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CNN: DC pot activists arrested at 4/20 Capitol Hill protest
|| 4/20/2017 || 6:25 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
Nikolas Schiller, the other DCMJ co-founder, told CNN the giveaway had to end early because the cops took all of the pot. He insisted the police were out of line.
“We believe that the US Capitol Police made politically motivated arrests,” Schiller said.
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“We have no intentions of backing down,” Schiller said.
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CNN: DC activists planning pot giveaway, Capitol Hill ‘smoke in’
|| 4/3/2017 || 12:19 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
“The first protest will take place on April 20 — 4/20, the pot holiday — from “high noon” til about 5 p.m., Adam Eidinger and Nikolas Schiller, co-founders of the group DCMJ, told CNN. They said members of the group will set up just off Capitol grounds and pass out joints of locally grown marijuana rolled by hand in the home base of DCMJ on Embassy Row in Washington.”
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Harborside Quilt #2
|| 2/18/2010 || 1:45 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
This version of the map is derived from sampled imagery from the previous map to create this Octagon Quilt Projection map of Oakland. The recursive sampling employed in this map creates a more geometric geography.
View the Google Map of Oakland Habour.
Here’s another YouTube video that shows Harborside Health Center on CNN:
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Harborside Quilt
|| 2/17/2010 || 1:45 pm || 2 Comments Rendered || ||
This week I am traveling to the West Coast to do research on the medical cannabis industry. One of the places I hope to tour is Harborside Health Center, which is considered the best dispensary in the United States.
I was curious to find out where the facility was located in Oakland and upon downloading the imagery, I realized that it’s location has all the ingredients for an interesting map: a highway, a harbor, and the aerial photography is crisp and unpixilated.
View the Google Map of Oakland Habour. This map uses the same imagery that Google is currently using.
Here’s a YouTube video that shows Harborside Health Center on CNN:
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Adam Eidinger vs. the Expert – CNN January 2003
|| 12/9/2005 || 1:33 pm || Comments Off on Adam Eidinger vs. the Expert – CNN January 2003 || ||
HOT!
|| 7/21/2005 || 9:36 am || Comments Off on HOT! || ||
Cook these books!
|| 5/31/2005 || 4:39 pm || Comments Off on Cook these books! || ||
Via the CNN
Arthur Andersen conviction overturned
Jury instructions too vague, high court rulesTuesday, May 31, 2005 Posted: 10:28 AM EDT (1428 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm for destroying Enron Corp.-related documents before the energy giant’s collapse.
In a unanimous opinion, justices said the former Big Five accounting firm’s June 2002 conviction was improper.
The court said the jury instructions at trial were too vague and broad for jurors to determine correctly whether Andersen obstructed justice.
“The jury instructions here were flawed in important respects,” Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote for the court.
The ruling is a setback for the Bush administration, which made prosecution of white-collar criminals a high priority following accounting scandals at major corporations.
After Enron’s 2001 collapse, the Justice Department went after Andersen first.
Enron crashed in December 2001, putting more than 5,000 employees out of work, just six weeks after the energy company revealed massive losses and writedowns.
Subsequently, as the Securities and Exchange Commission began looking into Enron’s convoluted finances, Andersen put in practice a policy calling for destroying unneeded documentation.
Government attorneys argued that Andersen should be held responsible for instructing its employees to “undertake an unprecedented campaign of document destruction.”
Last night I had the pleasure of seeing “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” at the E Street Cinema, and I must say that this ruling is completely bogus. Not only was Arthur Andersen complicannt in the destruction of the files, they signed off on cooking Enron’s books.
For Enron to get away with what it did there needed to people high up at Arthur Andersen to okay the dodgy procedures Enron followed. The claim that the papers were shredded because they were not going to be used or related to the case is the most abhorrent. The million dollar kickbacks that were given to top Arthur Andersen execs makes this ruling further off the mark.
Time for Double Jeopardy Alex!
Bush’s Veteran’s Day Speech – Tweaked
|| 11/17/2003 || 6:40 am || Comments Off on Bush’s Veteran’s Day Speech – Tweaked || ||
::Repost from old website::
I tweaked CNN’s footage of George Bush’s Veterans Day speech using Final Cut Pro with some photographs that I supplied.
This video can also be found on my video player.
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icarus
|| 2/1/2003 || 10:19 am || Comments Off on icarus || ||
#digital scrap
On the birthday of my first love after we broke up… The day before my mother’s 50th birthday… The first Israeli in space burned up while reentering the earth near Palestine, Texas. There is only one God, right? I am blessed to be alive.
I still remember that morning….4/24/05
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Al-Jazeera VS. CNN on Banksy’s show in LA
|| 9/17/2006 || 10:22 pm || Comments Off on Al-Jazeera VS. CNN on Banksy’s show in LA || ||
My favorite culture jammer / art terrorist / meme warrior, Banksy had an exhibit in LA this weekend. I posted the info about it last Friday night on MySpace. Since then there has been AP, UPI, and Reuters news releases which resulted in over 370 news stories about his exhbit.
Of note is how the artist is covered in the press. CNN literally attacks the messenger (the elephant) instead of addressing it’s message (poverty, social justice, etc.), while Al-Jazeera using the Reuters report treats the exhibit in a more balanced tone. Few of the articles even reference this similar stunt where he painted farm animals (see below)).
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