Woman Arrested and Jailed For Putting Up A Poster In Cleveland – Confirmed

I don’t want this to be true. But I think it is. Update 5/16/06 – this is true guys. I’ve found a lot of info on it and will be posting here asap.
Things are getting really freaky. Sure, it happened in Cleveland, but it could happen anywhere, if it’s allowed to happen there.
Here’s the link from the World Can’t wait website.

Defend World Can’t Wait Activist Brutalized and Arrested by Police for Postering
This is from an email sent to me:

May 9: Judge Timothy McGinty forcibly incarcerated Carol Fisher in
the psych unit of the Cuyahoga County Jail in downtown Cleveland,
where she now sits for an indefinite period of time.
In a hastily called hearing yesterday, Judge McGinty made a highly
unusual and outrageous decision to force Carol to undergo a state
psychological exam as part of her pre-sentencing investigation. From
the very start of Carol’s case, the judge has openly said that she
must have mental problems for resisting an unlawful and brutal
encounter with Cleveland Heights police. He went even further in
yesterday’s hearing, saying that her opposition to the Bush regime
makes her “delusional.”

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Newt on MTP – And Why isn’t anybody outraged?

So the Repubs have brought out the big guns to deal with its latest scandal of having spent the last three years constructing a massive phone surveillance program of every phone call made by everybody in the country:
Newt Gingrich was on Meet the Press yesterday morning.
According to Newt, yes they are spying on us, and it’s for our own good, and we shouldn’t let “libertarian concerns” about civil rights detract from the government’s #1 job of hunting down terrorists.
So if you’re one of those mamby pambies who’s worried about your civil liberties, fine. But he says that 90% of American’s want to catch terrorists…so, basically, whose side are you on anyway?
The trouble with Newt Gingrich is that he’s so good at making insane reasoning sound reasonable.
Newt, like Colin, is a good soldier. He stepped in to help his team in its hour of need and I’m sure his efforts will prove most effective in calming the storm.
So I just want to ask everybody: Where’s the outrage people?
They’re spying on us – all the time – every day. And they’ve been doing it for three years — and they’re still doing it right now.
Doesn’t this bother anybody?


Is anybody there!
Hello?

IPOD Advice Please

So Gregory‘s IPOD is on the fritz, and I was the last one to try to use it, so I’m asking you for my usual tech support – I’ve never used an IPOD 🙂
It seems to be charging OK, but when I try to connect it, I get a folder with a little questionmark.
help and thanks!
lisa
ps.
I’m also looking for that software to allow you to use your IPOD with more than one computer.

Scooter Names Karl Rove and Ari Fleischer In Plame Scandal

This is from the April 13, 2006 program.
Libby’s latest court filings name Karl Rove and Ari Fleischer as people who were also involved in leaking the information about Valerie Plame to the press. In Ari Fleischer’s grand jury testimony, he describes a day when Scooter Libby took him to lunch, which had never happened before, and Scooter told him that Joseph Wilson’s wife was a CIA agent, and that it was not widely known. (wink wink) Ari said that he took that to mean that he should leak it to the press. But the important part here is, of course, that Scooter has named Karl Rove as being involved in the conspiracy.
Video – Rove Implicated by Libby (Quicktime 17 MB)

Audio – Rove Implicated by Libby (MP3 9 MB)

Joseph Wilson On Keith Olbermann

This is from the April 10, 2006 program of
Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
As always, Keith Olbermann is the only guy in the news media thoroughly covering this story.
Joseph Wilson clarifies the details and emphasizes seriousness of the situation.



 In a nutshell, President Bush, Cheney and Karl Rove are traitors. Together, they conspired to out Valerie Plame as a CIA agent in retaliation for her husband’s going to the media about how Saddam hadn’t really purchased uranium from Niger, and therefore, how Iraq’s WMDs didn’t exist.


Video – Joe Wilson on Olbermann – All (37 MB)

Video – Joe Wilson on Olbermann – Intro (9 MB)

Video – Joe Wilson on Olbermann – Wilson Interview (13 MB)

Video – Joe Wilson on Olbermann – Shuster Analysis (10 MB)

Audio – Joe Wilson on Olbermann – All (18 MB)

Audio – Joe Wilson on Olbermann – Intro (5 MB)

Audio – Joe Wilson on Olbermann – Wilson Interview (9 MB)

Audio – Joe Wilson on Olbermann – Shuster Analysis (6 MB)

Final Versions Of My Final Project for SFSU

I’ve created a student licensing guide for using content in mixed media production and licensing your own production when you’re done.
The final guide is available
Here. (.doc) file
Text version.
A longer winded version of the same information contained in the Guide (with historical references)
is available here:
Word File
Text version.
My pros and cons table comparing Creative Commons 6 main licenses (and the Public Domain) is here:
Pros and Cons of Creative Commons Licenses
(As an idealist and a skeptic.)

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Joseph Wilson On 60 Minutes – How Valerie Plame Leak Threatens Our National Security

This is from the October 30, 2005 program of 60 minutes
I’ve been clearing off my TIVO since I’ve been home so much lately, and what do I run across but a 60 Minutes piece from October 30, 2005 about Valerie Plame. Not about the scandal per se, but about Valerie: who she was, what she did, and the lives potentially at risk and irrepairable damage that has been done to our National Security as a result of her identity being revealed.

Valerie was an undercover Agent gathering intelligence about numerous countries’ Nuclear Weapons programs. She dedicated her life to protecting the National Security of the United States. She recommended her husband, Joseph Wilson, to go on another patriotic mission to Nigeria to verify whether or not Saddam Hussein had purchased uranium from there. Wilson went on this mission, almost as a favor, for the Vice President himself. When Wilson came back with the truth – that the documents saying Saddam had purchased uranium were forged, the Vice President wanted Wilson to keep quiet about it.

When he did not, and instead offered up to the press what he had uncovered, our Bush, Cheney and Rove conspired to reveal his wife’s identity in retaliation.
Wow. You’ve really got to see this for yourself.

Video – 60 Minutes On The CIA Leak – All

Video – 60 Minutes On The CIA Leak – Part One

Video – 60 Minutes On The CIA Leak – Part Two

Audio – 60 Minutes On The CIA Leak – All

Audio – 60 Minutes On The CIA Leak – Part One

Audio – 60 Minutes On The CIA Leak – Part Two