Daily Rotten Archives October 21, 2001 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 FBI investigating candy purchases Bergen Record | Submitted by: rreynolds Will terrorists strike against the American pagan institution of Halloween? The FBI is investigating bulk purchases of candy from Hackensack and Wayne, Indiana Costco stores. "We have no evidence or information for us to suspect there is any reason to cancel scheduled events. However, the public is encouraged to remain alert but calm." Read article... FBI officials call to "cast aside" civil liberties Washington Post | Submitted by: Soylent The first sentence of this article is fucking scary: "FBI and Justice Department investigators are increasingly frustrated by the silence of jailed suspected associates of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, and some are beginning to that say that traditional civil liberties may have to be cast aside if they are to extract information about the Sept. 11 attacks and terrorist plans." Read article... Bushspeak FAIR | Submitted by: DJ3dg "The media reaction "was understandable," Miller told me, "because it actually reflected less on Bush's speech per se than on the moment's strange and terrifying context. The speech was deemed 'Churchillian' because the audience was so desperate for a proper leader at that fearful moment. At that moment of catastrophe, there was so fierce a hunger for a national father figure that the audience saw one in the president, who therefore came across like Churchill, or like FDR, despite his lack of stature -- which, prior to the shock, had been quite clear to most observers." Read article... Is that a boy or a girl? Africa Online | Submitted by: Soylent A Ghana surgeon has called for parents to examine their babies for evidence of hermaphrodism, or congenital gender inspecificity. The surgeon "explained that babies born as pseudo-hermaphrodites usually have stumps that could either be the penis or the clitoris and the sex could be determined by either physical examination or through surgery." Read article... The stink of cattle! Press and Dakotan | Submitted by: Soylent "One might only expect the occasional whiff of burnt barbecue filtering in from Omaha's suburbs, but moviegoers leaving the Stockyards Theater on the city's southside soon realize why they paid only $1 for a seat." Read article... Man Jailed over Enigma Machine BBC | Submitted by: Soylent An antiques dealer has been jailed for handling an enigma machine that was stolen last year from Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. This particular machine is a very rare "Abwehr" Enigma, of which only a handful remain in existence. After the machine was stolen, the arrested man Dennis Yates made an unsuccessful attempt to ransom it for UKP 25,000. Read article... CIA told to kill Bin Laden Washington Post | Submitted by: Sincere "President Bush last month signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to undertake its most sweeping and lethal covert action since the founding of the agency in 1947, explicitly calling for the destruction of Osama bin Laden and his worldwide al Qaeda network." Article by Watergate reporter Bob Woodward. Read article... Rotten: extrême mauvais goût Liberation | Submitted by: Nicolas "Et le débat se prolonge en Allemagne, où le gouverneur de Düsseldorf vient d'exiger des fournisseurs d'accès à l'Internet (FAI) de Rhénanie du Nord-Westphalie qu'ils bloquent quatre sites américains: trois sites néonazis - dont front 14.org, également au centre de la procédure française - et le site rotten.com, connu pour son extrême mauvais goût, parfois drôle." [Article in French] Read article...