animal rights activist charged w/ "soliciting a hit man to fatally shoot or slit the throat of a random fur-wearer"

" The institute has claimed it is "a genuinely independent source of research and commentary" and that "we do not take positions in order to appease or avoid losing support from individual donors". But the documents, if authentic, reveal that its attacks on climate science have been largely funded by a single anonymous donor and that "we are extinguishing primarily global warming projects in pace with declines in his giving". "

" The "its a tactic not a group" line seems to substantially be for external consumption. ... Internally, BB does not appear to maintain the "this is just a tactic not a group" illusion: "

Might spur a movement, but more likely it'll remain a coalition or social movement organization. #OWS

" Tactics are not religion; everyone would be better off without treating them as if they are. "

" Coupled with respect for diversity of tactic is a separation of space. This seems to be the most misunderstood of the St. Paul Principles and, as such, it is the most important. Separation of both time and space ensures that peaceful marches, boycotts, and pickets remain peaceful—unless, as all too often happens—agents of the police state find it necessary to escalate towards violence, as they have in New York, Oakland, Bahrain, Tahrir Square, and elsewhere. "

" Using the Tea Party’s database of organizations (online at TeaPartyPatriots.org), the scholars dispute the group’s claim that the growth of their movement is a direct response to increased government debt and higher taxes. Fetner and King told conference attendees that the facts reveal the opposite: lower-taxed counties have a greater propensity to give rise to Tea Party organizations. "

" “It seemed to me not to be a productive discussion, particularly in light that there is a United States Supreme Court case that appears to be on point that very similar language is counter to the constitution,” Bosma said Tuesday. “It looked to me to be buying a lawsuit when the state can ill afford it.” "

" “Diversity of tactics” is democratic internally, but antidemocratic when it forces tactics on community people that they consider harmful, and cannot oppose without being liberal- or cop-baited. In the end community people pay the price, not the implementers of the “tactics.”

" This is the lesson of Chicago 1969:

" October – Weatherman trashes and “fights” cops, ignoring Panther leader Fred Hampton’s warning that it is “anarchistic, opportunistic, Custeristic.”

" December – Fred Hampton is murdered in his bed by police, with the excuse that he was a violent criminal. "

" For everyone to have the opportunity to be involved in a given group and to participate in its activities the structure must be explicit, not implicit. The rules of decision-making must be open and available to everyone, and this can happen only if they are formalized. This is not to say that formalization of a structure of a group will destroy the informal structure. It usually doesn't. But it does hinder the informal structure from having predominant control and make available some means of attacking it if the people involved are not at least responsible to the needs of the group at large. "Structurelessness" is organizationally impossible. We cannot decide whether to have a structured or structureless group, only whether or not to have a formally structured one. Therefore the word will not be used any longer except to refer to the idea it represents. Unstructured will refer to those groups which have not been deliberately structured in a particular manner. Structured will refer to those which have. A Structured group always has formal structure, and may also have an informal, or covert, structure. It is this informal structure, particularly in Unstructured groups, which forms the basis for elites. "

" But there are a couple of new twists that make this same-old story more interesting than usual. One has to do with the temperature in a less metaphorical sense. The Oklahoma bill isn't properly speaking just an "anti-evolution" bill; it is just as opposed to the "theory" of "global warming". A bill pending in Tennessee likewise targets "global warming" alongside "biological evolution". These and other bills aim their rhetoric at "scientific controversies" in plural, and one of the New Hampshire bills does not even bother to specify which controversies it has in mind. "

" A day after enduring hours of lurid and highly damaging court testimony by a former Church of Scientology official who is being sued by the church, the church's lawyers abruptly threw in the towel Friday. "

" The conservative gay rights group, GOProud, was banned this year, but two prominent white nationalists were allowed to appear on a panel opposing multiculturalism.

" And they were hardly sent packing. Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa fawned over Peter Brimelow, founder of the white nationalist site VDARE, saying, “I read your books!” Tomorrow, white nationalist Bob Vandervoort is scheduled to appear alongside two other Republican members of Congress. "

" Scott Kravet, the instructor—a graduate student in philosophy—offered a dose of epistemology, and in so doing captured the essence of news literacy. "Life isn't just having things handed to you," he said. "You have to be active. There's no proof in life, there's no certainty. But knowing these questions is better than not knowing them." "

" On Thursday, an appeals court in Paris upheld a conviction against the Scientology organisation for organised fraud, assessing a $US530,000 ($A496,463.87) fine to the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Paris and a $265,000 fine to its bookstore. "

" Calgarians whose names have been connected to neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups are angry that their personal identification has been published on the Internet. "

" Sovereign citizens are people who reject their U.S. citizenship and don't recognize government authority, like laws and taxes. In 2009, the FBI started paying closer attention to the movement, which previously had been grouped with the militia movements in the bureau's domestic counterterrorism operations. Many people who claim to be followers of this movement are involved in white collar crimes like tax evasion schemes and making fraudulent documents, the FBI said. "

"Hurry up, Qui-Gon! You don't want to be Wesley Snipes in jail!" Do read the comments.

" House Republican Ward Franz, of West Plains, has introduced legislation that would prevent animals from having rights or privileges equal to or greater than those of humans. "

" The artifact vanished just three weeks after a $2,400 Apple MacBook vanished from Brashear’s office. He told the occupiers that even when the 100-year-old Upper West Side church extended help to addicts during the 1980s drug scourge, no visitors touched its $12,500 sacramental instrument.

" “Not even crackheads messed with that,” he said.

" The pastor and a worshipper finally found the missing basin tossed into a small room connected to the church. The lid is still missing. The pastor has given protesters two weeks to vacate the church. "

" The trick snagged those who happened to click on a shortened link on social-media services, expecting information on the ongoing #opmegaupload retaliation for the U.S. Justice Department’s takedown of popular file sharing site Megaupload. Instead they were greeted by a Javascript version of LOIC — already firing packets at targeted websites by the time their page was loaded. "

Vicious oh-so-humanities condemnation of Occupy Wall Street for co-opting 2009 Occupy UC & having lousy class analysis

" Usually, though, the Kremlin line is enforced the way it is everywhere else in Russian television: by the reporters and editors themselves. “There is no censorship per se,” says another RT reporter. “But there are a lot of young people at the channel, a lot of self-starters who are eager to please the management. You can easily guess what the Kremlin wants the world to know, so you change your coverage.” "

" My sources tell me the timing of the MegaUpload arrests was no accident. The federal government, they say, was spoiling for a fight after the apparent defeat of SOPA/PIPA and not a little humiliation at the hands of the Web. And what better way to bolster the cause for cyber-crackdown than by pointing to a massive display of cyber-terrorism at the hands of everyone's favorite Internet boogeyman: Anonymous? "

" Fallows responds:

"...Newt Gingrich knows exactly what he is doing when he calls Obama the "food stamp" president, just as Ronald Reagan knew exactly what he was doing when talking about "welfare Cadillacs." There are lots of other ways to make the point about economic hard times -- entirely apart from which person and which policies are to blame for today's mammoth joblessness, and apart from the fact that Congress sets food stamp policies. You could call him the "pink slip president," the "foreclosure president," the "Walmart president," the "Wall Street president," the "Citibank president," the "bailout president," or any of a dozen other images that convey distress. You decide to go with "the food stamp president," and you're doing it on purpose.

" If Joe Lieberman had been elected, I would be wary of attacks on his economic policy that called him "the cunning, tight-fisted president." If Henry Cisneros had or Ken Salazar does, I would notice arguments about ineffectiveness phrased as "the mañana administration." If Gary Locke were in office, then "the Manchurian candidate" jokes that had been used on John Huntsman would have a different edge. And so on. "

by way of Russia Today, but... " Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that emerged from the Department of Homeland Security in November, Washington has written permission to collect and retain personal information from journalists, news anchors, reporters or anyone who uses “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.” "

" Outline and structure your ideas, take notes, view research alongside your writing and compose the constituent pieces of your text in isolation or in context. Scrivener won't tell you how to write—it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application. "

" Meanwhile, the family that OWS claimed to be putting into the vacant house has not yet permanently moved in. And it turns out the family is not a random victim of the foreclosure crisis, but cast for the part, thanks to their connection to the OWS movement.

" OWS last week said it has spent $9,500 breaking into the house and setting it up for the homeless Carrasquillo family. A photo of the smiling family covers a window, under the slogan, “A place to call home.”

" The head of the family, Alfredo Carrasquillo, 28, is an organizer for VOCAL-NY, a group that works with OWS. His Facebook page shows him in a “99 Percent” T-shirt at an OWS protest in November.

" The Post visited the Vermont Street home last week — six weeks after OWS announced that the Carrasquillos were moving in — and the family was nowhere to be found.

" In fact, the only people occupying the house were occupiers themselves. "

" When all citizens are potential reporters, they risk being treated as journalists. "

" Well, I don't know that it makes me want to buy comics from them, but I might ask them to help find an aggressive business solution to managing my marketable paradigm in a fast-paced global economy. Their logo makes me think they'd be good at that. "

Just discovered FATAL: the rapey RPG w/ mechanics for body orifice circumferences & "retard strength".

" At the last, we arrive at the beginning, which Arthur Brisbane surely intended. Nothing else could possibly ensue from his intellectually dim ourobouros of cowardice. In a column in which he speculated about the worth of journalists' abdicating any responsibility, he placed the evaluative responsibility on the New York Times' readership. In a way, it was like watching the greatest newspaper in the nation engage in real-time market-testing of which group is worth sucking up to more. "

" Common law courts are only an important aspect of the Patriot movement. These vigilante courts use many tactics to make their presence known and to attempt to disrupt the traditional legal system. These tactics are collectively known as "paper terrorism." Typically, common law court members issue judgments against people and file liens against property in an attempt to enforce the judgments. Sometimes, these bogus liens are little more than a nuisance. Other times, the liens wreak havoc on their victims by clouding title to property, and it is often expensive to have these bogus liens removed. Members of the Patriot movement also set up shadow governments with their own officers and officials as a form of revolt against the federal government. For example, the freemen of Montana formed "Justus Township" and appointed their own "public" officials. Patriots who attempt to print their own currency and pass bogus checks feel that their own government is legitimate and that they can back their currency by their own faith and credit in the same manner as does the United States government. "

" If in doing the serious work of journalism–digging, reporting, verification, mastering a beat–you develop a view, expressing that view does not diminish your authority. It may even add to it. The View from Nowhere doesn’t know from this. It also encourages journalists to develop bad habits. Like: criticism from both sides is a sign that you’re doing something right, when you could be doing everything wrong. "

" Romney's claim that his experience at Bain Capital somehow qualified him to run a country's economy has always been a joke. Romney can't make money off America via the Bain model unless he runs for the leader of another country, buys America, fires a large percentage of the American workforce, reneges on American pensions and health plans, then somehow flips America to some dipshit country while he and every other vampire he works with stands around trying to count on their swollen, diabetic white-guy fingers the number of lives they've just destroyed. "

" Something happened in our press over the last 40 years or so that never got acknowledged and to this day would be denied by a majority of newsroom professionals. Somewhere along the way, truthtelling was surpassed by other priorities the mainstream press felt a stronger duty to. These include such things as “maintaining objectivity,” “not imposing a judgment,” “refusing to take sides” and sticking to what I have called the View from Nowhere. "

Humanities "methods"? Also some courses on how to write coherent paragraphs, because, ironically, …

" This is what the Occupy encampment has become: A band of homeless protesters with no place to go. Amid accusations of drug use and sporadic theft, they've been sleeping on church pews for weeks, consuming at least $20,000 of the funds that Occupy Wall Street still has in its coffers. Their existence is being hotly debated at Occupy meetings: Are these people truly "Occupiers" who deserve free food and a roof over their heads? "