News Brief, I’m A Wheel Edition
Posted by Joshua Foust on 08 Jun 2007 at 9:57 pm | Tagged as: Notes on the war, Military Matters, social science, Foreign affairs, Domestic Politics
Defense
- Did you know we have to confirm Czars? The Russians would be a bit taken back. Anyway, Bush’s new redundant War Czar says Iraq is a big mess, so clearly the way to fix it is to distort the chain of command and add another layer of bureaucracy.
- Did the Air Force really just give up on electronic warfare?
- Ms. Hillhouse, still kicking ass for kicking DNI’s ass.
- Great—David Axe gets paid to go report on Afghanistan (which hopefully will involve more than parroting the often-questionable statements of US and NATO officials) for a few weeks, while I scratch my head at how to secure funding for an eventual research trip.
- Tricky security questions surrounding Putin’s proposed BMD compromise in Azerbaijan. I need to dig into this more.
Around the World
- But it was meant for spring! Passport is now pushing the “summer offensive” line, because I guess they realized that June is a bit late to be talking of the spring offensive. But more here.
- Sanjaya is going to jail! No, that’s not a joke, but read the link to see why.
- More protests against Musharraf.
- Poland and Romania were so eager to befriend the U.S., they courted their horrendous communist pasts by hosting American secret torture facilities. We repaid them by jacking our visa procedures and harassing their tourists when they travel here. From missile defense to this prison deal to the visa rules, we have seriously dicked over Poland.
- The hilarious consequence of a truly ignorant populace.
- FLASH: World shocked, saddened, at news of UN agencies’ massive fraud and complicity with mass murderers.
- How the swamp boys hold Nigeria hostage.
- This makes for an interesting contrast: a positive, upbeat propaganda piece by Uncle Nazzy, and an actual side-by-side of socio-economic indicators in Kazakhstan. I just wish the comparison of indicators under socialism and now had included rates of change over time on a finer scale—all post-Soviet economies tanked in the 90’s, but Kazakhstan and Russia have been showing strong improvement and growth in the 21st century. That would make for some fun number crunching (yes, I made that statement).
Back at Home
- CNN demonstrates why Barrack Obama will never become President.
- Qubad Talabani, the next Ahmed Chalabi (though with fewer arrest warrants).
- Speaking of which, maybe our cops could try raiding the right fracking house once in a while, and maybe not physically abusing the actually innocent people when they do.
- Why is the FTC regulating competition among luxury good providers? Oh yeah, and 3/4 of all organic products are sold by regular grocery stores… So what are they trying to protect?
- President Bush’s best (and one of the precious few) good foreign policy legacies: kicking the knees out from the anti-globalization movement by funding AIDS and poverty programs in Africa and Asia.
- Making the case for revoking Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
- From the OMG So Wrong But Hilarious Department: BurqaBarn, the sister store to Dress Barn!
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Hah! Welcome to the world of academia. I’m still waiting for the results on two grant proposals that I submitted in 2006. Oh, to be independently wealthy. Images of Topol dancing across my mind singing, “If I were a rich man.” ;)