Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 49 for Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 49 (64 kpbs .mp3 8:12 3.8 Mb)

A daily roundup of things that seemed important.

Needlessly confrontational.



IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY THIRTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN.



A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .



http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-intel12feb12,0,1642172.story?coll=la-home-headlines
How could anyone have the balls to say that manufacturing false foreign intelligence and lying about it was good government?! YET, SOMEHOW, FORMER UNDERSECRETARY FOR DEFENSE DOUGLAS FEITH, MUSTERS UP THE BALLS TO SAY JUST THAT, ACCORDING TO THE L-A TIMES. FEITH CALLED THE CHERRY-PICKING OF INTELLIGENCE ABOUT IRAQ'S NON-EXISTANT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRCUTION "HEALTHY" -- AS IN, I'T'S HEALTHY TO CRITICIZE CIA INTELLIGENCE." LAST TIME I CHECKED, "CRITICIZE" HAD A DIFFERENT MEANTING THAN "DISTORT." SPINNING LIKE MAD ON FOX NEWS SUNDAY, FEITH -- NOW A GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR -- SAID: "Nobody in my office ever said there was an operational relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda." CRITICS IMMEDIATELY CALLED BULLSHIT. Larry C. Johnson, a former State Department and CIA counterterrorism official SAID IN AN INTERVIEW SUNDAY: "It's an abject lie, and it completely ignores what is in the documented public record," "I think the problem is across the board that we have convenient memory loss. No one wants to go back and hold people accountable to what they were doing." LIKE LYING US INTO A WAR OF AGGRESSION. FUN FACT NUMBER ONE -- NEOCONSERVATIVE FEITH HAS A DUAL MEMBERSHIP IN THE PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY COMMITTEE AND THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA, ACCORDING TO REPORTER DOUG IRELAND. FUN FACT NUMBER TWO: FEITH'S SUBORDINATE AT THE PENTAGON -- LAWRENCE FRANKLIN -- WAS SENTENCED TO THIRTEEN YEARS IN PRISION IN JANUARY FOR PASSING DOCUMENTS TO THE AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE WHICH THEY IMMEDIATELY FORWARED TO ISRAEL.



http://www.juancole.com/2007/02/nyt-falls-for-bogus-iran-weapons.html
WE MENTIONED A JUAN COLE ARTICLE YESTERDAY. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PROFESSOR COLE ACCUSED THE NEW YORK TIMES OF LYING RECENTLY ABOUT IRAN'S ROLE IN IRAQ ON HIS INFORMED COMMENT BLOG. THE TIMES SAID IRAN SUPPLIES THE HIGH-EXPLOSIVE MORTARS WHICH HAVE REPLACED IMPROVIZED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES AS THE PREFERRED WEAPON AGAINST U-S HUM-VEES. THE TIMES SAID IRAN WAS THEREBY RESPONSIBLE FOR SOMETHING JUST UNDER TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF ALL U-S CAUALTIES IN IRAQ IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS. COLE CALLS BULLSHIT, BECAUSE HE READS THE DAILY CASUALTY REPORTS AND SAYS THE FIGHTING IS TAKING PLACE MAINLY IN SUNNI STRONGHOLDS THROUGHTOUT IRAQ, -- AND WHY WOULD SHIITE IRAN GIVE THOSE GUYS STATE OF THE ART EXPLOSIVE GRENADES?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/11/wiran511.xml
POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO WAS KIND ENOUGH TO POST A PICTURE OF ONE OF THE CAPTURED ORDINANCE, AND SON OF A GUN IF THE ALLEGEDLY IRANIAN-PRODUCED MORTARS. have lables written in ENGLISH, AND CHRISTIAN CLENDAR NOTATION, NOT MUSLIM CALENDAR NOTATION.



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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1361968.ece
REMEMBER SIF AND OLLI ON MTV? NO, OF COURSE YOU DON'T REMEMBER THESE LESS-THAN-FAMOUS T-V SOCK PUPPETS OF YESTERYEAR, BECAUSE THEY WERE PRETTY MUCH UNMEMERABLE. THE UNITED KINGDOM IS OUT TO GET SOCK PUPPETS OF ANOTHER KIND -- FAKE BLOGGERS WHO PIMP THEIR OWN PRODUCTS, RESTAURANTS, BOOKS ONLINE. GET IT? THE TIMES ONLINE SAYS THE NEW LAW WILL NAME AND SHAME PERPATRATORS OF SUCH LAME BEHAVIOR. THE ARTICLE SAYS THAT Fake blog entries or whole wesbites purporting to be from customers will fall foul of a European directive banning them from “falsely representing oneself as a consumer”.



http://www.gamestyle.net/news/2899
IF ONLY REAL LIFE CAME WITH THE NEW ASSHOLE BUTTON, NOW AVAILABLE IN THE HALO THREE VIDEO GAME. MOJO IS THRILLED! HE SAYS: Mute a player. Forever.
This would have increased my enjpyment of Halo 2 by about 9,000% if I'd had it there. I can only listen to guys with slurred speech and thick southern drawls call me a "faggot" and a "cocksucker" and a "nigger" so much before I go find a different game to play. GAMESTYLE DOT NET REPORTS THAT GAME PRODUCER Bungie TASTEFULLY REFERRS TO IT AS THE A-HOLE BUTTON.



http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html
SECURITY EXPERT BRUCE SCHNEIER -- ONE OF OUR FAVORITE ONLINE FOLKS HERE AT THE NEWS SHOW -- POSTED UP THE LOW DOWN ON MICROSOFT VISTA'S DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SCHEME. THE OPERATING SYSTEM, SCHNEIER REPORTS, WILL CONSTANTLY MONITOR ITS SELF -- CHEWING UP RESOURCES ALL THE WAY -- CHECKING THAT YOU'RE NOT PLAYING A STREAM OF ILLICIT DATA FROM A NON-LICENSED H-D DVD OR BLU-RAY DISC. IF IT CATCHES YOU, VISTA WILL MAKE THE PICTURE REAL CRAPPY OR JUST PREVENT IT FROM PLAYING. SCHNEIER SAYS: It's all complete nonsense. Microsoft could have easily told the entertainment industry that it was not going to deliberately cripple its operating system, take it or leave it. With 95% of the operating system market, where else would Hollywood go?



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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/02/08/nicaragua-deportation.html
COULD YOU PROVE YOU WERE STRAIGHT? HOW DO YOU PROVE YOU'RE GAY? IF YOU'RE A BI-SEXUAL, WILL CANADA DENY YOUR ASYLUM CLAIM THAT YOU'RE PERSECUTED FOR YOUR SEXUALITY? ACCORDING TO THE C-B-C, CANDADA WILL DEPORT A NICARAGUAN MAN WHO COULD NOT SATISFY OFFICIALS THAT HE WAS GAY AND IN DANGER IN HIS HOME COUNTRY, WHERE SODOMY IS ILLEGAL. OFFICIALS CITED THE FACT THAT Alvaro Orozco, 21, COULDN'T GET LAID WHEN LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE RUNNING TO CANDADA IN THEIR DECISION TO RETURN HIM TO HIS FATHER, WHO PROMISED TO KILL ALVARO WITH HIS OWN HANDS FOR BEING GAY.



http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/homeland_securi.html
BRUCE SCHNEIER TOLD THE STORY OF HOW THE TINY NEW ENGLAND TOWN OF CHESHIRE FAILED TO BUY A NEW FIRE TRUCK. OFFICALS PETITIONED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR ASSISTANCE AND RECEIVED A HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT FOR SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND NINE-HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO DOLLARS -- NEARLY TWENTY-SIX TIMES THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL BUDGET. ONLY THING WAS, THEY COULDN'T SPEND IT ON A FIRE TRUCK. THEY STILL DON'T HAVE ONE.



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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:



Even the Television Revolution Won't Be Televised - ALL GOOD MOJONAUTS MUST CHECK OUT HOME-MADE PROGRAMMING ON Channel 102

Toronto optician freaks out, attacks SEVENTY-FIVE YEAR OLD reporter and cameraman

Breast cancer charity rejects money from strippers

Hiking maps of Mars produced

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A gallery of home inspection nightmares







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