Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush Administration

FBI wanted Obama plotters charged, but Rove appointee said no

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From Twin Cities IndyMedia

Affidavits released by law enforcement which were filed in support of the search warrants used in raids over the weekend, and used to support probable cause for the arrest warrants, are based on paid, confidential informants who infiltrated the RNCWC on behalf of law enforcement.

Yes, we all know that paid informants are completely and totally reliable.

They allege that members of the group sought to kidnap delegates to the RNC, assault police officers with firebombs and explosives, and sabotage airports in St. Paul.

Horsepucky. Do you think the eight leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee would say those things in public or even in a meeting, assuming it’s true which doubtless it isn’t.

Evidence released to date does not corroborate these allegations with physical evidence or provide any other evidence for these allegations than the claims of the informants.

Goodness, who would have imagined the police have no evidence.

Based on past abuses of such informants by law enforcement, the National Lawyers Guild is concerned that such police informants have incentives to lie and exaggerate threats of violence and to also act as provocateurs in raising and urging support for acts of violence.

Like I said…

The criminal complaints filed by the Ramsey County Attorney do not allege that any of the defendants personally have engaged in any act of violence or damage to property. The complaints list all of alleged violations of law during the last few days of the RNC — other than violations of human rights carried out by law enforcement — and seeks to hold the 8 defendants responsible for acts committed by other individuals.

I see, Anarchist X tosses a rock through a window so the leaders of the Welcoming Committee are charged with terrorism even though they personally did nothing wrong and don’t even know the rock thrower. Madness.

Prediction: They will be found not guilty or the charges will be dropped. Then they will sue and collect substantial damages.

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Asymptotic Life finds some disturbing parallels!

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Above The Fold has this video, and lots more.

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Scoble.

I’ve watched a lot of the two political conventions. I’ve heard a few words about support for technology and science — quickly are forgotten in the noise about McCain’s vice presidential pick — but I’ve heard nary a word about how we’re going to ensure that the United States continues to be a place where innovation happens. Increasingly I’m hearing from industry leaders that our innovation leadership is under major attack for a whole lot of reasons. Immigration policy. Education system quality. Taxation and regulation. And on and on.

Yet we don’t openly discuss it. We’d rather talk about some 17-year-old’s sex life or download the latest shiny object from Google. Question: how did that shiny object get here?

Scoble, Scoble, Scoble, you are SO politically naive. The shiny object is there because our party, the [insert name of wonderful, patriotic party of your choice] put it there but the [insert name of the hideously corrupt and extremist opposition party] wants to take it away. So please send us millions to finance attack ads that slime the opposition and have nothing to do with anything, including reality. See, that’s how the shiny object got there.

So now we will have eight weeks of attack ad from both parties that have nothing to do with issues. I do not care about a 17 yo pregnant girl or whether Obama once said hello to Bill Ayers. Both are irrelevant.

Yes, the US internet infrastructure is slow and getting worse, compared to Europe and Japan. Smart people often can’t come here because of increasingly onerous immigration restrictions. Our schools are less than stellar. There are real problems. No one is talking much about them. We need to.

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Police officers used tear gas on a peaceful crowd that was following instructions in St. Paul on Tuesday evening. In an overwhelming show of force, well over a hundred riot police locked down 7th Street between Wabasha and St. Peter, surrounded protesters in the Poor People’s March, media, and bystanders and then proceeded to launch several cannisters of tear gas after the crowd was hemmed in.

Thousands of people, many whom were just there to see the concerts, will be radicalized by this. Nothing works better than good old-fashioned police brutality in getting people to see the violence inherent in the system and how the police too often enforce the political goals of the elites.

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They think China demand after Olympics will force prices back up.

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Japan is definitely thinking big, and out of the box. Real big. Like 2km x 800m. These floating renewable energy platforms will also power underwater lights to grow seaweed thus attracting fish and plankton in an effort to replenish dwindling fish populations. Wow.

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I’ve been using the new open source Google Chrome browser since noon yesterday. It is quite amazing.

First off, it’s fast, faster than Firefox, IE, or Safari. Second, they wrote it so browser lockups can’t crash the entire browser, just one tab. In other browsers, a faulty Javascript routine can clobber the browser. With Chrome, you get a sad face icon on that tab, and you simply close the tab.

Other cool internal stuff includes better garbage collection. Freed up memory is quickly released to be reclaimed when needed and doesn’t leak, which can cause slowdowns and problems. Plus it blocks popups and malware quite efficiently.

Sure, this is still a beta product and lacks bells and whistles. They will come. My prediction: Google Chrome will become a major browser in the coming months and years.

Download Google Chrome

Read their comic book about it!

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