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This was my setup for the NMC opening today for its Second Life campus. MacBookPro on the right is rendering SL, but WireTapPro does not work yet on Intel Macs, so I was running the shared TeamSpeak app on my old iBook (left) where WireTap could record audio in and out.
Also available is my USB headset, a map of the buildings, a note pad to record names of avatars I would interview, and my messy cord jungle on the floor.
Supporters of seven defendants in an alleged bomb/kidnap conspiracy case rally outside the courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa. January 24, 1972 on the first day of the trial.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The eight charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist and John “Ted” Glick, a pacifist activist.
Glick’s case was severed from the others when he insisted on acting as his own attorney.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glick.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is a United Press International photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Residential building on Kudrinskaya square (Building on Uprising square) - a high-rise building in Moscow, one of the «Stalin's skyscrapers» («Seven Sisters»)
Built in 1948-1954 years. designed by architects MV Posokhin, AA Mndoyants and designer MN Vohomskogo.
The building consists of a central (24 floors, the height of the tower and spire - 156 meters) and side buildings (18 residential floors) constituting a single structural array, based on the total ground floor.
On the first and ground floors of the building were originally shops and a cinema "Flame" (currently not working), in the basement - underground garages.
Skyscraper popularly called the «House of aviators», because the apartment was given to the workers the aviation industry (in particular, employees of the Tupolev design Bureau) and the test pilot, but, of course, among the tenants there were many party activists.
Said that, when opened near the US Embassy, the top two floors were settled. There KGB installed equipment for wiretapping, and from there to "watch" for Americans.
Sculptures on the facade of the building symbolize creativity, defense, and labor of the Soviet citizens.
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(History.com) Aug. 8, 1974 - In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House. "By taking this action," he said in a solemn address from the Oval Office, "I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America."
Just before noon the next day, Nixon officially ended his term as the 37th president of the United States. Before departing with his family in a helicopter from the White House lawn, he smiled farewell and enigmatically raised his arms in a victory or peace salute. The helicopter door was then closed, and the Nixon family began their journey home to San Clemente, California. Minutes later, Vice President Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States in the East Room of the White House. After taking the oath of office, President Ford spoke to the nation in a television address, declaring, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." He later pardoned Nixon for any crimes he may have committed while in office, explaining that he wanted to end the national divisions created by the Watergate scandal.
On June 17, 1972, five men, including a salaried security coordinator for President Nixon's reelection committee, were arrested for breaking into and illegally wiretapping the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Washington, D.C., Watergate complex. Soon after, two other former White House aides were implicated in the break-in, but the Nixon administration denied any involvement. Later that year, reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post discovered a higher-echelon conspiracy surrounding the incident, and a political scandal of unprecedented magnitude erupted.
In May 1973, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, headed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, began televised proceedings on the rapidly escalating Watergate affair. One week later, Harvard law professor Archibald Cox was sworn in as special Watergate prosecutor. During the Senate hearings, former White House legal counsel John Dean testified that the Watergate break-in had been approved by former Attorney General John Mitchell with the knowledge of White House advisers John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, and that President Nixon had been aware of the cover-up. Meanwhile, Watergate prosecutor Cox and his staff began to uncover widespread evidence of political espionage by the Nixon reelection committee, illegal wiretapping of thousands of citizens by the administration, and contributions to the Republican Party in return for political favors.
In July, the existence of what were to be called the Watergate tapes--official recordings of White House conversations between Nixon and his staff--was revealed during the Senate hearings. Cox subpoenaed these tapes, and after three months of delay President Nixon agreed to send summaries of the recordings. Cox rejected the summaries, and Nixon fired him. His successor as special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, leveled indictments against several high-ranking administration officials, including Mitchell and Dean, who were duly convicted.
Public confidence in the president rapidly waned, and by the end of July 1974 the House Judiciary Committee had adopted three articles of impeachment against President Nixon: obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential powers, and hindrance of the impeachment process. On July 30, under coercion from the Supreme Court, Nixon finally released the Watergate tapes. On August 5, transcripts of the recordings were released, including a segment in which the president was heard instructing Haldeman to order the FBI to halt the Watergate investigation. Three days later, Nixon announced his resignation.
COLOMBIA: Risky Games Against National Peace Meeting
BARRANCABERMEJA, Colombia, Aug 31, 2011 (IPS) - One of Colombia's most popular national radio stations broadcast the wiretapped telephone conversations of a leader of a regional movement of displaced persons, David Martínez, misreporting that the voices heard were those of "guerrilla ringleaders".
Rally and March in Washington DC Against Mass Surveillance, October 26, 2013, Congressman Justin Amash speaking.
I was already making more macros of printed circuit boards. This has in the past always worked quite well, but as close as here I am never approached due to the then low depth of field, it lacked the viewer just a lot of information about the board.
In these images, I've done two things differently:
Setup as shown us by Tilo Gockel (Thanks Tilo, cool idea!) Supplemented with slight brightening by a flash with blue gel. So I wanted to make the PCB a bit upbeat.
Then 15-20 photos made with migratory sharpness, which were afterwards rendered with a Stacking software into a single image.
So beautiful can electronic waste be
I find especially the blurry photos quite aesthetically.
Here's some examples (with making-of).
If you want to take a look to my spin doctor, voila: www.flickr.com/photos/galllo/14347373239
Taken at the opening ceremonies of the 2007 Empire State Games
Major news from the New York Times:
"Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a person briefed on the federal investigation."
Media outlets are reporting that he will be stepping down as governor.
Rally and March in Washington DC Against Mass Surveillance, October 26, 2013. NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake speaking.
Know what cracks me up? The mental image of Barrack Obama seething, writhing, twisting with desire to jump up and tell the world that Joe Biden did NOT get 15 million more votes than he did in his "landslide victory" in 2012.
Because there's no way the fumbling, mumbling, bumbling, stumble-bum Joe Biden get 7 million more votes than Donald Trump, and Obama knows it.
Particularly when Donald Trump got 10 million more votes than he needed to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.. So it's not as if tens of millions of Trump supporters abandoned him and voted for Joe. Not only did no one abandon him, but 11 million more people voted for Donald Trump than voted for him in 2016.
Biden had no plan, no energy, no campaign, no enthusiasm, no ground game, no rallies, no campaign slogan, no charisma, and no possibility of getting elected. And yet, he got 15 million more votes than the mighty Barrack Obama did.. Really? Ah-hahaha!!!
Hillary got 65,853,514 votes in 2016, which was held up for 4 years as proof that she *should* have won, since she won the national popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. (Trump got 62,984,828 votes in 2016)
This time we are told Donald Trump got 73,904,195 votes, and Biden got 80,063,589 votes. We're supposed to believe that 25 million more people voted this time than voted in the very hotly contested race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump - in spite of the pandemic.. I'm not buying it.
Barack was all about "audacity", but padding the Democrat's vote by millions.. That's bold. That's North Korea 'vote' bold.. That's Russia vote 'bold'.. And there's only one way you do that. You rig the software.
And if anybody raises any concerns, you rely on the Leftists in the media to destroy their credibility. Remember what they said when Trump tweeted that his campaign had been wiretapped? But it was, wasn't it. It *was* spied on. So forgive me for suspecting they would do literally *anything* if they saw what we saw - Donald Trump about to win a second term.
As Stalin was famous for saying, "I don't care who votes. I care who COUNTS the votes..".
Rally and March in Washington DC Against Mass Surveillance, October 26, 2013. Poet Malachi Byrd speaking.
Room with a View
Awesome view of Mill Mountain out of these corner windows. I want to turn this building into condos. Seems like such a waste.
Undisclosed warehouse
Roanoke, Virginia
2007
Okay, so the tech media and the neck beards that make up the Fake Outrage Brigade (Anti-Apple bloggers) having been reporting a fair bit of hysteria involving stuff that's broken with Snow Leopard. The first target was CS3, which like CS2 actually works with the installation of Rosetta. Apple actually provides a list of incompatible software here:
Of course, this hasn't stopped PC World from releasing their own list of software that have been reported to have problems with Snow Leopard. Here it is below:
Backup Bouncer, Books, Boxee, Butler, Camino, CheckPoint SecureClient, ClamXav, Cocktail, ConceptDraw Pro, DataBackup, Dave, Disc Inventory X, DiskWarrior 4.1, Electricsheep, Fallout II, Flip4Mac 2.3.0.7, Forklift, Fruit Menu, Google Gears, iStat Menus, iStumbler, Leopard Cache Cleaner, Leopard Cache Cleaner, Macromedia FreeHand MX 11.0.2, MailFX Pro, MenuMeters, Mirage, NodeToad, OneSwarm, PGP Desktop, Plex, Protector Suite, QuicKeys 4.0.3, RealVNC, Reader Notifier, Apple Server Admin 10.5.3, SmartScroll, Sonos 3.0, Sticky Windows, TinkerTool, TivoDesktop, Undercover, Vectorworks, WindowShadeX, WireTap Studio, and X-Lite.
The first thing that struck me about this list is the fact that most of these apps are actually tweak tools for Leopard, so of course they're going to have problems with Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard has been completely rewritten. Apps like Flip4Mac actually work fine, it's just that Flip4Mac was actually coded for Quicktime Player 7, so Snow Leopard will automatically search for Quicktime 7 in the Applications folder when you play a WMV video file. The problem with this is that the people at Apple moved Quicktime 7 to the Utilities folder. Unless you navigate Snow Leopard to Quicktime 7, it won't open the file (solution: just use VLC)
So PCWorld is actually being truthful by saying that Flip4Mac is having problems, but not for the reasons you might think.
And the inclusion of Macromedia FreeHand, an app that hasn't been supported by any OS for years, is just ludicrous. Macromedia doesn't even exist as a company anymore. It got bought out by Adobe in 2005. Me thinks that PC World is padding the list. Hey, but if you can't trust a site called "PC World" for Mac news, who can you trust?
But just to help out, let me reiterate. I've had problems with the EyeTV and Crossover Games. The latest version of EyeTV, 3.1.2, has been coded to work with Snow Leopard, but you can't get that version without actually updating it directly in EyeTV 3.0, which won't even open in Snow Leopard and the company that makes EyeTV, Elgato, doesn't provide a download for 3.1.2 (obviously because of piracy concerns) on their web site.
Frankly, the problem with EyeTV isn't Apple's fault. In fact, most of the incompatibility problems aren't Apple's fault. Developers have had versions of Snow Leopard close to two years running. Of course, that hasn't stopped the Fake Outrage Brigade at places like CNET from complaining about omissions in iSync. It looks like Palm OS devices have been locked out of Snow Leopard. No, they're not referring to the Pre, Palm's pre-eminent iPhone killer, they're talking about the old Palm OS, the one that Palm is slowly phasing out.
I mean, Jesus Christ, people, give me a break!
The bottom line is this. If you have a mission critical work flow that depends on tweaky apps like Sticky Windows, then maybe you should wait until those apps are Snow Leopard certified. I'm you're a casual home user, who uses Apple branded software like iLife and nothing else, then it might be safe for you to proceed. Make sure you install Rosetta if you have anything left over from the PPC generation.
If you're a Windows 7 beta user, Snow Leopard has a treat for you and that's Boot Camp 3.0. Not only does Boot Camp 3 allow you to read your Mac drives from Windows now, it also has official support on Windows 7 for all your Mac hardware.
Related Links:
Snow Leopard
EyeTV
www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products.en.html
Crossover Games
Man, it's a good thing I'm Neutral Good, because if I were Chaotic Evil, this shit would be in the back of a van, which I would also have stolen.
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
That time has come for us." - MLK Jr.
Former Army Colonel Ann Wright retired from the State Department in protest of Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.
More information here.
9 January 2010
That big brick fortress there used to hold switching equipment for Pacific Bell and handled most call routing for the west coast of the US.
It transpired that the US Federal Government had a bunch of wiretapping equipment in the basement that they were using to randomly listen to overseas phone calls and to spy on reporters.
PacBell has since moved on and the building now belong to a porn studio, which is, I would guess, why it's flying the BDSM Pride flag.
Free Lynne Stewart
212-625-9696
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee 350 Broadway #700, NY, NY 10013
Lynne Stewart is a civil rights lawyer who faces up to 40 years in prison for representing a controversial Muslim client. In 2002 her indictment was personally announced by former-Attornet General John Ashcroft. She was convicted of lying to the government and conspiring to aid terrorists in February 2005. Stewart is one of the few lawyers who represent political dissidents, and her case is a clear warning to attorneys who change the U.S. government.
Stewart was charged for violating a gag order on her client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, and issuing a press release on his behalf. For the past 9 years Rahman has been serving a life-sentence to bomb New York landmarks. Rahman is one of the many political cases Stewart has defended since 1975 including the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground.
The main evidence against Stewart was based on attorney-client meetings that were secretly monitored and wiretaps of private conversations among Stewart's staff. Stewart's paralegal, Ahmed Sattar, and her arabic translator, Mohammed Yousry, were convicted along with Stewart. Prosecutors also prejudiced the jury by introducing a tape of Osama Bin Laden as evidence although Stewart and her co-defendants were not charged with any 9/11 connection. After 30 years of law practice, Stewart has been diabarred, and she faces a maximum prison sentence of 40 years.
By 1984 it appeared that a virtual state of war was imminent between the State of Oregon, Wasco County, and local communities with the Rajneeshee commune of Rajneeshpuram; there were lawsuits from Oregon Attorney General David Frohnmayer over the city being an arm of a religious organization (and thus unable to incorporate over the separation of Church and State) and the 1000 Friends of Oregon over the land use violations. Armed local ranchers and farmers confronted the likewise armed Rajneeshpuram Peace Force. The Rajneesh cult had stated that an apocalypse (either nuclear war, or later AIDS) would occur around 1990 and wipe out most of humanity, and now there were rumors that it was approaching, that the National Guard was ready to arrest Rajneesh. Everyone focused on the November election of 1984, when the Rajneesh hoped to take over Wasco County and everyone else hoped to prevent that from happening.
Additionally, conflicts increasingly arose between Rajneesh's inner circle, especially between his spokeswoman Ma Anand Sheela and her supporters and evidently everyone else. The conflicts had slowly bled the commune of supporters as people lost faith and left. Rajneesh had angrily sided with Sheela, until finally as the internal conflicts simmered he brought all of his circle into his trailer and admonished Sheela before all, claiming that his house, not hers was the center of the commune. A few months later Rajneesh broke his vow of silence and began speaking again.
And then suddenly things began dissipating. Despite a measure busing in 3000 homeless under the cult's "Share-a-Home" program to vote in the Wasco City elections, the effort was blocked by the county clerk who enforced a regulation that forced new voters to submit their qualifications when registering to vote. The homeless were drugged after disputes with the Rajneesh and finally The homeless abandoned into the surrounding communities. The Rajneesh lost the votes in landslides. In September, 1985 Sheela and her supporters fled to Europe, and Rajneesh held an absolutely amazing press conference, where he claimed that Sheela and her associates were a "gang of fascists" who had-supposedly without his knowledge-of attempted the murder of his personal physician, poisoned public officials, preformed wiretapping and bugging within the commune and his own home, and a launched bioterror attack on the citizens of The Dalles, Oregon. People were shocked by and skeptical of the wild claims.
But investigations showed that they all seemed to be true.
Antelope, Oregon
video of the event: video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1903467361828816441
The panel was joined by Washington State Senator Eric Oemig, who has sponsored a bill (SMJ 8016) calling for an investigation of the grounds for impeaching President Bush. See Oemig Video.
from left: Senator Eric Oemig, Dave Lindorff, Ray McGovern, and Elizabeth de la Vega
[update february 2008:
text of SJM 8016 2008 substitute bill: apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=8016&year=...
S-4418.1 _____________________________________________
SUBSTITUTE SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8016
_____________________________________________
State of Washington 60th Legislature 2008 Regular Session
By Senate Government Operations & Elections (originally sponsored by
Senators Oemig, Regala, Kohl-Welles, Kline, Spanel, Fairley,
Kauffman, Fraser, and Prentice)
READ FIRST TIME 01/22/08.
1 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF
2 REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
3 UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED:
4 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of
5 the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully
6 represent and petition as follows:
7 WHEREAS, The citizens of Washington State expect and require their
8 highest elected officials be subject to the laws of the land, like any
9 citizen, and uphold the constitutional oath taken by them upon assuming
10 office; and
11 WHEREAS, In 2001, the President signed a secret executive order
12 authorizing warrantless surveillance of American citizens in direct
13 conflict with the United States Constitution and United States law; and
14 WHEREAS, The President both demonstrated knowledge of the law he
15 was breaking, and lied about breaking the law by stating on April 20,
16 2004, ". . . a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by
17 the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're
18 talking about getting a court order before we do so."; and
19 WHEREAS, The President again demonstrated knowledge of the law he
20 was breaking and again lied about his lawlessness by stating on July
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1 20, 2005, "Law enforcement officers need a federal judge's permission
2 to wiretap a foreign terrorist's phone, or to track his calls, or to
3 search his property. Officers must meet strict standards to use any of
4 the tools we're talking about."; and
5 WHEREAS, This unwarranted and unlawful, and seemingly
6 unconstitutional surveillance program is still being used to spy on
7 American citizens; and
8 WHEREAS, The President's authorization and subsequent lies about an
9 unwarranted, unlawful, and apparently unconstitutional surveillance
10 program would seem to constitute an impeachable offense; and
11 WHEREAS, United States and International law forbid invading a
12 foreign country without provocation; and
13 WHEREAS, On September 16, 2004, the Secretary General of the United
14 Nations Kofi Annan, commented on the United States invasion of Iraq by
15 stating: "It was not in conformity with the United Nations charter.
16 From our point of view, from the charter point of view, it was
17 illegal."; and
18 WHEREAS, In October 2002, Congress authorized the President to use
19 his discretion to decide whether or not to use force against Iraq; and
20 WHEREAS, The President and Vice President misled Congress and the
21 American people about the potential threat of Iraq; and
22 WHEREAS, The President and Vice President were either deliberately
23 deceitful or willfully ignorant about the potential threat of Iraq; and
24 WHEREAS, On March 19, 2003, the President, acting on his sole
25 discretion, ordered the illegal invasion of Iraq, according to his
26 letter to Congress dated March 21, 2003, stating "I directed United
27 States Armed Forces, operating with other coalition forces, to commence
28 combat operations on March 19, 2003, against Iraq."; and
29 WHEREAS, Misleading the Congress and the American people to justify
30 invading another country in direct violation of International and
31 United States laws would seem to constitute an impeachable act; and
32 WHEREAS, The President, acting with the support of the Vice
33 President and the former Attorney General who resigned under threat of
34 impeachment, authorized the abusive treatment of prisoners; and
35 WHEREAS, When Congress sought to reaffirm the United States
36 prohibition on torture by passing a 2005 antitorture law, the President
37 signed the law with a signing statement that effectively states that
38 the President has the right to torture at his discretion because, "The
SSJM 8016 p. 2
1 executive branch shall construe . . . the Act, relating to detainees,
2 in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the
3 President to supervise the unitary executive branch . . ."; and
4 WHEREAS, The abusive techniques authorized by the President were
5 committed during an armed conflict; and
6 WHEREAS, The abusive techniques authorized by the President have
7 previously been classified as torture and prosecuted as a war crime by
8 the United States; and
9 WHEREAS, International law defines torture during an armed conflict
10 as a war crime; and
11 WHEREAS, In 1947 the United States charged a Japanese officer,
12 Yukio Asano, with war crimes for waterboarding a United States
13 civilian; and
14 WHEREAS, International law defines that a commander involved in
15 ordering, allowing, or insufficiently preventing and prosecuting a war
16 crime is criminally liable under the Command Responsibility doctrine;
17 and
18 WHEREAS, The President appears to be guilty of war crimes by simple
19 application of the Command Responsibility doctrine to the publicly
20 known facts; and
21 WHEREAS, Illegally authorizing torture in violation of United
22 States and International laws, and committing war crimes would seem to
23 constitute an impeachable offense; and
24 WHEREAS, Based on the overwhelming evidence that has been presented
25 to the American people as established in this resolution, numerous
26 grounds for impeachment appear to exist; and
27 WHEREAS, Such offenses, if committed, are subversive of
28 constitutional government to the great prejudice of the cause of law
29 and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of Washington
30 state and of the United States of America; and
31 WHEREAS, Petitions from the country at large may be presented by
32 the Speaker of the House of Representatives according to Clause 3 of
33 House Rule XII; and
34 WHEREAS, Jefferson's Manual section LIII, 603, states that
35 impeachment may be set in motion by charges transmitted from the
36 legislature of a state; and
37 WHEREAS, Impeachment is a process defined in the United States
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1 Constitution by which charges are brought against a President or Vice
2 President or civil officers of the United States in the House of
3 Representatives; and
4 WHEREAS, The filing of these charges is followed by a trial in the
5 United States Senate that determines guilt or innocence; and
6 WHEREAS, If the President or Vice President committed such
7 offenses, ignoring these offenses would undermine core American values
8 of truth and justice; and
9 WHEREAS, Failing to impeach the President and Vice President if
10 they have committed such offenses would signal tacit approval of these
11 activities and sanction their use by future administrations; and
12 WHEREAS, Failing to impeach the President and Vice President simply
13 because they are serving their second term would signal future
14 administrations that any high crime or misdemeanor, if committed or
15 covered up until their second term, will be tolerated until an upcoming
16 election; and
17 WHEREAS, Freedom and liberty, and the laws and the Constitution of
18 the United States of America can only be protected by Americans; and
19 WHEREAS, America has only until January 20, 2009, to signal to
20 history that America will not sanction torture, America will not
21 sanction unprovoked war, and America will not sanction illegal spying;
22 and
23 WHEREAS, America will defend herself from all enemies foreign and
24 domestic; and
25 WHEREAS, America will protect the integrity of the Constitution and
26 the Executive branch; and
27 WHEREAS, We, your Memorialists, have each sworn an oath to protect
28 the United States Constitution;
29 NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists exhort our Representatives in the
30 United States Congress to charge President George W. Bush and Vice
31 President Richard B. Cheney with the above offenses and commence a full
32 investigation and trial in the United States Senate; and
33 BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately
34 transmitted to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker
35 of the House of Representatives, and each member of Congress.
--- END ---
SSJM 8016 p. 4
I was already making more macros of printed circuit boards. This has in the past always worked quite well, but as close as here I am never approached due to the then low depth of field, it lacked the viewer just a lot of information about the board.
In these images, I've done two things differently:
Setup as shown us by Tilo Gockel (Thanks Tilo, cool idea!) Supplemented with slight brightening by a flash with blue gel. So I wanted to make the PCB a bit upbeat.
Then 15-20 photos made with migratory sharpness, which were afterwards rendered with a Stacking software into a single image.
So beautiful can electronic waste be
I find especially the blurry photos quite aesthetically.
Here's some examples (with making-of).
If you want to take a look to my spin doctor, voila: www.flickr.com/photos/galllo/14347373239
An Italian senator and top aide to Silvio Berlusconi has been forced to deny reports linking him to an alleged Mafia-run plan to hand Berlusconi 50,000 fraudulent votes, as voting gets under way today in the Italian elections.
Marcello Dell'Utri, who is appealing against a sentence for consorting with Mafia clans, has admitted helping to enrol on Berlusconi's election campaign a man whom prosecutors suspect teamed up with the Calabrian Mafia to fix votes. But the Sicilian senator, who helped to launch Berlusconi's Forza Italia party in 1994, described reports of his possible links to the alleged vote fraud as 'lies and garbage', adding that he had not been told he was under
investigation. With a tight race in the senate expected as voters head to the polls today and tomorrow, the overseas vote could prove to be decisive in the battle between Berlusconi and centre-left leader Walter Veltroni to take over from Romano Prodi, whose government collapsed in January. Just over 1.2 million votes have been cast overseas.
Investigators believe the scam was set to take place in South America, where expatriate Italians handed in their votes to Italian consulates last week. Aldo Micciche, a businessman who moved to Venezuela after being convicted of fraudulent bankruptcy in Italy, is suspected of planning with the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta to fill in 50,000 blank ballot slips obtained from corrupt officials, Corriere della Sera wrote yesterday. Micciche denied the allegations. The Interior Minister, Giuliano Amato, confirmed he had been alerted by investigators in Reggio Calabria, capital of the Calabria region, about possible electoral fraud in South America. He added that controls had been tightened.
Dell'Utri confirmed on Friday that he had been contacted by Micciche, who told him he could help to promote Berlusconi's Freedom Folk party to expatriate voters in South America. 'I put him in touch with our representative, Barbara Contini,' Dell'Utri told Il Giornale. 'That was the end of the matter. This person was interested in organising the vote of Italians abroad, as are many people who are linked to all parties and in all parts. I do not see what the problem is.'
Barbara Contini, who was governor of the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah when it fell under the responsibility of Italian troops, said that no candidates for Berlusconi's party abroad were involved in electoral fraud. But Corriere della Sera alleges that police wiretap transcripts show Micciche told Dell'Utri on the phone: 'It will be enough to pay a staffer... Those responsible for the vote will shut both eyes when one of our people retrieves all the unfilled slips and puts a cross in the Freedom Folk box.'
The fee asked was €200,000, the newspaper added. Italian newspapers said investigators believe that Micciche was working with members of the Piromalli clan, part of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta Mafia, which has recently overtaken its Sicilian and Neapolitan counterparts thanks to drug trafficking and its ties to Colombian cartels.
Quoting leaked police documents, Corriere della Sera claimed that Micciche asked two leading members of the clan to visit Dell'Utri at his Milan office. Dell'Utri was taped after the meeting, the newspaper wrote, complimenting Micciche for introducing him to two 'good picciotti,' a Sicilian word for youngster used to describe low-level mafiosi. Dell'Utri has risen through the political ranks after running an advertising firm owned by the media magnate.
At the end of his second term as Prime Minister, between 2001 and 2005, Berlusconi changed the electoral law to allow Italians resident abroad to elect six senators and 12 parliamentary deputies.
( from The Guardian. Picture taken from the web)
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On August 1, 1947, Roe was told by doctors that he had stomach cancer but that it was operable. On August 4, 1952, he dressed in a three-piece suit and hat and creeped down South Michigan Avenue. At around 10:00 p.m., as he was unlocking his car on the street outside his apartment, a voice called, "Roe!" He turned and was cut down by several shotgun blasts. He died slumped against a tree which still stands outside his former apartment at 5239 S. Michigan Ave.
Roe was laid out in a $3,500-$5,000 casket and received the biggest funeral of any Chicago African American since Jack Johnson in 1946. Thousands lined the streets to catch a glimpse of Roe's 81-car funeral procession. At Roe's funeral, Minister Clarence H. Cobb said: "He was a friend of man, and he had a pure heart."
The Outfit seized control of his policy wheels, and many felt that Roe had pushed his luck too far. That is, until his widow revealed a secret. Lucky Ted had terminal cancer, and had been given only months to live.
Over an FBI wiretap during the early 1970s, Giancana said of Roe, "I'll say this. Nigger or no nigger, that bastard went out like a man. He had balls. It was a fu----' shame to kill him."
Rally and March in Washington DC Against Mass Surveillance, October 26, 2013. Dennis Kucinich speaking.