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Posts starting October 8 2003:

Ben Regenspan 6:49PM EST Saturday, 11/8/2003 [link to this item]

Ben Regenspan Slowdown 12:13PM EST Saturday, 11/8/2003 [link to this item]

My updates will likely be less frequent than usual for the next few weeks or so; I am doing lots of stuff for school, applying to colleges, etc.  Lucky for you, lots of new blogs keep cropping up, and some of them are really good.  Two new additions to the blogroll recently: Dohiyi Mir and Mercury23x, both worth bookmarking.  And if you want an example of the intelligence level of those spearheading the anti-Kucinich movement, visit kucinich.com, run by Cleveland-area Drudge Report fan "John Motley" (it'd be pretty interesting if he was this one), who bills Kucinich as personally responsible for the war on Iraq and inexplicably links to The Onion, which, although satirical, I'd think had already made its antiwar views perfectly clear.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Collection of peaces 12:05AM EST Monday, 11/3/2003 [link to this item]

Peace in 26 languages (thanks Liblog)

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Ben Regenspan Your taxes at work 5:44PM EST Saturday, 11/1/2003 [link to this item]

The Justice Department thought it could get away with releasing a study demanded under the FOIA with all of the important parts blacked out.  The geniuses, however, released the study digitally and simply covered up "classified" text with black boxes-this would be comparable to sticking masking tape over areas you wouldn't want someone to read on a paper.  The Memory Hole has embarrassed the feds once again by releasing a version with the censors removed (and the useful bits highlighted!)

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Ben Regenspan True story 5:51PM EST Friday, 10/31/2003 [link to this item]

If you haven't heard already, in a recent NPR interview Simpsons creator Matt Groening revealed that, in an attempt to censor the "Krusty for Congress" episode's hilarious parodying of Fox 'News', Fox threatened to sue The Simpsons, which is, of course, owned by the same parent company.  Groening: "We called their bluff because we didn't think Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself."

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Donald Luskin: one whiny stalker 7:18PM EST Wednesday, 10/29/2003 [link to this item]

Taking cue from Fox News' "utterly without merit" suit against Al Franken, National Review contributor Donald Luskin has sicc'ed his lawyers on liberal blogger Atrios, telling him to remove a link to one of his blog posts (the link being titled "Diary of a Stalker", referring to Luskin's weird obsession with Paul Krugman), and to remove the comments associated with the post.  Though writing "stalker" in a link is obviously totally defensible as parody and free speech, and libel is a charge more or less inapplicable to public figures like Luskin, Luskin's blog seems to be proof enough of a serious stalker charge - his last six posts, in fact every post visible on his blog's front page as of today, are all obsessive accounts of Krugman's alleged evils.  (Err- actually his last eight posts if you look at the archive.)  Even if this doesn't creep you out as much as it should, it's pretty damn boring to be dissing one person more than once in a row.  I don't even think I've managed to post about Bush's idiocy twice in a row, and he provides lots of material.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Evidence of Diebold's weakness spreads despite threats 12:24AM EST Saturday, 10/25/2003 [link to this item]

In honor of Take Back Your Time Day I was going to avoid my monitor's oppressive hypnotic glare and not post anything, but then I found out about a "cyber-protest" going on all over the web against Diebold, the primary manufacturer of electronic voting machines, and I like things that combine nerdy stuff and politics.  Diebold, you will remember, is directed and CEO'd by Bush "Pioneer"-class donors who have sworn to "deliver [him] the votes" in 2004.

Earlier this year, a hacker easily gained access to Diebold's internal website, and in addition to proving their internal security weak, obtained documents pointing to flaws within the database handling of Diebold's "election systems".  The hacker released a huge number of these files, mainly from Diebold's staff discussion list.  Now sites that have posted some of these, particularly the discussion list memos, are rapidly being shut down as Diebold fires off Digital Millenium Copyright Act violation notices to their webhosts.  Not bowing to Diebold's wishes, students around the US are rapidly posting the documents, with the intent to add much-needed transparency to the workings of a company with the power to make or break democracy.

An easy way that anyone with access to a computer can help, whether they have a website or not, is to click here to download a BitTorrent client, install it, and then click here to use BitTorrent to download the discussion list archive.  BitTorrent allows your computer to download a file while sending it out to other people at the same time, so you will be helping to spread the word about Diebold.  Just leave the BT program open for as long as you can, even after the download has completed.

More on Diebold: blackboxvoting.org
The "E-Civil Disobedience" page: why-war.com

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Leaked memo sheds light on reality 10:32AM EST Wednesday, 10/22/2003 [link to this item]

Even Rumsfeld doesn't believe that the "war on terror" is going well...

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Ben Regenspan Another blogger 6:09PM EST Monday, 10/20/2003 [link to this item]

Ted Rall has started a blog!

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Ben Regenspan Rumsfeld: General can declare holy war 4:17PM EST Friday, 10/17/2003 [link to this item]

Newsday, which I have newfound (and probably misplaced) respect for following its publication of Give Kucinich His Props, reports:

 Washington - A three-star general active in the search for Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein has told religious audiences that the war on terrorism is a battle between a "Christian army" and Satan, and that Muslims worship an "idol" and not a "real God."

Boykin has, in the past, advocated a program that allowed evangelical ministers to fire Green Beret weapons and to access areas of Fort Bragg normally out of limits to civilians.  Rumsfeld, smart as usual, defended Boykin's holy war comments using a First Amendment-type argument.  Some may remember that Rumsfeld is a major defendant in a First Amendment lawsuit due to his support for the provision that federal funding of law schools is dependent on whether they allow military recruiters.  A number of law schools made the principled and legally well-founded objection to allowing an anti-gay organization (the Army) to recruit on campus, and Rumsfeld, in violation of the First Amendment, wants to deny them federal funding as a result.  It's funny how military personnel suddenly have First Amendment rights and universities have lost them, but I guess that comes with the progress of having an unelected administration.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan New edition of Positive News is out 9:41PM EST Thursday, 10/16/2003 [link to this item]

Positive News is now being published in Ithaca, as a US edition (previously, it was only published in Britain.)  As you could guess, Pos. News focuses on positive developments, mainly concerning environmental issues.  Click here for more info

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Quick update 4:22PM EST Wednesday, 10/15/2003 [link to this item]

I'm back from Oberlin, which looks like a really great school.  Not much else to report except there was a heartening Capital Times editorial in favor of Kucinich definitely worth reading.  By the way, I should right now make the disclosure (following Kos's lead), of involvement in a presidential campaign (not that anyone would mistake me as unbiased anyway).  I'm on the "cyber task force" working on the (grassroots) New York State Kucinich campaign website, which I will link to when ready.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Away for the weekend 5:42PM EST Saturday, 10/11/2003 [link to this item]

No updates for a little while, I'm visiting colleges (Oberlin) and stuff.  In the meantime, check out Roger Ailes' blog, which has already out-ranked on Google the propaganda put out by his evil twin Fox News Roger Ailes (yes, Good Roger Ailes is also even the top result in Fox's search engine).  His writing is incredibly sane and thorough and he updates frequently, unlike Catalyst.  Thanks Tom Tomorrow for pointing his blog out.

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan More Judeo-Christian terrorism 5:13PM EST Saturday, 10/11/2003 [link to this item]

I wonder what would happen if the head of a Muslim charity said this:

If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom [State Dept. HQ], I think that's the answer.


Of course, it wasn't the head of a Muslim charity, it was Pat Robertson, who runs a number of Christian charities, regularly issues his own fatwahs of sorts, and is responsible for an incredible number of idiotic disinformation campaigns (Did you know that "lesbians were three to four times more likely than heterosexual women to have sex with men who were high-risk for HIV"? [the study referred to is on bisexual women, obviously]).  Anyway, because I'm lazy and don't feel like typing in a pages-long list of sins, let me refer you to Gregory Palast's stuff for a lot more detail on Robertson and his ungodly business ties and general sleaziness.

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Speaking of the State Department not pleasing religious zealots, the web sites of Kach were just the first web sites ever to be added to the Federal Register's list of terror groups.  Kach is a Jewish terrorist group which seeks to eliminate all Arabs from the biblical state of Israel and was responsible for a multitude of terror attacks.  Not surprisingly, Islamophobe Daniel Pipes has subtly come to Kach's defense, saying that Kach does not advocate a return to the Biblical state of Israel (See the first line of the State Department's writings on Kach: "Stated goal is to restore the biblical state of Israel.")

How come these guys aren't commonly associated with the word "terrorist"? How come the dollar store doesn't sell little porcelain frogs that look like Rabbi Kahane (seriously, I got this amazing set of porcelain "terrorist" frogs that included Yasser Arafrog, Osama [bin Frog-en?], and Saddam [some clever or not-so-clever froggy last name] and I wanted to put a pic of them up here but I must have given them to someone and can't find anything about them online.  Even trusty old Google gives me completely useless results for "porcelain terrorist frogs".  So if you run into one of these fellers, you know who to send it to).  Anyway, I got distracted there and have to go work on stuff for school now, but I still don't get why I never learned in Hebrew school about the still fairly active Jewish terrorist groups.  If you've got any idea why nobody cares about Kach and news coverage is sparse, feel free to comment.  And don't give me anything about "Jewish media dominance"; if we ran the media I don't think my local paper would constantly try to take photos at High Holy Days services.  Plus, I'd totally want a piece of it and then you'd be reading this in print and with the Ithaca Journal's amazing circulation spreading my (totally eloquent and un-naive) words of wisdom, I would soon be the nation's Supreme High Leader (SHL).

-Ben | Comments

Ben Regenspan Another good read 8:49PM EST Wednesday, 10/8/2003 [link to this item]

Hooray! News From Babylon, everybody's favorite reggae-revolutionary site, is back online!  You can read all of "JohnBrown" 's posts with a soundtrack of some great MP3's they have up.  (Check out Eek-A-Mouse if you haven't already heard his stuff)

-Ben | Comments

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