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"In all likelihood, Watada will be sentenced to six years in prison for refusing to deploy as well as for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Conduct unbecoming. Consider that urging one's fellow Americans to stand up, to voice their conscience, to refuse to put themselves in harm's way for a lie is honorable and becoming an officer. You'll then realize how political and self-serving this trial is."
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01312_ehren_watada_patriot.html
"Pink Pistols was formed in 2000 by a Boston dot.com engineer for both social and self-defense purposes. Its Web site lists five Ohio chapters, including the nascent Toledo group now being organized by Mr. Spradlin, who explained his initial interest by reciting a Pink Pistols motto: Armed gays don't get bashed."
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070121/COLUMNIST03/701210333/-1/NEWS14
"For an administration constantly harping about spreading democracy, the Bush administration's continued subverting of state laws and states' rights is the height of hypocrisy. Making war on sick people for their choice of medicine is not only cruel and immoral, but a complete misallocation of federal resources."
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/letters/index.php?ntid=115889&ntpid=3
"The protests began in 1990 with some 10 people, and grew to their largest in 2006. Now, with a Democratic Congress and a changing political climate in Latin America, they have an opportunity to close the School of the Americas for good."
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2983/
"Isn't this where we find ourselves today, only more so? Ever since 9/11, the Bush administration has been busily undermining the traditions of the rule of law, due process, and civil liberties. ... A government official railed against lawyers representing prisoners of the Guantánamo internment camp, and for good measure outed some of the law firms involved. A 10-word deletion in an updated Army manual seems designed to bypass FISA court approval for running wiretaps. More ominously, the Pentagon and the CIA have been conducting domestic intelligence by obtaining financial records of Americans suspected of espionage or terrorism by issuing 'national security letters' to banks and credit agencies, violating the law barring these agencies from engaging in traditional law enforcement activities."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/boas.php?articleid=10369
"Matt’s attorney vigorously sought to have forensic analysis performed on the computer, which was in possession of the police. With equal vigor, the District Attorney’s office (called the County Attorney’s office in Arizona) blocked access even though the defense had a legal right to examine evidence. Court records reveal repeated requests for such disclosure. Forensic analysis of computer files is akin to ballistic testing of a gun or DNA analysis of semen from a rape sample. If a defendant is guilty, then the forensics will bolster or prove the charges. If the defendant is innocent, then the results are essential to establishing a defense."
http://www.ifeminists.net/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.79
"Many innocent people are killed in night time SWAT team entries, because they don't realize that it is the police who have broken into their homes. They believe they are confronted by dangerous criminals, and when they try to defend themselves they are shot down by the police."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01242007.html
"What Thomas is describing here is hardly novel; it's a system akin to 'block committees' set up in National Socialist Germany, as well as similar snitch-and-bully arrangements found in such enlightened societies as Castro's Cuba, Mao's China, Revolutionary Iran, and Saudi Arabia. What is somewhat original in Thomas's version is the idea of conscripting men into such service, on pain of severe criminal penalties should they rebel at the prospect of serving as neighborhood snitches."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/01/commissar-arises.html
"On the face of it, the role of the state – the legal monopolist on the use of aggressive force against person and property – is absurdly implausible. There is no obvious reason why any society should put up with it. Ah, but then ideology comes into play. We are told that the state serves high religious, philosophical, economic, or social-scientific ends. I won't bother listing them because doing so would take up the rest of the article."
http://www.mises.org/story/2466
"[S]tories do more than merely exemplify the workings of a market order. They provide insights into state villainy and the alternative to society itself that the state really is. I am thinking of 'Rob Roy,' based on a true story, starring Liam Neeson as the title character, Robert Roy MacGregor. It is a wonderful display of the individual and family versus the state in Rob Roy and his 18th Century Scottish clan against Archibald Cunningham and Killearn."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/mike/mike2.html
"I think the best bet for our political salvation would probably be an alliance of local and regional secession movements, with each of these maintaining various cultural, ideological, religious, ethnic or economic sub-tendencies within themselves. "
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/preston1.html
"Settlers in the early days built their own houses in Christiania's vast wooded area or renovated the drab old army barracks. Their right to build as they chose epitomized the freedom Christiania has enjoyed."
http://www.worldpress.org/Europe/2647.cfm
"As institutional authority continues to collapse into decentralized networks of autonomous individuals, those whose conditioned mindset is unable to imagine a world functioning without formal direction and control experience a chilling fear. To such people, social systems that run themselves without superintendence is not only disturbing to their ambitions for power, but a form of fanciful thinking."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer150.html
"It will be very difficult for the President to explain how Iraqi freedom and democracy is worth billions of dollars and thousands of American lives, but Scottish freedom and democracy must be denied. And this dichotomy would be even more difficult for Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron to explain away."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53868
"The approach—which featured lots of homeschooling, hours reading at sea, and very little interaction with other kids—seems to have worked. In November, Backus was named a Rhodes Scholar, making her the fourth Brown student to receive the prestigious award in the last five years. After she graduates, Backus will spend the next three years at Oxford studying chemical biology, a cutting-edge field that combines the best of both disciplines to create new treatments for diseases."
http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=3258
"The idea of generating power at home and selling it on the grid is gaining converts. … While the total number of people doing this today in the US is relatively small (around 15,200, according to a 2004 study), it is growing rapidly, suggesting pent-up demand for net metering."
http://www.abetterearth.org/blog/id.3599/news_detail.asp
"It has been a salutary shock for me to see how seriously the good gray geese in the media take the blood-soaked kabuki in the Beltway, especially tonight's tissue of lies and spin and desperate pitches for applause. In the years since I escaped the reach of the deafening, maddening echo chamber of America's corporate media, it seems a whole cult has grown up around the State of the Union addresses, which were never taken that seriously in days of yore."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1008&Itemid=135
"At least 186 antiwar protests in the United States have been monitored by the Pentagon's domestic surveillance program, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which also found that the Defense Department collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in a single anti-terrorism database."
http://www.antiwar.com/glantz/?articleid=10402
"Don't worry - Dick Cheney says it's all perfectly legal. The vice president made it a point to go on Fox News Sunday last week and declare that the recently reported spying being done on Americans by the military is all just fine and dandy."
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/01/21/News/In_Cheney_s_world__we.shtml
"The ever–loyal attorney general would not have issued this manifesto of unchecked presidential powers without knowing he had the approval of the man who made him what he is today. Whatever we do find out about Bush's real deal on National Security Agency and surveillance and the FISA court, the president doesn't need judges or warrants to keep a constant eye on members of the press who spread 'leaks' about his secret decisions to safeguard national security. "
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0705,hentoff,75653,2.html
"Everything is in place for an attack on Iran. Two aircraft carrier attack forces are deployed to the Persian Gulf, US attack aircraft have been moved to Turkey and other countries on Iran's borders, Patriot anti-missile defense systems are being moved to the Middle East to protect oil facilities and US bases from retaliation from Iranian missiles, and growing reams of disinformation alleging Iran's responsibility for the insurgency in Iraq are being fed to the gullible US Media."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01272007.html
"It's somewhat unfair to bash a politician for literary unoriginality these days, mainly because the vast majority of them are guilty of using the same robotic, machine-generated, market-tested campaign rhetoric. But Hillary's opening speech was really remarkable for its computerized coldness even compared to such notorious campaign robots as John Kerry and Wes Clark."
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/13239511/
"Politically, he reminds me of someone adrift on a bar of soap,finally — out of concern for his own survival — curtailing his habit of splashing vast quantities of water onto his feet."
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/01/24/bush-state-of-the-union-spin-norman-solomon/
"It's not a new thing for the media to misread the mood of the country on a hot issue. But the crumbling of the immigration backlash was almost without precedent. Poll after poll showed voters angry about the influx of Mexican workers and willing to do almost anything to stop it. A much-cited April survey by Rasmussen Reports showed a whopping 30 percent of voters ready to elect a third-party presidential candidate who 'promised to build a barrier along the Mexican border and make enforcement of immigration law his top priority.' Politicians, who like to pretend they ignore the polls and lead with their guts, were clearly sweating that datum."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/118323.html
"Public scrutiny is how security improves, whether we're talking about software or airport security or government counterterrorism measures. Yes, there are trade-offs. Full disclosure means that the bad guys learn about the vulnerability at the same time as the rest of us -- unless, of course, they knew about it beforehand -- but most of the time the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/debating_full_d.html
"Server power is easy if we embrace peer to peer. ... So let's allow our problem to provide its own solution. If Google is throwing one million servers at the market, the market can easily respond with 10+ million PC peers, no problem. The great advantage of P2P for this application is not only that is costs a lot less, but it appears exactly where you need it and with proper promotion the capacity is almost infinite."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070126_001539.html
"Governments began granting utility monopolies because it was believed utilities would not exist otherwise (this is wrong because the company that incurs the expense of building infrastructure can recover the cost by renting its wires) and -- as a practical manner -- multiple providers tearing up roads and laying wires all over town might be problematic. But even here competition can work."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1059&year=2007&month=1
"People may not perform selfless acts just for an emotional reward, a new brain study suggests. Instead, they may do good because they're acutely tuned into the needs and actions of others."
http://www.livescience.com/healthday/601147.html
"By double counting, we assumed he meant that they're counting both physical and leased gold. That's correct, he says, and jokes that 'the actual disposition of Western central bank gold reserves is a more closely guarded secret than the plans for the construction of nuclear weapons, which are posted on the Internet today. You'll never find out exactly where all the gold is and who really owns it.' The question of ownership is an important one, and it really muddies the waters. Who owns what, and where, is complicated by the use of gold swaps. "
http://www.safehaven.com/article-6772.htm
"As an individual who began losing his earnings to Social Security when he was 11 years old in 1940, I know all the arguments for enslaving the young to meet the financial and medical needs of the old. These needs can be met voluntarily and cooperatively, or they can be met at the point of a gun as they are today -- 'thanks' to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and the U.S. Congress, which gave us the Social Security Act in 1935 and its later sordid offspring, Medicare and Medicaid."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1060&year=2007&month=1
"This reading-instruction method teaches children to 'read' by asking them to memorize words as if they were pictures, like Egyptian hieroglyphics. It is a reading-instruction method that can cripple a child’s ability to read, and potentially condemn that child to a lifetime of failure."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel34.htm
"[T]he history of federal regulation of trusts is a strange one. It is a history of the federal government’s helping some businesses at the expense of others. It is a story of the federal government’s actually encouraging some trusts and some businessmen to look to the federal government for favors."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0609e.asp
"Fascism and communism both require centralization and regimentation. To make America vulnerable to totalitarianism, one must centralize political power, impose uniform laws and practices throughout the country, instill an ultra-nationalistic pride that overrides local and regional loyalties, and make the great mass of people economically dependent on the central government. In a time of crisis, then, the people would turn to the federal government for help and answers, and it would gradually take over every area of our lives. All communists and fascists need to do, then, is quietly work through the system to advance their agenda."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2077
"Yeah, I'll bet – not that the history of the gang that lied us into war would in any way cause us to suspect the authenticity of key documents and other 'intelligence' produced by them. The same lie factory that churned out war propaganda based on lies, half-truths, and outright forgeries is being revved up once again, this time in the service of a new and even more dangerous war plan."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10368
"If Iran is not arming their bloodsworn enemies, the Sunni insurgents, and if any Shiite group they are assisting is an integral part of the 'sovereign' Iraqi government backed by the Bush Administration, then what on earth can be the purpose of a direct presidential order to the troops to kill Iranians in Iraq? The answer is simple: the purpose of the order is to provoke Iran into some action that can be trumpeted as a casus belli for the Bush Faction's long-planned war against Iran."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1009&Itemid=135
"Bush tries to scare the American people with his talk about dependence on the Middle East for oil. But only about 16 percent of imported oil comes from the Persian Gulf. Of the top five foreign sources, only one, Saudi Arabia (number 3), is in the Middle East. The others, in order, are Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria."
http://fff.org/comment/com0701e.asp
"Algeria and Iraq are different beasts, of course. The French had been in Algeria since 1830, so France was a colonial power. There were about a million French citizens in Algeria (the 'pieds noirs'), who treated the Arabs and Berbers as second-class citizens. They had powerful representation in Paris. But there are similarities. "
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1898
"The Constitution says that to be elected to the U.S. Senate, a person has to be 30 or older, a citizen for at least nine years, and a resident of the state from which the candidate is elected. Alas, it says nothing about knowing American history. Good thing for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). He'd have to find honest work."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1065
"The Washington Post had also been given a set of the 'Pentagon Papers,' and Attorney General John Mitchell—the Dick Cheney of the Nixon administration—warned the Post's owner, Katharine Graham, that she'd get 'her tit caught in a big fat wringer' if she violated national security in time of war by printing the classified report. Katharine Graham was not intimidated."
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0704,hentoff,75597,2.html
"Jefferson made the ritual still more humble by delivering his annual message to Congress in writing. For 112 years, presidents conformed to Jefferson's example, until populist pedagogue Woodrow Wilson delivered his first annual message in person. 'I am sorry to see revived the old Federalistic custom of speeches from the throne,' one senator lamented. 'I regret this cheap and tawdry imitation of English royalty.' Yet Wilson's habit caught on. Most presidents in the 20th century delivered the message in person."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=7170
"One thing is now clear to all but the dimmest observers: the U.S. has lost this war, and the longer it goes on, the worse it will get. The outcome was obvious from the start, because it's not possible for an army from the other side of the planet to win a guerrilla war. At least not in a politically correct way. You could engage in wholesale ethnic cleansing, the way the Romans, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane did, but, at least in today's world, that would be counterproductive in any number of ways, entirely apart from moral considerations." The link below goes to Part One. This links Part Two
http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/2007/20070124.html
"Any military, especially a U.S. military that is a lover of 'shock and awe,' likes to surprise its enemy with overwhelming force. But instead of building up U.S. forces in secret and launching a massive surprise assault on key neighborhoods in Baghdad, the Bush administration, prone to publicity stunts for domestic consumption that mean nothing on the ground in Iraq, is introducing the added forces in small drips over time."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1897
"There is a strict protocol for military dissent. A service member can exercise free speech, for example, but she should be off-duty. She can protest the war, but not in uniform."
http://www.alternet.org/story/47085/
"The blogosphere is abuzz over a CBS news report from Iraq filed on Jan. 17 by Lara Logan, which was aired on the CBS website but not included in their on-air broadcast. The report is about the war raging between Iraq security forces and Sunni militia on Haifa Street, just a few blocks from the secure 'Green Zone' where U.S. FedGov forces are headquartered."
http://www.bigheadpress.com/TheTimeSink/?p=98
"John Moses Browning ... was an American firearms designer who developed myriad varieties of weapons, cartridges, and gun mechanics, many of which are used in the U.S. military and elsewhere to this day. He is arguably one of the most important figures in the development of modern automatic and semi-automatic firearms and is credited with 128 gun patents — his first (for a single shot rifle) was granted October 7, 1879."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moses_Browning
"Huddie Ledbetter, better known to the world as 'Lead Belly,' survived a life that included brutalizing poverty and long stretches in prison to become an emblematic folk singer and musician. He is renowned for his songs - the best known of which include 'Rock Island Line,' 'Goodnight, Irene,' 'The Midnight Special' and 'Cotton Fields' - as well as his prowess on the 12-string guitar. "
http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=140
"That his stories were a consistent hit with readers of the time is not surprising, for he created thrilling, vividly realized adventures populated by colorful, larger-than-life characters. He was a consummate and dynamic storyteller."
http://www.rehoward.com/reh-bio.htm
"She was given the lead in a 'B' comedy about a brassy, energetic showgirl not salesgirl--originally intended for Jean Harlow--that wound up becoming a huge hit and spawned a series of sequels that ran until 1947: Maisie (1939). Ann also appeared in such well received features as Brother Orchid (1940), Cry 'Havoc' (1943) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949)."
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0815433/
"Nowhere in American cinema is the defense of the individual more resonant than in the films of Frank Capra. Though often misclassified as routine David vs. Goliath stories set against backdrops of quaint Americana, Capra’s films are, in fact, criticisms of mass culture’s repressive effect on the creative freedoms of individuals. Institutions and corporations—law firms, banks, newspapers; the supposed distinguished heads of community—are especially maligned, for their aggressive desire to silence the individual is directly associated with their self-serving desire for financial and societal gain."
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/9358/pixilated-frank-capras-columbia-years/
"This is the totally true tale of how one family first set tires on the road to Hardyville. It begins in the direction of the rising sun, not far from where the powerful gather. Charlotte Carolina, bleary from sleep, peered at herself in the mirror and groaned."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe070122.html
"After listening to a very dull list of Oscar nominees this morning, I needed some good Hollywood news. And I got it. Variety reports that actor Clive Owen (he of Croupier, Sin City, and the recent Children of Men) has convinced Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment to option all of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe books — and the plan is to set the movies in the novels’ original time period and L.A. setting."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2007/01/marlowe-returns-from-long-big-sleep.html
"This show ended up revolving around sounds that you don't hear much anymore: A telephone ringing, an electric typewriter, a steam engine. Along the way, as always, we unearth a few tunes."
http://unclewarrensattic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=173142
"Being a military thinker of the profoundest sort, I offer the following manual of martial affairs for nations yearning to copy the American way of war. Read it carefully. Great clarity will result. The steps limned below will facilitate disaster without imposing the burden of reinventing it. The Pentagon may print copies for distribution."
http://fredoneverything.net/Vegetius.shtml
"Unlike Andrew Dice Clay, the '80s comic who ultimately became trampled by his stage character (a hateful caricature of testosterone-laden excess), Silverman takes a 'this is just me' approach, adding careful helpings of wry detachment and irony." [Not much language worse than the title of the article.]
http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0704,musto,75611,15.html
Animated flash cartoon (video w/audio)
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/resolution.html
"In a rare instance of icy-cold January weather, much of the Northeast awoke Tuesday morning to find itself buried under nearly 1.5 inches of snowfall. 'This is really bizarre,' said Syracuse resident Mary Baloh, who noted that her garden was doing very well until the unexpected weather struck. 'I've seen some freak weather in my lifetime, but this definitely tops them all.' 'It's like Christmas in January,' Baloh added."
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/northeast_stunned_by_freak_january
"Last summer, I learned how to die. Not that I want to practice everything I learn (how often do you actually use that high school trig?). In fact, I wouldn't mind waiting a while on that one, but it was interesting to sit at the feet of a master."
"Any decent moral theory must explain some of the well-known and consistently observed facts of history, such as the grinding poverty of the Middle Ages, the murderous actions of dictatorships, the violent nature of theocracies, the fact that governments always grow, the slow economic suicide of socialism (or the rather more rapid self-immolation of communism) and so on. Any moral theory which predicts that communism would be a smashing success, and that capitalism would result in poverty for all, obviously fails the basic test of empiricism and historical evidence."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux34.html
"I believe in non-violence, but perhaps not in the same way you might believe in non-violence. Most Americans think of the Reverend Martin Luther King when they think of non-violence, and rightfully so. He is the 'father' of the modern, American non-violence movement, but did we interpret King’s vision correctly? "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/king/king1.html
"There's a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall on timescales of around 100,000 years - exactly the same period as between ice ages on Earth. So says a physicist who has created a computer model of our star's core."
"Protest actions and rallies have failed and failed and failed until they succeeded. We had a huge rally on the Boston Common in 1969 of 100,000 people — that’s just in Boston, 100,000 people. The war didn’t end as a result of that. The war went on for, well, at least four more years. If people had given up as a result of the failure of that one huge rally, then the war would have lasted even longer."
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/article.php?id=4246&IssueNum=56
"The RFID bracelets are what I've come to call security theater: security primarily designed to make you feel more secure. I've regularly maligned security theater as a waste, but it's not always, and not entirely, so. It's only a waste if you consider the reality of security exclusively. There are times when people feel less secure than they actually are. In those cases -- like with mothers and the threat of baby abduction -- a palliative countermeasure that primarily increases the feeling of security is just what the doctor ordered."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/in_praise_of_se.html
"His name is Mickey DeLorenzo, and the only thing he changed in his lifestyle was adding daily, 30-minute sessions of playing sports games on his Wii – a gaming console where you move around in real life and your actions are emulated onscreen. By just spending 30 minutes each day playing simulated boxing, tennis or baseball, DeLorenzo has lost 9 pounds since starting his 'Wii Sports Experiment' on December 3."
http://www.newstarget.com/021481.html
Last year this essay helped me to decide on my computing direction. I had been a professional programmer and systems engineer for much of my life, but had tried to make a go of IBM's OS/2 in the nineties. That didn't 'go.' So eventually I ended up on XP. However, had I read this essay earlier I would have gone straight to Linux of some sort. If you are thinking on these subjects this essay may help you, a small sample: "Think of a Windows computer like you would a TV. You turn it on, set the channel and then watch it. You don’t have to know a thing about how a cathode ray tube works to use your TV. Of course, it is crucial to understand that Microsoft doesn’t do this out of the goodness of their hearts. They do this to make money. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But, the goal of Microsoft may not be your goal." Now, if you only want to surf the web, use e-mail, photos and music, etc. Ubuntu will suit your needs and give you a choice of GUIs if you want one.
http://www.ericsgrumbles.net/2006/01/25/being-a-grown-up-computer-user/
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