House of Cards at White House Correspondents' Dinner, 2013 2013 White House Correspondents' Dinner chair Ed Henry introduces a House of Cards video. From C-SPAN coverage.
Conan O'Brien: White House Correspondents Dinner, 2013 From C-SPAN coverage, Conan O'Brien remarks at the 2013 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
President Obama: White House Correspondents Dinner, 2013 President Obama at 2013 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Testimony of Farea Al-Muslimi [WASHINGTON, DC] Farea Al-Muslimi, a Yemeni youth activist and writer, testified today at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights chaired by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) on the moral, legal and constitutional issues surrounding targeted killings and the use of drones.
56 Acronyms and Initialisms A weekly show hosted by John Green, where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John sorts through a number of acronyms and initialisms such as M&M's, SCUBA, and the USA PATRIOT act. Mental Floss Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mf_video Artist acknowledgements for this episode: XBOX textile artwork by Danica Johnson, http://dft.ba/-SaysDanica Circus Sideshow Nesting Dolls, Gravlax, http://dft.ba/-Gravlax 8 bit perler bouquets, Geekapalooza, http://dft.ba/-Geekapalooza Doctor Who (9, 10 & 11), Hank & John, Sherlock & Watson wooden dolls, by Kimmy Fiorentino, http://dft.ba/-maddasahatterr ---- Website: http://www.mentalfloss.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mental_floss Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mentalflossmagazine
Rand Paul: It's OK To Kill U.S. Citizens With Drones On American Soil Remember when Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stood up on the Senate floor for nearly 13 hours in an ideological protest of the Obama administration's hypothetical authority to use drone technology to kill U.S. citizens on American soil? Well, now he's saying killing a certain U.S. citizen on some specific American soil in Watertown, Massachusetts last Friday may not have been the worst thing in the world. During an interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network Monday night, Paul attempted to make a distinction between the American "sitting in a caf" example he has often cited and the "imminent threat" faced by Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Friday night. "I've never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on," Paul said. Though his next example offered up a disturbingly low bar for the predator drone option. "If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash," he said, "I don't care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him."
Arnold Schwarzenegger Driving by Wil Sasso A montage of 14 videos by Wil Sasso imitating Arnold Schwarzenegger while driving.
Lenin's speech How the Working People Can Be Saved From the Oppression of the Landowners and Capitalists For Ever: http://www.icl-fi.org/ The enemies of the working people, the landowners and capitalists say that the workers and peasants cannot live without them. "If it were not for us," they say, "there would be nobody to maintain order, to give out work, and to compel people to work. If it were not for us everything would collapse, and the state would fall to pieces. We have been driven away, but chaos will bring us back again." But this sort of talk by the landowners and capitalists will not confuse, intimidate, or deceive the workers and peasants. An army needs the strictest discipline; nevertheless the class-conscious workers succeeded in uniting the peasants, succeeded in taking the old tsarist officers into their service, succeeded in building a victorious army. The Red Army established unprecedentedly firm discipline-not by means of the lash, but based on the intelligence, loyalty and devotion of the workers and peasants themselves. And so, to save the working people from the yoke of the landowners and capitalists for ever, to save them from the restoration of their power, it is necessary to build up a great Red Army of Labour. That army will be invincible if it is cemented by labour discipline. The workers and peasants must and will prove that they can properly distribute labour, establish devoted discipline and ensure loyalty in working for the common good, and can do it themselves, without the landowners and in spite of them, without the capitalists and in spite of them. Labour discipline, enthusiasm for work, readiness for self-sacrifice, close alliance between the peasants and the workers - this is what will save the working people from the oppression of the landowners and capitalists for ever. ////////////////////////////////////////// Recorded: End of March 1919 (??? ???????? ?????? ?????????? ?? ????? ????????? ? ????????????) First Published: Published according to the gramophone records. Organization of these speeches was accomplished by Tsentropechat, the central agency of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee for the Supply and Distribution of Periodicals. Between 1919 and 1921, 13 of Lenin's speeches were recorded. A wee piece of history Source: Lenin's Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972, Volume 29, pages 250-251 Translated: George Hanna Transcription/Markup: David Walters & Robert Cymbala; Liviu Iacob, 2006
A Petition for Stronger Gun Laws A message from States United To Prevent Gun Violence calls for an update to our antiquated gun laws. To get involved, sign our petition at http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5610/c/624/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13633 Also, visit our website at http://www.supgv.org
Stephen Colbert at University of Pittsburgh Best part starts at 1:49. Funny Q and A from Stephen Colbert at University of Pittsburgh. 4/19/13 Asked about being Jon Stewart's bitch, Bill Clinton, and others.
H2K: Jello Biafra Keynote H2K took place on July 12-14, 2000 at Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. Former lead singer of the Dead Kennedys Jello Biafra may appear to have little to do with the world of hackers. But all one has to do is look at the many injustices we've faced over the years and the ominous overtones of what lies ahead - more laws, more crackdowns, more global controls with little or no oversight, and plenty more prisons. There is no better spokesperson for the ongoing fight of the individual vs. the system than Jello. What we in the hacker world are going through extends far beyond the world of computers - the issues of free speech that we're engaged in will have an effect on people everywhere for a very long time to come. By the same token, we must remain aware of what's going on in the rest of the world or we won't see what's coming. We guarantee - Jello WILL wake you up. This is also the first time ever that a presidential candidate has addressed a hacker convention.
