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When you get to define the crime, everybody is a criminal

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:26:01 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Including people that gather at Vegan potlucks!

They were looking for an informant to show up at "vegan potlucks" throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors.

Carroll, who requested that his real name not be used, showed up early and waited anxiously for Swanson’s arrival. Ten minutes later, he says, a casually dressed Swanson showed up, flanked by a woman whom he introduced as FBI Special Agent Maureen E. Mazzola. For the next 20 minutes, Mazzola would do most of the talking.

What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles,

The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”

Tags: terror, terrorism, big brother, fisa, law, patriot act, constituion, freedom

Forget impeachment:Try them for murder

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:57:54 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns
clipper's remarks: Vincent Bugliosi tried Charles Manson.

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

Forget impeachment

Try them for murder

[Video]

Vincent Bugliosi lays it out

Forget impeachment.

Try Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and all the rest for murder.

Former LA Deputy District Attorney, who successfully prosecuted, dozens of murder cases, makes the case that George Bush is indictable for murder.

Any state or city that had a citizen killed in the course of the Iraq War is eligible for pressing charges and bringing these lying psychopaths to justice.

Obama's Speech Wasn't That Greatl

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:22:56 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns
clipper's remarks: Matt Rothchild

Clip Source: www.progressive.org

Obama's Speech Wasn't That Great

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The Free Trade Heretic

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:18:43 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns

Clip Source: www.coanews.org

The Free Trade Heretic

By The Free Trade Heretic

Ha-Joon Chang attends the Economy and the Open Society International Forum 'Goodbye Globalization' held in Milan, Italy, on May 12

Chang shows how the entire debate over trade has divorced itself from history and economic reality. Phrases like “free trade,” in fact, are misnomers unto themselves, leading the world into a globalization debate whose basic premises are inaccurate.

But that’s not all that is inaccurate. Chang says that while the media and political elite lead us to believe industrialized countries achieved their wealth by eliminating tariffs, history suggests it’s exactly the opposite: The strategic use of tariffs is precisely what built the industrialized world into an economic powerhouse. Bad Samaritans shows that wealthy countries’ demands on poor countries to reduce tariffs is a way to keep the developing world in a subservient role — or a means to “kick away the ladder,” as he puts it.

The Anthrax Cover-up

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:15:39 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns

Clip Source: www.coanews.org

The Anthrax Cover-up

By Sheldon Rampton

Letter sent to Tom Brokaw by the anthrax attacker

A New York Daily News headline following the September 2001 anthrax attacksBruce Edwards Ivins, a top anthrax researcher at the U.S. Government's biological weapons research laboratories, died of an apparent suicide last Tuesday, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the September 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people in the United States. Glenn Greenwald has written an important piece for Salon.com in which he demonstrates, with copious evidence, that a major government scandal lurks behind the anthrax story.

Greenwald continues: "Much more important than the general attempt to link the anthrax to Islamic terrorists, there was a specific intent -- indispensably aided by ABC News -- to link the anthrax attacks to Iraq and Saddam Hussein."

Ducati - My Personal favourites

Sun, 04 May 2008 15:40:58 GMT

clipped by: WebWolf Hosting
clipper's remarks: Italian cars and bikes, does it for me

Clip Source: www.motorcycle.com

2009 Ducati Monster 696 Review

Monster Espresso

lo-band | hi-band

Tags: bikes ducati

30 Upcoming Movie Sequels to say Why???

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:03:23 GMT

clipped by: revenantdm
clipper's remarks: Maybe I am jaded from working on movies (and many of them went straight-to-video) but the on;y ones I see with positive potential outside the stars are National Treasure 3, The Descent 2 (read the Book -they may get it right for once!), Ice Age 3 (2 was great no matter what they say), Ghost Rider 2 (It's Cage but it is a damn good story too), The Untouchables: Capone Rising (a prequel to the 1987 hit) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (face it folks, Archeology and Pulp-Style cliffhangers will rock because of Indiana Jones!)
My biggest disappointment on this list? Easily, People Under the Stairs 2. It was a horrible movie in 87 and I do not see how a sequel will help.

Clip Source: www.denofgeek.com

30 Upcoming Movie Sequels You Didn't Know About

The Brazilian Job

I, Robot 2

I Am Legend 2: Warner’s huge Christmas 2007 hit could also have a follow up, although it’d be interesting to see if Will Smith returned to it.

Beverly Hills Cop 4

National Treasure 3

Cars 2

Toy Story 3

Tom Hanks and Tim Allen are both expected back on voicing duties.

Jeepers Creepers 3

Shrek 5

Night at the Museum 2

Crank 2: High Voltage

Transporter 3

Super Troopers 2: A sequel nobody asked for! Hurray!

Silent Hill 2

The Descent 2

The Grudge 3

Ice Age 3: 1st July 2009.

Ghost Rider 2

The Untouchables: Capone Rising

The Thomas Crown Affair 2

The People Under The Stairs 2

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

out on 1st August. Brendan Fraser and Jet Li star.

Punisher: War Zone

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder

Pink Panther 2

Ace Ventura 3: No Jim Carrey though, and no chance of it seeing the inside of a cinema.

War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave

Jurassic Park 4

Scary Movie 5/Saw 5

You could have guessed at these if you didn’t know about them

Lab wants to capture minds... Literally!

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:15:51 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: memebox.com

The mega-billion dollar Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) recently developed a new state-of-the-art facility – Janelia Farm Research Campus – to learn how brain cells store and process information.

Today, biologists can only observe a cell’s activity by indirectly analyzing chemicals it produces in response to stimulus. But what if you could take a picture of a brain cell at the very moment it recorded a thought? HHMI researchers believe this worthy goal can be achieved and they are rounding up some of the top researchers in the world to make it happen.

Janelia Farm will provide its world-class science team with near unlimited funds in a mostly unsupervised environment. “The Institute’s core belief is that scientists who demonstrate creativity and imagination make lasting contributions to benefit humanity when they are given flexible, long-term support and the freedom to explore,” said former HHMI President Thomas Cech.

Tags: mind, biology, brain

Etiquette

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:05:07 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad

Clip Source: inezha.com

Q: What do you call a lawyer with an I. Q. of 50?

A: Your honor.

Are photographers really a threat?

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:08:05 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners
clipper's remarks:

Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don't seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer?

Because it's a movie-plot threat.

This is worth fighting. Search "photographer rights" on Google and download one of the several wallet documents that can help you if you get harassed; I found one for the UK, US, and Australia. Don't cede your right to photograph in public. Don't propagate the terrorist photographer story. Remind them that prohibiting photography was something we used to ridicule about the USSR. Eventually sanity will be restored, but it may take a while.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harrassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We've been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones. Clearly any terrorist is going to first photograph his target, so vigilance is required.

Except that it's nonsense. The 9/11 terrorists didn't photograph anything. Nor did the London transport bombers, the Madrid subway bombers, or the liquid bombers arrested in 2006. Timothy McVeigh didn't photograph the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The Unabomber didn't photograph anything; neither did shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Photographs aren't being found amongst the papers of Palestinian suicide bombers. The IRA wasn't known for its photography. Even those manufactured terrorist plots that the US government likes to talk about -- the Ft. Dix terrorists, the JFK airport bombers, the Miami 7, the Lackawanna 6 -- no photography.

Tags: photography, terrorism, rights

30 Days to a Greener, Healthy Diet

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:11:03 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: Recipes, advice and ideas for a healthy eating plan that's earth-friendly
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Clip Source: www.thedailygreen.com

1 Pour a Glass of Organic Wine	2 Think Food Quality, Not Food Quantity	3 Eat Like Grandmother	4 The Scariest Foods You Must Buy Organic	5 Try a Glamorous New Old Grain	6 Read Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food

7 Project Pantry Purge	8 Drink Milk Like a European	9 Eat a 100% Local Meal Each Week	10 Be a Compassionate Carnivore	11 Shop a Farmers' Market, CSA or Food Co-op	12 Switch to Butter (Don't Faint)

13 Buy an Heirloom (or a Heritage) Food	14 Clean Out the Old Spice(s)	15 Go Vegetarian 2X a Week	16 Buy a Great Olive Oil (and One for Everyday Use)	17 Learn a New Food Word: Artisanal	18 Simplify with The Art of Simple Food

19 Ban High-Fructose Corn Syrup	20 Treat Yourself to an Artisanal Cheese	21 Eat Bread (It's OK Again)	22 Go Brown	23 Get Real with Sweeteners	24 Be Kind to Chickens

25 Rent Fast Food Nation	26 Try a Tofu Recipe (You Can Do It)	27 Eat Slow Food Not Fast Food	28 Pick Your Own	29 Ditch the Drive-Thru	30 Listen to the New Dirt Farmer CD

Running Cars On Lawn Cuttings

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:40:21 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad

Clip Source: peakenergy.blogspot.com

Cellulosic Ethanol: Running Cars On Lawn Cuttings

On a blackboard, it looks so simple: Take a plant and extract the cellulose. Add some enzymes and convert the cellulose molecules into sugars. Ferment the sugar into alcohol. Then distill the alcohol into fuel. One, two, three, four — and we're powering our cars with lawn cuttings, wood chips, and prairie grasses instead of Middle East oil.

Unfortunately, passing chemistry class doesn't mean acing economics. Scientists have long known how to turn trees into ethanol, but doing it profitably is another matter. We can run our cars on lawn cuttings today; we just can't do it at a price people are willing to pay.

Its been over a year since I last did a roundup of cellulosic ethanol news - time for another one.

Obama The Humble Savior

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:56:16 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Only last week, another of his pals bit the dust, convicted by a Chicago jury of 16 counts of this and that. "This isn't the Tony Rezko I knew," said the senator, in what's becoming a standard formulation. Likewise, this wasn't the Jeremiah Wright he knew. And these are guys he's known for 20 years.

"I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people … . I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we........

It's a good thing he's facing it with "profound humility," isn't it? Because otherwise who knows what he'd be saying. But mark it in your calendars: June 3, 2008 – the long-awaited day, after 232 years, that America began to provide care for the sick.

Clip Source: www.ocregister.com

Speaking personally, I don't want to remake America. I'm an immigrant, and one reason I came here is because most of the rest of the Western world remade itself along the lines Sen. Obama has in mind. This is pretty much the end of the line for me. If he remakes America, there's nowhere for me to go – although presumably once he's lowered sea levels around the planet there should be a few new atolls popping up here and there.

Nothing in Obama's resume suggests he's the man to remake America and heal the planet.

Yet at the same time as he's being stunned by the corruption and anti-Americanism of those closest to him, Obama's convinced that just by jetting into Tehran and Pyongyang he can get to know America's enemies and persuade them to hew to the straight and narrow. No doubt if it all goes belly-up, and Iran winds up nuking Tel Aviv, President Obama will put on his more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger face and announce solemnly that "this isn't the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I knew."

Tags: mark steyn, obama, corrupt, anti-american, rezko, ahmadinejad, tel aviv

Colorado "diggs" Clipmarks!

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:06:12 GMT

clipped by: dgreplay
clipper's remarks: Nice pop by the local Colorado news site...cool.

Clip Source: www.summitdaily.com

Online Tool of the Week: Clipmarks

Clipmarks likens itself to “scissors for the web” because it lets you choose specific content on just about any web page that you’d like to save or share with others.

Perhaps you’re one of the many online users comfortable with bookmarking web pages or saving them to your list of Favorites. If so, it’s likely that, at one point or another, you’ve bookmarked a page only to discover that, upon your return, you couldn’t locate the information you’d been interested in. This is the one weakness of Bookmarks/Favorites — you can only bookmark entire pages.

Clipmarks lets you clip sections of pages and then share them anywhere on the web or by e-mail. The service is available for Internet Explorer and Firefox, it’s entirely free, and signing up takes less than a minute.

Tags: clipmarks

He's got everything he needs

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:04:36 GMT

clipped by: reimers

Clip Source: www.damnfunnypictures.com