"If you understood everything I said, you'd be me" - Miles Davis
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  Twitter Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:36
RT @ggreenwald Funny and very true: "Confessions of a terrorist sympathizer," by retired Air Force Lt. Col. David Frakt - A volunteer attorney for Guantanamo detainees comes clean: You got me, I'm shilling for al-Qaida -

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  Twitter Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:08:16
RT @greatdismal World's biggest oil trader ends *gasoline* sales to Iran - Biggetst oil trader ends gasoline sales to Iran - - Iran can't refine oil. This could get ugly.

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  Twitter Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:28:17
On Bainbridge Island WA pockets are prosecutable drug paraphernalia - When pockets are illegal...-

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  Twitter Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:20:31
"Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet" - Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet -

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  And Why Wouldn't Obama Sign It?
Lieberman/McCain bill detainee bill allows military to hold US citizens arrested in US without trial indefinitely: A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully

  Twitter Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:06:34
RT @Atrios the wolf blitzer pedophile, cnn child sex trafficking issue has become quite the controversy. hopefully both sides will weigh in

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  Twitter Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:06:12
RT @Atrios i have not yet tried to reach CNN for a comment, but their failure to comment speaks volumes

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  Twitter Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:04:59
RT @ggreenwald HAPPENING NOW - many are asking: RT @Atrios "is CNN an elaborate cover for a child sex slave trafficking organization?"

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  Twitter Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:41:48
Texan Christian Taliban: "Repent Amarillo" - Religious Thuggery in Texas -

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  Glenn Greenwald: American exceptionalism on due process

"If there's any country which can legitimately claim that Islamic radicalism poses an existential threat to its system of government, it's Pakistan.  Yet what happens when they want to imprison foreign Terrorism suspects?  They indict them and charge them with crimes, put them in their real court system, guarantee them access to lawyers, and can punish them only upon a finding of guilt.  Pakistan is hardly the Beacon of Western Justice -- its intelligence service has a long, clear and brutal record of torturing detainees (and these particular suspects claim they were jointly tortured by Pakistani agents and American FBI agents, which both governments deny).  But just as is true for virtually every Western nation other than the U.S., Pakistan charges and tries Terrorism suspects in its real court system. 

The U.S. -- first under the Bush administration and now, increasingly, under Obama -- is more and more alone in its cowardly insistence that special, new tribunals must be invented, or denied entirely, for those whom it wishes to imprison as Terrorists (along those same lines, my favorite story of the last year continues to be that the  U.S. compiled a "hit list" of Afghan citizens it suspected of drug smuggling and thus wanted to assassinate [just as we do for our own citizens suspected of Terrorism], only for Afghan officials -- whom we're there to generously teach about Democracy -- to object on the grounds that the policy would violate their conceptions of due process and the rule of law).  Most remarkably, none of this will even slightly deter our self-loving political and media elites from continuing to demand that the Obama administration act as self-anointed International Arbiter of Justice and lecture the rest of the world about their violations of human rights."

Genuine American exceptionalism on due process


  Twitter Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:56:25
RT @warrenellis Dear BBC: you are a pile of spineless fucknozzles cutting bits off yourself in public in the idiot hope that it will ap ...

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  Twitter Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:04:34
The French want to tax clicking on a Google ad. The French are insane.

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  Twitter Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:32:15
RIAA and MPAA say: Open Source = Piracy _Open Source = Piracy_

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  Twitter Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:00:41
RT @GreatDismal Latvian cyber Robin Hood _Latvian 'Robin Hood' hacker leaks bank details to TV_

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  Twitter Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:40:43
Of course Cheney is OK. His bargain with Satan is good till 2020.

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  Twitter Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:53:35
RT @GreatDismal Adam Serwer, "American Takfiris" _Justifying Torture_ Brilliant.

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  Twitter Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:44:52
Broke Washington state set to give MSOFT $100M annual tax cut, amnesty for $1B in evasion _Microsoft Tax Evasion_

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  Twitter Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:19:37
Teach Your Children Well: There Is No Law but Might and Murder Yoo and Bybee evade justice

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  Twitter Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:18:43
RT @jacksonstbooks Prosecute Dick Cheney for #torture after confession on ABC News. Dick Cheney confessed to a war crime. Prosecute him. Please RT @CREDOmobile

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  Twitter Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:10:46
North Korea: "...the bags of grain stenciled with the Stars and Stripes are tribute paid by a frightened America to the Dear Leader."

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  Twitter Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:12:30
Kim Jong-il's regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought. "The Cleanest Race" #northkorea

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  Twitter Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:23:11
5 Reasons You Should Be Scared of Apple IownURgadgets

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  Twitter Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:03:50
IRS report on the richest 400 taxpayers shows their income rose an average of $81 million -- in a single year The top 400: Income way up and taxes way, way down

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  Twitter Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:38:59
Fafblog is absurd Fafblog is dark Fafblog is good Mule Variations

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  Confess to War Crimes on National TV and Nothing Happens

"Dick Cheney went on ABC News this weekend and boasted of the role he played in ordering the waterboarding of detainees.  Andrew Sullivan has written several posts accurately describing this statement as a "confession of committing a war crime on national television."  Harper's Scott Horton identifies the specific criminal statute Cheney confessed he violated, makes clear that -- as the Attorney General himself previously said -- there is no reasonable debate possible regarding the criminality of waterboarding under U.S. and international law (notwithstanding the efforts of Politico and friends to pretend otherwise), and then asks:  "What prosecutor can look away when a perpetrator mocks the law itself and revels in his role in violating it?"

In general, people who commit felonies avoid publicly confessing to having done so, and they especially avoid mocking the authorities who fail to act.  One thing Dick Cheney is not is stupid, and yet he's doing exactly that.  Indeed, he's gradually escalated his boasting about having done so throughout the year.  Why?  Because he knows there will never be any repercussions, that he will never be prosecuted no matter how blatantly he admits to these serious crimes.  He's taunting the Obama administration and the DOJ:  not only will I not hide or apologize, but I will proudly tout and defend my role in these crimes, because I know you will do absolutely nothing about it, even though the Attorney General and the President themselves said that the act to which I'm confessing is a felony.  Does anyone doubt that Cheney's assessment is right?  And isn't that, rather obviously, a monumental indictment of most everything?"

Law and Order. Rule of Law. All Bullshit

Dick Cheney's taunting


  Twitter Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:34:51
RT @GreatDismal Explains *everything*! CIA created the hippies. In Laurel Canyon CIA - Hippies #getinfoilhat

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  Twitter Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:13:48
RT @justinvincent Robert Bork, William Baxter and the Monopolization of America Corporate Crime Reporter

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  Twitter Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:06:30
RT @Richard_Kadrey RT @techdirt University Of Texas Claims Trademark Over 'Texas'; Wants Useful iPhone App Blocked "Texas" trademark claim

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  Twitter Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:44:38
On the claimed "war exception" to the Constitution Glenn Greenwald Feb 4, 2010 #1984

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  Twitter Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:01:58
One in four Americans is employed to guard the wealth of the rich Born Poor

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