links for 2006-09-23

• How to say Cheers - Sláinte - Prost - Skål in different languages / countries

  If you are out on travel, journey, holiday etc. and are drinking a great whiskey , you may want to say cheers to the locals. Here is a guide to you on how to say cheers in different countries.

  (tags: culture reference language jamesons whiskey)

• Iran’s nuclear threat started as gift from U.S.

  In the heart of Tehran sits one of Iran’s most important nuclear facilities. It was outfitted by the United States.

  (tags: iran nuclear-power foreign-policy)

• Theist v. Non-Theist Societies

  The United States stands as the shining example of how staunchly religious societies fail miserably to produce the kinds of utopias they promise.

  (tags: sociology culture religion research reference social-science)

• Uninsured in America

  Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity

  (tags: health healthcare health-insurance)

• Inslaw

  Inslaw, Inc. is a software company which enhanced a software package it had developed for the United States Government, calling it the Prosecutor’s Management Information System (PROMIS).

  (tags: software PROMIS inslaw danny-casolaro bill-hamilton mossad kgb cia al-qaeda anson-ng dennis-eisman ian-spiro octopus)

• The INSLAW Octopus

  Software piracy, conspiracy, cover-up, stonewalling, covert action: Just another decade at the Department of Justice.

  (tags: politics inslaw PROMIS bill-hamilton mossad rafael-etian al-qaeda earl-w-brian edwin-meese ronald-reagan danny-casolaro)

• Danny Casolaro

  His research centered around a complex story called the Inslaw affair, and a sprawling conspiracy theory, he called The Octopus, connected to it.

  (tags: inslaw PROMIS danny-casolaro journalism cia mossad rcmp wackenhut-corporation iran-contra october-surprise bcci michael-riconosciuto bill-hamilton politics)

• casolaro’s octopus

  Danny Casolaro sought to document and expose sea of covert operatives, super-surveillance software and transnational spies. He called the monster he saw swimming in that sea “the Octopus.”

  (tags: danny-casolaro inslaw PROMIS mossad cia fbi william-colby earl-brian edwin-meese ronald-reagan politics rcmp interpol elliot-richardson)