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Joshua Micah Marshall

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:31:47 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: Marshall is a graduate of the Webb Schools of California and Princeton University and earned a Ph.D. in American history from Brown University.[4][8] In the mid-1990s, Marshall designed websites for law firms and published an online news site about Internet law, which included interviews with prominent scholars such as Lawrence Lessig.[4]

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* 1 Early career
* 2 Talking Points Memo
o 2.1 Reaching a critical mass
o 2.2 Launching TPM Media
o 2.3 U.S. Attorney Scandal
o 2.4 Future plans
* 3 Miscellaneous work
* 4 Family
* 5 Prizes & Honors
* 6 References
* 7 External links

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Joshua Micah Marshall (born February 15, 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American Polk Award-winning^[1] journalist^[2] who founded Talking Points Memo,^[1] which The New York Times Magazine called "one of the most popular and most respected sites" in the blogosphere.^[3] He currently presides over a network of sites that operate under the TPM Media banner and average 400,000 page views every weekday^[4] and 750,000 unique visitors every month.^[5]^[6] Marshall and his work have been profiled by The New York Times,^[5] the Los Angeles Times,^[7] the Financial Times,^[8] National Public Radio,^[9] The New York Times Magazine,^[10] the Columbia Journalism Review,^[4] Bill Moyers Journal,^[11] and GQ.^[12]^[13] Hendrik Hertzberg, a senior editor at The New Yorker, compares Marshall to the influential founders of Time magazine. "Marshall is in the line of the great light-bulb-over-the-head editors. He’s like Briton Hadden or Henry Luce. He’s created something new."^[4]

Never EVER Talk To The Police About A Crime. EVER!

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:51:23 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Law prof and Prof. cop agree on this point.

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

In a brilliant pair of videos, , Prof. James Duane of the Regent University School of Law and Officer George Bruch of the Virginia Beach Police Department present a forceful case for never, ever, ever speaking to the police without your lawyer present. Ever. Never, never, never.

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Vincent Bugliosi to House Judiciary re: Impeachment

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:37:27 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: "Whether Republican or Democrat, all Americans should be absolutely outraged over what the Bush administration has done"

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

VINCENT BUGLIOSI:

If a House Judiciary Committee could recommend that President Clinton be impeached for what he did, as they say in the law, a fortiori, all the more so, with all the highly incriminating evidence that I set forth in my book, much of it documentary, you shouldn’t have any difficulty making a criminal referral to the Department of Justice to commence a criminal investigation of the Bush administration to determine whether first-degree murder charges should be brought against certain members of this administration. And I hereby strongly urge you to do so. Whether Republican or Democrat, all Americans should be absolutely outraged over what the Bush administration has done. How dare they do what they did? How dare they?

Tags: impeachment

The Prosecution Of George W Bush for Murder

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:14:45 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: When I first saw Vincent Bugliosi, talk about his book "The Prosecution Of George W Bush for Murder", I was blown away. I thought, he's not just another crackpot trying to sell a crackpot book, he is serious. Bush lied us into an illegal war and thus far, nothing, but words has happened to him and his crew. Is this reality? A reality that allows Bush to go scot-free for so many crimes. With no one not one group to point a finger and demand he pay for his misdeeds. Without a doubt, Bush, appears to be one who IS above the law. Not only is he above the law, he gets help to get away with his transgression. (namely: the FISA vote).... We are, most of us anyway, holding our breaths to see this sad excuse for a man leave the highest office, once and for all. But is that enough? I hope Bugliosi, one of the greatest prosecutors of our time, will not rest until he sees justice served upon George W. Bush. Also watch, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlISseXFjng

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

The Prosecution Of George W. Bush For Murder

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Added: July 21, 2008 (Less info)

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
By: Vincent Bugliosi

Please watch v=HlISseXFjng for more insight.

Category: People & Blogs

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vincent bugliosi prosecution bush murder politics impeach

Tags: prosecution, bush, bugliosi, book, impeach, politics

This Day in History - July 22

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:17:33 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.peacebuttons.info

July

July 22, 1756

The "The Friendly Association for gaining and preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures." was founded in Philadelphia. It was comprised primarily of Quakers

1877

A general strike, part of the railroad strike that had paralyzed the country, was called in St. Louis, where workers briefly seized control of the city

1966

Federal Judge Claude Clayton issued a sweeping injunction ordering the police of Grenada, Mississippi, to stop interfering with lawful protest, ordering them instead to protect demonstrations, and requiring certain rules to be set down for the conduct of marches

followed weeks of arrests and beating of demonstrators who had been attempting to integrate all the businesses and other institutions

1987

Ronald Reagan signed into law the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (named for a member of Congress from Connecticut) which provided emergency relief provisions for shelter, food, mobile health care, and transitional housing for homeless Americans

Tags: usa, social, history

10 Reasons The Dark Ages Were Not Dark

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:07:58 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: listverse.com

I believe that we can safely say that the period of man’s history from 476 AD to 1000 AD is the most maligned of all.

Universities Are Born

The Classical Education (still used today in some schools) was the system used by the Universities which were created in the Early Middle Ages (the first in history).

Scientific Foundations Laid

While progress in Science was slow during this period in the West, the progress was steady and of a very high quality

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Carolingian Renaissance

The Carolingian Renaissance was a period of advancements in literature, writing, the arts, architecture, jurisprudence, liturgical and scriptural studies which occurred in the late eighth and ninth centuries.

Byzantine Golden Age

Religious Unity

a sticky topic

Algebra Arrived

Thanks to the learning of the Islamic people in the East, the world received its first book on algebra.

Art and Architecture

Fantastic Weather

Law Becomes Fair

Agricultural Boom

Legal Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida Says

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:55:01 GMT

clipped by: spherepet

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Legal Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida Says

Published: June 14, 2008

By DAMIEN CAVE

An analysis of autopsies in 2007 released this week by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission found that the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs was three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined.

MIAMI — From “Scarface” to “Miami Vice,” Florida’s drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit.

Law enforcement officials said that the shift toward prescription-drug abuse, which began here about eight years ago, showed no sign of letting up and that the state must do more to control it.

seven million Americans are abusing prescription drugs

increase of 80 percent in six years and more than the total abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants

analyzed 168,900 deaths

methamphetamines caused 989 deaths

Vicodin and OxyContin — caused 2,328

Tags: fatalities, legal drugs, illegal drugs

Time before Time, time after time

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:59:32 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang.

Cosmic microwave background could hold clues about the Big Bang

hints that our Universe "bubbled off" from a previous one.

model suggests that new universes could be created spontaneously from apparently empty space. From inside the parent universe, the event would be surprisingly unspectacular.

"a universe could form inside this room and we’d never know".

one-way movement, known as the "arrow of time" on a physical rule known as the second law of thermodynamics, which insists that systems move over time from order to disorder.

by creating a Big Bang from the cold space of a previous universe, the new universe begins its life in just such an ordered state.

The apparent direction of time - and the fact that it's hard to put a broken egg back together - is the consequence.

Tags: time, cosmology, big bang

Wrangle With CIA Over ‘Ghost Prisoners’get disappeared--what then

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:30:49 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: And when you or I get disappeared, what then...when will we stop this shit?

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

NEW YORK — The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has refused to release more than 7,000 documents related to its programs of secret detentions, renditions, and torture, and is asking a federal judge to dismiss a Freedom of Information lawsuit demanding disclosure.

The refusal came last week in the CIA’s response to a lawsuit brought by three human rights groups, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Human Rights Clinic at New York University School of Law (NYU IHRC).

The CIA filed a motion with the court for a summary judgment to end the lawsuit and avoid turning over more than 7,000 documents related to its secret “ghost” detention and extraordinary rendition programs.

The CIA claimed that it did not have to release the documents because many consist of correspondence with the White House or top George W. Bush administration officials, or because they are between parties seeking legal advice on the programs

Australia's Antarctic bonanza queried

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:48:22 GMT

clipped by: pokkets

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Anna Salleh

News analysis Australia has become the first country to be granted exclusive property rights in Antarctica, say experts, raising questions about how bioprospecting will be managed in this sensitive and disputed territory.

Antarctica is home to organisms that researchers want to exploit for novel genes and chemicals. But Australia's newly granted rights to part of the region raise legal, diplomatic and environmental questions

Australia's approved claim for an extended continental shelf included the Kerguelen Plateau around Heard and McDonald Islands (purple area), which extends southwards, below 60 degrees south, into Antarctica. The green area represents Australia's existing territories, some of which are disputed

"This is the first property rights allocation for the area south of 60° south and it will be contentious but it has been sanctioned by the United Nations," says Antarctic law expert Dr Julia Jabour of Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre

Stop Gaza Strip's humanitarian crisis

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:12:42 GMT

clipped by: Rasmus

Clip Source: www.reliefweb.int

The ongoing siege imposed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continues to exacerbate an already unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip after six-months of severe fuel restrictions. The IOF continues to intentionally reduce fuel supplies and has now reached unprecedented low levels that cannot meet the needs of the population.

It causes a total violation of human rights, including economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights and of International Humanitarian Law (IHL).

work in governmental and nongovernmental institutions has stopped

The primary and secondary educational institutions have stopped working

University education has been suspended

The same applies to the health sector

causes the sewage treatment plants and pumping stations to stop

environmental disaster

Gaza's beaches are witnessing high rates of pollution

shortage of vegetables

bread crisis

Under International law, Israel

is under an obligation to ensure that the needs of the population are met

Tags: palestine, israel, occupation, siege, humanitarian crisis

The Ancient Mechanics and How They Thought

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:12:51 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth
clipper's remarks: He also majored in astronomy as an undergraduate, and about nine years ago, feeling science-deprived, he joined a multinational research endeavor called the Archimedes Project, based at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

The Archimedes team studies the history of mechanics, how people thought about simple machines like the lever, the wheel and axle, the balance, the pulley, the wedge and the screw and how they turned their thoughts into theories and principles.

The textual record begins with “Mechanical Problems,” moves to Rome and then through the medieval Islamic world to the Renaissance. It ends, finally, with Newton, who described many of the basic laws of mechanics in the 18th century.

By following the historical record, the Archimedes researchers have discovered that the evolution of physics — or, at least, mechanics — is based on an interplay between practice and theory.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

LAW OF THE LEVER On triremes, the end oarsmen were the most effective.

“Think of the oar as a lever,” Prof. Mark Schiefsky of the Harvard classics department said. “Think of the oarlock as a fulcrum, and think of the sea as the weight.”

The longer the lever arm on the rower’s side of the fulcrum, the easier to move the weight. In the middle of the ship, as the rowers knew, the distance from hands to oarlock was longest.

This explanation is given in Problem 4 of the classical Greek treatise “Mechanical Problems,” from the third century B.C., the first known text on the science of mechanics and the first to explain how a lever works. It preceded, by at least a generation, Archimedes’ “On the Equilibrium of Plane Figures,” which presented the first formal proof of the law of the lever.

EARTHMOVER Archimedes said he could move the Earth if given a place to stand.

Dr. Schiefsky teaches Greek and Latin as his day job and reads Thucydides and Sophocles in ancient Greek for fun.

Tags: physics, ancient mechanics, science, classics, research, archimedes project

Cheney and Impeachment

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:38:09 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

February 23, 2008 by The Huffington Post

Cheney Impeachment: Courageous, but Not Surprising

by Elizabeth Holtzman

For the first time since the Bush administration took office, three members of the House Judiciary Committee, Robert Wexler (D-FL), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), are calling for hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Richard Cheney.

No serious student of the Constitution would question that sufficient grounds exist to impeach both President Bush and Vice President Cheney. The Constitution provides that an Executive who puts himself above the law and abuses the powers of his office may be impeached, a point confirmed in the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon, for abuses such as illegal wiretapping.

Bush Exempts Navy from Environmental Law.

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:36:24 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: A federal Judge in Los Angeles issued a preliminary injunction requiring a 12 mile no-sonar-zone. Bush does not have the power to overturn a court injunction, but that doesn't bother him, he's going to appeal in San Francisco. ( He knows more people there)

Clip Source: www.mail.com

PAULINE JELINEK

President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast, which critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals.

The exemption by itself won't allow the Navy to go forward with the training, but it could strengthen the military's argument in court, Navy officials said. They have asked a court to decide by Frida

A federal judge in Los Angeles had issued a preliminary injunction earlier this month requiring the Navy to create a 12-nautical-mile, no-sonar zone along the Southern California coast and to post trained lookouts to watch for marine mammals before and during exercises.

Bush has no authority to overturn a court injunction, officials said. With the exemption in hand, they are hoping a three-judge panel in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will vacate the injunction.

"The president's action is an attack on the rule of law,"

Taser time on America's public lands

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:46:10 GMT

clipped by: deadcowkid
clipper's remarks: With taser deaths on the rise. Its important to note that the forest service often are in charge of taking down homeless encampments and citing the homeless for camping or sleeping at night. Here in Santa Cruz, Ranger john Wallace has given more Sleep Crime tickets then all the City police officers combined. He now has a force of officers. They do not need Taser guns to do their job. The Police have killed people in jails, on the street and recently in the airport in Canada using a taser gun on a tired polish immigrant after he waited 10 hours with no translator after a 15 hour flight. These are OUR public lands, and OUR money being used to police them.

Clip Source: www.mediatransparency.org

The U.S. Forest Service 'is experiencing confusion and drift in its central identity and direction, and ambiguity in the way it allocates power and responsibility,' a recent survey of Forest Service workers found

At about the same time University of Florida student Andrew Meyer was getting tasered by overly heated campus security guards during an appearance by Sen. John Kerry, TASER International Inc. announced that it had received an order from the United States Forest Service for 700 TASER (r) X26 electronic control devices and related accessories.

"We are excited about this new additional federal agency purchasing TASER technology to protect life," said Tom Smith, Chairman and Founder of TASER international (website), a market leader in advanced electronic control devices. "Traditionally, we have focused law enforcement sales at the local and state level, but we are now seeing acceptance of TASER technology at various federal law enforcement agencies."

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