Ratfucking 101: Find a Good Rat's Nest

Okay, don't usually link to my own posts but here I pointed out a couple stories that detail the relationship between Rove and the small Tenn. company chosen to "host" the RNC servers. I posted it when it first came out that Rove maintained non-WH email accounts and used them regularly for all purposes.

I linked to a photo of Rove that (we know now) was photoshopped to show him walking out of a resturant in Tenn. carrying the promotional materials for Copitx. It turns out that this photo was fucked with by some folks at Coptix for "kicks".

Then we learned that millions of emails are now missing from the WH and private RNC server.

And now, this...

AlterNet: Network Hosting Attorney Scandal E-Mails Also Hosted Ohio's 2004 Election Results:

"There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's 'official' Secretary of State website -- which gave the world the presidential election results -- was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's firing of eight federal prosecutors."

Wolfowitz asked to resign from World Bank

I don't know if you've been following the brew-ha-ha that has sparked up over (among other things) Wolfie's latest attempt to use someone else's treasury as if it were his own, but since this refuses to go away, and now the IEG group has called officially for him to resign, I thought this should be reposited for history's sake.

United Press International - NewsTrack - Top News - Wolfowitz asked to resign from World Bank:

"WASHINGTON April 23 (UPI) -- An agency that oversees the World Bank is asking for the resignation of the bank's president, former deputy U.S. Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.

In a document obtained by the Financial Times, the Independent Evaluation Group asked for Wolfowitz's immediate resignation, saying a continuation of his leadership will lead to 'irreparable harm to worldwide efforts in poverty reduction and sustainable development.'"

Map: Welcome to the Blogosphere Recognizing Themselves Mutually Recognizing One Another

Map: Welcome to the Blogosphere | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine: "Map: Welcome to the Blogosphere"

RIP Kurt Vonnegut

Reuter's.
The New York Times

A poem of his from "A Man Without a Country,"
Requiem

When the last living thing

has died on account of us,

how poetical it would be

if Earth could say,

in a voice floating up

perhaps

from the floor

of the Grand Canyon,

“It is done.”

People did not like it here.

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Go here.

Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips: A Report on 2035 from Britain's Minister of Defense

Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future | Science | Guardian Unlimited:

Take a look at the whole thing, but here's one prediction their making:

"'The middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role envisaged for the proletariat by Marx,' says the report. The thesis is based on a growing gap between the middle classes and the super-rich on one hand and an urban under-class threatening social order: 'The world's middle classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest'. Marxism could also be revived, it says, because of global inequality. An increased trend towards moral relativism and pragmatic values will encourage people to seek the 'sanctuary provided by more rigid belief systems, including religious orthodoxy and doctrinaire political ideologies, such as popularism and Marxism'."

Popularism?

Because it is Easter, after all...

Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school - The Boston Globe:

"Regent Law School has had no better friend than the Bush administration. Graduates of the law school have been among the most influential of the more than 150 Regent University alumni hired to federal government positions since President Bush took office in 2001, according to a university website.

One of those graduates is Monica Goodling , the former top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who is at the center of the storm over the firing of US attorneys. Goodling, who resigned on Friday, has become the face of Regent overnight -- and drawn a harsh spotlight to the administration's hiring of officials educated at smaller, conservative schools with sometimes marginal academic reputations.

Documents show that Goodling, who has asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before Congress, was one of a handful of officials overseeing the firings. She helped install Timothy Griffin , the Karl Rove aide and her former boss at the Republican National Committee, as a replacement US attorney in Arkansas."

I'm sure Gen. Petraeus was speaking as a private citizen and not as head of the Multinational Force Iraq, right?

Think Progress » Petraeus: McCain’s market trip ‘helped the Iraqi economy.’:

"Petraeus: McCain’s market trip ‘helped the Iraqi economy.’

On PBS yesterday, Gen. David Petraeus tried to boost up Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) much-maligned visit to Baghdad’s Shorja market: “He was not protected by a cocoon of security. Yep, there was security there, but he out — actually he helped the Iraqi economy quite a bit, bought a number of carpets, in fact.” McCain did not reveal his goods, but Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) contributed to the economy by purchasing “five rugs for five bucks.”"

Red Rover, Red Rover

Students Lie in Front of Car, Delay Rove After Speech - washingtonpost.com:

"Heckling protesters briefly delayed the car carrying top White House aide Karl Rove last night as he left the American University campus, where he had just given a speech. No arrests or injuries were reported after Rove's invitation-only talk.

About 20 students lay in front of the car as it prepared to leave, a witness said."

Baudrillard dies

Missed this back on March 6.

French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies - International Herald Tribune:

"PARIS: Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and social theorist known for his provocative commentaries on consumerism, excess and what he said was the disappearance of reality, died Tuesday, his publishing house said. He was 77."

Now there's an Idea

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