Cooper to talk. My guess is that Miller Gossiped, i.e. the leak went Judith Miller (NYT) -> Administration -> Cooper (Time) and Novak (WaPo). Whether there is any evidence that Plame’s name went twice around the merry-go-round (Administration -> Miller) is another matter. Whatever the scenario, what amazes me is that few people seem to question that this was a vindictive act rather than a cockup.
New York is great for urban archeology, but with the worst roads and the best architecture in the developed world, the interface between the sidewalk and street produces an amazing variety of types. Have put my pictures of NYC curbs on Flickr, tagged as fucked_up_curb.link » tags: [photos] [nyc] posted via Wists: permamark
Couldn't resist the headline. A famous European surfing beach has mysteriously lost its waves.link » tags: [news] posted via Wists: permamark
Read the small print and you can see that there has been some horse trading for the G8 agenda and that France looks like the loser over Africa, instead of the US over Global Warming. In exchange for compromize on Global Warming, the US has agreed to fair trade concessions for Africa – this completely turns the tables on France where farm subsidies can no longer been seen as socialist in terms of the global view. "On the other major issue to be discussed at the summit, African aid and debt relief, he signalled he was ready to abandon US farm subsidies, which have unfairly distorted the market for African farmers. But he said he would only do it, if the European Union was prepared to scrap its Common Agricultural Policy. "We've got agricultural subsidies, not nearly to the extent that our friends in the EU have," he said. "…
MSNBC Analyst Says Cooper Documents Reveal Karl Rove as Source in Plame Case This would be the most ironic story ever – Journo leaks via unknown source – Supreme Court rules that journos have to give up sources – Supreme Court member resigns – Rove gets to be spindoctor for replacement – MSNBC analyst says that Rove was the leaker. “Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, presumably revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source, and what might happen to him or her. Tonight, on the syndicated McLaughlin Group political talk show, Lawrence O’Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, claimed to know that name–and it is, according to him, top White House mastermind Karl Rove.” Somehow this doesn’t ring true. This rumor has been around blogs for a while, but…
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US accepts Earth is warming in bid to avert clash In a massive u-turn over global warming a government statement says: “We know the surface of the Earth is warmer and that an increase in greenhouse gases caused by humans is contributing to the problem” Perhaps David Holcberg (the guy that the Ayn Randis booted out for saying that people shouldn’t donate to tsunami victims) will be the last person on Earth to deny it. That is until someone creates an ‘Intelligent Design’ version.
$40 million is about to be unleashed by lobby groups to influence the makeup of the Supreme Court and therefore the very social fabric of the US. The choice is not between a Democrat or a Republican but between a conservative or liberal, this is something far more partisan and corrupting. Conservatives are people who think that the moral fabric of the nation was better in the past, liberals think that it was worse. This measure of right and left has not changed in hundreds of years, whereas specific policies have. That would suggest that ideology rather than policy is a better measure of conservativism rather than liberalism. Thinking that things were better and more moral in the past is not something that has a fixed point in time, there have always been conservatives who thought it was better in the old days, there were many conservatives who opposed Lincoln…
Soda constructor just gets better and better. The latest version allows for AI programs to send models via xml, race them and capture results via xml, mutate and race again. So Far AI evolved walkers have beaten some of the classic human generated variants.link » tags: [evolution] [games] posted via Wists: permamark
If anyone would like to have the domain live8blog.com to put to good use for live 8, email me and I'll give it to whoever has the best plan.link » tags: [live8] posted via Wists: permamark