Press Release
For Release Monday, June 27 to New Hampshire media
For Release Tuesday, June 28 to all other media
Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.
Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.
On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.
Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.
The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts Café" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."
Clements indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans.
"This is not a prank" said Clements, "The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter we can begin our hotel development."
Clements' plan is to raise investment capital from wealthy pro-liberty investors and draw up architectural plans. These plans would then be used to raise investment capital for the project. Clements hopes that regular customers of the hotel might include supporters of the Institute For Justice and participants in the Free State Project among others.
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Logan Darrow Clements
Freestar Media, LLC
Phone 310-593-4843
logan@freestarmedia.com
http://www.freestarmedia.com
AngryWoofDog Rants:
Getting what they give.... I'm so happy to see that this is happening! Keep up the good works, folks!
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Monday, June 27, 2005
The $upreme Court rules in favor of MGM
Monday, June 27, 2005
Grokster, StreamCast Lose
Posted by Lyle Denniston at 10:31 AM
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that developers of software violate federal copyright law when they provide computer users with the means to share music and movie files downloaded from the Internet, at least when the software companies take "affirmative steps to foster infringement."
In a decision announced by Justice David H. Souter, the Court said: "We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties" -- that is, computer users using free downloading software.
A sweeping victory for music recording companies and movie studios, the ruling set the stage for a major legal assault on rampant file-sharing of copyrighted works by attacking the software designers -- a much more promising legal avenue than suing infringing users directly.
The decision came in the case of MGM Studios v. Grokster, et al., 04-480.
AngryWoofDog Rants:
The logic that is being applied in this case is so absurd, that mine head will assplode if I think about it too much. Chewbacca!
I can surmise my argument very succinctly here: if file sharing software is responsible for the illegal downloading of music and movies, then web browsing software is repsonsible for the proliferation of child pornography.
'Nuff said, motherfuckers. Get Nraged.
-AngryWoofDog
Grokster, StreamCast Lose
Posted by Lyle Denniston at 10:31 AM
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that developers of software violate federal copyright law when they provide computer users with the means to share music and movie files downloaded from the Internet, at least when the software companies take "affirmative steps to foster infringement."
In a decision announced by Justice David H. Souter, the Court said: "We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties" -- that is, computer users using free downloading software.
A sweeping victory for music recording companies and movie studios, the ruling set the stage for a major legal assault on rampant file-sharing of copyrighted works by attacking the software designers -- a much more promising legal avenue than suing infringing users directly.
The decision came in the case of MGM Studios v. Grokster, et al., 04-480.
AngryWoofDog Rants:
The logic that is being applied in this case is so absurd, that mine head will assplode if I think about it too much. Chewbacca!
I can surmise my argument very succinctly here: if file sharing software is responsible for the illegal downloading of music and movies, then web browsing software is repsonsible for the proliferation of child pornography.
'Nuff said, motherfuckers. Get Nraged.
-AngryWoofDog
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Sometimes you run across a tidbit that just is so absurd, there's not much you can rant about it. I'm just gonna crawl into a hole and cry.... letting the knowledgesewage slowly wash over me. Amerika's governmentrape is completely out of control. Please, read on:
Note: (June 8): Since we issued this press release, sources associated with the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee have asserted that the provision in the Senate energy bill providing loan guarantees for a coal gasification project in a western state was not specifically written to benefit DKRW Energy's Medicine Bow project, but is instead aimed at aiding another project that has not yet been publicly announced. This as-yet secret project is said to involve three companies: Xcel Energy, Pacificorp and Tri-State Generation & Transmission. Because plans for this project (assuming they exist) are still under wraps, it is impossible to verify whether the Senate Bill's language is in fact intended to support it.
Our press release was based on our research into publicly announced projects. Based on that research, DKRW Energy's Medicine Bow project was the only gasification plant we could identify that met the description in the Senate Bill. In the absence of other projects that satisfied the bill's criteria, it was a logical inference that the DKRW project was the intended beneficiary of the bill. Assuming the correctness of the assertions that the bill is not in fact intended to benefit DKRW, DKRW's Medicine Bow project still qualifies for the loan guarantee, particularly since no details about the Xcel-Pacificorp-Tri-State project are available to the public.
June 6, 2005
Former Enron Executives Slated to Receive Taxpayer Handouts
for New Project
Senate Energy Bill Contains Provision for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
in Loan Guarantees for Power Project
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Buried in the 700-plus page energy bill currently under debate in the U.S. Senate is a provision that provides hundreds of millions of dollars worth of federal loan guarantees for a power project apparently to be built by four former Enron executives. One of the former executives is Thomas White, former head of Enron’s retail and energy trading in California during the energy crisis who later served as President Bush’s Secretary of the Army.
Title XIV, Section 1403(c)(1)(B) of the Senate energy bill provides federal loan guarantees for “a project to produce energy from coal … mined in the western United States using appropriate advanced integrated gasification combined cycle technology that minimizes and offers the potential to sequester carbon dioxide emissions and … shall be located in a western State at an altitude greater than 4,000 feet.”
Public Citizen’s investigation to find out who this loan would benefit narrowed the answer to just one company: Houston-based DKRW Energy. This company, named after the four Enron executives that founded it – Jon C. Doyle, Robert C. Kelly, H. David Ramm and White – formed a subsidiary, Medicine Bow Fuel & Power, to develop a $2.8 billion coal gasification project in Medicine Bow, Wyo. The DKRW facility meets all the criteria required in the legislation: The coal will be supplied from Arch Coal mines neighboring the power facility; it will stuff carbon dioxide emissions into oil wells; and the facility will be located in a western state (Wyoming) at an altitude above 4,000 feet.
“Congress should not be in the business of slipping taxpayer subsidies into large bills to benefit individual corporations, especially executives from a company that perpetrated one of the greatest corporate frauds in American history,” said Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook.
The federal loan guarantee makes taxpayers responsible for repaying the loan if the company defaults, or if the project ends up not being economically feasible after its construction. The provision states that if an energy company receiving such a loan guarantee defaults on that loan, the bank to which the loan is owed “shall have the right to demand payment of the unpaid [loan] amount from the Secretary” of Energy. Therefore, taxpayers hold all the risk while energy companies reap all the rewards.
“Has Congress learned nothing from the Enron bankruptcy and the fallout from the company’s fraudulent behavior?” said Tyson Slocum, research director for the energy program. “The fact that the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is willing to back these former Enron executives with taxpayers’ money is truly unsettling.”
The committee has approved the bill, and it is scheduled for Senate action as early as this week. Among the members of the energy committee is Republican Craig Thomas of Wyoming. The provision is not in the House energy bill, which has been approved by the House.
Public Citizen speculated that these four former Enron executives are seeking taxpayer handouts because they have had a difficult time attracting the necessary private capital without the loan guarantee. White served as Secretary of the Army from May 2001 to March 2003. Prior to that, he served as vice chairman of one of Enron’s largest divisions, Enron Energy Services (EES).
Under White’s tenure, EES played a major role in the California energy crisis. In 1998, the year he became its vice chairman, EES was America’s 61st largest energy trader. When he left, his division was the 28th largest energy trading firm in the country. Until March 2001, the trading operations of EES were separate from the rest of Enron’s Wholesale Energy unit – meaning White was responsible for a huge trading operation that played a significant role in California’s energy crisis.
Also, under White’s direction, EES severed at least two large retail contracts in California in January/February 2001 during the height of the energy crisis, which Enron helped create. Based on the evidence on hand, it appears that EES took the power that had been obligated to serve these retail consumers and sold it in the wholesale market, where EES could fetch higher prices than it could by continuing to sell power at lower, fixed rates to retail customers. This significant wholesale trading operation, combined with White’s decision to break retail contracts in California, made the division a major player in California’s deregulated wholesale market.
The energy bill also contains other giveaways to energy corporations. Title XIV, Section 1403(c)(1)(C), provides $800 million in federal loan guarantees to a Minnesota company, Excelsior Energy, whose executives have ties to a company that filed for bankruptcy after amassing $9.2 billion in debt and paid $25 million to settle allegations of energy market manipulation.
Title XIV, Section 1403(c)(1)(D), provides loan guarantees to Lexington, Ky.-based EnviRes to build a coal gasification facility in East St. Louis, Ill. The total cost of the project is $254.2 million. EnviRes is a joint venture of three companies, including Triad Research, which in turn is operated by Robert Addington of Addington Energy (AEI Resources), one of the nation’s largest coal conglomerates. Among the members of energy committee is Republican Jim Bunning of Kentucky.
“Since the energy bill was first drafted, it has been larded with pork for corporate America,” said Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program.” If this project can’t stand on its own, it shouldn’t get a taxpayer bailout. In this case, taxpayers take all the risk but the former Enron executives will reap all the rewards.”
If you would like to become even more disgusted, read this:
bu$h's Clean Coal Initiative Attracts "Second Wave" of Technologies
Note: (June 8): Since we issued this press release, sources associated with the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee have asserted that the provision in the Senate energy bill providing loan guarantees for a coal gasification project in a western state was not specifically written to benefit DKRW Energy's Medicine Bow project, but is instead aimed at aiding another project that has not yet been publicly announced. This as-yet secret project is said to involve three companies: Xcel Energy, Pacificorp and Tri-State Generation & Transmission. Because plans for this project (assuming they exist) are still under wraps, it is impossible to verify whether the Senate Bill's language is in fact intended to support it.
Our press release was based on our research into publicly announced projects. Based on that research, DKRW Energy's Medicine Bow project was the only gasification plant we could identify that met the description in the Senate Bill. In the absence of other projects that satisfied the bill's criteria, it was a logical inference that the DKRW project was the intended beneficiary of the bill. Assuming the correctness of the assertions that the bill is not in fact intended to benefit DKRW, DKRW's Medicine Bow project still qualifies for the loan guarantee, particularly since no details about the Xcel-Pacificorp-Tri-State project are available to the public.
June 6, 2005
Former Enron Executives Slated to Receive Taxpayer Handouts
for New Project
Senate Energy Bill Contains Provision for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
in Loan Guarantees for Power Project
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Buried in the 700-plus page energy bill currently under debate in the U.S. Senate is a provision that provides hundreds of millions of dollars worth of federal loan guarantees for a power project apparently to be built by four former Enron executives. One of the former executives is Thomas White, former head of Enron’s retail and energy trading in California during the energy crisis who later served as President Bush’s Secretary of the Army.
Title XIV, Section 1403(c)(1)(B) of the Senate energy bill provides federal loan guarantees for “a project to produce energy from coal … mined in the western United States using appropriate advanced integrated gasification combined cycle technology that minimizes and offers the potential to sequester carbon dioxide emissions and … shall be located in a western State at an altitude greater than 4,000 feet.”
Public Citizen’s investigation to find out who this loan would benefit narrowed the answer to just one company: Houston-based DKRW Energy. This company, named after the four Enron executives that founded it – Jon C. Doyle, Robert C. Kelly, H. David Ramm and White – formed a subsidiary, Medicine Bow Fuel & Power, to develop a $2.8 billion coal gasification project in Medicine Bow, Wyo. The DKRW facility meets all the criteria required in the legislation: The coal will be supplied from Arch Coal mines neighboring the power facility; it will stuff carbon dioxide emissions into oil wells; and the facility will be located in a western state (Wyoming) at an altitude above 4,000 feet.
“Congress should not be in the business of slipping taxpayer subsidies into large bills to benefit individual corporations, especially executives from a company that perpetrated one of the greatest corporate frauds in American history,” said Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook.
The federal loan guarantee makes taxpayers responsible for repaying the loan if the company defaults, or if the project ends up not being economically feasible after its construction. The provision states that if an energy company receiving such a loan guarantee defaults on that loan, the bank to which the loan is owed “shall have the right to demand payment of the unpaid [loan] amount from the Secretary” of Energy. Therefore, taxpayers hold all the risk while energy companies reap all the rewards.
“Has Congress learned nothing from the Enron bankruptcy and the fallout from the company’s fraudulent behavior?” said Tyson Slocum, research director for the energy program. “The fact that the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is willing to back these former Enron executives with taxpayers’ money is truly unsettling.”
The committee has approved the bill, and it is scheduled for Senate action as early as this week. Among the members of the energy committee is Republican Craig Thomas of Wyoming. The provision is not in the House energy bill, which has been approved by the House.
Public Citizen speculated that these four former Enron executives are seeking taxpayer handouts because they have had a difficult time attracting the necessary private capital without the loan guarantee. White served as Secretary of the Army from May 2001 to March 2003. Prior to that, he served as vice chairman of one of Enron’s largest divisions, Enron Energy Services (EES).
Under White’s tenure, EES played a major role in the California energy crisis. In 1998, the year he became its vice chairman, EES was America’s 61st largest energy trader. When he left, his division was the 28th largest energy trading firm in the country. Until March 2001, the trading operations of EES were separate from the rest of Enron’s Wholesale Energy unit – meaning White was responsible for a huge trading operation that played a significant role in California’s energy crisis.
Also, under White’s direction, EES severed at least two large retail contracts in California in January/February 2001 during the height of the energy crisis, which Enron helped create. Based on the evidence on hand, it appears that EES took the power that had been obligated to serve these retail consumers and sold it in the wholesale market, where EES could fetch higher prices than it could by continuing to sell power at lower, fixed rates to retail customers. This significant wholesale trading operation, combined with White’s decision to break retail contracts in California, made the division a major player in California’s deregulated wholesale market.
The energy bill also contains other giveaways to energy corporations. Title XIV, Section 1403(c)(1)(C), provides $800 million in federal loan guarantees to a Minnesota company, Excelsior Energy, whose executives have ties to a company that filed for bankruptcy after amassing $9.2 billion in debt and paid $25 million to settle allegations of energy market manipulation.
Title XIV, Section 1403(c)(1)(D), provides loan guarantees to Lexington, Ky.-based EnviRes to build a coal gasification facility in East St. Louis, Ill. The total cost of the project is $254.2 million. EnviRes is a joint venture of three companies, including Triad Research, which in turn is operated by Robert Addington of Addington Energy (AEI Resources), one of the nation’s largest coal conglomerates. Among the members of energy committee is Republican Jim Bunning of Kentucky.
“Since the energy bill was first drafted, it has been larded with pork for corporate America,” said Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program.” If this project can’t stand on its own, it shouldn’t get a taxpayer bailout. In this case, taxpayers take all the risk but the former Enron executives will reap all the rewards.”
If you would like to become even more disgusted, read this:
bu$h's Clean Coal Initiative Attracts "Second Wave" of Technologies
Monday, June 06, 2005
random thots
much sickness and many travels this month. church was excellent! lots of pretty naked girls and orgies.... i love worshipping dirt with 400 others.
absurdity is the word of the day. here are some things i associate with it:
the bu$h family
neo cons in amerika
monogomany
the christian god
intelligent design
fatwahs and jihads
economic theories as paths to enlightenment
chinese slave labour and real amerikans buying it all
postmodern identity crises
commodifying air, land, and water
republikans
the states of texass and south k-k-karolina
chicken fuckers
private party sales tax
the nouveau hyper-rich
fshcishm
amerika's other assorted ruling elite
that's a short list. i'm gonna eat some lunch.
ciao,
-angrywoofdog
absurdity is the word of the day. here are some things i associate with it:
the bu$h family
neo cons in amerika
monogomany
the christian god
intelligent design
fatwahs and jihads
economic theories as paths to enlightenment
chinese slave labour and real amerikans buying it all
postmodern identity crises
commodifying air, land, and water
republikans
the states of texass and south k-k-karolina
chicken fuckers
private party sales tax
the nouveau hyper-rich
fshcishm
amerika's other assorted ruling elite
that's a short list. i'm gonna eat some lunch.
ciao,
-angrywoofdog
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