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Considering the stuff that's come out from leaked emails including stuff like Hillary knowingly ordering the destruction of data even after demands for the data under law? You can take the link as you want, it does have backlinks to all of the previous leaked emails, previous statements and so on. That means she/they was lying, ignored official requirements, or simply believe they're so big they can avoid prosecution. So that leaves us with: Either the FBI is incompetent, turned a blind eye, or someone was holding a sword over their head in recommending prosecution.

This isn't even touching the pay-for-play stuff including the 12m payment to the clinton foundation while she was still sec. of state for her to come speak to the king of morocco. Or the enlistment of journalists/columnists to attack political candidates using her talking points.

Doesn't matter, John Roberts killed the Rule of Law via legislating from the bench via an "intent" ruling.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/3575...

I see what you did there. It is called: totally missing the point.

Perhaps you should start educating yourself. "Trigger warning" ... you might experience "discomfort."

"If only there were some... natural mechanism by which to explain variations in global temperature. It would have to be massive, though. On the scale of our own Sun."

See interview transcript here.

The old spin: Bush lied, people died! There never were any WMD in Iraq!

The new spin: Bush claimed that Iraq had an ongoing WMD program, but it was not ongoing, but of course there were WMDs; we said all along there were WMDs. When you look at the nuance, Bush was lying all along, but WMDs in Iraq are a problem even today.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/352462.php

Not only that, a guy is decapitated by a british speaking terrorist. The timing was just too good, specially because it helped to move the public opinion away from Israel/Gaza. Coincidentally, the moment Hamas stopped getting press they basically surrendered.

You haven't really been paying attention to the stuff that's been on-going then. It's similar to the people who don't watch what the jihadi's are doing then say: "but he was such a nice neighbor," after they found out that ran off and committed a suicide attack. Hell Jawa Report has been tracking the guy they suspect for at least a year. As a point, they were also instrumental in nailing several dozen other terrorists or want-to-be terrorists to the wall who are now spending time in federal prison.

Your claim about the number and frequency of rocket attacks is essentially false. There has been a steady stream of rocket attacks this year, as there are most years.

List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2014

You seem to be arguing that Hamas can attack as much as it likes as long as it isn't very successful due to Israeli diligence, and those attacks should just be ignored. That is ridiculous. An attempted attack is just as serous a matter as a successful attack, just as much an act of war. Israel is well justified in defending itself against those rocket attacks using proportionate means, which is what it is doing. Hamas launches artillery rockets, Israel replies with bombs and artillery.

It doesn't matter which faction did the firing, Hamas is the governing authority of Gaza, they are responsible.

Your argument about scaling Palestinian Arab deaths is nonsense. Who are the "Palestinians"? They are simply the Arabs that live in that area of the Middle East. The Middle East has well over 100,000,000 Arabs living in it. There is no scaling required to count deaths among the Arabs.

Of that one thousand dead, many hundreds of them are Hamas gunmen, others are human shields (another war crime by Hamas). Then there are those killed by Hama's incompetence or criminality.

Why The Press Keeps Qualifying That They're Not Sure Who Struck UN School

... the vast majority of Palestinian casualties have been civilians.

Hamas gunmen
Hamas's human shields
Victims of Hamas's rockets

Why The Press Keeps Qualifying That They're Not Sure Who Struck UN School

But then maybe I'm a shill. Or maybe I'm a victim of shills. Or maybe I'm just biased and easily led because I think that GG is thoroughly intellectually dishonest in at least some of the statements that he does put his own name on.

BTW: If you care to read that one through, it culminates with the best smackdown I remember seeing.

Coincidence: Hollywood’s only conservative group is getting close IRS nonprofit scrutiny

Another Coincidence: James O’Keefe Group Being Audited by NY. Again.

Yet Another Coincidence: Dinesh D’Souza Indicted For Election Fraud

Still Another Coincidence: IRS Proposes New 501(c)(4) Rules That Just Happen to Cover Most Tea Party Groups

Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin’s ‘John Doe’ Subpoenas

Secret investigations targeted coincidentally at most prominent conservative groups in WI who can only now legally talk about their harassment. If you want to see what American fascism would look like, well this is it.

quote source: Here, with more links.

The power of the federal goverment, and some state governments, is being turned against those who oppose the powerful. If you don't have a problem with that, you're no better than a Nazi, regardless of Godwin's law.

Ace, I didn't know you read slashdot.

"If only there were some. . .natural mechanism by which to explain variations in global temperature.
It would have to be massive, though. On the scale of our own Sun."

The idea that, just because I find the "Anthropogenic Global Climate Warming Change" club is tantamount to a religious cult armed with a computer model means that
I am automatically contending that "climate is constant", is more than a little silly. The idea of nature conservation is as conservative as conservare.
If the last decade of ManBearPiggery has taught anything, it is the imperative to reject categorically all appeals to guilt & fear. Make the argument, put the raw data and the model out there for calm reflection, or understand that you've completely undercut your point.

Why don't you demonstrate your true manliness and post something more along these lines?

Or do you not want to end up in a video on Facebook or Youtube? Move along, nothing to see .... if you want to keep your head.

No problems there. Nope. Nope. It seems to be a successful strategy for them. You seem to be encouraging it.

South Park Muhammad Cartoon Sparks Jihadi Death Threats

"If only there were some... natural mechanism by which to explain variations in global temperature. It would have to be massive, though. On the scale of our own Sun."

An interesting take on that.

Interesting post. I disagree with a number of your points, but I'll limit myself to a few counterpoints.

Guantanamo bay has never even held a total of 1,000 people as prisoners. Al Qaida teaches its members to lie and carry on the jihad by any means possible. Gitmo guards often attacked by detainees As to feeding tubes - yes they can be unpleasant, but it's likely the prisoners magnify the difficulties in line with their training.
Al Qaeda Manual Drives Detainee Behavior at Guantanamo Bay

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2005 – If you're a Muslim extremist captured while fighting your holy war against "infidels," avoid revealing information at all costs, don't give your real name and claim that you were mistreated or tortured during your detention. . .

Anwar al-Awlaki wasn't targeted due to making speeches, but due to his active participation as a terrorist recruiter, trainer, and leader: Awlaki's Legacy: A Dozen Terror Plots Linked to Al Qaeda Leader

Soviets rule was not benign: The Soviet Story

The Pentagon is maintaining a line that WikiLeaks inherently, as an institution that tells military and government whistleblowers to step forward with information, is a crime. They allege we are criminal, moving forward.

Without commenting on whether or not that is the Pentagon's allegation, Wikileaks has been caught giving leaked secrets to "the bad guys" while they were, at the time, withholding the same secrets from the public. Wikileaks has also been shown to deliberately lie about the information it releases in such a way as to wrongly disparage the United States, as in the "Collateral Murder" hoax.

Actions such as these raise the question of whether it is the intent of Wikileaks to leak US secrets to the enemies of the US rather than to simply publish the information for the world to know. Such an intent would make the actions of Wikileaks criminal in the US jurisdiction. They would be enemy spies.

We also have Bradley Manning's talk about wanting to get back at the army he believed was oppressing him. This raises the question of whether Manning's intent was to release information to the public, which would make him an innocent man, or if his intent was to hinder the operations of the US army, which would make him a traitor.

Proving intent is difficult, but this gets to the core of whether the actions of Wikileaks are within the law or whether the US has a case against it. Is Wikileaks only telling military and government whistleblowers to step forward with information, or are they trying to deliver US military secrets to the the enemy during a war?

There is no actual evidence that this is true. It sounds pretty truthy, but where's the evidence?

There is plenty of evidence. What you should have said is that you have never seen it, not that it doesn't exist. A quick Google found this:

http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html

In reality-land there are plenty of weapons in the hands of people with no training. In reality land these well trained people with firearms live with people who aren't well trained, kids, and outright idiots.

Also, in reality land, most of those people with firearms take reasonable precautions to secure them. I don't even have children in my home, and I keep my firearms in a gun safe.

Not to mention the number of firearms stolen from well trained people now in the hands of the idiots the government would have refused to sell them to...

Did you just imply that we should take all the legal firearms away from law-abiding citizens to keep them out of the hands of "idiots"? I think you did! Tell me, on your planet are the streets completely free of all illegal drugs such as cocaine? If not, then why do you think that you can get all the guns off the streets? Disarming the law-abiding will not disarm the law-breakers.

The only people who were outraged were the people who had their houses identified as being "extra safe and secure". Funny that.

Good grief. If I posted your address along with information about valuable stuff inside your home, you'd be pretty outraged too. So why is it funny? What exactly do you think you just demonstrated?

And how is it that you can speak for all the readers of the newspaper? Some of the non-gun-permit people in the area might have been outraged.

You counter your own argument with some of those examples. We have ALL kinds of restrictions on cars. You need to pass tests, you need to renew a license to operate one, they are all registered to there owners, and you are even required to have insurance before it can leave your property. We are seeing graduated licensing introduced with additional restrictions on new drivers. And your permission to operate one can be revoked for all kinds of reasons.

And there are something like 20,000 to 30,000 laws on firearms already. There are restrictions on how you can transport them, who can buy them. Unlike cars, when you buy a firearm, the "instant check" system looks you up to make sure you aren't a felon or something.

http://keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=2023

I was talking about outright banning of cars. Some people are proposing outright banning of firearms. Can you comprehend this simple idea?

If you think "gee, firearms ought to be heavily regulated" then great news! They already are! We're done!

If you think "gee, firearms ought to be banned" then I'm arguing that you are wrong.

But if all gun owners were all so well trained and conscientious America wouldn't be rubbing shoulders with 3rd world countries run by despots for its gun related violence statistics.

America is safer than those 3rd world countries. America is safer than Mexico, which has strict gun-control laws (there is only one gun store in all of Mexico that sells to civilians; it's so hard to get a legal gun that one is all they need... yet the drug gangs seem to have plenty of guns to kill people).

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/214667.php

I could show you numbers that demonstrate that areas with strict gun control have high violence. (New York City and Washington, D.C. and Chicago are all far more violent than where I live.) If I then tried to claim that gun control laws cause violence, you would say: Correlation doesn't prove causation! And you would be right.

Now, you are arguing that America has many guns

I once watched a video clip of an American helicopter killing a crowd of people, because one of them had a camera in his hand. It was a clip from recordings of the Apache helicopter, that was later named Collateeral Murder by Julian Assange. So, let's talk about facts, not movies.

As a matter of fact, another person in the group had an AK-47 in his hand and a third had a grenade launcher. Julian Assange and Wikileaks were made aware of this information and did not correct their story. This makes them liars. They were lying to have called it murder in the first place, when by their own reporting it was at worst an accidental killing.

Well let's say you condone their actions. Then this is the type of stuff you support. Oh and that's Hamas dragging a guy's body through the streets on the back of a motor cycle, and then there's the other stuff about the supposed "jewish collaborator" that they executed in the middle of the street.

Yeah, good guys to support. If Israel's attacks are heavy handed(over 1200 missile attacks and less than 140 dead with direct targeting) vs the palestinians 12000+ missile attacks directly targeting civilians. You've got a screw loose.

Can we get rid of the brainless AC posts already? They're all shoot-from-the-lip ignoramuses like this asshole.

I'm an Obamatron, but I can't abide the Huffpost. So I learned about this fiasco from Newser, which linked a conservative web site which linked John Ekdahl's blog. John's a Romney volunteer, and his scathing description of Orca is informed by his day job as a web developer. And the there's Pudge, who helped design Slashdot, and who I presume voted for Romney, unless he considers him too liberal.

So obviously there's no absence of IT talent on the right side of the aisle. What is missing is administrative judgment by Romney himself, who obviously bought some IT snakeoil from somebody, and has generally managed to find total clowns to run his campaign.

People keep telling me about this brilliant guy named Mitt Romney who had a brilliant academic career (MBA and JD from Harvard), did well as a management consultant and equity capitalist, and accomplished great things as Governor of MA, even though the other party controlled the legislature. But I just don't see how that can be the same guy!

When a snake oil salesman gets burned by the snake oil he purchased-- there's only one word for that: Karma...

You run Communist style purges on your own top people and then are surprised when your "true conservatives" tend to be intolerable nutbags.

The source of these articles, http://ace.mu.nu/ , is one of those intolerant nutbags you speak of.
Obviously that has nothing to do with this particular story, but I stopped going to his website because of how virulently hateful he was.
And I don't mean vulgar, I mean hateful.

Business Insider is pretty bogus site. I have to wonder of if they even asked for Ekdahl's permission to copy his blog. Which is here:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334783.php

Can we get rid of the brainless AC posts already? They're all shoot-from-the-lip ignoramuses like this asshole.

I'm an Obamatron, but I can't abide the Huffpost. So I learned about this fiasco from Newser, which linked a conservative web site which linked John Ekdahl's blog. John's a Romney volunteer, and his scathing description of Orca is informed by his day job as a web developer. And the there's Pudge, who helped design Slashdot, and who I presume voted for Romney, unless he considers him too liberal.

So obviously there's no absence of IT talent on the right side of the aisle. What is missing is administrative judgment by Romney himself, who obviously bought some IT snakeoil from somebody, and has generally managed to find total clowns to run his campaign.

People keep telling me about this brilliant guy named Mitt Romney who had a brilliant academic career (MBA and JD from Harvard), did well as a management consultant and equity capitalist, and accomplished great things as Governor of MA, even though the other party controlled the legislature. But I just don't see how that can be the same guy!

FTFY

No one gives a shit about your reply. This is a thread about software patents you fucking retard. Take your bigotry elsewhere.

Drug enforcement agents think the war on drugs is a really good thing.

And Muslims think the war against freedom is a really good thing.

Case Closed: US Weapons Clearly Seen on Video of Reuters Reporters Killed in Iraq

FTFY. Iraqis were on their turf. US genocidal invaders had no interest being there. Yet, they were, used chemical weapons, shot at everything that moved - militants, women, children and made jokes about it.

Case Closed: Weapons Clearly Seen on Video of Reuters Reporters Killed in Iraq
You may want to read the documents from the official investigation which are seen at the bottom or the link above.

Yeah, the latest OWS chaos is making me start to wonder if the American public might have more of a stomach than we give them credit for. We live in interesting times.

The List Gets Longer

You have a strange interpretation of Jim Crow since Occupy protestors clearly appeared involved these crimes:

1. NY: 10/1/2011 Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
2. Madison, WI: 10-27-2011 Madison Occupiers Lose Permit Due to Public Masturbation
3. Phoenix: 10/28/2011 Flier at Occupy Phoenix Asks, “When Should You Shoot a Cop?”
4. NY: 10/18/2011 Thieves Preying on Fellow Protesters
5. NY: 10/9/2011 Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters Accused of Living in Filth as Shocking Pictures Show One Demonstrator Defecating on a POLICE CAR
6. NY: 10/7/2011 Occupiers Rush Police More
7. Cleveland: 10/18/2011 ‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped
8. NY: 10/10/2011 ‘Increasingly Debauched’: Are Sex, Drugs & Poor Sanitation Eclipsing Occupy Wall Street?
9. Seattle: 10/18/2011 Man Accused of Exposing Self to Children Arrested
10. 10/12/2011 Iran Supports Occupy Wall Street
11. Portland: 10/16/2011 #OccupyPortland Protester Desecrates Memorial To U.S. War Dead
12. Portland: 10/15/2011 #OccupyPortland Protesters Sing “F*** The USA”
13. Chicago: 10/17/2011 COMMUNIST LEADER Cheered at Occupy Chicago
14. 10/15/2011 American Nazi Party Endorses Occupy Wall Street‘s ’Courage,‘ Tells Members to Support Protests and Fight ’Judeo-Capitalist Banksters’
15. Boston: 10/14/2011 Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents
16. Boston: 10/11/2011 Boston Police Arrest Over 100 from Occupy Boston
17. New York: 10/11/2011 You Can Have Sex with Animals.
18. New York: 10/15/2011 Harassing Police with Accusations of Phony Injuries
19. New York: 10/9/2011 Occupy Wallstreet Protesters Steal from Local Businesses
20. New York: 10/25/2011 Three M

You have a strange interpretation of Jim Crow since Occupy protestors clearly appeared involved these crimes:

1. NY: 10/1/2011 Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
2. Madison, WI: 10-27-2011 Madison Occupiers Lose Permit Due to Public Masturbation
3. Phoenix: 10/28/2011 Flier at Occupy Phoenix Asks, “When Should You Shoot a Cop?”
4. NY: 10/18/2011 Thieves Preying on Fellow Protesters
5. NY: 10/9/2011 Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters Accused of Living in Filth as Shocking Pictures Show One Demonstrator Defecating on a POLICE CAR
6. NY: 10/7/2011 Occupiers Rush Police More
7. Cleveland: 10/18/2011 ‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped
8. NY: 10/10/2011 ‘Increasingly Debauched’: Are Sex, Drugs & Poor Sanitation Eclipsing Occupy Wall Street?
9. Seattle: 10/18/2011 Man Accused of Exposing Self to Children Arrested
10. 10/12/2011 Iran Supports Occupy Wall Street
11. Portland: 10/16/2011 #OccupyPortland Protester Desecrates Memorial To U.S. War Dead
12. Portland: 10/15/2011 #OccupyPortland Protesters Sing “F*** The USA”
13. Chicago: 10/17/2011 COMMUNIST LEADER Cheered at Occupy Chicago
14. 10/15/2011 American Nazi Party Endorses Occupy Wall Street‘s ’Courage,‘ Tells Members to Support Protests and Fight ’Judeo-Capitalist Banksters’
15. Boston: 10/14/2011 Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents
16. Boston: 10/11/2011 Boston Police Arrest Over 100 from Occupy Boston
17. New York: 10/11/2011 You Can Have Sex with Animals.
18. New York: 10/15/2011 Harassing Police with Accusations of Phony Injuries
19. New York: 10/9/2011 Occupy Wallstreet Protesters Steal from Local Businesses
20. New York: 10/25/2011 Three M

You have a strange interpretation of Jim Crow since Occupy protestors clearly appeared involved these crimes:

1. NY: 10/1/2011 Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
2. Madison, WI: 10-27-2011 Madison Occupiers Lose Permit Due to Public Masturbation
3. Phoenix: 10/28/2011 Flier at Occupy Phoenix Asks, “When Should You Shoot a Cop?”
4. NY: 10/18/2011 Thieves Preying on Fellow Protesters
5. NY: 10/9/2011 Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters Accused of Living in Filth as Shocking Pictures Show One Demonstrator Defecating on a POLICE CAR
6. NY: 10/7/2011 Occupiers Rush Police More
7. Cleveland: 10/18/2011 ‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped
8. NY: 10/10/2011 ‘Increasingly Debauched’: Are Sex, Drugs & Poor Sanitation Eclipsing Occupy Wall Street?
9. Seattle: 10/18/2011 Man Accused of Exposing Self to Children Arrested
10. 10/12/2011 Iran Supports Occupy Wall Street
11. Portland: 10/16/2011 #OccupyPortland Protester Desecrates Memorial To U.S. War Dead
12. Portland: 10/15/2011 #OccupyPortland Protesters Sing “F*** The USA”
13. Chicago: 10/17/2011 COMMUNIST LEADER Cheered at Occupy Chicago
14. 10/15/2011 American Nazi Party Endorses Occupy Wall Street‘s ’Courage,‘ Tells Members to Support Protests and Fight ’Judeo-Capitalist Banksters’
15. Boston: 10/14/2011 Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents
16. Boston: 10/11/2011 Boston Police Arrest Over 100 from Occupy Boston
17. New York: 10/11/2011 You Can Have Sex with Animals.
18. New York: 10/15/2011 Harassing Police with Accusations of Phony Injuries
19. New York: 10/9/2011 Occupy Wallstreet Protesters Steal from Local Businesses
20. New York: 10/25/2011 Three M

You have a strange interpretation of Jim Crow since Occupy protestors clearly appeared involved these crimes:

1. NY: 10/1/2011 Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
2. Madison, WI: 10-27-2011 Madison Occupiers Lose Permit Due to Public Masturbation
3. Phoenix: 10/28/2011 Flier at Occupy Phoenix Asks, “When Should You Shoot a Cop?”
4. NY: 10/18/2011 Thieves Preying on Fellow Protesters
5. NY: 10/9/2011 Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters Accused of Living in Filth as Shocking Pictures Show One Demonstrator Defecating on a POLICE CAR
6. NY: 10/7/2011 Occupiers Rush Police More
7. Cleveland: 10/18/2011 ‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped
8. NY: 10/10/2011 ‘Increasingly Debauched’: Are Sex, Drugs & Poor Sanitation Eclipsing Occupy Wall Street?
9. Seattle: 10/18/2011 Man Accused of Exposing Self to Children Arrested
10. 10/12/2011 Iran Supports Occupy Wall Street
11. Portland: 10/16/2011 #OccupyPortland Protester Desecrates Memorial To U.S. War Dead
12. Portland: 10/15/2011 #OccupyPortland Protesters Sing “F*** The USA”
13. Chicago: 10/17/2011 COMMUNIST LEADER Cheered at Occupy Chicago
14. 10/15/2011 American Nazi Party Endorses Occupy Wall Street‘s ’Courage,‘ Tells Members to Support Protests and Fight ’Judeo-Capitalist Banksters’
15. Boston: 10/14/2011 Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents
16. Boston: 10/11/2011 Boston Police Arrest Over 100 from Occupy Boston
17. New York: 10/11/2011 You Can Have Sex with Animals.
18. New York: 10/15/2011 Harassing Police with Accusations of Phony Injuries
19. New York: 10/9/2011 Occupy Wallstreet Protesters Steal from Local Businesses
20. New York: 10/25/2011 Three M

I'm liking what I'm hearing, Americium.

We already have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. Of course these international companies are doing everything they can to get around it.

Of course we can't blame our fellow corporate citizens for subverting the system and bringing what they pay in for taxes down to zero - because the more you are required to pay in taxes, the less you should expect to actually pay. I mean, whenever I'm required to do a lot, I should be expected to absolutely nothing, because after all, it is a lot.

Would you rather them just move their entire company offshore?

Oh, I know. Companies have basically had this gun to the collective heads of America ever since the world got flat, and we're supposed to let them get away with paying absolutely nothing in to the tax system in exchange for jobs. Doesn't sound like we're being held hostage or anything.

Including state corporate taxes, it's around 40% in the US, imagine how much faster companies could expand with a 67% increase in profits (0% tax)

Which makes so much sense! Why let corporations have a stake in the city, state or country in which they're currently residing by having them pay into the system that created such a fertile environment for them to thrive? Just let them essentially mooch off everything that makes this country great, because their presence is generally accepted as beneficial.

Darinbob writes:
> I've used one of these, and it was kind of nice. The drawback
> compared to X Windows was that it was not very standardized or common.

To be fair, X wasn't very standardized or common in the early days.
There were a lot of windowing systems in the 1980s. X became the
defacto standard. I always thought Display PostScript seemed interesting.

> It was quite usable over a normal serial link or even a modem, since
> it used a lot less bandwidth than X.

In the early 1980s at the Labs, most of us connected via 1200 baud modems.
The Ethernet switch didn't exist yet, so we used a phone switch. :-)
(What do you expect, we were part of the phone company.)

HomelessInLaJolla writes:
> Before 1982, one can only do one thing at a time on any computer.

Feh. I was doing multiple things at once on a pdp11 in the 1970s with
a dumb ascii terminal. Along with 50 other users. And it was fast.

russotto writes:
> So it's a contemporary of the Lisa (introduced January 1983, so finished
> development in 1982 also), which didn't require a Unix host.

The Lisa was a toy compared with Unix.

http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg

That Bacon, Lettuce and Interactive Tomato generated some serious terminal
envy, let me tell you.

http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg

I've watched the video and it clearly shows acts that break international law.

Look at the snippet on the video on this site. (Please ignore the offensive domain name, I haven't found this video snippet posted elsewhere.) The guy there is clearly carrying an RPG, which is exactly what the trained soldier in the video said he saw before escalating the situation. It's a shame that the photographers got shot up, but they took that risk walking around in the open with people carrying RPGs.

I've had people come back and say it was a piece of photographic equipment. I was in the military, and my wife is a professional photographer. We both agree, that it looks and hangs and swings exactly like a weapon; and it doesn't look like any piece of photographic equipment we've ever seen.

To mods: This is not a troll, this is exposing an important piece of information which contradicts commonly held beliefs.

I guess you've fallen behind on Taliban press releases and activities.

Late last week, just four days after the documents were published, death threats began arriving at the homes of key tribal elders in southern Afghanistan. And over the weekend one tribal elder, Khalifa Abdullah, who the Taliban believed had been in close contact with the Americans, was taken from his home in Monar village, in Kandahar province's embattled Arghandab district, and executed by insurgent gunmen.

I don't know why anyone would expect anything else given their sensibilities and tendencies toward killing the innocent. And don't forget, the hand of the Taliban is reaching beyond their borders.

Free speech is causing harm!

Just like yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, or releasing the names and addresses of informants against Mafia hit men, or the names and locations of informants against Al Qaeda & Taliban cut-throats & beheaders like Wikileaks is doing.

Dead informants mean fewer people to pass on information on scum like Shahzad, who tried to bomb Times Square with a bomb like this.

Calling himself a Muslim soldier, Shahzad pleaded guilty in June to 10 terrorism and weapons counts. He said the Pakistan Taliban provided him with more than $15,000 and five days of explosives training late last year and early this year, months after he became a U.S. citizen.

Would even a Wembley stadium type attack convince even most people many on Slashdot that terrorism is a serious problem? I wonder.

Bin Laden's demand to the United States (The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.) is that we all convert to his brand Islam, change our governments to observe Sharia, or he and his minions will continue to try to kill us. Their ultimate goal is to conquer the world for Islam, not simply get the US out of anywhere, destroy Israel, or anything else. Al Qaeda believes it is justified in killing 4,000,000 Americans in pursuit of its goal. As it is, Al Qaeda's world wide body count must be easily in the tens of thousands by now.

Meanwhile, planning continues for the next Al Qaeda assault in Europe, following up on the successful mass attacks in London and Madrid, various assassinations, and the failed attacks in Germany, France, and other places. (Hopefully there is a well placed informant or two that will survive the Wikileaks releases.)

I wonder how many on Slashdot are members of the Internet Jihad, or are otherwise radicalized and trying to influence opinion?

“I imagine how the great jihad will take place, how the Muslims will win, God willing, and rule the whole world, and establish the greatest empire once again!!!” reads another Internet posting from Mr. Abdulmutallab.

This is not the secular, political language of resistance against foreign occupation. It is the language of apocalyptic salvation. It has nothing to do with Iraq, Afghanistan or the Palestinians, although countless young Muslims identify passionately with stories of perceived injustice. Radical Islam claims that martyrdom is the ultimate act of faith – the highest duty of a believer, next to the worship of Allah itself.

“

Insurgents. Yes, insurgents. You may ignore the colonel, you may call him a liar, you may brand the military a bunch of diabolical murderers - but that doesn't make you right. Try googling "reuters" "insurgent" and "embedded" - http://lmgtfy.com/?q=reuters+embedded+insurgent I especially like this one, http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/201878.php But, like religion, people won't believe anything that they haven't already decided on.

Also, I love how I go from +5 informative to 0 Flamebait in 10 minutes flat. Looks like I ruffles a few feathers amongst the Leftys with mod points.

Hey leftists, in case you forgot: -1 Flamebait does NOT equal "I disagree".

For those who are REALLY afraid of that link, you can go to: http://ace.mu.nu/ and just scroll about 1/2 way down to the "Blogola!" post. The link I gave is the comment enabled direct post link. No, I don't know why Ace uses minx.cc as his comments domain, but it is a reputable blog site.

I don't think the old lady who was the lone holdout was "less politically sophisticated". My bet is she was a life-long straight-party-ticket voter.

You would be correct in your suspicions:

Breaking: Blago Holdout Retired State Employee Who Once Handed Out Campaign Literature For Relative Seeking Office; NPR and Liberal Talk Radio Listener

Juror # 106 [Jo Ann Chiakulas], a black female believed to be in her 60s, is a retired state public health director who has ties to the Chicago Urban League. She has handed out campaign literature for a relative who ran for public office. She listens to National Public Radio and liberal talk radio shows.

Blagojevich And The Revenge Of The Machine

Let a few years go by and we can find Mr. Lumpkin and Ms. Obama on the same page, literally if not metaphorically - on p. 36 of the annual report for the University of Chicago Hospitals, we see that Mr. Lumpkin is on the Board of Trustees and when Ms. Obama was Vice President for Community and External Affairs.

Which means what? Maybe nothing - Chicago is not that big a city if you restrict the world to black community activists such as Ms. Chiakulis or the Obamas. But it is the sort of coincidence that may or may not be a coincidence. Fortunately, we can rest easy knowing that our tireless watchdog press will ferret out the truth.

MY TIRED EYES FAIL ME... Time does not permit, but it seems from the picture and bio that Dr. Lumpkin may also be black. I only care because it increases the odds that he took a professional interest in both Ms. Obama and Ms. Chiakulis.

It's a fake crisis, like so many others. Photoshopped news is not that rare. And often, it's for more than just aesthetics

http://www.speroforum.com/a/34500/Reuters-admits-to-doctored-photos-of-Gaza-Flotilla
(after all the story was that Israel attacked "unarmed" protestors, can't have huge knives in the hands of protestors, especially when they appear to be using them on soldiers)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War_photographs_controversies

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/184452.php

I guess in some cases, these fotos are simply "fake, but accurate", right ? And then there are the tings never shown :

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/02/a-dispatch-from.php

"Care to reference at least an article"

You need look no further than Google, and one of the first hits, from the NYTimes:

Slashdot error - I need to spoonfeed a link: Title of article is "Army missed warning signs of Major Nidal Hasan's Fort Hood massacre: military review" at http://www.nydailynews.com/

While that particular article, by itself, doesn't reveal very much, it SHOULD put you on the right road to finding dozens of other articles about Hasan. He made comments early in his education that should have tipped people off, he made comments late in his education that were truly alarming, and later as an officer and a doctor, he articulated sympathy for the Islamic jihadists fighting against our forces.

Let me try to find one particular quote for you - searching - - - -

Not exactly what I was looking for, but pertinent:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/199506.php

Can't find the exact quote I'm looking for at the moment, but there is a lot of insight into Hasan's mind here:

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/014754.html

If, from these links, you cannot use Google to find more damning evidence against both Hasan AND his superior officers, then you aren't trying.

The fact is, it was obvious during Hasan's internship that he was a loose cannone, he was dangerous, and that he held treasonous views. He most definitely established that his first loyalty was to Islam, and that he had little loyalty to the United States, or to the Army which he was sworn to serve.

There was an RPG being carried by this group. Thanks to martyros for the link. http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/201889.php

Come on, that's hardly a fully truthful representation of events

Yes it is. It just doesn't agree with what you want to believe.

Firstly, yes, they thought they saw an RPG

As others have pointed out, they did see one. See for yourself. http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/201889.php

The misidentification of the camerman came later.

Prior to that, US troops on the ground reported taking fire from this direction, and it was believed that it was from this group of people. There was at least one individual in the group with an AK-47, and at least one other with a RPG . While an Iraqi civilian might be carrying an AK-47, it is doubtful that a civilian would be carrying a RPG. Concluding that these guys were insurgents is reasonable based on the info the helo crew had at the time.

It is the freakin' Middle East, everybody has guns.

Does everyone have RPGs? Are they legal to own in Iraq? If you look at this clip of the video, you'll see a guy carrying something that looks exactly like an RPG. It's definitely not a camera.

If you look at this video, you'll see one of them carrying something that looks exactly like an RPG. It is definitely not a camera.

How about the one showing someone carrying something that was definitely not a camera? It looks exactly like an RPG, a weapon which put the gunner's life in immediate danger.

The question I have is, why hasn't everyone seen the blow-up clip with the RPG in it?