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Man found in Lady Bird Lake was teacher, FBI target: Apr 22, 7:40pm 1 review activism, conspiracies, counterculture, news, racism
http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/04/18/0418body.html; One thing that police departments, real estate developers, the business community, and our faithful watchdog Free Press agree on is, "we don't want any lynchings". That's why they are ruled suicide and quickly forgotten. One such "suicide" happened just a few miles from where I am sitting now: Somehow a young black man, Damien Johnson, managed to climb a live oak without getting a mark on his pristine white T-shirt. There were no traces of bark or moss on his shoes, which did retain leaf material from the ground below. The manner in which he "hanged himself" was mechanically impossible without lots of help. But his death was ruled suicide the next day and the case was closed without any undesirable publicity.

What makes Riad Hammad's death different, is that he had been harassed by the FBI and vigilante-minded local citizens, and was well known in his local activist community. But never mind: He used duct tape to tie his own hands and feet, wrapped it around his head, and threw himself into the lake. Isn't it obvious? The rest of the story: tinyurl.com/6cu34p [tinyurl.com/6cu34p]

The Man Who Turned Against the C.I.A. - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Ti…: Jan 11, 7:25pm 1 review activism, liberal-politics, conservative-politics, history, news
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/the-motivations-of-philip-agee?hp; Philip Agee 1935 - 2008

What turned Phil was the torture chambers in Central and South America. His legacy is nearly a decade of highly motivated Congressional and media oversight of the U.S. intel community, which prevented many gross abuses. The truth is, Philip was tolerated by an important faction in the Intel community, the real pros who draw the line at torture. That is why he was allowed - some would say used - to publish his book. I met him briefly while playing volunteer roadie at a presentation on covert foreign policy some years ago. He can spy for my country any time.

redhat.com | One Laptop per Child: May 4, 2007 8:26am 3 reviews computers, cyberculture, internet, industrial-design, engineering
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014dec05/features/olpc/; The MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop, a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. To achieve this goal, a new, non-profit association, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has been created. For current news see laptop.org & the wiki.

Red Hat is currently defining the operating system software for the generation 1 and 2 OLPC laptops. These computers run without external electricity, and are capable of forming wireless mesh networks to reach global Internet access points. They will be distributed to 3rd World schools.

StumbleUpon runs on Debian Linux servers. Check out this freshly installed desktop. I am presently using Ubuntu Linux, a Debian-based distro specifically for "regular folks", and loving every minute of it. Dell is now selling PCs with Ubuntu pre-installed as a standard option!

StumbleUpon - draloos web site reviews and blog: Dec 11, 2006 4:43pm 59 reviews stumblers, politics, art, human-rights, freedom
http://draloo.stumbleupon.com/; "I have given away over 32,000 of my paintings simply because I can. The objective of this project is to prove that I am free to hold the opinions expressed in these paintings which I have made and that I can have them printed and then send them freely to anyone I choose, anywhere in the United States, or anywhere on Earth and that the only thing I have to fear is art criticism."

StumbleUpon - Happibuns web site reviews and blog: Nov 2, 2006 4:23pm 81 reviews stumblers, web-design, art, css, graphics
http://happibun.stumbleupon.com/; One of the most amazing things about happibun's SU page, is how few people have reviewed it. Demonstrates the outer limits of what can be done to compose a StumbleUpon page, and best of all, the pretty stuff showcases excellent content. Check it out.

Could You Pass the 8th Grade Exam of 1895? - by MWHodges: Sep 3, 2006 6:01am 34 reviews liberal-politics, conservative-politics, family, homeschooling, k-12-education
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/1895-test.htm; "Is Our Children Learning?" [hilarious Bush video]

From the page: "Poor education quality is a major threat to our nation, partly caused by unacceptable teaching methods, and dumbed-down textbooks and test standards."

Starting early in the 20th century, our schools were converted, one step at a time, into babysitting services tasked to turn out acceptable workers with little or no useful knowledge outside that required by industry. This was done quite deliberately by America's policy makers: "We believe that education is one of the principal causes of discontent of late years manifesting itself among the laboring classes." (Senate Committe on Education, 1888)

The longer kids stay in American schools, the worse they do in international competition. They do worse than kids from poorer countries that spend much less money on education, ranking behind not only Belgium but also Poland, the Czech Republic and South Korea. By age 15, when students from 40 countries are tested, the Americans place 25th.

Today's public education process amounts to psychological child abuse. John Taylor Gatto, named New York City Teacher of the Year for three years in a row, now argues persuasively against school. A High School diploma used to be a sign of intellectual achievement; today it is the mark of mindless conformity. The No Child Left Behind laws assure that reforming your local school district is literally impossible.

Wikipedia on Homeschooling: Did you know that Thomas Edison attended compulsory school for only three months, after which he was taught at home by his mother and a tutor? Homeschoolers don't go it alone, they participate in community projects with a large at-home component. Finding resources is as simple as doing a Google search for "[your state] home education" and "[your state] homeschool".

My personal advice to U.S. High School students is simple: Unless you are in a truly exceptional school, enrolled in programs that really light your fire, don't waste your time. Drop out. Get a GED (the test is a simple literacy test), and go directly to college or tech school.

Dodge the Impending US Military Draft - Say NO to Conscription: Jul 17, 2006 10:52am 3 reviews activism, christianity, human-rights, war, pacifism
http://www.10waystododgethedraft.com/; As a Quaker I would classify this for-profit "How to doge the draft" manual as both dangerous and illegal. There are only two results when trying to scam your draft board: Either it works and you are a felony criminal liable to trial and jail if exposed, or it does not and you will definitly be inducted, trained, assigned to "the front lines".

If you object to participating in war on grounds of a religious, moral, or ethical belief that war is wrong, the military has no legal or moral right to force you to serve, and current laws and public policies reflect this. That does not mean it is easy to say no to your induction letter; but it does mean that you have real options.

Thousands of determined young men opted out of the draft during the Vietnam War, legally, with the assistance of NISBCO draft counsellors. The same organization functions today, under the name Center on Conscience and War, and stands ready to serve.

What Do I Believe About War? ... Questions for the Conscientious Objector: Read this, if you might be a conscientious objector to war, and think about your own beliefs and choices. You might want to spread copies around at your church or school, as well.

In the event you receive a draft notice, you have 10 days to file the correct forms to request reclassification. If you want to have the option to say NO to war, read the rest of the CCW documents, and make appropriate provisions now. If you "suddenly become a pacifist" the day your induction letter arrives, you will most likely not be found draft-exempt by your local Draft Board, in which case you may have to engage in civil disobedience to avoid participating in mass murder.

TrashMail.net :: Firefox Add-ons: Mar 25, 2006 3:18am 1 review firefox, internet, web-development, freeware
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&catego...; Trashmail for Firefox is a SPAM avoidance tool, that creates free disposable email addresses and pastes them directly in forms. Forward incoming mail (website registration links, sales literature, one-shot newsletters, etc.) to your regular account, or check your temporary mailbox at Trashmail.net.

Web Developer Toolbar: If you do HTML work, you really want this. Turns Firefox into a Swiss Army Knife for page testing & layout troubleshooting. Add SearchStatus for SEO analysis. It's L337. And check out:

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ABC News: Bin Laden Vows Never to Be Captured Alive: Mar 25, 2006 3:16am 3 reviews politics, terrorism, human-rights, propaganda, neocon
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1640271; Feb 20 2006: The Republican owned and controlled "Liberal Media" revived a one month old story about a (fake) Bin Ladin audio tape. Why is this dead issue suddenly a red-hot topic in the press? Perhaps it is an effort to use a boogie man to counter the political impact of new pictures from Abu Ghraib and a U.N. report on ongoing torture of prisoners in U.S. custody.

Osama Bin Ladin is almost certainly dead. Remember the "Bin Ladin" videotape they never showed on U.S. TV because the Bush gang said it might contain "coded messages to terrorists"? The one where Bin Ladin supposedly took credit for the 9-11 attack? That was not Bin Ladin, see for yourself.

The most extensive manhunt in human history has failed to find a trace of Bin Ladin. The FBI, Israeli intelligence, and Hamid Karzai agree that Bin Ladin died in late December of 2001. But strangely enough, at least 7 of 19 "9-11 hijackers" are alive.

U.S. military voice morphing technology, a weapon of psychological warfare, fools the human ear. It remains to be seen if the new "Bin Ladin" tape will fool the experts: The previous "Bin Ladin" audio tape, fully endorsed as genunine by the CIA and Bush Administration, was ruled a forgery by highly qualified independent analysts.

The latest "Bin Ladin" audiotape first surfaced just in time to rally the ignorant and easily led among us around the Great Leader, when he was caught committing felony crimes (illegal wiretapping), leading to calls for immediate impeachment. Add the use of psychological warfare against the American people to the list of Bush Administration felonies.

&the power of nightmares& - Google Video: Mar 25, 2006 3:16am 1 review search, politics, terrorism, middle-east, war, neocon
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22the%20power%20of%20nightmares%22%20&...; The Power of Nightmares

A three part BBC documentary series, the Power of Nightmares explores the paralell history, development, and rise to power of American NeoConservatism and the Islamic militants. Extensively researched by serious journalists with academic support and the entire BBC film archive at their disposal, this documentary is a unique and much needed history lesson.

No matter what your present political opinions may be, this documentary will change your views forever, by filling in the gaps: Where the NeoConservative and Islamic Radical movements came from, how remarkably similar their ideologies are, and what they are planning for the future.

Three one-hour episodes, available on Google Video:

Baby It's Cold Outside the origins of NeoConservatism and Islamic Radicalism
The Phantom Victory charts the rise of both movements as political power players
The Shadows In The Cave examines the facts and myths of the "War on Terror"

Political censorship? Not in America!
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