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      Theater of War

      Posted by Billbar from New York Times

      A good review of Frank Rich's new book, "THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD - The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina."

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      Who's This Guy Dylan Who's Borrowing Lines From Henry Timrod?

      Posted by Billbar from New York Times

      Perhaps you’ve never heard of Henry Timrod, sometimes known as the poet laureate of the Confederacy. But maybe you’ve heard his words, if you’re one of the 320,000 people so far who have bought Bob Dylan’s latest album, “Modern Times,” which made its debut last week at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart. It seems that many of the lyrics on that album, Mr. Dylan’s first No. 1 album in 30 years (down to No. 3 this week), bear some strong echoes to the poems of Timrod, a Charleston native who wrote poems about the Civil War and died in 1867 at the age of 39.

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      Well, It Turns Out That Lonelygirl Really Wasn’t

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      The woman who plays Lonelygirl15 on the video-sharing site YouTube.com has been identified as Jessica Rose, a 20-ish resident of New Zealand and Los Angeles and a graduate of the New York Film Academy. And the whole project appears to be the early serialized version of what eventually will become a movie.

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      "We tortured an insane man"

      Posted by Billbar from Salon

      Bush said that al-Qaida operative Abu Zubaydah, under the pressure of what Bush referred to as the CIA's "alternative set of procedures," had given up information that proved vital to the United States. Ron Suskind paints a more complicated picture of Zubaydah. In one of the most hotly discussed sections of his book "The One-Percent Doctrine," Suskind reveals that at least one top FBI analyst considered Zubaydah an "insane, certifiable, split personality" and that he was mainly responsible only for logistics like travel arrangements. According to Suskind's reporting, the interrogation methods used on Zubaydah -- waterboarding and sleep deprivation, among others -- only yielded information about plots that did not exist.

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    • What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA

      Posted by Billbar from The Nation

      In the spring of 2002 Dick Cheney made one of his periodic trips to CIA headquarters. Though Cheney was already looking toward war, the officers of the agency's Joint Task Force on Iraq--part of the Counterproliferation Division of the agency's clandestine Directorate of Operations--were frantically toiling away in the basement, mounting espionage operations to gather information on the WMD programs Iraq might have. The JTFI was trying to find evidence that would back up the White House's assertion that Iraq was a WMD danger. Its chief of operations was a career undercover officer named Valerie Wilson.

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      Bush told reporter Jews are 'all going to hell'

      Posted by Billbar from Rawstory

      In 'The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power,' Austin-based journalist James Moore and Wayne Slater, senior political reporter for the Dallas Morning News, will allege that Bush once made anti-semitic comments to a reporter. "You know what I'm gonna tell those Jews when I get to Israel, don't you Herman?" a then Governor George W. Bush allegedly asked a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. When the journalist, Ken Herman, replied that he did not know, Bush reportedly delivered the punch line: "I'm telling 'em they're all going to hell."

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    thedude comments on:

    Film: Where is Osama bin Laden?

    Morgan Spurlock never ceases to impress me… i just saw Super Size Me, which was amazingly insightful, and now he’s making a documentary that investigates the war on terrorism? well done indeed

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    10:55 am 4/16/08
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    rwtaylor comments on:

    Edinburgh Film Festival: Solitary fragments or part of social experience?

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    Sandyenglish comments on:

    Faces from the edge of the Earth - OregonLive.com

    This article could do with some more images of her work.

    http://www.gwennseemel.com/paintings.htm

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    6:05 am 7/16/07
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    Kristy comments on:

    Faces from the edge of the Earth - OregonLive.com

    Full disclosure: the artist is a friend of mine from high school… :)

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    12:00 pm 7/15/07
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    Jeff comments on:

    Tough titties | Salon Life

    Kristy – methinks you’ll like this story from Rome

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    10:59 pm 4/23/07
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    okami

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    former US Marine, retired police. . .nothing of interest. . .

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