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Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
 John Young over at Cryptome posts some more global guerrilla targets of convenience: this time, the NSA's power supply.
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Fortune. The dollar's fall. It's a powerful reminder that even in an age of go-it-alone foreign policy and unilateral military action, the rest of the world still matters when it comes to economics. "When the market saw how clear the Bush victory was, with stronger Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, people thought, 'There will be no quick deficit reduction,' " says Thomas Mayer, chief European economist for Deutsche Bank in London. In Europe's view, GOP plans to partially privatize Social Security while making some of the tax cuts passed in Bush's first term permanent could dramatically worsen the deficit, which hit $413 billion in fiscal 2004.
10:14:01 AM
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LATimes. "Pretty soon, we're going to have the 5 o'clock follies all over again, and it will take us another 30 years to restore our credibility," said a second senior Defense official, referring to the much-ridiculed daily media briefings in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
10:10:01 AM
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© Copyright 2005 John Robb.
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