Archive for December, 2006

Dec

Video & Images of Saddam Hussein Just Before and During His Execution

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Saddam being led away after hearing that he was to be sentenced to death by hanging.

Al Maliki signing the death sentence against Saddam…..

The GRAPHIC PICTURES inside the cut are of Saddam in the gallows just before his execution

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Dec

Which secret government documents will be declassified on December 31 and other news…….

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December 23, 2006

This New Year’s Eve, at midnight on the dot, hundreds of millions of pages of U.S. government secrets will be revealed. Or at least they’ll no longer be official secrets — it may actually take months or more for the National Archives and Records Administration to make those pages available for public consumption. The NARA is already dealing with a multi-million page backlog.

But in theory if not in immediate practice, what was set in motion by the Clinton administration in 1995 is coming to fruition. Executive Order 12958 declared that in 2000, every classified document 25 years of age or older would be automatically declassified unless the classifying agency had already sought and received that document’s exemption (anything that could cause an “identifiable” risk to national security, would violate a person’s privacy or involves more than one agency is exempt). After two three-year extensions granted by the Bush administration in response to cries from the CIA, FBI, NSA and other agencies that they didn’t have the manpower to review all of their papers in time, the final deadline has arrived. And President Bush is enforcing it.

Scholars of history, conspiracy theorists and freedom-of-information activists everywhere are doing a happy dance like none you’ve ever seen. We’re talking about a treasure trove of historical documents, secrets that have been kept for decades, suddenly stripped of its Top Secret, Secret or Confidential status. According to Michigan State University, the trove can include letters, telegrams, background checks, reports from war zones and cabinet-level meeting minutes, for a start.

Any government agency that has classified documents is involved in the declassification process. Organizations that deal in secrets, like the FBI, CIA, NSA and Department of Defense are releasing the largest volumes of paper: The FBI alone will be declassifying 270 million pages. The NSA is declassifying at least 35 million.

So what can we expect to learn when these pages become accessible to the public? We’re not talking about small secrets here. Experts says the documents will tell us about the inner workings of such events and periods as World War II; the Cold War; the McCarthy-era search for Communist sympathizers in the United States and the very real presence of Soviet spies in the U.S. government’s upper ranks; the Cuban missile crisis; the Vietnam War and the government’s anti-war-protestor activities including surveillance and penetration of activist groups; the CIA’s secret experiments with LSD; the Camp David Accords that resulted in a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt; the Iran hostage crisis in 1979; and the Soviet Union’s attack on Afghanistan that same year.

What we won’t be finding out about are specific war strategies, information on weapons of mass destruction, spy identities and other documents that would put specific people or the United States at risk.

Before this Executive Order for automatic declassification, scholars and the general public had to file a request under the Freedom of Information Act for a specific document to be declassified after its classification status had run out. If no one filed a request, a document remained secret even though technically it was no longer classified.

For more information on declassified government documents and related topics, check out the following links:

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Dec

For X=Mas I’m Taking a Trip to Mars YO!!

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Dec

Prepare to Shit Your Pants – Video

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Tis bullshit that LJ doesn’t allow linking to video sources other than from YouTube.
(once it opens the page up, click the screen to start)

Urbanized Acrobats
http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1729490

and if that wasn’t enough to fill your goat…..I give you the MsPaint masta
http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1728017

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Dec

Ten Ways to Get a Wii or PS3

Posted by: AUDIOMIND in Uncategorized

After spending weeks attempting to obtain a wii and PS3, I believe I’ve discovered the best ways of getting a wii or PS3. Below I share the ten secrets that I have discovered with you guys. Feel free to add more…

– = = Online attack= = -

1. Online Scan

You can check the status of most online stores through refreshthing. Refreshthing is scanning the most popular online sites.

http://www.refreshthing.com/wii/
http://www.refreshthing.com/ps3/

2. Amazon Attack

Amazon will soon have a new shipment of both of these devices. If you want to snipe one off of amazon, you’ll need to have done some prep work first. Log into your amazon account and visit the appropriate pages — wii or ps3-60g / ps3-20g

You may want to consider searching amazon for the bundles and adding them as well.

When you visit the appropriate page, click on the Add to Shopping List link. Bookmark your shopping list page. When you hear that amazon has them in stock, jump straight to your Shopping List and refresh like mad. If it is in stock, you’ll see the option to add it to your cart. Once it is in your cart, you should have it. When the servers get slammed, this will save you a very important step.

3. Follow the crowds at FatWallet

Fatwallet has a great thread for following the availability of wii consoles and PS3 consoles. By subscribing to those threads, you will receive email updates. Of course, it’ll be a zillion updates a day, but ain’t nothing easy in life.

4. Follow the availability through RSS Feeds

You can also subscribe to RSS feeds regarding online availability:

wii rss – http://revolutiontracker.com/rev.xml
ps3 rss – http://ps3finder.com/ps3.xml

5. Buy the bundle, (try to) return the games.

Many times stores will package a console with games and other extras. Stores such as Wal-Mart and Target will frequently take back items without a receipt. In theory, you should be able to buy the bundles and they return the extras you do not want. This worked with the xbox360 bundles but eventually stores will catch on.

- = = Offline Attack= = -

Fatwallet always has accurate information about where consoles can be found. Here are some generalities about getting one in person.

6. Get there early.

Best Buy / Wal-Mart / Toys-R-Us / Target — all have allowed people to line up in the morning for devices. In my area, people have typically needed to get there at least 4 hours before opening to get a chance of getting a device.

7. Scan the shelves anytime you are in Target or TRU

Both Target and Toys-R-Us have slipped a few out into the general stock during the day. I just missed a couple at target this way. At both places I have been told that they are on the shelves for about 30 minutes before they are gone. Other than hanging around and pestering the clerks, I don’t know any way to get a leg up. (Okay, maybe I do. Hang around to the end.)

8. Hang around for the random extra ticket

So you line up and somebody steps out of the store and says, “We only have 10.” Everybody does a head count and typically all except 10 people go home. Don’t. Stick around! I stayed around interviewing people when this happened to me. I was guy number 11 and the store said they only had 10. One of the guys told me that he had picked his first PSIII up by hanging around in case a credit card did not go through. Another person in line said that target had previously announced twenty-five but really had thirty.

So I stuck around. The store actually decided to give a ticket per family instead of per person; thus I got a ticket! Woo-hoo!

9. Try to purchase tickets from innocent bystanders

One of the people who got a ticket was really just waiting in line to keep his friend company. Another guy who stuck around with me bought his ticket for $100. $100 is a bargin when compared to ebay prices plus shipping. At Target, they handed out tickets to everybody including children. A few wise people approached these families and bought these “extra” tickets from them.

10. Poor spelling may save you dollars

Speaking of ebay… the misspelled playstatons are typically going cheaper than the correctly spelled ones. I haven’t been able to find anybody dumb enough to misspell wii.

11. Unvalidated secret hint.

(One of the guys in the line was an ebay master. He told me that he has been able to stealth grab a bunch of wii consoles at target using the price checkers. The price checkers are those devices and the end of the isles that show the price when you scan a barcode. Well, you can also manually insert a product number as well. He was getting the product number for the wii off the shelf and typing in the product number into the price checker. The price checker will actually show how many are on the floor and how many are in the back! If there were consoles in the back, he would hang around until they put them out.

I have tried this trick at my local target. It correctly pulls up the wii with the price, but it has always said 0 on the floor and 0 in stock for me. Of course, maybe I have just never been to target when they had the consoles in the back either.)

Please add to the list if you have other ideas…