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Bush administration: Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to domestic military operations

Bush administration: Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to domestic military operations: “Danny sez, ‘Following on from the memo allowing torture overseas, Kurt Opsahl from EFF has spotted a footnoted reference to a memo from the Administration that says ‘our Office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.’

So, if you’re abroad and deemed an enemy combatant you can be tortured. If you’re in the US, and you’re caught up in a ‘military operation’, you lose the bill of rights. Where exactly is the constitution supposed to apply?’

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(Thanks, Danny!)

(Via Boing Boing.)

Rezko trial uncovers drug-fueled party days

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Rezko trial uncovers drug-fueled party days: “For those of you following the US political race you might know about Tony Rezko, a Chicago political fundraiser linked to the Obama campaign, and his ongoing fraud trial. What you may not know is that his partner in crime, Stuart P. Levine, was a first-class head who liked to party down at drug orgies, as recent court testimony confirms:

Levine focused a harsh spotlight on decades of taking marijuana, cocaine, quaaludes, LSD, Ecstasy, crystal methamphetamine and ketamine, which goes under the street name Special K.

He said he took the drugs once or twice a month, mainly at parties with unspecified male friends. They brought the drugs and he would buy, often paying about $1,000, he said.

When in town, the parties would often take place in a suburban rendezvous ‘that came to be known as the purple hotel,’ Levine testified.

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Levine testified that his parties started in the morning and lasted until evening when he would go home as if he’d spent a hard day at the office.

‘To deceive my family,’ he testified.

Gosh, that doesn’t sound familiar at all. At least he picked the good drugs.

From www.pjstar.com. Posted by jamesk.”

(Via DoseNation.)

Currently playing in iTunes: Golgatha and the circle closes by Edgar Froese

Flying penguins found by BBC programme – Telegraph

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Flying penguins found by BBC programme – Telegraph: “ast Updated: 1:11pm BST 01/04/2008

The BBC will today screen remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution.

Telegraph TV: Watch footage of the flying penguins
Camera crews discovered a colony of Adélie penguins while filming on King George Island, some 750 miles south of the Falkland Islands.”

(Via .)

Currently playing in iTunes: Abidan by John Zorn

Seatubes 1.1.7 – Makes downloading YouTube files easy. (Demo)

Seatubes 1.1.7 – Makes downloading YouTube files easy. (Demo): “

Seatubes 1.1.7

Seatubes makes it easy to batch download YouTube videos to your Mac. Simply drag YouTube URLs into a documents list view, then click the ‘Download’ button. If a URL is a video URL it will be added, otherwise Seatubes will try to add all of the video URLs it contains, i.e. import the URL.

Seatubes is a multi-window (or multi-document) application. You can associate different windows with independent collections of videos, and save them to disk as Seatubes documents for future use.

Seatubes can convert (export) downloaded FLV files into any format supported by QuickTime, such as iPod or iPhone. To do this, or to view FLV files on your Mac, you need to install the Perian Quicktime components (http://perian.org/)

Seatubes is part of the Limit Point Software Utilities Bundle : http://www.limit-point.com/Utilities.html. Purchase a Utilities password to activate all the utilities, including Seatubes. Upgrades are always free, new utilities are always included!

Seatubes initially runs for about ten days without a permanent password.

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(Via MacUpdate – Universal Binary.)

Boredoms vs Cai Guo-Chiang Explosion

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Boredoms vs Cai Guo-Chiang Explosion: “future rockers Boredoms played last night at Terminal 5, and it was absolutely amazing.  I wrote about their (also absolutely amazing)  77BOADRUM event in these pages this summer, but I think it’s worthy to write about last night’s concert because, well, every time they play is an…absolutely amazing and inspiring event.”

(Via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.)