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Month: April 2004

  • The PowerPoint Guide to Nation Building

    Matthew Yglesias with an interesting presentation from the CPA. Also note that the vast majority of Iraqi police are untrained. Not as in they went through the training program and it’s no good. They just didn’t get trained. At all. Hm.

  • NUTS? OR JUST PLAIN CRAZY?….

    Kevin Drum quoting Eric Alterman in the Nation… That’s too bad, because unfortunately Cheney is nuts. As Powell puts it, Cheney was in the grip of a “fever,” no longer the “steady, unemotional rock that he had witnessed a dozen years earlier during the run-up to the Gulf War. The vice president was beyond hell-bent…

  • U.S. Government Was Taking Photos of Soldiers' Coffins

    Dan Gillmor: The other lesson here is the way independent news operations like the Memory Hole are helping to reshape journalism. The little guy, in using the Freedom of Information Act, did something that most of the established media didn’t bother to try.

  • Diplomats attack Blair's Israel policy

    A blistering attack on Blair and his foreign policy. The virtually unprecedented letter criticises the prime minister for claiming influence over the US president, George Bush, and American policy, then backing the Israel policy when it was already “doomed to failure”. “We feel the time has come to make our anxieties public, in the hope…

  • European constitution referendum

    Tom hopes that everybody will be voting Yes to the European constitution referendum in the UK. I for one will be voting No in the referendum here, that is of course if we have one. And I guess it won’t make a difference either, since we will just keep having referenda until its pushed through.…

  • Fighting breaks out in Falluja

    More fighting has broken out in Fallujah, it looks like this might get messy.

  • Nathan Mathers has already some psycho fans

    A few months ago, I decided to write an article about Eminem’s brother Nathan. Knowing how much supportive Nathan is towards his brother and that he is also an aspiring rapper, I wanted to gather enough info about him for people to know more about him. My intentions were also to honor him as a…

  • Poetry I would like to share with you

    In my opinion, my friend Timothy Wright from Warren, who is also a huge Eminem fan, is gifted for poetry. I like the texts he has written and I would like to share them with you.

  • Street Freestyler (freestyle, by me)

    Nobody’s iller than this street killa

  • In memory of D12's deceased member Bugz

    For news on the death of Proof visit the Eminem Blog Karnail Pitts aka Robert Beck aka Bugz was born in 1978 around May. He was loved and appreciated by all the D12 members for his rapping skills. His life ended tragically on May the 21st in 1999: he was only 21 when he died.…