This is some shameless lifting, but it needs no amending … here’s Glenn Greenwald on the Tory/Liberal-Democrat government in Britain vowing to restore core civil liberties in the wake of the country’s decade long decent into authoritarian abuse:

[…] Clegg also inveighed against the oppressive criminal justice system that imprisons far too many citizens and criminalizes […]

Come check out the new branch to Campbell Brothers Surfboards, Bonzer5.org. We will be auctioning off two surfboards online. All proceeds will be donated towards Water 1st International, a non-profit organization based in Seattle that is dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to those in need around the world.
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Staff Benda Bilili are a group of paraplegic street musicians who live around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa, Congo. Four senior singers/guitarists on makeshift wheelchairs are supported by a young, all-acoustic rhythm section, plus a 17 year-old prodigy performing infectious guitar-like solos on a one-string electric lute he designed and built himself out […]

By BRIAN ENO
It’s a tragedy that the Israelis – a people who must understand better than almost anybody the horrors of oppression – are now acting as oppressors. As the great Jewish writer Primo Levi once remarked “Everybody has their Jews, and for the Israelis it’s the Palestinians”. By creating a middle Eastern version of […]

If you want some great commentary about the Republican convention, I highly recommend reading Matt Stoller over at OpenLeft.  He’s on the ground in St. Paul and has been putting together some great pieces.  For example, here’s him describing the “Security Theater”  of the police state in St. Paul…
The soundtrack of this convention so far […]

U.S. and Poland set missile deal
WASHINGTON: The United States and Poland reached a long-stalled deal on Thursday to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory, in the strongest reaction so far to Russia’s military operation in Georgia.
Wouldn’t it be sweet if instead of wasting a shit load of money and setting up missile […]

Two words… Led Zeppelin. You use the technology we’ll have in four years to resurrect the band circa 1972. That, or you get a UFO to come make crop circles and erect another Stonehedge in real time.
What I’m saying is, it’s an uphill battle.

Real interesting moment in this campaign right now. Here you have this Obama guy hopping around the globe, looking more like America’s President than ’still’ President Bush, while at the same time there’s John McCain, back at home twiddling his thumbs in slightly less impressive photo-ops.
If Americans vote on awesomeness (which they […]

I took these photos last month while on a flight from NY to LA. Because of the major thunderstorms happening in the middle of the country, the plane ended up having to swoop down through Texas to avoid becoming another one of Ben Franklin’s metal keys in the sky. Once the sun set, […]

From National Geographic:
Everything you eat. Everything you drink. Everything you use. Your entire life’s consumption. In one place at one time.
For a long time I’ve had this exact thought floating around in my head. “Every piece of fruit I ever ate, what would that look like visually?”, or more literally, “how big would that pile […]