Former Army Sergeant Lauro “LJ” Chavez was stationed at MacDill AFB where he claims he witnessed unusual preparations for a potential airplane hitting the base on the morning of 9/11 and distinctly heard officers talking about a stand down. This has led him to go public in questioning the NORAD stand down and the demolition [...]
“As you can see from the screenshot a reader e mailed us, Terror Storm was being highlighted as one of Google Video’s most popular selections and was heading for the top ten, until late Saturday/early Sunday when viewership totals for the video were inexplicably reset.”
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So Chavez said mean things about Bush. Bush and his administration has said mean things about Chavez and about lots of other world leaders. Who gives a shit what Venezuela thinks about the United States? I swear, for a country that goes around invading countries it doesn’t like, it sure has a thin skin.
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“In a Q&A session at the close, Kutaragi also apologised to software creators for delays in PlayStation 3’s over-ambitious production schedule, but said the company is now focused on ensuring no further delays occur.” via wikipedia: “The Tokyo Game Show 2006 will be held on September 22-24 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.”
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The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage. A copy can be found here
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The 2006 Summer Unity Tour is over, but you can watch some behind the scenes video of the band shot by young crew member Evan Miles. There are about 52 videos, and a bunch are kind of lame, but there’s some gems in there (like 8/12). Especially if you’re a 311 fan!
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After Callahan was tased, West said Davis yelled a curse word at police, who chased Davis into the house, tased him, and beat him unconscious. Patterson said police dealt one or two more blows to Davis after Davis was rendered unconscious. Patterson said that Pileri was tased after he refused to turn off [...]
Not much information is known about it at present but it obviously documents the World Trade Center attack from a nearby building. The second plane hitting the tower and the first collapse is edited out but the north tower collapse is included. Rescue efforts, including footage of a rescue helicopter is also shown.
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A great post disecting the meta issues on digg.
Read through to the end for some links to others joining this “soap opera”
And if you’ve made it that far, you might as well keep on reading down through the comments because there’s some good stuff down there.
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From what I heard on TWIT 68 and after doing a bit of research on my own, I’ve decided that this new treaty is just a corporate grab for more of a monopoly on content that they didn’t even create! Link goes to EFF page with info and action items. Also do a [...]