August 2004 Archived Blogs

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		It's not CAPPS II, or is it? CAPPS II was put to rest. But before you can say RIP... we now have "Secure Flight." 9/11 toy found inside candy bags Yelp, Art Heist! Edvard Munch's famous paintings "The Scream" and "Madonna" were stolen from an art museum Sunday while stunned museum-goers watched armed men threatening the staff at gunpoint as they took the artworks to a waiting car, police said. Republicans plan on portraying street demonstrations Mr. Bush's advisers said they were girding for the most extensive street demonstrations at any political convention since the Democrats nominated Hubert H. Humphrey in Chicago in 1968. But in contrast to that convention, which was severely undermined by televised displays of street rioting, Republicans said they would seek to turn any disruptions to their advantage, by portraying protests by even independent activists as Democratic-sanctioned displays of disrespect for a sitting president. Become a Government Approved Protestor! And receive discounts from Applebee's, The Whitney Museum and others. The People's Guide to the Republican National Convention People's Guide to the RNC is now online and 20,000 copies have been distributed throughout the city. ACLU's new 'Ask Companies to Take the No Spy Pledge' Campaign Send "No Spy" Letters to Your Favorite Companies and Post their Repsonses, and check out this report 'The Surveillance Industrial Complex' while there. New York Unplugged, 1889 and Vegas Unplugged, 2004 Location Recognition with Cellphone Camera RFID: Passive Tags Track Cars EasyMobile Buy the service with a SIM card, lose the phone and high rates. Ownership Society The political imperative behind President Bush's "ownership society" is to provide pseudopopulist cover for his highly elitist policies. Graphing Bush's Approval Rating vs. Gas Prices Graphing Bush's Approval Rating vs. Terror Alerts Sensing the Eyes of Big Brother, and Pushing Back Towns speak up against the Patriot Act Homeland Insecurity Jonah Brucker-Cohen writes: "The Homeland Insecurity Advisory System (HIAS) is a public rating system that allows people from across the globe to determine the US Government‚s Threat Level by collectively rating RSS (Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) feeds from major US news sources." Terrorist Watch List for your Pocket PC DOJ recinds its request to remove Documents from Library DOJ instructs depository libraries to destroy all copies of five Department of Justice publications addressing forfeiture, but then backs off.