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Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license) - Boing Boing

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:55:00 -0700

From the page: "Welcome to a world in which you won�t be able to effectively criticize the press, because you�ll be required to pay to quote as few as five words from what they publish.

Welcome to a world in which you won�t own any of your technology or your music or your books, because ensuring that someone makes their profit margins will justify depriving you of the even the most basic, commonsensical rights in your personal, hand-level household goods.

The people pushing for this stuff are not well-meaning, and they are not interested in making life better for artists, writers, or any other kind of individual creators. They are would-be aristocrats who fully intend to return us to a society of orders and classes, and they�re using so-called �oeintellectual property” law as a tool with which to do it. Whether or not you have ever personally taped a TV show or written a blog post, if you think you�re going to wind up on top in the sort of world these people are working to build, you are out of your mind. "

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:34:13 -0700

From the page: "Washington, DC -- The Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, and a bipartisan majority of the Committee (10-5), today unveiled the final two sections of its Phase II report on prewar intelligence. The first report details Administration prewar statements that, on numerous occasions, misrepresented the intelligence and the threat from Iraq. The second report details inappropriate, sensitive intelligence activities conducted by the DoD�s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, without the knowledge of the Intelligence Community or the State Department. "

John Yoo: The Presidents Executioner

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:41:41 -0700

"John Yoo: The President's Executioner

by Jennifer Van Bergen

Global Research, April 22, 2008

The title of this article �" The President's Executioner �" is a play on words. It refers to professor John Yoo, who teaches law at Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley. But this man �" mild-mannered by all appearances �" is not what he seems. He is the man who was, more often than nearly any other, behind the White House decisions to violate the international laws of war. He was the one who told the White House how to get away with committing war crimes. While he may have been a henchman for others who instructed him to make the arguments he did, he repeatedly refused to reverse himself, both while he worked in the Department of Justice and after he left that office and returned to academia.

But it was also during this time period, as we now know, that the Department of Justice became �oepoliticized.” Instead of executing the laws as it should have been doing, the Justice Department became an instrument of President Bush, executing his wishes.

And John Yoo executed White House wishes to twist the law into something it was not and was not meant to be.

Yoo, however, did more than execute orders. The so-called �oeTorture Memos,” in the writing of which Yoo was an active and primary participant, opened the door to such abuse of the laws that some detainees were actually murdered. For all practical purposes, they were executed, without a trial or guilty verdict.

Thus, the President's Executioner."

Baghdad year zero: Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia—By Naomi Klein (Harpers Magazine)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:41:20 -0700

From the page: "Iraq was to the neocons what Afghanistan was to the Taliban: the one place on Earth where they could force everyone to live by the most literal, unyielding interpretation of their sacred texts. One would think that the bloody results of this experiment would inspire a crisis of faith: in the country where they had absolute free reign, where there was no local government to blame, where economic reforms were introduced at their most shocking and most perfect, they created, instead of a model free market, a failed state no right-thinking investor would touch. And yet the Green Zone neocons and their masters in Washington are no more likely to reexamine their core beliefs than the Taliban mullahs were inclined to search their souls when their Islamic state slid into a debauched Hades of opium and sex slavery. When facts threaten true believers, they simply close their eyes and pray harder."

NIST Admits Total Collapse Of Twin Towers Unexplainable

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:54:52 -0700

From the page: "The National Institute for Standards and Technology has been forced to admit that the total free-fall collapse of the twin towers cannot be explained after an exhaustive scientific study, implicitly acknowledging that controlled demolition is the only means by which the buildings could have come down.

In a recent letter (PDF link) to 9/11 victim's family representatives Bill Doyle and Bob McIlvaine, NIST states, "We are unable to provide a full explanation of the total collapse."

A 10,000 page scientific study only offers theories as to how the "collapse initiation" proceeded and fails to address how it was possible for part of a WTC structure to fall through the path of most resistance at freefall speed, completely violating the accepted laws of physics."

FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:19:32 -0700

From the page: "FAKE TERROR -
THE ROAD TO WAR AND DICTATORSHIP
It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need."

http://surreality.info/up/bush_Pinky.jpg

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:09:43 -0700

Asylum Street Spankers Video

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:04:31 -0700

Stick That Yellow Ribbon Up You SUV ;)

Two towns vote to arrest Bush, Cheney

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:44:04 -0700

From the page: "Two towns vote to arrest Bush, Cheney
Marlboro, April 05: Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution," local media reported.

The nonbinding, symbolic measure, passed in Brattleboro and Marlboro in a state known for taking liberal positions on national issues, instructs town police to "extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them."

Vermont, home to maple syrup and picture-postcard views, is known for its liberal politics.

State lawmakers have passed nonbinding resolutions to end the war in Iraq and impeach Bush and Cheney, and several towns have also passed resolutions of impeachment. None of them have caught on in Washington. "

p2pnet news & Blog Archive & RIAA named in first class action

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:07:41 -0700

From the page: "In a request for class action status which, if and when successful, will ultimately include every one of the 30,000 or so RIAA victims, Andersen and her lawyer, Lory Lybeck (right), are looking to recover compensation for the, �oesignificant damages caused by the Defendants” as well as punitive damages, statutory penalties, litigation fees and expenses and equitable relief."