Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and a Senior Fellow at the Nation Institute. His latest book is Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians. I feel that this speech, given at Fordham University, ranks in importance with Dwight Eisenhower’s “Military Industrial Complex” speech.
The ARRL has repaired a great Web site that has been designed to serve as an introduction to ham radio. It has lots of eye apeal and contains links to hello-radio.org, emergency-radio.org, and wedothat-radio.org on the home page.
You can direct people to this site when you get inquires about the hobby. Send them to http://www.wedothat-radio.org.
Kite aerial photography looks like an interesting application of ham radio and Amateur Television (ATV).
I’ve been interested in photography for as long as I can remember, and kite aerial photography (KAP) seemed like a natural progression. At least it did after my friend, Thomas Dewez, convinced me that it isn’t completely ridiculous to suspend an $800 camera from a kite. After seeing the potential in online galleries, I knew that I had to do this! I spent a few months researching equipment, technique, etc. before diving in. I had not flown a kite since I was a kid, so I’m learning as I go… (Read more)
SOURCE: Scott Haefner’s Kite Photography
You may have noticed my frequent complaints here about the greedy actions of the RIAA. They have all been for good reason. The latest is their treatment of Internet radio.
Musical artists, listeners, and Webcasters, have joined forces in the SaveNetRadio coalition to help save Internet radio. The members of the coalition believe strongly in compensating artists, but Internet radio as we know it will not survive under the proposed new royalties. You must help. Please take a moment to call your members of Congress to let your representatives know how much Internet radio means to you.
On March 2, 2007 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which oversees sound recording royalties paid by Internet radio services, increased Internet radio’s royalty burden between 300 and 1200 percent and thereby jeopardized the industry’s future. (Read more)
Peggy and I saw this on the way to Port Huron Sunday afternoon. It is a snowmobile trailer whose rear door has been painted to look as though it were open.
KSTP television recently ran a story about a 13 year old ham of note. The video features Cal Darula, KØDXC from Waconia MN, who already has an impressive ham resume.
Favoring CW, Cal is a member of the ARRL, FISTS, SKCC, NAQCC, S.M.A.R.T.S (WB0RMK), ARES, MWA (Minnesota Wireless Association), YACHT (Young Amateur Contest Ham Team), WWYC (World Wide Young Contesters), and the Waconia Amateur Radio Club (KC0VIS). He is also the Minnesota ARRL Youth Assistant Section Manager. You can visit his Web site for an extended biography, along with some of the articles he has written.
What a great idea. A new ITU standard will assist rescue workers to notify a victim’s next of kin in emergencies by using global mobile phone directory code. Just modify the names in your address book by priority, adding a 01, 02, 03, etc. before the names.
Geneva, 23 July 2008 - Emergency workers searching for next-of-kin contact information for an injured person now have a globally recognized way of doing so, thanks to a new standard from ITU.
By simply prefixing the Arabic numericals 01, 02, 03, and so on to a nominated contact, such as "01father", "02wife" or "03husband" written in any script in the mobile telephone directory, will help emergency workers in any part of the world identify contacts in order of priority and notify them. (Read more)
Here they go again. On Monday, Bush’s Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, called on Congress to take dramatic steps to subvert the Constitution. Mukasey is demanding that Congress issue a new declaration of war that would make the entire globe — including the United States itself — a “battlefield” where the president decides who will be locked up forever.
Instead of ending the Bush system of injustice, he wants Congress to make it permanent.
Not only has Bush’s Attorney General called on Congress to issue a new declaration of war, but he is also asking Congress to:
- Gut habeas corpus — the freedom that protects people from being thrown in prison illegally — with no help, no end in sight and no due process.
- Cover up the Bush administration’s systemic torture and abuse of detainees. Judges would not be allowed to see evidence of torture and abuse and would instead simply have to trust that a president is holding the right people as ”enemy combatants.”
I love this story. It is the way I want to go out.
An Australian woman often described as the world’s oldest blogger has died at the age of 108 after posting a final message about her ailing health but how she sang "a happy song, as I do every day."
Olive Riley posted more than 70 entries on her blog — or "blob" as she jokingly called it — since February 2007.
Olive Riley died Saturday at a nursing home in New South Wales.
On the site, The Life of Riley, and in a series of videos post on YouTube, Riley mused on her day-to-day life. She also recounted living through two world wars and raising three children on her own while working as a cook and a bar maid. (Read more)
SOURCE; CNN
I recently ran across Spaceweather PHONE, an interesting service to those who have a strong interest in space, or radio wave propagation. It is provided by the Web site Spaceweather.com, itself an excellent source of current information about what is happening in space.
Spaceweather PHONE is an astronomy alert service from the creators of Spaceweather.com. Sign up for our service — for yourself or as a gift for someone else — and we’ll phone you when things are happening in the sky. When auroras appear over your hometown, your phone will ring. When the space station is about to fly over your back yard, your phone will ring. When planets align … you get the idea. The voice you hear will be Dr. Tony Phillips telling you what to look for and when. Each phone call comes with a simultaneous email message, so if you miss part of your call or can’t remember the details — just check your email for the full story!
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