More Naked Peaceful Women In Australia

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More naked Australian women

Naked demonstrations are becoming a regular event for Australian women.
Some 450 Australian women were recently in the news over plans to hold a naked rain dance and more recently, another group of 300 Australian women have staged a war protest in the buff on a Sydney sports field, where they spelled out “No War” with their bodies.
Anti-war nudity may be catching on: some 300 men and women also got naked for peace in Santiago, Chile, where they stripped in a public park over the weekend, and several hundred Australian men spelt out “Peace, man” with their bodies last week in NSW.
Several of the weekend’s Chilean protesters, presumably clothed, were later arrested following a march from the park to the presidential palace.

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Veteran Diplomat Resigns From The Administration With An Elegant Letter To Colin Powell

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Letter and link to Washington post story: U.S. Diplomat Resigns, Protesting ‘Our Fervent Pursuit of War’

I am writing you to submit my resignation from the Foreign Service of the United States and from my position as Political Counselor in U.S. Embassy Athens, effective March 7. I do so with a heavy heart. The baggage of my upbringing included a felt obligation to give something back to my country…
…until this Administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer.
The policies we are now asked to advance are incompatible not only with American values but also with American interests. Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has been America

Reliant Resources, Williams Cos., Mirant Corp. and ???

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So these as-yet-unnamed energy companies conspired to create the appearance of network congestion so that the state would have to purchase energy from “alternative” suppliers at exorbitant prices.
One more time: Allegedly, (no one’s been convicted in a court of law, yet), most or all of the power companies involved in the California power grid misrepresented to the people, businesses and goverment of California that higher-priced energy was needed, due to demand, when it, in fact, was not.
(They lied to make a bunch of money.)
Energy report claims vast cheating of state
Evidence to feds cites $7.5 billion in overcharges
By Mark Martin and Christian Berthelsen for SF Gate.

Among the discoveries:
— Internal memos from several companies show power traders developed complicated trading strategies that resemble some of the schemes Enron used in California. In separate proceedings, two Enron traders have pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud over the company’s colorfully named market games like “Death Star” and “Get Shorty.” Several strategies involved zapping megawatts around the West Coast to create transmission congestion — or the appearance of congestion — and volatility in the marketplace, driving up prices.
Some companies partnered with municipal utilities within California on the gaming strategies, the report shows.
— Electricity generators purposely shut down power plants in California to take advantage of shortages and earn more money selling alternative megawatts. Two companies — Reliant Resources and Williams Cos. — have been forced to turn over money after tape recordings revealed power plant operators and traders discussing turning off plants to boost profits, and a source said the state had uncovered other examples similar to cases brought against Reliant and Williams.
— Energy market manipulation between May 2000 and June 2001 allowed power companies to earn more than $7.5 billion in profits they wouldn’t have seen under fair market conditions.

And what kind of garbage is this below? Why should these people be able to remain nameless and faceless after they ripped us off? So they can go and do it all again?:

The report, due to FERC on Monday, will not be made public unless the commission decides to reverse a protective order. Sources familiar with the report refused to name which companies are accused of wrongdoing.

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Lots Of Developments Over The Weekend

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Lots of incredible developments over the weekend on the Peace front.
Turkey said no to 6 billion dollars and a Major U.S. Diplomat sent his resignation letter to Colin Powell.
We also found out here in California that several energy companies conspired together to fake power congestion so they could sell us power from other sources at higher prices.
Meanwhile, I’ve got highlights from last weekend’s Spectrum Policy conference at Stanford, last week’s DRM conference at UC Berkeley, more footage from the Feb 15 protest (really cool footage and MP3s of the mix from the rave that went down on the corner of Polk/Grove all afternoon).

Having My Mind Blown At The Spectrum Policy Conference

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I’ve got eight hours of footage from yesterday’s Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons conference.
There are a few more speakers today.
I don’t know when I’m going to find time to get all of this up before I leave for Austin Friday, but I’ll do my best. More likely, I will create a few “highlight reels.” (Even that will take a while. There were many highlights.)
It was really an incredible group of people that Larry assembled in one room — and it seems like we’re really starting to get somewhere towards where this needs to go…

My Little Adventure In Hacktivism For February 16, 2003 – Part 18

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Part 18 – I try to get up towards the stage and score a press pass like last time, but it just wasn’t going to happen (That is, unless I waited around by the side of the stage for a while, and I didn’t want to risk missing Barbara Lee.)

So I decided to brave it in the main crowd 200 yards or so out from the stage.

At this point, Kevin took off — he was tired and wasn’t up for dealing with the crowd.

The crowd is really dense and hard to walk through, especially with my camera, so I give up and decide to just place my camera a top the tripod, and fold up the legs of my tripod so I can hold it squarely with both arms several feet above the crowd.

At this point I shoot the footage you see below. (That’s Tom Ammiano telling bad jokes in the background.)

Feb 16, 2003 Part 18 of ? (Hi-res 35 MB)
Feb 16, 2003 Part 18 of ? (Lo-res 13 MB)
Feb 16, 2003 Part 18 – (1 of 2) of ? (Lo-res 7 MB)
Feb 16, 2003 Part 18 – (2 of 2) of ? (Lo-res 7 MB)



A Blogistan Birth In Real Time

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My friend Quinn is having a baby (like, as we speak) and blogging about it online, as it happens. (Yes, they’re having the baby at home.)
It’s just a webpage, so you have to manually reload it to see the updates, but they’re steady…

9:37pm. We’re looking after Quinn’s backache (it’s a posterior-facing baby for now, so backache is par for the course). “Birth would be fine if it wasn’t for the contractions”. [danny]
9:51pm. Note to Heather: back births suck.
10:22pm. The hormones have her shivering, and freezing cold. Thank god for lots and lots of blankets. [ gilbert ]
10:35pm. can i have a shower?
10:41pm. six centimeters-plus dilation. this is a good thing.