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Saturday, February 18
Deferring to history or making history?
The Supreme Court of New Jersey is currently hearing arguments in the case of Lewis v. Harris, a suit filed by seven lesbian and gay couples who have been denied marriage licenses by the state. The couples lost their case in a lower court, and it's anyone's guess how the New Jersey Supremes will rule on this one. Knight Ridder's Stephen Henderson has filed an excellent story on the court arguments, putting them squarely in a tradition of debate over who in society has rights and who doesn't, and about the role of historical precedent in deciding that and other legal issues. One of the key questions for the justices in New Jersey, and for courts all over the nation, is whether the long traditions surrounding marriage trump demands to eliminate eons-old gender restrictions in the name of equality. We strongly recommend reading the entire story. If you want to find out more about the Lewis v. Harris case, Lambda Legal has links to briefs, the appeals court decision that's being appealed, newspaper articles about the case, and much more info if you go here. | | Posted by Magpie at 11:39 AM | Get permalink
What's wrong with ...
... this picture, in about every way you can name? [Photo: Reuters] In case you can't read the small type in the story's first paragraph, it says: The lawyer shot by Vice-President Dick Cheney during a hunting trip was discharged from a hospital today and told reporters he was sorry for all the trouble Cheney had faced over the past week. Via The Age [Melbourne]. | | Posted by Magpie at 9:54 AM | Get permalink
Friday, February 17
Blogging is pointless.
Really. Actually, I shouldn't dismiss the article so cavalierly. Author Trevor Butterworth makes good points about the small audiences for most blogs and their lack of financial viability. But assumes that making money is the main purpose of blogging and the only sensible yardstick of for measuring the success of a blog dubious propositions at best. And he totally ignores the influence of blogs in US politics, which is sometimes considerable. Worth a read if you have the time. And the inclination to engage in a bit of tooth-gnashing. Via Financial Times. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:19 PM | Get permalink
Say hello to our Dear Leader.
Political cartoonist Mike Luckovich knows who the real boss of the US is. You can see more of Luckovich's cartoons here. Via Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. | | Posted by Magpie at 10:09 AM | Get permalink
Dubya Administration 1, Human Rights 0.
A US federal judge has ruled against Syrian-Canadian Maher Arar in a case involving Arar's claim that several former government officials including Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Homeland Security Tom Ridge violated his right to due process and his right not to be tortured. Before I give details of the court decision, though, it'll help to go through the backstory. Arar's case involves events that began in 2002, when he had a layover at New York's JFK airport on his way home to Canada after a visit to Tunisia. Arar, who was born in Syria, was detained by US authorities on suspicion of being connected to al-Qaeda, held incommunicado, and then shipped off to Syria. In Syria, he was tortured at the hands of the intelligence service for 10 months. Syria finally released Arar, saying that he had no connection to terrorists. after his release from a Syrian prison in 2003. [Photographer unknown] Arar has not been charged with a crime in Canada or in the US. And he has not received any explanation from either government as to what information was used to justify his detention, and who decided to send him to Syria. The Canadian Parliament has ordered in inquiry into Arar's case, and the US has pointedly refused to cooperate with it. In an attempt to get justice for Arar, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit against the US government on his behalf in 2004. CCR claims that US officials violated Arar's right to due process under the US Constitution and his right not to be tortured under color of foreign law as guaranteed by the Torture Victim Protection Act. As the case progressed, the US government has argued that Arar's lawsuit must be dismissed , arguing that the law suit must be dismissed because further action would result in the disclosure of sensitive information that would threaten national security or diplomatic relations if made public. Yesterday, a federal judge in New York swallowed the government's argument whole: Judge David Trager said he can't interfere in the case because it involves crucial national security and foreign relations issues in the anti-terror fight. Not surprisingly, Arar finds the judge's decision 'very disappointing': "I was not expecting the judge to dismiss the entire case. I was hoping that he could let at least part of it proceed to discovery," he said. [For more on how rendition works, see this earlier post.] The Center for Constitutional Rights has blasted the decision, calling it a 'dark day' for the US Constitution. "This ruling sets frightening precedent. U.S. officials sent Maher Arar to Syria to be detained and interrogated through torture. To allow the Bush Administration to continue to evade accountability and continue to hide behind the smokescreen of 'national security' is to do grave and irreparable damage to the Constitution and the guarantee of human rights that people in this country could once be proud of," said Mr. Arar's Center for Constitutional Rights Attorney Maria LaHood.... Arar, meanwhile, has not decided whether he wants to appeal the decision: "One thing I can tell you is, I will never give up.... Whether it's appealing, or going to the UN or something else, I don't know at this point. But I'll let this go like that, never." You can read the full text of Judge Trager's dismissal of Arar's lawsuit here [PDF file]. The CCR's original complaint in Arar's case is here. Via Toronto Star. | | Posted by Magpie at 2:00 AM | Get permalink
The lion is sleeping much better tonight.
Back in 2003, when this blog was only a few months old, we posted the song, 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight.' Arguably the most famous song to come out of Africa in the 20th century, it was written by Zulu musician Solomon Linda and recorded in 1939. Linda received 10 shillings from the record producer for the song, and never got a penny's worth of royalties. Linda died in poverty in 1962, even though his recording alone had sold over 100,000 copies by that time. Linda's song did well over the years, making more than US $75 million from dozens of recorded versions including major hits by the Weavers, the Tokens, and the Kingston Trio. More recently, 'Lion Sleeps' has been part of the Disney musical, 'The Lion King.' [Go here for a more complete history of the song.] But, in the tradition of all those blues and R&B songwriters who were paid little or nothing for rights to songs that later made millions for other people, Linda's family couldn't establish a legal right to 'Lion Sleeps' until 2003, when it was discovered that an obscure provision of British Imperial Copyright Law provided that all rights to a song revert to a composer's estate 25 years after her or his death. Since Linda died in 1962, that meant that his three surviving daughters were entitled to royalties from 'Lion Sleeps' dating back to 1987. Naturally, the process of dealing with the current holders of the song's copyright has been a complicated process. However, the major part of that process ended today with the announcement that Linda's family has settled its lawsuit over the song's royalties: South African lawyer Owen Dean said the settlement was reached with New Jersey-based Abilene Music, which holds the copyright to The Lion Sleeps Tonight which in turn licenced it to the Walt Disney Corporation. Justice delayed is certainly better than none at all. But it should not have taken 75 years for Linda and his family to get the money that was rightfully theirs. Via Mail & Guardian. More: The Independent Lens series on US public broadcasting aired a documentary about 'Lion Sleeps' a few years ago. You can find more info about the documentary, 'A Lion's Trail,' and about the song if you go here. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:38 AM | Get permalink
Dubya's budget idiocy.
The prez can't even make his budget cuts make sense. For example, the 2007 budget slashes funding for the Environmental Protection Agency's library system, cutting the current US$ 2.5 million budget down to only US $500,000. Importantly, this includes the entire budget for the electronic catalog that makes it possible for EPA employees and the public to search for documents in the agency's library network the bulk of which are available at the EPA and nowhere else. The main users of the EPA libraries are the agency's scientists and enforcement staff, who use the materials to research questions the safety of chemicals and the environmental effects of new technologies, and to find technical information to support prosecution of environmental crimes. As you can see, the library cuts would be bad enough on their own, and substantially reduce the EPA's ability to protect the natural environment in the US. But the perversity of Dubya's budget isn't done with the EPA yet. At the same time the prez is cutting the libraries and catalog, he's proposing to raise the EPA's funding for research into nanotechnology, air pollution, and drinking water system security. These new intitiatives are going to involve substantial amounts of research studies and other documentation none of which will be accessible because the EPA's libraries and electronic catalog will be gone. Cute, huh? Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) calls Dubya's handling of the EPA budget 'penny wise and pound foolish.' "How are EPA scientists supposed to engage in cutting edge research when they cannot find what the agency has already done?" asked PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch.... "The President's plan will not make us more competitive if we have to spend half our time re-inventing the wheel...." PEER has more info on the effects of the EPA library cuts here [PDF file]. Via Common Dreams. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:09 AM | Get permalink
Ooooooh, shiny!
A movie of the Quintet of the Hot Club of France [12 mb QuickTime file], with Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli! The tune they're playing is called J'Attenndrai [I Will Wait], and it was recorded in the Netherlands in 1937. A newsreel-style announcer introduces the band as they lounge around a room, smoking and playing cards while a young Django and Stéphane Grappelli lightly jam.... You can get a good view of Django's fret hand, which was missing two fingers from a fire he suffered when he was eighteen. Despite losing two fingers, Django went on to be one of the main innovators of using the guitar as a melody instrument, along with Charlie Christian, Lonnie Johnson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. I'd never seen film of Reinhardt playing before, which isn't surprising as he died in the early 1950s, well before the advent of easily available home movie cameras and [later] video equipment made movies of musicians far more common. Reinhardt's guitar playing is even more amazing when you can actually see him doing more with two fingers on the frets than most players can do with four. From Djangobooks, via WFMU's Beware of the Blog. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:01 AM | Get permalink
Thursday, February 16
Woolf one down ...
... at the most literary hot dog stand in Toronto. [Photo: Joshua Errett, we think] For the literarily challenged, the name of the stand is the title of a novel by Virgina Woolf. The photo caption is from Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Via Torontoist. | | Posted by Magpie at 11:01 PM | Get permalink
Of course it's the woman's fault.
She shouldn't have been in the park. And she shouldn't have been ther with her boyfriend. And she shouldn't have fought back. And it must have been something she was wearing. So let's execute her. An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece. From Iran Focus, via Feministing. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:39 PM | Get permalink
I was going to call this one 'No comment,' but ...
... but there's no way I can let this one go by without saying something. The Defense Department has expressed concern that the release of more photos, and some videos, of prisoner abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib Prison more than two years ago could incite what it calls "unnecessary violence." The problem is that the photos have been released???? Don't you think that maybe, just maybe, the problem is that Dubya, Rumsfeld, and the Pentagon brass looked created conditions in which torture was condoned, if not inevitable? And that the 'unnecessary violence' that the Pentagon is so worried about is a result of the really unnecessary violence perptetrated by US troops on the prisoners at Abu Ghraib? Just a thought. Via Voice of America. | | Posted by Magpie at 4:57 AM | Get permalink
Okay, so it's not Valentine's Day any more.
But this magpie just loves cheap shots especially when the ... uh ... shooter is so deserving. Via JenCollins.com. | | Posted by Magpie at 4:07 AM | Get permalink
The 'new' Abu Ghraib photos, continued.
The US-based online magazine Salon has obtained a DVD containing what is believed to be the full set of photos and documents viewed by members of the US Congress after the torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib by the US became public in 2004. Those photos and documents have been the subject of a court fight between Dubya's administration and the ACLU. Even though the ACLU won that fight, the administration had been engaging in delaying tactics to prevent the release of the images to the public. Photo taken shortly before 10 p.m. on the night of Dec. 5, 2003. None [of the photos in the Salon set], as far as we know, have been published elsewhere. They include: a naked, handcuffed prisoner in a contorted position; a dead prisoner who had been severely beaten; a prisoner apparently sodomizing himself with an object; and a naked, hooded prisoner standing next to an American officer who is blandly writing a report against a wall. Other photographs depict a bloody cell. Salon has posted 17 of the 'new' Abu Ghraib images, and the set has no overlap with the photos posted to the web earlier by the Sydney Morning Herald. [See this Magpie post for more info.] [Paid sub or ad view req'd for Salon] More: A group of the 'new' photos were first made public by the Dateline program on SBS TV in Australia. You can view the program segment with the photos here [RealPlayer needed.] The transcript of that segment is available here. Abu Ghraib photos | | Posted by Magpie at 2:49 AM | Get permalink
Let's go on a little trip ...
... to the pleasant land of Amnesia, that backward Third World nation. Political cartoonist Kirk Anderson takes us there: To see the rest of this cartoon, go here. Anderson's cartoons, which I'd never seen before today, are very good especially his 'Banana Republic' series. You can see more of his work here. Via Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. spying political cartoons | | Posted by Magpie at 2:32 AM | Get permalink
This is the Library Police! Drop that book slowly and assume the position!
The governing board of the Crestwood, Illinois public library apparently think that scenes like that are in its future. According to the Daily Southtown, the six trustees have bought themselves law enforcement badges and leather badge holders. And, says the paper, they won't say why library officials need badges. The badges were US$ 63.00 each, by the way, and the badge holders another US$ 23.00 apiece. Perhaps the trustees are planning to get really serious about dealing with overdue books? Or maybe Homeland Security has advised them that al-Qaeda has been casing the Crestwood library, and the trustees are expecting to make some arrests? Via LISNews. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:28 AM | Get permalink
Being vice president means that you never have to say you're sorry.
We defy you to find Cheney apologizing for shooting his friend or for the 22-hour delay in reporting the shooting anywhere in this transcript of the veep's Fox News interview with Britt Hume. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:01 AM | Get permalink
Wednesday, February 15
Aren't you proud of living in Dubya's USA?
From a CNN story: About a fifth of Americans think federal agents have listened in on their phone calls, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Tuesday suggests. Isn't there something very wrong with this picture? | | Posted by Magpie at 1:41 AM | Get permalink
Sometimes it's just got to be said.
And this t-shirt was inevitable. Shirts are available here. From Jesse Berney via Tennessee Guerilla Women. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:22 AM | Get permalink
No comment.
From a Bloomberg News story: Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has taken the unusual step of hiring as a law clerk a veteran lawyer who was a top aide to former attorney general John Ashcroft. Via Boston Globe. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:11 AM | Get permalink
It's a PR problem. Really.
Does Dubya's administration or the US military's leadership ever learn anything? Apparently not. The United States should launch a major covert information campaign to promote the nation's image in the Middle East and sow division among radical Muslim groups, according to a West Point critique of U.S. terrorism policy. We'll let you make up your own mind about the irony of this story's appearance at the same time as the new pictures from Abu Ghraib showed up [see below]. Via USA Today. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:36 AM | Get permalink
More horrors from Abu Ghraib.
The US government is currently in court trying to prevent the release of 60 photographs taken at Abu Ghraib. Those photos were seen by members of the US Congress when the original Abu Ghraib photos were leaked to the press in 2004. They we] re not, however, viewed by Dubya's administration as being suitable for viewing by the general public. [Photo: SBS/Dateline.] The Dateline program on Australia's SBS TV network has obtained copies of the 60 photos and will be showing them on its next program, scheduled to air on Wednesday night, Australian time. Details are here. Taken at the same time as the notorious photographs from Abu Ghraib, which were leaked in 2004, these images reveal further widespread abuse including new incidents of homicide, torture and sexual humiliation. The extent of the abuse shown in the photos suggests that the torture and abuse that occurred at Abu Ghraib in 2004 is much worse than is currently understood. You may remember the Aussie Dateline as the program that released the horrific images of the bodies of two suspected Taliban fighters being burned by US troops in Afghanistan. [See this earlier post.] This magpie wishes that the more of the US press showed some of the same willingness to tackle hard stories. Fifteen of the Abu Ghraib photos are currently up on the website of the Sydney Morning Herald. The photos can be seen here; the Herald's article about the photos is here. More: Raw Story has posted the 15 photos here, in case you are having trouble accessing the Herald website. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:35 AM | Get permalink
Dubya's gonna have to find a really big rug to sweep that scandal under.
Despite much noise in Congress about an investigation into Dubya's illegal NSA surveillance operation, the Washington Post is reporting that White House pressure on wavering GOP senators may be close to killing any probe. If you live in the US and your senator is on the Senate Intelligence Committee [list here], we suggest that you give them a call or send them an email [list here]. Some public pressure may help convince the waverers to ignore Dubya and support the Constitution. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:22 AM | Get permalink
There's no way to avoid being censors.
That's pretty much the argument that a number of US-based internet and networking companies have been making about doing business in China. The more detailed version of the argument goes like this: China is the biggest single market in the world, and it will within a few years have more internet users than any other country including the US. In order to survive and prosper, US-based companies need to be major players in the Chinese market. The Chinese government requires media and internet technology companies to comply with its strict policies on what information can and can't be disseminated over the internet. Therefore, US companies must help the Chinese government implement and enforce its censorship policies in order to be players in the Chinese market. Many major US internet players are doing business in China, and a number of them have recently garnered unpleasant publicity for their part in aiding the Chinese government in quashing free speech:
The rationale usually given by these countries is that their presence in China can be used to help move the Chinese government toward less restrictive policies regarding the internet and free speech in general a claim that many observers, including this Magpie, find naive at best. One major US internet company may be taking a different route. With little publicity, AOL went live earlier this week with an uncensored Chinese-language version of its internet portal. Although AOL says that the new site is aimed at Chinese Americans, it's [at least so far] easily accessible from the Chinese mainland. I'm certainly not an expert on Chinese censorship or internet usage, so I immediately went to Rebecca MacKinnon's excellent blog RConversation to see what she thinks of the new AOL portal: I can confirm: the search engine on this portal is uncensored. Searches for "Falun Gong" and "Tiananmen Square Massacre" turn up the full range of results from dissident and human rights websites. I can also report that according to my friends in China, so far the AOL Chinese portal is not blocked from within the People's Republic.... And one of the choices that AOL had, as MacKinnon points out, is introducing its Chinese site at a time when many of its rivals are in the hot seat for the way that they operate in China. There's more on AOL's China Portal in this USA Today article. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:01 AM | Get permalink
Tuesday, February 14
The new killing ground for journalists.
I'm sure you won't be surprised when I tell you that it's Iraq. That new distinction comes from 'Attacks on the Press,' the report on world press freedom during 2005 issued today by the Committee to Protect Journalists. According to CPJ, 60 journalists have lost their lives in Iraq since the US-led invasion that country in 2003. This total surpasses the number killed during the three years of the Algerian civil war. And, reflecting CPJ's findign that murder is now the top killer of journalists worldwide, the report shows that more than a third of the journalist deaths in Iraq last year were caused by murder, not by combat-related causes. CPJ's analysis also documented a long-term trend those who murder journalists usually go unpunished. Slayings were carried out with impunity about 90 percent of the time in 2005, a figure consistent with data collected by CPJ over more than a decade. Less than 15 percent of journalist murders since 1992 have resulted in the arrest and prosecution of those who ordered the killings.... CPJ's 2005 report also includes extensive information on imprisonment of journalists the US is holding five, in Iraq and at Guantánamo and on attempts to intimidate the media. Yoou can read a summary of the report's findings here, and the full report here. The NY Times has a story on the report, which you can read here. | | Posted by Magpie at 4:40 AM | Get permalink
Cheney's real crime.
This crime wasn't an accident, says cartoonist John Sherffius. And the prognosis for Deadeye Dick's real victim is very grave. You can see more of Sherffius' cartoons here. Via Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:01 AM | Get permalink
Monday, February 13
Cult of personality.
What do Dubya's followers believe in? Nothing that resembles conservatism, says Glenn Greenwald. Or any other coherent political philosophy, for that matter. [As] many Bush followers themselves admit, the central belief of the Bush follower's "conservatism" is no longer one that ascribes to a limited federal government but is precisely that there ought to be no limits on the powers claimed by Bush precisely because we trust him, and we trust in him absolutely. He wants to protect us and do good. He is not our enemy but our protector. And there is no reason to entertain suspicions or distrust of him or his motives because he is Good. Whenever I post a long excerpt from something, I know that I'm always telling you to go and read the whole thing. But this time, you really should go read the whole thing. More: Also make sure to check out Greenwald's follow-up post. | | Posted by Magpie at 11:21 AM | Get permalink
Some animals are more equal than others.
As usual. Via NY Times. | | Posted by Magpie at 2:02 AM | Get permalink
In the future ...
... every war will be fought using cartoons. Ted Rall has the skinny. You can see the whole cartoon here. And if you want to see more of Rall's work, check out his website. Via Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:07 AM | Get permalink
What, me torture?
Yes, the US tortures. That's the conclusion of a draft UN human rights report on the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo. According to the LA Times, the report says that the way prisoners are treated at Guantánamo 'violates their rights to physical and mental health and, in some cases, constitutes torture.' The report charges that holding prisoners at Guantánamo violates international law, and it urges the US to close the prison and bring all the prisoner to trial in the US. The report was compiled by five U.N. envoys who spent 18 months talking to former prisoners, lawyers and families of current prisoners, and US officials. Although the investigation was ordered by the UN's Commission on Human Rights, the US did not allow the envoys to have access to prisoners at Guantánamo. [See this earlier post for details.] [The] U.N. team concluded that there had been insufficient due process to determine whether the more than 750 people who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay since January 2002 were "enemy combatants," and determined that the primary purpose of their confinement was for interrogation, not to prevent them from taking up arms.... The report on the Guantánamo prisoners is currently being revised to reflect 'comments and clarifications' from the US. This input is not expected to change the report's overall conclusions. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:37 AM | Get permalink
Sunday, February 12
Lock and load.
US VP Dick Cheney accidentally shot a hunting companion while out looking for quail in Texas. I guess the veep wanted to try out a little 'friendly fire' for himself. I'll note without comment that the shooting wasn't reported until 24 hours after it happened. Via USA Today. More: Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall has an interesting post about how the shooting accident probably happened and who was likely ther person at fault. Still more: Meanwhile, Mark Kleiman has all those facts about the shooting that the mainstream media aren't telling us. | | Posted by Magpie at 9:16 PM | Get permalink
Bird on a wire.
This magpie works day and night to bring you the most complete coverage of corvid news possible. These days, however, our corvid cousins seem to be taking a low profile, and it's been quite awhile since the last corvid news item appeared here.
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