Hostage Taker Besieges Discovery Channel, Posts Demands on Web
posted 09/01/2010, 4:46 PM (Wired News) [Category: General] Authorities were negotiating Wednesday with an armed man who has taken an unknown number of hostages, who might have an explosive or “metallic device” at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia.
Most of the hundreds of employees, including children at an on-site daycare center, have been evacuated, police said. The station was airing its normal broadcast, and no injuries were reported. CNN said at least one of the unknown number of hostages was a security guard.
According to television accounts, hundreds of armed police and bomb-squad officers were seen descending on the building in suburban Washington, D.C.
Police identified the suspect as James Lee.
According to a Wednesday update on the savetheplanetprotest.com website believed run by Lee, the suspect demanded that the Discovery Channel broadcast its “commitment to save the planet.”
Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!
From his website, and his postings on MySpace, Lee appears to be obsessed with the work of American writer Daniel Quinn, author of a trilogy of enviro-philosophy novels. Quinn’s 1992 Ishmael “uses a style of Socratic dialogue to deconstruct the notion that humans are the end product, t... (more)
The TV media is largely ignoring the fact this guy is a rabid environmentalist. As to his demands, it's hilarious the way socialists are so obsessed with what to do with other people's money.
The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:
1. The Discovery Channel and it's affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn's "My Ishmael" pages... (more)
Why is this being brushed over on TV? Because it doesn't suit their narrative, that's why. This guy's insanity is the logical result of their anti-human enviro-propaganda. Look for this story to be dropped after just a few days.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 60% at least somewhat favor repeal of the health care reform law, while 36% oppose repeal.
Those numbers include 50% who Strongly Favor repeal and 26% who Strongly Oppose it. Platinum Members c... (more)
President goes for a swim in the Gulf – or does he?
posted 08/16/2010, 6:25 PM (The Independent) [Category: General] The official picture was intended to provide evidence that the region's beaches are back to normal. Yet it soon emerged that the private beach on which it was taken, off Alligator Point in St Andrew Bay, north-west Florida, isn't technically in the gulf.
Sunday August 15th, 2010
In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity
posted 08/15/2010, 12:25 AM (Gallup) [Category: General] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news — with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either. These views have hardly budged since falling more than 10 percentage points from 2003-2007.
...Seventy-seven percent (77%) of men think the A-bombing of the two cities was a good decision, a view shared by just 43% of women. Voters over 40 are more supportive of the decision than those who are younger.
No National Speed Limit? Germany Loves it.
posted 08/09/2010, 5:19 PM (ResetTheWorld) [Category: General] Ah yes, the German Autobahns, where, on two thirds of the network, there is no speed limit, velocities average higher than 80mph, frequently reach 150mph, and the accident and fatality rates are lower than the freeways in the USA.
Despite Confusion, Village Still Wants Torrent Site Investment
posted 08/09/2010, 5:18 PM (TorrentFreak ) [Category: General] This weekend the operators of BitTorrent site TorrentReactor announced they had bought a Russian village and renamed it after themselves. As the site is known for its earlier pranks the news was rightly taken with a grain of salt, but despite reports that the scheme needs presidential approval it seems the villagers are still really quite warm to the idea and are welcoming the prospect of investment.
TorrentReactor, one of the five most popular torrent sites on the Internet, mad... (more)
Just 9% Want No Limits on What Federal Government Can Do
posted 08/07/2010, 8:18 PM (Rasmussen Reports) [Category: General] Eighty-six percent (86%) of voters nationwide say there should be "limits on what the federal government can do." A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only nine percent (9%) believe the federal government should be allowed to do most anything in this country.
These views are overwhelming shared across virtually all partisan and demographic lines.
The only exception is America's Political Class. By a 54% to 43% margin, the Political Class beli... (more)
TorrentReactor Buys and Renames Russian Town
posted 08/07/2010, 8:16 PM (TorrentFreak) [Category: General] TorrentReactor, listed among the five most popular torrent sites on the Internet, has surprised friends and foes by acquiring a small town in central Russia. The town formerly known as Gar has reportedly been bought for the equivalent of $148,000 and was quickly renamed after the Russian-based torrent site.
The last time a torrent site attempted to buy some land, the plan miserably failed. Early 2007 The Pirate Bay launched its ‘Buy Sealand” campaign. The plan was to raise enough ... (more)
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% of Adults share a favorable opinion of members of Congress. Seventy-two percent (72%) have an unfavorable view of congressmen. These findings include five percent (5%) who have a Very Favorable impression and 45% who have a Very Unfavorable view of the legislators.
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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 43% favor the requirement, which was on the losing end of a vote in Missouri Tuesday and is being challenged in court by a number of states.
As on all questions involving the health care plan, the intensity is on the side of the opponents: 23% Strongly ... (more)
Poll: Waning support for Obama on wars
posted 08/03/2010, 11:36 PM (USA Today) [Category: General] WASHINGTON — Public support for President Obama's Afghanistan war policy has plummeted amid a rising U.S. death toll and the unauthorized release of classified military documents, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows. Support for Obama's management of the war fell to 36%, down from 48% in a February poll. Now, a record 43% also say it was a mistake to go to war there after the terrorist attacks in 2001.
The decline in support contributed to the lowest approval ratings of Obama's presiden... (more)
President Obama calls African-Americans a ‘mongrel people’
posted 07/30/2010, 12:04 AM (The Hill) [Category: General] NEW YORK -- President Obama waded into the national race debate in an unlikely setting and with an unusual choice of words: telling daytime talk show hosts that African-Americans are "sort of a mongrel people."
The president appeared on ABC's morning talk show "The View" Thursday, where he talked about the forced resignation of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, his experience with race and his roots.
When asked about his background, which includes a b... (more)
Imagine the reaction if Andrew Breitbart said this!
To show off, the engineer called to his cat: "T-Square, do your stuff." T-Square pranced over to a desk, took out some paper and a pen and promptly drew a circle, a square and a triangle.
Everyone agreed that was pretty good. But the accountant said his cat could do better. He called his cat and said, "Spread Sheet, do your stuff." Spread She... (more)
Half of journalists think the print publications (or TV/radio stations) they work for will eventually fold.
That's according to a
posted 07/24/2010, 11:00 PM (Fox News) [Category: General] Ieshuh Griffin is running for state office in Wisconsin, and she wants voters to know she is "NOT the white man's bitch".
PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's 2010 Confidence in Institutions poll finds Congress ranking dead last out of the 16 institutions rated this year. Eleven percent of Americans say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress, down from 17% in 2009 and a percentage point lower than the previous low for Congress, recorded in 2008.
The Gallup poll was conducted July 8-11, shortly befor... (more)
The letter was just delivered to the Women's Center of San Joaquin County at 620 North San Joaquin Street in Stockton. Seven decades ago, the building was used as a convent.
"The first think I noticed was the postmark. I siad 'No way'. It said December 23, 1937," said Women's Center director Joelle Gomez. "I kind of deliberat... (more)
Just wait until the government is running your health care! ;)
Sniper Targets Oakland Cops
posted 07/20/2010, 4:09 PM (NBC Bay Area) [Category: General] Oakland police have their hands full. In addition to a shootout on the freeway and a police-involved shooting at a BART station, officers are now on the hunt for an apparent sniper trying to take out officers.
"They hear gunshots and can feel the bullets pass by them," police spokesman Officer Jeff Thomason said. "They can hear them whizzing by."
The latest incident happened Sunday at about 11:30 p.m. Patrol officers were on a traffic stop near 8th and Adeline Stre... (more)
Suuuuuuuuuure. Sorry, I won't believe this until we see some real evidence. This stinks of a staged event to elicit sympathy for their criminal protection racket. - Chris
However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% of voters nationwide believe the federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-two percent (62%) say it does not, and 15% are not sure.
Army suicides hit record number in June
posted 07/17/2010, 1:54 PM (Yahoo News) [Category: General] Thirty-two soldiers took their own lives last month, the most Army suicides in a single month since the Vietnam era. Eleven of the soldiers were not on active duty. Of the 21 who were, seven were serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Department of Defense said.
The department's chief had said in recent days that unless the city could meet the union's demands, officers would no longer respond in person to register sex offenders, or for reports of vehicle accidents, grand theft, identity theft, burglary, embezzlement, vandalism, stray... (more)
Wednesday July 14th, 2010
Billboard linking Obama, Hitler draws complaints
posted 07/14/2010, 9:58 PM (Associated Press) [Category: General] DES MOINES, Iowa – A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism — even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money.
The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the billboard in downtown Mason City last week. The sign shows large photographs of Obama, Nazi leader Hitler and communist leader Lenin beneath the labels "Democratic Socialism," "N... (more)
Kent Beatty, the general manager of the company that owns the billboard, says a North Iowa Tea Party representative called Tuesday night and asked that the sign in downtown Mason City be removed.
Beatty says his company replaced the sign Wednesday morning with a public service announcement.
Forum Post: Denmark Sucks!! Happiest Nation..? My Ass!
posted 07/14/2010, 9:53 PM (City-Data Forum) [Category: General] Ok seriously I have been reading all over the Internet about how wonderful Denmark is and the comments are usually written by americans.. So I just felt obligated to write this rant, not to burst your bubble but to give you people a little hardcore dose of reality.
The results of the Washington Post/ABC News poll are a reversal of what voters said at the start of Obama's presidency 18 months ago when about 60 percent expressed confidence in his decision making.
Confidence in Obama is at a new low but the poll found that his numbers are still higher than lawmakers of either maj... (more)
Ron Paul, Tim Carney, James Taranto and David Asman weigh in on President... (more)
The Federal Reserve is the ultimate tool of socialism because it's what makes all quiet wealth redistribution possible. Instead of having to tax people to pay for all the government handouts, they can just print the money and quietly devalue the currency. These things didn't start with Obama and it won't end when he is kicked out of office.
Some 300 retired and current federal agents -- representing the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- collectively invested tens of millions of dollars of retirement money in what turned out to be a Ponzi scheme allegedly run by a Florida man who committed suicide last month, an attorney in the case said.
Interesting how the man "committed suicide" last month.
More and more Americans preparing for social unrest
posted 07/11/2010, 1:57 PM (AFP) [Category: General] From the outside, Jerry Erwin's home in the northwestern US state of Oregon is a nondescript house with a manicured front lawn and little to differentiate it from those of his neighbors.
But tucked away out of sight in his backyard are the signs of his preparations for doomsday, a catastrophic societal collapse that Erwin, 45, now believes is likely within his lifetime.
"I've got, under an awning, stacks of firewood, rain catching in barrels, I've got a shed with ba... (more)
Dulles and Reagan National Airports have opened "pet relief areas" to give dogs a place to go to the bathroom at the airport.
The pet areas were created because of federal rules requiring "service animal relief areas" for service animals that accompany passengers on trips, but the areas are also open for families traveling with pets.
Deep in the poll, they ask, “Now, I am going to read you a list of words and phrases which people use to describe political figures. For each word or phrase, please tell me whether it describes Barack Obama very well, well, ... (more)
CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox together had the smallest number of prime-time viewers last week in two decades of record-keeping, the Nielsen Co. said. Given the dominance of the big broadcasters before then, you'd probably have to go back to the early days of television to find such a collective shrug.
The first week of July tends to be among the slowest weeks of the year in television, anyw... (more)
The Los Angeles Times/USC poll found that voters back the marijuana legalization measure on the November ballot, 49% to 41%, with 10% uncertain about it. But support for the initiative is unstable, with one-third of the supporters saying they favor it only ... (more)
Zach Anner Scandal - Oprah Poll Rigged?
posted 07/09/2010, 8:08 PM (GeekoSystem) [Category: General] In case you don’t know, Oprah has been running a competition to give one lucky citizen the chance to have his or her own television show. Anyone can enter by submitting a tape, but then the tape must be voted up in an online poll to be in contention for earning its creator a series. One contestant, Zach Anner, suffers from cerebral palsy and wants to host a humorous travel show that would illustrate great trips that an... (more)
This is too funny, apparently he was #1 on the site and they rigged it against him, these tech savvy interneters went into the page's source code and noticed they fixed the voting system etc. God I love the internet! - Chris
Case in point is Democratic Underground (aka DU), a liberal discussion forum started in 2001 that, up until recently, was united in its hatred for former president George W. Bush. But now that many Democrats have withdrawn their support of Obama, DU res... (more)
The Market Has Spoken!: Carnahan Drops Prices For Obama Event
posted 07/09/2010, 8:08 PM (Hotline On Call) [Category: General] ..."But Carnahan's campaign wasn't able to completely sell out the Folly Theater, where Obama will appear for a grassroots event on Carnahan's behalf, at the prices they wanted. Tickets once priced at $250 are now going for $99, while $35 tickets are half off."
"We reject every form of legislation," the Russian aristocrat and "father of anarchism" Mikhail Bakunin once thundered. The czar banished him to Siberia. But now it seems his ideas are being rediscovered.
European traffic planners are dreaming of streets free of rules and directives. They want drivers and pedestrians to interac... (more)
Reposted because this article is just too perfect.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults shows 75% say the unwillingness of politicians to reduce government spending is more to blame for current state budget crises than the unwillingness of taxpayers to pay more in taxes
Only 13% take the opposing view and blame taxpayers' unwillingness to pay more t... (more)
Researchers associated with the Rand Corp.'s Drug Policy Research Center said Wednesday that not much is certain about the potential impact of Proposition 19 except that the price of California's choicest weed could plunge more than 80%, down from $300 to $450 per ounce to about $38.
"That's a significant drop," said Beau Kilmer, co-director of the center. "We're very clear about the fa... (more)
...which would put many drug dealers out of business.
The Century of the Self: The Untold History of Controlling the Masses Through the Manipulation of Unconscious Desires
Operation Gladio: "One of the most secret programs that ever existed"
Authorities were negotiating Wednesday with an armed man who has taken an unknown number of hostages, who might have an explosive or “metallic device” at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia.
This weekend the operators of BitTorrent site TorrentReactor announced they had bought a Russian village and renamed it after themselves. As the site is known for its earlier pranks the news was rightly taken with a grain of salt, but despite reports that the scheme needs presidential approval it seems the villagers are still really quite warm to the idea and are welcoming the prospect of investment. 
How's this for optimism?
Nearly 73 years after it was mailed, a letter written back in the 1930's finally arrived at its intended destination in Stockton this week.
An FDNY emergency medical technician accused of ignoring a dying pregnant woman while on a break last year was shot and killed outside a Manhattan nightclub early Sunday, police and FDNY officials said.
DES MOINES, Iowa – A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism — even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money.
WASHINGTON - Now your pet can make a pit stop too before getting on the plane with you at two D.C. area airports.
In case you don’t know, Oprah has been running 
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