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Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
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Sunday, April 11, 2004
Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon write on the topic in their book The Age of Sacred Terror (p.238):
Relations between the two government bureaucracies were historically poisonous. (The FBI chafed at the CIA's unwillingness to allow its intelligence to be used in court, and the CIA was irritated by the increasing number of legal attaches--FBI officers--in embassies. Unwittingly, the LEGATTs, as they are called, were recruiting CIA sources. Tony Lake ultimately had to sit Directors Woolsey (CIA) and Freeh (FBI) down for a reconciliation lunch to reduce infighting.)
E.'s Fourth Term: If You Think the Third Term is Brilliant...
The chickens are at last coming home to roost with Bob Carr, Michael Egan and all the rest.
It's not often that a state government manages to poke the Federal Government in the eye, but this is what NSW Treasurer Michael Egan has managed to achieve with this week's property tax.
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· It's a window into the hell of hard-right corporate ideas