the dark side of the internet

Guardian | "The darkweb"; "the deep web"; beneath "the surface web" – the metaphors alone make the internet feel suddenly more unfathomable and mysterious. Other terms circulate among those in the know: "darknet", "invisible web", "dark address space", "murky address space", "dirty address space". Not all these phrases mean the same thing. While a "darknet" is an online network such as Freenet that is concealed from non-users, with all the potential for transgressive behaviour thatSource: subrealism RSS Feed

Used car dealership may get license yanked

From the Times Ledger:
A city agency wants to revoke the license of a Richmond Hill used car dealership along with obtaining $700,000 in restitution and fines from the company for what it called illegal and deceptive business practices.
The city Department of Consumer Affairs claimed the dealership, Queens Auto Mall at 134-01 Atlantic Ave. in Richmond Hill, charged customers illegal fees, prevented customers from filing complaints and refused to refund deposits on cancelledSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed

SF cops shouldn’t seize DJs’ laptops

By Steven T. Jones

Going into another weekend, I find myself thinking about our story on San Francisco Police officers seizing DJs’ laptops as they raid house parties. The SF Weekly got on the story about the same time we did, but their music columnist got it into the paper a week before us. We furthered her reporting by naming the main cop culprit and showing the Chief’s Office knows about it, but it’s frustrating that the policy isn’t being addressed more directly,Source: SFBG Politics RSS Feed

Dobbs Says He Now Backs Amnesty, ( Kiss My Support Goodbye)

I don't care who it is at this point, but any single government or public official who supports amnesty will lose any support monetarily and otherwise from this camp here and Lou Dobbs, who I like and have defended from time to time has now made that list...
He did so by doing some amnesty gymnastics this past week after a little sit down with Telemundo and a few other outlets, all who are essentially part of the left loon camp that forced him from CNN in the first placeSource: Chicagoray RSS Feed

Looks Like I'm Not Alone

A record number of people polled by Rasmussen are now strongly disapproving of the job performance of Barack Obama.
If only they had listened when it counted.
The latest:

-15 and dropping.
I guess talk of hope and change will only wear so well. Then people start expecting something more.
Unfortunately, as Americans are finding out, there is nothing more there.

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Wednesday, 25th November 2009

Howzit
Foreign currency mid-rates updated
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Now - this is important. From Tuesday through Friday next week I will only be posting as and when I can. The reason for this is that I will be on an SIA course which hopefully will result in me being 'security badged' which should, in turn, allow me to seek employment within the security sector.
I will endeavour to keep this page going in the four day period, but I am making no promises!
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Emails Damning To CRU Head, Phil Jones

From Australia’s Herald Sun:

Chart that appears at the top of the University Of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit website. The warmist conspiracy: the emails that most damn Jones

Andrew Bolt

Saturday, November 21, 2009

These are the emails that should have Professor Phil Jones most worried about his future.

Jones, head of the CRU unit whose emails were leaked, has been under most fire so far over one email in particular in which he boasted ofSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

Dear Associated Press: Stop Calling Joe Lieberman a Democrat

Dear Associated Press,

Holy Joe Lieberman is a man of many parts.

He is a sleazebag, a warmongering Neocon, a sanctimonious backstabber, "Armageddon" John Hagee's "Zionists bring the Second Coming" Reacharound Buddy, a serial betrayer of the leaders of the Democratic Party, ...and many other things which could not be could not be adequately described given the family nature of your publication.

One thing he emphatically is not is a "Senate Democrat".

Perhaps asSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed

Workers walk out at the St. Francis

By Steven T. Jones

The Westin St. Francis Hotel on Union Square this morning became the latest target for the striking hotel workers of UNITE-HERE Local 2, which has been springing three-day strikes on local hotels. As we reported in today’s Guardian, the union’s contract expired back in August and the hotel chains are trying to force benefit concessions and increased health care costs on their workers.

The union urged guests of the St. Francis to observe the picketSource: SFBG Politics RSS Feed

visit chernobyl

MigNews | Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is named the most exotic place for tourism on the Earth, according to the magazine Forbes, which published the list of super-extravagant tourist places, where you can either relax and see what is no longer anywhere in the world.
"23 years after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few companies offer tours here, - writes Forbes. - Customers are going to see the exploded reactor, the dead city Pripyat and red woods where pinesSource: subrealism RSS Feed

Home Entertainment Center Light

A Boom-Box and a Mini Net-Book
Jean and I have very nearly emptied out her house in Ames Iowa. All that is left is a few more trips to the storage shed and rolling up our oriental rug collection. We need to get the real estate agent on board with our plan to sell the house 'as is' and pronto.
Pictured above is the only entertainment system that we will be taking with us in our two car caravan to the high desert of New Mexico. It still hasn't snowed on our parade.

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USA Today Uses Attack Book to Talk Palin’s

-By Warner Todd Huston

Early on the morning of Governor Sarah Palin’s book release day, USA Today’s The Oval blog posted a piece asking who was more qualified to be president, Clinton or Palin. Naturally, instead of using an image of Sarah Palin’s book cover to illustrate the story, USA Today used the attack book against Palin that mimics Palin’s cover in a cynical bid to confuse readers on which book is which.

We are left wondering about USA Today. Were they justSource: Stop the ACLU RSS Feed

Why The Arkansas Counties Facing The Mississippi River Are Important To YOUR Health Care

Last week, after talking a little bit about our media strategy for the new Blanche Lincoln TV ad (see below) we got a lot of e-mails asking why we were spending money in Memphis, Tennessee and Springfield, Missouri. I want to clear that up. The way the cable systems cover Arkansas is by dividing it up into media markets, DMAs I think they call them. The bulk of the money we've spent in the past-- and that we're spending on the new campaign, is in Little Rock, Jonesboro and Ft Smith.Source: DownWithTyranny! RSS Feed

Fox News Sunday "Plus" On New York Terror Trials /Giuliani CNN Video Interview

Round table Fox Sunday discussing the boneheaded move by Eric Holder and Hussein Obama turning the city into a heightened terror magnet now and we can all rest assured if there are attack plans in the deployed sleeper cells' ovens they're gonna try and pull 'em off now..thanks Obama and Holder...any blood spills we know who to blame ..
Watch the latest business video at <a href="http://video.foxbusiness.com/">
ThisSource: Chicagoray RSS Feed

Afhgan Healthcare

Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. William GreesonAn Afghan boy is treated by a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan. The corpsman is with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment at Patrol Base Jaker. The boy's father brought him to the base saying that his son had fallen into a nearby canal. The Marines are deployed with Regimental Combat Team 3 to conduct counter insurgency operations in partnership with Afghan National SecuritySource: U.S. Torture and Atrocities RSS Feed

Catholics Have The Power-- Tony Alamo Gets 175 Years In Prison For Doing Routine Catholic Priest Stuff

First, don't get me wrong about Tony Alamo. 175 years in prison? I'd have been just as happy with 375 years... although I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of wasting taxes on keeping these monsters fed, housed, clothed and guarded. Sometimes this pro-life crap just goes too far. I mean, for what reason are we keeping this man alive? Is he going to become rehabilitated and get out in 100 years-- he's be 175 years old in 100 years and they'd let him out for good behavior by then--Source: DownWithTyranny! RSS Feed

Holder Pushed Clemency For Terrorists

[Note: this is a repost of an article we posted back in January that suddenly seems relevant again.]

From the Los Angeles Times:

Eric Holder pushed for controversial clemency

As deputy attorney general in 1999, Holder — now attorney general nominee — pressed subordinates to drop objections to clemency for 16 members of violent Puerto Rican nationalist organizations.

By Josh Meyer and Tom Hamburger
January 9, 2009

Reporting from Washington —Source: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

President Obama’s Foreign Trip

Next stop: Tokyo

thanks to Icebergslim and GreenLadyHere for the hat tips

President Obama Meets with Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama from White House on Vimeo.

US President Barack Obama waves upon his arrival at Tokyo International Airport at Haneda on November 13, 2009. Obama kicked off his first tour of Asia with a visit to Japan, Washington’s closest ally in a region increasingly dominated by rising giant China.
—————YOSHIKAZUSource: Jack and Jill Politics RSS Feed

Aussie Warrier, MIA In Afghanistan For A Year, Found Safe

Here’s your feel good story to end the work week

A BRAVE young Aussie warrior who went missing in action during the heat of battle has been found safe and well after spending a year in the Afghan desert.

Sabi, a black Australian Labrador, aged about four, is back home now on the Australian base at Tarin Kowt.

Sabi was rescued by an American serviceman who suspected she was not an enemy combatant, but a highly-trained hairy bomb sniffing digger.

It’s Lassie ComeSource: Stop the ACLU RSS Feed

H1N1 Deaths Appear To Triple Overnight / Obama's Katrina, All His Fault....(video)

1400 or so people perished in New Orleans during Katrina and we all know as far as liberals were concerned the administration could no no right no matter what they did even though we all know damn well all the responsibility for those deaths lied with the local authorities led by Chocolate City Mayor Ray Nagin and Nagin's Navy pictured below...


not George Bush, the Church of liberalism's sworn enemy and official scapegoat for their perpetual incompetence, particularlySource: Chicagoray RSS Feed

O’Malley Campaign Manager: Pay No Attention to New Jersey or Virginia

In a message to members of the O’Malley/Brown campaign’s Finance Committee, campaign manager Tom Russell is claiming that GOP victories in New Jersey and Virginia are not relevant to his clients’ re-election chances. Here’s the email.

To: O'Malley/Brown Finance Committee Members
From: Tom Russell, O'Malley-Brown Campaign
Date: November 11, 2009
Re: 2009 Election Results and State of 2010 Race
While last week's election returns were discouragingSource: Maryland Politics Watch RSS Feed

The Free-Marketeer -- By: Peter Robinson

Today on Uncommon Knowledge, President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic. Although he earned his doctorate in economics under a Communist regime, he became a stalwart of free markets. How?             

Paradoxically, as a graduate student [my job was] to study, understand, and criticize the capitalist system.  Instead I discovered Hayek, Milton Friedman, Stigler, Gary Becker. 

Click here.

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Fort Hood Memorial Service Open Thread

US soldiers attend a candle light vigil on November 6, 2009 at Fort Hood, one day after 13 people were killed in a bloody rampage. US President Barack Obama led his nation in mourning as shocked Americans struggled to understand why a Muslim army doctor unleashed the massacre at a US military base.
— PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images

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The Too Friendly Skies.......United Pilot Arrested Before Flying Drunk to Chicago

This sure isn't too smart considering pilots showing up drunk to fly airliners went out with 911 and turbo props....but some apparently haven't gotten the memo like this Chicago Bound United pilot who got nabbed at Heathrow in London tonight for being inebriated.
Kinda helps explain how a flight crew might be able to overshoot an airport 150 miles huh?
If indeed this man was intoxicated he should be removed from his job and made a Chicago cabbie as punishment....then he'll reallySource: Chicagoray RSS Feed

Tube Photo Competion - Win a Blurb Book

If you had to illustrate a book about the London Underground what photo would you use? Have you taken a photo that really shouts out Tube or the experience of travelling on it? The lovely people at Blurb want to see your Tube photos and are offering five lucky winners the chance to make their own Blurb book.All you have to do is email me a photo or leave a link to it in the comments below. Blurb & their agency will pick their five favourites. It could be of a crowded commute, a pet or animalSource: British Blogs RSS Feed

Netanyahu calls for immediate resumption of peace talks with Palestinians

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane in Israel on Sunday ahead of his Washington visit.

Elise Labott
CNN State Department Producer

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for an immediate resumption of peace talks with Palestinians Monday before meeting with President Barack Obama.

"My goal is to achieve a permanent peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians and soon," Netanyahu said in a speech to the Jewish Federations ofSource: AC360 RSS Feed

More illegal apartments found near Woodside blaze site

From CBS 2:
As neighbors mourned the victims, at least some of whom were said to be members of the local Bangladeshi community, others in the diverse community complained that too many homes there have been illegally subdivided, causing dangerous conditions.
"Everybody changes from two-family to four, five, six families – it's not right," one neighbor said. "I pay my tax for two families – why should I pay the same as they pay?"
Just next door, inspectors found moreSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed

The Paper Laptop

We’ve featured a few environmentally friendly cardboard PC cases here on Geeky Gadgets but this paper laptop defiantly could have a future with the price of components dropping and OLED screens in the near future. Who would have thought 10 years ago that we would now have disposable phones. This innovative design by Je Sung Park is made from pulp and reprocessed materials. Using paper as the case also allows for endless customization options, however there is still the electronics andSource: British Blogs RSS Feed

smooth criminals

Neurological Correlates | New journal volume on “Biosocial Criminality” and two reports selected: One, because psychopaths use murder more as an instrumentality than as an expression of emotion, they don’t tell anyone about their crimes, and, moreover, therefore, are brought up on lesser offenses and get out earlier (my interpretation). Two, psychopaths can see vulnerability in others by the way they walk. Fist tap Dale.

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national h1n1 epidemic declared in bulgaria

Recombinomics | The Health Ministry made the decision based on the grounds that the number of people with swine flu has reached 210 per 10 000.
Thus, all schools in Bulgaria will be in a swine flu break all of next week (9-14 November). The Health Ministry recommends limiting the number and scope of public events.
The above comments describe the declaration of a national swine flu epidemic in Bulgaria. Earlier this week an epidemic level of H1N1 had been reported in a select numberSource: subrealism RSS Feed

Boehner pulls a boner

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How is that the House Minority Leader can mix up the U.S. Constitution with the Declaration of Independence in front of a Tea Party crowd at the Capitol? Who knows..but he did it, pulling out his pocket copy of the Constitution he's pledged to uphold, today pledging to "stand here with our Founding Fathers, who wrote in the preamble: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident ..."

Here's more from Rick Sanchez.

SANCHEZ:Source: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed

McCain Would Leave Health Care to Wall Street’s Whims

For years, John McCain supported legislation taking more and more oversight out of the banking industry. This week we’re seeing the painful effects of those Bush-McCain policies.
Now, McCain wants to leave our health care to the whims of Wall Street the same way he left our retirement and savings.
Despite the current economic crisis, McCain wrote in this month's issue of Contingencies Magazine that it would be a good idea to deregulate the health insurance market "as we have doneSource: Blue State Rising RSS Feed

Kerry and Graham Whip Up Compromise on Global Warming / Cap and Trade

Kerry and Graham whip up compromise on global warming

Washington Examiner

Even as a Senate global-warming bill remained in limbo with Democrats refusing to delay a committee vote until an economic analysis was completed, hopes rose for a potential bipartisan compromise.

The Senate, meanwhile, appears to be moving away from the bill, authored by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., which would requireSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed

Compassion for Celebrity Tea Party Loss

A quick politics check after yesterday's Mediocre Tuesday elections:
Republicans elected two governors, Democrats elected two Congressmen. Steve Benen breaks it down pretty well:
"Going into yesterday, it'd been a good year for Democrats in special elections, winning three races -- New York's 20th, Illinois's 5th, and California's 32nd. Yesterday, Dems made it five for five.

In California's 10th, Lt. Gov. John Garamendi (D), running a progressive campaign, defeatedSource: Cup Of Joe Powell RSS Feed

Does the Tory Lisbon referendum row matter?

Ipsos-MORI October 2009 Issues table

Is the evidence that voters don’t give a monkey’s

I’ve raised this before and will raise it again - the EU and other issues relating to Europe are not things that get voters wound up. The polling suggests that this is very low down on the list of concerns.

Above is the MORI issues index for October - a month that saw several days of the Lisbon treaty being the main political news when the Irish referendum YES coincidedSource: Political Betting RSS Feed

GOP Establishment AWOL On Doug Hoffman

The attached picture was taken at 8:30 pm last night in the main call center room at the RNC where the volunteers sit for phone banking. There were about 10 people there from 5:30-8. After that? Well . . . you get the point.

Oh, and let’s not forget Harmer, Christie, and McDonnell.

I’m told, by the way, that there are some private rooms with just phones. Certainly, there could have been people in those rooms, but this is where the volunteers were told to go last night. Not aSource: Red State RSS Feed

Teabagger-Celebrity Scott "Chachi" Baio Denounces Sarah Palin

Scott Baio is the first teabagger-celebrity to comment on Sarah Palin's use of the phrase "the retarded baby" to describe her developmentally disabled son, Trig.
I asked him about it on twitter (it was a test to see if he followed the one true teabag):
He responds via DM.
I have to call his patriotism into question. Sure, he risked imprisonment in an H1N1 internment camp for calling Obama a "shitfuck," but now he's criticizing God's handmaiden simply because she makes fun of Source: Jesus' General RSS Feed

The 3rd November Gubernatorials - New Jersey

Atlantic City (Wikimedia Commons)

Will Corzine scrape home in a tight race?

Unlike Virginia which appears a done deal, the second of the gubernatorial elections on Tuesday, in the “Garden State” of New Jersey is a much tighter affair, with a key difference being the presence of an Independent candidate who has been polling in the teens. This race may yet see the re-election of the incumbent Governor despite his low approval ratings, and despite the lack of marketsSource: Political Betting RSS Feed