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"Barefoot Bandit's" Discarded MacBook, iPod Touch Could Be His Achilles' Heel - Gizmodo

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Bahamas police: 'Barefoot bandit' apprehended - CNN.com

Colton Harris-Moore captured in Bahamas. Being caught with a gun isn't going to help his situation either. A wild man is now in a cage. Mixed feeling here.

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The artist currently known as Prince declares Internet dead - Digital Spy
Overthrowing the Government: As American as Apple Pie - C4SS (Kevin Carson)
"It’s nice to remind people, as they gather for July 4th picnics and the local car dealers run ads thanking the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for 'our freedoms,' that the holiday they’re celebrating commemorates — as one libertarian blogger put it — the victory of an insurgency against a global military superpower."
Flash-bang grenades ignite legal battles in Michigan - Daily Caller/Detroit Free Press
New ultra-battery is the most powerful non-nuclear energy storage ever - io9
Wayne county, MI (Detroit) DA wants parents jailed for missing parent-teacher meetings - WILX-TV
Leave the Orcas alone already - Outside
Leave 'em in the ocean and they won't kill their so-called "handlers."
Colton Harris-Moore (AKA "the barefoot bandit) on the move again? - Seattle Times

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The bittersweet retirement of UAW president Ron Gettlefinger - Detroit News
One of the last private sector union giants is on the ropes. It's hard to be a militant unionist when your whole industry is going down the toilet.
SCO loses final appeal; but will they now finally go away? - Ars Technica
Probably not, but we can always hope.
An x-ray version of Picasso's Guernica on display in Rome (via BoingBoing)
Leonard Nimoy says "star trek fans can be scary" - LA Times
I'll bet.
Colton Harris-Moore shuns $50,000 bonus and offer of free legal representation to turn himself in - CBS TV

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A love note from Colton Harris-Moore - Backwoods Home (Claire Woolfe)
Toronto big-shots expressing doubts about hosting the G-20 summit - New Geography
As well they should. Local politicos and their kindred ilk at the chamber of commerce always tout the financial benefits of hosting such events but as with sporting events, political conventions and other special events they nearly always end up costing the host cities and their citizens way more than they bring in. And the G-20? Better have your riot police primed and ready and alert your hospitals and jails to prepare for an extra duty.
The very lucrative poverty industry - NPR's Fresh Air (Terry Gross) podcast
Pay-Day loans, rent-to-own, tax refund loans, pawnshops and other business entities that thrive from making high interest loans to the working poor.
Ex-Hacker turns in military intelligence analyst for releasing classified data to Wikileaks - Wired
Southern California sports team's revenue way down - LA Times
The masses tiring of bread & circuses? That and they're broke.
The Remington 11-87 shotgun - Remington.com/
A little faster and easier to shoot than pumps, IMHO.

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BP oil spill proof that libertarianism is untenable - Wall Street Journal (Thomas Franks)
Peak Wood: An ancient obsession - MillerMcCune (John Perlin) (via Slashdot.org/)
The condition of today's English working class the future of America's? - New Geography (Joel Kotkin)
Acupuncture works by inducing body's own painkiller response - Ars Technica (Yun Xie)
Is Steve Jobs becoming Big Brother? - NY Times (Robert Wright)
Colton Harris-Moore beware - Seattle P-I
The locals have engaged the services of a professional bounty hunter. Hmm...we'll see.

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Michigan politicians don't give a shit about polite, orderly demonstrations - Skoop's Blog (Tim Skubick)

People that really want to make an impact probably should follow the example of the SEIU demonstrations at bank big-shot's home's in the DC area recently. See, direct-action just works.

Census workers can demand access to your home if you are a renter - The Barr Code (Bob Barr)

Man so upset by wrecking his BMW convertible he made a sculpture from the parts - Gizmodo

Colton Harris-Moore is definitely back in the San Juan Islands. Maybe. - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

San Jose, CA pot farm workers seek to form union - SF Chronicle

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How's Michigan's Medical Marijuana Act working out for us? - MLive.com

Not that good. Botched police raids, massive damage and property theft by a Sheriff's Department narc team. And this guy had a license too. Go figure? At least no one was shot. Not yet anyhow.

Ann Arbor's homeless tent city that was forcibly dispersed for the Obama visit has reconstituted itself - Michigan Daily

Brain scan "evidence" disallowed by court - Wired

Good news, for now.

Colton Harris-Moore back in the San Juan Islands? - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Maybe. But the way things are now, everything that happens out there gets blamed on CH-M. On the other it may well be him.

Five new infantry weapons that are in the pipeline for the U.S. armed forces - Popular Science

The XM-25 semi-automatic grenade launcher, to name but one, is German built (H&K GmHb) and cost a whopping $25, 000 a piece! Great news if you're a war profiteer.

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M72: A Globular Cluster of Stars - Astronomy Picture of the Day 05-12-2010

More knife attacks against Chinese school children - LA Times

Seven killed this time.

Not everyone is a fan of teenage media star & cult anti-hero Colton Harris-Moore - Seattle Weekly

Three research satellites to exchange laser fire from 3 million miles apart - Popular Science

Testing for the presence of gravitational waves.

Politicians will give up power when you pry it from their dead, cold fingers - Washington Post

Senators Spector, McCain, Bennett, Byrd, et. al. plan to leave congress only on a stretcher and inside of a body bag.

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A photo collection of NYC lumpen that all feature the subject wearing an Obama shirt - Street Carnage

A short memoir of detention in a FEMA gulag during the Katrina disaster - Pro Libertate

Dave Eggers wrote a book about this guy too.

BART police force stripped of Tasers do to misuse - SF Chronicle

Thoughts on survival bartering - Survival Blog

Colton Harris-Moore movie proposed - Outside.com/

And the guy is still at large too. And more to the point there is literally nothing that the capitalists in the form of Big Hollywood won't try to monetize.

Arms & the Movement -Utne Reader (Peter Gelderloos)

"Time and again, people struggling not for some token reform but for complete liberation -- the reclamation of control over our own lives and the power to negotiate our own relationships with the people and the world around us -- will find that nonviolence does not work, that we face a self-perpetuating power structure that is immune to appeals to conscience and strong enough to plow over the disobedient and uncooperative."

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Screw white working-class voters! - The American Prospect (Alexandra Gutierrez)

The Dems have had it with us! We don't vote for them reliably enough and we're just plain stupid to boot.

"Eighteen months of severe recession have brought to the surface old truths that many chose to forget when times seemed to be good." - Front Porch Republic (Allan Carlson)

"The business cycle has not been eliminated; finance capitalism is by its nature unstable; politically-connected corporations commonly escape market discipline; and there is nothing conservative about the 'creative destruction' of a capitalist economy."

“People routinely mispredict how much pleasure or displeasure future events will bring.” - The New Yorker (Elizabeth Kolbert)
Suspended Animation may be possible soon. - Popular Science

Police may be closing in on Colton Harris-Moore - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Yeah sure. How many times have we heard that before? Anyhow, they'd better capture him soon or he's gonna become a folk hero to people or something. Not the people who's homes he's burglarized over the years though.

An examination of American conspiracy theorists. - Center For A Stateless Society (Kevin Carson)
"In short, both the Baptists and people like Marshall and Olbermann — like conspiracy nuts — attempt to impose meaning on reality by reading a coherent narrative into random and unrelated events."

Banksters & politicians continue to ruin the American economy. - Taki's Magazine (Paul Craig Roberts)

The life & death of the Rolodex - Gizmodo (Anna Grossman)

Some history mixed with nostalgia an obsolete technology.

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The Thrill is Gone for Obamagirl - JammieWearingFool blog
"Anarchist" branded cigarette lighters for sale @ amazon.com/
Perfect for lighting bongs, petrol bombs or torching the Man's property. Anything can become a commodity in a this hyper-capitalist society. Anything.
Dinosaur Feather Color Discovered - Not Exactly Rocket Science blog
The Ballad of Colton Harris-Moore - Outside
"When your ecosystem is a vacation destination, the vacationers lie at the bottom of the food chain. Instead of camping full-time, he began breaking into Camano's 1,000-plus holiday homes—many of them empty much of the time—to shower, forage for food, and sleep."
Howard Zinn's Obituary - LA Times
Search For a Frozen Camera Could Rewrite History Books On Everest's First Climbers - Gizmodo