belief that there is any real investigatory information that can be extracted by inference from a very noisy and randomly selected pile of information.
This is interesting, and strikes me as being true. Probably it is better to argue that there is no useful information to be had from Poindexter's method, rather than arguing that the cost to privacy of extracting the information is too high. I believe the math is on Reed's side, but he has to unpack his thoughts a bit more if he wants someone like me to really get what he's saying.
- jim 4-13-2003 6:11 pm [link] [add a comment]

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