I wasn’t around to participate in any of last weekend’s peace rallys, so I’d REALLY love to see whatever footage you guys have.
Please email me with your links so I can post them here.
I’m out of town with crummy connectivity all weekend.
That’s why there won’t be much going on here ’till Monday.
See you then!
Something to keep you busy over the weekend!
Check out the video and audio from the live ABC broadcast and compare it for yourself to the video and audio of the CNN re-broadcast:
Did CNN Turn Up The Boos During Michael Moore’s Speech?
Michael Moore At The Oscars: ABC’s Live Audio vs. CNN’s Re-broadcast
This is a quote from my introduction:
…I decided to help Ellison Horne out by digitizing and posting his video footage on the internet so the debate over this issue could begin, and so we could all look over the evidence together in order to determine whether or not the audio track was altered in the CNN rebroadcast…
This is a quote from Ellison’s introduction:
I’m urgently calling for an investigation of the broadcast by CNN and CNN Headline News’s reporting of Michael Moore’s acceptance speech last month at the Academy Awards.
CNN and CNN Headline News aired a significantly different audio response to Mr. Moore’s speech than was orginally broadcasted on ABC.
It seems that someone has manipulated the audio to give the impression there was constant loud “booing” throughout Moore’s speech, when in reality, there was only marginal booing often overridden with cheers and applause.
This needs to be fully investigated.
His detention, like so many others, appears to be an abuse of a 1984 law that the Bush administration has used with a vengeance to hold people it may (or may not) suspect of being in league with bad folks. Unlike many other such jailings, all shrouded in the kind of secrecy the Bush people love so much, this one has attracted some powerful attention…
On Monday, a federal judge did what the government wouldn’t do: acknowledge that Hawash was being held. But he let the government keep holding its prisoner for at least the next three weeks.
If Intel, the company, is doing anything to help Hawash, the assistance isn’t apparent. But as I said last week, I hope a prominent immigrant, whose name is almost synonymous with the company, will take note of this situation. His name is Andy Grove.
He shouldn’t have received any jail time for this. Drat.
I hope he appeals…
THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW REACHES OUT TO XBOX MOD CHIPS
A hefty fine and harsh jail sentence for Xbox mod chip retailer
David Rocci sold the Enigma mod chips for the Xbox on his site, IsoNews.com, and was found in breach of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act whose draconian rules seized the site, his equipment and set the wheels of unjustice rolling. He pleaded guilty to selling illegal copyright circumvention devices under the Act.
While we don’t condone the ability to pirate software, this is surely an outrageous and disproportionate punishment for someone who merely facilitated people to tinker with their own Xbox. It is their Xbox once they bought it isn’t it? How many people have a CD-RW in their PC – surely the multinational companies making and distributing these must be party to copying, but I doubt they’re quaking in their boots. It’s like going to a garage and converting your car to run on LPG, is that wrong?
The whole thing stinks. A mod chip’s a mod chip and simply because it can be used for illegal purposes this makes it illegal, and this ruling is from a country that prides itself on its inalienable ‘right to bear arms’; weapons which can be used for illegal purposes.
This is a scene from an old mid-1970’s episode of “The Rockford Files” (feel free to help me with any details on this episode. I’m happy to update this posting.)
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the show. Jim Rockford is a private investigator (James Garner) that will often drive around and question people for his different clients. He often poses as an Insurance Agent or Gov Official or something (usually with a fake business card and everything) in order to keep his cover.
In this scene, his “client” is actually his own father, because Jim has learned that his dad owned some old claims to some oil wells (er something) that were thought to be worthless before and now, what do ya know, might not be. (This is actually a common thread of western movies/tv shows as far back as I can remember.)
So Jim goes out, in good faith (he’s an ex-cop and an ex-con, but he’s still a relatively honest guy), to find out who else has a claim on the land (along with his dad) and to verify if his dad’s claim is even any good, so he can decide what to do from there.
I’m just guessing (I didn’t see the whole episode), but from what I know about the Rockford Files (I grew up watching them because my mom was a big fan), sometime soon after this scene, someone starts threatening or making attempts on his dad’s life, forcing Jim to actually get to the bottom of whatever’s going on, rather than just find out what him and his dad need to know.
With that, I’ll just let the clip speak for itself. I imagine it will mean different things to different people, and that’s kind of the point.
Enjoy!
Rockford Files On Wars Over Oil (Small – 7 MB)
Rockford Files On Wars Over Oil (Hi-res- 95 MB)
Jim Rockford (James Garner)
Don’t know this guy’s name…
Bomb Shelter
I wish I had more time to blog these one at a time or make them display prettier.
But I don’t 🙂
Here’s the scoop for those of you who are interested.
Kill The Messenger
David Miller provides a nice collection of eleven articles detailing the events of yesterday’s attack on hotels that the U.S. knew contained members of the independent press (read: “non-embedded”).
This goes very nicely with his earlier posting: The Embedded Press vs. Freelance Press.
Pictures of April 7, 2003 gathering outside the Federal Courthouse.
Intel Coder Not Going Anywhere
By Leander Kahney for Wired News.
About 100 supporters gathered outside Portland’s Federal Courthouse to protest Monday’s secret hearing for Mike Hawash. The 38-year-old American citizen of Arab descent, was arrested by the FBI’s Terrorist Task Force on the morning of March 20 as he appeared for work at Intel.Hawash will be held until at least the end of April, according to a court order released on Monday afternoon. The Oregon branch of the American Civil Liberties Union condemned Hawash’s arrest, which it characterized as an abuse of the material witness statute. The 1984 statute was designed to prevent nervous or hostile witnesses from fleeing before a trial.