Not Guilty

Charged with violating the "ten yards" regulation, which is
36 CFR 7.96 (g)(5)(viii) sentence 6:
No signs ... shall be held ... or set down on the center portion of the White House sidewalk, comprising ten yards on either side of the center point on the sidewalk ...

Chinese Water Torture

without the water.
Raising the question: is Chinese water torture torture?
How about pulling out fingernails?

Paul Farmer

He weren't always handsome.

See me

2010 Dec 16th, Washington

Quote from Chris hedges:
"American workers, as they are repeatedly told, will have to become competitive with prison labor in China," he said. "That's where we're headed, and all the pillars of the liberal establishment are complicit in this." [rawstory]

Heavy Metal in Baghdad

[video]
Don't miss it.
And Mark Levine.

End the war

Chris Hedges, on where we are.
It's not good.

Arrest at the Circle K

November 20th at the School of the Americas demonstration.

News story from Atlanta Progressive News.

Location of the Spectrum Circle-K on Google Maps,
quite a distance from Victory Highway.

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The crime?
The city charges were
- failure to disperse and
- demonstrating without a permit
The state charge was
- unlawful assembly
The question is
a. Disperse from ... what?
b. What assemblies require a permit?
c. Why did the judge accept the testimony of the police, without any video evidence. The police had surveilance cameras, plus helicopters.

Ladies and gentlemen

Miss America? Yes, yes I do.

Charlie Rangle

Censured

Dallas, November 22nd

Front exit wound.
If Oswald had help, ... with what?
Yes, he got a ride to work that morning.
----
Why did Kennedy's head snap backwards?
Possibly, terribly, he got hit with a piece of his own skull,
a piece that broke off
but pivoted around its bottom edge by the intact skin.

We will vote for the Obama Tax Cuts

when they are an extension of the Bush Tax Cuts.

Wikileaks IP address

http://213.251.145.96/
See the movie.

We are going to get Assange

We are going to get Assange, even if we have to go
ex post facto on his ass. We are not joking.
Assange is wanted in Sweden for unsafe sex.

Where the oil is coming from

There are a few remaining questions.

Another Day in Paradise

Lake effect snow, in Cheektowaga.
Instant winter.

Every government is run by liars

And nothing they say
should be believed.

I F Stone

Highlands

Above the flood.

Truth, Justice vs the American Way

Vancouver Media Coop story

Leaf Harvest

So many leaves, so little time

2010 Thanksgiving

With the Seneca Indians

The Green School

Architecture Gallery.
See a presentation by John Hardy, the capitalist.

Closing the School of the Americas

Slideshow

Who is worse

Not even close.
Wendy participated in humiliation, not killing.
The killers, and their bosses, got away.

Our life style is not negotiable

Now what prompted him to say that?
Did somebody in the meeting say it was?

Try me

Maybe there is.

How the war ended: with a bang

The bombing of Osaka, the day the Japanese surrendered.
The bombs were accompanied by papers saying あなたが失わ.
The Bomb,(c)2010, H Zinn, p.55

I drink your milkshake

December 14, 2009
Opening day for the pipeline from Turkmenistan to Xinjiang.
[Article]

Kolontar, Hungary

click for context
Toxic sludge pond at the aluminum factory in Hungary.
Aljazeera video report.

Why The Farm needs the internet

click to enlarge
Can you find
1. Clear cut
2. An electric transmission line
3. Highways and roads
Where is this?

The King is Good

As are all powerful people.
The Tsar, they believed, would see their miseries and help.

Dmitry Orlov

Shoots off his mouth.

Collateral Damage

Hiroshima

Nice

Secure your own mask

before assisting those around you.

Homonuculus

2.0

What she drempt

Topless Dancers

Step right up.

Guns, or roses

A picture is worth a thousand words
The pen is mightier than the sword,
But if the picture and the pen are taken away
what is left?

That is why is it not only just to allow cameras
but also pragmatic.
As JFK said - those who make peaceful change impossible....

Then they will welcome us with roses

Spirituality is about moving on

Or, as they say, forgiveness.
It requires a great deal of disbelief.
Are skeptics gullible? I forget if I ever knew.

Leon cries wolf

Or, shall we say, is less than forthright.
"Iran has all the low-enriched uranium it needs to build two nuclear bombs." [1] What this means is that Iran does not have all the highly-enriched uranium it needs to build two nuclear bombs. Or even any.

What happened to that rule that you can't shout fire in a crowded theater?

How were men so blind

as to not oppose slavery?
or starvation

The Second Amendment v. 36 CFR 2.4

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear unloaded weapons, shall not be infringed.
Park Service Regulations (36 CFR 2.4)

The King Can Do No Wrong

Nor can the Executive Branch.
See the case of Maher Arar v. The Tyrant
in Salon

The Second Amendment

The right to take photos
Since Israel planned this attack, and confiscated all other pictures, it must provide conclusive video and audio evidence of its innocence in the murder of the civilians on the flotilla.

Thomas Szasz quotes

[here]
The neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

The fathers of the country were terrorists

Why did all the indians live west of the Mississippi,
in the land owned by Napoleon, the Emperor of France?
Russel Means has an answer.

Israel: to Gaza

Why the sudden change? here is one idea

The second amendment

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Milita means minutemen. The latest [outrage].

The Trial of the Century

more
1. The Issue:
When can the police disrupt a political demonstration?

2. The Facts:
On March 20th, The World Cant Wait held a demonstration in front of the White House. The police shut down the demonstration, created a police line around a number of protesters who brought coffins, and arrested them. People gathered, and a barrier erected by the police fell over. Cindy Sheehan was propelled forward, and then remained in the area to be arrested by the police for crossing a police line, while another policeman returned the barrier to the upright position.

3. The Argument:
Since the First Amendment reads, in part, "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the ... right of the people peaceably to assemble, to petition the government", it is plain that
i. the Constitution foresees peaceable assemblies to oppose government policies, and
ii. it recognizes a right to such assemblies, and
iii. it recognizes that right to assemble as prior to the Constitution.
iv. The right to assemble cannot be overturned by Constitutional Amendment.

A restriction on the legislative branch against making a law is also a restriction on the executive branch against enforcing a law, and a restriction on the judicial branch against upholding a law.

When a demonstration turns violent, or poses a clear and present danger, the authorities may act to prevent the violence or to cloud or postpone the danger.
Time, place, and manner restrictions can be put in place by the government, only to reasonably balance the right to assemble with other rights of similar Constitutional importance; for example, the right to carry on the business of the Senate.

Afghanistan

PromisesHalf-empty, or half-full

Or mostly empty.

Washington, First District, Police

Website: Phones, shelter addresses

I. Congress shall make no law

abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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So what law are these law enforcement officers enforcing?
March 20th, a day of protest
[1]

Flag Day - June 14th

Norman Solomon

Our first POW

Omar Khadr, being tried at Guantanamo, in a military commission.
He was taken on the battlefield, and charged with murder.
Fresh Air with Terry Gross

Steven Chu

Conservation.

FWIW

Size of USA compared to size of Europe

The new Tom Wolfe

Michael Lewis