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Daily Show On The Shrub’s Meet The Press Interview

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This is from the February 9, 2004 program. (Commenting on the February 8, 2004 Meet the Press.)
The Shrub was on message, as usual. Jon created a drinking game: a shot of tequila every time the Shrub says “Terror,” “Danger,” or “Madman.”
Here’s complete
video of the Shrub’s February 8, 2004 Meet The Press Interview.
Daily Show On Shrub’s Meet The Press Appearance
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Daily Show On Shrub’s Meet The Press Appearance
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Interview With Brewster Khale On OpenP2P.com

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Here’s
an interview that was published last month in OpenP2P.com with Brewster Khale.

“Universal Access To All Human Knowledge” is a motto of Raj Reddy from Carnegie Mellon. I found that if you really actually come to understand that statement, then that statement is possible; technologically possible to take, say, all published materials — all books, music, video, software, web sites — that it’s actually possible to have universal access to all of that. Some for a fee, and some for free. I found that was a life-changing event for me. That is just an inspiring goal. It’s the dream of the Greeks, which they embodied, with the Egyptians, in the Library of Alexandria. The idea of having all knowledge accessible.
But, of course, in the Library of Alexandria’s case, you had to actually go to Alexandria. They didn’t have the Internet. Well, fortunately, we not only have the storage technology to be able to store all of these materials cost-effectively, but we can make it universally available. So that’s been just a fabulous goal that causes me to spring out of bed in the morning.
And it also — when other people sort of catch on to this idea that we could actually do this — that it helps straighten the path. You know, life, there’re lots of paths that sort of wander around. But I find that having a goal that’s that far out, but also doable, it helps me keep my direction, keep our organization’s direction. And I’m finding that a lot of other people like that direction, as well.

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Video And Audio Of Party From “Meet Ro Khanna” Party At Larry Lessig’s House

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Larry Lessig threw a party at his house Monday night for Congressional Candidate Ro Khanna.
Here’s the audio and video from the party.
The files are named so you can tell what they are. They include introductions by Larry Lessig and Jeff Bleich, Ro’s speech, a clip of Ro talking about the Patriot Act, and Ro conducting and Q and A session after his speech. The “all” files contain everything.

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Live Webcast of FCC Decency Hearings Going On Right Now

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The FCC is holding a Decency (indecency?) hearing as a result of the Janet Jackson boob incident.
Viacom President and CEO Mel Karmazin is on now: 9:35 am.
He says that MTV and Viacom had no idea it was going to happen and apologized to everyone. “This is not acceptable and we’re not defending anything on any basis of free speech.”
9:42 am
He just said that all of Viacom’s 39 stations are going to have a five minute video delay for all of their live programming!
The hearing has gone live on this link:

http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Hearings/02112004hearing1200/hearing.htm#Hearing%20Webcast:

IT’S ALSO LIVE ON CSPAN RIGHT NOW.
Mary Bono (R-Hollywood) (yes, that Mary Bono) just quoted Stevie Winwood’s “Dear Mr. Fantasy” Traffic’s “Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” in her testimony…
the man in the suit
has just bought a new car
with the profit he made off your dreams
“hollywood’s pushed the envelope too far” she says.
Now Barbara Cubin (R-wyoming) is comparing the boob incident to shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre.
Here’s what someone told me was an interesting overview from 2/09/2004 from David Oxenford of Shaw-Pitman at this link:
http://www.tabtn.org/fcc.php

Virus Alert From A Friend Of Mine

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This just in from a tech buddy of mine.
I’m not trying to cause alarm, but if you’re running Windows, how about you kinda drop everything you’re doing and install the latest Microsoft security updates real quick, so you’ll be prepared when this latest security hole is inevitably exploited.

Microsoft has yet another very serious security flaw that give anyone with the right know how total ccess to your computer. I don’t know all the details – but it might be the biggest one yet. If you remember the SoBig virus last fall – this one will similar in that it doesn’t require you to get email for you to be attacked or hacked.
I say “will be” because right now there is no virus. But the flaw is there and it will be a matter of days before someone write a virus to take advantage of the flaw. And – your anti-virus software will have no effect. Microsoft has posted a patch and that is how you protect yourself – download and install that patch.
Here’s the link to Microsoft’s Windows Update:
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
I am also asking that those of you who have blogs and newsletters and high traffic web sites post this warning on your front page and include it in your newsletters. The best defense to this virus is to stop it before it begins. As you all know – this virus will affect non-windows users in that the new viruses turn windows computer into spam robots and we are still getting the bounce messages from the last virus. Let’s see if we can stop this before it starts by first – patch your computer now – then – tell everyone to patch theirs. You can cut and paste this warning into your blog or newsletter.

Daily Show On The Ten Commandments Monument In The Alabama State Supreme Court

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This is from the November 17, 2003 program.
Jon provides some nice commentary and news clips regarding the controversy over at the Alabama Supreme Court where Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from office by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary (Vote 9-0) after he refused to remove the ten commandments monument from the State Supreme Court.

Ten Commandments In Alabama Supreme Court (Small – 5 MB)



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See Al Franken, Paul Krugman, Kevin Phillips and Amy Goodman At A Benefit for KPFA Free Speech Radio 94.1 FM and Global Exchange

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Benefit for KPFA Free Speech Radio 94.1 FM and Global Exchange
Al Franken, Paul Krugman, Kevin Phillips and Amy Goodman:
“Unraveling the Lying Liars of the Bush Dynasty”
Sunday February 18th, 7pm
Berkeley Community Theatre
$15 advance/$20 door
http://www.cityboxoffice.com
Al Franken: Author of “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look At The Right”
Paul Krugman: “The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way In The New Century”
Kevin Phillips: “American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit In The House Of Bush” (Viking Press)
Amy Goodman: Democracy Now! Radio Program

Feds Ready To Nail Cheney Staff Members Hannah and Libby For Outing Joseph Wilson’s Wife

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Cheney’s Staff Focus of Probe
By Richard Sale for Insight.
The Feds have announced that they’ve got hard evidence against Cheney staff employees John Hannah and Lewis “Scooter” Libby that they were involved in the leak that outed Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s CIA operative wife.
About time! Hip hip hooray and all that kinda thing!
But wait a minute! They were undoubtedly just following Cheney’s orders. How come he’s not being held responsible for the actions of his personal staff?
Bogus.

Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney’s office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer’s identity last year. The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said.
According to these sources, John Hannah and Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, were the two Cheney employees. “We believe that Hannah was the major player in this,” one federal law-enforcement officer said. Calls to the vice president’s office were not returned, nor did Hannah and Libby return calls.
The strategy of the FBI is to make clear to Hannah “that he faces a real possibility of doing jail time” as a way to pressure him to name superiors, one federal law-enforcement official said.

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Just A Few More Adjustments…

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A few people have written me to make sure I was OK. So I thought I’d better put up a few words and let everyone know that all is well and I’ve just been really, really busy lately. (I’m in sort of a transitional phase right now in my life, finishing up old projects, and taking on new ones 🙂
Also, alas, my camera is off getting fixed (finally). But rest assured, I ran that thing into the ground these last two months. — I haven’t been entirely asleep at the wheel. I managed to grab some good stuff. But it was all I could do to keep capturing shows while I was (am still) working on my graduate projects.
I was really trying to get a lot of work done in a short time in the end stretch there, and there was really no time to generate the files or write anything up about anything I felt like linking to. So I decided to just wait until I had time to do things right, and I just haven’t had time.
I also took advantage of this month’s static nature to change hosting and upgrade and reconfigure my blog at bit (including implementing some comment spam solutions — some of which I still can’t tell if they’re working or not).
I’ve also been writing and collaborating a lot on music lately — which can really burn up the time! But when you hear the new stuff, perhaps you will agree that it’s worth a little less blogging. (But certainly a month off is over-doing it 🙂
So that’s it. Just wanted to check in and let you know all is well and I’ll be back soon 🙂
Peace.