Sunday, December 30, 2007

Free Energy

I find it interesting how smarmy and negative the reporter is. Can anyone say Tesla?



Here is more on the Free Energy Conspiracy...

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Secession from the U.S.



Thu Dec 20, 1:16 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.
"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us," long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.
A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old.
They also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies, and will continue on their diplomatic mission and take it overseas in the coming weeks and months, they told the news conference.
Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.
The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free -- provided residents renounce their US citizenship, Means said.
The treaties signed with the United States are merely "worthless words on worthless paper," the Lakota freedom activists say on their website.
The treaties have been "repeatedly violated in order to steal our culture, our land and our ability to maintain our way of life," the reborn freedom movement says.
Withdrawing from the treaties was entirely legal, Means said.
"This is according to the laws of the United States, specifically article six of the constitution," which states that treaties are the supreme law of the land, he said.
"It is also within the laws on treaties passed at the Vienna Convention and put into effect by the US and the rest of the international community in 1980. We are legally within our rights to be free and independent," said Means.
The Lakota relaunched their journey to freedom in 1974, when they drafted a declaration of continuing independence -- an overt play on the title of the United States' Declaration of Independence from England.
Thirty-three years have elapsed since then because "it takes critical mass to combat colonialism and we wanted to make sure that all our ducks were in a row," Means said.
One duck moved into place in September, when the United Nations adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples -- despite opposition from the United States, which said it clashed with its own laws.
"We have 33 treaties with the United States that they have not lived by. They continue to take our land, our water, our children," Phyllis Young, who helped organize the first international conference on indigenous rights in Geneva in 1977, told the news conference.
The US "annexation" of native American land has resulted in once proud tribes such as the Lakota becoming mere "facsimiles of white people," said Means.
Oppression at the hands of the US government has taken its toll on the Lakota, whose men have one of the shortest life expectancies -- less than 44 years -- in the world.
Lakota teen suicides are 150 percent above the norm for the United States; infant mortality is five times higher than the US average; and unemployment is rife, according to the Lakota freedom movement's website.
"Our people want to live, not just survive or crawl and be mascots," said Young.
"We are not trying to embarrass the United States. We are here to continue the struggle for our children and grandchildren," she said, predicting that the battle would not be won in her lifetime.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Fer Shit Sake! Uber-WTF!

Even though AOL cost me a good paying job when they bought Time Warner Cable, I have to say I love this vid.


AOL News Presents… Where Are They Now? - The funniest home videos are here

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Col. Klink strikes again

Remember Hogans Hero's?
Sad we've got such a brown nose asshole as head of the CIA.
A perfect lying Bush cronie begging to be behind bars.
He can destroy all the tapes he wants. He's practically proven his/our guilt regarding torture.

Friday, December 7, 2007

Toyota shows off violin-playing humanoid robot

Why is it the greater part of American "Robots" are for military applications? We're whacked out of balance here folks. Let's just hope they're not used against us. In the mean time, the future of human assist robots are coming from Toyota and Honda. All the while the dipshits at General Motors are still jamming SUV's down our throat. Toyota has become the worlds #1 car seller and it looks like they'll be the cream of the crop with robotics as well. We're #2! We're #2! USA! US... awww forget it!

Woody Allen on the Writers Strike

Saturday, December 1, 2007

They tried to make me go to rehab but...

This is my all time favorite YouTuber Babe.
Love ya Paperlilies!

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Lucky Dube's reggae legacy



Nov. 3 - South Africa's slain reggae star Lucky Dube was internationally famous - putting not just his country but Africa on the map in terms of world class music.

In 1993 his album 'Victims' sold more than a million copies and just before his death he had signed a deal to release his latest album 'Respect' across Europe.

Spokes Mashiyane, Sizo Zena, Alain Amontchi, Njuwa Maina and Mujo Masinde report.

UC-Santa Cruz protest turns violent



SANTA CRUZ
A demonstration against UC Santa Cruz's new Biomedical Sciences Facility and growth plans began peacefully yesterday morning, but turned violent around 12:30 p.m., shutting down some upper campus roads and prompting a response by from area law enforcement agencies.
At least one person was arrested as activists hoisted platforms into two redwood trees on Science Hill.
Onlookers said officers used pepper spray and nightsticks on protesters to prevent them from taking down barricades around the trees.

Officers from UCSC, Santa Cruz police, the Sheriff's Office tactical unit, State Parks and a private security company worked to control the crowd, which had about 500 people at its peak, according to onlookers.

Details on how many people arrested were not immediately available. Emergency dispatchers said an ambulance was staged on campus.

About 200-300 protesters remained at the protest site and some were helping the tree sitters ferry gear and supplies into their arboreal posts, according to onlookers.

The demonstration began around 11 a.m. with about 200 people rallying at the Bay Tree Plaza - the center campus.

Tree sitters said in a press release prior to the demonstration that they are opposed to the planned addition of 4,500 full-time students and the development of 120 acres of upper campus forest. UCSC plans to develop the occupied site into a new Biomedical Sciences

Monday, October 1, 2007

ITE Ep 20

Fuck AT&T

AT&T: Say bad things and we’ll cancel your internets
By: Nicole Belle @ 1:03 PM - PDT
Net neutrality, anyone? What an incredibly slippery slope we’re now hurtling down…

Link to original post here: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/01/att-say-bad-things-and-well-cancel-your-internets/

Scholars&Rogues:

Slashdot broke the news on Saturday that AT&T’s updated terms of service for its high-speed Internet packages essentially forbid you from criticizing the company on pain of cancellation. The full terms of service are here, and here’s the offending passage highlighted, courtesy of Ars Technica:

AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service, any Member ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name used by you, without notice, for conduct that AT&T believes (a) violates the Acceptable Use Policy; (b) constitutes a violation of any law, regulation or tariff (including, without limitation, copyright and intellectual property laws) or a violation of these TOS, or any applicable policies or guidelines, or (c) tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries.

This is the exact kind of overbroad legalese that gets companies in trouble in ways they probably never thought of. If I am an AT&T subscriber, for example, and I post derogatory comments about AT&T on a site they own, does this give them leave to terminate my service? What if I post or send a complaint about AT&T to a complaint site or consumer news site, like ConsumerAffairs.Com (whom I write for), and they publish said complaint? Am I liable if I was using my AT&T ISP while writing said complaint? What if I did so while using my laptop at a Wi-Fi hotspot? The mind boggles.

Martin at S&R continues on with other egregious acts that AT&T has committed in the last few years, from cooperating with the Bush Administration on domestic wiretapping to blocking NARAL’s text messages. And while Verizon’s Terms of Service are no better, this kind of corporate fascism is truly disturbing. Tim Karr has more. Thankfully, I don’t use AT&T or Verizon for my service, so I feel comfortable quoting William O. Douglas to them:

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

Remember that.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Dear activists, colleagues, and friends,

To laugh at the ridiculousness, to scream at the outrageous or to... Well fox went to new lows in their analysis of Petraeus' testimony last week. When our friends at Media Matters let us know that they had 7 to 1 analysts in favor of escalation, it was hard to believe, even for FOX! 22 minutes supporting the escalation and only 3 and half against it. They went to such great lengths, they even cut away to Ann Coulter when Democrats questioned Petraeus!

Bill had an idea to show all this in 90 seconds, so he and Jonathan jumped right into it. Then we argued amongst ourselves for two days about what we should do about it? What could we ask, encourage, motivate folks to do. Yelling at the TV screen not being a desired option.



So we throw the question to you, our activists and media observers. What should be done about FOX? And given this ridiculous imbalance, should we encourage liberals and Democrats to stop going on FOX until the rules are fair, the deck is not stacked?

Give us your thoughts…

Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Films team

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Monday, September 17, 2007

If you think for one second...

the people of France endorse this new stance on Iran, think again.

We will never loose to you!

One for all the warmongers.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

An appropriate remembrance.

Apart the media frenzy near the end. Just Humans Being on the streets of NY following 9/11.



This is a video I shot on September 11 2001, when the smoke from the World Trade Center attack was hanging over our neighborhood.

Two days later all the bridges were still off limits, so I took a ferry from Staten Island to Manhattan. It was pretty eerie to see the skyline without the twin towers.

In Manhattan I walked from Battery Park through the Wall Street Area up to the World Trade Center. A lot of the dirt had already been cleaned up, but there were still mountains of dust and papers everywhere. A lot of people were wearing facial masks.

There were reporters everywhere, interviewing anyone who was willing to talk to them. Back then I still had a press pass, so I was able to get past the guards who blocked off the actual Ground Zero area. I took some video footage from the Ground Zero press center.

It was pretty amazing to see hundreds of reporters from all over the world standing in front of the smoking debree.

http://www.liveleak.com/user/gaspirtz

Absolute Bullshit...



NOTE the white guy trying to tell the Rev. he assaulted a Police Officer... What would anyone do being croweded on by no less than six or more cops. Sickening how they, the cops, zero'd in on the ones who dared to speak up in his behalf. Also note the lady in the yellow T-shirt handcuffed. Not my America, I can assure you, world. This is something else. Be wary.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Crisis in Confidence



Top national security experts including Richard Clarke and Rand Beers are interviewed about the forthcoming "Petraeus" report

Katie Couric Repeats Bush Talking Points



In Sept. 2007, Katie Couric reported live from Baghdad. But instead of using that opportunity to ask tough questions and dig for the truth, Couric asked softball questions and repeated false Bush talking points. The media's failure to ask tough questions helped us get into Iraq in the first place.

Email Katie Couric and tell her we need the media to engage in strong watchdog journalism. evening@cbsnews.com

Friday, September 7, 2007

The REAL Rudy: Command Center

Police break up anti-war meeting in Washington



WASHINGTON (AFP) - Mounted police charged in to break up an outdoor press conference and demonstration against the Iraq war in Washington on Thursday, arresting three people, organizers and an AFP reporter said.

"The police suppressed the press conference. In the middle of the speeches, they grabbed the podium" erected in a park in front of the White House for the small gathering, Brian Becker, national organizer of the ANSWER anti-war coalition, told AFP.

"Then, mounted police charged the media present to disperse them," Becker said.

The charge caused a peaceful crowd of some 20 journalists and four or five protestors to scatter in terror, an AFP correspondent at the event in Lafayette Square said. No one appeared to have been hurt.

Three people -- Tina Richards, the mother of a marine who did two tours of duty in Iraq; Adam Kokesh, a leader of the Iraq Veterans Against the War group; and lawyer Ian Thompson, who is an organizer for ANSWER in Los Angeles -- were arrested, Becker said.

"A petition calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush, allegedly carrying one million signatures and endorsed by former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, will also be submitted to officials during the week's activities."
The ANSWER coalition is trying to rally support for an anti-war demonstration in Washington that is due to take place on September 15.

Last month, the movement was threatened with a fine of at least 10,000 dollars unless it removed posters in the city announcing the September 15 march.

Washington city authorities have said the posters had to come down because they were stuck on with adhesive that did not meet city regulations.

"At our demonstration today we were showing the media that the paste we use conforms to the rules," Becker said.

"One of our activists was making a speech when the police barged in and grabbed the podium. At that point, Tina Richards started to put up a poster, so they arrested her and two others."

"This strategy of suppression has not worked. We expect many tens of thousands of people" in Washington for the September 15 anti-war demonstration, he said.

The march has been timed to coincide with the release of a report by the US military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and will be part of a week of protests led by veterans of the Iraq war.

A petition calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush, allegedly carrying one million signatures and endorsed by former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, will also be submitted to officials during the week's activities, ANSWER has told AFP.