serpentine gallery decided to pulled the plug on paul chan's light installation about life in baghdad before the iraq war because rupert murdoch and his fancypants guests were having a partay there. what a bunch of eff-ing tools!

Quoted: A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names. Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror.

sounds like somebody is getting list happy.

Quoted: What could that kind of money buy? A college education - tuition, fees, room and board at a public university - for about half of the nation's 17 million high-school-age teenagers. Pre-school for every 3- and 4-year-old in the country for the next eight years. A year's stay in an assisted-living facility for about half of the 35 million Americans age 65 or older.

this is absolutely insane!

Quoted: About $10 billion has been squandered by the U.S. government on Iraq reconstruction aid because of contractor overcharges and unsupported expenses, and federal investigators warned Thursday that significantly more taxpayer money is at risk.

Quoted: The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.

this is insane

Quoted: The Bush administration will ask for another $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior administration official said Friday.

oh hell no!!

Quoted: An American detainee’s story illuminates the haphazard system of detention and prosecution that has evolved in Iraq.

Quoted: Two days before he resigned as defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld submitted a classified memo to the White House that acknowledged that the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq was not working and called for a major course correction.

Quoted: Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told Spain's El Pais newspaper she had seen a letter apparently signed by Rumsfeld which allowed civilian contractors to use techniques such as sleep deprivation during interrogation.