Qadaffi dead: Libyan dictator goes out Mussolini-style

BBC news story with video from Al-Jazeera link here. A captured and wounded Qaddafi was beaten and then shot to death. His corpse was dragged through the streets behind a truck.

Bottom line: Those who make peaceful change impossible make violence charge inevitable. Dictators of all stripes please note.

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Some "direct action" against Obama - Someone threw a book at the pres during a campaign rally in Philadelphia yesterday that also featured a nude heckler. From the photo it looked like it just missed his head.

Update: The authorities now claim that the book was thrown by an "overzealous" Obama supporter in the crowd. Hope that's true.

Sign of the times...

84 Year-old tax protester hits Eastpointe, Michigan's police chief in the face with a cellphone at city council meeting - Heh. Direct action!

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A simple plan to ruin your boss: plant child porn on his PC - Ars Technica

I had a hell-raising list of other such actions once, like planting marijuana seeds in your mayor's backyard and such like. Heh.

Sign of the times...

Marilyn Buck, 62, Dies - Imprisoned for Brink’s Holdup - NY Times.com

Buck was a committed communist revolutionary who engaged the system head-on. She fought the battle and paid the price. Unlike blowhards like ex-weatherman and Obama mentor Billy Ayers and etc. Buck walked the walk, did the crime and did the time. Contrast and compare, eh? R.I.P.

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Has The Black Bloc Tactic Reached The End Of It's Usefulness? - The Anarchist Library

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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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What hipsters will wear to the apocalypse - io9

And what they'll get buried in soon thereafter, as well. You want rugged functional clothing? Buy Army surplus, outdoor and work-wear type stuff instead. Not as hip, or as fashionable as what you'll see in movies or on TV but then again this is reality I'm talking about here.

What anarchists don't get about the Tea Party movement - Infoshop News

It's the state we need to fight, not each other.

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Local goon blinds NJ National Guard helicopter pilot with laser pointer in Camden - Philly 57 TV

And made the copter pilot land the aircraft. I don't think it blinded him permanently it just made it hard to fly the aircraft. Who knew grounding a military copter was that easy? I am truly amazed that Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces aren't buying those things by the gross.

Sign of the Times...

The Snap of a Twig - The Anarchist Library (Anonymous)

"Never forget that crime is a social and political construct, not an absolute, as they attempt to sell us this business of “fighting crime.” The real product beneath all the rhetoric is social control. Police forces defend the owning class. (This becomes clear to any forest activist attempting to stop an illegal timber sale. Enforcers of the law only care about the protesters trespassing, not about any violations of environmental laws endangering the greater community.) Laws such as the Seditious Conspiracy Act (18 USCS 2384) have been constructed specifically to criminalize political dissent."

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Ex-New Republic, Slate Editor says: Newspaper stories are too long, boring, etc. - The Atlantic
Kill a Communist Official And Become a Local Hero - newser.com
Why Did Air America Fail? - Hot Air
"Listening to Air America was a tedious chore without much payoff..."
NASA's New Space Suit - MIT Technology Review
Getting ready for the return to Luna in 2020.
Secrets of How Meditation Works - Scientific American